1 00:00:04,693 --> 00:00:06,062 - In the criminal justice system, 2 00:00:06,595 --> 00:00:08,198 sexually based offenses 3 00:00:08,265 --> 00:00:10,299 are considered especially heinous. 4 00:00:10,366 --> 00:00:12,735 In New York City, the dedicated detectives 5 00:00:12,836 --> 00:00:14,570 who investigate these vicious felonies 6 00:00:14,637 --> 00:00:16,273 are members of an elite squad 7 00:00:16,372 --> 00:00:18,108 known as the Special Victims Unit. 8 00:00:18,208 --> 00:00:19,976 These are their stories. 9 00:00:25,414 --> 00:00:27,550 - Is she there? - Shh. 10 00:00:27,616 --> 00:00:32,721 I'm getting a warm feeling, almost like, um, 11 00:00:32,788 --> 00:00:34,925 someone is cooking? 12 00:00:34,991 --> 00:00:37,459 Warmth. Spices. 13 00:00:37,526 --> 00:00:41,932 It's like it's cold outside and you're eating stew. 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:46,169 - That's her. 15 00:00:46,269 --> 00:00:48,737 That's Grace. That's my sister, Grace. 16 00:00:48,839 --> 00:00:51,808 She visited Morocco one time and started cooking tagine 17 00:00:51,842 --> 00:00:52,909 every chance she got. 18 00:00:52,976 --> 00:00:55,178 - Yeah. 19 00:00:55,278 --> 00:00:56,445 - Is there anything else? 20 00:00:56,579 --> 00:00:57,413 - Shh. 21 00:00:57,513 --> 00:00:59,282 Sorry. She's gathering. 22 00:00:59,348 --> 00:01:02,651 She--she--she really wants me to get this right. 23 00:01:02,718 --> 00:01:04,720 Um... 24 00:01:04,821 --> 00:01:06,388 She's happy. 25 00:01:06,488 --> 00:01:09,425 She misses her life. 26 00:01:09,491 --> 00:01:12,162 She holds no ill will. 27 00:01:15,397 --> 00:01:18,101 When she died, we had a-- 28 00:01:18,134 --> 00:01:19,735 had a big fight about whether 29 00:01:19,836 --> 00:01:22,404 she was doing enough for the cancer. 30 00:01:22,471 --> 00:01:24,007 I was such an ass. 31 00:01:24,107 --> 00:01:25,175 - She gets it. 32 00:01:25,275 --> 00:01:26,408 She really does. 33 00:01:26,508 --> 00:01:29,012 She loves you. 34 00:01:29,079 --> 00:01:30,512 - Ask her about the Rollies. 35 00:01:34,150 --> 00:01:36,019 - The Rollies? Is that a food? 36 00:01:36,119 --> 00:01:38,288 - Our dad's Rolexes. 37 00:01:38,387 --> 00:01:40,623 She had them, 38 00:01:40,656 --> 00:01:42,625 but we've been going through her stuff and no Rollies. 39 00:01:42,691 --> 00:01:45,061 She had them only 'cause she's the one who moved him 40 00:01:45,128 --> 00:01:46,595 into the nursing home. 41 00:01:46,662 --> 00:01:49,332 I would have, but I was working. 42 00:01:49,366 --> 00:01:50,399 - I-- 43 00:01:52,768 --> 00:01:55,872 She, uh-- 44 00:01:55,939 --> 00:01:56,840 - Yeah? 45 00:01:59,441 --> 00:02:01,344 - I'm sorry. She's quiet. 46 00:02:01,443 --> 00:02:03,013 - Then ask her again. 47 00:02:04,881 --> 00:02:06,049 Ask her again. 48 00:02:06,082 --> 00:02:08,318 They're worth, like, tens of thousands of dollars. 49 00:02:08,417 --> 00:02:09,986 - I hear you. 50 00:02:10,020 --> 00:02:11,620 There's nothing. 51 00:02:11,687 --> 00:02:13,522 I-I don't even know if she's still here. 52 00:02:13,555 --> 00:02:14,858 - Get her back! 53 00:02:19,396 --> 00:02:20,997 I'm sorry. 54 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:24,267 - What happened to your arms? 55 00:02:33,910 --> 00:02:35,744 - I'm really sorry. 56 00:02:50,193 --> 00:02:53,330 - Oh, come on. 57 00:02:53,396 --> 00:02:55,865 - 911. What's your emergency? 58 00:02:55,932 --> 00:02:58,734 - Hi, I'd like to report a sexual assault. 59 00:03:00,937 --> 00:03:02,604 It was 4:30 a.m. 60 00:03:02,671 --> 00:03:04,874 - You were awake? - No, I heard something, 61 00:03:04,941 --> 00:03:07,811 and I opened my eyes to see what time it was. 62 00:03:07,877 --> 00:03:09,578 And then I realized, yes, there is-- 63 00:03:09,678 --> 00:03:11,580 like, a floorboard is creaking, 64 00:03:11,613 --> 00:03:14,783 there's somebody in my room, and then he's on me. 65 00:03:14,851 --> 00:03:16,886 - Did you see him? - No. 66 00:03:16,987 --> 00:03:20,556 He used a pillow or something to cover my head. 67 00:03:20,589 --> 00:03:24,828 And he's, like, holding my wrists really hard. 68 00:03:24,861 --> 00:03:28,431 But then he let go of one of my wrists. 69 00:03:28,497 --> 00:03:32,068 Like, I guess he is-- 70 00:03:34,737 --> 00:03:36,439 I guess he was, like, going for my underwear. 71 00:03:36,505 --> 00:03:38,174 So then I-- 72 00:03:38,308 --> 00:03:40,642 I could feel him, 73 00:03:40,676 --> 00:03:43,413 like, against my leg, 74 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,149 and then... 75 00:03:46,216 --> 00:03:48,418 something-- 76 00:03:48,517 --> 00:03:51,054 I don't know-- 77 00:03:52,521 --> 00:03:55,158 Possessed me, 78 00:03:55,225 --> 00:03:58,995 a voice saying "fight back. 79 00:03:59,062 --> 00:04:00,063 Don't give up." 80 00:04:00,163 --> 00:04:03,133 And somehow, I pushed him off, 81 00:04:03,166 --> 00:04:04,633 and he fell to the ground. 82 00:04:04,666 --> 00:04:07,804 And I heard him run. 83 00:04:07,871 --> 00:04:11,207 - That was incredibly brave, Beatrice. 84 00:04:11,307 --> 00:04:13,343 So we're gonna need the underwear 85 00:04:13,443 --> 00:04:15,245 that you were wearing. 86 00:04:15,311 --> 00:04:16,279 - Why? 87 00:04:16,346 --> 00:04:17,947 - To test for DNA. 88 00:04:18,048 --> 00:04:19,049 - He didn't ejaculate. 89 00:04:19,149 --> 00:04:21,617 - Well, there's potentially pre-seminal fluid 90 00:04:21,683 --> 00:04:23,286 or touch DNA that we can recover. 91 00:04:25,288 --> 00:04:27,257 - I threw them out. 92 00:04:27,290 --> 00:04:28,590 - Oh, okay. 93 00:04:28,657 --> 00:04:31,394 Well, we will retrieve them, 94 00:04:31,461 --> 00:04:33,629 and hopefully there's no cross contamination. 95 00:04:33,762 --> 00:04:35,131 - Okay. They're right here. I can get them for you. 96 00:04:35,231 --> 00:04:37,333 - Let's let CSU get them. 97 00:04:37,467 --> 00:04:38,902 - Sorry. 98 00:04:38,968 --> 00:04:42,105 - So, um, you think that he came in 99 00:04:42,172 --> 00:04:43,772 through the bedroom window. 100 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,476 - Yes, the lock is broken up there. 101 00:04:46,543 --> 00:04:48,445 It's been broken for a really long time. 102 00:04:48,511 --> 00:04:50,980 - You said that this happened at 4:30 a.m., 103 00:04:51,047 --> 00:04:53,917 but the 911 call wasn't placed until 10:02 a.m. 104 00:04:54,017 --> 00:04:58,188 - Was there a reason for the delay in reporting the crime? 105 00:04:58,254 --> 00:04:59,989 - Yeah. No-- 106 00:05:00,056 --> 00:05:01,424 - Hey, uh, captains. 107 00:05:06,863 --> 00:05:08,730 - Yeah? What's going on? - Tell her. 108 00:05:08,798 --> 00:05:10,200 - Hey, I don't wanna be arrested or wrapped up 109 00:05:10,233 --> 00:05:12,168 in whatever's going on. I'm just doing my job. 110 00:05:12,202 --> 00:05:13,369 - He's a locksmith. 