1 00:00:17,550 --> 00:00:18,151 >>> TONIGHT ON "DATELINE" -- 2 00:00:18,151 --> 00:00:19,352 >> THE VICTIM WAS ON THE FLOOR OF THE BATHROOM WITH MULTIPLE 3 00:00:19,352 --> 00:00:21,721 STAB WOUNDS. THE SON IS THE ONE WHO CALLED 4 00:00:21,721 --> 00:00:33,667 911. >> OH, MY GOD, MY MOMMY. 5 00:00:33,667 --> 00:00:34,801 >> I REMEMBER SEEING MY DAD JUST BREAKING DOWN AND CRYING 6 00:00:34,801 --> 00:00:36,803 >> Reporter: THERE HAD BEEN A PARTY IN THE HOUSE 7 00:00:36,803 --> 00:00:41,508 >> CORRECT UPWARDS OF, LIKE, 20 KIDS. 8 00:00:41,508 --> 00:00:43,043 >> MAYBE ONE OF MY FRIENDS MIGHT HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH 9 00:00:43,043 --> 00:00:44,077 >> Reporter: THAT FOLDING KNIFE YOU FOUND -- 10 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:45,712 >> BELONGED TO THE SON >> THERE WERE FACTS THAT ARE 11 00:00:45,712 --> 00:00:46,880 WEIRD. >> I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THOUGH 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,781 >> YES, YOU DID. YOU KILLED YOUR MOTHER AND 13 00:00:47,781 --> 00:00:48,782 YOU -- >> NO, I DIDN'T. 14 00:00:48,782 --> 00:00:49,783 NO, I DIDN'T NO I DIDN'T. 15 00:00:49,783 --> 00:00:51,384 >> Reporter: THE LAB RESULTS COME BACK, AND THE DNA GIVES YOU 16 00:00:51,384 --> 00:00:52,886 A NAME >> YES 17 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:53,687 >> HE HAD QUITE AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY. 18 00:00:53,687 --> 00:00:54,554 ALL OF HIS BURGLARY M.O.s FIT THIS CASE. 19 00:00:54,554 --> 00:00:56,589 >> ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HEAR THAT SOMEBODY ESCAPED FROM THE 20 00:00:56,589 --> 00:01:00,260 COURTHOUSE >> Reporter: HE'S GOT A CREW 21 00:01:00,260 --> 00:01:01,327 HELPING HIM. THIS IS "OCEAN'S ELEVEN" STUFF 22 00:01:01,327 --> 00:01:02,796 >> YEAH. >> I THINK MY WORDS WERE, "ARE 23 00:01:02,796 --> 00:01:05,398 YOU KIDDING ME?" >> Reporter: AS YOU'RE GOING 24 00:01:05,398 --> 00:01:06,633 BACK TO ANNOUNCE YOUR VERDICT -- >> I'M LIKE, "WHAT AM I DOING? 25 00:01:06,633 --> 00:01:11,638 THIS IS NOT RIGHT. >> IS THAT YOUR VERDICT? 26 00:01:11,638 --> 00:01:12,806 >> NO. >> 35 YEARS I'VE NEVER HAD THAT 27 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:16,843 HAPPEN THIS FAMILY DESPERATELY NEEDED 28 00:01:16,843 --> 00:01:19,446 CLOSURE. >> I JUST REMEMBER SHAKING 29 00:01:19,446 --> 00:01:23,083 UNCONTROLLABLY >> YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE THRUST 30 00:01:23,083 --> 00:01:28,088 INTO A HEARTBREAKING MYSTERY A MOTHER MURDERED, HER SON 31 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:29,823 ACCUSED. IT WOULD TAKE TWO TRIALS TO FIND 32 00:01:29,823 --> 00:01:34,361 THE TRUTH. I'M LESTER HOLT, AND THIS IS 33 00:01:34,361 --> 00:01:40,767 "DATELINE. * 34 00:01:40,767 --> 00:01:47,540 * >> HERE'S DENNIS MURPHY WITH 35 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:50,643 "THE FIGURE IN THE HOUSE." >> Reporter: DRIVE HALF AN HOUR 36 00:01:50,643 --> 00:01:55,849 WEST FROM FROM THE BEACHES OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, AND 37 00:01:55,849 --> 00:02:02,088 YOU'RE IN COWBOY COUNTRY BOOTS, HATS, AND LINE DANCING. 38 00:02:02,088 --> 00:02:05,191 AT LEAST DAVIE, FLORIDA, LIKES TO THINK OF ITSELF AS THE OLD 39 00:02:05,191 --> 00:02:07,794 WEST BUT REALLY, YOU'D HAVE TO SQUINT 40 00:02:07,794 --> 00:02:10,930 TO REMEMBER THAT ERA THE DAIRY FARMS THAT ONCE RAN 41 00:02:10,930 --> 00:02:16,136 ALL THE WAY TO THE EVERGLADES ARE MOSTLY GONE. 42 00:02:16,136 --> 00:02:21,975 COWS AND HORSES MADE WAY FOR GATED COMMUNITIES PLOTTED WITH 43 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:26,513 MULTIMILLION DOLLAR HOMES. IN ONE OF THOSE NICE GATED HOMES 44 00:02:26,513 --> 00:02:29,115 LIVED 20-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN SU, HIS MOM JILL, AND HIS DAD, NAN-YAO, 45 00:02:29,115 --> 00:02:32,752 A PROFESSOR. A HOME THAT WOULD TURN INTO A 46 00:02:32,752 --> 00:02:42,095 SCENE OUT OF A BAD SLASHER MOVIE, ALL THAT BLOOD, ALL THOSE 47 00:02:42,095 --> 00:02:47,834 WOUNDS IT HAPPENED ON SEPTEMBER 8, 48 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:49,402 2014 THE NIGHT BEFORE, JUSTIN'S 49 00:02:49,402 --> 00:02:51,971 PARENTS HAD RETURNED FROM A TRIP TO MALAYSIA. 50 00:02:51,971 --> 00:02:54,140 THE NEXT MORNING HIS DAD SHOOK OFF THE JET LAG AND HEADED TO 51 00:02:54,140 --> 00:03:02,882 HIS OFFICE AT THE LOCAL CAMPUS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 52 00:03:02,882 --> 00:03:04,184 HE'S AN ENTOMOLOGIST, A BUG GUY. JUSTIN'S MOM SLEPT IN, BUT WAS 53 00:03:04,184 --> 00:03:07,587 UP WHEN WHEN JUSTIN LEFT THE HOUSE AROUND 9:30 THAT MORNING 54 00:03:07,587 --> 00:03:14,260 >> MY MOTHER WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM IN HER PINK ROBE. 55 00:03:14,260 --> 00:03:15,962 SHE WAS READING A BOOK AND I SAID, "SEE YOU WHEN I GET HOME 56 00:03:15,962 --> 00:03:16,863 FROM WORK. >> Reporter: JUSTIN ALSO WORKED 57 00:03:16,863 --> 00:03:18,498 PART TIME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AS A PROFESSOR'S 58 00:03:18,498 --> 00:03:21,101 ASSISTANT. SHORTLY AFTER NOON, HE GOT A 59 00:03:21,101 --> 00:03:33,079 CALL FROM HIS FATHER >> AND THE FIRST THING HE ASKED 60 00:03:33,079 --> 00:03:35,115 ME WAS, "ARE -- ARE YOU HOME RIGHT NOW? 61 00:03:35,115 --> 00:03:36,683 LIKE, ARE YOU HOME?" I'M LIKE, "NO, I'M AT WORK." 62 00:03:36,683 --> 00:03:38,118 >> Reporter: THE REASON FOR THE CALL FROM HIS OFFICE -- JUSTIN'S 63 00:03:38,118 --> 00:03:39,285 DAD HAD SEEN SOMETHING UNUSUAL ON A REMOTE SECURITY CAMERA. 64 00:03:39,285 --> 00:03:41,321 >> "I JUST SAW SOMETHING WEIRD CAN YOU GO HOME AND CHECK, LIKE, 65 00:03:41,321 --> 00:03:43,923 WHAT'S UP? THE CAMERA'S JUST WENT OUT AT 66 00:03:43,923 --> 00:03:45,992 THE HOUSE. AND I'M LIKE, "YEAH, OKAY, NO 67 00:03:45,992 --> 00:03:54,300 PROBLEM. >> Reporter: JUSTIN'S DAD, 68 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:57,437 NAN-YAO -- >> AROUND 12:15 I THOUGHT, MAYBE 69 00:03:57,437 --> 00:04:01,641 I SHOULD CHECK THE CAMERA TO SEE IF IT'S STILL WORKING OR NOT 70 00:04:01,641 --> 00:04:02,876 >> SO THE CAMERA'S KIND OF BEEN FLICKERING IN RELIABILITY, AND 71 00:04:02,876 --> 00:04:04,411 YOU WANTED TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON 72 00:04:04,411 --> 00:04:05,311 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THE CAMERA WAS IN 73 00:04:05,311 --> 00:04:07,547 HIS HOUSE NEAR THE KITCHEN WHAT HE SAW, AND IT WASN'T MUCH 74 00:04:07,547 --> 00:04:10,450 MORE THAN A GLIMPSE, WAS A LIVE FEED IMAGE OF A FIGURE IN THE 75 00:04:10,450 --> 00:04:14,087 HOUSE. >> HE WALK IN FROM THE KITCHEN, 76 00:04:14,087 --> 00:04:17,724 TOWARD THE BREAKFAST AREA, AND DISAPPEAR FROM THE VIEW OF THE 77 00:04:17,724 --> 00:04:22,929 CAMERA AND NEXT THING I KNOW IS THE -- 78 00:04:22,929 --> 00:04:26,533 I LOST MY IMAGE. >> Reporter: HE THOUGHT THE 79 00:04:26,533 --> 00:04:29,135 FIGURE MIGHT BE HIS SON. BUT, IF IT WASN'T JUSTIN, WHO 80 00:04:29,135 --> 00:04:32,272 WAS IT WHEN HE CALLED HIS WIFE JILL AND 81 00:04:32,272 --> 00:04:43,717 SHE DIDN'T PICK UP, HE BECAME ALARMED. 82 00:04:43,717 --> 00:04:45,919 >> I REMEMBER I SPED HOME FROM MY DAD TELLING ME TO GO -- GO 83 00:04:45,919 --> 00:04:46,986 CHECK ON WHAT'S GOING ON 'CAUSE THE CAMERAS ARE OUT. 84 00:04:46,986 --> 00:04:47,954 >> Reporter: WITHIN 15 MINUTES HE'D ARRIVED 85 00:04:47,954 --> 00:04:49,456 THE SON WENT IN THROUGH THE GARAGE AND PASSED THE DOG 86 00:04:49,456 --> 00:04:50,990 SNOOZING IN THE HALLWAY. JUST OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN, HE 87 00:04:50,990 --> 00:04:52,092 CHECKED OUT THE FIRST SECURITY CAMERA 88 00:04:52,092 --> 00:04:53,593 >> AND I SEE A CAMERA RIPPED OUT. 89 00:04:53,593 --> 00:04:58,865 I DON'T SEE THE CAMERA, BUT I SEE THE WIRE THAT'S CONNECTED TO 90 00:04:58,865 --> 00:05:00,367 IT >> IT HAS BEEN MESSED WITH, HUH? 91 00:05:00,367 --> 00:05:08,675 >> IT'S JUST DANGLING FROM THE THING. 92 00:05:08,675 --> 00:05:09,676 AND I'M THINKING WHY IS MY MOM GOING CRAZY? 93 00:05:09,676 --> 00:05:12,812 WHAT'S -- IS -- WHY IS SHE, LIKE, RIPPING OUT THE THE 94 00:05:12,812 --> 00:05:18,518 CAMERAS? IS SHE OKAY? 95 00:05:18,518 --> 00:05:23,223 >> YOU THOUGHT YOUR MOM ACCOUNTED FOR THE CAMERA - 96 00:05:23,223 --> 00:05:27,894 >> YEAH. >> DANGLING. 97 00:05:27,894 --> 00:05:29,963 >> I MEAN, THAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE. 98 00:05:29,963 --> 00:05:32,565 BECAUSE ONLY OTHER PERSON INSIDE THE HOUSE? 99 00:05:32,565 --> 00:05:33,667 IT'S MY MOTHER >> Reporter: THE LIVING ROOM 100 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:34,668 CAM? THE SAME -- GONE TOO, JUST 101 00:05:34,668 --> 00:05:35,769 DANGLING WIRES HE MADE HIS WAY TO HIS BEDROOM 102 00:05:35,769 --> 00:05:36,936 WHERE HE SAYS HE SAW RIGHT AWAY SOMETHING WAS OFF. 103 00:05:36,936 --> 00:05:38,071 SOMEONE HAD BEEN IN HIS STUFF. JUSTIN, AN AVID HUNTER AND 104 00:05:38,071 --> 00:05:39,339 DIVER, WAS A KNIFE COLLECTOR BLADES WERE MISSING. 105 00:05:39,339 --> 00:05:40,640 NOW HE SAYS HE COULD HEAR WATER RUNNING IN HIS PARENTS' 106 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:41,975 BATHROOM AND THERE IT WAS, THE BATHTUB 107 00:05:41,975 --> 00:05:45,545 RED TO THE RIM WITH BLOOD, HIS MOTHER'S BODY FLOATING 108 00:05:45,545 --> 00:05:50,450 >> HER HEAD IS DOWN. SO HER FACE IS JUST INSIDE THIS 109 00:05:50,450 --> 00:05:55,655 BATHTUB THAT IS COMPLETELY TO THE TOP FULL OF HOT, BLOODY 110 00:05:55,655 --> 00:06:02,362 WATER. WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING SO 111 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:05,799 HORRIFIC, THERE AREN'T WORDS TO COMPREHEND 112 00:06:05,799 --> 00:06:13,606 >> Reporter: HE THOUGHT IMMEDIATELY OF HIS FATHER AND 113 00:06:13,606 --> 00:06:14,641 CALLED HIM >> I'M, LIKE, "I THINK MOM 114 00:06:14,641 --> 00:06:15,775 KILLED HERSELF." THAT'S JUST THE MOST -- AT THE 115 00:06:15,775 --> 00:06:16,710 TIME, THE MOST RATIONAL THING TO THINK. 116 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:18,278 HE SAYS, "HANG UP. CALL 911." 117 00:06:18,278 --> 00:06:23,483 I REMEMBER HIM SAYING, LIKE, "OH, MY GOD, NO. 118 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:24,784 LIKE, SOMETHING -- JUST ABSOLUTE PURE PANIC IN HIS VOICE. 119 00:06:24,784 --> 00:06:30,757 I CALL 911 >> MOM 120 00:06:30,757 --> 00:06:32,325 >> WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY? >> MOM 121 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:33,860 MY MOM KILLED HERSELF. >> OKAY, HOLD ON 122 00:06:33,860 --> 00:06:36,463 >> Reporter: A SUICIDE THAT'S WHAT HE REPORTED TO BOTH 123 00:06:36,463 --> 00:06:44,804 HIS FATHER AND 911 >> I THOUGHT MY MOTHER KILLED 124 00:06:44,804 --> 00:06:45,839 HERSELF AT THAT POINT. >> MY NAME 125 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:46,873 >> YES >> JUSTIN SU 126 00:06:46,873 --> 00:06:48,441 OH, MY GOD, MY MOMMY OH, MY GOD 127 00:06:48,441 --> 00:06:53,113 >> OKAY, STAY ON THE PHONE WITH ME, JUSTIN 128 00:06:53,113 --> 00:06:54,147 >> YOU LIFTED HER OUT OF THE TUB? 129 00:06:54,147 --> 00:06:55,181 >> YEAH, LIFTED HER OUT OF THE TUB. 130 00:06:55,181 --> 00:07:00,387 I HAVE BLOOD ALL OVER MY BODY. I START DOING COMPRESSIONS ON 131 00:07:00,387 --> 00:07:01,654 HER -- CPR, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. >> YOU WEREN'T GETTING FLUTTERS 132 00:07:01,654 --> 00:07:03,023 OF ANYTHING -- >> YEAH. 133 00:07:03,023 --> 00:07:06,092 SHE WAS SO VERY FAR GONE I REMEMBER AFTER DOING THAT, 134 00:07:06,092 --> 00:07:07,594 JUST PURE SHOCK. JUST ABSOLUTE TERROR 135 00:07:07,594 --> 00:07:12,866 >> Reporter: AND THAT'S WHEN HE REALIZED HE'D GOTTEN IT ALL VERY 136 00:07:12,866 --> 00:07:19,639 WRONG. STILL ON THE LINE WITH THE 137 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:21,675 DISPATCHER BUT NOW CHANGING HIS STORY. 138 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:23,276 HE SAW THAT HIS MOTHER WAS BOUND AND NOW TOLD THE 911 PEOPLE THAT 139 00:07:23,276 --> 00:07:27,414 THIS WASN'T A SUICIDE AT ALL IT HAD TO BE A MURDER. 140 00:07:27,414 --> 00:07:30,550 >> YOU KNOW WHAT, I THINK THIS -- I DON'T KNOW 141 00:07:30,550 --> 00:07:32,652 THIS IS A MURDER, I THINK. 'CAUSE SHE -- HER HANDS ARE 142 00:07:32,652 --> 00:07:33,453 TIED >> HER HANDS ARE TIED? 143 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:34,721 WHEN DID YOU FIND HER LIKE THIS? >> OH, MY GOD, I'M SO SCARED 144 00:07:34,721 --> 00:07:36,790 RIGHT NOW. >> OKAY. 145 00:07:36,790 --> 00:07:40,927 >> I'M LOOKING AT HER HANDS NOW AND, LIKE, HER LEGS. 146 00:07:40,927 --> 00:07:44,831 I REALIZE THEY'RE BOUND. THEY'RE TIED 147 00:07:44,831 --> 00:07:48,201 THEN IT STARTS TO CLICK. I THINK SOMEBODY KILLED MY 148 00:07:48,201 --> 00:07:50,870 MOTHER >> Reporter: SOMEBODY WHO'D 149 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:54,441 BOUND HER HANDS WITH A CLOTH BELT, HER FEET WITH AN 150 00:07:54,441 --> 00:07:58,611 ELECTRICAL CORD, THEN SLASHED AWAY IN A FRENZY, STABBING HER 151 00:07:58,611 --> 00:08:01,214 MORE THAN 20 TIMES DAVIE POLICE WERE ON THEIR WAY 152 00:08:01,214 --> 00:08:04,818 TO SECURE THE SCENE. DETECTIVES FOLLOWED AND WOULD 153 00:08:04,818 --> 00:08:08,488 SOON BE ROLLING THEIR EYES IN DISBELIEF. 154 00:08:08,488 --> 00:08:11,057 HOW COULD THE SON HAVE THOUGHT THIS WAS A SUICIDE 155 00:08:11,057 --> 00:08:15,762 WEREN'T THE MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS APPARENT 156 00:08:15,762 --> 00:08:18,365 INVESTIGATORS WOULD LEARN SOMETHING ELSE TOO 157 00:08:18,365 --> 00:08:19,933 THE VICTIM'S MAIDEN NAME WAS HALLIBURTON, AND SHE WENT BY 158 00:08:19,933 --> 00:08:23,570 JILL HALLIBURTON SU. SHE WAS THE DESCENDANT OF A RICH 159 00:08:23,570 --> 00:08:26,673 AND PROMINENT FAMILY IN THE AMERICAN OIL BUSINESS. 160 00:08:26,673 --> 00:08:28,775 SO THERE WAS AN EARLY THEORY TO RUN DOWN 161 00:08:28,775 --> 00:08:32,912 MAYBE JILL HALLIBURTON SU HAD BEEN SO BRUTALLY MURDERED FOR 162 00:08:32,912 --> 00:08:37,617 HER MONEY. IT WAS WAY TOO SOON TO KNOW. 163 00:08:37,617 --> 00:08:40,720 >>> A CRIME SCENE THAT WOULD HORRIFY EVEN HARDENED HOMICIDE 164 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:46,426 DETECTIVES AND LEAVE A SON SHATTERED. 165 00:08:46,426 --> 00:08:48,528 WHEN WE COME BACK >> I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN IN 166 00:08:48,528 --> 00:08:52,599 THE GRASS, AND THERE'S SOME MULCH RIGHT NEXT TO ME 167 00:08:52,599 --> 00:08:54,234 I JUST STARTED PUNCHING IT AND, LIKE, SCREAMING. 168 00:08:54,234 --> 00:08:59,439 >> THOSE SAME DETECTIVES WOULD SOON HAVE SOME TOUGH QUESTIONS 169 00:08:59,439 --> 00:09:11,918 FOR YOUNG JUSTIN >> THAT FOLDING KNIFYO 170 00:09:11,918 --> 00:09:14,020 * * 171 00:09:14,020 --> 00:09:15,588 >>> ARE YOU GONNA BE ABLE TO FORGET THAT SCENE? 172 00:09:15,588 --> 00:09:17,657 >> NEVER >> THAT WOMAN IN THE BATHROOM? 173 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:20,760 >> NEVER THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE 174 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:24,431 MOST HORRIFIC SCENES THAT I HAVE EVER WORKED IN MY 28 YEARS 175 00:09:24,431 --> 00:09:28,568 >> Reporter: WHEN VETERAN DAVIE HOMICIDE DETECTIVE PAUL WILLIAMS 176 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:31,705 ARRIVED AT THE SU HOME, HE WASN'T SURE WHETHER HE HAD A 177 00:09:31,705 --> 00:09:34,307 HOMICIDE OR A SUICIDE. IT HAD BEEN CALLED IN BOTH WAYS. 178 00:09:34,307 --> 00:09:36,810 OFFICERS POINTED OUT THE YOUNG MAN SITTING IN THE GRASS AS THE 179 00:09:36,810 --> 00:09:41,047 SON. HE HAD FOUND THE VICTIM. 180 00:09:41,047 --> 00:09:45,719 >> I REMEMBER SITTING DOWN IN THE GRASS, AND THERE'S SOME 181 00:09:45,719 --> 00:09:47,821 MULCH RIGHT NEXT TO ME I JUST REMEMBER LOOKING AT IT 182 00:09:47,821 --> 00:09:50,423 AND JUST STARTED PUNCHING IT, JUST BANGING AND STUFF LIKE 183 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:51,658 THAT, SCREAMING. >> Reporter: EMTs TRIED TO CALM 184 00:09:51,658 --> 00:09:54,060 HIM DOWN A FEW MINUTES LATER, HIS DAD 185 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:59,265 DROVE UP >> AND I SAW JUSTIN SITTING 186 00:09:59,265 --> 00:10:01,334 THERE. I TRY TO GIVE HIM A HUG. 187 00:10:01,334 --> 00:10:02,902 HE'S TOTALLY IN A STATE OF SHOCK. 188 00:10:02,902 --> 00:10:05,505 BUT IMMEDIATELY THE POLICE COME TO ME AND SAY, "YOU CAN'T -- YOU 189 00:10:05,505 --> 00:10:09,943 CAN'T GET NEAR HIM YOU TWO HAVE TO SEPARATE." 190 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:10,710 >> YOU CAN'T GET NEAR YOUR OWN SON? 191 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:12,379 >> NO. I REALLY WANTED TO GIVE HIM A 192 00:10:12,379 --> 00:10:15,382 HUG. THEY WOULD NOT LET ME DO THAT. 193 00:10:15,382 --> 00:10:17,751 >> Reporter: NAN-YAO MAY NOT HAVE REALIZED IT, BUT THIS WAS 194 00:10:17,751 --> 00:10:20,053 THE FIRST SIGNAL THAT POLICE WERE LOOKING AT JUSTIN AS A 195 00:10:20,053 --> 00:10:22,655 POSSIBLE SUSPECT MEANWHILE, DETECTIVE WILLIAMS 196 00:10:22,655 --> 00:10:25,759 GOT A FILL IN ON WHAT HAD ALREADY BEEN FOUND THAT WAS OF 197 00:10:25,759 --> 00:10:28,962 INTEREST AT THE FRONT ENTRY TO THE HOUSE, 198 00:10:28,962 --> 00:10:33,566 A FOLDING KNIFE HAD BEEN RECOVERED WITH WHAT LOOKED LIKE 199 00:10:33,566 --> 00:10:37,737 A TRACE OF BLOOD >> THAT FOLDING KNIFE YOU FOUND 200 00:10:37,737 --> 00:10:39,272 I UNDERSTAND WAS -- BELONGED TO THE SON, IS THAT RIGHT 201 00:10:39,272 --> 00:10:43,176 >> BELONGED TO THE SON, YES, SIR. 202 00:10:43,176 --> 00:10:44,444 >> INTERESTING FACT TO TUCK AWAY AS YOU TRY AND FIGURE OUT WHAT'S 203 00:10:44,444 --> 00:10:45,412 HAPPENED HERE, HUH >> YEAH, IT'S -- IT WAS JUST 204 00:10:45,412 --> 00:10:46,579 DEFINITELY -- IT WENT SIDEWAYS >> Reporter: HAD THE KILLER 205 00:10:46,579 --> 00:10:49,149 DROPPED THE KNIFE WHILE PURSUING HIS VICTIM THROUGH THE HOUSE 206 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:52,285 IT LOOKED THAT WAY OUT BACK, OFFICERS NOTED A 207 00:10:52,285 --> 00:10:54,354 BREACH IN THE GLASS DOOR ON THE PORCH, SMALLISH, LIKE THE SIZE 208 00:10:54,354 --> 00:10:57,991 OF A PET DOOR. IF THIS HAD BEEN A CRIME 209 00:10:57,991 --> 00:11:00,093 COMMITTED BY AN INTRUDER, IS THAT HOW THEY GOT IN 210 00:11:00,093 --> 00:11:02,662 THE HORROR SHOW WAS IN THE MAIN BATHROOM 211 00:11:02,662 --> 00:11:06,833 IT WAS GROTESQUELY NOT A SUICIDE. 