1 00:00:52,278 --> 00:00:56,180 Thank you for coming. I'm Greer, jeffs sister. 2 00:00:56,282 --> 00:01:00,582 Ray Bell. I was a friend of your brother's at W.S.U. 3 00:01:00,686 --> 00:01:02,984 You just missed your classmates. 4 00:01:03,089 --> 00:01:06,547 Oh, I ran into them. We're gonna get together later. 5 00:01:06,659 --> 00:01:11,028 I-- I just can't imagine the gang without Jeff. 6 00:01:13,132 --> 00:01:15,259 Yeah. He was always talking about his college friends. 7 00:01:15,368 --> 00:01:20,032 He-- He was always telling us about his family. 8 00:01:20,139 --> 00:01:22,198 - Really? - Yeah. 9 00:01:22,308 --> 00:01:26,074 It would be really nice for my mother to hear that right now. 10 00:01:26,178 --> 00:01:29,511 - She's kind of falling apart. - Of course. 11 00:01:58,110 --> 00:02:01,546 Mom, this is Ray Bell. 12 00:02:01,647 --> 00:02:05,105 - He's a good friend of Jeff s from college. - Mrs. Cort. 13 00:02:05,217 --> 00:02:08,311 I was just telling Greer how devoted Jeff was to all of you. 14 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:16,394 It's okay. 15 00:02:18,631 --> 00:02:20,656 It's okay. 16 00:02:24,170 --> 00:02:26,138 It's okay. 17 00:02:30,209 --> 00:02:32,177 It's okay. 18 00:02:39,085 --> 00:02:41,212 I hate to do this to you. 19 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,221 It'll be a beautiful ceremony tomorrow. 20 00:02:44,323 --> 00:02:47,087 Why not go home now and get some rest? 21 00:05:12,004 --> 00:05:14,370 - Thanks for getting here so fast. - I hope I can help. 22 00:05:14,473 --> 00:05:16,566 You and me both. 23 00:05:16,675 --> 00:05:19,405 Son died three days ago in a car crash. 24 00:05:19,512 --> 00:05:22,845 The mother was found murdered after the kid's wake. 25 00:05:22,948 --> 00:05:26,315 Can't get the father to stop yelling long enough to find out if he knows anything. 26 00:05:26,418 --> 00:05:29,546 Think what he's going through. Anger is a very appropriate response. 27 00:05:29,655 --> 00:05:31,623 Yeah. Just not very helpful. 28 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,260 Look, uh, Catherine... 29 00:05:36,362 --> 00:05:41,095 uh, I know I've been skeptical about Victim Services in the past, but-- 30 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,101 I'll see what I can do. 31 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,999 - Who are you now? - I'm Catherine Black from Victim Assistance. 32 00:05:52,111 --> 00:05:53,840 What, a counselor? 33 00:05:53,946 --> 00:05:56,437 That's part of what I do. 34 00:05:56,549 --> 00:05:58,983 Get that lieutenant back here. 35 00:05:59,084 --> 00:06:01,416 - Dad-- - Get him now. 36 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,988 Lieutenant Bletcher asked me to talk with you. 37 00:06:04,089 --> 00:06:07,923 - He thought I might help. - I don't need help. I need to see my wife. 38 00:06:08,027 --> 00:06:11,121 - You haven't claimed the body? - Don't they tell you anything? 39 00:06:11,230 --> 00:06:14,631 - Dad, please-- - Your mother's body is not government property. 40 00:06:14,733 --> 00:06:18,169 Mr. eort,you're absolutely right. 41 00:06:19,438 --> 00:06:21,998 But when a crime like this occurs... 42 00:06:23,309 --> 00:06:25,334 the victim is considered evidence. 43 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:30,246 Unfortunately, some people actually think about her that way. 44 00:06:32,284 --> 00:06:36,277 We were married for 27 years. They won't even let me see her. 45 00:06:39,692 --> 00:06:41,660 You've got to let him see his wife. 46 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,560 I'm not jerking him around here. 47 00:06:45,664 --> 00:06:48,963 She was cut up, viciously. 48 00:06:49,068 --> 00:06:51,536 All the evidence is under wraps until I get my game plan in order. 49 00:06:51,637 --> 00:06:54,470 It won't be real to him until he sees the body. 50 00:06:54,573 --> 00:06:58,168 I seriously doubt that that's the way he wants to remember his wife. 51 00:06:58,277 --> 00:07:02,976 Then don't expect his cooperation. It would help to have him on your side. 52 00:07:03,082 --> 00:07:06,381 Oh, I could definitely stand to have someone on my side. 53 00:07:06,485 --> 00:07:10,581 Maybe somebody else should have picked up the phone when you called our house this morning. 