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Police sketch only made this case more confusing - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: One morning in January of 1990, a man walked into
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  Speaker 1: a police station in Marseille, France, clutching a newspaper that
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  Speaker 1: was rolled up in his fist. He went right up
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  Speaker 1: to the desk, and he said that he'd seen a
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  Speaker 1: sketch of a murder suspect in the paper that morning,
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  Speaker 1: and he knew who it was. He then unrolled the newspaper,
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  Speaker 1: revealing the composite sketch that was in the paper, and
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  Speaker 1: he held it right up next to his own face.
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  Speaker 1: At 5 p.m. on May 18, 1988, a 71-year-old hospital
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  Speaker 1: director named Léonce Mou carried his briefcase through the halls
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  Speaker 1: of the medical clinic that he owned in the city
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  Speaker 1: of Marseille, France. He was about to go home after
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  Speaker 1: a long, stressful day of business calls and paperwork. As
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  Speaker 1: he walked, he passed by various doctors and nurses who
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  Speaker 1: were all hard at work, and they all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when they saw Léonce, they would nod at him, and Léonce,
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  Speaker 1: he would nod back, and And at some point, Leonce
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  Speaker 1: turned a corner into the lobby where he saw several
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  Speaker 1: security officers and guard dogs were stationed right by the
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  Speaker 1: entrance and they were screening each person that came inside. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Leonce knew that to some people, the security in this
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  Speaker 1: clinic might seem like overkill. But to him, it felt
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  Speaker 1: necessary to keep everybody here safe. So Leonce himself was
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  Speaker 1: not a doctor. He was not in health care really
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  Speaker 1: at all. He was a businessman. and he'd gone into
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  Speaker 1: private health care because it was very lucrative. But in
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  Speaker 1: recent years, it had also become very competitive and cutthroat.
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  Speaker 1: There was now a lot of governmental red tape that
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  Speaker 1: made it nearly impossible to open new clinics in Marseille.
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  Speaker 1: So existing clinic owners actually had to buy other already
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  Speaker 1: operational clinics if they wanted to expand their businesses. And
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  Speaker 1: over the past few years, one of Leance's primary competitors,
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  Speaker 1: a doctor named Jean Chirac, who owned a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other private clinics in Marseille, had become really, really aggressive
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  Speaker 1: about trying to buy Leonce's. Leonce, though, did not want
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  Speaker 1: to sell. He wasn't ready to retire yet. And when
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  Speaker 1: he did retire, he considered leaving his clinic to his daughter, Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: She was a doctor and she had a head for business,
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  Speaker 1: so Leonce thought she might be interested in taking things
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  Speaker 1: over versus, you know, a private sale. But despite expressing
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  Speaker 1: his intentions to Shiraki, Shiraki had continued to pressure Leonce
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  Speaker 1: and try to get him to sell, and Leonce was
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  Speaker 1: becoming afraid of just how far his fierce competitor would
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  Speaker 1: go to get what he wanted. After all, Leonce knew
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  Speaker 1: that Shiraki was really powerful and very well connected in town,
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  Speaker 1: and there were even rumors that he had ties to
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  Speaker 1: organized crime. And so out of an abundance of caution
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  Speaker 1: that really came from this general tension slash fear with Sharaki,
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  Speaker 1: Leonce had installed all of these security measures, the cameras,
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  Speaker 1: the hired guards, the dogs. He'd even replaced the windows
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  Speaker 1: in his office with a one-way mirror so nobody could
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  Speaker 1: spy on him. And so even though Leonce to some
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  Speaker 1: degree believed he was doing all this to protect the
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  Speaker 1: people that worked for him, it still caused a lot
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  Speaker 1: of tension between Leonce and his employees. It just seemed
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  Speaker 1: like he was becoming sort of crazy and paranoid. And
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  Speaker 1: because his staff clearly thought he was becoming paranoid and
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  Speaker 1: sort of wacky, it made him lash out at his staff,
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  Speaker 1: and he distrusted everybody around him. He was sort of
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  Speaker 1: like this grumpy old man, and he knew that A
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  Speaker 1: lot of the doctors probably wished he would just retire already,
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  Speaker 1: that he was becoming sort of a nuisance, even though
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  Speaker 1: to him he was just being a responsible business owner.
