WEBVTT - Episode 2: The Confession 0:00:15.356 --> 0:00:22.836 Pushkin. Hey, it's Jake here. I just wanted to give 0:00:22.876 --> 0:00:26.356 you a heads up that this episode contains a detailed 0:00:26.356 --> 0:00:38.876 account of a hate crime, a murder previously on Deep Cover. 0:00:40.796 --> 0:00:43.516 Craig Peterson, you don't know us, but we're here. I 0:00:43.596 --> 0:00:46.796 want to talk to you. Federal agents. Can we approach you? 0:00:47.716 --> 0:00:52.316 And Craig just looked at us and said, I don't 0:00:52.356 --> 0:00:53.196 know what you're talking about. 0:00:53.956 --> 0:00:55.596 I think he said something like, yeah, we heard rumors 0:00:55.596 --> 0:00:58.916 about that, that someone said we did a homicide. But man, 0:00:59.556 --> 0:01:02.156 now that's nothing to it. We didn't do any homicide. 0:01:02.596 --> 0:01:03.516 It's a bunch of junk. 0:01:04.436 --> 0:01:07.516 You could feel the tension, but you can also feel 0:01:07.596 --> 0:01:12.076 like he's about to say something, and then he says, 0:01:12.996 --> 0:01:14.116 I'll tell you everything. 0:01:21.156 --> 0:01:24.676 So there are Scott Duffy and Terry Mortimer in a 0:01:24.716 --> 0:01:29.316 conference room at the FBI's offices in Wilmington, Delaware, and 0:01:29.356 --> 0:01:32.796 they're sitting on the edge of their seats because across 0:01:32.796 --> 0:01:36.516 the table from them is Craig Peterson, the electrician from 0:01:36.556 --> 0:01:41.356 Vermont with the spiderweb tattoo. Now they suspect that Craig 0:01:41.436 --> 0:01:44.156 was an accomplice to a murder. For months, Craig had 0:01:44.156 --> 0:01:48.396 been playing at cool admitting to nothing. But now in 0:01:48.436 --> 0:01:52.476 this conference room, Craig has promised to tell them everything. 0:01:53.636 --> 0:01:57.796 It was a moment that I think of everything that 0:01:57.956 --> 0:02:02.876 Terry and I had been through, had prayed through, and 0:02:04.316 --> 0:02:08.116 this was the moment in time. This was it. It 0:02:08.196 --> 0:02:12.356 was almost like, this is the reason why you were 0:02:12.356 --> 0:02:12.996 brought together. 0:02:15.156 --> 0:02:18.076 Mind you, this moment, it wasn't just the result of 0:02:18.116 --> 0:02:21.956 good luck. Two days prior, Scott and Terry had played 0:02:21.956 --> 0:02:25.556 their best and last card. They had handed Craig a 0:02:25.596 --> 0:02:29.356 subpoena to appear before a grand jury. They were hoping 0:02:29.396 --> 0:02:32.876 that this would get him talking. It was a long shot, really. 0:02:33.636 --> 0:02:37.716 Truth was, the Feds had very little on Craig, but 0:02:37.916 --> 0:02:42.636 Craig he offered to tell them everything. Before he did, however, 0:02:43.396 --> 0:02:44.756 he made a request. 0:02:45.316 --> 0:02:49.476 He says, I need to have assurances, and we said 0:02:49.516 --> 0:02:54.316 what type of assurances? Well, you have a prosecutor on board. 0:02:54.876 --> 0:02:57.716 Can you call the prosecutor? Absolutely, we can call the prosecutor. 0:03:00.156 --> 0:03:04.236 But Greg, you gotta I can't just call a prosecutor 0:03:04.276 --> 0:03:08.636 over here and waste his time. You gotta tell us 0:03:09.436 --> 0:03:11.716 what is it we're asking the prosecutor to come for 0:03:13.876 --> 0:03:20.796 And that's when he says I'm not the shooter, and 0:03:20.836 --> 0:03:23.996 I want immunity. 0:03:24.916 --> 0:03:29.076 Upon hearing this, Scott's partner, Terry, kind of sat up 0:03:29.116 --> 0:03:29.716 in his chair. 0:03:30.716 --> 0:03:33.836 Now, I'm thinking myself, this dude is pretty savvy. Dude 0:03:33.876 --> 0:03:37.836 thinking like attorneys talk about immunity, Federal agents talk about immunity, 0:03:38.316 --> 0:03:42.516 not electricians from Earl and Tim Vermont get like, where 0:03:42.516 --> 0:03:44.676 did you get that from? That's what he said, I 0:03:44.716 --> 0:03:45.916 want immunity. 