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[ suspenseful music plays ]

Murder is a livin',
Breathin' thing.

It feeds on the worst
Of human emotions:

Loneliness, hatred,

Fear, jealously.

It needs these things to survive

The way you and I
Need food or water.

[ siren wails ]

But murder?

Murder's greedy.

It never stops wantin' more.

Murder is insatiable.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

[ siren wails ]

Murder and me, we go way back.

When I was a child,
Murder took my mother.

Years later,
It came for my brother.

That's when I found
My mission in life.

Every case I worked, I solved.

Every case I solved,
I got a confession.

I'm detective rod demery.
[shutter clicks]

I didn't choose murder.

Murder chose me.

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It's august 9th
In shreveport, louisiana.

[suspenseful chord strikes]
[scat singing]

George harris was on his way
To benny's tea room.

Holmes:
Benny's tea room is kind of

On the outskirts
Of downtown shreveport,

What folks might call
A juke joint

Or a hole in the wall.

[ music plays ]

Crow:
As he's walking towards
The entrance...

[ eerie music plays ]

[ grunting ]

[glass breaks]
What the heck?

Aaaaah!

Crow:
There are people
Trying to come out.

There's a commotion inside.

It's obvious that there's been
Some type of incident.

I think that's when he realizes
That there was a bar fight.

[ indistinct shouting indoors ]

Hey.
You all right?

[ thud ]

What happened?

As he gets a closer look,

It's obvious to him
That something

Is severely wrong
With this man.

He's bleeding.
His shirt is soaked in blood.

[ asphyxiating ]

This man is dyin'!
Call a ambulance!

This man needs some help!

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]
[ heartbeat]

[ whispering ]

Demery:
As a child, I always looked up
To my older brother patrick.

In my eyes,
He could do no wrong.

He was the kid
I always wanted to be.

But it's funny
The way life works,

The different ways
Tragedy changes things.

My memories of
My mother are vague.

But patrick?

My mother's death haunts him.

[ ominous music plays ]

[ ring ]

[ ring ]

This is demery.

It was a pretty quiet night.

There wasn't a lot going on.

I was doing reports
And just kind of mundane work.

I get the call that there's
Been a stabbing

At a place called
Benny's tea room.

Yeah, copy that.

Benny's tea room.
All right.

I'm on my way.

When a homicide call
Comes in, the world stops.

Your mindset changes.

Your adrenaline
Starts to flow.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

It feels like you
Have a purpose.

Mack:
Violence in benny's tea room
Was a pretty common thing.

You gotta remember, everybody
That goes to this place

All live in the same
Neighborhood.

There's bad blood always
Between somebody.

-what's happening?
-hey, detective.

-so what do we got?
-one stabbing victim

-okay.
-we found him out here.

We've got his wallet.

[ radio chatter ]

Demery:
His identification
Showed jw fuller,

55-year-old male
From shreveport.

Whether or not
Any vital organs were hit

Was a mystery, at that point,
So he was transported

To the hospital
For traumatic treatment.

Inside mr. Fuller's wallet
Was a moderate amount of money.

The fact that he had money
In his wallet

Meant that he wasn't robbed.

Junior:
My dad was a good person,

Fun-loving, caring,
Family-oriented.

He got along with everybody,
Really, had lots of friends.

All right. So what
Do we know about him?

Not much, really.

He was involved
In a brawl inside the bar

When he got stabbed.
-okay.

Demery:
When you're at a bar and you
Have a mixture of alcohol,

A mixture of bad attitudes,
It's a powder keg.

Bar brawls,
They're nightmares.

There are so many people
That are drunk and unruly

And it's chaotic.

We got any
Witnesses inside?

There's about a dozen
People or so inside,

But most of them
Intoxicated.

Me? I don't drink alcohol.

Never have.

So the idea of questioning
12 drunk witnesses

Doesn't exactly appeal to me,
But it's my best chance

Of understanding
What's happened.

Detective, we have
Something over here.

Investigators
Discovered a blue shirt

On the side of the road
Close to benny's tea room

And it had blood all over it

And they assumed
That it belonged to the victim.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

Well, well, well.
What is that?

Inside his pocket was
A small blue diamond pill

That had been broken in half
And it's commonly associated

With male sexual performance
And enhancement.

Jw fuller was going
To benny's tea room

Probably to look
For a good time.

[ jukebox plays upbeat tune ]

Demery:
I can't believe what I'm seeing.