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  Speaker 1: And so with all this tension going on inside the clinic,
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  Speaker 1: Leonce was beginning to get into these sort of awful
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  Speaker 1: fights with some of the people he worked with that
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  Speaker 1: just were at odds with what he was doing and
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  Speaker 1: how he was behaving. And in particular, Leonce had gotten
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  Speaker 1: into a few fairly high-profile public fights, including one with
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  Speaker 1: one of his most high-ranking administrators, a man named Mark Galeazzi,
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  Speaker 1: and that fight had basically destroyed their relationship, even though
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  Speaker 1: Mark still worked at the clinic. They just now couldn't
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  Speaker 1: interact with each other. And so as Leonce is making
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  Speaker 1: his way out of the clinic this day, it's on
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  Speaker 1: his mind that a lot of people here, they're waving
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  Speaker 1: and being nice to him, and he's waving back, but
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  Speaker 1: he knows that people don't really necessarily like him here.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what? He's had a stressful day, and
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  Speaker 1: at this point, he just wants to get through security
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  Speaker 1: get out to his car, and go home. So he
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  Speaker 1: walked out to his beautiful white Mercedes car, he unlocked
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  Speaker 1: the door, and he got into the driver's seat. He
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  Speaker 1: set his briefcase down on the seat next to him,
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  Speaker 1: and then he started the engine. But as he pulled
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  Speaker 1: out of the parking lot out onto the road, another
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  Speaker 1: car suddenly appeared from a side street. And before Leonce
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  Speaker 1: could even react, it veered into Leonce's lane and stopped
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  Speaker 1: right in front of his car, blocking his path. Seconds later,
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  Speaker 1: a woman walking down the street outside of Leonce's clinic
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  Speaker 1: heard two loud bangs right behind her. She turned and
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  Speaker 1: she saw a white Mercedes stopped in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the street, and there was a man standing by its
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  Speaker 1: front bumper pointing a hunting rifle at the windshield of
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  Speaker 1: the car. The woman instinctively ducked for cover behind a
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  Speaker 1: telephone pole, but also sort of watched as the man
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  Speaker 1: with the rifle ran to another car that was stopped nearby,
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  Speaker 1: and he climbed into the passenger seat and they sped away.
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  Speaker 1: And then once they were gone, the woman slowly stood
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  Speaker 1: up from behind cover and she walked a little bit
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  Speaker 1: closer to the Mercedes and she saw there were two
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  Speaker 1: bullet holes in the windshield. And through the shattered glass,
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  Speaker 1: she saw there was a man in the driver's seat
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  Speaker 1: who was slumped over and blood was clearly pouring out
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  Speaker 1: of his head. At this point, the woman turned, ran
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  Speaker 1: down the street, screaming for someone to call the police.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, Detective Richard Zerdumi of the Marseille Crime
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  Speaker 1: Division sat at his desk reviewing crime scene photos from
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  Speaker 1: a shooting that had occurred yesterday right outside of a
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  Speaker 1: medical clinic. Now, Zerdumi had not gotten to look at
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  Speaker 1: the scene in person, but he was told that the
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  Speaker 1: victim had already been identified. It was actually the owner
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  Speaker 1: of the clinic. It was Leonce Mu, and the officers
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  Speaker 1: who responded believed this shooting was a gang hit. And
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  Speaker 1: Zerdumi agreed that this did seem like organized crime, because
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  Speaker 1: at this point in 1988, Marseille was the epicenter of
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  Speaker 1: organized crime and corruption in France. And since Sardoumi had
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  Speaker 1: by this point been on the force for decades, he
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  Speaker 1: was very tapped into the city's criminal underworld. So he
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  Speaker 1: knew firsthand that gang hitmen would typically ambush their victims
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  Speaker 1: with hunting rifles and then drive away, which according to
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  Speaker 1: witnesses that have been interviewed at the scene, That was
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  Speaker 1: exactly what had happened in this case. The responding officers
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  Speaker 1: had also found a hunting rifle that had been tossed
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  Speaker 1: out into the street just a few blocks away from
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  Speaker 1: the crime scene, and forensics had confirmed it was the
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  Speaker 1: murder weapon. But that was about all they had so far,
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  Speaker 1: because while they had found the getaway car nearby as well,
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  Speaker 1: it had actually been set on fire, which meant that
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  Speaker 1: any forensic evidence that might have been found in the
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  Speaker 1: car had burned up. Zerdumi knew that when it came
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  Speaker 1: to professional hit cases, The victims often turned out to
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  Speaker 1: be gangsters themselves who had gotten into trouble with their associates.
