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The victim is Mandy Monroe,

stabbed to death
in her living room,

sometime between
2:00 and 4:00 a.m., Sunday.

She was with her fiance
earlier that night.

Is he good for this?

Surgical intern at St. Mike's,
on call midnight to 5:00 a.m.,

left Mandy's a little
after 11:00,

scrubbing in at the hospital
a half an hour later.

Cops arrested the victim's
uncle, Sam Carter.

A witness saw him staggering
out of the building

around 3:00 in the a.m.,
looking quite intoxicated.

Murder weapon?

It's a kitchen knife--

on the floor,
next to the body.

Prints match the suspect.

And Forensics
got another hit

in the shower off
a bottle of conditioner.

He hung around the crime scene to take a shower
Hey, he was covered in blood.

I would, wouldn't you?
(Annabeth groans)

So far it's a routine grounder.

Does he have any kind of alibi?

Wife claims he was up all night
working at home,

some kind of computer whiz.

Software engineer.

Sounds like
we got the right guy.

Do we have a motive?

Her fiance popped
the question

last night,
she said yes,

called the uncle's house to
give the family the good news.

Her engagement has something
to do with her murder?

Check out what they found
on the uncle's computer.

You really jumped the gun
on this one, Annabeth.

Talk about a rush to judgment.

We have Mr. Carter's
prints at the scene

and on the
murder weapon.

I'm sure there's an innocent
explanation for both.

Is there an explanation
for these?

Pictures of his niece?

So what?

564 of them, to be exact,

on his computer.

He even customized his screen
saver with the name Amanda.

There's nothing incriminating
about any of these.

He was a devoted
and doting uncle.

He was obsessed with her.

Mandy announced her
engagement last night.

You didn't seem to take
that news too well.

That's your motive?

Please.

Mr. Carter, you can
keep a vow of silence

for the rest of your life,
for all I care.

We're going to be charging you
with Mandy's murder.

No recollection
of what you're talking about.

None whatsoever.

So who else was at dinner?

Sam, me, his brother, Jordan,
Sam's father, Cyrus.

Had the whole family.

Well, Sam has an older sister,
Sheryl, but we don't see her.

And after dinner?

We all said good night.

Cyrus and Jordan left, and Sam
went out to his office to work.

I went to bed.

You told police he was up all
night working at his computer.

Yes.
Witness saw him

coming out of your niece's

building at 3:00 a.m.

They must have seen
someone else.

They saw him all right,
falling down drunk.

Sam has been sober for years.

Really?

When the police arrested him,

he still had a blood alcohol
level near the legal limit.

I-I-I don't know
how that could be possible.

Your husband seemed obsessed
with his niece.

You make it sound so unhealthy.

What would you call it?

Sam and Mandy have
always been close.

Sam's mother was killed in a
car accident when he was 14.

Diane, Mandy's mother passed
when Mandy was little-- cancer.

I think that's why Sam and Mandy
have always had a special bond.

Listen, I know Sam is an odd
duck, but he is not dangerous.

His prints are on
the murder weapon,

one of Mandy's
kitchen knives.

Well, he was
over there a lot.

And in the bathroom
on a bottle of conditioner.

That could have
happened any time.

When he's anxious,
he washes his hands a lot.

He must have been real anxious,

apparently took a shower there.

He could have.

He's got a...
cleanliness compulsion.

Washing calms him down.

I get it.

Your husband
and your niece talk,

they end up fighting over
her engagement, he stabs her,

and then he takes a shower
to chill out.

Not to mention
to wash off the blood.

Look, I know that
he didn't do this.

You should call Jordan, because
I heard them leave around 11:00,

just after I went to bed.

So he wasn't at his desk
all night.

No.

She done lied to the police.

Mm-mm-mm.

Where'd you and your brother
go so late?

An AA meeting, one at midnight
over on Willow and Ashby.

Not that far
from here.

Yeah,
it's walking distance.

I guess.

I just dropped him off
and went home.

Just dropped him?

That's right.

Sam likes to walk.
It clears his head.

He can walk for hours on end.

Not this time.

We have a witness,

saw him coming out
of this building,

a couple hours later, drunk.

I guess the AA meeting
didn't work--

fell off the wagon anyway.

I'll ask you the same question
I asked your sister-in-law.

What was the deal between
your brother and your niece?

Look, they were just close,
all right?

Nothing creepy about it.

Your brother's being arraigned
for her murder this afternoon.

Me, I'd call that creepy.

In the murder of Amanda Monroe,
how do you plead, Mr. Carter?

Not guilty by reason
of insanity, Your Honor.

