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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:23,482 --> 00:00:25,896 In Cincinnati, we have River Fest, and it's the biggest 2 00:00:25,896 --> 00:00:27,206 event of the year. 3 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:29,482 [Peterson] They have music, they have fireworks, 4 00:00:29,482 --> 00:00:31,000 they have games for the kids. 5 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:33,758 I mean, a little bit of everything for everybody. 6 00:00:33,758 --> 00:00:37,000 [Sharon] But you're really waiting for the big event to happen. 7 00:00:38,689 --> 00:00:41,034 Where are you going to be to watch the fireworks? 8 00:00:42,068 --> 00:00:45,793 [Det. Schare] Based on being River Fest, it would have been a skeleton 9 00:00:45,793 --> 00:00:47,965 crew at the police department. 10 00:00:47,965 --> 00:00:49,896 The night crew would work six at night 11 00:00:49,896 --> 00:00:51,172 till two in the morning. 12 00:00:51,172 --> 00:00:53,827 [booming] [cheering] 13 00:00:57,482 --> 00:01:00,448 And what we would say, When you're on nights, 14 00:01:00,448 --> 00:01:01,862 you sit around and wait for death. 15 00:01:03,275 --> 00:01:06,379 We start off the day celebrating the end of 16 00:01:06,379 --> 00:01:09,689 summer at a big party, and we ended up 17 00:01:09,689 --> 00:01:10,793 investigating a murder. 18 00:01:10,793 --> 00:01:12,103 [keypad-dialing tones] 19 00:01:12,103 --> 00:01:14,000 [over radio] 911, what's your emergency? 20 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,000 [eerie "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" playing] 21 00:01:17,689 --> 00:01:19,655 [children eerily singing] 22 00:01:23,172 --> 00:01:25,241 [theme music continues] 23 00:01:35,896 --> 00:01:37,965 [theme music intensifies] 24 00:01:50,827 --> 00:01:52,448 [theme music mellows] 25 00:01:59,586 --> 00:02:02,896 [Det. Schare] There was a 911 call that came in to the police dispatch. 26 00:02:02,896 --> 00:02:04,862 [distant siren wailing] 27 00:02:07,896 --> 00:02:10,931 There was a foul odor coming from a trash bin, 28 00:02:12,793 --> 00:02:15,482 maybe a dead dog, dead cat, dead possum. 29 00:02:15,482 --> 00:02:17,137 [indistinct background chatter] 30 00:02:24,896 --> 00:02:27,586 The garbage bin was found in the rear of the apartment 31 00:02:27,586 --> 00:02:29,137 building on Elm Street. 32 00:02:31,793 --> 00:02:34,586 The building is kind of like an old brownstone. 33 00:02:34,586 --> 00:02:36,931 It's probably been there since the 1800s. 34 00:02:38,896 --> 00:02:42,689 Officers noticed a bunch of flies around the area. 35 00:02:42,689 --> 00:02:46,206 They looked into the trash bin and saw maggots. 36 00:02:47,896 --> 00:02:50,310 [flies buzzing] [dog distantly barks] 37 00:02:53,586 --> 00:02:56,793 Uniformed officers on scene, just based on the smell, 38 00:02:56,793 --> 00:02:59,379 would know that it was probably a decomposing human 39 00:02:59,379 --> 00:03:02,137 as opposed to a decomposing dog. 40 00:03:02,137 --> 00:03:05,551 It's something that-- it's ingrained in your psyche. 41 00:03:05,551 --> 00:03:07,000 There's no smell like it. 42 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,275 [flies buzzing] 43 00:03:09,275 --> 00:03:12,482 The officer looked in, saw a blanket, took out 44 00:03:12,482 --> 00:03:15,689 a knife, cut the blanket, and moved the blanket away with 45 00:03:15,689 --> 00:03:17,413 a knife and saw a human leg. 46 00:03:25,413 --> 00:03:29,689 Officers put up crime scene tape to cordon off the area. 47 00:03:29,689 --> 00:03:32,689 A crime scene's a piece of evidence, so they decided not 48 00:03:32,689 --> 00:03:34,655 to pull the body out the scene. 49 00:03:34,655 --> 00:03:36,896 They made arrangements to have it towed up to 50 00:03:36,896 --> 00:03:38,137 the coroner's office. 51 00:03:39,620 --> 00:03:41,310 [distant traffic sounds] 52 00:03:42,482 --> 00:03:46,172 The body was wrapped in two blankets, a sheet, 53 00:03:46,172 --> 00:03:50,655 like a floral sheet, which had some burn marks on it. 54 00:03:52,103 --> 00:03:56,344 Whoever disposed of the body tried to more than likely set 55 00:03:56,344 --> 00:03:57,586 the body on fire. 56 00:03:57,586 --> 00:04:01,068 The problem was that one of the blankets was fire 57 00:04:01,068 --> 00:04:03,689 retardant, so it never caught. 58 00:04:03,689 --> 00:04:06,655 At this point, whoever did it went through great lengths to 59 00:04:06,655 --> 00:04:09,862 try to cover up the fact of what he or she did. 60 00:04:12,275 --> 00:04:15,172 Once the body was out, the body was unwrapped 61 00:04:15,172 --> 00:04:16,586 from the blanket. 