1 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:15,733 * 2 00:00:15,733 --> 00:00:19,167 >>> I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT DAY. 3 00:00:19,167 --> 00:00:22,267 SOMETHING SINISTER HAPPENED. 4 00:00:22,267 --> 00:00:26,833 SOMETHING UNIMAGINABLE. 5 00:00:26,833 --> 00:00:30,167 >> MY CELLPHONE RINGS, AND IT'S 6 00:00:30,167 --> 00:00:31,400 CLARK COUNTY SHERIFF JOE 7 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:31,733 LOMBARDO. 8 00:00:31,733 --> 00:00:34,867 SHERIFF SAYS TO ME, "GLENN, I'M 9 00:00:34,867 --> 00:00:39,900 CALLING ABOUT JEFF GERMAN." 10 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:43,100 AND HE SAYS, "JEFF'S DEAD." 11 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:44,100 >> JUST LIKE THAT? 12 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,767 >> JUST LIKE THAT. 13 00:00:45,767 --> 00:00:47,633 >> JEFF GERMAN WAS FOUND DEAD 14 00:00:47,633 --> 00:00:49,300 WITH STAB WOUNDS OUTSIDE HIS 15 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:51,833 HOME AROUND 10:30 YESTERDAY 16 00:00:51,833 --> 00:00:52,067 MORNING. 17 00:00:52,067 --> 00:00:53,367 >> METRO POLICE ARE ASKING FOR 18 00:00:53,367 --> 00:00:54,733 THE PUBLIC'S HELP. 19 00:00:54,733 --> 00:00:57,200 THEY'RE SAYING THIS IS THE 20 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:57,433 SUSPECT. 21 00:00:57,433 --> 00:01:00,167 >> I COULDN'T EVEN BELIEVE -- I 22 00:01:00,167 --> 00:01:02,300 HAD SO MANY QUESTIONS. 23 00:01:02,300 --> 00:01:04,167 WHO WOULD DO THIS? 24 00:01:04,167 --> 00:01:11,067 I MEAN, HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? 25 00:01:11,067 --> 00:01:12,900 >> JUST HOW BIG A LIST OF PEOPLE 26 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:13,733 MIGHT HAVE WANTED JEFF DEAD? 27 00:01:13,733 --> 00:01:15,600 >> THAT'S A LINE OF PEOPLE THAT 28 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,733 RUNS FROM HERE TO LOS ANGELES. 29 00:01:18,733 --> 00:01:20,967 THIS GUY'S WRITTEN ABOUT 30 00:01:20,967 --> 00:01:23,500 TERRIBLE PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE 31 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:26,167 AWFUL THINGS FOR OVER 40 YEARS. 32 00:01:26,167 --> 00:01:27,300 THE WORST KINDS OF PEOPLE. 33 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:30,067 >> THEY CALLED HIM TONY THE ANT, 34 00:01:30,067 --> 00:01:33,767 BUT TONY WAS A BIG FIGURE IN THE 35 00:01:33,767 --> 00:01:34,100 MAFIA. 36 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:35,567 >> HE HAD A SPECIAL INTEREST IN 37 00:01:35,567 --> 00:01:36,633 COVERING ORGANIZED CRIME. 38 00:01:36,633 --> 00:01:41,767 HE WAS GUTSY AND FEARLESS. 39 00:01:41,767 --> 00:01:45,233 >> JEFF GERMAN WAS GUIDED BY AN 40 00:01:45,233 --> 00:01:49,533 INNATE SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG. 41 00:01:49,533 --> 00:01:52,633 IF HE KNEW SOMEONE WAS ENGAGING 42 00:01:52,633 --> 00:01:57,900 IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, UNETHICAL 43 00:01:57,900 --> 00:02:00,567 ACTIVITY, INAPPROPRIATE 44 00:02:00,567 --> 00:02:02,200 BEHAVIOR, HE WANTED TO DO THAT 45 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:02,533 STORY. 46 00:02:02,533 --> 00:02:04,667 HE WANTED TO BRING IT TO LIGHT. 47 00:02:04,667 --> 00:02:06,300 >> WE COULDN'T BELIEVE HE WOULD 48 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,500 EVEN TAKE A CALL FROM US, BUT HE 49 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:09,667 DID. 50 00:02:09,667 --> 00:02:11,300 >> GIVE ME A SENSE OF WHAT STATE 51 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:14,767 YOU WERE IN WHEN YOU CALLED JEFF 52 00:02:14,767 --> 00:02:15,067 GERMAN. 53 00:02:15,067 --> 00:02:17,067 >> WE WERE DESPERATE. 54 00:02:17,067 --> 00:02:18,466 >> IN FEAR EVERY DAY. 55 00:02:18,466 --> 00:02:19,600 >> IT WAS JUST SURVIVAL. 56 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,067 ONE STEP IN FRONT OF THE OTHER. 57 00:02:22,067 --> 00:02:24,333 ONE DAY AT A TIME. 58 00:02:24,333 --> 00:02:25,233 >> THE ONLY PERSON THAT LISTENED 59 00:02:25,233 --> 00:02:27,767 TO US AND THE ONLY PERSON THAT 60 00:02:27,767 --> 00:02:29,133 TRIED TO DO SOMETHING THAT 61 00:02:29,133 --> 00:02:31,367 CONCRETELY PUT THEIR NAME ON THE 62 00:02:31,367 --> 00:02:31,633 LINE TO -- 63 00:02:31,633 --> 00:02:32,633 >> HE WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO 64 00:02:32,633 --> 00:02:33,833 LISTEN TO US. 65 00:02:33,833 --> 00:02:35,067 >> WAS JEFF GERMAN -- 66 00:02:35,067 --> 00:02:35,600 >> WAS JEFF. 67 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,400 >> HE DID SOMETHING AND HE 68 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:38,933 FOUGHT FOR US, AND HE IS 100% 69 00:02:38,933 --> 00:02:40,867 OUR HERO. 70 00:02:40,867 --> 00:02:43,667 >> IF I WAS TO TALK TO HIM 71 00:02:43,667 --> 00:02:46,067 TODAY, I THINK THE FIRST THING I 72 00:02:46,067 --> 00:02:50,300 WOULD SAY IS "I'M SORRY." 73 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:52,733 >> AS JEFF'S EDITOR, HIS 74 00:02:52,733 --> 00:02:56,433 COLLEAGUE, DID YOU EVER SENSE 75 00:02:56,433 --> 00:02:59,100 ANY DANGER IN COVERING THIS 76 00:02:59,100 --> 00:02:59,300 STORY? 77 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:02,233 >> THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO 78 00:03:02,233 --> 00:03:03,667 SUGGESTION, NO HINT THAT THIS 79 00:03:03,667 --> 00:03:10,133 WOULD END THE WAY IT DID. 80 00:03:10,133 --> 00:03:15,700 NONE. 81 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:24,833 * 82 00:03:30,233 --> 00:03:49,667 * 83 00:03:49,867 --> 00:03:59,500 * 84 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:03,767 >>> ON SEPTEMBER 2nd, 2022, IT 85 00:04:03,767 --> 00:04:08,067 WAS A BOILING HOT LATE SUMMER 86 00:04:08,067 --> 00:04:09,600 DAY IN LAS VEGAS, AND PEOPLE 87 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:13,833 WERE GETTING READY FOR THE LABOR 88 00:04:13,833 --> 00:04:15,167 DAY WEEKEND. 89 00:04:15,167 --> 00:04:18,533 IT WAS LATE MORNING WHEN IN 90 00:04:18,533 --> 00:04:20,399 BROAD DAYLIGHT SOMETHING 91 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:23,900 TERRIBLE HAPPENED. 92 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,133 >> AS INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST 93 00:04:26,133 --> 00:04:31,067 FOR THE "LAS VEGAS 94 00:04:31,067 --> 00:04:32,067 REVIEW-JOURNAL," BRIANA ERICKSON 95 00:04:32,067 --> 00:04:33,467 AND RHONDA PRAST HAD SEEN A LOT 96 00:04:33,467 --> 00:04:37,533 OF BAD PEOPLE DO A LOT OF BAD 97 00:04:37,533 --> 00:04:37,967 THINGS. 98 00:04:37,967 --> 00:04:40,600 BUT NOTHING CAME CLOSE TO THE 99 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:41,733 MACHIAVELLIAN PLOT TO MURDER 100 00:04:41,733 --> 00:04:44,667 THEIR FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE JEFF 101 00:04:44,667 --> 00:04:44,900 GERMAN. 102 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,533 >> JEFF GERMAN WAS AT HIS HOUSE 103 00:04:47,533 --> 00:04:48,600 ON VACATION. 104 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,267 HE'D GONE OUT TO GET SOMETHING 105 00:04:50,267 --> 00:04:51,900 TO EAT. 106 00:04:51,900 --> 00:04:52,900 HE CAME BACK. 107 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,133 SHUT HIS GARAGE DOOR. 108 00:04:56,133 --> 00:04:57,400 YOU COULD SEE IN THE 109 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,100 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM ACROSS 110 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:01,433 THE STREET THAT SOMEONE, AN 111 00:05:01,433 --> 00:05:02,600 ASSAILANT, CAME INTO HIS YARD, 112 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,267 WENT TO THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS 113 00:05:04,267 --> 00:05:08,167 HOUSE, WENT INSIDE THE GATE, 114 00:05:08,167 --> 00:05:09,533 SHUT THE GATE. 115 00:05:09,533 --> 00:05:12,833 >> AND THEN WE SEE JEFF MOMENTS 116 00:05:12,833 --> 00:05:15,233 LATER OPENING HIS GARAGE DOOR, 117 00:05:15,233 --> 00:05:16,832 AND HE WAS INSTANTLY AMBUSHED 118 00:05:16,832 --> 00:05:19,067 WHEN HE TURNED THE CORNER TO 119 00:05:19,067 --> 00:05:23,967 WHERE THAT PERSON WAS LYING IN 120 00:05:23,967 --> 00:05:24,167 WAIT. 121 00:05:24,167 --> 00:05:27,067 IN THE VIDEO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE 122 00:05:27,067 --> 00:05:29,767 A STRUGGLE, BUT JEFF ULTIMATELY 123 00:05:29,767 --> 00:05:31,733 FALLS TO THE GROUND, AND HE 124 00:05:31,733 --> 00:05:33,832 NEVER GETS UP. 125 00:05:33,832 --> 00:05:35,600 >> WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM IN THAT 126 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:35,832 ATTACK? 127 00:05:35,832 --> 00:05:38,332 >> JEFF WAS STABBED. 128 00:05:38,332 --> 00:05:40,332 HE WAS STABBED SEVEN TIMES, FOUR 129 00:05:40,332 --> 00:05:45,200 TIMES IN THE NECK, THREE IN THE 130 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,367 TORSO. 131 00:05:48,367 --> 00:05:49,700 >> SEVEN STAB WOUNDS. 132 00:05:49,700 --> 00:05:51,633 DID THAT SUGGEST WHAT KIND OF A 133 00:05:51,633 --> 00:05:52,600 KILLING THIS WAS? 134 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,700 >> TO ME THIS WAS A VERY 135 00:05:55,700 --> 00:05:56,433 PERSONAL ATTACK. 136 00:05:56,433 --> 00:05:58,300 TO STAB SOMEONE IN SUCH A SHORT 137 00:05:58,300 --> 00:06:02,933 TIME VICIOUSLY SEVEN TIMES WITH 138 00:06:02,933 --> 00:06:03,467 NO WARNING. 139 00:06:03,467 --> 00:06:05,900 >> A CONCERNED NEIGHBOR FOUND 140 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:08,333 JEFF GERMAN'S BODY HIDDEN BEHIND 141 00:06:08,333 --> 00:06:11,167 SOME BUSHES 24 HOURS LATER. 142 00:06:11,167 --> 00:06:14,467 >> 911 EMERGENCY, 1065. 143 00:06:14,467 --> 00:06:15,733 DO YOU NEED POLICE, FIRE, 144 00:06:15,733 --> 00:06:15,967 MEDICAL? 145 00:06:15,967 --> 00:06:17,367 >> I HAVE A NEIGHBOR ACROSS THE 146 00:06:17,367 --> 00:06:20,332 STREET FROM ME, AND HE'S LAYING 147 00:06:20,332 --> 00:06:22,067 IN THE SIDE YARD. 148 00:06:22,067 --> 00:06:23,600 I BELIEVE HE'S DEAD. 149 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:24,832 HE'S GOT BLOOD OVER HIM. 150 00:06:24,832 --> 00:06:26,300 >> IT WAS JUST A TERRIBLE THING 151 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:27,900 TO KNOW THAT HE WAS LYING THERE 152 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:29,633 AND WE WONDERED WHETHER HE COULD 153 00:06:29,633 --> 00:06:31,067 HAVE BEEN SAVED, BUT MEDICAL 154 00:06:31,067 --> 00:06:33,233 EXPERTS TOLD US LATER THAT HE 155 00:06:33,233 --> 00:06:37,367 LIKELY DIED WITHIN A MINUTE OR 156 00:06:37,367 --> 00:06:37,967 TWO. 157 00:06:37,967 --> 00:06:40,332 >> IT WAS A SMALL MERCY FOR A 158 00:06:40,332 --> 00:06:42,467 MAN WHO HAD SPENT HIS LIFE 159 00:06:42,467 --> 00:06:44,367 FIGHTING FOR THE UNDERDOG. 