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Yes?

Mother!

Oh no.

No, no!

No!

No, please!

The Lord said to me, "You are my son,

this day have I begotten you."

Lord, our God, with the birth of your son,

your glory breaks on the world.

Through the night hours of the darkened earth,

we, your people, watch for the coming of your promised son.

No!

No!

No!

And as we wait, give us a foretaste of the joy

that you will grant us

when the fullness of His glory has filled the earth.

Oh no

Please!

The word of God became man.

We have seen His glory.

God, our Father, we rejoice in the birth of our Savior.

May we share His life completely by living as He has taught.

We ask this in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Amen.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

The body of Christ.

Amen.

The body of Christ.

Amen.

Hey, Steve!

Hey, Tony.

Tommy.

Sally Ann.

Morning, Tony.

How you doing today?

Sorry, Tony, you can't go in.

Hi, hi, Tony.

Let's move away from the door.

What's going on here?

I had to borrow your office for a few minutes.

Who are these guys?

Federal narcs.

Who's in my office?

Cardenas and the narcs are gonna talk to him

when I'm through with 'em.

Cardenas is gonna talk to you after three months?

He already has.

What, he copped to killing the federal agent?

Mhm.

Great, what'd you give him?

I didn't give him a thing.

Great, can I have my office back?

Well, just a few minutes.

Why don't we get a cup of coffee?

What's he doing in my office?

We've got his wife in there with him.

Tony, I promised him a contact visit

if he told me what I needed.

You're letting Cardenas use my office as a trick pad?

Hey, it's his wife, Tony.

I told 'em use the couch, not your desk.

- Great. - I warned him

- to keep the place clean. - Great.

This is great.

Sally Ann, would you ring my office?

You gotta be in court.

This is important too, you know?

- Mr. Cardenas? - Yeah?

Are you free?

One moment.

Mr. Cardenas, would you stop whatever you're doing

and come out here, please?

Hey, man, what is this shit?

I still got 10 minutes coming.

It's out of my hands, pal.

On the Wino Park stabbings,

See if we can bring in someone that'll say that a defendant

with a 33 BA would still know

that a broken wine bottle is a deadly weapon.

And tell the city cops to go back to the park,

see if they can find the victim's nose.

Oh, Kate's father is coming in for New Year's,

so remind me.

Hi, hunt!

Hi!

Tried to reach you this afternoon.

Anything special?

Hmm?

I thought we could have lunch.

I called the office, they said you were gone.

Oh, I wish I would've known.

You didn't get my message?

We had two murder arraignments this morning,

and then, I had to go back to court this afternoon

to get bail raised on that guy in the arson case.

- Did you get it? - Yes, I did.

Hmm.

- You look tired. - Come here.

Hmm.

Hello?

Yeah, I'm awake.

I'm not major crimes deputy on duty tonight, Mel.

Mel, I think you should be talking to.

What's wrong?

All right, just a second.

I need a a piece of paper and a pen.

Okay.

What?

Okay.

I gotta go out.

Where are you going?

Just stand back, please.

Stand back, please.

Get behind the line, please.

Negative, stand by.

See anybody hanging around the alley?

I've never seen anything like this.

See any strange cars or things like that?

I've never seen anything like this.

One victim down here, the other two upstairs.

I'm tracking blood all over.

No signs of forced entry, nothing missing.

Don't step on anything.

Can we get a bulldozer?

Ah, Jesus!

Who were they?

This woman owns the house,

this is Barbara Ellis, a divorcee.

The other two are mother and father,

Mr. And Mrs. Robert Hendrickson.

The rest of the house is undisturbed.

There's some blood downstairs, in the hallway, in here.

I don't think it was a robbery,

and I don't think it was somebody the victims knew.

Women were shot, dragged upstairs, and then, mutilated.

The man downstairs was shot and just left there.

Christ.

George?

I thought I'd seen it all.

Nothing like this ever.

What happened?

The victims were all killed in the same fashion,

probably yesterday.

Cause of death's fairly obvious, gunshots to the head,

small caliber bullet, probably .22.

Yeah, what about the wounds?

The women's bodies were cut open to get at the organs.

God knows why.

Some of the organs were removed.

12127186, home of Barbara Ellis.

Do you still feel a pulse?

Pulses are faint.

Let's get the BP cuff

for a blood pressure, please.

The blood pressure's hardly palpating.

Can't get anything.

Let's get some dopamine.

Start a drip, please.

Here's the dopamine, add it to the IV.

Dopamine's up.

It's wide open.

You see if you get a pressure yet?

Barely.

Pulses are faint.

Speed up the dopamine a bit more.

Still wide open.

Coming up blue, coming up blue.

I'm feeling pulses.

Do you want me to back it off?

Yeah, slow it down.

- Okay. - Do you have the BPs?

Very palpable.

What's on the monitor?

Sinus tach.

What's wrong with her?

We've restored her heartbeat,

but her brain is no longer functioning.

No!

Tony.

Why does she have to go at a time like this?

It has to be your decision.

No!

I saw Molly today.

I see her too sometimes,

her crooked little smile.

I'm sorry.

It wasn't your fault.

Okay, boys, come help me cover him up.

Come on!

Come on, let's say goodbye to Juno one last time here.

Why don't you get your rake and help me?

Oh, Juno, he's gonna be chasing cats in heaven now.

It'll be all right.

- Bye. - Bye, Juno.

It's gonna be all right.

Andy, he's gonna be all right.

Andy, stop that!

Oh, he just doesn't like going to the dentist.

Well, that's no excuse for trashing the car.

I'll take him over there, then, bring him home,

then, I gotta scoot by the plant.

I just wish you hadn't called the police.

Eileen, you and I both know

that Charlie Reece killed that dog.

Now, I'm not gonna let him get away with that.

Just don't want any trouble from them.

Honey, we'll just let the police handle it, all right?

Bye-bye, Aaron, be a good boy.

- Bye! - Bye!

Wave bye.

- Wave bye-bye. - Bye, mom.

Bye, Aaron.

- Bye! - Have fun!

Be back for dinner.

Come on, let's go finish breakfast.

I'll take you to the park.

We'll take your toys.

And then, when Andy gets back, we'll get...

All right, maybe we'll go to the carnival later, okay?

Password!

It's super password!

And Kit Martin!

Aaron, are you through?