62 00:04:17,482 --> 00:04:21,896 He was a black male, about six-foot to six-foot-three, 63 00:04:21,896 --> 00:04:24,517 heavy set, probably over 200 pounds. 64 00:04:25,620 --> 00:04:30,000 He was wearing blue jeans, no shoes, and only one sock. 65 00:04:31,689 --> 00:04:35,655 He had no identification on him, no cell phone, no jewelry 66 00:04:35,655 --> 00:04:37,344 to speak of. 67 00:04:37,344 --> 00:04:40,586 The only identifying mark were a tattoo on his left forearm. 68 00:04:40,586 --> 00:04:41,896 It said "stacks." 69 00:04:41,896 --> 00:04:46,344 And the two Ses on the front and the back were dollar signs. 70 00:04:47,172 --> 00:04:49,310 And a chain around his neck with a key. 71 00:04:51,517 --> 00:04:54,172 It's September, right? End of the summer. 72 00:04:54,172 --> 00:04:56,137 It's hot. 73 00:04:56,137 --> 00:04:59,275 A body will decompose at a higher rate when it's hot, 74 00:04:59,275 --> 00:05:00,896 as opposed to cold. 75 00:05:00,896 --> 00:05:04,586 The coroner had determined based on the maggots, 76 00:05:04,586 --> 00:05:07,482 the decomposition of the body, that it was probably there 77 00:05:07,482 --> 00:05:10,172 at least from one to three days. 78 00:05:10,172 --> 00:05:13,000 So time of death probably would have been around August 31st 79 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,068 or September 1st. 80 00:05:15,068 --> 00:05:18,448 The coroner had said he was cut, he was beaten, 81 00:05:18,448 --> 00:05:20,103 he was strangled. 82 00:05:24,172 --> 00:05:25,275 There was defensive wounds. 83 00:05:25,275 --> 00:05:27,793 His hands would have gone up during the attack 84 00:05:27,793 --> 00:05:29,241 to try to protect himself, 85 00:05:29,241 --> 00:05:32,551 and he defended himself as best he could. 86 00:05:32,551 --> 00:05:35,103 The victim was big, and he was fighting back, 87 00:05:35,103 --> 00:05:36,896 and he went down hard. 88 00:05:36,896 --> 00:05:40,275 So they had to do a lot of damage to finally kill him. 89 00:05:40,275 --> 00:05:44,724 He fought valiantly before he finally succumbed. 90 00:05:46,724 --> 00:05:49,896 This is probably one of the more vicious attacks based 91 00:05:49,896 --> 00:05:52,413 on the fact of everything that was used. 92 00:05:54,413 --> 00:05:57,862 Someone who would do something like this would be a predator. 93 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,172 [Sharon] I was the Hamilton County courts reporter for 94 00:06:04,172 --> 00:06:05,482 the Cincinnati Inquirer. 95 00:06:05,482 --> 00:06:08,586 So that involved covering all of the crime that came 96 00:06:08,586 --> 00:06:09,965 through the courthouse. 97 00:06:09,965 --> 00:06:12,172 There was a lot of violent crime. 98 00:06:12,172 --> 00:06:15,379 Shootings, homicides. 99 00:06:15,379 --> 00:06:18,448 The 2005 relationship between the Cincinnati Police 100 00:06:18,448 --> 00:06:21,965 Department and the city wasn't that good. 101 00:06:21,965 --> 00:06:25,551 Because in 2001, Cincinnati police shot 102 00:06:25,551 --> 00:06:26,965 an innocent young man. 103 00:06:30,413 --> 00:06:33,275 [Sharon] The death of an unarmed black man set off 104 00:06:33,275 --> 00:06:35,482 days of rioting in Cincinnati. 105 00:06:35,482 --> 00:06:39,000 The kind of thing that we saw recently with George Floyd 106 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:40,000 happened then. 107 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:41,482 [muffled crowd exclamations] [fire crackling] 108 00:06:41,482 --> 00:06:43,000 [steady knocking] 109 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,793 People were very distrustful. 110 00:06:44,793 --> 00:06:47,000 Everyone was holding back information. 111 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,896 They felt that they were protecting their neighborhood 112 00:06:49,896 --> 00:06:52,310 by not giving information to the police. 113 00:06:53,482 --> 00:06:56,655 Even if they managed to find someone who had seen something, 114 00:06:56,655 --> 00:06:58,275 it's gonna be a very difficult task. 115 00:06:58,275 --> 00:07:00,275 This was gonna be an uphill battle. 116 00:07:00,275 --> 00:07:02,103 [distant siren wailing] 117 00:07:03,689 --> 00:07:06,275 [Det. Schare] There was an urgency in this case to identify the victim. 118 00:07:06,275 --> 00:07:08,482 Fingerprints were taken, 119 00:07:08,482 --> 00:07:13,034 blood and tissue samples were taken in order to get DNA. 120 00:07:13,034 --> 00:07:16,655 We would then run John Doe through the computer system, 121 00:07:16,655 --> 00:07:20,482 but DNA came back with nothing in file. 122 00:07:20,482 --> 00:07:22,172 So that led us to believe that 123 00:07:22,172 --> 00:07:24,241 the person had never been arrested. 