1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Blood on the Tracks is the production of I Heart 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:06,560 Speaker 1: Radio and Double Elvis. Phil Spector was a musical genius, 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:09,320 Speaker 1: one of the most successful record producers of all time. 4 00:00:09,680 --> 00:00:12,240 Speaker 1: He's now sitting behind bars, serving a nineteen years to 5 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:16,840 Speaker 1: life sentence for murder. This is his story told by 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:28,040 Speaker 1: his so called friends. This is a Special Agent Paul 7 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,240 Speaker 1: Ramon with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, working case number 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:34,680 Speaker 1: double oh four Dash ten DAS seven one nine, case 9 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:38,199 Speaker 1: subject as Specter Philip Harvey. This information pertains to a 10 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,839 Speaker 1: period ending February third, two thousand three. Interview subject as 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: Clarkson Lana Interview number three Dash four six STAPH two 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: oh five Dash seven six six Spirit Confessional Recall number 13 00:00:50,520 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: nine October one. I didn't even know him. I didn't 14 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: know him at all. I mean I got to know 15 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,119 Speaker 1: him a little. I got to know what he wanted 16 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 1: me to know. I was on a need to know 17 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: basis with fell Specter. He was in control of his 18 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: own narrative. It was just the two of us, the 19 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: two of us in the middle of the night, in 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: his car, in his castle. We had just met for 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:32,040 Speaker 1: the first time and the last time. Some would say 22 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: he told me too much Others would say he didn't 23 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: tell me enough. Some would say I shouldn't have gone 24 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 1: with him. Others would say I did the right thing. 25 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 1: But no one knows. Really, no one really knows what 26 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:51,600 Speaker 1: went down that night besides me and Phil. The only 27 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: thing everyone else was pretty too was the blood. The 28 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: blood on the chair, the blood on the stairs, the 29 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: blood before before, and the trach Chapter nine, Phil Specter 30 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: and Lana Clarkson. I didn't know who he was at first. 31 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: I thought he was one of those guys who walks 32 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: into the place after midnight, some bimbo on his arm, 33 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 1: slip someone a fifty dollar bill, tries to get a table, 34 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: acts like he owns the place, but clearly doesn't own 35 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: the place. He's not even a member, just some schmo 36 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:15,119 Speaker 1: trying to impress the gold digger by his side, bad hairpiece, 37 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: wearing dark sunglasses inside at one am, drunk like it's 38 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,359 Speaker 1: the first time in his life he's been drunk, dumb 39 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: grin on his face, a JABRONI So I didn't let 40 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: him through. The Foundation room at the House of Blues 41 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: is strictly members only, and that's a annual feet right. 42 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 1: I didn't know this guy from Adam I've never seen him. 43 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: He wasn't getting past me. I had been the hostess 44 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: at the House of Blues on the Strip for a while, 45 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: longer than I would have liked to admit, to be honest, 46 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: so I knew all the regulars. I made the daily 47 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: commute from my place in Venice. Shifts usually ran from 48 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: six at night till two in the morning. It was 49 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: a gig to fill in the gaps, unnecessary evil, something 50 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: to earn some steady cash while I continued busting my 51 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: ass with casting calls and auditions and grabbing whatever roles 52 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 1: I could grab. I was forty. It's not like I 53 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: was all washed up, far from it. But I found 54 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: myself in a valley at the time, a valley in 55 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the natural ebb and flow of an actor's professional life. 56 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: And when you find yourself in a valley, you scramble 57 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 1: and do what you gotta do to pull yourself back 58 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 1: out find that next mountain. Every actor needs to side 59 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: hustle every now and then. This particular side hustle was 60 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: a humbling experience and occasionally humiliating. I was waiting on 61 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: high rollers A level types, B level types, the kind 62 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: of Hollywood player who could afford to shell out an 63 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: annual feat just to walk into the joint. And so 64 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: other actors would show up to the foundation room, actors 65 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: who had beat me out for this role or that role, 66 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: and I had to seat them, show them to their table, 67 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 1: wait on them. I hated that moment, that moment when 68 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: the person I was about to see would put their 69 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:35,719 Speaker 1: hand gently on my arm and patronizingly say, hey, aren't 70 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: you Lana Clarkson? And not because they had seen me 71 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:46,799 Speaker 1: in Barbarian Queen either Verian queen. No man can touch 72 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: her naked steel. It wasn't the recognition that a fan 73 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: has when they meet a star. It was the recognition 74 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: that a winner has when they run into a loser. 