54 00:07:13,325 --> 00:07:17,261 The coroner wanted the woman out of here before the bugs got any worse. 55 00:07:17,363 --> 00:07:19,331 Peter Watts is taking a look at her. 56 00:07:23,235 --> 00:07:25,863 We made quite a few footprint castings. 57 00:07:25,971 --> 00:07:28,235 Mostly grave diggers. 58 00:07:28,340 --> 00:07:30,535 It'll take a while to sort them all out. 59 00:07:34,113 --> 00:07:37,605 The body was covered with a fair amount of soil and organic matter. 60 00:07:37,716 --> 00:07:40,378 Hair and fiber bagged some samples. 61 00:07:40,486 --> 00:07:43,580 Fifty-year-old woman standing at her son's grave. 62 00:07:43,689 --> 00:07:45,657 Hurts just to think about it. 63 00:07:47,459 --> 00:07:50,360 - Calla lily. - She brought it here. 64 00:07:53,666 --> 00:07:55,566 Frank. 65 00:07:58,871 --> 00:08:01,772 Nothing very useful off the body. 66 00:08:01,874 --> 00:08:04,707 Looks like she didn't have time to put up much of a struggle. 67 00:08:04,810 --> 00:08:08,211 - What about the son? - Run-of-the-mill tragedy. 68 00:08:08,314 --> 00:08:12,774 Star running back celebrates big win with a blood alcohol of .27. 69 00:08:12,885 --> 00:08:16,446 - Hits a tree at 60 miles an hour. - Anyone else in the car? 70 00:08:16,555 --> 00:08:19,046 No, he was solo. 71 00:08:19,158 --> 00:08:21,854 Look, I don't think the son's in the picture. 72 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,056 It's a woman in a secluded place at night. Massive overkill. 73 00:08:26,165 --> 00:08:28,963 That says random crime of opportunity. That's why I asked you in, Frank. 74 00:08:29,068 --> 00:08:33,664 - He knew who she was. - Not many housewives make that kind of enemy. 75 00:08:33,772 --> 00:08:38,402 It's not about her. The killer's rage is directed toward someone else. 76 00:08:38,510 --> 00:08:41,968 I agree. The stab wounds were brutal but impersonal... 77 00:08:42,081 --> 00:08:43,981 clustered well away from her face. 78 00:08:44,083 --> 00:08:47,416 So he knew who she was, but it wasn't about her? 79 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:50,113 And he sliced her up, but it wasn't directed at her? 80 00:08:50,222 --> 00:08:53,453 Hey, I'm just trying to keep up. 81 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:58,258 - You want to see the woman's body? - No. The boy's. 82 00:09:01,734 --> 00:09:05,534 I understand, mr. Cort, and we'll make all the arrangements. 83 00:09:05,637 --> 00:09:07,628 Thank you very much. I appreciate it. 84 00:09:13,946 --> 00:09:18,212 Mr. Cort has decided to buryJeff back east, by his grandparents. 85 00:09:19,518 --> 00:09:22,112 Or do you have some claim on him too? 86 00:09:22,221 --> 00:09:27,853 Mr. Cort, Greer, I'm sorry we got off to such a bad start. 87 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:30,326 I'd like you to meet Frank Black. 88 00:09:30,429 --> 00:09:34,263 He's a special consultant on your case. 89 00:09:34,366 --> 00:09:36,459 I'm very sorry about your loss. 90 00:09:37,736 --> 00:09:39,863 We just want to find who did this to my wife. 91 00:09:41,507 --> 00:09:43,634 I'd like to talk to you about that when you're ready. 92 00:09:47,146 --> 00:09:49,842 We're ready now. 93 00:09:49,948 --> 00:09:53,543 I understand quite a few people came by yesterday to pay their respects. 94 00:09:53,652 --> 00:09:57,816 Yeah. Jeff was... loved. 95 00:09:57,923 --> 00:10:01,518 Were there any strangers? People you didn't know? 96 00:10:03,829 --> 00:10:05,854 A group of his college friends came. 97 00:10:05,964 --> 00:10:10,492 Dad, after they left, there was this other guy from W.S.U. 98 00:10:10,602 --> 00:10:12,570 Um... Ray Bell. 99 00:10:12,671 --> 00:10:15,902 I never heard of him. 100 00:10:17,276 --> 00:10:20,609 I introduced him to Mom. 101 00:10:35,561 --> 00:10:40,794 This stranger, was he standing close to your brother? 102 00:10:40,899 --> 00:10:43,595 - At one point. - Can you show me? 103 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:50,508 Like this, maybe. 104 00:10:52,511 --> 00:10:54,411 I know this is difficult. 105 00:10:54,513 --> 00:10:56,606 But we're looking for something that's changed. 