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00:05In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups.
00:11The police who investigate crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.
00:15These are their stories.
00:19Hey, it's me.
00:21Listen, I really need...
00:23I just need to talk to you.
00:26Call me back.
00:27Please.
00:31Call me back.
01:08Call me back.
01:10I don't know.
01:50The cause of death is a single gunshot to the head.
01:53Recovered a 9mm casing on the floor.
01:55You know her Vick's name?
01:56Natalie Wallace.
01:57She owns the Brownstone.
01:58According to neighbors, she was single, lived alone.
02:01Neighbor's the one who called it in?
02:02Negative.
02:03Shot-spotted device detected the sound of a gunshot and alerted central.
02:06The car was dispatched, saw the front door open, and found the body.
02:11AI gets it right for once.
02:13MLI recovered several strands of hair on the victim's body.
02:16All right, well, let's make sure we get those to the lab.
02:19Looks like we got signs of forced entry.
02:21Anything indicating a robbery?
02:22Not that we can tell.
02:23Phone and wallet are present and accounted for.
02:26All right, Walker, anything up here?
02:28Plenty easy to grab electronics laying around.
02:31Laptops, speakers.
02:33Whatever that thing is.
02:34Dude, it's a 3D printer.
02:36Oh.
02:38Well, whatever our Vick did for a living, looks like she made some pretty good money.
02:42According to LinkedIn, Natalie Wallace is a chief engineer for a company called Utomnia.
02:48Yeah, it's surveillance software.
02:50We use those guys to get geofencing warrants.
02:53They're like Big Brother.
02:53They got eyes and ears everywhere.
02:55Okay, so assuming she's good at her job, her killer should be easy to find.
03:51We've got your message.
03:51What's up?
03:52We've been processing your crime scene, and there's something I need to show you.
03:56We attempted to access the data from Natalie Wallace and some security cameras.
04:01Okay, is there something I'm missing here?
04:03Yeah, about three hours worth of footage from last night.
04:06Deleted from her hard drive and the cloud backup.
04:09Let me guess, the missing footage overlaps perfectly with the time she was murdered, huh?
04:12So you called us down here to show us, you got nothing to show us?
04:15It's not just her security system, her tablet, her smart fridge, her Bluetooth speakers.
04:20Every piece of data from last night has been scrubbed.
04:23I've never seen anything like it, and it's not just in her house.
04:27I mean, even the street cams on her block were wiped.
04:30Wait, how is that even possible?
04:32Well, it looks like whoever did it gained access to the city's mainframe by exploiting a backdoor glitch that until
04:37now we didn't even know was there.
04:38So whoever murdered her was either an expert hacker or paid someone who is to cover their tracks.
04:43Looks like finding her killer is not going to be so easy after all.
04:46We were able to recover her texts from the cloud.
04:52All right, so the last text she sent was to a Vanessa Barrett, only a few minutes before she was
04:57killed.
04:58Call me ASAP. I need to talk to you.
05:02That sounds urgent.
05:07We worked together at, uh, Utomnia.
05:11I was the chief technology officer.
05:16Why don't you take a seat?
05:17Technically, I was her boss, but, um, it should have been the other way around.
05:21She's really talented.
05:23Looks like you got out of the security game, huh?
05:25Yeah.
05:26I, uh, sorry.
05:28I came over here a year ago to take the CTO position.
05:33Um, we are a startup trying to create efficiencies in, in the women's healthcare space.
05:41And you and Natalie stayed in touch?
05:42Mm-hmm.
05:43Yeah, we're, uh, friends.
05:46Good friends.
05:47Hey, do you have any idea what that text might have been about?
05:52No, I, she left me a voicemail, too, saying the same thing, that, uh, that she needed to
06:00talk to me.
06:01I hadn't had a chance to respond.
06:03I was flying home from a conference in Sweden.
06:06I, um, I landed late last night.
06:09Are you aware of any problems she was having?
06:12Anyone who might have wanted to hurt her?
