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[announcer on radio] ...comes back now,
the other way.
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Strong defense by both teams
so far in this game. Duncan to Derby.
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Derby takes a quick shot from outside.
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And the Bulldogs have two men
pressed defensively. And he hits again.
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Michigan back on top, by a score of 4-3.
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Robinson quickly brings the ball up court.
It's a shot.
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Miss. But the rebound is scooped up
by the Bulldogs.
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[person] I'd rather not see you.
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[announcer] His jump shot is good.
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- Puts the Bulldogs back up...
- [distant thud]
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...5-4
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Well,
Matthews was tightly manned on Johnson.
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But Michigan has managed
to work through that
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in the early stages of this game.
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- [person] No! No! No!
- [distant thud]
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[person sobs]
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- [screams]
- [home intruder grunts]
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- [person whimpers] No!
- [clattering]
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[distant thud]
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Back off!
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- [distant thud]
- [person screams]
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- [person crying]
- [home intruder grunting]
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- [clattering]
- [person grunts, gasps]
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- [person choking]
- [home intruder grunting]
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[thuds]
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[footsteps approaching]
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[thuds]
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[singing on TV] Nowhere to run ♪
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Nowhere to hide ♪
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[knocking]
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[person 2] Claire, are you okay? Open up!
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[knocking continues]
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Claire, if you don't answer the door,
I'm calling the cops.
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[knocking continues]
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[dispatcher on radio] We have a possible
intruder at Oak Tower apartments.
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Sixty-one, got it.
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[tires squealing]
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[keys jingling]
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[door opens]
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[detective] State police!
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[Nowhere to Run (Nowhere to Hide)
playing on TV]
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State police! Open up!
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[singing on TV continues]
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- [keys jingling]
- [door lock clicks]
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[teakettle whistling]
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Nowhere to run ♪
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Nowhere to hide from ya ♪
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- Got nowhere to run to, baby ♪
- Nowhere to run, no, baby ♪
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Nowhere to hide ♪
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State police!
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[singing on TV continues]
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[officer gasps]
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[music fades, ends]
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[news anchor on radio] ...city increases.
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Boston truck driver strike
is still in progress.
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Our direct reports of the morning take us
to Washington, to Paris...
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[child 1]
I'm trying to eat as fast as I can.
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Eat your cereal. Hurry up.
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[sighs] Toast?
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Yeah. That one.
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[footsteps approaching]
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- Morning, everybody.
- [child 2] Morning.
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- Where's Tommy?
- [child 1] Morning.
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Shoot. Tommy!
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- [Tommy] Right here.
- Come on. We gotta leave in two minutes.
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[parent] Do you want toast?
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[Tommy] Sure.
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[church bells tolling]
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[phone ringing]
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- [receptionist] Record American.
- [typing]
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When I do the follow up,
I-I'll give you a call back.
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[receptionist] Record American.
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Can't let one slide, can ya?
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Not until they get me
off the lifestyle desk.
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- Jack, you got a second?
- Not now.
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Chelsea cops got caught
running numbers again.
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The Globe and the Herald ran it today.
We got nothing.
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Come on. Don't you have an assignment?
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Okay, what about the new suspect
in the mail truck robbery?
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Every other paper covered it.
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You see that? That's the crime desk.
I got six guys working that beat.
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Okay, Susan,
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- you're on must-have housewares.
- [Susan] Thank you.
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Mary, you got the fashion and style
feature for the Sunday edition.
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- Twenty-inch feature with photos.
- [Mary] Mmm.
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Ellie, you're on candidates' wives.
Basic life-on-the-trail stuff.
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- What they're eating, wearing.
- Who's yelling at who.
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Loretta,
you get this week's product review.
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Sunbeam has a new toaster.
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Okay, and Nancy,
you're on diet tips, girl.
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[broadcaster on radio] Tax reforms,
dislodging and equity demand.
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And he would made that cut in taxes
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to take effect as of the start
of next year, January 1963.
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The billions of dollars that are still
placed in the hands of...
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[reporters chattering]
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- [reporter] Hi, Phyllis.
- [Phyllis] Mornin'.
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Who's that?
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Uh, that is Holland's girl, Jean Cole.
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[Loretta] What,
is she a reporter or a nurse?
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She's working undercover.
Got some story on nursing homes.
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[Jean sighs]
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Here. Use mine. I'll fix this one.
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[Jean] Thanks.
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What are you working on?
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Story on patient abuse.
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That sounds important. How'd you get it?
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I asked for it.
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And they just gave it to you?
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That's usually how it works.
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Not around here, it isn't.
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Sorry.
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[typing]
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[presenter on TV] And there
is the beautiful Monroe centerpiece...
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What the hell is she gonna do with those?
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- Ma, what did the doctor say?
- I didn't go.
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- What do you mean you didn't go?
- Katie didn't show up.
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What happened? You didn't call her?
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I'm not gonna go around hounding people.
She's not even family.
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[sighs] She's married to your son.
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If it was so damn important,
you should've taken me yourself.
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[Loretta] Yeah, yeah, I'm aware.
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I'll see you in a couple days.
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- Don't get up. I'll let myself out.
- [breathing heavily]
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- Gotta put the chain on.
- Since when?
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Since the neighbor got killed.
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- You didn't hear?
- No.
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Mrs. Slesers, right around the corner.
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It was in your paper.
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[police radio chatter]
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[door closes]
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[phone ringing]
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Jack? I think I found something.
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Three women were strangled
over the last two weeks.
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I don't see the interest.
These are nobodies.
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[Loretta]
Who do you think our readers are?
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And that's just it. Why would anybody
go around killing three nobody women?
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And how do you plan to find that out?
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Well, let me profile the victims.
See if there's any connection.
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Kid, you're not covering a homicide.
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Why not?
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Because you don't have the experience
covering homicides.
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How am I supposed to get any experience
if you won't give me a shot?
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No.
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Oh, come on. It's slow.
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I'll do it on my own time.
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All right.
But you're still on the lifestyle desk.
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[church bells tolling]
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[doorbell rings]
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Uh, Loretta McLaughlin,
with the Record American.
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You're the super? You found Ida Irga?
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Yeah, that's right.
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Uh...
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Did it look like someone broke in?
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No. No, the door was locked.
I had to use a master key.
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Anything else unusual when you went in?
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No.
Those details don't belong in your paper.
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No, no, I-- I'm not gonna print
anything disrespectful.
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I'm-- I'm just trying to get a sense.
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You really wanna know?
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I found her on the floor
with her legs spread open,
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ankles strapped to a chair.
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There was a broom handle
stuck between her legs.
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- You mean--
- Yeah.
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He tied her stockings
in a bow around her neck.
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A bow?
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Like on a gift.
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- [chattering]
- [phone ringing]
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Uh, you know who's working
the Anna Slesers homicide?
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I'm with the Record American.
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They're out. Why I never seen ya before?
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I was working a different desk.
You know when they'll be back?
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No clue. They're up to their eyeballs.
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Yeah, I bet. Any suspects?
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Talk to Corsetti. He already covered it.
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I'm doing a different story
about how the murders are connected.
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You mean the bows?
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All three had bows around their necks?
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I didn't say that.
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No, I already confirmed Ida Irga.
Are you confirming Blake and Slesers?
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I'm not confirmin' nothin'.
Why don't you take a hike?
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[Loretta]
Only one I can confirm is Ida Irga.
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What about the autopsy reports?
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DA won't release them.
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Wasn't one of them in Lynn?
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Helen Blake.
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Well, that's Essex County.
Different county, different DA.
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Corsetti,
you know the medical examiner in Lynn?
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[Corsetti] Yeah, I play cards with him.
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See if you can get
the Helen Blake autopsy.
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[Loretta] Thanks.
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Okay. [sighs]
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[sighs]
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[sighs]
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[phone ringing]
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[officer 1] What's the one right next to...
[laughs]
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Excuse me, I'm looking for Officer Dougan.
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[officer 2] Dougan? No, he's not here.
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You know where he drinks?
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You know where Foley's is?
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[door creaks]
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Officer Dougan?
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Yeah.
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Uh, Loretta McLaughlin
with the Record American.
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Uh, you took the call for Anna Slesers?
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[Dougan] That's right.
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I need to ask you a detail
about the crime scene.
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I don't think I'm supposed
to be talking to the papers.
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No, it's nothing like that.
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Uh-- Just wanna ask
about the stockings around her neck.
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Did you see if they were tied
in a single or a double-hitched knot?
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There's no way I could tell by looking.
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I would've had to roll her over, and--
I'm just a patrolman.
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I don't touch the bodies.
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Did it look decorative?
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In a real sick kind of way, yeah.
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Thank you.
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I just confirmed Slesers.
I've got confirmation on all three.
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[Jack]
All right. Get back here and write it up.
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[Loretta]
What do these three women have in common?
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Three shadowy patterns of attack.
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Three knotted loops
that bind them together.
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Strangers to one another
in life, they became sisters in death.
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Each coming to the same horror-filled
moment of murder by strangulation
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by a killer who came quietly,
who is careful in his derangement,
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and self-possessed enough
to lock the door on his way out.
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- [knocking]
- [neighbor] Hey, you okay in there?
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Open up! Hey, if you don't open the door,
I'm gonna call the cops!
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- Nice work, kid.
- [Loretta chuckles]
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- [chattering]
- [phone ringing]
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[announcer on radio] The city is buzzing
today after a story in the Record American
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claims that three elderly women were
killed by one deranged individual.
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There's nothing in the Globe
or the Herald.
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Or any of 'em.
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You beat the whole damn city.
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I can't believe it. This is incredible!
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The story's bullshit.
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Been getting calls all morning
from my guys in the department.
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- [buzzer sounds]
- [Phyllis] DA's office for you.
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Hold my calls, please.
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[Corsetti] She's in way over her head.
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- You never should've sent her out on this.
- [buzzer sounds]
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[Phyllis]
I have Commissioner McNamara for you.
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I told you to hold my calls.
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No, he's here for you.
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Jesus Christ.
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Fuck 'em.
247
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Send him in.
248
00:15:59,918 --> 00:16:01,251
[drink pours]
249
00:16:04,585 --> 00:16:06,585
Ah, what can I do for you, Commissioner?
250
00:16:09,210 --> 00:16:12,418
Was it your idea to send some skirt
down to the station house?
251
00:16:12,418 --> 00:16:15,001
Well, her name's Loretta.
She was workin' a story.
252
00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:16,835
Is that what you're callin' it now?
253
00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,626
Hanging around the bar,
flirtin' with my guys?
254
00:16:20,626 --> 00:16:23,460
Never even identified herself
as a reporter.
255
00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:27,751
Now I've got every old lady in
the fuckin' city tying up my phone lines!
256
00:16:27,751 --> 00:16:30,501
Just tell me what we got wrong,
and I'll print a correction.
257
00:16:30,501 --> 00:16:32,501
It's barstool gossip, for Christ's sake!
258
00:16:32,501 --> 00:16:35,376
Half the news in the city's
barstool gossip.
259
00:16:35,376 --> 00:16:36,876
What the hell did we get wrong?
260
00:16:36,876 --> 00:16:40,210
Homicide has been workin'
around the clock on this,
261
00:16:40,210 --> 00:16:42,210
and we've got nothin'
to connect the murders.
262
00:16:42,210 --> 00:16:43,876
What about the stockings?
263
00:16:43,876 --> 00:16:45,668
Only one of the victims in Boston
had that.
264
00:16:45,668 --> 00:16:47,168
The other one looks like a suicide.
265
00:16:47,168 --> 00:16:50,168
- We got sources for both women--
- Sources!
266
00:16:50,168 --> 00:16:54,751
It was a couple of dipshit beat cops
trying to bed that girl you sent down!
267
00:16:56,251 --> 00:16:58,293
I'm telling you this as a friend.
268
00:16:58,293 --> 00:17:01,876
If you keep running this story,
you're gonna end up embarrassing yourself.
269
00:17:04,376 --> 00:17:08,418
- [chattering]
- [phone ringing]
270
00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:11,001
[Jack] Loretta!
271
00:17:24,210 --> 00:17:25,293
Shut the door.
272
00:17:29,501 --> 00:17:32,710
I am catching hell over this story.
273
00:17:32,710 --> 00:17:35,168
Now, Commissioner McNamara
says the whole thing's gossip.
274
00:17:35,168 --> 00:17:36,501
Same with Corsetti's sources.
275
00:17:36,501 --> 00:17:38,543
I confirmed every word of that story.
276
00:17:38,543 --> 00:17:40,418
You identified yourself as a reporter?
277
00:17:40,418 --> 00:17:41,751
Of course I did.
278
00:17:41,751 --> 00:17:44,126
- Even at the bar?
- Especially at the bar.
279
00:17:46,376 --> 00:17:47,876
I'm killin' the follow-up.
280
00:17:49,251 --> 00:17:52,501
We beat everyone in the whole damn city,
and you're-- you're just gonna drop it?
281
00:17:52,501 --> 00:17:53,626
Yes, I am.
282
00:17:53,626 --> 00:17:55,168
The story is good.
283
00:17:55,168 --> 00:17:57,168
The story is a headache
I don't need right now.
284
00:17:58,085 --> 00:18:00,335
And you're back on the lifestyle desk.
285
00:18:24,626 --> 00:18:26,460
[Kelly]
She shouldn't be working like this.
286
00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:28,085
[Loretta's husband] Oh, come on, Kelly.
287
00:18:28,085 --> 00:18:30,168
[Kelly] She should be home
taking care of her own husband.
288
00:18:30,168 --> 00:18:32,001
[Loretta's husband]
You check in a few hours a day.
289
00:18:32,001 --> 00:18:33,626
It's not the worst thing in the world.
290
00:18:33,626 --> 00:18:35,710
[Kelly speaking, indistinct]
291
00:18:37,126 --> 00:18:39,043
[Kelly] You don't see how selfish it is?
292
00:18:39,043 --> 00:18:41,251
[Loretta's husband] What do you
want me to say? We make it work.
293
00:18:41,251 --> 00:18:43,085
[Kelly] Yeah, 'cause I watch your kids
half the week.
294
00:18:43,085 --> 00:18:44,668
[Loretta's husband]
I appreciate your help--
295
00:18:44,668 --> 00:18:46,585
[Kelly] She's going to ruin your children.
296
00:18:48,751 --> 00:18:49,751
Hi, Kelly.
297
00:18:50,668 --> 00:18:51,960
Hi, Loretta.
298
00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,460
He offer you anything? Coffee? Tea?
299
00:18:54,460 --> 00:18:56,210
I was just headin' out.
300
00:18:57,418 --> 00:19:00,376
Tommy had a meltdown in the car.
Gave Patrick a fat lip.
301
00:19:00,376 --> 00:19:04,043
Class pictures are tomorrow.
Might wanna ice it again.
302
00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:07,251
Thank you.
303
00:19:07,251 --> 00:19:08,460
[door opens]
304
00:19:09,210 --> 00:19:10,626
- [sighs]
- [door closes]
305
00:19:27,918 --> 00:19:31,585
[melancholic singing on the radio]
306
00:19:35,501 --> 00:19:37,335
So, why haven't you asked me to stay home?
307
00:19:38,835 --> 00:19:39,960
'Cause I know better.
308
00:19:40,543 --> 00:19:41,960
No, I'm serious. Why not?
309
00:19:42,876 --> 00:19:44,043
'Cause you'd be miserable.
