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[seabirds squalling]

- Catalina island is the largest island

In the chain of channel islands.

[soft music]

- It is visible from our local beaches here in la county.

♪ ♪

- Just take a little boat over there,

And you're in a whole different world.

- The people that live there, they live the beach style.

Rarely do you have a violent crime

Occurring at catalina island.

[dramatic music]

- But then a pleasure boat operator notices

A body floating in the water.

- That's pretty shocking.

Was it premeditated?

We're all left with a lot of unanswered questions.

- It was almost $2 million he had inherited.

I'm thinking that it might be the motive

For someone to kill him.

- They have enough evidence to bring a case against him.

Problem is, they can't find him.

- So now the manhunt is on.

- My instinct's saying, something's not right.

The hair were standing up on the back of my neck.

- I was more concerned about triggering this guy to flee.

It's just a hop, skip, and a jump

To go across the canadian border.

- I can't even express the anger I felt.

♪ ♪

I wanted that guy caught.

[metallic clank]

♪ ♪

[seabirds squalling]

[soft music]

♪ ♪

- Just a 22-mile ferry ride west of los angeles,

Catalina island sits in the vast pacific ocean.

In its heyday,

It was a playground for the hollywood elite.

Now it's a resort island playing host to tourists,

Cruise ships, and recreational boaters alike.

But even in this beautiful beach community,

Grisly secrets can wash up.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Thursday, may 18, 2006,

A pleasure boat operator was

Heading towards catalina island.

He notices a flock of seagulls

Who are shrieking and feeding on something.

[seagulls squalling]

He sees something floating in the water.

It turns out to be a body.

♪ ♪

So he calls that in right away

To the coast guard to alert them.

- 1-6, go ahead. What's your position?

- Coast guard immediately notifies the sheriff's unit

That's there on catalina to retrieve the body.

[siren wailing]

- Our divers and our rescue went out

And ultimately recovered the body out of the water.

It was just floating there, 6 miles off the isthmus

Of santa catalina island,

And that's a long ways.

That is wide-open territory, nothing around.

We can identify it as a male.

Clothing was on the body.

He had gloves on, shoes on,

But the body was totally unrecognizable.

- The body is pulled from the pacific ocean

Near international shipping lanes.

These lanes are used by any vessels carrying

Goods and services to the la harbor

And are some of the busiest in the united states.

- I'm thinking this guy might have come off

Of one of these large shipping containers

Or cruise ships from somewhere around the world.

Maybe they fell off a boat and they drowned.

At this point, the body was sent to the coroner's office

As a drowning victim.

[tense music]

♪ ♪

I go to the coroner's office and observe the body.

This body was in such bad condition

That all I can say, it was a human being.

♪ ♪

But the medical examiner realized that

There was a bullet hole in the head.

So the medical examiner has to open the skull.

And there was a bullet.

So immediately, it's starting to look like

This death occurred by foul play.

I confer with the deputy medical examiner,

And they're agreeing he was shot in the head

By the hands of another, and that's what killed him.

This is not self-inflicted.

So now this is a homicide investigation.

♪ ♪

The most important part was identifying this person.

The body had gloves on.

When the medical examiner removed the gloves

On his left hand, it looked like

Three fingers had been surgically removed.

They were completely gone in half pretty much.

So that's the starting point.

I have something I can go on.

So I started looking to see if there were

Any missing persons reports

For someone missing part of three of his fingers.

I found none with the city of los angeles.

I found none with long beach

And definitely none at catalina island.

Absolutely nothing.

♪ ♪

At this point, I'm standing there.

I'm looking at the body and the clothing

He was wearing, like the shoes.

They weren't boots like a deckhand working on a ship.

It was high-end stuff,

Like he was someone that owned a ship.

And I see barnacles on his shoes.

And I knew that it would be important

For me to have those studied.

So I immediately confiscate the shoes as evidence.

- There are more than 1,400 species

Of barnacles found in the world's waterways.

If experts can identify the particular species

Of barnacle on the victim's shoe,

What its growth cycle is, where it happens to grow,

And in which parts of the water,

It could help pinpoint where the body entered the water,

As well as where and when the homicide took place.

- An expert from the natural history museum

Examined the barnacles,

And they had turned out to be gooseneck barnacles.

- The barnacles are a special type of barnacles

That are only found on the back side of catalina island.

So the body most likely went in the water

In that region of the water.

- After looking at the various sizes of the barnacles,

He opined that the body was floating in the water

For a period of about 15 days.

