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Michael Locke is a man with ambition.
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I was a young man that grew up, always
had the aspirations of being rich.
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And rich he is.
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Michael really saw how you can make
money. He was worried about costs. He
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worried about how to distribute the
wealth in his organization.
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So he understood the business model.
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A business model taking him from cocaine
dealing to bank fraud.
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There's an old saying that you can steal
more money with a ballpoint than a
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gunpoint. It's absolutely true.
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And he has a surefire way to beat the
competition.
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The victim would be duct taped, pistol
whipped.
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If his family's in the house, they
pistol whipped as well.
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But Locke's real secrets are buried
right in his own backyard.
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On the north side of Milwaukee, the 4900
block of Febron Street offers a perfect
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picture of an all -American family
neighborhood.
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With an elementary school at one end and
a fire station at the other.
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And in August 2005, when a young woman,
Stacy Happo, buys a house here, There is
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just one thing she doesn't like, a pair
of concrete slabs in the backyard.
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The former owner, a man named Michael
Lott, reportedly had dog kennels there.
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Happel wants them gone.
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Her boyfriend and a few others take on
the job.
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They start to break up the concrete, and
underneath the concrete they see a
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plastic tarp.
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Pulling back the tarp, they find a bone.
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The boyfriend says that he initially
thought that there were dogs buried
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the concrete, and one of the guys
helping him out says, I don't think
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dog bone.
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He's right. The police are called, and
they see immediately these bones are
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human.
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Milwaukee homicide detective Chris
Blazak hears the news and knows
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department is in for a bizarre case.
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Burying people in a backyard was
something that we typically did not see
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city of Milwaukee.
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Eventually, not one, but two bodies are
discovered.
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You can see a slight depression in the
ground near the fence line over here.
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That's the location of where one of the
bodies was recovered.
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It is a grisly scene.
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No one knows who these people are, but
the consensus is that one person has the
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answer, the former owner, Michael Locke.
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If you asked some of us, we would say,
of course, Michael Locke did this. For
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sure, he was involved.
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As one team of investigators digs into
the graves, Another digs into Locke's
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history, and that brings them to church.
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This is the Unity Gospel House of
Prayer, founded by Michael Locke's
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grandfather.
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Today, the pastor is Locke's brother,
Marlon.
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But years ago, as an eight -year -old
boy,
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Michael Locke is the one at the podium.
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He played an active role in his church
and was considered a talented and rising
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member of the parish of the church. They
said that he would give stirring
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sermons.
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From child preacher, Locke moves on to
become a basketball star at Madison High
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School on Milwaukee's northwest side.
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After graduation, he attends cosmetology
school and opens his own barbershop.
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Years later, Locke gives an interview
from jail to the Milwaukee Journal
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Sentinel.
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I was a young man that grew up. I always
had the aspirations of,
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what you could say, being rich or having
money to provide for my
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family. And I set out to do that.
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That determination to be rich leads
Locke to cocaine.
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In the 1990s, the drug trade is thriving
in Milwaukee.
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And despite the fact that Locke's father
has died from an overdose of cocaine
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and methadone, rumors say that the boy
who used to preach on Sunday is now a
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man with a cocaine business that will
one day bring in as much as $100 ,000 a
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week.
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Officer Dean Newport from the Milwaukee
Police Department had encountered Locke
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in the late 90s, as early as 1999.
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And the word he was receiving on the
street was that the individual, Michael
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Locke, was involved in violent crimes,
in particular in drug -related robberies
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and homicides.
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And so Officer Newport keeps an eye on
him.
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And when he gets a chance, stops Locke
for a traffic violation and finds a
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handgun under the seat of Locke's car.
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And at the time, he came to me and he
said, I believe this is a dangerous guy.
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didn't feel he had enough evidence.
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for us to sustain a conviction.
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So I basically said, I believe you. Now
let's go get the evidence that we need
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to hold him accountable for a longer
period of time.
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But Locke plays it smart.
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He always keeps a legitimate business in
operation.
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Now it is a home improvement company.
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Everything I've ever done in my life put
me on the front street. I was always
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seen by the public eye because I was a
servant of the public. You understand
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what I'm saying?
