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NARRATOR: Log in,

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hook up.

It's a familiar plan.

♪

It was John Ray's plan,

until May 16, 2004.

[siren wailing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

♪

DETECTIVE NICOLE ESQUILIN: it was a very gruesome,

bloody crime scene.

He still had a broken off knife in his body.

[camera shutter clicking]

NARRATOR: Who could have done this?

MARKEYSHI: Why take his life?

Why take his life?

NARRATOR: Seven years go by.

It becomes a cold case.

- We just felt like he was just another statistic.

NARRATOR: But little did his loved ones know

that hidden in the trunk of his own car

was a clue.

♪

A clue he left that changed everything.

- He was speaking to us from the grave.

♪

♪

♪ Theme music playing ♪

MAN 1: She solved her own murder

from beyond the grave.

MAN 2: The fitness app on the phone,

it was overwhelming evidence.

♪ I've been haunted by the visions ♪

♪ That I've seen with my own eyes ♪

♪ And the only way to find you ♪

♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪

♪

MAN: She did help catch this killer.

♪

♪ On a raft I'm sun-kissed crawled out ♪

♪ Not on my back ♪

NARRATOR: After serving in the Air Force,

29-year-old John Ray returns home

to small town South Carolina with a big dream,

to become a successful attorney.

♪ So put me up like the midday sun ♪

He moves to Atlanta

and spends three years thriving as a paralegal,

studying for law school, and laying down roots in the community.

♪

That's why on May 17, 2004,

when John makes plans to meet up with his best friend,

and he never shows,

everyone knows something is wrong.

♪

MAN: Markeyshi interview, take one.

MARKEYSHI: My name is Markeyshi

and John was my best friend.

♪

That day,

he said, "I'll be there no later than about ten o'clock."

♪

One o'clock, two o'clock, I'm calling him,

calling him... [line ringing]

and calling him...

[phone keypad beeping]

I don't hear from him.

[line ringing]

Nothing!

[car approaches]

♪

NARRATOR: His sister also gets concerned.

- I called John and he didn't answer.

[keypad beeping]

MARKEYSHI: By the time we got to Tuesday,

I'm calling his job.

WOMAN [over phone]: The last time I saw him was...

MARKEYSHI: They said, "We haven't seen John

since last Friday."

♪

- This is not like him not to come to work.

♪

MARKEYSHI: Wednesday comes, still nothing.

Now I'm like, "This is not him.

Something is wrong."

♪

NARRATOR: Markeyshi is heading over

to John's house...

[phone ringing]

when she gets a disturbing call from his office.

MARKEYSHI: She said, "I understand

that you have a key."

And I said, "Yeah, I'm on my way now."

"No, no, no, no, no. Don't go.

♪

"We believe something is wrong.

♪

We're gonna have a uniformed police officer meet you there."

And my stomach has that ball in it.

[indistinct radio chatter]

♪

NARRATOR: Markeyshi hands over the key.

A police officer and one of John's co-workers walk into his house.

MARKEYSHI And all of a sudden the co-worker

runs back out of the house, she's crying,

and I just dropped.

I just burst into tears.

NARRATOR: It's 5:00 p.m., Wednesday May 19th, 2004.

[sirens wailing]

The officer calls it in.

[sirens wailing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

MARKEYSHI: I just found out that he was dead in the house.

[inhales sharply]

It broke my heart.

That's a king in that house.

[siren wailing] [indistinct radio chatter]

NARRATOR: Homicide detectives arrive

and take over the investigation.

MAN: Detective Nicole. A, B common marker.

DETECTIVE NICOLE ESQUILIN: My name is Detective Nicole Esquilin.

In the year 2004

I was the homicide detective in the City of Atlanta.

It was a very gruesome, bloody crime scene.

It looked like there was a huge struggle.

[camera shutter clicks]

There was absolutely no doubt this was a homicide.

♪

It was obvious with the defensive wounds

and the way that the crime scene looked

that John Ray did not wanna die that day.

♪

While processing the scene,

we did observe that there were some electronics

missing in the residence

and his car was missing.

♪

But the odd part of the scene was

that there was no forced entry.

♪

So it looked like whatever had occurred,

occurred with a person that the victim had to have known.

♪

There were glasses as if he was having a cocktail with somebody else.

It appeared that the victim was very vulnerable

and his guard was actually down.

[laughter] [glasses clink]

♪

At some point whoever did this to the victim...

