[dramatic music]
- A family dispute turns deadly.
- He said, "I shot my sister.
I think she's dead."
- If I don't get what I want, then I'm gonna scorch Earth.
- He definitely snapped.
- It leaves relatives shattered.
- And he's like, "Well, your mama's killed."
And I just broke down.
- And then another woman goes missing.
- It's another family he just devasted.
- The whole of New York City is on edge.
- The hunt is on tonight for a Jamaican man
suspected of murder and abduction.
- And you know what? The chase was on again,
cars, detectives, aviation, all of this.
- The manhunt expands to the whole country
and even beyond.
- I went to Georgia.
I was in North Carolina, South Carolina.
- We had a lot of international tips.
- NYPD's best always seems to be one step behind.
- Another five minutes and we were able to get him.
- The days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months,
months turned into years.
- But New York's finest won't give up.
- I'm gonna hunt you down. I'm gonna find you.
- The man is pure evil.
[tense music]
[dramatic music]
* *
- Back in 2002, we caught a case that I will never forget,
one that sent every level of law enforcement
from our guys in blue to the U.S. Marshals
on a manhunt that crisscrossed not only New York
but across the nation and beyond our borders.
The mystery started in Crown Heights, Brooklyn,
homethe largest West Indian population
outside the Caribbean, where extended families
come to live out the American dream,
a neighborhood that represents
the great melting pot that is New York.
But on a hot summer night in July,
a routine call turns into a deadly discovery
that would stun this vibrant community.
* *
- On July 8, 2002,
my partner and I were on patrol.
And at about 10:30 at night
the dispatcher reads out a job.
It came over as a 1056, possible female down
in Brooklyn at 1669 Carroll Street.
A 1056 is generally not an emergency call.
It's usually, you know, a minor medical call,
someone needs assistance.
My partner and I entered the apartment,
and I noticed that toward the back of the apartment
there was a light that appeared
to be coming from a TV.
[radio chatter]
It turns out to be a bedroom, and as I enter the bedroom
I see a woman laying on the bed.
So I call out to her. I get no response.
And as I step into the room,
I see the bullet wound in the back of her head.
Once I saw the pool of blood,
I knew that this was way beyond just a routine call.
* *
- I'm playing basketball in high school
and earlier in that day,
I had a game at a park not too far from my house.
The game was at about 6:00, I want to say.
[upbeat funky music]
I was like, "Mom, can you come to the game?"
And she was like, "Okay, well, yeah. I'll come."
I gave her a kiss and said, "Okay, Mom, I'll see you then."
After a little while, I'm like,
"She should be here."
I finished the game,
and I went to my grandfather's house.
[tense music]
And I'm hearing him on the phone.
He's frantic. I hear him saying,
"Andre, how could you do that?
That's your sister. That's your sister."
He's talking to my Uncle Andre.
So me hearing, "That's your sister,"
I'm like, "Grandpa, is everything okay?"
He's like, "Yeah, everything's fine."
My grandfather then says,
"Oh, did you speak to your mom?"
I'm like, "I spoke to her today about 4:30."
He's like, "Can you call her? I've been trying to get her."
I'm like, "Okay."
I remember I took the phone, and I called her.
The phone is busy,
so I called her again and again.
But I'm, like, this is the third time I've called.
Why is the phone busy?
* *
And I'm, like, I know my mom.
She's not gonna be on the phone for that long.
* *
And at this point, I had a bad feeling,
and I just ran out the house.
* *
- Meanwhile, four miles north at 1669 Carroll Street,
homicide detectives have been called in.
- Patrol tells us they had responded to the call
from a father who was looking to check on his daughter.
I walked into the bedroom.
I saw a female laying across her bed.
* *
She had what appeared to be
the phone cord wrapped around her hand.
And on the bed was a shell casing.
We waited for the medical examiner to come
and do a further investigation.
They rolled her over, and she was shot
once in the stomach also.
* *
The victim was Patricia Neverson.
* *
- Outside, Akim Neverson,
who is unable to reach his mom on the phone,
is sprinting up the street.
- I could see that it's an ambulance in front of my house.
I could see all the cops.
So when I ran to the house, a cop grabbed me.
So I tried to push through him,
and he was like, "Do you know Patricia Neverson?"
And I'm like, "Yeah, that's my mom."
And he's like, "Well, your mom was killed."