Yeah.

Okay, sweetheart.

I thank you.

Thank you very much and welcome.

This week, we really have something special for you.

It's our first annual super password.

Our first annual super password.

What are you doing in here?

Just go on home now, you hear me?

Just go on.

Charles, what are you doing here?

Please leave.

Just go away, please.

Gun.

I'm sorry.

Aaron!

Aaron!

When we catch the suspect, we're not gonna bargain.

No deals, no psycho cop out.

Nothing less than the death penalty.

Some of you didn't vote for me,

but I intend to show the state, maybe the country,

how a crime like this is handled in this county.

Tony, I'd like you to give us a progress report.

All right.

We have a description of a man, six feet, 140

to 150 pounds, red coat, sunglasses

near the scene at the time of the crime.

That's about it.

This case has got not guilty insanity written all over it.

It's gonna be very difficult

to get a jury to believe otherwise.

Burden's on defense to show insanity.

We don't have to prove anything.

The public wants the death penalty,

and the courts are gonna have to give it to 'em.

Well, I've never gone after the death penalty.

If I was in the legislature, I'd campaign against it.

You're not in the legislature.

In my office, we don't write law.

We carry it out.

Listen, if we find whoever did this

and convict them, it's just gonna get overturned

somewhere up the line.

If they overturn us, that's the system.

But if we get a conviction, you put on the record

that you can prosecute this.

If the higher courts wanna dump it, that's fine.

We're going after the death penalty

as long as the high court says it's constitutional, period.

Well, I don't understand why you're even considering it.

It's against everything we both believe.

I haven't made the decision yet, Kate.

I need your help.

Well, let them give it to somebody else.

Why does it have to be you?

Kate, I'm in charge of major crimes.

Whalen wants me to do it.

It's not gonna resolve anything

to pass the buck to somebody else.

Is it gonna resolve anything to take another life?

You have a chance and a responsibility

to say it's wrong to Kill.

Daddy, I wanna ride my bike.

Well, let's go find mommy first, huh?

Can I have apple juice?

Oh, sure.

You were such a good boy at the dentist,

you can have what you want.

Mommy?

Mommy?

Mommy?

Daddy, daddy, daddy!

What's wrong, Andy?

It's really gross!

What is it?

Daddy, what's wrong with mommy?

What's wrong?

Where is she?

Where's mommy?

Daddy!

My God, no!

How are you and Whalen getting along?

He wants me

On the triple murder case.

Of course.

You'll do a good job, and he'll take the credit.

Well, I'm one of the liberals he campaigned against.

A murder conviction of this lunatic,

if they ever haul him in, I don't know.

I don't think there's a jury

in the country that would kill him.

Whalen may be looking to you to fumble,

knowing your feelings.

He'd have a fall guy.

When I was a PD, I defended the Rainer boys,

Tommy and Kevin.

They were pretty good boys most of the time,

had jobs, and no records.

We went to trial because these two charming fellows,

they got an old woman, tied her with electrical cord,

left her hog tied, then, sat down

and watched her strangle to death for 40 minutes.

I got up.

I reminded my jury how long it took that woman to die.

They came back in three hours, not guilty

by reason of insanity.

That jury turned those boys loose,

because they couldn't believe that anyone could sit

and watch an old woman choke to death for 40 minutes,

lest they were insane.

You got a guy that makes those boys look like the apostles.

Where's my boy?

Where's Aaron?

We're looking for him, Mr. Tippetts.

She was all white.

I started looking at her,

her body was all cut open.

Oh my God.

It was so quiet when we walked into the house.

Is there anything I can get you?

Will you be staying here tonight?

Oh God, no, I can't stay here.

I can't stay at this house.

Paul, talk to him.

Oh my God.

An hour ago, the fellow over there,

Eugene Tippetts, brings his 4-year-old kid back

from the dentist, finds his wife in the bedroom back there,

shot three times, small caliber, mutilated like the others.

Was she sexually assaulted?

Entry apparently through an unlocked back door.

He just walked in.

Tippetts has another son, about five years old.

His name is Aaron.

He was with the mother.

He's not home now.

We're looking for him.

Oh, my baby.

I love you.

I love you.

Somebody start checking with the utilities.

Tony.

We'll find out if any trucks were out

in this area.

We gonna need any lights?

This guy just walked in.

A neighbor saw a white Chevy pull up to the house.

Saw the driver, described as a white male,

20 to 30, long black hair, six foot,

150 to one 170, old blue jeans, a red parka, sunglasses.

It's gotta be him.

The witness knows the guy.

He says he lives a couple blocks away with his mother.

His name is Charles Edward, excuse me, Edmund Reece.

3305 El Dorado, this is it, the Reece house.

Do we go in now or wait for a warrant?

If we have to rush a search warrant,

it'll take a couple hours, minimum.

We have sufficient cause to arrest the guy if he's home now.

He's a suspect in four murders.

Looks like a Holiday Inn.

Can you hear me?

Sedatives and tranquilizers,

all prescriptions for Mrs. Naomi Reece.

Mrs. Reece?

Mrs. Reece?

Charlie!

Mrs. Reece, we're from the police department.

Why are you in my house?

We're looking for your son.

Is he home now?

What did my...

Oh, wait a minute, something happened?

We're gonna search your house now, Mrs. Reece.

You can come with us if you want.

Do you understand?

Mhm, why are you at my house?

Sounds like consent to me.

Where's Charlie's room?

Stop it, stop it!

Don't go in here.

Move out of the way, ma'am!

You can't be in here!

- Mrs. Reece- - Stop it!

Just stand out

- of the way, please! - Stop it!

There's a cellar back here!

Get out of here, get out of here!

No, no, get...

- No! - Stay here.

- Locked. - Yep.

Stop it, stop it!

Cut 'em off!

Get away from me.

Let me go!

Stay here!

Get your hands off of me!

Do not touch me!

What's that smell?

You cannot even look in here.

This is... Get the light!

This is his special room-

Jesus!

He never let's anyone in.

Jesus!

God!

Holy Christ.

Go to Tippett's house, get the ID techs over here.

Get out, get out, get out.

Get out, get out, get out of here!

This is an emergency, ma'am!

Get off!

Oh, Charlie, what have you been doing?

Got some shells over here that look like .22's.

Don't touch 'em!

My God, this looks like brains.