[glass shatters]

hit John Ray,

and the struggle that ensued was very vicious.

[glass shatters]

The suspect grabbed a knife...

[screams]

♪

[groans]

and stabbed John Ray numerous times

with force.

So much force that he broke the knife off in John Ray's body.

In order to stab and break a knife off in a person's body,

maybe it's a crime of passion,

there's a lot of anger behind those homicides.

♪

And then while processing the scene another thing did stand out.

♪

NARRATOR: The air is thick with the smell of bleach.

♪

- Whoever did this cleaned up the crime scene

and tied up John Ray with the phone cord.

And then spent some time at the crime scene.

♪

- It looked like possibly a shower had been taken recently.

♪

We found in the washing machine a wet jersey

that had been washed.

♪

And so it looked like some laundry was being done.

♪

NARRATOR: A small detail, but important.

John was an impeccable dresser.

♪

And he did it well, GQ Magazine.

Even when he was dressed down, he was dressed up.

♪

That could not be his shirt because that's not the way he dressed.

No, John would not wear that.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: We knew it had significance

but we just didn't know

how much significance it would have at the time.

NARRATOR: Detectives believe this jersey

must be the killer's,

but there's no DNA,

and no fingerprints to point to who did this.

♪

♪

Leaving his family back home in South Carolina yearning for answers.

♪

WILLIE EVERETT RAY: John was my oldest son.

♪

When we found out

we had to go up there...

♪ Break down the heavy borders ♪

and view his body,

I-I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.

♪

To be honest with you, he really kept our family together.

MARKEYSHI: Look at the hair!

- Yep. Look at this.

JONIQUE BROWN: Okay, yeah.

MARKEYSHI: That's a hi-top fade.

JONIQUE: Yeah.

MARKEYSHI: Oh, that is so 1990.

Like, "I'm a politician."

He looks like it. Doesn't he?

That was him.

JONIQUE: I am John Ray's younger sister.

John was like was like my role model.

♪

John was determined to leave Williston

because he wanted something other than

working in a factory all his life.

♪ Little drops of doubt ♪

♪ Drippin' down from my brain and my heart ♪

JOYCE RAY: My name is Joyce Ray.

I'm John Ray's mother.

He said, "Mom,

"I think I need to leave South Carolina.

I need to make a fresh start."

So, you know, you have to let 'em fly.

Can't hold 'em back.

And he went.

♪

It just didn't turn out good.

♪

NARRATOR: Even though John is

loved and admired by his family,

he still finds it difficult to share all the details of his life with them.

- John told me that he was homosexual

one weekend when he came to visit.

I didn't have a issue with his sexuality.

But my parents are much older and they were more conservative.

♪

I think John moved to Atlanta

with many different goals,

and I believe he felt like he could be hisself in Atlanta,

without being judged.

♪

NARRATOR: So John moves to Atlanta

and in addition to establishing

a beautiful career and life,

tries finding true love and companionship.

♪

But just when investigators thought that his search for the one

ultimately lead to his tragic murder,

they discover another chilling possibility.

♪

♪

♪

NARRATOR: The brutal murder of John Ray

shocks veteran detectives.

But the autopsy reveals the extent of the horror.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: We believe the victim

in this case was killed somewhere around 10.30 p.m. on the 16th.

Cause of death was the stab wounds.

♪

He was also beaten and strangled.

♪

When the autopsy was performed,

the medical examiner was able to tell us six inches of the knife

was still lodged in Mr. Ray's lung.

♪

[siren wails] [indistinct radio chatter]

♪

♪

NARRATOR: Investigators have to consider

every possibility while they search for suspects.

In the meantime,

they find something intriguing.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Through the investigation we learned

that John Ray had been burglarized and robbed

two times prior to this incident.

NARRATOR: The second break-in took place

just four days before John's murder.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: But the biggest difference is,

in those two incidents there was definite forced entry.

♪

NARRATOR: That's not the case

on the night John is killed.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: There was no forced entry,

there were no windows broken.

The alarm had never been set off.

The front door wasn't kicked in.

♪

The victim at whatever level had to have known this particular suspect.

[indistinct radio chatter]

♪

Processing the scene, there was no car at the scene.

Did the bad guy also take his car?

[camera shutter clicks]

NARRATOR: It seems unlikely this is simply

a robbery gone wrong.

[rings]

Detectives reach out to John's friends and family

to see if they have any ideas about who took his life.