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Criminal defense lawyer Russell Jones
counts Locke as one of the savviest
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defendants he has ever worked with.
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Michael really saw how you can make
money, both legitimately and, according
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the juries, illegitimately. But Michael,
I think, understood the function of
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business. He was worried about costs. He
was worried about how to distribute the
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wealth in his organization.
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So he understood the business model.
He's a very smart guy.
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But even smart guys can make mistakes.
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And in 2002, at a McDonald's in
Milwaukee, Michael Locke sells nine
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cocaine to a federal agent and is
sentenced to 21 months in prison.
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I was born and raised in a church, but
me as a knucklehead, I did some things
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that I shouldn't have done, which was
got involved with drug dealing.
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That's something that I've asked God for
forgiveness for because I was totally
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wrong.
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When Locke gets out of prison, he is, by
all appearances, a changed man.
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Out on work release, he gets a job at a
real estate company.
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He starts buying up buildings, fixing
them up and reselling them.
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Eventually, he heads to Bayside.
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A wealthy North Shore suburb where he
opens his own mortgage brokerage
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World Financial Mortgage.
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And that is where he is when the police
begin to investigate the bodies that
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have been buried in his old backyard for
years.
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There was a tremendous amount of
decomposition of the body and the flesh
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body almost eroded to the point where it
was nearly almost a skeletal remains.
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But the clothing on one body is intact.
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It is a uniform from a flower delivery
service.
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It has a name, Chaney.
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The connection is easily made.
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Eugene Chaney, reported missing five
years ago.
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He was a Milwaukee area drug dealer. He
dealt large amounts of cocaine
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with Michael Locke. He was a gambler.
Michael Locke was a gambler.
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With one victim identified, the
investigators press on with a sense of
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as the bodies reveal a violent end.
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We knew that there was a dangerous
person out there, someone that was
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doing terrible things, and we had to
find him.
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In Milwaukee, convicted drug dealer
Michael Locke is casting himself as a
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reformed man.
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He is now running his own mortgage
business in a suburb north of the city.
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But his secret past is catching up with
him.
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Now, a DNA match proves that the second
body is a man reported missing in
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Illinois six years ago.
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His name is Felipe Armando Melendez
Rivas, and he died a violent death.
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When his body was excavated, His body
was wrapped up in a blue plastic tarp.
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face was duct taped. A portion of the
duct tape you could see was still shoved
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in his mouth as if he was still gagged
from the day that he was killed.
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What happened to Eugene Cheney and
Armando Melendez is a mystery.
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But clues are filtering in.
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Homicide detective Randy Olson learns
that a new informant, Louis Jackson,
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claims he worked for Locke and knows
something about the bodies.
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At some point, Jackson felt that Michael
Locke had crossed him, and he had this
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information about how he believed
Michael Locke was involved with the two
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on 49th and Phebrons, and I believe it
was, in his mind, his turn to make
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turnabout fair play.
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Olson meets regularly with Jackson in
Hawthorne Glen Park on the north side of
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the city.
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It is a perfect setting for clandestine
conversations.
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There's one road coming in.
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When we took seats at the picnic tables,
we could see anybody coming in through
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the park entryway here.
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From Lewis Jackson, Olson gets a new
appreciation for how dangerous luck is.
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He's not just a street thug and a dope
dealer, but he knows the law.
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He knows how police work.
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He's not a fool.
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Later, Jackson allows an interview to be
recorded.
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Michael Locke was a hustler.
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Michael Locke would sell his mama if he
had to.
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Jackson tells Olson that in the late
90s, Locke moves from dealing drugs to
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kidnapping and robbing drug dealers.
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Locke's men call themselves the Body
Snatchers.
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We would kidnap major drug dealers who
actually took photos of their family
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members, their daughters, their wives,
girlfriends.
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In one case, I did follow the major
Milwaukee drug dealer.
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to his daughter's school.
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I took pictures of his daughter, you
know, loving family.
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So what?
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So after you kidnapped them, it was
easier for them to talk or to give you
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you wanted.