- 15 days is a long time for the body to have remained

In the same area rather than floating out to sea.

This can be explained by a phenomenon

Known as coastal eddies,

Which are currents of water like whirlpools

That pull objects in

And move them around in a circular fashion.

- We believe, once the body resurfaced

From the back side of the island,

It got caught in one of these currents,

And instead of going out to open sea

Where we would have never seen it again,

It was brought back around to the front of the island

Between the mainland

And the most populated part of the island.

♪ ♪

[seabirds squalling]

- By this time, this case is in the news media,

And everybody knew about the body

Down in southern california.

And then someone called my voicemail

And said they were looking for their friend

Who lived in san pedro.

He was missing, and they heard about

A body being found in the water.

And they were afraid that it might be their friend.

So I called them back, and I said,

Tell me something about this person that you know.

And they said, well, oh, when he was in middle school,

He cut three of his fingers off on a wood shop accident.

I'm thinking, oh, my goodness,

I'm going to be able to identify who this person is.

[suspenseful music]

I needed to prove that these two men were together

Out there on that yacht.

- They said they had no idea where he was.

The case was in limbo.

- We were all worried he'd get away with it.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- Six days after a badly decomposed body

Was pulled from the ocean near catalina island,

Investigators received a detailed tip

About a missing man who had three fingers cut off

During an accident.

♪ ♪

- That was crucial

Because that matched what I knew about the victim

That was at the county coroner's office.

So I ask him, what's his name?

He gave me his name, his birth date,

And his relative's name.

I contacted the family,

And they came down to the coroner's office.

And that's how I was able to identify him

As steven bailey williams.

Next, I talked to several people that knew steven

To get more information on his background,

Something that can help me figure out,

How did he end up where he ended up?

[somber music]

- It was very much a shock.

I mean, how did steven all of a sudden end up dead,

Floating in the catalina channel?

♪ ♪

You always look back and think,

Well, gee, I could have done a better job

Being a friend or being a cousin.

♪ ♪

Our mothers were sisters,

So our parents would try and connect.

We'd go visit, or they'd come and visit us.

Steven was good-looking,

And he had a very bubbly personality.

He would go into a room and be able to charm

And move around people.

One of his traits is he had a terrific on-the-air voice,

Very deep, very resonant, very attractive.

That's how he got on a morning radio show in denver.

- Steven b and the hawk, Tuesday morning.

- Can't wait for that broadcast with tina turner.

Mm-mm-mm. - You have to.

- When steven b and the hawk came to denver,

I was a sales secretary.

And my office was right across from the control room.

So I could always watch the antics going on in there.

- I got some steroid coolers that I just mixed up.

- Sure, I'll have mine straight up.

- They were funny; they did all kinds of little bits.

And they were the number one morning show for years.

Steven was probably one of the nicest people

I've ever met,

Very kind, very trusting, very open.

And I never felt like he was judgmental.

He always gave people a chance.

Then radio was going in a different direction.

Steven was told, they didn't need

That big, booming voice in radio anymore.

I mean, this was something he loved to do.

And then you're told, we don't need what you do anymore.

That would have been a really tough pill to swallow.

- I learned that when steven left the radio station,

Steven had gone to culinary school,

And that he would cook his food to match the wine,

And he had it spot-on.

- And then in about 2001, his father became ill.

So steven ended up moving to care for his ailing father

Down in corona del mar in orange county.

♪ ♪

- Steven saw an opportunity

To really connect with his father

And to offer a service by taking care of him,

You know, on a day-to-day basis.

He did that for about two years.

And then his father passed away

And left an inheritance.

- I learned it was almost $2 million he had inherited.

And the thought I'm thinking is that it might be

The motive for someone trying to kill him.

[tense music]

- Some of steven's friends happened to mention

To investigators that he was feeling pretty overwhelmed

By this huge task of being the executor

Of this trust and assets close to $2 million.

Investigators had to take a look at that and say,

Could someone have been after that money?

♪ ♪

- All of his friends that I talked with said that

Steven was very creative,

But he was not very good when it came

To checks and balance on the financial side.

And as a matter of fact, one of his friends said

That for eight years, steven went by

Without paying taxes.

- Also, investigators discovered that in 2005,

Steven's friend, who has a history in finance,

He ends up loaning money to steven.

And they kind of thought that was strange,

That even though steven was left close to $1.5 million,

It always seemed steven had no money.

♪ ♪

- That friend actually got steven

Out of an income tax issue

When steven failed to pay his taxes.