Very well.

I assume the issue
of bail is mute?

Yes, Your Honor.

Then the next item on the agenda

is a competency hearing.

The defense requests Dr. Wolfe,

Mr. Carter's
personal psychiatrist,

to do an evaluation
for the competency hearing.

And for the People,
Miss Scofield?

Dr. Perrin, Your Honor.

So ordered.

ANNABETH:
An insanity plea, good luck with that.

CONLON:
What other choice do they have?

We have him red-handed.

ANNABETH:
You think Porter could beat the odds?

CONLON:
Not in New York,

but Indiana has a bifurcated
insanity verdict,

gives the jury a choice.

ANNABETH:
Not guilty by reason of insanity

or guilty, but mentally ill.

Exactly. It's still
an impossibly high bar to get over.

All my years on the job,

I've never seen a successful
insanity defense.

Dr. Perrin is doing our side
of the competency hearing.

Competency hearing
is a formality.

That standard is set so low,

he could be sticking cornflakes
up his nose,

as long as the
court believes

he understands
what's going on around him.

He should, as long as he stays
on his antidepressants.

Well, let's make sure
that he does.

His family says Carter's
a recovering alcoholic.

He's been on the wagon
for many years.

He even went to an AA meeting
that night.

Our witness says he was falling
down drunk at the crime scene.

Hmm. The defense may try
to use intoxication

wv
as a mitigating factor.

I'll ask Ray to retrace
Carter's steps that night.

Let's depose the family as well,

I want to make sure the jury
haa clear explanation

of why Carter did
what he did that night.

Crazy won't cut it?

Crazy won't cut it.

Was your son drinking at dinner the
night Mandy was killed?

He can't drink,
he's on antidepressants.

How long has he
been depressed?

For years.

Has he been more depressed
than usual recently?

Happens every year
around the same time.

You see, Sam lost his mother
when he was a teen,

so the anniversary of her death
is hard on him, very hard.

Does he typically drink
on the anniversary?

I thought he'd been sober
for many years.

Oh, sure, he has--
14... 15 years.

Well, if he hadn't had a drink
in years past,

what was so significant about
this particular anniversary?

Mandy getting married
and moving away.

If you ask me, it was more
than he could handle. Mr. Carter,

don't you think

your son's attachment
to his niece was... unusual?

Mandy was very special to Sam.

You see, they both
lost their mother

when they were very young.

When she hit her teens,

Mandy started looking more and
more like Angela, Sam's mother.

Mandy reminded Sam
of his mother? Yeah.

She had a lot of her ways.

She reminded us all more
and more, the older she got.

It's like we got her back.

Despite his problems wh
depression and alcoholism,

Mr. Carter is fully
competent to stand trial.

Good.

I wanted to ask you about
his obsession with his niece.

Classic case of
transference.

According to his father,
as she grew older?

The niece began to seem more
and more like Carter's mother.

Carter lost his mother
when he was in his teens.

Even though she died
in an automobile accident,

he had a feeling
that she had abandoned him.

So as Mandy
got older,

and began to resemble his mother
more closely,

his attachment to her
would naturally deepen.

Then why would he kill her?

They said Mandy
was getting engaged.

The fiance told us that they
planned on moving to Baltimore

at the beginning of the year.

So she was leaving him,

both physically and emotionally
separating herself.

The relationship he had formed
with someone who reminded him

of his mother
was being threatened.

It was about to end.

And that made him mad enough
to kill her?

I don't know what other factors
might ve been at play.

His mother died
around this time of year.

Anniversary effect.

It's a period of great
stress and anxiety.

It could have fully triggered
his fear of abandonment.

And put him
in a murderous rage.

Based on the evaluations
of the psychiatrist

who've examined Mr. Carter,

the court finds the defendant
competent to stand trial.

Your Honor,

may I say something?
Normally,

the defendant waits until the
court addresses him, Mr. Carter,

but let's hear it.

These psychiatrists don't know
what's best for me.

They don't know anything
about me.

Your Honor ,we just
found out this morning,

that my client has stopped
taking his medications

on a regular basis.

Why is that, Mr. Carter?

Why have you stopped taking
your medication?

It was making me feel lethargic,
Your Honor.

I understand it is
for depression, Mr. Carter.

It has the opposite
effect on me.

It makes me feel... bad.
It makes me feel low.

Your Honor, the People

ask the Court
to order Mr. Carter

to resume taking
his antidepressants.

Both psychiatrists base their
evaluations of competency

on the assumption
that you continue

taking your medications
as prescribed, Mr. Carter.

Do you understand?
Yes, Your Honor.

