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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.
10:15Okay.
10:36So, you can see if I could take it to the drugга in there that was until you start to
10:36gather.
10:36Oh my God.
10:39So, I'm gonna take according to the rescue plan, to my brother, whoической place after the device it doesn't come
10:40to a different averse?
10:40I'm ricking them all.
10:42It's just檢 Hai everybody.
10:42Oh my God.
10:43New question was it silent for help.
10:44Oh my God.
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 all that blood and the gas i
12:29was so scared so i
12:31went out back and then i heard a boom and then i went flying it's okay my favorite dior jacket
12:38it's
12:39okay and now it's right whoa whoa whoa hey hey hey i gotcha i gotcha sofia's asleep that's nice it
12:49is nice
12:50maybe even very nice huh her again seriously what bibi i'm giving you the steel home sign and you're
13:02still looking for dirt on emmy ochova i'm not looking for dirt i'm just trying to understand
13:07you and your ex-husband are both into sexy latinas what is there to understand i don't know maybe how
13:13stupid i feel in two years i've been carrying all this guilt for not seeing how much rj was struggling
13:20before he beat up lucas ochoa now i find out that he's friends maybe even friends with benefits with
13:26the woman who's actually directly responsible for him going to prison you said he told you she's trying
13:31to make amends she found a case for him so what so she's a freaking ochoa her dad is like
13:38a modern day
13:38boss tweet they could be setting rj out to be their fall guy one i resent you making a reference
13:45to a guy you know i won't know two are you sure you're not just jealous what no i mean
13:50she's pretty
13:52hot maybe you didn't carry guilt for two years because you're stupid okay you did it because you
14:01have a big 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
14:15says it's 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 slider gowns robbery division already matched a bunch of it to a string of burglaries
14:48that dates back 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 the
15:09rubble yesterday her bandit may be a murderer you're telling me everything i bought at those swap meets
15:15was stolen miss vernon you honestly expect us to believe that you gotta protect philippe watch out
15:20of swap me get louise we know your mo you put on a pair of sunglasses a wig you rent
15:24a nice car so
15:25it looks like you belong in the neighborhoods you're targeting if anyone spots you you're what
15:29a high-end real estate broker going door to door natalie howard though she was a friend she would have
15:34seen right through a disguise like that yeah so we talked to preston her husband yesterday we told him
15:39we had reason to believe the body they found inside the house wasn't his wife's only it was
15:44medical examiner confirmed it this morning just like he confirmed it wasn't the explosion that killed
15:48her she was dead before that blunt force trauma to the head you broke in natalie caught you by surprise
15:54and there was a struggle and then you caved your skull and then you filled the place with gas
15:59and then you left something behind to ignite it arson investigator thinks it was a hair dryer he felt
16:06please you have to tell them
16:11i 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
16:23wearing 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
16:48yeah
16:56i'm hair dryer just like i thought
17:02oh my god
17:06you want me to confess to a few burglaries i will but murder no somebody else killed natalie
17:21i thought your client said he needed to speak with you well it turns out he doesn't want me
17:26off the case just yet case if i think my wife is fooling around on me because that one's solved
17:30she isn't a cheater she's a burglar yeah i i know but he says he feels terrible about what happened
17:35to natalie he wants to make sure the cops find the find the killer right because where would the
17:41mlpdb without the help of low-rep p.i well technically i'm a no-rep p.i but hey remind
17:47me
17:47who caught the band of broward okay we both know you're gonna go talk to preston howard right now
17:52dead wife you look at the husband you gotta talk to him i gotta talk to him when we uh
17:57save some
17:57time we'll do it together we told preston he could stay with a saucy mead i can't even imagine losing
18:04your home and your wife all in an instant grant's been out there with him all morning but it's so
18:09hard
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
18:21gentle he told us he's been meaning to replace that old gas range for heaters actually miss summers
18:26we're here to tell him that that old gas stove wasn't the cause of natalie's death oh my god well
18:31he'll be he'll be so relieved not so sure he will you're saying what happened to natalie wasn't an
18:40accident you're saying that she was murdered emmy believes that based off the skull fracture the
18:45weapon was something heavy and rounded like a pipe killer only set the explosion to cover their tracks
18:53you asked me about louise vernon yesterday it sounded like she had been by the house yeah because
18:57she had but as it turns out she wasn't there to hurt anyone she was there to rob the place
19:02i'm not
19:02sure the flpd was ready to share that particular detail but yes it's true we like louise vernon for a
19:09series of robberies in this part of town hold on we were robbed last year yeah so were two other
19:15houses
19:15on this street are you saying that she was the one who probably but but it's not what we're here
19:20for
19:20and we were able to prove louise didn't kill natalie so mr howard can you think of anybody else who
19:25may
19:26have wanted to hurt her no one i mean natalie was a saint i mean things were good with you
19:33guys
19:35what do you mean your marriage no bumps in the road nothing like that
19:41but you 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
19:49is eliminate mr howard as 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 detective abreu
20:06you 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 know
