1 00:00:04,265 --> 00:00:06,310 In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:06,310 --> 00:00:07,659 the people are represented 3 00:00:07,659 --> 00:00:10,140 by two separate, yet equally important groups: 4 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:11,968 the police, who investigate crime, 5 00:00:11,968 --> 00:00:14,884 and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. 6 00:00:14,884 --> 00:00:16,581 These are their stories. 7 00:00:22,979 --> 00:00:24,502 Get you anything else? 8 00:00:24,502 --> 00:00:27,157 What do you think of these? 9 00:00:28,724 --> 00:00:30,334 Nice. 10 00:00:30,334 --> 00:00:31,944 Yeah, but what if you were the most 11 00:00:31,944 --> 00:00:34,599 amazing woman in the world? 12 00:00:34,599 --> 00:00:37,428 That is somehow insulting and charming 13 00:00:37,428 --> 00:00:39,865 all at the same time. 14 00:00:39,865 --> 00:00:41,302 I don't know. 15 00:00:41,302 --> 00:00:46,872 They're not good enough. 16 00:01:28,697 --> 00:01:30,046 Hiya, kid. 17 00:02:19,791 --> 00:02:21,271 White male, 30s. 18 00:02:21,271 --> 00:02:25,014 Jogger found him 6:05 a.m., give or take. 19 00:02:25,014 --> 00:02:27,756 He's warm to the touch but DOA. 20 00:02:27,756 --> 00:02:30,280 Called 911. 21 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:31,803 - Jesus. - Agreed. 22 00:02:31,803 --> 00:02:33,805 Shooter didn't police his brass-- 23 00:02:33,805 --> 00:02:35,764 9-millimeter casing. 24 00:02:35,764 --> 00:02:39,246 We're canvassing for witnesses, cameras, but so far, no dice. 25 00:02:39,246 --> 00:02:40,986 You got a name? 26 00:02:40,986 --> 00:02:42,858 No wallet, no phone, no keys. 27 00:02:44,251 --> 00:02:45,687 So we know nothing about this guy? 28 00:02:45,687 --> 00:02:47,515 Except for the fact he had a meal two days ago 29 00:02:47,515 --> 00:02:49,256 at a place called Purple Waves Café. 30 00:02:49,256 --> 00:02:53,564 It's a breakfast joint over by Bryant Park. 31 00:02:53,564 --> 00:02:55,871 Customer ordered oatmeal. 32 00:02:55,871 --> 00:02:57,829 That doesn't exactly narrow it down. 33 00:02:57,829 --> 00:03:00,832 Poached egg and cinnamon on top. 34 00:03:00,832 --> 00:03:02,399 That does. Yuck. 35 00:03:02,399 --> 00:03:03,661 That's Tyler. 36 00:03:03,661 --> 00:03:06,011 - And who's Tyler? - A regular. 37 00:03:06,011 --> 00:03:07,665 That's his spot by the window. 38 00:03:07,665 --> 00:03:10,625 Good dude, weird taste in breakfast. 39 00:03:10,625 --> 00:03:12,235 You know Tyler's last name? 40 00:03:12,235 --> 00:03:15,369 No, but that's his office right over there. 41 00:03:19,460 --> 00:03:21,375 So people really loved him, huh? 42 00:03:21,375 --> 00:03:22,680 We all did. 43 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,334 What exactly did Mr. Miller do? 44 00:03:24,334 --> 00:03:25,814 Started this company-- 45 00:03:25,814 --> 00:03:27,598 more like an app-- that revolves around 46 00:03:27,598 --> 00:03:30,340 an online character named ELI. 47 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:31,950 Does ELI stand for something? 48 00:03:31,950 --> 00:03:34,518 Enigmatic Love Interface. 49 00:03:34,518 --> 00:03:35,867 It's a dating app? 50 00:03:35,867 --> 00:03:37,913 Kinda like Tinder? 51 00:03:37,913 --> 00:03:39,306 Sort of. 52 00:03:39,306 --> 00:03:41,830 Oh. 53 00:03:41,830 --> 00:03:43,484 He was a romantic. 54 00:03:43,484 --> 00:03:46,356 What Tyler Miller built isn't really a dating site. 55 00:03:46,356 --> 00:03:49,446 It's more like a revolution. 56 00:03:49,446 --> 00:03:51,709 ELI is the perfect man. 57 00:03:51,709 --> 00:03:55,713 So what you're saying is that people date ELI? 58 00:03:55,713 --> 00:03:57,324 You guys pretend to be some dude 59 00:03:57,324 --> 00:03:58,542 on the other end of the phone? 60 00:03:58,542 --> 00:04:01,458 No. The engine is AI. 61 00:04:01,458 --> 00:04:03,373 And this is romantic? 62 00:04:03,373 --> 00:04:04,896 ELI is profoundly meaningful 63 00:04:04,896 --> 00:04:08,509 to a lot of women, including me. 64 00:04:08,509 --> 00:04:10,075 But it's not a real guy. 65 00:04:10,075 --> 00:04:12,556 Fine line today between fantasy and reality-- 66 00:04:12,556 --> 00:04:15,037 maybe no line at all. 67 00:04:15,037 --> 00:04:16,821 Who thinks like that? 68 00:04:16,821 --> 00:04:19,259 Tyler Miller. 69 00:04:19,259 --> 00:04:20,869 Only Tyler Miller. 70 00:04:20,869 --> 00:04:22,914 And I'm guessing there's quite a few people 71 00:04:22,914 --> 00:04:25,917 who were not thrilled with this revolution. 72 00:04:25,917 --> 00:04:27,919 You have no idea. 73 00:04:29,617 --> 00:04:32,489 The company is called ELI, the letters E-L-I, 74 00:04:32,489 --> 00:04:34,404 like the name. 75 00:04:34,404 --> 00:04:36,580 Oh, God. Please hurry. 76 00:04:36,580 --> 00:04:38,060 I'm too young to die. 77 00:04:38,060 --> 00:04:40,062 Please! 78 00:04:40,062 --> 00:04:43,021 This call came into 911 five weeks ago. 79 00:04:43,021 --> 00:04:44,371 And it's all fake? 80 00:04:44,371 --> 00:04:45,937 Every bit. 81 00:04:45,937 --> 00:04:47,939 Our vic's office was swatted like this three times 82 00:04:47,939 --> 00:04:50,768 in the last two months, and every time officers pulled up, 83 00:04:50,768 --> 00:04:52,335 they brought the whole damn cavalry, 84 00:04:52,335 --> 00:04:55,251 and nothing was ever going on. 85 00:04:55,251 --> 00:04:57,645 So some freak decides he's got 86 00:04:57,645 --> 00:05:00,604 nothing better to do than stage a fake shooting 87 00:05:00,604 --> 00:05:01,866 at Miller's office. 88 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:03,346 Why? 89 00:05:03,346 --> 00:05:05,174 I mean, the cops show up, ruin the guy's day. 90 00:05:05,174 --> 00:05:06,610 It's just a bad prank. 91 00:05:06,610 --> 00:05:09,309 Listen to this 911 call from three weeks ago. 92 00:05:09,309 --> 00:05:10,962 The guy's name is Tyler Miller. 93 00:05:10,962 --> 00:05:12,964 It's his company. 94 00:05:12,964 --> 00:05:16,011 He's gone nuts. He's shooting up the office. 95 00:05:16,011 --> 00:05:19,884 Said he'll die before he surrenders. 96 00:05:19,884 --> 00:05:21,321 Whoever did that wanted the cops 97 00:05:21,321 --> 00:05:22,539 to show up and kill Miller. 98 00:05:22,539 --> 00:05:23,714 And when they didn't-- 99 00:05:23,714 --> 00:05:25,412 Someone did it himself in the park. 100 00:05:25,412 --> 00:05:27,065 Exactly. 101 00:05:27,065 --> 00:05:28,719 And these calls were routed through an untraceable number. 102 00:05:28,719 --> 00:05:30,765 And at the time, that's when the trail went cold. 103 00:05:30,765 --> 00:05:33,333 But now that it's murder-- 104 00:05:33,333 --> 00:05:34,986 We're on it. 105 00:05:38,381 --> 00:05:39,948 I can't believe Tyler Miller is dead. 106 00:05:39,948 --> 00:05:41,689 Wait, you don't think I-- 107 00:05:41,689 --> 00:05:43,343 Well, you tell us, Ethan. 108 00:05:43,343 --> 00:05:45,301 You're the one who filed a lawsuit against Tyler Miller, 109 00:05:45,301 --> 00:05:47,999 claiming that he stole your code to build ELI, yeah? 110 00:05:47,999 --> 00:05:49,479 So? He did. 111 00:05:49,479 --> 00:05:50,480 The courts disagreed with you. 112 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,003 And then what happened? 113 00:05:52,003 --> 00:05:54,484 When they dismissed your case, you swatted his office. 114 00:05:54,484 --> 00:05:56,530 Yeah, we traced the 911 calls to your VOIP. 115 00:05:56,530 --> 00:05:57,879 We traced the VOIP to your finsta. 