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The story you are about to see was inspired by actual events.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Monday. It was warm in Los Angeles.

Detective Duran and I were working the day shift out of Robbery Homicide.

The call came in from the Harbor Division at 7 .40 a .m.

Commercial fishermen out trolling for yellowtail hauled up a female body

instead.

The port of Los Angeles was the busiest port in the U .S.

Almost three million containers of cargo from every corner of the world are

offloaded each year.

Just about any man -made product you can think of comes through it at one time

or another.

Homicides are no exception.

My name's Friday.

I'm a cop.

That who found the body?

Saw a bunch of Makos feeding on the surface. Brought the boat over to see

the frenzy was about. Check with the Coast Guard yet? No one's been reported

lost at sea in the last two weeks. Maybe she was a swimmer. Coast Guard doesn't

think a riptide would have carried out that far. He checked the GPS when they

hauled her on board.

About two miles offshore.

Maybe she got dumped.

What's the body over here?

Around the crane next to the boat. CI's working on her. What's left of her.

We call a corpse found in water a floater.

In a case like this, there's no crime scene to work. No witnesses to talk to.

Identification is difficult, sometimes impossible.

You catch a floater, you got your work cut out for you. One female torso, heavy

decomp.

Looks like the shark took off the legs, arm, and head. What do you think?

Does this qualify as catch of the day?

Are we going to be able to get a print off the fingers?

I think so.

May as there are any left.

Shark bite patterns all over the torso.

Looks like a diagonal ligature mark around the midsection. What do you

Weighted down. Could have pulled free if she decomped.

How long do you think she was in the water?

Hard to tell. Cold water slows down the decom.

Best guess.

Outer layers of the skin have separated from the body.

Skin on the remaining hand still looks somewhat intact.

Least a week, maybe two.

All right, Steve, taking this one?

Could have originated anywhere along the coast. Probably hit multiple

jurisdictions.

Help me lift her onto the sheet.

The shark bite, what is that, fishing line caught in there?

I don't know.

It's like sutures.

That's not a shark bite.

That's a sea fish.

Well, I'm ruling it a homicide by unknown cause. Other than the bite marks

the cesarean, I don't see any obvious injury.

Well, she didn't drown.

No edema, no congestion of mucus foam in the lungs.

We have approximate time of death?

Not with a floater like this.

She probably hit the water two weeks ago, give or take a week.

Well, that narrows it down.

So all we know, we got a Jane Doe of childbearing age, say, 16 to 45.

Sorry, she was in the water too long.

Is there a chance she died from the C -section?

I doubt from the operation itself. There was blood clotting and some scar tissue

in the uterus means the incision was starting to heal.

She lived after the birth?

Maybe a few days.

The surgery, what kind of work?

Competence. You don't get surgical thread like that from your local

I'll put a rush on the DNA and try to pull some residual placental tissue from

the uterus. Get a positive ID on the baby.

How long before we get the prints?

We already took the skin from the fingers.

I'll let you know in a couple of hours.

And if we're like issues in the system.

Victim's name's Kathleen Anderson. She's 24 years old. Why was she in APHIS? She

was arrested five years ago for check fraud in Manassas, Virginia.

First offense led to misdemeanor. Good start.

NCIC matched her name to a missing person's report filed in Manassas last

at the time. Kathleen was eight months pregnant.

Where are we on the search for the baby?

Nowhere. We've checked area hospitals and birth records, C -sections, and even

abandoned babies.

Nothing on Kathleen Anderson either. Widen the search.

Get Ventura and Orange County upset about this. Most likely the baby got

with Kathleen, so we'll never recover the body. Well, there's just as good a

chance whoever killed her took the baby.

Maybe even a custody dispute.

Maybe the father's got the kid.

This is what Manassas PD was looking at. Kathleen had a pretty contentious

relationship with her boyfriend.

Guy beat her up a couple of times.

Precious of fatherhood, a new baby. Could have easily lashed out.

Where's the rest? That's all they got.

I've been trying to follow up, but the local cops aren't much help over the

phone.

Pack a bag.

You and Jimmy are going to Virginia.

What time we get in?

