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What you are about to see is a dramatization of one of the most

controversial and bitterly debated police investigations preceding the

Supreme Court's landmark Miranda decision of 1966.

Name changes, compressions of time and composites of certain characters have

been made in order to present this most significant story.

That is clear in the maces and the attitudes of the crowds here. Melissa!

No more tangible effects of today's events will be on the vast American

public as yet to be seen.

No one really knows the heart of America.

Whether all the years of hatred and racial violence are a thing of the

past... Hello!

...whether we have now turned a corner.

Joanne?

Are you... Oh, I'm sorry.

What's going on here?

Joanne?

Jerry, could you come over here, please?

Go into the kitchen, Melissa.

Go into the kitchen.

Where's the phone?

Jerry, what?

Phone.

Jerry?

Go to the police, please.

Don't go in there.

Don't go in.

Jerry!

He's in the bedroom.

My

name

is Theo Kojak.

It's interesting how matter-of-fact death can become.

I can remember the first day I was on the force, an automobile accident.

There was a lot of blood all over the car.

I went to the side of the road and threw up.

Now there were two girls, 20 and 22, mutilated beyond anything I'd ever seen.

And I can look at it and only wonder who did it and why.

But before we were through with the Marcus Nelson murders...

The Supreme Court would rock.

Laws of the country, change.

Separating the country in two.

And as for me, it would change the way I looked at my neighbor, my city, my

country, and myself.

I'm sure glad to get out of that apartment.

Nobody should die like that.

That's the way chickens are executed.

I'd have to be Kojak in charge of this investigation.

We can't help who answers the first call on a homicide.

Ah, there he is. Hello, Inspector.

Are you coming in? Just for a minute. We're due downtown.

You're still with the Italian suits, I see. Well, I'm very happy you noticed.

You know, when I was a kid, I promised myself two things.

Number one, that I'd be rich.

And number two, that I'd stop wearing my big brother's hand-me-downs.

Well, I ain't rich, but at least I dress well.

Until my tailor throws me in a can, that is.

We're going to have to put more men on the case.

How many?

Homicide experts from all over town.

How many?

About 100.

Oh, why don't you make it 500?

What do you mean?

I mean, why don't you make it 1,000?

Kojak, after everything we've just gone through with you, are you going to start

up as a way of life in Manhattan?

The parents are not only solid citizens, they're also celebrities.

Now, you're going to have to cooperate with us. You could have 100 detectives

falling all over themselves for promotion.

It's not your business to determine policy.

No, that's your department.

The assignments have already gone out.

You'll meet with them on 88th Street in the morning.

Welcome to the National Policeman's Convention.

It's so good to know that the community is being protected by such stalwart

representatives from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens.

Hey, Staten Island.

Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. Staten Island.

The matter will be of interest to you, I'm sure.

This point of access.

There's a doorman downstairs, I'm sure you've noticed.

And he says that nobody was admitted into the apartment at the time of the

murders.

There's also a service entrance downstairs.

The door locks automatically.

Well, sure, somebody could have climbed a wall, come through the window.

But the nearest ledge is eight feet away.

So that means the murder would have to be a cat burglar or a circus

performer, which isn't very likely.

All right, come here. Follow me.

Weapons in the bathroom sink, three knives, two broken, and that's not easy

to do.

Follow the trail.

The bodies were lying here, bound together by strips of sheet.

The blinds were drawn, window open, clock stopped at 10.37.

It might be indicative of something, and it might not.

Any questions?

You like to make telephone calls.

Now, I got a record here of some of your calls.

Now, they're kind of, kind of spicy, you know?

Now, take a look at this. Would you say that was one of your better calls?

Right, Herbie?

I understand you have a tendency to knock girls around a little, but you've

had a few drinks.

You worked with Joanne Marcus and Summer Stauffer.

Well, thank you.

That'll be all.

That began the largest manhunt in New York's history.

An investigation of everyone who knew the murdered girls.

The chief source of reference,

Joanne Marcus' address book.

The number of names it contained, 565.

Oh, yeah, quite a spectacle.

All those red-blooded American boys out there trying to get ahead, just like me.

In the Brownsville area of Brooklyn, far from the middle class protected

community which Joanne Marcus and Kathy Nelson died, Ethel Lawson came out of a

bar at 3 o'clock in the morning six months later.

Go ahead.

Mr. Bale.

Uh-huh.

Yeah. A few days after the death of Ethel Lawson, and a few blocks away,

another unrelated incident happened.

Hold it.

I think I got something going down.

Hey,

what are you doing?

All right, lady.

Lady.

I got a couple of questions.

This guy, how old is he?

25,

26.

How much you weigh?

160, 165?

Yes. I got something from him.

I got a bottle from his coat.

The next morning, patrolman Stabile looked for suspects.

Hey, what are you doing in there?

Trying to keep warm.

Come out here.

Catch that guy last night?

What guy?

The guy where you were shooting at.

What do you know about that?

I was walking down the airport, leaving my aunt's house, and this

guy came running around the corner.

He said, he said, he said, he said, hide me, hide me.

I said, man, I can't hide you.

You take off somewhere.

Which way did he go?

I think he went down that way. He went down Pickett.

Think you'd recognize this guy if you saw him again?

I don't know, man. It was kind of dark.

Tell you what.

You and I take a little walk.

Come on.

Mr. Beale, post 6-8.

I got a witness here that I attempt to raid.

Hey, kid, what's your name?

My name's Lewis Humes.

How do you spell that?

H-U-M-E-S.

Lewis Humes.

H-U-M-E-S.

Yeah, okay.

Uh, this is my brother.

What's your name?

Abe.

Can we please go there because we're trying to find a job?

Where you going now?

The Derwin Salt Company.

What's that address?

It's on Pit Camp.

Okay.

So where'd you get yourself into now?

I ain't doing nothing. I just seen this guy running that was chasing, that's

all. So what are you supposed to be, some kind of reporter or something?

Didn't I tell you? You can't say nothing.

Getting in trouble.

But I ain't scared. I ain't do nothing.

So how often you got to do something to get in trouble?

What are you, some kind of doofus or something?

I told you.

You don't say nothing. You don't say nothing. You don't know nothing.

Remember to bring your social security card. I lost it. You lost your social

security card?

You are unbelievable.

You're a pinhead.

Who is he?

Suspect 985.

Yesterday, Joanne Marcus.

Someone saw him arguing with her outside of her apartment.

His name is Ryan McNally, age 24, freelance writer.

He was in Washington, D.C. at the time of the homicide.

I'm sorry.

I should have checked the files more carefully.

That's what happens when half of the police force is on one case.

They have a tendency to fall all over each other.

Want some coffee?

You want some coffee?

I'll catch you later.

Ruthie?

Ruthie!

You don't remember me, do you?

I remember you.

Everything is so expensive.

I got out of the market. I can't believe my bill.

This is as good as top round.

I didn't know you lived around here.

Where's Jack?

Isn't that the name of the guy you married?

It's over.

Oh, welcome to the club.

What were you running away for?

I got fat.

You're not fat.

Oh, wait. Sorry. Sorry, dear.

Doesn't have no big brand name on it, but it's just as good.

Hey, you're really up on all these things, aren't you? I'm a great cook.

You're a great cook? Mm-hmm. How about me cooking up some chili?

I make a great chili.

What's the use of going back? We had something nice. Let's do it alone.

There aren't so many things back to remember.

You're someone I remember.

Hey, Dan.

How are things in Manhattan?

They as good as they think they are?

They come up with anything yet?

No. Well, they ought to. They've been on it long enough. At least we can not

visit once in a while, hotshot.

Hey, Al. Yeah?

The attempted rape of the Puerto Rican woman.

Now, it sounds like the Lawson murder.

Same vicinity, Pitkin Avenue.

Same animal.

Now, didn't that occur to you?

No.

All right, this kid. The one who saw it. Now, what's he like?

I didn't even give him a toss.

Just a stupid kid.

All right, this stupid kid.

What's his address?

Says he works at the Derwin Salt Company. You want to do me a favor?

Pay Bishop and check it out.

Now.

Okay, okay.

Hey, fella.

Hey. I can't give you questions, police officer.

You're the fella who told the police officer yesterday that you seen a man

running from the police?

Yeah, I'm the one.

I see your identification.

I don't think I got none.

You got anything with your name on it?

I got a couple of letters.

All right, let's see those.

Lewis Hughes?

Why'd you say you worked at the Derwin Salt Company?

I was going to, but I lost my Social Security card.

Uh-huh.

Well, maybe you can help us.

Sure. Will you come with us down to the station?

Atta boy.

Okay, let's go.

Okay, Lewis, you just have a seat over here, all right?

That's it, right down there.