310
00:19:45,460 --> 00:19:46,543
Well, so what?
311
00:19:47,335 --> 00:19:51,126
Our lives would be easier.
Kids would be better off.
312
00:19:51,793 --> 00:19:53,376
- Says who?
- Your sister.
313
00:19:55,126 --> 00:19:56,668
My mother. The neighbor.
314
00:19:56,668 --> 00:19:58,001
What the hell do they know?
315
00:19:59,460 --> 00:20:02,126
You'd drive us all mad
if you were sittin' around here all day.
316
00:20:02,126 --> 00:20:03,210
[chuckles]
317
00:20:05,710 --> 00:20:06,793
It was a great story.
318
00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:13,501
Jack's probably just afraid to rock
the boat. Don't take it personally.
319
00:20:14,626 --> 00:20:15,626
[snickers]
320
00:20:17,751 --> 00:20:20,751
[birds squawking, chirping]
321
00:20:33,918 --> 00:20:36,335
[church bells toll]
322
00:20:56,085 --> 00:20:58,085
[engine revving]
323
00:21:14,626 --> 00:21:15,626
[water running]
324
00:21:15,626 --> 00:21:17,710
[chattering on TV]
325
00:21:27,126 --> 00:21:28,335
[knocking]
326
00:21:42,543 --> 00:21:43,751
[door opens]
327
00:21:43,751 --> 00:21:45,210
[resident] Yes? Can I help you?
328
00:21:45,210 --> 00:21:47,293
[home intruder]
Yeah, I got a call about a water leak.
329
00:21:47,293 --> 00:21:49,168
[resident] I'm sorry, who are you?
330
00:21:49,168 --> 00:21:50,751
- [home intruder] Super sent me.
- [thuds]
331
00:21:50,751 --> 00:21:54,876
- [resident] No! Oh, God. No!
- [clattering]
332
00:21:54,876 --> 00:21:57,793
- [resident straining, grunting]
- [home intruder grunts]
333
00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:00,001
[resident whimpers]
334
00:22:00,001 --> 00:22:02,335
- [home intruder grunting]
- [resident choking]
335
00:22:04,126 --> 00:22:06,251
- [resident whimpers, grunts]
- [metal thuds]
336
00:22:06,251 --> 00:22:07,835
[metal rattles on floor]
337
00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:10,668
- [footsteps approaching]
- [dragging]
338
00:22:21,376 --> 00:22:24,210
[phone ringing]
339
00:22:24,210 --> 00:22:25,293
Hello?
340
00:22:25,293 --> 00:22:26,751
Loretta, it's Phyllis.
341
00:22:26,751 --> 00:22:28,876
Another woman was strangled.
Just came over the wire.
342
00:22:28,876 --> 00:22:31,126
- Thank you.
- Who was that?
343
00:22:31,876 --> 00:22:33,710
- They just found a fourth victim.
- Go.
344
00:22:33,710 --> 00:22:35,626
- You'll get the kids off to school?
- Yeah, yeah. Go.
345
00:22:35,626 --> 00:22:36,918
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
346
00:22:36,918 --> 00:22:39,626
- Dad's taking you to school today, okay?
- Dad's taking us?
347
00:22:39,626 --> 00:22:41,626
- [phone ringing]
- [child] Where are you going?
348
00:22:41,626 --> 00:22:45,126
- [children chattering]
- Girls, hurry up! Let's go!
349
00:22:45,126 --> 00:22:46,793
[ringing continues]
350
00:22:49,251 --> 00:22:51,418
- I saw that.
- Wasn't hiding it.
351
00:22:52,501 --> 00:22:53,710
Maybe you should.
352
00:22:53,710 --> 00:22:54,793
Hello?
353
00:22:54,793 --> 00:22:57,626
It's Holland.
I need you on the Strangler story.
354
00:22:57,626 --> 00:22:59,168
Jack put some amateur on it.
355
00:22:59,168 --> 00:23:00,251
That bad, huh?
356
00:23:00,251 --> 00:23:02,001
Can you wrap up
the nursing home story tonight?
357
00:23:02,001 --> 00:23:04,293
- [Jean] Yeah, all right.
- [handset settles in cradle]
358
00:23:04,293 --> 00:23:05,376
What was that about?
359
00:23:05,376 --> 00:23:08,210
[sighs] Holland wants me
on those Strangler murders.
360
00:23:08,210 --> 00:23:09,876
[Jean's husband]
The hell's the matter with him?
361
00:23:09,876 --> 00:23:11,043
What's that supposed to mean?
362
00:23:11,043 --> 00:23:14,376
He's using you. Putting a girl
on a story like that. It's a stunt.
363
00:23:16,210 --> 00:23:17,710
I need you to get the girls off.
364
00:23:17,710 --> 00:23:19,043
[children chattering]
365
00:23:20,418 --> 00:23:21,668
Here, take a seat.
366
00:23:25,585 --> 00:23:28,751
Jean's gonna be working with you
on the Strangler story.
367
00:23:28,751 --> 00:23:32,168
Oh, uh, no offense,
but I-I don't need any help with this.
368
00:23:32,168 --> 00:23:33,376
It's not up for debate.
369
00:23:33,376 --> 00:23:35,085
[Loretta]
What is she gonna cover that I can't?
370
00:23:35,085 --> 00:23:37,043
The whole story, if you keep it up.
371
00:23:37,043 --> 00:23:39,585
[smacks lips]
Where are you at with the fourth victim?
372
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:41,335
She have a stocking around the neck?
373
00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:43,751
Uh, I haven't got confirmation yet.
374
00:23:43,751 --> 00:23:46,668
Not yet? It's 40 minutes to deadline.
375
00:23:46,668 --> 00:23:48,126
Police won't confirm.
376
00:23:48,126 --> 00:23:50,501
Her cousin Arnold found the body,
but there's, uh--
377
00:23:50,501 --> 00:23:52,376
There's no listings
for an Arnold Sullivan,
378
00:23:52,376 --> 00:23:54,001
and no other relatives have come forward.
379
00:23:54,001 --> 00:23:55,960
[editor] Jeanie, call around.
See what you come up with.
380
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,293
[Jean] I already did.
Police aren't talking. Corsetti tried too.
381
00:23:59,293 --> 00:24:01,168
Never seen 'em this tight-lipped
about anything.
382
00:24:01,168 --> 00:24:03,585
[Jack] That's 'cause they're bracing
for a shitstorm.
383
00:24:04,751 --> 00:24:07,668
[editor] Find the cousin.
Otherwise, pull it from page one.
384
00:24:11,751 --> 00:24:13,835
[footsteps approaching]
385
00:24:17,001 --> 00:24:18,085
[Loretta] What are you doing?
386
00:24:18,085 --> 00:24:20,501
I'm calling everyone in the phone book
with the same last name.
387
00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:22,293
You know how many Sullivans there are?
388
00:24:22,293 --> 00:24:23,626
Better get crackin' then.
389
00:24:32,085 --> 00:24:34,626
Hello, I'm looking for a relative
of Jane Sullivan.
390
00:24:34,626 --> 00:24:36,251
Hello, is this Mr. Sullivan?
391
00:24:36,251 --> 00:24:37,376
You're not?
392
00:24:37,376 --> 00:24:39,793
- Mrs. Sullivan?
- [person 1] This is the Howard residence.
393
00:24:39,793 --> 00:24:41,293
- [person 2] Hello.
- Hello, Mr. Sullivan?
394
00:24:41,293 --> 00:24:42,210
Wrong number.
395
00:24:42,210 --> 00:24:44,251
I'm looking for a relative
of Jane Sullivan.
396
00:24:44,251 --> 00:24:45,960
- [person 3] No relation.
- Thank you.
397
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,126
[person 4] Who is this?
398
00:24:47,126 --> 00:24:49,793
- I'm looking for a relative of Ja-- Hello?
- [line clicks]
399
00:24:49,793 --> 00:24:51,668
- Mr. Sullivan, please?
- [person 5] Not interested.
400
00:24:51,668 --> 00:24:53,710
- Jane.
- [Loretta] Mrs. Sullivan?
401
00:24:53,710 --> 00:24:54,710
Is this Roberta Sullivan?
402
00:24:54,710 --> 00:24:56,335
- [person 6] She passed away.
- Thank you.
403
00:24:56,335 --> 00:24:57,751
- [person 7] Hello?
- Hi, is this Walter?
404
00:24:57,751 --> 00:24:58,876
Nobody here by that name.
405
00:24:58,876 --> 00:25:03,251
Hi, I'm looking for a relative of, um,
sorry, Jane Sullivan.
406
00:25:03,251 --> 00:25:05,085
- [Loretta] Hello?
- [line clicks]
407
00:25:05,085 --> 00:25:09,835
You are? My name is Jean Cole,
I'm a reporter with the Record American.
408
00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:11,751
We were just calling
to confirm some details.
409
00:25:13,251 --> 00:25:14,876
They just confirmed number four.
410
00:25:15,918 --> 00:25:18,751
All right. Phantom's going on page one.
411
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,001
[reporters clamoring]
412
00:25:26,001 --> 00:25:28,251
[reporter] Are you confirming
the story of the Record American?
413
00:25:28,251 --> 00:25:29,543
Commissioner! Is there a story--
414
00:25:29,543 --> 00:25:32,210
[McNamara]
We are advising the people of Boston
415
00:25:32,210 --> 00:25:36,418
to make sure they have proper locks
on their doors, in good working order.
416
00:25:36,418 --> 00:25:38,001
Is there only one killer?
417
00:25:38,001 --> 00:25:39,876
[McNamara] They're not to allow
any person into their home
418
00:25:39,876 --> 00:25:42,543
till they are absolutely sure
they are a proper person.
419
00:25:42,543 --> 00:25:45,585
- Especially women living alone!
- Are you confirming the story--
420
00:25:45,585 --> 00:25:48,543
Keep your doors locked,
and don't let strangers in your home!
421
00:25:48,543 --> 00:25:50,626
Are you confirming the story
in the Record American?
422
00:25:50,626 --> 00:25:52,085
Is there only one killer?
423
00:25:52,085 --> 00:25:54,918
I don't care if it's one killer or four.
We're gonna catch whoever did this.
424
00:25:55,835 --> 00:25:57,918
- [reporter] Do you have any suspects?
- [reporters clamoring]
425
00:25:57,918 --> 00:25:59,960
Commissioner, do you have any suspects?
426
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:03,085
[broadcaster 1 on radio] Extraordinary
methods of investigation are needed
427
00:26:03,085 --> 00:26:07,460
to deal with these highly abnormal
and uncommon crimes.
428
00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:09,751
I believe that the people of Massachusetts
429
00:26:09,751 --> 00:26:12,418
have everything to gain
and nothing to lose.
430
00:26:12,418 --> 00:26:15,460
[broadcaster 2 on radio] We believe this
is a man who's come here to kill people.
431
00:26:15,460 --> 00:26:17,168
He is a terror to this city.
432
00:26:17,168 --> 00:26:18,960
We need to get him into custody.
433
00:26:23,585 --> 00:26:25,251
[knocking]
434
00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:28,751
[footsteps approaching]
435
00:26:28,751 --> 00:26:30,501
[door opens]
436
00:26:31,293 --> 00:26:34,293
We're gonna be painting here next week.
I gotta take a look around.
437
00:26:34,293 --> 00:26:35,376
[resident] Who sent you?
438
00:26:35,376 --> 00:26:37,126
Uh, super. It'll only take a minute.
439
00:26:38,668 --> 00:26:40,043
[resident] Well, all right.
440
00:26:44,085 --> 00:26:45,585
- [resident screams]
- [home intruder grunts]
441
00:26:45,585 --> 00:26:48,918
[resident straining, choking]
442
00:26:48,918 --> 00:26:51,335
- [home intruder grunts]
- [resident straining]
443
00:26:51,335 --> 00:26:54,335
[crowd clamoring]
444
00:27:03,335 --> 00:27:04,876
[Loretta] I'm with the Record American.
445
00:27:05,585 --> 00:27:07,460
[officer on radio] Standby one second.
446
00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:08,918
[knocking]
447
00:27:10,293 --> 00:27:12,001
[detective] Hello, ma'am. How are you?
448
00:27:12,001 --> 00:27:15,043
I wanted to ask you a few questions.
You mind openin' the door?
449
00:27:15,043 --> 00:27:16,293
[neighbor] You have ID?
450
00:27:19,251 --> 00:27:20,626
How do I know that's real?
451
00:27:20,626 --> 00:27:24,043
Ma'am, I'm a-- I'm a homicide detective
for the Boston Police Department.
452
00:27:24,043 --> 00:27:27,085
Yeah, well, I haven't met ya.
And I'm not letting strangers in.
453
00:27:27,085 --> 00:27:29,335
All right, let's go. Gotta wait outside.
454
00:27:29,335 --> 00:27:31,626
- No, I'm with the Record American.
- Doesn't matter. Let's go.
455
00:27:32,585 --> 00:27:33,918
[crowd clamoring]
456
00:27:33,918 --> 00:27:36,418
- [officer] People, please step back.
- [onlooker 1] What's the big deal?
457
00:27:36,418 --> 00:27:39,126
- [onlooker 2] What's going on here?
- [officer] Back up. Make some space.
458
00:27:39,126 --> 00:27:41,210
- They're not letting anyone in.
- [Jean] Come on.
459
00:27:45,460 --> 00:27:46,501
Hey, Joe.
460
00:27:46,501 --> 00:27:48,085
Hey, Jeanie. How are ya?
461
00:27:48,085 --> 00:27:50,085
- How's the old man doin'?
- He's still goin'.
462
00:27:50,626 --> 00:27:52,960
Any word on this?
It lookin' like the others?
463
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,543
Yeah. Left her on the bed,
stockings tied around her neck.
464
00:27:57,043 --> 00:27:58,168
Did it look like he broke in?
465
00:27:58,168 --> 00:28:02,251
No. No sign of forced entry.
Looks like he took his time too.
466
00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:07,251
- [chattering]
- [typing]
467
00:28:07,251 --> 00:28:08,751
[Phyllis] Record American. Please hold.
468
00:28:11,085 --> 00:28:13,085
I gotta take pictures for your byline.
469
00:28:14,418 --> 00:28:15,501
Since when do they do that?
470
00:28:15,501 --> 00:28:17,043
[photographer] Since they got you two.
471
00:28:17,543 --> 00:28:18,543
What does that mean?
472
00:28:18,543 --> 00:28:21,168
What do you think it means?
It's a circulation stunt.
473
00:28:22,376 --> 00:28:23,376
I'm not doing it.
474
00:28:23,376 --> 00:28:26,960
[photographer] Come on. Why else you think
they got two girls on such a big story?
475
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,001
I don't do stunt reporting.
Tell 'em I'm not doing it.
476
00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:32,585
Tell 'em yourself.
I don't make the rules around here.
477
00:28:33,210 --> 00:28:35,751
- [chattering]
- [phone rings]
478
00:28:35,751 --> 00:28:37,001
[Phyllis] Record American.
479
00:28:39,210 --> 00:28:40,793
You're gonna let that asshole bother you?
480
00:28:42,876 --> 00:28:46,210
You don't mind being called a fluke?
By that jackass?
481
00:28:46,210 --> 00:28:49,710
Let 'em sell their papers. You still got
the biggest story in the city.
