1 00:00:00,250 --> 00:00:03,45 Narrator: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented 2 00:00:03,212 --> 00:00:05,422 by two separate yet equally important groups... 3 00:00:05,589 --> 00:00:07,633 The police who investigate crime, 4 00:00:07,799 --> 00:00:10,177 and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. 5 00:00:10,344 --> 00:00:12,429 These are their stories. 6 00:00:13,847 --> 00:00:15,849 They want all cops to live in the city. 7 00:00:16,16 --> 00:00:17,518 On our salaries? 8 00:00:17,684 --> 00:00:20,20 | don't think this is beef, man. 9 00:00:23,357 --> 00:00:25,275 Somebody didn't want to pay for dinner. 10 00:00:25,442 --> 00:00:27,486 It's too greasy. 11 00:00:27,653 --> 00:00:30,572 Officers, please... 12 00:00:30,739 --> 00:00:32,616 Restaurant bills, we don't get involved. 13 00:00:32,783 --> 00:00:35,536 - Go to Small Claims court. - No, no. 14 00:00:39,39 --> 00:00:41,708 Downstairs, | push buzzer. No answer. 15 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:43,877 Lady walk out, | walk in. 16 00:00:45,462 --> 00:00:47,589 They owe $26. 17 00:00:49,383 --> 00:00:52,594 | very sorry | come in, but $26! 18 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:08,193 | no touch anything. | no take anything. 19 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,529 Tell him to shut up. 20 00:02:41,36 --> 00:02:42,746 The order was called in at 9:05, 21 00:02:42,913 --> 00:02:44,790 and the delivery boy found them at 9:40. 22 00:02:44,956 --> 00:02:47,334 Close the door. 23 00:02:47,501 --> 00:02:50,379 - Cop: It's the smell. - The flies'll come in for the blood. 24 00:02:50,545 --> 00:02:52,673 Close the door. 25 00:02:55,258 --> 00:02:59,846 Well, silver, jewelry, cash... untouched. 26 00:03:00,13 --> 00:03:02,432 Here's a Con Ed bill... "Mr. And Mrs. Edward Cullen." 27 00:03:03,642 --> 00:03:05,143 Young wife? 28 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:07,646 Eh... | don't know. 29 00:03:07,813 --> 00:03:10,941 Four closets with his clothes, one closet with hers. 30 00:03:11,108 --> 00:03:13,276 No wallet, no purse, no credit cards? 31 00:03:13,443 --> 00:03:14,986 Come on. 32 00:03:15,153 --> 00:03:18,73 It's the strangest marriage I've ever seen. 33 00:03:19,32 --> 00:03:21,451 Cop: Excuse me. Easy there, ma‘am. 34 00:03:21,618 --> 00:03:23,745 The two of them? 35 00:03:25,38 --> 00:03:26,915 What... what did you say? 36 00:03:27,82 --> 00:03:30,293 Ed and Melanie... they're getting divorced. She doesn't live here anymore. 37 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:32,87 Is she blonde, about 30? 38 00:03:32,254 --> 00:03:36,383 Blonde, but if Melanie's 30, I'm Vanilla Ice. 39 00:03:36,550 --> 00:03:38,427 Who? It wasn't the wife. 40 00:03:38,593 --> 00:03:40,721 You know where we can find Mrs. Cullen? 41 00:03:45,392 --> 00:03:50,480 We were... we were separated for 15 months. 42 00:03:50,647 --> 00:03:54,776 That doesn't mean that | stopped loving him. 43 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,573 Cerreta: Take your time. 44 00:03:59,740 --> 00:04:02,451 We just want to find out who did this. 45 00:04:03,994 --> 00:04:05,954 Did your husband have any enemies? 46 00:04:06,121 --> 00:04:08,957 You know... | mean, in business or anything? 47 00:04:10,751 --> 00:04:13,336 Eddie owed people money, 48 00:04:13,503 --> 00:04:17,215 but not enough for somebody to kill him. 49 00:04:17,382 --> 00:04:19,50 Your husband, Mrs. Cullen, 50 00:04:19,217 --> 00:04:21,970 when's the last time you saw him? 51 00:04:22,137 --> 00:04:24,181 Three... 52 00:04:24,347 --> 00:04:26,892 four... 53 00:04:27,58 --> 00:04:28,560 months ago. 54 00:04:28,727 --> 00:04:30,854 With the lawyers. 55 00:04:31,855 --> 00:04:33,940 Not a friendly divorce? 56 00:04:35,984 --> 00:04:37,944 It was amicable. 57 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:40,405 People change. 58 00:04:40,572 --> 00:04:42,240 Did you know your husband's friend? 59 00:04:42,407 --> 00:04:44,409 She was blonde, about 30. 60 00:04:46,828 --> 00:04:48,538 A woman was shot with your husband... 61 00:04:48,705 --> 00:04:51,124 in the bedroom. 62 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,43 Huh-uh. 63 00:04:55,212 --> 00:04:58,465 Could you tell me what you were doing tonight, Mrs. Cullen? 64 00:05:00,50 --> 00:05:04,888 | was married to him for 25 years. 65 00:05:05,55 --> 00:05:07,432 Do you think | could shoot him? 66 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:12,354 | was here... 67 00:05:13,688 --> 00:05:16,691 with Jamie, our... my son. 68 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,738 He went home a half hour ago to study. 69 00:05:21,905 --> 00:05:24,241 Would you give us his address? 70 00:05:24,407 --> 00:05:26,535 Do you mind if | call him first? 71 00:05:26,701 --> 00:05:30,747 Let me tell him his father's dead? 72 00:05:30,914 --> 00:05:33,41 Of course. 73 00:05:36,711 --> 00:05:39,548 Everybody liked him. 74 00:05:40,715 --> 00:05:44,94 Cerreta: Construction is not always a friendly business, Jamie. 75 00:05:44,261 --> 00:05:46,972 Are you saying my dad was some kind of gangster? 76 00:05:50,559 --> 00:05:54,145 Why would anybody kill him? 77 00:05:54,312 --> 00:05:56,189 You work with your father? 78 00:05:56,356 --> 00:05:57,858 Yeah. 79 00:05:58,24 --> 00:06:00,26 Um... 80 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:01,987 I'm putting up frames. 81 00:06:02,153 --> 00:06:05,31 He wanted me to get into law school. 82 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:08,535 Course for the law boards. 83 00:06:09,619 --> 00:06:11,955 Who was your father's girlfriend? 84 00:06:12,122 --> 00:06:14,749 | didn't know he had a girlfriend. 85 00:06:14,916 --> 00:06:16,585 You guys had to tell my mother? 86 00:06:16,751 --> 00:06:18,295 You were with her tonight? 87 00:06:20,338 --> 00:06:22,632 | have... 88 00:06:22,799 --> 00:06:25,802 dinner with her a couple times a month. 89 00:06:25,969 --> 00:06:28,805 She still can't get used to... 90 00:06:30,432 --> 00:06:32,183 living alone. 91 00:06:32,350 --> 00:06:34,936 So when'd you leave her? About 10:00, right? 92 00:06:35,103 --> 00:06:37,147 About 11:00. 93 00:06:39,482 --> 00:06:41,443 | guess it's... 94 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:44,905 | guess it's your job, thinking these things, you guys, 95 00:06:45,71 --> 00:06:47,73 but it's crazy. 96 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:50,535 My mother wouldn't kill my father. 97 00:06:57,42 --> 00:07:00,128 Six slugs. Talk about “coitus interruptus.” 98 00:07:00,295 --> 00:07:02,589 - You bring me a .38? - It's out there somewhere. 99 00:07:02,756 --> 00:07:04,674 Only 7-800,000 of them around. 100 00:07:04,841 --> 00:07:07,177 You're looking for an old one, heavy rifling. 101 00:07:07,344 --> 00:07:09,554 Run Melanie and Edward Cullen. 102 00:07:09,721 --> 00:07:11,348 Done. 103 00:07:11,514 --> 00:07:13,725 No registrations... New York, Connecticut, 104 00:07:13,892 --> 00:07:16,478 Jersey and Pennsylvania. 105 00:07:16,645 --> 00:07:18,521 She does card tricks, too. 106 00:07:18,688 --> 00:07:21,524 Try this trick... go through every .38 slug you got, 107 00:07:21,691 --> 00:07:24,736 and if that doesn't work, start with our friends in Hoboken 108 00:07:24,903 --> 00:07:28,323 and Long Island City and work your way east and west. 109 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,76 Sure, but it's a big haystack. 110 00:07:33,995 --> 00:07:36,706 The wife and the kid may be telling the truth. 111 00:07:36,873 --> 00:07:40,543 Yeah... or the kid's lying to cover for her. 112 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:43,296 Or she's lying to cover for him. 113 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:47,175 Or maybe they got up after the lasagna 114 00:07:47,342 --> 00:07:48,760 cabbed it to 73rd Street 115 00:07:48,927 --> 00:07:50,762 and whacked the "happy couple" together. 