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In the criminal
justice system,
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the people are represented by two
separate yet equally important groups:
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The police
who investigate crime,
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and the district attorneys
who prosecute the offenders.
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These are their stories.
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Four months.
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I don't know what
I'm gonna do without you.
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Now she'll have to wolf down
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all those pints
of Cherry Garcia by herself.
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I promise. I'll eat
ten gallons when I get back.
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Now we have evidence
of your pre-trip weight.
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I forgot.
It's your present.
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Oh, not another box of red,
white, and blue condoms.
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You wish.
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Okay, I give up.
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That's Chianti.
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For those dark-eyed,
swarthy Italian men.
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Your type.
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Northern Italians are blond.
My new type.
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You'll have to fight them off.
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This'll keep them away.
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Oh, hold that thought.
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Your mother is wonderful,
the apartment's too small.
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If we put her in a hotel,
she'll feel rejected.
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She's felt rejected
since the day she was born.
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Oh, suddenly this is
about my family neurosis?
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Don't start
a fight with me now.
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Oh, my. That woman.
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I guess she couldn't
get a place in the Plaza.
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There's blood on her hands.
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Eleanor, Eleanor,
don't touch her.
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Ma'am, are you okay?
Oh, God!
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He hits her with a steel pipe
then he leaves it here.
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Why doesn't he toss it
into a dumpster?
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It disappears into
the land of garbage.
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We're not gonna trace it.
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We're working on gun control.
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Pipe control's a ways off.
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Hey, don't lose this
on the way to Forensics.
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I found these under a car.
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We've got some ID.
Manattan College.
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Junior. Beth Milgram.
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That's her with her friends.
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Hold on, fellas.
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Same clothes as
in the pictures.
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She was with those girls
last night, just before.
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I hope to God
she had a good time.
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Well, we had five uniforms
cover 50 square blocks.
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There's no construction site
with pipe laying around.
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Crime of opportunity.
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Could've been buried
in garbage on the lot.
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The pipe was spotless.
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It's on a vacant lot,
it doesn't get dirty?
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Guaranteed he had it on him.
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Oh, I get it. A mugger carries
a six-pound piece of pipe
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looking for somebody to hit.
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He took the time to wrap
the jacket around her head.
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Nothing taken from the body.
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I'm thinkir maybe not a mugger.
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We got three girls
from the party.
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She was, um, leaving today
for Italy, an arts program.
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I don't know why we're here.
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Nobody would've wanted
to hurt Beth.
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Miss Rosenbaum, even
ordinary people have enemies.
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It isn't possible.
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She loved the ballet.
She was at the Met
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every afternoon
studying Caravaggio.
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She worked at
the homeless shelter.
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Was she ever involved in drugs?
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This is crazy.
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Detective,
you don't seem to understand.
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Beth Milgram comes
from a very fine family.
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Her grandfather was president
of the River Club.
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Excuse me,
cops in Hewlett tried again.
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Nobody at the Milgram house.
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Oh, my God!
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Her parents were coming in
to take her to the airport.
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She was packing.
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Maybe she's running errands.
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On our way to London,
she stopped for dental floss.
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She does everything
at the last minute.
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I'm terribly sorry,
we wouldn't be here
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if we werert absolutely sure.
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Three more hours
and she would've been gone.
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Next year I would have made
her transfer out of the city.
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She would've
given them her money.
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We talked about it.
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You don't challenge them
and they won't kill you.
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Uh, Mr. Milgram, I'm afraid
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we're gonna have to
examine those.
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We're not sure that this
is a random street crime.
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What are you suggesting?
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That Beth was doing
something illicit?
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With all due respect, when
children go away from home
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parents can be out of touch.
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But who would
hurt our daughter?
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Where's Tommy?
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The boy Beth was seeing.
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Beth said he wanted to
ride with us to the airport.
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Thomas Beltran,
Governor for a Day,
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State of Texas
youth convention.
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Blue Ribbon award,
Rio Grande High School,
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public speaking contest.
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You save your
high school prizes?
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Yeah, first prize.
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Multiple dress code violations.
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Excuse me, who are you?
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Sgt. Cerreta, Det. Logan.
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Are you Tommy Beltran?
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Bill Lynch.
Tommy's my roommate.
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Do you know where
we can find Tommy?
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Yeah. I just saw him
at the homeless shelter,
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next to St. Juliars.
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We're fixing it up.
What's wrong?
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You happen to know what time
he came in last night?
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I have no idea.
What's this about?
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Mr. Beltrars girlfriend
was attacked last night.
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Beth? Is she all right?
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Was he here?
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You don't think that Tommy...
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Oh, I see, he's poor,
he's Mexican.
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Of course you'd
think of him first.
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He was her boyfriend.
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We didn't know
he was poor or Mexican.
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He loves Beth.
Is she all right?
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What hospital is she in?
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She's dead.
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Oh, God!
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Mr. Lynch, about last night.
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He was at the shelter.
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We all do public service
six hours a week.
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Then you can't tell us what
time he came in last night?
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Sometime after Letterman.
That's when I went to sleep.
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I just saw her yesterday.
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We had lunch.
We said good-bye.
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Beth's parents say
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that you were supposed to
meet them today.
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I was going to
visit her in Italy.
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I started saving for it.
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I wanted to go today.
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Beth talked me out of it.
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She was going away
for four months.
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She didn't want you
to see her off?
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Her father.
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Beth wanted to avoid a scene.
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What kind of a scene?
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He didn't approve of me.
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Beth and I...
We were engaged.
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When he found out
he hit her, twice.
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Why do you think
she was going to Italy?
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He was abusive.
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I don't, I really don't want
to talk about this now.
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Mr. Beltran, can you tell us
where you were last night?
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Did her father say
that I did it?
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I guess I shouldn't
be surprised.
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I was here till
1:00 in the morning.
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Please ask Father Gregory.
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He's at the church.
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This is tragic.
It's devastating for Tommy.
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I travel the country looking
for minority students
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of exceptional ability.
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Tommy's the exception
of the exceptions.
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Father, we appreciate
the character reference.
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You know what time Mr. Beltran
left the shelter last night?
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He leaves around 1:00 a. m.,
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after the men
have gone to sleep.
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With his background,
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you'd think he wouldn't want
to see homeless people.
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He gets kids from
the university to come.
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Maybe we didn't
make ourselves clear.
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Did you personally
see him leave?
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When things get quiet,
I often sleep.
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Maybe one of
the residents remembers.
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When the doors open
at 9:00, you could ask.
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So nobody else from
the church was there.
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And you have no idea when
Mr. Beltran left the shelter.
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Uh, I never saw him leave.
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I'm sorry. I gotta go.
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Cabbie!
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Was he just dancing very fast,
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or is he just not too bright?
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Let's see what Forensics
has on the weapon.
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Six blows to the top
of the head, maybe more.
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Killer struck from behind.
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From the angle of the blows
to the side of the head,
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the ME guesses he was
taller than the girl.
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Well, she was 5'9".
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Tommy Beltran?
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5'9" at most.
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5'11".
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Heavy plumbing pipe.
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Rough waterproofing
on the outside.
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Korean. Maybe South American.
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I don't think
he went to Brazil for it.
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Now, with rough surfaces,
you expect two things:
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No useful prints,
crude partials,
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and things get snagged.
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Black polyester fiber.
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From what?
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Give me a week, I'll tell you.
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Car seat, knapsack,
windbreaker...
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I get it.
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Something made out of
black polyester.
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Prints from the girl's purse,
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also, the envelope
with the Polaroids,
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were the victim's
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and the set
they sent us from Texas.
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Thomas Rodriguez Beltran,
fingerprinted for welfare.
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He could've handled
the purse at lunch.
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And the envelope?
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Well, it's a plain
white envelope.
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The girl who hosted
the party has no idea
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whether it's her envelope,
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or Beth Milgram
brought it with her.
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That's just terrific.
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The boyfriend
could've touched it
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the night of the murder
or last Arbor Day.
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It doesn't put him
at the scene.
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I heard a rumor
I'm gonna be unappy.
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Any given day, Phil,
the odds are pretty good.
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A little gift from
the Nassau County Police.
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Four months ago,
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Curtis Milgram and his daughter
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had a scream-out
on the front lawn.
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Neighbors heard it
a block away.
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Milgram busted her lip.
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Please. We all know.
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Husbands kill wives,
wives kill husbands.
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Fathers do not kill daughters.
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Mr. Milgram called,
wants to know
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when we can break the seal
on Beth's apartment.
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Wants everything
packed up and sent home.
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She's dead a day.
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What's he want,
her teddy bears?
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He lost his daughter,
he wants whatever's left.
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Let's check out that apartment.
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Right.
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"Catch-23.
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Vietnam and
the black humor novel."
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B plus.
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Tapes, computer disks,
nail polish.
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Look at this.