Who's in charge?

What do we got going here?

What's going on?

Two of you, man.

Secure the front of the building.

Is this the guy you're looking for?

That Tippetts kid's had it.

If this guy's got him, he's dead.

We can't believe he's dead.

Our only justification for being here is

that we believe that boy's alive.

All right, let's get pictures

and snag everything that's not nailed down.

This is our guide now, it's all in plain view.

Mhm.

Want me to check the oil and the water?

No, not today, thanks.

Good morning.

Good morning.

You Charles Reece?

No, he's been gone all day.

Any idea when he's coming in?

No, if he's not in by now, I'd say he's out for the day.

Who wants him?

Are you the owner?

No, I just work here.

What's your name?

Bob, Robert.

Your last name?

Tippetts.

Excuse me.

- Have a nice day. - You too.

Who's Chevy is that?

I'm working on it.

- Robert? - Yo?

You wanna open it for me?

Where's the keys?

I don't remember.

Think.

They must be inside,

I'll see if I can find them.

We'll come with you.

This place is such a mess.

I can never find anything.

I never know if he put the keys up here

or where.

Sometimes, he puts 'em up here.

It could be just about any place.

I don't know, this ring, he puts 'em on.

Are these yours?

Oh, yeah.

Those...

Hey, hold!

Hold it right there!

Hault!

Get the cuffs.

Don't make a move!

Move, move!

Billy?

Get out of the way!

Stop!

Put your hands up

where I can see them, now!

Where I can see 'em!

Put 'em up!

What's the matter?

- Get on the ground. - What, what?

Get on the ground!

I didn't go anything.

Get on the ground!

It Wasn't... Get down!

Lay down!

Lay down!

I didn't do anything.

Spread out, go on, spread out.

What?

What am I here for?

You killed a woman today.

I need a doctor right away.

Mr. Reece, did you kill Eileen Tippetts today?

I need a doctor, please.

Where's the little boy, Mr. Reece?

You'll never understand me.

Why not?

Because you're not chosen.

Ask me another question.

Have you ever seen a psychiatrist?

Yo, lots of them.

Would you like to see one now?

Sure, I would.

You'll find out.

You're gonna get a big surprise.

Mr. Reece, let's cover a couple other areas.

How long did you work at that gas station?

Is the shrink here yet?

Dr. Rudin,

Tony Fraser, Assistant DA.

Yes, we've met before.

Thank you for coming.

Why did you ask for me?

You're on the duty roster.

You know what's going on here.

Okay, I want you to find out anything you can

about this little boy,

and then, I wanna know what this guy's problems are.

Well, I can't examine him until after he's been charged.

He's already been charged.

Well, it would be improper even to talk to him

until after he's consulted an attorney.

He has an attorney.

I just want whatever information you can get

on this little boy.

Hello, Mrs. Reece.

Remember me, I'm Albert Morse.

I'm the public defender assigned to your son's case.

Mrs. Reese, I'm here to help you.

Is this your husband?

He died when Charlie was six.

Charlie's been telling me

that he used to hit you.

Huh, Charlie?

Never.

No, I meant your husband.

He punched me in the face, yes.

A lot of times, he kicked me.

I was lying on the floor here with pans,

broken dishes all over the place,

cut myself.

Had to get 52 stitches.

He was mad about what somebody said to him at work.

I had blood in my mouth, and I was begging him to stop.

I had to leave him, but we were only separated two months.

He came to the place I was staying, and

he actually cried.

He apologized, you know?

So I came back.

I loved him,

but mainly, I missed Charlie,

and I knew how much he needed me.

Wait a minute, you mean your husband kept the boy?

Mm.

You never reported him to the police?

Why was that?

I don't know, to tell you the honest truth.

Did your husband ever hit Charlie?

He loved Charlie.

He would never hurt Charlie.

Charlie was his darling.

But he saw him hit you.

Charlie was standing there, right there.

I covered my eyes, so I wouldn't have to see him staring.

Okay.

Well, what happened to Charlie after his father died?

Well, he was seven, but he wasn't a bad child.

You ask our neighbors, he mowed lawns.

He was always helping people.

He collected food and old clothes for poor people.

Everybody liked him.

He was on the football team

and the baseball team at Mount Washington High,

had a picture around here somewhere.

So he has no criminal record?

No.

No juvenile offenses?

Nothing.

His grades were always good.

He went on to the community college for a year.

He had a hard time.

It was just the two of us, but I always gave him love.

I don't believe what they're saying about him.

If I could see him now,

I know Charlie would tell me the real facts.

I understand he'd been hospitalized.

Yeah, Sunny Slope, they helped him.

Well, who was the one that put him in the hospital,

Mrs. Reece?

I told Charlie that I thought he should see professionals.

Just needs professionals.

He got very upset with me,

but he got better, and they let him out.

He can get better, Mr. Morse, he's a good person.

Just needs love.

He needs all the love I've got.

Well?

Okay, he's got a lot of problems.

Serious, pathological problems.

Doctor, does he know the difference

between right and wrong?

He seems confused and emotionally detached

from the killings.

Am I going to be able to make a case for legal sanity?

It's possible, yes.

The women were shot, dragged upstairs,

and mutilated.

The man downstairs was shot and just left there.

I'm saw her laying there, her body was all cut open.

Oh my God.

Looks like he went wild in there.

He had the presence of mind

to pull the shade at the Ellis house,

brought a plastic bag with him

so he could take the body parts he wanted.

Brought a concealed weapon with him,

but he used a carving knife in the Ellis kitchen

for the mutilation.

I don't see your point.

To have to inflict this kind of damage,

you'd need a large weapon, right?

Right.

It's hard to carry, hard to conceal.

Maybe he took 'em where he knew he'd find one.

That's thinking ahead, George.

I don't know, Tony, that could be hard to prove.

Yeah, well, I gotta prove it to myself first.

Didn't he wash the knife after he used it?

Somebody did, and then, took it back to the kitchen.

And then, while he is in there, he looks around

for something to drink their blood.

See, there's no panic.

The kitchen wasn't disturbed, was it?

No.

No, while he was in there, he worked very carefully.

That's my point.

I think he had motivation for the killings,

and that it was sexual.

Harry, see what else you can find out about him,

going back to when he was a kid.

Go back as far as you can.

Classmates, girlfriends, whatever.

