1 00:00:01,124 --> 00:00:02,865 NARRATOR: In the criminal justice system 2 00:00:02,926 --> 00:00:06,773 the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups, 3 00:00:06,831 --> 00:00:08,640 the police who investigate crime 4 00:00:08,733 --> 00:00:11,543 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:11,602 --> 00:00:13,240 These are their stories. 6 00:00:14,739 --> 00:00:17,083 He's 27 years old, Lorraine. 7 00:00:17,175 --> 00:00:19,486 Why would he even want to move back in with us? 8 00:00:19,545 --> 00:00:21,786 Evan, he lost his job He needs us. 9 00:00:21,847 --> 00:00:25,124 He can't hold down a job because he thinks he's God Almighty. 10 00:00:25,184 --> 00:00:26,458 Oh, Evan. 11 00:00:26,518 --> 00:00:27,758 Good Lord! 12 00:00:27,820 --> 00:00:29,231 LORRAINE: Oh, my God. 13 00:00:30,355 --> 00:00:32,734 I know his name's Bradford, I know he lives on seven, 14 00:00:32,792 --> 00:00:34,430 and I know he has a baby. 15 00:00:34,494 --> 00:00:35,529 What about his wife? 16 00:00:35,595 --> 00:00:36,699 He lives with another man. 17 00:00:36,763 --> 00:00:38,504 They're a couple. You know. 18 00:00:38,565 --> 00:00:40,169 Gay couple? Exactly. 19 00:00:41,534 --> 00:00:42,740 What've ya got? 20 00:00:42,802 --> 00:00:45,647 Well, there's no sign of bullet wounds, no sign of stab wounds. 21 00:00:45,706 --> 00:00:47,743 From the bruises, it looks like he got beaten to death. 22 00:00:47,808 --> 00:00:49,310 Hey, what happened? 23 00:00:49,677 --> 00:00:51,554 BRISCOE: Come here. Let him through. 24 00:00:51,712 --> 00:00:52,816 Who are you? 25 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:54,723 Deliver seltzer to the building. 26 00:00:54,815 --> 00:00:56,988 People still order that stuff? Oh, yeah. 27 00:00:57,051 --> 00:00:58,258 How long you been there? 28 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,594 About five minutes. Why? 29 00:00:59,654 --> 00:01:01,327 You know this guy? 30 00:01:01,623 --> 00:01:03,569 Nope. Not a customer of mine. 31 00:01:03,625 --> 00:01:05,935 Detective, something you need to see over here. 32 00:01:06,261 --> 00:01:07,296 Ed. 33 00:01:11,501 --> 00:01:13,174 Get CSU down here. 34 00:01:15,571 --> 00:01:16,777 Still warm. 35 00:01:16,839 --> 00:01:18,716 Let's hope the kid is. 36 00:02:09,062 --> 00:02:11,338 BRISCOE: What kind of seizures? 37 00:02:11,731 --> 00:02:13,972 Birth mother was a drug addict. 38 00:02:14,334 --> 00:02:16,406 Dylan has neurological problems. 39 00:02:16,537 --> 00:02:18,915 That's why they allowed us to adopt him. 40 00:02:19,106 --> 00:02:21,848 He's on medication. If he doesn't get it, he could... 41 00:02:22,143 --> 00:02:24,783 It could be really bad. You've gotta find him. 42 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:27,223 How old is Dylan? 43 00:02:27,281 --> 00:02:29,284 A year and a half. He'll be two in the summer. 44 00:02:29,351 --> 00:02:31,695 And when was the last time you saw Brad and the baby together? 45 00:02:31,753 --> 00:02:33,323 This morning, when I left for the office. 46 00:02:33,388 --> 00:02:36,062 How did you and Brad come to get a baby? 47 00:02:36,959 --> 00:02:38,768 We started out as foster parents. 48 00:02:39,161 --> 00:02:41,073 And then when the birth mother put him up for adoption, 49 00:02:41,130 --> 00:02:42,803 we adopted him. I adopted him. 50 00:02:43,533 --> 00:02:44,773 Why just you? 51 00:02:44,834 --> 00:02:47,314 Agencies aren't generally too thrilled about 52 00:02:47,403 --> 00:02:49,041 letting gay couples adopt. 53 00:02:49,205 --> 00:02:51,082 Just to get this out of the way Mr. Albers. 54 00:02:51,174 --> 00:02:52,244 Uh, where were you this afternoon. 55 00:02:52,308 --> 00:02:54,311 I was in my office until about noon. 56 00:02:54,378 --> 00:02:57,757 And then I had a meeting at the Conde Nast Building 57 00:02:57,815 --> 00:03:00,955 until about 4:00, and that's where I was when I got the call. 58 00:03:01,285 --> 00:03:03,731 Can you think of anybody we should be talking to? 59 00:03:04,388 --> 00:03:06,164 Anybody we know who might have done this? 60 00:03:06,224 --> 00:03:07,498 BRISCOE: Anybody who might have done it. 61 00:03:07,559 --> 00:03:09,470 Anybody who might know who did it. 62 00:03:09,527 --> 00:03:11,404 I can't imagine anyone. 63 00:03:11,963 --> 00:03:13,704 Who would kill Brad? 64 00:03:14,032 --> 00:03:16,034 Who would take our little boy? 65 00:03:17,102 --> 00:03:19,208 I'd say Albers isn't a suspect. 66 00:03:19,272 --> 00:03:21,616 And from what he tells us, it isn't anybody they know. 67 00:03:21,741 --> 00:03:23,743 All indications are it's a kidnapping for ransom. 68 00:03:23,809 --> 00:03:25,311 Well, we have a trap on the phone. 69 00:03:25,378 --> 00:03:26,755 There's one more thing. From what Albers said, 70 00:03:26,812 --> 00:03:29,088 this baby is prone to seizures. 71 00:03:29,348 --> 00:03:31,761 Now, I wouldn't count on whoever took him knowing what to do. 72 00:03:31,818 --> 00:03:33,627 It's already been one day. 73 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,597 Yeah? The neighbors didn't give you anything? 74 00:03:35,656 --> 00:03:37,431 No. Most of them were either out or at work. 75 00:03:37,491 --> 00:03:39,061 We talked to one woman who said she heard 76 00:03:39,126 --> 00:03:41,299 arguing in the courtyard around 2:30. 77 00:03:41,361 --> 00:03:42,533 Okay, thanks. 78 00:03:42,663 --> 00:03:44,507 We got a ransom call. 79 00:03:48,903 --> 00:03:51,975 Units two and three in place? Acknowledge. 80 00:03:52,173 --> 00:03:53,982 Unit two. We're good to go. 81 00:03:54,075 --> 00:03:56,646 Unit three ready and waiting. Ten-four. 82 00:04:01,450 --> 00:04:03,225 Lennie, check him out. 83 00:04:03,385 --> 00:04:05,387 Bike messenger, black, 84 00:04:05,454 --> 00:04:08,833 red jacket, entering the park west entrance. Acknowledge. 85 00:04:09,158 --> 00:04:10,638 We see him. Ten-four. 86 00:04:16,633 --> 00:04:18,078 He's got it! He's got it! Let's go! 87 00:04:18,134 --> 00:04:20,045 Black messenger leaving the park west entrance 88 00:04:20,103 --> 00:04:22,310 with manila envelope. Don't lose him. 89 00:04:39,057 --> 00:04:42,766 BRISCOE: Units two and three, subject's approaching a silver sedan. 90 00:04:42,828 --> 00:04:45,638 Let's sit tight and see what he's up to. 91 00:04:51,003 --> 00:04:52,448 Did the kid hand him something? 92 00:04:52,505 --> 00:04:53,984 I can't tell. 93 00:05:06,153 --> 00:05:07,461 Somebody signal to him? 94 00:05:07,554 --> 00:05:09,534 Yeah, he goes in there, he might go out the back entrance. 95 00:05:09,590 --> 00:05:11,035 Let's hit him. Grab him! Let's grab him! 96 00:05:11,091 --> 00:05:13,298 Unit two, check for an accomplice inside the cafe. 97 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:14,567 Hit it! 98 00:05:19,134 --> 00:05:20,477 Police! Freeze! 99 00:05:20,535 --> 00:05:21,741 Police! Get down! 100 00:05:21,803 --> 00:05:23,908 Hey! Hey! What are you doing? 101 00:05:23,972 --> 00:05:25,417 COP: Get down! Where's the baby? 102 00:05:25,507 --> 00:05:26,815 What baby? 103 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:27,946 Get him up! 104 00:05:28,010 --> 00:05:29,683 You gave him the money. What money? 105 00:05:29,745 --> 00:05:31,782 The money you found in that envelope underneath that bench. 106 00:05:31,847 --> 00:05:33,019 No, no, I didn't give it to him. 107 00:05:33,082 --> 00:05:34,117 I don't even know who that guy is. 108 00:05:34,183 --> 00:05:35,662 Where is it? Where is it? It's in here. 109 00:05:35,985 --> 00:05:36,986 Talk! 110 00:05:37,219 --> 00:05:40,064 Some guy come up to me outside the dispatch office, okay. 111 00:05:40,123 --> 00:05:43,332 He said he'd give me 50 bucks if I'd pick up an envelope and bring it here. 112 00:05:43,393 --> 00:05:45,395 He's supposed to be where that guy is, only he ain't. 113 00:05:45,462 --> 00:05:47,339 My wife goes in for a couple of lattes, 114 00:05:47,397 --> 00:05:50,173 this guy comes up to me and asks me if I saw somebody in a van. 115 00:05:50,233 --> 00:05:51,337 Did you? 116 00:05:51,401 --> 00:05:53,404 Well, when I came in, there was some guy in a blue van. 117 00:05:53,471 --> 00:05:54,814 What kind of van? I don't know. 118 00:05:54,872 --> 00:05:57,785 It was a beat up van. The back doors were tied with rope. 119 00:05:57,842 --> 00:06:00,254 There was a motorcycle fork sticking out, 120 00:06:00,411 --> 00:06:02,391 plus he had some kind of vanity plates. 121 00:06:02,447 --> 00:06:03,551 What did they say? 122 00:06:03,614 --> 00:06:05,561 Uh, the second part said MNKY. 123 00:06:05,617 --> 00:06:07,062 I forget what the first part said. 124 00:06:07,119 --> 00:06:08,564 You remember anything about the driver? 