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A grisly discovery

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in the town of Sangre de Cristo
this morning and a number

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of SDC residents are
reportedly still missing,

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because as one police
spokesman put it,

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the whole town is a crime scene.

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You spend 30 years
patrolling this border,

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you're gonna see
some horrible things.

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We all thought it was a
mass murder case, you know,

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a serial killer.

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Our thoughts
and prayers go out

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to the families of the
Sangre de Cristo victims.

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A person
of interest was detained.

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We found the suspect
covered in blood.

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38-Year-old Francisco Salazar,

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an illegal immigrant, has been
charged with over two dozen

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counts of first degree murder.

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Everybody seems so
shocked about this.

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Not me, because I know what
these people are capable of.

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If this guy actually killed
the whole fucking town,

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kill him.

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Fry his ass.

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A serial killer, I
mean, that was pretty

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much the general consensus.

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Francisco
Salazar remains jailed

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under high security in Hinzman.

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But then the photos emerged.

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It changed-- it
change everything

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that we thought about.

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I don't understand.

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Why did you keep
taking pictures?

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Do you own a gun?

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I do, and ever since I've
seen these photographs

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I've been sleeping with
it under my pillow.

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Although
the area has been cordoned off

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by police, sources
say authorities

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have been unable to quantify
a specific body count.

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In what's being described as
a likely mass murder scene,

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police recovered the bodies
of over a dozen victims

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in various sites
throughout the town.

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Police are combing the
town's two square miles

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as they begin to unearth more
clues to this shocking tragedy.

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We've got a body here.

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The body count in what police are

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calling the Sangre de Cristo
Massacre has risen to over 20.

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Residents of nearby Hinzman
and the border communities

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are encouraged to avoid
the general SDC area

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and to report any
tips or suspicious

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behavior to the authorities.

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In all my years
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I've never come across
anything like this.

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God abandoned Sangre de Cristo.

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There's nothing left.

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It still amazes me that the
largest single-day homicide

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in history of the state of
Arizona got no attention,

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zero media coverage.

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It's hard to imagine the
scale of the carnage.

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Most bodies were
only partial remains,

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scraps of bloody clothing,
limbs in the street.

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Some bloody trails ran
out to a quarter mile

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as if the bodies
had been dragged.

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Other trails veered out
into the surrounding deserts

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and just disappeared.

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All of them-- men, women,
children-- gone in one night.

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I've been a writer since 1995.

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I've written five
different books.

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I worked for a couple of years
as an investigative reporter

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in Los Angeles.

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We covered all the things
that "LA Times" didn't cover.

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Every place is
known for something.

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South Arizona, the Vanishing
Capital of the United States.

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It's true.

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There's been more
than a few that have

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gone missing from the area.

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But look what's going
on-- drug trafficking,

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human trafficking, smuggling,
weapons, gang activity.

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There's no place
that has more crime

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than here in the borderlands.

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You lose one person,
that's a tragedy.

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To see a whole town wiped out--

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We got lucky.

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It was their town, not ours.

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It's not a matter of if,
it's a matter of when.

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Wake up.
Listen to me.

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I've been telling
you this for years,

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but you've ignored me up to now.

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Well, I'm telling you, you
can't ignore me anymore.

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A person of interest

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was detained as he attempted
to flee across the border.

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He is reportedly a
Latino man in his 30s

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who was employed at
Sangre de Cristo Ranch

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at the time of the murders.

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Well, you know, I've seen 40
years of crime and violence.

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The only man that ever scared
me was Francisco Salazar.

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 Francisco Salazar was an
illegal that had been living

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in Sangre de Cristo
for seven years

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after jumping the border from
the Nogales, Mexico, which made

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him a pretty convenient fit.

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Even with all the things
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you never expect to see
something like this.

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He was raving when
we caught him.

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He was raving when we put
him in that jail cell.

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Once he was in there,
he didn't say too much.

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23 hours after they closed
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Salazar staggered
to desert Highway

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67, 12 miles east of
SDC, and collapsed

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at the side of the road.

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The only truck to stop
was an independent rig

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co-owned by Mario Schatzker Rio,
who had just got his license.

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He dragged Salazar into
the cab, turned around,

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and drove him west
to the nearest town

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with a hospital, Hinzman.

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The hospital contacted the cops.

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How are you doing?

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- Oh, good.

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How's Brad been?

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John Parano
understands his people,

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just like his father--
a little comforting,

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a wink, a little bullying, a
big hat, toothpick, his stories.

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It's kind of a big show.

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He never misses an
opportunity to press his case,

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even if it is some cheesy
public access piece.

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I was born and raised
right here in Hinzman.

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I've been elected
Sheriff of Hinzman County

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for seven consecutive terms.

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Before that, I was a Deputy
Sheriff for 10 years.

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I've devoted my entire life to
the good people of this area.

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Sheriff, how would
you profile Francisco Salazar?

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If there's ever a checklist
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Salazar would check every box.

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He was a loner.

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He came from a
low-class background.

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He had anger issues.

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His father abandoned
him at an early age.

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You know, he was a drifter.

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And I actually worked
with him for a little while.

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We were part of a re-roofing
crew at the pharmacy.

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He was one quiet dude.

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I mean, my friend dropped
his sandwich at lunch.

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Salazar takes a
fucking picture of it.

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They found dead corpses of
little kids out in the desert.

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A lot of folks
couldn't sleep at night.

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Was this the start
of something bigger?

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Salazar, he's-- he's La Raza.

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So were the rest of his thugs.

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Coming here to wipe us off
the map, like he did SDC.

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He did odd jobs around town.

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He painted houses of some
of his eventual victims.

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Judge Jack Hudson
has instituted a full media ban

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with no cameras permitted
in the courtroom

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and no media personnel
allowed within 200

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yards of the courthouse.

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This Lawrence
Ross guy, you know,

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he came here with
the wrong idea.

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Everybody saw
where it was going,

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so of course there was
nothing but closed doors.

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You know, sorry.

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Look.

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We did not arrest Salazar
because he was Mexican.

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We arrested Salazar
because he was

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covered with 15 types of blood.

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AM 970,
Hinzman Arizona.

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This is "The Gus Greer
Show," and I'm Gus Greer.

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And for the next
two hours, you're

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going to get the
most valuable thing

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that you've ever had in your
life-- an education from me.

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The Mexican, the cholo, La Raza.

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It's a culture that
celebrates violence.

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They glorify death
because they have nothing

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else to look forward to.

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I can't say the
political climate

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at the time had anything to do
with the way he was treated.

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I absolutely believe that
an Hispanic man who is also

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an illegal immigrant
can get a fair trial

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in the state of Arizona.

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Let's
not forget-- Arizona

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embraced the KKK
after Reconstruction.

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When we're talking
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Arizona had almost as many as
anywhere else in the country.

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Different state, different
era, same old monster--

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controlling the power structure
by day, hiding behind masks

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at night.

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Make no mistake,
we are at war.

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You think
the government's

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going to come in and save you?

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You think they're going to start
putting troops on the border?

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Action has consequences,
ladies and gentlemen.

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And inaction has more
serious consequences.

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You have a choice to make.

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Are you going to sit there and
roll over, and let this tide

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roll over you and destroy
you and your family,

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or are you going to stand up?

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Are you willing to
fight for what's right

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and for what's yours?

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When you're talking about
the history of this country,

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I mean, it's an
indisputable fact--

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there are very few minorities
that have gotten a fair

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trial in an all-white jury.

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They didn't need a trial.

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Public had already
tried and convicted him

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before it ever even started.

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What do you get when you cross
an illegal with an octopus?

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What?

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I don't know, but it
sure can pick lettuce.

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A lot of lettuce.

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These damn illegal
Mexicans come over

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here and do all their drugs.

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And he goes, that's not ours.

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There's all their
killings and stuff.

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You know, if you go out there
like they did in the old days

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in the John Wayne
movies and hang one

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where everybody
can watch, then one

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day, they gonna stop doing it.

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The attorney they

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gave him was on his third case.

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Before that, he handled
some counterfeiter

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and some petty thief.

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Salazar was his third case.

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I did
my due diligence.

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I'm sworn to defend my client
to the best of my ability.

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I think that I did that.

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I sat in court.

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I expected to see a monster.

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I seen him.

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He was just slumped over,
quiet, with a blank stare.

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There was no one
else left alive to question.

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He was the only survivor.

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But Salazar never said a
single word during the trial.

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Teeth marks-- that's something
I'm not going to get into.

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OK.

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How's it going, Bob?

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Day three of the trial, and
I'm already sick to my stomach.

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I never want to hear
another word about the freak

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eating the people he murdered.

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I basically believe that
if he killed these people,

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I believe he should
get the death

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penalty for doing what he did.

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He's an outcast.

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He should be put
to death on the spot.

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Lethal injection.

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Fry his ass.

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And that was the level of
analysis in the courtroom--

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a one-man serial killer army.

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They could only do
forensics on seven

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partial corpses that were intact
enough to be tagged and IDed.

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When pressed about
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the coroner said on the stand,
how do you run DNA tests on 20

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square blocks of bloody sand?

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They didn't notice that the
teeth marks on the victims

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didn't match Francisco's teeth.

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And yet, Francisco
has bite marks.

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They match the victims.

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How can you botch that?

254
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During the first trial,
I felt like I needed

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to seek someone out who
understood the local culture

256
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of the border.

257
00:15:15,315 --> 00:15:18,318
Carlos Olivares,
second-generation border

258
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patrol agent, following in
the footsteps of his father.

259
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When
you grow up in this area,

260
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you realize that there's
certain things you need to do.

261
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There's just a protection
that needs to happen.

262
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Spend 30 years
patrolling this border,

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you're going to see
some horrible things.

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00:15:34,968 --> 00:15:38,238
We find bodies of dead
women and children,

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dehydrated bodies, sometimes
just 10 feet from a hidden

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stash of water bottles.

267
00:15:43,210 --> 00:15:46,679
Lately, these last
few years on patrol,

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I started seeing
some things that

269
00:15:49,449 --> 00:15:52,352
are getting harder to
explain-- bodies that

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weren't just rotted by the sun.

271
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They had been chewed-- not by
mountain lions or buzzards.

272
00:16:02,229 --> 00:16:05,565
But nobody in my line
of work talked about it.

273
00:16:21,681 --> 00:16:23,416
Whatever
happened in Sangre

274
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de Cristo couldn't have been
the work of just one man.

