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[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[people clamoring]

- I have nothing other than a dead woman in the apartment.

- How about we go somewhere else and talk away

from around here where won't nobody see you talking to me?

- This is how it works.

This is how we solve murders.

- A Homicide unit would be nothing

without the valuable experience of their seasoned veterans.

- If he handled it, his DNA's gonna be all over it, though.

- Yeah.

- If you saw it, you need to tell it, son.

- These detectives have spent decades on the job

honing their skills.

- I've been doing this for 17 years.

- And they pass on their critical knowledge

to up-and-coming investigators.

- Lot of times, they'll pull the pants down

because they hide their drugs and money.

- Tonight on "The First 48: Critical Minutes: The Pros."

- Right up on him, right here.

- Let's go file a case.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- When you're a rookie, you are moving

at 100 miles an hour,

and you have problems processing things sometimes.

The longer you go and the more seasons you begin at this,

it does not matter how fast things are moving around you.

You learn how to process it better.

You learn how to pace yourself.

You learn how to receive information.

As a pro, you pick a direction to go in.

♪ ♪

narrator: Patrol checks the woman's apartment.

Inside, they find her facedown in her bedroom,

dead.

♪ ♪

- OK, thanks.

Yeah, I'm on my way.

Bye.

Family was just notified by patrol officers

that their mother's been killed.

narrator: Detective Dale Lundberg,

on Homicide for seven years,

will lead the investigation.

♪ ♪

- What do you got?

- About 9:00 a.m., the daughter starts calling Mom.

- Right.

- Mom's usually real good about calling back

if she's on the phone.

No one's heard from her since then,

according to the daughter.

- And that's when they get the manager to open up?

- Yeah.

We just got the warrant signed,

and we're about to make entry into the apartment.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

♪ ♪

narrator: The victim

is 50-year-old Stephanie Cathcart.

She lived with her husband and had 4 children

and 13 grandchildren.

She worked several jobs to support her family.

♪ ♪

- You know, look at all the blood coming out of her ears.

♪ ♪

You know, so she's probably got a fractured skull.

♪ ♪

You know, what gets me is just the lack of a struggle.

She looks like she would have put up a fight...

- Oh, she definitely would have.

- If she'd have had the-- if she'd have had the chance.

This is the only splatter.

You got a little back stuff over here.

But there's nothing up high.

♪ ♪

I think he was down low hitting her with something.

- I know.

She was already down when that happened.

- I'm gonna want several blood samples from that

just in case whoever was assaulting her

had his hand cut or anything else.

- I'll take a bunch of DNA swabs.

♪ ♪

narrator: The team searches for a possible murder weapon.

♪ ♪

- Maybe we're lucky enough to find a murder weapon.

- [chuckles]

♪ ♪

- Don't think so.

- Nothing.

♪ ♪

I need to try to find an Aunt Tara.

- Colleen talked with her.

- She's over there.

♪ ♪

- Tara, I am so sorry.

I'm Detective Lundberg.

I'm in charge of this investigation.

- OK.

- Would you mind going back to my car with me?

- Sure. - My car is back.

♪ ♪

narrator: Stephanie's sister Tara

was the last family member

to see her alive the night before.

- Just have a seat in there, please.

♪ ♪

Tell me about last night.

- Well, we was watching TV, conversating.

narrator: Tara says they were hanging out at her apartment.

- We didn't know that it was actually that late

when he called her.

narrator: She says that Stephanie's husband, Calvin,

called at around midnight.

- But he called her and asked her,

"Do you know what time it is?"

narrator: According to Tara, Calvin was angry

that Stephanie was out so late

and wanted her to come home.

- So she said, "That must be my cue to go on and go."

♪ ♪

And that was the last time I talked to her.

♪ ♪

Her and him had been having a lot of problems

for many months.

♪ ♪

narrator: She tells Lundberg

to talk to Stephanie's daughter Tanya.

♪ ♪

- Where's Tanya?

narrator: Lundberg turns to the victim's daughter

to get more information about her father.

