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He Thought They Were Coming for Him — They Weren't · FBI Files

• 0:07
  Speaker 1: In Boston, a police call becomes deadly. The gunman escapes,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: but Boston police and the FBI vow to find him.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Uncovering his past, they navigate a trail of criminal connections,
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  Speaker 1: false names, and hidden danger to make him pay for
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: his brutal attack on the law.
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  Speaker 2: A criminal who kills a police officer wages war on society.
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  Speaker 2: In 1987, such a criminal vanished after shooting two Boston officers,
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  Speaker 2: one fatally. He had a history of violence against cops
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  Speaker 2: and the protection of a group of outlaws as he
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  Speaker 2: fled across state and national borders. I'm Jim Kallstrom, former
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  Speaker 2: head of the FBI's New York office. Finding this elusive
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  Speaker 2: cop killer meant breaking his co-conspirators before he slipped away forever.
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  Speaker 1: Boston, Massachusetts. The city's Back Bay district is an upscale area,
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  Speaker 1: unaccustomed to violent crime. At 1230 a.m. on October 2nd, 1987,
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  Speaker 1: in one Back Bay apartment building, Meredith Falcone and her
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  Speaker 1: cousin were locked in an argument. He had threatened her,
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  Speaker 1: and she was trying to get him to leave.
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  Speaker 3: Get out!
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  Speaker 4: Get out!
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  Speaker 1: She feared he wouldn't go away, but instead grow angrier.
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  Speaker 1: She called 911. 911, this call is recorded.
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  Speaker 5: What is your emergency?
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  Speaker 1: The emergency operator dispatched two police vehicles to the scene.
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  Speaker 1: Within minutes, the first squad car arrived at the apartment building.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed a fairly routine call for officers George Torres
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  Speaker 1: and Chris Rogers. They rang Meredith Falcone on the intercom.
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  Speaker 1: But there was a problem with her front door release buzzer,
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  Speaker 1: according to officer Torres.
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  Speaker 6: She came over the speaker at the intercom and stated
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  Speaker 6: to us that her buzzer doesn't work to ring somebody
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  Speaker 6: else's to let us in. In the background, while she
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  Speaker 6: was talking, we could hear some commotion, so we knew
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  Speaker 6: that there was something going on inside the apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Then two more officers, William Kennedy and Roy Sergi, arrived
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  Speaker 1: on the scene. So far, none of the tenants had
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  Speaker 1: responded to buzz them in. So the officers decided to
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  Speaker 1: split up.
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  Speaker 6: We took the standard procedure that two of us would
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  Speaker 6: cover the back and two would stay in front. At
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  Speaker 6: that point, Officer Rogers and myself proceeded to the back.
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  Speaker 1: Therese and Rogers searched for another way into the building.
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  Speaker 6: We look into a little alcove behind the building and
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  Speaker 6: we see a male up against the side of the wall,
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  Speaker 6: sort of trying to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps it was the cousin the caller had mentioned.
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  Speaker 7: I asked him to come towards me to find out
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  Speaker 7: what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: The fence's gate was padlocked.
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  Speaker 6: I told him to climb over the fence towards my side.
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  Speaker 6: As he put his feet on the ground, he attempted
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  Speaker 6: to flee. At that point, I grabbed him, and I
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  Speaker 6: started the pat-down procedure. Once I put my hands on
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  Speaker 6: his shoulders, he shoved me, gut instinct told me that
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  Speaker 6: he had a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Therese was hit. The man kept firing at Officer Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: then chased Therese. Rogers couldn't get a clean shot. By then,
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  Speaker 1: Kennedy and Sergei had come to the side. Officer Sergi
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  Speaker 1: had been shot, too. Though injured, Torres tried to assist
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  Speaker 1: Roy Sergi. Kennedy chased the suspect for several blocks. but
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  Speaker 1: he had disappeared into the Boston night.
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  Speaker 6: As I knelt over him and leaned over, I noticed
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  Speaker 6: that there was blood coming out of my left arm
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  Speaker 6: and the left side of my chest.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point, I knew that I was hit
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  Speaker 1: several times. Rogers called for backup and emergency personnel.
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  Speaker 8: I felt the pain.
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  Speaker 6: A burning sensation. I started to gasp for air a little.
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  Speaker 6: At that point, I knew that something had gone through
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  Speaker 6: my lung.
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  Speaker 1: Boston Dispatch put out the call that all police dread hearing.
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  Speaker 1: Officers down. Every available unit responded. In a matter of minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the normally quiet Back Bay district was swarming with emergency vehicles.
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  Speaker 1: Both critically wounded, officers Roy Sergi and George Torres were
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  Speaker 1: rushed to the hospital. Detectives interviewed officers Rogers and Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: They explained what happened and said the assailant was an
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  Speaker 1: Asian male about 30 years old of average height and
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  Speaker 1: with a muscular build. The description of the gunman differed
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  Speaker 1: from that of Meredith Falcone's cousin, the man who had
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  Speaker 1: started the domestic disturbance in the building. Officer Kennedy, a
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  Speaker 1: trained sniper, felt certain he shot the gunman as he fled,
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  Speaker 1: but no blood was found in that area. The injured
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  Speaker 1: officers had sustained three bullet wounds each, including life-threatening chest wounds.
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  Speaker 1: They were losing blood fast. Medical personnel struggled to stabilize
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  Speaker 1: them for emergency surgery. At the crime scene, forensic technicians
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  Speaker 1: began processing the area where the gunfight took place. It
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  Speaker 1: was littered with shell casings, bullet fragments, and blood. Detailing
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  Speaker 1: the placement of each item would help reconstruct exactly who
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  Speaker 1: fired when. Blocks away, they recovered an ammunition clip from
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  Speaker 1: a handgun, believed to be dropped by the gunman. It
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  Speaker 1: was a 15-round clip from a 9-millimeter Sig Sauer semi-automatic,
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  Speaker 1: and it was empty. If it was the gunman's, they
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  Speaker 1: hoped to find fingerprints or some other forensic evidence that
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  Speaker 1: might lead them to him. In the lab, they would
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  Speaker 1: lift one partial print, but it was not enough for
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  Speaker 1: any comparisons. Police issued a citywide alert for the suspect.
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  Speaker 1: They searched all of the Back Bay District and beyond.
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  Speaker 1: But that night, they found no sign of the gunman.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Detective James Fong of Boston's D-14 Station was named
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  Speaker 1: lead detective.
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  Speaker 3: What's the location?
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  Speaker 9: When I first heard that Roy Sergi and Joe Cherez
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  Speaker 9: were shot, I was actually really surprised and shocked that
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  Speaker 9: someone would shoot Boston police officers.
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  Speaker 1: Though worried about his colleagues, Detective Fong still had to
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  Speaker 1: do his job.
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  Speaker 9: The crime scene is still a crime scene regardless of
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  Speaker 9: whether a police officer or a civilian involved, and you
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  Speaker 9: have to take everything step by step.
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  Speaker 1: He first wanted to determine where the assailant had come from,
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  Speaker 1: then he might be able to identify him.
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  Speaker 9: I had already been given information that the individual who
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  Speaker 9: was involved in the shooting had come out from the
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  Speaker 9: back gate. We then, myself and other officers, went and
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  Speaker 9: investigated that area.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the gated fence, they noticed a large air conditioning unit.
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  Speaker 1: On closer inspection, Detective Fong discovered shoe prints on the
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  Speaker 1: cover of the unit.
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  Speaker 9: The footprints that we recovered at the scene were something
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  Speaker 9: consistent with where the officers, George Torres and Christopher Rogers,
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  Speaker 9: said that they had seen the individual.
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  Speaker 1: Directly above the air conditioner was a window from a
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  Speaker 1: third floor hallway.
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  Speaker 9: I believe the footprints got on the cover by an
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  Speaker 9: individual jumping from the third floor window onto the air
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  Speaker 9: conditioned cover.
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  Speaker 1: This suggested that the suspect was likely connected to the
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  Speaker 1: building somehow. Detectives wanted to interview the roughly 60 residents
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  Speaker 1: of the building. Fong decided to start with those of
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  Speaker 1: Asian descent.
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  Speaker 8: The assailant was an Asian male.
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  Speaker 9: And I tried to put two to two together thinking
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  Speaker 9: that maybe he did come from that building and maybe
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  Speaker 9: he was related or did reside at that building.
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  Speaker 1: The forensic artist had created a composite sketch of the
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  Speaker 1: suspect based on the officer's descriptions. But the residents didn't
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  Speaker 1: recognize the man. Although they had heard the commotion and
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  Speaker 1: gunshots the night before, they could offer little help.
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  Speaker 9: I interviewed all of the Asian occupants that were known
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  Speaker 9: to have resided in that building at that time of
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  Speaker 9: this incident, and none of them were able to give
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  Speaker 9: me any good solid leads.
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  Speaker 1: Other residents couldn't help either.
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  Speaker 9: I spoke to most of the tenants, and they didn't
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  Speaker 9: even know the next-door neighbor because of the fact that
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  Speaker 9: it's a short-term lease type apartment. They were only there
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  Speaker 9: for a few days, a few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed a dead end. At the hospital, the wounded
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  Speaker 1: officers were in critical but stable condition. Investigators were frustrated
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  Speaker 1: they had no leads on the man who shot them. Then,
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  Speaker 1: six days after the shooting, detectives returned to the apartment
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  Speaker 1: building to check out a new lead.
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  Speaker 9: We had received a call from the manager who stated
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  Speaker 9: to us that there was an Asian male that had
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  Speaker 9: lived there and that she forgot to tell us about.
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  Speaker 8: And that they had.
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  Speaker 9: gone in to check on his well-being, because they hadn't
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  Speaker 9: seen him for that week.
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  Speaker 1: The manager believed the place had been abandoned.
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  Speaker 8: Boston Police, search warrant.
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  Speaker 1: The tenant's name was Mark Terra. He loosely fit the
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  Speaker 1: description of the gunman.
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  Speaker 10: All clear.
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  Speaker 7: Earl, can you come on to this idea?
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  Speaker 8: I'll give you a short bit of time.
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  Speaker 1: A building employee pointed out a box of ammunition they
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  Speaker 1: discovered when they had come in to check on Tara.
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  Speaker 8: Can you take a picture of that and then bag it?
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  Speaker 1: Technicians collected the bullets, noting they were nine millimeter, the
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  Speaker 1: same caliber as the casings and fragments found at the
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  Speaker 1: crime scene. In the lab, the bullets would be compared
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  Speaker 1: against those used in the shooting. Detective Fong checked the
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  Speaker 1: space where a ceiling tile was moved to the side.
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  Speaker 1: It was clear, but something might have been hidden there before.
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  Speaker 1: The apartment was spare and neat, suggesting the tenant might
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  Speaker 1: have served time in the military or prison. The technician
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  Speaker 1: scoured the entire apartment for additional evidence.
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  Speaker 9: We recovered a number of items, clothing, personal effects, in ammunition,
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  Speaker 9: in fingerprints and hair samples.
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  Speaker 1: But nothing indicated where Tara had gone. Checking the name,
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  Speaker 1: they learned Mark Tara had no police record. But Detective
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  Speaker 1: Fong got a copy of his rental contract. On it,
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  Speaker 1: Tara listed a previous address and phone number in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Fong called the number and spoke with a man
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  Speaker 1: named Leon Perry. Perry was reluctant to talk, and he
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  Speaker 1: denied knowing Tara.
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  Speaker 8: The individual that I spoke to was very evasive.
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  Speaker 9: In fact, I identified myself as a police officer with
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  Speaker 9: the city of Boston, was investigating a shooting of two
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  Speaker 9: police officers. The individual then became very defensive, stating to
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  Speaker 9: me that He did not want to help the police department.
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  Speaker 1: Perry seemed suspicious, but police had nothing that connected him
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  Speaker 1: to the shooting. Fong had San Francisco police run a
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  Speaker 1: check on Perry, and they reported he had no local
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  Speaker 1: record there. Boston police received a copy of Mark Terra's
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  Speaker 1: California driver's license photo. They brought it to the one
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  Speaker 1: officer who got the best look at the shooter, George Torres.