- Now investigators are looking at this friend.

Was he upset about this whole money thing,

And did he confront steven?

What role is he playing in all of this?

- So I started focusing on steven's friend

Who had given him money.

I want to figure out what happened to steven.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- After learning that steven williams inherited

Almost $2 million after his father's death,

Investigators wonder if his murder was motivated by money

And if he may have been the victim of betrayal

At the hands of a friend.

♪ ♪

- We talked to steven's friend

Who had given him financial advice

And given steven money.

And steven's friend's background was impeccable.

He worked for the state as a defense contractor.

So he already has a security clearance

That tells me I don't have to worry

About what he's gonna say because he's aboveboard.

And he was a genuine, good person.

He had steven's best interest at heart.

And it was pretty obvious real quick

That, no, he didn't have anything to do

With steven coming up missing or steven's death.

There was never any doubt in my mind.

So now at that point, we had to look

At all of steven's friends to make sure

That they didn't have anything to do with steven's death.

- The investigators start asking the rest

Of steven's friends, is there anybody else

That's been showing up in steven's life?

And all of steven's friends mention, yeah,

There was this new guy that showed up in steven's life,

Big-time stockbroker on wall street

Who made a killing as a financial advisor.

His name was harvey morrow.

- The detectives learn that while steven was struggling

With trying to make sense out of the estate,

Out of the bills that needed to be paid,

In September of 2003,

He was visited by an old friend,

And he brought harvey morrow with him.

Harvey noticed that the house was in quite disarray.

He saw a lot of unopened mail on the table.

He saw a lot of bills.

And during his conversation with steven that day,

He learned that steven was in over his head.

Harvey offered his services.

He said, hey, listen, steven, I'm an investment banker.

I can help you pull this estate together.

And steven just thought it was a gift from god,

That harvey was an angel who just walked into his life.

And it was through that introduction

And that early conversation that harvey got access

To steven's most important personal information,

Including control of his father's estate.

- So as this friendship

Between harvey and steven continues to grow,

Harvey introduces steven to his current interest,

Which is a beautiful sailboat that he recently purchased

And that he's refurbishing.

- Harvey's boat, the "iolair mara,"

Is a 75-foot motor sailer built in california in 1967--

A rare find, as its tri-hull design,

6-foot draft, and 3,000 nautical mile range

Means it can operate with wind power in the sails,

But also holds a lot of fuel

And can take expeditions all around the globe.

- One of the things that happened

After harvey took control of steven's father's estate is,

The boat that harvey owned and was docked in san pedro

Started to undergo rapid repairs,

And not just any repairs.

I mean, it was being completely refurbished--

New teak decks, flat-screen television,

New sails, brand-new navigation system,

Stainless steel railing--

Just immaculate touches to this boat.

- Steven's friends said that harvey was

Planning to take this boat and sail around the world.

And steven is piqued by that.

Like, wow, what a great adventure that's gonna be.

Harvey even invites steven.

Hey, why don't you be part of our crew

When we sail around the world?

You can be the gourmet chef onboard.

Steven is like, oh, that sounds fantastic.

He would fit right in.

This is a great new adventure.

He's all in.

And so steven moves onboard the yacht in November of 2003.

- Steven told me he was excited about this project.

He was taking courses to become a chef on the boat.

And when the boat was restored in two, three years,

They were going to stock it up

And start sailing around the world.

♪ ♪

- I asked steven's friends,

Was there anything strange about how he handled his money?

And they said, yes.

They said he didn't have any money.

And I go, what do you mean, he didn't have any money?

[indistinct chatter]

The friend told me that they would meet

At a restaurant, and they would exchange--

This time I'm gonna pay, next time you're gonna pay.

And one time in 2005, they went,

And steven didn't have any money.

And she inquired, why don't you have any money?

You have $2 million, and you don't have

Two cents you can rub between your fingers.

And steven's reply was, harvey has my money.

Harvey put it in an offshore account.

And we're gonna go and get it

When we go on this trip around the world.

So the red flags were up that something was wrong.

♪ ♪

- The last person to see steven was one of his friends,

And that occurred the first week of may 2006.

And in the course of talking with his friend,

His friend says, steven, what are you gonna do

About this situation? And that's when steven says,

Okay, yep, I am going to confront harvey.

[dramatic music]

I'm gonna ask him what's going on with the boat,

With our trip around the world?

Where is my money? How can I get access to it?

I'm gonna get some answers to all of this.