- I know something terrible just happened,

and I am so terribly sorry.

But I need to ask you a couple of questions.

Has he ever tried to hurt your mom before?

- No, but he spoke that to me.

narrator: According to Latanya,

her father threatened to kill her mother

if he caught her cheating.

- When did he say that?

- About three weeks ago.

So we've been feeling this, you know?

♪ ♪

- What kind of stuff does he do?

- He...

narrator: According to Latanya,

her father was stealing from her mother

to support a drug habit.

- He's a carpenter.

He pawned his tools, and he called me

and asked me to give him the money to get his tools out.

narrator: She says her father

may have taken her mother's car.

- It's a Cadillac STS, blue, trimmed in silver.

And she don't allow nobody to drive that car.

I mean, not to move it out the street, not to do nothing.

narrator: She says her mother had the only set of keys

to the Cadillac.

- Do you know where he might go?

- South Dallas.

- Anywhere in particular in South Dallas?

- He from South Dallas.

Anywhere up and down Malcolm X, you should find him.

Any of them little side rinky-dink apartments,

that's where he go.

And if the car is there, he is there.

- OK.

OK, Ms. Jones. I appreciate your time.

- Mm-hmm.

♪ ♪

- We need to get everything we can out about him.

We need to get the car.

narrator: Lundberg alerts patrol to be on the lookout

for the victim's husband, Calvin Cathcart,

and the missing Cadillac.

- 2005 CTS Cadillac.

- One of the family members said

that he always carries a hammer.

It's a miniature Thor hammer.

- Really?

OK.

Where's the family members?

- This is us right here. - Oh, OK.

It's real important that we try to find Calvin.

- OK.

- We're gonna need you all's help with this.

- Oh, we will help you. Believe me. Trust me.

- Oh, I do believe you. - Trust me.

- We don't know if Calvin's involved in this or not,

but he lives here.

We need to talk to him.

If anyone's seen him or heard from him,

if anyone lives by where--

where he might go to hang out, you all have my cards.

Give me a call.

♪ ♪

- [sobbing]

♪ ♪

narrator: Back at Homicide...

♪ ♪

- It looks like he had an attempt murder conviction

from about 20 years ago.

He's been out seven years.

♪ ♪

Right now, we just need to find him.

♪ ♪

I have nothing other than a dead woman in an apartment

and a husband who's not there.

- They are married, like, legitimately married?

- Yup. - Any fight?

I mean, is this like a--

- No signs of a struggle or fight at all.

So, you know, I think she was just knocked down

and whacked with something.

One of the family members told one of the officers

out at the scene that he always carries something

that looks like Thor's hammer.

Looks like Mjolnir.

- Hold on, you know the name of Thor's hammer?

- [chuckles] Yes.

OK, I read Norse mythology as a kid.

- OK, for sure. - You betcha. Yah, sure.

♪ ♪

narrator: The next day...

- We're heading out to the auto pound to look at the vehicle.

narrator: Patrol found the victim's missing Cadillac

parked in a South Dallas neighborhood.

- Hopefully we'll find something

that may lead us to the identity of the person

who killed Ms. Cathcart.

♪ ♪

It looks like there's a tool bag in there.

♪ ♪

[engine rumbling]

♪ ♪

narrator: CSI dusts the exterior of the car,

looking for a usable print.

♪ ♪

- Holy--

♪ ♪

- Where was it, in the blue bag?

- Yeah, in the blue bag.

♪ ♪

- Good little find there, buddy.

- Thanks.

♪ ♪

- That's a Thor hammer, right?

- Yeah.

narrator: There is blood

in the plastic bag and on the hammer.

- It's wet, so you're not gonna get any fingerprints on it.

- His DNA could be all over the hammer.

- Yeah, but--yeah, if he handled it,

his DNA's gonna be all over it, though.

- Yeah.

We no longer have to worry about searching

for a possible murder weapon

'cause now I think we have it.