275
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I didn't need a law
degree to know that.

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Based on the overwhelming
amount of evidence given,

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we convicted Mr.
Salazar, as I remember,

278
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in about a half hour,
which was longer than it

279
00:17:00,787 --> 00:17:01,754
probably should've taken.

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Salazar
was the-- a easy target.

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He was a person
easy to dehumanize.

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To the people in Hinzman,
he was just some guy

283
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who went from job to job.

284
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He would work on
construction jobs.

285
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He would do anything.

286
00:17:25,245 --> 00:17:27,314
He's minimized as being just
sort of drifter-- you know,

287
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some cash-and-carry guy who you
found on the end of a block,

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and you put in the back
of a pickup, do your work,

289
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and you forgot about
him five minutes

290
00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:37,357
after you dropped him back off.

291
00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:39,892
During the first trial,
I knew that Salazar

292
00:17:39,926 --> 00:17:44,164
had been interviewed on camera
only once, on the evening

293
00:17:44,197 --> 00:17:46,299
he'd been taken into custody.

294
00:17:46,333 --> 00:17:49,502
I spent 13 months
filling out Freedom

295
00:17:49,536 --> 00:17:51,938
of Information Act
requests at both the state

296
00:17:51,971 --> 00:17:54,274
and federal level-- nothing.

297
00:17:54,307 --> 00:17:57,043
The Arizona Open Meetings Act?

298
00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,811
I got nothing.

299
00:17:58,845 --> 00:18:01,981
Until I got this video.

300
00:18:02,014 --> 00:18:06,686
Francisco interviews.

301
00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:09,522
You said that
they were people that you knew,

302
00:18:09,556 --> 00:18:15,562
but something wasn't
right about them.

303
00:18:15,595 --> 00:18:22,034
They were the same
people, but they were dead.

304
00:18:22,068 --> 00:18:24,504
Why didn't you
hear about this tape before?

305
00:18:24,537 --> 00:18:25,805
The tape was never

306
00:18:25,838 --> 00:18:27,574
entered into evidence
in the first trial,

307
00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:29,342
and it was barred
in the second one.

308
00:18:29,376 --> 00:18:31,711
You didn't give
serious thought to using

309
00:18:31,744 --> 00:18:33,480
the video in his defense?

310
00:18:33,513 --> 00:18:34,847
Have you seen the video?

311
00:18:34,881 --> 00:18:36,349
It's not an insanity defense.

312
00:18:36,383 --> 00:18:38,518
It's-- it's a suicide note.

313
00:18:38,551 --> 00:18:41,421
It sounds like the ramblings
of a crazy man, sure.

314
00:18:41,454 --> 00:18:43,990
But given the
evidence, his story

315
00:18:44,023 --> 00:18:45,358
actually made no
more or less sense

316
00:18:45,392 --> 00:18:46,559
than the official version.

317
00:18:52,732 --> 00:18:55,235
The administrative
staff were very concerned

318
00:18:55,268 --> 00:18:58,605
about him-- me
interviewing him not

319
00:18:58,638 --> 00:19:01,708
being shackled to the chair,
which is a typical thing.

320
00:19:01,741 --> 00:19:04,811
I wanted to get rid of as
many barriers as I could,

321
00:19:04,844 --> 00:19:07,514
because I could tell that he was
pretty closed off emotionally,

322
00:19:07,547 --> 00:19:10,149
and he was kind of in a
shell in his own head,

323
00:19:10,183 --> 00:19:15,655
and very, very, very scared.

324
00:19:15,688 --> 00:19:19,892
I said, listen, just let
him come in and sit with me,

325
00:19:19,926 --> 00:19:21,228
because he was quiet.

326
00:19:21,261 --> 00:19:23,095
And you know, you guys
are outside the door.

327
00:19:23,129 --> 00:19:24,331
You've got cameras in here.

328
00:19:24,364 --> 00:19:27,267
And-- and you have
guns outside there.

329
00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:29,001
And whatever it is that
you need to do to bust

330
00:19:29,035 --> 00:19:31,338
in and-- and you know,
what's he gonna-- you know,

331
00:19:31,371 --> 00:19:32,372
what else could he do?

332
00:19:32,405 --> 00:19:33,406
What's your name?

333
00:19:41,281 --> 00:19:44,517
It took quite a while
for him to even start

334
00:19:44,551 --> 00:19:47,520
to answer any questions-- his
name, or where he grew up,

335
00:19:47,554 --> 00:19:52,359
or basic just, you know,
assessment stuff that we do.

336
00:20:01,534 --> 00:20:03,303
And I was wondering
if, maybe, he

337
00:20:03,336 --> 00:20:06,239
was regressing back
into some childhood

338
00:20:06,273 --> 00:20:08,775
memory or feeling or something.

339
00:20:16,015 --> 00:20:18,751
The level of trauma
that Francisco has seemed

340
00:20:18,785 --> 00:20:21,554
to experience in his
life could easily

341
00:20:21,588 --> 00:20:25,858
be compared to somebody who
has come back from being

342
00:20:25,892 --> 00:20:29,629
in a combat situation.

343
00:20:29,662 --> 00:20:31,298
It doesn't matter
what you do to me.

344
00:20:31,331 --> 00:20:34,166
They're still out there.

345
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:39,506
Who--
who's out there?

346
00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:44,311
At least they
can't get me in here.

347
00:20:44,344 --> 00:20:46,212
This
is a guy who was facing

348
00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:50,350
death, the horrors of jail.

349
00:20:50,383 --> 00:20:53,252
Yet somehow he feels
safer on the inside

350
00:20:53,286 --> 00:20:55,822
than he does out here.

351
00:20:55,855 --> 00:20:59,559
In my professional opinion,
even though his story sounds

352
00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:02,829
like it might be a little bit,
you know, crazy and out there,

353
00:21:02,862 --> 00:21:05,598
I did not find anything about
him that was psychotic--

354
00:21:05,632 --> 00:21:08,935
his behavior, anything
he said to me.

355
00:21:08,968 --> 00:21:11,971
He was, you know, in layman's
term, completely sane.

356
00:21:18,511 --> 00:21:22,148
But it didn't make any
sense, which is why I

357
00:21:22,181 --> 00:21:24,884
tried for the insanity defense.

358
00:21:24,917 --> 00:21:26,853
 He looked
me directly in the eye,

359
00:21:26,886 --> 00:21:31,658
and he was very specific
about what he was saying.

360
00:21:31,691 --> 00:21:35,395
And-- and he never
changed his story.

361
00:21:35,428 --> 00:21:38,164
Salazar wasn't
crazy or-- or at least

362
00:21:38,197 --> 00:21:40,367
not crazy all by himself.

363
00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,602
Crazy was what he
saw that night.

364
00:21:42,635 --> 00:21:46,573
Crazy was seeing everyone
he knew massacred.

365
00:21:46,606 --> 00:21:50,343
Some of them are bloody,
with blood everywhere.

366
00:21:55,715 --> 00:21:58,385
It's the ravings
of a madman, right?

367
00:21:58,418 --> 00:22:02,088
But do you know what
was really crazy?

368
00:22:02,121 --> 00:22:05,358
I had to get help.

369
00:22:05,392 --> 00:22:07,126
I took my camera--

370
00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:10,597
The arrest report listed
the items on Salazar's person

371
00:22:10,630 --> 00:22:13,433
when he was dropped off
by the truck driver.

372
00:22:13,466 --> 00:22:18,104
One SLR 35 millimeter camera
fitted with a 70 to 200

373
00:22:18,137 --> 00:22:23,676
millimeter lens
and a flash unit.

374
00:22:23,710 --> 00:22:26,345
Everyone around here
knew he was a photographer.

375
00:22:26,379 --> 00:22:28,114
He took pictures of everybody.

376
00:22:34,086 --> 00:22:35,455
It was almost involuntary.

377
00:22:35,488 --> 00:22:37,824
He just saw something, and
he took a picture of it.

378
00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:40,960
And he kind of, you know,
painted a history of his life

379
00:22:40,993 --> 00:22:41,894
with it.

380
00:22:41,928 --> 00:22:43,530
Salazar was a
lifelong Catholic.

381
00:22:43,563 --> 00:22:45,998
He believed in the power
of the resurrection.

382
00:23:01,481 --> 00:23:04,717
He spent
seven years in SDC,

383
00:23:04,751 --> 00:23:08,988
taking pictures of dead
things in a dead town.

384
00:23:14,193 --> 00:23:16,629
Being an illegal, strike one.

385
00:23:16,663 --> 00:23:19,699
A loner with a
camera, strike two.

386
00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:22,034
Grace Putnam was
pretty much strike

387
00:23:22,068 --> 00:23:26,305
three, especially considering
everything that happened.

388
00:23:26,338 --> 00:23:28,240
Grace Putnam lived in SDC.

389
00:23:28,274 --> 00:23:30,109
Francisco was a
friend of the family.

390
00:23:30,142 --> 00:23:35,748
Salazar's house was--
was jammed with these

391
00:23:35,782 --> 00:23:39,185
weird and-- and
suggestive photographs

392
00:23:39,218 --> 00:23:41,153
of children and had roadkill.

393
00:23:47,059 --> 00:23:49,662
Well, I've looked
at all of the earlier photos.

394
00:23:49,696 --> 00:23:51,531
I've spent some time with him.

395
00:23:51,564 --> 00:23:53,800
He has a photographer's
eye for sure.

396
00:23:53,833 --> 00:23:56,669
The best photographer
I've ever seen?

397
00:23:56,703 --> 00:23:57,770
No.

398
00:23:57,804 --> 00:24:01,608
But he definitely had
a professional eye.

399
00:24:01,641 --> 00:24:03,676
The shots of the little
girl-- several of those

400
00:24:03,710 --> 00:24:05,177
are delicate and beautiful.

401
00:24:05,211 --> 00:24:08,881
The shots of the roadkill
are a perfect counterpoint.

402
00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:11,217
You can read what you
want into anything.

403
00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:14,353
That's-- that's part of what
makes us human, I suppose.

404
00:24:14,386 --> 00:24:17,490
The shrinks have
a fancy word for it.

405
00:24:17,524 --> 00:24:19,526
It's-- it's voyeur.

406
00:24:19,559 --> 00:24:21,694
My take-- pervert.

407
00:24:21,728 --> 00:24:23,663
So Francisco was a photographer.

408
00:24:23,696 --> 00:24:25,632
Big fucking deal.

