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Speaker 1: Early on the evening of New Year's Eve in twenty ten,
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Speaker 1: a thirty eight year old man living in the Philippines
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Speaker 1: named Rinaldo Dagsa decided he was just too tired to
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Speaker 1: stay up all the way till midnight. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, Ronaldo really didn't want to miss out on
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Speaker 1: all the festivities he knew would be going down out
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Speaker 1: on the streets outside that night, so Ronaldo told his
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Speaker 1: wife he was going to go take a nap, and
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Speaker 1: could you please wake him up right before midnight. That
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Speaker 1: way he could go outside and catch the tail end
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Speaker 1: of the big celebration. And so his wife said that
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Speaker 1: was fine, and just a couple of minutes later, Ronaldo
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Speaker 1: was in his bedroom in his bed, passed out. Rinaldo
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Speaker 1: was a politician and he was beloved in the Philippines
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Speaker 1: because he was one of the very few politicians who
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Speaker 1: was not afraid to arrest and prosecute gang members. In
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Speaker 1: the Philippines, gang violence is a big issue, and really
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Speaker 1: Rinaldo was one of very few people doing anything about it.
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Speaker 1: About ten minutes before midnight, Rinaldo's wife went into the
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Speaker 1: bedroom and woke Rinaldo up, and Rinaldo, even though he
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Speaker 1: was really tired, he was so excited to get to
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Speaker 1: go outside that he jumped out of bed and he
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Speaker 1: made his way into the kitchen and he grabbed his camera,
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Speaker 1: and then he called for his wife, his daughter, and
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Speaker 1: his mother in law, who were the only people still
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Speaker 1: awake in his family at this point, to come with him.
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Speaker 1: And so they would agree and they would come with Rinaldo.
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Speaker 1: He would go outside, and as soon as he opened
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Speaker 1: the door, it was like everything he hoped it would be.
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Speaker 1: There were people everywhere all along these busy streets. There
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Speaker 1: were firecrackers being shot up into the sky. People were
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Speaker 1: laughing and cheering and celebrating, and so Rinaldo was really excited.
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Speaker 1: And what he really wanted to do was capture a
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Speaker 1: picture of his family right as the clock struck midnight,
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Speaker 1: kind of commemorating New Year's Eve. And so Rinaldo led
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Speaker 1: his family to a part of the sidewalk that wasn't
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Speaker 1: very crowded, and he positioned his family, so his daughter
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Speaker 1: and his wife and his mother in law in a
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Speaker 1: position that he was happy with, and kind of made
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Speaker 1: sure the picture was in frame. And then he kept
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Speaker 1: checking his watch waiting for midnight. And then right as
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Speaker 1: it was about to strike midnight, he raised up his
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Speaker 1: camera and he aimed it at his daughter, his wife,
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Speaker 1: and his mother in law, and he took a picture.
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Speaker 1: And here is the picture that Rinaldo took. In the foreground,
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Speaker 1: you can see Rinaldo's daughter on the left leaning up
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Speaker 1: against the car, and then next to her is Rinaldo's wife,
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Speaker 1: and then next to Rinaldo's wife is Rinaldo's mother in law,
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Speaker 1: and all three women are smiling as this moment in
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Speaker 1: time is captured on film. But what Rinaldo also captured
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Speaker 1: on film were two men who he didn't know, standing
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Speaker 1: right behind his family. The man on the right is
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Speaker 1: not looking at Rinaldo. Instead, he's looking out to the
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Speaker 1: road near them and kind of staring at the festivities.
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Speaker 1: He looks concerned. And then on the left is the
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Speaker 1: other man who's clearly holding a gun that is aimed
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Speaker 1: directly at Rinaldo. These two men were assassins who had
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Speaker 1: been sent to kill Rinaldo, and Rinaldo took a picture
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Speaker 1: at the exact moment that he was assassinated. Literally the
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Speaker 1: second this photo was taken, the man on the left
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Speaker 1: in this photo fired his gun and killed Rinaldo. This
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Speaker 1: photograph would be used by police to track down and
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Speaker 1: arrest Rinaldo's killers. Police believed that Rinaldo was targeted because
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Speaker 1: he was so anti gang that very likely a gang
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Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, a homicide detective in Los Angeles, California,
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Speaker 1: having no idea what to make of what he was seeing.
