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Thank you.

- Your witness, Mr. McBride.

- Yes, thank you, Your Honor.

Mr. Fallon, how long have you worked as a

security guard at Walton's Supermarket?

- Three years.

- Uh huh, how many hours a week do you work?

- 40. - During that time, how many times

have you had to detain shoplifters?

- A few.

- And how many times have you had to detain

a senior citizen for shoplifting?

- Once. - One, that would be the reason why we're in court today.

- Yes.

- Is security your full-time job?

- I'm an actor. - Ah ha,

so your security work at Walton's is part time,

even though it's 40 hours a week for the past three years.

- No. I'm between acting assignments.

- Three years between acting assignments. - Objection.

- Your Honor, I'm merely trying to clarify the plaintiff's profession.

- Overruled.

- Sir, would you please describe the events that occurred

outside the market on the day in question.

- One of the clerks told me that a woman had just left the store

without paying for an item, so I rushed out to stop her.

- What did you do?

- I called out for her to stop.

- Stop. She wouldn't stop, so I figured she must be trying to get away.

- So you decided to pursue her? - Yes.

- It never dawned on you that Mrs. Chambers,

who was at least 30 feet away,

and is hard of hearing, couldn't hear you?

- No, I didn't know she was hard of hearing.

Oh, my nose. You broke my nose.

She had a weapon.

- Oh, a weapon. By that you mean,

the cane Mrs. Chambers uses to help her walk.

- She broke my nose.

- When did you realize you had accosted the wrong person?

- When the store clerk ran out and told me that I had the wrong woman.

- Your honor, counsel is distorting the reason why we are here today.

This hearing is against the defendant for assaulting my client

and for breaking his nose, which would adversely affect his acting career.

- Oh, please, Your Honor, let's set aside for a moment the fact that

Mr. Fallon hasn't worked as an actor this century.

He is a security guard.

He's already admitted he accosted the wrong woman,

a woman whose impaired hearing made it impossible

for her to know Mr. Fallon was behind her.

And that being attacked by a total stranger,

she did what any sane person would do.

She defended herself against a man twice her size, a third her age.

Please. No more questions.

- Do the people have anything further to add?

- Not at this time, your honor.

- The witness may step down.

I don't have any other choice here but to, uh,

dismiss this case for lack of evidentiary support.

All charges thereby are dropped, and the defendant is free to go.

- What did he say?

- We won.

- Oh, thank you.

[radio tuning] You'll observe experimental aircraft that may use...

[radio tuning] No one ever plans on needing a lawyer,

but the odds are, sooner or... [radio tuning]

- KTMB news talk.

[Bob on the radio] Good morning, Los Angeles,

this is Bob welcoming you to another beautiful day here in this city of angles.

- And this is Ron, telling you to do something productive with your miserable, meaningless lives.

- Hey, Ron, is that any way to greet our loyal audience

on such a beautiful morning?

- Yes, Bob, it's the only way to talk to cretins.

Get in your cars, clog up the freeways, inhale carbon monoxide,

and then trudge on to your mundane, nowhere jobs.

- Well it looks like our listeners warmed up, Ronny.

The switchboard is truly lighting up, we've got Joel on the line,

how are you doing this fine morning, Joel?

- Wow, I'm really on the air with you guys.

Thanks for taking my call.

Really love your show, you guys are...

- What are you, some kind of freak?

Stop with the fawning and genuflecting

and tell us what's on your mind.

That is if you have a mind, Joel.

- I, I...

- Oh, great a stutterer,

that's all we need.

Joel, we only have four hours, next call.

- Hey. - Who we got?

- Okay.

- Hi, Bob, my name is Jamie.

- Hi, Jamie, where you calling from?

- Uh, Beverly Hills. Listen, I was wondering, do you have...

- Beverly Hills, what are you, a trophy wife, Jamie?

- A what? - Clean the wax out of your ears and listen.

Are you a Beverly Hills trophy wife?

You know,

whose only brain function is to latch onto a

rich older man that she's too dumb to realize only keeps her

around to show his friends what a stud he is outside the boardroom.

- That is not a nice thing to say, Ron. You don't even know me.

- Well, I thought us driving together would be good

so we could use the commuter lane, so much for that idea.

- Let's try to get over in this lane. - Nah, don't you know the rules?

As soon as you leave the lane that's stuck, it starts moving.

Hi, where does it say that people's cars can be their bathrooms?

- You know, Ron and Bob are still on,

we could, uh, check the traffic report.

- Who's Ron and Bob?

- Can I, can I change it?

- Yeah, sure.

- Ron, Ron, Ron, Rinaldo, Darth Ronny,

don't you think you're being a little hard on Charlotte?

- You know, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Charlotte,

but apparently Wade is dating anyone,

he looks like she plays goalie for a dart team.

- Ron. - Ow. - You think you're a catch?

- Uh, oh, sorry folks, sorry.

Thank goodness for that phone delay.

- Hey, she sounded a little upset there, Bob.

- Well, because what you said wasn't nice, Ron.

I mean, don't you think it took a lot of courage

for Charlotte to talk about her, uh, problem?

- Yeah, a lot of courage and a lot of my valuable time.

- Well, why don't we check in on how traffic conditions are doing, huh?

- Here, here it is. - Oh, yeah, great idea. Let's do traffic and weather,

two things we can't do anything about. - Oh, come on, Ron.

- You listen to these guys a lot? - The 405's a parking lot.

- It's always a parking lot, Bob.

But that's okay, because we Angelinos never have road rage.

[sound effect scream and guns]

- Hey, Charlotte, if you are out there and if you have the courage

to call in, I, Bob Carter, will give you free a dinner for two

at the Los Angeles Ocean Club Hotel. - Oh, yeah,

there goes my partner, Bob, coming to the rescue of yet another worthless listener.

Come on, Bob, it just gives these poor slobs reason

to believe their miserable lives are worth living.

- With all due respect, I think we do owe Charlotte an apology, man.

- You know what? You're right, I should apologize.

- Good. - Shouldn't I, to Charlotte? Yeah.

But I can't, because we're out of time.

Sorry, Charlotte, maybe tomorrow, you never know.

Hey, thanks for joining us, we're going to wrap this thing up and call it a morning.

Joining us tomorrow, we'll be making fun of more hapless freaks out there.

Stay tuned for local news, and of course the prince of pain himself,

Rush Limbaugh coming up next. Until tomorrow morning this is Ron.

- And this is Bob.

- [both singing] Wishing you a happy day.

- Why is it you always have to be such a, um, a jerk?

- Hey, Bob. - Yeah?

- Why do you think reality programming is so popular?

Why do you think I'm so popular? - I have no idea.

- Just giving them what they want, Bob.

- Oh, really? - You know, people love to be humiliated.

- Can we try something else besides the phone gags, huh?

- Hey, if you don't like the way I do the show, you can leave.

- You don't do the show alone, Ron. I mean, we're a team.

- Some team, I get the laughs, you get a check.

- What? - Morning, boys.

Having your daily camaraderie?

- Right you are, Paul.

- It just takes a while for the fun to register

with good old Bob here. - Well I don't know about that.

I'm kind of looking forward to doing that remote from your funeral.

Should bring in big laughs and huge ratings.

- You know what, Paul? We need to talk.

- So, what's up?

- How important am I to this station?

- I think you know, we consider your show very important to us.

- You're kidding me, right?

I'm the highest rated morning radio show in America.

- You guys are the best.

- No, I'm the best, Bob is a straight man.

- You want a solo contract.

- How'd you guess?

- Take a look at this and see if it suits you.

It's a three year contract extension.

It even has a nice raise locked in.

- Do I get to pick my own sidekick?

- Of course.

- It looks like you anticipated everything.

