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In Cincinnati, we have
River Fest, and it's the biggest
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event of the year.
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[Peterson] They have music,
they have fireworks,
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they have games for the kids.
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I mean, a little bit of
everything for everybody.
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[Sharon]
But you're really waiting for
the big event to happen.
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Where are you going to be to
watch the fireworks?
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[Det. Schare]
Based on being River Fest,
it would have been a skeleton
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crew at the police department.
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The night crew would work
six at night
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till two in the morning.
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[booming]
[cheering]
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And what we would say,
When you're on nights,
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you sit around
and wait for death.
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We start off the day
celebrating the end of
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summer at a big party,
and we ended up
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investigating a murder.
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[keypad-dialing tones]
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[over radio]
911, what's your emergency?
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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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[Det. Schare]
There was a 911 call that came
in to the police dispatch.
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[distant siren wailing]
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There was a foul odor coming
from a trash bin,
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maybe a dead dog, dead cat,
dead possum.
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[indistinct background chatter]
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The garbage bin was found in
the rear of the apartment
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building on Elm Street.
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The building is kind of like
an old brownstone.
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It's probably been there
since the 1800s.
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Officers noticed a bunch of
flies around the area.
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They looked into the trash bin
and saw maggots.
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[flies buzzing]
[dog distantly barks]
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Uniformed officers on scene,
just based on the smell,
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would know that it was probably
a decomposing human
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as opposed to a decomposing dog.
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It's something that--
it's ingrained in your psyche.
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There's no smell like it.
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[flies buzzing]
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The officer looked in,
saw a blanket, took out
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a knife, cut the blanket,
and moved the blanket away with
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a knife and saw a human leg.
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Officers put up crime scene
tape to cordon off the area.
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A crime scene's a piece of
evidence, so they decided not
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to pull the body out the scene.
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They made arrangements to have
it towed up to
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the coroner's office.
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[distant traffic sounds]
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The body was wrapped
in two blankets, a sheet,
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like a floral sheet, which had
some burn marks on it.
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Whoever disposed of the body
tried to more than likely set
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the body on fire.
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The problem was that one of
the blankets was fire
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retardant, so it never caught.
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At this point, whoever did it
went through great lengths to
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try to cover up the fact of
what he or she did.
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Once the body was out,
the body was unwrapped
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from the blanket.
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He was a black male, about
six-foot to six-foot-three,
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heavy set, probably
over 200 pounds.
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He was wearing blue jeans,
no shoes, and only one sock.
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He had no identification on
him, no cell phone, no jewelry
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to speak of.
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The only identifying mark were
a tattoo on his left forearm.
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It said "stacks."
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And the two Ses on the front
and the back were dollar signs.
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And a chain around his neck
with a key.
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It's September, right?
End of the summer.
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It's hot.
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A body will decompose at
a higher rate when it's hot,
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as opposed to cold.
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The coroner had determined
based on the maggots,
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the decomposition of the body,
that it was probably there
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at least from one to three days.
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So time of death probably would
have been around August 31st
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or September 1st.
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The coroner had said he was
cut, he was beaten,
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he was strangled.
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There was defensive wounds.
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His hands would have gone up
during the attack
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to try to protect himself,
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and he defended himself as
best he could.
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The victim was big,
and he was fighting back,
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and he went down hard.
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So they had to do a lot of
damage to finally kill him.
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He fought valiantly before
he finally succumbed.
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This is probably one of
the more vicious attacks based
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on the fact of everything
that was used.
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Someone who would do something
like this would be a predator.
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[Sharon] I was the Hamilton
County courts reporter for
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the Cincinnati Inquirer.
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So that involved covering all
of the crime that came
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through the courthouse.
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There was a lot of
violent crime.
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Shootings, homicides.
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The 2005 relationship between
the Cincinnati Police
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Department and the city
wasn't that good.
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Because in 2001,
Cincinnati police shot
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an innocent young man.
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[Sharon]
The death of an unarmed
black man set off
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days of rioting in Cincinnati.
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The kind of thing that we saw
recently with George Floyd
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happened then.
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[muffled crowd exclamations]
[fire crackling]
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[steady knocking]
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People were very distrustful.
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Everyone was holding
back information.
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They felt that they were
protecting their neighborhood
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by not giving information
to the police.
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Even if they managed to find
someone who had seen something,
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it's gonna be
a very difficult task.
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This was gonna be
an uphill battle.
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[distant siren wailing]
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[Det. Schare]
There was an urgency in this
case to identify the victim.
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Fingerprints were taken,
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blood and tissue samples were
taken in order to get DNA.
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We would then run John Doe
through the computer system,
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but DNA came back
with nothing in file.
