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He Killed a Cop Over a Mistake — Then Ran for Almost a Year · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: In Boston, the police force is deadly. The shooter comes.
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  Speaker 2: But the Boston police and the FBI swear to find him.
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  Speaker 2: They cover up his past and cross a trail of
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  Speaker 2: criminal connections, false names and hidden dangers. Bursch for his
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  Speaker 2: brutal attack on the law enforcement. Bursch. A criminal who
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  Speaker 2: kills a police officer leads to war against society.
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  Speaker 3: In 1987, one of these criminals disappeared after he had
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  Speaker 3: shot two Bosnian police officers, one of them dead. He
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  Speaker 3: had a history of violence against police officers and the
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  Speaker 3: protection of a group of lawless as over state and
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  Speaker 3: national borders.
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  Speaker 4: I am Jim Karlstrom, former head of the New York
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  Speaker 4: FBI office.
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  Speaker 3: To catch this police officer, his accomplices had to be
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  Speaker 3: caught before he could escape forever.
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  Speaker 1: Boston, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: The town of Back Bay is an elevated area that
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  Speaker 2: is not violent and on the morning of October 2nd, 1988,
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  Speaker 2: Meredith Falcon and her cousin fell into a fight in
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  Speaker 2: an apartment building in Back Bay. He threatened her and
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  Speaker 2: she tried to move him to walk. Sie befürchtete, dass
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  Speaker 2: sie nicht verschwinden, sondern nur noch.
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  Speaker 1: Wütender werden würde.
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  Speaker 2: Sie rief den Notruf 911 an. Die Notrufzentrale schickte zwei
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  Speaker 2: Polizeifahrzeuge zum Tatort. Innerhalb von Minuten traf der erste Streifenwagen
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  Speaker 2: am Apartmentgebäude ein. It seemed to be a routine operation
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  Speaker 2: for the officers George Torres and Chris Rogers. They called
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  Speaker 2: Meredith Hercone over the counter. But there was a problem
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  Speaker 2: with the bell at the door. She called the counter
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  Speaker 2: and told us to ring the bell to let us in.
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  Speaker 2: While she spoke, we heard background noises so that we
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  Speaker 2: knew that something was going on in the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Then two more officers met. William Kennedy and Royce. Sir J.
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  Speaker 2: At the crime scene. So far, no one had reacted
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  Speaker 2: to the tenants to let.
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  Speaker 1: Them in. So the officers decided to split up.
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  Speaker 2: We changed the standard procedure. One of us covered the
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  Speaker 2: back part and two stayed in the front. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: Officer Rogers and I went back.
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  Speaker 1: Carreras and Rogers were looking for another way into the building.
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  Speaker 2: We looked into a small niche behind the building and
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  Speaker 2: saw a man leaning against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: He tried to hide.
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  Speaker 2: Vielleicht war es der Cousin, den der Anrufer erwähnt hatte.
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  Speaker 2: Ich bat sie, zu mir zu kommen, um herauszufinden, was
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  Speaker 2: los war. Das Tor des Zauns war mit einem Freundesschloss verschlossen.
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  Speaker 2: Ich sagte ihm, er solle über den Zaun zu mir klettern.
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  Speaker 4: More game.
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  Speaker 2: Als er seine Füße auf den Boden stellte, versuchte er
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  Speaker 2: zu fliehen. At this point I grabbed him and started tapping.
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  Speaker 2: When I put my hands on his shoulders, he pushed me.
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  Speaker 2: I immediately received the instruction that he had a weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Torres was hit. The man.
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  Speaker 2: Continued to shoot Officer Rogers. Then he followed Torres. Rogers
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  Speaker 2: could not take a clean shot. Meanwhile, Kennedy and Sergi
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  Speaker 2: had come to their side. Officer Sergi was also shot.
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  Speaker 2: Although injured, Torres tried to help Roy Sergi. Kennedy followed
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  Speaker 2: the suspect for several blocks. But he disappeared in the
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  Speaker 2: night of Boston.
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  Speaker 5: When I knelt over him and bowed down, I noticed
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  Speaker 5: the blood coming out of my left arm and my
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  Speaker 5: left breast.
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  Speaker 2: And at that moment I knew that I had been
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  Speaker 2: hit several times. Rogers called for reinforcements and rescue forces.
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  Speaker 1: I felt the pain. The burning. I started to get
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  Speaker 1: a little carried away.
