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[uplifting instrumental playing]

[man 1]
They were young.

And they were-- they were pals.

They'd both kind of
run away from home.

And they had
their own unbelievable sagas.

They had essentially
packed up their entire lives

and moved to Florida.

They went out on a boat.

They are having
a fun day out on the water.

[man 2]
And this is the last time

these women were seen alive.

[man 1]
That's correct.

["See See Rider" playing]

♪ See see rider♪

♪ Just pray I'll never see you
again, well, all right ♪

♪ Ooh, see see rider♪

[reporter]
There is, let's face it,

a certain glamour
connected with crime.

We romanticize it,
we pay to see it in movies

or read about it in books.

A typical script
might call for the theft

of a giant of a gem

called, let's say,
the Star of India.

The robbery
should be a daring one.

And the men who solve it,

private detectives
of the clean cut sort.

The plot may sound familiar,

and indeed,
there is a story like that.

The only difference
was that the police

looked somewhat helpless,

and the suspects,
the products of central casting.

It seems Kuhn
and "Murf the Surf" Murphy

were in and out of court
every other day.

They came equipped with

what every defendant
should have--

pretty girls
and a big-time defense attorney.

But for the lawmen at least,
all the comings and goings

did not add up too much.

The gems are still missing,
some of the charges

against the pair
have been dropped,

and now they say they may open
a Miami Beach nightclub

to cash in on the publicity,

appropriately naming the club
the Star of India.

[Nate Scott] Maurice Nadjari,
the prosecutor of these cases,

it drove him crazy

that the Beach Boys
were considered heroes.

[Jack]
They can't get anything

on this museum robberies.

They can't get any information
or any leads.

All they know is they think
that we're the guys.

They actually know
that we're the guys.

♪♪♪

[Corey Kilgannon] Nadjari,
he wants to get these guys

and put them away, but he's got
a lot of public pressure, like,

"Really? Where are the jewels?
Get them back."

[Jack] They started loading
us up with phony charges.

And they told our attorney,
we have 72 precincts here,

and every precinct has a charge
that we'll lay on them.

My attorney said,
"Listen, we better negotiate

with these guys."

"Plead guilty," he says,
"You'll do one year in prison."

♪ See see rider♪

[reporter] This is where it was.

The priceless
Star of India sapphire,

563 carats,

first discovered 300 years ago
in ancient Ceylon,

rediscovered today
in this 25-cent-a-day locker

in a downtown Miami bus station.

The locker
had been in continuous use

since December 12th.

That was the day
that Bonnie Sutera

committed suicide.

[Jack] Then we went to prison.

We went to Rikers Island.

It was just chaos and craziness.

[reporter] The prison gained
a sort of ironic notoriety

for having its share
of criminal celebrities.

There was
Willie "the Actor" Sutton,

who made more
than $2 million robbing banks.

He was in this cell.

"Crazy" Joe Gallo,

before being gunned down
in mob warfare,

spent time in this cell.

And Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy,

involved in the snatching
of the Star of India,

among other gems,
whiled away hours in this cell.

-Line up!
-[Jack] My life changed

radically changed from
the beaches and the surfboards

and the bikinis
and the bars of South Florida.

Rikers Island's a bad prison,

and I'm on a wing with 400 guys.

These guys knew about gangs,
and they knew about drugs,

and they knew
about prostitution,

and they knew
all this crazy stuff.

And it was
an incredible experience.

And being
that I was "Murf the Surf,"

the headliner, the jewel thief,

I had, uh, favor
with all of them

because I'm sort of
a cool cracker.

Murf the Surf,
he worked here as time help.

He was a waiter.
He helped in the kitchen.

He gave nobody any trouble.

He was a good inmate.

[Jack] Knowing that
I was going to get out

in a couple of years,
it's sort of like being stuck

in afternoon traffic.

I knew that I was getting out.
I just had to be patient.

It was quite an adventure,

but I loved it,
had a great time.

[midtempo jazz playing]

Finally,
we wrapped up the two years,

and I got on a plane,
and I went back to Miami.

And so we go into another
chapter of life down there.

[Edna Buchanan] It was like,
this fabulous homecoming,

and they were like
local heroes.

♪♪♪

Citizens were shaking his hand,

and getting their pictures
taken with him,

and they thought
they were such nice boys.