160 00:06:44,367 --> 00:06:46,133 >> AT THE BASE HE JUST WANTED TO 161 00:06:46,133 --> 00:06:48,233 HELP PEOPLE AND PROTECT PEOPLE 162 00:06:48,233 --> 00:06:53,267 AND EXPOSE WRONGDOING. 163 00:06:53,267 --> 00:06:55,967 >> IN THE START, JEFF GERMAN WAS 164 00:06:55,967 --> 00:06:57,400 SHOOTING FOR BIG GAME. 165 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,900 AND WHEN HE CAME FROM WISCONSIN 166 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:04,067 IN THE '70s, VEGAS WAS THE 167 00:07:04,067 --> 00:07:04,267 SERENGETI. 168 00:07:04,267 --> 00:07:06,067 MARK FIERRO, A TV REPORTER AT 169 00:07:06,067 --> 00:07:08,300 THE TIME, BECAME A LIFELONG 170 00:07:08,300 --> 00:07:11,167 FRIEND AND TRUSTED SOURCE. 171 00:07:11,167 --> 00:07:14,767 >> JEFF GERMAN AT THE OUTSET WAS 172 00:07:14,767 --> 00:07:19,067 A REPORTER WHO CAUGHT THE MOST 173 00:07:19,067 --> 00:07:20,300 IMPORTANT BEAT IN LAS VEGAS OF 174 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:22,267 HIS DAY THAT WAS ORGANIZED 175 00:07:22,267 --> 00:07:22,467 CRIME. 176 00:07:22,467 --> 00:07:24,832 >> THEN A REPORTER FOR "THE LAS 177 00:07:24,832 --> 00:07:27,267 VEGAS SUN," JEFF TOOK ON ONE OF 178 00:07:27,267 --> 00:07:28,633 THE BIGGEST, MEANEST MOBSTERS ON 179 00:07:28,633 --> 00:07:29,067 THE STRIP. 180 00:07:29,067 --> 00:07:30,832 >> A PRIME TARGET OF THE FEDS IS 181 00:07:30,832 --> 00:07:34,067 TONY SPALATRO, THE OUTFIT'S 182 00:07:34,067 --> 00:07:35,133 RIPPIVE IN VEGAS. 183 00:07:35,133 --> 00:07:38,767 >> Reporter: TONY SPALATRO, A 184 00:07:38,767 --> 00:07:41,100 POWER PLAYER FOR THE CHICAGO 185 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:43,800 MOB, PLAYED BY JOE PESCI IN 186 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:44,067 "CASINO." 187 00:07:44,067 --> 00:07:46,567 >> YOU SAID I'M BRINGING HEAT ON 188 00:07:46,567 --> 00:07:46,867 Y 189 00:07:46,867 --> 00:07:47,067 YOU? 190 00:07:47,067 --> 00:07:48,267 >> HERE'S JEFF GERMAN TALKING 191 00:07:48,267 --> 00:07:51,467 ABOUT SPALATRO IN "MOBBED UP." 192 00:07:51,467 --> 00:07:53,733 >> HE HAD A REPUTATION FOR BEING 193 00:07:53,733 --> 00:07:55,133 A BRUTAL KILLER, YET HE WAS 194 00:07:55,133 --> 00:07:58,700 NEVER CONVICTED OF A SINGLE 195 00:07:58,700 --> 00:07:58,933 MURDER. 196 00:07:58,933 --> 00:08:00,267 >> A PODCAST JEFF MADE ABOUT A 197 00:08:00,267 --> 00:08:01,133 YEAR BEFORE HE DIED. 198 00:08:01,133 --> 00:08:04,167 >> HE HAD THE COLDEST EYES I'VE 199 00:08:04,167 --> 00:08:04,633 EVER SEEN. 200 00:08:04,633 --> 00:08:06,433 IN MY STORIES, I GOT USED TO 201 00:08:06,433 --> 00:08:10,700 CALLING SPALATRO BY HIS STREET 202 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:11,133 NAME, TONY THE ANT. 203 00:08:11,133 --> 00:08:13,467 HE HATED THAT, AND IT SOMETIMES 204 00:08:13,467 --> 00:08:14,733 LEFT ME AT THE RECEIVING END OF 205 00:08:14,733 --> 00:08:16,367 HIS NASTY STARES AND HIS 206 00:08:16,367 --> 00:08:17,933 MENACING FITS OF ANGER. 207 00:08:17,933 --> 00:08:22,133 >> THE IRONY OF ALL OF THIS IS 208 00:08:22,133 --> 00:08:24,067 IS THAT JEFF WAS NOT A TALL MAN, 209 00:08:24,067 --> 00:08:26,233 WAS NOT A STRONG MAN, BUT HE 210 00:08:26,233 --> 00:08:27,167 TOUGHED IT OUT. 211 00:08:27,167 --> 00:08:28,533 AND HE WENT TOE TO TOE WITH 212 00:08:28,533 --> 00:08:30,267 THESE GUYS YEAR IN, YEAR OUT. 213 00:08:30,267 --> 00:08:31,700 SOME OF THESE GUYS WERE 214 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:32,167 DANGEROUS GUYS. 215 00:08:32,167 --> 00:08:33,767 >> TRY AS THEY DID, THEY 216 00:08:33,767 --> 00:08:37,332 COULDN'T SCARE HIM, SAYS BRIANA. 217 00:08:37,332 --> 00:08:40,232 >> AFTER HIS TIRES HAD BEEN 218 00:08:40,232 --> 00:08:41,366 SLASHED AND SOME SPOOKY THINGS 219 00:08:41,366 --> 00:08:44,167 WERE HAPPENING TO HIM, HE TOLD A 220 00:08:44,167 --> 00:08:46,400 MOB AFFILIATE IN A BAR TO CALL 221 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,233 OFF HIS DOGS. 222 00:08:47,233 --> 00:08:50,300 THEN HE GOT PUNCHED IN THE FACE. 223 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:51,467 HE LATER DESCRIBED THAT AS A 224 00:08:51,467 --> 00:08:52,700 BADGE OF HONOR. 225 00:08:52,700 --> 00:08:55,067 >> A COUPLE OF HOURS LATER WITH 226 00:08:55,067 --> 00:08:56,367 FOUR STITCHES UNDER MY LIP I HAD 227 00:08:56,367 --> 00:08:59,267 A WAR STORY TO TELL. 228 00:08:59,267 --> 00:09:01,667 >> AS THE MOB SLOWLY LOST ITS 229 00:09:01,667 --> 00:09:03,533 GRIP ON VEGAS, JEFF BUILT A 230 00:09:03,533 --> 00:09:06,500 CAREER EXPOSING DIRTY BUSINESS, 231 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:08,533 GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION, AND 232 00:09:08,533 --> 00:09:09,067 CRIME. 233 00:09:09,067 --> 00:09:10,800 RHONDA, THE FORMER ASSISTANT 234 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:12,667 MANAGING EDITOR FOR 235 00:09:12,667 --> 00:09:14,967 INVESTIGATIONS AT THE "RJ," WORK 236 00:09:14,967 --> 00:09:16,067 WITHED HIM FOR THREE YEARS. 237 00:09:16,067 --> 00:09:18,100 >> HE KEPT DIGGING AND DIGGING 238 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:18,933 AND DIGGING. 239 00:09:18,933 --> 00:09:20,967 HE WAS LIKE THE LITTLE DOG THAT 240 00:09:20,967 --> 00:09:22,700 WOULD TAKE A BITE OF YOUR PANTS 241 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:23,333 AD WOULDN'T LET GO. 242 00:09:23,333 --> 00:09:27,333 YOU KNOW, HE WAS JUST SO LASER 243 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:28,767 FOCUSED ON CONTINUING TO GO 244 00:09:28,767 --> 00:09:29,667 DEEPER AND DEEPER AND DEEPER 245 00:09:29,667 --> 00:09:30,633 INTO A STORY. 246 00:09:30,633 --> 00:09:32,467 >> THAT TENACITY HELPED HIM 247 00:09:32,467 --> 00:09:34,633 EXPOSE THE TRUTH IN STORIES THAT 248 00:09:34,633 --> 00:09:36,400 COULD HAVE REMAINED IN THE 249 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:36,700 SHADOWS. 250 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:38,300 HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW 251 00:09:38,300 --> 00:09:40,133 JOURNALISTS ALONG WITH HIS 252 00:09:40,133 --> 00:09:41,300 COLLEAGUE DAVID FERRERA, TO 253 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:43,533 REPORT ON THE SUSAN WINTERS 254 00:09:43,533 --> 00:09:43,833 CASE. 255 00:09:43,833 --> 00:09:45,533 A WOMAN WHOSE PARENTS DOUBTED 256 00:09:45,533 --> 00:09:48,333 THE SUICIDE RULING IN THEIR 257 00:09:48,333 --> 00:09:49,833 DAUGHTER'S DEATH. 258 00:09:49,833 --> 00:09:52,467 >> AND JEFF STARTED PUTTING 259 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:53,267 PIECES TOGETHER, WORKING WITH 260 00:09:53,267 --> 00:09:54,700 THE ATTORNEY FOR THE FAMILY. 261 00:09:54,700 --> 00:09:56,100 AND THE WAY THAT SHE KILLED 262 00:09:56,100 --> 00:10:00,233 HERSELF WAS SO UNSEEMLY THAT IT 263 00:10:00,233 --> 00:10:01,233 JUST DIDN'T ADD UP. 264 00:10:01,233 --> 00:10:03,500 AND ONCE HE STARTED AND HE 265 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:04,967 STARTED PULLING ON THAT THREAD, 266 00:10:04,967 --> 00:10:06,567 AND THEN HE STARTED PULLING ON A 267 00:10:06,567 --> 00:10:08,033 ROPE, THEN IT TURNED INTO A 268 00:10:08,033 --> 00:10:08,267 CHAIN -- 269 00:10:08,267 --> 00:10:10,100 >> THAT CHAIN TURNED INTO A 270 00:10:10,100 --> 00:10:12,433 SERIES OF STORIES THAT TARGETED 271 00:10:12,433 --> 00:10:13,000 THE HUSBAND. 272 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,967 TURNS OUT SUSAN DIED FROM 273 00:10:14,967 --> 00:10:17,167 INJECTING A LETHAL COMBINATION 274 00:10:17,167 --> 00:10:20,033 OF PAINKILLERS AND ANTIFREEZE. 275 00:10:20,033 --> 00:10:22,067 THE HUSBAND, WHO IS CHARGED WITH 276 00:10:22,067 --> 00:10:24,033 MURDER, ULTIMATELY PLEADED 277 00:10:24,033 --> 00:10:26,333 GUILTY TO VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER 278 00:10:26,333 --> 00:10:33,433 AND WAS SENT TO PRISON. 279 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:35,233 AS HARD CHARGING AND PUBLIC AS 280 00:10:35,233 --> 00:10:38,200 JEFF WAS IN HIS WORK LIFE, THE 281 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,033 LIFELONG BACHELOR WAS 282 00:10:40,033 --> 00:10:41,533 NOTORIOUSLY PRIVATE ABOUT HIS 283 00:10:41,533 --> 00:10:42,133 PERSONAL LIFE. 284 00:10:42,133 --> 00:10:43,967 >> HE WAS ALWAYS BACK TO 285 00:10:43,967 --> 00:10:46,500 BUSINESS, BACK TO BUSINESS. 286 00:10:46,500 --> 00:10:48,233 THIS MAN WAS BORN TO BE A 287 00:10:48,233 --> 00:10:48,500 REPORTER. 288 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:51,133 >> A MAN WHO LIVED FOR HIS JOB 289 00:10:51,133 --> 00:10:53,200 AND, AS IT TURNS OUT, A MAN WHO 290 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:57,033 MAY HAVE DIED FOR IT. 291 00:10:57,033 --> 00:10:59,100 THE ENTIRE NEWSROOM RALLIED 292 00:10:59,100 --> 00:10:59,367 TOGETHER. 293 00:10:59,367 --> 00:11:01,600 HIS COLLEAGUES HAD NO IDEA WHO 294 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,333 DID THIS OR WHY, BUT THEY WERE 295 00:11:06,333 --> 00:11:07,933 DETERMINED TO DO WHAT JEFF 296 00:11:07,933 --> 00:11:10,067 GERMAN WOULD HAVE DONE -- FIND 297 00:11:10,067 --> 00:11:13,633 OUT. 298 00:11:24,433 --> 00:11:29,267 >>> THE "RJ" STAFF WAS IN 299 00:11:29,267 --> 00:11:29,900 MOURNING. 300 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:33,067 THEIR SORROW IN FULL DISPLAY ON 301 00:11:33,067 --> 00:11:35,267 JEFF GERMAN'S DESK. 302 00:11:35,267 --> 00:11:37,500 >> IT'S A REMINDER THAT THIS 303 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,833 TEAM IS NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME 304 00:11:39,833 --> 00:11:42,967 WITHOUT HIM, BUT WE CAN CARRY ON 305 00:11:42,967 --> 00:11:46,167 THE WAY HE WOULD WANT US TO. 306 00:11:46,167 --> 00:11:50,067 >> AND THAT MEANT DOING WHAT HE 307 00:11:50,067 --> 00:11:50,500 WOULD HAVE DONE. 308 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:52,767 THE STAFF STARTED TUGGING ON 309 00:11:52,767 --> 00:11:55,233 THREADS AND SEARCHING FOR CLUES, 310 00:11:55,233 --> 00:11:57,067 WORKING NONSTOP ON ONE OF THE 311 00:11:57,067 --> 00:11:59,367 MOST IMPORTANT STORIES OF THEIR 312 00:11:59,367 --> 00:11:59,800 CAREERS. 313 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,667 WHO KILLED JEFF GERMAN? 