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The Cartel Thought They Were Untouchable — Until One Mistake · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: In Minnesota, a gruesome murder left only a few clues.
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  Speaker 1: A local drug boss became a suspect.
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  Speaker 2: But he was well protected by the police.
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  Speaker 1: FBI agents and local detectives had to infiltrate a dangerous
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  Speaker 1: cartel to get to two gangsters who killed without remorse.
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  Speaker 1: A burning corpse in a dark alley brought light to
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  Speaker 1: a cold-blooded killer.
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  Speaker 2: His accomplices would tell the story.
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  Speaker 1: In the underworld of drug trade, even a child can
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  Speaker 1: become an enemy quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I am Jim Kallstrom, former head of the New York
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  Speaker 2: FBI office.
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  Speaker 1: A trail of drugs and money led FBI agents to
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  Speaker 1: a murderer who underestimated the power of forensic science.
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  Speaker 2: June 24, 1990. At 3 a.m., a resident of St.
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  Speaker 1: Paul, Minnesota, took the silence of a summer evening when
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  Speaker 1: he noticed that a car was driving into the alley
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  Speaker 1: behind his house. Moments later, he heard the unmistakable noise
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  Speaker 1: of a blazing fire.
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  Speaker 2: Then the car ran away.
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  Speaker 1: As he searched the alley, he discovered a large object
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  Speaker 1: in flames. Das Feuer könnte sein Eigentum in Brand setzen.
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  Speaker 2: Er rief den Notruf. Rettungskräfte von St. Paul rückten an.
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  Speaker 1: Als die Feuerwehr die Flammen löschte, wurde ihnen klar, dass
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  Speaker 1: es sich um mehr als nur um Vandalismus handelte. Bei
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  Speaker 1: dem Gegenstand handelte es sich um einen verkohlten menschlichen Körper,
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  Speaker 1: der in eine geschmolzene Plastikplane eingewickelt war. Die Mordkommission traf
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  Speaker 1: am Tatort ein. Sie befragten den Bewohner, der hatte das
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  Speaker 1: Auto nicht gesehen und auch nicht, wer sich darin befand.
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  Speaker 1: Die Polizei fand keine Ausweisdokumente an oder in der Nähe
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  Speaker 1: der Leiche. Die Ermittler hofften, dass eine Autopsie weitere Informationen
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  Speaker 1: liefern würde. If they could identify the victim, could it
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  Speaker 1: help them to find the culprits? The medical officer found
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  Speaker 1: out that the victim was a black man in his mid-twenties,
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  Speaker 1: who was already dead before the fire started.
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  Speaker 2: Cause of death. Several shot wounds to the head.
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  Speaker 1: The medical officer took three small caliber bullets They are
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  Speaker 1: sent to the ballistic laboratory for.
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  Speaker 2: Examination. In spite of the fire damage.
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  Speaker 1: He found the powder burning on the head of the victim,
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  Speaker 1: which indicated that he was being shot from close range.
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  Speaker 2: If there.
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  Speaker 1: Were still enough fingerprints, they could help with the identification.
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  Speaker 1: The fingerprints were entered into the automatic fingerprint identification system.
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  Speaker 2: AFIS is a.
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  Speaker 1: National database that contains fingerprints of 23 million people. The
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  Speaker 1: body was probably burned to make it difficult to identify.
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  Speaker 1: With the AFIS technology this could be possible. But the
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  Speaker 1: evaluation of the fingerprints would take some time. The police
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  Speaker 1: assumed that a deadly murder was probably connected to drugs.
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  Speaker 1: The area around Minneapolis and St. Paul has recently become
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  Speaker 1: a popular import place for drugs. With the drugs, violence
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  Speaker 1: crime also increased. Special Agent John Tindall from the Bureau
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  Speaker 1: of Criminal Apprehension in Minnesota investigated the drug trade in
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  Speaker 1: this area. At that time, cocaine was mainly brought to
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  Speaker 1: the federal state by public transport, either by bus or plane.
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  Speaker 2: The police.
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  Speaker 1: Put together drug-fighting teams that were assigned to the airport
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  Speaker 1: in Minneapolis-St.
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  Speaker 2: Paul to stop the flow. The agents monitored.
