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♪♪

Narrator:
The cold-blooded execution
Of a middle-aged couple

Puts a community on edge.

And I can still remember.

He had his hands like that,
Praying, but he was dead.

There was nothing about
These two people

That would cause anyone

To believe that
They would be murdered.

Do you have any suspects?

Not at this time.

Narrator:
With the pressure mounting,

Detective rod demery partners up

With an ambitious young
Investigator to crack the case.

You got two bodies.
You need a hand?

From an old-timer like you?
Sure. Why not?

I was like, "I have to be
Missing something."

There was a secret part of
Her life we didn't know about.

Oh, damn.

Narrator: but the road to
Justice is paved with pitfalls.

It's hard to sit there
And let a killer walk out.

Is he going to go on the run,

Or is he going to kill
Somebody else?

It doesn't get any worse
Than this.

♪♪

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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It's january 3rd,
Around 10:00 in the morning.

Dalynda gilcrease is at work.

[ cellphone rings ]

Hello? Yes. This is she.

Um, no, I haven't talked
To her today.

Holmes: dalynda's at work,
And she gets a call finds out

That her sister, madonna,
Didn't show up to work that day,

And that is unlike madonna
Because madonna loves her job.

I'll tell you what. I'll ride
Out right now to her place.

I'll find out what's going on.

[ telephone ringing ]Okay. I'll have her call you.

I asked my supervisor if
I could leave my work

And go up there,
And he said, "Sure."

And I remember telling myself
Nothing was going to be wrong,

But in the pit of my stomach,
I knew this cannot be good.

I parked behind her car
And I called my husband.

I don't like this at all, jerry.

Jerry:
Just knock. I'm sure she's fine.

Mm.

I mean, her car is here.

I just don't know why
She wouldn't be at work today.

It's just strange.

♪♪

[ knocks on door ]Oh.

[ door creaking ]

And it just kind of opened,
And I said,

"Oh, my god, jerry,
The door opened."

Madonna? Are you here?

What do you see?

Is she in there?

I don't hear anyone.

I walked into her living room
And I looked to the left...

Oh! Aah!

...And I saw stephen there.

Oh, god, jerry! Aah!

Holmes: she sees
Madonna's boyfriend, stephen,

Kneeling in front of the couch,
In blood.

[ screaming ]

I can still remember.

He had his hands like that,
Praying, but he was dead.

Stephen!
-is he alive? Where's madonna?

I don't see her!

And I backed out of the house,

And I remember hollering
For jerry, "Help me."

Call 911!
I'll be right there!

[ screaming ]

And I called 911
And I called my other sister,

And by that time, I heard
The fire trucks and the police.

♪♪

Thompson: when officers arrive
At the scene,

They come into the house with
Their weapons drawn

Because at this point,
They do not know

If the perpetrator
Is still inside.

-we got another one.
-oh, damn.

Are you clear on that end?

-I'm clear.
-clear on the second floor.

All right. You want
To call for homicide?

320. Go ahead and start homicide
And c.S.I. To our location.

♪♪

Have you been to
That new steakhouse yet?

Demery: you know, I drove by
That place. How is the food?

It's good. It's not cheap, but I
Think it's worth the price.

Okay, guys, listen up.

We just got word.

There are two bodies
Over in highland.

Highland is one of the safer
Neighborhoods in shreveport.

There's really not a lot
Going on there

Other than nuisance calls,

But it's kind of rare
To get a murder in highland.

-mayfield, you're up.
-yes, sir.

In homicide,
There's usually a rotation

Who's going to be
The lead detective on the case,

And I knew when this call
Came in that it was my turn.

You got two bodies.
You need a hand?

From an old-timer like you?
Sure. Why not?

I tell you what, though.
I'm driving.

Not gonna let your young ass
Crash. Let's go.

♪♪

Demery: josh mayfield was
A newer detective,

So I wanted to be there to kind
Of give him a few pointers

On what to do
And what not to do.

♪♪

[ siren wailing,
Police radio chatter ]

When we get to the house,
The first thought is,

"This is going to be
A murder-suicide."

Murder-suicides are common
With couples.

Somebody loses control,

And they murder the person
They're living with or love

And feel overwhelmed
And kill themselves.

-are the victims still inside?
-yes, sir.

Both of them are
In the living room.

Demery:
The responding officer told us

That madonna wachter
And stephen bryant

Were found inside the home

And that both of them
Had been shot.

-any witnesses?
-not that we're aware of.

