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[suspenseful music playing]
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I was home in bed,
and I received a call at
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approximately 1:00 to 1:30
in the morning.
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A neighbor saw a fight
going on out in front of
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the residence on Elm Street.
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There was a man on the sidewalk
in front of the residence,
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and he was motionless.
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[siren wailing]
[indistinct radio chatter]
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I'm just trying to get there as
fast as I can.
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So when I arrived
at the scene,
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there was a body lying on
the sidewalk, and there was
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a mask between his legs.
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The deputies were on the scene,
and they were very,
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very spooked.
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They described going into
the house and locating one body
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and locating another body,
and described it almost like
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a Freddy Krueger coming out
of a closet.
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These were big,
muscular type of deputies.
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They didn't scare easy.
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And when I went in,
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and I see exactly what
they were talking about.
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[eerie tones playing]
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I've never seen anything like
that in my life.
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[eerie "Twinkle Twinkle
Little Star" playing]
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[children eerily singing]
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[theme music continues]
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[theme music intensifies]
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[theme music mellows]
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[Sgt. Larson]
That night, I believe
it was a Sunday night,
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between one and two o'clock
in the morning,
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I was notified by dispatch
of a homicide.
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I got out of bed and jumped in
the shower real quickly.
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And by the time I left
the door, I had been called
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four different times adding
another body to
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the crime scene...
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[sirens whizzing by]
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...then I drove to the address
on Elm Street in Salida.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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Most homicide scenes,
there's always going to
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be evidence.
You just have to find it.
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And the first 48 hours are
the most important
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to get that case solved.
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[Det. Deckard]
Deputies were telling me that
they had located four bodies
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at the scene.
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At first, I didn't believe 'em,
because I've never been
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involved in a quadruple
homicide, and I don't recall
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a quadruple homicide ever
occurring in Stanislaus County.
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So there was no lights
in the house.
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It was really very horrific,
a lot of blood.
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Obviously the person lying on
the sidewalk was deceased.
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He was a white male adult.
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There was three bodies inside
of the residence.
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Two of them were
in the kitchen,
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and one was in the living room.
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All of the victims were
bludgeoned with some type of
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blunt instrument,
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in addition to
a signature stab wound,
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and slices to the throat area.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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[Sgt. Larson]
It was a bloody scene,
but as an investigator,
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you don't care about how ugly
it is, how much blood is there.
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These are their bodies.
They're part of this puzzle.
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We identified three of
the victims with ID that
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they had on the persons.
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One had been a Franklin Raper,
who was 51 years old.
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Richard Ritchey,
he was 25 years old.
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And Dennis Colwell,
who was 35 years old.
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The one that we did not
identify right away
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was a female.
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Young female,
about 22 years of age.
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Her injury to her neck was
so horrific that she was
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almost decapitated.
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Myself and the other
investigators were all
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wondering how these people
all related.
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We had no idea who knew each
other because of
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the different ages.
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Immediately, it didn't look
like home invasion or robbery
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because these people are
brutally murdered.
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The people that did this wanted
to kill people.
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Their objective was to kill
these people.
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[Det. Deckard]
As far as who is capable of
committing a quadruple
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homicide, just almost unheard
of, especially in Salida.
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So at that point, we had no
idea who the perpetrators were.
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I observed a camouflage mask in
between the legs of the man
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who was lying deceased
on the driveway.
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And there was another
camouflage mask lying on
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the grass at the residence.
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[Sgt. Larson]
There was a knit cap that was
on the lawn.
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And when they looked at it,
there was hair on it.
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DNA wasn't around much
at that time.
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It was just in the beginning
stages of it.
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But you can still match that
hair, blood type,
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and stuff like that.
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So that was a good piece
of evidence.
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[Det. Deckard]
I observed footprints leading
from some dirt area near
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the gutter of the house.
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And that was going eastbound
toward the railroad tracks.
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Following the footprints,
there was a bat,
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a Ka-Bar knife, a knife sheath
that they discarded.
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That tells me that there's more
than one person that did this.
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So there was a trail,
if you will, of evidence to
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where they went to a vehicle
and then left the scene.
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[suspenseful notes climbing]
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[Det. Deckard] A lot of
the locals heard about it.
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The large crowd were outside
the crime scene, actually to
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the perimeter of
the crime scene.
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[Farnsworth] Salida wasn't
a very large town in those days.
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It was a small farming
community,
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just north of Modesto.
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I was a reporter at the Modesto
Bee, and I covered crime.
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And, soon as we heard about
it, everybody went out
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and started covering it.
It just rocked the town.
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The deputies know what to do.
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They're basically freezing
the crime scene, make sure
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nobody comes in and out.
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[Farnsworth]
They're taping off the area
and talking to people.
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The lady came up,
she was visibly shaken
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and said, "Hey, I'm
the sole survivor.
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I was there when
it happened."
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The killers didn't know
they had missed somebody
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and they had missed her.
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So we had a witness,
a survivor, if you will,
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right at it.
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[Farnsworth]
Pure evil came to the house on
Elm Street that night.
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And I don't think detectives
expected to find what they did.
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[Farnsworth]
By the next morning,
everybody in Salida knew about
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the massacre on Elm Street.
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It was just a horrible crime.
It was a bloodbath.
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There was a lot of fear.
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They were afraid
at that point that, hey,
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what's going on here?