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If the victim does not cooperate in
giving over drugs or cash, the body
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snatchers have an array of inducements.
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Hot grease, hot water. Obviously the
victim would be duct taped.
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Pistol whipped.
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If his family's in the house, they
pistol whipped as well.
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Hot butane torches on your feet.
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The description of Michael Locke
provided by Louis Jackson is chilling.
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Working with Louis Jackson was one of
those pivotal moments where we were able
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to Again, develop a relationship with
him and have him start to outline the
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extent of the criminal enterprise that
Mr. Locke was engaged in. This wasn't
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your ordinary street -level criminal.
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These days, Locke has moved off the
streets and into an office in the
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He is running his own business, World
Financial Mortgage, entirely on the up
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-and -up.
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Or is it?
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Jeffrey does, and investigated with the
DA's office, thinks not.
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In late 2004, early 2005, we began to
get complaints to the DA's
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office from citizens about being ripped
off in mortgage fraud -type schemes.
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The name Mike Locke and some of his
associates surfaced.
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The reports come from people like Jim
Larson, a mortgage lender who is
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suspicious of an application sent to his
office.
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What was suspect on this particular deal
was all the improvements.
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There was allegedly new kitchen, new
roof, new plumbing. The house had been
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upgraded, and it just wasn't right.
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Larson does what many lenders rarely do.
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He decides to check out the property
himself.
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When I got out to the house, I knew
very, very quickly that this was not a
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situation where there were a lot of
improvements done.
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Within minutes, Michael Locke shows up
and escorts Larson inside.
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I walked through the house. It was in
very bad shape. So it was very clear to
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that they were trying to steal from me.
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And I went into the kitchen. There was
no refrigerator.
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It was in really, really bad shape.
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Eventually, the house Larson inspected
becomes part of a growing catalog of
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suspicious deals orchestrated by Michael
Locke.
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Next, the drug dealer who turned to
armed robbery and kidnapping is trying
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hand at a new highly lucrative game,
mortgage fraud.
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Michael Locke would dupe these lenders
into wiring $165 ,000 of loan proceeds.
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In a suburban strip mall north of
Milwaukee, convicted drug dealer Michael
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is operating his own business.
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World financial mortgage.
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Locke is already a prime suspect in the
murder of two drug dealers buried in his
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old backyard.
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And now his business is also under
investigation.
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With rumors of suspicious deals
circulating, County District Attorney
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Investigator Jeff Doss looks into the
company's bank records.
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And that is particularly when the bubble
burst.
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because we found hundreds of thousands
of dollars being wire -transferred
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through that business.
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World Financial is a mortgage
origination office. They should not be
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those kinds of funds. What they should
be getting are reimbursement fees, loan
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origination fees, reimbursements for
appraisals, that type of thing, but not
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hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Doss digs deeper into the records and he
finds a familiar name.
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Stacey Happel, the woman who owns the
house where two bodies were found in the
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backyard.
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It turns out she owns a number of other
buildings as well, including this one at
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1918 North 13th Street.
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Oh, we discovered that Stacey Happel had
purchased approximately six properties.
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They were all inner city properties.
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What I initially noticed was that the
area the homes were in didn't seem to
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justify the high amounts of the
mortgages.
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Investigators discover that Stacy
Happold and Michael Locke have a
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She had a relationship with Michael
Locke, trusted him.
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He promised her that he would set her up
in sort of as a landlord, a
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landlady. She'd own properties. He would
take care of everything.
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She is what is called a straw buyer, not
a real property owner, just someone
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used to get financing to help defraud a
mortgage lender.
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This is how the scheme works.
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In August 2004, the 13th Street property
sells for $10 ,000.
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Five months later, Stacey Happel buys it
and gets a mortgage for $166 ,000.
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How could the value of a property
increase $156 ,000 in just five months?
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The appraisal says that the house has
been entirely renovated.
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It has a new kitchen and bathroom.
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But photographs taken by the DA's
investigators tell an entirely different
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story.
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A rotting ceiling.
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Corroded plumbing fixtures.
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And a kitchen that is unusable.
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It was deplorable. It was unlivable.