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  Speaker 1: Travel from and after cities like Miami and Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: from which the drugs came from. Their task was to
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  Speaker 1: find drug dealers among the legitimate passengers. On June 25, 1990,
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  Speaker 1: the day after the body was found in the street,
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  Speaker 1: the agents watched the checkers on which tickets were issued
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  Speaker 1: for the same day. These two men approached the ticket
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  Speaker 1: seller and stood there for a while, in our opinion,
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  Speaker 1: to negotiate the sale of some tickets. Sie zogen ein
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  Speaker 1: Bündel Geldsteine auf.
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  Speaker 2: Sie bezahlten die Tickets bar. Dann verließen sie den Ticketschalter.
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  Speaker 1: Die Agenten überprüften den Schalter und erfuhren, dass die Männer
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  Speaker 1: unter den Namen Jeffrey English und Harry Babs flogen. Die
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  Speaker 1: Agenten holten die Männer an ihrem Gate ein, als sie
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  Speaker 1: darauf warteten, an Bord ihres Fluges zu gehen. Sie baten sie,
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  Speaker 1: ein paar Fragen zu beantworten. We explained to them that
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  Speaker 1: they were not obliged to talk to us if they
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  Speaker 1: did not want to. They were not arrested.
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  Speaker 2: They could go.
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  Speaker 1: Both men invited him to an interview and said they
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  Speaker 1: would only return home to L.A.
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  Speaker 2: They said they had come to St. Paul to visit
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  Speaker 2: my friend named Ken Jones.
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  Speaker 1: The officers asked for permission to search the pockets on
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  Speaker 1: the switch. Both agreed, so that an inspection order was
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  Speaker 1: not necessary. The bags had not yet been loaded into.
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  Speaker 2: The plane.
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  Speaker 1: In Jeffrey English's bag was a plastic bag with money
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  Speaker 1: bundles worth a total of $ 13, 000. In a shoe was
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  Speaker 1: a Deringer pistol of caliber 22.
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  Speaker 2: You could have easily missed them.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tiny revolver with a capacity of five
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  Speaker 1: shots and a barrel that was only 2.5 cm long.
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  Speaker 2: And the entire weapon was about 10 cm long.
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  Speaker 1: A weapon that you could simply hide by holding it
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  Speaker 1: in your hand. There was another pistol in the other bag.
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  Speaker 1: Neither of the two was reported. Dieser Verstoß und die
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  Speaker 1: verdächtige Menge an Bargeld lieferten einen ausreichenden, wahrscheinlichen.
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  Speaker 2: Grund für eine Verhaftung. Officer Morrison. Der Beamte funkte sein Partner.
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  Speaker 1: An.
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  Speaker 2: Sie mussten Babs und English festnehmen, bevor sie abhoben. Befand
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  Speaker 2: sich noch am Terminal.
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  Speaker 1: The agent climbed the machine and found the men already
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  Speaker 1: sitting in front. In a later interview, English claimed that
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  Speaker 1: money came from the sale of.
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  Speaker 2: A car. He said he bought the 22 Deringer on
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  Speaker 2: the street in Minneapolis. And he.
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  Speaker 1: Added, he has no idea where the weapon was. I
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  Speaker 1: found that a strange answer from someone who distanced himself
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  Speaker 1: from the history of the weapon. Inge Wittüsseß. And that
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  Speaker 1: was the first hint that one of us had, that
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  Speaker 1: the weapon could have been used in a crime. Simply
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  Speaker 1: by the way he formulated his answer to the question.
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  Speaker 1: The agents were still suspicious when he admitted in English
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  Speaker 1: that he flew under the wrong name, that he was under.
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  Speaker 2: His real name was Jeffrey Barnes.
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  Speaker 1: There was no evidence against Barnes or his companions for
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  Speaker 1: anything other than minor violations of the weapons law. Both
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  Speaker 1: men paid fines and were released. Their weapons were kept
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  Speaker 1: until the agents were able to check the police officers
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  Speaker 1: to find out whether they had been used for previous crimes.
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  Speaker 2: Two weeks later, the police received information that Barnes had
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  Speaker 2: been arrested. Dewan Walker.
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  Speaker 1: The 26-year-old resident of the large area of Los Angeles
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  Speaker 1: was fined for trying to sell drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Walker's death.
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  Speaker 1: Was published in the newspaper of his hometown. His uncle
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  Speaker 1: read the article and called the authorities of St. Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Investigation. Police of St.
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  Speaker 1: Paul.
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  Speaker 2: Tell the detective, his nephew went there to meet a
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  Speaker 2: man named Ken Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for your information.