- It became pretty obvious that there was only one person

That I needed to talk with,

And he was the owner of the boat

That steven was last seen on,

Harvey morrow.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

- After learning that harvey morrow had control

Of steven's finances and that steven planned to confront him

In the days leading up to his death,

Detectives need to question morrow

And search the sailboat where the two men lived

For evidence connected to steven williams' murder.

♪ ♪

- Harvey may have had something to do with steven's death.

So I got a search warrant,

And we get to san pedro where the yacht is kept.

We found the yacht, but the yacht was empty.

There's no one there.

♪ ♪

The first thing we did was examine where steven lived

On the boat and where harvey's living space was on the yacht.

The one thing that struck me right away was,

The boat was immaculate.

It was clean.

It didn't look like anyone had ever lived there.

Yet I knew steven had been on that boat.

- Investigators are looking for evidence

That can place steven on the yacht.

They're looking for blood evidence.

They're looking for personal belongings.

None of his belongings are there.

They don't find any blood evidence.

They're coming up with nothing.

♪ ♪

- Then I started looking at the electronic equipment.

And one of the things we found was

A manual to a handheld garmin gps.

I put that inside the evidence bag.

- But they don't find the actual unit,

Just the operating manual.

- Gps is a common way for sailors to navigate,

And they can record and store

All movement made by the vessel.

Detectives hope to recover the unit,

As it can determine whether the "iolair mara"

Was ever near the area where steven's body was dumped.

- I remember thinking, if you find a handheld gps,

That will be your ticket.

Then I found a ledger that showed how much money

Harvey had spent in that yacht,

And it was more than $2 million,

Which is relatively

The same amount of money steven inherited.

Now I'm thinking, was harvey using steven's money

To refurbish and redo his boat?

♪ ♪

I wanted to find harvey morrow.

And a lady walked up to me and said,

"are you guys searching that boat?"

And I said, "absolutely."

I go, "I'm trying to find harvey morrow."

And she goes, "he was just standing there

Watching you guys."

He saw me looking, and he got in his truck,

And he drove away.

Right then I knew, if he's running from me,

I'm on the right track.

Now the manhunt is on.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Back at the office,

We contacted his cell phone company.

- Harvey's phone records show that he left los angeles.

He drove to las vegas

And then destroyed the phone because the records stopped.

- He must have realized that, uh-oh, they're looking at me.

I'm getting rid of it.

So now I needed the cell phone company engineers

To help me prove that the day when steven was killed,

These two men were together out there on that yacht.

- We found out, steven called harvey's phone

At about 1:00 in the afternoon on may 4, 2006.

Steven's phone used a tower on the mainland.

And then later in the afternoon at about 4:00,

Both steven and harvey's phone got communications,

And both used a tower on catalina island.

- So I asked the engineers, can you tell me

Where that boat would have been if they pinged off the tower?

And the engineer said, absolutely.

Gave me a diagram, and they put it

On the back side of catalina island.

Both of those cell phones pinged

Off the same cell tower,

And then steven's phone stopped transmitting.

♪ ♪

- The next morning, there was only communication

On harvey's phone.

But then the detective sees something

That is very unusual.

Harvey morrow calls steven 31 times

In the weeks leading up to his death.

Never called him again the day after, not one time.

- So now I have the cell towers,

And I have all the other data and information

That says, these two men were together.

I have a witness that said, hey, steven told me that he was

Going to do a trip around the world with harvey morrow.

And I have the crustaceans found on steven's body that

Are only found on the back side of catalina island.

So at this point, there's enough to arrest harvey morrow

For the murder of steven williams.

♪ ♪

The next morning, I went to the print media,

And I said, harvey morrow is a extreme person of interest.

- They get the word out, get harvey's picture out.

We want to talk to this guy, harvey morrow.

He could be anywhere,

And they need the public's help.

♪ ♪

- They said that they had evidence,

Harvey was the one who shot steven.

But this was his friend, or supposed friend.

I had no idea why.

You know, did they just go out drinking

And have a fight, and this happened?

You're left with a lot of unanswered questions.

♪ ♪

- I--I can't even express the anger I felt.

Wanted that guy caught

Because he took a very dear friend.

- Everyone I talked to said, harvey's the type of guy

That's gonna go in the caribbean.

If you're gonna look for him, you're gonna find him

Down in the british virgin islands somewhere

On a big yacht.

All I can do is continue contacting everyone,

Getting information everywhere.

I actually contacted the state department,

But I couldn't find him.

Months later, I'm looking for harvey morrow,

And every day I walk to my desk.

