1 00:00:13,189 --> 00:00:16,627 An 18-year-old murdered in her own home... 2 00:00:17,759 --> 00:00:19,195 If you knew Lizzy, it's like, 3 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:21,458 no one would want to harm this person. 4 00:00:21,502 --> 00:00:25,375 Leading the NYPD into uncharted territory. 5 00:00:25,419 --> 00:00:27,899 Staten Island--homicides are just not heard of. 6 00:00:27,943 --> 00:00:31,120 It's just not like Brooklyn. It's not Manhattan. 7 00:00:31,164 --> 00:00:32,861 And Willowbrook specifically 8 00:00:32,904 --> 00:00:35,211 is a very Orthodox Jewish community 9 00:00:35,255 --> 00:00:37,561 and a very tight-knit community. 10 00:00:37,605 --> 00:00:39,215 We have to solve this. 11 00:00:39,259 --> 00:00:41,217 All the watching eyes, all the neighbors 12 00:00:41,261 --> 00:00:43,872 and all of the people are saying, "Is my kid safe?" 13 00:00:43,915 --> 00:00:46,179 And as secrets become unearthed... 14 00:00:46,222 --> 00:00:47,832 Everyone was calling each other. 15 00:00:47,876 --> 00:00:50,313 "Did you see what they wrote about Lizzy in the newspaper?" 16 00:00:50,357 --> 00:00:53,664 The investigation takes a turn no one saw coming. 17 00:00:53,708 --> 00:00:57,320 This was somebody who was hiding in plain sight. 18 00:00:57,364 --> 00:01:00,845 Nobody wanted to believe that it was one of their own. 19 00:01:00,889 --> 00:01:03,674 [dramatic music] 20 00:01:03,718 --> 00:01:10,681 ♪ 21 00:01:16,992 --> 00:01:19,342 With a richness of diversity and cultures 22 00:01:19,386 --> 00:01:22,215 unparalleled in any other city, there's good reason 23 00:01:22,258 --> 00:01:24,608 why New York is known as the Melting Pot. 24 00:01:24,652 --> 00:01:28,438 We've got over 800 languages spoken across five boroughs 25 00:01:28,482 --> 00:01:31,267 and dozens of ethnic enclaves, 26 00:01:31,311 --> 00:01:34,444 from Chinatown to Little Poland. 27 00:01:34,488 --> 00:01:36,620 ♪ 28 00:01:36,664 --> 00:01:38,187 In 2005, a case pulled us 29 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:39,884 into a pocket of one of those 30 00:01:39,928 --> 00:01:41,321 insular tight-knit communities 31 00:01:42,670 --> 00:01:44,933 in the often-forgotten borough of Staten Island. 32 00:01:44,976 --> 00:01:47,327 But this case was far from forgettable. 33 00:01:47,370 --> 00:01:49,720 The victim was 18-year-old Aliza Parsy-- 34 00:01:49,764 --> 00:01:52,984 full of life, murdered in the safety of a neighborhood 35 00:01:53,028 --> 00:01:54,986 where everyone watches each other's backs, 36 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:57,902 right in the victim's own bedroom. 37 00:01:57,946 --> 00:02:01,297 [line trilling] 38 00:02:16,356 --> 00:02:19,620 Sima Parsy is coming home from work, 39 00:02:19,663 --> 00:02:20,969 from her office job. 40 00:02:21,012 --> 00:02:22,362 She's expecting to come home, 41 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:25,626 have a nice dinner with her daughter, Aliza. 42 00:02:27,410 --> 00:02:28,629 And as she walked in, 43 00:02:28,672 --> 00:02:30,979 she saw that the house was ransacked. 44 00:02:31,022 --> 00:02:32,981 ♪ 45 00:02:33,024 --> 00:02:34,983 Of course, as a mother, 46 00:02:35,026 --> 00:02:37,246 immediately you think the worst. 47 00:02:37,290 --> 00:02:39,553 She runs to her daughter's room. 48 00:02:39,596 --> 00:02:42,251 She's banging on the door. She's screaming out her name. 49 00:02:42,295 --> 00:02:43,687 The door is locked. 50 00:02:43,731 --> 00:02:44,732 [pounding on door] 51 00:02:45,776 --> 00:02:46,908 She knew that there was a problem at this point. 52 00:02:47,865 --> 00:02:48,866 I'm sure that her heart dropped. 53 00:02:49,780 --> 00:02:51,042 This is every woman's worst nightmare. 54 00:02:51,086 --> 00:02:53,044 ♪ 55 00:02:53,088 --> 00:02:57,048 [phone ringing] 56 00:02:57,092 --> 00:03:00,878 Sima, Aliza's mother, called me, and she said, 57 00:03:00,922 --> 00:03:02,402 "Can I talk to Aliza?" 58 00:03:02,445 --> 00:03:04,012 I said, "She didn't come to work today. 59 00:03:04,055 --> 00:03:06,754 We tried to reach her all day." 60 00:03:06,797 --> 00:03:07,755 And the mother said, 61 00:03:08,886 --> 00:03:11,019 "Listen, something wrong, the house is all mess," 62 00:03:11,062 --> 00:03:14,283 and she cannot open Aliza's door. 63 00:03:14,327 --> 00:03:16,372 So I said, "I'm on my way to you. 64 00:03:16,416 --> 00:03:18,418 Call the police right now." 65 00:03:28,645 --> 00:03:32,475 ♪ 66 00:03:32,519 --> 00:03:35,783 Our NYPD squad from Staten Island's 122 Precinct 67 00:03:35,826 --> 00:03:37,306 respond to the call. 68 00:03:37,350 --> 00:03:40,309 They bust open Aliza's door. 69 00:03:40,353 --> 00:03:41,745 And what do they find-- 70 00:03:41,789 --> 00:03:45,749 is Aliza Parsy underneath a mattress, 71 00:03:45,793 --> 00:03:46,794 a pillow over her head, 72 00:03:48,056 --> 00:03:49,057 her feet sticking out from under the mattress, 73 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:50,058 and she's been killed. 74 00:03:50,101 --> 00:03:51,538 [siren whoops] 75 00:03:52,756 --> 00:03:54,018 Veteran homicide detective Michael Kenny 76 00:03:54,062 --> 00:03:55,368 races to the scene 77 00:03:55,411 --> 00:03:57,587 and is immediately led to Aliza's bedroom. 78 00:03:57,631 --> 00:04:02,810 She was on the ground with a towel underneath her, 79 00:04:02,853 --> 00:04:04,725 and her hair was still damp. 80 00:04:04,768 --> 00:04:08,598 So it looked to us that she came out of the shower 81 00:04:08,642 --> 00:04:09,773 and, to her surprise, 82 00:04:11,209 --> 00:04:13,124 saw somebody in the house that shouldn't have been there. 83 00:04:13,168 --> 00:04:14,996 When you have somebody naked with a towel, 84 00:04:15,039 --> 00:04:19,087 one of your thoughts is that she was sexually assaulted. 85 00:04:19,130 --> 00:04:20,654 Early inspection of the body, 86 00:04:20,697 --> 00:04:23,700 there was not any apparent cause of death. 87 00:04:23,744 --> 00:04:26,529 There was no stab wounds. There was no bullet wounds. 88 00:04:26,573 --> 00:04:29,750 There wasn't any bruising around the neck. 89 00:04:29,793 --> 00:04:34,145 They didn't let the mother go inside the house... 90 00:04:34,189 --> 00:04:36,452 and I went to the cop, and I told him, 91 00:04:36,496 --> 00:04:39,455 "She need to know what's going on." 92 00:04:39,499 --> 00:04:42,458 He said, "Okay, be here with her. 93 00:04:42,502 --> 00:04:45,853 We found Aliza, and she's dead." 94 00:04:45,896 --> 00:04:48,377 ♪ 95 00:04:48,421 --> 00:04:51,598 Sima collapses on the front steps, 96 00:04:51,641 --> 00:04:52,642 and all of a sudden, 97 00:04:53,861 --> 00:04:55,906 this has turned into a murder investigation. 98 00:04:55,950 --> 00:04:58,082 I remember getting a phone call saying, 99 00:04:58,126 --> 00:05:00,520 "Hey, someone murdered Lizzy." 100 00:05:00,563 --> 00:05:04,785 [indistinct chatter over police radio] 101 00:05:04,828 --> 00:05:08,484 We were friends since we were 10 years old. 102 00:05:08,528 --> 00:05:11,139 We actually met at a winter retreat 103 00:05:11,182 --> 00:05:12,619 in Upstate New York 104 00:05:12,662 --> 00:05:15,839 where a whole bunch of families gathered. 105 00:05:15,883 --> 00:05:18,625 It was just her and a whole bunch of her friends-- 106 00:05:18,668 --> 00:05:21,845 girls, 10-year-olds giggling, laughing, joking around. 107 00:05:21,889 --> 00:05:24,195 This one had a crush on that one, you know, 108 00:05:24,239 --> 00:05:26,502 just, like, little flirty kids. 109 00:05:26,546 --> 00:05:28,504 [children chattering happily] 110 00:05:28,548 --> 00:05:31,855 As we got older, even after we graduated, 111 00:05:31,899 --> 00:05:34,510 we all still had a tight clique. 112 00:05:34,554 --> 00:05:36,643 Lizzy was the good girl that you'd bring home 113 00:05:36,686 --> 00:05:39,863 to your parents if you were dating her. 114 00:05:39,907 --> 00:05:41,038 I can remember-- 115 00:05:42,170 --> 00:05:45,478 just remember seeing her at parties, always laughing. 116 00:05:45,521 --> 00:05:48,437 Laughing, laughing, yes, she was very funny. 117 00:05:48,481 --> 00:05:52,049 She was funny. That's why my customers loved her. 118 00:05:52,093 --> 00:05:55,183 ♪ 119 00:05:55,226 --> 00:05:56,097 After graduating from high school, 120 00:05:57,533 --> 00:06:00,536 Aliza takes a job in sales for a local moving company. 