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After George was convicted,
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I would go visit him in prison
at least once a year,
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sometimes more.
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Which was good because you drive
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on that beautiful Highway 1
and it clears your mind.
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And he said to me,
"Don't come out of pity."
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"Don't come and see
me out of pity."
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At the end of the trial,
when they read the verdict,
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I took it hard because
I believed in his innocence
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and I believe in the system
and something very wrong
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had happened. I thought
justice was not done,
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and I thought he had been
screwed by the trial court.
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And so it left a very bad
taste in my mouth.
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We told the court
we'd be filing motions
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- before sentencing.
- We will do that.
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And beyond that, we have
a gag order
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and so we can't comment.
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You can't comment
when the gag order is in effect?
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- Correct.
- I will never forget this.
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I remember like it was
yesterday. That jury convicted.
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And within 15 minutes of
hearing that verdict,
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I called Dennis Riordan,
and said, "Dennis,
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for God sakes, you have
to take this case.
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Something very bad happened
here, please."
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He might have hesitated on
the phone for 15 seconds,
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but he was on board.
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Judge Smith, at the sentencing,
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said something to the effect of,
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"You are a wicked
and depraved person
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and nominally prevents me from
giving you a just sentence."
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And what he was saying is,
"I want you to be executed.
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I want you to die in the gas
chamber at San Quentin."
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But when I reviewed
the entire record,
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I was firmly convinced that
there was not a single piece,
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not an iota of credible
evidence that he had murdered
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Susan Nason in 1969.
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- Now was there other evidence?
- Absolutely.
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There was plenty of evidence
that he was not a good guy.
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There was plenty of evidence
that he had been
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- a violent person.
- So if 12 jurors really,
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really believe that somebody
was a violent parent
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and sexually abused his
children, frankly,
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they are not going to
acquit that person.
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State your name
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and spell your first
and last names.
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- Eileen Franklin-Lipsker.
- E-I-L-E-E-N L-I-P-S-K-E-R.
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Do you swear to tell the
whole truth and nothing
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but the truth? So help you, God?
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- Yes.
- - Thank you.
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- Good morning, Eileen
- Good morning.
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Can you identify the defendant?
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He's sitting over there in a
dark suit. He's my father.
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- Shelley Long.
- Good morning.
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- Good morning.
- Very heavy subject.
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And it must have been an
emotionally draining role,
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- was it?
- Yes, very much so.
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I told Eileen, who was around
for part of the filming.
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I didn't know how
she lived through it.
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Not the filming,
but the experience.
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How do you
think she did or do you think
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she has recovered
from this incredible ordeal?
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Well, I think
she lived through it
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by repressing the memories.
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The Eileen Franklin case
was a huge story at the time.
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It was really the way America
learned to think
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- about recovered memory.
- And it was for many people
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the first introduction
to the idea.
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The storytelling industry,
you know,
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movies and so forth,
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love this idea
of recovered memory.
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It was so dramatic, this notion
that like you could be
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walking around and suddenly
you could remember
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an entirely different childhood.
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And Eileen's story was seemingly
a real life example of that.
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The first time I met her was
on the set in Vancouver,
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and my first impression
of Eileen
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was a very serious young woman.
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I didn't feel any lightness
from her at all.
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She was on a mission and she
had a job to complete
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in the sense of showing her
memory as she experienced it,
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showing her suffering
as she experienced.
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She was doing her very best
to control the narrative.
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It's understandable.
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I never experienced
Eileen as a victim
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because by the time I met her,
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she was reinventing herself
as a crusader,
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going for justice. So women
were listening to her.
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Back to your calls for
Eileen Franklin-Lipsker
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and we go to Delmar,
New York. Hello?
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- Hi, Larry.
- Thank you, Eileen,
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for having the courage
to break the silence.
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Good evening, Eileen.
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I just want to applaud you
on what you've done.
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I think you're a very
brave woman.
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Hi, Eileen, I wanted to say
that I think you're handling
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the denial
with tremendous grace.
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Eileen was trying
to be a champion
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for victims with repressed
memory that just felt like
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no one's going to believe me
and take me seriously
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if I say this happened to me
15 or 20 years ago.
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I know that repressed memory
cases did increase
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after this incident
went national
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because victims had seen
firsthand that this could
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and would and should
be taken seriously.
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There are thousands of people
out there that deal
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- with repressed memory.
- And if I had known
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when my memories returned
that this is something
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that actually
does happen to people,
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it probably would have
made my time easier.
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I think this case started
the discussion.
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We heard of many, many
cases across the country
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where people
were coming forward.
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They were talking about
their repressed memory.
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What had happened.
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"I had memories of"
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"my father doing other things."
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"Of him...I have one of him
raping me."
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It's too life-threatening,
and so I had to bury that.
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All of a sudden it came back
to me.
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I started having
very bad nightmares.
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I was able to come to terms with
the fact that this, indeed, hap.
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There wasn't only
just physical abuse,
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but there was mental abuse
and sexual abuse.
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It was all kinds of abuse
in our family.
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I have my first memory of being
molested by my mother
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at six months old. I got all my
memories about two years ago.
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And now Eileen's story of being
a witness to a murder.
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Also, a victim of incest
is revealed in her book.
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It's called Sins of the Father.
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Welcome Eileen Franklin
to the show.
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Oprah wanted to have
Eileen on the show,
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so Eileen had asked her if
I could be there too,
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as moral support.
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She knew that she could
completely trust
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that I was 100% behind her.
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I thought that it was a chance
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for Eileen to speak freely
without having to be guided
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by what attorneys are saying
what the law is saying,
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what the court is saying.
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So, I supported
her in that that.
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That was a very difficult memory
to retrieve because the memory
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of the physical pain
was so overwhelming.
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And yet the only way to
remember the whole thing
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and get it over with and make it
go away, basically,
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and livable was to remember
all this excruciating pain
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and that my father had allowed
this to happen to me.
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I was always struck
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by what it took for Eileen
to come forward.
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There was nothing in it for
her other than to do
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the thing that she set out
from the very beginning.
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He needed to pay the price
for what he had done.
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I always felt that she
rose to the challenge.
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So now you've seen
him through your own testimony,
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- be punished.
- No.
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- I haven't seen him punished.
- He's in jail.
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Not for anything he did to me.
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There's no punishment
for him raping me.
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There's no punishment for him
sodomizing me.
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There's no punishment
from years of abuse.
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There's no punishment
for him for what
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I go through now with
memories returning
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and knowing that I'm not
like other people.
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There's no punishment.
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One of the difficult
aspects of the case
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for Eileen to understand was
that everything that
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her father had done to her,
he could not be punished for.
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Back in 1969, the statute
of limitations
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for sexual offenses
was three years.
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So the things that had
happened to her as a child
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were not going to be prosecuted,
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and he was never going to be
held responsible for those.
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Our hope is that the outcome
of this case
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will serve to encourage
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children who are now adults
who witnessed crimes
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or were victims of crimes many
years ago to come forward
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and at least give the system
a chance to work for them,
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as it did in this case.
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If you want to charge somebody
with a crime,
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it has to be done within
a certain period of years.
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From the time the crime
was committed.
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For the crime of child molest,
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the statute of limitations then
was three years.
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A six year old girl,
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eight year old girl or ten year
old boy gets molested.
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And when they finally come
forward with it,
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when they're 19, 21, sorry out
the door, I can't do it.
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The Franklin case
is what started the discussion
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that ultimately our
Legislature changed the laws.
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It opened the door.
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On January 1st, a new law
in California will allow
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incest victims to sue
for civil damages
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years after the incest occurred,
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basically wiping out the
statute of limitations.
