[water splashing]
- This guy's literally bigger than life.
- Jimmy was outgoing.
People were just drawn to him.
- He was involved with the wrong people.
- When you owe money to the mob, you've got a problem.
- She says, "Are you gonna kill me? Am I gonna die?"
And he says, "No, you're too pretty to die."
- They were there for one reason,
and one reason only.
- You've got a cold-blooded execution-style murder.
- They're trying to send a message to somebody.
- This wave of organized crime violence.
This one of those cases I'll never forget.
I mean, it had so many twists and turns.
- It's such a serious crime and then it goes cold again.
- It was really hard waiting to find out
what had happened to Jimmy.
- The case goes cold for 30 years.
And then I get a phone call
from the Orange County DA's office saying that
they have somebody in custody.
[dramatic music]
* *
[peaceful music]
* *
- You've got a wide variety
of culture and life here in Orange County.
Little bit of "Lifestyle Rich and Famous"
down by the beaches.
- Where else can you have the ocean
30 minutes away from you,
or the mountains 30 minutes away from you?
You can go skiing in the morning,
surfing in the afternoon.
- The city of Buena Park, there's a different vibe.
It's a little bit nicer,
the buildings are a little bit newer.
- Nestled between the blue Pacific waters
and the San Bernardino mountains
sits Buena Park, an amusement destination
that draws millions to Orange County every year.
- In the '80s,
was a big party spot and really a lot of fun.
- It's a place that's happy.
- The good times come to a grinding halt
for one high-rolling Buena Park couple
shortly after ringing in 1987.
- My name is Robin Lindley
and in 1987,
I was a crime scene investigator
for the Buena Park Police Department.
On January 2nd that year,
I got a call right after midnight.
We were the first homicide in the county that year
and I was called out to a location in Buena Tierra.
I was a little nervous
because it was my first big case in Buena Park.
The condo was located in the northern end
of Buena Park, which is the upper scale area.
When I arrived at the scene,
we had a victim there that was still alive.
The victim, Shelly, was very distraught,
very upset, which is understandable.
She was very concerned about the other victim.
She did say that that was her boyfriend, Jimmy Casino.
When the officer that had arrived first
who was in charge of the scene took me into the house,
you could see the house was disheveled
and had been ransacked.
He guided me upstairs to where the other victim
was laying upstairs in the hallway, dead,
and then pointed out where the bedroom was
where the other attack had taken place.
And the first thing to go through my mind is
what things can I print?
Where would they leave fingerprints?
That's the areas I want to look at and cordon off
and make sure they're preserved
so that when I go through processing,
we make sure we have all those things.
It looked like somebody had moved the victim.
We had blood stain on the cabinets.
We took photographs of that
and marked measurements of those
so we could kind of determine where and how he was seated
when he was actually killed.
There was one bullet casing found upstairs.
It was a .22 bullet casing.
Once you find evidence you mark it,
and you photograph it.
We tried to collect evidence
knowing that it has to be preserved
'cause we didn't know about DNA.
All we knew about was fingerprinting
and maybe trace evidence.
So you had to make sure that everything was done properly.
- I'm Sharon Katchen,
and I covered the Orange County Bureau
for KFWB for 20 years.
On one side, it looked like it was a robbery.
These guys took everything
they could get their hands on that was of value.
They took money. They took credit cards.
They stole two cars.
They stole the Mercedes and the Camaro.
They left the Rolls Royce in the garage.
Once police talked to Shelly,
they established which cars were taken,
they put out an All-Points Bulletin for them.
- My name is Robert Sayne.
And in 1987 I was a police sergeant
for the Santa Ana Police Department.
As far as taking the cars,
I think it was a matter of convenience.
They obviously were dropped off there,
'cause they didn't have any transportation out of there.
- The brazen suspects
leave a trail of destruction in their wake.
When detectives interview Jimmy's girlfriend,
Shelly Fisher, they realize
just how terrifying an ordeal it was.
- They went out to the movies during New Year's.
James Casino had his son with him.
They went to the movies, had a good time.
They dropped his son off with a friend.
They go park into their condo
that he was residing in at that time.
- Shelly said that they go into the condo,
and they're met by two men with guns and masks.
One of the men takes Shelly upstairs.
She says, "Are you gonna kill me? Am I gonna die?"