[somber music]
* *
And I just broke down.
* *
My mother grew up in Trinidad.
She was 22 when she came here.
She came from very little, so when you come from that,
you know how to really appreciate
what you have when you acquire it.
The dream she wanted to achieve was acquiring a house.
She always wanted that.
She always wanted to show us that, you know,
if you want something, you just have to push towards it,
and don't let anybody tell you you can't do it.
- As a single mom,
Patricia sometimes had to lean on her family for help,
especially her brother Andre.
- They were very close; like, they were very close.
Uncle Andre lived with us. He was my favorite uncle.
He was the one that was there the whole time.
I learned the most from him.
He DJs in nightclubs.
He's big and strong. He was like a bodybuilder.
He always had attractive women around him.
I think he's probably top three
smartest people I've met in my life.
- Now Detective Margraf is told that the person
who called 911 in the first place, Akim's grandfather,
has just arrived at the house.
- I was directed to speak to
the gentleman that was in front of the house.
His name was Denzil Humphrey.
Denzil Humphrey is Patricia Neverson's father,
and his brother, Volven Humphrey, was there.
I spoke to both of them.
And while I speak to Denzil Humphrey,
he could barely talk to me.
Volven was standing next to him,
and he smacked Denzil behind the head and said,
"Tell them right now. Stop playing games."
[tense music]
That's when Denzil told me, "I received a phone call from
"my son Andre Neverson, who told me that I shot my sister.
I think she's dead."
* *
When he told me it was Andre, Pat's brother,
that shot her. it is shocking,
definitely shocking.
- Detectives immediately call in a request
for a background check on Andre Neverson.
They learn that the bodybuilding, suave,
ladies' man had a serious temper and no impulse control
that had put him in NYPD's custody back in 1992.
- He did five years in prison
for trying to murder his girlfriend's uncle.
- We know that Andre was very rough with the girlfriend.
It was definitely domestic abuse there.
Her uncle confronted Andre.
Andre shot the uncle five times.
He tried to kill him,
so we know Andre had a propensity of violence.
- Andre did not value human life
the same way that others do,
certainly not his sister, who was the only person
that was really ever trying to help him.
- When Uncle Andre went to prison,
I think I was about in third grade at that time.
We would go to see him every week.
She'd drive up the eight hours to bring people up to see him.
She used to put my name in his books, things like that.
* *
- While inside, Andre received a financial settlement
from a lawsuit with the city for $20,000
and shared it with his devoted sister.
- My uncle got money, because before he went to prison,
he was driving, and an ambulance
ran a red light and hit him.
My mother's dream was to buy a house.
She said, "Look, you have this money. You're in prison.
"I'm gonna take it to buy the house.
When you come out, I'll give you the money back," you know?
- Patricia bought the house, but when Andre's sentence
was up a few years later, he was paroled and deported
back to Trinidad.
And Patricia wanted her closest brother back.
* *
- Patricia and two other girls had got $10,000 in order to
get this fake passport to get Andre back in the country.
- Once reunited, tensions over the money Andre loaned
Patricia to buy the house ramp up.
- He gets back into New York, into the country,
and he starts living with Patricia.
There's a dispute over money.
- He wanted a piece of that house.
He wanted to be on the title, which was impossible,
because he was technically violating his parole.
He was now a fugitive.
He wasn't even supposed to be in the country.
And his sister even offered to give him the money back.
- He didn't want the money. He wanted the house.
- Every day he's in this house
he gets more and more burnt that he gave her the money.
"This is my house. Why is she in this house?"
And him and Patricia started fighting about this.
And it just seems like Andre just snapped.
- And it's like, "If I don't get what I want,
then I'm gonna scorch Earth.
* *
- After gathering evidence
and talking to Akim and his grandfather,
police are optimistic they can get to Andre.
- This case was different than the rest,
because we knew the killer upfront,
so we figured it was just
a matter of time that we were gonna bring Andre in.
- But just as the search is about to get under way
detectives get information that takes the manhunt
to a whole new level of urgency.
- We're getting ready to walk away from 1669 Carroll Street,
and a woman is walking up the sidewalk
and says, "Detective, Andre is dating my daughter,
Donna Davis."
They were having problems.
My daughter could be with Andre right now."
- Her daughter was, missing, and she had a lot of concerns.
We were treating her as somebody
we need to get right away.