[quick knock] - Excuse me,

guys, can I come in or is this a secret ritual backstabbing? - Hey, Bob.

- This is private, Bob.

- What is this?

It looks like a contract.

A solo contract.

- Don't make a fool out of yourself, Bob, okay?

- Make a fool out of myself?

No, I think you're making a fool out of me, Ron.

Because you don't have the courage

to tell me about this face to face.

- Bob, why don't you wait in my office.

We'll discuss your situation there. - What's there to discuss?

You've already offered the show to Ron without me.

When were you going to tell me about this, man?

After you signed? Make it one your on-air gags?

- Calm down, Bob. - I'll calm down when you're dead,

that's when I'll calm down.

Perfect. Get out of my way.

Jeez.

[rock music and indistinct bar conversations]

- I listen to you guys everyday, thought you were best friends.

- Arman, we're only friends between six AM and 10 AM,

while we're entertaining the Drive Time troops.

- Had me fooled.

- For the good of the show. Huh.

- What are you going to do? - I'm going to give him a piece of my mind.

A very big piece of my mind.

- No, I mean about work. Will they give you another show?

- Dropping me from the show makes me damaged goods.

[phone rings]

Oh, what do you know, it's Ron. Huh.

Oh, nice, text message, real warm.

Can you believe this dude, wants me to go over to his place

now! to take a meeting.

Well I'll definitely take the meeting,

and I'll definitely set the record straight.

Maybe even change his mind. Good.

[ominous music]

- Okay,

Dollars...

[ominous music]

[silenced gunshot] -Ow

[Ron on TV] It's good to be Ronnie.

Especially at this particular moment, you know?

This is one of the few, ah, perks...

[increasing sirens in the background]

[cop] Nothing up here.

[edgy music]

- Freeze.

- Freeze!

Put your hands on your head.

Code Four, situation under control.

- Roger one four, copy that.

[eerie music]

- Mr. Carter,

does this jacket belong to you?

- Mr. Carter, when was the last time you talked to Ron Garrison?

- Well at the radio station after the show.

- You had an argument with him in front of some of your coworkers.

You were heard telling him that you would only calm down

if he dropped dead.

- I was angry.

I mean, I just heard that I was going, going to be canned from the show.

I mean, I, I didn't mean it literally.

- Well how do you explain Ron Garrison's 911 call

with him begging for you not to kill him?

- What?

- 911, what is the nature of your emergency?

- Help. - Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help.

- Goodbye, Ron. - Please. [loud gunshot]

- Sir, we've identified your location and police units are en route.

- He was dead when I got there.

- Robert Carter, I'm placing you under arrest

for the murder of Ron Garrison.

[dance music]

- [SINGING] Yeah, uh, whoo, yeah, oh. Whoo.

- Hello.

- Sorry. Guess what?

- I'm afraid to.

- Got us a case.

- Oh, really? - Mm hmm,

yeah, Miles Pickering called from, uh,

Harrison Pickering Oliphant And Meyers.

- My, my, my. What does he want that one of his,

37 entertainment lawyers can't handle?

- The best defense attorney in L.A.

- Oh. What's the case?

- He's got a client up on a slam dunk murder charge.

- Anybody we know? - Yeah, Bob Carter.

- Who's Bob Carter?

- Bob Carter of Ron And Bob.

Ron And Bob, the radio show, do you watch the news?

- Oh, really? Who's he accused of killing? A listener?

- Ron, his partner. - Wow,

radio will never be the same. I'll pass.

- No, he's sending over a very large retainer.

- Phillip. - I know, I know, it's not about the check it's about the client.

But that's why I think we should take the case.

- Why, do you know Bob Carter? - No, but

I listen to his radio show almost every day, and, you know,

he just doesn't sound like somebody who's going to murder anybody.

- You don't think? - Ron is always the one playing the crazy pranks on people,

doing the stupid stuff to people, and Bob always

follows up afterwards, makes sure people are alright,

make sure their feelings weren't hurt.

- How,

alright, look, fine.

I'll look into it. But don't you dare...

- No, no, no, I won't cash that check, I promise.

- Okay. Who made the arrest?

- Mac, let me do you a favor.

We've got a 911 call with both

Ron Garrison's and Bob Carter's voices before the gunshot was heard.

And we found a jacket at the crime scene belonging to Bob Carter.

And a pair of rubber gloves that are getting tested for gunshot residue.

- Sounds bad.

- There's more.

I have witnesses at KTMB Radio

who heard Carter tell the deceased to drop dead.

And a bartender who heard him say that,

he was definitely going to set the record straight,

a half hour before the murder.

- Well I promised one of Carter's entertainment lawyers

that I would have a talk with him.

- He was caught running from the scene at the house.

You do not need this case.

- Thanks for the info.

- Off the record.

- Of course off the record.

Oh, listen, did you guys find the murder weapon? - No.

- You see, there's that little silver lining I love so much.

- I, I, I couldn't be on that tape, I wasn't there.

I was at a bar, venting my anger to the bartender.

- A half hour before the 911 call.

And you were telling the bartender that you were definitely going to set

the record straight with Ron, for good.

- I was just venting my anger.

What about the text message?

It'll prove that Ron asked me to come and see him.

- No, not necessarily. The prosecution could use it against you.

They'll say that Ron invited you to his house to try and iron out your differences.

You got angry and killed him.

- No, no, that's not true, that's not what happened. [whoosh]

Hey, Ron, Ron, I'm here, I got your message man, come on.

Open up.

Ron, come on, open up. Ron.

- And I saw the TV on, so I figured he couldn't hear me.

So I started checking around for an open door.

- Yo, Ron. I'm here.

I got your little old text message and Bobby came running.

Come on out.

Is this another one of your sick jokes?

Blowing me off again, Ron?

Is that it?

Oh,

Oh no man.

- They found your jacket at Ron's house.

- I wasn't wearing a jacket that night.

- They caught you, Bob, fleeing from the scene after Ron made his 911 call.

- I was drinking,

I panicked.

God.

[whoosh]

You ever seen someone shot?

- Did you see someone get shot, Bob?

- Look, Mr. McBride, I'm not going to make any excuses.

Ron and I personally, we didn't get along, it was lousy.

Professionally we were a great radio team.

On air we were the best of friends.

- But Ron was just about to dump you.

- That's true. Which didn't make me like him any more.

Ron was a difficult dude, he reveled in humiliating people.

It was his stock in trade, his shtick.

If you had listened to our show, you'd understand that.

I'll bet there are a thousand listeners out there

who are just ecstatic that he's dead.

- Do you own a gun, Bob?

- No.

- I'm going to have to listen to some tapes of your shows.

- That'll be difficult. - Why?

- Contractually Ron's the only one who had access to our archive of shows.

Our shows were recorded digitally and stored on the stations mainframe,

and only Ron had the password to download them.

- That's why God invented subpoenas.

- Now I may be a lot of things,

but I'm not a killer.

[ominous music]

- Okay, let's talk about the 911 tape.

- Okay.

- Now if you weren't at Ron's house,

that means that somebody wanted him dead enough

to imitate your voice to implicate you in the murder.

What you got to do is try to help me figure out who that was.

- Okay, how?

- Well, you and Ron were partners for quite a while.

- A couple years in Nashville and three years here in L.A.

- So do you know anybody that had a big problem with him? Somebody in his personal life?

- One ex-wife, long gone.

Good settlement, happily remarried.

- Uh huh, coworkers, any animosity there?

- From pretty much everyone at KTMB.

Ed, definitely, you got Leslie, um,

maybe even Kyle and Danny.

- Who are they?

- You don't listen to talk radio very much, do you?

- Is never not much?

- That would qualify.

- Alright, look, tape recorder.