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So that led us to believe that
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the person
had never been arrested.
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The biggest clue on who it was
would have been the tattoo.
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We looked
at the tattoo "$tack$,"
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and stacks is usually--
means a stack of cash.
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So based on that,
it led us to the motive.
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Maybe they got killed
for money.
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What we do on a crime scene is
we'll go back the next day
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and kind of do a recanvass to
see if there's anything
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we might have missed.
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We were able to come up with
a 911 caller who told us that
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on September 2, 2005,
she saw several individuals
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load something big into
the trash bin and rolling
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the trash bin out to the curb.
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She said it was suspicious to
her because this was the day
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after trash had been picked up.
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That's kind of like
the ding, ding, ding.
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The bells go off, and this is
somebody we want to talk to.
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[footsteps]
[clunking]
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[Sharon] One of the two people
was a woman,
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someone who had really
long hair.
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And this woman was with
a well-built man.
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[Det. Schare]
She did say that she saw
the maintenance man roll it
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back from the curb
a couple days later.
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And the odor in the trash bin
got more foul
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as the days went on.
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Based on her interview,
we were able to find the name
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of the maintenance man.
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He confirmed that he did roll
the container back to
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the alleyway from the street
corner a couple of days after
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it had been rolled out.
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[Sharon]
The fact that a body was found
in just everybody's like
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run-of-the-mill trash bin,
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people had to be very worried.
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[Peterson]
Some don't want to come forward
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because they don't want to
rock the boat.
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They didn't want to
become a victim.
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I'm all right as long as
I mind my own business,
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as long as I keep to myself.
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But some people realize
it can be you.
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And you have to come forward.
You have to do something.
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And your conscience gets
to you.
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How can I let this go on?
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People knew there was
a monster out there
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they were looking for.
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A person who would do this
is a predator.
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We knew at this point we had
a killer out there who had
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killed at least one person,
then we didn't know if there
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was other victims out there.
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Word was spreading
among people.
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What was happening?
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And could they be next?
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[Sharon] It was particularly
horrific
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just to find a body that
someone had abandoned in
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a trash can, and not to really
know what had happened,
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and not to know who did it.
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The people on Elm Street,
they were afraid.
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Over the Rhine is
a great place to live.
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It's absolutely beautiful.
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It has so much
history and character,
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but there's a lot of urban
myths that surround
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this Elm Street area.
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Just down the street is one of
Cincinnati's most historic
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buildings, Cincinnati
Music Hall.
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It is a big, grand building
with stained glass windows,
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But it was built where
there are graves.
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And ask anyone in Cincinnati,
and they'll tell you
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that Music Hall is haunted.
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[eery, tinkling music playing]
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There's always been rumors of
haunting in this area,
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but this was more terrifying
than any
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of these urban legends.
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This time, there was
a real-life killer.
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[suspenseful chord strikes]
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[Peterson]
People in the neighborhood,
they just know that somebody
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came in the community
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and ended up dead.
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And if it can happen to him,
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it can happen to me.
- [flies buzzing]
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And so they didn't want to
become a victim.
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[Sharon]
Detectives didn't know who
the victim was, so they had to
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label him John Doe.
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[Det. Schare] The biggest clue
was the tattoo.
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So what we did is we would get
a hold of Crimestoppers,
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and they would work with
their partners in the media
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that hey, homicide
is looking for somebody
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who had a tattoo of "$tack$."
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[Sharon]
Crimestoppers is used when
they really don't know who the
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victim is, somebody might call
because they want to remain
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anonymous, or somebody might
call just because they think
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they know something.
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[Peterson]
Every now and then, somebody is
gonna speak up and say,
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"No, no, I'm not gonna
allow this.
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I've seen too much."
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[phone trills]
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After a couple of days,
we got a call from a person by
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the name of Eric Wallace.
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He said he knew a person
who had a tattoo on
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his left forearm.
It said "$tack$,"
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and his name was Chris Amos.
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I tried to reach Chris a few
times on his cell phone,
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but he didn't answer.
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I didn't think really much of
it because
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that's a party weekend.
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But they ran
a Crimestoppers thing.
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They had found a body,
and they had no leads.
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They had just been able to
identify that there were
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tattoos saying "young $tack$."
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And I'm sitting there thinking,
like, well,
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I only know one person.
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I just was praying and praying
and praying that it wasn't him.
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[deep sigh]
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Chris Amos Jr.'s dad,
Chris Amos Sr., said that
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his son, Chris Amos Jr., lived
in Covington, Kentucky,
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which is right over the river
from where the body had been
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found, and that he lived in
an apartment there.
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[Det. Schare]
Mr. Amos provided us with
a photograph of his son.
