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RJ Decker - Season 1 - Episode 04: In Vanity Veritas
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00:01Previously on R.J. Decker
00:02What are you wearing?
00:03Excuse me.
00:04Change your shirt and meet me at the address I'm about to send you.
00:06Who needs you to change your shirt?
00:08Wish.
00:09Yeah, you might have a new client for me.
00:11Welcome to the humble abode of the Carter family.
00:13That's Holden. I think he may have relapsed.
00:15R.J.
00:16Holden has been found.
00:17Holden was about to blow the whistle.
00:19He was willing to go up against his own thoughts.
00:21Holden wasn't supposed to die.
00:23The plan was only to discredit him.
00:26I still think it was me.
00:27It was not you.
00:35Of course, I'll have to notify the police.
00:38This is a case for homicide.
00:41Homicide?
00:41I don't think you fully understand, Bigelow.
00:45You've been murdered.
00:46R.J., is that you?
00:48Yeah.
00:49Are you alone?
00:51Yes, very.
00:53Aw, no love connection?
00:55No, it wasn't her type.
00:57Dude, you're everybody's type.
01:01Maybe you could have worn a nicer shirt.
01:03Yeah, or my prison blues.
01:06I thought my criminal record might be a deal-breaker,
01:09but turns out she asked Mauricio to set us up
01:11because she only dates felons.
01:14Creepy.
01:14Yeah.
01:15But doesn't that make you her type?
01:17Apparently I'm not felonious enough.
01:19She likes to repeat offenders.
01:23Okay.
01:24Maybe when it comes to matchmakers,
01:26we can do better than our old pals from Apalachee.
01:30Sorry, what?
01:31Who's we?
01:32The algorithms for the dating apps are like insano.
01:34I can help you poke around online tomorrow,
01:36try to find the right one.
01:37Algorithms?
01:38I think I'd rather go back to prison.
01:41And why are you so determined to fix me up all of a sudden?
01:45I'm just trying to help you make better choices, that's all.
01:48Better than what?
01:49I saw you having drinks with Emi Ochoa at FM station,
01:52and you looked friendly.
01:55That's not what you think.
01:56We were married.
01:57Okay, I know what you look like when you want to have sex.
02:00Emi Ochoa and I are not sleeping together.
02:02And if we're not, she feels bad about what happened.
02:04She wants to make up for it.
02:06And how exactly does one make up for perjuring oneself
02:08and sending an innocent person to prison?
02:10She brought me a case last week.
02:11It worked out.
02:12We went out for a drink to celebrate.
02:13That's it.
02:14I'm fine.
02:15Everything's fine, okay?
02:18So if you'll excuse me,
02:19I have an early meeting with a client tomorrow.
02:22I'm not gonna sleep with him either.
02:28Okay, here's Louise on her way to yoga.
02:32Playing mahjong at the club.
02:36Buying groceries.
02:37Bob.
02:40As much as I'd like to keep taking your money.
02:42I've been following your wife for a week.
02:44I have seen nothing that tells me she's cheating on you.
02:47Look at Louise.
02:49Now look at me.
02:51She is at least a nine.
02:52I am a five.
02:54And that's when my psoriasis isn't acting up.
02:56I should have known better than to think that I could keep her happy.
02:59Are you sure this whole affair thing isn't just all in your head?
03:02I mean, are you sure?
03:04Do you see these earrings?
03:06Yeah.
03:06I didn't buy those for her.
03:08I checked her credit card receipts.
03:10She didn't buy them for herself.
03:11And when I asked her about it, she said that they were gifts from her mother.
03:15But I know that she's lying.
03:21I love her, Mr. Decker, so much.
03:24And I need to know what's going on.
03:26Because if I know what's going on, maybe I can fix it.
03:30Maybe I can make her love me again.
03:46I'm playing diamonds, cash and checks.
03:51Putting fancy things around my neck.
03:55I'm not giving one hell of a heck.
04:00I'm playing diamonds, cash and checks.
04:06Another dollar, another day.
04:12Senoritas and Saint Tropez.
04:16Pouring chili on my Frito-Lays.
