1 00:00:02,602 --> 00:00:05,867 In the criminal justice system, the people are represented 2 00:00:05,905 --> 00:00:08,305 by two separate yet equally important groups... 3 00:00:08,341 --> 00:00:10,206 the police who investigate crime, 4 00:00:10,243 --> 00:00:13,212 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:13,246 --> 00:00:15,077 These are their stories. 6 00:00:16,282 --> 00:00:18,216 Mrs. Schwinger, bag on the fourth floor, 7 00:00:18,251 --> 00:00:20,481 has been complaining three times a day. 8 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,683 So it's slow. What's her rush, anyway? 9 00:00:23,723 --> 00:00:26,556 - It's not the controls. - Gears? 10 00:00:26,593 --> 00:00:28,686 Or the brakes jamming. It's probably kids. 11 00:00:28,728 --> 00:00:30,423 Bozos call it elevator surfing. 12 00:00:30,463 --> 00:00:33,955 Ride the tops, jump from one to the other. Give me your flashlight. 13 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,560 I just don't want any lawsuits. 14 00:00:38,171 --> 00:00:41,402 I been here 12 years. Never opened. 15 00:00:42,776 --> 00:00:45,472 I'm going to have to take it down to the basement. 16 00:00:45,512 --> 00:00:47,980 Lower it slow. 17 00:00:49,015 --> 00:00:52,507 - You Local 196? - Wouldn't work if I wasn't. 18 00:00:52,552 --> 00:00:55,112 My brother-in-law, 20 years of dues. 19 00:00:55,155 --> 00:00:57,851 - Now he's in St. Thomas... - Oh my God! 20 00:00:58,858 --> 00:01:00,849 Stop the damn thing! 21 00:01:08,968 --> 00:01:10,731 Now this is very preliminary. 22 00:01:10,770 --> 00:01:13,295 - We're listening. - Death by strangulation. 23 00:01:13,339 --> 00:01:16,502 Looks like a wire. Pre-mortem cuts and abrasions on the face. 24 00:01:16,543 --> 00:01:20,104 - So she fought back. - I bagged her hands in case there's anything under her nails. 25 00:01:20,146 --> 00:01:23,638 She's partially out of rigor. Say she's been dead 24 to 36 hours. 26 00:01:23,683 --> 00:01:25,742 Monday night. 27 00:01:25,785 --> 00:01:27,548 Mr. Hellman? 28 00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:30,982 Have you ever seen her before? 29 00:01:31,024 --> 00:01:33,424 Yeah. Judy Bream. 3B. 30 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:35,155 She live alone? 31 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:37,686 - Yeah, alone. - Here's what I want you to do. 32 00:01:37,730 --> 00:01:40,130 First, I want you to let those men into Judy's apartment, 33 00:01:40,166 --> 00:01:42,634 then later I'm going to have some questions for you. 34 00:01:42,669 --> 00:01:44,534 Yeah. 35 00:01:44,571 --> 00:01:47,438 This sound familiar? Young woman, nude, 36 00:01:47,474 --> 00:01:49,965 strangled with wire, duct tape on her face, 37 00:01:50,009 --> 00:01:52,102 body tossed like garbage? 38 00:01:52,145 --> 00:01:54,636 East River Park, six months ago. 39 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:56,615 Same guy? Could be. 40 00:01:56,649 --> 00:01:59,982 That'd be number two in a series of... 41 00:02:00,019 --> 00:02:02,351 It depends on how late in his game we're coming in. 42 00:03:39,052 --> 00:03:40,986 She was a grad student at Columbia. 43 00:03:41,020 --> 00:03:43,648 Some kind of ancient history, I think. 44 00:03:43,690 --> 00:03:46,056 Moved in about a year and a half ago. 45 00:03:46,092 --> 00:03:50,153 Her family lives in Hartford. Old man co-signed the lease. 46 00:03:50,196 --> 00:03:52,596 What kind of tenant was she? A doll. 47 00:03:52,632 --> 00:03:54,862 If they were all like her... 48 00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:57,961 - What about boyfriends? - I don't keep track. 49 00:03:58,004 --> 00:04:00,029 Anyway, when you're young and beautiful, 50 00:04:00,073 --> 00:04:01,870 who wants to be alone? 51 00:04:01,908 --> 00:04:03,842 Tell me about this building, okay? 52 00:04:03,876 --> 00:04:06,106 Anybody hanging around who didn't belong? 53 00:04:06,145 --> 00:04:08,306 On the Upper West Side? You want 'em all, 54 00:04:08,348 --> 00:04:10,873 or just the ones that talk to themselves? 55 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:15,486 No sign of forcible entry. 56 00:04:15,521 --> 00:04:18,115 Must've been somebody she knew or expected. 57 00:04:18,157 --> 00:04:20,148 There's nothing about it in here. 58 00:04:20,193 --> 00:04:23,720 This whole week's marked off as being in Connecticut. 59 00:04:23,763 --> 00:04:26,254 Her folks live in Hartford. 60 00:04:26,299 --> 00:04:29,393 Last couple of months, two doctors visits, 61 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:31,835 a paper, three exams, 62 00:04:31,871 --> 00:04:33,862 one potluck dinner. 63 00:04:35,108 --> 00:04:37,099 Found it on the floor near the bed. 64 00:04:37,143 --> 00:04:39,304 Wrapper for a Polaroid cartridge. 65 00:04:39,345 --> 00:04:41,745 - She have a camera? - Didn't find one. 66 00:04:41,781 --> 00:04:44,249 Think our boy is a shutterbug? 67 00:04:44,284 --> 00:04:47,310 Some are. Helps them to remember the good times. 68 00:04:53,026 --> 00:04:55,051 Let's hope this is a coincidence. 69 00:04:55,094 --> 00:04:58,154 I don't think so. We turned up a third vic three months ago in Queens. 70 00:04:58,197 --> 00:05:00,791 All three taped, strangled, 71 00:05:00,833 --> 00:05:02,391 pfft... tossed. 72 00:05:02,435 --> 00:05:05,495 - Rape? - No evidence of penetration. 73 00:05:05,538 --> 00:05:08,735 Three kills in six months. Slow but consistent. 74 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:10,868 Oh, man. 75 00:05:12,812 --> 00:05:14,404 All right, 76 00:05:14,447 --> 00:05:17,007 nothing to encourage this guy to pick up the pace. 77 00:05:17,050 --> 00:05:18,950 No press. I want to keep this off the books. 78 00:05:18,985 --> 00:05:21,351 Anything you need, you come directly to me. 79 00:05:21,387 --> 00:05:23,821 Did he leave us anything at all to go on? 80 00:05:23,856 --> 00:05:27,383 Autopsy report... 81 00:05:27,427 --> 00:05:29,622 says digestion on her stomach contents 82 00:05:29,662 --> 00:05:32,893 puts the time of death between 7:00 and 8:00 Monday night. 83 00:05:32,932 --> 00:05:35,332 Other than that, we got nada. 84 00:05:35,368 --> 00:05:37,427 No prints, no fluids, no hairs. 85 00:05:37,470 --> 00:05:39,495 Regular Angel of Death. 86 00:05:39,539 --> 00:05:43,066 The last one, Judy Bream, he tossed her down the elevator shaft. 87 00:05:43,109 --> 00:05:44,406 And? 88 00:05:44,444 --> 00:05:48,847 - You need a special key. - Elevator repairmen, firemen, electricians... 89 00:05:48,881 --> 00:05:51,782 So that narrows it down to what, about 100,000 suspects? 90 00:05:51,818 --> 00:05:53,911 Hey, the guys in Brooklyn were lucky, huh? 91 00:05:53,953 --> 00:05:55,944 They got the Son of Sam on parking tickets. 92 00:05:55,988 --> 00:05:58,616 Yeah, six months and six bodies later. 93 00:06:00,626 --> 00:06:02,685 What? 94 00:06:02,729 --> 00:06:05,220 Yeah. Thanks. 95 00:06:07,233 --> 00:06:09,326 The Breams are outside. 96 00:06:10,503 --> 00:06:12,903 - You want to do it in here? - No. 97 00:06:12,939 --> 00:06:14,964 Let's take an interrogation room. 98 00:06:24,317 --> 00:06:28,253 I told her she'd be safer in one of the university residences. 99 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:31,984 But... she knew better. 100 00:06:32,024 --> 00:06:34,322 Had to have her own place. 101 00:06:36,195 --> 00:06:39,062 Judy was never afraid of anything. 102 00:06:39,098 --> 00:06:41,293 Not even as a child. 103 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:47,571 We know that Judy was supposed to spend the week with you. 104 00:06:48,875 --> 00:06:51,309 Was there any reason that those plans were changed? 105 00:06:51,344 --> 00:06:53,471 She got a call... 106 00:06:53,513 --> 00:06:55,879 Sunday afternoon up at our house. 107 00:06:55,915 --> 00:06:59,646 Someone... connected with her building. 