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Somebody going to bust into my
home and kill all my family?
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They had no idea yet who
the killers were,
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so it was tense.
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Luckily, there was
one survivor.
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Her name was Donna Alvarez,
and I interviewed her for
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approximately an hour.
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Donna Alvarez told me that that
was her first night
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being at that residence.
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She had never been
there before.
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She said she was
somewhat homeless.
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She had no place to go,
and she arrived at
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the residence with one of
the victims, Richard Ritchey,
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and Franklin Raper,
who was living in
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the residence, told her she can
spend the night there.
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She was in one of the bedrooms.
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[unnerving tones]
[distant screaming]
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And all of a sudden,
she heard screaming.
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She wasn't sure what was going
on, other than it was dark.
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And she knew something bad
was happening.
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[heavy breathing]
[distant yelping]
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She looked out the door
and saw everybody had
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a camouflage mask on.
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One of the individuals removed
his mask briefly.
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And she said it was obviously
a Caucasian,
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but he had Afro type of hair.
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[heavy breathing]
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[gasps]
[suspenseful chord strikes]
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And he had a gun, and told
her to get into
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the living room.
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And then somehow
he was distracted.
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She felt that she got to get
out of there, so she went.
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The only place she could go was
to the garage.
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She then hid under a pile of
laundry that was on the floor
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of the garage.
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After hearing all
the commotion, she said it got
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quiet, and she found out that
everybody was murdered
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except for herself.
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[Farnsworth]
Apparently, during the murder
frenzy, they forgot about her,
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and she was able to slip out
of the garage.
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I think the garage door was
broken, and she was able to get
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under it and run to
a neighbor's house,
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and called 911.
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[indistinct radio chatter]
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I was walking outside the crime
scene, made contact with a lady
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who stated that her daughter
has been unaccounted for,
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and she hopes that the victim
was not her daughter.
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[Farnsworth]
And she said, "I heard my
daughter might be one
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of the victims."
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And they said, "Well,
can you identify
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anything about her?"
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And they said, "Well, she's real
small and got dark hair,
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has a little tattoo on her."
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[Det. Deckard]
She had brought a photograph to
us of her daughter.
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And based on that photograph,
we were able to identify
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the young female victim as
being the lady's daughter,
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Darlene Parris.
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These people all had families.
A couple of them were married.
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And it was just real sad
for the families
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that their loved ones were
butchered like that.
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[Kimberly]
That night, I just had a weird
feeling, like I was uneasy.
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I just, I don't know.
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[phone ringing]
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I remember hearing the phone,
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probably two, three o'clock in
the morning, and it was
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my brother saying
"Dad's gone."
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And I just, you know, I think
I fainted, I don't know,
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I just went down hard and it
just was this devastation.
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I woke up from a dead sleep at
that time and I heard my mom
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sobbing, and she was on
the phone
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crying uncontrollably.
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We turned on the TV
and there it was,
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bodies coming out of the house.
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It was right there, it was kind
of stunning.
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You know you're never going to
see your grandpa again.
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I knew him as Papa Red,
Franklin, Franklin Raper,
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Papa Red.
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He liked us to call him
Papa Red.
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[Pam]
My dad was very giving
and loved his family and his
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family also included what
he would call his people,
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which were not
necessarily blood-related.
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But if they needed him to take
care of them, he would step in
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and try to protect them as best
as he could.
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[Kimberly]
He would want to bring people
into the home, you know,
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that didn't have a place to go.
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But my mom just couldn't handle
that because she had
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three kids.
They did split up,
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That was-- it was tough for him
to deal with.
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[Zachary]
I remember at that time, it was
kind of like, "What are
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you going to do, Papa?
Like, where are you staying at?
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And he said, "Well, I'm staying
close in Salida."
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But he was having issues with
some people.
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I knew he was having
some issues.
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'Cause I-- I heard my mom maybe
a couple of weeks before that
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saying, "Dad, can you please
come up here and just move up
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here with us and get out of
the area for a while?"
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Detectives got a lead that
Franklin had been in a fight
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with a gentleman that owned
a repair shop there in Salida.
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[Det. Deckard]
They had some bad blood
between them.
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There was several altercations
over a year's time.
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And they actually got in
a fist fight.
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And Franklin came back to
the shop
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after they had
had some words.
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And he was in a car with
another guy.
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And they started spinning
donuts outside the shop.
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[tires screeching wildly]
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And um, unfortunately,
Franklin's vehicle died.
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And so the owner of the repair
shop confronted Franklin.
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They beat Franklin up
pretty good.
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Basically, Franklin
lost the fight.
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[Kimberly]
So I tracked him down
by this auto parts place.
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He was not feeling too great.
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And I asked him, "Dad,
what's going on?"
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And he said, "These guys are
a bunch of punks."
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I didn't know who they were
or had never met them
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or anything, but I was quite
worried about him.
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Detectives zeroed in on
the shop owner, tracking down
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all the problems
he'd had with Franklin.
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They thought this could
be the motive.
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If the individual who owned
the automotive store is one of
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the persons that actually
committed the murders,
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then he was dangerous.
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[Farnsworth]
They didn't know what
they were going to find.
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But if they were the killer,
they were pure evil.