125 00:06:08,620 --> 00:06:11,897 No! Could you get me out of these handcuffs, please? 126 00:06:11,957 --> 00:06:14,164 I told you not to double-park. 127 00:06:15,727 --> 00:06:17,070 ED: We're checking motorcycle repair shops. 128 00:06:17,129 --> 00:06:18,164 What about the plate? 129 00:06:18,230 --> 00:06:19,505 Lennie's on it with the DMV. 130 00:06:19,566 --> 00:06:22,103 They're giving me conflicting descriptions, as usual. 131 00:06:22,168 --> 00:06:24,512 We got 42 possibilities from the DMV, 132 00:06:24,571 --> 00:06:27,017 but only one that traces to a motorcycle shop. 133 00:06:27,073 --> 00:06:28,177 Go. 134 00:06:28,241 --> 00:06:30,221 Is that him? Is this the guy? 135 00:06:30,577 --> 00:06:32,216 Anybody you recognize? 136 00:06:32,313 --> 00:06:33,314 No. 137 00:06:33,747 --> 00:06:35,590 All right. We'll keep you posted. 138 00:06:35,783 --> 00:06:38,457 Mr. Albers, I'm Lieutenant Van Buren. 139 00:06:38,686 --> 00:06:39,892 Where are they going? 140 00:06:39,954 --> 00:06:41,024 They're still working the case. 141 00:06:41,088 --> 00:06:42,396 Why was the money not paid? 142 00:06:42,456 --> 00:06:44,528 We've yet to make contact with your son. 143 00:06:44,593 --> 00:06:45,833 Because you scared him off. 144 00:06:46,027 --> 00:06:47,597 Someone must have figured out you were cops. 145 00:06:47,662 --> 00:06:49,642 We've got a good lead on finding this man. 146 00:06:49,698 --> 00:06:51,541 I should have been allowed to do this the way I wanted to. 147 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,477 You guys should've been nowhere near that park. 148 00:06:53,535 --> 00:06:56,516 We're going to get your son back to you, sir. 149 00:06:56,638 --> 00:06:58,846 Who knows if he's even alive? 150 00:07:02,678 --> 00:07:04,555 This could be anybody. It could be my brother, Ernie. 151 00:07:04,614 --> 00:07:06,093 BRISCOE: Is it your brother, Ernie? 152 00:07:06,148 --> 00:07:07,286 You know what I'm saying. 153 00:07:07,350 --> 00:07:10,195 Hey, it's a ratty blue van with vanity plates. 154 00:07:10,254 --> 00:07:12,165 The last four letters MNKY. 155 00:07:12,222 --> 00:07:13,929 First three letters HSE? 156 00:07:13,991 --> 00:07:14,992 You tell us. 157 00:07:15,058 --> 00:07:16,366 Look, you guys come into my shop, 158 00:07:16,460 --> 00:07:17,905 you throw your weight around You want answers, 159 00:07:17,961 --> 00:07:19,736 you tell me. What's this about? 160 00:07:19,796 --> 00:07:21,036 Okay, here's an explanation. 161 00:07:21,131 --> 00:07:22,805 Shielding a murderer is a felony. 162 00:07:23,034 --> 00:07:24,377 Who is it? 163 00:07:25,703 --> 00:07:28,547 (SIGHS) It's Hose Monkey. It's Burdick's van. 164 00:07:28,606 --> 00:07:29,607 Who's Burdick? 165 00:07:29,674 --> 00:07:31,119 Gene Burdick. He's one of my mechanics. 166 00:07:31,209 --> 00:07:32,210 He here today? 167 00:07:32,277 --> 00:07:33,278 He's at his other job today. 168 00:07:33,344 --> 00:07:34,550 Which is what? 169 00:07:34,612 --> 00:07:35,990 Delivering seltzer. 170 00:07:36,615 --> 00:07:38,026 You can do yourself a world of good 171 00:07:38,083 --> 00:07:39,084 by telling us where that kid is, Gene. 172 00:07:39,151 --> 00:07:41,062 Look, I don't know where the kid is. You made the ransom call, 173 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,121 but you don't know where the kid is? 174 00:07:42,187 --> 00:07:43,495 What makes you think I made the ransom call? 175 00:07:43,556 --> 00:07:45,627 Are you playing games with us? I'm not playing any games. 176 00:07:45,691 --> 00:07:47,762 'Cause there's a missing kid, and if you're playing games with us, 177 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:50,398 you're gonna wake up with some aches and pains in the morning. 178 00:07:50,463 --> 00:07:53,069 Hey, guys... Okay, come on, come on. 179 00:07:53,133 --> 00:07:54,942 Come on. 180 00:07:58,972 --> 00:08:01,283 Look, I was delivering seltzer on the West Side, okay. 181 00:08:01,342 --> 00:08:03,322 Call Benny Renko in Queens. He's my boss. 182 00:08:03,377 --> 00:08:04,447 You can check the schedule. 183 00:08:04,512 --> 00:08:07,959 We saw you at the crime scene a little after the murder. 184 00:08:08,015 --> 00:08:11,360 Because it's my building. I'm there every Tuesday between 3:00 and 4:00. 185 00:08:11,419 --> 00:08:14,230 Before that, I'm at the Dakota and the Apthorp. 186 00:08:14,423 --> 00:08:17,563 Talk to my customers. I didn't take that kid, I swear. 187 00:08:17,659 --> 00:08:18,660 Who did, then? 188 00:08:18,727 --> 00:08:19,728 I don't know who did. 189 00:08:19,828 --> 00:08:22,536 Okay, you didn't personally do the kidnapping or the murder. 190 00:08:22,598 --> 00:08:24,703 Maybe you can make yourself a little deal. 191 00:08:24,766 --> 00:08:27,247 But first you have to tell us where the kid is, 192 00:08:27,370 --> 00:08:28,815 and you have to tell us now! 193 00:08:28,871 --> 00:08:30,316 I don't know where the kid is. 194 00:08:30,373 --> 00:08:31,647 I suppose you're gonna tell us 195 00:08:31,708 --> 00:08:33,585 you didn't make the ransom call again. 196 00:08:33,643 --> 00:08:35,088 I made the ransom call, all right. 197 00:08:35,545 --> 00:08:37,354 All right? But I'm working two jobs, man 198 00:08:37,413 --> 00:08:38,721 and I'm in hock up to my eyeballs. 199 00:08:38,781 --> 00:08:42,355 I saw an opportunity to make a score and I took it, that's all. 200 00:08:42,686 --> 00:08:44,825 How'd you get onto us at the cafe? 201 00:08:45,322 --> 00:08:46,858 I got a scanner rigged up in my van. 202 00:08:46,924 --> 00:08:49,427 It sounded like Desert Storm was going down and I took off. 203 00:08:49,493 --> 00:08:51,769 How'd you know where to make the ransom call? 204 00:08:51,929 --> 00:08:53,307 I used to deliver to those guys. 205 00:08:53,531 --> 00:08:55,033 A couple of rich fruits with a kid. 206 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:56,204 When I saw the guy was dead, 207 00:08:56,267 --> 00:08:59,339 I figured the other one would fork over the money, and that would be that. 208 00:08:59,537 --> 00:09:02,313 You figured he'd pay the money, he wouldn't get his kid back, 209 00:09:02,374 --> 00:09:04,752 and nobody would come looking for you? 210 00:09:08,047 --> 00:09:09,048 His alibi checks out. 211 00:09:09,115 --> 00:09:12,324 Well, what kind of idiot arranges to pick up ransom money 212 00:09:12,385 --> 00:09:14,228 in a van with vanity plates? 213 00:09:14,420 --> 00:09:16,900 An idiot whose vanity plates read Hose Monkey. 214 00:09:16,956 --> 00:09:20,598 Well, in the meantime, we haven't gotten a single legitimate ransom demand. 215 00:09:20,694 --> 00:09:23,470 The question is whether whoever did this did it for ransom. 216 00:09:23,630 --> 00:09:26,270 Well, has Children's Services sent over Dylan's file yet? 217 00:09:26,333 --> 00:09:28,643 No. You know how organized they are. 218 00:09:28,702 --> 00:09:31,775 Well, get over there and put a fire under them. 219 00:09:35,243 --> 00:09:39,487 Mother was an 18-year-old heroin addict, father listed as unknown. 220 00:09:39,747 --> 00:09:41,124 She gave the child up? 221 00:09:41,249 --> 00:09:43,058 Initially, we took the child away. 222 00:09:43,619 --> 00:09:46,099 A neighbor called, said the baby had been crying for days. 223 00:09:46,155 --> 00:09:50,262 We went over, found the baby malnourished, dehydrated, the works. 224 00:09:50,359 --> 00:09:53,829 Mother was a waitress, but she had a $200 a day habit. 225 00:09:53,896 --> 00:09:55,000 What's her name? 226 00:09:55,064 --> 00:09:56,338 Celia Goddard. 227 00:09:56,466 --> 00:09:59,743 The boy was placed on foster care with Donald Albers. 228 00:09:59,836 --> 00:10:02,840 He formally adopted him seven months later. 229 00:10:02,906 --> 00:10:04,783 And Goddard signed off on the adoption? 230 00:10:04,841 --> 00:10:07,117 She was thrilled to get him off her hands. 231 00:10:07,177 --> 00:10:09,088 BRISCOE: Have you heard from her since then? 232 00:10:09,179 --> 00:10:11,126 About two months ago she came in. 233 00:10:11,182 --> 00:10:14,459 She had gotten out of the hospital, gotten out of rehab. 234 00:10:14,585 --> 00:10:16,587 She was clean for about a year and a half. 235 00:10:16,654 --> 00:10:17,997 And she wanted her baby back. 236 00:10:18,055 --> 00:10:21,366 Girls don't give up on fairy-tales just because they don't come true. 237 00:10:21,425 --> 00:10:22,530 What'd you tell her? 238 00:10:22,594 --> 00:10:26,804 That her son had a serious medical condition that required fulltime care 239 00:10:26,865 --> 00:10:28,367 and expensive medication. 