121 00:06:00,580 --> 00:06:03,887 I wasn't that close to my employees, 122 00:06:03,931 --> 00:06:05,193 but with her, 123 00:06:05,236 --> 00:06:08,849 she's a very, very warm teenager. 124 00:06:08,892 --> 00:06:12,505 She used to come to me and tell me about her life. 125 00:06:12,548 --> 00:06:13,897 She took a gap year off 126 00:06:13,941 --> 00:06:18,511 so she could raise money to go to school. 127 00:06:18,554 --> 00:06:20,251 She wanted to save some money. 128 00:06:20,295 --> 00:06:22,558 She wanted to go to Manhattan to college. 129 00:06:22,602 --> 00:06:25,082 She talked about her dream 130 00:06:25,126 --> 00:06:27,781 to be a fashion designer. 131 00:06:27,824 --> 00:06:31,262 She used to bring her drawing of fashion clothes 132 00:06:31,306 --> 00:06:34,875 she designed beautiful line, to the office. 133 00:06:34,918 --> 00:06:37,573 She talked about it all the time. 134 00:06:37,617 --> 00:06:39,706 This is an 18-year-old girl-- 135 00:06:39,749 --> 00:06:44,014 very beautiful girl with her whole life ahead of her. 136 00:06:44,058 --> 00:06:45,625 Why? Why her? 137 00:06:46,974 --> 00:06:49,498 ♪ 138 00:06:49,542 --> 00:06:52,632 I just jumped in my car and sped to her house, 139 00:06:52,675 --> 00:06:54,547 and you couldn't even get around. 140 00:06:54,590 --> 00:06:56,636 The streets were filled. 141 00:06:56,679 --> 00:06:57,854 The neighbors are immediately coming out 142 00:06:59,203 --> 00:07:00,814 on to their porch, curious about what's happened. 143 00:07:02,076 --> 00:07:04,644 Willowbrook is a very tight-knit community 144 00:07:04,687 --> 00:07:06,863 and a very Orthodox Jewish community, 145 00:07:06,907 --> 00:07:11,041 insular a little bit and, overall, very safe. 146 00:07:11,085 --> 00:07:13,696 So it's unsettling. 147 00:07:13,740 --> 00:07:17,308 And then her half brother showed up there. 148 00:07:17,352 --> 00:07:21,138 He tried to run into the house and scream, "My sister!" 149 00:07:21,182 --> 00:07:22,096 And the police stopped him. 150 00:07:23,358 --> 00:07:28,145 He was hysterical, hysterical, the brother, half brother. 151 00:07:28,189 --> 00:07:29,886 27-year-old Raviv Gabbay 152 00:07:29,930 --> 00:07:31,888 sped over from the house in Brooklyn 153 00:07:31,932 --> 00:07:35,152 he shares with his wife and newborn baby. 154 00:07:35,196 --> 00:07:38,155 Aliza's half brother is yelling at detectives, 155 00:07:38,199 --> 00:07:40,331 demanding answers. 156 00:07:40,375 --> 00:07:43,334 You have family that are distraught. 157 00:07:43,378 --> 00:07:44,640 It's heartbreaking. 158 00:07:45,728 --> 00:07:46,903 It's something that really bothers you, 159 00:07:46,947 --> 00:07:49,776 and it stays with you forever. 160 00:07:49,819 --> 00:07:53,823 An autopsy will be necessary to establish cause of death, 161 00:07:53,867 --> 00:07:57,827 but detectives scour the crime scene for clues. 162 00:07:57,871 --> 00:08:01,178 There was a droplet of blood evidence on the towel. 163 00:08:01,222 --> 00:08:02,571 So you looked at her body, 164 00:08:03,790 --> 00:08:05,313 and you saw that there was no open wound. 165 00:08:05,356 --> 00:08:06,836 Once you saw that blood, 166 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:09,273 you're hoping that it wasn't Aliza's. 167 00:08:09,317 --> 00:08:13,756 You're hoping that this is DNA evidence of the assailant. 168 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,804 Is this the blood of the killer? 169 00:08:17,847 --> 00:08:20,850 DNA, in a case like this, is essential, 170 00:08:20,894 --> 00:08:25,115 but back in 2005, to process it takes several weeks. 171 00:08:25,159 --> 00:08:29,642 ♪ 172 00:08:29,685 --> 00:08:31,861 After Aliza's body was removed, 173 00:08:31,905 --> 00:08:35,386 we were going around to the house, taking photos. 174 00:08:35,430 --> 00:08:40,000 The back door was unlocked, and that was a big red flag. 175 00:08:40,043 --> 00:08:43,394 We know a lot of burglars would just go from door to door 176 00:08:43,438 --> 00:08:44,961 and try the door, 177 00:08:45,005 --> 00:08:48,225 and if it's open, you know, that's good for them. 178 00:08:48,269 --> 00:08:51,707 So a canvass of the neighborhood was so important, 179 00:08:51,751 --> 00:08:54,710 to ascertain who was in the neighborhood at that time. 180 00:08:54,754 --> 00:08:57,931 There wasn't a lot of space between where we lived. 181 00:08:57,974 --> 00:09:00,063 Like, literally, it was house after house after house. 182 00:09:00,107 --> 00:09:02,979 So people always were in each other's business. 183 00:09:03,023 --> 00:09:05,416 Like, even if we went outside to check the mail, 184 00:09:05,460 --> 00:09:07,288 you're always bumping into somebody. 185 00:09:07,331 --> 00:09:09,029 ♪ 186 00:09:09,072 --> 00:09:12,380 The neighbors are giving all sorts of theories. 187 00:09:12,423 --> 00:09:13,990 "Oh, you know, I know she was fighting 188 00:09:14,034 --> 00:09:15,775 with her mom the other day." 189 00:09:15,818 --> 00:09:18,081 Neighbors mentioned that there was some landscapers 190 00:09:18,125 --> 00:09:21,911 next door to Aliza and Sima's home. 191 00:09:21,955 --> 00:09:24,958 She describes four or five males. 192 00:09:25,001 --> 00:09:27,438 Was this possibly a crime of opportunity? 193 00:09:27,482 --> 00:09:29,092 Maybe the door was open. 194 00:09:29,136 --> 00:09:31,268 One of them had to go to the bathroom 195 00:09:31,312 --> 00:09:35,359 and saw a naked girl or maybe saw some jewelry. 196 00:09:35,403 --> 00:09:39,276 It was so important to track down those landscapers. 197 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:41,757 Every avenue had to be vetted. 198 00:09:41,801 --> 00:09:44,281 But one major detail leads detectives to believe 199 00:09:44,325 --> 00:09:46,980 this might not be a botched burglary. 200 00:09:47,023 --> 00:09:48,721 ♪ 201 00:09:48,764 --> 00:09:50,461 Why was the mattress over her body? 202 00:09:50,505 --> 00:09:52,768 Why was the pillowcase over her face? 203 00:09:52,812 --> 00:09:56,032 [camera shutter clicking] 204 00:09:56,076 --> 00:09:58,034 We've learned that, a lot of times, you know, 205 00:09:58,078 --> 00:10:02,038 somebody will put a blanket over the person's face 206 00:10:02,082 --> 00:10:05,041 so they don't have to look at what they did. 207 00:10:05,085 --> 00:10:07,087 You're saying, "Okay, this looks like a burglary." 208 00:10:07,130 --> 00:10:09,829 But, you know, is that what the person who committed this crime 209 00:10:09,872 --> 00:10:11,091 wants us to think, 210 00:10:12,570 --> 00:10:15,486 by pulling drawers out and throwing papers on the floor? 211 00:10:15,530 --> 00:10:18,359 Maybe she left the back door unlocked. 212 00:10:18,402 --> 00:10:20,230 Maybe she knew her assailant. 213 00:10:20,274 --> 00:10:23,451 ♪ 214 00:10:23,494 --> 00:10:25,279 Coming up... 215 00:10:25,322 --> 00:10:27,803 Aliza was in bed sleeping, 216 00:10:27,847 --> 00:10:30,153 and she rolls over in the morning, 217 00:10:30,197 --> 00:10:33,374 and he's in her room, sitting at the end of her bed, 218 00:10:33,417 --> 00:10:35,506 silent, just staring at her. 219 00:10:35,550 --> 00:10:36,943 He knew the house. 220 00:10:36,986 --> 00:10:38,988 He knew how to come in and out of the house 221 00:10:39,032 --> 00:10:41,164 without being detected. 222 00:10:41,208 --> 00:10:44,167 It starts to turn into a little bit of a rabbit hole. 223 00:10:44,211 --> 00:10:51,000 ♪ 224 00:10:53,568 --> 00:10:56,571 [dramatic music] 225 00:10:58,094 --> 00:10:59,443 [siren wails, indistinct chatter over police radio] 226 00:11:00,749 --> 00:11:02,403 After finding the body of 18-year-old Aliza Parsy 227 00:11:02,446 --> 00:11:03,621 in her Staten Island home, 228 00:11:04,927 --> 00:11:07,234 detectives need to speak with the victim's family. 229 00:11:07,277 --> 00:11:08,539 It's delicate. 230 00:11:09,802 --> 00:11:12,413 You know, somebody is grieving, but you need information. 231 00:11:12,456 --> 00:11:14,328 I offered my condolences. 232 00:11:14,371 --> 00:11:18,332 I brought Sima over to the side to speak with her. 233 00:11:18,375 --> 00:11:21,335 Her son Raviv was consoling Mom at the time. 234 00:11:21,378 --> 00:11:23,772 [indistinct chatter over police radio] 235 00:11:23,816 --> 00:11:26,644 ♪ 236 00:11:26,688 --> 00:11:30,518 Twice divorced, 52-year-old Israeli immigrant Sima Parsy 237 00:11:30,561 --> 00:11:33,347 has two adult sons from her first marriage 238 00:11:33,390 --> 00:11:36,437 and Aliza, a product of her second. 