111 00:05:13,403 --> 00:05:14,703 - That woman called me this morning, 112 00:05:14,770 --> 00:05:16,840 said her window was broken, needed fixing. 113 00:05:16,940 --> 00:05:18,674 I'm not an accomplice to any crime. 114 00:05:18,774 --> 00:05:20,709 I actually like cops. 115 00:05:20,742 --> 00:05:22,744 - So what you're saying is that the crime scene 116 00:05:22,778 --> 00:05:23,712 has been tampered with. 117 00:05:23,779 --> 00:05:25,614 - Yeah, by the victim. 118 00:06:20,036 --> 00:06:21,604 - I mean, it all happened very quickly. 119 00:06:21,670 --> 00:06:24,174 Uh, so I heard him run downstairs. 120 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,842 And at first I was gonna follow him because, 121 00:06:25,909 --> 00:06:27,977 like I said, I was just possessed by something, 122 00:06:28,077 --> 00:06:31,014 just filled with adrenaline or whatever. 123 00:06:31,114 --> 00:06:32,882 And he was gone, and so then I turned around. 124 00:06:32,949 --> 00:06:34,918 I ran to my little girl's room, make sure she was okay. 125 00:06:34,984 --> 00:06:36,752 - Okay. And how old is she? - She's seven. 126 00:06:36,819 --> 00:06:38,087 - All right. And what's her name? 127 00:06:38,188 --> 00:06:40,957 - Oh, why do you need to know her name? 128 00:06:41,690 --> 00:06:44,227 - Um, for my report. 129 00:06:46,396 --> 00:06:47,964 - Uh, Emma. She was asleep. 130 00:06:48,031 --> 00:06:49,232 She slept through the whole thing. 131 00:06:49,299 --> 00:06:50,667 So I just thought, like, why wake her? 132 00:06:50,732 --> 00:06:52,302 And I closed the door to her room. 133 00:06:52,402 --> 00:06:54,337 I just stayed there till it was time to wake her up. 134 00:06:54,437 --> 00:06:55,838 - And what time was that? - 6:00. 135 00:06:55,872 --> 00:06:57,507 That's when we get up for school. 136 00:06:57,607 --> 00:06:59,108 And then I knew. 137 00:06:59,175 --> 00:07:00,742 Yeah, I had a client at 9:30, so I didn't want 138 00:07:00,843 --> 00:07:03,712 to cancel that last minute. 139 00:07:03,779 --> 00:07:06,516 - So that's why you waited to call 911? 140 00:07:06,616 --> 00:07:08,117 - Yes. 141 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:11,087 - Got it. 142 00:07:47,724 --> 00:07:50,460 - Hey, they don't have a dog in here, do they? 143 00:07:55,965 --> 00:07:58,568 - So in your job as a fortune teller-- 144 00:07:58,668 --> 00:07:59,836 - Clairvoyant. 145 00:07:59,902 --> 00:08:02,238 - Clairvoyant. My apologies. 146 00:08:02,338 --> 00:08:05,742 Do you--do you read minds? 147 00:08:05,774 --> 00:08:08,444 - I communicate with loved ones who are deceased. 148 00:08:08,511 --> 00:08:10,280 - So you speak for the dead? 149 00:08:10,346 --> 00:08:13,583 - No, I listen to the dead for the living. 150 00:08:34,704 --> 00:08:36,272 - Hey. 151 00:08:36,306 --> 00:08:37,640 - Hey. Find anything? 152 00:08:37,740 --> 00:08:39,409 - Yeah. Check this out. 153 00:08:42,078 --> 00:08:43,313 - And what am I looking at? 154 00:08:43,413 --> 00:08:45,148 - Doorbell cam footage from across the street. 155 00:08:45,214 --> 00:08:46,816 4:34 a.m. 156 00:08:49,052 --> 00:08:51,321 - I don't get it. Where's our guy? 157 00:08:51,421 --> 00:08:52,722 - Exactly. Nobody comes out. 158 00:08:52,789 --> 00:08:53,956 - What about the back door? 159 00:08:53,990 --> 00:08:56,092 - There is no back door. 160 00:08:56,893 --> 00:08:58,961 - Look, either you're saying that she's lying, 161 00:08:58,995 --> 00:09:00,863 which--what's that about? 162 00:09:00,930 --> 00:09:02,365 - Griff, I haven't said anything yet. 163 00:09:02,465 --> 00:09:06,002 - Then we are saying the perp never left, which, I've-- 164 00:09:06,102 --> 00:09:08,304 trust me, I've looked around. 165 00:09:08,404 --> 00:09:09,772 There's nobody here. 166 00:09:12,275 --> 00:09:14,644 You sick perverts! 167 00:09:14,711 --> 00:09:16,245 - Ma'am, I'm sorry. 168 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:17,914 - You come to have your way with me? 169 00:09:17,980 --> 00:09:19,649 - We're NYPD. All right? - Get out. 170 00:09:19,749 --> 00:09:22,352 Out, out, out! 171 00:09:22,452 --> 00:09:23,586 Now! 172 00:09:25,888 --> 00:09:27,323 - Nobody here? 173 00:09:31,027 --> 00:09:33,930 - Do your clients ever go beyond this room? 174 00:09:33,963 --> 00:09:35,865 Would any of them know about-- about the broken window 175 00:09:35,932 --> 00:09:37,567 in the bedroom? 176 00:09:37,633 --> 00:09:39,135 - You mean you think it was a client? 177 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:41,070 - Well, I imagine in your line of work, 178 00:09:41,137 --> 00:09:43,973 you come across a lot of, you know, eccentric characters. 179 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,008 - Why, because they're seeing a clairvoyant? 180 00:09:46,042 --> 00:09:48,144 - No, that--that-- that's not what I mean. 181 00:09:48,177 --> 00:09:49,779 - I mean, they're distraught. 182 00:09:49,813 --> 00:09:51,080 They miss somebody, but they're not-- 183 00:09:51,147 --> 00:09:52,850 they're not violent, not really. 184 00:09:52,882 --> 00:09:53,883 - Excuse me. 185 00:09:53,983 --> 00:09:55,184 You didn't think to warn us that 186 00:09:55,218 --> 00:09:56,252 there was someone else in the house? 187 00:09:56,319 --> 00:09:57,653 - Oh, my God, Mom. 188 00:09:57,754 --> 00:09:58,822 Did you disturb her? Is she okay? 189 00:09:58,921 --> 00:10:00,690 - Is she okay? 190 00:10:00,791 --> 00:10:02,091 - But I thought her door was locked. 191 00:10:02,191 --> 00:10:04,026 - Hold on, you lock your mother in her room? 192 00:10:04,127 --> 00:10:06,329 - Yes, she has Alzheimer's, so if she's left unattended, 193 00:10:06,362 --> 00:10:07,363 she wanders around. 194 00:10:07,463 --> 00:10:09,132 She--she--she inevitably trips and falls, 195 00:10:09,198 --> 00:10:11,000 and she hurts herself. So I-- 196 00:10:11,033 --> 00:10:12,870 - So, Beatrice, that really sounds like a lot, you know. 197 00:10:12,969 --> 00:10:14,838 Maybe you should think about getting some help. 198 00:10:14,904 --> 00:10:16,606 - We had an attendant. 199 00:10:16,706 --> 00:10:17,974 Now it's just me. 200 00:10:18,007 --> 00:10:19,409 - Okay. What happened to the attendant? 201 00:10:19,475 --> 00:10:21,778 - I had to fire him because he was stealing her jewelry, 202 00:10:21,845 --> 00:10:23,246 so that's--that's why Emma and I moved home 203 00:10:23,346 --> 00:10:24,747 last month so we could help my mom. 204 00:10:30,119 --> 00:10:30,953 Ow! 205 00:10:31,053 --> 00:10:32,622 - You didn't lock the door. 206 00:10:32,722 --> 00:10:34,457 - Um... 207 00:10:34,524 --> 00:10:36,159 - Can you see yourself out? 208 00:10:36,259 --> 00:10:38,194 - Of course. 209 00:10:38,294 --> 00:10:39,262 Yeah. 210 00:10:42,532 --> 00:10:44,167 - Excuse me. Stephen Dowd. 211 00:10:44,233 --> 00:10:45,903 - Do you mind if we ask you a few questions? 