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  Speaker 6: This picture just jumped out right at me. And I
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  Speaker 6: stated to him, that's the guy that shot us. Anxiety
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  Speaker 6: and fear ran through my body. Anxiety, knowing that we
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  Speaker 6: have an ID on the suspect, and fear because he's
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  Speaker 6: still out on the street.
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  Speaker 1: With a suspect identified, the Boston police held a press
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  Speaker 1: conference one week after the shootout.
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  Speaker 11: Based on the information available to me and to our investigators,
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  Speaker 11: which I cannot disclose, we have an unusually violent person,
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  Speaker 11: and quite frankly, it's scary.
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  Speaker 1: They believed they knew who the gunman was. Now, they
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  Speaker 1: had to find him. In Boston, a shootout left two
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  Speaker 1: police officers critically wounded. Suspect Mark Terra had disappeared. Investigators
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  Speaker 1: discovered his last known address was in San Francisco and
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  Speaker 1: asked their counterparts in the Bay Area to help. They
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  Speaker 1: sent the San Francisco police wanted posters of Terra and
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  Speaker 1: asked them to have their officers look out for him
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  Speaker 1: in case he returned there. After a morning roll call,
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Greg Lynch checked the wanted poster clipboard.
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  Speaker 12: On the clipboard was a flyer regarding a suspect who
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  Speaker 12: had shot two Boston police officers. I knew I had
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  Speaker 12: seen the individual, I just couldn't immediately place where I
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  Speaker 12: had seen him.
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  Speaker 1: Then Sergeant Lynch remembered an off-duty incident that had occurred
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  Speaker 1: six weeks earlier. In August of that year, as he
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  Speaker 1: was leaving a movie theater with a friend. He had
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  Speaker 1: spotted a man on the street carrying a handgun.
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  Speaker 12: My first thought was he may have been a police officer,
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  Speaker 12: but when I looked at him, the feeling I got
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  Speaker 12: is he was not a police officer, especially when he
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  Speaker 12: turned and he looked at me intently. After the light
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  Speaker 12: turned green, he walked across the street. I told my
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  Speaker 12: friend to go to the phone, dial 911, tell him
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  Speaker 12: who I was, where I was, and that I had
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  Speaker 12: a man with a gun.
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  Speaker 1: Lynch's instinct told him the man was a criminal. He
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  Speaker 1: followed the man, though he couldn't stop him from driving away.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Lynch did get the man's Texas license plate number.
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  Speaker 12: Once I realized that The man in the Boston flyer
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  Speaker 12: was the man I saw at the movie house.
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  Speaker 7: That's when I started.
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  Speaker 12: My investigation in acquiring the information that I called in
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  Speaker 12: back in August, including the license plate number, and that
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  Speaker 12: came back to a David Tejera.
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  Speaker 1: Though the suspect used the first name Mark in Boston,
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  Speaker 1: it was the same man. His record was clean, and
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  Speaker 1: his registration listed a post office box in Brownsville, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Lynch forwarded the information to investigators in Boston. In turn,
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  Speaker 1: Boston police immediately contacted authorities in Brownsville and asked for
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  Speaker 1: their assistance. A detective from the Brownsville police checked the
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  Speaker 1: post office box and found the suspect's street address. He
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  Speaker 1: went to the apartment building where the suspect had lived.
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  Speaker 1: The detectives showed the apartment manager a photo of the
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  Speaker 1: man known as Mark, or David Terra. The manager recognized
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  Speaker 1: the photo, but he didn't know him by either of
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  Speaker 1: those names. He knew him as Ted Atsuki. Atsuki had
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  Speaker 1: moved out months ago and the manager had no idea
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  Speaker 1: where he had gone.
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  Speaker 9: If you think of anything else that can help me,
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  Speaker 9: please give me a call.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: The Brownsville detective ran a check on the name Ted
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  Speaker 1: Atsuki and learned that was the suspect's true name. The
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  Speaker 1: names Mark and David Terra were aliases. Atsuki had an
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  Speaker 1: extensive criminal record, including a 1979 Texas bank heist preceded
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  Speaker 1: by the armed takeover of a small town police station.
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  Speaker 1: In March of 1979, Atsuki overpowered the two officers manning
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  Speaker 1: the Los Fresnos police station, then took out their communication center.
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  Speaker 1: With the police neutralized, he walked across the street and
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  Speaker 1: robbed the local bank of $ 70, 000. Otsuki was eventually convicted
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  Speaker 1: of the robbery and served seven years of a 15-year
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  Speaker 1: sentence in Leavenworth Prison. Within a year of his release,
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  Speaker 1: he was wanted again for violating parole by leaving the
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  Speaker 1: state of Texas. The Brownsville detective called Boston and offered
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  Speaker 1: to send Otsuki's fingerprints.
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  Speaker 9: Got some information on the active case you got up there.
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  Speaker 1: 11 days had passed since the shooting of the officers
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  Speaker 1: in Boston, and the city was still on edge. By
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  Speaker 1: that time, police technicians there had lifted a single usable
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  Speaker 1: print from the suspect's rental contract. They compared it against
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  Speaker 1: Ted Atsuki's prints sent from Texas. Checking comparison points, they
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  Speaker 1: made a match. Investigators were sure Atsuki was the gunman
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  Speaker 1: who had shot officers George Torres and Roy Sergi. They
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  Speaker 1: also believed he had left Massachusetts. Boston police contacted the
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  Speaker 1: FBI for assistance. And the case was assigned to Special
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  Speaker 1: Agent Jay Fallon of the Boston field office.
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  Speaker 13: With the probable cause that he had fled the state
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  Speaker 13: to avoid being arrested, the FBI obtained an unlawful flight
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  Speaker 13: to avoid prosecution warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Agents tracked down a known associate of Atsuki in the
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  Speaker 1: area and convinced him to cooperate.
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  Speaker 8: That's what we're looking for.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: He said he heard the suspect had come to Boston
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  Speaker 1: as part of a bank robbery plot.
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  Speaker 13: It was our belief that Ted Atsuki was in the
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  Speaker 13: Boston area in order to put together... a collection of
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  Speaker 13: associates to formulate a plan by which they would identify
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  Speaker 13: and kidnap a bank official.
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  Speaker 1: It appeared the shooting of the officers was completely unrelated,
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  Speaker 1: a tragic mistake. Investigators believed that on the night of
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  Speaker 1: the shootings, Ted Atsuki was in his apartment. Boston police
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the building in response to the domestic disturbance call.
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  Speaker 1: They believed Atsuki mistakenly assumed the officers were there to
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  Speaker 1: arrest him for violating his parole in Texas. He grabbed
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  Speaker 1: his nine millimeter SIG Sauer and extra rounds of ammunition.
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  Speaker 1: When police buzzed asking for entry, Atsuki was ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: Police believed he jumped from a hallway window to the
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  Speaker 1: air conditioning unit below. Seconds later, the gunfight. Ted Atsuki
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  Speaker 1: was willing to do anything to escape. In 1987, Boston
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  Speaker 1: police and the FBI searched for Ted Atsuki, wanted for
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the shooting of two police officers. Special Agent Jay Fallon
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  Speaker 1: tried to narrow the search for the fugitive and predict
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  Speaker 1: his moves.
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  Speaker 13: A very basic tenet in these type of investigations is
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  Speaker 13: to identify and interview the subjects, friends and family and
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  Speaker 13: associates in an effort to determine any nuances insofar as
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  Speaker 13: what his likes, dislikes, where he might be.
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  Speaker 1: They had contacted Leon Perry in San Francisco, whom they
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  Speaker 1: believed to be an associate, but he claimed not to
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  Speaker 1: know the fugitive. Surveilling Perry, they realized he was using
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  Speaker 1: Atsuki's car. They watched it, but never saw Atsuki. The
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  Speaker 1: FBI's database had revealed Leon Perry spent time in Leavenworth
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  Speaker 1: Prison with Atsuki. When confronted, Perry admitted knowing the suspect,
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  Speaker 1: but said he had not spoken to him in months
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  Speaker 1: and had no idea where he was. They didn't have
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  Speaker 1: probable cause for an arrest, but they impounded the car
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  Speaker 1: and arranged for spot surveillance of Perry. When they searched
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  Speaker 1: his apartment, they found no sign of Atsuki. In Boston,
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  Speaker 1: the case took a tragic turn. The two wounded officers
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  Speaker 1: had been recovering well But on October 26, 1987, Roy
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  Speaker 1: Sergi died suddenly when a blood clot lodged in his heart,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: causing cardiac arrest.
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  Speaker 14: Detail!
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  Speaker 7: Bring the sand!
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Sergeant Detective James.
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  Speaker 9: Fong, When I first learned that Roy had passed away,
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  Speaker 9: I was in complete shock. I had seen him two
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  Speaker 9: nights before, and he and I were engaged in small
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  Speaker 9: talk conversation. I remember Roy saying to me, I'll be
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  Speaker 9: seeing you guys upstairs, that being in the detective's room,
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  Speaker 9: working alongside with us upon his recovery. I made it
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  Speaker 9: a personal commitment to myself that we would seek out
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  Speaker 9: the individual that shot and killed Roy Sergi.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Ted Atsuki grew up in Texas and had family there.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Hoping to find him, investigators interviewed his relatives in the area.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: They were shocked by the allegations and said they had
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: not seen or heard from Atsuki in several months. They
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: claimed they had no idea where he was. To confirm
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: their story, investigators subpoenaed their phone records. They discovered several
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: recent calls from the relative's home to Atsuki's former roommate,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Leon Perry, in San Francisco. The records also revealed calls
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to a second ex-convict. a former bank robber in Minnesota.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: The FBI brought him in and he agreed to turn informant.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: He gave more details about Atsuki's plan for hostage-taking, bank robbery,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and murder. Atsuki had associates create remote-controlled briefcase bombs to
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: be handcuffed to the wrists of kidnapped bank officials. After
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the officials removed cash from their own vaults, Atsuki and
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: his men would detonate the bombs to eliminate witnesses.
• 28:59
  Speaker 13: Many times people come up with ideas which others might
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: think of as being harebrained. But Ted Atsuki took the
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: time to actually plan such an endeavor and enlisted the
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: help of professionals that were very, very capable of constructing
• 29:23
  Speaker 13: these bombs and very capable of invading a home and
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: very capable of robbing a bank.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Agents needed to confirm the story.
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: He told us that these briefcase bonds were being stored
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: in a storage facility in San Francisco, which Atsuki had
• 29:44
  Speaker 13: rented under an assumed name.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: The FBI and the San Francisco police bomb squad found
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the storage locker and inside the briefcase described by the informant.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Not knowing exactly how the device was triggered, they had
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to be cautious. The specialists placed the briefcase far from
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the storage building, then attached a small charge designed to
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: open the case without detonating any bomb inside. It was
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a pipe bomb, an improvised device made volatile by gunpowder
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: held under pressure. When sparked, the powder burns so intensely,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: it bursts the metal pipe walls, sending deadly shrapnel flying
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: in all directions. To render it safe, they needed to
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: open the pipe, releasing the pressure on the gunpowder. Using
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: a water cannon is the safest way to do so,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: according to San Francisco FBI Special Agent Philip Sena.
• 31:26
  Speaker 15: The cannon slug is forced out by water under great pressure.
• 31:33
  Speaker 15: That way you're not firing something that has heat and
• 31:38
  Speaker 15: flame directed at the pipe. You're sending something that's relatively
• 31:43
  Speaker 15: benign in the effort to uncap the explosive before it
• 31:52
  Speaker 15: can explode.
• 31:56
  Speaker 16: Weapon!
• 32:05
  Speaker 15: The device was very well constructed, quite sophisticated. It was
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: designed to be placed and then detonated from a distance.
• 32:16
  Speaker 15: I was told that the device was capable of killing
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: somebody and having a relatively small blast radius, maybe 10,
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: 15 feet, but being pretty devastating within that radius.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: They later found and rendered safe a second bomb The
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: evidence was collected for processing at the forensics lab. Special
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Agent Fallon wanted to know if Atsuki's former San Francisco roommate,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Leon Perry, knew about the bombs.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: After the bombs were recovered, we re-interviewed Perry.
