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The story you are about to see

was inspired by actual events.

The names have been changed

to protect the innocent.

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Monday.

It was warm in Los Angeles.

Detective Duran and I were working the day shift

out of Robbery-Homicide.

The call came in from the harbor division

at 7:40 a.m.

Commercial fisherman out trolling for yellowtail

hauled up a female body instead.

The Port of Los Angeles is the busiest port in the U.S.

Almost three million containers of cargo

from every corner of the world are offloaded each year.

Just about any man-made product you can think of

comes through it at one time or another.

Homicides are no exception.

My name's Friday.

I'm a cop.

That who found the body?

Saw a bunch of makos feeding on the surface,

brought the boat over to see what the frenzy was about.

Check with the Coast Guard yet?

No one's been reported lost at sea

in the last two weeks.

Maybe she was a swimmer.

Coast Guard doesn't think a riptide

woulda carried her out that far.

He checked the GPS when they hauled her onboard--

about two miles offshore.

Maybe she got dumped.

Is the body over here?

Around the crane, next to the boat.

CI's working on her.

What's left of her.

We call a corpse found in water a "floater."

Case like this, there's no crime scene to work,

no witnesses to talk to,

identification is difficult, sometimes impossible.

You catch a floater,

you got your work cut out for you.

One female torso.

Heavy decomp.

Looks like the sharks took off the legs, arm, and head.

What do you think?

This qualify as catch of the day?

We gonna be able to get a print off the fingers?

I think so.

I'm amazed there are any left.

Shark bite patterns all over the torso.

Looks like a diagonal ligature mark

around the midsection, what do you think?

Weighted down, coulda pulled free

as she decomped.

How long do you think she was in the water?

Hard to tell.

Cold water slows down the decomp.

Best guess.

Outer layers of the skin have separated from the body.

Skin on the remaining hand still looks somewhat intact.

At least a week, maybe two.

RHD taking this one?

Could have originated anywhere along the coast.

Probably hit multiple jurisdictions.

Help me lift her onto the sheet?

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This shark bite, what is that?

Fishing line caught in there?

I don't know.

Looks like sutures.

That's not a shark bite.

That's a C-section.

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Well, I'm ruling it a homicide by unknown cause.

Other than the bite marks and the Cesarean,

I don't see any obvious injury.

What, she didn't drown?

No edema, no congestion of mucus foam in the lungs.

Well, do we have approximate time of death?

Not with a floater like this.

She probably hit the water two weeks ago--

give or take a week.

Well, that narrows it down.

So all we know, we got a Jane Doe

of childbearing age, say 16 to 45.

Sorry, she was in the water too long.

Is there a chance she died from the C-section?

I doubt from the operation itself.

There was blood clotting

and some scar tissue in the uterus.

Means the incision was starting to heal.

She lived after the birth.

Maybe a few days.

This surgery, what kinda work?

Competent.

You don't get surgical thread like that

from your local drug store.

I'll put a rush on the DNA

and try to pull some residual placental tissue

from the uterus,

get a positive ID on the baby.

How long before we get the prints?

We already took the skin from the fingers.

I'll let you know in a couple of hours.

And if we're lucky, she's in the system.

Victim's name's Kathleen Anderson,

she's 24 years old.

Why was she in AFIS?

She was arrested five years ago

for check fraud in Manassas, Virginia.

First offense.

Pled to misdemeanor.

Good start.

NCIC matched her name to a missing person's report

filed in Manassas last month.

At the time, Kathleen was eight months pregnant.

Where are we on the search for the baby?

Nowhere.

We checked area hospitals and birth records,

C-sections, and even abandoned babies.

Nothing on Kathleen Anderson either.

Widen the search.

Get Ventura and Orange County

upset about this.

Most likely the baby got dumped with Kathleen,

so we'll never recover the body.

Well, there's just as good a chance

whoever killed her took the baby.

Maybe even a custody dispute.

Maybe the father's got the kid.

This is what Manassas PD was looking at.

Kathleen had a pretty contentious relationship

with her boyfriend.

Guy beat her up a couple of times.

Pressures of fatherhood, a new baby.

He could have easily lashed out.

Where's the rest?

That's all they got.

I've been trying to follow up,

but the local cops aren't much help over the phone.

Pack a bag.

You and Jimmy are going to Virginia.

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What time we get in?

Six a.m.

