All language subtitles for The First 48 S01E12_Subtitles01.ENG

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[sirens wail]

- even for the most
experienced detectives,

a homicide investigation
could take a turn

they didn't see coming.

Tonight, on "the first 48:
Critical minutes"...

- This is the boat
that rusinque was on.

- A marina that's involved
in two different murders.

- This could all
be interrelated.

- Then...

- I'll take it, just in case.

- An unlikely clue provides
detectives with answers.

- Who's number four?

- You got to be kidding me!

♪ ♪

- and a double homicide
leads to a shocking turn.

♪ ♪

- there's definitely
something wrong here.

Good lord.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- they're in the back?

- Sometimes homicide cases
become more complicated

as you dig deeper
into the evidence.

When kansas city detectives
responded

to the murder of two women
found in an abandoned garage,

they had no idea
how big of a case

this would turn out to be.

- Take a look over here.

- I don't have my flashlight
on me.

Do you?
- I got one.

- Do we know if that's
a male or a female?

- Don't know.
- Shoot.

Somebody's stacking them up
like cords of wood.

- Yeah.
Y.

- No homicide is normal,
but for us,

you know, you have
the typical homicide scene,

and then you have some
that things are different.

And this is different.

Damn.
Dang it.

Narrator:
They discover the body on top

is of an african-american
female.

- Good lord.

Narrator:
So is the body underneath.

- Hold on, the bottom's
been there for--

- we can call that advanced
stage of decomposition,

I think, safely.

- I say the one
on the bottom's

been there for three weeks.

- Mm-hmm.
- Ooh.

When you see two bodies,

one on the bottom
is more decomposed

than the one on the top,
you have to tell yourself

there's definitely
something wrong here.

Narrator: The victims have
no obvious signs of trauma,

nothing that could explain
how they died.

- They don't have any wounds.
We have nothing.

We collected several samples
from the bodies.

Dna is such a huge part
of any investigation.

You look for hair,
you look for a fiber,

you look for a skin cell.

That's better than a
fingerprint, if you have dna.

♪ ♪

- this is a match.

And it responds back
to the person

by the name
of sheliah mckinzie.

Narrator:
38-year-old sheliah mckinzie,

whose name was in the system

for drug possession
and prostitution,

lived in
the prospect avenue area.

♪ ♪

the second victim is
53-year-old patricia wilson,

also from
the prospect avenue area.

♪ ♪

- kmbc-tv kansas city.

- Two bodies found yesterday.

- Police urge you
to call the tips hotline.

♪ ♪

narrator: 911 gets a call
from a man

who reports a woman's body.

- [distorted voice]
I don't know her name.

- [distorted voice]

- [distorted voice]

narrator: The man makes
another admission.

He's the one
who hid the two bodies

the police found in the garage
the night before.

- [distorted voice]
I killed them all.

I killed them.

[dial tone]

narrator:
29th and park

is just four blocks away
from the first crime scene.

♪ ♪

- [sighs]
[dog barking]

and there's
that fence right there,

right back here
in this very corner,

but you can't see it.

Around here.

♪ ♪

- there's a leg right there.

- Yeah, ok.
Yeah.

- That's been there a while.
- Oh, it's been a while, yeah.

Narrator: It's too dark
to properly process

the overgrown crime scene.

- All right, luke.
Come on.

There ain't nothing we can do
looking back here.

Let's figure out
what we're gonna do.

I'm furious.
I'm absolutely furious.

I mean, especially
when the guy's mocking you,

saying, "hey, you missed one."

♪ ♪

narrator: 20 minutes
after the 6:00 news...

Narrator:
The killer calls again.

Narrator: He directs police
to another two bodies

in alleys just off
prospect avenue.

Narrator: The caller says
both bodies are covered

and hidden under brush.

Narrator:
He says he'll give his name

when he calls the next day
with more bodies.

- [distorted voice]
there's six more already have.

[dramatic musical sting]

narrator:
As the first 48 runs out,

niemeier's investigation
is just beginning.

- This is unbelievable.
This is unbelievable.

We have a serial killer.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The next day,

detectives buck williams
and joe marinella

have found the woman
who was recently attacked

off prospect avenue.

- Hopefully,
she can shed some light

on a possible suspect for us.