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: Perry stated that he had no idea as to the
• 33:00
  Speaker 13: existence of these bombs and certainly would have notified us
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: if he did. We then sent the bombs and the
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: materials to the lab, and the lab determined that, in fact,
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: Perry's fingerprints were on the boxing materials that the bombs
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: were in. Based on the fact that we truly didn't
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: think that Perry was cooperating with us as completely as
• 33:26
  Speaker 13: he could have and should have, we made the decision
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: to revoke his parole and put him in jail.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Investigators had long suspected that Perry was actively involved with Ozuki.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Now they had direct evidence. Unless he cooperated, Perry was
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: facing a return to prison of up to 20 years.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Sena hoped to get him to talk.
• 33:58
  Speaker 15: We had enough evidence of his association with Ozuki and
• 34:04
  Speaker 15: parole violation evidence that we had the ability to put a.
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: Little pressure on him.
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: He was comfortable in prison, so going back wasn't the
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: worst possible thing that could have happened to him. We
• 34:20
  Speaker 15: spent the first day probably 15 hours talking. And this
• 34:25
  Speaker 15: went on for approximately a week, sometimes 10, 12, 14 hours.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: There were headache days. Eventually, agents convinced Perry it was
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: in his best interest to cooperate, and he began to talk.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Perry said that on the day after the Boston shooting,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: he got a phone call in San Francisco.
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: He told us that Ted had called him, told him
• 35:04
  Speaker 13: that things had gone bad in Boston.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Atsuki said he had shot two cops there and that
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: he was shot too. He told Perry he was calling
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: from the airport in Dayton, Ohio. Atsuki said he had
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: to fly to Texas where he could quietly get medical
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: attention for his gunshot wound. Atsuki had left his car.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and the gun he used in the shootout at the
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Dayton airport. He asked Perry to go to Ohio and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: get it. Perry agreed.
• 35:41
  Speaker 15: Ozuki sent the keys to the automobile and the long-term
• 35:44
  Speaker 15: parking ticket, overnight mail. He was to go to Dayton,
• 35:49
  Speaker 15: recover the car, take the murder weapon and destroy it.
• 35:56
  Speaker 15: Drive the car back to San Francisco, unload the rest
• 36:00
  Speaker 15: of the stuff from the car, and hide it.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Perry found the car, as Otsuki described. Inside was the
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: 9mm Sig Sauer.
• 36:18
  Speaker 15: The murder weapon was a high-quality handgun. He was reluctant
• 36:23
  Speaker 15: to destroy that high-quality handgun. So he decided that he
• 36:27
  Speaker 15: would take the handgun and give it to his father.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: He drove to his parents' house in Missouri and left
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the gun there.
• 36:38
  Speaker 15: We contacted the father. I spoke with him. I assured
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: him that his son was doing the right thing. I
• 36:46
  Speaker 15: asked him if he still had the handgun, and he
• 36:49
  Speaker 15: said that he had.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Missouri agents retrieved the Sig Sauer. Ballistics testing confirmed it
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: was the weapon that fired the fatal bullets.
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: Fingerprints were found to be on a bullet within the
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: weapon that matched Ozuki. So now we not only had
• 37:10
  Speaker 15: the weapon that ballistics showed had killed the police officer,
• 37:16
  Speaker 15: but we also had Ozuki's fingerprints on one of the
• 37:19
  Speaker 15: bullets in the weapon.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: With physical evidence implicating Atsuki in the murder of Roy
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Sergi and in the building of deadly bombs, the FBI
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: placed Ted Atsuki on their 10 most wanted fugitives list.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: But the dangerous fugitive had been on the run for
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: four months. By now, he could be anywhere. In 1988,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the FBI continued a nationwide manhunt for Ted Atsuki, the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: suspected cop killer. On January 22nd of that year, they
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: placed him on their 10 most wanted fugitives list. To
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: further the publicity of the case, the FBI asked a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: nationally televised crime show to profile Atsuki. During the broadcast,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: an acquaintance of Atsuki's called the show's toll-free number. When
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: it seemed he had a legitimate tip, operators patched him
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: through to FBI Special Agent Jay Fallon. The caller said
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: that Atsuki was especially close with two particular relatives living
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: in Texas, and that if anyone knew Atsuki's whereabouts, it
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: was this couple. Authorities had previously spoken with the couple
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: who claimed to have no contact with the fugitive.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: If someone saw us at the birthday party, that's about it.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Checking the relatives' phone records, agents discovered a sudden increase
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: in calls from Guadalajara, Mexico, where the family had other relatives.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: Atsuki might have fled there. The hunt extended into Mexico.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: FBI offices in foreign countries are called legal attaches. At
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: the Mexico City legal attache, FBI Special Agent Stephen Walker
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: took on the case.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: The FBI has no legal authority to conduct investigations on
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: a foreign land according to the.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: Laws of that country.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: So we solicit, or the FBI would solicit a cooperation,
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: form a liaison relationship and request officially that the host
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: country law enforcement agencies do the work of the FBI.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Walker met with the Mexican Federal Judicial Police
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: to ask for their assistance in searching for Otsuki.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: We didn't have an exact address in Guadalajara, but we
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: did have some suspect telephone numbers in that area. and
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: investigation conducted at that time failed to locate the relative
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: or to locate Otsuki.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Fallon hoped Otsuki's former roommate, Leon Perry, could
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: help them. Offering Perry immunity on the bomb-making charges, the
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: FBI convinced him to wear a wire.
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: We had devised a plan by which we thought that
• 40:43
  Speaker 13: Perry could speak with family members of Ted Atsuki in
• 40:49
  Speaker 13: an effort to have the family be forthcoming and advise
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: Perry as to where Atsuki might be.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Agents created a fake passport for Perry and coached him
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: on how to draw the relatives in.
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: Perry got this bogus identification and was going to leave town,
• 41:16
  Speaker 13: so to speak. That was the story that he was
• 41:19
  Speaker 13: going to tell Atsuki's family in an effort to have
• 41:24
  Speaker 13: the family reach out to Atsuki to speak with Perry.
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: There was also the situation as to the murder weapon,
• 41:32
  Speaker 13: and one of the biggest selling points was that Perry
• 41:36
  Speaker 13: needed to know from the family what Ted wanted done
• 41:40
  Speaker 13: with the murder weapon before he fled.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: After several requests, Atsuki's Texas relatives agreed to meet with
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Perry at a restaurant in Matamoros, Mexico. Outside, Boston detective
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: James Fong, FBI agents, and Mexican federal police waited, ready
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: to listen in on the meeting.
• 42:04
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: Mic sounds good. We're ready to go.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Okay. Other agents were inside.
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: Prior to the arrival of Perry... Myself and another.
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: Agent had gone into the restaurant and sat down in
• 42:19
  Speaker 13: an effort to observe and surveil the situation.
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: Perry walked in, sat at the bar.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: He didn't have to wait long before Atsuki's relatives walked in.
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: We're going inside, right here. How's it going?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Agents could hear them talking, but Atsuki was never mentioned.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: After a few minutes, Atsuki's male relatives said they needed
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: to leave. The surveillance teams change plans fast.
• 43:17
  Speaker 13: I was concerned because that was not exactly what we
• 43:20
  Speaker 13: were expecting. However, you have to have faith in the
• 43:25
  Speaker 13: people that you have out there.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: They would have to stay close enough to maintain the
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: audio signal but still avoid detection. They hoped they were
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: finally closing in on Ted Atsuki. In Northern Mexico, Detective
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: James Fong and other investigators had wired an informant and
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: followed him as he met with relatives of suspected cop
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: killer Ted Atsuki. Surveillance teams had to stay close to
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: maintain the signal from the microphone they had on informant
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Leon Perry.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: I need to meet with Ted. I need to talk
• 44:16
  Speaker 8: with Ted. It's going to be tough. I'm telling you.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Well, where is he?
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: He's not anywhere around here.
• 44:23
  Speaker 17: If he wants me to take care of the things
• 44:25
  Speaker 17: he wants me to take care of, I'm going to
• 44:26
  Speaker 17: have to meet with him.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: And I can't tell you.
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: I don't know how else to tell you that. I'll
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: tell you what.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Finally, the relatives said they would call Atsuki.
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: My wife has a number.
• 44:37
  Speaker 18: I think what we can do is to head.
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: Over to the bus station.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: The bus station?
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: They've got phones there.
• 44:42
  Speaker 19: Oh, okay.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: And they may be able.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: To help us connect to them.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, do you think he'll meet with me after
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: we talk to him? He's not going to meet with you.
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: He might talk to you over the phone, but that's
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: about it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: The bus station was in the town of Matamoros, a
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: few miles from the Texas border. Investigators watched as the
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: relatives placed a call on a public long-distance telephone Undercover
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: agents kept a closer eye on them. The relatives spoke briefly,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: then gave the phone to Perry. It was Otsuki. He
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: told Perry to destroy the nine millimeter Sig Sauer. He
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: said he'd been robbing banks in Mexico, but he wouldn't
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: say exactly where. Still, The phone call was the best
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: lead yet for Special Agent Philip Sena.
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: The Mexican federal authorities were able to get the phone
• 45:55
  Speaker 15: number that was accessed from the clerks that run the
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: bus station. The federal judicial police were able to determine
• 46:04
  Speaker 15: the location of that number in Guadalajara.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Working as a liaison with the Mexican federal police in Guadalajara,
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: was FBI Special Agent Stephen Walker.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: We had the telephone number that was called. We knew
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: it was Otsuki that was called. It was listed to
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: a residence in Guadalajara, which turned out to be an
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: apartment in the city. So it was just a matter
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: then of going to Guadalajara, enlisting the services of the
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: federal police to go to the apartment.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Teams of officers staked out the building, but there was
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: no sign of Otsuki.
• 46:49
  Speaker 15: We were so close, but we didn't have him yet.
• 46:52
  Speaker 15: So in some ways, it was more difficult than not
• 46:55
  Speaker 15: knowing where he was, because now that we knew where
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: he was, we wanted him desperately, and we didn't know
• 47:00
  Speaker 15: if we were going to be able to accomplish that.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Then, two days after the stakeout began, Ted Atsuki appeared.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: The officers moved in. Atsuki drew a gun, but didn't
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: get a shot off this time. The federal police arrested him,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: then transferred custody to the FBI the next day. Ted
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Atsuki was found guilty of the attempted murder of George
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Torres and the first degree murder of Roy Sergi. He
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to life plus 20 years. Officer Torres recovered
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: from his wounds and returned to active duty. He retired
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: from the Boston Police Department in 1997. Roy Sergi promoted
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: to detective after the shooting. left behind a wife and
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: three children and scores of friends on the Boston Police Force.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: The community room at the D-14 police station is dedicated
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: to his memory. George Torres hopes the legacy of the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: case helps keep other officers alive.
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: We try not to take anything as a routine call.
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: There's no such thing as a routine call. You go
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: the expect the unexpected.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: After the shooting, Boston police began issuing bulletproof vests to
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: all officers and replaced their six shot revolvers with 15
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: round semi-automatics. Now they stand a better chance at coming
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: out alive when the unexpected happens. In Miami, a young
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: man is abducted at gunpoint. The kidnappers demand a fortune
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: and threaten to kill. The police and FBI uncover disturbing
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: leads and look for answers in the smallest clues in
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: a desperate race to find the victim and bring him
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: home to his family.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: A kidnapping can shatter a family, bringing terror and heartache
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: without warning. In 1984, with the flash of a gun,
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: an ordinary business transaction became a violent abduction. In seconds,
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: the son of a wealthy Miami developer was gone. I'm
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Jim Kallstrom, former head of the FBI's New York office.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: The kidnapper's motivation seemed to be money. But agents would
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: learn this case and its resolution were more complicated than
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: anyone believed.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Miami, Florida, Tuesday, August 7th, 1984. At 6 o'clock, the
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: sales office of real estate developer Jesus Portela was closing.
