"In the criminal justice system, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous." "In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit." "These are their stories." "Welcome, everyone, to the East River." "Today our job is to load as much as possible into the dumpsters." "Thank you again for volunteering." "Remember, we have energy bars and water in the bus." "Believe it or not, oyster beds used to cover 350 square miles of the river." "Really?" "I wouldn't want to eat anything caught in there." "Well, I know a great place we could grab some organic sushi." "You ask out all the volunteers?" "Only the real eco-friendly ones." "What's wrong with people, using the river as their dump?" "They just don't know how easy it is to be green." "Careful." "Oh, my God." "African-American teenager." "Found in a trash bag, bound at the ankles with cable." "Cable's stripped away at the end." "Guy probably weighted her down before he threw her in." "She was dead before she went in the river." "There's no water in her lungs." "Do you have any idea how she got these gashes on her arm and on her forehead?" "Blunt-force trauma." "Perp hit her with something before he dumped her." "River would have washed away any fluids." "You know if she was raped?" "Abused." "She has significant genital scarring." "Hey, Detectives, we got a guy down over here." "He's clean." "Any ID?" "No driver's license, no plastic." "Got about three bucks in there." "Police." "Stop." "He's still breathing." "I hope he lives long enough to confess." "Hey." "I'm Detective Stabler." "Do you remember me?" "No." "What happened?" "You fell running away from us." "After you gave my partner a right hook to the jaw." "Yeah, I didn't mean to hit you." "Right now you got bigger worries than that." "Tell us who the girl is." "What girl?" "We ran your prints, Jesse." "We know that you have a history of picking up hookers." "Was she one of them?" "I don't know what you're talking about." "Jesse, look at yourself." "Your hands are bloody." "You have scratches all over you from the struggle." "Who is she?" "Hey, if she put up a fight and went into the river by accident, you know, maybe it's not your fault." "Who is she?" "I don't know." "It's all a blur." "Things'll be a lot easier on you if you just cooperate." "Who is she?" "She was so beautiful." "I have a weakness for younger women." "I killed her?" "We need Jesse Bleyer transferred to the prison ward at Bellevue." "I wouldn't." "I just got his tox screen back." "Bellevue handles plenty of addicts." "He's an epileptic." "He tested positive for phenytoin." "His EEG confirms it." "That's why he didn't have any ID." "The state won't give him a driver's license." "And it may be why he attacked you." "Epileptics can come out of a seizure in a hyper-paranoid state." "He should be paranoid." "He just confessed to murder." "Well, that's another thing." "He's postictal and highly prone to suggestion." "Did you ask him leading questions?" "The evidence is leading." "He's got scratches all over his face and hands." "Probably from the seizure, which caused him to convulse on the ground." "He's still our prime suspect until I hear otherwise." "Transfer him." "I'm not so sure Jesse is your man." "Why?" "The cable the girl was tied up with is used for connecting buildings to cable TV." "There were three outages this morning in Manhattan." "Somebody cut 15 feet of cable out of a back alley on 169th Street." "Perp probably killed her around there." "So the service went out at 7:54 a. m." "Now, what makes you think she went in the river in upper Harlem?" "This tidal flow simulation shows the current could have taken a body dropped at 169th at 8:00 to where she was found at 9:15." "Well, the eco-volunteers fished her out around 10:00." "Does the tidal flow explain why she didn't float any further over the next 45 minutes?" "Yeah." "High tide and the cross-current trapped her body with the rest of the trash." "You're sure she didn't go in in the spot where we found her?" "If she did, your friend Jesse didn't do it." "He was caught on a surveillance camera sleeping outside a nearby bodega until 10:30." "Benson." "Jesse couldn't have been in two places at once." "That was Warner." "She got something." "Your victim was killed with something made of