Who found the bodies?

Sir, the female victim's sister
Is standing back here.

She, uh,
She found stephen bryant.

She is so far unaware
That her sister is dead.

Let's take a look inside
Before we talk to her, okay?

Yes. I'll follow you.

♪♪

Mayfield:
We entered the main living area.

To the left, I notice
The body of stephen bryant.

Stephen was on his knees
In what, as investigators,

We would sometimes call
An execution position.

[ exhales sharply

Stephen was shot in the back
And in the back of the head.

The likelihood of him doing that
To himself is impossible,

So suicide for stephen was
Ruled out almost immediately.

Mayfield: after we observed
Stephen's body,

I looked to my left.

Then there was the body
Of madonna wachter.

Demery: madonna had one
Gunshot wound on the forehead.

-any weapons recovered?
-no, sir.

I dismissed the thought of her
Being the shooter

When there was no gun.

If the person commits suicide,

There's going to be a gun
In proximity,

So whomever shot them
Left with the gun.

We did recover three
Spent shell casings

That were over here
On the floor by the couch.

♪♪

Demery:
As I look at madonna's body,

I realize that she's holding
About $350 in cash.

I thought that was rather odd.

What do you make of this?

Huh.

Normally, when you see a crime,
Money is involved.

Why did whoever kill them
Leave money?

She had money in her hands.
They had to have seen this.

Officer: you'd also
Be interested to know

That we did recover
A cellphone from in here.

We've not been able
To determine

Whether it's a suspect's phone
Or the victim's phone.

Okay.

Well, we'll need
A warrant, anyways.

Demery: if the cellphone
Belongs to the suspect,

And if you don't have a warrant,

You can lose whatever evidence
You find in the phone,

So you need to have
A search warrant.

-detectives?
-yeah?

We have a bit of
A situation out front.

The media is asking questions.
-mm-hmm.

And we also have family outside
Wanting to know what's going on.

All right.
I'll talk to the family.

I'll talk to the media.

Thank you.
-thanks.

[ radio chatter continues ][ wind whistling ]

Yeah.

Man over radio:
1-18-9 to the car.

Mayfield:
When I went outside and spoke

With madonna
And stephen's family,

I was able to confirm
That madonna was in the house

And she was deceased.

Hey.
Sorry about your loss.

When josh mayfield told me
That she was dead,

I couldn't process it.

I don't understand this.
How did this happen?

Making death notifications,
You know,

Looking at family members
In the eyes and telling them,

"They're not coming back,"
It's a hard job.

There's nothing easy about it.

She wasn't just my sister.

She was my best friend.

Madonna and I talked on
A daily basis.

She had a good sense of humor.

She liked to play jokes
And she loved to laugh.

When she laughed,
The whole room lit up.

She had a really big heart.

She loved family.

And she wanted children so bad,

And she was not able
To have children,

So she kind of lived through
Her nieces and nephews.

How did her and stephen
Get along?

Fine, fine, normal.

They had a good relationship.

Madonna had been married
For a long, long time before,

And when she got divorced,
She moved to shreveport.

She met steve,
And she wasn't lonely anymore.

Stephen bryant had
A background in the navy

And also was
An accountant by trade

But had recently fallen
On hard times

To where he could not work,

And therefore, madonna
Was helping him pay bills

While living
In stephen's house.

Is there any reason that anybody
Would want to hurt them?

No. No!

At this point, I didn't really
Have any information

That madonna and stephen may be
Having any sort of troubles.

Detective demery, what can you
Tell us about the victims?

The victims
Have been identified

As madonna wachter
And stephen bryant.

The one thing you can do is use
The media to your advantage

And kind of arouse
Some conversation

Or get some leads
From the media.

Do you have any suspects?

Not at this time.

What we are doing is we're
Appealing to the public

That if they have
Any information,

We're asking them to contact
The crime stoppers tip line.

-thank you, detective.
-thank you.

The other thing is that
Sometimes the media

Will make a story
When you don't give them one.

We'll keep you updated
When we learn more, okay?

-thank you.
-thank you.

[ whispers ] Thank you.

♪♪

How'd it go
With the family?

Pretty torn up,
As you might expect.

How about you?
-the usual.

Think we should get back to
The station, update the chief?

Yeah. He's going to want
An update asap.

Yeah.

Demery: a double homicide
In highland...

Thanks, guys.

...I knew it was going to be a
Case where people were watching.

It's going to be covered
By the media,

And politically,
The chief is going to start

To come down
On the investigators

Because it needs to be closed.