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Some states have begun
permitting adults to file suit
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long after the alleged abuse.
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New York state is holding
hearings on it now.
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I didn't know what he was doing,
but I knew it was wrong
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and I begged him to stop,
but he wouldn't.
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I want other
survivors of child sexual abuse
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and incest to know that
they are not alone
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and that the perpetrators can be
brought to justice.
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Right before the Franklin case,
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if somebody wanted to
sue their parents
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for abuse that happened
20 years earlier,
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they wouldn't be allowed to.
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The statute of limitations
would prevent the lawsuit.
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Then, in 1989, the first state,
which was Washington state,
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enacted legislation that told
the statute of limitations
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so that people could sue if
they claim they repressed
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their memory,
and now the memory is back.
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Two years later, California
followed Washington,
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that would be 1991,
and shortly thereafter,
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state after state
did the same thing.
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And that's why you began to see
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so many of these lawsuits
starting in the early 1990s.
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Eileen Franklin
is a courageous woman
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who overcame phenomenal
self-doubts,
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overcame phenomenal
psychological harm throughout
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her life. Any one of those
times when she was feeling
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the doubts and thinking,
"I don't want to participate,"
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and the case ended,
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heavens knows what it
would have taken
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for us to get where we are today
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with the good laws we have
today.
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Have the demons
gone away for you?
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They haven't. The memories
haven't stopped coming.
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I hope that I reach a point in
my life when memories stop
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and when they do,
the demons will be exercised.
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In fact, you believe
that other murders
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might have been committed.
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I know that my father
did a lot of things
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to a lot of people, and I've
given statements
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to the
district attorney's office
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where crimes were involved,
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and I've been asked not to
discuss them in any detail.
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Miss Franklin told the
detectives that there was
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a memory coming back to her of
another murder that had occurred
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that she had seen
her father commit.
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After the trial was done,
our detectives on the case,
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Morse and Cassandro,
decided, "You know what?
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Let's look into this."
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Could this be another murder
committed by Franklin?
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It says here that
Eileen told you about
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a possible other murder of a
young girl aged 16 to 20.
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Dark hair, pretty.
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- Yes. Okay. She did.
- - She did?
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And have you looked into
that case?
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Yes we have, we are still
looking into that case.
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Are you dealing with
a serial murderer here?
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We're investigating
that possibility.
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Do you think
your father
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might have killed other people?
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- Yes, I do.
- Was this in the same county?
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- Oh, I think so.
- Yeah.
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You might have a memory of
another crime.
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Well, I have memories that
I've given statements
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on that have been investigated,
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and if charges are ever pressed
against him, then... then...
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you know, it will become public.
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When detectives go out,
they interview Eileen,
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and she's giving more
specific details.
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And that was what Morse
and Cassandro
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were working with as they're
trying
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to find out who
this victim might be.
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Bob told me that he believed
it had happened
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in Pacifica
and it happened in an open area.
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Well, I had previously
investigated the murder
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of a young girl that happened
in Pacifica.
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It happened on a golf course,
it happened in a ravine.
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And I said, "Wow, that sounds
like the Cascio murder."
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Veronica Cascio
was an 18-year-old
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living in Pacifica at the time.
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She, on January 7th, 1976,
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was going to a friend's
to have an overnight.
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She left her house and walked
to the bus stop.
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And that's sort of the last
place that we know
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that she was until
she was found the next morning
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still in the Sharp Park
golf course,
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having been sexually assaulted
and stabbed to death.
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My detectives said, let's bring
to Eileen
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photographs to see if Eileen
can pick out
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who this victim might be
to see where it is
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and that included
Veronica Cascio
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and also included some other
unsolved murder victims.
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And the one that she selected
was the Veronica Cascio.
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She said this is the one that
she believed to be the case.
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Veronica Cascio
was one of five murders
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of young women here
in San Mateo County
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that were collectively known
as the Gypsy Hill Killings
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from January
until April 1st of 1976.
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They were all young women,
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fairly similar in appearance.
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They were all geographically
related in terms of
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where the bodies were found.
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Sexual assault was a common idea
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of why the murders had happened.
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They were all killed
in a similar manner
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in that they were all
stabbed to death.
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And there had been a claim that
Franklin may have been
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responsible for all five
of these killings.
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Bob and Brian were convinced
that it was Franklin,
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and I knew that there was DNA
evidence on that Cascio case.
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So I told Bob, "Hey, we've got
DNA on that case
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and we can compare
it to Franklin's
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and hopefully we can
make a case out of it."
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What's your
feeling,
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on whether your father
did it or not?
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Oh, I know he did it.
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I always knew that my dad
killed other people.
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I mean, I don't know if serial
killer is the right term to us,
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but for lack of a better word,
I think that's what he is.
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I think that he is
a bigger monster
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than anybody will ever know.
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Only he will ever know the truh
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about everything he's done.
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But it has torn your family
apart, hasn't it?
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- Your siblings?
- This has destroyed my family.
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And the fact that my father
won't tell the truth about it
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continues his destruction
of the family.
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Whatever consistency of a family
that existed for the Franklins,
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00:19:11,441 --> 00:19:14,862
this case severed it completely,
it blew it up.
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Every slight that occurred
in their lives
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was being brought out,
the hatred,
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the constant well now
so-and-so family member
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is screaming about such
and such family member.
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00:19:24,788 --> 00:19:26,540
So-and-so is angry at so-and-so.
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- They've chosen sides.
- They've switched sides.
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00:19:28,959 --> 00:19:31,587
Eileen saying she won't talk
to George Jr.
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because George Jr., you know,
talked to the defense
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and she won't talk to Diana,
her sister,
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because Diana
talked to George Jr.
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There is one thing for sure.
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This was a very,
very screwed up family.
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00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,188
I think Eileen is one of
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the most special people
I've ever known.
336
00:19:52,399 --> 00:19:55,194
Eileen and I
had such a strong bond.
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If it wasn't for Eileen,
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I wouldn't have had
any mothering at all.
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She really did
kind of mother me.
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- But, we don't talk anymore.
- She gets pissed off.
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00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:13,879
You know, she finds out
that I've been collaborating
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with the enemies and Eileen
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has just become
a very angry person.
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If someone didn't praise
her in the family,
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then she wouldn't speak to them.
346
00:20:25,098 --> 00:20:29,269
If they didn't view her
in this heroic world
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00:20:29,311 --> 00:20:31,730
that she wanted from the public
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00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:34,358
and wanted from her family
as well.
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00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:38,570
Eileen,
has never felt
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that we cared about her,
loved her, etc.
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So, I call Eileen up and say,
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"Hey, why don't you guys come p
for, you know, Thanksgiving?"
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00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:50,165
She goes,
"No, Barry and I have decided
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00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:52,626
that my family has never given
a damn about me,
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00:20:52,668 --> 00:20:54,836
and there's no reason
to start now."
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00:20:55,212 --> 00:20:59,258
- I felt, "Okay, I love you too.
- Good bye."
357
00:20:59,299 --> 00:21:02,552
So, right there,
I knew what the score was.
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I knew that anybody
that had contact with her
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would just be yelled at,
screamed at, and that was it.
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Last conversation
I had with her.
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This whole episode basically
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00:21:16,984 --> 00:21:19,069
did tear
the Franklin family apart,
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00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:22,030
and it made it so that Eileen
was an outcast from her family,
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00:21:22,072 --> 00:21:24,157
and she knew that going in,
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00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:27,119
she knew that this would
break things in half
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and that some people
would support her
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00:21:29,204 --> 00:21:31,748
and other family members
wouldn't support her.