482
00:28:57,418 --> 00:28:58,668
[sighs]
483
00:28:59,460 --> 00:29:02,835
[Loretta] Five women have been strangled
over the past three months.
484
00:29:03,543 --> 00:29:06,835
By number and by nature,
these stranglings are beyond anything
485
00:29:06,835 --> 00:29:09,585
ever seen before
in the criminal history of the city.
486
00:29:11,251 --> 00:29:14,543
The murders are clearly premeditated.
All elderly.
487
00:29:14,543 --> 00:29:17,126
All lived alone. It's a pattern.
488
00:29:17,126 --> 00:29:19,793
[Loretta]
The crimes themselves are insane.
489
00:29:19,793 --> 00:29:22,210
He ransacks the apartments
but doesn't take anything.
490
00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:26,126
He leaves his victims posed
with a bizarre air of ceremony,
491
00:29:26,126 --> 00:29:28,876
each left with a decorative garrote
around her neck.
492
00:29:29,585 --> 00:29:32,626
In every case,
there is no evidence left behind,
493
00:29:32,626 --> 00:29:35,126
no clue as to how he selects his victims.
494
00:29:35,793 --> 00:29:39,668
He seems to come and go as he pleases,
committing his crimes in broad daylight.
495
00:29:40,251 --> 00:29:42,793
[professor]
It's highly organized behavior.
496
00:29:42,793 --> 00:29:47,085
Probably escalated over time,
and now he's lost control.
497
00:29:47,585 --> 00:29:50,585
Barriers are down.
He'll almost certainly repeat.
498
00:29:56,293 --> 00:29:58,043
[chattering]
499
00:30:00,210 --> 00:30:01,210
What's this?
500
00:30:01,710 --> 00:30:02,835
This is all for you two.
501
00:30:14,293 --> 00:30:16,085
[Jean]
"I'm one of the many who can't sleep.
502
00:30:16,085 --> 00:30:19,835
I find myself awake all night and too
frightened to leave during the day."
503
00:30:20,710 --> 00:30:24,001
"Every day is an eternity,
every night a horror.
504
00:30:24,710 --> 00:30:27,043
Nobody knows what a woman alone feels."
505
00:30:27,793 --> 00:30:30,085
"No one knows fear as we know it."
506
00:30:31,376 --> 00:30:35,126
[Loretta] There is but one answer.
The Boston Phantom...
507
00:30:40,168 --> 00:30:43,501
The Boston Strangler must be caught.
508
00:30:45,501 --> 00:30:46,835
Guess he's got a name now.
509
00:30:50,876 --> 00:30:51,960
Shit.
510
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,543
- [chattering]
- [chuckles]
511
00:30:54,043 --> 00:30:55,251
- Mmm.
- Thanks.
512
00:30:57,710 --> 00:31:02,293
So, uh, how'd you become Holland's girl?
He poach you from one of the other papers?
513
00:31:03,126 --> 00:31:05,168
He got me a job
when I graduated high school.
514
00:31:06,085 --> 00:31:08,835
I was working at a lunch counter
down by the courthouse.
515
00:31:08,835 --> 00:31:11,751
He covered a trial
the summer before my senior year.
516
00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:16,460
I got to know him pretty well, and so he
offered to get me a job when I turned 18.
517
00:31:17,501 --> 00:31:20,501
Back then, just living through the day
was an accomplishment.
518
00:31:22,085 --> 00:31:25,168
I wore my school clothes when they first
sent me out on assignments.
519
00:31:25,168 --> 00:31:26,960
I didn't have money for anything else.
520
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,501
Holland took pity on me
and lent me money for a new suit.
521
00:31:30,126 --> 00:31:32,043
I never wanted to let him down after that.
522
00:31:32,668 --> 00:31:33,835
I learned to hold my own,
523
00:31:33,835 --> 00:31:36,835
and he started sending me out
on bigger and bigger stories,
524
00:31:36,835 --> 00:31:38,751
and it just became my life.
525
00:31:39,585 --> 00:31:41,793
I really can't imagine
doing anything else.
526
00:31:44,251 --> 00:31:47,251
It's crazy to think your whole life
can turn on a chance encounter.
527
00:31:48,543 --> 00:31:51,251
My senior year, I, uh--
I lined up with all the other girls
528
00:31:51,251 --> 00:31:52,751
to register for nursing school.
529
00:31:53,585 --> 00:31:56,501
But my English teacher, Mrs. Welker,
she-- she pulled me out of the line
530
00:31:56,501 --> 00:31:59,751
and had me apply for a scholarship
to go to college.
531
00:32:01,043 --> 00:32:02,043
And that was it.
532
00:32:03,001 --> 00:32:05,085
I'd be changing bedpans
if it wasn't for her.
533
00:32:05,085 --> 00:32:06,751
Thank God for Mrs. Welker.
534
00:32:07,626 --> 00:32:08,751
[chuckles]
535
00:32:13,501 --> 00:32:16,501
- [chattering]
- [jazz music playing on radio]
536
00:32:21,293 --> 00:32:23,626
[phone ringing]
537
00:32:26,543 --> 00:32:27,543
[sighs] Hello?
538
00:32:27,543 --> 00:32:29,126
- Hey, it's Jean.
- Hey.
539
00:32:29,126 --> 00:32:32,001
They found another victim.
It was a young girl this time.
540
00:32:32,001 --> 00:32:34,043
[gasps] I'll come in now.
541
00:32:35,793 --> 00:32:36,793
What was that?
542
00:32:37,543 --> 00:32:40,293
Oh. [sighs]
Another woman turned up. I've gotta go in.
543
00:32:41,168 --> 00:32:44,585
You gotta be kidding me.
It's New Year's Eve for Christ's sakes.
544
00:32:46,543 --> 00:32:48,210
Who's gonna take your mother home?
545
00:32:48,210 --> 00:32:50,376
[stammers] I can take her now, I guess.
546
00:32:55,335 --> 00:32:57,585
Go. I'll deal with it.
547
00:33:00,793 --> 00:33:02,793
[footsteps departing]
548
00:33:05,626 --> 00:33:06,918
[sighs]
549
00:33:08,751 --> 00:33:10,043
Mom had to go to work.
550
00:33:11,293 --> 00:33:13,293
[chattering]
551
00:33:17,335 --> 00:33:18,335
There's Joe.
552
00:33:50,418 --> 00:33:51,460
[shutter clicks]
553
00:33:53,585 --> 00:33:57,501
Hey, hey, asshole. Come on. Come on.
554
00:33:58,210 --> 00:33:59,501
That's enough.
555
00:33:59,501 --> 00:34:00,918
[scoffs]
556
00:34:00,918 --> 00:34:03,085
[resident]
That guy came to my door earlier today.
557
00:34:03,085 --> 00:34:05,585
He said he was here
to paint the apartment, so I let him in.
558
00:34:07,001 --> 00:34:11,585
All of a sudden, he tells me I'm pretty
and asks me if I thought about modeling.
559
00:34:13,085 --> 00:34:15,710
I got nervous,
told him my husband was home.
560
00:34:15,710 --> 00:34:19,418
I pretended to go back and get him,
and when I came back, he was gone.
561
00:34:20,001 --> 00:34:21,085
What time was this?
562
00:34:21,585 --> 00:34:24,001
Uh, this afternoon. Three o'clock.
563
00:34:25,460 --> 00:34:26,710
Could you describe him for me?
564
00:34:27,293 --> 00:34:31,960
Uh, normal. White guy, dark hair.
565
00:34:33,085 --> 00:34:34,501
He had workman's clothes on.
566
00:34:36,585 --> 00:34:37,751
He just looked regular.
567
00:34:40,501 --> 00:34:42,293
[professor on phone]
She doesn't fit the pattern.
568
00:34:42,293 --> 00:34:46,043
To switch from all elderly women
to a young girl is unheard of.
569
00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:48,210
When these guys establish a type,
570
00:34:48,210 --> 00:34:51,710
it usually comes from a trauma
that's been years in the making.
571
00:34:51,710 --> 00:34:53,543
It doesn't just change all of a sudden.
572
00:34:53,543 --> 00:34:54,710
How sure are you?
573
00:34:55,293 --> 00:34:57,668
That's the going theory
with this type of killer.
574
00:34:57,668 --> 00:35:00,085
But no one really knows.
575
00:35:08,376 --> 00:35:10,251
Did you know they were gonna do this?
576
00:35:11,460 --> 00:35:14,793
You really think this is smart?
With that lunatic still out there?
577
00:35:14,793 --> 00:35:16,918
I don't know what to say. All right?
578
00:35:16,918 --> 00:35:19,001
Stanley was supposed to shoot
the damn crime scene.
579
00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:21,085
[phone rings]
580
00:35:25,085 --> 00:35:26,210
Hello?
581
00:35:26,210 --> 00:35:29,751
[person breathing heavily on phone]
582
00:35:29,751 --> 00:35:30,835
Hello?
583
00:35:38,251 --> 00:35:39,251
[sighs]
584
00:35:40,626 --> 00:35:41,668
Who was that?
585
00:35:41,668 --> 00:35:43,168
It's just a wrong number.
586
00:35:44,293 --> 00:35:46,418
[phone ringing]
587
00:35:51,918 --> 00:35:52,918
Hello?
588
00:35:54,668 --> 00:35:55,668
Hello?
589
00:35:57,376 --> 00:35:58,460
Who is this?
590
00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:07,251
[phone rings]
591
00:36:10,918 --> 00:36:11,918
Who is this?
592
00:36:14,126 --> 00:36:15,543
Stop calling here!
593
00:36:22,418 --> 00:36:25,418
[footsteps departing]
594
00:36:26,793 --> 00:36:30,126
- [organ music playing]
- [chattering]
595
00:36:34,168 --> 00:36:36,501
Are you having any problems
with people calling your house?
596
00:36:36,501 --> 00:36:38,918
You gettin' hang-ups
and the, uh, heavy breathers?
597
00:36:38,918 --> 00:36:40,293
- Yeah. They called you too?
- Mmm.
598
00:36:40,293 --> 00:36:44,543
Nope. We unlisted our number years ago
after I covered my first mayor's race.
599
00:36:46,251 --> 00:36:47,835
Yeah. Right.
600
00:36:48,835 --> 00:36:50,251
I'm gonna go have a cigarette.
601
00:36:56,876 --> 00:36:58,210
I'll be right back.
602
00:37:03,085 --> 00:37:04,085
Hey.
603
00:37:05,043 --> 00:37:06,168
Got a smoke?
604
00:37:11,335 --> 00:37:14,418
Been reading your stories.
They've been pretty good.
605
00:37:14,418 --> 00:37:15,793
Well, have you got any leads?
606
00:37:17,668 --> 00:37:18,710
Off the record.
607
00:37:18,710 --> 00:37:21,793
Off the record? More than we can handle.
608
00:37:21,793 --> 00:37:23,626
Are you close to making an arrest?
609
00:37:24,501 --> 00:37:27,293
These people have no idea
what they're up against.
610
00:37:27,293 --> 00:37:28,460
[Loretta] What people?
611
00:37:28,460 --> 00:37:31,168
Uh, the whole department,
as far as I'm concerned.
612
00:37:31,168 --> 00:37:32,668
The whole police department?
613
00:37:33,293 --> 00:37:35,251
[detective] The usual rules don't apply.
614
00:37:35,251 --> 00:37:38,751
There's no motive, and then he takes off
without leaving a shred of evidence.
615
00:37:39,543 --> 00:37:42,126
Guy's as careful as he is deranged.
616
00:37:44,835 --> 00:37:46,293
Nice talking to you.
617
00:37:49,335 --> 00:37:51,001
I'm Jim, by the way.
618
00:37:52,001 --> 00:37:53,751
You can call me at the paper anytime.
619
00:37:54,626 --> 00:37:55,960
I'll give you whatever I have.
620
00:37:59,543 --> 00:38:02,543
[wind howling]
621
00:38:03,293 --> 00:38:04,210
[thunderclap]
622
00:38:04,210 --> 00:38:05,335
[knocking]
623
00:38:07,085 --> 00:38:08,126
- Yes?
- [mechanic] Yeah,
624
00:38:08,126 --> 00:38:10,251
the super sent me to check the radiator.
625
00:38:10,251 --> 00:38:11,751
It'll only take a second.
626
00:38:18,460 --> 00:38:20,168
[resident] Do you want some coffee?
627
00:38:20,168 --> 00:38:21,251
[mechanic] Yeah, sure.
628
00:38:22,126 --> 00:38:23,543
[thunderclap]
629
00:38:27,876 --> 00:38:29,418
[thunder rumbling]
630
00:38:40,418 --> 00:38:41,418
[shrieks]
631
00:38:41,418 --> 00:38:42,751
- [mug clatters]
- [chokes]
632
00:38:43,626 --> 00:38:45,418
[grunting]
633
00:38:45,418 --> 00:38:47,876
[gasping, grunting]
634
00:38:50,418 --> 00:38:52,460
[whimpering, grunting]
635
00:38:57,043 --> 00:39:00,960
[reporter on TV] The city is, for some,
glamorous, stimulating, prosperous.
636
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,376
Only recently has it become dangerous.
637
00:39:04,793 --> 00:39:08,043
Five young girls have been strangled
in the Boston area.
638
00:39:08,626 --> 00:39:11,210
A young girl was strangled
in her Lawrence apartment.
639
00:39:11,210 --> 00:39:14,626
Stockings and a leotard wrapped tightly
about her neck.
640
00:39:14,626 --> 00:39:19,043
A 21-year-old Boston University student
was found by her two roommates,
641
00:39:19,043 --> 00:39:22,126
strangled with a silk stocking
in her Back Bay apartment.
642
00:39:22,751 --> 00:39:26,626
And most recent, Patricia Bissette,
a 24-year-old secretary,
643
00:39:26,626 --> 00:39:30,501
was also found strangled in her
Back Bay apartment where she lived alone.
644
00:39:30,501 --> 00:39:33,585
[person on PA, indistinct]
645
00:39:42,376 --> 00:39:44,418
- [nurse] Jeanie. Hi.
- [Jean] Yeah, yeah.
646
00:39:44,418 --> 00:39:45,585
You okay?
647
00:39:46,293 --> 00:39:48,710
Yeah. [stammers] Um, tough morning.
648
00:39:49,293 --> 00:39:51,460
[Jean]
You guys do the Patricia Bissette autopsy?
649
00:39:52,793 --> 00:39:53,960
It's a bad one.
650
00:39:55,293 --> 00:39:56,585
She was pregnant.
651
00:39:56,585 --> 00:39:59,085
Pregnant? Was she married?
652
00:39:59,085 --> 00:40:00,168
[nurse] Single.
653
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:02,376
How far along was she?
654
00:40:02,376 --> 00:40:03,626
[nurse] A few months.
655
00:40:05,876 --> 00:40:07,626
[receptionist] Nielson's Electronics.
656
00:40:07,626 --> 00:40:08,793
One moment.
657
00:40:10,501 --> 00:40:11,751
Mr. Nielson, please.
658
00:40:11,751 --> 00:40:14,293
He's not in today.
Could I give him a message?
659
00:40:14,293 --> 00:40:16,376
Jean Cole with the Record American.
660
00:40:16,376 --> 00:40:18,543
Patricia Bissette was his secretary?
661
00:40:18,543 --> 00:40:19,626
That's right.
662
00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:20,835
You know her well?
663
00:40:21,751 --> 00:40:24,501
Pretty well. It's a small office.