♪

And police discover John had a serious run-in with his landlord.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Apparently this house

that he was living in, he was sort of renting to own.

And he kept paying the landlord the money

but then the house was still foreclosing.

[dial tone] [phone keypad beeping]

[line ringing]

[ringing]

MARKEYSHI: John calls out of the blue.

He's angry because of all this money he had put in.

He knows the landlord has not been telling him the truth.

So he confronts him.

"You owe me money."

♪

- When John found that information out...

♪

He became confrontational with the landlord

and that went very south.

♪

[phone ringing]

NARRATOR: Detectives believe

this could be a significant break.

♪

- The landlord, obviously at that point, became a suspect in the case

because that gave us some motive.

♪

Because John was killed in such a violent manner,

there had to have been some anger behind that.

We were wondering if possibly

the landlord was angry about the argument.

♪

NARRATOR: The landlord is a solid lead,

but investigators wanna know if John had trouble with anyone else.

- We got a search warrant for John Ray's work computer,

and they were able to determine things that John Ray was searching.

♪

♪

NARRATOR: Detectives find that John was active

on several dating sites.

Could he have met his killer online?

[phone rings]

While forensics examine John's computer,

Investigators ask John's family about his love life.

- I was the only one that was able to give 'em some answers.

I know John figured out one of his romantic partners

wanted to use him for money.

NARRATOR: John's friend Markeyshi

didn't know he was gay.

But she does remember John talking about his friend.

MARKEYSHI: The guy asked him for... $300.

♪

And when John tried to explain to him, "I'm on a budget,"

and the guy says something to the effect that,

"Hey, I know you have it, why don't you just give it to me?

I know you have it."

And John lit into him.

♪

It could have been anybody.

But we just knew it was that gentleman who had asked for money,

and was angry that he wouldn't give it, we just knew.

♪

- We thought that you have a person that John had a relationship with,

so you know there's probably gonna be some sort of animosity

or bad blood between 'em because they're not together anymore.

So you had greed and money, you had passion and relationship.

You sort of had a perfect suspect.

♪

NARRATOR: Two viable suspects.

Two suspects who have major issues with John.

Before long, though, police are able to eliminate

one of the options,

the landlord.

- He provided a clear-cut alibi,

so we had to rule out the landlord as being a suspect.

NARRATOR: But what about John's ex-boyfriend?

Detectives can't seem to locate him,

and Forensics can find no indication that he met John online.

In fact the dating sites are a bust in terms of additional suspects.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: It was very frustrating...

♪

Because we worked all the angles, all the leads.

♪

We checked absolutely everything we could.

♪

NARRATOR: Then investigators realize

they're missing some information that may turn out to be critical.

♪

♪

♪

♪

On the night John Ray is brutally murdered,

investigators notice his car is missing.

[camera shutter clicks]

what they don't realize is that John's white Pontiac Grand Am

ended up in a crash three miles from his house.

♪

[siren wailing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

♪

♪ My eyes closed ♪

♪

♪ And I go back to the night ♪

- We discovered that the victim's vehicle

that had been taken the night of the murder,

actually was involved in a high-speed chase

with the City of Atlanta officers.

[siren wailing]

♪

NARRATOR: At 3:30 a.m.,

the car plows into a telephone pole...

[tires screech] [thuds]

causing a small explosion and power outage.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: When the officer approached the vehicle,

he was able to observe that there was blood all over the airbag.

So the person involved in the crash obviously

was injured in the crash.

♪

NARRATOR: Still, the driver manages to get away

before officers arrive.

[indistinct chatter]

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Everything was collected inside the car

and there were stereos and electronics and things like that

but at the time on the scene the officer didn't know

that this car was connected to the murder.

So he still did a good job on preserving the evidence,

but he just didn't link the two together at that particular time.

[camera shutter clicks]

NARRATOR: Eventually, police are able

to link the stolen car to John Ray.

But since the driver escaped, they don't have an ID.

No ID, no suspect.

♪

- That's when the stress really starts mounting

because you feel like you've hit every lead

and you just hit another brick wall.

[siren wailing]

NARRATOR: In 2004, Atlanta detectives

are overwhelmed with homicides.

So after investigating for eight months they're forced to move on.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: When a case starts going cold

it's hard not to take that personal

because you know you're not doing the family justice.

There's just no excuse you could ever give a family

for not bringing them the justice,

so it's very frustrating.