Narrator:
Aleah tells detectives

she was sitting in an alleyway
when she was attacked.

Narrator:
After she passed out,

he left her for dead
in an abandoned garage.

- What did he look like?
White, black?

- What was he wearing
the night you saw him?

- What color was that?

♪ ♪

narrator: Just blocks away,
patrol officer verne hoof

is out canvassing
the neighborhood

when he gets an unexpected tip
about a potential suspect.

- Yeah, he just
got out of prison.

He sliced his wife's throat
22 years ago.

- I don't know.

- He's tall and slim.

But you know, he made
a statement to me

and a few other girls out here,

he was gonna kill us
one by one.

- Nope, but I know
what he wears.

He wears a black jacket
with white stripes

all the time, and a black hat.

His mother lived up there
in that apartment.

- I don't know.
It's black.

Narrator:
At headquarters,

detective rick hart
searches the police database

for a terry with an address
on 24th and prospect.

♪ ♪

- terry blair.

- Ok, great.

- Homicide.
Niemeier.

- He's been released
from prison on murder,

and right now,
he's on the run since February.

And his name is terry blair.

Narrator:
Blair has been on the run

from his parole violation
for seven months.

♪ ♪

in the sub-basement
of headquarters,

detective jeff downing
searches for the file

on terry blair's murder case
from 22 years ago.

- It would be
this file right here.

♪ ♪

there's a lot of consistencies.

He says that him and his wife,
they have kids together,

and he finds out
that she's a prostitute,

sees her prostituting,
and gets pissed off.

He picks up a stick

and whacks her in the head
and walks off.

Narrator:
The most striking similarity-

blair called police himself
to report his wife's murder.

- They get a call from a party
that has information

on this homicide.

It's him.
[laughs in disbelief]

he confesses.

- This is the break
we've been looking for.

♪ ♪

- his mother just recently
got evicted out of a house

right here in this block.

♪ ♪

narrator: Two hours
after the 10:00 p.M. News,

niemeier is unexpectedly
called back to headquarters.

- Dave, I wanted to call

and let you know
he's in custody.

[dramatic musical sting]

♪ ♪

s

look like they're very common,
but they're not.

Most homicide investigators
go their entire career

not catching
a serial killer case.

But, when you get one,

it could be either something
that makes your career,

or it could be something
that breaks your career.

♪ ♪

narrator: A woman
called police in a panic

after she and blair
watched the news together

at her house.

- She tell me, "when
we were looking at the news,

"his picture flashes up,
and I play it off

because I know that's him."

and he doesn't say anything.

And immediately
after the news went off,

he got up and left the house.

Then, she tell me she's
afraid, and that she's scare,

and that
he might be out there.

- [indistinct]

- so we go out there.

We go back and check
in the back of the garage,

up under the back of the cars.

All of the sudden,
I hear dennis say,

"show me your hands!"
I'm like, "oh, wow!"

he was back in the garage,

hiding under the back
of the car.

♪ ♪

- what I'm going to do now
is show him

some pictures of the victims

and see what he thinks
about these.

♪ ♪

when we get the pictures out

and lay out the dead girls...

Nothing.
No emotion.

No nothing.
Just nothing.

♪ ♪

it was at that point,

you could see
the wheels turning.

"how do they know about that"

"how do they know
about that one?"

'cause I think
that he had thought

he had scared them enough
that they would never tell u.

♪ ♪

that line, it'll
probably stick with me

for the rest of my life.

We know there are
more bodies out there.

♪ ♪

- when investigating
a homicide,

you have to follow
the evidence

wherever it takes you.

In dallas,
detective rick duggan

encountered a surprising clue

when a man was shot
on a service road.

- All I know right now is,

there's two victims shot.

One died, one survived.

And the shooting,
I guess, took place down here.

♪ ♪

who was the first officer
out here?

- We spoke to the driver

of the victims' vehicle.

- Was he shot?

- No, no.
- Ok.

Do you know the victim's name?

♪ ♪

narrator:
The deceased victim

is 19-year-old mikael hudson.

He was the youngest son
of 10 children.

♪ ♪

a few months ago, one
of his brothers was murdered.

♪ ♪

- have all the witnesses been
transported to the office,

or are they still
at the hospital?

