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Murder She Solved S01E04
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00:00Ambulance, what is your emergency?
00:02I need an ambulance.
00:03I just got beat at the back of our bar.
00:05He's bleeding from his nose, his eyes.
00:07He's beaten really bad.
00:09A steel worker out on a Friday night
00:12with his wife and teenage son
00:14takes a trip to the bathroom that turns out to be fatal.
00:18Whoever did this took it away from me.
00:20The victim is found in the back hallway of a blue-collar bar.
00:24He's been savagely kicked and beaten.
00:27They turned on him like, you know, rabid dogs.
00:30Attempts to revive him fail.
00:32I can still taste his blood in my mouth.
00:34Who has committed this brutal attack?
00:37Why was Art Rosendahl targeted?
00:40He was a good brother-in-law, a good father.
00:43Why?
00:57Hamilton, Ontario, a city built on the steel industry.
01:09It's also the home of Art Rosendahl.
01:12Art was your typical Hamilton guy, you know, steel worker.
01:16You know, had a regular blue-collar job and lots of friends.
01:20Art and his wife, Brenda, have made a home for themselves
01:23and their sons, Jordan and Neil, here on Hamilton Hill.
01:27He was very caring.
01:29He had a great sense of humor.
01:31Yeah, he was a very mellow person.
01:33I married my best friend and my lover.
01:36When we first got married, it would be like,
01:38they're the happiest couple in the world.
01:40I took very ill in 1991.
01:43I had a twin aneurysm.
01:44And, like, he performed CPR on me
01:47until the ambulance in the fire department came.
01:50He renew our wedding vows in front of our friends and family
01:53because he said he was blessed to have me still alive.
01:56He adored her, I think.
01:58Made the rest of us look like cavemen.
02:01Our last Valentine's Day,
02:03he was dressed as a knight in shining armor with a chainmail.
02:07And when he did that, I knew how much he loved me.
02:10There was actually one time where my dad took my mom
02:12out into the street in their pajamas,
02:15dancing by the lamppost.
02:17If you are not smiling around him,
02:19then he had to make you laugh.
02:21Art's first love is his family.
02:23But his second love is cars.
02:26Buicks were his thing, old Buicks.
02:28But he always had his boys in the garage with him.
02:31I'd help with sanding and stuff like that.
02:34From an early age, he and I got into cars
02:37and we had an old Valiant here on the farm that had quit.
02:41And Art and I got that thing running
02:43when we were 10 years old, 11 years old.
02:45We actually got the thing to run
02:47and started driving around the farm in it.
02:50He was a good friend to everybody
02:53and that's why it makes it so hard to understand
02:55what did happen to him.
02:57January 14, 2005, a bone chilling minus 16 degrees.
03:04At the end of a long week, Art, Brenda and Neil head out
03:08to O'Grady's, their local pub.
03:10Everybody knew everybody.
03:12It was like a neighborhood bar where you'd go
03:14and you'd at least know two or three or five people.
03:17We didn't go out very much during the week of Christmas,
03:20so we missed a lot of people.
03:22So we decided to go out that night to see friends
03:25that we hadn't seen at Christmas time
03:27and like, you know, have a drink
03:29and talk about what we all thought the year was going to bring.
03:32It started out as a Friday night like any other.
03:35There was a lot of laughter.
03:37We danced and Neil and Art played pool.
03:41He was very good at pool, I can tell you that.
03:43He wouldn't go easy on me, but at times, I know he let me win.
03:47He was thinking about my feelings instead of making me feel like,
03:51oh, darn, I suck.
03:54Around 10.30, Neil leaves to pick up his brother from work.
03:58I ended up chugging one and running out saying,
04:00Dad, I will be back, I'm going to get Jordan.
04:03My dad kept on saying, what, you're pulling out of a good pool game?
04:06Art heads to the bar just as the DJ starts up some tunes.
04:12He was talking with a friend of ours,
04:14so I asked him if he wanted to dance.
04:16He goes, I'll do the next one.
04:18So I got up with a friend,
04:20and we're on the dance floor dancing.
04:22Then he went to the washroom.
04:24The next few moments are a mystery.
04:40I had a waitress come up to me on the dance floor
04:42and told me that Art had been beaten up.
04:44She didn't say how bad.
04:46Brenda is unprepared for what awaits her in the back hallway.
04:50It was a shock, because I was expecting a bloody nose,
04:54not somebody who was laying on the ground,
04:56not moving, not breathing.
04:58We rolled him over.
05:00His face was badly swollen.
05:02His eyes were swollen shut.