"Pinker than thou."
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Phil.
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Yeah.
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We're talking to the mother,
she's sitting on the couch.
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What's the father doing?
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He's at his daughter's desk
shuffling stuff around,
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trying to pretend
she's not dead.
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Shuffling? Or looking?
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Federal American
Life Insurance Company.
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"Statement of life insurance
for Elizabeth Milgram.
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"Specified benefit: $250,000.
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"Beneficiary:
Curtis S. Milgram.
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Relationship to insured:
Father."
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This is unbelievable.
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It was an investment vehicle
for Beth.
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Life insurance.
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00:13:02,781 --> 00:13:04,715
With you as beneficiary.
259
00:13:04,783 --> 00:13:07,274
I mean, she never heard of
a money market account?
260
00:13:07,352 --> 00:13:09,547
Investment, not savings.
261
00:13:09,621 --> 00:13:12,920
To teach her the miracle
of compound tax-free interest.
262
00:13:13,025 --> 00:13:14,890
I could sign you up
for a seminar
263
00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:17,394
but hopefully, you have more
important things to do
264
00:13:17,463 --> 00:13:19,728
like trying to find out
who killed my daughter.
265
00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,164
Mr. Milgram, we understand
266
00:13:21,234 --> 00:13:23,259
that you hit your daughter
four months ago.
267
00:13:23,336 --> 00:13:25,304
My daughter and I
had arguments,
268
00:13:25,572 --> 00:13:27,541
like all parents
and children do.
269
00:13:27,608 --> 00:13:30,201
But we don't all
leave our children bloody.
270
00:13:30,276 --> 00:13:33,211
I loved my daughter more than
anything else in this world.
271
00:13:33,279 --> 00:13:35,248
Could you translate that
for me, sir?
272
00:13:35,382 --> 00:13:37,373
Does that mean yes or no?
273
00:13:42,923 --> 00:13:44,585
I behaved badly.
274
00:13:46,328 --> 00:13:50,559
The Beltran boy gave her
a ring for their engagement.
275
00:13:52,167 --> 00:13:54,101
He's a nice young man.
276
00:13:54,469 --> 00:13:56,266
Whether he loved Beth,
277
00:13:57,005 --> 00:14:00,305
marriage would have not been
the best thing for him.
278
00:14:01,444 --> 00:14:03,469
He would have had
difficulty fitting in.
279
00:14:03,579 --> 00:14:06,069
Especially if you
didn't want him to.
280
00:14:07,149 --> 00:14:09,482
I have been as polite
as I can be.
281
00:14:09,619 --> 00:14:12,315
And you have been
as rude as you can be.
282
00:14:12,755 --> 00:14:14,484
Now would you get out of here?
283
00:14:17,261 --> 00:14:18,956
A lot of footwork
about his sympathy
284
00:14:19,029 --> 00:14:20,018
for the boyfriend.
285
00:14:20,097 --> 00:14:22,291
He's your hero. Milgram
doesn't have to like him.
286
00:14:22,365 --> 00:14:24,527
He didn't want to tell us
he was hitting his kid.
287
00:14:24,601 --> 00:14:25,863
His daughter is dead.
288
00:14:25,936 --> 00:14:27,403
We just implied
that he killed her.
289
00:14:27,471 --> 00:14:28,836
What do you expect him to do?
290
00:14:28,906 --> 00:14:30,703
Invite us to
the club for lunch?
291
00:14:31,275 --> 00:14:32,766
Do you want to go to Hewlett?
292
00:14:32,844 --> 00:14:35,005
The wife,
she's going to lie for him.
293
00:14:36,481 --> 00:14:39,074
Not if he killed
her child, she won't.
294
00:14:40,385 --> 00:14:42,785
He worried about her
all the time.
295
00:14:45,623 --> 00:14:47,056
It's my fault.
296
00:14:48,326 --> 00:14:51,819
I convinced him to let her
go to school in the city.
297
00:14:53,999 --> 00:14:55,829
We're trying to
trace her movements
298
00:14:55,900 --> 00:14:57,493
the night she was attacked.
299
00:14:57,570 --> 00:14:59,936
Did you speak
with her that night?
300
00:15:01,473 --> 00:15:04,567
No. I wasrt feeling well.
301
00:15:06,179 --> 00:15:08,545
I went to bed
a little after 9:00.
302
00:15:12,885 --> 00:15:15,753
What do you mean,
"trace her movements"?
303
00:15:16,356 --> 00:15:18,688
It happened just
after the party.
304
00:15:19,593 --> 00:15:21,755
Did your husband
go to bed when you did?
305
00:15:22,697 --> 00:15:24,892
He was reading in the den.
306
00:15:27,368 --> 00:15:29,768
Curtis would have told me
if he talked to Beth.
307
00:15:31,005 --> 00:15:33,200
Why don't you ask him?
308
00:15:35,743 --> 00:15:39,441
He's at his office.
I know most men wouldn't,
309
00:15:41,083 --> 00:15:42,880
but for Curtis,
it's the best cure.
310
00:15:43,118 --> 00:15:44,983
Do you mind if we look around?
311
00:15:45,888 --> 00:15:47,651
Beth's things are in the city.
312
00:15:47,789 --> 00:15:49,586
We'd like to
look around, anyway.
313
00:15:49,691 --> 00:15:50,919
If you don't mind.
314
00:15:54,864 --> 00:15:57,856
I think you'd better
talk to my husband first.
315
00:15:59,435 --> 00:16:00,959
Her husband wasrt home
that night.
316
00:16:01,037 --> 00:16:02,300
She knew it.
317
00:16:02,373 --> 00:16:04,863
The old man didn't
like the boyfriend.
318
00:16:04,941 --> 00:16:06,408
If the boyfriend were dead,
319
00:16:06,476 --> 00:16:08,307
I'd say the old man
had a motive.
320
00:16:08,378 --> 00:16:11,212
I don't know.
$250,000, is that motive?
321
00:16:11,282 --> 00:16:13,944
If you wanted to talk to my
wife, you might have asked me.
322
00:16:14,018 --> 00:16:15,315
You're Cerreta and Logan?
323
00:16:15,386 --> 00:16:17,877
Jack Haviland.
Is my client a suspect?
324
00:16:17,955 --> 00:16:19,389
I'm Capt. Donald Cragen.
325
00:16:19,457 --> 00:16:21,083
Why don't we step into
my office
326
00:16:21,158 --> 00:16:22,989
where we can discuss
this calmly.
327
00:16:24,862 --> 00:16:27,024
You are harassing my client.
328
00:16:27,098 --> 00:16:28,588
Counselor, your client has
329
00:16:28,667 --> 00:16:30,794
an insurance policy
on his daughter's life.
330
00:16:30,869 --> 00:16:33,201
You think that amount of money
means anything to me?
331
00:16:33,271 --> 00:16:35,638
I invite you to talk to
my client's accountant.
332
00:16:35,708 --> 00:16:37,538
Mr. Milgram earns more
in three months
333
00:16:37,609 --> 00:16:39,201
than that policy is won'th.
334
00:16:39,277 --> 00:16:42,041
Where were you the night your
daughter was attacked, sir?
335
00:16:43,316 --> 00:16:46,308
Driving around.
I do it often, to think.
336
00:16:46,419 --> 00:16:48,387
Anybody see you driving around?
337
00:16:48,454 --> 00:16:50,354
Yes. The idiot policeman
338
00:16:50,423 --> 00:16:52,688
who gave me a speeding
ticket in Riverhead.
339
00:16:52,759 --> 00:16:53,918
Around midnight.
340
00:16:53,993 --> 00:16:55,085
That's what, Detective?
341
00:16:55,161 --> 00:16:57,595
About 80 miles from where
his daughter was killed?
342
00:16:57,663 --> 00:17:00,064
All you had to do was ask.
343
00:17:00,767 --> 00:17:01,961
Curtis.
344
00:17:07,607 --> 00:17:10,475
Sometimes we get
a little carried away.
345
00:17:10,711 --> 00:17:12,440
We had grounds to suspect him.
346
00:17:12,512 --> 00:17:14,104
I'd like to get
hold of that ticket.
347
00:17:14,181 --> 00:17:16,241
But before we started
digging his grave,
348
00:17:16,317 --> 00:17:18,182
you leave any
other holes to fill?
349
00:17:18,853 --> 00:17:20,411
Fourth girl at the party.
350
00:17:20,655 --> 00:17:22,247
Celeste... What's her name?
351
00:17:22,457 --> 00:17:24,187
Adams. She left a message.
352
00:17:24,259 --> 00:17:25,556
Her parents wanted her home.
353
00:17:25,627 --> 00:17:26,958
She'll call when she gets back.
354
00:17:27,029 --> 00:17:28,256
She never called.
355
00:17:29,364 --> 00:17:31,093
Make a call on her.