Uh, sergeant.

Hey, if anybody's going out for coffee, I'll take a regular.

Come with me, please.

Why? Use your office and this won't take long.

Relax.

First time at a police station?

I'll tell you about my first time at a police station.

Yeah?

Thank you.

I'll catch you later.

Mrs. Alvarez, you want to step this way? We got somebody who wants you to see.

Who? Oh, don't worry about that. Just step right in here, okay? Who?

Don't worry about it. Right there.

That's it.

I'll just stand right here. Huh? Right here. That's it.

Right there, Lewis.

Well?

Is that him?

I'd like to hear him saying something.

I want you to say something for me.

I want you to say, lady, I'm gonna rape you.

Lady, I'm gonna kill you.

What's wrong?

Just say the words, okay?

What for?

Just say it.

What's wrong?

Just say the words.

Why I'm saying all this?

Just do me the favor, Lewis, please.

Lady, I'm going to rape you.

Lady, I'm going to kill you.

That's good. A little louder.

Lady, I'm going to rape you. Lady, I'm going to kill you.

Take it easy.

Here,

here, here. Sit down.

Sit down over here, okay?

Come on.

It's all right. It's all right. It's all right.

Okay?

Sit down.

It's all right. It's all right.

Mrs. Alvarez, please.

This lady said you tried to rape her.

What?

I don't even know her.

Hey, lady, you make a mistake.

Lady, I ain't do nothing to you.

Give Mrs. Alvarez some coffee, will you?

Okay, Matt.

Come on, Mrs. Alvarez. We'll get downstairs, okay?

Lewis Humes, you're under arrest for attempted rape. Put your hands on the

wall. For what?

Come on, boy.

Well, how could she say it was me?

Well, that's the ticket. But if... I wasn't...

You're

loaded.

All right, Lewis.

Let's go.

Come on. Ask the boy.

It wasn't like it was before, was it?

There always was a streak of old-fashioned gallantry about you.

What have you been doing with yourself, Ruthie?

I'm a nurse.

A nurse?

Oh.

I had to... I had to do something.

You know, after the divorce. Good for you.

What about you? You still come?

Oh, yeah.

You can't kick it, huh?

Why not?

I don't know.

I thought at first I was doing it to support the wife, put the braces on the

kid's teeth.

And now the braces are gone, and so is the wife.

Have it, maybe?

Well, maybe there's more to it. I don't know.

That's the one thing about you I could never get with.

I don't like most cops I know, either.

But who else would put their lives on the line at these prices?

I think you're wasting yourself.

I don't know if I ever had more to offer in the first place.

Cigarette?

Nope. I gave up smoking.

Did you call Grossman to come over and get this confession?

Uh-huh. I'm on it right now.

What's up?

They got the attempted rape and the loss and murder on Pitkin Avenue. And don't

forget to make a list of all those, huh? OK.

Hey, where you going? I got to make a list of that.

Yeah, yeah.

I'll be back in a minute.

I want to talk to him.

Who? Your suspect.

The suspect?

Come on, now. We got it all. The Lawson thing, too.

I want to talk to him. There's nothing to talk about, huh?

This is Detective Corrigan.

He wants to ask you a few questions.

Now, you've been telling us the truth so far, so just keep telling us the truth.

That's good enough.

Where are they from?

They're from Jersey.

Jersey?

Where in Jersey?

Bayside.

What are their names?

One of them is named Luis.

I can't hear you.

I said one of them is named Luis.

What's the other one's name?

I don't remember.

Just tell a man what he wants to know, Melissa. Just tell him the truth.

When I was in my class in school... What does a girl like that want to give you

her picture for?

I found it in a dump around my house.

And I kept it.

You want us to believe that?

Why'd you keep it?

Tell him the truth, Melissa.

Because I liked her.

Because you what? You what?

I liked her.

I always liked her. I just want to pretend that I knew her.

I used to show the picture to people just made like that I knew her.

Tommy Lewis.

Do you recognize these knives?

No.

No.

How did you come in the room?

Through the open door.

What did you do?

in the kitchen.

And at 2.30 the following morning, assistant district attorney from

Manhattan, Mr. Michael Cabot, arrived, accompanied by Manhattan detectives

Tanner and Green.

They took down this confession from Lewis Humes.

She came in.

What was she wearing?

She didn't have a number to tell.

What did she have from the waystep?

Nothing.

Did you or she say anything then?

That's when she started screaming and hollering.

What did you do after she started to scream?

I ran over and grabbed hold of her and I told her to shut up.

How did you grab her?

I grabbed her around the back, grabbed her by the neck.

What happened in there after you dropped her into the bedroom?

I hit her with the bottle.

What did you do after you hit her on the head with the bottle and the bottle

broke?

How did you tie her up?

With the sheets she had covering her body.

What happened then?

That's when her mother came in.

Why do you say it was her mother?

Well, that's when I understand it was her mother.

What did you do then?

I got up and I...

I told her to be quiet.

She started screaming and howling, and then I ran over.

Ran over to her?

And I grabbed her.

What did you do then?

I started to have intercourse with her.

You started to have what?

I say I started to. That's before she come to.

What happened when she came to?

She started screaming and howling again.

What did you do then?

Ran the kitchen.

Why did you run into the kitchen?

I was trying to find a knife.

What did you do?

I started cutting and swinging at her.

Why did you do that?

Satisfaction.

Satisfaction for what?

I know. I was angry.

Then I ran to the bathroom.

Why did you run into the bathroom?

I washed the blood off my hands.

Did you go back into the bedroom?

Before I left the bedroom, I pulled the shades down.

Why did you pull down the shades?

Because if they came to, they would get up.

The two girls you cut?

And then the people in the next apartment might see him tied up.

Oh, good evening. Inspector Hofstetter, one of the heads of Brooklyn law

enforcement, arrived later that evening.

How the hell am I supposed to know?

Oh, Inspector.

What have you got?

A picture in his wallet of Joanna Marcus.

What else?

Confession.

How much of a confession?

Sixty-one pages.

All right.

What else?

We have a diagram of the Marcus Nelson apartment.

Oh. I'm sorry.

I couldn't get out of here sooner.

How'd the woman do?

She died.

Did it bother you?

No. It was coming for a long time.

Hey, you know, those drapes I was making, I brought them.

Why am I trying to domesticate you too much?

Oh.

That question is a little too weighty for this argument.

Yeah?

Where?

Brownsville?

Right away.

What is it?

That Marcus Nelson thing.

You have to go up now?

Well, either I got to go up before us.

Maybe we're too far down the road to give up anything for each other.

You want me to wait for you here?

I'll call you at your place later.

That stuff.

We beat our brains out, tracked down every clue for eight months.

And it was Brooklyn Hicks.

They stumble on it.

Hello, Inspector.

Where is he? Right this way.

It's like New Year's Eve.

They got something to celebrate.

Tell us once more how you took the knives from the drawer.

Oh, Frank.

Inspector?

I look into the drawer.

The kitchen table drawer?

Yes.

There were knives in there?

Yes.

How many knives did you grab?

I got about three.

Which one did you use?

What's your knife?

Details.

Down from the color of the table in the dining room to the number of knives he

picked up.

Talks about it like he was talking about taking a drink of water.

Are you surprised by anything now, Frank?

Not much.

What's your name?

Corrigan, sir.

Good work, officer. Thank you, sir.

That's a copy of his confession? Yes, sir.

Will you give it to the lieutenant?

I'd like to talk to him myself.

Louis Yoves took the subway over to Manhattan.

And he wandered haphazardly into the Marcus Nelson Park.

Once he got inside their apartment, he picked up an empty bottle. Good to see

you. We don't see you anymore, you know that? Of course. I've been working long

enough. I need a vacation to work.

There are some things I want to go over with you. Well,

there are a few things a little vague.

It doesn't say how he got into the building.

Well, maybe he got into that service door. Well, I tried it myself.

It locks automatically.

Maybe it doesn't work that well all the time. Maybe.

How about the blood?

He went into the bathroom, washed his hands.

I mean, the clothes.

He had to have it all over him. Did he tell you he changed someplace?

No.

You sure this is Joanne, Marcus?

Come on.

What do you think?

Blonde.

Hey, kid, you want to say anything to me?

No, I don't want to say anything to you.

Hello, Miss Carr. I'm sorry to bust in on you this hour of the morning.

That's all right. Come on in.

Thank you. What is it?

Well, they picked up somebody in Brooklyn.

Got a picture in his wallet?

You think it may be the guy we're looking for.

Tell me, could this be a picture of Joanne Marcus?

It's so old and faded.

Take your time.

No, that's not her.

Are you sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

Thank you very much.

Melissa Carr will not identify the photograph.

That doesn't mean that...