314 00:12:03,667 --> 00:12:04,700 >> IMMEDIATELY I STARTED 315 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:06,267 THINKING IN MY HEAD, ALL RIGHT, 316 00:12:06,267 --> 00:12:09,400 WHO HAD TALENTED JEFF IN ANY -- 317 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,100 THREATENED JEFF IN ANY WAY IN 318 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:13,500 THE LAST FIVE MONTHS, WHO COULD 319 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:14,133 HAVE DONE THIS ? 320 00:12:14,133 --> 00:12:17,467 >> ELK SIEVE EDITOR GLENN COOK 321 00:12:17,467 --> 00:12:18,900 ASKED RHONDA TO COME UP WITH A 322 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:19,867 SHORT LIST OF PEOPLE TO 323 00:12:19,867 --> 00:12:20,233 CONSIDER. 324 00:12:20,233 --> 00:12:23,200 >> ONE OF THE NAMES I GAVE HIM 325 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:23,667 WAS ROBERT TELLES. 326 00:12:23,667 --> 00:12:25,300 >> AND WHO IS ROBERT TELLES? 327 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:26,967 >> HE WAS A CLARK COUNTY ELECTED 328 00:12:26,967 --> 00:12:29,467 OFFICIAL IN CHARGE OF THE PUBLIC 329 00:12:29,467 --> 00:12:30,600 ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE WHICH 330 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,300 HANDLES ESTATES OF PEOPLE WHO 331 00:12:32,300 --> 00:12:32,867 ARE DECEASED. 332 00:12:32,867 --> 00:12:34,800 >> ONE OF THE ESTATE 333 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,100 COORDINATORS IN TELLES' OFFICE, 334 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:38,933 ALEISHA GOODWIN, HAD REACHED OUT 335 00:12:38,933 --> 00:12:40,967 TO JEFF GERMAN IN MARCH OF 2022. 336 00:12:40,967 --> 00:12:43,433 SHE HAD FILED A FORMAL COMPLAINT 337 00:12:43,433 --> 00:12:45,233 WITH THE CLARK COUNTY OFFICE OF 338 00:12:45,233 --> 00:12:47,967 DIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF HERSELF 339 00:12:47,967 --> 00:12:49,933 AND SOME COLLEAGUES CLAIMING 340 00:12:49,933 --> 00:12:51,700 ROBERT TELLES HARASSED, BULLIED, 341 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:53,433 AND DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM. 342 00:12:53,433 --> 00:12:56,900 >> HE WAS A HORRIBLE -- A 343 00:12:56,900 --> 00:12:57,533 HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING. 344 00:12:57,533 --> 00:12:59,467 MONSTER IS THE RIGHT WORD. 345 00:12:59,467 --> 00:13:01,467 >> BUT ALEISHA SAYS THE COUNTY 346 00:13:01,467 --> 00:13:02,167 DID NOTHING. 347 00:13:02,167 --> 00:13:04,133 >> IT WAS ALWAYS HE'S AN ELECTED 348 00:13:04,133 --> 00:13:06,267 OFFICIAL, THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN 349 00:13:06,267 --> 00:13:06,567 DO. 350 00:13:06,567 --> 00:13:08,500 >> JEFF AGREED TO HEAR WHAT 351 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,400 ALEISHA AND HER COLLEAGUES, 352 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,700 NORAINE PAGDANGANAN, RITA 353 00:13:16,700 --> 00:13:17,367 ROOREID, 354 00:13:17,367 --> 00:13:18,067 AND JESSICA COLEMAN HAD TO SAY. 355 00:13:18,067 --> 00:13:21,567 >> WHEN HE FINALLY TALKED TO US 356 00:13:21,567 --> 00:13:22,633 AND LET US TELL WHAT HAPPENED TO 357 00:13:22,633 --> 00:13:23,767 US, HE SAID I'M GOING TO LOOK 358 00:13:23,767 --> 00:13:24,367 INTO THIS. 359 00:13:24,367 --> 00:13:25,800 I THINK THAT'S THE ONLY THING 360 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,567 THAT GAVE US ENOUGH ENERGY TO 361 00:13:28,567 --> 00:13:29,100 KEEP GOING. 362 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:31,933 >> ACCORDING TO THE WOMEN, THE 363 00:13:31,933 --> 00:13:34,500 TROUBLE BEGAN ALMOST IMMEDIATELY 364 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:36,733 AFTER ROBERT TELLES TOOK OFFICE 365 00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:40,233 IN JANUARY, 2019. 366 00:13:40,233 --> 00:13:42,667 RITA, A SUPERVISOR, WAS HIS 367 00:13:42,667 --> 00:13:44,567 SECOND IN COMMAND AND A 12-YEAR 368 00:13:44,567 --> 00:13:48,133 VETERAN OF THE OFFICE. 369 00:13:48,133 --> 00:13:49,633 >> HE CAME IN ABRUPTLY AND 370 00:13:49,633 --> 00:13:53,367 SLAMMED HIS PALMS DOWN ON MYSELF 371 00:13:53,367 --> 00:13:54,067 DESK WITH A REAL LOUD BANG. 372 00:13:54,067 --> 00:13:54,800 >> LIKE A -- 373 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:55,867 >> YES, ABSOLUTELY. 374 00:13:55,867 --> 00:13:57,867 AND HE LEANED FORWARD, AND HE 375 00:13:57,867 --> 00:13:59,767 SAID, WE'RE RIPPING OFF THE 376 00:13:59,767 --> 00:14:00,067 BANDAGE. 377 00:14:00,067 --> 00:14:02,267 YOU NO LONGER SUPERVISE ANYONE, 378 00:14:02,267 --> 00:14:04,100 NO ONE REPORTS TO YOU. 379 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,333 THEY ALL REPORT TO ME. 380 00:14:05,333 --> 00:14:07,767 AND HE TURNED AROUND AND WALKED 381 00:14:07,767 --> 00:14:08,067 OUT. 382 00:14:08,067 --> 00:14:11,067 AND I JUST SAT THERE STUNNED. 383 00:14:11,067 --> 00:14:12,700 >> THE WOMEN SAY THEY WERE 384 00:14:12,700 --> 00:14:14,433 ORDERED NOT TO SPEAK TO EACH 385 00:14:14,433 --> 00:14:18,267 OTHER IN THE OFFICE. 386 00:14:18,267 --> 00:14:19,967 >> IT. 387 00:14:19,967 --> 00:14:21,167 DANGEROUS EVEN TO HAVE A HELLO, 388 00:14:21,167 --> 00:14:21,900 GOOD MORNING CONVERSATION WITH 389 00:14:21,900 --> 00:14:23,233 CO-WORKERS IN PASSING. 390 00:14:23,233 --> 00:14:24,700 >> IF CAUGHT, THE CONSEQUENCES 391 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:26,067 COULD BE SEVERE SAYS ALEISHA. 392 00:14:26,067 --> 00:14:27,700 SHE REMEMBERS GETTING CALLED 393 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:30,633 INTO TELLES' OFFICE AFTER HE SAW 394 00:14:30,633 --> 00:14:32,867 HER AND TWO OTHER WOMEN TALKING. 395 00:14:32,867 --> 00:14:35,933 >> WE WALKED INTO HIS OFFICE, 396 00:14:35,933 --> 00:14:39,733 AND HE SAID, "SIT DOWN, AND SHUT 397 00:14:39,733 --> 00:14:39,900 UP. 398 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,433 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TALK. 399 00:14:42,433 --> 00:14:43,833 I'M GOING TO TALK." 400 00:14:43,833 --> 00:14:46,600 AND HE JUST GOT THIS LOOK ON HIS 401 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,367 FACE, HE'D SIT BACK AND POINTED 402 00:14:48,367 --> 00:14:50,600 AT NORAINE AND SAID [ BLEEP ] 403 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:50,767 YOU. 404 00:14:50,767 --> 00:14:52,200 >> WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE IN 405 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:53,300 THAT ROOM RECEIVING THAT? 406 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:55,333 >> IT WAS SCARY BECAUSE I DID 407 00:14:55,333 --> 00:14:58,833 NOT WANT TO UPSET HIM BECAUSE I 408 00:14:58,833 --> 00:15:01,100 KNEW HOW HE COULD BE. 409 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:03,267 >> DESPITE YEARS OF SERVICE, ALL 410 00:15:03,267 --> 00:15:06,233 THE WOMEN SAY THEY FEARED FOR 411 00:15:06,233 --> 00:15:08,800 THEIR JOBS, AND JESSICA, WHO 412 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:09,867 SAFEGUARDED THE PROPERTY OF THE 413 00:15:09,867 --> 00:15:11,767 DECEASED IN A CAGED ROOM, SAYS 414 00:15:11,767 --> 00:15:14,667 SHE FEARED FOR HER PHYSICAL 415 00:15:14,667 --> 00:15:14,933 SAFETY. 416 00:15:14,933 --> 00:15:16,267 SHE SAYS TELLES WOULD SOMETIMES 417 00:15:16,267 --> 00:15:20,067 COME IN AND THREATEN HER. 418 00:15:20,067 --> 00:15:22,733 >> THERE WAS AN INSTANCE WHERE A 419 00:15:22,733 --> 00:15:25,067 GOT IN MY FACE AND, YOU KNOW, 420 00:15:25,067 --> 00:15:28,067 HE'S YELLING AND I'M SORT OF 421 00:15:28,067 --> 00:15:29,900 BACKED UP AGAINST THE CAGE DOOR. 422 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:31,733 >> HE WAS TRYING TO PHYSICALLY 423 00:15:31,733 --> 00:15:32,267 INTIMIDATE YOU. 424 00:15:32,267 --> 00:15:33,067 >> YES, YES. 425 00:15:33,067 --> 00:15:34,933 HE WOULD BRING HIS CHAIRS UP 426 00:15:34,933 --> 00:15:36,333 REALLY CLOSE AND DEMAND THAT YOU 427 00:15:36,333 --> 00:15:38,600 REALLY PAY ATTENTION AND LOOK 428 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,067 HIM IN THE EYE WHILE HE TOLD YOU 429 00:15:40,067 --> 00:15:40,633 HORRIBLE THINGS. 430 00:15:40,633 --> 00:15:42,600 >> ONE OF THOSE HORRIBLE THINGS, 431 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,400 SAYS JESSICA, ALMOST DID HER IN. 432 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,267 ALONE IN THE CAGE TOGETHER, SHE 433 00:15:48,267 --> 00:15:49,767 SAYS, TELLES STARTED BY SAYING 434 00:15:49,767 --> 00:15:52,067 THAT HE NOTICED SHE NEVER TALKED 435 00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:54,667 TO ANYONE IN THE OFFICE, A 436 00:15:54,667 --> 00:15:56,867 BIZARRE COMMENT CONSIDERING HIS 437 00:15:56,867 --> 00:15:57,533 NO-TALKING RULE. 438 00:15:57,533 --> 00:16:00,667 >> AND HE GOES, IF YOU KEEP 439 00:16:00,667 --> 00:16:02,133 GOING DOWN THIS ROAD, YOU'RE 440 00:16:02,133 --> 00:16:03,700 GOING TO BE LIKE OUR CASES, AND 441 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:05,767 YOU'RE JUST GOING TO DIE ALONE, 442 00:16:05,767 --> 00:16:07,567 AND NOBODY'S GOING TO FIND YOU. 443 00:16:07,567 --> 00:16:10,433 AND I SAT THERE AND CRIED. 444 00:16:10,433 --> 00:16:12,800 AND THEN AFTER THAT, IT'S HARD 445 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,633 TO ADMIT, THEN I STARTED 446 00:16:15,633 --> 00:16:17,233 THINKING THE BEST THING I COULD 447 00:16:17,233 --> 00:16:20,367 DO WOULD BE TO SACRIFICE MYSELF 448 00:16:20,367 --> 00:16:21,433 FOR THE GIRLS. 449 00:16:21,433 --> 00:16:23,567 AND I HAD ACTUALLY PICKED OUT A 450 00:16:23,567 --> 00:16:26,167 PLACE THAT I WAS GOING TO HANG 451 00:16:26,167 --> 00:16:27,467 MYSELF IN VIEW OF THE DOOR 452 00:16:27,467 --> 00:16:29,200 BECAUSE HE WOULD ALWAYS COME BY 453 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:31,767 AND MAKE SURE I WAS WORKING. 454 00:16:31,767 --> 00:16:34,067 AND I THOUGHT, THIS WILL BE 455 00:16:34,067 --> 00:16:34,267 GOOD. 456 00:16:34,267 --> 00:16:35,567 IF THEY HAVE TO FIND ME THIS 457 00:16:35,567 --> 00:16:37,067 WAY, THEN THE COUNTY WILL HAVE 458 00:16:37,067 --> 00:16:40,167 TO DO SOMETHING. 459 00:16:40,167 --> 00:16:42,767 >> MERCIFULLY JESSICA REALIZED 460 00:16:42,767 --> 00:16:45,533 THAT WAS NOT THE SOLUTION TO THE 461 00:16:45,533 --> 00:16:45,767 PROBLEM. 462 00:16:45,767 --> 00:16:48,233 BUT THEY CAME UP WITH ANOTHER 463 00:16:48,233 --> 00:16:48,933 PLAN. 464 00:16:48,933 --> 00:16:50,233 THE WOMEN BELIEVED TELLES WAS 465 00:16:50,233 --> 00:16:52,300 HAVING AN INAPPROPRIATE 466 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:53,433 RELATIONSHIP WITH A SUBORDINATE 467 00:16:53,433 --> 00:16:57,500 IN THE OFFICE NAMED ROBERTA. 