wood." "Take a look at these." "Splinters." "From her scalp." "Rough-hewn oak from whatever she was hit with." "Could be from a construction site." "Or a home remodel." "Oak is pretty popular in flooring." "You said she showed signs of long-term abuse." "Could our perp be a construction worker?" "Actually, I was wrong." "The scarring is from an improperly healed female circumcision." "She was mutilated." "Along with 150 million other women in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia." "Because men think cutting a woman to shreds will prevent her from being promiscuous." "Done safely, they lose all sexual sensation." "But too many die from infection." "So why would any woman agree to it?" "Tradition." "In some cultures, men won't court women until they've had this procedure." "Any idea when this was done to her?" "From the scar tissue, I'd say in the past six months." "Here?" "It's possible." "Congress banned the practice, but the CDC estimates 200,000 immigrant girls in the US are at risk." "So that's where we have to start." "Hey, are you still friends with Agent Williams from Immigration?" "Good." "Mmm-hmm." "Warner sent the prints over about an hour ago." "You didn't have to come all the way down here in person, Elliot." "We're in a bit of a rush." "The body's less than eight hours old." "AFIS is almost done with the scan." "I was surprised I hadn't heard from you." "I got back together with my wife." "Good for you." "I thought that might happen." "Here we go." "Her name is Nikkiel Kwambe from Nigeria." "She's 15, here on a 90-day family visa, which expired six months ago." "Doesn't Immigration require that they check in?" "It's up to each immigrant to abide by the terms of their visa." "Do you have an address for her?" "Just for her sponsor, her aunt." "Mira Otume. 124th and Frederick Douglass." "Yeah, thanks." "Excuse me." "We're looking for Mira Otume." "May I help you with something?" "Mira is busy for the next couple of hours." "Police." "Could you make her unbusy, please?" "Perhaps you can come back later." "She'll help you then." "Can you turn the music down?" "No!" "Stop!" "I don't wanna do this!" "You can't go down there." "Help me!" "Stop!" "Police!" "Stop what you're doing!" "Hey!" "Move away from her!" "Move away from her now!" "You're gonna be okay." "I'm not finished." "Yeah, you are." "Drop that." "Drop it!" "You're under arrest." "Millions of girls have been circumcised for centuries." "Welcome to the 21st century." "Mutilation is a Class E felony and a federal crime." "It is not a crime." "It is a celebration." "That girl will be scarred for life." "I am a trained Anam-mbubi." "I'm no different from a Jewish mohel." "Except that female circumcision has been outlawed in nearly every country around the world, including your own." "Now, you're looking at four years per count, and clearly this is not your first time." "Did you perform a circumcision on this girl?" "I have never seen her before." "Well, that's strange, since you're listed as Nikkiel's aunt on her immigration visa." "Why are you asking about this girl?" "'Cause she's dead." "We fished her out of the river this morning." "I haven't seen Nikki for months." "When you performed a circumcision on her." "She wanted it." "She said it was time for her to become a woman." "She was a child." "In this country, 15 years old is a spoiled teenager, but in Nigeria a 15-year-old has lived a lifetime." "When we find all of the other girls you've mutilated, you're gonna spend the rest of your life in jail." "The court might show leniency if you help us out." "How?" "Give us Nikki's address." "Yes?" "Detectives Benson and Stabler." "May we come in, please?" "I'd rather not." "Our house is a bit of a mess." "Oh, we don't mind." "Does Nikkiel Kwambe live here?" "Yes, did something happen?" "Is she all right?" "Do you live here as well?" "Yes, what's going on?" "Where is Nikki, Detectives?" "We found her around 10:00 a. m." "This morning." "She's been killed." "I'll go around back." "Stop!" "Police!" "Police!" "Don't move!" "Don't move!" "Let me see your hands." "Let me see your hands!" "Do as he says." "Hands up!" "Show me your hands!" "Show me your hands!" "No, no, don't shoot!" "My arm is broken!" "Hands!" "No!" "My arm is broken, please!" "Back up to