[Frank Donnelly] People found
them glamorous, though.

They kind of were drawn
to this character

who, um, they didn't follow
the rules.

People kind of admired him,
even though he was a criminal.

[Jack] I got a girl
here named Connie.

She's the real deal.
She's the real deal.

[Nate Scott]
He was kind of celebrity

of the underworld in Miami.

[reporter] Jack Murphy,
America's favorite jewel thief,

says he's done with crime.

He's now working
with Miami Beach author

Bob Tralins on a book

about his infamous
Star of India heist.

[Edna Buchanan] They were saying
now they were going to go

on a cross-country trip,

lecturing to kids
to stay on the right path

and not go down the wrong path
and land in jail.

They wanted Bob Tralins
to write a book about them,

and they were hoping
it would be made into a movie.

And they were going to be

these do-gooder missionaries
against crime.

Bob Tralins believed them,
and I said,

"You know, be careful,
because they're probably

going to do it again.
It's too easy."

[Nate Scott] Jack would make
Rikers Island

seem to be, like,
almost like a vacation.

And then at the end, he said,

"I came out of Rikers
different."

So there was
this weird conflict,

which at once was,
"I was only in Rikers

for a little bit of time.
It wasn't serious time."

"We had fun.
We heard live music."

"I got to know the warden."

You know, we were only in there
a few years."

But then, in the next breath,

he came out a different man,
and he came out angry.

[Jack]
You come out, you're scared.

"What am I gonna do now?"

[energetic instrumental playing]

The first thing I did
was I got a pistol.

I'd learned
a bunch of stuff in prison,

and I was ready to roam.

[Kuhn] We would break in
jewelry stores like nothing,

pick the stuff that they had
out of the windows,

And we would take
cross-country road trips.

♪♪♪

[Jack]
I've got money. I'm cooking.

And then I get a call
from San Francisco

that they were having
a shortage out there of drugs.

Well, I just so happen to be
in that business.

♪♪♪

[Nate Scott] It just seemed
like he was trying to be good.

Didn't work out,
ended up in Cali,

and then he's right in the mix.

[Jack]
So I go out to California,

and, uh, I meet
some players out there.

And the next thing,
I do a bunch of work that I do.

I go down to Los Angeles.

I said, "Well,
is anybody ready to ride?"

I said, "Bump your nuts up,
and let's go."

We started doing
some radical robbery stuff

in Beverly Hills
and on the golf courses,

and I got
a whole bunch of jewels.

[Frank Donnelly]
He ended up moving out

to California for a while.

[Jack]
Finally, we get busted.

There's masks,
there's guns, there's jewelry,

there's everything.

And the next morning
that headline says,

"Murph beached in LA."

[Harvey St. Jean]
I contacted the police myself

and told the police in Hollywood

that if they wanted to see
Mr. Murphy,

or talk to him,
he'd be available.

Instead, they went ahead
and executed a search.

I don't know yet
whether they had

a search warrant or not.

[Jack] The number two guy

in the Los Angeles
Police Department said,

"Hey, listen, here's the deal."

"You guys get out of town
and don't ever come back,

or we'll kill you,"
I said, "Well, fuck you."

You know? I said, "Kill me?"
I said, "I was born here, man."

"You're not telling me
that I can't come out here."

"I'm coming out here."

So they take me out
and put me on an airplane,

take my money,
and they fly me back to Miami.

[Nate Scott] In this time,
a German magazine calledStern,

follows Jack Murphy around

to take photos of him,
and they pay him to do so.

[Jack]
I went back to Florida,

and a friend calls me, and says,

"There's some women here
to see you."

"They have something for you."

I said, "Who are they?
I don't know who they are."

[Nate Scott] Terry Frank
and Annelie Marie Mohn

worked together at
a financial services office

in Los Angeles.

[suspenseful instrumental
playing]

These men basically,
convince these women,

or these women
sort of volunteered

as a way to kind of get in

with these handsome
surf gangsters

to steal pieces of paper

that were transferable
for large amounts of cash.

They had essentially
packed up their entire lives

and moved to Florida,
after committing this crime

where they met up with Murphy.

[Jack] They had taken out
a million dollars' worth

of stolen stocks and bonds.

But I don't know anything
about stocks and bonds.