06:15She, she did go through a bad breakup, um, a few months ago with a guy, uh, named Patrick.
06:23He works in cyber security.
06:26Uh, she dumped him.
06:27I guess he didn't take it well.
06:28And, uh, she, she told me that he said some pretty terrible things.
06:37When was the last time you spoke to her?
06:39Three months ago.
06:40She asked me to leave her alone, and I respected her wishes.
06:43Truth is, she had major trust issues with men.
06:47But she came by them honestly.
06:49What does that mean?
06:50Before she worked for Utomnia, Natalie was a video game designer.
06:53A few years back, she got a lot of hate online.
06:57Gaming Gators?
06:58Yeah.
06:59Help me out here.
07:00Bunch of video game bro types started going after prominent women who worked in the industry.
07:05Attacking them online.
07:06You know about this stuff, huh?
07:08I'm a single man in his 30s.
07:10I play a lot of video games.
07:12I did some digging online.
07:14Found a Reddit thread of Gamergate dude still trolling our Vic.
07:17All these years later, these guys are still mag?
07:20Because why?
07:21Because ladies like to play video games too?
07:23Yeah.
07:23A bunch of grown-ass men hanging out a sign on their clubhouse that says,
07:26Girl's not allowed.
07:27I mean, it's the lamest thing I ever heard.
07:28Yeah, some of these women had to change their identities.
07:30Move to new towns.
07:31How does it even get to that level?
07:33Incels.
07:34Getting on their headsets, hyping each other up.
07:37And these are your people, huh?
07:38Mm-mm.
07:39I play solo, dog.
07:40Check it out.
07:42A user named Tanner Lavelle threatened Natalie three days ago.
07:46And according to his profile, he lives in Queens.
07:50Calls himself a master hacker.
08:05Let's try around back.
08:18You hit it?
08:19Yeah.
08:50Hey, P.D., turn around.
08:51Put your hands in the air.
08:52Put your hands up!
08:54Drop that weapon!
08:55Don't shoot!
08:55It's not a weapon!
09:02Yo, what the hell, man?
09:18Natalie Wallace walks around thinking she knows what's up.
09:22Let's see how mouthy the bitch is when she feels the cold metal of my Glock on her forehead.
09:56You own a Glock, Tanner?
09:56She posted this photo of you.
09:58Oh, I love this.
09:59This is a real man the way a Chihuahua is a real guard dog.
10:02I mean, that's funny.
10:03Must be why I got over 30,000 likes.
10:05Mm-mm.
10:06She humiliated you, huh?
10:08Owned you in front of your insult buddies.
10:09No, we know that you knew where she lived, Harry.
10:12You posted it online, you piece of crap.
10:14Okay, okay!
10:15But I never went there.
10:17Really?
10:17No!
10:18No, I wanted to.
10:21Look, look, I hated that slut, but, but, but, but, but, but...
10:24Hey, watch yourself.
10:27Every time when I tried to work up the nerve to even go, I couldn't.
10:33I chickened out.
10:35Where were you last night around 1130?
10:38I was playing in the Magic, the gathering tournament.
10:41I made it to the last round, and I didn't get out until after midnight.
10:48I spoke to the tournament organizer.
10:50Tanner Lavelle's alibi is legit.
10:53That tracks.
10:54While you were doing that, the lab results came in.
10:56Hair on the Vic belongs to a Caucasian male.
10:59So we're looking for a white guy.
11:01Uh, guys?
11:03Something's happening.
11:04What's going on?
11:05I was going through the Vic's emails when all of a sudden a bunch of them just started disappearing.
11:09Look.
11:11What's happening right now?
11:12I think someone might be remotely deleting them.
11:14Can you stop it?
11:15No, I tried.
11:16Can you recover them from the trash?
11:18They're not there either.
11:19Is there any pattern as to which emails are being deleted?
11:21Yeah, it looks like it's all the ones with the purple label.
11:24That's her work tab.
11:26So someone's working overtime to scrub Natalie's email with anything related to Utomnia.
11:37Email deletions are standard protocol.