212 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:08,368 >> DID THE SCENE SPEAK TO YOU YET? 213 00:11:08,368 --> 00:11:11,538 DID YOU KNOW WHAT -- WHAT HAD HAPPENED HERE? 214 00:11:11,538 --> 00:11:15,375 >> IT SEEMED TO BE A PRETTY VIOLENT ATTACK 215 00:11:15,375 --> 00:11:18,278 IT ALSO SEEMED TO ME, VERY EARLY ON, THAT SHE PUT UP A FIGHT 216 00:11:18,278 --> 00:11:20,413 BECAUSE OF THE DISARRAY THE FRONT DOORWAY WAS IN, AND ALSO 217 00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:23,450 FOR HER DEFENSIVE WOUNDS THAT WERE ON HER HANDS FROM THE 218 00:11:23,450 --> 00:11:24,884 STABBING >> Reporter: DETECTIVE WILLIAMS 219 00:11:24,884 --> 00:11:28,154 COULDN'T EXAMINE THE TUB YET BECAUSE IT WAS STILL FULL OF 220 00:11:28,154 --> 00:11:31,257 BLOOD. BUT WHEN IT WAS DRAINED, THEY 221 00:11:31,257 --> 00:11:34,394 FOUND TWO THINGS OF MAJOR INTEREST 222 00:11:34,394 --> 00:11:36,463 AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TUB, BENEATH THE VICTIM'S BODY, WAS A 223 00:11:36,463 --> 00:11:40,100 LARGE HUNTING KNIFE. THEY LEARNED IT HAD BEEN A GIFT 224 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:43,203 FROM MOTHER TO SON THEY ALSO FOUND DESTROYED 225 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:45,305 SECURITY ELECTRONICS, THE ALARM BOX FROM THE HOUSE 226 00:11:45,305 --> 00:11:51,544 >> THE KNIFE, THE ALARM PANEL BOX, AND SOME OTHER ITEMS THAT 227 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:52,645 WERE IN THERE -- >> GOT THROWN INTO THE BATHTUB 228 00:11:52,645 --> 00:11:53,847 >> THROWN IN THERE, YES, SIR >> Reporter: THERE WAS NO TRACE 229 00:11:53,847 --> 00:11:55,682 OF THE TWO MISSING SECURITY CAMERAS. 230 00:11:55,682 --> 00:11:58,351 IT WAS CLEAR TO THE DETECTIVES THAT THE HOUSE HAD BEEN TOSSED, 231 00:11:58,351 --> 00:12:01,421 RUMMAGED THROUGH, DRAWERS FLUNG OPEN 232 00:12:01,421 --> 00:12:04,057 JILL HAD BEEN A KIND OF NEO HIPPIE AND NOT REALLY BIG ON 233 00:12:04,057 --> 00:12:07,127 EXPENSIVE PIECES OF JEWELRY. TO THE INVESTIGATORS' 234 00:12:07,127 --> 00:12:11,798 EXPERIENCED EYES, THIS DIDN'T LOOK LIKE A HOME INVASION GONE 235 00:12:11,798 --> 00:12:16,469 WRONG. IT LOOKED STAGED, AND 236 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:17,570 AMATEURISHLY >> IS THERE A DISTINCTION IN 237 00:12:17,570 --> 00:12:22,208 YOUR MIND, DETECTIVE, BETWEEN A PERPETRATOR WHO COMES WITH 238 00:12:22,208 --> 00:12:23,843 MURDER ON THEIR MIND AS OPPOSED TO SOMEBODY WHO'S TRYING TO GET 239 00:12:23,843 --> 00:12:24,978 INTO A HOUSE, STEAL SOME JEWELRY, AND THEN HAS A VIOLENT 240 00:12:24,978 --> 00:12:25,812 EVENT? >> DEFINITELY A BIG DISTINCTION. 241 00:12:25,812 --> 00:12:28,948 SO THE -- AND THAT PLAYS INTO THE VICTIMOLOGY. 242 00:12:28,948 --> 00:12:33,119 SHE WAS A WELL-RESPECTED MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY, HAD NO ENEMIES 243 00:12:33,119 --> 00:12:37,390 THAT WE FOUND, A VERY WEALTHY FAMILY, WELL-TO-DO, WORKED FOR A 244 00:12:37,390 --> 00:12:39,359 BUNCH OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS. 245 00:12:39,359 --> 00:12:51,838 JUST A REALLY, REALLY GREAT LADY 246 00:12:51,838 --> 00:12:53,106 >> AND TO USE A KNIFE, MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS, WERE YOU TALKING 247 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:56,543 ABOUT THIS AS SOMEBODY'S TAKING IT PERSONAL? 248 00:12:56,543 --> 00:12:58,111 >> PERSONAL OR IN A FIT OF RAGE. USUALLY WHEN SOMEBODY BREAKS 249 00:12:58,111 --> 00:12:59,245 INTO A HOME AND YOU'RE A BURGLAR, YOU DON'T RISE TO THAT 250 00:12:59,245 --> 00:13:00,313 LEVEL OF VIOLENT ATTACKS >> Reporter: WHILE THE CRIME 251 00:13:00,313 --> 00:13:01,715 SCENE TECHS TOOK PHOTOS, COLLECTED PRINTS, AND SWABBED 252 00:13:01,715 --> 00:13:05,852 FOR DNA, IT WAS TIME FOR THE DETECTIVES TO LEARN MORE ABOUT 253 00:13:05,852 --> 00:13:07,487 THE SU FAMILY. NAN-YAO AND JILL FIRST MET IN 254 00:13:07,487 --> 00:13:17,097 JAPAN WHERE SHE WAS AN EXCHANGE STUDENT AND HE WAS TEACHING. 255 00:13:17,097 --> 00:13:18,665 HE EVENTUALLY LEFT TO DO A PhD IN THE STATES, AND JILL LEFT TO 256 00:13:18,665 --> 00:13:20,066 TRAVEL IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ABOUT TWO YEARS LATER, HE WAS 257 00:13:20,066 --> 00:13:21,801 THRILLED WHEN HE GOT A POSTCARD FROM HER 258 00:13:21,801 --> 00:13:26,106 SHE WAS IN THAILAND. >> THERE SHE WAS VOLUNTEERING, 259 00:13:26,106 --> 00:13:29,576 HELPING THE CAMBODIAN REFUGEE ESCAPING THE KHMER ROUGE 260 00:13:29,576 --> 00:13:30,677 GENOCIDE I WAS REALLY MOVED WHEN I SEE 261 00:13:30,677 --> 00:13:36,316 THAT SHE WAS THERE FOR TWO YEARS. 262 00:13:36,316 --> 00:13:37,884 >> WHAT DOES THAT EXPERIENCE TELL US ABOUT JILL 263 00:13:37,884 --> 00:13:41,087 >> SHE ALWAYS WANT TO DO SOMETHING SHE CAN DO TO HELP 264 00:13:41,087 --> 00:13:43,857 THOSE WHO NEED HELP. >> Reporter: WHEN JILL RETURNED 265 00:13:43,857 --> 00:13:48,795 TO THE STATES, THE TWO EVENTUALLY MARRIED 266 00:13:48,795 --> 00:13:50,130 >> THIS IS AMANDA. SHE WAS JUST HANDED TO ME A 267 00:13:50,130 --> 00:13:53,466 MINUTE AGO >> Reporter: ADOPTING DAUGHTER 268 00:13:53,466 --> 00:13:55,001 MANDY. SHE LIVES IN KENTUCKY. 269 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:59,205 JUSTIN CAME ALONG ABOUT THREE YEARS LATER. 270 00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:11,885 THE YEARS THAT FOLLOWED WERE GOOD TO THE COUPLE 271 00:14:11,885 --> 00:14:15,555 >> GIVE IT UP TFOR JUSTIN >> Reporter: JILL, A DEDICATED 272 00:14:15,555 --> 00:14:20,593 MOM, STILL FOUND TIME TO CONTINUE HER LIFE'S PASSION FOR 273 00:14:20,593 --> 00:14:21,961 VOLUNTEER WORK WHEN SHE FIRST CAME BACK TO THE 274 00:14:21,961 --> 00:14:23,129 STATES, SHE AGAIN WORKED WITH REFUGEES FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 275 00:14:23,129 --> 00:14:24,397 YEARS LATER, SHE VOLUNTEERED TO MAKE AUDIO TAPES FOR THE BLIND, 276 00:14:24,397 --> 00:14:25,699 READING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. >> A MASTER IN FENG SHUI WAS 277 00:14:25,699 --> 00:14:26,900 CONSULTED. >> Reporter: THIS IS HER READING 278 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:30,070 AN EXCERPT FROM A NATIONAL MAGAZINE ARTICLE 279 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:37,911 >> IT'S TURN OF THE CENTURY AMERICA WITH A CHINESE OVERLAY 280 00:14:37,911 --> 00:14:39,346 >> THIS IS ALL VERY JILL >> YES, AND THAT'S THE PART I 281 00:14:39,346 --> 00:14:40,947 FELL IN LOVE WITH. >> Reporter: THE SU FAMILY WAS 282 00:14:40,947 --> 00:14:42,982 VERY CLOSE BUT IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, 283 00:14:42,982 --> 00:14:45,618 THERE HAD BEEN TENSIONS. JUSTIN HAD DROPPED OUT OF 284 00:14:45,618 --> 00:14:47,687 COLLEGE. HIS FATHER WAS UPSET WITH HIM, 285 00:14:47,687 --> 00:14:52,359 AND THERE WERE EVEN ARGUMENTS WITH HIS MOTHER, JILL. 286 00:14:52,359 --> 00:14:55,095 THE COPS WERE, OF COURSE, ALERT TO THE MAYBE IMPORTANT FACT THAT 287 00:14:55,095 --> 00:14:59,099 JILL HAD THAT PROMINENT MAIDEN NAME 288 00:14:59,099 --> 00:15:01,301 SHE WAS A HALLIBURTON. HER GREAT UNCLE ERLE HALLIBURTON 289 00:15:01,301 --> 00:15:04,838 HAD ONCE BEEN AMONG THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN AMERICA. 290 00:15:04,838 --> 00:15:08,808 HIS WEALTH DIDN'T COME FROM OIL WELLS BUT FROM DEVELOPING AND 291 00:15:08,808 --> 00:15:12,145 IMPROVING THE PROCESS TO EXTRACT OIL FROM THE GROUND. 292 00:15:12,145 --> 00:15:13,213 >> THIS IS THE ORIGINS OF THE TEXAS OIL FIELD WORK, 293 00:15:13,213 --> 00:15:14,848 HALLIBURTON INDUSTRIES >> YES 294 00:15:14,848 --> 00:15:17,317 YES. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT AT THE TIME 295 00:15:17,317 --> 00:15:20,954 WHAT HALLIBURTON IS ALL ABOUT, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WHEN I 296 00:15:20,954 --> 00:15:23,356 FIRST MET HER. >> Reporter: TURNS OUT, WHEN 297 00:15:23,356 --> 00:15:29,796 ERLE HALLIBURTON DIED, OIL RIGHTS WERE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL 298 00:15:29,796 --> 00:15:31,331 FAMILY MEMBERS IT WAS PARCELED OUT SO WIDELY, 299 00:15:31,331 --> 00:15:35,535 LITTLE TRICKLED DOWN TO JILL OR TO HER DAUGHTER, MANDY, OR HER 300 00:15:35,535 --> 00:15:36,603 SON JUSTIN >> YOU BEING A HALLIBURTON, LO 301 00:15:36,603 --> 00:15:38,605 THOSE MANY GENERATIONS DOWN THE LINE, DOES THAT MAKE YOU A RICH 302 00:15:38,605 --> 00:15:42,842 KID? >> NOPE. 303 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:44,344 >> DO THEY SEND YOU A NICE ROYALTY CHECK? 304 00:15:44,344 --> 00:15:46,746 >> YEP, FOR ABOUT $13. >> Reporter: TERMITES, NOT OIL 305 00:15:46,746 --> 00:15:50,083 FIELDS, PAID THE BILLS 30 YEARS AGO, NAN-YAO DEVELOPED 306 00:15:50,083 --> 00:15:52,652 TERMITE TRAPS USED WIDELY TODAY, AND THAT ALLOWED HIS FAMILY TO 307 00:15:52,652 --> 00:15:56,423 LIVE COMFORTABLY THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MURDER, THE 308 00:15:56,423 --> 00:15:58,591 SUS HAD RETURNED FROM THAT TRIP TO MALAYSIA WHERE THE RENOWNED 309 00:15:58,591 --> 00:16:02,028 ENTOMOLOGIST WAS LECTURING AFTER THAT EXHAUSTING TRAVEL, 310 00:16:02,028 --> 00:16:06,266 JILL DECIDED SHE'D SLEEP IN WHILE HER HUSBAND WENT TO WORK 311 00:16:06,266 --> 00:16:12,939 >> YOU GO TO WORK, AND THEN YOUR LIFE IS CHANGED. 312 00:16:12,939 --> 00:16:14,107 >> OH, IT'S A NIGHTMARE. >> MURDERED IN HER OWN HOME. 313 00:16:14,107 --> 00:16:16,042 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: BUT NOW THINGS WERE 314 00:16:16,042 --> 00:16:19,045 GOING TO GET A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE. 315 00:16:19,045 --> 00:16:22,782 IT WAS TIME FOR THE DETECTIVE TO TAKE THE FATHER AND SON DOWN TO 316 00:16:22,782 --> 00:16:26,453 THE STATION HOUSE FOR WHAT WOULD BE AN EXHAUSTIVE INTERROGATION 317 00:16:26,453 --> 00:16:29,522 THERE'D BE LOTS OF QUESTIONS FOR THE SON ABOUT LIFE AT HOME AND 318 00:16:29,522 --> 00:16:34,761 WHERE EXACTLY HE WAS WHEN THE MURDER TOOK PLACE. 319 00:16:34,761 --> 00:16:38,164 >>> COMING UP -- >> WHY, MAN? 320 00:16:38,164 --> 00:16:40,500 OH, WHY'D I LIE TO YOU >> AN EARLY LIE CAUGHT 321 00:16:40,500 --> 00:16:46,740 DETECTIVES DON'T LIKE LIES >> SO YOU WANT TO START COMING 322 00:16:46,740 --> 00:17:07,827 CLEAN? FINDING HIS MOTHER STABBED TO 323 00:17:07,827 --> 00:17:11,031 DEATH IN A BLOODY BATHTUB, 20-YEAR-OLD JUSTIN SU, THE SON, 324 00:17:11,031 --> 00:17:13,033 FOUND HIMSELF IN A DAVIE, FLORIDA, POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM 325 00:17:13,033 --> 00:17:19,806 TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAD BECOME A TANGLED STORY 326 00:17:19,806 --> 00:17:23,810 >> YOU CAN'T SAY, "LOOK, I AM THE GRIEVING, FREAKED OUT SON 327 00:17:23,810 --> 00:17:29,215 HERE," RIGHT >> THAT'S WHAT I -- I -- I - 328 00:17:29,215 --> 00:17:30,250 >> "WHO JUST FOUND THIS. WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 329 00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:31,751 >> I WAS GOING THROUGH MENTAL HELL 330 00:17:31,751 --> 00:17:32,786 >> Reporter: AND IT WAS ABOUT TO GET HOTTER 331 00:17:32,786 --> 00:17:34,854 DETECTIVES ALWAYS START INVESTIGATING WITH THE INNER 332 00:17:34,854 --> 00:17:36,389 CIRCLE OF FAMILY AND WORK THEIR WAY OUT. 333 00:17:36,389 --> 00:17:38,091 AND IN THIS CASE, JUSTIN WAS THE ONE WHO FOUND HER AND MADE THAT 334 00:17:38,091 --> 00:17:41,628 CONFUSING 911 CALL AT A MOBILE COMMAND POST PARKED 335 00:17:41,628 --> 00:17:43,463 AT THE HOUSE, JUSTIN HAD BEEN DIRECTED TO REMOVE HIS CLOTHES 336 00:17:43,463 --> 00:17:45,265 AND PHOTOS WERE TAKEN OF HIS BODY 337 00:17:45,265 --> 00:17:50,203 HE WAS THEN GIVEN A WHITE JUMP SUIT 338 00:17:50,203 --> 00:17:51,371 NOW AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS, DETECTIVES LOOKED MORE CLOSELY 339 00:17:51,371 --> 00:17:53,573 FOR ANY BRUISING, SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE, OR FIGHT 340 00:17:53,573 --> 00:17:56,109 >> I'M JUST GONNA CHECK YOUR NECK AND EVERYTHING. 341 00:17:56,109 --> 00:18:03,450 >> ONE OF THE WORST THINGS ABOUT THE WHOLE SITUATION THAT STILL 342 00:18:03,450 --> 00:18:04,617 IS A HORRIBLE MEMORY FOR ME IS I STILL HAVE THE BLOOD OF MY 343 00:18:04,617 --> 00:18:05,652 MOTHER ON MY CHEST >> Reporter: JUSTIN COOPERATED, 344 00:18:05,652 --> 00:18:08,722 ANSWERED THE DETECTIVE'S QUESTIONS, AND NEVER ASKED FOR A 345 00:18:08,722 --> 00:18:13,026 LAWYER HE TOLD DETECTIVES THAT AROUND 346 00:18:13,026 --> 00:18:15,929 9:30 THAT MORNING, HE DROVE TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 347 00:18:15,929 --> 00:18:18,531 THEN RETURNED HOME AFTER HIS FATHER'S CALL, AROUND 12:30 IN 348 00:18:18,531 --> 00:18:23,737 THE AFTERNOON. HE WALKED THE DETECTIVES THROUGH 349 00:18:23,737 --> 00:18:25,805 THE SAME STORY YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD -- HIM COMING HOME TO FIND 350 00:18:25,805 --> 00:18:30,477 THE SECURITY CAMERAS RIPPED OUT, THE KNIFE COLLECTION IN HIS 351 00:18:30,477 --> 00:18:32,579 BEDROOM VANDALIZED, THEN, OF COURSE, HEARING THE RUNNING BATH 352 00:18:32,579 --> 00:18:39,285 WATER AND FINDING WHAT HE FOUND IN HIS PARENTS BATHROOM. 353 00:18:39,285 --> 00:18:41,087 >> I -- >> SHUT THE [ BLEEP ] UP, SON. 354 00:18:41,087 --> 00:18:42,355 >> Reporter: BUT THE TONE OF THE INTERVIEW WAS QUICKLY GOING FROM 355 00:18:42,355 --> 00:18:43,590 GOOD COP/BAD COP TO BAD COP/BAD COP. 356 00:18:43,590 --> 00:18:44,891 >> A LOT OF THE STUFF THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER THAT YOU -- 357 00:18:44,891 --> 00:18:46,192 THE STUFF YOU TOLD US DOESN'T MAKE SENSE 358 00:18:46,192 --> 00:18:48,795 >> WHAT DO YOU MEAN? >> THE SECOND WE SAT DOWN TO 359 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:51,898 TALK TO YOU, YOU'VE LIED TO US >> ABOUT WHAT? 360 00:18:51,898 --> 00:18:55,568 >> Reporter: JUSTIN HAD AN EARLY ON PROBLEM WITH HIS STORY, AND 361 00:18:55,568 --> 00:18:58,371 IT HAD TO WITH HIS WHEREABOUTS WHEN HIS FATHER CALLED HIM, HE'D 362 00:18:58,371 --> 00:19:00,740 TOLD HIM A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT STORY THAN HE WAS NOW TELLING 363 00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:05,178 POLICE HE TOLD HIS DAD HE WAS WORKING 364 00:19:05,178 --> 00:19:06,479 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA BUT THAT WASN'T TRUE 365 00:19:06,479 --> 00:19:11,418 >> SO YOU WANT TO START COMING CLEAN? 366 00:19:11,418 --> 00:19:12,285 THIS IS YOUR ONLY [ BLEEP ] OPPORTUNITY. 367 00:19:12,285 --> 00:19:13,186 >> OH, MY GOD. >> INCONSISTENCY TO YOUR DAD 368 00:19:13,186 --> 00:19:14,354 >> YOU UNDERSTAND? >> WHAT? 369 00:19:14,354 --> 00:19:15,922 WHAT'D I SAY TO MY DAD WHAT 370 00:19:15,922 --> 00:19:17,457 I -- I LIE -- I LIED TO MY DAD I TOLD HIM I WAS GOING TO WORK 371 00:19:17,457 --> 00:19:19,559 >> Reporter: HE TOLD DETECTIVES HE WAS IN THE LIBRARY OF THE 372 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:21,127 COMMUNITY COLLEGE WHERE HE WAS TAKING CLASSES 373 00:19:21,127 --> 00:19:23,196 TURNED OUT THAT WASN'T TRUE EITHER 374 00:19:23,196 --> 00:19:25,465 >> WHAT IF YOU'RE NOT IN THE LIBRARY? 375 00:19:25,465 --> 00:19:26,833 THEN WHERE WERE YOU? >> IN MY CAR 376 00:19:26,833 --> 00:19:28,401 >> WHAT WERE YOU DOIN' IN YOUR CAR? 377 00:19:28,401 --> 00:19:29,936 >> SLEEPING. >> BE HONEST WITH ME 378 00:19:29,936 --> 00:19:32,038 DID YOU STAY IN YOUR CAR SLEEPING, OR DID YOU GO IN THE 379 00:19:32,038 --> 00:19:36,109 LIBRARY? >> I STAYED AT -- OKAY 380 00:19:36,109 --> 00:19:39,045 I'M SORRY I SAID THAT TO YOU >> YOU [ BLEEP ] LIED ABOUT THAT 381 00:19:39,045 --> 00:19:42,449 TOO. >> BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA SEEM 382 00:19:42,449 --> 00:19:43,950 LIKE AN [ BLEEP ]. >> Reporter: JUSTIN SAID HE WAS 383 00:19:43,950 --> 00:19:47,520 CONCERNED HOW HIS FATHER WOULD REACT TO THE NEWS OF HIM 384 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,521 SLEEPING IN THE CAR, AND FOR GOOD REASON. 385 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:52,959 WHEN JUSTIN DROPPED OUT OF COLLEGE, IT WAS A HUGE 386 00:19:52,959 --> 00:19:54,294 DISAPPOINTMENT TO HIS PARENTS. LIVING AT HOME NOW, HIS DAD 387 00:19:54,294 --> 00:19:57,864 INSISTED JUSTIN GET A JOB AND GO TO SCHOOL PART TIME. 388 00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:01,501 EMBARRASSED HE WAS DOING NEITHER THAT DAY, JUSTIN FEARED THE 389 00:20:01,501 --> 00:20:03,069 ANTICIPATED ARGUMENTS BACK HOME LATER. 390 00:20:03,069 --> 00:20:05,672 HE EVEN THOUGHT THAT PERHAPS HIS MOTHER HAD HAD ENOUGH, PROMPTING 391 00:20:05,672 --> 00:20:08,274 HIS FIRST THOUGHTS THAT SHE HAD KILLED HERSELF 392 00:20:08,274 --> 00:20:18,218 >> OUR LIVES HAVE JUST BEEN A LOT WORSE SINCE I MOVED BACK 393 00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:20,053 WE GOT INTO A LOT OF FIGHTS IN BETWEEN THIS AND THAT AND SO 394 00:20:20,053 --> 00:20:22,322 THAT'S WHY WHEN I FIRST SAW HER, I WAS LIKE, "WHY WOULD YOU DO -- 395 00:20:22,322 --> 00:20:23,890 WHY COULD YOU DO THIS TO US? LIKE, WHY DO YOU LEAVE US? 396 00:20:23,890 --> 00:20:26,192 THAT'S WHY I THOUGHT SHE COMMITTED SUICIDE. 397 00:20:26,192 --> 00:20:30,096 >> THE WORD "SUICIDE" I DON'T THINK WOULD COME OUT OF MOST 398 00:20:30,096 --> 00:20:35,835 PEOPLE'S MOUTHS IF THEY FOUND A LOVED ONE BOUND -- 399 00:20:35,835 --> 00:20:40,206 >> PROBLEM NUMBER ONE FOR JUSTIN -- 911 CALL SAYING, "MY 400 00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:41,174 MOTHER KILLED HERSELF. I'M LOOKING AT A SUICIDE 401 00:20:41,174 --> 00:20:42,709 VICTIM." >> CORRECT 402 00:20:42,709 --> 00:20:43,943 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES ZEROED IN ON THOSE KNIVES FOUND AT THE 403 00:20:43,943 --> 00:20:44,978 CRIME SCENE. ONE WAS FOUND WITH JILL IN THE 404 00:20:44,978 --> 00:20:47,480 BATHTUB AND THE OTHER OUTSIDE THE FRONT DOOR 405 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:52,519 BOTH WERE JUSTIN'S >> HE WAS AN AVID KNIFE 406 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:53,353 COLLECTOR. >> DOES THAT MAKE YOU WONDER 407 00:20:53,353 --> 00:20:54,754 >> YEAH, SURE. THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT WE 408 00:20:54,754 --> 00:20:58,391 LATER FIND OUT, THAT THE KNIVES ACTUALLY CAME FROM HIS ROOM. 409 00:20:58,391 --> 00:21:01,528 >> Reporter: BUT JUSTIN SAID A STRANGER MUST HAVE BROKEN INTO 410 00:21:01,528 --> 00:21:04,130 THE HOUSE AND TAKEN HIS KNIVES DETECTIVES QUESTIONED HOW LIKELY 411 00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:06,900 WAS THAT >> SUPPOSEDLY, BY WHAT YOU'RE 412 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:11,404 SAYING, THEY -- THEY WENT INTO YOUR ROOM, SPECIFICALLY GOT YOUR 413 00:21:11,404 --> 00:21:12,539 KNIVES, AND I GUESS POSSIBLY USED THAT TO KILL YOUR MOM, 414 00:21:12,539 --> 00:21:16,076 RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT YOU SAID 415 00:21:16,076 --> 00:21:18,244 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: AND THEN THERE WAS 416 00:21:18,244 --> 00:21:20,947 A PUZZLING STORY ABOUT A THIRD KNIFE. 