A brawl just went down.

A guy was just stabbed

And people are carrying on
Like it's no big deal.

Somebody needs to get
A handle on this, now.

[ suspenseful music climbs ]

[ music stops ]

-ohhh!
-hey!

Excuse me!
Excuse me!

All right, listen up!

Your party
Is officially over.

Put down your drinks.

This is no longer
Your bar.

This is now
My crime scene.

Killin' the music
Was step one.

Step 2?

Shed a little light
On the subject.

Do you have
Any lights?

There was one light
Behind the bar,

The light from a jukebox,

And no other lights on
In the bar.

It was dark.

Yes, sir.
They're on the truck.

Could you get them
For me, please?

Please, get these
People off the bar

And against the wall.

[ electricity crackles ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

After the floor's lit up,
I can see blood.

What the blood told me was that
He was stabbed inside that bar

And fuller was just
Part of the fight.

The problem is,
Is that most of the blood

Had been trampled over.

You can't analyze a bloodstain,
If it's been smeared.

Gathering evidence after
A bar fight is difficult.

The evidence is stepped on,
Drinks are spilled.

It's cross-contaminated.
It can be a nightmare.

Now, I know that my victim,
Jw fuller,

Was stabbed during the brawl.

What I don't know is
Who was wielding the knife.

Was this person stabbed
By someone he knew?

Was he just caught
Up in a fight?

Hey, man.
Is this everybody

That was here
When this fight started?

No.

I was told that a bunch
Of people took off

Before we got here.

People flee for
Different reasons.

Some of them
Because they got warrants,

Some of them 'cause
"I don't want to be involved,"

And then some of them because
They actually did the stabbin'.

Demery: I'm guessing,
From the looks of things,

Most of the people that drink
At benny's are regulars.

It's not like they're getting
A lot of tourist traffic here.

So just the fact
That jw was here at all

Means folks probably knew him.

Are you the owner?

Yeah.
I'm joe sap.

I approach mr. Sap

And I ask him what he can
Tell me about the incident.

You know, one second,
Things are going good.

Next second, everything's
Out of control.

Yeah.
What about the victim?

Tell me about him.

He's a good customer.

You know, he's in here
On a regular basis.

He's a good guy.

Demery finds out that
Fuller lives nearby,

He's at benny's all the time,
And he works at a steel mill.

Junior:
He was a very hard worker,
A good provider, a good person.

He wasn't a violent person
Towards anyone.

That just wasn't him.

We know something happened
To start a big, huge fight.

What I'm hoping is,
Is that these witnesses

Can tell me
What that something is.

What can you tell me about
What happened here tonight?

Came out the bathroom.

There was this guy,
Blood all over the place.

-I ain't seen nothing.
-you didn't see anything?

Noth-ing.

They was playing
My favorite song.

D-do you like music?

Okay. Thank you.

You have to get past
Their intoxication,

Their incoherence, and get
To what actually happened.

Do you know
Who started the fight?

Couldn't see.

It was dark
And crowded.

Okay. Thank you.

I'm getting nowhere, fast,
With these people.

And the more time
I spend here,

The more of a head start
I give to jw's attacker.

I need to speak
With jw himself, stat.

I want to talk to fuller
Because,

One, he may go into surgery
Or, two, he's going to be dead,

So I need to get there
As quickly as possible.

-bobby.
-yeah.

Can you meet me
At the hospital?

Yeah.
I'll meet you there.

Thanks.

Not only is there
An advantage

To having an extra set
Of eyes with you,

But you need a police officer
That knows his beat,

That has his finger
On the pulse of the street.

[suspenseful music plays]
[siren wails]

And bobby wilbert was
The perfect person for that.

Excuse me.

Hi.
I'm detective demery.

I'm looking for a man
That was brought in here.

He was the victim
Of a stabbing.

Jw fuller?
-oh. I'm sorry.

He died in surgery
From his injuries.

Detective demery was
Unable to say anything,

Or even see our victim,
Once he got to the hospital.

It's definitely a tragedy.
It's a waste of life.

Once I learned that
Fuller's died,

The clock is starting to tick.
It's a murder.

Can I speak to the doctor?

He'll be out in a few
Minutes, okay?

The sooner I talk to the doctor,

The sooner I can find out
What happened to jw fuller.

Excuse me.

Hi. May I help you?

Demery notices that
There's a female there

That's asking about jw.