409
00:24:25,665 --> 00:24:27,399
But there was
something on that tape

410
00:24:27,433 --> 00:24:31,403
I couldn't put my finger on.

411
00:24:31,437 --> 00:24:34,974
I had to get help.

412
00:24:35,007 --> 00:24:38,645
I took my camera--

413
00:24:38,678 --> 00:24:39,946
During the first
trial, I tried

414
00:24:39,979 --> 00:24:41,814
to contact Schatzker
Rio, the truck

415
00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:43,516
driver who picked up Salazar.

416
00:24:43,550 --> 00:24:45,251
He didn't want to talk.

417
00:24:45,284 --> 00:24:47,253
I left message after message.

418
00:24:47,286 --> 00:24:49,121
We never got together in person.

419
00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:51,724
But after the appeal
was lodged, that's

420
00:24:51,758 --> 00:24:53,726
when I got this phone message.

421
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,328
Mr. Ross,
I'm sending you something.

422
00:24:56,362 --> 00:24:58,330
I found it in my
cab under the seat.

423
00:24:58,364 --> 00:24:59,632
Must have been there for months.

424
00:24:59,666 --> 00:25:00,967
I don't know.

425
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,570
I don't know what it is,
but I don't wanna know.

426
00:25:03,603 --> 00:25:04,737
Now you have it.

427
00:25:04,771 --> 00:25:06,272
You keep me out of this, though.

428
00:25:06,305 --> 00:25:07,907
That's all I ask.

429
00:25:07,940 --> 00:25:10,810
I called him, got no reply.

430
00:25:10,843 --> 00:25:16,315
A couple of days later--

431
00:25:24,557 --> 00:25:29,361
A week later,
the roll arrived.

432
00:25:29,395 --> 00:25:30,697
Excuse me, Sheriff.

433
00:25:30,730 --> 00:25:32,098
Do you want to talk us
about the Salazar case,

434
00:25:32,131 --> 00:25:34,466
about how the photos are
gonna affect his appeal?

435
00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:37,503
No.

436
00:25:37,536 --> 00:25:40,039
What Francisco
said on the tape,

437
00:25:40,072 --> 00:25:45,444
what everyone else discounted
as insane ravings-- turns out,

438
00:25:45,477 --> 00:25:51,550
he documented it all.

439
00:25:51,584 --> 00:25:55,054
Something primal and horrible
moved through Sangre de Cristo

440
00:25:55,087 --> 00:25:56,122
that night.

441
00:25:56,155 --> 00:26:02,762
And the one survivor
made a record of it.

442
00:26:02,795 --> 00:26:05,264
Francisco had a camera
with him that night.

443
00:26:05,297 --> 00:26:09,468
He took it with him and
recorded what he saw on one

444
00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:11,604
roll of film, 36 exposures.

445
00:26:11,638 --> 00:26:13,272
I'm
still in the process

446
00:26:13,305 --> 00:26:14,641
of appealing his conviction.

447
00:26:14,674 --> 00:26:17,810
But I can't enter these
photos as evidence.

448
00:26:17,844 --> 00:26:19,078
I'd be disbarred.

449
00:26:29,088 --> 00:26:32,625
All this stuff about
the photographs is BS.

450
00:26:32,659 --> 00:26:35,527
Photos prove nothing-- nothing.

451
00:26:35,561 --> 00:26:40,700
I-- I know many kids right here
in Hinzman who could Photoshop

452
00:26:40,733 --> 00:26:44,370
you into the famous
grassy knoll in Dallas

453
00:26:44,403 --> 00:26:48,107
with a smoking gun in your hand,
and you'd believe it was you.

454
00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:57,416
I've been a professional
photojournalist for-- Jesus,

455
00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:58,751
over 40 years now.

456
00:26:58,785 --> 00:27:02,288
I've shot in 'Nam, shot
in Cambodia, pretty much

457
00:27:02,321 --> 00:27:03,589
all around the world.

458
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,992
These are as
authentic as they get.

459
00:27:06,025 --> 00:27:08,160
Usually, when somebody
is playing with film,

460
00:27:08,194 --> 00:27:08,861
you can tell.

461
00:27:08,895 --> 00:27:10,429
There's rough edges.

462
00:27:10,462 --> 00:27:13,265
There are little things that--
that a professional can tell

463
00:27:13,299 --> 00:27:15,301
when looking at photography.

464
00:27:15,334 --> 00:27:17,603
You look at these pictures,
there is none of that.

465
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,007
These pictures are real.

466
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,909
The
judge didn't want them.

467
00:27:22,942 --> 00:27:25,344
Parano didn't want them.

468
00:27:25,377 --> 00:27:26,846
It doesn't matter.

469
00:27:26,879 --> 00:27:31,650
The photos are not evidence.

470
00:27:31,684 --> 00:27:33,185
I would tell the
local authorities

471
00:27:33,219 --> 00:27:36,723
that they are wrong-- that these
are as authentic as it gets.

472
00:27:36,756 --> 00:27:39,625
I'm frankly surprised
their own people haven't

473
00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:42,762
looked at the photos
and been able to confirm

474
00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:45,097
the truth of the pictures.

475
00:27:45,131 --> 00:27:48,500
I'll tell you what
those photos are-- a sick prank

476
00:27:48,534 --> 00:27:50,036
played by sick freaks.

477
00:27:55,975 --> 00:27:58,110
Everybody heard
about the photographs.

478
00:27:58,144 --> 00:27:59,912
Nobody believed they were real.

479
00:27:59,946 --> 00:28:02,214
They were trying to make
us feel sympathy for a man

480
00:28:02,248 --> 00:28:06,185
that didn't deserve any.

481
00:28:06,218 --> 00:28:08,721
The killing
started, at least as far

482
00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:11,023
as Salazar's story
was concerned,

483
00:28:11,057 --> 00:28:13,025
before he snapped
a single frame.

484
00:28:13,059 --> 00:28:17,296
The only two explanations--
either the-- the guy

485
00:28:17,329 --> 00:28:21,067
went out there and
staged everything,

486
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:26,272
or he's absolutely
telling the truth.

487
00:28:26,305 --> 00:28:30,376
Some of them were dead.

488
00:28:30,409 --> 00:28:37,383
And some of them-- hm.

489
00:28:37,416 --> 00:28:40,519
He was babbling, and I
thought I was going to lose him,

490
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:42,088
which-- which I eventually did.

491
00:28:42,121 --> 00:28:44,323
So I asked him to
start at the beginning.

492
00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:51,130
Francisco, what
were you doing when

493
00:28:51,163 --> 00:28:55,868
Danny showed up at your house?

494
00:28:55,902 --> 00:29:02,875
I was putting
film in my camera.

495
00:29:02,909 --> 00:29:04,676
According to Salazar,
he was loading up

496
00:29:04,710 --> 00:29:06,879
his camera, getting
ready to shoot

497
00:29:06,913 --> 00:29:09,816
some dead coyotes or possums.

498
00:29:09,849 --> 00:29:11,784
But Danny shows up
on his doorstep,

499
00:29:11,818 --> 00:29:14,420
bleeding out like a stuck pig.

500
00:29:14,453 --> 00:29:17,824
And then you
said that he-- he came in,

501
00:29:17,857 --> 00:29:20,626
and he was bleeding.

502
00:29:20,659 --> 00:29:23,896
And you tried to help him.

503
00:29:23,930 --> 00:29:27,566
And you laid him
down on the couch.

504
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:29,936
Is that correct?

505
00:29:29,969 --> 00:29:32,238
I saw him die.

506
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:34,807
How are you sure
that he was dead?

507
00:29:34,841 --> 00:29:36,542
He was dead.

508
00:29:36,575 --> 00:29:41,613
I know he was dead.

509
00:29:41,647 --> 00:29:45,517
The police forensic reports
backed up that the victim did

510
00:29:45,551 --> 00:29:47,153
die at Salazar's house.

511
00:29:47,186 --> 00:29:48,955
Danny's body was one
of the few that could

512
00:29:48,988 --> 00:29:54,894
be identified, but barely.

513
00:29:54,927 --> 00:29:56,963
Danny Montez was my cousin.

514
00:29:56,996 --> 00:29:59,098
I thought he and
Salazar were cool.

515
00:29:59,131 --> 00:30:02,268
Montez used to work in the
fields near Salazar's house.

516
00:30:02,301 --> 00:30:04,536
This is where
it gets confusing to me.

517
00:30:11,343 --> 00:30:16,448
One minute, he's alive and on
your couch, and then he's dead,

518
00:30:16,482 --> 00:30:21,053
and then he's standing up,
and he's coming at you,

519
00:30:21,087 --> 00:30:23,222
and you're afraid.

520
00:30:23,255 --> 00:30:25,124
He was dead.

521
00:30:25,157 --> 00:30:30,029
And then he came after me.

522
00:30:30,062 --> 00:30:31,898
And I had to stop him.

523
00:30:31,931 --> 00:30:33,432
That's what happened.

524
00:30:33,465 --> 00:30:35,734
So when he
was telling me this story,

525
00:30:35,767 --> 00:30:37,303
he was very clear and concise.

526
00:30:37,336 --> 00:30:39,571
And he had seemed to, like,
let a weight off his shoulders.

527
00:30:39,605 --> 00:30:41,974
And he exhaled, and he
got very calm after he

528
00:30:42,008 --> 00:30:43,475
talked to me about this.

529
00:30:43,509 --> 00:30:46,412
So he's very clear in the
details about what happened.

530
00:30:46,445 --> 00:30:48,380
I mean, doesn't that
seem strange to you?

531
00:30:48,414 --> 00:30:50,482
This is not something
I've ever heard before.

532
00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,018
It's what happened.

533
00:30:52,051 --> 00:30:59,225
It was his same body and same
face, but it wasn't Danny.

534
00:31:02,228 --> 00:31:06,632
Did he say anything?

535
00:31:06,665 --> 00:31:07,967
No?

536
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,435
No words?

537
00:31:09,468 --> 00:31:12,004
The boy's body was
found in the middle

538
00:31:12,038 --> 00:31:13,305
of Salazar's living room.

539
00:31:13,339 --> 00:31:15,007
You stopped him.

540
00:31:15,041 --> 00:31:19,845
How did you-- how did you
stop him from attacking you?

541
00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:27,119
I-- I held him.

542
00:31:27,153 --> 00:31:35,161
And I hurt him.
And he stopped.

543
00:31:43,102 --> 00:31:44,570
How
did you hurt him?