04:20No, ma'am, I ain't on no holiday.
04:26Playing diamonds, cash and checks.
04:30Putting fancy things around my neck.
04:35Not giving one hell of a heck.
04:39I'm playing diamonds, cash and checks.
04:45It's just a four to the one to the five.
04:51Again and again till you get it just right.
04:55It might take all day and all through the night.
05:00But even then, babe, you ain't qualified.
05:05I'm playing diamonds, cash and checks.
05:09And I ain't hired for my intellect.
05:14I'm just out here paying my respects.
05:19To the T-bombs and the T-birds and even T-rex.
05:24I'm playing diamonds, cash and checks.
05:30Four to the one to the five.
05:35Again and again till we get it right.
05:39It's just the four to the one to the five.
05:44Again and again till we get it right.
05:49It's just the four to the...
05:51Hey, Bob.
05:52I've been thinking, maybe you're right.
05:53Maybe the affair is all in my head.
05:55Bob, do you want to think about a storage locker on 19th Street?
06:00No.
06:00Why?
06:01Did Louise go to a storage locker?
06:02Is that where you are now?
06:04No, I'm in front of a house on Palmetto.
06:06She just went inside.
06:07Does it have a fountain in front with pink flamingos?
06:09Yeah, it does.
06:11Son of a...
06:11That's the Howard's house.
06:13She must be there to meet Preston.
06:14Okay, who's Preston?
06:15We know him and his wife from the club.
06:17He and Louise both played in the pickleball tournament.
06:20Bob, listen to me.
06:21Everything's gonna be okay.
06:22Deep breaths.
06:23And repeat after me, okay?
06:25Everything...
06:26Everything.
06:27Is gonna be...
06:30Mr. Decker, walk back.
06:32Mr. Decker, can you hear me?
06:35Mr. Decker, are you there?
06:38Mr. Decker, are you there?
06:43That's what we're doing right now.
06:44Come on!
06:45Come on!
06:50The fire marshal says it's looking like an accident.
06:53There's a gas leak somewhere inside, then a spark.
06:55What happens sometimes in these old houses that haven't converted to electric?
06:58What about bodies?
06:59One.
07:00Badly burned, so no ID yet.
07:02It's gotta be my client's wife.
07:03I saw her go inside right before it happened.
07:06Respectfully, I'm a homicide detective, not a tragic accident detective.
07:09Yeah, I get it then.
07:10Unless you're thinking the fire marshal has it wrong.
07:13My client was convinced his wife was having an affair, maybe with the guy that lives in this house.
07:1830 seconds after she went inside, the place goes up in smoke.
07:22What?
07:23What?
07:24You think what?
07:24He rigged the house, waited for you to confirm she was here, and then...
07:27What's possible?
07:28I mean, he eyes up until now seem like nothing but a nice guy, but who knows?
07:34No, no, no, no, no!
07:37Sir, you have to stay back.
07:39This is my house, please.
07:40I need to find my wife, sir.
07:41Her name is Natalie.
07:42Detective Melabreu, are you Preston Howard?
07:44Yes.
07:45I've been trying to reach my wife, and I can't please tell me she wasn't in there.
07:48Mr. Howard, there was one fatality, but we have reason to believe it was someone other than your wife.
07:53You're saying somebody other than Natalie?
07:55Mr. Howard, do you know Louise Vernon?
07:58Yeah, but we go to the same country club.
08:01You say she was inside my house? Did she do this?
08:04Any chance she was coming here to meet you today?
08:07Me?
08:09Well, why? Why would she?
08:11Why isn't anybody trying to find my wife?
08:13We'll find her, Mr. Howard.
08:14But first, I know the fire marshal has some questions about your house.
08:19I can't believe it. I can't believe that Louise is gone.
08:22Like I said, the person who died, the body, it hasn't been identified yet.
08:27You said you saw her go inside. Who else could it be?
08:31Mr. Vernon, have you ever been inside the Howard's house?
08:34Uh, they hosted a holiday cocktail thing a few years ago. Why?
08:40You called Mr. Decker this morning. He told you he saw Louise go inside. Then...