75 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:04,640 Speaker 1: So there, I was not wanting to get recognized by 76 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: all the wrong people, and it turns out I wasn't 77 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 1: recognizing the right people. I was ready to toss this 78 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: guy out on his ass, wipe the shit eating grin 79 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: right off his little Lord fauntleroy face. He asked to 80 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: speak to a manager. One of the waitresses happened to 81 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: be walking by at that moment and saw what was 82 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: going on. She pulled me aside. Don't you know who 83 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: that is, she whispered. I shook my head. Phil Specter 84 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:53,919 Speaker 1: didn't ring a bowl. The record producer still nothing to do. 85 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: Run Run guy walks around his castle in Alhambra in 86 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: the dark, wearing up Batman on costume. I had heard 87 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: about that. It was in some Time magazine article or something. 88 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: Then the waitress started to hum the melody of that song, 89 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: and it clicked. I turned to face the man I 90 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: was about to send back into the street, menus in hand, 91 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: Mr Specter, I said, my apologies. I almost didn't recognize 92 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: you this way to your table. My face must have 93 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: been beat red. I wanted to go crawl back into 94 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:38,280 Speaker 1: the kitchen, find a stainless steel table to hide under, 95 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: and just die. Oh the woman he was with, she 96 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: had that hospitality industry look like she had just worked 97 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 1: a grueling, demeaning shift already that night and now was 98 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: being taken out on the town by some guy who 99 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: barely knew her. I called him like, I saw, whether 100 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: you're an actress or a hostess, you get good at 101 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: that sort of thing in the thick of the Hollywood jungle. 102 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,400 Speaker 1: She just gave me one of those half smiles, the 103 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: kind that simultaneously says thank you and fuck you. When 104 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 1: they sat down, I could tell there was trouble in 105 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:28,080 Speaker 1: paradise already. They weren't really talking that much to each other. 106 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,079 Speaker 1: His eyes would follow me every time I walked by, 107 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: and I didn't know if it was because he thought 108 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:38,440 Speaker 1: I was an idiot for not recognizing him, or if 109 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,559 Speaker 1: he was turned on by the fact that I didn't 110 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 1: recognize him. I'd find out soon enough. He ordered a 111 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: Bacardi and she had a glass of water that really 112 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 1: set him off. He was there to drink, to get 113 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: shitty and have a good time, and it pissed him 114 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: off that woman on his arm would rather be back 115 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 1: home in deep blissful sleep than tie one on with him. 116 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: He started to yell at her, loud enough that we 117 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: could all hear him. He was like, get a fucking drink, 118 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 1: and she just waved him off like he was a 119 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 1: fruit fly trying to land on the rim of her glass. 120 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: It wasn't too long after he raised his voice that 121 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: his driver showed up at the hostess stand. He said 122 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,240 Speaker 1: Mr Specter asked him to take his date home, but 123 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 1: Mr Specter was going to stay a little longer. After 124 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,840 Speaker 1: his date was gladly chaperone outside. He tried to order 125 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: more drinks, but the guy was so drunk and it 126 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: was at least two, if not later, and we had 127 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 1: to wrap it up. He paid for the eight dollar 128 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: BICCARDI and the five dollar water and left a tip 129 00:09:55,960 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: that was like four hundred bucks, and then he asked 130 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: me to join him for a drink as I was 131 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: walking by his table again after he had already been 132 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:11,920 Speaker 1: told the bar was closed. At first, I thought he 133 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: was just working in an angle to get another drink, 134 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: that maybe if he could convince one of the staff 135 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: members to join him, the taps would flow for him 136 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 1: once more. So I sat down with him for a moment. 