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  Speaker 4: At that moment I knew that something had gone through
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  Speaker 4: my lungs.
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  Speaker 2: The Boston headquarters gave off the alarm that all policemen feared.
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  Speaker 1: Officers on the ground. Every available unit moved out. Within
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: It whistled in the usually quiet quarter of Back Bay
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  Speaker 2: of rescue vehicles. The two seriously injured officers, Roy Sergi
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  Speaker 2: and George Terence, were taken to the hospital. The criminal
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  Speaker 2: police asked Rogers and Kennedy. They described what had happened
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  Speaker 2: and said the attacker was an average-sized man of about
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  Speaker 2: 30 years of age and muscular stature.
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  Speaker 1: The description of the shooter, from Meredith.
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  Speaker 2: Falcone's cousin, The man who started the domestic dispute in
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  Speaker 2: the building. Officer Kennedy, an educated sniper, was sure to
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  Speaker 2: have shot the fleeing shooters.
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  Speaker 1: But no blood was found in this area.
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  Speaker 4: The injured officers had.
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  Speaker 2: Suffered three shooting wounds, including life-threatening chest wounds. They quickly
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  Speaker 2: lost blood. The medical staff tried to stabilize her for
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  Speaker 2: an emergency operation. At the crime scene, court doctors began
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  Speaker 2: with the examination of the area in which the shooting
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  Speaker 2: took place.
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  Speaker 1: He was covered with cartridge shells, bullet fragments and blood.
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  Speaker 1: The exact.
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  Speaker 2: Position of the individual objects would help to reconstruct who
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  Speaker 2: fired when. A few blocks further they found a magazine
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  Speaker 2: for ammunition from a pistol, which the shooter had probably dropped.
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  Speaker 1: It was a.
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  Speaker 2: 15-shot magazine from a semi-automatic 9mm CG Sauer.
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  Speaker 1: And it was empty. When it came to the shooter,
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  Speaker 1: they hoped to find fingerprints or other forensic evidence that
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  Speaker 1: could lead to him.
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  Speaker 2: In the laboratory they were able to secure a partial print,
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  Speaker 2: but that was.
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  Speaker 1: Not enough for a comparison.
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  Speaker 2: The police issued a city-wide statement for the suspect.
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  Speaker 1: They searched the entire area of Back Bay and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: But that night they couldn't find a trace of a shooter.
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Detective James Fong, from the Boston police station D-14,
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  Speaker 2: was appointed as the leading investigator. When I first heard
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  Speaker 2: that Roy Sergeant Joshua Resnick had shot, I was really
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  Speaker 2: surprised and shocked that someone would shoot at Boston police officers.
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  Speaker 1: Although he worried about his colleagues, did Detective Fong still
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  Speaker 1: have to do his job?
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  Speaker 2: The crime scene is still a crime scene, no matter
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  Speaker 2: if a policeman or a civilian was.
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  Speaker 4: Involved. And you have to go step by step.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to find out where the attacker came from first.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: I was already informed that the person who.
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  Speaker 2: Was involved in the shooting had come out of the
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  Speaker 2: back door. Then I and other officers and investigators went
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  Speaker 2: to investigate.
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  Speaker 1: This area.
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  Speaker 2: Inside the fence gate they noticed a large air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: System. In closer inspection, detectives discovered shoe prints on the
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  Speaker 1: cover of the device.
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  Speaker 2: The footprints that we found at the crime scene match
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  Speaker 2: the footprints of the officers George Durigan and Christopher Rogers.
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  Speaker 4: Directly above the air conditioning.
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  Speaker 2: There was a window from a hallway on the third floor.
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  Speaker 2: I think the footprints on the ceiling come from a
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  Speaker 2: person who jumped from the window on the third floor
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  Speaker 2: onto the air conditioning. This indicates that the suspect was
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  Speaker 2: probably connected to the building in some way. The investigators
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  Speaker 2: wanted to investigate the about 60 inhabitants of the building.
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  Speaker 2: Fong decided to start with the inhabitants of Asian descent.
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  Speaker 2: The attacker was an Asian man. And I tried to
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  Speaker 2: count one and one together and thought that he might
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  Speaker 2: actually come from this building and maybe was related to
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  Speaker 2: him or lived there. According to the description of the officers,
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  Speaker 2: the medical officer has created a phantom image of the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: But the residents did not recognize the man. Although they
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  Speaker 2: had heard the tumult and the shots in the night before,
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  Speaker 2: they could hardly help.