But I made some phone calls,

and I got some connections,
and I hooked some guys up.

I'm just sort of
a middleman in all this.

[Nate Scott] Jack maintains,
they showed up in Florida,

they got his name from Allan.

They gave him
these pieces of paper.

He had no idea
what to do with them.

[Kuhn] I don't have a clue
what to do with stocks.

That's not my field.
Jewelry is my field.

[Bobby Greenwood] I don't know
nothing about bonds.

What am I gonna do with this?

You know, I'm a jewel thief.

[Nate Scott]
Half of Miami underworld

knew about these
stolen securities

because Murphy and company

were just asking anyone
who would listen to them

if anyone knew
what to do with them.

[Jack] The girls are
getting a little frisky and all.

So I moved them
into my apartment with Connie,

and I said, "Just hang on."

"Well, Allan told us
that we'd have some money,"

and they're starting
to get a little antsy.

[Meryl Gordon]
You met the girls?

[Kuhn] I don't remember
where I met them.

I thought I met them first
in Florida.

[Meryl Gordon] So you don't
remember meeting them

and referring them to Jack?

[Kuhn] No, absolutely not.

[Inez Lyles] You know,
I wouldn't have known

that Annelie had one ounce
of larceny in her body.

To me, it was because
of this picture

of a new life that would be
rich and expensive.

You know, older guys
that seemed to have money,

plenty of young girls' heads
would be turned,

and they were charming,

and he was already
a celebrity crook.

They selected those girls,
purposely picked them up,

and knew what they were
gonna do to those girls.

They knew
what they were gonna do.

[Jack] So, I move
a bunch of this stuff,

but there are still
groups of this stuff

that I can't--
I don't know what to do with,

and I'm waiting
for money to come in.

And so, well, meanwhile,

I've got to
make some more money.

[Edna Buchanan] Olive Wofford,

she was one of the socialites.

She had a lot of nice jewelry.
She was a widow.

Her husband owned hotels.

He had the Wofford Hotel
and a bunch of others.

[Sonny Grech] She was
a Miami Beach socialite

and lived in this big house
across the bay.

Ton of jewelry.

[suspenseful instrumental
playing]

[Edna Buchanan] It was Sunday,
sunny day, really nice out.

Wofford, she was home
with a maid in the house,

and her little niece.

A truck comes up,
like, a delivery truck.

[Jack]
We drive down the driveway,

and we get out.

[Edna Buchanan] They tell them
they had a delivery.

[Bobby Greenwood] We knock on
the door, and we go in,

and put the pistol
in her face.

Said, "Hello, this is
a robbery, get down."

[Edna Buchanan]
Murphy was wearing a mask

made out of a woman's
pair of underwear

to cover his face
because his face

was so well-known.

Then they went in the kitchen,
and they boiled water,

and they showed Olive Wofford
the boiling water,

and they were going to pour it
on her little niece's face.

♪♪♪

[Jack] Nobody knew
that underneath the carpet,

right near the safe,
there was a button under there.

So when she gets to the safe
to open the safe,

she puts her knee
on this button,

and it sets off
the alarm downtown.

[Edna Buchanan] The police
were on the way, instantly.

[sirens wailing]

[Jack] I looked down
this long driveway.

Here they come pouring in.
Here come the police.

I said, "Fire in the hole."
We got company."

[Bobby Greenwood] They got every
cop from Miami Beach there.

[Nate Scott]
The authorities come,

and then, it just turns
into a scene out of, like,

a Marx Brothers movie.

[siren wails]

[Jack]
So, we go out the back door,

and I have to go out
through a window,

because there's locks
on all the doors.

[Inez Lyles] He drove out,

broke the sliding glass door,
and ran.

[Jack] The police
kept running around the house,

"Stop or we'll shoot!"

Well, that's not anything
that I want to hear.

[gunshots blasting]

[Bobby Greenwood]
Murphy was shooting at the cops,

[gunshot blasts]

[Jack]
I emptied out that. 45

in that desperate attempt to--
to get away.

So I'd fire on 'em,

and they fall down
behind some trees.

And I'm holding them
behind the trees

while my partners get away.

[gunshots blasting]

I ain't looking
to shoot and kill anybody.

You don't want to do that.

That's another level of madness
right there.