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  Speaker 1: When Walker didn't return from St. Paul, Uncle Jones contacted
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  Speaker 1: him and said Walker had already left. I think I.
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  Speaker 2: Have the folder here. Drugs dealers from St.
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  Speaker 1: Paul knew Jones. They had investigated him for years. He
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  Speaker 1: was considered the largest cocaine supplier in the region. Jones
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  Speaker 1: was careful with his drug business and well against investigations.
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  Speaker 1: Through public donations to urban welfare organizations, he became known
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  Speaker 1: as the welfare of the community. They believed that he
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  Speaker 1: used his legitimate business.
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  Speaker 2: To wash drugs. On the street was his call. Hello,
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  Speaker 2: I have some money. Thank you for the money.
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  Speaker 1: For years, investigators have been looking for a way to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the drug boss.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators knew that the murderer D1 Walker was with
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  Speaker 2: him before Jones' death. If they could prove that.
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  Speaker 1: The dealer was involved, they could finally get him out
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  Speaker 1: of the street. But they needed more evidence. The investigators
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  Speaker 1: asked Jones' employees, business owners... Hello, can I help you?
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  Speaker 1: They hoped that someone from Jones' meetings with D1 Walker
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  Speaker 1: would know... But none of the employees were ready to talk.
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  Speaker 1: Drug boss Ken Jones continued his drug trade. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be outside the range of the law. On June 24, 1990,
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  Speaker 1: the authorities of St. Paul found the body of the
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  Speaker 1: 26-year-old Duran Walker burned in a street.
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  Speaker 2: Just before his death, he had.
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  Speaker 1: Met with drug boss Camp Jones. The police assumed that
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  Speaker 1: Jones was involved in the murder.
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  Speaker 2: But the witnesses did.
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  Speaker 1: Not want to talk and there was no material evidence
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  Speaker 1: that burdened him. Three months later, the investigators had an
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  Speaker 1: unexpected breakthrough when the police arrested a man from St.
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  Speaker 1: Paul for a routine traffic jam. A computer check showed
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  Speaker 1: that a arrest warrant was filed against Charles Schark.
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  Speaker 2: The police took him into custody.
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  Speaker 1: They contacted the investigator who had issued the arrest warrant,
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  Speaker 1: the special investigator John Tindall from the Minnesota Bureau of
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  Speaker 1: Criminal Apprehension. The arrest warrant was issued against Charles Chagob
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  Speaker 1: because of the import of two kilos of cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: We tried.
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  Speaker 1: To find him at the address given to us, but
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  Speaker 1: he was not there and we had no way of
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  Speaker 1: finding out where he was at that time. A few
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  Speaker 1: months ago, a drug trafficking team in Minneapolis-St. Paul discovered
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  Speaker 1: the courier. They observed how Chuck Barth paid a last-minute
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  Speaker 1: ticket to Los Angeles for the full price.
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  Speaker 2: He just wanted to fly back and forth. Chuck didn't
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  Speaker 2: have any luggage and only took one with him to
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  Speaker 2: the plane. He had his... Board card already. The next day,
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  Speaker 2: the officers saw him return. Now with two pieces of luggage.
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  Speaker 1: They knew that the courier had additional pieces of luggage
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  Speaker 1: with him.
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  Speaker 2: When they returned from a drug robbery.
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  Speaker 1: They told Chuck that they could not arrest him, but
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  Speaker 1: that they could keep his luggage under control. The authorities
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  Speaker 1: were not allowed to open his luggage without his consent,
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  Speaker 1: and he did not give it. Chuck's reaction was not
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  Speaker 1: that of an innocent traveler. When you tell them to
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  Speaker 1: keep their luggage back, do they normally keep it if
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  Speaker 1: they have nothing to hide? Why? They don't want to
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  Speaker 1: leave it back.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck had nothing of it. He had no questions. He
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  Speaker 2: had no concerns.
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  Speaker 1: His main concern was to get away from there as
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  Speaker 1: soon as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Take it with you.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after Chuck left, a dog was investigating the bags.
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  Speaker 2: One was clean, but in the other one the dog
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  Speaker 2: was smelling of anesthesia.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get an inspection order just because of the
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  Speaker 1: dog's behavior. The dog was an essential part of the
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  Speaker 1: application for an inspection order, but not the only one.
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  Speaker 2: We also had to sign the fact that.
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  Speaker 1: We had seen how Chuck came in the evening and
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  Speaker 1: bought an expensive return ticket to Los Angeles. with a
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  Speaker 1: return flight the next morning. Such things are unusual. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that he carried a small bag in the plane
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  Speaker 1: and two more with him is also unusual.