239 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,527 Aliza was very close to her mother. 240 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:41,834 It was her mother and her in the house, 241 00:11:41,877 --> 00:11:44,358 and she was like a princess. 242 00:11:44,401 --> 00:11:46,839 Her two sons, Raviv and Leo, 243 00:11:46,882 --> 00:11:49,363 are 10 years older to Aliza 244 00:11:49,406 --> 00:11:52,453 so quite older, but by all accounts, 245 00:11:52,496 --> 00:11:55,978 everyone was quite close to each other. 246 00:11:56,022 --> 00:12:00,374 Sima had just finalized an amicable divorce, 247 00:12:00,417 --> 00:12:02,506 and her now ex-husband and oldest son 248 00:12:02,550 --> 00:12:05,031 returned to Israel, while she stayed in New York, 249 00:12:05,074 --> 00:12:07,337 managing the family cookie business 250 00:12:07,381 --> 00:12:09,818 until she passed it down to her son. 251 00:12:09,862 --> 00:12:13,779 The mother gave Raviv the half part of the business 252 00:12:13,822 --> 00:12:15,432 when he got married. 253 00:12:15,476 --> 00:12:17,391 Their kosher, like, bakery business 254 00:12:17,434 --> 00:12:19,567 where they actually delivered to people's houses, 255 00:12:19,610 --> 00:12:22,309 and I know that it was doing very, very well. 256 00:12:22,352 --> 00:12:24,485 ♪ 257 00:12:24,528 --> 00:12:26,574 Detective Kenny asks if there's anyone 258 00:12:26,617 --> 00:12:29,707 they can think of who could have done this. 259 00:12:29,751 --> 00:12:30,883 ♪ 260 00:12:30,926 --> 00:12:32,580 Immediately, Raviv says, 261 00:12:32,623 --> 00:12:35,496 "Well, look at Aliza's ex-boyfriend." 262 00:12:35,539 --> 00:12:40,066 We learn from Raviv that he was of the Muslim faith 263 00:12:40,109 --> 00:12:41,719 and that they were Orthodox Jews, 264 00:12:41,763 --> 00:12:45,723 and his family didn't support the relationship. 265 00:12:45,767 --> 00:12:48,509 People don't understand, you know, what it's like to be 266 00:12:48,552 --> 00:12:51,381 a young Jewish teenager in America 267 00:12:51,425 --> 00:12:54,036 that comes from a background of parents 268 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,908 who were born in another country 269 00:12:55,951 --> 00:12:58,911 and still live by those rules. 270 00:12:58,954 --> 00:13:00,521 Our families, you know, 271 00:13:01,957 --> 00:13:03,611 look down upon us if we date outside the religion, 272 00:13:03,654 --> 00:13:07,093 and it can cause a lot of stress and a lot of anger. 273 00:13:07,136 --> 00:13:10,748 ♪ 274 00:13:10,792 --> 00:13:12,620 So she was like, "I can't be with you anymore. 275 00:13:12,663 --> 00:13:14,448 "You know, my mother and my brother 276 00:13:14,491 --> 00:13:15,884 are gonna disown me." 277 00:13:15,928 --> 00:13:17,538 ♪ 278 00:13:17,581 --> 00:13:20,106 She continued with her life, but he didn't. 279 00:13:20,149 --> 00:13:23,936 He just was in love with her. 280 00:13:23,979 --> 00:13:26,068 He didn't want to let her go. 281 00:13:26,112 --> 00:13:27,940 ♪ 282 00:13:27,983 --> 00:13:29,506 Speaking with the family, 283 00:13:30,812 --> 00:13:32,466 Detective Kenny learns about an alarming incident 284 00:13:32,509 --> 00:13:34,990 that happened after the breakup. 285 00:13:35,034 --> 00:13:37,471 Aliza was in bed sleeping, 286 00:13:37,514 --> 00:13:39,777 and she rolls over in the morning. 287 00:13:39,821 --> 00:13:41,344 ♪ 288 00:13:42,868 --> 00:13:44,913 And there's the ex-boyfriend, sitting at the end of her bed, 289 00:13:44,957 --> 00:13:46,828 silent, just staring at her. 290 00:13:46,872 --> 00:13:52,051 ♪ 291 00:13:52,094 --> 00:13:54,923 He clearly knows how to get into the house, 292 00:13:54,967 --> 00:13:56,142 maybe knows the locks, 293 00:13:56,185 --> 00:13:59,101 knows when people have left the house. 294 00:13:59,145 --> 00:14:01,799 The mattress being pulled over Aliza's face 295 00:14:01,843 --> 00:14:04,150 would be consistent with somebody regretting 296 00:14:04,193 --> 00:14:06,413 what they did, like an ex-boyfriend-- 297 00:14:06,456 --> 00:14:08,981 that, "Oh, my God. What did I do?" 298 00:14:09,024 --> 00:14:11,113 Detectives take down the ex's name. 299 00:14:11,157 --> 00:14:14,421 They'll need to speak with him straightaway. 300 00:14:14,464 --> 00:14:15,770 In finishing off with the family, 301 00:14:17,032 --> 00:14:18,512 they get both of their whereabouts that day. 302 00:14:18,555 --> 00:14:20,862 Sima had been at the office, 303 00:14:20,906 --> 00:14:23,430 and Raviv was delivering cookies in Long Island 304 00:14:23,473 --> 00:14:26,172 some two hours from the home. 305 00:14:26,215 --> 00:14:29,653 They're both swabbed for DNA. 306 00:14:29,697 --> 00:14:33,048 We decide early on to get DNA evidence 307 00:14:33,092 --> 00:14:35,921 from anybody we spoke to, anybody we interviewed. 308 00:14:35,964 --> 00:14:38,967 You had to gather as much DNA as possible 309 00:14:39,011 --> 00:14:40,708 to have a sampling 310 00:14:40,751 --> 00:14:43,015 to compare with the droplet of blood evidence 311 00:14:43,058 --> 00:14:44,712 on the towel. 312 00:14:46,105 --> 00:14:47,497 As Detective Kenny is finishing up with the family, 313 00:14:47,541 --> 00:14:49,760 his interview is interrupted. 314 00:14:49,804 --> 00:14:52,111 One of the officers came up to me 315 00:14:52,154 --> 00:14:55,723 with some unexpected news. 316 00:14:55,766 --> 00:14:59,074 The ex-boyfriend was at the crime scene. 317 00:15:00,249 --> 00:15:03,078 The second he showed up, they grabbed him. 318 00:15:03,122 --> 00:15:08,692 ♪ 319 00:15:08,736 --> 00:15:11,869 Detective Kenny takes Aliza's ex to the 122 320 00:15:11,913 --> 00:15:14,960 and immediately starts the interrogation. 321 00:15:15,003 --> 00:15:18,485 You know, "Where were you on August 10, 2005? 322 00:15:18,528 --> 00:15:20,226 What was your day? What did you do?" 323 00:15:20,269 --> 00:15:23,925 And then try and get more personal. 324 00:15:23,969 --> 00:15:26,580 After locking him into a detailed timeline, 325 00:15:26,623 --> 00:15:27,973 Detective Kenny probes him 326 00:15:29,322 --> 00:15:30,976 about the chilling story he heard from the family. 327 00:15:31,019 --> 00:15:33,587 ♪ 328 00:15:33,630 --> 00:15:36,068 He admitted to coming into the house 329 00:15:36,111 --> 00:15:37,721 and sitting at the bed, 330 00:15:37,765 --> 00:15:39,767 but it was like, you know, "I loved Aliza, 331 00:15:39,810 --> 00:15:43,945 and I came to the house hoping to reconcile our relationship." 332 00:15:43,989 --> 00:15:46,643 For detectives, it seems possible 333 00:15:46,687 --> 00:15:48,776 that Aliza could have embellished what happened 334 00:15:48,819 --> 00:15:52,127 to not upset her strict Orthodox family. 335 00:15:52,171 --> 00:15:55,826 I heard stories of her sneaking out to go see him. 336 00:15:55,870 --> 00:15:58,655 Growing up in America, we look past religion, 337 00:15:58,699 --> 00:16:00,962 but, unfortunately, our parents didn't. 338 00:16:01,006 --> 00:16:04,966 So maybe he just snuck in so she wouldn't get in trouble. 339 00:16:05,010 --> 00:16:10,798 ♪ 340 00:16:10,841 --> 00:16:13,540 I didn't--you know, I didn't get like, 341 00:16:13,583 --> 00:16:15,585 "He's our guy." 342 00:16:15,629 --> 00:16:19,067 And he voluntarily gave us his DNA sample. 343 00:16:19,111 --> 00:16:20,503 ♪ 344 00:16:21,722 --> 00:16:23,680 There's always a danger when you're doing investigations 345 00:16:23,724 --> 00:16:27,032 of getting what we call tunnel vision. 346 00:16:27,075 --> 00:16:30,731 You don't want to say, "I think it's the boyfriend," 347 00:16:30,774 --> 00:16:31,949 and then try and prove it, 348 00:16:33,299 --> 00:16:35,301 because then you're gonna miss all the other stuff. 349 00:16:35,344 --> 00:16:37,694 ♪ 350 00:16:37,738 --> 00:16:38,826 Covering all bases, 351 00:16:39,914 --> 00:16:40,697 detectives track down the landscapers 352 00:16:41,916 --> 00:16:43,135 who had been seen close to the Parsy home 353 00:16:43,178 --> 00:16:44,179 the day of the murder. 354 00:16:45,224 --> 00:16:47,965 We have the workers come to the precinct. 