108 00:07:00,953 --> 00:07:04,252 I- I heard her call him Mr. Cook. 109 00:07:04,290 --> 00:07:06,349 Uh... 110 00:07:06,392 --> 00:07:08,223 some work had to be done. 111 00:07:09,729 --> 00:07:11,629 Do you know what kind of work? 112 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,866 Something electrical. 113 00:07:16,903 --> 00:07:18,894 With the wiring. 114 00:07:27,914 --> 00:07:29,905 They had to move the furniture. 115 00:07:31,250 --> 00:07:33,309 At least that's what Judy said. 116 00:07:36,923 --> 00:07:39,118 Would Judy have told the building manager 117 00:07:39,158 --> 00:07:40,989 how to reach her up in Connecticut? 118 00:07:41,027 --> 00:07:44,087 No, she didn't have to. Calls were forwarded. 119 00:07:45,431 --> 00:07:48,730 Her phone, was it... was it listed? 120 00:07:50,603 --> 00:07:52,093 No. 121 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:55,931 I thought it would be safer. 122 00:07:57,944 --> 00:08:00,071 All three were killed in their apartments. 123 00:08:00,112 --> 00:08:03,013 But the first two were dumped at least a half a mile away, 124 00:08:03,049 --> 00:08:05,711 while Judy Bream was left in her building. Why? 125 00:08:05,751 --> 00:08:08,345 He's in a rush. Couldn't get her out of the building. 126 00:08:08,387 --> 00:08:11,015 It would be easier to leave them in their apartments. 127 00:08:11,057 --> 00:08:13,184 He does it, Phil. It's got to mean something. 128 00:08:13,226 --> 00:08:15,353 What? Power? Degradation? 129 00:08:15,394 --> 00:08:18,056 - A sense of finality? - Okay, thanks. 130 00:08:18,097 --> 00:08:20,361 Well, if this guy knew these girls, 131 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:22,526 it wasn't because he changed their fuses. 132 00:08:22,568 --> 00:08:26,095 Their buildings were serviced by three different electrical contractors. 133 00:08:26,138 --> 00:08:28,106 There's got to be a connection somewhere. 134 00:08:28,140 --> 00:08:31,109 He picks these girls. Volunteer work. 135 00:08:31,143 --> 00:08:33,543 Judy Bream did three hours a week 136 00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:36,047 at the Stuart Counseling Center in the Bronx. 137 00:08:36,082 --> 00:08:38,710 Debra Beckett did United Way every Christmas, 138 00:08:38,751 --> 00:08:40,719 couple of times a year at a soup kitchen. 139 00:08:40,753 --> 00:08:42,721 Sandy Markham, no charity work. 140 00:08:42,755 --> 00:08:44,382 Lots of political. 141 00:08:44,423 --> 00:08:46,823 Canvassed for Senator Peppino in '90. 142 00:08:48,094 --> 00:08:51,393 Registered "Not Interested." 143 00:08:51,430 --> 00:08:53,421 State politics in Connecticut. 144 00:08:53,466 --> 00:08:54,899 Sport club membership, 145 00:08:54,934 --> 00:08:57,095 Columbia Athletic, racquetball every day. 146 00:08:57,136 --> 00:08:59,570 Mine goes to the downtown "Y." 147 00:08:59,605 --> 00:09:01,505 Not a jock. 148 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:05,500 Repeated visits to a Dr. Phillip Banks, OB/G YN. 149 00:09:05,545 --> 00:09:07,172 Who? 150 00:09:07,213 --> 00:09:09,010 Phillip Banks. 151 00:09:10,883 --> 00:09:14,717 You got... you got Bream's appointment book? 152 00:09:20,226 --> 00:09:21,921 She was seeing a doctor. 153 00:09:23,896 --> 00:09:25,830 In November. 154 00:09:28,401 --> 00:09:31,370 November 24th, Dr. P. Banks, 9:00 AM. 155 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:32,928 What about your Queens lady? 156 00:09:39,078 --> 00:09:41,546 She... crap, it's not a match. 157 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:44,877 Dr. Charles Cohen, Forest Hills. 158 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:47,408 Still, we got two out of three, guys. 159 00:09:49,255 --> 00:09:51,086 It's worth a look. 160 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:57,054 Well, Marcus Welby he's not. 161 00:09:57,096 --> 00:09:59,064 One assault charge three years ago. 162 00:09:59,098 --> 00:10:01,066 He pleaded down to a misdemeanor. 163 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,068 Complainant was his ex-wife. 164 00:10:03,102 --> 00:10:04,467 Dig this... 165 00:10:04,503 --> 00:10:08,098 broke her jaw during a marriage counseling session. 166 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:10,404 This man is a lover and a fighter. 167 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:13,571 The AMA has received over a dozen complaints against Banks. 168 00:10:13,613 --> 00:10:15,672 Former patients, their husbands. 169 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:18,343 The doc likes to play around while his patients are in the stirrups. 170 00:10:18,384 --> 00:10:20,011 He still has a license? 171 00:10:20,052 --> 00:10:23,112 Protect thine own. The AMA refused to pursue. 172 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:31,092 I just know what I read in the papers. 173 00:10:31,130 --> 00:10:32,927 City's going straight to hell. 174 00:10:32,965 --> 00:10:35,092 She'd been your patient for long? 175 00:10:35,134 --> 00:10:39,230 First appointment was February. Routine pelvic. 176 00:10:39,271 --> 00:10:40,829 You ever ask her out? 177 00:10:42,475 --> 00:10:45,137 Debra Beckett, she was your patient, too, right? 178 00:10:45,177 --> 00:10:47,771 What the hell are you getting at? 179 00:10:47,813 --> 00:10:51,078 Two of your patients have been murdered in the last three months. 180 00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:55,120 Did you ever examine Sandy Markham? 181 00:10:55,154 --> 00:10:56,917 No. 182 00:10:56,956 --> 00:10:58,287 Do you mind if we check your records? 183 00:10:58,324 --> 00:11:01,384 - Sure. Be my guest. My nurse will help you. - Thanks. 184 00:11:01,427 --> 00:11:04,225 By the way, did you happen to have a date last Monday night? 185 00:11:04,263 --> 00:11:06,390 Yes, Emily Feist. 186 00:11:06,432 --> 00:11:08,400 Nine pounds, three ounces. 187 00:11:08,434 --> 00:11:10,902 Born Monday, 7:16 PM, 188 00:11:10,936 --> 00:11:12,927 after three hours of labor. 189 00:11:14,473 --> 00:11:16,304 Yeah, what do you got? 190 00:11:18,444 --> 00:11:20,742 Okay, thanks a lot. 191 00:11:20,780 --> 00:11:23,578 The hospital has him signing in at 4:16, 192 00:11:23,616 --> 00:11:26,449 signing out at 10 to 8:00. 193 00:11:26,485 --> 00:11:29,921 It would take him at least 20 minutes to get up to Judy Bream's place. 194 00:11:29,955 --> 00:11:33,254 The ME puts the time of death between 7:00 and 8:00. 195 00:11:33,292 --> 00:11:35,760 But ME's have been known to be off by an hour or so. 196 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:39,287 We still have to connect Sandy Markham. She never saw Dr. Banks. 197 00:11:39,331 --> 00:11:43,597 Maybe he's lying. Maybe she did see him under a different name. 198 00:11:43,636 --> 00:11:45,297 Let's go talk to Dr. Cohen. 199 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:49,938 No, Sandy Markham was referred 200 00:11:49,975 --> 00:11:52,170 by Dr. Rosen on Park Avenue. 201 00:11:52,211 --> 00:11:54,645 Had she ever been treated by Dr. Banks? 202 00:11:56,148 --> 00:11:57,638 We can get a subpoena. 203 00:11:57,683 --> 00:12:01,380 If she had been, I think she would have told me. 204 00:12:01,420 --> 00:12:03,081 Why? 205 00:12:05,758 --> 00:12:07,555 He's a disgrace. 206 00:12:07,593 --> 00:12:09,959 I wouldn't send my schnauzer to see Phillip Banks. 207 00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:12,054 You don't like his bedside manner? 208 00:12:12,098 --> 00:12:15,067 - The guy's a walking lawsuit. - Malpractice? 209 00:12:15,101 --> 00:12:16,398 Now he's branching out. 210 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:19,302 My bookkeeper tells me they're after him for insurance fraud. 211 00:12:19,338 --> 00:12:21,863 You and Banks have the same bookkeeper? 212 00:12:21,907 --> 00:12:23,704 Yes. 213 00:12:26,612 --> 00:12:29,046 You mind giving us his name? 214 00:12:29,081 --> 00:12:31,572 Albert Lawrence Cheney. 215 00:12:31,617 --> 00:12:33,585 Spent five years in Attica. 216 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:35,086 Cheating on his taxes? 