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  Speaker 2: So it's unusual.
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  Speaker 1: The officers obtained a search warrant to open the bags.
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  Speaker 1: They found two kilos of cocaine in it. The investigators
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  Speaker 1: suspected that Chuck transported the drugs for someone else. At
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  Speaker 1: this point in time, we couldn't establish a connection with
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  Speaker 1: whom he was working with or for.
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  Speaker 2: Whom he was working.
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  Speaker 1: But my gut feeling told me that he was a
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  Speaker 1: courier for someone in a higher position. After he was arrested,
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  Speaker 1: Chuck found out about the evidence against him. He had
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  Speaker 1: his lawyer propose a deal. Im Austausch für eine Überlegung
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  Speaker 1: zur Strafzumessung würde er Informationen über den Mann preisgeben, für
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  Speaker 1: den er die Drogen transportierte. Noch wichtiger war, dass er
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  Speaker 1: auch Einzelheiten über den ungeklärten Mord an Duane Walker preisgeben würde.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck sagte, dass der Mann, den als Kurier engagierte, derselbe
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  Speaker 1: Mann war, der den Mord in Auftrag gegeben hatte, der
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  Speaker 1: den Mord in Auftrag gegeben hatte. Der Mann hieß Kent Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Für jedes gelieferte Kilo Kokain Ken Jones paid Chuck $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck had been working for the drug boss since high school.
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  Speaker 1: Especially because their relationship was so close, Jones did not
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  Speaker 1: justify himself for the loss of cocaine. But Chuck was
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  Speaker 1: not the only courier. Jones' girlfriend also played an important
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  Speaker 1: role in the drug organization. Charles Chuck told me that
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  Speaker 1: she was best acquainted with.
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  Speaker 2: His drug business.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, she had been a stewardess for many years
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  Speaker 1: at a flight company and the stewardess brought him a
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  Speaker 1: kilo of cocaine. The investigators asked Chuck if the friend
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  Speaker 1: knew about the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, I was a courier. He said that she was
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  Speaker 2: very upset when Walker was killed.
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  Speaker 1: Irene. She told him, Jones had commissioned her to clean
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom of his own apartment.
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  Speaker 2: There was a lot of blood.
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  Speaker 1: On the bathtub.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck had heard, by the way, that there was a shooting.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the name of the murderer was Jeffrey Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: a full-strecker for Jones, and the same man, in whose
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  Speaker 1: suitcase I see $ 13, 000 in a bar and a gun
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  Speaker 1: of the caliber, 22 found, found. He had the impression
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  Speaker 1: that Barnes had shot the victim, Dwan Walker, in the
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  Speaker 1: head and had left the city the next day after
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  Speaker 1: he had been paid for the murder by Ken Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck claimed the $ 13, 000 in bars. Chuck only knew the
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  Speaker 1: caliber of the murder weapon and other details of the
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  Speaker 1: crime that had not been published. Ah. So we were
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  Speaker 1: of the opinion that Chuck was credible enough that Barnes
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  Speaker 1: and Jones, as legitimate suspects in the murder case, could
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  Speaker 1: be considered Walker. The agents recognized that they might have
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  Speaker 1: already had the murder weapon in custody. If they could
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  Speaker 1: prove that this was the weapon with which Dwayne Walker
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  Speaker 1: was killed, they could lead the murder case against the
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer Ken Jones and his accomplice Jeffrey Barnes. They
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  Speaker 1: took the Deringer caliber 20 out of the asservant's closet, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators sent the Deringer for examination to St. Paul
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  Speaker 2: Ballistics Lab.
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  Speaker 1: The examiners compared the grooves in the inside of the
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  Speaker 1: barrel with the grooves of the shot removed from the victim.
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  Speaker 2: But your report was disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: The results were not clear, which was due to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the barrel was only one inch wide and
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of rills in the fields and rills of
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  Speaker 1: this barrel was limited. The longer the barrel, the better
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  Speaker 1: the rills can be recognized. In a short barrel like this,
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  Speaker 1: the possibilities are very limited. Without a forensic examination, which
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  Speaker 1: brought Barnes' weapon in connection with the bullets that killed Walker,
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  Speaker 1: the authorities only had the statement of a drug smuggler
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  Speaker 1: that they could bring before court. The officers sent the
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  Speaker 1: weapon to the laboratory for alcohol, tobacco and firearms in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: They assumed that their laboratory was a bit more advanced.