And he says, "No, you're too pretty to die."
And he proceeded to rape her.
They left her tied up in the bedroom upstairs.
One of them went with Jimmy
and he made sure that he opened up the safe.
And they got all the jewelry from the safe,
they got credit cards.
Shelly managed to free herself.
Shelly heard what she thought were gunshots.
[gunshots]
She saw Jimmy in a pool of blood, dead.
She went to a neighbor's house and then she called 911.
They still had to ask her questions
because the investigation had to go on,
and they had to catch her when she still had
profound memories of what happened.
She never saw the men who raped her,
but it took a tremendous amount of strength
for Shelly to pull herself together
and talk to the police.
- We arranged to have her taken to the hospital
to have a rape kit done.
Being the only female,
I would go with the female victim.
The hospital does the actual rape kits
but I'm there to collect any evidence
and collect the rape kit itself.
And then it's turned over to the Orange County crime lab.
At that point, the victim was very quiet.
After everything had happened
and trying to process everything,
you've already been violated by somebody
and now you have to have other people look at you.
- It's a tricky case for homicide detectives.
With two attackers on the run,
police must quickly figure out
who was lying in wait for Shelly and her boyfriend,
and more importantly, why?
- My name's Dan Wagner.
I was the supervisor of the homicide unit.
I had oversight over this case.
Jimmy Casino, the businessman,
you know, was 100% hustle and grit,
and hard work, and just never say die.
- Detectives soon learn their murder victim
was born James Stockwell,
but a love for flash and Vegas
led to rebranding himself "Jimmy Casino."
- Jimmy Casino was one of these guys
you would probably want for a friend.
He was generous with his time, with his money.
He seemed to really like people.
He had a penchant for having a very lavish lifestyle,
and that was probably his downfall over his years
because whenever he would be starting a new venture,
instead of putting the money into the venture,
he would put it into nice cars,
very good clothes, having a nice place to live,
and projecting an image
of somebody who had a lot of money.
- Talking to those who knew him best,
authorities flesh out the portrait
of this larger-than-life O.C. entrepreneur.
- My name is Yvonne Hill.
I was Jimmy's friend.
I felt always like I was his younger sister.
My mom was dating his dad.
He was so much fun.
He always had a different girlfriend.
- He really looked at her as his sister.
He would drive down Rodeo drive
and take her in his Rolls Royce
to check out Beverly Hills.
When he went to the Oscars, he took her as his plus one.
- He actually took me to buy a really nice outfit
to wear there, yeah.
And then on the other hand,
I believe Jimmy was a really good dad
to his son, Shane.
He made sure that Shane didn't go without anything
and took him on his own to places.
Jimmy lived with one foot in his projects.
- And these projects included business ventures
that raised eyebrows in conservative Orange County.
- Jimmy Casino owned the Mustang Ranch, a bar,
which was a considerable issue for law enforcement
due to the type of clientele that showed up there.
- The Mustang was a restaurant before,
and then it was bikini only at first.
And then it went topless.
- Could this risqué establishment
have roots in something more menacing?
Something that led to Jimmy's murder?
- As far as I knew,
Jimmy Casino owned a topless bar in Santa Ana,
and he had connections.
[gunshot echoing]
- You wouldn't expect to find
organized crime in Orange County,
but that's because they don't want to be found.
- When you see that kind of money
that's being made there,
that's always gonna be very attractive to organized crime.
What are the connections and who's behind all this?
Who killed Jimmy Casino?
[dramatic music]
* *
[waves crashing]
- Just two days into 1987,
the hunt is on for two men
who killed Buena Park businessman Jimmy Casino,
and raped his girlfriend, Shelly Fisher.
Investigators know time is of the essence,
so when they get a promising lead,
they hope it will help break the case.
- The investigation took a turn towards something
the day after the murder on January 3rd.
- My name is Larry Welborn, and in 1987,
I was a staff writer for the Orange County Register.
The cars were found
about five miles from the crime scene.
When the police dusted the two cars,
the Camaro and the Mercedes,
they didn't find any fingerprints.
They didn't find any evidence.
Nothing they could link back to the crime
on January 2nd, 1987.
- When the vehicle search comes up empty,
detectives turn to Jimmy's past
to see if anyone may have put a target on his back.