11:39The system is in place to protect company trade secrets.
11:42Yeah, well, it's impeding a murder investigation.
11:44I don't know what to tell you.
11:45The system is set up to automatically sweep an inbox once an employee is listed as no longer working at
11:50the company.
11:50Why all the secrecy?
11:52Well, there's a lot of corporate espionage in this industry.
11:55Detectives Marius Cole.
11:56My office told me you were here.
11:57Hey.
11:58Um, I'm sorry about the emails, but I can't imagine that Natalie's murder had anything to do with her work
12:03product.
12:04That's for us to determine.
12:05Of course.
12:07Uh, thank you, Jabari.
12:08I'll take it from here.
12:09Please.
12:09The last thing I want to do is hinder an investigation.
12:12Natalie was amazing.
12:14Brilliant.
12:15Truly one of a kind.
12:16Believe me.
12:16Any way that I can help, just say the word.
12:19What was Natalie doing for you, specifically?
12:21Again, I'm sorry.
12:23Unless you have a specific warrant for something, it would be irresponsible of me to divulge any company secrets.
12:29Although I can tell you that we, um, recently had to fire somebody on her team.
12:34He was caught leaking sensitive company data to the press.
12:40He was furious and he blamed Natalie.
12:42She blocked me from doing the public a service.
12:45The stuff Utomnia is up to is terrifying and people need to know.
12:49Really? Like what?
12:50Iris scanning, facial wreck, phone hacking, location data scraping.
12:54That stuff's existed for years, man.
12:56Sure. But Utomnia is consolidating all the information into one giant database, powered by AI and selling the data to
13:04the highest bidder.
13:05Marius Cole is completely eradicating the basic concept of privacy and people don't even realize it.
13:11So you see yourself as a whistleblower?
13:13I tried, but Natalie caught me.
13:16So because of Natalie, you're facing some pretty stiff penalties, huh?
13:19I wouldn't hurt Natalie for God's sake. I'm the good guy here, not the villain.
13:23Oh, people who say that make me nervous.
13:26I didn't blame Natalie. She was a total techno-optimist.
13:30She truly believed that if it were harder for bad people to hide, the world would be a safer place.
13:35All that being said, where were you two nights ago?
13:37I was at a concert at Madison Square Garden.
13:40The amount of surveillance in that place, you can verify that a hundred different ways.
13:45Okay, we will be in touch.
13:47Oh, wait.
13:48A few days before I was camped, so about a week ago, I ran into Natalie at a cafe.
13:55She was with a guy, and when I went over to say hi, she got super weird.
14:00Do you know who the guy was?
14:01I didn't recognize him, but something about the vibe was... off.
14:07I got the security video from the cafe.
14:10All right, good.
14:13So, this is the date and time how a wannabe whistleblower said he ran into Natalie and the mystery man.
14:21Oh, there he is, right there.
14:26And there she is.
14:38Looks like she's crying.
14:39Can you zoom in on the guy's face?
14:41I'll run facial rec.
14:49Sean Morris.
14:51I'm Detective Riley.
14:52This is Detective Walker, NYPD.
14:55We'd like to ask you a few questions about Natalie Wallace.
14:57Oh, good.
14:59I'm glad to hear she went through with it.
15:01Went through with what?
15:04Wait, what is this about?
15:06We're homicide detectives.
15:08Natalie Wallace was murdered two nights ago.
15:11Oh, my God.
15:13I didn't know.
15:14I've been at a yoga retreat.
15:17I was with her earlier that day.
15:20Are you two in a relationship?
15:22What?
15:23Oh, God, no.
15:24Um, I'm gay.
15:27I'm a trauma counselor at the Midtown Women's Clinic.
15:31I was helping her.
15:32Helping her with what?
15:34Natalie was sexually assaulted about a month ago.
15:38And when we last spoke, she said she was going to go to the police.
15:52You said the rape occurred a month prior to her murder.
15:55That's what we were told.