So this now is
A potential witness.

Hopefully she can tell me
Something about what happened,

Or at least give me some more
Background on him.

Excuse me.

You're asking about
Jw fuller?

Yes. Yes.
I'm his wife, ida.

Okay.
I'm detective demery.

Can I talk to you for a second?
-s-sure.

What's going on?

I'm sorry to tell you
That your husband

Was involved in a fight and
He was stabbed to death.

What?!

My belief is that

Your responsibility,
Investigating homicides,

Is to be straight-up
And honest with the people

That you're working for:
The surviving victims.

I'm not there to console.

I'm not there to be
A grief counselor.

Mrs. Fuller doesn't want me
To be those things.

She wants me to go get the
Person who killed her husband.

Can I ask you what your
Husband was doing tonight?

All I know is that
He left home,

But I-I don't know
Where he was going.

But I do know
That he goes

To benny's tea room
Sometimes.

Were you planning
On meeting him there?

No.

The fact that
He had a blue pill

And that she didn't know what
His plans were that evening,

I started to get the idea
That there was probably

Some problems
In the relationship.

All right. I'm going to
Ask you something.

I know it's tough.
But do you think

There's a chance
That your husband

Was seeing
Another woman?

What? No!

She doesn't say anything
About knowing

That he was seeing other women,

But that must've been
A really tough pill to swallow.

But if jw was meeting
A mistress at the tea room,

He might not be collateral
Damage in this bar fight.

He might've been the target.

And jealousy might be
The motive.

I want to find the woman
That jw fuller

Was going to see that night

Because I'm hoping she
Can tell me who killed him.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

[ eerie music plays ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

At this point, I have a stabbing
Victim in a bar fight:

55-year-old jw fuller.

The only leads I've got
Are a bunch of drunken,

Beatup barflies.

And the little blue pill
I found in jw's pocket.

But it's that little blue pill,

And the conversation
I had with jw's wife,

That give me an angle
To work the case.

After I spoke with ms. Fuller
And I realized

That she didn't know what
His plans were that evening,

It kind of led me to believe
That he was going to

Meet a woman at that bar.

I'm sorry. Excuse me, detective.
-excuse me. Yes.

The pathologist
Can see you now.

-thank you very much.
-okay.

I'm sorry.
I know this is very tough.

If you can think
Of anything else

That might help
With your husband,

Would you give me
A call?

Yes. I will.

Demery:
If there was another woman
In jw's life,

I need to find her asap.

But, first, I need to know
Exactly how mr. Fuller died.

-what's happening, doc?
-hey, rod.

How are ya?
-good, man. How are you?

Doing well.
Thank you.

-so, what do we got?
-all right.

Let's take a look here.
-all right.

[ sinister music plays ]

So these were not
Superficial cuts,

Detective.
-okay.

Mr. Fuller sustained

Two significant stab wounds.
-two?

I can see an accident happening
Or something going in once,

But then to be stabbed,
In the chest, twice,

That doesn't sound
Like an accident.

One here,
Above the navel.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

The second one
In the chest.

Both were deep.

The fatal stab
Wound went straight

Through his chest,
Into his heart.

Whoever stabbed mr. Fuller
Stabbed him once

And then stabbed him again.

It was clear that
The intent was to kill him.

Got one more thing
That I think

You may have interest in.

The other significant
Information

Learned from the pathologist

Was that he had
Wounds to his hands.

-okay. Defensive?
-yes, sir.

Same with
The other hand.

They could've been
Either offensive

Or defensive but, either way,
Indicating that he had been

In a physical encounter,
More than just getting stabbed.

Demery:
Now, I know that jw wasn't
Collateral damage

From the bar brawl.

He was one of the main players.

That doesn't get me
Any closer to knowing

Who stuck that knife
In him, and why.

Okay.
Well, that's it.

-good to see ya.
-good seeing you, man.

Give regards
To the wife and kids.

Thank you. I will.

[ chime ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

[ ominous chord strikes ]

♪♪

Murder tends to turn
Those you love

Into some foreign version
Of themselves.

You look at 'em

And you realize you're
On different islands,

Floating further
And further apart.

[ whoosh ]

[ chime ]

At this point,
And in this investigation,

Finding this woman
Is priority number one.

There are no other leads.

-hey, man.
-hey, detective.

Listen. We gotta
Find this woman

That was going to meet
Fuller at the bar.