6 a .m.

Gonna be dragging ass tomorrow.

We ran our name by the airlines, right?

Seven different Kathleen Andersons flew in L .A. in the last month and a half.

All accounted for.

So you think she drove?

What if she did?

A journey to L .A. is four days at least.

Not the kind of trip you take when you're a month away from having a baby.

Kathleen ran off without telling anyone.

She'd been fighting with her folks.

Her mother filed the report out of concern for the baby.

The girl's eight months pregnant and disappeared. Is that something special?

Detective Barsack made a thorough inquiry.

Read the report.

She didn't say she was leaving because she didn't want to be found.

Your report states a possible B &E.

Well, the lock on the back door was busted, but the mother couldn't say when

had happened.

Nothing was taken, except maybe Kathleen.

We don't see her disappearance or her murder as being connected. They happen

run apart, different sides of the country.

How about the boyfriend?

Didn't pan out either.

Doug Hess.

Five assaults on record, two arrests for domestic disturbance, threats made

against Kathleen.

We need to talk to this guy.

We don't know his current whereabouts.

How hard are you looking?

Hess had a key to the house.

Why would he bust the lock to get inside?

He was at his brother's when she took off. The brother backed it up.

If Hess is gone, he's in violation of his parole, correct?

We have a warrant for his arrest. I'll put you in touch with his P .O.

We don't have a lot of time, so we should get started with our interviews.

Miss.

It's Detective Duran.

Detective. I was just going to say, if there's anything else you need.

Direction. To Kathleen's house.

Kathleen loves California.

It's glamorous, I guess.

She said you could see the Hollywood signs from her apartment.

I didn't know Kathleen lived in L .A.

Moved out there four years ago.

She didn't like being home much.

But she eventually came home.

In July.

Six months pregnant.

Doug had gone out to visit her over New Year's, and what do you know?

She said it was his baby, and she's keeping him.

Doug has.

Are you really sure it's her?

We made the ID off her fingerprints.

She was having a boy.

Eight days ago was her due date.

Did you?

We still don't know what happened to the baby.

We always argue that's why she moved.

Do you think she left on her own last month or with Doug Hess?

I don't know.

She took some clothes.

Probably went with Doug.

Their relationship was always up and down.

It sounds strange to say now, but Doug loved her.

Do you think he could have hurt Kathleen?

That's what love does.

I haven't seen my brother in a month.

He skips on his parole. That's his problem.

Think he's with Kathleen?

Wherever she goes, he usually follows.

Doug's wrapped around her little finger. He didn't like her.

She only got him into trouble.

I think he did okay on his own.

Five assaults on his sheet, 18 months in jail.

Brother's got a time code.

You know what he was always fighting over?

It was always Kathleen.

Look, I already got two kids. I don't need a third.

So if you beat her up, just throw his ass in the jail. We'll do him some good.

We're investigating Kathleen's murder.

We need to speak to Doug.

I tried getting him straight.

I even got him a job here doing Bondo.

Throws it in my face and takes off.

Do you know where he is?

Los Angeles. He said he was staying in some motel.

Name? I don't know. The Rose something.

Well, next time you speak to him, tell him we're looking for him.

It's better if he turns himself in.

Hey, just in case you catch up with him first, just so you know, he's got my

gun.

Hey. How was your trip?

Called Friday before I got on the plane. Had to stay in at a motel. How were you

found? Well, I'm impressed.

Nothing but a little detective work.

He's staying at the Purple Rose Motel in Lincoln Heights.

SIS is watching him. He's in his room right now.

Virginia, fax the warrant abstract.

I want you to grab Hess for the parole violation.

Told you he might be armed, right?

SIS will assist him. He's going down now?

Right now.

Manager says Hess checked in a couple of weeks ago alone.

I couldn't identify Kathleen from the photo.

Anything Hess with a baby?

Saw him taking a carrier into the room.

He just told me he has the kids.

He's in room 17.

We also got people in room 16 and 18.

Let's call them from the manager's office and get them ready.

We'll clear the collateral first.

I didn't do anything, man!

I didn't do anything!

I love Kathleen.

