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He murdered the McStay family.
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This is my best friend of 10 years.
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I would not make this up.
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And this individual that you're talking
about, when you say he probably had the
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wrong man, who were
you talking about that you
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think could potentially
be involved in this?
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Daniel Downsville.
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Lo and behold, October of 2018,
we get a call from the prosecutors.
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And we go to the key station there.
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And they produce a witness by the name of
Tracy Riccobeni.
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And Tracy Riccobeni gives a statement,
not only to us, but to the prosecutors as
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well, and the detectives, and our
investigators.
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She claims to be kind of an ex-girlfriend
type.
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She calls Dan Kavanaugh her best friend.
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And what she says is Dan Kavanaugh confessed
to her that he killed the McStay family.
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Judge, let me switch gears here.
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So yesterday, the defense came out with a
bombshell and said that it was another
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individual, Dan Kavanaugh, who also worked
for Joseph McStay, who did these murders.
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Apparently, he supposedly told this to his
girlfriend.
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So do you think that will weigh with the
jury here?
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Well, sure.
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Any time that you have testimony to the
effect, as I understand from the defense's
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opening statement, that Kavanaugh has
admitted to these killings to his
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girlfriend, that is quite powerful
evidence.
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We're just glad you're here, Gracie,
honestly.
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And we want you to tell the truth.
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References, information, okay?
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Well, I think you guys are the wrong man.
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Okay.
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And that's what we're here to talk to you
about.
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Did you ever hear Dan mention the name of
the individual in custody, Charles Merritt?
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Not until two weeks ago when he told me
how he framed him.
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So tell me, who is Dan Kavanaugh?
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So Dan Kavanaugh was a business associate
of Joseph.
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Dan Kavanaugh created the website,
but he was able to figure out the
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algorithm where when you Googled water
feature or waterfall, you'd get
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Earth-inspired products, which is what
Joseph's company was.
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So Dan felt like he should get a certain
percentage of all of Joseph's sales
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because every sale that went through the
website is what Dan created.
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I know Joseph wanted to cut Dan out of the
business because he felt like he was
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giving him money for nothing.
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My understanding of Tracy's relationship
with Dan is that at some point,
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they were in some kind of dating
relationship.
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You do look at yourself and go,
oh, shit, right?
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But then once that gut-punch
feeling goes away, a prosecutor
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is always out to do the right
thing to seek justice in a case.
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And if that justice is contrary
to what you originally thought
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because a new piece of
evidence comes up, then so be it.
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But you run with it and you figure it out.
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And that's what we had to do in this case.
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He murdered the McStay family.
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This is my best friend of ten years.
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I would not make this up.
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He started with Summer.
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He raped Summer.
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And had a rope around her neck.
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And he was wielding a Swiss Army-type
switchblade.
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And then he told Joseph, go take a hike
with the kids.
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And he told Summer to assume the position.
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Told her to get on her knees, you know.
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He raped her.
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And then, um, said he came twice.
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And then, so there should be DNA inside
the grave somewhere.
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I don't know.
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It's just a very odd story that you can
threaten someone with a Swiss Army knife,
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rape them, while you're telling the
husband to take a hike and presumably he
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comes back so he can be killed as well?
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Is that what we're supposed to believe?
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Of course, the prosecution is going to say
that she learned all of this, you know,
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from watching media reports or watching
shows about the case.
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But in reality, she shared some
information that Dan told her that was
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information that only, I think,
the killer would know.
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Things that have not been published.
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You need to look in the shower for DNA,
okay?
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What's in the shower that he said,
since your men's in the shower?
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I don't know.
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He told me.
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He had muddy shoes, okay?
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He was dirty.
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He took a shower.
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The fact is, on
February 5th, there was a
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huge rainstorm, and
that softened the ground.
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And that is consistent with what Tracy
Rico Benny said, that when Dan came back,
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after he buried the bodies, he was covered
in mud.
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That, to me, was pretty
significant in the sense
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that that wasn't really
known to the public.
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How would anyone know that it was raining?
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I'm not an accomplice to murder or
anything over here, you know?
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If you guys try to leverage
me with any kind of charge,
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I will fucking not even
talk after that, you know?
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You guys can Zipino me.
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But I need witness protection,
for one, okay?
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And for me to even testify on these
people.
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Uh...
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Nothing...
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Literally nothing she says jives with what
is there, what has happened.
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And...
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Ultimately believed there was absolutely
no credibility whatsoever to it.
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So...
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We had gone down to actually
interview her, and her behavior
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that day was so out there,
and she was just bizarre.
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And I just remember, I'm looking up at her
face, and I could see a lot of marks,
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to me, that are indicative of somebody
that's using drugs.
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Like, she was definitely out of the
influence.
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And so I think it was
quite clear that she very
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clearly was unstable,
and she wasn't credible.
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It's pretty easy to say that somebody's
not credible because they did drugs in the
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past or something of that nature,
but the only reason that they would
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discount that and not research it further,
I believe, is because they felt like they
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had tidied up their loose ends already,
and had a case against Chase.
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It was just so much easier to tie it up
in a red bow and say they're done, right?
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I just need to keep the blood flowing.
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I get cooped up in my office.
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It's too...
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It makes me crazy.
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So I gotta get out of there.
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So we went...
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We have a witness that essentially says
that Dan Kavanaugh confessed to her,
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confessed to killing the McStay family.
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You know, she's very...
She's very scared of him.
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She says, you know, that he's capable of,
you know, doing extreme violence.
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But, you know, I think she's important.
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But I don't wanna take away from the good
case that I think that we have now.