368
00:21:31,790 --> 00:21:36,420
And that it might mean that she
would lose whatever family
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00:21:36,461 --> 00:21:39,256
she had left that she was close
to. She did it anyway.
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00:21:39,298 --> 00:21:41,508
- She felt she had to.
- She had to do the right thing.
371
00:21:42,884 --> 00:21:44,428
Where's your mother
in all of this?
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00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:47,347
Where's mom?
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00:21:50,392 --> 00:21:54,813
My mother was, I think,
supportive of you,
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00:21:54,855 --> 00:21:56,648
but very ambiguous about it.
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00:21:56,690 --> 00:21:58,817
And she didn't want Eileen
to go forward.
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00:21:58,859 --> 00:22:00,819
In a lot of ways
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00:22:00,861 --> 00:22:02,821
she basically didn't want Eileen
to go forward at all.
378
00:22:02,863 --> 00:22:04,990
Did your mother know the abuse
was going on in the house?
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00:22:05,032 --> 00:22:06,825
- She says no.
- She says no.
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00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:09,328
She says no, but she also
makes statements such as,
381
00:22:09,369 --> 00:22:11,788
- you know, her life was hell.
- It was a living nightmare.
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00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:13,498
She was afraid for her life,
383
00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:15,292
but Eileen had a happy
childhood.
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00:22:15,334 --> 00:22:18,170
So it's a little hard to
say which she believes
385
00:22:20,505 --> 00:22:22,341
Leah,
although she talks to us,
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00:22:22,382 --> 00:22:25,177
she doesn't know who I am.
387
00:22:25,218 --> 00:22:28,013
She doesn't know who any
of her children are.
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00:22:28,055 --> 00:22:31,183
She has this nice little
8 1/2 x 11"
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00:22:31,224 --> 00:22:34,394
glossy magazine page
picture of each of us.
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00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:37,856
It's one dimensional. You know,
the setting is perfect,
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00:22:37,898 --> 00:22:40,859
the lighting is perfect,
everything is perfect.
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00:22:40,901 --> 00:22:44,363
And that's it, doesn't know
anything else beyond that.
393
00:22:45,781 --> 00:22:52,204
Sometimes you feel that
the girls are angrier
394
00:22:52,245 --> 00:22:55,540
at the mother
than they are at George
395
00:22:55,582 --> 00:22:59,669
because they felt she did
not protect them.
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00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:03,256
She was, by their account,
very passive.
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00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,638
I think for
a lot of years, a lot of us
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00:23:09,679 --> 00:23:12,724
really did think that
just my dad was the monster,
399
00:23:12,766 --> 00:23:16,311
and it just took a while
to realize that she too
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00:23:16,353 --> 00:23:19,648
- was just as abusive as him.
- I mean,
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00:23:19,689 --> 00:23:23,235
she has called us terrible
things, you know, name calling.
402
00:23:23,276 --> 00:23:26,905
And that she hates us,
that we ruined her life.
403
00:23:26,947 --> 00:23:29,074
You know.
404
00:23:29,116 --> 00:23:32,035
I'll tell you, it's one thing
to be beaten yourself,
405
00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:33,912
but to watch children,
406
00:23:33,954 --> 00:23:36,915
I don't know how she ever
could have lived a day
407
00:23:36,957 --> 00:23:40,585
with herself, watching innocent
children being beaten up.
408
00:23:43,672 --> 00:23:46,258
Knowing the abuse
that was in the household,
409
00:23:47,175 --> 00:23:49,636
why did you allow it to go on?
410
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:51,263
- Well, it's an easy one.
- It's such--
411
00:23:51,304 --> 00:23:53,265
I mean, it's so simple
to answer.
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00:23:53,306 --> 00:23:56,768
Again, we're talking 1969, oka?
413
00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:59,855
At that point, they do not have
shelters for battered women.
414
00:23:59,896 --> 00:24:03,108
You could not do anything
about it in those days.
415
00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:06,778
I was being terrorized,
thoroughly terrorized. Okay?
416
00:24:07,028 --> 00:24:09,698
I had no feelings that
I could survive
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00:24:09,739 --> 00:24:13,285
in the real world since
I was having
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00:24:13,326 --> 00:24:15,120
an almost impossible
time surviving
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00:24:15,162 --> 00:24:16,955
within my own four walls.
420
00:24:16,997 --> 00:24:21,626
Every bit of anger, guilt,
hurt was done on me.
421
00:24:21,668 --> 00:24:24,296
I can't believe that I survived
that, believe me.
422
00:24:26,423 --> 00:24:30,260
Leah, the mother, is pretty hard
to get a fix on.
423
00:24:30,302 --> 00:24:33,054
I mean, she, as the charges
were brought up,
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00:24:33,096 --> 00:24:35,140
believed them for a
lot of reasons.
425
00:24:35,182 --> 00:24:38,101
She had accused George
to his face earlier
426
00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:39,644
of having murdered Susan Nason.
427
00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:42,981
Except that after the trial,
428
00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:46,818
she read some books, and had
some thoughts and so forth
429
00:24:46,860 --> 00:24:51,281
and eventually decided that
George Franklin was not guilty.
430
00:24:51,323 --> 00:24:54,367
Which, of course,
then super fractured
431
00:24:54,409 --> 00:24:56,661
the relationship with Eileen.
432
00:24:56,703 --> 00:25:02,792
You no longer believe
what Eileen said? Correct?
433
00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:04,836
Correct. I no longer believe it.
434
00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:06,963
Astonishing wors
from the woman
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00:25:07,005 --> 00:25:10,675
who once testified under oath
that she believed her daughter.
436
00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,677
There is no more reason
for any of us
437
00:25:12,719 --> 00:25:15,013
to believe that
he committed that murder.
438
00:25:15,263 --> 00:25:19,851
During the trial,
Eileen testifies
439
00:25:19,893 --> 00:25:24,439
that one of the things
that happened to her
440
00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:28,276
as a child after she had
repressed the memory of this
441
00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:31,696
is that she would
pull out her hair
442
00:25:31,738 --> 00:25:36,368
in the exact spot where
Susan Nason suffered a wound
443
00:25:36,409 --> 00:25:38,203
and she would not know why,
444
00:25:38,245 --> 00:25:41,873
but she would bloody herself
by pulling out hair there.
445
00:25:41,915 --> 00:25:43,458
What I did as a child
446
00:25:43,500 --> 00:25:45,627
is I would start pulling
hairs back here,
447
00:25:45,669 --> 00:25:48,838
and I got to the point where
I was scratching it open
448
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,715
and I would make it bleed.
449
00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:54,928
The interesting thing
about it is that Leah Franklin
450
00:25:54,970 --> 00:25:59,224
turned on Eileen and her
credibility when she heard
451
00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:02,352
about this bloody hair episode
452
00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:04,729
because she said Eileen never
pulled out her hair
453
00:26:04,771 --> 00:26:05,855
in that bloody spot.
454
00:26:05,897 --> 00:26:07,607
Leah was stunned.
455
00:26:07,649 --> 00:26:09,943
She said she brushed
Eileen's hair every day
456
00:26:09,985 --> 00:26:13,154
- and never saw a bald spot.
- Look at her hair.
457
00:26:13,196 --> 00:26:15,323
She's got it brushed
up from the sides,
458
00:26:15,365 --> 00:26:17,242
and you would hardly be
brushing your hair up
459
00:26:17,284 --> 00:26:19,786
from the right side of your head
or having me do it for her
460
00:26:19,828 --> 00:26:23,081
if there was
a bleeding bald spot.