08:49You... you think that I blew it up somehow? Are you insane?
08:54You did hire a P.I. because you thought your wife was cheating on you.
08:57I... I told you how much I loved her. I told you I wanted to fix things.
09:02Bob, I know. I know.
09:05Please, just go.
09:09Thoughts?
09:11My gut says he didn't do it.
09:13And yet?
09:14And yet, jealous husband, dead wife. I know.
09:16Two and two almost always equal four.
09:18And yet, the fire marshal's preliminary take was the explosion was accidental.
09:23And yet, Louise was up to something this morning. The car rental, the wig, the storage locker...
09:27At repeat, two plus two almost always equal four.
09:30Look, she was having an affair.
09:32She changed her car in her appearance to visit a neighborhood where she could have been recognized.
09:35Her death? Act of God, not act of Bob.
09:38Okay.
09:39Look, something's up at the storage locker. It was big.
09:42It's way too big for a wig and a change of clothes. I'm gonna check it out.
09:44Okay, you find something tells you that the explosion wasn't an accident, you let me know.
09:48Meantime, I'm gonna go focus on crimes I know were murders.
10:02Gotcha. Let's go.
10:20Wait...
10:42Look at the most moments.
10:50just when i thought my day couldn't get any worse
10:54louise you chose the wrong night to try to rob a storage locker pal
11:03you honestly want me to believe you're a private investigator we can check my website if you want
11:07but i think we both would be better off trying to get you to a hospital
11:13louise your husband bob hired me because he thought you might be having an affair
11:17i love bob i would never please i believe you i do and not just because of the gun
11:23i don't think you went to preston howards for a nooner today i think you were there to rob the
11:28place look my least favorite job as a pi is tailing cheating spouses a close second is asset retrieval
11:35see insurance companies pay guys like me to be on the lookout for stolen goods and pawn shops on the
11:39black market i recognize that from a bulletin one of those companies emailed me if i had to take a
11:46guess i'd say everything in here is stolen you'd be wrong i bought this stuff at swap meets cash
11:53transactions if any of it's stolen news to me louise bob thinks you're dead now i watched you go inside
12:05the hours house i have pictures i i didn't mean to not go home to bob i only came here
12:13to change my
12:13clothes okay you're here who was inside the house when it exploded i smelled the gas the second i got
12:20inside but i don't know why i kept going and then i saw you saw all that blood and the
12:28gas i was so scared
12:30so i went out back and then i heard a boom and then i went flying it's okay my favorite
12:38dior jacket
12:38it's okay and now it's right whoa whoa whoa whoa hey hey hey hey i gotcha
12:43i gotcha sofia's asleep that's nice it is nice maybe even very nice
12:53hmm her again seriously what bibi i'm giving you the steel home sign and you're still looking for
13:03dirt on emmy ochova i'm not looking for dirt i'm just trying to understand you and your ex-husband
13:09are both into sexy latinas what is there to understand i don't know maybe how stupid i feel
13:16in two years i've been carrying all this guilt for not seeing how much rj was struggling before he beat
13:21up
13:21lucas ochoa now i find out that he's friends maybe even friends with benefits with the woman who's
13:27actually directly responsible for him going to prison you said he told you she's trying to make amends
13:32she found a case for him so what so she's a freaking ochoa her dad is like a modern day
13:38boss tweet
13:40they could be setting rj out to be their fall guy one i resent you making a reference to a
13:45guy you
13:45know i won't know too make sure you're not just jealous what no i mean she's pretty hot
13:56maybe you didn't carry guilt for two years because you're stupid okay you did it because you have a
14:02big heart but come on don't you ever think maybe you're a little too involved with your ex
14:10what rj someone we thought died in that explosion today turned up alive
14:15said at a storage locker on 19th i have to get to asap
14:23remind me which one of us is too involved with my ex
14:35hey you get the warrant yeah a little while ago it's like a freaking pirate's cave in here jewelry
14:42artwork liner gowns robbery division already matched a bunch of it to a string of burglaries that dates
14:48back a couple of years you've been calling the suspect the bandit of broward now thanks to you
14:53they know it was louise vernon who is she by the way she's okay she got a piece of shrapnel
14:58in
14:58her abdomen lucky for her it didn't hit any organs lucky for us because the burglaries aren't the
15:03only thing she has to answer for what do you mean finally got an id on the body that was
15:08found in