NARRATOR: John's family members mourn

with no closure,

- They never said anything to us,

that it was being put on ice.

We just felt like he was just

another statistic.

♪

♪

NARRATOR: Time passes,

nothing happens.

♪

- I prayed that the rage would go away.

I didn't know I was walking around like a ticking time bomb.

♪

Every single person in my mind I would analyze, "Could it be him?

"Nah, why would he?

Could it... Nah, wouldn't."

Just could not figure it out.

♪

NARRATOR: John Ray's case goes cold for seven years.

♪

Then in 2011,

Atlanta PD establishes a homicide cold case unit.

♪

And the investigation of John Ray's murder reopens.

♪

MARSHALL ENGLISH: My name is Marshall English.

♪

I'm a retired police criminal investigator.

I have over 28 years' experience in cold case investigations.

♪

John Ray was an employee

with the Fulton County Public Defender's Office.

And he was also an Air Force veteran.

An Army veteran.

So I kinda took it more personal,

and I just wanted to try to bring justice,

you know, to the family.

♪

JONIQUE: At first I was like,

"Lord, is this a test?

This can't be real."

♪

Detective English was like,

"You're gonna be getting many calls from me.

We are about to break this case."

♪

- I thought that I would just pass out. I was so happy.

Because leading up to that I had been praying,

"God, please don't let me leave this Earth

not knowing who did this to my best friend."

♪

NARRATOR: The investigator starts from scratch.

♪

ENGLISH: First thing I do is review

everything in the case file.

Our goal was to determine if there was any suspects first to interview.

♪

NARRATOR: English comes across the reference

to John's ex-boyfriend.

- John Ray had mentioned to his friend Markeesha that

there was some kinda argument over money.

The lead detective was unable to locate the individual during that time in 2004.

NARRATOR: But this time

the investigator has better luck.

ENGLISH: I was able to locate the subject

and spoke with him.

NARRATOR: Unfortunately, it's another dead end.

♪

ENGLISH: I determined that the individual

was not in the state of Georgia when this incident occurred

so I was able to rule him out as a suspect.

NARRATOR: Next, the cold case team decides

to go through all the evidence that's been sitting in storage for seven years.

♪

They find John Ray's work computer and boot it up.

ENGLISH: So when we opened up John Ray's computer,

we noticed he was on several dating sites.

We were able to rule out the individuals that he had contact with.

♪

NARRATOR: But there's something else

on John's computer,

criminal background checks.

- We wanted to determine whether this was work-related

or whether this was personal.

NARRATOR: While the team looks into the three men,

they also focus on a second crate of evidence,

this one is sealed.

♪

It's the contents from John's car that crashed hours after his death.

♪

Evidence that's never been examined...

♪

Until now.

♪

♪ Respite by Thomas McNeice, April Mackay & Neil Mulholland playing ♪

♪ Run, run, I don't know where I am ♪

♪ Nail to the ground and I just can't start ♪

NARRATOR: The cold case team investigating

the murder of John Ray

is reviewing evidence that's been in storage for seven years,

when they hit the mother lode.

♪

ENGLISH: One crate was not opened.

It was still sealed.

There's definitely an adrenaline rush.

♪

I was a little surprised seeing all that evidence...

♪

And was hoping to get something to try to help solve the case.

♪

NARRATOR: Inside that crate, John's briefcase...

[siren wailing]

which had been in the trunk of his stolen car.

♪

ENGLISH: Inside the work bag

I noticed there was some printouts of one individual

from the Department of Corrections website.

♪

NARRATOR: The printout is the criminal background check

for Torico Jackson.

♪

Torico Jackson is one of the names found on John Ray's computer.

♪

ENGLISH: Torico Jackson's extensive criminal history

included several charges of burglary and armed robbery.

♪

NARRATOR: John Ray had been robbed several times,

including the night he was killed.

♪

ENGLISH: What stood out to me was,

John Ray was murdered May 16th, 2004.

The printout was dated May 12th.

There was nothing to show

that there was any kinda connection work-related with Torico Jackson.

♪

NARRATOR: So, if it's not work-related...

♪

Is it possible John had a personal interest in Torico Jackson?

♪

- John Ray had told a friend of his

that he had recently met an individual.

Didn't give any kinda details,

said he kinda felt the person was a little "shady" is the best word to explain.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Somehow John Ray knew

who Torico Jackson was

and had him on his radar and was researching him.

♪

NARRATOR: There's more.