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I'm putting someone up that might,
you know, seem a little too wacky for,
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you know, for the jury.
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And I don't want the jury to think that
we're trying to do anything that's,
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you know, not proper
or not ethical or whatever,
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because she is kind of all
over the place right now.
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A witness like that can
somehow make a difference,
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maybe, but more often
than not, it backfires.
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And it's almost like we're grasping now at
anybody who says anything.
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So we made a decision not to call her for
that reason.
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I mean, we didn't feel we needed her.
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Yeah, we're gonna try to get Dan Kavanaugh
off with him.
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Because the DA has not really given us a
lot of information about where he is,
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his latest location, which is what they're
required to do.
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And we're gonna send
our investigator out there to
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try and serve him, you
know, and get him in here.
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We know the DA obviously
is not gonna bring him
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down, so it's incumbent
upon us to get him in here.
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And I think he's probably gonna try to
dodge us as best he can.
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I would imagine.
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But we'll see how that works out.
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We then go to try to find him,
and we can't.
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And we have our investigator
in San Diego looking
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everywhere for him, and
he's nowhere to be found.
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He's literally gone.
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All the known places that he would
frequent.
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Nothing.
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Yes, Catherine Jarvis.
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Thank you.
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Good afternoon, Ms. Jarvis.
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Do you know Charles Merritt?
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Yes, of course.
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And how do you know him?
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Um, we dated, we lived together,
and we had children together.
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When Chase was arrested
for this, we were all
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shocked, because I didn't
believe that he did do it.
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Like, it doesn't make sense.
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When I met him, he was wearing a cowboy
hat.
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Boots and all, you know, cowboy attire.
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And, you know, I thought he was
attractive.
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I actually hit her with my cue stick.
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She thought I was an arrogant ass.
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I don't know if he did it on purpose or
not.
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I went and asked her to dance.
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He was interesting, charming.
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And it just progressed from there.
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Within, uh, just a few months,
our first was conceived, Taylor.
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We were together for pushing 20 years.
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We're not together now, but we're still
extremely good friends.
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She's probably the best friend I have in
the world.
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She's extremely good mother.
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I've got three kids that are absolutely
incredible.
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I've never seen him act violently,
even when he's angry.
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Like, I remember shoving him up against a
bookcase.
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Just, I was so angry, and he never laid a
hand on me.
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I just can't see him, you know,
doing anything like that.
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Hi, Dad.
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So, I didn't tell you this a couple days
ago.
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Um, I got a letter in the mail from
Southwestern.
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Apparently, they heard Loyola and
Pepperdine had offered me full tuition.
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Um, so I got a letter from them that
changed their offer from $100,000,
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which is what they originally offered,
uh, to a full ride.
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Yeah.
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Throughout all of high school,
I had my heart set on forensic science.
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I only got through a year of community
college before all this happened with my dad.
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I ended up taking a year off of school
because I wasn't sure if I wanted to work
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within a system that I didn't really trust
anymore.
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I kind of came to realize that if I wanted
to change anything in the criminal justice
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system, probably the best way would be to
work within it.
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So, I want to do criminal defense.
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I definitely got my sense of
humor from my dad because he's
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always making really bad jokes,
which is fine because he's a dad.
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Also, he set a really good example of just
how to be a good person.
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He's never had to convince us that he was
innocent because we all knew.
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So, most of the conversation after he was
arrested was, how do we get you back home?
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All right.
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Love you, too.
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Love you, too.
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Me, too.
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All right.
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Bye.
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Okay.
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Bye.
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It's just a waiting game.
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Going back to the QuickBooks records,
I'm going to show you for 2040.
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And if you can show us
on here where you see that
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Mr. Merritt or Charles
Merritt was added as a vendor.
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On February 1st, 2010, 12, 24 p.m., user
Joseph McStay added vendor Charles Merritt.
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And when you say user Joseph McStay,
you don't know who's behind the computer,
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right?
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I don't know.
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I
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want to look at some QuickBooks things.
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Okay.
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Maybe you can help explain it.
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Hmm.
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So, it looks like February
1st is when Chase
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created two checks
and deleted those checks.
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Then on the 2nd, created two checks,
deleted two checks.
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Then on the 4th, added check, deleted
check, added check.
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Yeah, it just, I don't know.
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Who's going to create a check for Charles
Merritt other than Charles Merritt, right?
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February 4th, that's when something
clearly happened.
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What exactly?
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There's a lot of unanswered questions.
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Looking at the phone records, I think what
happened was, Charles Merritt got fired
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that day, that Joseph found
out that he was stealing from
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him, because on the way to
the meeting, he called his bank.
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You know, Merritt's explanation was,
we met.
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I got a stack of checks from him.
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We talked about the business plans for
this other job we had.
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I had access to writing checks.
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Did it often.
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And from the very first time I had an
interview with San Diego, I said,
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when Joseph and I met on the 4th,
he had given me checks.
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We discussed when I was going to write
them.
239
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Boy, when I heard that, I knew,
nah, that's not going to fly.
240
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Joey's not going to give him blank checks.
241
00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,080
There's no way.
242
00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:20,320
Mm-mm.
243
00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:25,509
This would be a check
that Joseph McStay had
244
00:18:25,510 --> 00:18:29,800
written to you for $3,000
on November 1st of 2008.
245
00:18:30,620 --> 00:18:31,240
Is that correct?
246
00:18:31,241 --> 00:18:31,800
Yes.
247
00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:36,020
And you indicated at the time that you
were renting a house, right?
248
00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:36,800
Yes.