15:08the rubble yesterday her bandit may be a murderer you're telling me everything i bought at those swap
15:15leads was stolen miss vernon you honestly expect us to believe that you got to protect philippo
15:19you're watching to swap me get louise we know your mo you put on a pair of sunglasses a wig
15:23you
15:24rent a nice car so it looks like you belong in the neighborhoods you're targeting if anyone spots
15:28you you're what a high-end real estate broker going door to door natalie howard though she was a
15:33friend she would have seen right through a disguise like that yeah so we talked to preston
15:37her husband yesterday we told him we had reason to believe the body they found inside the house
15:41wasn't his wife's only it was medical examiner confirmed it this morning just like he confirmed
15:47it wasn't the explosion that killed her she was dead before that blunt force trauma to the head
15:51you broke in natalie caught you by surprise and there was a struggle and then you caved your skull
15:57and then you filled the place with gas and then you left something behind to ignite it
16:01arson investigator thinks it was a hair dryer he found please you have to tell them
16:12i did break into the house yesterday but natalie was dead when i got there okay right and you got
16:18all this in your storage locker at swap meets i can prove to you i didn't kill her the glasses
16:22i was wearing they weren't just a part of my disguise they were smart glasses they recorded everything i saw
16:36i still don't understand why you filmed yourself biking into houses why do you like to record us in bed
16:42it's i don't know a thrill reliving it
16:57it's just like i thought
17:02oh my god
17:06you want me to confess to a few burglaries i will
17:10but murder no somebody else killed natalie
17:19hey now hey
17:22thought your client said he needed to speak with you well it turns out he doesn't want me off the
17:26case just yet case if i think my wife is fooling around on me because that one's solved she isn't
17:31a cheater she's a burglar yeah i know but he says he feels terrible about what happened to natalie he
17:35wants to make sure the cops find the find the killer right because where would the mlpd be without
17:42the help of low-rent p.i well technically i'm a no-rent p.i but hey hey remind me
17:47who caught the
17:48banner to broward okay we both know you're gonna go talk to preston howard right now dead wife you
17:53look at the husband you gotta talk to him i gotta talk to him when we uh save some time
17:57we'll do it
17:58together we told preston he could save with his saucy needs i can't even imagine losing your home
18:05and your wife all in an instant grant's been out there with him all morning but it's so hard
18:10neither of us knows what to say you've known the howards a long time god 15 years
18:17i know it's none of my business but if you're here to confirm the stove was the source of the
18:21leak be gentle he told us he's been meaning to replace that old gas range for years actually miss
18:26somers we're here to tell him that that old gas stove wasn't the cause of natalie's death oh my god
18:31well he'll be he'll be so relieved i'm not so sure he will you're saying what happened to natalie
18:39wasn't an accident you're saying that she was murdered emmy believes that based off the skull
18:45fracture the weapon was something heavy and rounded like a pipe killer only set the explosion to cover
18:50their tracks you asked me about louise vernon yesterday it sounded like she had been by the
18:57house yeah because she had but as it turns out she wasn't there to hurt anyone she was there to
19:01rob
19:01the place i'm not sure the flpd was ready to share that particular detail but yes it's true we like
19:09louise vernon for a series of robberies in this part of town hold on we were robbed last year yeah
19:14so
19:15were two other houses on this street are you saying that she was the one who probably but but it's
19:19not
19:19what we're here for and we were able to prove louise didn't kill natalie so mr howard can you think
19:25of anybody else who may have wanted to hurt her no one i mean natalie was a saint i mean
19:32things were
19:32good with you guys what do you mean your marriage no bumps in the road nothing like that
19:41you think that i killed my wife just routine questions mr howard the hell they are
19:46you don't say another word not without an attorney okay all we're trying to do is eliminate mr howard
19:50as a suspect yeah well sorry you're not going to do that here
19:57that grant's a real charmer huh yeah humble too
20:02it's a conspicuous inconspicuous consumption doesn't it
20:06i'm so sorry i i didn't want to say anything in front of preston but there was some trouble in
20:13their marriage not that i think he would ever hurt natalie but i just wouldn't want you to find out
