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Narrator:
A rash of home invasions...

[ two gunshots ]
-[ woman screams ]

...Results
In cold-blooded murder.

You can't even write a movie
Script good enough for this.

-[ sobbing ]
-no! That's my baby! No!

It's like you're living in your
Own little fairy tale dream,

And here comes the big bad wolf
And blows in your door.

Narrator: detective rod demery
Must help an untested rookie

Put the pieces together.

I just didn't believe
In impossible homicides.

Rule number one --
We don't assume anything.

Narrator:
Their investigation reveals

A shocking
Miscarriage of justice.

Are you kidding me?

Demery:
At this point, I realized

That this man should not
Be in jail.

He needs to get out immediately.

♪♪

Don't move!

Come on.

[ gunshot ]
-[ woman screams ]

♪♪

Demery:
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.

I didn't choose murder.

Murder chose me.

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♪♪

Mack: it's march 14th,

And joe rogerson is
Walking home from work

In the highland neighborhood
Of shreveport.

He has no car,

And he gets off at an hour
Where there's no sunlight.

[ two gunshots ]

He hears two shots...

-what was that?
[ cellphone beeps ]

...And he kind of stops
In his tracks

Because they're close
To where he lives.

Female dispatcher:
9-1-1, what's your emergency?

Yes. Hi. I want to report
Gunfire in my neighborhood.

Okay.

I'm not sure where it came from.

Sir?

[ grunts, groans ]

Mack: about that time,
He sees his neighbor,

Delon williams,
Come stumbling out of his house.

♪♪

9-1-1, I need your address.

Mack:
And he's obviously been shot.

It is something that he will
Never ever be able

To erase from his mind.

♪♪

It's all yours, clark.

You won't solve it, but at least
You'll get your feet wet.

Oh, I think I can
Handle it, sir.

This isn't patrol.

Homicide's a whole different
Ball game.

Yeah. I'm ready for it.

We'll see.

Hey, sarge.

Demery, make sure that rookie
Knows what the hell he's doing.

Yes, sir.

What's up, clark?

Figured we'd be seeing you
Here before too long.

Well, I've been
Looking forward to it.

Summer 2011, we'd gotten a new
Rookie detective, maurice clark.

He was ambitious
And he was kind of cocky,

And I think that that's required
To be a good homicide detective.

-so what you got?
-[ chuckles ]

Sarge just gave the kid
His first homicide.

Yeah? [ chuckles ]

You got old delon williams.

Did you work this case?

Brother,
If I worked the case,

You think it'd be sitting
On your desk?

Demery: the victim was
Delon williams.

The case had been open
For a while.

I didn't know much
About the homicide,

But I knew it wasn't solved.

It's what we call
An impossible homicide.

I just didn't believe
In impossible homicides.

I think that's just not enough
Dedication by the detective.

Hey, I gotta go to court.

Good luck, though.

Oh, I don't need luck.

Yeah. We'll see.

Demery: clark was excited.

It was his first homicide,
So he had a positive attitude.

I liked that about him.

♪♪

Hey, clark.

What are you still doing here?

I am lost.

Can I get your opinion
On something?

-yeah. Sure.
-yeah?

What do you got going on?

The fact that that he humbled
Himself enough to ask questions

And want to get guidance
Was a very good sign.

Delon williams was a victim
Of home invasion...

Mm-hmm.

...Took a shot to the chest,
Died a short while later.

Okay.

But he made a statement
To police.

The victim reported that two
Male blacks entered his house

At gunpoint,
Attempting to rob him.

He said the men were masked.

-where the money at?
-I ain't got nothing!

[ two gunshots ]

For whatever reason,
One of them fired a shot.

Was he able to identify
The people who shot him?

No.

Any evidence recovered?

They found a 9-mm shell.

That's it?

I mean, they said there was
A strong smell of marijuana

In the house, but...

The report kind of surmised that
It was some sort of drug rip.

So you're thinking your vic
May be a drug dealer?