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  Speaker 1: But Léonce, the victim, did not seem to fit that profile.
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  Speaker 1: He was a successful, upstanding businessman and a well-known name
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  Speaker 1: in the healthcare industry. And that was actually what had
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  Speaker 1: already turned this case into front-page news in France. Because
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  Speaker 1: Marseille's private healthcare industry was notoriously competitive, it was really
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  Speaker 1: compelling for people to read about how one of its
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  Speaker 1: members had been gunned down in broad daylight. It's like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's so competitive, they're killing each other now? And so
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  Speaker 1: in less than 24 hours, multiple news outlets had caught
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  Speaker 1: wind of this murder and claimed it was some sort
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  Speaker 1: of business feud. They'd even given it a catchy name,
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  Speaker 1: the Clinic Wars. But Zerdumi, you know, he had enough
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  Speaker 1: experience that he was not ready to simply jump to
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  Speaker 1: conclusions here. Now, he was pretty confident that this was
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  Speaker 1: a hit based on everything they've been told so far.
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  Speaker 1: But at this point, anybody could have ordered it. He
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  Speaker 1: knew that a ton of high-profile business owners in Marseille
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  Speaker 1: had secret ties to organized crime, so it could still
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  Speaker 1: be gang-related. Or it could be a family issue, or
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  Speaker 1: some kind of personal dispute. To get to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of this, Zerdoumi decided the first person and best person
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  Speaker 1: to talk to was Léonce' s own daughter, Catherine, who he'd
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  Speaker 1: found out was actually a doctor herself, and she worked
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  Speaker 1: at the clinic that Léonce owned. which meant she not
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  Speaker 1: only might be able to tell him about her father's
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  Speaker 1: personal life, but also his professional life as well. On
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  Speaker 1: the morning of May 19th, 1988, so a day after
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  Speaker 1: Leonce Mu was killed, Detective Richard Zerdumi sat down in
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  Speaker 1: the living room of Leonce's daughter, Dr. Catherine Mu. Catherine
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  Speaker 1: was sitting across from him, and her face was visibly
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  Speaker 1: red and puffy from all the crying she'd been doing.
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  Speaker 1: Zerdumi explained what the investigation had found so far, including
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  Speaker 1: his theory that Catherine's father's murder appeared to be a
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  Speaker 1: professional hit. And when he said that, Catherine just looked
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  Speaker 1: confused and said that that did not make any sense
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  Speaker 1: to her. And she said her dad had never been
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  Speaker 1: involved in anything illegal, so she couldn't understand why Gannon...
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  Speaker 1: would be after him. But when Zerdumi asked if her
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  Speaker 1: dad had any enemies, Catherine's eyes grew wide, like she
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  Speaker 1: just thought of something. And then she said, actually, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he did. There was a man named Dr. Jean Chiraki
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  Speaker 1: who'd been trying to buy her father's clinic for years,
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  Speaker 1: but she said her dad had always said no. But
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  Speaker 1: Shiraki was not taking no for an answer, and there
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  Speaker 1: was like this growing tension between them because of this. Zurdumi,
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  Speaker 1: when he heard this, I mean, he perked up because
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  Speaker 1: he knew who Dr. Shiraki was. I mean, everyone in
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  Speaker 1: Marseille did. He was a very rich and successful business
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  Speaker 1: tycoon and sort of a local celebrity. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was constantly seeking out the media and giving interviews about
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  Speaker 1: his health clinic empire. Catherine said that Shiraki had been
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  Speaker 1: buying up every private clinic in Marseille and supposedly he
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  Speaker 1: was furious that her dad just wouldn't budge. And so
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  Speaker 1: now she wondered if maybe he had killed her dad
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  Speaker 1: to just get him out of the way. And furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine said, you know, she was in line to take
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  Speaker 1: over her father's clinic now that he was dead. And
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  Speaker 1: so was she now at risk of being Shiraki's next target?