15:56Normally, what we see with a post-sexual assault situation are lacerations or abrasions to the
16:01posterior foreshed or the fossa venicularis.
16:04But because of the increased blood flow to those areas, naturally, they tend to heal quickly.
16:08Unless the injuries are severe, they usually abate within a week or two.
16:12So you can't tell us one way or the other?
16:13Not conclusively.
16:14But I was able to perform a secondary examination and found something else.
16:18You see this slight discoloration here and here?
16:22Not really.
16:23No, it's very faint, but it appears to be echemosis.
16:27That's the yellowing you see at the very final stages of the body, breaking down hemoglobin
16:31pooled under the skin.
16:33So she had bruises?
16:34On both wrists and her throat.
16:36Almost completely healed, which is why we didn't catch it initially.
16:40Okay, anything else?
16:41Yes.
16:41She tested positive for hepatitis B.
16:44Appears to be recent, too.
16:46According to her medical record, she tested negative for all STDs at her last checkup three
16:50months ago.
16:51All right, thanks, Doc.
16:55So, a rapist figures out somehow that she was going to report him and kills her before
17:00she gets the chance.
17:01We know when the rape occurred, so we just need to retrace her steps that day, find out
17:04who she was with.
17:07October 17th, you said?
17:08Yeah, according to Natalie's calendar app, you two had dinner that night?
17:12Uh, yeah.
17:12Yeah, I remember.
17:13We went to a new Mediterranean place that she'd been wanting to try.
17:17Here we go.
17:17Thank you so much.
17:19What, what does this have to do with her murder?
17:21What was her mood like that night?
17:23Her, her mood?
17:24Yeah.
17:25Did she seem upset?
17:26Mention any problems she was having?
17:28No.
17:29No, we mostly just talked about the reality shows we were watching and, uh, bitched about
17:34our jobs.
17:36She mentioned anything about a sexual assault?
17:40What?
17:40No.
17:41No, no.
17:43Why?
17:43Did something happen?
17:46We're not sure.
17:50What happened after dinner that night?
17:53Uh, nothing.
17:56She had to leave early because of some sort of emergency that came up with one of the projects
18:01she was working on.
18:02Um, so she went back to the Utomnia office?
18:05Mm-hmm.
18:06Marius texted her while we were eating.
18:09I don't work at the company anymore, so she couldn't tell me what it was about.
18:14But she had to, um, cut the meal short to go meet up with him.
18:22What the hell is this?
18:24You have no right to...
18:25This is completely unwarranted.
18:27No, actually, it's entirely warranted.
18:29Literally.
18:30This is an invasion of my privacy.
18:32Yeah, it sucks, doesn't it?
18:34Got a prescription here for lamivudine.
18:37Got your name on it.
18:38What's that for?
18:39It's none of your damn business.
18:41Well, the internet says hepatitis B medication.
18:44Detectives, we found a box of ammunition under our bed.
18:47Nine millimeter.
18:49Same caliber used to kill Natalie Wallace.
18:53I want my lawyer.
18:55I'll bet you do.
18:55Marius Cole, you are under arrest for the murder of Natalie Wallace.
18:58You have the right to remain silent.
19:01Were the police able to recover the murder weapon?
19:04No, and Marius Cole has never had a firearm registered in his name.
19:08What about motive?
19:09Cole killed Natalie to stop her from reporting him for rape.
19:13Can we prove that he raped her?
19:15I think so.
19:15Well, it's all based on circumstantial evidence, but I think we can get there.
19:19The best news of all is that we can place Cole at the murder scene.
19:22DNA tests confirmed that the hair recovered from Natalie's body belongs to him.
19:27It's not a perfect case, but Cole has no alibi for the night of the murder.
19:32Marius Cole has donated millions to various female forward charities.
19:35He's got a big reputation as a liberal feminist ally.
19:38Yeah, which is why we need to bury him.
19:41A wolf in sheep's clothing is going to kill more sheep if you give him the chance.
19:50Okay.
19:51Charge him with murder, too.
19:57Miss Maroon.