Oh, and what about this calendar?

Look at these circled dates here,

going all the way back as far as February

and the word today is always repeated

in the same handwriting.

Yeah, well, let's not deal with that.

You know what we should do is check our files

for any unsolved murders around those dates.

If we can tie one to this guy,

it'll help show premeditation.

Also, check L.A. and Kern Counties.

See if there's anything like this in any

of the neighboring counties.

All right, what do we have in the way of citations?

We're gonna take a look

at your brain now, Charles.

Why?

We wanna see if it's the right size and shape

or if there's anything physically wrong with it.

This machine is a magnetic resonance scanner.

It uses a powerful magnetic field

and radio waves to give us the sharpest,

clearest image of your brain.

We're now passing through the base of the brain.

As you can see, the temporal lobe

and frontal lobe are normal.

There's no mass.

We're passing through the fourth ventricle, and it's normal.

The third ventricle

and lateral ventricle are just coming around,

and there are no lesions, no bumps.

The size and shape of the brain are normal.

Brain tissue appears normal.

No tumors.

He appears to have no structural brain disease.

Good luck, Al.

Charles, I'm Dr. Benjamin Keddie.

I'm a psychiatrist.

I was engaged by your attorney here, Mr. Morse.

I've gone over your psychological tests

and your magnetic resonance scan,

and I think your best defense is insanity.

Mr. Morse and I will have to convince the jury

of your condition,

so we need you to help us understand it, you see?

I don't want an insanity defense.

Everything I did was justified.

I had to do it, it was all up to me.

Did something tell you to do those things?

What do you mean?

Well, for example, did something tell you

to go out and shoot people?

Yeah.

I don't know what it was.

What do you think it was?

Well, that's for you to tell me, Charles.

I hear voices on the radio sometimes.

What sort of voices, Charles?

Music telling me to kill.

There's this one station I listened to,

it's a devil station.

I'd listen, and I'd hear Satan telling me to Kill.

Sometimes, I think this isn't real.

It's not really messages, it's not making any sense.

But then, finally, I figured it must be true.

So then, when I started to lose all my blood,

I figured that it was Satan poisoning me

for not keeping my end of the bargain.

Do you remember going into a woman's

house the day you were arrested?

She was making trouble and her dog was poisoned.

How did you feel

after you killed these people?

Just kind of delirious.

I didn't care.

Well, how did you pick out

this particular family to kill?

I don't know.

It was just an accident.

An accident?

What do you mean?

It's just no reason, you know?

I just walked up to the door

and the woman opened the door,

and so, I shot her right then.

What happened to the little boy?

Oh, I put him in the trash can

with a lid in the garbage someplace.

Was he still alive?

I don't know.

I might have shot him a couple of times.

You killed him?

No, I sucked some blood, and then, I got rid of it.

I'm confused, Charlie, as to how you could hurt people,

a small child who never did you any harm.

Well, I never meant to hurt him.

I needed his blood.

Well, I feel bad about it now, I guess.

But not then?

Oh no, not then.

Fixed time of death in relation to bullet wounds

and knife wounds.

Same with Mrs. Hendrickson.

Further note, Reece knew Mrs. Tippetts.

Did he have a reason for killing her?

Wasn't there a report of a dead dog

to the police department?

Mr. Tippetts is here.

Oh right, I need to interview him,

and I didn't want to have him to have to do it

- at the office. - It's okay.

It's all right?

This is the man whose wife was-

I know.

He has his son with him.

Thank you for coming.

Hello, son.

Do you have any toys?

We might have.

Come on.

I don't know for sure.

That's the worst part.

I think I've seen the worst.

Can I have a drink?

Sure.

What would you like?

Water?

No, apple juice.

Okay.

Mr. Tippetts?

No, thank you very much, Mrs. Fraser.

Can I have a Coke?

I think apple juice would be better for you, son.

Andrew was asking if we had any toys.

Come on, we'll talk outside.

You be a good boy, Andrew.

There you go.

I know it's difficult to talk about,

but you were the first person, aside from your son,

to find your wife,

And I need to have the jurors hear you.

I need to have them see her through your eyes.

They all say that he's nuts.

I bet you even think he's nuts, don't you?

No, I don't.

I think Reece knew what he was doing

when he killed your wife.

This is, this is all, it's a waste of time.

No, it isn't a waste of time.

I don't have the time, mister.

I got no time.

I sat there at home, and I watched my boy, Andrew.

That's all I do.

I watch him, and boy, he's all I got left.

You understand?

We're preparing to meet Reece's insanity defense.

I'm asking for the death penalty,

which I've never done before, but I feel in this case,

I think a jury will vote for it.

You have to understand if he's acquitted

or if he's found not guilty by reason of insanity,

they'll let him out of a hospital or prison someday,

and he'll be on the streets again.

I know you don't want that.

No, no, sir.

No.

Terrible thing to lose a child.

You don't know.

I do know.

I had a daughter younger than Aaron.

We lost her six months ago.

Lost her?

That's something a little bit different, isn't it, huh?

You lost her?

What the hell's that supposed to be?

She had pneumonia.

We thought she was getting better.

When I thought it was past the dangerous stage,

I went back to work.

I had a trial to finish.

My wife stayed at the hospital.

Last time I saw my daughter, she was in an oxygen mask.

God, I'm sorry.

God, Jesus, God.

Can I color this book?

Sure.

You wanna color together?

- Okay. - Okay.

Is this a girl's toy?

Yeah.

I love it.

Did I tell you what I decided this morning, tiger?

I think maybe you and me are gonna leave this town,

just pack up and head out on the road.

No school?

No, not for a while.

I think we're just gonna get in the car and drive.

How long for, Daddy?

Well, for a long time.

Aren't we ever gonna stop?

Yeah, sure, we're gonna stop, but mainly,

we're gonna drive, and we're gonna see places.

You like that idea?

Can I bring my toys?

Oh, you bet you you can bring every single one of them.

Is there children to play with?

Lots of children, you can play with all of them.

How many patients are you treating here,

Paul?

50 or 60, something like that.

We're operating way beyond capacity.

Well, you're to be commended.

Usually, the very ill are treated

by the least trained people in our profession.

Thank you, Ben.

Paul, it's only a matter of time

before the DA discovers that you examined Reece here

at Sunny Slope.

No, it wasn't me.

