WEBVTT - S03 Episode 2: Lex Talionis (Pt. 1 of 2) 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.680 Lex talionis, or the law of retaliation, is perhaps better 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.120 known by the more familiar maxim of taking an eye 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:23.040 for an eye. Although codes of law had been established 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.760 many years previously, the formal enacting of reciprocal justice is 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:31.640 thought to have originated in Babylonian times, with an ancient 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:38.680 code proposed by Babylonian king Hammurabi carved onto a basalt 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.400 pillar sometime around the middle of the eighteenth century BC. 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:47.400 Hammarabi's code consists of two hundred and eighty two laws, 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.320 outlining a variety of crimes, from simple theft to the 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.280 refusal of accepting corn as a payment for a drink, 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.880 alongside the various punishments criminals could expect to receive for 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:04.240 perpetrating them. It is here, over a thousand years before 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.119 the creation of the Torah later adapted as the Old Testament, 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.280 that we first find such retributive ideas as if a 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.560 man has destroyed the eye of a man, they shall 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.160 destroy his eye. Or if a man should knock out 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:22.400 the teeth of his equal, his teeth shall too be 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.520 knocked out. The code listed twenty five crimes that were 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:33.520 considered capital offenses, meaning those that were punishable by death. However, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:37.360 it isn't until the sixteenth century BC that we see 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:41.280 the first evidence of capital punishment actually being carried out, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.640 with the enforced suicide of an Egyptian nobleman accused of 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:51.840 the heinous crime of practicing magic. Although invariably skewed in 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.440 favor of the wealthier classes, it could be said that 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.919 such penal laws were vital for the management of increasingly 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:04.280 complex society, for better or worse. In the years since 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.280 those first punishments were meted out, capital punishment has been 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.000 employed at some point by almost every nation and culture 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:17.160 that has come into existence today, although the methods of 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.679 execution might be considered more broadly humane, fifty seven countries 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:25.760 continue to enforce a death penalty. For all those countries 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.760 that have abolished it. There is one simple reason why 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.880 that stands out above all others. A two thousand and 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:37.239 fourteen study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.639 of Sciences concluded that over four percent of people sentenced 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.760 to die in the United States of America have been 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:48.960 convicted for crimes they did not commit, a figure that, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.800 if correct, would suggest that as many as one hundred 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.880 and twenty of the three thousand prisoners currently on death 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:59.600 row have been wrongfully convicted, and of the one thousand, 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.079 four hundred and sixty seven prisoners that have been executed 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.040 since nineteen seventy six, as many as sixty of those 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.680 people might well have been innocent of their supposed crimes. 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.840 On hearing these statistics, there will be some in favor 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.040 of the death penalty who might consider this little more 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:24.360 than an unfortunate consequence of an essential system. Others, however, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.560 might think twice, given how often support for capital punishment 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.239 stems largely from that old maxim of an eye for 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:37.480 an eye. After all, as some might say, just because 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:41.280 those innocent people are now dead, it doesn't mean they 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:48.360 won't still be seeking retribution. This is unexplained, and I'm 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:59.400 Richard McClean smith. Early Saturday morning, October thirty first, nineteen 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.800 eighty one, on the outskirts of the panhandled city of Amarillo, Texas, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.240 rain and sleet batter the chapel windows of the Saint 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:12.120 Francis Convent, whereinside forty nuns are gathered for morning mass. 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.200 As the ceremony comes to a close, Sister Bernice notices 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:21.640 with alarm that Sister Tadea is not in attendance. A 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:25.359 colleague sent to check on her whereabouts, returns moments later, 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.080 ashen faced and gasping for air. Come quickly, she says. 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:35.080 Sister Bernice and the convent nurse race up the stairs 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.560 to the narrow single bed room at the far end 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:42.760 of the hall, passing a small crowd gathered outside. Lying 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.040 completely still on the floor is seventy six year old 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.920 sister to Daya bends naked under a sheet. The nurse 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.640 rushes to the woman's side, but is unable to find 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.000 a pulse. The shake of her head is followed by 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.919 gasps and muffled sobs from outside the room. It is 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.240 only then that Bernice notices the drops of blood on 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:12.640 today's pillow and on the sheet draped over her body. Uncharacteristically, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.719 a dirty white T shirt has been left on the floor. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.480 Turning back to the body, the nurse examines some bruising 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.320 and scratches around the neck. It was common during a 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:27.839 heart attack to struggle for breath, she says, suspecting she 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.360 may have clawed at her own neck and fallen out 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:34.719 of bed in the panic. Deciding not to remove the 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:39.239 sheet to protect their colleague's modesty, the devastated nuns wrap 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.280 another around the body and lift it carefully on to 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:47.880 the bed. After wiping some blood from Today's face, Bernice 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.280 collects herself and makes the call to the convent physician. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.560 Doctor Winst is fast asleep when the phone rings, but 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:01.799 soon snaps into action. Satisfy vied with Sister Bernice's assessment, 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.720 he instructs workers from the local funeral home to collect 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:10.159 the body and deliver it to the mortician. As some 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.839 of the nuns gather to pray for their dear departed colleague, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.400 others return to her room to straighten things out, knowing 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.680 only too well how embarrassed Sister Todaya would have been 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.000 for her room to be found in such a state. 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.120 Having tidied a few things away, finally they stripped the 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.440 blood streaked sheets from the bed and deliver them to 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.960 the laundry room. An hour or so later, a soft 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.880 knocking sound coming from the far end of the large 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.520 community hall downstairs draws one of the sisters to an 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:47.320 unlatched window beating gently against its frame. Hearing the crack 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.479 of glass under foot, she realizes one of the panes 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:56.080 has recently been smashed inwards. Sister Bernice is informed immediately 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:01.760 and in turn calls the police. When two officers arrived 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.800 shortly after nine thirty a m. They discovered that the 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.679 screen outside the window has been slashed. A long piece 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.320 of wood that had likely been used to break the 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.520 glass appears also to have been dumped on the ground 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.480 below it. At the funeral home, having taken receipt of 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.680 the body, the morticians are surprised to find a number 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.400 of puncture wounds running up the side of Sister to 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.520 Day's body from her thigh to her neck, which also 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:33.360 has a significant amount of bruising. It's odd, they think, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.960 how the bruises look almost like finger marks, but since 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.440 due to a mix up of information, doctor Wincett had 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.640 stated that the unfortunate nun had fallen down the stairs, 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.960 they thought nothing more of it as they continue preparing 0:07:48.960 --> 0:08:00.480 the body for the embalming. Back at the convert the 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.600 sisters have gathered to determine if anything has been stolen 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.840 for suspected break in, but find nothing of note to 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:10.880 speak of. Perhaps the burglar had been spooped and run away, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.840 suggests the police as they prepare to head back to 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:19.720 the station. There was one thing, thought sister Bernice What's that, 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.160 asks one of the officers. We found our colleague sister 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.520 todaya dead in her room this morning, but we think 0:08:27.560 --> 0:08:31.280 it was a heart attack, she says. The look on 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:36.800 the officer's faces says it all. A short time later, 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.839 an irate L. B. Bartlett, Potter County Justice of the Peace, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.640 furious that doctor Wincett had not consulted him before sending 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:48.040 to day of Bens's body to the funeral home, orders 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.080 the embalming process stopped and the body to be held 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.880 pending a formal inquest. By the time the police arrive, however, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.440 the cadaver has already been washed and the arterial embalming pleted. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.200 Back outside the convent, Homicide Captain Jimmy Davis of the 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.239 Amarillo Police Department arrives to oversee a search of the premises. 