What do you think they're going to do with me?

Well, the charges against you are pretty serious.

What is the charges?

You swear that you, officer, arrested Lewis Humes on a charge of homicide in

that the defendant here in mansion did stab and cut with a knife about the

throat, neck, and body of two females.

One Joanne Marcus and Kathy Nelson that resulted in death of the aforesaid?

I swear.

Those Hulmes?

Do you have a lawyer?

I can't hear you.

I don't think he can afford a lawyer, Your Honor.

Let him speak for himself.

in the court now.

Yes, Judge.

Mr. Morris Fisher.

Mr. Morris Fisher, will you make your presence known to the court? Right here,

sir.

Mr. Fisher, do you want to assist this court?

Yes, sir.

Officer, you take the defendant over to the table there so he can consult with

counsel.

Thank you.

All right?

Yeah.

Lewis, Lewis.

Uh, did you hear the charges that they have against you, huh?

They ain't true.

They're true. You confessed to them.

They made me.

Oh, what do you mean, they made you? They made me.

How?

They beat me up, and they scared me.

Lewis. Lewis, they have 60 pages right here in your own words.

Man, I ain't do nothing.

Is that what you want me to tell them?

You sure?

Okay.

Your Honor.

Your Honor, it seems that I'm the first person the defendants had the

opportunity to discuss this with, not including the police officials.

The defendant now states that the confessions pertaining to all three

crimes were made under duress and threats.

If Your Honor please, I think the officers should be commended in this

matter. I mean, I know that this man has been wanted for quite some time for

these murders.

I think a lot of people are going to rest a lot easier now that he's been

apprehended. Your Honor, the court pleads. Excuse me, counsel.

Without saying or implying any innocence or guilt in this matter, the people of

this town are pleased with the arrest for murder in this case in which they've

been very much concerned.

I think the police department does a fine, effective job.

They do it efficiently.

They do it properly.

This court commends the police department of the city of New York.

The people of this town are going to have much more respect and confidence in

law enforcement now rather than two, three days ago in relationship to these

two major crimes.

Officer, bring the defendant to the bar.

Louis Humes?

I order you to be held without bail until it is determined by a grand jury

whether you should be indicted, and if so, on what charges.

Public Protector Award given to Crownsville Detective, Lieutenant First

Grade Dan Carrigan.

It's not fair, you know. You guys deserve that with me.

You guys move at 11 o'clock.

I know.

You can see how much he loves the force.

Oh, yeah?

I can't even get him to go away on a vacation.

Yeah, and he deserves one.

Congratulations again, Dan.

For what? Having such a beautiful wife?

I mean it, you know. You get more beautiful every day.

Hey,

Danny, can I talk to you a minute before you go?

We're on a vacation here.

Look, I've been going over that confession. There's a few things in it

that... You want to know what the inspector said?

There are more details in that confession than any case that he can

remember.

Why did he call that Nelson girl the mother?

Talk to the inspector.

Let's go, Marge.

Sit down.

I ain't talking to nobody.

I said sit down.

Did a lot of talking to them, now you're going to do a lot of talking to me.

What are you here for?

I'm a cop.

And you say that cops are trying to lynch you.

Well, I'm not a lyncher and neither are they.

Maybe they were just...

Trying to make points. It's a lie, and you know it.

Well?

Why should I want to talk to you?

I already did enough talking. Make me believe you.

Make me believe you're not telling a lie.

How can I do that? Tell me what they said.

Exactly what they said.

And then I'll know if you're telling a lie, and I'll know if you're telling the

truth.

First they get you in there, then they threw me under... Names. What?

Names. I gotta have names.

The young cop.

Stabile?

And black.

The tough one. She scares you. Now, what'd he say?

I gotta have the words.

All right, Lewis.

Are you ready to tell us the truth?

I have been telling the truth. You've been lying.

Now we know you tried to rape that woman.

Stand up.

Face the chair.

Okay.

Did you try to rape that woman?

No, I didn't do nothing.

exactly what happened.

You were looking for some white stuff.

You were following around. Ah, no.

You saw that Puerto Rican woman in the subway. No, I never seen her before. You

followed her in there. No, I wasn't, no.

You grabbed her around the neck.

You pushed her into the alley.

You haven't been for Al here. You raped her. That's the truth, isn't it?

Believe me, this is your last chance.

Tell me the truth.

I never seen her before. I never seen her before. Tell me the truth, Lewis.

That's what you say.

Now I'll tell you what they say.

Cigarette? Thanks.

I know I need help. Can you help me?

Now, Lewis, you'll have to ask a lawyer or a judge for that kind of help.

You've been as nice as my own father.

You've been nicer than my own father.

If I don't tell you the truth, you'll find out anyway, right?

You don't have to tell us anything.

But if you do talk to us, we want the truth, nothing else, okay?

It's a lie.

They say they never even raised their voices to you.

They're gonna testify to that. It's a lie.

Words, names.

Tell me everything you remember.

The old one.

Jackarino?

Jackarino.

He says...

Don't y'all touch this boy. I won't stand for it.

He pretends like he's your friend.

He pretends to be better than your own father.

I know.

It must seem like the end of the world to you.

But it isn't necessarily.

Lewis, what were you doing out at the time of night?

I ain't had no place to sleep.

You didn't have any place to sleep?

My mother come from Seaview, and my father and I split up.

We all came with her.

She went back.

She thought I'd be all right because I got a job, but I lost it.

Where did you sleep?

I slept in the hallway.

Why'd you call your parents?

That's what... What are your parents supposed to be for?

I didn't want to call because my dad and I don't get along too good.

You don't seem like a hard guy to get along with me.

Is it bad for me?

I don't know yet, Lewis.

Let's put our heads together.

And the questions are gonna come fast, Poopoo.

How do you have the button to your coat?

The button from the coat ain't mine.

I lost mine a long time ago.

How'd you lose it?

I don't know.

One will claim she saw you.

A few of them.

Which would you believe?

You?

He said, nobody would believe me.

So he finds out everything about you, your dreams.

Then he used it against me.

You want to trust somebody.

What are you going to do when you get out of this, Lewis?

You think I will?

I'm going to do everything I can to help.

What are you going to do with your life?

I want to go in the Navy.

Why the Navy?

Well, you get educated there better than anywhere else.

What do you want to do later?

Don't laugh.

I'm not laughing. Who's laughing?

I want to be an artist.

61 pages of confession.

After a while, you just break down and shake your head.

You figure you ain't gonna ever get out of there unless you do. You confessed to

the murders of three women. I didn't know what I was confessing to.

The first time I knew it was murder was when I was with you in the courtroom.

He fooled me.

He fooled you?

Just a few more questions, Lewis.

Lewis.

Just a little more, Lewis.

Come on. Get the head up, Lewis.

Just a little more and we'll all be through.

What happened?

I ain't gonna answer till I find out what happened to them girls.

What? Them girls that we talked about in the apartment.

Is they all right now or what?

What's the matter, Lewis?

What is it? Are you worried about the girls? Is that it?

Look, I'm gonna give him a call.

Okay?

Uh-oh.

Was them girls cut bad?

Have a cigarette, Louis.

How many of those things have you been smoking, Louis?

I don't know.

You ought to cut down.

Stuff is poison.

Here. Have a sandwich.

I don't want nothing else to eat. I already had too much food.

Well, I talked to them.

They're not mad at you.

And none of the others said anything about that phone call?

No.

I drew a diagram of the murder girl's apartment.

This is the diagram.

Which part did they help you with?

What's the matter? Something wrong with your eyes?

I can't see too good.

Well, where are your glasses?

I ain't got none.

I never had the mind to get them.

Excuse me, Lieutenant.

They got his mother out there.

All right, send her in.

Right.

Son, what happened to you?

They picked me up, Ma.

They made me confess to them crimes.

Are you gonna stay here, or are you gonna go back to Seaview?

Of course I'm gonna stay here with you.

I was alone, Ma.

I was the only colored person there.

Going over the confession all morning, it seems to be all right.

Is there any doubt in your mind that it is all right?

Hey, look, Danny, I asked you once.

Let me ask you again.

Why did the kid call Kathy the mother?

Ask him, not me.

Sit down.

Sit. Oh, thank you, sir.

Why did he say he pulled down the shades in the apartment so that if they came

to, no one would see them?

He cut them the ribbons. He must have known that they weren't coming to.

Mr. Goodman, I don't know why he said that. The diagram of the apartment, did

he draw it all?

His initials are all over it. Two different pens, did it?

What are you suggesting? I drew the diagram myself. This photograph.

No one will identify it as Joanne Marcus.

I told him.

It doesn't mean he couldn't find it in the apartment.

Oh, it could be a picture of somebody else, but he still may have found it in

the apartment.