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  Speaker 1: Him.
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  Speaker 2: I have asked all the Asian residents, who were known
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  Speaker 2: to have lived in this building at the time of
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  Speaker 2: the incident.
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  Speaker 4: But none of them could give me a useful hint.
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  Speaker 1: Other residents couldn't help me either.
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  Speaker 2: I talked to many of the tenants and they didn't
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  Speaker 2: even know the neighbors from the side, because it's an
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  Speaker 2: apartment with a short-term rental contract.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. They were only there for a few days.
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  Speaker 5: A.
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  Speaker 1: Few weeks. It seemed to be a dead end.
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  Speaker 2: In the hospital, the injured officers were in a critical
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  Speaker 2: but stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: The investigators were frustrated. They had no clues about the
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  Speaker 1: man who had shot her.
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  Speaker 2: Then, six days after the shooting, the criminals returned to
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  Speaker 2: the apartment building to seek a new clue. We received
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  Speaker 2: a call from the administrator who told us that an
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  Speaker 2: Asian man had lived there and that she had forgotten
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  Speaker 2: to tell us about it and that she had gone
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  Speaker 2: in to inquire about her well-being, since they hadn't seen
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  Speaker 2: her for a week.
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  Speaker 1: Die Verwalterin ging davon aus, das Haus verlassen worden sei.
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  Speaker 2: Der Name des Mieters war Mark Terra.
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  Speaker 1: Er passte grob auf die Beschreibung des Schützen.
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  Speaker 2: Ein Mitarbeiter des Gebäudes zeigte auf eine Schachtel Munition, die
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  Speaker 2: sie entdeckt hatten, als sie zur Untersuchung von Terra kamen.
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  Speaker 4: Can you take a.
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  Speaker 2: Picture of it and type it in? Technicians collected the
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  Speaker 2: bullets and found that they had 9 mm. The same
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  Speaker 2: caliber as the shells and fragments that were found at
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  Speaker 2: the crime scene. In the laboratory, the bullets would be
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  Speaker 2: compared to those used at the shooting range. Detective Fong
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  Speaker 2: checked the gap in which a cover plate had been
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  Speaker 2: pushed aside.
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  Speaker 1: It was clean, but.
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  Speaker 2: Something could have been hidden there before. The apartment was
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  Speaker 2: simple and tidy, which made it clear that the tenant
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  Speaker 2: was possibly in the military or in prison. The technicians
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  Speaker 2: examined the entire apartment according to further evidence. We set
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  Speaker 2: up a series of items, safety, clothing, personal items and ammunition,
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  Speaker 2: as well as fingerprints and hair.
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  Speaker 4: Samples.
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  Speaker 1: But nothing indicated where Terra had stayed.
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  Speaker 2: When they checked the names, they found out that Mark
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  Speaker 2: Tara was not convicted.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Fong, however, got a copy of his lease agreement.
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  Speaker 2: Tara gave an earlier address and phone number in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: Detective Fong called the number and spoke to a man
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  Speaker 2: named Leon Perry.
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  Speaker 1: Perry hesitated to speak. And he denied knowing Tara.
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  Speaker 4: The person I spoke to was very different.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, I gave myself as a police officer to the
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  Speaker 2: state of Boston, who investigated a shooting on two policemen.
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  Speaker 2: The person then became very defensive and tells me that
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  Speaker 2: she did not want to help the police department. Perry
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  Speaker 2: seemed suspicious. The police had no information that brought him
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  Speaker 2: in touch with the shooting. Fong had the police of
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco Perry checked. And they reported that he was
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  Speaker 2: not fined there. The Boston police found a copy of
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  Speaker 2: Mark Terrace's California driver's license photo.
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  Speaker 4: George, I'll show you a few photos.
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  Speaker 2: They brought it to the official, who, George Terrace, could
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  Speaker 2: best see. This picture immediately struck me. And so I
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  Speaker 2: told him that this is the guy who shot at us.
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  Speaker 2: After the suspect was identified, the Bosnian police held a
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  Speaker 2: press conference a week after the shooting.
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  Speaker 3: According to the information that I and our agents have,
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  Speaker 3: which I am not allowed to give away, we are
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  Speaker 3: dealing with an unusually violent person and, to be honest,
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  Speaker 3: it is frightening and.