212 00:10:45,935 --> 00:10:47,838 - Uh, sure. 213 00:10:47,871 --> 00:10:49,405 I'll park you right over there, 214 00:10:49,472 --> 00:10:50,908 and I'll be right back, Mr. Cohen. 215 00:10:51,007 --> 00:10:52,375 - Hell no. 216 00:10:52,475 --> 00:10:54,143 You're not gonna leave me here parked under some bridge. 217 00:10:54,177 --> 00:10:57,547 You guys can talk to him, but I'm staying. 218 00:10:57,613 --> 00:10:59,015 - Okay. 219 00:10:59,081 --> 00:11:00,750 We are here to talk to you about your employment 220 00:11:00,818 --> 00:11:02,886 for Beatrice and Sarah Witt. 221 00:11:02,952 --> 00:11:04,420 - Let me guess, she told you I stole something? 222 00:11:04,454 --> 00:11:05,823 I didn't steal anything. 223 00:11:05,889 --> 00:11:07,256 - Well, that's not what Beatrice said. 224 00:11:07,290 --> 00:11:09,091 - I told Beatrice that Sarah's necklace was missing. 225 00:11:09,125 --> 00:11:10,626 Then she turned it around and says 226 00:11:10,726 --> 00:11:12,995 I'm trying to say that to make it seem like it wasn't me. 227 00:11:13,062 --> 00:11:14,464 - Is that right? - Yeah. 228 00:11:14,564 --> 00:11:17,467 Beatrice was probably grabbing the jewelry herself. 229 00:11:18,936 --> 00:11:20,871 Beatrice stealing from her mother? 230 00:11:20,970 --> 00:11:22,405 - I saw the bills piling up. 231 00:11:22,438 --> 00:11:23,573 She needs the money. 232 00:11:23,673 --> 00:11:24,908 That's the reason she let me go. 233 00:11:24,974 --> 00:11:26,175 They couldn't afford me. 234 00:11:26,209 --> 00:11:27,911 - Where were you this morning between the hours 235 00:11:27,977 --> 00:11:29,145 of 3:00 and 5:00 a.m.? 236 00:11:29,245 --> 00:11:32,415 - I was finishing my shift with Miles here. 237 00:11:32,482 --> 00:11:33,917 I pull an overnight usually with him on Sundays. 238 00:11:33,983 --> 00:11:35,384 - Yeah, that's true. 239 00:11:35,451 --> 00:11:37,687 I had him wiping my ass in the middle of the night. 240 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,388 All right. Okay. 241 00:11:39,489 --> 00:11:40,891 - Miles, please. 242 00:11:40,990 --> 00:11:42,258 - All right, we'll contact you if we have 243 00:11:42,291 --> 00:11:43,927 any more questions, all right? 244 00:11:43,961 --> 00:11:46,797 - Honestly, I was happy to be out of that house. 245 00:11:46,864 --> 00:11:47,865 - Why's that? 246 00:11:50,633 --> 00:11:53,569 - There'd be times I'd leave Sarah alone, 247 00:11:53,603 --> 00:11:55,538 asleep in her chair. 248 00:11:55,638 --> 00:11:59,877 I'd come back, a drawer across the room is suddenly open, 249 00:11:59,943 --> 00:12:03,814 but Sarah's supposedly still asleep. 250 00:12:03,914 --> 00:12:06,516 I'm not superstitious-- 251 00:12:06,616 --> 00:12:10,186 But something creepy's going on in that house. 252 00:12:18,294 --> 00:12:19,529 - Hey, uh, anyone hear from our man Bruno? 253 00:12:20,363 --> 00:12:21,230 - Yeah, I talked to him this morning. 254 00:12:21,330 --> 00:12:22,698 - He joined a chess club. 255 00:12:22,765 --> 00:12:24,133 - Seriously? - He may be joking. 256 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,735 I don't always get his humor. 257 00:12:25,836 --> 00:12:27,838 - So there was no luck with the neighborhood canvassing. 258 00:12:27,905 --> 00:12:29,873 No one saw or heard a thing. 259 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:31,942 - So what do we have on local recent crime? 260 00:12:32,009 --> 00:12:34,143 - There was a burglar five weeks ago, 261 00:12:34,210 --> 00:12:35,846 but he's been in jail ever since. 262 00:12:35,879 --> 00:12:37,079 - Peeping Toms, other gateway crimes? 263 00:12:37,146 --> 00:12:39,248 - Nothing. - And the vic is a psychic. 264 00:12:39,282 --> 00:12:42,618 Too bad she didn't foresee this coming. 265 00:12:42,685 --> 00:12:45,321 - I went to a palm reader once. - Yeah? How'd that go? 266 00:12:45,388 --> 00:12:47,858 - You know, she told me that I was gonna have three children. 267 00:12:47,958 --> 00:12:49,392 - It's a lucky guess. 268 00:12:49,425 --> 00:12:50,994 - Probably, but there are some things out there 269 00:12:51,093 --> 00:12:52,295 without an explanation. 270 00:12:52,395 --> 00:12:54,297 - The explanation is usually someone's BS'ing. 271 00:12:54,397 --> 00:12:56,232 - I saw a ghost once when I was ten. 272 00:12:56,299 --> 00:12:57,266 - And? 273 00:12:57,366 --> 00:12:58,869 - Yeah, it was a Saturday morning, 274 00:12:58,936 --> 00:13:00,069 and I was the only one awake in my house. 275 00:13:00,102 --> 00:13:01,304 I look at the end of the hall. 276 00:13:01,370 --> 00:13:03,306 There's a beautiful woman there--don't smile-- 277 00:13:03,406 --> 00:13:05,074 a beautiful woman and she waved at me, 278 00:13:05,107 --> 00:13:06,309 and then she was gone. 279 00:13:06,375 --> 00:13:07,410 - I'd say your dad was stepping out. 280 00:13:07,443 --> 00:13:08,946 I mean, all I'm saying is 281 00:13:09,012 --> 00:13:10,013 there's no ghosts. 282 00:13:10,112 --> 00:13:11,113 There's no poltergeist. 283 00:13:11,180 --> 00:13:12,983 It's just us. - Amen. 284 00:13:13,016 --> 00:13:14,483 - Us and the aliens. - Oh, God. 285 00:13:14,550 --> 00:13:15,551 - Aliens? - Aliens. 286 00:13:15,651 --> 00:13:16,887 - Do you hear this? - Guys, please, don't. Don't. 287 00:13:16,954 --> 00:13:18,154 Don't get him started. 288 00:13:18,220 --> 00:13:20,656 So Beatrice just sent over the name 289 00:13:20,723 --> 00:13:22,525 of a client that spooked her. 290 00:13:22,558 --> 00:13:24,594 So you two, go knock on some doors. 291 00:13:29,699 --> 00:13:31,334 - I asked her to contact a dead spirit. 292 00:13:31,434 --> 00:13:33,135 - Oh, we're sorry for your loss. 293 00:13:33,269 --> 00:13:35,605 - Oh, I didn't lose anyone, not like that. 294 00:13:35,671 --> 00:13:39,076 My ex had broken up with me to date her coworker. 295 00:13:39,175 --> 00:13:41,477 - How's a clairvoyant supposed to help with that? 296 00:13:41,577 --> 00:13:44,246 - To see if she could send an evil spirit to haunt the guy. 297 00:13:44,347 --> 00:13:46,115 If he were to drop dead from fright... 298 00:13:46,215 --> 00:13:48,751 - What? Your ex is gonna back to you? 299 00:13:48,885 --> 00:13:50,053 - Maybe. 300 00:13:50,152 --> 00:13:51,253 - How'd that work out for you? 301 00:13:51,287 --> 00:13:53,189 - She refused to do it. 302 00:13:53,222 --> 00:13:55,291 Said it would violate her ethics as a clairvoyant. 303 00:13:55,324 --> 00:13:56,759 But who knew there were ethics? 304 00:13:56,827 --> 00:13:59,963 - Well, I--I bet that pissed you off, yeah? 305 00:14:00,030 --> 00:14:01,664 - Honestly, she really helped me. 306 00:14:01,731 --> 00:14:03,666 She said she'd been through a pretty brutal breakup herself 307 00:14:03,733 --> 00:14:05,102 with the father of her kid. 308 00:14:05,167 --> 00:14:06,702 And the thing she learned was, 309 00:14:06,803 --> 00:14:09,205 you can really live through a lot more than you expect. 310 00:14:09,271 --> 00:14:11,641 It was like therapy. 