249
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:39,920
And was your rent due on the 1st of every
month?
250
00:18:40,380 --> 00:18:40,960
Yes.
251
00:18:41,380 --> 00:18:45,085
Because we see down
in the line it says 4, and
252
00:18:45,086 --> 00:18:48,280
then it says Chase SOS
exclamation point, right?
253
00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:48,860
Yes.
254
00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:50,520
Do you know what that means?
255
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Chase muted it right away.
256
00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,822
When I first came onto
the case, one of the things I
257
00:18:57,823 --> 00:19:01,620
started doing was looking
at Merritt's bank records.
258
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And I was a little bit
floored because I saw all
259
00:19:06,084 --> 00:19:09,100
these withdrawals that
were occurring at a casino.
260
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It was close to somewhere around $15,000
that had been taken out at casinos.
261
00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,600
And I don't see any other income that came
in besides what he got from Joseph.
262
00:19:24,740 --> 00:19:29,058
And by November of
2009, the account was
263
00:19:29,059 --> 00:19:33,741
forcibly closed by the
bank and was overdrawn.
264
00:19:34,140 --> 00:19:39,320
So at this point, I'm like, wow,
this is a significant gambling problem.
265
00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:47,640
So the gambling addiction led him to the
money mismanagement that led him to
266
00:19:47,641 --> 00:19:50,880
ultimately trying to steal money from
Joseph.
267
00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:55,840
Because, you know, he's got a family,
he's got expenses, he's got rent,
268
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:56,760
things like that.
269
00:19:56,960 --> 00:20:00,960
And that was the only way he had to get
out from under that.
270
00:20:01,820 --> 00:20:05,240
Their strategy was to just kind of poo-poo
him.
271
00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:11,400
Pound fist, shout, indignant, blah,
blah, blah, gambler, throw in gambler
272
00:20:11,401 --> 00:20:14,100
every other word, and you got yourself a
case.
273
00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:17,840
I mean, that's essentially what they were
saying.
274
00:20:17,841 --> 00:20:22,520
He's a degenerate gambler, owed him money,
all these ridiculous things.
275
00:20:23,470 --> 00:20:28,620
From a forensic accounting point of view,
I would give her cross an F minus.
276
00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:35,660
From an effective, misleading,
scored jury points perspective,
277
00:20:36,140 --> 00:20:37,140
I'd give her an A.
278
00:20:40,780 --> 00:20:42,800
February 4th was the last time you talked
to him.
279
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,216
Absolute last time I talked to him.
280
00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,296
The last time I talked to him was
actually, so I'm there.
281
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:49,440
The last time I talked to him,
he left here, went home.
282
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:50,020
Chick-fil-A.
283
00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:50,720
Right.
284
00:20:51,180 --> 00:20:52,180
And what time was that?
285
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:56,740
You know, I can't remember the exact time,
but it was middle afternoon.
286
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,847
It is really clear from the
evidence that that family of
287
00:21:03,848 --> 00:21:06,660
four dropped off the face
of the earth on February 4th.
288
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,380
Coincidentally, after some type of meeting
or confrontation at the Chick-fil-A
289
00:21:14,381 --> 00:21:17,280
earlier in the day, Merritt's cell phone
goes off-grid.
290
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:23,640
There's no activity for three and a half
to four hours until you get to
291
00:21:23,641 --> 00:21:25,540
nine-something when he comes back onto the
grid.
292
00:21:28,460 --> 00:21:32,960
So that meeting happens, which is a
confrontational meeting, and I think the
293
00:21:32,961 --> 00:21:35,416
argument continued
down in their house in
294
00:21:35,417 --> 00:21:38,941
Fallbrook, and that's
where it turned physical.
295
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:43,340
I think eventually Chase grabbed the
sledgehammer, and he knocked Joseph
296
00:21:43,341 --> 00:21:45,400
unconscious or killed him right then and
there.
297
00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,720
I think once he kills Joey, he realizes he
has to kill Summer and the boys too.
298
00:21:52,740 --> 00:21:57,340
When Joseph and I separated, that was the
last time I saw him.
299
00:21:57,820 --> 00:22:00,360
I had nothing to do with this.
300
00:22:01,540 --> 00:22:05,372
The way they came about
a timeline of the death and
301
00:22:05,373 --> 00:22:10,300
the burial was almost
exclusively on my records.
302
00:22:10,620 --> 00:22:15,700
They're assuming these crimes happened at
these particular times because that's when
303
00:22:15,701 --> 00:22:20,880
I'm not getting any phone calls,
and that's basically the evidence,
304
00:22:21,180 --> 00:22:22,620
that that's when the crime happened.
305
00:22:29,420 --> 00:22:36,600
All of a sudden, I'm thrown into this,
and it's like somebody's gonna realize,
306
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,340
wait, we made a mistake, you know?
307
00:22:43,860 --> 00:22:48,417
But by the time the
arraignment got here, I realized
308
00:22:48,418 --> 00:22:52,060
nobody was gonna step up
and say, we made a mistake.
309
00:22:53,660 --> 00:22:57,420
You know, so the reality was much...
310
00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:02,980
It was much heavier.
311
00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:08,500
It was daunting to say the least.
312
00:23:29,890 --> 00:23:34,290
On the 4th of February, did Chase remain
at home that day?
313
00:23:34,470 --> 00:23:34,850
Do you recall?
314
00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:36,370
In the evening, yes.
315
00:23:36,510 --> 00:23:38,010
I mean, he was home during the day.
316
00:23:38,570 --> 00:23:41,330
At some point, did he...
Did Chase come home?