The first thing I look to see if I have any messages.

If the red light is on, I have a message.

And this particular day, I walk in,

And the red light's on.

And I listen to the voicemail,

And I distinctly remember it saying,

"I'm from the cascade county sheriff's department

"in great falls, montana.

"if you're looking for harvey morrow,

You need to call me. I know where he is."

♪ ♪

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Almost four months into steven b. Williams'

Murder investigation, sergeant clark received

A voicemail from montana authorities

Who have a potential lead on harvey morrow's whereabouts.

- This changed everything.

I called back the cascade county sheriff.

He said, you're looking for harvey morrow?

I said, yes.

He goes, he's in cascade county.

Everyone said he would go where the water is warm,

Where there would be a lot of rich people.

Who would think for a minute that he would go to montana?

It's totally opposite, which my mind told me,

Yeah, this guy is really being smart.

♪ ♪

- Before they called our detectives,

The sheriff in montana got a call

From a guy named joe parsetich.

Joe's a former police officer,

So he has a mind for things that don't make sense.

Joe said harvey was in great falls, montana,

Working at a used car dealership.

♪ ♪

- I told them, on September 8, 2006,

Had a gentleman show up on our dealership that just got hired.

He said his name was harvey morrow.

He told me he came from a stockbroker background,

That he has a very beautiful home

Over on the gulf of mexico.

I was curious why he would come to montana,

Leaving the gulf of mexico,

And secure a job as a used car salesman.

And he said, well, he had to get as far away

From large bodies of water as possible.

He said, "my wife took our yacht

"out onto the gulf of mexico with some friends of hers,

"and a storm ensued, yacht capsized,

And, you know, she and her friends all perished."

Well, I know enough about the gulf

That it didn't make a lot of sense.

I guess you could say, once a cop, always a cop,

Because my instinct's saying something's not right.

When I got off work, I went on to google,

Put in "harvey morrow," wanting to find out

More about this story or how he lost his wife.

To my surprise, I found only one posting

With his name on there, and it was by channel 4 news

Out of denver, that he was a person of interest

Regarding a murder of steven b. Williams

That took place in california.

[suspenseful music]

The hair was standing up on the back of my neck.

And my gut was telling me,

I think I really have something here.

I immediately called our local sheriff and asked him

To contact los angeles county sheriff's department.

♪ ♪

- Now the clock is ticking

Because it's just a hop, skip, and a jump

To go across the canadian border.

At any minute, I'm thinking, if harvey even suspects

That I'm looking for him, he's gonna leave.

My concern was, it's gonna take me at least two weeks

To get this extradition in order.

So at this point, I have to rely on joe

To basically string harvey on.

I was already in communications with cascade county

And the u.S. Marshals office

To make sure that they work together

To make sure harvey stayed where he was.

♪ ♪

- The detectives flew out to montana

And made contact with joe.

- When the homicide detectives arrived,

I said, I'll let you know when it's safe to come in

And effectuate the arrest.

So I coordinated the sting by simply calling in

All of the salespeople off the car lot.

When harvey got back from lunch, I said,

Harvey, one of the customers

That you showed a car to is coming back.

Go out there, open up the hood, get it ready,

So when she shows up, you'll be prepared to do a walk-around.

At that point, I was sitting calmly at my desk.

I called the sheriff's department,

Gave them a description.

Here's the coat harvey's wearing.

He's gonna be in the front row.

All of the other employees were off the lot.

♪ ♪

- The u.S. Marshal and the cascade county sheriff,

All they had to do was walk up and say,

Harvey, there's some guys from california

That want to talk to you.

Put your hands behind your back.

You're under arrest.

- After they placed him under arrest,

They took him to the local station,

And that's where they began interrogating harvey.

- Harvey was so arrogant.

Once he realized I was focusing in on him,

He pretty much leaned back and says,

I think I better get a lawyer.

- At this point, harvey morrow is extradited

Back to los angeles,

Where he will stand trial for murder.

- I was thrilled when I heard that they had arrested harvey.

And I just said, I hope they throw the book at him.

- This was a complete circumstantial evidence case.

There were no eyewitnesses or earwitnesses to the killing.

In fact, there was no crime scene.

So we knew that we were gonna have some challenges

Convincing 12 people beyond a reasonable doubt

That harvey was involved.

♪ ♪

- This case is still going on. Harvey's in custody.

And by this time, this case is in the news media,

And everybody's talking about it.

[phone rings]

And I got a call from the commodore

Of the los angeles yacht club, and he said,

"I found a handheld gps in one of my cabinets

Inside the yacht club."