461
00:26:23,123 --> 00:26:25,083
Your mother has said that,
in fact,
462
00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:28,086
"No, my daughter never had
a big, bald, bloody spot."
463
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:33,425
The truth is that my mother
was not present in the home.
464
00:26:33,466 --> 00:26:36,386
It's just real clear
that she needs to maintain
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00:26:36,428 --> 00:26:37,929
her belief
that she was a good mother.
466
00:26:37,971 --> 00:26:40,223
This case was the greatest
smorgasbord
467
00:26:40,265 --> 00:26:43,518
of a family relationship that
I've seen in a case in itself.
468
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,562
There were no more
Christmas gatherings
469
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,606
- for the Franklin family.
- It was over.
470
00:26:49,649 --> 00:26:52,110
I think it's very difficult
for people to understand
471
00:26:52,152 --> 00:26:54,195
the family dynamics in a violent
472
00:26:54,237 --> 00:26:57,741
and incestuous family,
the love versus the torture,
473
00:26:57,782 --> 00:26:59,743
and then when you factor
in the repression,
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00:26:59,784 --> 00:27:02,203
I think it's very hard for
people to understand. And I--
475
00:27:02,245 --> 00:27:04,331
And as time went on,
you could see
476
00:27:04,372 --> 00:27:06,958
Eileen was reveling
in the publicity.
477
00:27:07,167 --> 00:27:09,294
Not much doubt about that.
478
00:27:09,628 --> 00:27:13,590
Eileen, wanted to play
the starring role
479
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:18,261
and was excoriated by the family
for doing so.
480
00:27:19,512 --> 00:27:22,098
Eileen is the one
who's responsible
481
00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:24,643
for how much publicity this go.
482
00:27:26,353 --> 00:27:28,730
The interviews, the book,
the movie.
483
00:27:28,772 --> 00:27:30,315
She didn't
have to do any of that.
484
00:27:30,357 --> 00:27:31,983
She wants the publicity.
485
00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:34,611
You don't think
the motive
486
00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:37,822
- was to see justice done?
- In coming forward?
487
00:27:37,864 --> 00:27:39,491
No, because
she could have avoided
488
00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:41,409
so much of the other stuff,
489
00:27:41,451 --> 00:27:43,328
and my dad would have
been convicted.
490
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,376
She wanted
the publicity, obviously.
491
00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:51,795
Classic middle child syndrome.
492
00:27:51,836 --> 00:27:53,755
You know, she wants
the attention.
493
00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:57,008
Negative or otherwise.
494
00:27:59,844 --> 00:28:02,764
She wound up being
a national figure.
495
00:28:02,806 --> 00:28:06,393
She wound up being on every
talk show in the country.
496
00:28:06,434 --> 00:28:09,229
She wound up having
been played by,
497
00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:11,856
wasn't it Shelley Long
from Cheers?
498
00:28:12,190 --> 00:28:14,734
I mean, this is someone
who was living
499
00:28:14,776 --> 00:28:17,570
an oppressed and cramped life,
500
00:28:17,612 --> 00:28:20,281
and all of a sudden
her life blossomed
501
00:28:20,323 --> 00:28:22,826
for a short period of time
502
00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:26,830
and after the 15 minutes
of fame came the fall.
503
00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:31,543
A federal judge in San
Francisco today overturned
504
00:28:31,584 --> 00:28:33,294
a murder conviction
in a landmark
505
00:28:33,336 --> 00:28:34,879
repressed memory case.
506
00:28:34,921 --> 00:28:38,133
Franklin was the first person
ever prosecuted for murder
507
00:28:38,174 --> 00:28:40,051
based on a repressed memory
of the crime.
508
00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:42,512
I was in New Delhi at the time.
509
00:28:42,554 --> 00:28:46,224
And they faxed me the decision,
that was before the internet.
510
00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:47,976
And, you know,
in New Delhi, you know,
511
00:28:48,017 --> 00:28:49,894
might have taken five minutes
of page to come in.
512
00:28:49,936 --> 00:28:51,646
But I remember reading
and thinking,
513
00:28:51,688 --> 00:28:53,565
"My God, we were right."
514
00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:58,361
This was a-- a kangaroo trial,
a kangaroo court.
515
00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:00,155
In his ruling,
U.S. District Court Judge
516
00:29:00,196 --> 00:29:03,158
D. Lowell Jensen said
prosecutors were unfair
517
00:29:03,199 --> 00:29:06,244
in their characterization
of a jailhouse interview
518
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:08,246
between Franklin
and his daughter.
519
00:29:08,288 --> 00:29:11,082
His daughter said to him,
"Did you commit this crime?
520
00:29:11,124 --> 00:29:14,586
Did you kill my girlfriend?"
And he stayed silent.
521
00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:17,130
Prosecutors were
allowed to tell the jury
522
00:29:17,172 --> 00:29:19,299
that the father's refusal
to answer the question
523
00:29:19,340 --> 00:29:21,468
was tantamount to a confession.
524
00:29:21,509 --> 00:29:23,261
But the federal court
said Franklin
525
00:29:23,303 --> 00:29:26,181
had a Fifth Amendment right
to remain silent.
526
00:29:26,222 --> 00:29:29,100
The judge also said Franklin's
lawyers should have been allowd
527
00:29:29,142 --> 00:29:31,686
to introduce evidence
of newspaper coverage
528
00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:33,772
of the murder
as a possible source
529
00:29:33,813 --> 00:29:36,149
of his daughter's knowledge
of the events.
530
00:29:36,191 --> 00:29:40,278
Everyone in the courtroom knew
that that was in the newspapers,
531
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,155
except the jurors.
532
00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:44,783
Jurors were kept in the dark.
533
00:30:01,341 --> 00:30:04,803
This was a scandalous conviction
534
00:30:04,844 --> 00:30:08,598
that the law had been broken
in very fundamental ways
535
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,767
and someone's reaction would be,
536
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:12,977
"Well, so what if it was,
he deserved it
537
00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:14,646
for the rest of the things
in his life."
538
00:30:14,687 --> 00:30:16,064
And you say to them,
539
00:30:16,105 --> 00:30:19,025
"Do you think if you allow
the law to be broken,
540
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:20,944
that it's only going
to be broken
541
00:30:20,985 --> 00:30:23,488
as to the George Franklins
of the world?"
542
00:30:25,198 --> 00:30:27,534
When that decision came down
and we were advised
543
00:30:27,575 --> 00:30:30,453
that the Franklin case
had been reversed,
544
00:30:30,495 --> 00:30:31,955
it was a devastating news.
545
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,373
It was something nobody
wants to hear.
546
00:30:33,414 --> 00:30:35,708
We then had a decision to make.
547
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:39,879
It was going to either have
to be retry or dismiss.
548
00:30:39,921 --> 00:30:41,840
Sometimes justice gets delayed,
549
00:30:41,881 --> 00:30:44,717
but we'll go after justice
if we can.
550
00:30:44,759 --> 00:30:48,221
In California, prosecutors said
today they will retry
551
00:30:48,263 --> 00:30:51,182
a man convicted of
a 20 year old murder.
552
00:30:51,224 --> 00:30:53,393
District Attorney
James Fox insists
553
00:30:53,434 --> 00:30:57,021
he can once again prove
George Franklin guilty.
554
00:30:57,063 --> 00:30:59,023
Are you as confident about
recovered memories
555
00:30:59,065 --> 00:31:01,860
- as you were five years ago?
- Yes.
556
00:31:01,901 --> 00:31:04,696
And we are as confident
about this case,
557
00:31:04,737 --> 00:31:06,531
or we would not be retrying it.