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  Speaker 2: They believed to know who the shooter was. Now they
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  Speaker 2: had to find him. At the shooting in Boston, two policemen.
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  Speaker 1: Were severely injured. The suspect Mark Terrapa disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators found out that his last known address was
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  Speaker 2: in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: And asked his colleagues in the Bay Area for.
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  Speaker 4: Help.
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  Speaker 2: They sent the police of San Francisco phony posters of terror.
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  Speaker 2: And they asked their officers to stop him if he
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  Speaker 2: should return there. After the morning appeal, they.
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  Speaker 1: Checked....
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  Speaker 2: Sgt.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Lynch the clipboards with the charges.
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  Speaker 2: On the clipboard there was a flyer about a suspect
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  Speaker 2: who had shot two Boston police officers.
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  Speaker 4: I knew.
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  Speaker 2: I had seen the person. I just couldn't register immediately where.
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  Speaker 1: I had seen her. Then Sgt.
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  Speaker 2: Lynch remembered a case outside the service that had occurred
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  Speaker 2: six weeks earlier. In August of that year, when he
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  Speaker 2: had left a cinema with a friend, A man with
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  Speaker 2: a pistol on the street discovers... My first thought was
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  Speaker 2: that it could be a policeman. But when I saw him,
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  Speaker 2: I had the feeling that he was not a policeman.
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  Speaker 2: Especially when he turned around and looked at me intently.
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  Speaker 2: After the traffic light turned green, he went across the street.
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  Speaker 2: I told my friend he should go to the telephone.
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  Speaker 2: The emergency call would go to him and tell him
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  Speaker 2: who and where I was and that a man with
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  Speaker 2: a gun was standing in front of me. Lynch instinct
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  Speaker 2: told him that the man was a criminal. He followed
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  Speaker 2: the man, but could not stop him from driving away.
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant Lynch noted the Texan license plate of the man.
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  Speaker 2: When I realized That the man in the Boston flyer
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  Speaker 2: was the man I saw in the cinema, I started
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  Speaker 2: with my investigations. I wanted to get the information I
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  Speaker 2: had requested in August, including the number plate.
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  Speaker 1: There was a certain David Terra.
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  Speaker 2: Although the suspect in Boston used the first name Mark,
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  Speaker 2: it was the same man. His file was clean and
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  Speaker 2: in his application was a post office in Brownsville, Texas, opened.
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  Speaker 2: Lynch forwarded the information to the investigators.
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  Speaker 1: In Boston.
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  Speaker 2: The Boston police immediately contacted the Brownsville authorities and asked for.
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  Speaker 1: Support.
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  Speaker 2: A Brownsville police officer checked the post office and found
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  Speaker 2: the address of the suspect.
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  Speaker 1: He went to the apartment house where the suspect lived.
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  Speaker 2: Der Kriminalbeamte zeigte dem Hausverwalter ein Foto des Mannes, der
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  Speaker 2: als Mark oder David Terror bekannt war. Der Verwalter erkannte
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  Speaker 2: das Foto, aber erkannte ihn unter keinem dieser Namen.
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  Speaker 1: Who was known as Mark or David Terra.
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  Speaker 2: The administrator recognized the photo, but he didn't recognize it
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  Speaker 2: under any of these names.
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  Speaker 1: He recognized it as Ted Atsuki.
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  Speaker 2: Atsuki had moved out months ago and the administrator had
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  Speaker 2: no idea where he had gone. The detective from Brownsville
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  Speaker 2: checked the name Ted Atsuki and found out that this
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  Speaker 2: was the real name of the suspect. The names Mark
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  Speaker 2: and David Terra were cover names. Atsuki had a vast
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  Speaker 2: criminal history, including a bank robbery in Texas in 1979,
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  Speaker 2: which was preceded by the armed robbery of a police
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  Speaker 2: station in a small town. In March 1979, Atsuki raided
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  Speaker 2: the two police stations in Los Fresnos and then switched
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  Speaker 2: off their communication center. After the police officers were neutralized,
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  Speaker 2: he crossed the street and robbed the local bank of 70,000 dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Azuki was finally convicted of robbery and sat for seven
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  Speaker 2: years in a five-year prison sentence in Leavenworth's prison. Within
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  Speaker 2: a year after his release, he was searched again because
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  Speaker 2: he had stolen his application form by leaving the city
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  Speaker 2: of Texas. The detective from Brownsville called in Boston and
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  Speaker 2: ordered Azuki to send fingerprints. He has information about an
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  Speaker 2: active case that you have up there. Eleven days had
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  Speaker 2: passed since the officers were shot in Boston and the
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  Speaker 2: city was.