116 00:07:50,929 --> 00:07:53,890 You know, we do have a few other people in this town. 117 00:07:54,57 --> 00:07:55,809 Have you considered anybody else? 118 00:07:55,976 --> 00:07:59,688 There's no mob angle, because as you know, they use .22s, not .38s. 119 00:07:59,854 --> 00:08:02,983 So? What, you figure Cullen got up at a delicate moment, 120 00:08:03,149 --> 00:08:05,610 let the killer in and then hopped back in the sack? 121 00:08:05,777 --> 00:08:08,29 | figure "Somebody" had a key. 122 00:08:08,196 --> 00:08:10,156 Phil, | know it looks obvious, 123 00:08:10,323 --> 00:08:13,660 but before we sentence the wife, remember we do have two victims here, 124 00:08:13,827 --> 00:08:17,372 and one of them is still wearing a tag on her toe... "Jane Doe." 125 00:08:17,539 --> 00:08:21,167 Maybe she had an enemy. Maybe she had a name. 126 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:24,337 Middle-age guy has a babe like that, he spreads the news. 127 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:26,715 Ask at the office. 128 00:08:27,841 --> 00:08:30,385 | always told Ed, "Stick to your core business... 129 00:08:30,552 --> 00:08:34,139 Residential in Queens, commercial in Manhattan." 130 00:08:34,305 --> 00:08:36,725 No, he wants to do condos, First Avenue. 131 00:08:36,891 --> 00:08:39,19 - Cerreta: You his partner? - Sales manager. 132 00:08:40,311 --> 00:08:42,439 And | know what sells. 133 00:08:43,648 --> 00:08:45,525 He wants to leave Melanie, | said, "She's 134 00:08:45,692 --> 00:08:47,819 Brooklyn, you're Brooklyn. That's your core." 135 00:08:47,986 --> 00:08:50,363 - You think it was the girlfriend? - No, she came later. 136 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:53,908 You know, mid-life crisis, business goes bad, he wants a divorce, 137 00:08:54,75 --> 00:08:55,952 he cons Melanie into moving out, 138 00:08:56,119 --> 00:08:58,163 promises he's gonna sell the apartment. 139 00:08:58,329 --> 00:09:01,374 This dead boss of yours sounds like a real charmer. 140 00:09:01,541 --> 00:09:03,418 What, only bad guys leave their wives? 141 00:09:03,585 --> 00:09:06,379 Every guy who knew Ed Cullen thought he was terrific. 142 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:08,548 Alexandra Beckett... What, is that with two "T" s? 143 00:09:08,715 --> 00:09:11,676 One or two. | never met her. He kept her mostly secret. 144 00:09:11,843 --> 00:09:12,886 You happen to know where she lived? 145 00:09:13,53 --> 00:09:16,806 No, but she worked at Christie's. 146 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:25,231 Woman: Oh God. 147 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:28,526 It's Alexandra. 148 00:09:28,693 --> 00:09:31,71 This was her big sale. 149 00:09:31,237 --> 00:09:33,531 Could we go downstairs? 150 00:09:33,698 --> 00:09:35,450 Yeah, sure. 151 00:09:39,746 --> 00:09:41,623 Cerreta: Did you know her boyfriend? 152 00:09:41,790 --> 00:09:44,417 Mm-hm. Doug Phillips. 153 00:09:45,418 --> 00:09:47,504 How many boyfriends did she have? 154 00:09:47,670 --> 00:09:50,507 Oh, you mean Edward. You said "boyfriend." 155 00:09:50,673 --> 00:09:54,344 She broke up with him when she started seeing Edward. 156 00:09:54,511 --> 00:09:57,180 In other words, she traded in a boy for a man? 157 00:09:58,973 --> 00:10:00,892 He... Doug... Dropped out of Wharton, 158 00:10:01,59 --> 00:10:03,520 dropped out of Yale Architecture. 159 00:10:04,20 --> 00:10:06,689 Edward was solid. He knew what he wanted. 160 00:10:06,856 --> 00:10:08,399 What he wanted was Alexandra? 161 00:10:09,234 --> 00:10:11,236 He adored her. 162 00:10:12,362 --> 00:10:14,239 Doug must've been thrilled. 163 00:10:14,405 --> 00:10:16,991 He have a temper? 164 00:10:17,158 --> 00:10:19,410 Oh no... no, no. 165 00:10:19,577 --> 00:10:22,789 Doug would've never have killed Alexandra. 166 00:10:22,956 --> 00:10:25,416 But he might've killed Cullen. 167 00:10:27,877 --> 00:10:30,630 There... there was a scene... in a restaurant... 168 00:10:30,797 --> 00:10:32,924 With Cullen? 169 00:10:33,91 --> 00:10:35,718 Edward was there with Alexandra at "Vincenzo's," 170 00:10:35,885 --> 00:10:40,181 and Doug walked in... drunk, 171 00:10:40,348 --> 00:10:42,475 and he punched him. 172 00:10:44,394 --> 00:10:47,147 P-H-I-L-L-I-P-S. 173 00:10:47,313 --> 00:10:50,24 First name "Douglas." Run him for his prints, will you? 174 00:10:50,191 --> 00:10:52,110 And his phone. Message unit detail. 175 00:10:52,277 --> 00:10:56,865 - Bobby, Bobby, get a subpoena for his MUDs, all right? - Bobby: Gotcha. 176 00:10:59,701 --> 00:11:01,744 Usage details. 177 00:11:01,911 --> 00:11:06,541 Phillips called his girlfriend's apartment and Cullen's apartment... 50 times. 178 00:11:07,959 --> 00:11:10,587 There's no gun registered to Phillips in New York, 179 00:11:10,753 --> 00:11:12,714 and there's no match yet on the slugs. 180 00:11:12,881 --> 00:11:15,884 Yeah, but he called Cullen's apartment the night of the murder. 181 00:11:16,50 --> 00:11:19,304 Yeah, keep checking the other states and keep looking for a match. 182 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:22,307 The kid had an altruistic phase. 183 00:11:22,473 --> 00:11:24,350 Taught public school one summer. 184 00:11:24,517 --> 00:11:27,437 So you got his prints? They match a set in Cullen's apartment. 185 00:11:27,604 --> 00:11:29,439 Let me see that. You're welcome. 186 00:11:29,606 --> 00:11:32,192 And may | suggest a search warrant? 187 00:11:33,610 --> 00:11:36,112 Cerreta: Yeah. Mm-hmm. 188 00:11:37,405 --> 00:11:39,240 | didn't kill her. | wanted to marry her. 189 00:11:39,407 --> 00:11:42,118 Did she want to marry you? What was she doing at Cullen's... 190 00:11:42,285 --> 00:11:44,162 shopping for her trousseau? 191 00:11:44,329 --> 00:11:45,705 Are these yours? 192 00:11:45,872 --> 00:11:47,624 Hers. Spares. 193 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:50,710 She was my girlfriend. She used to sleep here. 194 00:11:52,462 --> 00:11:54,964 We'd like you to come down to the precinct, 195 00:11:55,131 --> 00:11:56,966 just to ask a few questions. 196 00:11:57,133 --> 00:11:59,427 I'm going to call a lawyer. 197 00:11:59,594 --> 00:12:03,473 So he slugged him, once, weeks ago. That's not murder. 198 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,517 He was a sleaze ina thousand-dollar suit. 199 00:12:06,684 --> 00:12:09,229 With a nicer apartment than yours. 200 00:12:10,355 --> 00:12:12,982 Alexandra had a weakness for older men, 201 00:12:13,149 --> 00:12:15,652 which is a joke, if you know her father. 202 00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:18,446 What are you saying here? Am | a suspect? 203 00:12:18,613 --> 00:12:22,325 Hey, listen, everybody's a suspect until they're cleared. 204 00:12:22,492 --> 00:12:25,536 But let's just say you didn't kill Cullen, all right? 205 00:12:25,703 --> 00:12:27,747 Have you ever been in his apartment? 206 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:31,501 Uh, once. 207 00:12:31,668 --> 00:12:34,712 A cocktail party with Alexandra four or five months ago. 208 00:12:36,172 --> 00:12:38,925 He was trying to get on the board of a dance company. 209 00:12:39,92 --> 00:12:40,843 Pathetic. 210 00:12:41,10 --> 00:12:43,179 They wanted his money and his view. 211 00:12:43,346 --> 00:12:46,182 Your girlfriend liked a lot more than the view. 212 00:12:46,349 --> 00:12:49,227 Hey... up yours, pal. 213 00:12:49,394 --> 00:12:52,355 - Do | have to take this crap? - Cerreta: Nice work... 214 00:12:52,522 --> 00:12:55,692 Bait him, calm him down, rev him up again. 215 00:12:55,858 --> 00:12:58,486 Logan: Did you talk to Alexandra the night she was killed? 216 00:12:58,653 --> 00:13:01,531 | was home. 217 00:13:01,698 --> 00:13:04,701 You call anybody? Anybody call you? 218 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:09,998 You called Cullen's apartment an hour before he died 219 00:13:10,164 --> 00:13:11,958 and the call lasted... six minutes. 220 00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:15,545 Not another word. Let's go. That's it. Interview's over. 221 00:13:15,712 --> 00:13:17,547 You charge him or you let him go. 222 00:13:26,222 --> 00:13:28,975 Prints, motive, opportunity. 