417 00:21:20,947 --> 00:21:22,816 JUSTIN SAID HE TOOK IT FROM HIS CAR FOR PROTECTION AS HE FIRST 418 00:21:22,816 --> 00:21:24,918 WENT INTO THE HOME >> WHERE IS IT NOW 419 00:21:24,918 --> 00:21:29,089 >> IN THE CAR. >> WHY IS IT IN THE CAR? 420 00:21:29,089 --> 00:21:32,158 >> I DON'T KNOW. >> Reporter: SO AFTER FINDING 421 00:21:32,158 --> 00:21:36,363 HIS MOM DEAD IN THE BATHTUB, WHY WOULD HE GO BACK OUTSIDE AND PUT 422 00:21:36,363 --> 00:21:37,897 THAT KNIFE IN HIS CAR? THE DETECTIVES' REACTION -- 423 00:21:37,897 --> 00:21:42,102 NONSENSE THEY PRESSED HIM 424 00:21:42,102 --> 00:21:43,103 HE FINALLY ADMITTED HE LIED, AGAIN. 425 00:21:43,103 --> 00:21:44,637 HOMICIDE COPS DON'T LIKE TO BE LIED TO. 426 00:21:44,637 --> 00:21:47,207 >> WHY, MAN? OH, WHY'D I LIE TO YOU 427 00:21:47,207 --> 00:21:50,377 WHY'D I SAY THE THING ABOUT THAT POCKETKNIFE? 428 00:21:50,377 --> 00:21:53,513 I JUST WANTED TO LOOK LIKE I WAS BEING SAFE 429 00:21:53,513 --> 00:21:56,549 >> Reporter: BUT JUSTIN STUCK TO HIS THEORY THAT AN UNKNOWN 430 00:21:56,549 --> 00:21:59,219 ASSAILANT BROKE INTO THE HOUSE WITH THE INTENT TO ROB 431 00:21:59,219 --> 00:22:02,522 DETECTIVES SAW IT ANOTHER WAY. PERHAPS HE AND HIS MOM HAD 432 00:22:02,522 --> 00:22:06,059 ARGUED AND FOUGHT AND JUSTIN TRIED TO COVER IT UP BY MAKING 433 00:22:06,059 --> 00:22:07,527 IT LOOK LIKE A ROBBERY >> MY MOM WAS MURDERED, FOR 434 00:22:07,527 --> 00:22:10,130 GOD'S SAKES! I FOUND HER DEAD 435 00:22:10,130 --> 00:22:14,534 I FOUND HER! I HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT 436 00:22:14,534 --> 00:22:15,969 >> MM-HMM. >> AND YOU GUYS ARE -- YOU GUYS 437 00:22:15,969 --> 00:22:19,506 ARE THINKING I DID IT? >> YEAH. 438 00:22:19,506 --> 00:22:28,848 >> YES >> YOU DIDN'T WAKE UP SAYING, 439 00:22:28,848 --> 00:22:32,385 OH, I'M GONNA KILL MY MOM OH, I'M GONNA KILL MY MOM 440 00:22:32,385 --> 00:22:40,393 TODAY. BUT WHEN IT HAPPENED, [ BLEEP ] 441 00:22:40,393 --> 00:22:45,932 HIT THE FAN. YOU REALLY DIDN'T [ BLEEP ]. 442 00:22:45,932 --> 00:22:50,170 YOU WERE RACING TO [ BLEEP ] COVER THIS [ BLEEP ] UP TO MAKE 443 00:22:50,170 --> 00:22:51,805 IT LOOK LIKE A ROBBERY AND IT WAS A BAD ATTEMPT. 444 00:22:51,805 --> 00:22:53,006 >> Reporter: BAD ATTEMPT TOO, THEY SAID, IN POINTING TO THE 445 00:22:53,006 --> 00:22:54,174 OPENING IN THE BACK DOOR WHERE JUSTIN SAID SOMEONE BROKE IN 446 00:22:54,174 --> 00:22:55,308 IT WAS SMALL, TOO SMALL, DETECTIVES SAID, FOR A GROWN MAN 447 00:22:55,308 --> 00:22:56,810 TO SQUEEZE THROUGH >> I GUESS YOU WERE THINKIN' 448 00:22:56,810 --> 00:22:58,011 THAT YOU'RE GONNA TELL TWO -- YOU KNOW, NOBODIES, "HEY, THIS 449 00:22:58,011 --> 00:22:59,245 WAS A ROBBERY -- CHECK IT OUT," AND WE'RE GONNA GO SALIVATING 450 00:22:59,245 --> 00:23:00,213 OVER A DOOR THAT NO ONE COULD EVEN FIT THROUGH 451 00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:04,484 YOU REALLY THINK THAT'S HOW THAT WORKS? 452 00:23:04,484 --> 00:23:08,321 >> YEAH, BECAUSE I'VE NEVER SEEN A [ BLEEP ] ROBBERY BEFORE 453 00:23:08,321 --> 00:23:09,856 >> LISTEN, A KINDERGARTEN KID COULD HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB 454 00:23:09,856 --> 00:23:10,724 >> YOU'RE A SMART KID, BUT YOU SCREWED UP 455 00:23:10,724 --> 00:23:11,891 >> WHY THE HELL WOULD I MURDER MY MOM IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS 456 00:23:11,891 --> 00:23:12,692 I -- I DON'T SEE WHY I LOVE MY MOMMY. 457 00:23:12,692 --> 00:23:14,661 I WANT HER TO BE ALIVE I WANT HER TO BE ALIVE 458 00:23:14,661 --> 00:23:17,063 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES WEREN'T DONE 459 00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:24,537 THEY HAD MORE QUESTIONS, BOTH FOR JUSTIN AND HIS DAD 460 00:23:24,537 --> 00:23:26,272 >> MY GOD, PLEASE. >> Reporter: HE WAS IN THE ROOM 461 00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:30,844 NEXT DOOR, HEARD THE YELLING, AND NOW HE TOO WAS ABOUT TO BE 462 00:23:30,844 --> 00:23:33,947 CONFRONTED >>> COMING UP -- 463 00:23:33,947 --> 00:23:39,085 WAS IT JUSTIN HIS FATHER SAW ON THE SURVEILLANCE CAMERA? 464 00:23:39,085 --> 00:23:42,789 >> I THINK IT'S A MALE, TALL AND SKINNY 465 00:23:42,789 --> 00:23:44,357 THEY SAID, "OH, YOUR SON IS SKINNY AND TALL. 466 00:23:44,357 --> 00:24:00,907 >> AND A STUNNING TURN >> WOULD YOUR DAD FRAME YOU? 467 00:24:00,907 --> 00:24:01,941 >>> JUST WHY DID YOU DO IT THAT'S ALL 468 00:24:01,941 --> 00:24:05,078 AND DO YOU EVEN FEEL BAD THAT IT HAPPENED 469 00:24:05,078 --> 00:24:09,215 THAT'S ALL THAT'S ALL I WANT TO KNOW. 470 00:24:09,215 --> 00:24:10,784 >> Reporter: THE QUESTIONING OF JUSTIN SU STARTED IN THE 471 00:24:10,784 --> 00:24:14,921 AFTERNOON. >> ROBBERIES DON'T HAPPEN LIKE 472 00:24:14,921 --> 00:24:17,557 THIS >> Reporter: AND BY THE EARLY 473 00:24:17,557 --> 00:24:20,660 MORNING HOURS, DETECTIVES WERE STILL AT IT. 474 00:24:20,660 --> 00:24:24,297 >> I SAW WHERE THE BODY WAS, AND I PULLED HER LITERALLY OUT LIKE 475 00:24:24,297 --> 00:24:26,399 THAT >> Reporter: OCCASIONALLY 476 00:24:26,399 --> 00:24:31,504 DETECTIVES LEFT JUSTIN TO TALK TO HIS FATHER NEXT DOOR OR CHECK 477 00:24:31,504 --> 00:24:33,139 WITH OTHER INVESTIGATORS ABOUT LEADS THEY WERE PURSUING 478 00:24:33,139 --> 00:24:35,742 SO FAR THEY WEREN'T BUYING HIS STORY. 479 00:24:35,742 --> 00:24:39,379 >> PLEASE LET ME OUT >> Reporter: AND THERE WERE 480 00:24:39,379 --> 00:24:40,947 SPELLS, SOMETIMES LONG ONES, WHEN JUSTIN WAS LEFT ALONE 481 00:24:40,947 --> 00:24:47,153 >> OH, MY GOD, IM FREAKING OUT IN HERE, MAN 482 00:24:47,153 --> 00:24:48,655 >> WHAT'S HAPPENING? WHAT ARE YOU HEARING 483 00:24:48,655 --> 00:24:49,622 WHAT ARE YOU SEEING? >> WHEN WE LEAVE THE ROOM, 484 00:24:49,622 --> 00:24:51,157 HE'S -- HE'S TALKING TO HIMSELF. HE'S SCREAMING AND YELLING 485 00:24:51,157 --> 00:24:53,927 PROFANITIES INSIDE THE ROOM. HE'S OBVIOUSLY NOT COMFORTABLE 486 00:24:53,927 --> 00:24:57,564 WITH THE FACT OF WHERE WE WERE -- WE WERE PUSHING HIM TO 487 00:24:57,564 --> 00:25:02,769 >> OH, MY GOD. I WANT MY MOMMY. 488 00:25:02,769 --> 00:25:07,440 I'M GONNA GO POSTAL, MAN I KEEP ON THINKING I SEE MY 489 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,645 MOM'S FACE, AND I CANT THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE WHEN I'M IN HERE 490 00:25:12,645 --> 00:25:16,816 I JUST WANT TO BE OUT OF HERE. >> Reporter: FROM THE NEXT ROOM, 491 00:25:16,816 --> 00:25:18,952 JUSTIN'S FATHER, NAN-YAO SU COULD HEAR HIS SON'S PAIN. 492 00:25:18,952 --> 00:25:20,954 >> I'M SCARED, MAN I'M SCARED 493 00:25:20,954 --> 00:25:26,159 >> Reporter: THE YELLING - >> WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? 494 00:25:26,159 --> 00:25:28,261 >> Reporter: THE CURSING THE BANGING ON WALLS 495 00:25:28,261 --> 00:25:32,399 >> HE WAS BEGGING THEM TO GET HIM OUT. 496 00:25:32,399 --> 00:25:38,872 IT WAS GUT-WRENCHING FOR ME AS A FATHER 497 00:25:38,872 --> 00:25:40,306 >> Reporter: OF COURSE, INVESTIGATORS ALSO HAD QUESTIONS 498 00:25:40,306 --> 00:25:43,643 FOR JUSTIN'S FATHER. REMEMBER, HE FIRST BECAME 499 00:25:43,643 --> 00:25:44,878 WORRIED ABOUT HIS WIFE WHEN HE WAS AT HIS OFFICE AND LOGGED IN 500 00:25:44,878 --> 00:25:49,549 TO VIEW REMOTELY THE HOME SECURITY CAMERAS 501 00:25:49,549 --> 00:25:54,754 HE SAW SOMEONE ON CAMERA >> I SAW THIS FIGURE COMING IN 502 00:25:54,754 --> 00:25:58,391 WITH -- HIS FACE IS COVERED WITH SOME KIND OF FABRIC, MAYBE A 503 00:25:58,391 --> 00:26:00,460 MASK THE ONLY THING I CAN SAW IS THAT 504 00:26:00,460 --> 00:26:02,562 HIS HEAD AND LOWER PART OF THE FACE IS COVERED WITH SOMETHING 505 00:26:02,562 --> 00:26:07,734 WHITE. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF 506 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:10,337 THAT NEXT THING I KNOW IS THE -- I 507 00:26:10,337 --> 00:26:17,110 LOST MY IMAGE. IT'S JUST VERY BRIEF MOMENT, 508 00:26:17,110 --> 00:26:18,278 PROBABLY TWO, THREE SECOND >> BREAK IT DOWN AS WELL AS YOU 509 00:26:18,278 --> 00:26:19,379 CAN. YOU'RE LOOKING AT EYES, 510 00:26:19,379 --> 00:26:24,384 ESSENTIALLY? >> ALL I SEE IS A BLACK BAND 511 00:26:24,384 --> 00:26:25,719 AROUND THE EYE AREA. >> WHAT'D YOU THINK? 512 00:26:25,719 --> 00:26:27,053 YOU HAVE THIS ALARMING IMAGE, AND THEN IT'S GONE 513 00:26:27,053 --> 00:26:30,957 CAMERA'S OFF >> YEAH. 514 00:26:30,957 --> 00:26:33,259 THEN I THOUGHT, WHAT -- WHAT IS THAT FIGURE I JUST -- I JUST 515 00:26:33,259 --> 00:26:35,061 SAW? >> Reporter: NAN-YAO'S FIRST 516 00:26:35,061 --> 00:26:39,432 THOUGHT -- IT MIGHT BE HIS SON, JUSTIN 517 00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:40,600 >> SO I THOUGHT, WELL, IS JUSTIN PULLING A PRANK ON ME? 518 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,068 >> Reporter: SO AFTER SEEING THAT IMAGE, THAT'S WHEN HE 519 00:26:42,068 --> 00:26:44,637 CALLED JUSTIN. >> AND I SAID, "ARE YOU AT 520 00:26:44,637 --> 00:26:46,206 HOME?" HE SAID, "NO." 521 00:26:46,206 --> 00:26:51,978 >> HE DESCRIBED TO MYSELF AND MY PARTNER THAT HE SAW AN IMAGE 522 00:26:51,978 --> 00:26:56,850 AND -- FOR A BRIEF SECOND AND THEN THE CAMERA WENT BLACK 523 00:26:56,850 --> 00:26:57,617 >> SO HE SEES YOUR SUSPECTED KILLER 524 00:26:57,617 --> 00:26:58,752 >> CORRECT >> I THINK IT'S A MALE, RATHER 525 00:26:58,752 --> 00:27:01,821 SKINNY >> Reporter: NAN-YAO DESCRIBED 526 00:27:01,821 --> 00:27:07,027 THE PERSON TO POLICE >> KIND OF TALL AND SKINNY 527 00:27:07,027 --> 00:27:08,695 AND THEY SAID, "OH, YOUR SON IS SKINNY AND TALL. 528 00:27:08,695 --> 00:27:11,164 AND I SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? 529 00:27:11,164 --> 00:27:15,335 >> Reporter: THE COMMENT THREW NAN-YAO BECAUSE, WHILE AT FIRST 530 00:27:15,335 --> 00:27:16,569 HE THOUGHT IT WAS HIS SON ON THE CAMERA, HE WAS NOW SURE IT WAS 531 00:27:16,569 --> 00:27:19,039 SOMEONE ELSE -- THE KILLER DETECTIVES ASKED THE PERSON'S 532 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:21,041 RACE >> CAN YOU TELL WHITE MALE, 533 00:27:21,041 --> 00:27:23,109 BLACK MALE OR -- >> LOOKS LIKE WHITE TO ME. 534 00:27:23,109 --> 00:27:25,245 >> OKAY. >> Reporter: WHITE MALE WITH 535 00:27:25,245 --> 00:27:32,485 SOMETHING WHITE COVERING HIS HEAD AND A BODY SHAPE SIMILAR TO 536 00:27:32,485 --> 00:27:33,486 JUSTIN'S THAT KEPT JUSTIN IN THE 537 00:27:33,486 --> 00:27:34,487 CROSS-HAIRS FOR DETECTIVES, AND THEY TOLD HIM SO 538 00:27:34,487 --> 00:27:36,056 >> IT WASN'T ME. I'M NOT GONNA CALM DOWN. 539 00:27:36,056 --> 00:27:36,890 I'M SORRY. >> HE PRETTY MUCH DESCRIBED YOU 540 00:27:36,890 --> 00:27:37,657 ON THAT CAMERA >> WHAT? 541 00:27:37,657 --> 00:27:38,725 >> PRETTY MUCH >> MY DAD? 542 00:27:38,725 --> 00:27:41,828 >> SO MUCH SO THAT HE -- THAT'S WHY HE CALLED YOU AND SAID, 543 00:27:41,828 --> 00:27:42,896 "MAN, ARE YOU PLAYING A JOKE IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA? 544 00:27:42,896 --> 00:27:47,067 'CAUSE HE KNEW IT WAS YOU IN FRONT OF THAT CAMERA 545 00:27:47,067 --> 00:27:52,739 >> OH, MY GOD. I'M GONNA GO TO JAIL, AREN'T I 546 00:27:52,739 --> 00:27:57,944 FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T EVEN DO >> Reporter: DETECTIVES TRIED TO 547 00:27:57,944 --> 00:27:59,346 PLAY FATHER AGAINST SON. >> SO IS HE -- HE'S NOT GONNA 548 00:27:59,346 --> 00:28:00,513 COME HOME WITH ME TONIGHT? >> WITH THE STORIES HE'S TELLING 549 00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:04,184 US NOW, NO MORE THAN LIKELY HE WILL NOT BE 550 00:28:04,184 --> 00:28:06,019 GOING HOME BECAUSE HE'S -- MY PARTNER SAID HE'S NOT MAKING 551 00:28:06,019 --> 00:28:10,423 SENSE. THERE'S TOO MANY INCONSISTENCIES 552 00:28:10,423 --> 00:28:12,025 WITH WHAT HE'S SAYING. >> Reporter: BACK WITH JUSTIN, 553 00:28:12,025 --> 00:28:17,197 DETECTIVES KEPT PRESSING THE IDEA THAT HIS FATHER SUSPECTED 554 00:28:17,197 --> 00:28:18,331 HIM OF BEING THE KILLER. >> HOW CAN MY DAD THINK I KILLED 555 00:28:18,331 --> 00:28:19,299 HER? MY DAD DOESN'T THINK THAT. 556 00:28:19,299 --> 00:28:22,202 >> YOU KNOW YOUR DAD'S PRETTY SURE THAT YOU'RE THE ONE HE SAW 557 00:28:22,202 --> 00:28:25,038 ON THAT CAMERA >> REALLY? 558 00:28:25,038 --> 00:28:30,176 OH, MY GOD >> Reporter: THEN DETECTIVES 559 00:28:30,176 --> 00:28:32,479 REALLY PUSHED JUSTIN'S BUTTONS THEY SWITCHED TACTICS, NOW 560 00:28:32,479 --> 00:28:33,947 IMPLYING HIS DAD MIGHT BE THE KILLER AND THAT HE WAS TRYING TO 561 00:28:33,947 --> 00:28:37,450 FRAME HIS SON. >> SOMEONE'S TRYIN' TO FRAME ME, 562 00:28:37,450 --> 00:28:42,856 MAN. >> IF YOU'RE SAYING SOMEONE 563 00:28:42,856 --> 00:28:45,658 IS TRYING TO FRAME YOU, THE ONLY ONE CAPABLE OF FRAMING YOU IS 564 00:28:45,658 --> 00:28:47,660 YOUR DAD WOULD YOUR DAD FRAME YOU 565 00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:51,297 >> I GUESS HE ALREADY DID. >> SO IF YOU DIDN'T DO IT, WHAT 566 00:28:51,297 --> 00:28:52,365 YOU'RE TELLING ME IS THAT YOUR DAD FRAMED YOU 567 00:28:52,365 --> 00:28:53,466 >> NO. I CAN'T -- I CAN'T -- I CAN'T 568 00:28:53,466 --> 00:28:54,434 BELIEVE THAT >> YOU CAN'T BELIEVE THAT? 569 00:28:54,434 --> 00:28:56,136 >> I WOULDN'T -- MY DAD WOULDN'T FRAME ME 570 00:28:56,136 --> 00:28:59,606 HE'S BLAMING ME FOR THE MURDER OF - 571 00:28:59,606 --> 00:29:01,708 >> IF HE DID IT. DID YOUR DAD DO IT 572 00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:04,811 >> NO, HE COULDN'T HAVE. HE WAS AT WORK AND STUFF 573 00:29:04,811 --> 00:29:08,448 >> Reporter: AND WHILE DETECTIVES MAY HAVE HAD JUSTIN 574 00:29:08,448 --> 00:29:13,653 SECOND GUESSING HIS DAD FOR A MOMENT, HIS FATHER SAW RIGHT 575 00:29:13,653 --> 00:29:15,188 THROUGH THE GAME BEING PLAYED. >> DID YOU KNOW THAT YOUR NAME 576 00:29:15,188 --> 00:29:16,189 WAS BEING PART OF THE SCENARIO IN THE OTHER ROOM? 577 00:29:16,189 --> 00:29:17,290 THEY'RE SAYING MAYBE YOUR FATHER'S GOT SOMETHING TO DO 578 00:29:17,290 --> 00:29:19,926 WITH THIS. THE FATHER FRAMES THE SON FOR 579 00:29:19,926 --> 00:29:21,461 THIS >> YEAH. 580 00:29:21,461 --> 00:29:26,433 IT WAS SO RIDICULOUS I DID NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY. 581 00:29:26,433 --> 00:29:29,235 THEY PROBABLY TRIED TO USE MY STATEMENT TO FRAME HIM 582 00:29:29,235 --> 00:29:32,305 >> Reporter: NO MATTER WHAT TACT THEY TOOK, DETECTIVES ALWAYS 583 00:29:32,305 --> 00:29:33,206 RETURNED TO JUST HAMMERING AWAY AT JUSTIN. 584 00:29:33,206 --> 00:29:35,475 >> I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THOUGH >> YES, YOU DID. 585 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:36,509 YOU KILLED YOUR MOTHER AND YOU -- 586 00:29:36,509 --> 00:29:37,844 >> NO, I DIDN'T. NO, I DIDN'T 587 00:29:37,844 --> 00:29:39,045 >> YOU KILLED YOUR MOTHER AND TRIED TO - 588 00:29:39,045 --> 00:29:39,746 >> NO, I DIDN'T. >> YES, YOU DID. 589 00:29:39,746 --> 00:29:42,248 >> NO, I DIDN'T. >> YES, YOU DID. 590 00:29:42,248 --> 00:29:44,851 >> NO, I DIDN'T, SIR >> Reporter: AND THAT'S THE WAY 591 00:29:44,851 --> 00:29:49,055 IT WENT FOR NEARLY 11 HOURS. DESPITE THE PRESSURE, JUSTIN 592 00:29:49,055 --> 00:29:52,125 INSISTED HE WAS INNOCENT AND IF INVESTIGATORS COULD ONLY FIND 593 00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:54,828 THAT SNIPPET OF VIDEO OF THE INTRUDER FROM THE HOME SECURITY 594 00:29:54,828 --> 00:29:58,865 CAMERA, THEN THEY'D FIND OUT WHO REALLY KILLED HIS MOM. 595 00:29:58,865 --> 00:30:00,934 WAS HE RIGHT >>> COMING UP -- 596 00:30:00,934 --> 00:30:05,105 A FRUSTRATED AND INCREASINGLY ANGRY JUSTIN 597 00:30:05,105 --> 00:30:10,377 >> WHEN YOU GUYS FIND OUT YOU'RE WRONG, I HOPE YOU COME AND SAY 598 00:30:10,377 --> 00:30:11,578 SORRY TO ME, MAN, OR SOMETHING >> IF I FOUND OUT I WAS WRONG, 599 00:30:11,578 --> 00:30:12,912 I'D SERIOUSLY CONSIDER A CAREER CHANGE 600 00:30:12,912 --> 00:30:29,596 BUT I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG >> WELL, YOU ARE 601 00:30:29,596 --> 00:30:32,198 >>> STOP JUMPING IN MY BRAIN AND TRYING TO MAKE ME SAY I DID IT 602 00:30:32,198 --> 00:30:33,266 EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T DO IT CAN YOU STOP LAUGHING, MAN 603 00:30:33,266 --> 00:30:35,001 IT'S NOT -- IT'S NOT FUNNY >> I'M NOT LAUGHING AT THAT. 604 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:37,404 I'M LAUGHING THAT YOU THINK I HAVE THESE POWERS. 605 00:30:37,404 --> 00:30:40,540 >> Reporter: AFTER HOURS OF DETECTIVES IN HIS FACE SAYING 606 00:30:40,540 --> 00:30:42,609 HE'D KILLED HIS MOTHER, JUSTIN REFUSED TO BUCKLE. 607 00:30:42,609 --> 00:30:45,145 HE MAINTAINED HIS INNOCENCE AND SAID THEY WOULD END UP 608 00:30:45,145 --> 00:30:49,382 APOLOGIZING TO HIM WHEN THE CASE WAS SOLVED 609 00:30:49,382 --> 00:30:57,691 >> WHEN YOU GUYS FIND OUT YOU'RE WRONG, I HOPE YOU COME AND SAY 610 00:30:57,691 --> 00:30:58,892 SORRY TO ME, MAN, OR SOMETHING THIS IS A HORRIBLE -- NO, NO, 611 00:30:58,892 --> 00:31:00,326 THIS IS A HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. >> IF -- IF I FOUND OUT I WAS 612 00:31:00,326 --> 00:31:03,396 WRONG, I'D SERIOUSLY CONSIDER A CAREER CHANGE. 613 00:31:03,396 --> 00:31:04,531 BUT I KNOW I'M NOT WRONG >> WELL, YOU ARE AND YOU SHOULD 614 00:31:04,531 --> 00:31:07,567 CONSIDER A CAREER CHANGE I'M SERIOUS, DUDE. 615 00:31:07,567 --> 00:31:08,668 >> MAYBE, MAYBE. >> I'M SORRY, DETECTIVE, BUT 616 00:31:08,668 --> 00:31:10,704 YOU'RE THINKING WRONG. AND WRAP ME UP TO A POLYGRAPH 617 00:31:10,704 --> 00:31:12,305 MACHINE RIGHT NOW, MAN >> Reporter: THEY NEVER DID. 618 00:31:12,305 --> 00:31:15,875 BUT IF THERE WAS ONE THING THAT COULD HELP SOLVE THE CRIME, IT 619 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,512 WAS THAT SNIPPET OF VIDEO OF AN INTRUDER HIS DAD SAW ON HIS 620 00:31:19,512 --> 00:31:21,614 COMPUTER >> PLEASE SAY YOU GOT THE -- 621 00:31:21,614 --> 00:31:25,752 THE -- DID YOU GET A RECORDING >> Reporter: DETECTIVES WERE 622 00:31:25,752 --> 00:31:30,457 ALREADY WORKING ON IT, ANALYZING IT FRAME BY FRAME. 623 00:31:30,457 --> 00:31:33,560 IT MIGHT JUST CLEAR JUSTIN OR NOT 624 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:34,828 >> EASY. YOU GO TO THE TAPE 625 00:31:34,828 --> 00:31:35,595 YOU PULL IT, AND YOU ALL LOOK AT IT 626 00:31:35,595 --> 00:31:37,330 >> THAT'D BE GREAT THIS CAMERA SYSTEM THAT HE HAD 627 00:31:37,330 --> 00:31:39,799 WAS A DROP CAMERA SERVICE INSIDE THE HOUSE. 628 00:31:39,799 --> 00:31:41,167 AND YOU ARE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO PAY FOR A SERVICE 629 00:31:41,167 --> 00:31:42,402 WHICH KEEPS THE LIVE RECORDINGS. >> Reporter: IN FACT, THE SUS 630 00:31:42,402 --> 00:31:44,971 HAD A TRIAL PERIOD FOR RECORDINGS THAT LASTED TWO 631 00:31:44,971 --> 00:31:48,108 WEEKS. IT EXPIRED TWO DAYS BEFORE THE 632 00:31:48,108 --> 00:31:51,211 MURDER AND WAS NOT RENEWED THAT MEANT THERE WAS NO VIDEO 633 00:31:51,211 --> 00:31:54,881 RECORDING TO RETRIEVE. >> IT WAS JUST A LIVE MONITOR 634 00:31:54,881 --> 00:31:57,984 VIEW SO ONCE THAT IMAGE WAS GONE, IT 635 00:31:57,984 --> 00:32:00,587 WAS GONE FOREVER >> Reporter: BUT THERE WERE 636 00:32:00,587 --> 00:32:04,224 OTHER INVESTIGATORS REVIEWING VIDEOS FROM OUTSIDE THE HOUSE, 637 00:32:04,224 --> 00:32:07,861 INCLUDING AT THE FRONT GATE, TO SEE IF THEY COULD CONFIRM 638 00:32:07,861 --> 00:32:11,064 JUSTIN'S STORY AND TIMELINE. JUSTIN TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT 639 00:32:11,064 --> 00:32:14,100 AFTER RUNNING ERRANDS THAT MORNING, HE LEFT THE HOUSE AGAIN 640 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:16,202 AROUND 9:15. THE SECURITY CAMERA AT THE FRONT 641 00:32:16,202 --> 00:32:20,874 GATE SHOWED HIS BLACK CAR LEAVING. 