- Yeah, they transported.
- Ok.

♪ ♪

we'll know a lot more
once we start talking

to these witnesses.

♪ ♪

all right.
Let's go.

♪ ♪

- how are you doing, man?
- Good.

- Tell me what happened, jason.

- Uh-huh.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Off-duty police officers

broke up the confrontation.

Narrator:
A few minutes later,

the other car pulled in
behind them.

One of the men got out.

Narrator:
The suspects fired at them.

Then, jason swerved
into the other car

and ran them off the road.

♪ ♪

- the guy with the gun,

do you know who the guy is?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- ok.

♪ ♪

- jason said that he ran

the suspect's vehicle
off the road,

but we didn't find any evidence
of that last night.

But it was really dark,

so hopefully,
we'll find something

now that it's daytime.

♪ ♪

- is that where a car
went through?

Right in through here?

Narrator:
They examine the spot

where they think the suspect's
car went off the road.

- Look at this.

- Hey, mike!

♪ ♪

you don't think this came
out of the car, do you?

Oh, it's just a bunch of mail.

- It could have fallen out.
- How would it have fallen out?

- I'll take it, just in case.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

narrator: A few hours later,
mendez looks through the mail

duggan found
at the crash site.

- [sighs]

there's a cederick peterson
right there.

And there's a po box.

Um, it's a real long shot,

but it's about the only thing
we got right now.

♪ ♪

narrator:
22-year-old cederick peterson

has one prior misdemeanor.

- I'm gonna show
a six-photo lineup

to the off-duty officers who
were at the club that night.

Cederick's number four.

If they identify cederick,

then I'll show the lineup
to leonard,

one of the eyewitnesses.

♪ ♪

- number four.

- Who's number four?
- That's the driver.

♪ ♪

narrator: The officer
picks out cederick peterson

as the driver
of the suspect's car.

- You got to be kidding me!
[laughs]

a crime scene to pay attention
to every single detail.

Have things been moved?

Does where the bodies lay
make sense?

You're literally trying
to put together a puzzle,

and one small piece
of evidence

might be the key thing
to break the whole case open.

♪ ♪

- [laughs]
what?

What are the odds?

- Rick saw that mail
out there.

Of course I said,
"no, there's no way

the suspect dropped his mail
out here."

rick was right.

It was a long shot,
and it panned out,

so that's--that's a good thing.

♪ ♪

- number four?
- Mm-hmm.

- Who's number four?

Narrator: The surviving
victim, leonard bisor,

also ids cederick peterson

as the driver
of the suspect's car.

Narrator: Leonard didn't get
a good look at the shooter.

♪ ♪

- that right there is enough
to get a warrant.

Cederick may not be
the shooter,

but he should be able
to tell us who is.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The next day, the gang unit

brings cederick's wife
to headquarters.

♪ ♪

detectives hope she will
lead them to cederick.

- Who does?

♪ ♪

- where are you at, cederick?

- Well, how far away
from dallas are you?

- Uh, about three hours.

- We need to talk to you,
cederick.

♪ ♪

narrator:
A few hours later,

the alleged driver,
cederick peterson,

arrives at headquarters.

♪ ♪

- I appreciate
you coming up her.

- Got to.
Got to do what's right.

- Well, I'd like to hear
your story about what happened.

Narrator: He claims that
some people in the parking lt

told him
the victims had a gun.

Narrator:
He suddenly found himself

following the victims' car
down the service road.

- Are you the one that shot?
[dramatic musical sting]

- who's the one that shot?

Who's the that shot at those
people and killed that boy?

- Him.
- Who?

♪ ♪

narrator: Cederick gives up
his friend, eric,

as the shooter.

- We know that you are the one

that actually chased
that green car.

- Yeah, out of the parking lot,
onto the service road.

You're what we call
an accomplice.

- Right now, it's murder.

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[sighs]
oh, god.

So...
Mm-mm-mm.

- Well, um,

a kid named mikael hudson
is dead.

That's who's dead.

♪ ♪

- eric edwards.

Narrator: The alleged shooter
is 18-year-old eric edwards.

He has no prior record.

- Well, right now, we're
gonna take cederick to jail.