- The bottom line is
Jimmy Casino hustled people.
And I think to the point
where he knew he was never gonna pay them back
in the first place.
- You know, once we dug down deep into his character,
we found that he had some
shadowy things in his background.
- After prison, Jimmy did seem like a changed person.
He wasn't like a criminal,
but he just got into some really bad deals.
I think Jimmy had some really bad luck.
- But Jimmy hoped his newest business venture,
the Mustang Theater, would prove to be different.
- In the entire United States,
there was no place more conservative
than Orange County.
- At the time the Mustang was opening,
it was a wildly controversial idea.
Frankly, very unpopular.
It was certainly an open question
as to whether or not it would be legal or not.
- I think that eight out of ten judges in Orange County
who would have heard that case who said,
"No, it's not freedom of expression.
It's not protected by the first amendment."
They got the right judge at the right time.
And boom, there you go.
They got permission to open up a topless bar
in Orange County.
- Jimmy Casino was a salesman.
Like, a super salesman.
Whatever he had his eyes on, he could sell.
And he could probably sell ice to people in Alaska.
You know, putting a topless theater
in Santa Ana was a winning proposition.
And it did. It was a very money-making proposition.
- The Mustang was the largest topless club in the area
and a lot of people came to check it out.
He finally found his niche.
- Police learn that after
Jimmy's run of failed businesses,
he finally struck gold with the Mustang.
- The Mustang, right off the bat,
is just seeing a lot of money coming in.
Very lucrative. And so investigators find
that's attracting a lot of attention.
- And some of the attention
came from characters who were involved in
a different kind of organization,
the Orange County mafia.
- You see that kind of money that's being--
that's being made there,
that's always gonna be very attractive to organized crime.
There's all kinds of suspicion and rumors.
Prostitution is happening out of there.
You're certainly attracting people
who are coming and using drugs.
It's just a place for criminals to come
and meet each other.
- You wouldn't expect to find
organized crime in Orange County,
but that's because they don't want to be found.
- Through the investigations, we had found out
he had more connections with the mob
and money laundering and things like that
involving the bar.
- Law enforcement is kind of drawing up the list
of potential suspects.
People who are the muscle
within the local organized crime
are gonna be looked at.
Jimmy Casino and his nightclub, The Mustang,
this was a candle that burned very bright
and attracted a lot of moths to it.
Jimmy owed people money and wouldn't pay,
and he was getting paid back for not paying his debts.
- Police came out and talked to me.
I thought somebody had sent those guys
to rough him up and steal his stuff
because he owed--
well, he owed a couple people money.
- Because of his lifestyle,
I don't think he owed
a little bit of money to people,
I think he owed a lot of money to people.
- With Jimmy Casino owing so much money to so many,
investigators have their work cut out for them,
but they soon get a hot lead
that just might help break the case.
- So five days after the murder, the big break comes.
What seems like it might be the big break.
Investigators are alerted that Jimmy Casino's credit card,
his American Express card,
has been presented to a clerk at a department store,
about 50 miles away from the place
where Jimmy was killed.
- The fact that Jimmy's cards,
Jimmy Casino's cards, were taken
and somebody tried to use them in a very short period of time
after he was killed, to me was huge.
- We suddenly had our first real lead.
[dramatic music]
* *
- It's been five days
since O.C. club owner, Jimmy Casino,
and his girlfriend were attacked in his home,
leaving Jimmy dead.
Thanks to the quick actions of a store clerk,
police now have a hit
on one of Jimmy's stolen credit cards.
- Two men were seen using the cards at a store
and they made a purchase.
They were at a department store
and when the clerk ran the credit card,
it came back as a "homicide hold."
The clerk contacted security to come and get these guys.
- As the clerk is trying to alert law enforcement,
the two men, they turn and run
and flee from the department store.
But the police are almost there.
And so law enforcement gives chase.
And it becomes a bit of a lengthy car chase.
And finally, two men are taken into custody.
These are extremely strong suspects:
Mark Corbett, and Joseph Orozco.
Corbett and Orozco now are in possession
of Jimmy Casino's credit card
that was taken during the murder.
There's a direct trace between them
and the murder victim.
- Detectives immediately do a background check
on Mark Corbett and Joseph Orozco,
and soon learn about their questionable pasts
and connections.
