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[uplifting instrumental playing]

[man 1] They were young.

And they were-- they were pals.

They'd both kind of run away from home.

And they had their own unbelievable sagas.

They had essentially packed up their entire lives

and moved to Florida.

They went out on a boat.

They are having a fun day out on the water.

[man 2] And this is the last time

these women were seen alive.

[man 1] That's correct.

["See See Rider" playing]

♪ See see rider♪

♪ Just pray I'll never see you again, well, all right ♪

♪ Ooh, see see rider♪

[reporter] There is, let's face it,

a certain glamour connected with crime.

We romanticize it, we pay to see it in movies

or read about it in books.

A typical script might call for the theft

of a giant of a gem

called, let's say, the Star of India.

The robbery should be a daring one.

And the men who solve it,

private detectives of the clean cut sort.

The plot may sound familiar,

and indeed, there is a story like that.

The only difference was that the police

looked somewhat helpless,

and the suspects, the products of central casting.

It seems Kuhn and "Murf the Surf" Murphy

were in and out of court every other day.

They came equipped with

what every defendant should have--

pretty girls and a big-time defense attorney.

But for the lawmen at least, all the comings and goings

did not add up too much.

The gems are still missing, some of the charges

against the pair have been dropped,

and now they say they may open a Miami Beach nightclub

to cash in on the publicity,

appropriately naming the club the Star of India.

[Nate Scott] Maurice Nadjari, the prosecutor of these cases,

it drove him crazy

that the Beach Boys were considered heroes.

[Jack] They can't get anything

on this museum robberies.

They can't get any information or any leads.

All they know is they think that we're the guys.

They actually know that we're the guys.

♪♪♪

[Corey Kilgannon] Nadjari, he wants to get these guys

and put them away, but he's got a lot of public pressure, like,

"Really? Where are the jewels? Get them back."

[Jack] They started loading us up with phony charges.

And they told our attorney, we have 72 precincts here,

and every precinct has a charge that we'll lay on them.

My attorney said, "Listen, we better negotiate

with these guys."

"Plead guilty," he says, "You'll do one year in prison."

♪ See see rider♪

[reporter] This is where it was.

The priceless Star of India sapphire,

563 carats,

first discovered 300 years ago in ancient Ceylon,

rediscovered today in this 25-cent-a-day locker

in a downtown Miami bus station.

The locker had been in continuous use

since December 12th.

That was the day that Bonnie Sutera

committed suicide.

[Jack] Then we went to prison.

We went to Rikers Island.

It was just chaos and craziness.

[reporter] The prison gained a sort of ironic notoriety

for having its share of criminal celebrities.

There was Willie "the Actor" Sutton,

who made more than $2 million robbing banks.

He was in this cell.

"Crazy" Joe Gallo,

before being gunned down in mob warfare,

spent time in this cell.

And Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy,

involved in the snatching of the Star of India,

among other gems, whiled away hours in this cell.

-Line up! -[Jack] My life changed

radically changed from the beaches and the surfboards

and the bikinis and the bars of South Florida.

Rikers Island's a bad prison,

and I'm on a wing with 400 guys.

These guys knew about gangs, and they knew about drugs,

and they knew about prostitution,

and they knew all this crazy stuff.

And it was an incredible experience.

And being that I was "Murf the Surf,"

the headliner, the jewel thief,

I had, uh, favor with all of them

because I'm sort of a cool cracker.

Murf the Surf, he worked here as time help.

He was a waiter. He helped in the kitchen.

He gave nobody any trouble.

He was a good inmate.

[Jack] Knowing that I was going to get out

in a couple of years, it's sort of like being stuck

in afternoon traffic.

I knew that I was getting out. I just had to be patient.

It was quite an adventure,

but I loved it, had a great time.

[midtempo jazz playing]

Finally, we wrapped up the two years,

and I got on a plane, and I went back to Miami.

And so we go into another chapter of life down there.

[Edna Buchanan] It was like, this fabulous homecoming,

and they were like local heroes.

♪♪♪

Citizens were shaking his hand,

and getting their pictures taken with him,

and they thought they were such nice boys.