the car." "Please don't shoot!" "Please believe me!" "Get on the car!" "Get on the car!" "Okay!" "Okay, okay." "Please don't shoot." "Don't move!" "Okay." "Okay." "If he moves, shoot him." "My arm doesn't work!" "Please!" "You must believe me!" "What's your name?" "Chukwei." "Chukwei Bothame." "What did you do to her, Chukwei?" "I didn't do anything to her." "That is my wife." "That's Nikkiel Bothame." "Wait." "Can I touch her?" "No, I'm sorry." "You can't." "You think I killed her." "Yeah, we do." "Well, you're wrong." "I loved her." "How long were you and Nikki married?" "Nine months." "She was 15." "In New York it's legal to marry when you are 14." "With consent of a judge." "I have the necessary documentation." "Well, then how come your name wasn't listed on her visa application?" "I'm not a citizen." "I can't sponsor her." "Are you going to interrogate me in front of my dead wife?" "Your dead wife is a 15-year-old girl you mutilated." "The circumcision was her decision." "Hmm." "You didn't force her?" "You don't know Nikki." "You can't force her to do anything." "Somebody forced her into the river." "Here's what I think." "You brought a 14- year-old girl over from Nigeria to be your wife." "After spending a year in America, she decides, you know, instead of a circumcision, I'd rather have an iPhone." "So she tries to bolt, you beat her to death and dump her in the East River." "Now, how could I do that?" "My left arm is crippled." "Well, I don't underestimate your right arm." "I want an attorney." "Fine." "But sooner or later we're gonna find out what happened." "Mr. Bothame, you're free to go." "I'm no longer under arrest?" "No, but don't be surprised if you get home and find us searching the premises." "We have a warrant." "Why did you let him go?" "Chukwei's got motive and opportunity." "His alibi checked out." "Security cameras picked him up entering a shop at 7:00 this morning." "Well, he could have gone out through a back door or window, killed Nikki, dumped her in the river." "Chukwei's house is two blocks from where the cable was cut." "He asked for a lawyer." "So, we could still hold him." "On what charges?" "Sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child, take your pick." "At the very least, we've got him on statutory rape." "He's 35, she's 14." "They're married." "That nullifies the statutory charges." "Chukwei says that they're married, but the license is from Nigeria." "Run it past their consulate." "In the meantime Fin and Lake are tossing the home for the murder weapon." "Excuse me, ma'am." "You can't do that till our people are done." "I must." "To honor Nikki." "Her spirit walks the house until she's buried." "Please take off your shoes." "You and Nikki were close?" "Like sisters." "I'm Almani, Chukwei's cousin." "Can we have some pudding?" "Not now, sweetie, I'll make some later." "Go keep Felix company." "They yours?" "No." "Nikki and I run a daycare to help with the rent." "Fin, come here." "Chukwei make all this?" "Yes, he's a craftsman." "One-handed?" "They're really beautiful." "Is any of this wood oak?" "No, this is all African savannah." "I'll have CSU take a sample." "Hey!" "What are you doing wearing that T-shirt?" "Let's take that off, baby." ""Lie or die. " That's a hell of a T-shirt." "What's your name, little man?" "Obi." "Hey, Obi." "Where'd you get that T-shirt?" "From a man." "What man?" "I don't know." "He gave it to me." "He said it was a present." "What'd he look like?" "He was big." "Well, did he have a big nose, funny face?" "How about a tattoo?" "I don't know." "Can I go outside now?" "Only in the back yard, Obi." "I need to tend to the children." "Who's telling you to lie?" "I don't know." "You knew the second you saw that shirt." "I'm sorry." "I must go." "We're not getting much more out of them." "No, but we will from a guy I know on Adam Clayton Powell." "My shirts are a public protest against law enforcement's over-reliance on these self-serving criminal informers." "You're high." "No, I am clean, man, and I am living the American dream." "I got my own business." "Your shirts are a pain in our ass, Waxman." "I can't help you with that." "You think it's cool making a living off intimidation?" "No, you know what I think is cool?" "I think it is cool that we live in a