[gunshots blasting]

I shot between them there

just to let them know,
"Don't do that. Don't do that."

But they were trying
to shoot and kill me.

[gunshots blasting]

I don't want to kill
one of these guys,

because I'll go
to the electric chair.

[Edna Buchanan]
The cops were, like,

closing in from both sides.

[Nate Scott] And eventually,
all four are caught.

Jack's covered in blood.

[Jack] I ended up
going to the hospital

and getting stitched up.

[Edna Buchanan] I get to the ER,
and there he was,

sitting in a chair,

handcuffed to the chair
on one side.

A doctor was, like,
in front of him,

sewing up a big gash
in his knee.

And I said,
"Jack, what happened?"

And he said,
"I cut myself shaving."

What a great quote.

You know, I was the only one
who had it in the morning paper.

[John McNally]
Here's the guy that

if he had all that
going for him,

you know, I really feel sorry

that he didn't just
pursue that line

instead of going out
and doing all those burglaries.

And then when I saw
a picture of him in the paper,

with bandages all over his face

and everything, I said,
"He's a common criminal."

[Edna Buchanan] This is when
he lost his following.

I mean,
this isn't Robin Hood anymore.

You know, it got pretty ugly.

[Frank Donnelly]
He did seem changed.

He had a harder edge to him,

and his crimes
took a more violent stance.

Now he was threatening people.

Now he was pulling guns
on people.

[Nate Scott]
We love to make celebrity,

and then we sort of like
to watch that decline.

[reporter 1] "Murf the Surf"
violently lashed out today,

hitting a news photographer
while being held in custody...

[reporter 2]
Jack Murphy, once notorious

for his Beach Boy image

and the daring
Star of India heist,

now sits in a Miami prison cell.

[reporter 1] His accomplices
reportedly threatened to pour

boiling water on Mrs. Wofford's
eight year old niece.

[Dr. Rothenberg]
It's my professional opinion

that Mr. Murphy
is emotionally ill

and requires
long-term, intensive,

inpatient psychotherapy.

Diagnostic impression
at this time

is schizophrenic reaction,
paranoid type.

[Jack] They adjudicate me
as incompetent to stand trial

because I don't have a clue
as to what's going on.

[Nate Scott]
The lawyers basically painted it

as an insanity plea.

He did this because he doesn't
know right from wrong

and he's mentally imbalanced.

Murph was declared
legally insane by a judge.

[officer] Murphy now is, uh,
for all intents and purposes,

in the custody
or under the jurisdiction

of Judge Stedman
and solely Judge Stedman.

[Jack] And so they sent me
to the state hospital.

[Jack Nageley]
I'll tell you, I wouldn't stay

in that South Florida
State Hospital for one night,

I'd kill myself.

Murphy would shout to him,
"Cookie, cookie!"

And every time he said "cookie,"
the guy went into a fit.

An inmate
was talking to him and said,

"Murphy, do you believe
in reincarnation?"

Murphy said, "Yes."

And that night,
that guy killed himself.

Committed suicide.

Murphy learned then

that people were
looking up to him

and listening to him.

His image of himself
is what kept him going.

He's "Murf the Surf."

[sentimental
instrumental playing]

[suspenseful
instrumental playing]

[Jack Nageley] The two girls
at the brokerage in Los Angeles,

they had sent half a million
dollars in securities

to Murphy to-- for disposal.

When they didn't get any money
from either one of them,

they said,
"You give us the money,

or we're gonna
blow the whistle."

And Murphy's comment was "fine."

Tell them to go fuck themselves.

♪♪♪

[Meryl Gordon] Some fishermen
were fishing in Whiskey Creek,

and they see this foot
sticking up out of the water.

[Corey Kilgannon]
The bathing suit-clad bodies

of two women
were pulled from the waterway

known as
Whiskey Creek yesterday.

[Edna Buchanan]
The bodies had been identified

as 22-year-old Terry Rae Frank

and 21-year-old
Annelie Marie Mohn.

[Nate Scott] It appears
that one of, if not both,

was hit hard
on the back of the head,

which the coroner
seemed to suggest

was a surprise attack
on the women from behind.

They also had stab marks,

so there was a knife
involved as well,

and a gun, actually,
one of the women

who apparently kept fighting
had been shot through the neck.