21:01the 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 of
21:19defrauding thousands of clients and orchestrating the death of his own son it's no secret he's
21:24always been one of your father's biggest donors just like it's no secret that in light of those
21:29allegations my father returned mr carter's most recent donation and introduced legislation to
21:36increase funding and oversight for addiction treatment it's my understanding you played a big
21:39part in bringing ed carter down you you worked with a private investigator to team up for law
21:44enforcement i'm afraid that because the investigation is ongoing i can't comment on that at this time
21:50huh what about the pi i see a lot to comment i understand he has some interesting ties to your
21:55family too your stepbrother in particular
22:03sort of a no-no when you've agreed to an interview is that what this is
22:08an interview because it seems more like an invasion of your ex-husband's privacy
22:14after he did what he did to lucas you think we didn't find out every little thing we could about
22:18him i think you mean what lucas did to rj he was the one who committed a crime that day
22:22but rj went
22:23to prison thanks in no small part to the testimony you gave at his trial i take it you don't
22:28like that
22:28i've been in rj's orbit but did it ever occur to you that i genuinely want to help him if
22:36you want to
22:36help him 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
23:08house assuming that was insured too press and howard's money troubles are over between the
23:12windfall and the attention this case is getting it's gonna have lawyers lining up to represent him
23:16good ones hope you got a good look at him today because we won't see him again for a while
23:21bet you 50 bucks you'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
23:41i've never paid much attention to our finances natalie always took care of the bills about a
23:47month ago i noticed that the balance in our joint savings it seemed low when i looked into it i
23:53saw
23:53that she had been making some big cash withdrawals every month going back almost a year always just under
24:00ten thousand dollars 10k being a threshold for reporting to the irs she said that it had to be
24:06some kind of mistake and that she would look into it but she seemed she seemed afraid and i was
24:15worried
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
24:51she was planning to go herself 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
25:22crockett or tubs who's your favorite like chocolate or vanilla the beetles of the stones
25:31crockett or tubs tubs of what
25:38are you really gonna sit there and pretend you don't know the guys from my advice
25:42i know the guys before lauderdale vice i'm talking about the tv show the one you know what
25:48are you gonna do it forget it you are a terrible stakeout partner why don't you call emmy at all
25:51ask her to tag me out kathleen told you about that listen don't get me wrong if i were staying
25:58alone
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 growing up in the suburbs and i had no idea it was
26:18mrs h's
26:21well we have pictures of her too if you'd like to see them andre
26:24i get why you brought me here a nice white lady coming to see a guy with his face all
26:29tatted up
26:29oh god you're not here because of the ink on your face you're here because of the ink on your
26:33rap
26:33sheet you got eight arrests for possession of a controlled substance 11 more for possession with
26:37intent to distribute i was a dealer emphasis on was so if we were to test what's left of mrs
26:43h we
26:44wouldn't find any drugs in her system no i left all that behind i work as a youth counselor now
26:49how do you explain all that money natalie howard is bringing you that it's for a community center
26:53i'm helping get built the construction site you picked me up back that's where it's gonna be
26:57named for my baby brother omari he's the reason me and mrs h met and how do they know each
27:03other
27:03actually they didn't he died last year hit and run story made a lot of the papers because he had
27:12just
27:13got a full ride to miami yeah boy kahoot but whoever ran him down didn't give a damn who he
27:21was
27:22left him there to die mrs h showed about the funeral told my mom she read about it said she
27:27knew what we
27:27were going through because she lost a son to a drunk driver when i told her i was trying to
27:31get a
27:31community center built name it after omari she plans to 100 grand people donating that amount don't
27:37tend to do it in cash they write checks they want the tax deductions honestly i thought it was a
27:43little
27:43sus too but she said she wanted to be anonymous that the only person deserved any attention was omari
27:50can you account for your whereabouts on tuesday between 10 a.m and noon i can so can a couple
27:55hundred
27:55other people i was at mercer elementary school giving a talk about staying away from drugs
28:05let's just say everything he told us was on the level natalie howard was taking money out for good
28:10reason when preston howard found out about it why not just tell him the truth she'll do you one better
28:15why did she tell him she was planning to go to the police one sec hey what's up am i
28:23catching you
28:23at a bad time no it's a good time actually i just got out of an interrogation funny i'm calling
28:29because i
28:30went through one of those myself today
28:41hey hey how was your date 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 oh
28:54really
28:54funny you didn't mention that story to me oh i'm sorry are we keeping score now when it comes to
28:59things
28:59one of us didn't tell the other i get what you like about her by the way i mean her
29:03capacity for
29:04forgiveness her willingness to get to bed figuratively of course with the meth addict who tried to kill
29:09her brother for you know no reason at all i mean people have been sainted for less i told you
29:15okay i
29:15told you she regrets what she did i'm glad that's enough for you it isn't for me
29:25i found 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 yourself 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
30:40you said you had something yeah