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[birds singing]
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[Farnsworth]
Detectives started running down
leads and chasing suspects,
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and they found out one of
the victims, Franklin Raper,
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had had a beef with a guy that
owned an auto body shop
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there in Salida.
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[Det. Deckard]
So we went to the auto body
repair shop and met with
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the owner and asked him if
he heard about
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the quadruple homicide
in Salida.
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And he tells me that everybody
in Salida knows about it.
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He was asked if
he had anything to do with it.
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And he admitted that he did not
get along with Franklin,
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that him and Franklin did not
like each other, but no way that
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he would kill Franklin Raper
or anybody else.
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He had an alibi.
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He was home with his wife
and family and in bed at
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the time of the murders.
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His family was interviewed,
and they checked out his alibi.
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We determined that there was
no indication that he would
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kill Franklin Raper.
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So they let him go.
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At this point,
the town was on edge.
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They couldn't believe it.
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Salida's a nice
little town.
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And here's this horrendous
murder of four people.
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Everybody was afraid.
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I was in the fifth grade with
Darlene's half sister,
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younger half sister.
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We realized that we were both
part of this crime.
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My grandfather was a victim.
Her older sister was a victim.
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For her being a sister
and being so close like
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they were, it was definitely
something I noticed impact
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her big time, from a change
from when I knew her before.
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We were going through different
therapy sessions
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and school counseling
and connecting on our own.
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It was devastating for
that family.
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It really was.
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It was devastating
for everybody.
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These guys are, nobody's gonna
be able to catch them.
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Are they gonna find out
who did it?
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So it was a lot of fear at that
time, a lot of fear.
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[Farnsworth]
Nobody knew who
the killers were.
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They didn't know if they were
going to be next.
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It was a rough time.
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Detectives started
looking elsewhere.
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They went to Franklin's family.
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[Det. Deckard]
I interviewed Franklin Raper's
son, and he told me that
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Franklin Raper asked his son if
he could borrow a gun.
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[Farnsworth]
And his son said, "Why?
Why do you need a gun, Dad?"
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And Franklin says, "Well,
I'm afraid of this guy,
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Jason LaMarsh."
And Franklin was no sissy.
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So to be afraid of some guy,
his son thought, this guy must
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be a bad hombre.
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And it turned out he was.
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Jason LaMarsh was a bully.
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[Zachary]
My grandpa would talk
about him.
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And I know there was some
bad blood there.
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Jason LaMarsh had stolen
Franklin's car, put it out in
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the street, set it on fire.
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But then Franklin knew,
hey, this is serious.
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I need to protect myself.
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Jason LaMarsh,
he threatened to kill me.
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[suspenseful chord strikes]
[floorboards creaking]
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I knew that his car had been
burned up, and they pulled him
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out of the car
and broke his collarbone.
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So I went to see him.
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I actually had tried to get
my dad to move.
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I cried and pretty much begged.
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I said, "You need to get out of
this area, Dad.
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"It's really getting,
this is too much.
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You can stay with us."
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He said, "No, I've been in
this town a lot longer than
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they have, and they're not
going to run me out."
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He said, "I'm good with
the man upstairs."
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And he looked me right in
the eye and said, "Don't worry,
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I'll be OK."
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And that was the last time
I saw him, so.
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But I always felt that
I at least tried.
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I tried to give him that
option, you know,
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to get out of there.
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So we really wanted to locate
Jason LaMarsh and find out
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exactly what was going on
and interview him.
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So I immediately called
the Sheriff's Office and ran
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a background check.
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And we discovered that he had
been arrested before,
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which indicates that we have
a photograph of him.
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[gasp]
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And I showed Dawn Alvarez,
who was in the house that
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night, the photo lineup
and asked her if she could
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identify the person she saw at
the crime scene.
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She immediately pointed to
Jason LaMarsh.
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She became hysterical,
just as if
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Jason LaMarsh was there
in person.
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Well, in trying to track
LaMarsh down,
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detectives contacted LaMarsh's
girlfriend, Michelle Evans.
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And his girlfriend
didn't know where he was.
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Or she said she didn't.
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And they learned that
her sister, Tanya Miller,
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had also been living
in that house where
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the murders occurred.
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But she was staying with
her mother that night.
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[Det. Deckard]
We thought that we had to find
her and interview her to find
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out if there was any connection
between her
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and the murders itself.
Tanya Miller was stricken.
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She had no idea why
somebody would come in
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and commit these murders.
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At that point,
we confirmed that
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she was not there,
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and no indication that
she participated in the murders
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or had any knowledge
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of what had occurred.
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00:22:31,518 --> 00:22:35,188
They ask her, "Do you know
Jason LaMarsh?"
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00:22:35,288 --> 00:22:38,792
She said,
"Yes, my sister dates him."
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00:22:39,859 --> 00:22:41,327
[Det. Deckard]
She did not like him.
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00:22:41,428 --> 00:22:44,164
She did not like her sister
hanging out with Jason LaMarsh
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because he brought her into
a group of people that
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she did not like.
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00:22:51,237 --> 00:22:55,842
And these people, they had been
known to cause trouble.
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00:22:57,243 --> 00:23:02,015
The group was living at
a little ramshackle ex-labor
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camp that had been abandoned
there in Salida.
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00:23:05,819 --> 00:23:07,487
[Sgt. Larson]
It was called "The Camp."