* *
- Coming up... - Well, cops said,
"You know, we're gonna find him."
And I said, "Sir, you're not gonna find him."
- We spoke to one of Donna Davis' friends,
who remembered Donna getting into the van with Andre.
He's a monster, cold, calculating killer.
[dramatic music]
* *
[dog barking]
- Detectives have just learned that Patricia Neverson
was not only murdered in cold blood
but by her own brother,
who actually confessed to the homicide.
But before the manhunt can even start
for Andre Neverson, they find out another woman
connected to our suspect is missing.
[sirens wailing]
- I don't know how people hear things so quickly,
but the word spreads.
And we're getting ready to
walk away from 1669 Carroll Street,
and a woman is walking up the sidewalk
and says, "Detective, I heard something may have
happened to Andre's sister." I go, "Yeah."
She goes, "Well, Andre's dating my daughter,
Donna Davis."
They were having problems, and she had somehow
broke off with Andre and now, all of a sudden,
Andre kills his sister,
and Donna hasn't been home yet from school.
And I'm concerned.
- When Daisy Davis came
and Donna's father came as well,
they pleaded with us. They let us know that,
"Look, there's something wrong here."
First of all, Donna came home every night like clockwork.
Never missed that.
Very, very close with her family.
- They were extremely concerned.
We were treating her as somebody
we need to get right away.
- As soon as classes start the next morning,
with Donna still missing, detectives head to her school.
- On the evening of July 8th,
after Andre killed his sister,
we found out he went to the school to find Donna Davis.
- We spoke to one of Donna Davis' friends.
She remembered Donna getting into the van with Andre.
She remembered looking at Donna,
and she could just tell by her body language
that she didn't look like
she wanted to get in the van at the time.
- The witness tells police
Andre was driving a blue Dodge Caravan.
To law enforcement this could be going one of two ways.
Either Donna is helping Andre evade the law
or she's in grave danger.
- We want to alert the public that this guy is
armed and dangerous, and he definitely has some issues.
- The hunt is on tonight for a Jamaican man
suspected of murder and abduction.
- The hunt for Andre was a pretty big one.
But, you know, there's all these tools we use.
Did he use his credit cards?
We were up on the credit cards.
Cell phones. We were up on cell phones.
* *
- But if there are 8 million stories in the naked city,
there are almost as many places to hide
and avenues to skip town altogether.
- There's so many people. I mean, there's subways.
There's multiple bridges, tunnels.
We knew he had a car. Port authority's on board.
We notified Jersey police, Pennsylvania state police.
We had all these different agencies
on a lookout for Andre.
* *
- In a city this big, cops know the fastest way to
catch a killer is if the family of the suspect is cooperating.
And the Neversons were ready to talk.
* *
- We had the Neverson family giving whatever information
they could to get Andre off the street.
* *
- They were telling us that Andre had different
girlfriends, and some of these girls had children with him.
So once we got these new addresses,
we started to send people out to go look for Andre.
- Detectives try to assure the family
that they would catch Andre soon.
But Patricia's son Akim wasn't so sure.
- And I remember this night really vividly.
* *
A cop said, "We're gonna find him."
And I said, "Sir, you're not gonna find him."
I said, "No disrespect to you guys, but if he did something
to this magnitude, it's no way he didn't calculate it."
* *
If he's gonna kill someone,
he's not gonna just have a little hole-in-the-wall story.
It's gonna be something well-thought-out.
It's gonna be financially secured so he could do it.
[sirens wailing]
- According the family,
Andre boasted after he was sent to jail
that he'd make sure to never go back.
- Andre Neverson believed that he understood police procedure
better than the police.
And he said while in jail that he was never going back
because he was so sure that he understood the psychology
and how police worked and conducted investigations
that he could stay one step ahead of them.
* *
- It's been 48 hours since Patricia Neverson's murder,
and the full force of the NYPD
has been out looking for Andre
in the blue Dodge Caravan he was last seen driving.
Finally, a patrol unit spots it near the water's edge
in a remote part of Canarsie, Brooklyn.
- The van was found abandoned in 69 precinct in Seaview park.
The detectives flew over there.
[sirens wailing]
They walked up to it slow and looked inside the van.
* *
They did notice some kind of clothing and stuff,
but there was nobody in the van.
* *
Now, detectives went through the van.
They found a yellow T-shirt with blood.