If you don't comply voluntarily,

the court will order that you be forcefully medicated

in order to insure that you
are competent to stand trial.

Miss Porter.

The defense has no objection.

The People?

The People concur, Your Honor.

Take your meds, Mr. Carter.

Yes, sir.

The judge declared Carter
competent to stand trial.

No surprise. How's that
working theory comg along?

Carter was drinking heavily

at a bar a few blocks
from his niece's.

Probably trying to get his
nerve up to confront her.

We finish deposing
the family?

Ed finally found
Sheryl Carter, the older sister.

He's interviewing her now.

So, you don't stay in touch
with your family?

Don't exchange
Christmas cards?

Not at all.

Okay, well, tell me
about your brother anyway.

What's to tell?

He's screwed up.

Compulsive, depressed,

obsesses over stuff.

Won't let go.

You ever known him
to be violent,

dangerous or threatening?

A couple times I came home
from work,

he'd broken into my house.

Once he was in

my bathroom, taking a bath.

Freaked me out.

Well, he is your brother.

Yeah, but still.

Don't you think
it's a little weird?

Yeah, a little.

What did you do?

I called Lizzie to come get him.

I can't deal
with Sam's problems.

I have enough trouble of my own.

Your niece seemed to get along
all right with him.

Mandy?

Mandy was a saint.

It's my fault.

What is?

I should have told her
a long time ago.

Told her what?

Before I broke off all contact with my family

I slept with the windows locked.

I wouldn't even turn the air
conditioner on

in the summertime.

Why?
I was afraid

I wouldn't be able to hear Sam
if he broke into the house

when I was home.

You know what it's like
to live that way?

Why were you so afraid of him?

My mother.

My mother didn't die
in a car accident.

Sam killed her.

14 years old

you believe that?

Got drunk and blew her
head off with a shotgun.

Why?

What would lead him to do
something like that?

Did they have a fight?

Not that I know.

Sam was one messed-up kid.

11, 12 years old,

he'd ditch school
and go drink with his friends.

Come home and sleep it off.

What did your parents do?

Tried all kinds
of things

to straighten him out--

therapy, detention,
none of it worked.

Did he act out
when he got drunk?

Was he angry or violent?

No, not back then.

and act foolish,
and forget all the stupid stuff

he did when he was drinking.

He had blackouts as a teenager?

He and I both had our
share of lost weekends,

before we cleaned up our acts.

The difference is,

I never drank a drop until
the day my mama was killed.

Tell me about that day.

I came home
from school.

I remember, I was really happy
for a change.

I'd gotten an A
on a history exam.

I came up the street.

Cops were there.

Sam was on the front lawn
covered in my mama's blood.

Daddy told me since
I was the oldest,

I had to take care
of Jordan and Diane.

Mandy's mother?
Yes.

Daddy told me I couldn't ever,
ever tell them

what Sam had done.

And you were how old?

17.

Diane was 16,
Jordan was the baby.

That must have been impossible.

I dropped out
of school.

All the lying I had to do,
I couldn't concentrate.

Jordan and Diane knew
I was acting weird.

They used to ask me what was
wrong, but I couldn't tell them.

So Jordan and Diane never knew.

Right.

Then Mandy never knew.

She had no reason no
to trust her Uncle Sam.

Daddy swore he was better.

I didn't know.

It was just easier for me
to stay away from all of them.

But I should have told her.

I should have.

Why didn't you?

I was worried that

if I made her afraid of Sam,

and she pushed him away,
it'd set him off.

He'd kill somebody again.

So what happened?

The very thing

I worried about all my life
came true after all.

I don't know about you,
I got kids.

A parent's worst nightmare,
a kid dies.

I personally think it'd be
worse if they did something like this, killed somebody.

How'd it go down?

Neighbor called it in.

We found the son passed out
cold, covered in blood,

shotgun next to him.

The mom was upstairs in her
bedroom dead, finito.

Why'd he shoot her?

House was torn up.

Looked like a burglary.

We thought maybe
the kid had an accomplice,

they ransacked the place.

You think mom came home,
surprised Carter

and his pal going
through her things?

That was the
working theory.

Carter a kid
on drugs?

Most definitely.

Drugs and booze.

We'd been to the house before.

The kid was trouble.

I had complaints
from the neighbors-- kid drunk,

puking on their lawns.

Why'd you think there
was another kid?

Her jewelry was missing.

Husband filed
an insurance claim.

What was Carter's story?

Said he had a blackout.

Couldn't remember a thing.

Been drinking all afternoon,

couldn't remember
where or with who? You believe him?