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And from the photograph,
it matched the height
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and weight of the unidentified
body that we had.
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And based on the dental
records, we were able to
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identify the victim as
18-year-old Chris Amos Jr.
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Chris Amos Jr.
was my best friend.
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I was four or five years older,
but he's like a little brother
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to me.
He liked to joke a lot.
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He was a jokester.
He loved to tell funny stories.
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Chris loved to rap.
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He was as talented as anybody
I have ever been around in
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the music realm.
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He was very good at
what he did.
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Chris was one of
my best friends.
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♪ Baby, we can come through
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[hip hop music continues]
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♪ Baby, if you up,
you should come through ♪
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We met in high school.
We used to call him "Stacks."
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"You know Stacks over here?"
And I was like, "No."
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It was like, "He be rappin',"
and Stacks was Chris.
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So I introduced myself,
"Wassup man?"
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And then it was a rap
from there.
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We just kept going on,
battle rapping, and he was
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definitely competitive.
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Chris and his dad were so much
alike that they had
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butted heads.
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He wanted to live his own life
and not constantly be told how
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to live his life.
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[indistinct shouting]
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[Eric] Eventually, he wanted to
have his own apartment.
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[Calvin] Chris was
a hard worker.
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He finally moved
into his own place.
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Trying to be grown,
he took the first step
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in becoming the adult.
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[Eric] How could this have
happened?
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He didn't have, like,
mortal enemies.
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[Calvin] Chris's father
pulled up on me.
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Later on, he told me that
Chris had got murdered.
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Man, I bawled my eyes out
that-- me and his father
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was crying together.
And I couldn't--
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I couldn't bring myself to,
I don't know.
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It was heart-wrenching, man.
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[Peterson] The pain that
Mr. Amos felt, I mean, it's--
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you can't describe it.
It goes so deep.
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And sometimes that idea of
tough love,
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sometimes it gets real tough.
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Who would want to do this to--
what--
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what did he do to somebody?
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[Sharon]
So with little to go on,
detectives retrieved the key
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they found on Chris Amos' body.
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[Det. Schare]
We had that key.
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And since we had an address now
for where Chris Jr. lived,
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we went there with that key
and put it in a lock
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and it opened up the door.
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We didn't find any furniture
turned over.
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We didn't find any blood.
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We didn't find any
murder weapons.
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So that would be a good
indication that Chris wasn't
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killed at that location.
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His cell phone was not
in his apartment.
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So we knew that the cell phone
was missing.
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We then got the search warrant
on his cell phone number to get
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phone records and go back to
the date and time when
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Chris was killed.
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But cell phone records take
a while to get back.
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He had "young" here,
and "$tack$" here.
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He was 18, so called
himself "Stacks,"
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you know, everybody put
the "Young" on it.
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You were either a "Young,"
a "Lil", you know, Lil Wayne.
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"Young Stacks" just comes from
having stacks of money.
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[Sharon]
Seemed like a pretty big clue.
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Detectives believe that this is
the motive
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that they've been looking for.
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[Det. Schare]
You still have that theory that
it was a robbery,
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a set up robbery.
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[Eric]
But it was kind of ironic that
he called himself that,
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because he did not have
a lot of money.
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[Calvin] He did anything
to get some extra money.
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You know, you had to get
the money to pay the rent.
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[Calvin]
Chris didn't own a car,
and he didn't hang in those
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areas where he was found.
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Nobody knew why
he would be in Cincinnati.
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All the information we were
getting from people who knew
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him, he was a good kid,
he had several jobs.
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Chris worked at a nursing home.
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[Eric]
Me and my mom were able to help
Chris get a job at a very nice
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nursing home in
Covington, Kentucky.
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He was really good with
the elderly people.
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He got along really well,
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and every one of them
loved him.
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Chris would volunteer on some
of his lunch breaks to go get
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some of his favorite residents
and bring them down for lunch.
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[Calvin]
His co-workers were cool,
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[creaking]
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[suspenseful chord strikes]
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except for one of
his co-workers.
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[Det. Schare]
Mr. Amos did tell us a story
that Chris had some dispute
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with another employee at
the nursing home.
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This could be something as
callous as a co-worker who's so
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pissed off at him for some
perceived slight at work that
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they would do this to him.
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That's not unusual
in a case like this.
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[Sharon]
And they fought.
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And this person ended up
getting fired.
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And he blamed Chris.
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[Det. Schare]
Certainly a tip like that
we would have to follow up on
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because that certainly would be
a motive for a killing.
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[Det. Schare]
Chris worked at
the nursing home.
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He had some dispute with
another employee at
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the nursing home.