They found bloodstains on a rug.
And they found a broken earring.
All of that we found out belonged to Donna Davis,
so we know she was in that van.
* *
[sirens wailing]
- With no sign of Andre or Donna,
all units are called in for a full-scale sweep
of the 132-acre Canarsie Park.
- We used all our resources. We had helicopters up.
They needed harbor, 'cause of what is on the water.
They needed scuba. We had emergency services
on the ground looking for her.
Unfortunately, we couldn't find Donna,
and she was still missing.
- Sick with worry, Donna's parents
are begging for her return.
- Just release her and don't hurt her.
I'm appealing to the better side of him,
and I hope he will think about it
and just let her go.
- Concerns over Donna's safety are escalating.
* *
Fears are compounded when Daisy Davis
receives a shocking letter.
- Andre sends Daisy Davis this three-page letter
telling her how she screwed up
the relationship between the both of them.
- It looked like it could be blood that was on the envelope.
* *
The letter said, "You'll never see her again."
[dramatic music]
* *
- It's been two days since Patricia Neverson was murdered
and Donna Davis went missing.
Investigators get a major development in the case.
- At 10:00 in the morning on July 10th
we get a phone call in the squad from Daisy Davis,
Donna Davis' mother, who said that she received
a letter in the mail that was addressed from Andre.
And it looked like it could be blood that was on the envelope.
- It's a three-page letter telling her how she screwed up
the relationship between the both of them.
- "It's your fault that you got involved in
your daughter's relationship.
You'll never see her again."
* *
- Another 24 hours passes.
And on the morning of July 11th
police are notified of a tragic discovery.
* *
- We have reports of a dog walker had found a body.
* *
- They found a female probably in her early 30s,
African American, inside this, like, vacant lot.
So when the detectives go to the scene,
they realize it is Donna Davis.
* *
- She has been shot point blank in the back of the head.
* *
Detectives now have to deliver
the terrible news to Donna's parents.
* *
- The coroner determines Donna was murdered two days earlier,
the same night as Patricia Neverson.
- If you think about his motive,
after he killed his sister, he had no remorse.
He went right back for Donna, and he had a plan.
He already had the letter ready to go.
Not a crime of passion. This was his own ego
that females could do this to him,
make him look foolish, steal his money for his house,
and then break up with him. Who were they to do that?
He was a monster.
- Now with two murders on their hands,
the NYPD ramps up alerts to the public and other agencies.
- So we have wanted posters put up.
Notify Interpol. Notify the Caribbean.
Notify the airport. Notify the train stations.
We tried to do the biggest drag that we possibly can.
- As a result of all the warnings,
panicked calls start coming in from many of the women
that Andre had relationships with.
- He had many partners.
He had children with most of those partners.
And many of those women were definitely afraid of him.
- Andre had just killed his sister.
Now we find out he killed his girlfriend.
We are thinking anybody he has a problem with,
anybody he has a beef with,
he may go look to take revenge on these people.
- Margraf has patrol teams on 24-hour watch
at the homes of any known associates
not only to protect them
but hoping that Andre might show up demanding help.
- He could con his way into any woman's house.
He could be hiding anywhere.
* *
- Detectives know, the more time passes,
the further Andre could be from New York City
and out of the reach from local police.
So the NYPD activate a powerful agency,
the New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force,
which includes the U.S. Marshal service.
* *
- What struck me about this case is that everyone
of his friends says, "You're gonna have a hard time
"catching him, because he's very smart.
And he knows how to stay off the radar."
- Andre had been deported after serving
five years in prison but had illegally slipped back
into the U.S. using a fake Jamaican passport.
- In the beginning, the concentration
was a tri-state area knowing that he could be
going international because of the Jamaican passport.
* *
- But in order to go anywhere,
law enforcement knows he'd need money and help.
- And we went and interviewed a lot of friends.
And we informed everybody
since he was wanted federally now
about making false statements to a federal officer
and harboring a fugitive,
they're different than regular New York State laws.
And we made everybody sign acknowledgements
of what that meant.
- Feeling pressured by the NYPD and the U.S. Marshals,
Andre's close friend Nadine fesses up.
- She says she met up with
Andre the day after the homicide.
He called her and said, "Can you meet me at Burger King?"
He gets in her car.
He said he needs money.
She gave him like $30 or something.