country where I can express my political views freely." "Now, buy a shirt!" "Who bought this shirt in the last couple of hours?" "Are you kidding me?" "You want me to snitch?" "I say two words to you, my credibility tanks along with my sales." "Forget it." "How do you think your sales will do if we just camp out right here?" "Now, that'd really help your street cred." "What do you think, Fin?" "I have nowhere else to go." "I like this block." "Let's hang out." "No, no!" "Hey, hey, hey!" "Listen, I'm just the tip of the iceberg." "Okay?" "Everybody, and I mean everybody, is cashing in on this stop snitching movement, okay?" "Look." "I got DVDs, CDs, posters." "This is nothing." "The real cash is coming in off this website." "That's where the money's being made." ""Stinkinrat." "Com, the site that rats out the rats. "" "It comes complete with a photo and address of anyone who's been reported to be an informant." "So, is Nikki on the site?" "Chukwei is." "Identified by Stinkinrat as a key witness in the murder trial of one Dennis Harold King." "How do I know that name?" "You know him as D. King, as in "he is de king. "" "Serious Harlem drug dealer, with a rap sheet a mile long." "Not to mention an entrepreneur extraordinaire." "He's a thug." "Who'd he kill?" "Damon Moore, a 16-year-old kid." "King beat him to death for looking at his girlfriend the wrong way." "Well, when was Chukwei's identity posted on this site?" "Two days ago." "Any other witnesses?" "Police reported 28 other people saw King beat Damon Moore." "The only other guy to come forward besides Chukwei was Toby Torres, an addict testifying as part of a plea." "Check out the rat next to his name." "Yeah, that's his rat status." "He was murdered last week, the day after his info was posted on this site." "We got the wrong guy." "Chukwei was on our side." "He was gonna testify before King killed Nikki to shut him up." "Chukwei's attorney is in my office." "Sarah Flint, with West African Legal Services." "What does she want?" "I want you to stop harassing my client." "He's burying his wife today." "Well, running away from us made him look pretty guilty." "Chukwei ran from you because he's afraid of the police." "He was a political prisoner in Nigeria." "Is that what he told you?" "I met him there when I was working with Human Rights Watch." "We fought for Chukwei's release." "What was he in prison for?" "He protested when the former dictatorship started dumping refinery waste on his farm." "They confiscated his land, the police jailed him and beat him until he lost the use of his left arm." "Well, Dennis King is gonna do a lot worse to him if he doesn't help us put King away." "Chukwei's a good person." "He wanted to do the right thing." "Now he sees why the other witnesses didn't come forward." "How do we get him to cooperate?" "Can you give him plastic surgery and move him to Scottsdale?" "Well, that's a question you'll have to ask the D.A." "We did." "They said intimidation is out of control and the state's witness protection program is strapped." "They don't have the money or the manpower." "Sorry, I don't want to be late for Nikki's funeral." "Come on." "We'll give you a ride." "Sarah, just how did Chukwei and Nikki meet?" "Over the phone." "It was an arranged marriage." "That's not very romantic." "It was about survival, not romance." "Nikki was in danger?" "Yes." "Christians in their village have come under attack." "After Nikki's two sisters were raped and murdered," "Chukwei agreed to marry Nikki so she could come here." "I'm sorry for your loss." "You are not welcome here." "You have put my family through enough." "Chukwei, they wanna help us find out who did this to Nikki." "So, you want evidence against King?" "Look over there." "That's him." "Dennis King." "Oh, man." "I know you?" "You do now." "Since when is it against the law to visit a cemetery, man?" "When it's to intimidate a witness." "I'm paying my respects." "You're interrupting a funeral." "You have the right to remain silent." "If you give up that right, anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "You have the right to an attorney." "If you can't afford one, one will be provided for you." "My client was very sorry to hear about Nikki's death, but there is no evidence linking him to her