217 00:12:35,121 --> 00:12:37,612 Got man two. Paroled in '89... 218 00:12:38,958 --> 00:12:41,586 killed a girl in Queens. 219 00:12:41,627 --> 00:12:43,527 Strangulation? Tape? 220 00:12:45,297 --> 00:12:48,266 The rest of the file will be in tomorrow. You want to wait? 221 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,598 Not on your life. Risk losing another one? No. 222 00:12:54,306 --> 00:12:56,001 Hello. Hello. 223 00:12:56,041 --> 00:12:57,906 Does Albert Cheney live here? 224 00:12:59,311 --> 00:13:01,302 - Yes. - Is he here? 225 00:13:01,347 --> 00:13:03,372 Because we'd just like to talk to him for a second. 226 00:13:03,415 --> 00:13:05,383 Yes, but I'm Mrs. Cheney. Is there a problem? 227 00:13:05,417 --> 00:13:07,385 Is there something I can help you with? 228 00:13:07,419 --> 00:13:09,546 - Just want to talk to him. - He's in the other room. 229 00:13:09,588 --> 00:13:11,419 He's busy working. 230 00:13:12,591 --> 00:13:14,388 Excuse me... 231 00:13:14,426 --> 00:13:16,087 are you Albert Lawrence Cheney? 232 00:13:17,596 --> 00:13:20,895 - Yes. - You mind if we talk? 233 00:13:22,768 --> 00:13:26,169 - I'm in the middle... - I think it'll keep. 234 00:13:28,107 --> 00:13:31,668 Don't you think we'd be more comfortable at the station? 235 00:13:39,952 --> 00:13:42,580 Look, I'm not trying to outrun my past. 236 00:13:42,621 --> 00:13:45,590 - I did the time. - So you're rehabilitated? 237 00:13:45,624 --> 00:13:47,751 I didn't do the crime. 238 00:13:47,793 --> 00:13:50,227 Aren't you bitter, having spent five years in Attica 239 00:13:50,262 --> 00:13:52,093 for something you didn't do? 240 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:57,268 I'm at peace with it now. 241 00:13:57,303 --> 00:14:01,034 I was unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. 242 00:14:01,073 --> 00:14:03,541 My lawyer said the best thing was to deal. 243 00:14:03,576 --> 00:14:06,875 Five was better than 15 he said. 244 00:14:06,912 --> 00:14:10,439 You work with Dr. Banks and Dr. Cohen. 245 00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:14,384 And Burton, and Scarlon, and Schuman. 246 00:14:14,420 --> 00:14:15,819 How long have you been keeping books? 247 00:14:15,921 --> 00:14:17,320 Two years. Since I got out. 248 00:14:17,356 --> 00:14:20,621 - And before that? - Master electrician. 249 00:14:20,659 --> 00:14:23,719 Manhattan Power doesn't like ex-cons. 250 00:14:23,762 --> 00:14:26,322 Last Monday night, you remember what you did? 251 00:14:26,365 --> 00:14:30,426 My wife and I went to dinner and a movie. 252 00:14:30,469 --> 00:14:34,428 It was an early show. 5:00. 253 00:14:37,843 --> 00:14:40,107 You know a woman named Judy Bream? 254 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:49,888 Why, what happened to her? 255 00:14:49,922 --> 00:14:51,480 She was murdered. 256 00:14:55,527 --> 00:14:58,428 We had pizza at Julio's in Astoria. 257 00:14:58,464 --> 00:15:00,261 What time did you leave the restaurant? 258 00:15:00,299 --> 00:15:04,463 Around 8:00, although I'm not exactly certain. 259 00:15:04,503 --> 00:15:07,438 - Where did you go? - I drove Albert home. 260 00:15:07,473 --> 00:15:10,601 I went to work. The post office, night shift. 261 00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:12,440 I punched in at 9:00. 262 00:15:12,478 --> 00:15:14,446 Have you been married a long time? 263 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:16,243 A year. 264 00:15:20,653 --> 00:15:24,248 Seven years ago I saw his picture in the paper. 265 00:15:25,824 --> 00:15:27,724 He had such gentle eyes. 266 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,627 I wrote him, and he wrote me back. 267 00:15:30,663 --> 00:15:32,631 And when he was released? 268 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:35,725 He joined our church group. St. Eligius Baptist. 269 00:15:37,169 --> 00:15:39,660 He's a good man, Detective. 270 00:15:39,705 --> 00:15:41,866 Phil. 271 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,477 It was in the bottom drawer. 272 00:15:49,515 --> 00:15:50,573 There's no film, 273 00:15:50,616 --> 00:15:52,914 but it's the same type to fit the wrapper we found. 274 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:56,149 - My son has the same one. - Look at this. 275 00:16:00,693 --> 00:16:02,456 Duct tape. 276 00:16:04,129 --> 00:16:06,063 Your son got one of these? 277 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:10,261 Manhattan Power Company employee ID? 278 00:16:10,302 --> 00:16:13,271 Expires June, 1985. 279 00:16:13,305 --> 00:16:15,535 Think Albert kept it as a souvenir? 280 00:16:23,148 --> 00:16:24,945 The fibers from his washer-dryer? 281 00:16:24,984 --> 00:16:26,781 Beige, with a wool-acrylic weave. 282 00:16:26,819 --> 00:16:29,287 Matched the carpeting in Judy Bream's apartment. 283 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:32,119 Must have been on Cheney's clothes when he washed them. 284 00:16:32,157 --> 00:16:34,284 - Puts him at the scene. - Or in my apartment. 285 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:37,625 Or in 10,000 others. It's not what you'd call unique. 286 00:16:37,663 --> 00:16:39,790 Had better luck with the duct tape. 287 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:41,959 The roll from Cheney's apartment... 288 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,299 same as the tape recovered from the body. 289 00:16:44,336 --> 00:16:47,328 We pieced together? The tape on the roll with the tape on the girl. 290 00:16:47,373 --> 00:16:50,774 The tears on the end of the tape were ragged enough to make a match. 291 00:16:50,809 --> 00:16:53,801 So please tell me this is conclusive. 292 00:16:53,846 --> 00:16:55,837 Probable. Sorry. 293 00:16:57,449 --> 00:16:59,974 Duct tape, carpet fibers, 294 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:02,249 ID card, prior conviction. 295 00:17:02,287 --> 00:17:04,755 - It adds up, Paul. - To a weak indictment. 296 00:17:04,790 --> 00:17:06,849 The prior bad act is inadmissible. 297 00:17:06,892 --> 00:17:08,723 The rest, circumstantial. 298 00:17:08,761 --> 00:17:10,729 - What about Cheney's phone? - Brick wall. 299 00:17:10,763 --> 00:17:13,857 The LUDs show no telephone calls to any of the victims. 300 00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:15,594 Alibi? 301 00:17:15,634 --> 00:17:17,932 His wife punched into work at 9:00. 302 00:17:17,970 --> 00:17:20,734 Before that, nobody remembers him at the movies or at the restaurant. 303 00:17:20,773 --> 00:17:23,435 - An alibi that can't be verified. - Or refuted. 304 00:17:23,475 --> 00:17:26,444 Look, it's possible we're wrong about Cheney. 305 00:17:26,478 --> 00:17:28,605 Guilty people call their lawyers. He hasn't. 306 00:17:28,647 --> 00:17:31,616 Innocent people kick and scream. I haven't seen him do that either. 307 00:17:31,650 --> 00:17:34,244 You guys want to indict him, then have it just die? 308 00:17:37,156 --> 00:17:38,987 Fine. 309 00:17:41,326 --> 00:17:43,487 Get Cheney into interrogation. 310 00:17:50,502 --> 00:17:53,300 Look at it, Albert. You're the only one. 311 00:17:53,338 --> 00:17:56,466 No one else appears here three times. You want to explain that to me? 312 00:17:56,508 --> 00:17:58,806 - It's a fluke. - Fine. 313 00:17:58,844 --> 00:18:02,075 Then maybe you can help me, because we're a little bit stumped here. 314 00:18:02,114 --> 00:18:05,242 Who else has total access to these women's lives? 315 00:18:05,284 --> 00:18:07,411 You look at their files every day. 316 00:18:08,787 --> 00:18:11,585 You look at their charts, their billing statements. 317 00:18:11,623 --> 00:18:13,591 Do the doctors you work for... 318 00:18:13,625 --> 00:18:17,356 - do they know that you snoop through the patient's files? - No, I don't do that. 319 00:18:17,396 --> 00:18:19,296 I just do the accounting, that's all. 320 00:18:19,331 --> 00:18:21,094 Maybe so, Albert, maybe so. 321 00:18:21,133 --> 00:18:23,260 But we know you did Judy Bream. 