106 00:10:58,684 --> 00:11:02,711 Something that wasn't here before. Or something missing. 107 00:11:06,925 --> 00:11:10,952 His pin. Someone stole his team pin. 108 00:11:24,610 --> 00:11:28,671 You blew curfew last night. Hey! 109 00:11:28,780 --> 00:11:32,341 - Does anyone around here ever knock? - Did you hear what I said? 110 00:11:32,451 --> 00:11:34,817 Yeah. I'm sorry. 111 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,754 Yeah. You're always sorry. Who puts his butt on the line and checks you in, huh? 112 00:11:38,857 --> 00:11:41,485 - You do. - Who takes care of you? 113 00:11:41,593 --> 00:11:43,788 I know. Look, I got hungry. I headed out. 114 00:11:43,896 --> 00:11:47,992 You think I don't know what you're up to? You think it's not obvious, huh? 115 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:51,126 - Let go. - What's this? Where did this come from? 116 00:11:51,236 --> 00:11:53,170 Someone gave it to me. 117 00:11:53,272 --> 00:11:56,139 Nobody gave you anything. 118 00:11:56,241 --> 00:11:59,608 What are you even after out there? Do you ever even think of that? 119 00:12:01,213 --> 00:12:03,204 You're in bed tonight at lights out or else. 120 00:12:03,315 --> 00:12:05,408 I'm not coverin' for you anymore. 121 00:12:10,789 --> 00:12:15,192 ``So, it's nice to go far, and it's nice to go wide. 122 00:12:15,294 --> 00:12:17,194 '`But when gators are biting... 123 00:12:17,296 --> 00:12:20,959 you need someplace to hide.'' 124 00:12:21,066 --> 00:12:25,400 '`So whatever you do, girl, wherever you roam... 125 00:12:25,504 --> 00:12:27,529 ``your family still loves you. 126 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:31,973 You can always go home. '' 127 00:12:34,846 --> 00:12:37,576 She wanted to wait up for you. 128 00:12:43,488 --> 00:12:45,649 How's the Cort family holding up? 129 00:12:45,757 --> 00:12:49,523 Oh, I don't know how to help them understand this. 130 00:12:49,628 --> 00:12:52,961 The son dead, the mom butchered. 131 00:12:53,065 --> 00:12:57,001 - It's like Job. - Job endured. 132 00:12:57,102 --> 00:12:59,935 I'm expecting a collapse after they see the mother tomorrow. 133 00:13:00,038 --> 00:13:02,006 Anything I can tell them? 134 00:13:02,107 --> 00:13:04,575 Tell them we're still looking. 135 00:13:04,676 --> 00:13:09,841 - Frank, I don't want to add to the pressure on you. - You're not. 136 00:13:09,948 --> 00:13:12,781 It comes from the outside. The depravity. 137 00:13:12,884 --> 00:13:15,785 You two make it possible to go on. 138 00:13:15,887 --> 00:13:17,878 Hi, Daddy. 139 00:13:17,990 --> 00:13:19,958 Hi, sweetheart. 140 00:13:22,394 --> 00:13:24,624 What's 'pravity? 141 00:13:53,425 --> 00:13:57,759 This is the obituary of the boy who died. It appeared two days ago. 142 00:13:57,863 --> 00:14:00,661 Here's Ray Bell. 143 00:14:00,766 --> 00:14:03,360 So he read the kid's obituary. 144 00:14:03,468 --> 00:14:05,629 It's a starting point. He's done it before. 145 00:14:05,737 --> 00:14:08,331 You mean he just picks one out of the paper and shows up? 146 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,965 Why would anybody go to a funeral they didn't have to? 147 00:14:11,076 --> 00:14:14,637 - Watch people suffer. - He didn't watch. He participated. 148 00:14:14,746 --> 00:14:17,738 - And you got this from reading one obituary? - Not the obituary. 149 00:14:17,849 --> 00:14:20,147 - The lapel pin. - What about the lapel pin? 150 00:14:20,252 --> 00:14:22,243 He takes souvenirs from each funeral. 151 00:14:23,488 --> 00:14:26,116 His performance with the mother was rehearsed... 152 00:14:26,224 --> 00:14:28,419 skillful, honed by repetition. 153 00:14:28,527 --> 00:14:31,758 Frank, if anything ended like this last night, we'd have heard about it. 154 00:14:31,863 --> 00:14:36,391 Last night he crossed the line into murderous violence. Possibly for the first time. 155 00:14:37,836 --> 00:14:39,804 Next time will be easier for him. 156 00:15:39,197 --> 00:15:43,497 Oh, I-I'm sorry for intruding. I-I thought, uh-- 157 00:15:45,137 --> 00:15:47,071 I don't know what I thought. 158 00:15:49,441 --> 00:15:53,741 Are you okay? Oh, right. 