317
00:23:41,950 --> 00:23:42,430
Yes.
318
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:44,370
Was it light outside or dark outside?
319
00:23:44,770 --> 00:23:45,990
It was light outside.
320
00:23:45,991 --> 00:23:46,991
Okay.
321
00:23:47,270 --> 00:23:51,690
My girlfriend, who lived with me at the
time, told the detectives that I was...
322
00:23:51,691 --> 00:23:55,279
that I had gotten home
sometime between 5
323
00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,970
and 7 p.m., which is
pretty much when it was.
324
00:23:59,150 --> 00:24:02,170
But I didn't leave after that.
325
00:24:02,910 --> 00:24:04,330
And that's true.
326
00:24:05,210 --> 00:24:09,170
Now, was there a phone call that Chase
received in the evening hours?
327
00:24:09,510 --> 00:24:10,050
Yes.
328
00:24:10,350 --> 00:24:11,610
Do you recall when that was?
329
00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:13,470
Um, it was after dark.
330
00:24:13,471 --> 00:24:16,430
Um, 7 o'clock.
331
00:24:16,730 --> 00:24:18,490
And do you know who the call was from?
332
00:24:19,350 --> 00:24:19,870
Yes.
333
00:24:20,110 --> 00:24:20,370
Who?
334
00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:21,350
Joseph.
335
00:24:21,710 --> 00:24:22,710
How do you know?
336
00:24:22,930 --> 00:24:26,730
Um, it said on his... on Chase's display.
337
00:24:35,710 --> 00:24:42,011
When Joseph called that night, the
phone was on the counter in the kitchen.
338
00:24:43,050 --> 00:24:45,760
I was on one side of the
bar in the kitchen, and Chase
339
00:24:45,761 --> 00:24:49,190
was in the living room area
on the other side of the bar.
340
00:24:50,310 --> 00:24:54,010
And I looked up at the phone to see,
you know, Joseph calling.
341
00:24:54,945 --> 00:24:57,690
And he looked over and was like,
it's just Joseph.
342
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,160
And I've already talked
to him a million times
343
00:25:00,161 --> 00:25:02,270
today, and, you know,
not answering the phone.
344
00:25:02,710 --> 00:25:04,590
You know, I'll just call him tomorrow.
345
00:25:04,910 --> 00:25:06,046
I'm like, why do you do that?
346
00:25:06,070 --> 00:25:07,110
Why do you put stuff off?
347
00:25:07,270 --> 00:25:08,470
You could just handle it now.
348
00:25:09,910 --> 00:25:13,050
We had fought about it before,
because there were times when,
349
00:25:13,250 --> 00:25:16,150
probably even when I called, that he
didn't answer.
350
00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:21,103
Merit's ex-girlfriend,
who's the mother of the
351
00:25:21,104 --> 00:25:24,010
couple's three children,
spoke out tonight after court.
352
00:25:24,150 --> 00:25:27,830
I know he's not guilty, because he was
with me the night that they went missing.
353
00:25:28,050 --> 00:25:31,045
Uh, the whole time period
that they're talking about,
354
00:25:31,046 --> 00:25:33,910
the entire weekend, he
was in and out of the house.
355
00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:44,860
Kathy was his alibi.
356
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,220
She was the alibi witness to say,
he was home on that night.
357
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:54,354
So, for me, it was important
to show that he wasn't home,
358
00:25:54,355 --> 00:25:57,640
and that the evidence didn't
support him being home.
359
00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:02,256
Just returning briefly to
the phone records from
360
00:26:02,257 --> 00:26:05,680
the 4th on 439C, which
we have up on the screen.
361
00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:10,240
You indicated that the defendant got a
phone call that night from Joseph, right?
362
00:26:10,241 --> 00:26:10,700
Yes.
363
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,600
And that was sometime around 8 or 8.30?
364
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:14,640
Yes.
365
00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:17,620
And these are the defendant's phone
records.
366
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,800
Can you show me where that call is on
here?
367
00:26:20,020 --> 00:26:20,280
No.
368
00:26:20,940 --> 00:26:21,940
Why?
369
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,580
Because it's not on there.
370
00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:30,758
That night, you know,
this last call on Joseph's
371
00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:34,980
phone to Chase never
shows up on Chase's phone.
372
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:39,995
She may believe with all
of her heart she saw that call,
373
00:26:39,996 --> 00:26:42,836
but, you know, it didn't happen
the night they went missing.
374
00:26:42,860 --> 00:26:44,460
There's no evidence of that.
375
00:26:46,020 --> 00:26:49,980
In order for a phone to ring that many
times and you saying, hey, it's Joseph,
376
00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:51,216
aren't you going to pick it up?
377
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,560
There's no way that call wouldn't have
registered on his bill.
378
00:26:56,360 --> 00:27:02,540
Our belief was that there was a brief
phone call that was made so that it
379
00:27:02,615 --> 00:27:07,760
actually registered on Joseph's phone,
but not on Merit's phone.
380
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:12,131
After he killed Joseph,
he took his phone,
381
00:27:12,132 --> 00:27:16,181
called himself before
he got rid of the phone.
382
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,920
The stuff that he was saying physically
did not happen.
383
00:27:21,020 --> 00:27:23,360
I don't remember the phone call at all.
384
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:24,600
I don't remember it ringing.
385
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,180
I don't remember St. Joseph's name.
386
00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:28,140
I remember nothing about it.
387
00:27:29,380 --> 00:27:34,700
The only reason I know that it occurred is
because Kathy has a good memory and she
388
00:27:34,701 --> 00:27:38,780
told me it happened, so I believe her,
but I don't remember it.