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We've had cases in the past
where there's disputes at work
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and led to a killing.
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That certainly would be
a motive because the type of
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injuries that Chris had on him
led us to believe that it was
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probably somebody who he knew,
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somebody who
he had a dispute with.
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We were able to follow up
on that lead.
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[Sharon]
Detectives showed up at
his co-worker's door.
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He admitted they did get in
a fight and that he didn't like
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Chris, but he said
he didn't kill him.
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[Det. Schare]
We were able to determine that
he was out of town at
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his aunt's house at the time of
the murder and he couldn't have
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committed the murder.
So that's a dead end.
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[flies buzzing]
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And we were very concerned that
this case may never get solved
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because every lead that we had
at the point
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was turning up nothing.
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[Sharon]
Chris's dad, Mr. Amos,
didn't know who could have
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killed his son
or what happened.
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[Peterson] It's important to him
to see justice done,
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and it's important to him to
feel whole again.
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He had to do something.
There's no way in the world
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he could just sit still.
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[Det. Schare]
Mr. Amos knew of the distrust
that the Black community had
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with police, and he was willing
to put feelers out
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in the community to try to find
out who killed his son.
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[Peterson] He wasn't thinking
about his own safety.
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He wasn't thinking
about himself.
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He was thinking about all
the things that he couldn't do
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for his son anymore.
But he could do that.
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He did come up with some leads.
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[Det. Schare]
I remember Mr. Amos saying
he found out that Chris was
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hanging out with
the wrong crowd.
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[Det. Schare]
But Mr. Amos didn't know who
Chris was hanging with.
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I mean, he had heard nicknames.
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In a street culture like this,
nobody knows anyone's
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real names.
Everyone has a nickname.
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It's a way to stay anonymous.
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[Sharon]
Why would a kid like Chris,
who had such big dreams and had
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never been in trouble,
be hanging around such
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unsavory characters?
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[Eric]
Chris was not that guy.
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That was not his,
you know, M.O.
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That was not his thing.
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That was not what he was
known for.
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[Det. Schare]
But we got some information
that Chris was selling.
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It's an easy way to make money.
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[Calvin]
He wasn't a street guy,
but he had to get the money to
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pay the rent.
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When you feel like your back is
against the wall,
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you normally do something that
you wouldn't normally do.
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You step out on a limb,
and sometimes
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those limbs break.
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And by the time you figure it
out, it's too late.
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[Det. Schare]
We didn't know who Chris was
hanging with that night.
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[loud music playing]
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Mr. Amos had given some
information about a rap studio
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that Chris would also go to.
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And it turned out that that
rap studio was on Elm Street.
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Based on the fact that Chris
was found on Elm Street,
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that was something that had to
be followed up on.
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[Calvin]
There were a few underground
recording studios.
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We would go to the studio,
and then we would rap.
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We got our phones, so we would
record, like, voice messages
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over us rapping over beats.
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Chris and Calvin were both
aspiring rappers.
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[number-dialing tones]
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Mr. Amos thought that maybe
there was some type
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of confrontation.
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[Sharon] Detectives knew that
this was a personal attack.
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So that pointed them in
the directions of someone
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who knew him.
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[Calvin]
A couple days later on,
I was riding down the street,
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hanging out, and I pulled up
to my house.
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And I seen two white men
in a suit.
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And they walked up to me like,
"Hey, are you Calvin Powell?"
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And I was like,
"No, my father's not here."
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And they was like,
"Yeah, you the one
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we looking for."
And I was like, "Uh, me?"
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And he said,
"Man, we're from Homicide."
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He said, Chris's father might
have implicated you.
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I'm like, "Wow, for real,
for the murder?"
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And they say, "Yeah."
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I was taken aback because
I was like, man,
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he blamed it on me.
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I'm like, how did he tell them
that I did it?
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Me, I was kind of like,
wow, his father, he really
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not playing.
That was scary.
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I told the detectives,
Chris and I got into a heated
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text message conversation.
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When I spoke to him that day,
he was at home.
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And we had got into
a confrontation about
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the people he was hanging with.
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I warned him because Chris had
no idea how dangerous those
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people were that
he was hanging with.
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He took it as me trying to
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go against him or test him.
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And he said some things
he shouldn't have said.
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I said some things
I shouldn't have said.
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And we were going back
and forth with it.
448
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That was the last time
I talked to him.
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And two days before, that was
the last time I had seen him
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ever again in life.
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Mr. Amos must have caught wind
of the text messages or read
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them because I was going
to the funeral.
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But I went to shake his dad's
hand, and he was like,
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"Where were you?"
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I said, "I don't know."
I was like, "I was here."
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And they were asking
me questions.