Take this tape recorder and make notes about

anybody you can think of. All the people you just mentioned,

anybody else that comes to mind that might have had it in for Ron.

I'll send Phil to pick that up when you're done,

I'll transcribe it, then we'll talk about the list tomorrow.

- You got it. - You'll be alright.

- Good morning, L.A., this is Paul Belsen on KTMB, 109.9 on your FM dial.

- Hey, Jesse, good boy.

- Aw, look at that.

- Hey. You okay? You look tired.

- Fine. We had to move out of our house for a few days

while Russell paints it.

- So are you staying with Phil?

- I'm not fond of blowing up my own bed.

We checked into The Highlands.

- So what did you do? Stay up and celebrate all night with Jesse?

- No, no, it was noisy and Jesse couldn't settle down.

So he was whining, pacing all night long.

- And you couldn't get any sleep?

- Maybe we'll do better tonight.

- How about if Jesse stays with me for a while? - Really?

- Mm hmm. You can come visit any time you feel lonely.

- That would be great. - Good.

- I'll tell you what, to return the favor how about,

I do a little cooking for you?

- You took the Bob Carter case, didn't you? - I did.

- What do you know that I don't know?

- He's innocent, Roberta.

- I love a man with confidence.

[Paul on air]lThat's terrific, Rose,

it sounds like you're making very good headway.

Taking classes at the community college will not only help you get out,

but will help you learn something interesting,

and put you in good company with new and exciting friends.

I hope you'll call back and let us know how you're doing.

I'm sure our listening audience applauds the choice you've made.

- Well, folks, that about wraps up another morning show,

and on a happy note, too.

Remember, life is not a rehearsal, so grab each day,

live it to the fullest, and please be good to yourself,

and especially to each other.

This is Paul Belsen, and you're listening to KTMB.

- Hi, my name is, uh, McBride.

I have an appointment to see the manager, uh, Paul Belsen? - Sure.

[knocking]

- Come in.

- Hi, I'm McBride.

- Mr. McBride, how are you?

I'm Paul Belsen. Nice to meet you. - Pleasure.

- Welcome to KTMB. - Well thank you very much.

- I've assembled the, uh, air staff in the conference room as you requested.

They're waiting for us now. - Good.

- So I understand that the, uh, Ron And Bob Show is sort of the mainstay of this radio station.

- From six to 10 each morning, 68 percent of all radio listeners

in Southern California are glued to the Ron And Bob Show.

Almost all of them have their radios tuned to KTMB for the entire day.

Do you know how much advertising revenue that generates for us?

- A lot?

- Mm, more than a lot.

- So what happens to the Ron And Bob Show time slot now?

- Well I guess that's up to you, McBride.

Hello everyone, this is Mr. McBride.

McBride is a defense attorney, the one who will be representing Bob.

- Hi, I'm Leslie Summers, I do the seven to nine slot.

- Hello. - Hi.

- Kyle Ward, I do sports talk. Nine 'til midnight.

- Hi.

- Ed Harding, I do the afternoon talk.

- Hi.

- Danny Doyle, midnight to six.

- Mr. McBride has asked me to gather you all together in hopes

that we can be of help with Bob's case.

I'd appreciate it if you'd all give him your complete cooperation.

No doubt we'll be seeing a lot of him, so get used to it.

- Absolutely. I just can't believe that Bob would do such a thing.

- I agree. He is a kind and gentle soul.

- And Bob took a lot of crap from Ron,

but he never wavered in his commitment to the show or to Ron.

- Is he alright? - Danny does a rather unusual show from midnight to six.

- So, uh, Danny, uh, as I understand it,

your show leads into Ron and Bob's, right?

- Yes. Innovation, diversity and creativity leads into humiliation

and a total lack of respect for our listeners,

delivered by two sophomoric pranksters.

Sophomoric, that pretty much describes your show, too, Ed.

- You think you'd do better with their time-slot?

With tales of conspiracy and the paranormal?

- Sorry. Listen, Danny, hi.

Um, so you were the first to see them in the morning.

Now the day that it happened, did you notice...

- I, you didn't really know those guys.

They came in when I was still on the air,

and they went right into their studio.

Never really spoke to one another, no real reason to.

- Now which show followed them?

- A syndicated show is piped in from 10 to two, followed by Ed.

News hour's at six, then Leslie and Kyle.

- Ed, what, what kind of show do you do?

- Talk radio. Money matters, personal problems, you name it.

- And do you have a large audience?

- Not as big as Ron and Bob's,

but if I had a captive drive time audience,

I'd probably be bigger than Ron and Bob.

- And all of us would do better if we had the morning drive time slot.

But I don't, and I still manage to have a very large audience.

- Uh, what kind of show do you do?

- I, uh, counsel listeners on romance and relationships.

- So that leaves sports, and Kyle, that's you from nine to midnight?

- Right. I do just fine, despite what anyone thinks or says. I've got a loyal following.

- Following. If you can call a bunch of couch potato,

wannabe jocks with the IQ of a football a following.

- You'll have to excuse us, Mr. McBride,

we're still all a little out of sorts since Ron's murder.

- Oh, that's it, huh? Sure. Oh, understandable.

Well that's a very interesting group of people

you have manning the airwaves here.

- We like to think so.

- And I would think that, uh, morning drive time slot

will give somebody a chance to make a name for themselves.

- You get the picture.

- You think so? So Bob tells me that,

uh, only Ron had access to tapes of his show, is that right?

- Yeah, it was in Ron's contract. Why do you ask?

- Just trying to figure out how Bob's voice got on that 911 call

if he wasn't at Ron's house when the call was made.

That maybe, I don't know, somebody gold hold of the tapes,

edited the whole conversation together.

- That's kind of reaching, isn't it?

- Well, sometimes you have to reach.

You also mentioned earlier that you have every confidence

you'll be able to fill that morning drive time slot,

what's going to happen tomorrow?

- Well for the next few days I'll be filling in. - Oh.

- That's how I got started in the business, in Seattle,

then moved my way up through the ranks.

Denver, Austin. - San Diego.

Where you eventually became station manager,

until you were offered the gig here.

- You must be a fan, I'm flattered.

- I do my homework. So for a time you're going to be doing double duty,

station manager and prime time radio jock, huh?

- Just for a week or so until I can straighten out the rotation with Leslie,

Kyle, Danny and Ed.

They'll take turns rotating on a weekly basis

to see if one of them draws an audience.

- But if none of it works out with them

you can just relinquish your duties as station manager

and stay on the air.

- Well why would I do that?

- I don't know.

Oh, fame, fortune, four hour work day.

Early retirement.

- Anything else, Mr. McBride?

- I'd like to talk to some of the people in the, um, sales department.

Could you point me that way?

Thanks for your time.

- Pleasure.

[edgy music]

- Hello?

- Hi.

- Hi.

- I'm Patty. Who are you?

- I'm Phil Newberry. Do, do you mind if I ask what you're doing here?

- I was just about to ask you the same thing, Mr. Newberry.

- Oh, I, I work for the law firm that, uh, represents Bob Carter.

- What law firm would that be?

- McBride.

- And?

- McBride And Associates.

- Are you here looking for evidence to help your client?

- Uh, maybe. You still haven't told me why you're here.

- Oh, I'm sorry. I work for the District Attorney's Office.

They sent me here to make sure we didn't miss anything.

- Hmm, what exactly are you looking for?

Wait, did, did you say the District Attorney's Office? - Yes.

- Well, just so you know, you're obliged to share any evidence

you have with the defense.

- You know, there was something odd.

- Really? What?

- You should see for yourself.

- Okay.

[ominous music]

Hey.

Hey?

Patty?

- Yes, Phil. - Hey, can you come over to Ron Garrison's house right now?