• 51:02
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: Portela had emigrated from Cuba 22 years.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Earlier building a successful business in Miami. His 22-year-old son, Mario,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: was recently married and worked as a salesman for his father,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: as did Mario's uncle. A little after six, a couple
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: approached the office. Mario and his uncle went out to
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: talk with him. The couple asked about condo prices. The
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: man seemed anxious as they spoke. The uncle explained that
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: the office had closed. He asked them to return in
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: the morning. At the couple's request, he went inside to
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: get some brochures for them. He didn't see what was
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: happening outside. An armed man had pulled up and the
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: three were abducting Mario. The uncle spotted temporary tags on
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the car, but only got the last three numbers. He
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: told Jesus what he saw. Mario, forced into a blue
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: and gray car, heading north on 122nd Avenue. Then he
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: called the police. But Mario's father couldn't wait for the
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: police to arrive. He went looking for his son. Soon
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: he spotted a car matching the description of the kidnapper's vehicle.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: For years, he had carried a licensed gun for protection.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Now he was ready to use it. But it was
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the wrong car. Realizing he couldn't find the kidnappers himself,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Jesus returned to wait for the authorities. The Metro-Dade police
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: responded to the kidnapping call. For Detective Alvaro Romero, abductions
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: were not unusual in 1984.
• 54:16
  Speaker 20: At that time, we were inundated with kidnappings. We had
• 54:18
  Speaker 20: probably one kidnapping a month related to narcotics or drug-related kidnappings,
• 54:23
  Speaker 20: where the victims would either be involved in drugs themselves
• 54:27
  Speaker 20: or possibly family members were involved in drug dealings.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: But detectives quickly realized Mario's abduction was different.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: Questioning Mr.
• 54:40
  Speaker 20: Portela and recognizing the fact that he was a prominent
• 54:43
  Speaker 20: businessman in the community led us to believe that it
• 54:46
  Speaker 20: was not narcotics related and strictly a financial gain for
• 54:50
  Speaker 20: the people who kidnapped his son.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: It meant anybody who knew of Mr. Portela's wealth could
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: be a suspect. Hoping the kidnappers left some trace behind,
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: crime scene technicians dusted the door for fingerprints. Mario's uncle
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: believed they might have touched it as they peered inside.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: No usable prints were found. Less than an hour after
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: the kidnapping, the phone rang. Speaking in Spanish, the caller
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: asked for Mario. Mr. Portela didn't recognize the voice. The
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: caller then announced he was part of a terrorist group
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: that was holding Mario for $ 3 million in ransom. Although
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: no recording equipment was in place, a Spanish-speaking detective listening
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: in identified the caller's accent as Colombian. The caller threatened
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: to kill Mario if Jesus notified police or the FBI
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: and warned that the group was watching the Portela house
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and gave the address. The distraught father pleaded to speak
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: with his son. The kidnapper announced he would call Jesus'
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: home in three days. Police could not trace the call,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: but it helped them understand the type of criminal they
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: were facing.
• 56:27
  Speaker 20: We felt the kidnappers were very violent. They took precautions
• 56:32
  Speaker 20: as far as the phone calls that they were making.
• 56:35
  Speaker 20: and they were very serious in their threats. They knew
• 56:39
  Speaker 20: what they were doing, and we took them very seriously.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: As with any kidnap for ransom, Metro Dade police called
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: the Miami field office of the FBI for assistance, and
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: the case went to Special Agent John Gill.
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  Speaker 8: The FBI was involved from the very onset.
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  Speaker 21: The very fact that a large ransom was demanded caused
• 57:04
  Speaker 21: it to fall into the jurisdiction of what we call
• 57:06
  Speaker 21: the Hobbs Act.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: The Hobbs Act makes extortion affecting interstate commerce a federal crime,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: and Mr. Portella's business reached across state lines. Agents from
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: the FBI's reactive squad installed recording equipment on Mr. Portella's
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: office and home phones and arranged to have all incoming
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: calls traced. The next day, Special Agent Gill wanted to
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: talk with Jesus Portela, but not at the trailer or
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: at home. He asked Jesus to meet him at an
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: empty garage. Agents watched the entrances and exits of the
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: garage for any sign of the kidnappers, but did not
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: see anyone. As far as they could tell, it was
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: safe for Gill to question Mr. Portela. The agent asked
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: if Mr. Portella knew of anyone who had a grudge
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: against him or if he had ever been threatened. The
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: worried father could think of only one minor incident. He
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: said that eight months earlier, a man and woman burst
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: into his office. He knew the woman Her name was
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Rose DeParius. She recently purchased a condominium from him and
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: said she discovered her neighbor's payments were lower than hers. Mr.
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: Portella explained that the difference was because the neighbor had
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: obtained a better finance rate. It was between the buyer
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and the bank.
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  Speaker 8: The payments were not made to him at all.
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  Speaker 21: The financier had paid for the condominium and he was
• 59:00
  Speaker 21: out of the picture, so to speak.
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  Speaker 1: The two refused to accept the explanation.
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  Speaker 5: The man began fighting.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Threatening him, demanding that Portella refund the money. But there
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: was nothing he could do. Before they left, Rose de
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: Parias vowed she would get her money back one way
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: or another. Mr. Portella had reported the incident to police.
• 59:31
  Speaker 21: And the police talked to this particular woman and explained
• 59:34
  Speaker 21: to her the circumstances of financing an interest payment, and
• 59:37
  Speaker 21: she apologized, and Mr.
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: Portella just assumed that this had.
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: All gone away. Agents later tracked down Rose de Parias
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: and learned she was living in another state during the kidnapping.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: When they confirmed her alibi, they ruled her out as
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: a suspect. Investigators were getting worried. With each day that passes,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the chances of finding a kidnapping victim alive drastically diminish.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: They hoped the kidnappers would call again. If they did,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: the reactive squad was prepared, having wired Jesus Portela's home
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: and office with telephone tap and trace equipment.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 19: All right, I'll be there.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Gil Orantia and other investigators needed to be
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: there to monitor the calls and run the equipment. But
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: getting into the home unseen would be tricky.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 19: The initial calls and our indications were that they were
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 19: watching his home, they being the kidnappers. We were concerned
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 19: that they might be able to detect that I was
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 19: coming in.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: They needed Mr. Portela's help.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 19: I was crouched in the back seat as we drove
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 19: to his home. We went into the garage and then
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 19: we went into the house. We wanted to be able
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 19: to record the phone calls and be able to capture
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 19: everything that was said to him regarding any ransom demands.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: Agents and Metrodade detectives would take shifts, staying with the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Portela family 24 hours a day. They briefed Jesus on
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: how to handle the calls. He would be the lead
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: in the effort to get his son back.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 19: One of the things early on, obviously, was to determine
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 19: if he's even alive or not.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: And we discussed with Mr.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 19: Portella some of the things that he could ask the kidnappers,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 19: which only Mario Portella would know, proof of life questions,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 19: if you would, that could come back to us to verify, yes,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 19: we know he's alive.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: In building a profile of Mario with details about his life,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: including favorite foods and names of pets, the agents got
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: to know the young man.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 19: Mario Portela was the all-American kid. He had gone to school.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 19: He had maintained outstanding grades. He had just gotten married
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 19: to a young lady, and they were newlyweds with a
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 19: bright future. Everybody loved him. The reason that this case
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 19: was so traumatic for so many people is that so
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 19: many people could identify with them. They were the type
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 19: of family that we all aspire to be, and they
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 19: were living the American dream, but they ran into a nightmare.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: As promised, the kidnappers called three days after the abduction.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: the caller ordered Mr. Portela to listen to a taped recording.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: The voice on the tape was Mario. He pleaded with
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: his father to pay the ransom money, warning the kidnappers
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: were serious and would kill him if he called the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: police or the FBI. Jesus told the caller he had
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: discreetly begun the process of securing the money from his bank.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Agents reminded Mr. Portella to ask the proof of life questions,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: including what Mario's nickname was as a child and the
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: name of the dog his wife used to have. The
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: man agreed to call back with the answers. Mr. Portella
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: had kept him on the line long enough for agents
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: to trace the call to a Miami pay phone. but
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: the caller had gone before surveillance units arrived. In the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: harrowing days after the kidnapping, Mr. Portela received several other calls.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: Speaking in Spanish, a different man talked vaguely and mysteriously
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: of a business proposition apparently unrelated to the abduction.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 8: The demeanor of Mr.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 21: Patella at the time was, I really don't have time
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 21: to talk to you about business because I have other problems.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 21: This individual indicated on several calls that he, in fact,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 21: was a person that could help solve the problems. His
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 21: persistence in trying to communicate his involvement in whatever Mr.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 21: Patella's problem was caused us to be highly suspicious that
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 21: somehow he was playing a role or a part in.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: The kidnapping or the ransom demands.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: Jesus kept the man on the line and investigators pinpointed
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the source of the call. It was coming from the
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: same area as the kidnappers earlier call. Surveillance units made
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: it to the scene in time to spot the person
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: on the phone. They followed him to a fast food
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: restaurant where he emerged with a takeout bag. From their
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: biographical profile of Mario, investigators knew the restaurant's burgers were
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: his favorite. They then followed the man to an apartment
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: complex where his behavior was even more suspicious.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 18: When he took the hamburgers to an apartment and delivered
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 18: them through the door, having no conversation with the recipient,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 18: and this was the brand of hamburgers that Mario and
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 18: his father fancied, yes, at that point we were suspicious
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 18: that perhaps Mario was being held at that location.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: The SWAT team responded and set up outside the apartment.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: The clock was ticking. They needed to find Mario. In Miami,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: The FBI and Metro Dade police were trying to find
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Mario Portela and whoever kidnapped him. Their first good lead
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: brought them to a Miami apartment where they believed the
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: kidnappers might be holding Mario. The SWAT team quickly secured
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: the apartment and searched each of its rooms. But Mario
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: was not there. It had been a false lead for
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent John Gill.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 21: It was determined not only by search, but interview of
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 21: the people there, that they were not related or associated
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 21: with the kidnapping whatsoever.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Interviewing the caller, agents determined he knew nothing of the
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: abduction and was merely trying to get work with Mr.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: Portella's company. Investigators again were forced to wait for the
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: kidnappers to make the next move. It was the original caller.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: He answered the proof of life questions correctly, suggesting Mario
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: might still be alive.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 8: And again demanded $ 3 million.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: As instructed, Jesus tried to keep the caller on the line.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: He said he had spoken to the bank and could
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: only come up with one third of the amount. As Mr.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: Portela negotiated, agents traced the call to another Miami payphone.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Units were on their way. Eventually, the caller agreed to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: $ 1 million. Trying to stall longer, Mr. Portella said it
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: would take time to get the money since the bank
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: was closed for the night. But the man ordered him
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: to have it ready when he called back in three
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: hours with instructions for the drop. Once again, he disappeared
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: before authorities could arrive. Within the hour, Mr. Portella met
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: plainclothes agents at his bank.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 8: Looks like it's all here.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 20: Go ahead and sign for it.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: There, the FBI recorded the serial numbers of the bills
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: that made up the million dollar ransom so they could
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: be traced when the kidnappers spent them. At the Portela home,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: agents hid a tracking device in the briefcase, hoping it
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: would lead them to wherever Mario was being held. The
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: kidnappers called on schedule and gave Mr. Portela directions for
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: the ransom drop. They ordered him to drive to a
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: local restaurant, leave the car door unlocked with the money inside,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: wait for a call at a certain payphone, then go
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: into the restaurant and sit down. The caller warned Jesus
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: to go alone. With the loaded briefcases, Jesus began the trip.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: It took less than half an hour, but to the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: worried father, it must have seemed an eternity. The restaurant
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: was in a tough and dangerous part of Miami. Undercover
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: agents and Metro Day detectives were already there, watching. Agents
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: also manned an empty apartment with a view of the restaurant.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Jesus Portela arrived, carrying a million dollars in cash and
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: hoping finally to get his son back. But he would
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: soon discover that nothing was as the kidnappers said it
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: would be. Jesus Portela was on his way to deliver
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: a million dollar ransom in an unsafe part of Miami,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: hoping to get his son Mario back. The way he
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: handled the troubling and dangerous situation impressed the investigators working
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: with him, including FBI Special Agent Gil Orantia.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 19: For him to have endured what he did, I have
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 19: all the respect for him in the world. He performed very,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 19: very well. He did the things we asked him to.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 19: He did things that probably most of us couldn't do.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: The FBI and Metro-Dade police had undercover personnel staking out
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: the restaurant. But the place was closed, and Jesus began
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: to wonder if it was a setup. He found a payphone.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: though not where the kidnappers said it would be. He
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: was nervous about leaving his car unlocked with a million
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: dollars in it. He hoped the kidnappers would call before
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: anything happened to him. If thieves made off with the money,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: he might never see his son again.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 16: Is that all right?