20:19later that we'd held anything back what kind of trouble preston asked grant for a loan a few weeks
20:24ago something about natalie spending too much that's all i know
20:33imagine my surprise you reaching out in the middle of the day saying you'd like to meet in public no
20:41less what do you mean well your newspaper hasn't exactly been kind to my family over the years
20:51not sure what your readers would think if they saw us having coffee together miss de la croix
20:57first it's catherine second i don't think our readers would be the least bit surprised they
21:01know the broward county herald's only ever after the facts not sure my father would agree but it's nice
21:07to finally put a face to the byline my assistant said you had some questions about ed carter for
21:14decades he oversaw one of the biggest chains of drug rehab clinics in the state now he stands accused
21:19of defrauding thousands of clients and orchestrating the death of his own son it's no secret he's always
21:24been one of your father's biggest donors just like it's no secret that in light of those allegations
21:30my father returned mr carter's most recent donation and introduced legislation to increase funding and
21:36oversight for addiction treatment it's my understanding you played a big part in bringing
21:40ed carter down you you worked with a private investigator to team up for law enforcement i'm
21:44afraid that because the investigation is ongoing i can't comment on that at this time huh what about
21:51the pi i see a lot to comment i understand he has some interesting ties to your family too your
21:56step
21:57brother in particular sort of a no-no when you've agreed to an interview is that what this is an
22:08interview because it seems more like an invasion of your ex-husband's privacy after he did what he
22:15did to lucas you think we didn't find out every little thing we could about him i think you mean
22:19what lucas did to rj he was the one who committed a crime that day but rj went to prison
22:23thanks in no
22:24small part to the testimony you gave at his trial i take it you don't like that i've been
22:29in rj's orbit but did it ever occur to you that i genuinely want to help him if you want
22:36to help
22:37him maybe you'd like to take this opportunity to admit on the record that you perjured yourself two
22:42years ago of course that might mean a little prison time for you
22:49it's been a pleasure miss delacroix
22:58same thanks you've been a big help
23:02million dollar life insurance policy on his recently deceased wife plus the 2.5 from the house
23:08assuming that was insured too press and howard's money troubles are over between the windfall and
23:12attention this case is getting gonna have lawyers lining up to represent him good ones hope you got
23:17a good look at him today because we won't see him again for a while i bet you 50 bucks
23:22you're wrong
23:25i'm sorry for the way that grant spoke to you he wasn't wrong a lawyer would make a lot of
23:31sense
23:33and more importantly i think i might know who killed natalie
23:38over all the years mr howard i've never paid much attention to our finances natalie always took care
23:45of the bills about a month ago i noticed that the balance in our joint savings it seemed low
23:52when i looked into it i saw that she had been making some big cash withdrawals every month going
23:57back almost a year always just under ten thousand dollars 10k being a threshold for reporting to the irs
24:04she said that it had to be some kind of mistake and that she would look into it but
24:10she seemed she seemed afraid and i was worried
24:17so the next time that she said she had errands to run i followed her she went to the bank
24:23made a cash
24:23withdrawal and she drove straight to dixie court it's a rough area she gave the money to a guy that
24:29i'd never seen before tattoos everywhere i mean even on his face and when she got home i asked her
24:36point blank are you buying drugs are you gambling she wouldn't tell me she just said that it was the
24:44last time i told her look whatever's going on it's okay but we can go to the police she said
24:51that she was
24:52planning to go herself but she just said that she needed more time whatever natalie got herself
25:00into i don't know but maybe this guy wasn't okay her putting an end to it
25:08well can you tell us exactly where you saw natalie meet with him yeah
25:24what's your favorite like chocolate or vanilla the beatles of the stones crockett or
25:34tubs tubs of what are you really going to sit there and pretend you don't know the guys from my
25:41new ice i know the guys before lauderdale vice i'm talking about the tv show the one you know what
25:48forget it you are a terrible stakeout partner why don't you call emmy or cho ask her to tag me
25:52out
25:55kathleen told you about that listen don't get me wrong if i were staying alone