124 00:07:24,241 --> 00:07:28,000 The biggest clue on who it was would have been the tattoo. 125 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,172 We looked at the tattoo "$tack$," 126 00:07:31,172 --> 00:07:34,586 and stacks is usually-- means a stack of cash. 127 00:07:34,586 --> 00:07:37,379 So based on that, it led us to the motive. 128 00:07:37,379 --> 00:07:40,103 Maybe they got killed for money. 129 00:07:42,724 --> 00:07:47,034 What we do on a crime scene is we'll go back the next day 130 00:07:47,034 --> 00:07:49,586 and kind of do a recanvass to see if there's anything 131 00:07:49,586 --> 00:07:51,034 we might have missed. 132 00:07:59,896 --> 00:08:03,689 We were able to come up with a 911 caller who told us that 133 00:08:03,689 --> 00:08:07,379 on September 2, 2005, she saw several individuals 134 00:08:07,379 --> 00:08:11,448 load something big into the trash bin and rolling 135 00:08:11,448 --> 00:08:13,517 the trash bin out to the curb. 136 00:08:14,689 --> 00:08:17,482 She said it was suspicious to her because this was the day 137 00:08:17,482 --> 00:08:20,000 after trash had been picked up. 138 00:08:21,275 --> 00:08:23,689 That's kind of like the ding, ding, ding. 139 00:08:23,689 --> 00:08:26,551 The bells go off, and this is somebody we want to talk to. 140 00:08:26,551 --> 00:08:28,241 [footsteps] [clunking] 141 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,034 [Sharon] One of the two people was a woman, 142 00:08:32,034 --> 00:08:34,000 someone who had really long hair. 143 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,310 And this woman was with a well-built man. 144 00:08:39,793 --> 00:08:44,448 [Det. Schare] She did say that she saw the maintenance man roll it 145 00:08:44,448 --> 00:08:47,482 back from the curb a couple days later. 146 00:08:47,482 --> 00:08:52,275 And the odor in the trash bin got more foul 147 00:08:52,275 --> 00:08:54,310 as the days went on. 148 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,103 Based on her interview, we were able to find the name 149 00:08:58,103 --> 00:08:59,482 of the maintenance man. 150 00:09:00,413 --> 00:09:03,586 He confirmed that he did roll the container back to 151 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:06,793 the alleyway from the street corner a couple of days after 152 00:09:06,793 --> 00:09:08,310 it had been rolled out. 153 00:09:20,896 --> 00:09:24,448 [Sharon] The fact that a body was found in just everybody's like 154 00:09:24,448 --> 00:09:26,413 run-of-the-mill trash bin, 155 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,931 people had to be very worried. 156 00:09:31,379 --> 00:09:32,586 [Peterson] Some don't want to come forward 157 00:09:32,586 --> 00:09:34,172 because they don't want to rock the boat. 158 00:09:34,172 --> 00:09:36,034 They didn't want to become a victim. 159 00:09:36,034 --> 00:09:39,275 I'm all right as long as I mind my own business, 160 00:09:39,275 --> 00:09:41,275 as long as I keep to myself. 161 00:09:41,275 --> 00:09:44,655 But some people realize it can be you. 162 00:09:44,655 --> 00:09:47,551 And you have to come forward. You have to do something. 163 00:09:47,551 --> 00:09:49,896 And your conscience gets to you. 164 00:09:49,896 --> 00:09:52,103 How can I let this go on? 165 00:09:52,103 --> 00:09:54,379 People knew there was a monster out there 166 00:09:54,379 --> 00:09:56,689 they were looking for. 167 00:09:56,689 --> 00:09:59,931 A person who would do this is a predator. 168 00:10:00,931 --> 00:10:03,689 We knew at this point we had a killer out there who had 169 00:10:03,689 --> 00:10:07,448 killed at least one person, then we didn't know if there 170 00:10:07,448 --> 00:10:09,620 was other victims out there. 171 00:10:10,689 --> 00:10:12,724 Word was spreading among people. 172 00:10:14,275 --> 00:10:15,724 What was happening? 173 00:10:16,896 --> 00:10:19,034 And could they be next? 174 00:10:33,827 --> 00:10:37,137 [Sharon] It was particularly horrific 175 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:39,896 just to find a body that someone had abandoned in 176 00:10:39,896 --> 00:10:44,241 a trash can, and not to really know what had happened, 177 00:10:44,241 --> 00:10:45,931 and not to know who did it. 178 00:10:47,172 --> 00:10:50,413 The people on Elm Street, they were afraid. 179 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,793 Over the Rhine is a great place to live. 180 00:10:55,793 --> 00:10:57,482 It's absolutely beautiful. 