[dramatic music]
- My dad, he was kind of the life of the party.
- A beloved father and popular maître d'...
- There was always somebody famous around.
- Stabbed to death in his midtown apartment...
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- Whoever entered the apartment was invited.
- Has the nypd hunting down a charming predator.
- They had good reasons to remember him.
He was remarkably attractive.
- And when we exposed his secret obsession...
- There was a series of newspaper clippings
About andrew cunanan.
- We realized we had to act fast.
- He was at the end of the bar with his shirt off.
I invited him back to my place.
- Oh, my god, maybe we have a serial killer on our hands.
[intriguing music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- In the heart of new york city,
Thousands of tourists a day seek out a block
Off of times square called restaurant row--
Carmine's, sardi's, joe allen,
And of course, barbetta,
Serving up fine italian since 1906.
This famed 100-year-old restaurant provides
The backdrop for our case--
A shocking murder with a jaw-dropping twist
That none of us saw coming.
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The mystery begins labor day weekend, 1997,
With 58-year-old roger brooks heading from new york city
To baltimore to see his daughter.
- The morning of August 30th, my dad called me at 11:00,
And he said his flight was scheduled to arrive
In baltimore at 9:00.
This was pre-9/11,
So I was able to actually go to the gate.
The passengers disembarked, and I didn't see him,
And the flight crew was coming off.
So I called my house.
He didn't leave a message.
I knew that something was wrong.
When my dad said that he was absolutely gonna do something,
He did it.
- She called the midtown north precinct,
'cause that's where her father's
Apartment was located.
- His apartment was in the same building
As barbetta restaurant on 46th street in manhattan.
- She asked for what we call a welfare check.
He had then been missing only for a couple of hours.
He was an adult, so they kind of brushed her off.
- As the sun begins to rise on Sunday,
There's still no word from roger.
- The police finally did go over there.
I pled with them, please, you know, break down the door,
Just to see if he's okay, or if he's in there at all.
But they just knocked on the door,
And nobody came to the door, and then they left.
I was really frantic,
So I contacted some friends of mine in new york.
They were actually a family of firefighters,
So they offered to get in touch
With the firehouse in his neighborhood.
- At 10:00 a.M. On August 31st,
An fdny truck pulls up to 321 west 46th street.
The plan: Climb up from the outside
To get a look into roger's third-floor window.
- Just as they were starting to put the ladder up,
The superintendent of the building happened to show up.
They went upstairs to roger brooks' apartment,
And he unlocked the door and let them in.
- Mr. Brooks was found laying on the living room floor,
Dead in his apartment in a pool of blood.
- They found him face down,
Wearing a white shirt and pants.
One shoe was off.
The apartment was not ransacked or anything like that.
The police rolled his body over
And saw the blood and the various wounds.
- He had been stabbed in his stomach and his chest.
- His pockets were turned out,
And there was a wallet and no credit cards found.
- It appears mr. Brooks was the victim of a robbery,
But the rest of the apartment was seemingly untouched.
- There were no signs of forced entry to the building.
There was no doorbell for the building either,
So whoever had done this had to have been
Let into the building.
- We believe he knew his assailant.
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- Around 10:30 a.M., christine receives a call
From investigators confirming her worst fears.
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- It was devastating.
It was just hard to believe, you know?
- And my sister called me, and she was pretty upset.
Something happened to dad, you know,
He was stabbed, or he's dead, murdered.
Really frantic.
- We were both close to my dad.
You know, to have him all of a sudden not there,
It was just devastating for us.
My dad grew up in clarksburg, massachusetts,
On a farm, so he was a big gardener.
And he was a foodie before it became a code word.
When he was younger, he was actually in the air force.
- He wasn't around when my parents were married,
Because he was gone in the service for a while.
And then my mother had me and my sister.
- After an amicable divorce, when the kids were young,
Mark and christine lived with their mother in massachusetts.
Roger traveled around the country,
Working as a maître d'
In a variety of high-end restaurants.