642 00:32:20,874 --> 00:32:22,942 ABOUT THREE HOURS LATER, SOMETIME AROUND 12:30, HIS CAR 643 00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:26,579 CAN BE SEEN AGAIN ON THE SAME SECURITY CAMERA RETURNING TO THE 644 00:32:26,579 --> 00:32:29,182 GATED COMMUNITY. IT WAS JUST AS HE'D SAID, 645 00:32:29,182 --> 00:32:32,485 RESPONDING TO HIS FATHER'S REQUEST TO CHECK ON HIS MOTHER 646 00:32:32,485 --> 00:32:36,456 AND THE HOUSE. >> BASED ON GUARD GATE VIDEO, WE 647 00:32:36,456 --> 00:32:39,559 HAD HIM COMING AND GOING FROM THE HOUSE -- AND FROM THE TIME 648 00:32:39,559 --> 00:32:43,496 THAT HE HAD LEFT -- AND BY THE TIME HE CAME BACK, THAT WAS THE 649 00:32:43,496 --> 00:32:45,799 OPPORTUNITY WINDOW THAT WE -- WE BASICALLY PUT A TIMELINE OF WHEN 650 00:32:45,799 --> 00:32:48,435 THIS MURDER TOOK PLACE >> Reporter: JUSTIN WAS NOT AT 651 00:32:48,435 --> 00:32:51,538 HOME SHORTLY AFTER NOON WHEN THE DETECTIVES THEORIZED THE MURDER 652 00:32:51,538 --> 00:32:55,709 HAD TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE. THE COMINGS AND GOINGS SEEN ON 653 00:32:55,709 --> 00:32:58,311 THE SECURITY GATE VIDEO CONFIRMED JUSTIN HAD NOT KILLED 654 00:32:58,311 --> 00:33:00,880 HIS MOTHER >> WHEN WE WERE DONE, WE WERE 655 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:07,654 PRETTY CONVINCED THAT HE WASN'T THE ONE WHO DID IT 656 00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:11,491 >> SO ALL THESE SUSPICIONS YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT, YOU BELIEVED, 657 00:33:11,491 --> 00:33:13,360 IN THE END, THAT HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH? 658 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:14,494 >> I DID >> Reporter: JUSTIN GOT THE 659 00:33:14,494 --> 00:33:15,962 WELCOME NEWS WITHOUT TRUMPETS OR DRUMROLLS. 660 00:33:15,962 --> 00:33:20,633 HE WAS SIMPLY TOLD HE WAS FREE TO GO. 661 00:33:20,633 --> 00:33:24,270 >> ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S OVER >> YEAH. 662 00:33:24,270 --> 00:33:28,441 IT IS. THEY JUST OPENED THE DOOR. 663 00:33:28,441 --> 00:33:29,476 >> WAS YOUR DAD THERE AT THAT POINT? 664 00:33:29,476 --> 00:33:31,578 >> YEAH. I REMEMBER THE FIRST MEMORY I 665 00:33:31,578 --> 00:33:32,779 HAVE OF MY DAD IS HE SAW ME, HUGGED ME, AND SAID, "OH, DON'T 666 00:33:32,779 --> 00:33:33,646 WORRY. DON'T -- OBVIOUSLY." 667 00:33:33,646 --> 00:33:35,181 HE DIDN'T -- HE DID NOT BELIEVE FOR A SECOND THAT I DID IT 668 00:33:35,181 --> 00:33:36,750 YEAH >> Reporter: THROUGHOUT HIS 669 00:33:36,750 --> 00:33:41,421 ORDEAL, JUSTIN WAS AGONIZINGLY AWARE HE STILL HAD HIS MOTHER'S 670 00:33:41,421 --> 00:33:42,589 BLOOD ON HIM >> I HAD TO ASK THEM, LIKE, "CAN 671 00:33:42,589 --> 00:33:49,229 I JUST GO TO THE BATHROOM? I HAD TO GO IN AND GO TO THE 672 00:33:49,229 --> 00:33:55,468 SINK, TAKE THIS WATER, AND JUST TRY TO WASH OFF MY MOM'S BLOOD 673 00:33:55,468 --> 00:33:59,105 IN THIS POLICE BATHROOM AND I'M BEING BLAMED FOR THIS. 674 00:33:59,105 --> 00:34:03,276 >> Reporter: JUSTIN'S INTERVIEW WAS LONG, HARSH, AND 675 00:34:03,276 --> 00:34:06,413 TRAUMATIZING >> IF YOU KEEP ON DOING THAT TO 676 00:34:06,413 --> 00:34:12,118 SOMEBODY FOR 12, 13, 14 HOURS, THAT'S CLOSE TO TORTURE. 677 00:34:12,118 --> 00:34:13,687 YOU CAN MAKE SOMEONE CONFESS TO SOMETHING JUST TO END IT, JUST 678 00:34:13,687 --> 00:34:17,824 TO GET OUT OF THAT SITUATION, WHICH IS HORRIBLE. 679 00:34:17,824 --> 00:34:21,061 I NEVER BROKE. >> Reporter: EVEN SOME LAW 680 00:34:21,061 --> 00:34:23,063 ENFORCEMENT PROFESSIONALS FELT THAT GRILLING HIM FOR 11 HOURS 681 00:34:23,063 --> 00:34:29,235 WAS EXTREME. >> I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I 682 00:34:29,235 --> 00:34:31,471 HAVE SELDOM IN MY 35 YEARS OF PRACTICE OF CRIMINAL LAW SEEN AN 683 00:34:31,471 --> 00:34:33,940 INTERROGATION GO THAT LONG >> Reporter: PROSECUTOR 684 00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:38,111 MARIA SCHNEIDER WOULD BE THE ONE TO TRY THE CASE WHEN THE KILLER 685 00:34:38,111 --> 00:34:39,212 WAS FINALLY CAUGHT >> HAD THESE GUYS STEPPED OVER 686 00:34:39,212 --> 00:34:42,248 THE LINE INTO BULLYING, INTIMIDATION 687 00:34:42,248 --> 00:34:48,088 >> YOU KNOW, INVESTIGATING THE FAMILY OR SUSPECTING THE FAMILY, 688 00:34:48,088 --> 00:34:49,656 SADLY, THAT'S KIND OF PAR FOR THE COURSE 689 00:34:49,656 --> 00:34:51,224 WHETHER I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THEY WENT A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG 690 00:34:51,224 --> 00:34:54,227 AND A LITTLE BIT TOO HARD ON JUSTIN, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ME 691 00:34:54,227 --> 00:34:57,864 MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING. >> Reporter: LEAD DETECTIVE 692 00:34:57,864 --> 00:35:02,869 PAUL WILLIAMS SAID IT WAS AS LONG AND HARD AS IT NEEDED TO 693 00:35:02,869 --> 00:35:04,070 BE >> DID YOU ROUGH HIM UP MORE 694 00:35:04,070 --> 00:35:09,809 THAN YOU NEEDED TO TO GET YOUR STORY? 695 00:35:09,809 --> 00:35:11,678 >> NO, I DON'T THINK SO. I NEVER FEEL BAD ABOUT THAT 696 00:35:11,678 --> 00:35:12,912 BECAUSE WE DO THE INVESTIGATION FOR THE VICTIM WHO CAN'T SPEAK 697 00:35:12,912 --> 00:35:16,149 IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I -- WE -- WE WOULDN'T 698 00:35:16,149 --> 00:35:19,686 CHANGE A THING >> HE WOULD BE IN THAT ROOM AS 699 00:35:19,686 --> 00:35:20,720 LONG BEING GRILLED >> AS LONG AS IT TOOK, WITHOUT A 700 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:22,122 DOUBT. AND THE OPTICS OF IT, IT'S 701 00:35:22,122 --> 00:35:23,690 PROBABLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE. 702 00:35:23,690 --> 00:35:27,293 MY JOB IS TO FIND THE FACTS. >> Reporter: AND THE FACT IS 703 00:35:27,293 --> 00:35:33,066 THAT DURING HIS INTERROGATION, JUSTIN GAVE DETECTIVES A NEW 704 00:35:33,066 --> 00:35:34,601 LEAD TO PURSUE, OPENING UP A WHOLE NEW AREA OF INVESTIGATION. 705 00:35:34,601 --> 00:35:36,770 THE SON, IT TURNED OUT, HAD THROWN A PARTY AT HIS HOUSE TWO 706 00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:40,840 DAYS BEFORE HIS PARENTS CAME HOME FROM THAT MALAYSIA TRIP 707 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,943 THERE WERE A NUMBER OF YOUNG PEOPLE SMOKING, DRINKING, 708 00:35:43,943 --> 00:35:48,114 WANDERING AROUND THE HOUSE COULD ONE OF THOSE PARTYGOERS 709 00:35:48,114 --> 00:35:52,786 FIT THE PROFILE OF A SUSPECT THE INTERVIEW LIST HAD SUDDENLY 710 00:35:52,786 --> 00:35:55,388 GROWN BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS. >>> COMING UP -- 711 00:35:55,388 --> 00:35:59,559 >> I WAS GUESSING MAYBE ONE OF MY FRIENDS MIGHT HAVE HAD 712 00:35:59,559 --> 00:36:01,327 SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. >> HAD JUSTIN GUESSED RIGHT? 713 00:36:01,327 --> 00:36:02,495 >> THE PEOPLE HE MINGLES WITH, THEY'RE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT 714 00:36:02,495 --> 00:36:20,647 ROBBING PEOPLE, DOING THIS, >> Reporter: DETECTIVES 715 00:36:20,647 --> 00:36:24,284 INVESTIGATING THE MURDER OF JILL SU WERE BACK TO SQUARE ONE. 716 00:36:24,284 --> 00:36:30,523 HER SON JUSTIN WAS NO LONGER A SUSPECT, BUT HE DID OFFER THEM A 717 00:36:30,523 --> 00:36:32,058 TANTALIZING NEW LEAD >> SO IN RECENT DAYS THERE HAD 718 00:36:32,058 --> 00:36:36,763 BEEN A PARTY IN THE HOUSE? >> CORRECT 719 00:36:36,763 --> 00:36:44,604 >> WITH A LOT OF KIDS? >> A LOT OF KIDS, UPWARDS OF, 720 00:36:44,604 --> 00:36:45,638 LIKE, 20 KIDS, 20, 25 KIDS >> SO THAT'S INTERESTING 721 00:36:45,638 --> 00:36:46,406 >> YES SO THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE 722 00:36:46,406 --> 00:36:47,474 INSIDE THE HOUSE, WHICH ADDED TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE 723 00:36:47,474 --> 00:36:49,242 CONTAMINATION OR CROSS CONTAMINATION OF OTHER PEOPLE'S 724 00:36:49,242 --> 00:36:53,646 DNA AND FINGERPRINTS THEY COULD HAVE LEFT ON THE SCENE, AS WELL 725 00:36:53,646 --> 00:36:54,447 AS WHAT WE WERE DEALING WITH ALREADY. 726 00:36:54,447 --> 00:36:55,982 >> Reporter: JUSTIN GAVE DETECTIVES A LIST OF PEOPLE, 727 00:36:55,982 --> 00:37:02,389 MOSTLY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THEIR 20s. 728 00:37:02,389 --> 00:37:05,025 >> YOU GAVE THEM NAMES >> YEAH. 729 00:37:05,025 --> 00:37:09,029 I GAVE THEM EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY FRIENDS' NAMES 730 00:37:09,029 --> 00:37:10,063 AND THEY WENT AND BACKGROUND CHECKED ALL OF THEM, YEAH. 731 00:37:10,063 --> 00:37:13,533 IT WAS, LIKE, I WAS GUESSING MAYBE ONE OF MY FRIENDS MIGHT 732 00:37:13,533 --> 00:37:14,267 HAVE HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT 733 00:37:14,267 --> 00:37:15,535 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES REACHED OUT, CALLED THE PEOPLE FROM THE 734 00:37:15,535 --> 00:37:16,670 PARTY. "COME DOWN TO HEADQUARTERS," 735 00:37:16,670 --> 00:37:18,038 THEY TOLD THEM "WE NEED TO TALK." 736 00:37:18,038 --> 00:37:18,838 >> JUST NEED YOU TO OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH. 737 00:37:18,838 --> 00:37:20,407 >> Reporter: AND WHEN THEY DID THAT, THEY WERE SWABBED FOR DNA. 738 00:37:20,407 --> 00:37:22,308 >> OKAY, I'M GOING TO TAKE AN ORAL SWAB FROM YOU 739 00:37:22,308 --> 00:37:24,911 >> Reporter: NO ONE OBJECTED BY THEN THEY ALL KNEW WHAT 740 00:37:24,911 --> 00:37:30,650 HAPPENED TO JUSTIN'S MOM THREE DAYS AFTER THE PARTY 741 00:37:30,650 --> 00:37:31,651 MOST WERE HAPPY TO ANSWER DETECTIVES' QUESTIONS. 742 00:37:31,651 --> 00:37:32,686 >> DID YOU KNOW IF HE HAS CAMERAS INSIDE THE HOUSE 743 00:37:32,686 --> 00:37:35,522 >> YEAH, JUSTIN TOLD ME HE DID >> HE TOLD YOU 744 00:37:35,522 --> 00:37:39,492 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: JUSTIN TOLD 745 00:37:39,492 --> 00:37:41,061 DETECTIVES DURING HIS INTERROGATION THAT, WHEN GUESTS 746 00:37:41,061 --> 00:37:45,198 ARRIVED, HE MADE SURE HE TOLD EVERYONE TO BE COOL AROUND THOSE 747 00:37:45,198 --> 00:37:46,366 SECURITY CAMERAS HE WARNED THEM THAT EVEN THOUGH 748 00:37:46,366 --> 00:37:51,137 HIS PARENTS WERE AWAY, THEY SOMETIMES CHECKED THE CAMERAS 749 00:37:51,137 --> 00:37:56,376 REMOTELY >> I TOLD THEM, "THERE'S A 750 00:37:56,376 --> 00:38:03,083 CAMERA DON'T GO IN THAT ROOM BECAUSE 751 00:38:03,083 --> 00:38:06,219 THERE'S A CAMERA AND MY PARENTS WILL SEE YOU 752 00:38:06,219 --> 00:38:08,254 AND IF THEY SEE YOU" -- WHILE THEY WERE IN MALAYSIA -- "WHEN 753 00:38:08,254 --> 00:38:09,356 THEY SEE YOU, THEY WOULD -- LIKE, THEY'LL GET PISSED." 754 00:38:09,356 --> 00:38:10,490 >> Reporter: JUSTIN SAID MOST PARTY GUESTS WERE LONGTIME 755 00:38:10,490 --> 00:38:12,459 FRIENDS. BUT HE SAID THERE WERE A FEW HE 756 00:38:12,459 --> 00:38:14,027 DIDN'T KNOW VERY WELL, AND ONE GUY MADE HIS WAY TO AN 757 00:38:14,027 --> 00:38:15,662 OFF-LIMITS PART OF THE HOUSE >> I REMEMBER I - I YELLED AT 758 00:38:15,662 --> 00:38:17,130 HIM BECAUSE HE ACTUALLY WENT INTO MY PARENTS' ROOM, INTO, 759 00:38:17,130 --> 00:38:18,698 LIKE, THE BATHROOM >> WHAT FOR? 760 00:38:18,698 --> 00:38:20,133 >> HE WAS ON A PHONE CALL. HE WAS, LIKE, TALKIN' TO SOMEONE 761 00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:21,801 AND JUST WALKIN' AROUND MY HOUSE KINDA JUST, LIKE, ON THE PHONE 762 00:38:21,801 --> 00:38:27,941 >> YEAH? AND WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM? 763 00:38:27,941 --> 00:38:34,047 >> I TOLD HIM "GET THE [ BLEEP ] OUT. 764 00:38:34,047 --> 00:38:35,482 I WAS LIKE, "GET THE [ BLEEP ] OUT OF THERE, MAN. 765 00:38:35,482 --> 00:38:36,616 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES TOOK NOTE, THE PARENTS' BATHROOM. 766 00:38:36,616 --> 00:38:37,517 THE VERY PLACE WHERE JILL'S BODY WAS FOUND. 767 00:38:37,517 --> 00:38:38,918 SO THEY ASKED THE GUY ABOUT IT >> I HAD GOTTEN AN IMPORTANT 768 00:38:38,918 --> 00:38:40,153 PHONE CALL SO I'D WALKED AWAY TO GET AWAY 769 00:38:40,153 --> 00:38:41,221 WANDERED AND I ENDED UP IN THE MASTER BEDROOM 770 00:38:41,221 --> 00:38:42,422 AND THAT'S WHEN HE FOUND ME. AND HE WAS LIKE, "YO, CAN YOU GO 771 00:38:42,422 --> 00:38:43,456 IN THE GARAGE OR SOMETHING MY PARENTS HAVE CAMERAS. 772 00:38:43,456 --> 00:38:44,824 I DON'T WANT THEM TO SEE YOU IN THE BEDROOM AND THINK OF 773 00:38:44,824 --> 00:38:48,461 ANYTHING WEIRD." >> Reporter: ACTUALLY THERE WERE 774 00:38:48,461 --> 00:38:50,563 NO CAMERAS IN THE BEDROOM. THE GUY ON THE PHONE IMMEDIATELY 775 00:38:50,563 --> 00:38:52,098 LEFT TO CONTINUE HIS CALL ELSEWHERE. 776 00:38:52,098 --> 00:38:55,735 BUT HE AND SOME OF THE OTHERS TOLD DETECTIVES THEY SHOULD TAKE 777 00:38:55,735 --> 00:38:58,338 A LOOK AT ONE PARTYGOER IN PARTICULAR, SOMEONE WHO HAD A 778 00:38:58,338 --> 00:39:01,474 RECORD AND AN UNSAVORY REPUTATION 779 00:39:01,474 --> 00:39:11,851 >> THE PEOPLE HE MINGLES WITH, THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT ROBBING 780 00:39:11,851 --> 00:39:13,219 PEOPLE, DOING THIS, DOING THAT AND MY LOGIC "A," THE PEOPLE HE 781 00:39:13,219 --> 00:39:14,020 MINGLES WITH "B," HE'S IN THE HOUSE 782 00:39:14,020 --> 00:39:15,088 HE KNOWS JUSTIN'S THERE ALONE. HIS PARENTS AREN'T THERE 783 00:39:15,088 --> 00:39:17,023 YOU SEE THIS BIG HOUSE, SOMEBODY WITH A LOT OF MONEY. 784 00:39:17,023 --> 00:39:19,225 IF HE'S UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT HIS PARENTS ARE STILL GONE 785 00:39:19,225 --> 00:39:22,228 AND THEY GO THERE MONDAY, SOMEBODY BREAKS IN 786 00:39:22,228 --> 00:39:27,400 MOM'S THERE. MOM CATCHES HIM. 787 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,535 WHOLE ALTERCATION ENSUES THE WHOLE WHATEVER HAPPENED 788 00:39:28,535 --> 00:39:31,071 HAPPENED THEY FLEE. 789 00:39:31,071 --> 00:39:35,208 >> Reporter: POLICE TRACED THE GUY TO HIS HOME AND ASKED HIM TO 790 00:39:35,208 --> 00:39:37,277 COME DOWN TO HEADQUARTERS TO ANSWER A FEW QUESTIONS 791 00:39:37,277 --> 00:39:40,947 HE TOLD THE COPS HE'D ACTUALLY BEEN EXPECTING THEM. 792 00:39:40,947 --> 00:39:47,454 >> I HAD A FEELING I WOULD END UP HERE, JUST KNOWING THE 793 00:39:47,454 --> 00:39:48,555 SITUATION AND [ BLEEP ]. >> Reporter: THEY ASKED HIM TO 794 00:39:48,555 --> 00:39:50,056 TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY SIGNS OF AN 795 00:39:50,056 --> 00:39:52,659 INJURY FROM A STRUGGLE THERE WERE NOT 796 00:39:52,659 --> 00:39:54,227 HE ADMITTED HE HAD AN ARREST RECORD, BUT FOR DRUGS, NOT 797 00:39:54,227 --> 00:39:55,228 BURGLARY NO ROUGH STUFF 798 00:39:55,228 --> 00:40:00,934 >> YEAH, I'M ON PROBATION RIGHT NOW. 799 00:40:00,934 --> 00:40:06,940 THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU CAME TO MY HOUSE, I WAS LIKE [ BLEEP ]. 800 00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:09,209 I WAS LIKE, OH, GOD HERE WE GO >> OH, OKAY. 801 00:40:09,209 --> 00:40:10,276 >> Reporter: AND WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR A DNA SWAB -- 802 00:40:10,276 --> 00:40:11,511 >> JUST OPEN YOUR MOUTH FOR ME >> Reporter: -- HE SAID HIS DNA 803 00:40:11,511 --> 00:40:12,545 WAS ALREADY IN THE SYSTEM AS A RESULT OF HIS ARREST 804 00:40:12,545 --> 00:40:13,313 >> 'CAUSE I'M ALREADY IN THE SYSTEM 805 00:40:13,313 --> 00:40:14,180 I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM PROVIDING IT AGAIN 806 00:40:14,180 --> 00:40:15,849 >> Reporter: THE YOUNG MAN HAD AN ALIBI FOR THE TIME OF THE 807 00:40:15,849 --> 00:40:18,318 MURDER HE WAS AT WORK, HE SAID. 808 00:40:18,318 --> 00:40:22,322 IN ALL, DETECTIVES WENT THROUGH CLOSE TO 30 INTERVIEWS 809 00:40:22,322 --> 00:40:25,658 EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE PERSON, NO ONE ELSE AT THE PARTY HAD A 810 00:40:25,658 --> 00:40:27,060 CRIMINAL RECORD. >> YOU'VE CANVASSED ALL THE 811 00:40:27,060 --> 00:40:30,296 KIDS, AND THEY DON'T SEEM TO BE A LEAD FOR YOU 812 00:40:30,296 --> 00:40:33,466 >> CORRECT >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, CSI 813 00:40:33,466 --> 00:40:36,536 INVESTIGATORS AT THE CRIME SCENE HAD ALREADY SWABBED A NUMBER OF 814 00:40:36,536 --> 00:40:39,139 ITEMS FOR DNA. MORE THAN A WEEK LATER, NEWS 815 00:40:39,139 --> 00:40:44,878 CAME BACK FROM THE LAB THERE WAS A HIT. 816 00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:45,979 >>> COMING UP -- >> DOES A HIT MEAN YOU HAVE A 817 00:40:45,979 --> 00:40:47,447 NAME AT THAT POINT >> YES 818 00:40:47,447 --> 00:40:49,616 THEY IDENTIFY A NAME HAD QUITE AN EXTENSIVE HISTORY 819 00:40:49,616 --> 00:40:55,722 >> AND A FAMILIAR WAY OF COMMITTING BURGLARIES. 820 00:40:55,722 --> 00:40:57,524 >> ALL OF THEM WERE WITHIN -- WITHIN GATED COMMUNITIES, AND 821 00:40:57,524 --> 00:40:58,358 THEY WERE ALL BACKED UP AGAINST WATER. 822 00:40:58,358 --> 00:41:00,460 AND MOST OF THE ENTRIES WERE DONE THROUGH A BACK GLASS 823 00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:18,078 DOORWAY. >> Reporter: IT'S AN 824 00:41:18,078 --> 00:41:20,080 ELECTRIFYING MOMENT FOR ANY DETECTIVE WORKING A CASE WHEN A 825 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:24,217 DNA SAMPLE COMES BACK FROM THE LAB WITH, NOT JUST A HIT, BUT A 826 00:41:24,217 --> 00:41:28,388 NAME ATTACHED. DETECTIVE PAUL WILLIAMS HAD ONE 827 00:41:28,388 --> 00:41:32,559 OF THOSE A-HA MOMENTS NINE DAYS AFTER JILL SU'S MURDER 828 00:41:32,559 --> 00:41:34,627 >> THEY'VE TAKEN THEIR SAMPLE, THIS GENETIC SAMPLE, AND 829 00:41:34,627 --> 00:41:38,264 COMPARED IT TO A KNOWN - >> CORRECT 830 00:41:38,264 --> 00:41:40,867 >> -- DATABASE >> CORRECT 831 00:41:40,867 --> 00:41:43,470 LIKE ONE INTO SOME TRILLION, FOR THIS PERSON. 832 00:41:43,470 --> 00:41:48,141 >> Reporter: AND MORE IMPORTANTLY -- 833 00:41:48,141 --> 00:41:49,776 >> DOES A HIT MEAN YOU HAVE A NAME AT THAT POINT 834 00:41:49,776 --> 00:41:50,410 >> YES THEY IDENTIFY A NAME 835 00:41:50,410 --> 00:41:53,380 >> Reporter: IT WASN'T THE GUY FROM THE PARTY 836 00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:56,116 WASN'T ANYONE FROM THE PARTY THEY WERE ALL CLEARED. 837 00:41:56,116 --> 00:41:58,485 RATHER IT WAS A 20-YEAR-OLD NAMED DAYONTE RESILES. 838 00:41:58,485 --> 00:42:02,188 WHO IN THE WORLD WAS HE? THE DETECTIVE DIDN'T HAVE A 839 00:42:02,188 --> 00:42:03,757 CLUE >> DO YOU GO TO YOUR COMPUTERS 840 00:42:03,757 --> 00:42:06,359 AND PULL UP THE NAME >> PULLED UP A PICTURE, LOOKED 841 00:42:06,359 --> 00:42:11,097 AT HIM, SAW HIS HISTORY. HAD QUITE OF EXTENSIVE HISTORY 842 00:42:11,097 --> 00:42:15,168 >> JUVENILE -- >> JUVENILE -- 843 00:42:15,168 --> 00:42:16,736 >> -- HISTORY? >> -- STUFF, BURGLARIES. 