So, let's call
Over to benny's,

Find out if anybody
Came back there,

Looking for fuller.
-yes, sir.

As I'm leaving the hospital,

I see a number of people
In triage, needing treatment.

They appear to have been in the
Bar fight at benny's tea room.

Hey.

I'm looking into this
Fight that happened

At benny's tea room
Earlier tonight.

What can you tell me
About what you saw?

I just got hit in the head
With a bottle.

I didn't see anything.

But, I know
Someone who did.

Who's that?

Thomas small.

-thomas small?
-mm-hmm.

Where can I find this thomas?

He lives over in the
Apartment complex off 3rd.

After talking to all the
Witnesses that I had talked to,

This was the only person
That was able to tell me

That someone they knew
Was involved in the stabbing

And that was thomas small.

So I need to talk
To thomas small.

Wilbert, listen.
Talk to these folks over there.

Find out what they know.

I'm going to go see what
Mr. Smalls has to say.

-sure thing.
-thanks, bro.

[ eerie music plays ]

[sigh]
[dog barks]

[ bark ]

Thomas small?

Yeah?

Need to ask you a few questions
About an incident

That went down last night
At benny's tea room.

I don't know what you
Want me to tell you.

When I met with mr. Small,

He didn't want
To talk immediately.

After I assured him
That he wasn't a suspect,

He was a little
More forthcoming.

All right. I was there,
Drinkin', dancin',

Havin' a good time,
Like everybody else.

Then I heard this woman scream,
So I turned around

And I saw her
And this guy going at it.

That's when all hell
Broke loose.

Whole damn bar started fighting.

If you to benny's tea room,
Friday, saturday night,

You're probably
Going to see a fight.

Thomas heard the scuffle

And saw a man
And a woman fighting.

So, if two people begin,
It's almost like it's a fuse

And, once it ignites,
It's like a domino effect.

So before you know it,
You have everybody engulfed

In this big, huge fight.

Can you identify
The guy?

Yeah, I know him.

Guy named fuller.

And the woman?

No.

I didn't get
A good look at her.

Small was able to tell us
That fuller had been involved

In a altercation with a woman.

He wasn't able to give us much
Of a description of this woman.

Remember that this is
In a dark bar.

But I did see this woman
Run out in a hurry,

Right after fuller
Got stabbed.

-really?
-yeah.

The woman he saw
Leave was martha vincent.

So what else can you tell me
About this martha vincent?

I can tell you exactly
Where she live.

He knew that she lived
In an apartment complex

Not too far
From benny's tea room.

Thomas wasn't able to tell me
The apartment number,

However, he did give me
The description of martha.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

Now that I know
Fuller was involved in a fight

With a woman,
I need to find this woman.

She may be the piece of the
Puzzle that I'm lookin' for.

She may be able to tell me
Who stabbed fuller.

[ suspenseful music climbs ]

Martha.

Or she may bethe person
Who stabbed fuller.

Martha vincent?
[suspenseful chord strikes]

[ eerie music plays ]

[ ominous music plays ]

[ whistle blows ]

I'm working around the clock

To track down a lead
In the stabbin' death

Of 55-year-old husband
And father jw fuller.

Jw fuller is kind of
A blue-collar,

Regular working guy.

He works at a steel mill.

He has a wife at home that
He's been with for 26 years.

I've learned that there
Was a scuffle

Between a man and a woman
And fuller was involved.

A witness has given me
The name of martha vincent.

She lives
In an apartment complex

Not far from benny's tea room.

This particular apartment
Complex is notorious

For having all kinds
Of criminal activity.

Shootings, robberies,
Stabbings, you name it.

[ alert chimes ]

Martha!

C'mere.

You're
Martha vincent, right?

-yeah.
-c'mere.

I'm detective demery.
I got a couple

Of questions
About last night.

I don't know
What you talking about.

Martha doesn't want
To speak to me.

She's almost trying to leave
The area as I approach her.

You know a man named
Jw fuller?

Mnh-mnh.

Were you at benny's
Tea room last night?

Martha admitted that
She wasat the tea room,

But she didn't want
To talk about it.

It was obvious that
She knew what had happened.

Demery:
But that's when it dawns on me.

Maybe martha isn't afraid
To talk to me.

Maybe she's afraid someone
From the neighborhood

Might seeher talkin' to me.

You know what, martha?

I got a couple
Of questions for you.

You should come with me.
We can go talk in my office.