It was one of the staff psychologists.

I only discovered it recently.

Less than six months before the first killing,

you agreed that he was well enough to be let go.

It was the hospital staff.

They didn't see a potential for violence.

We don't have the money or the time.

All we could do is warehouse him.

You're willing to rely on that

when you get on the witness stand?

Of course not.

When it becomes common knowledge that you certified Reece,

and then, let him go, you're going to be sued.

You'll be sued by the dead victim's families.

You'll be found guilty of malpractice.

My God, remember that case

that they brought against John Hinckley's psychiatrist,

failure to predict future violence.

You see, there's no question that he killed those people.

The only question is why?

Now, if he is found guilty of those crimes,

you will be persecuted along with him.

I can't falsify the interview.

I didn't say anything about falsifying.

My God, Paul, you don't have to falsify anything

in this case.

What are you suggesting?

Change your mind.

How do I explain that?

On further reflection,

I think that you'll arrive at the same diagnosis I did.

Paranoid schizophrenia.

I've never prejudged a diagnosis in my life.

Did he ever mention anything about the Nazis

or being persecuted by demons?

No, I would've remembered that.

You might want to include a few comments

in your report on his persecution delusion.

It's part of his paranoia.

He has that delusion?

I had to draw it out of him,

and it's perfectly consistent

with his interest in human anatomy

and Nazis as a satanic cult.

See, just make a few small adjustments in your report.

It'll help to coordinate our presentation.

I'll have to look at all my records.

I didn't hear you, Paul.

I said I may have some other records.

I'll have to look for them.

I know you wanna do everything you can to help this man.

He's sick.

We're the only people who stand between him and death.

The death penalty is intolerable,

and we have every right to stretch the truth,

if necessary, to save his life.

Hi, Kate

I've got something to tell you.

Oh, I've got something too, so yours will have to wait.

Okay, you go first.

There's a city planning conference in Baja next weekend.

Four days, the hotel's terrific, the beach is terrific.

They want me to go.

Well, that sounds great.

Well, I told them I wasn't going.

Well, why did you do that?

Well, I already knew you couldn't go with me.

Not for four days,

not with all this.

There's no way I can get away right now, Kate,

you know that.

Well, what I thought is

if we couldn't go away this weekend,

we could at least take Saturday and part of Sunday

maybe week after next.

We need the time together, Tony.

Your order?

Just some more coffee, please.

Tea and a blueberry muffin if it's fresh,

They're all fresh.

And we'd miss all the tourists.

Kate, you know I'd love to go with you.

Well, I mean there'd be a few,

but the crowds would be gone.

There's just no chance I can get away right now.

You think I'm trivial, don't you?

Spending my time worrying about public parks and charities.

What are you talking about?

I think you run yourself ragged for very important reasons.

I'm trying to make time for us.

I know it.

I'm not trading us for this case.

It's not like that.

I just wonder how we're gonna get

through the next two weeks

and the two weeks after that.

Grand jury indicted Reece tonight on all counts.

He had lots of pets, dogs, cats, even ducks.

We used to play with the animals at Mickey Grove Park.

He used to go out of his way

to avoid violence of any kind.

Once, one of the guys we went to school with got drunk

and took a swing at Charlie,

and Charlie didn't hit him back.

He just sort of backed him down

and tried to reason with him.

I was his scout master.

He was a good boy.

I didn't see him for a few years 'til a few months ago.

He looked like an old man.

His face was pale and his eyes were crazy,

and he lost a lot of weight.

And seemed really nervous.

He wanted to know about blood poisoning,

if I knew anyone who died of blood poisoning,

I was a nurse at Sunny Slope

when he was a patient there.

I found a diary that he kept.

It was against the rules, but I opened it

and found dates, times, and places of animals

that he had killed.

Dogs, cats, rabbits.

When we heard he was going to be released,

we all raised hell about it, but it didn't do any good.

We went together all through high school.

He was on the football team.

I was a cheerleader.

I didn't have other boyfriends than just Charles.

He was always very thoughtful.

He used to send me Valentine's, flowers,

and we were very close.

Did you continue to see Charles

after you both graduated?

Yes, I did, for almost a year afterward.

Would you say your relationship

with Charles was a normal relationship?

You mean sexual?

Exactly.

Yes.

He was my boyfriend for almost five years,

I didn't have any other boyfriends.

Dr. Rudin, did you make a diagnosis

of Charles Reece?

- Yes, I found that Mr. - Reece was a schizophrenic

of the paranoid type.

And what did you base that diagnosis on?

May I consult my notes?

Absolutely.

Well, first, he was chaotic in his thinking.

He couldn't follow or reply to any of my questions.

He had delusions, for example,

that Mr. Tippetts was a Nazi out to harm him.

He didn't show any of the reactions you'd expect

from someone who's committed a hideous crime.

This is exactly what I was afraid of.

I want the information that we dug up on this guy.

Did you find any delusions?

He believes that his blood is poisoned,

that his internal organs aren't functioning,

and that his heart is failing.

Any of these things true?

No.

Now, Dr. Rudin, this is very important.

Do you think that Charles Reece understood the nature

and the quality of his acts?

I would say that he had a sense that he was killing,

but he didn't rationally understand what he was doing.

Your Honor, I'm gonna request

that I be permitted to re-examine Dr. Rudin

as a hostile witness.

Objection, your Honor.

Dr. Rudin is the people's own psychiatrist.

Just because Mr. Fraser's not get the answers he wants,

does not mean we should make him a hostile witness.

I have certain representations

from this witness prior to trial

and during his direct examinations,

and he is now testifying in a completely different manner.

Objection overruled.

Go ahead, Mr. Fraser.

Thank you, your Honor.

You've treated many schizophrenics.

Yes, I have.

Most of them lead reasonably normal lives, don't they?

Some do.

Some are hospitalized.

But they all function whether they're in the hospital

or outside without killing people.

Yes.

Some even hold jobs, raise families.

If they're treated.

Some may require medication to function.

But not all.

No, not all.

No.

Delusions and abnormal states don't necessarily

equal murder, even for people who have the same disorder

as the defendant.

Objection, your Honor.

Counsel's, again, commenting.

Ask a question, Mr. Fraser.

Based on your observations,

do you consider him a threat to the safety of others?

I would say so, yes.

Doctor, you said you were on the staff

at Sunny Slope Hospital.