389
00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,160
Now, if I'm trying to establish an alibi,
why would I come back and then say,
390
00:27:45,380 --> 00:27:47,560
I don't ever remember getting that phone
call?
391
00:27:47,860 --> 00:27:49,520
I would say, oh yeah, he called.
392
00:27:49,820 --> 00:27:50,820
Sure.
393
00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:52,260
He called me at 8.30.
394
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,340
But I never said that.
395
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,360
I always, I was adamant.
396
00:27:56,540 --> 00:27:58,420
I don't remember that phone call.
397
00:27:58,660 --> 00:28:03,541
Do you think we would be here talking
today if you had picked up that phone call?
398
00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:08,940
Um, that's a very, very good question.
399
00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:12,820
I should answer my flippin' phone.
400
00:28:18,450 --> 00:28:21,916
And you were trying to
get a hold of the defendant
401
00:28:21,917 --> 00:28:25,190
from between basically
609 to 904, right?
402
00:28:27,490 --> 00:28:28,050
Yes.
403
00:28:28,470 --> 00:28:30,760
And it's your testimony
that the defendant was
404
00:28:30,761 --> 00:28:32,950
home at that time when
you made those calls?
405
00:28:33,150 --> 00:28:34,290
I believe so, yes.
406
00:28:34,291 --> 00:28:34,450
Yes.
407
00:28:34,550 --> 00:28:35,550
And where was he?
408
00:28:36,350 --> 00:28:37,350
I don't know.
409
00:28:37,390 --> 00:28:39,850
He could have been someplace else on the
property.
410
00:28:40,350 --> 00:28:41,350
Such as?
411
00:28:41,770 --> 00:28:45,190
Such as the business center at the
clubhouse.
412
00:28:45,490 --> 00:28:48,484
So for three hours, you're
trying to get a hold of him,
413
00:28:48,485 --> 00:28:52,590
but you couldn't walk to
the clubhouse at 256 feet?
414
00:28:54,830 --> 00:28:57,210
His phone was off the grid at this time.
415
00:28:57,530 --> 00:29:01,890
So, you know, if you were trying to get a
hold of somebody for essentially a
416
00:29:01,891 --> 00:29:05,887
three-hour period, it just
doesn't make any sense
417
00:29:05,888 --> 00:29:09,370
that you wouldn't just
walk down to the clubhouse.
418
00:29:10,550 --> 00:29:13,730
Because I think at some point,
you would get to be a little bit concerned
419
00:29:13,731 --> 00:29:18,410
if somebody tells you they're,
you know, right around the corner from
420
00:29:18,411 --> 00:29:21,950
you, and you've called so many times,
and they're not answering.
421
00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:24,610
That would be pure speculation.
422
00:29:25,510 --> 00:29:26,510
Phone's off.
423
00:29:26,630 --> 00:29:29,210
So he has to be doing X, Y, and Z.
424
00:29:30,410 --> 00:29:31,410
Okay.
425
00:29:33,570 --> 00:29:34,310
Phone's off.
426
00:29:34,311 --> 00:29:36,210
He was also planning to kill the
president.
427
00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:37,410
Phone's off.
428
00:29:37,590 --> 00:29:39,670
You just make up any story you want.
429
00:29:40,210 --> 00:29:41,490
And that's what they were doing.
430
00:29:41,750 --> 00:29:45,210
It was just inventing stories without
evidence because they had no evidence.
431
00:29:46,530 --> 00:29:48,950
That could mean a number of things.
432
00:29:49,650 --> 00:29:51,210
that it's in airplane mode.
433
00:29:51,470 --> 00:29:52,490
Battery could be dead.
434
00:29:52,750 --> 00:29:56,090
That means it could not be recognized by a
tower.
435
00:29:56,850 --> 00:29:59,630
The cell service is not working on your
phone.
436
00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:06,172
I think at that point, you're
dealing with a woman who's going
437
00:30:06,173 --> 00:30:09,490
to say anything that she
can, even if it's not the truth.
438
00:30:19,630 --> 00:30:22,073
When you get on the
stand, don't hesitate
439
00:30:22,074 --> 00:30:25,871
to say that on the
stand if that's the case.
440
00:30:26,710 --> 00:30:33,830
Because I know for a fact, now that I go
back over everything, I was home.
441
00:30:42,890 --> 00:30:46,793
We believed he was maybe
trying to persuade the witnesses,
442
00:30:46,794 --> 00:30:50,130
maybe talking about
something pertinent to the trial.
443
00:30:50,131 --> 00:30:53,737
So we ended up having
to put recording devices
444
00:30:53,738 --> 00:30:56,930
in his visiting booths
to capture those visits.
445
00:30:57,150 --> 00:31:01,518
And that's kind of what
really led us to see how
446
00:31:01,519 --> 00:31:05,331
he was trying to influence
Cathy specifically.
447
00:31:21,300 --> 00:31:24,497
When you go in for a
visit into the jail facility,
448
00:31:24,498 --> 00:31:27,500
there's a phone on one side
and a phone on the other side.
449
00:31:27,501 --> 00:31:30,720
And there's some plexiglass in the middle,
and you pick up the phone and you have the
450
00:31:30,721 --> 00:31:32,720
conversation with whoever is on the other
side.
451
00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:36,760
And there's not an expectation of privacy
when you visit with somebody.
452
00:31:36,900 --> 00:31:39,060
And it says that this call is being
recorded.
453
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,160
He would circumvent that.
454
00:31:41,410 --> 00:31:44,740
And the way that he would do that is they
would yell through the plexiglass.