We're gonna be dragging ass tomorrow.

We ran her name by the airlines, right?

Hm, seven different Kathleen Andersons

flew into LA in the last month and a half.

All accounted for.

So you think she drove?

What if she did?

Well, Virginia to LA is four days at least.

It's not the kind of trip you take

when you're a month away from having a baby.

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Kathleen ran off without telling anyone.

She'd been fighting with her folks.

Her mother filed the report

outta concern for the baby.

Girl's eight months pregnant and disappears,

that's not suspicious?

Detective Barzak made a thorough inquiry.

Read the report.

She didn't say she was leaving

'cause she didn't want to be found.

Your report states a possible B&E.

Well, the lock on the back door was busted.

But the mother couldn't say when it had happened.

Nothing was taken.

Except maybe Kathleen.

We don't see her disappearance or her murder

as being connected.

They happened a month apart,

different sides of the country.

How about the boyfriend?

Didn't pan out either.

Doug Hess.

Five assaults on record,

two arrests for domestic disturbance.

Threats made against Kathleen.

We need to talk to this guy.

We don't know his current whereabouts.

How hard you lookin'?

Hess had a key to the house.

Why would he bust the lock to get inside?

He was at his brother's when she took off.

The brother backed it up?

If Hess is gone, he's in violation

of his parole, correct?

We have a warrant for his arrest.

I'll put you in touch with his PO.

We don't have a lot of time,

so we should get started with our interviews.

Miss...

It's Detective Duran.

Detective, I was just going to say

if there's anything else you need.

Directions to Kathleen's house.

Kathleen loved California.

It was glamorous, I guess.

She said you could see the Hollywood sign

from her apartment.

I didn't know Kathleen lived in LA.

Moved out there four years ago.

She didn't like being home much.

But she eventually came home?

In July.

Six months pregnant.

Doug had gone out to visit her over New Year's

and what do ya know?

She said it was his baby and she's keeping it.

Doug Hess?

Are you really sure it's her?

We made the ID off her fingerprints.

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She was having a boy.

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Eight days ago it was her due date.

Did you f...

We still don't know what happened to the baby.

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We always argued, that's why she moved.

Do you think she left on her own last month

or with Doug Hess?

I don't know.

She took some clothes.

Probably went with Doug.

Their relationship was always up and down.

It sounds strange to say now,

but Doug loved her.

Do you think he could have hurt Kathleen?

That's what love does.

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Haven't seen my brother in a month.

He skips on his parole, that's his problem.

Think he's with Kathleen?

Wherever she goes, he usually follows.

Doug's wrapped around her little finger.

You didn't like her.

She only got him into trouble.

I think he did okay on his own.

Five assaults on his sheet,

18 months in jail.

His brother's got a temper.

You know what he was always fighting over?

It was always Kathleen.

Look, I already got two kids,

I don't need a third.

So if he beat her up, just throw his ass into jail.

It'll do him some good.

We're investigating Kathleen's murder.

We need to speak to Doug.

I tried getting him straight.

I even got him a job here doing Bondo.

He throws it in my face and takes off.

Do you know where he is?

Los Angeles.

He said he was staying in some motel.

Name?

I don't know, The Rose something.

Well, next time you speak to him,

tell him we're looking for him.

It's better if he turns himself in.

Hey, uh, just in case you catch up with him first,

just so you know,

he, uh... he's got my gun.

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Hey.

How was your trip?

Called Friday before I got on the plane.

Hess is staying at a motel.

I already found him.

Wow, I'm impressed.

Nothin' but a little detective work.

He's stayin' at The Purple Rose Motel

in Lincoln Heights.

SIS is watching him.

He's in his room right now.

Virginia faxed the warrant abstract.

I want you to grab Hess for the parole violation.

Told you he might be armed, right?

SIS will assist.

It's going down now?

Right now.

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Manager says Hess checked in a couple of weeks ago alone.

He couldn't identify Kathleen from the photo.

Has he seen Hess with a baby?

Saw him taking a carrier into the room.

Should assume he has the kid.

He's in room 17.

We also got people in rooms 16 and 18.

Let's call them from the manager's office

and get 'em ready.

We'll clear the collaterals first.

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I got him!

LAPD!

- Don't move! - All right, all right.

Keep your hands-- put your hands up.

Hands up.

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I didn't do anything, man!

I didn't do anything!

Shut up!

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Hey, guys!