-are you serious?
-I'm very serious. Come on.

I told you
I didn't know anything.

Well then, good,
It should be

A short conversation.
Come on.

I want martha to be
As comfortable as possible.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

That way, she'll tell me
What I need to know

And she'll give me accurate,
Truthful information.

Let me clear
Something up.

No one is accusing
You of anything.

I'm just trying
To understand

What happened to fuller.

Nobody can see us.
Nobody can hear us.

All right?

So, now, let's start
From the beginning.

Were you at benny's?

Yeah, I was there.

But, when pressed a little bit,

She did admit that, in fact,
She did know fuller.

She had seen fuller
Come into the club.

Was fuller there
To see you?

No.
I was by myself.

As I talked to martha,
I learned that

She was not involved
With the fight with jw fuller,

But she does know who was.

He comes in,
Goes over to this table

Where this woman
Was sittin'.

Did he and the woman
Seem to know each other?

They had to.

Based on what martha tells me,

This woman may be someone
He's romantically involved with.

She was young

And she had on this
Leopard-print dress.

-a leopard-print dress?
-yeah.

When martha mentions
The leopard-print dress,

I immediately remember
That there was a woman

At the hospital that had on
A leopard-print dress.

All of a sudden,
Starts screaming at her.

The shoving started.

Then she picks up a chair
And hits him with it.

-okay.
-after that,

All hell broke loose and
I ain't see nothin' else.

Martha,
Is there anything else

That you can tell me
About this woman?

I mean, I don't know
Her name or anything.

Okay. Well, thank you
For your time.

I appreciate it.

After getting the information
From martha vincent,

We let her go on her way.

-hey.
-hey.

Did you interview
That woman in triage,

The one with
The leopard-print dress?

Yeah.
I spoke with her.

Wilbert tells me
That the woman left.

But he does know who she is.

Wilbert tells me,
"Her name is dianne dane."

Can I get her info?

[ sheet tears ]

You're the man.
Thanks.

The fact that wilbert went

To the hospital
Paid off in a big way.

Wilbert has gotten her name,
Telephone number, and address.

Now, it's time
To pay her a visit.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

♪♪

[child shrieks]
-dianne dane?

Yeah?

Dianne dane is a woman

Who seems considerably
Younger than jw fuller

And she's very attractive.

I immediately notice she has
A bruise to her eye.

For me, the bruise confirms
Martha vincent's statement,

That dianne was at the heart
Of the altercation at the bar.

I got your information
From officer wilbert,

That spoke to you the other
Night at the hospital?

Yeah, so?
What do you want?

But is she the one
Who stabbed jw?

That's what I'm trying
To find out.

Talking to dianne dane,
I realize that

It's not going to go that easy.

It's just going to be
That cat-and-mouse for a while.

Where's that leopard-print
Dress, dry cleaners?

-what?
-yeah, you know,

The leopard-print dress
You were wearing

At the hospital?
Same one you were wearing

At benny's tea room.

[scoff] I don't know what
You're talking about.

You know a man named
Jw fuller?

She's very guarded.

She's almost to the point
Where she seems to be put out.

So I let her know she had
A relationship with fuller

And that she was
Wearing a leopard dress.

And she then decides she's
Going to talk a little bit more.

Yes, I know jw.

We had a thing, okay?
But now, it's over.

When did it start?

About a year ago.

[ ominous chord strikes ]

Dianne says that she had been
Seeing fuller for quite a while.

The two of them travel
In the same circles

And they both go
To the tea room.

You know you're seeing
A married man?

Yeah, I knew.

We were having
A good time.

He would come over
Whenever he could,

But after a while,
Things started to change.

And she starts to describe
She's grown tired of the fact

That he is married
And he has other obligations.

According to dianne,
She had recently

Broken things off with him.

Well, I'm here
Investigating jw's murder.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

What?!

[gasp]
I-I had no idea.

When I told dianne
That fuller had been stabbed,

She didn't seem surprised.

She tried to feign
This look of shock,

But I think that was just her
Trying to throw me off the track

And make me think
She didn't know anything.

Were you at benny's
Tea room last night?

No. I don't know what
You're talking about.

Very clear that she knows more
Than what she's saying.

[ eerie music plays ]

Aaahhh!

When you have relationships
That involve three people,

Husband, wife, girlfriend,

It always has the potential
To become violent and deadly.