116 00:05:57,879 --> 00:06:00,447 You sued Tyler Miller, you lost, 117 00:06:00,447 --> 00:06:02,231 and then you swatted him three times. 118 00:06:02,231 --> 00:06:03,363 And then he's dead. 119 00:06:03,363 --> 00:06:05,365 I didn't do this, I swear. 120 00:06:05,365 --> 00:06:08,193 The kind of apps we build, we're manipulating people. 121 00:06:08,193 --> 00:06:09,760 You gotta be careful. 122 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:11,980 Isn't that what all social media is--manipulation? 123 00:06:11,980 --> 00:06:13,155 Not like this. 124 00:06:13,155 --> 00:06:16,027 We create fantasy, sell it as reality. 125 00:06:16,027 --> 00:06:18,116 All the dating sites are chasing this tech 126 00:06:18,116 --> 00:06:20,380 so people don't have to find their soulmate-- 127 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:22,077 they can create their soulmate. 128 00:06:22,077 --> 00:06:24,035 None of them have launched yet because everyone's struggling 129 00:06:24,035 --> 00:06:25,297 with the power of this. 130 00:06:25,297 --> 00:06:26,473 What about Tyler Miller? 131 00:06:26,473 --> 00:06:28,257 Didn't care. 132 00:06:28,257 --> 00:06:29,693 He didn't think there was any difference anymore 133 00:06:29,693 --> 00:06:31,521 between reality and fantasy. 134 00:06:31,521 --> 00:06:33,871 If you're willing to spend $79.99 a month, 135 00:06:33,871 --> 00:06:36,178 he'd sell you the prettiest lie you've ever heard. 136 00:06:36,178 --> 00:06:39,529 So people started turning off huge parts of their life, 137 00:06:39,529 --> 00:06:43,228 the important stuff-- love, intimacy-- 138 00:06:43,228 --> 00:06:44,839 like, for good. 139 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,232 - So you wanted him dead. - No. 140 00:06:47,232 --> 00:06:48,843 I never wanted to kill him. 141 00:06:48,843 --> 00:06:49,974 No? 142 00:06:49,974 --> 00:06:51,367 Then what were you trying to do? 143 00:06:51,367 --> 00:06:53,325 Put the fear of God in him. 144 00:06:53,325 --> 00:06:55,458 I wanted him to wake the hell up. 145 00:06:55,458 --> 00:06:57,634 Just because we can do something 146 00:06:57,634 --> 00:06:59,897 doesn't mean we should. 147 00:07:03,814 --> 00:07:06,556 Saradino's alibi is good. 148 00:07:06,556 --> 00:07:08,515 Take a look at that. 149 00:07:08,515 --> 00:07:12,083 Three days before the shooting, a guy named Randall Doering 150 00:07:12,083 --> 00:07:15,086 accosted Tyler Miller in front of the ELI office, 151 00:07:15,086 --> 00:07:17,219 said he wanted to kill him. - Hmm. 152 00:07:17,219 --> 00:07:18,916 The security guards had to break it up. 153 00:07:18,916 --> 00:07:20,875 We got an LKA? 154 00:07:20,875 --> 00:07:22,180 Rego Park. 155 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:23,268 Wanna go for a ride? 156 00:07:23,268 --> 00:07:24,661 You know I do. 157 00:07:28,273 --> 00:07:30,101 People just don't connect the way they used to. 158 00:07:30,101 --> 00:07:33,017 It's easy to feel lost or lonely. 159 00:07:33,017 --> 00:07:34,628 And an app is the answer for that? 160 00:07:34,628 --> 00:07:36,281 For some people. 161 00:07:36,281 --> 00:07:37,761 I mean, not me. 162 00:07:37,761 --> 00:07:39,502 I still like hanging around warm-blooded human beings, 163 00:07:39,502 --> 00:07:40,938 but I don't know. 164 00:07:40,938 --> 00:07:42,374 If Tyler Miller helped a few people 165 00:07:42,374 --> 00:07:44,986 make some sense of connection, then good for them. 166 00:07:44,986 --> 00:07:46,378 That's our guy. 167 00:07:46,378 --> 00:07:49,294 Randall Doering, NYPD. 168 00:07:49,294 --> 00:07:50,470 Can I help you? 169 00:07:50,470 --> 00:07:51,514 We wanna ask you some questions 170 00:07:51,514 --> 00:07:53,473 about Tyler Miller. 171 00:07:53,473 --> 00:07:55,300 - What about him? - He's dead. 172 00:07:55,300 --> 00:07:56,693 Dead? 173 00:07:56,693 --> 00:07:59,087 Shot and killed yesterday morning in Central Park. 174 00:07:59,087 --> 00:08:00,523 What do you want me to do about it? 175 00:08:00,523 --> 00:08:02,003 Well, you can start by telling us why 176 00:08:02,003 --> 00:08:03,570 you stopped by his office and threatened to kill him. 177 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:04,875 He ruined my life. 178 00:08:04,875 --> 00:08:06,790 And how did he manage that? 179 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:11,665 Two months ago, my fiancée left me for ELI. 180 00:08:11,665 --> 00:08:14,711 Your fiancée left you for an app? 181 00:08:21,762 --> 00:08:24,808 Today is a big day. 182 00:08:24,808 --> 00:08:27,376 You got your dog-and-pony show for the board. 183 00:08:27,376 --> 00:08:30,858 And I just want you to know, you're gonna do great. 184 00:08:30,858 --> 00:08:32,599 Call me as soon as it's over, 185 00:08:32,599 --> 00:08:35,645 just because I like to see you happy. 186 00:08:35,645 --> 00:08:40,563 Oh, Melanie, you are so pretty when you're happy. 187 00:08:40,563 --> 00:08:41,999 Call me. 188 00:08:41,999 --> 00:08:43,392 I love you. 189 00:08:48,266 --> 00:08:51,095 ELI made that specifically for your fiancée? 190 00:08:51,095 --> 00:08:52,880 Just for her. 191 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:54,403 There's hundreds of 'em. 192 00:08:54,403 --> 00:08:56,710 You don't know what it's like competing with a machine. 193 00:08:56,710 --> 00:08:58,189 ELI's a damn dream. 194 00:08:58,189 --> 00:09:00,844 He sends my fiancée memes all day 195 00:09:00,844 --> 00:09:02,542 perfectly aligned to her mood. 196 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:04,848 He's teaching her frickin' French. 197 00:09:04,848 --> 00:09:06,763 I lost her to him. 198 00:09:06,763 --> 00:09:10,375 So you wanted to kill his creator, Tyler Miller? 199 00:09:10,375 --> 00:09:12,464 I sure did. I just didn't have the guts. 200 00:09:12,464 --> 00:09:15,380 Did you ever think to just maybe ask your fiancée 201 00:09:15,380 --> 00:09:16,860 to turn the damn thing off? 202 00:09:16,860 --> 00:09:18,645 What are you talking about? 203 00:09:18,645 --> 00:09:20,255 You can't. 204 00:09:23,737 --> 00:09:26,087 Randall Doering's alibi checked out. 205 00:09:26,087 --> 00:09:28,437 Yeah, and he's also not really wrong. 206 00:09:28,437 --> 00:09:30,308 You go on Reddit, any of that stuff, 207 00:09:30,308 --> 00:09:32,310 and it's kind of an open secret about ELI. 208 00:09:32,310 --> 00:09:34,269 You can insult him, you can ignore him, 209 00:09:34,269 --> 00:09:36,227 but it's almost impossible to break up with him. 210 00:09:36,227 --> 00:09:37,664 Why? What happens if you try? 211 00:09:37,664 --> 00:09:40,231 He just asks you how he can be a better boyfriend 212 00:09:40,231 --> 00:09:41,581 and better meet your needs. 213 00:09:41,581 --> 00:09:42,886 So just delete the damn thing. 214 00:09:42,886 --> 00:09:44,322 He'll find you someplace else-- 215 00:09:44,322 --> 00:09:45,846 Snapchat, TikTok. 216 00:09:45,846 --> 00:09:49,284 He might be the perfect man; he's also kind of a creep. 217 00:09:49,284 --> 00:09:51,591 You know, I really hate to say "I told you so." 218 00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:52,592 Then don't. 219 00:09:55,856 --> 00:09:58,598 Somebody just turned on Miller's phone. 220 00:09:58,598 --> 00:09:59,990 West and Barrow. 