[Frank Donnelly] People found them glamorous, though.

They kind of were drawn to this character

who, um, they didn't follow the rules.

People kind of admired him, even though he was a criminal.

[Jack] I got a girl here named Connie.

She's the real deal. She's the real deal.

[Nate Scott] He was kind of celebrity

of the underworld in Miami.

[reporter] Jack Murphy, America's favorite jewel thief,

says he's done with crime.

He's now working with Miami Beach author

Bob Tralins on a book

about his infamous Star of India heist.

[Edna Buchanan] They were saying now they were going to go

on a cross-country trip,

lecturing to kids to stay on the right path

and not go down the wrong path and land in jail.

They wanted Bob Tralins to write a book about them,

and they were hoping it would be made into a movie.

And they were going to be

these do-gooder missionaries against crime.

Bob Tralins believed them, and I said,

"You know, be careful, because they're probably

going to do it again. It's too easy."

[Nate Scott] Jack would make Rikers Island

seem to be, like, almost like a vacation.

And then at the end, he said,

"I came out of Rikers different."

So there was this weird conflict,

which at once was, "I was only in Rikers

for a little bit of time. It wasn't serious time."

"We had fun. We heard live music."

"I got to know the warden."

You know, we were only in there a few years."

But then, in the next breath,

he came out a different man, and he came out angry.

[Jack] You come out, you're scared.

"What am I gonna do now?"

[energetic instrumental playing]

The first thing I did was I got a pistol.

I'd learned a bunch of stuff in prison,

and I was ready to roam.

[Kuhn] We would break in jewelry stores like nothing,

pick the stuff that they had out of the windows,

And we would take cross-country road trips.

♪♪♪

[Jack] I've got money. I'm cooking.

And then I get a call from San Francisco

that they were having a shortage out there of drugs.

Well, I just so happen to be in that business.

♪♪♪

[Nate Scott] It just seemed like he was trying to be good.

Didn't work out, ended up in Cali,

and then he's right in the mix.

[Jack] So I go out to California,

and, uh, I meet some players out there.

And the next thing, I do a bunch of work that I do.

I go down to Los Angeles.

I said, "Well, is anybody ready to ride?"

I said, "Bump your nuts up, and let's go."

We started doing some radical robbery stuff

in Beverly Hills and on the golf courses,

and I got a whole bunch of jewels.

[Frank Donnelly] He ended up moving out

to California for a while.

[Jack] Finally, we get busted.

There's masks, there's guns, there's jewelry,

there's everything.

And the next morning that headline says,

"Murph beached in LA."

[Harvey St. Jean] I contacted the police myself

and told the police in Hollywood

that if they wanted to see Mr. Murphy,

or talk to him, he'd be available.

Instead, they went ahead and executed a search.

I don't know yet whether they had

a search warrant or not.

[Jack] The number two guy

in the Los Angeles Police Department said,

"Hey, listen, here's the deal."

"You guys get out of town and don't ever come back,

or we'll kill you," I said, "Well, fuck you."

You know? I said, "Kill me?" I said, "I was born here, man."

"You're not telling me that I can't come out here."

"I'm coming out here."

So they take me out and put me on an airplane,

take my money, and they fly me back to Miami.

[Nate Scott] In this time, a German magazine calledStern,

follows Jack Murphy around

to take photos of him, and they pay him to do so.

[Jack] I went back to Florida,

and a friend calls me, and says,

"There's some women here to see you."

"They have something for you."

I said, "Who are they? I don't know who they are."

[Nate Scott] Terry Frank and Annelie Marie Mohn

worked together at a financial services office

in Los Angeles.

[suspenseful instrumental playing]

These men basically, convince these women,

or these women sort of volunteered

as a way to kind of get in

with these handsome surf gangsters

to steal pieces of paper

that were transferable for large amounts of cash.

They had essentially packed up their entire lives

and moved to Florida, after committing this crime

where they met up with Murphy.

[Jack] They had taken out a million dollars' worth

of stolen stocks and bonds.