He was drinking all right.

He was stink-o.

The blackout?

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Just a kid's lame alibi.

He couldn't come up
with anything better

on the spur
of the moment.

He never gave up
his accomplice, though.

There you go.
You got to give him that.

For a falling down drunk,

he was a standup guy.

Where was the rest
of the family?

We called Mr. Carter
at work.

He didn't say a word
the whole ride.

I think he already knew.

He wasn't surprised to see his
14-year-old kid in handcuffs,

covered in blood, charged
with his mother's murder?

It was like
he'd been expecting it.

Sheryl told us your son
killed his mother.

Thank you.

Sam was not in his right mind
when he did that.

Because of his age, he was never
charged with her murder.

They sent him to a psychiatric
facility for a year.

25 years ago, kids weren't
tried as adults.

Sam had no idea
what he had done.

It's a-a terrible thing
to have the kind

of problem that Sam had,
major depression.

I did everything I could
to try and make him better,

like quit a good job,

move the family to Michigan
when he was released.

You even changed
your name.

We picked that up when we
ran the background check.

All so Sam would have
a fresh start.

That's what you call
a fresh start?

25 years of lies?

My sister Sheryl called
out of the blue with

some crazy story
about Sam and Mom.

Sheryl's not exactly
a reliable source,

so I thought I'd come to you.

I'm so sorry, Jordan.

It's true.

This is a copy
of the police report.

My God.

My God.

How could they have
kept this from me?

My father has been lying
to me my entire life.

Now, I had a right
to know about this.

Yeah, you did.

You know, I barely
remember my mother.

I hardly had a picture
of her, even.

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After she died, one day Daddy just

gave all her stuff away.

The girls got her clothes.

The girls got her jewelry.

I didn't get anything
to remember her by.

Not one damn thing.

What's your angle?

One was a shooting, the other
a stabbing, 25 years apart.

It's unlikely we can
get a murder

he committed
as a juvenile into evidence.

We'll use it
out of court,

rattle the family's cage
with it.

They might want to avoid making
the mother's murder public.

You want me to offer
them a deal?

Let me take a run at them.

Your client pleads
to manslaughter,

12 years, it's a gift.

Some gift.

Well, he hasn't exactly been

candid with you

about his past probls

with alcohol and violence.

What past problems?

He's done this sort
of thing before.

He's done
what before?

What are you talking about?

Tell your attorney
about your mother.

My mother?

When you were a teenager,
Mr. Carter.

My mother died
in a car accident.

How do you think
a jury's going to feel when they find out

that he shot his mother
when he was 14

during an alcoholic blackout.

They won't.

Even if this is true, it has
no bearing on the current case.

Oh, it parallels the murder
of his niece exactly.

He murders a female
family member

under the influence,
and then claims insanity.

You'll never get it
into evidence.

It's bound to come out
in the press.

Are you threatening us?

I'm urging you client
to consider

what he's put his family
through.

Take the deal,
Mr. Carter.

Let's put this to rest.

I'm doing what
they want me to do.

Let's see what Judge Crenshaw
has to say.

The people's motion to admit
the prior homicide as evidence

in the current trial is denied.

At this time, Your Honor,
the defense would like

the motion to include
Mr.Carter's prior homicide.

Your Honor, you just
ruled to exclude it.

What is the defense up to?

If you would reconsider,
Your Honor?

What's on your mind, Ms. Porter?
Why the change of heart?

The prosecution wanted to
include the homicide Mr. Carter

committed as a juvenile
as a prior bad act.

The defense's position is
that the homicide

demonstrates the length
and severity

of Mr. Carter's
illness.

Mr. Carter is now, and has been
since an early age,

subject to psychotic depression.

I grasp the distinction.

The first is prejudicial,

the second forms
the basis of his plea.

The defense would also
like to motion

to include Mr. Carter's

medical records

from the Corin Psychiatric
Institute for Juveniles.

Mr. Conlon, anything
you'd like to add?

The people have no objection
to its inclusion, Your Honor.

It was our idea
in the first place.

Then I'll allow the prior
homicide and juvenile records.

The defense has
the burden of proof.

Porter's just trying to bolster

the insanity plea
anyway she can.

They want to use his year

in a juvenile psych ward
as evidence of his insanity.

We can just as easily argue

he benefited from being
institutionalized.

I think basically in the end,

it'll come down to how
Sam Carter does on the stand.

You're taking a risk
by putting him on.

It's odd,
the defense going first.

Sort of like opposite day.

You guys never did opposite
day at your house?

Have dinner for breakfast,

and then end the day

with pancakes and maple syrup?