844 00:42:16,736 --> 00:42:17,937 NOTHING -- NO VIOLENT CRIMES IT WAS ALL BURGLARY AND PROPERTY 845 00:42:17,937 --> 00:42:18,738 CRIMES >> Reporter: THE WAY 846 00:42:18,738 --> 00:42:22,976 DAYONTE RESILES PULLED OFF THOSE BURGLARIES, HIS M.O. SOUNDED 847 00:42:22,976 --> 00:42:25,578 FAMILIAR TO DETECTIVE WILLIAMS >> ALL OF THEM WERE WITHIN GATED 848 00:42:25,578 --> 00:42:29,215 COMMUNITIES, AND ALL THE HOMES WERE HUGE. 849 00:42:29,215 --> 00:42:33,787 THEY WERE ALL BACKED UP AGAINST WATER. 850 00:42:33,787 --> 00:42:37,524 MOST OF THE ENTRIES WERE DONE THROUGH A BACK GLASS DOORWAY 851 00:42:37,524 --> 00:42:38,692 INTO THE HOME. >> RAND DESTROYING SURVEILLANCE 852 00:42:38,692 --> 00:42:40,126 EQUIPMENT IF HE COULD? >> YES, YES. 853 00:42:40,126 --> 00:42:41,961 >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE WONDERED IF DAYONTE HAD BEEN IN 854 00:42:41,961 --> 00:42:44,798 THE SU HOUSE LEGITIMATELY. MAYBE HE KNEW JUSTIN 855 00:42:44,798 --> 00:42:46,800 IF SO, THAT COULD EXPLAIN THE PRESENCE OF THE DNA. 856 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,469 THE DETECTIVE CALLED JUSTIN AND READ HIM THREE NAMES 857 00:42:49,469 --> 00:42:53,139 >> I HAVE THREE NAMES. I WANT TO ASK YOU IF YOU KNOW 858 00:42:53,139 --> 00:42:55,742 THEM OR RECOGNIZE THEM A LUCAS HAYWARD? 859 00:42:55,742 --> 00:42:56,976 >> LUCAS HAYWARD >> YEP 860 00:42:56,976 --> 00:43:02,048 >> NO. >> DAYONTE RESILES 861 00:43:02,048 --> 00:43:03,049 >> DAVONTE WHO >> DAYONTE RESILES 862 00:43:03,049 --> 00:43:06,119 >> NO, I DO NOT KNOW WHO THAT PERSON IS. 863 00:43:06,119 --> 00:43:09,222 >> RODERICK EDWARDS? >> NO. 864 00:43:09,222 --> 00:43:11,324 >> AT ANY TIME DURING THE, UH, PAST, UH, SEVERAL WEEKS HAVE YOU 865 00:43:11,324 --> 00:43:14,427 GIVEN ANY OF THESE MALES PERMISSION TO ENTER YOUR PLACE 866 00:43:14,427 --> 00:43:16,062 >> NO. >> Reporter: JUSTIN DIDN'T KNOW 867 00:43:16,062 --> 00:43:19,099 THAT TWO OF THE NAMES WERE MADE UP 868 00:43:19,099 --> 00:43:22,235 HE BLANKED ON ALL THREE, INCLUDING DAYONTE RESILES. 869 00:43:22,235 --> 00:43:25,338 >> NEVER HEARD THAT NAME I'VE NEVER SEEN THAT MAN IN MY 870 00:43:25,338 --> 00:43:30,543 LIFE >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE TOLD 871 00:43:30,543 --> 00:43:31,878 HIM ABOUT THE DNA HIT. JUSTIN WAS RELIEVED, BUT HE SAYS 872 00:43:31,878 --> 00:43:34,280 IT WAS HARD TO FEEL ANYTHING BACK THEN BECAUSE OF WHAT HE'D 873 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:39,386 BEEN THROUGH HE WAS, HE SAYS, SHELL SHOCKED 874 00:43:39,386 --> 00:43:43,089 >> I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TERM TO SAY, BUT MENTALLY SCARRED 875 00:43:43,089 --> 00:43:45,125 LIKE, I WAS MENTALLY, LIKE, BEAT UP, MAN. 876 00:43:45,125 --> 00:43:49,262 >> Reporter: BUT THE POLICE WERE MOVING FAST. 877 00:43:49,262 --> 00:43:51,364 THEY GOT AN ARREST WARRANT AND NABBED THEIR SUSPECT 878 00:43:51,364 --> 00:43:52,899 IT WENT DOWN LIKE A TEXTBOOK CASE 879 00:43:52,899 --> 00:43:57,570 >> WE WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT SOME BURGLARIES. 880 00:43:57,570 --> 00:44:05,045 >> WHAT ABOUT A BURGLARY >> WELL, BEFORE WE TALK TO YOU, 881 00:44:05,045 --> 00:44:05,779 I'VE GOT TO READ YOU THESE RIGHTS 882 00:44:05,779 --> 00:44:07,747 NO YOU DON'T WANT TO TALK TO ME 883 00:44:07,747 --> 00:44:08,882 >> I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON SO. 884 00:44:08,882 --> 00:44:10,283 >> OKAY, NO PROBLEM. >> Reporter: THEN THEY TOLD HIM 885 00:44:10,283 --> 00:44:11,651 THE CHARGE HE WAS FACING >> YOU'RE GONNA BE CHARGED WITH 886 00:44:11,651 --> 00:44:12,886 FIRST-DEGREE MURDER. >> FIRST 887 00:44:12,886 --> 00:44:15,522 >> FIRST-DEGREE MURDER, OKAY >> WHAT -- WHAT I'M BEING 888 00:44:15,522 --> 00:44:19,626 CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE MURDER FOR? 889 00:44:19,626 --> 00:44:24,197 >> WELL, WE CAN'T TALK TO YOU SO - 890 00:44:24,197 --> 00:44:25,899 >> WHAT? WHAT THE [ BLEEP ] IS THIS 891 00:44:25,899 --> 00:44:29,536 >> Reporter: POLICE TOLD DAYONTE TO REMOVE HIS CLOTHING AND PUT 892 00:44:29,536 --> 00:44:33,173 ON A JUMPSUIT. AND DAYONTE ASKED AGAIN ABOUT 893 00:44:33,173 --> 00:44:39,946 THE CHARGE HE WAS FACING >> DO YOU KNOW WHAT MY CHARGES 894 00:44:39,946 --> 00:44:40,914 ARE? >> FIRST-DEGREE MURDER 895 00:44:40,914 --> 00:44:45,652 >> THAT'S IT THEY AIN'T TELLING ME NOTHING. 896 00:44:45,652 --> 00:44:46,686 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WHERE -- 897 00:44:46,686 --> 00:44:50,857 >> WELL, YOU ASKED FOR AN ATTORNEY, SO 898 00:44:50,857 --> 00:44:53,960 >> Reporter: DAYONTE WAS ASSIGNED A COURT-APPOINTED 899 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,128 DEFENSE ATTORNEY AN INVESTIGATOR, WORKING FOR THE 900 00:44:55,128 --> 00:44:57,597 DEFENSE, WENT TO TALK TO HIM IN JAIL 901 00:44:57,597 --> 00:45:01,234 GENTRY CHAMBERS WAS SURPRISED BY THE YOUNG MAN HE MET 902 00:45:01,234 --> 00:45:04,904 >> HE'S A SCARED KID TO ME, THAT SAYS A LOT BECAUSE 903 00:45:04,904 --> 00:45:08,508 THIS CASE, THE PERSON WHO DID IT, I DON'T THINK THEY'RE GONNA 904 00:45:08,508 --> 00:45:13,213 BE TOO SCARED. I THINK THIS WAS A CASE WHERE 905 00:45:13,213 --> 00:45:14,814 WHOEVER DID THIS, THEY EITHER DID IT BEFORE OR, YOU KNOW, 906 00:45:14,814 --> 00:45:21,054 DID -- THEY'RE A REAL GRUESOME PERSON 907 00:45:21,054 --> 00:45:25,692 >> YOU THOUGHT THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TOUGHER, THICKER SKIN THAN 908 00:45:25,692 --> 00:45:26,860 YOU'RE SEEING IN YOUR GUY? >> RIGHT BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I 909 00:45:26,860 --> 00:45:27,694 DO FOR LIVING. I TALK TO PEOPLE THAT'S 910 00:45:27,694 --> 00:45:29,329 INCARCERATED >> Reporter: GENTRY LEARNED 911 00:45:29,329 --> 00:45:30,430 DAYONTE RESILES HAD GROWN UP NOT FAR FROM THE SU FAMILY 912 00:45:30,430 --> 00:45:32,432 HIS SINGLE MOM WORKED MINIMUM WAGE JOBS. 913 00:45:32,432 --> 00:45:34,067 HE WAS NICKNAMED MOOCHIE AS A BOY. 914 00:45:34,067 --> 00:45:38,204 >> I GET UP EVERY MORNING -- >> Reporter: AS A YOUNG MAN, HE 915 00:45:38,204 --> 00:45:39,172 COULD BE CHARMING. DRIVEN TOO, IF THESE SELFIE 916 00:45:39,172 --> 00:45:42,308 VIDEOS RETRIEVED FROM HIS PHONE MEAN ANYTHING. 917 00:45:42,308 --> 00:45:44,878 A KNOWN BURGLAR TALKING LIKE A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER 918 00:45:44,878 --> 00:45:47,514 >> IF YOU NOT AMBITIOUS, YOU NOT GONNA GET FAR. 919 00:45:47,514 --> 00:45:50,183 YOU WANNA GET RICH, YOU CAN'T GET RICH SITTING ON YOUR ASS 920 00:45:50,183 --> 00:45:51,785 >> Reporter: WHEN HE WAS LIVING THE GOOD LIFE, HE COULD SHOW 921 00:45:51,785 --> 00:45:54,287 OFF. >> GOT A BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE 922 00:45:54,287 --> 00:45:55,822 BEACH THERE. SEE OUT THERE. 923 00:45:55,822 --> 00:45:59,092 >> Reporter: THIS VIDEO A TOUR OF HIS ROOM DURING A HOTEL STAY. 924 00:45:59,092 --> 00:46:03,129 >> I WISH EVERYBODY IN BROWARD, HAVE A NICE DAY, YOU KNOW. 925 00:46:03,129 --> 00:46:05,231 ENJOY YOUR SUMMER VACATION AND GET MONEY. 926 00:46:05,231 --> 00:46:13,506 THAT'S ALL >> HE COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING 927 00:46:13,506 --> 00:46:14,607 HE WANTED YO BE. >> YOU FEEL -- YOU FEEL THAT 928 00:46:14,607 --> 00:46:15,709 STRONG ABOUT HIM >> I FEEL THAT STRONG ABOUT HIM. 929 00:46:15,709 --> 00:46:17,043 I FEEL THAT IF HE WOULD HAVE GOT THE RIGHT DIRECTION, OR IF ONE 930 00:46:17,043 --> 00:46:18,311 THING THAT WOULD HAVE CHANGED IN HIS LIFE THAT WOULD HAVE LED HIM 931 00:46:18,311 --> 00:46:21,314 TO SEE SOMETHING GOOD, HE COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING HE WANTED TO 932 00:46:21,314 --> 00:46:22,949 BE >> Reporter: INSTEAD HE LANDED 933 00:46:22,949 --> 00:46:25,552 IN JAIL, CHARGED WITH MURDER ONE, POSSIBLY FACING THE DEATH 934 00:46:25,552 --> 00:46:27,554 PENALTY. >> YOU'LL BE HELD WITHOUT BOND 935 00:46:27,554 --> 00:46:31,224 UNTIL FURTHER ORDER FROM THE COURT ON THAT. 936 00:46:31,224 --> 00:46:33,827 >> Reporter: BUT GENTRY HAD HIS DOUBTS ABOUT DAYONTE'S GUILT 937 00:46:33,827 --> 00:46:36,429 THE SAVAGE WAY JILL SU WAS KILLED DIDN'T SEEM LIKE 938 00:46:36,429 --> 00:46:40,567 SOMETHING A BREAKING AND ENTERING GUY WOULD DO. 939 00:46:40,567 --> 00:46:43,169 >> TO KILL A WOMAN IN THAT FASHION, THAT WAY? 940 00:46:43,169 --> 00:46:57,217 NO >> Reporter: TELL ME ABOUT, 941 00:46:57,217 --> 00:46:58,451 THAT WAY -- KILLING IN THAT WAY. 942 00:46:58,451 --> 00:46:59,853 >> IN THAT WAY IS TO -- TO BOUND HER AND TO STAB HER MULTIPLE 943 00:46:59,853 --> 00:47:05,058 TIMES. ALMOST LIKE TORTURING, RIGHT 944 00:47:05,058 --> 00:47:06,059 >> POLICE HAVE A WORD THEY USE OVERKILL 945 00:47:06,059 --> 00:47:07,794 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: BUT THE CASE MOVED 946 00:47:07,794 --> 00:47:09,696 FORWARD. IN THE MONTHS THAT FOLLOWED, 947 00:47:09,696 --> 00:47:15,602 DAYONTE RESILES MADE ONE COURT APPEARANCE AFTER ANOTHER 948 00:47:15,602 --> 00:47:19,039 THEN CAME JULY 15, 2016, ALMOST TWO YEARS AFTER JILL SU WAS 949 00:47:19,039 --> 00:47:19,806 MURDERED DAYONTE WAS IN COURT THAT 950 00:47:19,806 --> 00:47:21,041 MORNING FOR ANOTHER HEARING. >> ALL OF A SUDDEN WE HEAR THAT 951 00:47:21,041 --> 00:47:22,308 THE COURTHOUSE IS SHUT DOWN. THE AREA AROUND THE COURTHOUSE 952 00:47:22,308 --> 00:47:23,877 IS SHUT DOWN >> Reporter: DAVID NEAL, A 953 00:47:23,877 --> 00:47:29,582 REPORTER WITH "THE MIAMI HERALD," WAS IN HIS OFFICE 954 00:47:29,582 --> 00:47:31,117 COVERING BREAKING NEWS THAT DAY. >> THERE'S UNUSUAL NUMBERS OF 955 00:47:31,117 --> 00:47:34,254 LARGE POLICE VEHICLES IN THE STREET, AND WE'RE NOT SURE -- 956 00:47:34,254 --> 00:47:36,322 EXACTLY SURE WHAT -- WHAT'S HAPPENED 957 00:47:36,322 --> 00:47:38,925 >> Reporter: THEN NEAL AND HIS COLLEAGUES LEARNED 958 00:47:38,925 --> 00:47:42,562 >> SOMEBODY ESCAPED FROM THE COURTHOUSE 959 00:47:42,562 --> 00:47:44,130 >> SITTING IN A COURTROOM. >> RIGHT 960 00:47:44,130 --> 00:47:50,370 AND SO WE'RE CALLING AROUND AND GOING, "WAIT, WAIT, HOLD ON. 961 00:47:50,370 --> 00:47:54,641 >>> COMING UP -- >> HE'S UP AND OUT AND HE'S 962 00:47:54,641 --> 00:47:55,675 GONE YOU SEE A BUNCH OF HEADS TURN, 963 00:47:55,675 --> 00:47:57,177 LIKE, THE UTTER SHOCK. >> A SUSPECTED KILLER ON THE 964 00:47:57,177 --> 00:48:00,780 LOOSE. AND A GRIEVING FAMILY WITH NEW 965 00:48:00,780 --> 00:48:03,416 WORRIES. >> GOT A PHONE CALL FROM THE 966 00:48:03,416 --> 00:48:25,405 VICTIM ADVOCATES, I BELIEVE, SAYING, "YOU MIGHT WANT TO PULL 967 00:48:25,405 --> 00:48:28,041 >> Reporter: IT STARTED OUT AS JUST ANOTHER PRETRIAL HEARING AT 968 00:48:28,041 --> 00:48:29,576 THE BROWARD COUNTY COURTHOUSE. DIDN'T END THAT WAY. 969 00:48:29,576 --> 00:48:34,280 DAVID NEAL OF "THE MIAMI HERALD." 970 00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,850 >> SUDDENLY HE'S UP AND OUT AND HE'S GONE. 971 00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:38,918 >> Reporter: HE'S BOLTED WAIT A MINUTE. 972 00:48:38,918 --> 00:48:43,623 A PRISONER, CUFFED AND SHACKLED, HAD SOMEHOW ESCAPED FROM A 973 00:48:43,623 --> 00:48:47,193 PACKED COURTROOM YES, HE HAD. 974 00:48:47,193 --> 00:48:48,161 >> THE GUY GOT UP AND ESCAPED FROM A COURTROOM 975 00:48:48,161 --> 00:48:52,866 >> Reporter: THE GUY, OF COURSE, WAS DAYONTE RESILES. 976 00:48:52,866 --> 00:48:53,833 >> I WAS LIKE, DID THAT GUY JUST REALLY DO THAT 977 00:48:53,833 --> 00:48:58,238 >> Reporter: HE DID. AT 9:06, DAYONTE ENTERED THE 978 00:48:58,238 --> 00:49:03,443 COURTROOM, FIRST IN THE LINE OF INMATES HEADING FOR THE JURY BOX 979 00:49:03,443 --> 00:49:05,011 OUT OF CAMERA RANGE, WAITING FOR HIS CASE TO BE CALLED. 980 00:49:05,011 --> 00:49:07,681 AT 9:36, A NEW GROUP OF INMATES ENTERED THE ROOM 981 00:49:07,681 --> 00:49:09,282 SECONDS LATER, DAYONTE, STILL OFF CAMERA, RACED OUT, A BAILIFF 982 00:49:09,282 --> 00:49:14,487 ON HIS HEELS >> SUDDENLY YOU SEE A BUNCH OF 983 00:49:14,487 --> 00:49:18,391 HEADS TURN, LIKE, THE UTTER SHOCK OF EVERYBODY 984 00:49:18,391 --> 00:49:19,159 THEN YOU SEE HIM HEAD OUT THE DOOR 985 00:49:19,159 --> 00:49:25,899 THE BIGGEST RESISTANCE HE GOT WAS WHEN HE HITS THE DOOR, WHICH 986 00:49:25,899 --> 00:49:27,133 WAS KIND OF A HEAVY DOOR, BUT SOMEONE WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 987 00:49:27,133 --> 00:49:28,134 THE DOOR AND SO HE HITS THE DOOR, KIND OF 988 00:49:28,134 --> 00:49:33,073 BOUNCES BACK, THEN PUSHES THROUGH AGAIN. 989 00:49:33,073 --> 00:49:34,641 >> Reporter: AND MADE IT OUT >> WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TRY AND 990 00:49:34,641 --> 00:49:40,180 TACKLE HIM IN THE HALLWAY? >> BECAUSE NOBODY EXPECTS THAT 991 00:49:40,180 --> 00:49:41,147 IT WAS JUST SO OUT OF -- OUT OF -- OUT OF NORM. 992 00:49:41,147 --> 00:49:42,716 >> Reporter: COURTROOM 4810 IS ON THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE 993 00:49:42,716 --> 00:49:44,584 COURTHOUSE ONCE DAYONTE WAS ON THE OTHER 994 00:49:44,584 --> 00:49:48,154 SIDE OF THAT COURTROOM DOOR, HE WAS OFF. 995 00:49:48,154 --> 00:49:52,826 HE'S OUT OF SHACKLES HE'S OUT OF HANDCUFFS. 996 00:49:52,826 --> 00:49:56,963 >> HE JUST - >> HE'S OUT OF - 997 00:49:56,963 --> 00:50:01,668 >> HE'S OUT OF THE JUMPSUIT. >> HE'S OUT OF - 998 00:50:01,668 --> 00:50:07,407 >> JUMPSUIT, AND HE'S -- >> -- JAILHOUSE GARB 999 00:50:07,407 --> 00:50:08,942 >> AND YEAH, HE'S GONE >> PAST SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES, I 1000 00:50:08,942 --> 00:50:10,477 IMAGINE. BAILIFFS 1001 00:50:10,477 --> 00:50:11,544 >> BUT YEAH. YEAH 1002 00:50:11,544 --> 00:50:12,579 PAST EVERYBODY PAST - 1003 00:50:12,579 --> 00:50:13,747 >> Reporter: ALL SORTS OF COURT OFFICERS ARE THERE 1004 00:50:13,747 --> 00:50:14,647 >> RIGHT THIS GUY WAS JUST BLAZING 1005 00:50:14,647 --> 00:50:15,782 THROUGH. >> Reporter: CHARGING THROUGH 1006 00:50:15,782 --> 00:50:16,750 THIS HALLWAY, RACING DOWN THAT STAIRCASE. 1007 00:50:16,750 --> 00:50:18,351 CAUGHT ON SECURITY CAMERA AS HE BUSTED OUT A BACK DOOR TO A 1008 00:50:18,351 --> 00:50:22,956 WAITING CAR. >> THEY'RE GONE. 1009 00:50:22,956 --> 00:50:24,057 THEY BEAT THE PERIMETER. >> BEFORE THEY COULD SET IT UP 1010 00:50:24,057 --> 00:50:25,458 >> YEAH. BEFORE THEY COULD EVEN SET IT 1011 00:50:25,458 --> 00:50:26,226 UP >> Reporter: A SUSPECTED KILLER 1012 00:50:26,226 --> 00:50:27,660 WAS ROAMING FREE LAW ENFORCEMENT SWUNG INTO 1013 00:50:27,660 --> 00:50:28,795 ACTION THE COURTHOUSE WAS LOCKED DOWN 1014 00:50:28,795 --> 00:50:29,829 A MANHUNT LAUNCHED AND A HUGELY EMBARRASSED BROWARD 1015 00:50:29,829 --> 00:50:30,930 COUNTY SHERIFF FACED THE CAMERAS. 1016 00:50:30,930 --> 00:50:32,332 >> THERE'LL BE INVESTIGATIONS AND DEBRIEFINGS. 1017 00:50:32,332 --> 00:50:33,433 BUT RIGHT NOW, MY MAIN CONCERN IS WHERE HE IS RIGHT NOW 1018 00:50:33,433 --> 00:50:35,435 >> Reporter: DAVIE DETECTIVE PAUL WILLIAMS HEARD THE NEWS 1019 00:50:35,435 --> 00:50:38,405 FROM A COLLEAGUE AT THE BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 1020 00:50:38,405 --> 00:50:40,106 >> I THINK MY WORDS WERE, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" 1021 00:50:40,106 --> 00:50:44,277 AND I SAID, "WHATEVER HELP YOU GUYS NEED. 1022 00:50:44,277 --> 00:50:45,478 >> SO YOU'RE WORKING WITH, WHAT, KNOWN ASSOCIATES AND FAMILY 1023 00:50:45,478 --> 00:50:46,880 MEMBERS AND -- >> CORRECT 1024 00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:48,948 I RAN THROUGH ALL MY CRIMINAL HISTORIES, ALL THE CONTACTS THAT 1025 00:50:48,948 --> 00:50:52,085 I HAD WITH THEM. >> Reporter: LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, 1026 00:50:52,085 --> 00:50:56,256 JUSTIN SU COULDN'T BELIEVE HIS EARS WHEN HE LEARNED ABOUT THE 1027 00:50:56,256 --> 00:50:58,858 ESCAPE >> GOT A PHONE CALL FROM THE 1028 00:50:58,858 --> 00:51:01,428 VICTIM ADVOCATES, I BELIEVE, SAYING, "YOU MIGHT WANT TO PULL 1029 00:51:01,428 --> 00:51:05,598 OVER." AND I REMEMBER STOPPING THE GAS 1030 00:51:05,598 --> 00:51:11,438 STATION AND SAYING, "HE ESCAPED FROM PRISON AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 1031 00:51:11,438 --> 00:51:12,839 HAVING ALL THE"-- ASSURED ME THERE'S ALL THESE RESOURCES OUT 1032 00:51:12,839 --> 00:51:14,441 TO TRY LOOKING FOR HIM >> Reporter: DETECTIVE WILLIAMS 1033 00:51:14,441 --> 00:51:16,509 CALLED THE SUS AS WELL >> OBVIOUSLY THEIR CONCERN WAS 1034 00:51:16,509 --> 00:51:20,714 THEIR SAFETY AND WHETHER HE WAS GOING TO COME BACK TO THEIR 1035 00:51:20,714 --> 00:51:22,482 HOME >> LOOK OVER YOUR SHOULDER, 1036 00:51:22,482 --> 00:51:23,483 RIGHT? >> CORRECT 1037 00:51:23,483 --> 00:51:26,086 I ARRANGED IT WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR COMMAND STAFF 1038 00:51:26,086 --> 00:51:29,189 TO HAVE DAVIE POLICE OFFICERS MAINTAIN SECURITY AT THE HOME 1039 00:51:29,189 --> 00:51:30,890 FOR THE SU FAMILY. >> AND WE HAVE THE LATEST ON THE 1040 00:51:30,890 --> 00:51:35,095 SEARCH TONIGHT >> Reporter: THE STORY WAS ALL 1041 00:51:35,095 --> 00:51:37,630 OVER THE LOCAL NEWS. THE SHERIFF AT THE TIME APPEALED 1042 00:51:37,630 --> 00:51:39,099 TO THE COMMUNITY TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT. 1043 00:51:39,099 --> 00:51:44,804 >> IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHERE HE IS, YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHERE 1044 00:51:44,804 --> 00:51:46,139 HE MIGHT BE OR KNOW WHERE HE MIGHT BE GOING OR YOU THINK YOU 1045 00:51:46,139 --> 00:51:49,476 SEE HIM, CALL US UP. >> Reporter: TWO DAYS, THREE 1046 00:51:49,476 --> 00:51:53,646 DAYS, FOUR DAYS PASSED A CRIME STOPPERS REWARD GREW TO 1047 00:51:53,646 --> 00:51:56,249 $50,000, BUT THE FUGITIVE CONTINUED TO ELUDE THE LAW 1048 00:51:56,249 --> 00:51:59,886 AND THE RUMOR MILL EXPLODED. DAYONTE WAS HERE 1049 00:51:59,886 --> 00:52:03,056 DAYONTE WAS THERE. LAW ENFORCEMENT RUNNING DOWN THE 1050 00:52:03,056 --> 00:52:08,695 TIPS, CHASING DOWN THE RUMORS. >> WE'D ACTUALLY HEARD AT ONE 1051 00:52:08,695 --> 00:52:10,797 POINT HE PULLED INTO A HOSPITAL IN WEST BROWARD AND HE DIED IN 1052 00:52:10,797 --> 00:52:12,265 THE EMERGENCY ROOM THERE I HAPPENED TO HAVE A 1053 00:52:12,265 --> 00:52:17,070 EX-GIRLFRIEND WHO WORKED IN THAT EMERGENCY ROOM 1054 00:52:17,070 --> 00:52:18,571 I QUICKLY TEXTED HER, "DO YOU HAVE A DEAD GUY THERE, MAYBE IN 1055 00:52:18,571 --> 00:52:22,776 HIS EARLY 20s, BLACK?" SHE'S LIKE, "NO. 1056 00:52:22,776 --> 00:52:24,310 >> SO THIS STUFF IS ALL FLOATING AROUND 1057 00:52:24,310 --> 00:52:26,413 >> YEAH, THE RUMORS WERE FLYING. >> Reporter: AND WHEN 1058 00:52:26,413 --> 00:52:28,448 INVESTIGATORS TURNED UP AT DAYONTE'S OLD HANGOUTS TO TALK 1059 00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:30,550 TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS, THEY DIDN'T ALWAYS GET A WARM 1060 00:52:30,550 --> 00:52:34,954 WELCOME. IN FACT, JUST THE OPPOSITE 1061 00:52:34,954 --> 00:52:37,090 >> THEY'RE INCREDIBLY NOT RECEPTIVE AND THEY'RE NOT HAVING 1062 00:52:37,090 --> 00:52:38,992 IT >> Reporter: THE CASE REINFORCED 1063 00:52:38,992 --> 00:52:43,163 A SENTIMENT IN PARTS OF BROWARD COUNTY'S BLACK COMMUNITY THAT 1064 00:52:43,163 --> 00:52:47,834 THEY COULDN'T GET A FAIR SHAKE DAYONTE'S SUPPORTERS ASKING, AS 1065 00:52:47,834 --> 00:52:51,471 OTHERS HAD, WHY A BURGLAR WAS FACING A CHARGE OF MURDER? 