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[Det. Deckard]
She stated that Franklin Raper
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actually lived at The Camp
for a while.
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And then when he left The Camp,
she allowed him to stay at
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the residence on Elm Street to
get away from the people
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who lived at The Camp.
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00:23:27,273 --> 00:23:31,344
So the detectives decided,
we're going to see for
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ourselves what's going on.
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And so we went out talking to
people, gathering information.
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00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:43,456
[Farnsworth]
The community felt like
they didn't want anything to do
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with those people.
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00:23:45,125 --> 00:23:48,028
They could see armed guards
walking around the perimeter
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00:23:48,128 --> 00:23:49,129
of the place.
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00:23:50,330 --> 00:23:51,865
They had heard rumors
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00:23:51,965 --> 00:23:54,734
that there was satanic rituals
being held there.
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00:23:54,834 --> 00:23:57,971
Community didn't really know
what these people were
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00:23:58,071 --> 00:24:00,073
all about, they were just
afraid of them.
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00:24:01,207 --> 00:24:05,178
Well, after we had developed
this information, we're going
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00:24:05,278 --> 00:24:09,416
to go there and, you know,
talk to them and see where
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00:24:09,516 --> 00:24:10,417
they were last night.
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00:24:10,517 --> 00:24:13,019
[suspenseful music playing]
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00:24:16,990 --> 00:24:18,792
[sirens wailing]
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00:24:22,495 --> 00:24:23,930
[Det. Deckard]
We arrived, I think it was
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00:24:24,030 --> 00:24:25,598
about five o'clock
in the morning.
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00:24:27,567 --> 00:24:30,303
The camp itself
was probably an estimated maybe
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00:24:30,403 --> 00:24:34,574
a half acre big, and the back of
the residence was what looked
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00:24:34,674 --> 00:24:38,345
like a two-bedroom wooden
construction home.
401
00:24:38,445 --> 00:24:40,747
When they got there,
no one was there.
402
00:24:43,850 --> 00:24:46,152
[Det. Deckard]
There was a clothesline in
front of the house.
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00:24:48,822 --> 00:24:50,657
And I go,
camouflage clothing?
404
00:24:50,757 --> 00:24:52,659
That's what the killers
were wearing.
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00:24:54,227 --> 00:24:57,597
[Det. Deckard]
We were kind of real concerned
about our safety.
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00:24:57,697 --> 00:25:03,136
[Sgt. Larson]
We had to be aware of
the danger that's out there.
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00:25:03,236 --> 00:25:04,838
They were vicious people.
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00:25:04,938 --> 00:25:07,273
Whatever triggers them,
they can strike,
409
00:25:07,374 --> 00:25:10,310
and they strike at any time.
410
00:25:10,410 --> 00:25:12,779
If that was the group that
actually committed the murders,
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00:25:12,879 --> 00:25:15,482
they probably would have
no problems killing us.
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00:25:38,104 --> 00:25:40,840
[Farnsworth]
You've got a bunch of people
living here in the camp,
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and Jason LaMarsh is one of
them, and he's a prime suspect.
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00:25:47,514 --> 00:25:49,849
So the detectives didn't know
what they were going to find.
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00:25:52,118 --> 00:25:54,587
[footsteps in grass]
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00:25:54,688 --> 00:25:57,290
And then a man came up
and started talking
417
00:25:57,390 --> 00:25:58,391
to detectives.
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00:25:58,491 --> 00:26:02,462
He said he was named
Gerald Cruz.
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00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:07,567
We learned that Gerald Cruz was
the leader of The Cause.
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00:26:07,667 --> 00:26:11,071
He was a big man.
He was 300 and... plus.
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00:26:12,272 --> 00:26:15,975
We started talking to Mr. Cruz.
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00:26:16,076 --> 00:26:18,111
And I asked him if
he had heard about
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00:26:18,211 --> 00:26:20,580
the quadruple homicide
in Salida.
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00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,150
And he said, no,
he hadn't heard about it.
425
00:26:24,250 --> 00:26:26,086
[Sgt. Larson]
"I don't know anything.
What are you talking about?
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00:26:26,186 --> 00:26:27,320
I don't know what
you're talking about."
427
00:26:29,522 --> 00:26:30,657
You know.
428
00:26:30,757 --> 00:26:33,426
Which I thought was very
strange, because everybody in
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00:26:33,526 --> 00:26:35,328
Salida had heard about it.
430
00:26:35,428 --> 00:26:38,298
[Sgt. Larson]
As an investigator,
you can tell when people are
431
00:26:38,398 --> 00:26:41,968
lying to you.
Something's not right here.
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00:26:42,068 --> 00:26:46,973
What immediately struck me was
his shoes had a couple of very,
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00:26:47,073 --> 00:26:52,379
very small specks on them that,
in my mind, could be blood.
434
00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:57,350
[Det. Deckard]
I told myself that I believe
this guy could very well be
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00:26:57,450 --> 00:27:00,820
one of the suspects
in the homicide.
436
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,623
I asked him if Jason LaMarsh
lived on the property,
437
00:27:03,723 --> 00:27:08,094
and he pointed to a trailer
that Jason was staying in.
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00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:11,464
But he said he was not home,
and he stated no, he does not
439
00:27:11,564 --> 00:27:12,866
know where he's at.
440
00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:15,769
[Sgt. Larson]
Now, walking back,
I know what I was thinking.