468 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,067 ROBERTA, THEY CLAIMED, USED THAT 469 00:17:00,067 --> 00:17:03,133 RELATIONSHIP TO ASSUME POWER AND 470 00:17:03,133 --> 00:17:06,133 PRIVILEGE BEYOND HER JOB TITLE. 471 00:17:06,133 --> 00:17:07,200 IS THERE ANY DOUBT IN YOUR MIND 472 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,467 THAT THE TWO OF THEM WERE HAVING 473 00:17:09,467 --> 00:17:10,599 A ROMANTIC AFFAIR? 474 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:10,967 >> NO. 475 00:17:10,967 --> 00:17:14,567 >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. 476 00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:17,133 >> FWNONE WHATSOEVER? 477 00:17:17,133 --> 00:17:17,400 >> NO. 478 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,233 >> BUT THEY NEEDED PROOF, SO 479 00:17:19,233 --> 00:17:20,300 THEY DECIDED TO FOLLOW THEM. 480 00:17:20,300 --> 00:17:23,067 >> WE HAD SEEN A PATTERN, SHORT 481 00:17:23,067 --> 00:17:23,532 DRESS DAY. 482 00:17:23,532 --> 00:17:26,933 IF THEY WENT THE SAME DIRECTION, 483 00:17:26,933 --> 00:17:31,700 WE KNEW THAT WE NEEDED TO GO. 484 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:32,767 >> IT WAS ALWAYS TO THE SAME 485 00:17:32,767 --> 00:17:33,833 PLACE, SAYS ALEISHA. 486 00:17:33,833 --> 00:17:38,467 A PARKING GARAGE IN A NEARBY 487 00:17:38,467 --> 00:17:39,533 MALL. 488 00:17:39,533 --> 00:17:40,967 THE ALLEGED LOVERS WOULD PARK 489 00:17:40,967 --> 00:17:42,067 NEXT TO EACH OTHER. 490 00:17:42,067 --> 00:17:43,133 >> WE STARTED TO TAKE PICTURES 491 00:17:43,133 --> 00:17:45,367 AND STARTED TO VIDEO. 492 00:17:45,367 --> 00:17:49,700 >> THAT'S ROBERTA'S CAR ON THE 493 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:49,900 LEFT. 494 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:50,467 ROBERT TELLES' ON THE RIGHT. 495 00:17:50,467 --> 00:17:52,767 HOW DID YOU POSITION YOURSELVES 496 00:17:52,767 --> 00:17:55,067 WHERE YOU COULD GET SOME VIDEO? 497 00:17:55,067 --> 00:17:55,633 >> VERY CAREFULLY. 498 00:17:55,633 --> 00:17:57,067 >> IN A CAR? 499 00:17:57,067 --> 00:17:58,600 >> SOMETIMES IN A CAR. 500 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,367 SOMETIMES WE WOULD GET OUT OF 501 00:18:01,367 --> 00:18:01,600 OUR CAR. 502 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:02,833 THERE WERE CUTOUTS AND PILLARS 503 00:18:02,833 --> 00:18:04,067 WHERE YOU COULD GET ANGLES HERE 504 00:18:04,067 --> 00:18:05,267 AND THERE. 505 00:18:05,267 --> 00:18:07,100 AND WE JUST TRIED TO MOVE AROUND 506 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:09,667 AND -- TO GET THE BEST THAT WE 507 00:18:09,667 --> 00:18:09,867 COULD. 508 00:18:09,867 --> 00:18:11,400 >> ACCORDING TO THE WOMEN, THE 509 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:12,533 ALLEGED LOVERS WOULD ULTIMATELY 510 00:18:12,533 --> 00:18:15,300 END UP IN THE BACK SEAT OF 511 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:16,133 ROBERTA'S CAR. 512 00:18:16,133 --> 00:18:18,967 ROBERTA HAS SAID THAT THEY WOULD 513 00:18:18,967 --> 00:18:20,633 SIT IN THE BACK SEAT BECAUSE SHE 514 00:18:20,633 --> 00:18:21,933 WANTED TO MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH 515 00:18:21,933 --> 00:18:25,200 HIM AS THEY WERE HAVING 516 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:26,067 IMPORTANT OFFICE DISCUSSIONS. 517 00:18:26,067 --> 00:18:26,267 >> YEAH. 518 00:18:26,267 --> 00:18:27,433 >> THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID. 519 00:18:27,433 --> 00:18:28,233 >> AND -- 520 00:18:28,233 --> 00:18:28,900 >> AND? 521 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:32,400 YOUR REACTION TO THAT? 522 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:36,167 >> WELL, LAST VIDEO WE GOT WE 523 00:18:36,167 --> 00:18:37,833 HAD A LITTLE BETTER RECORDER. 524 00:18:37,833 --> 00:18:39,133 YOU CAN SEE THE SHADOWS AND SEE 525 00:18:39,133 --> 00:18:42,200 THE HEADS GOING TOGETHER. 526 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,433 >> WE FELT IT WAS SO 527 00:18:44,433 --> 00:18:44,767 INAPPROPRIATE. 528 00:18:44,767 --> 00:18:47,533 >> BUT THIS WAS OF THE SHOT THEY 529 00:18:47,533 --> 00:18:49,433 BELIEVED WAS THE MOST TELLING -- 530 00:18:49,433 --> 00:18:50,733 ROBERTA LEAVING THE CAR AND 531 00:18:50,733 --> 00:18:53,333 SMOOTHING DOWN HER DRESS. 532 00:18:53,333 --> 00:18:55,167 >> IT WAS SO UNBELIEVABLE, AND 533 00:18:55,167 --> 00:18:58,767 IT JUST TOOK A MOMENT TO DIGEST 534 00:18:58,767 --> 00:19:00,500 THAT IT -- I MEAN, AT THAT 535 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:03,500 MOMENT IT WAS LIKE SO REAL. 536 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,167 >> AFTER SEEING THE VIDEOS, JEFF 537 00:19:06,167 --> 00:19:08,333 ASKED ROBERTA ABOUT THEM. 538 00:19:08,333 --> 00:19:11,300 SHE RESPONDED, "I HAVE NOT HAD 539 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:12,967 AN INAPPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIP 540 00:19:12,967 --> 00:19:15,633 WITH HIM." 541 00:19:15,633 --> 00:19:18,167 THE "RJ" PUBLISHED THE STORY. 542 00:19:18,167 --> 00:19:21,067 LET ME READ THE LEAD IN THIS 543 00:19:21,067 --> 00:19:22,367 FIRST ARTICLE. 544 00:19:22,367 --> 00:19:24,067 "THE CLARK COUNTY PUBLIC 545 00:19:24,067 --> 00:19:25,067 ADMINISTRATOR'S OFFICE HAS BEEN 546 00:19:25,067 --> 00:19:27,267 MIRED IN TURMOIL AND INTERNAL 547 00:19:27,267 --> 00:19:29,600 DISSENSION OVER THE PAST TWO 548 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:31,133 YEARS WITH ALLEGATIONS OF 549 00:19:31,133 --> 00:19:33,500 EMOTIONAL STRESS, BULLYING, AND 550 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:35,933 FAVORITISM LEADING TO SECRET 551 00:19:35,933 --> 00:19:38,333 VIDEOTAPING OF THE BOSS AND A 552 00:19:38,333 --> 00:19:41,433 CO-WORKER OUTSIDE THE OFFICE." 553 00:19:41,433 --> 00:19:43,700 THAT STORY WENT ALL OVER THE 554 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:45,267 STATE OF NEVADA AND BEFORE LONG 555 00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:48,767 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 556 00:19:48,767 --> 00:19:50,067 AS THIS SETTLED IN, ARE YOU 557 00:19:50,067 --> 00:19:51,267 THINKING MISSION ACCOMPLISHED? 558 00:19:51,267 --> 00:19:55,067 ARE YOU THINKING WHAT'S GOING TO 559 00:19:55,067 --> 00:19:57,067 HAPPEN TO US NEXT? 560 00:19:57,067 --> 00:19:57,500 >> BOTH. 561 00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:58,700 >> YEAH. 562 00:19:58,700 --> 00:19:59,733 THE TERROR DIDN'T STOP. 563 00:19:59,733 --> 00:20:01,067 THE TERROR ALMOST JUST GOT 564 00:20:01,067 --> 00:20:01,267 WORSE. 565 00:20:01,267 --> 00:20:06,400 IT JUST CHANGED FACE. 566 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,567 >>> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ROBERT 567 00:20:10,567 --> 00:20:24,200 TELLES' ALLEGED 568 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,433 >>> JEFF GERMAN'S STORY WITH ITS 569 00:20:26,433 --> 00:20:28,267 ALLEGATIONS OF TURMOIL, 570 00:20:28,267 --> 00:20:30,500 BULLYING, AND HOSTILITY HAD A 571 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:32,933 SWIFT AND SEARING EFFECT AT THE 572 00:20:32,933 --> 00:20:34,667 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR WAS OFFICE. 573 00:20:34,667 --> 00:20:37,533 THE COUNTY FINALLY SENT IN AN 574 00:20:37,533 --> 00:20:39,467 OUTSIDE CONSULTANT, AND ROBERT 575 00:20:39,467 --> 00:20:41,133 TELLES LOST HIS BID FOR 576 00:20:41,133 --> 00:20:43,667 RE-ELECTION IN THE PRIMARY. 577 00:20:43,667 --> 00:20:46,733 IRONICALLY, TO HIS ARCHENEMY, 578 00:20:46,733 --> 00:20:47,900 RITA REID. 579 00:20:47,900 --> 00:20:49,733 BUT JEFF WASN'T THROUGH WITH 580 00:20:49,733 --> 00:20:50,900 ROBERT TELLES YET. 581 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:53,267 HE WROTE THREE MORE SCATHING 582 00:20:53,267 --> 00:20:55,333 PIECES CHRONICLING THE FALL OF 583 00:20:55,333 --> 00:20:57,500 THE ONCE UP-AND-COMING YOUNG 584 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:59,300 DEMOCRAT, AND ANOTHER STORY WAS 585 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:01,400 IN THE WORKS. 586 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,433 BUT JEFF GERMAN DID NOT SURVIVE 587 00:21:03,433 --> 00:21:05,167 TO WRITE IT. 588 00:21:05,167 --> 00:21:06,267 >> JEFF GERMAN WAS FOUND STABBED 589 00:21:06,267 --> 00:21:08,900 TO DEATH OUTSIDE HIS HOME IN THE 590 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:09,067 -- 591 00:21:09,067 --> 00:21:10,200 >> WHEN NEWS OF JEFF'S MURDER 592 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:12,067 BROKE, THE WOMEN JEFF HAD FOUGHT 593 00:21:12,067 --> 00:21:15,333 FOR WERE OVERCOME WITH GRIEF BUT 594 00:21:15,333 --> 00:21:16,633 ALSO DREAD, AFRAID OF WHAT THEY 595 00:21:16,633 --> 00:21:19,467 MAY HAVE UNLEASHED. 596 00:21:19,467 --> 00:21:22,100 ALEISHA'S DAD, A FORMER LAS 597 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:23,067 VEGAS POLICE DETECTIVE WHO 598 00:21:23,067 --> 00:21:24,933 INTRODUCED HER TO JEFF, SAID 599 00:21:24,933 --> 00:21:26,533 WHAT THEY WERE ALL THINKING. 600 00:21:26,533 --> 00:21:31,733 >> MY DAD CALLED ME FIRST THING 601 00:21:31,733 --> 00:21:34,867 IN THE MORNING AND SAID THAT 602 00:21:34,867 --> 00:21:35,467 JEFF HAD BEEN KILLED. 603 00:21:35,467 --> 00:21:37,300 AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO REACT 604 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:39,333 BEFORE MY DAD'S NEXT WORDS WERE, 605 00:21:39,333 --> 00:21:41,500 "I KNOW WHO MY FIRST SUSPECT 606 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:41,667 IS." 607 00:21:41,667 --> 00:21:42,800 AS SOON AS THOSE WORDS CAME OUT 608 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,400 OF HIS MOUTH, I KNEW 609 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:45,900 IMMEDIATELY, TOO. 610 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:47,967 > THAT IT WAS ROBERT. 611 00:21:47,967 --> 00:21:51,567 >> THAT IT WAS ROBERT. 612 00:21:51,567 --> 00:21:53,267 >> THE STAFF AT THE "LAS VEGAS 613 00:21:53,267 --> 00:21:55,300 REVIEW-JOURNAL" WAS WONDERING 614 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:56,167 THE SAME THING. 615 00:21:56,167 --> 00:21:58,367 COULD ROBERT TELLES HAVE BEEN 616 00:21:58,367 --> 00:21:58,700 INVOLVED? 617 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:00,133 THE JOURNALISTIC HOUNDS ARE 618 00:22:00,133 --> 00:22:01,067 RELEASED, RIGHT? 