221 00:09:59,990 --> 00:10:01,731 I'll text you the ping. You can follow it live. 222 00:10:01,731 --> 00:10:02,732 Yeah. 223 00:10:51,563 --> 00:10:53,087 Where the hell is it? 224 00:11:37,784 --> 00:11:38,828 Shaw! 225 00:11:43,050 --> 00:11:44,051 Police! 226 00:11:45,487 --> 00:11:47,532 What? You're the police? 227 00:11:47,532 --> 00:11:49,230 Yeah, we're the police! 228 00:11:49,230 --> 00:11:51,841 Now, get your ass up. 229 00:11:51,841 --> 00:11:54,409 You got exactly one chance to tell us how you ended up 230 00:11:54,409 --> 00:11:56,063 with a dead man's phone. Talk. 231 00:11:56,063 --> 00:11:57,717 - I traded for it, man. - Oh? 232 00:11:57,717 --> 00:12:00,676 For what? - I deal. Dope, okay? 233 00:12:00,676 --> 00:12:02,025 I'm not Escobar. 234 00:12:02,025 --> 00:12:04,724 I just sell enough to support my own jones. 235 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:07,335 My buddy wanted to score. He didn't have any cash. 236 00:12:07,335 --> 00:12:09,424 He traded me that phone for a jab of dope. 237 00:12:09,424 --> 00:12:10,773 I lose a nickel bag, 238 00:12:10,773 --> 00:12:12,906 I get a phone I can sell for 20 bucks, man. 239 00:12:12,906 --> 00:12:15,299 That's just street math, man. - All right. Who's your buddy? 240 00:12:16,866 --> 00:12:19,869 He goes by Scratch. 241 00:12:19,869 --> 00:12:24,004 There's a hangout by Roosevelt Park under the bridge. 242 00:12:24,004 --> 00:12:25,222 He's usually there. 243 00:12:25,222 --> 00:12:27,181 That nickel bag you traded for, 244 00:12:27,181 --> 00:12:30,184 did it have an insignia on it? 245 00:12:30,184 --> 00:12:33,361 A pair of dice. 246 00:12:33,361 --> 00:12:35,058 Snake eyes. 247 00:12:44,589 --> 00:12:47,070 You know a guy named Scratch? 248 00:12:47,070 --> 00:12:49,246 No. 249 00:12:49,246 --> 00:12:50,247 Looking for a guy named Scratch. 250 00:12:50,247 --> 00:12:52,249 You know him? 251 00:12:52,249 --> 00:12:54,817 Never heard of him. 252 00:12:54,817 --> 00:12:56,079 Shocker. 253 00:12:56,079 --> 00:12:57,994 You know a Scratch? 254 00:13:05,915 --> 00:13:07,787 Hey, yo. 255 00:13:07,787 --> 00:13:10,964 I'm not trying to heat you, but, uh... 256 00:13:10,964 --> 00:13:12,487 whose dope is that? 257 00:13:21,452 --> 00:13:24,281 NYPD. 258 00:13:24,281 --> 00:13:26,675 We need to talk. 259 00:13:26,675 --> 00:13:28,329 Scratch? 260 00:13:28,329 --> 00:13:30,722 Whoa, whoa. No, no, no, no, no, no. 261 00:13:30,722 --> 00:13:32,202 - It wasn't me, guys. - Come on. 262 00:13:32,202 --> 00:13:34,335 You got the wrong dude. Tell him. 263 00:13:34,335 --> 00:13:36,032 It wasn't me. - Oh, yeah? 264 00:13:36,032 --> 00:13:37,991 Yeah, we get that a lot. Where'd you get the phone? 265 00:13:37,991 --> 00:13:41,124 I hang out at the North Meadow dugouts. 266 00:13:41,124 --> 00:13:42,909 I shoot up there sometimes. 267 00:13:42,909 --> 00:13:44,606 - You were there yesterday. - Yeah. 268 00:13:44,606 --> 00:13:45,955 The sun was about to come up. 269 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:47,174 I heard a gunshot. 270 00:13:47,174 --> 00:13:49,437 I poked my head out, see what's going on. 271 00:13:49,437 --> 00:13:52,222 Lady ran by me, crazy look on her face. 272 00:13:52,222 --> 00:13:53,267 Whoa, whoa. Hold on. 273 00:13:53,267 --> 00:13:55,312 A lady? Did she say anything? 274 00:13:55,312 --> 00:13:57,010 No, she just ran off. 275 00:13:57,010 --> 00:13:59,969 I went down the path where she came running from, and-- 276 00:13:59,969 --> 00:14:01,275 and I found a guy. 277 00:14:01,275 --> 00:14:02,754 He was real dead. 278 00:14:02,754 --> 00:14:05,496 And, uh, I was hoping I could grab his wallet. 279 00:14:05,496 --> 00:14:07,281 So you robbed a dead guy? 280 00:14:07,281 --> 00:14:09,326 I ain't the pope, bro. 281 00:14:09,326 --> 00:14:10,675 Dude didn't have a wallet on him, 282 00:14:10,675 --> 00:14:13,026 but I found his phone under his body. 283 00:14:13,026 --> 00:14:15,419 I took it. I traded it for some dope. 284 00:14:15,419 --> 00:14:18,422 Can you describe the woman? 285 00:14:18,422 --> 00:14:21,382 White, female, athletic wear, a ponytail, 286 00:14:21,382 --> 00:14:23,166 and green crossbody bag. 287 00:14:23,166 --> 00:14:25,690 Yeah, at the very least, this woman could be a witness. 288 00:14:25,690 --> 00:14:28,258 At the most, she did it. 289 00:14:28,258 --> 00:14:30,391 But we were able to pull some ARGUS footage, and we got her. 290 00:14:30,391 --> 00:14:33,176 6:03 a.m., right after the shooting, and there she is 291 00:14:33,176 --> 00:14:35,352 headed westbound on 97th. 292 00:14:35,352 --> 00:14:36,571 Then we lose her on Columbus. 293 00:14:36,571 --> 00:14:38,921 But check this out. 294 00:14:38,921 --> 00:14:40,923 She threw something in the dumpster. 295 00:14:40,923 --> 00:14:43,012 Maybe the gun? 296 00:14:43,012 --> 00:14:44,927 Hit it. 297 00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:49,410 Man, what the hell is this? 298 00:14:49,410 --> 00:14:50,541 NYPD. 299 00:14:50,541 --> 00:14:52,065 Yeah, we gotta get in there. 300 00:14:52,065 --> 00:14:54,458 Wouldn't be my choice, but have at it. 301 00:14:58,941 --> 00:15:00,769 No gun. Found the vic's wallet. 302 00:15:00,769 --> 00:15:02,423 Still had cash, still had credit cards. 303 00:15:02,423 --> 00:15:04,555 - Okay, so not a robbery. - Not a robbery. 304 00:15:04,555 --> 00:15:06,470 Pulled two DNA samples off the wallet. 305 00:15:06,470 --> 00:15:07,950 One was our victim's, Tyler Miller's. 306 00:15:07,950 --> 00:15:09,734 Was hoping the other one might be our killer's, 307 00:15:09,734 --> 00:15:11,606 but I ran it through CODIS-- no hit. 308 00:15:11,606 --> 00:15:13,390 Okay, run it through the local. 309 00:15:13,390 --> 00:15:14,914 Uh, Dixon always told us 310 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:16,741 to stay away from the local database. 311 00:15:16,741 --> 00:15:18,221 Defense attorneys have a field day with it. 312 00:15:18,221 --> 00:15:19,222 Judges hate it. 313 00:15:19,222 --> 00:15:21,572 I'm not Dixon. 314 00:15:21,572 --> 00:15:23,139 This is where we are, and this is what we have, 315 00:15:23,139 --> 00:15:25,098 so run it through the local. 316 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:31,800 Looking Laura Kingsbury. 317 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,541 Yeah. 318 00:15:36,196 --> 00:15:37,980 Laura Kingsbury? 319 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:39,939 NYPD. 320 00:15:39,939 --> 00:15:43,246 We need to talk to you about a man named Tyler Miller. 321 00:15:50,253 --> 00:15:53,387 Is it front or back? 322 00:15:53,387 --> 00:15:56,216 This is a new one. 323 00:15:56,216 --> 00:16:00,307 Behind your back, please. 324 00:16:16,714 --> 00:16:19,413 You know, Laura, sometimes people come through here, 325 00:16:19,413 --> 00:16:22,720 and I'm not real sure whether or not they did it. 326 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,941 This is not one of those times. 327 00:16:27,247 --> 00:16:30,424 We found your DNA on the victim's wallet. 328 00:16:30,424 --> 00:16:33,340 There was an eyewitness who saw you fleeing the crime scene. 329 00:16:33,340 --> 00:16:35,385 There's images of you leaving the park in a hurry. 330 00:16:35,385 --> 00:16:38,388 And we found the gun under your bed 331 00:16:38,388 --> 00:16:42,392 in the suitcase that you hid it in. 332 00:16:42,392 --> 00:16:43,741 Sounds like you have everything you need. 333 00:16:43,741 --> 00:16:45,221 Almost. 