♪ ♪

The next step we're gonna have is to find family members

and have them describe the hammer more in detail

to make sure that there is no doubt

that this is the hammer that Calvin always carried.

♪ ♪

[line rings]

♪ ♪

OK.

♪ ♪

I appreciate you speaking to me, sir.

♪ ♪

The brother says that that's a hammer

that Calvin always carries.

- Really? Was the keys in the car, Dale?

- Nope.

- The only other person that's--

- Has the keys.

- Who has the key is gonna be him.

- Yeah. - Yup.

- I think you getting ready to hit money, Dale.

♪ ♪

narrator: A few hours later, police track down Calvin

in South Dallas and bring him to Homicide for questioning.

- We found him in his mother's apartment.

- OK.

- These are the only keys he had on him.

- Any of these look like car keys to you?

- No.

- His wife has a separate set of car keys

because he's not allowed to drive her car.

- They may still be there,

but that's all he had in his pocket.

♪ ♪

- OK.

I'm Detective Lundberg, and there are some questions

that I have for you.

Where do you work at?

- One of your daughters said that you had

to get rid of a lot of your tools recently.

- Mm-hmm.

- You had to sell them or pawn them or something.

Why was that?

- It's that bad?

- How did you get down to South Dallas?

♪ ♪

- When's the last time you saw your wife?

narrator: Calvin claims the last time he saw Stephanie

was two days before.

- OK.

Was she real upset with you and--

and what was going on with you and your addiction?

- Yeah. - Yeah?

- She was what?

- Well, she loved you.

♪ ♪

- Yeah, well, she loved you,

but she was upset with you, wasn't she?

- What was she?

- You thought she was cheating on you?

- So you thought she was being unfaithful?

Did you ever catch them?

- When you think of Stephanie, what comes to your mind?

- You love her?

- There you are. You're down on your luck.

You've got that monkey on your back.

And you're trying to get your tools back so that you can--

you can earn a living.

And you're worried about, you know,

is the woman that you've loved all these years

being faithful to you?

Is that a pretty fair and accurate description

of how the last few months have been for you?

♪ ♪

No?

Why don't you tell me what the last few months

have been for you?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- OK.

I will ask you a couple things, though,

see if you'll consent to a few things.

I would like consent to look inside your mom's apartment.

Would you consent to that?

- I know, but I'd like consent to search your mom's house

for a certain item.

- OK.

- It takes patience. It takes skill.

It takes a different level of understanding

to be able to go into a room

and extract a confession from someone

who's reluctant to talk to you.

But sometimes a confession is not always that "I did it."

Sometimes a confession is,

"Here are the circumstances around this."

But it takes skill to do that.

I think this investigator realized,

"I'm never gonna get a confession from this person,

"so let me get enough information

"that I can be able to put together a case,

"albeit it might be a circumstantial case,

but let me get a conviction on this person."

♪ ♪

- I hope that we find the keys

that belong to Stephanie's Cadillac

in that apartment.

♪ ♪

Hey, buddy. How you doing?

♪ ♪

Dallas Police. Anybody here?

♪ ♪

Hey, hey. This is her car keys.

♪ ♪

I know that's her car keys.

♪ ♪

Well, laying on the bed was a man's leather coat.

On top of the leather coat

is a set of keys.

The keys are for a Cadillac.

We're going out to the auto pound

to see if the keys start the car.

♪ ♪

[engine turning over]

Now, that's a beautiful-sounding engine.

Let's go file a case.

♪ ♪

[touch tones beeping]

Hello, Latanya.

narrator: Lundberg calls the victim's daughter

to tell her about Calvin.

- I just wanted to let you know

that it's your father

who's being arrested for your mother's murder.

- OK.

- OK.

- We'll talk to you later, Ms. Jones.

Bye-bye.

♪ ♪

Usually you're happy when you inform a family member

that the person who killed their loved one's in jail.

This one's kind of sad

because it's a loved one who killed them.

♪ ♪

- Out of all the times that I've had in my career,

I always reflect back in Homicide.