311 00:14:11,741 --> 00:14:13,275 Is she okay? 312 00:14:17,914 --> 00:14:19,082 - I just need a week. 313 00:14:19,181 --> 00:14:21,985 I swear I'll pay the second my funds are released. 314 00:14:22,052 --> 00:14:23,552 - NYPD. 315 00:14:27,556 --> 00:14:30,927 Rent is a civil matter between leaser and leasee. 316 00:14:30,994 --> 00:14:32,461 - We could barely find you. 317 00:14:32,528 --> 00:14:34,296 You've been evicted so many times for not paying rent. 318 00:14:34,397 --> 00:14:35,398 - You'd think all the money he's saving, 319 00:14:35,498 --> 00:14:37,233 he'd be able to afford child support. 320 00:14:37,299 --> 00:14:38,869 - Well, I haven't received a notice 321 00:14:38,969 --> 00:14:40,569 or any subpoenas regarding that matter. 322 00:14:40,603 --> 00:14:43,840 - Don't worry about that 'cause we've alerted your employer, 323 00:14:43,907 --> 00:14:46,009 Rapid Ramp Garage on 37th Street. 324 00:14:46,076 --> 00:14:47,476 Yeah, they're gonna be 325 00:14:47,510 --> 00:14:48,812 garnishing your wages going forward. 326 00:14:48,912 --> 00:14:50,179 - God damn it! 327 00:14:50,246 --> 00:14:52,748 Thanks a lot. - Hey! 328 00:14:52,782 --> 00:14:54,216 what are you doing? 329 00:14:54,283 --> 00:14:56,853 - Now I gotta find new employment and a new apartment. 330 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,722 - Oh, I bet Beatrice is bugging you to pay up, yeah? 331 00:14:59,823 --> 00:15:00,891 - I'm not answering anything. 332 00:15:00,957 --> 00:15:02,692 - Where were you yesterday between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m.? 333 00:15:02,793 --> 00:15:04,360 - No answer. 334 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:06,228 - 'Cause we have reason to believe that you were so angry 335 00:15:06,328 --> 00:15:08,364 and you were so frustrated that you broke 336 00:15:08,397 --> 00:15:10,266 into her house and you assaulted her. 337 00:15:10,299 --> 00:15:12,501 - That's so messed up. You don't have any proof. 338 00:15:12,535 --> 00:15:15,138 - We got motive. - Well, it wasn't me. 339 00:15:15,172 --> 00:15:17,339 - Hey, you think a jury is gonna believe you? 340 00:15:17,406 --> 00:15:18,407 Huh? 341 00:15:18,474 --> 00:15:19,976 You've got a rap sheet to the floor 342 00:15:20,043 --> 00:15:21,711 including second-degree assault. 343 00:15:23,345 --> 00:15:25,681 - I was at the CVS on 53rd. 344 00:15:25,748 --> 00:15:27,818 - You were shopping at 4:00 a.m.? 345 00:15:27,851 --> 00:15:29,618 - Talk to the security guard. 346 00:15:29,652 --> 00:15:32,455 He's the one who accused me of shoplifting, which I wasn't. 347 00:15:32,521 --> 00:15:35,224 It's on the security camera. He showed me. 348 00:15:35,291 --> 00:15:37,994 You know, I might be a criminal, but so is Beatrice. 349 00:15:38,095 --> 00:15:39,595 She's a fraud 350 00:15:39,662 --> 00:15:41,898 and a liar. 351 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:45,501 You know she got arrested for that, right? 352 00:15:52,341 --> 00:15:54,243 - Look, it was all a mistake. 353 00:15:54,310 --> 00:15:56,612 I dropped the complaint. - Right, but just to be clear, 354 00:15:56,679 --> 00:15:59,515 you, Madam Zorrill, aka Bonnie Mark, 355 00:15:59,582 --> 00:16:02,418 filed a fortune-telling complaint against Beatrice? 356 00:16:02,485 --> 00:16:03,920 - Yeah. - And you're saying that's not 357 00:16:03,987 --> 00:16:05,222 the least bit hypocritical? 358 00:16:05,287 --> 00:16:07,456 - What I do is for entertainment. 359 00:16:07,523 --> 00:16:08,724 Never claimed otherwise. 360 00:16:08,825 --> 00:16:10,861 - So your complaint is, Beatrice tries to pass off 361 00:16:10,894 --> 00:16:12,062 what she's doing as real? 362 00:16:12,129 --> 00:16:13,797 - That was my complaint. 363 00:16:13,897 --> 00:16:15,198 - So why you change your mind? 364 00:16:15,232 --> 00:16:17,533 - 'Cause I think she's actually the real deal. 365 00:16:17,566 --> 00:16:20,904 - Real--what, you think she can actually talk to the dead? 366 00:16:20,971 --> 00:16:23,807 - After she got the complaint from the cops, 367 00:16:23,907 --> 00:16:25,541 she came to me to talk. 368 00:16:25,608 --> 00:16:29,378 And while she was here, she told me that my mother, 369 00:16:29,478 --> 00:16:33,582 who's been dead for two years... 370 00:16:33,649 --> 00:16:36,685 appreciates the flowers I buy for her. 371 00:16:36,719 --> 00:16:40,456 - Buying flowers for the dead isn't exactly a unique idea. 372 00:16:40,523 --> 00:16:43,093 Maybe she saw you taking flowers to your mother's grave. 373 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:49,099 - I put them in a vase in a private shrine in my apartment. 374 00:16:49,166 --> 00:16:51,500 And Beatrice knew they were peonies. 375 00:16:53,837 --> 00:16:56,239 Look, I don't even believe in this stuff, all right, 376 00:16:56,372 --> 00:16:58,074 but that woman, 377 00:16:58,175 --> 00:16:59,775 I can't explain. 378 00:16:59,876 --> 00:17:03,246 Maybe it's 'cause she's had so much trauma in her life. 379 00:17:03,312 --> 00:17:06,283 - Trauma being her sexual assault? 380 00:17:06,315 --> 00:17:07,716 - You don't know? 381 00:17:11,754 --> 00:17:12,688 Sit. 382 00:17:12,755 --> 00:17:14,657 - I'm good. 383 00:17:23,399 --> 00:17:26,236 - Thing about that house she lives in, 384 00:17:26,335 --> 00:17:29,906 it's cursed. 385 00:17:29,940 --> 00:17:34,710 Her mother... 386 00:17:34,811 --> 00:17:36,012 is a murderer. 387 00:17:36,146 --> 00:17:37,780 - Who'd she kill? 388 00:17:43,086 --> 00:17:45,088 - Beatrice's father. 389 00:17:56,432 --> 00:17:57,766 - He came home, and there-- there was a-- 390 00:17:58,434 --> 00:18:00,971 this crazed look in his eyes. 391 00:18:01,071 --> 00:18:04,473 I mean, he would-- he'd got that way a lot, 392 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:07,210 but this was the worst. 393 00:18:07,277 --> 00:18:10,379 I told him to sleep it off, 394 00:18:10,446 --> 00:18:14,017 and he punched me in the face 395 00:18:14,084 --> 00:18:18,355 and--and--and tried to rip off my pants. 396 00:18:18,420 --> 00:18:20,489 So I scratched his eyes, 397 00:18:20,589 --> 00:18:23,126 and he pushed me and grabbed the fire poker. 398 00:18:23,159 --> 00:18:24,828 And then he starts hitting me. 399 00:18:26,595 --> 00:18:29,266 He wanted to kill me. 400 00:18:29,332 --> 00:18:32,135 - I heard some noises. 401 00:18:32,202 --> 00:18:33,736 - What noises? 402 00:18:33,837 --> 00:18:37,841 - Yelling and a really loud bang. 403 00:18:37,941 --> 00:18:39,441 - The revolver? 404 00:18:39,508 --> 00:18:40,676 - What's that? 405 00:18:40,743 --> 00:18:42,846 - The gun. 406 00:18:45,547 --> 00:18:48,417 Did you go to see what had happened? 407 00:18:48,484 --> 00:18:50,686 It's okay. You're not in trouble. 408 00:18:53,857 --> 00:18:58,895 - Mommy says not to leave my room when Daddy's angry. 