159 00:15:53,845 --> 00:15:56,211 That's a stupid question. Um-- 160 00:16:00,218 --> 00:16:04,382 I'm Tina. Um, David and I were friends at college. 161 00:16:04,489 --> 00:16:06,855 Eric. 162 00:16:06,958 --> 00:16:09,859 So I guess you knew David from around here, huh? 163 00:16:09,961 --> 00:16:13,590 - Since the fourth grade. - Oh. 164 00:16:13,698 --> 00:16:16,428 Oh, you've got to tell me what he was like as a kid. 165 00:16:16,535 --> 00:16:18,560 He-- 166 00:16:20,572 --> 00:16:22,904 Are you-- Are you really okay? 167 00:16:23,008 --> 00:16:27,468 Oh, when they say it hurts, they-- they really mean it. 168 00:16:27,579 --> 00:16:33,211 Yeah. Yeah, it's-- it's actual pain. It's like you've been stabbed or something. 169 00:16:34,519 --> 00:16:38,080 I think this house is getting to me. 170 00:16:38,190 --> 00:16:40,283 Too many memories? 171 00:16:40,392 --> 00:16:42,383 Yeah. I'd better go. 172 00:16:44,129 --> 00:16:46,290 You need a lift? 173 00:16:46,398 --> 00:16:50,357 Um, I-I was leaving soon anyway... 174 00:16:50,468 --> 00:16:53,801 and the truth is... 175 00:16:53,905 --> 00:16:57,966 I'm driving his mother crazy just being here. So-- 176 00:16:58,076 --> 00:17:01,807 I could show you where, uh, David and I went fishing when we were kids. 177 00:17:01,913 --> 00:17:06,077 David fishing? No way. 178 00:17:16,761 --> 00:17:20,060 Oh, man. David could skip anything. 179 00:17:20,165 --> 00:17:22,133 You know, I remember one time we found this-- 180 00:17:23,902 --> 00:17:28,896 Tina? Oh, I'm-I'm sorry. 181 00:17:29,007 --> 00:17:30,998 I-I shouldn't have-- 182 00:17:32,410 --> 00:17:34,708 I can't believe that he's gone. 183 00:17:36,615 --> 00:17:38,640 It's okay. 184 00:17:44,556 --> 00:17:46,524 It's okay. 185 00:17:48,727 --> 00:17:50,854 It's okay. 186 00:17:51,997 --> 00:17:55,524 - Eric? - It's okay. 187 00:17:55,634 --> 00:17:57,761 Eric? Eric? 188 00:18:03,008 --> 00:18:04,976 I'm sorry. I-- 189 00:18:06,678 --> 00:18:09,306 I'll leave you alone for a little bit. I-- 190 00:18:54,192 --> 00:18:56,490 So I heard a splash and I rushed over. 191 00:18:56,594 --> 00:18:59,791 Some colored gentleman caught a rainbow this big just a few days back. 192 00:18:59,898 --> 00:19:01,798 So I figured maybe I was due. 193 00:19:16,414 --> 00:19:18,882 We already got a call in to a chopper on its way. 194 00:19:23,621 --> 00:19:25,680 I made a cast, Edwin. See it? 195 00:19:40,772 --> 00:19:43,263 ``Stop looking.'' 196 00:19:45,176 --> 00:19:47,440 Does he mean us? 197 00:20:38,363 --> 00:20:42,299 we found two quality partials. The same index finger. 198 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:46,029 Ester fuming developed the latent images, which we composited into a single print. 199 00:20:46,137 --> 00:20:48,332 We're expediting it through AFIS. 200 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,340 That bow was underwater. 201 00:20:50,442 --> 00:20:52,433 We've lifted prints off bones buried fifty years. 202 00:20:52,544 --> 00:20:55,308 Detective Bletcher. 203 00:20:55,413 --> 00:20:57,904 Communication. What is he trying to tell us? 204 00:20:58,016 --> 00:21:01,008 I don't know. But there's a message on the first body. 205 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,746 They checked. There was nothing. 206 00:21:02,854 --> 00:21:05,846 The carving is too elaborate for first-time out. 207 00:21:05,957 --> 00:21:08,687 The acute angle of the '`S. '' He's thought about it. 208 00:21:08,793 --> 00:21:12,854 Between the stab wounds and autopsy, if there was a message, it may be gone. 209 00:21:12,964 --> 00:21:14,864 - It's there. - Does he have any priors? 210 00:21:14,966 --> 00:21:17,491 It may be done hastily. Even an afterthought. 211 00:21:17,602 --> 00:21:20,070 I'll take a look. 212 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,273 Great. Good work. I think we got a hit. 213 00:21:25,376 --> 00:21:29,073 James Dickerson. Paroled at a Diebstahl Group Home. 214 00:21:29,180 --> 00:21:31,444 It's a remand center for paroled convicts. 215 00:21:31,549 --> 00:21:34,746 - What is he in for? - Juvenile. Record's sealed. 