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Speaker 1: And what he was seeing was basic biographical information of
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Speaker 1: to this point, many other detectives had seen this document
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Speaker 1: about Anthony Garcia and they hadn't thought anything of it.
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Speaker 1: But when Detective Lloyd looked at this page about Anthony Garcia,
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Speaker 1: a photo of Anthony immediately stood out to the detective.
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Speaker 1: But before Detective Lloyd was prepared to run to his
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Speaker 1: boss and tell him about this huge discovery he had made,
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Speaker 1: he thought, you know what, I need to do a
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Speaker 1: little bit more digging because this could totally be wrong.
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Speaker 1: So Detective Lloyd left the paperwork on the desk, he
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Speaker 1: put his coffee down, and he walked his way out
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Speaker 1: of the office and down to the room in the
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Speaker 1: police department where they stored all of the files for
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Speaker 1: all the unsolved murder cases. And so Detective Lloyd he
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Speaker 1: goes in there and he begins walking up and down
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Speaker 1: the roads until finally he found the case that he
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Speaker 1: read it. Now, this unsolved murder case, which was from
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Speaker 1: four years ago in two thousand and four did not
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Speaker 1: appear on the surface to have anything to do with
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Speaker 1: Anthony Garcia, but Detective Lloyd was reasonably sure that there
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Speaker 1: were details in this unsolved murder case from two thousand
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Speaker 1: and four that would prove his theory about Anthony Garcia.
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Speaker 1: The file that Lloyd was reading described a murder that
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Speaker 1: took place on January twenty third, two thousand and four.
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Speaker 1: That night, a twenty three year old man named John
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Speaker 1: Juarez was standing in front of this liquor store called
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Speaker 1: Mister Ed's Liquors, which is located in a small neighborhood
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. John was a devoted father to a
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Speaker 1: four year old girl, and he was also a devoted
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Speaker 1: member of a gang. But on this particular evening, John
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Speaker 1: was not doing anything criminal in front of this liquor store.
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Speaker 1: He was just standing there near a street sign, kind
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Speaker 1: of minding his own business. But at some point, two
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Speaker 1: men walked up to John and asked him where he
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Speaker 1: was from. But before John could even answer, one of
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Speaker 1: these two men drew a gun and began firing shots
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Speaker 1: into John, and one of those rounds struck him in
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Speaker 1: the head and killed him. Now, after Lloyd had read
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Speaker 1: through this file, and the description of the murder several
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Speaker 1: times and felt confident he had gotten all the information
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Speaker 1: he could. He still wasn't sure if this was enough
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Speaker 1: to his theory about Anthony Garcia. So he decided he
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Speaker 1: would actually go to the liquor store where this murder
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Speaker 1: happened and see it for himself. And so Detective Lloyd
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Speaker 1: he hopped in his car. He drove to mister Ed's Liquors.
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Speaker 1: He parked in the parking lot and he just looked around.
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Speaker 1: He kind of scanned around the whole area. He took
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Speaker 1: in the shape of the parking lot. He looked at
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Speaker 1: the doors on the liquor store to kind of look
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Speaker 1: at the size and the shape. He also saw the
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Speaker 1: nearby street sign that John had been standing near when
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Speaker 1: he was shot and killed. And so finally, after looking
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Speaker 1: all around and feeling like he had seen all that
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Speaker 1: he needed to see, Detective Lloyd felt more sure than
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Speaker 1: ever that his theory about Anthony Garcia had to be correct,
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Speaker 1: and so he drove his car back to the police station.
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Speaker 1: He walked right into his boss's office and he would
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Speaker 1: tell him that they have been wrong about Anthony Garcia
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Speaker 1: this whole time. He is not some small time gang member.