Well, how do you know he wasn't telling the truth when he said he found the

picture in Seaview? I know when they're lying, their stomachs move in and out.

Whose stomachs?

Come on.

Whose stomachs?

Look, I know him. I worked in Brownsville for a long time.

Is there anything else?

No, no. That's all for now.

Well, if there is anything else, would you please contact the DA's office in

Brooklyn?

I'm working on a new case for them.

They don't want me off the job.

See ya.

Can there really be something wrong with this?

What do you think?

It's not only him.

It's the Brooklyn Police Department, the Manhattan Police Department, the

Brooklyn D.A.'s office, your department, my department.

What are you gonna do about it?

What can we do about it?

Take the photograph.

Corrigan says that Hume got it from the apartment.

And Hume says he got it in Seaview.

Can I take this?

Yeah.

Why don't we find out who was telling the truth?

What's that?

What? Up there.

You mean the right-hand corner?

No, no, no.

Right here.

I don't know.

It's like a sandy stretch, a broad pathway.

Could even be a river.

This doesn't look like the place at all.

You said that photo was ten years old.

These trees have grown up a lot since then.

What's this stretch of something here?

There used to be a lake here.

The vegetation's covered it over.

Thank you, officer.

Let's go to a police station.

Yeah.

You know, that looks a lot like Travis's daughter.

Travis? Yeah, he used to be mayor. He owns a service station. It's about three

blocks down. Turn left. It's right on the corner.

Thank you. Sure thing.

He'll be back after lunch.

About a half hour? Yeah.

Let me see that again.

That doesn't look like Elaine.

You know who this looks like?

This looks like Lynn Pizer.

Where does she live?

Right around the corner.

Got about a half hour.

Thanks. Where did you get this picture?

Is this your picture?

Yeah, we took it right after graduation.

Big deal.

Some of us went up to Mount Jersey Woods.

Oh, excuse all this mess. We're waiting for the movers. That's all right. Now,

Miss Pizer, this is very important.

What happened to that picture?

I don't know. It was bouncing around the house. My mother threw it away.

When was that?

Um, spring cleaning, May, June.

All right.

Well?

They won't drop the indictment.

Say they don't have enough.

You don't think I like it, do you?

The whole thing started with the picture.

Well, it isn't the girl's picture. What are they going to do?

Well, we'll proceed slowly.

We'll investigate everything.

We don't want to make any statements at this time because we don't want to

embarrass Brooklyn.

Embarrass Brooklyn?

Well, if Brooklyn could be embarrassed, they would have dropped dead years ago.

Anybody talk to Brooklyn?

Yeah. And what'd they say? They said they weren't interested in hearing any

fairy tales.

Fairy tales, huh?

Too many promotions and citations are involved.

That's the ballgame.

Brooklyn law enforcement is on trial, isn't it?

That's what they mean.

Theo, we can't delay the legalities on this case.

Besides, you don't even have enough to... Yeah?

The people from the press are here, sir.

Send them in.

When there are more developments, you let us know.

Why the earth's shaking urgency about this case?

What's the damn hurry about this case?

Nothing, nothing at all.

Just that I happen to care about law and order and I happen to care about what's

happening in our country, that's all.

Hi, Theo. Hey, Theo, what are you doing down here? Something wrong with the case

against you? Wrong? Why should anything be wrong? Well, I don't know.

Come on, Mario. Why hasn't Manhattan moved on the indictment against you?

Yeah, it's been a while, Mario. We are not responsible for what goes on in

Manhattan. We know what we're doing here. What are you doing, Mario? What

are we doing? I'll tell you what we're doing. We are going to try Lewis Humes

for the attempted rape of Rita Alvarez within the next two weeks.

Well, that's news.

You can quote me on that. That's what I'm doing, Mario.

The Marcus Nelson murders were committed first, Mario.

Don't you have to try him for that first?

Teams, what are you, telling me my job? I told you, we are not responsible for

what they do in Manhattan.

We are responsible for Brooklyn. It reminds me of the Sacco-Vanzetti case.

Why is that? Sacco-Vanzetti? You got the nerve to compare this with the Sacco

-Vanzetti case? Yeah. My parents fought for Sacco-Vanzetti. How does this

compare with Sacco-Vanzetti? Yeah, you tell me. Well, they first tried them on

a minor charge, too.

It helped both cases.

No comparison. What do you mean? Wait a minute, Mario. What do you mean?

Well, you have a famous case.

You try a man on a lesser charge.

The jury has already figured him guilty in their minds because they know he's

going to be tried for something terrible. The kid is guilty. Not Mario.

Mario, you know the score. Yeah, I do know the score. Now, once he's had a

conviction, the jury at the next trial hangs him, too.

Of course, they figure he's guilty of something.

He's already been convicted.

They've got him coming and going.

Mrs. Humes, I'm seeing you because of my friendship with Mr. Seligling here, who

used to work with me.

I've been reading about your son's case in the papers, like everybody else.

He has a lawyer, hasn't he?

The court gave him one.

He don't have a trial experience.

The woman he is supposed to have attempted to rape identified him.

They've got a confession. Oh, please.

They even found a picture of the murdered girl in his wallet.

He's innocent.

Even if he is, the truth doesn't count for much in a courtroom.

Jake. I'm sorry, Saul. I'm sorry. But I believe in telling the truth in these

matters. It's like being a surgeon.

A patient has cancer.

Tell them I believe in that.

They've got enough to convict your son ten times.

They said you saved me.

I can't save your son.

The publicity, the confession, the whole atmosphere makes it impossible.

I'm very sorry.

Goodbye.

She's a nice woman, Sol.

She managed to say goodbye even though I told her I couldn't save her son.

Now you get out of here.

If you ever bring anybody in here again and make them false promises for me,

I'll kill you.

How are you?

Sit down.

Listen, I'm going to recommend something to you.

I made a deal with the judge.

He'll give you life.

Life? You better face it, Lewis.

You have two homicides in Manhattan, one attempted rape and a homicide here. It's

a good deal, Lewis.

How is it going to be a good deal when I'm going to be spending the rest of my

life in jail for something I didn't even do?

Lewis, listen, what kind of chance do you think you have?

It is your word against the Manhattan and the Brooklyn police departments.

No.

No more deals.

He's sick.

Let me touch you.

And then he put his hand under my coat and under my uniform.

And he said he wanted to have intercourse with me.

What was his exact language?

I want to have sexual relations.

I'm gonna rape you.

Then I got hold of his hands and then of his coat.

And I started screaming.

You recognize this coat?

That looks like the coat the man was wearing that night.

The man that was following me and that attacked me.

And this button?

This the button you took from the coat of the man who followed you and attacked

you?

Yes. It's for you.

Now, Mrs. Alvarez, do you see the man in this coat?

The man who followed you and attacked you that night?

Yes.

Think you could stand down and walk over and tap him on the shoulder?

Let the record show that Mrs. Alvarez tapped the defendant on the shoulder.

No further questions.

Detective Black, how many years have you been on the force?

11.

Have you ever received any citations for bravery?

I have.

How many?

19. 19.

Have you ever subjected a defendant at any time to duress or threats?

No.

Have you ever subjected any suspect at any time to duress or threats?

Never. Well, then how did you get the confession out of the defendant?

On a pad like this, in his own words.

He cooperated completely?

Absolutely, completely.

Thank you. No further questions.

Detective Giaccarino, when you came into the precinct, did you see any evidence

that the defendant had been beaten or coerced into a confession?

No.

Did you see any bruises on his face or on his body?

No.

Can you speak up, please? It's very difficult.

No. Thank you.

Detective, did you personally speak with Lewis Humes the day that he arrived at

the precinct?

Yes. What did you two talk about?

We had a casual conversation.

What was it about?

Well, we talked about his background. I asked if he'd...

Been working, he said yes, but he hadn't worked steadily.

He tell you why?

Said he had problems.

Problems? What kind of problems?

People. He had problems with people.

Problems with people.

He tell you anything else about his job?

He said he sometimes got into arguments and that he quit his job or be dismissed

by his employer.

Mm-hmm.

Did he ever discuss with you at any time anything regarding the attempted rape?

Yes.

Well, he must have said more than that, Detective. Could you elaborate for the

court?

He said that he put his hand under her dress and said, shut up or I'll kill

you.

That's sufficient for me, Your Honor.

They stood me in front of the chair, and they called me a liar.

I told him if I said I did it that... Your

Honor, could you please instruct the defendant to speak up? I cannot hear a

word he's saying.

I told him that if I said I did it that

I'd be lying.

Every time I said I didn't do it, I got knocked back down the chair.

Then they stood me up beside the wall.

They kept beating me and beating me.