223 00:13:29,142 --> 00:13:31,728 Those prints could've been five months old. 224 00:13:31,894 --> 00:13:33,896 - Or 96 hours. - How did he get in? 225 00:13:34,63 --> 00:13:36,858 Kid had a key to the girl's apartment, she had a key to Cullen's... 226 00:13:37,25 --> 00:13:38,776 I'm figuring "one plus one equals two." 227 00:13:38,943 --> 00:13:42,196 The girl was shot first. He's gonna kill him, he'd pop the guy first. 228 00:13:42,363 --> 00:13:45,742 Come on. He's angry enough to shoot her but not enough to shoot her first? 229 00:13:45,908 --> 00:13:48,911 - | wish we had a gun. - | wish | had a girlfriend named "Lola." 230 00:13:51,372 --> 00:13:53,207 What do you think, Counselor? 231 00:13:53,374 --> 00:13:56,419 We've gotten indictments on a lot less. 232 00:13:56,586 --> 00:13:58,504 They don't sell hot guns at Brooks Brothers. 233 00:13:58,671 --> 00:14:01,466 | am telling you, this twerp wouldn't know where to get one. 234 00:14:01,632 --> 00:14:05,386 Come on, Phil, even rich jerks can get a .38 in this town. 235 00:14:14,771 --> 00:14:17,523 Douglas Phillips, you're under arrest 236 00:14:17,690 --> 00:14:20,360 for the murder of Edward Cullen and Alexandra Beckett. 237 00:14:20,526 --> 00:14:22,945 You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do say... 238 00:14:26,824 --> 00:14:28,159 Not guilty. 239 00:14:28,326 --> 00:14:29,952 Your Honor, these are vicious murders 240 00:14:30,119 --> 00:14:32,163 committed by a privileged young man who considers himself 241 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:35,792 beyond the norms of society. The People request substantial bail. 242 00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:38,544 Your Honor, Mr. Phillips has never been arrested before, 243 00:14:38,711 --> 00:14:41,589 he has strong family roots in New York City... 244 00:14:41,756 --> 00:14:45,468 His grandfather sat on the bench where Your Honor now presides. 245 00:14:45,635 --> 00:14:47,887 | hope he worked shorter hours than | do. 246 00:14:48,54 --> 00:14:50,139 $200,000. 247 00:14:50,306 --> 00:14:52,892 I'll be back in 10. 248 00:14:54,310 --> 00:14:56,729 What? What are we doing here? 249 00:14:56,896 --> 00:14:58,856 No gun, no witness, no record. 250 00:14:59,23 --> 00:15:02,68 He'd have a record if Cullen had called the cops after he slugged him. 251 00:15:02,235 --> 00:15:04,404 You want to make a case, he'll plead to assault. 252 00:15:04,570 --> 00:15:06,906 How about manslaughter one... Crime of passion? 253 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,79 Logan: Here you go. 254 00:15:13,246 --> 00:15:15,123 Best hot dog in the city? 255 00:15:15,289 --> 00:15:17,166 86 and Third... the papaya place. 256 00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:19,585 There may be hope for you yet. 257 00:15:19,752 --> 00:15:23,05 "Ptomaine City." You want this? 258 00:15:23,172 --> 00:15:24,882 Yeah. 259 00:15:26,676 --> 00:15:28,803 What's around here? 260 00:15:28,970 --> 00:15:31,472 "Antonio's." Let's go get some calamari. 261 00:15:31,639 --> 00:15:34,559 Listen, Phil, | don't eat anything that squirts ink, okay? 262 00:15:39,272 --> 00:15:41,107 "Mrs. Cullen thanked the police 263 00:15:41,274 --> 00:15:43,443 for apprehending her husband's killer." 264 00:15:43,609 --> 00:15:45,987 What, she send you a note? 265 00:15:46,154 --> 00:15:48,739 You tell me. 266 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:52,702 How did Phillips get in? 267 00:15:55,329 --> 00:15:57,623 Cragen could be right... He lifted the girl's key. 268 00:15:57,790 --> 00:16:00,626 Do you buy it? 269 00:16:01,961 --> 00:16:04,05 You don't think he did it? 270 00:16:04,172 --> 00:16:07,216 The Cullen kid spent a lot of time with his father. 271 00:16:07,383 --> 00:16:10,636 Yeah. He probably had a key. 272 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,305 Remember what he said? 273 00:16:12,472 --> 00:16:14,640 He said, "My mother wouldn't kill my father." 274 00:16:14,807 --> 00:16:16,642 He was with her at the time of the murder. 275 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:20,229 Why didn't he say, "My mother didn't kill my father"? 276 00:16:23,191 --> 00:16:26,110 You want to reopen 'cause the kid used the wrong tense? 277 00:16:26,277 --> 00:16:28,237 All right, look, it's not just that. 278 00:16:28,404 --> 00:16:31,240 These snot-nosed rich kids, you look at 'em funny, they fall apart. 279 00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:32,950 Phillips... he didn't break. 280 00:16:33,117 --> 00:16:35,536 This a conspiracy? You guys in on this together? 281 00:16:35,703 --> 00:16:38,706 Cullen and the girlfriend are shacking up for four months. 282 00:16:38,873 --> 00:16:41,167 The wife never heard of her? The son never noticed? 283 00:16:41,334 --> 00:16:44,03 Come on, her clothes are in his apartment. The son go blind? 284 00:16:44,170 --> 00:16:47,48 The son has no motive, the wife has an alibi. 285 00:16:47,215 --> 00:16:50,635 What about the alibi's alibi? 286 00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:58,59 - Jamie Cullen. - Oh. 287 00:16:59,227 --> 00:17:01,145 Excuse me, dear. 288 00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:09,570 Hmm, looks like he'll be back for another try. 289 00:17:09,737 --> 00:17:13,658 Checks out the review tapes, but his test exam's marginal. 290 00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:15,660 Very. 291 00:17:15,826 --> 00:17:17,703 Have his scores dipped lately? 292 00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:19,622 Bad and steady. 293 00:17:19,789 --> 00:17:22,458 We set him up with a study group... 294 00:17:22,625 --> 00:17:24,794 Seven other students. 295 00:17:24,961 --> 00:17:26,837 Oh, look at this. 296 00:17:27,04 --> 00:17:28,798 He missed class Thursday night. 297 00:17:28,965 --> 00:17:32,593 You got the names of those kids? The ones in the study group. 298 00:17:33,761 --> 00:17:35,846 I'm trying to get into law school 299 00:17:36,13 --> 00:17:39,559 because my father told me education is wasted on women. 300 00:17:39,725 --> 00:17:41,561 Jamie wants to go 301 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:43,896 because his father wanted him to make something of himself. 302 00:17:44,63 --> 00:17:45,940 Did he have a problem with his father? 303 00:17:46,107 --> 00:17:49,402 Jamie had a problem with the law boards. 304 00:17:49,569 --> 00:17:51,779 He liked his father. 305 00:17:51,946 --> 00:17:54,657 You took him his notes after class? 306 00:17:54,824 --> 00:17:56,867 For what it's worth. 307 00:17:57,34 --> 00:17:59,245 What time's he get there? 308 00:17:59,412 --> 00:18:02,582 About 9... 9:10. 309 00:18:02,748 --> 00:18:05,126 You leave them at the door? 310 00:18:05,293 --> 00:18:08,170 No, | gave them to Jamie. 311 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,426 You're sure about the time? 312 00:18:13,593 --> 00:18:15,720 I'm positive. 313 00:18:19,56 --> 00:18:21,934 You arrested somebody, right? Why are you asking me this? 314 00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:24,937 It's a slow day. 315 00:18:25,104 --> 00:18:26,939 | don't Know, we thought we'd kill some time. 316 00:18:27,106 --> 00:18:30,109 Jamie, you weren't with your mother. 317 00:18:30,276 --> 00:18:32,194 | had dinner with her. 318 00:18:32,361 --> 00:18:35,281 What do you think this is, some kind of a schoolyard game? 319 00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:36,949 "No, | didn't." "Yes, you did." 320 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:39,994 You want us to prove it, we will prove it. 321 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:47,710 Okay, | was with her. 322 00:18:47,877 --> 00:18:51,964 | was there until... about 8:30. 323 00:18:52,131 --> 00:18:55,09 She called me up, she was scared. She said you accused her. 324 00:18:55,176 --> 00:19:00,389 - Did she tell you to lie? - She didn't kill my father. 325 00:19:04,769 --> 00:19:08,814 We're barely out the door, she's already on the horn telling the kid to lie. 326 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:12,652 The good news? Great Neck, four years ago, your .38 hit a burglar. 