" Dad." " Hi, Dad." "I brought chicken from Small's." "I'm going to skip dinner." " How's Gabe?" " We couldn't get into the doctor." "I bought cough syrup at the pharmacy." " You should come to dinner, Dad." " You go on in, son." "What are you doing?" "Reilly." "This is Deputy Reilly." "Can I help you?" "I did it." "They're dead, all dead." "In Utah, the prosecution in the case of former county sheriff William Garry, convicted of murdering his wife and children, is expected to push hard for the death penalty." "County prosecutor Calvin Smith is bringing in a former fbi agent to give the jury a psychological profile of the man he says does not deserve to live out his life in prison." "In other news, disaster strikes where an intercontinental gas line has erupted..." "Charlie Horvath." "Say hello to Frank Black." "He's going to close the book on Mr William Garry." "Charlie's assistant county prosecutor." "He did a lot of work on that trial." "We appreciate you being here, Mr Black." "This town needs to get past this." "Didi Higgens, assistant pathologist to the ME." "He couldn't be here today but Didi's well acquainted with this case." " How do you do?" " Hi." "Frank, we're all aware of the importance of what you do." "If the jury even considers that it wasn't a cold, calculated, premeditated murder, they won't vote capital punishment." "We need to make sure some court of appeals doesn't set Garry free to do this again, maybe to some other family." "Didi, you want to run this down for Frank?" "William Garry's fingerprints were found on this." "It's a skew chisel." "One minute the boy smiles at his father, the next he's got that in his heart." "Mrs Garry heard the commotion, came downstairs and surprised Garry." "She put up a prolonged struggle." "Defensive wounds on the arms and hands." "Death came when her central nervous system shut down due to oxygen deprivation caused by four puncture wounds to the heart." "The little girl, Mary, was in her room in the basement." "Eight puncture wounds to the chest area." "Garry then went up to Gabriel's room, the youngest child." "Killed him, too." "Garry wrapped Gabriel in a sheet and carried him down to the basement, where he wrapped the others in sheets and laid them side by side." "We think he sat on the basement steps for 15 or 20 minutes before calling it in." "Sheriff Garry must have had a lot of friends in Weber County." " Nobody saw this coming?" " Everybody knew they were having trouble, but, my God, no one knew the extent of the problem." " I'll need access to the crime scene." " Whatever you need." "Copies of the court transcripts." "CSl photos and forensic reports." " Got those right here." " I'll also need to speak with Garry." "His attorney will never consent to you interviewing him, but there's a tape of his confession on the table." " Thanks." " Be ready to go by Wednesday." "Frank, the last thing those children saw before they saw the face of God was their father's face, the face of a murderer." "I want William Garry to pay for that." " You're Frank Black?" " Yeah." "Deputy Reilly." "I'm supposed to let you in the house." "I'd like to see the kitchen." "There was a number written on the window in blood: 12815." "What was made of that?" "Nothing." "No one ever figured out what it meant." "Garry wrote it, after the murders?" "Bill remembers writing it, but he doesn't remember why." "Cal Smith checked its relevance to numerology, astrology, that sort of thing." " How much blood was here on the rug?" " Just what was on the window." "The murders took place downstairs and in the little boy's room." "I came in from working in the garage." "I was tired." "I'd put in a long day." "William Jr was coming down the stairs." "He didn't see me at first." "I think I thought I was just smacking him until I realized I had the chisel in my hand, there was blood all over me, and my son was dead." "My wife came down the stairs." "She must have heard the noise." "There was no stopping now." "After I finished with my wife, I went into my daughter's room." "Mary was awake." "That made it more difficult." "She cowered on her bed, crying." "She didn't fight." "She didn't fight back or try to run away." "It was the first time I'd ever laid a hand on her." "I had to go upstairs to Gabe's room." "I'm grateful now he didn't wake up to see me looking down on him." "He was only five years old." "Once you start something like this, you somehow have to finish." " How long have you known Garry?" " 12 years." "He brought me to the department." "You liked him?" "I respected Garry more than any man I've ever known." "What about Mrs Garry?" "You friends with her?" "I was close with the whole family." "Why do you think he did these things?" "To be honest, Mr Black, I don't think about that." "No use stirring up feelings." " Hello." " Hi, Daddy." " How's my girl?" " Tired, but I wanted to say good night." " Good night." " Taking care of Mommy?" " Yeah." " OK." "Sweet dreams." "Hi." "How did it go today?" " Well..." " What is it?" "I just finished reading Garry's confession." " It's very strange." " What do you mean?" "In most murder confessions, there's lots of little lies, inconsistencies, things not remembered, half-truths, an attempt to minimize the brutality of the murders." "None of that's here." "He's accounted for everything." "He was a police