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I was crying.
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I found out they didn't want me
at the funeral because
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they thought I did it.
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I was hurt, man.
I was deeply hurt.
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But I knew I didn't do it.
And then I started getting mad.
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My feelings were hurt,
and I started getting angry.
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Every time someone tells
the police the truth,
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they say, you know how many
times I've heard that?
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I said, "Hey, I didn't do it."
I knew I didn't do it.
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That's crazy.
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[Det. Schare]
There was some type
of confrontation.
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Maybe things escalated.
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It's certainly something that
needs to be followed up on.
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But y'all investigating me,
you are doing your job.
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But are you, though?
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They were wasting their time
looking at me, instead of
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focusing on who actually
did it.
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[Sharon]
The people on Elm Street in
Cincinnati and the people in
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Covington, Kentucky,
they were afraid.
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They still didn't know
who did this.
477
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Was this killer gonna
strike again?
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[Calvin]
I was definitely cautious.
It's like a Zodiac killer.
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You just walking around
chilling, bam, somebody killed.
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You don't really know when
it's gonna happen or what's
481
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,689
gonna happen or who's doing it.
482
00:27:54,896 --> 00:27:56,310
So they were scared.
483
00:27:58,482 --> 00:28:00,000
I was afraid to leave my house.
484
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,655
When you have traumatic
experiences, your body,
485
00:28:03,655 --> 00:28:06,379
your brain reacts in
certain ways.
486
00:28:06,379 --> 00:28:09,827
Well, my reaction was,
I ain't leaving the house.
487
00:28:11,275 --> 00:28:15,689
[Sharon]
Detectives didn't know what
else the killer was capable of.
488
00:28:15,689 --> 00:28:18,000
There was no telling
what was next.
489
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,931
Based on the circumstances
that we thought at that time,
490
00:28:22,931 --> 00:28:24,517
yeah, there was a good
indication that
491
00:28:25,586 --> 00:28:27,000
he or she would kill again.
492
00:28:30,862 --> 00:28:33,310
And the information that
Mr. Amos gave us was that there
493
00:28:33,310 --> 00:28:35,517
could have been some dispute
or something between
494
00:28:35,517 --> 00:28:37,000
Calvin and Chris.
495
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,620
That was something that had to
be followed up on based on
496
00:28:40,620 --> 00:28:42,689
the fact that Chris's body was
found on Elm Street
497
00:28:42,689 --> 00:28:45,931
and the studio was also
supposedly on Elm Street.
498
00:28:47,344 --> 00:28:49,275
[Calvin]
Yeah, I had a alibi.
499
00:28:49,275 --> 00:28:52,275
They ruled me out because no
evidence led back to me.
500
00:28:52,275 --> 00:28:55,896
[Det. Schare]
We had ruled Calvin out
as a suspect.
501
00:28:55,896 --> 00:28:58,103
He couldn't have
committed the murder.
502
00:28:58,103 --> 00:29:00,310
[Calvin]
I was hurt, man.
I was deeply hurt.
503
00:29:00,310 --> 00:29:02,586
When you're hurt, it just turns
into a lot of anger sometimes.
504
00:29:02,586 --> 00:29:05,482
I was young, and I was just mad
at that man.
505
00:29:05,482 --> 00:29:09,482
And I still kind of am upset
about that, but I don't hold
506
00:29:09,482 --> 00:29:11,931
any grudges or anything to him.
507
00:29:11,931 --> 00:29:14,000
He was a father
who lost his son.
508
00:29:16,482 --> 00:29:21,379
We were very concerned that
this case may never get solved.
509
00:29:33,344 --> 00:29:37,758
Once we got the records back,
we went back and concentrated
510
00:29:37,758 --> 00:29:41,689
on incoming and outgoing calls
between August 31st
511
00:29:41,689 --> 00:29:44,482
and September 1st of 2005.
512
00:29:44,482 --> 00:29:46,758
Around the time of death or
what we thought
513
00:29:46,758 --> 00:29:48,413
the time of death was,
514
00:29:53,275 --> 00:29:57,172
we were able to determine there
was at least 29 phone calls
515
00:29:57,172 --> 00:30:00,379
that came in or out of
Chris's cell phone
516
00:30:00,379 --> 00:30:02,862
after his time of death.
517
00:30:02,862 --> 00:30:05,275
Somebody was still using
Chris's cell phone.
518
00:30:10,137 --> 00:30:12,931
[Sharon]
Detectives worked down the list
of calls that had been made,
519
00:30:12,931 --> 00:30:16,000
and they pinpointed the name
Jenna Gundy.
520
00:30:17,172 --> 00:30:19,241
Police called her in
for questioning.