455
00:31:44,741 --> 00:31:49,960
So the opportunity came before Cathy was
going to testify.
456
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:58,076
And it was basically Ryan
Smith who miked both sides of
457
00:31:58,077 --> 00:32:01,380
the booth so that the
conversation could be recorded.
458
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:07,553
And when you had
visits with the defendant in
459
00:32:07,554 --> 00:32:10,661
person, you would talk
through the glass, right?
460
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:12,980
Yes, on his patient.
461
00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:17,760
And that's because the defendant didn't
want anything recorded, right?
462
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,240
Speculation.
463
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,760
And he talked to you about some stuff that
you were supposed to testify about,
464
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,880
right?
465
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,380
He mentioned stuff that might be coming
up.
466
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:32,460
And he told you that you've got to
remember that, right?
467
00:32:32,900 --> 00:32:33,900
Yes.
468
00:32:34,260 --> 00:32:39,220
So isn't it true that when you met with
the defendant, you went over the specifics
469
00:32:39,221 --> 00:32:42,500
of that, what you were supposed to testify
about?
470
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:44,080
No.
471
00:32:44,860 --> 00:32:45,860
No.
472
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,120
No.
473
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,900
Your Honor, at this time, the people would
request a play to call.
474
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,800
We would request a publish to the jury.
475
00:32:56,180 --> 00:32:57,620
Did you meet with Raj?
476
00:32:58,420 --> 00:32:59,420
No.
477
00:33:02,550 --> 00:33:03,710
He came...
478
00:33:06,170 --> 00:33:14,170
He came and saw me, went over some of the
stuff about you, wanted to know what...
479
00:33:14,171 --> 00:33:19,470
I wanted him to ask you and what...
480
00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:22,430
maybe you should try to remember,
things like that.
481
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,460
When you get on the
stand, you're going to be
482
00:33:26,461 --> 00:33:29,150
asked specifically, do
you know about this?
483
00:33:29,310 --> 00:33:30,310
Yes.
484
00:33:30,995 --> 00:33:32,990
You know, you don't have to go into big
detail.
485
00:33:34,890 --> 00:33:38,450
I tell Raj, you just need to leave me.
486
00:33:38,670 --> 00:33:39,670
And he will.
487
00:33:41,540 --> 00:33:43,130
You know, he's good.
488
00:33:43,905 --> 00:33:46,990
They said, he wasn't home, he was...
489
00:33:48,150 --> 00:33:49,150
remember that?
490
00:33:50,525 --> 00:33:53,090
And you tried to call him five times...
491
00:33:54,290 --> 00:33:55,330
during the evening?
492
00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:58,891
He wouldn't... you wouldn't be trying
to call him if he was home, would you?
493
00:33:59,290 --> 00:34:03,050
Don't... don't hesitate to say
that, on the stand, if that's the case.
494
00:34:04,710 --> 00:34:05,710
Because...
495
00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:13,330
I know for a fact, now that I go back over
everything, I was home.
496
00:34:15,510 --> 00:34:16,990
Oh, I was pissed.
497
00:34:16,991 --> 00:34:19,510
I wanted her to get up and slap with Ms.
Rodriguez.
498
00:34:20,330 --> 00:34:25,870
But they used it to try to say,
oh, he was trying to influence Kathy.
499
00:34:26,770 --> 00:34:33,710
Prosecution has completely misinterpreted,
misconstrued 80 or 90% of my words.
500
00:34:35,770 --> 00:34:38,770
Those recordings, and then it was played.
501
00:34:40,230 --> 00:34:45,710
The mood of the defense team changed.
502
00:34:46,990 --> 00:34:53,250
Up to that point, we thought this case was
ours to lose.
503
00:34:53,530 --> 00:34:58,410
At that point, we had done everything
right.
504
00:35:00,010 --> 00:35:08,010
When that came out, we said, that impacts
not only Kathy, but us.
505
00:35:08,750 --> 00:35:11,430
It paints us in a light that's not
accurate.
506
00:35:12,230 --> 00:35:13,910
That was not what we were doing.
507
00:35:15,570 --> 00:35:17,230
It was not a good day.
508
00:35:18,230 --> 00:35:20,210
All the credibility we tried to build.
509
00:35:20,650 --> 00:35:22,090
And it got destroyed.
510
00:35:23,170 --> 00:35:24,170
That day.
511
00:35:28,140 --> 00:35:31,370
The cause of death was determined to be
blunt force trauma.
512
00:35:32,250 --> 00:35:36,630
And based on the entire investigation and
the evidence obtained, investigators
513
00:35:36,631 --> 00:35:40,770
believe these murders occurred at their
residence in Fallbrook.
514
00:35:41,590 --> 00:35:43,490
There was no physical evidence in the
house.
515
00:35:43,950 --> 00:35:45,890
It was damaging to the case, in my
opinion.
516
00:35:50,250 --> 00:35:52,430
State your full name, spell it for the
record.
517
00:35:53,650 --> 00:35:59,150
Joseph Sears,
J-O-S-E-P-H-S-E-S-E-S-E-T-O-M-E-E-R-X.
518
00:36:01,470 --> 00:36:03,030
What is your acquisition, sir?
519
00:36:03,790 --> 00:36:06,150
I'm sorry for the San Diego County
Sheriff's Department.
520
00:36:06,950 --> 00:36:12,150
After reviewing the San Diego
investigation, all their reports and
521
00:36:12,151 --> 00:36:18,070
photographs, and you returning to the
house, doing your test, is there anything
522
00:36:18,071 --> 00:36:24,810
in that house that you have found,
you have read, or you have seen that tells
523
00:36:24,811 --> 00:36:28,190
you those murders happened in the
Fallbrook house?