0:03:46.436 --> 0:03:49.916 Now, Typically, giving someone immunity is not a quick or 0:03:49.956 --> 0:03:54.276 easy task, especially in a situation like this where someone's 0:03:54.276 --> 0:03:57.676 been murdered. Getting all the higher ups to sign off 0:03:57.796 --> 0:04:01.956 can take days or longer. But Scott knew time was 0:04:01.956 --> 0:04:04.716 of the essence. He needed to jump on this before 0:04:04.756 --> 0:04:08.836 Craig changed his mind. Fortunately, he had a prosecutor on 0:04:08.916 --> 0:04:09.596 st stand by. 0:04:10.756 --> 0:04:16.436 Prosecutor dropped everything, ran to my office. We spoke with 0:04:16.516 --> 0:04:22.316 him briefly saying it's so many words, he's confessed and 0:04:22.356 --> 0:04:25.756 we don't know where to go from here. And so 0:04:26.196 --> 0:04:29.636 he said, so what you need is immunity? 0:04:30.756 --> 0:04:31.356 Am I hearing that? 0:04:32.596 --> 0:04:36.156 And Scott's like, yeah, that's exactly what Craig is asking for. 0:04:36.876 --> 0:04:39.356 And the prosecutor is like, I think I can help 0:04:39.396 --> 0:04:43.916 you guys. But first, the prosecutor had one crucial question 0:04:44.516 --> 0:04:47.716 and he wants to ask it directly to Craig. So 0:04:48.116 --> 0:04:49.876 he hurries over to the conference room. 0:04:50.916 --> 0:04:53.876 And the first thing the prosecutor asked him very first thing, 0:04:55.756 --> 0:04:58.956 are you the shooter if it comes back at all 0:04:59.156 --> 0:05:03.196 in any way that you pulled the trigger? Deals off 0:05:04.396 --> 0:05:05.876 no immunity, nothing. 0:05:07.116 --> 0:05:11.516 Craig tells them, no, I didn't pull the trigger, wasn't me. 0:05:13.116 --> 0:05:16.756 The prosecutor seemed satisfied. He whips out a pen and 0:05:16.836 --> 0:05:19.396 begins to write out a grant of federal immunity. 0:05:20.436 --> 0:05:23.596 I'm looking at Scott in one this is unbelievable. 0:05:24.516 --> 0:05:28.396 That never happens, but that's exactly what happened. 0:05:29.036 --> 0:05:34.796 So with that, Craig tells us that he starts the 0:05:35.156 --> 0:05:37.956 damn breaks up. 0:05:38.036 --> 0:05:41.276 Until now, Scott and Terry have been going on a prayer, 0:05:41.596 --> 0:05:46.676 quite literally, chasing down rumors and nothing more. But that 0:05:46.836 --> 0:05:51.516 was about to change. A confession was at hand, one 0:05:51.516 --> 0:05:54.316 that would validate Scott and Terry's hope that they were 0:05:54.396 --> 0:05:59.236 uncovering something they were destined to find. Ultimately, this confession 0:05:59.276 --> 0:06:03.436 would upend many people's lives. It would transform a whispered 0:06:03.516 --> 0:06:08.396 rumor into a full blown murder investigation and maybe, just 0:06:08.476 --> 0:06:24.916 maybe it could lead them to the victim. I'm Jake 0:06:24.956 --> 0:06:28.676 Calpern and this is a deep cover Season four The 0:06:28.756 --> 0:06:56.796 Nameless Man, Episode two, The Confession. After the damn breaks, 0:06:57.196 --> 0:07:00.476 Craig just starts talking, recounting what he could remember from 0:07:00.516 --> 0:07:03.796 that night back in nineteen eighty nine when he and 0:07:03.876 --> 0:07:06.156 Tom Guybison were still in high school. 0:07:07.036 --> 0:07:08.876 And so he starts telling us how it went down. 0:07:09.156 --> 0:07:13.396 That basically that he and Tommy decided one night to 0:07:13.636 --> 0:07:18.236 go and find a black man, to kill that black 0:07:18.276 --> 0:07:21.036 man so that they could get their spider web tattoos 0:07:21.676 --> 0:07:22.796 as skinheads. 