322 00:18:23,302 --> 00:18:26,271 - We know that. - I never met those girls. 323 00:18:26,305 --> 00:18:28,170 I told you. 324 00:18:31,477 --> 00:18:33,775 Okay... 325 00:18:33,812 --> 00:18:35,439 you recognize this? 326 00:18:35,481 --> 00:18:38,245 It's a picture of your electrician's ID, right? 327 00:18:38,283 --> 00:18:40,251 I worked there for five years. 328 00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:43,277 That was eight years ago. How come you kept it so long? 329 00:18:43,322 --> 00:18:45,620 We know how you got into those girl's apartments. 330 00:18:45,657 --> 00:18:48,455 We know all about your electrician's routine. 331 00:18:48,494 --> 00:18:51,122 See, you're a pretty smart guy, Albert. 332 00:18:51,163 --> 00:18:52,960 Like the way you opened those elevator doors 333 00:18:52,998 --> 00:18:55,762 to toss Judy Bream's body down there. That had us going. 334 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:59,828 Till we figured out you were using elevator access keys. All electricians have those keys. 335 00:18:59,872 --> 00:19:02,568 - I don't know about any key. - Sure you do. 336 00:19:02,608 --> 00:19:04,735 We checked with Manhattan Power. They told us you do. 337 00:19:04,776 --> 00:19:07,176 - They told us you didn't turn in the key. - That's not true. 338 00:19:07,212 --> 00:19:09,237 - Yeah, it's true. - Albert... 339 00:19:09,281 --> 00:19:12,079 Don't fight us on this. We know you didn't turn it in. 340 00:19:12,117 --> 00:19:14,085 They told us. 341 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,087 He was fired eight years ago. 342 00:19:16,121 --> 00:19:18,919 Manhattan Power Company keeps records of their keys? 343 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:21,585 They don't even know if he really had one. 344 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:24,755 Look, I just don't think that's true. 345 00:19:24,796 --> 00:19:27,924 I can't remember having one. 346 00:19:27,966 --> 00:19:29,957 See you in a while, pal. 347 00:19:34,139 --> 00:19:36,801 This was next to Judy's bed on the floor. 348 00:19:38,143 --> 00:19:41,510 It's the exact same kind of film your camera uses. 349 00:19:42,981 --> 00:19:45,472 She doesn't even have a camera like that. 350 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,646 How did it get there? 351 00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:51,781 When did you take the pictures, Albert? 352 00:19:51,823 --> 00:19:53,620 Before you killed her? 353 00:19:53,659 --> 00:19:56,127 Be much more gruesome after, though, wouldn't it? 354 00:19:56,161 --> 00:19:59,153 I mean, it's your work. You could see what you've done. 355 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:01,291 I've never even been in her place. 356 00:20:01,333 --> 00:20:03,267 And yet your duct tape was there, 357 00:20:03,302 --> 00:20:05,202 there were carpet fibers on your clothes, 358 00:20:05,237 --> 00:20:07,296 you got her address from Dr. Banks' files, 359 00:20:07,339 --> 00:20:09,671 and you have an electrician's badge. 360 00:20:11,176 --> 00:20:14,339 You like looking at those pictures, don't you, Albert? 361 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:17,644 Takes you back. 362 00:20:17,683 --> 00:20:20,345 You got a special place for them? 363 00:20:24,022 --> 00:20:26,456 I don't have any pictures. 364 00:20:33,999 --> 00:20:38,163 These are ligature marks, Albert. 365 00:20:38,203 --> 00:20:41,695 You see, when you strangle someone, you leave marks. 366 00:20:41,740 --> 00:20:43,833 Like fingerprints. 367 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:46,742 Now, this is Sally Kessler, 368 00:20:46,778 --> 00:20:48,678 the girl you killed eight years ago? 369 00:20:48,714 --> 00:20:51,205 Now you see those ligature marks? See them way up high? 370 00:20:51,250 --> 00:20:53,343 Just like the ones on Judy's neck. 371 00:20:53,385 --> 00:20:55,512 You like to get 'em up high, don't you? 372 00:20:55,554 --> 00:20:58,523 They take longer to suffocate that way, right? 373 00:20:58,557 --> 00:21:01,117 Is that when you get your knee right in their back, 374 00:21:01,159 --> 00:21:04,287 - and give it a good yank? - You know what I want to know? 375 00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:07,787 Why did you switch from ties to electrical cord? 376 00:21:07,833 --> 00:21:09,630 Is that better? 377 00:21:09,668 --> 00:21:11,795 I mean, you get more control that way? 378 00:21:11,837 --> 00:21:14,965 Well, maybe the ties were a little too risky? 379 00:21:15,007 --> 00:21:17,635 Couple of them wind up damaged or missing, 380 00:21:17,676 --> 00:21:20,440 the wife starts wondering, thinking, asking questions... 381 00:21:20,479 --> 00:21:23,846 "Is the man I sit next to in church every Sunday really what he says he is?" 382 00:21:23,882 --> 00:21:25,509 I... 383 00:21:29,021 --> 00:21:30,852 I'm tired. 384 00:21:30,889 --> 00:21:33,483 You want to talk to a lawyer? 385 00:21:33,525 --> 00:21:35,493 You could get it off your chest. 386 00:21:35,527 --> 00:21:37,995 - It'll all be privileged. - No. 387 00:21:39,364 --> 00:21:41,662 Just that I'm tired, that's all. 388 00:21:44,036 --> 00:21:45,867 I want to go lie down. 389 00:21:47,372 --> 00:21:49,340 Yeah, okay, soon. Very soon. 390 00:21:49,374 --> 00:21:51,171 I just want to go over a couple 391 00:21:51,209 --> 00:21:53,109 of more things here, all right? 392 00:22:05,991 --> 00:22:09,188 These are the keys we found in your apartment. 393 00:22:09,227 --> 00:22:11,787 Which one is the elevator key? 394 00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:15,129 - I told you, I don't know if I have one. - Well, they say you did. 395 00:22:15,167 --> 00:22:17,135 You kept it, just like you kept your ID. 396 00:22:17,169 --> 00:22:19,467 Which one is it, Albert? Is it this one here? 397 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:21,131 No... 398 00:22:21,173 --> 00:22:23,141 that's Sara's old place in the Bronx. 399 00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:24,506 Okay. 400 00:22:24,543 --> 00:22:26,534 How about this one? Is this it? 401 00:22:26,578 --> 00:22:29,069 It's for the garage. 402 00:22:29,114 --> 00:22:30,672 What about this? 403 00:22:30,716 --> 00:22:34,652 Sara's bicycle. The lock. 404 00:22:34,686 --> 00:22:36,176 This one. 405 00:22:38,757 --> 00:22:41,089 Is that an elevator access key? 406 00:22:41,126 --> 00:22:43,253 No, it's for the storage. 407 00:22:43,295 --> 00:22:45,058 You're lying, Albert. 408 00:22:45,097 --> 00:22:47,156 Your building has no storage. 409 00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:50,066 Not there. I mean on Sutphin. 410 00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:52,798 One of those rental places? 411 00:22:59,544 --> 00:23:01,375 What do you keep there, Albert? 412 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:04,976 Just... 413 00:23:06,985 --> 00:23:08,953 junk. 414 00:23:12,491 --> 00:23:14,220 Pictures! 415 00:23:15,494 --> 00:23:17,724 I'll get working on a search warrant. 416 00:23:28,507 --> 00:23:31,305 According to this, the guy came in about once a week. 417 00:23:31,343 --> 00:23:33,573 - Usually in the evenings. - Phil! 418 00:23:38,350 --> 00:23:40,875 Some people collect baseball cards. 419 00:23:47,192 --> 00:23:50,320 Case number 750127. 420 00:23:50,362 --> 00:23:52,296 People versus Albert Lawrence Cheney. 421 00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:54,992 Three counts of murder in the second degree. 422 00:23:57,536 --> 00:23:59,197 Talk to me. 423 00:24:00,705 --> 00:24:02,297 Counselor? 424 00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:04,433 Not guilty, Your Honor. 425 00:24:04,476 --> 00:24:06,273 Mr. Robinette? 426 00:24:06,311 --> 00:24:08,939 Your Honor, as far as the State is concerned, 427 00:24:08,980 --> 00:24:11,107 the heinous nature of the crimes charged 428 00:24:11,149 --> 00:24:13,515 mandates the defendant be held without bail. 429 00:24:13,552 --> 00:24:15,042 My client has rights. 