524
00:36:30,850 --> 00:36:31,530
Yes.
525
00:36:31,531 --> 00:36:37,110
Did you see any evidence that shows you
that the crime happened in that house?
526
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,080
No.
527
00:36:42,870 --> 00:36:44,370
But you believe it did?
528
00:36:44,730 --> 00:36:45,730
No.
529
00:36:46,090 --> 00:36:47,090
Without evidence?
530
00:36:47,530 --> 00:36:49,270
That's your argument, it is sustained.
531
00:36:51,890 --> 00:36:56,350
Isn't it true that if you can't find
evidence to make that murder happen in the
532
00:36:56,351 --> 00:36:59,590
house, you can't prove a case to make that
murder happen?
533
00:36:59,910 --> 00:37:00,390
Objection?
534
00:37:00,670 --> 00:37:01,890
That's argumentative.
535
00:37:02,250 --> 00:37:04,250
The suicide is not evidence and legal
conclusions.
536
00:37:04,690 --> 00:37:05,690
This thing...
537
00:37:06,990 --> 00:37:09,050
All their affidavits say the murders
happened.
538
00:37:09,290 --> 00:37:11,550
They're like, yeah, this happened in the
house.
539
00:37:12,410 --> 00:37:13,550
You have a belief.
540
00:37:13,790 --> 00:37:15,970
This is what you want the truth to be.
541
00:37:16,670 --> 00:37:20,751
You have no evidence that supports it,
but you're still gonna support that belief.
542
00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:34,258
The bottom line is
this did not resemble a
543
00:37:34,259 --> 00:37:36,840
crime scene where a
family of four was killed.
544
00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:40,220
And so that was a, you know, a big hole in
their case.
545
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:46,200
And if you have a crime scene where the
family's basically slaughtered at the
546
00:37:46,201 --> 00:37:49,500
house, there's gonna be an awful lot of
blood everywhere.
547
00:38:14,090 --> 00:38:19,100
During preparation for trial, Mr.
Dougherty actually was kind of thumbing
548
00:38:19,101 --> 00:38:21,461
through the photographs that we were gonna
use for exhibits.
549
00:38:22,430 --> 00:38:28,160
And for whatever reason, he zoomed in on a
portion of the table by the remote.
550
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,444
When Sean found this,
it was, oh my God, come
551
00:38:32,445 --> 00:38:36,461
see, come look at what,
tell me what you see.
552
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:39,080
And we just kind of went, oh my God.
553
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:44,080
They saw what they thought was blood
spatter on the table.
554
00:38:46,620 --> 00:38:50,740
And now that I'm looking at a picture that
was taken that close, that sure as,
555
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,240
sure as heck looks like blood to me.
556
00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:54,980
Blood spatter.
557
00:38:55,380 --> 00:38:58,360
I mean, I don't know how you could call
that anything else.
558
00:38:58,361 --> 00:39:03,720
It would lead you to believe that
something violent happened.
559
00:39:07,180 --> 00:39:09,380
And this picture here...
560
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:15,200
I mean, this one just absolutely looks
like blood.
561
00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:17,260
Blood spatter.
562
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:19,780
I don't know how you could say it was
anything but.
563
00:39:26,025 --> 00:39:27,520
It was basically new evidence.
564
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:28,160
Yeah.
565
00:39:28,161 --> 00:39:29,161
Yeah.
566
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:34,114
That was crazy to me
because, um, it just seems
567
00:39:34,115 --> 00:39:36,801
like such a travesty
that this was missed.
568
00:39:37,180 --> 00:39:39,701
That, to me, was one of
the biggest things in the
569
00:39:39,702 --> 00:39:42,680
trial that got to me
when they pulled this out.
570
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:48,600
Because, you know, the defense opened
their case by saying, you know,
571
00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:51,820
there's not a single bit of evidence in
the house that anything like this happened.
572
00:39:51,821 --> 00:39:54,960
And then the prosecution was able to say,
are you sure?
573
00:40:02,820 --> 00:40:05,140
Speak your full name and spell it for the
record.
574
00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:06,900
It was Dennis Williams.
575
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,060
D-E-N-Y-S Williams.
576
00:40:11,460 --> 00:40:13,920
W-I-L-L-I-A-M-S.
577
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:14,800
D-E-N-Y-S.
578
00:40:14,801 --> 00:40:15,801
D-E-N-Y-S.
579
00:40:19,970 --> 00:40:20,590
D-E-N-Y-S.
580
00:40:20,591 --> 00:40:21,150
D-E-N-Y-S.
581
00:40:21,151 --> 00:40:21,390
D-E-N-Y-S.
582
00:40:21,391 --> 00:40:21,750
D-E-N-Y-S.
583
00:40:21,751 --> 00:40:21,790
D-E-N-Y-S.
584
00:40:21,970 --> 00:40:22,110
D-E-N-Y-S.
585
00:40:22,330 --> 00:40:23,330
D-E-N-Y-S.
586
00:40:23,430 --> 00:40:24,430
D-E-N-Y-S.
587
00:40:24,670 --> 00:40:25,910
D-E-N-Y-S.
588
00:40:25,911 --> 00:40:26,911
D-E-N-Y-S.
589
00:40:34,070 --> 00:40:35,210
D-E-N-Y-S.
590
00:40:36,290 --> 00:40:38,290
D-E-N-Y-S.
591
00:40:39,270 --> 00:40:42,070
D-E-N-Y-S.