And in this particular case, you had Caroline and Max and I

all basically started our careers

at virtually the same time.

We all had went through the academy together.

We all just miraculously ended up in Homicide together.

Caroline is a tenacious interrogator.

Max, he has the ability to go out into the community

and establish relationships with people.

He has that no-quit attitude.

And both of them together, we had an awesome team.

I had the luxury of watching veteran detectives

and learn from their mistakes.

And I've also learned from their victories as well.

That was probably one of the most rewarding times

that I've had in my 27-year career.

♪ ♪

narrator: 7:00 a.m., Memphis, Tennessee.

At a trailer park in the middle of town,

a woman calls 911.

When police arrive,

they find a man in the parking lot,

dead.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- This is the trailer park

in the central part of the city.

You got people from all walks of life

and a lot of illegal activity that goes on over here.

♪ ♪

- Got a male, Black, shot multiple times.

narrator: Sergeant Terry Max has 19 years

with the Memphis Police Department.

He will lead the investigation.

- Well, I had talked to a female officer earlier,

and she found that female who called 911.

She said that Trap is dead.

He'd been shot in the head.

narrator: 35-year-old Lee "Trap" Davis

was a Memphis native.

He grew up in the neighborhood.

♪ ♪

- Oh, yeah, he shot him right.

I mean, this guy's got a lot of bullet holes in him.

narrator: Investigators find six small-caliber

shell casings near the victim.

- They actually executed this guy right here.

♪ ♪

The perpetrator knows their target,

because that's the only person that can get

right up on them-- right up on them, right here.

♪ ♪

narrator: Sergeants Max and Mason

canvass the area near the crime scene.

- Morning. - What can y'all tell us?

- I wouldn't know, see, 'cause I stay in myself, you know,

'cause I know how this trailer park is

and, you know, this area.

- We all know what goes on. - Yeah.

narrator: A friend of the victim comes forward.

- There was four people here, I think, last night.

narrator: He says the victim was in his trailer last night

with two sex workers and another man.

- Something like that.

narrator: He gives them the name of one of the women,

Bailey Mason.

♪ ♪

- Let's see what we got here.

♪ ♪

She's 29,

has a very lengthy arrest history for prostitution.

♪ ♪

narrator: Max sends out patrol to pick up Bailey Mason.

[siren wailing]

♪ ♪

- Hey, girl. - Hey. How are you, sir?

- How you doing?

- I'm OK.

- Why do you think you're here?

- Mr. Davis got murdered right beside my house.

It had nothing to do with me,

or I don't know who would do it.

♪ ♪

- OK, who were you with in the trailer?

- Me and Trap.

narrator: Bailey says she was with Trap

in the trailer last night.

- Blow sleeping on the couch.

narrator: A man nicknamed "Blow"

and his girlfriend were also in the trailer.

- At what time?

♪ ♪

- Probably around 2:30 or 3:00,

something like that.

- Then what happened?

- We left right after him, about...

narrator: She says she went to sleep at a friend's place,

leaving the others alone.

♪ ♪

- Did anybody get into an argument?

- No.

- But something happened

for somebody to get mad enough at this [bleep] to kill him.

narrator: Bailey thinks Blow may have shot Trap

after fighting over Blow's girlfriend.

- Blow doesn't like him.

No one does--likes Trap.

- Who is Blow?

- Blow, I think his name is Vershawn.

♪ ♪

narrator: Max searches for Blow's real name.

♪ ♪

- Vershawn McCoy.

He's been arrested with a pistol charge,

some possession of drug charges.

Bailey thinks a guy named Blow

may have had a reason to killing Trap.

And what we need right now is to find somebody

who saw this murder.

♪ ♪

- The neighborhood where this trailer park is located

is kind of drug-infested.

There's a lot of high crime.

People over here are kind of apprehensive

about talking to the police

for fear that they'll be shot.

Hopefully we can find some people willing to talk to us.

♪ ♪

Be this one.