240 00:10:28,433 --> 00:10:29,935 Things she could never provide. 241 00:10:30,102 --> 00:10:32,378 She didn't believe me until I showed her the medical records. 242 00:10:32,471 --> 00:10:34,075 I bet that took the wind out of her sails. 243 00:10:34,139 --> 00:10:35,175 Not at all. 244 00:10:35,241 --> 00:10:36,879 She said she'd get another job, 245 00:10:37,009 --> 00:10:40,013 somehow scrape together enough money to cover his medical bills. 246 00:10:40,079 --> 00:10:43,322 Sol reminded her that her son had been legally adopted. 247 00:10:43,382 --> 00:10:44,827 She had signed the papers. 248 00:10:44,884 --> 00:10:46,693 She had 45 days to rescind. 249 00:10:46,753 --> 00:10:49,257 She hadn't. Hey, my hands were tied. 250 00:10:50,224 --> 00:10:51,498 VAN BUREN: Celia Goddard. 251 00:10:51,592 --> 00:10:52,900 Address unknown. 252 00:10:52,993 --> 00:10:54,700 What does she say about the medication? 253 00:10:54,762 --> 00:10:56,833 Because of the mother's drug use while she was pregnant, 254 00:10:56,897 --> 00:10:58,467 the baby suffered neurological damage. 255 00:10:58,532 --> 00:11:00,341 They give him Phenobarbital for seizures. 256 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:01,744 Does the mother know that? 257 00:11:01,803 --> 00:11:03,407 Case worker showed her the medical file 258 00:11:03,505 --> 00:11:05,041 when she came looking to get the baby back. 259 00:11:05,106 --> 00:11:07,143 If she was involved in the kidnapping, 260 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:09,711 chances are she'd make sure she had the medication. 261 00:11:09,778 --> 00:11:11,223 ED: Looks like we're canvassing pharmacies? 262 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:14,022 Well, I'll get some people checking hospitals just in case. 263 00:11:14,183 --> 00:11:15,526 All right. 264 00:11:16,185 --> 00:11:18,131 I have all these people waiting for prescriptions. 265 00:11:18,187 --> 00:11:19,393 Can you maybe come back later? 266 00:11:19,455 --> 00:11:22,527 Hey, we've been in nine pharmacies looking for a missing child. 267 00:11:22,591 --> 00:11:25,265 The people that are waiting are just going to have to wait a little longer. 268 00:11:25,528 --> 00:11:26,701 What's the name? 269 00:11:26,763 --> 00:11:28,470 The child's name is Dylan Mandel. 270 00:11:28,532 --> 00:11:30,102 The prescription's for Phenobarbital 271 00:11:30,167 --> 00:11:32,010 or something similar in a child's dosage. 272 00:11:32,068 --> 00:11:33,069 Pediatrician? 273 00:11:33,136 --> 00:11:35,207 We don't know who the pediatrician is. 274 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:38,446 Oh, okay, here we go. 275 00:11:38,542 --> 00:11:39,817 Um, Phenobarbital. 276 00:11:39,877 --> 00:11:42,687 Um, someone from Dr. Kwai's office called in a prescription 277 00:11:42,747 --> 00:11:45,159 for Joey Powers two days ago. 278 00:11:45,283 --> 00:11:46,887 Powers? Could be an alias. 279 00:11:47,318 --> 00:11:48,626 Anybody else? 280 00:11:48,886 --> 00:11:50,923 Um, sorry. 281 00:11:51,489 --> 00:11:53,492 Who picked it up? Susan Powers. 282 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:54,560 You got an address? 283 00:11:54,626 --> 00:11:55,934 She only gave a phone number. 284 00:11:55,994 --> 00:11:57,905 All right, we'll take that. 285 00:11:58,397 --> 00:11:59,535 This is it? 286 00:11:59,598 --> 00:12:01,441 This is the address. 287 00:12:04,002 --> 00:12:05,038 Can I help you? 288 00:12:05,104 --> 00:12:07,084 Yeah, we're looking for Susan Powers. 289 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:09,017 No one by that name here. 290 00:12:09,075 --> 00:12:10,076 You own the place? 291 00:12:10,143 --> 00:12:11,679 No, I just work here. Why? 292 00:12:11,845 --> 00:12:14,155 Is it possible there's a Susan working another shift? 293 00:12:14,214 --> 00:12:15,625 I know all the people working here. 294 00:12:15,682 --> 00:12:16,956 There's no Susan. What's this about? 295 00:12:17,016 --> 00:12:19,327 ED: Why is there a Susan on the emergency contact list? 296 00:12:19,386 --> 00:12:22,265 I don't know. She must be a friend of the owner's. 297 00:12:22,790 --> 00:12:24,030 Call the number. 298 00:12:25,226 --> 00:12:26,637 Can you please tell me what this is about? 299 00:12:26,694 --> 00:12:27,729 A missing person. 300 00:12:27,795 --> 00:12:28,967 Uh-huh. 301 00:12:30,097 --> 00:12:31,441 Hello, is Susan there? 302 00:12:31,566 --> 00:12:33,045 It's the police! 303 00:12:33,168 --> 00:12:34,203 They hung UP 304 00:12:34,302 --> 00:12:35,440 All right, call communications 305 00:12:35,570 --> 00:12:38,016 and turn that number around, and let's get a squad car 306 00:12:38,073 --> 00:12:40,314 for the employee of the month here. 307 00:12:59,863 --> 00:13:01,672 Whoever it was, he left in a hurry. 308 00:13:01,832 --> 00:13:04,745 "Remember, other's safety depends on your discretion." 309 00:13:04,902 --> 00:13:06,848 "The buddy system applies whenever you leave the building." 310 00:13:06,904 --> 00:13:08,976 "Never give out our phone number or address." 311 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:10,917 Let's find out whose name is on the lease. 312 00:13:12,176 --> 00:13:14,213 My client runs an underground rail road 313 00:13:14,279 --> 00:13:16,384 for abused women and their children. 314 00:13:16,681 --> 00:13:19,184 They hide them from abusive husbands and boyfriends, 315 00:13:19,250 --> 00:13:21,355 relocate them if necessary. 316 00:13:21,553 --> 00:13:22,965 That's all I'm willing to disclose. 317 00:13:23,022 --> 00:13:26,026 This isn't about domestic violence, Ms. Essex. 318 00:13:26,592 --> 00:13:28,697 It's about murder and kidnapping, 319 00:13:28,794 --> 00:13:30,569 and we think your client's involved. 320 00:13:31,230 --> 00:13:33,710 Have you seen this child, Ms. Powers? 321 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:38,414 Women come to me believing their confidence will be kept. 322 00:13:38,939 --> 00:13:40,509 Do they ever lie? 323 00:13:41,341 --> 00:13:43,446 I don't know if they ever lie. 324 00:13:43,943 --> 00:13:47,220 If the woman who came to you with this child said she was running away 325 00:13:47,348 --> 00:13:49,760 from an abusive husband, she was lying. 326 00:13:50,051 --> 00:13:53,157 And if you're harboring her, you're committing a felony. 327 00:13:54,455 --> 00:13:58,096 How do I know this isn't a ruse to reunite a child with an abusive father? 328 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:00,197 Women like this who need help 329 00:14:00,262 --> 00:14:02,333 are turned away by the police, 330 00:14:02,898 --> 00:14:05,208 sent back to their husbands. 331 00:14:05,567 --> 00:14:07,843 My dealings with the police have been a joke. 332 00:14:08,003 --> 00:14:11,314 Well, you haven't dealt with me, Ms. Powers. 333 00:14:15,244 --> 00:14:17,246 We have no choice, Susan. 334 00:14:23,753 --> 00:14:27,065 A woman named Chris Matthews came to us. 335 00:14:27,191 --> 00:14:29,330 Or at least that's what she called herself. 336 00:14:29,493 --> 00:14:30,995 She had a child with her. 337 00:14:31,061 --> 00:14:33,007 Is that who you got the prescription for? 338 00:14:33,130 --> 00:14:35,770 A pediatrician I know called it in. 339 00:14:35,999 --> 00:14:37,376 Did he have a seizure? 340 00:14:37,434 --> 00:14:39,142 No, it was for precautionary reasons. 341 00:14:39,204 --> 00:14:40,274 And where are they now? 342 00:14:40,338 --> 00:14:43,945 After you raided our safe house Chris was terrified. 343 00:14:44,909 --> 00:14:47,116 She gave the baby to a friend of hers. 344 00:14:47,312 --> 00:14:49,223 I didn't ask for a name. 345 00:14:49,447 --> 00:14:51,655 I figured the fewer details I knew the better. 346 00:14:51,784 --> 00:14:53,320 And the woman you knew is Chris? 347 00:14:53,386 --> 00:14:54,888 She said she had to leave town. 348 00:14:55,021 --> 00:14:57,023 She had no money, no car. 349 00:15:00,192 --> 00:15:02,672 I bought her a bus ticket this afternoon. 350 00:15:02,795 --> 00:15:04,103 Where to? 351 00:15:05,065 --> 00:15:06,942 The 3:30 to Peekskill. 352 00:15:07,567 --> 00:15:08,944 It's 3:15. 353 00:15:16,276 --> 00:15:18,086 Sorry for the interruption, folks. 354 00:15:18,212 --> 00:15:20,317 This'll just take a second. 