I just couldn't take no more, so I just shook my head.

Detective Black beat him.

Patrolman Stabile beat him.

Detective Jacarino lied to him.

Now, if you want to believe all of that, if you want to believe that as a result

of that, detectives are the finest police force in the world. They just go

out. And they beat up anybody just to get confessions out of them.

Well, in this society, he's in a very sad state indeed.

But that is what you've got to believe to believe Lewis Humes' story.

Either Lewis Humes is... Either Lewis Humes has lied or,

uh... These police officers have lied. Very nice likeness, Lewis.

Detective Black, 19 citations for bravery.

Detective Jacarino, Detective Corrigan.

They have all conspired to pick out Lewis Humes out of all the people in the

whole world.

So either Lewis Humes is lying, or they are all conspirators.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Isn't it true that we have nailed Lewis Humes on the button?

I'll say you as to the first count of the indictment.

Accusing the defendant of attempted rape in the first degree.

Guilty.

I'll say you as to the second count of the indictment. Charging the defendant

with assault in the second degree. Guilty or not guilty?

Guilty.

Will the defendant stand?

The defendant, having been found guilty by a jury, is now directed by this court

to be committed to Kings County Hospital for mental examination to determine

whether he is a perpetual sex menace.

Sentence will be determined upon completion of examination.

Kill me.

We'll get help for you.

We'll get help.

We'll get help. Sister, we just killed her. It's not over.

We'll get help.

This is working.

Can you take it out of those shoes, Mr. Klein?

I can think of pleasanter ways to commit professional suicide.

Always looking for glory, eh, Jake?

Aren't we all?

Look, I'm gonna make you another Clarence Darrow.

I am another Clarence Darrow. Oh, yes, you are.

Read this.

FBI report.

Our laboratory tests failed to prove any connection between the button and Lewis

Hume's coat.

Does Portella know about this?

The board has been on this desk all week.

They were when he made that charge to the jury.

Interesting, but not surprising.

Charges against Lewis Hume are phony.

Which ones? All of them.

What about the confessions? He kicked out of them.

Didn't they?

I mean, they found in his wallet the picture of the married girl. The picture

of the girl? It was not Joanne Marcus.

It was not Joanne Marcus? No.

Well, he's confessed to three murders and attempted rape. What is he guilty

of?

Nothing.

Took off.

Are you sure?

I know where he was at the time of the Marcus Nelson murders.

Where? 150 miles away.

How do you know?

I've got eyewitnesses. Reputable people. Who? People in a small hotel in Seaview

who were with Humes watching Martin Luther King's speech on television.

Practically every black knows where they were on that day.

Thank you, Ben.

Why are you doing this?

I don't have to tell you what happens to a cop who leaks information.

I know.

I was expecting somebody else to do it.

But no one is.

On February 18th, another seemingly unrelated incident happened, this time

in Spanish Harlem.

Bob is coming.

I know he's coming.

He's saying things about you. You know how crazy he is. What attempt he has to

kill you. Look, I'm not going to run away from him.

I killed Timoteo. I killed him, but it was in self-defense, man. He came to me

first. Ah, we got you this time, haven't we, Bobby? You're not a three-time

loser. You're a four-time loser.

It's the electric chair this time.

Not necessarily.

What do you mean?

You know the Nelson Marquez case?

Yeah? Well, I know who wasted them days.

What do you want from us?

I want to walk away from the Timoteo murder.

Come on.

have someone on the Marcus Nelson murders.

Hey, don't you read the newspapers?

You have someone.

But you wouldn't be seeing me unless you have your doubts, right?

All right, let's hear it.

It was the day of the thing.

Came to my apartment.

What was the man's name?

I want my deal, man.

I'll have to talk to my superior first. Take him away.

All right. I can walk. I ain't no cripple.

I guess the life of a Puerto Rican drug pusher doesn't count for as much as the

lives of two white middle-class career girls.

Because Bobby Martin, well, he got his deal.

Sit down.

Thanks. Don't mind if I do.

Okay, full immunity on the homicide of Roberto Tomateo.

No accessory after the fact in the Nelson Marquez murders?

Ah, you really know the law, don't you, huh?

I could teach you guys a couple of things.

Okay.

Who is it?

Okay. No accessory after the fact.

In the Marcus Nelson.

Now, who is it?

A guy by the name of Teddy Hopper.

Who?

Teddy Hopper. Teddy Hopper.

You know him?

Yeah, I know him. This guy's lying.

He took you in, too, huh? Get out of here.

Go.

Talk to you later.

Hey, man.

Easy on the laundry.

What makes you so sure he's lying?

I know it's Betty.

He's not capable of a thing like this. What's he like?

Cat burglar.

Cat burglar? That means he could have made the jump.

I know him.

In fact, I was the first one who busted him.

Butchering a woman is not his bag.

Hey, Theo.

How are you, Teddy?

I'm getting too old for this stuff.

Hey, I heard about you catching those guys who were heisting the Kennedys,

man.

How'd you hear about that?

I read in the newspaper.

I've been reading about you all the time.

Oh, no, he's over here in the kitchen.

Hey, you remember Joey, don't you?

Come here, Joey.

Over here. Say hello to the nice child.

Say hi. He's a nice child. Hi.

Hi, Joey.

Look, Teddy, I gotta speak to you alone.

You don't mind, do you, Joey? No.

Thanks. Hey, Joey, come here.

Come on, let's go back in the other room.

Oh, Teddy, I want to go to the living room.

Oh, come on, come on, go.

What?

Ah.

See?

What have you been doing with yourself, Teddy?

I've been working as a lathe operator.

It really keeps me busy, too.

You know what they call me down there?

Busy cockroach.

I got something to ask you, Teddy.

Where were you last August?

Last August? Why?

Where were you?

Well, at the beginning or the end?

August 28th.

August 28th, last year.

Oh, yeah, that was my vacation week, man.

Monday, I went to Orchard Beach to get some sun.

The weather was really lousy.

And Tuesday, I went to visit the old lady, and she asked me to help her, you

know, clean up an apartment building where she works as a super.

Any other people see you there?

Sure.

Hey, man, what is it? What do you want?

I can't tell you now, Teddy.

Get your coat.

Joey, would you please do what I tell you? Just one... Oh, Josie.

Teddy, what is it?

Oh, you remember Lieutenant Kojak?

No. How are you? What's the matter?

Nothing, nothing.

Something's got to be going.

Everything's going to be fine. Why is he here?

It's fine. Teddy, would you please tell me why he's here? I'll be right back.

I'll be right back.

Hey, Bobby, man. What's happened?

I told him, Teddy.

You told him?

You told him what, man?

About the girls.

About the girls?

What girls?

Marcus Nelson.

Marcus Nelson? It's no use, man.

I told him the whole thing.

How you came into my apartments.

The blood on your clothes.

Everything you say. Hey, man, are you kidding me?

You putting this all on?

Marcus Nelson.

Hey, don't be taken in by that baby face and that curly blonde hair.

He iced him.

He called him up.

Hey, man.

You must be in bad trouble.

I'll wait outside.

I don't believe you, man.

Sit down.

You talked to the DAs.

Now you're gonna talk to me.

So you're a murderer?

You're a pimp, you're a pusher.

You put your old lady out of habit, a red light over her head.

You showed Teddy how to use the needle.

And then you turned him in to save your own sweet hide.

Know all the details of the murders?

Which means if it wasn't Teddy, it was you.

So now you tell me again.

He came to your place, right? You saw blood on his T-shirt?

Yes. Blood on his trousers?

Yes. Above the knees, below the knees?

Above the knees.

Got a brown shopping bag?

Yes, sir.

What?

Yes, sir.

You're so polite.

You make me sick.

And what was in the shopping bag?

Two white handkerchiefs. White handkerchiefs.

I think he took them to wipe the blood off his clothes. There was blood on

them.

What else was in the shopping bag?

Pink rubber gloves.

Pink rubber gloves.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, he always used them so there wouldn't be no fingerprints.

To the basement.

And how'd he get out?

The same way.

How'd he get into the apartment?

Through the window. Stand up.

The service window?

Yes.

That's one hell of a jump.

Teddy makes those kinds of jumps.

And the Elsie Teddy you remember?

He said the smell of blood almost made him throw up.

Josie. Yes, Daddy? You gonna be all right?

Oh, Daddy.

You took too many this time.

You took too many.

Hey, Theo.

How you doing?

I thought you weren't gonna make it for a while.

It's only life, man.

You've been in prison so often, I thought you'd want to do a little more

with it.

Grandma Kojak, what are you doing here?

You come to hassle me too, Theo?

We were supposed to take a lie detector test tomorrow.

Your overdosing had nothing to do with it, did it?