Something about passion,
Love, possession,

Is just the recipe
For disaster and murder.

This is her lover,
Who was fighting with her

And then this is her lover
Who also died,

All in the same night.

That sounds a little fishy.

Okay. You know what?

Let's finish this
Conversation in my office.

Let's go.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

♪♪

I know now that
Dianne dane knows

More than what she's telling me.

I need to find out
If she's killed jw fuller.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

[ eerie music plays ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

So, now, I know that
Jw fuller was involved

In a fight with dianne dane.

I'm almost certain
That dianne dane

Is not telling me
Everything she knows.

Now, I'm taking her
To my office to find out.

When you bring a suspect

Out of their environment,
Into a police station,

Sometimes it just
Makes it more official.

I don't know what you
Brought me here for.

I told you
I don't know anything.

Well, that's funny
Because everyone else

I talked to tells me
About this fight

That jw got into
With a woman in the bar.

So what?
Lots of women go there.

As I revealed things to her,

She knew that I knew more
Than she thought I knew.

Yeah?

Lots of women wearing
A leopard-print dress?

Lots of women that get into
A shoving match with jw?

Lots of women that hit him
Over the head with a chair?

-people told you that?
-yeah. Do you know what I think,

Dianne? I think
That woman was you.

Now that dianne knows
That she's possibly a suspect,

She decides that she's going to
Tell me what she does know.

I-I did go
To benny's that night.

I just wanted
To have a drink.

And the music
Was playing.

[ laughs ]I was having a great time.

Then I look up and

Jw's walking in.

He was all smiles.

Did he come right over?

No.
He didn't see me

Until after he got
His drink at the bar.

But once he did notice me,
His mood changed.

[ eerie music plays ]

Okay. And then?

And he walked
Up to me and --

What's he doing
In this place?

Why'd you bring him here?
You know this is our place.

I don't have to
Explain myself to you!

We're done!

We got to arguing.
-you [bleep]

-[gasp]
-man: gol-ly!

He called me a [bleep]
And then he hit me.

And I don't care
Who the hell he is.

I'm not going to let
Some guy hit me

And think I'm not going
To give it right back.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

[ thud, crackle ]

Demery:
So the slap to the face
Is a new wrinkle.

But it certainly explains
Why dianne would take a chair

To the back of jw's head.

So you fought back?

Of course I did.
That's all I did,

Was hit him over the
Head with a chair.

I didn't stab anybody.

You're not telling me
Something, dianne.

As I talked to dianne,
I realized

That there's probably no reason
For him just to attack her.

She's not telling me
Everything.

See, a man doesn't
Walk into a crowded bar,

Walk up to a woman,
Call her a [bleep],

And hit her in the eye
Out the blue.

Now, what's the story?
What are you holding back?

What is it?

I was
With somebody else:

My new boyfriend,
Charles edwards.

Jw saw you guys together.

And he came up to the table
And started cursing me out.

Demery:
Dianne dane tells me
That she and charles

Had only been seeing each other
For a couple of weeks.

At 39, charles was 16 years
Younger than jw

And, unlike jw,
Wasn't a married man.

I'm going to need
To know where

To find charles edwards.

Dianne's reluctant.

But, ultimately, she tells me
Where I can find her new man.

[ sinister music plays ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

Hey, roberta.
Do me a favor.

Would you run
A background check

On a charles edwards
For me, please?

-yeah, I can do it right now.
-thanks.

Now that I know charles edwards
Was there, he's a big deal.

He can either tell me
That dianne stabbed jw

Or maybe he got
Involved in the fight.

Either way, I talk to charles.

Yeah.
Can I help you?

Charles edwards?

Yeah, that's me.

Yeah,
I'm detective demery

With the shreveport
Police department.

Come down here.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

Yeah. I got your name from
Your friend dianne dane.

Oh, um --

Uh, y-yeah?

Charles's body language said
More than he did verbally.

He was stuttering.
He was stammering.

She said you were
With her last night

At benny's tea room,
Witnessed a fight

Between her
And another man.

Yeah, I was with her.

Well, you know, jw was
Attacked with a knife.

You know anything about that?
-what? No.

No, I don't know
Anything about that.

Charles edwards says
That he doesn't know

Anything about the stabbing.

Come on, charles.
One of you

Had to see something.

Look, I didn't see
Anything.

As I'm talking to charles,
I notice something on his hands.