05:04He had blood coming out of his mouth, his nose and his left ear.
05:08And he wasn't breathing.
05:10Brenda tries to breathe life into the man she married 20 years before.
05:15I cleared his mouth to breathe for him.
05:17I can still taste his blood in my mouth.
05:19The bartender calls 911.
05:21I need an ambulance.
05:23I got beat at the back of our bar.
05:25He's bleeding from his eyes.
05:27What is the address?
05:29592 Upper James.
05:30Okay.
05:31The guy doesn't have a pulse anymore.
05:33Constable Michelle Berry is one of the first officers to head to the scene.
05:38You're just thinking you're going and it's another simple disturbance at a bar.
05:43You don't realize what you've got until you get there.
05:46She arrives to find paramedics desperately trying to jumpstart the victim's dying heart.
05:52At that point, we had an officer that had already been with the victim.
05:56Even though we deal with, you know, crimes on a day-to-day basis,
05:59it still affects us emotionally as people knowing that, you know, you attend there,
06:04you're giving an innocent victim CPR and he doesn't make it.
06:08It's traumatic.
06:09At 11.14 PM, Arthur Rosendahl is pronounced dead.
06:15He is 44 years old.
06:22In Hamilton, Canada's steel town, Art Rosendahl, a steel worker and a 44-year-old father of two,
06:30heads out for a typical Friday night with his family and friends at their local pub.
06:37While his wife, Brenda, takes a turn on the dance floor, Art goes to the bathroom and never returns.
06:45Art Rosendahl is found bleeding and motionless in the back hallway of the bar.
06:51Brenda tries to breathe life back into her husband, but he's pronounced dead at 11.14 PM.
06:59What happened in those few minutes in the bathroom that would provoke this ruthless and fatal attack?
07:06The assault against Art Rosendahl has now become a case for the homicide unit.
07:11Staff Sergeant Peter Abhi Reshed will oversee the investigation.
07:15Once the words homicide were said, I realized that we got to get things going.
07:20To find out who's responsible, the police need to piece together what happened at the bar that night.
07:26And with over 50 witness statements to take, it's a challenge.
07:31Detective Greg Jackson pours through each of them.
07:34When I heard about what had happened and the fact that his wife was there and had tried to perform CPR on him, I was shocked.
07:42The priority for police is to find someone who witnessed the deadly attack.
07:48The bar was full. There's a lot of people there drinking and having a good time. Unfortunately, where it actually occurred, it was in a small hallway towards the back of the premises.
07:56The hallway to the bathroom is far from the eyes of the bar patrons.
08:01What happened in that back hallway? Did it start in the bathroom?
08:10No one knows where it started.
08:12Out in the bar, people are having a good time until one man heads into the back hallway.
08:21This eyewitness sees Art Rosendahl down on the ground, surrounded by three black men.
08:27Two of them are attacking him while one stands back and watches.
08:31He's taking blows to the head and he's being kicked and stomped on the back.
08:36Art is a big man, but he's defenseless against this attack.
08:40The person who saw Arthur in the back hallway described him as being almost in a, I guess you call it a fetal or a turtle position, trying to protect yourself as best you can.
08:51Art can only curl up and hope for an end to the assault.
08:55You got one person who's trying to protect themselves and you got two people that we can say for sure are kicking and stomping on the person.
09:04The eyewitness tries to stop one of the men, who wears a vicious looking metal grill in his mouth.
09:10He's kicking him in the head and he kicks him twice in the head. He actually kicks him the one time and then Mr. Eckhart says to him, I think he's had enough and then he gives another kick in the head.
09:18The man with the grill pushes the eyewitness against the wall and then the men flee.
09:24Though only one person saw the attack, many people in the bar had noticed the men.
09:30Apparently, you couldn't miss them.
09:33They're boisterous, they're loud. They had that attitude of, you know, the tough guys in the bar.
09:39The three men had actually been playing pool at the table next to Art and his son.
09:44The only words that we had with them were, would you like to take a shot? Are we in your way?
09:50Later in the evening, the men would argue amongst themselves just before they went into the bathroom.
09:56There was what appeared to be a dispute amongst the individuals, not Mr. Rosendahl.
10:02No one has any answers as to why Art Rosendahl became the target of the men's violence and rage.
10:09This was a brutal, brutal, vicious attack that made no sense whatsoever.
10:14To try to make sense of it, Abi Reshed calls in veteran detective Mike Maloney, who takes on the role of primary investigator.
10:23That evening, it was Peter on the phone. And typical Peter says, we got one.
10:29Or it's on your way and you're thinking, oh, geez, what has gone on? What has happened?