- That was his niche, fine dining.
- He loved the service field.
He loved, you know, meeting different celebrities
And telling us about them.
- My father worked at the four seasons
For about ten years in new york.
He loved it.
He loved the fanciest of restaurants.
- I think for him, the city had that magnetic energy.
- Early '96, my father went to atlanta
To start working at a restaurant out there.
I was surprised to see my father leave new york city.
- He seemed to think that, you know,
Atlanta was the up-and-coming place
For the restaurant business.
- But in the summer of '97, after only a year away,
Roger got the barbetta offer back in nyc and jumped on it.
- I think he missed the energy of new york,
And he just wanted to get back to that whole scene.
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- He'd just driven a u-haul from atlanta
And dropped off the last of his belongings
In his new manhattan apartment.
Next stop, a weekend with his daughter in baltimore,
The trip he never got to make.
- Who did this to our father?
Who would do such a thing?
Just a gentle man.
Big friend to anybody.
And so young too.
He was murdered my--
My age.
- Detectives share with mark and christine
Some sensitive evidence at the crime scene
That could be related to roger's murder.
- The detectives noticed that there was a blue screen
On the tv, such as when a video might end
And the tv remains on.
So they took a look at the tape.
It turned out to be a gay porn video.
They also found polaroid photographs
Of several different naked men.
- He may have had a boyfriend,
Or he may have picked somebody up.
We needed to find out as much information
About mr. Brooks that we could.
- We didn't know that he was gay.
I felt a little disappointed,
Because we were close enough where I thought,
You know, maybe he could tell me.
But he didn't,
And it really did not matter to me.
That's what my dad chose.
That was his business.
- It was shocking, to me anyways,
That that was his lifestyle.
I had no clue.
- Detective delgrosso asked me
If I knew of anyone that would want to harm my dad,
And I said no.
I'm sure he had arguments with people,
But I didn't see him having specific enemies
That would want to do that.
- But when detectives ask if there are any new people
In her father's life,
She does have an answer.
- When my dad moved from atlanta to new york,
He stopped in baltimore for an overnight
Just to get a break from the drive.
And he had a companion by the name of quillis,
And this was on August 27th.
- This was just three days before roger brooks was found
Dead in his apartment.
[dramatic music]
- I told the detectives the story
About the incident with him at my house.
I didn't get a good vibe from him.
My dad trusted too many people.
♪ ♪
- Coming up...
- He was walking around
In her house in the middle of the night.
- We discovered that there were purchases
Made with mr. Brooks' credit card.
- Followed the money.
That's the guy we're looking for.
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[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's labor day weekend, 1997,
And the nypd has just discovered the body
Of 58-year-old maître d', roger brooks,
Stabbed to death in his midtown apartment.
After breaking the devastating news to his daughter,
Detectives here about a visit she'd had from her father
Just three days before his murder.
- Mr. Brooks was flying down to atlanta
To pick up some furniture,
And then he was renting a u-haul truck
To bring furniture back to the new york apartment.
- He was going to stop in baltimore for the night
Just to get a break from the drive.
He asked if I minded if he brought this kid
Who was bumming a ride from atlanta to new york.
It was just very typical of my dad.
He would help somebody out in a heartbeat.
He would pick up hitchhikers, but he would tell me,
Don't you ever pick up a hitchhiker.
So my dad and this guy arrived at my house at around 7:00.
And he introduced me to him as quillis.
He was of spanish descent,
Maybe early 20s,
And very quiet.
And I didn't know this person.
I didn't feel like my dad knew him fully.
So I was a little bit leery
About having a total stranger in my house.
- She sets her dad up in the spare bedroom upstairs,
And quillis on the sofa bed downstairs.
- Sometime during the night, I just heard some noise.
It was an old house, and the floors were pretty creaky.
I turn the light on, and I saw him in the hallway upstairs.
And I said, "are you looking for the bathroom?"
And he said, "oh, yes, yes."