But I don't know anything about stocks and bonds.

But I made some phone calls,

and I got some connections, and I hooked some guys up.

I'm just sort of a middleman in all this.

[Nate Scott] Jack maintains, they showed up in Florida,

they got his name from Allan.

They gave him these pieces of paper.

He had no idea what to do with them.

[Kuhn] I don't have a clue what to do with stocks.

That's not my field. Jewelry is my field.

[Bobby Greenwood] I don't know nothing about bonds.

What am I gonna do with this?

You know, I'm a jewel thief.

[Nate Scott] Half of Miami underworld

knew about these stolen securities

because Murphy and company

were just asking anyone who would listen to them

if anyone knew what to do with them.

[Jack] The girls are getting a little frisky and all.

So I moved them into my apartment with Connie,

and I said, "Just hang on."

"Well, Allan told us that we'd have some money,"

and they're starting to get a little antsy.

[Meryl Gordon] You met the girls?

[Kuhn] I don't remember where I met them.

I thought I met them first in Florida.

[Meryl Gordon] So you don't remember meeting them

and referring them to Jack?

[Kuhn] No, absolutely not.

[Inez Lyles] You know, I wouldn't have known

that Annelie had one ounce of larceny in her body.

To me, it was because of this picture

of a new life that would be rich and expensive.

You know, older guys that seemed to have money,

plenty of young girls' heads would be turned,

and they were charming,

and he was already a celebrity crook.

They selected those girls, purposely picked them up,

and knew what they were gonna do to those girls.

They knew what they were gonna do.

[Jack] So, I move a bunch of this stuff,

but there are still groups of this stuff

that I can't-- I don't know what to do with,

and I'm waiting for money to come in.

And so, well, meanwhile,

I've got to make some more money.

[Edna Buchanan] Olive Wofford,

she was one of the socialites.

She had a lot of nice jewelry. She was a widow.

Her husband owned hotels.

He had the Wofford Hotel and a bunch of others.

[Sonny Grech] She was a Miami Beach socialite

and lived in this big house across the bay.

Ton of jewelry.

[suspenseful instrumental playing]

[Edna Buchanan] It was Sunday, sunny day, really nice out.

Wofford, she was home with a maid in the house,

and her little niece.

A truck comes up, like, a delivery truck.

[Jack] We drive down the driveway,

and we get out.

[Edna Buchanan] They tell them they had a delivery.

[Bobby Greenwood] We knock on the door, and we go in,

and put the pistol in her face.

Said, "Hello, this is a robbery, get down."

[Edna Buchanan] Murphy was wearing a mask

made out of a woman's pair of underwear

to cover his face because his face

was so well-known.

Then they went in the kitchen, and they boiled water,

and they showed Olive Wofford the boiling water,

and they were going to pour it on her little niece's face.

♪♪♪

[Jack] Nobody knew that underneath the carpet,

right near the safe, there was a button under there.

So when she gets to the safe to open the safe,

she puts her knee on this button,

and it sets off the alarm downtown.

[Edna Buchanan] The police were on the way, instantly.

[sirens wailing]

[Jack] I looked down this long driveway.

Here they come pouring in. Here come the police.

I said, "Fire in the hole." We got company."

[Bobby Greenwood] They got every cop from Miami Beach there.

[Nate Scott] The authorities come,

and then, it just turns into a scene out of, like,

a Marx Brothers movie.

[siren wails]

[Jack] So, we go out the back door,

and I have to go out through a window,

because there's locks on all the doors.

[Inez Lyles] He drove out,

broke the sliding glass door, and ran.

[Jack] The police kept running around the house,

"Stop or we'll shoot!"

Well, that's not anything that I want to hear.

[gunshots blasting]

[Bobby Greenwood] Murphy was shooting at the cops,

[gunshot blasts]

[Jack] I emptied out that. 45

in that desperate attempt to-- to get away.

So I'd fire on 'em,

and they fall down behind some trees.

And I'm holding them behind the trees

while my partners get away.

[gunshots blasting]

I ain't looking to shoot and kill anybody.