10:33These are the things that go through your mind as you're driving in.
10:37He will dig deep to see if there is more to this homicide than meets the eye.
10:42Was it mere coincidence that put Art in the bathroom with his attackers?
10:47My first instinct would be, was it a drug deal gone bad?
10:51At the station, Maloney has some tough questions for Brenda and her son Neil.
10:57You want to ask everything. Is your husband a drug user?
11:00Did you know these people? Did Art have anybody who didn't like him?
11:04Would he be one to start a fight? Why do you think that they did it?
11:07Maloney wants to know why Neil left the bar right before Art was attacked.
11:12Why did you leave?
11:14Mike can be very in your face when the time calls for it.
11:19They actually kept on asking me why I left in several different questions.
11:24Like they were trying to catch me slip or say something wrong.
11:28You have to get the information.
11:30Maybe Brenda Rosendahl had a motive.
11:33Were there money problems or relationship issues?
11:37Considering a wife who watched her husband take his last breath,
11:40she was quite competent with all of her answers and everything that was going on.
11:43I was kind of amazed by how she handled it.
11:47Maloney ratchets up the pressure to test her.
11:51Are you sure you had nothing to do with this?
11:53Could Brenda have hired the killers?
11:56I looked at my two sisters. I said, they think I had something to do with this.
12:01So we do have to ask those hard questions.
12:03And after hours of interviewing, Mike Maloney's gut tells him the family had nothing to do with Art's death.
12:10This lady's just watched her husband die and she has to answer that question for me.
12:15You feel for them and it's a very awkward situation.
12:21So I think through interviewing her and her son, we understood that this was just something that took place.
12:27Here was a fellow that was a hardworking contributor to society.
12:31And basically somewhere there, everything went bad.
12:34With the family ruled out, detectives conclude the murder is chillingly random.
12:40They're pretty, let's put it this way, very hard to solve when they're random.
12:46There's no pattern. There's no place to start. We need somewhere to start.
12:50And also for the public, it's random. It could be you, myself. It could be anyone.
12:56It's after midnight in Steel Town. Just a couple of hours since Art Rosendahl was brutally beaten to death at a roadhouse in Hamilton, Ontario.
13:11Friends and family there with him had no idea Art was being attacked in the back hallway of the bar.
13:18He went to the washroom and never came home.
13:20The lone witness to the beating describes two black men mercilessly kicking the victim while a third looked on.
13:27The police can find no personal motive behind the killing and have deemed this a random attack.
13:34With no motive and no leads, it's hope that forensic detective Annette Hughes can dig up some clues.
13:41My co-workers lovingly call me Forensic Barbie. In the 175 years of the Hamilton Police Service, I'm the first and only female that they've ever had in the forensic unit.
13:53And this will be her first case as lead forensic investigator.
13:58You want to have that opportunity for the first time to put all your skills to the test. And when you're the lead on homicide, you're definitely putting your skills to the test.
14:09You don't want to make a mistake because a mistake affects your victim's family.
14:14It's your average, normal family. And to know that, you know, their routine of a Friday night could turn into a nightmare. For me personally, it pulls on your heartstrings.
14:25It's 11.45 p.m., just half an hour since Art Rosendahl's murder. Annette Hughes heads to the hospital to collect evidence from the victim. In this case, it could be a particular challenge.
14:38Knowing when a victim's going to the hospital, they're being transported in an ambulance, they're going into an emergency room, there's a lot of opportunity for evidence to get lost.
14:49So we were directed into the trauma area where he was taken. We took photographs and collected the clothing that had already been removed from him.
15:00Anytime there's an altercation, there's an opportunity for the victim to maybe scratch, punch, grab hair. And what we do is we take sterile bags and secure them over top of the hands.
15:14The pathologist at the morgue does a full examination of the body, bruising at the neck, the face, the chest. X-rays reveal three broken ribs, injuries consistent with an eyewitness account that Art had been repeatedly kicked.
15:30Then something unexpected. Prominent and oddly shaped bruises on Art's back and side.
15:37There are actually two marks that were unusual or we couldn't quite figure out how they were caused. One was in the middle of his back and it was two concentric circles with these lines around the circles.
15:49The other area was on his side and it was a series of clear lines.
15:55Those markings on his back were a little puzzling, a little confusing. They weren't consistent to what an assault would have caused. When we have something in front of us that we can't explain right away, we have to put some effort into getting that answer.
16:09I want to know, how did that bruise get there and what caused it?
16:13If the mark remains unidentified, it could raise questions about the cause of death and get in the way of proving murder.