Thankfully, when we got back
To the station,

There was some good news
Waiting for us.

Detective mayfield,
Got something for you.

Somebody saw demery on the news

And called in a possible lead
To your double homicide.

Anytime you get
A crime stoppers tip,

Your heart rate goes up.
You get really excited.

It only takes one
To really break a case.

What'd they say?

They said the male vic,
Stephen bryant,

Supposedly had an ex-girlfriend
That wanted him dead.

What's her name?

Carol engle.

Engle.And this was a red flag.

This is something that we needed
To follow up on

And do it quickly.

Wonder if we got anything
On file for her?

-let's take a look. Thanks, man.
-appreciate it.

Demery: old grudges
Don't always dissipate with age.

Sometimes, they fester.

Could it be that
An old girlfriend wanted

To kill stephen?
Absolutely.

♪♪

Demery:
Detective mayfield and I are
Investigating a double homicide.

The victims are
A middle-aged couple,

Stephen bryant
And madonna wachter,

Who were found dead
In their home.

Now we have received a tip
That stephen had

An ex-girlfriend
Who wanted to have him killed.

-tip giver name is carol engle.
-okay.

Demery: so now we start to
Research ms. Engle,

And I realized that there was
A police report

From a couple years prior.

Seems that there was
Some sort of fight

Between stephen and carol.

[ video game playing ]

-baby, you missed your turn.
-what?

You're supposed to turn left
On fairfield.

Well, you're supposed
To be navigating.

Get off your damn phone.
-hey! What are you doing?

Give me that phone.[ tires screeching ]

No, I'm not giving it.

She starts to hit him
And scratch him

And do all these other things.

Well, in turn...
-stop it!

-...He hits her...
-give me that.

Give me that.
-...And pulls her hair.

-aah! Stop!
-[ shouts indistinctly ]

That's it!
I'm outta here!

[ brakes screech ]

Where are you going?!

Away from you,
You crazy psycho!

What'd you call me?

I'll kill you, stephen,
You piece of...

Where are you going?
-at some point when he gets out,

She tries to hit him
With the car...

[ tires screech ]
-ugh!

...And hit him with the mirror
Of the car.

You psycho!

Looks like our guys charged them
Both with assault.

Huh. She sounds like somebody
We should talk to.

Where's she live?

Um, let's see.

-oh. That changes things.
-what's that?

She's locked up.

Carol is jail
On a drug-possession charge.

She obviously can't kill someone
If she's in jail,

But that doesn't mean she can't
Hire someone to kill someone.

I mean, she could've ordered
A contract hit.

I mean, that's kind of unusual
But not unheard of.

People that hire other people
To kill people

Want to somehow remove themself
From being a possible suspect.

It's a cowardice way
Of killing someone.

Let's go see what she has
To say for herself.

Yeah. Let's.

♪♪

We need to talk to you
About your ex-boyfriend,

Stephen bryant.

Oh, that boy?
He ain't worth [bleep].

Carol was very up front that
Stephen didn't treat her the way

She felt that she should be
Treated and that she was angry.

You ever tell anyone
You want him dead?

Yeah, I might've,

But the angels told me
Not to do it, so...

Angels?

You know, up in heaven.

♪♪

They helped
Set me straight, so...

Right.

Carol appeared to be
Dazed, confused,

And not really present.

I didn't get the sense
That carol had the capacity

To hire someone
And orchestrate a murder.

So why y'all asking me
About stephen?

What's he done?

Well, somebody's done
Something to him.

Mayfield: when I told carol
That stephen was dead,

You could kind of just see
The life come from her face.

She said that
She had no idea...

[ whispers ] No. No.

...And that she would never have
Had stephen harmed.

Listen, we are sorry
For your loss.

After talking to carol, she was
Not really a suspect any longer.

♪♪

That put us back to where
We started --

More questions than answers.

Mayfield, I've been looking
For you. In here now.

♪♪

Once we get back from talking
To carol at the prison,

The chief is waiting
For mayfield.

What's the status on this
Double murder in highland?

Are you guys close to making
Any kind of an arrest yet?

Demery: he wants to know
What we got.

He has to brief all the people
That are calling,

Whether it's the mayor
Or the media,

So the pressure is starting
To build up on mayfield.

I think we're getting close,
Sir, but nothing yet.

Now I understand this is
A big case for you, so --

I've got this, sir.

We're going to figure it out.