He may not have done
the shooting,

but according to witnesses,

he's the one who started
the confrontation.

Now our top priority
is gonna be finding eric.

♪ ♪

well, eric,

the best thing
you can do for yourself

is to be truthful with me.

Tell me the truth.
Tell me exactly what happened.

♪ ♪

narrator:
Eric says he and cederick

were at the gas station
when cederick spotted

the car he collided with
at the nightclub.

- Ok.

Narrator: Instead, eric clais
he got back in the car

and told cederick
to take him home.

- So you're saying
ced actually sh?

[dramatic musical sting]

- the physical evidence
on the street

disproves what you just said.

The evidence does not match up

with the driver of your car
shoot.

So that's where we're at here.

- Hmm?

♪ ♪

- so you're telling me
you were driving?

- And what,
cederick was shooting

from the passenger side?

- Yes.
[dramatic musical sting]

- no.

Now that's not true either.

♪ ♪

I need you to be honest,
totally honest.

Do you hear me?

♪ ♪

two people were shot.

One died.

♪ ♪

left behind
several brothers and sisters--

- sure did.

[dramatic musical sting]
- the one you shot?

- Ok, listen to me,
you just said,

"the one I shot," all right?

- No, you already said it.

♪ ♪

- ok.

To me, I don't think there's
any doubt he's the shooter

'cause he's doing everything
he can to switch--

change his story up.

He even put himself
as the driver, you know,

and cederick as the passenger.

Then he slipped up and said,
"when I shot mikael."

♪ ♪

- hey, for real,
for all y'all out there,

live your life, go to school,
you know what I'm saying?

Don't get caught up
in these streets.

It ain't no place to be, man.
For real.

You end up looking like me.

♪ ♪

- in miami, detectives found
a man bound by rope

and floating
near a fishing pier.

Their investigation
led them to a marina

and a shocking discovery.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- he's naked.

It looked like he was fold
in the fetal position.

♪ ♪

narrator: The victim
is tied up with rope,

his neck bound to his ankles.

♪ ♪

- yeah.

♪ ♪

- wow.

That's nasty.

- Until we get him identified,

we don't have a whole lot
to go on.

And unless we know who he is,

it's gonna be like

pissing in the wind
trying to find a crime scene.

♪ ♪

narrator: The security
at the local marina

keeps a record of the homeless
that live nearby.

♪ ♪

- have you ever
seen him around?

Narrator:
But security officers say

that another man named jorge

has allegedly
threatened people in the area.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

this here is--
we call this waterworld.

♪ ♪

- hey, which boat
jorge stays at?

- Jorge, what boat
does he stay on?

♪ ♪

[dramatic musical sting]

narrator:
The men say jorge packed up

and drove away from the dock
in a u-haul.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- it's very unusual
for somebody

to just pick up like that
and leave.

♪ ♪

ok.

♪ ♪

[dramatic musical sting]

our focus now is
to identify jorge,

get a last name,

and see if we can talk to him.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[dramatic musical sting]

♪ ♪

- I'm gonna have rusinque
come in.

This could all be interrelated.

- Damn.

♪ ♪

♪

narrator: Detectives turn
their attention to the victim.

- We have what appears to be
a white male facedown.

♪ ♪

[sighs]
- [grunts]

narrator:
Detective frankie sanchez

examines jorge's houseboat.

♪ ♪

- oh, look at that.

Those are spatter?

Narrator:
Unlike the day before,

this time,
there are bloodstains

throughout the cabin.

♪ ♪

- there's definitely
obvious signs of a struggle.

It looks like the victim
was trying to, like,

claw his way.

♪ ♪

narrator: Back on shore,
detectives catch a break.

[walkie-talkie beeps]
- we have the witness here.

♪ ♪

narrator: Andrew beard,
the 911 caller,

comes forward
with more information.

Andrew claims
the alleged killer

is hiding out on a boat
in waterworld.

♪ ♪

- that's the guy.

- We need to get people
over there now, man.

This guy's gonna disappear.

- Tell him to intercept him.
Just stop him.

♪ ♪

narrator: Detective
anthony reyes has identified

the man pinpointed
as the potential suspect.

Arthur johnson.

♪ ♪

- I think we should take
a statement

from our witness first.

