WEBVTT - Episode 11: The Midnight Man 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.360 The Maniwauk Caves is intended for mature audiences. It contains 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:07.280 strong language and depictions of bullying, violence, and sexual assault 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.840 that some may find disturbing. Listener discretion is advised. Also, 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.320 this is an extremely immersive experience and headphones are recommended. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.040 You're listening to The Maniwak Caves, a production of iHeartRadio, 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.880 Blumhouse Television, and Psycopia Pictures. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:34.600 Alwayst. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.040 Eleventh, I got a call from Dina this morning, said 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:40.879 LeBlanc was driving down wanted us to all meet in person. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:48.800 It must be important if you dure now for Nashville. 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.720 Jill, how you holding up? 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:54.680 I don't fucking know anymore. 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.400 Honestly, the only thing I can do right now is 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.400 keep digging for answers to listen. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.440 I'm so sorry about Tyler Wilson. I know you too, 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:05.840 were close back in the day. 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.800 I don't understand it. I guess you lost this shit. 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.480 I don't know. Or maybe he was the same one 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.319 and it's the rest of us that they're completely insane. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.440 Either way, Tyler. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.000 Knew something something we don't not yet. 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.800 Anyway, how about you, are you taking care of yourself? 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:28.280 What do you mean? 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.280 Do you have a psychiatrist. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.320 Where'd you disappear too last night that you were win? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:34.759 Hey? 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.720 Oh yeah, I'm sorry. I couldn't sleep so I wouldn't 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:42.160 get in my car. How's Jimmy? Good morning? 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:43.440 I thank you all for coming. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:45.720 Well, what is it then? 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.559 I'm sorry. There's no easy way to tell you what. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:52.800 They rejected our appeal. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:58.480 Fucker's why, Dana hold on? I'm sorry, mister Leblant, But 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.240 did we miss the dead No? 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:03.440 No, Look, we made the deadline by the skin of 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:09.040 our teeth. But they still rejected the claim. Why lacking 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:09.840 in merit? 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.399 The fuck does that mean the testimony of the key 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.600 witness was coerced? They found new evidence the. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.680 Next and all the suspicious shit with Tyler Shirley. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:18.520 There's an error. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.120 Look, we knew it was a long shot. That they 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.640 even read or applied to the brief as a goddamn miracle. 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.520 The State Supreme Court does not have to take the case, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.359 and in this instance they simply let the appellate Court's 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:35.640 decisions stand. Okay, we anticipated this and we had to 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.720 do it to exhaust all possible appeals. 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:42.160 And the good news is that they. 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.520 Got back to us and read a short order Okay, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.320 they could have sat on it until the last minute. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.919 But as it stands now, we still have time to 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.880 ask for clemency. We can still make a request to 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.840 the governor for relief from the death sentence. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.280 Do you know the governor? 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:03.960 I know somebody that knows the governor who Bobby Hadley. 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:10.000 That's right, there's a situation with mister Hadley and Dina, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:10.760 a situation. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:11.400 That's right. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.120 He may be incentivized to make a personal appeal on 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:16.639 James Fincher's. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.720 Behalf encouraging, and I for. 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.080 One am not giving up. Not if there is any 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:25.000 thread of a chance, we can ask the governor to 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.359 at least postpone the execution. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.880 Or commute the sentence to life in prison. 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.760 Julian, where are you going now? 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.360 Every minute we sit here sixty seconds less of Finch's life. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.880 What do we need? More proof, more evidence that it 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.680 wasn't Finch you murdered the Hadley brothers. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.560 We need something more than circumstantial. 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:45.760 Did you find out where to tech to? Smith's car was. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:51.880 Found waiting on a callback as we speak, Dina, Hey, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:52.440 look at me. 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:54.360 I'm close. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:59.440 I am so goddamn close. I can smell them. Don't 0:03:59.480 --> 0:03:59.880 give up. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:33.800 The moss seems tired with the clean inside tells these 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:38.000 tells these. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.159 There was no piece of evidence that was never recounted 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.880 for five births found under Thomas Hadley's fingernails. 