We had already shown him, like, where everything was,
And there was a full bath downstairs.
And then he went back to sleep.
And they left the next morning.
- It was only when christine spoke with investigators
That she realized the significance of the incident.
- The detective shared with us that my dad was robbed,
And so I thought maybe quillis was looking around,
You know, to see what we had.
- So that was a good lead.
- She had no other information
About whether he had a relationship
With roger brooks or anything along those lines.
All she knew was, he was walking around
In her house in the middle of the night
For seemingly no reason.
The detectives certainly had a look at him
To see if he might be the killer.
- In midtown, nypd heads to barbetta,
Just steps below roger's apartment.
And when detectives ask at the restaurant
If anyone has heard of quillis,
The answer stops them in their tracks.
[dishes clattering]
- He was a busboy at the restaurant.
And the detectives at that point thought,
Here's our guy.
- He was brought to the precinct,
And he was interviewed for a couple of hours.
Mr. Quillis confirmed that he had made the trip
To baltimore with mr. Brooks,
And he explained to us that roger paid him
To take the trip down there to pick up the furniture.
- It's a believable story.
Quillis, a busboy, living in expensive new york city,
Was trying to make a couple of extra bucks.
But could that bring him to rob?
- It was determined that he had an alibi
That was kind of rock-solid.
He was nowhere in midtown
On the day of mr. Brooks' death.
- As detectives start back at square one,
Christine and mark land in new york.
[somber music]
- It was difficult coming back to the city.
I was walking around the city.
I had a lot of memories.
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My father showed us the best of new york,
Baseball games and broadway shows.
We saw the rockettes.
- We went into different restaurants,
Him saying, "oh, yes, this is my daughter."
And then, not only did the staff come over,
But then the owner came over.
I had so many great memories with my dad.
The city took on a different light for sure.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- The detectives took us to the apartment.
We wanted to get some belongings,
Some personal belongings, some clothes,
For the wake and the funeral.
- It was still an active crime scene.
We did see the blood everywhere,
Which was kind of shocking.
I mean, thoughts of him struggling, you know,
To survive this situation just kept going through my mind.
It was starting to sink in, you know?
Um, I mean, it was--
It was a dark day for sure.
- As they explore the apartment,
Mark asked the detectives
About an item of particular importance to him.
- Mark told us that his father always wore
A rather distinctive gold cross
With what looked like turquoise inlay.
And upon finding his body,
There was no such necklace on him.
- My brother had bought him the cross.
My dad was catholic.
He was a religious person.
- My father wore that necklace all the time.
District attorney schiels made a promise to me
That he was gonna get that back to me.
[siren wailing]
- The most fruitful course of investigation is
To follow the money, so to speak.
He had an american express card
And a couple of other credit cards missing,
And they began to contact credit card companies
To find out if the credit card was used after his death.
And they discovered that on August 30th,
The credit card had been used that evening
In numerous places in new york city.
And based on the fact that mr. Brooks was supposed
To be on a plane at 6:00 or 7:00 p.M.,
It could not have been him,
Because he did not get on that plane,
And therefore, he must have been dead.
- There was a purchase at a sunglass hut
And at a restaurant called 18th and 8th,
Sneaker store, macy's department store.
- Jewelry, sneakers, nothing that would--
That you would need to live on, anything like that.
It was all sort of fluff type of purchases.
Then on September 1st, labor day itself,
It was used at the bronx zoo
In an attempt to buy a disposable camera,
And the credit card was denied at that point.
Let's find out who was using the credit cards.
That's probably the guy we're looking for.
- The detectives responded to the different locations.
Back in 1997, there weren't that many cameras around.
- They had to find people that might be able
To make identifications.
- In a city of 8 million, we can't always bank on that.
But this time, we got lucky.
- Two of the first places where purchases had been made,
Sunglass hut and gold mine jewelers,
Had a very good recollection of what this guy looked like,
And they had good reasons to remember him.
They were both young, 20s, give or take, girls,
And both of them thought
That the guy was amazingly attractive.
