"In the city of Los Angeles, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups:" "The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders." "These are their stories." " All right." "Just sit right here, and I'll make you some tea and honey, okay?" " Back so soon?" " He threw up three times from big bear to here." " Oh." "Sweetie, you're burning." "Go upstairs and take a warm bath." "I'll be right up." "Make him some toast." " Don't worry, sport." "We'll go fishing next week." " I'm gonna go help him." " Don?" "Don, what's going on?" " Kathy and Bobby..." "Call 911." "Call them!" " Blunt-force hits over his face and neck, damage to the cervical vertebrae- could be a broken neck." " His knuckles are badly bruised." "The boy put up a fight." " Protecting his mom." " Brave kid." " Victim has vaginal and rectal bleeding, bruising along the torso, the thighs, severe blunt-force trauma to the back of the head." " The boy killed, the wife raped and beaten to death while the man of the house was locked inside his bathroom." "so you were on a fishing trip?" " Uh, to big bear." "We were-we were supposed to stay overnight, but-but Bobby got sick." "We decided to come back." " You notice anything unusual when you got home?" " No." "But..." "I heard something in the laundry room." "We put Bobby to bed at 10:00, and I came downstairs and got some water, and I felt somebody was there, and then..." "I got hit." " Did you get a look at him?" " I wasn't wearing my glasses." "It was dark." "He was white." "I'm sure of that." "And..." "You're-you're gonna think this is crazy." " Try us." " He was naked." "When I came to, he had taped me up, and he was dragging me to the bathroom." "And I swear, he-he- he wasn't wearing any clothes." " Did you notice anything on his body- tattoos, a birthmark?" " On his left leg, maybe a smudge." "I could hear Kathy upstairs." "I tried to look under the door." "I saw these..." "Like, flashes of light coming from upstairs." " Flashes, like a camera flash?" " Maybe." " This lamp's been moved." "Maybe the suspect moved it toward the bed to throw more light on it for his photographs." " Some of these are bloody." "Some of them have been torn." "Maybe he had her try them on while he was assaulting her." " A lingerie show." "We have footprints." "Took his shoes off in here, maybe the rest of his clothes." " He was in here a while, sorting through their dirty laundry, getting himself all hot and bothered." " So this guy broke into a house full of people, undressed, and hid in a laundry room?" " Mrs. Alvin was supposed to be home alone, but the husband said he heard a noise from the laundry room when he came home with the boy." "The suspect was probably in the house already." " He broke in, expecting to have the wife all to himself." " He was determined to claim his prize." "The stripping naked, the underwear, the photographs" "I- it's like a plan he'd rehearsed before." "Right?" " Right." "I'll check break-ins in the area for a similar m.O." " Well?" " Well, it's like riding a bike, except I don't remember all this paperwork." "Lieutenant, thanks for pulling the strings to get me here." " Hey, how's he doing?" " He's still got the chops." " And how are you doing?" " Don't worry about me." "The one to worry about is Casey." " I'll stop in on my way home." " Six months ago, right, Joe?" "We came back from dinner out, and our daughter found that photo on her computer." " She freaked out." "Freaked out- a stranger in our baby's room." " Anything else taken?" " Just some of our daughter's underwear." " The cops couldn't figure out how the guy got in." "I tell you, I put in a new alarm after that." " Is this a new sound system?" " Uh, seven months ago." "The music follows us around the house." " The alvins have one just like it." "Could we have the name of your tech?" " Yeah, I remember that job." "They wanted the music to follow them around the house, even into the John." "Hell, it's their money." " What about the alvins, in silver lake?" " Yeah, with a little boy, right?" "That kid was whip-smart." "Knew more about electronics than half the guys in the trade." " Does anybody work for you-a helper?" " Nope." "Do all the work myself." "That's how I keep my prices low." "Those two jobs you mentioned?" "I beat out six other estimates." " And when you do an estimate, you come to the house, you look around?" " From the crawl space up to the rafters." "You don't want any surprises later on." " Nine homes burglarized with similar m.O.S- all of them either got a/v systems installed or got estimates." " Some of the techs visited all the houses, but one name pops out- nolen sound." "He bid on every job, but each time he priced himself out of the running by at least 20%." " Just a pretext to case the house." " We're gonna smoke him out." " He might respond better to a woman's voice." " I want the