officer." "He knows about crime scenes." "Yes, but for a murderer to have this kind of clarity of truth, it's very strange." " So, all that truth adds up to a lie?" " I don't know." " I love you." " Me, too." " Bye." " Bye-bye." "Frank Black?" " Michael Slattery." " Thanks for meeting me." " Just coffee, please." "Black." " You got it." "I want this on the record." "I may have a case I can't win but I'm not an idiot." " I'm not going to turn my client over." " I'm not here to condemn." "I'm here to deliver a behavioral profile for ajury." "Thank you." " Tell me about him." " Actually, there's nothing to tell." "The man said two words in four months:" ""I'm guilty. "" "I read the court transcripts." "Why didn't you plead temporary insanity?" "He wouldn't let me." "Man wants to die, needs to die." "According to Garry's religious beliefs, for a murderer, shedder of blood, to be forgiven by God at the time of his death, his blood must also be shed." "Death by firing squad allows for this dispensation." "Ever wonder about his background?" "No history of violence, departmental, domestic?" "The guy was an Eagle Scout." "The man confessed and the facts support the confession." "There's no other suspects." "All the forensic evidence points to him." "All I can fight for is to keep him alive." "I'll probably lose that." "You for it or against it?" "Personally, I mean." " What's that?" " The death penalty." "If you like the idea of killing people, you're for it." "If you hate the idea of killing people, you're against it." "Poor William Garry." "The man just wants to die and he's saddled with a lawyer who's the only man in town who wants to save him." " Well?" " Come on, Frank." "You were called by the prosecution." "You don't really think I'd give you access." "As I said, my recommendations will not be prejudiced." "I'm here to find the truth." "Thanks for coming, Frank." "There's some people that'd like to meet you." "Mr and Mrs Anderson, this is Frank Black." "Frank, Mrs Garry's parents." " I'm very sorry for your loss." " Mr Smith says you're going to help us." "You don't know how important it is to us... that..." "I have nightmares of... how my daughter... my grandchildren..." "I see it." "All my life, I've..." "I've been a father, a husband, a farmer." "That's been the trinity of my life." "I no longer have that." "William Garry's to blame." "If you're a good man, Mr Black, you'll make sure that he pays the price he ought to pay." "Thank you." "Thank you both for coming in." "Was that for my benefit?" "Shouldn't you have an idea of the kind of grief this man has wrought?" "Frank, in Florida, there are 376 inmates on death row waiting for execution." "In California, there are 471." "Some of these cases go back 14, 15 years." "The blood debt in this state, Mr Black, is nine." "I'm a little concerned about you." "I'm meeting Didi Higgens at the crime scene." "I've got questions." "The trial's over, Frank." "What I need from you is a profile to put the sombitch in front of a firing squad." "Put me before the jury now and I may not be able to do that." "William Garry murdered his wife and children." "He confessed to it." "Meet with Didi, exhaust your questions, but give me the profile I need by Wednesday morning." " You met with Mr Garry's lawyer." " Yes." "Mind if I ask why?" "He gave me permission to interview Mr Garry." "I bought the elephant for him the day he was born." "There was no pain, no sorrow." "Just a kind of dullness after the anger, and the need to finish it." "You didn't feel any other emotions during the killings?" "Just rage." "How do you feel about it now?" "I'm sorry." "I feel sorry." "Why didn't you let your lawyer plead temporary insanity?" "I wasn't insane." "I was angry, I was in a rage." "I let things build up." "Shame on me." " Most murderers fight the charges." " Mr Black, I take responsibility." "A man makes a mistake, he should pay." "I was a peace officer for 17 years." "If I arrested somebody who did this," "I would have fought like hell to have them executed, because that's what would have been right." "You want to tell me why you did it?" "I thought about it for a long time." "I fantasized about it." "Do you have a wife and family?" " Then you know what I'm talking about." " No." "I don't." "There were money problems." "Bills, more bills." "Things were no better with my wife." "It got to the point where I hated her." "She hated me." "You know what it's like to scream in silence 365 days a year?" "I went in there to wipe out my family because it was the only way." "The only way." "I found this in your garage." "It was your wife's birthday the next day, wasn't it?" "That's right." "She liked angels." "So you use your hands to make a gift for your wife, and those same hands slaughter her and the children." "And you wrote this." "Why?" "What you have in your hands is a lie." "Fashion an angel for your wife's birthday and then kill the family." "Happens all the time." "He says he felt anger and rage." "But the staging of the bodies indicates the killer was calm." "Garry says he killed William Jr on the stairs." "Correct." "There were traces of brown and beige carpet fibers on the boy's pajamas." "But Garry also says he killed his youngest, Gabe, in the bedroom, and carried him here wrapped in sheets." "That's correct." "The stains on the sheet matched