137 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: He asked me to accompany him back to his place 138 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: in Alhambra, his castle, as he put it, I politely declined, 139 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,120 Speaker 1: a guy who walks around in the dark with a 140 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:38,560 Speaker 1: batman costume wants me to come over, and what do 141 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: I play? Catwoman or maybe poison ivy? No, thank you. 142 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:47,440 Speaker 1: I hardly knew the guy. I wasn't about to get 143 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: myself too deep, but he was persistent. He kept asking, 144 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: I kept declining, and then he compromised. He asked if 145 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: he could drive me to my car. Well, actually, if 146 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,440 Speaker 1: his driver could drive me to my car, you know. 147 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: Once he was back from dropping off the date at 148 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:14,439 Speaker 1: her place, we got in the elevator together. He turned 149 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,960 Speaker 1: his head slightly towards me and said, I bet you 150 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 1: won't forget me again. He was buying time. He was 151 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: going to try to butter me up in his car, 152 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: get me to change my mind about going to his place. 153 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: I said to myself, Laana, get in his car and 154 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 1: see how you feel in a few minutes. Maybe turn 155 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 1: this humdrum night sating aless clientele on the strip on 156 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:46,400 Speaker 1: its ear. Maybe maybe not. It was close to two 157 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 1: thirty am when I clocked out of the House of 158 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: Blues and followed Phil into the cool evening air. My 159 00:11:52,840 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: mind was not made up yet. I was always in 160 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: the background, a face in the crowd, always walking on 161 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: screen just to walk off. Sometimes the roles were minor. 162 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 1: Fast times at Ridgemond High was like that. I had 163 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: a line at least High that was the line. There 164 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: were no lines in scarface. Scarface was minor, minor. I'm 165 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: there for a second or two, helping to fill the 166 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,360 Speaker 1: frame as part of the ensemble, and then I'm gone. 167 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: The bigger rules were always the lower profile pictures, the 168 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 1: Roger Corman stuff, the ones where I was a buxom 169 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 1: warrior and a fur leotard doing the female cone in 170 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,720 Speaker 1: the Barbarian thing, I'll be No Man's Slave and no 171 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 1: Man's horror zena Lucy Lawless. They were all inspired by 172 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: that one. I like to think I paved the way 173 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,839 Speaker 1: in a cult classic kind of way. I never got 174 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: used to the nudity. I always felt it was beneath me. 175 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 1: But it was a boy's town and a boy's game, 176 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: and I did what I had to do to move forward. 177 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: But I never took any ship from anyone. These nude 178 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 1: publicity shots of me wound up in some paper in 179 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:49,599 Speaker 1: San Francisco, and I lost it. I went right to 180 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:53,040 Speaker 1: Roger Corman himself and demanded to know what the hell 181 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 1: was the big idea. He took me to the publicity 182 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: department so that I could bear witness to his verbal 183 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: eat down. See. I admired a classier Hollywood than the 184 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 1: Hollywood of the nineteen eighties. I'm talking Marilyn Monroe, Jane Mansfield. 185 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: I met Lana Turner, once the epitome of Hollywood class. 186 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: Of course, she's the actress I'm named after. We both 187 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: had the same hairdresser, so we were introduced sometime in 188 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 1: the early eighties before I had landed much of anything. 189 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: That Lana hadn't acted in years, but she still carried 190 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: herself like a star, the glow, the ploise, the class. 191 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,720 Speaker 1: I like to think I inherited more than a name, 192 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,040 Speaker 1: that I took on the whole aura of a golden age, 193 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 1: a bygone era. Maybe that's what Phil saw in me 194 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: that night. Maybe I was an echo to Phil, something 195 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: that called out to him from Afar, something that brought 196 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: him back to a place that he never wanted to leave. 197 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: The more he talked to me in the car on 198 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,400 Speaker 1: the ride back to his place in Alhambra, the more 199 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: I learned that he was a soul that was stuck 200 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: in time. His head was in the sixties. Time kept 201 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: pushing ahead, but Phil didn't go along for that ride. 202 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: He was a mono man living in a quadraphonic world. 