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:48.279 Red wolf. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.120 Maybe Griff Washington's dog had a red collar on or something, 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:55.360 but if it did, the red collar was never found. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.880 So where did the red wolf come from? 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:09.880 To the true to the. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.960 Two boys are dead? These are good people. They just 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:17.800 want justice. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.520 And I would think that you, of all people, would 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:22.800 be able to relate to that. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.240 Solomon Sheriff, I. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.279 Know what killed my boy. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:34.480 Somebody's feeling how they know? We'll see the bird. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:48.159 When you He couldn't exactly trust the sharer of soltis. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:54.880 So whatever Solomon Smith knew, he took that intol with him. 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.480 Where was he last seen? Not sure. 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.520 That on his car though, about a decade ago, just 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.920 north of here. I think maybe I can dig up 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.000 the police report. 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:33.120 Did you find it? 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:33.919 Hello? 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:35.320 Did you find the interview? 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:36.000 Good timing? 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.359 You're ready to take a few questions like. 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:42.400 The interview, the interview with Detective Smith two thousand and seven, 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.479 It would have been late June or early July. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.320 You mean the one where he tried to expose Sheriff 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:48.800 Hooper for targeting. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.480 Jamis despite other leaders. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.400 The one he gave before he vanished mysterious. 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.040 That would be the ones did you find it? 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:59.320 I did, and I digitized it right here on this 0:06:59.400 --> 0:06:59.920 thumb drive. 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:05.000 WHOA, now, hold on, not just yet? Deal's deal huh. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:10.320 First, let's get your interviewing hug this, lamp up your 0:07:10.320 --> 0:07:11.200 ass and plug it in. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:17.880 Okay, okay, okay, gee, maybe maybe a new buck board, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:18.320 a piece and. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:18.920 You or something. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:20.440 Think about it. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.480 Seasoned detectives understand they must take a step back and 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.760 look at the whole picture and exhaust all investigative avenue 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.000 used to present the best case they can to the 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:38.880 district attorney. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.840 And didn't you do that with James Cincher? Absolutely not. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.560 It was nearly impossible to narrow the focus to him. 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:48.640 When there are still other suspects on the board. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:49.720 Other suspects. 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:50.880 Can you tell us who? 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.000 Off the record? 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:01.240 Okay, okay, fine, yeah, off the record. I'm still interested 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.920 in the boys who found the bodies. They were both 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.160 absent from school the same day the Hadley boys went missing. 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.200 Tyler Wilson and Julian Salis, but Sallace gave you information 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:12.200 that led to James Finzer. 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:16.480 He told Sheriff Hooper, and that boy was so scared 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.080 and sleep deprived and hungry, he would have told Hooper 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.160 that Fincher shot JFK if that's what Hooper wanted. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:25.920 So are you suggesting that Solace was. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.960 Coerced by by Hooper and his father? 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.720 His father, Paul Solace, is still a person of interest 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:33.480 in my book. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.120 And you believe these are more likely suspects than James Fincher. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.200 It doesn't matter what I believe, It matters what I know. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.600 I know these are suspects of no alibi. Suspects were 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:51.560 a clear motive. That's not the only difference. What's the 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:52.320 other difference? 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:55.960 These suspects are white? 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.959 So now you're playing the race card. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:00.800 Tell me the truth. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.000 That's what this is really about. 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:03.160 Being with you. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.400 Goddamn right, it is, and it should be for you too. 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.400 Why do you think I'm doing this interview? Where the 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.280 hell are you guys in all this? Where's the goddamn 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.360 investigative journalism? All you jokers do is report what Hooper 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.760 tells you as if it's the truth. You ain't the press, 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.319 your mouthpiece for the local authorities. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:21.680 Well, that's offensive. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:26.160 I've never gone to the press before. Never. I'm giving 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.760 you a massive window here. This is a national story. 