I'm a consultant there, yes.

Mhm.

Well, during the summer of 1986,

do you remember seeing the defendant as a patient?

I do not.

You didn't see him?

I said I don't recall him if he was there.

Well, let me refresh your memory it.

I see hundreds of patients.

These are hospital records, he was certified

for release July 29th, 1986.

I didn't release him.

This was a junior member of the staff.

Well, now, Doctor,

if a member of your staff certified him

for release just six months

before he went on a murderous rampage, doesn't that mean

that he didn't manifest any of the symptoms

that alerted you to his dangerousness?

It was not my decision.

Did you approach the interview you had

with the defendant at the police department

with any prejudices?

I most certainly did not.

He killed several people, cuts them up,

and drinks their blood, and knowing these things,

you didn't go in there thinking he might be crazy?

- I did not, no. - Why not?

Because people can commit multiple murders

and still not be, to use your word, crazy.

So it's possible then for a person to commit a string

of sadistic murders and still be found legally sane?

Yes.

12 K4, the DA just arrived.

Watch out down here, don't slip.

Right here.

Come here, look out, right here!

Where were you when you first came in?

We was over here fishing.

Right here.

These two kids found the body

about an hour and a half ago.

They're down here fishing.

That's it down there.

We haven't made a positive ID yet,

but it looks like little Aaron Tippetts, for sure.

John, where in the hell are the medics?

Tony, there's something I wanna tell you.

Hello?

Who is this, who's calling?

Just a moment.

It's for you.

Are you okay?

Who is this?

You gotta get me moved to another jail.

They're poisoning me here.

Don't ever call me at home again.

Do you understand that?

If you call me here again,

I'll make sure your phone privileges are revoked.

I can tell you anything you want to know.

If you want to talk to me, do it through your attorney.

That was Reece, wasn't it?

Yeah.

He can't just call here anytime he wants.

I'll make sure it doesn't happen again.

My God, he was talking to me.

This crazy killer knows our number.

I'm sorry, Kate, I'm sorry he talked to you.

Kate.

I've made some decisions.

I'm going to Salinas for a while.

I'm gonna stay with my father.

After that, I'm not sure.

Dr. Gables, were you asked

to determine whether the defendant was sane

or insane at the time of the killings?

Yes.

What sort of examinations did you perform on him?

I reviewed all the medical

and neurological studies that had been done on Mr. Reece,

including brainwave tests

and specialized x-rays of his brain.

I also performed extensive psychiatric examinations

on him over a 10 hour period.

And what were your findings?

I found him to have no medical or neurological illness

of any type.

His nervous system is intact,

his general physical health is good.

He is, in my judgment, legally sane.

What other reasons do you have

for stating your opinion that the defendant is sane?

He knows right from wrong.

He went to work, ran from the police,

told me he killed some people.

He took pains to avoid observation and detection.

Sometimes, with me, he became evasive,

made very deliberate, conscious choices

of what he would or wouldn't talk about.

What sort of things didn't he want to talk about?

I'm sorry I?

What sort of things didn't he want to talk about?

Why he killed people, where evidence might be found,

things that would hurt him legally.

Doctor, did he know he was killing living human beings?

Oh, well, that was the point.

That was why he did it.

He claims he has a belief that his body is failing

and in fact, that in he's convinced himself,

someone else's blood will repair him.

He had to kill them to get the blood.

And you wouldn't characterize that as insane?

Not under the law.

Reece's thinking is peculiar, perhaps psychotic,

but at all times, he knew what he was doing,

knew that it was wrong, and he has the capacity

to control his behavior, to not Kill.

No further questions.

Dr. Gables, do you believe

that Charles Reece has a serious mental illness?

Yes, I do.

I've said so several times, that he's probably psychotic.

I'm sorry if I haven't made myself clear.

Oh, well, that's all right, doc.

We'll take care of that right now.

Dr. Leon Gables, you've testified in over 50 cases,

haven't you, as an expert witness?

That's correct.

And in each of those cases,

you have always testified for the prosecution

and against the defendant.

Is that correct?

In each of the cases

in which I've testified as an expert,

I've made a individual opinion on a merit,

case by case basis.

That's good, Doctor.

But in every case, you have supported the prosecution,

is that correct?

Essentially, yes.

Don't you have a nickname in the prosecutorial community?

Aw!

Your Honor, I object!

Aren't you known as "Dr. Death?"

Your Honor, this is argumentative.

It's irrelevant-

He has testified in 53 murder cases-

and is completely without merit in this case.

And 53 convictions.

That's his nickname, your Honor.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

- this is "Dr. Death." - Objection!

Could I get one of those?

What's the matter, ain't they feeding you enough?

The medicine kills my appetite.

Those sure look good.

Aren't you afraid they're poison?

I don't know.

Everybody in the world's trying to poison you,

but our donuts are okay, huh?

Thanks.

What's it like

to actually drink somebody's blood, Charlie?

Oh, I love watching people die.

They'd wiggle and squirm all over the place,

and then, they'd just stop.

I'd cut 'em with a knife

and watch their faces turn real white.

I loved all that blood.

They're gonna gas you, you keep talking like that.

I'd rather die than spend the rest of my life in prison.

I must have been real sick to do all that.

I'da never done nothing like that if I was myself.

Boy, these sure are good.

What the hell are you doing?

Jeez, God damn!

Out of the way!

- Out of the way. - Out of the way!

Get out of the way!

- Come on. - Move!

Get out of the way.

Move.

He went around the corner.

Back there.

- Where is it? - What do you want?

Where's the blood?

Hold it right there!

Hands up, get 'em up now!

Why the hell are they letting

this guy have something he can sharpen?

Any mention of this attempt to escape

or any reference of dead or guards or to the priest?

On what grounds?

It's not probative on the question of guilt or innocence.

Oh, you're funny.

Oh, you know very well-

Who the hell knows

why he tried to escape?

Let's just see that it doesn't happen again.

I'm going to grant the motion.

Thank you, your Honor.

Dr. Keddie, is it your opinion that one

of the reasons Charles Reece killed these people was

that he was afraid they were poisoning him?

That was the primary reason.

It was a frantic, misguided effort at self-defense.

Was he capable of understanding the nature

and the quality of his acts?

Absolutely not.

The power of his delusions overwhelmed his freedom

of choice.