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 5: Though he waited, the phone call never came.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 8: Eventually, Jesus had to leave.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 11: With the ransom money, but.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Without Mario. He and the investigators spent days waiting for
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: the kidnappers to call again with new instructions.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 19: There were no ransom calls that came after the drop failed.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 19: We were concerned at that point because obviously our only
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 19: connection to them were the phone calls. That was our
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 19: connection to the bad guys. That was our ability to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 19: do something about what they were doing. And when they
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 19: stopped calling, we became very worried.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: Although the kidnappers were not leaving new clues with ransom calls,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: older clues were beginning to pay off. FBI Special Agent
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: John Hanlon was trying to find the car used in
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Mario's abduction. It was an older blue and gray four-door
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Chevrolet sedan and had temporary dealer tags, which were not
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: in DMV databases at the time.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 22: And, of course, with a paper tag, it can't be traced,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 22: so the car looks perfectly legitimate and doesn't draw the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 22: attention of law enforcement.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: Hanlon knew used car dealerships sometimes illegally rented cars that
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: were for sale, placing temporary tags on them. He began
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: phoning every dealership in the area. The time-consuming work paid
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: off when Hanlon spoke to a clerk at one dealership
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: in Miami.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 22: I asked her, you rent any old cars? And she said, sure,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 22: you know, and, you know, any.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 8: Old paper tags? And she said, yeah.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: And I said, any old Chevys?
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: She said, yeah.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 5: I asked her, I said, any blue and gray ones?
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 7: She said, yeah.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: I says, where is it? She says, it's here.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 22: And I said, well, when was it rented?
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: And she says, August the 7th.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 22: And I'm thinking, oh my God.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: August 7th was the day of the kidnapping. When agents
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: discovered the car had been returned the next day, they
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: impounded it to have it searched for evidence Metro Dade
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: forensics technicians processed the vehicle. They found no usable hair, fiber,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: or fingerprint evidence. But they did find a key chain
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: under the back seat. The FBI knew that Mario Portela
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: drove a Volvo.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 22: So we barreled back over there, picked up the keys,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 22: We showed them to the family members.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 8: Of course, they identified him.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 22: It also fit his automobile, and we took it by
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 22: the house, and the house key fit his home.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: It meant that vehicle was most likely used to abduct
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Mario Portella. Checking records, agents learned a woman named Julita
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: de Parias had rented the car. The clerk at the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: dealership said the woman came in with a man she
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: said was her brother. Hanlon requested driver's license photos of
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Julita de Parias and her siblings. Nine days after the abduction,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: Hanlon met with the clerk who had rented out the car,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: showing her a photo lineup that included a picture of
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: Julita de Parias along with several decoy pictures. The clerk
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: identified Julita de Parias immediately. The clerk also identified the
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: man who was with her. It was Julita's brother, Julio.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: Agents were familiar with the de Parias name. They remembered
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: Rose de Parias was the woman who had had the
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: dispute with Mr. Portela the previous year. Julita was Rose's sister.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: They now believed Julio de Parias was the man who
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: accompanied Rose and threatened Jesus. Although the FBI still ruled
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: out any involvement by Rose de Parias, her siblings were
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: now prime suspects.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 19: Once we had good suspects in this investigation, we put
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 19: surveillance on some of the members in an attempt to
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 19: gather more evidence.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: The FBI noticed an unidentified man usually accompanied Julita. The
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: couple seemed to be romantically involved. It had been 10
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: days since the abduction. Agents hoped the suspects would lead
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: them to Mario Portella. They needed to question them. but
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: doing so would alert any accomplices and put Mario's life
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: at risk.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 19: We couldn't exactly jump them at that moment because we
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 19: were trying to rescue this young man. That was our
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 19: primary objective, to get this young man back to his family.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 19: So we continued to watch them.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: The FBI and Metro Dade's surveillance effort included air and
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: ground units. But the suspects seemed to be wary of
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: a tale.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: They were very erratic. and paranoid in their behavior.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 21: Their driving would go in one direction and make a
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 21: U-turn and go in another direction and then go through
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 21: a parking lot and then in another direction.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 8: Which was very.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 21: Taxing on our ability to surveil in as much as
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 21: you only have a limited number of automobiles to conduct
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 21: a surveillance. And when you're passing by the same subject
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 21: three and four times in the course of one trip,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 21: the chances of being identified as a surveillance vehicle are great.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: The suspects' counter surveillance techniques worked. Following them exhausted the
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: helicopter's fuel supply, forcing agents to turn back. Ground units
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: tried to remain undetected and keep the suspects in sight,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: but soon they lost them. It was a difficult blow
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: to the investigation. Three days later, and 25 miles north
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: of Miami, in the town of Davie, Florida, Two teenagers
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: were walking in a field when they made a grim
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: discovery that would provide terrible answers to a family hoping
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: for the best. 13 days after Mario Portello was kidnapped,
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: teenagers discovered a body in Davie, Florida, 25 miles north
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: of Miami. Davie police realized it was a murder. The
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: man's head was completely wrapped with duct tape. Detective Ed
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: Taylor faced the challenge of identifying the victim.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 10: All we knew at that time was it was a male.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 7: We didn't know how old he.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 10: Was because his entire head had been taped. His hands
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 10: had been taped behind his back and his ankles had
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 10: been taped together as well. So at the scene, we
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 10: really didn't have very much information as to the identity
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 10: of the victim or how old he was or anything
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 10: of that nature.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: They needed to examine the body, tape, and sleeping bag
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: for more clues. and remove the evidence to the controlled
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: environment of the lab. Dr. James Ongley, then associate medical
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: examiner for Broward County, performed the autopsy. He removed the
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: duct tape surrounding the head, careful to preserve each tear
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: and section for later analysis by forensics technicians. With the
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: tape off, Dr. Ongley could describe the victim as male
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: between the ages of 20 and 40, five foot nine
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: inches tall, with brown eyes and brown hair. Although the
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: victim had been severely beaten, the cause of death was asphyxiation.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: He believed the man had been dead for 24 to
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: 36 hours. To aid in identification, Dr. Ornley photographed the
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: victim for comparison with photos of missing persons. But he
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: knew the pictures would not be accurate representations of the victim.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: The tightly wrapped duct tape had distorted facial features and
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: the summer heat caused significant decomposition.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 10: We took fingerprints from the victim so we could submit
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 10: them to other departments to see if he had ever
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 10: been arrested before. We did a press release to the
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 10: various newspapers with a description of the victim and ran
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 10: a photograph of the victim to see if anyone could
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 10: identify him.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: On August 25th, a Miami newspaper ran an article about
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: the body found in Davie. FBI Special Agent John Gill
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: noted the description loosely matched that of Mario Portella and
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: immediately contacted the Davie Police Department about the abducted man.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 21: We had received prior dental records of Mario Pertella from
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 21: his family dentist. And those records were in evidence at
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 21: the FBI office in the event that they were needed
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 21: to identify a victim.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 8: Those records were brought to Davie, Florida.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 21: I met with Detective Taylor and we both proceeded then
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 21: to the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: Dr.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 21: Angley was then capable with his experience to take those
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 21: dental films or x-rays and compare them to the body
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 21: and positively identify that body as being our victim, Mario Protella.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: For everyone trying to bring Mario home to his family,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: the news was devastating.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 21: We had to notify the Protella family that the victim
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 21: had been identified and deceased.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Now agents were investigating a murder Reviewing the complex case,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: they outlined their suspects. Julio de Parias, the man who
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: had threatened Jesus Portela the previous year. His sister, Julita,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: whose name appeared on the rental contract for the abduction vehicle.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: And the man agents believed to be her boyfriend. All
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: three had disappeared. Agents also developed another suspect, Hector de Parias,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Julio and Julita's brother. He was close to his siblings
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: and had a criminal record. Now with no chance of
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: finding Mario alive, the FBI's investigation could be overt. They
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: interviewed the sister of three of the suspects, Rose de Parias,
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: who had threatened Jesus Portela eight months before the kidnap.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 1: She denied any involvement and offered her full cooperation. She
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: said Julita's boyfriend was Jesse Ramirez and that if he
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: and the others could not be found in Miami, they
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: most likely went to Los Angeles where they had friends.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Miami agents forwarded the lead to the Los Angeles field office.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: Their special agent Gregory Pack knew they had no time
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: to lose.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 4: It was imperative to find these people as soon as
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: possible because they are dangerous people, and they are people
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 4: you don't want on the streets in your city or
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: anybody else's city. If they did this once, kidnapped and murdered,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 4: what's to say that they wouldn't do it a second
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: time to some other victim?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Pack needed to narrow the scope of the search.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: He knew the suspects were of Colombian descent, and L.A.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: 's Rampart District had a large Colombian population.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: I went out there with these very good photographs, and
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 4: I went to all the places that you and I
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: would have to go to occasionally in normal course of living.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 4: Dry cleaners, restaurants, hotels, motels, apartments. After a couple weeks
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 4: of this door-to-door canvassing, I ran across that lady who
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: was the apartment manager.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 8: I showed her the photographs.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: She recognized Hector, Julita, and Julio de Parias as new tenants,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: but said they seemed to be rarely at home.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: So I left my card with her and asked her
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 4: if she would call me. And I called her at
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 4: least once a day. This went on for probably eight
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 4: or 10 days. Finally, in the evening, about nine o'clock,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 4: I received a call from the office And this apartment
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 4: manager was on the line and wanted to be patched
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: through to me.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: So I accepted the call.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 4: And she told me that the people that I had
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: been looking for were in the apartment now. We approached
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: the apartment house, took up various positions so there wouldn't
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: be any escape out the windows or other doors. And
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: as we ran in the front door, there was a
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: gentleman pointing a revolver at us. So we tackled him,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: wrestled the gun from him, took him into custody, and
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: then there was another person there.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: The man with the gun was Julita's boyfriend, Jesse Ramirez.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: He was held on charges of assaulting a federal officer.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: The other man in the room was Hector de Parias,
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: Julita and Julio's brother. He was held on a parole
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: violation for drug possession and burglary. Two suspects were in custody.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: but two were still at large.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: We knew Julita and Julio were still outstanding. So when
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: we left, I had two agents remain at the apartment.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 7: Several hours later, Julita.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: Came back.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 4: She was taken into custody, and then she was brought
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: down to FBI headquarters in Los Angeles.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: Agents waited for Julio de Parias, but he never showed.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: The case agent in Miami, John Gill, learned of the arrests.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 21: Gregory Pack, the special agent in the Los Angeles division,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 21: called our division here in Miami.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 8: I was immediately on an airplane the morning of the
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 8: telephone call.
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 21: Met with Agent Pack at approximately 3 o'clock in the
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 21: afternoon in Los Angeles, where I briefed him on our
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 21: experience and knowledge of the case.