murder." "Not yet." "But we'll find some." "Yeah." "Or you'll plant it." "Pretty hard to plant evidence in these murders." "Maybe they had it coming to them." "Is that an admission?" "No, that's an observation." "Casual conversation, you might say." "Hmm." "Look, man." "Where I'm from, people don't take kindly to folks who rat to get their own sentences reduced." "I read in the papers these guys took a branding iron, burned the word "snitch" in a woman's face." "That's cold right there." "How about Nikki?" "What'd she do?" "Don't answer that." "What were you doing at her funeral?" "Told you, I was paying respects to a friend." "A friend murdered by the police." "I've got my own pictures." "Reggie Tauzin, shot by the cops in the Bronx last year." "His death certificate and gravestone number where my client was praying." "Christine, it's always a pleasure to see you." "A.D.A. Danielson, Homicide Bureau Chief." "So you've had the pleasure of trying Mr. King's murder case." "Yes." "We were just leaving, actually." "Nobody's filing charges against my client today." "Not for intimidation, but he did violate an order of protection." "You're not allowed any closer to Chukwei than 100 feet." "Nice booty." "Oh, yeah?" "Watch it kick your ass." "The People charge Mr. King with criminal contempt and violation of bail." "The People request Mr. King be remanded and held in custody until trial." "Your Honor, my client had no prior knowledge of the funeral." "That's absurd." "It just happened that Mr. King was grieving at exactly the same time as Mr. Bothame?" "Well, there are only so many cemeteries in the city, Your Honor, and a great deal of death." "Your Honor, Mr. King was staring down a witness in his murder trial." "He was enjoying the singing." "Your client may be a music lover, Mr. Braden, but he violated a court order." "It's a misdemeanor offense, Your Honor." "Murder isn't." "In addition to his upcoming murder trial," "King is under investigation for a second and a third homicide." "Hasn't been charged in either of those cases." "Well, then, just the first murder and his prior convictions should be enough to revoke bail." "I get the idea." "Bail is set at half a million dollars." "Docket number 2876351." "People v. Carter for illegal use of a controlled substance." "Nothing will stop him." "He has more money than God himself." "He'll be out on the streets and I'll be dead." "I'll talk to the detectives." "Chukwei!" "Come with us." "You're under protective custody until the trial is over." "What about Almani and the children and Sarah?" "Unfortunately, witness protection only extends to immediate family." "But they are my family." "In this country, immediate family means your wife and your children." "Almani, Sarah and the children, they are my immediate family." "Nikki was your wife." "Yes." "And so are Almani and Sarah." "Chukwei is a polygamist." "He's breaking the law." "Not in Nigeria." "If it's legal for a man to have three wives over there, what's he supposed to do when he moves here?" "Well, in France, they make allowances for pre-existing multiple marriages for African immigrants." "We're not in France." "That's why we had to arrest him." "Well, you better get busy." "There's up to 100,000 West African immigrants in New York." "The policy's been don't ask, don't tell." "Chukwei told." "Well, good luck convicting him." "He'll use the cultural defense, like that Laotian student who kidnapped and raped a girl because his tribe has a lovely tradition of marriage by capture." "But he didn't get off completely." "He pled down to false imprisonment." "Maybe he'll take a plea." "Poor guy could get one-to-three off each count." "Poor guy?" "I find polygamy degrading." "His third wife was a 15-year-old that he married over the phone." "Yeah." "To save her from religious persecution in Africa." "Only to mutilate her in America." "I just got off the phone with the D.A.'s office." "Let me guess." "They want us to overlook the polygamy to get a conviction on King." "They wanna know how bad this is." "Are we talking about dozens of wives, incest, inbreeding?" "I don't think so." "Then you still got some investigating to do." "In the meantime, we've gotta provide the protection that we promised Chukwei." "Get him home." "Pack up his things." "Take him to a safe house." "We'll secure him first." "The D.A. 