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  Speaker 1: Still tense.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, the local police officers had secured a
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  Speaker 2: single usable fingerprint from the rental agreement of the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: They compared him with the fingerprints that Ted Azzucchi had
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  Speaker 2: sent from Texas. When checking the comparison points, they determined
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  Speaker 2: an overlap. The investigators were sure that Azuki was the
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  Speaker 2: shooter who shot the agents George Terrance and Roy Sergi.
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  Speaker 2: They also believed that he had left Massachusetts. The Boston
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  Speaker 2: police turned to the FBI for support.
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  Speaker 1: And the case.
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  Speaker 2: Was assigned to the special agent Jay Fallon from the
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  Speaker 2: Boston branch? with the probable reason that he fled from
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  Speaker 2: the federal state to escape a arrest, the FBI issued
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  Speaker 2: an arrest warrant against the unfair escape to escape an
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  Speaker 2: arrest warrant. The agents noticed a well-known accomplice of Atsuki
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  Speaker 2: in the area and convinced him to cooperate.
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  Speaker 4: He said he had.
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  Speaker 2: Heard that the suspect had come to Boston as part
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  Speaker 2: of a bank robbery. We were convinced that Ted Atsuki was.
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  Speaker 4: In the area of Boston to.
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  Speaker 4: To put together a group of accomplices and to work
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  Speaker 4: out a plan with which they wanted to identify and
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  Speaker 4: kidnap a bank. It turned out that the shots at
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  Speaker 4: the officers were in no.
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  Speaker 1: Way related to it. A tragic mistake.
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  Speaker 2: The investigators assumed that Tedor Zuki was hiding in his
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  Speaker 2: apartment after.
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  Speaker 1: The shooting.
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  Speaker 2: The Boston police, due to a call, came into the
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  Speaker 2: building because of domestic violence.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe this.
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  Speaker 4: My phone doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: They believed that Azuki had mistakenly taken the officer's thumb
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  Speaker 2: to arrest him for assaulting his trial documents in Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Please let us in.
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  Speaker 2: He grabbed his 9mm saw and additional cartridges. Please let
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  Speaker 2: us in. When the police rang and asked for permission,
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  Speaker 2: Azuki was ready to go. The police assumed that he
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  Speaker 2: had jumped down from a window into the air conditioning.
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  Speaker 1: Seconds later, the shooting. Kenjiro Atsuki was ready to do
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  Speaker 1: anything to escape.
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  Speaker 2: In 1987, the Bosnian police and the FBI searched for
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  Speaker 2: Kenjiro Atsuki, who was searched for two policemen because of
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  Speaker 2: the shooting. Special Agent Jay Fallon tried to limit the
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  Speaker 2: search to the fugitive and predict his movements.
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  Speaker 1: A very basic approach.
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  Speaker 2: In such investigations, it is friends, family and acquaintances of
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  Speaker 2: the suspect. They had contacted Leon Perry in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 2: from whom they assumed that he was a well-known man.
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  Speaker 4: He claimed, however, not to know the refugee. When they
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  Speaker 4: observed Perry, they found.
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  Speaker 2: Out that he used Erzuki's car. They observed it, but
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  Speaker 2: Azuki never saw it. The FBI database has shown that
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  Speaker 2: Leon Perry had caught up with Azuki in the Leavenworth prison.
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  Speaker 2: When he was confronted with it, he said he had
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  Speaker 2: not spoken to him for months and had no idea
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  Speaker 2: where he was staying. They had no probable reason for
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: a arrest. However, they beat up the car and initiated
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a preliminary surveillance of Perry. When they searched his apartment,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: they couldn't find any traces of Atsumi.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: In Boston, the case turned tragically. The two wounded officers
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: had recovered well. But on October 26, 1987.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Stabro Sagi suddenly, when I felt a grin of blood
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: in his heart and caused a state of silence in
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: his heart.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Adam!