He goes, "I think I'm gonna go check in,
and I'm not gonna check out."
We're thinking, "I'm gonna check into a hotel,
and I'm not gonna check out" means he's gonna get
a hotel room somewhere and kill himself.
We checked numerous hotels in the area.
And we couldn't find him.
- The task force is frustrated,
but then a lead comes in from an unexpected source.
- FedEx called us and said,
"Are you looking for Andre Neverson?"
And we said, "Hell, yeah."
* *
- Coming up... - That would be a red flag.
But if nobody knows his new name,
he could walk in plain day.
- We got a call from a man
that said Andre Neverson is in his house.
[dramatic music]
* *
- The New York and New Jersey Fugitive Task Force
have been after alleged killer Andre Neverson for weeks
with almost nothing to show for it.
And when a call comes in from of all places, Federal Express,
they may just have the break in the case they have long needed.
* *
- During the investigation, FedEx security contacted Pete.
They had intercepted a package from Andre to his son.
* *
It was a mislabeled package, so they had to open it.
- When they opened it up, they found it was a computer
that belonged to Andre Neverson.
We had so much press out there.
We had his picture on every newspaper,
every news channel.
FedEx knew we were looking for him,
and they gave us the computer.
- On that laptop was a picture of Andre
with a fake wig on
with dreadlocks and a thick moustache.
He was trying to change his appearance.
- This plan was thought out, you know?
And if everybody is looking for Andre Neverson,
a bodybuilder who's bald,
if he has a dread wig you'll look right past him.
* *
- Andre was someone who was adept at using the tools
of someone who wanted to remain undetected,
fake passports, aliases.
- He had fake names in the past.
Being e's illegally in the country,
he couldn't use Andre Neverson.
But there were numerous aliases we were looking into.
- He was committed to remaining underground,
and he knew how to do that.
- Smart guy, very savvy when it came to computers,
how to get different paperwork.
He know phone work,
how to keep changing phones and how to change his names
and getting other birth certificates and passports.
- But while Andre was upping his game of deception
and disguise, investigators were busy
bumping his case up to the absolute highest level.
- We were able to get Andre
on the top 15 most wanted list by U.S. Marshals.
- That brings a lot more resources from the marshals
and a lot more reward money as well.
- Every law enforcement agency from New York to California
is now looking for him.
- And being on America's most wanted list
gained attention from
America's most watched TV shows.
- At the time, "America's Most Wanted"
was probably the largest venue
in TV to profile somebody like Andre Neverson,
millions of people watching "America's Most Wanted."
- We had him on so many times.
When it would air, we would go to the 71 precinct
and wait and watch the show.
We would give, you know, the operators
information that the public didn't have.
So we know what's credible and what's not.
- We got 100 leads on Andre all over the country.
I personally went to Buffalo. We had a really good tip
from somebody who said they knew Andre.
They did time in prison with Andre.
That turned out to be negative.
I went to Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina.
- Every time we got a lead,
it kind of branched out further and further.
We arrested a lot of people.
One case in Brooklyn,
we had a warrant for a guy. We delved information.
He was supposed to be helping Andre.
He was in the drug dealing business.
We ended up getting the man with two kilos of cocaine
and various drugs and money all over the house.
And he had absolutely nothing to do with Andre.
It was great to clean up New York City,
but at the same time, it wasn't getting us closer to Andre.
* *
- From the beginning of the investigation,
police believe that Andre had
a network of girlfriends who might help him.
And on top of their list to keep an eye on,
a woman named Lauren, who Andre shared a child with.
* *
- So we watch her house 24 hours a day
to see if Andre would come back to see her.
- Andre never shows at the house,
but he did know where Lauren worked.
- She worked at Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn.
She was a nurse.
Lauren walked to her car one day from the hospital.
[horn honks]
* *
She gets in her car, and there's a plastic bag
on the mirror of her car.
And inside the bag is a portable radio.
* *
She gets it.
It's a note says, "Keep this on."
She goes back in the hospital now.
Tells the hospital police. Hospital police call us.
[sirens wailing]
- After searching the hospital and area,
detectives get their hands on
the hospital surveillance tapes.
- We have a shot of Andre in the back of the waiting
area of the hospital.
Like, you could barely see him.
It looked like he was all the way in the corner
went just outside of camera range.
When she would go out,
she'd have to pass where he was sitting to go outside.