30:46everything andre blake told us checked out he was at that school the day the howard's
30:50house blew up and his brother was killed in a hit and run last year
30:54okay so as far as suspects go we're back to square one in the death of natalie howard yes in
30:59the death
30:59of baby bro not so much natalie howard never had a kid let alone one killed by a drunk driver
31:05so
31:05i wondered why show up at omari blake's funeral why pledge a hundred grand to a community center
31:12being 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
31:37ah sorry it's my client i'm sorry hey bob what's up you need an update no i just got home
31:43um someone
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 misery what was it bob
32:13paramedics say he'll make it but blow to the back of the head odds are here to see who did
32:17it blow 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 a very unique one even if you're right what motive
32:29would they have for attacking them both well any luck the answer is going to come from that guy right
32:33there mr 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
32:56hey if you're looking for preston he isn't here had to go make some funeral arrangements for natalie
33:01actually 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
33:13yeah but 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 sophia made 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 a 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 in
34:50my life bob's doctor said he opened size this morning he didn't say anything but she thinks it's a
35:00good 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 and if you did there's
35:25a good chance you wouldn't have made a claim for it like the dog that doesn't bark right it's the
35:32absence of things that matters i'm guessing you stole the complete works of sherlock holmes at some point
35:42wow
35:45i'm the one being accused of theft what do you mean greg and don have been ripping off their insurance
35:53company
35:54airtaste statuette yeah poochie dress emerald brooch they claimed at least 20 000 bucks worth of stuff
36:03that 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 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
37:17it would tie him to the crime a murder an attempted murder exploded the house offer a stolen bag i
37:21don't
37:21think so a stolen bag worth over 200 grand i don't think it was the bag he was looking for
37:25i think it's
37:26what was inside the bag did you know that was in there no i i told you i never used
37:32the bag but i
37:33didn't get it what's so special about a license plate ordinarily not much but i think this one's
37:37going to prove one of the summers is a killer
37:43the summers do you recognize these of course they were all stolen from my home but i'm confused is
37:55is that why you asked me to come here to give them back to me because i thought you had
38:01questions
38:01about the little misunderstanding between grant and bob vernon you mean when grant misunderstood
38:06a pipe to the back of bob's skull grant went there to talk to bob about what louise had done
38:12things got heated and bob came at him grant was just defending himself what about this
38:22do you recognize this no that isn't mine you sure because a bag like that it's easy to trace your
38:31husband got at auction a year ago just before your 50th birthday which um according to social media
38:36posts you celebrated at cabrera in miami
38:42yes sorry i i remember now i have so many bags i suppose i just i forgot about this one
38:51that 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
39:05the 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 the 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
39:36the title to you when you turned 16 and you could just got rid of the plate along with the
39:40car but
39:41it was more than just proof of a crime wasn't it
39:46it was proof of how much daddy loved you and how special you are yeah so much more special than
39:52some random 17 year old on a bike it's too bad louise stole your bag before you had a chance
39:58to get this out
40:01obviously you managed to swear natalie to secrecy that night but unlike you her conscience it got to
40:08her she ended up donating a hundred thousand dollars to a community center in omari's name
40:13recently she told her husband there was something she needed to tell him and we think she was gonna
40:17spill about what really happened that night and we think she gave you the opportunity to do the same
40:22and instead you stick your psycho husband on her
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
40:34murder on you because you should know the d.a's office is about to offer him one in about 20
40:40minutes
40:41unless unless of course you want to talk about a deal for yourself
40:52kath you made it you said in your text you had a much better story for me than
40:57emmy ochoa dupes florida p.i second time how could i resist look about that it's okay
41:04okay i overstepped not a lot but enough so still pals then yeah well it depends how good this other
41:11story is well actually you have your choice of two my client bob vernon husband of the infamous
41:17band under broward he hasn't talked to the press since he got out of the hospital but for the wife
41:21of
41:21the cop who just talked the d.a into a plea deal that would see her serve less than a
41:25year
41:26you make an exception and behind door number two you see that group over there it's a family of
41:35omari blake i just told them how don and grant summer they couldn't turn on each other fast enough
41:42they're both probably going to go away for life now it doesn't bring omari back but they're all
41:46glad to be finally getting some justice now i figured a piece in the herald would be a good way
41:51to remind people who he was how much he was loved not to mention some good publicity for the community
41:58center of the building you're really going to make me choose well it depends you're going to quit
42:06trying to make me go on the dating apps i'll let you know after we talk to the blakes all
42:11right let's
42:12talk to the blake
42:43do
42:54you
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