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00:27:15,869 --> 00:27:18,805
And I knew that, all right,
there's something here.
442
00:27:18,905 --> 00:27:21,041
I'm gonna start putting
a search warrant together.
443
00:27:22,475 --> 00:27:24,044
And at the same time,
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00:27:24,144 --> 00:27:26,312
we're gonna watch
this place.
445
00:27:35,855 --> 00:27:37,957
[suspenseful tones building]
446
00:27:39,292 --> 00:27:41,061
[chord strikes]
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00:27:45,065 --> 00:27:49,436
[Sgt. Larson]
We found weapons that were
illegal, bomb-making materials,
448
00:27:49,536 --> 00:27:52,572
explosive materials that
were illegal.
449
00:27:52,672 --> 00:27:56,142
Now they're really concerned.
450
00:27:56,242 --> 00:27:59,813
[Det. Deckard]
We're not sure what the intent
was, other than somewhere down
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00:27:59,913 --> 00:28:02,115
the line, maybe they were going
to do something else.
452
00:28:02,215 --> 00:28:07,387
We also found books on
Satanism and astrology,
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00:28:07,487 --> 00:28:10,056
and different type of
materials such as that.
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00:28:14,828 --> 00:28:18,231
People that actually were in
The Cause actually were forced
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00:28:18,331 --> 00:28:22,669
to get their finger cut and put
their fingerprint in this book
456
00:28:22,769 --> 00:28:23,770
that Gerald kept.
457
00:28:25,405 --> 00:28:28,375
They were forced to write
a diary, and he would read
458
00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:31,211
the diaries, because in
his mind, he thought, well,
459
00:28:31,311 --> 00:28:32,879
if I know what
they're thinking of then,
460
00:28:32,979 --> 00:28:35,548
I can control them better.
461
00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:38,251
And then detectives found
things that were beyond
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00:28:38,351 --> 00:28:39,686
their wildest nightmare.
463
00:28:41,054 --> 00:28:43,690
There was a wheel,
a punishment wheel,
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00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:44,791
that we found.
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00:28:46,393 --> 00:28:48,628
[Farnsworth]
It was called the
"Wheel of Punishment."
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00:28:48,728 --> 00:28:54,334
And when Cruz thought somebody
had done wrong or had screwed
467
00:28:54,434 --> 00:28:58,304
up, he would throw it in
the air and have them catch it.
468
00:28:58,405 --> 00:29:01,775
Wherever their thumb landed,
that was a punishment they got.
469
00:29:04,077 --> 00:29:06,846
[Dep. Cerny]
He would discipline them by
doing things like withholding
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00:29:06,946 --> 00:29:11,151
food, withholding clothing,
making them sleep on
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00:29:11,251 --> 00:29:14,654
the concrete without any type
of blanket or anything.
472
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:18,491
He would use forced sodomy,
he would use oral copulation.
473
00:29:18,591 --> 00:29:21,528
[Det. Deckard]
It could be all kinds of
bizarre happenings,
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00:29:21,628 --> 00:29:23,363
whatever Gerald came up with.
475
00:29:23,463 --> 00:29:27,534
[Dep. Cerny]
It would dehumanize the people
that were under him,
476
00:29:29,502 --> 00:29:33,873
and they would look to him
for everything,
477
00:29:33,973 --> 00:29:36,843
for their basic needs.
478
00:29:36,943 --> 00:29:42,716
Gerald Cruz would exhibit a lot
of the traditional types of
479
00:29:42,816 --> 00:29:45,318
manifestations that cult
leaders exhibit.
480
00:29:45,418 --> 00:29:48,188
Mind control,
physical torture,
481
00:29:48,288 --> 00:29:51,124
financial control, sexuality.
482
00:29:51,224 --> 00:29:57,297
His group dynamics were based
upon his ability to control
483
00:29:57,397 --> 00:29:58,631
everybody around him.
484
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,502
They were under the influence,
the mental influence,
485
00:30:02,602 --> 00:30:03,470
of Gerald Cruz.
486
00:30:03,570 --> 00:30:04,671
That was scary.
487
00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:12,612
[Det. Deckard]
So after the search warrant was
conducted, we found receipts
488
00:30:12,712 --> 00:30:16,182
where they had purchased
a Ka-Bar knife and where
489
00:30:16,282 --> 00:30:19,452
they had purchased
camouflage masks.
490
00:30:19,552 --> 00:30:23,757
Everything was falling into
line as to leading to
491
00:30:23,857 --> 00:30:26,493
the suspects at The Camp being
the perpetrators
492
00:30:26,593 --> 00:30:27,594
of the homicide.
493
00:30:28,795 --> 00:30:30,530
But we don't have
the suspects in custody.
494
00:30:31,631 --> 00:30:35,835
[Farnsworth]
Now they just needed to find
out who was involved out of
495
00:30:35,935 --> 00:30:40,373
the group there and what
their participation was.
496
00:30:52,652 --> 00:30:55,388
[mysterious tonal music playing]
497
00:30:57,557 --> 00:30:58,825
[Det. Deckard]
Now we're on day...
498
00:30:59,926 --> 00:31:03,530
...I believe, day two,
or two and a half.
499
00:31:03,630 --> 00:31:06,232
And none of us
have been to bed yet.