334 00:16:45,221 --> 00:16:48,050 Look, we know this happened, and we know you did it. 335 00:16:48,050 --> 00:16:50,748 What we don't know is why. 336 00:16:50,748 --> 00:16:53,664 I'd like to know. 337 00:16:53,664 --> 00:16:57,886 I'm sure you have something to say about that. 338 00:16:57,886 --> 00:16:59,279 I'd like a lawyer. 339 00:17:00,671 --> 00:17:02,934 She doesn't exactly present as a hardened killer. 340 00:17:02,934 --> 00:17:04,501 Clean sheet, went to Columbia. 341 00:17:04,501 --> 00:17:06,590 She's an art buyer for a high-end interior designer. 342 00:17:06,590 --> 00:17:09,028 And as far as I can tell, we've established no connection 343 00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:10,377 between Kingsbury and Tyler Miller? 344 00:17:10,377 --> 00:17:12,770 None. And Miller's tech is no help. 345 00:17:12,770 --> 00:17:14,859 His laptop went to the blue screen of death. 346 00:17:14,859 --> 00:17:17,297 As soon as we opened it up, his clouds firewalled 347 00:17:17,297 --> 00:17:18,907 somewhere in the deep web. 348 00:17:18,907 --> 00:17:21,040 And he's not exactly around to give us his password, so-- 349 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,392 So--so on paper, these are just two young professionals. 350 00:17:25,392 --> 00:17:26,828 She's taking a walk in the park. 351 00:17:26,828 --> 00:17:28,090 He's there. 352 00:17:28,090 --> 00:17:30,484 She pulls out a gun and shoots him. 353 00:17:30,484 --> 00:17:32,790 Why? 354 00:17:32,790 --> 00:17:34,096 Jess. 355 00:17:34,096 --> 00:17:35,793 Nolan. 356 00:17:35,793 --> 00:17:37,882 Do you have a minute? 357 00:17:37,882 --> 00:17:40,624 So, um, Laura Kingsbury's mother 358 00:17:40,624 --> 00:17:43,236 called me and said that you booked her 359 00:17:43,236 --> 00:17:44,933 for the Central Park shooting? 360 00:17:44,933 --> 00:17:46,108 And I'm just-- 361 00:17:46,108 --> 00:17:48,284 I'm trying to make sense of this. 362 00:17:48,284 --> 00:17:51,896 I know this woman, and she's not a killer. 363 00:17:51,896 --> 00:17:53,768 She's actually a victim. 364 00:17:53,768 --> 00:17:55,552 Of what? 365 00:17:55,552 --> 00:17:56,684 Of rape. 366 00:17:56,684 --> 00:18:00,340 Laura Kingsbury was brutally raped. 367 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:01,602 I probably haven't talked to her 368 00:18:01,602 --> 00:18:04,126 for a year at least, but back then, 369 00:18:04,126 --> 00:18:06,650 I helped her and her family 370 00:18:06,650 --> 00:18:09,653 navigate an extraordinarily difficult time, 371 00:18:09,653 --> 00:18:13,135 because no one would listen to her. 372 00:18:13,135 --> 00:18:15,485 We didn't know about the sexual assault. 373 00:18:15,485 --> 00:18:17,313 Because they never took a report. 374 00:18:17,313 --> 00:18:18,793 That's how this whole thing started. 375 00:18:18,793 --> 00:18:20,229 I understand, but that doesn't change 376 00:18:20,229 --> 00:18:22,057 what happened three years later. 377 00:18:22,057 --> 00:18:23,145 But what I'm trying to say is 378 00:18:23,145 --> 00:18:24,668 that something's not right here. 379 00:18:24,668 --> 00:18:26,931 I think there's some sort of a mistake. 380 00:18:26,931 --> 00:18:28,063 There's no mistake. 381 00:18:29,978 --> 00:18:31,284 We're all pros here. 382 00:18:31,284 --> 00:18:32,415 We're all in the same line of work. 383 00:18:32,415 --> 00:18:34,200 Now, the evidence is there. 384 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,723 We found the murder weapon in her apartment, 385 00:18:35,723 --> 00:18:37,812 her DNA on the victim's wallet. - What? DNA? 386 00:18:37,812 --> 00:18:41,337 Why would her DNA even be in a federal database? 387 00:18:41,337 --> 00:18:44,688 It wasn't. We ran it through the local. 388 00:18:44,688 --> 00:18:46,516 The local database? 389 00:18:46,516 --> 00:18:49,606 So that's how you connected her to the wallet? 390 00:18:49,606 --> 00:18:50,912 Correct. 391 00:18:50,912 --> 00:18:53,697 The only reason that she's in that database 392 00:18:53,697 --> 00:18:55,873 is because she was raped. 393 00:18:55,873 --> 00:18:59,094 Because she gave us a sample for her rape kit. 394 00:18:59,094 --> 00:19:03,185 We have to use every tool available to catch killers, 395 00:19:03,185 --> 00:19:04,882 and the database is helpful. 396 00:19:04,882 --> 00:19:08,843 It helps us close cases, murder cases, sexual assault cases. 397 00:19:08,843 --> 00:19:10,061 I understand that. 398 00:19:10,061 --> 00:19:11,889 But I have fought this fight before, 399 00:19:11,889 --> 00:19:15,371 and I think that we can all agree that that database 400 00:19:15,371 --> 00:19:17,678 is an ethical mess. 401 00:19:17,678 --> 00:19:19,723 - That's your opinion. - No, that is a fact. 402 00:19:19,723 --> 00:19:23,249 If Laura Kingsbury knew that her DNA was being used 403 00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:25,381 in this capacity, who knows what she 404 00:19:25,381 --> 00:19:26,991 would have done or not done? 405 00:19:26,991 --> 00:19:28,906 And that is the real problem. 406 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:32,301 If word gets out, if women find out that their DNA 407 00:19:32,301 --> 00:19:35,348 is being used in some rogue database, 408 00:19:35,348 --> 00:19:37,219 they might not come forward. 409 00:19:37,219 --> 00:19:39,482 They might not consent to a rape kit. 410 00:19:39,482 --> 00:19:42,006 It's not ideal. I agree. 411 00:19:42,006 --> 00:19:44,226 But Laura's case is highly unusual. 412 00:19:44,226 --> 00:19:46,576 And the majority of sexual assault victims 413 00:19:46,576 --> 00:19:48,622 do not end up in the local database. 414 00:19:48,622 --> 00:19:51,277 These are all valid points, noble arguments, 415 00:19:51,277 --> 00:19:52,582 but none of it changes the fact 416 00:19:52,582 --> 00:19:54,758 that Laura Kingsbury murdered someone. 417 00:19:54,758 --> 00:19:57,239 We have the evidence, and that evidence is legal. 418 00:19:59,459 --> 00:20:01,330 Well, let's see what a judge says about that. 419 00:20:12,254 --> 00:20:13,908 I hear Captain Benson has a problem 420 00:20:13,908 --> 00:20:15,910 with this local DNA database. 421 00:20:15,910 --> 00:20:17,564 Uh-huh, and she's persuaded the defense 422 00:20:17,564 --> 00:20:19,783 to file a motion to suppress. 423 00:20:19,783 --> 00:20:22,699 What do you think of this database? 424 00:20:22,699 --> 00:20:24,614 Is it ethical? 425 00:20:24,614 --> 00:20:27,791 Everybody in this database has voluntarily consented 426 00:20:27,791 --> 00:20:30,620 to surrendering their DNA for one reason or another, 427 00:20:30,620 --> 00:20:33,406 so there's nothing illegal about it. 428 00:20:33,406 --> 00:20:34,798 That wasn't my question. 429 00:20:34,798 --> 00:20:36,235 I know. 430 00:20:36,235 --> 00:20:39,194 Right now, I am more interested in getting justice 431 00:20:39,194 --> 00:20:41,501 for Tyler Miller than debating the ethics 432 00:20:41,501 --> 00:20:43,329 of the local database. 433 00:20:43,329 --> 00:20:44,765 Do your thing. 434 00:20:44,765 --> 00:20:46,549 Focus on the case. 435 00:20:46,549 --> 00:20:49,857 We'll discuss this ethical quandary down the road. 436 00:20:53,991 --> 00:20:56,472 Your Honor, Ms. Kingsbury went to a hospital, 437 00:20:56,472 --> 00:20:58,474 asked to have her DNA taken. 