And I'm sure once she went back in the hospital,
he probably saw that and just disappeared at that point.
- Our guys missed him by minutes.
But the fact that he left a two-way radio
meant he had to be in range.
- We have our search teams out.
We have people canvassing.
[sirens wailing]
- I wanted to catch him really bad,
because you want justice for the families.
You're into every case you get,
murders, rapists, but there's some that just stick to you,
and I really wanted to catch this guy.
* *
- But two more months pass,
and things had gotten as quiet as could be,
until a dramatic new sighting.
- We got a call from a man
that said Andre Neverson is in his house.
- He was, in my opinion, getting desperate.
[dramatic music]
* *
- It's been two months since Andre Neverson
was caught on video trying to connect with the mother
of one of his children, a woman named Lauren.
* *
Tips have gone cold with no new leads
and tons of other cases to cover.
Police have scaled back surveillance
on all of Andre's girlfriend's homes.
And just then Andre Neverson saw an opening
at Lauren's in Flatlands, Brooklyn.
* *
- We get a call that Andre jumped into a window
and wanted to see his daughter.
While he was looking for his daughter,
her brother overheard the conversation.
He walked into the room.
He saw Andre had a gun.
Her brother said he had no beef with him.
The brother walked away and called 911.
Cop cars flew there immediately.
[sirens wailing]
- Andre's already killed twice
and has been convicted of attempted murder.
They want to catch him before he can kill again.
They approach the door cautiously.
* *
[door creaking]
Lauren opens the door
and tells them Andre had left just minutes before.
- And you know what? The chase was on again...
* *
Cars, detectives, aviation, all of this.
- We have 25, 30 guys
lock down the area and do a grid search for Andre.
[sirens wailing]
[dog barking]
* *
- Just a little too late.
We needed another five minutes,
and then we would've been there.
We would have been able to get him.
* *
- For the NYPD it's beginning to feel like
"Catch Me If You Can," but to U.S. Marshal Manny Puri,
Andre is a fugitive with a major flaw.
* *
- So to be a successful fugitive
you have to cut off everything you know
and everybody you know.
And I think Andre was having a tough time doing that.
He was at times, in my opinion, getting desperate.
- On a frigid January morning, Andre's father,
Denzil Humphrey, learns just how desperate he is.
- After the incident with the ex-girlfriend,
a couple of months later,
Andre writes a letter to his father.
- I got a phone call from Denzil telling me
he got a note under his door from Andre.
It says, "Hey, Daddy, I'm cold and hungry
riding the trains. I need help. Can you help me?"
Once he says that, we have transit cops
checking subways out, checking trains out.
- While transit teams search the subways,
detectives turn a sharper focus on Denzil.
- Andre was the father's pride bull.
The family told me, "Watch Denzil.
Guarantee somehow Denzil's helping him."
- In my head and my heart,
I think he was aiding, you know, my uncle.
Because my uncle was sending letters directly to him.
They weren't postmarked, which means that he was
dropping them physically in the mail slot.
'Cause my grandfather kind of, like, he had the attitude
where I lost a daughter; I don't want to lose a son.
- I had to break through the barrier with the father
to get the father to tell me the truth.
I believe he knew where Andre was; he just wouldn't tell me.
- But police knew Andre had something that could
help them most of all, a fake passport that
the sister he murdered helped him secure
to get back into the U.S. illegally.
- We tried everything we could
to find out the identity of the passport,
because we had no idea
what alias he was using at this time.
So I think that's how he was able
to stay one step ahead.
* *
- One step ahead and further
from even U.S. Marshal's reach.
* *
- An investigator would think
that a person who has a fake passport
would flee the country.
Why are you gonna stay here?
Everybody knows your name, and you're on TV,
or you go someplace on--
and start a whole new life out there.
- We were more concerned that he'd try to get home somehow
back to Trinidad.
- We had a lot of international tips,
and anything in the Caribbean was of interest.
So me and Pete wanted to go to Trinidad.
* *
- We go there. We meet the people
in state department in Trinidad.
But we hit a big roadblock
when we speak to the police down there.
The police tell us,
"Andre Neverson's from a small town called Never Dirty."
They said it's a very, very bad area,
that even the police don't go there.
- We were informed that we couldn't go there
unless we went there with the army,
basically a whole column of armed soldiers.