327 00:19:12,818 --> 00:19:14,612 You're not gonna ask? 328 00:19:14,779 --> 00:19:18,866 - The dog ate it? - Stolen. Three years ago. 329 00:19:19,33 --> 00:19:21,243 Stolen from who? 330 00:19:21,410 --> 00:19:24,789 Right out of my apartment. Somebody must've come in the fire escape. 331 00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:28,334 | reported it. 332 00:19:28,501 --> 00:19:30,795 Where were you working then? 333 00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:33,214 What, three years ago? | don't remember. 334 00:19:33,381 --> 00:19:35,174 That's the damn truth. 335 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:37,802 Your boss says it was a construction site in Nassau County. 336 00:19:37,968 --> 00:19:39,762 - If you say so. - | do say so. 337 00:19:39,929 --> 00:19:42,139 How long you been a security guard, George? 338 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:44,266 14 years. 339 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:46,310 14 years? State of New York says in 14 years 340 00:19:46,477 --> 00:19:48,771 you had three registered guns... Two of them stolen. 341 00:19:48,938 --> 00:19:50,398 You're a hell of a security guard. 342 00:19:50,564 --> 00:19:52,566 You ought to hire a guard to watch your guns. 343 00:19:52,733 --> 00:19:54,485 | live in a rough neighborhood. 344 00:19:54,652 --> 00:19:56,570 Your last stolen gun has two bodies on it. 345 00:19:56,737 --> 00:19:59,115 You sold that, it's a felony. 346 00:19:59,281 --> 00:20:02,243 Maybe you like "accessory to murder" better? 347 00:20:02,410 --> 00:20:05,204 Hey, do you think we can't find out what happened to your guns? 348 00:20:05,371 --> 00:20:08,457 - We'll tear your life apart. - Or you tell us, plead to a misdemeanor, 349 00:20:08,624 --> 00:20:10,126 find yourself a new career. 350 00:20:10,292 --> 00:20:12,753 Hey, look... He said he couldn't get a license. 351 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:15,881 He carried a lot of cash and he needed a gun for protection. 352 00:20:16,48 --> 00:20:18,509 - He gave me $500. - He?! 353 00:20:18,676 --> 00:20:21,512 Are you trying to annoy me? Is that what he's trying to do? 354 00:20:21,679 --> 00:20:24,682 - He's trying to get on my nerves. - The boss, Mr. Cullen. 355 00:20:26,642 --> 00:20:29,395 His own gun. | love this. 356 00:20:29,562 --> 00:20:32,690 So he killed the girl, killed himself, and then threw the gun out the window? 357 00:20:32,857 --> 00:20:35,25 Come on. 358 00:20:35,192 --> 00:20:37,194 He had the gun in the apartment for three years. 359 00:20:37,361 --> 00:20:39,864 The wife didn't know about it? The kid didn't know about it? 360 00:20:40,30 --> 00:20:41,741 But how would Doug Phillips know? 361 00:20:41,907 --> 00:20:43,826 The wife's alibi is shot. 362 00:20:43,993 --> 00:20:46,620 So you have means and opportunity. 363 00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:49,206 - What about motive? - Try blonde and 30. 364 00:20:49,373 --> 00:20:52,251 Not to mention money. She says he was broke. 365 00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:54,295 He sure didn't live like he was broke. 366 00:20:54,462 --> 00:20:57,423 Go rattle her chain. 367 00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:02,94 - Why would | need a lawyer? - Cerreta: Because you're a suspect 368 00:21:02,261 --> 00:21:04,930 in the murder of your husband and Alexandra Beckett. 369 00:21:07,16 --> 00:21:11,729 | told my son to lie because | was afraid. 370 00:21:11,896 --> 00:21:14,273 Afraid your husband was going to leave you without a dime? 371 00:21:17,109 --> 00:21:19,445 We were married for 25 years 372 00:21:19,612 --> 00:21:23,908 and | haven't had a job since | got engaged. 373 00:21:24,74 --> 00:21:27,953 | was a salesgirl at B. Altman then, 374 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:31,791 and now | don't even know what category to look under. 375 00:21:31,957 --> 00:21:35,85 How about "Housewife from King's Highway, Brooklyn"? 376 00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:41,550 There's nothing wrong with being a housewife from King's Highway. 377 00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:43,928 Unless your husband wants a hostess from Georgetown. 378 00:21:46,430 --> 00:21:49,58 Ever see something like this? 379 00:21:49,225 --> 00:21:52,520 Yeah... on TV. 380 00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:56,65 Your husband had one of these. You know where he kept it? 381 00:21:57,441 --> 00:22:01,320 | haven't been in that apartment for a year. 382 00:22:01,487 --> 00:22:03,823 The gun's been there for three years. 383 00:22:09,829 --> 00:22:13,290 | just buried my husband. 384 00:22:17,211 --> 00:22:19,296 Is this one solid? 385 00:22:19,463 --> 00:22:22,883 - She lied about her alibi. - She lied about the gun, too. 386 00:22:23,50 --> 00:22:25,553 Look, we lifted her prints off the photo of the gun. 387 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:28,347 They match the prints on Cullen's doorknob. 388 00:22:28,514 --> 00:22:30,808 Hard to believe they stayed there over a year. 389 00:22:30,975 --> 00:22:33,185 And 10-to-one she lied about knowing the girlfriend. 390 00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:36,647 You need a scorecard to keep track of the lies with this broad. 391 00:22:36,814 --> 00:22:38,899 They convinced me. 392 00:22:40,985 --> 00:22:44,738 Okay, we'll dismiss on the boyfriend. Pick her up. 393 00:22:47,783 --> 00:22:50,494 Bailiff: The charges are murder in the second degree 394 00:22:50,661 --> 00:22:53,163 and manslaughter in the first degree. 395 00:22:55,249 --> 00:22:57,918 Is the defendant ready to enter a plea? 396 00:22:58,85 --> 00:22:59,420 Not guilty. 397 00:22:59,587 --> 00:23:01,881 Your Honor, this was a vicious double murder... 398 00:23:02,47 --> 00:23:04,967 What is this... Deja vu all over again? 399 00:23:05,467 --> 00:23:08,304 Didn't | hear this speech two weeks ago with a different defendant? 400 00:23:08,470 --> 00:23:10,222 The People have rectified their error. 401 00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:12,433 Mr. Lehrman: Your Honor, they're compounding their error. 402 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,602 There's no predicting who they'll arrest next. 403 00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:17,605 Mrs. Cullen is a grief-stricken widow. 404 00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:20,649 Save it, Counselor. Same crime, same bail. 405 00:23:20,816 --> 00:23:22,860 $200,000. 406 00:23:24,194 --> 00:23:28,490 Lehrman: Murder two? Why even have it on the menu? 407 00:23:28,657 --> 00:23:31,577 This isn't murder, it's manslaughter. 408 00:23:31,744 --> 00:23:33,662 So you're admitting she killed them? 409 00:23:33,829 --> 00:23:35,873 No, but if she killed them, 410 00:23:36,40 --> 00:23:37,750 it was extreme emotional disturbance 411 00:23:37,917 --> 00:23:39,668 and that's manslaughter. 412 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:41,503 | get it... she wasn't there. 413 00:23:41,670 --> 00:23:43,672 And if she was there, she didn't kill them. 414 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:45,716 If she did kill them, she didn't mean to. 415 00:23:45,883 --> 00:23:48,344 If she did mean to, it's because she was upset. 416 00:23:48,510 --> 00:23:51,472 Cute. The murder charge is inflated. 417 00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:54,767 If she killed in the heat of passion and you can prove it. 418 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:58,354 Her husband was in bed with another woman. 419 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,397 Juries tend to be sympathetic. 420 00:24:00,564 --> 00:24:03,776 They also tend to sympathize with people who have been shot six times. 421 00:24:03,943 --> 00:24:07,905 Criminally negligent homicide. She does no time. 422 00:24:08,72 --> 00:24:10,532 No time...? 423 00:24:10,699 --> 00:24:14,119 Why don't we throw her a tickertape parade? 