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Speaker 1: He is a big player, and he's not even trying
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Speaker 1: to hide it. The photo that Lloyd saw of Anthony
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Speaker 1: Garcia that really stood out to him when he was
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Speaker 1: going through all that paperwork was the photo of Anthony
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Speaker 1: when he was being booked into jail. And in this photo,
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Speaker 1: Anthony is shirtless, and Anthony has this huge chess tattoo
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Speaker 1: that you can clearly see. In this photo. The tattoo
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Speaker 1: shows a liquor store, and the left of the liquor
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Speaker 1: store is this military style helicopter that's coming in and
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Speaker 1: firing its gun towards the ground, and on the ground
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Speaker 1: in the line of fire from this helicopter is what
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Speaker 1: looks like this man who's got the body of a peanut,
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Speaker 1: and so he's being killed by this helicopter. All the
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Speaker 1: other people who saw this photo or who saw Anthony
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Speaker 1: Garcia in person, chalked up his tattoo to just some
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Speaker 1: weird depiction of a helicopter killing a peanut guy, and
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Speaker 1: they didn't think too much of it. But Detective Lloyd
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Speaker 1: had actually been to the crime scene four when John
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Speaker 1: Juarez had been murdered, and so he had seen the
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Speaker 1: layout of the crime scene, and then he's looking at
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Speaker 1: this photo of Anthony Garcia's chest tattoo and he realizes
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Speaker 1: it is the same depiction of the crime scene. Anthony Garcia,
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Speaker 1: his nickname was Chopper, which is often a slang term
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Speaker 1: for a helicopter, and John Warez, who was murdered in
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Speaker 1: four he was a member of a gang called Pico Nuevo,
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Speaker 1: and Anthony Garcia and the gang he was involved in,
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Speaker 1: which was not Pico Nuevo. They used to make fun
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Speaker 1: of people like John for being affiliated with that gang
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Speaker 1: by calling them peanuts, meaning the helicopter in the tattoo
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Speaker 1: represented Anthony Garcia and the peanut guy was John Warez.
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Speaker 1: So this tattoo is literally like a confession that Anthony
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Speaker 1: Garcia was the guy who shot and killed John Warez.
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Speaker 1: And there were other details in this tattoo as well
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Speaker 1: that made it even more clear that this really was
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Speaker 1: like a confession. I mean just the angle of the
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Speaker 1: peanut Guy's body, so John Warez's body in the tattoo
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Speaker 1: was the same angle as he was found in real life.
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Speaker 1: And also the decorations on the liquor store in the
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Speaker 1: tattoo lined up with the decorations that were on mister
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Speaker 1: Ed's liquor store when John Warres was murdered in O four,
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Speaker 1: So really, Anthony Garcia sealed his fate by tattooing that
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Speaker 1: to his chest. Ultimately, Anthony's tattoo would be used to
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Speaker 1: convict him of John Warres's murder and Anthony would be
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Speaker 1: sentenced to sixty five years to life in prison. There
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Speaker 1: is a very popular TV show on HBO called Curb
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Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm, and it's about the mega famous Larry David
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Speaker 1: who created Seinfeld and so Curb Your Enthusiasm is totally
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Speaker 1: a satire. It's a comedy, you know, it's about Larry David.
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Speaker 1: And in fact, Larry David plays himself in the show.