203 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: Hang on, I should explain. You're probably thinking, wait, she 204 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 1: told him she wasn't going home with him. I changed 205 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: my mind. I did accept the invitation to go back 206 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: to his castle. After all, he was relentless. What can 207 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 1: I say he made me an offer I couldn't refuse. 208 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: When we left the House of Blues, Phil was walking 209 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: like a slow motion pinball, banging around a machine. He 210 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 1: was feeling no pain, I'll put it that way. I 211 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 1: helped him into the Mercedes and his driver Adriana, this 212 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: real nice kid. He helped him get inside the back seat. 213 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,520 Speaker 1: Inside the car, he invited me. He begged me to 214 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: come home with him a few more times. The third 215 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 1: time he asked me, right as we were pulling up 216 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: to my parked car, is the moment I changed my mind? 217 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: What's the worst that could happen? Right? Because at first 218 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,560 Speaker 1: his stick was a little endearing. He seemed to really 219 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: want my company. I couldn't really tell if it was 220 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: a romantic thing or not. I think he just didn't 221 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:50,040 Speaker 1: want to be alone. I knew I was the third 222 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,920 Speaker 1: woman he'd been with that night. He told me that 223 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 1: he'd been all over l A, spent hours haunting this 224 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,600 Speaker 1: place in that place. Dinner during X he told me 225 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: what they'd eaten and how nothing was really going the 226 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: way he wanted. The other women weren't good company, but 227 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 1: he could tell I was good company. That was the 228 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,879 Speaker 1: kind of minimal flattery he offered up during the thirty 229 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: minute ride from Hollywood to Alhambra. We took the one 230 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,600 Speaker 1: oh one to the ten. It was so late the 231 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: traffic wasn't a complete nuisance. The talk quickly turned to 232 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,760 Speaker 1: Phil just talking about Phil. It was either because he 233 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: was extremely intoxicated, or he was nervous, or perhaps he'd 234 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 1: just liked to talk about himself. He was intrigued that 235 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: I didn't know much about him, and he wanted to 236 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,879 Speaker 1: give me a Phil Specter crash course right there in 237 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 1: the car. Huh, Phil Specter one oh one. On the 238 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 1: one oh one. He told me about the Righteous Brothers, 239 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: about the Beatles, and John and George, about Agantina, about 240 00:18:03,359 --> 00:18:07,520 Speaker 1: the Romans. But he didn't talk about them as if 241 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: they were his friends. I don't even know that he 242 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: looked back on his time with any of them fondly. 243 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: He talked about them, to talk about them, to name drop. 244 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 1: He told me he recorded Elvis and that the Beach 245 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 1: Boys wouldn't have been the Beach Boys without him, that 246 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: modern pop music as we know it would have ceased 247 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,160 Speaker 1: to exist. The more he talked, the more the initial 248 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,359 Speaker 1: appeal of his personality started to wear thin. I wondered 249 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: if I had made a mistake after all. And then 250 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:45,639 Speaker 1: he told me about his castle. He didn't call it 251 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 1: a house or even a mansion. It was his castle. 252 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: He said, you gotta see it, you know, just wait 253 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: to see. He was trying to explain the architecture and 254 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:00,480 Speaker 1: a staircase in something about suits of armor. That's the 255 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: part when I wondered if he had drifted off into 256 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: loopy land talking about suits of armor, like who the 257 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: fox has suits of armor at their house. The more 258 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: he described his place, the more I thought I was 259 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 1: walking into a droopy dog cartoon. We drove through the 260 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,440 Speaker 1: suburbia of Alhambra, you know, the strip malls, the bungalows. 261 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 1: It was a sleepy place, a sleepy place, especially so 262 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:33,000 Speaker 1: late at night. But there was really nothing to write 263 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:40,679 Speaker 1: home about there. I actually caught myself wondering what it 264 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: was about the place he liked so much. We got 265 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: to these huge iron gates, so big that Adriano had 266 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: to get out of the car and push them open 267 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 1: with his bare hands. We drove up further through the trees, 268 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:00,639 Speaker 1: like we were headed into a jungle. There was a 269 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 1: gradual incline and then it cleared, and there was this 270 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: amazing water fountain, and there it was Phills home, the castle. 