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  Speaker 1: They were used to doing such things routinely and with
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  Speaker 1: their highly developed equipment they could possibly come to a
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  Speaker 1: more precise conclusion. Also, after the weapon from the ATF
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  Speaker 1: had been examined, they came to the conclusion that it
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  Speaker 1: was actually the weapon that was murdered with the Dew
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  Speaker 1: & Walker. The investigators now knew that the perpetrator, Jeffrey Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: was in possession of the murder weapon on the day
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  Speaker 1: after Walker's death.
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  Speaker 2: But they still had no.
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  Speaker 1: Proof that he had fired the deadly shots or that
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  Speaker 1: Ken Jones had committed the murder. Officials and detectives searched
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  Speaker 1: for witnesses who could link the two men to the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Could you look at the picture?
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  Speaker 1: Whether out of loyalty or out of fear, the authorities
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  Speaker 1: were received with silence.
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  Speaker 2: One after the other, with whom we tried to talk,
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  Speaker 2: did not want to talk to us.
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  Speaker 1: And they didn't want to pay anything. So we were
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  Speaker 1: back at the point where we only had Charles' statement
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  Speaker 1: and no tangible possibility to confirm the information. that he
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  Speaker 1: gave us through other witnesses. Yes, come in. Investigators applied
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  Speaker 1: for a search warrant for Jones' property. But the judge
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  Speaker 1: refused because they couldn't confirm the story with the blood
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  Speaker 1: on the floor. After almost a year, the investigators recognized
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  Speaker 1: that the case could not be solved without additional resources.
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  Speaker 1: They turned to the FBI's drug task force in St.
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  Speaker 1: Paul and asked for help. Agent Tom Dinesky, who had
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  Speaker 1: worked in the drug decenat for 20 years, was very
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  Speaker 1: aware of.
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  Speaker 2: The call of Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes. Both were
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  Speaker 2: very shy people. They had a violent background.
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  Speaker 1: And when we interrogate people, we try to... Either avoid
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  Speaker 1: contact with us, or they won't tell us the truth.
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  Speaker 1: The Task Force is convinced that the only way to
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  Speaker 1: get to the Drone Boss and his protector is a
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  Speaker 1: cooperating witness.
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  Speaker 2: You have to find.
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  Speaker 1: Someone who can give you information firsthand and maybe ask
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  Speaker 1: for a signed confession.
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  Speaker 2: Yo, what's good? What's good?
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  Speaker 1: The investigator turns to a trusted informant whom he had
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  Speaker 1: met in earlier cases.
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  Speaker 2: The investigator.
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  Speaker 1: Could not connect Barnes with the victim. But he knew
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  Speaker 1: that the perpetrator had a nephew who had recently been
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  Speaker 1: released from prison.
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  Speaker 2: The nephew was called Russell Barnes.
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  Speaker 1: He was known on the street as Ice.
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  Speaker 2: After his release.
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  Speaker 1: From prison, he came to Singapore to deal with contacts
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  Speaker 1: that his uncle Jeffrey Barnes had sent him with cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: The nephew really wanted to make money. The agents hoped
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  Speaker 2: to use his jealousy advantage.
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  Speaker 1: In autumn 1992, the investigators developed a new strategy.
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  Speaker 2: The nephew of the full-strecker was supposed to be his
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  Speaker 2: new target.
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  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Grant Besse, a specialist for listening to wiretaps,
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  Speaker 1: was added as part of the plan.