16:20Definitely we need an answer for court.
16:23Annette Hughes goes to the bar to search for the source of the bruise and other forensic evidence. The crime scene is being recorded on police videotape.
16:32This is my first opportunity to see the crime scene. We call it a walk through. There were several beer mugs, shot glasses. That was really important evidence for us to collect.
16:43The attackers didn't have the knowledge or the forethought to think, we got to wipe off these beer bottles and get rid of them before we leave.
16:51Any beer bottle, any drink container, any shot glasses put up to someone's mouth and we know we're going to get DNA from it.
16:59Hughes checks out the hallway where the attack on Art Rosendahl occurred.
17:03There was EMS debris, some gloves, cigarette butts.
17:08Hughes scrutinizes everything, looking for what could have caused the unusual bruising on Art's back.
17:14We were thinking maybe something he was pushed against, fallen against at the scene might have caused the injuries.
17:21There were a couple of doorways in the back hallway with door knobs that we thought maybe could explain the circular pattern.
17:29But the cause of the bruise remains elusive.
17:32Nothing. Nothing at all. No, it was frustrating.
17:36Then Hughes finds something in the hallway that could be a key piece of evidence.
17:41There was a broken chain with a dog tag that said Damien P on it.
17:48And just from where it was located in the hallway, I mean, one would naturally assume that it had been pulled from someone in the struggle.
17:57In his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, steel worker Art Rosendahl has been beaten to death in a blue collar bar.
18:05His wife's attempts to save him have failed.
18:08I can still taste his blood in my mouth.
18:10His body tells a brutal tale, one that contains many questions.
18:16Those markings on his back were a little puzzling, a little confusing.
18:21Only one man witnessed the brutal assault by three black men.
18:25But many bar patrons had seen them earlier that night and are able to provide descriptions.
18:31As the city sleeps, dozens of officers continue to prowl the streets looking for the suspects.
18:37One of whom wore a distinctive dental grill, according to an eyewitness.
18:41But prospects for finding these men are slim to none.
18:46Usually when they run away from the first arrival of the police, you don't catch them.
18:53Shane Groombridge is among the many officers scouring the city in search of the assailants.
18:59So I responded to the area, searched for them for approximately half an hour.
19:03I couldn't find them.
19:04So I parked my vehicle at Brantdale and West Fifth.
19:08At this point, I didn't feel the suspects were still in the area.
19:11I figured that the suspects had plenty of time to make their escape.
19:15Groombridge is thinking about heading back to the station when he sees a potential suspect.
19:20I observed a six-foot black male wearing dark clothing.
19:24At that point, I noticed he had a silver grill with his top teeth.
19:28Was this the assailant with the distinctive gangster accessory?
19:32In Hamilton, it was very rare.
19:34And when the officer came across him, there's the grills.
19:38When Groombridge asks for ID, all hell breaks loose.
19:42He basically asked me if he was under arrest.
19:44And I immediately said yes, because from experience, if someone asks you that question,
19:48you don't arrest them, they're going to flee.
19:50And he struggled.
19:51So I grabbed hold of the shoulder, and he just pulled back.
19:54And the next thing, we're struggling.
19:56We're on the ground, rolling.
19:59And I was able to get on the telephone and get his arms pinned down.
20:02Backup arrives, and the suspect is taken into custody.
20:06Cairo Sparks, a 23-year-old from nearby Kitchener, Waterloo.
20:11Hotel 352, suspect under arrest.
20:1310-4.
20:15Sparks is put in holding, but the staff sergeant has his doubts about whether they've got the right guy.
20:21It did not make sense.
20:23This was some time after the actual assault, and yet he's arrested within a block of where it occurred.
20:31For someone to do this kind of damage to another human and then stay within the air was unusual.
20:37If Sparks is innocent, he should have nothing to hide.
20:41Annette Hughes requests his clothing to test for forensic evidence.
20:45My normal procedure is to go in, introduce myself.
20:49I'm in the forensic unit. I'm going to need to take your clothing.
20:53But Sparks refuses to let her near his clothes.
20:56You can forget it, bitch. It's not happening.
20:59And he started to come towards me in the cell area.
21:03And I felt like I just got out in time.
21:06And he was spitting, kicking, punching, hitting the door, yelling.
21:11Yeah, he was out of control.
21:13Even when we told him that we were going to use a taser if necessary, he said, bring it on. It doesn't scare me.
21:20We opened the door. He charged at the officers. He was tasered. He went down quite rapidly.
21:25As soon as he was disengaged, he became violent again. He was warned. He was tasered again.