Well, love makes you do stupid things. Yeah, well, I didn't do anything.

Come on, you like to smack her around, right?

Kathleen says she's having a baby. She disappears and turns up dead in L .A.

Then we find you, also in L .A., with a .357 and a baby cradle. You know what we

think? We think it's a double homicide.

What do you mean, double?

Did I say my kids did? You tell us.

Kids, man.

Scariest time of my life was when the first one was on the way.

I felt trapped.

Didn't know if I could make it work.

The wife and I were fighting.

Pregnant girls are crazy.

Makes you crazy. I said I didn't do anything!

Kathleen make you mad like that? Screw you.

We can hang all night.

I get paid to be here. She got pissed off because I broke her mom's

I figured she came out to L .A.

That's why I have the carriage. She's having my baby. I came to get him back.

What happened when you found her? I never did find her. You were looking

somewhere. Well, she said she'd hung out with some rich guy named Leon or

something.

I asked around. Nobody had ever heard of him.

I had no other choice.

That's why I'm here. I came to bring my kid back.

Waste of time. We got no TOD, no way to check an alibi.

He's not copping to the murder. Let him stew. We got him on that parole jump.

He's not going anywhere.

I checked out Kathleen's old apartment. Her manager said she always paid on time

and didn't leave much of an impression on her neighbors.

Anything from the motel room? No prints.

Ballistics said that gun hasn't been fired in a long time.

Had no leads off your interview? He mentioned a name, Leon.

That's about it. You talked to him about the baby?

He said he doesn't know.

I believe him.

Kathleen's body was dumped miles out to sea. No way that idiot got his hands on

a boat. Doesn't play for me. I gotta agree.

The photo's from the mother.

There's a picture of Kathleen on a yacht. She knew somebody who could have

dumped her body. Okay, run with that for now.

See if SID can enhance that photo.

Give us a place to start looking.

There's not much in the background that tells you exactly where this is, but

keep your eye on the window of the boat behind her.

A registration number.

Part of one. I pulled up a list of boats registered to DMV with this number.

There's about 130 of them.

There's got to be a way to narrow down the list.

Tell me what you know.

All right.

It's not a sailboat.

Not bad. Can you lose a boat that's not docked in L .A. or Long Beach?

All right. And the one in the photo looks to me like it's on the larger

I'll drop any vessel shorter than 20 feet.

What's the name on this one?

Alice Tate. She owns a 42 -footer called the Panacea.

Panacea.

Means a cure for all ills.

Whatever.

This is for a murder investigation?

Do you know a woman named Kathleen Anderson?

No, no, I've never seen her. Alice, come on, get off the phone. We're going to

be late.

It's the police, Leon. Asking about your boat.

What's going on?

I'd like to know.

Kathleen Anderson, do you know her?

Leon. Was she on the boat?

Hell, I don't know. I've never seen her before in my life.

Maybe someone else took your boat out.

Well, some buddies and I, we go rafting up at Catalina, raft up with other

boats.

People hop around. It's a bit of a party.

Maybe she was there. I don't know. I think you might remember the name of the

other boats.

Not really.

It's a different group every time.

Look, we're late for a thing. Is that it?

Thanks for your time.

Yeah, he and his wife bought that boat two years ago.

The way I hear it, it's the first time outside the breakwater. Alice has half a

glass of wine, blows lunch over the rail, and never sets foot on it again.

But he likes it, with all those trips out to Catalina.

Knows his ass from his stern.

Did he go out on his boat lately?

Last time I saw him was two weeks ago, washing down the deck.

I don't know if he went out, though.

When he did, did he usually go along?

Oh, he is lonely out at sea, without the wife around.

Leon always introduced them as real estate clients.

All women.

Look, it was obviously no secret.

Around here, what a man does in his boat is his own business. Know what I mean?

Was this one of his clients?

Oh, yeah.

She knocked quite a bit.

Kathleen. That's right.

Last time I saw her was about six months ago.

She and Leon sailed to Catalina together. Next day, she came back on

boat. So the relationship ended.

I never saw her again.

To be honest, Leon probably dodged a bullet.

How's that?

Kathleen. You know the type.