355 00:16:48,009 --> 00:16:52,013 I take fingerprints of all of them and DNA. 356 00:16:52,057 --> 00:16:53,536 ♪ 357 00:16:54,929 --> 00:16:57,192 I felt comfortable that we can move on from these guys 358 00:16:57,236 --> 00:16:59,151 and come back, if necessary. 359 00:16:59,194 --> 00:17:03,807 ♪ 360 00:17:03,851 --> 00:17:06,158 Orthodox law dictates that burial takes place 361 00:17:06,201 --> 00:17:08,334 within 24 hours of death, 362 00:17:08,377 --> 00:17:10,684 which means the medical examiner is under pressure 363 00:17:10,727 --> 00:17:11,902 to fast-track the autopsy. 364 00:17:11,946 --> 00:17:13,991 But detectives are eager for the funeral. 365 00:17:14,035 --> 00:17:16,342 It's a chance to build a relationship with the family, 366 00:17:16,385 --> 00:17:17,865 and you have to be visible 367 00:17:19,258 --> 00:17:21,042 in case someone wants to approach you with information. 368 00:17:21,086 --> 00:17:26,700 ♪ 369 00:17:26,743 --> 00:17:28,832 Every service is very hard, 370 00:17:28,876 --> 00:17:31,052 but this was a little different 371 00:17:31,096 --> 00:17:34,055 because a lot of people were trying to say bye 372 00:17:34,099 --> 00:17:38,059 to somebody not knowing what really happened to them. 373 00:17:38,103 --> 00:17:40,061 Of course, I shed tears and stuff like that, 374 00:17:40,105 --> 00:17:42,803 but at the same time, I was very confused. 375 00:17:42,846 --> 00:17:45,371 Why did this happen to her? 376 00:17:45,414 --> 00:17:46,937 It's devastating how a young girl 377 00:17:46,981 --> 00:17:48,809 who has her whole life ahead of her 378 00:17:48,852 --> 00:17:51,072 can lose it just like that. 379 00:17:51,116 --> 00:17:53,379 ♪ 380 00:17:53,422 --> 00:17:55,729 It's very sad. It's very sad. 381 00:17:55,772 --> 00:17:58,035 I cry not only for Aliza. 382 00:17:58,079 --> 00:18:03,084 I cry for Aliza, and I cry for Raviv and her mother. 383 00:18:03,128 --> 00:18:06,783 ♪ 384 00:18:06,827 --> 00:18:08,959 Detectives quietly watch the funeral, 385 00:18:09,003 --> 00:18:11,875 keeping their eyes peeled for anything suspicious. 386 00:18:11,919 --> 00:18:15,096 As it turns out, it's a good thing they're there. 387 00:18:15,140 --> 00:18:18,752 The family is getting ready to bury Aliza. 388 00:18:18,795 --> 00:18:21,842 And who do they see show up at the funeral... 389 00:18:21,885 --> 00:18:24,410 but her ex-boyfriend? 390 00:18:24,453 --> 00:18:27,369 For them, suspect number one, 391 00:18:27,413 --> 00:18:30,329 and, obviously, the family snaps. 392 00:18:30,372 --> 00:18:36,291 ♪ 393 00:18:38,728 --> 00:18:41,601 [dramatic music] 394 00:18:42,079 --> 00:18:43,559 ♪ 395 00:18:59,749 --> 00:19:03,405 ♪ 396 00:19:03,449 --> 00:19:06,408 The day after the murder of 18-year-old Aliza Parsy, 397 00:19:06,452 --> 00:19:09,455 friends and family are gathering for her funeral, 398 00:19:09,498 --> 00:19:12,545 when an unexpected guest shows up-- 399 00:19:12,588 --> 00:19:14,764 Aliza's ex-boyfriend. 400 00:19:14,808 --> 00:19:16,766 ♪ 401 00:19:16,810 --> 00:19:19,247 And he was trying to come close 402 00:19:19,291 --> 00:19:22,424 to be part of what's going on, 403 00:19:22,468 --> 00:19:24,470 you know, the prayer and everything, 404 00:19:24,513 --> 00:19:27,908 but Raviv, her half brother, didn't let him come close. 405 00:19:27,951 --> 00:19:29,301 The brother flipped out. 406 00:19:30,476 --> 00:19:31,303 The mother was, like, saying, "Get him out of here," 407 00:19:31,999 --> 00:19:33,261 and her brother flipping out 408 00:19:33,305 --> 00:19:36,612 and, like, beelining right towards him. 409 00:19:36,656 --> 00:19:40,268 And a fight breaks out, and it's understandable. 410 00:19:40,312 --> 00:19:43,315 Emotions are running high, but it's ugly. 411 00:19:43,358 --> 00:19:44,794 And the police or somebody 412 00:19:44,838 --> 00:19:48,450 escorted the ex-boyfriend out of the cemetery. 413 00:19:48,494 --> 00:19:50,931 On his side, from what he told me, 414 00:19:50,974 --> 00:19:52,411 he still loved her. 415 00:19:52,454 --> 00:19:54,804 So it was kind of normal for him to want to come 416 00:19:54,848 --> 00:19:55,979 and pay his respects. 417 00:19:56,023 --> 00:19:58,330 ♪ 418 00:19:58,373 --> 00:19:59,505 Following the funeral, 419 00:20:00,723 --> 00:20:01,420 detectives meet with the medical examiner 420 00:20:02,421 --> 00:20:04,945 to go over the autopsy results. 421 00:20:04,988 --> 00:20:08,818 The cause of death-- manual strangulation. 422 00:20:08,862 --> 00:20:11,343 ♪ 423 00:20:11,386 --> 00:20:13,736 Being manually strangled, you kind of know 424 00:20:13,780 --> 00:20:16,304 that there was a struggle that went on. 425 00:20:16,348 --> 00:20:18,263 ♪ 426 00:20:18,306 --> 00:20:21,396 Manual strangulation also tells you something else. 427 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:23,311 It's typically a crime of passion, 428 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:24,965 something unpremeditated, 429 00:20:25,008 --> 00:20:26,445 something that takes place 430 00:20:26,488 --> 00:20:28,360 between two people close to each other. 431 00:20:28,403 --> 00:20:29,622 It's one more sign 432 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,668 pointing to it being someone that Aliza knew. 433 00:20:32,712 --> 00:20:35,367 [indistinct chatter over police radio] 434 00:20:35,410 --> 00:20:37,325 There was skin under the nails. 435 00:20:37,369 --> 00:20:39,632 You could have DNA under your fingernails 436 00:20:39,675 --> 00:20:41,416 if you scratch the assailant. 437 00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:42,852 The medical examiner 438 00:20:42,896 --> 00:20:46,029 also sheds light on a lingering question. 439 00:20:46,073 --> 00:20:48,336 Being that Aliza was found naked, 440 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:51,818 we suspect the possibility of a sexual attack, 441 00:20:51,861 --> 00:20:55,691 but there didn't seem to be any trauma to the vaginal area 442 00:20:55,735 --> 00:20:59,869 that would be consistent with some sort of forcible rape. 443 00:20:59,913 --> 00:21:02,394 Still, there was some DNA 444 00:21:02,437 --> 00:21:04,787 that was taken at the time. 445 00:21:04,831 --> 00:21:06,702 So Aliza did have 446 00:21:06,746 --> 00:21:10,358 what we believe to be consensual intercourse 447 00:21:10,402 --> 00:21:12,621 within 24 hours of her death. 448 00:21:12,665 --> 00:21:14,884 Did it start off as consensual sex, 449 00:21:14,928 --> 00:21:16,712 and did that go awry? 450 00:21:16,756 --> 00:21:19,324 Or was it a dispute after sex, 451 00:21:19,367 --> 00:21:21,891 and he strangled her? 452 00:21:21,935 --> 00:21:24,894 You're only going to get so much from family members. 453 00:21:24,938 --> 00:21:26,287 An 18-year-old girl 454 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,029 is rarely going to confide intimate details to her mom. 455 00:21:29,072 --> 00:21:30,465 So, after the funeral, 456 00:21:30,509 --> 00:21:31,988 you've got to speak to her girlfriends, 457 00:21:32,032 --> 00:21:34,730 find out if she's got a new guy in her life. 458 00:21:34,774 --> 00:21:36,993 ♪ 459 00:21:37,037 --> 00:21:40,562 Oftentimes, we do lead somewhat of a double life, 460 00:21:40,606 --> 00:21:42,564 where we say one thing to our friends 461 00:21:42,608 --> 00:21:44,914 and say something completely different to our family. 462 00:21:44,958 --> 00:21:46,612 ♪ 463 00:21:46,655 --> 00:21:48,396 Friends paint a picture of Aliza 464 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,703 as a social, fun-loving teenager, 465 00:21:50,746 --> 00:21:52,661 one who, like many in the outer boroughs, 466 00:21:52,705 --> 00:21:54,663 loved venturing into Manhattan. 467 00:21:54,707 --> 00:21:57,405 This is a young girl. She is 18 years old. 468 00:21:57,449 --> 00:21:58,319 She liked parties. 469 00:21:59,451 --> 00:22:02,932 She loved to go dancing, going to Manhattan to clubs. 470 00:22:02,976 --> 00:22:05,108 I used to take my mom's minivan 471 00:22:05,152 --> 00:22:07,372 and pack out all my friends in the minivan 472 00:22:07,415 --> 00:22:08,808 and drive to Manhattan. 473 00:22:08,851 --> 00:22:11,506 I remember being 17 years old and going to clubs 474 00:22:11,550 --> 00:22:14,030 that you have to be 21 or older to get in. 475 00:22:14,074 --> 00:22:17,077 We all did it. We just went to go party together. 