- Mark Corbett had the more established criminal history.
He'd been in jail and had some connection
to the more seedier aspects of Orange County,
the real mob.
- These are people that frequented
the Mustang Theater.
So that gives you the hope that we're gonna be able
to develop a motive of why it was
that they wanted to kill Jimmy Casino.
- Mike Corbett and Joe Orozco,
their explanation was
Joe had found the credit cards in a parking lot
and he took them to Corbett,
and they were gonna pass them.
- The two men in custody seem like promising suspects,
but investigators need proof that Corbett and Orozco
are more than just petty thieves.
- And the police are aware that this timeline is ticking.
You know, we have to have enough evidence to file
or else these men get out of jail.
And they're working hard and they get a search warrant
and they go to Mark Corbett's house,
and they turn it all over looking for evidence.
They find some .22 caliber ammunition,
the same caliber as the murder weapon.
But there's nothing that--
particular about that ammunition,
there's no fingerprints,
there's nothing that directly links them,
Corbett or Orozco, to the crime scene itself.
- Investigators really couldn't establish
any further connection to the crime scene,
and so Joseph Orozco and Mark Corbett were released.
- With the only two suspects released
due to lack of evidence,
investigators check out their acquaintances
to look for any possible connection.
- Somebody who knew Mark Corbett--
there was another individual in the mix there--
was Richard Morris.
He had some criminal background
but that was up in the Pasadena area.
In 1987, a few months after the killing of Jimmy Casino,
Richard Morris,
he had been stopped by the Pasadena police,
questioned, he was under suspicion
of a robbery murder that happened in Pasadena.
He'd actually told Pasadena police
that he had some knowledge about an Orange County murder.
- He was a real "Chatty Cathy," talking about his buddies.
Morris admits his friend, Mark Corbett,
the same guy who had Casino's credit cards,
told him he was paid $10,000 to kill a guy in Orange County
several months earlier.
Morris is doing what they all do:
he's rolling over on his partner,
is what he's doing here, which is so, so, so common.
- Common or not, investigators want to talk to Corbett again.
But when they reach out, they learn he left the state
and are unable to track him down,
leaving investigators back at square one.
- The Mustang Theater was making a lot of money,
like $150,000 a month, and despite all that,
Jimmy Casino still couldn't pay back his debts.
- As detectives dig into Jimmy Casino's business dealings,
they learn about an associate who they hope
can provide some insight into who Jimmy owed money to.
- Gene Lesher was a financier,
and Jimmy Casino convinced him
to help put up some of the money
for the Mustang Theater.
- Gene Lesher tells law enforcement
that Jimmy was deep in debt to Bill Carroll,
and obviously, Bill wanted his money back.
Bill even filed a lawsuit against Jimmy,
claiming that Jimmy owed him money
and Bill wanted to collect.
- Bill Carroll was an investor in The Mustang
and did loan Jimmy a lot of money
and was wanting his payments.
- Bill Carroll, he's got ties to the Mustang Theater,
he's got connections in the mob.
- When you owe money to the mob,
you've got a problem.
And Jimmy Casino was into Bill Carroll
for at least couple hundred thousand.
Bill is not the kind of guy you want to owe money to.
That had to be looked at as a strong motive here.
- With mob money and murder motives,
Bill Carroll has all the makings of a lead suspect,
but police may never get a chance to question him.
- So fast forward to May 1st, 1987,
just a few months after the killing of Jimmy Casino,
something else pretty extraordinary happens.
What looks like a dead body turns up in the Costa Mesa
Performing Arts parking lot.
The man is Bill Carroll,
and he's got three bullet wounds to the head.
- An eyewitness said that this victim
had been in a car with two other men
and that he'd gotten three shots to the back of the head
and then been thrown out of the car.
- Carroll had money invested in the bar,
and somebody didn't feel like
they were getting their fair share
of all of the money that that bar was making.
They think that's how they do business, so.
- This was another execution-style murder,
except somehow,
Bill Carroll survived.
He is blinded as a result of the gunshots,
but he won't talk.
He's completely uncooperative.
And so that kind of reaches a dead-end right at that point.
- With Mustang front man Jimmy Casino already executed,
and what looks like a hit on his money man,
Bill Carroll,
police are certain the two are connected.