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I love Kathleen.

Well, love makes you do stupid things.

Yeah, well, I didn't do anything.

Come on, you like to smack her around, right?

Kathleen says she's having your baby,

she disappears, and turns up dead in LA.

Then we find you, also in LA,

with a .357 and a baby cradle.

Know what we think?

We think it's a double homicide.

What do you mean "double"?

You guys saying my kid's dead?

You tell us.

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I got kids, man.

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Scariest time of my life

was when the first one was on the way.

I felt trapped.

Didn't know if I could make it work.

The wife and I were fighting.

Pregnant girls are crazy.

- Makes you crazy. - I said I didn't do anything!

Kathleen make you mad like this?

Screw you.

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We can hang all night.

I get paid--

She got pissed off

because I broke her mom's television.

I figured she came out to LA.

That's why I have the carriage.

She's having my baby.

I came to get him back.

What happened when you found her?

I never did find her.

You were looking somewhere.

Well, she said she hung out with some rich guy named Leon

or something.

I asked around, nobody'd ever heard of him.

I had no other choice.

That's why I'm here.

I came to bring my kid back.

Waste of time.

We got no TOD, no way to check an alibi.

He's not coppin' to the murder.

Let him stew, we got him on that parole jump.

He's not going anywhere.

I checked out Kathleen's old apartment.

Her manager said she always paid on time

and didn't leave much of an impression

on her neighbors.

Anything from the motel room?

No prints.

Ballistics said that gun hasn't been fired

in a long time.

And no leads off your interview?

He mentioned a name, Leon.

That's about it.

You talk to him about the baby?

He says he doesn't know.

I believe him.

Kathleen's body was dumped miles out to sea.

No way that idiot got his hands on a boat.

Doesn't play for me.

I gotta agree.

The photos from the mother.

There's a picture of Kathleen on a yacht.

She knew somebody who could have dumped her body.

Okay, run with that for now.

See if SID can enhance that photo.

Give us a place to start looking.

There's not much in the background

that tells you exactly where this is,

but keep your eye on the window of the boat behind her.

A registration number.

Part of one.

I pulled up a list of boats

registered to DMV with this number.

There's about 130 of them.

Well, there's gotta be a way to narrow down the list.

Tell me what you know.

All right, uh,

it's not a sailboat.

Not bad--can you lose the boats

not docked in LA or Long Beach?

All right, and the one in the photo looks to me

like it's on the larger side.

I'll drop any vessels shorter than 20 feet.

What's the name on this one?

Alice Tate.

She owns a 42-footer called the Panacea.

Panacea?

Means the cure for all ills.

Whatever.

This is for a murder investigation?

Do you know a woman named Kathleen Anderson?

No, no, I've never seen her.

Alice, come on, get off the phone,

we're gonna be late.

It's the police, Leon, asking about your boat.

What's going on?

I'd like to know.

Kathleen Anderson, do you know her?

Leon, was she on the boat?

How the hell would I know?

I've never seen her before in my life.

Maybe someone else took your boat out.

Well, uh, some buddies and I,

we go raftin' up in Catalina,

raft-up with other boats.

People hop around, it's a bit of a party.

Maybe she was there, I don't know.

Think you might remember the name of the other boats?

Not really, uh, it's a different group every time.

Look, we're late for a thing, is that it?

Thanks for your time.

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Yeah, he and his wife bought that boat

two years ago.

Way I hear it, his first time outside the break water,

Alice has half a glass of wine,

blows lunch over the rail,

and never sets foot on it again.

But he likes it.

With all those trips out to Catalina.

Knows his aft from his stern.

Tate go out on his boat lately?

Last time I saw him was two weeks ago

washing down the deck.

I don't know if he went out though.

When he did, did he usually go alone?

We hear it's lonely out at sea.

Without the wife around.

Leon always introduced them as "real estate clients."

All women?

Look, it was obviously no secret.

Around here, what a man does in his boat

is his own business, know what I mean?

Was, uh, this one of his clients?

Oh yeah.

Seen her quite a bit.

- Kathleen. - That's right.

Last time I saw her was about six months ago.

She and Leon sailed to Catalina together,

next day she came back on another boat.

So the relationship ended?

Never saw her again.

To be honest, Leon probably dodged a bullet.

Why is that?

Kathleen.

You know the type.

Snags a rich guy,

never lets go.