I think my wife did that once
with our daughter.

At my house,

every day was stay-on-track-

no-matter-what,-Maureen Day.

Speaking of staying

on track, get with Dr. Perrin

review the interview she did
with Sam Carter

for his competency hearing.

Amanda called that night and
said that she was moving away.

It made me feel so bad inside.

I wanted a drink so badly

so I could stop
thinking about it.

And I kept coming back
to the same thought.

I've got to stop Mandy
from leaving.

So I went over to her place,
just to talk.

There's nothing Mr. Carter
said in this session

that indicates he
experienced disassociation

when he killed his niece.

Did he lose touch
with reality?

Blacking out doesn't involve
nv losing contact with reality.

The person experiences
amnesia, yes,

but he's still in contact
with his surroundings.

So, he's not halucinating
or hearing voices?

No, that's something different.

A psychotic break.

The defense is arguing
just that.

Could alcohol have triggered

a psychotic break?

I see no evidence of that.

They're trying to use

his mother's murder
to argue

that he's been psychotic
since he was a teenager.

There are many cases of
teenagers killing their parents.

They're angry,
they're impulsive.

It doesn't mean

they're psychotic.

What we do know
about Carter

is that alcohol abuse was
involved in his mother's murder.

And alcohol abuse led
to the stabbing of his niece.

When he's had a few drinks sam carter become a loaded weaon

During the last several months

has your husband's behavior
changed in any way?

I knew what to expect from Sam
around that time of year.

It's the anniversary
of his mother's death.

And so I would make sure

that Sam was taking
his anti-depressants.

But this time it was really bad.

In what way?

He hardly
ate anything.

He'd be in his
pajamas all day,

sitting on the couch,
wringing his hands

and listening to
the same CD

over and over until
I thought I'd scream.

Did you know what he had done
to his mother?

bu
No, he never told me what he did.

The night your niece
was murdered,

she called your house.

To tell us that she was engaged.

That she and her fiance would be leaving town.

How did your husband react?

He was upset.

I was worried that he would
fall off the wagon.

What happens when
your husband drinks?

He has blackouts.

Mrs. Carter, of the 15 years
you've been married,

has your husband
been depressed often?

Often.

Especially around
the anniversary

of his mother's death.

And during
those depressions,

especially the worst ones

around those anniversaries,

has your husband ever been
ejected from a movie theater

or a restaurant because

he couldn't conform his conduct

to socially-acceptable
standards?

No.
Has he ever been arrested?

No.
Traffic tickets?

Moving violations?
DWIs?

No.

Have you ever called the police
to your house?

No.

Ever afraid for your safety?

No.

That's all, thank you.

Mr. Carter is suffering
with major depression

with psychotic features.

What symptoms
are we talking about?

Sadness, thoughts of

extreme guilt, insomnia,

agitated behavior,

pacing, compulsive
and frequent hand washing.

And the psychotic part
of the depression?

A loss of contact
with reality,

manifested by delusions
or hallucinations

that are consistent with

the theme of a
depression.

When you asked Mr. Carter

to describe the night
he killed his niece,

how would you characterize
his mental state?

He was delusional.

He had lost contact
with reality.

Did his mental state rise to
the condition of legal insanity

as defined by Indiana statute?

In my opinion, yes.

Is the murder
of Mr. Carter's niece

connected to the murder
of his mother?

As I said, Mr. Carter suffers
from psychotic depression.

The night of his niece's murder,

his psychotic break
was triggered

by heavy alcohol consumption.

I believe something similar
happened

when he killed his mother.

Did he know what he was doing
at the time of that killing?

In my estimation, no.

And when he killed his niece?

I believe he had
no consciousness

of what he was doing at the time
and no memory of its aftermath.

Thank you.

MAUREEN:
Dr. Wolfe...

what percentage of homicides
in this country

are connected to alcohol abuse
on the part of the offender?

The number's quite high,
between 80 and 85 percent.

So would it be accurate to say,
based on multiple studies,

that violence, homicide and
alcohol consumption are linked?

That is correct.
Isn't it possible,

even likely, that Mr. Carter
wasn't delusional

when he killed his niece?

That because he'd been drinking,

he acted on
his violent impulses?

That would be one
interpretation, but not mine.

According to you,
he was delusional? Correct.

We have only Mr. Carter's word
for what he was thinking

when he went over
to his niece's apartment.

He's been totally consistent

with all the mental health
experts he's dealt with.

He's told the same story
to all of them.

His story's been consistent.

Yes.
As consistent

as the lie he's been telling
for the past 25 years

about the death of his mother?