271 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: It was incredible. In the darkness, I could only wonder 272 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,440 Speaker 1: what it looked like. In the light, you could see 273 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:29,080 Speaker 1: everything from up there, the whole damn town. You could 274 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:31,600 Speaker 1: probably see even right down into l A if you 275 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,479 Speaker 1: looked hard enough. But I didn't want to look around 276 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: at the floor and fauna at three o'clock in the morning. 277 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to see if his castle was everything Phil 278 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:51,920 Speaker 1: had made it out to be. We'll be right back 279 00:20:52,160 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: after this word word word. I didn't know there was 280 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: a gun until we got inside. There were many guns inside, actually, 281 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,879 Speaker 1: But you know that, don't you. You would think that 282 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 1: a guy who had so many guns and is so 283 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: in love with guns would have actually said something about 284 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: it on that thirty minute drive. You've got to think 285 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,359 Speaker 1: that the subject of guns was somewhere in his mind 286 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: at the time, that it was always on his mind. 287 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 1: He didn't utter one word about his collection of firearms 288 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: as we rode to his place. Looking back, that was 289 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: a red flag. God, I was so naive about the 290 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: whole thing. However, I'll admit I was more than a 291 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,600 Speaker 1: bit star struck in the moment star struck in a 292 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,919 Speaker 1: little drunk the tequila and vikd in combo offered some 293 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:01,439 Speaker 1: smooth sailing on the stranger danger front. It's not like 294 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 1: I hadn't been in the presence of top shelf celebrity before. 295 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,440 Speaker 1: I'd hung out with Jack Nicholson, Warrened Batty don Henley. 296 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: But this this was different. This was a whole other 297 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 1: level of spectacle, the pageantry of it, the bravado. It 298 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: was this giant French chet To style manifestation of Phil's ego. 299 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:28,639 Speaker 1: I don't think I had missed Betty go from the 300 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: moment he walked up to the hostess stand at the 301 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: House of Blues to the moment he asked me to 302 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: come home with him to all the cliff notes war stories. 303 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:39,160 Speaker 1: He told me in the car, let's just say, if 304 00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: his house had been any smaller, I would have been disappointed. 305 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:50,040 Speaker 1: But this thing didn't disappoint. Turrets spires. There was an 306 00:22:50,040 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: outdoor terrace on top of the thing. As we stepped 307 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: out of the car, Phil took a cue from my 308 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,520 Speaker 1: gasps and comments and told me he had bought it 309 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,919 Speaker 1: from one point one million, just like five years ago. 310 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,479 Speaker 1: He threw that number out there in a way. He 311 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: threw out references to the Beatles and Elvis Presley. He 312 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: wanted to make sure you were still paying attention, you know, 313 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,440 Speaker 1: paying attention to the biggest fucking deal in the room, 314 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: fucking Bill Specter. He told me they called it the 315 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,679 Speaker 1: Pyrenees Castle. Some guy from France built it in the twenties. 316 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: His voice was slurred as he told me all of this. 317 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,680 Speaker 1: I had to help him walk, especially up the dramatic 318 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 1: stairs that led to the front door. I told Adriano 319 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: I had it under control. I had made that co dependent, 320 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: drunken walk up a flight of stairs many a time, 321 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,040 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. And so he drove the car 322 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:59,000 Speaker 1: around back where Phil liked it. Phil pushed open the 323 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: wide front doors, and it was like we were stepping 324 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: back in time. The place certainly hadn't been updated to 325 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: reflect any sort of two thousand three aesthetic. There was 326 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: a marble foyer, crystal chandeliers, a bunch of outdated red 327 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,560 Speaker 1: carpet that ran up the staircase. There was a Picasso 328 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,200 Speaker 1: sketch next to a John Lennon sketch. There wasn't one 329 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: suit of armor. There were two suits of armor, just 330 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 1: propped up on either side of a doorway. I have 331 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: expected the things to come to life and chase me 332 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,159 Speaker 1: around the place. He told me there were nine bedrooms, 