409 00:18:58,962 --> 00:19:02,265 - Did that happen a lot? 410 00:19:02,332 --> 00:19:04,034 Did he ever hurt you? 411 00:19:08,905 --> 00:19:12,876 Did you leave the room when you heard the loud bang? 412 00:19:12,976 --> 00:19:15,178 - No. 413 00:19:15,278 --> 00:19:17,446 I always listen to Mommy. 414 00:19:18,915 --> 00:19:21,717 - So neighbors often saw Mr. Gerald Witt drunk, 415 00:19:21,784 --> 00:19:23,086 and sometimes they thought they heard 416 00:19:23,186 --> 00:19:24,620 screams from inside the house. 417 00:19:24,653 --> 00:19:26,455 - Where did the revolver come from? 418 00:19:26,522 --> 00:19:28,557 - Registered to Mr. Witt. 419 00:19:28,657 --> 00:19:30,260 Sarah reported that the gun fell to the ground 420 00:19:30,327 --> 00:19:31,627 as he was beating her. 421 00:19:31,694 --> 00:19:32,929 She grabbed it, shot him in the heart. 422 00:19:32,963 --> 00:19:34,998 - So self-defense. - DA didn't bring a case. 423 00:19:35,031 --> 00:19:36,632 - I mean, we've been thinking that Beatrice 424 00:19:36,665 --> 00:19:38,001 has been hiding something, right? 425 00:19:38,068 --> 00:19:39,202 Maybe this is it. 426 00:19:39,269 --> 00:19:42,372 Both Sarah and Beatrice were abused by the father. 427 00:19:42,439 --> 00:19:44,808 Look, I know she might not be all there, 428 00:19:44,908 --> 00:19:46,742 but I think we gotta question Sarah. 429 00:19:48,144 --> 00:19:49,678 - Okay. 430 00:19:49,745 --> 00:19:52,514 - You know, I never really know what I'm gonna get 431 00:19:52,581 --> 00:19:54,184 every time I open the door. 432 00:19:54,250 --> 00:19:56,585 I mean, she does have moments of clarity, but please, 433 00:19:56,652 --> 00:19:58,687 please don't agitate her. 434 00:19:58,787 --> 00:20:01,024 - I can promise you that is not our intent. 435 00:20:02,624 --> 00:20:04,194 - Okay. - We'd also like to speak 436 00:20:04,260 --> 00:20:05,594 with your daughter, Emma. 437 00:20:09,732 --> 00:20:10,834 - Why? 438 00:20:10,900 --> 00:20:13,069 - Because she was home at the time of the attack. 439 00:20:13,136 --> 00:20:15,238 - You wanna talk to my seven-year-old daughter, 440 00:20:15,305 --> 00:20:16,605 who slept through the whole thing? 441 00:20:16,705 --> 00:20:18,741 - We'd be derelict in our duties if we didn't. 442 00:20:18,842 --> 00:20:20,542 - Well, how am I supposed to explain that what 443 00:20:20,609 --> 00:20:22,078 you want to talk to her about is Mommy almost 444 00:20:22,145 --> 00:20:24,381 getting raped in her home while she's sleeping? 445 00:20:24,447 --> 00:20:27,583 If this guy gets to go free because my girl 446 00:20:27,649 --> 00:20:29,953 got to stay innocent, I really am okay with that 447 00:20:29,986 --> 00:20:33,756 because what I am not gonna teach my daughter 448 00:20:33,823 --> 00:20:37,861 today or any day is that I can't protect her. 449 00:20:40,897 --> 00:20:43,665 - May we please at least talk to your mother? 450 00:20:49,906 --> 00:20:51,141 - Hey, Mommy. 451 00:20:52,409 --> 00:20:53,943 Come on in. 452 00:20:56,146 --> 00:20:57,847 - Ms. Witt. 453 00:20:57,914 --> 00:20:58,982 Hello. 454 00:20:59,049 --> 00:21:01,184 May I call you Sarah? 455 00:21:01,284 --> 00:21:02,785 My name's Detective Griffin. 456 00:21:02,886 --> 00:21:04,254 I'm gonna ask you a few questions, all right, 457 00:21:04,287 --> 00:21:06,156 and if you can hear me-- 458 00:21:06,222 --> 00:21:08,191 it'd be great if you could give me any sort of response, 459 00:21:08,291 --> 00:21:09,758 either verbal or raise your hand 460 00:21:09,826 --> 00:21:12,162 or nod your head or something, all right? 461 00:21:15,899 --> 00:21:19,402 Ms. Witt, have you seen anyone enter or leave the brownstone 462 00:21:19,436 --> 00:21:22,272 that should not be here? 463 00:21:22,338 --> 00:21:23,807 - Gerald? 464 00:21:26,476 --> 00:21:29,245 Gerald? 465 00:21:29,312 --> 00:21:30,947 Is that you? - No. 466 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:32,982 I'm--I'm sorry, ma'am. My name is Detective Griffin. 467 00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:35,885 - Oh, Gerald. 468 00:21:35,985 --> 00:21:37,586 We were so young, 469 00:21:37,653 --> 00:21:39,556 and I hate you! 470 00:21:39,655 --> 00:21:40,622 Whoa, Mom. 471 00:21:40,722 --> 00:21:41,657 - I hate you! - Hey, Mom-- 472 00:21:41,723 --> 00:21:42,859 - Burn in hell! 473 00:21:42,926 --> 00:21:44,360 - Mommy, that's not him. That's not him. 474 00:21:44,427 --> 00:21:45,862 Mom, that's not Gerald. - I hate you! 475 00:21:45,895 --> 00:21:47,397 - Mommy, it's not-- - Go to hell! 476 00:21:47,464 --> 00:21:48,865 - Mama, Mama, it's okay. 477 00:21:48,932 --> 00:21:50,233 That's not him. That is not him. 478 00:21:50,300 --> 00:21:51,767 - Ah. - That is not him. 479 00:21:51,868 --> 00:21:54,270 - Can I use your bathroom please? 480 00:21:54,337 --> 00:21:55,637 - I'm sorry, okay? 481 00:21:55,704 --> 00:21:57,373 I know you're just trying to do your job, 482 00:21:57,407 --> 00:21:59,075 but so am I, as a mother. 483 00:21:59,142 --> 00:22:01,077 - I get it. I understand. 484 00:22:02,744 --> 00:22:05,014 You wanna tell me what happened with Gerald, your father? 485 00:22:08,650 --> 00:22:10,353 What do you wanna know? 486 00:22:10,420 --> 00:22:12,555 He came home drunk every night. 487 00:22:12,621 --> 00:22:14,491 I'd be in my bed asleep, 488 00:22:14,557 --> 00:22:15,892 and then I'd hear those heavy footsteps 489 00:22:15,992 --> 00:22:17,460 boom, boom, boom down the hallway, 490 00:22:17,527 --> 00:22:18,795 and then he'd beat her. 491 00:22:18,895 --> 00:22:20,696 But you know all of that already, right? 492 00:22:20,762 --> 00:22:21,898 - Yeah, I read the police reports. 493 00:22:21,965 --> 00:22:23,632 - Okay, so. 494 00:22:26,035 --> 00:22:28,004 So you don't like me. - I'm sorry. What? 495 00:22:28,071 --> 00:22:29,405 - No, I don't want-- I'm not trying to offend you. 496 00:22:29,506 --> 00:22:32,108 I'm just--I don't need to be a psychic to see that, you know? 497 00:22:32,208 --> 00:22:34,878 - Well, like has nothing to do with this job. 498 00:22:34,944 --> 00:22:37,413 - Okay, so what does? - The truth. 499 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,680 - Your mom doesn't have any sort 500 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:40,649 of infectious diseases, does she? 501 00:22:40,716 --> 00:22:42,385 - You don't think I've been truthful? 502 00:22:42,452 --> 00:22:44,154 - Can you communicate with the dead? 503 00:22:47,524 --> 00:22:50,160 - Ever since I was little, I've always had this feeling 504 00:22:50,226 --> 00:22:51,861 like I can talk to people who weren't there. 505 00:22:51,895 --> 00:22:54,130 Now, maybe that is me just disassociating, 506 00:22:54,230 --> 00:22:56,432 or maybe it's something else. I really don't know. 507 00:22:56,533 --> 00:22:59,235 - If we're being truthful, I'm gonna label that a non-answer. 508 00:22:59,302 --> 00:23:00,803 - Hey, Curry. 