181 00:10:57,482 --> 00:11:00,310 It has so much history and character, 182 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,068 but there's a lot of urban myths that surround 183 00:11:05,068 --> 00:11:06,827 this Elm Street area. 184 00:11:10,275 --> 00:11:13,586 Just down the street is one of Cincinnati's most historic 185 00:11:13,586 --> 00:11:16,551 buildings, Cincinnati Music Hall. 186 00:11:17,689 --> 00:11:22,379 It is a big, grand building with stained glass windows, 187 00:11:22,379 --> 00:11:26,172 But it was built where there are graves. 188 00:11:26,172 --> 00:11:29,689 And ask anyone in Cincinnati, and they'll tell you 189 00:11:29,689 --> 00:11:31,862 that Music Hall is haunted. 190 00:11:32,896 --> 00:11:34,655 [eery, tinkling music playing] 191 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,482 There's always been rumors of haunting in this area, 192 00:11:38,482 --> 00:11:41,655 but this was more terrifying than any 193 00:11:41,655 --> 00:11:42,724 of these urban legends. 194 00:11:42,724 --> 00:11:45,896 This time, there was a real-life killer. 195 00:11:45,896 --> 00:11:47,620 [suspenseful chord strikes] 196 00:11:49,310 --> 00:11:51,551 [Peterson] People in the neighborhood, they just know that somebody 197 00:11:51,551 --> 00:11:52,724 came in the community 198 00:11:54,620 --> 00:11:55,862 and ended up dead. 199 00:11:56,896 --> 00:11:58,379 And if it can happen to him, 200 00:11:58,379 --> 00:12:00,103 it can happen to me. - [flies buzzing] 201 00:12:00,103 --> 00:12:02,620 And so they didn't want to become a victim. 202 00:12:03,517 --> 00:12:06,896 [Sharon] Detectives didn't know who the victim was, so they had to 203 00:12:06,896 --> 00:12:08,413 label him John Doe. 204 00:12:09,827 --> 00:12:11,827 [Det. Schare] The biggest clue was the tattoo. 205 00:12:12,896 --> 00:12:17,517 So what we did is we would get a hold of Crimestoppers, 206 00:12:19,275 --> 00:12:22,689 and they would work with their partners in the media 207 00:12:22,689 --> 00:12:25,034 that hey, homicide is looking for somebody 208 00:12:25,034 --> 00:12:26,724 who had a tattoo of "$tack$." 209 00:12:27,586 --> 00:12:30,689 [Sharon] Crimestoppers is used when they really don't know who the 210 00:12:30,689 --> 00:12:34,862 victim is, somebody might call because they want to remain 211 00:12:34,862 --> 00:12:38,896 anonymous, or somebody might call just because they think 212 00:12:38,896 --> 00:12:40,482 they know something. 213 00:12:41,172 --> 00:12:44,793 [Peterson] Every now and then, somebody is gonna speak up and say, 214 00:12:44,793 --> 00:12:48,379 "No, no, I'm not gonna allow this. 215 00:12:48,379 --> 00:12:49,758 I've seen too much." 216 00:12:49,758 --> 00:12:51,241 [phone trills] 217 00:12:51,241 --> 00:12:54,758 After a couple of days, we got a call from a person by 218 00:12:54,758 --> 00:12:55,862 the name of Eric Wallace. 219 00:12:55,862 --> 00:12:58,551 He said he knew a person who had a tattoo on 220 00:12:58,551 --> 00:13:00,724 his left forearm. It said "$tack$," 221 00:13:01,793 --> 00:13:03,310 and his name was Chris Amos. 222 00:13:05,379 --> 00:13:08,344 I tried to reach Chris a few times on his cell phone, 223 00:13:08,344 --> 00:13:09,413 but he didn't answer. 224 00:13:10,413 --> 00:13:13,310 I didn't think really much of it because 225 00:13:14,689 --> 00:13:16,206 that's a party weekend. 226 00:13:17,068 --> 00:13:20,172 But they ran a Crimestoppers thing. 227 00:13:20,172 --> 00:13:25,103 They had found a body, and they had no leads. 228 00:13:25,103 --> 00:13:27,793 They had just been able to identify that there were 229 00:13:27,793 --> 00:13:29,793 tattoos saying "young $tack$." 230 00:13:29,793 --> 00:13:32,275 And I'm sitting there thinking, like, well, 231 00:13:32,275 --> 00:13:34,344 I only know one person. 232 00:13:34,344 --> 00:13:38,275 I just was praying and praying and praying that it wasn't him. 233 00:13:38,275 --> 00:13:40,000 [deep sigh] 234 00:13:42,689 --> 00:13:47,586 Chris Amos Jr.'s dad, Chris Amos Sr., said that 235 00:13:47,586 --> 00:13:52,034 his son, Chris Amos Jr., lived in Covington, Kentucky, 236 00:13:52,034 --> 00:13:54,758 which is right over the river from where the body had been 237 00:13:54,758 --> 00:13:57,206 found, and that he lived in an apartment there. 238 00:13:58,172 --> 00:14:02,103 [Det. Schare] Mr. Amos provided us with a photograph of his son. 239 00:14:02,103 --> 00:14:04,068 And from the photograph, it matched the height 240 00:14:04,068 --> 00:14:07,310 and weight of the unidentified body that we had. 241 00:14:08,413 --> 00:14:10,793 And based on the dental records, we were able to 242 00:14:10,793 --> 00:14:13,724 identify the victim as 18-year-old Chris Amos Jr. 243 00:14:15,482 --> 00:14:17,931 Chris Amos Jr. was my best friend. 