356
00:17:31,866 --> 00:17:33,357
What could I have told you?
357
00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:34,902
She was killed by a mugger.
358
00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,767
I was still at
the party when it happened.
359
00:17:36,839 --> 00:17:39,740
You don't know anything,
you call and say so.
360
00:17:39,808 --> 00:17:41,504
Anything I said
you'd have taken wrong.
361
00:17:41,578 --> 00:17:43,102
About a mugger?
362
00:17:43,179 --> 00:17:45,612
What could we take
wrong about a mugger?
363
00:17:45,681 --> 00:17:47,672
Listen, we can have
this conversation here
364
00:17:47,750 --> 00:17:49,048
or at the precinct.
365
00:17:51,021 --> 00:17:52,784
The day of the party,
she told Tommy
366
00:17:52,856 --> 00:17:54,483
maybe he should
see other girls.
367
00:17:54,557 --> 00:17:56,081
He got upset, so she got upset.
368
00:17:56,159 --> 00:17:57,491
She was dumping him.
369
00:17:57,561 --> 00:17:59,620
He took everything
too seriously.
370
00:17:59,697 --> 00:18:01,392
Miss Adams,
anybody that's been dumped,
371
00:18:01,465 --> 00:18:02,988
they know the dance. So?
372
00:18:03,066 --> 00:18:04,966
That's what Tommy said.
373
00:18:06,737 --> 00:18:08,432
He wanted to lock
everything down,
374
00:18:08,506 --> 00:18:09,700
the next 20 years.
375
00:18:10,474 --> 00:18:13,170
Beth didn't want to know
beyond the next 20 minutes.
376
00:18:13,244 --> 00:18:16,009
Tommy called me
after they had lunch.
377
00:18:16,481 --> 00:18:19,415
He said he couldn't live
without her, all that stuff.
378
00:18:20,551 --> 00:18:22,213
And she couldn't live.
379
00:18:22,287 --> 00:18:24,118
See.
I knew you'd take it wrong.
380
00:18:28,026 --> 00:18:30,928
What Beth said,
it didn't mean anything.
381
00:18:32,265 --> 00:18:34,028
It was her father talking.
382
00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:35,999
Her father wasrt there, Tommy.
383
00:18:36,902 --> 00:18:38,495
His daughter's been murdered.
384
00:18:38,871 --> 00:18:40,634
I understand his grief.
385
00:18:42,041 --> 00:18:44,737
It's natural for him
to flail out at me.
386
00:18:46,246 --> 00:18:48,737
But Beth and I,
we were so happy.
387
00:18:49,216 --> 00:18:52,844
So happy, she was running
off to Florence to study art.
388
00:18:53,052 --> 00:18:55,920
People are separated
all the time.
389
00:18:56,256 --> 00:18:58,451
It doesn't mean
they don't love each other.
390
00:18:59,093 --> 00:19:00,788
Tommy, you said
391
00:19:00,861 --> 00:19:03,797
the night Beth was killed,
you left the church at 12:00?
392
00:19:05,366 --> 00:19:07,800
No. I said I left at 1:00.
393
00:19:09,137 --> 00:19:11,264
Oh, yeah, Tommy is a good kid.
394
00:19:11,339 --> 00:19:13,000
I haven't seen him
since Thursday
395
00:19:13,074 --> 00:19:14,974
when they served the beef stew.
396
00:19:15,076 --> 00:19:17,943
Thursday. Do you know
what time he left?
397
00:19:18,780 --> 00:19:20,908
You're not gonna believe this.
398
00:19:20,983 --> 00:19:23,076
I don't own a good watch.
399
00:19:24,553 --> 00:19:25,986
What night?
400
00:19:26,721 --> 00:19:29,623
Thursday night,
I can spell that for you.
401
00:19:30,226 --> 00:19:33,093
Thursday.
What night was Thursday?
402
00:19:34,096 --> 00:19:35,655
Beef stew night.
403
00:19:35,765 --> 00:19:39,895
Oh, beef stew night.
Yeah, he was here.
404
00:19:40,570 --> 00:19:41,696
Until what time?
405
00:19:41,771 --> 00:19:42,829
All night.
406
00:19:43,140 --> 00:19:45,267
Well, he must have
gone home sometime.
407
00:19:45,342 --> 00:19:46,536
Why?
408
00:19:46,610 --> 00:19:48,441
I'm upstairs to go to the can,
409
00:19:48,512 --> 00:19:50,343
maybe 3:00,
4:00 in the morning,
410
00:19:50,413 --> 00:19:53,349
he was going into
the box with the priest.
411
00:19:53,451 --> 00:19:54,918
You mean the confessional?
412
00:19:54,986 --> 00:19:57,147
I wouldn't know.
I'm a Buddhist.
413
00:19:58,956 --> 00:20:02,323
Yes, I confessed him.
I don't recall the time.
414
00:20:03,327 --> 00:20:04,954
Father,
we spoke to you last week,
415
00:20:05,029 --> 00:20:07,224
you didn't mention
the confessional.
416
00:20:09,334 --> 00:20:11,700
You know, under church law
and civil law,
417
00:20:12,137 --> 00:20:14,367
you can't force me to
tell you what was said.
418
00:20:14,439 --> 00:20:16,100
Which means something was said.
419
00:20:16,543 --> 00:20:18,476
You can tell us
what time he was here,
420
00:20:18,544 --> 00:20:19,636
without breaking your vows.
421
00:20:19,711 --> 00:20:20,769
I'm sorry.
422
00:20:24,349 --> 00:20:26,215
Father, a young woman is dead.
423
00:20:26,486 --> 00:20:28,249
Now,
if Tommy Beltran killed her...
424
00:20:28,321 --> 00:20:29,720
If Tommy has
anything to tell you,
425
00:20:29,789 --> 00:20:31,154
he'll tell you himself.
426
00:20:33,527 --> 00:20:35,187
Suppose you're a priest.
427
00:20:35,261 --> 00:20:36,694
A guy confesses
he killed somebody,
428
00:20:36,763 --> 00:20:38,594
the cops ask,
but you can't say anything.
429
00:20:38,665 --> 00:20:39,893
What would you do?
430
00:20:39,966 --> 00:20:40,899
I'd wink.
431
00:20:40,968 --> 00:20:42,265
I think he did.
432
00:20:42,469 --> 00:20:43,936
The kid wanted to marry her.
433
00:20:44,004 --> 00:20:45,528
She cut him loose at lunch.
434
00:20:45,739 --> 00:20:47,468
Not probable cause.
435
00:20:47,541 --> 00:20:48,667
He has no alibi.
436
00:20:48,742 --> 00:20:50,973
He saw the priest three
hours after she was killed.
437
00:20:51,046 --> 00:20:52,672
A judge is gonna
want more than that.
438
00:20:52,746 --> 00:20:54,941
His fingerprints are on
the envelope in her purse.
439
00:20:55,015 --> 00:20:56,243
Could've been there for weeks.
440
00:20:56,317 --> 00:20:58,786
Keep it to yourself.
I'll look in the kid's room.
441
00:20:59,354 --> 00:21:00,616
Who you gonna get?
442
00:21:00,755 --> 00:21:02,017
Judge Morris.
443
00:21:02,090 --> 00:21:03,387
Him? Are you kiddir?
444
00:21:03,458 --> 00:21:05,654
You'll get a warrant
after the Second Coming.
445
00:21:05,728 --> 00:21:07,218
Who's easier?
446
00:21:07,797 --> 00:21:10,458
Judge Fadem.
Dial-A-Warrant.
447
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:14,799
This kid has every
expensive pen ever made.
448
00:21:14,870 --> 00:21:16,360
Tiffany, Mont Blanc.
449
00:21:16,439 --> 00:21:18,566
Every sweater they sell
at Brooks Brothers.
450
00:21:18,641 --> 00:21:19,630
Hey!
451
00:21:19,709 --> 00:21:21,837
Don't mind us. We're just
doing our public duty.
452
00:21:21,912 --> 00:21:22,901
Do you have a warrant?
453
00:21:22,980 --> 00:21:24,174
Autographed by a judge.
454
00:21:24,248 --> 00:21:26,112
Do you mind
standing outside the room?
455
00:21:26,182 --> 00:21:28,616
TRV. Nice bag for
a scholarship kid.
456
00:21:28,684 --> 00:21:30,414
It was a prize,
a public speaking contest.
457
00:21:30,487 --> 00:21:31,579
Is that illegal?
458
00:21:31,655 --> 00:21:33,680
Does he have a black bag?
459
00:21:37,594 --> 00:21:39,358
Does that look like
black polyester?
460
00:21:39,430 --> 00:21:40,954
Midnight blue.
461
00:21:43,267 --> 00:21:45,201
So I'm not
a fashion consultant.
462
00:21:45,269 --> 00:21:46,498
What color is it?