664
00:40:25,168 --> 00:40:26,960
Do you know if she was dating anyone?
665
00:40:28,918 --> 00:40:29,918
I'm not sure.
666
00:40:33,335 --> 00:40:34,876
Did you know she was pregnant?
667
00:40:48,293 --> 00:40:49,710
I take lunch at noon.
668
00:40:49,710 --> 00:40:51,793
[chattering]
669
00:41:00,376 --> 00:41:01,376
What's this?
670
00:41:02,085 --> 00:41:03,751
[receptionist]
Pull the string on the back.
671
00:41:04,501 --> 00:41:06,418
[doll] Please take me with you.
672
00:41:08,876 --> 00:41:10,376
That's Patricia's voice.
673
00:41:11,501 --> 00:41:15,210
Mr. Nielson used her to record
the prototype for the latest model.
674
00:41:15,210 --> 00:41:16,960
[doll] Please take me with you.
675
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,085
Jesus.
676
00:41:18,918 --> 00:41:21,918
Mr. Nielson and Patricia
were having an affair.
677
00:41:23,043 --> 00:41:24,668
Everyone in the office knew.
678
00:41:25,751 --> 00:41:27,001
Did he know she was pregnant?
679
00:41:28,251 --> 00:41:29,835
He was helping her sort it out.
680
00:41:29,835 --> 00:41:31,751
Sort it out? How?
681
00:41:32,418 --> 00:41:34,460
[receptionist] He found a convent
in New Hampshire.
682
00:41:35,043 --> 00:41:37,126
They were supposed to arrange
for an adoption.
683
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,960
Do you know if Patricia
wanted to keep the baby?
684
00:41:41,876 --> 00:41:42,876
Maybe.
685
00:41:44,335 --> 00:41:46,418
But Mr. Nielson has a wife and kids.
686
00:41:48,876 --> 00:41:50,043
So that was that.
687
00:41:53,793 --> 00:41:57,126
[parent] Beverly came over every week
no matter what.
688
00:41:58,376 --> 00:42:01,710
She'd bring supper and we'd watch
the stories on the TV together.
689
00:42:02,626 --> 00:42:04,960
Do you know if she had a boyfriend?
690
00:42:05,751 --> 00:42:09,418
I don't think so.
School took up most of her time.
691
00:42:10,168 --> 00:42:13,585
And the choir.
It's where a lot of her friends were from.
692
00:42:14,335 --> 00:42:15,335
At church?
693
00:42:15,335 --> 00:42:18,585
[parent] No.
At BU, where she was studying.
694
00:42:19,293 --> 00:42:22,043
Oh. That's where I went.
695
00:42:23,251 --> 00:42:24,418
[scoffs]
696
00:42:24,418 --> 00:42:26,793
I always thought she'd end up
being someone like you.
697
00:42:27,668 --> 00:42:31,376
You know, with a job she loved,
living on her own terms.
698
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:34,543
I admired that about her.
699
00:42:36,835 --> 00:42:39,918
She was doin' all the things I wish
I could've done with my own life.
700
00:42:42,501 --> 00:42:43,918
You have kids?
701
00:42:43,918 --> 00:42:45,585
Yeah. Uh, three.
702
00:42:46,835 --> 00:42:50,501
Maggie's nine.
The boys are seven and five.
703
00:42:52,001 --> 00:42:55,460
[parent] Beverly was terrified of the dark
when she was that age.
704
00:42:55,460 --> 00:42:58,626
Only way I could get her to calm down
was by singing to her.
705
00:42:59,585 --> 00:43:00,585
[sobs]
706
00:43:01,918 --> 00:43:05,668
I'm sorry, I just--
I just can't stop thinking about it.
707
00:43:06,418 --> 00:43:11,251
What he did to her.
What that must have been like for her.
708
00:43:12,335 --> 00:43:15,460
[sobbing]
709
00:43:15,460 --> 00:43:18,710
[choir vocalizing]
710
00:43:45,168 --> 00:43:47,543
[friend] Beverly had just broken up
with her boyfriend.
711
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:52,460
She was taking advantage of her freedom.
712
00:43:54,501 --> 00:43:56,168
Did you meet any of the guys
she was seeing?
713
00:43:56,168 --> 00:43:58,835
Yeah, but they were all harmless.
714
00:44:01,085 --> 00:44:03,668
It's her ex that she was afraid of.
715
00:44:05,876 --> 00:44:08,710
Uh-- Sorry, who is that?
716
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,168
Daniel Marsh.
717
00:44:14,376 --> 00:44:15,626
Why was she afraid of him?
718
00:44:16,335 --> 00:44:18,001
He was harassing her.
719
00:44:19,043 --> 00:44:22,876
He had just gotten kicked out of Harvard,
was acting really erratic.
720
00:44:24,335 --> 00:44:29,335
He'd call in the middle of the night,
show up unannounced. Things like that.
721
00:44:31,376 --> 00:44:32,460
And when was this?
722
00:44:33,751 --> 00:44:35,585
Right up until around when it happened.
723
00:45:06,710 --> 00:45:08,710
[doorbell buzzes]
724
00:45:19,918 --> 00:45:20,918
Daniel Marsh?
725
00:45:21,543 --> 00:45:22,376
Yes?
726
00:45:22,376 --> 00:45:24,793
Loretta McLaughlin
with the Record American.
727
00:45:25,293 --> 00:45:26,585
You knew Beverly Samans?
728
00:45:28,501 --> 00:45:29,501
Come inside.
729
00:45:38,501 --> 00:45:39,501
[door closes]
730
00:45:40,501 --> 00:45:42,251
Come in. Come in.
731
00:45:57,793 --> 00:45:58,793
It's just back here.
732
00:45:58,793 --> 00:46:00,918
[machine rattling]
733
00:46:00,918 --> 00:46:02,418
We can talk just back here.
734
00:46:07,210 --> 00:46:11,626
Uh, I've just remembered that I've got,
uh, another appointment.
735
00:46:11,626 --> 00:46:15,085
I'm gonna have to--
I'm gonna have to come back another time.
736
00:46:18,168 --> 00:46:19,335
[door slams]
737
00:46:27,543 --> 00:46:28,626
[Loretta pants]
738
00:46:29,585 --> 00:46:31,626
[doll] Please take me with you.
739
00:46:32,793 --> 00:46:35,043
- [footsteps approaching]
- [doll] Please take me with you.
740
00:46:35,043 --> 00:46:37,126
Here's everything on Patricia and Nielson.
741
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,293
[doll] Please take me with you.
742
00:46:40,293 --> 00:46:41,710
You okay?
743
00:46:41,710 --> 00:46:42,793
Yeah.
744
00:46:43,376 --> 00:46:44,460
Don't stay here all night.
745
00:46:45,751 --> 00:46:46,751
I'm serious.
746
00:46:47,710 --> 00:46:48,710
I won't.
747
00:46:50,460 --> 00:46:52,210
[doll] Please take me with you.
748
00:46:58,585 --> 00:47:00,501
Wait, what did you say his name was?
749
00:47:03,001 --> 00:47:05,001
No, you called me.
750
00:47:07,210 --> 00:47:09,918
- Runnin' a hotline for the mentally unfit.
- [Loretta chuckles]
751
00:47:09,918 --> 00:47:11,376
That's everything.
752
00:47:11,376 --> 00:47:15,126
All right. Give me some time. I gotta
wade through this pile of shit first.
753
00:47:15,876 --> 00:47:17,126
Don't wait on these.
754
00:47:18,335 --> 00:47:19,335
They're good leads.
755
00:47:23,918 --> 00:47:24,918
[door lock clicks]
756
00:47:24,918 --> 00:47:27,001
[chattering on TV]
757
00:47:32,460 --> 00:47:33,460
[door lock clicks]
758
00:47:59,168 --> 00:48:01,001
- [detective] Boston Police Department!
- [gasps]
759
00:48:01,501 --> 00:48:02,501
Gordon Nielson?
760
00:48:02,501 --> 00:48:04,251
- [Nielson] Yes.
- [detective] Hands on the wall.
761
00:48:06,793 --> 00:48:08,418
[examiner] Your name is Gordon Nielson?
762
00:48:08,418 --> 00:48:09,501
[Nielson] Yes.
763
00:48:11,251 --> 00:48:12,960
[examiner] You've been divorced once?
764
00:48:13,835 --> 00:48:15,168
[Nielson] Yes.
765
00:48:15,168 --> 00:48:17,710
[examiner] Patricia Bissette worked
as your secretary?
766
00:48:17,710 --> 00:48:18,793
[Nielson] Yes.
767
00:48:21,251 --> 00:48:23,835
[examiner] Did you have a relationship
with her outside of work?
768
00:48:24,376 --> 00:48:25,376
Yes.
769
00:48:26,876 --> 00:48:29,126
[examiner] Did you see Patricia
the night she was murdered?
770
00:48:30,085 --> 00:48:31,085
No.
771
00:48:45,085 --> 00:48:46,668
Can I have an update, Detective?
772
00:48:48,376 --> 00:48:51,543
We caught Nielson removing evidence
from Patricia's apartment.
773
00:48:52,585 --> 00:48:53,960
He failed two polygraph tests,
774
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,126
but the DA still doesn't think
he has a case,
775
00:48:56,126 --> 00:48:58,001
and there's nothing tying him
to the other murders.
776
00:48:58,001 --> 00:48:59,460
So, what about Daniel Marsh?
777
00:48:59,460 --> 00:49:00,960
Who? The Harvard psycho?
778
00:49:01,585 --> 00:49:04,335
He's batshit crazy, I'll give you that,
but we got nothin' on him.
779
00:49:04,335 --> 00:49:06,585
Well, he was harassing Beverly
the week before she was killed.
780
00:49:06,585 --> 00:49:08,668
Uh, you can't charge a guy
for getting high
781
00:49:08,668 --> 00:49:10,710
and calling his ex-girlfriend
in the middle of the night.
782
00:49:10,710 --> 00:49:11,668
What, so that's it?
783
00:49:11,668 --> 00:49:15,168
I-I don't think you understand
what I'm dealin' with here.
784
00:49:16,293 --> 00:49:18,293
I'm gettin' a hundred tips a day,
785
00:49:18,293 --> 00:49:20,501
I got thousands of sex offenders
to screen,
786
00:49:20,501 --> 00:49:24,585
and now the commissioner just ordered
a raid on every gay bar in the city.
787
00:49:26,376 --> 00:49:29,460
I'm doing all I can,
but I'm not playing with a full deck.
788
00:49:30,085 --> 00:49:31,376
I'll see ya later.
789
00:49:31,376 --> 00:49:32,376
[car door opens]
790
00:49:32,376 --> 00:49:34,876
How many gay bars in Boston
are there anyway?
791
00:49:34,876 --> 00:49:36,001
There can't be that many.
792
00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:37,168
Way to miss the point, Jack.
793
00:49:37,168 --> 00:49:40,293
The point is Commissioner McNamara's
not up to the job.
794
00:49:40,293 --> 00:49:41,835
What does that mean, exactly?
795
00:49:41,835 --> 00:49:43,126
His head's shoved up his ass.
796
00:49:43,126 --> 00:49:45,168
They won't coordinate
with other police departments,
797
00:49:45,168 --> 00:49:46,293
connections are being missed,
798
00:49:46,293 --> 00:49:48,168
and good leads
are falling through the cracks.
799
00:49:48,168 --> 00:49:49,585
Isn't some of that to be expected?
800
00:49:49,585 --> 00:49:51,168
[Loretta] We are way beyond that.
801
00:49:51,168 --> 00:49:52,960
Oh, I'm sorry, Jack, am I keeping you up?
802
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,043
Will you cut the shit already?
What's the story?
803
00:49:55,043 --> 00:49:57,376
- The city can't protect its women.
- Come on.
804
00:49:57,376 --> 00:49:59,793
What? You don't think it's true,
or you don't think it's a story?
805
00:49:59,793 --> 00:50:00,960
[Jack] What is it with you?
806
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,168
You can't go after someone's livelihood
because you're impatient.
807
00:50:04,168 --> 00:50:06,501
Ten women are dead,
and these assholes don't have a clue!
808
00:50:06,501 --> 00:50:09,585
You don't have a story. You have a grudge.
809
00:50:09,585 --> 00:50:12,210
How many women have to die
before it's a story?
810
00:50:12,210 --> 00:50:13,293
That's enough.
811
00:50:13,876 --> 00:50:15,960
These are good men busting their asses.
812
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:18,335
I'm not waging a war
on the police department.
813
00:50:21,793 --> 00:50:24,543
[footsteps departing]
814
00:50:24,543 --> 00:50:27,626
[chattering on TV]
815
00:50:37,835 --> 00:50:38,918
Where you been?
816
00:50:40,085 --> 00:50:41,335
I had to work late.
817
00:50:43,835 --> 00:50:45,751
Oh, my God. Get a plate.
You're gonna make a mess.
818
00:50:45,751 --> 00:50:47,043
I'm not gonna make a mess.
819
00:50:56,835 --> 00:50:59,501
Sit down. I gotta talk to you anyway.
820
00:50:59,501 --> 00:51:01,668
Look, I've had a long day. Can't it wait?
821
00:51:02,251 --> 00:51:04,960
Loretta, sit down.
822
00:51:15,251 --> 00:51:17,085
I took a new position at work.
823
00:51:17,835 --> 00:51:21,918
It's better pay, but I have to be
in the Connecticut office part-time.
824
00:51:21,918 --> 00:51:23,085
Part-time?
825
00:51:24,626 --> 00:51:25,793
A few days a week.
826
00:51:27,376 --> 00:51:28,793
How long's this been in the works?
827
00:51:29,418 --> 00:51:30,418
Couple weeks.
828
00:51:30,418 --> 00:51:32,501
And when were you gonna tell me about it?
829
00:51:32,501 --> 00:51:36,751
A lot of long days lately.
Hasn't exactly been a good time.
830
00:51:36,751 --> 00:51:39,210
How are we supposed to manage
with you gone half the week?
831
00:51:39,876 --> 00:51:41,376
You're gonna have to do your share.
832
00:51:41,376 --> 00:51:44,960
What more could I possibly do
short of quit my job?
833
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:47,293
Is this your way of telling me
to stay home? Is that what this is?
834
00:51:47,293 --> 00:51:49,168
Come on.
Have I ever asked you to stay home?
835
00:51:49,168 --> 00:51:51,168
No, you just do
something like this instead.
836
00:51:51,168 --> 00:51:54,043
What, I'm free to do what I want as long
as it's on your terms, isn't that right?
837
00:51:54,043 --> 00:51:55,418
You are unbelievable, you know that?
838
00:51:55,418 --> 00:51:57,751
My-- My sister's right about you.
You're just--
839
00:51:57,751 --> 00:51:58,835
What?
840
00:51:59,918 --> 00:52:02,585
Say it. Say it.
841
00:52:03,710 --> 00:52:06,668
Most people would be happy
their husband got a promotion.
842
00:52:07,418 --> 00:52:08,418
[slams table]
843
00:52:18,168 --> 00:52:20,210
[line rings]
844
00:52:20,210 --> 00:52:21,626
[Phyllis on phone] Record American.
845
00:52:21,626 --> 00:52:25,293
[detective] Yeah, I'm looking for
Loretta McLaughlin or Jean Cole.
846
00:52:25,293 --> 00:52:26,668
One minute, please.