619 00:22:01,067 --> 00:22:01,800 >> YES. 620 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,300 WE WEREN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING 621 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:04,733 UNTIL EVERY LITTLE ROCK WAS 622 00:22:04,733 --> 00:22:07,600 OVERTURNED AND EVERY LITTLE FACT 623 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,867 WAS FOUND OUT ABOUT WHAT THIS 624 00:22:10,867 --> 00:22:11,700 GUY WAS. 625 00:22:11,700 --> 00:22:14,233 >> ART KANE, NOW THE EDITOR, WAS 626 00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:14,767 A REPORTER AT THE TIME. 627 00:22:14,767 --> 00:22:16,267 >> WE STARTED FINDING OUT A LOT 628 00:22:16,267 --> 00:22:18,233 OF INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT ME. 629 00:22:18,233 --> 00:22:19,667 FOR EXAMPLE, HE WAS ARRESTED 630 00:22:19,667 --> 00:22:20,867 WHILE HE WAS PUBLIC 631 00:22:20,867 --> 00:22:21,967 ADMINISTRATOR FOR CHOKING HIS 632 00:22:21,967 --> 00:22:22,267 WIFE. 633 00:22:22,267 --> 00:22:24,067 >> CAN YOU PLEASE SEND SOMEBODY 634 00:22:24,067 --> 00:22:24,233 HERE? 635 00:22:24,233 --> 00:22:26,467 MY HUSBAND IS GOING CRAZY -- 636 00:22:26,467 --> 00:22:30,067 >> THERE'S BODY CAM VIDEO. 637 00:22:30,067 --> 00:22:31,467 >> WHO WOULD I HIT? 638 00:22:31,467 --> 00:22:32,267 CAMERAS -- CAMERAS. 639 00:22:32,267 --> 00:22:33,767 >> CAMERAS ARE ON. 640 00:22:33,767 --> 00:22:35,600 >> YOU WANT TO TAKE ME DOWN 641 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,267 BECAUSE I'M A PUBLIC OFFICIAL. 642 00:22:37,267 --> 00:22:40,067 >> TELLES SLURRING HIS WORDS WAS 643 00:22:40,067 --> 00:22:41,467 ARRESTED FOR DOMESTIC BATTERY 644 00:22:41,467 --> 00:22:43,600 AND RESISTING ARREST. 645 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,900 >> THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE 646 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:45,867 TO BOOK ME RIGHT NOW? 647 00:22:45,867 --> 00:22:46,733 >> THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE 648 00:22:46,733 --> 00:22:47,933 TO BOOK YOU RIGHT NOW, YES. 649 00:22:47,933 --> 00:22:50,067 >> I'M NOT TRYING TO BE LIKE I'M 650 00:22:50,067 --> 00:22:51,267 A PUBLIC OFFICIAL. 651 00:22:51,267 --> 00:22:52,800 YOU KNOW, DO WHAT I WANT YOU TO 652 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:54,267 [ BLEEP ] DO. 653 00:22:54,267 --> 00:22:57,100 I'M SAYING I'M NOT A [ BLEEP ] 654 00:22:57,100 --> 00:22:57,300 IDIOT. 655 00:22:57,300 --> 00:22:57,900 >> UH-HUH. 656 00:22:57,900 --> 00:22:59,800 >> HE RECEIVED A SUSPENDED 657 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:01,300 90-DAY SENTENCE ON THE RESISTING 658 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:03,600 CHARGE AND WAS ORDERED TO AN END 659 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,800 A CORRECTIVE THINKING CLASS. 660 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,633 THE BATTERY CHARGE WAS 661 00:23:08,633 --> 00:23:08,900 DISMISSED. 662 00:23:08,900 --> 00:23:10,967 >> NO ONE EVER HEARD ABOUT IT 663 00:23:10,967 --> 00:23:13,800 BECAUSE NO ONE COVERS DUIs AND 664 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:15,267 DOMESTICS, AND THAT FLEW UNDER 665 00:23:15,267 --> 00:23:15,900 THE RADAR. 666 00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,467 >> LOOKING BACK, THERE WERE 667 00:23:18,467 --> 00:23:21,667 OTHER WARNING SIGNS, SAYS 668 00:23:21,667 --> 00:23:23,233 BRIANA, SUCH AS THESE -- A 669 00:23:23,233 --> 00:23:24,767 SERIES OF TWEETS TELLES POSTED 670 00:23:24,767 --> 00:23:28,067 IN RESPONSE TO JEFF'S REPORTING. 671 00:23:28,067 --> 00:23:29,300 READ THAT ONE FOR ME. 672 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:31,433 >> LOOKING FORWARD TO LYING 673 00:23:31,433 --> 00:23:37,800 SMEAR PIECE NUMBER FOUR BY AT 674 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,333 J.GERMANRS, #ONETRICKPONY, I 675 00:23:41,333 --> 00:23:42,933 THINK HE'S MAD I HAVEN'T CRAWLED 676 00:23:42,933 --> 00:23:48,367 INTO A HOLE AND DIED, LAUGHING, 677 00:23:48,367 --> 00:23:48,900 MORTGA 678 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:49,100 EMOJI. 679 00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:50,733 >> WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THAT 680 00:23:50,733 --> 00:23:50,900 ONE? 681 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,700 >> SOMEBODY WHO'S PISSED OFF. 682 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:54,733 >> THE JOURNALISTS KNEW ANGRY 683 00:23:54,733 --> 00:23:55,767 TWEETS DIDN'T PROVE ANYTHING. 684 00:23:55,767 --> 00:23:58,167 THEY NEEDED FACTS, AND FACTS 685 00:23:58,167 --> 00:24:00,533 WERE HARD TO COME BY. 686 00:24:00,533 --> 00:24:04,067 ALL THEY HAD WERE THESE TWO 687 00:24:04,067 --> 00:24:04,700 STILL SURVEILLANCE PHOTOGRAPHS 688 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:06,867 THE POLICE HAD RELEASED OF THE 689 00:24:06,867 --> 00:24:09,300 SUSPECT IN JEFF'S NEIGHBORHOOD. 690 00:24:09,300 --> 00:24:11,733 THE OUTFIT, BIZARRE AS IT SEEMS, 691 00:24:11,733 --> 00:24:15,300 MAY HAVE BEEN A STRATEIC CHOICE 692 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,233 SAYS ART. 693 00:24:16,233 --> 00:24:19,533 >> THE OUTFIT IS VERY TYPICAL OF 694 00:24:19,533 --> 00:24:21,133 WHAT CONSTRUCTION WORKERS AND 695 00:24:21,133 --> 00:24:24,067 PEOPLE WHO DO LANDSCAPING WEAR 696 00:24:24,067 --> 00:24:24,633 BECAUSE THEY WANT TO COVER UP 697 00:24:24,633 --> 00:24:25,767 ALL THEIR SKIN FROM THE SUN. 698 00:24:25,767 --> 00:24:30,067 >> WHEN THE POLICE RELEASED A 699 00:24:30,067 --> 00:24:31,867 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO, "REVIEW 700 00:24:31,867 --> 00:24:32,867 JOURNAL" PHOTOGRAPHER KEVIN 701 00:24:32,867 --> 00:24:35,200 CANNON IMMEDIATELY NOSED 702 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,167 SOMETHING THE BIG HAT AND ORANGE 703 00:24:36,167 --> 00:24:37,567 REFLECTIVE SHIRT COULDN'T HIDE. 704 00:24:37,567 --> 00:24:40,133 THE MAN'S WALK. 705 00:24:40,133 --> 00:24:40,967 HIS GAIT. 706 00:24:40,967 --> 00:24:42,767 HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE THAT 707 00:24:42,767 --> 00:24:42,967 GAIT? 708 00:24:42,967 --> 00:24:45,167 >> IT'S A -- A BIT OF A LIMP AND 709 00:24:45,167 --> 00:24:47,367 A FAVOR ON ONE SIDE IT SEEMS. 710 00:24:47,367 --> 00:24:49,267 >> KEVIN WENT DIGGING IN HIS 711 00:24:49,267 --> 00:24:51,200 FILES AND FOUND THIS -- A 712 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,700 WALKING SHOT HE HAD TAKEN OF 713 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:55,067 ROBERT TELLES WHEN JEFF 714 00:24:55,067 --> 00:24:57,467 INTERVIEWED HIM AT HIS OFFICE. 715 00:24:57,467 --> 00:25:00,167 THE STAFF COMPARED BOTH VIDEOS 716 00:25:00,167 --> 00:25:02,067 SIDE BY SIDE. 717 00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:05,867 >> I'M NOT SURE HOW TO DESCRIBE 718 00:25:05,867 --> 00:25:06,467 IT, BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY THE 719 00:25:06,467 --> 00:25:07,200 IDENTICAL GAIT IN MY MIND. 720 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,633 >> KEVIN THEN WENT THROUGH 721 00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:11,200 HUNDREDS OF STILL PHOTOS HE HAD 722 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,300 TAKEN THAT DAY AND FOUND THIS -- 723 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:14,767 >> A VERY CHILLING PHOTO. 724 00:25:14,767 --> 00:25:16,867 AND IT'S THE ONE AND ONLY PHOTO 725 00:25:16,867 --> 00:25:17,833 WHERE JEFF AND TELLES ARE IN THE 726 00:25:17,833 --> 00:25:19,233 SAME PHOTO. 727 00:25:19,233 --> 00:25:21,633 >> EXECUTIVE EDITOR GLENN COOK 728 00:25:21,633 --> 00:25:23,567 SAYS HIS STAFF MOVED FORWARD ON 729 00:25:23,567 --> 00:25:26,467 THE OPERATING THEORY THAT ROBERT 730 00:25:26,467 --> 00:25:27,667 TELLES COULD HAVE BEEN THE 731 00:25:27,667 --> 00:25:29,600 KILLER, BUT THEY STILL DIDN'T 732 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,267 HAVE HARD EVIDENCE. 733 00:25:32,267 --> 00:25:34,267 THEN THE POLICE RELEASED THIS -- 734 00:25:34,267 --> 00:25:38,600 A PHOTO OF THE SUSPECT'S CAR. 735 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:39,600 A MAROON YUKON DENALI. 736 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,800 SHOW ME WHAT YOU DID. 737 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,167 >> YOU TYPE IN THE ADDRESS, YOU 738 00:25:43,167 --> 00:25:45,500 PULL UP THE GOOGLE STREET VIEW. 739 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:49,067 >> ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR DAVID 740 00:25:49,067 --> 00:25:50,667 FERRARA IMMEDIATELY TYPED 741 00:25:50,667 --> 00:25:53,633 TELLES' HOME ADDRESS INTO GOOGLE 742 00:25:53,633 --> 00:25:53,833 EARTH. 743 00:25:53,833 --> 00:25:58,567 >> AND IF YOU ZOOM IN ON THE 744 00:25:58,567 --> 00:26:02,367 HOUSE, THAT MAROON VEHICLE IS 745 00:26:02,367 --> 00:26:04,400 THERE PARKED IN THE DRIVEWAY. 746 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:05,933 >> IT MAROON SUV WAS REGISTERED 747 00:26:05,933 --> 00:26:06,767 TO TELLES' WIFE. 748 00:26:06,767 --> 00:26:09,467 >> AND AT THAT MOMENT WE SEND 749 00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:10,067 REPORTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS 750 00:26:10,067 --> 00:26:12,433 STRAIGHT TO THE HOUSE, AND THE 751 00:26:12,433 --> 00:26:15,800 MESSAGE I GIVE OUR METRO EDITOR 752 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,500 IS "DO NOT ENGAGE, DO NOT 753 00:26:17,500 --> 00:26:20,067 APPROACH, DO NOT BE SEEN. 754 00:26:20,067 --> 00:26:21,500 THIS MAN IS VERY LIKELY A 755 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:23,967 SUSPECT IN THE MURDER OF YOUR 756 00:26:23,967 --> 00:26:25,067 COLLEAGUE, AND WE CAN'T PREDICT 757 00:26:25,067 --> 00:26:27,433 HOW HE'S GOING TO REACT TO 758 00:26:27,433 --> 00:26:29,100 ANYONE BEING NEAR HIM." 759 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:31,500 >> BUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER 760 00:26:31,500 --> 00:26:33,167 CROUCHING BEHIND HIS DASHBOARD 761 00:26:33,167 --> 00:26:36,100 MANAGED TO GET WHAT HE CAME FOR. 762 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:38,133 AND IS THIS THE PICTURE THAT IS 763 00:26:38,133 --> 00:26:38,400 TAKEN? 764 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,067 >> THAT'S THE PHOTO. 765 00:26:40,067 --> 00:26:41,700 >> THIS IS THE MONEY PHOTO. 