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Agent Detective James Fong.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: When I first found out that Roy had died, I
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: was shocked. I saw him two nights before, and he
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: and I had a small talk. I remember Roy saying
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: to me, I see you up there.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: That was in the detective room, where he worked with
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: us on his healing.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: I promised myself that.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Ted Azzucchi grew up in Texas and had family there.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: In the hope of finding him, the investigators asked his
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: relatives in the area.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: They were shocked by the accusations and said they had
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: not seen or heard from Azzucchi for several months. They
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: claimed they had no idea where he was hiding. Um
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: ihre Geschichte zu bestätigen, legten die Ermittler ihre Telefonaufzeichnungen vor.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Sie entdeckten mehrere aktuelle Anrufe von Verwandten Barzuckis, ehemalige Mitbewohner
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Leon Perry in San Francisco. Die Aufzeichnungen enthüllten auch Anrufe
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: bei einem zweiten Ex-Sträfling, einem ehemaligen Bankräuber in Minnesota. Das
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: FBI nahm ihn fest und erklärte sich bereit, informant zu werden.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: Er gab weitere Einzelheiten über Azuki's Plan für die Geiselnahme,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: den Bankraub und den Mordpreis. Azuki ließ von Mitarbeitern ferngesteuerte
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Aktenkofferbomben bauen, die an die Handgelenke der entführten Bankangestellten gefesselt wurden.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Nachdem die Angestellten Bargeld aus ihren eigenen Tresoren entnommen hatten,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: zündeten Azuki und seine Männer die Bomben, um Zeugen auszuschalten.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Oftmals kommen Menschen auf Ideen, die andere Agents had to
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: confirm the story. Er erzählte uns, dass diese Aktenkofferbomben in
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: einem Lagerhaus in San Francisco aufbewahrt wurden, dass Azuki unter
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: falschem Namen The FBI and the bomb command of the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: police of San Francisco found the warehouse.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And the file case described by the informant in it.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Since they didn't know exactly how the bomb was triggered,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: they had to be careful.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Die Spezialisten platzierten den Aktenkoffer weit entfernt vom Lagergebäude.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Dann brachten sie eine kleine Sprengladung an, die den Koffer
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: öffnen konnte, ohne dass die Bombe darin zündet.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Volle Kraft! Es war eine Rohrbombe.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Eine improvisierte Sprengladung, die durch unter Druck stehendes Schießpulver flüchtig
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: gemacht wurde.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Bei Zündung brennt.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Das Pulver so stark, dass die Metallwände des Rohrs platzen
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: und tödliche Splitter in alle Richtungen geschleudert werden. Um sie
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: unschädlich zu machen, mussten sie das Rohr öffnen und so
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: den Druck auf der Schießpulver ablassen. According to Philip Sanner,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: the FBI Special Agent from San Francisco, the use of
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the water gun is the safest way to.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: Do it.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: The cannon is shot through. Under high pressure, the water
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: is pushed out. In this way, nothing is fired that
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: gives heat and flames to the tube. You shoot something
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: relatively harmless. to defuse the explosive before.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: It can explode. The device was very well designed, quite sophisticated.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It was designed in such a way that could be
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: placed and ignited from a distance. I was told that
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the device could kill someone and had a relatively clear
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: explosion radius of maybe 3 to 4.5 meters, but it
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: was quite dangerous in all this radius. Later they found
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: a second bomb and made it harmless. The evidence was
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: collected for processing in forensic laboratories. Special Agent Fallon wanted
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to know if Zuki's former roommate in San Francisco, Leon Perry,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: knew about the bombs. After the bombs had been found,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: we asked Perry again. Perry explained that he had no
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: idea about the existence of these bombs and would have
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: surely notified us if he had known. Then we sent
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the bombs and... Then Rial. in the lab and noticed
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: that Perry's fingerprints were on the boxes in which the
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: bombs were. Since we really did not think that Perry
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: cooperated as comprehensively with us as he could and should have,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: we made the decision to refute his confession and put
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: him in prison. Investigators had long suspected that Perry had
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: worked actively with Asuki.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Now they had direct evidence.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: If he didn't cooperate, Perry threatened a return to prison
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: for up to 20 years.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Zanner hoped to bring him to talk.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: We had enough evidence for his.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Connections to Azuki and evidence of violations against the protest charges,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: so that we could get a little pressure on him.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: He probably felt in prison, so it was.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: A return, not the worst thing that could have happened
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: to him. We probably spent 15 hours talking on the
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: first day.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: And that went on for about a week. Sometimes 10, 12,
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: 14 hours. It was full of headaches.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Finally, the agents convinced Perry that it was in his
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: best interest to cooperate.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: And he started talking.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Perry said that the day after the shooting in Boston