- Why? - I just need you to come to Ron's house right now. Hurry.

- Alright, alright, fine, I'll be there.

- Thank you, bye.

[action music]

Hi, this is Phil Newberry.

Oh, hi, Marcia. How are things over there in the DA's Office?

Good. I have a question for you,

could you tell me if you have someone named Patty working in the office over there?

Sure, I can wait.

[gentle music]

No?

No Patty?

Okay, no, no, no, that's all I need, thank you very much. Bye.

- Phil?

Phil?

[phone rings] Yes?

- Come to the top of the stairs and hang a right into the bedroom.

- What? - Come to the top of the stairs

and hang a right into the bedroom, please.

- Um, right. Alright, going up the stairs.

Do I get a treat or a cookie or something if I find you?

Alright, I'm in the bedroom, what now?

- I'm out here, open the door.

- What are you doing out there? How did that get locked?

- Some girl named Patty.

- Patty who?

- I, she said she worked for the District Attorney.

- Alright, oh, start from the beginning.

- Well I came over here to look through Ron Garrison's papers,

like you suggested for, you know, any possible clues. And...

- Find anything? - Hmm mm.

- Continue.

- And there was this girl named Patty.

- Attractive? - How'd you know?

- Wild guess.

- So she tells me there's something out there, and...

- It turns out to be you.

- So I walked out there to see what it was,

and she locks the door and takes off.

- And all you got was a first name?

- Yeah. - Great.

- Sorry. - It's alright. We got to figure out who she is.

But, right now I want you to go over to Dakota's Bar.

Find out when Arman, the bartender, when his next shift is,

because he's the last guy that talked to Bob before he got arrested.

And while you're driving, try to think of anything that

might help you identify your mystery girl.

- Oh, right now?

- Bye.

- Okay.

[mysterious music]

[ominous music]

- I'm going to ask you something.

Is that Kyle Ward, playing in his heyday at Sacramento?

- Yeah. Where'd you get this photo? - Ron's house.

- You're kidding me. Why would he keep this around?

- If memory serves, that's the game Kyle dropped a pass in the end zone,

four seconds left, Sacramento loses the game.

- Oh, yeah. Ron must have been a glutton for punishment to keep this around.

- Why? - Well Ronny boy had a predilection,

oh, let's face it, he had a, an addiction to sports gambling.

He lost a bundle on that game, a very big bundle.

- You know what? I'm going to gain access to the station tonight, so,

I need your pass code. - Yeah.

[quiet city noises]

[key beeps]

[lock buzz]

[on air] ...and treatment advisories are totally confidential.

You can defeat the urge to gamble, but the first step is seeking help.

Pick up the phone and call The Gambling Addiction Foundation Of America

at 555-1582. They want to help you. Why not call right now at 555-1582.

[nocks]

- Come in.

- Oh, Belsen, working late?

- And you, it would seem.

- Yes, me too. Hi, Leslie.

- Hey.

- Hello, Mr. McBride,

I was just complimenting Leslie on her show tonight.

- Oh, congratulations.

- Well, uh, I was just leaving. Uh, so I'm going to go home.

- I was hoping that I might be able to ask you

a few more questions about Ron and Bob.

It doesn't have to be tonight.

- Okay, well, um, 10:00 tomorrow morning.

- Yep, see you then.

- Okay, bye. - Bye.

- That is a very pretty girl. You know what?

I'd work late, too, hoping she'd come in my office

so I could congratulate her on her show. See you.

- I'll walk with you.

- Oh, grand.

- Anyone else I can point you to tonight?

- Um, I thought I would stop in and ask, uh, Kyle Ward a couple questions.

I guess you won't be sticking around to tell him he had a good show, though, right?

Have a good night. [sports show in the background]

[ quick knock ]

- Have a seat, Mr. McBride.

- Ah ha, thanks Kyle, thank you.

That was Tyrell Owens.

- I still have a few contacts with my former playing days.

Wasn't Tyrell amazing in the Super Bowl despite the fact

that he had a surgically repaired ankle?

- Nine catches on that leg.

- Who was the MVP?

- Deion Branch? [beep]

- Hang on.

This is Kyle Ward, and you're listening to KTMB.

I'm fortunate to have with me the amazing McBride.

He seems to know a lot about sports. Got a sports question?

Well phone in right now and McBride will give you the answer.

I'll get us off to the races,

with a baseball question.

Name the player, or players,

who have broken Babe Ruth's single season home run record.

- You want, should I, um, uh, okay,

well Babe Ruth set the record in 1927 with 60 home runs,

and that record stood for 34 years until

Roger Maris hit 61 in 1961.

Since then, Sammy Sosa's broken it three times, in 1998 he hit 66,

but that same year Mark McGwire hit 70.

Sammy again in 1999 hit 63, Mark McGwire, once more, outdid him at 65.

And then in 2001 Sammy hit 64.

But the undisputed single season home run king

has got to be Barry Bonds, right? 73 home runs in 2001.

- Well I guess you know your baseball, Mr. McBride.

We'll take your calls after this.

This is Kyle Ward, and you're listening to KTMB.

Whoo, you're petty good.

- Yeah.

- How's Bob doing?

- He's fine, under the circumstances.

- None of us believe he did it. - He'll be happy to hear that.

You were right here on the air when Ron was killed, right?

- From nine to midnight.

KTMB, good evening.

This is Kyle Ward, one of L.A.'s number one talkers.

We go to Dennis in Santa Clarita. - Love the show, Kyle.

I got a football question. - Fire away, Dennis.

- I think Otto Graham is one of the all time football greats.

Wasn't he selected MVP at least two times?

- You're right, he was MVP at least two times. Thanks for your call, Dennis.

- You know, Kyle just for our stat nuts out there,

just want to set the record straight, Otto was,

you're absolutely right, terrific player.

But he was actually MVP five times.

In 1947, '48, then '51, '53, and '55.

- How about that. I'd like to thank our guest, the amazing McBride,

for being a wonderful and informed guest.

We'll have him back sometime.

More of your calls after this.

- Wow, that was almost fun.

Um, I'll talk to you when you have some more time.

I got to ask, how long did it take you to shake off that dropped pass,

in the conference championship?

- Come on, man, not you, too.

- I'm sorry.

- That mistake is going to follow me to my grave.

- Well, it's just one pass.

Hey, but anyway, you got a big fan in Ron Garrison,

he got you the job here, right?

- Who told you that?

- Um...

- Let's take your calls.

- We'll talk soon.

- This is Kyle Ward and you're listening to KTMB.

- It's really nice of you to take care of Jesse like this.

He looks right at home. - He's such a good dog. How long did Russell say it would be?

- Three or four days.

- Thanks for the wine.

You remember that I like a good cabernet, that's nice.

- Oui, oui. How about tomorrow night I fix you dinner, if you're available.

- Absolutely. You're really cooking?

- Yes. A little, um, wild salmon, maybe Creole tomato coolie

with some dirty rice.

- My own Galloping Gourmet, can't wait. - Good.

- But we're not talking about your case.

- No, of course not.

Oh, let me, uh, recharge your battery there, lady.

- That's recharged.

- Mm hmm.

- Cheers.

- So, you find out anything interesting?

- About what?

My lips are sealed.

- Okay, I got a whole case of this in the car, so.

[Roberta laughs]

- So you've been here at KTMB now, what? A couple years?

- Two years, right. I started out as the morning traffic reporter.

That was me in the KTMB traffic helicopter

telling the people to try Sepulveda Boulevard instead of the 405.

- Now you have your own show, seven to nine every night.

- That's right, I started filling in for people when they were on vacation.

And then when a slot became available, Paul moved me up.