Yeah. No. I mean...
I don't know.

-well...
-I-I don't -- I don't --

Hey, hey, I'll tell you this --
Rule number one

Of homicide investigations --
We don't assume anything.

Exactly.

You're talking about a murderer.

There's not a lot of room
For assumptions or error.

All right.
So listen to this.

All right?
I did some digging.

-mm-hmm.
-all right?

There was another home invasion
In the same area

2 hours before
The delon williams shooting.

Mack:
Natasha gray had experienced

A home invasion of her own.

It was pretty similar.

Can you tell me
What happened?

I was folding my laundry.

♪♪

[ door rattles ]

♪♪

-[ screams ]
-man: where the money at, huh?!

These masked men
Broke into her home,

Beat her to a...Living...Pulp.

Almost unrecognizable.

They demanded her keys
To her car, cash,

And then they stole her purse.

I'm thinking they're connected.

Could be.

The fact that two
Home invasions are done

Within hours of each other,

Same sort of method
Of operation,

Or m.O., is pretty noteworthy.

There's more.

The following day, there was
Another home invasion

Couple blocks away

On rightway avenue,
Same sort of situation.

♪♪

Lisa, y'all let me know
When it start now.

Don't watch anything without me.

[ kernels popping ]

I can remember my little girl
And my mom were watching tv.

-I was cooking.
-[ screaming ]

I'm hearing my daughter scream,

And as soon as I get
To the hallway...

-what's the matter?
-man: don't even try!

...I noticed a guy
Standing there,

And he's got this pistol
In my face.

Sit your ass down.

Thomas: he got this gun
In my baby face.

She's only 11 years old.

Now where the money at, huh?

I want the money, so give it up!There is no money!

Tell us where it is,
Or she going to die!

-no, don't!
-don't shoot my baby!

I'm wanting to get him
Away from her.

At the same time,
My mom was pulling me back.

[ sobbing ]
Don't hurt my baby!

All right then.
I'll shut you up instead.

-no!
[ gunshot ]

I could feel the gunpowder
Popping off of the bullets

Out the gun,

And I can feel the heat,
But I'm not getting hit.

-mommy!
-come on, man. Grab this stuff.

-come on. Let's go. Hurry up!
-don't move!

-hurry up! Go!
-don't move! Don't move!

Thomas: they took my laptop.
They took our cellphone.

They took my little girl's
Piggy bank.

I had just bought her a necklace
And some earrings.

They took that.

-[ gags]
-mom?

I tried to get up,
And I just couldn't move.

[ whispers, gasps ]
Call an ambulance.

[ gasping ]

So by the grace of god,
I made it through that.

So hear me out here.

They found a 9-mm
Shell casing at the scene.

Mm-hmm.

They got it down
To the lab, and...

It was an exact, exact match

To the delon williams
Shell casing.

Huh.

The likelihood of those
Two crimes being committed

By different people
Using the same weapon

Are probably slim to none.

What's
The common thread here?

Why break into those
Specific homes?

It doesn't make any sense.

Okay, think of this.
It's march, right?

Yeah.

But these are
Working people, man.

They're getting
Their income tax checks

And they're cashing them,

And somebody knows that
They've got cash in the house.

In a low-income,
High-crime neighborhood,

When people start getting money
And make big-ticket purchases,

They become a victim.

I had bought this big old tv,
And maybe they were thinking

That I had money
In the house or something.

Now let me ask you this.

Did they ever charge somebody
With the thomas shooting?

Uh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Uh...

This guy -- 22-year-old
Demario johnson.

Okay. He cop to it?

[ sighs ] No. No.

They, uh, they got his name
From a c.I.,

And when the detectives
Went to interview him,

He, uh...
Well, he flipped out.

In the sandra thomas
Home invasion,

I was the lead investigator.

During the interview, demario
Became very upset, belligerent.

He lunged at my partner,
And so, at that point,

I shut the interview down.

So they never got around

To asking him about
The williams shooting?

Definitely not.