Mayfield: at this point,
I do feel some pressure,

But it's still early
In this case,

And I'm certain that more
Information will come forward

If you just give it time.

All right. Get to it.

Yes, sir.

♪♪

Hey, look, don't let this guy
Stress you out, man.

Yeah, I know.

Tell you what.
Why don't we take a look

And see if we can come up
With a different angle for this?

Yeah. Okay.

Demery: there was nothing about
These two people

That would cause anyone
To believe

That they would be murdered,

So there are a lot
Of questions still.

Okay, so there was no visible
Signs of break-in at the house.

That implies to me that
The killer

Must have known
One of the victims.

Maybe if we start talking
To the neighbors --

-hey, guys.
-hey.

-here you go.
-thank you.

-mm-hmm.
-[ sighs deeply ]

At this point, c.S.I. Come in
And give me and rod

The evidence
That they have collected,

And I knew that there was
A cellphone

That was found
At the crime scene.

Judge already signed
A warrant off on this guy.

All right.

Let's power it up
And see what we got.

Was this madonna's cellphone?

Is it stephen's cellphone,

Or could it be
The killer's cellphone?

Luckily, when I opened
The phone,

There was a picture of
Madonna's house,

And actually, at the bottom
Of the cellphone on the screen,

It actually said, "Madonna."

Now we can find out a little bit
More about madonna --

Who she communicates with,
Who she's talked to.

Whoa.

-you got something?
-yeah.

Take a look at that
Text message.

-oh, damn.
-[ whispers ] Yeah.

Demery: inside madonna's phone
Is a series of text messages

That are explicit threats
To her life.

At this point, we believe
We've struck gold.

♪♪

Demery: detective mayfield and I
Are investigating the murder

Of stephen bryant
And madonna wachter,

And we finally receive a break.

-whoa.
-you got something?

Inside madonna's phone
Is a series of text messages

That are explicit threats
To her life.

-oh, damn.
-[ whispers ] Yeah.

The first text message that
I noticed in there

Had to do with a debt
That madonna had owed.

It said something
To the effect of,

"This time, I'm getting
Paid for sure.

"I'm getting it money
Or I'm getting it in blood.

You can believe in that
Like you believe in jesus."

There are dozens of messages
Like this.

Looks like madonna
Owed this guy about $500.

I realize the person
That she owed the debt to

Needed that money for christmas,

And that's where
He was lashing out.

But judging from her replies,

It looks like she was trying
To set something up

In order to get
This guy his money.

Madonna was like,
"Look. I get paid on the 1st,

"But the 1st is a holiday,
So on the 2nd, I'll get paid,

And I'll be able to pay you
Once I get off work."

Hold on.

She's going to pay him
On january 2nd,

But then she and stephen
Are killed the next day?

Do you think
That this whole thing

Is about her
Owing money for drugs?

I was starting to think
That madonna and stephen

Had been provided
With some narcotics

That they didn't necessarily
Have to pay for

Because they didn't have
The money at the time

And that the dealer trusted
He would be paid back.

Her family say anything
About her using drugs?

No, they didn't.

I did not know madonna
Was using drugs.

She'd never acted like
She was on drugs.

She came to family gatherings,
And she was with us quite a bit.

She covered it well, I guess.

There was a secret part of
Her life we didn't know about.

What about the threats?

Is there a phone number showing
Where they originated from?

Well, the threatening
Text messages

Are coming from two
Separate numbers.

In one of the messages,
It was saved as robert duross.

The other message
Just showed up as a number.

The language seems to be pretty
Similar between both of them.

Okay, so it sounds like
We got one person

Using two different phones
To send these messages.

-yeah.
-so whoever sent these messages,

We have to link them
To those phones.

You have to show that either
This person owned the phone

Or had access to the phones.

So who's that last message from,
From duross

Or from the nameless number?

Duross.

Start there.
Okay.

I want to know,
Who is robert duross?

I want to know everything
I can know about this guy.

So we drop behind the computer

And enter the name
Robert duross.

But as he tries
To research this person,

He realizes that
This person is a ghost.

Mayfield: "Ghost" means
There's no record of him.

It's rare that people
Go from angels

To somebody who is able to kill,

And he'd never been in contact
With the police ever.

All right, so look,
We got to contact

The phone company
And find out

Who are the owners
Of these phones.

Yeah, that's gonna
Take a warrant.

And that's gonna take time.

Mm-hmm.

-well, give me a second.
-sure.