544
00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:58,217
That's tough
evidence to overcome.

545
00:31:58,250 --> 00:32:00,152
There's no question
that Francisco hacked

546
00:32:00,186 --> 00:32:02,254
up Danny Montez to pieces.

547
00:32:02,288 --> 00:32:05,191
The question is,
did he kill him?

548
00:32:05,224 --> 00:32:07,326
So after--
after all of that happened,

549
00:32:07,359 --> 00:32:11,830
then

550
00:32:11,863 --> 00:32:13,532
I had to get help.

551
00:32:13,565 --> 00:32:16,302
If Salazar killed
Montez, why would

552
00:32:16,335 --> 00:32:19,471
he run into town to get help?

553
00:32:19,505 --> 00:32:24,143
Because going south
wasn't an option.

554
00:32:24,176 --> 00:32:26,412
Here is photograph
01 of the roll.

555
00:32:33,085 --> 00:32:35,721
This is the start of
what Salazar saw--

556
00:32:35,754 --> 00:32:38,190
what sent him back toward town.

557
00:32:38,224 --> 00:32:40,326
This is what made him run.

558
00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:43,429
Salazar's roll of film was
a map, from the edge of town

559
00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:45,731
three miles across what was
left of Sangre de Cristo.

560
00:32:54,540 --> 00:32:56,375
In one
way, it doesn't matter

561
00:32:56,408 --> 00:32:59,045
what you think the photos mean.

562
00:32:59,078 --> 00:33:00,546
You can deny them.

563
00:33:00,579 --> 00:33:02,881
You can look to them
for clues about what

564
00:33:02,914 --> 00:33:05,217
happened to your loved one.

565
00:33:05,251 --> 00:33:07,819
You can call them
a sick media joke.

566
00:33:07,853 --> 00:33:10,922
You can even hope for salvation.

567
00:33:10,956 --> 00:33:16,128
But it's something,
and it's coming closer.

568
00:33:16,162 --> 00:33:18,597
Salazar lived about
a mile outside of town,

569
00:33:18,630 --> 00:33:19,631
on the fringes.

570
00:33:19,665 --> 00:33:22,034
His cabin was at the
foot of the hills.

571
00:33:22,068 --> 00:33:25,337
He ran away through the
fields, toward the town.

572
00:33:25,371 --> 00:33:27,573
Based on the light in
that first picture,

573
00:33:27,606 --> 00:33:30,842
it was about 15
minutes to sundown.

574
00:33:30,876 --> 00:33:32,311
Migrant workers
were still working.

575
00:33:32,344 --> 00:33:33,745
SDC's the brown town

576
00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:35,147
that actually services Hinzman.

577
00:33:35,181 --> 00:33:37,216
That's where you get all
the invisible people-- all

578
00:33:37,249 --> 00:33:40,586
your gardeners, all of the
service people, all your maids,

579
00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:43,955
people who pick your food,
who take care of the kids.

580
00:33:43,989 --> 00:33:46,658
When we were kids, we couldn't
even pronounce the damn place.

581
00:33:46,692 --> 00:33:51,963
You're like "Shandray de
Caso," "Sandray de Crystal."

582
00:33:51,997 --> 00:33:53,799
We just call it Savageland.

583
00:33:53,832 --> 00:33:56,202
The cops found what
they said were the remains

584
00:33:56,235 --> 00:33:58,170
of 11 victims out in the field.

585
00:33:58,204 --> 00:33:59,905
That's
just Savageland

586
00:33:59,938 --> 00:34:03,075
living down to its reputation.

587
00:34:03,109 --> 00:34:05,444
The
first theory was cartels.

588
00:34:05,477 --> 00:34:09,481
SDC is in an area of major
cross-border drug supply lines.

589
00:34:09,515 --> 00:34:12,984
Maybe drugs were passing
through and some gang wanted

590
00:34:13,018 --> 00:34:14,620
to stake out a new territory.

591
00:34:14,653 --> 00:34:17,389
There were a lot of
thieves with drugs.

592
00:34:17,423 --> 00:34:20,126
Drugs were coming in and
the-- the cartel was coming in

593
00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:21,993
and influencing the young kids.

594
00:34:22,027 --> 00:34:24,663
Cartel killings
are designed to make a point.

595
00:34:24,696 --> 00:34:27,933
They stack the heads up all
neat like it's an altar,

596
00:34:27,966 --> 00:34:29,901
or they hang the
bodies from bridges.

597
00:34:29,935 --> 00:34:31,603
It keeps people in line.

598
00:34:31,637 --> 00:34:34,373
This wasn't
designed to make a point.

599
00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:35,974
This
was random carnage.

600
00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:43,849
Salazar's running for cover,
exposed, out in the open.

601
00:34:43,882 --> 00:34:46,952
Coming out of the fields,
he headed into town.

602
00:34:46,985 --> 00:34:49,087
He came across Ron Templeton.

603
00:34:54,693 --> 00:34:56,962
Templeton was a
hunter from Hinzman.

604
00:34:56,995 --> 00:35:02,501
Spent his off hours out here
searching through the area.

605
00:35:02,534 --> 00:35:06,272
I used to see him all the
time out here on patrol.

606
00:35:06,305 --> 00:35:07,906
I walk in the house

607
00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:09,941
and expect him to be here.

608
00:35:09,975 --> 00:35:12,644
It's-- it's really
hard to get used

609
00:35:12,678 --> 00:35:20,652
to the idea that he's not-- he's
not in-- in-- in here anymore.

610
00:35:20,686 --> 00:35:27,092
Did you
know Ron Templeton?

611
00:35:27,125 --> 00:35:29,661
The police say that
you were in his truck.

612
00:35:39,771 --> 00:35:41,240
Because he had a gun.

613
00:35:53,952 --> 00:35:56,322
Some of the
victims were from Hinzman.

614
00:35:56,355 --> 00:35:59,124
Some of them were beloved
members of the community.

615
00:35:59,157 --> 00:36:02,060
They were not just
SDC residents.

616
00:36:02,093 --> 00:36:06,164
I mean, Ron Templeton was a
member of the Founders Club.

617
00:36:06,198 --> 00:36:07,766
People loved him.

618
00:36:07,799 --> 00:36:11,670
He was such a
big part of just the community,

619
00:36:11,703 --> 00:36:12,738
too.

620
00:36:12,771 --> 00:36:16,308
So every place I go
and everything I do,

621
00:36:16,342 --> 00:36:19,245
I expect to see him.

622
00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:22,214
Ron Templeton was a good man.

623
00:36:22,248 --> 00:36:24,783
When he came across
Salazar, I-- I

624
00:36:24,816 --> 00:36:28,954
guess that he tried to find
some good in him as well.

625
00:36:28,987 --> 00:36:31,590
And that was his big mistake.

626
00:36:31,623 --> 00:36:37,329
I tried to get him to come
with me to help these people,

627
00:36:37,363 --> 00:36:40,532
to help my friends.

628
00:36:40,566 --> 00:36:42,368
So the
man in the truck,

629
00:36:42,401 --> 00:36:45,537
did he shoot at the
people in the field?

630
00:36:52,311 --> 00:36:53,412
What happened?

631
00:36:58,817 --> 00:36:59,951
Nothing happened.

632
00:36:59,985 --> 00:37:01,487
I didn't murder him.

633
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,162
The one thing that
continues to bother me

634
00:37:11,196 --> 00:37:15,100
is Francisco Salazar
taking Ron down.

635
00:37:15,133 --> 00:37:17,503
He's such a little man.

636
00:37:17,536 --> 00:37:20,606
According to the
state's case, a 5 foot 9,

637
00:37:20,639 --> 00:37:23,208
170-pound Francisco ran
bloody and screaming

638
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:28,747
toward Ron Templeton, who's 6
foot 1, 210 pounds, and armed.

639
00:37:28,780 --> 00:37:32,384
Anyone who knew Ron knew
what an expert hunter he was.

640
00:37:32,418 --> 00:37:35,387
He was an expert shot, too.

641
00:37:35,421 --> 00:37:36,888
He never missed.

642
00:37:36,922 --> 00:37:40,392
I mean, one shot is all it
took to ever kill an animal.

643
00:37:40,426 --> 00:37:43,529
And for him to miss that
many times that close up--

644
00:37:43,562 --> 00:37:45,297
impossible to even imagine.

645
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:06,518
This is where they
found Templeton's truck.

646
00:38:06,552 --> 00:38:09,321
The blood trail that went
off into the wash, then

647
00:38:09,355 --> 00:38:10,756
disappeared.

648
00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:13,725
We never found Ron
Templeton's body.

649
00:38:13,759 --> 00:38:17,329
His wife,
Eileen, will never get

650
00:38:17,363 --> 00:38:19,798
the closure that she deserves.

651
00:38:33,845 --> 00:38:34,680
Sorry.

652
00:38:43,121 --> 00:38:45,791
57 people died here.

653
00:38:45,824 --> 00:38:50,061
And the local newspaper
ran one obituary-- one

654
00:38:50,095 --> 00:38:52,330
white guy from Hinzman.

655
00:38:52,364 --> 00:38:54,232
Many times, I
lie awake at night,

656
00:38:54,265 --> 00:38:58,269
wishing Ron had taken out
Salazar right then and there.

657
00:38:58,303 --> 00:39:00,105
People
tell me not to ask

658
00:39:00,138 --> 00:39:02,441
questions and keep quiet.

659
00:39:02,474 --> 00:39:04,209
And then I think,
are they lying to me?

660
00:39:04,242 --> 00:39:06,378
Are they trying to
make me feel this

661
00:39:06,412 --> 00:39:08,514
is the way it happened,
just to make me be quiet

662
00:39:08,547 --> 00:39:12,150
and not question?

663
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,119
We've lived in
this town forever.

664
00:39:14,152 --> 00:39:15,787
Would they be lying to me?

665
00:39:32,103 --> 00:39:34,773
Salazar runs until he
reaches the edge of town.

666
00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:46,618
You've got Danny Montez dead.

667
00:39:46,652 --> 00:39:48,554
11 more in the field.

668
00:39:48,587 --> 00:39:49,855
That still leaves 45.

669
00:40:11,309 --> 00:40:13,178
At this time,
it's about 8:00 PM.

670
00:40:23,822 --> 00:40:28,794
The more he runs, the
clearer it becomes--

671
00:40:28,827 --> 00:40:33,665
he's not outrunning anything.