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: Jesse Ramirez and Julita de Parias refused to talk to investigators.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: But Special Agent Gill and Davie, Florida, Police Detective Ed
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: Taylor had more success with Hector de Parias. They needed
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: his help to find the fourth suspect, Julio de Parias,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: and they needed to know the details of Mario Portela's
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: last days. On September 24th, 1984, the FBI apprehended three
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: suspects in the Kidna and murder of Mario Portela. But
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: a fourth suspect, Julio de Parias, was still at large.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: Only one of the three in custody, Hector de Parias,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: agreed to talk. Still, he was evasive at first, and
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: investigators caught him in several lies. Davie Police Detective Ed
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: Taylor and FBI Special Agent John Gill decided on the
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: soft approach to get the truth.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 21: We befriended him in this style of interrogation, realizing that
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 21: the potential was there to develop trust and cause him to,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 21: in a sense, confess. On the second day of interrogation,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 21: He became cooperative to the point that he was light
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 21: on the edge of divulging his criminality. As he became
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 21: more trustful of Mr. Taylor and I, he advised us that, yes,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 21: he would cooperate and divulge details.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 8: He was not involved in the abduction.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 21: But several days after the abduction, Mario was being held captive.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 8: In an apartment.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 21: The brother, sister, and the sister's paramour discovered that maintaining
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 21: guard on a kidnapped victim is a lot of trouble,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 21: and they needed help. They knew that Hector was available,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 21: that he was unemployed, that he was addicted to marijuana,
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 21: could not get a job, and in fact would jump
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 21: at an opportunity to participate in a venture with financial gain.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 21: So they solicited his help to watch a victim, as
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 21: he put it.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: According to Hector, the motive for the kidnapping was actually revenge.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: Julio de Parias felt humiliated that he could not force Mr.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: Portela to refund his sister's money after she purchased her condominium.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: Hector said that after several days, his brother Julio and
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 1: Jesse Ramirez worried about getting caught and gave up on
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: trying for a ransom. they decided they had to get
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: rid of the only link to them, Mario Portela. So
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: on August 17th, 1984, 10 days after the kidnapping, they
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: decided to murder him. Jesse Ramirez began wrapping Mario Portela's
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: head with duct tape as he pleaded for his life
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: and prayed. As Mario struggled to breathe, Jesse beat him
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: with a metal bar. After the murder, Julio de Parias
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: paid Jesse Ramirez $ 1, 000 for the job. Hector claimed to
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: have no idea of Julio's whereabouts, but he did know
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: where Mario was held and murdered.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 21: Hector not only was able to give us an address
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 21: of an apartment complex and the building unit, Hector was
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 21: even able to draw us a diagram of the interior
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 21: of the apartment, where the various rooms were, furniture, where
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 21: the murder had taken place.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: A team of agents, detectives, and forensics technicians rushed to
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: the apartment in Miami. They secured it as a crime
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: scene and processed it for clues. Any evidence recovered might
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: help put Mario's killers behind bars. But seeing it brought
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: back to investigators the disappointment of not being able to
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: save the young man's life. Special Agent Gil Arantia was there.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 19: As we entered this apartment, we saw a roll of
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 19: duct tape on the side of a nightstand. We saw
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 19: a bar that we believe was used to strike Mario with.
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 19: We saw blood in the apartment. We saw all of
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 19: these things that sort of put this thing for us, evidentiary-wise, together.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 19: But it was a difficult thing to look at. It
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 19: was a situation where our goal was to do the
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 19: right thing and get him saved, and we couldn't do it.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 8: And it was tough.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 19: It was tough for us to look at that.
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 1: In addition to duct tape, Investigators found pieces of adhesive
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: medical tape in the room. They also recovered hair and
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: fiber evidence. Everything was cataloged and sent to the FBI
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: lab in Washington, DC for analysis. There, Special Agent Hal
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: Dedman of the FBI's Trace Evidence Unit analyzed the items.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 11: My involvement in the case dealt with the comparison of hairs,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 11: textile fibers and tape from the four locations, the body
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 11: recovery site, the apartment where the victim was held, a
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 11: car that the body was transported in, and another apartment
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 11: where clothing from one of the suspects was recovered.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: He matched carpet fibers from those locations to samples found
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: on the suspects and the victims. He also compared the
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 1: tape wrapped around the victim's head, arms, and legs to
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: the rolls of tape recovered at the murder scene.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 11: If you have two pieces of tape that were once
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 11: original or adjoining sections of the same piece of tape
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 11: and that tape is torn, the yarns are not all
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 11: going to have the same appearance, they're not going to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 11: have the same length. You'll have short pieces and long pieces.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 11: and you can fit these pieces of tape together much
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 11: like you'd fit pieces together in a jigsaw puzzle.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Dedman determined the tear on the roll of
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: tape from the apartment was a perfect fit with a
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: piece of tape recovered from the victim's head. He also
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: compared the tears on a strip of medical tape found
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: on suspect Jesse Ramirez's shoes to those on the roll
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: of medical tape found in the apartment and to those
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: on a piece from the victim's body. It was another
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: exact match.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 11: Each piece of evidence contributed, and the result was that
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 11: there was a tremendously strong association between the suspects in
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 11: this case and the victim.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: Jesse Ramirez and Julita de Parias were found guilty on kidnapping, extortion,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: and murder charges. Both were sentenced to life in prison.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Hector de Parias pleaded guilty to the same charges and
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: received 40 years. But the fourth suspect, Julio de Parias,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: was still out there.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 19: We believed that he could have fled to Latin America somewhere.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 19: So we printed up wanted flyers that you'd find in
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 19: your post office, in police departments. We sent them all
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 19: over the place. and we developed the same ones in Spanish,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 19: and we distributed them throughout Latin America.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: Almost four years after the kidnapping, in November of 1988,
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: the FBI learned Costa Rican customs officials were holding a
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: man who resembled the photo of Julio de Parias in
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 1: the FBI's wanted poster. Special Agent Orantia flew to Costa Rica.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: The man did look like the photo, But it was
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: his voice, the one from the ransom calls, that tipped
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: Arantia off.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 19: I had listened to those phone calls over and over
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 19: and over again, hundreds of times. I knew that voice.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 19: That voice was a part of me as much as
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 19: anything's a part of me. So the moment he opened
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 19: his mouth, that was it.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 8: That was it. It cinched it. I knew it was him.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: The federal trial of Julio de Parias began five years
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: to the day after Mario Portela's abduction. He was convicted
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: of kidnapping, extortion and murder, and sentenced to life. For
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: the FBI agents who had gotten to know the victim's family,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: the convictions were important, but not the ending they had expected.
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: This was a horrendous crime.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 19: For some type of justice not to come out of it,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 19: would have been difficult for the community in Miami and
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 19: for the family, and I'll be honest with you, for
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 19: us too, the agents. So I think the idea that
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 19: some type of justice occurred is paramount. That's the only
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 19: thing we can cling to, all of us, that at
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 19: least they were caught.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 1: The Portella family has persevered. They will never forget Mario.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: And they have not given up their dream. In South Carolina,
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: a family is taken hostage as part of a brazen
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 1: bank robbery. Police track down the suspects. But they can't
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 1: seem to keep the leader in jail. The FBI and
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: police in four states are determined to stop him, but
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 1: the armed fugitive is relentless in his struggle to stay free.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: When a bank teller arrived at her parents' home, the
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: gunmen were already there. The robbers held her family hostage
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: and forced her to empty a bank vault. If she
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: didn't comply, she could lose everyone she loved. I'm Jim Kallstrom,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: former head of the FBI's New York office. Even when
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: authorities caught the crime's mastermind, they couldn't hold him. Soon
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: he was back in action, with the FBI once again
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: on his trail.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: The Savannah River marks the state line separating Augusta, Georgia
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: from North Augusta, South Carolina. On the South Carolina side,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: on a Friday afternoon in October 1995, Parker and Brenda
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: Shaw returned home with their granddaughter, Brianna. They watched Brianna
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: on Friday afternoons when her mother, Amy Shaw, worked late
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: as a bank teller. Parker tried to open the garage,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: but the remote door opener wasn't working. Not knowing someone
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: was there, he went in the house to open the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: garage from inside. The two intruders quickly bound Parker with
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: duct tape, then forced him into the bedroom. Outside, Brenda
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: got tired of waiting. With Brianna, she began to walk
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: towards the front door. When the garage finally opened.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: Come on, lady, let's go inside.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 21: This ain't no game, lady.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 17: I ain't playing with you.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 6: Let's go.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 14: Come on, move it.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 13: Move it.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 6: Let's go.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 22: Come on.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: Upstairs, lady.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 6: Let's go. Let's go.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: The man forced Brenda into the bedroom where her husband
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: was being held by the other two intruders. The gunman
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: stole money and credit cards from the frightened couple. But
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: then the one who was clearly the leader announced he
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: had really come for the Shaw's daughter, Amy, and the
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: money at her bank. They would wait for her. The
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: armed intruders held the shores for more than an hour.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: At 7 p.m., the lead gunman ordered Brenda into the
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: living room, leaving one of his men to guard her
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: husband and granddaughter. At the front window, they watched for Amy.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: They knew exactly when she was to arrive. For Amy Shaw,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: it was an ordinary Friday evening. The gunman ordered Brenda
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 1: to the front door. Usually it was unlocked, so Amy
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: was surprised she couldn't get in. She knew right away
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: something was wrong. The leader grabbed Amy. He told her
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: he had been watching them for some time. He knew
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: their schedules, when they were vulnerable, everything. He began interrogating
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: Amy about the security system at the bank.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 8: I knew you had one. Do you have the code?
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: From her training, she knew it was best to comply
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: with the demands.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: Is it on the top? Is the vault on the top?
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 6: No, there's no top.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: She said she could get him into the bank, but
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: it took two codes to open the vault, and she
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 1: only had one.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 8: You ready? All right, don't try anything funny. All right,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 8: turn around.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: He said they'd deal with that when they got there
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: and warned her if anything went wrong, her family could
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: get hurt.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: The leader announced he was taking Amy to the bank
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: and told his men to wait for his call.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: Her parents and.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 21: Little girl could only hope that she would not be.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: Harmed. As they left, the kidnapper removed his mask to
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: avoid looking suspicious in public. At gunpoint, Amy drove across
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: the Savannah River from South Carolina into Georgia and to
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: the bank where she worked. The gunman ordered her to
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: circle the bank slowly so he could check if a
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: cleaning crew was inside. Pulling up next to the automated
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: teller machine, Amy hoped to catch the kidnapper's image on
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: its security camera. Deciding it was clear, he ordered her
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: to drive to the back door. He told her that
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: when they got inside, she was to explain all of
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: her actions so he would know she wasn't setting off
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: any alarms, and warned her again. not to make any mistakes. Inside,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 1: she showed him the alarm she could disable. But as
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: she had explained, she could not open the main vault
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: door alone. She had one combination, but a coworker had
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: the other. The kidnapper reminded Amy that her family would
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: remain safe only if he could get inside the vault.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 8: Get to the vault.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: At the Shaw residence, the intruders moved the family to
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: the living room where they could watch the front. The
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: Shaws hoped it would end peacefully, but the men seemed
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: to grow agitated, their guns at the ready. The handgun
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: had gone off accidentally. The intruders worried the sound had
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: alerted neighbors. And their concern mounted as another car pulled
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: up to the house. It was Amy's brother-in-law and sister
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: and their young daughter arriving for a visit. They were
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: taken as soon as they entered the house. The gunman
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: now had six hostages. At the bank, the lead assailant
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: ordered Amy to call her co-worker for the second combination.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: When Amy asked, the co-worker hesitated, not understanding what was happening.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: Amy tried to explain that her family was being held hostage.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: The gunman took over, threatening to come get the code himself.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: Fearing for Amy's safety, the coworker gave her the second combination.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: The gunman made sure the woman stayed on the line
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: so she couldn't call police. Amy nervously punched in the
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: second part of the combination. But the vault remained locked.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 8: You gave me the wrong combination. Make it work or else.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: She carefully tried again. And the door opened. The robber
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: had Amy make sure the co-workers stayed on the line.
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 1: and he ordered her to point out which bins held
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 1: bait money that was sequentially numbered or rigged with exploding
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: dye packs. He left that cash alone. After the robber
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: loaded up the money, he ordered Amy to call her
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: parents home on a second line.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 11: Come on, get up and get the phone.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: The leader ordered his men to take care of things
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: at the house, then leave and page him when they
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: were clear. He took off with more than $ 86, 000. Once
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 1: he was gone, Amy set off the alarm to bring help. Then,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: frantic with worry, she called home. Her mother warned her
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: not to call police. The armed men were still there.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: But it was too late. She already had.
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 7: Mom, don't hang up.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: Mom, don't... The gunman checked the terrified family's bindings. It
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: seemed like they were going to leave. But one hesitated.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: There were six witnesses to the crime. At 8 p.m.,
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: Richmond County Sheriff's officers responded to the bank in Georgia
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: and learned the real crime was across the river. The
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: lead investigator was Kenneth Booz.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 17: We relayed all the information that we had to the
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 17: Edgefield County Sheriff's Office and told them that there was
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 17: a possibility that the family was still being held hostage.
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: Edgefield County South Carolina Sheriff's investigator Don Bullock got the call.