216 00:21:34,853 --> 00:21:37,481 Up! Get up! Get up, get up, get up! 217 00:21:37,589 --> 00:21:39,454 What, Connor? What are you doin', man? 218 00:21:39,557 --> 00:21:42,287 You've gone too far this time, man. 219 00:21:43,828 --> 00:21:46,262 - This is insane. - I don't want to hear it, man... 220 00:21:46,364 --> 00:21:49,390 'cause then I'm an accomplice and they got me by the lips-- Go. 221 00:21:51,236 --> 00:21:55,400 Hang on, I'm comin'! 222 00:21:55,507 --> 00:21:58,567 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 223 00:21:58,676 --> 00:22:01,270 - Open up! Police! - Yeah, just a second. 224 00:22:01,379 --> 00:22:04,906 - Just a second. - Come on, open up! 225 00:22:05,016 --> 00:22:06,984 - Come on! - Just a second. I'm gettin' it. 226 00:22:07,085 --> 00:22:09,451 - He's gettin' away. - Move back from the door! 227 00:22:09,554 --> 00:22:12,819 - In on three. - I-I can't let anybody in or out after 8:00. 228 00:22:12,924 --> 00:22:15,552 - Please, let me call the director. - Three! 229 00:22:15,660 --> 00:22:17,821 Dickerson! James Dickerson! 230 00:22:17,929 --> 00:22:20,124 Room Three! Upstairs! Don't want any trouble! 231 00:22:20,231 --> 00:22:23,132 - You guys take the ground floor! - Got it! 232 00:22:23,234 --> 00:22:25,225 - Back up! Back up! - Report. 233 00:22:27,071 --> 00:22:30,529 All of you back in your rooms! 234 00:22:30,642 --> 00:22:32,735 Go! 235 00:22:52,630 --> 00:22:56,031 That goes to the alley. 236 00:22:58,736 --> 00:23:00,897 I think he's gone. 237 00:23:17,055 --> 00:23:19,717 You scrape together 250 for a house... 238 00:23:19,824 --> 00:23:22,554 spend your weekends tryin' to keep up with repairs... 239 00:23:22,660 --> 00:23:26,858 you got to wonder how the dozen convicts next door qualify as a single family residence. 240 00:23:28,032 --> 00:23:30,000 Here's the bed check. 241 00:23:32,837 --> 00:23:34,964 He was here five minutes before we were. 242 00:23:35,073 --> 00:23:37,803 - So can I ask what he did? - You can ask. 243 00:23:37,909 --> 00:23:42,243 Must be pretty bad. You don't go stormin' a place over parking tickets. 244 00:23:42,347 --> 00:23:44,178 That's right. 245 00:23:45,984 --> 00:23:50,751 Between you and me, James isn't programming. I think he's got a lot of anger. 246 00:23:50,855 --> 00:23:55,258 - And what do you do about that? - Not much you can do. Ever heard of denial? 247 00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:59,160 ``I don't have the problem. You have the problem.'' That's James. 248 00:23:59,264 --> 00:24:04,167 So according to this, uh, bed check, james was all tucked in every night this week? 249 00:24:04,269 --> 00:24:07,932 - Yeah, sure. - You sayin'maybe he slips out? 250 00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:10,007 Anything's possible with that nutcase. 251 00:24:10,108 --> 00:24:13,339 So help us out here, Connor. Good deed time. 252 00:24:13,444 --> 00:24:18,211 Okay, um, I don't go skeezin'guys out. That's not me. 253 00:24:18,316 --> 00:24:20,807 - But-- - Yeah? 254 00:24:39,237 --> 00:24:42,070 How'd you know about this? 255 00:24:42,173 --> 00:24:47,270 Some junkie thief that we bounced out ofhere last year, he hid his fix in there. 256 00:24:47,378 --> 00:24:49,369 I figure maybe james heard about it. 257 00:24:50,648 --> 00:24:52,548 I told ya. I'm here to help. 258 00:24:57,955 --> 00:25:03,188 So what we have here is a guy that goes to funerals for fun and kills people. 259 00:25:03,294 --> 00:25:07,788 - Plus carves them up. - Does social service have a name for that? 260 00:25:07,899 --> 00:25:10,493 He's a classic ``lost child.'' 261 00:25:10,601 --> 00:25:12,967 And there's an army of them just like him. 262 00:25:13,071 --> 00:25:16,268 Put up for adoption at one and a half... 263 00:25:16,374 --> 00:25:21,607 never placed, in and out of foster care, reform school, abuse. 264 00:25:21,713 --> 00:25:24,204 He essentially raised himself. 265 00:25:24,315 --> 00:25:27,284 - And he didn't do a very good job. - They never do. 266 00:25:27,385 --> 00:25:30,616 No one showed him how to connect with the world. 267 00:25:30,722 --> 00:25:33,452 Odd as this may sound, going to funerals is his attempt. 268 00:25:33,558 --> 00:25:39,053 - Attempt at what? - Finding human contact. Family. 269 00:25:39,163 --> 00:25:41,757 Family? Please. 270 00:25:41,866 --> 00:25:43,766 Read his diary. 