Thank you very much, Doctor.

Doctor, isn't it just possible

that this man killed his victims

because he enjoyed inflicting cruelty?

Definitely not.

His delusional need for blood was the primary motivation

for what he did.

But didn't he kill in this grotesque manner

because his purpose was also sadistic?

As a trained psychiatrist,

I would say that that is not in accord

with the evidence as I perceive it.

As a trained psychiatrist, are you saying

that a man who commits sodomy

on a woman he has just killed isn't driven

by a sadistic impulse?

I found no evidence that Mr. Reece was motivated

by sadistic feelings.

Doctor, didn't the Nazis have a delusion

about the Jews causing the world's problems?

When an entire culture

or even a very large group of people believe in something,

I doubt that we could psychiatrically label it

as a delusion.

It may be wrong, it may be a mistake in prejudice,

but it is not delusional.

Direct your attention to the jury instructions

for insanity and tell me, Doctor,

if you would find the Nazis insane.

Objection!

I'll permit him to answer.

Well, the instructions refer

to the word legal for other nations.

We're not talking about the same thing at all.

Would you find the Nazis who killed

because of their belief in Jewish evil,

insane using the California standard?

Those who operated on this belief,

and I think it fair to call this belief a disease,

I would generally find insane.

Even though they were organized enough

to set up gas chambers, extermination camps,

run railroads carrying Jewish victims,

in fact, organize a whole apparatus of government

around the idea of killing Jews?

I think most people would agree

that the Nazis were insane.

And you find the defendant insane for the same reasons?

Well, I don't follow you.

He believed blood would cure him.

They believed Jews were evil.

They both killed for their beliefs, didn't they?

I don't see the parallels.

The defendant, like the Nazis, was able

to organize his own transportation.

Like the Nazis, he brought tools of death with him,

carried out his deeds in secret like the Nazis.

Don't all these things point away from him being insane?

Mr. Fraser, you find Mr. Reece better

organized than I do.

Do you understand the effect of your opinions, Doctor?

Under your theory, both the defendant

and the Nazis would be freed from criminal responsibility

for their actions, wouldn't they?

That's not what I said.

I'm here to give my opinions on the questions you put to me.

You said the defendant was unable to make choices.

I believe I said that he was not capable

of full mature reflection on his actions.

You mean that he couldn't control himself,

that his actions were inevitable?

Some would label it that way, yes.

My question to you is, were you trying

to mislead the jury by suggesting the defendant-

Objection, your Honor!

Bore no responsibility for his actions?

Objection, your Honor.

This is argumentative!

Go ahead, Dr. Keddie.

I was not trying to mislead, sir.

The notion of free will in Mr. Reece's case is an illusion.

His behavior was conditioned by forces

beyond his control.

Would you modify your opinion

about the defendant's capacity

to choose between moral alternatives

if you knew that he had tried to escape?

Objection, your Honor.

Your Honor knows my reason very well.

But I'm going to allow him to answer.

This is expert opinion.

I would not change my opinion.

Trying to escape is expect able under the circumstances.

It has no bearing on his overall ability to choose.

Why is it expect able for someone being held for murder

- to try to escape? - It's natural.

Normal?

Objection!

Let him finish.

It was instinctive.

Choice had little to do with it.

Isn't the mere fact of his attempt to escape proof to you

that he knew what he had done was wrong?

It is not.

Anyone in this room would've tried

to escape in a similar situation, guilty or not.

Charles Reece is not capable of free will.

My God, I've said that again and again.

Doctor, have you coached him on his insanity defense?

Objection!

I wanna answer this, I want to be heard!

Haven't you tried to mislead-

Objection, your Honor.

The jury in order to save the defendant?

The witness...

This is a blatant form of badgering,

this is utterly unconscionable!

I demand to answer!

And I'll let him answer.

But don't you interrupt him again, Mr. Fraser.

Do you understand me?

Yes, your Honor.

Now, I resent the charges you've made.

I understand the revulsion everyone feels

in the face of brutal murder, but I see him too.

He shouldn't be Killed.

He should be treated and studied.

What makes a respectable young man turn into a killer?

I wanna save him, because he has that secret.

Perhaps, the next time someone like him can be treated,

perhaps, we can vaccinate against murder.

We need to understand this man

for the betterment of society.

Even at the price of five lives?

That may be the most terrible part of all,

the price of knowledge.

Mhm.

Thank you.

There is no doubt that Charles Reece has to pay

for what he has done.

The payment is hard.

Some people think it's just about the hardest payment

that we can conceive of.

He will be locked up without the possibility

of ever, remember that, of ever getting out

for the rest of his life.

He's gonna be in a cage every day,

every year that he has left to him.

Once a verdict of death has been carried out, that's final.

Nothing can change what you've done.

So you must feel completely secure in this decision.

You must feel that this is the only right verdict

in this case.

If you wake up the day after the verdict

and you say to yourself, "Oh my God",

"I've made a mistake," it's too late.

One night 10 years from now, you might wake up in the middle

of the night, and you suddenly realize,

"I've made this mistake.

I've sent Charlie to his death."

And there's nothing that you

or anybody else in this whole world can do about that.

Not then.

You see, that's the kind of decision that you must make.

The defendant wiped out five people,

our fellow human beings,

cruelly and brutally, in the most cold-hearted

and premeditated manner,

he has wiped them off the face of the earth.

And what has happened?

Well, we've talked to you in great length,

not about the victims, but about the defendant,

about his life,

about his feelings, his problems, his needs, his desires.

And in a final brutal act, he is trying

to steal the compassion that belongs to those victims.

Those victims deserve their time in this courtroom.

Now, we've heard medical evidence saying

that it took the defendant three minutes

to butcher Barbara Ellis after he shot her,

and she was just one of five victims.

We are now going to stop for three minutes,

and I want you to think about what this man did to her.

And I want you to also think about the other four victims

and about their last precious minutes of life

as this man horribly, brutally murdered them.

This is how long it took for just one of them to die.

The life of an innocent human being

is worth more than the life of a murderer.

Charles Reece must die.

Now, I want you to remember

that you sit here as representatives of your community.

You represent your neighbors,

your friends, your children.

If you should decide

to let this man go free,

be absolutely clear in your mind

that you are condemning his victims to a second death

and saying to your neighbors that the life

of a terrible murderer is worth more

than the life of the people he killed.