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  Speaker 1: Like she was scared. And at this, Zurdumi paused because Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: she was onto something. It did seem like Shiraki had
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  Speaker 1: motivation to want Leon's dead, and he obviously had the
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  Speaker 1: money to hire a hitman if he wanted to. But
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  Speaker 1: if Catherine was set to inherit the clinic, that gave
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  Speaker 1: her motivation too. She had just as much at stake
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  Speaker 1: as Shiraki did in some ways. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine did not strike him as a very strong suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, she seemed genuinely devastated. Plus, she already had
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  Speaker 1: a very successful career of her own. didn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: she really needed the clinic at all. But Zurdumi didn't
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  Speaker 1: have enough information to truly eliminate anyone at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And so soon after that, he stood up to leave
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  Speaker 1: and told Catherine he would be in touch. That afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: when Zurdumi got back to the police station, there was
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  Speaker 1: a crowd of reporters and photographers all waiting for him
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  Speaker 1: at the door. And as soon as they saw him,
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  Speaker 1: they began immediately peppering him with questions all about the case.
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  Speaker 1: And Zurdumi, he pushed his way through the crowd without
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  Speaker 1: saying a word and went inside to his office. There,
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  Speaker 1: He sat back down at his desk and tried to
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  Speaker 1: put all the media pressure out of his mind. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he still needed to question the clinic's employees to see
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  Speaker 1: if any of them might have had an issue with Leance.
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  Speaker 1: And he wanted to call the criminal informants in his
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  Speaker 1: own network that he had amassed over the years of
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  Speaker 1: being on the force to check if they'd heard about
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  Speaker 1: a hit being put out on Leance. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: were dozens of gang-related murders in Marseille every year, and
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  Speaker 1: it was entirely possible that Leance was maybe living a
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  Speaker 1: double life that even his daughter didn't know about. But
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  Speaker 1: Zerdumi's biggest suspect right now was definitely Dr. Shiraki. Zerdumi
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  Speaker 1: had been thinking about what Catherine had said, and Shiraki
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  Speaker 1: had the most to gain from Leonce's death. Shiraki was
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  Speaker 1: pretty publicly obsessed with growing his business empire and sort
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  Speaker 1: of bragging about it, and he had the money and
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  Speaker 1: connections to do basically whatever it took to beat his competitors,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe to include hiring a hitman. But despite his
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  Speaker 1: intense suspicions at this point, Sardoumi knew that bringing such
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  Speaker 1: a powerful, high-profile suspect in for questioning right now was
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  Speaker 1: a bad idea. He had to move carefully and wait
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  Speaker 1: until he had solid evidence before confronting him, because the
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  Speaker 1: media was going to go wild if they found out
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  Speaker 1: Shiraki was a suspect. So he wrote up a request
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  Speaker 1: to secretly wiretap Shiraki's phone. Sardoumi hoped that if Shiraki
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  Speaker 1: was involved in Leonce's murder... This would be the best
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  Speaker 1: way to catch him saying something that was incriminating and
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  Speaker 1: would allow him to bring him in as a suspect.
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  Speaker 1: A week later, Zurdumi was back at his desk when
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  Speaker 1: his phone rang. And when he answered it, the man
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  Speaker 1: on the other end said that he had a tip
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  Speaker 1: in the murder of Leonce Mu. And Zurdumi was intrigued
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  Speaker 1: because after a week of investigating this murder, he had
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  Speaker 1: zero new leads. He'd ultimately decided to rule out Catherine,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter, since he hadn't found anything that connected her
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  Speaker 1: to the crime. And after a week of secretly listening
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  Speaker 1: to Dr. Shiraki's phone calls, the police had not overheard
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  Speaker 1: anything to suggest that he was involved in Leonce's death either.
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  Speaker 1: Zurdumi had also spoken to some of Leonce's employees at
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  Speaker 1: the clinic, and he'd found out that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his staff didn't like him. He apparently had a temper,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd been growing increasingly paranoid and distrustful. But despite that,
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  Speaker 1: none of the clinic's employees seemed like serious suspects here.
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  Speaker 1: They just didn't necessarily like their boss. And on top
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  Speaker 1: of all that, none of the criminal informants Zerdumi had
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  Speaker 1: spoken to knew anything about Leonce's murder. So he didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to have any direct ties to any of the
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  Speaker 1: city's gangs. But now this tipster on the phone said
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  Speaker 1: that one, this was a hit for hire. And two,
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  Speaker 1: he knew who ordered the hit. It was Dr. Shiraki.