26:02what over there i think that's the guy natalie howard was paying off one way to find out
26:13i heard on the news about a house blowing up in the suburbs i had no idea it was mrs
26:18h's
26:21well we have pictures of her too if you'd like to see them andre i get why you brought me
26:25here
26:26a nice white lady coming to see a guy with his face all tatted up oh god you're not here
26:30because
26:31of the ink on your face you're here because of the ink on your rap sheet you got eight arrests
26:34for
26:34possession of a controlled substance eleven more for possession with intent to distribute i was a
26:39dealer emphasis on was so if we were to test what's left of mrs h we wouldn't find any drugs
26:45in her
26:45system no i left all that behind i work as a youth counselor now how do you explain all that
26:50money
26:50natalie howard is bringing you that it's for a community center i'm helping get built the construction
26:55site you pick me up back that's where it's gonna be named for my baby brother omari he's the reason
27:01me and mrs h met and how do they know each other actually they didn't he died last year hit
27:09and run
27:10story made a lot of the papers because he had just got a full ride to miami
27:16yeah boy kahoot but whoever ran him down didn't give a damn who he was left him there to die
27:23mrs h showed
27:24about the funeral told my mom she read about it said she knew what we were going through because
27:28she lost a son to a drunk driver when i told her i was trying to get a community center
27:32built name it
27:32after omari she pledged 100 grand people donating that amount don't tend to do it in cash they write
27:39checks they want the tax deductions honestly i thought it was a little sus too but she said she
27:45wanted to be anonymous that the only person deserved any attention was omari can you account for your
27:51whereabouts on tuesday between 10 a.m and noon i can so can a couple hundred other people i was
27:57at
27:57mercer elementary school giving a talk about staying away from drugs let's just say everything
28:06he told us was on the level natalie howard was taking money out for good reason when preston howard
28:12found out about it why not just tell him the truth she'll do you one better why did she tell
28:16him she was planning to go to the police one sec hey what's up am i catching you at a
28:23bad time
28:24no it's a good time actually i just got out of an interrogation funny i'm calling because i went
28:30through one of those myself today
28:41hey hey how was your day you get up to anything interesting i did actually i'm doing a story in
28:49that big win you had the ed carter thing i thought i should have a conversation with emmy ochoa
28:54oh really funny you didn't mention that story to me oh i'm sorry are we keeping score now when it
28:59comes to things one of us didn't tell the other i get what you like about her by the way
29:03i mean her
29:03capacity for forgiveness her willingness to get into bed figuratively of course with the meth addict
29:09who tried to kill her brother for you know no reason at all i mean people have been sainted for
29:14less
29:14i told you okay i told you she regrets what she did i'm glad that's enough for you it isn't
29:20for me
29:25found something yeah when you're done with your personal calls sorry what did katherine do now
29:31listen you are for all your faults one of the coolest customers i've ever met nothing ever seems
29:37to bother you except for when my wife calls you on your bs i'm gonna go on a limb and
29:42say it has
29:42something to do with the emmy ochoa let's just say katherine decided to introduce herself today
29:47and we'll just we'll just leave it at that oh man did i ever tell you about the day uh
29:55you were
29:55sentenced what katherine did went home got in bed and didn't get out for three days i remember thinking
30:03like hey what the hell this is her ex you know most people they hear their ex is going to
30:07prison they
30:08throw a party and i will admit that like for a millisecond i thought maybe she wasn't over you
30:13and then i realized no my beautiful wife your beautiful ex she just loves bigger than i understood
30:22and when you love that big you worry that big my question for you is do you love being loved
30:30big
30:31because if you don't you said you had something yeah everything andre blake told us checked out he
30:48was at that school the day the howard's house blew up and his brother was killed in a hit and
30:52run last
30:52year okay so as far as suspects go we're back to square one in the death of natalie howard yes
30:59in
30:59the death of baby bro not so much natalie howard never had a kid let alone one killed by a
31:05drunk
31:05driver so i wondered why show up at omari blake's funeral why pledge a hundred grand to a community