1066 00:52:51,471 --> 00:52:53,106 >> HE'S GOT A PAST OF, YOU KNOW, ROBBERY, BUT HE DOESN'T HAVE A 1067 00:52:53,106 --> 00:52:55,108 VIOLENT PAST THE FEELING IS THEY NEEDED A 1068 00:52:55,108 --> 00:52:58,211 BLACK GUY TO PIN IT ON AND THEY PICKED HIM 1069 00:52:58,211 --> 00:53:00,246 SO THAT WAS THE FEELING OUT OF A LOT OF HIS FRIENDS AND 1070 00:53:00,246 --> 00:53:08,822 ASSOCIATES AND A FAIR AMOUNT OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN BROWARD 1071 00:53:08,822 --> 00:53:11,057 THAT KNEW HIM. * RUN MOOCHIE, RUN * 1072 00:53:11,057 --> 00:53:13,927 >> Reporter: DAYONTE'S AUDACIOUS ESCAPE GENERATED SYMPATHY FOR 1073 00:53:13,927 --> 00:53:17,163 HIM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. HE BECAME SOMETHING OF A FOLK 1074 00:53:17,163 --> 00:53:21,301 HERO TO HIS SUPPORTERS, KNOWN BY THAT CHILDHOOD NICKNAME MOOCHIE. 1075 00:53:21,301 --> 00:53:26,906 >> AND THERE'S A RAP SONG? >> THERE WAS RAP SONG. 1076 00:53:26,906 --> 00:53:34,714 THERE WAS A -- >> "RUN, MOOCHIE, RUN," IS THAT 1077 00:53:34,714 --> 00:53:35,749 RIGHT? >> YEAH, THERE WAS 1078 00:53:35,749 --> 00:53:37,817 #RUNMOOCHIERUN THERE WAS THIS OUTCRY ON SOCIAL 1079 00:53:37,817 --> 00:53:38,952 MEDIA FROM HIS -- FROM HIS FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES SAYING 1080 00:53:38,952 --> 00:53:40,320 THEY SHOULD TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK BACK INTO 1081 00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:41,454 THAT CASE, WHICH IS NOT QUITE THE WAY THINGS WORK, FOLKS 1082 00:53:41,454 --> 00:53:43,089 >> Reporter: BUT THEN, SUDDENLY, MOOCHIE STOPPED RUNNING. 1083 00:53:43,089 --> 00:53:51,531 >>> COMING UP -- THE GREAT ESCAPE AND HOW IT WAS 1084 00:53:51,531 --> 00:54:09,149 DONE >> Reporter: AFTER 1085 00:54:09,149 --> 00:54:12,252 DAYONTE RESILES PULLED OFF THAT CRAZY CAPER AT THE BROWARD 1086 00:54:12,252 --> 00:54:15,889 COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND WENT ON THE LAM, A PROMISING NEW LEAD 1087 00:54:15,889 --> 00:54:18,058 CAME IN. A TIPSTER CLAIMED DAYONTE WAS 1088 00:54:18,058 --> 00:54:21,594 HUNKERED DOWN AT A DAYS INN ABOUT AN HOUR AWAY 1089 00:54:21,594 --> 00:54:25,832 LAW ENFORCEMENT HIGHTAILED IT NORTH AND SHOWED UP IN FORCE 1090 00:54:25,832 --> 00:54:27,067 >> THE INFORMATION THAT WE WERE RECEIVING IS THAT HE WAS GONNA 1091 00:54:27,067 --> 00:54:28,902 GO DOWN WITH A FIGHT SO OBVIOUSLY, THE S.W.A.T. TEAMS 1092 00:54:28,902 --> 00:54:31,504 WERE CALLED. >> Reporter: IT WAS SIX DAYS 1093 00:54:31,504 --> 00:54:35,642 SINCE DAYONTE HAD BUSTED OUT OF THE COURTHOUSE 1094 00:54:35,642 --> 00:54:37,711 >> ANY DRAMATICS IN THE TAKEDOWN 1095 00:54:37,711 --> 00:54:39,079 >> NO, HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY WITHOUT ANY INCIDENT, BROUGHT 1096 00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:42,916 BACK TO THE BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE 1097 00:54:42,916 --> 00:54:45,085 >> Reporter: A GREATLY RELIEVED BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF WIPED 1098 00:54:45,085 --> 00:54:48,922 GIANT OMELET AMOUNTS OF EGG OFF HIS FACE AND ANNOUNCED THE 1099 00:54:48,922 --> 00:54:51,224 ARREST >> BROWARD COUNTY AND SOUTH 1100 00:54:51,224 --> 00:54:55,929 FLORIDA IS A SAFER PLACE >> Reporter: SO HOW DID HE DO 1101 00:54:55,929 --> 00:54:58,631 IT HOW DID A 21-YEAR-OLD JAILHOUSE 1102 00:54:58,631 --> 00:55:00,600 PRISONER PULL THIS THING OFF WELL, BY ENLISTING THE HELP OF 1103 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:04,771 DEVOTED FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS. 1104 00:55:04,771 --> 00:55:06,306 THAT'S HOW >> THIS IS "OCEAN'S ELEVEN" 1105 00:55:06,306 --> 00:55:11,044 STUFF. >> YEAH. 1106 00:55:11,044 --> 00:55:12,045 >> WE'RE GONNA BREAK THIS GUY OUT OF THE COURTROOM 1107 00:55:12,045 --> 00:55:13,313 >> VERY COORDINATED. >> Reporter: DAYONTE'S RECORDED 1108 00:55:13,313 --> 00:55:15,148 PHONE CALLS FROM JAIL EXPOSED THE PLOT 1109 00:55:15,148 --> 00:55:18,785 ONCE INVESTIGATORS LISTENED TO THEM, THEY LEARNED THEY'D BEEN 1110 00:55:18,785 --> 00:55:22,555 OUTWITTED BY A CONFEDERACY OF MOSTLY TEENAGE PLOTTERS. 1111 00:55:22,555 --> 00:55:25,558 >> HE ROUNDED UP THE IMPOSSIBLE MISSIONS FORCE AND, YOU KNOW, 1112 00:55:25,558 --> 00:55:28,661 LIT THE MATCH AND PULLED IT OFF. >> Reporter: THIS IS VIDEO OF 1113 00:55:28,661 --> 00:55:31,798 DAYONTE IN JAIL ON THE MORNING OF THE ESCAPE, PREPARING TO PUT 1114 00:55:31,798 --> 00:55:35,435 A PLAN INTO PLAY THAT INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE HE'D BEEN 1115 00:55:35,435 --> 00:55:39,072 HATCHING FOR MONTHS. BEGINNING WITH A KEY THAT WOULD 1116 00:55:39,072 --> 00:55:40,640 UNLOCK HIS CUFFS AND SHACKLES. HOW DID HE GET HIS HANDS ON SUCH 1117 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,778 A KEY? PROSECUTOR MARIA SCHNEIDER 1118 00:55:44,778 --> 00:55:48,581 >> THERE WAS A DEPUTY AT THE JAIL WHO, A COUPLE MONTHS BEFORE 1119 00:55:48,581 --> 00:55:51,084 THIS, REPORTED HAVING LOST A HANDCUFF KEY 1120 00:55:51,084 --> 00:55:55,689 LOSING A HANDCUFF KEY IN THE JAIL IS A VERY BIG DEAL. 1121 00:55:55,689 --> 00:55:57,991 SO IF YOU LOSE ONE, YOU HAVE TO FILE A REPORT INDICATING WHERE 1122 00:55:57,991 --> 00:56:02,462 YOU HAD IT, WHERE YOU LOST IT. >> Reporter: SO WE DON'T KNOW 1123 00:56:02,462 --> 00:56:14,441 THAT THAT KEY, IN FACT - >> WE DON'T KNOW THAT IT WAS 1124 00:56:14,441 --> 00:56:23,817 THAT - >> -- THAT UNLOCKED HIS 1125 00:56:23,817 --> 00:56:28,254 HANDCUFFS, BUT YOU WONDER. >> YES 1126 00:56:28,254 --> 00:56:29,356 >> Reporter: THE INVESTIGATORS LISTENED TO A PHONE CALL 1127 00:56:29,356 --> 00:56:31,725 RECORDED JUST DAYS BEFORE THE ESCAPE 1128 00:56:31,725 --> 00:56:32,892 DAYONTE WAS TALKING TO A FRIEND IN THE COURTHOUSE WHO WAS 1129 00:56:32,892 --> 00:56:34,060 DESCRIBING THE ROUTE DAYONTE SHOULD TAKE TO GET OUT OF THE 1130 00:56:34,060 --> 00:56:35,061 BUILDING >> WE KNOW THAT HIS FRIEND 1131 00:56:35,061 --> 00:56:36,596 WALKED FROM THE COURTROOM, DOWN THE STAIRWELL THAT LEADS TO THE 1132 00:56:36,596 --> 00:56:41,301 THIRD FLOOR, TO THE SECONDARY STAIRWELL THAT LEADS OUTSIDE 1133 00:56:41,301 --> 00:56:42,802 >> AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE SETUP, YOU COULD WALK INTO SOME 1134 00:56:42,802 --> 00:56:45,939 DEAD ENDS. >> CORRECT, CORRECT. 1135 00:56:45,939 --> 00:56:47,674 YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO GO >> Reporter: ESPECIALLY IF 1136 00:56:47,674 --> 00:56:49,075 YOU'RE IN A HURRY. ON THE MORNING OF THE ESCAPE, 1137 00:56:49,075 --> 00:56:51,511 SECURITY VIDEO SHOWS DAYONTE GETTING PATTED DOWN. 1138 00:56:51,511 --> 00:56:53,313 YOU CAN SEE HE'S ALREADY RIPPED APART THE LEGS OF HIS JUMPSUIT 1139 00:56:53,313 --> 00:56:55,348 TO MAKE IT EASIER TO KICK OFF. AND UNDERNEATH THE JUMPSUIT, 1140 00:56:55,348 --> 00:56:57,384 HE'S WEARING STREET CLOTHES. LATER THE INMATES APPROACH THE 1141 00:56:57,384 --> 00:56:58,918 COURTROOM, FULLY SHACKLED. ONE PRISONER THEN BLOCKS 1142 00:56:58,918 --> 00:57:00,520 DAYONTE'S TORSO FROM VIEW AND UNLATCHES HIS WAIST CHAIN, 1143 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,055 GIVING DAYONTE'S HANDS ROOM TO MANEUVER 1144 00:57:02,055 --> 00:57:04,157 >> IT SPEAKS TO MR. RESILES' KIND OF INTELLIGENCE THAT HE WAS 1145 00:57:04,157 --> 00:57:07,761 ABLE TO ORGANIZE THIS WHOLE THING. 1146 00:57:07,761 --> 00:57:12,465 >> HE'S GOT A WHOLE CREW HELPIN' HIM. 1147 00:57:12,465 --> 00:57:14,534 >> YOU KNOW, HELPING HIM GET OUT OF THE SHACKLES. 1148 00:57:14,534 --> 00:57:15,735 >> Reporter: WHEN DAYONTE ENTERS THE COURTROOM WITH THE OTHER 1149 00:57:15,735 --> 00:57:17,137 INMATES, HE HEADS FOR A SEAT IN THE JURY BOX 1150 00:57:17,137 --> 00:57:19,739 INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THAT'S WHEN HE UNLOCKS HIS CUFFS AND 1151 00:57:19,739 --> 00:57:21,274 SHACKLES NOW HE'S READY TO MAKE A RUN FOR 1152 00:57:21,274 --> 00:57:25,745 IT AS SOON AS ALL HIS CONFEDERATES ARE IN POSITION 1153 00:57:25,745 --> 00:57:29,616 >> SO THERE'S TWO TWINS WHO ARE EYES AND EARS IN THE COURT 1154 00:57:29,616 --> 00:57:31,151 >> YEAH. >> WHO WERE THEY TALKING TO? 1155 00:57:31,151 --> 00:57:35,121 >> THEY'RE TALKING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE CAR 1156 00:57:35,121 --> 00:57:36,156 >> THE GETAWAY >> RIGHT 1157 00:57:36,156 --> 00:57:37,724 AND SO WHEN THE CAR'S IN POSITION, ONE TWIN SIGNALS THE 1158 00:57:37,724 --> 00:57:40,760 OTHER TWIN TWIN SIGNALS RESILES 1159 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:43,163 AND HE'S LIKE, OKAY, NOW EVERYTHING'S IN PLACE FOR YOU TO 1160 00:57:43,163 --> 00:57:45,231 ROLL >> Reporter: AND ROLL HE DID 1161 00:57:45,231 --> 00:57:48,101 THE SHERIFF PICKED UP THE STORY. >> ONE OF THE TWINS COUGHED INTO 1162 00:57:48,101 --> 00:57:50,704 A CELLPHONE. THAT COUGH WAS A MESSAGE TO 1163 00:57:50,704 --> 00:57:53,606 ALERT THEM TO KNOW THAT RESILES WAS ON HIS WAY DOWN TO THE 1164 00:57:53,606 --> 00:57:55,408 VEHICLE. >> Reporter: THE REST IS 1165 00:57:55,408 --> 00:58:00,080 HISTORY. DEFENSE INVESTIGATOR GENTRY 1166 00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:01,681 CHAMBERS >> WAS THERE A PART OF YOU, 1167 00:58:01,681 --> 00:58:02,615 GENTRY, YOU SAID, "MAN, THAT WAS INCREDIBLE"? 1168 00:58:02,615 --> 00:58:06,319 >> OF COURSE I MEAN, I'M SAYING TO MYSELF, 1169 00:58:06,319 --> 00:58:08,621 "HOW MANY GUYS ACTUALLY EVADE THE POLICE AND GET AWAY -- AND 1170 00:58:08,621 --> 00:58:12,025 AWAY FOR A WEEK? >> Reporter: EXCEPT FOR ONE 1171 00:58:12,025 --> 00:58:16,229 POSTSCRIPT THAT PUNCTURES THE IDEA THE YOUNG PLOTTERS HAD 1172 00:58:16,229 --> 00:58:18,765 THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING, RATHER THAN JUST BEING VERY LUCKY 1173 00:58:18,765 --> 00:58:23,336 >> THIS IS A POOR KID FROM THE HOOD WHO PROBABLY DIDN'T EVEN 1174 00:58:23,336 --> 00:58:25,038 THINK THIS WAS GOING TO GO DOWN THE WAY IT WENT DOWN 1175 00:58:25,038 --> 00:58:26,072 THE CAR THAT PICKED HIM UP DIDN'T EVEN HAVE GAS IN IT 1176 00:58:26,072 --> 00:58:28,708 THEY HAD TO STOP TO THE GAS STATION. 1177 00:58:28,708 --> 00:58:30,877 >> Reporter: IN THE MONTHS AHEAD, ALL EIGHT OF THOSE WHO 1178 00:58:30,877 --> 00:58:35,482 HELPED DAYONTE WERE CHARGED AND CONVICTED. 1179 00:58:35,482 --> 00:58:38,051 >> HE'S VERY SMART HE'S VERY CHARMING BECAUSE HE 1180 00:58:38,051 --> 00:58:41,721 GOT ALL THESE PEOPLE TO PUT THEIR OWN FREEDOM ON THE LINE 1181 00:58:41,721 --> 00:58:46,393 FOR HIM. >> Reporter: AS FOR 1182 00:58:46,393 --> 00:58:48,395 DAYONTE RESILES, HE MAY HAVE BEEN BACK BEHIND BARS ON 23-HOUR 1183 00:58:48,395 --> 00:58:52,665 LOCKDOWN AND FACING NEW CHARGES, BUT HE WASN'T DONE 1184 00:58:52,665 --> 00:58:57,837 >> THE ESCAPE IS NOT THE END OF IT FOR THIS YOUNG MAN. 1185 00:58:57,837 --> 00:59:04,778 OH, NO, NO, NO HE CONTINUES 1186 00:59:04,778 --> 00:59:06,012 >> Reporter: NOT LONG AFTER HE WAS CAPTURED, DAYONTE WROTE THIS 1187 00:59:06,012 --> 00:59:06,880 LETTER TO THE JUDGE WHOSE COURT HE FLED. 1188 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:08,114 HE APOLOGIZED FOR BOLTING, SAID, IN HIS DEFENSE, THAT HE DIDN'T 1189 00:59:08,114 --> 00:59:11,084 STRAY FAR. THEN HE OFFERED AN EXPLANATION 1190 00:59:11,084 --> 00:59:19,426 >> "I WAS CLEARLY TRYING TO JUST GATHER EVIDENCE FOR MY DEFENSE." 1191 00:59:19,426 --> 00:59:22,462 >> WHAT -- I HAD TO BUST MYSELF OUT SO I COULD BE MY OWN 1192 00:59:22,462 --> 00:59:31,338 DETECTIVE? >> DETECTIVE, RIGHT. 1193 00:59:31,338 --> 00:59:32,939 >> TO FIND EXCULPATORY INFORMATION. 1194 00:59:32,939 --> 00:59:34,107 >> "TO CLEAR MYSELF. AND, YOU KNOW, "YOU'RE A VERY 1195 00:59:34,107 --> 00:59:35,275 FAIR JUDGE." LIKE I SAID, HE BUTTERED HIM UP. 1196 00:59:35,275 --> 00:59:36,743 >> Reporter: FAR FROM TRYING TO GATHER EVIDENCE TO HELP HIS 1197 00:59:36,743 --> 00:59:38,044 CASE, DAYONTE WAS ACTUALLY BUSY DOING OTHER THINGS WHILE HE WAS 1198 00:59:38,044 --> 00:59:38,745 HUNKERED DOWN IN THAT MOTEL ROOM 1199 00:59:38,745 --> 00:59:40,213 >> HE WAS JUST HANGING OUT AND TALKING TO FRIENDS AND GOING ON 1200 00:59:40,213 --> 00:59:42,282 PORN WEBSITES. >> Reporter: BUT DAYONTE NOW HAD 1201 00:59:42,282 --> 00:59:44,484 OTHER BUSINESS TO PURSUE TOP OF THAT LIST -- FEEDING THE 1202 00:59:44,484 --> 00:59:47,487 SOCIAL MEDIA MACHINE TO KEEP THE JUSTICE FOR DAYONTE CAMPAIGN 1203 00:59:47,487 --> 00:59:50,590 ALIVE. RECORDING THIS MESSAGE, WHICH 1204 00:59:50,590 --> 00:59:53,193 WAS POSTED ON FACEBOOK >> IF YOU HAVE BEEN PLACED IN 1205 00:59:53,193 --> 00:59:54,794 JAIL FOR A CRIME YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT OR NEVER 1206 00:59:54,794 --> 00:59:56,329 COMMITTED, WOULD YOU SIT IN JAIL 1207 00:59:56,329 --> 00:59:59,432 LET ME ANSWER IT FOR YOU LOGICALLY. 1208 00:59:59,432 --> 01:00:03,703 NO >> Reporter: BUT DAYONTE DID SIT 1209 01:00:03,703 --> 01:00:05,672 IN JAIL FOR YEARS. THE TRIAL FINALLY TOOK PLACE IN 1210 01:00:05,672 --> 01:00:09,809 2021 LIKE EVERYTHING IN THIS STORY, 1211 01:00:09,809 --> 01:00:14,414 IT WOULD END WITH A CAN-YOU-BELIEVE-IT TWIST 1212 01:00:14,414 --> 01:00:18,084 >>> COMING UP -- DISORDER IN THE COURT. 1213 01:00:18,084 --> 01:00:21,855 >> AS YOU'RE GOING BACK INTO THE COURTROOM TO ANNOUNCE YOUR 1214 01:00:21,855 --> 01:00:25,358 VERDICT -- >> I'M LIKE WHAT AM I DOING? 1215 01:00:25,358 --> 01:00:26,393 THIS IS NOT RIGHT. >> IN AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT, A 1216 01:00:43,143 --> 01:00:45,745 IN 2019, FIVE YEARS AFTER 1217 01:00:45,812 --> 01:00:47,547 JILLAROOS MURDER AND THREE 1218 01:00:47,614 --> 01:00:49,282 YEARS AFTER DEONTAE ROSELLAS 1219 01:00:49,349 --> 01:00:50,884 NOTORIOUS COURTROOM DASH FOR 1220 01:00:50,950 --> 01:00:52,952 FREEDOM, A BILLBOARD WENT UP >> 1221 01:00:53,019 --> 01:00:55,088 IN DOWNTOWN FORT LAUDERDALE. IT 1222 01:00:55,155 --> 01:00:56,690 WAS PROVOCATIVE IN BOTH ITS 1223 01:00:56,756 --> 01:00:58,758 WORDING AND PLACEMENT. THIS 1224 01:00:58,825 --> 01:01:00,126 BILLBOARD WHICH REPORTEDLY THE 1225 01:01:00,193 --> 01:01:01,261 SHERIFF COULD SEE FROM HIS 1226 01:01:01,327 --> 01:01:03,329 WINDOW SHOWING THE VICTIM AND 1227 01:01:03,396 --> 01:01:04,764 THE PERSON ACCUSED OF KILLING 1228 01:01:04,831 --> 01:01:06,466 HER SAYING >> TWO >> VICTIMS 1229 01:01:06,533 --> 01:01:09,336 ONE TRUTH AND WITH A HASHTAG 1230 01:01:09,402 --> 01:01:12,272 JUSTICE FOR RUCHI AND IT SAYS 1231 01:01:12,339 --> 01:01:14,074 WHO KILLED JILL HALLIBURTON? 1232 01:01:14,107 --> 01:01:16,443 WHO FRAMED OCTAVIO'S ELLIS? >> 1233 01:01:16,509 --> 01:01:17,911 TO THIS DAY NO ONE HAS FIGURED 1234 01:01:17,977 --> 01:01:19,679 OUT WHO PAID FOR THAT BILLBOARD 1235 01:01:19,746 --> 01:01:21,081 WITH ITS MESSAGE THAT DIONTE 1236 01:01:21,114 --> 01:01:22,849 ROSELLAS WAS YET ANOTHER 1237 01:01:22,916 --> 01:01:25,352 WRONGFULLY ACCUSED BLACK MAN. 1238 01:01:25,418 --> 01:01:27,754 HOW PROVOCATIVE WAS >> THAT 1239 01:01:27,821 --> 01:01:30,156 DIRECT SHOT AT BROWARD 1240 01:01:30,223 --> 01:01:31,391 SHERIFF'S OFFICE? IT WAS REALLY 1241 01:01:31,458 --> 01:01:32,525 A MIDDLE FINGER TO LAW 1242 01:01:32,592 --> 01:01:33,793 ENFORCEMENT IN BROWARD RIGHT. 1243 01:01:33,860 --> 01:01:35,628 AND IT DIDN'T REALLY I DON'T 1244 01:01:35,695 --> 01:01:37,330 THINK IT SWAYED OPINION >> TO 1245 01:01:37,397 --> 01:01:38,965 JEWELZ WHOSE FAMILY WAS A POKE 1246 01:01:39,099 --> 01:01:40,834 IN THE EYE. HOW PAINFUL WAS 1247 01:01:40,900 --> 01:01:42,669 THAT? IT WASN'T MORE PAINFUL 1248 01:01:42,736 --> 01:01:46,973 THAN JUST MADE ANGRY. DEONTAE 1249 01:01:47,107 --> 01:01:49,843 SUPPORTERS WERE ANGRY TO NBC'S 1250 01:01:49,909 --> 01:01:51,144 SOUTH FLORIDA COVERED >> SOME 1251 01:01:51,211 --> 01:01:53,380 OF THOSE RALLIES DEONTAE ONCE 1252 01:01:53,446 --> 01:01:55,248 MORE A SYMBOL OF A SYSTEM HIS 1253 01:01:55,315 --> 01:01:56,816 SUPPORTERS BELIEVED WAS STACKED 1254 01:01:56,883 --> 01:01:58,918 AGAINST THEM. SO MANY PEOPLE, 1255 01:01:58,985 --> 01:02:00,487 SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE THEY'VE 1256 01:02:00,553 --> 01:02:02,455 JUST BEEN RAILROADED THROUGH 1257 01:02:02,522 --> 01:02:03,356 THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. THAT'S JUST 1258 01:02:03,423 --> 01:02:06,259 NOT FAIR. DIETZE TRIAL WAS 1259 01:02:06,326 --> 01:02:08,128 LOOMING AND THE JUSTICE FOR 1260 01:02:08,194 --> 01:02:09,963 MOOCHIE CAMPAIGN PLAYED RIGHT 1261 01:02:10,063 --> 01:02:12,165 INTO THE DEFENSE'S STRATEGY A 1262 01:02:12,232 --> 01:02:13,733 YARRIE DOMINGO'S ONE OF DIETIES 1263 01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:15,935 ATTORNEYS. IT'S >> NOT A UNIQUE 1264 01:02:16,069 --> 01:02:17,637 EXPERIENCE OR UNIQUE THING TO 1265 01:02:17,704 --> 01:02:18,672 HAPPEN THAT SOMEONE COULD BE 1266 01:02:18,738 --> 01:02:20,073 FALSELY ARRESTED ESPECIALLY IF 1267 01:02:20,106 --> 01:02:22,342 THEY'RE BLACK >> PROSEQUI MARIA 1268 01:02:22,409 --> 01:02:23,810 SCHNEIDER. SO YOU'VE GOT A VERY 1269 01:02:23,877 --> 01:02:25,178 NOISY COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION 1270 01:02:25,245 --> 01:02:26,179 LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER HERE 1271 01:02:26,246 --> 01:02:27,947 WE DO. WE DO. AND THE DEFENSE 1272 01:02:28,081 --> 01:02:28,815 YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT. IT'S 1273 01:02:28,882 --> 01:02:31,384 A FACTOR MR. RAZZLES IS VERY 1274 01:02:31,451 --> 01:02:32,652 CHARISMATIC AND HE HAS A GROUP 1275 01:02:32,719 --> 01:02:34,754 OF FRIENDS WHO ARE VERY, VERY 1276 01:02:34,821 --> 01:02:37,290 DEVOTED TO HIM >> IN LATE 1277 01:02:37,357 --> 01:02:39,325 TWENTY TWENTY ONE SEVEN YEARS 1278 01:02:39,392 --> 01:02:40,927 AFTER JUSU WAS STABBED TO 1279 01:02:40,994 --> 01:02:42,929 DEATH, DIONTE RESULTS WENT ON 1280 01:02:42,996 --> 01:02:45,098 TRIAL FOR FIRST DEGREE MURDER. 1281 01:02:45,098 --> 01:02:47,133 HE PLEADED NOT GUILTY. THE 1282 01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:48,568 TRIAL CAME DOWN TO ONE KEY 1283 01:02:48,635 --> 01:02:50,303 ISSUE THE DNA AT THE CRIME 1284 01:02:50,370 --> 01:02:51,671 SCENE. THE BEST THING YOU HAVE 1285 01:02:51,738 --> 01:02:52,872 GOING IS THE DNA, RIGHT? 