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He Thought They Were Coming for Him — They Weren't

Two Boston police officers walked into an alley to check on a domestic dispute that had nothing to do with the man they encountered there. Ted Otsuki, a parolee with a violent past, assumed they were coming for him — and in a single, catastrophic misjudgment, opened fire.

What followed was an eleven-month international manhunt that placed Otsuki on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list and eventually led investigators from Boston to San Francisco, through Texas, and into a high-rise apartment in Guadalajara, Mexico.

This episode traces the tragic misunderstanding that cost Officer Roy Sergei his…

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