You don't want to do that.

That's another level of madness right there.

[gunshots blasting]

I shot between them there

just to let them know, "Don't do that. Don't do that."

But they were trying to shoot and kill me.

[gunshots blasting]

I don't want to kill one of these guys,

because I'll go to the electric chair.

[Edna Buchanan] The cops were, like,

closing in from both sides.

[Nate Scott] And eventually, all four are caught.

Jack's covered in blood.

[Jack] I ended up going to the hospital

and getting stitched up.

[Edna Buchanan] I get to the ER, and there he was,

sitting in a chair,

handcuffed to the chair on one side.

A doctor was, like, in front of him,

sewing up a big gash in his knee.

And I said, "Jack, what happened?"

And he said, "I cut myself shaving."

What a great quote.

You know, I was the only one who had it in the morning paper.

[John McNally] Here's the guy that

if he had all that going for him,

you know, I really feel sorry

that he didn't just pursue that line

instead of going out and doing all those burglaries.

And then when I saw a picture of him in the paper,

with bandages all over his face

and everything, I said, "He's a common criminal."

[Edna Buchanan] This is when he lost his following.

I mean, this isn't Robin Hood anymore.

You know, it got pretty ugly.

[Frank Donnelly] He did seem changed.

He had a harder edge to him,

and his crimes took a more violent stance.

Now he was threatening people.

Now he was pulling guns on people.

[Nate Scott] We love to make celebrity,

and then we sort of like to watch that decline.

[reporter 1] "Murf the Surf" violently lashed out today,

hitting a news photographer while being held in custody...

[reporter 2] Jack Murphy, once notorious

for his Beach Boy image

and the daring Star of India heist,

now sits in a Miami prison cell.

[reporter 1] His accomplices reportedly threatened to pour

boiling water on Mrs. Wofford's eight year old niece.

[Dr. Rothenberg] It's my professional opinion

that Mr. Murphy is emotionally ill

and requires long-term, intensive,

inpatient psychotherapy.

Diagnostic impression at this time

is schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type.

[Jack] They adjudicate me as incompetent to stand trial

because I don't have a clue as to what's going on.

[Nate Scott] The lawyers basically painted it

as an insanity plea.

He did this because he doesn't know right from wrong

and he's mentally imbalanced.

Murph was declared legally insane by a judge.

[officer] Murphy now is, uh, for all intents and purposes,

in the custody or under the jurisdiction

of Judge Stedman and solely Judge Stedman.

[Jack] And so they sent me to the state hospital.

[Jack Nageley] I'll tell you, I wouldn't stay

in that South Florida State Hospital for one night,

I'd kill myself.

Murphy would shout to him, "Cookie, cookie!"

And every time he said "cookie," the guy went into a fit.

An inmate was talking to him and said,

"Murphy, do you believe in reincarnation?"

Murphy said, "Yes."

And that night, that guy killed himself.

Committed suicide.

Murphy learned then

that people were looking up to him

and listening to him.

His image of himself is what kept him going.

He's "Murf the Surf."

[sentimental instrumental playing]

[suspenseful instrumental playing]

[Jack Nageley] The two girls at the brokerage in Los Angeles,

they had sent half a million dollars in securities

to Murphy to-- for disposal.

When they didn't get any money from either one of them,

they said, "You give us the money,

or we're gonna blow the whistle."

And Murphy's comment was "fine."

Tell them to go fuck themselves.

♪♪♪

[Meryl Gordon] Some fishermen were fishing in Whiskey Creek,

and they see this foot sticking up out of the water.

[Corey Kilgannon] The bathing suit-clad bodies

of two women were pulled from the waterway

known as Whiskey Creek yesterday.

[Edna Buchanan] The bodies had been identified

as 22-year-old Terry Rae Frank

and 21-year-old Annelie Marie Mohn.

[Nate Scott] It appears that one of, if not both,

was hit hard on the back of the head,

which the coroner seemed to suggest

was a surprise attack on the women from behind.

They also had stab marks,

so there was a knife involved as well,

and a gun, actually, one of the women

who apparently kept fighting had been shot through the neck.