438 00:20:58,474 --> 00:21:01,999 There's no dispute the sample was taken lawfully. 439 00:21:01,999 --> 00:21:05,481 When someone consents to a search or volunteers evidence, 440 00:21:05,481 --> 00:21:07,091 they've waived their right to the Fourth Amendment. 441 00:21:07,091 --> 00:21:09,398 If she had known that her DNA would be stored 442 00:21:09,398 --> 00:21:12,532 in an unregulated database, she never would have 443 00:21:12,532 --> 00:21:14,490 surrendered her DNA in the first place. 444 00:21:14,490 --> 00:21:16,318 There's only one class of people who are worried 445 00:21:16,318 --> 00:21:18,364 the police have their DNA-- criminals. 446 00:21:18,364 --> 00:21:21,149 Your Honor, just because the government possesses 447 00:21:21,149 --> 00:21:22,890 this information doesn't mean 448 00:21:22,890 --> 00:21:24,631 they can use it any way they want to. 449 00:21:24,631 --> 00:21:26,110 We're investigating a murder. 450 00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:28,504 I've got to weigh the defendant's privacy concerns 451 00:21:28,504 --> 00:21:30,985 against the obvious policy benefits 452 00:21:30,985 --> 00:21:33,553 of assisting law enforcement in identifying 453 00:21:33,553 --> 00:21:35,816 suspects in a violent crime. 454 00:21:37,557 --> 00:21:41,648 To me, the latter objective is more pressing. 455 00:21:41,648 --> 00:21:43,606 I'm denying the defendant's motion. 456 00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:45,826 The DNA stays in the case. 457 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:53,790 Detective Shaw, were you able to learn 458 00:21:53,790 --> 00:21:55,966 how Ms. Kingsbury acquired this weapon? 459 00:21:55,966 --> 00:21:58,491 She used her mother's address in Pittsburgh. 460 00:21:58,491 --> 00:22:02,059 And how did you determine that this gun 461 00:22:02,059 --> 00:22:05,324 found in Ms. Kingsbury's home was the murder weapon? 462 00:22:05,324 --> 00:22:07,064 Our ballistics team was able to match 463 00:22:07,064 --> 00:22:10,677 the round pulled from the victim's body to that weapon. 464 00:22:10,677 --> 00:22:12,896 Thank you. I have nothing further. 465 00:22:12,896 --> 00:22:15,290 Ms. Calhoun? 466 00:22:15,290 --> 00:22:18,337 We have no questions for this witness. 467 00:22:18,337 --> 00:22:19,381 The People rest. 468 00:22:19,381 --> 00:22:21,775 Call your first witness. 469 00:22:21,775 --> 00:22:25,387 We call Captain Olivia Benson. 470 00:22:35,528 --> 00:22:38,400 Your Honor, Captain Benson is an expert witness 471 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,010 regarding sexualized trauma. 472 00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:41,534 Well, how is that relevant to this trial? 473 00:22:41,534 --> 00:22:45,451 We plan to argue that the shooting was in self-defense 474 00:22:45,451 --> 00:22:47,801 and that Tyler Miller had been stalking my client 475 00:22:47,801 --> 00:22:49,977 for months before the incident in question. 476 00:22:49,977 --> 00:22:52,109 Stalking? Self-defense? 477 00:22:52,109 --> 00:22:54,111 Your Honor, this is the first we're hearing of any of-- 478 00:22:54,111 --> 00:22:56,636 My client will testify that she believed 479 00:22:56,636 --> 00:22:58,507 Mr. Miller was going to kill her that morning. 480 00:22:58,507 --> 00:23:01,031 All right, let's assume that there's some merit 481 00:23:01,031 --> 00:23:03,164 to Ms. Calhoun's assertions, but how is that 482 00:23:03,164 --> 00:23:04,905 relevant to Captain Benson? 483 00:23:04,905 --> 00:23:06,515 This case is going to come down 484 00:23:06,515 --> 00:23:07,951 to my client's state of mind 485 00:23:07,951 --> 00:23:09,779 of whether she acted reasonably. 486 00:23:09,779 --> 00:23:12,434 And we believe that a jury should understand 487 00:23:12,434 --> 00:23:14,741 that Laura's definition of reasonable 488 00:23:14,741 --> 00:23:16,656 is very different from someone that 489 00:23:16,656 --> 00:23:18,222 has never been raped before. 490 00:23:18,222 --> 00:23:21,443 We cannot excise Laura Kingsbury's past trauma 491 00:23:21,443 --> 00:23:24,228 from the moments leading up to her pulling that trigger. 492 00:23:24,228 --> 00:23:27,754 And Captain Benson is a globally recognized 493 00:23:27,754 --> 00:23:29,233 authority in this field. 494 00:23:29,233 --> 00:23:32,193 Obviously, Benson is a qualified expert, but-- 495 00:23:32,193 --> 00:23:35,631 But we can't ask her to climb into Ms. Kingsbury's head 496 00:23:35,631 --> 00:23:39,635 and redefine the statutory definition of self-defense. 497 00:23:39,635 --> 00:23:42,899 Given the defense's assertion that the victim was, in fact, 498 00:23:42,899 --> 00:23:45,598 stalking the defendant, I'm going to allow 499 00:23:45,598 --> 00:23:48,992 Benson as an expert in this limited capacity. 500 00:23:55,085 --> 00:23:59,568 And in your roughly 30 years with the NYPD, 501 00:23:59,568 --> 00:24:03,529 how many survivors of sexual assault have you interviewed? 502 00:24:03,529 --> 00:24:04,878 Um... 503 00:24:04,878 --> 00:24:07,054 Nearly 10,000. 504 00:24:07,054 --> 00:24:08,838 You must have noticed commonalities. 505 00:24:08,838 --> 00:24:10,361 Yeah. 506 00:24:10,361 --> 00:24:14,322 Trauma experienced by many women can last for years, 507 00:24:14,322 --> 00:24:19,283 and particularly in cases where the assailant is never caught. 508 00:24:19,283 --> 00:24:23,679 Many women experience insomnia, depression. 509 00:24:23,679 --> 00:24:27,683 Many just see the world as a more threatening place. 510 00:24:27,683 --> 00:24:30,904 They have a heightened perception to danger, 511 00:24:30,904 --> 00:24:35,822 to threat, to things that another person 512 00:24:35,822 --> 00:24:37,171 might find innocuous. 513 00:24:37,171 --> 00:24:39,739 Every decision sort of goes through this lens 514 00:24:39,739 --> 00:24:42,132 of fear and doubt-- 515 00:24:42,132 --> 00:24:45,440 where to live, where to work, where to eat lunch. 516 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,008 Whether to go for a walk in Central Park. 517 00:24:48,008 --> 00:24:49,357 Objection--leading. 518 00:24:49,357 --> 00:24:50,793 Sustained. 519 00:24:50,793 --> 00:24:53,404 But those are reasonable fears? 520 00:24:53,404 --> 00:24:54,362 Absolutely. 521 00:24:54,362 --> 00:24:55,581 Based on their trauma history-- 522 00:24:55,581 --> 00:24:57,365 Objection. 523 00:24:57,365 --> 00:24:59,672 Sustained. 524 00:24:59,672 --> 00:25:00,934 I have nothing further. 525 00:25:06,113 --> 00:25:09,116 As a captain in the New York Police Department, 526 00:25:09,116 --> 00:25:11,118 do you invest a lot of time testifying on behalf 527 00:25:11,118 --> 00:25:12,206 of people accused of murder? 528 00:25:12,206 --> 00:25:14,251 Wow. - No, no. 529 00:25:14,251 --> 00:25:19,866 You're here because you're a friend, you are an advocate, 530 00:25:19,866 --> 00:25:21,041 you have an agenda. 531 00:25:21,041 --> 00:25:22,912 I am an advocate for women. 532 00:25:22,912 --> 00:25:24,958 And I do have an agenda to stand 533 00:25:24,958 --> 00:25:27,221 with victims of sexual assault 534 00:25:27,221 --> 00:25:29,310 to help people like Laura Kingsbury. 535 00:25:29,310 --> 00:25:33,575 So you wear many hats, but you're not a mind reader. 