I was like, "I have to be
Missing something,"

So I began scrolling
Through this phone

And located a text
That was very arrogant

From this robert duross,
And it said,

"I just did a year for murder
Behind the same [bleep].

Look it up.
My last name is farris."

So now mayfield has
A solid suspect

With the last name of farris.

This is an arrogant person
Who is daring her,

"Go look me up," and so we went
And looked him up.

There's an article about it.

I was able to locate
A news article

Showing that a robert farris,
Not robert duross,

Robert farris
Had been arrested a year ago

For an attempted murder.

Demery: as mayfield continues
To research robert farris,

He finds out that farris
Was with one of his friends,

Dalando garner.

Both men spent some time
In jail,

But the case fell apart when
The victim refused to testify.

Do you think that when madonna
Tried to save his contact,

She misspelled
His last name?

It's possible,

But we don't want to get
Too far ahead of ourselves.

This could be a setup.

Someone could be using
Robert farris' name.

It could be anybody that has
Knowledge of robert farris.

Think what we really need to do
Is contact the phone company

And get these warrants and find
Out who owns these phones.

I'm going to stay and do
A little bit more digging,

See if I can find an address for
This farris guy in our files.

-want me to stick around?
-no, I'm good.

You sure?

Yeah. Get some rest,
You old man.

-old man.
-[ josh laughs ]

I got your old man.

All right, bro.
I'm around if you need me.

All right. Have a good night.

♪♪

At this point, I'm excited
'cause this guy

Was too arrogant
For his own good.

He had made a mistake,
And me and rod

Were gonna capitalize on that.

So if we could just get a couple
Of uniformed officers

Over there, should be pretty
Standard procedure, but...

Okay.

...Don't know what
To expect, so...

Hey. [ sighs ]
What's happening, man?

Got the warrant approved
For the house.

Demery: I come in the next day,
And mayfield is planning to do

A search
On robert farris' house.

What about the warrant
For the cellphones?

Haven't got it
Signed off yet.

Mm, a little surprised
Because I told mayfield

That the priority should be

Getting a search warrant
For the telephones.

The suspect is the last person
You talk to

In an investigation,
Not the first.

You don't think you're jumping
The gun just a little bit?

I know, but this just feels
Right, man.

I'm sure mayfield was excited
By the fact

That he had robert farris' name,

And I know that he was under
A lot of pressure

From the higher-ups
To get answers.

All right.
It's your case.

Whatever you want to do,
I'm here for you.

-let's do this.
-okay.

All right. Take care of it?

-they'll meet you there.
-thank you.

Demery: he's the lead detective.
It's his case.

I'm there to support him.

Mayfield: traveling
To robert farris' home,

You're really optimistic
You will be able

To find
Some type of evidence

That would link robert farris
To that crime scene,

But you always err
On the side of caution

Because there's a good chance
That you're about to come

Face-to-face with a killer.

All right, guys. I'm gonna be
Doing the knocking.

Got any questions?
-no.

All right. Let's go.

♪♪

Demery: this is
A survival situation now.

The only thing that
We're concerned about now

Is no one getting hurt.

It's just that simple.

[ knocks on door ]

[ dog barking ]

♪♪

Behind you!

You can't make any mistakes
Or somebody can get killed.

♪♪

Demery: we are working
A double homicide,

And while reviewing
The victim's phone,

We find a series
Of threatening text messages

And a suspect, robert farris.

We're at his doorstep.

We're about to come face-to-face
With the suspected killer.

Easy, easy, easy.
Easy, easy!

What the hell is going on?

This is clearly not
Robert farris.

Robert farris is 23 years old.
This is an older man.

We're looking for
Robert farris.

Yeah, that's my son.
He's not here.

I don't know where he's at.

Mayfield:
It's a disappointing moment,

But there's a chance
That there's something here

That may provide some type
Of evidentiary value

That may link robert
To this murder.

Sir, if you could
Have a seat?

What's your son's
Cellphone number, sir?

Robert ain't got no phone,
Been using mine.

-yeah? What's your number?
-3-1-8...

Demery: after john tells me
His phone number,

I realize it's the phone number

That was saved under
Robert duross,

One of the phone numbers
That texted madonna.

What's this all about?

We're working a double murder,
And one of the victims

Was receiving threats
From your phone.

I didn't send them.
Must have been my son.

It was completely involuntary
And self-preservationist,

So john, in effort to remove
Himself from the crime,

Kind of inadvertently put his
Son right in the middle of it.