- When it comes to The Mustang,
investigators have to start to wonder
if there's going to be much more cold-blooded,
premeditated, deliberate murder.
[dramatic music]
* *
- While police search for Jimmy Casino's killers,
Bill Carroll, a top investor at the Mustang Theatre
is gunned down,
but miraculously survives.
Detectives now feel the two shootings
are related to Orange County organized crime.
- Now that Bill Carroll has been shot
after Jimmy Casino is shot,
something's very active in the community
that's causing all this violence.
And law enforcement is pouring resources into it
and looking very closely to try to figure out
what are the connections
and who's behind all this?
And what always keeps coming up
is the people that law enforcement is looking at,
they all have ties to the Mustang Theater.
- As we reported this story, now it looks like
maybe Bill Carroll had Jimmy Casino whacked
because he wanted more control of the Mustang.
- But if Bill put the hit out on Jimmy,
then who put the hit out on Bill?
As if police don't have enough burning questions,
the entity at the center of it all
goes up in smoke.
- January 1988, Mustang Ranch burned down.
- I mean, right in the middle of all these shootings,
in the middle of the night, the place goes up in flames.
But nobody ends up being killed.
- The madness and mayhem of the Mustang
continues into the spring,
when police are notified of an all-too-familiar scenario.
- On March 12th of 1988,
there's a body found in a parking lot.
- He was a bouncer at the Mustang,
a known muscle man for the mob,
and he turns up in an Irvine industrial complex parking lot,
middle of the night,
gunshot wound to the head from close range.
- That's the third so-called execution-style hit,
or would-be hit out of the Mustang
in less than 15 months.
This story keeps getting bigger and wilder and crazier.
- After Jimmy was killed,
I did not go back to the Mustang.
I was really upset and shocked when I heard that
one of our bouncers also got shot.
That was pretty scary,
being that he was involved in the Mustang also.
I don't like to remember it all.
- After Jimmy Casino was murdered,
there subsequently was more fallout.
And when you look at it,
they don't necessarily all tie together
other than the fact that they are all somehow
involved in the Mustang.
- So although there seemed to be some connections
with the shootings,
nothing was able to be
definitively linked by investigators,
and we're still left wondering who killed Jimmy Casino.
Then in October 1988,
police get an unexpected phone call from Bill Carroll.
He hadn't wanted to talk to the police
at the time that he got shot and blinded.
He says he's ready to talk.
Bill Carroll tells the police that the people who shot him
were hitmen for the mafia.
- Bill Carroll seems to confirm
investigators' suspicions
that organized crime is to blame
for the violence connected to the Mustang Theater,
but suspicions carry no weight without actual evidence.
- Further investigation doesn't show any link
between these two men and the Jimmy Casino murder.
No fingerprints, nothing else places them in the home
on the night of the murder.
- The men who shot Bill Carroll
are convicted of his attempted murder,
but fearing they'll be next,
no one with ties to the Mustang comes forward
with helpful information about Jimmy Casino's murder
and the case goes cold.
- It was really hard waiting to find out
exactly what had happened to Jimmy.
- Part of your motivation
in wanting to solve a crime like this
is to do justice for the victims.
It is very much a motivator and it can be frustrating
to not be able to bring about that justice for them.
- More than 11 years go by with no leads,
but in 2001, an incarcerated mobster
claims he has pertinent information
that could turn the case upside down.
- The case was cold,
but the DA's office is still working on it.
They'd still like to try to solve that case.
And they hear that there's someone imprisoned
who wants to talk to them and maybe make a deal.
So enter Frank Randazzo.
- Frank Randazzo is another person with ties to the mob.
He's certainly a person that's around the Mustang.
- At the time, Frank was in prison
for some other crime that he had committed.
- So he's in poor health.
He would like to get out earlier.
He tells the DA's office that
he'd like to see if he could cut a deal to get out earlier.
- He always was in a position that he want to offer
a fair trade somehow, and involve himself,
and "Well, I can tell you this if you'll do this."
So he was a wheeler-dealer type of guy.
- Frank Randazzo claims to have information
about the Jimmy Casino murder.
So police come, and they're all ears,
tape recorders are rolling, and Frank lays out this story
of how the Jimmy Casino murder went down.
- The information Frank Randazzo gave us
was promising.