- All right, ready?
- Got it?

♪ ♪

narrator: Detectives head in
to speak with the 911 caller,

andrew beard.

♪ ♪

- ok, who was in that group?

♪ ♪

narrator:
Andrew says later that night,

he saw arthur
on jorge's houseboat.

[dramatic musical sting]

♪ ♪

- why'd you call us?

♪ ♪

- I believe him.

- It appears that
he's telling the truth.

♪ ♪

- ok.

Narrator:
Then, the case takes a turn.

- Hey john, yeah, we've
got a little curveball here.

Narrator: Patrol has located
a second witness

and brought him back
to homicide.

- Ok.

♪ ♪

narrator: Meanwhile,
detective john rusinque

and team 5 return
to the station.

♪ ♪

- what's your name, buddy?

[dramatic musical sting]

♪ ♪

- I spent all freaking day
looking for this guy.

♪ ♪

narrator:
The second witness is jorge.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- two men found floating.

Seems both of them
were murdered.

♪ ♪

- ok, could we interview jorge?

- Yeah, you're definitely
gonna wanna question him.

♪ ♪

narrator: In the case
of ernesto puentes,

the team's person of interest,

jorge, is brought in
for questioning.

♪ ♪

jorge says he's never
seen the victim before

and tells detectives he had
nothing to do with his death.

[dramatic musical sting]

he says that he did not
suddenly leave waterworld,

but that he had
saved up his money

to get a permanent home
off the water.

♪ ♪

- the information that he gave
us is very credible.

And I think we're back
to ground zero on this.

- You can't force a narrative
to fit a particular person.

You may develop a suspect

at the beginning
of a homicide investigation,

but that person
that you had as a suspect

might very well be a witness.

In this case, you have
two victims that are killed

in two completely
different manners.

You have to make sure
that the facts add up

before drawing
any particular conclusions.

- With jorge eliminated
as a suspect,

it's definitely looking like
the two cases are unrelated.

It just so happened
to be so ironic

that a body comes floating up
in the same place

that we're looking
for this guy.

♪ ♪

narrator: Jorge was
a false lead in team 5's cas.

But now, in the murder
of cleo register,

team one is hoping he can

verify andrew beard's story.

- How is it that you become
involved in this investigation?

- Well...

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

narrator: Jorge says
that the 911 caller,

andrew beard, was present
during the murder.

- Ok.
All right.

♪ ♪

did he say what went on?

♪ ♪

- all right.
Just give us a few.

♪ ♪

- a little different story
this time, huh?

♪ ♪

- all right.

♪ ♪

we need to verify some things.
- Ok.

- Did you ever convey to jorge

that you were there on the boat
when the murder occurred?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- listen, I'm not a new cop.

I've been doing this,
you feel me?

- Yeah.

- If you were there
and you saw I,

let me know this now.

It's cool!

You're scared,
and I understand that.

This [bleep] ain't supposed
to happen to people.

It does.

♪ ♪

and it's pent up inside of you,
and I see it.

I see it.

♪ ♪

- andrew, look at me.

♪ ♪

what really happened?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- well, just hold tight.

♪ ♪

- we are investigating
a homicide.

♪ ♪

- we're investigating
a homicide--

- ok.

- All right, sir.
Ok.

- Well, that was quick.

♪ ♪

narrator: Andrew beard's
eyewitness account

gives detectives enough
to charge arthur johnson

with first-degree murder.

♪ ♪

- as far as beard
is concerned,

he's a witness,
and I believe him,

but if we find
that he did lie

and that he had
more involvement,

he's gonna have to answer
for those actions.

Most definitely.

♪ ♪

narrator: Six months after
the death of cleo register,

several witnesses from
waterworld have come forward

implicating andrew beard
in the robbery/murder.

[dramatic musical sting]

andrew is brought back
to homicide

for further questioning.

- How much was your cut?

- A hundred.

♪ ♪

- for a human life?

That's--that's sad.

♪ ♪

- no matter how long
you work homicide,

there's always gonna be
a piece of evidence,

there's always gonna be
a witness to surface

that kind of shocks you
and just take you

in a completely
different direction.

What's important
as an investigator,

that you have to be impartial.

I got to go
where the evidence takes me.

♪ ♪