31:12center being built in his honor let me guess once natalie's death was ruled a homicide you got access to
31:17her phone records way ahead of you the night omari blake died in that hit and run guess whose phone
31:22was pinging off the nearest tower okay so if natalie howard killed omari but omari's brother didn't
31:29kill natalie then maybe one of the family members found out the truth and killed her to get revenge
31:37sorry it's my client i'm sorry hey bob what's up you need an update no i just got home um
31:43someone
31:44must have broken and everything is torn apart i i i didn't want to call the police because of
31:48everything going on with louise but okay bob take a deep breath just get out of the house i'll be
31:53there
31:54and like i i just heard something i think the person who did this miss bob bob what was that
32:02bob bob is what was it bob
32:13paramedics say he'll make it but blow to the back of the head i'm sorry to see who did it
32:17blow to the
32:18back of the head just like natalie howard i think the guy who killed her did this i mean as
32:23far as
32:23signatures go hitting people on the head is not very unique one even if you're right what motive would
32:29they have for attacking them both well any luck the answer's gonna come from that guy right there
32:34mr adult onesie actually mr ring camera he just told me his has a great view of bob's driveway
32:44hey are you seriously using terry cloth again how many times have i told you microfiber only
32:56uh hey if you're looking for preston he isn't here he had to go make some funeral arrangements for
33:01natalie actually mr summers we're here for you we have video of this car arriving at bob vernon's house
33:08just minutes before someone assaulted him last night there's lots of cars like this out there yeah
33:14but only one lux guy won right lawyer
33:27this is what you've been doing yeah well a complicated case i thought some visual aids might
33:33help i would say it looks like something sofia may but unless you can do better than this
33:38three couples all friends from the same country club all connected by the murder of natalie howard
33:43and by the bandit of broward aka louise vernon exactly she did rob the summer's house and she
33:49attempted to rob the howard's house i think she's the reason grant went to bob's house last night
33:55revenge asset retrieval i told louise it's my least favorite job but it's the thing for a reason
33:59someone steals your stuff you want it back louise's storage locker was a detail we kept out of the press
34:04yes exactly that's why i think grant went to her house last night tore it up looking for something
34:08she stole why wouldn't he just contact the police ask if his property was recovered well you're assuming
34:12what he was looking for he'd be okay with the police knowing about what like a brick of cocaine or
34:16something spidey sen says no but that's only because based on the items retrieved from the storage
34:20locker she wasn't into drugs only things that were nice what nice thing would have tied grant to a crime
34:26don't know but i gotta think it's the same reason he killed natalie howard well lucky for us we have
34:32a bandit who can just tell us what she stole you really think what happened to bob was my fault
34:37well
34:38we think they're connected yeah all this awfulness just because i was bored and needed a little excitement
34:50in my life bob's doctor said he opened size this morning he didn't say anything but
34:59she thinks it's a good sign she thinks he's gonna be okay that's that's good louise i'm glad
35:09you said this is the claim grant and don fight with their insurance company after i robbed them but
35:15i'm still a little fuzzy on what i'm supposed to be looking for something that isn't there
35:19the idea is you stole something that could have gotten grant in trouble
35:23and if you did there's a good chance you wouldn't have made a claim for it
35:29like the dog that doesn't bark right it's the absence of things that matters i'm guessing you
35:35stole the complete works of sherlock holmes at some point
35:42wow
35:45i'm the one being accused of theft what do you mean great don have been ripping off their insurance company
35:54air taste statuette yeah poochie dress emerald brooch they claimed at least 20 000 bucks worth of
36:02stuff that i definitely didn't take you uh want to charge him for fraud i'm willing to testify oh yeah
36:10in exchange for reducing the charges against you actually i'm i was hoping i could get permission to
36:17visit bob's room i i know i'm under arrest but i'd like to hold his hand maybe even be there
36:26when
36:27he wakes up you find something that proves grant summer to the killer and i'll work on that and the
36:38charges
36:39huh the most valuable thing i took from grant and don's house the one they could have made a huge
36:45legitimate claim for it's not listed here
36:55there right there