Thank you.

If you believe the defendant knew

what he was doing, then you must find him legally sane.

If you believe he did not, then you must find him insane.

In order to find him guilty, you must find that he intended

to commit the crimes.

His intention is as much a part of the offense

as the act itself.

And if you find Mr. Reese guilty of multiple murder,

be aware that he could be sentenced

to die in the gas chamber.

The decision that you make must be on the evidence

and not on sympathy.

This case now remains with you.

What the hell are we gonna do?

I can't understand how a decent boy could change so much.

He has to be crazy, that's all.

You mean if he's crazy, he's not responsible?

What would you do if he'd killed your son or daughter?

That's how we have to look at it.

We have to put ourselves in the place of the victims.

We've got to try to understand the difference

between real insanity and legal insanity.

How the hell do we do that?

We've gotta try.

Everybody admits he did the killing,

so let's just stick with the facts.

We can't just deal with the facts.

If we sent him to a mental institution,

he could be released.

Those psychiatrists and lawyers won't have

to live next door to him.

We will.

Our neighbors will.

Killing this poor, sick young man just doesn't make sense,

I don't think.

It's not gonna bring back the victims,

and it's no better than what he did.

It's insane.

Well, sure.

Anybody who did what he did is insane.

Dan White was insane.

Maybe the whole world is insane,

but that doesn't mean that we should excuse what he did.

There has to be rules.

But you don't take a person's life just

because they're insane.

You kill them if they're insane,

and they want to kill you.

All rise.

Be seated.

Have you reached a verdict, Mr. Bales?

Yes, your Honor, we have.

Please hand it to the bailiff.

Thank you.

Madam Clerk, please read the verdicts.

Superior Court of California, county of Stockton,

the people of the State of California, plaintiff,

versus Charles Edmund Reece, defendant,

we the jury in the above entitled cause

find the defendant, Charles Edmund Reece,

guilty of a violation

Of Section 187.

Quiet in the court room, please.

Of the penal code of the State of California

to wit murder a felony relating to Barbara Ellis

as charged and set forth in count one

of the information on file herein, dated March 24th, 1987,

John Bales Foreman.

Guilty of a violation of Section 187,

murder, a felony,

relating to Robert Hendrickson.

Hi.

How you doing?

Okay, how are you doing?

All right, how's your father?

He's fine.

I've been thinking,

we should make this a permanent separation.

Kate.

I just can't be with you now.

Just hold on.

I really think it's the best way out for both of us.

Kate, I love you, and I need you now.

- Please. - Tony.

I don't understand.

I mean,

I understand, but-

Tony, please don't do this.

Please, just hold on.

Your Honor, I'm gonna request a PET scan be performed

on my client as a reliable way of showing the jury

that he's mentally ill during the penalty phase.

PET scan only purports to show images

of the brain's chemistry at a given moment in time.

In this case, it's after the crime was committed.

It doesn't address the question of responsibility.

But I understand that it can show whether

or not there is mental illness.

Your Honor, this is a new form of brain imaging,

which is used in the diagnosis of epilepsy, depression,

Alzheimer's disease, as well as mental deficiency.

Depriving Mr. Reece of putting this in front

of the jury denies him a fair trial.

Your Honor, the studies don't all agree,

it's only another gadget to hide Reece's responsibility.

Well, let's err on the side of caution.

I'm going to order the test.

Thank you, your Honor.

We'll let the jury evaluate it.

Nobody knows what it'll show.

You're taking my blood.

Just a few samples.

What for?

We want to measure the amount of blood sugar

that's getting to your brain.

You're poisoning me.

No, Charles, we're just trying to help you.

Is my daddy going

to bring me a Christmas present?

No, Charles.

Why not?

Because / don't want him to see you.

Yes, these are definitely abnormal patterns.

What does that tell you?

Well, this yellow green area here is consistent

with schizophrenia.

We're looking at a computer enhanced image

of the chemistry of the brain.

And what we're seeing is a picture of madness.

Memo to Spencer Whalen,

District Attorney, Stockton County,

regarding the Reece trial.

After I saw the Ellis house

and the Tippett's house,

I wanted Reece to be legally sane.

I came to feel that he understood each atrocity

that he had committed.

I agreed with you that we owed something

to the legal system, to the victims,

so I set myself up as the avenger of suffering.

Hey, Steve.

Hey, Al, how you feeling?

Good.

/ can't believe in good conscience either

of us wanna put Charles Reece to death.

I managed to sell it to the jury, to myself.

Now, I'm not sold.

Delete.

After the PET scan, I'm just not sold.

Watch out.

Watch out.

Charles, I got some great news.

Charles?

Get this door open!

What's the matter with him?

What's the matter with him?

I don't believe execution is the answer.

I don't know what the answer is.

I'm gonna talk to Judge McKinsey about this,

but I won't do that until you

and I have had a chance to talk.

I don't want to kill this man.

He's gone.

There's a hole in the mattress.

How could you guys let this happen?

He must have hidden the pills

- and OD'ed himself. - Jesus.

His mother had a special visit yesterday.

She was in here with him alone for an hour.

Look, he thought he was butchering people

and animals to get blood,

so he could cure his imaginary illness.

Why would he kill himself?

Tony, you have a chance

and a responsibility to say it's wrong to Kill.

Careful now, that's hot stuff.

- Oh no! - In the middle, okay?

All right, kid.

Atta-boy, oh, get in there!

Real high.

Up, and

You missed the whole thing.

- I could do it, Daddy. - Here it goes.

- Almost. - Aw.

All right, lefty, you got 'em going now.

Come on!

He's gonna get another one.

We're gonna win one this time.

Watch it, now.

- All right. - You can do it!

- Come on. - One more.

- Just one more. - One more!

- One more. - Here we go.

One more.

All right!

Hey, good job, Andy!

- Yeah! - You're a winner!

Look at that, woo!

The moon, Daddy.

Ah, it sure is, Andy.

There's the North Star over there.

And that's Mars.

Right over there is the Little Dipper.

Can you find the Big Dipper?

- Over there. - That's it.

Can you tell me a story?

Sure, I will.

Let's see.

Once upon a time, there was a castle by the sea.

Big castle?

No, just a little castle.

Had flowers, trees.

And a doggy?

And a doggy, yeah.