509 00:23:03,173 --> 00:23:05,774 - When my husband died, my mother-in-law 510 00:23:05,842 --> 00:23:08,044 made an appointment with a psychic, and she insisted I go. 511 00:23:08,111 --> 00:23:10,779 You wanna know what the psychic said to me? 512 00:23:10,813 --> 00:23:13,850 He said my husband missed me. 513 00:23:13,917 --> 00:23:16,752 But I--I know what cold reading is, right? 514 00:23:16,819 --> 00:23:18,888 It's--it's pattern. 515 00:23:18,988 --> 00:23:21,191 It's sizing someone up and making a series 516 00:23:21,291 --> 00:23:22,792 of high probability guesses, 517 00:23:22,825 --> 00:23:24,994 emphasizing when you're right, and then glossing over 518 00:23:25,061 --> 00:23:27,931 when you're wrong so that it seems like 519 00:23:27,964 --> 00:23:29,731 you have some kind of superpower. 520 00:23:29,799 --> 00:23:31,601 But that's called being a con man. 521 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:33,803 - Curry, Curry. - No, it truly is okay. 522 00:23:33,870 --> 00:23:35,171 You have every right to your anger, 523 00:23:35,238 --> 00:23:37,840 but that is not what I do. I don't do cold reading. 524 00:23:37,907 --> 00:23:39,609 All I do is say what I honestly feel 525 00:23:39,676 --> 00:23:41,444 when it's me and the client alone in the room. 526 00:23:41,511 --> 00:23:43,046 It's basically stream of consciousness. 527 00:23:43,146 --> 00:23:45,949 Now, that could just be me being empathetic, 528 00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:50,119 but the feelings that are expressed are real. 529 00:23:50,186 --> 00:23:54,390 And hearing them said out loud, 530 00:23:54,457 --> 00:23:56,159 truthfully, 531 00:23:56,226 --> 00:23:58,795 seems to help people. 532 00:24:03,499 --> 00:24:05,902 Mom, I'm home! 533 00:24:06,002 --> 00:24:07,470 - Please don't say anything. 534 00:24:07,537 --> 00:24:09,105 I'm actually begging you. 535 00:24:09,138 --> 00:24:11,174 - Okay, we won't. 536 00:24:11,241 --> 00:24:13,810 - Mom! - Hi, Emma. 537 00:24:13,843 --> 00:24:15,178 Thank you, Keira, for bringing her home. 538 00:24:15,278 --> 00:24:17,447 We'll see you tomorrow. 539 00:24:17,513 --> 00:24:19,515 - Who are you? 540 00:24:19,582 --> 00:24:21,750 - Well, we're just--we're just visiting with your grandma. 541 00:24:23,686 --> 00:24:25,188 All right, we'll-- we'll be in touch. 542 00:24:25,255 --> 00:24:27,156 - Thank you. I appreciate that. - Mm-hmm. 543 00:24:29,659 --> 00:24:31,261 - It's Emma? - Mm. 544 00:24:31,327 --> 00:24:34,097 - I couldn't help but notice your stuffed animals. 545 00:24:34,163 --> 00:24:35,965 Are you gonna be a kittycorn for Halloween? 546 00:24:36,065 --> 00:24:38,368 - You know, we don't actually trick or treat here, 547 00:24:38,468 --> 00:24:40,169 but thank you. I appreciate you stopping by. 548 00:24:40,236 --> 00:24:41,738 - Well, hey-- just one more question. 549 00:24:41,804 --> 00:24:45,375 Hey, have you seen anyone 550 00:24:45,441 --> 00:24:46,909 or have your kittycorns seen anyone in the house, 551 00:24:46,976 --> 00:24:49,412 any men, you know, that-- 552 00:24:49,479 --> 00:24:50,680 that shouldn't be in here? 553 00:24:50,747 --> 00:24:52,048 - No. 554 00:24:53,383 --> 00:24:54,717 Just Grandpa. 555 00:24:57,387 --> 00:25:00,223 - Emma, that--she just has a very active imagination. 556 00:25:00,290 --> 00:25:02,792 She's heard my mom talk about her husband, 557 00:25:02,859 --> 00:25:04,027 so we're just gonna go about our day. 558 00:25:04,093 --> 00:25:06,195 - I only dreamed of him once. 559 00:25:07,697 --> 00:25:09,666 - You dreamed about him? 560 00:25:09,732 --> 00:25:12,135 - I thought he was real, but he told me 561 00:25:12,201 --> 00:25:14,470 it was the middle of the night and I was dreaming 562 00:25:14,537 --> 00:25:15,905 and to go back to sleep. 563 00:25:17,774 --> 00:25:20,043 - Okay. All right. 564 00:25:20,109 --> 00:25:22,979 So what did he look like? 565 00:25:23,046 --> 00:25:25,548 She said that she saw a man with long hair 566 00:25:25,615 --> 00:25:26,582 and a long beard. 567 00:25:26,649 --> 00:25:27,583 - Well, who needs sketch artists 568 00:25:27,684 --> 00:25:28,718 when you have seven-year-olds? 569 00:25:28,785 --> 00:25:30,320 - But Grandpa Witt is dead. 570 00:25:30,420 --> 00:25:32,822 - And he was a clean-shaven piece of garbage. 571 00:25:32,855 --> 00:25:35,124 - So either the little girl imagined him-- 572 00:25:35,224 --> 00:25:37,393 - Or she saw the actual assailant, 573 00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:39,896 and she mistook him for her grandfather. 574 00:25:39,962 --> 00:25:42,532 - Captain, I've been looking at the old police report 575 00:25:42,598 --> 00:25:43,900 from Gerald Witt's death, 576 00:25:43,966 --> 00:25:46,436 and something's not adding up with the forensics. 577 00:25:46,502 --> 00:25:48,538 I don't think Sarah killed him. 578 00:25:48,571 --> 00:25:50,106 I think Beatrice did. 579 00:25:53,109 --> 00:25:54,010 - Benson. 580 00:25:58,548 --> 00:25:59,817 I'll be right there. 581 00:25:59,882 --> 00:26:01,984 Uh, Beatrice called 911. 582 00:26:02,051 --> 00:26:03,853 He broke in again. 583 00:26:10,526 --> 00:26:11,627 - Hey. - No signs of forced entry. 584 00:26:12,462 --> 00:26:14,464 I mean, honestly? No signs of anything. 585 00:26:16,332 --> 00:26:18,701 - I was walking up the front steps, 586 00:26:18,836 --> 00:26:21,304 and I saw the shadow of a man inside the house. 587 00:26:21,404 --> 00:26:22,638 - Where--where is Emma? 588 00:26:22,739 --> 00:26:24,073 - She's at a friend's house. 589 00:26:24,107 --> 00:26:25,641 I was coming back from dropping her off. 590 00:26:25,675 --> 00:26:28,211 The 911 operator told me that I had to wait outside, 591 00:26:28,244 --> 00:26:31,080 but my--my mom is at home alone so I couldn't just wait. 592 00:26:31,214 --> 00:26:32,448 - So where was the man when you came in? 593 00:26:32,515 --> 00:26:33,851 - He wasn't there. There is no one here. 594 00:26:33,883 --> 00:26:35,752 It's just my mom. 595 00:26:35,819 --> 00:26:37,286 Am I going crazy? Am I being paranoid? 596 00:26:37,353 --> 00:26:39,055 Am I seeing things? 597 00:26:39,122 --> 00:26:41,457 What--what--what-- what is happening to me? 598 00:26:55,171 --> 00:26:58,408 - I'm--I'm not gonna sugarcoat this, all right? 599 00:26:58,541 --> 00:27:01,110 This is a very difficult case 600 00:27:01,144 --> 00:27:03,881 because whoever this is is not-- 601 00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:09,218 well, he hasn't left any evidence, but also, 602 00:27:09,318 --> 00:27:13,923 I need you to tell me everything. 603 00:27:16,827 --> 00:27:20,363 I want you to tell me what really happened 604 00:27:20,463 --> 00:27:22,732 with your father. 605 00:27:38,581 --> 00:27:40,650 - Is she pacing in there? 606 00:27:40,750 --> 00:27:42,218 Maybe she's sundowning? 