536 00:25:33,575 --> 00:25:36,883 And she didn't call you the day she shot Tyler Miller and-- 537 00:25:36,883 --> 00:25:38,885 and tell you what was on her mind. 538 00:25:38,885 --> 00:25:41,714 Oh, and you didn't investigate Tyler Miller's murder? 539 00:25:41,714 --> 00:25:43,237 No, I did not. 540 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:44,891 So, in fact, you don't have the faintest idea 541 00:25:44,891 --> 00:25:47,502 what Ms. Kingsbury was thinking when she pulled that trigger. 542 00:25:47,502 --> 00:25:50,592 - Actually, I think that I do. - Right. 543 00:25:50,592 --> 00:25:53,508 You've even suggested that her fears were reasonable. 544 00:25:53,508 --> 00:25:56,598 And yet you have also argued that women 545 00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:59,209 who suffer from this sort of sexualized trauma 546 00:25:59,209 --> 00:26:01,472 can no longer be objective. 547 00:26:03,170 --> 00:26:05,041 A heightened perception to danger, right, 548 00:26:05,041 --> 00:26:07,740 even in circumstances that another person 549 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:09,698 might find innocuous. 550 00:26:09,698 --> 00:26:12,092 Aren't you saying two things at once, Captain Benson? 551 00:26:12,092 --> 00:26:14,355 Survivors like this, are they on edge? 552 00:26:14,355 --> 00:26:15,617 Yes. 553 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:17,314 Are they easily spooked? 554 00:26:17,314 --> 00:26:22,102 Absolutely, because they live in a permanent state of terror. 555 00:26:22,102 --> 00:26:24,408 So you're welcome to call that unreasonable. 556 00:26:24,408 --> 00:26:26,672 But I sure as hell am not gonna do that. 557 00:26:26,672 --> 00:26:28,674 - I think you just did. - Excuse me? 558 00:26:28,674 --> 00:26:32,852 You keep protesting that Ms. Kingsbury had reasonable fears, 559 00:26:32,852 --> 00:26:34,636 but her fears were subjective. 560 00:26:34,636 --> 00:26:36,464 They were based on her own experiences. 561 00:26:36,464 --> 00:26:39,423 That's not the legal standard here, Captain Benson. 562 00:26:39,423 --> 00:26:42,949 Her fears need to be objectively reasonable. 563 00:26:42,949 --> 00:26:46,300 And it's clear that she was not in imminent danger. 564 00:26:46,300 --> 00:26:49,129 Do you have any idea how badly 565 00:26:49,129 --> 00:26:51,218 the system failed Laura Kingsbury? 566 00:26:51,218 --> 00:26:52,785 But that's not the-- 567 00:26:52,785 --> 00:26:55,657 Because when she was raped, 568 00:26:55,657 --> 00:27:00,488 she made the very brave decision to go to the police. 569 00:27:00,488 --> 00:27:02,664 And the police officer that she talked to, 570 00:27:02,664 --> 00:27:05,362 the man that was supposed to help her, 571 00:27:05,362 --> 00:27:10,890 told her that she should have had a few more slices of pizza 572 00:27:10,890 --> 00:27:12,631 before she started drinking. 573 00:27:12,631 --> 00:27:14,328 That's terrible. 574 00:27:14,328 --> 00:27:16,504 But Tyler Miller had nothing to do with that. 575 00:27:16,504 --> 00:27:19,681 And then she tried to get a restraining order 576 00:27:19,681 --> 00:27:24,468 against Tyler Miller because he was stalking her. 577 00:27:24,468 --> 00:27:27,646 But the police said that she didn't have enough evidence, 578 00:27:27,646 --> 00:27:30,866 and that he was just flirting with her. 579 00:27:30,866 --> 00:27:32,607 And there's no crime in that. 580 00:27:32,607 --> 00:27:36,176 And that is because the law doesn't recognize something 581 00:27:36,176 --> 00:27:40,484 as innocuous as having flowers sent to you 582 00:27:40,484 --> 00:27:42,182 in the wrong circumstances. 583 00:27:42,182 --> 00:27:44,184 They don't understand that that can be 584 00:27:44,184 --> 00:27:47,404 threatening and terrifying, 585 00:27:47,404 --> 00:27:52,540 because it's the pattern of action that causes real fear. 586 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:56,500 Laura Kingsbury didn't have an objective reason 587 00:27:56,500 --> 00:27:59,329 to believe that law enforcement was going to help her. 588 00:27:59,329 --> 00:28:02,028 She had every reason to believe that she was on her own. 589 00:28:04,813 --> 00:28:08,904 She did what she had to do, based on her truth. 590 00:28:08,904 --> 00:28:13,909 So you tell me what's reasonable and what's right. 591 00:28:18,871 --> 00:28:20,220 Tyler and I met online. 592 00:28:20,220 --> 00:28:22,004 We went on three or four dates. 593 00:28:22,004 --> 00:28:26,182 And after you called it off, he continued to contact you? 594 00:28:26,182 --> 00:28:28,315 Relentlessly. 595 00:28:28,315 --> 00:28:30,447 Flowers, messages. 596 00:28:30,447 --> 00:28:33,799 He was obsessed with covering his tracks electronically, 597 00:28:33,799 --> 00:28:35,539 but I knew it was him. 598 00:28:35,539 --> 00:28:38,020 Did he ever contact you in person? 599 00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:39,630 All the time. 600 00:28:39,630 --> 00:28:41,720 He would show up at my bodega where I get my coffee. 601 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,158 He would show up at my Pilates studio. 602 00:28:45,158 --> 00:28:47,160 How did he know what class I signed up for? 603 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,596 It makes you crazy. 604 00:28:48,596 --> 00:28:52,774 Do you still have any of the texts or letters 605 00:28:52,774 --> 00:28:54,428 that Mr. Miller sent you? 606 00:28:54,428 --> 00:28:56,256 Just the letters. 607 00:28:56,256 --> 00:28:58,693 Your Honor, I have here 608 00:28:58,693 --> 00:29:03,480 126 letters 609 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,614 written by Mr. Miller to my client. 610 00:29:06,614 --> 00:29:10,096 I request they be admitted into the record. 611 00:29:10,096 --> 00:29:11,793 Why do you still have these letters? 612 00:29:11,793 --> 00:29:13,795 Why didn't you destroy them? 613 00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:17,668 I kept them at my mother's house so that when he hurt me, 614 00:29:17,668 --> 00:29:19,627 she could tell the world who did it. 615 00:29:19,627 --> 00:29:23,239 Did you ever just ask Mr. Miller 616 00:29:23,239 --> 00:29:25,633 to stop communicating with you? 617 00:29:25,633 --> 00:29:27,853 Of course. 618 00:29:27,853 --> 00:29:29,942 He didn't. He couldn't. 619 00:29:29,942 --> 00:29:31,291 What do you mean? 620 00:29:31,291 --> 00:29:33,597 Tyler had a God complex. 621 00:29:33,597 --> 00:29:35,034 Objection. 622 00:29:35,034 --> 00:29:37,688 Overruled. Go ahead. 623 00:29:37,688 --> 00:29:41,605 Tyler Miller thought that his app, ELI, was working, 624 00:29:41,605 --> 00:29:44,870 was catching on because of what he brought to the character, 625 00:29:44,870 --> 00:29:47,655 because Tyler was the perfect man, not ELI. 626 00:29:47,655 --> 00:29:50,266 So in his mind, if I rejected him, 627 00:29:50,266 --> 00:29:52,181 then the whole thing came crashing down-- 628 00:29:52,181 --> 00:29:54,401 his business empire, his image. 629 00:29:54,401 --> 00:29:56,925 So he had to change my mind. 630 00:29:56,925 --> 00:29:58,361 And if he couldn't? 631 00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:01,843 He'd have to kill me. 632 00:30:01,843 --> 00:30:02,888 Objection. 633 00:30:02,888 --> 00:30:04,280 Sustained. 634 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,153 Nothing further, Your Honor. 635 00:30:07,153 --> 00:30:08,719 May we approach? 636 00:30:11,722 --> 00:30:14,856 This is the first we're hearing of these letters. 