19:59Your Honor, the people seek remand.
20:01The defendant is a billionaire.
20:02He has access to a private jet.
20:04There is no amount of bail that could be set that could prohibit him from fleeing the country.
20:08My client is not going anywhere, but I'll spare us all the back and forth about bail because it is
20:13a moot point.
20:14The state has no case, and therefore I am immediately filing a motion to dismiss.
20:18On what grounds?
20:20We have irrefutable proof that Marius Cole did not commit this murder.
20:36What is it exactly that I'm looking at here, Counselor?
20:38Security camera footage from Marius Cole's apartment that shows he was at home in Tribeca at the time Natalie Wallace
20:44was murdered.
20:45And what, the timestamps in the corner are supposed to be the proof?
20:48As I detailed in my motion, his brownstone is also equipped with state-of-the-art bioscanning technology that tracks
20:57all living beings in the home at all times.
20:59And its logs show, with a zero degree of uncertainty, that Mr. Cole was in the apartment the entire night.
21:06Your Honor.
21:07Proceeding with the trial would be a colossal waste of this court's limited resources.
21:12To say nothing of the time and energy of everyone involved, not least of all my clients.
21:18Marius Cole is the head of the largest and the most invasive surveillance tech firm in the world.
21:24He has the unlimited resources and the know-how to fabricate all of this so-called evidence.
21:31Given the preponderance of it, there is no way a jury gets around reasonable doubt.
21:36Yeah, they will. Once I debunk it all. Which is why they're trying to have this case tossed on a
21:41motion.
21:42I agree with Mr. Price. You're welcome to present this evidence at trial, Ms. Calhoun, but there's no way in
21:48hell I'm dismissing this case.
21:56I have over 20 years of experience as a consultant in cyber security.
22:01And the NYPD brought you in to advise on this case?
22:04Yes. Shortly after Natalie Wallace was murdered, someone hacked into every one of the devices in her home
22:10and erased any data that had been recorded in the hours surrounding her death.
22:13Including video footage from her security cameras?
22:16They also accessed the city's mainframe and wiped the street camera footage from Ms. Wallace's block.
22:21I was brought in to do a digital forensic investigation to determine who the hacker was.
22:25Were you successful?
22:27No. Whoever did it covered their tracks incredibly well.
22:30In your professional opinion, does the defendant have the skills necessary to have done this?
22:36It's literally a service Utomnia, his company, offers to his clients.
22:40The level of hacking we're talking about here for Marius Cole would be like Stephen Hawking doing a Sudoku.
22:46What about manufacturing evidence like video surveillance footage or digital location data?
22:53Is that also something Utomnia does?
22:54I don't think they advertise that, but they certainly have the capabilities.
22:58So, hypothetically, the defendant could create proof for an alibi that was not real?
23:04Absolutely.
23:05Objection. Your Honor assumes facts not in evidence.
23:08Sustained.
23:09No further questions.
23:12You have no proof or first-hand knowledge that Marius Cole tampered with or erased any evidence pertaining to this
23:20case, do you?
23:21No. But I know he's capable of it.
23:23Right. Because it's a service his company offers.
23:27Do you know how many employees there are at Utomnia?
23:30I do not.
23:314,854. Presumably, many of them possess the same capabilities.
23:37Yes, presumably.
23:38And what about people not employed by any company?
23:42In your experience, are there private citizens that possess the skills necessary to erase the data in question?
23:52Of course.
23:52And you have no knowledge of anything that specifically implicates my client in the murder of Natalie Wallace?
24:00No.
24:01So you're here merely to testify to the fact that hacking is something that exists in the world.
24:08Duly noted.
24:10No further questions.
24:16About halfway through the meal, Natalie got a text.
24:19She said it was Marius and that she had to go back to the office.
24:23Did she say why?
24:24No.
24:25Some sort of work emergency.
24:27She couldn't give me the details because I didn't work at the company anymore.
24:31Marius is brutal when it comes to enforcing NDAs.
24:38So she left your dinner early and she told you that she was going to meet with the defendant?