Can I see that?

The confusion I'm having
At this point

Is why the man who was arrested
For the thomas home invasion

Wasn't arrested for
The delon williams homicide.

It just seems obvious.

♪♪

Hmm?

This case is
Exceptionally cleared.

I don't follow.

There is a classification
Called "Exceptionally cleared,"

Which means that you have
Identified the suspect.

You just don't feel that
Prosecution would work

Because of whatever reason.

So when I see
That classification

At the end of the report,

I realize that they're just
Going through the motions.

♪♪

Just call the e.M.T.S.
Don't call us out for this.

I'm not going to lose
Any sleep over it.

-are you? [ laughs ]
-[ speaks indistinctly ]

They've decided
That the williams victim

Was a drug dealer.

It was a justification
To simply close the murder

Without actually
Closing the murder.

This is unbelievable, man,
Exceptionally cleared.

♪♪

You mind if I hop on this
With you?

Yeah. Yeah.
No, I mean, yeah.

Absolutely, of course.

-get your stuff.
-okay. Where we going?

I'm gonna show you
How to close a homicide case.

♪♪

♪♪

Me and my rookie investigator,
Maurice clark,

Are investigating
The homicide of delon williams.

I just learned that the shell
Casing in delon williams' murder

Matched the shell casing
In a home invasion

Where sandra thomas was
Shot the following day.

[ two gunshots ]
-[ woman screams ]

[ whispers ]
Call an ambulance.

Now we're about to interview
A suspect, demario johnson,

Who's sitting in jail
Awaiting trial

On the home invasion of thomas.

♪♪

All right, so remember,
In an interrogation,

Know who you're talking to.

Okay. Yeah.

So what do we know
About demario?

Well,
He's extremely volatility.

Exactly, so what we need to do
Is not provoke him

And keep him on our side.

Otherwise, it'll ruin
The interview.

So when we get inside,
You just follow my lead.

-absolutely.
-okay. Let's do this.

Hey.
What's going on, man?

♪♪

[ buzzer ]

♪♪

♪♪

What's happening, demario?

Detective demery. This is
My partner, detective clark.

We're with the shreveport
Police department.

All right, we need to ask you
A few questions.

It's about time, man.

Ain't nobody said nothing to me
For months.

When I meet johnson,

I realize that he's
Not aggressive at this point.

He's agreeable.
He wants to talk.

All right, now, look,

I know you're in here
For this incident on rightway,

But what I want to talk
To you about

Is this murder that occurred
The night before.

[ sighs ] Look, man,
I-I told y'all

I didn't have no part to do
With any of that.

Anybody wouldn't listen to me.

No. We're listening.

♪♪

Tell me, where were you
March 14th around midnight?

I was at the hospital.

The hospital? For what?

My girl's place
Had just been broken into,

And some dudes beat her up.

-who's your girlfriend?
-tasha.

I realized that the tasha he was
Talking about was natasha gray.

Natasha gray was the victim
In the home invasion

That happened 2 hours before
Williams was shot.

Is there someone who can verify
This other than tasha?

Yeah, the cop who interviewed me
At the hospital.

At this point, I'm thinking that
Johnson has a really good alibi.

If he was at the hospital
With her,

Certainly within that
2-hour window,

He wasn't able to go to
Williams' house and shoot him.

Listen, man.

The people who killed this dude

Are probably the same ones
Who laid into tasha.

Y'all got to believe me.
I didn't shoot anybody.

Demery:
Johnson's pretty emphatic.

He's actually begging
And pleading to help him

Because he feels like
He's being wrongfully charged.

All right.
Listen to me, brother.

You have my word.

I'll get to the bottom
Of this.

All right, man.

♪♪

♪♪

I'm not real sure that
Johnson committed

Either one of these crimes.

He's not deceptive.
He's not belligerent.

There's nothing about him
That seems responsible

Or even knowledge of
These crimes.

Do you have the natasha gray
File in there?

Uh, yeah.