He had wounds to his hands

That were either stab wounds
Or defense wounds,

Or wounds that indicated
That he was in a fight.

Can I look at your hand?

Turn your hand over.

You know, those are
Some pretty bad cuts

You got there, charles.

Now, he's looking more
And more like a suspect.

So, at this point, I need
To bring him down to my office

And get a little more
Information from him.

Charles, you mind coming down
To the station with me?

I just got
A couple of questions

I want you
To help me clear up.

-I don't know --
-yeah. Come on.

We'll be back in a little
Bit. Let's go.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

While charles gets comfortable
In our interrogation room,

I look over the results
Of his background check.

Just got the report
On your guy edwards.

He's got a string
Of burglaries

And he's also got a battery
Charge from last february.

Hmm.

Thanks.

Mack:
Charles edwards had
A significant criminal history.

Which doesn't necessarily
Mean he's your guy,

But if he's got some
Battery charges in the past,

That means he's
Prone to fightin'.

Demery:
Couple that with the cuts
On his hands,

And I'm certain he knows
More about jw's death

Than he's lettin' on.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

So, charles, I'm trying
To figure this out, but,

Some of the stuff you're
Telling me is not adding up.

Now, you're saying
That you saw the fight

Between dianne
And jw fuller?

Yeah.

But then
You're also saying

That you didn't see
Who stabbed jw?

No.

And you didn't try
To break up the fight?

[ suspenseful music climbs ]

No, I guess not.

It's making me think

That maybe you
Stabbed jw.

-I didn't stab anybody.
-okay. Was it dianne?

I don't know. Maybe.

All right. I'm going to
See about this.

Do me a favor. Keep
Your eye on him, please.

I'll be back.

Crow:
Jw had been stabbed.

One of these two
Had stabbed him.

It was just trying
To determine

Which one was
The one responsible.

Demery:
So I leave romeo to stew,

While I visit with
His juliet one more time.

[ eerie music climbs ]

Now, I'm trying to figure out

How loyal they are
To each other,

Which one's going to rat
On the other.

Sooner or later,
One of them's going to break.

[ suspenseful chord strikes ]

[ eerie music plays ]

[suspenseful music plays]
[knock at door]

[ ominous chord strikes ]

[ knocking ]

Some folks wear their grief
Like a badge of honor.

Others, like a noose
Around their neck.

For folks like my brother,

Grief beats them up
From the inside,

Until there ain't nothing
Left but darkness.

[ ominous chord strikes ]

Last time I saw him,
The night he did what he did,

I knew he was going away
For a long time.

[ whoosh ]

[ suspenseful music plays ]

[ door opens ]

Dianne, I found
Your friend charles.

He's at the station
House now.

I've got charles edwards

And dianne dane here,
Two lovers.

I'm fairly certain
One of them stabbed jw fuller.

What did charles
Tell you?

I don't think
You're going to like

What he's been saying.

I tell her that her
New boyfriend

Isn't as loyal
As she thinks he is

And that he says
That he did not stab charles.

When I asked him
If it was you,

He said "Maybe."
He didn't know.

He said that?

That's what he's sayin'.

She's thinking she's a suspect.

She wants to protect herself,
So she decides

That she's going to have to
Tell me what happened.

[crying] I didn't expect
To see jw that night.

You know this guy.

-date?
-yes, we are. [laughs]

We're serious.

[ eerie music plays ]

Regular. Regular.

Uh-oh.

What?
What's the matter?

-that's my ex.
-oh.

We should probably leave.

No, no, no, no, no,
We just got here.

[ eerie music plays ]

Jw fuller realizes that
She's with someone else.

[ laughs ]

Hey.
What's he doing here?

Why'd you bring him here?
You know this is our place.

I don't have
To explain myself to you.

We're done!
Just leave me alone.

You [bleep]

That's when he hit me

And knocked me
On the floor.

[ indistinct shouting ]

[ thud, crackle ]

At this point,
Edwards sees that

His new girlfriend's
Been hit in the face,

Knocked out of her chair.

He has to come to her aid.

And he and jw
Just started

Hitting and punching
Each other.

And charles knocked him
Into somebody else.

[ glass breaks ]

[ crack ]

And then it just spread.

Everybody just started
Fighting everybody.

[ clang, clatter ]

[ click ]

Dianne tells me that,
At some point during that fight,

Charles pulls out a knife
And stabs jw.

[echoing]
Aah-ahhhh!