24:44Yes.
24:44Do you remember what day this was?
24:47October 17th.
24:50No further questions.
24:52We have no questions for this witness.
24:55You may be excused.
24:58You may call your next witness, Mr. Price.
25:01People call Sean Morris to the stand.
25:05Did Natalie Wallace share any details with you about her sexual assault?
25:10Objection.
25:11Hearsay.
25:11It speaks to Natalie Wallace's state of mind at the time of her murder and is not offered for the
25:15truth of the matter.
25:16Overruled.
25:17The witness may answer.
25:19Uh, yes.
25:20She said that she was raped by someone she knew well.
25:23Someone she trusted.
25:26She said that he gave her a drink, but after a few sips she started to feel funny.
25:31So she stopped drinking.
25:32He got mad, insisted she drink it.
25:36So he tried to drug her.
25:38And when that didn't work, he threw the glass against the wall and screamed that he was in control, that
25:45she had to do what he said.
25:47And then what happened?
25:49She tried to leave.
25:51She tried to leave.
25:52But he grabbed her by the throat, tied her hands behind her back with a belt, and then he raped
26:01her.
26:04She said that he whispered in her ear the entire time, saying no matter how powerful she thought she was,
26:11he could do whatever he wanted to her.
26:14And he said other things, uh, things I can't bring myself to repeat.
26:21You develop a thick skin in my line of work, but even I was...
26:26Did she tell you when this all happened?
26:29October 17th.
26:31And did you meet with her on the day that she was killed?
26:34I did.
26:36In our first session, she wasn't ready to report her rapist.
26:39It's common for women in her situation, especially high-powered women in male-dominated fields.
26:46She was still processing her grief, feeling a sense of shame, of guilt.
26:53But in our last session, she said she was ready to report it to the police.
26:57Did she tell you when she was gonna do that?
26:59The next day.
27:00But someone killed her before she got the chance.
27:04No further questions.
27:07Did Ms. Wallace tell you the name of her attacker?
27:10No.
27:11She gave you all those details, but left that one out?
27:14Well, like I said, she wasn't ready to report it at first.
27:18And nothing you shared specifically points to my client being the one who raped her.
27:24In fact, because she never sought medical attention, there's no factual record that a rape even ever occurred.
27:33I sat with her for hours as she shook with fear and rage and pain.
27:42I can assure you, it happened.
27:45That may be so.
27:48But my client had nothing to do with it.
27:52No further questions.
28:00Hi.
28:01You did great back there.
28:05Here.
28:08They always claim mascara is waterproof, but in my experience, there's no such thing.
28:19It's so embarrassing.
28:21No.
28:22It's hard to hear.
28:25Oh, God.
28:26I just came.
28:27I...
28:27What?
28:29I...
28:30I'm the one who hired Natalie to work at Utomnia.
28:35Of course, I didn't know at the time that Marius...
28:40But she was my best friend, and it's my fault, and I should have tried.
28:45No, don't go there.
28:46Please.
28:47Easy for you to say.
28:49No.
28:50I get it.
28:51Trust me.
28:53I had a similar thing happen to a loved one.
28:58I spent years trying to blame myself.
29:04Marius Cole is the monster here, not you.
29:11And I'm gonna do everything I can to put him where he belongs.
29:17But I...
29:18But I...
29:20I don't think I can watch any more of this.
29:29Part of my job as the CEO of Utomnia is cultivating new business, which means wining
29:35and dining the people in charge of handing out government and private defense contracts.
29:40Last year, I had a potential client that wanted to discuss business on a shooting range.
29:44The range made you purchase ammunition, and I ended up with extra.
29:48So that's why the police found 9mm bullets in your home.
29:52Yeah.
29:53But I don't even have a gun to shoot them with.
29:55I've never fired a weapon outside of a shooting range.
29:58Marius, did you rape Natalie Wallace?
30:02God, no.
30:03The prosecution is claiming that was your motive for wanting her dead.
30:07That she was going to report you for assaulting her.