- So, Paul the manager

is the one that gave you the promotion to your own show?

- Yes. Very grateful to Paul, well, and to Ron.

- I hope I'm not interrupting anything?

- Um, let me guess, you heard I was here,

you're wondering if I've made any progress on exonerating Bob.

- Have you? - Stay tuned.

- Will do. - Also if you're available a little later

I'd like to ask you some questions.

- Can't wait.

- Are we through? - Almost.

It must be really tough on you.

- What?

- Ron Garrison's death.

- Yes, it's been hard on all of us.

- But I would think especially for you, Leslie.

You were romantically involved with him.

- Oh, I see you're trying to make me out as the angry, jilted lover.

- Well, now that you bring it up.

- We had a relationship, it was over a long time ago.

- Just about the same time you got your own show.

- And what is that supposed to mean?

- I don't, oh, no, just made a timeline thing.

- Ron and I remained friends. - Oh, that's good, you know,

when that happens, it's always nice.

So the breakup was amicable?

- Eventually. [whoosh]

- You're not the type to move out unless you're moving up.

- I just want to be friends.

I need to concentrate on my career.

- Your career? You're the traffic girl.

- So not so amicable at first.

- Well it, it was a bit of a jolt to him.

- Hey, I got you that job.

I can make that job go away.

- But you won't.

- Try me. [whoosh]

- So he threatened you?

- It was just his hurt coming through.

- Do you think that Ron was angry enough to become vindictive with you?

- Well, if you'd heard his radio show,

you would know he was a very angry and vindictive man.

- Vindictive enough to try and ruin your career, your credibility,

exposing the lady who gives advice to the lovelorn

involved in a complicated love affair.

- If you bring that up in court, the only think you'll accomplish is ruining my career.

- I don't want to do that.

[mysterious music]

- Camera broke?

- She suffered a short in her power system.

- Any idea when it went down?

- It's hard to say. Digital recorder's got problems, too.

See, a digital recording would tell me

exactly what time she went to sleep.

But this system is so old school.

They don't even have a backup battery for the camera or the recorder.

- Do you got a business card?

- Yeah.

They're going to have to cough up for a full system with a battery backup.

- Miss Summers.

- Mr. McBride.

- You were saying? - Anyway, a battery backup will get you

cheaper insurance rates these days.

You got one for your house yet?

[mysterious music]

[mysterious music]

- So those guys are everywhere.

[hostess] Do you want to follow me? Come right over here.

And he's right over there. You bet, no problem.

- Excuse me, you are Arman?

- Yes. can I help you?

- My name's Phil Newberry.

You know Bob Carter?

- You a newspaper reporter? - No, I'm a lawyer,

I work for, uh, Bob Carter's defense team.

- Yeah, I know him. Nice guy, real friendly.

- As far as we can tell, you were the last person to see Bob Carter

the night that Ron Garrison was murdered. Now can you tell me about that night?

Anything unusual or out of the ordinary?

- He had beer, we chatted, he was agitated.

He got a text message on his cell phone and left.

Don't you people talk to each other?

- What people? - Another attorney working on Bob's defense team

was in here earlier asking the same questions.

- Another attorney?

- Yeah. Real pretty, very nice.

- Petit, short brown hair, blue eyes?

- Yes. - Patty?

- Yes. She said she was working on Bob Carter's defense team.

I told her the same thing I'm telling you.

- I'm gong to just bet she didn't give you her last name.

- No, she didn't.

- Alright, well thank you very much.

- Good luck, I hope you and Patty can help Mr. Carter.

I don't think he did it.

- Neither do I.

- Yeah. - Thank you, Arman.

[mysterious music]

[mysterious music]

[doorbell]

[door buzz]

- I need your help with this DVD.

Have a seat.

I took a walk down, um, Ron Garrison's street.

Security camera on a gated driveway just down the road from his house,

shows the entire street. Now this is the night of the murder,

but I don't have to sit here and watch the entire thing.

Can you just make it go fast forward for a while?

- Yes. - Alright.

Perfect, yeah, just leave it like that.

How'd you make out?

- Well the bartender confirmed Bob's version of the story,

and my girl Patty was definitely there first.

- What? - Yeah, so it seems to me that

either one of our suspects sent Patty

to Ron Garrison's house to find something that might incriminate them.

Or we've got a new suspect.

- Both good possibilities.

- How'd you make out?

- I found out Leslie's seeing Paul Belsen on the sly.

- She is? He's married.

Wow, certainly opens up a lot of other possibilities.

- It certainly does, considering what's on the screen. Stop it.

Slow it down to regular speed.

I mean, back it up. Now regular speed.

That's Leslie Summer's car.

Fast forward again.

Freeze frame it.

Forward, slowly.

Watch the clock.

And that's Paul Belsen's car.

Fast forward again.

Stop.

Back it up.

Now slow. Now fast.

And there's Bob Carter's car. Huh.

[on air] This is a KTMB news break.

The jury selection process is complete

in the celebrity murder trial of KTMB Radio talk show host, Robert Carter.

Carter is accused of murdering his long-time

shock jock radio partner Ron Garrison.

A source close to the prosecuting attorney, Wade Tracey,

reports that key evidence is the 911 police dispatch call

made by Garrison the night of the murder.

- On that 911 call, Garrison pleads for his life

just before the fatal gunshot can be heard.

The voice of Bob Carter is also heard on that 911 call.

Stay tuned for continuing coverage and updates

on the trial as they break.

The fire that partially destroyed the living room...

- Good morning. How is the case progressing? - Progressing.

- It's hard to believe that Bob might have done such a terrible thing.

- Well hopefully we can prove he didn't do such a terrible thing.

- You have some info?

- Uh we'll talk about it when we have our little chat.

Sorry, am I interrupting?

- No, not at all. What can I do for you?

- Well, um, I have a few more questions about Ron Garrison. - Oh, I should go.

- Please don't. You might be able to

shed some light on the issues.

- What would you like to know, Mr. McBride?

- Well, uh, you told me that Bob walked in when

you were having your meeting with Ron,

and that he stormed out when he realized that you

were offering Ron a solo contract. - That's right.

- You didn't tell me what happened after Bob left.

- We should probably just tell him, because I think he already knows.

- After Bob stormed out of the room, Ron made another contract demand.

- I thought I'd add a raise in there with double my salary.

- What, are you crazy?

No radio station can afford that kind of salary.

- Oh, I think you'll find a way.

Otherwise I tell your wife about you and Leslie.

- I couldn't afford a divorce.

And I couldn't afford to pay Ron.

- So, um, let me try to connect the dots here.

I have to be honest, I know you

both went by Ron Garrison's house the night he was murdered.

- Well let me try to connect the dots for you, Mr. McBride.

Uh, Paul told me that, uh, Ron had made another demand,

and so immediately after my show

I went to Ron's house to try to talk some sense into him. [whoosh]

- What time was that?

- Around a quarter after nine, I had just left the studio.

[whoosh]

- After that night,

I was willing to resign.

- I'd have given her a glowing recommendation

to any radio station in the country.

- So you just left after you realized that he wasn't going to listen to you?

- Yes. - How about you, Mr. Belsen, I mean, I know you were there.

- Leslie,

I'd like to speak with Mr. McBride in private,

for a moment.

[whoosh]

- After Ron's demand for more money, I was pretty upset.

So I confided in Leslie about Ron's threat to expose us.

She insisted on talking to Ron herself,

and I tried to talk her out of it.

She went over to Ron's right after her show.

She said if Ron was going to stoop to blackmail,

two could play that game.

I knew Leslie would confront Ron,

and I was worried about what might happen.

- Because of his vindictive personality, you wanted to make sure she was alright?

Was she?

- She was fine.