355 00:15:34,096 --> 00:15:37,805 Ms. Goddard, we're gonna need you to come with us. 356 00:15:42,404 --> 00:15:44,248 Say you couldn't find me. 357 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:46,013 Where's the baby? 358 00:15:46,609 --> 00:15:48,589 I'm going to be a really great mother, and that's the truth, 359 00:15:48,645 --> 00:15:51,558 and if you'll just say you couldn't find me, everything will be fine. 360 00:15:51,614 --> 00:15:53,150 If you don't get up and walk, 361 00:15:53,216 --> 00:15:55,526 we're going to carry you out of here. 362 00:16:00,324 --> 00:16:02,565 Where is the child, Ms. Goddard? 363 00:16:02,993 --> 00:16:04,529 Somewhere safe. 364 00:16:05,663 --> 00:16:07,267 Let's go. 365 00:16:11,903 --> 00:16:14,008 Just because you're the biological mother, 366 00:16:14,072 --> 00:16:17,076 that doesn't make you any less guilty of kidnapping or murder. 367 00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:18,314 I didn't commit murder. 368 00:16:18,376 --> 00:16:19,480 Then who did? 369 00:16:19,578 --> 00:16:20,579 I don't know who did. 370 00:16:20,645 --> 00:16:23,024 Look, your fingerprints were on that stroller, 371 00:16:23,082 --> 00:16:24,584 which puts you at the scene. 372 00:16:24,650 --> 00:16:25,822 You ain't walking away from this. 373 00:16:25,885 --> 00:16:27,330 I don't have to say anything. 374 00:16:27,386 --> 00:16:30,833 You took that baby from the only parents he's ever known. 375 00:16:30,890 --> 00:16:33,302 He's probably scared out of his wits right now, 376 00:16:33,359 --> 00:16:34,930 wondering where the hell he is. 377 00:16:34,995 --> 00:16:36,303 Is that what you want? 378 00:16:36,363 --> 00:16:37,933 That baby is my son. 379 00:16:37,998 --> 00:16:39,306 Not according to the law. 380 00:16:39,433 --> 00:16:40,639 Well, I don't care about the law. 381 00:16:40,701 --> 00:16:42,442 I gave birth to him, he's mine. 382 00:16:42,603 --> 00:16:45,083 There isn't anybody in the world who cares more about him than I do. 383 00:16:45,139 --> 00:16:47,746 I think the man who adopted him might disagree. 384 00:16:47,842 --> 00:16:49,913 Well, how fair was it that they made me sign him away 385 00:16:49,978 --> 00:16:51,616 when I was in the state that I was in? 386 00:16:51,679 --> 00:16:54,523 How fair was it to the kid that you were in that state? 387 00:16:54,582 --> 00:16:56,493 I know okay? I was sick. 388 00:16:56,651 --> 00:16:59,188 I was so strung out, I would've signed anything, 389 00:16:59,254 --> 00:17:00,859 I would've done anything. 390 00:17:00,956 --> 00:17:03,197 God, you don't even know the things that I did. 391 00:17:03,392 --> 00:17:05,065 This was the worst. 392 00:17:05,127 --> 00:17:07,573 All right, you say you're his mother. 393 00:17:08,464 --> 00:17:10,842 Then why don't you start acting like it? 394 00:17:11,066 --> 00:17:13,138 Tell us where the baby is. 395 00:17:13,203 --> 00:17:15,012 Let us make him safe. 396 00:17:15,172 --> 00:17:17,311 ED: We're going to find out either way, Celia. 397 00:17:17,507 --> 00:17:20,113 Well, then I guess you're just going to have to do that. 398 00:17:24,714 --> 00:17:26,422 Celia had to have an accomplice. 399 00:17:26,484 --> 00:17:29,260 Bradford Mandel was a big guy. He worked out. 400 00:17:29,353 --> 00:17:31,663 There's no way she could have beat him to death by herself. 401 00:17:31,722 --> 00:17:33,531 Any candidates? Not that she's saying. 402 00:17:33,591 --> 00:17:36,003 The police questioned her for three hours. They didn't make a dent. 403 00:17:36,060 --> 00:17:38,040 There must be someone who can tell us something about her. 404 00:17:38,095 --> 00:17:39,507 Friends, boyfriends. 405 00:17:39,631 --> 00:17:41,406 We know there's at least one person in her life 406 00:17:41,467 --> 00:17:42,912 she was willing to trust with her kid. 407 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:44,378 Her mom. Briscoe and Green are with her now. 408 00:17:45,771 --> 00:17:48,775 I tried to visit her in that place, but the people there said 409 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,981 that it would be better if I waited till she got out. 410 00:17:52,312 --> 00:17:53,382 I did try, though. 411 00:17:53,513 --> 00:17:55,186 How about since she's been out? 412 00:17:55,515 --> 00:17:58,257 Well, she came by with a friend for a visit. 413 00:17:58,384 --> 00:18:00,762 She was completely off the drugs. 414 00:18:00,820 --> 00:18:02,299 I was so glad to see that. 415 00:18:02,789 --> 00:18:04,326 How long ago was that? 416 00:18:04,391 --> 00:18:05,392 Last summer. 417 00:18:05,459 --> 00:18:07,370 Does she have any sisters or brothers? 418 00:18:07,461 --> 00:18:09,532 Any other relatives she's close to? 419 00:18:09,630 --> 00:18:12,941 No. And her father died when Celia was 12. 420 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,139 It's been just the two of us since then. 421 00:18:15,202 --> 00:18:17,479 And you haven't seen her since last summer? 422 00:18:18,139 --> 00:18:19,379 No, I haven't. 423 00:18:19,441 --> 00:18:20,977 BRISCOE: Any reason? 424 00:18:23,011 --> 00:18:24,786 Mother-daughter stuff. 425 00:18:27,515 --> 00:18:30,019 I haven't been able to stop thinking about 426 00:18:30,286 --> 00:18:32,766 the baby that she gave up. 427 00:18:33,089 --> 00:18:34,329 I know it's selfish. 428 00:18:34,423 --> 00:18:37,996 I know all the experts agree that children are much better off 429 00:18:38,361 --> 00:18:40,864 being adopted in these situations. 430 00:18:43,567 --> 00:18:46,980 But I would have been so happy to have provided a home. 431 00:18:48,205 --> 00:18:50,344 And if things had worked out... 432 00:18:50,574 --> 00:18:51,848 She never asked you? 433 00:18:56,881 --> 00:18:58,224 She just... 434 00:18:59,484 --> 00:19:02,761 She just marched down there and signed her name on the dotted line, 435 00:19:02,854 --> 00:19:05,460 and she wouldn't listen to anything I said. 436 00:19:08,494 --> 00:19:10,735 I'm sorry. He was my grandson. 437 00:19:12,731 --> 00:19:15,610 You said that she was with a friend the last time she came by here? 438 00:19:15,768 --> 00:19:16,872 Terry... 439 00:19:16,935 --> 00:19:18,642 Um, Terry somebody. 440 00:19:19,138 --> 00:19:21,176 Do you know how we can get in touch with her? 441 00:19:21,341 --> 00:19:23,685 Yes, she left me her number 442 00:19:23,843 --> 00:19:25,447 in case I needed to reach Celia. 443 00:19:25,545 --> 00:19:27,252 I've got it in the other room. 444 00:19:30,584 --> 00:19:32,689 You gave your number to Celia's mother 445 00:19:32,786 --> 00:19:34,630 and now you say you don't know where she is? 446 00:19:34,689 --> 00:19:35,759 What are you feeding us? 447 00:19:35,823 --> 00:19:37,632 The truth. Look, Ms. Kurasik, 448 00:19:37,692 --> 00:19:40,172 we got a very sick little baby out there. 449 00:19:40,227 --> 00:19:41,570 If we don't find him soon, I'm gonna hold you 450 00:19:41,629 --> 00:19:43,438 personally responsible. You got my word on that. 451 00:19:43,497 --> 00:19:45,170 I told you, I don't know. 452 00:19:45,232 --> 00:19:47,941 I haven't spoken to Celia in six months. 453 00:19:48,003 --> 00:19:50,711 And you have absolutely no idea where this baby is? 454 00:19:50,839 --> 00:19:52,216 No, I don't. 455 00:19:52,641 --> 00:19:53,881 I swear. 456 00:19:54,710 --> 00:19:56,212 When we were in rehab, 457 00:19:56,278 --> 00:19:58,724 Celia'd go on and on about wanting to get her kid back, 458 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:00,089 and I thought it was just talk. 459 00:20:00,249 --> 00:20:02,092 Did she tell you how she planned to do this? 460 00:20:02,151 --> 00:20:03,323 She didn't know. 461 00:20:03,386 --> 00:20:06,924 I wanted to be supportive, but I didn't want her to get her hopes up. 462 00:20:07,223 --> 00:20:08,531 I told her the main thing 463 00:20:08,591 --> 00:20:11,265 that she needed to be thinking about was not using drugs. 464 00:20:11,327 --> 00:20:13,934 And beyond that, she'd have to give it over to God. 465 00:20:14,164 --> 00:20:17,441 You have any idea who she might go to for help besides God? 466 00:20:17,735 --> 00:20:20,341 When we both got out and I could tell she was serious, 467 00:20:20,404 --> 00:20:22,907 I sent her to see this lawyer that I know. 468 00:20:23,540 --> 00:20:26,454 When I asked her how it went, she seemed pretty positive. 469 00:20:26,745 --> 00:20:29,555 He told her what to do and she was doing it, 470 00:20:30,048 --> 00:20:33,086 and she didn't want to talk about it until she was done. 471 00:20:33,952 --> 00:20:35,727 Where's this lawyer? 472 00:20:38,824 --> 00:20:41,998 It's been almost four days, Mr. Vaylor. Time is running out. 473 00:20:42,228 --> 00:20:45,766 I hope that you won't give me any problems on confidentiality. 474 00:20:47,533 --> 00:20:50,947 You know as well as I do that kidnapping is an ongoing crime 475 00:20:51,104 --> 00:20:52,879 that vitiates privilege. 