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:33.680 This is a chance to redeem yourselves, an opportunity to 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.160 embrace a little journalistic integrity for a change, to do 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:43.000 your fucking job. So take it or leave it, because 0:09:43.000 --> 0:10:03.240 I'm going to the Times next. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.840 Jew I've got it you ready. 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.880 Yeah, Tomman's car was found at the bottom of Spounding 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.680 Gorge below Madison Road. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.240 Matthewston, Yeah, right. 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.480 As mom mark of thirteen, a hunter founded apparently. Let's 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.640 see the reporters from October twenty tenth, about three years. 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.480 At the Smithson miss did you see Matheson? 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:19.200 Yeah, my Mark at thirteen. The car was rusted out, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.640 maybe went off the side of the road. I mean 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:22.680 that kind of thing. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.040 Happens every year on these wide mountain. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.120 Roads, you know, but normally they find the driver too. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:34.079 It was definitely registered to detect a Smith Matthison. Yester, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:42.520 you didn't why that's where we lived, my dad. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.880 I mean, I'm nur distant road right around the ben there, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.240 just past my mark at thirteen. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:08.480 It's Wednesday, still August eleventh. I think I'm driving up. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.120 The Mountain uh Matthison Road, and I feel it again, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.760 the pull, like I'm leaning over an endless abyss. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.959 And the fog beat me here. But it doesn't matter. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.040 I could drive this road blindfolded. I know it like 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:26.760 my own skin. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.760 I'm trying to comprehend how it's possible, but I can't 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:48.959 deny this. Everything is pointing directly at it, at him. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:45.680 My father. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.199 In two thousand and seven, his life was in turmoil. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.360 He had been grieving Mom's death for less than a year. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.920 The hospital bills were crippling Jesus. He cursed our poverty 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.640 every day, and it was no secret in our house 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:08.880 that he despised Bobby Hadley. Then he sees me getting 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:15.800 tormented by Bobby Hadley's sons. They cornered me in the library, 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.480 beat me up, scissor my hair off, and later that 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.600 same week, my dad was fired, fired from his job 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.920 at the Hadley Dealership, a job he'd had my whole life. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:34.360 My God, if anyone had a motive to kill, detect 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:39.560 to Smith. He was on my dad's trail, and Smith's 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.800 car was found at the bottom of the gorge. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.520 Directly below our old house. Maybe it was just a coincidence, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.199 maybe another devil's prank. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.720 Or maybe my father just snapped. The world is a 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.960 dark and unjust place where the cowards and the cruel 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:07.040 ragin supreme, and so maybe he snapped. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:13.240 And we're here. 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.560 The drive is overgrown. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:26.040 It's uh, it's been a lot of years since anyone 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:27.240 probably came down this way. 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.760 But uh, this is that. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:43.040 Wear here where m This is a ground zero for 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.800 my existence, this place. 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:52.520 Where I was born, where I grew up, where my 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.559 mother died, where my house stood before it was guarded 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.400 by fire. It burned almost to the ground as soon 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.120 as I left here. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:15.920 Jesus, Oh, Jesus Christ. There was not much left, just 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.080 blackened and rotting remains of the house. I saw the 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:26.080 pictures after it first burned, a hollow shell, windows blown out, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:34.560 like an empty, leering skull. Now it's caved in, brick ruins, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:40.680 overtaken with Thignes and Kutzu. It's hard to explain what 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:45.360 I saw in that moment, more than a shadow, less 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:55.040 than a person, the gray man down by the southwest 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.720 corner of the house, behind the trees. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.160 What what the fuck do you want? 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.440 He was most no reaction at all. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.600 Why are you following me, just stood there in the shadows. 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.120 As I moved closer, he became obscure by this huge, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.880 gnarled oak tree there, the same one that once held 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:19.200 a swing where my mother used to push me. It 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.520 was just a blink an instance. As I came around 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.960 the curved drive, he was gone. Any other time I'd 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.640 have excused it as a trick of the light. The 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.480 cloud gusts surged along the ridge of forty miles an hour, 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.080 strange movement everywhere, the mind playing its games. 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:40.760 But I knew better. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.080 I walked to the oak tree. The rope of the 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.760 tire swing and long since broken, and the rubber tire 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:52.480 was almost completely buried under dirtant leaves. But there was 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.040 something else there lying on the ground. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:55.960 Oh my god. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.160 Then I saw it. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:06.960 The scarf, my mom's red scarf. You gotta be fucking 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:18.000 kidding me. I could feel the gray man's eyes on me. 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.680 I scanned the woods, hoping he would turn his gray stare, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.520 but he was nowhere to be found. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.440 I circled the yard, then, tracing the shadows that stretched 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:35.000 into the woods, but he was gone. Instead, my eyes 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.280 fixed on a small, half rotten wooden door leading to 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.040 the cross space, under the buried ruins and the foundation 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.240 of the house that was still intact. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:45.920 I crawled in. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.800 It was pitch black. I turned on the flashlight on 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.120 my phone and raised it into the darkness, damp earth 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:58.120 covered in animals catting debris. The floor joists and hartwood 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.000 pond floorboards that withstood the fire, but they were rotten 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:08.200 and sagging downward, making a low space feel perilously tight. 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.320 Something scurried for the back end of the darkness, just 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.040 at a range of my flashlight. I panted across the 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.080 space until until something glinted in the darkness in a 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:23.920 far corner, just enough light to catch the eye. Damn it, 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:31.720 I could feel it. This place, just below where I'd 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:32.560 spent my youth. 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.200 It was a place of death. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.600 The earth was black and wet and harbored, no life 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.040 except for a large growth of mushrooms there in the 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:49.280 furthest corner of the cross space, where the brick had 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.720 crumbled away, perhaps allow on some sunlight through in the daytime. 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:56.400 The earth around it was sunken in and the fungus 0:17:56.440 --> 0:18:02.199 seemed to bloom from there. I crawled on my belly, 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:07.720 inch by painful inch. The dampness seeping into my bones. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.160 And other worldly chill. 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.040 A strange breeze making its way through the cracks of 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.560 the broken house above reminded. 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.040 Me of the breath of the caves. 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:25.880 Then I saw what looked like a leather a container 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.160 jutting from the sunken earth. 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:29.800 I dug. 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.600 The soil was loose here in the sunken spot, not 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.919 tamped down by time like the rest of the ground 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:42.920 in the space, someone had dug here. The angle was 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.800 difficult lying down, My shoulders cramped and fingernails got caked 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:47.200 with earth. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:54.399 But finally, yeah, something emerged. It was a holstered gun, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.280 still attached to its owner. 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:01.600 It was at long before I uncovered the black cloth 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:05.280 of a suit coat, tattered and rotten, but still intact. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.879 And it wasn't long after that that I unearthed the 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:13.520 bones ribs vertebrate. 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.879 I traced the coat sleeves to the scalpetal remains of 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:25.080 a hand. There I found a wristwatching a ring, Dad, 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:30.680 what did you do? Most importantly, I noticed there was 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:37.240 something bulging from the inside coat pocket, a small cassette player. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.560 Mostly preserved in the silk. 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.479 Lining in folds of cloth. I crawled back out with 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:45.720 all the contents of the bag. 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:11.760 I set the red. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.680 Scarf down on the passenger seat, I put the nine 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:20.119 millimeter pistol in the club box, and I carefully started 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:20.960 the cassette player. 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:26.879 Joe twenty fourth, two thousand and seven. They captured their monsters. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.199 Dammit what. 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.800 Joe twenty fourth, two thousand and seven, they captured their mossia. 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.760 Yesterday James Fincher was arrested and charged with a double homicide. 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:55.080 And I'm still not satisfied. I drove back up Roots 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.840 seventeen to the caves to take the motion sense of cams. 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.240 This morning. They picked up a few visitors paying respect. 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.320 They left flowers and burned candles at the front of 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:09.440 the cave, but only one visitor looked familiar. The motion 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:14.960 sensor caught him moving through the shadows, no flashlight, and 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.040 the night vision is grainy. But he's a He's a 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:24.320 tall man, beard, baseball recover rolls, scarfed. 