Is there a supplemental report
About an interview with demario?

Hold on, hold on.

The information he's giving me
Is easily verifiable,

So I'm cross-referencing
The report and the time stamps.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's here.

And?

I mean, honestly, it seems
To me there's no way

He could have killed
Delon williams.

At the exact time
That delon williams

Is being shot and killed,

Johnson was at the hospital,
So he has an airtight alibi.

I bet you he didn't shoot
Sandra thomas either.

I'm gonna look at the case file

And find out exactly what
Evidence they had against him

For the sandra thomas shooting
And home invasion.

Yeah, but here's the thing.

In addition
To the informant,

Tawanna thomas picked demario
Out of a photo lineup.

Okay. Hold on a second.

She picks out a guy with a mask
On out of a photo lineup?

Are you kidding me?

Probably the most ridiculous
[bleep] Thing

I've ever seen in my life.

I decided to call
Detective rudell

Because he was the person

Investigating
The sandra thomas shooting,

And I figured I could get
Some straight answers from him.

Hey, rudell. It's demery.

What happened with
The sandra thomas case?

After showing the photo lineup
To tawanna,

I felt like I had
A direction to go in,

But I definitely didn't feel
There was enough evidence

To try to get a warrant
Or make an arrest at that time.

So then why the hell
Did you arrest him?

There was a lot of pressure
Coming from my supervision

To close this case,
And they said, "Lock him up."

I protested. I said, "I don't
Think this is strong enough."

They said, "Lock him up."

[ cell door clanks ]

[ whirring ]

Yeah.

See, this is what
I'm talking about, man,

With these supervisors
Trying to push for numbers.

I never wanted to put
An innocent person in jail,

And I never wanted
To produce a case

That wasn't worth putting
In front of a judge.

I absolutely believe rudell.

I think that was absolutely
His supervisor's doing,

Definitely wasn't his call.

-all right, brother. Thank you.
[ cellphone beeps ]

So demario didn't shoot
Sandra thomas either?

Nope.

At this point, I realized that
This man should not be in jail.

He needs to get out immediately.

Okay.
So what do we do now?

Now we're gonna make it right.

[ engine starts ]

Getting justice
For demario johnson

Is just as important as getting
Justice for delon williams.

When we don't have the ability
To make people feel secure

In justice,

We're going to have problems.

In order to sort
This whole mess out,

Detective clark and I now need
To find out

Who really killed
Delon williams.

Demery: I tell clark
That I want him to find people

That are close to williams,

Particularly a girlfriend
Or a wife or a mother,

Someone that kind of
Nurtures his life.

Thank you for meeting with us.

Of course, whatever y'all need
To find out who killed delon.

Yeah.

When I met delon williams'
Girlfriend, frontera cade,

She seemed to be
Cooperative and courteous,

So it looked like we were going
To get something from her.

[ voice breaking ] We were
Only together for 6 months,

But I loved that man
With all my heart.

♪♪

What I learned from her was that
He was really good to her

And really respectful to her,

And I think, probably
More importantly,

He was good to
Her children as well.

Do you know who could
Have done this to him?

I wish I did,
But I have no idea.

She became emotional

Because she really
Couldn't give me anything,

And I think she
Really wanted to.

Here's my card, and if you
Can think of anything,

You contact me, okay?

[ whispers ] Okay.

And again, I'm really
Sorry for your loss.

We'll let ourselves out.

♪♪

After we leave,
I could tell

That clark was
A little disappointed.

He wanted more,
But, you know, the fact

That we had a good conversation
With her

And we built a rapport,

I think that's probably
The most important thing.

Okay. So we keep pounding
The pavement?

You got that right.

♪♪

With no obvious road to travel,
The following day,

Clark and I decide to dig into
Delon's cell-phone records

For possible clues.

♪♪

[ sighs ]

♪♪

I mean, it just doesn't look
Like there's much here.

Yeah? There's no recurring
Numbers at unusual times?

No. I mean, nothing that
Raises a red flag.