476 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,287 I could fight it, tie you up in court for a few days. 477 00:20:57,444 --> 00:20:58,718 You could. 478 00:20:59,279 --> 00:21:00,724 But you won't. 479 00:21:03,985 --> 00:21:05,726 She wanted to overturn the adoption, 480 00:21:05,787 --> 00:21:08,324 get her child back and raise him herself. 481 00:21:08,389 --> 00:21:10,027 I told her it was too late. 482 00:21:10,258 --> 00:21:12,829 The only party with standing to challenge the adoption 483 00:21:12,894 --> 00:21:14,635 was the biological father, 484 00:21:14,796 --> 00:21:16,868 and that was only because he never received notice. 485 00:21:16,965 --> 00:21:19,138 She knew who the biological father was? 486 00:21:19,201 --> 00:21:21,647 Yeah. She just didn't know where he was. 487 00:21:22,104 --> 00:21:23,913 He used to work at a building site next to the place 488 00:21:23,972 --> 00:21:26,543 where she waitressed, and then he moved on. 489 00:21:27,176 --> 00:21:28,985 I offered to try and find him. 490 00:21:29,112 --> 00:21:31,888 She said it would be better if she did it herself. 491 00:21:32,682 --> 00:21:35,822 The construction company that employed the father of your child 492 00:21:35,885 --> 00:21:37,455 gave us this list. 493 00:21:38,488 --> 00:21:41,025 It contains 307 names. 494 00:21:41,157 --> 00:21:42,466 One of them's his. 495 00:21:42,526 --> 00:21:46,372 We're going to go through that list, name by name, and track him down. 496 00:21:47,765 --> 00:21:49,506 So what do you want from me? 497 00:21:50,568 --> 00:21:52,775 We want to know where your child is now. 498 00:21:53,037 --> 00:21:54,675 Why? The child's fine. 499 00:21:54,806 --> 00:21:56,217 You don't really know that. 500 00:21:56,341 --> 00:21:58,378 You haven't had any contact with him in days. 501 00:21:58,443 --> 00:22:00,582 He could be sick. He could be hurt. 502 00:22:00,712 --> 00:22:03,886 JACK: We find him on our own, we don't need your help anymore. 503 00:22:04,116 --> 00:22:05,993 You'll stand trial for murder and kidnapping, 504 00:22:06,051 --> 00:22:08,692 and you'll go to prison for a very long time. 505 00:22:11,157 --> 00:22:12,500 What are you offering? 506 00:22:12,558 --> 00:22:14,936 Provided she played no active role in the victim's death 507 00:22:15,027 --> 00:22:16,370 and she testifies at trial, 508 00:22:16,429 --> 00:22:19,740 she'll probably be able to walk away with community service. 509 00:22:21,301 --> 00:22:23,781 But maybe the jury'll find me not guilty. 510 00:22:24,004 --> 00:22:26,280 I'm a pretty good trial lawyer, Ms. Goddard. 511 00:22:26,573 --> 00:22:28,484 I don't get surprised that often. 512 00:22:28,976 --> 00:22:30,853 Under the circumstances, Celia. 513 00:22:30,911 --> 00:22:34,086 I'd be hard pressed to advise you not to cooperate. 514 00:22:35,550 --> 00:22:37,757 I have to do what's right for my son. 515 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,424 Okay. 516 00:22:42,390 --> 00:22:44,199 Can you actually look me in the eyes 517 00:22:44,292 --> 00:22:46,671 and tell me you're not worried about your baby? 518 00:22:49,165 --> 00:22:51,805 He's with his birth father, isn't he? 519 00:22:52,468 --> 00:22:54,573 That's why you're concerned. 520 00:22:55,771 --> 00:22:58,878 Celia, your son is in the hands of a murderer. 521 00:23:00,243 --> 00:23:03,122 He beat a man to death in front of you, 522 00:23:03,813 --> 00:23:05,554 in front of your child. 523 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:12,532 I didn't know what else to do. 524 00:23:13,157 --> 00:23:15,262 Now you do. Help us find him. 525 00:23:17,628 --> 00:23:19,904 RADOS: Maybe there's a possibility 526 00:23:20,364 --> 00:23:22,810 of being involved in your son's life in some way. 527 00:23:25,671 --> 00:23:27,582 Is that a possibility? 528 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,415 That'll be up to Mr. Albers. 529 00:23:31,476 --> 00:23:34,184 You'd probably have a better chance of being involved in his life 530 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:36,623 not being in prison for 20 years. 531 00:23:43,856 --> 00:23:46,666 There's a house in Peekskill. 532 00:23:50,163 --> 00:23:51,973 That's where they are. 533 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,285 BRISCOE: Mr. Kelley? Yeah. 534 00:24:01,342 --> 00:24:02,480 New York City detectives. 535 00:24:02,543 --> 00:24:03,852 We have a warrant for your arrest 536 00:24:03,912 --> 00:24:06,449 and a warrant to search the premises. 537 00:24:08,450 --> 00:24:10,396 (BABY CRYING) 538 00:24:10,852 --> 00:24:12,525 Somebody bring a blanket. 539 00:24:14,823 --> 00:24:16,826 Hey, baby bear. Come on, come on, baby bear. 540 00:24:16,892 --> 00:24:18,132 There's a bottle in the fridge 541 00:24:18,194 --> 00:24:20,731 and a stuffed animal he really likes in his crib. 542 00:24:40,384 --> 00:24:42,126 Thank you for my son. 543 00:24:49,193 --> 00:24:51,969 "Docket 31602, People v. Robert Kelley." 544 00:24:52,030 --> 00:24:54,010 "One count each, Murder in the Second Degree," 545 00:24:54,065 --> 00:24:55,841 "Kidnapping in the Second Degree." 546 00:24:55,901 --> 00:24:57,676 JUDGE: How does the defendant plead? 547 00:24:57,736 --> 00:24:58,806 Not guilty. 548 00:24:58,871 --> 00:24:59,872 Ms. Carmichael? 549 00:24:59,938 --> 00:25:00,939 The People seek remand. 550 00:25:01,006 --> 00:25:03,748 Judge, my client doesn't have as much as a parking ticket. 551 00:25:03,876 --> 00:25:05,514 We request reasonable bail. 552 00:25:05,577 --> 00:25:08,184 Your Honor, the defendant and an unindicted accessory 553 00:25:08,248 --> 00:25:10,524 took an 18-month-old child from his parents. 554 00:25:10,583 --> 00:25:13,120 When one of the parents resisted, he was beaten to death. 555 00:25:13,286 --> 00:25:15,698 First arrest or not, the nature of the crime warrants remand. 556 00:25:15,755 --> 00:25:18,929 In the first place one of these so-called parents, 557 00:25:19,025 --> 00:25:22,838 Mr. Mandel, had no legal relationship with the child. 558 00:25:22,897 --> 00:25:24,001 Ms. Carmichael? 559 00:25:24,098 --> 00:25:25,600 Irrelevant to bail app, Judge. 560 00:25:25,666 --> 00:25:28,510 Mr. Mandel was the homosexual lover 561 00:25:28,603 --> 00:25:30,105 of the child's adoptive father. 562 00:25:30,171 --> 00:25:33,915 An adoption that was procured without the consent of my client, 563 00:25:33,975 --> 00:25:35,318 the child's natural father. 564 00:25:35,377 --> 00:25:36,720 Your Honor, before his murder, 565 00:25:36,778 --> 00:25:39,224 Mr. Mandel had applied for a second parent adoption. 566 00:25:39,281 --> 00:25:41,818 A second adoption is no more legal than the first. 567 00:25:41,883 --> 00:25:43,453 JUDGE: That's enough. As I understand it 568 00:25:43,518 --> 00:25:46,056 this is a bail hearing, not an adoption hearing. 569 00:25:46,255 --> 00:25:47,666 Defendant is remanded. 570 00:25:52,362 --> 00:25:55,241 This guy's gonna play the disenfranchised father card to the hilt. 571 00:25:55,365 --> 00:25:56,469 What are you looking for? 572 00:25:56,532 --> 00:25:58,205 JACK: Murder two is what he has coming. 573 00:25:58,267 --> 00:26:00,544 We had to drop the kidnapping because, as a relative, 574 00:26:00,671 --> 00:26:02,173 he has an affirmative defense. 575 00:26:02,339 --> 00:26:03,613 Then why murder two? 576 00:26:03,674 --> 00:26:04,982 'Cause he went looking for Mandel, 577 00:26:05,042 --> 00:26:07,488 waited for him, beat him up, and then beat him to death. 578 00:26:07,544 --> 00:26:09,387 The motive being the return of his son. 579 00:26:09,513 --> 00:26:11,926 Who had been legally adopted for more than a year. 580 00:26:12,217 --> 00:26:14,857 Whatever one thinks of two gays being parents. 581 00:26:16,554 --> 00:26:19,535 You're going to be hard pressed to have a jury come back with murder two. 582 00:26:19,657 --> 00:26:22,194 Whatever it is, it shouldn't be a slap on the wrist. 583 00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:24,297 See if you can get a plea. 584 00:26:24,964 --> 00:26:26,875 Let's talk to Celia first. 585 00:26:28,234 --> 00:26:30,544 CARMICHAEL: What did he say when you told him he had a son? 586 00:26:31,504 --> 00:26:33,040 He didn't care. 587 00:26:33,506 --> 00:26:35,247 He thought I wanted money. 588 00:26:35,908 --> 00:26:37,684 What made him care? 589 00:26:40,247 --> 00:26:41,885 Tell them, Celia. 590 00:26:45,652 --> 00:26:48,656 No, it's not fair to Robert I'm the one that got him into this. 591 00:26:48,789 --> 00:26:51,634 One of the conditions of your deal is cooperation. 