What's the guy's story?

His father-in-law owns Bolin Real Estate.

I've heard of it.

Bolin put his son-in-law on the payroll

and Tate dazzled him.

And now he's the obvious choice to take over.

But if the wife found out about the affair--

Or the illegitimate child.

There's no way the old man's gonna side with him

in the divorce.

Means and motive.

He wasn't lying for his wife's sake.

He was covering up a murder.

Or two.

At this point, we have any real reason to believe

the baby's still alive?

We don't know.

We gotta keep looking.

Warrant the boat.

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We're almost done.

Bagged a bunch of different hairs,

not much else.

Luminoled the deck and interior.

Lifted the carpet.

Not a molecule of blood.

What about the rest of it?

Well, no obvious signs of struggle,

nothing's out of place.

It's no smoking gun.

Finish up, come on back.

All right.

*

Tate's lawyer is all over your search on the boat.

Let him be pissed.

Maybe something'll flush out.

You can push to a point.

When he starts calling it harassment,

you better make sure our PC's strong.

This guy must have some friends.

It's rolling from the top down.

Don't bust my balls, Joe.

We know our victim was sleeping with Tate.

She's three months along, carrying his kid,

he tells her to take a hike.

She moves back east, she tells her ex-boyfriend

the kid is his.

So, it's pickup trucks instead of sailboats

and she's not happy.

I'm thinking she runs back to LA

a couple of months later,

confronts Tate about the baby,

probably gives him an ultimatum.

How much of that story can you prove?

Not enough yet.

I wanna talk to the guy.

An interrogation room's the last place

you'll ever see him.

I wanna call his attorney,

invite Tate down here,

tell him we wanna...

clear up the misunderstanding.

My client is here to help,

that's all.

Your lieutenant assured me he's not a suspect.

The questions will reflect that

or I will end the interview.

At your house, you said you'd never seen Kathleen Anderson.

Listen, I love my wife.

I regret the affair.

That's why I broke it off six months ago,

and for the record, I never spoke to Kathleen again.

How'd she take the breakup?

Not well.

But, uh, she didn't have a choice.

What about the baby?

She told you it was yours, right?

Okay, look, we'll take a break here, I think, for a second.

That's okay, Marc.

Yeah.

Kathleen told me she was pregnant.

What did she want?

- Money. - How much?

Fifty grand.

She blackmailed you?

If that surprises you,

you obviously didn't know Kathleen.

She wasn't screwing me for love.

So you paid her off.

I gave her ten grand.

told her to get an abortion and go away.

Never heard from her again.

She gave up that easy?

Don't attach motive to my client.

Maybe I did have a motive.

So what?

I didn't kill Kathleen.

Even when she threatened to tell your wife?

All right, interview's over.

You would have lost your meal ticket.

Sit, I got nothin' to hide.

Then tell us.

You were out in the middle of the ocean,

nobody around for miles, she was crying.

Maybe I thought about it.

And?

And that's it.

Let's go.

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Guy's cocky.

He knows we don't have anything.

What I just heard sounded like a confession.

Joe!

I got the lab work back.

You need to take a look.

What?

DNA results on Kathleen Anderson.

I pulled some tissue from the uterus

to get a positive ID on the baby.

There's no genetic link.

Kathleen and her baby are not related.

How is that possible?

She's carrying someone else's child.

Kathleen was a surrogate mother.

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Tate doesn't know about the surrogacy.

He thought the baby was his at the time.

I still say he's our best suspect.

Between Tate and the boyfriend,

it seems a lot of guys think she was having their kid.

So maybe she decided to keep the baby.

Single mother, needed a father.

She's after the money.

What do we see with her bank account?

Three different checking accounts

with three different banks.

All inactive and empty.

I don't see her stuffing her mattress.

Keep looking.

About a dozen fertility clinics in LA

offer some sort of surrogacy service.

Any hits with our victim?

Medical records are sealed.

They won't even say if she was a patient.

Then make the rounds.

It's the best shot we have of finding this kid.

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Kathleen used to be registered with us

as a surrogate mother.

Used to be?

The pregnancy was unsuccessful.

She dropped out of the program.

Her last visit was over a year ago.

We know she became a surrogate for somebody.

Not through our clinic.

We'd like to talk to the couple

she first contracted with.

Absolutely not.

Even off the record?

I'm sorry, but there are larger issues here.