21:30The bottom metal plate from his mouth come tumbling out across the cell floor and sort of right to my feet.
21:40So that was the first piece of evidence that I collected from him.
21:44And he finally complied and we took his clothing.
21:47Hughes then thinks she knows why Sparks didn't want to comply.
21:51She's handed a pair of very incriminating shoes.
21:54I looked at the shoes and just from my experience, what I was seeing on the shoes was blood.
22:00I figured that the blood that's on the shoes that I'm looking at is the victim's blood.
22:06She'll have to wait for DNA testing to find out if she's right.
22:10Hopefully it's Art's blood. We'll get a DNA match.
22:13I thought, perfect. We've got evidence to this assault right on his shoes.
22:18Abhi Reshed and Maloney now pay Cairo Sparks a visit.
22:22He is charged with second degree murder.
22:25Perhaps that may cause him to utter something to us.
22:29With the eyewitness report and the blood on the shoes, police hope to leverage a confession out of Sparks.
22:36Maybe he'll give up the other two men who were in the hallway.
22:39But Sparks has nothing to say.
22:42It's basically the attitude of prove it.
22:45I didn't do it. It wasn't there.
22:49But proving it might be harder than any of the detectives can anticipate.
22:55Hamilton, Ontario. January 15, 2005.
23:04The morning after the brutal murder of Art Rosendahl, a husband and father.
23:10The Hamilton Homicide Unit has questioned and cleared the family.
23:14Police believe that Art Rosendahl did not know his attackers.
23:18The murder was frighteningly random.
23:21It could be you, myself. It could be anyone.
23:24The motive remains a mystery.
23:26And though there is one suspect in custody, he isn't talking.
23:30And two other men seen by an eyewitness are still at large.
23:37The next morning, when Brenda Rosendahl wakes, everything seems normal for a fleeting moment.
23:43I got up in the morning, and I put on the tea kettle, and I actually made two cups of tea.
23:48That's when I realized what actually really did happen to Art, because he wasn't there.
23:53And that he was not coming home.
23:55At 7 o'clock, Brenda begins calling Art's best friends.
24:02I couldn't believe it. It took me a long time to even accept it.
24:08The time right after Art died in the next few days is more of a blank than anything.
24:13It doesn't take much to well up the emotions.
24:20Then she calls the foreman at the mill to tell him Art won't be coming into work.
24:25They said, is he sick? I said, no, he's dead. And the phone just dropped.
24:30Before long, all of Hamilton will know about the murder of Art Rosendahl.
24:36The neighborhood has been shaken by this murder.
24:39Oh, it's devastated. Nice, quiet neighborhood.
24:42And whoever did this took it away from me.
24:44Hamilton police have a 22-year-old man in custody, charged with second-degree murder.
24:49But they're still on the lookout for the two remaining suspects.
24:52The other person they've been looking for, he would have known, if he was in Hamilton,
24:56that his friend, Cairo Sparks, was arrested that night.
24:59He would have heard that on the news.
25:00So, the answer is, leave the city.
25:04The police continue to pursue their strongest suspect, Cairo Sparks.
25:09If they can build their case against him, perhaps he'll give up his associates.
25:14Annette Hughes works the forensic evidence.
25:17All the exhibits that he sees from the crime scene, you know, once they're photographed, collected,
25:22I get them back into our lab.
25:24And each exhibit, depending on what it is, I go through a process of the best way to deal with the evidence.
25:30And I collected several fingerprints, one from the shot glass.
25:34There are a couple of fingerprints on a beer mug.
25:37To her surprise, Cairo's fingerprints do not match any found at the crime scene.
25:43We follow avenues of the investigation and some things work out and some things just don't.
25:50Meanwhile, witnesses are asked to identify Cairo Sparks in a photo array.
25:56As per police protocol, Sparks' mug shot is neutral and he's not smiling.
26:01The distinctive metal grills in his mouth are not visible.
26:05Photo array are not always successful.
26:07Some witnesses cannot remember or don't want to remember or don't want to get involved.
26:12Cairo Sparks is not identified.
26:15It's a concern for us that we can't identify him in the bar.
26:19When he wasn't picked out, it was sort of, um, send us back a bit reeling.
26:24Now police are relying on the Center for Forensic Sciences to fast track the blood work on Sparks' boot.
26:31You're hounding the forensic scientists and you're saying,
26:34look it, this is big, you know.
26:36We need to know whether this is Mr. Rosendahl's DNA.
26:40But another blow is dealt.
26:43And then all of a sudden you get knocked down again and they said, no, it's not.
26:47The blood on Sparks' boot does not belong to Art Rosendahl.