So basically, it was out the window of us doing
any knock and talks in these areas.
- Margraf and Puri are forced to return to New York
empty-handed.
The case goes cold.
Investigators feel like they're chasing a ghost.
Andre Neverson once boasted he could outsmart the cops
and never end up in cuffs.
And as the years tick by, even our guys started to worry.
He might get away with it.
- This case as it lingered on
and we got less, less leads,
after a while people don't come forward anymore.
He's out of sight, out of mind.
* *
- So many years passed there was a fear that
this was gonna become one of those cold cases
that you never got to solve.
And that was a nightmare
'cause you didn't want this guy,
cocky Andre, to beat us.
* *
- The lack of forward progress
is even harder for the families of Andre's victims,
Patricia Neverson and Donna Davis.
- I knew for a fact that they definitely wouldn't catch him.
I already put in my mind that
he'd be gone for at least ten years.
And then it turned to 12
and then it turned to 14, I'm like, okay.
It was like just a confirmation of what I already knew.
- For 16 years, Andre had evaded capture.
It's not until September 2018
that the cops get Andre in their sights.
- Andre was pulled over in Connecticut
for reckless driving.
Connecticut calls, "Hey, you still want Andre?"
And we said, "Absolutely. Go find him."
- We're thinking he's in Trinidad
or thinking these other things,
but he's literally right here.
[dramatic music]
* *
- By the fall of 2018
fugitive killer Andre Neverson
has been on the run for 16 years.
But now this game cat and mouse
was about to come to an end.
- Labor Day weekend 2018,
Andre was pulled over in Connecticut
for reckless driving and brought to the station house.
They fingerprint him,
but before the fingerprints come back,
they issue him a summons, and they let him out the door.
* *
- They never knew who they had.
They didn't know they had one of America's most wanted.
* *
- Andre has given police a copy of his license
with a fake name but his real address.
- Apparently, Andre felt comfortable.
He thought the alias he was using
was free and clear, because they let him go.
- And about an hour later, his prints came back.
They called New York City police.
They say, "Can you guys look for Andre Neverson?"
Yeah, for double homicide. It's like, "Oh, sh--.
We just had him in precinct an hour ago."
* *
- Everybody got word that Andre's in Connecticut.
The Connecticut marshals are doing their thing.
They're getting eyes on.
The New York marshals and the Jersey marshals
are rushing up to get there to develop a plan.
And lo and behold, Andre's doing work in the front yard.
And they finally take him into custody.
* *
- They said that, you know, "Your uncle was caught."
And I was like, "Huh?"
And they said, "Your uncle was caught.
And he was apprehended in Connecticut."
And I said, "Well, how did that happen?"
He wasn't caught in Wisconsin or California or Arizona.
He was caught within the tri-state area.
He didn't go far.
- Never--I've been looking through my notes,
nothing ever came up Connecticut.
It's like a two-hour ride to Connecticut. It's crazy.
So that hurts that he was this close
and we just couldn't find him.
* *
The worst part is, the police found out that
he had a 16-year-old daughter in Connecticut.
SO pretty much he gets there, he meets a girl,
they have a baby right away,
and she's like 16 years old by the time Andre was arrested.
And this little girl had no idea.
- This is another family he just devasted.
Now this daughter, she'll grow up
with probably knowing that greatest dad in the world
is actually a murderer.
* *
- Andre was tried in Brooklyn Supreme Court in 2021.
He was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder
and criminal possession of a weapon.
He was sentenced to 50 years in prison,
a bittersweet justice in the end.
- I would've like to have caught him like 15 years ago.
But at the end of the day, yes, justice was served.
I feel justice was served. Definitely.
- Was justice served?
Not for me. I think he spent
way too much time
outside living a life
while his victims didn't.
- That kind of haunted me for a long time.
It was just--if you have children
and you see what this individual, Andre,
did to all his family members, it just--
it's something that just haunts you.
Closure? I don't know what closure is,
because these people have to live with that forever.
Their loved ones are gone.
- And justice was technically served,
because he's gonna go to jail for basically the rest of
his natural life, but that doesn't give me my mom back.
Like, it's still a huge hunk of me that's missing, you know?
He took away my protector.
And he took away the person that--
that I felt like if life gave me a boo-boo
would come and give me Band-Aid and tell me,
you know, you could still do it.
You can do that.
Andre took everything from me.