They both gave a similar description--
A young man in his early 20s,
Brazilian background,
Slim, well-built, straight black hair.
They've hit the jackpot.
Now we know the guy we're looking for.
[dramatic music]
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[dramatic music]
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- Three days after roger brooks' murder,
And investigators have a lead.
- Clerks from-- one from sunglasses hut
And one from gold mine jewelers--
Were able to describe the person
Who had used the credit cards in their shops.
- As the description is distributed
Throughout the department,
Roger's phone records come in,
And the results are promising.
- There were several calls from roger brooks
To his daughter on that day.
There was a call to alamo car rental company.
And then there were some calls to mr. Brooks' apartment
On the afternoon of the 30th,
Two or three or four different times,
From a payphone at a bally's gym
In the chelsea area.
- Whoever made that call was the last person
To speak to roger brooks alive.
- We needed to find out if there were
Any surveillance cameras in the area by the payphone
That we could go back and look at the date and time
And see who was using the phone.
This last phone call could be that person
Who came to see him on that afternoon.
- Delgrosso went to the payphone at the gym.
- The payphones were out in the lobby.
There was no surveillance video available.
We had no idea who made that phone call.
But they had hundreds, if not thousands, of people
That are members at that gym,
Or it could have been just a passerby.
- As the investigation hits the one-week mark,
Things begin to slow.
- There was nothing from the phone records
Or the credit card records.
They were stuck.
- You know, you get to a point where nothing's happening.
I was calling, like, twice a week.
I just didn't want the case to go cold.
- But just two weeks later, an unexpected lead
From a detective not even working the case.
- A detective by the name of anthony berti
Went to a local restaurant.
He ate there fairly regularly, and he was friends
With a waiter by the name of mr. Ali.
And they got to talking on this particular occasion
About the death of this maître d'
In the same neighborhood that was of interest
To many people in the neighborhood there.
And mr. Ali told him that roger brooks would
Come into that restaurant fairly often, and in fact,
A week or so before his death,
Mr. Brooks had come into the restaurant
For lunch with a young man.
Mr. Brooks asked ali,
Are there any busboy jobs available for this young man?
Mr. Ali told him, give me his information,
And I will call him if something comes up.
So the man gave his name as allan oliveira...
And gave a phone number.
There was some indication that there might be more
Going on here than just a busboy application,
Because why would he be going to lunch with him?
So that raised some interest on the detectives' part.
- But it's what roger's companion looks like
That really piques the detectives' interest.
- Allan was described as brazilian, slim, 20s,
Black hair, very good-looking.
- It's the perfect match for the description
Of the person who was using roger brooks' credit cards
After his death.
- Detectives got something really important going on here.
George delgrosso looked up the phone number
In what they used to call a reverse directory.
- The phone number came back to web tysver,
Apartment building on 22nd street.
- The location immediately catches their attention.
It's just around the corner from the gym payphone--
The very one that had been used to call roger brooks
On the day of his murder.
Detectives raced to web tysver's apartment,
Ready to nab their guy.
- Allan could have been a nickname for mr. Tysver.
We needed to lay eyes on him
To see if he fit the description that we had
On the male that was with mr. Brooks.
- This was a huge lead for them.
- I went to the apartment on the 11th floor,
Knocked on the door.
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- Weber tysver did not match the description
Of the young man that mr. Brooks had
Come into the restaurant for lunch with.
- Well, that kind of took the wind out of our sails
A little bit, but we needed to talk to him
As to why his number was left at the restaurant
And what his connection was to the name "allan."
- I woke up really hungover from the night before
To the nypd banging on my door.
I went to the door, opened it.
They said, allan oliveira,
They had some sort of crime that they suspected him of,
And that they needed to find him.
I was a little foggy. I wasn't really
Understanding what it was about.
I was like, allan couldn't hurt a fly, you know.
There must be somebody that he's mixed up with
That has got him kind of set up for something.
Whatever it is, he couldn't have done it.