766 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,900 >> THE MONEY SHOT. 767 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:47,267 >> ROBERT TELLES ON A SCORCHING 768 00:26:47,267 --> 00:26:52,433 HOT 110-DEGREE DAY IS IN JEANS 769 00:26:52,433 --> 00:26:54,633 IN HIS DRIVEWAY WASHING THE 770 00:26:54,633 --> 00:26:57,567 MAROON GMC YUKON DENALI. 771 00:26:57,567 --> 00:26:59,367 >> THIS MUST HAVE BEEN A MOMENT 772 00:26:59,367 --> 00:27:00,367 WHERE -- I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S 773 00:27:00,367 --> 00:27:02,433 ANY CHEERING GOING ON IN YOUR 774 00:27:02,433 --> 00:27:03,800 NEWSROOM, BUT WHAT A 775 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:04,167 DEVELOPMENT. 776 00:27:04,167 --> 00:27:05,367 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 777 00:27:05,367 --> 00:27:08,067 >> WELL, IT MEANS THAT POSSIBLY 778 00:27:08,067 --> 00:27:10,233 JEFF WAS KILLED BY THE LAST 779 00:27:10,233 --> 00:27:11,200 STORY HE WROTE ABOUT. 780 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,633 I MEAN, THIS WAS HIS LAST 781 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:15,467 INVESTIGATION, AND THE SUSPECT 782 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:16,900 APPEARS TO BE THE GUY HE WROTE 783 00:27:16,900 --> 00:27:19,867 ABOUT AND BASICALLY TOOK HIM OUT 784 00:27:19,867 --> 00:27:20,800 OF OFFICE. 785 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:21,967 >> WITHOUT CORROBORATION FROM 786 00:27:21,967 --> 00:27:23,867 POLICE DOCUMENTS, THE "REVIEW 787 00:27:23,867 --> 00:27:25,467 JOURNAL" COULDN'T GO WITH THE 788 00:27:25,467 --> 00:27:25,700 STORY. 789 00:27:25,700 --> 00:27:27,333 BUT GLENN COOK WAS BETTING IT 790 00:27:27,333 --> 00:27:28,567 WOULDN'T BE LONG. 791 00:27:28,567 --> 00:27:32,400 HIS REPORTERS HAD SEEN UNMARKED 792 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,233 POLICE CARS OUTSIDE ROBERT 793 00:27:34,233 --> 00:27:35,100 TELLES' HOME. 794 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,300 >> WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO 795 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:38,300 BELIEVE AT THIS POINT THAT IT'S 796 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:40,300 ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE A 797 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:41,700 SEARCH WARRANT IS GOING TO BE 798 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:43,100 EXECUTED AT THAT HOUSE. 799 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:44,800 >> A SEARCH THAT WILL UNCOVER 800 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,233 CRUCIAL EVIDENCE. 801 00:28:00,067 --> 00:28:02,067 >>> AS THE INVESTIGATORS GEARED 802 00:28:02,067 --> 00:28:04,267 UP TO SERVE ROBERT TELLES WITH A 803 00:28:04,267 --> 00:28:06,733 SEARCH WARRANT, THE 804 00:28:06,733 --> 00:28:07,433 "REVIEW-JOURNAL" NEEDED TO BE 805 00:28:07,433 --> 00:28:09,167 SURE IT WOULD BE THE FIRST TO 806 00:28:09,167 --> 00:28:10,100 BREAK THE NEWS. 807 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,367 >> IT WAS IMPORTANT BECAUSE JEFF 808 00:28:13,367 --> 00:28:16,067 WAS ALWAYS FIRST, AND WE 809 00:28:16,067 --> 00:28:16,833 WOULDN'T WANT TO LET HIM DOWN 810 00:28:16,833 --> 00:28:18,467 AND NOT BE THE FIRST. 811 00:28:18,467 --> 00:28:20,067 >> WE POLISHED THAT STORY, AND 812 00:28:20,067 --> 00:28:23,167 THEN WE SIT ON IT UNTIL POLICE 813 00:28:23,167 --> 00:28:23,633 MOVE IN. 814 00:28:23,633 --> 00:28:25,600 >> IN THE EARLY MORNING OF 815 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:28,700 SEPTEMBER 7th, 2022, JUST FIVE 816 00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:31,867 DAYS AFTER JEFF GERMAN'S MURDER, 817 00:28:31,867 --> 00:28:33,833 TELLES WAS BROUGHT IN FOR 818 00:28:33,833 --> 00:28:35,733 QUESTIONING AS POLICE SEARCHED 819 00:28:35,733 --> 00:28:37,067 HIS HOME AND CARS. 820 00:28:37,067 --> 00:28:39,067 WHILE HE WAS IN CUSTODY, 821 00:28:39,067 --> 00:28:41,233 DETECTIVES COLLECTED A DNA 822 00:28:41,233 --> 00:28:42,133 SAMPLE FROM TELLES. 823 00:28:42,133 --> 00:28:44,533 THEY ALSO TOOK THE JEANS HE WAS 824 00:28:44,533 --> 00:28:46,267 WEARING INTO EVIDENCE AND GAVE 825 00:28:46,267 --> 00:28:49,067 HIM A WHITE PAPER SUIT TO CHANGE 826 00:28:49,067 --> 00:28:51,900 INTO BEFORE HE WAS TAKEN BACK TO 827 00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:53,833 HIS HOUSE AND SWARMED BY 828 00:28:53,833 --> 00:28:55,933 REPORTERS EAGERLY AWAITING HIS 829 00:28:55,933 --> 00:28:56,167 ARRIVAL. 830 00:28:56,167 --> 00:28:58,467 >> DID YOU DO THIS -- DID YOU 831 00:28:58,467 --> 00:28:59,400 COMMIT THIS MURDER? 832 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:00,700 DID YOU DO THIS? 833 00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:02,233 >> CAN YOU TELL US ANYTHING? 834 00:29:02,233 --> 00:29:04,433 >> INSIDE TELLES' HOME, 835 00:29:04,433 --> 00:29:05,900 INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY FOUND GYM 836 00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:07,967 SHOES AND A DUFFEL BAG SIMILAR 837 00:29:07,967 --> 00:29:09,967 TO WHAT WAS SEEN IN THE 838 00:29:09,967 --> 00:29:10,533 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO. 839 00:29:10,533 --> 00:29:12,333 AND WHEN THEY LOOKED IN THE 840 00:29:12,333 --> 00:29:14,367 GRANL, DETECTIVES SAY THEY 841 00:29:14,367 --> 00:29:16,067 DISCOVERED EVEN MORE. 842 00:29:16,067 --> 00:29:19,067 A STRAW SUN HAT OR WHAT WAS LEFT 843 00:29:19,067 --> 00:29:20,300 OF IT. 844 00:29:20,300 --> 00:29:22,333 THE SUN HAT, CUT UP INTO PIECES. 845 00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:23,667 >> YES, YES. 846 00:29:23,667 --> 00:29:25,867 >> BUT POLICE SAY THE MOST 847 00:29:25,867 --> 00:29:27,467 CRUCIAL PIECE OF EVIDENCE WOULD 848 00:29:27,467 --> 00:29:30,200 COME FROM A DNA SAMPLE THAT WAS 849 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,333 TAKEN FROM TELLES EARLIER THAT 850 00:29:33,333 --> 00:29:33,500 DAY. 851 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:36,867 >> WE RECEIVED POSITIVE DNA 852 00:29:36,867 --> 00:29:38,533 RESULTS THAT SHOWED ROBERT 853 00:29:38,533 --> 00:29:39,900 TELLES' DNA AT THE CRIME SCENE. 854 00:29:39,900 --> 00:29:42,933 >> TELLES' DNA WAS UNDER JEFF'S 855 00:29:42,933 --> 00:29:43,233 FINGERNAILS. 856 00:29:43,233 --> 00:29:46,233 >> THERE'S NO DOUBT IN MY MIND 857 00:29:46,233 --> 00:29:48,067 THAT JEFF KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WAS 858 00:29:48,067 --> 00:29:50,067 HAPPENING IN THAT SPLIT SECOND, 859 00:29:50,067 --> 00:29:54,467 AND HE MADE SURE HE GOT THE 860 00:29:54,467 --> 00:29:54,867 EVIDENCE. 861 00:29:54,867 --> 00:29:58,800 >> WITH A DNA MATCH APPARENTLY 862 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,400 SECURED, THE LAS VEGAS 863 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:01,433 METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT 864 00:30:01,433 --> 00:30:03,633 DESCENDED ON ROBERT TELLES' HOME 865 00:30:03,633 --> 00:30:05,667 ONCE AGAIN AND BEGAN CLEARING 866 00:30:05,667 --> 00:30:07,700 THE AREA FOR AN ARREST. 867 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:09,300 >> THIS IS WHERE HE WAS 868 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:09,567 ARRESTED. 869 00:30:09,567 --> 00:30:09,800 >> YES. 870 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,767 >> "REVIEW-JOURNAL" PHOTOGRAPHER 871 00:30:12,767 --> 00:30:14,467 KEVIN CANNON WAS ONE OF DOZENS 872 00:30:14,467 --> 00:30:15,900 OF MEDIA WHO HAD BEEN WAITING 873 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:18,200 OUTSIDE TELLES' HOME THAT DAY. 874 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:19,600 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE COPS 875 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:19,833 ARRIVE? 876 00:30:19,833 --> 00:30:21,533 >> SUDDENLY THE POLICE SAID, 877 00:30:21,533 --> 00:30:22,200 OKAY, EVERYBODY OUT. 878 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,233 THEY KICKED THE ENTIRE NEWS -- 879 00:30:25,233 --> 00:30:27,433 EVERYONE WHO WAS HERE -- OUT. 880 00:30:27,433 --> 00:30:28,267 >> WHERE DO YOU GO? 881 00:30:28,267 --> 00:30:30,367 >> SO I MADE A BEELINE TO THE 882 00:30:30,367 --> 00:30:33,100 FRONT DOOR OF A NEIGHBOR WHO I 883 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:34,733 BEFRIENDED EARLIER WHEN I 884 00:30:34,733 --> 00:30:34,967 ARRIVED. 885 00:30:34,967 --> 00:30:36,500 THEY WITHOUT SAYING A WORD 886 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:38,100 WELCOMED ME TO THE BACKYARD 887 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:39,767 WHERE I HAD A VIEW OF TELLES' 888 00:30:39,767 --> 00:30:39,967 HOUSE. 889 00:30:39,967 --> 00:30:43,633 >> YOU COULD STILL SEE THE HOUSE 890 00:30:43,633 --> 00:30:47,100 FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT. 891 00:30:47,100 --> 00:30:47,333 >> YEAH. 892 00:30:47,333 --> 00:30:48,467 >> IN THE NEWSROOM SOME OF THE 893 00:30:48,467 --> 00:30:49,733 STAFF KEPT UP WITH WHAT WAS 894 00:30:49,733 --> 00:30:50,467 HAPPENING AT THE SCENE THROUGH 895 00:30:50,467 --> 00:30:52,900 THE OFFICE'S POLICE RADIO AND 896 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:54,167 HEARD THAT TELLES REFUSED TO 897 00:30:54,167 --> 00:30:57,800 COME OUT OF HIS HOME. 898 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,500 >> TALKING ON THE PHONE, HOWEVER 899 00:30:59,500 --> 00:31:01,367 HE HAS MADE A COUPLE, FOUR OR 900 00:31:01,367 --> 00:31:05,067 FVE COMMENTS. 901 00:31:05,067 --> 00:31:13,067 >> 405 COMMENTS, PLEASE USE IT 902 00:31:13,067 --> 00:31:14,367 FOR COMMENTS WITH SELF-HARM. 903 00:31:14,367 --> 00:31:16,333 >> IT WAS SCARY AT THAT POINT. 904 00:31:16,333 --> 00:31:17,433 WE WERE THINKING IS THIS ALL 905 00:31:17,433 --> 00:31:19,933 GOING TO END ON HIS TERMS NOW? 906 00:31:19,933 --> 00:31:21,967 >> 405 COMMENTS. 907 00:31:21,967 --> 00:31:23,700 >> WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND 908 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:25,933 MAKE THE OFFICIAL REQUEST FOR 909 00:31:25,933 --> 00:31:26,133 SWAT. 910 00:31:26,133 --> 00:31:27,167 >> MY COLLEAGUES HEARD THROUGH 911 00:31:27,167 --> 00:31:28,400 THE SCANNER THAT THEY WERE GOING 912 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,333 TO MOVE IN BECAUSE HE HAD CUT 913 00:31:30,333 --> 00:31:31,367 HIMSELF AND THEY WANTED TO SAVE 914 00:31:31,367 --> 00:31:33,167 HIM BEFORE HE HARMED HIMSELF 915 00:31:33,167 --> 00:31:33,367 MORE. 916 00:31:33,367 --> 00:31:35,867 >> THEY WANTED TO GET TO HIM. 917 00:31:35,867 --> 00:31:37,167 >> RIGHT. 