0:07:23.436 --> 0:07:27.076 Craig tells them they borrowed his mother's car, a gray 0:07:27.236 --> 0:07:31.076 Chevy Bretta. Craig drove, Tom was in the passenger seat. 0:07:31.716 --> 0:07:34.116 They'd gotten their hands on a gun, a thirty eight 0:07:34.156 --> 0:07:38.636 caliber Revolver, and they started looking for a target. All 0:07:38.676 --> 0:07:40.476 of this, by the way, and what I'm about to 0:07:40.516 --> 0:07:44.276 tell you is based on Scott and Terry's recollections and 0:07:44.356 --> 0:07:47.276 the report that they filed at the time, and also 0:07:47.476 --> 0:07:53.956 from sworn testimony that Scott, Terry, and Craig later provided. Anyway, initially, 0:07:54.036 --> 0:07:57.316 Craig and Tom drove through Wilmington, Delaware, where they lived. 0:08:00.036 --> 0:08:01.516 He said it was very busy. 0:08:01.836 --> 0:08:04.196 He said, there were just so many people out and 0:08:04.236 --> 0:08:06.076 there would be no way that they would be able 0:08:06.116 --> 0:08:09.516 to shoot somebody and not have a witness around. So 0:08:09.596 --> 0:08:12.836 they made the decision to leave Wilmington and traveled north. 0:08:13.836 --> 0:08:17.436 They drove north on the Interstate until they reached Philadelphia. 0:08:18.196 --> 0:08:21.476 Here they got off at the Broad Street exit. By 0:08:21.516 --> 0:08:24.756 now it was late. Craig wasn't sure exactly how late, 0:08:24.876 --> 0:08:28.836 but the streets were mostly empty. Craig said at one 0:08:28.876 --> 0:08:31.956 point they stopped and stole a license plate to put 0:08:31.956 --> 0:08:34.996 on his mom's car as an added measure of protection, 0:08:35.756 --> 0:08:38.556 just in case someone witnessed what they were about to do. 0:08:39.676 --> 0:08:43.116 At some point, they passed a large wall and eventually 0:08:43.276 --> 0:08:44.956 they turned onto a one way street. 0:08:46.076 --> 0:08:48.676 Craig's driving, and they drive down a very dark street, 0:08:49.396 --> 0:08:53.076 and Tommy is in the passenger side, and he tells 0:08:53.116 --> 0:08:55.396 Craig slowed down, slowed down. 0:08:55.276 --> 0:08:59.116 Slow down, because up ahead they saw a pedestrian, a 0:08:59.196 --> 0:09:04.236 lone black man, as Craig recounted it, the man turned 0:09:04.516 --> 0:09:05.996 and started walking toward them. 0:09:06.756 --> 0:09:11.236 Tommy pulled out a thirty eight caliber, leaned out the 0:09:11.276 --> 0:09:17.236 window and shot him and exclaimed I got him right 0:09:17.276 --> 0:09:17.956 between the eyes. 0:09:19.756 --> 0:09:23.036 The way Craig remembered is the guy hit the ground 0:09:23.116 --> 0:09:24.836 so hard. 0:09:25.676 --> 0:09:28.316 That he had to be dead. 0:09:29.956 --> 0:09:33.516 Craig said that even all these years later, he still 0:09:33.516 --> 0:09:36.716 remembered the sound of that thud as the man fell 0:09:36.756 --> 0:09:48.396 onto the pavement, and that was it. These two high 0:09:48.436 --> 0:09:52.636 school kids, with their gun and their mom's car, sped 0:09:52.676 --> 0:10:00.196 off into the night, back home to Delaware. So far, 0:10:00.636 --> 0:10:04.716 this entire investigation had been based on a rumor, a 0:10:04.836 --> 0:10:08.156 rumor that initially seemed like it might be impossible to 0:10:08.276 --> 0:10:12.676 verify that two teenagers drove into a nearby city to 0:10:12.796 --> 0:10:15.956 murder a complete stranger because of the color of his skin, 0:10:16.796 --> 0:10:23.556 and that they commemorated this murder with a tattoo. It 0:10:23.676 --> 0:10:25.476 was the kind of story that you didn't want to 0:10:25.516 --> 0:10:29.476 believe in, because if it were true, what did that 0:10:29.556 --> 0:10:32.916 say about us as human beings? About our capacity for 0:10:32.956 --> 0:10:37.676 hate and cold bloodedness. In a way, the veracity of 0:10:37.716 --> 0:10:41.396 this rumor was about more than just one murder. It 0:10:41.476 --> 0:10:44.916 seemed like a test, a light meter that would measure 0:10:45.076 --> 0:10:49.356 just how dark the depths of humanity could be. It 0:10:49.396 --> 0:10:53.116 all hinged on a single question. Could these kids really 0:10:53.116 --> 0:10:56.796 have done this, And in a situation like this, you 0:10:56.876 --> 0:10:59.836 almost have to hope, maybe even pray, that the answer 0:10:59.916 --> 0:11:03.636 is no, because then the world isn't so bad, right. 