's office will keep him in protective custody." "Make sure there are no more surprises." "If this all works out, move the whole family with him." "You must understand, we're a good Christian family." "Nowhere in the Bible is polygamy banned." "Abraham, Jacob, King David, all had many wives." "We're not really different from millions of people, Detective." "Millions of people don't practice polygamy in this country." "But a third of the world still lives in cultures that do." "We're a global society now." "The US needs to be more tolerant." "So you didn't have a problem when your husband married Nikki?" "No, Almani and I welcomed her into our home." "Sarah's citizenship allowed Nikki and I to move here." "Two of our children are citizens, and I hope one day we'll all be Americans." "Tell me, Almani, why is it okay for a man to have three wives, and yet we never hear of a woman having three husbands?" "In northern Mozambique, women can have many husbands." "Shouldn't it be my choice to decide what kind of marriage I want?" "So, if you wanna marry a cat..." "Don't make fun of me, Detective." "Polygamous families are stronger than monogamous ones." "Says who?" "How many men in this country have affairs or abandon their wives for younger women?" "My dad left six wives, all legally." "We're a family that sticks together." "We're all ready to go." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on, let's go." "There's no evidence that Chukwei had more than three wives." "That's comforting." "We moved them to a motel, but the family's expressed some concern about being seen coming or going." "Chukwei can't leave." "The others shouldn't unless they have to." "Well, there's seven people living in one room." "I mean, Sarah goes to work, the children go to school." "We'd like to station a car outside their motel." "If I only had the money." "This office has $1.2 million to protect thousands of witnesses for the entire fiscal year." "I thought that convicting King was a top priority." "It is, which is why we're giving Chukwei a pass on the polygamy." "I'm not a fan either, but the man is putting his and his family's life on the line." "All for a trial that's already cost him his wife." "I mean, what guy in his right mind would ever become a witness in this system?" "I wish I could do more, but every dollar I spend on Chukwei" "I'm taking away from another witness' safety." "Every one of them wants more protection." "Okay." "So what do we tell them?" "Next time, to witness a federal crime." "They know how to treat their witnesses." "This award that you got from Project Protect, we used to give out these alarm pendants to victims of domestic violence." "Can't we give these to Chukwei's family?" "That's another casualty of budget cuts." "We stopped using those a few months ago." "But they still work." "These are a direct line to SVU." "You just give us two, one for Sarah and one for Almani." "I'll pull a couple from storage." "Chukwei, it's Detective Stabler." "Excuse me." "Miss?" "Did you clean that room today?" "I did this morning." "You know, there's a whole family living in there." "I need you to open the door." "When was the last time you saw the family?" "They left maybe an hour ago." "I hope they don't expect me to clean up this mess again." "Liv, looks like they've checked out." "Oh, I know." "He just walked in here with his family." "Somebody slipped a note under their door." "Yeah." "Hi." "Hi, how are you?" ""Tomorrow, Obi Bothame will be beaten to death" ""in front of his mother, brothers and sisters. "" "I won't risk my family's safety." "We got the D.A. To put security cameras at the motel." "That's not enough to protect us." "King knows where we are." "No, stop." "Stop!" "No more police." "No more investigating." "It's over." "We'll keep you safe." "The D.A.'s office gave us these body alarms." "They're a direct line to us." "And what about after the trial, huh?" "What if King is acquitted?" "The only way he walks is if you let him." "I know men like King." "In Nigeria, they kill thousands." "They think they are above the law." "I came to America because it is the land of dreams." "I need it to stay that way." "Well, how can it if you don't talk?" "Now, you don't want