847
00:52:26,668 --> 00:52:28,751
[phone rings]
848
00:52:29,793 --> 00:52:31,001
Loretta.
849
00:52:31,001 --> 00:52:34,501
My name's Detective Linski, I'm with
the New York City Police Department.
850
00:52:34,501 --> 00:52:38,043
I'm calling about a murder we had
down here couple of weeks ago.
851
00:52:38,043 --> 00:52:40,376
Looks like it could be linked
to the stranglings.
852
00:52:41,668 --> 00:52:42,876
Older lady.
853
00:52:42,876 --> 00:52:45,335
Yeah, she turned up dead in a hotel room,
854
00:52:45,335 --> 00:52:48,085
strangled with stockings
tied around her neck.
855
00:52:48,085 --> 00:52:50,501
People from the hotel
saw the guy she was with.
856
00:52:50,501 --> 00:52:54,251
Couple of nights later he shows up
at the hotel bar, so I pick him up...
857
00:52:54,251 --> 00:52:57,001
[scoffs] ...find her cigarette case
still in his pocket.
858
00:52:57,835 --> 00:53:00,251
Only took me 45 minutes
to get a confession.
859
00:53:01,626 --> 00:53:03,543
His name is Paul Dempsey.
860
00:53:03,543 --> 00:53:06,418
Lives up in Maine,
but I can place him in Boston
861
00:53:06,418 --> 00:53:08,501
at the time of the first five murders.
862
00:53:09,335 --> 00:53:11,668
Uh, I'm assuming
you went to Boston Homicide with this?
863
00:53:11,668 --> 00:53:15,085
First call I made.
Couldn't get anyone to call me back.
864
00:53:15,085 --> 00:53:18,293
Couple of weeks go by,
so I make the trip up there myself.
865
00:53:18,293 --> 00:53:20,376
Figure I'll just tell 'em in person.
866
00:53:21,168 --> 00:53:24,251
Couldn't get anyone to meet with me.
Can you believe that?
867
00:53:25,876 --> 00:53:28,460
Detective drove four hours
for a homicide I'm working,
868
00:53:29,210 --> 00:53:31,210
I'd walk out of my kid's christening
for that.
869
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:33,710
I don't know what the hell
they're doin' up there.
870
00:53:33,710 --> 00:53:36,876
Turns out Paul Dempsey was a suspect
in a murder in Maine
871
00:53:36,876 --> 00:53:39,126
four years
before the first Strangler murder.
872
00:53:39,126 --> 00:53:41,168
The victim was an elderly woman
found strangled
873
00:53:41,168 --> 00:53:42,751
with her stockings tied around her neck.
874
00:53:42,751 --> 00:53:44,418
It could be the original Strangler murder,
875
00:53:44,418 --> 00:53:46,751
but no one can get Boston Homicide
to look into it.
876
00:53:46,751 --> 00:53:48,543
And this cop in New York
will go on the record?
877
00:53:48,543 --> 00:53:50,001
Already did.
878
00:53:50,001 --> 00:53:51,876
We're not running a hit job
on the police department.
879
00:53:51,876 --> 00:53:54,876
They're blowing the investigation.
How long can we keep ignoring it?
880
00:53:54,876 --> 00:53:58,085
I don't know how many times we have
to tell you, but we're not doing it.
881
00:53:58,751 --> 00:54:00,168
I don't know, Eddie.
882
00:54:02,335 --> 00:54:04,751
I mean, she's right.
We can't keep looking the other way.
883
00:54:05,335 --> 00:54:08,126
You really wanna use this paper
to tear down the police department?
884
00:54:08,126 --> 00:54:10,251
If anyone else was blowing it this badly,
885
00:54:10,251 --> 00:54:12,751
we'd have put it on the front page
a long time ago.
886
00:54:13,918 --> 00:54:14,918
All right.
887
00:54:16,001 --> 00:54:18,543
You want to run with this?
I'm not gonna stand in your way.
888
00:54:19,085 --> 00:54:21,668
But it's your neck on the block.
You understand?
889
00:54:22,376 --> 00:54:23,418
All right.
890
00:54:26,210 --> 00:54:28,085
[thunder rumbling]
891
00:54:28,085 --> 00:54:30,918
[Loretta] The Boston Police Department
is conducting the largest manhunt
892
00:54:30,918 --> 00:54:32,168
in the city's history,
893
00:54:32,168 --> 00:54:36,043
and yet no trace, no trail,
no trip up has been detected.
894
00:54:37,210 --> 00:54:41,585
Without sharing evidence,
police may overlook a common denominator,
895
00:54:41,585 --> 00:54:45,168
a missing link,
a clue that could identify the killer.
896
00:54:46,043 --> 00:54:48,960
Unless a centralized effort is set up
to catch the Strangler,
897
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,418
he will remain today
as he did one year ago,
898
00:54:52,418 --> 00:54:56,668
a faceless, formless,
flawless executioner.
899
00:54:57,751 --> 00:54:59,251
Holy shit.
900
00:55:00,210 --> 00:55:01,793
Tomorrow's gonna be interesting.
901
00:55:06,918 --> 00:55:09,918
Nice knowin' ya. Fun while it lasted.
902
00:55:13,918 --> 00:55:16,626
[newscaster on TV] The attorney general
held a press conference today
903
00:55:16,626 --> 00:55:20,376
to announce that he is assuming command
of the Boston Strangler investigation
904
00:55:20,376 --> 00:55:23,043
after a critical story
in the Record American .
905
00:55:23,043 --> 00:55:26,001
He has appointed
Deputy Attorney General John Bottomly
906
00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:28,043
to oversee the investigation.
907
00:55:28,043 --> 00:55:30,293
[commentator on radio]
To suggest the Boston Police Department
908
00:55:30,293 --> 00:55:33,626
is leaving any stone unturned is absurd.
909
00:55:33,626 --> 00:55:35,876
And all this
because a couple girl reporters question
910
00:55:35,876 --> 00:55:37,376
the credentials of our police department.
911
00:55:37,376 --> 00:55:39,168
- [scoffs]
- I mean, what the hell do they know
912
00:55:39,168 --> 00:55:40,251
about police work?
913
00:55:40,251 --> 00:55:43,793
[crickets chirping]
914
00:55:43,793 --> 00:55:46,876
[wind howling]
915
00:56:16,335 --> 00:56:17,376
[gasps]
916
00:56:30,793 --> 00:56:32,793
[wind whistling]
917
00:56:37,543 --> 00:56:38,710
[sighs]
918
00:57:14,418 --> 00:57:17,418
[breathing shakily]
919
00:57:17,418 --> 00:57:18,626
[screen door bangs]
920
00:57:18,626 --> 00:57:20,710
[dog barking]
921
00:57:30,335 --> 00:57:32,251
[wind whistling]
922
00:57:33,460 --> 00:57:34,793
- [screen door bangs]
- [gasps]
923
00:57:38,585 --> 00:57:41,585
[panting]
924
00:57:49,793 --> 00:57:50,793
[sighs]
925
00:57:53,085 --> 00:57:54,210
[Tommy] What is that?
926
00:57:54,210 --> 00:57:55,835
- [Loretta] No, don't touch that!
- [gasps]
927
00:57:57,585 --> 00:57:58,585
Go back to bed.
928
00:57:59,918 --> 00:58:01,918
[footsteps running]
929
00:58:09,710 --> 00:58:10,710
Oh.
930
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:25,168
Someone came to the house?
931
00:58:25,168 --> 00:58:29,085
They put it in the mail slot.
It was just me and the kids home.
932
00:58:29,085 --> 00:58:32,085
You think it was a deranged cop
or some deranged asshole?
933
00:58:32,085 --> 00:58:34,626
Well, I'm not exactly pleased
about it either way.
934
00:58:38,335 --> 00:58:39,335
Where are you going?
935
00:58:45,293 --> 00:58:47,668
Now, I didn't say anything when you put
our pictures in the paper,
936
00:58:47,668 --> 00:58:50,210
but you and I both know what that was.
That was a stunt.
937
00:58:50,210 --> 00:58:52,043
- And I know you wanna sell your papers...
- Calm down.
938
00:58:52,043 --> 00:58:53,168
...but at what cost?
939
00:58:53,168 --> 00:58:55,876
There's more than one lunatic out there,
and you're gonna get us both killed!
940
00:58:55,876 --> 00:58:57,251
- You take it out!
- I'll handle it.
941
00:59:03,085 --> 00:59:05,335
They're not puttin' our picture
in the paper anymore.
942
00:59:07,835 --> 00:59:08,835
I need a drink.
943
00:59:12,001 --> 00:59:13,876
I don't know what
I'm supposed to do anymore.
944
00:59:13,876 --> 00:59:15,335
- [Jean] About what?
- About everything.
945
00:59:15,918 --> 00:59:18,210
You know, it's like I get to do half
of everything I really want
946
00:59:18,210 --> 00:59:20,460
and everyone around me
still feels shortchanged.
947
00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:23,335
James has had enough.
948
00:59:23,335 --> 00:59:25,751
And my-- my poor kids are spooked.
949
00:59:27,168 --> 00:59:29,751
You know, most of my paycheck
goes to the babysitter now?
950
00:59:30,251 --> 00:59:31,335
Who cares?
951
00:59:31,335 --> 00:59:34,293
You're gonna make yourself crazy
worrying about everyone else all the time.
952
00:59:34,293 --> 00:59:35,376
[chuckles]
953
00:59:35,376 --> 00:59:38,543
You can't be apologetic, not about
the things that are important to you.
954
00:59:39,501 --> 00:59:41,918
How come you're so calm about everything?
955
00:59:41,918 --> 00:59:44,418
Now, you've got kids.
It must be crazy for you too.
956
00:59:45,168 --> 00:59:47,543
How do you keep
everything so under control?
957
00:59:47,543 --> 00:59:49,585
My life's a three-ring circus.
958
00:59:49,585 --> 00:59:52,543
The wheels have been about to fall off
since our youngest was born.
959
00:59:53,876 --> 00:59:56,293
So, what do you want to do
about this story?
960
00:59:56,293 --> 00:59:58,293
You sure you want to keep going with this?
961
01:00:02,293 --> 01:00:03,293
[cash register dings]
962
01:00:03,293 --> 01:00:05,210
[detective]
Boston Police are keeping us in the dark.
963
01:00:05,210 --> 01:00:07,293
They won't talk to any
of the other departments.
964
01:00:07,293 --> 01:00:09,210
And they sure as hell don't want our help.
965
01:00:09,210 --> 01:00:10,751
Would you go on the record with that?
966
01:00:13,001 --> 01:00:15,668
Yeah. Go ahead, print my name.
967
01:00:16,835 --> 01:00:17,918
Print this too.
968
01:00:19,418 --> 01:00:21,418
Couple weeks ago,
we get a call about this guy,
969
01:00:21,418 --> 01:00:23,543
was harassing these girls
in their apartment.
970
01:00:24,126 --> 01:00:26,710
Then Boston won't share
any information with us.
971
01:00:28,210 --> 01:00:29,543
So we just let him go.
972
01:00:30,626 --> 01:00:33,210
I come to find out
he's one of their prime suspects.
973
01:00:34,210 --> 01:00:36,835
We had him, and we just let him walk away.
974
01:00:37,710 --> 01:00:38,710
What was his name?
975
01:00:40,626 --> 01:00:41,793
Off the record...
976
01:00:43,168 --> 01:00:44,460
Albert DeSalvo.
977
01:00:45,876 --> 01:00:47,376
He's famous over in Cambridge.
978
01:00:49,168 --> 01:00:51,585
- Famous for what?
- [sighs]
979
01:00:51,585 --> 01:00:54,918
Making himself unwanted.
980
01:01:01,460 --> 01:01:03,460
[chattering]
981
01:01:05,876 --> 01:01:07,876
- Brian, coffee?
- Thank you.
982
01:01:08,585 --> 01:01:09,585
Guys, coffee?
983
01:01:09,585 --> 01:01:11,626
[desk officer]
All right, whose file you need?
984
01:01:11,626 --> 01:01:13,085
[Loretta] Uh, DeSalvo.
985
01:01:13,085 --> 01:01:14,918
- Which one?
- Sorry?
986
01:01:15,418 --> 01:01:17,543
All the DeSalvo brothers
graduated from jail.
987
01:01:17,543 --> 01:01:19,793
- Which one ya need?
- Albert.
988
01:01:19,793 --> 01:01:21,835
- [desk officer] Figures.
- What, you know him?
989
01:01:21,835 --> 01:01:25,501
Every cop in Cambridge knows him.
Al's a world-class creep.
990
01:01:26,585 --> 01:01:29,585
Just got nabbed on rape charges
over in Malden.
991
01:01:29,585 --> 01:01:31,251
- He's in custody?
- Yeah.
992
01:01:31,251 --> 01:01:34,376
They got him up in Bridgewater right now.
Have fun.
993
01:01:50,418 --> 01:01:54,293
[sergeant] DeSalvo had two cons,
the Green Man and the Measuring Man.
994
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,460
They called him the Green Man
'cause he put on green workman's clothes
995
01:01:57,460 --> 01:01:59,460
and posed as the maintenance guy,
996
01:01:59,460 --> 01:02:02,043
say he needed to check something
inside their apartments.
997
01:02:03,335 --> 01:02:05,668
[Loretta]
And, uh, what about the Measuring Man?
998
01:02:05,668 --> 01:02:08,710
[sergeant] I don't know where he came up
with this one,
999
01:02:08,710 --> 01:02:11,043
but he'd pretend to be a modeling scout.
1000
01:02:11,668 --> 01:02:15,126
And he'd convince these girls to let him
in so he could take their measurements.
1001
01:02:16,418 --> 01:02:18,543
You wouldn't believe
how many people let him do it.
1002
01:02:19,751 --> 01:02:24,293
He told me I had a nice figure.
He said his agency would hire me.
1003
01:02:24,293 --> 01:02:27,376
He just needed to take some measurements.
1004
01:02:28,751 --> 01:02:30,418
But he didn't have a measuring tape.
1005
01:02:32,585 --> 01:02:34,043
He just used his hands.
1006
01:02:37,335 --> 01:02:38,918
I got this horrible feeling.
1007
01:02:41,126 --> 01:02:42,376
My whole body just froze.
1008
01:02:45,168 --> 01:02:47,168
[church bells tolling]
1009
01:02:53,126 --> 01:02:54,210
[sighs]
1010
01:02:54,210 --> 01:02:56,293
[chattering]
1011
01:03:11,668 --> 01:03:13,918
- You remember Sophie's neighbor?
- [Jean] Mm-hmm.
1012
01:03:13,918 --> 01:03:17,418
Uh, she said a man came to her apartment
the day Sophie was killed.
1013
01:03:17,418 --> 01:03:19,751
Now, first he said he was there
to paint the apartment,
1014
01:03:19,751 --> 01:03:22,085
and then he asked her
if she ever thought about modeling.
1015
01:03:23,126 --> 01:03:26,626
The Green Man slipped
into the Measuring Man. It's DeSalvo.
1016
01:03:27,751 --> 01:03:29,001
[chattering]
1017
01:03:29,001 --> 01:03:30,085
[host] Right this way.
1018
01:03:34,043 --> 01:03:35,876
I can't be caught dead
talking to you right now.
1019
01:03:35,876 --> 01:03:38,960
- That bad, huh?
- No, I'm serious.