Hey, man, I'm not going to take any lie detector tests.

I mean, you remember what happened to Lewis Humes?

The same exact thing could happen to me, except it could be worse.

I've been in and out of jail since I was 17.

You ought to know, man. You were the first one that busted me.

I don't trust them.

The only cop in the world I trust is you, man.

You did it, didn't you, Teddy?

Are you kidding?

No, I didn't, man.

Hey, where's Josie?

She was exhausted.

She was here for three days, made sure you were all right.

Then I persuaded her to go home.

Will you tell her to come back?

Quite a girl, isn't she?

Yeah, you don't know how she's taken care of me.

I mean, you don't know how lucky I am.

Without her, I'd have been a corpse a long time ago.

This isn't gonna get in the papers, is it?

I mean, my mother's sick, you know, and I wouldn't want her to know about it. No

one knows about it but me.

Hey, Thea?

I didn't do it.

I swear to you on my mother's life I didn't.

Hey, Teddy.

Hey, man, I had to make a deal.

I had to save myself, you understand?

Hey, man, I wouldn't have gone through with it, man.

I would have made them look like fools if we'd gone to court.

Hey, Teddy.

Hey, man, you don't really believe that I would turn in a brother, do you? I had

to make a deal, you understand?

I'm trying to think.

Hey, man, what's going on in here? I don't know, man. Something about a bomb

in the building. All right, come on, back it up. Come on, boys, back it up.

Come on, back it up. Come on, back it up.

They just took a bomb out of here.

Yeah, yeah. Get back to me with all the tenants, too, man.

What are you doing?

I think the bomb's right here in this apartment. There isn't a nice, fat,

juicy bug, huh?

Nice, fat, juicy bug?

What are you talking about?

Wow.

My old friend Theo really wants to find out about me, doesn't he?

Dick.

Oh, wow, Dick.

In one of the most unprecedented procedures in courtroom history, Jake

Winehouse asked for a mistrial in the Alvarez case due to the prejudice and

misconduct of the jurors for showing prejudice in the case against Lewis

Humes. In effect, he brought the jurors to trial.

Mr. Sack, you were...

A juror in the attempted rape case against Lewis Humes, were you not?

Yes, sir.

Did you hear a remark made by another juror during the trial?

Yes.

This... This is the remark.

These kinds are all the same.

They have got the habit.

These fellows like their sex.

Did you hear other comments from another juror?

Yes, sir.

One of them said it doesn't make any difference because if they don't get him

here, they'll get him in Manhattan.

Thank you, Mr. Sack. That'll be all.

Would you call Mario Portello to the stand, please?

Mr. Portello, you have been a prosecutor for the Brooklyn District Attorney's

Office for how long?

12 years.

During those 12 years, you have prosecuted how many cases?

How do I know how many cases?

Hundreds, maybe. I don't know.

You believe in fair play, don't you?

Of course I believe in fair play. I believe in justice, too, and I believe

that the police department... Mr. Portello, you were the prosecutor in the

case of People v.

Humes, were you not?

I didn't hear the question. Would you repeat it, please, counsel?

You were the prosecutor in the case of People v.

Humes?

I was.

Did you receive a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Laboratory, which was an analysis of the coat and the button in the case?

Yes. And did the report state that the button you submitted and the buttons

remaining on the coat did not match in size, design, or construction?

That is correct.

Then how could you argue to the jury that you had nailed Lewis Humes on the

button? There was other evidence. What other evidence?

Testimony of Mrs. Alvarez, the findings of her own laboratory. But you received

a contrary opinion from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, didn't you?

That finding was not conclusive. Not conclusive? It was the opinion of the

FBI that the button did not match the thread on the coat.

That is correct.

And you do not think you did anything wrong in withholding this evidence from

the jury and in saying that you had nailed Lewis Humes on the button?

No, I do not. It is not my position to show every piece of evidence to the

jury.

The administration of justice must not only be above reproach, but it must

also be beyond the shadow.

of reproach.

That the district attorney's silence was not the result of guile or a desire to

prejudice matters little, for its impact was the same, preventing, as it did, a

trial that could, in any real sense, be termed fair.

Court concludes that the conviction cannot stand.

The hearing revealed that prejudice, racial bias, entered that jury room.

I hereby vacate and set aside the verdict in the Alvarez case, and I grant

a new trial.

I'll tell you the truth, Jake. I didn't know you had this flair for publicity.

What did you think it was about?

I certainly don't believe the finest men in our office frame Lewis Humes.

No pictures, please.

Jake, in all my years... I said no pictures, didn't I?

In all my years of being an attorney, I've never seen such a detailed

confession. I mean, your client, Lewis Humes, must be some kind of genius. You

can remember so many details, huh? How can he be not guilty? Maybe somebody

helped him. Maybe he was coached. Coached by who? Me?

Detective Matt Black?

Detective with 19 citations for bravery?

Detective Lou Giaccarino? Detective Dan Corrigan? Two of the finest cops on the

force? Mario, no campaign speeches. What do you mean, campaign speeches? What

kind of... It's all about law and order. That's what this case is about.

Law and order.

Law and order for a man who's poor and black.

They're coming here to talk to you? It's all right.

I want to talk to them. I want to clear you. Oh, Mom. Shh.

Don't let this beat you, because I'm dying.

That's why you take drugs, isn't it? I know. I know.

Because life is too much for you.

Because you can't face it.

I'm sorry, Ted.

How do you feel?

I'm all right.

I will come back when you're feeling better.

It's all right.

I want you to question me.

Miss Hopper, you work as a superintendent at 334 East 83rd Street?

I wash the stairs and clean the halls.

Do you know where your son was on the day of the Marcus Nelson murders?

Yes. Where was he?

He was at home.

How do you remember so clearly?

He helped me clean the halls.

When did he start?

I woke him about 8.30 in the morning.

I had to wake him.

He's a lazy bones. He likes to sleep late.

How long did he stay?

Until late in the afternoon.

You're sure?

Yes.

Miss Hopper, Teddy is your son.

Would you lie to save him?

No.

I wouldn't.

It's your mother.

Sorry, man.

Hey, it's tight, man. I need a fix.

I can't get it nowhere.

You want to come home with me?

Yeah.

Come on.

Hey, man.

Hey, how can you get it when nobody else can, huh?

They want me to trap you.

So they got me wired for sound.

They give me immunity to trap you.

And we can't even get arrested if we walk down the street smoking a joint.

The cops is gonna support our habits.

It's junkie heaven, man.

You're gonna have all the bomb beaters and the coke you ever dreamed of.

The new trial on the Alvarez attempted rape began.

The courtroom was packed.

It always was for a trial that Jake Winehouse was part of.

Does he look like a black-skinned negro to you?

Will the court direct the witness to answer the question, Mrs. Alvarez?

Would you please answer?

No.

Does he look like 165 pounds?

No. Does he look like 25 years old to you?

Haven't I gone through enough?

Hasn't Lewis Humes gone through enough? He didn't!

He knows it! I know it, and God knows it!

No more outbursts, please.

You yourself said that he was a stocky 165-pound...

Black-skinned Negro of 25.

These are the descriptions that you yourself gave Patronus Stabile of the

man, Sedanus.

By the way, do you have any interest other than as a witness in this

particular case?

Your Honor, I object to this line. There's no relevancy in this question.

Your Honor, I shall make the relevance plain in just a moment.

Proceed. In other words, you have nothing to gain or lose whether the

defendant is convicted or acquitted. Is that correct?

Of course not.

Now, do you know an attorney by the name of Nick Delias?

Yeah. And do you know another lawyer by the name of Tom Flaherty?

Yeah. Did you speak to them?

Yeah, but only after I appeared... And in this discussion, did not the name of

Lewis Humes come up?

Yeah. And didn't this discussion involve the collection of a $10,000 reward

offered for the conviction of anyone of the Marcus Nelson murders?

But I... No more questions.

Judy, Judy, come on out of that bathroom. You've been in there all

morning. Your brother Mike wants to get in there.

I just got in here. Don't give me no lip.

You've been making a home in that bathroom.

You've kept up the suspense long enough. What is it?

There's an article about Teddy here.

Let me see that.

Come on, Jenny. Come on.

Look at this.

There's a new prime suspect in the Marcus Nelson case.

Let's call him Eddie for the purpose of the story.

A one-faced young dope addict... Gee.

...that lives with a woman... ...twice his age.

One-faced.

Let me see your face, Jenny.

You don't look so warm from this side.

You look a little warm from this side, though.

See the picture of Louis Young's hair?

You know, they're making him look better and better looking.

Like now he's a college kid.

A nice, innocent kid.

Believe us, baby.

You know, before they tried to make him look as ferocious as possible.

Now they're trying to make him look sweeter.