to go back to the motel." "I understand that, fine." "Go home." "I'll stay with you." "You would do that for us?" "Look, I need you safe." "I need your testimony." "Mr. Bothame, would you tell us where you were at approximately 2:00 p. m." "On October the 11th, 2005?" "I was walking home from work on 168th Street." "Please tell the court what you witnessed." "I don't remember seeing anything unusual that day." "Mr. Bothame..." "Mr. Bothame, I am reminding you, you are under oath." "I'm aware of that fact." "In my hand is your statement to the police taken at 4:08 that day." "Would you like to read it back to the court?" "Objection, Your Honor, the witness just testified to what he saw." "On six different occasions he has given consistent statements confirming that the defendant, Dennis King, beat Damon Moore to death on the corner of 168th and Amsterdam." "Didn't you tell Detective Stabler that exact same story yesterday?" "Objection." "She's putting words in his mouth." "Sustained." "Jury is instructed to disregard Miss Danielson's remarks." "Your Honor, clearly something has happened to make him change his mind." "Perhaps it's the fact that the defendant is under investigation for killing another witness and Mr. Bothame's wife." "Objection!" "Miss Danielson, are you gunning for a mistrial?" "No, Your Honor." "Mr. Bothame, take a moment and think about what you really saw." "Is there a reason you don't recall the events in question?" "Your Honor, I make no excuse for the choices I have made, but I am sorry for wasting your time." "I wanted to be a hero." "But I am not." "I didn't see anything." "Chukwei screwed us." "We should lock him up for perjury, contempt and polygamy." "Don't you think he's been through enough?" "Since when did you become his defender?" "You just said that he lied under oath to protect his family." "Now, I can't imagine that's easy for a devout Christian." "Mmm." "Any ruling yet?" "Talk to Danielson." "Hey, hey, hey!" "How do you sleep at night?" "What?" "Sorry?" "You can't win with the truth, so you let your client intimidate good people who stand up to him?" "If anyone's intimidating witnesses, it's the police and your D.A." "You coerce, you plea bargain, you threaten them with criminal charges unless they testify." "You know that's not true." "Really?" "Could Chukwei be testifying to avoid prosecution for polygamy?" "He came forward on his own." "My dude!" "Nice job, brother." "There's a bottle of Cristal with our name on it, huh?" "Little early to be celebrating." "I haven't seen any evidence that'll convict my client." "Tell me that the judge did not just dismiss that case." "She continued King's bail and gave us 24 hours to prove intimidation." "Well, let's start with the death threat." "These are the anomalies from the printer rollers on the death threat." "And these are test pages from all of King's printers, home, office, business, and every associate we could find." "The roller marks don't match." "Well, that only means King was smart enough to use Kinko's." "That's what I thought." "So I took the liberty of analyzing a few other samples and found a match." "That's Chukwei's deposition." "The note came from his home office." "Chukwei was in protective custody at the hotel, so he couldn't have done it." "And the kids aren't old enough to write a note this sophisticated." "Okay, that leaves us with two possibilities, Sarah and Almani." "Why would they stage a death threat to their son?" "To get more protection." "That's one way to get our attention." "Certainly got Chukwei's." "O'Halloran." "Yeah, I'll tell them." "Almani just triggered her alarm pendant." "Hey." "Paramedics took Almani to the hospital." "Where's Sarah?" "Up at Rikers with Chukwei." "Almani was here alone?" "We don't know." "She was unconscious when patrol found her." "Is she gonna make it?" "They're not sure." "What do we know?" "Picking up a lot of hair and fibers, but with seven people living in the house, it'll take weeks to sort through the forensics." "Well, we have about 18 hours." "Then I better get to work." "Almani may have typed up the note, but she sure as hell didn't beat herself unconscious." "Any sign of forced entry?" "No." "All the doors and windows were intact." "Well, maybe King or one of his crew followed her