[camera shutter clicking]

So I said, what kind of gps did you find?

He said, a garmin c60.

Well, wouldn't you know it?

When I initially searched harvey's boat, when he fled,

There was a manual for a garmin c60.

This handheld gps can show exactly when the boat left,

Where the boat went, and when it went back to shore.

♪ ♪

It could be the evidence I was looking for

To prosecute harvey morrow

For a capital punishment homicide.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

- While harvey morrow is in custody awaiting trial,

Investigators locate the portable gps

That was missing from his boat.

They believe this is the key

To connecting all of the circumstantial evidence

And securing his conviction for steven's murder.

♪ ♪

- Once the data was downloaded from the gps, it showed,

On may 4th, the day steven was killed,

The "iolair mara" leaving slip 6 from san pedro,

Which is where harvey's boat was docked.

It went out to catalina island.

It went around to the back side of the island.

It meanders there for a while,

And then it comes racing back to its slip.

That trip and the timing

From when it left san pedro to catalina and back

Corresponds with the cell phone evidence.

My theory of the case, based on the evidence,

Is that when steven and harvey got

To the back side of catalina island,

And they had a confrontation about steven's money,

At some point while there,

Harvey walked up behind steven,

Shot him in the back of the head...

[gunshot]

And his body immediately went overboard.

♪ ♪

And it sunk.

I believe that at that point,

Harvey started to look for the body.

And the reason I theorized that that happened

Is because if you look at the gps mapping,

You can see the boat meandering.

It almost looks like it's searching for something.

And it does that before, finally,

It turns and races back to san pedro.

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- I looked at that and went, oh, my goodness.

Absolutely, positively, we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt

That harvey morrow killed steven williams

And then fled.

But it took a lot of work

And a lot of time to prepare the documents

And continue forward with the trial.

- Los angeles county, with over 10 million residents,

Is the largest jurisdiction in the country,

So it sometimes takes years before a case goes to trial.

- The trial gets underway

And bombshell was in opening statements.

- The surprise came in the form

Of the defense telling the jury that they had a promissory note

Between steven's father and harvey morrow's father.

And this promissory note was for an amount of money

That would explain how it was

That harvey possessed steven's money and why he was able

To spend that money without it being a crime.

- The defense says, he didn't steal money.

This was a loan. He was owed this money.

- I'm looking at my partner, and he's looking at me,

And I'm thinking, wait a minute.

The document had to be forged and fake.

- The da actually wanted a mistrial to be declared

So that they could investigate the signature.

So a mistrial was declared.

- A mistrial is essentially the court stopping the trial

And starting from scratch.

- I was really concerned. That was on the lowest points,

Because a lot of people put a lot of effort

In this case to prove this case up.

- That mistrial really threw me for a loop,

And it made me angry.

We were all worried he'd get away with it.

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- Despite a mistrial being declared,

Prosecutors still had another opportunity

To retry harvey morrow on these murder charges.

- I was able to look at every document,

Every driver's license that steven's father,

Bailey williams, had for 10, 15, 20 years.

We compared it with that document,

And it was no match.

Obviously, it was a forgery.

- This was evidence that

Harvey morrow was not owed this money.

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- After probably about six weeks of trial,

The jury walked in, handed the verdicts over to the judge.

When I heard the word "guilty" on first-degree murder,

I had a sigh of relief,

Because at that point, I knew at least,

He was being held responsible

For the murder of steven b. Williams.

- Harvey morrow was sentenced to life in prison

Without the possibility of parole.

- Harvey was somebody who liked

The open spaces and the freedom.

So to me, spending the rest of your life

In a jail cell is real justice.

I much prefer that to the death penalty.

[buzzer blares]

- I am thrilled he's not getting out.

He'll die in prison.

Justice has been served.

- After being shot in cold blood

And falling into the ocean,

Coastal eddies moved steven to a location

Where his body could be discovered.

With the overconfidence of a true con man,

Harvey morrow never dreamed

The handheld gps would be found.

But once recovered, it revealed morrow's homicidal moves,

Led investigators to the truth,

And landed the killer behind bars.

- This is a tragic end

To somebody who had more life to live

And more life to give.

Steven was a person who went through life

Caring about other people.

And I think he would like to be remembered

As that type of person.

- My heart still aches

When I think about what happened to steven.

I miss the fact that he's not on this earth anymore.

And I miss my friend.

He deserved better.

[somber music]

I'll always love him.

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