30:10That's insane.
30:11I would never harm a woman.
30:14I have spent real money and time not only in programs supporting women in STEM,
30:20but in making sure that my companies are a place where women can feel safe
30:24and have access to equal opportunities.
30:26But your DNA was in her home.
30:29And as the prosecution pointed out, you were both diagnosed with hepatitis B.
30:34That's correct.
30:37When I told Natalie about my diagnosis, she was very upset.
30:43She had recently been diagnosed as well, but was afraid to tell me.
30:47What are you saying?
30:49I contracted it from her.
30:52Natalie and I had been seeing each other for a few months before she was killed.
30:57We kept the relationship private.
30:59Which explains why your DNA was in her home.
31:03Were you dating at the time of the murder?
31:06No.
31:07I called it off about a week before.
31:11We weren't connecting.
31:13Now I know why.
31:16She didn't tell me she had been raped.
31:19If she had, I never would have...
31:22We could have gotten through that together.
31:24I wish more than anything that we had.
31:29No further questions.
31:34If you and Miss Wallace had been seeing each other, as you claim,
31:42why not mention that to the police when they first spoke to you?
31:45I didn't think it was relevant.
31:47I had no information about who her killer could have been.
31:50And I was grieving the loss of somebody that I loved.
31:55It was personal, private.
31:59So you loved Natalie?
32:01Did you ever tell anyone that?
32:04Did you ever tell them that the two of you were in a relationship?
32:07No.
32:08It was...
32:08Oh, it was private.
32:10Right.
32:10Sorry.
32:11How convenient.
32:12But I can provide plenty of data that shows that we were spending nights and weekends together.
32:16Messages that we sent each other.
32:18Things that we've already established that you can fabricate.
32:20But I'm guessing that not a single person, I mean, a real live person, can actually corroborate your story.
32:29A story which just so happens to explain away all the evidence against you.
32:34Almost as if it were crafted to do exactly that.
32:38Objection.
32:38Your Honor, argumentative.
32:40Sustained.
32:41Move on, Mr. Price.
32:43You forced yourself on Natalie, didn't you?
32:45No.
32:45You raped her, and then you kept tabs on her.
32:48That's what you do, isn't it?
32:49With your spyware and your high-tech surveillance.
32:52You figured out that she was going to go to the police, and so you killed her.
32:58I have never raped anybody in my entire life.
33:02And I swear to you, I did not kill Natalie.
33:06But I would kill the man who did if I could.
33:15How valiant.
33:16No further questions for this work, guys.
33:29Yes.
33:31No, no.
33:32You've been very helpful.
33:34Thank you so much.
33:36That was the shooting range where Cole claims he bought the ammunition.
33:39Confirmed he was there last spring with a client.
33:42All that proves is that he knows how to shoot a gun and head bullets.
33:46I'm worried that his story is just plausible enough to buy him reasonable doubt.
33:52Plus, there's that fake video of him being home all night.
33:56We need to find a way to prove that he is lying.
34:01What we need is another victim.
34:04Well, guys like this, they don't just do it once.
34:07I agree, but police tried to find other victims that came up empty.
34:11Yeah.
34:12He loves to make people sign NDAs.
34:15Maybe that's how he's been able to keep other victims quiet.
34:18He is.
34:19Yeah.
34:20I know it's a thing that happens.
34:22I do.
34:23But as a woman, I can't imagine letting a known predator continue to operate in exchange for money.
34:30If it helps at all, it's probably a lot of money.
34:35I don't care how much he offered.
34:37How can someone, a woman, live with that kind of guilt?
34:47Sam?
34:49What is it?
34:55Cole assaulted you two, didn't he?
34:57No, that's...
34:59Where is this coming from?
35:01You didn't answer my question.
35:03The answer is no, and I would like you to leave, please.
35:09It's okay, Vanessa.
35:11You can be honest with me.
35:13No, I can't.
35:16Because you signed a non-disclosure agreement?
35:25Well, how much did he pay you to serve up your best friend on a platter?