0:11:04.756 --> 0:11:09.396 But if the answer is yes, they really did this, well, 0:11:09.396 --> 0:11:12.876 then the depths are darker than most of us would 0:11:12.876 --> 0:11:22.836 care to admit. As Craig recounted the details of the 0:11:22.916 --> 0:11:28.156 murder in that FBI conference room, Scott listened intently. If 0:11:28.156 --> 0:11:31.676 you recall, Scott had trained to become a priest back then, 0:11:31.876 --> 0:11:35.516 sometimes people would notice his priest's collar and just start talking, 0:11:35.796 --> 0:11:37.436 sharing their darkest secrets. 0:11:38.276 --> 0:11:39.796 So Scott he. 0:11:39.836 --> 0:11:42.916 Was comfortable in this role as the confessor. He knew 0:11:42.956 --> 0:11:46.196 how to listen, how to watch, which is exactly what 0:11:46.316 --> 0:11:47.876 he did as Craig spoke. 0:11:48.956 --> 0:11:54.676 And when when you watch somebody tell the story, you 0:11:54.716 --> 0:11:59.236 can tell that they are just reliving it, that they 0:11:59.276 --> 0:12:04.076 were there. It was just amazing to watch, because that's 0:12:04.116 --> 0:12:05.556 all I'm doing, is watching him. 0:12:06.956 --> 0:12:10.396 Craig's confession raised so many questions for Scott and Terry, 0:12:11.156 --> 0:12:14.756 like why would Craig, the steadfast sidekick, turn on his 0:12:14.796 --> 0:12:18.716 old friend now, because in the past Craig had been 0:12:18.836 --> 0:12:22.356 very loyal, Like a few years back, Craig had tried 0:12:22.356 --> 0:12:25.756 to protect Tom from the authorities by storing some weapons 0:12:25.796 --> 0:12:29.396 for him, weapons that Tom wasn't supposed to have. Craig 0:12:29.436 --> 0:12:32.116 paid for this, did a few years in prison in fact, 0:12:32.676 --> 0:12:35.596 so maybe he was willing to talk now just to 0:12:35.636 --> 0:12:39.196 avoid a repeat of that. Craig got out of federal 0:12:39.236 --> 0:12:42.796 prison in nineteen ninety nine. A few years later he 0:12:42.836 --> 0:12:45.796 moved north to Vermont, to that house in the mountains 0:12:46.036 --> 0:12:50.196 with the dogs and the floodlights. Bottom line, it seemed 0:12:50.236 --> 0:12:52.876 like Craig had made a decision to escape his old 0:12:52.916 --> 0:12:57.436 life and maybe to escape Tom too, I should mention. 0:12:57.676 --> 0:13:00.996 We reached out to both Craig and Tom for this story. 0:13:01.676 --> 0:13:05.756 Craig declined an interview. We never heard back from Tom. 0:13:06.236 --> 0:13:09.716 But here's what we can say about Tom. He had 0:13:09.756 --> 0:13:14.196 a long and well documented history of violence. As a teenager, 0:13:14.356 --> 0:13:17.476 he'd been convicted of reckless endangerment after he shot a 0:13:17.516 --> 0:13:21.556 gun at a moving car full of people. Police records 0:13:21.556 --> 0:13:25.276 from the time confirmed that Tom had an arsenal of weapons, 0:13:25.476 --> 0:13:30.196 including a billy club, two blackjacks, two sets of brass knuckles, 0:13:30.476 --> 0:13:33.956 and a mess of knives. To put it plainly, Tom 0:13:33.996 --> 0:13:36.116 seemed like the kind of friend that you might not 0:13:36.236 --> 0:13:38.436 want to anger by turning on him. 0:13:39.436 --> 0:13:48.076 We believed that a real danger existed. There is a 0:13:48.236 --> 0:13:54.476 very real potential of danger against Craig. People will go 0:13:54.516 --> 0:14:00.836 to great lengths to protect their self interests, but. 0:14:00.836 --> 0:14:05.916 At this point there was no turning back for Craig. More, 0:14:06.196 --> 0:14:24.996 after the break, Scott and Terry now had a confession, 0:14:25.516 --> 0:14:29.236 which under normal circumstances would be a very big deal, 0:14:29.596 --> 0:14:33.436 potentially a game changer, and in some ways the confession 0:14:33.476 --> 0:14:37.316 was very promising. Craig were called some details, like the 0:14:37.356 --> 0:14:40.756 moment of the actual shooting, vividly in a way that 0:14:40.836 --> 0:14:44.636 might be very persuasive for a jury. The problem was 0:14:44.956 --> 0:14:48.236 the alleged murder took place more than seventeen years prior, 0:14:48.876 --> 0:14:51.396 and there was so much that Craig did not remember. 