Yeah, nice and angelic.

Say, can we go to the store?

And you do what to which? Go outside, go to the store.

You have to go outside to go to the store, don't you? First get a warm

jacket. May I go to the store is correct.

May I go to the store?

Please, usually accompanies a question like that, don't it?

Please, may I go to the store?

Yes, you may.

Trudy, get some rubbers.

Oh, Mama.

Oh, no, go on and get some rubbers.

The cops are coming to talk to me again tomorrow.

Right.

Someone's gonna have to watch the kids.

Well, I know who that someone is gonna be.

Only I ain't gonna pay him nothing.

Listen, Teddy.

Teddy.

I gotta get you to rap a little bit.

Come on.

Come on. Like the window.

Huh? Come on, you remember the time we talked about the open window?

Remember like you said... Come on. Remember you said you got in through the

window? Come on, Teddy, I'm trying to help you. Hey, hey, hey, hey. Tell

him... Tell him he got in through the, uh... service entrance door.

That's the window.

Yeah.

We'll make a comical case out of this.

Listen, we're gonna have them all on the carpet because of you, Teddy. We're

gonna get on fire because of you, Teddy.

Teddy, the glasses, Paul.

Teddy, I didn't tell him you got the glasses off. Did you get the glasses off

of Teddy?

You had to get the glass off her because she wasn't wearing them when they found

it, right?

That's right Listen

Teddy I

got some really good stuff

Come on, snort this.

We're gone. Didn't your mama tell you to put on your rubbers?

Oh, mama. Oh, no.

Get your rubbers.

Oh, mama. You heard what your mama said.

All right.

Hey, come here, little man. Let me button your coat.

Hold still for a minute. Here,

hold still for a minute.

All right, put this in. Did you pinch my nose?

Don't you know I don't allow my nose to be pinched by no nose pinching you?

I'm gonna pinch your nose. Give me five.

Come on.

All right, no more nose pinching you.

Hey, be careful. Watch your brother cross the street.

Watch him, Judy.

The cops are after us to take that lie detector test, Teddy.

You hear me, Teddy?

I don't think I should take no lie detector test.

You, Teddy?

You don't have to take no test if we don't want to, do we?

Hey, you dig it, man.

You two take the test, right?

And beat it.

How are we gonna do that, Santa?

Oh, you can, man.

Here's how you can do it, too.

When they ask you to teddy kill those girls, you just think to yourself that a

very nervous, upset person did it, right?

Which really isn't me. I mean, you just get this in your mind that it was a very

nervous... upset person that did it. I think, I think. I mean, but it isn't me,

man. You know, it was a crazy man that killed those girls. Why don't you take

that test, Eddie?

Why don't you take the lie to take the test?

Hey, if I could just plan it in my mind that you made this up and that didn't

happen, you know, like I would take the test.

If I could just put that day out of my mind, man. If I could just put that day

out of my mind.

Lewis, do you see anybody in this courtroom who may have hit you or struck

you?

Yes.

If you do, who might that be?

Detective Black.

Detective Black, huh?

Detective Black, would you stand, please?

This the man that hit you, Lewis?

Yes.

Sit down, Detective.

By the way, Lewis, did you have breakfast in the precinct that day?

Yes.

How long did the beating take place?

I don't know.

Where were you struck?

All over.

Exactly where were you struck?

My stomach, my back, and my shoulders.

What were you beaten with? Do you remember?

Fists. Fists?

Is that right? Yes.

Closed fists, like that?

Yes. How many punches would you say you received?

10?

100? 50? What would you say?

50. 50.

Were they hard punches, Lewis?

Yes. Very hard punches, Lewis?

Yes.

50 hard punches with close fit.

What about breakfast? When did you say you had breakfast? Before or after?

Before or after. Before or after the beating?

After. After.

So they beat you with their fists 50 times, closed fists, very hard punches,

and then you sat down and you had breakfast.

No further questions, Your Honor. You may step down, Louis Humes.

May I have Detective Corrigan on the stand, please?

Detective Corrigan, please.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

so help you God?

I do.

Detective, you have elicited many confessions, haven't you?

Yes.

And when you question a suspect, you don't tell him that he did something.

You ask him, did he do it? Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

And you speak to him in a tone of voice such as you are using to us here.

Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

Polite, calm, mild.

Correct?

That's right.

Where did Lewis Humes tell you that he found, uh...

this picture?

Objection, Your Honor. That picture has to do with the Marcus Nelson case. We

are not trying that case here. Does the prosecution suggest that the Marcus

Nelson case does not affect the outcome of this case?

Your Honor, we are not trying that case right here. We are trying to decide the

credibility of Detective Corrigan and the other detectives who questioned

Lewis Humes, who got a confession out of him.

Objection, Your Honor.

Denied.

So, where did Lewis Humes tell you that he found this picture?

He said he found it in a dump in Seville.

But you didn't believe him when he told you that he found it in a dump in

Seaview, New Jersey. Is that correct?

That's right, sir.

Were you looking at his stomach when he said that?

Sir? Did you notice his stomach when he said that he found it in a dump in

Seaview, New Jersey?

I'm sorry. I don't know what you mean. Did you notice whether his stomach was

jumping in and out and up and down?

I don't know.

But you did not believe him. You thought he was lying. Is that correct?

Yes, sir.

Now, Lewis Humes is a young black boy, correct?

That's right.

Didn't you tell Mr. Goodman and Detective Kojak that you could always

tell when a black man was lying by looking at his stomach because it jumped

up and down when he lied?

I don't remember.

You don't remember saying to Mr. Goodman and Detective Kojak that?

That's right.

You don't remember saying it or you didn't say it? Which?

I'm not saying I didn't say it. I am saying I don't remember saying it. But

you may have said it.

I might have.

Now, didn't you tell Lewis Humes that you talked to the two girls on the

telephone and that they weren't mad at him?

I might have.

Did you?

No, I don't remember. Did you?

I said I might have. You?

Might have.

Yes. And if you did, that was a lie, wasn't it?

Well, that depends on how you look at that. You tricked the misled Lewis

Humes, didn't you?

Objection, Your Honor. Or don't you think that you did anything wrong? Your

Honor, will you stop this harassment of the witness, please? I do think that'll

be enough. I'm sorry, Your Honor.

But law and order is being used in this country as a catchphrase for stop the

nigger. Officer here doesn't think he did anything wrong.

People wonder why there is violence.

There is no justice there.

is Bynes.

Objection. You're out of question.

Well, you scored a few points. I scored nothing.

You think the jury's going to take the word of a vagrant kid?

Black, against cops with citations for bravery?

Particularly when they think he sliced up two white girls in Manhattan.

Well, it's time they knew everything about the Marcus Nelson case.

I think we've got one too many murderers on this baby.

This is it.

Over there.

Today's the day you're going to tell the truth.

And this.

Oh, wow.

All right, show her.

All right, sit down.

What a man.

And this.

He brought you here to tell you that I've been working with him all along.

That lawyer's name is Jerry Block.

His number is 614-7402. It's all over, baby. We forget the lawyer.

Tomorrow, the jury comes in with a verdict on Humes.

Today, you're going to tell us the truth. He needs some stuff, man.

He needs it bad.

You got it all, Teddy.

Remember when you talked to your friends about beating the lie detector test?

Remember how you said for them to think it wasn't you who did the killings? It

was a very nervous and upset person.

Well, we got that, too.

We even got your dreams.

We heard what you said with your dream.

Oh, you don't know what you said that night, but we do. You asked God to take

you.

That's what you said.

Come on, give me a spoon.

First things first.

Come on, man, give me a spoon. You don't get anything until we get a full

confession.

Dio, Dio, we're on tape. You can't promise so many of these confessors.

Don't throw it right out of the corner.

I'll get the next one, both of you.

Do you realize how many

people you're destroying?

A five-year-old boy.

Oh, come on, man. Give me a break, son.

Your mother. I need a spoon.

I was in the hospital when they questioned your mother.

All right, come on in.

She wasn't in any condition to talk to anybody, but she wanted to give you an

alibi.

Right now, she's trying to explain away your actions.

Daddy, you gotta give us something. We realize what pressure you've been under.

Waiting all these months for the axe to fall.

What tension you're under.

I'm a Catholic, just like you.

Last night, I went to church and I said a prayer for you.

I pray that you would make your peace with God.

I don't want to make peace with God.

You don't mean that.

Damn right I do, man.

Don't give me that.

I'm a dead man.

Hey, what do you mean you're a dead man? If you're dead, give us something. Come

on, you're the only one that can. You're the only one that can help yourself.

Give us something to help you with. It's me you want to help, huh?

Couldn't be you want to cover yourselves with glory, huh?