430 00:24:15,086 --> 00:24:17,486 So do the rest of the women in this city. 431 00:24:17,522 --> 00:24:19,683 - Your Honor, I think... - Save it, Carl. 432 00:24:19,724 --> 00:24:22,386 Court orders defendant held without bail. 433 00:24:35,841 --> 00:24:38,901 Your Honor, the police repeatedly told Albert Cheney 434 00:24:38,944 --> 00:24:40,639 he had a right to an attorney. 435 00:24:40,679 --> 00:24:42,806 - And he waived that right? - Several times. 436 00:24:42,848 --> 00:24:44,975 Miranda. 437 00:24:45,016 --> 00:24:47,985 Waiver's got to be made voluntarily, 438 00:24:48,019 --> 00:24:50,544 knowingly, and intelligently. 439 00:24:50,589 --> 00:24:52,648 Carl, this guy's been there before. 440 00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:54,318 He's well aware of his rights. 441 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,327 But after 12 hours... 442 00:24:56,361 --> 00:24:58,056 a guy would forget his name. 443 00:24:58,096 --> 00:24:59,563 Come again? 444 00:24:59,598 --> 00:25:02,465 They battered my client for 12 hours. 445 00:25:02,501 --> 00:25:03,729 Of course he broke. 446 00:25:03,768 --> 00:25:07,101 And gave us a box full of photographs of his victims. 447 00:25:07,138 --> 00:25:09,265 The Supreme Court says we should look 448 00:25:09,307 --> 00:25:11,172 at the totality of the circumstances. 449 00:25:11,209 --> 00:25:13,439 Length of detention, prolonged questioning, 450 00:25:13,478 --> 00:25:15,571 mental exhaustion. 451 00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:17,605 Carl, this guy is a serial killer. 452 00:25:17,649 --> 00:25:19,116 He'll do it again. 453 00:25:20,218 --> 00:25:22,083 You get the stake. I've got the match. 454 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,146 What is it, Ben? Huh? 455 00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:26,953 Charge a guy with killing three girls, 456 00:25:26,992 --> 00:25:29,358 he loses his rights against self-incrimination? 457 00:25:29,394 --> 00:25:32,261 The Supreme Court never set hard and fast rules 458 00:25:32,297 --> 00:25:35,664 about the length of an interrogation. It is a judgment call! 459 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,328 And in my judgment, the more heinous the crime charged, 460 00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:42,306 the more protective we must be of the rights of the accused. 461 00:25:42,340 --> 00:25:44,706 The police overstepped their bounds. 462 00:25:46,511 --> 00:25:48,274 I'm excluding the photos. 463 00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:50,008 Your Honor, we had a warrant. 464 00:25:50,048 --> 00:25:53,882 But without the browbeating, you wouldn't have known where to search. 465 00:25:53,919 --> 00:25:58,481 As the photos were wrongfully presented to the grand jury, 466 00:25:58,523 --> 00:26:00,753 this entire indictment should be dismissed. 467 00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:03,784 We have physical evidence linking him to the crime scene! 468 00:26:03,828 --> 00:26:05,762 A false electrician's ID. 469 00:26:05,797 --> 00:26:08,789 It's all on the Bream girl. What about the others? 470 00:26:08,833 --> 00:26:10,357 Zippo. 471 00:26:11,469 --> 00:26:12,800 Ben? 472 00:26:14,639 --> 00:26:18,439 We drop the charges on the first two girls, go ahead only on Judy Bream. 473 00:26:18,476 --> 00:26:21,104 Remember, he's being tried for the Bream murder alone. 474 00:26:21,146 --> 00:26:24,479 Any mention of any priors, and we return to go. 475 00:26:25,483 --> 00:26:27,314 I've watched Berg's work for years. 476 00:26:28,486 --> 00:26:32,547 He doesn't try a case, he charms a jury. 477 00:26:32,591 --> 00:26:36,118 When he's done, they'll give Cheney a Nobel Prize. 478 00:26:36,161 --> 00:26:37,958 So much for victims' rights. 479 00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:40,123 Dead people don't have any, my boy. 480 00:26:40,165 --> 00:26:41,826 What have we got here? 481 00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:44,266 What we don't have is one iota of direct evidence. 482 00:26:45,503 --> 00:26:47,164 Cheney can't be that good. 483 00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:48,968 He's had practice. 484 00:26:49,007 --> 00:26:51,066 Two priors, no evidence whatsoever. 485 00:26:51,109 --> 00:26:52,940 Yes, but they caught him once, right? 486 00:26:52,978 --> 00:26:54,445 Man two. 487 00:26:54,479 --> 00:26:56,504 But he only spent five years in Attica. 488 00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:58,140 Berg represent him? 489 00:26:58,183 --> 00:26:59,980 Who prosecuted? 490 00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:02,612 Fleischman. In Brooklyn. 491 00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:04,747 This business... 492 00:27:04,789 --> 00:27:07,724 lightning does strike twice. 493 00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:11,125 Find out how the hell Berg did it. 494 00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:14,594 How could I forget? 495 00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:17,261 Sally Kessler, 18 years old. 496 00:27:17,302 --> 00:27:19,998 A Hermes tie wrapped around her neck, 497 00:27:20,038 --> 00:27:22,268 dumped naked into a recycling bin 498 00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:24,298 behind Nathan's out at Coney Island. 499 00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:28,412 - He's using wire now. - Times is hard. 500 00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,775 It's scary. 501 00:27:31,816 --> 00:27:34,614 Cheney sat there and smiled while he told us about it. 502 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:36,314 Wait a minute. 503 00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:39,346 He confessed? 504 00:27:39,391 --> 00:27:41,655 That's the only way we were going touch that guy. 505 00:27:41,693 --> 00:27:44,457 But he only served five for man two. 506 00:27:44,496 --> 00:27:48,125 We're questioning Cheney, nice and polite, getting nowhere. 507 00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:50,634 Soon he asked to see his shrink. 508 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,796 We ignore him, keep on pressing. 509 00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:54,964 I don't know, after about an hour or so 510 00:27:55,006 --> 00:27:58,339 we hit a sore spot or something, and Cheney spills his guts. 511 00:27:58,376 --> 00:28:02,904 - So what's the problem? - He goes and hires Carl Berg. 512 00:28:02,947 --> 00:28:05,541 Berg hears about this shrink thing, 513 00:28:05,583 --> 00:28:07,244 starts doing a song and dance, 514 00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:09,879 screaming and yelling about "Fare vs. Michael C." 515 00:28:09,921 --> 00:28:12,082 The case where the kid asked for his parole officer? 516 00:28:12,123 --> 00:28:14,990 The Supreme Court said it's not the same thing as asking for a lawyer. 517 00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:17,187 Only at the time the Supreme Court 518 00:28:17,228 --> 00:28:20,755 had heard arguments, but hadn't yet handed down it's opinion. 519 00:28:20,799 --> 00:28:23,393 Parole officer, shrink... could've gone either way. 520 00:28:24,469 --> 00:28:26,266 So you cut a deal. 521 00:28:26,304 --> 00:28:28,431 I got him off the streets for five to 15. 522 00:28:28,473 --> 00:28:30,441 Usually I take all bets. 523 00:28:30,475 --> 00:28:32,602 But the chance that Cheney goes free? 524 00:28:32,644 --> 00:28:34,271 I'm sorry. 525 00:28:34,312 --> 00:28:36,439 Those stakes were just too high. 526 00:28:38,817 --> 00:28:40,614 And he served the minimum? 527 00:28:40,652 --> 00:28:42,620 Warden said he was a model prisoner. 528 00:28:42,654 --> 00:28:44,986 Parole board agreed. 529 00:28:48,493 --> 00:28:49,983 Robinette. 530 00:28:51,162 --> 00:28:52,789 Yeah? 531 00:28:52,831 --> 00:28:54,662 Thanks. 