[banging on door]

[knocking on door]

[dog barking]

- Hey. How you doing?

- All right.

narrator: They find someone who may have information

about the shooting...

- Come here a minute.

narrator: But she is afraid to talk.

- Have a seat back here.

♪ ♪

- How about we go somewhere else and talk away

from around here where won't nobody see you talking to me?

How about that? - I'm fearful.

- I think you're nervous about talking to me over here,

and I understand that.

♪ ♪

Can we go somewhere else and talk?

♪ ♪

- You have to understand that we don't get to choose

the people that we talk to when a homicide occurs.

And one of the things that we have to ensure people of

is that "I'm not here to judge you."

Some investigators tend to talk down on people

because of whatever lifestyle that they've chosen.

So it takes a skilled investigator

to be able to push through all that

because at the end of the day,

here to extract information.

♪ ♪

narrator: Back at Homicide...

- Did you see a dead body this morning?

- Yeah. - That's Trap.

- Why didn't you tell me?

- I'm scared.

Do you think I want to get my head blown off?

I don't know-- I do not know who done this.

♪ ♪

- There may be something lodged in your head

that's very useful to us.

♪ ♪

All I care about is who shot and killed his man.

That's it.

We would like to have that person

that saw the whole thing.

♪ ♪

OK?

- He told her... narrator: The neighbor says

someone named [bleep] saw the shooting.

- He seen it all.

♪ ♪

- You know, you heard them say it.

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,

so help me God, right? - Yeah.

- So you know what we're talking about.

narrator: Ragland asks about the night of the murder.

♪ ♪

- All right, and who did you hear killed him?

- Yeah.

♪ ♪

- So let me get this straight.

You didn't see nothing.

You didn't hear nothing.

But you heard that Blow did it.

- Yeah. - OK.

Why are these people telling us that you saw it all?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- I thought you was gonna be straight with me.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

narrator: Max takes a turn at questioning the witness.

- Let me explain something to you.

I know you're scared, right? - Yeah--

- I know you're scared. Listen to me.

I'm gonna take care of that.

I just don't want to get shot.

- Not gonna get shot, dude.

I just want you to tell us the truth.

You know what the guys that did this,

how much time they're gonna do?

- So if you saw it, you need to tell it, son.

♪ ♪

- I appreciate you being straight up with me, OK?

This is the ice breaker, dude. This is it.

Our next goal is to go out after this guy.

♪ ♪

- Here you go. - No problem.

- Good luck on finding him. - Thank you, sir.

♪ ♪

narrator: The next day...

- County arrested Vershawn McCoy.

They brought him up here to the office.

♪ ♪

Wants a lawyer present. He requests a lawyer.

He's not gonna speak with us.

And we got eyewitnesses to this incident.

♪ ♪

That, along with other information we have,

that's enough probable cause

to charge Vershawn with this crime.

I think Trap and Blow got into a fight

over Blow's girlfriend, and it just got out of hand.

People out there that came forward and gave us

this information, they were scared,

but they did the right thing.

♪ ♪

- I don't think that any homicide detective is gonna

ever have any level of success

if he does not lean on his team.

You can't do everything. You can't be everywhere.

You can't knock on a thousand doors by yourself.

You can't comb through a thousand hours of video

by yourself.

So you need a team of people to do that.

And the goal is to solve the case,

to bring closure to that family.

So a seasoned investigator puts his ego to the side

and puts the right people in the right situations to win.

♪ ♪

- I had just laid down.

Me and the wife were up late wrapping presents.

We'll cross our fingers that this

is the only call we get tonight.

♪ ♪

narrator: Sayers will handle the crime scene.

♪ ♪

- Sayers in the house.

- What's up, dude?

- What we got here was, someone found him.

- Uh-huh. What's his name?

- Daniel Barron.

narrator: 26-year-old Daniel Barron

was killed in the doorway of his house.

Daniel was a talented athlete

whose favorite sport was soccer.

- Are those defects in the concrete?