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  Speaker 2: We looked at Russell Arp.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: First of all, how big of a drug there was.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And second, he dealt with his uncle Jeffrey. And we
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: thought if we could set up a case against Russell,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it would also.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Help us to set up a case against Jeffrey. To get.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: In, the agents somehow had to get into the closed
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: ranks of a dangerous drug dealer. Under 90, the investigators
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: believed that a drug boss from St. Paul and his suspect,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Duvon Walker.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Had killed... They had already secured the weapon. Sgt.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Tom Donaski, who was assigned to a drug task force
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: by the FBI, needed confirmation evidence to be able to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: arrest drug boss Ken Jones and his suspect, Jeffrey Barnes.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Grant Besse was of the opinion that
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: he could provide the necessary information. If you first found
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the nephew of the perpetrator, the drug dealer Russell Barnes.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: We.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: We had sources of information that were close to Russell
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and gave us the information that he knew that his uncle, Mr.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Diaz-Sousas, had committed the murder.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: We didn't know how Russell knew about it. To build
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: up a case against Russell Barnes, the FBI hired a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: trustworthy informant with credibility.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: On the street. And I can hear what I say.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: The agents sent the informant a telegram that he was
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: supposed to carry out drug purchases controlled by the nephew
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: of the informant.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: The members of the Task Force recorded every purchase. It
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: was a risky operation.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: If the informant's telegram was discovered, he would probably be killed.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: The agents wanted to build trust and exclude any possibility
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that Russell Barnes could suspect that it was a trap. First,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the informant bought only small amounts.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: How much would that cost me? Over time, the transactions.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Became more and more frequent and each was recorded.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Packs like these over here. Is that the package?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: But Russell Barnes refused to talk about his knowledge about
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the murder. Agents had not come close to clarifying the crime.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: The FBI had to bring someone closer to the perpetrator himself.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: In May 1993, they found their way in. An informant
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: who worked for the FBI in St.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Paul on another case.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Case, mentioned that he and Jeffrey Barnes had been in
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: prison together. He claimed they were very close and Barnes
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: trusted him. He said he was sure he could get
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Barnes to sell cocaine and talk about the murder of
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Doolin Walker. The agents tested the credibility of the informant
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: by letting him call him in full force. Within a
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: few moments it became clear that Jeffrey Barnes had no
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: problem talking to the informant.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: That was the breakthrough the investigators had been waiting for.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Now they had to find a place for the drug purchases.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Eine kontrollierte Umgebung, die angemessen verkabelt werden konnte.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Ich hab mich gut ernährt.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Zu der Zeit lebte der Informant bei einem Verwandten und
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: konnte zu Hause nicht wirklich etwas unternehmen. Wir besorgten ein
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Haus vom HUD und ließen den Informanten dort einziehen. And
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the informant declared he was ready to record certain conversations
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that he might have had with Jeffrey Barnes. Investigators brought
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the informant to a state house on the west side
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: of St. Paul. He should always turn them to the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: FBI if the perpetrator planned to search the house for
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: a drug deal. FBI technicians wired the house with electronic
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: hearing aids in three rooms. Mr. Anges von der Genten
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: knew that Barnes liked to talk about it, to be.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: A serial killer and to call himself Mold Incorporated.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: With this information we tried to get the informant to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: do it, to get him to do it with him
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: about violent acts. to talk about who he was involved
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in and things like that. And that's exactly what it
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: was about with Jeff Barnes' call and something he liked
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to talk about. The agent coach told his informants how
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: they could bring Barnes to talk about the murder of
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Doan Walker.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: He should.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Bring the foreman to talk about the murders he had
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: committed in the past.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: You don't have to take too much responsibility. I have
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: a problem.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: In a conversation on tape, the informant suggested that Barnes
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: would help him rob a drug dealer.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Jeffrey Barnes suggested that he simply kill him.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Barnes told the informant that it would not be a
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: problem to kill someone. And he described how he would
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: He would turn his back on the person.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: They came here with a gun on their heads, shot them,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: dropped them on the ground, wrapped them in plastic and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: dragged their bodies out onto the street. And exactly in
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: this way, Doohan Walker was also killed. Let's get down
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: to business.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: There were good clues. But alone they were not.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Enough.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I understand, I'm coming.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Since the purchases were made by telephone, the investigators received
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: an investigation order to attack the phone lines of the suspects.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: The abandoned phone lines did not provide information about the
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: murder of Walker, but they provided details about the drug dealer.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: In January 1994, the task force decided that it was
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: time to arrest Russell Barnes and hoped that he would
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: turn against his uncle. 36. On January 29, they arranged
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: another controlled drug purchase with an informant.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: He was supposed to be in a hotel in the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: city center of St.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Paul.