That she died in a car accident?

Your brother killed
your mother when he was 14.

Yes.

A fact of which you were unaware
until he murdered your niece.

My family kept it
from me, yes.

Every year,
he's severely depressed

on the anniversary
of your mother's death.

Sam always managed

to do okay with
his medication.

Did you witness any unusual
behavior on your brother's part,

prior to his murdering
his niece?

None that I can recall.
Was there alcohol

at the family dinner the night
your niece was murdered?

My father enjoys
a good bottle of wine.

We all do.

Did your brother

Sam drink any?

No ,He knows he can't

mix alcohol with
his medication.

He knows better.
Yes.

But he was upset about
Mandy's engagement.

I talked to him.

I told him he ought
to go to a meeting,

and so I drove him to
one, about midnight.

And did you pick him up after?

No, he said he would catch a
ride home with someone, or walk.

But instead, he went drinking
and then went to see his niece.

Yes.

In the last several months,

did you ever stay over
at your brother's house?

No.

So you were not aware of
his deteriorating mental state?

Objection.

Sustained.

So you were not aware

of how long it took
your brother's wife

to convince him to eat a meal,

or comb his hair,
or sleep for a couple of hours,

instead of staring endlessly
at his computer screen,

and listening to the same
CD over and over?

Objection.
Facts not in evidence.

Sustained.

CONLON:
Counselor.

Mr. Conlon.

Set yourself a hell
of challenge.

Regretting it?

I could hardly do otherwise.

My client's the real deal.

Just depressed
like the rest of us.

According to Dr. Wolfe,
he's delusional.

Well, our expert witness
begged to differ.

I don't think your Dr. Perrin
turned the jury around.

I still have the edge.

Now who's delusional?

And you're putting
him on the stand.

Carter is genuinely
unstable.

I think the jury will
find him very sympathetic.

The jury expects to see someone
talking to themselves

and fighting imaginary dragons.

Anything less,

he knew damn well
what he was doing.

And so do I.

When your niece called to tell
you she was getting married,

how did you react?

It made me angry.

I didn't want to
think about it.

What did you do?

I went to a meeting.

But then I left.

I was restless.

I went to a bar.

You went to a bar.

Did you have a drink?

Three or four shots, yes.

We heard testimony

from the bartender that night

who said you had six or seven.

That you were, in his words,

"sloppy drunk."

It could've happened.

I don't remember.

You'd been sober
for 14 years.

Why did you take a drink
that night?

So I could stop the thoughts.

What kind of thoughts?

About my mother.

Thinking about how she died.

What they said
I did to her.

Sometimes the thoughts keep
coming no matter what I do.

The thoughts keep
coming back to me.

And Mandy made me feel better,
like...

my mother.

And... like a little part of her
was still here.

I didn't want her to go.
I had to go and see her.

So you went to Mandy's place?

Yes.

Was she glad to see you?

She seemed confused.

I think I woke her up.

Then what happened?

I started talking to her,

and I told her
I didn't want her to leave.

How did she react?

She started acting like
she was afraid of me,

li I was crazy,

and not making any sense.

She wasn't listening
to me anymore.

And then what happened?

I don't remember.

What is the next thing you do
remember about that night?

I was waking up at my desk,

and the police were arresting me
for Mandy's murder.

Thank you.

Mr. Carter,

when you were at the bar with
these thoughts of your mother

and Mandy racing
through your brain,

why didn't you call your wife
to come pick you up,

instead of having
yet one more drink?

I wish that I had.

You have no memory of taking

a kitchen knife and stabbing

your niece to death that night?

Oh, no, ma'am.

Well, that's convenient,
isn't it?

Objection, Your Honor.

Sustained.

memory of taking a shower

after killing her
to wash off the blood. No, ma'am.

I find that very hard
to believe, Mr. Carter. Your Honor.

Do you have a question
for the witness, Ms. Chase?

You remember going
there that night,

you remember talking
to your niece.

You even remember
what you said. Yes, ma'am.

not remember
the crucial event of that night,

killing your niece.

No, ma'am, I don't.

No more questions, Your Honor.

Sam Carter

was a depressed teenager

who had been self-medicating
with alcohol and drugs

when he killed his mother.

Every year on the anniversary
of her death,

he suffers from depression.

This year...

his depression was more severe
than ever before,

and he had a psychotic break.

The same kind of psychotic break
he suffered

just before he killed
his mother.

He was legally insane at
the time he killed his niece.

The people acknowledge

that the defendant suffers
from depression.

But so do many millions of
people who never commit a crime.