463
00:21:46,571 --> 00:21:49,165
Black and blue.
Very chic.
464
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:50,832
It's an expensive bag.
465
00:21:50,975 --> 00:21:52,602
It's also the same fiber.
466
00:21:55,281 --> 00:21:57,146
Let Cragen do
the arrest papers.
467
00:21:57,916 --> 00:21:59,645
I want the kid now.
468
00:22:00,184 --> 00:22:01,981
Yeah, it's Logan.
We're at Forensics.
469
00:22:02,053 --> 00:22:03,954
Tell Stone we're
picking him up.
470
00:22:04,523 --> 00:22:05,717
What?
471
00:22:06,759 --> 00:22:08,386
Change of plans.
472
00:22:08,727 --> 00:22:10,126
30 minutes ago?
473
00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:11,720
The kid got good timing.
474
00:22:12,265 --> 00:22:13,926
Or good information.
475
00:22:14,034 --> 00:22:17,127
We're just about to nail him,
he walks in the door.
476
00:22:19,639 --> 00:22:22,472
I told you, you don't
have to pressure him.
477
00:22:22,542 --> 00:22:23,907
He's ready.
478
00:22:24,144 --> 00:22:26,009
How'd you happen to
come with him, Father?
479
00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,877
He called me, he asked me.
480
00:22:27,948 --> 00:22:29,313
Where'd he call from?
481
00:22:29,784 --> 00:22:31,149
Does that matter?
482
00:22:48,637 --> 00:22:51,799
First of all, I want you
to know I loved Beth.
483
00:22:53,208 --> 00:22:54,106
She was very precious to me.
484
00:22:54,476 --> 00:22:56,637
She was my whole life.
485
00:22:58,513 --> 00:23:00,243
She was going away.
486
00:23:00,383 --> 00:23:02,317
I thought I'd
never see her again.
487
00:23:04,987 --> 00:23:07,512
I don't remember it
very clearly.
488
00:23:09,459 --> 00:23:11,393
But it's all over now.
489
00:23:12,895 --> 00:23:15,329
And it doesn't matter
what happens.
490
00:23:16,734 --> 00:23:19,328
It doesn't matter
what happens to me.
491
00:23:23,006 --> 00:23:25,702
Docket number 54289.
492
00:23:25,976 --> 00:23:27,841
People v. Thomas R. Beltran.
493
00:23:27,911 --> 00:23:29,970
The charge is murder
in the second degree.
494
00:23:30,047 --> 00:23:32,641
Miss Watt? Janice?
495
00:23:34,586 --> 00:23:35,644
Hello?
496
00:23:36,121 --> 00:23:38,180
Is legal aid
representing this man?
497
00:23:38,256 --> 00:23:40,053
I just caught it.
I haver t been able
498
00:23:40,125 --> 00:23:41,990
to consult with
my client on a plea.
499
00:23:42,093 --> 00:23:43,492
I'll enter not guilty.
500
00:23:43,561 --> 00:23:45,461
Your Honor,
Father Gregory, S.J.,
501
00:23:45,530 --> 00:23:47,430
would like permission
to address the court.
502
00:23:47,665 --> 00:23:49,155
As long as he doesn't pray.
503
00:23:49,735 --> 00:23:53,136
Your Honor, we ask
that you release
504
00:23:53,205 --> 00:23:54,797
Mr. Beltran on no bail.
505
00:23:54,874 --> 00:23:57,342
And we will provide a place
for him until trial.
506
00:23:57,844 --> 00:23:59,037
Mr. Robinette?
507
00:23:59,378 --> 00:24:01,778
The defendant confessed
to a brutal murder.
508
00:24:01,914 --> 00:24:04,041
The People ask for $300,000.
509
00:24:04,817 --> 00:24:07,082
I have a soft spot
for men of the cloth, Father.
510
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:08,678
It's a marvelous vocation.
511
00:24:08,755 --> 00:24:09,949
But I'll be frank.
512
00:24:10,023 --> 00:24:12,514
If he disappears,
I can't penalize the church.
513
00:24:12,592 --> 00:24:14,322
$200,000.
514
00:24:14,395 --> 00:24:16,555
Maybe you can scrape up
$20,000 for a bond.
515
00:24:17,431 --> 00:24:18,762
Next.
516
00:24:20,901 --> 00:24:24,633
What Tommy did is horrible,
nobody denies that.
517
00:24:25,473 --> 00:24:29,068
But why put him in jail
for 25 years, waste a life?
518
00:24:29,143 --> 00:24:31,738
What would you consider
a reasonable punishment?
519
00:24:32,247 --> 00:24:35,477
For today only, Father Gregory
can speak for the defense.
520
00:24:36,584 --> 00:24:38,883
Tommy talked with me
about joining an order,
521
00:24:39,321 --> 00:24:41,619
a lifetime of doing good work.
522
00:24:42,691 --> 00:24:44,591
Consider a plea,
a minimal sentence.
523
00:24:45,727 --> 00:24:47,525
Then he can enter the church.
524
00:24:47,597 --> 00:24:49,189
Are you a lawyer, Father?
525
00:24:49,299 --> 00:24:51,027
Actually I took
my JD at Fordham,
526
00:24:51,099 --> 00:24:52,361
before I went to seminary.
527
00:24:52,434 --> 00:24:54,334
Then you know that
society does not let us
528
00:24:54,403 --> 00:24:55,962
choose our own punishment.
529
00:24:56,206 --> 00:24:58,401
This isn't the eighth century
where you can
530
00:24:58,475 --> 00:25:00,067
give yourself over to God.
531
00:25:00,143 --> 00:25:02,805
He's a young man,
he thinks his life is over,
532
00:25:02,879 --> 00:25:04,074
he wants to give up.
533
00:25:04,448 --> 00:25:05,676
We want to save him.
534
00:25:05,749 --> 00:25:08,114
He can make a new life.
At least talk to him.
535
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,386
Look into his heart.
536
00:25:14,358 --> 00:25:16,883
I didn't know
the police were coming.
537
00:25:17,495 --> 00:25:18,826
I confessed because
538
00:25:18,929 --> 00:25:20,921
I came to terms
with what I did.
539
00:25:20,999 --> 00:25:22,330
I was ready.
540
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,333
Why did you kill her,
Mr. Beltran?
541
00:25:25,970 --> 00:25:28,098
I only went to say good-bye.
542
00:25:29,875 --> 00:25:31,706
I knew Beth didn't want to go.
543
00:25:32,511 --> 00:25:33,910
It was her father.
544
00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,213
I went to a party
at his house one time.
545
00:25:37,350 --> 00:25:39,716
They had two men
parking the Rolls-Royces.
546
00:25:40,619 --> 00:25:43,247
One of them asked me
to go to the back.
547
00:25:44,190 --> 00:25:46,181
He thought I worked
in the kitchen.
548
00:25:48,294 --> 00:25:50,489
Out of the blue
she was going away.
549
00:25:52,299 --> 00:25:53,732
Leaving me.
550
00:25:57,703 --> 00:25:59,762
I guess we'll never know
why I did it.
551
00:26:00,407 --> 00:26:01,897
Where did you get the pipe?
552
00:26:01,975 --> 00:26:03,533
Tommy,
you shouldn't answer that.
553
00:26:03,610 --> 00:26:04,907
It's okay.
554
00:26:06,113 --> 00:26:07,740
Because I don't know.
555
00:26:11,452 --> 00:26:13,477
I guess I hit her a lot.
556
00:26:14,955 --> 00:26:17,220
There was blood on her head.
557
00:26:20,228 --> 00:26:21,957
And her hands...
558
00:26:23,731 --> 00:26:25,996
She must've put up her hands.
559
00:26:29,438 --> 00:26:32,565
They said look into his heart,
it wasrt a pretty sight.
560
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,541
The jury might not be
so observant.
561
00:26:34,610 --> 00:26:36,737
The boy repents,
Jesus forgives,
562
00:26:36,812 --> 00:26:38,074
the jury might do no less.
563
00:26:38,147 --> 00:26:39,637
The Old Testament says
564
00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:41,411
only the injured party
can forgive.
565
00:26:41,484 --> 00:26:42,883
Repenting is not enough.
566
00:26:42,953 --> 00:26:44,386
Tommy never said he was sorry.
567
00:26:44,487 --> 00:26:45,886
He didn't even mention Beth.
568
00:26:45,956 --> 00:26:48,719
Only her father's house, the
Rolls-Royces parked in front.
569
00:26:48,791 --> 00:26:50,851
The boy climbs a mountain,
he falls off.
570
00:26:50,927 --> 00:26:53,691
Any decent attorney will make
it look like a Greek tragedy.
571
00:26:53,763 --> 00:26:55,390
Or a daytime soap.
572
00:26:55,465 --> 00:26:57,296
She rejects him,
he's heartbroken.