592 00:27:00,335 --> 00:27:02,839 I told Robert that two gays had him. 593 00:27:03,772 --> 00:27:06,309 I knew that that would make him care. 594 00:27:08,377 --> 00:27:12,223 This man's son was given up in an adoption he never knew of. 595 00:27:12,514 --> 00:27:14,892 When he learned of his son's existence, he responded. 596 00:27:14,950 --> 00:27:17,261 It's how he responded that concerns us. 597 00:27:17,654 --> 00:27:20,225 Celia Goddard told him he was the only person 598 00:27:20,323 --> 00:27:23,031 who could overturn the adoption. She was desperate. 599 00:27:23,126 --> 00:27:25,606 We have Ms. Goddard's statement. We know what she said. 600 00:27:25,662 --> 00:27:29,611 Then you also know that Mr. Kelley harbored no intent to kill anyone. 601 00:27:30,067 --> 00:27:31,546 A jury might think otherwise. 602 00:27:31,602 --> 00:27:34,515 JACK: He went there to confront Mr. Mandel physically. 603 00:27:34,605 --> 00:27:37,677 Disputed custody situations are always very heated. 604 00:27:37,741 --> 00:27:41,246 This was a situation that got away from everybody. 605 00:27:41,446 --> 00:27:44,825 I had a right to know my child. To hold him. 606 00:27:44,883 --> 00:27:46,658 Bob, please. JACK: Whatever rights you may have had, 607 00:27:46,718 --> 00:27:49,062 they didn't extend to kidnapping and murder. 608 00:27:49,121 --> 00:27:51,863 Let's stop talking in terms of murder. It's man two. 609 00:27:51,923 --> 00:27:52,993 He does a deuce. 610 00:27:53,091 --> 00:27:57,768 The M.E. says Mr. Mandel was beaten to death after he was helpless. 611 00:27:59,398 --> 00:28:00,502 Murder two. 612 00:28:00,566 --> 00:28:01,704 Based on what? Do you have a witness? 613 00:28:01,767 --> 00:28:02,871 Celia Goddard. 614 00:28:02,935 --> 00:28:04,744 That's just "he said, she said." 615 00:28:05,204 --> 00:28:07,116 This is the best he can expect. 616 00:28:07,341 --> 00:28:09,252 We all know what was behind this murder. 617 00:28:09,710 --> 00:28:13,419 He pleads to murder two, 15-to-life now, 618 00:28:14,181 --> 00:28:18,152 or we go to trial on man one with a bias crime charge 619 00:28:18,652 --> 00:28:20,360 and he could be looking at more time. 620 00:28:20,422 --> 00:28:24,199 Bias crime? That's absurd. Mr. Kelley didn't hate homosexuals. 621 00:28:24,425 --> 00:28:26,063 He loves his son. 622 00:28:26,928 --> 00:28:28,305 Offer's on the table. 623 00:28:28,663 --> 00:28:30,006 Your call. 624 00:28:34,803 --> 00:28:36,908 We'll take our chances in court. 625 00:28:40,609 --> 00:28:42,919 I was in pretty bad shape when I met Robert. 626 00:28:43,012 --> 00:28:44,650 I was using heroin. 627 00:28:45,482 --> 00:28:47,484 Robert tried to help me. 628 00:28:47,684 --> 00:28:48,788 I wasn't ready. 629 00:28:48,919 --> 00:28:51,024 Did you have a relationship with Mr. Kelley? 630 00:28:51,087 --> 00:28:52,828 Yes. I became pregnant. 631 00:28:53,623 --> 00:28:55,762 I knew I couldn't take care of the baby. 632 00:28:56,259 --> 00:28:58,365 So I arranged for his adoption. 633 00:28:58,629 --> 00:29:00,336 JACK: At some point did you change your mind? 634 00:29:00,498 --> 00:29:03,411 After I got out of the hospital I went into rehab. 635 00:29:03,768 --> 00:29:06,874 That first year was the hardest year of my life. 636 00:29:08,773 --> 00:29:10,947 What kept me going, what made me 637 00:29:11,009 --> 00:29:13,853 not run away and start using again and not kill myself 638 00:29:13,912 --> 00:29:15,789 was remembering that I had this son, 639 00:29:16,615 --> 00:29:18,356 this person that I had... 640 00:29:19,518 --> 00:29:21,520 That I'd carried inside me and 641 00:29:22,621 --> 00:29:24,795 given birth to. He kept me alive. 642 00:29:24,857 --> 00:29:26,928 JACK: What happened after you got out of rehab? 643 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,935 CELIA: I went to see a case worker 644 00:29:28,995 --> 00:29:30,872 and then I talked to a lawyer. 645 00:29:31,764 --> 00:29:33,869 I found out that the only person 646 00:29:33,933 --> 00:29:35,810 who could challenge the adoption was Robert. 647 00:29:35,902 --> 00:29:37,280 And why was that? 648 00:29:37,471 --> 00:29:38,814 Because I never told him about it. 649 00:29:38,872 --> 00:29:40,783 I never told him I was pregnant. 650 00:29:41,408 --> 00:29:42,648 Did you get in touch with him? 651 00:29:42,710 --> 00:29:43,780 Yes. 652 00:29:43,844 --> 00:29:45,755 What did you say to him? 653 00:29:46,847 --> 00:29:48,520 I told him he had a son. 654 00:29:48,649 --> 00:29:50,288 What was his reaction? 655 00:29:50,485 --> 00:29:51,862 CELIA: He was distant. 656 00:29:52,487 --> 00:29:54,763 I don't think he ever considered having kids. 657 00:29:55,156 --> 00:29:58,194 JACK: Did you say something that made him change his mind? 658 00:30:03,666 --> 00:30:05,873 Answer the question, Ms. Goddard. 659 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,011 I told him that his son had been adopted 660 00:30:15,545 --> 00:30:18,321 and that the people who'd adopted him were homosexuals. 661 00:30:18,548 --> 00:30:21,688 JACK: Was there anything to make you think the homosexuality of these men 662 00:30:21,752 --> 00:30:23,993 would have an effect on Mr. Kelley? 663 00:30:24,788 --> 00:30:26,461 Yeah, the way that he talked about them. 664 00:30:26,523 --> 00:30:29,232 And then there was this incident when I first knew Robert. 665 00:30:29,327 --> 00:30:30,772 JACK: What was that, Ms. Goddard? 666 00:30:30,828 --> 00:30:33,741 Robert and a friend picked a fight with these two gay guys 667 00:30:33,831 --> 00:30:35,936 at the Sheridan Square subway station. 668 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:37,170 Why? 669 00:30:37,769 --> 00:30:39,442 They were holding hands. 670 00:30:40,706 --> 00:30:43,653 JACK: Would you tell the court what action you and the defendant 671 00:30:43,776 --> 00:30:46,017 took in effort to get your child back. 672 00:30:46,245 --> 00:30:50,022 Well, I wanted him to come with me to the lawyer to make a claim. 673 00:30:51,250 --> 00:30:53,492 But he went to Mr. Mandel's apartment, 674 00:30:53,853 --> 00:30:57,130 and we hung around outside the building. 675 00:31:00,026 --> 00:31:03,473 Then we saw Mr. Mandel coming back from a walk. 676 00:31:04,464 --> 00:31:05,875 Dylan was with him. 677 00:31:05,932 --> 00:31:07,503 JACK: What happened then? 678 00:31:07,568 --> 00:31:09,775 CELIA: Robert followed him into this courtyard. 679 00:31:09,870 --> 00:31:11,907 He started shouting at the guy. 680 00:31:12,373 --> 00:31:15,013 Mr. Mandel threatened to call the police. 681 00:31:15,342 --> 00:31:17,879 Then he started to take the baby out of the stroller, 682 00:31:17,979 --> 00:31:20,119 and Robert grabbed him, he pushed him away. 683 00:31:20,816 --> 00:31:22,796 Then Mr. Mandel pushed Robert, 684 00:31:22,851 --> 00:31:24,797 and that's when Robert punched him, 685 00:31:25,253 --> 00:31:28,530 and Mr. Mandel fell down. 686 00:31:29,324 --> 00:31:31,304 What did Robert do then? 687 00:31:35,598 --> 00:31:37,009 He kicked him. 688 00:31:37,066 --> 00:31:39,273 JACK: How many times? Once? Twice? 689 00:31:39,802 --> 00:31:41,110 CELIA: (CRYING) I don't know. 690 00:31:41,237 --> 00:31:42,238 What else? 691 00:31:42,305 --> 00:31:44,342 He hit him with his fists. 692 00:31:44,507 --> 00:31:46,078 JACK: How many times? 693 00:31:46,510 --> 00:31:48,353 I don't know. I'm sorry, Robert. 694 00:31:48,579 --> 00:31:50,354 Did the defendant say anything? 695 00:31:52,983 --> 00:31:56,123 Ms. Goddard, as he was punching and kicking Mr. Mandel, 696 00:31:56,186 --> 00:31:58,360 did the defendant say anything? 697 00:31:58,423 --> 00:32:00,403 He kept shouting at him. 698 00:32:02,427 --> 00:32:04,930 He kept calling Mr. Mandel a faggot. 699 00:32:09,667 --> 00:32:11,579 I have nothing further. 700 00:32:12,138 --> 00:32:13,708 Ms. Goddard, 701 00:32:14,306 --> 00:32:16,081 when you got out of drug rehab, 702 00:32:16,142 --> 00:32:17,644 you realized you'd made a mistake 703 00:32:17,710 --> 00:32:21,852 giving Dylan up for adoption, and you tracked down Mr. Albers, correct? 704 00:32:22,048 --> 00:32:23,960 Yes. Because you wanted your son back. 705 00:32:24,017 --> 00:32:26,759 And you would do anything it took to get him back, 706 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:29,232 including manipulating Robert Kelley. 707 00:32:30,524 --> 00:32:31,935 I told him the truth. 708 00:32:32,125 --> 00:32:33,798 It was you who engineered this whole thing, 709 00:32:33,860 --> 00:32:35,635 was it not, Ms. Goddard? 710 00:32:35,829 --> 00:32:38,208 Nobody engineered it. It just happened. 