[ telephone rings ]

This is demery.

Hey, frontera. What's happening?

Really?

Yeah. Sure.
We'll see you in a little bit.

Okay.

♪♪

What's going on?

She said she knows
Who killed her boyfriend.

Frontera's saying that
She's hearing from people

On the street that her cousin
Was involved in the murder.

We've got something now
That's solid.

We got somewhere to go.

♪♪

Me and my rookie, clark,
Are investigating

What's considered
An impossible homicide.

We've talked to a few people,

And we've got
Our first real break.

Frontera cade has told us
That she believes her cousin

Was involved in the murder.

Okay, so I'm sorry.
Who's her cousin?

Mickey cade.
That name sound familiar?

No. It doesn't
Ring a bell.

Let's see what we've got.

Now that I've got
The name mickey cade,

I need to run
A history on him

And find out what
Kind of stuff he's into.

Well, this guy's been busy.

Demery: mickey has
A long history of armed robbery,

Home invasion,
Aggravated burglary.

Usually when someone
Has a history of doing

A certain crime, they very
Rarely break from that pattern.

Check that out.

I'll be damned.

Rudell: while they're
Researching mickey cade,

They learn that he's
Currently incarcerated.

He's in jail for
A firearms violation.

It's just 3 days after
The williams homicide.

So how does she know
This guy did it?

That's what we need
To find out asap.

Now she wants us to meet her
At this diner on texas avenue.

Let's go see what the hell
She's talking about.

♪♪

[ bell dings ]

Now that frontera has
Given me this information,

I have to verify it.

I have to get it from the people
Who gave it to her

And find out where
They got it from.

Hey, frontera.
How are you?

♪♪

So I see you brought
Some company?

This is my other cousin.

Leslie cade.
Nice to meet you, fellows.

Leslie is the one who told
Me about our cousin, mickey.

Ah, okay.

My hope is that leslie cade
Will give me something

To substantiate
What he's saying.

So tell me, why do you think
Mickey is involved?

Because I saw him right after
He robbed the place on rightway.

On rightway? Okay.

Leslie starts talking
About where

The thomas home
Invasion took place.

See, I live with mickey
And his family,

And him and some dude,
Jacobi,

Were talking about
Hitting a lick.

Mm-hmm.

"Hit a lick" is a street term
For a robbery,

Commit an armed robbery.

♪♪

Hey. Where'd you guys get
All this stuff?

[bleep] You asking
Questions for, man?

-where you get all this stuff?
[ chuckles ]

When they got back,
They had a red laptop,

Some coins
And a cell phone.

What was important about that
Is the police report

Of the thomas home invasion

Listed those things
As being taken.

That type of knowledge
Wasn't out there.

No one knew it.

So tell me about jacobi.

He's friends with
Mickey's son, caylen.

His name is jacobi parker.

Friends with his son?

How old is this kid?

He's, like, 17.

Is mickey's son involved?

I don't know. He might be.

So you're saying mickey robbed
The place over on rightway,

But what's making
You think he shot delon?

Look, I can't be sure,
But the whole thing

Is a strange coincidence,

You know, and mickey is just
That type of character.

As leslie is giving me
All this information,

I realized that leslie
Does not like mickey cade.

He thinks he's a danger, and
He's seen and witnessed things

That he's just not
Comfortable with.

Why's he doing this?

'cause he's a junkie, man.

He'll do anything to get
His hands on some dope.

Leslie also told me
That mickey was a dope fiend.

That desperateness drove him
To do a lot of different things.

You know where I can find
Jacobi or caylen?

I don't know about jacobi,
But I know caylen has been

Staying with his mom
As of lately.

Where can I find his mom?

She lives off lakeshore,
Over in queensborough.

Well, listen.
Thank you guys very much.

I appreciate your help,
And if we need anything else,

We'll be in touch.

♪♪

After talking to leslie cade,
Detective clark and I

Head to the house of
Caylen's mother,

And mickey's ex,
Nicole flemings.