[Frank Donnelly] Police say that
Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy

knew the women
whose bodies were found

in Whiskey Creek last week.

[Edna Buchanan]
Details are still forthcoming.

[Jack Nageley] He's in
South Florida State Hospital.

And while he's up there,

State Attorney in Broward County
charged him with murder.

[Meryl Gordon] So one day

you're representing a guy,
who gets into a shootout,

and then the next day
you find out

that you're representing
in a murder?

[Jack Nageley] Yeah.

[Meryl Gordon]
Did Jack tell you

whether he was guilty or not?

[Jack Nageley] Never said it.

Never said a word.
Never asked him.

[Nate Scott] And now another man
named Jack comes into play.

Jack Griffith.

Jack Griffith
was a dangerous, violent man.

There were multiple people
who implied to me

that he could
and had killed with his hands.

[Jack] Jack Griffith

was the United States
Karate Judo champion,

the highest-ranking Caucasian
martial artist in America.

He was a real good buddy
of mine.

[Sonny Grech]
He was extremely dangerous.

I mean, the cops
were afraid of him.

[Nate Scott]
It's sort of the word

of Murphy and Jack Griffith

about what happened
on that boat.

Murphy has tried
to distance himself

from every touch point
with the story

as much as humanly possible.

[Corey Kilgannon]
Beach boy, thief,

athlete, bandit,
ladies' man, suspected murderer.

Will the real Jack Roland Murphy
please stand up?

[John McNally] The bodies
of the victims were found

over the--
over the row of mangroves

in the--what is known
as Whiskey Creek.

One body was found
on the east side of the canal.

One was found on the west side.

Both of them anchored down
with concrete blocks,

both of them wearing swimsuits.

Both had deep lacerations
in their scalps,

deep skull depressions.

They were both badly mutilated
in the abdominal area

with a sharp knife of some type.

Uh, Annelie Mohn was also shot
through the left shoulder

at a downward angle

and the bullet wound up
inside her rib cage.

We have determined that
the best course of action

to bring about the trial
of Jack Murphy,

known as "Murf The Surf"

for murder in Broward County,

would be to dismiss the cases
that were pending against Murphy

before Judge Carling Stedman
in Dade County,

and that he can be brought
to trial

for the Whiskey Creek murder

for which he has been indicted
in Broward County.

The question of his sanity

will now be resolved
by Broward County judges.

[eerie music playing]

[Nate Scott] The lawyers
basically said he did this

because he doesn't know
right from wrong

and he's mentally imbalanced.

And maybe that was real.

He will plead not guilty.

Not guilty by reason of insanity
at the time of the arraignment

and not guilty by reason
of insanity

at the time of the commission
of the offense.

[Edna Buchanan] Jury selection
is underway here today

in Broward County Circuit Court

for the high-profile
murder trial

involving the world-famous
surfer and jewel thief

Jack Murphy.

If convicted, Murphy, 31,
could be put to death

by the electric chair.

Murphy's codefendant,
Jack Griffith,

a local karate teacher,

is charged
with second degree murder

and has pleaded not guilty.

Both men say they are confident

that a jury
will find them innocent.

[Edward Stephany clears throat]

If it pleases the court,
Mr. Nageley, Mr. Russell,

ladies and gentlemen
of the jury,

today we begin
what you have known before

to be the Whiskey Creek
murder trial.

As of this morning, it's the
case of the State of Florida

versus Jack Murphy
and Jack Griffith.

The state is gonna prove to you

that Jack Murphy
and Jack Griffith

did together kill this girl,
Terry Frank.

We're gonna prove to you that
this girl was beat upon the head

and that a wire
was tied around her neck

and attached to a cement block
and put in the water,

where she was held down
underneath the water.

You will also find that her
stomach was cut open and gashed.

We're gonna show you that
there is a premeditated design

to effect the death
of this girl,

that there will be
no doubt in your minds

that these two men
wanted this girl to die.

She died horribly.
She was meant to die.

They planned to kill her,

and that Jack Griffith
and Jack Murphy

did, in fact, kill this girl.

[Frank Donnelly]
Murphy's attorney, Jack Nageley

argued that Murphy
needed psychiatric help

to prevent "full-blown
psychosis and suicide."

Claiming Murphy was influenced
by a schizophrenogenic mother

and a father who refused to
allow him to have an identity.