918 00:31:37,167 --> 00:31:38,600 >> THE S.W.A.T. TEAM MADE ITS 919 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,100 MOVE, AND THAT'S WHEN KEVIN GOT 920 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:41,367 READY. 921 00:31:41,367 --> 00:31:43,067 SO YOU WERE POSITIONED, YOU WERE 922 00:31:43,067 --> 00:31:43,667 READY TO GO THEN. 923 00:31:43,667 --> 00:31:44,367 >> RIGHT. 924 00:31:44,367 --> 00:31:45,533 I WAS READY TO GO THE WHOLE 925 00:31:45,533 --> 00:31:45,767 TIME. 926 00:31:45,767 --> 00:31:47,367 I HAD MY FINGER ON THE BUTTON 927 00:31:47,367 --> 00:31:48,167 THE WHOLE TIME. 928 00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:49,633 >> WHERE DO YOU LOOK? 929 00:31:49,633 --> 00:31:50,533 WHAT DO YOU SEE BEHIND YOU? 930 00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:53,233 >> WELL, I SEE THEM ROLLING HIM 931 00:31:53,233 --> 00:31:55,433 OUT ON A STRETCHER AROUND THAT 932 00:31:55,433 --> 00:31:57,667 CORNER, DOWN THAT PATH, OUT THE 933 00:31:57,667 --> 00:31:58,800 DRIVEWAY, AND PUT IN AN 934 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:00,967 AMBULANCE RIGHT HERE. 935 00:32:00,967 --> 00:32:03,067 >> KEVIN WAS THE ONLY 936 00:32:03,067 --> 00:32:05,300 PHOTOGRAPHER THAT DAY TO CAPTURE 937 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,267 TELLES' DRAMATIC ARREST. 938 00:32:07,267 --> 00:32:09,200 HIS IMAGE OF TELLES ON THE 939 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,467 STRETCHER MADE THE FRONT PAGE OF 940 00:32:11,467 --> 00:32:13,667 THE "REVIEW-JOURNAL" THE 941 00:32:13,667 --> 00:32:14,800 FOLLOWING MORNING. 942 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:16,067 >> THE NEXT DAY I OPENED THE 943 00:32:16,067 --> 00:32:18,633 PAPER, AND THERE WAS THE PHOTO 944 00:32:18,633 --> 00:32:20,167 ON THE FRONT PAGE WITH A BANNER 945 00:32:20,167 --> 00:32:22,467 HEADLINE "STUNNING ARREST." 946 00:32:22,467 --> 00:32:24,467 AND I -- IT WAS STUNNING. 947 00:32:24,467 --> 00:32:25,800 >> AND SATISFYING FOR YOU AFTER 948 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:26,333 ALL THAT. 949 00:32:26,333 --> 00:32:28,267 >> VERY SATISFYING. 950 00:32:28,267 --> 00:32:29,400 >> BECOMES HUGE NEWS OBVIOUSLY 951 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,500 ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. 952 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,300 >> A REPORTER ALLEGEDLY KILLED 953 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,433 BY A POLITICIAN FOR A STORY HE 954 00:32:37,433 --> 00:32:37,667 WROTE. 955 00:32:37,667 --> 00:32:40,767 >> THAT'S PRETTY UNHEARD OF. 956 00:32:40,767 --> 00:32:42,533 >> AFTER TELLES WAS TREATED AT 957 00:32:42,533 --> 00:32:44,700 THE HOSPITAL FOR HIS 958 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:46,067 SELF-INFLICTED INJURIES, HE WAS 959 00:32:46,067 --> 00:32:48,567 BOOKED INTO THE CLARK COUNTY 960 00:32:48,567 --> 00:32:49,433 DETENTION CENTER. 961 00:32:49,433 --> 00:32:51,267 SIX WEEKS LATER, TELLES WAS 962 00:32:51,267 --> 00:32:53,733 INDICTED BY A GRAND JURY FOR 963 00:32:53,733 --> 00:32:56,667 MURDER WITH USE OF A DEADLY 964 00:32:56,667 --> 00:32:56,967 WEAPON. 965 00:32:56,967 --> 00:32:58,967 >> HOW DO YOU PLEAD, GUILTY OR 966 00:32:58,967 --> 00:32:59,267 NOT GUILTI? 967 00:32:59,267 --> 00:33:01,067 >> NOT GUILTY, YOUR HONOR. 968 00:33:01,067 --> 00:33:03,267 >> SOON AFTER EVIDENCE FROM THE 969 00:33:03,267 --> 00:33:05,200 GRAND JURY WAS RELEASED BY THE 970 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,500 CLARK COUNTY DISTRICT COURT, 971 00:33:07,500 --> 00:33:09,833 INCLUDING THAT GRAINY 972 00:33:09,833 --> 00:33:12,067 SURVEILLANCE ATTACK VIDEO. 973 00:33:12,067 --> 00:33:14,100 >> I THINK PROBABLY WHAT WE 974 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:15,267 FOUND SOME OF THE MOST 975 00:33:15,267 --> 00:33:17,133 DISTURBING IS THE LAST THREE 976 00:33:17,133 --> 00:33:17,400 VIDEOS. 977 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,300 >> MINUTES LATER, IT SHOWS THE 978 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:21,333 ASSAILANT RETURNING TO THE SCENE 979 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:24,200 OF THE CRIME AND PARKING THAT 980 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,100 MAROON YUKON DENALI IN FRONT OF 981 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:26,667 JEFF'S DRIVEWAY. 982 00:33:26,667 --> 00:33:30,067 >> AND NOW YOU'LL SEE HIM WALK 983 00:33:30,067 --> 00:33:33,100 OVER AND MAKE SURE THAT JEFF IS 984 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:33,300 DEAD. 985 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:35,333 >> AND YOU'RE THEORIZING HE IS 986 00:33:35,333 --> 00:33:37,300 CHECKING TO SEE IF HE'S DEAD 987 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:39,067 BECAUSE THIS -- JEFF SAW THIS 988 00:33:39,067 --> 00:33:39,233 PERSON. 989 00:33:39,233 --> 00:33:39,500 >> RIGHT. 990 00:33:39,500 --> 00:33:40,600 HE WANTS TO MAKE SURE THERE'S 991 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,967 NOT A WITNESS THAT'S STILL 992 00:33:41,967 --> 00:33:42,200 ALIVE. 993 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,500 >> SEEMINGLY SATISFIED, THE 994 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:48,533 SUSPECT WALKED BACK TO HIS CAR 995 00:33:48,533 --> 00:33:49,633 AND LEFT. 996 00:33:49,633 --> 00:33:51,700 SINCE HIS ARREST, TELLES HAS 997 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:55,667 BEEN IN JAIL AWAITING TRIAL. 998 00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:59,500 DID YOU MURDER JEFF GERMAN? 999 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:00,733 >>> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE 1000 00:34:00,733 --> 00:34:02,733 EVIDENCE FOUND INSIDE OF ROBERT 1001 00:34:02,733 --> 00:34:03,533 TELLES' HOME? 1002 00:34:03,533 --> 00:34:15,833 SEE MORE EVIDENCE PHOTOS FROM 1003 00:34:18,766 --> 00:34:19,467 >>> HEY, ROBERT. 1004 00:34:19,467 --> 00:34:20,433 >> GOOD MORNING. 1005 00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:22,300 >> WE MET ROBERT TELLES FOR A 1006 00:34:22,300 --> 00:34:23,567 VIDEO INTERVIEW AT THE CLARK 1007 00:34:23,567 --> 00:34:25,500 COUNTY DETENTION CENTER AND 1008 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:28,266 BEGAN WITH THE QUESTION ON 1009 00:34:28,266 --> 00:34:30,067 EVERYONE'S MIND -- 1010 00:34:30,067 --> 00:34:31,800 DID YOU MURDER JEFF GERMAN? 1011 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,233 >> NO, SIR, I DID NOT. 1012 00:34:34,233 --> 00:34:35,967 >> IF YOU DID NOT COMMIT THIS 1013 00:34:35,967 --> 00:34:39,067 MURDER, WHO DID? 1014 00:34:39,067 --> 00:34:40,667 >> I WILL RESERVE THAT FOR 1015 00:34:40,667 --> 00:34:41,067 TRIAL. 1016 00:34:41,067 --> 00:34:42,967 >> YOU HAVE SAID THAT YOU WERE 1017 00:34:42,967 --> 00:34:43,199 FRAMED. 1018 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:46,433 DO YOU STAND BY THAT IN THIS 1019 00:34:46,433 --> 00:34:46,766 CONVERSATION? 1020 00:34:46,766 --> 00:34:47,233 >> I DO. 1021 00:34:47,233 --> 00:34:50,433 I ABSOLUTELY DO. 1022 00:34:50,433 --> 00:34:52,567 >> TELLES SAYS HE CAN EXPLAIN 1023 00:34:52,567 --> 00:34:56,467 THE EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM, THE 1024 00:34:56,467 --> 00:34:58,733 TORN-UNSUN HAT, THE YUKON 1025 00:34:58,733 --> 00:35:02,367 DENALI, AND HIS DNA UNDER JEFF'S 1026 00:35:02,367 --> 00:35:02,900 FINGERNAILS. 1027 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:04,367 >> ACTUALLY THAT EVIDENCE OR 1028 00:35:04,367 --> 00:35:06,300 SO-CALLED EVIDENCE WAS PLANTED 1029 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,067 ALONG WITH OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE 1030 00:35:08,067 --> 00:35:10,500 ALLEGEDLY FOUND IN MY HOME, AS 1031 00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:10,700 WELL. 1032 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:12,367 AND WE WILL GO AHEAD AND PROVE 1033 00:35:12,367 --> 00:35:13,100 THAT AT TRIAL. 1034 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:14,500 >> HOW COULD SOMEONE WHO IS 1035 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:16,467 TRYING TO FRAME YOU PLANT YOUR 1036 00:35:16,467 --> 00:35:18,067 DNA UNDER HIS FINGERNAILS? 1037 00:35:18,067 --> 00:35:19,933 HOW WOULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED? 1038 00:35:19,933 --> 00:35:20,967 FIRST THEY WOULD HAVE HAD TO 1039 00:35:20,967 --> 00:35:23,667 HAVE GOTTEN YOUR DNA, AND THEN 1040 00:35:23,667 --> 00:35:25,067 WHEN WOULD THEY HAVE PLANTED IT 1041 00:35:25,067 --> 00:35:26,667 UNDER HIS FINGERNAILS? 1042 00:35:26,667 --> 00:35:31,067 IT SEEMS FARFETCHED. 1043 00:35:31,067 --> 00:35:32,600 >> YOU KNOW, CRAZIER THINGS HAVE 1044 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:32,867 HAPPENED. 1045 00:35:32,867 --> 00:35:34,267 AND I'LL TELL YOU THAT I DIDN'T 1046 00:35:34,267 --> 00:35:35,233 KILL MR. GERMAN. 1047 00:35:35,233 --> 00:35:37,267 >> COME ON, MAN. 1048 00:35:37,267 --> 00:35:38,867 THAT'S OVERWHELMING. 1049 00:35:38,867 --> 00:35:42,700 DNA ENDS UP UNDER HIS 1050 00:35:42,700 --> 00:35:43,367 FINGERNAILS, YOUR DNA. 1051 00:35:43,367 --> 00:35:45,633 THIS IS AN OVERWHELMING CASE 1052 00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:46,867 AGAINST YOU, ROBERT, THAT YOU 1053 00:35:46,867 --> 00:35:53,167 COMMITTED THIS MURDER. 1054 00:35:53,167 --> 00:35:53,767 >> AGAIN, SIR, YOU KNOW, YOU 1055 00:35:53,767 --> 00:35:55,533 HAVE THE FACTS WRONG, AND I WILL 1056 00:35:55,533 --> 00:35:56,500 DEMONSTRATE IT AT TRIAL. 1057 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,433 >> HE ALSO SAYS HE WILL SHOW HE 1058 00:35:58,433 --> 00:35:59,833 DIDN'T DO THOSE THINGS GERMAN 1059 00:35:59,833 --> 00:36:02,733 WRITE ABOUT IN HIS ARTICLES. 1060 00:36:02,733 --> 00:36:04,133 ROBERT, YOU'RE SAYING WHAT THESE 1061 00:36:04,133 --> 00:36:06,500 WOMEN HAVE SAID TO ME AND WHAT 1062 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,633 THEY TOLD JEFF GERMAN AND HE 1063 00:36:09,633 --> 00:36:11,500 PRINTED, THOSE ARE ALL LIES. 1064 00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:14,500 >> IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT MR. 1065 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:16,633 GERMAN PRINTED, NONE OF IT 1066 00:36:16,633 --> 00:36:18,967 WAS -- NONE OF IT HAD ANY FACTS 1067 00:36:18,967 --> 00:36:20,100 WITHIN IT, RIGHT? 