stains on the mattress upstairs." "But there were traces of brown and beige fiber on the sheet." "Dr Geller's feeling was that Gabriel was dragged down the stairs." "Garry said he carried him." "It's an inconsistency not uncommon in murder confessions." " You agreed with it?" " I didn't agree or disagree." "What are you doing?" " The wounds on Mrs Garry's hands." " Yes?" "There are cuts along the fingers and across the palm of the right hand." " That's correct." " Defensive?" " That's how they were described." " You didn't examine them?" "No, I was the assistant." "Mrs Garry's body was found here." "We know there was incontinence, but no urine was found." "In Dr Geller's opinion, the urine simply didn't seep through to the carpeting." "According to Garry's confession, he wrote this in blood after the killings." "Which means he walked in here covered in blood after killing his family, leaned over to the window and wrote the numbers, and left no blood anywhere else." "Not even footprints on a white carpet?" "That's what we're saying." "If you analyze this carpet you'll find it was shampooed." "You'll also find urine traces." "Mrs Garry's." "She died right here, not downstairs." "Are you saying that someone's tampered with the evidence?" "I'm suggesting someone else committed these murders." "Mr Black." "As I told Mr Slattery," "I can't get into the specifics of why the Garrys came to see me." " The woman is dead." " That's irrelevant." " An innocent man could die." " Who, Mr Garry?" "A man who slaughters his children and stabs his wife deserves to die." "What if he didn't do it?" "Ask a question." "Make it specific." "If I can answer it, I will." "Was Mrs Garry having an affair with Deputy Reilly?" "Mrs Garry was a faithful wife." "She needed to talk about an emotional problem that was tearing at the fabric of her soul." "On the other hand, don't ask me about Mr Garry." " Did they talk about having another child?" " I can't answer that." "This is a receipt from the MW Pharmacy." "Mrs Garry was there that night, for one bottle of cold syrup, and a home pregnancy test." "Is your name William Garry?" "Yes." "Were you a Weber County sheriff?" "Yes." "Were you at your home on the evening of October 5th, around 9.45?" "Yes." "Were your wife and three children also present in the house at that time?" "Yes." "Do you know who killed your family?" "Yes." "And was that person you?" "Yes." "What's going on?" "Don't you think I should have known about this?" " I contacted your office." " Half an hour ago." "Not good enough." " Were you feeling rage at this time?" " Yes." " Whatever you find is inadmissible." " That's not important." "I wanted to see the truth." "I wanted you to see it." " And were you feeling anger?" " Yes." "The man says he killed his family and that's exactly what he did." " May I have a look?" " It's all yours." "Well, you wanted your proof." "Garry's suffering from delusions of guilt." "Most likely a fixed false belief syndrome brought on by severe depression." "He agreed to a polygraph because he knew he would pass?" "Come on." "It's all in the confession." "A man can't make up lies like that." "He may be feeling so guilty he's convinced himself he's responsible." "I've seen it before." "He answered truthfully the questions about rage and anger, because he thought that's what the killer must have been feeling." "But what the real killer felt is not hate, rage or resentment." "He felt love, compassion." "He didn't see the victims as victims." " He saw them as something else." " As what?" "Angels." "That's how the killer saw the children at the moment of their deaths." "Angels?" "In the interest ofjustice, Frank, I've given you everything you've asked for." "Tomorrow we go before ajudge and jury." "I'll be requesting the death penalty." "I won't be needing your services any more." "How do you know these things?" "I don't even know if I believe them." "We need another examination of the bodies." "That means an exhumation." "Smith'll never go for it." " We'll go around him." " You can't do that." " You can." " How?" "You ask ajudge to order it." "I understand this has put you in a difficult position." "Is that what's occupying your mind right now?" "I was wondering where I'll be working next week." "Yourjob is to tell the story." "To find the truth." "Isn't that what you want here?" "Yes." " Are you all right?" " I think so." " Are you?" " Whoever it was, it came from there." " What does it say?" " "Guilty. "" "Didi, what in the hell is going on?" "Whatjudge gives an exhumation order in the middle of the night?" "A federal judge." "Who ordered this?" " This went through my office?" " Yes, it did." " What do you want with these bodies?" " A re-examination." "These bodies have been examined." "I did the work myself." "If you have a problem executing the writ, we can have Dr Higgens do it." "Go ahead!" "Dig them all up!" "Mr Geller, if you examine the hand," "I think you'll find that the cuts come from an angle, slicing, not puncturing." "We missed that." " I suppose we could consider these slices." " Enough to reconsider the term "defensive"?" "I know what happened." "It's not a 1, it's an I for "Isaiah. "" "Chapter 28, verse 15." ""We have made a covenant with death. "" ""We have made lies our refuge. "" ""And under falsehood have we hid ourselves. "" "I know