476 00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:20,123 Literally, there would be nightclubs where they can fit, 477 00:22:20,167 --> 00:22:21,603 like, 5,000 people, 478 00:22:21,647 --> 00:22:25,128 and everyone from my neighborhood had one section 479 00:22:25,172 --> 00:22:26,652 that took up the whole section, 480 00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:29,785 and no one even talked to the people in the other sections. 481 00:22:31,308 --> 00:22:33,528 It's all reports of typical teenager-in-the-city behavior, 482 00:22:33,572 --> 00:22:36,618 until they get one surprising disclosure. 483 00:22:37,837 --> 00:22:41,971 We learned she enjoyed meeting guys on the Internet. 484 00:22:42,015 --> 00:22:45,801 Bells and whistles went off. That was a big red flag. 485 00:22:45,845 --> 00:22:49,457 In 2005, Internet dating was just starting, 486 00:22:49,501 --> 00:22:51,546 and the Internet was booming. 487 00:22:51,590 --> 00:22:53,156 It has to be really difficult 488 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:54,854 to live in an insular community. 489 00:22:54,897 --> 00:22:57,857 In Staten Island, we all grew up with each other. 490 00:22:57,900 --> 00:23:00,729 So I couldn't look at Lizzy or one of her friends 491 00:23:00,773 --> 00:23:02,122 as being my girlfriend. 492 00:23:02,165 --> 00:23:03,863 They were more like my sisters. 493 00:23:03,906 --> 00:23:05,647 And so it's quite natural 494 00:23:05,691 --> 00:23:09,172 for her to want to branch out and explore online. 495 00:23:09,216 --> 00:23:12,001 It was definitely something that we had to pursue, 496 00:23:12,045 --> 00:23:13,655 given the dangerous nature 497 00:23:13,699 --> 00:23:17,877 of meeting strange people on the Internet. 498 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,794 But of all the possibilities of how Aliza died, 499 00:23:21,837 --> 00:23:23,752 that was probably the most daunting. 500 00:23:23,796 --> 00:23:25,798 I wasn't familiar with, you know, 501 00:23:25,841 --> 00:23:28,888 chat rooms or the Internet, how it even worked. 502 00:23:28,931 --> 00:23:32,065 I didn't even have an email address at the time, 503 00:23:32,108 --> 00:23:33,545 which is why we brought on 504 00:23:33,588 --> 00:23:36,025 IT detectives into the investigation. 505 00:23:36,069 --> 00:23:39,681 ♪ 506 00:23:39,725 --> 00:23:43,511 NYPD's Computer Crime Unit begins the arduous task 507 00:23:43,555 --> 00:23:45,861 of dissecting Aliza's online life. 508 00:23:45,905 --> 00:23:49,212 Our cybercrime detective would come to us and say, 509 00:23:49,256 --> 00:23:50,605 "I got this. 510 00:23:51,824 --> 00:23:54,217 Aliza spoke to this person on this date at this time." 511 00:23:54,261 --> 00:23:57,612 And then we'd have to do backgrounds on each person. 512 00:23:57,656 --> 00:24:00,920 So this IP address comes back to Joe Smith. 513 00:24:00,963 --> 00:24:03,618 Now we have to see who Joe Smith is. 514 00:24:03,662 --> 00:24:06,621 Is he a sex offender? Does he have a record? 515 00:24:07,622 --> 00:24:10,712 You have to track down who's the last person she spoke to, 516 00:24:10,756 --> 00:24:14,194 who were the last a hundred people she spoke to. 517 00:24:14,237 --> 00:24:16,805 Any one of those people could have done this. 518 00:24:16,849 --> 00:24:20,505 You're gonna be up for three to four days and not sleep 519 00:24:20,548 --> 00:24:22,811 and just live on coffee and adrenaline 520 00:24:22,855 --> 00:24:26,075 until these leads are all vetted. 521 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:28,556 But then the cyber unit hands over an exchange 522 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:29,644 from Aliza's computer, 523 00:24:30,732 --> 00:24:31,690 and when investigators look at it, 524 00:24:32,691 --> 00:24:34,519 it's clear they've struck gold. 525 00:24:34,562 --> 00:24:37,565 And all of a sudden, the case is blown wide open. 526 00:24:37,609 --> 00:24:43,832 ♪ 527 00:24:46,443 --> 00:24:48,968 [dramatic music] 528 00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:54,103 ♪ 529 00:24:54,147 --> 00:24:56,366 Just a 25-minute ferry ride from Manhattan 530 00:24:56,410 --> 00:24:59,239 is the suburban borough of Staten Island, 531 00:24:59,282 --> 00:25:01,328 where 18-year-old Aliza Parsy 532 00:25:01,371 --> 00:25:04,461 was murdered in her own bedroom. 533 00:25:12,382 --> 00:25:19,259 ♪ 534 00:25:20,173 --> 00:25:22,262 NYPD's Computer Crime Unit 535 00:25:22,305 --> 00:25:24,220 has been handing off numerous contacts 536 00:25:24,264 --> 00:25:27,049 they've pulled from Aliza's computer. 537 00:25:27,093 --> 00:25:29,138 And it just turns into a rabbit hole. 538 00:25:29,182 --> 00:25:31,445 Who did she meet up with? How many times? 539 00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:33,708 How long was this going on? 540 00:25:33,752 --> 00:25:35,623 I mean, it's endless. 541 00:25:35,667 --> 00:25:39,235 ♪ 542 00:25:39,279 --> 00:25:42,021 And the detectives kind of hit gold 543 00:25:42,064 --> 00:25:44,589 when they find this one person 544 00:25:44,632 --> 00:25:48,462 who was planning to meet up with Aliza. 545 00:25:48,505 --> 00:25:50,029 According to the messages, 546 00:25:51,465 --> 00:25:53,206 they were planning to meet at 10:00 a.m. on August 9th, 547 00:25:53,249 --> 00:25:55,512 the day before the murder. 548 00:25:55,556 --> 00:25:57,166 ♪ 549 00:25:58,690 --> 00:26:00,256 He had actually chatted with her about coming to the house 550 00:26:01,649 --> 00:26:03,216 at the right time when her mom wouldn't be there, 551 00:26:03,259 --> 00:26:05,392 would have presumably left for work, 552 00:26:05,435 --> 00:26:07,350 and she would leave the door unlocked 553 00:26:07,394 --> 00:26:11,311 so he wouldn't cause any sort of, you know, ruckus. 554 00:26:11,354 --> 00:26:14,531 And you remember, the door was unlocked 555 00:26:14,575 --> 00:26:17,752 when the mom had come home from work. 556 00:26:17,796 --> 00:26:22,278 And so, to a detective, all of those elements 557 00:26:22,322 --> 00:26:25,673 add up to the person who killed Aliza. 558 00:26:25,717 --> 00:26:32,680 ♪ 559 00:26:32,724 --> 00:26:34,682 Using the IP address, 560 00:26:34,726 --> 00:26:37,119 the Cyber Squad provides Detective Kenny 561 00:26:37,163 --> 00:26:38,643 with an address in Brooklyn. 562 00:26:38,686 --> 00:26:40,557 ♪ 563 00:26:40,601 --> 00:26:42,385 [indistinct chatter over police radio] 564 00:26:42,429 --> 00:26:45,475 We went to interview him. 565 00:26:45,519 --> 00:26:47,521 He was very cooperative. 566 00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:52,047 He voluntarily gave us his DNA sample. 567 00:26:52,091 --> 00:26:53,179 You're under the gun 568 00:26:54,310 --> 00:26:55,094 to gather DNA from as many contacts 569 00:26:55,877 --> 00:26:56,530 of your victim as possible. 570 00:26:57,313 --> 00:26:58,358 You can't just bank on a hit 571 00:26:59,402 --> 00:27:01,013 from someone already in our system. 572 00:27:02,579 --> 00:27:04,494 But it'll be another few weeks before they have the results, 573 00:27:04,538 --> 00:27:07,236 and his interview raises suspicion. 574 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,499 He did say that he's been in the house. 575 00:27:09,543 --> 00:27:13,155 He did have sexual relations with Aliza in the past, 576 00:27:13,199 --> 00:27:14,156 more than once. 577 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,506 ♪ 578 00:27:16,550 --> 00:27:18,378 And he admits that he was there 579 00:27:18,421 --> 00:27:20,597 the day before Aliza was killed. 580 00:27:20,641 --> 00:27:23,470 This works with the medical examiner's timeline 581 00:27:23,513 --> 00:27:25,385 that she had consensual intercourse 582 00:27:25,428 --> 00:27:28,823 within the last 24 hours before her death. 583 00:27:28,867 --> 00:27:31,391 He was definitely a person of interest. 584 00:27:31,434 --> 00:27:33,741 That's somebody we take the next step with. 585 00:27:33,785 --> 00:27:37,179 You have to get what they call a "So Ordered" subpoena, 586 00:27:37,223 --> 00:27:40,182 which allows you to get E-ZPass records 587 00:27:40,226 --> 00:27:42,228 and telephone records 588 00:27:42,271 --> 00:27:43,751 and his MetroCard. 