0:14:52.036 --> 0:14:55.836 For instance, he couldn't tell the FEDS where exactly this happened. 0:14:56.516 --> 0:14:59.396 He couldn't provide the name of a street or intersection 0:14:59.676 --> 0:15:03.236 or park, nor could he tell them exactly when this happened. 0:15:03.636 --> 0:15:05.716 Could not offer a day, or a week or even 0:15:05.756 --> 0:15:09.716 a month. Most vexing of all, Craig had no idea 0:15:09.716 --> 0:15:14.236 who the victim was, and this right here underscored the 0:15:14.276 --> 0:15:17.396 central problem that Scott and Terry had been facing from 0:15:17.436 --> 0:15:22.356 the very beginning. Simply put, they didn't have a body. 0:15:23.116 --> 0:15:25.516 They were trying to solve the murder of an unknown man, 0:15:26.236 --> 0:15:29.836 and without knowing who he was, they couldn't do much 0:15:29.876 --> 0:15:34.316 of anything. But Scott remained determined. 0:15:34.676 --> 0:15:37.396 We have to do our job, and we have to 0:15:37.596 --> 0:15:43.156 find out who did they kill. If if possible, how 0:15:43.156 --> 0:15:46.476 are we gonna do that? It then felt like a mandate, 0:15:47.116 --> 0:15:52.396 like Okay, we're We're in this. 0:15:52.396 --> 0:15:55.956 This sounds awfully confident. But both Scott and Terry told 0:15:55.996 --> 0:15:58.516 me that they felt on some level like they were 0:15:58.556 --> 0:16:01.156 trying to find a needle in a haystack. They both 0:16:01.236 --> 0:16:05.636 used that exact phrase, which raises the question, how do 0:16:05.676 --> 0:16:08.996 you find a needle in a haystack? Well, in theory, 0:16:09.316 --> 0:16:12.036 you start by sorting through all the pieces of hay right. 0:16:12.396 --> 0:16:15.916 In other words, you create a finite pool of possibilities. 0:16:17.756 --> 0:16:20.596 So let's talk about the finite the things Craig knew 0:16:20.956 --> 0:16:24.196 or claimed to know with some certainty. Craig knew the 0:16:24.236 --> 0:16:27.676 murder took place sometime around the spring of nineteen eighty nine. 0:16:28.076 --> 0:16:30.796 He remembered this in part because he recalled going to 0:16:30.876 --> 0:16:35.556 senior prom not long after the murder took place. So 0:16:36.116 --> 0:16:39.476 the agents had a year nineteen eighty nine, and they 0:16:39.476 --> 0:16:43.116 had a city, Philadelphia, and for whatever it was worth, 0:16:43.436 --> 0:16:46.156 Craig had mentioned a one way street and a dark 0:16:46.196 --> 0:16:50.956 colored wall. According to police accounts, there were four hundred 0:16:50.996 --> 0:16:54.916 and seventy three murders in Philadelphia that year. So in theory, 0:16:55.556 --> 0:16:58.356 one of those murder victims was their nameless man. 0:16:59.276 --> 0:17:00.196 But which one. 0:17:02.996 --> 0:17:05.836 Turns out, our federal agents they had an ace up 0:17:05.836 --> 0:17:09.676 their sleeve. Scott knew someone, someone he believed could really 0:17:09.716 --> 0:17:13.076 help them, a detective who worked in the homicide unit 0:17:13.316 --> 0:17:17.756 of the Philadelphia Police Department, a veteran investigator named Leon 0:17:17.956 --> 0:17:23.556 Lubiski went by LUBI for short. Scott, give me a 0:17:23.796 --> 0:17:26.236 very vivid picture of what Luby looked like. 0:17:27.116 --> 0:17:28.756 He's a large physical stature. 