271 00:25:43,868 --> 00:25:48,965 Decide for yourself. But I'm telling you, at some level, he wants what we all have. 272 00:25:49,073 --> 00:25:50,938 He wants to destroy what we have. 273 00:25:51,042 --> 00:25:56,605 I read once the first two weeks of a kitten's life seal its fate. 274 00:25:56,714 --> 00:26:00,343 If it has human contact, it's domestic. 275 00:26:00,451 --> 00:26:02,783 If it doesn't, it goes feral. 276 00:26:07,091 --> 00:26:11,653 - Tough room. - You make anything of these? All ``Return to Sender.'' 277 00:26:13,631 --> 00:26:15,724 Peggy Dechant. 278 00:26:15,833 --> 00:26:20,202 - What have you got? - His mother. 279 00:26:20,304 --> 00:26:23,899 She contacted Victim Assistance three years ago. 280 00:26:31,516 --> 00:26:35,008 Hey, come on. Ah, come on, you know me. Here. 281 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:37,314 Shh. Here you go. Come on, come on. 282 00:26:39,123 --> 00:26:42,320 Here, I got something for you. Yeah, here you go. 283 00:26:42,427 --> 00:26:45,885 Come on. Come on. Here you go. 284 00:26:45,997 --> 00:26:49,865 Yeah, good. Here you go, doggies. Come on. 285 00:26:49,967 --> 00:26:53,368 Come on. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. 286 00:27:16,828 --> 00:27:18,989 Connor, is that you? 287 00:27:22,834 --> 00:27:27,669 - Oh! Where have you been? - Covering your ass with the cops, ditchweed. 288 00:27:27,772 --> 00:27:30,400 Move. 289 00:27:30,508 --> 00:27:32,976 - Move over. - I feel like I'm trapped in here. 290 00:27:33,077 --> 00:27:37,411 - Yeah, what's the matter? You got nowhere else to go, huh? - You think I don't know that? 291 00:27:37,515 --> 00:27:41,110 Hey, calm down. You gotta chill out a little bit. Here, eat somethin'. 292 00:27:41,219 --> 00:27:45,417 - I can't take this anymore. - Hey. Come on. It'll make you feel better. Come on. 293 00:27:45,523 --> 00:27:47,787 - No. - Come. Please? Come on. There you go. 294 00:27:47,892 --> 00:27:50,588 Here. Here, here, here. 295 00:27:50,695 --> 00:27:53,721 - Here, a burger. - Mmm. 296 00:27:53,831 --> 00:27:56,061 All right? Good, huh? 297 00:27:56,167 --> 00:27:59,330 Who takes care of you? Come on, who's your friend? 298 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:07,868 Yeah. Well, I thank you very much. Thank you for your time. 299 00:28:09,347 --> 00:28:11,611 Yes. 300 00:28:11,716 --> 00:28:15,777 Hey, like old times, huh? You're still here when everyone else has gone home. 301 00:28:15,887 --> 00:28:21,621 I just got off the phone with theJohnsons. One of the families in the journal. 302 00:28:21,726 --> 00:28:23,626 They lost a son about a year ago. 303 00:28:23,728 --> 00:28:27,789 - james spent a week in their home. - And they lived to tell? 304 00:28:27,899 --> 00:28:31,858 They described him as a very loving person who sustained them through a very difficult time. 305 00:28:32,003 --> 00:28:35,769 Hmm. What pushed that kid over the edge? 306 00:28:37,108 --> 00:28:39,201 I'm not sure the kid was pushed. 307 00:28:39,310 --> 00:28:43,838 Frank, you were right. I found something on the first victim. 308 00:28:48,553 --> 00:28:50,453 Her skin was thoroughly distressed. 309 00:28:50,555 --> 00:28:53,991 No message of any subtlety would have survived, so I turned to clothing. 310 00:28:54,091 --> 00:28:56,616 - What are we looking at here? - Traces of pollen. 311 00:28:57,995 --> 00:29:01,624 - Calla lily. - There's a message. 312 00:29:01,732 --> 00:29:04,667 I lifted the image electrostatically. 313 00:29:04,769 --> 00:29:07,329 - It's only fragments. - It's just too faint to see. 314 00:29:07,438 --> 00:29:11,670 So I started a time exposure. After about 50 minutes... 315 00:29:11,776 --> 00:29:13,710 - there it was. - Hmm. 316 00:29:17,448 --> 00:29:21,782 Uh, not to rain on anyone's parade here, but, uh, we already have this, right? 317 00:29:21,886 --> 00:29:24,582 - ``Stop looking.'' - Yeah, it would appear so. 318 00:29:37,501 --> 00:29:39,867 I thought I recognized this ``S.'' 319 00:29:44,141 --> 00:29:47,702 Connor? 320 00:30:27,985 --> 00:30:29,953 Oh, man. 321 00:31:09,060 --> 00:31:11,961 - Call an ambulance! - Right away! 322 00:31:37,688 --> 00:31:39,656 Mrs. Dechant? 