521
00:30:19,241 --> 00:30:23,068
[Det. Schare]
She was upset, didn't know why
she was being called down here,
522
00:30:23,068 --> 00:30:25,379
which is typical,
said she didn't know
523
00:30:25,379 --> 00:30:27,931
who Chris was, didn't have
anything to do with it.
524
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,931
She had said that she had let
two of her friends
525
00:30:31,931 --> 00:30:33,310
us her cell phone,
526
00:30:33,310 --> 00:30:36,379
and she thought that maybe one
of her friends had known Chris
527
00:30:36,379 --> 00:30:37,862
or someone named Chris.
528
00:30:42,034 --> 00:30:45,620
Also, one of the calls that
piqued our interest was a call
529
00:30:45,620 --> 00:30:48,275
to La Rosa's Pizzeria
in Cincinnati.
530
00:30:49,275 --> 00:30:51,655
You have to give a name,
especially for delivery.
531
00:30:51,655 --> 00:30:55,103
Maybe a pizza was delivered
to an address.
532
00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:58,068
Hey, maybe that's
the crime scene.
533
00:30:58,068 --> 00:31:01,482
[Sharon]
And when police did check that,
the order had been placed under
534
00:31:01,482 --> 00:31:04,344
Winnie Cartwright's name,
and Winnie Cartwright
535
00:31:04,344 --> 00:31:05,586
was one of the friends
536
00:31:05,586 --> 00:31:07,724
Jenna Gundy let her
use her phone.
537
00:31:09,103 --> 00:31:12,551
[Det. Schare] Winnie Cartwright
came in for an interview.
538
00:31:12,551 --> 00:31:15,000
Her demeanor was that
she didn't know why
539
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,413
she was coming in.
540
00:31:16,413 --> 00:31:18,310
She said that she
and her boyfriend had lost
541
00:31:18,310 --> 00:31:20,310
her cell phone,
and she bought this for $10.
542
00:31:21,448 --> 00:31:24,931
She said she bought the phone
from a person by the name of
Teayha Webb.
543
00:31:24,931 --> 00:31:27,862
So when she said "Teayha Webb,"
that rang a bell to us because
544
00:31:27,862 --> 00:31:30,517
that was the other person
who used her cell phone.
545
00:31:54,758 --> 00:31:57,827
[Det. Schare]
We did a computer search on
Teayha, found out that
546
00:31:57,827 --> 00:32:00,448
she came up on Elm Street.
547
00:32:00,448 --> 00:32:04,034
Knowing that she lived on
Elm Street and Chris's body was
548
00:32:04,034 --> 00:32:06,724
found on Elm Street,
we knew that was someone
549
00:32:06,724 --> 00:32:10,586
we needed to talk to.
We went out to that location,
550
00:32:11,482 --> 00:32:13,000
got in contact with her.
551
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,586
She was willing to come in
for an interview.
552
00:32:18,896 --> 00:32:21,275
She was saying she didn't know
anything that was going on.
553
00:32:21,275 --> 00:32:23,034
You know, why is she here?
554
00:32:23,034 --> 00:32:25,068
But after a while,
she finally admitted that
555
00:32:25,068 --> 00:32:27,310
she knew who Chris was.
556
00:32:34,758 --> 00:32:38,586
[Sharon]
The fact that she knew Chris
and lived right by where
557
00:32:38,586 --> 00:32:41,000
his body had been found,
that was enough.
558
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,620
They went
and got a search warrant.
559
00:32:44,758 --> 00:32:47,931
[Det. Schare]
When we went in,
we noticed the place was
560
00:32:47,931 --> 00:32:49,241
kind of disheveled.
561
00:32:50,448 --> 00:32:53,310
We were able to go back
into the bedroom.
562
00:32:53,310 --> 00:32:55,000
We found some sheets
563
00:32:55,862 --> 00:32:59,379
that had the similar pattern on
the sheets that we found
564
00:32:59,379 --> 00:33:00,724
Chris's body wrapped in.
565
00:33:03,172 --> 00:33:07,206
And we also found a metal pipe
and at least two box cutters.
566
00:33:08,793 --> 00:33:11,482
We also found some blood
spatter back in the back
567
00:33:11,482 --> 00:33:15,931
bedroom where the box cutters
and the pole were also found.
568
00:33:17,896 --> 00:33:21,103
Based on all the things that
we found, the box cutters,
569
00:33:21,103 --> 00:33:23,448
knowing that Chris had been
cut, we assumed that could have
570
00:33:23,448 --> 00:33:26,965
been one of the weapons
and a pipe found there,
571
00:33:26,965 --> 00:33:30,448
knowing that Chris had blunt
force trauma-- it was nice to
572
00:33:30,448 --> 00:33:32,896
know that we probably found
our crime scene.