Snags a rich guy, never lets go.

What's the guy's story?

My father -in -law owns Boland Real Estate.

I've heard of it.

Boland put his son -in -law on the payroll and Tate dazzled him. And now

obviously trying to take over. But if the wife found out about the affair...

the illegitimate child... There's no way the old man's gonna side with him in

the divorce.

Means and motive.

He wasn't lying for his wife's sake.

He's covering up a murder.

Or two.

At this point, we have any real reason to believe the baby's still alive.

We don't know.

We gotta keep looking.

Warrant the boat.

We're almost done.

Bagged a bunch of different hairs, not much else.

Lumen all the deck and interior.

Lifted the carpet.

Not a molecule of blood.

What about the rest of it? No obvious signs of struggle. Nothing's out of

No smoking gun.

Finish up. Come on back.

Tate's lawyer is all over your search on the boat.

Don't be pissed.

Maybe something will flush out. You can push to a point. When he starts calling

an harassment, you better make sure our PC's strong. This guy must have some

friends. It's rolling from the top down. Don't bust my balls, Joe.

We know our victim was sleeping with Tate.

She's three months along carrying this kid he tells her to take a hike.

She moves back east, she tells her ex -boyfriend the kid it is.

So it's pickup trucks instead of sailboats, and she's not happy.

I'm thinking she runs back to L .A. a couple of months later, confronts Tate

about the baby, probably gives him an ultimatum. How much of the story can you

prove? Not enough yet.

I want to talk to the guy.

An interrogation room's the last place you'll ever see him. I want to call his

attorney, invite Tate down here, tell him we want to...

Clear up the misunderstanding.

My client is here to help. That's all.

Your lieutenant assured me he's not a suspect. The questions will reflect

or I will end the interview.

At your house.

You said you'd never seen Kathleen Anderson.

Listen, I love my wife.

I regret the affair.

That's why I broke it off six months ago. And for the record, I never spoke

Kathleen again.

How'd she take the breakup?

Not well.

But she didn't have a choice.

What about the baby?

She told you it was yours, right?

Okay, look, we'll take a break here, I think, for a second.

That's okay, Mark.

Yeah, Kathleen told me she was pregnant.

What did she want?

Money. How much?

50 grand.

She blackmailed you?

That surprises you. I obviously didn't know Kathleen.

She wasn't screwing me for love.

Who you paid her off.

I gave her ten grand, told her to get an abortion and go away.

Never heard from her again.

She gave up that easy. Don't attach motive to my client.

Maybe I did have a motive.

So what?

I didn't kill Kathleen.

Even when she threatened to tell your wife? All right, interview's over.

You would have lost your meal ticket.

Yeah, I got nothing to hide.

Then tell her.

You were out in the middle of the ocean, nobody around for miles, she was

crying.

Maybe I thought about it.

And?

And that's it.

Let's go.

That guy's cocky. He knows we don't have anything.

What I just heard sounded like a confession. Joe, I got the lab work

need to take a look.

What? DNA results on Kathleen Anderson.

I pulled some tissue from the uterus to get a positive ID on the baby.

There's no genetic link.

Kathleen and her baby are not related.

How's that possible?

carrying someone else's child.

Kathleen was a surrogate mother.

Tate doesn't know about the surrogacy.

He thought the baby was his at the time.

Between Tate and the boyfriend, it seems a lot of guys think she was having

their kid.

So maybe she decided to keep the baby. It seemed a mother needed a father.

She's after the money. What did we see with her bank account? Three different

checking accounts with three different banks, all inactive and empty. I don't

see her stuff in her mattress. Keep looking.

About a dozen fertility clinics in L .A. offer some sort of surrogacy service.

Any hits with our victim?

Medical records are sealed. They won't even say if she was a patient. Then make

the rounds.

That's the best shot we have of finding this kid.

Kathleen used to be registered with us as a surrogate mother.

Used to be.

The pregnancy was unsuccessful. She dropped out of the program.

Her last visit was over a year ago.

We know she became a surrogate for somebody.

Not through our clinic.

We'd like to talk to the couple she first contracted with.

Absolutely not.