323 00:31:42,326 --> 00:31:44,294 Anybody home? 324 00:31:45,329 --> 00:31:47,229 Yeah, hello? 325 00:31:47,331 --> 00:31:51,233 I'm sorry about that. I was just putting my baby down. 326 00:31:52,737 --> 00:31:54,637 What is this? 327 00:31:54,739 --> 00:31:56,969 I'm Catherine Black from Social Services. 328 00:31:57,074 --> 00:32:00,339 It's about James Dickerson. 329 00:32:00,444 --> 00:32:02,912 You people said I'd never hear from him. 330 00:32:03,013 --> 00:32:04,878 I know he sent you letters. 331 00:32:04,982 --> 00:32:10,113 Letters? Three years ago he walked up that driveway, a complete stranger. 332 00:32:10,221 --> 00:32:12,121 He says nothing, just hugs me. 333 00:32:12,223 --> 00:32:14,987 And then he tells me, ``I want to come home.'' 334 00:32:15,092 --> 00:32:17,322 I'm still afraid to let Jason out of my sight. 335 00:32:17,428 --> 00:32:19,419 Well, he's in custody now. 336 00:32:19,530 --> 00:32:21,896 Good. Keep him there. 337 00:32:21,999 --> 00:32:25,901 - He's been asking for you. - No. 338 00:32:26,003 --> 00:32:30,099 - I'm out of this. - Mrs. Dechant, he's your son. 339 00:32:30,207 --> 00:32:32,107 He's not my son. 340 00:32:32,209 --> 00:32:34,734 He's something that happened when I was a strung-out teenager. 341 00:32:34,845 --> 00:32:37,905 You people said you'd find him a good home. You never did. Now you deal with him. 342 00:32:38,015 --> 00:32:40,506 We are dealing with him. But two people are dead. 343 00:32:42,419 --> 00:32:45,752 - He did that? - I need your help. 344 00:32:53,164 --> 00:32:57,157 So you found her dead. 345 00:32:57,268 --> 00:33:01,261 I went-- I went back to the car to get a coat. 346 00:33:01,372 --> 00:33:05,138 Um, it was cold. And when-when I returned-- 347 00:33:07,278 --> 00:33:09,371 Well, there she was. 348 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,380 Why didn't you try to revive her? 349 00:33:11,482 --> 00:33:16,010 She was cut up. I was scared. 350 00:33:17,488 --> 00:33:21,891 - Too scared to come forward. - I told you. I wanted to. 351 00:33:21,992 --> 00:33:25,223 - Yeah, that's- - We're open 24 hours a day. 352 00:33:25,329 --> 00:33:28,230 He says he didn't do it. 353 00:33:28,332 --> 00:33:31,733 He may honestly believe that. 354 00:33:31,836 --> 00:33:35,203 Call me when you find out what ``Stop looking'' means. I got a 6:30 plane. 355 00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:38,474 Yeah, you can say it. 356 00:33:38,576 --> 00:33:41,511 - How many times do I have to tell you? - Are you uncomfortable with this? 357 00:33:41,612 --> 00:33:43,807 - I could stay. - Not necessary. 358 00:33:45,916 --> 00:33:48,077 - Is he capable? - Yes. 359 00:33:48,185 --> 00:33:52,849 - Does he fit the profile? - Yes. 360 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,928 Have a safe flight, Peter. Thank you very much. 361 00:33:58,028 --> 00:34:00,690 - Are we annoying you? - Thank you. 362 00:34:00,798 --> 00:34:04,325 Because I'm detecting something in your voice that sounds like annoyance. 363 00:34:04,435 --> 00:34:06,426 Let's go over this again. 364 00:34:06,537 --> 00:34:09,472 So when you left to find this coat... 365 00:34:09,573 --> 00:34:12,838 she already knew that you never met her dead boyfriend. 366 00:34:12,943 --> 00:34:15,844 Is that right? 367 00:34:15,946 --> 00:34:17,880 Yeah, I guess. I guess. 368 00:34:17,982 --> 00:34:21,418 She didn't leave you much choice, did she? 369 00:34:21,518 --> 00:34:24,248 I didn't kill anybody. I swear I didn't. 370 00:34:24,355 --> 00:34:28,121 Yeah, well, James, Ray, Travis, Eric-- 371 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,424 You're kind of a professional liar, aren't you? 372 00:34:32,529 --> 00:34:36,363 Pathological prevarication. That's what they call it. 373 00:34:39,770 --> 00:34:42,466 Oh, yeah. That's out there. 374 00:34:49,046 --> 00:34:53,107 - Can I help you? - I came to get James. Maybe he's busy, huh? 375 00:34:53,217 --> 00:34:54,912 You might as well go home. 376 00:34:55,019 --> 00:34:58,420 No hurry there. The director yanked my trustee privileges. 377 00:34:58,522 --> 00:35:01,218 - Do you think I could talk toJames? - Family only. 378 00:35:01,325 --> 00:35:04,556 - That'll be the day. - Frank? 