573
00:26:57,868 --> 00:26:59,597
That and a bucketful of remorse
574
00:26:59,670 --> 00:27:01,900
adds up to man one,
not murder two.
575
00:27:01,973 --> 00:27:03,907
His only remorse is
that Beth prevented him
576
00:27:03,975 --> 00:27:05,465
from entering her world.
577
00:27:05,543 --> 00:27:07,704
He didn't fall off
the mountain, he jumped.
578
00:27:07,778 --> 00:27:09,871
I grew up in the slums.
I know what it takes.
579
00:27:09,981 --> 00:27:11,505
I saw kids who didn't make it.
580
00:27:11,582 --> 00:27:13,015
You say it's cause and effect?
581
00:27:13,084 --> 00:27:16,350
Try to climb out of poverty and kill
when you don't get what you want?
582
00:27:16,421 --> 00:27:18,048
We can't ignore
where he came from.
583
00:27:18,123 --> 00:27:20,148
It's a reason, not an excuse.
584
00:27:21,827 --> 00:27:23,624
What he does
is plan everything.
585
00:27:23,762 --> 00:27:25,593
I did it, too,
it's how you get out.
586
00:27:25,664 --> 00:27:28,360
He planned the murder the
same way he planned his life.
587
00:27:28,433 --> 00:27:29,730
It was premeditated.
588
00:27:29,801 --> 00:27:31,463
We have a murder weapon,
a confession.
589
00:27:31,537 --> 00:27:33,767
He confessed to killing her,
not murder two.
590
00:27:33,873 --> 00:27:35,807
If we don't prove intent,
it's manslaughter,
591
00:27:35,875 --> 00:27:36,864
crime of passion.
592
00:27:36,943 --> 00:27:39,344
A crime of passion happens
in the heat of the moment.
593
00:27:39,413 --> 00:27:41,107
You don't carry
a pipe to the scene.
594
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:43,045
Can you prove
he carried the pipe?
595
00:27:43,116 --> 00:27:45,243
I remind you, in California,
actress strangled
596
00:27:45,318 --> 00:27:47,549
by her boyfriend.
Manslaughter.
597
00:27:47,621 --> 00:27:49,646
Westchester,
eight, nine years ago.
598
00:27:49,723 --> 00:27:51,987
Girlfriend killed in her bed.
Manslaughter.
599
00:27:52,393 --> 00:27:55,158
Not to mention the fact
that the boy takes the stand
600
00:27:55,230 --> 00:27:57,629
and tells the jury
how sorry he is.
601
00:27:57,731 --> 00:27:59,460
He confessed because
he knew he was
602
00:27:59,533 --> 00:28:01,467
five seconds away
from being arrested.
603
00:28:01,535 --> 00:28:03,902
Then prove that he
carried the pipe.
604
00:28:03,972 --> 00:28:06,031
Prove that
the confession was expedient.
605
00:28:07,475 --> 00:28:09,534
If you can't, plead him.
606
00:28:11,414 --> 00:28:12,608
Yeah?
607
00:28:14,115 --> 00:28:15,776
Curtis Milgram is here.
608
00:28:16,651 --> 00:28:19,051
Mr. Stone,
I'm not an easy man.
609
00:28:19,889 --> 00:28:21,652
Many people find me cold.
610
00:28:22,458 --> 00:28:24,187
But Beth was kind.
611
00:28:27,096 --> 00:28:29,065
I should've let Beth
deal with Tommy,
612
00:28:29,132 --> 00:28:31,258
do it her own way.
It might've ended naturally.
613
00:28:31,333 --> 00:28:33,528
If you're blaming yourself,
Mr. Milgram, don't.
614
00:28:33,602 --> 00:28:35,297
Mr. Stone,
how good is your case?
615
00:28:35,371 --> 00:28:38,603
The op-ed page this morning, a
lawyer said you ought to make a deal.
616
00:28:38,675 --> 00:28:40,267
We haven't reached a decision.
617
00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:41,901
Let me tell you something.
618
00:28:41,978 --> 00:28:43,969
When I first met the boy,
I liked him.
619
00:28:44,382 --> 00:28:45,576
He was well-behaved.
620
00:28:45,650 --> 00:28:47,913
He had all the right answers.
He snowed me.
621
00:28:47,984 --> 00:28:50,509
He snowed you,
he'll snow a jury.
622
00:28:51,188 --> 00:28:52,713
I lost the only thing
in my life
623
00:28:52,790 --> 00:28:55,054
that meant anything to me
aside from my wife.
624
00:28:55,126 --> 00:28:56,889
Now either you
put him away or...
625
00:28:56,961 --> 00:28:58,952
Mr. Milgram,
I want to remind you
626
00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:00,520
I'm an officer of the court.
627
00:29:03,702 --> 00:29:07,000
Just see that he goes
to prison for a long time.
628
00:29:08,306 --> 00:29:10,070
He practically
said he'd kill him.
629
00:29:10,442 --> 00:29:12,273
What if it were your daughter?
630
00:29:12,377 --> 00:29:14,504
Who knows how far
any of us would go.
631
00:29:14,580 --> 00:29:16,673
They handed me
this on the way in.
632
00:29:16,749 --> 00:29:18,047
They formed a defense committee
633
00:29:18,118 --> 00:29:19,278
and posted bail.
634
00:29:19,352 --> 00:29:20,717
They raised $20,000?
635
00:29:21,154 --> 00:29:22,916
They raised more than that.
636
00:29:23,055 --> 00:29:24,852
Hired Cyrus Weaver as counsel.
637
00:29:24,923 --> 00:29:28,018
Cy Weaver. Praise the Lord
and pass the ammunition.
638
00:29:28,094 --> 00:29:30,995
Listen to this. The day
the kid turned himself in,
639
00:29:31,064 --> 00:29:34,034
a call to Father Gregory
from Beltrars room, 4:07.
640
00:29:34,101 --> 00:29:36,001
The search warrant
was served at 3:40.
641
00:29:36,070 --> 00:29:38,504
So he got there
just after the cops left.
642
00:29:38,571 --> 00:29:39,936
And his roommate told him.
643
00:29:40,006 --> 00:29:41,303
Beltran knew he was nailed.
644
00:29:41,374 --> 00:29:42,740
That's not proof.
645
00:29:42,843 --> 00:29:44,708
Cy Weaver fired
his first round.
646
00:29:44,779 --> 00:29:47,339
Motion to exclude the bag
and the confession.
647
00:29:47,414 --> 00:29:49,713
Well, at least he didn't
nominate the boy
648
00:29:49,785 --> 00:29:51,275
for a Good Citizers medal.
649
00:29:52,154 --> 00:29:53,280
The police searched
650
00:29:53,355 --> 00:29:54,754
Tommy Beltrars room illegally.
651
00:29:54,823 --> 00:29:56,380
I thought there was a warrant.
652
00:29:56,457 --> 00:29:57,856
Signed by Judge Fadem.
653
00:29:57,926 --> 00:29:59,325
But it was
fraudulently obtained.
654
00:29:59,394 --> 00:30:01,089
Your officers,
Cerreta and Logan,
655
00:30:01,163 --> 00:30:02,596
offered Tommy's fingerprints
656
00:30:02,664 --> 00:30:05,064
found on an envelope from
the victim's pocketbook
657
00:30:05,133 --> 00:30:06,158
as probable cause.
658
00:30:06,235 --> 00:30:07,634
You have a problem with that?
659
00:30:07,703 --> 00:30:09,136
They went out for over a year.
660
00:30:09,238 --> 00:30:10,603
Even in the age of safe sex
661
00:30:10,673 --> 00:30:13,505
I'm sure the boy touched some
of her personal belongings.
662
00:30:13,608 --> 00:30:16,806
The envelope had pictures taken
just before she was attacked.
663
00:30:16,879 --> 00:30:19,074
The girl doesn't remember
giving her an envelope.
664
00:30:19,148 --> 00:30:20,547
So there's a chance she had it
665
00:30:20,616 --> 00:30:21,981
before she went to this party?
666
00:30:22,084 --> 00:30:23,848
No evidence of that,
Your Honor.
667
00:30:23,921 --> 00:30:25,479
No evidence
contradicting it, either.
668
00:30:25,556 --> 00:30:27,581
Did the officers explain this
to Judge Fadem?
669
00:30:27,658 --> 00:30:28,886
He didn't ask.
670
00:30:28,959 --> 00:30:31,450
So there was no probable cause
for a search warrant.
671
00:30:31,528 --> 00:30:33,223
And the results, namely the bag
672
00:30:33,297 --> 00:30:34,958
and the confession,
are inadmissible.
673
00:30:35,032 --> 00:30:38,092
The boy confessed freely. The
search had nothing to do with it.
674
00:30:38,168 --> 00:30:39,636
Had you not grabbed the bag,
675
00:30:39,704 --> 00:30:41,262
he might not have been
so motivated.