There's an enormous amount of trust placed on our service.

I can't violate confidentiality.

Maybe you could call and ask them--

No.

Ms. Santos,

do you understand the potential

for bad publicity with a case like this?

It's something we'd all like to avoid.

Is that a threat?

It's a fact.

If she passed your psych evaluation

to become a candidate,

your clinic wouldn't look too good.

Kathleen wasn't the kind of person

I think you want to be protecting.

We appreciate you coming in.

When the clinic called and told us about Kathleen,

I insisted we talk to you.

We were matched with Kathleen

about a year and a half ago.

She had a good medical history,

she seemed emotionally stable.

Seemed?

Her video interview was great.

We hit it off right away.

It's like we were sisters.

How much did you pay Kathleen

to become the surrogate?

$25,000 for the service.

Then a week after we signed the contract,

Kathleen called us in tears

and told us that she was about to be evicted.

Four thousand dollars.

And that wasn't it?

She took us for about another ten grand

before it was all over.

You sound a little resentful.

It was the right thing to do.

We helped someone we cared about.

Kathleen miscarried in the tenth week.

You didn't try again?

She said the emotional toll of the miscarriage

was hard on her.

It was hard on all of us.

We are not wealthy people.

Kathleen took advantage.

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If a couple can't have a baby,

I don't know, I think it's sad.

If I can help,

you know, that's just the kind of person I am.

I understand how it is to want what you can't have;

to want it so bad.

That's why choosing a surrogate must be so hard.

The parents have to totally trust the person.

I mean, they're sharing a part of their deepest hope.

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Slick.

Definitely said all the right things.

Why didn't she carry the first pregnancy to term?

The Tanners admitted Kathleen stretched 'em financially.

I wouldn't be surprised if she aborted that baby.

The well ran dry, she cut bait and moves on.

Then did it again.

With someone else.

We found a savings account for Kathleen

under the name K.H. Anderson.

In the last year, there were a total of 11 payments

made to her from an escrow account.

- How much? - Almost $75,000.

I'd call that a living.

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Who paid?

Trustee on the account named Alan R. Sperry.

He's a lawyer up in Glendale.

Well, agencies use unfair and arbitrary standards.

Folks get rejected and they come here.

Surrogate mothers love me,

I get 'em more money.

Rent a womb.

I don't know, sounds like baby selling to me.

It's a lucrative line of law,

there's nothing wrong with that.

Name of the parents?

Carl and Amy Savitsky.

See, he's a doctor, she's a head case.

Real emotional.

Hm, contract's in dispute.

What kind of dispute?

Well, the surrogate mother, Kathleen Anderson,

took off six months into the pregnancy.

Moved to Virginia, said she was keeping the baby.

So what'd you do?

Well, nothing.

You let Kathleen steal that kid?

Hey, Virginia law doesn't recognize surrogacy contracts.

I mean, they don't care if the birth mother

and the kid are even related.

Deal was off.

So if she had the baby in Virginia,

legally, the baby's hers.

And there's nothing the parents could do?

So, Kathleen skips town with the Savitskys' baby

after they've already paid her $75,000.

She was making bank extorting these people,

and if they tried to cut off the money?

Going to Virginia gives her a serious leverage.

And Savitskys probably lost their minds.

Enough to kill her?

Well, if it was one of my kids...

Right.

Call Friday.

Lieutenant Joe Friday, LAPD.

Are you Dr. Carl Savitsky?

She's dead?

When's the last time you saw Kathleen?

Uh...

about four months ago at the OB/GYN.

Right after the appointment, she called our lawyer,

said she wasn't giving us our child.

You contacted the police?

The police, FBI.

They said it was a civil issue.

The civil court said it was a criminal matter.

Our lawyer said that legally our hands are tied.

You fear this could happen using a surrogate.

You just...

you don't think.

Where's your wife?

She's visiting relatives out of town.

You can mimic the emotion,

the attitude,

but sometimes it's what you don't say

that gives you away.

We took some time to ourselves.

Savitsky forgot to ask about the fate of his child.

It told me one thing.

They already had the baby.

You know...

You're a doctor?

Dermatologist.

Ever deliver a baby?

A straightforward question for a doctor,

but he reacted like a criminal.

Uh...

I assisted when I was a resident.

Do you mind if we look around the house?

Actually, it's not a good time right now,

but if we could do it later maybe?