36:59ostrich skin with 18 karat gold hardware there are only six made one of them was auctioned at
37:04sotheby's last year sold for over 200 000. of course i i couldn't wear it would have attracted too much
37:11attention but i sure was nice to look at okay maybe grant stole it didn't make a claim because
37:17they were tied to the crime a murder an attempted murder exploded the house off for a stolen bag
37:21i don't think so a stolen bag worth over 200 grand i don't think it was the bag he was
37:25looking for i
37:26think it's what was inside the bag did you know that was in there no i i told you i
37:32never used the
37:32bag but i didn't get it what's so special about a license plate ordinarily not much but i think this
37:36one's going to prove one of the summers is a killer the summers do you recognize these
37:50of course they were all stolen from my home but i'm confused is is that why you asked me to
37:56come here
37:57to give them back to me because i thought you had questions about the little misunderstanding
38:03between grant and bob vernon you mean when grant misunderstood a pipe to the back of bob's call
38:09grant went there to talk to bob about what louise had done things got heated and
38:15bob came at him grant was just defending himself what about this
38:22recognize this no that isn't mine you sure because a bag like that it's easy to trace your husband got
38:31at auction a year ago just before your 50th birthday which um according to social media posts
38:37you celebrated at cabrera in miami
38:43yes sorry i i remember now i i have so many bags i suppose i just i forgot about this
38:50one that must be
38:52nice to be so rich you could forget about one that costs six figures what about this
38:57recognize that that appears to be a plate from a car i reported stolen last year well not just last
39:05year the day after your birthday party i'm confused did you find the car no odds are we never will
39:12because odds are you and grant got rid of it that's crazy why would we do that because it was
39:16your car
39:17that struck and killed a kid named omari blake last year at first we thought it was natalie who did
39:24it
39:24but no she was just the passenger wasn't she we traced the chain of title on the car 1975 mercedes
39:31slc it's a real classic originally purchased by your father the week you were born he transferred the
39:36title to you when you turned 16 and you could just got rid of the plate along with the car
39:40but
39:40it was more than just proof of a crime wasn't it it was proof of how much daddy loved you
39:48and how
39:49special you are yeah so much more special than some random 17 year old on a bike it's too bad
39:56louise
39:57stole your bag before you had a chance to get this out obviously you managed to swear natalie to secrecy
40:04that night but unlike you her conscience it got to her she ended up donating a hundred thousand
40:11dollars to a community center in omari's name recently she told her husband there was something
40:15she needed to tell him and we think she was going to spill about what really happened that night
40:19and we think she gave you the opportunity to do the same and instead you sick your psycho husband on
40:24her
40:28no no grant would never he's a good man so good he wouldn't take a plea deal to pin omari
40:34and natalie's murder on you because you should know the da's office is about to offer him one
40:39in about 20 minutes unless of course you want to talk about a deal for yourself
40:51yeah you made it you said in your text you had a much better story for me than emmy ochoa
40:58dupes florida
40:59p.i second time how could i resist look about that it's okay i overstepped not a lot but enough
41:09so it's still pal samia well it depends how good this other story is well actually you have your
41:12choice of two my client bob vernon husband of the infamous banner to broward he hasn't talked to
41:18the press since he got out of the hospital but for the wife of the cop who just talked the
41:23d.a
41:23into a plea deal that would see her serve less than a year you make an exception and behind door
41:30number two
41:31you see that group over there it's the family of omari blake i just told them how don and grant
41:39summer they couldn't turn on each other fast enough they're both probably going to go away for life
41:44now it doesn't bring omari back but they're all glad to be finally getting some justice
41:49now i figured a piece in the herald would be a good way to remind people who he was
41:53how much he was loved not to mention some good publicity for the community center of the building
42:01you're really gonna make me choose well it depends you're gonna quit trying to make me go on the
42:06dating apps i'll let you know after we talk to the blakes all right let's talk to the blake
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