He said Murphy needed

society's approval
and recognition

and also added that Murphy
is a latent homosexual.

Nageley says that he will prove

there are better suspects
in the murder than Murphy,

but "Murphy is good
because he is "Murf The Surf."

With Murphy
now pleading innocent

by reason of insanity,
Nageley added,

"You have to be out of your bird
to pull a caper like that.

"We are saying
that we didn't do it,

and on that day he was
insane anyway."

[Dustin Dunn]
Just past the sunken boat

we found the first body.

It was floating face-down.
With the moon out,

the body stuck out
like a sore thumb.

We proceeded to
the Sandpiper Lounge

in order to find
the Hollywood police.

We went back to the area
with the police.

One of them had a flashlight.

He scanned the area

and found the second body
on the opposite bank.

[David Haggerty] The first body
was a white female

in a bathing suit.

She had several lacerations
on her abdomen,

and there was a cord
tied around her neck

attached to a cement block.

The second body
was also a white female

with similar lacerations.

[Frank Donnelly]
Day two of

the "Murf The Surf" trial
is underway.

Today we're expecting to hear
firsthand eyewitness accounts

of who was last seen
with the victims

shortly before they were
found dead in Whiskey Creek.

[Cheryl Lawrence] He was having
trouble starting the boat.

I screamed, "What's the matter?"

And Jack said
he had run out of gas.

I didn't pay much attention to
who was in the boat with him.

[Linda Ousley] My boss
and myself by this time

had arrived at the end of
the dock to offer assistance.

The man approached the dock,

and at that time I noticed
that the boat was occupied

by three individuals.

I reached down
to offer assistance

and immediately recognized
the man in the water

as Jack "Murf The Surf" Murphy,

who I had the occasion
to meet at a private party.

[Nate Scott] Linda Ousley
is key in her testimony.

She put the four of them
together in a boat

a day before these two women

were found dead
and weighed down.

She was two feet away.

[Edna Buchanan]
The trial continues

in its third day today

with the medical examiner
revealing his findings.

[Dr. Haugen]
She died as a result

of traumatic head injuries.

Two rib cartilages were severed

and the liver
was slightly punctured.

The body
was in terminal stages of life,

what we would call
the agonal stage.

[Corey Kilgannon]
Dr. R. K. Haugen described

the horrific manner in which
the women were killed.

A color autopsy photograph
was passed between the jurors.

The gruesome details
forced one spectator

to run out of the courtroom

where she reportedly
vomited on the floor.

[Nate Scott] Even though these
women had been beaten and shot,

it was actually them
being held underwater

which eventually killed them.

They were weighted down
with wire and weights.

The men, obviously, however,

were not thinking about the tide
which went out the next day.

[Edna Buchanan] The trial
enters its fifth day today.

Testimony is expected

from some of Murf's
trusted inner circle.

[Jack] My girlfriend,
Connie, was on the run.

They were looking for her

to witness in
the Whiskey Creek stuff.

[Frank Donnelly] Murphy's
girlfriend, Connie Hopen,

was forced to take the stand,

but it was more about
what she didn't say

rather than what she did say.

[Edward Stephany] Miss Hopen,
do you know Jack Murphy?

[Connie Hopen] I respectfully
refuse to answer on the grounds

that my answers
may tend to incriminate me,

contrary to my rights

under the Fifth Amendment of
the United States Constitution

and the Constitution
of the State of Florida.

[Edward Stephany] Do you not
wish to answer the question?

[Connie Hopen] No.

[Edward Stephany]
Your answer is no.

[Connie Hopen] No.

[Nate Scott] Kenny "The Cat"
first met Jack

when they served time
at Rikers Island

right around the time
of the Whiskey Creek trial.

Kenny "The Cat" was arrested
for some unrelated robbery.

Kenny cut a deal
and started talking.

[prosecutor] All right, Kenny,

what time of the morning was it
on December the 8th

when you and Murphy and Griffith
got together in the apartment?

[Kenny] Jack left early
in the morning at the house

to visit his dad, I believe.

He got off the boat, and he got
up very early in the morning,

and he came back with Griffith.

I'd say it was approximately
10:30 or so.

[prosecutor] And who was
at the apartment then?