Dr. Savitsky, you and your wife

are suspects in this investigation.

Now, if you're refusing to cooperate...

I think I should call my lawyer.

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How'd the canvas go?

Well, neighbor thought she heard some screams

in the middle of the night a couple weeks ago.

Woman across the street said she saw the Savitskys

with a baby.

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There's a nursery down the hall.

Hasn't been used.

Found a bunch of medical equipment in the garage,

couple IV stands, cautery clamps, all clean.

Should check out Cooper upstairs.

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Find any blood?

Nothing.

We checked the entire room.

SID even pulled all the drain traps

from the bathroom.

But...

shutters are nailed shut.

Deadbolt on the door,

locks from the outside.

He could have held Kathleen in here.

Ditched the mattress because of the blood.

Scrubbed things down.

Birth happened in this room.

*

Your wife has the baby, where is she?

Don't say anything.

Arrest him.

You're not taking my son.

I'll hold that for my client.

Cell phone's evidence.

You have no grounds for that, Detective.

Made a local call nine times in a row.

Trace it.

*

Step out of the car, Ms. Savitsky.

Step outta the car.

Open the door or we'll force entry.

Please, you can't take him.

It's going to be all right, just open the car.

It's gonna be okay, just step outta the car.

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All right, I got him.

All right, I got him.

I got him, it's gonna be okay.

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I got him.

I got him.

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My baby!

Don't--

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Found an 18-foot fishing boat

docked in Marina del Rey

registered to a Dr. Savitsky.

Gotta be how he dumped the body.

SID's been working on it all morning.

They say it's clean.

Found gas receipts that put Savitsky in Virginia

at the time Kathleen disappeared.

So he grabs her in Virginia, drives her back to LA,

and holds her till she's ready to have the baby.

So where's all the evidence that proves murder?

Everything we've got is circumstantial.

With passion kills people make mistakes.

This was thought out.

Planned.

Do you really see Savitsky as a cold-blooded killer?

I see everyone as a killer...

potentially.

So what's our next move?

Gotta be something he missed.

Tear the house up.

*

We pulled up the carpets, paddings, and floorboards

in that bedroom.

They've covered the entire house too.

What'd I tell you?

The Savitskys planned carefully.

No evidence at all.

Unless you wanna spend the entire decade

searching the dump for a bag of bloody gauze.

There's nothing on it, Joe.

We know that, they don't.

Dr. Savitsky's already gonna lose his medical license

and his practice.

As he should.

My clients are willing to plead to involuntary manslaughter.

Cleaned up real well, but you missed a spot.

That's enough evidence for a first-degree murder conviction.

We also found your boat, Doctor.

I imagine that's how you dumped the body.

Whatever evidence you have

only proves my clients' innocence.

Where does kidnapping fit in?

Kathleen was the kidnapper.

She stole our baby and then threatened us.

Kathleen was never held against her will.

Dr. Savitsky brought her back to LA

to deliver the child, as per the contract.

She returned willingly.

They locked her in a bedroom.

Item 8 stipulates the birth was to occur

at a place of the intended parents' choosing.

They chose home birth at their own residence.

This contract wouldn't hold up in TV court,

not after what's happened.

Kathleen agreed to it.

Did she agree to a forcible C-section?

I had to do the surgery.

They both woulda died.

Kathleen's life had to be risked.

And there was no malice in that decision?

Look, I get one parent on the jury,

my clients walk.

Dr. Savitsky tried to save the life

of his own child.

It's kidnapping and murder.

We'll see you at the trial.

Here's a phone call Kathleen made from Virginia.

You'll wanna listen to it.

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Kathleen, Kathleen, listen to me.

We want our child.

And I told you what I want.

We're not giving you any more money!

Well, you've paid half,

do you want half a baby?

Why are you doing this?

This isn't easy for me either, Carl.

Sometimes I'd rather be dead than be pregnant another day.

Is that what you want?

You want me to kill myself?

Damn.

Gives you motive.

Gives you sympathy.

Crime's too heinous.

Hey, if I was Savitsky--

You'd commit murder?

We're all capable.

Just a matter of getting the right button pushed.

Your own kid's one hell of a button.

Well, whether or not the threat was real,

she was terrorizing them.

You gonna meet their offer?

We have no evidence and they're gonna find that out real fast.

They aren't calling our bluff yet.

Savitsky says he tried to save Kathleen's life.