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: The investigators wired the room for noises.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: I can't. The reliability of the hearing aids.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Was crucial.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: 1-2, 1-2. The recordings should be used before court. And
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the agents would listen from an adjacent room. If Russell
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Barnes discovered the trap, they could protect their informants.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Test 1, 2, 3.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Test dead. Clear.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: The room was ready.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: They would call the informant, the nephew of the perpetrator,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and have several of us order cocaine. Mary has a
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: small lamp. Test 1. Mary has a small lamp. Mary
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: has a... The investigators and the special unit of the
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: police of St. Paul carried out the surveillance in Russell
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Barnes' apartment. And after the calls were made with very
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: short delay, Russell.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: Went to the hotel.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Russell Barnes had delivered something to the informant before. He
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: brought cocaine and needed the equipment with him to measure it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: He had no suspicion.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: For him it was just another deal. He set his
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: stand and started with the transaction. Without knowing that every
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: word was recorded. Because it was important to get a
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: drug dealer off the street.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: But what the.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Investigators really wanted was that Russell Barnes made a statement
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: about the murder of drug boss Ken Jones and the
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: full-fledged Jeffrey Barnes, until.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: When the details of the drug deal were on the line,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the investigators approached. Kim! Supergirl!
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: End behind the head.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: We are in the area. You had irrefutable evidence that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Russell Barnes had sold about two ounces of cocaine? On
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the knee. The investigators explained to him that Russell, as
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a three-time drug dealer, had to count prison with at
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: least 15 years.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: You wanted a statement about his uncle.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Barnes.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: He said so.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: We talked in detail about Jeffrey Barnes and his involvement
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: in the murder of Dwayne Walker. As we hesitated to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: talk about his uncle, but after a while we gained
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: his trust and he finally told us what he knew
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: about the murder of Dwayne Walker.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: What happened to Walker? Jeffrey Barnes told him that Walker
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: tried to steal Ken Jones cocaine. So they killed him.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: The full-strengths said they put Walker's body in a street,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: poured gasoline over it and lit it. It was at
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: best a second-hand confession.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Russell Barnes was taken into custody. Okay, let's go.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: The agents also took their informants. Hardly anyone knew that
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: he had cooperated. I'm working on it. Drug boss Ken
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Jones was still on his feet. Just like his foreman,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Barnes. But the FBI task force came closer to him. 1990,
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: bei dem Versuch, einen Drogenring in Minnesota zu zerschlagen und
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: einen vier Jahre alten Mord aufzuklären?
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Hatten das FBI und die Polizei von St.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Paul die Dealer Russell Barnes festgenommen, der sich zur Kooperation
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: bereit erklärte? Er lieferte Einzelheiten zu den Verbrechen, die sein
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Onkel Jeffrey Barnes begangen hatte, darunter landesweiter Drogenhandel. Und der
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Mord an Do One Walker im Jahr 1990? Laut Sergeant
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Tom Dynaski. the investigators had numerous evidence against Jeffrey Barnes,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a well-known supporter of the drug boss Ken Jones. They
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: have a weapon that was secured at the airport. Then
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: there's Jeff Barnes, who says to one of our relatives
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that you kill someone like that.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: That's a kind of drug fraud.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: And the actual procedure he went through when he killed
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: DeJuan Walker. And now we have his nephew telling us
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: that he was a blood relative in his house, whom
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: we will have to tell the court that he actually
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: told him about the murder. In August 1994, the investigators
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: observed the residence of Jeffrey Barnes.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: We knew that the full-strecker was often armed and ready
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: to kill. He had no time to react. Hands up
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: to the car! The prosecution did not yet sue him
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: for murder. Instead, a further drug charge was filed. Give
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: me your hand.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: The drug dealer with his former dentist brought Barnes to
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: prison for 30 years. They wanted to keep the murder
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: case until they had more evidence against him and Ken Jones.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Grant Beasley believed that Barnes' prison would bring
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the witnesses to the table.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Jeff Barnes had the call of a full-time. He scared people.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: We thought, if we would get him out of the street,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: it would reduce the fear of some people.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: These other people.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: And it would be better for us to be able
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to talk to these other people while he's locked up.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: The plan worked.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: After Barnett's arrest, the investigators met with a accomplice of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Ken Jones.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Since he was threatened with a long prison sentence for
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: drug crimes, he was accused as a witness of the government.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: He said he had extensive knowledge of Jones' drug cartel
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and had killed Duane Walker shortly before his murder. In
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: mid-June 1990, Jones had ordered the witness to drive a
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: pickup to St. Louis, where he was supposed to meet Walker.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: The truck was equipped with a second tank. When he
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: arrived in St. Louis, Juan Walker put several bags of
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: cocaine in the wrong tank. When the tank was full,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: he took about 30 kilos of the drug. This amount