500
00:31:06,332 --> 00:31:11,104
So I told Sergeant Larson that
I was going to get a few hours
501
00:31:11,204 --> 00:31:14,974
sleep, because if we did catch
these suspects, one of us had
502
00:31:15,075 --> 00:31:17,177
to be somewhat coherent in
order to interview them.
503
00:31:19,446 --> 00:31:22,549
When I got up, I had learned
that Michelle Evans
504
00:31:22,649 --> 00:31:24,417
was booked for murder.
505
00:31:24,517 --> 00:31:28,822
Michelle Evans was
Jason LaMarsh's girlfriend,
506
00:31:30,290 --> 00:31:34,194
and her sister, Tanya Miller,
had also been living there in
507
00:31:34,294 --> 00:31:37,731
that house on Elm Street, so
there was that connection.
508
00:31:39,499 --> 00:31:44,004
[Det. Deckard]
Michelle Evans was very nervous,
she was avoiding questions.
509
00:31:44,104 --> 00:31:46,306
She did not provide any
information as to
510
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,243
her involvement
or anybody else at that time.
511
00:31:51,244 --> 00:31:55,615
We found out at that time,
she was a good friend of
512
00:31:55,715 --> 00:31:59,152
David Beck, and Beck was
also at the camp.
513
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,523
Jason LaMarsh, Beck,
and Cruz were the main
514
00:32:03,623 --> 00:32:05,225
characters at The Camp.
515
00:32:05,325 --> 00:32:10,296
[Sgt. Larson]
So we arrested Beck
and brought him in.
516
00:32:10,397 --> 00:32:13,800
Mr. Beck, Dave Beck,
he wouldn't tell us anything.
517
00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,771
Of course, denied it,
and so did Michelle Evans.
518
00:32:17,871 --> 00:32:22,575
And so we put them in
the same interview room.
519
00:32:23,877 --> 00:32:27,113
And that led to
a big break in the case.
520
00:32:29,249 --> 00:32:32,285
So this was a real rock
they flipped over out there,
521
00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:33,887
and all the snakes came out.
522
00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:42,729
[Farnsworth]
Detectives needed to find out
who was involved in the murders
523
00:32:42,829 --> 00:32:46,933
of Franklin Raper,
Darlene Paris, Rich Ritchey,
524
00:32:47,033 --> 00:32:50,103
and Dennis Colwell,
the massacre on Elm Street.
525
00:32:51,504 --> 00:32:54,074
They're starting to gather
people up, you know,
526
00:32:54,174 --> 00:32:56,743
and bring them in
for questioning.
527
00:32:56,843 --> 00:33:00,880
[Sgt. Larson]
We arrested David Beck
and brought him in and also
528
00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:01,981
Michelle Evans.
529
00:33:03,116 --> 00:33:06,853
And we put them in
the same interview room.
530
00:33:06,953 --> 00:33:12,592
That's an age-old tactic used
by investigators.
531
00:33:12,692 --> 00:33:16,696
And she went in there
and started talking in a low
532
00:33:16,796 --> 00:33:21,568
voice and telling him that
she did not tell us that--
533
00:33:21,668 --> 00:33:24,237
anything about him
being involved.
534
00:33:24,337 --> 00:33:27,741
And Mr. Beck was doing
everything
535
00:33:27,841 --> 00:33:30,410
with his hand motions
without saying anything,
536
00:33:30,510 --> 00:33:34,080
for her to shut up.
But she kept talking.
537
00:33:35,882 --> 00:33:39,686
[Det. Deckard]
And after that conversation,
I immediately conducted my own
538
00:33:39,786 --> 00:33:43,223
interview with Michelle to see
what, if any, information that
539
00:33:43,323 --> 00:33:44,391
I could obtain.
540
00:33:44,491 --> 00:33:47,627
After back and forth for
approximately one hour,
541
00:33:47,727 --> 00:33:52,298
Michelle finally cracked
and agreed to tell me exactly
542
00:33:52,399 --> 00:33:53,400
what happened.
543
00:33:55,268 --> 00:33:58,772
Michelle Evans told me
the night before they committed
544
00:33:58,872 --> 00:34:03,910
the murders, they had a bonfire
at the camp, and they all were
545
00:34:04,010 --> 00:34:08,048
basically psyching themselves
out, going over to kill
546
00:34:08,148 --> 00:34:09,115
Franklin Raper.
547
00:34:10,450 --> 00:34:12,419
He was the target at that time.
548
00:34:13,687 --> 00:34:15,922
Besides Franklin Raper,
everybody else
549
00:34:16,022 --> 00:34:17,624
was at the wrong place at
the wrong time.
550
00:34:17,724 --> 00:34:20,760
The suspects had no idea
who was going to be there,
551
00:34:20,860 --> 00:34:25,365
but they were instructed by
Gerald Cruz not to leave
552
00:34:25,465 --> 00:34:28,668
any witnesses.
Everybody is to be killed.
553
00:34:30,704 --> 00:34:34,474
[Farnsworth]
She told them that when
Franklin first moved on to
554
00:34:34,574 --> 00:34:38,378
the property there at the camp,
he was friends with Gerald
555
00:34:38,478 --> 00:34:40,447
and the other members.
556
00:34:40,547 --> 00:34:42,282
But he didn't like what was
going on.