Let's find out if he really did.

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The umbilical was prolapsed,

it was knotted up pretty bad.

He went bradycardic in the birth canal.

And that's when you elected to perform the Cesarean?

I had blood and a bunch of things I'd borrowed

from the hospital.

I gave her two 18-gauge IVs,

LR solution,

washed her stomach with betadine.

Anesthesia?

A hundred mgs of Demerol through the IV.

A local on her abdomen,

a one percent lidocaine with epinephrine,

one to one thousand dilution.

She wasn't feeling any pain.

Take me through the surgery.

I cut a 15-centimeter incision,

I injected more local along the way

to stem the bleeding.

Was she bleeding badly?

Not really, no.

Uh, I sealed off the incision with a cautery.

Uh, cut into the uterus,

extracted the baby,

clamped and transected the cord.

How did he look?

Beautiful.

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Apgar was about a seven.

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He was a little blue, but he pinked up fast.

His mom took him away and cleaned him up.

And then?

I pulled out the placenta, packed the uterus with gauze

until I had adequate hemostasis.

Removed that, irrigated with saline,

checked it again and it looked good,

so... I closed.

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She was doing fine.

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She hemorrhaged 48 hours later.

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It was the middle of the night, it...

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By the time I realized she was gone...

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Why are we pushing so hard to get these people?

Do I need to answer that?

I mean, this doctor's a nice guy

if you forget he killed a woman.

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Put him and his wife away,

you might as well put the kid in prison too.

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From what I can still see here,

he did exactly what he said.

Then why'd she die?

Look, there's always a chance of hemorrhaging.

That could have happened to her in a hospital.

You believe him?

The autopsy doesn't show any other COD.

If she'd gotten septic because he left some gauze behind,

I would have seen a high white cell count.

We have any proof Savitsky isn't telling the truth?

I honestly can't tell you whether she hemorrhaged or not,

the decomp's too advanced.

So it's his word against a dead woman's?

Yup.

Had a feeling you'd reconsider.

Voluntary manslaughter.

They both do 10 to 20.

You heard that tape,

my clients are the true victims here.

They had other options.

Tell it to a jury, lieutenant.

I'll go to prison.

Just hold on a minute.

I'll go.

But only if Amy doesn't have to.

I want my wife to raise our son,

not some foster home.

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You can have me.

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Honor his terms,

Dr. Savitsky does three years.

I can't do that.

Yes you can.

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Involuntary manslaughter, five to ten.

Amy gets probation.

I'll make a strong recommendation

to social services for her to retain custody of the child.

We'll take it.

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Okay.

Deal.

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You did the right thing.

We had no evidence.

Best we could get.

I don't care why you did it.

That kid needs a mother.

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You never wanna believe good people can do bad things.

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The Savitskys didn't go looking for a crime.

The crime came looking for them.

Four months later, the call came in.

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Three fishermen found a skull.

With a bullet hole.

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I heard about the shark.

How 'bout that?

My lawyer says you can't retry me for her murder.

That's right.

Then why are you here?

Had another interview.

Came to see how you were doin'.

Yeah?

She wasn't gonna give him back, you know?

Not without more money.

That's why I went to Virginia.

To kidnap her.

To rescue my son.

Why'd you kill her?

After the birth, I asked her

if she was gonna leave us alone.

She laughed at me

and she said that she was gonna go to the police

and that they were gonna take away my son.

How'd you get her on the boat?

I gave her Demerol.

Uh, got her woozy.

Middle of the night, I told her I was taking her

to the hospital.

After, I threw the gun in the ocean and I...

went home to my wife and my baby.

Just like that?

No.

It was horrible.

I didn't have a choice.

Maybe not.

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I'm not a bad man, lieutenant.

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It's goin' okay in here?

I'm all right.

I work at the infirmary.

Every weekend I get to see my wife and my boy.

He's gettin' big.

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You know, if I make parole,

I should be out in time for his first day of kindergarten.

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Amy Savitsky pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter

and was sentenced to five years formal probation

as part of her plea agreement.

After a review by Child Protective Services,

she was granted custody of her child.

Carl Savitsky is currently serving

five to ten years for involuntary manslaughter

at the California State Prison in Centinela.

Despite new evidence suggesting

the premeditated murder of Kathleen Anderson,

double jeopardy precludes a new trial.

Carl Savitsky is eligible for parole in five years.

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