tv in the den connected to the tv in there and music in every room, including the laundry room." "I cannot get enough of Andrea bocelli." " Whatever floats your boat." " Oh, and another thing- um, my husband is gonna be away for business in two weeks, and, um, I wanted to surprise him." " Okay." " Is that a problem?" " No, I just need to see the scope of the job." " Could I see your business card?" " You need it now?" " You do work for nolen sound, right?" " Uh..." "I think there's been a misunderstanding." " Police." "Don't move." " Uh, I think I'm in the wrong house." " No, you're in the right house." " Dudes, I swear I'm not the one you're looking for." " Steve inman- a/v installations." "What's your relationship with nolen sound?" " Nothing." "I don't know those guys." " So explain how we called nolen sound and you showed up?" " I got punked." "This guy calls me up, says his wife's gonna show me a job." "I get down here to make an estimate, and she's like, "it's a surprise for him."" "No." " Palm Springs p.D. Just confirmed" "Mr. inman was there on a golf weekend with his in-laws the night the alvins were attacked." " The state does have a contractor's license on file for Greg nolen, with a legit social security number, except that Greg nolen has been dead for five years." "The phone number for nolen sound- it's a no-name cell." "And the email address was set up behind half a dozen proxies." "Bottom line-a false identity created by an expert." " So we got punked too." "The suspect saw through our little sting, sent the sucker instead." " Dangerous, twisted, and smart." "That could be the guy who came to the house last month." "Nolen sound, right?" "I wish I paid more attention." "I was already late for work, so..." " Can you remember what he said?" " Just the usual questions." "He was very polite" ""yes, sir." "No, sir."" "I thought maybe he'd been in the service." " Are you okay, Mr. Alvin?" " He asked when would be a good time to do the job." "I said any weekend, except the last one, because I was going away with Bobby." "He knew Kathy would be alone because I told him." " Thank you for coming in, Mr. Alvin." "This has been very helpful." " Hmm." " That makes 11 people so far, all the same story- bland-looking guy, baseball cap, tinted glasses, polite, formal, just this side of a drill sergeant." " And up until last week, he was just breaking into empty houses and stealing underwear." "It's a big jump to rape and murder." " There are steps missing." " We pulled the record from nolen sound's cell phone." "He made and received calls from long beach, riverside, anaheim." " All right, well, check with those jurisdictions, see what they have that fits our m.O., and maybe we'll find the missing steps." " I woke up with a pillowcase over my head and a voice saying..." "My baby wouldn't get hurt if I kept quiet." "He tied my hands behind my back, put his hand on my throat, and took me into the bedroom." " And what happened then?" " He was..." "Posing me, made me put on different underwear." "And he took photos the whole time." " Did he call you by your name?" " No, but I remember when he- when he was behind me, raping me, um, my arm was against his leg." "I felt this kind of scar." " Which leg?" " His left leg." "It was, um, like a straight line, maybe a couple inches long." " Anything else you remember?" " No." "No." "He started getting rough with me." "And I thought-I thought he was gonna kill me." "And I just kept saying, "why are you doing this?"" "And then I just blurted out, "you don't seem like the type."" " What did he do?" " He just stopped." "He said he was sorry, and..." "Then he was gone." "He just left me there, tied up." " Have you had any contact with a company called nolen sound?" " No." " Has anyone called you, asking you for personal information?" " No." "I'm very careful about that kind of thing." "I work in the billing department at a hospital, so I know what can go wrong." " What do you mean?" " Um, four months ago, our computer system were hacked, and 5,000 credit card numbers were stolen." "There was a whole investigation." "Even I was a suspect." " Who did the investigating?" " The secret service." "I didn't know they were identity-theft experts." " I hadn't heard about the attack." "It's awful." "Annette was very helpful to us." " We think her attack may be related to some cases in L.A." " Matter of fact, they involve identity theft." "That's your area, isn't it?" " Right." "The digital crimes unit." "Anything we can do to help." " Well, we'd like to talk to your team." "Annette said there were three of you." " Agent canton- she's out with the flu- and our supervisor, Raymond Garson." " Garson?" "Oh, I think we worked with him in the past." " Blond hair, glasses?" " Brown hair, no glasses." " That's him next to me at a dinner last year." " Marine corps marathon?" " Yeah, a