558
00:31:06,573 --> 00:31:09,534
When George Franklin
goes back on trial,
559
00:31:09,576 --> 00:31:12,203
so will the whole theory
of recovered memory.
560
00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:15,707
What has this
done to your life, Eileen?
561
00:31:15,748 --> 00:31:17,375
What has this done to me?
562
00:31:17,417 --> 00:31:19,836
I would say it's
completely destroyed my life.
563
00:31:19,878 --> 00:31:22,505
I've lost my family
through this.
564
00:31:22,547 --> 00:31:25,216
I have lost several
years of my life.
565
00:31:25,258 --> 00:31:26,926
I don't really know who I am
566
00:31:26,968 --> 00:31:28,928
when new memories
continue to emerge,
567
00:31:28,970 --> 00:31:31,222
especially memories of
murder and violence
568
00:31:31,264 --> 00:31:35,268
- and me being his accomplice.
- It's been devastating.
569
00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:39,606
During this time, we had
570
00:31:39,647 --> 00:31:42,734
a wide variety of feelings from
people during throughout this.
571
00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:44,110
One of them was Janice Franklin.
572
00:31:45,945 --> 00:31:49,866
That was somebody who was
completely upset
573
00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,534
that the case had been reversed
574
00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:53,244
and things might have
to be retried.
575
00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:56,873
She was ambivalent about any
cooperation whatsoever,
576
00:31:56,915 --> 00:32:00,752
and she was angry at her sister.
577
00:32:00,793 --> 00:32:02,587
The key witness in the case,
Eileen Franklin.
578
00:32:02,629 --> 00:32:05,006
We have almost no contact
amongst anyone in my family,
579
00:32:05,048 --> 00:32:06,925
and it's been that
way for years.
580
00:32:06,966 --> 00:32:08,760
Even with the sister who said
Dad abused her too?
581
00:32:08,801 --> 00:32:11,679
Yeah, I think we can have
a whole other show
582
00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:14,265
on the dynamics of families
where there's been sexual abuse.
583
00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:20,605
What had
happened with Janice?
584
00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:22,273
Well, what Eileen told me
585
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:24,275
was that, one,
Janice smoked cigarettes
586
00:32:24,317 --> 00:32:26,277
so could not be
around their children.
587
00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:28,446
And secondly,
Janice owed them money.
588
00:32:28,488 --> 00:32:33,117
- Janice owes me money too.
- Janice owes everybody money,
589
00:32:33,701 --> 00:32:38,122
So they weren't going to
let her in their home.
590
00:32:38,164 --> 00:32:39,707
Because of that.
591
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,795
The fractured relationship
between Eileen
592
00:32:43,836 --> 00:32:45,922
and Janice continues.
593
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:49,300
At one point,
Janice calls Eileen.
594
00:32:49,342 --> 00:32:51,803
Eileen does not return
the phone call.
595
00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:56,307
She calls again
and Eileen hangs up on her.
596
00:32:56,808 --> 00:33:02,397
So, Janice sends a box full of
Eileen's letters to Eileen,
597
00:33:02,438 --> 00:33:06,025
returning letters
that Eileen wrote to her.
598
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:11,072
Eileen writes on the box,
599
00:33:11,114 --> 00:33:14,492
"return to sender,"
and also writes on there,
600
00:33:14,534 --> 00:33:17,286
"Leave Me Alone."
601
00:33:17,328 --> 00:33:22,000
Which, she should have known
better than to do to Janice.
602
00:33:22,041 --> 00:33:23,835
That's going to set her off.
603
00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:26,838
The blow up between
the two Franklin sisters
604
00:33:26,879 --> 00:33:29,924
was extremely Franklin
in nature.
605
00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:33,886
It was extremely angry,
but it was extremely Janice.
606
00:33:34,804 --> 00:33:37,515
Janice calls the prosecutor,
607
00:33:37,557 --> 00:33:39,642
Marty Murray,
gets a tape recorder
608
00:33:39,684 --> 00:33:41,227
and says, "Guess what?
609
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:44,397
Eileen Lied."
610
00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:48,151
Message, one,
from an external number,
611
00:33:48,192 --> 00:33:52,238
received Wednesday at 6:26 PM.
612
00:34:11,549 --> 00:34:13,718
End of messag.
613
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,889
Janice Franklin on the phone
to Marty Murray,
614
00:34:18,139 --> 00:34:22,060
describing in
awfully vivid terms
615
00:34:22,101 --> 00:34:26,481
that her sister was a fucking
liar and et cetera, et cetera.
616
00:34:26,522 --> 00:34:29,817
And both of them had perjured
themselves at the trial
617
00:34:29,859 --> 00:34:33,821
because both of them had been
hypnotized and then come in
618
00:34:33,863 --> 00:34:36,699
and lied about it under
penalty of perjury.
619
00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:40,244
Boy, did that turn
the world upside down.
620
00:34:40,286 --> 00:34:42,163
Janice said that because
it was true,
621
00:34:42,205 --> 00:34:43,998
she perjured himself
at the first trial
622
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,792
and she wasn't going
to do it again.
623
00:34:45,833 --> 00:34:48,211
Perjury is not a nice thing.
624
00:34:48,252 --> 00:34:50,421
When that happened,
it blew the case wide open
625
00:34:50,463 --> 00:34:53,299
and the prosecutors knew
that their witnesses
626
00:34:53,341 --> 00:34:54,926
had perjured themselves.
627
00:34:54,967 --> 00:34:57,136
Janice made it real clear
to me and left
628
00:34:57,178 --> 00:35:00,348
a number of messages at my home
on my answering machine
629
00:35:00,389 --> 00:35:02,308
that she was going to
get revenge on me
630
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:03,768
and that she could get
631
00:35:03,810 --> 00:35:05,603
the whole thing reversed
if she wanted
632
00:35:05,645 --> 00:35:08,272
and that she was going to do it.
633
00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:19,617
Here we are with hypnosis again.
634
00:35:19,659 --> 00:35:21,744
So, I mean, it was inescapable.
635
00:35:21,786 --> 00:35:23,621
She was hypnotized.
636
00:35:23,663 --> 00:35:25,206
So again, we were back in court
637
00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:27,125
running a motion
to dismiss based on hypnosis.
638
00:35:29,836 --> 00:35:31,963
They subpoenaed Janice
to come in.
639
00:35:32,588 --> 00:35:34,298
It's a different judge.
640
00:35:35,925 --> 00:35:38,469
And she refuses to testify.
641
00:35:38,511 --> 00:35:40,721
She says, "I'm going to
incriminate myself."
642
00:36:05,288 --> 00:36:07,039
Janice came into court
with a lawyer
643
00:36:07,081 --> 00:36:08,916
and said she was not
going to testify
644
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:10,877
and assert her right
to remain silent.
645
00:36:11,961 --> 00:36:15,381
And Judge Schwartz said, "Oh no,
646
00:36:15,756 --> 00:36:18,634
you started this
and you're going to finish it.
647
00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:20,011
And here's how it's
going to work.
648
00:36:20,052 --> 00:36:21,554
We're going to take a break now.
649
00:36:21,596 --> 00:36:23,556
And the prosecution is
going to go upstairs
650
00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:26,017
and they're going to get you
immunity for perjury. Okay?
651
00:36:26,058 --> 00:36:27,852
And they're going to come down
and they're going
652
00:36:27,894 --> 00:36:29,770
- to immunize you.
- Isn't that right, Miss Tipton?