244 00:14:19,482 --> 00:14:23,275 I was four or five years older, but he's like a little brother 245 00:14:23,275 --> 00:14:26,172 to me. He liked to joke a lot. 246 00:14:26,172 --> 00:14:32,655 He was a jokester. He loved to tell funny stories. 247 00:14:32,655 --> 00:14:34,172 Chris loved to rap. 248 00:14:34,172 --> 00:14:38,482 He was as talented as anybody I have ever been around in 249 00:14:38,482 --> 00:14:39,586 the music realm. 250 00:14:39,586 --> 00:14:42,931 He was very good at what he did. 251 00:14:45,275 --> 00:14:46,379 Chris was one of my best friends. 252 00:14:46,379 --> 00:14:48,379 ♪ Baby, we can come through 253 00:14:48,379 --> 00:14:50,586 [hip hop music continues] 254 00:14:50,586 --> 00:14:52,586 ♪ Baby, if you up, you should come through ♪ 255 00:14:52,586 --> 00:14:55,275 We met in high school. We used to call him "Stacks." 256 00:14:55,275 --> 00:14:57,448 "You know Stacks over here?" And I was like, "No." 257 00:14:57,448 --> 00:14:59,482 It was like, "He be rappin'," and Stacks was Chris. 258 00:14:59,482 --> 00:15:01,379 So I introduced myself, "Wassup man?" 259 00:15:01,379 --> 00:15:05,586 And then it was a rap from there. 260 00:15:05,586 --> 00:15:08,689 We just kept going on, battle rapping, and he was 261 00:15:08,689 --> 00:15:10,000 definitely competitive. 262 00:15:11,068 --> 00:15:15,241 Chris and his dad were so much alike that they had 263 00:15:15,241 --> 00:15:16,655 butted heads. 264 00:15:16,655 --> 00:15:21,137 He wanted to live his own life and not constantly be told how 265 00:15:21,137 --> 00:15:22,241 to live his life. 266 00:15:22,241 --> 00:15:23,793 [indistinct shouting] 267 00:15:23,793 --> 00:15:26,931 [Eric] Eventually, he wanted to have his own apartment. 268 00:15:29,310 --> 00:15:31,103 [Calvin] Chris was a hard worker. 269 00:15:31,103 --> 00:15:33,482 He finally moved into his own place. 270 00:15:33,482 --> 00:15:36,689 Trying to be grown, he took the first step 271 00:15:36,689 --> 00:15:37,965 in becoming the adult. 272 00:15:40,482 --> 00:15:42,689 [Eric] How could this have happened? 273 00:15:42,689 --> 00:15:45,241 He didn't have, like, mortal enemies. 274 00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:48,655 [Calvin] Chris's father pulled up on me. 275 00:15:48,655 --> 00:15:52,103 Later on, he told me that Chris had got murdered. 276 00:15:52,103 --> 00:15:56,172 Man, I bawled my eyes out that-- me and his father 277 00:15:56,172 --> 00:15:59,034 was crying together. And I couldn't-- 278 00:15:59,034 --> 00:16:02,000 I couldn't bring myself to, I don't know. 279 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,103 It was heart-wrenching, man. 280 00:16:07,310 --> 00:16:11,241 [Peterson] The pain that Mr. Amos felt, I mean, it's-- 281 00:16:12,413 --> 00:16:15,103 you can't describe it. It goes so deep. 282 00:16:16,206 --> 00:16:18,413 And sometimes that idea of tough love, 283 00:16:19,275 --> 00:16:21,206 sometimes it gets real tough. 284 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,655 Who would want to do this to-- what-- 285 00:16:27,655 --> 00:16:29,724 what did he do to somebody? 286 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,896 [Sharon] So with little to go on, detectives retrieved the key 287 00:16:45,896 --> 00:16:47,931 they found on Chris Amos' body. 288 00:16:49,206 --> 00:16:50,586 [Det. Schare] We had that key. 289 00:16:50,586 --> 00:16:54,551 And since we had an address now for where Chris Jr. lived, 290 00:16:54,551 --> 00:16:58,586 we went there with that key and put it in a lock 291 00:16:58,586 --> 00:17:00,241 and it opened up the door. 292 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,551 We didn't find any furniture turned over. 293 00:17:05,551 --> 00:17:07,000 We didn't find any blood. 294 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,137 We didn't find any murder weapons. 295 00:17:09,137 --> 00:17:11,448 So that would be a good indication that Chris wasn't 296 00:17:11,448 --> 00:17:13,379 killed at that location. 297 00:17:13,379 --> 00:17:16,896 His cell phone was not in his apartment. 298 00:17:16,896 --> 00:17:19,344 So we knew that the cell phone was missing. 299 00:17:20,896 --> 00:17:24,586 We then got the search warrant on his cell phone number to get 300 00:17:24,586 --> 00:17:28,862 phone records and go back to the date and time when 301 00:17:28,862 --> 00:17:31,000 Chris was killed. 302 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,413 But cell phone records take a while to get back. 303 00:17:44,931 --> 00:17:46,862 He had "young" here, and "$tack$" here. 304 00:17:48,689 --> 00:17:51,586 He was 18, so called himself "Stacks," 305 00:17:51,586 --> 00:17:53,448 you know, everybody put the "Young" on it. 306 00:17:53,448 --> 00:17:59,103 You were either a "Young," a "Lil", you know, Lil Wayne. 