[Frank Donnelly] Police say that Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy

knew the women whose bodies were found

in Whiskey Creek last week.

[Edna Buchanan] Details are still forthcoming.

[Jack Nageley] He's in South Florida State Hospital.

And while he's up there,

State Attorney in Broward County charged him with murder.

[Meryl Gordon] So one day

you're representing a guy, who gets into a shootout,

and then the next day you find out

that you're representing in a murder?

[Jack Nageley] Yeah.

[Meryl Gordon] Did Jack tell you

whether he was guilty or not?

[Jack Nageley] Never said it.

Never said a word. Never asked him.

[Nate Scott] And now another man named Jack comes into play.

Jack Griffith.

Jack Griffith was a dangerous, violent man.

There were multiple people who implied to me

that he could and had killed with his hands.

[Jack] Jack Griffith

was the United States Karate Judo champion,

the highest-ranking Caucasian martial artist in America.

He was a real good buddy of mine.

[Sonny Grech] He was extremely dangerous.

I mean, the cops were afraid of him.

[Nate Scott] It's sort of the word

of Murphy and Jack Griffith

about what happened on that boat.

Murphy has tried to distance himself

from every touch point with the story

as much as humanly possible.

[Corey Kilgannon] Beach boy, thief,

athlete, bandit, ladies' man, suspected murderer.

Will the real Jack Roland Murphy please stand up?

[John McNally] The bodies of the victims were found

over the-- over the row of mangroves

in the--what is known as Whiskey Creek.

One body was found on the east side of the canal.

One was found on the west side.

Both of them anchored down with concrete blocks,

both of them wearing swimsuits.

Both had deep lacerations in their scalps,

deep skull depressions.

They were both badly mutilated in the abdominal area

with a sharp knife of some type.

Uh, Annelie Mohn was also shot through the left shoulder

at a downward angle

and the bullet wound up inside her rib cage.

We have determined that the best course of action

to bring about the trial of Jack Murphy,

known as "Murf The Surf"

for murder in Broward County,

would be to dismiss the cases that were pending against Murphy

before Judge Carling Stedman in Dade County,

and that he can be brought to trial

for the Whiskey Creek murder

for which he has been indicted in Broward County.

The question of his sanity

will now be resolved by Broward County judges.

[eerie music playing]

[Nate Scott] The lawyers basically said he did this

because he doesn't know right from wrong

and he's mentally imbalanced.

And maybe that was real.

He will plead not guilty.

Not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the arraignment

and not guilty by reason of insanity

at the time of the commission of the offense.

[Edna Buchanan] Jury selection is underway here today

in Broward County Circuit Court

for the high-profile murder trial

involving the world-famous surfer and jewel thief

Jack Murphy.

If convicted, Murphy, 31, could be put to death

by the electric chair.

Murphy's codefendant, Jack Griffith,

a local karate teacher,

is charged with second degree murder

and has pleaded not guilty.

Both men say they are confident

that a jury will find them innocent.

[Edward Stephany clears throat]

If it pleases the court, Mr. Nageley, Mr. Russell,

ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

today we begin what you have known before

to be the Whiskey Creek murder trial.

As of this morning, it's the case of the State of Florida

versus Jack Murphy and Jack Griffith.

The state is gonna prove to you

that Jack Murphy and Jack Griffith

did together kill this girl, Terry Frank.

We're gonna prove to you that this girl was beat upon the head

and that a wire was tied around her neck

and attached to a cement block and put in the water,

where she was held down underneath the water.

You will also find that her stomach was cut open and gashed.

We're gonna show you that there is a premeditated design

to effect the death of this girl,

that there will be no doubt in your minds

that these two men wanted this girl to die.

She died horribly. She was meant to die.

They planned to kill her,

and that Jack Griffith and Jack Murphy

did, in fact, kill this girl.

[Frank Donnelly] Murphy's attorney, Jack Nageley

argued that Murphy needed psychiatric help

to prevent "full-blown psychosis and suicide."