Another piece of damning evidence.

A copy of Torico's ID.

♪

In the photo, Torico is wearing the exact same jersey

found in John's washing machine

the night his body was found.

♪

Apparently Torico Jackson was very fond of this shirt.

It's the belief of the cold case detectives

that possibly Torico Jackson

was gonna come back and get his belongings.

ENGLISH: The shirt was very distinguishable.

It was the same shirt.

- The information we found in the briefcase

was not what we were expecting

and it was a huge key in the case.

♪

MARKEYSHI: John was speaking to us from the grave

because he had left so much information

in that briefcase in his trunk,

and I could almost hear him say,

"If you just open the trunk,

you'll find what I left you."

♪

NARRATOR: Investigators continue to dig.

Detective English reviews phone records from 2004.

- One of the last calls on John Ray's phone

on the night of the murder was made to a Shameeka Williams.

♪

NARRATOR: This Shameeka Williams

is a friend of Torico Jackson.

Apparently, they're pretty close.

[laughing]

- After further investigation

I learned that Shameeka had visited Torico in prison.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: So that was a big

key piece of evidence that gave us a connection...

to putting Torico Jackson

inside the home of John Ray.

[man laughing]

It must have been him that called her number

from the residence of John Ray,

and interestingly enough,

she didn't know who John Ray was at all.

♪

NARRATOR: Still, it's all circumstantial.

Then, English stumbles upon a missing piece of the puzzle.

[indistinct radio chatter]

ENGLISH: Some of the evidence that was collected...

[siren wailing]

from the stolen vehicle of John Ray,

was blood from the airbag.

DNA samples were submitted to the crime lab for analysis

and all the blood work came back to Torico Jackson.

[glass shatters]

♪

GEORGE TURNER: My name is George Turner.

I spent seven years as police chief in the City of Atlanta.

In the John Ray case,

the investigator trying to reconstruct that accident

was very challenged because

they didn't have the body when the accident took place,

so ultimately they determined it was just a stolen vehicle...

or a crashed vehicle.

♪

♪

The detective, when he received the call on the homicide,

also had not tied those things together.

♪

It wasn't until much later that they determined,

that the vehicle was associated with the victim,

and so ultimately evidence go cold

and so it takes someone that have dedicated time

looking at those pieces to bring those things together,

to be able to solve this crime.

NARRATOR: Now police can place Torico

in John's car the night of the murder.

♪

The evidence seems strong.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Even though you're excited,

you know that you have a hurdle to jump over.

You always have to pretend like a defense attorney's on your shoulder

because whatever you come up with, they're gonna come up with a defense.

♪

NARRATOR: After seven years of pain...

♪

Will John Ray's family and friends

finally get the justice they deserve?

♪

♪

♪ You're Under My Skin by Jake Warren and Brooke Mitchell playing ♪

♪ Paper-thin ♪

♪ The walls are crumbling ♪

♪

NARRATOR: The murder of John Ray

sits unsolved for seven years.

♪ I can feel ♪

Then, in just two months...

[camera shutter clicks]

the cold case team gathers enough evidence

to file charges.

♪

On August 22, 2011,

Torico Jackson is indicted for felony murder,

aggravated assault,

burglary,

and possession of a knife

during the commission of a felony.

♪

Prosecutors spend the next 16 months

constructing their case.

♪

- So nine years it took us to get somewhat of a closure.

It's upsetting to know that

they had all this evidence just sitting.

♪

Had they never developed this cold case department

we wouldn't be here now.

♪

♪

NARRATOR: The trial begins on September 5th, 2013.

♪

♪

- What made this case difficult, it was a circumstantial case.

♪

Putting the pieces together with the photographs...

♪

The shirt,

the phone calls,

the night of John Ray's murder...

♪

Was all more of a puzzle of circumstantial evidence

that the jury had to hear.

♪

It was a little concerning whether they would convict him.

NARRATOR: And maybe they won't.

♪

Because Torico's defense is that John attacked him.

And all he needs is one juror to believe him.

ENGLISH: Initially he just plead not guilty

and right before the trial he claimed self-defense.

♪

It was just crazy,

and I just was shocked.

JONIQUE: Torico act like he was the victim.

I guess he was saying that John was gonna kill him,

but he wasn't brought up like that.

Why would he wanna hurt you?

He was trying to help you.

♪

MAN: Marcus Garner. Take one.

MARCUS GARNER: My name is Marcus Garner.