307 00:18:00,310 --> 00:18:04,068 "Young Stacks" just comes from having stacks of money. 308 00:18:04,068 --> 00:18:06,275 [Sharon] Seemed like a pretty big clue. 309 00:18:06,275 --> 00:18:08,793 Detectives believe that this is the motive 310 00:18:08,793 --> 00:18:10,448 that they've been looking for. 311 00:18:10,448 --> 00:18:13,172 [Det. Schare] You still have that theory that it was a robbery, 312 00:18:13,172 --> 00:18:16,000 a set up robbery. 313 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,448 [Eric] But it was kind of ironic that he called himself that, 314 00:18:19,448 --> 00:18:23,103 because he did not have a lot of money. 315 00:18:25,068 --> 00:18:28,172 [Calvin] He did anything to get some extra money. 316 00:18:28,172 --> 00:18:30,310 You know, you had to get the money to pay the rent. 317 00:18:35,103 --> 00:18:38,482 [Calvin] Chris didn't own a car, and he didn't hang in those 318 00:18:38,482 --> 00:18:40,172 areas where he was found. 319 00:18:40,172 --> 00:18:42,655 Nobody knew why he would be in Cincinnati. 320 00:18:42,655 --> 00:18:45,103 All the information we were getting from people who knew 321 00:18:45,103 --> 00:18:48,620 him, he was a good kid, he had several jobs. 322 00:18:49,482 --> 00:18:51,896 Chris worked at a nursing home. 323 00:18:51,896 --> 00:18:57,448 [Eric] Me and my mom were able to help Chris get a job at a very nice 324 00:18:57,448 --> 00:19:00,310 nursing home in Covington, Kentucky. 325 00:19:01,206 --> 00:19:03,689 He was really good with the elderly people. 326 00:19:03,689 --> 00:19:05,379 He got along really well, 327 00:19:05,379 --> 00:19:07,965 and every one of them loved him. 328 00:19:09,379 --> 00:19:13,068 Chris would volunteer on some of his lunch breaks to go get 329 00:19:13,068 --> 00:19:18,000 some of his favorite residents and bring them down for lunch. 330 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,620 [Calvin] His co-workers were cool, 331 00:19:23,482 --> 00:19:25,137 [creaking] 332 00:19:26,172 --> 00:19:27,517 [suspenseful chord strikes] 333 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:30,689 except for one of his co-workers. 334 00:19:31,275 --> 00:19:35,172 [Det. Schare] Mr. Amos did tell us a story that Chris had some dispute 335 00:19:35,172 --> 00:19:37,724 with another employee at the nursing home. 336 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,172 This could be something as callous as a co-worker who's so 337 00:19:43,172 --> 00:19:48,344 pissed off at him for some perceived slight at work that 338 00:19:48,344 --> 00:19:50,103 they would do this to him. 339 00:19:51,068 --> 00:19:53,482 That's not unusual in a case like this. 340 00:19:53,482 --> 00:19:55,034 [Sharon] And they fought. 341 00:19:55,034 --> 00:19:57,379 And this person ended up getting fired. 342 00:19:57,379 --> 00:20:00,068 And he blamed Chris. 343 00:20:00,068 --> 00:20:03,758 [Det. Schare] Certainly a tip like that we would have to follow up on 344 00:20:03,758 --> 00:20:07,827 because that certainly would be a motive for a killing. 345 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,379 [Det. Schare] Chris worked at the nursing home. 346 00:20:29,379 --> 00:20:32,931 He had some dispute with another employee at 347 00:20:32,931 --> 00:20:34,275 the nursing home. 348 00:20:34,275 --> 00:20:37,379 We've had cases in the past where there's disputes at work 349 00:20:37,379 --> 00:20:39,586 and led to a killing. 350 00:20:39,586 --> 00:20:42,827 That certainly would be a motive because the type of 351 00:20:42,827 --> 00:20:45,862 injuries that Chris had on him led us to believe that it was 352 00:20:45,862 --> 00:20:48,517 probably somebody who he knew, 353 00:20:49,379 --> 00:20:51,758 somebody who he had a dispute with. 354 00:20:51,758 --> 00:20:56,034 We were able to follow up on that lead. 355 00:20:56,034 --> 00:20:58,275 [Sharon] Detectives showed up at his co-worker's door. 356 00:20:58,275 --> 00:21:01,275 He admitted they did get in a fight and that he didn't like 357 00:21:01,275 --> 00:21:04,103 Chris, but he said he didn't kill him. 358 00:21:04,103 --> 00:21:07,275 [Det. Schare] We were able to determine that he was out of town at 359 00:21:07,275 --> 00:21:09,862 his aunt's house at the time of the murder and he couldn't have 360 00:21:09,862 --> 00:21:13,000 committed the murder. So that's a dead end. 361 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,724 [flies buzzing] 362 00:21:16,172 --> 00:21:19,827 And we were very concerned that this case may never get solved 363 00:21:19,827 --> 00:21:22,896 because every lead that we had at the point 364 00:21:22,896 --> 00:21:24,620 was turning up nothing. 