333 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: ten bathrooms, but it was just him living there, just 334 00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: him adrift in all this space. Don't you get lonely 335 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,800 Speaker 1: here all by yourself? I asked him. I probably asked 336 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,640 Speaker 1: him three or four more times. Every time I asked him, 337 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: I saw him wins a little, like the idea of 338 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: loneliness hurt him, but it was obviously his reality. Damn. 339 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: He shook off the questions by just rattling off more 340 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 1: details about the place. Did I know there was a 341 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: wet bar there and a hair salon? Not one but 342 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: two kitchens. We drank some more, fumbled around some more. 343 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 1: Phil didn't stop talking, and then at some point he said, 344 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: take a look at this. He had opened the drawer 345 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: of a dresser in the foyer. There was a gun 346 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 1: in it. He asked me if I liked guns, asked 347 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: me if I ever shot a gun. He pulled the 348 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: gun out of the drawer and started to play around 349 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: with it. It was small, a revolver. He spun it 350 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 1: around and flipped it over like it was hot to 351 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,639 Speaker 1: the touch didn't really look like he knew what he 352 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:05,199 Speaker 1: was going. I had no idea at the time, no 353 00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:08,240 Speaker 1: idea that he had pulled a gun on Debbie Harry, 354 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,719 Speaker 1: that he pulled a gun on the Ramans, he shot 355 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 1: a gun at John Lennon, that he locked his wife 356 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: in a closet, that he held Leonard Cohen and many 357 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,640 Speaker 1: others hostage in his own house. I didn't know any 358 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 1: of those things. I was fully out of that loop. 359 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 1: I had no idea. I was yet another in a 360 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: long line of unsuspecting visitors to Phil's house or studio 361 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 1: who got a pistol shoved in their face. I don't 362 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: think that either of us knew that I would be 363 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: the last. The last time I saw Phil Specter, he 364 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,000 Speaker 1: was holding a little revolver up to my face. He 365 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: had to reach to up there. I was so tall 366 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: and he was so short. He was holding a little 367 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: revolver up to my face and daring me to kiss it. 368 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: February three, two thousand three, Grand View Avenue, Alhambra, California. 369 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 1: It was around five in the morning when Adriana to 370 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 1: Susa heard the pot. He was sitting in the driver's 371 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: seat of a black Mercedes Limo parked around the back 372 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: of the Pyrenees Castle, eight thousand, seven hundred square foot 373 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,960 Speaker 1: Alhambra home that offered a bird's eye view of the 374 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 1: San Gabriel Valley from the top its isolated no Both 375 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 1: the Mercedes and the castle belonged to Adriana's boss, Phil Specter. 376 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:08,720 Speaker 1: The sound made Adriana nervous. It was loud and came 377 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: out of nowhere to disrupt the idyllic pre don com. 378 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 1: It was too loud to be a plate hitting the 379 00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: kitchen floor, too intense to be a slam door. Adriana 380 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 1: was equally nervous because he wasn't Phil's regular driver. He 381 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 1: was the filling guy. Dylan was the regular driver, but 382 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: it was Dylan's night off. Adriana was in the US 383 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: on a student visa from Brazil and picked up the 384 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,160 Speaker 1: part time gig for some easy cash. For the most part, 385 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 1: it was a cush gig. Sometimes it even seemed too easy. 386 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 1: Adriana spent a small percentage of every pinch, hit shift anxious, Anxious. 387 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,680 Speaker 1: It's something off, something bad would happen on his night, 388 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 1: on his watch. It would be just as luck and 389 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: the evening had been exceptionally busy. Adriana had driven Phil 390 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 1: all over l a first of Beverly Hills with Ronnie Davis, 391 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: someone Phil new from high school. They aided a place 392 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: called Grill on the Alley. That was around seven pm. 393 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 1: After dinner, Phil had Adriano driving Roni home and returned 394 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: to the Grill, where Phil asked the waitress Cathy Sullivan, 395 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: to hit the town with him. Adriano drove them to 396 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: Trader Vix and then to Dan Tanna's. Phil had drinks 397 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,840 Speaker 1: at each stopped, and by the time they got to 398 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,920 Speaker 1: their third location, the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, 399 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: Phil was slurring his words. It was around three am 400 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 1: when Adriana returned to the alha Ro Castle with Phil's 401 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: new acquaintance, Lana Clarkson in tone. After Lana helped Phil 402 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: wobble up the steps and into the house, Adriano parked 403 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: the Mercedes out back and debated, allowing himself to catch 404 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: a few winks before he was needed again. The sound 405 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,760 Speaker 1: from inside the house said five am, snapped Adriana to attention. 