676
00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:44,274
Your Honor, if the police can't
rely on a judge's signature,
677
00:30:44,342 --> 00:30:46,469
they can't properly conduct
an investigation.
678
00:30:46,543 --> 00:30:47,943
They can if they pick a judge
679
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:51,277
who isn't more interested in his
four iron than the Fourth Amendment.
680
00:30:51,950 --> 00:30:54,544
The bag is out,
the confessiors in.
681
00:30:58,858 --> 00:31:02,294
Without the bag, you lose
premeditation. Without premeditation,
682
00:31:02,361 --> 00:31:03,726
you can't prove murder two.
683
00:31:03,796 --> 00:31:05,320
Save yourself
some trouble here.
684
00:31:05,531 --> 00:31:07,396
Do we look troubled?
685
00:31:07,466 --> 00:31:09,491
You feel no sympathy
for this boy?
686
00:31:09,568 --> 00:31:11,160
He did what we told him to do.
687
00:31:11,237 --> 00:31:12,728
He went for the American dream.
688
00:31:12,806 --> 00:31:15,673
He got good grades,
played by the rules.
689
00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:18,674
He beat a girl's head in.
That's not in my rule book.
690
00:31:18,745 --> 00:31:22,078
Put yourself on the jury.
They'll see a lost little boy
691
00:31:22,182 --> 00:31:25,174
with a mature young woman
who used and abused him.
692
00:31:25,252 --> 00:31:27,618
Man two, three years.
693
00:31:28,489 --> 00:31:29,513
It's a gift.
694
00:31:29,590 --> 00:31:31,854
It's not Christmas.
Man one, full 15.
695
00:31:33,527 --> 00:31:35,188
You think you can prove intent?
696
00:31:35,263 --> 00:31:36,891
Six blows to the head
with a pipe?
697
00:31:36,965 --> 00:31:39,364
Intent is in the mind, Paul,
not in a piece of metal.
698
00:31:39,433 --> 00:31:40,957
His body committed
a heinous act.
699
00:31:41,068 --> 00:31:43,559
Only God and your client
knows what was in his mind.
700
00:31:43,638 --> 00:31:44,936
And my expert psychiatrist.
701
00:31:45,007 --> 00:31:46,235
You want to go to trial?
702
00:31:46,308 --> 00:31:47,536
I'm changing the plea.
703
00:31:47,609 --> 00:31:49,474
Not guilty by
reason of mental defect.
704
00:31:49,544 --> 00:31:50,875
You think he was insane?
705
00:31:50,946 --> 00:31:52,847
My expert witnesses
will have the jury
706
00:31:52,916 --> 00:31:54,746
calling for
extra crying towels.
707
00:31:54,816 --> 00:31:57,341
It doesn't buy you a "not
guilty by reason of insanity."
708
00:31:57,419 --> 00:31:58,716
No, but it will buy me pity,
709
00:31:58,787 --> 00:32:00,983
which I can trade in
for diminished capacity.
710
00:32:01,391 --> 00:32:04,053
And since the menu
doesn't include manslaughter,
711
00:32:04,460 --> 00:32:06,257
my friend will walk.
712
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,265
The weekend
before he killed her,
713
00:32:11,335 --> 00:32:13,165
he must've called her
a dozen times.
714
00:32:13,269 --> 00:32:15,464
He was upset because
she was going to Italy.
715
00:32:15,571 --> 00:32:18,837
Objection. He doesn't know
what Mr. Beltran was thinking.
716
00:32:18,943 --> 00:32:21,241
Sustained.
The jury will disregard.
717
00:32:21,912 --> 00:32:23,880
As far as you could observe
718
00:32:23,948 --> 00:32:26,543
what was your daughter's
attitude toward Mr. Beltran?
719
00:32:26,618 --> 00:32:29,643
A year ago, she talked
about him all the time.
720
00:32:29,753 --> 00:32:33,382
In the few months
before she died,
721
00:32:33,457 --> 00:32:35,050
she talked about other boys.
722
00:32:35,126 --> 00:32:36,650
She wanted to get away from him
723
00:32:36,728 --> 00:32:37,888
and he couldn't accept it.
724
00:32:37,963 --> 00:32:38,895
Objection.
725
00:32:38,964 --> 00:32:40,261
Mr. Milgram, please.
726
00:32:41,333 --> 00:32:44,132
Nothing further, Your Honor.
Your witness.
727
00:32:54,013 --> 00:32:56,573
Mr. Milgram, why was
your daughter going to Italy?
728
00:32:56,682 --> 00:32:59,311
As I said, to get away
from an unealthy situation.
729
00:32:59,386 --> 00:33:01,877
Your daughter was
a 20-year-old college student
730
00:33:01,955 --> 00:33:04,821
and Tommy was 21.
Was... was that unealthy?
731
00:33:04,890 --> 00:33:07,917
He was obsessed with her.
It wasrt normal.
732
00:33:08,295 --> 00:33:09,819
She wanted to be rid of him.
733
00:33:09,896 --> 00:33:11,591
She wanted to be rid of him?
734
00:33:12,099 --> 00:33:13,657
Like last year's party dress?
735
00:33:13,734 --> 00:33:15,032
No longer fashionable...
736
00:33:15,103 --> 00:33:16,161
Objection.
737
00:33:17,271 --> 00:33:18,636
Withdrawn.
738
00:33:20,207 --> 00:33:24,076
So, Mr. Milgram, your daughter
took Tommy's engagement ring
739
00:33:24,178 --> 00:33:26,510
and then got rid of him.
Was that healthy?
740
00:33:26,848 --> 00:33:28,748
Don't you understand?
741
00:33:29,384 --> 00:33:33,515
He didn't fit in.
He never would. He knew it.
742
00:33:33,789 --> 00:33:35,188
It made him...
743
00:33:35,257 --> 00:33:36,883
Were you gonna say
crazy, Mr. Milgram?
744
00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:38,016
Objection.
745
00:33:41,296 --> 00:33:43,526
Mr. Beltran said
he was sorry.
746
00:33:43,599 --> 00:33:46,090
He said he couldn't remember
killing Beth Milgram.
747
00:33:46,201 --> 00:33:48,898
In your professional opinion,
was he telling the truth?
748
00:33:48,972 --> 00:33:50,803
In my opinion,
Mr. Beltran knew
749
00:33:50,874 --> 00:33:52,967
what he was doing
and he hasn't forgotten.
750
00:33:53,043 --> 00:33:56,410
Miss Milgram made him feel
he fit the world
751
00:33:56,479 --> 00:33:57,639
he wanted to join.
752
00:33:57,714 --> 00:34:00,239
When she pulled away,
his identity was threatened.
753
00:34:00,316 --> 00:34:02,443
He was angry and he killed her.
754
00:34:02,519 --> 00:34:03,919
Did he know he was wrong?
755
00:34:03,988 --> 00:34:04,977
Yes.
756
00:34:05,056 --> 00:34:06,887
And under any
clinical definition,
757
00:34:06,957 --> 00:34:10,687
was he incapable of forming
the requisite culpable intent?
758
00:34:10,927 --> 00:34:13,726
No. He was very angry.
759
00:34:13,798 --> 00:34:16,130
Thank you.
No further questions.
760
00:34:18,602 --> 00:34:21,538
So Tommy's identity
was threatened?
761
00:34:23,041 --> 00:34:24,736
If he was between identities...
762
00:34:24,810 --> 00:34:26,607
It was not
a crisis of identity.
763
00:34:26,678 --> 00:34:28,373
Mr. Beltran thought
that violence
764
00:34:28,447 --> 00:34:30,779
was an acceptable
response to rejection.
765
00:34:31,616 --> 00:34:33,049
Isn't that mental illness?
766
00:34:33,118 --> 00:34:35,086
No, it's a character flaw.
767
00:34:38,057 --> 00:34:41,356
If Mr. Beltran was
simply angry, as you allege,
768
00:34:41,661 --> 00:34:45,062
what explains his remorse,
his anguish, his regret?
769
00:34:46,299 --> 00:34:48,290
He told me he feels guilty.
770
00:34:48,367 --> 00:34:50,733
But he goes on to
blame Beth Milgram.
771
00:34:51,070 --> 00:34:54,199
He blames her parents,
everyone but himself.
772
00:34:54,308 --> 00:34:56,173
He blames Beth Milgram?
773
00:34:56,243 --> 00:34:58,507
Isn't that evidence
he's lost track of reality?
774
00:34:58,579 --> 00:34:59,671
No.
775
00:34:59,746 --> 00:35:01,907
It's evidence of self-pity.
776
00:35:03,417 --> 00:35:04,577
She held him off.
777
00:35:04,651 --> 00:35:06,380
At worst he dented
our fenders a little.
778
00:35:06,453 --> 00:35:08,216
Father might as well
wear a white hood
779
00:35:08,288 --> 00:35:09,449
with a burning cross.