[Kenny]
Myself, Connie, the two girls,

and Jack and Jack.

[prosecutor]
Where was the conversation

held between you
and Griffith and Murphy?

[Kenny]
In the living room.

[prosecutor] And where were
the girls at that time?

[Kenny] The two girls
were in their bedroom

getting their bathing suits on
and then out of the bathroom.

[prosecutor]
And where was Connie Hopen?

[Kenny]
She was in living room with us.

[prosecutor] Did she have any
prior knowledge before this--

[Kenny] Oh, yeah, well,

she knew that two girls
were going to die.

-[prosecutor] She knew that?
-[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor] Right, now,

when did the girls
come out of the room?

[Kenny clears throat]

Just a few minutes
before they left.

They said we're ready,
and Jack said,

"Well, wait a minute. I have
to take care of something."

Possibly he might have gotten
my gun, I don't know.

[prosecutor] Well,
which room was the gun in?

[Kenny] I think
it was in Jack's bedroom.

[prosecutor]
Did you give him a gun?

[Kenny] No, I've just
been keeping it there.

-[prosecutor] In his room?
-[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor]
In a drawer or what?

[Kenny]
No, in between the mattress.

[prosecutor]
In between the mattress.

What was the caliber
of this gun?

[Kenny] .32 caliber.

[prosecutor] Did you see
the gun after that?

[Kenny]
No, I haven't seen it since.

[prosecutor]
Did you look for it?

[Kenny] No.

[prosecutor] What did you do
after they left the apartment?

[Kenny] I immediately
started to clean up.

[prosecutor] But did they
tell you to do this?

[Kenny]
No. I knew I had to do it.

We had discussed it earlier.

[prosecutor]
And that was your part of--

[Kenny]
Yeah. I was going to clean up.

[prosecutor]
And what did you do?

[Kenny] Well, Benjamin
and two girls were staying,

and I cleaned up
all their stuff,

I started emptying out
all their luggage

and sorted it, you know, the--

I took the papers.

Anything that was
immediately burnable.

There were letters
to a probation officer

and all kinds of passports
and all kinds of junk.

[prosecutor]
When Murphy came back...

what was his appearance
at that time?

[Kenny] Uh, he had his shirt off
and he was carrying it.

It was wet.
There were bloodstains on it.

[prosecutor] There was
bloodstains on his shirt?

Was there any other
bloodstains on his person?

[Kenny] No.

[prosecutor]
Somewhere in the car?

[Kenny]
No, no. I don't think so.

[prosecutor]
Why was the car cleaned up?

[Kenny]
Well, fingerprints and hairs.

[prosecutor] Did you ask
anything when he came back?

[Kenny]
Yeah, I asked him how'd it go.

[prosecutor]
And what did he say?

-[Kenny] Wrong.
-[prosecutor] Wrong?

[Kenny] Yeah.

[prosecutor] Did he clarify
what he meant by wrong?

[Kenny] No, he assumed
that I understood him.

[prosecutor] Yeah.

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

[Nate Scott]
These two women who just...

did not conform
to that era's idea

of what women should be.

And because of that,

the two women
were just sort of made

into be
2D caricature stock images

of just sort of young,
pretty secretaries.

They just weren't given
their own narrative.

And because of that,
they just sort of became

these kind of specters.

And that sort of led
to media coverage,

which was unfair at best

and downright malicious
at worst.

[Inez Lyles] Annelie--
she romanticized everything.

She was still hopeful.
She was still young.

She was open.

That's why she got hurt.

One of the things that
frightens me about America.

People keep killing people
that are supposed to love them.

[Frank Donnelly]
Mental health experts

who have analyzed
and observed Jack Murphy

will testify to
his psychological state of mind

at the time of the murder.

The big question
on everyone's mind--

"Is Jack Murphy insane?"

[Dr. David Rothenberg]
He blushed

when inquiries were made
about his mother.

When we pray
and we speak to God,

we may feel guidance,

but with Mr. Murphy,
it is a two-way conversation.

[Dr. Michael Gilbert] Murphy
does not know the difference

between right and wrong

because his conception of right
and wrong is distorted.

He feels like he is the Messiah.

He feels that one
of the great contributions

that he's going to make
to society

is to teach people about crime.

[Dr. Geraldine Boozer]
He has the idea

everybody is against him,

everybody is out to hurt him.