532 00:28:56,668 --> 00:29:00,126 The Breams are in your office. They're not alone. 533 00:29:00,171 --> 00:29:02,071 A lawyer, Jack O'Connell... 534 00:29:02,107 --> 00:29:04,632 from the Connecticut DA's office, is with them. 535 00:29:06,411 --> 00:29:09,574 So the Brooklyn DA screws up, 536 00:29:09,614 --> 00:29:12,742 and this psycho is free to kill again? 537 00:29:12,784 --> 00:29:15,582 Nobody screwed up. They had to cut a deal. 538 00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:19,386 My daughter is dead because of a legal technicality, and you know it! 539 00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:23,258 And I regret it, but the Supreme Court decided a long time ago 540 00:29:23,294 --> 00:29:25,125 that when the system errs, 541 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:27,597 it'll be on the side of individual rights. 542 00:29:27,632 --> 00:29:30,430 If my daughter had been hit by a car, 543 00:29:30,468 --> 00:29:32,595 we could sue the driver. 544 00:29:32,637 --> 00:29:35,902 Can we sue the Supreme Court, Mr. Stone? 545 00:29:35,940 --> 00:29:39,398 I assure you, Mrs. Bream, we'll do the best we can. 546 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:41,275 Maybe I can do you one better. 547 00:29:41,312 --> 00:29:44,338 Cheney lured Judy from Connecticut into New York, 548 00:29:44,382 --> 00:29:46,748 where he ultimately held her captive and killed her. 549 00:29:46,785 --> 00:29:47,809 With your assistance, 550 00:29:47,852 --> 00:29:50,252 we can prosecute him in Connecticut for kidnapping. 551 00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:52,950 - He never abducted her. - Kidnapping by pretense. 552 00:29:52,991 --> 00:29:55,653 When Cheney phoned with this electrician story, 553 00:29:55,693 --> 00:29:59,789 he had no idea the call was being forwarded to Connecticut. 554 00:29:59,831 --> 00:30:01,958 He thought she was home. 555 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,628 He had no intent of luring her anywhere. 556 00:30:04,669 --> 00:30:08,332 No, I was there when the call came. 557 00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:12,537 Judy told him she was at our house. 558 00:30:14,612 --> 00:30:17,604 With death being the ultimate result of the kidnapping, 559 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:19,514 we can toss in felony murder. 560 00:30:19,551 --> 00:30:22,213 - Mr. O'Connell, I don't understand. - It's simple. 561 00:30:22,253 --> 00:30:26,451 In Connecticut we have the death penalty. 562 00:30:26,491 --> 00:30:29,824 Yep, it's like Chicago in the '20s. 563 00:30:29,861 --> 00:30:31,658 You don't like someone, 564 00:30:31,696 --> 00:30:33,823 hire a couple of out-of-state thugs, rub them out. 565 00:30:33,865 --> 00:30:36,595 They don't want justice, they want vengeance. 566 00:30:36,634 --> 00:30:38,693 An eye for an eye. Worked for thousands of years. 567 00:30:38,736 --> 00:30:41,637 - What are you going to do? - I said thanks, but no thanks. 568 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:44,005 They can have Cheney after we're through with him. 569 00:30:44,042 --> 00:30:47,944 If we lose, double jeopardy prevents anyone from retrying him on the murder. 570 00:30:47,979 --> 00:30:50,971 O'Connell says he has a good shot at admitting evidence from the prior murders 571 00:30:51,015 --> 00:30:53,347 to show Cheney had the requisite intent to kidnap. 572 00:30:53,384 --> 00:30:55,011 But their case is bogus. 573 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:56,850 You saw the mother, she's lying. 574 00:30:56,888 --> 00:30:59,186 Her daughter never told Cheney she was in Connecticut. 575 00:30:59,224 --> 00:31:01,784 What jury won't believe a grieving mother? 576 00:31:01,826 --> 00:31:04,852 Cheney is an animal. Yes, he should be tried and convicted. 577 00:31:04,896 --> 00:31:07,797 But, no, we shouldn't subvert the legal system to do it. 578 00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:09,800 And if Mrs. Bream is telling the truth? 579 00:31:09,834 --> 00:31:11,529 He committed a crime in New York. 580 00:31:11,569 --> 00:31:14,402 Our law says he should be convicted, not executed. 581 00:31:14,439 --> 00:31:16,134 What about his alibi? 582 00:31:16,174 --> 00:31:18,301 It plays as far as I can tell. 583 00:31:18,343 --> 00:31:20,743 Sara Cheney punched in to work at 9:00 p. m. 584 00:31:20,778 --> 00:31:23,611 And don't co-workers scratch each other's backs? 585 00:31:25,016 --> 00:31:27,143 She drives to work, doesn't she? 586 00:31:30,355 --> 00:31:32,152 Civil Service. 587 00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:34,988 Can't be fired, bennies up the ying-yang. 588 00:31:35,026 --> 00:31:36,994 Should've taken the exam. 589 00:31:37,028 --> 00:31:39,258 - All the postal workers park here? - Half price. 590 00:31:39,297 --> 00:31:42,824 Uncle Sam picks up the rest, and we keep the receipts. 591 00:31:42,867 --> 00:31:44,835 Feds don't trust anybody. 592 00:31:44,869 --> 00:31:46,496 Here we go, Cheney. 593 00:31:46,537 --> 00:31:49,802 Green Metro. Punched in 9:45. 594 00:31:52,944 --> 00:31:55,003 She covered for him? 595 00:31:55,046 --> 00:31:59,005 Her friend admitted she punched her time card for her at 9:00. 596 00:31:59,050 --> 00:32:01,450 Even if Cheney gave her a play-by-play, 597 00:32:01,486 --> 00:32:03,113 we can't put her on the stand. 598 00:32:03,154 --> 00:32:05,645 Spousal privilege. No way Cheney waives it. 599 00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:09,960 The Breams are playing hardball now. 600 00:32:09,994 --> 00:32:13,157 Connecticut DA's motion to have Cheney extradited. 601 00:32:14,332 --> 00:32:17,130 So we'll stop it. We'll get an injunction. 602 00:32:18,503 --> 00:32:20,471 Have you seen the civil calendar lately? 603 00:32:20,505 --> 00:32:24,805 Cheney will be tried and dead six months before we get a judge to look at our papers. 604 00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:26,469 We'll get a temporary restraining order. 605 00:32:26,511 --> 00:32:29,844 We'll do the papers tonight, and we'll be at 9:30 calendar call tomorrow. 606 00:32:31,516 --> 00:32:33,313 What, you got other plans? 607 00:32:33,351 --> 00:32:35,182 I don't know. 608 00:32:35,219 --> 00:32:37,210 Representing Cheney in Civil Court, 609 00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:39,018 just so we can prosecute him? 610 00:32:39,057 --> 00:32:40,456 I am not representing Cheney, 611 00:32:40,491 --> 00:32:43,517 I am representing the People of the State of New York. 612 00:32:47,699 --> 00:32:50,497 Your Honor, I'm sure I needn't remind this Court 613 00:32:50,535 --> 00:32:53,834 of the "full faith and credit" clause of the US Constitution, 614 00:32:53,871 --> 00:32:57,500 which mandates that sister states honor each other's laws. 615 00:32:57,542 --> 00:33:00,477 Albert Cheney broke the laws of the state of New York, 616 00:33:00,511 --> 00:33:03,105 he was arrested within its boundaries. 617 00:33:03,147 --> 00:33:07,345 It would be a miscarriage to allow another state to usurp its jurisdiction. 618 00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,615 The issue in this motion is not jurisdiction. 619 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:12,589 It is the inadequacy... no, the complete inability of New York 620 00:33:12,623 --> 00:33:14,113 to deal with violent criminals. 621 00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:16,626 And you believe that Connecticut is more able? 622 00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:19,289 New York has tried a deal with Albert Lawrence Cheney, 623 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:22,026 and at least four young women are dead. 624 00:33:22,066 --> 00:33:23,966 Was he rehabilitated, 625 00:33:24,002 --> 00:33:27,460 and did his five years in prison prevent recidivism? 626 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:30,303 - Obviously not. - So the only thing left is revenge? 