Claiming Murphy was influenced by a schizophrenogenic mother

and a father who refused to allow him to have an identity.

He said Murphy needed

society's approval and recognition

and also added that Murphy is a latent homosexual.

Nageley says that he will prove

there are better suspects in the murder than Murphy,

but "Murphy is good because he is "Murf The Surf."

With Murphy now pleading innocent

by reason of insanity, Nageley added,

"You have to be out of your bird to pull a caper like that.

"We are saying that we didn't do it,

and on that day he was insane anyway."

[Dustin Dunn] Just past the sunken boat

we found the first body.

It was floating face-down. With the moon out,

the body stuck out like a sore thumb.

We proceeded to the Sandpiper Lounge

in order to find the Hollywood police.

We went back to the area with the police.

One of them had a flashlight.

He scanned the area

and found the second body on the opposite bank.

[David Haggerty] The first body was a white female

in a bathing suit.

She had several lacerations on her abdomen,

and there was a cord tied around her neck

attached to a cement block.

The second body was also a white female

with similar lacerations.

[Frank Donnelly] Day two of

the "Murf The Surf" trial is underway.

Today we're expecting to hear firsthand eyewitness accounts

of who was last seen with the victims

shortly before they were found dead in Whiskey Creek.

[Cheryl Lawrence] He was having trouble starting the boat.

I screamed, "What's the matter?"

And Jack said he had run out of gas.

I didn't pay much attention to who was in the boat with him.

[Linda Ousley] My boss and myself by this time

had arrived at the end of the dock to offer assistance.

The man approached the dock,

and at that time I noticed that the boat was occupied

by three individuals.

I reached down to offer assistance

and immediately recognized the man in the water

as Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy,

who I had the occasion to meet at a private party.

[Nate Scott] Linda Ousley is key in her testimony.

She put the four of them together in a boat

a day before these two women

were found dead and weighed down.

She was two feet away.

[Edna Buchanan] The trial continues

in its third day today

with the medical examiner revealing his findings.

[Dr. Haugen] She died as a result

of traumatic head injuries.

Two rib cartilages were severed

and the liver was slightly punctured.

The body was in terminal stages of life,

what we would call the agonal stage.

[Corey Kilgannon] Dr. R. K. Haugen described

the horrific manner in which the women were killed.

A color autopsy photograph was passed between the jurors.

The gruesome details forced one spectator

to run out of the courtroom

where she reportedly vomited on the floor.

[Nate Scott] Even though these women had been beaten and shot,

it was actually them being held underwater

which eventually killed them.

They were weighted down with wire and weights.

The men, obviously, however,

were not thinking about the tide which went out the next day.

[Edna Buchanan] The trial enters its fifth day today.

Testimony is expected

from some of Murf's trusted inner circle.

[Jack] My girlfriend, Connie, was on the run.

They were looking for her

to witness in the Whiskey Creek stuff.

[Frank Donnelly] Murphy's girlfriend, Connie Hopen,

was forced to take the stand,

but it was more about what she didn't say

rather than what she did say.

[Edward Stephany] Miss Hopen, do you know Jack Murphy?

[Connie Hopen] I respectfully refuse to answer on the grounds

that my answers may tend to incriminate me,

contrary to my rights

under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution

and the Constitution of the State of Florida.

[Edward Stephany] Do you not wish to answer the question?

[Connie Hopen] No.

[Edward Stephany] Your answer is no.

[Connie Hopen] No.

[Nate Scott] Kenny "The Cat" first met Jack

when they served time at Rikers Island

right around the time of the Whiskey Creek trial.

Kenny "The Cat" was arrested for some unrelated robbery.

Kenny cut a deal and started talking.

[prosecutor] All right, Kenny,

what time of the morning was it on December the 8th

when you and Murphy and Griffith got together in the apartment?

[Kenny] Jack left early in the morning at the house

to visit his dad, I believe.

He got off the boat, and he got up very early in the morning,

and he came back with Griffith.

I'd say it was approximately 10:30 or so.

[prosecutor] And who was at the apartment then?