He has a Jehovah complex.
He is the Messiah.

He is superior to anyone else

and has powers above those
of an ordinary mortal.

Mr. Murphy does not want
to be considered psychotic

or anything else than perfect.

[Dr. Arnold Eichert] Mr. Murphy
is a mixed-up man emotionally,

but I do not think

that Mr. Murphy
was at any time insane.

He said he felt
he was involved in a game

being played by his lawyers.

[Jack]
I was the most highly examined

psychiatrically
evaluated criminal

in world history at one time.

They just kept running,
running, running

these batteries on me.

I can make those things
go any way that I want.

What answer would Liberace give
to every one of these tests?

So I'd go in there,
and I'd be Liberace.

The next day, they'd have me
in front of another doctor.

What would Fidel Castro say?

This time I'd be Elvis
or I'd be Sinatra.

I'm just gaming with them,
giving them enough stuff

to scratch their heads with.

If you really know
what you're doing

and if you're trying to stay
out of the electric chair,

you really put
some effort into it.

It isn't just
a lightweight game.

[Frank Donnelly]
The psychiatrist testified

that Murphy had all these

different religious images
of himself

and that sometimes
he would wonder out loud

if he was God himself.

Friends describe
how he would walk around

dressed up like a monk,
blessing people.

[Corey Kilgannon] With
the closing arguments completed,

now it rests
in the jury's hands.

[Jack] Jury met.

And I was convicted
on one of those murders.

[Edna Buchanan] The prosecution

is pushing
for the death penalty.

Requesting that the jurors
show Murphy no mercy.

[gallery murmuring]

[Jack]
I'm sitting in the courtroom,

and they're trying to put me
in the electric chair.

You wonder,
how did you get there?

And what's gonna happen?

Describing Murphy
as a public enemy

who never again
should enjoy the free world

of a law-abiding society,

Judge Stedman has sentenced
the former beach boy

turned jewel thief and murderer

to life imprisonment
and 20 years at hard labor.

Suffice it to say that Murphy
will be a very old man

if and when he is ever released.

Unless Murphy
can achieve some sort of

Birdman of Alcatraz fame,

his public exposure
is at an end.

Now he'll just be another number
at Raiford State Prison.

["I Don't Like The Man I Am"
by Pete Molinari playing]

[Jack] That murder charge,
that was a life sentence.

And then I had
another robbery sentence.

That was a life sentence
and 20 years

because I had a gunfight
with the police.

The judge said,
"It's only because

"of the jury's recommendation

that we don't put you
in the electric chair."

♪ I ain't got the belief♪

♪ It feels like
I'm going beneath♪

[Michael Hamm]
Bottom line was that, you know,

Murphy wasn't the triggerman.

[Michael Hamm] He told me
he didn't kill that girl.

Murphy would claim that

he didn't have anything
to do with it,

and I don't think he did.

[Corey Kilgannon]
He said he was there,

but he had nothing
to do with it.

And he didn't know it was
going to go down like that.

[Domenic Fusco] I can actually
see Jack driving the boat

because he takes control.

I can't imagine why Jack
would shoot the girls

and be involved in the murder.
I can't imagine that.

[Jack] All they had
was hearsay evidence.

And that's not what this movie
or documentary is about.

It's another crime story.

If you want a crime story,
I'm the wrong guy.

♪ ...don't wanna be led ♪

I'm not going to elaborate

and go through
some psychiatric evaluation

on why did you do this
and who did that and what--

And what you have there
is what you have.

♪ Oh, I can't love you♪

♪ I really don't think
That I can♪

[Inez Lyles] The way
that those girls were killed

was unnecessarily brutal.

Prolonged.

Causing much suffering.

Why?

Why make them suffer so much?

If you're going to kill 'em,
kill 'em.

They were shot,
they were stabbed,

they were drowned.

They suffered.

And he does not
acknowledge that.

♪ But lonely understand♪

♪ The type of man that I am♪

♪ But I don't believe
That I can♪

♪ Oh, I never drew the plan♪

[Jack] My parole date
was in the year 2244,

and the word was
that I'd die in prison.

That was from the judges,
that was from my attorneys,

that was from everybody.

But Jesus Christ
makes a difference.

♪♪♪

[surf rock playing]