Come on, I'm sick. Give me a fix. You give us the answers now.

Give me a fix.

By tonight, your face will be known all over town.

Your son will see it.

Josie will see it.

Your mother in the hospital will see it. You know what you'll hear them say?

That you're some creep who ought to be locked away for the safety of some girl

in an apartment or some little kid in the street.

I'm sick, man! You want me to have compassion for you?

Who do you have compassion for?

What about Lewis Humes?

He's gonna die. You don't give a damn about him. Don't you understand that?

I'm sick!

I said I'm sick! You carved up those girls.

And now you're going to tell me. You're going to tell me. Hey, Theo, easy. Come

on. Let go of that kid. Theo, what's wrong with you? Come on.

Listen, don't you know what you're doing? You're doing exactly what you

said the guys in Brooklyn did.

I have a note here from the jury.

We are hopelessly deadlocked.

What does this mean?

It means we have to go to trial again.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Hinn.

Again?

Hey, hey, stay awake.

He's strung out, but he hasn't said anything. He didn't say anything?

We grilled him all night after he left. He'll never crack in a million years.

You better let up on him.

Hi, Teddy. How are you?

As well as can be expected, I guess, man.

You want some coffee or something to eat? All right, some coffee.

What do you got?

Ham and cheese and corned beef.

Give me corned beef.

You've known each other for a long time, huh?

Well, I like you.

You can't be particular what you like, I guess.

I've seen a lot of guys try to make it.

I never wanted anybody to make it more than you.

You screwed up, kid.

Hey, who won the game last night?

The Yankees.

Papatone get many hits? Uh, three for four.

I went to pull a lousy burglary and wound up killing two girls.

What happened, Teddy?

Saw the open window and...

I came in.

You went into the pub?

Yeah.

She was lying there?

Yeah, she, uh... She pulled the sheet up around me.

What happened then?

I decided to have her.

Yeah?

I took out a knife.

She said, don't hurt me.

What'd you do then?

The dark-haired girl, what's her name?

Kathy came. She stood in the door and she said, what's going on in here?

I see what's going on in here.

She turned and started to run towards the door.

I was gonna leave the apartment, but something told me I had to kill them.

I got two soda bottles, and I struck both girls over the head.

And then what did you do?

I just kept stabbing them.

Kept stabbing them.

I hit her rib in Kathy's back.

Did you know Joanne before you went in that day?

No.

You had gloves on all the time.

Yeah. Where'd you buy the gloves?

Five and ten.

Eighty-nine to the third.

How much did you pay for them?

I don't know, man.

29, 39 cents, whatever.

Where were the bodies when you left the apartment?

Hey, I don't want to think about it, man. I just want to erase it out of my

mind, you dig?

He wants to erase it out of his mind.

I told you.

If you played a straight with me, I'd help you.

Now, let's see your mother and Joseph.

What do you want me to tell them?

Just, uh, just tell him to forgive me, man.

Teddy Hopper was indicted and held for trial in the Marcus Nelson murders.

Louis Humes was freed on his own recognizance.

The charges of the Marcus Nelson and the Ethel Lawson murders dropped.

It was the first time he'd been out of jail in two years.

It's gonna be good to see the sky again.

Oh, he's not here.

Here he is now.

Hold on. There's a call for you.

Lewis Hughes wants to invite you to a party.

Your friend, Lewis.

Hello, kid. How you doing?

We're having a party over here, and I was wondering if you could come

over.

Look, Lewis, I'm a little busy.

I wanted you to come over because, you know, if it hadn't been for you, man,

I... I wouldn't even be walking around now.

Is Louie here?

Who is that?

Lieutenant Kojak. Come on in and make yourself at home.

Everybody, this is Lieutenant Kojak. I told you all about him.

How you doing? Miss Kojak, this is my girl, Lorraine. Hi.

Come on in, Mama.

Charles, turn off that television set. I want to see Louis on 6 o'clock news.

We're not sure he's going to be on.

This is Mama.

Oh, and this is my oldest son.

Abe. Nice to meet you. And over here is Grandpa.

And this here is Sonny. Sonny?

I think it's time for the cake.

Oh, look at that. Lewis did those drawings there. And he did these here,

too.

I hope it's not insulting. No, no, no. She gave me a lot of hair.

And I'm good looking.

I made this cake. Now, y'all better enjoy it.

Gentlemen, this is the 6 o'clock local news. That ain't my first thing. That

ain't your hat, neither.

Somebody find a larger hat for Lewis.

You look foolish, man. Don't tell me I look foolish.

Don't ever tell me I look foolish again.

A piece for everybody.

And an extra big piece for you, Lieutenant.

Oh, my goodness.

Are you going to say anything to us?

It'd be good to see the sky again. And maybe I should go to jail.

Don't say that, even as a joke.

Brooklyn, however, District Attorney Mario Portello had this to say. We in

Brooklyn have no intention of letting Lewis Humes go free.

And you still believe that Lewis Humes is guilty of the Marcus Nelson murders?

We still say that he knew details that only the murderer could know.

You and I are in... in having a clean, decent place in which to live, right?

It is dreadful to think that in this country, I mean right here in Brooklyn,

a woman can be taken, grabbed right off the street, assaulted, and an attempt

made to rape her.

We are going to proceed with the rape charges against Lewis Humes.

Why don't you let the kid go, Mario?

Hasn't he been through enough?

Donnie, make sure I get the superintendent of corrections in Albany.

Make sure I get him before he goes to lunch.

I'm sorry I can't let him go, Theo.

We've got an eyewitness identification, and we can't let a rapist on the

streets. He's no rapist.

And you know it.

Theo, I really feel sorry for you. I know you went out on a limb.

Hey.

Nail those humes by the button.

And all the time, the FBI report in your desk.

The kid wasn't given a lineup.

An hysterical woman looking at him through a peephole.

Description, missing on all important points.

And even if he was guilty, what was he supposed to have done?

Gone up to a woman and yell some dirty words?

Theo, you think the boy is innocent. I think he's guilty. You can't admit to

yourself that he's innocent. You want to know why?

Because to admit it, you'd have to admit how corrupt you really are.

You and I no longer have anything to say to each other.

You did the right job.

You know, I've never been naive about human beings.

But it's a surprise that people will let this kid go down the drain.

And you want to know what overwhelms me?

They don't see anything wrong in it.

So what's gonna happen now?

I don't know.

They're gonna try to prove you're guilty or something.

Makes them look too bad if you aren't.

Hello. Just in time.

The judge is going in. I still can't get used to wearing my glasses in the rain.

Hello, Lewis.

How are you?

Hello.

How the hell can you say hello to him?

I guess he was just trying to get a hand.

Been through a lot.

What do you say, Jake?

They brought out the same old witnesses again.

He tried to rape me.

He knows it.

I know it, and God knows it.

Black talked about his 19 citations.

Jacarino reluctantly and distastefully put in a knife again.

But nobody cared anymore.

There was no packed courtroom.

And I felt that nobody really believed that Lewis Humes was guilty.

He had to be found guilty.

to protect reputations.

It was as though we were all sleepwalkers watching a terrible pageant

that nobody cared about anymore.

Lewis Humes was found guilty of attempted rape.

Sentence?

Five to ten years.

But I didn't do nothing.

I understood for the first time what Jake Warnhouse meant when he said, when

there is no justice, there's violence.

I remember the first time I walked the beat.

I felt we were doing the most wonderful job in the world.

I thought of us as watchers of the city.

Protecting what was best in it.

Some people say the community gets the police force it deserves.

I say the police force is the community.

That was the end of the Humes case.

Except for the fact that it changed my life and yours.

The Lewis Humes case was cited in the Miranda decision of the Supreme Court,

which demands that his constitutional rights be read to a man under arrest.

Matt Black, still working as a police detective.

Mario Portello, who's elected an assemblyman.

Lewis Humes, still in jail today for an offense that normally a man without a

previous record would be given a suspended sentence.

As for me, you know, there's a dream I keep having.

I walk into McNeil's office, right?

I throw my badge on his desk.

And if I tell him where he can stick it, the truth is, I still go

on. I still

go

on calling squeals.

People like Teddy, who was convicted of killing two girls because he may have

been terrified of going back to prison.

And Lewis Humes, who never had a chance from the beginning.

Some people walk with their heads in the clouds and they never break through to

the sky.

Hey, Lord, don't you let me be as blind as some people living and

wondering what.

Some people listen to what folks are saying and some people only

can talk.

But I've got to please me and know where I'm going. Don't give me.

Like the road I can't walk leading to nothing.

Some folks get by on what I can't rely on and never break through

to the truth.

Well, I got to know me and love what I must be before I...

Turn away and we can't sit and talk friend. There's a road. I

can't