1020
01:03:39,793 --> 01:03:43,043
If you gotta call me at the station,
you say you're my sister Sally, all right?
1021
01:03:46,251 --> 01:03:47,710
What do you have for me?
1022
01:03:56,376 --> 01:03:59,085
- It's not him.
- Well, it has to be him. Look--
1023
01:03:59,085 --> 01:04:02,043
I mean, Sophie's neighbor said
he came to paint the apartment,
1024
01:04:02,043 --> 01:04:04,710
but then he slipped up
and started talking to her about modeling.
1025
01:04:04,710 --> 01:04:07,835
I mean, those are the two cons
DeSalvo is famous for.
1026
01:04:07,835 --> 01:04:11,918
I worked DeSalvo for weeks.
I loved him for it. It's not him.
1027
01:04:12,751 --> 01:04:13,835
What makes you so sure?
1028
01:04:13,835 --> 01:04:16,085
He was in prison
for the first six murders,
1029
01:04:16,085 --> 01:04:18,168
didn't get out
until after Sophie was killed.
1030
01:04:19,043 --> 01:04:21,543
Whoever was in that lady's apartment
wasn't DeSalvo.
1031
01:04:23,043 --> 01:04:24,043
[sighs]
1032
01:04:24,043 --> 01:04:28,043
What you're feeling right now,
that's every day for me.
1033
01:04:29,918 --> 01:04:32,543
You know how many people
I've gone down the rabbit hole with?
1034
01:04:33,043 --> 01:04:34,793
It's a dead-end every time with this case.
1035
01:04:34,793 --> 01:04:36,501
You get your teeth into something
1036
01:04:36,501 --> 01:04:39,876
and then your bottom falls out at three
in the morning, and you got nothin'.
1037
01:04:42,126 --> 01:04:43,960
And while I'm making myself crazy...
1038
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:49,460
he's out there somewhere...
1039
01:04:52,126 --> 01:04:53,293
laughing at us.
1040
01:04:57,710 --> 01:04:59,085
[thunderclap]
1041
01:04:59,085 --> 01:05:01,168
[rain pattering]
1042
01:05:08,501 --> 01:05:09,751
[sighs]
1043
01:05:20,710 --> 01:05:22,710
[rain continues]
1044
01:05:30,168 --> 01:05:32,168
[chattering]
1045
01:05:39,418 --> 01:05:41,085
You still stuck on DeSalvo?
1046
01:05:41,668 --> 01:05:43,335
Everything lines up with him.
1047
01:05:43,335 --> 01:05:45,668
His history,
the progression of the crimes, everything.
1048
01:05:45,668 --> 01:05:48,751
[Jean] Except for the part where he was
in prison for the first six murders.
1049
01:05:52,751 --> 01:05:54,626
Have you seen the actual release records?
1050
01:06:18,585 --> 01:06:19,751
[sighs]
1051
01:06:26,585 --> 01:06:27,668
[sighs]
1052
01:06:31,293 --> 01:06:32,335
[sighs]
1053
01:06:42,668 --> 01:06:43,668
Look at this.
1054
01:06:49,335 --> 01:06:50,585
Oh, my God.
1055
01:06:50,585 --> 01:06:53,168
DeSalvo petitioned the judge
for early release.
1056
01:06:53,168 --> 01:06:55,251
He said he had to get back
to his wife and kids.
1057
01:06:56,001 --> 01:06:57,835
The judge let him out for good behavior.
1058
01:06:57,835 --> 01:06:59,710
So, he was out in time?
1059
01:06:59,710 --> 01:07:01,460
Two months before the first murder.
1060
01:07:05,585 --> 01:07:09,585
A 33-year-old father of two
is considered a prime suspect
1061
01:07:09,585 --> 01:07:11,668
in the Boston Strangler case.
1062
01:07:11,668 --> 01:07:14,668
The suspect is presently confined
in a state mental hospital
1063
01:07:14,668 --> 01:07:17,710
for allegedly assaulting a woman
last December.
1064
01:07:23,043 --> 01:07:24,043
We got beat.
1065
01:07:26,460 --> 01:07:28,376
[Loretta] Who the hell is F. Lee Bailey?
1066
01:07:28,376 --> 01:07:31,585
A hotshot defense lawyer.
One of those press hounds.
1067
01:07:31,585 --> 01:07:34,126
How the hell did DeSalvo
get a hotshot lawyer?
1068
01:07:34,126 --> 01:07:37,210
I don't know.
You want me to go do your job for ya?
1069
01:07:39,585 --> 01:07:41,585
[chattering]
1070
01:07:45,001 --> 01:07:46,335
What's on the docket tonight?
1071
01:07:47,043 --> 01:07:49,085
[Loretta] I'm writing a story
about how Albert DeSalvo
1072
01:07:49,085 --> 01:07:50,835
got a high-priced defense lawyer.
1073
01:07:52,210 --> 01:07:55,126
Would someone familiar
with the investigation care to comment?
1074
01:07:56,543 --> 01:07:57,585
No.
1075
01:07:57,585 --> 01:07:59,543
[Loretta] So, what happened
when you went to question him?
1076
01:07:59,543 --> 01:08:00,835
[birds squawking]
1077
01:08:00,835 --> 01:08:04,168
[Jim] Bailey got to him first.
Wouldn't let us interview him.
1078
01:08:06,085 --> 01:08:09,418
So, I brought Sophie Clark's neighbor in
to ID DeSalvo.
1079
01:08:37,501 --> 01:08:38,751
She didn't recognize him?
1080
01:08:38,751 --> 01:08:41,710
Not only did she not recognize him,
she ID'd someone else.
1081
01:08:41,710 --> 01:08:42,835
Who?
1082
01:08:42,835 --> 01:08:44,543
George Nassar.
1083
01:08:50,418 --> 01:08:52,793
Murdered a gas station attendant
during a robbery.
1084
01:08:53,793 --> 01:08:57,876
[scoffs] Real piece of work.
Schizophrenic with a genius IQ.
1085
01:08:57,876 --> 01:08:59,293
And?
1086
01:08:59,918 --> 01:09:03,876
It's not him.
Been in custody for over a year.
1087
01:09:07,376 --> 01:09:10,376
[reporters clamoring]
1088
01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:13,543
[Bailey] People can breathe
a sigh of relief tonight.
1089
01:09:13,543 --> 01:09:15,335
The career of the Boston Strangler
is over.
1090
01:09:15,335 --> 01:09:18,418
- [reporter 1] Is it true Mr. Bailey?
- [reporter 2] He's telling the truth?
1091
01:09:18,418 --> 01:09:21,835
[Bailey] I obtained five details
only the killer could know.
1092
01:09:21,835 --> 01:09:23,543
When I quizzed DeSalvo,
he went five for five.
1093
01:09:23,543 --> 01:09:25,001
[reporter 3] Mr. Bailey!
1094
01:09:25,001 --> 01:09:29,085
When you've done as many interrogations as
I have, you develop an ear for bullshit.
1095
01:09:29,085 --> 01:09:30,543
[reporters laughing]
1096
01:09:30,543 --> 01:09:32,835
And was law enforcement
a part of this process?
1097
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:36,668
That's all I'm gonna say right now.
1098
01:09:37,585 --> 01:09:40,793
We're still negotiating his confession.
If you'll excuse me.
1099
01:09:40,793 --> 01:09:43,293
- [shutter clicks]
- [reporters clamoring]
1100
01:09:43,293 --> 01:09:44,710
[reporter 4] Will he confess?
1101
01:09:52,835 --> 01:09:54,335
[Bottomly] This is John Bottomly.
1102
01:09:55,876 --> 01:09:58,876
The date is February 14th, 1964.
1103
01:10:00,710 --> 01:10:03,710
Albert, please state your full name.
1104
01:10:08,460 --> 01:10:10,126
Albert Henry DeSalvo.
1105
01:10:12,543 --> 01:10:15,001
[Bottomly] Mr. DeSalvo, we are here today
1106
01:10:15,001 --> 01:10:19,501
because you intend to confess
to all 13 Boston Strangler murders.
1107
01:10:19,501 --> 01:10:20,585
Is that correct?
1108
01:10:20,585 --> 01:10:21,876
Yes.
1109
01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:25,710
Tell me about your first victim.
1110
01:10:27,543 --> 01:10:29,460
How did you pick Anna Slesers?
1111
01:10:30,543 --> 01:10:32,418
I didn't pick her in advance.
1112
01:10:32,418 --> 01:10:34,876
There was a parking spot
in front of the house.
1113
01:10:34,876 --> 01:10:38,376
If there hadn't been a spot,
I never would have got her.
1114
01:10:40,210 --> 01:10:42,376
[Bottomly] Albert,
what color robe was she wearing?
1115
01:10:43,293 --> 01:10:44,585
[DeSalvo] Yellow.
1116
01:10:46,793 --> 01:10:48,293
Hear about DeSalvo?
1117
01:10:48,293 --> 01:10:49,751
No. What?
1118
01:10:49,751 --> 01:10:52,543
They sent Bottomly
to take his confession last night.
1119
01:10:52,543 --> 01:10:55,043
Bottomly interviewed him for five hours.
1120
01:10:55,043 --> 01:10:56,001
And?
1121
01:10:56,001 --> 01:10:58,126
No one knows. He hasn't said a word.
1122
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:10,210
Can I have a word, please?
1123
01:11:12,918 --> 01:11:14,168
I'll catch up.
1124
01:11:16,585 --> 01:11:18,251
What's going on with DeSalvo?
1125
01:11:18,251 --> 01:11:19,835
Nothing.
1126
01:11:19,835 --> 01:11:22,001
If he confessed,
why haven't they charged him?
1127
01:11:22,668 --> 01:11:25,460
Bailey used you guys
to pressure the attorney general,
1128
01:11:25,460 --> 01:11:28,168
and then he set one condition
for DeSalvo's confession.
1129
01:11:29,001 --> 01:11:31,626
- Yeah, and what's that?
- They're not allowed to use it in court.
1130
01:11:32,710 --> 01:11:33,876
They didn't agree to that.
1131
01:11:33,876 --> 01:11:37,585
They didn't have a choice
after you put DeSalvo on the front page.
1132
01:11:37,585 --> 01:11:40,793
But they think they can get life
on the rape charges.
1133
01:11:40,793 --> 01:11:43,793
And they're just gonna ignore the fact
that 13 women were killed?
1134
01:11:45,085 --> 01:11:46,168
That's all I got.
1135
01:11:47,543 --> 01:11:51,126
And I haven't even
told you the punch line yet.
1136
01:11:51,126 --> 01:11:53,210
You know how Bailey's gettin' paid?
1137
01:11:53,793 --> 01:11:56,376
He got DeSalvo a five-figure book deal.
1138
01:11:57,126 --> 01:11:59,710
A tell-all from the Boston Strangler.
1139
01:12:02,210 --> 01:12:04,126
Everyone just wants it to be over.
1140
01:12:07,585 --> 01:12:10,251
[footsteps departing]
1141
01:12:16,751 --> 01:12:18,376
[Loretta]
They're washing their hands of it,
1142
01:12:18,376 --> 01:12:20,710
and that headline you're about to run
makes it easy for them.
1143
01:12:20,710 --> 01:12:23,293
Come on.
The murders stopped. The guy's in jail.
1144
01:12:23,293 --> 01:12:24,501
What the hell else you want?
1145
01:12:24,501 --> 01:12:27,501
They botched the biggest investigation
in the city's history,
1146
01:12:27,501 --> 01:12:29,501
and you're just gonna let them
sweep it under the rug.
1147
01:12:29,501 --> 01:12:32,501
Aw, come on, Loretta.
How much trouble you gonna cause me today?
1148
01:12:32,501 --> 01:12:34,126
Well, clearly not enough.
1149
01:12:34,126 --> 01:12:37,126
Get outta here. Just take the week off.
1150
01:12:37,126 --> 01:12:39,626
- I'm not taking the week off.
- I'm not asking.
1151
01:12:39,626 --> 01:12:42,751
The police are washing their hands of it,
and you expect us to move on.
1152
01:12:42,751 --> 01:12:44,960
- Loretta.
- We're not doing it.
1153
01:12:45,543 --> 01:12:47,043
I took a new assignment.
1154
01:12:48,668 --> 01:12:49,876
You've gotta be kidding me.
1155
01:12:53,376 --> 01:12:56,251
[scoffs] You never see the knife
with you people.
1156
01:12:56,251 --> 01:12:59,418
Don't get it twisted. If there's
another murder, I'll drop everything.
1157
01:12:59,418 --> 01:13:01,751
But until then, we cover the news.
We don't make it.
1158
01:13:07,168 --> 01:13:09,335
[footsteps departing]
1159
01:13:09,335 --> 01:13:11,418
[footsteps approaching]
1160
01:13:20,876 --> 01:13:21,960
Place looks nice.
1161
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,626
[Beverly's parent]
Oh. Sunlight always helps. [chuckles]
1162
01:13:26,085 --> 01:13:29,918
Been reading your stories. You think
they're finally gonna charge him?
1163
01:13:32,793 --> 01:13:34,376
[sighing] Uh, yeah.
1164
01:13:37,418 --> 01:13:39,418
That's what I want to talk to you about.
1165
01:13:40,835 --> 01:13:43,335
There's gonna be a story
in the papers tomorrow.
1166
01:13:46,210 --> 01:13:49,710
They're not gonna charge Albert
with Beverly's murder.
1167
01:13:50,501 --> 01:13:52,043
Or any of the murders for that matter.
1168
01:13:54,293 --> 01:13:56,376
I don't understand. If he confessed...
1169
01:13:58,376 --> 01:14:03,710
They made a deal with his lawyer, and
they can't use his confession in court.
1170
01:14:05,293 --> 01:14:06,918
But they have him on other charges.
1171
01:14:06,918 --> 01:14:10,126
And-- And they're gonna make sure
that he never gets out of prison.
1172
01:14:10,126 --> 01:14:12,043
[Beverly's parent]
But what about my daughter?
1173
01:14:13,501 --> 01:14:16,835
It's not right
to just give up on her like this.
1174
01:14:18,085 --> 01:14:19,418
How can they do that?
1175
01:14:23,210 --> 01:14:27,376
[actor 1 on TV] The price is £20,000.
English pounds sterling.
1176
01:14:28,210 --> 01:14:31,960
- [actor 2 on TV] £20,000?
- [actor 1] Before I state my proposition,
1177
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,293
let me warn you not to breathe a word
of it to anyone except your chief.
1178
01:14:36,168 --> 01:14:38,251
My life will depend upon your discretion.
1179
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:40,460
Hey, the kids asleep?
1180
01:14:41,710 --> 01:14:42,876
[Loretta's husband] Yeah.
1181
01:14:45,293 --> 01:14:46,626
[actor 2] State your proposition.
1182
01:14:47,293 --> 01:14:48,293
[actor 1] Very well.
1183
01:14:49,460 --> 01:14:53,710
Seven British documents classified as
most secret have come into my possession.
1184
01:14:54,543 --> 01:14:57,793
Military and political documents
of utmost value to your government.
1185
01:14:58,543 --> 01:14:59,543
I'm prepared to sell.
1186
01:16:13,668 --> 01:16:16,335
[dispatcher] We have a possible intruder
at Oak Tower apartments.
1187
01:16:19,501 --> 01:16:20,918
Sixty-one, got it.