379 00:35:04,662 --> 00:35:07,825 Hi. This is Peggy Dechant. This is my husband, Frank. 380 00:35:07,932 --> 00:35:09,661 - Thanks for coming. - Yeah. 381 00:35:09,767 --> 00:35:11,735 - Shall we go? - Yeah. 382 00:35:23,414 --> 00:35:26,577 You came. 383 00:35:28,585 --> 00:35:30,644 I knew you would. 384 00:35:36,226 --> 00:35:40,287 Mom, please tell them that I didn't hurt anyone, okay? 385 00:35:40,397 --> 00:35:43,457 Please. You know I wouldn't do that. 386 00:35:43,567 --> 00:35:45,967 Tell them. They'll listen to you. 387 00:35:48,072 --> 00:35:50,040 Would you stop it! 388 00:35:54,945 --> 00:35:59,814 - Did you kill someone? - No. Tell them. 389 00:36:02,953 --> 00:36:04,853 Please? 390 00:36:04,955 --> 00:36:07,116 I can't do this. I don't even know him. 391 00:36:07,224 --> 00:36:09,283 Mrs. Dechant. 392 00:36:09,393 --> 00:36:12,954 - Mrs. Dechant-- - No. You people raised him. He's all yours. 393 00:36:25,009 --> 00:36:28,376 You want a confession? 394 00:36:28,479 --> 00:36:32,643 Okay. Okay. 395 00:36:37,621 --> 00:36:39,885 I killed 'em. 396 00:36:39,990 --> 00:36:42,720 I'd do it again. 397 00:36:43,827 --> 00:36:47,024 So, you did it? 398 00:36:47,131 --> 00:36:49,190 They're dead, aren't they? 399 00:36:49,299 --> 00:36:52,063 What's ''Stop looking'', James? 400 00:36:52,169 --> 00:36:56,765 Stop looking. You found me. 401 00:37:04,615 --> 00:37:08,381 How could anyone abandon a child? 402 00:37:08,485 --> 00:37:11,511 But millions of people do it. 403 00:37:11,622 --> 00:37:16,252 Millions. God, it's scary. 404 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,262 we have home after home filled with kids likejames. 405 00:37:20,364 --> 00:37:22,798 And we know they turn violent. 406 00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:25,869 How do I tell the survivors that no one saw it coming? 407 00:37:29,206 --> 00:37:32,607 - They're out there, Frank. - A thousand points of darkness. 408 00:37:32,709 --> 00:37:37,476 People full of holes. LikeJames. 409 00:37:37,581 --> 00:37:42,211 Living off the fantasy that his mother will somehow make everything better. 410 00:37:45,589 --> 00:37:48,649 Frank? 411 00:37:48,759 --> 00:37:51,990 It doesn't make any sense. James never gave up. 412 00:37:52,096 --> 00:37:54,826 He never stopped looking. 413 00:37:54,932 --> 00:37:57,423 It was fantasy. 414 00:38:01,772 --> 00:38:05,435 Stop looking is a message toJames. A warning. 415 00:38:05,542 --> 00:38:08,909 Stop looking... for family? 416 00:38:10,547 --> 00:38:12,606 The trustee at the group home. 417 00:38:12,716 --> 00:38:14,650 - Who? - eonnor. 418 00:38:14,751 --> 00:38:16,844 He wanted James for himself. 419 00:39:21,285 --> 00:39:23,253 Fred? 420 00:39:33,597 --> 00:39:36,293 Fred? 421 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,892 Is that you? Honey, are you home? 422 00:39:40,003 --> 00:39:42,563 Fred- Ow! 423 00:39:42,673 --> 00:39:44,903 Ow! 424 00:39:45,008 --> 00:39:47,943 Ouch! 425 00:41:34,284 --> 00:41:36,184 Wait for the ambulance. 426 00:41:36,286 --> 00:41:39,312 We are on the scene. Suspect has been apprehended. Do you copy? 427 00:41:39,423 --> 00:41:42,221 - Area is cordoned off,sir. - Get in here. 428 00:41:42,326 --> 00:41:45,762 - Hey, easy! - Get in! 429 00:41:45,862 --> 00:41:50,094 It's that two-week window. Feral or tame. 430 00:41:52,836 --> 00:41:55,031 Take him! 431 00:41:55,138 --> 00:41:58,232 - You should have waited for us, damn it. - She'd be dead now. 432 00:42:09,252 --> 00:42:12,153 He should have waited. You tell him. 433 00:42:22,366 --> 00:42:24,391 I know. 434 00:42:24,501 --> 00:42:29,063 I know you had to go in there. Because of who you are. 435 00:42:29,172 --> 00:42:32,164 Because you had no choice. 436 00:42:32,275 --> 00:42:36,678 Frank, I can't lose you. 437 00:42:36,780 --> 00:42:38,941 I'm not goin' anywhere. 438 00:42:39,049 --> 00:42:41,711 Promise me? 439 00:42:43,186 --> 00:42:46,713 I don't want to ask myself-- am I strong enough to be alone. 440 00:42:46,823 --> 00:42:50,384 It's okay. Nobody is. 441 00:42:54,731 --> 00:42:56,699 It's okay. 442 00:42:59,202 --> 00:43:01,830 It's okay. 443 00:43:01,938 --> 00:43:05,897 It's okay. It's okay. 444 00:44:29,993 --> 00:44:32,791 I made this.