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Speaker 1: But Larry David in the show is a very exaggerated
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Speaker 1: version of himself in real life. But the show is showed
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Speaker 1: to look like it's almost biographical, but it's not. It's
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Speaker 1: totally comedy. Apparently, in real life, Larry is known for
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Speaker 1: getting into kind of funny, awkward situations, often that he
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Speaker 1: brings on himself, and so on the show, basically every episode,
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Speaker 1: Larry David finds himself getting into totally absurd situations that
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Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm that will go down as the single episode
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Speaker 1: And it's not because it was funny. It's because this
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Speaker 1: particular episode had massive ripple effects that nobody from Larry
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Speaker 1: could have predicted. The episode in question is called the
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Speaker 1: Carpool Lane. And in this episode, Larry David, the character,
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Speaker 1: is late to a baseball game at Dodger Stadium, and
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Speaker 1: so he's stuck in traffic and he's totally upset. And
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Speaker 1: then he has this idea that if he picks up
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Speaker 1: this prostitute who's right outside his car, that if she
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Speaker 1: gets in the car with him, he'll now have two
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Speaker 1: passengers in the car and therefore will be eligible to
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Speaker 1: use the carpool lane that nobody else was using in
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Speaker 1: this traffic jam, and that would allow him to get
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Speaker 1: to Dodger Stadium faster. And so he hires this prostitute
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Speaker 1: and she gets in the car and Larry kind of
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Speaker 1: awkwardly explains his plan and then he hops in the
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Speaker 1: car pool lane he makes his way to Dodger Stadium.
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Speaker 1: The plan works great, and when he gets there, he
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Speaker 1: actually ends up bringing the prostitute with him into the
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Speaker 1: game to just watch the game with him, and so
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Speaker 1: Larry's totally upset about how bad his seats are, Larry
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Speaker 1: this Dodgers game, and Larry can tell, you know, his
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Speaker 1: friend has great seats, And so the rest of the
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Speaker 1: episode is basically Larry going down and trying to convince
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Speaker 1: his friend to give up his seats for Larry and
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Speaker 1: his prostitute to watch the game, and his friend just
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Speaker 1: continuously says no. And so really that's the gist of
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Speaker 1: the episode, and you can see how it kind of
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Speaker 1: gets more and more ridiculous and it gets really funny.
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Speaker 1: But I mean, it's pretty typical writing for this show.
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Speaker 1: This was not like a special show in any way.
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Speaker 1: It was just kind of par for the course. Curb
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Speaker 1: Your Enthusiasm, that is until a lawyer named Todd Melnick
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Speaker 1: heard about it. In the fall of two thousand and three,
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Speaker 1: this lawyer, Todd Melnick, called HBO and said he needed
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Speaker 1: to see the raw footage from the episode they shot
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Speaker 1: called a carpool lane. A producer at HBO named Tim
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Speaker 1: Gibbons is the one who answered this call, and his
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Speaker 1: first reaction was, you know, we can't let you see
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Speaker 1: months until this episode comes out if you want to
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Speaker 1: see this footage. But Tim quickly noticed that Todd Melnick,
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Speaker 1: the lawyer, was not about to give up this easily.
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Speaker 1: He was adamant that he had to say see this
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Speaker 1: footage right now. And so eventually Tim Gibbons actually would
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Speaker 1: go and find Larry David and he would ask Larry, Hey,
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Speaker 1: do you mind if this random lawyer comes and watches
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Speaker 1: this footage from this unaired episode? And Larry was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: And so the next day Todd Melnick showed up at
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Speaker 1: HBO and he was led into the small room with
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Speaker 1: a TV and Tim the producer he spoke to, as
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Speaker 1: well as Larry David and a few other people from
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Speaker 1: the Curb Your Enthusiasm production. They all filed into this
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Speaker 1: room and all of them just sat down, and then
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Speaker 1: they began playing the footage, the raw footage from the
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Speaker 1: Carpool Lane episode. And as they watched this footage, which
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Speaker 1: was hours and hours and hours long, the lawyer Todd
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Speaker 1: Melnick is watching the footage and just kind of slumping
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Speaker 1: into his chair, just seeming like what he was watching
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Speaker 1: was making him more and more unhappy. That clearly, you know,
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Speaker 1: he was looking for something and he was not seeing
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Speaker 1: it in this footage. But finally, when one of the
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Speaker 1: producers put in the fifth and final tape of raw
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Speaker 1: footage from this episode, Todd Melnick, as he's sitting there
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Speaker 1: watching the footage, which looks basically like Larry walking up
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Speaker 1: and down the steps at Dodger Stadium over and over again,
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Speaker 1: and him also walking in and out of his aisle.