573
00:33:34,482 --> 00:33:36,034
Back in the office,
we said,
574
00:33:36,034 --> 00:33:37,689
"What do you know about this?"
575
00:33:37,689 --> 00:33:40,000
She said, something to
the effect of, "I'm not the one
576
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,241
"who killed him.
577
00:33:41,241 --> 00:33:43,793
I'm not going down for this,
but I knew who did it."
578
00:33:56,655 --> 00:34:01,827
On November 16, 2005, Teayha
Webb agreed to give a formal
579
00:34:01,827 --> 00:34:04,965
statement on what she knew
about the murder of
580
00:34:04,965 --> 00:34:06,586
Chris Amos Jr...
581
00:34:17,172 --> 00:34:20,241
Teayha said that her boyfriend,
Donald Jones, wanted to rob
582
00:34:20,241 --> 00:34:23,275
Chris because Donald Jones had
owed Chris money.
583
00:34:23,275 --> 00:34:26,000
He also heard that Chris had
made a lot of money,
584
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,413
so they assumed
that he was flush with cash.
585
00:34:29,862 --> 00:34:32,689
We also had some information,
too, that Chris might have had
586
00:34:32,689 --> 00:34:33,896
a thing for Teayha.
587
00:34:33,896 --> 00:34:37,758
So the plan was for Teayha to
get Chris to come down
588
00:34:37,758 --> 00:34:39,000
to her apartment.
589
00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:42,103
Teayha Webb was a honeypot.
590
00:34:42,103 --> 00:34:45,827
Honeypot is a female who lures
men to be robbed
591
00:34:45,827 --> 00:34:47,172
by their boyfriend.
592
00:34:47,172 --> 00:34:50,172
So she admitted that she was
the honeypot to lure Chris down
593
00:34:50,172 --> 00:34:51,655
to that location.
594
00:34:52,586 --> 00:34:56,137
[Sharon]
On September 1, 2005,
Donald Jones brought along
595
00:34:56,137 --> 00:35:00,241
his friends, Tony Frye
and Keith Bond, to help out.
596
00:35:15,103 --> 00:35:19,034
[Sharon]
Police then set out to find
Tony Frye and Keith Bond.
597
00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:22,103
It didn't take them long to
find Bond and Frye.
598
00:35:22,103 --> 00:35:25,482
They were in the Justice Center
on another crime.
599
00:35:27,241 --> 00:35:30,137
[Det. Schare]
I made arrangements for them to
be transported over to CIS,
600
00:35:30,137 --> 00:35:32,137
the criminal
investigation section.
601
00:35:32,137 --> 00:35:35,000
They both said that they had
a part in it.
602
00:36:08,586 --> 00:36:11,724
[screeching noises]
603
00:36:18,862 --> 00:36:21,413
[man grunts]
[indistinct conversations]
604
00:36:28,068 --> 00:36:32,103
They said that they had Chris
tied up, and that they were
605
00:36:32,103 --> 00:36:34,034
trying to find out
where Chris' stash was,
606
00:36:34,034 --> 00:36:35,344
both drugs and money.
607
00:36:35,344 --> 00:36:38,517
They said he was denying that
he had anything.
608
00:36:43,689 --> 00:36:46,517
And Jones was taking
a cigarette and burning Chris's
609
00:36:46,517 --> 00:36:50,482
arms, forearms with it to try
to get him to say where it was.
610
00:36:51,965 --> 00:36:54,448
He was struggling.
He was fighting back.
611
00:36:54,448 --> 00:36:57,137
[violent rustling]
[grunting]
612
00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:49,482
[suspenseful chord strike]
613
00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:05,241
They did this while
Teayha Webb's son
614
00:38:05,241 --> 00:38:08,793
was in the next room,
Chris was pleading
615
00:38:08,793 --> 00:38:12,758
for his life, and this
little boy heard everything.
616
00:38:12,758 --> 00:38:15,586
When they were done,
they took everything Chris had.
617
00:38:15,586 --> 00:38:19,517
And it wasn't that much.
He had $7 on him.
618
00:38:19,517 --> 00:38:22,172
In fact, the most valuable
thing he had were
619
00:38:22,172 --> 00:38:24,931
his Timberland boots.
So they took those.
620
00:38:26,689 --> 00:38:30,137
[Det. Schare]
Keith Bond also said that
he actually disguised himself
621
00:38:30,137 --> 00:38:32,827
putting on a wig
so he wouldn't get noticed.
622
00:38:32,827 --> 00:38:34,551
No one would know who he was
when he wheeled
623
00:38:34,551 --> 00:38:36,275
the trash can out.