653
00:36:29,812 --> 00:36:31,647
And then you're going to have
lunch with your lawyer
654
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,649
and your lawyer is going
to explain to you how
655
00:36:33,691 --> 00:36:36,485
I can put you in jail for a
considerable period of time
656
00:36:36,527 --> 00:36:38,529
for not testifying once
you've been given immunity.
657
00:36:38,571 --> 00:36:40,948
So, I want you to think about
that over lunch and come back
658
00:36:40,990 --> 00:36:43,034
and testify. Okay?"
659
00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:46,370
And sure enough, at 1:30,
she came back and hit the stand.
660
00:37:36,796 --> 00:37:39,048
It really did not occur to us
661
00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:41,884
that Kirk Barrett
would lie about it.
662
00:37:41,926 --> 00:37:43,219
And that's apparently
what happened
663
00:37:43,261 --> 00:37:45,096
if you believe Janice's story,
664
00:37:45,137 --> 00:37:46,597
that they were both
hypnotized by Kirk Barrett.
665
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:50,768
Then it follows that
she was lying about it
666
00:37:50,810 --> 00:37:52,645
and she was in fact hypnotized.
667
00:37:53,145 --> 00:37:56,524
The issue of hypnotism had
been discussed earlier,
668
00:37:56,565 --> 00:37:59,193
And the conclusion was and what
Eileen had told us
669
00:37:59,235 --> 00:38:01,279
from the beginning that she had
not been hypnotized,
670
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:02,989
- that had not occurred.
- She had had counseling,
671
00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:04,824
but she hadn't been hypnotized.
672
00:38:04,865 --> 00:38:08,119
The hypnotist said there had
not been any hypnotism.
673
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,913
That to us was the truth,
674
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:12,081
and that's what really happened.
675
00:38:15,668 --> 00:38:19,630
Eileen, have you ever had perfod
on you or submitted to hypnosis?
676
00:38:19,672 --> 00:38:21,549
No.
677
00:38:21,590 --> 00:38:26,846
Has anyone ever engaged
in any technique with you
678
00:38:26,887 --> 00:38:29,056
that appeared to be hypnosis?
679
00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:30,308
No.
680
00:38:32,768 --> 00:38:37,023
Has any person involved
in the field of psychotherapy
681
00:38:37,064 --> 00:38:40,818
ever engaged in any hypnosis
with you?
682
00:38:40,860 --> 00:38:42,903
No.
683
00:38:46,532 --> 00:38:49,660
Hypnosis was a technique
that was used
684
00:38:49,702 --> 00:38:52,121
on a lot of recovered memory
patients during this time.
685
00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:54,248
It's not admissible
in California courts
686
00:38:54,290 --> 00:38:56,292
for a very good reason,
687
00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:59,086
which is that they've studied
this idea of hypnosis
688
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:00,921
being a way towards memory
689
00:39:00,963 --> 00:39:02,757
and determined that
it's simply not.
690
00:39:02,798 --> 00:39:04,008
You'll remember what
you remember,
691
00:39:04,050 --> 00:39:05,509
and if you go under hypnosis
692
00:39:05,551 --> 00:39:07,345
and then try to recall
something more,
693
00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:09,472
you'll simply add believable
detail to it.
694
00:39:09,513 --> 00:39:12,391
But there's nothing about
that believable detail
695
00:39:12,433 --> 00:39:14,643
that will necessarily be true.
696
00:39:16,687 --> 00:39:19,732
After Janice testified that
they perjured themselves,
697
00:39:19,774 --> 00:39:21,942
I called Elaine Tipton, I said,
698
00:39:21,984 --> 00:39:23,861
"Hey, you had
a really bad day here.
699
00:39:23,903 --> 00:39:25,654
And while we're on the subject,
700
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:29,450
I have a stone cold alibi
for the Cascio murder.
701
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,035
Stone cold alibi."
702
00:39:33,037 --> 00:39:35,664
In preparation for
the second trial,
703
00:39:35,706 --> 00:39:38,959
we had information
that Morse and Cassandro
704
00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:41,045
were working on their belief
705
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,381
that he had committed
other murders.
706
00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:46,675
And so he must
be a serial killer.
707
00:39:48,886 --> 00:39:52,807
Eileen described a murder very
generally that she again
708
00:39:52,848 --> 00:39:55,476
allegedly accompanied her
father on as if this was
709
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:57,395
a field trip that she'd been
taking with her father.
710
00:39:57,436 --> 00:39:59,480
He'd go out killing people and
then she'd come with him.
711
00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:02,024
And when they told us about it,
712
00:40:02,066 --> 00:40:04,193
they said, " Ha ha, we got you."
713
00:40:04,235 --> 00:40:07,154
Because Franklin took a couple
of hours off of work that day,
714
00:40:07,196 --> 00:40:09,240
he was a firefighter and that
gave him
715
00:40:09,281 --> 00:40:11,242
opportunity to do the killing.
716
00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:13,369
I remember going to George
and saying,
717
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:15,496
"George, for God sakes.
If you were gone for two hours,
718
00:40:15,538 --> 00:40:17,915
- where the hell would you have g?
- What would you have done?"
719
00:40:17,957 --> 00:40:20,251
And he said, "If I was anywhere
I was at a union meeting,
720
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:21,419
that's what I did."
721
00:40:23,003 --> 00:40:26,382
Horngrad finds that
on the date of Cascio's murder,
722
00:40:26,424 --> 00:40:29,760
George Franklin was
at a union meeting.
723
00:40:29,969 --> 00:40:33,055
He gets the minutes, and he
talked to the secretary
724
00:40:33,097 --> 00:40:34,890
who wrote the minutes and said,
725
00:40:34,932 --> 00:40:37,435
"Yeah, I remember George
Franklin being there that day."
726
00:40:37,476 --> 00:40:39,979
So, that's a pretty tight alibi.
727
00:40:40,020 --> 00:40:43,441
So, that case was to
say the least,
728
00:40:44,650 --> 00:40:49,780
trembling, about
to fall over when boom.
729
00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:52,116
Now comes the final blow.
730
00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:02,251
During early 1996,
when our office
731
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:05,796
was evaluating whether
to retry George Franklin,
732
00:41:06,422 --> 00:41:12,803
we had asked to examine his
DNA to then be compared
733
00:41:12,845 --> 00:41:17,141
to seminal fluid DNA
from Ronnie Cascio.
734
00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:22,646
The DNA was tested and it
turned out not to be Franklin.
735
00:41:28,819 --> 00:41:31,655
After George Franklin
was eliminated,
736
00:41:31,697 --> 00:41:34,992
Eileen said that perhaps
it was her godfather.
737
00:41:35,034 --> 00:41:36,535
He may have been there.
738
00:41:37,244 --> 00:41:41,123
Eileen's explanation was
it must have been Stan Smith,
739
00:41:42,875 --> 00:41:46,504
this man who
she alleged that raped her
740
00:41:46,545 --> 00:41:48,130
when she was eight years old
741
00:41:48,172 --> 00:41:50,674
in front of
a Jimi Hendrix poster.
742
00:41:50,716 --> 00:41:55,554
Her story had become that she
saw her father hold down
743
00:41:55,596 --> 00:42:00,267
Veronica Cascio while
Stan Smith raped her.
744
00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:03,020
We found him
at Napa State Hospital
745
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:06,273
for the mentally insane,
if you will,
746
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:10,653
and did a oral swab on him
to get DNA evidence.
747
00:42:10,694 --> 00:42:15,366
It, too, did not match the
DNA collected from Cascio.
748
00:42:18,410 --> 00:42:22,456
Neither George Franklin
nor Stan Smith
749
00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:25,876
was the person who had raped
Veronica Cascio.