Even off the record?

I'm sorry, but there are larger issues here.

There's an enormous amount of trust placed in our service. I can't violate

confidentiality. Maybe you could call and ask them. No. Ms. Santos, do you

understand the potential for bad publicity with a case like this?

It's something we'd all like to avoid.

Is that a threat?

It's a fact.

If she passed your psych evaluation to become a candidate, your clinic wouldn't

look too good.

Kathleen wasn't the kind of person I think you want to be protecting.

We appreciate you coming in.

When the clinic called and told us about Kathleen, I insisted we talk to you.

We were matched with Kathleen about a year and a half ago.

She had a good medical history. She seemed emotionally stable.

See?

Her video interview was great.

We hit it off right away, like we were sisters.

How much did you pay Kathleen to become the surrogate? $25 ,000 for the service.

Then a week after we signed the contract, Kathleen called us in tears

us that she was about to be evicted.

$4 ,000.

And that wasn't it?

She took us for about another $10 ,000 before it was all over.

You sound a little resentful.

It was the right thing to do.

We helped someone we cared about.

Kathleen miscarried in the tenth week.

You didn't try again?

She said the emotional toll of the miscarriage was hard on her.

It was hard on all of us.

We are not wealthy people.

Kathleen took advantage.

If a couple can't have a baby...

I don't know. I think it's sad.

If I can help, you know, that's just the kind of person I am.

I understand how it is to want what you can't have, to want it so bad.

That's why choosing a surrogate must be so hard.

The parents have to totally trust the person.

I mean, they're sharing a part of their deepest hope.

Slick.

Stephanie said all the right things.

Why didn't she carry the first pregnancy to Tom?

Well, Tanner's admitted Kathleen stretched him financially.

I wouldn't be surprised if she aborted that baby.

But well ran dry, she cut bait and moved on. Then did it again with someone

else. Found a savings account for Kathleen under the name K .H. Anderson.

year, there were a total of 11 payments made to her from an escrow account.

How much?

Almost $75 ,000.

Let's call that a living.

Who paid?

A trustee on the account named Alan R. Sperry. He's a lawyer up in Glendale.

Well, agencies use unfair and arbitrary standards.

Folks get rejected and they come here.

Surrogate mothers love me. I get them more money.

Ran a womb.

I don't know. Sounds like baby selling to me.

It's a lucrative line of law. There's nothing wrong with that.

Name of the parents?

Carl and Amy Savitsky.

He's a doctor.

She's a head case. Real emotional.

Contract's in dispute.

What kind of dispute?

Well, the surrogate mother, Kathleen Anderson, took off six months into the

pregnancy. Moved to Virginia and said she was keeping the baby.

So what'd you do?

Oh, nothing.

You let Kathleen steal that kid?

Hey, Virginia law doesn't recognize surrogacy contracts.

I mean, they don't care if the birth mother and the kid are even related.

Deal was off.

So if she had the baby in Virginia, legally, the baby's hers.

And there's nothing the parents could do.

So, Kathleen skips down with Savitsky's baby after they've already paid her $75

,000. She was making banking store in these people. And if they tried to cut

the money? Going to Virginia gives her serious leverage.

And Savitsky's probably lost their minds.

And enough to kill her?

Well, if it was one of my kids.

Right. Call Friday.

Lieutenant Joe Friday, LAPD. Are you Dr. Carl Stavitsky?

She's dead?

When's the last time you saw Kathleen?

About four months ago at the OBGYN.

Right after the appointment, she called our lawyer, said she wasn't giving us

our child.

You contacted the police?

Police, FBI.

They said it was a civil issue. The civil court said it was a criminal

Our lawyer said that legally our hands are tied.

You fear this could happen using a surrogate. You just... You don't think?

Where's your wife?

She's visiting relatives out of town.

You can mimic the emotion, the attitude, but sometimes it's what you don't say

that gives you away.

Zavitsky forgot to ask about the fate of his child.

It told me one thing.

They already had the baby.

You're a doctor.

Dermatologist.

Ever deliver a baby?

A straightforward question for a doctor, but he reacted like a criminal.

I assisted when I was a resident.