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:29.600 He didn't leave any flowers. 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:38.040 First time the camera picked him up was June sixteenth. 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:38.879 Saturday, midnight. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.560 One month after the Hadley Boys went missing, same day 0:21:42.600 --> 0:21:46.280 of the week, same time of day, and here he 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:52.000 is again. One week later, Saturday, June twenty third, midnight 0:21:53.680 --> 0:22:01.200 and he ain't leaving no flowers. Someone's coming up the drive. 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:16.880 Hello, Sheriff, what could you possibly want? And you brought backup, 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:22.320 Sheriff Hooper. 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:24.760 To what do I. 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:25.119 Owe this on? 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:26.800 I'm just here to talk, Solomon. 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:31.080 Oh, we're on first name basis again. Now are we? 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:32.199 Can I come in? 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:35.320 You don't see why not? 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:39.280 I am here as a courtesy Detective Smith. 0:22:39.480 --> 0:22:40.840 Uh huh? 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.200 Go on, Now, we do things a certain way here 0:22:44.240 --> 0:22:45.639 in Pottsfield, Detective. 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:47.399 Yeah, I'm aware. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.919 And you going to the press as a big fucking problem. 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.960 For one thing, it undermines our process. 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.919 It also pains your investigation in a certain light that 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.359 could endanger your ability to put an innocent boy on 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:01.040 death road. 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.719 Goddamn it, Solomon, I know to Solomon, all right, you 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:06.800 listen to me, Detective you are office. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.680 You listen, your spinest motherfucker. You got a boy, a 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:14.320 boy locked up for a crime he didn't fucking commit, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:17.880 says fucking you, And I will continue to investigate. 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.639 Hell you as a private citizen playing with fire boy. 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:25.360 Ah, there it is. 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:28.280 You see. 0:23:29.359 --> 0:23:32.200 It doesn't take much to shake the demons and drive 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:34.040 them into the fire. 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:35.440 Did you say. 0:23:37.400 --> 0:23:40.240 I think that it would be best. 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:42.520 If you move on. 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:45.320 Leave our town. 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:46.320 That a threat. 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:54.880 Let's just say, in Maniwauk County, things happen a certain way. 0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:58.399 Like I said, I'm aware. 0:24:00.440 --> 0:24:06.640 All right, Detective Smith, things happen here to people who 0:24:06.680 --> 0:24:11.160 dig and try as I might, the best I can 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:14.800 do is to curtail those things. 0:24:17.640 --> 0:24:21.280 What the hell are you saying, Kirby, that you can't 0:24:21.320 --> 0:24:22.840 control the good old boy. 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:34.320 No, it's more than that. There's something about this place, 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:39.679 something in the fog. I could never put my finger 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:42.840 on it, even after a whole life spent here, and 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:47.800 god knows I have tried. And it's not just your 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:52.880 normal small town bigotry. I mean, now, obviously that's here too, 0:24:53.000 --> 0:25:02.800 but there's something deeper. It's a rot. Beneath the rot, 0:25:06.080 --> 0:25:12.280 people who try to suss it out, bad things happen. 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:17.479 Look, if you're going to threaten me, just do it. 0:25:17.680 --> 0:25:19.000 That ain't it, Solomon. 0:25:22.200 --> 0:25:26.080 Look I do respect you, Detective Smith, genuinely, I admire you. 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:30.080 And I don't know for sure about the Fencer kid, 0:25:30.400 --> 0:25:33.119 but I do know for sure that he was involved 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:37.240 and all he'd have to do to throw us off 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:42.160 his scent would be to talk. That's it, and he won't. 0:25:42.640 --> 0:25:44.640 And why do you think that is? 0:25:47.160 --> 0:25:50.040 Well, I know what you're thinking, that he's scared of me. 0:25:51.119 --> 0:26:01.240 But Detective, it's more he feels what I do. There's 0:26:01.240 --> 0:26:08.720 something deeper here, something beyond his control and beyond mind. 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:15.560 All I can do is try to keep it in check. 0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:20.360 That's some vague shit, Sheriff. 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:30.200 You haven't felt it, Yeah, yeah, you have. 0:26:33.800 --> 0:26:39.879 Give me one more night, Detective, Sheriff, one more to 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:41.280 tie up a couple of loose ends. 0:26:41.280 --> 0:26:44.520 We visit a few ideas. If I don't find what 0:26:44.600 --> 0:26:49.720 I need, I'll be gone by dawn. Won't even say goodbye. 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:51.360 It'll be like I was never even here. 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:55.200 Where are you gonna go? 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:57.000 You got family somewhere. 0:26:59.600 --> 0:27:02.880 They're all long gone. Only brother died a few years back. 0:27:04.080 --> 0:27:07.280 Our next wife, who hates my guts. 0:27:06.280 --> 0:27:06.760 Been there. 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:09.640 I'll bet. 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:25.119 All right, fine, fine, old billy voodoo bullshit. 0:27:27.000 --> 0:27:42.040 Sorry, Kirby, but I ain't going nowhere. Saturday, June thirtieth, 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:47.480 two thousand and seven, seven twenty am, I'm heading Upstate 0:27:47.560 --> 0:27:56.560 Route seventeen to the Griff Washington property. Richard Rydale couldn't 0:27:56.640 --> 0:28:00.960 hide forever, even in a major metravelers like Atlanta a 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:08.359 concrete jungle. But this is a different environment, this backwater 0:28:08.600 --> 0:28:13.760 delivering shithole. The population of all Man of Walk County 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:15.800 is less than three percent that of Atlanta. 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:23.240