780
00:35:09,524 --> 00:35:10,684
That is irrelevant.
781
00:35:10,758 --> 00:35:11,850
Legally, yes.
782
00:35:11,926 --> 00:35:14,258
Pragmatically, who knows?
783
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,263
I know where he got the pipe.
784
00:35:17,332 --> 00:35:19,266
I checked through
Cerreta and Logars notes.
785
00:35:19,334 --> 00:35:20,733
When they first talked to him,
786
00:35:20,802 --> 00:35:22,064
he was painting the shelter.
787
00:35:22,137 --> 00:35:23,695
A permit for plumbing work
was issued
788
00:35:23,771 --> 00:35:25,261
four days prior to the murder.
789
00:35:25,340 --> 00:35:27,172
I tried the contractor,
he's on vacation.
790
00:35:27,243 --> 00:35:28,710
His office is closed.
791
00:35:28,777 --> 00:35:30,005
Adam, I want a search warrant.
792
00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:31,273
Call Judge O'Doyle.
793
00:35:31,380 --> 00:35:32,677
Lovely.
794
00:35:33,115 --> 00:35:35,175
Call a Catholic judge
to tear open the walls
795
00:35:35,252 --> 00:35:37,310
of a shelter run by the church.
796
00:35:39,722 --> 00:35:42,055
This isn't a match,
we're gonna look ridiculous.
797
00:35:42,125 --> 00:35:45,060
This isn't a match,
there's no premeditation.
798
00:35:47,664 --> 00:35:49,325
It looks like it.
799
00:35:51,936 --> 00:35:53,266
Feels like it.
800
00:35:53,336 --> 00:35:54,769
Is the water turned off?
801
00:35:54,838 --> 00:35:55,862
Yep.
802
00:36:09,188 --> 00:36:12,020
How long have you worked at
Sudie Enterprises, Ms. Hagadus?
803
00:36:12,089 --> 00:36:13,852
Eight years.
Five in R and D.
804
00:36:13,925 --> 00:36:16,053
The last three as
Regional Sales Manager.
805
00:36:16,762 --> 00:36:19,287
This pipe, which is
labeled "People's 13",
806
00:36:19,364 --> 00:36:21,298
was removed from
the homeless shelter
807
00:36:21,366 --> 00:36:23,597
where the defendant
works as a volunteer.
808
00:36:23,670 --> 00:36:26,195
It's manufactured by your
company, isn't that correct?
809
00:36:26,272 --> 00:36:28,899
Yes, I handled that sale
myself three months ago.
810
00:36:29,007 --> 00:36:30,702
But have you
sold similar piping
811
00:36:30,776 --> 00:36:32,711
to other contractors
working in Manattan?
812
00:36:32,779 --> 00:36:34,007
It's our biggest seller.
813
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,240
There are hundreds of buildings
814
00:36:35,315 --> 00:36:36,782
using that particular type.
815
00:36:36,950 --> 00:36:39,545
Are you familiar with the work
at the Cowan building?
816
00:36:39,620 --> 00:36:41,019
Yes. I sold them piping.
817
00:36:41,088 --> 00:36:42,385
The same kind as that.
818
00:36:42,456 --> 00:36:43,717
Where is the Cowan building?
819
00:36:43,790 --> 00:36:45,417
78th and Amsterdam.
820
00:36:45,525 --> 00:36:48,723
That's just one block
from the site of the attack.
821
00:36:50,531 --> 00:36:54,126
Tommy was drilling wallboard
in the middle of the night.
822
00:36:54,201 --> 00:36:56,227
When I approached him,
823
00:36:57,072 --> 00:37:00,007
I could tell something
terrible had happened.
824
00:37:01,575 --> 00:37:03,475
What did he say to you?
825
00:37:04,346 --> 00:37:07,372
At first incoherent rambling.
826
00:37:08,250 --> 00:37:09,808
I thought he was on some drug.
827
00:37:09,884 --> 00:37:11,977
So he seemed clearly to be
out of his senses?
828
00:37:12,053 --> 00:37:13,214
Objection, leading.
829
00:37:13,289 --> 00:37:14,415
Sustained.
830
00:37:15,758 --> 00:37:17,554
What did you do,
Father Gregory?
831
00:37:18,393 --> 00:37:20,521
Tommy thought that
his life was over,
832
00:37:20,596 --> 00:37:23,588
that everybody would
abandon him, hate him.
833
00:37:23,699 --> 00:37:27,396
I told him that whatever
God heard him confess,
834
00:37:27,470 --> 00:37:28,836
he would forgive.
835
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,370
I promised him
that I would forgive him.
836
00:37:32,442 --> 00:37:35,569
I would support him,
no matter what he had done.
837
00:37:37,714 --> 00:37:40,239
And then he asked
that I confess him.
838
00:37:41,285 --> 00:37:43,549
No further questions.
Thank you.
839
00:37:46,257 --> 00:37:49,749
Father Gregory, your promise
to support Tommy
840
00:37:49,827 --> 00:37:51,158
no matter what he did
841
00:37:51,229 --> 00:37:53,789
enlisted you to a role
in his defense, right?
842
00:37:53,931 --> 00:37:55,455
Yes, of course.
843
00:37:55,733 --> 00:37:57,997
Before he had your
assurance of support,
844
00:37:58,369 --> 00:38:00,337
did he ever mention confession?
845
00:38:00,405 --> 00:38:02,169
It was clear to me
that he wanted to
846
00:38:02,241 --> 00:38:03,469
unburden his soul.
847
00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:06,773
In exchange for enlisting
a priest in his defense?
848
00:38:09,247 --> 00:38:12,308
When you examined
Mr. Beltran, Dr. Goldman,
849
00:38:12,618 --> 00:38:14,245
what conclusion did you reach
850
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:16,117
about his emotional
and mental condition?
851
00:38:16,188 --> 00:38:19,249
Mr. Beltran is burdened
by extreme self-hatred.
852
00:38:19,793 --> 00:38:22,227
He's a working-class
young man in a society
853
00:38:22,295 --> 00:38:24,695
that doesn't admit
it has classes.
854
00:38:25,165 --> 00:38:27,861
Miss Milgram eased
his greatest fear
855
00:38:27,967 --> 00:38:30,629
of being nobody
and meaning nothing.
856
00:38:31,204 --> 00:38:34,663
In your opinion, when Mr.
Beltran attacked Miss Milgram,
857
00:38:34,742 --> 00:38:35,970
is it possible
858
00:38:36,377 --> 00:38:39,005
that he was not aware of
the consequences of his acts?
859
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,139
I would say it's
more than possible.
860
00:38:41,215 --> 00:38:43,240
It's a virtual certainty.
861
00:38:43,317 --> 00:38:44,784
Thank you,
Dr. Goldman.
862
00:38:45,086 --> 00:38:46,576
No further questions.
863
00:38:46,754 --> 00:38:49,655
Dr. Goldman,
when would a young man
864
00:38:49,724 --> 00:38:52,193
bludgeoning a young girl
to her death
865
00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:55,388
not exhibit emotional distress
beyond his control?
866
00:38:56,331 --> 00:38:59,324
Well, if he were
a hired killer, for example.
867
00:38:59,402 --> 00:39:02,165
You mean anyone who kills,
unless they are a hired killer
868
00:39:02,237 --> 00:39:04,000
is not responsible
for their actions?
869
00:39:04,072 --> 00:39:05,437
I didn't say that.
870
00:39:05,507 --> 00:39:07,738
Then give me an example
of someone
871
00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:08,902
who would be responsible
872
00:39:08,978 --> 00:39:10,969
for bludgeoning
a young girl to death?
873
00:39:11,047 --> 00:39:13,572
Well, if he were a hired killer
874
00:39:13,683 --> 00:39:15,914
or a coolly methodical killer
875
00:39:16,019 --> 00:39:17,815
who did it for
a specific motive.
876
00:39:17,887 --> 00:39:18,876
Like revenge?
877
00:39:18,955 --> 00:39:19,853
Yes.
878
00:39:19,922 --> 00:39:21,287
Like Tommy Beltran?
879
00:39:21,357 --> 00:39:24,327
Taking revenge because
Beth Milgram rejected him?
880
00:39:27,464 --> 00:39:29,364
We moved from place to place
881
00:39:29,433 --> 00:39:31,264
wherever there were
crops to pick.
882
00:39:33,271 --> 00:39:36,034
We lived in shacks
on the edge of the fields.
883
00:39:36,106 --> 00:39:38,267
How did you study?
How did you learn?
884
00:39:38,375 --> 00:39:39,968
My mother taught me at night.
885
00:39:40,445 --> 00:39:41,912
Until she got sick.
886
00:39:41,980 --> 00:39:43,777
And then what happened?
887
00:39:43,882 --> 00:39:46,043
It was so hot in the shack.