Do you mind if we look around the house?

Actually, it's not a good time right now, but if we could do it later, maybe.

Dr. Stavitsky, you and your wife are our suspects in this investigation now if

you're refusing to cooperate.

I think I should call my lawyer.

How'd the canvas go?

Well, a neighbor thought she heard some screams in the middle of the night a

couple weeks ago. A woman across the street said she saw that Stavitsky's

baby.

There's a nursery down the hall. Hasn't been used. Done a bunch of medical

equipment in the garage. A couple IV stands, cautery, clamps.

All clean.

Check that coop upstairs.

Find any blood?

Nothing. We checked the entire room.

SID even pulled all the drain traps from the bathroom.

But shutters are nailed shut.

They're both on the door. Locks from the outside.

You could have held Kathleen in here.

ditched the mattress because the blood scrubbed things down.

Birth happened in this room.

Your wife has the baby. Where is she? Don't say anything.

Arrest him.

You're not taking my son.

I'll hold that for my client.

Cell phone's evidence.

You have no grounds for that, detective.

Made a local call nine times in a row. Trace it.

Step out of the car. Step out of the car. Open the door or we'll force entry.

Please, you can't take him. It's going to be all right. Just open the car.

It's going to be okay. Just step out of the car.

Found an 18 -foot fishing boat. Dr. Marina Del Rey registered to aid Dr.

Savitsky. Gotta be how he dumped the body.

That's that D's been working on it all morning. They say it's clean.

Found gas receipts to put Savitsky in Virginia at the time Kathleen

So he grabs her in Virginia, drives her back to L .A., and holds her till she's

ready to have the baby. So where's all the evidence that proves murder?

Everything we've got is circumstantial. With passion kills, people make

mistakes. This was thought out, planned.

Do you really see Savitsky as a cold -blooded killer? I see everyone as a

killer.

Potentially. So what's our next move?

Gotta be something he missed.

Tear the house up.

We pulled up the carpets, paddings, and floorboards in that bedroom.

They covered the entire house, too. What'd I tell you? The Savitskys planned

carefully. No evidence at all.

Unless you want to spend an entire decade searching the dump for a bag of

gauze.

There's nothing on it, Joe.

We know that they don't.

Dr. Savitsky's already going to lose his medical license and his practice.

As he should.

My clients are willing to plead to involuntary manslaughter.

Cleaned up real well, but you missed a spot.

That's enough evidence of a first -degree murder conviction.

We also found your boat, Doctor.

Imagine that's how you dumped the body.

Whatever evidence you have only proves my client's innocence.

Where does kidnapping fit in?

Kathleen was the kidnapper.

She stole our baby and then threatened us. Kathleen was never held against her

will. Dr. Savitsky brought her back to L .A. to deliver the child as per the

contract. She returned willingly.

They locked her in a bedroom.

Item 8 stipulates the birth was to occur at a place of the intended parent's

choosing. They chose home birth at their own residence.

This contract wouldn't hold up in TV court, not after what's happened.

agreed to it. Did she agree to a forcible C -section?

I had to do the surgery.

They both would have died.

Kathleen's life.

had to be risked. And there was no malice in that decision.

Look, I get one parent on the jury, my clients walk.

Dr. Savitsky tried to save the life of his own child.

It's kidnapping and murder. We'll see you at the trial.

Here's a phone call Kathleen made from Virginia.

You'll want to listen to it.

Kathleen, listen to me. We want our child. And I told you what I want. We're

not... giving you any more money? Well, you've paid half. Do you want half a

baby? Why are you doing this? This isn't easy for me either, Carl. Sometimes I'd

rather be dead than be pregnant another day. Is that what you want? You want me

to kill myself?

Damn.

Gives you murder.

Gives you sympathy.

Crops do, ain't it? Hey, if I was Savitsky... You'd commit murder?

We're all capable.

Just a matter of getting the right button pushed.

You own kids one hell of a button.

Well, whether or not the threat was real, she was terrorizing them. You're

to meet their officer?

We have no evidence, and they're going to find that out real fast.

They aren't calling out Bluff yet.

Zavitsky says he tried to save Kathleen's life.