0:17:29.036 --> 0:17:32.396 Like when you hear a bear, you think of a bear, 0:17:32.476 --> 0:17:35.316 and you know scary or cuddly. 0:17:35.356 --> 0:17:38.476 I mean, bear has many different. 0:17:39.916 --> 0:17:43.396 Views depending on who you ask, right, but nobody will 0:17:43.436 --> 0:17:46.276 ever deny the fact that a bear is big. 0:17:46.956 --> 0:17:50.716 And you can't argue with Scott on that one. 0:17:51.476 --> 0:17:54.116 When you saw him, you perked up and you're like, oh, 0:17:54.556 --> 0:17:56.636 he's not somebody to fool around with. 0:17:58.036 --> 0:18:02.036 But apparently Luby also had this other aspect. 0:18:02.556 --> 0:18:07.396 He had the face of someone who is just extremely caring. 0:18:08.916 --> 0:18:11.836 Just you just looked at him, you knew immediately this 0:18:12.036 --> 0:18:14.676 is somebody who will do anything to help you. So 0:18:14.756 --> 0:18:20.396 he was a multifaceted bear, multifaceted cuddly, but he could 0:18:20.436 --> 0:18:24.236 turn grizzly if he needed to. Scott's hope was that 0:18:24.316 --> 0:18:27.956 his old friend, Luby, the multifaceted Bear, could now help 0:18:28.036 --> 0:18:39.636 them find the victim. 0:18:39.836 --> 0:18:44.436 Hello, Hey, is this Louby. It's Louby, Louby. 0:18:44.516 --> 0:18:46.356 This is Jake. Is this still a good time to 0:18:46.396 --> 0:18:46.876 talk to you? 0:18:47.636 --> 0:18:48.556 Yeah, it's good time. 0:18:49.676 --> 0:18:52.516 It took me a while to track Luby down. He's 0:18:52.556 --> 0:18:57.156 retired now. When we spoke, he remembered the case right away. 0:18:58.476 --> 0:19:02.356 They had these details, but they didn't actually have a 0:19:02.396 --> 0:19:03.516 body to go with it. 0:19:03.996 --> 0:19:09.276 How unusual is that to have someone say, hey, we 0:19:09.156 --> 0:19:11.356 we we're pretty certain there's a murder. We have a confession. 0:19:11.436 --> 0:19:15.116 We just we got no body. 0:19:15.476 --> 0:19:16.796 That's rather unusual. 0:19:18.276 --> 0:19:20.916 Scott had passed along a short list of facts to 0:19:21.036 --> 0:19:24.276 Luby to help him with his task. They included the 0:19:24.276 --> 0:19:29.116 following one. The area where Craig remembered driving, two the 0:19:29.116 --> 0:19:32.356 type of weapon that was used, Three the nature of 0:19:32.396 --> 0:19:35.476 the wound a single shot to the head for the 0:19:35.596 --> 0:19:39.156 race of the victim, and five a general timeframe for 0:19:39.236 --> 0:19:42.196 when this happened, the spring of nineteen eighty nine. 0:19:43.596 --> 0:19:46.076 How optimistic were you that you were going to be 0:19:46.116 --> 0:19:49.076 able to get them what they needed to solve this. 0:19:51.836 --> 0:19:56.356 I was actually very optimistic because we keep pretty good 0:19:56.436 --> 0:19:57.916 records on our dead bodies. 0:19:58.916 --> 0:20:01.476 For Scott and Terry, this was a search for a 0:20:01.516 --> 0:20:05.196 needle in a haystack. But Louby was an insider who 0:20:05.276 --> 0:20:08.676 knew how things worked in Philly and knew exactly where 0:20:08.716 --> 0:20:12.596 to look. As far as the records go. The authorities 0:20:12.636 --> 0:20:16.116 believed this murder case would have been marked as unsolved 0:20:16.516 --> 0:20:19.396 it happened back in nineteen eighty nine, and Luby was 0:20:19.436 --> 0:20:23.196 getting this request seventeen years later in the spring of 0:20:23.196 --> 0:20:24.316 two thousand and six. 0:20:25.716 --> 0:20:28.956 So what happens with a case when it goes unsolved. 0:20:29.676 --> 0:20:33.196 Well, it's space with the assigned detective and if he 0:20:33.236 --> 0:20:35.316 gets a chance, he goes out and works on it 0:20:35.756 --> 0:20:39.156 in between things. If he doesn't, it just lays there 0:20:39.276 --> 0:20:40.076 becomes cold. 0:20:41.156 --> 0:20:44.396 Basically, the file just sits there in a file cabinet 0:20:44.636 --> 0:20:45.916 in the homicide department. 