424 00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:16,747 Manslaughter one, eight and a third each count. 425 00:24:16,914 --> 00:24:22,02 It's called plea bargaining, not plea scalping. 426 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:26,340 Pass. 427 00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:32,96 The jury is not going to convict on murder. 428 00:24:32,262 --> 00:24:35,307 Take a deal. Manslaughter one, four years. 429 00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:37,351 That's all she'll probably get anyway. 430 00:24:37,518 --> 00:24:39,269 This kind of case, judges are lenient. 431 00:24:39,436 --> 00:24:41,522 In this kind of case, if it is a case of passion, 432 00:24:41,689 --> 00:24:44,733 the woman is weeping into the barrel of the gun as the cops drive up. 433 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:48,237 She doesn't run, hide the gun, lie to the police, fake alibis. 434 00:24:48,404 --> 00:24:50,280 Yeah, and all the jury's gonna see 435 00:24:50,447 --> 00:24:52,825 is a middle-aged widow who snapped. 436 00:24:52,992 --> 00:24:55,244 Some widow... She's barely a wife. 437 00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:57,913 A few months, the legal separation is up, 438 00:24:58,80 --> 00:24:59,665 two signatures, they're divorced. 439 00:24:59,832 --> 00:25:00,624 Which they weren't. 440 00:25:00,791 --> 00:25:03,85 Which means she inherits. Another motive entirely. 441 00:25:03,252 --> 00:25:04,378 Cullen was supposed to be broke. 442 00:25:04,545 --> 00:25:06,422 | need every scrap of paper from the crime scene, 443 00:25:06,588 --> 00:25:09,08 Cullen's office, Mrs. Cullen's apartment, 444 00:25:09,174 --> 00:25:10,509 and every witness re-interviewed. 445 00:25:10,676 --> 00:25:14,680 I'll give you five-to-one all you're gonna get is eyestrain. 446 00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:16,974 All the detectives are going to get is sore feet. 447 00:25:17,141 --> 00:25:19,268 You're gonna end up exactly where you started... 448 00:25:19,435 --> 00:25:21,979 "Wife Shoots Husband in Bed with Lover." 449 00:25:22,146 --> 00:25:24,23 Take a deal. 450 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:25,941 Cerreta: Cullen sure got a lot of mail. 451 00:25:26,108 --> 00:25:28,360 Here's your motive. 452 00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:30,612 Cullen won a million bucks... 453 00:25:30,779 --> 00:25:33,365 Right from Ed McMahon. 454 00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:36,577 Here's something from the office of the Attorney General. 455 00:25:41,457 --> 00:25:43,625 Hmm, notice of sales tax violation. 456 00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:46,295 Hmm. Did he jaywalk, too? 457 00:25:46,462 --> 00:25:50,90 It's a jeweler. They don't go after people for nickels and dimes. 458 00:25:55,596 --> 00:25:57,765 Man: Eight and 1/4 % tax. 459 00:25:57,931 --> 00:26:00,726 On $14,000, that's over $1100. 460 00:26:00,893 --> 00:26:03,353 My customer says to me, "Ship a dummy box to Jersey 461 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,398 or I'll buy my stones in Palm Beach." What am | supposed to do? 462 00:26:06,565 --> 00:26:08,734 Tell him our jails are nicer than Florida's. 463 00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:13,113 State hit me with a $100,000 fine. | love New York. 464 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,33 Looks like you're surviving. The record on that necklace... 465 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,245 Is this really important? My customer comes in again, | want his business. 466 00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:22,706 If your customer comes in again, call "Geraldo." 467 00:26:22,873 --> 00:26:26,126 He's dead, and this is a murder investigation. 468 00:26:33,592 --> 00:26:35,928 Mr. Cullen paid cash, right? 469 00:26:37,96 --> 00:26:39,640 And the necklace was sent to an Alexandra Beckett? 470 00:26:39,807 --> 00:26:41,642 Just barely. 471 00:26:41,809 --> 00:26:45,145 Mr. Cullen had bought several pieces for his wife over the years. 472 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:47,272 Smaller pieces. 473 00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:51,68 It was a cretinous new shipping clerk who called Mrs. Cullen by mistake. 474 00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:55,781 She was not expecting a necklace. Very embarrassing. 475 00:26:55,948 --> 00:26:58,659 If Mr. Cullen had found out, it could've cost me his business. 476 00:26:58,826 --> 00:27:02,246 Cost him a lot more than that. 477 00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:05,290 Two motives are better than one. She knew he had money and a girlfriend. 478 00:27:05,457 --> 00:27:07,84 So she was upset. 479 00:27:07,251 --> 00:27:09,419 That gets her from murder down to manslaughter. 480 00:27:09,586 --> 00:27:12,798 Really? She got the bad news two months before she killed them. 481 00:27:12,965 --> 00:27:17,94 Every court in the state will call that a cooling-off period. 482 00:27:17,261 --> 00:27:20,806 She can be provoked more than once and still say it's a crime of passion. 483 00:27:20,973 --> 00:27:23,684 - Not if she planned to kill them. - She found them in bed. 484 00:27:23,851 --> 00:27:26,937 | Know to a jury it looks like new provocation, 485 00:27:27,104 --> 00:27:29,565 but what if she wasn't surprised to see them there? 486 00:27:29,731 --> 00:27:31,984 What if | prove to you that she went there to kill them 487 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,945 and she knew she could pick up a gun on the way to the bedroom? 488 00:27:35,112 --> 00:27:38,615 - Would that satisfy you? - Would that satisfy you? 489 00:27:38,782 --> 00:27:41,34 You're splitting legal hairs. 490 00:27:41,201 --> 00:27:44,496 Do you sincerely believe Melanie Cullen went there 491 00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:46,290 with murder in her heart? 492 00:27:46,456 --> 00:27:49,01 If | have any doubts I'll plead her down. 493 00:27:49,168 --> 00:27:52,129 If not, she does 25-to-life. 494 00:27:53,46 --> 00:27:55,132 We're still collecting Cullen's mail. 495 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:57,09 This came yesterday. 496 00:27:57,176 --> 00:28:00,53 "If you wish to make additional spare copies 497 00:28:00,220 --> 00:28:03,56 of the keys to your Fournier 'Securi-Proof' lock, 498 00:28:03,223 --> 00:28:06,101 discover the convenience of ordering directly from the factory." 499 00:28:06,268 --> 00:28:09,188 So he had a key made. 500 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:12,816 Somebody had a key made. 501 00:28:12,983 --> 00:28:15,68 Locks with thousand-dollar keys. 502 00:28:15,235 --> 00:28:19,698 Invent one, I'll mint money. Fourniers, 57 bucks a pop. 503 00:28:19,865 --> 00:28:21,992 The Cullen key? 504 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:34,922 "Reason: Lost original. 505 00:28:35,88 --> 00:28:37,216 Owner: Mrs. Edward Cullen." 506 00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:39,843 Mrs. Cullen? She had an original key? 507 00:28:40,10 --> 00:28:43,180 Lost original. But you made her a copy? 508 00:28:43,347 --> 00:28:45,432 She had the serial number. 509 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:49,728 And, yes, | called the company and checked the address on her ID. 510 00:28:49,895 --> 00:28:51,855 Where do you get a serial number? 511 00:28:52,22 --> 00:28:53,607 It's on the registration papers. 512 00:28:53,774 --> 00:28:55,442 That's it? 513 00:28:55,609 --> 00:29:00,447 Stamped on the original keys, but she'd lost them, right? 514 00:29:00,614 --> 00:29:03,325 - Where'd she get the number? - Stone: Fournier locks have three keys. 515 00:29:03,492 --> 00:29:05,869 Cullen had one, Alexandra Beckett had one. 516 00:29:06,36 --> 00:29:07,996 You think either of them gave Mrs. Cullen the number? 517 00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:09,414 The son. 518 00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:11,583 He gave it to her, or she helped herself. 