Let's find out if he really did.

The umbilical was prolapsed. It was knotted up pretty bad.

He went bradycardic in the birth canal.

And that's when you elected to perform the cesarean?

I had blood and a bunch of things I borrowed from the hospital.

Give her two 18 -gauge IVs, LR solution, wash her stomach with betadine.

Anesthesia? 100 mg of Demerol through the IV.

A local on her abdomen, 1 % lidocaine with epinephrine, 1 to 1 ,000 dilution.

She wasn't feeling any pain.

Take me through the surgery.

I cut a 15 -centimeter incision. I injected more local along the way to

bleeding. Was she bleeding badly?

Not really, no.

I sealed off the incision with a cautery.

Cut into the uterus, extracted the baby, clamped and transected the cord.

How did he look?

Beautiful.

Apgar was about a seven.

He was a little blue, but he pinked up fast.

His mom took him away and cleaned him up. And then?

I pulled out the placenta, packed the uterus with gauze until I had adequate

hemostasis, removed that, irrigated with saline, checked it again, and it looked

good, so... I closed.

She was doing fine.

She hemorrhaged 48 hours later.

It was the middle of the night.

Why are we pushing so hard to get these people?

Do I need to answer that?

I mean, this doctor's a nice guy. If you forget, he killed a woman.

Put him and his wife away.

You might as well put the kid in prison, too.

From what I can still see here, he did exactly what he said. Then why did he

die? There's always a chance of hemorrhaging. That could have happened

a hospital.

You believe him? The autopsy doesn't show any other COD.

If she'd gotten septic because he left some gauze behind, I would have seen a

high white cell count.

Do you have any proof Savitsky isn't telling the truth?

I honestly can't tell you whether she hemorrhaged or not. The decomp's too

advanced. So it's his word against a dead woman's. Yep.

Had a feeling you'd reconsider?

Voluntary manslaughter. They both do 10 to 20.

You heard that tape. My clients are the true victims here.

They had other options.

Tell it to a jury, Lieutenant.

I'll go to prison.

Just hold on a minute. I'll go.

But only if Amy doesn't have to.

I want my wife to raise our son, not some foster home.

You can have me.

Honor his terms. Dr. Savitsky does three years.

I can't do that.

Yes, you can.

Involuntary manslaughter, five to ten.

Amy gets probation.

I'll make a strong recommendation to social services for her to retain

of the child. I'll take it.

Okay.

Deal.

You did the right thing.

We had no evidence.

Best we could get.

I don't care why you did it.

That kid needs a mother.

You never want to believe good people can do bad things.

The Savitskys didn't go looking for a crime.

The crime came looking for them.

Four months later, the call came in.

Three fishermen found a skull with a bullet hole.

I heard about the shark.

How about that?

My lawyer says you can't retry me for her murder.

That's right.

Why are you here?

Had another interview.

Came to see how you were doing.

Yeah?

She wasn't going to give him back, you know?

Not without more money.

That's why I went to Virginia.

To kidnap her?

To rescue my son.

Why'd you kill her?

After the birth, I asked her if she was gonna leave us alone.

She laughed at me, and she said that she was going to go to the police and that

they were going to take away my son.

How'd you get her on the boat?

I gave her Demerol, got her woozy.

Middle of the night, I told her I was taking her to the hospital.

After I threw the gun in the ocean and I... I went home to my

wife and my baby.

Just like that?

Yeah.

It was horrible.

I didn't have a choice.

Maybe not.

I'm not a bad man, Lieutenant.

It's going okay in here?

I'm all right.

I work at the infirmary.

Every weekend I get to see my wife, my boy.

He's getting big.

You know, if I make parole, I should be out in time for his first day of

kindergarten.

Amy Savitsky pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to five

years formal probation as part of her plea agreement.

After a review by Child Protective Services, she was granted custody of her

child. Carl Savitsky is currently serving five to ten years for

manslaughter at the California State Prison in Sentinella. Despite new

suggesting the premeditated murder of Kathleen Anderson, double jeopardy

precludes a new trial.

Carl Savitsky is eligible for parole in five years.

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