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  Speaker 1: And when Zerdumi heard this, he just set his pen down, disappointed. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he'd been hoping for a new lead. You know,
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  Speaker 1: but this caller was really just giving him a name, Shiraki,
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  Speaker 1: that he had already been very suspicious of and had
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  Speaker 1: already considered him in the whole hit for hire routine.
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  Speaker 1: And for the most part, Shiraki had been ruled out here.
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  Speaker 1: So this was this was sort of a useless call.
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  Speaker 1: And so Zurdumi was about to hang up on this
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  Speaker 1: guy when the caller said, wait, I have something else.
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  Speaker 1: I also know the name of the shooter that Shiraki hired.
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  Speaker 1: And at this, Zurdumi paused and he picked his pen
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  Speaker 1: back up again. And then the caller told him exactly
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  Speaker 1: who Shiraki apparently had hired and how the two men
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  Speaker 1: had gotten to know each other. And by the time
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  Speaker 1: Zurdumi hung up with this guy, he was buzzing with excitement.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he finally had a new trail to follow,
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  Speaker 1: and he was hopeful that this one would actually lead
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  Speaker 1: him somewhere. And even though Shiraki at this point had
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  Speaker 1: not said anything incriminating on his personal phone, Zurdumi wondered
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  Speaker 1: if maybe his hitman, if this was his hitman, would
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  Speaker 1: be as careful. So Zerdumi immediately ordered another wiretap on
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  Speaker 1: this new suspect's phone, the supposed hitman, and then he waited.
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  Speaker 1: But this tip ultimately went nowhere. The police spent months
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  Speaker 1: following up on this lead and listening to hours and
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  Speaker 1: hours of phone calls and never overheard anything that connected
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  Speaker 1: either man to Leonce's murder. And the supposed hitman even
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  Speaker 1: had an alibi. So even though Dr. Shiraki was still
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  Speaker 1: a suspect, Sir Doomey really couldn't find any evidence to
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  Speaker 1: actually link him to the murder. And even though he
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  Speaker 1: would continue to keep on searching, after a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half with really no new leads at all and
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  Speaker 1: everything just turning into a dead end, the case got
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  Speaker 1: shelved and went cold. On the morning of January 17th, 1990,
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  Speaker 1: So a few months after Leonce's case kind of officially
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  Speaker 1: went cold, and now almost two years after the murder itself,
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  Speaker 1: Detective Zerdumi was at home when he turned on the
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  Speaker 1: TV in his living room to listen to the news
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  Speaker 1: while he got ready for work. At some point, he
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  Speaker 1: went into the kitchen to make a pot of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and as he was doing that, he could still hear
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  Speaker 1: the TV, but he wasn't really paying close attention. Until suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of words from the TV caught his attention.
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  Speaker 1: There had been another incident. medical industry-related murder the night before.
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  Speaker 1: Zardumi went right back into the living room and he
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  Speaker 1: saw on the TV there were two police sketches of
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  Speaker 1: the murder suspects on the screen. The reporter was saying
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  Speaker 1: that a local surgeon and city councilman, a man named Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Jean-Jacques Pichard, had been gunned down in his car after
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  Speaker 1: leaving a restaurant with some of his colleagues. And the
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  Speaker 1: killer had apparently shot Pichard with a hunting rifle and
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  Speaker 1: then got in the passenger seat of a getaway car
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  Speaker 1: and sped away. Then, the reporter said something else that
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: really got Zerdoumi's attention. The victim, Dr. Pashar, worked in
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: a private clinic that was owned by Dr. Jean Chiraki.
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  Speaker 1: Zerdoumi couldn't believe it. This murder happened the same way
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: as Leonce's, with the same type of weapon. The whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was the same, and both victims had ties to Dr. Chiraki.