The next day I told Leslie I drove by Ron's,

but never stopped. [whoosh]

- What did you do then?

- Took a long drive,

went home and told my wife everything.

- I'm sure you could prove that if you had to, yes?

- Leslie doesn't know any of this.

- Interesting.

Well thank you for your candor.

You know, the only thing about all of this is that,

that still leaves Leslie at the scene of the crime.

- Mm, ah ha, your celebrated salmon dish.

- I though we'd eat casually tonight, if that's alright with you.

- You're going to spoil me, Mr. McBride.

Tell me, how long did Russell say your house painting is going to take?

- He said Jesse and I could move back in tomorrow.

- Oh, oh.

- Oh, you've liked having Jesse around?

- Oh, he's great company.

And I get to see more of you, too.

So, how's your case going?

- Your house rules, no talking about work.

- You're right, you're right.

Who are you listening to? One of your suspects?

- Yeah.

[Leslie on air] Remember, when it comes to relationships, honesty is the only policy.

- That's a laugh.

- What's a laugh? She's right.

- Oh, I know she's right, but she should take her own advice.

She's like number one in my hit parade.

Okay, what I need you to do is take these plates out to the coffee table,

and pour us a couple of glasses of wine. Just wait.

- You are good at this. Yes, sir.

[on air] This is Leslie Summers saying goodnight and good luck.

- Bam.

Hey, Bill, thank you. - There you are.

- Hi. Well, you were certainly right about

a lot of people having it in for Ron at the radio station.

- Hmm.

- Wow.

Tell me about Ron's phone call to Ed's wife.

- Ron called Ed's wife live on the air,

posing as an executive from their credit card company.

He proceeded to tell her that they were seriously over their limit

due to charges that Ed had made to an escort service.

- Well I bet you that went over big.

- Well our ratings went through the roof,

but Ed went through a very nasty divorce.

- So the wife believed Ron's call?

- Oh, yeah. Ron was always at his very best

when he was messing with other people's lives.

- I've heard Kyle's sports program before, it's really pretty boring.

- Yeah, it makes you wonder why Paul doesn't hide him to begin with.

- I know, it's not like he was a hot commodity

in the TV sports announcing market.

- Listen, I want to check out this Ed Harding.

Check out what his story is, alright?

- Oh, hey, that's, that's her, that's the girl.

- Who? - Patty.

- That's Patty?

- Alright, you get in there, hold her, I want to catch Harding

before he leaves the station. Go, go, go, go.

- Excuse me. Patty, right? What are you doing here?

- Same thing you're doing here. Hi.

Sorry I ran out on you like that.

You know, you and I should get together and compare notes.

I think we could help each other. Here, hold these.

- Uh, why don't, why don't you start by telling me who you are and what you're up to.

- I told you, I'm a floater.

- No, no, no, see I called the DA's Office and, no, no.

- You're good. Okay, but you have to promise to keep

what I tell you between you and Mr. McBride only.

- Patty. I can't promise you anything.

- Danny, Phil.

Phil, Danny. - Hi, Danny.

- Phil. No, I don't shake hands.

Uh, Phil, Phil, is that your cab out front?

'Cause there's a guy with, with a cab out front,

he doesn't have any vowels in his name.

And I'm telling you, do not get in that cab.

I'm telling you. What, what is your name?

- Excuse me, uh, hold onto this a second.

I'm sorry, please, thank you, hold on.

- Phil, Phil.

- We'll finish, we'll finish this later.

Patty?

Watch it, excuse me, coming through, coming through.

Looking for a girl named Patty, do you know Patty? Patty? Anyone?

- Sir.

- Patty, Patty, stop.

This is getting really old.

- What are you doing?

- That girl, she's...

- Looks like she was trying to get away from you.

Are you bothering her? - No, I just need to ask her a question, need to talk to her.

- I'll bet you do. - No, no. I, I need to talk to her about Ron Garrison's murder.

She's, I think she might have some information.

She's, plus I'm trying to find out what she's doing

sneaking around your music library.

- She's not sneaking around. She works here.

- What? - Patty's a part time production assistant here.

Day or two a week.

She does some filing and runs some errands.

And she has a boyfriend.

- I'm a busy man, Mr. McBride, what is it that you want from me?

- Well, you've said that you'd like to try and help Bob.

- And I think I've shown my concern. But, uh, can we get to the point?

- Ah, good idea. I understand you're divorced?

- What does that have to do with anything?

- Well, Bob told me that it was a result of a stunt

that Ron played on the air, on you.

- Yeah, he called my wife pretending to be

an official at a credit card company,

and told her that my latest charge of a thousand dollars

to an escort service had overextended my credit limit.

- Some joke.

So you and Ron had words. [whoosh]

- We're talking a whole wack of concert tickets.

Coming up later in the hour we'll be giving our more clues in the million dollar treasure.

- Can't wait for that, Bob.

- Nor can I.

- Oh, look who's here. It's our old buddy Ed Harding

joining us in the studio. Ed, how are things?

- You know how things are, Ron.

My wife's suing me for divorce because of you.

- Hey, I'm real sorry to hear that.

If I'd only known, you know...

- You're sorry, you're despicable.

Don't you get tired of apologizing for him?

I want your listeners to know how low you really are.

- That must have been difficult for you,

being reminded every day of what he had done to you.

- She took everything because of him.

You're dead, Ron, you understand me? You are dead, you hear me?

- Ed, Ed, I want you in my office right now. - Alright.

- Goodbye, Ed. Well, well, well wasn't that exciting, folks?

[whoosh]

- Well, you got a good reason to hate Ron.

- Yes, I did. And I would have quit just to get away from him,

but I needed the job to pay the alimony.

I'm sorry, I'm on, Mr. McBride, but feel free to stay if you like.

- Oh, no, thanks, talk to you later.

- Okay, Los Angeles you're listening to the might of right,

this is Ed Harding on KTMB 109.9, thanks for tuning in.

Today I want to talk about lawyers.

- Sure you don't want me to channel Vedic,

ask him to give you a hand?

- No, I think I can handle it.

Let's not disturb him, huh?

You're here a bit early, aren't you?

- I didn't want to miss the newest installment of the show.

- Show?

- The Who Killed Ron Show.

It's better than anything reality TV or a soap opera has to offer.

- Is it?

- Mr. McBride,

everyone who works here had a reason to see Ron dead.

- Including you?

- Have you ever listened to my program?

- No.

- My program deals in serious stuff.

Conspiracies, paranormal activity, even murder.

Let's consider our suspects. [whoosh]

Leslie, now there's a real piece of work. Naked Ambition.

She used Ron to get her foot in the door,

and then dropped him like a hot potato for Paul,

who she was able to seduce in a heartbeat,

even though he was married.

- Now Paul doesn't know this,

but she already has her eyes on a bigger fish, the station owner.

Now nobody, not even Ron, would mess with that.

But Ron could have wrecked things for Leslie by going to Paul

and threatening to expose his affair with her to his wife,

'causing Paul to wind up divorced and broke like Ed Harding.

- And costing Leslie not only her job, but her future in radio.

So either one of them had a reason to silence Ron.

Then of course, there's Kyle.

He owes Ron not only his career, but a lot of money as well.

You must have found out that Ron that was a big gambler

who lost a vast sum on a game-winning touchdown pass

that Kyle dropped on purpose to satisfy

some rather scary organized crime guys.

- Why do you think Ron got Kyle the job here?

He wants to make sure that Kyle had enough income

to pay back Ron who had found a way to expose Kyle

for the sports fraud that he is.

Then there's Ed. [laughs]

Man, did Ron mess up Ed's life with that stupid prank phone call.