0:20:46.436 --> 0:20:51.236 Homicides just want one big room, and there's file cabinets 0:20:51.396 --> 0:20:55.116 all along the walls, and in those file cabinets already 0:20:55.196 --> 0:20:58.676 open cases and then they move from in the storage. 0:20:59.236 --> 0:21:02.716 Luby told me that typically after a few years, the 0:21:02.796 --> 0:21:06.076 unsolved case files are sent to the city's storage facility, 0:21:06.396 --> 0:21:10.396 a big ten story building. The homicide files are kept 0:21:10.396 --> 0:21:11.276 down in the basement. 0:21:12.076 --> 0:21:15.396 And when that happens, he assigned detectives. He no longer 0:21:16.116 --> 0:21:18.076 it's it's a bit of a problem for him to 0:21:18.156 --> 0:21:20.716 get to his case file now. 0:21:20.596 --> 0:21:22.996 So is it kind of a little bit of out 0:21:23.036 --> 0:21:24.196 of sight, out of mind. 0:21:24.316 --> 0:21:28.476 And basically once it goes into storage, like the supervisor 0:21:28.556 --> 0:21:30.876 doesn't bother anymore to get anything done on it. 0:21:31.796 --> 0:21:35.956 So it's like in limbo, as far as I could tell, 0:21:36.196 --> 0:21:39.316 these cold cases kept down in the basement, kind of 0:21:39.356 --> 0:21:42.076 like the messages at the very bottom of your inbox 0:21:42.436 --> 0:21:46.316 that slowly received from your consciousness and eventually get moved 0:21:46.316 --> 0:21:50.076 into some folder that you'll most likely never look at again. 0:21:51.676 --> 0:21:54.756 So when Lubi got the call from Scott and Terry, 0:21:54.836 --> 0:21:57.596 he didn't have the actual case files from nineteen eighty nine. 0:21:57.756 --> 0:22:01.276 Right at his fingertips. What he had was a loosely 0:22:01.436 --> 0:22:04.796 finder an index of all the murders from the past. 0:22:05.756 --> 0:22:10.196 This index was a collection of so called summary that's. 0:22:10.076 --> 0:22:14.076 A single page. It's got the deceased name, cause death. 0:22:15.436 --> 0:22:17.636 You know what the outcome is, it's still open. 0:22:19.076 --> 0:22:23.716 Thanks to that nature, Louby searches through these summary sheets 0:22:23.956 --> 0:22:27.676 and narrows the possibilities down to unsolved murders that occurred 0:22:27.836 --> 0:22:32.676 around the spring anywhere from January through May. There were 0:22:32.716 --> 0:22:35.716 thirty seven of them. Then he weeded out all the 0:22:35.756 --> 0:22:38.316 ones that didn't match up with the details that Scott 0:22:38.356 --> 0:22:42.276 had given him. In the end, Louby was left with 0:22:42.516 --> 0:22:47.316 just one case, an unsolved murder from April sixteenth, nineteen 0:22:47.356 --> 0:22:49.956 eighty nine, of a thirty three year old black man. 0:22:51.156 --> 0:22:54.076 He was killed by a single thirty eight caliber bullet 0:22:54.156 --> 0:22:59.556 to the head. This happened in North Philadelphia on a 0:22:59.556 --> 0:23:02.796 one way street, just one block away from an imposing 0:23:02.876 --> 0:23:08.756 stone wall. Louby made arrangements to get the entire case 0:23:08.756 --> 0:23:12.716 file pulled out of storage unearthed from that basement, and 0:23:12.756 --> 0:23:16.956 then he reached back out to Scott. Louby facts the 0:23:16.996 --> 0:23:21.476 summary sheet directly over to the FBI's offices in Wilmington, Delaware. 0:23:22.116 --> 0:23:25.036 It was an efficient bit of detective work. He'd done 0:23:25.116 --> 0:23:29.516 all of this and roughly twenty four hours. So you 0:23:29.516 --> 0:23:33.476 can imagine Scott's reaction when, just a day after getting 0:23:33.476 --> 0:23:39.156 Craig's confession of facts arrives from Louby and Scott, he 0:23:39.276 --> 0:23:43.516 just holds it in his hands and stares at it. 0:23:43.516 --> 0:23:44.236 It was. 0:23:45.716 --> 0:23:55.196 Unbelievable, feeling that this is it, seeing the name and 0:23:55.276 --> 0:24:02.356 seeing the the specifics of the crime, having a location, 0:24:03.036 --> 0:24:09.116 a street. I don't even think I put it down. 0:24:09.436 --> 0:24:13.316 It was this is it? 0:24:15.956 --> 0:24:16.196 Wait? 0:24:16.276 --> 0:24:17.316 How could you be so certain? 