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But at the time of the loan, of course,
a photograph was taken from the outside
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and affixed to the appraisal sheet, and
that's what's viewed by the lender in
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some other state, who would therefore
assume that maybe this property is worth
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that amount of money.
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The lender is sent the phony appraisal.
But the lies don't end there.
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Happel also needs proof of gainful
employment.
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No problem.
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Locke has that covered.
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A forged W -2 shows she works at a
daycare center earning $46 ,000 a year.
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And so, with a fake appraisal and false
information on the buyer's application,
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the bank is fooled.
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The lender looks at all that, says this
is a good risk, and lends.
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Typically, it was 100 % financing back
in that time frame. So Michael Locke
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would dupe these lenders into wiring
$165 ,000 of loan proceeds.
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Locke has help in pulling off the
scheme.
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Chianti Clay finds the buildings and the
straw buyers with good credit.
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Geronda McRae provides the fake
appraisals.
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Marcus Leonard creates the fake
documents.
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And there is Kevin Slaman, the man who
runs a title company that receives the
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check from the bank.
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Slaman divvies up the money.
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But behind the scenes, Michael Locke
calls the shots.
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It's interesting that Michael Locke was
clever enough that his fingerprints...
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rarely, if ever, appear on these
transactions.
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He doesn't ever own the properties. He's
not the one that sets up the loan
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application. The documentation does not
show his name.
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And so it's very hard to link him up to
show that he was directing what was
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happening until you follow the money.
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The money trail shows that for the house
on 13th Street, the bank makes a loan
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for $166 ,000.
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The seller of the property agrees to
take $65 ,000.
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After transaction costs, $89 ,000 is
left for the schemers.
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Out of that, Michael Locke, whose name
appears nowhere, gets $30 ,000 because
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this is his con.
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This was extremely complicated,
extremely sophisticated.
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When Michael Locke didn't have the...
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savvy to perhaps understand a particular
aspect of the fraud, he got somebody to
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help him. But the brains behind it,
Michael Locke.
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The scam is not possible without Stacey
Happel. She has the good credit, the one
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thing that cannot be faked.
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But she gets conned too.
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Locke pays her $2 ,000 for each mortgage
she obtains.
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Five in all.
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But he does not pay the loans.
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She is slapped with multiple
foreclosures and ends up in bankruptcy
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These straw buyers were promised many
things by Michael Locke. And all along,
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was leading them down the rosy path.
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And now that the houses have gone into
foreclosure...
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Their credit is ruined.
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It's ruined. He has littered the
landscape with victims.
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With one rundown building after another,
Locke is able to repeat his con over
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and over again, enticing creditworthy
young women into becoming pawns in his
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game. He was a salesman, and that's the
business aspect that Michael had. He
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could sell what he had to sell to almost
anybody, and particularly women. Women
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were drawn to Michael.
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Locke also has a keen sense of where
easy money can be found.
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And these days, it is in mortgage fraud.
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It was an epidemic.
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in that time period, an epidemic.
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And the money was so easy for, you know,
there's an old saying that you can
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steal more money with a ballpoint than
at gunpoint. It's absolutely true. You
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fake up a few documents, you find a few
dupes to service your straw buyer, and
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you're off with $100 ,000 in profit.
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Locke's new scam is bringing him good
money now.
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But his old business tactics are coming
to light.
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Up next on American Greed, a story of
Locke's style of torture that
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comes with proof.
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And ultimately, that grease was used to
pour all over his body.
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But first, Michael Locke tangles with
the wrong straw buyer.
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I said I would go to the authorities. I
was like, I'm not going to be part of
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your sheisty deal.
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For six months, a mystery remains
unsolved in Milwaukee.
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What happened to two drug dealers found
buried in a backyard on the north side
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of the city?
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Michael Locke, a convicted drug dealer
himself, is the main suspect, but police
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do not have enough for an arrest.
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Locke is at large, now operating his own
mortgage processing business from an
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office in a North Shore supper.
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His targets these days are not drug
dealers, but young women with good
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like Lorraine Koutramanos.
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How are you today?