406 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: There was no way he was catching even a few winks. 407 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: After that sound, it popped. It was loud. Something was wrong, 408 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 1: Something was off. Adriana opened the door of the Mercedes 409 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: and stepped outside. It was cold, out, cold for Alaha 410 00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,120 Speaker 1: run in February, at least above forty degrees. Adriana could 411 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: see the breath escape from his mouth. He rubbed his 412 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:09,000 Speaker 1: hands together to maintain the warm feeling of the limo's 413 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 1: climate controlled interior, and for a moment he heard nothing more. 414 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: Nothing followed the dramatic sound, just the hush sounds of 415 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: the world slowly coming to life for another day. Maybe 416 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,280 Speaker 1: he had imagined the whole thing. And then the back 417 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: door of the castle flung open. Some birds in a 418 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: nearby tree were startled and flapped away. Phil Specter tumbled 419 00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,040 Speaker 1: out of the castle. His eyes were wide, his face 420 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 1: frozen in shock and confusion. He was still dressed in 421 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: the same clothes from the night before, and Adriana wondered 422 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: if he was still drunk. As Phil got closer, Adriana 423 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: saw the revolver and fills right hand. He saw the blood. 424 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: Adriana looked past Phil through the open door and saw 425 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: the woman who just hours before had been in the limo. 426 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,719 Speaker 1: Lana Clarkson, slumped on top of a chair in the foyer, 427 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,080 Speaker 1: Her blonde hair hung in the air. Her long legs 428 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,880 Speaker 1: were sharp and us Phil got closer to Adriano, who 429 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,720 Speaker 1: stood still halfway between the Mercedes and the castle. Phil 430 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: looked at him dead in the eye. At first he 431 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: said nothing, just the thousand yard dead eyes stare, and 432 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: then he made a confession, I think I killed somebody. 433 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,280 Speaker 1: Adriano stood and shocked. He wasn't sure that he had 434 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,440 Speaker 1: heard what he thought he had heard. Had he heard 435 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:29,280 Speaker 1: a gunshot? Did Phil Specter just confessed to murder? What happened? 436 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: Sir Adriano asked filled an answer. He didn't make a sound. 437 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: All he did was calmly shrug his shoulders, and then 438 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 1: he turned around to direct the thousand yard dead eye 439 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: stare back into the house and at Lana Clarkson's body. 440 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: Detective Mark Lillian Fields, half of David, the one he 441 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,960 Speaker 1: filed with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, gave a vivid 442 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: account of the scene the first responders found inside the 443 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: ostentatious home. The victim, Lana Clarkson, was slumped in a 444 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:59,280 Speaker 1: chair in the foyer. She was dressed in black. Her 445 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: leopard print herst dangled from her limbs shoulder she had 446 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,360 Speaker 1: a single gunshot to her mouth. Broken teeth were strewn 447 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,120 Speaker 1: on the floor of the foyer and even made their 448 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: way onto the stairway. Nearby. Under Lana's leg was a 449 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: thirty eight caliber Colt Revolver blue steel. Of the six 450 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 1: possible shots in the weapon, five of them still had 451 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,959 Speaker 1: live AMMO locked and loaded, but the sixth was spent. 452 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: All signs pointed to one conclusion. The police investigation, the 453 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: coroner's report, the testimony of Adriana to Susan and others, 454 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,320 Speaker 1: and then throwing a quick examination of the host character, 455 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: his love of gunplay, the wild ways in which he 456 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,160 Speaker 1: carried himself, his history of physical and emotional abuse. All 457 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: signs pointed to Phil Specta, that famed record producer and 458 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 1: infamous recluse whose life was now spattered with blood. Everyone 459 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,520 Speaker 1: was privy to it. The blood on his chair, the 460 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,240 Speaker 1: blood on his stairs, the blood on the floor of 461 00:32:54,280 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: his foyer, and the blood on the tracks. 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