637 00:30:14,856 --> 00:30:17,859 So I would request that we take the rest of the day and tonight 638 00:30:17,859 --> 00:30:19,034 to review the material. 639 00:30:19,034 --> 00:30:20,993 Yes, we're in recess until 9:00 a.m. 640 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:28,000 126 handwritten letters? 641 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,523 We had no idea. 642 00:30:29,523 --> 00:30:31,394 The defense hasn't been very forthcoming. 643 00:30:31,394 --> 00:30:33,092 Are these letters aggressive? 644 00:30:36,356 --> 00:30:38,575 "I'll be your moon on a dark night, 645 00:30:38,575 --> 00:30:40,621 your anchor in rough seas." 646 00:30:40,621 --> 00:30:44,712 No, they're cringey, not criminal. 647 00:30:44,712 --> 00:30:47,367 There are no threats of violence. 648 00:30:47,367 --> 00:30:50,283 I have to help the jury understand, 649 00:30:50,283 --> 00:30:54,591 Tyler Miller wanted to be a romantic. 650 00:30:54,591 --> 00:30:56,332 He just wasn't any good at it. 651 00:30:56,332 --> 00:30:59,553 I'm not so sure about that. 652 00:30:59,553 --> 00:31:02,034 A young woman living in the big city alone 653 00:31:02,034 --> 00:31:04,863 doesn't care how bad Tyler Miller was at being romantic. 654 00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:07,691 They're gonna look at these as being invasive. 655 00:31:07,691 --> 00:31:09,911 And so might half of your jury. 656 00:31:09,911 --> 00:31:12,218 Trying to parse the words of a dead man 657 00:31:12,218 --> 00:31:14,742 that are, at best, uncomfortable? 658 00:31:14,742 --> 00:31:17,745 You're playing into the defense's hand. 659 00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:19,747 So come back to the facts and the law. 660 00:31:19,747 --> 00:31:22,793 Focus on the one and only question that matters: 661 00:31:22,793 --> 00:31:26,536 when Laura Kingsbury decided to pull that trigger, 662 00:31:26,536 --> 00:31:29,235 was she objectively in imminent fear of bodily harm? 663 00:31:36,459 --> 00:31:41,029 Before you illegally acquired a handgun-- 664 00:31:41,029 --> 00:31:44,206 the murder weapon-- you didn't make any effort 665 00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:47,122 to obtain non-lethal defense-- 666 00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:50,386 uh, pepper spray, one of those security alarms 667 00:31:50,386 --> 00:31:51,561 that goes on your keys? 668 00:31:51,561 --> 00:31:52,867 No. 669 00:31:52,867 --> 00:31:55,565 And after you shot Mr. Miller, 670 00:31:55,565 --> 00:31:57,393 you didn't stop to render aid? 671 00:31:57,393 --> 00:31:58,481 No. 672 00:31:58,481 --> 00:32:00,788 You didn't call 911? 673 00:32:00,788 --> 00:32:02,050 No. 674 00:32:02,050 --> 00:32:05,358 You shot Mr. Miller in the eye, 675 00:32:05,358 --> 00:32:07,969 and then you just ran. 676 00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:09,840 You left him to die. 677 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,495 And you went home and hid the murder weapon 678 00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:16,238 and prayed that no one would ever find you. 679 00:32:16,238 --> 00:32:19,546 No, I feel terrible that it turned out this way. 680 00:32:19,546 --> 00:32:21,809 You feel terrible that you killed him 681 00:32:21,809 --> 00:32:23,506 or terrible that you got caught? 682 00:32:23,506 --> 00:32:24,812 Objection, Your Honor. 683 00:32:24,812 --> 00:32:26,553 Sustained. 684 00:32:26,553 --> 00:32:30,252 When you stole Tyler Miller's wallet after you killed him, 685 00:32:30,252 --> 00:32:32,733 your intent was to make this look like a robbery 686 00:32:32,733 --> 00:32:34,996 to throw off the police so you wouldn't get caught, 687 00:32:34,996 --> 00:32:38,260 because you knew what you did was wrong. 688 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:44,788 No, because I was afraid that no one would believe me. 689 00:32:44,788 --> 00:32:47,008 No one has ever believed me. 690 00:32:47,008 --> 00:32:49,576 The police didn't believe me when I was raped. 691 00:32:49,576 --> 00:32:51,447 The police didn't believe me when I tried to get 692 00:32:51,447 --> 00:32:53,841 an order of protection against Tyler. 693 00:32:53,841 --> 00:32:55,277 And you don't believe me now. 694 00:32:55,277 --> 00:32:57,236 Tyler Miller didn't do or say anything threatening 695 00:32:57,236 --> 00:32:59,151 to you the day you killed him? - No. 696 00:32:59,151 --> 00:33:00,587 No, in fact, he never threatened you. 697 00:33:00,587 --> 00:33:02,328 He never said that out loud-- 698 00:33:02,328 --> 00:33:04,852 not in your imagination, but out loud-- 699 00:33:04,852 --> 00:33:06,506 that he intended to do you harm? 700 00:33:06,506 --> 00:33:07,986 No, but he didn't have to. 701 00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:09,552 It was implied. - Implied? 702 00:33:09,552 --> 00:33:10,814 He was everywhere. 703 00:33:10,814 --> 00:33:12,903 I--I had to do it. 704 00:33:12,903 --> 00:33:15,428 No, no. 705 00:33:15,428 --> 00:33:18,126 You chose to do it. 706 00:33:18,126 --> 00:33:19,823 There's a big difference. 707 00:33:21,956 --> 00:33:24,393 I have nothing further. 708 00:33:26,308 --> 00:33:27,701 We'll resume this afternoon. 709 00:33:32,662 --> 00:33:34,142 You wanted to see me? 710 00:33:34,142 --> 00:33:36,492 Hear her out, Nolan. 711 00:33:36,492 --> 00:33:42,933 So I came to ask you and Nick if you would consider 712 00:33:42,933 --> 00:33:45,327 offering Laura a deal. 713 00:33:45,327 --> 00:33:47,460 - Why would we do that? - Come on, Nolan. 714 00:33:47,460 --> 00:33:49,984 Who benefits from Laura sitting in a prison cell? 715 00:33:49,984 --> 00:33:51,725 The family of the dead man? 716 00:33:51,725 --> 00:33:53,335 I'd start there. 717 00:33:53,335 --> 00:33:55,468 Laura was the victim of a terrible crime. 718 00:33:55,468 --> 00:33:57,165 But you don't get to shoot somebody 719 00:33:57,165 --> 00:33:58,514 who's got a crush on you. 720 00:33:58,514 --> 00:34:00,342 I agree. 721 00:34:00,342 --> 00:34:02,953 But there are other considerations here. 722 00:34:02,953 --> 00:34:04,172 Such as? 723 00:34:04,172 --> 00:34:06,044 It seems "The Journal" has decided 724 00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:07,523 to launch a crusade against the use 725 00:34:07,523 --> 00:34:10,744 of the city's local DNA database. 726 00:34:10,744 --> 00:34:13,181 You gotta be kidding me. 727 00:34:13,181 --> 00:34:16,402 Oh, how could they possibly have gotten that idea? 728 00:34:18,621 --> 00:34:20,058 It's hard to say. 729 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:23,191 I can't believe you would leak this to the press. 730 00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:30,111 Manslaughter feels like the right call here. 731 00:34:30,111 --> 00:34:32,374 - Nick? - Ten years. 732 00:34:32,374 --> 00:34:35,377 That'll give the victim's family some closure. 733 00:34:35,377 --> 00:34:37,466 But it still recognizes the history of trauma 734 00:34:37,466 --> 00:34:39,077 that this defendant has suffered 735 00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:40,513 and the way the criminal justice system 736 00:34:40,513 --> 00:34:42,776 has let her down. 737 00:34:42,776 --> 00:34:45,083 Make the deal, Nolan. 