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 16: We had a family hostage situation. Respond was the cold one.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 16: That's everything you got, fast.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: As you can get there. The family had called, saying
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: the gunmen had left, but the deputies had to be sure.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: Sheriff's office, open up.
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 8: Sir, step back.
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: The deputies checked the house for the intruders. They were gone.
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 16: They were safe. Nobody was hurt. Physically, they weren't hurt,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 16: but mentally, they had to be shattered. They really went
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 16: through an ordeal.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: The shahs described the men as best they could. They
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: never saw faces and knew only they were African-American males.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: The men were armed and aggressive.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 8: Come on, man, let's go.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 23: What you doing?
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: One had held a gun to Parker's head. But the
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: shot never came. When the assailants left, the family freed
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: themselves and waited for police to arrive. Parker explained that
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: the gunman took the keys to his son-in-law's car and
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: described what they were wearing. deputies put out an APB.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: As with any bank robbery, the Richmond County authorities notified
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: the FBI. Special Agent Jerry Jones of the Augusta, Georgia
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: Resident Agency arrived to interview Amy. She described the leader
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: of the group and the direction in which he fled.
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: She said she might have captured an image of him.
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: and told Special Agent Jones about the camera on the ATM.
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 24: She tried to get him into a position where the
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 24: camera may take a photograph of him. As it turns out,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 24: the camera was activated only when one puts one's card
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 24: into the machine, so that didn't work.
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 1: The cameras inside didn't catch him either. At the North
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: Augusta crime scene, investigator Bullock arrived and was briefed on
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: the search for evidence. Technicians from the South Carolina Law
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: Enforcement Division had found oily shoe prints on the garage
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: floor and photographed them for future comparison if suspects were located.
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: From inside the house, technicians recovered a single cartridge from
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: the bullet fired in the living room It was from a.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: 38 caliber handgun, but had no prints on it. Attempts
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: to recover the assailant's fingerprints elsewhere failed as well, since
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: they had worn gloves throughout the crime. At the top
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: of the driveway, investigators located a vehicle stuck in a ditch.
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 16: The two suspects, when they left the house, they were
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 16: going to take a carb and they got the key
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 16: from the victims in the house and their haste to
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 16: back out of the driveway, they backed into a ditch
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 16: and could not get the car out of the ditch
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 16: so they left on foot.
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: The technicians recovered foreign fingerprints from the vehicle. More evidence
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: to compare to any later suspects. Nearby, they located several
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: items they believed had been dropped by the fleeing gunman
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: There were several weapons, including a shotgun and a. 357 Magnum. Clothes, masks,
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: and gloves found in the bushes matched what the assailants
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: reportedly had worn. Without the clothes, police didn't have much
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: of a description of the suspects. They updated the already
• 1:55:38
  Speaker 1: vague APB. three African-American males, two probably on foot, one
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: in a dark blue sedan, armed and considered dangerous. In 1995,
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: South Carolina and Georgia authorities sought three masked men who
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: held the Shaw family hostage and robbed a bank Within
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: an hour of the 911 call, an off-duty deputy was
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: en route to the Shaw house when he heard the
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: revised APB. He spotted two men, roughly fitting the description,
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: walking away from the neighborhood where the Shaws lived.
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 15: Hey, guys.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 7: Where you guys coming from?
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: The deputy questioned the pair, according to Sheriff's investigator Don Bullock.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 16: They asked them what they were doing there, and they said,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 16: we were up at the church playing basketball, and they
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 16: had no basketball and no transportation.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: Backup soon arrived. The deputies knew the church mentioned had
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: no lights on its basketball court.
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 16: And being that time of night, it was dark. The
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 16: red flags just flew up. It was, you know, he
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 16: put two and two together.
• 1:57:23
  Speaker 1: The young men agreed to go to a police staging
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: area near the Shaw House for further questioning. They were
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: identified as Daniel Evans and Lamarco Roscoe. At the bank,
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones received word of the two
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: men in custody.
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 24: I elected to leave the bank because the victim teller
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 24: was comfortable and secure, so I left the bank and
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 24: went over to South Carolina to interview the two suspects.
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: Jones made it to the police staging area about the
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 1: same time as the suspects. He and sheriffs investigated Kenneth
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: Booz knew that with more than one suspect involved, it
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: was best to talk to them separately.
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 17: We separated them because most of the time they'll start
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 17: breaking down, but they'll start wondering what the other suspect
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 17: has told us. When they start realizing that the other
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 17: one might be talking, then they want to be the
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 17: first one to get on the bandwagon and start cooperating.
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: The men had been unable to give details about the
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: church where they had allegedly been playing basketball. And investigators
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: sensed they were involved in the crime. Special Agent Jones
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: began with Lamarco Roscoe.
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 24: You develop a concept of what their greatest fear is,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 24: some weakness they may have in their past or their
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 24: family or something of that sort.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 8: And in this.
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 24: Particular case, it was fear of the death penalty that
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 24: got Roscoe's attention.
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: Jones knew Amy Shaw was safe, but gambled that Roscoe
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: did not. He told him his primary concern was Amy's safety.
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 24: I told him that he needed to know that if
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 24: the third robber killed her, that he would face the
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 24: electric chair for his complicity in the robbery. Everything I
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 24: told him was the truth. My primary interest was the
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 24: safety and welfare of the victim teller.
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: And it is true that had the third robber killed.
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 24: Amy Shaw, they would both have faced the death.
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: Penalty the suspect soon admitted his involvement in the crime.
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: When asked for the name of the leader of the group,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 1: he said he only knew him by his first name, Chris,
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 1: and believed his last name started with a J.
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 24: Another law enforcement officer who was familiar with a number
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 24: of ne'er-do-wells in the Augusta area recognized the name and
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 24: actually asked if that was in fact Christopher Chabert, which
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 24: he replied that it was.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: Jones then interviewed the second suspect, Daniel Evans.
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 24: I told him that his accomplice had already confessed, and
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 24: he immediately began to tell me the story of what
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 24: happened that night. I wanted him to confirm the name
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 24: of the third suspect without prompting, and he immediately gave
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 24: up Christopher Jaburk by name.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: In talking to Roscoe and Evans, investigators realized the two
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 1: were obviously the followers, and Jaburk was in charge.
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 17: They weren't the masterminds of this bank robbery. They were,
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 17: in my opinion, they were mastermind stooges. They didn't appear
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 17: to have much knowledge of what was going on, except
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 17: for they had been with Jabert several times in the
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 17: past few days, looking at different banks, coming up with
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 17: different plans on how to pull this one.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 10: Off.
• 2:01:35
  Speaker 1: When he was finished with the preliminary interviews, Jones learned
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 1: a pager number had been recovered from one of the suspects.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: he asked an officer to call the number. When the
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 1: return call came back, the officer identified himself. The caller
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: said his name was Chris Jaburk. When asked, he said
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 1: he was 100 miles away in Mount Vernon, Georgia. Jaburk
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: was defensive and asked the officer if he was being
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: accused of something. Then he hung up. Investigators headed for
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: Jaburk's house right away.
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 24: As it turns out, law enforcement was very familiar with
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 24: Christopher Jaburk and knew where the residence was without any prompting.
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: If he was the lead kidnapper, he now knew police
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: were looking for him. And with a head start and $ 86, 000
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: in cash, Christopher Jaburk could be anywhere. In October 1995,
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: authorities were seeking Christopher Jaburk wanted for armed kidnapping and
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: bank robbery. At the request of FBI agents and Richmond
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: County deputies, Jaburk's mother called her son on his cell
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: phone and advised him to come talk to authorities. Around
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: 1 a.m. he arrived with his girlfriend. Although only 19
• 2:03:24
  Speaker 1: years old, Jaburk was already on a five-year probation for
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: burglary and escaped from a detention center. The investigators took
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: him in for questioning.
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 5: His girlfriend agreed to come in, too.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: At the Sheriff's Department, FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones questioned
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: Jaburk about the kidnapping of the Shaw family and the
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: bank robbery in Georgia. Jaburk admitted knowing the two confessed gunmen,
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 1: Daniel Evans and Lamarco Roscoe, but denied any involvement in
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: the crime. He said he was in Mount Vernon, Georgia
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: with his girlfriend and another female friend at the time
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: in question.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 24: Jabirka at first gave the two girls as his alibi,
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 24: claiming to have gone with one of the girls to
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 24: pick up the other girl and then come back to Augusta, Georgia,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 24: and stated that he was with the two girls the
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 24: entire day, and even after they arrived back.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 5: In Augusta, Georgia, they went to a movie together, all
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 5: three of them.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: Temporarily halting the interview... Jones went to talk to the
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: girlfriend and the second friend who had come to the
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: station at the request of investigators.
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 24: The two girls, when interviewed, declined to corroborate that alibi.
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 5: The two girls don't back up your story.
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: Jabert quickly tried to come up with a new alibi.
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 1: According to Richmond County Sheriff's investigator Kenneth Booz.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 17: He said that he couldn't tell us his whereabouts at
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 17: the time of the robbery because he was involved in
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 17: some other criminal activity.
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 5: It was a drug deal in Atlanta, Georgia, according to him.
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: Jaburk's news story didn't convince anyone. Federal authorities charged him
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: with six counts, including conspiracy, carjacking, kidnapping, and armed bank robbery.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 17: After further interviews with Jaburk, He finally started cooperating and
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 17: told us that he was involved in this robbery and
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 17: kidnapping and that he was actually the one that did it,
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 17: but he wasn't the mastermind, that he was involved with
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 17: some large-scale criminal organization and that he couldn't reveal any
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 17: more information because he was afraid for his family.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: It was another obvious lie by a man desperately trying
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 1: to protect himself. Jaburk's partners, Daniel Evans and Lamarco Roscoe,
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to state charges of burglary, kidnapping, and armed robbery.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: They were sentenced to 30 years in prison. Christopher Jaburk
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Goolsbee.
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 14: The only problem with this case was that there was
• 2:06:46
  Speaker 14: no scientific evidence. It seemed like we hit a dead
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 14: end every time We got a lab report as to
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 14: any fingerprints or footprints. None of them matched to Burke.
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 14: But in terms of the quality of the evidence, we
• 2:07:00
  Speaker 14: were very fortunate that the teller victim and her family
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 14: members were just incredibly good witnesses. They helped win the case. J.
• 2:07:14
  Speaker 1: Burke was convicted on all six counts. which made him
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: eligible for a sentence of life in prison without parole.
• 2:07:26
  Speaker 1: While awaiting sentencing, Jaburk was held at a small county jail. There,
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: he met another inmate. Jerome Frierson Bay, also a bank robber,
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: was awaiting trial on three armed robberies, At the time,
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: the jail was undergoing construction to expand the facility. There
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 1: was plenty of time to plan an escape. On March 27th, 1996,
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: a guard on routine patrol noticed an open door. A
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: head count revealed two inmates were missing. Christopher Jaburk, and
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: Jerome Frierson Bay. Construction workers had seen two prisoners running
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: toward a wooded area near the prison. Search teams combed
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: the woods, but no one spotted the men. The search
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: moved into the area's denser forest and swamps. and helicopters
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: flew grid patterns overhead. Still, nothing. Authorities believe the pair
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 1: might have had help on the outside. Police tried to
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 1: seal the perimeter, putting up roadblocks to stop and check vehicles.
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: But the two escapees were nowhere to be found. Jaberk's
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 1: escape posed a danger to the Shaw family who had
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: testified at his trial.
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 14: We needed to contact the victims' family members and let
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 14: them know about it and to take other precautions that
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 14: you would in a situation like this.
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: While the search continued, Edgefield County, South Carolina deputies began
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 1: spot checks on the Shaw family to make sure they
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: were safe.
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 24: I was convinced that at some point in time, he
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 24: would come back to the mother. We established a surveillance,
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 24: 24-hour surveillance of the mother.
• 2:10:07
  Speaker 8: And the girlfriend.
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: Authorities watched, but Jaburk never showed. Then, FBI Special Agent
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: Doug Fender developed a surprising lead.
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 23: Myself and other local law enforcement officials were conducting a
• 2:10:31
  Speaker 23: separate auto theft investigation in the Augusta, Georgia area concerning
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 23: the theft of a green Mitsubishi Eclipse. We were able
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 23: to identify an individual in jail who indicated that he
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 23: had transferred this stolen vehicle to one of the female
• 2:10:48
  Speaker 23: associates of Jaburk.