365 00:21:27,241 --> 00:21:30,827 [Sharon] Chris's dad, Mr. Amos, didn't know who could have 366 00:21:30,827 --> 00:21:33,000 killed his son or what happened. 367 00:21:34,482 --> 00:21:36,758 [Peterson] It's important to him to see justice done, 368 00:21:36,758 --> 00:21:39,965 and it's important to him to feel whole again. 369 00:21:39,965 --> 00:21:43,275 He had to do something. There's no way in the world 370 00:21:44,517 --> 00:21:46,241 he could just sit still. 371 00:21:46,896 --> 00:21:51,965 [Det. Schare] Mr. Amos knew of the distrust that the Black community had 372 00:21:51,965 --> 00:21:55,379 with police, and he was willing to put feelers out 373 00:21:55,379 --> 00:21:57,620 in the community to try to find out who killed his son. 374 00:21:58,379 --> 00:22:00,965 [Peterson] He wasn't thinking about his own safety. 375 00:22:00,965 --> 00:22:02,482 He wasn't thinking about himself. 376 00:22:02,482 --> 00:22:06,586 He was thinking about all the things that he couldn't do 377 00:22:06,586 --> 00:22:09,931 for his son anymore. But he could do that. 378 00:22:09,931 --> 00:22:11,724 He did come up with some leads. 379 00:22:22,137 --> 00:22:26,068 [Det. Schare] I remember Mr. Amos saying he found out that Chris was 380 00:22:26,068 --> 00:22:27,827 hanging out with the wrong crowd. 381 00:22:35,896 --> 00:22:38,931 [Det. Schare] But Mr. Amos didn't know who Chris was hanging with. 382 00:22:38,931 --> 00:22:40,758 I mean, he had heard nicknames. 383 00:22:40,758 --> 00:22:43,379 In a street culture like this, nobody knows anyone's 384 00:22:43,379 --> 00:22:45,931 real names. Everyone has a nickname. 385 00:22:45,931 --> 00:22:47,827 It's a way to stay anonymous. 386 00:22:48,896 --> 00:22:53,103 [Sharon] Why would a kid like Chris, who had such big dreams and had 387 00:22:53,103 --> 00:22:55,931 never been in trouble, be hanging around such 388 00:22:55,931 --> 00:22:57,310 unsavory characters? 389 00:22:58,793 --> 00:23:00,103 [Eric] Chris was not that guy. 390 00:23:00,103 --> 00:23:02,896 That was not his, you know, M.O. 391 00:23:02,896 --> 00:23:04,172 That was not his thing. 392 00:23:04,172 --> 00:23:06,413 That was not what he was known for. 393 00:23:07,793 --> 00:23:10,586 [Det. Schare] But we got some information that Chris was selling. 394 00:23:10,586 --> 00:23:13,758 It's an easy way to make money. 395 00:23:13,758 --> 00:23:17,344 [Calvin] He wasn't a street guy, but he had to get the money to 396 00:23:17,344 --> 00:23:18,482 pay the rent. 397 00:23:18,482 --> 00:23:20,586 When you feel like your back is against the wall, 398 00:23:20,586 --> 00:23:23,413 you normally do something that you wouldn't normally do. 399 00:23:23,413 --> 00:23:25,413 You step out on a limb, and sometimes 400 00:23:25,413 --> 00:23:26,827 those limbs break. 401 00:23:28,241 --> 00:23:30,137 And by the time you figure it out, it's too late. 402 00:23:36,379 --> 00:23:39,413 [Det. Schare] We didn't know who Chris was hanging with that night. 403 00:23:41,275 --> 00:23:43,000 [loud music playing] 404 00:23:43,896 --> 00:23:47,000 Mr. Amos had given some information about a rap studio 405 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,896 that Chris would also go to. 406 00:23:49,896 --> 00:23:53,310 And it turned out that that rap studio was on Elm Street. 407 00:23:54,413 --> 00:23:57,482 Based on the fact that Chris was found on Elm Street, 408 00:23:57,482 --> 00:24:00,172 that was something that had to be followed up on. 409 00:24:00,172 --> 00:24:03,482 [Calvin] There were a few underground recording studios. 410 00:24:04,689 --> 00:24:07,827 We would go to the studio, and then we would rap. 411 00:24:07,827 --> 00:24:10,758 We got our phones, so we would record, like, voice messages 412 00:24:10,758 --> 00:24:12,896 over us rapping over beats. 413 00:24:27,896 --> 00:24:32,068 Chris and Calvin were both aspiring rappers. 414 00:24:32,068 --> 00:24:34,379 [number-dialing tones] 415 00:24:34,379 --> 00:24:36,586 Mr. Amos thought that maybe there was some type 416 00:24:36,586 --> 00:24:38,275 of confrontation. 417 00:24:40,241 --> 00:24:43,586 [Sharon] Detectives knew that this was a personal attack. 418 00:24:43,586 --> 00:24:45,586 So that pointed them in the directions of someone 419 00:24:45,586 --> 00:24:47,103 who knew him. 420 00:24:57,482 --> 00:25:00,482 [Calvin] A couple days later on, I was riding down the street, 421 00:25:00,482 --> 00:25:03,724 hanging out, and I pulled up to my house. 