557
00:34:42,382 --> 00:34:47,253
He didn't like the brutality of
Cruz hurting other people.
558
00:34:47,354 --> 00:34:51,157
They tried to get him to
kind of be roped into
559
00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:52,258
this kind of thing,
560
00:34:52,359 --> 00:34:54,694
and there was no way
he was having it.
561
00:34:54,794 --> 00:34:58,565
I think he thought they were
capable of a lot of evil.
562
00:34:58,665 --> 00:35:03,737
[Farnsworth]
So he was done, and he tried to
get other people when he left
563
00:35:03,837 --> 00:35:07,073
to leave with him,
and that's why they were over
564
00:35:07,173 --> 00:35:09,309
at the house that night.
565
00:35:09,409 --> 00:35:11,878
Those were people that
he helped get out of there,
566
00:35:11,978 --> 00:35:15,248
and they kind of had their own
little group, and that was
567
00:35:15,348 --> 00:35:16,950
really ticking Cruz off.
568
00:35:20,053 --> 00:35:24,157
Franklin wasn't afraid to stand
up to Cruz, and I think that's
569
00:35:24,257 --> 00:35:28,228
one of the reasons why Cruz had
to eliminate him as a threat
570
00:35:28,328 --> 00:35:31,364
because how are you gonna
control your entire camp
571
00:35:31,464 --> 00:35:35,168
and you let this one person
basically leave without any
572
00:35:35,268 --> 00:35:36,436
type of repercussions?
573
00:35:38,304 --> 00:35:39,572
He had to take some kind
of action.
574
00:35:42,475 --> 00:35:47,480
[Det. Deckard]
Michelle Evans stated prior to
leaving over there, Gerald Cruz
575
00:35:47,580 --> 00:35:50,083
made everybody
their assignments, which window
576
00:35:50,183 --> 00:35:51,885
they're gonna to come through,
and which door.
577
00:35:57,724 --> 00:36:02,095
So she drove the car,
and they drove to Elm Street.
578
00:36:02,195 --> 00:36:07,200
Instead, she parked her car
over by the railroad tracks,
579
00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:09,836
and she pointed to where
we found the murder weapons.
580
00:36:09,936 --> 00:36:12,272
That's where
she parked the car.
581
00:36:12,372 --> 00:36:15,909
Michelle went into the home
before the murders occurred,
582
00:36:16,009 --> 00:36:18,678
because her sister lived there,
so they wouldn't think anything
583
00:36:18,778 --> 00:36:21,514
about Michelle just walking
into the house.
584
00:36:21,614 --> 00:36:23,450
[Sgt. Larson]
They were in that house,
585
00:36:23,550 --> 00:36:26,753
and Mr. Raper was extending
hospitality.
586
00:36:28,088 --> 00:36:30,056
Donna Alvarez was in bed.
587
00:36:34,894 --> 00:36:39,532
That's when Michelle went in
another bedroom and opened
588
00:36:39,632 --> 00:36:41,167
up the window.
589
00:36:41,267 --> 00:36:43,503
That's what the killers were
looking for.
590
00:36:47,607 --> 00:36:51,678
[Det. Deckard]
Michelle said somebody flipped
the breakers off at the house,
591
00:36:51,778 --> 00:36:54,247
which cut out the electricity
to the house.
592
00:37:00,820 --> 00:37:03,556
[Farnsworth]
That's when they went in there
like gangbusters, coming in
593
00:37:03,656 --> 00:37:05,992
the windows, in the doors,
594
00:37:06,092 --> 00:37:08,962
and they caught everybody
off guard.
595
00:37:09,062 --> 00:37:12,132
Those poor people must have
been so freaked out when those
596
00:37:12,232 --> 00:37:15,602
guys came in wearing
masks and everything,
597
00:37:15,702 --> 00:37:18,438
because they went right over
and started attacking them.
598
00:37:19,739 --> 00:37:22,575
[Det. Deckard]
Michelle said she was walking
outside, and she walked by
599
00:37:22,676 --> 00:37:25,845
a body right there in the front
yard and waited in the car
600
00:37:25,945 --> 00:37:27,247
until everything was over.
601
00:37:30,383 --> 00:37:32,719
Michelle Evans provided me
all the names
602
00:37:32,819 --> 00:37:34,220
of everybody was there.
603
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,956
With that information,
we put out a BOL, which is
604
00:37:37,057 --> 00:37:39,325
"be on the lookout,"
or all the names that
605
00:37:39,426 --> 00:37:43,096
we listed, and they're all
wanted for quadruple homicide.
606
00:37:44,898 --> 00:37:48,301
Dave Beck was already
in custody.
607
00:37:48,401 --> 00:37:52,339
The first individual that was
picked up was Ricky Vieira.
608
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,143
[Farnsworth]
And then Gerald Cruz,
who's the ringleader.
609
00:37:58,445 --> 00:38:01,815
[Det. Deckard]
Ron Willey was also arrested.
610
00:38:01,915 --> 00:38:06,219
[Farnsworth]
Everyone except Jason LaMarsh,
they couldn't find him.
611
00:38:06,319 --> 00:38:07,954
He's the final one they want,
612
00:38:09,055 --> 00:38:10,056
and they want him bad.
613
00:38:11,424 --> 00:38:16,062
[Det. Deckard]
LaMarsh, he had borrowed a car
and drove with a female to
614
00:38:16,162 --> 00:38:19,432
Oregon, and she
did not know what for.