1286 01:02:52,939 --> 01:02:55,208 ABSOLUTELY. THE DNA IS 1287 01:02:55,275 --> 01:02:58,011 INDISPUTABLE. INVESTIGATORS >> 1288 01:02:58,111 --> 01:02:59,746 FOUND DIETIES DNA IN THREE 1289 01:02:59,813 --> 01:03:01,648 PLACES ON A BELT INSIDE THE 1290 01:03:01,715 --> 01:03:03,550 HOUSE OUTSIDE ON ONE OF 1291 01:03:03,616 --> 01:03:05,418 JUSTIN'S KNIVES AND AT THE BACK 1292 01:03:05,485 --> 01:03:07,253 DOOR POINT OF ENTRY IT SHOULD 1293 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:09,055 HAVE BEEN A SLAM DUNK BUT THE 1294 01:03:09,089 --> 01:03:10,423 COUNTY LAB WHERE THE DNA WAS 1295 01:03:10,490 --> 01:03:12,058 PROCESSED HAD A HISTORY OF 1296 01:03:12,058 --> 01:03:15,261 CONTROVERSY. NOTHING IS EVER 1297 01:03:15,328 --> 01:03:19,399 SIMPLE. THE BSO LAB IN 2015 WAS 1298 01:03:19,466 --> 01:03:23,570 ACCUSED BY A LOCAL EXPERT OF 1299 01:03:23,636 --> 01:03:26,439 MISHANDLING HOW THEY CALCULATED 1300 01:03:26,506 --> 01:03:28,575 THE NUMBERS, THE STATISTICS OF 1301 01:03:28,641 --> 01:03:30,477 HOW OFTEN IN A POPULATION IT IS 1302 01:03:30,543 --> 01:03:31,611 LIKELY THAT YOU WOULD FIND 1303 01:03:31,678 --> 01:03:33,546 SIMILAR DNA. IT WAS >> A 1304 01:03:33,613 --> 01:03:34,948 DISPUTE OVER NUMBERS. THE 1305 01:03:35,081 --> 01:03:36,983 PROSECUTOR SAID NOTHING MORE. 1306 01:03:37,083 --> 01:03:40,186 NO ONE EVER HAS ACCUSED THE 1307 01:03:40,253 --> 01:03:42,622 BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE OF 1308 01:03:42,689 --> 01:03:44,824 GETTING THE DNA PROCESSING 1309 01:03:44,891 --> 01:03:47,227 WRONG. NEVERTHELESS, DIAMANTIS, 1310 01:03:47,293 --> 01:03:48,461 DEFENSE ATTORNEYS WORKED 1311 01:03:48,528 --> 01:03:49,996 MIGHTILY TO KEEP THOSE DOUBTS 1312 01:03:50,096 --> 01:03:51,431 ABOUT THE LAB WORK FRONT AND 1313 01:03:51,498 --> 01:03:53,233 CENTER. THEY WERE ALSO LASER 1314 01:03:53,299 --> 01:03:54,901 FOCUSED >> ON JUSTIN SUE 1315 01:03:54,968 --> 01:03:56,636 ARGUING THAT EVEN THE POLICE 1316 01:03:56,703 --> 01:03:58,004 INITIALLY THOUGHT JUSTIN WAS 1317 01:03:58,104 --> 01:04:00,206 THE KILLER. I DIDN'T DO IT. HE 1318 01:04:00,273 --> 01:04:01,875 WAS BACK IN THE HOT >> THAT 1319 01:04:01,941 --> 01:04:03,243 YEARS AGO. INTENSE 1320 01:04:03,309 --> 01:04:05,278 INTERROGATION RELIVED NOW IN 1321 01:04:05,345 --> 01:04:07,547 COURT DEFENSE ATTORNEY MICHAEL 1322 01:04:07,614 --> 01:04:09,749 ORLANDO I >> THINK IT WAS 1323 01:04:09,816 --> 01:04:14,487 FOCUSING IN ON HIS BEHAVIOR AND 1324 01:04:14,554 --> 01:04:16,389 WHERE HE LIED TO THE POLICE. 1325 01:04:16,456 --> 01:04:17,624 JUSTIN, WHO IS GOING TO GO ON 1326 01:04:17,691 --> 01:04:19,259 TRIAL VIRTUALLY MURDERING HIS 1327 01:04:19,325 --> 01:04:20,493 MOTHER BASICALLY THEY PUT HIM 1328 01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:23,096 ON TRIAL >> WHEN JURORS WENT 1329 01:04:23,163 --> 01:04:26,399 OUT DELIBERATIONS DRAGGED 1330 01:04:26,466 --> 01:04:29,069 FINALLY DAY FIVE A VERDICT. 1331 01:04:29,102 --> 01:04:30,804 REMEMBER D.A. WAS CHARGED WITH 1332 01:04:30,870 --> 01:04:32,906 FIRST DEGREE MURDER. A STUNNER 1333 01:04:32,972 --> 01:04:35,175 WAS COMING. >> THE DEFENDANT IS 1334 01:04:35,241 --> 01:04:36,743 THE LESSER INCLUDED CRIME OF 1335 01:04:36,810 --> 01:04:39,346 MANSLAUGHTER, GUILTY OF 1336 01:04:39,412 --> 01:04:41,081 MANSLAUGHTER WITH A 1337 01:04:41,114 --> 01:04:42,615 CONSIDERABLY LIGHTER SENTENCE 1338 01:04:42,682 --> 01:04:44,584 THAN MURDER ONE A BLOW TO THE 1339 01:04:44,651 --> 01:04:47,654 FAMILY. SO WHY AS IS CUSTOMARY, 1340 01:04:47,721 --> 01:04:49,155 THE JUDGE POLLED THE JURORS 1341 01:04:49,222 --> 01:04:50,857 ASKING EACH IF THIS WAS THEIR 1342 01:04:50,924 --> 01:04:52,258 VERDICT. HE STARTED WITH THE 1343 01:04:52,325 --> 01:04:55,095 FOREPERSON ANOTHER STUNNER. 1344 01:04:55,095 --> 01:04:58,465 THIS >> IS YOUR VERDICT NOW 1345 01:04:58,531 --> 01:05:01,501 LET'S PLAY THAT AGAIN NOW THE 1346 01:05:01,568 --> 01:05:02,936 CAMERA >> WAS NOT ALLOWED TO 1347 01:05:03,036 --> 01:05:05,071 SHOW JURORS FACES BUT THIS WAS 1348 01:05:05,138 --> 01:05:07,374 UNHEARD OF. A JUROR CHANGING 1349 01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,310 HER VERDICT. >> HE ASKED ME DO 1350 01:05:10,377 --> 01:05:12,045 YOU AGREE TO MANSLAUGHTER? I 1351 01:05:12,045 --> 01:05:14,047 TOOK A PAUSE. I FELT LIKE 1352 01:05:14,047 --> 01:05:15,281 FOREVER AND THEN I JUST SAID >> 1353 01:05:15,348 --> 01:05:18,218 NO. MEET THE JUROR >> WHO 1354 01:05:18,284 --> 01:05:20,453 RECANTED. HER NAME IS JACKIE. 1355 01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:21,688 WE CHANGED HER APPEARANCE 1356 01:05:21,755 --> 01:05:23,056 BECAUSE SHE'S CONCERNED ABOUT 1357 01:05:23,089 --> 01:05:25,291 HER SAFETY. I SAT THERE AND I 1358 01:05:25,358 --> 01:05:26,459 TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND THEY'RE 1359 01:05:26,526 --> 01:05:27,727 JUST WAITING AND I SEE THEM 1360 01:05:27,794 --> 01:05:29,329 LEANING FORWARD LIKE WAITING 1361 01:05:29,396 --> 01:05:30,930 FOR ME TO GIVE THE ANSWER. >> 1362 01:05:31,064 --> 01:05:32,732 MINUTES EARLIER SHE SAYS SHE'D 1363 01:05:32,799 --> 01:05:34,267 BEEN DISTURBED BY THE REACTION 1364 01:05:34,334 --> 01:05:35,568 AT THE DEFENSE TABLE WHEN THE 1365 01:05:35,635 --> 01:05:36,903 VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER WAS 1366 01:05:36,970 --> 01:05:39,239 ANNOUNCED. THEY >> WERE PATTING 1367 01:05:39,305 --> 01:05:40,640 EACH OTHER ON THE BACK AND THEY 1368 01:05:40,707 --> 01:05:42,542 WERE ALL SMILES AND GIGGLES AND 1369 01:05:42,609 --> 01:05:43,343 THAT DIDN'T GO DOWN WELL WITH 1370 01:05:43,410 --> 01:05:44,978 YOU? I DID NOT. IT JUST 1371 01:05:45,078 --> 01:05:47,180 BOTHERED ME SO MUCH >> IT 1372 01:05:47,247 --> 01:05:49,549 STIFFENED HER RESOLVE AND THEN 1373 01:05:49,616 --> 01:05:53,553 I JUST SAID NO AND I FELT 1374 01:05:53,620 --> 01:05:55,989 RELIEF. JACKIE WAS CONVINCED 1375 01:05:56,089 --> 01:05:57,524 DIONTE RASSILON DESERVED THE 1376 01:05:57,590 --> 01:05:59,092 MORE SEVERE PENALTY OF MURDER 1377 01:05:59,125 --> 01:06:01,294 ONE BUT SHE SAYS SHE PRESIDED 1378 01:06:01,361 --> 01:06:03,563 OVER A DEEPLY DIVIDED JURY. THE 1379 01:06:03,630 --> 01:06:05,298 DIVIDING ISSUE, SHE SAYS, WAS 1380 01:06:05,365 --> 01:06:07,434 RACE. JACKIE >> HERSELF IS AFRO 1381 01:06:07,500 --> 01:06:10,337 LATINA. REMEMBER THE COUNTRY 1382 01:06:10,403 --> 01:06:11,538 WAS STILL GRIPPED BY AN 1383 01:06:11,604 --> 01:06:13,173 ANGUISHED DEBATE ABOUT RACIAL 1384 01:06:13,239 --> 01:06:15,041 JUSTICE FOLLOWING GEORGE FLOYDS 1385 01:06:15,041 --> 01:06:17,410 MURDER AND SO JACKIE SAYS WAS 1386 01:06:17,477 --> 01:06:20,146 DEFIANT ROSELLAS JURY. ONE >> 1387 01:06:20,213 --> 01:06:21,548 OF THE MEN STARTED CRYING AND 1388 01:06:21,614 --> 01:06:22,916 WAS LIKE I CAN'T SEND ANOTHER 1389 01:06:23,049 --> 01:06:24,784 YOUNG BLACK MAN TO JAIL AND I 1390 01:06:24,851 --> 01:06:26,553 LOOKED AT HIM AND I SAID EXCUSE 1391 01:06:26,619 --> 01:06:27,854 ME. I WAS LIKE IF IT WAS MY 1392 01:06:27,921 --> 01:06:29,356 BROTHER THAT COMMITTED THIS 1393 01:06:29,422 --> 01:06:31,491 MURDER I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM 1394 01:06:31,558 --> 01:06:32,826 SENDING MY BROTHER TO JAIL FOR 1395 01:06:32,892 --> 01:06:34,894 THE REST OF HIS LIFE. THEY'D 1396 01:06:34,961 --> 01:06:36,763 BEEN SEQUESTERED FOR FIVE DAYS. 1397 01:06:36,830 --> 01:06:39,232 THEY'D ARGUED AND ARGUED AGAIN 1398 01:06:39,299 --> 01:06:41,167 EVENTUALLY JACKIE SAYS SHE AND 1399 01:06:41,234 --> 01:06:42,836 OTHERS GAVE IN AND WENT >> WITH 1400 01:06:42,902 --> 01:06:45,271 THE LESSER CHARGE SO YOU VOTED 1401 01:06:45,338 --> 01:06:46,406 >> FOR MANSLAUGHTER? I VOTED 1402 01:06:46,473 --> 01:06:48,074 FOR MANSLAUGHTER, CORRECT. BUT 1403 01:06:48,141 --> 01:06:49,509 AS YOU'RE GOING BACK INTO THE 1404 01:06:49,576 --> 01:06:50,510 COURTROOM TO ANNOUNCE YOUR 1405 01:06:50,577 --> 01:06:51,778 VERDICT, WHAT ARE THE WHEELS 1406 01:06:51,845 --> 01:06:52,879 MOVING IN YOUR HEAD? THE WHEELS 1407 01:06:52,946 --> 01:06:54,381 >> WERE MOVING, SIR. YES, SIR. 1408 01:06:54,447 --> 01:06:56,483 AND I'M LIKE WHAT AM I DOING? 1409 01:06:56,549 --> 01:06:58,551 THIS IS NOT RIGHT. SO >> SHE 1410 01:06:58,618 --> 01:07:00,353 DID WHAT SHE DID SAID THAT ONE 1411 01:07:00,420 --> 01:07:02,088 LITTLE WORD THE JUDGE >> DEALT 1412 01:07:02,155 --> 01:07:04,124 WITH A DIVINE JURY GOING BACK. 1413 01:07:04,190 --> 01:07:05,025 THEY'LL CONTINUE WITH THEIR 1414 01:07:05,058 --> 01:07:06,726 DELIBERATIONS BACK >> IN THE 1415 01:07:06,793 --> 01:07:08,428 JURY ROOM, JACKIE SAYS THINGS 1416 01:07:08,495 --> 01:07:10,130 GOT UGLY. SHE SAYS SHE FELT 1417 01:07:10,196 --> 01:07:12,165 THREATENED BY ONE JUROR. HE 1418 01:07:12,232 --> 01:07:14,367 SAID HE'S >> PUERTO RICAN. IF I 1419 01:07:14,434 --> 01:07:15,235 WAS TO SEE YOU OUT IN THE 1420 01:07:15,301 --> 01:07:18,071 STREET, I WOULD SMACK YOU IN 1421 01:07:18,138 --> 01:07:20,206 THE FACE. BUT JACKIE WASN'T 1422 01:07:20,273 --> 01:07:22,108 BUDGET. I >> KNEW THAT WHAT I 1423 01:07:22,175 --> 01:07:23,677 WAS DOING WAS THE RIGHT THING. 1424 01:07:23,743 --> 01:07:25,045 SO YOU COME BACK INTO COURT AND 1425 01:07:25,111 --> 01:07:25,912 JUDGE WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET 1426 01:07:26,046 --> 01:07:27,647 THERE. RIGHT. >> AND HE JUST 1427 01:07:27,714 --> 01:07:29,215 SAID THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME 1428 01:07:29,282 --> 01:07:32,886 SERVED AND THAT WAS IT. >> A 1429 01:07:32,952 --> 01:07:35,221 MISTRIAL. WE SPOKE TO FIVE 1430 01:07:35,288 --> 01:07:36,956 OTHER JURORS AND SOME NOT ALL 1431 01:07:37,057 --> 01:07:38,558 AGREED RACE WAS A DIVISIVE 1432 01:07:38,625 --> 01:07:40,727 ISSUE DURING DELIBERATIONS 1433 01:07:40,794 --> 01:07:42,595 AFTER SHE WAS DISMISSED, JACKIE 1434 01:07:42,662 --> 01:07:44,564 SPOKE WITH JILL'S HUSBAND. DR. 1435 01:07:44,631 --> 01:07:45,965 SUSAN >> WAS A LOVELY MAN, VERY 1436 01:07:46,066 --> 01:07:48,301 HUMBLE, VERY TIMES WE SPOKE 1437 01:07:48,368 --> 01:07:50,570 ABOUT IT AND HE STARTED CRYING. 1438 01:07:50,637 --> 01:07:51,471 I STARTED GETTING A LITTLE 1439 01:07:51,538 --> 01:07:54,307 TEARY EYED AS WELL AND I TOLD 1440 01:07:54,374 --> 01:07:56,376 HIM, YOU KNOW, I HAD TO BE THE 1441 01:07:56,443 --> 01:07:58,178 VOICE FOR JILL BECAUSE NO ONE 1442 01:07:58,244 --> 01:07:59,746 ELSE WANTED TO BE AND GIVE HER 1443 01:07:59,813 --> 01:08:01,014 THE JUSTICE THAT YOU AND YOUR 1444 01:08:01,014 --> 01:08:02,782 FAMILY DESERVE TO AT LEAST GET 1445 01:08:02,849 --> 01:08:05,852 A LITTLE BIT OF CLOSURE >> IN A 1446 01:08:05,919 --> 01:08:07,153 MATTER OF MONTHS. A NEW GROUP 1447 01:08:07,220 --> 01:08:08,355 OF TWELVE WOULD GATHER IN THE 1448 01:08:08,421 --> 01:08:10,223 SAME COURTROOM AND BEGIN TO 1449 01:08:10,290 --> 01:08:11,791 WEIGH THE MATTER OF DIONTE 1450 01:08:11,858 --> 01:08:15,495 RESULTS ALL OVER AGAIN. COMING 1451 01:08:15,562 --> 01:08:17,831 UP, >> THREE LITTLE LETTERS 1452 01:08:17,897 --> 01:08:20,300 THAT NO ONE CAN AGREE ON THAT 1453 01:08:20,367 --> 01:08:25,105 MAN'S DNA BEAT AND A HIS DNA 1454 01:08:25,171 --> 01:08:27,440 WAS NOWHERE IN HER BEDROOM OR 1455 01:08:27,507 --> 01:08:28,875 THE BATHROOM WHERE THIS MURDER 1456 01:08:28,942 --> 01:08:31,111 OCCURRED AND JUSTIN BACK IN THE 1457 01:08:31,177 --> 01:08:33,113 HOT SEAT HE LIED ABOUT HIS 1458 01:08:33,179 --> 01:08:34,881 WHEREABOUTS WHEN DATELINE 1459 01:08:34,948 --> 01:08:47,794 CONTINUES. 1460 01:08:47,861 --> 01:08:48,828 WELL, THE SECOND >> TRIAL OF A 1461 01:08:48,895 --> 01:08:50,063 MAN ACCUSED OF A GRUESOME 1462 01:08:50,130 --> 01:08:52,065 MURDER HAS STARTED THREE MONTHS 1463 01:08:52,132 --> 01:08:53,199 >> AFTER THE MISTRIAL UPPED THE 1464 01:08:53,266 --> 01:08:55,135 ANTE. BRAZILIAN PROSECUTOR 1465 01:08:55,201 --> 01:08:56,670 MARIA SCHNEIDER WAS HOPING THIS 1466 01:08:56,736 --> 01:08:58,471 TIME THE VERDICT WOULD MATCH 1467 01:08:58,538 --> 01:09:00,807 THE CRIME TO HER UNQUESTIONABLY 1468 01:09:00,874 --> 01:09:02,709 FIRST DEGREE MURDER. I KNOW >> 1469 01:09:02,776 --> 01:09:03,710 THE STRENGTH OF THE EVIDENCE 1470 01:09:03,777 --> 01:09:05,712 THAT I HAVE. I DON'T NEED TO 1471 01:09:05,779 --> 01:09:07,213 PLAY GAMES. I JUST HAVE TO TELL 1472 01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:09,315 THESE PEOPLE WHAT IT IS. >> THE 1473 01:09:09,382 --> 01:09:10,750 STATE'S THEORY OF THE CRIME WAS 1474 01:09:10,817 --> 01:09:12,552 THIS DAY THAT THEY BROKE INTO 1475 01:09:12,619 --> 01:09:13,820 THE HOUSE TO ROB IT 1476 01:09:13,887 --> 01:09:15,622 UNEXPECTEDLY CAME ACROSS JILL 1477 01:09:15,689 --> 01:09:17,323 AND THE TWO FOUGHT AT SOME 1478 01:09:17,390 --> 01:09:19,325 POINT JILL TRIED TO ESCAPE OUT 1479 01:09:19,392 --> 01:09:21,461 THE FRONT DOOR. A NEIGHBOR SAID 1480 01:09:21,528 --> 01:09:22,896 IT WAS NOON WHEN SHE HEARD AN 1481 01:09:23,029 --> 01:09:24,698 UNSETTLING CRY COMING FROM THE 1482 01:09:24,764 --> 01:09:27,233 NEW HOUSE. I HEARD >> A HIGH 1483 01:09:27,300 --> 01:09:32,038 PITCHED SHRIEKING SOUND AND I 1484 01:09:32,038 --> 01:09:35,508 SAW A LIGHT COLORED OBJECT AT 1485 01:09:35,575 --> 01:09:38,912 THE FRONT DOOR AND IT WAS GOING 1486 01:09:39,045 --> 01:09:40,814 BACK INTO THE HOUSE. THE WOMAN 1487 01:09:40,880 --> 01:09:42,849 THOUGHT IT WAS THE SOOS DOLL 1488 01:09:42,916 --> 01:09:44,517 BUT THE PROSECUTORS SAID IT WAS 1489 01:09:44,584 --> 01:09:46,519 JILL WHO LET OUT THAT SHRIEK AS 1490 01:09:46,586 --> 01:09:48,321 DIONTE DRAGGED HER BACK INSIDE 1491 01:09:48,388 --> 01:09:51,591 >> SHE PUTS MISSO AT NOON WHEN 1492 01:09:51,658 --> 01:09:53,426 JUSTIN AND DAUGHTER WERE NOT AT 1493 01:09:53,493 --> 01:09:56,062 THE HOUSE ALIVE. THE PROSECUTOR 1494 01:09:56,129 --> 01:09:57,697 HAS A THEORY AS TO HOW DEONTAE 1495 01:09:57,764 --> 01:10:01,901 WAS ABLE TO DRAG JILL BACK A.A UP. IT IS >> POSSIBLE THAT 1496 01:10:01,968 --> 01:10:02,969 DURING THE STRUGGLE WHEN SHE 1497 01:10:03,036 --> 01:10:04,070 TRIED TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE 1498 01:10:04,137 --> 01:10:05,672 FRONT DOOR THAT SHE WAS HIT ON 1499 01:10:05,739 --> 01:10:06,806 THE BACK OF THE HEAD AND THAT 1500 01:10:06,873 --> 01:10:08,708 COULD HAVE KNOCKED HER OUT. THE 1501 01:10:08,775 --> 01:10:10,410 KNIFE USED TO STAB JILL HAD A 1502 01:10:10,477 --> 01:10:11,811 SHARP EDGE AT THE END OF THE 1503 01:10:11,878 --> 01:10:13,680 HANDLE THE MEDICAL EXAMINER 1504 01:10:13,747 --> 01:10:15,382 SAID AN INJURY ON JILL'S HEAD 1505 01:10:15,448 --> 01:10:17,317 MATCH THAT SHAPE ONCE 1506 01:10:17,384 --> 01:10:18,685 UNCONSCIOUS. THE PROSECUTOR 1507 01:10:18,752 --> 01:10:20,520 SAID DIONTE DRAGGED HER INTO 1508 01:10:20,587 --> 01:10:22,088 THE COUPLE'S BATHROOM WHERE HE 1509 01:10:22,155 --> 01:10:23,623 MURDERED >> HER. THERE'S >> 1510 01:10:23,690 --> 01:10:25,358 VERY LITTLE BLOOD IN AND ABOUT 1511 01:10:25,425 --> 01:10:27,027 THE BATHROOM SO THAT INDICATES 1512 01:10:27,093 --> 01:10:28,395 TO US THAT SHE WAS STABBED 1513 01:10:28,461 --> 01:10:30,030 WHILE SHE WAS IN THE BATHTUB. 1514 01:10:30,096 --> 01:10:31,231 THE >> BEDROCK OF THE STATE'S 1515 01:10:31,297 --> 01:10:33,166 CASE WERE THE THREE LETTERS ALL 1516 01:10:33,233 --> 01:10:35,101 JURIES LOVE TO HEAR THAT MAN'S 1517 01:10:35,168 --> 01:10:39,239 DNA BEAT AND STATE >> 1518 01:10:39,305 --> 01:10:40,840 PROSECUTORS AGAIN POINTED OUT 1519 01:10:40,907 --> 01:10:42,342 THOSE TWO ITEMS THE BELT AND 1520 01:10:42,409 --> 01:10:43,677 THE KNIFE WHERE THEY GOT THE 1521 01:10:43,743 --> 01:10:45,979 ORIGINAL HITS FOR DIETIES DNA 1522 01:10:46,046 --> 01:10:47,647 BUT WITH ADVANCEMENTS IN DNA >> 1523 01:10:47,714 --> 01:10:49,582 SCIENCE FIVE YEARS AFTER THE 1524 01:10:49,649 --> 01:10:50,884 MURDER THEY DEVELOPED THAT 1525 01:10:50,950 --> 01:10:52,986 THIRD >> IT WAS FOUND ON THAT 1526 01:10:53,053 --> 01:10:54,821 BROKEN GLASS DOOR THE POINT OF 1527 01:10:54,888 --> 01:10:56,923 ENTRY WHICH I THINK IS VERY 1528 01:10:56,990 --> 01:10:59,225 IMPORTANT YOU KNOW THAT GLASS 1529 01:10:59,292 --> 01:11:00,360 THAT HE WENT TO SHIMMY >> UNDER 1530 01:11:00,427 --> 01:11:02,062 THE GLASS? CORRECT. >> HOW 1531 01:11:02,128 --> 01:11:03,496 CERTAIN WAS THE ANALYST WHO 1532 01:11:03,563 --> 01:11:05,632 TESTED THE DNA? THIS IS WHAT HE 1533 01:11:05,699 --> 01:11:06,833 SAID ABOUT THE BROKEN GLASS 1534 01:11:06,900 --> 01:11:09,235 DOOR. >> ANY RESULTS ARE 1535 01:11:09,302 --> 01:11:11,304 CERTIFIED PRE THREE THREE 1536 01:11:11,371 --> 01:11:13,773 QUADRILLION TIMES MORE LIKELY 1537 01:11:13,840 --> 01:11:14,641 IF THEY WERE GOING TO GET 1538 01:11:14,708 --> 01:11:16,509 SOMETHING BELIEVE >> THAT IS 1539 01:11:16,576 --> 01:11:18,278 ONE NUMBER WITH TWENTY SEVEN 1540 01:11:18,345 --> 01:11:20,146 ZEROES BEHIND THAT IS MULTIPLE 1541 01:11:20,213 --> 01:11:21,881 TIMES MORE THAN THE POPULATION 1542 01:11:21,948 --> 01:11:23,383 OF THE WORLD. >> AND WHEN 1543 01:11:23,450 --> 01:11:24,651 PROSECUTOR SCHNEIDER TOLD 1544 01:11:24,718 --> 01:11:25,952 JURORS ABOUT THAT INFAMOUS 1545 01:11:26,086 --> 01:11:27,887 BREAKOUT, SHE SAID IT WAS 1546 01:11:27,954 --> 01:11:30,290 EVIDENCE OF HIS GUILT SAY >> 1547 01:11:30,357 --> 01:11:33,360 RESILIENCE ESCAPES FROM A 1548 01:11:33,426 --> 01:11:36,096 PARKED >> COURTROOM >> AND 1549 01:11:36,162 --> 01:11:37,931 THERE WAS MORE AFTER HIS 1550 01:11:37,997 --> 01:11:40,000 CAPTURE DEONTAY TRIED TO ENLIST 1551 01:11:40,100 --> 01:11:41,368 FRIENDS TO HELP HIM FABRICATE 1552 01:11:41,434 --> 01:11:43,003 >> AN ALIBI FOR THE DAY JILL 1553 01:11:43,103 --> 01:11:44,904 WAS MURDERED. SO HE BRIBED A 1554 01:11:44,971 --> 01:11:46,406 CORRECTIONS OFFICER TO GET HIM 1555 01:11:46,473 --> 01:11:49,542 A PHONE. HE WAS LOOKING TO GET 1556 01:11:49,609 --> 01:11:52,612 A CELL PHONE SMUGGLED INTO THE 1557 01:11:52,679 --> 01:11:54,147 JAIL. >> SERGEANT JASON 1558 01:11:54,214 --> 01:11:55,615 HENDRICK TESTIFIED THAT WITH 1559 01:11:55,682 --> 01:11:57,450 THAT DEVICE DIONTE STARTED 1560 01:11:57,517 --> 01:11:58,918 ENLISTING PEOPLE IN HIS 1561 01:11:58,985 --> 01:12:01,354 CONSPIRACY. EVERYTHING MADE YOU 1562 01:12:01,421 --> 01:12:02,789 LIKE I NEED YOU TO DO BASICALLY 1563 01:12:02,856 --> 01:12:04,724 JUST TO HELP ME OR WHATEVER 1564 01:12:04,791 --> 01:12:06,393 ALIBI WHATEVER >> LITTLE 1565 01:12:06,459 --> 01:12:08,428 DEONTAE NO. THE PHONE WAS 1566 01:12:08,495 --> 01:12:11,197 TAPPED. HELLO. WHAT'S GOING >> 1567 01:12:11,264 --> 01:12:13,099 ON IN ONE OF THOSE CALLS HE HAS 1568 01:12:13,166 --> 01:12:14,801 SOMEONE TO LIE FOR HIM SAYING 1569 01:12:14,868 --> 01:12:16,302 HE WAS IN GEORGIA, NOT FLORIDA 1570 01:12:16,369 --> 01:12:17,904 ON THE DAY JOE WAS MURDERED. 