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: Agents interviewed the young woman at the hotel where she worked. Initially,
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: she denied any knowledge of the jailbreak, but Special Agent
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 1: Fender tried to get her to cooperate.
• 2:11:07
  Speaker 5: This job is mainly about talking to people.
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  Speaker 23: When you put all the fancy forensic techniques and those
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 23: sorts of things aside, probably the success of most agents
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 23: is based upon their ability to solicit information from individuals,
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  Speaker 23: and make them, tell them something that they probably don't
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 23: want to share with you.
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: When she realized she herself could go to jail, she
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 1: admitted helping in the escape. She said that she and
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 1: Jabirk's girlfriend delivered a stolen car to a parking lot
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: near a wooded area by the prison.
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 24: After he escaped from the jail, he just got into
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 24: the getaway car and made his escape with Frierson Bay. They,
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 24: by prearrangement, went to a clandestine campsite which the girls
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 24: had laid out for Jaburk and Frierson Bay with clothes
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 24: and water and that type of thing.
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 1: The escapees easily found the stashed clothes, food, and weapons.
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 1: They were free, but they needed money. The armed bank
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 1: robbers knew exactly what to do.
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 20: In 1996, escaped prisoners Christopher.
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: Jaburk and Jerome Frierson Bay fled a county jail in
• 2:12:51
  Speaker 1: a stolen car. FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones was after them.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 24: We began a search for the stolen vehicle and we
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 24: sent out an APB to all surrounding states regarding the
• 2:13:08
  Speaker 24: description of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: The day after the escape, a car matching that description
• 2:13:15
  Speaker 1: pulled up to a bank in Lumberton, North Carolina, 220
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 1: miles northeast of the jail. Two men in hats, gloves,
• 2:13:25
  Speaker 1: and sunglasses robbed the bank at gunpoint. The employees knew
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: to cooperate so no one would get hurt. Lumberton police
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 1: and North Carolina FBI agents responded to the scene. They
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 1: determined $ 4, 500 had been taken from the bank's vault. Security
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 1: cameras were rolling during the robbery. The images were too
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 1: blurry to make out faces, but the descriptions given by
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: employees resembled Jaburk and Frierson Bay. And the car they
• 2:14:11
  Speaker 1: left in matched the one the fugitives had. The car
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 1: was the best lead for Special Agent Doug Fender.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 23: This vehicle we had entered into NCIC and we discovered
• 2:14:26
  Speaker 23: or was notified by the Lumberton police officials that that
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 23: car had in fact been recovered in Lumberton, North Carolina.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 1: An hour after that car was found, agents received a
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: report of a home invasion and carjacking in Lumberton, and
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: went to interview the victims. The couple said they had
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 1: been working on their car in the garage when two
• 2:14:52
  Speaker 1: armed men burst in, demanding the keys to the car
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 1: and a change of clothes. Put your hands.
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 8: Up!
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 1: Put your hands up! then left as quickly as they
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 1: had arrived. When shown a photo lineup, the couple positively
• 2:15:17
  Speaker 1: identified Jaburk and Frierson Bay.
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 7: That's the guy that came up on the left side.
• 2:15:22
  Speaker 24: So we had a second vehicle and we had an
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 24: APB put out on that car. It was spotted in Raleigh,
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 24: North Carolina. Jaburk and Frierson Bay robbed a bank there.
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 1: The fugitives were heading north, fast.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 24: We knew that Frierson Bay had relatives in the New York,
• 2:15:43
  Speaker 24: New Jersey area, so we suspected that to be the
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 24: ultimate destination.
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 1: Tracking the pair became a matter of following a trail
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 1: of bank robberies.
• 2:15:57
  Speaker 23: What we noticed was a trend of bank robberies that
• 2:16:00
  Speaker 23: were occurring.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 7: Up and down the I-95 corridor.
• 2:16:05
  Speaker 23: At the time we were tracking Frierson Bay and Jaburk
• 2:16:09
  Speaker 23: We suspected them in approximately 11 to 14 bank robberies
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 23: up and down the East Coast.
• 2:16:17
  Speaker 1: In some of the robberies, men matching the description of
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 1: one or both of the fugitives were captured on surveillance video.
• 2:16:27
  Speaker 23: We were able, through photographic surveillance and also witness identification,
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 23: to establish that the two of them were together at
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 23: least until they reached the Fredericksburg, Virginia area.
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 1: Agents focused their search in New Jersey, where Frierson Bay
• 2:16:44
  Speaker 1: had family.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 23: Based upon two tips that were called in to a
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 23: nationally televised program, Frierson Bay was tracked to a motel
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 23: located in the Patterson, New Jersey area. A surveillance by
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 23: members of the New Jersey FBI office was established. Once
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 23: these agents were able to establish that Frierson Bay might
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 23: be staying in the motel room, they remained on the premises.
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 1: If he were inside and armed, approaching the door would
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 1: be dangerous. It was decided to wait him out. Soon
• 2:17:32
  Speaker 1: they would learn the fugitive would not go down without
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 1: a struggle. After two escaped prisoners committed a string of
• 2:17:47
  Speaker 1: armed bank robberies, agents believed they had tracked one of them,
• 2:17:52
  Speaker 1: Jerome Frierson Bay, to a New Jersey motel. After several hours,
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 1: they spotted the fugitive. He went to his car as
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 1: the SWAT team moved in. He locked himself inside. But
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 1: that wasn't going to stop him, according to FBI Special
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 1: Agent Doug Fender.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 23: After several commands by members of the FBI SWAT team,
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 23: Frierson Bay still refused to come out of the vehicle,
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 23: at which time one of the SWAT team members was
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 23: able to break the glass with the butt of his
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 23: MP5 submachine gun. Frierson Bay was then forcibly removed from
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 23: the vehicle.
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: From his car, the SWAT team recovered a loaded 40
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 1: caliber Glock semi-automatic handgun, along with $ 1, 500 in stolen cash.
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 1: A search of the motel revealed no sign of his partner,
• 2:19:16
  Speaker 1: Christopher Jaburk. Jerome Frierson Bay pleaded guilty to 10 bank
• 2:19:24
  Speaker 1: robberies and was sentenced to 19 years in federal prison
• 2:19:27
  Speaker 1: without the possibility of parole. He claimed he had no
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 1: idea where Jaburk was. Finding Christopher Jaburk remained a priority
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 1: for Georgia FBI Special Agent Jerry Jones.
• 2:19:44
  Speaker 24: We believe that Jaburk and Frierson Bay parted company and
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 24: Jaburk began his journey back to Georgia. I always believed
• 2:19:54
  Speaker 24: that Jaburk would come back home.
• 2:19:57
  Speaker 1: The FBI announced a $ 10, 000 reward and had begun the
• 2:20:01
  Speaker 1: process of adding him to their 10 most wanted fugitives
• 2:20:04
  Speaker 1: list when a media report generated a promising lead.
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 8: Just a moment.
• 2:20:11
  Speaker 1: A caller said she believed the fugitive was staying with
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 1: her minister in Atlanta, though the minister didn't know Jaburk
• 2:20:17
  Speaker 1: was a criminal. The caller spotted Jaburk when she went
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 1: to check on the minister's house after the elderly man
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 1: entered the hospital with heart trouble. An arrest team staked
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 1: out the residents, dressed as yard workers. On May 9th, 1996,
• 2:20:41
  Speaker 1: a vehicle pulled into the minister's driveway. When the driver emerged,
• 2:20:49
  Speaker 1: Agents visually identified him.
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 8: It was Jaburk.
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 1: The arrest team moved in. Surprised and cornered, Jaburk did
• 2:21:07
  Speaker 1: not try to run.
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 2: When they searched.
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 1: Him, Agents found $ 2, 000 in his sock. He was returned
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 1: to jail, again to await sentencing for the Augusta kidnapping
• 2:21:27
  Speaker 1: bank robbery.
• 2:21:30
  Speaker 24: When Jaburk was apprehended in Atlanta, we thought the pressure
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 24: was off, and everybody took a big sigh of relief
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 24: and went home.
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 5: For a short period of time.
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 1: Jaburk was not giving up. Six weeks after his recapture,
• 2:21:55
  Speaker 1: he once again broke out of his cell.
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 24: When Jaburk escaped and I received the telephone call, I
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 24: responded to the jail. to try to secure whatever evidence
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 24: was there, we found a partial saw blade. When he
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 24: got through the window of the jail, there's a huge
• 2:22:27
  Speaker 24: double fence around the confinement area covered with Constantino wire.
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 24: So he had to get over that fence and over
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 24: the Constantino wire.
• 2:22:40
  Speaker 1: Agents searched the grounds and the fence topped with the
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 1: razor sharp wire. they recovered shreds of a prison uniform.
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 24: And we actually found traces of blood there, so we
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 24: knew he was injured, but he.
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 5: Was on foot.
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 1: They hoped he hadn't gotten far.
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 24: So we began to trail him through this rural wooded area,
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 24: which also leads to a swampy area, probably around 10
• 2:23:13
  Speaker 24: square miles. We immediately brought in tracking dogs, which led
• 2:23:20
  Speaker 24: us directly to the wooded area, so we knew the
• 2:23:24
  Speaker 24: route of escape that he was trying to accomplish. As
• 2:23:30
  Speaker 24: old as I was, out were the younger people going
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 24: through the woods, and we tracked through there for days,
• 2:23:36
  Speaker 24: for several days, without finding him. I then decided that
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 24: we needed some electronic gear to try to trace him.
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 24: So I contacted the Atomic Energy Commission site over in
• 2:23:48
  Speaker 24: South Carolina, and they provided me with a helicopter equipped
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 24: with an infrared system that's a heat-seeking system.
• 2:24:03
  Speaker 1: They searched dozens of square miles with the highly sensitive equipment.
• 2:24:11
  Speaker 1: But somehow, Gibbert managed to avoid detection and was still
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 1: on the run. Four days later, an off-duty sheriff's deputy
• 2:24:31
  Speaker 1: in nearby Appling, Georgia thought he spotted the fugitive. The
• 2:24:39
  Speaker 1: man was limping as if injured. The deputy called the
• 2:24:44
  Speaker 1: station and other officers spread out to search the area.
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 5: He was tracked into a wooded area right behind one
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 5: of the grammar schools and apprehended.
• 2:25:02
  Speaker 1: Christopher Jaburk was again in custody. Two weeks later, he
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 1: was finally sentenced for robbing the Augusta Bank and kidnapping
• 2:25:12
  Speaker 1: Amy Shaw and her family. Assistant US Attorney Richard Goolsby
• 2:25:19
  Speaker 1: fought to keep Jaburk off the streets forever.
• 2:25:23
  Speaker 14: Our role is to try to protect the community. That's
• 2:25:27
  Speaker 14: one of our important responsibilities. So we were concerned and
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 14: felt like that we should ask for the maximum in
• 2:25:34
  Speaker 14: Jaburk's case. And fortunately, the court imposed the maximum life
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 14: in prison plus five years.
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 1: Jaburk was ordered to serve his term at the federal
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 1: prison in Leavenworth, Kansas. Without the possibility of parole, his
• 2:25:53
  Speaker 1: only chance to be free again would be to escape.
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 1: Several weeks into his sentence, Jaburk was caught trying to
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: do exactly that by hanging on underneath a prison laundry truck.
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 7: Come on out now.
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 23: Come on.
• 2:26:20
  Speaker 6: Nice and slow. I'll see you.
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 15: Come on.
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 14: Nice and slow.
• 2:26:23
  Speaker 10: Come on.
• 2:26:24
  Speaker 1: Get out of there. He had almost made it to
• 2:26:26
  Speaker 1: the front gate. Come on. Jaburk was transferred to the
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 1: Maximum Security Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2:26:47
  Speaker 14: Even if Harry Houdini was in the Atlanta Federal Pen,
• 2:26:50
  Speaker 14: he wouldn't be able to get out, and Christopher Jaburk
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 14: is no Harry Houdini.
• 2:26:58
  Speaker 1: No one doubts Jaburk will try again. But now He
• 2:27:07
  Speaker 1: is held in one of the most secure prisons in America.