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  Speaker 1: On January 24, 1990, so a week after the second
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  Speaker 1: Clinic Wars murder, Detective Rishar Zardumi was at his desk
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  Speaker 1: comparing the newer case file with Leonce's. Dr. Peshawar had
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: been shot outside of a busy restaurant, so there were
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a few witnesses that had actually seen the shooter and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: also the getaway driver, and the police had released composite
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: sketches of those two suspects, but so far, neither had
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: been identified. And that was about all the investigators had
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: so far. But the fact that both hits were carried
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: out virtually the exact same way and that both victims
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: had a connection to Dr. Shiraki was enough for Zerdumi
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to feel pretty certain there had to be a link
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: between these two cases. But just then, an officer barged
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  Speaker 1: into his office, and he told Zerdumi that a man
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: had just come into the station claiming to be one
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: of the suspects in Pashar's murder. A few minutes later,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Zerdumi walked into an interrogation room where this man with
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a mustache and graying hair was sitting. And the first
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: thing Zerdumi noticed about this guy is he looked really nervous.
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing he noticed was that this guy
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: also did look a whole lot like one of the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: two suspects in the composite sketches. So he figured this
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: was definitely not a prank. But Zerdumi couldn't imagine why
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: a professional killer, potentially, would just walk into the station
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  Speaker 1: and turn himself in. So Zerdumi took a seat and
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: he asked the guy why he'd come in. And the
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: man said there'd been this horrible mix-up. he was here
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to clear things up. The man said his name was
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Marcel Long, and he was one of the people in
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: those composite sketches. But he had nothing to do with
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the murder. He said he was just eating at the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: restaurant where Pichard was killed that night, and witnesses must
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: have identified him as the shooter's accomplice by mistake. Sardoumi
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: was immediately very skeptical, so he just quickly excused himself
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  Speaker 1: from the room, and he went down the hall to
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a computer terminal to look Marcel's name up in their database.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: And when he saw the results for this guy... His
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: eyes went wide because Marcel had this really lengthy criminal record.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, he'd served 12 years in prison for manufacturing
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: heroin for a major gang. It was just way too
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: much of a coincidence that a literal known gangster would
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: have been mistakenly identified at a crime scene. Zerdumi thought
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: it was much more likely that Marcel realized he was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: likely about to be identified and was trying to get
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: ahead of it. So Zerdumi simply went back into the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: interrogation room, and told Marcel he was under arrest. Later
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: that day, Detective Zerdumi was walking through the living room
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: of Marcel's house, which was being torn apart by a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: forensics team. They were looking for any evidence that would
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: tie Marcel to Pashar's murder, or at least lead them
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to the person or people who had masterminded the hit.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: But so far, they were striking out. At some point,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Zerdumi found his way over to a desk and began
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: searching through a pile of papers that were on top
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: of it. And most of them were just bills or
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: junk mail or to-do lists. But there was one piece
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of paper he found with a name on it that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: stood out to Zerdumi. Rajay Mamoli. Zerdumi recognized that name
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: because he'd actually questioned Rajay 20 years earlier for a
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: series of heists that Rajay was involved in. And so
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Zerdumi did the math and realized Rajay must have gotten
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: out of prison just a few years ago. So theoretically, Rajay...
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: would have been hanging around Marseille and maybe looking for
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: work at the time of both Pachard and Leonce's murders.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: A few days later, Zerdoumi walked down the hallway of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the police station toward an interrogation room. The past few
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: days of the investigation had been very intense. Marcel Long,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the very nervous man who had shown up at the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: police station claiming there was this miscommunication that, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: people were misidentifying him as one of the suspects, while ultimately,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in the past few days, He actually had confessed that
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: he was involved in Pashar's murder. But he said he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: didn't actually pull the trigger. It was his accomplice, Roger Momoli.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And so Roger had been arrested too, and while searching
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: through his house, detectives had found some documents referencing Léonce
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Mou's health clinic. And so now, Zerdoumi and frankly the
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: rest of the investigation felt really confident that Roger and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Marcel were responsible for both Léonce and Pashar's murders. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: so now, Zerdumi was just hoping that Roger would give
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: him the last puzzle piece that he needed, the name
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of the person who had ordered the hits. And so now,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: as Zerdumi stepped inside of the interrogation room where Roger
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: was being held and sat down across from him, Roger
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: simply raised an eyebrow and made it a point to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: seem very unbothered that he was there at all. Like,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: this is no big deal for me. But Zurdumi remembered