519 00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:17,47 So Cullen was killed by his wife, 520 00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:20,717 or by his wife and son. | don't even want to think about this. 521 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:23,387 We pick him up as an accessory, maybe even a co-conspirator. 522 00:29:23,553 --> 00:29:25,138 He lied, Adam. He knows something. 523 00:29:25,305 --> 00:29:29,518 Frank Lehrman will never let you deal the son against the mother. 524 00:29:29,685 --> 00:29:34,439 And maybe she copied the number off her son's key. He doesn't know... 525 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,359 We bring him the news. Suddenly he sees Mom in a whole new light. 526 00:29:37,526 --> 00:29:39,778 - Don't arrest him. - | have to scare him. 527 00:29:39,945 --> 00:29:41,738 My office or the room at Rikers. 528 00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:45,492 The minute you call him, he's gonna call his mother, she's gonna call Frank Lehrman, 529 00:29:45,659 --> 00:29:48,412 and he's gonna demand that the interview take place in his office. 530 00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:52,249 You want to scare the kid? Put Cerreta and Logan at the water cooler. 531 00:29:52,416 --> 00:29:56,128 If he doesn't break, then read him his rights. 532 00:29:57,254 --> 00:29:59,298 Gestapo tactics, Stone? 533 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:02,342 Two cops outside? Why not rubber hoses? 534 00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:07,139 We have reason to believe that you are guilty of criminal facilitation... 535 00:30:07,306 --> 00:30:10,726 Providing your mother with the means to murder your father. 536 00:30:10,892 --> 00:30:13,20 What? 537 00:30:13,186 --> 00:30:16,148 This is the "minor question" you wanted to ask? 538 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:19,67 You had a key to your father's apartment, didn't you? 539 00:30:19,234 --> 00:30:20,861 So? 540 00:30:21,28 --> 00:30:22,946 She got the serial number off of your key. 541 00:30:23,113 --> 00:30:26,158 She had it made or you gave it to her. 542 00:30:26,325 --> 00:30:29,995 |... | didn't... She didn't have a key. 543 00:30:30,162 --> 00:30:32,664 Sworn statement from the locksmith. 544 00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:34,499 That's it... This interview has ended. 545 00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:37,586 - Stone: She didn't tell you, did she? - You don't have to answer that. 546 00:30:37,753 --> 00:30:39,546 She had it made because she planned to kill your father. 547 00:30:39,713 --> 00:30:41,506 No, that's not what she said! 548 00:30:41,673 --> 00:30:43,842 No, come on... that is not admissible. Shut up. 549 00:30:44,09 --> 00:30:45,844 No, you shut up. You take your hands off him, 550 00:30:46,11 --> 00:30:47,721 or I'll have you up on hindering prosecution. 551 00:30:47,888 --> 00:30:50,140 - I'm this boy's lawyer. - You're his mother's lawyer. 552 00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:53,393 He and his mother have different interests. Isn't that right, Jamie? 553 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,854 When you arrested her, 554 00:30:56,21 --> 00:30:58,690 she told me my dad let her in. 555 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:02,527 Okay? She was just going over to talk about getting back together again. 556 00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:05,739 She didn't know Alexandra was going to be there. 557 00:31:09,34 --> 00:31:12,37 She didn't want to hurt anybody. 558 00:31:12,204 --> 00:31:15,374 She didn't mean to do it, you know? 559 00:31:17,250 --> 00:31:21,380 That's what she said. That's what... 560 00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:24,591 that's what she said. 561 00:31:32,265 --> 00:31:34,476 Mr. Gruen: /'m not his corporate attorney. 562 00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:37,562 | only represented Mr. Cullen in his divorce. 563 00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:40,482 What was the status of the divorce when Mr. Cullen was killed? 564 00:31:40,649 --> 00:31:44,69 Objection... the attorney-client privilege survives death. 565 00:31:44,236 --> 00:31:47,72 I'm asking about documents in the public record. 566 00:31:47,239 --> 00:31:49,658 On that basis only... proceed. 567 00:31:49,825 --> 00:31:51,952 Mr. Gruen: The separation period was up. 568 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,204 He signed the document, she didn't. 569 00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:57,499 She hit him with a dozen motions about his finances. 570 00:31:57,666 --> 00:31:59,668 In your expert opinion, what does that indicate? 571 00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:03,04 Your Honor, is my hearing going, or did Mr. Stone say 572 00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:06,675 about six seconds ago that he'd only ask about public documents? 573 00:32:06,842 --> 00:32:09,636 Mr. Gruen is an expert in divorce litigation, 574 00:32:09,803 --> 00:32:12,180 and | am not asking about discussions with his client. 575 00:32:12,347 --> 00:32:14,975 Your hearing is fine, Mr. Lehrman. Sit down. 576 00:32:17,144 --> 00:32:20,564 Stone: What does it generally mean when one party in a divorce 577 00:32:20,730 --> 00:32:23,733 makes repeated motions against the other party's assets? 578 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:25,694 She thought he was hiding money. 579 00:32:25,861 --> 00:32:27,737 Thank you. 580 00:32:29,322 --> 00:32:31,533 What did the documents you gave Mrs. Cullen 581 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,869 say about Mr. Cullen's financial condition? 582 00:32:34,35 --> 00:32:37,831 They said he was broke. Mr. Cullen provided the documents. 583 00:32:37,998 --> 00:32:41,877 And how much were you charging Mr. Cullen for your expert services? 584 00:32:42,43 --> 00:32:44,296 - 350 an hour. - Nice work. 585 00:32:44,463 --> 00:32:46,631 How much did you bill him just before he died? 586 00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,508 About $7,000. 587 00:32:48,675 --> 00:32:50,510 Did he pay that bill? He did. 588 00:32:50,677 --> 00:32:53,847 How? In cash. 589 00:32:54,14 --> 00:32:58,18 Alexandra Beckett was my boss, and she was my friend. 590 00:32:58,185 --> 00:33:01,563 Had you ever seen the defendant, Melanie Cullen, before today? 591 00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:06,26 Cecily: Yes, about six weeks before Alexandra died, 592 00:33:06,193 --> 00:33:10,447 that woman walked onto our floor at Christie's. 593 00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:15,118 Alexandra stopped talking to the customer, and she went into the office. 594 00:33:15,285 --> 00:33:17,746 She told me she didn't want to talk to her. 595 00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:20,248 Was that the first time you'd seen the defendant? 596 00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:23,627 She came about two other times... 597 00:33:23,793 --> 00:33:27,756 Once Alexandra was off, once she just hid. 598 00:33:27,923 --> 00:33:29,925 Thank you. 599 00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:36,431 Do you know how Ms. Beckett met Mr. Cullen? 600 00:33:36,598 --> 00:33:40,727 He and his wife bought some Japanese prints at one of her sales. 601 00:33:40,894 --> 00:33:43,188 So isn't it possible that Mrs. Cullen wanted 602 00:33:43,355 --> 00:33:45,565 to speak to Ms. Beckett about upcoming sales? 603 00:33:45,732 --> 00:33:47,567 She was a collector, wasn't she? 604 00:33:47,734 --> 00:33:50,362 Mrs. Cullen didn't have any money. 605 00:33:52,72 --> 00:33:56,76 Did the defendant ask specifically to see Ms. Beckett's apartment? 606 00:33:56,243 --> 00:33:58,828 Yeah, her... the defendant. 607 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:01,373 She said she was looking for a studio. 