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.880 Stepping out of his car into the cold, gray and wet, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.480 he takes a moment to assess the surroundings. Already he 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:25.120 has a bad feeling about this one. The convent, located 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.640 on the quiet northeastern fringes of the city, is positioned 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.000 fifty yards away from the end of northeast eighteenth Avenue 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:38.000 and surrounded by trees. Inside Davis and his team mount 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.920 a thorough search of the premises, beginning with Today's room, 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.480 where they find a bent butter knife under the bed 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.920 and recover a number of finger prints. Blood spatters are 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.880 found on the inside of the building's back fire exit, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.040 leading Davis to suspect that if to day I had 0:09:55.080 --> 0:10:00.400 been murdered, the perpetrator most likely escaped that way. The 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.560 dirty t shirt and blood stained sheets are collected from 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.800 the laundry, and later a stake knife is found in 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:11.520 the convent driveway. Facing the terrible prospect that their colleague 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.240 may have been murdered, a few of the nuns recalls 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:19.280 strange incidences from the night before. One received a phone 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.480 call some time around two thirty a m. From a 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.160 man calling himself Father Jose, who spoke with the Spanish 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.640 accent and begged her to help with his sexual problems. 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.320 Another recalled hearing a muffled scream coming from the direction 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:41.360 of Todaya's room sometime around four thirty a m. Later 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:46.439 that afternoon, pathologist doctor Ralph Erdmann performs a formal autopsy, 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:52.640 confirming everyone's worst fears. To day a Ben's had sustained 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:57.080 multiple blunt force trauma about the face, chest, and arms, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.800 and had been stabbed numerous times cross her body. A 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:07.280 crushed larynx is clear indication of death by strangulation, but 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.439 there is something else. Sister Todaya had also been raped, 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:19.120 with her hymen being torn in the process. Erdman conducts 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:23.120 a vaginal wash and successfully retrieves samples of sperm and 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.680 prostrate secretions before concluding that her death occurred around four 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:32.560 am that morning. He makes the call to Captain Davis 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:36.760 to deliver the horrific news. 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When a friend from 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.959 the group went to Nannie's house to check up on her, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:19.400 she found three days worth of newspapers accumulated on the 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:24.720 front porch and a back door unlocked and a jar. Inside, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.440 she found Nannie's dead body sprawled out on her bedroom floor. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.960 She had also been brutally raped and murdered, strangled to 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:38.480 death with a telephone cord. The following week, three blocks away, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.800 a twelve year old girl had woken in the middle 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.319 of the night to find a man standing over her 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.960 at the foot of her bed. Mercifully, the man fled 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:52.120 when the child screamed for help. Later, footprints were found 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.720 at the young girl's house that were the same found 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:59.440 at the Brison property. As it happens, there are potentially 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:03.160 four more unsolved crimes of a similar nature, including the 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.559 beating and rape of a ninety two year old woman 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.520 that had occurred as far back as May, and there 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:14.160 was more to come. The same afternoon. Doctor Erdman is 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.319 carrying out sister today as autopsy Captain Davis receives word 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.960 that another elderly Amarilla resident, aged seventy seven, has been 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:27.640 found in her home beaten into a coma. The timing 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.760 couldn't have been worse for the city's beleagued police department, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.520 who were under heavy public scrutiny after failing to close 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.040 a slew of capital murder investigations that had resulted in 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:43.640 embarrassing acquittals and a number of costly retrials. Newly appointed 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.560 Police Chief Jerry Neil and the recently elected District Attorney 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:51.880 Danny Hill are determined not to fail this time, with Hill, 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.440 being particularly eager to solve the case with all the 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.280 fire and brimstone of a Bible belt. Minister Hill had 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.000 run for election on a promise of tougher reprimands for 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:06.360 criminals and a promise to seek the death penalty more 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.560 often and more swiftly. There would be no better opportunity 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:15.520 to prove his worth. As children and their families gear 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.120 up to celebrate Halloween that cold October night in nineteen 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.320 eighty one, things take a devastating and ominous turn when 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.640 Captain Davis informs the press that Sister to Day, a 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.080 bends of the Saint Francis Convent, has been found raped 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:35.240 and murdered. Both Davis and Hill draw comparisons with the 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:39.320 Bryson murder, with Hill not unreasonably stating he had strong 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.280 feelings that the same person had been involved in both cases. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.480 The public are, of course deeply shocked by the news, 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.600 but that a virginal nun had been the victim triggers 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:56.960 a particularly acute trauma for the deeply religious, predominantly Christian population. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.640 It is a crime of unimaginable depravity, worthy of the 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:06.080 Devil himself. A task force is immediately set up to 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:10.800 tackle the investigation, combining members of the Potter County Sheriff's Office, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:15.360 led by Lieutenant Jimmy Boydston, with the Amarillo Police Department 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:20.800 being led by Lieutenant Gerald Jacobs, both departments contributing their 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:24.080 best and finest in pursuit of the rapist and murderer 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:36.720 on the loose in their city. On Monday morning, Amarillo 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.120 Police officers begin a door to door sweep of the 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:43.280 neighborhood surrounding the convent, asking for any information that might 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.760 be pertinent to the investigation. Less than half a kilometer away, 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:50.640 the body of the gentle sister to day A Benz 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.120 is being laid to rest. The much loved nun, who 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.280 had dedicated her life to helping others, had moved to 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:02.720 the US from Switzerland in thirty three. More than two 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.800 hundred people arrived to pay their respects at the service 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:12.000 led by Bishop Leroy Matheson of the Amarillo Diocese. Later 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.720 that evening, shortly before midnight, having spoken to most of 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.600 the residents, on Northeast eighteenth Avenue, two officers in a 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.879 squad car heading back to the station notice a man 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:26.240 standing in a front lawn beating at a bush with 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.240 a stick. At the sight of the car. The man 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:34.919 rushes inside the house, a modest bungalow located three blocks 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:39.000 down from the Saint Francis Convent. The officers made a 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.520 note of the address number four thousand and ran a 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.160 check on the property, finding it listed in the name 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:49.639 of Charlotte Cameron. The officers added to their report and 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:55.439 clock off for the night. All in all, the leads 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.240 reveal very little other than a number of conflicting reports 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.359 describe a Latino looking man being spotted near the grounds 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.720 of the convent the night before Sister Todaya's murder. But 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:12.120 when the examination of the nun's sheets and nightgown revealed 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.520 strands of jet black hair similar to hares found at 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.679 the scene of Narnie Bryson's murder, it is all the 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:24.800 evidence District Attorney Hill needs. Within days, under DA Hill's instructions, 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.080 the investigative team turned their attention to a number of 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:32.320 Cuban refugees, the majority of which were skilled and professional 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:37.000 workers who had recently settled in the area. The refugees 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:40.320 were received as part of a politically motivated placement program 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:46.800 assisting Cubans fleeing President Fidel Castro's anti capitalist regime. Hill's 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.600 efforts are scuppered, however, when Catholic Family Services, who had 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.359 helped the refugees settle, refused to hand over background data 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:59.000 for their clients. But then the police believe they have 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.919 caught a break. Twenty eight year old Fernando Flores, a 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.520 Cuban refugee who had recently arrived in the city from Miami, 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.280 was picked up on the night of Tuesday, third of 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:14.119 November in connection with a burglary and the attempted rape 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.040 of a twenty one year old resident of North Amarillo 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:22.240 that had taken place on Halloween night. Although Flores's prince 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.720 failed to match with any found in Sister to Day's bedroom, 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.639 a raid of his apartment results in the discovery of 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.840 a number of fibers on Flores's clothes that appear to 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.680 be from sister Benz's blue night dress and bedsheets. A 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.080 series of witnesses who claimed to have seen a man 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.200 lurking around the Saint Francis Convent late on the Friday 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:48.080 night identify Flores as the man they had seen. News 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.080 of the refugee's arrest does much to calm the rising 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.240 fear in the community, with many praising the fast and 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:59.680 efficient efforts of the city's new District Attorney. Two days later, 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:05.360 the force wait expectantly as identification technician Sergeant Gregg Saltice 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.640 flies to Washington, d C. Carrying two boxes of evidence 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:13.040 to be tested by the FBI. Inside are a vast 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.879 collection of samples of Florre's and sister Benz's clothes, the 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.439 white