You just have the wrong guy.
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[dramatic music]
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- Detectives are in hot pursuit of allan oliveira,
Who'd been spotted with roger brooks
A week before his murder.
What they thought was oliveira's phone number
Led investigators instead to a man named web tysver.
- George delgrosso began to ask him,
Do you know somebody by the name of allan?
"oh, yes, I know somebody named allan,
Allan oliveira."
- It must have been in the spring of '97
That I met allan.
It was just an ordinary weeknight.
[indistinct chatter]
When I walked in, allan was at the end of the bar
With his shirt off.
I thought he looked cute, so I walked up to him
And started talking to him.
He spoke portuguese,
And I understand bits and pieces.
And he was, like, fresh off the boat
From brazil.
Allan told me that he was going to columbia.
His parents were paying for him to go to school
And study english.
But I just had a general feeling of, like,
Oh, this poor guy, you know, he's alone in the city.
You know, like a little lost orphan.
I should keep an eye on him.
[ominous music]
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I was trying to help allan adjust to life in new york
In what little ways I could.
I actually had given him a set of keys to my apartment,
That he could stop by and,
You know, chill out when he was downtown.
- He didn't have a phone number,
And he asked mr. Tysver if he could give his number out,
Where someone could contact him about employment.
- And that's how our guys landed at web's door.
- They asked me if I knew anyone
By the name of roger brooks, to which I had said,
I never heard of him, never met him,
Never seen him, knew nothing.
- We asked him to relay to us a timeline
Of his whereabouts the weekend of labor day, 1997.
- As it turns out, web spent a good part of the weekend
With allan at a location familiar to detectives.
- Saturday morning, and we walked over to the gym,
Which was just, like, an avenue across.
We'd just gotten to the gym.
I was starting to do some bench press,
And I needed him to spot me.
It was a little unusual,
In the sense that he was very distracted,
And he wasn't really available.
And then he needed to go make a phone call at the payphone.
- Detectives raise their eyebrows at this detail.
The payphone allan uses is the very same one used
To make the phone calls to roger brooks.
- And he comes back and says he has to go study
With some classmates,
And we agreed to meet at my apartment
Later that evening with his new boyfriend, brian.
So sometime maybe around 8:00, it was dark,
We walk over to a restaurant.
[indistinct chatter]
That was the first time I was meeting brian, you know,
And he seemed like a good, conservative,
Clean-cut, midwestern guy.
Allan seemed to be happy
To have someone in his life, you know?
They had a nice chemistry between them,
Or, you know, they seemed happy,
Just enjoying each other's company.
- But web recounts one chilling detail.
- Allan had a magazine with versace on the cover.
I noticed that, and that was in his duffel bag.
- That summer, '97, there was a tremendous amount
Of publicity about andrew cunanan killing
Gay men across the country,
Ultimately killing gianni versace in florida.
So during the course of dinner, the subject came up.
- It was a lot of nasty, nasty details
Of how cunanan killed his victims,
Like, you know, screwdriver into the neck
And wrapped in extension cords and--
Brian might have lost his appetite a little bit, but...
So it was time for the bill to come,
And for whatever reason, allan was picking up the check.
That was a little strange,
But I also didn't think too much about it.
- The restaurant, 18th and 8th,
Another place roger brooks' credit card had been used
After his death.
- At this point, they've hit the jackpot,
Because they have him now using
The credit card at the restaurant.
This is starting to turn into something
At this point for the detectives.
The next thing they wanted to know is, well,
Where is allan right now?
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- Mr. Tysver was asked if he could tell us
Where allan was.
- Mr. Tysver said, well, he's probably
Over at his boyfriend's apartment.
- I had allan's boyfriend brian's information.
- Our guys raced to brian's east 9th street brownstone
And immediately spot the person they believe
To be allan oliveira approaching the building.
- He fit the description.
They approached him.
He identified himself as allan oliveira.
- Allan was extremely nervous.
He was asking, "what is this all about?"