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She works at her family's restaurant in
Racine and is a perfect victim for
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Locke. Hardworking, she pays her bills
on time and even has a second job.
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She is also a teacher at St. Charles, a
school for special needs students west
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of Milwaukee.
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That is where she meets Michael Locke.
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There, a co -worker who is well
-connected to Locke presents her with a
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idea.
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He said to me, you know, I've been
buying homes and flipping them. It's
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easy. And I'm like, yeah, I'm not into
that. I want something, you know, condo,
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low maintenance.
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He presses her and even shows her a
building.
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But she is not interested and thinks
nothing of his offer until one day when
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is working late.
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I'm sitting at my desk working on
schoolwork, and all of a sudden these
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come in.
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And I'm like, what's going on? I stood
up. I was like, well, what's going on?
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And they're like, oh, take a seat,
Laurie. We want you to check something
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take a look at this.
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I'm like, okay, this is really strange.
Like, who are these people?
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Coach Romano says they are Michael
Locke, Keontae Clay, and Kevin Slayman.
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School's over, and almost all the other
staff were already gone. So then Kevin
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sits down, and he has this big pile of
papers, and he puts them in front of me,
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and he's like, you know, this is a
closing on a home, basically.
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And I'm like, a closing on what home?
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And he's like, the home that you're
purchasing.
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And I'm like, no.
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You know, like, I'm not buying a home
today. What are you talking about?
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no possible way. I haven't even filled
out an application.
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What she doesn't know is that this team
of scammers got her social security
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number, checked her credit, and
submitted applications for mortgages on
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building totaling $95 ,000, which have
been approved.
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Now she just needs to sign the papers.
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I felt very threatened.
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I mean, I probably read the situation
within 10 minutes of knowing what was
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going on because I stood up, and I seen
how everybody moved closer to me, and
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I'm like, okay.
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You know, and I said I refused signing
numerous times, and Kevin is right in
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front of me, and Michael Locke is, like,
diagonal off towards the back of my
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classroom, and when I looked at him, I
could tell that he was like, you know,
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you need to sign them, basically.
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Just sign the paperwork.
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She knows she has no choice.
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So I signed.
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You know, I just was like, okay, just
sign these as quick as you can and get
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of here, and when you get in your car,
figure out what you're going to do,
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because you have now just somehow
mysteriously, out of nowhere, bought a
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the middle of the ghetto.
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Kurt Romanos leaves safely, but is now
responsible for mortgage payments on a
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building she has never even seen.
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At the time, she tries to get the loan
canceled, but no one will listen.
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Eventually, her good credit will be
destroyed.
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In her fight to undo the transaction,
she has a talk with Michael Locke.
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I said I would go to the authorities. I
was like, I'm not going to be part of
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your shysty deal. I don't know what you
people are doing.
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And he got rude. He was like, you don't
know who I am. You have no clue who I
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am, do you?
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It's true, Koutramanos has no idea.
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But Milwaukee police detectives do.
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And now they think they have the proof
they need.
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One of Locke's victims, Leoporium Ford,
a convicted drug dealer, is claiming
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that he was tortured and robbed by
Michael Locke.
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Ultimately, I had an interview with Leo
Ford at the U .S. Attorney's Office.
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And what I learned from Leo Ford was
that he had been targeted several times
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Michael Locke to be robbed.
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Ford tells investigators that in 2002,
he arrived at Locke's house on 53rd
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Street with half a kilo of cocaine to
sell.
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And that turned out to be a mistake for
Leo Ford because he was robbed at that
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location and tortured over the course of
several hours.
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Ford reports, quote, as soon as I got in
the house, you know, I was rushed from
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behind like three people grabbed me.
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They put like a clothes hanger around my
arms and legs.
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They duct taped my eyes. They duct taped
my mouth.
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In addition to that, he started to tell
us a story about how he could hear oil
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or the sound of oil crackling in the
background.
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at the time that his captors were
interrogating him and beating him.
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Ford says that one said, I'm going to
pour this on your body if you don't give
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me more drugs. Don't give me more money.
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And ultimately, that grief was used to
pour all over his body, over portions of
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his legs and his back, which caused him
severe pain.