Excuse me, ms. Fleming?

Yes?

Yeah. We're with
The shreveport police.

Can we ask you
A few questions?

Is this about
My idiot ex-husband?

Actually, it's about your
Ex-husband and your son, caylen.

Why caylen?

Well, we think
He may have helped

Mickey commit some robberies

And maybe even a murder.
-what?

Nicole flemings is now
Face-to-face

With a couple
Of homicide detectives,

That want to talk
To their son about a homicide.

It's gotta be scary.

Where is caylen at now?

He's down at the park
Playing basketball.

Which park is he at?

-I'll show you.
-thank you.

Caylen's mother loves her son,
And she wanted to save him

From anything that
She possibly could.

She didn't hesitate at all
To go with us to find him.

♪♪

♪♪

Should we go...

No. No, no, no.
Let's give it a minute.

At this point, I don't want
To get out of the car.

I don't want to spook him.

♪♪

Caylen, get your ass
Over here.

What's up, mama?

There's two detectives
Asking about you.

Let's go.
Get in the car now.

See, that's a positive sign.

Yeah. Why is that?

He respects his mother.

He listens to her,
And that's a good thing.

I knew this kid is gonna be easy
To talk to.

What he was going to say
Is a whole 'nother story,

But he was going to at least
Be respectful in doing it.

♪♪

Now let me start off by saying
Thank you, both,

For coming down
To talk with us, okay?

So listen, caylen,

I just want to ask you
A few questions

About you and your dad.

What do you want to know?

Caylen, if you and your dad
Did something awful,

You need to tell them.

I didn't do anything.

It was my dad and jacobi.

They shot that guy.

At the start of this case,
We had absolutely nothing.

Now I feel like it's just
A matter of time

Before clark and I prove

That there's no such thing as
An impossible homicide.

♪♪

My rookie, clark,
And I are talking to caylen,

The son of mickey cade.

Caylen has broke the case.

We've learned that jacobi parker
Was probably with mickey cade

When they shot and killed
Delon williams.

♪♪

So, caylen, how do you know
Jacobi and your dad

Are responsible for this?

Because of what they were
Talking about before they left.

Caylen told me that the two
Of them left the house

With the same sort of attitude,

That mickey wanted
To hit a lick.

And when the two came back,

Mickey immediately told him
To get on the floor.

♪♪

Hoo! That's what
I'm talking about, boy.

Caylen:
Man, what y'all do?

Hey, make yourself comfortable.

You're sleeping
On the floor tonight.

Man, why I got to sleep
On the floor for?

Look, man, I don't know
If they gonna

Come spray this place up or not.

-do you want to get shot?
-no.

Well, get on the floor.

♪♪

My dad didn't know
If the guy was dead,

And he was afraid he would
Come to shoot up the house.

Do you know
Who fired the shot?

I don't know, but I think
It was jacobi.

Why do you say that?

Because of what my dad
Was talking about

After they came back.

Damn, cobi.

Shoot, you ain't no goon.
You a goblin today.

-you earned it.
-no. [ laughs ]

If you're a goon, you're
A chicken like most people,

But a goblin, they're vicious.

They have no moral conscience
Whatsoever.

So the idea that he was
Considered a goblin

Made it more likely that

He was the person
That did the shooting.

Why would your dad be doing this
With jacobi if he's your friend?

Because jacobi's daddy
Is locked up.

He looks up to mickey,
Thinks he's some kind of badass.

Demery: she described it as
A close relationship

Where jacobi
Actually called mickey "Dad."

So it was obvious that mickey
Kind of took advantage of that

And used the impressionable kids
To commit his crimes.

So you had nothing to do
With any of this?

No, sir, and I told jacobi
Not to go with my dad either,

But he didn't listen.

Talking to caylen,
He's not guarded.

He's not defensive.

He's not aggressive, so I didn't
Have any reason to doubt him.

What'd jacobi do
With the gun?

Well, he got arrested
A couple days after.