0:24:17.396 --> 0:24:17.796 I don't know. 0:24:17.876 --> 0:24:28.916 I just felt like everything that Craig told us fit 0:24:29.036 --> 0:24:30.476 this very crime. 0:24:31.356 --> 0:24:34.436 And so much of it did seem to fit, including 0:24:34.556 --> 0:24:37.876 the time frame, the one way street, the proximity of 0:24:37.916 --> 0:24:41.116 the wall, the caliber of the bullet, the single shot 0:24:41.196 --> 0:24:44.636 to the head. The motive noted on the facts was 0:24:44.676 --> 0:24:49.836 one word, drugs. Objectively, at this point you could not 0:24:49.956 --> 0:24:53.156 say it was a slam dunk. There was no DNA match. 0:24:53.716 --> 0:24:56.236 No one had found a murder weapon and matched it 0:24:56.276 --> 0:24:58.796 to a bullet from the scene of the crime. None 0:24:58.796 --> 0:25:02.996 of that. But even so, Scott remembers turning to his 0:25:03.116 --> 0:25:05.596 partner Terry and saying. 0:25:06.036 --> 0:25:10.916 We have a name. We have a fic. Terry, I 0:25:10.956 --> 0:25:15.956 think this is why we're here. We believe this is 0:25:17.516 --> 0:25:23.476 this is who we've been pursuing. That was pretty powerful 0:25:23.556 --> 0:25:23.956 to us. 0:25:25.236 --> 0:25:28.276 At long last they had a name. It was right 0:25:28.316 --> 0:25:31.716 there on the facts plane to see, printed out in 0:25:31.796 --> 0:25:40.196 smudgy letters, Aron Would. They strongly believed that he was 0:25:40.236 --> 0:25:43.636 the victim. This was a huge moment in their investigation, 0:25:44.316 --> 0:25:48.396 and yet it could still amount to nothing. Identifying a 0:25:48.396 --> 0:25:52.676 potential victim did not guarantee a conviction or even guarantee 0:25:52.676 --> 0:25:56.356 that there'd be a trial. Now, the question was would 0:25:56.396 --> 0:25:59.076 there be enough evidence to bring a case and convince 0:25:59.116 --> 0:26:03.796 a jury that this is what happened all those years ago. 0:26:04.756 --> 0:26:07.356 Terry and I said, it may be that this does 0:26:07.516 --> 0:26:10.556 not ever go to a court. There may be nothing 0:26:10.556 --> 0:26:14.276 that we can do or Philadelphia can do, even with 0:26:14.436 --> 0:26:17.796 Craig's cooperation, that this is ever going to see the 0:26:17.796 --> 0:26:24.636 inside of a court, and letting Craig know that this 0:26:24.956 --> 0:26:25.636 all may be. 0:26:26.036 --> 0:26:28.716 Just to give. 0:26:30.276 --> 0:26:38.236 Aron Wood's family some sense of some sense of. 0:26:41.756 --> 0:26:47.276 Understanding, but a kind of terrible understanding. 0:26:47.396 --> 0:26:54.756 Right, Yeah, definitely I just believe having no name, having 0:26:56.636 --> 0:27:04.396 no understanding of how your loved one's life came to 0:27:04.436 --> 0:27:07.236 an end, who did it and for what purpose? I 0:27:07.276 --> 0:27:09.516 think can drive you mad. 0:27:13.356 --> 0:27:17.156 As investigators would soon learn, Iran Wood had a family, 0:27:17.516 --> 0:27:21.436 including a mother and two younger brothers. For seventeen years, 0:27:21.476 --> 0:27:25.236 they'd been searching for answers about how and why he died. 0:27:26.196 --> 0:27:29.276 The last chapter of Iran's life was like a story 0:27:29.316 --> 0:27:34.916 that stopped abruptly mid page. No explanation, no closure. There 0:27:34.916 --> 0:27:38.636 have been very little to hold on to, but all 0:27:38.716 --> 0:27:41.116 of that was about to change. 0:27:43.676 --> 0:27:47.956 Next time. On Deep Cover. Everybody liked him. 0:27:48.036 --> 0:27:52.396 That's why we was baffled, like, Oh, somebody shot a run, 0:27:52.836 --> 0:27:57.396