It cost Ed not only his marriage,

but just about every dime that he makes in alimony. [whoosh]

If I were you, Mr. McBride,

I'd put all their names on the board and throw a dart at it to see which one really killed Ron.

Is conspiracy too strong of a word, Mr. McBride?

[on air] Hi, Kyle, this is Steve, a long-time listener, first time caller.

- Great dinner, Mr. McBride.

- Thank you Detective Hansen.

[on air] As far as I know,

Whitey Ford is the only player to ever pitch

in three World Series in three decades.

I think that makes him the greatest pitcher to ever play the game.

- It wasn't Whitey Ford.

- It was Jim Palmer.

He pitched a World Series win in the '70s, '80s and '90s.

- I love a woman who knows her baseball.

- I'm full of surprises.

- Right. You know what? Unless he's discussing football,

he really doesn't know what he's talking about.

- And even then he sometimes fumbles.

Like when he dropped that catch that cost

Washington the Conference Championship.

[mellow music]

- Hey, Mac.

- Hi.

- Patty.

- I came by to apologize for giving you such a bad time.

And to tell you the truth about me.

- Have a seat.

Patty, now would be a really good time for you to be totally honest with me.

- That's why I'm here. I want to be a journalist,

that's all I've ever really wanted to be.

I've been supporting myself working part-time at the radio station as a PA.

And when Ron was murdered,

I thought the case could be my big break.

- That's fair enough, I guess.

So, have you found anything out about the case?

What's your take on it? - Well I've been working at the

radio station for almost a year now,

and I know Bob could never kill anyone.

He's just too good a guy.

- Just so you know, you haven't done anything to hurt our case.

It's actually really good to know who you really are.

I was getting a little worried, thought you might be involved somehow.

We've got these four possible suspects,

and none of them have any ties to the crime.

Except for this 911 tape that seems to damn Bob Carter. Listen.

- 911, what is the nature of your emergency. - Help.

- Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help.

- Goodbye, Ron. - Please. [gunshot]

- Sir, we've identified your location, and police units are en route.

- We're hoping to try to prove that someone from the radio station

edited the tapes from Ron and Bob's show

and then played it over the phone for 911,

but all of the originals are kept password protected in the station's computer.

- Could someone have recorded Ron and Bob's voices off the radio and edited it then?

- It's possible. We're still waiting to hear back from our sound expert.

- Maybe someone used one of their commercials or PSAs.

Anybody at the station has access to them.

- You mean like a public service announcement?

- All of the radio personalities do them for free,

to help out nonprofit organizations.

Ron and Bob have done hundreds, easily.

I've personally catalogued them.

- Police dispatch has testified the 911 call,

which was placed by the deceased,

Ron Garrison and traced to his cell phone,

which was found at the crime scene,

came in at nine forty-three PM.

You were notified and went straight to the scene, is that correct?

- That's correct.

- What did you observe?

- Mr. Garrison was found lying on the floor.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

- Did you notice any forced entry to the house? - No.

- So the deceased might have known his assailant, let him in.

- Objection your honor, asking the witness to draw a conclusion.

- Sustained.

- What did you do next?

- I immediately ordered the crime scene sealed,

and a forensics unit called in.

- Then what?

- Then we did a search of the house,

and we found a jacket belonging to Mr. Bob Carter,

and a pair of surgical gloves stuffed in a closet.

- I'd like to refer to people's exhibit 3B and 3C.

Now your certain this jacket belongs to the defendant?

- Yes, we found the receipt of the purchase in Mr. Carter's house,

and the tag with his name on it sewn into the jacket's collar.

- Have you tested these items for any gunshot residue?

- Yes, both were given paraffin testing.

And the results were positive for gunpowder residue.

Matching that found on the deceased, the surgical gloves,

and Mr. Carter's jacket.

- Thank you, no more questions.

- Mr. McBride, your witness.

- Thank you, Your Honor.

Detective Hansen, you said that the exterior of the gloves

tested positive, uh, for cordite.

Did you test the interior of the gloves for fingerprints, DNA?

- Yes.

- And did you find any?

- Nothing.

- Did you find the murder weapon?

- No.

- But a search was done of the house and the grounds?

- Yes, of course. - Uh huh, now the arresting officer testified earlier

that he apprehended Mr. Carter as he was fleeing the crime scene,

in the backyard. Is that correct?

- Yes, that's correct.

- Was the murder weapon found on him?

- No.

- I find that odd.

Mr. Carter was arrested immediately after the murder,

fleeing the scene. And yet the murder weapon was not found on him,

nor does it turn up in a thorough search of the premises

both inside and out. What happened to it?

Well, maybe Mr. Carter never had the murder weapon,

because the real killer took it with him

when he left the premises before the police even arrived.

- Objection. Where's the question here, Your Honor?

- I'm finished with the witness, Your Honor.

- The witness may step down.

- Miss Sinclair, you are an audio expert in the employ of

the Los Angeles Police Department, is that correct? - Yes.

- Would you now play for the jury the recording of the 911 tape.

- ...nature of your emergency.

- Help. - Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help. - Goodbye, Ron.

- Please. - Could you play that one more time for the court?

- Certainly.

- 911, what is the nature of your emergency?

- Help. - Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help. - Goodbye, Ron.

- Please. - Have you determined whose voices these are?

- That is the voice of Mr. Bob Carter,

and we believe Ron Garrison's voice as well.

- How can you be so sure?

- I checked it against a sample voice tape

that we asked Mr. Carter to make for us.

- Thank you, Miss Sinclair. No more questions.

- Mr. McBride, your witness.

- Thank you, Your Honor. My associate, Mr. Newberry, will question this witness.

- Miss Sinclair, when you examined the 911 tape,

were you able to discern whether or not

the voices on the tape were recorded live?

- No, I just assumed they were.

- Your Honor, Mr. McBride and I made the same assumption,

however, on closer examination,

we came to the realization that while the context of the tape,

the actual words spoken on the tape were both threatening and pleading,

the tone of the voices was not.

- Objection, speculation. The witness is not a speech therapist.

- Sustained.

- Nothing further.

- Mr. Tracey?

- The state rests, your honor.

- Mr. McBride? - Yes, thank you, your honor.

The defense calls as its first witness Mr. Paul Belsen.

- Could we please move it along, Mr. McBride? It's been a long day.

- Mr. Belsen, you're the manager at KTMB Radio, is that correct? - Yes, I am.

- And is it true that The Ron And Bob Show drew your largest audience?

- Yes, it is.

- Did you ever make recordings of The Ron And Bob Show?

- Yes.

- How were those recordings kept?

- How are they, they're kept in a computer.

- And who has access to that computer?

- The only member of my staff who had access was Ron.

- Why is that?

- Because it was written into his contract.

Mr. Garrison was insistent that his program never be re-aired

or copied without his permission.

He wanted every show to be original.

- Any other persons have access to that computer besides Mr. Garrison?

- Yes. Me.

- You? Why?

- Our insurance carrier requires I have access in the event

anything's ever said over the airwaves that might constitute

a legal issue. And to assist me against any FCC complaints.

- Um, FCC?

- Federal Communications Commission,

the regulatory body for all broadcasters.

- I see.

Do you broadcast public service announcements at KTMB?

- Yes we do, and we're happy to do them.

- Now, public service announcements, or PSAs, as they are known in the trade,

are basically free commercials for charities, nonprofit organizations.

Did any of your radio personalities record

some of these public service announcements? - Yes.

- Did Ron and Bob record some of these PSAs?

- Yes. It always helps when you have celebrities

as well known as Ron and Bob to get behind a worthy cause.

- Do you keep these recorded public service announcements?

- Yes.

- Where are they kept?

- In our station library.

- I'm going to play for you now a public service announcement

that was made by Ron and Bob last year.

I want you to listen very carefully to every word.