bunch of us run it every year." " Ah." "And that's Garson next to you?" "What-what's that thing on his leg?" " Oh, his, uh, red badge of courage." "He got wounded in a raid in a counterfeit operation 20 years ago." " He around today, so we can check in?" " He's in D.C. until tomorrow." "He is number two in this office, you know." " This agent protected 2 presidents and 14 visiting heads of state." " Yeah." "We tried to check his whereabouts the last six months, but it's hard without asking for his schedule." "We do know that he was in and out of long beach the week Annette kay got raped, and he was here when the alvins were attacked." "He had one more out-of-town assignment- ventura, six weeks ago" "Running a big fraud investigation." " You check with ventura p.D. For crimes with similar m.O.S?" " We did." "They just got back to us." "Do you mind?" " No." " Joanne dickson, 32, a waitress- she went missing seven weeks ago in ventura." " Joanne finished her shift at 6:00 Thursday night." "She left alone, didn't show up for work the next day." " Anybody hear from her in between?" " She called a friend from her house at 9:15, otherwise, nothing- no prints or DNA from her house." "We found this in her driveway." "The tracks are from heavy-duty all-weather blackwalls from an s.U.V." "No one joanne knew has treads that match." " Is this the restaurant where she worked?" " On east Thompson, right off the 101." " There's a motel across the street." " That's Garson in the motel parking lot, getting into an s.U.V." "The same night joanne dickson disappeared." " Where's the picture of him coming back?" " We don't have that photo." "What we have is Garson entering the motel lobby at 4:00 A.M." " The minute we grab the s.U.V., Garson'll know, and any evidence he has- photos, documents- he'll get rid of." " Best thing is to get him in a room." "Why don't we just ask him to come in today, talk about Annette kay and identity theft?" "20 years in the secret service, protecting presidents, this man understands the chain of command." "He respects it." "He'll follow orders." "He knows if he turns us down, he'll be tipping his hand." " Give it a shot." " Bingo." "Lab got a match between the tracks found in joanne's driveway and the s.U.V. Garson was driving." " He'll show." "Everything okay?" " Sure." " You know, tj, if I'm doing anything wrong," "I hope you'll tell me." " You're doing fine." " It's tough losing a partner." "I know." "I've lost two- one in the line of duty and one to cancer." "Morales." "Send him up." " Raymond Garson, to see detective morales." " Now, this should be interesting." "Robbery homicide, 10th floor?" "Thanks." " Agent Garson..." "Detective Ricardo morales." "Thank you for coming in." " Oh, we're just up the street." "I walked over." "Who walks in L.A., right?" " Only the brave." " So..." "How can I help you, detective?" " Well, as you might know, we're investigating an attack on miss Annette kay." " Yeah." "Agent hsu told me." "It's a terrible shame what happened to her." " Yes, it is." "Well, here's the situation." "Uh, there's evidence that the man who attacked Annette is also responsible for at least 14 burglaries in the last eight months." " Okay." " This suspect uses the identity of a audio-visual technician to gain access, uh, to case the houses." "There's also evidence that he killed two members of a family in silver lake." "Now, here's the thing, ray." "The identity this person uses belongs to a Greg nolen, who passed away five years ago." "Mr. nolen was a witness in a fraud case that your office investigated back in 2002." "Here's his name on the witness list." " Yeah, I remember this case." " Right." "Well, here's where we..." "Run into a little problem." "Uh, this is the statement from Annette kay." "Lines 16 through 25 are highlighted." "It's where she says she felt a scar on the left thigh of the man who attacked her- a straight-line scar." " Mm." " This is a statement from Mr. don Alvin." "He's the husband of the family that were attacked in silver lake- also highlighted where he describes seeing a mark on the left leg of the man who assaulted him." "Do you see that, ray?" " Calls it a "smudge."" " Ray, we saw a photograph of you at the marine corps marathon in shorts." "There was a scar visible on your left leg." "Would you like me to continue?" " Okay." " We're both grown-ups here." "We know what we're talking about today." "You came in voluntarily." "And as a law enforcement officer, you know you're free to leave..." "Anytime you want." " Mm-hmm." " Note it- suspect acknowledges it's noncustodial questioning." "Miranda doesn't attach." " Really?" "That wouldn't hold up in New York." " There's another case I've been asked to talk to you about..." "Up in ventura- a missing persons..." "Joanne dickson." "She disappeared from her home seven weeks ago." "She worked across the