[ glass breaks ]

-agh!
-aah!

Jw, he was
Stumbling around

And he was just
Bleeding all over.

[ glass breaks ]

[ sniffle ]

What did charles do
With that knife, dianne?

[ melancholy tune plays ]

[ creature chirps ]

He threw it in the pond
Down the way.

Okay.

Sit tight.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

After dianne tells me
Where they threw the knife,

I called the fire department.

[ creature rattles ]

Any luck?

Not yet.
Visibility's pretty bad.

They're goin'
Back in now.

I'm not too optimistic about it,

But I do want to have
That base covered.

Well, you'll let me know
If you get anything?

Will do.

I may not have my hands
On the murder weapon just yet,

But that doesn't mean
I can't use it as leverage

Against our man charles edwards.

I'm going to let charles know
That his girlfriend,

Or his new girlfriend,
Isn't as loyal

As he may have
Thought she was.

The fact that the divers
Are lookin' for this knife

And they know exactly where
To look for the knife

Is an interrogation advantage.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

So dianne told me
What happened.

Yeah, she did?

Mm-hmm.

She said you came
To her defense.

Yeah, well I had to.

Of course.

She also said you're the
One who stabbed fuller.

Andshe told me what
You did with the knife.

As a matter of fact,
I've got divers

Searching the pond
Right now.

He knows that the information
I'm giving him is very intimate.

There's only one other person

That knew where
He threw the knife.

His only position now is
To try to justify what he did.

Yeah.
Y-you see, when --

When dianne hi-hit
Him with the chair...

Mm-hmm.

It looked like he was
Going to hit her again.

-okay.
-all right?

So I had to step in
And then that's when

Fuller and I got into it.
-okay.

At this point,

I have him exactly
Where I want to have him.

I want to know what happened
And I want him

To be truthful about it.

The best evidence
In any murder case

Is the suspect's own confession.

Listen to me
Very closely.

Dianne has already
Told us what happened,

So what I need
To hear from you:

Did you pull out
That knife?

-yeah.
-okay.

Yeah. Uh-huh.

I pulled out the knife

And I stabbed him
In the belly.

Okay.

And he was still
Coming after me.

[eerie music plays]
[indistinct shouting]

[echoing]
Ahhhh!

Oh!

And -- and so that's when
He got stabbed in the chest.

Demery:
I could understand that he got
Into a fight with him.

I could understand
If he beat him up.

What I don't understand is there
Is nothing about his actions

That warranted
A deadly-force situation.

Stand up.

[ suspenseful music plays ]

Hands behind your back.
You're under arrest

For the murder
Of jw fuller.

I charged charles
With second-degree murder,

The intentional killing
Of jw fuller.

It's punishable by
A mandatory life sentence.

While charles changes
Into his new, orange jumpsuit,

Dianne is shown the door.

It was nothing
That dianne did actively

To contribute
To jw fuller's death.

If dianne is guilty
Of anything,

It's bad decisions,
But certainly not murder.

Prior to trial, charles
Pleads guilty to manslaughter

And gets sentenced to 25 years
In the penitentiary, hard labor.

I'm sure everyone involved

Would have done things
Differently,

But at the time,
The jealousy, the rage,

Things just
Ended up happening

That should've
Never happened.

Holmes:
The person I feel sorry
For the most

Is ida fuller in all this.

In one night, she finds out,
Not only is he dead,

But he probably
Was cheating on her,

And he died in a fight
Over his girlfriend.

Junior:
I miss most is our bonding time,
Our fishing trips,

Hunting trips,
Just hanging out with him

And being able to talk
To him in person.

He never got a chance
To see me get remarried

Or see my kids graduate.

Not a day go by that
I don't think about my dad

Or wish I could have just one
Last conversation with him.

[ melancholy tune plays ]

Hey, roberta.

Yeah,
What do you need?

Do me a favor

And file this, please.
-sure.

-thanks.
-mm-hmm.

Like I said from the beginning,

Murder devours everything

And it never waits for you
To say goodbye.

But when you work cases
Like this,

You realize murder
Ain't the only thing

That feeds off human suffering.

Heartbreak's gotta eat, too.

I think the fact that

Jw thought he was
Going to be able

To burn both sides of the candle
And not get burned in the middle

Was probably a miscalculation
On his part.

Something about passion,
Love, possession,

Is just the recipe
For disaster and murder.

[ melancholy tune concludes ]