At that point, we know
For certain that that cellphone

And john farris
Are related to this crime.

But the phone is not the only
Thing tying robert farris

To this double murder.

-detectives.
-yeah?

Found something
In the front yard.

Okay. Thanks.

♪♪

What do you think, demery?

Well, I think we're getting
Closer, but we're not there yet.

They found two shell casings
Of .40 caliber,

And they were identical
To those shell casings

At the crime scene.

Problem is, we're still
Going to have to try and tie

That shell casing
To robert farris.

Yeah.

Even though robert farris
Is looking better,

We still have the challenge

Of whether or not
Someone at that house

Is actually setting robert up.

Now what do we got here?

And just as c.S.I.S are bagging
The shell casings,

Another person of interest
Rolls up to the house.

What the hell is going on here?

Is everything okay?
-yes, ma'am.

It's all right.
May I ask your name?

I'm diane farris.

But I just came to drop off
Some papers to my ex.

-are you robert's mother?
-yes.

Ma'am, we're looking
At speaking with your son.

Well, I just dropped him
Off earlier

At his girlfriend angelia's
House.

Diane tells us that robert is
With his girlfriend, angelia.

-okay. Do you have that address?
-yeah. It's in my phone.

I'll have to get it.
-thank you.

Well, I say that we go
By angelia's house

Before he decides to leave.
-yeah, I agree.

Hey, guys, let's go.

When diane tells me
Angelia's phone number,

I realize that it's
The other phone

That sent threatening
Text messages to madonna.

That's huge.

Naturally, we're going to see
Robert at angelia's house.

This time, it's even more
Dangerous because his mother

And father could alerted him
That we're on our way,

And he can prepare himself
To go to battle.

Officer: put your hands up.
Put your hands up.

Step out here slowly.
You got anything on you?

Nah, I'm good, cuz.

♪♪

Guys, put your hands down.

Gentlemen, we're with
The shreveport police.

Do you live here?[ siren wailing in distance ]

Nah.

What's your name?

Robert.

Robert what?

Farris. What's it to you?

Mayfield:
When we made contact with him,

There was something about
Robert's eyes.

They just pierced
Right through you.

-what's your name?
-dalando garner.

I realize that he's the person
That was in the report

Of the drive-by shooting.

Now I'm wondering if both farris
And dalando are suspects.

Woman: hey! Hey!

Who the hell are you, and what
Are you doing on my property?

-you angelia?
-yeah. Why you want to know?

Demery:
Angelia was a very young girl.

She was definitely protective
Over robert.

She was loud,
Obnoxious, and irritating.

We're going to need to talk
To the three of them.

We'll start with her.

Officer: hey, step over here
With me.

Demery:
Guys, step over there.

Being that angelia is
The least of suspects,

We interview her first,

And there's only one thing that
I really want to know from her.

Are you in the habit
Of letting other people

Borrow your cellphone?

Robert uses it sometimes.
Why?

Does he send text messages
From your phone?

Yeah. I think so.
I don't know.

I've seen him delete messages
Off my phone after he uses it.

She says that he's a very slick
And crafty guy,

And he deletes messages,

So now we do know
That he used her phone.

I knew that we were on
The right track.

This case would be closed soon.

Think we need to take the other
Two back to the station

And interview them there.

-I agree.
-thank you.

♪♪

Now we bring dalando and robert
To our office,

Which is
A much better environment

To conduct an interrogation.

The first person
To be interviewed is dalando.

Dalando denied being
With robert in this homicide.

He denied knowing anything
About this murder.

Mayfield is not getting a whole
Lot of information from him,

So I stepped in
And began to ask him questions.

I wanted to let dalando know
That I'm not even

The least bit interested in him
Unless he killed somebody,

So it's a lot of
Cut through the chase,

And let's just get to it.

Dalando at no point gave
Any indication

That he was deceptive.

If anything, robert may have
Told dalando of the murder,

But dalando certainly
Did not play a part in it.

Hey, chris, do me a favor.

Bring this next suspect
Down to intero.

-you got it.
-thank you.

So now it's time to talk
To robert farris.

We give him the opportunity
To tell us

What he knows about the murder.

Robert comes across
As very arrogant,

Which I suspected from reading
His text messages to madonna

That he would be that way.

In my experience, the only way
To deal with a cocky guy

Like robert is to lay your cards
On the table and call his bluff.

Farris explains he was
At the house

The day prior to them
Being killed,

And he was there to get paid,

But he knows nothing
About a murder.