607 00:27:42,285 --> 00:27:44,587 - Or she's agitated 'cause she saw something? 608 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,222 - If there's anything to see. 609 00:27:50,493 --> 00:27:51,561 Ms. Witt? 610 00:27:51,694 --> 00:27:52,762 Hey, it's the police. 611 00:27:52,863 --> 00:27:55,031 We are gonna open the door, okay? 612 00:28:04,808 --> 00:28:06,209 What the-- 613 00:28:11,747 --> 00:28:13,182 - So, Beatrice, when I was little, 614 00:28:13,216 --> 00:28:15,551 you know, I don't know, like eight or nine years old, 615 00:28:15,585 --> 00:28:16,954 I used to-- 616 00:28:17,086 --> 00:28:19,222 I would set my alarm, I'd get myself dressed, 617 00:28:19,322 --> 00:28:22,358 I would pour my Cheerios, and I'd pack myself a lunch. 618 00:28:22,492 --> 00:28:25,929 And I--I'd even write little notes to myself, 619 00:28:26,028 --> 00:28:27,763 and I would put them in my lunch box. 620 00:28:27,798 --> 00:28:30,968 But the note said, "dear Olivia, 621 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,836 "I love you. 622 00:28:32,903 --> 00:28:36,105 Always and forever, Mom." 623 00:28:36,138 --> 00:28:39,810 Because other kids had notes in their lunch boxes 624 00:28:39,910 --> 00:28:44,113 and I didn't want them to know that my mom 625 00:28:44,146 --> 00:28:45,781 was, you know, 626 00:28:45,816 --> 00:28:47,383 passed out drunk from the night before, 627 00:28:47,416 --> 00:28:51,087 and I wouldn't see her until I got home from school. 628 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,156 And then she'd be, you know, drinking again. 629 00:28:57,393 --> 00:28:59,830 So when I was little, I used to imagine 630 00:28:59,897 --> 00:29:02,431 that I had a guardian angel. 631 00:29:04,767 --> 00:29:06,669 And then I realized 632 00:29:06,803 --> 00:29:10,974 that I was my guardian angel. 633 00:29:14,410 --> 00:29:16,512 Maybe you know what that's like. 634 00:29:22,953 --> 00:29:27,223 When Dad would come home, 635 00:29:27,356 --> 00:29:30,326 I really couldn't sleep because 636 00:29:30,426 --> 00:29:32,461 I'd be listening for his footsteps 637 00:29:32,528 --> 00:29:34,597 because I knew where they were going. 638 00:29:34,664 --> 00:29:35,899 They weren't going for Mom. 639 00:29:35,966 --> 00:29:37,133 They were coming for me. 640 00:29:37,199 --> 00:29:39,803 They were coming to my room. 641 00:29:54,383 --> 00:29:55,718 - Someone's in the attic. 642 00:29:55,785 --> 00:29:56,752 Go. 643 00:29:58,822 --> 00:30:02,059 - She would stop him 644 00:30:02,091 --> 00:30:04,694 to protect me. 645 00:30:04,727 --> 00:30:06,930 And then he'd beat her 646 00:30:06,997 --> 00:30:10,466 and he would rape her instead. 647 00:30:14,470 --> 00:30:17,908 - And the other night, when that guy was on top of me, 648 00:30:18,008 --> 00:30:22,311 I thought--just for a second, I thought... 649 00:30:22,378 --> 00:30:23,579 it's him. 650 00:30:23,646 --> 00:30:26,282 That is my dad. 651 00:30:27,783 --> 00:30:30,586 He's, like, back from the dead. 652 00:30:30,653 --> 00:30:32,388 - Okay. 653 00:30:35,324 --> 00:30:39,662 - I used to check his gun safe every day 654 00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:44,333 just praying, you know, that he would forget to lock it. 655 00:30:44,367 --> 00:30:48,005 And he never did, except for that one day. 656 00:30:48,105 --> 00:30:49,639 That day, he forgot. 657 00:30:49,739 --> 00:30:54,243 So I took the pistol, and I hid it under my pillow. 658 00:30:55,946 --> 00:30:58,180 And that night was the first night I ever actually 659 00:30:58,214 --> 00:30:59,749 fell asleep before he came home. 660 00:31:01,751 --> 00:31:03,152 But I woke up to Mom. 661 00:31:03,252 --> 00:31:05,621 She was screaming. 662 00:31:05,655 --> 00:31:06,990 So I grabbed the pistol. 663 00:31:07,057 --> 00:31:10,794 I ran over here down the stairs... 664 00:31:13,529 --> 00:31:17,633 And there's Dad, and he's hitting Mom with a poker. 665 00:31:19,335 --> 00:31:23,006 So I hold up the gun, 666 00:31:23,073 --> 00:31:24,774 and Mom sees me first. 667 00:31:24,808 --> 00:31:28,477 And she shouts for me to stop. 668 00:31:28,511 --> 00:31:30,279 I still think about that. 669 00:31:30,312 --> 00:31:31,815 - Because she loved you and she didn't want you 670 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:35,085 to have that on your conscience. 671 00:31:35,152 --> 00:31:39,588 - And the trigger is so heavy, you know. 672 00:31:41,657 --> 00:31:44,895 But something possessed me back then, 673 00:31:45,028 --> 00:31:48,131 and I just-- 674 00:31:48,230 --> 00:31:51,935 I pulled the trigger like it was easy. 675 00:31:58,141 --> 00:32:00,609 She took the gun out of my hand. 676 00:32:02,645 --> 00:32:07,084 She cleaned it with her own shirt. 677 00:32:07,216 --> 00:32:09,685 - She took the charge. 678 00:32:09,719 --> 00:32:11,855 - She made me swear not to tell anyone 679 00:32:11,888 --> 00:32:14,457 because she said it was her fault, but I don't know. 680 00:32:14,523 --> 00:32:15,926 You know, how is it her fault? 681 00:32:16,026 --> 00:32:18,594 It was him. He wanted me. 682 00:32:20,596 --> 00:32:24,067 She protected me every chance she could. 683 00:32:24,134 --> 00:32:27,703 The sickest-- 684 00:32:27,737 --> 00:32:30,974 I really think that part of her hates me for it. 685 00:32:33,877 --> 00:32:37,713 Because I killed her husband. 686 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,307 - Hey, Griff? - Yeah. 687 00:33:05,441 --> 00:33:07,878 - This spackle here is cracked. 688 00:33:12,849 --> 00:33:14,416 - There's a draft. 689 00:33:15,919 --> 00:33:17,254 Hey, this wall's not attached. 690 00:33:17,286 --> 00:33:19,421 Cover me. - Mm-hmm. 691 00:33:45,514 --> 00:33:47,217 There's somebody living up here. 692 00:33:59,863 --> 00:34:01,597 - What are they doing to my house? 693 00:34:02,531 --> 00:34:04,935 - Ma'am, unfortunately, we are in the middle 694 00:34:05,035 --> 00:34:06,535 of a police investigation. 695 00:34:06,602 --> 00:34:08,271 - Oh, no. 696 00:34:08,337 --> 00:34:09,572 Not again. - No. 697 00:34:09,638 --> 00:34:11,473 Ma'am-- - I did it. 698 00:34:11,574 --> 00:34:13,342 Whatever it was, I did it. 699 00:34:13,409 --> 00:34:15,011 - Ma'am-- - It wasn't Beatrice. 700 00:34:15,078 --> 00:34:17,247 - Beatrice is not in any kind of trouble, all right? 701 00:34:17,346 --> 00:34:18,614 You're okay. 702 00:34:18,714 --> 00:34:21,717 - Oh, thank God. 703 00:34:24,553 --> 00:34:26,488 - Wait, sorry, I-I don't believe this. 704 00:34:26,589 --> 00:34:28,524 Someone has been living inside my house? 705 00:34:28,624 --> 00:34:31,895 - In the attic, and I know this is hard to believe, 706 00:34:31,962 --> 00:34:34,097 but it's not as uncommon as you may think. 707 00:34:34,130 --> 00:34:37,566 - And he stole my mom's jewelry and all these photos? 708 00:34:37,633 --> 00:34:39,035 That's just so creepy. 