589 00:27:43,795 --> 00:27:45,753 ♪ 590 00:27:45,797 --> 00:27:48,147 They'll need to cross-check these records 591 00:27:48,190 --> 00:27:51,759 with his given timeline for the day of Aliza's murder. 592 00:27:51,803 --> 00:27:53,195 It's a process. 593 00:27:53,239 --> 00:27:54,414 You have to backtrack 594 00:27:54,457 --> 00:27:57,547 and try and disprove what they're saying. 595 00:27:57,591 --> 00:27:59,506 But as this lead is heating up, 596 00:27:59,549 --> 00:28:03,858 Detective Kenny gets some disturbing news. 597 00:28:03,902 --> 00:28:05,077 It came out in the paper 598 00:28:05,120 --> 00:28:07,819 that she had this promiscuous lifestyle. 599 00:28:09,516 --> 00:28:13,650 The media kind of painted her as a bad girl. 600 00:28:13,694 --> 00:28:15,652 We were kind of surprised, all of a sudden, 601 00:28:15,696 --> 00:28:19,221 that this came to light in the newspaper 602 00:28:19,265 --> 00:28:21,441 because it was just one of our leads. 603 00:28:21,484 --> 00:28:23,660 It was obviously a dangerous lifestyle 604 00:28:23,704 --> 00:28:25,445 and could have led to her being killed, 605 00:28:25,488 --> 00:28:27,664 but it wasn't, at the time, any more likely 606 00:28:27,708 --> 00:28:29,797 than the ex-boyfriend coming and killing her. 607 00:28:29,841 --> 00:28:32,800 So, for the mother to have to read this in the paper, 608 00:28:32,844 --> 00:28:35,194 for me, that's personally upsetting. 609 00:28:35,237 --> 00:28:37,413 ♪ 610 00:28:37,457 --> 00:28:38,850 Everyone was calling each other. 611 00:28:40,329 --> 00:28:42,244 "Did you see what they wrote about Lizzy in the newspaper?" 612 00:28:42,288 --> 00:28:43,463 They blew it out of proportion. 613 00:28:43,506 --> 00:28:46,683 Guys were hitting on her on social media, 614 00:28:46,727 --> 00:28:50,339 like every other girl gets hit on by guys. 615 00:28:50,383 --> 00:28:53,429 She was called this and called that. 616 00:28:53,473 --> 00:28:56,389 Like, first of all, she just died. 617 00:28:56,432 --> 00:28:58,478 How are you guys disrespecting her like that 618 00:28:58,521 --> 00:29:00,393 and making her family feel like crap 619 00:29:00,436 --> 00:29:01,786 and her friends feel like crap 620 00:29:01,829 --> 00:29:03,831 and everyone that was around her and close to her 621 00:29:03,875 --> 00:29:05,441 feel like crap? 622 00:29:05,485 --> 00:29:07,269 Because there are so many suspects, 623 00:29:07,313 --> 00:29:08,575 because there are so many questions, 624 00:29:08,618 --> 00:29:11,273 it leads to story after story after story, 625 00:29:11,317 --> 00:29:12,405 because as a journalist, too, 626 00:29:12,448 --> 00:29:14,276 you're trying to seek the truth. 627 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,845 But it's important to remember that there are real people 628 00:29:17,889 --> 00:29:19,542 that this happened to. 629 00:29:19,586 --> 00:29:21,849 Aliza's family is a real family, 630 00:29:21,893 --> 00:29:24,852 and we are able to walk away from this 631 00:29:24,896 --> 00:29:27,420 and move on to the next story, but they're gonna have to live 632 00:29:27,463 --> 00:29:29,814 with this for the rest of their life. 633 00:29:29,857 --> 00:29:35,297 ♪ 634 00:29:35,341 --> 00:29:37,647 We have to solve this. 635 00:29:37,691 --> 00:29:39,954 I was afforded anything I needed. 636 00:29:39,998 --> 00:29:43,262 I had detectives that specialize in burglaries. 637 00:29:43,305 --> 00:29:46,656 I had a sergeant and a detective assigned for that. 638 00:29:46,700 --> 00:29:51,444 I had the two cybercrime detectives assigned to me. 639 00:29:51,487 --> 00:29:52,793 It was a big deal. 640 00:29:52,837 --> 00:29:54,795 ♪ 641 00:29:54,839 --> 00:29:56,884 The community's getting angry. 642 00:29:56,928 --> 00:29:58,886 The community's getting impatient. 643 00:29:58,930 --> 00:30:01,802 Why is it taking so long to solve this? 644 00:30:01,846 --> 00:30:04,587 Her half brother Raviv was giving me a hard time. 645 00:30:04,631 --> 00:30:05,937 You know, "I don't understand 646 00:30:05,980 --> 00:30:07,590 "why you haven't arrested this person already. 647 00:30:07,634 --> 00:30:09,810 What are you guys doing over there?" 648 00:30:09,854 --> 00:30:12,552 It's difficult. The person has just 649 00:30:12,595 --> 00:30:14,510 lost someone very, very close to them. 650 00:30:14,554 --> 00:30:17,426 So their emotions are very high. 651 00:30:17,470 --> 00:30:18,732 People were scared. 652 00:30:20,212 --> 00:30:21,648 What if there was someone who didn't like Jewish people? 653 00:30:22,779 --> 00:30:23,737 Through history, you know, Jewish people had a lot 654 00:30:24,781 --> 00:30:25,565 of, you know, ridicule and stuff like that, 655 00:30:26,435 --> 00:30:27,349 a lot of bad stuff happened to us. 656 00:30:28,742 --> 00:30:30,439 So maybe it was someone who was just gunning for us personally. 657 00:30:30,483 --> 00:30:32,964 ♪ 658 00:30:33,007 --> 00:30:35,662 [distant siren wailing] 659 00:30:35,705 --> 00:30:37,838 And then on September 13th, 660 00:30:37,882 --> 00:30:40,841 just over a month after Aliza Parsy's murder, 661 00:30:40,885 --> 00:30:43,409 Detective Kenny gets the phone call 662 00:30:43,452 --> 00:30:46,542 he's been waiting weeks for. 663 00:30:46,586 --> 00:30:48,718 It's the medical examiner's office, 664 00:30:48,762 --> 00:30:52,897 and they tell us, "We have the DNA results." 665 00:30:54,507 --> 00:30:56,552 There's a time in every investigation 666 00:30:56,596 --> 00:30:58,424 where there's a climactic incident 667 00:30:58,467 --> 00:31:00,643 that occurs that changes everything. 668 00:31:00,687 --> 00:31:02,732 You always look back in a critical eye. 669 00:31:02,776 --> 00:31:04,865 Could I, should I have known this beforehand? 670 00:31:04,909 --> 00:31:06,736 And in this particular instance, 671 00:31:06,780 --> 00:31:09,652 no, you couldn't have known this was gonna happen. 672 00:31:11,393 --> 00:31:13,569 In shock, everybody was in shock. 673 00:31:14,309 --> 00:31:16,311 Coming up... 674 00:31:16,355 --> 00:31:17,965 What we're missing is a motive. 675 00:31:18,009 --> 00:31:19,097 Why would he do this? 676 00:31:19,140 --> 00:31:21,882 He was just denying everything. 677 00:31:21,926 --> 00:31:26,539 He was like the puppet master through the whole case. 678 00:31:26,582 --> 00:31:29,020 It was all for naught. 679 00:31:29,063 --> 00:31:30,891 She didn't have to die. 680 00:31:30,935 --> 00:31:36,549 ♪ 681 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,902 [dramatic music] 682 00:31:42,381 --> 00:31:44,949 ♪ 683 00:31:44,992 --> 00:31:47,821 The NYPD is working around the clock 684 00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:48,996 to bring the person responsible 685 00:31:50,302 --> 00:31:53,348 for 18-year-old Aliza Parsy's murder to justice. 686 00:31:53,392 --> 00:31:56,047 And then on September 13th, 687 00:31:56,090 --> 00:31:58,832 just over a month into the investigation, 688 00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:01,966 Detective Kenny finally gets the phone call 689 00:32:02,009 --> 00:32:04,403 he's been waiting weeks for. 690 00:32:04,446 --> 00:32:06,231 My phone rings. 691 00:32:06,274 --> 00:32:08,233 It's the medical examiner's office, 692 00:32:08,276 --> 00:32:12,802 and they tell us, "We have a match on your DNA." 693 00:32:14,500 --> 00:32:16,023 I said, "Really?" 694 00:32:17,155 --> 00:32:19,374 And they tell me that the match 695 00:32:19,418 --> 00:32:24,075 is a close relative to Aliza. 696 00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:28,253 They knew that the DNA was that of a male, 697 00:32:28,296 --> 00:32:31,517 so probably a brother or father. 698 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:36,261 ♪ 699 00:32:36,304 --> 00:32:39,220 When you get a DNA result that fits a family member, 700 00:32:39,264 --> 00:32:41,353 you got to be mindful that maybe what you thought 701 00:32:41,396 --> 00:32:43,181 was a key piece of evidence 702 00:32:43,224 --> 00:32:45,096 wasn't in fact evidence at all. 703 00:32:45,139 --> 00:32:47,402 Relatives are often in that house. 704 00:32:47,446 --> 00:32:49,100 That drop of blood on that towel 705 00:32:49,143 --> 00:32:52,059 that we put so much hope into could have been just someone 706 00:32:52,103 --> 00:32:55,106 who cut their finger or had a bloody nose in the home. 707 00:32:55,149 --> 00:32:57,282 So we really have to take it with a grain of salt 708 00:32:57,325 --> 00:32:58,892 and investigate further. 