They said they just want to know something
About fraudulent credit cards.
- You could see the wheels were spinning in his head.
And at that point, we thought he was gonna take off running.
- Coming up... - He has been
In and out of the country.
If he goes back to brazil, then he's gone.
We're never gonna see him again.
- Charges were starting to be made in rio.
He left the country.
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[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Three weeks after the murder of roger brooks,
Investigators locate allan oliveira,
The man they think is responsible.
- I was surprised that, you know,
When he was confronted,
That he didn't take off running.
- Allan got into the police car
And was driven to the precinct.
- Mr. Oliveira didn't speak much english.
We located a sergeant in the precinct
That spoke portuguese.
- They showed him a photograph of roger brooks.
And allan said, "I never saw that guy.
I don't know who roger brooks is."
- We asked him if he had gone to the restaurant,
Allegria, on 9th avenue looking for a job,
And he said he didn't know what I was talking about.
When we asked him who paid for dinner
At the restaurant on 18th and 8th,
He said that brian paid for dinner.
- He said, "no, brian paid at 18th and 8th.
I didn't pay. Brian did this."
So they brought web in.
- I was like, "but allan, you paid
For dinner with the credit card."
And he was kind of just stonewalling and denying.
At that point, it was revealed
That there was a man that was murdered,
And then he started getting very agitated and upset.
My picture of him was not matching
With the picture of someone who would do petty theft
And, you know, kill someone for it.
It took a moment for that to sink in
For me to really accept that was possible.
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- We bring in the sales clerk from the sunglass store
Where roger's credit card was used,
As well as the waiter, mr. Ali,
Who had seen roger brooks with a handsome young man
Looking for a busboy job,
And both pick oliveira out of a lineup.
We now have enough to get a search warrant.
- So next, they executed a search warrant
At 136th street at the apartment
That allan had been living in.
And one of the most interesting things that was
Found in there was a series of newspaper clippings...
About the serial killer, andrew cunanan.
Andrew cunanan happened to be an extremely good-looking
Young man and bore a striking resemblance to allan.
He certainly had some kind of obsession with andrew cunanan.
But at that point, we didn't know what to make of it.
- In oliveira's gym bag,
There's another chilling find.
- They found my dad's gold chain
In oliveira's belongings.
- Investigators continue searching his apartment,
And the next thing they find drives them to action.
- We found his passport.
And his name in it was jose mario carvalho quevedo.
They also found credit cards that belonged to him
That said daniel oliveira.
So we didn't know who exactly this guy was.
And it indicated on his passport
That he has been in and out of this country
Several times in the last couple of years.
If he isn't held in on this murder case,
Which we think he committed, then he's gone.
We're never gonna see him again.
So at this point, we determine we're gonna charge him
With murder in the first degree,
Which is intentionally causing the death of an individual
During the course of a robbery.
And somehow it came about,
His actual name is daniel oliveira,
So that's how he was charged.
- Daniel, aka allan, oliveira maintains his innocence.
He pleads not guilty to the murder charge
And is locked up on rikers island
While awaiting trial.
- We were very shocked.
You know, we didn't know who this person was,
But the detective shared the fact that they had found
An employment application from oliveira to barbetta.
- Investigators share with christine the theory
That since barbetta wasn't hiring,
Roger brooks went out of his way
To help oliveira find a job.
- My dad wouldn't think twice about helping somebody.
It doesn't shock me to hear
That he tried to help him get a job.
- At that point, despite the laundry list of things
That are circumstantial type of evidence,
It's not a great case against him.
Maybe he was given those things by mr. Brooks.
- There was definitely feelings like,
You know, maybe he could walk away.
- There were pretrial motions
And discovery and so on going on.
And I got a call from detective george delgrosso one day,
And he said, "you're not gonna believe this."
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- I was babysitting the prisoner in the squad room.
And I just grabbed the wanted flyer bracket off the wall
And started reviewing them,
At which point I found a wanted flyer from the 19th precinct,
Manhattan north, wanted for homicide.