672
00:40:33,699 --> 00:40:35,300
Francisco, when you got

673
00:40:35,333 --> 00:40:39,104
into town, what did you see?

674
00:40:39,137 --> 00:40:44,543
What did it look like?

675
00:40:44,576 --> 00:40:47,646
It was-- it was like hell.

676
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,456
People were running.

677
00:40:58,490 --> 00:41:00,559
People were hurting each other.

678
00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:31,089
At this point, it's 8:15 PM.

679
00:41:31,122 --> 00:41:33,291
Francisco's making
his way through town,

680
00:41:33,324 --> 00:41:36,061
trying to stay alive.

681
00:41:36,094 --> 00:41:38,597
By his own account,
he has no weapon

682
00:41:38,630 --> 00:41:42,067
at this point, just his camera.

683
00:41:48,406 --> 00:41:51,710
The amazing thing
about being a photographer

684
00:41:51,743 --> 00:41:54,813
is, so long as you
are behind that lens,

685
00:41:54,846 --> 00:41:57,048
so long as you are
shooting through that lens,

686
00:41:57,082 --> 00:41:58,684
you are indestructible.

687
00:41:58,717 --> 00:42:01,587
Every photographer I
know feels the same way.

688
00:42:01,620 --> 00:42:04,956
While you're shooting,
you can't be hurt.

689
00:42:04,990 --> 00:42:07,893
I have a stultifying
fear of heights.

690
00:42:07,926 --> 00:42:10,295
I-- just looking out
of an upstairs window

691
00:42:10,328 --> 00:42:11,763
scares the hell out of me.

692
00:42:11,797 --> 00:42:13,999
In 'Nam, I used to
spend half of my time

693
00:42:14,032 --> 00:42:16,201
hanging out of an
open helicopter door,

694
00:42:16,234 --> 00:42:19,004
hanging onto a strap I
wouldn't use as a belt,

695
00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:22,073
and shooting away, because
nothing could hurt me.

696
00:42:22,107 --> 00:42:24,309
As long as I had that
camera in front of my face,

697
00:42:24,342 --> 00:42:25,276
nothing could hurt me.

698
00:42:41,727 --> 00:42:43,261
You basically
have an illegal

699
00:42:43,294 --> 00:42:47,666
who's running amok all over
Savageland, killing at random.

700
00:42:47,699 --> 00:42:49,601
At this point,
the prosecution case

701
00:42:49,635 --> 00:42:51,169
starts to get a little shaky.

702
00:42:51,202 --> 00:42:53,805
Salazar would've said
something to my grandpa

703
00:42:53,839 --> 00:42:55,340
and stuff would've went down.

704
00:42:55,373 --> 00:42:57,909
My grandpa's not going to
go down without a fight.

705
00:42:57,943 --> 00:43:01,212
The autopsy certificates would
have you believe that Salazar

706
00:43:01,246 --> 00:43:05,416
was sprinting through
town, dispatching victims

707
00:43:05,450 --> 00:43:08,820
with a machete and
pickax like he was

708
00:43:08,854 --> 00:43:11,923
some kind of trained killer.

709
00:43:11,957 --> 00:43:15,727
Salazar knew every
square inch of that town.

710
00:43:15,761 --> 00:43:17,863
That's why he was able
to move so quickly

711
00:43:17,896 --> 00:43:24,402
and kill without anybody
realizing what was happening.

712
00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:29,574
SDC is not a big place.

713
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:32,744
Salazar was in good shape.

714
00:43:32,778 --> 00:43:34,412
If he were quick
enough, he could've

715
00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,748
covered all that ground.

716
00:43:36,782 --> 00:43:38,884
And he did not want to
leave any witnesses.

717
00:43:47,358 --> 00:43:49,394
What's most amazing
about these photographs

718
00:43:49,427 --> 00:43:52,530
is the fact that he got
as many decent photographs

719
00:43:52,563 --> 00:43:54,165
as he did out of one roll.

720
00:43:54,199 --> 00:43:56,735
I mean, I can't imagine why
he would go with one roll.

721
00:43:56,768 --> 00:43:58,503
I have a feeling he
probably had more

722
00:43:58,536 --> 00:44:02,874
that he lost along the way,
because I've done that myself.

723
00:44:06,712 --> 00:44:09,147
One roll of film
and 36 exposures,

724
00:44:09,180 --> 00:44:12,718
and caught as many
perfect shots as he did.

725
00:44:12,751 --> 00:44:17,322
It is either brilliant
film work or one

726
00:44:17,355 --> 00:44:20,358
of the greatest accidents in
the history of photography.

727
00:44:25,764 --> 00:44:27,532
We
know that Salazar gets

728
00:44:27,565 --> 00:44:30,068
here to the one store in town.

729
00:44:30,101 --> 00:44:32,003
It's a little way out
of the rest of his route

730
00:44:32,037 --> 00:44:33,705
based on the photographs.

731
00:44:33,739 --> 00:44:39,244
But we do know this market
had a working landline.

732
00:44:39,277 --> 00:44:42,948
But if that's what he was going
for, he was shit out of luck.

733
00:44:48,086 --> 00:44:51,522
If you were in New York
City and not Sangre de Cristo,

734
00:44:51,556 --> 00:44:54,525
you would probably
have 15,000 shots

735
00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:55,894
of what happened
there that evening

736
00:44:55,927 --> 00:44:57,195
on people's cell phones.

737
00:44:57,228 --> 00:44:59,965
Most people in SDC
didn't have cell phones.

738
00:44:59,998 --> 00:45:02,133
They had phone cards.

739
00:45:02,167 --> 00:45:04,135
Once a month, they'd
come to the market,

740
00:45:04,169 --> 00:45:07,806
buy one, call home to
Mexico, say hi to mom,

741
00:45:07,839 --> 00:45:11,009
confirm the wire
transfer back home.

742
00:45:11,042 --> 00:45:14,712
You can't take a picture
with a phone card.

743
00:45:14,746 --> 00:45:19,384
We're talking about
a place where life was cheap.

744
00:45:19,417 --> 00:45:24,389
Illegals arriving illegally,
doing illegal things.

745
00:45:24,422 --> 00:45:26,691
People ask me, well, why
didn't the people of SDC

746
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:27,893
call the police?

747
00:45:27,926 --> 00:45:29,294
Immigrants don't call police.

748
00:45:29,327 --> 00:45:31,329
And when you live
in SDC, the police

749
00:45:31,362 --> 00:45:33,731
are just another element,
another criminal element

750
00:45:33,765 --> 00:45:34,800
to them.

751
00:45:51,316 --> 00:45:53,718
Salazar was also
charged with murders that

752
00:45:53,751 --> 00:45:55,787
happened at the water-tower.

753
00:45:55,821 --> 00:45:57,755
But there's not a
single piece of evidence

754
00:45:57,789 --> 00:46:00,558
to indicate that
Salazar was ever there.

755
00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:02,961
And remember
those people we found,

756
00:46:02,994 --> 00:46:05,864
you know, right next to
the small water-tower.

757
00:46:05,897 --> 00:46:07,498
We know that they ran.

758
00:46:07,532 --> 00:46:10,869
We know that they ran up to
the top of that water-tower.

759
00:46:10,902 --> 00:46:15,273
And instead of confronting
whatever was chasing them,

760
00:46:15,306 --> 00:46:17,075
they chose to jump
off the water-tower.

761
00:46:17,108 --> 00:46:19,377
Now that just doesn't happen
when you have an individual.

762
00:46:19,410 --> 00:46:21,779
I don't care how horrible
that individual is.

763
00:46:21,813 --> 00:46:23,081
That doesn't happen.

764
00:46:23,114 --> 00:46:25,650
Eight people supposedly
ran up there, trying

765
00:46:25,683 --> 00:46:29,087
to get away from one man?

766
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,822
But instead of
trying to fight him

767
00:46:30,856 --> 00:46:34,725
off on a single fire
escape, these eight people

768
00:46:34,759 --> 00:46:36,527
chose to jump.

769
00:46:36,561 --> 00:46:39,664
They'd rather kill
themselves and their families

770
00:46:39,697 --> 00:46:42,133
instead of fight him?

771
00:46:42,167 --> 00:46:48,273
They told
me that Jose and his family

772
00:46:48,306 --> 00:46:53,211
were some of the ones
who died at that tower.

773
00:46:53,244 --> 00:46:58,984
And it was only two
blocks from their house.

774
00:46:59,017 --> 00:47:04,890
I mean, I look at
his picture and--

775
00:47:04,923 --> 00:47:07,592
Maria had such a
strong sense of faith--

776
00:47:07,625 --> 00:47:09,527
a really strong sense of faith.

777
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:10,595
I don't have that faith.

778
00:47:10,628 --> 00:47:11,897
I just don't have that faith.

779
00:47:11,930 --> 00:47:13,398
And-- and it-- and it
hurts me, you know,

780
00:47:13,431 --> 00:47:18,203
because I'm-- I'm
more angry about that.

781
00:47:18,236 --> 00:47:21,206
I can't imagine why the two of them

782
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,642
would-- would do
something like that.

783
00:47:24,675 --> 00:47:29,647
I just-- they had to climb that.

784
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:36,922
If you think about them
standing there at that moment,

785
00:47:36,955 --> 00:47:38,289
and then making that decision.

786
00:47:43,694 --> 00:47:46,697
Salazar was never closer than
three blocks to that tower

787
00:47:46,731 --> 00:47:48,033
that night.

788
00:47:48,066 --> 00:47:51,369
The truth is, he had a
different route in mind.

789
00:47:59,510 --> 00:48:03,614
From the start, he was
always heading here.

790
00:48:03,648 --> 00:48:05,816
That's what he says.

791
00:48:05,850 --> 00:48:07,552
It's the church.

792
00:48:07,585 --> 00:48:14,125
The church mission
for the Putnam family.

793
00:48:14,159 --> 00:48:16,261
As for the Putnams,
well, Francisco had been

794
00:48:16,294 --> 00:48:17,862
working for them for years.

795
00:48:17,895 --> 00:48:19,030
He was almost a friend.

796
00:48:19,064 --> 00:48:20,531
You know, they--
they trusted him.

797
00:48:20,565 --> 00:48:24,069
They gave him a key, you
know, to the building.

798
00:48:24,102 --> 00:48:26,204
And yet, when I look
at the crime scene,

799
00:48:26,237 --> 00:48:28,173
doors have been ripped
off their hinges.