[Kenny] Myself, Connie, the two girls,

and Jack and Jack.

[prosecutor] Where was the conversation

held between you and Griffith and Murphy?

[Kenny] In the living room.

[prosecutor] And where were the girls at that time?

[Kenny] The two girls were in their bedroom

getting their bathing suits on and then out of the bathroom.

[prosecutor] And where was Connie Hopen?

[Kenny] She was in living room with us.

[prosecutor] Did she have any prior knowledge before this--

[Kenny] Oh, yeah, well,

she knew that two girls were going to die.

-[prosecutor] She knew that? -[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor] Right, now,

when did the girls come out of the room?

[Kenny clears throat]

Just a few minutes before they left.

They said we're ready, and Jack said,

"Well, wait a minute. I have to take care of something."

Possibly he might have gotten my gun, I don't know.

[prosecutor] Well, which room was the gun in?

[Kenny] I think it was in Jack's bedroom.

[prosecutor] Did you give him a gun?

[Kenny] No, I've just been keeping it there.

-[prosecutor] In his room? -[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor] In a drawer or what?

[Kenny] No, in between the mattress.

[prosecutor] In between the mattress.

What was the caliber of this gun?

[Kenny] .32 caliber.

[prosecutor] Did you see the gun after that?

[Kenny] No, I haven't seen it since.

[prosecutor] Did you look for it?

[Kenny] No.

[prosecutor] What did you do after they left the apartment?

[Kenny] I immediately started to clean up.

[prosecutor] But did they tell you to do this?

[Kenny] No. I knew I had to do it.

We had discussed it earlier.

[prosecutor] And that was your part of--

[Kenny] Yeah. I was going to clean up.

[prosecutor] And what did you do?

[Kenny] Well, Benjamin and two girls were staying,

and I cleaned up all their stuff,

I started emptying out all their luggage

and sorted it, you know, the--

I took the papers.

Anything that was immediately burnable.

There were letters to a probation officer

and all kinds of passports and all kinds of junk.

[prosecutor] When Murphy came back...

what was his appearance at that time?

[Kenny] Uh, he had his shirt off and he was carrying it.

It was wet. There were bloodstains on it.

[prosecutor] There was bloodstains on his shirt?

Was there any other bloodstains on his person?

[Kenny] No.

[prosecutor] Somewhere in the car?

[Kenny] No, no. I don't think so.

[prosecutor] Why was the car cleaned up?

[Kenny] Well, fingerprints and hairs.

[prosecutor] Did you ask anything when he came back?

[Kenny] Yeah, I asked him how'd it go.

[prosecutor] And what did he say?

-[Kenny] Wrong. -[prosecutor] Wrong?

[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor] Did he clarify what he meant by wrong?

[Kenny] No, he assumed that I understood him.

[prosecutor] Yeah.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[Nate Scott] These two women who just...

did not conform to that era's idea

of what women should be.

And because of that,

the two women were just sort of made

into be 2D caricature stock images

of just sort of young, pretty secretaries.

They just weren't given their own narrative.

And because of that, they just sort of became

these kind of specters.

And that sort of led to media coverage,

which was unfair at best

and downright malicious at worst.

[Inez Lyles] Annelie-- she romanticized everything.

She was still hopeful. She was still young.

She was open.

That's why she got hurt.

One of the things that frightens me about America.

People keep killing people that are supposed to love them.

[Frank Donnelly] Mental health experts

who have analyzed and observed Jack Murphy

will testify to his psychological state of mind

at the time of the murder.

The big question on everyone's mind--

"Is Jack Murphy insane?"

[Dr. David Rothenberg] He blushed

when inquiries were made about his mother.

When we pray and we speak to God,

we may feel guidance,

but with Mr. Murphy, it is a two-way conversation.

[Dr. Michael Gilbert] Murphy does not know the difference

between right and wrong

because his conception of right and wrong is distorted.

He feels like he is the Messiah.

He feels that one of the great contributions

that he's going to make to society

is to teach people about crime.

[Dr. Geraldine Boozer] He has the idea

everybody is against him,

everybody is out to hurt him.