615
00:38:19,532 --> 00:38:24,504
[Farnsworth]
And on the way up, he told her,
I was involved in the murders,
616
00:38:24,604 --> 00:38:27,374
the massacre on Elm Street.
617
00:38:27,474 --> 00:38:31,478
And she freaked out,
but she was cool about it.
618
00:38:32,846 --> 00:38:36,149
So when they got to Oregon,
a little town called Pendleton,
619
00:38:36,249 --> 00:38:38,885
they pulled in, got a motel.
620
00:38:38,985 --> 00:38:41,154
She's still freaked out,
thinking I'm here with
621
00:38:41,254 --> 00:38:42,255
this killer.
622
00:38:43,723 --> 00:38:46,559
So she finds a telephone.
623
00:38:46,659 --> 00:38:49,162
[Det. Deckard]
Pendleton Police Department
activated the SWAT team
624
00:38:51,731 --> 00:38:54,634
and took him down at the motel
where he was staying.
625
00:38:56,603 --> 00:38:59,839
[news broadcast intro
tune playing]
626
00:38:59,939 --> 00:39:02,008
[broadcaster]
Breaking news today
at Pendleton.
627
00:39:02,108 --> 00:39:06,513
Police have just made an arrest
at a local motel.
628
00:39:06,613 --> 00:39:09,315
[Farnsworth]
They arrested him
without incident.
629
00:39:09,416 --> 00:39:13,687
Detectives now have all
the suspects in custody.
630
00:39:13,787 --> 00:39:17,457
When they got into court,
the suspects, all five of them,
631
00:39:17,557 --> 00:39:19,125
were giddy almost.
632
00:39:19,225 --> 00:39:23,596
They were joking around that
they apparently didn't realize
633
00:39:23,697 --> 00:39:25,832
the severity of what
they had done.
634
00:39:25,932 --> 00:39:30,003
And it just angered
the families of the victims.
635
00:39:30,103 --> 00:39:33,840
[Kimberly]
It was really, really hard for
me for a long time to
636
00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:37,043
hear the details of the crime.
637
00:39:37,143 --> 00:39:38,478
They had no remorse at all.
638
00:39:38,578 --> 00:39:40,347
I know that for a fact.
639
00:39:40,447 --> 00:39:42,148
[Farnsworth]
Everything was a joke.
640
00:39:42,248 --> 00:39:44,718
Apparently, they thought
they were going to beat the rap
641
00:39:44,818 --> 00:39:48,321
and everybody was going to get
off and eventually go home.
642
00:39:50,123 --> 00:39:53,927
Jason LaMarsh and Ron Willey
were convicted of four counts
643
00:39:54,027 --> 00:39:56,429
of second-degree murder,
and were both sentenced to
644
00:39:56,529 --> 00:39:57,764
62 years in prison.
645
00:40:00,867 --> 00:40:04,070
For Ricky Vieira, he is on death
row right now in San Quentin,
646
00:40:04,170 --> 00:40:06,639
along with Dave Beck
and Gerald Cruz.
647
00:40:19,185 --> 00:40:22,856
[Kimberly]
When you take four people's
lives so violently like that,
648
00:40:22,956 --> 00:40:26,760
I don't know what justice would
be for a crime like that, to be
649
00:40:26,860 --> 00:40:28,161
honest with you.
650
00:40:28,261 --> 00:40:32,432
I actually told them, I want to
be able to forgive you,
651
00:40:32,532 --> 00:40:35,602
but I can never forget what
you did to my dad.
652
00:40:41,875 --> 00:40:45,578
After my dad was killed,
I had this dream.
653
00:40:45,679 --> 00:40:47,847
And it's um...
654
00:40:47,947 --> 00:40:50,750
...and it was my grandma,
his mom,
655
00:40:52,052 --> 00:40:55,155
and all she was saying was,
"It's about time you got
656
00:40:55,255 --> 00:40:57,190
here, Franklin.
I've been waiting for you."
657
00:41:00,827 --> 00:41:04,898
And so it gave me a lot of
comfort to have that dream,
658
00:41:04,998 --> 00:41:08,201
because that dream came to me,
and I knew...
659
00:41:09,369 --> 00:41:10,370
[voice breaking]
...Dad's OK.
660
00:41:11,638 --> 00:41:12,639
He's at peace.
661
00:41:16,776 --> 00:41:17,844
In Cincinnati,
we have RiverFest
662
00:41:17,944 --> 00:41:19,646
and it's the biggest event
of the year.
663
00:41:19,746 --> 00:41:21,214
They have music.
They have fireworks.
664
00:41:22,215 --> 00:41:23,083
When you're on night crew,
665
00:41:23,183 --> 00:41:24,818
you just sit around
waiting for death.
666
00:41:25,652 --> 00:41:26,619
They were wasting their time
looking at me.
667
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:28,188
WOMAN: Word was spreaking
among people.
668
00:41:28,288 --> 00:41:29,456
Would they be next?
669
00:41:29,556 --> 00:41:30,657
I was afraid to leave my house.
670
00:41:30,757 --> 00:41:33,326
MAN: We start off today
at a big party
671
00:41:33,426 --> 00:41:35,395
and we end up investigating
a murder.
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