592
00:40:43,990 --> 00:40:45,930
D-E-N-Y-S.
593
00:40:45,931 --> 00:40:48,111
With your experience of
processing crime scenes,
594
00:40:48,112 --> 00:40:50,891
did you have a belief
of what it could be?
595
00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:52,530
I thought it could be blunt.
596
00:40:54,590 --> 00:40:57,046
She was really kind
of beating herself up
597
00:40:57,047 --> 00:40:59,710
about, had I seen that,
I would have tested it.
598
00:40:59,830 --> 00:41:01,390
I can't believe I missed that.
599
00:41:03,050 --> 00:41:06,290
We circulated it with a whole bunch of
people and they said, could be,
600
00:41:06,430 --> 00:41:07,090
looks like it.
601
00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:09,770
There's no way I could say that though,
because I don't know.
602
00:41:10,550 --> 00:41:11,550
Just like Ms. Williams.
603
00:41:12,230 --> 00:41:15,610
She looked ashamed, to be honest,
like, oh God, how did we miss that?
604
00:41:15,950 --> 00:41:18,590
And like, why?
605
00:41:19,010 --> 00:41:21,122
And then, you know,
even if they missed it in the
606
00:41:21,123 --> 00:41:24,390
moment, didn't they have
these photos to look back on?
607
00:41:24,630 --> 00:41:27,326
This is probably the only
thing that they found that would
608
00:41:27,327 --> 00:41:29,531
show that anything would
have happened in that house.
609
00:41:30,270 --> 00:41:35,910
For us, it was really an unfortunate thing
that was missed.
610
00:41:35,911 --> 00:41:41,210
If that had actually been tested at the
time and there was a realization that it
611
00:41:41,211 --> 00:41:43,750
was blood, this entire case would be
different.
612
00:41:44,710 --> 00:41:45,710
I'm
613
00:41:48,770 --> 00:41:50,670
not a blood spatter examiner.
614
00:41:51,430 --> 00:41:54,050
That takes some more training than I have.
615
00:41:54,170 --> 00:41:56,650
But I have had classes and it works
better.
616
00:41:56,830 --> 00:41:58,370
And to me, it looked like...
617
00:41:58,371 --> 00:42:01,350
I'm going to object to the foundation if
she's not an expert.
618
00:42:01,910 --> 00:42:02,910
She's the same.
619
00:42:04,830 --> 00:42:05,990
This is not blood.
620
00:42:06,170 --> 00:42:06,970
It's just the bottom line.
621
00:42:07,090 --> 00:42:08,090
It's just not blood.
622
00:42:08,290 --> 00:42:11,047
Clearly, it's the nature of the
wood and the natural staining
623
00:42:11,048 --> 00:42:13,850
or the staining of this
particular design or whatever.
624
00:42:14,630 --> 00:42:19,090
There were so many people that had tables
with that stain on it.
625
00:42:19,270 --> 00:42:22,253
Like, this is something you
can go to, you know, Levitt's
626
00:42:22,254 --> 00:42:25,750
Furniture and see a table
with that same stain pattern.
627
00:42:26,750 --> 00:42:30,510
We were inundated with
emails and social media
628
00:42:30,590 --> 00:42:33,510
comments that we have,
oh, I'll send you my table.
629
00:42:34,670 --> 00:42:36,941
The idea that they
all missed it and that
630
00:42:36,942 --> 00:42:39,770
somehow could be blood
is a preposterous idea.
631
00:42:40,170 --> 00:42:42,670
It's simply untrue.
632
00:42:43,570 --> 00:42:46,670
The San Diego Sheriff's Department
investigated.
633
00:42:46,930 --> 00:42:48,026
They were there in the house.
634
00:42:48,050 --> 00:42:52,197
The kicker was, this table was
the table sitting in the middle
635
00:42:52,198 --> 00:42:55,630
of the room that was used as a
command post for the officers.
636
00:42:55,930 --> 00:42:57,490
And they all missed it.
637
00:42:58,790 --> 00:43:02,790
So, prosecution wanting to allow a jury to
speculate that that could be blood,
638
00:43:03,270 --> 00:43:04,610
that's the problem.
639
00:43:04,890 --> 00:43:06,710
And that should not have been allowed.
640
00:43:07,610 --> 00:43:08,910
Clearly, it's not blood.
641
00:43:13,860 --> 00:43:17,640
It's presenting falsehoods intentionally
in front of a jury.
642
00:43:17,641 --> 00:43:19,980
So, it allows them to
speculate on something
643
00:43:19,981 --> 00:43:22,181
that they shouldn't
be speculating about.
644
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:23,860
And there's no evidence to back it up.
645
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,000
It was unethical.
646
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:31,620
I will say that I think Raj Malin,
out of the two of them, probably felt like
647
00:43:31,621 --> 00:43:37,120
the brain power was more than he could
handle.
648
00:43:37,121 --> 00:43:43,280
I definitely think there was probably some
intimidation, at least on his level,
649
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,620
about the brain power on that side.
650
00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:50,740
I think it was blood.
651
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:53,240
I really do.
652
00:43:55,200 --> 00:44:00,060
But what gets me is, for the life of me,
what happened to the table?
653
00:44:01,060 --> 00:44:05,300
When Susan and Michael and him go in to
clean the house up because it's going to
654
00:44:05,301 --> 00:44:08,300
be foreclosed on, what happened to the
table?
655
00:44:08,301 --> 00:44:08,560
A little bit more.
656
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:09,160
I've had...
657
00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:11,580
I've had a lot of the government on this
side, but...
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