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: of cocaine would have been worth more than a million.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Dollars.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: The witness then drove the truck back to St. Paul,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: where he handed it over to the drug boss. He
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: had already arrived and lived with Jones in his property
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: in Shonung. Jones had not yet paid Walker for the drugs.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: In fact, he and his partner decided not to do this.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: The two of.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Them swear to take the dope, to solve the problem
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: and to just get Dwayne Walker.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: That's good one.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Die Aussage des Zeugen würde das Motiv für den Mord erklären.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Er erzählte den Agenten, dass er einige Tage später einen
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Anruf vom Drogenboss erhalten habe. Ihm wurde befohlen, sofort in
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: die Eigentumswohnung zu kommen. Es war Sonntagmorgen, der 24. Juni 90.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Der Tag nach Dwayne Walker's Mord. Ken Jones wirkte sehr nervös.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: He ordered the cooperating witness to get rid of the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: truck he drove up from St. Louis. The one with
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: the wrong petrol tank. The drug boss demanded that no
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: one would be informed about the cocaine transport. Witnesses said
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: John's girlfriend also told him that she wiped the blood
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in the bathroom after the murder.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Recognize this gentleman.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: In the summer of 1995, The state prosecutors called a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: big jury to make sure that witnesses' statements were true.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Jones' girlfriend was invited to speak. That would be Charles' sister.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: But she denied anyone telling her that she wiped blood
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: in Jones' bathroom. I don't know what you're talking about.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I've never wiped blood.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Ken Jones' authorities couldn't prove that she lied. They may
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: never be able to accuse Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: of murder. No, sir.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you could tell us about the evening
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: of June 1995.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Witness statements made before the Grand Jury showed that a
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: witness committed a crime when she spilled blood in the
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: bathroom of the drug boss Ken Jones.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure what you're talking about.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: On June 21, the Grand Jury Jones and his most
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: important accomplice Jeffrey Barnes filed a case against Doan Walker
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: for murder in 1990.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Burns, the suspect killer, was already in prison for drug crimes.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: The day after the indictment, the detectives observed the house
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: of the drug boss Ken Jones.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Although he had done well against the investigation, Ken Jones
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: was finally arrested for murder. Cover me. Sergeant Tom Dynaski,
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a member of the FBI's drug investigation group, was determined
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: to find physical evidence to substantiate the witnesses' statements.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: At the trial.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: During the entire investigation, everything focused on the fact that
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: DeJuan Walker was murdered in the bathroom and shot in
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: the head there.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I thought....
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: That we might be able to find another bloodstain in
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: the fumes on the floor in the bathroom. Technicians from
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension examined the bathroom. After Jones' arrest,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: new tenants moved into the property. They gave their consent
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to investigate. The technicians tested with luminol a relatively new
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: technique on blood. Luminol reacts with proteins in the blood
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: and makes tiny traces of it visible under ultraviolet light.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: We were.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Able to determine on the substrate, under the tiles, that
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: there was a considerable amount of blood.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: With this test you can Mr. Barnes and Mr.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: Jones were the evidence the investigators needed. On October 31, 1995,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes were in St.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Paul's Court.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Every year, but also because of the murder of Anduva. There,
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: officers described what they thought happened in Dover and Walker's
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: last hours. The gentlemen here.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Are responsible for all this.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Walker had delivered Jones about 30 kilos of cocaine. The
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: drug boss decided that he didn't want to pay. At
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: the end of the night, he and his most important
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: full-time Jeffrey Barnes celebrated with Walker. Finally, Walker went into
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: the bathroom. Jones and Barnes had planned that the murder
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: should take place there. B-1 Walker was unarmed. Barnes fired
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: three shots from a 22 caliber Derringer. As always, Jones
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: waited for distance. Walker died immediately. Later that night they
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: wrapped Walker's body in plastic wrap to catch the blood
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and they bled in a car.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: They drove into a street and laid the body there.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: To make it harder to identify, they poured it over
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: them with gasoline and lit it.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Jones let his trail after the murder be wiped with
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: the help of his girlfriend.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: The bathroom floor was covered with blood, especially the area
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: around the bathtub where Walker fell. She was able to
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: clean the surface. But the blood was sickening in the basement.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Five years later, technicians would find.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: It there. Ken Jones and Jeffrey Barnes were convicted of
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: murder and drug crimes. In March 1996, both were sentenced
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: to life imprisonment without the possibility of a conviction.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Barnes, who once boasted that he had committed murder,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: was no longer a threat for those outside the prison system.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Ken Jones had tried to make a.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Picture of himself as a community leader, but his greed
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: led to murder and.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: He will never leave prison alive.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: Bye.