26:51Police are confounded by the lack of solid evidence.
26:55Their instincts are telling them that Sparks was one of the three men in the bar.
27:00Right off the beginning, we had a gentleman arrested a short distance,
27:06matching description, has teeth grills on.
27:09From the moment police first encountered Cairo Sparks, he has behaved as if he's guilty.
27:15He was just aggressive from the word go, right from the time the officer approached him on the street,
27:22right to the point where we had to use some extra force to seize evidence for a murder,
27:28to write down, taking him downstairs into our holding cells.
27:32Unless more evidence comes in, the police will have to drop the charges against Cairo Sparks.
27:39The Hamilton police request intel from their colleagues in Kitchener, Sparks' hometown, just an hour away.
27:46Monday morning, when their intelligence officers came in, they did a whole background study,
27:52he belongs to a street gang here in Kitchener, the Kings.
27:55They are one of the bigger gangs, they're violent, they deal with drugs,
27:59and they have a symbol that they like to flash and let people know that the Kings are here.
28:05Cairo Sparks is one of the Kings, so maybe other members of the gang were there with him at the bar that night.
28:11So we started asking for associates and gave them descriptions and right away,
28:16the first officer said, well, the other fellow would be Corey McCloud.
28:20Corey McCloud is a gang member with a record for assault who rolls with Cairo Sparks.
28:26This new information might reinvigorate the investigation.
28:31Now it was, where's Corey McCloud?
28:34We start looking and when I talk to the security manager at the Hamilton Detention Center,
28:40he runs the names and says, well, Corey McCloud is up at Maplehurst.
28:45So immediately we're like, oh, I guess it's not Corey McCloud. He's doing time.
28:50Another dead end. And with each passing day, the case grows colder.
28:55Hamilton, Ontario. Detectives toil to catch the assailants who beat Art Rosendahl to death.
29:04Only one man is in custody, Cairo Sparks.
29:08Though Sparks matches an eyewitness description, the police have no other evidence against him.
29:14It's a concern for us that we can't identify him in the bar.
29:18The man Sparks is known to roll with, Corey McCloud, is in jail.
29:22So it seems that he is not a viable suspect.
29:25The case seems to be going cold before Art Rosendahl is even buried.
29:30Four days after the murder, 200 people attend Art's funeral.
29:39There's always the usual vigilante talk and yeah, there was a lot of anger.
29:45I want them to be found. So they don't do that to anybody else.
29:49These, for lack of a better term, punks can take a man's life away.
29:54That certainly didn't deserve.
29:57The homicide unit is feeling the pressure.
30:00The Hamilton public was outraged as to what happened that particular night.
30:06A lot of media attention and a lot of get those guys.
30:10The police asked the family to make an appeal to the public.
30:14If there's somebody out there with a little bit more information, please come forward.
30:18If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers.
30:21The Crime Stoppers' plea generates a flood of tips.
30:24We're getting people calling us, trying to help us.
30:27Most of the tips lead nowhere.
30:29But then, there's a call that pays off.
30:32Someone called in Crime Stoppers and said,
30:34Two in the afternoon on Friday, I saw two guys fitting the description at the No Frills at Upper James and Mohawk.
30:41Right in the vicinity of O'Grady's on the afternoon of the murder.
30:45We went to the No Frills store.
30:47We looked through all their video.
30:49Avi Rochette spots Cairo Sparks, and with him is his close associate.
30:54Sure enough, there is Mr. McLeod.
30:58We brought it up to Kitchener Waterloo, and they said,
31:01Oh yeah, that's Corey McLeod.
31:02Great footage.
31:03And what's hanging from his neck?
31:05Dog tags.
31:07Corey McLeod not only wears dog tags, he has a nickname, Damien P.
31:14We've received information that the dog tags with Damien P.
31:18was given to him by an ex-girlfriend.
31:20And though Corey McLeod is now in jail for another crime,
31:24on the day of the murder, he was at large.
31:27We found that the day he turned himself in was the day after this happened.
31:30So he was out at the time when Arthur was beaten and murdered.
31:34Corey turned himself in on an outstanding warrant that he had from Kitchener,
31:38basically the next day on the 15th.
31:41So he said, what better place to hide than in jail?
31:44It almost worked.
31:45Now it's up to Annette Hughes to put McLeod at the scene of the crime.
31:49Waterloo had dealt with McLeod and had his fingerprints on their system.
31:54And I took what we had there, did my fingerprint comparison,
32:00and I knew 100% that it was him.
32:04The evidence puts McLeod at the bar.