608 00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:04,417 | say, "I'm the super. You want the rental agent. 609 00:34:04,584 --> 00:34:08,964 Anyway, there's no vacancies." She says, "Here's a hundred bucks." 610 00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:11,675 Stone: What was the money for? 611 00:34:11,841 --> 00:34:14,302 Super: She wants to see Ms. Beckett's apartment. 612 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:16,12 Heard she was movin' out. 613 00:34:16,179 --> 00:34:19,140 | said, "Maybe, but not for a couple of months yet." 614 00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:21,351 She says, "Here's 200." 615 00:34:21,518 --> 00:34:23,645 | wouldn't show her. 616 00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:25,981 Thank you. 617 00:34:28,66 --> 00:34:32,821 Mr. Kolvino, hasn't anybody ever paid you to look in an apartment before? 618 00:34:32,988 --> 00:34:36,199 Sure, but not in this market. 619 00:34:37,325 --> 00:34:39,77 You almost feel sorry for her. 620 00:34:39,244 --> 00:34:41,329 Adam: !| trust the key word is "almost." 621 00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:44,916 Two months after my divorce, | wanted to kill my wife... | didn't. 622 00:34:45,83 --> 00:34:47,335 Adam: 50% of marriages end in divorce. 623 00:34:47,502 --> 00:34:50,255 If everybody starts shooting, a quarter of the population is dead. 624 00:34:50,422 --> 00:34:52,257 Don't count on that jury. 625 00:34:52,424 --> 00:34:54,801 But my premeditation case... Halfway there. 626 00:34:54,968 --> 00:34:57,762 The son testifies, Melanie Cullen is gone. 627 00:35:01,641 --> 00:35:03,893 Two years on the job, 628 00:35:04,60 --> 00:35:07,22 my first murder case, | said to myself, 629 00:35:07,188 --> 00:35:10,734 "Jury'll be out in 30 minutes. Guilty." 630 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,695 And a day later, they acquitted. 631 00:35:13,862 --> 00:35:18,158 Six days... they convicted. But a lousy six days. 632 00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:24,122 Adam: Yes? 633 00:35:25,540 --> 00:35:27,459 Tell him to call him back. 634 00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:30,03 Thank you. 635 00:35:31,338 --> 00:35:33,632 Lehrman wants to talk. 636 00:35:33,798 --> 00:35:37,10 You get a decent deal, take it. 637 00:35:37,177 --> 00:35:39,679 Manslaughter two, one count. 638 00:35:39,846 --> 00:35:41,306 Two dead bodies, two counts. 639 00:35:41,473 --> 00:35:43,224 Manslaughter one, 15 years. 640 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:47,896 Maybe the jury believes she was following Ms. Beckett, 641 00:35:48,63 --> 00:35:51,524 but she was acting crazy when she did it. Six years. 642 00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:56,613 12 years, end of conversation. 643 00:35:56,780 --> 00:35:59,366 Look, you're not gonna get anyplace trying... Melanie... 644 00:35:59,532 --> 00:36:01,534 Please. 645 00:36:02,327 --> 00:36:05,246 12 years in jail? 646 00:36:05,413 --> 00:36:09,376 I'd be an old woman. 647 00:36:09,542 --> 00:36:11,628 That's more than Alexandra Beckett'll be. 648 00:36:13,463 --> 00:36:15,965 | gave him my life, 649 00:36:16,132 --> 00:36:18,843 and he just threw it away. 650 00:36:19,10 --> 00:36:24,974 Look, | am not a used piece of furniture, Mr. Stone. 651 00:36:25,141 --> 00:36:27,519 I'm not some end table that you replace 652 00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:31,22 because it gets nicks and chips, and the styles change. 653 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,483 And so you shot your husband. 654 00:36:39,364 --> 00:36:42,701 | hadn't planned to kill him. 655 00:36:44,285 --> 00:36:47,872 You know what, Mrs. Cullen? | don't believe you. 656 00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:55,130 There are women on the jury. They'll believe me. 657 00:36:57,132 --> 00:37:00,385 | won't be a victim anymore. 658 00:37:06,808 --> 00:37:09,18 Stone: Did she tell you how she killed them? 659 00:37:09,185 --> 00:37:13,690 She knew my father's gun was in the dresser. 660 00:37:13,857 --> 00:37:16,276 Stone: Did you have a key to your father's apartment? 661 00:37:16,443 --> 00:37:18,653 Jamie: Yes. 662 00:37:18,820 --> 00:37:21,448 Did you ever give that key to your mother? 663 00:37:24,325 --> 00:37:26,244 No. 664 00:37:26,411 --> 00:37:28,371 She had her own. 665 00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,501 What? 666 00:37:44,971 --> 00:37:47,932 You are under oath, Mr. Cullen. 667 00:37:48,99 --> 00:37:51,936 My father told me to give her the serial number so she could make a copy... 668 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:55,648 So she could move out the rest of her things whenever she wanted. 669 00:38:00,945 --> 00:38:03,31 Recess, Your Honor? 670 00:38:03,198 --> 00:38:05,617 Recess, 10 minutes. 671 00:38:12,248 --> 00:38:14,375 - Stone: She got to him. - Robinette: She's his mother. 672 00:38:14,542 --> 00:38:17,420 | don't know who to slam first... the kid for perjury or Lehrman for suborning. 673 00:38:17,587 --> 00:38:20,215 He gave her the gun. Without his testimony, we didn't have the murder weapon. 674 00:38:20,381 --> 00:38:22,91 Without the key, we've got no premeditation! 675 00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:23,843 Go easy. To the jury, he's halfway to being 676 00:38:24,10 --> 00:38:25,678 an orphan. You're trying to finish the job. 677 00:38:25,845 --> 00:38:27,806 Please, just get the deposition. 678 00:38:29,15 --> 00:38:33,19 - "| didn't know my mother had a key..." - Stone: Louder, Mr. Cullen. 679 00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:38,233 "If she copied my key, she did so without my knowledge." 680 00:38:38,399 --> 00:38:41,194 - You sign that statement? - | said what you wanted to hear... you confused me. 681 00:38:41,361 --> 00:38:43,696 "Confused" you? How old are you, Mr. Cullen? 682 00:38:43,863 --> 00:38:45,532 - 22. - And when did you graduate from college? 683 00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:48,34 My father was murdered. You brought two policemen with you. 684 00:38:48,201 --> 00:38:50,954 You were going to arrest me if | didn't say what you wanted to hear! 685 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,581 Stone: Mr. Cullen, that has nothing to do with the proceedings. 686 00:38:53,748 --> 00:38:56,709 Now what? You want to put Cerreta and Logan on the stand? 687 00:38:56,876 --> 00:38:58,837 They're gonna say sure they were there... smiling the whole time. 688 00:38:59,03 --> 00:39:01,506 - | shouldn't have taken them. - You wanted to arrest the kid. 689 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:04,467 That would've looked terrific to a jury... they'd have convicted you. 690 00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:06,636 What if we put Lehrman on the stand? 691 00:39:06,803 --> 00:39:09,597 He's not the kid's attorney, and | don't think he'd perjure himself. 692 00:39:09,764 --> 00:39:12,600 Oh, that's beautiful... A defense attorney as a witness. 693 00:39:12,767 --> 00:39:15,979 Judge Becky Stein... Not gonna happen, let it drop. 694 00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:19,482 Lehrman's changed his witness list. Mrs. Cullen's up first. 695 00:39:19,649 --> 00:39:23,695 Oh, great. Get out your handkerchiefs. 696 00:39:23,862 --> 00:39:27,282 | just went over to talk to him. 697 00:39:27,448 --> 00:39:30,243 |... | thought things were getting better. 698 00:39:30,410 --> 00:39:32,662 | thought we might get back together. 699 00:39:32,829 --> 00:39:35,623 We had 25 years. 700 00:39:36,666 --> 00:39:38,668 You knew he'd been seeing someone else? 701 00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:42,881 A little fling. Men do that. 702 00:39:44,674 --> 00:39:47,719 But you did not know she would be there? 703 00:39:47,886 --> 00:39:49,929 No. 704 00:39:50,96 --> 00:39:52,140 And then | saw her in my... 705 00:39:54,893 --> 00:39:56,895 in my bed. 706 00:39:58,187 --> 00:40:02,442 She told me to get out of my bedroom. 