711 00:32:38,266 --> 00:32:40,576 It was you who found Mr. Albers' address, 712 00:32:40,635 --> 00:32:42,478 it was you who stalked him, 713 00:32:42,737 --> 00:32:47,208 and it was you who inflamed my client's emotions to achieve your purpose. 714 00:32:47,275 --> 00:32:49,756 Objection. JUDGE: Ask a question, Ms. Cutler. 715 00:32:50,245 --> 00:32:52,088 You're the one with the criminal record, Ms. Goddard, 716 00:32:52,147 --> 00:32:55,128 and you expect us to believe this was Mr. Kelley's idea? 717 00:32:55,217 --> 00:32:56,719 I just wanted my son back. 718 00:32:56,819 --> 00:32:59,299 What do you just want now, Ms. Goddard? 719 00:32:59,555 --> 00:33:02,059 To say whatever Mr. McCoy needs you to say 720 00:33:02,125 --> 00:33:04,401 in return for letting you walk away? 721 00:33:04,461 --> 00:33:05,804 Objection. 722 00:33:06,129 --> 00:33:08,131 Withdrawn. No further questions. 723 00:33:14,972 --> 00:33:17,248 How'd you feel when you found out you'd fathered a son 724 00:33:17,308 --> 00:33:20,016 who'd been given up for adoption without your consent? 725 00:33:22,179 --> 00:33:24,819 Like I just went through a few rounds with Lennox Lewis. 726 00:33:25,483 --> 00:33:27,589 Would you have had a similar reaction if you'd found out 727 00:33:27,652 --> 00:33:29,632 the adoptive parents were heterosexual? 728 00:33:29,688 --> 00:33:31,463 Yes. Absolutely. 729 00:33:32,891 --> 00:33:34,871 Are you homophobic, Mr. Kelley? 730 00:33:35,861 --> 00:33:38,842 What people do in their own bedrooms is their own business. 731 00:33:39,130 --> 00:33:41,509 What about the incident in the subway station? 732 00:33:41,767 --> 00:33:44,941 It was just four guys who'd had a little too much to drink. 733 00:33:45,605 --> 00:33:48,916 That's it. It had nothing to do with anybody being gay. 734 00:33:49,141 --> 00:33:51,018 What about gay people raising children? 735 00:33:51,210 --> 00:33:53,714 Well, to tell you the truth, I'm not thrilled about it. 736 00:33:54,047 --> 00:33:56,755 I think it's wrong to put a child in that situation. 737 00:33:58,218 --> 00:34:00,061 That's an honest answer. 738 00:34:01,922 --> 00:34:03,902 Ms. Goddard testified 739 00:34:04,258 --> 00:34:07,399 that when she told you about Dylan you were distant. 740 00:34:08,229 --> 00:34:09,606 Is that a fair statement? 741 00:34:09,731 --> 00:34:10,801 Yes. 742 00:34:11,132 --> 00:34:13,043 At first, I was numb. 743 00:34:13,201 --> 00:34:14,646 Then I thought, 744 00:34:15,737 --> 00:34:17,148 I had a son. 745 00:34:18,106 --> 00:34:19,381 A son. 746 00:34:20,442 --> 00:34:21,921 What did you do? 747 00:34:21,977 --> 00:34:23,786 Went with Celia to get my kid. 748 00:34:23,913 --> 00:34:25,586 Why didn't you go see a lawyer? 749 00:34:25,714 --> 00:34:27,853 'Cause Celia told me it wouldn't work. 750 00:34:28,083 --> 00:34:31,030 Did you go there to kill this man because he was a homosexual? 751 00:34:31,086 --> 00:34:32,293 No. 752 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:34,028 I went there to talk it out with him 753 00:34:34,090 --> 00:34:35,535 I thought that he would listen to reason. 754 00:34:35,592 --> 00:34:36,696 CUTLER: And what happened? 755 00:34:36,760 --> 00:34:38,740 We found Mr. Mandel with Dylan. 756 00:34:38,962 --> 00:34:41,772 I said, "This is my child, my son." 757 00:34:42,065 --> 00:34:43,305 Were you shouting? 758 00:34:43,366 --> 00:34:45,005 No. Not yet. 759 00:34:45,069 --> 00:34:46,673 I don't know where Celia got that from. 760 00:34:46,938 --> 00:34:48,849 And how did Mr. Mandel respond? 761 00:34:48,973 --> 00:34:50,646 He looked at me as if I was crazy. 762 00:34:50,975 --> 00:34:53,353 He said, this is his child, his son. 763 00:34:54,178 --> 00:34:56,419 His and his partner's. 764 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,051 I said, "Don't you think that the kid" 765 00:34:58,116 --> 00:35:00,221 "would really be better off with a mommy and a daddy?" 766 00:35:00,285 --> 00:35:01,389 CUTLER: What did he say? 767 00:35:01,453 --> 00:35:03,160 He said, "Check your watch." 768 00:35:03,789 --> 00:35:06,167 "It sounds a decade or two too slow." 769 00:35:06,458 --> 00:35:09,462 Then he leaned down to pick up my boy from the stroller, 770 00:35:11,230 --> 00:35:13,710 and Dylan peeked up at me. He, uh, smiled. 771 00:35:14,867 --> 00:35:16,073 He looked like me. 772 00:35:16,169 --> 00:35:17,807 Is that when you grabbed Mr. Mandel? 773 00:35:18,037 --> 00:35:19,038 Yes. 774 00:35:19,138 --> 00:35:20,617 He was going to take my boy away. 775 00:35:20,673 --> 00:35:22,380 What did he do? 776 00:35:23,410 --> 00:35:24,889 He pushed me. 777 00:35:25,446 --> 00:35:27,858 And all I can think of was my boy. 778 00:35:30,017 --> 00:35:33,521 I hit him till he fell and, uh, I kept hitting him. 779 00:35:35,857 --> 00:35:37,666 I'm sorry that he's dead. 780 00:35:38,827 --> 00:35:41,137 I really didn't mean for that to happen. 781 00:35:41,596 --> 00:35:43,041 No more questions. 782 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:49,113 Celia Goddard stated that you went to the building and waited outside? 783 00:35:49,438 --> 00:35:51,543 Yes. What was the plan, according to you? 784 00:35:51,607 --> 00:35:52,711 To talk to him. 785 00:35:52,875 --> 00:35:54,616 So why did you follow him into the courtyard? 786 00:35:54,677 --> 00:35:56,816 Why didn't you talk to him in front of the building, 787 00:35:56,879 --> 00:35:58,415 on a public street? 788 00:35:58,748 --> 00:36:00,750 I thought it would be better done in private. 789 00:36:00,816 --> 00:36:02,091 What would be better in private? 790 00:36:02,152 --> 00:36:04,029 Talking to him or beating him? 791 00:36:05,055 --> 00:36:06,159 Talking to him. 792 00:36:06,223 --> 00:36:10,262 Isn't it a fact that when Celia Goddard told you you had a son, 793 00:36:10,327 --> 00:36:11,397 you weren't numb? 794 00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:14,534 You didn't care about him or that he was adopted. 795 00:36:14,632 --> 00:36:16,077 No, that's not true. 796 00:36:16,234 --> 00:36:20,580 JACK: In fact, wasn't the only thing that made you care at all about this child 797 00:36:21,039 --> 00:36:24,452 that you learned that he'd been adopted by a gay man and his lover? 798 00:36:24,576 --> 00:36:26,146 No, that isn't true. 799 00:36:26,244 --> 00:36:30,125 You followed Mr. Mandel, you accosted him, you beat him. 800 00:36:30,616 --> 00:36:32,823 He was lying on the ground unconscious. 801 00:36:33,085 --> 00:36:36,089 You had the boy. Why didn't you walk away? 802 00:36:36,155 --> 00:36:37,634 I don't know. 803 00:36:38,223 --> 00:36:39,395 I wish I had. 804 00:36:39,491 --> 00:36:41,529 By this time you were shouting, weren't you? 805 00:36:41,795 --> 00:36:43,706 Yes. So was Celia. 806 00:36:44,397 --> 00:36:47,708 But Celia was shouting for you to stop, wasn't she? 807 00:36:47,767 --> 00:36:49,110 What were you shouting? 808 00:36:49,903 --> 00:36:50,973 I don't remember. 809 00:36:51,037 --> 00:36:53,484 Celia Goddard says that you were shouting 810 00:36:53,941 --> 00:36:56,820 "faggot" and that you kicked him 811 00:36:56,944 --> 00:37:00,118 and went on shouting until he was dead. 812 00:37:00,514 --> 00:37:01,618 It wasn't like that. 813 00:37:01,682 --> 00:37:02,717 What was it like? 814 00:37:02,783 --> 00:37:04,524 It all happened at once. 815 00:37:04,585 --> 00:37:08,090 Why did you continue once you had the boy? 816 00:37:09,991 --> 00:37:15,236 Was it that in your mind Brad Mandel wasn't a parent or a person, but a pervert? 817 00:37:15,664 --> 00:37:17,905 A sick, twisted individual 818 00:37:18,233 --> 00:37:21,772 who had to be stopped from sexually enslaving a young boy? 819 00:37:21,838 --> 00:37:24,751 Look, if that's what he was doing, then hell, yes, he needed to be stopped. 820 00:37:24,807 --> 00:37:27,219 Yes. Well, was that what he was doing? 821 00:37:33,817 --> 00:37:35,854 I didn't mean to kill him. 822 00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:51,240 A rebuttal witness? 823 00:37:52,570 --> 00:37:53,742 On what ground? 824 00:37:53,805 --> 00:37:54,840 They opened the door. 825 00:37:54,939 --> 00:37:56,418 Door to what? 826 00:37:56,474 --> 00:37:59,354 The fitness of homosexuals as parents is at issue. 827 00:37:59,645 --> 00:38:02,091 Mr. Albers is entitled to testify to that. 828 00:38:02,181 --> 00:38:03,251 I agree. 829 00:38:03,315 --> 00:38:04,988 I'm going to allow it. 830 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,494 ALBERS: We were like any other couple with a kid. 831 00:38:10,924 --> 00:38:13,200 "Early to bed, early to rise..." 832 00:38:14,227 --> 00:38:15,865 The only restaurants we went to 833 00:38:15,929 --> 00:38:18,205 had paper place mats on the table with crayons. 