- Yeah, yeah. - So they were shot down?

- See how those bullets are flattened down?

He had to be on his-- - Probably facedown.

- Somebody's rolled him. - Yeah.

- You think he was laying here and they shot him?

They were pumping him while he's on the ground.

- Right.

- His pants were down like this.

- Uh-huh. - So apparently they sexed him.

- Lot of times, they'll pull the pants down

because they hide their drugs and money.

♪ ♪

- It probably is gonna be the killers that rolled him, then.

♪ ♪

- Dope house robbery.

♪ ♪

- That's gonna be a 9-millimeter.

♪ ♪

- An extended clip.

- Makes you wonder why he's working the front door

without his gun in his hand.

♪ ♪

.45, two more extended clips.

They were well-armed, you know?

♪ ♪

Somebody definitely was here. - Yeah.

Got to figure out who was in this house and bailed out.

♪ ♪

- [speaking Spanish]

narrator: The victim's father arrives on the scene.

- [speaking Spanish]

♪ ♪

narrator: Detectives learn from family members

that Daniel was trying to clean up his life

and move away from drugs.

♪ ♪

Three hours after the murder...

- We have another individual.

He may be the last one that has seen him alive,

about three hours before we got the call.

narrator: Patrol finds the victim's business partner,

Joey Cruz.

He agrees to come downtown and speak with detectives.

♪ ♪

- We need to talk to you.

- Well, talk to me. Come talk to me.

Y'all been having me in here forever.

- We're gonna get your statement.

- And I believe that, but right now,

we've got to--we've got to get your statement right here.

You know what I'm saying? - And so do we. So do we.

This is how it works, OK?

This is how we solve murders.

Let me tell you something.

I'm not a narcotics detective.

We know what you're doing.

What I need is for you to help me

kind of run down a timeline.

♪ ♪

You know what I'm saying?

You know what I'm saying?

narrator: Joey says the man at the door was Chris Wade,

a friend whom he hadn't seen in years.

He says that Chris had stopped by to buy some drugs.

- Yeah.

- Mm-hmm.

You know what I'm saying? - OK.

You know what I'm saying?

- Mm-hmm.

♪ ♪

- So nothing that came out of this thing

indicates anything else other than Chris?

- Joey says they talked business.

So I'm sure he told him how much he was buying,

how much he was bringing in.

- He was just over there checking it,

scoping it out to jack it?

- Yeah. - Let's see.

♪ ♪

Chris Wade, drug charges and weapons charges.

We know this happened sometime around 10:00 last night.

He needs to, at the very least, account for where he was.

♪ ♪

- That was last night? OK.

♪ ♪

- Be back in just a second.

- All right.

- Hey, Dee-Dee, this is Ken Penrod

with Dallas Police Department.

♪ ♪

We're back at square one with nothing.

Every hour I lose on this thing,

I'm closer to having my case go cold.

♪ ♪

[phone rings]

Homicide. Penrod.

narrator: Detective Penrod gets a break.

- You think you know who did this?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- OK, thank you very much.

Bye-bye.

We might finally have some traction on this case.

This caller just gave me the name of the person

that they think is gonna be the main suspect in it.

Callie Anne Marshall.

♪ ♪

No record.

Now, that's unusual for a capital murder suspect.

We need to get out there and talk to her

as quick as we can at this point.

♪ ♪

narrator: Penrod and Sayers head out to potential suspect

Callie Marshall's mother's house

in an affluent suburb of Dallas.

- As long as I've been working in Dallas,

I think I've never been to this neighborhood before.

OK.

Oh, there it is.

♪ ♪

I'm Ken Penrod. This is Scott Sayers.

narrator: They find Callie.

- We just need to talk to you about a case we're working on.

We need to go down to our office to talk to you.

We have to do that one way or the other.

♪ ♪

Most important thing about this is--

is to be honest about it.

- Oh, no.

- Well, I appreciate that.

Callie, I want to get to it here.