I was a reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution at the time.

GARNER: Yeah, I did cover the trial.

Torico Jackson seemed a bit indignant, initially.

During the course of the trial you could literally see

the evidence starting to weigh on him.

NARRATOR: Prosecutors point to the time line.

John is murdered on May 16th.

His body isn't discovered until May 19th.

They believe Torico remained in John's home.

♪

- Apparently, Torico Jackson was making phone calls from the house.

♪ Hanging by a thread ♪

Conducting business in the house as if it were his own.

♪ I'm better off dead ♪

♪ Sow me ♪

JONIQUE: He made dinner, he ate lunch.

He...

♪ Back together ♪

lived in the house with a dead body.

♪

A heartless person...

♪

Would stay in the house with a dead body,

walking over it.

♪ Holding on ♪

♪ Till there's nothing left ♪

♪

♪ Maybe I'm better off dead ♪

♪ Dead ♪

♪

[indistinct chatter on TV]

♪

♪

NARRATOR: The prosecution claims

Torico targeted John Ray,

and John wasn't the first.

♪

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: Torico Jackson was

preying on gay males.

♪

- Torico would have a relationship with the individual...

♪

And he would burglarize or rob them.

♪

This appeared to be a pattern

with the male individuals he was involved with.

♪

- I think Torico Jackson thought

that he would probably just knock him out...

[thuds] [glass shatters]

♪

Grab all the stuff and flee

and get away with it.

Like he had done so many other times,

and then I think John Ray fought back for his life.

♪

♪

[groans]

♪

♪

NARRATOR: After seven days of testimony,

the jury only deliberates for one hour.

♪

♪

- Torico was found guilty of felony murder,

aggravated assault, burglary,

and received two life sentences and 25 years in prison.

♪

♪ Feelin' like we made it ♪

♪

♪ And all the time we waited ♪

♪ We paid the price of patience ♪

♪

JONIQUE: Once he got his sentencing,

he turn around and said,

"It was either gonna be me dead and your brother on trial,

or we gonna be where we are now."

JOYCE: He was just a evil person.

Very evil.

To take away my son like that.

You're supposed to forgive,

but there's no forgiveness in my heart for that.

♪ Vocalizing ♪

JONIQUE: When we were asked

to pursue the death penalty,

we...

did not want that.

We wanted him to be alive,

to suffer the way we have

because John's not here with us any longer.

♪

- Do I feel justice was served?

Nah, he's still breathing.

NARRATOR: One question remains unanswered.

Why would John knowingly invite a convicted criminal to his home?

- John Ray, because he was involved in this environment,

through his job might've been comfortable with criminals.

He probably thought that he could handle himself,

and that it wouldn't happen to him.

- I believe John was trying to help him get on a better path.

MARKEYSHI: John had a big heart.

And so it made sense that he was talking to this Torico guy.

♪

WILLIE: They got the guy that did it.

That's what's important to me and that's important to my family.

It don't bring John back,

but it brings a little clarity.

You know, I love him.

♪ Let the light fade ♪

- We lost

greatness.

We lost John Edward Ray

too soon.

Because he was destined for greatness.

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♪ All we had was just a moment ♪

♪ All we had was just a moment ♪

- You are just as popular in your death as you were in your life.

You see all these people out here because of you?

JONIQUE: Right. MARKEYSHI: You see this?

God, I miss you.

I know how you are,

and you wouldn't want me to cry and...

You'd probably tell me to shut my punk behind up

and take it like a woman. I know you.

Who's gonna put me in my place now?

- I pray and ask God to help make me strong,

which he has,

and I will survive.

♪

We just remember him for the good days that he gave us.

♪ All we have is just a moment ♪

But we always think of him as our lawyer.

♪ All we have, all we have ♪

Yeah.

♪

♪ Is a moment ♪

♪

ENGLISH: The printout being inside the work bag

and all the other evidence that I found,

I just felt that it was some type of message from John Ray

to help solve this case.

DETECTIVE ESQUILIN: It was just absolutely amazing

that John Ray basically served up

who his killer was on a silver platter.

♪ All we have, all we have ♪

♪

♪ Is a moment ♪

♪

♪ I don't know where my head is lately ♪

♪ Have I lost my mind? ♪

♪

♪

♪ But I know that I have a secret ♪

♪ And it's only mine ♪

♪

♪ And the only way to find me ♪

♪ Is to go beneath the lies ♪

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