707 00:40:03,651 --> 00:40:06,446 | saw my hu... 708 00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:11,784 | knew it was all over. I'd been kidding myself. 709 00:40:11,951 --> 00:40:15,121 Over-the-hill, middle-aged woman kidding herself, 710 00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:19,542 and this young, rich girl looking at me. 711 00:40:19,709 --> 00:40:24,88 | felt so pathetic. 712 00:40:24,255 --> 00:40:26,716 So pathetic! 713 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:30,595 | wanted to kill myself. 714 00:40:32,221 --> 00:40:34,307 Melanie: That's all... 715 00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:39,145 that's all | remember, I'm sorry. 716 00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:42,398 I'm so... I'm So sorry. 717 00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:48,863 Your witness. 718 00:40:58,247 --> 00:41:00,875 Mrs. Cullen... 719 00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:03,920 Mrs. Cullen... 720 00:41:04,87 --> 00:41:06,297 how many times did you shoot them? 721 00:41:06,464 --> 00:41:08,257 | don't remember. 722 00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:13,721 Do you remember asking your son 723 00:41:13,888 --> 00:41:16,265 to lie the night of the murder? 724 00:41:16,432 --> 00:41:20,103 | was afraid. I'm sorry. 725 00:41:20,269 --> 00:41:24,732 Do you remember asking your son to lie for you at this trial? 726 00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:31,239 | told him to tell the truth. 727 00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:38,788 Nothing matters. 728 00:41:39,622 --> 00:41:42,625 Nothing matters anymore. 729 00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:50,91 - You want to do what? - Juries like to compromise. 730 00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:52,135 If they can choose between murder two, 731 00:41:52,301 --> 00:41:54,137 manslaughter or acquittal, they'll choose manslaughter. 732 00:41:54,303 --> 00:41:57,223 Good, she'll go to prison. 733 00:41:58,99 --> 00:42:02,186 For four years... for two deaths. 734 00:42:03,312 --> 00:42:07,25 If we drop the manslaughter charge, they'll pick murder, 25-to-life. 735 00:42:07,191 --> 00:42:09,652 - Or they'll acquit. - She's a cold-blooded killer. 736 00:42:09,819 --> 00:42:10,403 She could walk. 737 00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:14,490 My case is made... premeditation. The jury won't let that happen. 738 00:42:15,491 --> 00:42:18,661 "Pride goeth before a fall." 739 00:42:18,828 --> 00:42:22,248 I'll send you flowers in the intensive care unit. 740 00:42:27,295 --> 00:42:30,757 | can't do it, Ben. The evidence cuts both ways. 741 00:42:30,923 --> 00:42:32,675 Stone: /t is within your discretion. 742 00:42:32,842 --> 00:42:36,137 So the People request that the manslaughter counts not be submitted to the jury. 743 00:42:36,304 --> 00:42:39,849 You drop manslaughter, and the jury convicts on murder... 744 00:42:40,16 --> 00:42:42,852 - Automatic appeal. - Not if you don't object. 745 00:42:43,19 --> 00:42:45,188 | am representing Mrs. Cullen. 746 00:42:45,354 --> 00:42:47,607 If the jury believes her, and the manslaughter counts are gone, 747 00:42:47,774 --> 00:42:49,859 she goes home tomorrow afternoon. 748 00:42:50,26 --> 00:42:52,195 Judge Stein: /f he accepts this, Ben, 749 00:42:52,361 --> 00:42:54,30 I'm going to make it absolutely clear 750 00:42:54,197 --> 00:42:57,867 they must believe beyond a scintilla of doubt 751 00:42:58,34 --> 00:43:01,537 that she committed premeditated murder, or they acquit. 752 00:43:03,414 --> 00:43:05,416 "Beyond a scintilla"? 753 00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:09,545 A "mini-scintilla." 754 00:43:13,49 --> 00:43:16,636 Was Mrs. Cullen confused, emotional, suicidal? 755 00:43:16,803 --> 00:43:19,680 This is what Melanie Cullen did: 756 00:43:19,847 --> 00:43:21,933 She stalked Alexandra Beckett; 757 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:25,228 she had a key made to the new lock 758 00:43:25,394 --> 00:43:27,438 on Edward Cullen's apartment; 759 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:30,566 she went there after dark, let herself in, 760 00:43:30,733 --> 00:43:35,571 and she helped herself to the gun that she knew was there. 761 00:43:37,907 --> 00:43:40,660 She ran away, she disposed of the gun; 762 00:43:40,827 --> 00:43:45,581 she convinced her son to give her a phony alibi. 763 00:43:46,749 --> 00:43:49,43 She lied to the police; 764 00:43:49,210 --> 00:43:51,629 she lied to her son; 765 00:43:51,796 --> 00:43:53,756 she lied to you. 766 00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:58,928 She shot and killed two people 767 00:43:59,95 --> 00:44:04,308 in an act of cold and calculated murder. 768 00:44:08,855 --> 00:44:11,649 Don't let her get away with it. 769 00:44:16,279 --> 00:44:20,783 The question is not whether the defendant killed Mr. Cullen and Ms. Beckett. 770 00:44:20,950 --> 00:44:24,370 The only question for you to resolve 771 00:44:24,537 --> 00:44:26,664 is that of her state of mind. 772 00:44:26,831 --> 00:44:31,252 You must find beyond any reasonable doubt, 773 00:44:31,419 --> 00:44:34,255 that she did not act under the influence 774 00:44:34,422 --> 00:44:36,966 of extreme emotional disturbance. 775 00:44:37,133 --> 00:44:40,887 You must find that she did intend, 776 00:44:41,53 --> 00:44:43,222 with premeditation, 777 00:44:43,389 --> 00:44:45,975 to cause the deaths of two people, 778 00:44:46,142 --> 00:44:49,979 or you must find her not guilty. 779 00:44:52,523 --> 00:44:55,193 Robinette: Never seen you like this before. 780 00:44:56,903 --> 00:45:00,281 | have never done anything this potentially stupid before. 781 00:45:01,449 --> 00:45:03,451 | just pray to God that when | get out of here, 782 00:45:03,618 --> 00:45:06,996 I'm not competing with Melanie Cullen for an uptown cab. 783 00:45:08,831 --> 00:45:12,251 Jury just finished dinner... Catered from "Walter's." 784 00:45:13,586 --> 00:45:15,963 Hope you don't have a lousy six days. 785 00:45:16,130 --> 00:45:18,507 Well, it's four hours... It's already lousy. 786 00:45:18,674 --> 00:45:20,676 - Good night, gentlemen. - Good night. 787 00:45:28,935 --> 00:45:31,479 Stone. 788 00:45:34,982 --> 00:45:37,193 Just a minute. 789 00:45:38,694 --> 00:45:42,240 It's Lehrman... he's pacing, too. 790 00:45:42,406 --> 00:45:44,742 He'll take two counts of man one. 791 00:45:44,909 --> 00:45:46,410 She'll do nine years. 792 00:45:46,577 --> 00:45:49,705 It's more than four. Less than 25. 793 00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:55,378 Your case. 794 00:45:55,544 --> 00:45:58,214 And my stomach. 795 00:46:03,219 --> 00:46:05,221 Deal. 796 00:46:09,267 --> 00:46:13,980 Your role was no less crucial because your verdict was not required. 797 00:46:14,146 --> 00:46:16,983 | thank you. You are excused. 798 00:46:23,30 --> 00:46:27,451 Your Honor, move to continue bail until sentencing. 799 00:46:27,618 --> 00:46:30,871 Motion to continue granted. 800 00:46:31,38 --> 00:46:34,458 Juror: Lucky? 10 minutes later, it would have been murder. 801 00:46:34,625 --> 00:46:36,127 We were voting. 802 00:46:36,294 --> 00:46:38,254 The way she used her son made us all furious. 803 00:46:38,421 --> 00:46:41,590 - If only the kid hadn't lied. - What if your mother killed your father? 804 00:46:41,757 --> 00:46:43,884 | wouldn't have lied. What is she up to? 805 00:46:44,51 --> 00:46:46,137 Rehearsing for the parole board. 806 00:46:46,304 --> 00:46:49,15 | don't know what happened. | don't remember. 807 00:46:49,181 --> 00:46:51,767 | went there to talk to Eddie. 808 00:46:51,934 --> 00:46:53,769 | thought everything would be all right 809 00:46:53,936 --> 00:46:55,771 and that we could work everything out. 810 00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:58,107 We were married for 25 years. 811 00:46:58,274 --> 00:47:01,902 | thought everything would be all right. 812 00:47:02,69 --> 00:47:04,238 I've always loved Eddie. 813 00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,908 I've always loved him.