709 00:34:39,135 --> 00:34:40,436 - So whoever he is, he was having 710 00:34:40,502 --> 00:34:42,438 a parasocial relationship with you, 711 00:34:42,538 --> 00:34:44,341 and I imagine that the other morning, 712 00:34:44,373 --> 00:34:46,910 he was trying to... 713 00:34:47,010 --> 00:34:48,211 make it real. 714 00:34:48,311 --> 00:34:49,946 - So do you know how long he's been up there? 715 00:34:50,013 --> 00:34:52,414 - From the amount of garbage that we saw, 716 00:34:52,481 --> 00:34:55,651 I would say maybe-- maybe three months. 717 00:34:55,718 --> 00:34:58,922 - Three months he's been in my attic? 718 00:35:19,175 --> 00:35:20,844 There's nothing up here. 719 00:35:39,495 --> 00:35:41,264 All right, the guy must have climbed the fire escape 720 00:35:41,298 --> 00:35:44,100 two doors down then jumped roofs. 721 00:35:47,337 --> 00:35:48,537 - Hey. 722 00:35:48,570 --> 00:35:51,007 Look at this photo. 723 00:35:51,041 --> 00:35:54,144 I just look so-- 724 00:35:54,244 --> 00:35:56,179 I look so normal. 725 00:35:59,983 --> 00:36:01,717 Actually, I don't--huh. 726 00:36:04,854 --> 00:36:05,855 - Beatrice, what? 727 00:36:05,889 --> 00:36:08,291 What are you-- what are you saying? 728 00:36:08,391 --> 00:36:10,894 - Sorry, I just-- 729 00:36:10,994 --> 00:36:12,329 - What? 730 00:36:12,429 --> 00:36:14,563 - I mean, the photo is not mine. 731 00:36:14,630 --> 00:36:16,166 Like, it's me in the photo, but it's not-- 732 00:36:16,266 --> 00:36:18,134 was not in my belongings. 733 00:36:18,201 --> 00:36:20,703 I've never owned this photo. 734 00:36:20,769 --> 00:36:23,672 - Okay, well, then who would have had it? 735 00:36:23,706 --> 00:36:27,643 - The guy who took it, my high school boyfriend. 736 00:36:27,676 --> 00:36:29,745 - Who--who was that? What is his name? 737 00:36:29,778 --> 00:36:31,714 - Chris. Chris Garibaldi. 738 00:36:31,815 --> 00:36:34,650 Um, but the day after that photo was taken, 739 00:36:34,717 --> 00:36:36,485 his parents shipped him off to boarding school. 740 00:36:36,552 --> 00:36:38,822 I haven't heard from him since then. 741 00:36:40,689 --> 00:36:42,258 - Parents say he was a problem child 742 00:36:42,325 --> 00:36:43,592 since the day he was born. 743 00:36:43,692 --> 00:36:44,894 - They sent him to boarding school after he 744 00:36:44,928 --> 00:36:46,262 threatened a teacher with a knife. 745 00:36:46,296 --> 00:36:47,596 He's been in and out of mental institutions since. 746 00:36:47,629 --> 00:36:48,697 - And most recently? 747 00:36:48,731 --> 00:36:50,934 - Released from Bellevue three months ago. 748 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:52,501 His parents couldn't handle him at home, 749 00:36:52,568 --> 00:36:54,204 so they kicked him out. - BOLO is out. 750 00:36:54,270 --> 00:36:55,805 We have alerted shelters citywide. 751 00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:57,740 So far nothing. - We know where he's going. 752 00:36:57,841 --> 00:37:00,210 - Well, this time we're gonna be there first. 753 00:37:05,681 --> 00:37:08,385 - Rollins, how's it looking? 754 00:37:08,451 --> 00:37:10,786 - No. Nothing yet. 755 00:37:10,887 --> 00:37:13,123 Hang on. There's somebody there. 756 00:37:13,189 --> 00:37:14,824 He's coming up the fire escape. 757 00:37:19,162 --> 00:37:20,430 Be safe. 758 00:37:20,497 --> 00:37:22,032 He could be armed. 759 00:37:31,374 --> 00:37:33,742 - NYPD! Get on your knees! 760 00:37:33,843 --> 00:37:35,378 - Th--this is my home. - Get down. 761 00:37:35,445 --> 00:37:36,578 Hands behind your head. 762 00:37:36,645 --> 00:37:38,381 Cross your ankles right now. 763 00:37:38,481 --> 00:37:40,984 - Beatrice didn't recognize me. 764 00:37:41,051 --> 00:37:43,019 I--I just need to shave. 765 00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:44,120 She'll love me again. 766 00:37:44,220 --> 00:37:45,255 No, no, please. 767 00:37:45,355 --> 00:37:46,356 Beatrice! 768 00:37:46,423 --> 00:37:47,924 Beatrice, tell them! 769 00:37:47,991 --> 00:37:49,859 Beatrice, help me! 770 00:37:49,959 --> 00:37:52,262 Beatrice, please! 771 00:37:52,295 --> 00:37:53,629 Beatrice! - No, no. 772 00:37:53,729 --> 00:37:56,199 - Beatrice! - Go. 773 00:37:56,232 --> 00:37:58,734 So I--I spoke with his parents, 774 00:37:58,835 --> 00:38:03,006 and they said that he idealized your relationship 775 00:38:03,106 --> 00:38:04,107 from all those years ago. 776 00:38:04,174 --> 00:38:07,709 And he said that he felt that this house 777 00:38:07,743 --> 00:38:11,014 was his--his safe space. 778 00:38:17,554 --> 00:38:19,255 Is it weird that I-- 779 00:38:19,322 --> 00:38:22,158 I feel sorry for him? 780 00:38:22,258 --> 00:38:24,561 - It's not weird. 781 00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:25,962 Not at all. 782 00:38:44,380 --> 00:38:45,781 - Hi. 783 00:38:45,849 --> 00:38:47,716 Is everything okay? - Yeah, um, I just-- 784 00:38:47,783 --> 00:38:48,852 I just wanted to give you an update. 785 00:38:48,952 --> 00:38:50,453 - Oh, okay. 786 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:53,655 - Uh, Chris Garibaldi is being arraigned. 787 00:38:53,755 --> 00:38:55,191 The judge just wants to make sure 788 00:38:55,258 --> 00:38:56,526 that he's fit to stand trial. 789 00:38:56,559 --> 00:38:58,528 But even if he's found not competent, 790 00:38:58,561 --> 00:38:59,896 they're gonna keep him at the hospital. 791 00:38:59,996 --> 00:39:01,531 They'll reassess every few months, 792 00:39:01,630 --> 00:39:04,067 but you're safe, okay, both of you. 793 00:39:04,134 --> 00:39:06,069 - Thank you very much for everything. 794 00:39:06,102 --> 00:39:07,370 And I just-- 795 00:39:07,437 --> 00:39:10,807 I just wanted to say, on behalf of my profession, 796 00:39:10,874 --> 00:39:14,477 that I am sorry for how that psychic misused you 797 00:39:14,577 --> 00:39:15,879 and your mother-in-law. 798 00:39:20,416 --> 00:39:23,219 - My husband and I were already separated when he died. 799 00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:24,821 We just-- 800 00:39:24,888 --> 00:39:26,589 we hadn't told anyone yet, 801 00:39:26,688 --> 00:39:30,460 not his mom and not even our son. 802 00:39:30,527 --> 00:39:33,930 So when she wanted me to go see that psychic with her, 803 00:39:34,030 --> 00:39:37,200 I mean, I get it, but... 804 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:39,735 I was so angry 805 00:39:39,802 --> 00:39:41,971 and frustrated at her, 806 00:39:42,071 --> 00:39:44,073 at the psychic, 807 00:39:44,140 --> 00:39:45,008 but mostly at myself 808 00:39:45,074 --> 00:39:48,244 for not just telling her the truth. 809 00:39:50,313 --> 00:39:52,781 - I mean, I'm just saying 810 00:39:52,849 --> 00:39:54,951 I'll give you the friends and family discount. 811 00:39:56,486 --> 00:39:58,354 - I'm good. Thank you. - Okay. 812 00:40:00,423 --> 00:40:02,125 - I'll be in touch. 813 00:40:02,158 --> 00:40:03,526 - Thank you.