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Speaker 1: over and over again, and then suddenly he sits up
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Speaker 1: and he points at the screen and goes right there.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out Todd Melnick was investigating a murder case.
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Speaker 1: The murder happened on May twelfth, two thousand and three.
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Speaker 1: A sixteen year old girl named Martha Puebla was standing
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Speaker 1: in front of her house in a neighborhood in Los
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Speaker 1: Angeles when she was shot by gang members because apparently
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Speaker 1: a rumor had gotten out that Martha was snitching on
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Speaker 1: gang members, and so she was killed. And the police
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Speaker 1: actually had already made an arrest in this murder. They
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Speaker 1: had arrested a guy named One Catalan. One's brother, Mario,
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Speaker 1: was on trial for a different murder, and just two
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Speaker 1: weeks before Martha's murder, Martha testified in Mario's case. And
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Speaker 1: who was in the audience listening to Martha's damning testimony
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Speaker 1: about Mario, Well, Mario's brother One, and so prosecutors believed
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Speaker 1: this was the motive for One to kill Martha. Also,
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Speaker 1: there was an eyewitness to Martha's murderer, and the sketch
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Speaker 1: artist who worked with this eyewitness came up with a
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Speaker 1: composite sketch of Martha's killer that looked exactly like One.
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Speaker 1: And so now One was potentially facing the death penalty
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Speaker 1: if he was found guilty. But One was adamant that
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Speaker 1: he did not kill Martha, and on the night of
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Speaker 1: her murder, he said he was at the Dodgers game
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Speaker 1: where they were filming a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, but
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Speaker 1: nobody believed him except for his lawyer, Todd Melnick, who
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Speaker 1: called HBO got access to all that unseen footage from
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Speaker 1: the episode, and after watching for hours and hours and hours,
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Speaker 1: finally that fifth tape goes in and sure enough, Todd
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Speaker 1: Melnick watched as his client one Catalan, strolled right into
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Speaker 1: frame and sat down with his daughter. It would turn
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Speaker 1: out Juan was telling the truth the whole time. He
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Speaker 1: did not kill Martha, and Curb Your Enthusiasm proved it.
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Speaker 1: Shortly after this discovery, Wan would be released from prison
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Speaker 1: and he would receive a settlement of three hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars from the city of Los Angeles and
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Speaker 1: the police. As for Martha, the police were able to
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Speaker 1: eventually track down four people who were involved in her murder,
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Speaker 1: and all four would be convicted and sent to jail
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Speaker 1: for life. There is a road in Detroit, Michigan called
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Speaker 1: Knock Knock Road that is quite possibly one of the
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Speaker 1: scariest places in all of America. As the story goes,
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Speaker 1: there was this little girl who was biking on knock
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Speaker 1: Knock Road and she was struck by a car. Now,
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Speaker 1: the driver sped off and did not help the girl,
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Speaker 1: and the driver was never caught, but the little girl
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Speaker 1: she would eventually pass away from her injuries. And since
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Speaker 1: that tragedy, motorists on knock Knock Road have constantly reported
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Speaker 1: seeing glimpses of a little girl lurking around this road,
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Speaker 1: often at night. But those are nothing compared to what
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Speaker 1: happened to this married couple. One night, a man and
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Speaker 1: his wife were coming home from dinner, and they were
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Speaker 1: driving on knock Knock Road when suddenly, from outside the car,
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Speaker 1: they heard this high pitched scream, and so reflexively, the
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Speaker 1: man who was driving slammed on the brakes, and then
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Speaker 1: he and his wife looked out the window to see
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Speaker 1: where the scream was coming from. Now, at first they
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Speaker 1: didn't see anything, but then right in front of them
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Speaker 1: they saw a quick glimpse of a little girl, who
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Speaker 1: then vanished. Then from behind them, they began to hear
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Speaker 1: a knocking on their back windshield, and so the man
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Speaker 1: and the wife they looked at each other and then
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Speaker 1: slowly turned around to see what was there, to hear
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