1188
01:16:23,043 --> 01:16:24,960
[engine starts]
1189
01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:26,418
[tires squealing]
1190
01:16:28,501 --> 01:16:30,543
[keys jingling]
1191
01:16:30,543 --> 01:16:33,085
[Nowhere to Run (Nowhere to Hide)
playing on TV]
1192
01:16:33,085 --> 01:16:34,168
[teakettle whistling]
1193
01:16:34,168 --> 01:16:36,001
Nowhere to run ♪
1194
01:16:36,001 --> 01:16:38,751
Nowhere to hide from ya ♪
1195
01:16:45,793 --> 01:16:46,960
[detective] State police!
1196
01:16:47,751 --> 01:16:50,085
[singing on TV continues]
1197
01:16:55,043 --> 01:16:56,460
[phone rings]
1198
01:16:56,460 --> 01:16:57,585
Yes?
1199
01:16:57,585 --> 01:16:59,001
[detective] Loretta McLaughlin.
1200
01:16:59,001 --> 01:17:00,085
Speaking. Who's this?
1201
01:17:00,085 --> 01:17:02,668
Detective DeLine, Michigan State Police.
1202
01:17:02,668 --> 01:17:07,585
I don't know if you're aware, but we had
six women strangled near Ann Arbor.
1203
01:17:07,585 --> 01:17:08,668
When was this?
1204
01:17:08,668 --> 01:17:10,793
We found the sixth victim last night.
1205
01:17:11,585 --> 01:17:14,126
Uh, you said they were strangled.
Anything else in common?
1206
01:17:14,126 --> 01:17:18,585
All the crime scenes were damn near
identical to the Boston Strangler.
1207
01:17:18,585 --> 01:17:19,835
I've read your stories.
1208
01:17:19,835 --> 01:17:22,793
I think it's safe to say
that you're an expert on the case.
1209
01:17:22,793 --> 01:17:28,376
So, I wanted to ask you, do you still
think that Albert DeSalvo is the guy?
1210
01:17:41,543 --> 01:17:42,626
What are you doing?
1211
01:17:45,210 --> 01:17:47,210
What do you think
you're gonna find out there?
1212
01:17:53,751 --> 01:17:57,335
When is this gonna stop, Loretta?
When are you gonna let this go?
1213
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:10,960
Be careful, will you?
1214
01:18:15,126 --> 01:18:17,126
[footsteps departing]
1215
01:18:50,335 --> 01:18:54,501
Thanks. So, uh, have you got any suspects?
1216
01:18:55,085 --> 01:18:57,626
If I did,
I wouldn't be telling a reporter.
1217
01:18:58,210 --> 01:18:59,210
Off the record.
1218
01:18:59,210 --> 01:19:01,585
Off the record,
I wouldn't be telling a reporter.
1219
01:19:01,585 --> 01:19:05,043
You could've saved a lot of trouble
if you'd just called first.
1220
01:19:05,043 --> 01:19:09,168
Well, how about the case files?
Mind if I take a look?
1221
01:19:10,168 --> 01:19:14,001
How many cops let you look
at open case files?
1222
01:19:14,668 --> 01:19:15,668
Not many.
1223
01:19:17,585 --> 01:19:18,793
[DeLine grunts]
1224
01:19:20,918 --> 01:19:22,085
[DeLine sighs]
1225
01:19:37,210 --> 01:19:38,543
[DeLine] You got 20 minutes.
1226
01:19:43,585 --> 01:19:45,835
[sighing]
1227
01:19:58,168 --> 01:19:59,418
[sighs]
1228
01:20:11,168 --> 01:20:12,626
[meteorologist on radio] ...also like snow.
1229
01:20:12,626 --> 01:20:15,335
We're gonna have quite a bit,
according to the latest forecast.
1230
01:20:15,335 --> 01:20:17,751
Looks like we'll have snow
continuing overnight.
1231
01:20:17,751 --> 01:20:22,085
We can expect at least several more
inches ending later in the day tomorrow.
1232
01:20:22,085 --> 01:20:24,668
Then, clearing tomorrow night,
becoming mostly...
1233
01:20:24,668 --> 01:20:26,585
[DeLine] Well, I do appreciate that.
1234
01:20:28,001 --> 01:20:29,001
Yeah.
1235
01:20:29,876 --> 01:20:31,293
I'm gonna have to call you back.
1236
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:34,585
Daniel Marsh's ex-girlfriend was killed
by the Boston Strangler.
1237
01:20:34,585 --> 01:20:38,001
He was my favorite suspect for her murder,
and he's here in Ann Arbor.
1238
01:20:38,001 --> 01:20:39,126
Won't you have a seat?
1239
01:20:41,043 --> 01:20:46,001
Off the record,
he's our prime suspect right now.
1240
01:20:46,001 --> 01:20:48,293
You're the second person from Boston
to report him.
1241
01:20:48,293 --> 01:20:49,876
Are you gonna charge him?
1242
01:20:49,876 --> 01:20:51,168
[DeLine] We don't have enough yet.
1243
01:20:51,168 --> 01:20:52,793
Why didn't you say something earlier?
1244
01:20:52,793 --> 01:20:54,918
Because we're not having
this conversation.
1245
01:20:54,918 --> 01:20:56,626
Who was the other person who reported him?
1246
01:20:56,626 --> 01:20:59,168
The medical director from Bridgewater.
1247
01:20:59,168 --> 01:21:00,793
Uh, Dr. Robey please.
1248
01:21:00,793 --> 01:21:02,043
[operator] Hold, please.
1249
01:21:03,835 --> 01:21:04,835
[Robey] Hello?
1250
01:21:04,835 --> 01:21:07,335
Uh, Loretta McLaughlin
with the Record American.
1251
01:21:08,501 --> 01:21:09,710
What can I do for you?
1252
01:21:11,293 --> 01:21:12,293
Uh...
1253
01:21:13,001 --> 01:21:15,918
Why did you report Daniel Marsh
to the Michigan State Police?
1254
01:21:16,543 --> 01:21:19,043
I'm sorry.
I can't discuss one of my patients.
1255
01:21:19,585 --> 01:21:20,918
He was a patient of yours?
1256
01:21:20,918 --> 01:21:22,293
Yes.
1257
01:21:22,293 --> 01:21:23,543
At Bridgewater?
1258
01:21:24,126 --> 01:21:26,126
Well, yes. That's where my patients are.
1259
01:21:27,210 --> 01:21:29,001
Is there anything else
I can help you with?
1260
01:21:30,293 --> 01:21:31,626
No. Thank you.
1261
01:21:36,085 --> 01:21:37,418
[line rings]
1262
01:21:37,418 --> 01:21:38,501
[Jean] Hello?
1263
01:21:38,501 --> 01:21:39,876
I need you to call in a favor.
1264
01:21:39,876 --> 01:21:41,460
I thought you weren't speaking to me.
1265
01:21:41,460 --> 01:21:42,543
I'm not.
1266
01:21:43,418 --> 01:21:44,418
All right, what?
1267
01:21:50,210 --> 01:21:52,293
I'm Jean Cole, Deb McNulty's expecting me.
1268
01:21:54,668 --> 01:21:57,251
Be quick. I don't wanna get fired tonight.
1269
01:22:01,543 --> 01:22:04,085
[muttering]
1270
01:22:11,501 --> 01:22:14,043
He was arrested
for assaulting his girlfriend.
1271
01:22:14,043 --> 01:22:17,251
Dr. Robey evaluated him at Bridgewater
and had him committed.
1272
01:22:17,251 --> 01:22:18,918
[Loretta] Did he overlap with DeSalvo?
1273
01:22:18,918 --> 01:22:22,168
They were in there together
for three months in the same ward.
1274
01:22:23,251 --> 01:22:24,460
[knocking]
1275
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:28,751
[DeLine]
Daniel Marsh, we know you're in there!
1276
01:22:31,293 --> 01:22:33,751
Come out with your hands up!
1277
01:22:33,751 --> 01:22:35,835
[floorboards creaking]
1278
01:23:16,501 --> 01:23:21,168
All right, Daniel. Just write down
where you were on each of these days.
1279
01:23:29,335 --> 01:23:31,085
Just answer the question, Daniel.
1280
01:23:33,168 --> 01:23:36,418
Where were you
when these women were murdered?
1281
01:23:37,293 --> 01:23:40,543
I was going to school in Boston.
You know that.
1282
01:23:42,710 --> 01:23:44,293
What about Bridgewater?
1283
01:23:45,251 --> 01:23:48,835
You ever spend any time
with Albert DeSalvo?
1284
01:23:50,918 --> 01:23:52,335
Are you charging me?
1285
01:23:52,335 --> 01:23:54,501
Just answer the fucking question, Daniel.
1286
01:23:54,501 --> 01:23:57,293
If you are not charging me,
I want to leave.
1287
01:23:57,293 --> 01:23:58,376
You want to leave?
1288
01:23:59,710 --> 01:24:03,710
There's a dozen reporters out there
that just got tipped off. Go ahead.
1289
01:24:05,251 --> 01:24:11,418
If they put my name in the paper,
I'll just start over somewhere else.
1290
01:24:14,043 --> 01:24:17,043
[reporters clamoring]
1291
01:24:28,251 --> 01:24:29,335
[car door opens]
1292
01:24:40,876 --> 01:24:42,168
[officer on phone] Homicide.
1293
01:24:42,168 --> 01:24:45,001
Uh, Detective Conley, please.
It's his sister Sally.
1294
01:24:45,710 --> 01:24:48,210
Loretta, he quit. Try him at home.
1295
01:24:48,210 --> 01:24:49,293
[line clicks]
1296
01:24:55,126 --> 01:24:57,960
[examiner] You killed all of 'em, all 13.
1297
01:24:59,085 --> 01:25:01,585
Admit it. Admit it!
1298
01:25:02,251 --> 01:25:03,251
I did.
1299
01:25:05,168 --> 01:25:07,168
I did. I did.
1300
01:25:08,001 --> 01:25:09,001
[director] Cut!
1301
01:25:09,001 --> 01:25:10,501
[bell rings]
1302
01:25:10,501 --> 01:25:13,335
[director muttering]
1303
01:25:13,335 --> 01:25:14,543
[crew member] Right behind you.
1304
01:25:14,543 --> 01:25:15,835
[director] So, what do you think?
1305
01:25:17,793 --> 01:25:21,001
Well, he's got--
he's got to lay into him a little more.
1306
01:25:21,710 --> 01:25:23,585
- It was pretty close.
- [footsteps approaching]
1307
01:25:23,585 --> 01:25:25,668
Detective Conley,
your sister Sally's here.
1308
01:25:31,668 --> 01:25:32,710
Cashing in, huh?
1309
01:25:33,293 --> 01:25:36,251
Oh, why don't you save it? You've been
cashing in since the beginning.
1310
01:25:36,251 --> 01:25:38,543
Oh, that's pretty damn cynical,
even for you.
1311
01:25:39,543 --> 01:25:40,710
So, what do you want?
1312
01:25:40,710 --> 01:25:42,210
I just got back from Michigan.
1313
01:25:42,210 --> 01:25:43,501
I heard.
1314
01:25:46,001 --> 01:25:47,001
You don't care to know?
1315
01:25:47,001 --> 01:25:48,460
No, I don't.
1316
01:25:51,751 --> 01:25:53,335
I need DeSalvo's confession.
1317
01:25:54,251 --> 01:25:55,793
You gotta go see Bottomly for that.
1318
01:25:55,793 --> 01:25:57,293
I know you made a copy.
1319
01:25:57,293 --> 01:25:59,251
- [Jim] How do you know that?
- Oh, come on.
1320
01:26:00,460 --> 01:26:02,960
I bet you stayed up every night
listening to those tapes.
1321
01:26:05,168 --> 01:26:07,960
If we were right about DeSalvo,
what are you so afraid of?
1322
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:11,460
Go home. Spend some time with your kids.
1323
01:26:12,543 --> 01:26:14,710
How do you just stop caring
after all this?
1324
01:26:15,835 --> 01:26:17,876
When you realize
you could give up your whole life for it,
1325
01:26:17,876 --> 01:26:19,126
and no one would give a shit.
1326
01:26:23,293 --> 01:26:24,376
Go home.
1327
01:26:25,168 --> 01:26:27,168
[bell rings]
1328
01:26:37,001 --> 01:26:38,168
[Phyllis] Record American.
1329
01:27:02,626 --> 01:27:04,543
[Bottomly on headphones]
This is John Bottomly.
1330
01:27:04,543 --> 01:27:08,126
The date is February 14th, 1964.
1331
01:27:08,126 --> 01:27:10,376
Albert, please state your full name.
1332
01:27:11,210 --> 01:27:13,376
[DeSalvo] Albert Henry DeSalvo.
1333
01:27:13,376 --> 01:27:17,335
[Bottomly] Mr. DeSalvo,
tell me about your first victim.
1334
01:27:17,335 --> 01:27:19,585
How did you pick Anna Slesers?
1335
01:27:19,585 --> 01:27:21,126
[DeSalvo] I didn't pick her in advance.
1336
01:27:21,126 --> 01:27:23,501
There was a parking spot
in front of the house.
1337
01:27:24,418 --> 01:27:26,710
It makes you think about
what goes into this kind of selection.
1338
01:27:26,710 --> 01:27:30,376
Like, why is this girl home
and that one's not?
1339
01:27:31,585 --> 01:27:34,251
What is it? Is it fate?
1340
01:27:42,543 --> 01:27:46,043
[Bottomly] Okay, Albert.
I'd like to ask you about her clothing.
1341
01:27:46,043 --> 01:27:48,960
Can you tell me what color robe
she was wearing?
1342
01:27:57,251 --> 01:27:58,251
Aren't you on a new story?
1343
01:27:59,126 --> 01:28:01,751
Get over yourself. Let me listen.
1344
01:28:08,168 --> 01:28:10,251
[Bottomly] Albert,
what color robe was she wearing?
1345
01:28:10,876 --> 01:28:15,460
[DeSalvo]
Yellow. Or maybe it was, uh, red.
1346
01:28:15,460 --> 01:28:16,543
[Bottomly] You-- You sure?
1347
01:28:16,543 --> 01:28:19,293
[DeSalvo] No. It was blue.
1348
01:28:19,293 --> 01:28:21,876
[Bottomly] That's right. Let's move on.
1349
01:28:23,251 --> 01:28:27,085
So, when you entered the apartment,
can you tell me what you saw?
1350
01:28:27,918 --> 01:28:30,418
[DeSalvo]
Well, the kitchen was on the left.
1351
01:28:30,418 --> 01:28:32,668
[Bottomly] Wait-- It was on the left?
1352
01:28:33,751 --> 01:28:34,918
[DeSalvo] Um, maybe...
1353
01:28:35,918 --> 01:28:37,126
[Bottomly] Well, here. Um...
1354
01:28:37,126 --> 01:28:39,376
[paper rustles on recording]
1355
01:28:39,376 --> 01:28:41,335
[DeSalvo] That's right.
The kitchen was on the right,
1356
01:28:41,335 --> 01:28:43,668
and the bedroom was down that hall.
1357
01:28:44,376 --> 01:28:45,376
[Bottomly] That hall?
1358
01:28:45,376 --> 01:28:47,126
[DeSalvo] That-- Yeah. Down that hall.
1359
01:28:51,668 --> 01:28:53,668
Bottomly just showed him
the crime scene photo.