Phil.

- This is Ron. - And this is Bob,

reminding you that millions of people go to bed hungry every night.

- Hunger is a killer, but you can stop it. So please...

- Send your donation today to Stop Hunger, care of this radio station.

- Please help fight hunger.

- We're counting on you.

- Stop hunger, run for your checkbook,

we are, say goodbye, Bob.

- Goodbye, Ron.

- Is that the public service announcement that Ron and Bob recorded?

- Yes it is.

- Now, I'm going to play you an edited version

of the exact same public service announcement. Phillip.

- 911, what is the nature of your emergency?

- Help. - Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help.

- Goodbye, Ron. - Please. [gunshot]

- Sir, we've identified your location, and police units are en route.

- We will produce an audio expert who will testify

that the words you just heard on the 911 tape

were exactly the same words you heard in the public service announcement,

including the footsteps hurrying away.

Thank you Mr. Belsen, no further questions of this witness.

- Mr. Tracey?

- No questions at this time, Your Honor.

- You may step down.

- Your honor the defense calls Mr. Kyle Ward to the stand.

Mr. Ward, is it true that you were hired at KTMB

on the recommendation of the deceased, Ron Garrison?

- Yes.

- Why was that? You didn't even know him then.

- Objection, relevancy.

- I promise, Your Honor, it will go to relevancy.

- You may continue.

- Did you know that Ron Garrison bet that Sacramento

would win that conference championship game

that was lost when you dropped the pass?

- He mentioned it when I started work at the station.

- I would think he would.

He lost a great deal of money on that game.

Is that you? Crucial moment in the end zone.

Almost catching the game-winning pass.

- Yes. - Objection, where is this going, Your Honor?

- Your Honor, it will go to cause if I could just have your indulgence.

- Overruled.

- I found these photographs hidden in Ron Garrison's house.

I couldn't understand why.

There are 40 photos of the same picture.

'Til I flip through them. Like that.

I realized they were actually frames of a film,

a film showing Kyle Ward purposefully dropping the football.

You dropped that game-winning pass

to settle a debt to a major gambling syndicate

that was poised to win millions of dollars if Sacramento lost that game.

- Ron Garrison, obsessed with his financial loss

studied the game film frame by frame.

Came to the same conclusion, you dropped the ball on purpose.

He confronted you with that fact,

threatened to go to the authorities unless you paid him back.

Plus, a hefty interest to boot.

He gave you the job at the radio station to keep an eye on you

and to take two thirds of your salary.

- Objection, Mr. Ward is not on trial here.

If I may remind the court, the prosecution has the

defendant's voice on the 911 tape

threatening the deceased just prior to the gunshot that killed him.

And in spite of their fancy footwork about an edited tape,

the defense has conveniently ignored that fatal gunshot.

- Sustained.

- Mr. Ward, do you use special effects,

um, to enhance the entertainment factor of your radio show,

or to highlight a particular reference?

- Yes, we all do.

- Thank you. Your Honor, no further questions at this time.

- Mr. Tracey? - Mr. Ward,

isn't it true you were at the studio

doing your radio show at the time of the murder?

- Yes.

- Thank you, no more questions.

- You may step down.

- Defense calls Dr. Charles Green.

- Dr. Green, your expertise in sound and sound technology includes,

uh, both monitoring and deciphering sound in deep space,

is that not true?

- Yes it is.

- And in addition to your work with NASA,

your studies in all phases of sound technology

have been included in numerous textbooks on the subject?

- Yes.

- What can you tell us about sound prints?

- Sound prints, like fingerprints, are, uh, uniquely individual.

As a voice analyzer can differentiate between different voices,

so can an acoustic microscope differentiate between different sounds.

- Objection, relevance. - Mr. Newberry?

- Your Honor, if you give me just a moment, I'll get there.

- Overruled.

- Dr. Green, if voice prints can be matched,

does it stand to reason that other sound prints

can be matched as well? - Absolutely.

- Now in your analysis of the recording,

did you detect anything on the tape

the prosecution's sound expert failed to detect?

- I did. - Objection,

Your Honor, what testimony is the defense trying to refute?

- This better have a home, Mr. Newberry.

- I promise, it does, Your Honor.

- Proceed. You may answer the question, Dr. Green.

- Uh, permission to use the screen, Your Honor?

- You may proceed.

- Now my equipment picked up on what I believe are edits.

Each one of these spikes, I believe,

represents an edit in the recording.

I believe that this 911 recording

was made from pieces of a previous recording.

- 911, what is the nature of your emergency?

- Help. - Can you identify yourself, sir?

- Bob, help. - Goodbye, Ron. [gunshot]

- How is it that your equipment was able to detect something

that the prosecution's was not?

- My equipment is state of the art, and only recently developed.

Uh, the prosecution's test equipment is antiquated.

- Dr. Green, if you will, please.

This is the sound print of an actual nine millimeter pistol shot.

You can see my signature in the corner, authenticating just that.

- Now you recall earlier that forensics experts testified

that the nine millimeter slug pulled from Ron Garrison's body

was indeed the cause of death. Dr. Green.

- This is the sound print of the gunshot recorded

by the 911 dispatch on the evening that Ron Garrison

purportedly made his phone call.

And this is the sound print of the recorded gunshot sound effect

used by Kyle Ward in his sports radio program.

- The sound effects he used to, uh, to make a point

or to shoot down a caller's question or answers.

It's also the same sound effect heard by Mr. McBride, my colleague,

on the evening that Mr. McBride visited and was a guest on KTMB Radio.

Dr. Green.

- This is the sound print of an actual gunshot

from a nine millimeter pistol.

Now if we compare this with the second sound print we have,

which was the recording from the 911 dispatch,

we will see that the two sound prints do not match.

The recorded 911 gunshot is not from a nine millimeter pistol.

If, however, we insert the sound print

that was used by Kyle Ward on his program,

you will notice that the sound print of the recorded 911 gunshot sound,

and the sound print that was used by Kyle Ward on his program,

they match perfectly.

- Thank you, Dr. Green. Your Honor, we have nothing further.

The Defense recalls Kyle Ward to the stand.

- I was on the air at the time of Ron's murder.

- No, your radio program was on the air at the time of Ron's murder. [whoosh]

But according to the program log,

that night you had a 30 minute interview

with Jason Taylor of the Miami Dolphins.

The engineering log shows that that was a

prerecorded phone interview you had done at an earlier time and date.

You started that interview, and then you went to Ron Garrison's house.

- You stole Bob's jacket from the station.

And you were wearing two pairs of surgical gloves,

one for the gunshot residue,

the other so you wouldn't leave any fingerprints.

You sent a text message to Bob Carter from Ron's cell phone

to get him to come to Ron's house.

- Yo, anybody down there?

[muffled gunshot]

- You shot him with a silenced weapon.

And then you just waited for Bob's car to pull into the driveway.

Then you made the 911 call.

And you played the edited PSA that you had made of Bob and Ron's voice,

and the gunshot.

You hid the jacket and gloves in a closet. [whoosh]

You slipped out the side door as Mr. Carter came through the back.

Now what do you have to say about that, Mr. Ward?

- I should have done it years ago.

I had to get Ron off my back.

I lost my way.

- I'd like to see counsel in my chambers. Court stands in recess.

[gavel strikes twice]

- Mac, good work.

- With a little help from my friends.

- So how's your house? Okay?

- Yeah, still stinks of paint, but it's alright.

- How about I cook you dinner tonight at my place.

- That would be lovely.

- I'll even cook for Jesse.

- Only raw food for the pup.

- See you in a couple of hours?

- Sure.

- Okay.

- Well, you got to go with that, right?

50 grand in my pocket, and a woman on my arm.

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