750
00:42:27,211 --> 00:42:29,547
It was now conclusively
established
751
00:42:29,588 --> 00:42:33,759
that Eileen Franklin
had described in detail
752
00:42:33,801 --> 00:42:36,720
as she had with Susan Nason,
a murder
753
00:42:36,762 --> 00:42:40,683
and rape committed by her
father that never happened.
754
00:42:40,724 --> 00:42:44,395
So, there's no DNA tying
him to a rape.
755
00:42:44,436 --> 00:42:47,022
- That's fine. He has an alibi.
- That's fine.
756
00:42:47,064 --> 00:42:48,941
How do you explain what I knew?
757
00:42:49,441 --> 00:42:51,610
Did you see that murder?
758
00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:55,614
- Yes. How do you explain it?
- Did you--
759
00:42:55,656 --> 00:42:57,575
Give me an easy way
to explain it away
760
00:42:57,616 --> 00:42:59,535
and I'll tell you
I'm fantasizing it.
761
00:42:59,577 --> 00:43:01,912
My dad wants to make me
out to be a huge liar.
762
00:43:01,954 --> 00:43:03,664
How do I know these things?
763
00:43:03,706 --> 00:43:06,959
How does that get explained
unless I saw it?
764
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:10,296
- How does it get explained?
- I don't know.
765
00:43:14,049 --> 00:43:18,762
It started to call into
question how this could be,
766
00:43:18,804 --> 00:43:21,765
I really have no solution
for that.
767
00:43:21,807 --> 00:43:24,768
They obviously focused
on the wrong case.
768
00:43:24,810 --> 00:43:29,440
Cascio was obviously not
the case she witnessed.
769
00:43:29,481 --> 00:43:31,775
And that means there could be
770
00:43:31,817 --> 00:43:35,404
a crime out there that
was never associated
771
00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:37,448
with Eileen's statement.
772
00:43:38,782 --> 00:43:41,452
Have you ever since
the trial was over,
773
00:43:41,493 --> 00:43:43,120
since your dad went
off to prison,
774
00:43:43,162 --> 00:43:44,663
since your family fell apart,
775
00:43:44,705 --> 00:43:46,957
did you ever sit there and say,
776
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:49,460
"- Maybe these weren't true?
- Maybe I didn't have them?
777
00:43:49,501 --> 00:43:52,087
Maybe I said the wrong thing."
Doubt yourself?
778
00:43:52,129 --> 00:43:55,841
No, the memories stay and
they become more real
779
00:43:55,883 --> 00:43:57,760
and more pieces fill in.
780
00:43:57,801 --> 00:44:01,013
And I think I've learned
to not doubt them.
781
00:44:01,597 --> 00:44:05,351
It is interesting to wonder
whether during this process,
782
00:44:05,392 --> 00:44:08,771
Eileen ever had a moment of
doubt and thought to herself,
783
00:44:08,812 --> 00:44:11,982
"What am I doing?"
I think you have to understand
784
00:44:12,024 --> 00:44:13,776
at that point, once the media,
785
00:44:13,817 --> 00:44:16,320
the whole nation sort of
turns to this story.
786
00:44:16,362 --> 00:44:19,323
Once she has the book deal,
once she has the movie deal,
787
00:44:19,365 --> 00:44:21,492
the pressure on someone
at that point
788
00:44:21,533 --> 00:44:24,662
is so huge to stick
with the story.
789
00:44:24,703 --> 00:44:27,581
So, she just went full ahead
with her beliefs.
790
00:44:27,915 --> 00:44:29,708
Never had a doubt about them.
791
00:44:30,709 --> 00:44:32,169
But it's kind of understandable.
792
00:44:32,378 --> 00:44:34,171
Does it anger you
793
00:44:34,213 --> 00:44:35,923
that some people
don't believe you?
794
00:44:35,964 --> 00:44:37,508
Oh, but I believe me.
795
00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:39,510
The jury believed me.
796
00:44:39,551 --> 00:44:42,096
Thousands of people
I've met believe me.
797
00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:44,014
Since your father was convicted,
798
00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:46,350
you've had new memories
that have come up.
799
00:44:46,392 --> 00:44:49,561
I've had continual memories
of his sexual abuse, yes.
800
00:44:49,603 --> 00:44:51,855
Ones you weren't aware of
at the time of the trial.
801
00:44:51,897 --> 00:44:53,649
Maria, if I'd been aware
of them before,
802
00:44:53,691 --> 00:44:55,025
I probably would have killed him
803
00:44:55,067 --> 00:44:56,610
and he wouldn't have
made it to trial.
804
00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:02,700
A California man convicted
of murder
805
00:45:02,741 --> 00:45:05,536
and sentenced to life in prison
will be free today.
806
00:45:05,577 --> 00:45:08,497
His daughter had accused him
of murdering her friend,
807
00:45:08,539 --> 00:45:10,416
and his conviction was
the first ever based
808
00:45:10,457 --> 00:45:12,459
on repressed memory.
809
00:45:12,501 --> 00:45:14,378
But the conviction
was thrown out
810
00:45:14,420 --> 00:45:17,715
and now prosecutors want all
charges against him dropped.
811
00:45:20,259 --> 00:45:22,052
Ultimately, our decision
812
00:45:22,094 --> 00:45:25,472
was that the case today
813
00:45:25,514 --> 00:45:27,558
does not meet our standard
to take it,
814
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:29,977
and we cannot, we will
not convince a jury
815
00:45:30,018 --> 00:45:32,062
of the guilt of George Franklin
this time around
816
00:45:32,104 --> 00:45:34,064
because of all the additional
things that have occurred.
817
00:45:34,106 --> 00:45:36,233
All the additional evidence
that will come in.
818
00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:40,320
It did not change for
any one of us our core belief
819
00:45:40,821 --> 00:45:44,032
that Mr. Franklin
was responsible for this murder.
820
00:45:44,074 --> 00:45:46,076
But that is only
half of the equation.
821
00:45:46,118 --> 00:45:48,704
When we reach that point
that we don't think
822
00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:52,082
the evidence is sufficient,
we have only one choice.
823
00:45:56,420 --> 00:45:57,963
Mr. Franklin.
824
00:46:00,674 --> 00:46:02,968
When the case was dismissed,
825
00:46:03,010 --> 00:46:06,597
George was elated, beaming
from ear to ear and said...
826
00:46:06,638 --> 00:46:09,057
I owe it all to my lawyers.
827
00:46:09,099 --> 00:46:10,976
Of course, I agreed with him.
828
00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:12,311
Naturally.
829
00:46:14,521 --> 00:46:18,442
You don't lock somebody up based
just on a memory like that.
830
00:46:18,484 --> 00:46:20,486
That's what we've learned.
831
00:46:20,986 --> 00:46:23,947
But at least at the end of
the day, it was undone.
832
00:46:25,157 --> 00:46:26,617
And that meant a lot to me.
833
00:46:30,662 --> 00:46:32,623
When we dismiss the case,
834
00:46:34,416 --> 00:46:37,377
we know that the person we
believe to have committed
835
00:46:37,419 --> 00:46:40,464
the crime was having the
luckiest day of his life.
836
00:46:40,964 --> 00:46:44,384
But that's the system
and that's how it works.
837
00:46:44,426 --> 00:46:46,970
And so as he walked out that
jail building across the street,
838
00:46:47,012 --> 00:46:49,640
I thought, "I hope
I never hear him again.
839
00:46:49,681 --> 00:46:51,433
I hope he doesn't commit
a crime again.
840
00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:52,976
I hope he doesn't harm anybody.