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Finally, one of Ford's men comes up with
$3 ,000.
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Leo Ford is released.
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The great thing about Mr. Ford is he was
walking corroboration. He literally was
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walking corroboration because his body
still bore the scars of the torture
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incident from 2002.
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With Ford's report, law enforcement
finally has a chance to make a real case
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against Michael Locke.
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It gave us hope, is what it gave us.
After that moment, I personally believed
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that that was the moment in which we
were going to be able to hold him
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accountable.
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Coming up on American Greed, at long
last, the story behind the bodies in the
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backyard.
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It's hard to get that picture out of
your head when you know that this person
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was suffocated and then put into a hole.
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Finally, after almost two years of
investigating the homicides of two drug
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dealers buried in the backyard of a
house on the north side of Milwaukee,
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prosecutors feel they have enough to
make several arrests, but not for
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Not yet.
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For now, the charges are for the
kidnapping and torture of drug dealer
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Ford.
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Four people are brought in.
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Michael Locke, Locke's brother -in -law,
Ed Hankins, his employee, Donald
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Cooper, and his uncle, Carl Davis.
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We had planned out this very much like a
chess game, knowing that we were going
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to bring these four individuals in and
trying to strategize over who was going
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to talk.
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The odds -on favorite is Carl Davis.
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The thing with Carl was his health
wasn't all that great.
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And the amount of time that Carl was
looking at spending in jail was clearly
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going to be more or less a death
sentence for him. And I think at some
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during the interviews, he really
realized that.
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And so Davis tells investigators all
they need to hear.
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His story begins in the summer of 1999.
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Davis drives with Locke to the Cracker
Barrel restaurant off I -94 in Kenosha.
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to buy 20 kilos of cocaine from a dealer
named Felipe Armando Melendez Rivas.
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With them is Shalonda Mason, who is not
only Locke's girlfriend, but also a
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stripper and prostitute.
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On most days, Mason helps Locke run a
sideline prostitution business.
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But today, her job is to offer Melendez
a reason to go to Milwaukee.
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And we now know that Melendez very much
took a liking to Shalonda.
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Melendez even brought her a box of
flowers.
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And that that was how Michael Locke
lured Melendez up to Milwaukee because
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his fascination or infatuation with
Shalonda. And we believe that Michael
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used that to get Melendez up to
Milwaukee so that he could kill him.
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The next day, Davis reports that Locke
asks him to come to the house on
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Peabron's.
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Davis will later testify, When I walked
in there, Locke said, Armando is dead.
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He asked me to help him bury him in the
backyard.
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I grabbed a foot and he grabbed the head
and we drug him out the back door.
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Put him in the hole.
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I put some dirt over him.
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But that is not the end of Davis' story.
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Carl Davis also told us how a year later
in 2000, how another hole was prepared,
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00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:19,080
and we believe this was the hole for
Eugene Chaney.
456
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:26,159
A few nights after the second hole is
dug on Febrons, Davis is outside the
457
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:31,579
Locke owns on 53rd Street when Eugene
Chaney arrives with a bag full of money
458
00:33:31,580 --> 00:33:33,660
for a cocaine deal with Michael Locke.
459
00:33:34,570 --> 00:33:40,429
Next thing Davis sees is Locke and
Cooper carrying Cheney, still alive, his
460
00:33:40,430 --> 00:33:41,770
hands and feet bound.
461
00:33:43,090 --> 00:33:47,110
Davis says they came out and threw
Cheney in the back of the truck.
462
00:33:47,530 --> 00:33:49,750
Cheney kept asking to be released.
463
00:33:50,010 --> 00:33:52,850
Cooper told him to shut up and popped
him one.
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00:33:53,310 --> 00:33:59,189
While Cooper sits in the back with
Cheney, Davis drives to Febron Street,
465
00:33:59,190 --> 00:34:02,110
the truck into the garage, and waits
outside.