709 00:32:58,935 --> 00:33:00,415 ♪ 710 00:33:00,459 --> 00:33:03,157 So now I have to meet with the medical examiner 711 00:33:03,201 --> 00:33:07,031 because I need to know, was it the DNA from the towel? 712 00:33:07,074 --> 00:33:09,381 Is it DNA from under the fingernails? 713 00:33:09,424 --> 00:33:12,427 So they tell me it's both. 714 00:33:12,471 --> 00:33:14,255 ♪ 715 00:33:14,299 --> 00:33:16,040 With Aliza's eldest half brother 716 00:33:16,083 --> 00:33:17,171 and father in Israel, 717 00:33:18,216 --> 00:33:20,435 detectives key in on one person. 718 00:33:20,479 --> 00:33:24,048 The only possibility was that it was Raviv. 719 00:33:24,091 --> 00:33:26,354 ♪ 720 00:33:26,398 --> 00:33:29,618 But now they have to actually do a DNA sequence 721 00:33:29,662 --> 00:33:31,359 of Raviv's blood 722 00:33:31,403 --> 00:33:36,147 and match it to the blood from the towel and under her nails. 723 00:33:36,190 --> 00:33:39,237 The results come back immediately. 724 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,109 Raviv's DNA matches both. 725 00:33:42,153 --> 00:33:46,113 ♪ 726 00:33:46,157 --> 00:33:47,288 Once we heard the DNA 727 00:33:48,550 --> 00:33:50,248 under Aliza's fingernails matched to Raviv, 728 00:33:50,291 --> 00:33:52,163 it was like everything clicked into place. 729 00:33:52,206 --> 00:33:53,425 The whole time 730 00:33:54,643 --> 00:33:55,296 he'd been pointing us at the ex-boyfriend 731 00:33:56,558 --> 00:33:57,690 in order to deflect attention from himself. 732 00:33:57,733 --> 00:33:59,387 ♪ 733 00:33:59,431 --> 00:34:01,259 But from the public perspective, 734 00:34:01,302 --> 00:34:02,390 you've got a grieving brother. 735 00:34:02,434 --> 00:34:04,392 No one's gonna believe he did this 736 00:34:04,436 --> 00:34:07,047 unless you have rock-solid evidence. 737 00:34:07,091 --> 00:34:09,136 ♪ 738 00:34:09,180 --> 00:34:11,182 So now with Raviv moving up the ladder 739 00:34:11,225 --> 00:34:13,009 to our number-one suspect, 740 00:34:13,053 --> 00:34:15,969 we get a court order for his cell site information. 741 00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:18,711 We get a court order for the photograph time 742 00:34:18,754 --> 00:34:22,454 that he comes through the toll and his E-ZPass records. 743 00:34:22,497 --> 00:34:25,196 There's also so many cameras on the bridges 744 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:26,675 and on the highways. 745 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,373 So you can track somebody's movement 746 00:34:28,416 --> 00:34:31,158 throughout the city in real time. 747 00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:34,596 ♪ 748 00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,991 Raviv had told detectives he'd been delivering cookies 749 00:34:38,034 --> 00:34:39,558 for the family business. 750 00:34:39,601 --> 00:34:41,212 Now, his original story was, 751 00:34:41,255 --> 00:34:44,258 he was out on Long Island around 1:00 p.m. 752 00:34:45,477 --> 00:34:48,436 The cell site information has him coming 753 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,525 over the Verrazano Bridge at 1:00 p.m., 754 00:34:50,569 --> 00:34:54,181 coming into Staten Island over the toll, 755 00:34:54,225 --> 00:34:56,401 and then at 1:30, 756 00:34:56,444 --> 00:35:00,013 he's within a block or so of Aliza's home. 757 00:35:01,449 --> 00:35:04,104 Armed with this major discrepancy in his story, 758 00:35:04,148 --> 00:35:07,716 detectives need to speak with Aliza's half brother. 759 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:09,675 Why would this person lie, you know, 760 00:35:09,718 --> 00:35:13,244 except because he was somewhere where he wasn't supposed to be? 761 00:35:13,287 --> 00:35:15,246 So I call him on the phone 762 00:35:15,289 --> 00:35:18,074 and asked him to come into the precinct, 763 00:35:18,118 --> 00:35:19,380 and he's somewhat resistant. 764 00:35:19,424 --> 00:35:21,600 "Why do I have to come? I got this party. 765 00:35:21,643 --> 00:35:23,428 "I got a lot of things to do. 766 00:35:23,471 --> 00:35:26,431 I can't--you know, I can't come in." 767 00:35:26,474 --> 00:35:30,217 I said, "Well, I need to identify 768 00:35:30,261 --> 00:35:32,611 "a friend of the ex-boyfriend, 769 00:35:32,654 --> 00:35:36,615 'cause we believe, you know, he was your sister's murderer." 770 00:35:36,658 --> 00:35:40,140 So now he seems a little more cooperative. 771 00:35:40,184 --> 00:35:44,623 ♪ 772 00:35:44,666 --> 00:35:49,236 Raviv arrives at the station with his wife in tow. 773 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,326 Even as a, you know, a seasoned investigator, 774 00:35:52,370 --> 00:35:54,763 I didn't understand why he would kill his sister. 775 00:35:54,807 --> 00:35:57,766 It didn't make any sense. 776 00:35:57,810 --> 00:36:00,160 What we're missing is the motive. 777 00:36:00,204 --> 00:36:01,640 Why would he do this? 778 00:36:01,683 --> 00:36:04,469 Raviv's wife is led into a waiting area, 779 00:36:04,512 --> 00:36:07,254 and Detective Kenny lays out the damning evidence 780 00:36:07,298 --> 00:36:08,690 against him. 781 00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:10,649 ♪ 782 00:36:10,692 --> 00:36:13,304 Raviv was almost belligerent. 783 00:36:13,347 --> 00:36:16,437 He was just denying everything. 784 00:36:16,481 --> 00:36:18,439 We know, with medical certainty, 785 00:36:18,483 --> 00:36:22,356 that Raviv's blood matches the skin under the nails 786 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:25,272 and the blood on the towel. 787 00:36:25,316 --> 00:36:27,666 And even with the DNA, 788 00:36:27,709 --> 00:36:29,537 it wasn't like, "All right, you got me." 789 00:36:29,581 --> 00:36:32,671 He's still denying that he had anything to do with it. 790 00:36:32,714 --> 00:36:36,240 The DNA evidence has us convinced Raviv is guilty, 791 00:36:36,283 --> 00:36:38,372 but we still want to hear him admit it. 792 00:36:38,416 --> 00:36:39,547 It's important for the family 793 00:36:39,591 --> 00:36:41,549 to know he did that, for closure. 794 00:36:41,593 --> 00:36:44,335 So we train our people time and time again 795 00:36:44,378 --> 00:36:46,337 in how to elicit information from people 796 00:36:46,380 --> 00:36:48,295 who don't want to give it to you. 797 00:36:48,339 --> 00:36:50,297 ♪ 798 00:36:50,341 --> 00:36:53,344 So I concocted a plan. 799 00:36:53,387 --> 00:36:54,823 I said, "Well, you know, 800 00:36:54,867 --> 00:36:56,564 "there was speculation in the paper 801 00:36:56,608 --> 00:37:00,351 "that she was a victim of a sexual assault. 802 00:37:00,394 --> 00:37:02,309 "Unless you want the community to believe 803 00:37:02,353 --> 00:37:04,180 "that you sexually assaulted your sister, 804 00:37:04,224 --> 00:37:07,314 this is your opportunity to tell us what happened." 805 00:37:07,358 --> 00:37:09,621 ♪ 806 00:37:09,664 --> 00:37:12,363 Detective Kenny is well aware from the autopsy 807 00:37:12,406 --> 00:37:14,539 that Aliza had consensual sex, 808 00:37:14,582 --> 00:37:18,325 and it had most likely been with her online paramour 809 00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:19,674 the day before she was murdered. 810 00:37:19,718 --> 00:37:23,374 But that information hadn't been made public. 811 00:37:23,417 --> 00:37:26,202 I said, "If nothing else, for your mother, 812 00:37:26,246 --> 00:37:27,421 "we need to know. 813 00:37:27,465 --> 00:37:29,336 "Your mother needs to know what happened 814 00:37:29,380 --> 00:37:31,338 and why this happened." 815 00:37:31,382 --> 00:37:34,210 So he started thinking, and he paused, 816 00:37:34,254 --> 00:37:35,560 and he said to me, 817 00:37:35,603 --> 00:37:38,867 he goes, "Okay, I'll tell you what happened." 818 00:37:38,911 --> 00:37:42,828 ♪ 819 00:37:45,352 --> 00:37:48,181 [dramatic music] 820 00:37:48,660 --> 00:37:52,272 ♪ 821 00:37:52,316 --> 00:37:54,796 Five weeks after the shocking murder 822 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,798 of 18-year-old Aliza Parsy, 823 00:37:56,842 --> 00:37:58,147 detectives have damning evidence 824 00:37:59,410 --> 00:38:01,673 pointing to her half brother, Raviv Gabbay. 