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: he had received a call from San Francisco. Er erzählte uns,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: dass Ted ihn angerufen und ihm gesagt habe, dass die
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Lage in Boston schlecht gelaufen sei. Azuki sagte, er habe
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: dort zwei Polizisten erschossen und sei selbst auch angeschossen worden.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Er sagte Perry, er rufe vom Flughafen in Dayton, Ohio an.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Azuki sagte, er müsse nach Texas fliegen, wo er sich
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: in Ruhe medizinisch behandeln lassen könne. Azuki hatte sein Auto
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: und die Waffe. that he had used at the shooting
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: range at Dayton Airport. He asked Perry to drive to
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Ohio and get her.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Perry agreed.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Katsuki sent the car keys and the fine for parking
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: for a long time.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: The express poster.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: He was supposed to drive to Dayton, pick up the car,
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: take the murder weapon with him and destroy it. Drive
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: back to San Francisco with the car. Unload the rest
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of the stuff from the car and hide it.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Harry found the car as Suki had described.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: It.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Inside was the 9mm Sig Sauer.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: The murder weapon was a high-quality pistol. He hesitated to
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: destroy this high-quality pistol. Also beschloss er, die Pistole zu
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: nehmen und sie seinem Vater zu geben. Er fuhr zum
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Haus seiner Eltern in Missouri und ließ die Waffe dort.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: Wir kontaktierten den Vater. Ich sprach mit ihm.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Ich versicherte ihm, dass sein Sohn das Richtige tat. Einen
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: kannte ihn, ob er die Pistole noch habe und er sagte,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: dass er sie habe. Beamten von Missouri stellten die Sigsauer sicher.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: The ballistic tests confirmed that it was the weapon with
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: which the deadly bullets were fired. Pink fingerprints on a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: bullet in the weapon that fit to Azuki. Yes, now
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: we not only had the weapon that killed the policeman
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: according to the ballistic, but also Azuki's fingerprints on one
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: of the bullets in the weapon, Burab Serstokai. Because of
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the evidence, the Azuki with the murder of Roy Sargent
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: and the construction of deadly bombs, the FBI put Ted
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Azuki on the list of the ten most sought-after criminals.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: But the dangerous criminal was already on the run for months. Meanwhile,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: he could stop anywhere. In 1988, the FBI launched a
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: nationwide investigation into Ted Otsuki, a.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Suspected police murderer.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: On January 22, the same year, the FBI put him
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: on the list of the ten most sought-after criminals. In
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: order to increase the awareness of the case, the FBI
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: commissioned a nationwide criminal series to create a profile about Otsuki.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: During the broadcast, a.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Familiar called from Otsuki the fee-free number of the broadcast.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: When it turned out that he had a specific note,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the employees called him with the FBI Special Agent Jay Fallon.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Jay Fallon?
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: The caller said that Otsuki had two specific relatives in
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: Texas that were particularly close.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: And if anyone knew Otsuki's place of residence... Ispa.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Tell me that you haven't seen him lately.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: It was already said that he had spoken to a
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: couple before, that he claimed not to have any contact.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: With the refugee. If anyone saw us at the birthday party,
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: then that's pretty much it.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: After checking the phone records of the relatives, the agents
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: made a sudden increase in calls from Guadalajara, Mexico, where
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: the family had other relatives.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Atsuki could have fled there. The hunt extended to Mexico.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: FBI offices abroad are referred to as legal.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Attachments.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: In the case of the FBI special agent Stephen Walker,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: the FBI high.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Took over the case of the Mexican state. The FBI
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: high has no legal authority to investigate.
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: Country.
• 39:32
  Speaker 7: So we ask, or the FBI would ask for cooperation,
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: build a relationship and officially apply that the criminal prosecution
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: authorities of the guest country take over the work of
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: the FBI.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Special Agent Walker met with the Mexican federal police to
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: ask them for support in the search for Atsuki.
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: We didn't have an exact address in Guadalajara, but some
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: suspicious phone numbers.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: In this area.
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: The investigations carried out at the time didn't lead to
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: the investigation of relatives or Atsuki.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I'll write it down.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: Special Agent Fallon hoped that Azuki's former roommate, Leon Perry,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: could help them. The FBI brought Perry's immunity because of
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the bomb attack and convinced him to wear.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: A wire.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: We worked out a plan where Perry, in our opinion,
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: should speak to family members of Teddon Azuki to talk
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: to the family. to bring himself to Oden and to
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: tell Perry where he was. The agents made a fake
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: passport for Perry and showed him how he could lure his.