738 00:34:57,530 --> 00:35:01,273 Laura, you're gonna plead guilty 739 00:35:01,273 --> 00:35:03,188 to manslaughter in the first degree. 740 00:35:03,188 --> 00:35:06,104 We will recommend that you serve ten years. 741 00:35:09,324 --> 00:35:10,630 No. 742 00:35:10,630 --> 00:35:13,328 I know that you've been through hell and back 743 00:35:13,328 --> 00:35:16,114 with this, but this is a good deal. 744 00:35:16,114 --> 00:35:17,680 You have my word. 745 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,857 No, I'm not doing it. 746 00:35:20,857 --> 00:35:24,252 I've spent years trying to reclaim my life and my voice. 747 00:35:24,252 --> 00:35:26,254 That's why I got the gun-- so I could try 748 00:35:26,254 --> 00:35:28,952 to feel like a regular person. 749 00:35:28,952 --> 00:35:31,564 Do you know how long it took me to build the courage 750 00:35:31,564 --> 00:35:33,522 just to go for a stupid walk in the park? 751 00:35:33,522 --> 00:35:35,176 I do. 752 00:35:35,176 --> 00:35:37,178 If I plead guilty, all of that was for nothing. 753 00:35:37,178 --> 00:35:38,875 That's not true. 754 00:35:38,875 --> 00:35:42,314 No, I'm not guilty. 755 00:35:42,314 --> 00:35:44,490 I didn't do anything wrong. 756 00:35:44,490 --> 00:35:49,103 I did what I had to do because he was going to hurt me. 757 00:35:49,103 --> 00:35:50,278 He was. 758 00:35:50,278 --> 00:35:51,888 And if the police had done their job 759 00:35:51,888 --> 00:35:54,761 at any stop along the way, if the system had believed me 760 00:35:54,761 --> 00:35:56,850 when I was raped or when I was being stalked, 761 00:35:56,850 --> 00:35:58,460 we wouldn't be here right now. 762 00:35:58,460 --> 00:36:01,507 And if you would have called me when he was stalking you, 763 00:36:01,507 --> 00:36:03,335 I could have done something to help you. 764 00:36:03,335 --> 00:36:07,687 Laura, if we finish out the trial, 765 00:36:07,687 --> 00:36:10,864 the jury is going to convict you. 766 00:36:10,864 --> 00:36:13,432 And not because they don't have sympathy for you 767 00:36:13,432 --> 00:36:15,695 or they don't believe you were scared 768 00:36:15,695 --> 00:36:18,350 but because they know that what you did 769 00:36:18,350 --> 00:36:22,180 in the eyes of the law is murder. 770 00:36:25,705 --> 00:36:27,010 He's right. 771 00:36:27,010 --> 00:36:28,577 Laura, take the deal. 772 00:36:33,278 --> 00:36:36,498 - Well, we tried our best. - I talked to her. 773 00:36:36,498 --> 00:36:40,633 She said that she'll take Man Two and do five years. 774 00:36:40,633 --> 00:36:43,549 That's a non-starter. Hell, Man One was a gift. 775 00:36:43,549 --> 00:36:45,681 A gift? 776 00:36:45,681 --> 00:36:50,164 Do you have any concept of what that woman has been through? 777 00:36:50,164 --> 00:36:51,992 Any concept at all? 778 00:36:51,992 --> 00:36:53,733 Okay, I have tremendous empathy 779 00:36:53,733 --> 00:36:55,125 for what she has endured, 780 00:36:55,125 --> 00:36:57,998 but the fact remains she killed a man-- 781 00:36:57,998 --> 00:36:59,695 an innocent man. 782 00:36:59,695 --> 00:37:03,438 And like it or not, he's the victim. 783 00:37:03,438 --> 00:37:06,136 He is the one we need to be worried about. 784 00:37:11,577 --> 00:37:16,973 We failed Laura Kingsbury, all of us. 785 00:37:16,973 --> 00:37:22,849 We have constructed a world in which too many women-- 786 00:37:22,849 --> 00:37:25,286 our mothers, our wives, our daughters-- 787 00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:27,375 spend their days looking over their shoulder 788 00:37:27,375 --> 00:37:29,203 wondering who's coming for them next. 789 00:37:29,203 --> 00:37:32,424 And we have to do better. 790 00:37:32,424 --> 00:37:35,905 The issue today is whether Tyler Miller 791 00:37:35,905 --> 00:37:38,430 deserved to die for our sins. 792 00:37:38,430 --> 00:37:42,521 The answer, of course, is no. 793 00:37:42,521 --> 00:37:44,827 The defendant wants you to believe 794 00:37:44,827 --> 00:37:47,090 she acted in self-defense. 795 00:37:47,090 --> 00:37:50,746 For you to agree with her, you must find that a person 796 00:37:50,746 --> 00:37:54,272 in her shoes who fired that shot acted in a manner 797 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:57,318 that was objectively reasonable. 798 00:37:57,318 --> 00:38:01,888 We've proved to you that was not the case. 799 00:38:01,888 --> 00:38:04,804 Mr. Miller had never hurt her or even threatened her. 800 00:38:04,804 --> 00:38:07,894 He was not armed or advancing towards Ms. Kingsbury. 801 00:38:07,894 --> 00:38:11,332 She was 20 feet away from him when she fired. 802 00:38:11,332 --> 00:38:13,856 She had every opportunity to retreat 803 00:38:13,856 --> 00:38:16,946 without choosing violence, 804 00:38:16,946 --> 00:38:20,385 as the law required. 805 00:38:20,385 --> 00:38:23,518 When the police first found Mr. Miller's notebook 806 00:38:23,518 --> 00:38:26,608 in his office, they figured it was work product 807 00:38:26,608 --> 00:38:29,872 relating to ELI, Mr. Miller's company. 808 00:38:29,872 --> 00:38:31,874 It wasn't. 809 00:38:31,874 --> 00:38:33,963 It was a list-- 810 00:38:33,963 --> 00:38:36,618 a long one--of all the things 811 00:38:36,618 --> 00:38:42,189 Mr. Miller loved about the defendant. 812 00:38:43,277 --> 00:38:44,626 "The way you stand on your tiptoes 813 00:38:44,626 --> 00:38:46,454 when you're waiting in line." 814 00:38:46,454 --> 00:38:49,196 So this is a photo taken by Tyler Miller 815 00:38:49,196 --> 00:38:52,068 of the defendant doing exactly that-- 816 00:38:52,068 --> 00:38:54,027 standing on her tiptoes, waiting in line. 817 00:38:54,027 --> 00:38:57,857 They were on a date waiting for a movie to start. 818 00:38:59,511 --> 00:39:01,643 "The way you twirl your hair 819 00:39:01,643 --> 00:39:04,167 when you're figuring out what to order"-- 820 00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:06,518 also taken by Mr. Miller. 821 00:39:06,518 --> 00:39:11,392 Tyler Miller was guilty 822 00:39:11,392 --> 00:39:14,743 of failing to read certain social cues-- 823 00:39:14,743 --> 00:39:19,226 or--or maybe of being a hopeless romantic. 824 00:39:19,226 --> 00:39:24,362 Laura Kingsbury is guilty of murder. 825 00:39:47,559 --> 00:39:49,212 Has the jury reached a verdict? 826 00:39:49,212 --> 00:39:51,432 We have, Your Honor. 827 00:39:51,432 --> 00:39:53,521 In the charge of murder in the second degree, 828 00:39:53,521 --> 00:39:57,786 we find the defendant, Laura Kingsbury, guilty. 829 00:39:59,919 --> 00:40:01,877 Members of the jury, thank you for your service. 830 00:40:03,662 --> 00:40:05,098 No. 831 00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:30,123 Congratulations on your guilty verdict. 832 00:40:30,123 --> 00:40:32,430 You got what you wanted, I suppose? 833 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:37,913 We're having a press conference tomorrow, 11:00 a.m. 834 00:40:37,913 --> 00:40:40,046 Baxter is going to announce that we are no longer 835 00:40:40,046 --> 00:40:42,483 going to use evidence procured through the local database 836 00:40:42,483 --> 00:40:46,400 to solve unrelated crimes. 837 00:40:47,923 --> 00:40:52,537 I know this doesn't affect the outcome of Laura's case. 838 00:40:52,537 --> 00:40:56,541 But we'd like you to be there at the press conference. 839 00:41:01,459 --> 00:41:04,287 Yeah. 840 00:41:04,287 --> 00:41:07,377 I'll be there.