Mr. Carter's marriage
of 15 years,

as well as
his long-term employment,

testifies to
his overall stability.

You heard Dr. Perrin's
testimony.

Mr. Carter had the ability to
discern right from wrong.

He made the wrong choice.

ku
That night, the defendant--

knowing that he had
a substance abuse problem

and a history
of violent behavior

and alcoholic blackouts,

and knowing that during
one such blackout,

he shot and killed
his own mother--

went to a bar,
and started drinking.

He became enraged at the idea

that his niece
was abandoning him,

getting married and leaving him.

And he went to her apartment
and stabbed her to death.

Sam Carter has never been
legally held

responsible for the murder
of his mother.

If he had been,

this whole tragedy never
would've occurred.

I beg you...

hold Mr. Carter responsible
for the murder of his niece.

Great closing.

Thanks. You too.
Jury's taking

a long time.
Thanks.

Thank you.

Trying to sort through
the three possible verdicts

under Indiana law.

Guilty. Guilty but mentally
insane at the time.

Not guilty by reason
of mental defect or disease.

That's a lot
to sort through.

Yeah.

Annabeth Chase.

Thank you.

The jury's back.

Okay.

The jury finds the defendant
guilty of the murder

of Amanda Monroe, but mentally
ill at the time of the crime.

Mr. Carter,
you'll be transferred

to a psychiatric facility,

duration and terms to be
determined at your sentencing.

Congratulations,
I guess.

Who said a tie game

is like kissing your sister?

Vince Lombardi.

We have

to prepare for our sentencing.

Make sure Sam Carter doesn't
end up five years from now

in outpatient care.
Jury found him sympathetic.

The guy's only
a bender away from killing again.

I want him put away for
the rest of his life.

There's got to be fi1es we can use

to influence the sentencing.

Carter was a model patient
in the juvenile pysch ward.

No run-ins
with any other inmates,

no problems with the staff.

Prior to his incarceration,
he had some curfew violations,

a couple of drunk and
disorderly charges,

ticket for loitering,
in front of a liquor store

the day of the murder.

Nothing that indicates
he was prone to violence?

No. Nothing.
According to the police report,

the house was ransacked,
jewelry and cash stolen.

Wait. Jordan told me

his father gave all his jewelry
to his sisters.

Mr. Carter reported it stolen,
and filed an insurance claim.

Just an opportunist?

Saw his chance to commit
a little insurance fraud?

His son kills his wife,

and he's thinking
how to make a few bucks

defrauding
the insurance company?

MAN:
Cops made a mistake.

I found the jewelry in my room

a couple of days
after my mom died,

in a bag
in the back of the closet.

When I looked inside,
I thought-- well, it sounds dumb--

but I thought
maybe she left it for me somehow.

And so I put it away
in my toy chest.

A few days later, Daddy
came looking for it.

What did he say?
Well, I told him what I thought.

That Mama must have
wanted me to have it.

But he told me she
didn't put it there.

It wasn't for me.
It was for my sisters.

Your father filed a claim
on that jewelry.

He collected
a rather large payment.

Doesn't suprise me

That's Daddy for you.

Rules were always
meant for somebody else.

Cheats on his taxes, too.
Don't tell him I told you.

WOMAN:
This is all

I have left of my mama.

You believe it all fits
in this little box?

My mama's wedding ring.

Hmm.

And a boy's class ring.

"KG"?

Kevin Grover.

Mama would
always tell this

story how he took her
to the senior prom

and his car caught on fire.

She'd laugh and say

it was the hottest date
she'd ever had.

She had some kind
of crush on him.

She held on to it forever.

Sent the most beautiful spray
of flowers when she died.

MAN:
So what do you want from me, brother?

Just tell me
about Angela Carter.

Angela and me,

we were on again,

off again, for a lot of years.

When she died?

We were on again.

She was married then?

Yeah, but not for long.

Her husband know?

She said she was going
to tell him,

but I don't think she ever did.

That's the kind of thing
you put off as long as you can.

It wasn't easy,
but we kept it quiet.

Angela would
come by most days.

We'd have lunch.

Did you have lunch with her
then? The day she died?

We did.

Always the same time.

We'd go to this little diner
other side of town, early.

We'd beat the lunch crowd,
so we wouldn't run

into anybody who we knew.

Angela would be on her way

home by noon.

What?

Are you sure about the time?

Yeah.

Something about Angela Carter's
murder doesn't add up.

Her husband reported
her jewelry stolen,

but later he gave it
to his daughters.

Minor league insurance fraud.

I'm sure the statute of
limitations has run out on that.