888
00:39:46,284 --> 00:39:47,912
She was lying there
889
00:39:47,987 --> 00:39:49,750
and there was nothing
I could do.
890
00:39:50,256 --> 00:39:53,418
I remember music coming
from the big farmhouse.
891
00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,154
People out on the porch,
laughing,
892
00:39:58,130 --> 00:39:59,791
drinking lemonade.
893
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:02,828
My mother died.
894
00:40:02,902 --> 00:40:04,096
What did you feel?
895
00:40:04,170 --> 00:40:07,140
I felt anger. Inside me.
896
00:40:08,841 --> 00:40:11,173
It was so strong I was afraid.
897
00:40:12,512 --> 00:40:14,878
But I fought it
and I held it in.
898
00:40:15,849 --> 00:40:17,248
Why did you kill Beth?
899
00:40:17,617 --> 00:40:19,050
I didn't want to.
900
00:40:20,454 --> 00:40:21,888
I loved her.
901
00:40:22,023 --> 00:40:23,388
Then why?
902
00:40:23,724 --> 00:40:27,454
When she told me
I should see other girls,
903
00:40:29,664 --> 00:40:32,394
that she was going to
see other men,
904
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,291
it was like
the night my ma died.
905
00:40:37,739 --> 00:40:39,798
Something just exploded.
906
00:40:40,909 --> 00:40:43,672
It was like a fire
blazing in my head.
907
00:40:46,849 --> 00:40:48,510
No more questions.
908
00:40:53,590 --> 00:40:56,889
Mr. Beltran, when did
you pick up the pipe?
909
00:40:58,427 --> 00:41:00,054
I don't remember.
910
00:41:00,696 --> 00:41:02,494
And what were you thinking
911
00:41:02,565 --> 00:41:05,432
when you first struck
Beth Milgram with the pipe?
912
00:41:07,103 --> 00:41:08,730
I don't remember.
913
00:41:09,672 --> 00:41:12,870
And then you struck her again
and again and again.
914
00:41:14,545 --> 00:41:15,841
I don't remember.
915
00:41:15,912 --> 00:41:17,846
Because the fire
was blazing, right?
916
00:41:18,582 --> 00:41:19,674
Yes.
917
00:41:20,584 --> 00:41:24,111
But there was no fire blazing
when you picked up the pipe.
918
00:41:24,221 --> 00:41:26,052
Why don't you remember that?
919
00:41:28,460 --> 00:41:30,360
A bird in the hand.
It's a toss-up.
920
00:41:30,428 --> 00:41:32,157
What do you say we
both come up winners?
921
00:41:32,230 --> 00:41:33,457
He shattered a girl's skull.
922
00:41:33,531 --> 00:41:36,626
You can't prove it wasrt a
spontaneous act, a crime of passion.
923
00:41:36,735 --> 00:41:38,760
You should understand
where he's coming from.
924
00:41:38,837 --> 00:41:41,032
Yeah, I do.
I also know where he's going.
925
00:41:41,106 --> 00:41:44,008
Just tell Ben I'm
willing to talk, okay?
926
00:41:44,977 --> 00:41:47,878
Man one, we might as well
throw him a party.
927
00:41:48,447 --> 00:41:50,038
Since when do you back off?
928
00:41:50,115 --> 00:41:51,777
Since I looked
into the jury's eyes.
929
00:41:51,851 --> 00:41:53,580
They're on the edge,
but I don't know
930
00:41:53,653 --> 00:41:55,712
if we have enough left
to bring them to us.
931
00:41:55,788 --> 00:41:57,187
You sure you're gonna lose?
932
00:41:57,256 --> 00:41:58,723
I'm not sure I'm gonna win.
933
00:41:58,791 --> 00:42:01,192
That kid deserves
some time in prison.
934
00:42:09,303 --> 00:42:11,669
Cyrus, he does 10,
you got a deal.
935
00:42:11,772 --> 00:42:13,262
Ben, I spoke out of school.
936
00:42:13,340 --> 00:42:15,366
My client has
decided against a deal.
937
00:42:16,978 --> 00:42:19,242
I'll take my chances
with the jury.
938
00:42:31,392 --> 00:42:34,294
When Thomas Beltran
was 5 years old,
939
00:42:35,664 --> 00:42:37,825
they took his father away.
940
00:42:38,467 --> 00:42:41,027
And then he lost
his family home
941
00:42:42,004 --> 00:42:45,132
and his rage was born.
942
00:42:46,575 --> 00:42:48,544
His mother survived
943
00:42:50,046 --> 00:42:52,571
doing stoop labor
until he was 12.
944
00:42:53,683 --> 00:42:55,708
And then she was gone.
945
00:42:56,354 --> 00:42:59,015
And his rage began to grow.
946
00:43:00,857 --> 00:43:04,453
An orphaned wetback,
a beaner, a greaser...
947
00:43:07,131 --> 00:43:08,689
His rage grew.
948
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,293
And then, by enormous effort,
949
00:43:14,639 --> 00:43:16,106
he was here.
950
00:43:17,108 --> 00:43:20,009
A world of country clubs,
Cadillacs,
951
00:43:20,077 --> 00:43:21,443
and park-front condos.
952
00:43:23,482 --> 00:43:28,442
And Bill Lynch and
Father Gregory said:
953
00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:31,814
"Tommy, you can be
a part of this world."
954
00:43:34,292 --> 00:43:38,423
And Beth Milgram said,
"No, you can't."
955
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:45,233
And Tommy couldn't
control his rage.
956
00:43:51,110 --> 00:43:54,444
It's easy to feel sympathy
for Thomas Beltran.
957
00:43:55,015 --> 00:43:56,983
He's overcome hardships.
958
00:43:58,519 --> 00:44:00,111
He's had problems.
959
00:44:00,187 --> 00:44:04,181
And he sits here before us, day
after day, polite, well-groomed,
960
00:44:04,292 --> 00:44:06,782
and telling us how sorry he is.
961
00:44:06,860 --> 00:44:08,623
While we, the people,
962
00:44:08,696 --> 00:44:11,029
bring in witnesses
to describe his crime.
963
00:44:11,933 --> 00:44:14,868
But the most important witness
isn't here.
964
00:44:15,470 --> 00:44:16,869
Beth Milgram.
965
00:44:18,207 --> 00:44:22,371
A pretty, happy, lively
20-year-old college student.
966
00:44:23,044 --> 00:44:25,945
And on a dark street
three months ago
967
00:44:27,216 --> 00:44:31,585
Thomas Beltran approached her
with a pipe in his hand
968
00:44:32,555 --> 00:44:34,922
and he struck her in the head.
969
00:44:36,059 --> 00:44:37,151
Again
970
00:44:38,729 --> 00:44:42,095
and again and again.
971
00:44:42,899 --> 00:44:45,493
Again and again.
972
00:44:45,569 --> 00:44:48,663
Six times, shattered her skull,
973
00:44:49,206 --> 00:44:52,199
and he says he doesn't
remember doing this.
974
00:44:54,712 --> 00:44:57,339
Would you remember doing it?
975
00:44:57,714 --> 00:45:00,343
I think you would.
I think he does.
976
00:45:03,588 --> 00:45:05,954
But he would have us believe
977
00:45:07,058 --> 00:45:09,289
that the accident of his birth
978
00:45:09,361 --> 00:45:10,589
killed Beth Milgram.
979
00:45:11,897 --> 00:45:14,660
But many people
are born into poverty
980
00:45:14,732 --> 00:45:16,360
and they never kill anyone.
981
00:45:18,203 --> 00:45:22,139
Thomas Beltran wanted to live
in Beth Milgram's world.
982
00:45:22,241 --> 00:45:24,574
He couldn't, so he killed her.
983
00:45:25,145 --> 00:45:27,943
Don't kill her again
by forgetting her.
984
00:45:31,483 --> 00:45:33,509
Would the defendant
please rise?
985
00:45:38,892 --> 00:45:40,554
Has the jury reached a verdict?
986
00:45:40,628 --> 00:45:42,118
Yes, we have, Your Honor.
987
00:45:42,763 --> 00:45:45,095
As for the sole count
of the indictment,
988
00:45:45,166 --> 00:45:47,031
murder in the second degree,
989
00:45:47,801 --> 00:45:49,167
how does the jury find?
990
00:45:49,236 --> 00:45:51,397
We find the defendant guilty.
991
00:46:13,563 --> 00:46:14,621
You did good.
992
00:46:14,697 --> 00:46:16,688
You got them to
vote past their guilt.
993
00:46:16,766 --> 00:46:18,165
What guilt?
994
00:46:18,668 --> 00:46:21,331
The guilt we all feel
for the Tommy Beltrans,
995
00:46:21,404 --> 00:46:22,701
for the other America.
996
00:46:29,847 --> 00:46:31,678
State pays for it.