shirt found at the scene, as well as the 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.520 nun's bloody sheets, and the black hairs found in her 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:27.560 room and on her body. By the afternoon, the bureau 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:34.520 returns their findings Flores is not a match. In desperation, 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.600 the police turned to the seventy seven year old Amarilla 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:40.760 resident who had seemingly been beaten into a coma the 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:45.240 afternoon after sister to Daya's murder. Having emerged from her 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:49.280 coma unable to remember anything about the attack, the woman 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:52.600 is brought in to District Attorney Hill's office to meet 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:57.840 with a hypnotherapist. After the session, in conjunction with a 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.760 series of tests carried out on ever from her home, 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.040 the police are forced to concede that the woman was 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:08.520 not attacked after all, but rather had fallen accidentally down 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:13.680 her stairs. The investigation team are back to square one, 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:24.399 and the pressure is beginning to mount. The community grows 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:28.159 increasingly restless, fearful that the perpetrator is still at large, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:32.199 and frustrated once again by the possibility of yet another 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:37.320 bungled investigation. The offer of a ten thousand dollar reward 0:21:37.520 --> 0:21:40.280 for any information leading to the arrest and indictment of 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:44.840 a suspect does little to move the case along. Over 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.920 a week after the murder, on the early evening of Monday, 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:52.280 November the ninth, at four thousand Northeast eighteenth Avenue, where 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:56.399 police had witnessed a man apparently acting suspiciously outside, a 0:21:56.520 --> 0:22:01.119 family has gathered together to watch Monday night football. Mother 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:04.560 of four Charlotte Cameron is casually knitting on her sofa 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.920 alongside her two daughters and her seventeen year old son, 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.000 Johnny Garrett, who is sitting at her feet. When there 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:15.439 is an unexpected knock at the door, Charlotte opens it 0:22:15.600 --> 0:22:18.560 to find a whole squad of police brandishing a warrant 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.240 to search a property and for the arrest of her son. 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:25.399 Before she has even had time to process the situation, 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:29.680 Charlotte can only look on with shock and desperation as 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:33.080 her son, Johnny, is handcuffed and marched into a waiting 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:38.879 squad car before being taken away. Later that evening, the 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:42.359 Amarillo Police Department hold a press conference to announce the 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.639 arrest of seventeen year old Garret in connection with sister 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:50.520 to Day's rape and murder. As it turned out, Garrett's 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:54.959 name had apparently come up after Detective Sergeant Walter Jager 0:22:55.280 --> 0:22:58.000 reviewed the initial leads that had been documented at the 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:02.520 beginning of the case, recognizing Garret as the person who 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:08.280 had been seen running into number four thousand Northeast eighteenth Avenue. Yaga, 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:11.040 who had also been processing finger prints for a number 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.480 of other burglaries at the time, ran Johnnie's against the 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:19.080 prince found in sister to Day's bedroom. Incredibly, they found 0:23:19.119 --> 0:23:23.200 a positive match with at least two prints, one found 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:26.119 on the headboard of the nun's bed and one on 0:23:26.160 --> 0:23:32.440 the butter knife discovered bent and discarded underneath it. As 0:23:32.480 --> 0:23:36.240 reporters start to disperse, Johnny's mother, Charlotte is seen in 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:39.679 floods of tears shepherding her three other children into the 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:43.359 Major Crimes Unit, desperately looking for more answers as to 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:46.720 why her son had been arrested. What they tell her 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:50.520 moments later but hadn't yet told the press stops her 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:55.160 in her tracks. They know Johnnie did it, they say, 0:23:55.760 --> 0:24:02.040 because he had confessed it only hours before. After arriving 0:24:02.080 --> 0:24:04.880 at the police station, Johnny had been led into an 0:24:04.880 --> 0:24:08.399 interview room, where at five p m. Detectives Morris and 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:12.000 Jimmy Boydston would later claim to have elicited a confession 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:16.439 from him. In the apparent statement, Johnny is alleged to 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.480 have confessed to breaking into the convent, loaded up on 0:24:19.520 --> 0:24:22.920 whiskey and acid, with the intention of stealing a number 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.520 of stereos that he had been led to believe were inside. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:30.800 While looking around the convent, he was supposedly spotted by 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.560 sister to Daa, and in an effort to silence her, 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.520 had ended up choking her to death before deciding to 0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:43.560 sexually assault her corpse. The statement ended with Johnny apparently 0:24:43.600 --> 0:24:45.959 claiming to have left the convent the same way he 0:24:46.000 --> 0:24:50.000 came in, through the broken window, despite blood spatters being 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:55.680 found by the convent's fire exit. There was only one problem, 0:24:55.840 --> 0:25:01.040 Johnny was refusing to sign the statement. 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