He has a Jehovah complex. He is the Messiah.

He is superior to anyone else

and has powers above those of an ordinary mortal.

Mr. Murphy does not want to be considered psychotic

or anything else than perfect.

[Dr. Arnold Eichert] Mr. Murphy is a mixed-up man emotionally,

but I do not think

that Mr. Murphy was at any time insane.

He said he felt he was involved in a game

being played by his lawyers.

[Jack] I was the most highly examined

psychiatrically evaluated criminal

in world history at one time.

They just kept running, running, running

these batteries on me.

I can make those things go any way that I want.

What answer would Liberace give to every one of these tests?

So I'd go in there, and I'd be Liberace.

The next day, they'd have me in front of another doctor.

What would Fidel Castro say?

This time I'd be Elvis or I'd be Sinatra.

I'm just gaming with them, giving them enough stuff

to scratch their heads with.

If you really know what you're doing

and if you're trying to stay out of the electric chair,

you really put some effort into it.

It isn't just a lightweight game.

[Frank Donnelly] The psychiatrist testified

that Murphy had all these

different religious images of himself

and that sometimes he would wonder out loud

if he was God himself.

Friends describe how he would walk around

dressed up like a monk, blessing people.

[Corey Kilgannon] With the closing arguments completed,

now it rests in the jury's hands.

[Jack] Jury met.

And I was convicted on one of those murders.

[Edna Buchanan] The prosecution

is pushing for the death penalty.

Requesting that the jurors show Murphy no mercy.

[gallery murmuring]

[Jack] I'm sitting in the courtroom,

and they're trying to put me in the electric chair.

You wonder, how did you get there?

And what's gonna happen?

Describing Murphy as a public enemy

who never again should enjoy the free world

of a law-abiding society,

Judge Stedman has sentenced the former beach boy

turned jewel thief and murderer

to life imprisonment and 20 years at hard labor.

Suffice it to say that Murphy will be a very old man

if and when he is ever released.

Unless Murphy can achieve some sort of

Birdman of Alcatraz fame,

his public exposure is at an end.

Now he'll just be another number at Raiford State Prison.

["I Don't Like The Man I Am" by Pete Molinari playing]

[Jack] That murder charge, that was a life sentence.

And then I had another robbery sentence.

That was a life sentence and 20 years

because I had a gunfight with the police.

The judge said, "It's only because

"of the jury's recommendation

that we don't put you in the electric chair."

♪ I ain't got the belief♪

♪ It feels like I'm going beneath♪

[Michael Hamm] Bottom line was that, you know,

Murphy wasn't the triggerman.

[Michael Hamm] He told me he didn't kill that girl.

Murphy would claim that

he didn't have anything to do with it,

and I don't think he did.

[Corey Kilgannon] He said he was there,

but he had nothing to do with it.

And he didn't know it was going to go down like that.

[Domenic Fusco] I can actually see Jack driving the boat

because he takes control.

I can't imagine why Jack would shoot the girls

and be involved in the murder. I can't imagine that.

[Jack] All they had was hearsay evidence.

And that's not what this movie or documentary is about.

It's another crime story.

If you want a crime story, I'm the wrong guy.

♪ ...don't wanna be led ♪

I'm not going to elaborate

and go through some psychiatric evaluation

on why did you do this and who did that and what--

And what you have there is what you have.

♪ Oh, I can't love you♪

♪ I really don't think That I can♪

[Inez Lyles] The way that those girls were killed

was unnecessarily brutal.

Prolonged.

Causing much suffering.

Why?

Why make them suffer so much?

If you're going to kill 'em, kill 'em.

They were shot, they were stabbed,

they were drowned.

They suffered.

And he does not acknowledge that.

♪ But lonely understand♪

♪ The type of man that I am♪

♪ But I don't believe That I can♪

♪ Oh, I never drew the plan♪

[Jack] My parole date was in the year 2244,

and the word was that I'd die in prison.

That was from the judges, that was from my attorneys,

that was from everybody.

But Jesus Christ makes a difference.

♪♪♪

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