841
00:46:53,018 --> 00:46:55,229
And we move on to the next case
where we're trying to get
842
00:46:55,270 --> 00:46:58,857
justice for somebody doing
harm to another person."
843
00:46:59,650 --> 00:47:01,652
You don't dwell on it.
844
00:47:04,988 --> 00:47:06,824
Did you kill
Susan Nason?
845
00:47:06,865 --> 00:47:08,492
Absolutely not.
846
00:47:08,534 --> 00:47:13,038
Did you ever
sexually molest Susan Nason?
847
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,541
Absolutely not.
848
00:47:15,582 --> 00:47:17,543
Did you ever
sexually molest Eileen?
849
00:47:17,584 --> 00:47:19,503
Absolutely not.
850
00:47:19,545 --> 00:47:21,004
She says you did.
851
00:47:22,297 --> 00:47:24,132
I didn't.
852
00:47:24,174 --> 00:47:25,884
The truth is, it makes me sick.
853
00:47:25,926 --> 00:47:28,846
He's lying. He's lying about
killing a little girl.
854
00:47:28,887 --> 00:47:31,557
He's lying about being
a child molester,
855
00:47:31,598 --> 00:47:34,768
and he's cozying up to
certain journalists
856
00:47:34,810 --> 00:47:36,645
so that he can get it out there.
857
00:47:36,687 --> 00:47:38,730
And if people knew who
he really was,
858
00:47:39,565 --> 00:47:41,567
they would be appalled by it.
859
00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:47,155
After he was released,
I talked to Eileen.
860
00:47:47,197 --> 00:47:49,658
It was very sad
and very hard for her
861
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,202
because reality hits, hits hard.
862
00:47:56,081 --> 00:47:58,333
She knew that people
might vilify her,
863
00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:00,168
people might not believe her,
864
00:48:00,210 --> 00:48:02,629
she knew all of that and that
might not ever change,
865
00:48:02,754 --> 00:48:05,215
and that this would alter
the course of her life.
866
00:48:05,841 --> 00:48:08,886
I have been really afraid
since he's gotten out,
867
00:48:08,927 --> 00:48:11,221
I have young children
that I'm raising,
868
00:48:11,263 --> 00:48:12,931
I know what he's capable of.
869
00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:16,727
And so I just think of my
safety first and my kids.
870
00:48:23,775 --> 00:48:25,694
I'll give you
the last 30 seconds, Eileen.
871
00:48:25,736 --> 00:48:27,613
What else would you like
to say to him?
872
00:48:27,654 --> 00:48:29,364
Well, Daddy,
please do the right thing.
873
00:48:29,406 --> 00:48:33,035
- Please tell the truth about thi.
- You know what you did.
874
00:48:33,076 --> 00:48:35,996
I don't care if you tell the trh
about the murder,
875
00:48:36,038 --> 00:48:37,831
because you can still
be prosecuted for that,
876
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:39,750
but tell the truth about
what you did to me,
877
00:48:39,791 --> 00:48:41,668
about what you did
to my sisters and my brother
878
00:48:41,710 --> 00:48:43,503
and to other children.
879
00:48:43,545 --> 00:48:45,839
Please tell the truth
and help heal these people.
880
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:48,383
I'll sit down with you anytime.
881
00:48:48,425 --> 00:48:51,720
Even if Eileen's
memory is false,
882
00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:55,098
that does not establish
in my mind
883
00:48:55,140 --> 00:48:57,768
that George Franklin
did not kill Susan Nason.
884
00:48:57,809 --> 00:49:00,854
There's a lot of facts
that point to him
885
00:49:00,896 --> 00:49:04,107
as the most likely culprit
that is...
886
00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:08,612
lived around the corner
from her. He knew her.
887
00:49:08,654 --> 00:49:10,280
She was Eileen's best friend.
888
00:49:10,530 --> 00:49:12,199
She had been over to the house
889
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:14,076
and had little tickling
matches with George.
890
00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:17,871
He was a pedophile, that's
established beyond any doubt.
891
00:49:17,913 --> 00:49:23,126
And the idea that he
would molest her
892
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,005
and then kill her to cover it
up isn't that far fetched,
893
00:49:27,047 --> 00:49:30,092
given his character
for violence.
894
00:49:30,133 --> 00:49:32,844
Now, I'd point out that
there was never
895
00:49:32,886 --> 00:49:35,222
a judgment of acquittal.
896
00:49:35,263 --> 00:49:38,517
There was never a jury that
found him not guilty.
897
00:49:38,558 --> 00:49:41,979
It was a judge that ruled that
he didn't get a fair trial.
898
00:49:42,020 --> 00:49:44,940
Sounds like it's splitting
hairs, but it is a difference.
899
00:49:44,982 --> 00:49:47,818
Do you think your father
should still be in prison?
900
00:49:47,859 --> 00:49:51,446
Oh, golly, I don't know
the answer to that.
901
00:49:51,488 --> 00:49:53,615
I know what my father did,
902
00:49:53,657 --> 00:49:56,618
and I have lost my faith in the
legal system to a large degree,
903
00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:58,495
so I don't have an answer.
904
00:49:58,537 --> 00:50:00,747
Well, your father served six
and a half years in prison
905
00:50:00,789 --> 00:50:02,749
before the overturning
of his conviction.
906
00:50:02,791 --> 00:50:05,335
Do you think he should still
serve more time?
907
00:50:07,379 --> 00:50:11,008
I don't know. I'm really sorry,
I don't know.
908
00:50:11,049 --> 00:50:13,468
I don't... He was there
for six and a half years,
909
00:50:13,510 --> 00:50:16,013
- but what good did it do?
- He's not come out and said,
910
00:50:16,054 --> 00:50:19,016
"- Let me make things right.
- Let me heal my family."
911
00:50:19,057 --> 00:50:21,309
He has five children that are
all walking wounded,
912
00:50:21,351 --> 00:50:24,521
that he hasn't offered to help,
so I don't see that there was
913
00:50:24,563 --> 00:50:28,734
any great reformation
from the six and a half years.
914
00:50:28,775 --> 00:50:34,531
I think it's amazing that
people would choose to believe
915
00:50:34,906 --> 00:50:39,036
a known pedophile,
child molester,
916
00:50:39,077 --> 00:50:43,498
sexual degenerate
over his daughter.
917
00:50:43,874 --> 00:50:48,295
To this day, that does not
make any sense to me.
918
00:50:48,545 --> 00:50:50,505
People doubted her,
919
00:50:50,881 --> 00:50:53,258
and people look for reasons
not to believe her
920
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:55,385
and look for things
wrong with her.
921
00:50:55,427 --> 00:50:58,472
She really didn't want
to see people
922
00:50:58,513 --> 00:51:01,558
or talk to people, even people
that were her friends.
923
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,977
She wanted to start over.
924
00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:11,068
Her main goal was to go
somewhere and be anonymous.
925
00:51:13,070 --> 00:51:14,905
And she's managed to do that.
926
00:51:17,574 --> 00:51:21,912
They did constantly accuse me
of having dreamt this,
927
00:51:21,953 --> 00:51:24,831
of wanting revenge,
of having a motive of revenge,
928
00:51:24,873 --> 00:51:27,501
of having nightmares,
of being delusional.
929
00:51:28,085 --> 00:51:32,964
I was accused of just every
emotional imbalance
930
00:51:33,006 --> 00:51:35,801
and of just being
a not stable person,
931
00:51:37,260 --> 00:51:40,931
but I just know
what a memory feels like.
932
00:51:40,972 --> 00:51:42,557
And these feel like memories.81017
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