My dad bailed him out,
But the cops took his gun.

The fact that jacobi
Was arrested with a firearm

Could be the icing
On the cake.

Listen. I know this could not
Have been easy,

So I want to thank
Both of you for coming in

To talk to me, okay?

If we need anything else,
We'll be in contact.

♪♪

My hope is, is that the gun
That jacobi was arrested with

Was the gun that shot
And killed delon williams

And shot and injured
Sandra thomas.

♪♪

After speaking with caylen,

Our next move is to visit
The evidence locker

And take a look
At the gun for ourselves.

-okay. There you go.
-thanks.

You're going to need that.

Can I get you to sign this,
Please?

Sure. Thanks.

♪♪

The tense moment is,
What type of gun was it?

♪♪

Bingo, 9-mm.

♪♪

Now all we got to do is send it
To ballistics

And let them
Do their thing.

Both of us are on cloud nine
Because the likelihood of this

Being all coincidental
Is slim to none.

♪♪

As we wait for the ballistics
On the 9-mil to come back,

Clark and I track down
Jacobi parker.

[ rapid gunfire ]

[ man laughs ]

[ rapid gunfire ]

[ knock on door ]

Hold on, ma!

[ knock on door ]

Hold on, ma!

Don't move.

What's going on?

What's going on is that
You're coming to the station

For some conversation with me.

Let's go.

He was at home
Doing what a kid does.

He looked like a little boy.

He didn't look like he could
Shoot anybody or be a gangster,

But clearly he was.

Stand up. Put your hands
Behind your back.

Do what the man says.

He cooperate.

He came with us
To the police station.

♪♪

Okay, jacobi. Have a seat.

The fact that he's 17

Makes him adult in louisiana law
At that time,

So he didn't have
To have a parent with him.

When parker starts denying
Things, I know that he's lying.

The gears shift for me,
You know?

Now I have to give him
A sense of reality.

The kid was clearly someone
Who thought he was savvy.

♪♪

Kid's not budging.

That's all right.

We don't give up.

This kid is playing games.

He thinks he can tell me
Whatever he wants to,

And I'm going to give up,
But I'm not going to stop.

He's gonna tell me what
I want to know.

♪♪

My rookie and I are
Interrogating jacobi parker.

Jacobi is denying everything.

I'm hoping that,
After we take a break,

He'll have a chance to allow
Some of these things to sink in

Or realize that we actually
Have evidence against him.

♪♪

You ready to see if this kid
Came to his senses?

Yeah.

Let's go dig in.

It's now the moment of truth.

Jacobi is either going
To talk, or he's not.

After the break,
We come back in, and, um...

Jacobi's different now.

He's allowed all this
To sink in, and he cracked.

Mickey cade's
Street name is "Pig."

I told him that mickey cade was
Completely responsible

For destroying him,

And that I thought
It was ridiculous

That he was doing anything
To protect him.

Jacobi parker eventually
Admitted to being involved

In the sandra thomas
Home invasion,

But he said that mickey cade
Was the shooter.

He admitted to being there,

But he never admitted
To firing a gun.

He stayed far, far away from
Delon williams' homicide

Because that was a murder,

And I don't think
He was prepared for that.

After the conclusion
Of the interview with jacobi,

We arrested him and charged him
With the home invasion

And attempted murder
Of sandra thomas.

We decided not to charge jacobi
With the delon williams homicide

Until we got more information.

Detective clark and I head
Over to the city jail

To speak with mickey cade,

Who's currently awaiting trial
On his gun charges.

[ buzzer ]

Thank you for meeting
With me, mickey.

It's my pleasure,
Detective.

I hadn't dealt
With mickey cade before,

So I didn't know
What type of person he was.

Look, let's just get
Straight to the point, man.

I'd be more than glad to tell
You anything you want to know.

Okay.

But in exchange, you know,
I'd like some sort of deal.

But when we met him,
He was more of a salesman,

Wanted to appear
Smarter than he was,

Wanted us to think that
He had this vast experience

In the criminal justice system.