627 00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:32,969 - You tell me. - You had your turn, Mr. Stone. 628 00:33:33,011 --> 00:33:35,571 And let's do without the rhetoric, Counselor. 629 00:33:35,613 --> 00:33:38,207 If you grant Mr. Stone's motion, 630 00:33:38,249 --> 00:33:40,911 and if he tries the defendant and loses, 631 00:33:40,952 --> 00:33:43,750 we are then precluded from prosecuting him 632 00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:45,779 for the murder of Judy Bream. 633 00:33:45,823 --> 00:33:49,520 Bottom line, Your Honor, Albert Cheney is of no use to anyone alive. 634 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,960 Is this forum shopping? This is a criminal case. 635 00:33:51,996 --> 00:33:54,658 Yes, I know, Mr. Stone, and this is a Civil Court. 636 00:33:54,699 --> 00:33:57,167 Why you want to keep Mr. Cheney alive is beyond me. 637 00:33:57,201 --> 00:34:00,227 I, for one, wouldn't lose any sleep if they flipped the switch. 638 00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:02,171 - That's not relevant. - I know. 639 00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:05,266 Unfortunately, Mr. Stone has met the burden 640 00:34:05,309 --> 00:34:07,903 required by law for a restraining order. 641 00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:10,743 As such, I am forced to grant his motion. 642 00:34:10,782 --> 00:34:13,842 The case against Albert Cheney stays put. 643 00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:17,321 May God help both of us if you lose that trial, Mr. Stone. 644 00:34:24,328 --> 00:34:26,319 The ME's report? 645 00:34:27,832 --> 00:34:29,663 Are you with me here? 646 00:34:30,835 --> 00:34:33,099 We've taken flyers before, but... 647 00:34:33,137 --> 00:34:35,765 You would prefer that I let O'Connell try this case? 648 00:34:35,807 --> 00:34:39,607 - The courts are not your personal soapbox. - Have you heard me preach? 649 00:34:39,644 --> 00:34:42,477 Better we bend the system than risk letting him walk 650 00:34:42,513 --> 00:34:45,846 - because of some unfounded morality. - Who's preaching now? 651 00:34:45,883 --> 00:34:49,649 You're not talking about convicting him, you're talking about killing him. 652 00:34:49,687 --> 00:34:52,485 I think my tax dollars can be put to better use 653 00:34:52,523 --> 00:34:56,983 than clothing, housing and feeding Albert Cheney. Maybe I'm just pragmatic. 654 00:34:57,028 --> 00:34:59,826 The cost to the State of a capital trial 655 00:34:59,864 --> 00:35:01,764 is roughly $1.8 million. 656 00:35:01,799 --> 00:35:05,098 That is twice the cost of an average life imprisonment. 657 00:35:05,136 --> 00:35:07,434 Now, who's being pragmatic here? 658 00:35:07,472 --> 00:35:10,669 Maybe the Breams are entitled to a little vengeance. 659 00:35:12,643 --> 00:35:15,203 "Do unto others as they did unto you?" 660 00:35:15,246 --> 00:35:17,476 We burn the homes of arsonists? 661 00:35:17,515 --> 00:35:20,450 We sexually abuse those who rape? 662 00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:22,612 - You're rationalizing. - Maybe. 663 00:35:22,653 --> 00:35:24,951 But the New York State Court of Appeals says 664 00:35:24,989 --> 00:35:27,480 the death penalty is cruel and inhuman. 665 00:35:27,525 --> 00:35:30,221 And what do you say? 666 00:35:30,261 --> 00:35:32,991 And I say we uphold the laws of this state. 667 00:35:38,503 --> 00:35:40,801 There was a toolbox, and in it we found 668 00:35:40,838 --> 00:35:42,806 duct tape, electrical wire, 669 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,470 and a Manhattan Power Company employee ID issued to Mr. Cheney. 670 00:35:47,512 --> 00:35:50,970 We also found a Polaroid camera in a desk. 671 00:35:51,015 --> 00:35:52,983 And the cumulative effect of this evidence 672 00:35:53,017 --> 00:35:54,712 was sufficient to arrest Mr. Cheney? 673 00:35:54,752 --> 00:35:57,118 Yes. That and the fact he worked for her gynecologist. 674 00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:59,020 Thank you, Detective. 675 00:36:03,294 --> 00:36:05,922 The duct tape was used on the victim... 676 00:36:05,963 --> 00:36:08,761 - is there anything special about it? - No. 677 00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:12,166 So it can be purchased at any hardware store, isn't that correct? 678 00:36:12,203 --> 00:36:14,797 - That's correct. - Good. 679 00:36:14,839 --> 00:36:18,775 That narrows it down to, what, eight million suspects, 680 00:36:18,809 --> 00:36:20,902 assuming the culprit lived in New York City? 681 00:36:20,945 --> 00:36:23,436 Judy Bream had an unlisted number. 682 00:36:23,481 --> 00:36:27,281 Whoever killed her had to get that number from somewhere, sir. 683 00:36:27,318 --> 00:36:29,286 Uh-huh. 684 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,447 Can you identify this, Detective? 685 00:36:31,489 --> 00:36:33,457 That's the victim's address book. 686 00:36:33,491 --> 00:36:35,789 We found it in her apartment. 687 00:36:35,826 --> 00:36:37,225 Would you... please. 688 00:36:39,130 --> 00:36:42,293 Tell me, what do you see in the back portion of the book? 689 00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:48,264 Names, addresses, phone numbers. 690 00:36:48,306 --> 00:36:50,467 And how many names... roughly, 691 00:36:50,508 --> 00:36:52,806 how many names would you say appear there? 692 00:36:52,843 --> 00:36:54,674 Roughly... 693 00:36:58,516 --> 00:37:00,381 I would say roughly 100. 694 00:37:00,418 --> 00:37:02,249 Mm-hmm. 695 00:37:02,286 --> 00:37:05,084 Now, would it be fair to say that these hundred people, 696 00:37:05,122 --> 00:37:08,091 who were kind enough to give Judy their phone numbers, 697 00:37:08,125 --> 00:37:10,286 were also lucky enough to receive hers? 698 00:37:10,328 --> 00:37:13,354 - Objection. - Withdrawn. 699 00:37:13,397 --> 00:37:16,525 You don't have any evidence at all against my client, do you? 700 00:37:16,567 --> 00:37:18,899 - Your Honor... - That's enough, Mr. Berg. 701 00:37:18,936 --> 00:37:21,131 I have no further questions. 702 00:37:24,809 --> 00:37:27,778 She spent the weekend with us. 703 00:37:27,812 --> 00:37:30,440 She was off for the holidays. 704 00:37:30,481 --> 00:37:33,109 She was planning on staying the entire week. 705 00:37:33,150 --> 00:37:35,710 Why did Judy return to the city, Mrs. Bream? 706 00:37:35,753 --> 00:37:38,449 She got a telephone call. 707 00:37:38,489 --> 00:37:40,753 Something about her electricity. 708 00:37:40,791 --> 00:37:44,283 Did she typically leave the door to her apartment unlocked? 709 00:37:45,997 --> 00:37:50,263 No, she had three chains on her door. 710 00:37:50,301 --> 00:37:52,963 Her father insisted. 711 00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:56,303 You'd ring the bell and then she'd double-check. 712 00:37:56,340 --> 00:37:57,807 You know... 713 00:37:57,842 --> 00:37:59,207 through the peephole. 714 00:37:59,243 --> 00:38:01,302 When was the last time you spoke to Judy? 715 00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:04,976 It was that night. 716 00:38:07,218 --> 00:38:09,846 I had her on the phone, the doorbell rang... 717 00:38:11,389 --> 00:38:13,414 and she went to answer it. 718 00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:15,652 Did she put you on hold? 719 00:38:17,461 --> 00:38:19,361 No, she had a portable phone. 720 00:38:20,631 --> 00:38:22,861 What, if anything, did you hear then, Mrs. Bream? 721 00:38:25,970 --> 00:38:27,801 I heard her call... 722 00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:31,464 to the man through the door. 723 00:38:31,509 --> 00:38:33,636 And did you hear his response? 724 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,004 Mrs. Bream? 725 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:43,310 Mrs. Bream, did you hear his response? 726 00:38:46,324 --> 00:38:48,224 - Yes. - What did he say? 727 00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:49,817 Calls for hearsay, Your Honor. 