1068 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:22,333 IT WAS ALL ALLEGED OPINION 1069 00:36:22,333 --> 00:36:24,667 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY FELT 1070 00:36:24,667 --> 00:36:29,700 THAT I -- I ACTED. 1071 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,167 >> BUT IT'S HARD TO ARGUE WITH 1072 00:36:31,167 --> 00:36:33,567 THIS -- THE FOOTAGE THE WOMEN 1073 00:36:33,567 --> 00:36:34,967 SHOT OF THEIR BOSS AND HIS 1074 00:36:34,967 --> 00:36:36,833 ALLEGED LOVER IN THE PARKING 1075 00:36:36,833 --> 00:36:37,067 GARAGE. 1076 00:36:37,067 --> 00:36:38,767 LET ME ASK YOU STRAIGHT. 1077 00:36:38,767 --> 00:36:43,433 WERE YOU AND ROBERTA HAVING AN 1078 00:36:43,433 --> 00:36:47,100 AFFAI 1079 00:36:47,100 --> 00:36:47,300 AFFAIR? 1080 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:50,067 >> NO, SHE WAS A CONFIDANTE. 1081 00:36:50,067 --> 00:36:51,067 I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. 1082 00:36:51,067 --> 00:36:52,867 >> BUT JEFF WAS NOT WILLING TO 1083 00:36:52,867 --> 00:36:53,967 LEAVE IT AT THAT. 1084 00:36:53,967 --> 00:36:56,567 HE WAS PLANNING ON WRITING 1085 00:36:56,567 --> 00:36:57,633 ANOTHER PIECE. 1086 00:36:57,633 --> 00:36:59,167 ACCORDING TO POLICE DOCUMENTS, 1087 00:36:59,167 --> 00:37:01,633 TELLES AND ROBERTA GOT WORD THE 1088 00:37:01,633 --> 00:37:04,500 DAY BEFORE THE MURDER THAT THERE 1089 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:05,933 WAS A PLANNED RELEASE OF EMAILS 1090 00:37:05,933 --> 00:37:08,800 AND MESSAGES BETWEEN HER AND 1091 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:11,333 TELLES TO THE "REVIEW-JOURNAL." 1092 00:37:11,333 --> 00:37:12,300 THERE WAS A FREEDOM OF 1093 00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:13,533 INFORMATION REQUEST THAT JEFF 1094 00:37:13,533 --> 00:37:16,067 HAD PUT OUT, AND YOU WERE TOLD 1095 00:37:16,067 --> 00:37:17,267 THAT NEW IMAGES AND EMAILS WERE 1096 00:37:17,267 --> 00:37:19,167 GOING TO COME OUT DESCRIBING THE 1097 00:37:19,167 --> 00:37:20,867 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND 1098 00:37:20,867 --> 00:37:21,567 ROBERTA, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN 1099 00:37:21,567 --> 00:37:23,067 THE TWO OF YOU. 1100 00:37:23,067 --> 00:37:25,333 AND IT SUGGESTED THAT YOU MADE A 1101 00:37:25,333 --> 00:37:26,933 DECISION TO MURDER HIM TO TRY 1102 00:37:26,933 --> 00:37:28,167 SILENCE THAT, TO PREVENT THAT 1103 00:37:28,167 --> 00:37:29,267 FROM BEING PUBLISHED. 1104 00:37:29,267 --> 00:37:32,067 WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT? 1105 00:37:32,067 --> 00:37:33,733 >> THERE'S A MISCHARACTERIZATION 1106 00:37:33,733 --> 00:37:34,067 OF THINGS. 1107 00:37:34,067 --> 00:37:36,133 I'LL TELL YOU THAT WHAT WAS 1108 00:37:36,133 --> 00:37:38,100 GOING TO BE RELEASED, AND I SAW 1109 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,933 WHAT WAS GOOD MORNING RELEASED, 1110 00:37:41,933 --> 00:37:44,333 HAD NO INKLINGS OF ANY TYPE OF, 1111 00:37:44,333 --> 00:37:46,433 YOU KNOW, CONFIDENTIAL 1112 00:37:46,433 --> 00:37:49,167 RELATIONSHIP, ANY TYPE OF 1113 00:37:49,167 --> 00:37:50,233 SUPPOSED AFFAIR. 1114 00:37:50,233 --> 00:37:52,067 IT WAS ALL BUSINESS RELATED. 1115 00:37:52,067 --> 00:37:54,733 SO THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A 1116 00:37:54,733 --> 00:37:55,667 MOTIVATION BECAUSE THERE WAS 1117 00:37:55,667 --> 00:37:59,267 NOTHING THAT WAS GOING TO BE 1118 00:37:59,267 --> 00:38:01,733 PRODUCED THAT WOULD LOOK BAD. 1119 00:38:01,733 --> 00:38:04,467 >> PROSECUTORS HAVE MENTIONED 1120 00:38:04,467 --> 00:38:10,167 THIS AS A CONTRIBUTING MOTIVE TO 1121 00:38:10,167 --> 00:38:10,967 THE MURDER. 1122 00:38:10,967 --> 00:38:12,500 IN ROBERT TELLES' MIND, JEFF 1123 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,100 GERMAN RUINED HIS MARRIAGE, 1124 00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:17,967 RUINED HIS POLITICAL CAREER, 1125 00:38:17,967 --> 00:38:19,200 EMBARRASSED HIM, AND WAS 1126 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,233 CONTINUING TO REPORT ON HIM 1127 00:38:20,233 --> 00:38:21,667 RATHER THAN LEAVE HIM ALONE. 1128 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:23,200 >> IF THE INTENTION OF THE 1129 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,533 ALLEGED KILLING WAS TO STOP 1130 00:38:25,533 --> 00:38:27,933 JEFF'S REPORTING IT DIDN'T WORK. 1131 00:38:27,933 --> 00:38:30,600 AFTER HIS MURDER, THE "RJ" 1132 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,267 JOURNALISTS HUNTED THROUGH 1133 00:38:32,267 --> 00:38:33,100 JEFF'S NOTES. 1134 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:34,700 >> PICKING UP WHERE JEFF LEFT 1135 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:34,867 OFF. 1136 00:38:34,867 --> 00:38:36,533 >> AND COMPLETED THE STORIES 1137 00:38:36,533 --> 00:38:38,233 JEFF HAD BEEN WORKING ON AT THE 1138 00:38:38,233 --> 00:38:41,500 TIME OF HIS DEATH, INCLUDING 1139 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:43,867 ANOTHER ON ROBERT TELLES' TOXIC 1140 00:38:43,867 --> 00:38:44,800 PAST. 1141 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,700 A STORY THAT INVESTIGATES CLAIMS 1142 00:38:47,700 --> 00:38:49,100 OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, ALL OF 1143 00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:51,200 WHICH HE HAS DENIED. 1144 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,400 >> THE MAIN THING HERE IS YOU 1145 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:57,067 CANNOT KILL A REPORTER AND KILL 1146 00:38:57,067 --> 00:38:57,633 THE STORY. 1147 00:38:57,633 --> 00:39:02,233 YOU JUST CAN'T DO THAT. 1148 00:39:02,233 --> 00:39:03,600 >> IN LIFE JEFF GERMAN WAS KNOWN 1149 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,700 TO PROTECT HIS SOURCES AT ALL 1150 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:07,967 COSTS. 1151 00:39:07,967 --> 00:39:10,067 IN DEATH, JEFF WAS STILL 1152 00:39:10,067 --> 00:39:10,633 PROTECTING THEM. 1153 00:39:10,633 --> 00:39:12,767 AFTER THE MURDER, THE POLICE 1154 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:16,800 TOOK ALL HIS DEVICES WHICH 1155 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,833 HARBORED THE NAMES OF COUNTLESS 1156 00:39:19,833 --> 00:39:20,067 SOURCES. 1157 00:39:20,067 --> 00:39:22,167 THE "REVIEW-JOURNAL" WENT TO 1158 00:39:22,167 --> 00:39:24,267 COURT AND IN A HARD-FOUGHT CASE 1159 00:39:24,267 --> 00:39:25,767 THAT WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE 1160 00:39:25,767 --> 00:39:27,700 NEVADA SUPREME COURT, THE PAPER 1161 00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:29,667 WON PROTECTION FOR HIS SOURCES. 1162 00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,900 >> THAT WILL BE THE GERMAN RULE. 1163 00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:34,833 HE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO INTO A 1164 00:39:34,833 --> 00:39:36,167 REPORTER'S FILES, YOU WILL NOT 1165 00:39:36,167 --> 00:39:38,433 BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH THEIR 1166 00:39:38,433 --> 00:39:39,167 PHONE IT YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO 1167 00:39:39,167 --> 00:39:42,300 LOOK AT THEIR SOURCES EVEN AFTER 1168 00:39:42,300 --> 00:39:43,067 DEATH. 1169 00:39:43,067 --> 00:39:44,667 >> THESE YOUR JEFF GERMAN 1170 00:39:44,667 --> 00:39:46,167 SOURCES ARE NOT ABOUT TO LET THE 1171 00:39:46,167 --> 00:39:49,067 WORLD FORGET THE REPORTER WHO 1172 00:39:49,067 --> 00:39:50,800 FOUGHT TO PROTECT THEM. 1173 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,400 THEY HAVE ATTENDED ALMOST EVERY 1174 00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:55,500 HEARING TRYING TO COME TO TERMS 1175 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:57,600 WITH THEIR FEELINGS OF GUILT. 1176 00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,833 >> BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT LOGIC 1177 00:39:59,833 --> 00:40:02,900 IS IN YOUR HEAD, THAT'S NOT YOUR 1178 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:04,133 FAULT THAT JEFF MADE HIS CHOICES 1179 00:40:04,133 --> 00:40:09,367 AND THAT HE WAS A PROFESSIONAL. 1180 00:40:09,367 --> 00:40:12,833 YOUR HEART TELLS YOU IF WE 1181 00:40:12,833 --> 00:40:14,733 WOULDN'T HAVE MADE THAT CALL, HE 1182 00:40:14,733 --> 00:40:16,200 WOULDNT HAVE DIED IN THAT 1183 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:21,167 VIOLENT WAY THAT DAY. 1184 00:40:21,167 --> 00:40:23,400 IF I WAS TO TALK TO HIM TODAY, I 1185 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:25,800 THINK THE FIRST THING I WOULD 1186 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,533 SAY IS "I'M SORRY," BUT NOT FOR 1187 00:40:28,533 --> 00:40:31,367 HIM, FOR ME, BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T 1188 00:40:31,367 --> 00:40:32,500 ACCEPT MY APOLOGY. 1189 00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:35,600 BUT I NEED TO GIVE IT. 1190 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,833 >> JEFF GERMAN WAS A REPORTER'S 1191 00:40:37,833 --> 00:40:39,867 REPORTER, ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS. 1192 00:40:39,867 --> 00:40:42,000 A MAN WHO SPENT A LIFETIME 1193 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,067 SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER. 1194 00:40:44,067 --> 00:40:45,367 TRUTHS THAT ARE NOW BAKED INTO 1195 00:40:45,367 --> 00:40:48,233 THE HISTORY OF THIS PLACE, A 1196 00:40:48,233 --> 00:40:51,000 NEON STRIP OF GRITTY STORIES 1197 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,400 LAID BARE BENEATH THE DESERT 1198 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:54,567 SKY. 1199 00:40:54,567 --> 00:40:56,533 >> HE TOLD ANYONE WHO ASKED THAT 1200 00:40:56,533 --> 00:40:58,500 HE WAS NEVER GOING TO RETIRE, 1201 00:40:58,500 --> 00:41:00,800 THAT HE WAS GOING TO REPORT 1202 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:02,833 UNTIL HIS LAST BREATH, AND 1203 00:41:02,833 --> 00:41:04,800 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HE DID. 1204 00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,633 AND HE GAVE HIS LIFE TO THIS 1205 00:41:06,633 --> 00:41:06,800 JOB. 1206 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,467 HE LITERALLY GAVE HIS LIFE TO 1207 00:41:10,467 --> 00:41:10,733 THIS JOB. 1208 00:41:10,733 --> 00:41:15,100 I THINK THAT'S 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