I don't believe robert farris
For a second,

But just as I'm about to call
B.S., he flips the script.

Demery: right.

When farris said
That he has been drinking

And he's possibly intoxicated,

The interview
Has to be terminated.

You can't take a statement
Legally from somebody

Who's been drinking
Or who is intoxicated.

Hey, chris, do me a favor?

Would you mind showing
Mr. Farris out, please?

-you got it.
-thank you.

This way.

I smell alcohol on farris
At that point,

And I'm not going to
Take a chance on whether or not

He's had enough to drink
To make him waive his rights,

So we don't have enough
Evidence to charge him,

So we have to let him go.

[ sirens wailing ]

♪♪

It's a hard thing to do,

Especially as
A young investigator.

It's hard to sit there
And let a killer walk out.

Demery: it doesn't get
Any worse than this.

What's he going to do
When he leaves?

Is he going to go on the run,

Or is he going to kill
Somebody else?

♪♪

Demery: detective mayfield and I
Are working the double murder

Of madonna wachter
And stephen bryant.

Our suspect is robert farris,

Who we believe killed
The victims over an unpaid debt.

But after interviewing farris,

We don't have enough evidence
To charge him,

So we have to let him go.

Mayfield: if you can
Make it in later today,

We'd love to talk to you.

Okay, see you then.

You're never gonna believe
Who that was.

-who?
-robert farris' sister.

-really?
-yeah. She's coming in today.

All right.
That's what I'm talking about.

A couple hours after
We release robert farris,

We get a call
From farris' sister.

She believed her brother,
Robert farris,

Is the person who committed
The double murder.

So a few days ago, I was going
Through my dad's phone,

And I saw two
Threatening text messages.

What'd they say?

One was saying that,
"You messed up my christmas,"

And something about, "I'm going
To take that out on blood,

And that's on jesus"?

My daddy said,
"Hurry up and erase that.

Robert done lost his mind."

So the text messages are now
Being corroborated

By farris' own sister.

So do you know
Who the victims are?

-the guy and a girl?
-yes.

Yeah.
My brother sells to them.

I know because she called
My phone a couple times

Looking for robert
To get some.

Mayfield: I was excited.

It was just one more thing to
Connect robert to these murders.

Demery: a couple days later,
The crime lab contacts us.

Hey.
-hi!

Good news. We got a match
On that evidence.

The crime lab confirmed a match
Of the shell casings

Found at robert farris'
Father's house

To the shell casings found
At the crime scene.

So the shell casings definitely
Came from the same gun?

There's no doubt.

Mayfield: it's relief.
It's excitement.

Every emotion that you can feel
Is running through your mind

Because robert's arrogance
Had run out

Because he wasn't gonna
Walk away this time.

I'm feeling really good now
Because I believe mayfield

Can secure a warrant
For the arrest of robert farris.

Now we can actually go get him.

So what do you wanna do?

Start at
His father's house again.

I'm with you.

Securing an arrest warrant
Is one thing.

Going out and actually
Finding the suspect

And taking them into custody is
Something completely different.

Mayfield: when we talked to
Robert the first time,

He knew we were close.
So at this point,

I was concerned
That maybe he had fled.

♪♪

♪♪

-sir, please step out.
-sorry.

He ain't here, fellas.

When we get to farris'
Father's house,

We find that farris isn't there.

All clear.
Thank you.

We have a warrant
For farris' arrest,

And his father welcomes us
To look for him.

We search. He's not there.

So where's he at?

And don't even think
About lying.

I will lock your ass up
For obstruction of justice.

I don't know for sure, but I
Think he's at his mom's place.

-got an address for that?
-yeah.

♪♪

Thank you.
Have a good evening.

So our next place to look for
Farris is his mother's house.

I don't know what type
Of demeanor

Or how he's going to behave once
We confront him, if he is there.

It's just as tense.

Where's robert?

He's in there.

Let's go.

♪♪

Let me see your hands.
Hands.

Demery:
Our guns are trained on him.

Farris has an opportunity.

Either he's going to come
Towards us peacefully,

Or he's going to try
To attack us.

We don't know what's going
To happen at that moment.

Put your hands in the air.

Come on, baby. It's over.

Stand up and put your hands
In the air.

Farris sees us,
And he comes towards us.

We take him into custody.

I want a lawyer!

For all of this to happen,
A double murder,

It's the most peaceful
Arrest ever.

Take a look around in here.

You want to handle him?
-yeah.