800
00:48:28,206 --> 00:48:30,675
Now why would Francisco rip
the doors off the hinges

801
00:48:30,708 --> 00:48:33,344
when he had a key?

802
00:48:33,378 --> 00:48:35,480
What was going through your mind

803
00:48:35,513 --> 00:48:36,381
when you saw this?

804
00:48:44,722 --> 00:48:46,057
I don't know.

805
00:48:46,091 --> 00:48:49,294
I just wanted to
help my friends.

806
00:48:49,327 --> 00:48:51,762
You worked for a Dwayne and Judith Putnam,

807
00:48:51,796 --> 00:48:52,697
didn't you?

808
00:48:58,403 --> 00:49:01,172
Yes.

809
00:49:01,206 --> 00:49:03,141
How did you feel about them?

810
00:49:04,442 --> 00:49:06,277
They were good people.

811
00:49:14,585 --> 00:49:17,788
The Putnams were here
to convert the old church

812
00:49:17,822 --> 00:49:19,024
and mission offices.

813
00:49:19,057 --> 00:49:21,359
They basically
started a new ministry

814
00:49:21,392 --> 00:49:24,729
in a town other religious
groups had long since abandoned.

815
00:49:30,668 --> 00:49:33,271
We're proud of our church's missionary history.

816
00:49:33,304 --> 00:49:36,374
God's mission for us is to go
forth to the less fortunate

817
00:49:36,407 --> 00:49:40,245
and bear witness to His word.

818
00:49:40,278 --> 00:49:42,280
The Putnams were
some of my closest,

819
00:49:42,313 --> 00:49:46,751
dearest friends in the
world-- truly people of God.

820
00:49:46,784 --> 00:49:49,620
Dwayne and Judith's engagement
was sanctioned by our church

821
00:49:49,654 --> 00:49:51,556
with great excitement.

822
00:49:51,589 --> 00:49:54,925
Even though she wasn't baptized
in a church at the time,

823
00:49:54,959 --> 00:49:58,729
we knew in her heart
she'd always believed.

824
00:49:58,763 --> 00:50:00,498
She had great strength.

825
00:50:07,838 --> 00:50:10,175
They were my friends.

826
00:50:10,208 --> 00:50:11,976
Salazar had spent
the summer working

827
00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:15,380
as a handyman on the
mission, doing odd jobs,

828
00:50:15,413 --> 00:50:18,483
running errands for Judith,
hanging out with the two kids.

829
00:50:34,499 --> 00:50:37,935
The Putnams went to that
town to fix up that facility,

830
00:50:37,968 --> 00:50:40,971
to empower those people.

831
00:50:41,005 --> 00:50:43,408
This family reached
out to Salazar,

832
00:50:43,441 --> 00:50:45,376
and this is how he repaid them?

833
00:51:01,159 --> 00:51:03,128
But Salazar was too late.

834
00:51:08,299 --> 00:51:10,235
Grace is gone.

835
00:51:10,268 --> 00:51:13,904
Where is Grace?

836
00:51:13,938 --> 00:51:20,278
Grace is gone.

837
00:51:20,311 --> 00:51:24,182
Don't you judge me.

838
00:51:24,215 --> 00:51:31,021
Only God can judge me.

839
00:51:31,055 --> 00:51:35,926
Only He knows what I'm seeing.

840
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:40,731
Only He knows this abomination.

841
00:51:44,001 --> 00:51:46,937
I am Abraham.

842
00:51:46,971 --> 00:51:49,440
A burnt--

843
00:52:07,392 --> 00:52:11,729
My lambs, my little lamb.

844
00:53:02,247 --> 00:53:04,815
What'd you wish for, Grace?

845
00:53:04,849 --> 00:53:07,184
I get little.

846
00:53:07,218 --> 00:53:09,320
All right, birthday girl first.

847
00:53:16,961 --> 00:53:21,966
When I got there, I
knew that I was too late.

848
00:53:25,636 --> 00:53:27,372
Where are their bodies?

849
00:53:37,582 --> 00:53:39,884
In the official version,

850
00:53:39,917 --> 00:53:42,987
forensics, coupled with
the Putnam phone recording,

851
00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:46,324
led the police to conclude
that Putnam killed his wife

852
00:53:46,357 --> 00:53:49,827
and son before killing himself.

853
00:53:49,860 --> 00:53:52,897
Now Putnam panicked at
seeing Salazar running wild

854
00:53:52,930 --> 00:53:57,101
and snapped when he heard the
screams outside the mission.

855
00:53:57,134 --> 00:54:00,305
So he killed his
family with a machete

856
00:54:00,338 --> 00:54:03,073
before turning it on himself.

857
00:54:03,107 --> 00:54:06,844
That's Parano's version.

858
00:54:06,877 --> 00:54:09,414
Were they still alive when you got there?

859
00:54:15,786 --> 00:54:16,654
Only one of them.

860
00:54:24,395 --> 00:54:26,931
But the official logic doesn't hold up.

861
00:54:26,964 --> 00:54:30,034
Putnam wanted to give his
family a mercy killing so they

862
00:54:30,067 --> 00:54:31,336
could all go up clean to Jesus.

863
00:54:31,369 --> 00:54:32,503
That's one thing.

864
00:54:32,537 --> 00:54:35,606
But why dismember
his little kids?

865
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,343
Yeah, we had dogs searching

866
00:54:38,376 --> 00:54:40,345
for the other remains.

867
00:54:40,378 --> 00:54:44,214
We found nothing, or
Salazar won't be telling

868
00:54:44,248 --> 00:54:47,685
us where he buried the bodies.

869
00:54:47,718 --> 00:54:54,224
Dwayne Putnam thought
he was a man of God.

870
00:54:54,258 --> 00:54:57,428
But he made the wrong choice.

871
00:54:57,462 --> 00:54:59,630
For a pastor, a man of the Bible,

872
00:54:59,664 --> 00:55:01,999
it must be hard to
see these photos.

873
00:55:02,032 --> 00:55:08,138
They show what you might call
a inconvenient resurrection.

874
00:55:08,172 --> 00:55:14,412
The only thing he
can do is deny it.

875
00:55:14,445 --> 00:55:16,246
God saw what Dwayne did.

876
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:20,084
He was a murderer and a suicide.

877
00:55:20,117 --> 00:55:23,087
OK, both of you.

878
00:55:24,655 --> 00:55:27,825
Ah, say hi to mommy.

879
00:55:27,858 --> 00:55:28,759
Hi!

880
00:55:28,793 --> 00:55:29,594
Hi, mommy.

881
00:55:29,627 --> 00:55:30,728
Run!

882
00:55:30,761 --> 00:55:31,762
Uh-oh.

883
00:55:31,796 --> 00:55:32,630
Ah!

884
00:55:38,436 --> 00:55:42,940
Where was Grace Putnam?

885
00:55:42,973 --> 00:55:46,076
She wasn't there.

886
00:55:46,110 --> 00:55:50,448
Where was she?

887
00:55:50,481 --> 00:55:53,684
If Grace wasn't
at the mission--

888
00:55:54,519 --> 00:55:57,655
She was at school.

889
00:55:57,688 --> 00:56:00,024
The school is on
the outskirts of town.

890
00:56:00,057 --> 00:56:03,728
And Salazar still
has a distance to go,

891
00:56:03,761 --> 00:56:06,731
through the most densely
populated area of town, where

892
00:56:06,764 --> 00:56:08,433
most of the bodies were found.

893
00:56:08,466 --> 00:56:10,034
Most of the killings

894
00:56:10,067 --> 00:56:14,839
occurred on the street or just
inside the entrances to homes.

895
00:56:14,872 --> 00:56:17,107
People rushed out to
see what was happening,

896
00:56:17,141 --> 00:56:19,710
to protect their families.

897
00:56:19,744 --> 00:56:21,812
I mean, if this
bullshit story were true,

898
00:56:21,846 --> 00:56:28,352
why didn't Salazar put down his
camera and help those people?

899
00:56:28,385 --> 00:56:30,020
Salazar was a handyman.

900
00:56:30,054 --> 00:56:32,923
He had keys for vacant
buildings all over town.

901
00:56:32,957 --> 00:56:35,560
He could cut through building
to building from one end of town

902
00:56:35,593 --> 00:56:39,029
to the other, hide, look out.

903
00:56:39,063 --> 00:56:40,631
Look,
most of the time,

904
00:56:40,665 --> 00:56:43,668
he probably wasn't even
close to the action.

905
00:56:43,701 --> 00:56:46,571
I mean, a 70 to 200
millimeter lens pulls

906
00:56:46,604 --> 00:56:48,338
in all sorts of distant detail.

907
00:56:48,372 --> 00:56:53,511
You know, sometimes,
you get nothing.

908
00:56:53,544 --> 00:56:55,846
Sometimes, you get
something extraordinary.

909
00:57:06,356 --> 00:57:08,793
Why did Francisco
take the photos?

910
00:57:08,826 --> 00:57:13,564
The better question is, why not?

911
00:57:13,598 --> 00:57:17,201
You are capturing
moments of time that

912
00:57:17,234 --> 00:57:20,237
you are the only person--
it's-- it's a moral imperative,

913
00:57:20,270 --> 00:57:21,071
almost.

914
00:57:25,543 --> 00:57:26,844
You're the person
with the camera.

915
00:57:26,877 --> 00:57:28,879
You're the only person
there with that option.

916
00:57:28,913 --> 00:57:30,981
You take the pictures
because you must,

917
00:57:31,015 --> 00:57:35,586
because somebody has
to take those pictures.

918
00:57:35,620 --> 00:57:38,422
Salazar makes his
way down Main Street

919
00:57:38,455 --> 00:57:39,990
and gets to the preschool.

920
00:57:51,869 --> 00:57:55,372
All the children of the
people who died in that field,

921
00:57:55,405 --> 00:57:57,174
they were in that preschool.

922
00:58:12,990 --> 00:58:16,326
That's the thing that
messed with me the most-- what

923
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:17,962
happened at that preschool.

924
00:58:17,995 --> 00:58:20,531
Well, we're not
the same as they are.

925
00:58:20,565 --> 00:58:25,970
We don't kill babies.

926
00:58:37,748 --> 00:58:39,817
There's almost nothing that you could

927
00:58:39,850 --> 00:58:43,220
say to change people's minds.

928
00:58:43,253 --> 00:58:51,161
Even planting the
possibility, the idea that you

929
00:58:51,195 --> 00:58:57,668
hurt or killed children.