32:07If the broken dog tag contains his DNA,
32:10it will link him to the beating of art in the back hallway.
32:14I thought there was a really strong likelihood that we could get DNA from the chain.
32:18So now we're starting to get a picture, we're starting to shape this investigation.
32:22McLeod's is associated with Cairo.
32:24They're both from Kitchener.
32:26The description of McLeod and Cairo and the bar seem possible.
32:30So it's starting to come together.
32:32But what's the motive?
32:34Maloney wants to know what the men were doing in Hamilton that night.
32:38Let's see who's visiting Cairo in jail.
32:42He's had two visitors, two girls.
32:44One said they were the girlfriend of Cairo,
32:46and the other one said just a friend.
32:48Katrina McLennan, Cairo's girlfriend, rents an apartment in Hamilton.
32:53You find out the address is on Upper James,
32:56which is like within 500 feet of the O'Grady's bar that connects.
33:02And her roommate, Sherry Foreman, is involved with Corey McLeod.
33:07So we wanted to go up and see them, and we had met them,
33:10and they basically had no respect for the police.
33:13The girls claim to know nothing.
33:15I still am shocked that they didn't break down, cry, crack under pressure.
33:21Basically, we got nowhere with them other than we know them from Kitchener,
33:26but they've never been to our apartment in Hamilton.
33:28The police don't believe them.
33:30Our fella had seen two black guys jump over a fence,
33:33which basically backs on to the apartment where the girls live.
33:36Greg and I actually said, let's go up and put some pressure on the parents of the girls.
33:41Maybe the parents will say, hey, you've got to tell the police what they want to know.
33:45You've got to tell them the truth.
33:47Sherry's parents tell police the girls are vacating their suite as they speak.
33:52Police head directly to the apartment building.
33:56They had moved out. Katrina's dad had come down and packed up her stuff.
34:01They thought, ah, you know, there's the valley. Ah, we didn't get here in time.
34:05It seems any evidence that may have been in the apartment is now lost.
34:09But the building super tells police the girls didn't quite take everything with them.
34:14He says, but there's some garbage bags out back.
34:16The detectives get down to some dirty work.
34:19So, like, all the years on the job, I've gone through more garbage.
34:22I said, oh, great, more garbage. Okay, bring it in, we'll go through it.
34:26I think it was the first bag we went through,
34:28and there was bills and receipts to identify that it was Katrina's stuff in her garbage.
34:34I got a call from the guys. They were downstairs in our security garage and said,
34:39I grabbed your camera. You might want to come down here and see something.
34:43In the garbage bag, a pair of shoes. Detective Hughes flips one over.
34:48As soon as I saw it, I just knew. I knew that was the cause of the injuries on Art Rosendahl.
34:55The tread on the sole of the shoe is an exact match for the bruise on Art Rosendahl's back.
35:01I think what she did was amazing. This bruising on Art's back, but they couldn't tell what it was.
35:07And she figured it out was the boot print.
35:10The pattern on the bottom of the shoes explained everything. It was like the heavens opened up.
35:16That's a murder weapon. That's what we looked at as.
35:20In Hamilton, Ontario, it's been one month since Art Rosendahl was murdered in a bar.
35:31Two men were seen kicking and beating the victim, and the third was present during the attack.
35:36Police are holding Cairo Sparks on the charge of second degree murder.
35:41A second suspect, Corey McLeod, is in jail for another crime.
35:45So far, the police don't have the forensic evidence they need to prove murder.
35:50We have a real good circumstantial case, which in a homicide may not be the weight you need.
35:57They are counting on running shoes found in the garbage to solidify their case.
36:02We had the item that caused the injuries on his back, and we knew that whoever was wearing those shoes was responsible for doing them.
36:12In my opinion, it was huge.
36:14If the DNA in the shoes can be identified, there will be concrete evidence against at least one of the perpetrators of this vicious attack.
36:23There's always an opportunity to get wear DNA from shoes.
36:28Sometimes it can be difficult if someone always wears their socks.
36:32On the basis of the shoes, police searched the new homes of the suspect's girlfriends, looking for more evidence.
36:39We found a duffel bag up in Cherry's room, and in that duffel bag are some clothing and a writing book or doodle book that she says.
36:49It's Corey's stuff.
36:50The bag contains a letter with the word red rum and a disturbing sketch.
36:56It was one of those things where it seems like time stops.
37:00I was looking down at a sketch of three stick figures with crowns, and it appeared that they were stomping another figure on the ground.
37:11Here's a picture of what they did to art that night in a drawing book in McLeod's bag.
37:17So here's that connection.