466
00:34:03,850 --> 00:34:10,388
The homicide of Eugene Chaney occurred
in the garage at 49th and Freebron. We
467
00:34:10,389 --> 00:34:14,729
know that from Carl Davis. Carl Davis
was there when that happened. He was
468
00:34:14,730 --> 00:34:19,589
standing at the overhead garage door at
the time Donald Cooper was placing a
469
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:21,969
plastic bag over Eugene Chaney's head.
470
00:34:23,570 --> 00:34:25,909
With Carl Davis's eyewitness account.
471
00:34:26,820 --> 00:34:30,919
Prosecutors have what they need to move
forward with charges of first -degree
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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,330
murder against Donald Cooper and Michael
Luck.
473
00:34:33,860 --> 00:34:39,400
In the trial, Carl Davis describes what
he heard from outside the garage.
474
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,759
The sounds of Eugene Chaney being
suffocated in the back of the car, I
475
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,659
that was probably one of the best pieces
of evidence that came out.
476
00:34:50,660 --> 00:34:54,609
It's hard to get that picture out of
your head when you know that this person
477
00:34:54,610 --> 00:34:57,330
was suffocated and then put into a hole.
478
00:35:01,350 --> 00:35:05,890
Michael Locke is found guilty of the
murders of both Cheney and Melendez.
479
00:35:06,650 --> 00:35:10,710
Five months later, he is also found
guilty of mortgage fraud.
480
00:35:20,810 --> 00:35:26,670
All plead guilty and all receive reduced
sentences for testifying against Locke.
481
00:35:27,370 --> 00:35:33,130
Donald Cooper goes to trial and is found
guilty of the murder of Eugene Chaney.
482
00:35:34,450 --> 00:35:38,350
From jail, Locke maintains his
innocence.
483
00:35:40,230 --> 00:35:44,990
Michael Lott did not conspire to kill
anybody.
484
00:35:45,250 --> 00:35:52,029
Michael Lott did not, I repeat, did not
choose to lie on other
485
00:35:52,030 --> 00:35:55,610
people like he's been lied on to go
home.
486
00:35:55,850 --> 00:35:58,730
But I forgive everyone that has
participated.
487
00:35:59,170 --> 00:36:04,429
And when my day comes that I part this
Red Sea, I'm going to put Wisconsin
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00:36:04,430 --> 00:36:05,830
behind. Thank you.
489
00:36:06,170 --> 00:36:11,579
I think in all of the prosecutions,
Every single one of them, I think the
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00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:17,099
was able to discern that this was,
again, a unique individual and that he
491
00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:23,879
behaved so viciously and he had behaved
so inhumanely to so many people
492
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,439
through this process that I think the
jury was able to see that this was a
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00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,659
different type of person and that he
posed a really significant risk to this
494
00:36:32,660 --> 00:36:33,710
community.
495
00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:38,700
But just to be sure, the prosecutors go
one step further.
496
00:36:39,290 --> 00:36:41,770
Bringing Locke into court one more time.
497
00:36:42,830 --> 00:36:45,210
Now for his role as a pimp.
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00:36:50,650 --> 00:36:52,110
November 2010.
499
00:36:52,830 --> 00:36:56,110
Michael Locke enters a courtroom bound
to a wheelchair.
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00:36:56,790 --> 00:36:59,790
He is not injured. It is a security
measure.
501
00:37:01,070 --> 00:37:03,450
Locke has been convicted of two murders.
502
00:37:03,650 --> 00:37:06,130
No one is taking any chances.
503
00:37:08,780 --> 00:37:13,339
He is here today to be sentenced
following his conviction for the last
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00:37:13,340 --> 00:37:17,020
his criminal enterprise, the
prostitution business.
505
00:37:17,021 --> 00:37:22,039
We'd been hearing about this for years
and years, about how Michael Locke had
506
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:26,659
girls that would travel all over the
country and dance at strip clubs and
507
00:37:26,660 --> 00:37:28,740
wouldn't be engaged in prostitution.
508
00:37:28,980 --> 00:37:32,959
It didn't seem like it was that
important until I started to talk to
509
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:34,010
those girls.
510
00:37:36,330 --> 00:37:38,510
One is Alicia Winters.