I'm gonna tell you enough so you--

so there's no doubt in your mind

that you know what I'm talking about, OK?

- OK.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

narrator: Callie says that a few weeks ago,

she was looking for a way to make $1,500

to bail her boyfriend out of jail in time for Christmas.

A friend of her boyfriend told her about a drug house

that they could rob together.

- What did they say was in the house?

♪ ♪

- What's his name?

narrator: Callie says that Omar devised the plan

to get him out of jail by robbing two drug dealers.

- He said he knew these people. - OK.

- He said he really knew.

narrator: Callie says that Omar

had bought drugs from them in the past.

- So you understand he was basically--

he's just gonna go in there,

and he's gonna take the guy's money.

He's gonna take his gun away from him.

- Yeah. - Basically gonna rob him.

- Yeah.

- So what happened then?

- He knocks on the door.

He opens the door,

and he shoots him.

- Just shoots him right away?

- Yeah. - OK.

- He just shot at him when he opened the door.

He kept on shooting.

narrator: She tells Penrod that she and Omar

searched the house for money.

- What did y'all end up getting out of it?

- I didn't get nothing.

- There wasn't any money?

- He had $7.

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- She's completely put herself in it

as far as the robbery and going up there,

walking up toward the guy when he shoots him.

It didn't seem like that freaked her out at all.

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You know, you almost want to feel sorry for her.

She seems like this meek and mild person.

And but at the same time, you're looking at this guy,

lost his life.

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narrator: With Callie in custody,

Penrod turns his attention to her associate, Omar.

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- See what he's got.

Burglaries, thefts, that type of thing,

but nothing as serious as this.

I'm gonna send the marshals out early in the morning.

Hopefully they can grab this guy while he's still sleeping.

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narrator: The next morning,

U.S. Marshals bring Omar to Homicide for questioning.

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- This is the main guy we got to get to talk right here.

If I can just get him to even say he was there,

that would be great.

Hey, Omar. How you doing, brother?

There's one thing we're interested in on these cases,

and that's basically who's behind it,

who caused it to happen. - Yes, sir.

- And that's why I just want you to be honest with me

about this thing. - Mm-hmm.

- Can you do that, brother? - Yes, sir.

- OK, tell me what happened.

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narrator: Omar says that on the night of the shooting,

he was driving around with some friends

when he received a phone call from Joey Cruz.

You know what I mean?

narrator: Omar says that he learned of the murder

the following day.

- Omar, I want you to listen to me

for just a minute, OK?

I've been doing this for 17 years.

I know what really happened.

There's a certain set of events that were set in motion.

There was somebody else on this thing.

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- And you know what Callie's already told me?

You guys got to the house.

This is what's important.

You went up to the door.

There's something happened right there at that door.

Tell me what happened.

- That's right.

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narrator: Omar says that when he approached the front door

to rob the house, he turned.

narrator: Omar says he thought that Daniel would be armed.

- [sniffles] - You can do it.

Let me have your hand.

Come on.

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- What'd you do?

It's all right, brother.

Did you do this to protect Callie?

What happened? - [sniffles]

[speaking indistinctly]

- OK.

- All right, brother. All right, then.

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It's all right.

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♪ ♪

[speaking indistinctly] - All right, brother.

I'll give you a few minutes, OK?

♪ ♪

So he's looking in this guy's eyes

after he knows he's killed him.

But the guy's not dead yet.

He knows he's gonna die.

They're looking at each other eye to eye.

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He's been carrying that with him on this thing.

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But it didn't bother him so bad

that he didn't do something to help the guy at all.

He just walked off and left him with whatever life was in him.

He left him lying there to die by himself in that dope house.

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- I guess you feel like you've made it in Homicide

when you can work a case unsupervised,

when you start making good judgment decisions

and then you have good outcomes

just based on the decisions that you made.

And when people start coming to you,

asking you for advice about cases,

it feels pretty good to know that "I must have made it,

because people started to trust me."

Then basically at that point,

they start looking to you as, like, a go-to person.

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