- The victim, a 51-year-old upper east sider
Named angel roman.
The wanted man was mario antonio.
- The description provided said the person
Responsible for their homicide spoke portuguese,
And it was a surveillance photo of a male
Who was using the victim's atm card.
- The person in that photograph was daniel oliveira.
- I received a call from detective delgrosso.
He had made an arrest on a homicide
Where the mo was very similar
To the homicide I was handling of angel roman.
- On March 18, 1997,
Five months before the murder of roger brooks,
Angel's roommate, jesús vega, arrived home
From a vacation in puerto rico to a shocking scene.
- When he opened the door, he noticed angel roman,
Hands tied, laying face down.
- He had two stab wounds,
And there was no sign of forced entry in the apartment.
- The homicide of angel roman was very similar
To the brooks homicide.
Both cases involve older gay men stabbed to death
And credit cards that were stolen.
- Oh, my god, maybe he is a andrew cunanan copycat.
Maybe we have another serial killer on our hands here.
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- Five months before roger brooks was murdered,
Detective marc slender is investigating the case
Of 51-year-old angel roman, who had been discovered dead
At his upper east side apartment
By his roommate, jesús vega.
- I went outside the hall and spoke with jesús vega.
He had mentioned to us that there was a new person
That had entered their lives.
- Mr. Roman had a guest at the apartment
A couple of different occasions
By the name of mario antonio.
- Jesús said, he's a student at columbia university
And that he also works at a brazilian restaurant.
- The detectives examined
The visitors logs for the building,
And mario antonio was the last visitor
That mr. Roman had.
- Our guys tracked the missing credit cards.
In addition to shopping, the perp also took cash
Out of angel's bank account using an atm.
Lucky for us, atms are one of the few places
We did have surveillance back in '97.
- We targeted little brazil.
We would just go from one restaurant to another and ask,
"do you have anybody on your staff that resembles this?"
But we had no luck with that.
- Detectives also went to columbia university.
- They didn't have any student by that name.
Nobody fit that description.
- And then a credit card transaction
Completely changes the investigation.
- Charges were starting to be made in rio.
He left the country.
We lost him.
We're not gonna find this guy now.
- But in November, eight months after angel's murder,
Detective delgrosso makes the phone call
That flips the script.
- We got a new burst of energy inside.
We immediately conducted the lineup
With angel roman's roommate, jesús vega.
He immediately pointed out daniel oliveira.
It's a home run.
- We made a motion to consolidate
The two murder cases for trial
Under the theory that it demonstrates
That this is not just a mistake,
But this is clearly the same person.
- A little over three years after the murder
Of roger brooks, daniel oliveira's trial begins.
Prosecutors detail the horrific murders,
As everyone tries to understand
Why this happened.
- He was a good-looking young man.
And I think he knew how to prey on older gay men.
- Certainly his obsession with andrew cunanan had
To have something to do with it.
- On February 13, 2001, after three weeks of trial,
The jury comes back with their verdict.
- We rose,
And the foreperson said, "guilty."
There were some sobs from his side.
And we broke down. I broke down.
They did us justice.
- One month later at the sentencing,
Christine and mark faced the man
Who senselessly murdered their father.
- I looked him right in the eye and told him,
You know, what he stole from our family.
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My dad missed my career journey.
He missed walking me down the aisle.
- That was his job, my father's.
I did it.
That's what he took,
Memories like that.
I'm a grandfather now.
He never got to do that.
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That's what he took from us.
- Oliveira is sentenced to two concurrent life sentences
Without parole.
As the trial wraps, the necklace oliveira had
Taken from roger brooks is returned to mark.
- It makes me feel close to my father when I wear this,
A lot of memories.
- Our family is definitely different.
My dad, he was kind of the life of the party.
But the thing that I really miss about my dad was
To just pick up the phone and call him,
You know, and ask for advice.
He was just a good shoulder to lean on.
I wish I had told him that I loved him more.