1571 01:12:17,971 --> 01:12:20,740 HOW ABOUT OK I KNOW HE WAS IN 1572 01:12:20,807 --> 01:12:22,942 GEORGIA OUT THERE FROM THE 1573 01:12:23,076 --> 01:12:25,779 THIRD AND THEN I CAME BACK ON A 1574 01:12:25,845 --> 01:12:27,380 JILL'S MURDER WAS ON THE EIGHTH 1575 01:12:27,447 --> 01:12:29,482 OF SEPTEMBER AND DANTE'S OWN 1576 01:12:29,549 --> 01:12:30,950 CELL PHONE RECORDS SHOWED HE 1577 01:12:31,084 --> 01:12:33,653 WAS IN FLORIDA THAT DAY HE 1578 01:12:33,720 --> 01:12:36,089 POSTED >> PUSSER RECEIVED 1579 01:12:36,156 --> 01:12:38,258 MESSAGES AND IN THE GPS PUT IN 1580 01:12:38,324 --> 01:12:39,659 THE LOCATION OF POMPANO BEACH 1581 01:12:39,726 --> 01:12:41,961 >> AND IN AN ATTEMPT TO COUNTER 1582 01:12:42,095 --> 01:12:43,430 THE STATE'S STRONGEST EVIDENCE 1583 01:12:43,496 --> 01:12:45,532 HIS DNA AT THE CRIME SCENE, 1584 01:12:45,598 --> 01:12:47,367 DIONTE ASKED ONE FRIEND TO LIE 1585 01:12:47,434 --> 01:12:50,270 ABOUT THAT TOO TO >> PRETEND 1586 01:12:50,337 --> 01:12:52,372 THAT SOMEBODY HAD A FIGHT WITH 1587 01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:56,976 THE DEFENDANT IN HIS BLOOD AND 1588 01:12:57,110 --> 01:12:58,478 PLANTED AT THE CRIME SCENE. 1589 01:12:58,545 --> 01:13:00,513 THAT'S CORRECT. ONLY ONE IS 1590 01:13:00,580 --> 01:13:01,848 NEITHER DNA FROM THE CRIME 1591 01:13:01,915 --> 01:13:05,352 SCENE IS FROM BLOOD OR DNA. SO 1592 01:13:05,418 --> 01:13:06,853 WAS THIS CASE IMPOSSIBLE TO 1593 01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:09,222 DEFEND? FAR FROM IT GIANTS 1594 01:13:09,289 --> 01:13:10,757 DEFENSE ATTORNEYS MICHAEL 1595 01:13:10,824 --> 01:13:13,059 ORLANDO AND A.R.T. DOMINGUEZ 1596 01:13:13,059 --> 01:13:14,394 THE STRATEGY WAS SIMILAR TO 1597 01:13:14,461 --> 01:13:16,129 THAT IN THE FIRST TRIAL ATTACK 1598 01:13:16,196 --> 01:13:18,131 THE DNA EVIDENCE OUR MAIN >> 1599 01:13:18,198 --> 01:13:20,367 THEORY IN THE CASE WAS THAT HE 1600 01:13:20,433 --> 01:13:21,701 NEVER WAS THE PERSON THAT 1601 01:13:21,768 --> 01:13:23,269 KILLED JILL HALLIBURTON SU 1602 01:13:23,336 --> 01:13:25,939 BECAUSE HIS DNA WAS NOWHERE IN 1603 01:13:26,072 --> 01:13:27,540 HER BEDROOM OR THE BATHROOM 1604 01:13:27,607 --> 01:13:29,342 WHERE THIS MURDER OCCURRED. HIS 1605 01:13:29,409 --> 01:13:30,610 >> DNA MIGHT HAVE BEEN FOUND IN 1606 01:13:30,677 --> 01:13:32,178 OTHER PARTS OF THE HOUSE BUT 1607 01:13:32,245 --> 01:13:33,847 NOT WHERE JILL'S BODY WAS 1608 01:13:33,913 --> 01:13:37,117 FOUND. WHY >> IS HIS DNA NOT IN 1609 01:13:37,183 --> 01:13:38,651 THE PLACE WHERE THERE'S A CLEAR 1610 01:13:38,718 --> 01:13:40,453 STRUGGLE? THE PERSON WAS PUT IN 1611 01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:42,088 THE BATHTUB. SOMEBODY TURNED ON 1612 01:13:42,155 --> 01:13:44,224 THE SINK, THREW THINGS INSIDE 1613 01:13:44,290 --> 01:13:45,992 AND DNA SURVIVED IN THE 1614 01:13:46,092 --> 01:13:47,827 BATHTUB. BUT DAINTIES DNA IS 1615 01:13:47,894 --> 01:13:49,863 NOWHERE THERE. AND THEN THERE 1616 01:13:49,929 --> 01:13:51,231 WAS THAT MURDER WEAPON FOUND IN 1617 01:13:51,297 --> 01:13:53,266 THE BATHTUB WITH JILL'S BODY 1618 01:13:53,333 --> 01:13:56,136 DIETIES DNA SIMPLY WASN'T ON IT 1619 01:13:56,202 --> 01:14:01,041 IS EXCLUDED >> FROM BEING ANY 1620 01:14:01,041 --> 01:14:02,542 TYPE OF A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE 1621 01:14:02,609 --> 01:14:05,311 DNA ON THAT NIGHT. PROSECUTOR 1622 01:14:05,378 --> 01:14:07,047 SCHNEIDER DISPUTES THAT. SHE 1623 01:14:07,047 --> 01:14:09,082 SAYS IT IS POSSIBLE FOR DNA TO 1624 01:14:09,149 --> 01:14:11,551 DISSIPATE IN WATER. STILL, THE 1625 01:14:11,618 --> 01:14:13,153 DEFENSE REMAIN CRITICAL OF ALL 1626 01:14:13,219 --> 01:14:14,688 THE DNA COLLECTED AT THE SCENE 1627 01:14:14,754 --> 01:14:16,823 . ARE YOU SAYING THAT IS HIS 1628 01:14:16,890 --> 01:14:18,558 DNA BUT SOMEBODY PLANTED IT >> 1629 01:14:18,625 --> 01:14:21,561 OR IT WAS THE LAB GOT IT WRONG. 1630 01:14:21,628 --> 01:14:23,663 I WISH WE COULD HAVE A CRYSTAL 1631 01:14:23,730 --> 01:14:25,231 BALL AND GO BACK AND FIND OUT 1632 01:14:25,298 --> 01:14:27,767 HOW EXACTLY IT GOT THERE. WE 1633 01:14:27,834 --> 01:14:29,669 FOCUSED ON A COUPLE OF THINGS. 1634 01:14:29,736 --> 01:14:32,339 ONE WAS TO HIGHLIGHT THE ISSUE 1635 01:14:32,405 --> 01:14:34,374 OF POTENTIAL CONTAMINATION. THE 1636 01:14:34,441 --> 01:14:37,310 OTHER WAS TO BRING OUT THE SOME 1637 01:14:37,377 --> 01:14:38,845 OF THE ISSUES THAT THE LAB HAS 1638 01:14:38,912 --> 01:14:40,680 HAD. THE DEFENSE ALSO RAISED 1639 01:14:40,747 --> 01:14:42,082 THE POSSIBILITY OF OTHER 1640 01:14:42,115 --> 01:14:43,850 POTENTIAL SUSPECTS FOR THE JURY 1641 01:14:43,917 --> 01:14:46,786 TO CONSIDER >> DID THE PEOPLE 1642 01:14:46,853 --> 01:14:50,657 THAT JUSTIN HAD INVITED OVER TO 1643 01:14:50,724 --> 01:14:53,760 THE HOUSE HAVE A ROLE IN THE 1644 01:14:53,827 --> 01:14:56,696 MURDER OF JILL HALLIBURTON SU 1645 01:14:56,763 --> 01:14:58,231 AND >> IN ITS CROSS EXAMINATION 1646 01:14:58,298 --> 01:15:00,166 OF DANIELLE SUE, THE DEFENSE 1647 01:15:00,233 --> 01:15:01,801 MADE SURE JURORS HEARD HIS 1648 01:15:01,868 --> 01:15:03,503 DESCRIPTION THE PERSON HE SAW 1649 01:15:03,570 --> 01:15:05,605 ON THE SECURITY CAMERA YOU >> 1650 01:15:05,672 --> 01:15:08,808 SAID THE PERSON THAT SAW THINGS 1651 01:15:08,875 --> 01:15:11,111 APPEARED TO BE WHITE. YES. >> 1652 01:15:11,177 --> 01:15:12,612 AND IF THE DEFENSE WENT HARD AT 1653 01:15:12,679 --> 01:15:14,214 JUSTIN DURING THE FIRST TRIAL, 1654 01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:15,882 THEY DRILL DOWN EVEN HARDER 1655 01:15:15,949 --> 01:15:18,051 DURING THE SECOND. JUSTIN >> 1656 01:15:18,118 --> 01:15:23,623 WAS A SUSPECT IN THIS CASE. BUT 1657 01:15:23,690 --> 01:15:25,925 AFTER MR. MERCILUS WAS ARRESTED 1658 01:15:26,059 --> 01:15:28,328 THEN THEY NO LONGER PURSUED 1659 01:15:28,395 --> 01:15:31,464 THAT ANGLE. BUT POLICE SHOULD 1660 01:15:31,531 --> 01:15:32,365 HAVE PURSUED >> HIM, THE 1661 01:15:32,432 --> 01:15:34,134 DEFENSE SAID, REMINDING JURORS 1662 01:15:34,200 --> 01:15:36,269 OF JUSTIN'S INCONSISTENCIES 1663 01:15:36,336 --> 01:15:38,371 EVEN >> AFTER POLICE DETECTIVES 1664 01:15:38,438 --> 01:15:41,675 ACCUSED YOU OF MURDER TO LIE TO 1665 01:15:41,741 --> 01:15:47,814 THEM ABOUT WHEN I WAS BEING 1666 01:15:47,881 --> 01:15:51,951 INTERROGATED I POSSIBLY SAID I 1667 01:15:52,085 --> 01:15:53,687 WAS UNDER A LOT OF STRESS. HE 1668 01:15:53,753 --> 01:15:55,889 >> LIED ABOUT HIS WHEREABOUTS 1669 01:15:55,955 --> 01:15:58,458 SAYING THAT HE WAS AT THE 1670 01:15:58,525 --> 01:16:01,461 LIBRARY AND THEN IT WAS LIKE OH 1671 01:16:01,528 --> 01:16:04,230 NO, I WAS IN THE PARKING GARAGE 1672 01:16:04,297 --> 01:16:06,332 IN THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER IN 1673 01:16:06,399 --> 01:16:08,268 SOUTH FLORIDA AND I WAS TAKING 1674 01:16:08,335 --> 01:16:12,038 A NAP IN MY CAR. IN CLOSING 1675 01:16:12,038 --> 01:16:13,440 ARGUMENTS, THE DEFENSE SAID THE 1676 01:16:13,506 --> 01:16:15,875 STATE DIDN'T DO ITS JOB. WHAT 1677 01:16:15,942 --> 01:16:17,811 THEY'VE SHOWN YOU HERE TODAY IS 1678 01:16:17,877 --> 01:16:19,579 NOT IN ANY WAY PROOF THAT THEY 1679 01:16:19,646 --> 01:16:22,649 WANT TO KILL JOSEPH. I DON'T 1680 01:16:22,716 --> 01:16:24,217 BUT THE STATE DOUBLED DOWN ON 1681 01:16:24,284 --> 01:16:25,618 ITS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. THE 1682 01:16:25,685 --> 01:16:28,221 SCIENCE >> PUTS YOU THERE. THE 1683 01:16:28,288 --> 01:16:30,623 SCIENCE PUTS HIS HANDS ON I IT 1684 01:16:30,690 --> 01:16:33,259 THE SCIENCE PUTS HIS HANDS ON 1685 01:16:33,326 --> 01:16:37,063 AN ITEM THAT TIED WITH THIS >> 1686 01:16:37,063 --> 01:16:38,231 JUROR STARTED THEIR 1687 01:16:38,298 --> 01:16:40,166 DELIBERATIONS THE LAST TIME IT 1688 01:16:40,233 --> 01:16:42,402 TOOK FIVE DAYS >> ONCE THE JURY 1689 01:16:42,469 --> 01:16:43,837 WENT INTO A SECOND DAY OF 1690 01:16:43,903 --> 01:16:46,139 DELIBERATIONS >> I STARTED 1691 01:16:46,206 --> 01:16:48,241 DISBARRING GROUNDHOG DAY. I 1692 01:16:48,308 --> 01:16:50,276 THOUGHT OH MY GOD, IT'S EITHER 1693 01:16:50,343 --> 01:16:52,245 GOING TO BE ANOTHER HUNG JURY 1694 01:16:52,312 --> 01:16:55,081 OR THERE'S SOME JURORS IN THERE 1695 01:16:55,148 --> 01:16:56,950 WHO JUST ARE NOT SEEING THE 1696 01:16:57,083 --> 01:16:58,918 EVIDENCE FOR WHAT IT IS >> 1697 01:16:58,985 --> 01:17:02,022 COMING UP AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF 1698 01:17:02,055 --> 01:17:03,456 VERDICT AND YOU HEAR THE WORD 1699 01:17:03,523 --> 01:17:04,324 TELL ME WHAT'S GOING THROUGH 1700 01:17:04,391 --> 01:17:05,625 YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR STOMACH. 1701 01:17:05,692 --> 01:17:09,029 YOUR I KNOW THAT MY BODY WAS 1702 01:17:29,949 --> 01:17:32,619 >> Reporter: DAYONTE RESILES' FIRST MURDER TRIAL ENDED IN A 1703 01:17:32,619 --> 01:17:37,724 MISTRIAL NOW, AFTER THREE DAYS OF 1704 01:17:37,724 --> 01:17:39,893 DELIBERATIONS IN THIS SECOND TRIAL, THERE WAS A VERDICT 1705 01:17:39,893 --> 01:17:44,497 EVERYONE BRACED FOR THE READING. >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IT'S MY 1706 01:17:44,497 --> 01:17:45,865 UNDERSTANDING YOU HAVE REACHED A VERDICT, IS THAT CORRECT 1707 01:17:45,865 --> 01:17:48,201 >> Reporter: THE DEFENDANT'S SUPPORTERS AND FAMILY SAT NEAR 1708 01:17:48,201 --> 01:17:51,404 HIM. BUT JILL SU'S FAMILY CHOSE NOT 1709 01:17:51,404 --> 01:17:52,806 TO ATTEND COURT FOR THIS VERDICT, NOT AFTER THEIR 1710 01:17:52,806 --> 01:18:00,113 EXPERIENCE THE LAST TIME AROUND. >> WE, THE JURY, FIND AS 1711 01:18:00,113 --> 01:18:02,716 FOLLOWS -- THE DEFENDANT, DAYONTE RESILES, 1712 01:18:02,716 --> 01:18:05,051 IN THIS CASE THE DEFENDANT IS GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST 1713 01:18:05,051 --> 01:18:06,353 DEGREE >> Reporter: GUILTY OF MURDER IN 1714 01:18:06,353 --> 01:18:11,024 THE FIRST DEGREE QUIET GRATITUDE AT THE 1715 01:18:11,024 --> 01:18:13,093 PROSECUTION TABLE. >> AND YOU HEAR THE WORDS. 1716 01:18:13,093 --> 01:18:16,196 TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN AND YOUR STOMACH 1717 01:18:16,196 --> 01:18:19,332 >> I DON'T EVEN KNOW I KNOW THAT MY BODY WAS CLENCHED 1718 01:18:19,332 --> 01:18:25,572 SO TIGHTLY THAT WHEN I HEARD THE WORDS, I JUST FELT MY WHOLE 1719 01:18:25,572 --> 01:18:29,843 BODY, LIKE, RELAX AND SAY, THANK YOU, GOD 1720 01:18:29,843 --> 01:18:31,044 YOU KNOW, JUSTICE WAS DONE >> Reporter: JILL'S HUSBAND WAS 1721 01:18:31,044 --> 01:18:32,846 DRIVING WHEN HE GOT THE NEWS >> OH, MY GOD. 1722 01:18:32,846 --> 01:18:37,517 I HAVE TO STOP MY CAR. I SCREAMED 1723 01:18:37,517 --> 01:18:42,722 AND I SAID, "FINALLY FINALLY. 1724 01:18:42,722 --> 01:18:45,859 FINALLY. ALL THESE YEARS, FINALLY 1725 01:18:45,859 --> 01:18:48,461 MAYBE WE START TO HEAL AGAIN MAYBE WE CAN START TO HEAL 1726 01:18:48,461 --> 01:18:51,264 REALLY HEAL. >> Reporter: ACROSS THE ROOM AT 1727 01:18:51,264 --> 01:18:57,270 THE DEFENSE TABLE, LITTLE REACTION FROM DAYONTE RESILES. 1728 01:18:57,270 --> 01:18:58,505 >> HE KNOWS THAT ANY REACTION HE WOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, AT THAT 1729 01:18:58,505 --> 01:19:03,810 POINT WOULDN'T MATTER. IT'S NOT GONNA CHANGE THE 1730 01:19:03,810 --> 01:19:07,147 VERDICT, BUT HE KNEW IT WAS A SOMBER EVENT. 1731 01:19:07,147 --> 01:19:09,749 >> Reporter: A MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT WOULD HAVE MEANT A 1732 01:19:09,749 --> 01:19:12,352 15-YEAR MAX SENTENCE A FIRST-DEGREE MURDER CONVICTION 1733 01:19:12,352 --> 01:19:20,360 MEANT THE DEATH PENALTY OR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE 1734 01:19:20,360 --> 01:19:23,563 >> NOW HE'S COMING OUT OF CORRECTIONS PROBABLY IN A PINE 1735 01:19:23,563 --> 01:19:24,397 BOX. IT'S THAT SEVERE 1736 01:19:24,397 --> 01:19:25,198 >> YEAH. >> AND THE JURY BELIEVED THE 1737 01:19:25,198 --> 01:19:26,733 STATE'S VERSION OF EVENTS. >> Reporter: BUT A VERDICT IS A 1738 01:19:26,733 --> 01:19:28,702 VERDICT. BOTH SIDES NOW HAD URGENT 1739 01:19:28,702 --> 01:19:33,373 BUSINESS SHOULD RESILES GET THE DEATH 1740 01:19:33,373 --> 01:19:36,476 PENALTY OR NOT >> WE STRONGLY FELT THAT THIS 1741 01:19:36,476 --> 01:19:39,412 SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH PENALTY CASE 1742 01:19:39,412 --> 01:19:43,750 >> THERE WAS A LOT OF MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES. 1743 01:19:43,750 --> 01:19:48,388 >> Reporter: THE SUS WERE ALSO CONSULTED AND THEY WRESTLED WITH 1744 01:19:48,388 --> 01:19:50,523 A DECISION >> I THINK, IN SOME RESPECTS 1745 01:19:50,523 --> 01:19:55,695 THAT HE SHOULD DIE JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT HE DID 1746 01:19:55,695 --> 01:19:59,332 IN ANOTHER SENSE, TOO, I WANT HIM TO SUFFER IN ANOTHER WAY, 1747 01:19:59,332 --> 01:20:04,037 JUST LIVING THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN A -- IN A SMALLER ENCLOSURE 1748 01:20:04,037 --> 01:20:08,174 THAT HE DID -- THAT -- THAN THE BATHROOM THAT HE TOOK MY 1749 01:20:08,174 --> 01:20:14,347 MOTHER'S LIFE IN >> WHAT DO YOU THINK JILL WOULD 1750 01:20:14,347 --> 01:20:17,450 HAVE SAID? >> JILL WOULD SAY NO, SHE 1751 01:20:17,450 --> 01:20:18,184 DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE ANOTHER LIFE 1752 01:20:18,184 --> 01:20:19,386 >> Reporter: IN THE END, THE STATE TOOK THE DEATH PENALTY OFF 1753 01:20:19,386 --> 01:20:20,587 THE TABLE. THAT MEANT THE JUDGE HAD NO 1754 01:20:20,587 --> 01:20:23,189 DISCRETION IN SENTENCING DAYONTE RESILES WOULD SERVE 1755 01:20:23,189 --> 01:20:27,394 MANDATORY LIFE IN PRISON WITH NO PAROLE 1756 01:20:27,394 --> 01:20:28,895 AT SENTENCING, THE SUS GOT THE CHANCE TO CONFRONT THE NOW 1757 01:20:28,895 --> 01:20:33,566 CONVICTED KILLER OF THEIR BELOVED JILL 1758 01:20:33,566 --> 01:20:37,203 >> DAYONTE, JILL IS THE KIND OF PERSON WHO COULD HAVE HELPED 1759 01:20:37,203 --> 01:20:41,875 YOU. INSTEAD YOU KILLED HER 1760 01:20:41,875 --> 01:20:43,977 YOU KILLED HER IN COLD BLOOD LIKE A PSYCHOPATH. 1761 01:20:43,977 --> 01:20:53,853 >> Reporter: THEN HE DISMISSED HIS WIFE'S KILLER. 1762 01:20:53,853 --> 01:20:55,388 >> AFTER THIS, TODAY, DAYONTE RESILES, I'M GONNA ERASE YOU 1763 01:20:55,388 --> 01:20:59,859 FROM MY MEMORY IN MY MIND, YOU DO NOT EXIST 1764 01:20:59,859 --> 01:21:02,696 >> Reporter: FROM JUSTIN, THE SON WHOM RESILES' SIDE HAD TRIED 1765 01:21:02,696 --> 01:21:07,867 TO PORTRAY AS THE REAL KILLER, CAME ANOTHER DISMISSAL AND A 1766 01:21:07,867 --> 01:21:16,176 GRIM PROPHECY. >> DAYONTE, HAVE FUN WATCHING 1767 01:21:16,176 --> 01:21:17,377 EVERYONE YOU KNOW THAT YOU THINK LOVE YOU AND THAT LOVE YOU, 1768 01:21:17,377 --> 01:21:18,778 SLOWLY GO ON WITH THEIR LIVES AND JUST FORGET ABOUT WHO YOU 1769 01:21:18,778 --> 01:21:22,949 WERE, AND YOU SLOWLY BECOME NOTHING. 1770 01:21:22,949 --> 01:21:28,421 >> Reporter: NORMALLY, WHEN THE SENTENCE IS MANDATORY, 1771 01:21:28,421 --> 01:21:29,489 DEFENDANTS HAVE LITTLE TO SAY, BUT RESILES SPOKE FOR 1772 01:21:29,489 --> 01:21:30,890 25 MINUTES >> MR. RESILES, YOU CAN HAVE A 1773 01:21:30,890 --> 01:21:32,325 SEAT >> Reporter: HE MADE THE 1774 01:21:32,325 --> 01:21:35,962 INEVITABLE DECLARATION OF INNOCENCE. 1775 01:21:35,962 --> 01:21:38,565 >> I DON'T POSSESS THE HATE, RAGE INSIDE MY HEART TO COMMIT 1776 01:21:38,565 --> 01:21:50,176 SUCH A HEINOUS CRIME >> Reporter: AND THEN THE 1777 01:21:50,176 --> 01:21:51,378 INSISTENCE THAT HE, DAYONTE RESILES, WAS ANOTHER WRONGFULLY 1778 01:21:51,378 --> 01:21:54,147 ACCUSED BLACK MAN. >> THIS COURTROOM THAT I 1779 01:21:54,147 --> 01:21:56,249 CURRENTLY SIT IN IS NO PLACE FOR PEOPLE OF MY SKIN COLOR. 1780 01:21:56,249 --> 01:21:58,818 >> Reporter: FINALLY IT WAS THE JUDGE'S TURN 1781 01:21:58,818 --> 01:22:01,388 >> THE COURT NOW FINDS YOU GUILTY, ADJUDICATES YOU GUILTY, 1782 01:22:01,388 --> 01:22:10,764 AND SENTENCES YOU TO LIFE IN PRISON 1783 01:22:10,764 --> 01:22:14,401 >> Reporter: AFTERWARDS THE SUS, NAN-YAO, JUSTIN, AND SISTER 1784 01:22:14,401 --> 01:22:18,071 MANDY, WENT TO A LOCAL PARK. THE ORDEAL WAS BEHIND THEM, BUT 1785 01:22:18,071 --> 01:22:21,708 SCARS LINGERED JUSTIN STILL BATTLES THE EFFECTS 1786 01:22:21,708 --> 01:22:23,243 OF TRAUMA, FIRST FROM FINDING HIS MOTHER'S BODY, AND THEN 1787 01:22:23,243 --> 01:22:27,414 BEING ACCUSED OF KILLING HER DURING THAT PAINFUL 1788 01:22:27,414 --> 01:22:29,482 INTERROGATION, REPRISED AGAIN AND AGAIN IN THE COURTROOM 1789 01:22:29,482 --> 01:22:32,085 ONE POSITIVE -- HE DID GET THE APOLOGY HE DEMANDED FROM THE 1790 01:22:32,085 --> 01:22:34,688 POLICE >> I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO GO 1791 01:22:34,688 --> 01:22:39,359 TALK TO HIM. AND I TOLD HIM, "LISTEN, IF YOUR 1792 01:22:39,359 --> 01:22:41,828 FEELINGS ARE HURT, BASICALLY I'M SORRY, BUT I'M HERE TO DO THE 1793 01:22:41,828 --> 01:22:45,098 JOB FOR THE VICTIM AND THAT'S MY -- MY 1794 01:22:45,098 --> 01:22:46,399 RESPONSIBILITY IS TO THE VICTIM, TO FIND OUT WHO DID THIS TO 1795 01:22:46,399 --> 01:22:50,270 HER. >> Reporter: JUSTIN SAYS THE 1796 01:22:50,270 --> 01:22:51,604 APOLOGY FELT MATTER-OF-FACT. >> I WENT TO THE POLICE STATIO 1797 01:22:51,604 --> 01:22:52,772 AND THEY APOLOGIZED TO ME. AND THEN RIGHT AFTER, THEY JUST 1798 01:22:52,772 --> 01:22:53,907 WENT INTO, LIKE, BUSINESS AND STUFF. 1799 01:22:53,907 --> 01:22:59,112 I DON'T THINK THEY REALLY KNOW -- EVEN TO THIS DAY REALLY 1800 01:22:59,112 --> 01:23:03,350 KNOW WHAT DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO SOMEBODY CAN COST THEM 1801 01:23:03,350 --> 01:23:08,621 >> Reporter: IN THE PARK WHERE THE FAMILY GATHERED, THERE IS A 1802 01:23:08,621 --> 01:23:10,924 BENCH DEDICATED TO JILL EMBOSSED WITH HER ARTWORK 1803 01:23:10,924 --> 01:23:12,625 THEY REMEMBERED THE WOMAN WHO MADE HELPING OTHERS HER LIFE'S 1804 01:23:12,625 --> 01:23:14,194 WORK >> IT'S TURN OF THE CENTURY 1805 01:23:14,194 --> 01:23:17,297 AMERICA. >> Reporter: THE HUNDREDS OF 1806 01:23:17,297 --> 01:23:22,502 HOURS SHE SPENT RECORDING BOOKS FOR THE BLIND. 1807 01:23:22,502 --> 01:23:23,803 >> SHE TOUCHED MORE LIVES THAN YOU'LL EVER BE ABLE TO COUNT 1808 01:23:23,803 --> 01:23:26,673 >> YEAH, DEFINITELY. SHE TOUCHED A LOT OF PEOPLE'S 1809 01:23:26,673 --> 01:23:29,376 LIVES, YOU KNOW? AND IT'S A TRUE FACT THAT IF SHE 1810 01:23:29,376 --> 01:23:35,081 WERE STILL ALIVE, SHE WOULD BE HELPING OUT. 1811 01:23:35,081 --> 01:23:40,687 >> Reporter: JUSTICE NOW DONE FOR JILL SU, THE GENTLE WOMAN 1812 01:23:40,687 --> 01:23:46,426 WITH A HUGE HEART AND GENEROUS SPIRIT AND AN UNFINISHED AGENDA 1813 01:23:46,426 --> 01:23:49,529 OF GOOD WORKS REMAINING. >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 1814 01:23:49,529 --> 01:23:52,665 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 1815 01:23:52,665 --> 01:23:54,267 AT 9:00, 8:00 CENTRAL. AND, OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU 1816 01:23:54,267 --> 01:23:57,337 EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY NEWS." 1817 01:23:57,337 --> 01:23:57,337 NEWS." 1818 01:23:57,337 --> 01:23:57,337 I'M LESTER HOLT.