35:31I didn't serve up anything.
35:32You left her vulnerable.
35:33You didn't warrant her.
35:37I don't owe you any explanation.
35:42But it wasn't about the money.
35:44I was humiliated.
35:46I didn't want anyone to know.
35:48I wanted...
35:50Didn't want to spend the rest of my life being defined by what he did to me.
35:56I wanted it to go away.
35:58Forever.
35:59Leaving him to be the next woman's problem.
36:01No, he swore to me he'd never done anything like that before and I believed him.
36:06I let myself believe him.
36:08So I took the money.
36:10I found a new job.
36:11And I did...
36:14everything...
36:16I could to put that horrible moment behind me.
36:20It is what I needed to do.
36:27Well...
36:28Right now, what you need to do is testify.
36:32No. No, I can't.
36:34Don't worry, your money's safe.
36:37NDAs are not enforceable when testifying about a crime.
36:39It's not about the money.
36:41If people find out that I didn't come forward, that I took the money...
36:46My career's over.
36:49The press will crucify me.
36:51I will be...
36:52I will be the enemy of all women.
36:55I work for a company focused on women's health, for Christ's sake.
37:01Everyone will look at me the way you're looking at me right now.
37:07Price it be for taking the money, I suppose.
37:10Mm-mm.
37:10That is not fair.
37:12All I have done is pay.
37:14Every day.
37:16Every night.
37:26I took...
37:28I took the money.
37:31Because it felt right.
37:34I don't even know how to describe it.
37:36When he came to me...
37:38With that offer...
37:41I was struggling.
37:43He had ripped my life apart.
37:49I was just trying to survive.
38:00You said something like this happened to someone you loved?
38:09My sister.
38:14When it happened to you, were you worried about...
38:18Her?
38:22Or some...
38:24Hypothetical future victim?
38:32We'll subpoena her, force her to take the stand.
38:34Even if we have to treat her as a hostile witness, her testimony will likely get us a conviction.
38:39I agree.
38:40I understand Ms. Bennett not wanting to be publicly shamed, but we're talking about putting a murderer behind bars here.
38:45Yeah, I get it.
38:47Respectfully.
38:48More than either of you, but I...
38:51But what?
38:53I don't know.
38:54I mean...
38:55What she said to me was very compelling.
38:59Are we really gonna further punish a woman who's already been through so much?
39:03Marius Cole's a sexual predator and a cold-blooded killer.
39:07We have a duty to protect the public to stop him from victimizing anyone else.
39:11At the expense of someone he's already victimized.
39:14I mean, what about our duty to her?
39:16Sam, come on. You said it yourself.
39:17This woman took a payout in exchange for her silence, and it got another woman killed.
39:22I know.
39:23But I think there's another way we can handle this.
39:44We are open to a plea.
39:47No, thank you.
39:49All rise for the Honorable Judge Dillow.
39:53Board is now in session. You may be seated.
39:57Mr. Price, I understand you have a point of order?
39:59Yes, Your Honor. The prosecution would like to call a rebuttal witness.
40:03Vanessa Barrett.
40:21Man one, and we've got a deal.
40:28We're open to murder two.
40:32Your Honor, we'd like to request a recess.
40:39Cole agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder with a recommended sentence of 20 years.
40:44It's not ideal.
40:45But it guarantees Hobie in his late 60s before he even has a chance to see the light of day
40:49again.
40:50I, uh, I appreciate what you did.
40:54I really do.
41:01What would you have done if Colony's lawyer didn't take the bait?
41:07Just glad it all worked out.
41:26What would you have done in your prime and Quella, blinger in the thing.
41:31flower of the same thing is going to be a difference at age anytime.
41:39Since we need a commercial, till we think about a way to make impossible changes.
41:41If we take aobile cruise, we ought to download the cruise.
41:44So if it was you, you might tell us a real name.
41:45But I might the best show that I am not wrong.
41:46Did we say that knowledge?
41:48When the professional host is able to follow these things We need Vega lines.
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