511
00:37:38,730 --> 00:37:44,329
Out on the street with two children,
Locke lets her stay at the house on
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00:37:44,330 --> 00:37:49,729
Street and then sends her and other
young women to small remote strip clubs
513
00:37:49,730 --> 00:37:50,890
around the Midwest.
514
00:37:52,370 --> 00:37:54,710
One in Holdridge, Nebraska.
515
00:37:55,310 --> 00:37:59,669
When she got there, she would be told
you can come back home when you make $5
516
00:37:59,670 --> 00:38:04,330
,000. She was a black girl from
Milwaukee that was out in the middle
517
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,699
I'm sure that she did everything that
she could in order to come back here to
518
00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:10,750
see her kids again.
519
00:38:12,020 --> 00:38:16,479
Locke's defense is that he simply took
money for booking the girls at strip
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00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,780
clubs. They chose to engage in
prostitution.
521
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,900
But one more jury finds him guilty.
522
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:31,359
He is given a sentence of 30 years,
which is added to a sentence of 10
523
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,650
years for the kidnapping of Leopoldine
Ford.
524
00:38:34,910 --> 00:38:37,070
13 years for mortgage fraud.
525
00:38:38,510 --> 00:38:44,109
And two life sentences without parole
for the murder of Felipe Armando
526
00:38:44,110 --> 00:38:47,310
Rivas and the murder of Eugene Chaney.
527
00:38:49,170 --> 00:38:54,409
With so many convictions won,
prosecutors feel they have sent the
528
00:38:54,410 --> 00:38:55,570
needs to be heard.
529
00:38:56,010 --> 00:39:00,150
That if you're going to engage in this
level of sophisticated, pervasive crime,
530
00:39:00,350 --> 00:39:03,360
that we're going to hold you accountable
for every bit of it.
531
00:39:04,190 --> 00:39:09,309
Locke is appealing his cases, and for
now, the man who was raised in church
532
00:39:09,310 --> 00:39:11,890
continues to put his faith in God.
533
00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:17,430
But if you notice in the Bible, every
great man has a testimony.
534
00:39:17,930 --> 00:39:19,730
This is going to be my testimony.
535
00:39:20,210 --> 00:39:26,909
When you take Daniel in the lion's den,
they basically put Daniel in the lion's
536
00:39:26,910 --> 00:39:29,210
den. And that's basically me.
537
00:39:29,690 --> 00:39:30,740
Right now...
538
00:39:33,201 --> 00:39:35,089
real soon.
539
00:39:35,090 --> 00:39:40,090
Because what's impossible with man is
possible with God.
540
00:39:44,450 --> 00:39:49,970
On the block of 4900 P. Brown Street, a
quiet life has resumed.
541
00:39:50,550 --> 00:39:54,870
The house where the bodies were buried
has been sold and is occupied again.
542
00:39:55,370 --> 00:39:57,730
The nightmare here is over.
543
00:39:58,810 --> 00:40:02,859
Since this case unfolded, and based on a
lot of other initiatives, we've
544
00:40:02,860 --> 00:40:05,619
actually seen the violent crime rate
dropping in Milwaukee.
545
00:40:05,620 --> 00:40:10,199
And this is an important method for us
to be able to send, that if you think
546
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,479
you're going to establish yourself as a
crime boss in Milwaukee, we as a
547
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,359
community just aren't going to tolerate
it, and we're not going to allow you to
548
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,400
live that gangster dream.
549
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:24,919
Michael Locke is out of business, but
the investigation of his life of crime
550
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,940
continues, because there is still a
lingering question.
551
00:40:29,670 --> 00:40:31,650
Are there more bodies out there?
552
00:40:31,970 --> 00:40:35,310
I'm concerned there are. And we have
always maintained that.
553
00:40:35,830 --> 00:40:41,429
Even today, police officers are
following up on reports of additional
554
00:40:41,430 --> 00:40:42,480
Michael Locke.
555
00:40:44,070 --> 00:40:46,110
So far, they have found nothing.
556
00:40:47,490 --> 00:40:53,730
But everyone fears that one day,
remnants of Locke's terror will surface
557
00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:58,330
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