in here." "Well, if he did, he didn't go far." "Whoa." "Okay." "Slow down, Detective." "I'm 130 feet away." "Measure it." "There's no violation." "Well, how about if I find one?" "I mean, after all, there are no witnesses around here, huh?" "They'll show up for police brutality." "Smile, Detective." "Who are you, huh?" "You a big man, letting this guy get away with murder?" "You're not a man." "You're a coward." "If just one of you steps up, King's done." "Anyone got something to say?" "No." "No." "Anybody?" "Huh?" "Benson." "Please, tell these fine detectives." "Yeah, I think they're afraid of you, Detective." "That's why you ain't got no witnesses." "Thanks." "Yeah, we do." "Tell the doctor I must go." "The children will be home soon from school." "The doctor said you were unconscious for a while, so they wanna make sure you're okay." "I don't have insurance." "I can't afford to stay here." "Almani, we can help you, but you need to talk to us, okay?" "Now, the death threat was made from a computer in your house." "Did you write that note?" "No." "Why would I send a death threat to my own son?" "Because you were afraid." "And you wanted the police to take your fears more seriously." "So you wrote the threatening note and you popped it under the door." "I didn't." "I swear." "Did Sarah?" "Sarah sponsored my visa and it's about to expire." "If she doesn't renew it, I'll be deported." "Because you're a witness, we can get you a "W" visa, which means that you can stay, but you have to cooperate." "Almani, you don't have to live in fear." "Did Sarah do this to you?" "Yes." "Did she kill Nikki?" "I was in the kitchen and I heard Nikki and Sarah fighting." "About what?" "The same thing women always fight about." "A man." "I heard Nikki scream and fall down the stairs." "I went to look." "Nikki was lying at the bottom of the stairs." "Sarah said she would take Nikki to the hospital, and I should stay with the baby." "She came back an hour later without Nikki." "She told me not to say anything or I would be deported." "After you took Chukwei this morning," "I told Sarah I wouldn't let him go to prison for her crime." "That's why she beat you." "Sarah is my family." "I stayed silent as long as I could." "But my children need their father, and I need my husband." "Almani is lying to save herself." "Sarah, stop." "The roller marks on the death threat were an exact match to your printer, because you wrote it." "I didn't think the cops were doing enough to protect us." "You know how the police lie." "You didn't want protection." "You wanted Chukwei to drop out of King's trial so we'd stop investigating Nikki's murder." "Is this true?" "Of course not." "This is ludicrous." "King killed her, you know that." "What have you done to our family?" "I didn't do this to us." "You did." "When you let Nikki into our home." "What?" "I accepted Almani as your wife." "You married her before we met." "There was no need for Nikki." "I married Nikki to save her life." "You didn't have to fall in love with her." "Guard!" "No, it was an accident." "She fell down the stairs, Chukwei." "I swear, she fell down the stairs..." "Guard!" "She fell down the stairs!" "Chukwei, it was an accident!" "I swear..." "Sarah Flint." "I didn't mean to do it!" "Sarah Flint, you're under arrest for the murder of Nikkiel Bothame." "I didn't!" "You have the right to remain silent." "Anything you say can and will be used against you..." "King is a thug!" "He deserves to go to prison!" "Not you!" "Not me!" "Please tell the jury what happened." "I was walking home from work on 168th Street when I saw a man beat a boy with a metal pipe." "This is the victim, Damon Moore." "Is he the boy you saw?" "Yes." "And the man who beat him to death, is he in this courtroom?" "That is the man." "There." "He's a liar." "Dennis!" "The cops are making him lie!" "Shut up." "No!" "No!" "You murdered that boy in front of a crowd of people and in front of God." "You're a dead man!" "You're a dead man!" "Hey!" "You are dead!" "Order!" "Order!" "Get the jury out of here." "Get off me!" "Court officers!" "Get the hell off me!" "Get off me!" "Order!" "You're dead!" "Your family's dead!" "Everything you love is dead!" "Take the defendant to lockup." "You're dead!" "Are you okay?" "Yes." "I'm no longer afraid."