825 00:38:01,716 --> 00:38:04,893 ♪ 826 00:38:04,937 --> 00:38:07,026 After hours of adamant denials, 827 00:38:07,069 --> 00:38:10,943 Detective Michael Kenny finally breaks him. 828 00:38:10,986 --> 00:38:13,772 After, you know, careful contemplation, 829 00:38:13,815 --> 00:38:15,861 Raviv decides to tell us the story. 830 00:38:15,904 --> 00:38:18,646 ♪ 831 00:38:18,690 --> 00:38:20,256 Raviv is newly married. 832 00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:25,131 He's living in the basement of his in-laws, 833 00:38:25,174 --> 00:38:27,176 who obviously seem to be of means. 834 00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:29,222 It was a big, huge house. 835 00:38:29,265 --> 00:38:32,268 There's a pressure instantly to make a lot of money 836 00:38:32,312 --> 00:38:33,226 from his side, 837 00:38:34,401 --> 00:38:35,968 and he thinks he's going to be making a lot of money, 838 00:38:37,186 --> 00:38:38,623 because as a wedding gift, his mom gifts him 839 00:38:39,841 --> 00:38:41,887 with the family's kosher cookie business. 840 00:38:41,930 --> 00:38:45,151 But then the business stagnates. 841 00:38:45,194 --> 00:38:49,416 We learn from Raviv that the business wasn't really worth, 842 00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:53,377 like, what he would feel would be an appropriate wedding gift. 843 00:38:53,420 --> 00:38:58,164 So he felt that his mother still owed him a wedding gift. 844 00:38:59,818 --> 00:39:01,776 Then he learns that his mom 845 00:39:01,820 --> 00:39:04,997 has actually come into a little bit of money. 846 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,999 His mother came into some money 847 00:39:07,042 --> 00:39:09,393 from the sale of a house in Israel 848 00:39:09,436 --> 00:39:11,307 from the divorce from her husband. 849 00:39:11,351 --> 00:39:16,225 Raviv felt that he was owed some of that money. 850 00:39:16,269 --> 00:39:18,793 "I'm the one with the new family, having children, 851 00:39:18,837 --> 00:39:19,794 "having to raise them. 852 00:39:19,838 --> 00:39:21,274 You're all set." 853 00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,972 Then Raviv tells the detectives 854 00:39:24,016 --> 00:39:26,801 he was on his way to Long Island 855 00:39:26,845 --> 00:39:28,281 to make a delivery. 856 00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:30,065 He decides, "You know what? 857 00:39:30,109 --> 00:39:32,459 I'm gonna make a detour to my mother's house." 858 00:39:32,503 --> 00:39:35,027 ♪ 859 00:39:35,070 --> 00:39:38,944 Raviv's expectation was Aliza would be at work. 860 00:39:38,987 --> 00:39:40,424 Sima would be at work. 861 00:39:40,467 --> 00:39:42,991 ♪ 862 00:39:43,035 --> 00:39:45,037 He went into the house 863 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:50,129 and started rummaging through the mother's triple dresser, 864 00:39:50,172 --> 00:39:53,959 not aware that Aliza was in the shower. 865 00:39:54,002 --> 00:39:56,178 ♪ 866 00:39:56,222 --> 00:39:59,355 She comes out of the shower. 867 00:39:59,399 --> 00:40:00,966 He turns around. 868 00:40:01,009 --> 00:40:03,011 He's shocked to see his sister there. 869 00:40:03,055 --> 00:40:07,929 ♪ 870 00:40:07,973 --> 00:40:09,844 According to Raviv's statement, 871 00:40:09,888 --> 00:40:11,367 when Aliza saw him, 872 00:40:11,411 --> 00:40:13,500 she jumped on his back and scratched him. 873 00:40:13,544 --> 00:40:15,981 ♪ 874 00:40:16,024 --> 00:40:19,071 He flipped her off, and that's when Aliza hit her head 875 00:40:19,114 --> 00:40:20,855 on the box spring and passed out. 876 00:40:20,899 --> 00:40:24,511 ♪ 877 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:27,122 And he's so shocked by what he's done, 878 00:40:27,166 --> 00:40:30,517 he can't believe that he's just killed his sister, 879 00:40:30,561 --> 00:40:32,171 that he covers her body, 880 00:40:32,214 --> 00:40:36,001 and he continues on to his delivery route. 881 00:40:36,044 --> 00:40:37,176 He claims it was accidental, 882 00:40:38,264 --> 00:40:40,048 but the autopsy tells us a very different story. 883 00:40:40,092 --> 00:40:42,834 Regardless, detectives have his confession, 884 00:40:42,877 --> 00:40:44,531 and Raviv Gabbay is arrested 885 00:40:44,575 --> 00:40:46,838 for the murder of his half sister. 886 00:40:46,881 --> 00:40:50,102 ♪ 887 00:40:50,145 --> 00:40:52,539 [indistinct chatter over police radio] 888 00:40:52,583 --> 00:40:54,236 It is jaw-dropping 889 00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,935 that it is somebody that you dealt with. 890 00:40:56,978 --> 00:41:01,417 You gave information to them, that you felt bad for them. 891 00:41:01,461 --> 00:41:04,943 He was, like, the puppet master through the whole case. 892 00:41:04,986 --> 00:41:10,426 ♪ 893 00:41:10,470 --> 00:41:15,562 Unfortunately, I had the task of going to his mother 894 00:41:15,606 --> 00:41:17,259 and telling her, 895 00:41:17,303 --> 00:41:20,959 "We found the person that killed your daughter. 896 00:41:21,002 --> 00:41:23,091 It was your son." 897 00:41:23,135 --> 00:41:28,270 This woman lost her son and her daughter on the same day. 898 00:41:29,489 --> 00:41:30,925 The mother just 899 00:41:30,969 --> 00:41:33,972 was so embarrassed and so ashamed 900 00:41:34,015 --> 00:41:35,669 and so heartbroken, and, you know, 901 00:41:35,713 --> 00:41:39,586 she obviously still loves him, even though he did what he did. 902 00:41:39,630 --> 00:41:44,460 ♪ 903 00:41:44,504 --> 00:41:48,290 Raviv Gabbay pleads guilty to first-degree manslaughter 904 00:41:48,334 --> 00:41:51,380 and is sentenced to 18 years in prison. 905 00:41:51,424 --> 00:41:55,384 Manslaughter indicates there was a lack of prior intent, 906 00:41:55,428 --> 00:42:00,302 which is consistent with what he said in his confession. 907 00:42:00,346 --> 00:42:02,304 This was the rare case where the killer 908 00:42:02,348 --> 00:42:04,306 was under our nose the entire time. 909 00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:07,092 From the moment Raviv Gabbay appeared at the crime scene, 910 00:42:07,135 --> 00:42:08,963 he was playing us. 911 00:42:09,007 --> 00:42:10,443 But we had NYPD's finest, 912 00:42:10,486 --> 00:42:13,185 from detectives specializing in burglaries 913 00:42:13,228 --> 00:42:15,143 to our Computer Crimes Unit. 914 00:42:15,187 --> 00:42:17,493 If not for our forensics team giving us the DNA findings, 915 00:42:17,537 --> 00:42:20,235 Raviv might have gotten away with it. 916 00:42:20,279 --> 00:42:22,063 But that indisputable evidence, 917 00:42:22,107 --> 00:42:25,110 along with Detective Kenny's unwavering determination 918 00:42:25,153 --> 00:42:26,241 to get a confession, 919 00:42:27,329 --> 00:42:29,636 produced some much needed justice for Aliza Parsy. 920 00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:36,121 ♪ 921 00:42:36,164 --> 00:42:37,992 I hope he never gets out. 922 00:42:38,036 --> 00:42:40,168 If he can do that to Lizzy, 923 00:42:40,212 --> 00:42:42,170 what can he do to somebody else? 924 00:42:42,214 --> 00:42:44,303 ♪ 925 00:42:44,346 --> 00:42:47,349 He killed his own sister with his bare hands 926 00:42:47,393 --> 00:42:50,004 and stuffed her underneath a mattress. 927 00:42:50,048 --> 00:42:52,006 That's... 928 00:42:52,050 --> 00:42:54,095 I don't even have words for that. 929 00:42:54,139 --> 00:42:56,184 ♪ 930 00:42:56,228 --> 00:42:58,273 She was such an amazing person. 931 00:42:58,317 --> 00:43:00,362 I'm 100% positive that if she didn't die, 932 00:43:00,406 --> 00:43:02,277 she would be an amazing wife 933 00:43:02,321 --> 00:43:04,671 and been an amazing mother right now. 934 00:43:04,715 --> 00:43:06,499 ♪ 935 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:09,023 When you called me to come, you know, 936 00:43:09,067 --> 00:43:10,546 I went to the computer 937 00:43:10,590 --> 00:43:13,375 and looked in the newspaper and everything. 938 00:43:13,419 --> 00:43:16,335 You can't even look at it. 939 00:43:16,378 --> 00:43:19,512 You know, I prefer to remember her 940 00:43:19,555 --> 00:43:23,342 when we laughed and we talked and she told me everything. 941 00:43:23,385 --> 00:43:25,692 I prefer to remember her like this 942 00:43:25,736 --> 00:43:27,955 and not a different way.