street from the hotel where you stayed when you were working on a case up there." "So here we..." "We run into another little problem." "At 9:07 the night she disappeared, the security cameras in the motel parking lot took this photo of you getting into an s.U.V." "The next time you appear in the motel's cameras is at 4:12 A.M., when you're entering the lobby." "The police in ventura took a tire print from joanne dickson's driveway." "Our lab compared that print to a tire print taken from the s.U.V. You were driving." "Here's a photocopy of both prints." "I don't really know anything about tire impressions." "I leave it up to the experts, but they tell me those tire prints are identical." "You need to explain this, ray." " I don't know." "I just don't know." " Ray, you should be aware that, based on these tire prints, search warrants are being issued to your home and your computer." "It's not me making the decision." "But whatever is there" "DNA, blood, hair- our experts will find it." " Damn brick wall." " Ray, what are we gonna do?" "I know your mind is racing right now." "I've had a lot of people sit where you're sitting." "I know how this goes." "If you want to maintain your credibility, you have to give us some honesty right now." "That's how this works..." "Because when the telephone rings or there's a knock on the door, it's over." "It's getting out of control fast, ray." "It's getting beyond my control." "What are we gonna do, ray?" "You have to get in front of this." "If you wait until the evidence comes in or until you have no choice..." "People are just gonna think," ""oh, he's just some kind of psychopath."" "I don't think that's what you want..." "After 20 years of distinguished service, of having presidents and heads of state trust you with their lives." "Or maybe I'm wrong." "In any event, ray, it could well be out of our hands." "We'll just wait and see what they find in your house." " Call me Raymond." "Raymond." " Raymond." " I see you're still struggling with something." "What is it?" " What if it was consensual..." "Actually..." "With Annette?" " You were there with her that night?" " Yes." "But it was consensual." " That's one." " And how about the waitress in ventura-joanne?" "Was that consensual as well?" " I..." "I went to visit her." " Can you tell me where she is now?" "Is she near her house?" " Yeah." " Is she outside?" "Can she see the sky?" " No." " Can you show me where she is on this?" "Raymond..." " I-I think I'd like to talk to a lawyer now." " That's your choice." "And everything that I said would happen will happen." "People will make up their own minds about you." "Raymond, can you tell me where joanne is?" " I think I-I've said enough." "I want to talk to my lawyer." " He buried her near her house." " It's not enough to get the death penalty." "We needed him to take us to the body." " This could be moot." "Our team just got to his house, and if they find DNA or photos  well, unless Garson's posed next to a corpse, it may not matter." " She's right." "He's already set up his defense for his assault on Annette kay- consensual sex, he said, she said." "We really needed him to take us to that body." " S.I.D.'S report on the s.U.V." "Garson was driving in ventura- he did some off-roading." "They found mud and onion skins in the undercarriage." " Onion skins." "There are onion fields all around ventura." "You can smell them when you drive in." "There's an onion field right by joanne dickson's house." " Well, that must be at least 1,000 acres." "It would take months to search all that." " You think you can get ventura to send out search teams by 5:00 A.M.?" "Raymond, there's something I want you to see." "Detective, could you pull over here?" "The experts found onion skins all over the truck you were driving that night." "They know joanne's out there." "A lot of people looking for her." " Eventually they'll find her." "His computer was full of these." "It looks like it was taken in the houses he broke into." " And then there were these." "The women are all alive in these photos." " It's incredible." "This guy was protecting presidents." "How did he ever pass the psychological screening?" " Well, we don't know about the cross-dressing, but the burglaries and assaults started only in the last 12 months." " Yeah, well, he can exercise his freak in prison." "Long beach and ventura have both signed off on an offer of life without parole for the whole package." " Why offer anything?" "You have a bona fide death-penalty case here." " And two traumatized victims." "If I can avoid putting don Alvin and Annette kay through a trial, it'll be a good thing." " We're not scared of a trial." "My client's been shot in the line of duty." "He's devoted his life to public service." "That's gonna mean something to a jury." " Yeah, until they see those pictures of him prancing around in "hello kitty" panties." " Not to mention the photos of him torturing Annette kay," "Kathy Alvin." " Souvenirs of consensual encounters." " Really?" "Did joanne dickson consent to being buried in an onion field?" " Who cares?" "The jury's never gonna hear that." "My client had invoked his right to counsel when the police drove by a field where a search was under way and resumed questioning in violation of his rights." "The discovery of miss dickson's body resulted from that questioning and should be excluded." " There was no questioning." "Mr. Garson volunteered to show the police where he buried miss dickson." "In any case, your honor, the police would've found her body as a matter of inevitable discovery." " Well, then they should have been more patient." "If detective morales hadn't spoken to my client after he invoked- - wait." "This was detective morales' idea?" " He was driving Mr. Garson to ventura." " Mr. dekker, if this were an ordinary cop," "I'd allow the evidence in under the good-faith exception." "But a former prosecutor pulling this stunt?" " Your honor, you cannot allow an officer's background to influence your" " I can." "And I am." "The body's out." " That's one down." "Here's two." " Without a body, there's no murder case." " Damn." "Call her." "Go see her today." " Oh, my God." "I can't believe this." " That is you in these photos?" " Yes, three years ago with my ex." "We were newlyweds, we were experimenting." "Where did you get these?" " From Raymond Garson's lawyer." "He got them from your ex." " That creep." "Why-why would they want these?" " Garson's claiming that you consented to have rough sex with him." " What he did to me wasn't rough sex." "It was torture." "It was rape." " I know." " Can't you stop them from using these?" " We'll try, but the law is on their side." "They're entitled to question your credibility." " So that-that monster gets to use these photos to humiliate me in public, to-to rape me all over again?" "N- no." "No, I won't-I won't do it." "I won't testify." " Annette, we'll do everything we can  you have all that other evidence." "You don't need me." "I'm sorry." "I need to pick up my daughter from the sitter's." " She won't testify?" " No." "And forcing her will only backfire." "So we're dropping the rape charge." "We're also dropping the murder charge from ventura." "The judge excluded the evidence." " So what does that leave?" " The murder of your wife and son..." "Of course, the-the burglaries." "There's enough there to get the death penalty." "Mr. Alvin?" " I used to be like that..." "Happy." "How can someone call himself a good man if he doesn't protect his family?" " You tried, Mr. Alvin." " That's what people say, but I know what they're really thinking." "When I came to, I was being dragged." "My legs and my hands were taped up, and my mouth was taped shut." "I tried to shake loose, but I couldn't." " Mr. Alvin, while you were being dragged, what, if anything, did you see?" " Well, before I was knocked out, I-I fought back." "You know, I landed a couple punches, but he had the drop on me, and he hit me with something." " Mr. Alvin, will you please limit your answers to the questions I ask you?" "While you were being dragged, what did you see?" " There was a mark on the man's left leg." " People's 34." "Mr. Alvin, is that the scar you saw?" " I wasn't wearing my glasses, but that's it." " Then what happened?" " I was locked in the bathroom." "I could hear Kathy upstairs, being attacked." "There were flashes of light under the door." "I tried to get loose." "It took me forever." "When I finally got out," "I found my wife dead..." "And my son murdered by that man." " Thank you, Mr. Alvin." " Mr. Alvin, you said you put up a fight, that you punched your assailant." "There was a struggle, and you hit him, and he hit you." " Yes." " You were defending your family." " Exactly." " But, Mr. Alvin, you never mentioned this fight to the police, did you?" " I don't know." "But I hit him." " Well, can you explain why you had no bruises on your hands?" " That doesn't mean I didn't fight back." " No, your son fought back, and he had the bruises on his knuckles to prove it." "How does it happen you had no bruises?" " I don't know." " In fact, except for the wound on your head, there wasn't a single mark on your body that indicated there was a struggle, was there?" " I don't know." " And the scar that you claim that you saw, you told the police it was a smudge." " It was blurry." "I wasn't wearing my glasses." " You're making this up, aren't you?" " No." " In fact, you made the whole thing up." "Isn't it true that you came home Saturday night and you discovered that your wife had a sexual encounter with my client in your house when you were away?" " What?" "No!" "Not my Kathy." " And you became so enraged that you attacked your wife." "You raped her, and you beat