- It's like bullseye, bingo.
This is the kind of powerful evidence
tied to the crime scene
that has been the missing element.
- After almost 30 years, I get a phone call
from the Orange County DA's office saying
they have somebody in custody.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
[dramatic music]
* *
- More than a decade after club owner
Jimmy Casino's execution
and the rape of his girlfriend, Shelly Fisher,
detectives still don't know
who was behind the brazen attack,
but an imprisoned mobster with a penchant for gab
claims he can identify the killers.
- The information Frank Randazzo gave us
was promising to solve this cold case.
- I think Frank was desperate.
He had a heart condition, and the prison system,
they weren't going to do the operation
that Frank Randazzo felt like he needed.
So he started, you know, talking.
Frank Randazzo, when he conveyed the story,
it took the officers a while
to run it down and figure it out.
- Frank Randazzo, he implicated a guy
by the name of Jimmy Sevedra.
- After a period of time, we had learned that
what Frank Randazzo might tell you
might not exactly be all true.
- Police get as many details as they can from Frank,
and they want to corroborate what he's saying.
And they check out every detail they can.
And over and over,
those details are not checking out.
And so, what seemed like a big break
ends up again being a disappointment.
And they go back to Frank and just say,
"Buddy, you're full of it."
And Frank actually ends up admitting that
and saying he was lying to the police.
- Despite yet another dead end,
investigators hold out hope
that someday they'll bring justice to Jimmy's son, Shane,
and girlfriend, Shelly Fisher.
- 2008, 20 years has passed since the murders,
and people's lives, they've moved on.
Shane and Shelly both live in Orange County,
they both have lives, they both have families,
and have gone on
and put this behind them.
- The case goes cold.
I go on, I have two children.
At times, I bring stuff out to show my children and stuff
and we talk about it and often wonder, "What if?"
- Basically, everybody had gone their way,
except the police, who were still trying to figure out
how can they solve that case.
And some people probably died and--
who were witnesses--
and a cold case just gets colder.
- And then, seemingly out of the blue,
the cold case that's haunted Orange County
for two decades heats up.
- After almost 30 years, I get a phone call
from the Orange County DA's office saying that
they have somebody in custody.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing.
They had got a hit on the DNA from the rape kit.
- That DNA, collected at the hospital
after Shelly's horrifying rape,
has just been matched to a familiar name,
former suspect Richard Morris.
- Richard Morris was a name familiar to police
because he's the one who claimed
that Mark Corbett had bragged about
killing a man in Orange County.
- This barely known bit player in the crime world
named Richard Morris,
was living on the island of Hawaii.
- He was driving under the influence.
They were able to take a DNA sample
as part of the arrest process.
- And so, Richard Morris' DNA goes into a database.
This is what we call a cold case hit.
There's a prior DNA sample taken from the crime scene.
The rape/murder of Jimmy Casino
and his girlfriend Shelly,
and now it's matched up with a DUI suspect.
- And so, bang, that's what set off the alarm.
And that's when it started the ball rolling.
- Morris denies any involvement
in the rape of Shelly
and/or the murder of James Casino.
- While Morris stonewalls under interrogation in Hawaii,
local authorities are able to hold him in custody
based on the DNA evidence.
- Well, after Richard was incarcerated,
the DA's office was able to get him
returned to the state of California
to face the charges on this case.
- It's like bullseye, bingo. This is it.
This is the kind of powerful evidence
tied to the crime scene
that has been the missing element.
Now we've got him.
Now we know who was inside that house...
On New Year's Day, 1987.
So all our focus is on him,
proving that he was one of the two men
that came inside the home on January 1st.
- Since Orange County prosecutors
have concrete proof Richard was at the scene,
they just need to secure the testimony
to make it stick in court.
- So that's a process and, you know, you kind of gear up
and you get organized,
and you gotta subpoena witnesses,
and there's a lot of work to be done
when it's a case that happened 30 years ago.
So investigators have to go knock on a lot of doors
and follow a lot of leads to find the witnesses.
It's never easy for the victim of sexual assault
to have to go through the legal process.
But a very important person has to be located
and her name's Shelly.
[dramatic music]
* *
- More than 25 years after
the presumed mob hit of Jimmy Casino,
police have finally IDed Richard Morris
as one of the men involved in the brutal home invasion.