1360
01:28:58,001 --> 01:28:59,585
[DeSalvo] Um, maybe...
1361
01:28:59,585 --> 01:29:00,751
[Bottomly] Well, here. Um...
1362
01:29:00,751 --> 01:29:02,501
[paper rustles on recording]
1363
01:29:02,501 --> 01:29:04,460
[DeSalvo] That's right.
The kitchen was on the right,
1364
01:29:04,460 --> 01:29:06,876
and the bedroom was down that hall.
1365
01:29:07,585 --> 01:29:08,585
[Bottomly] That hall?
1366
01:29:08,585 --> 01:29:10,335
[DeSalvo] That-- Yeah. Down that hall.
1367
01:29:11,835 --> 01:29:13,960
Any lawyer worth a dime
would pick this apart.
1368
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,251
[Loretta] Excuse me, I'm--
I'm looking for Richard DeSalvo.
1369
01:29:28,251 --> 01:29:29,543
[foreman] He's back there.
1370
01:29:31,543 --> 01:29:35,210
Look,
Al's not talkin' to reporters anymore.
1371
01:29:37,043 --> 01:29:38,210
Al's had it tough.
1372
01:29:39,335 --> 01:29:43,001
Whatever my brother did,
he never meant to harm nobody.
1373
01:29:44,668 --> 01:29:47,960
He loves his family,
always been good to them.
1374
01:29:48,585 --> 01:29:50,418
Look, I know there's more to his story.
1375
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:54,210
But there's nothing I can do
if he won't talk to me.
1376
01:29:57,501 --> 01:30:00,918
I'll float it by him,
but I'm not making any promises.
1377
01:30:04,460 --> 01:30:06,585
[phone rings]
1378
01:30:07,251 --> 01:30:08,335
Record American.
1379
01:30:08,876 --> 01:30:10,501
[DeSalvo] Yeah, this is Albert DeSalvo.
1380
01:30:10,501 --> 01:30:11,876
Is, uh, Loretta there?
1381
01:30:13,793 --> 01:30:14,876
One minute, please.
1382
01:30:21,251 --> 01:30:23,501
Albert DeSalvo's on line two. [sighs]
1383
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,043
Uh, this is Loretta.
1384
01:30:33,043 --> 01:30:34,543
Hi, Loretta. It's Albert.
1385
01:30:34,543 --> 01:30:37,043
You know, my brother said
you come to see him.
1386
01:30:37,043 --> 01:30:39,376
I told him that I knew you
from the papers.
1387
01:30:39,376 --> 01:30:42,126
[chuckles] It's funny, I always said
you girls knew more than the police.
1388
01:30:43,501 --> 01:30:46,835
Uh, why don't I come down there
so we can talk in person?
1389
01:30:47,460 --> 01:30:50,335
The thing is, I'm not giving my story away
for free anymore.
1390
01:30:51,376 --> 01:30:53,668
I got really screwed over
on that book deal.
1391
01:30:53,668 --> 01:30:55,751
[Loretta]
I listened to your confession, Albert,
1392
01:30:55,751 --> 01:30:58,668
and, uh, I think
there's more to your story.
1393
01:30:58,668 --> 01:31:01,418
Well, like I said,
I'm not talking to reporters anymore.
1394
01:31:03,793 --> 01:31:05,293
Don't you want people to know the truth?
1395
01:31:05,293 --> 01:31:06,626
I don't give a damn about that.
1396
01:31:06,626 --> 01:31:07,960
I've got a family to support.
1397
01:31:07,960 --> 01:31:09,960
I don't think you understand
how screwed over I got.
1398
01:31:10,626 --> 01:31:12,710
Well, what are you holding out for,
Albert?
1399
01:31:12,710 --> 01:31:15,626
If everybody already screwed you over,
then what've you got left to lose?
1400
01:31:16,501 --> 01:31:18,251
Why would you let them get away with it?
1401
01:31:28,543 --> 01:31:30,168
Come here tomorrow at visiting hours.
1402
01:31:51,376 --> 01:31:54,460
[grunting]
1403
01:31:55,793 --> 01:31:57,126
[groans]
1404
01:31:57,126 --> 01:31:58,210
[metal clanks]
1405
01:32:05,876 --> 01:32:08,418
[phone ringing]
1406
01:32:08,418 --> 01:32:09,501
[gasps]
1407
01:32:12,585 --> 01:32:13,585
Hello?
1408
01:32:13,585 --> 01:32:17,335
Hey, it's Jack.
A report just came over the wire.
1409
01:32:19,001 --> 01:32:21,501
DeSalvo was killed in his cell. [sighs]
1410
01:32:22,668 --> 01:32:23,918
I'm sorry, kid.
1411
01:32:27,335 --> 01:32:29,335
[birds squawking]
1412
01:32:31,501 --> 01:32:33,501
[chattering]
1413
01:32:37,251 --> 01:32:38,251
You get anything?
1414
01:32:38,251 --> 01:32:39,751
[Stanley] No official statement yet.
1415
01:32:39,751 --> 01:32:42,460
My guys at the Herald said
he got killed over drugs, but--
1416
01:32:42,460 --> 01:32:43,835
No, that doesn't make any sense.
1417
01:32:43,835 --> 01:32:46,168
[reporters clamoring]
1418
01:32:51,085 --> 01:32:53,501
He was in there with them.
He knew what they were up to.
1419
01:33:02,376 --> 01:33:03,376
[phone rings]
1420
01:33:03,376 --> 01:33:04,460
Hello.
1421
01:33:04,460 --> 01:33:06,376
I need you to take down an address.
1422
01:33:07,001 --> 01:33:09,001
If I don't call back in an hour,
give it to the police.
1423
01:33:09,626 --> 01:33:10,710
What the hell are you doing?
1424
01:33:10,710 --> 01:33:14,460
426 Columbia Road. Got it?
1425
01:33:14,460 --> 01:33:15,793
Got it.
1426
01:33:15,793 --> 01:33:16,960
Loretta--
1427
01:33:19,626 --> 01:33:21,335
Shit.
1428
01:33:21,335 --> 01:33:22,543
[doorbell buzzes]
1429
01:33:22,543 --> 01:33:25,626
[footsteps approaching]
1430
01:33:33,085 --> 01:33:34,585
I'm lookin' for Harrison.
1431
01:33:34,585 --> 01:33:36,043
He's down at the end of the hall.
1432
01:33:40,460 --> 01:33:41,960
[resident 1 coughing]
1433
01:33:47,460 --> 01:33:50,835
- [resident 2 moaning]
- [muffled thudding]
1434
01:34:08,460 --> 01:34:09,460
[Loretta] Harrison?
1435
01:34:09,460 --> 01:34:10,543
Yeah.
1436
01:34:11,168 --> 01:34:13,168
I-I'm a reporter with the Record American.
1437
01:34:13,918 --> 01:34:16,168
I want to ask you some questions
about Bridgewater.
1438
01:34:22,668 --> 01:34:26,668
Me and DeSalvo were in the same ward.
I saw him every day.
1439
01:34:28,835 --> 01:34:32,335
And what about... him?
1440
01:34:36,501 --> 01:34:39,501
Yeah. He was in my ward too.
1441
01:34:41,335 --> 01:34:42,835
They were always together.
1442
01:34:43,418 --> 01:34:44,668
Marsh and DeSalvo?
1443
01:34:45,293 --> 01:34:46,585
And Nassar.
1444
01:34:47,835 --> 01:34:49,335
George Nassar?
1445
01:34:57,085 --> 01:35:00,751
Yeah, the three of them were always
working on DeSalvo's confession.
1446
01:35:02,376 --> 01:35:04,585
W-What do you mean working on?
1447
01:35:05,585 --> 01:35:09,251
They coached him.
They were at it every day for weeks.
1448
01:35:10,835 --> 01:35:12,751
They had a stack of newspaper clippings,
1449
01:35:12,751 --> 01:35:16,460
and they would quiz DeSalvo
about the details.
1450
01:35:18,293 --> 01:35:20,126
I remember Marsh sayin',
1451
01:35:20,126 --> 01:35:23,460
"You gotta get it so deep in your brain
that you believe it yourself."
1452
01:35:24,668 --> 01:35:28,168
But what did they care
if DeSalvo confessed?
1453
01:35:31,251 --> 01:35:35,085
Reward money.
That's why Nassar got his lawyer involved.
1454
01:35:35,668 --> 01:35:36,918
I'm not shittin' you.
1455
01:35:37,751 --> 01:35:39,668
He's willing to confess
to the whole thing.
1456
01:35:41,376 --> 01:35:43,460
[Harrison]
His lawyer organized the whole thing.
1457
01:35:44,126 --> 01:35:45,793
You mean F. Lee Bailey?
1458
01:35:46,835 --> 01:35:47,835
That's right.
1459
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:53,460
He told Albert that he could get him
a book deal, make him rich and famous.
1460
01:35:57,043 --> 01:35:59,543
Albert thought he was gonna make
a million bucks off it
1461
01:36:00,376 --> 01:36:01,793
and support his family.
1462
01:36:56,126 --> 01:36:57,210
You got a smoke?
1463
01:37:17,585 --> 01:37:19,168
So, you wanna know about Albert.
1464
01:37:20,376 --> 01:37:21,668
How did you know each other?
1465
01:37:22,168 --> 01:37:23,793
We were cellmates.
1466
01:37:23,793 --> 01:37:25,210
[Loretta] Before he confessed?
1467
01:37:26,501 --> 01:37:27,918
Yeah, for a couple months.
1468
01:37:27,918 --> 01:37:30,418
It's an awfully strange coincidence,
don't you think?
1469
01:37:31,793 --> 01:37:34,293
You're the one
who gets picked out of the lineup,
1470
01:37:34,293 --> 01:37:38,043
and you just happen to be
DeSalvo's cellmate?
1471
01:37:39,168 --> 01:37:41,001
Maybe I just got one of those faces.
1472
01:37:44,293 --> 01:37:46,793
Were you in Sophie Clark's building
the day she was killed?
1473
01:37:47,918 --> 01:37:48,918
No.
1474
01:37:50,668 --> 01:37:51,835
I don't kill women.
1475
01:37:53,335 --> 01:37:57,835
And I got no reason to lie about that now.
I'm doin' a life sentence.
1476
01:38:00,293 --> 01:38:02,043
[Loretta] Then why did you coach DeSalvo?
1477
01:38:02,626 --> 01:38:04,293
I wouldn't exactly call it that.
1478
01:38:06,418 --> 01:38:09,001
I was just helpin' him remember.
1479
01:38:10,793 --> 01:38:12,960
Thirteen murders,
that's a lot to keep straight.
1480
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:14,251
Why were you helping him?
1481
01:38:15,210 --> 01:38:18,876
Reward money. Ten grand a victim.
1482
01:38:20,293 --> 01:38:24,293
So, the more murders he confessed to,
the more money you'd make?
1483
01:38:25,793 --> 01:38:27,710
Well, might as well take credit
for all of them.
1484
01:38:27,710 --> 01:38:29,085
Make a little extra money.
1485
01:38:29,085 --> 01:38:31,335
It was a lot of extra money.
1486
01:38:34,001 --> 01:38:38,835
And regardless of what you think,
Albert convinced me he killed those women.
1487
01:38:41,210 --> 01:38:42,460
Was it all 13?
1488
01:38:44,335 --> 01:38:45,585
What does it really matter?
1489
01:38:48,001 --> 01:38:52,168
See, you all created a myth,
and it needed to be stopped.
1490
01:38:54,168 --> 01:38:55,585
People wanted to believe it was Al,
1491
01:38:55,585 --> 01:38:58,335
but they needed to believe
that it was Albert.
1492
01:39:00,168 --> 01:39:02,168
The alternative was just too disturbin'.
1493
01:39:04,918 --> 01:39:06,001
What's that?
1494
01:39:08,793 --> 01:39:10,793
There are many Albert DeSalvos out there.
1495
01:39:13,251 --> 01:39:15,335
And your safe little world
is just a delusion.
1496
01:39:19,585 --> 01:39:20,751
Men kill women.
1497
01:39:22,501 --> 01:39:23,918
It didn't start with Albert.
1498
01:39:25,668 --> 01:39:27,585
Sure as hell doesn't end with him either.
1499
01:39:45,710 --> 01:39:48,293
[Loretta] If Dr. Grayson was right
about these killers having a type--
1500
01:39:49,251 --> 01:39:51,668
The first five murders
were all elderly women.
1501
01:39:52,710 --> 01:39:55,001
- And if Paul Dempsey had a type...
- [shutter clicks]
1502
01:39:55,001 --> 01:39:56,751
It was elderly women.
1503
01:39:56,751 --> 01:39:59,668
[Loretta] DeSalvo was a pathological liar.
1504
01:40:00,501 --> 01:40:04,001
Everything he knew about the first five
murders had either been in the papers,
1505
01:40:04,001 --> 01:40:06,043
or it was given to him by Bottomly.
1506
01:40:07,751 --> 01:40:10,251
But of the hundreds of women
DeSalvo assaulted,
1507
01:40:11,043 --> 01:40:12,876
all his victims were young.
1508
01:40:13,918 --> 01:40:16,085
And then Paul Dempsey moves on
to New York,
1509
01:40:16,710 --> 01:40:18,626
and the Strangler starts killing
younger women.
1510
01:40:20,793 --> 01:40:23,501
Then other men use the Strangler as cover
to get rid of women
1511
01:40:23,501 --> 01:40:25,085
they didn't want around anymore.
1512
01:40:25,710 --> 01:40:27,460
The boss who got his secretary pregnant.
1513
01:40:28,501 --> 01:40:30,085
The psychotic ex-boyfriend.
1514
01:40:33,710 --> 01:40:37,376
Then DeSalvo ends up at Bridgewater
with Nassar and Marsh.
1515
01:40:38,710 --> 01:40:40,043
They use DeSalvo.
1516
01:40:40,751 --> 01:40:43,960
Nassar gets F. Lee Bailey involved
so he can claim the reward money.
1517
01:40:44,543 --> 01:40:47,210
And they coached DeSalvo
before he confessed.
1518
01:40:48,460 --> 01:40:50,918
He just became a convenient way out
for everybody else.
1519
01:40:51,585 --> 01:40:53,751
The entire city just wanted to move on.
1520
01:40:59,960 --> 01:41:01,793
Nobody bothered to get to the truth.
1521
01:41:04,626 --> 01:41:06,210
[engine starts]
1522
01:41:08,668 --> 01:41:10,460
And people got away with murder.
1523
01:41:51,376 --> 01:41:52,876
[Jack] It's nice work, kid.
1524
01:42:11,251 --> 01:42:12,543
Commissioner, Commissioner!
1525
01:42:12,543 --> 01:42:15,751
What is your response to the story
in the Record American today?
1526
01:42:15,751 --> 01:42:17,668
Commissioner, what is your response?
1527
01:42:19,335 --> 01:42:22,960
All the Strangler murders
are still open cases.
1528
01:42:22,960 --> 01:42:24,376
I'll leave it at that.
1529
01:42:25,210 --> 01:42:27,126
[reporters clamoring]
1530
01:42:27,126 --> 01:42:28,335
[reporter] Commissioner!
1531
01:42:29,085 --> 01:42:30,418
How many suspects do you have?
1532
01:42:38,835 --> 01:42:39,835
[sighs]
1533
01:43:11,918 --> 01:43:13,918
[chattering]