37:19The sketch suggests an intent to kill.
37:22It's either you drew it and that's what you intended to do to somebody, or you drew it after because you're basically bragging to yourself, look what we did.
37:30And it's also a reminder that the third man in the attack is still at large.
37:37Katrina McLennan and Sherry Foreman are arrested as accessories after the fact to murder.
37:43I think in their eyes they were doing the right thing, they were being loyal to their men.
37:49And Annette Hughes gets the long-awaited test results that put Cairo Sparks at the scene of the crime.
37:56His DNA is on a drinking glass.
37:59Every court case that I've been to in recent years, I think a jury would be shocked if we didn't have some sort of DNA evidence.
38:07Now, can forensics prove the case against McLeod?
38:11The DNA test shows conclusively that the dog tag is his.
38:16But it also reveals other vital evidence, the DNA of someone else.
38:22CFS was able to not only get Corey's DNA off of the dog tag, but also Art Rosendahl's.
38:29Art somehow must have grabbed the dog tags during the struggle.
38:35But the most incriminating piece of evidence is from the shoes.
38:39DNA results prove the shoe that caused the distinctive bruising on Art's back belonged to Corey McLeod.
38:46I can't even imagine how much force it would take to basically take the pattern off the bottom of your shoe and put it on somebody's body.
38:54That just shows the trauma and the force used to assault him.
38:59They had to know the damage that they were causing.
39:02They may have even had to know that you can kill somebody by doing this.
39:07It's game over for the man known as Damien P.
39:11Corey McLeod is charged on March 9th, 2005.
39:15But the police still don't have a complete picture of the murder.
39:20Key questions remain like, who was the third man?
39:24A paid informant with ties to the gang provides police with the name of a young offender who watched but was not part of the attack.
39:32Could he have done more? Could he have gone for help or had them stop? Perhaps.
39:37But we felt that those two adults that actually inflicted those blows to Art were the ones responsible for his death.
39:45Finally, the police want to know why Art Rosendahl was murdered.
39:50The informant provides the elusive motive.
39:53Out in the pool area earlier, two black guys were arguing with each other.
39:58Somehow it carries on into the washroom.
40:00Mr. Rosendahl, we believe, walked into the washroom as they were arguing.
40:05He tried to calm the situation down inadvertently.
40:08And anybody would do this was to, you know, put your hand on someone's arm.
40:14He put his hand on Cairo's shoulder and said, hey, we don't need this, guys.
40:18The instant that Mr. Rosendahl touched one of those individuals, to them was a sign of disrespect.
40:24With that, Cairo turned around and started hitting him.
40:28We know there's a struggle.
40:30That dog take, you know, whether it was a grab of desperation or if he was, you know, trying to push him back.
40:37Cory jumped in and they laid the boots to him.
40:39It paints a very violent picture of his last minute.
40:43They turned on him like, you know, rabid dogs.
40:47When he was down on his stomach, then that's when they were kicking and stomping and, you know, jumping on his back.
40:55That's what it was. It was, he disrespected me.
41:04The police have worked hard to build a case for second degree murder.
41:08But if they can't prove intent, the perpetrators could get away with it.
41:13Bar fight usually ends up being a manslaughter charge.
41:17You have to show the intent.
41:19Fights end up being very hard to prove that it was an actual murder.
41:24It's not about the truth. It's about the proof.
41:26Can you prove intent?
41:28Can we prove intent in court?
41:30It's a scary proposition.
41:31You may have to roll the dice.
41:34What are we going to do here?
41:35Take a plea to manslaughter because we know we've got a conviction or do we push for second degree?
41:43The defense offers up a guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter.
41:47The Crown accepts.
41:49Sparks and McLeod are sentenced to 11 years, close to the maximum.
41:58It's a year before anyone touches Art's locker at the steel mill.
42:02There's a picture of Art that one of the fellows did a portrait hanging on a wall.
42:06Every time you walk around the corner and you see that thing, it's like somebody gives you a kick in the chest.
42:11He was always a peacemaker. Always wanted people to get along.
42:16Art's youngest son has taken on the restoration of his 67 Buick.
42:22The car in the garage. Maybe one day the car will be done. Then I'll drive it. Then I'll drive it right down to Woodland Cemetery and show that she's done.
42:33For Art's loved ones, 11 years for manslaughter is an insufficient penalty.
42:43Anything less than a murder charge just wasn't acceptable to any of us.
42:47He was my love of my life. And some asshole, pardon the language, took that from me.
42:52There is no closure. You could get 25 years for the person that killed your loved one. That will still not be enough.
42:58There it goes.
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