422 00:25:04,896 --> 00:25:06,758 And I seen two white men in a suit. 423 00:25:07,758 --> 00:25:11,000 And they walked up to me like, "Hey, are you Calvin Powell?" 424 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,827 And I was like, "No, my father's not here." 425 00:25:13,827 --> 00:25:15,000 And they was like, "Yeah, you the one 426 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:16,931 we looking for." And I was like, "Uh, me?" 427 00:25:18,034 --> 00:25:20,172 And he said, "Man, we're from Homicide." 428 00:25:20,172 --> 00:25:24,137 He said, Chris's father might have implicated you. 429 00:25:24,137 --> 00:25:27,655 I'm like, "Wow, for real, for the murder?" 430 00:25:27,655 --> 00:25:29,206 And they say, "Yeah." 431 00:25:30,172 --> 00:25:31,862 I was taken aback because I was like, man, 432 00:25:31,862 --> 00:25:33,551 he blamed it on me. 433 00:25:33,551 --> 00:25:35,827 I'm like, how did he tell them that I did it? 434 00:25:35,827 --> 00:25:37,931 Me, I was kind of like, wow, his father, he really 435 00:25:37,931 --> 00:25:40,034 not playing. That was scary. 436 00:25:40,034 --> 00:25:42,758 I told the detectives, Chris and I got into a heated 437 00:25:42,758 --> 00:25:44,517 text message conversation. 438 00:25:46,689 --> 00:25:49,379 When I spoke to him that day, he was at home. 439 00:25:49,379 --> 00:25:51,379 And we had got into a confrontation about 440 00:25:51,379 --> 00:25:52,862 the people he was hanging with. 441 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,793 I warned him because Chris had no idea how dangerous those 442 00:25:56,793 --> 00:25:58,551 people were that he was hanging with. 443 00:25:58,551 --> 00:26:01,310 He took it as me trying to 444 00:26:02,172 --> 00:26:04,586 go against him or test him. 445 00:26:04,586 --> 00:26:06,862 And he said some things he shouldn't have said. 446 00:26:06,862 --> 00:26:08,793 I said some things I shouldn't have said. 447 00:26:08,793 --> 00:26:11,413 And we were going back and forth with it. 448 00:26:11,413 --> 00:26:14,379 That was the last time I talked to him. 449 00:26:14,379 --> 00:26:16,965 And two days before, that was the last time I had seen him 450 00:26:16,965 --> 00:26:19,310 ever again in life. 451 00:26:19,310 --> 00:26:22,586 Mr. Amos must have caught wind of the text messages or read 452 00:26:22,586 --> 00:26:25,068 them because I was going to the funeral. 453 00:26:25,068 --> 00:26:28,000 But I went to shake his dad's hand, and he was like, 454 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,379 "Where were you?" 455 00:26:30,379 --> 00:26:35,482 I said, "I don't know." I was like, "I was here." 456 00:26:35,482 --> 00:26:36,758 And they were asking me questions. 457 00:26:36,758 --> 00:26:37,965 I was crying. 458 00:26:37,965 --> 00:26:40,482 I found out they didn't want me at the funeral because 459 00:26:40,482 --> 00:26:41,896 they thought I did it. 460 00:26:42,862 --> 00:26:44,758 I was hurt, man. I was deeply hurt. 461 00:26:44,758 --> 00:26:48,344 But I knew I didn't do it. And then I started getting mad. 462 00:26:48,344 --> 00:26:51,068 My feelings were hurt, and I started getting angry. 463 00:26:51,068 --> 00:26:53,241 Every time someone tells the police the truth, 464 00:26:53,241 --> 00:26:54,931 they say, you know how many times I've heard that? 465 00:26:54,931 --> 00:26:58,137 I said, "Hey, I didn't do it." I knew I didn't do it. 466 00:26:58,137 --> 00:27:00,068 That's crazy. 467 00:27:00,068 --> 00:27:02,310 [Det. Schare] There was some type of confrontation. 468 00:27:02,310 --> 00:27:03,689 Maybe things escalated. 469 00:27:03,689 --> 00:27:06,379 It's certainly something that needs to be followed up on. 470 00:27:08,379 --> 00:27:12,000 But y'all investigating me, you are doing your job. 471 00:27:13,758 --> 00:27:16,137 But are you, though? 472 00:27:16,137 --> 00:27:18,931 They were wasting their time looking at me, instead of 473 00:27:18,931 --> 00:27:20,413 focusing on who actually did it. 474 00:27:32,241 --> 00:27:35,965 [Sharon] The people on Elm Street in Cincinnati and the people in 475 00:27:35,965 --> 00:27:38,241 Covington, Kentucky, they were afraid. 476 00:27:38,241 --> 00:27:39,896 They still didn't know who did this. 477 00:27:39,896 --> 00:27:42,793 Was this killer gonna strike again? 478 00:27:42,793 --> 00:27:46,448 [Calvin] I was definitely cautious. It's like a Zodiac killer. 479 00:27:46,448 --> 00:27:49,000 You just walking around chilling, bam, somebody killed. 480 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,000 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. 55353

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