930
00:58:57,702 --> 00:58:58,836
Went to the school.

931
00:59:08,779 --> 00:59:11,782
When I got there, there was--

932
00:59:29,834 --> 00:59:32,770
There were nine kids in the preschool

933
00:59:32,803 --> 00:59:38,609
and one teacher, Lisa Reyes.

934
00:59:38,643 --> 00:59:43,447
Forensics indicated
that some of the kids had

935
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,583
hidden behind a-- a curtain.

936
00:59:46,617 --> 00:59:50,120
That's a child's natural
instinct to think,

937
00:59:50,154 --> 00:59:52,790
if they make
themselves invisible,

938
00:59:52,823 --> 00:59:55,592
they can save themselves
from the monster.

939
01:00:10,741 --> 01:00:13,377
When I came back,
I just-- like I said,

940
01:00:13,410 --> 01:00:14,912
I couldn't believe it.

941
01:00:14,945 --> 01:00:17,948
I didn't want to believe it.

942
01:00:17,982 --> 01:00:23,620
And to go to the funeral was
one of the hardest things.

943
01:00:26,556 --> 01:00:28,625
You know, it was
a closed casket.

944
01:00:28,659 --> 01:00:31,428
All the family was there.

945
01:00:31,461 --> 01:00:34,098
A lot of people wish that they
would have been able to see her

946
01:00:34,131 --> 01:00:36,901
before she-- you
know, I kind of,

947
01:00:36,934 --> 01:00:42,206
like, keep my own last
memory of-- I don't know.

948
01:00:42,239 --> 01:00:46,777
I wouldn't want to see
her in there anyways.

949
01:00:46,811 --> 01:00:49,246
I remember her the way I
remember her, you know?

950
01:00:49,279 --> 01:00:51,181
Linda Perez is my daughter.

951
01:00:51,215 --> 01:00:52,950
She was five years old.

952
01:00:52,983 --> 01:00:55,452
She lived with
her father in SDC.

953
01:00:55,485 --> 01:00:56,887
I worked in Hinzman.

954
01:00:56,921 --> 01:01:01,692
I hardly got to see her
because I worked long hours.

955
01:01:01,726 --> 01:01:09,566
She was wearing a-- a
purple top and pants

956
01:01:09,599 --> 01:01:11,368
and white tennis shoes.

957
01:01:11,401 --> 01:01:15,773
She was very picky about
what she wanted to wear.

958
01:01:15,806 --> 01:01:21,846
When I left, she was three.

959
01:01:21,879 --> 01:01:25,816
And I wasn't even nice to her.

960
01:01:25,850 --> 01:01:29,920
I could have been nicer to her.

961
01:01:29,954 --> 01:01:32,056
But she was always
bugging me, and I

962
01:01:32,089 --> 01:01:34,591
just-- I feel like an asshole.

963
01:01:34,624 --> 01:01:35,625
Benny.

964
01:01:35,659 --> 01:01:36,827
You wanna see him?

965
01:01:36,861 --> 01:01:38,562
He's right here.

966
01:01:38,595 --> 01:01:39,496
I mean, look at that.

967
01:01:39,529 --> 01:01:44,368
Look at that smile.

968
01:01:44,401 --> 01:01:48,438
You know, he was-- he was born
premature, and he was tiny.

969
01:01:48,472 --> 01:01:49,439
Tiny.

970
01:01:49,473 --> 01:01:51,075
He weighed 2 and 1/2 pounds.

971
01:01:51,108 --> 01:01:53,811
And you know, he
had some problems.

972
01:01:53,844 --> 01:01:56,246
He got pneumonia as a newborn.

973
01:01:56,280 --> 01:02:00,918
But he had a tough,
strong heart.

974
01:02:00,951 --> 01:02:03,120
I could have gone
home more, but you know,

975
01:02:03,153 --> 01:02:04,554
it was a piece of shit town.

976
01:02:04,588 --> 01:02:07,157
And I left when I could.

977
01:02:07,191 --> 01:02:09,659
And I was just hoping,
maybe, when she got older,

978
01:02:09,693 --> 01:02:11,929
we could make up for lost time.

979
01:02:11,962 --> 01:02:14,698
That's-- that's
all I was thinking.

980
01:02:14,731 --> 01:02:17,701
But now I don't have time.

981
01:02:17,734 --> 01:02:20,237
I took this from her school.

982
01:02:20,270 --> 01:02:22,739
This was the last
thing she was wearing.

983
01:02:27,878 --> 01:02:30,180
Grace is gone.

984
01:02:30,214 --> 01:02:32,783
Where is Grace?

985
01:02:32,817 --> 01:02:37,687
Grace is gone.

986
01:02:37,721 --> 01:02:40,290
I couldn't find her.

987
01:02:41,859 --> 01:02:43,660
By his own account,
Salazar couldn't even

988
01:02:43,693 --> 01:02:44,995
get inside the school.

989
01:02:45,029 --> 01:02:49,466
He scurried around the
back by the storeroom.

990
01:02:49,499 --> 01:02:53,904
The one aspect of that roll of
film that sort of fascinates me

991
01:02:53,938 --> 01:02:56,206
is why he spent so
much of the last

992
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,775
of it taking pictures
of that one subject,

993
01:02:58,809 --> 01:03:00,677
that-- that little girl.

994
01:03:00,710 --> 01:03:01,545
I wouldn't have.

995
01:03:10,754 --> 01:03:12,289
It's not what I would've
done, certainly.

996
01:03:12,322 --> 01:03:15,059
And I don't think most other
professional photographers

997
01:03:15,092 --> 01:03:16,193
would've done it either.

998
01:03:23,834 --> 01:03:27,737
She was on the other
side of the window.

999
01:03:27,771 --> 01:03:33,043
She was reaching out.

1000
01:03:33,077 --> 01:03:35,379
I couldn't help her.

1001
01:03:35,412 --> 01:03:37,181
Based on my evaluation

1002
01:03:37,214 --> 01:03:40,550
of the other photographs, this
was the first time that Salazar

1003
01:03:40,584 --> 01:03:42,953
even used his flash unit.

1004
01:03:42,987 --> 01:03:44,521
The question is, why now?

1005
01:03:51,395 --> 01:03:58,969
I tried to stop
them with the flash.

1006
01:03:59,970 --> 01:04:04,508
With the camera?

1007
01:04:04,541 --> 01:04:05,442
Did it help?

1008
01:04:16,286 --> 01:04:20,891
Did it stop them
for a little while?

1009
01:04:20,925 --> 01:04:25,462
Only when-- only
when it flashed.

1010
01:04:25,495 --> 01:04:27,164
Those
last photographs--

1011
01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:29,333
there's the one where he's
reaching through the bars,

1012
01:04:29,366 --> 01:04:33,070
where he is trying to
take the girl's hand

1013
01:04:33,103 --> 01:04:38,075
and suddenly he stops
being a historian,

1014
01:04:38,108 --> 01:04:43,347
stops being an observer, and
becomes an active participant.

1015
01:04:43,380 --> 01:04:46,650
The moment he stopped
being a photographer

1016
01:04:46,683 --> 01:04:53,757
and decided to do a single human
action to save somebody else--

1017
01:04:53,790 --> 01:04:56,026
I just held her hand.

1018
01:04:56,060 --> 01:04:59,463
--is the moment that
changed everything for him.

1019
01:04:59,496 --> 01:05:02,466
You give up being a photographer
to become a human being.

1020
01:05:02,499 --> 01:05:06,570
And you lose what has kept you
alive and safe through the rest

1021
01:05:06,603 --> 01:05:09,173
of the process.

1022
01:05:09,206 --> 01:05:11,608
I just held her hand.

1023
01:05:11,641 --> 01:05:14,844
And I sang.

1024
01:05:57,921 --> 01:05:59,956
He was planning
this all along.

1025
01:06:05,162 --> 01:06:07,631
There's only
three possibilities.

1026
01:06:07,664 --> 01:06:13,403
Either he's lying, he's crazy,
or he's telling the truth.

1027
01:06:13,437 --> 01:06:16,873
And in my professional
opinion, he's not lying

1028
01:06:16,906 --> 01:06:18,975
and he's not crazy.

1029
01:06:35,059 --> 01:06:39,096
Salazar had his shot in court.

1030
01:06:39,129 --> 01:06:41,265
We're appealing.

1031
01:06:41,298 --> 01:06:43,967
That's all we can
do at this point.

1032
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:45,735
It's in the hands of
the criminal justice

1033
01:06:45,769 --> 01:06:51,175
system of the state of Arizona.

1034
01:06:51,208 --> 01:06:52,742
You know, I'm going to be glad

1035
01:06:52,776 --> 01:06:54,944
when this appeal goes
nowhere so this town can

1036
01:06:54,978 --> 01:06:56,413
start going somewhere again.

1037
01:07:07,724 --> 01:07:10,194
You know, if you'd been a reporter like me

1038
01:07:10,227 --> 01:07:13,230
in an inner city,
you've seen murders.

1039
01:07:13,263 --> 01:07:15,232
I mean, you've seen
murders of every type.

1040
01:07:15,265 --> 01:07:18,368
I can tell you in a
second, gangland shot,

1041
01:07:18,402 --> 01:07:20,670
you know, personal shot,
in terms of, you know,

1042
01:07:20,704 --> 01:07:22,439
two different people
who know each other.

1043
01:07:22,472 --> 01:07:24,741
I can tell you
how a person died.

1044
01:07:24,774 --> 01:07:29,579
Murders have signatures.

1045
01:07:29,613 --> 01:07:33,850
So who had the resources, the
weapons, the political will,

1046
01:07:33,883 --> 01:07:38,054
the anger, the motive to carry
out the single-night massacre

1047
01:07:38,088 --> 01:07:40,056
of an entire town?

1048
01:07:40,090 --> 01:07:44,994
It's a familiar story we've seen
played out time and time again.

1049
01:07:45,028 --> 01:07:46,130
It's not smoke and mirrors.

1050
01:07:46,163 --> 01:07:51,635
It's desert, sand,
hate, and fear.

1051
01:07:55,772 --> 01:08:00,344
Nat Turner, the Scottsboro
Boys, the Tulsa race riots,

1052
01:08:00,377 --> 01:08:03,513
Zoot Suit Riots,
Camp Grant Massacre,

1053
01:08:03,547 --> 01:08:06,283
Operation Wetback, Rodney King.

1054
01:08:17,961 --> 01:08:18,828
Sangre de Cristo.