what the lies were." "You're not the person that committed these crimes." "Why are you here?" "What do you want?" " I want to help you." " To do what?" "To live." "Mr Garry, your wife was pregnant." " You didn't know that, did you?" " Of course I did." "I knew that." "No, you didn't." "Not even when you picked her body up and carried her downstairs." "I'm going to the judge with the truth." "If you don't recant, it won't be enough." "The jury's going to sentence you to death." "And if that happens, you won't be paying for your sins." "You'll be committing suicide." "The temple of God is the body the Lord has given us." "He's given it to us to last a very long time." "The murderer who deliberately killeth shall die." "Exactly." "Mr Black," "I am the only one who knows what happened that night, who's responsible." "My blood must be shed at the moment of my death." "To rob me of my salvation would be sentencing my soul to eternal damnation." "Are you so righteous in your beliefs that you would allow that?" "Mr Garry, I can't let you die for something you didn't do." "This is a photo from the crime scene." "The killer wrote "12815" on the window." "You'll notice there's no blood anywhere else in the kitchen." "We took samples from the kitchen rug and found traces of urine in shampoo residue." "In analyzing it, we found high levels of estrogen, indicating an adult female." "Mrs Garry." "You're suggesting the kitchen was cleaned to hide the fact that Mrs Garry died in the kitchen, not the basement." "Your Honor, even if Mr Black's suppositions prove to be true, even if Mr Garry moved the body, what does it prove?" "It's all circumstantial." "Give me a month and I'll have data that'll refute every bit of information presented here." " A man's life is at stake." "Take the month." " My conscience is clear with my God." "My responsibility is to the people of this town." "I beg you, don't spend their money." "Don't burden their emotions unnecessarily." "Garry should die for what he did." "This town should move past this." "Your Honor, I have spent my whole adult life trying to understand the mind of a killer, how he thinks, how he feels." "Garry is not capable of doing the things he's been convicted of." "Arthur Shawcross killed two people, was paroled after 14 years, and then murdered 11 victims before he was caught again." "Garry slaughtered his family." "God help us if we give him a chance to kill again." "Have you taken the court's time just to deliver a psychological profile?" "There were five cuts on Mrs Garry's right hand that Dr Geller termed "defensive. "" "Here's how they really happened." "The first two strokes pierce her left ventricle." "The third stroke fully penetrates her left atrium, completely disabling blood flow." "By the fourth stroke, she has weakened considerably, and her hand slides along the blade at this specific angle." "The wound penetrates her right ventricle, causing massive bleeding into her pericardium." "She dies seconds later." "If you check forensics, you'll see that these markings match the wounds on Mrs Garry's right hand." "Are you asking this court to believe" "Mrs Garry stabbed herself four times in the heart?" "A person in her frame of mind would be capable of anything." "I had a case once where a man stabbed himself 27 times, three times in the heart, and lived." "William Garry's fingerprints were on the murder weapon." "The blood of all the victims was on his clothing and body." "Why would a mother kill her children?" "As mad as it sounds, she saw her children as angels and wanted to keep them that way." "William Garry has gone through due process." "Nothing presented here would warrant an appeals court to overturn that verdict." "What is it you're asking this court to do, Mr Black?" "Billy!" "When Garry came in from the garage, the first one he saw was William Jr lying at the bottom of the stairs." "Dolores!" "His youngest child, Gabe, lay in the hallway wrapped in a bloody sheet." "Dolores!" "He went into his daughter's room and found her dead as well." "He heard a noise." "He ran to the kitchen." "She had killed her angels, and now there was only one thing left to do." "She had stabbed herself three times already." "She told Bill it was his fault." "She said he made her kill the children, then she stabbed herself one last time." "He called you." "He told me what she'd done." "He asked me to come to the house." "By the time I got there, he'd wrapped the bodies." "He was a cop." "He knew that if her body wasn't found next to the children it wouldn't fit." "He said she couldn't bear living in a world of adulterers." "Men like him." "It was one night." "I know." "One night." "William's the best man I know." "There's nothing I wouldn't do for him." "You cleaned the kitchen." "You shampooed the rug." "Why didn't you clean the numbers off the window?" "We closed the drapes." "We didn't see them." "Instead of looking for the truth, the people of this town were looking for whatever would put the pain behind them." "That's what they thought they needed." "What do you need?" "I'm a police officer." "Six months ago, I broke the law to help my friend." " Now you're asking me to betray him." " The judge is moving forward." "The jury's going to come back with the death penalty." "You helped him once." "If you are his friend, you'll help him again."