her to death." " That's not true." " And then you killed your son when he tried to stop you." " No!" "That's a lie!" " You inflicted that wound on yourself and concocted this lie about an intruder." " That's a lie." "He murdered them." "He killed them." "I was protecting them." " I have no more questions." " I was protecting them." "How can he say those things about my wife?" "How can he get away with that?" " It doesn't matter what he said." "It's your credibility that's in trouble." " Mr. Alvin, why did you make up this story about fighting back?" "What were you trying to accomplish?" " They keep saying I could've done more." "They say I was a coward." " Who says?" " They keep sending me emails." "I don't know who they are." " Show us." ""You call yourself a man?" "A real man would have died protecting his family."" " "How can you live with yourself" ""when everyone knows you hid in the bathroom while your family was being killed?"" " "Your son puked his guts out all the way back from big bear, but he still had more guts left than you."" " That's the worst- from three days ago." " That wasn't in the media, about his son being sick on the way back from big bear." " Did you tell anyone?" " No." "I remember telling Kathy when we got home." "We were in the kitchen." " Check the books." " A smartphone" "Garson probably paid somebody to smuggle it in." " Don't confiscate it." "Put it back." "We'll put a tap on it." " My wife found out she was pregnant with twins." "It was a big financial burden." "I needed extra income." "I used to install stereos when I was in college." "But the secret service has regulations about side jobs, so I used the identity of a deceased a/v technician and worked on my days off." " And what, if anything, happened during the course of this work?" " Like a lot of men, I found it hard to be intimate with my wife when she became pregnant." "I often found myself alone with women in the houses I worked in." "Some of them were lonely and interested in the same kind of fantasy sex play." "All of those encounters were consensual." "I never did anything those women didn't want." "I never hurt them." " And what about the burglaries and the stolen panties that Mr. dekker mentioned?" " That was stupid." "It was just..." "Sexual curiosity." " Now tell us about Kathy Alvin." " I met her when I went to her house to do an estimate." "She asked me to come back when her husband was gone." "I went there Saturday afternoon." "We had sex." "It was rough sex, the kind she wanted." "When I left a few hours later," "Mrs. Alvin was alive and well." "I'm not- I'm not proud of my behavior." "I betrayed my wife." "I dishonored the secret service." "They deserved better." " You referenced your work with the secret service." "How many investigations have you been involved in?" " Ballpark- just over 100." " So you've interrogated a great many suspects, is that right?" " Yes." " And if a suspect revealed that he had knowledge of details of a crime that could only be known by the offender, what would that tell you?" " That he's guilty." " Guilty." "At the time of your encounter with Mrs. Alvin, did you know that Mr. Alvin had cut short his fishing trip because his son had fallen ill?" " No." " And what do you know about it today?" " Just that they had to come home early from fishing because the boy was sick." " That's it?" "He was sick?" " Yes." " You didn't hear Mr. Alvin tell his wife that their son had vomited three times on the way back from big bear lake?" " Objection- asked and answered." " You didn't hear him from your hiding place in the laundry room?" " No." "I wasn't there." " People's 35." ""Your son puked his guts out all the way back from big bear, but he still had more guts left than you."" "An email received by Mr. Alvin four days ago." " Objection, your honor." "We weren't given this evidence beforehand." " Sidebar, your honor." "Your honor, this impeachment evidence came to us in the last 24 hours- more than a dozen emails sent to Mr. Alvin over the last 30 days." ""Now everyone knows you're a liar and a coward." ""Did you ever think" ""that when she was being raped and killed, your wife was praying that you'd come and save her?"" "We have other evidence, your honor." "This is from the warden at the county jail, reporting the discovery of a cell phone with that number found during a search of the defendant's cell." "And this forensic analysis of the cell phone proves that it was used to send those emails, including that one, to Mr. Alvin, revealing details that would only be known to the killer of Mr. Alvin's family." " Mr. dekker, the defense will have 48 hours to examine this evidence before I'll admit it in trial." " They can take all the time they need." " Two life sentences without parole." " I hope you approve." " Buy you a drink, Mr. Alvin?" " You have a family?" "Then..." "Go home."