1055
01:08:38,182 --> 01:08:40,417
This is the community that we are.

1056
01:08:40,450 --> 01:08:44,921
We do take an eye for an eye,
because not only is that fair,

1057
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:47,457
that's our God-given right.

1058
01:08:47,491 --> 01:08:51,127
And we will be watching the
border for all future Salazars.

1059
01:08:51,161 --> 01:09:00,170
God bless America, my home, sweet home.

1060
01:09:01,037 --> 01:09:03,173
They don't care who you are.

1061
01:09:03,207 --> 01:09:07,444
They don't care what you do.

1062
01:09:07,477 --> 01:09:10,580
They'd basically
rather shoot you

1063
01:09:10,614 --> 01:09:15,885
than-- than give you a dollar.

1064
01:09:15,919 --> 01:09:18,688
The Great Wall of America
between us and Mexico, I

1065
01:09:18,722 --> 01:09:20,457
don't hear them trying
to build that wall

1066
01:09:20,490 --> 01:09:22,058
between here and Canada.

1067
01:09:22,091 --> 01:09:23,660
And they're not
saying somebody--

1068
01:09:23,693 --> 01:09:28,031
some Canuck is coming down and
killing people up in Michigan.

1069
01:09:28,064 --> 01:09:32,101
There's a lot more Salazars
out there-- more Ramirez,

1070
01:09:32,135 --> 01:09:35,305
more Sanchezes, more Carloses.

1071
01:09:35,339 --> 01:09:40,510
But make no mistake-- it's
a matter of when, not if.

1072
01:09:40,544 --> 01:09:44,714
Basically, there's 100,000
that try to come across,

1073
01:09:44,748 --> 01:09:48,418
and there's only maybe
1,000 border patrol.

1074
01:09:48,452 --> 01:09:50,420
They ain't going
to get everybody.

1075
01:10:02,932 --> 01:10:05,369
You know, maybe we've just got our priorities

1076
01:10:05,402 --> 01:10:08,972
right here in Arizona.

1077
01:10:09,005 --> 01:10:13,777
A lot of our people have been
waiting a long time for this.

1078
01:10:13,810 --> 01:10:16,380
I'm also proud that this
state is carrying out

1079
01:10:16,413 --> 01:10:19,249
Salazar's sentence in half
the time it took to do

1080
01:10:19,283 --> 01:10:20,784
the same to Timothy McVeigh.

1081
01:10:30,594 --> 01:10:33,963
At 12:05 AM Arizona time-- not bleeding

1082
01:10:33,997 --> 01:10:37,467
liberal time, not East
Coast wine and cheese

1083
01:10:37,501 --> 01:10:41,004
time, not West Coast
free drugs time--

1084
01:10:41,037 --> 01:10:43,873
American justice was served.

1085
01:10:43,907 --> 01:10:46,175
No more lawyers' appeals.

1086
01:10:46,209 --> 01:10:48,312
No more bills.

1087
01:10:48,345 --> 01:10:52,115
No more three
square meals a day.

1088
01:10:52,148 --> 01:10:54,584
No more excuses.

1089
01:10:54,618 --> 01:10:55,919
And no more fear, my friends.

1090
01:11:07,764 --> 01:11:11,267
Francisco was the only witness
to what happened that night.

1091
01:11:11,301 --> 01:11:13,970
And the court killed
his photographs.

1092
01:11:14,003 --> 01:11:15,839
And then the state killed him.

1093
01:11:45,935 --> 01:11:49,773
Do you know where Salazar gets buried?

1094
01:11:49,806 --> 01:11:54,411
He gets buried right here,
in the state of Arizona!

1095
01:11:54,444 --> 01:11:57,447
He must be pretty
pleased with himself.

1096
01:11:57,481 --> 01:12:01,885
He snuck in here, he hid
here, he killed here,

1097
01:12:01,918 --> 01:12:04,120
he's executed here.

1098
01:12:04,153 --> 01:12:07,391
But even in death, he manages
to avoid being deported.

1099
01:12:12,562 --> 01:12:14,230
Except they got it all wrong.

1100
01:12:14,263 --> 01:12:17,667
This doesn't end with the
execution of Francisco Salazar.

1101
01:12:17,701 --> 01:12:20,804
Francisco Salazar's photos don't
end with Francisco Salazar.

1102
01:12:26,042 --> 01:12:27,343
I wish I was there.

1103
01:12:27,377 --> 01:12:29,679
I wish I had been the
guy behind the camera.

1104
01:12:29,713 --> 01:12:32,015
Why did Francisco
take the photos?

1105
01:12:32,048 --> 01:12:33,583
I don't know.

1106
01:12:33,617 --> 01:12:35,552
Maybe he thought he was going
to die like everybody else.

1107
01:12:35,585 --> 01:12:37,120
Why the hell not?

1108
01:12:37,153 --> 01:12:38,688
At least leave something behind.

1109
01:12:38,722 --> 01:12:42,058
Leave some record behind so
he didn't die for nothing.

1110
01:12:42,091 --> 01:12:44,861
There's a piece of history left.

1111
01:12:44,894 --> 01:12:49,999
And if you're going to go out,
go out with something of value.

1112
01:12:50,033 --> 01:12:51,501
Do something.

1113
01:12:51,535 --> 01:12:53,637
Make your death
count for something.

1114
01:12:59,476 --> 01:13:01,945
The photos show us the truth.

1115
01:13:01,978 --> 01:13:04,681
The truth is that I'm the
one who found the photos.

1116
01:13:04,714 --> 01:13:07,417
I'm the one who released them.

1117
01:13:07,451 --> 01:13:11,555
Ross found the truth,
but he couldn't see it.

1118
01:13:11,588 --> 01:13:13,923
He got scared.

1119
01:13:13,957 --> 01:13:19,529
I don't blame him.

1120
01:13:19,563 --> 01:13:22,566
As a journalist, I deal
in facts, not speculation.

1121
01:13:22,599 --> 01:13:25,635
And the facts are that Francisco
recorded whatever moved

1122
01:13:25,669 --> 01:13:26,970
through that town that night.

1123
01:13:27,003 --> 01:13:29,739
And that was the
only real evidence.

1124
01:13:29,773 --> 01:13:33,610
And the local will to
investigate was nonexistent.

1125
01:13:33,643 --> 01:13:35,612
So the photos exist in a vacuum.

1126
01:13:35,645 --> 01:13:37,046
I think a lot of people

1127
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,616
will sleep better at night
believing that they are

1128
01:13:39,649 --> 01:13:42,051
Photoshopped than believing
they are seeing something

1129
01:13:42,085 --> 01:13:43,553
that is actually happening.

1130
01:13:51,728 --> 01:13:57,000
There's no going back to normal.

1131
01:13:57,033 --> 01:14:04,273
Because normal
doesn't exist anymore.

1132
01:14:04,307 --> 01:14:09,746
There were no masks, no cartels,
no mob of illegals at night.

1133
01:14:09,779 --> 01:14:11,447
The photos do tell us something.

1134
01:14:11,481 --> 01:14:12,982
They're numbered.

1135
01:14:13,016 --> 01:14:15,585
Number one was taken
from the southern watch

1136
01:14:15,619 --> 01:14:22,025
in the foothills, number
36 at the schoolhouse.

1137
01:14:22,058 --> 01:14:25,228
When you look at the crime
scene, the police reports,

1138
01:14:25,261 --> 01:14:28,998
the layout of the town, you
realize that this carnage

1139
01:14:29,032 --> 01:14:30,834
wasn't random.

1140
01:14:30,867 --> 01:14:34,203
It was just so huge that nobody
could see the bigger picture.

1141
01:14:40,109 --> 01:14:43,680
They were always heading
in one direction.

1142
01:14:51,487 --> 01:14:52,956
They were heading north.

1143
01:15:05,101 --> 01:15:08,004
Have you ever actually
seen the border fence?

1144
01:15:08,037 --> 01:15:12,375
It's 20 feet high,
corrugated steel,

1145
01:15:12,408 --> 01:15:15,044
razor wire in some places.

1146
01:15:15,078 --> 01:15:18,014
Anyone with any
regard for human life

1147
01:15:18,047 --> 01:15:21,818
would stay the hell
away from that fence.

1148
01:15:21,851 --> 01:15:24,888
Do you own a gun?

1149
01:15:24,921 --> 01:15:26,089
I do.

1150
01:15:26,122 --> 01:15:27,857
And ever since that-- I've
seen these photographs,

1151
01:15:27,891 --> 01:15:29,826
I've been sleeping with
it under my pillow.

1152
01:15:34,564 --> 01:15:36,165
This is a cruel land

1153
01:15:36,199 --> 01:15:39,068
where death is a certainty.

1154
01:15:39,102 --> 01:15:40,103
We grow up with it.

1155
01:15:40,136 --> 01:15:41,204
We accept it.

1156
01:15:41,237 --> 01:15:42,906
You know what made my morning?

1157
01:15:42,939 --> 01:15:45,675
Hearing that some group
of unknown patriots

1158
01:15:45,709 --> 01:15:49,946
found where Salazar's
grave was and dug it up.

1159
01:15:49,979 --> 01:15:52,215
The body's gone, my friends.

1160
01:15:52,248 --> 01:15:53,149
And good riddance.

1161
01:16:33,522 --> 01:16:36,025
Seven weeks after Salazar's execution,

1162
01:16:36,059 --> 01:16:37,827
the mutilated remains
of two campers

1163
01:16:37,861 --> 01:16:41,798
were found in the Tonto
National Forest, 115 miles

1164
01:16:41,831 --> 01:16:46,870
north of Sangre de Cristo.

1165
01:16:46,903 --> 01:16:49,305
Five unexplained
deaths in Sitgreaves.

1166
01:16:49,338 --> 01:16:53,977
Multiple attacks in Ajo,
Callente, Willcox to the east.

1167
01:16:54,010 --> 01:16:57,981
Hilldale was the first
town in Utah-- 12 dead.

1168
01:16:58,014 --> 01:17:01,217
The same patterns
emerging east to Juarez.

1169
01:17:01,250 --> 01:17:06,022
Up into New Mexico in
Alamogordo, five dead.

1170
01:17:06,055 --> 01:17:10,193
In Trevino Ranch, three
dead, nine unaccounted.

1171
01:17:45,862 --> 01:17:47,931
the hell is this?

1172
01:17:47,953 --> 01:18:20,953
Farid Morocco