All right, brother. Come on.

You understand we don't
Make deals, right?

Oh, come on.
Like hell you can't.

Come on, fellows.
Work with me here.

Mickey begged for a deal.

I think he was trying to save
Himself and save his life.

Okay. You know what?

This interview is over.

Enjoy your accommodations here.
Looks very roomy.

There was really no reason
To push it with mickey

'cause I had enough evidence
Against him.

He was going to prison
Regardless.

♪♪

After we leave the jail,
Mickey cade's wife,

Felicia cade,
Comes to the office,

And she wants to talk,

Give us whatever
Information she has.

Okay, felicia, so what
Can you tell me

About your husband's involvement
In these crimes?

Well, for starters,
I know why he killed delon.

Yeah? Why is that?

Mickey, he's got
A bad drug problem,

And he's borrowed money
From delon

To feed his habit
In the past.

Is that why he went over
To delon's house,

'cause he knew
He had cash there?

There's no doubt
In my mind.

Demery:
After talking to felicia cade,

I'm able to get
A much clearer picture

Of what happened during
The delon williams murder.

I think mickey cade
Knew delon williams,

And he, for whatever reason,
Thought delon had money.

♪♪

-all right. You ready, bro?
-yeah.

About to run this quick lick,
Man, get in there and get out.

-all right.
-come on.

You look scared, man.
Put your mask on.

-come on.
-okay. Okay.

Let's do this.

Demery:
He had an impressionable kid

And enlisted his help
To go rob this man.

♪♪

[ rattling ]

-tell me where the money at!
-oh, hell,no!

Hell, yeah.
Give me what you got, man.

-where the money at?
-I ain't got nothing!

Man, shoot this [bleep]
If he try to get up.

What? What?

[ two gunshots ]

♪♪

Damn, bro. Come on. Let's go.
Let's go. Come on.

[ gasping breathes ]

The following day, he goes
To sandra thomas' house,

Attempting to get
Even more money,

And again, he takes
Jacobi parker with him.

-don't hurt my baby!
[ two gunshots ]

Come on, man. Grab this stuff.
Come on. Let's go.

-hurry up.
-mom?

Go!

I just think mickey cade
Was a piece of [bleep].

And, I mean, it's bad enough
To be a criminal yourself,

But to kind of have
That influence

On an impressionable kid
And use that kid,

It's just...Shameful.

Although felicia's statement
Was helpful,

It's the results
From the ballistics tests

That solidify
Mickey and jacobi's fate.

Hey.

♪♪

It's a match,
No doubt about it.

Jacobi's gun was used
In both crimes.

The weapon that jacobi was
Caught with and arrested with

Was the murder weapon
For delon williams

And the weapon that shot
Sandra thomas.

Congratulations.

Welcome to
The detectives' club.

Thank you, sir.

♪♪

As the mastermind
Of the crime spree,

Mickey cade is charged with
The murder of delon williams

While jacobi parker
Is given manslaughter,

But both men are charged
With armed robbery

For the sandra thomas
Home invasion.

Both mickey cade
And jacobi parker

Decided they didn't want
To go to trial.

They both took plea agreements.

Jacobi got sentenced
To 15 years in prison,

And mickey, he got sentenced
To 30 years hard labor.

♪♪

But there's more justice
To be done.

Once mickey and jacobi
Plead out,

Demario johnson, the man
Falsely accused of the crime,

Is finally cleared
Of all charges.

I wanted to physically see
Johnson walking out of the jail

With no delays.

I didn't want to talk to him.

I didn't want to tell him that
We found that he didn't do it.

I didn't want any of that.

I just wanted to see him
Walk out.

I'm not naive enough to believe
That truth always prevails.

Sometimes it takes years.

Sometimes it takes decades,

And sometimes it doesn't
Happen at all.

I think one of the things
That I told clark

Was that you can't really
Control what other people do,

But what we can do is make sure
That we do it right.