624
00:38:37,689 --> 00:38:41,689
Bond and Frye admitted that they
were there, but they wanted to
625
00:38:41,689 --> 00:38:43,551
minimize what they did.
626
00:38:43,551 --> 00:38:47,724
But for us, for a confession
like that, all we need is for
627
00:38:47,724 --> 00:38:50,172
them to admit that they were
on scene.
628
00:38:50,172 --> 00:38:54,000
They all said that Donald Jones
was the main culprit.
629
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:58,379
Donald Jones had no qualms
about killing somebody, none.
630
00:38:59,586 --> 00:39:02,655
[Sharon]
When police picked up
32-year-old Donald Jones,
631
00:39:02,655 --> 00:39:04,689
he claimed he didn't know
anything about the murder.
632
00:39:04,689 --> 00:39:06,965
And he said he didn't even
know Webb.
633
00:39:06,965 --> 00:39:10,862
But they had found a letter in
Webb's apartment with his name.
634
00:39:10,862 --> 00:39:14,344
[Det. Schare]
During the interview, one of
the things that we can do is
635
00:39:14,344 --> 00:39:18,344
use evidence that we don't
necessarily have as a way to
636
00:39:18,344 --> 00:39:20,862
elicit a certain response.
637
00:39:20,862 --> 00:39:24,724
And we had said that we had
fingerprints on a trash bag.
638
00:39:26,275 --> 00:39:29,413
Once we told him that,
he started to sob
639
00:39:29,413 --> 00:39:31,172
and admitted that he did it.
640
00:39:39,241 --> 00:39:40,586
[Peterson]
No conscience.
641
00:39:40,586 --> 00:39:43,448
It's almost medieval,
you know, what he did.
642
00:39:43,448 --> 00:39:47,793
Execution style.
Holding somebody down.
643
00:39:47,793 --> 00:39:49,275
I don't think he had a heart.
644
00:39:50,379 --> 00:39:52,689
Whatever he had beating inside
of him, it couldn't have
645
00:39:52,689 --> 00:39:53,931
been a heart.
646
00:39:54,793 --> 00:39:58,206
Months later,
all four pled guilty.
647
00:39:59,379 --> 00:40:03,448
Donald Jones
got a life sentence.
648
00:40:03,448 --> 00:40:05,379
Frye was sentenced to ten years,
649
00:40:05,379 --> 00:40:08,172
and Bond was sentenced
to 24 years.
650
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,172
Teayha Webb ended up getting
five years of probation for
651
00:40:13,172 --> 00:40:14,724
tampering with evidence.
652
00:40:16,655 --> 00:40:20,965
[Peterson]
For Mr. Amos, it's hard to
mention his son's name,
653
00:40:20,965 --> 00:40:24,586
because sometimes you mention
your child's name, things flash
654
00:40:24,586 --> 00:40:26,103
through your
mind subconsciously.
655
00:40:26,103 --> 00:40:27,620
Remember this
and that and that.
656
00:40:27,620 --> 00:40:29,000
To mention that name,
657
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,655
that can basically
increase the grief.
658
00:40:32,655 --> 00:40:36,517
He's not the same man that
he was before his son died.
659
00:40:38,137 --> 00:40:39,379
It's a different person.
660
00:40:40,275 --> 00:40:43,931
That name doesn't mean
the same now.
661
00:40:43,931 --> 00:40:47,827
I cannot tell you how much
it still
662
00:40:49,275 --> 00:40:54,482
just really hurts to this day
to realize that somebody had it
663
00:40:54,482 --> 00:40:56,724
in their heart to kill him.
664
00:40:56,724 --> 00:40:59,896
I just, I still can't figure
it out.
665
00:40:59,896 --> 00:41:04,620
I really can't.
I loved him dearly.
666
00:41:04,620 --> 00:41:07,068
I still love him to this day.
667
00:41:09,275 --> 00:41:11,931
And what I miss about him most
was, for real,
668
00:41:11,931 --> 00:41:13,000
was his smile, man.
669
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,413
He had a crazy little kinda
sideways smile.
670
00:41:17,896 --> 00:41:20,000
I miss him, period, man.
He was my friend.
671
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,620
Miss everything about the guy,
you know what I'm saying?
672
00:41:21,620 --> 00:41:23,931
It was just, that was just
my dude, man.
673
00:41:25,689 --> 00:41:27,000
Amen.
674
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:28,137
May God rest your
soul, brother.
675
00:41:28,137 --> 00:41:29,448
We'll see you on the other
side, man.
676
00:41:29,448 --> 00:41:30,586
Love you and miss you.
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