The afternoon of the murder,
Carter was ticketed

for loitering in front of
a liquor store around 3:00.

Time enough to go ho
and shoot his mother.

Well, here's the thing.

She had had lunch that day
with her lover.

Her lover?
Ed spoke to him.

I went back and looked
at the autopsy report.

She was killed

within an hour
of eating that meal.

What's the official
time of death?

Between 3:00 and 4:00.

When did she have lunch
with her lover?

Before noon.

Doesn't completely
clear the kid.

No, but it makes him
more unlikely,

and it moves the time of death
up to about 1:00.

Did the police ever check
if the father had an alibi?

The case was so cut and dried,

only a cursory check
as far as I know.

Let's see what Ed and Ray
can dig up on that.

Here's Cyrus's file,
January, 1981.

A letter to his coworkers

telling them where
to send flowers.

Donation to an ASPCA.

Fax and report

for a company vehicle.
Check out the date.

Same day his
wife was killed.

Checked out a company truck
on his lunch hour,

between 12:30, 2:00.

Dented a fender.

Company files a claim
for the bodywork.

Question is, where was Cyrus
Carter between 12:30 and 2:00?

You mean right around the time
his wife was killed.

We got a solid
gold motive.

A jealous husband. Doesn't get
much better than that.

If we can place him
near the crime scene,

and blow up
his alibi...

I'm thinking
there's a good chance

the Indiana Public Employees
surance Union

might have a record

of the specific location
of his little fender bender.

We're charging you
for the murder

of your wife, Angela Carter.

That's just a crazy idea.

You checked out a company
vehicle over your lunch hour,

went home, killed your wife,
staged a robbery to cover it up,

and then went back to work.

I completely agree
with Mr. Carter.

A truly crazy idea and sheer
conjecture without a shred

of evidence.

We have the records
from Indiana Electric.

In your haste to get back to
work, you hit a utility pole

two blocks from your house
at 1:10 p.m.

What happened,
Mr. Carter?

You were in such a state
after killing your wife

that you got into an accident?

It's not like that.

See, I was just driving
through the neighborhood

on my way back from lunch.
-In a company truck.

Why didn't you take
your own car to lunch?

Why would I kill Angela?

I had no reason to.

Mr. Carter, don't
say anything else.

This is fantasy,
Miss Chase.

You had all the reasons
in the world, Mr. Carter.

And his name was Kevin Grover.

Your wife's high
school sweetheart.

We know they were
having an affair.

Apparently, so did you.

What you didn't know
was that they had lunch together

that day.
--early-- Which means

results, based
on the contents of her stomach,

place her death
during your lunch hour.

If the authorities got
the time of death wrong,

that's their problem.

You knew your wife
was leaving you, didn't you?

Your son didn't kill
his mother. You did.

And we have enough
evidence to take you to trial

and convict you. I am offering
you a choice, Mr. Carter.

Are you offering us a plea?

We'll discuss that
if he tells us the truth.

They were my kids.

Our kids.

I wasn't going
to let her take them away.

Let them call that man "Daddy."

They're my kids.

You let the police
arrest your son.

Because I knew nothing much
was going to happen to him

because of his age.

Besides, he's troubled.

I thought they would give him
the help he needed.

You let him believe
he killed his mother.

How was that helping him?

I have other
children to raise.

If I went to prison,
who was going to provide for them?

I gave my children a good life.

You keep telling yourself that.

I think about it all, every day.

I don't know why I did it.

Or why I did what
I did to Mandy, either.

Do you think there's a day
that goes by

I don't beg her for forgiveness?

Or my mother?

You don't need
to do that anymore.

Not for your mother anyway.

How come? Why not?

You didn't kill her.

Miss Chase, there
was blood all over me.

My prints were on the gun.

You were very
drunk that day.

You came home,
the house had been ransacked.

You saw your mother lying
in a pool of her own blood.

The shock of seeing her body
must have been tremendous.

The shotgun was lying
next to her, and you picked it up.

The stress of what you had just
seen... you had a blackout.

And, when you came to,
the police were arresting you,

but you didn't do it.

She was already dead?

She was already dead.

And, all these years,
I thought...

If I didn't kill her...?

Your father.

He shot her
and let you take the blame.

Daddy wouldn't
have done that.

We confronted him with the
evidence, and he confessed.

No.

No, no, no.

My daddy loves me.

And he wouldn't let
me suffer like that.

He wouldn't let me think that
I had done something like that.

He wouldn't throw my life away
like that.

I'm sorry, Mr. Carter.

You're going to have
to wrestle with that one.

And Mandy.

You can
lay your mother

to rest now, at least.

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