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Roger from their interactions 20 years earlier, and he also
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: remembered the best way to get him to crack was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: to just rile him up. So he told Roger exactly
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: why he'd been arrested. That his accomplice, Marcel Long, he'd
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: ratted him out. And at this, Roger was furious like
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he hadn't heard that yet. And he sat up and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: his mouth fell open in disbelief. He was so mad.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: that he just began going off on this tirade. And
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he told Zerdumi all about who was really responsible for
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the murders. And Zerdumi just sat back and listened as
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Roger ranted and raged and told him everything Zerdumi needed
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to know about who had ordered both hits and why.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And by the time Roger was done, Zerdumi realized that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: he and his investigators had been half right all along.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: These two murders, the Leonce murder and the Pashara murder,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they were connected, but not in the way they had thought.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Based on interviews and forensic evidence, this is what police
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: believe happened to Leonce Mu on May 18th, 1988. A
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: little before 5 p.m., Roger Momoli and Marcel Long arrived
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: waited inside of a car parked across the street from
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Leonce's clinic. Roger was in the passenger seat and had
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a clear view of the main entrance. And as soon
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: as he saw Leonce walk out that door and head
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: into the parking lot, he grabbed his rifle and told
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Marcel to get ready. And when Leonce pulled out onto
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the street, Marcel zoomed forward and blocked his car, at
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: which point Roger jumped out of the passenger seat, he
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: raised his rifle, and he shot Leonce twice through the windshield.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Leonce immediately slumped over, and Roger, he rushed back to
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the car, hopped inside, and he told Marcel to go.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: After that, the killers sped off down the street, tossing
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the gun out the window as they went, and then
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: they eventually parked the car, doused it in gasoline, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Roger lit a match and dropped it. And as the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: car burst into flames, Roger jogged to a payphone that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: was right down the block. Meanwhile, the real killer, the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: one who had masterminded this hit, waited by the phone
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: in their office. In the hallway outside, they could hear
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: various medical machines beeping and a few nurses talking to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: each other as they pushed a stretcher. The mastermind tried
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to stay calm, but it was very difficult to do that.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, their heart was racing. If all went according
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to plan in the next few minutes, well, they'd be
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: one step closer to getting everything they wanted. And so
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the mastermind tapped a pen against their desk nervously and
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: tried to breathe slowly, counting each second as it ticked by.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And then finally... their phone rang. They picked it up
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: and they heard Roger's voice come over the line. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he said the job was done. At which point the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: mastermind hung up and breathed a huge sigh of relief
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and then got back to work. It would turn out
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that Leance's murder was related to his clinic, but it
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: was not orchestrated by Dr. Shiraki, at least not directly.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Shiraki was sort of indirectly involved. The mastermind was one
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of Leonce's own employees, Mark Gagliazzi, one of the senior
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: administrators who'd gotten into a big blow-up fight with Leonce
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: about selling his clinic and retiring that, you know, the
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: fight had destroyed their relationship. Well, Dr. Shiraki had asked
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Mark to help him convince Leonce to sell his clinic.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And in exchange, Shiraki had promised to make Gagliazzi the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: clinic's new director once he took it over. But no
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: matter how hard Mark Gagliazzi tried, he could not change
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Leonce's mind. And he got so frustrated that he went
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: off completely on his own and took care of the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: problem himself. What he did is he turned to an
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: ex-employee of the clinic who had recently been hired at
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the clinic and then also fired at the clinic. It
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: was Roger Mamoli. And he knew that Roger had a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: criminal record, a bad temper, and was in desperate need
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: of work. So he asked Roger to kill Leonce for him,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: and he would pay him to do it. And so
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Roger agrees, he carries out this murder, and coincidentally, Roger
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Momoli was also later hired to kill Pashar, but that
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: murder actually had nothing to do with Leonce. It had
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the clinic wars or Sharaki or anything.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: It was totally unrelated. Roger had been hired by a
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: political competitor of Pashar who wanted to take his spot
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: on the city council. And so ultimately, Leonce and Detective
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Zerdumi had both been so focused on Shiraki as being
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: this big threat that they didn't see the real threat
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: hiding right inside of Leonce's own clinic. In 1994, Roger
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Momoli was sentenced to life in prison for the murders
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: of Leonce Mu and Jean-Jacques Bouchard, and Marcel Long was
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: sentenced to five years as an accomplice. As for Mark Gagliazzi,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the mastermind behind Leonce's murder, he was sentenced to 14
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: years for ordering the hit. Thank you so much for watching.
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