834 00:38:18,398 --> 00:38:20,275 Whose desire was it to adopt? 835 00:38:20,367 --> 00:38:22,074 At first it was Brad's. 836 00:38:22,537 --> 00:38:24,813 I was happy with our life the way it was. 837 00:38:24,972 --> 00:38:26,713 Traveling, going out. 838 00:38:27,141 --> 00:38:28,643 I wasn't looking for anything else. 839 00:38:28,709 --> 00:38:31,781 JACK: So he was the one who was involved with the child? 840 00:38:31,879 --> 00:38:33,153 ALBERS: At first. 841 00:38:34,515 --> 00:38:35,756 I was scared. 842 00:38:37,186 --> 00:38:40,099 This was a sick child. Don't forget, his mother was using drugs 843 00:38:40,155 --> 00:38:43,864 while she was pregnant with him, which left him with all kinds of problems. 844 00:38:44,126 --> 00:38:46,936 And Brad was the one who would be up all night with him, 845 00:38:47,029 --> 00:38:49,533 warming his formula and taking his temperature 846 00:38:49,732 --> 00:38:52,713 and singing to him to get him to go to sleep. 847 00:38:53,103 --> 00:38:54,776 You said "at first." 848 00:38:56,105 --> 00:38:57,277 Right. 849 00:38:59,943 --> 00:39:02,185 I guess that's the thing about kids. 850 00:39:03,747 --> 00:39:06,353 You can only fight them off for so long. 851 00:39:07,885 --> 00:39:09,922 As much as I imagined myself to be 852 00:39:09,987 --> 00:39:12,831 this busy important guy out in the world making money, 853 00:39:13,023 --> 00:39:14,833 doing busy important things, 854 00:39:14,993 --> 00:39:17,337 at a certain point I realized that all I really wanted to do 855 00:39:17,395 --> 00:39:19,875 was come home and be with my son. 856 00:39:22,968 --> 00:39:24,641 With Brad and our son. 857 00:39:28,674 --> 00:39:30,119 Thank you. 858 00:39:36,783 --> 00:39:39,161 Mr. Mandel had a life membership 859 00:39:39,218 --> 00:39:41,665 in a Chelsea gym, did he not? 860 00:39:41,822 --> 00:39:42,823 Yes. 861 00:39:42,956 --> 00:39:43,991 He get there much? 862 00:39:44,057 --> 00:39:46,196 Yes, he did. He took a lot of pride in his appearance. 863 00:39:46,260 --> 00:39:47,295 He have much of a temper? 864 00:39:47,394 --> 00:39:48,429 Objection. Irrelevant. 865 00:39:48,495 --> 00:39:51,169 I'm just trying to let the jury come away with an accurate picture 866 00:39:51,231 --> 00:39:54,145 of what might have transpired in that courtyard. 867 00:39:54,235 --> 00:39:55,236 I'll allow it. 868 00:39:55,336 --> 00:39:57,316 I'm sure that what was happening in that courtyard 869 00:39:57,372 --> 00:39:58,874 is that Brad was trying to protect our child. 870 00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:01,011 You weren't in that courtyard, Mr. Albers. 871 00:40:01,276 --> 00:40:03,950 And the only question you've been asked is whether or not 872 00:40:04,078 --> 00:40:05,422 Bradford Mandel had a temper. 873 00:40:05,481 --> 00:40:07,324 Yes, he did. He had a temper. 874 00:40:07,416 --> 00:40:08,952 When he had to deal with homophobes 875 00:40:09,018 --> 00:40:12,192 and hate and mean-spirited people he had a temper. 876 00:40:12,354 --> 00:40:13,856 Does that make him any less of a victim 877 00:40:13,923 --> 00:40:16,403 than if he'd acted like some frightened little Cinderella? 878 00:40:16,458 --> 00:40:18,632 Mr. Albers you've answered the question. 879 00:40:19,095 --> 00:40:20,699 Let's let it go at that. 880 00:40:24,501 --> 00:40:27,448 Look closely at Robert Kelley, ladies and gentlemen. 881 00:40:28,004 --> 00:40:31,111 He's a man who deserves understanding and empathy, 882 00:40:31,876 --> 00:40:33,981 and finally to be found not guilty. 883 00:40:34,745 --> 00:40:38,454 He had the existence of his child concealed from him. 884 00:40:38,616 --> 00:40:42,086 Then he was pressed into service by this child's mother 885 00:40:42,653 --> 00:40:44,691 to do what she couldn't do for herself. 886 00:40:45,190 --> 00:40:47,602 Finally, he was betrayed by this woman, 887 00:40:47,993 --> 00:40:50,166 who, having used him, now turned on him. 888 00:40:50,462 --> 00:40:54,933 Robert Kelley accompanied Celia Goddard in an attempt to get her child back. 889 00:40:55,434 --> 00:40:57,244 Naive? Certainly. 890 00:40:57,770 --> 00:40:59,613 Misguided? That, too. 891 00:41:00,540 --> 00:41:02,986 Manslaughter? Not even close. 892 00:41:05,111 --> 00:41:07,921 What we have heard here, in the way of proof, 893 00:41:08,281 --> 00:41:10,523 is conjecture by a prosecutor, 894 00:41:11,018 --> 00:41:13,157 and the self-serving declarations of a woman 895 00:41:13,220 --> 00:41:15,325 who cut a deal to save her own neck. 896 00:41:15,956 --> 00:41:18,095 Based on that, and only that, 897 00:41:18,659 --> 00:41:21,663 are you to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt 898 00:41:21,829 --> 00:41:23,741 that Bradford Mandel's death 899 00:41:23,798 --> 00:41:26,608 was not the tragic, unforeseen consequence 900 00:41:26,668 --> 00:41:29,274 of an emotional exchange between two men, 901 00:41:30,272 --> 00:41:34,277 but rather the result of a planned attack by a homophobic bully? 902 00:41:36,112 --> 00:41:38,251 See Robert Kelley for who he is. 903 00:41:39,015 --> 00:41:41,518 A decent law-abiding man, 904 00:41:42,652 --> 00:41:45,656 manipulated into circumstances that got out of control. 905 00:41:46,722 --> 00:41:48,498 See him for who he is. 906 00:41:48,825 --> 00:41:50,771 A parent, like any other. 907 00:41:51,762 --> 00:41:55,005 See him for who he is, judge him fairly, 908 00:41:56,667 --> 00:41:58,271 and let him go free. 909 00:42:09,180 --> 00:42:10,887 The central fact in this case 910 00:42:11,015 --> 00:42:14,327 is that the defendant couldn't stand the thought 911 00:42:14,386 --> 00:42:17,265 of two homosexual men raising his child. 912 00:42:18,223 --> 00:42:20,032 What this trial is about 913 00:42:20,526 --> 00:42:23,837 is whether that provides a justification for a killing 914 00:42:24,229 --> 00:42:26,471 or the basis for a bias crime. 915 00:42:28,201 --> 00:42:29,578 Make no mistake, 916 00:42:30,303 --> 00:42:32,044 if you agree with the defense, 917 00:42:32,172 --> 00:42:35,346 what you're saying is that Bradford Mandel 918 00:42:35,442 --> 00:42:36,944 deserved to die. 919 00:42:37,010 --> 00:42:39,184 That somehow his beating was justified 920 00:42:39,547 --> 00:42:43,893 because gay couples have no right to be parents. 921 00:42:44,752 --> 00:42:47,733 That the simple fact that he was homosexual 922 00:42:47,955 --> 00:42:49,628 justifies homicide. 923 00:42:50,057 --> 00:42:51,798 Because that's what this was. 924 00:42:52,027 --> 00:42:55,372 Not just based on Celia Goddard's testimony 925 00:42:55,897 --> 00:42:59,037 but on the report of the Medical Examiner 926 00:42:59,167 --> 00:43:03,411 which states unequivocally that Mr. Mandel was kicked and beaten to death 927 00:43:03,538 --> 00:43:06,349 long after he was able to put up any resistance. 928 00:43:07,243 --> 00:43:09,086 When no one else wanted this baby, 929 00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:12,920 Mr. Mandel and Mr. Albers did. 930 00:43:14,150 --> 00:43:16,721 When this child was labeled a drug baby, 931 00:43:17,721 --> 00:43:20,827 only they were courageous enough to ignore the stigma. 932 00:43:23,027 --> 00:43:24,563 And most importantly, 933 00:43:25,529 --> 00:43:28,703 when this little baby's life hung in the balance, 934 00:43:29,099 --> 00:43:33,276 it was their love and their singular devotion 935 00:43:34,005 --> 00:43:35,348 which saved him. 936 00:43:35,807 --> 00:43:40,847 It's that love, they claim justifies Mr. Mandel's being beaten to death. 937 00:43:43,849 --> 00:43:46,887 I hope you will decide it deserves better than that. 938 00:43:54,160 --> 00:43:56,072 Has the jury reached its verdict? 939 00:43:56,162 --> 00:43:57,334 FOREWOMAN: We have. 940 00:43:57,697 --> 00:44:00,041 On the charge of Manslaughter in the First Degree, 941 00:44:00,100 --> 00:44:01,909 we find the defendant guilty. 942 00:44:03,870 --> 00:44:05,781 JUDGE: As to the special circumstances? 943 00:44:05,872 --> 00:44:08,546 We determine the basis of the crime to be a hate crime. 944 00:44:25,861 --> 00:44:27,272 Mr. Albers, 945 00:44:32,401 --> 00:44:34,643 I don't know what to say to you. 946 00:44:36,172 --> 00:44:39,551 I hope that maybe someday you'll tell Dylan about me. 947 00:44:40,443 --> 00:44:43,515 Just so he knows he has a mom who cares about him. 948 00:44:44,847 --> 00:44:47,761 I imagine one day you'll tell him yourself. 949 00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:50,760 Excuse me.