While mayfield is searching
Farris' mother's home,

I take him to the police car.

Watch your head.

[ grunts ] Man, I didn't do
No murder, mang.

Brother, I can't take
A statement from you.

Farris wants to talk to me
For whatever reason,

And he begins
A conversation.

I just want to tell you
What went down.

All right?

Just slide over.

Detective demery
Is smart enough to know that,

Under louisiana law, once
An individual requests a lawyer

That he must not be questioned
Any further by law enforcement.

However, if the suspect

Continues to talk of his own
Free will and volition,

Then those statements
Will come in.

So I activated my recorder: one,
To ensure

That I recorded
Everything correctly;

Two, that farris made
His statement voluntarily

And without any prompting
Or foraging

Or questions from me.

Farris tells me that
He sold drugs to those people.

He told me that
They owed him money.

He went to collect his money.

This statement was
Very important

Because the first statement
Was compromised,

The fact that farris
Had been drinking.

The second statement
Was completely voluntary.

Farris then told me
That he did,

In fact, send the text messages,
But he didn't kill anyone.

Even though farris never said
That he pulled the trigger,

The fact that he corroborated

Every other piece
Of evidence there,

At that point, I have no doubt
That robert was the killer.

Based on everything we learned,

It's clear to me what happened
On the night of the murder.

Oh, my god.
He's gone crazy.

-what's wrong?
-it's farris.

He says he's going to kill us
If we doesn't get his money.

You know he's full of it.

He sounds serious.

Nothing is going to happen.

Going to be okay.

I believe that robert farris

Had been dealing narcotics
To madonna.

You know he ain't going
To do nothing.

It's going to be okay.

When madonna failed
To pay robert

On a couple
Of different occasions,

He had decided that he was
Gonna demand his money.

Open up!

I know you in there!

Hey! What's going on?

I think you know
What's going on.

Robert. Oh, hey, robert.

Demery: s
He showed up at their home.

They let him in.

Once he went inside the house,

Madonna produced $350.

She owed him $500.

-this don't cover it, bitch!
-no!

Hey! Hey! Leave her alone!
You'll get your money!

Please, robert.

I think madonna legitimately
Wanted to give farris

What she owed him, but she just
Didn't have enough money.

Robert was upset,

But clearly, robert just wanted
To be in control

Because if he wanted money,
He would've taken the $350.

-[ madonna speaks indistinctly ]
-stephen: you're low.

Back up off me! Back up off me!
Get out of my face!

-no!
-on your knees!

I told you what would happen
If you didn't pay!

Robert, I'm sorry.

♪♪

I...Robert, no!
[ crying ] No! No!

[ gunshot ]No!

Demery:
After robert shot madonna,

Stephen pled for his life.

Please, please, I'll give you
Everything she owes you.

I-I...Please, no.

He was on his knees, begging
Somebody not to shoot him.

I'll go get the money tonight.
Please, I swear!

-no, man!
-I swear.

It's too late for that![ gunshot ]

And robert shot him twice.

[ gunshot ]

[ thud ]

♪♪

Then robert simply
Exited the house

And went home.[ door closes ]

[ voice breaking ] It broke my
Heart, you know, that she tried.

Sorry.

You know, she worked every day.

To think that she stood there
And tried to pay this debt,

But it wasn't good enough,
You know?

So she paid that day
With her life.

♪♪

When farris was arrested,
The reaction of the police chief

Was one of relief.

A political hot potato
Was no longer in his lap.

-thank you.
-good job, mayfield.

That's not bad for a rookie.
-better watch it, demery.

Coming for your spot.
-[ laughs ]

Mayfield did a really
Good job on this case.

He was in charge,
And he needed to do

What he thought was best.

Yeah, we'll see about that.
Get out of here.

Mayfield: being the lead
Detective on this case,

I guess it meant
A little bit more to me

To bring some closure
To madonna's family

And to stephen's family.

That's what makes me proud.

Carter: madonna didn't
Deserve what she got.

Nobody has the right to come in

And take somebody else's life
Like that.

Nobody has the right
To play god,

And he played god that day.

Gilcrease: madonna was
A good person.

Steve was a good person.

[ crying ] It still affects me
'cause I still miss her.

Demery: farris was convicted

Of two counts
Of second-degree murder

And sentenced
To a life sentence

Without the benefit
Or possibility of parole.

This case was not about money.
It wasn't about drugs.

It was about ego, and it
Was about power and control.

Two people were killed,
And it's pointless.

It's just unbelievable to me.