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: Relatives.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Perry got this fake passport and wanted to leave the city.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: That was the story he wanted to tell Azuki's family,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: to get the family to turn to Azumi to talk
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: to Perry. Then there was the situation with the murder weapon.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: And one of the biggest sales arguments was that Perry
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: had to know from the family what Ted was up
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: to with the murder weapon before he fled.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Mike sounds good. Other agents were inside. Before Perry's meeting,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: I was there.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: We went to the restaurant and sat down to watch
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: the situation.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Perry came in and sat down at the bar. He
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: didn't have to wait long until Azuki's relatives came in.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Sie gehen hinein. Wie geht's?
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Die Agenten konnten sie reden hören, doch Azuki wurde mit
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: keinem Wort erwähnt. Nach ein paar Minuten sagte Azuki's männlicher Verwandter,
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: dass sie gehen müssten. Die Überwachungsteams änderten schnell ihre Pläne.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: I was worried, because.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: That was not necessarily what we expected. You have to
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: be able to trust the people out there. They had
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: to stay close enough to keep the audio signal up,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: but still not be discovered. They hoped that they would
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: finally catch up.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: With Ted Orzuki.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: In North Mexico, Detective James Fong and other investigators called
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: an informant and followed him when he met relatives of
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: the alleged police officer Ted Orzuki.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Supervision teams had to stay close.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: To keep the signal of the microphone, that they had
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: directed to the informant Leon Perry.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Hey, listen, man, I have to meet with Ted. It
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: will be hard, I tell you.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Where is he?
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: He is somewhere here.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: If he wants me to take care of the things
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: he wants to take care of, I have to meet
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: with him. And I don't know how else to tell you.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: I'll tell you something.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Finally, the relatives said they would call Azuki. My wife
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: has the phone.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: The bus station was located in the city of.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Matamoros, a few kilometers from the border to Texas. The
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: investigators observed how the relatives had a public long-distance.
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: Conversation Undercover agents kept an eye on them.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: The relative spoke briefly and then gave Perry the phone.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: It was Azuki. He said Perry, he was supposed to
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: destroy the 9mm Sig Sauer. He said he had robbed
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: banks in Mexico, but did not want to say where exactly.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Then again?
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: War der Anruf der bisher beste Hinweis für Special Agent
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Philip Sena. Die mexikanischen Bundesbehörden konnten die Telefonnummer, die angerufen wurde,
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: von den Angestellten bekommen, die den Busbahnhof betrieben. Die Bundespolizei
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: konnte den Standort dieser Nummer in Guadalajara ermitteln. FBI Special
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Agent Stephen Walker arbeitete als Verbindungsmann zur mexikanischen We had
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: the phone number that was called.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: We knew that it was Azuki. It was an apartment
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: in Guadalajara, which turned out to be an apartment in
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: the city.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: So you just had to drive to Guadalajara and take
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: the services of the federal police to get the apartment.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Groups of officers observed the building, but there was no
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: trace of Azuki. We were so close, but we didn't
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: have him yet. In a way, it was even more
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: difficult than not knowing where he was. Because now that
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: we knew where he was, we really wanted to find him.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: And we didn't know if we would succeed. Then, two days.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: After the observation began, Otsuki pulled.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: A gun, but this time he couldn't shoot. The federal
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: police arrested him. The next day, he handed over the
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: case to the FBI.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Ted Otsocki was found guilty of the attempted murder of
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: George Chuck Horace and the murder of First Degree, Roy Sargeant.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: He was sentenced to life imprisonment plus 20 years. Officer
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Torres recovered from his injuries and returned to the active service.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: He went to the Boston Police Department on December 19, 1990.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: He stood in peace.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Royce Sargent, who was promoted to detective after the shooting,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: was followed by his wife, three children and numerous friends
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: at the Boston Police. The community room on Police Station
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: D14 is dedicated to his memory.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: George Torres hopes that the case will help other officers
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: to stay alive.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: After the shooting, the Boston police began to hand out
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: bulletproof vests to all officers.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: And replaced their.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Six-shot revolvers with semi-automatic weapons with 15 shots. Now they
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: have a better chance of coming out alive when the
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: unexpected happens.