728 00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:51,725 Statement against penal interest. 729 00:38:51,762 --> 00:38:53,730 Not if my client didn't say it. 730 00:38:53,764 --> 00:38:55,664 Sustained. 731 00:38:57,335 --> 00:38:59,326 No more questions. 732 00:39:09,113 --> 00:39:12,207 I'm truly sorry about your daughter, Mrs. Bream. 733 00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:16,312 Now, I'll try to make this short. 734 00:39:18,789 --> 00:39:20,689 The voice you said you heard? 735 00:39:20,725 --> 00:39:22,249 I heard it. 736 00:39:22,293 --> 00:39:25,956 And do you think you could recognize the voice? 737 00:39:29,633 --> 00:39:31,328 No. 738 00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:33,929 Because it was through the door, 739 00:39:33,971 --> 00:39:35,461 isn't that right? 740 00:39:38,008 --> 00:39:41,967 So, all you're sure of... 741 00:39:43,314 --> 00:39:45,782 is it was a man at the door. 742 00:39:48,152 --> 00:39:52,953 Would you consider that you and Judy were fairly close? 743 00:39:54,825 --> 00:39:57,225 She was my daughter. 744 00:39:57,261 --> 00:39:59,161 She ever tell you about any of her friends? 745 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:07,167 Do you recall her ever mentioning... 746 00:40:08,672 --> 00:40:10,731 someone by the name of Finkel? 747 00:40:10,775 --> 00:40:12,640 Robert, I think it was. 748 00:40:12,676 --> 00:40:14,803 Was he one of her friends? 749 00:40:16,514 --> 00:40:18,072 Yes. 750 00:40:20,017 --> 00:40:23,646 - And Michael Schwartz? - Yes. 751 00:40:23,687 --> 00:40:25,552 And Steve Eidler? 752 00:40:29,527 --> 00:40:31,324 Yes, but... 753 00:40:31,362 --> 00:40:32,886 And Brian Sherman, 754 00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:34,795 Peter Brav, 755 00:40:34,832 --> 00:40:36,857 and Alan Sklar? 756 00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:42,634 Now, tell me, Mrs. Bream, 757 00:40:42,673 --> 00:40:46,973 isn't it possible that it was Robert Finkel, 758 00:40:47,011 --> 00:40:50,174 or Michael Schwartz, Steve Eidler, 759 00:40:50,214 --> 00:40:52,842 Peter Brav, Brian Sherman, 760 00:40:52,883 --> 00:40:56,649 or Alan Sklar who was at the door that night? 761 00:41:00,891 --> 00:41:02,825 Why are you doing this? 762 00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:08,822 She was my daughter. 763 00:41:10,334 --> 00:41:12,461 No further questions, Your Honor. 764 00:41:13,838 --> 00:41:16,170 He took her from me. 765 00:41:23,514 --> 00:41:25,812 Berg's got them eating out of his hand. 766 00:41:25,850 --> 00:41:27,408 Yeah. 767 00:41:27,451 --> 00:41:29,316 Had a professor in law school, 768 00:41:29,353 --> 00:41:31,651 said the case is won by the attorney 769 00:41:31,689 --> 00:41:33,657 who's better liked by the jury. 770 00:41:33,691 --> 00:41:35,989 Laws, facts, truth... nothing to do with it. 771 00:41:36,026 --> 00:41:38,654 Maybe in a contract case, but this is a serial killer. 772 00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:41,164 The jury doesn't know that. What do you got left? 773 00:41:41,198 --> 00:41:43,826 CSU tech will testify to the duct tape 774 00:41:43,868 --> 00:41:46,166 and carpet fibers found in Cheney's dryer. 775 00:41:46,203 --> 00:41:49,172 Circumstantial evidence. Berg will have a field day. 776 00:41:49,206 --> 00:41:52,175 We don't have anything direct, other than the wife. 777 00:41:52,209 --> 00:41:54,200 And her testimony is privileged. 778 00:41:54,245 --> 00:41:56,509 If she's an accomplice, it's broken. 779 00:41:56,547 --> 00:41:58,777 Establishing a false alibi does not make her 780 00:41:58,816 --> 00:42:00,408 an accomplice to murder. 781 00:42:01,986 --> 00:42:04,614 But destroying evidence does. 782 00:42:04,655 --> 00:42:07,055 Who do you think washed Cheney's clothes? 783 00:42:09,827 --> 00:42:12,455 Wake up a judge. Get an arrest warrant. 784 00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:14,464 And notify Legal Aid on this. 785 00:42:14,498 --> 00:42:16,466 I want her to have a lawyer. 786 00:42:20,004 --> 00:42:21,835 I already told the police. 787 00:42:23,007 --> 00:42:26,465 We went to the movies, we had dinner, 788 00:42:26,510 --> 00:42:28,478 I drove Albert home, 789 00:42:28,512 --> 00:42:30,446 and then I was at work by 9:00. 790 00:42:30,481 --> 00:42:33,473 That's not true, Mrs. Cheney, and we both know it. 791 00:42:33,517 --> 00:42:36,008 We spoke to a co-worker... Barbara Livingston. 792 00:42:36,053 --> 00:42:38,749 She said she punched you in at 9:00. 793 00:42:38,789 --> 00:42:41,724 You didn't get to work until close to 10:00. 794 00:42:41,759 --> 00:42:43,920 So she stopped for a cup of coffee on the way. 795 00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:45,656 It doesn't prove anything. 796 00:42:45,696 --> 00:42:48,756 You're going to have to do better than that, Mrs. Cheney. 797 00:42:48,799 --> 00:42:50,824 Accomplice to murder two... 798 00:42:50,868 --> 00:42:52,893 that's a lot of years in jail. 799 00:42:52,937 --> 00:42:55,098 Wing and a prayer. Silly Putty doesn't stretch that far. 800 00:42:55,139 --> 00:42:56,834 I don't think so, Ms. Melton. 801 00:42:56,874 --> 00:42:59,502 Your client washed her husband's clothes. That's tampering. 802 00:42:59,543 --> 00:43:02,740 - Accessory after the fact. - You can't prove a thing. 803 00:43:13,324 --> 00:43:15,724 Take a good look, Mrs. Cheney. 804 00:43:19,496 --> 00:43:21,691 That's how your husband gets his kicks. 805 00:43:42,519 --> 00:43:44,214 That morning... 806 00:43:47,157 --> 00:43:49,022 we read to each other... 807 00:43:52,363 --> 00:43:54,331 Corinthians. 808 00:44:02,973 --> 00:44:06,704 He came home at 8:30, and he was frantic. 809 00:44:09,647 --> 00:44:12,582 His shoulder had some blood on it, over here... 810 00:44:15,653 --> 00:44:17,450 and he said he'd been in a fight... 811 00:44:17,488 --> 00:44:19,615 that someone had tried to mug him. 812 00:44:19,657 --> 00:44:21,852 Was he carrying anything, Mrs. Cheney? 813 00:44:21,892 --> 00:44:24,725 - His toolbox. - Anything else? 814 00:44:27,665 --> 00:44:29,496 His camera. 815 00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:33,902 What, if anything, did he say to you? 816 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:41,535 He said that he was afraid he may have hurt the man and... 817 00:44:42,813 --> 00:44:45,475 he said he needed an alibi. 818 00:44:46,483 --> 00:44:48,542 And then he told me 819 00:44:48,585 --> 00:44:51,713 to hide the toolbox and the camera. 820 00:44:56,860 --> 00:44:58,327 And then... 821 00:44:58,362 --> 00:45:01,058 then I washed the blood off his shirt. 822 00:45:05,202 --> 00:45:07,568 Why did you help him, Mrs. Cheney? 823 00:45:11,809 --> 00:45:13,640 He was my husband. 824 00:45:14,812 --> 00:45:17,440 He was on parole. 825 00:45:17,481 --> 00:45:19,608 I don't know... 826 00:45:19,650 --> 00:45:22,016 Did you believe the story about the mugging? 827 00:45:22,052 --> 00:45:23,576 Objection. 828 00:45:23,620 --> 00:45:25,247 Sustained. 829 00:45:27,324 --> 00:45:29,189 I loved him. 830 00:45:31,095 --> 00:45:33,962 I prayed for him. 831 00:45:33,997 --> 00:45:37,091 - I didn't know. - Didn't know what? 832 00:45:37,134 --> 00:45:41,127 I didn't know that he was an animal. 833 00:45:41,171 --> 00:45:42,263 Objection! 834 00:45:45,342 --> 00:45:47,037 Thank you, Mrs. Cheney. 835 00:45:53,851 --> 00:45:55,148 Oh, I don't know. 836 00:45:55,185 --> 00:45:57,551 25-years-to-life is a long time. 837 00:45:57,588 --> 00:46:00,421 I know two people who consider it a gift. 838 00:46:00,457 --> 00:46:02,482 Well, then you might enjoy this. 839 00:46:03,627 --> 00:46:05,094 The obituaries? 840 00:46:05,129 --> 00:46:07,324 Richard Speck. Killed eight nurses in 66. 841 00:46:07,364 --> 00:46:09,924 Died in prison. He was 49. 842 00:46:09,967 --> 00:46:11,958 Cheney's 42. 843 00:46:12,008 --> 00:46:16,558 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0