Improved DNA forensics now pins Morris
to the rape of Jimmy's girlfriend, Shelly Fisher.
- Now we know who was inside that house
on New Year's Day, 1987.
But Richard Morris had no personal reason
to kill Jimmy Casino.
Somebody paid him to do it.
Who paid Morris to go kill Casino?
And Richard Morris sat tight
and kept his mouth closed.
- But does placing him at the scene
mean prosecutors can also secure
a special conviction for Jimmy's murder?
- Law enforcement has databases and Shelly needs to be located
and she's contacted.
For her, it's difficult.
But she kind of does the soul searching
and decides that she's willing to testify.
Richard Morris is charged with the Jimmy Casino murder.
At trial, prosecutors have Shelly's testimony
plus the DNA evidence.
And Shelly, she was very courageous,
came forward and explained at trial,
faced by the accused,
the perpetrator who had done this terrible thing to her,
she explained to everyone in that courtroom what happened.
- During the trial, they basically asked me
to open up the evidence.
And you could imagine, looking at evidence
that's blood that's crumbling down
because it's 30 years old,
it did jog your memory a little bit
as what you're seeing.
- And the evidence that the defense
hopes will pin the murder on two earlier suspects
are Jimmy's stolen credit cards.
- So Morris' defense pointed to the credit card evidence.
The two men that were found with the stolen credit cards
five days after the murder.
They're saying, "Ah, you know,
"there's two murderers,
"and here's two guys with the credit cards.
"It's those two.
It's Mark Corbett and Joseph Orozco."
Not a very strong argument.
- We have one of the people that were there.
One of the people that were in
Jimmy Casino's apartment that night
was Richard Morris for sure.
I mean, his DNA was there,
the girl was raped, he was there.
- You just can't have these kinds of things go unpunished.
And that's the responsibility of the prosecutor
to bring that evidence forth, to explain the law to the jury,
and to convince them
that the only just verdict would be guilty.
- Will a case almost three decades in the making
finally result in a guilty verdict?
- The jury found Richard Morris
guilty of murder in the first degree,
and further found that he was guilty
of the special circumstance
of murder in the commission of a robbery
and murder in the commission of a rape.
Shelly's testimony, plus the DNA evidence,
that really sewed it up.
That was a pretty powerful case
against Richard Morris.
- The rape kit is what brought him down.
Because he'd raped Shelly,
he left behind the evidence that brought him down.
- Bottom line is, undeniably,
he was there that night.
The DNA was found inside of a victim's body.
I mean, that is just--
no way you can get around that. A trillion to one.
- So Richard Morris has been sentenced
to the California state prison for the rest of his life,
without the possibility of parole.
- Because Morris maintains his innocence,
finding the second masked gunman
who helped carry out the attack
against Jimmy and Shelly proves to be trickier.
Some investigators believe an earlier suspect
might have left Morris holding the bag.
- Corbett's kind of the mystery man here.
Morris said that Corbett told him that he did the murder,
and he was paid $10,000.
I mean, he could be lying but I don't think so.
And the problem is we don't have anything else linking.
All we have is a parolee's statement
that this other guy did the case.
So they really didn't have much of a case on him.
Corbett gets convicted of a robbery murder
in the state of Tennessee,
doing a life sentence there.
If you've been convicted for life in jail
without possibility of parole,
why would you talk to the cops about anything.
- It may never be known whether Mark Corbett
had something to do with Jimmy Casino's murder,
but he too will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
- Jimmy Casino was a guy that made it big,
tried to live bigger than life.
And I think that he got caught up in some things that
people weren't gonna forgive him for.
- The whole process of, you know, doing the crime scene
and trying to find the killers and the assault people
is to find closure for everybody.
The family, the children,
for the girlfriend.
They need that.
- In a lot of ways, Shane was robbed
at the same time Jimmy Casino was robbed
because Jimmy Casino wanted his son Shane
to have everything in life that he didn't have,
and now Shane didn't even have a father growing up.
- I can't imagine what Shane must have felt
losing his dad.
It has been over 30 years and it's still sad.
Makes me sad to think about it.
I feel like it's incomplete.
If Jimmy was here right now,
he would be doing stuff with his son,
and I would have liked to had him meet my son.
I miss Jimmy.