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00:147 matter 15, we're code 6 at the 9-1-1 call location.
00:17Any further contact from the distressed individual?
00:19Negative. Do you want me to start additional units?
00:22Uh, no. Give us a minute to scope it out first.
00:24You ready?
00:25Do I have a choice?
00:26That's a spirit.
00:36LAPD, we've received a distressed call from this location.
00:39We are making entry.
00:43Oh, do you feel that?
00:50Feel what?
00:51Oh, something evil's in here.
00:53It sure smells like it.
01:04I can't die.
01:06It's inside of me.
01:07It won't let me die.
01:09It won't let me die.
01:12Elise, show yourself.
01:16I can't die.
01:18It's inside of me.
01:19It won't let me die.
01:20Don't touch that, all right?
01:21Just call this in.
01:22Call it in.
01:22I need an RA to my location for a stabbing victim.
01:25So I usually sit right next to the camera to keep the eyeline tight?
01:28Then I'll just sit on the other side.
01:29No, because then you'll split his look.
01:31Oh, hey, hi.
01:33Thanks, uh, thanks again for sitting down with me.
01:35Us?
01:36What?
01:36Oh, right, us.
01:38Why are you filming?
01:39Oh, I just wanted to document the new partnership.
01:41Abigail was very excited.
01:43It's not a partnership.
01:44It's totally a partnership.
01:45The judge was very clear.
01:46The judge?
01:46My name is Abigail Tierney.
01:48I'm currently trapped inside a secret lab at Westview Psychiatric.
01:52All attempts at escape have proven fruitless.
01:54I may have inadvertently used some of Abigail's footage in my last documentary
01:57without gaining the proper permissions.
02:00Translation.
02:00He stole my intellectual property.
02:02I sued, and the judge gave him a choice.
02:04Pay me 200,000 damages, or give me equal partnership in his next project.
02:08He never said equal, but you know what?
02:11Never mind.
02:11Let's focus on the story that we're here to tell.
02:14Seat.
02:17Perhaps the most shocking case of murder and mayhem we've ever seen.
02:20Would you say that's a fair assessment?
02:22Um.
02:23No, no.
02:24Stay back, stay back, stay back.
02:25You don't understand.
02:26Okay, relax here, okay?
02:27We're trying to help you.
02:28Who stabbed you?
02:29I stabbed myself.
02:31It's inside of me.
02:32I've tried everything else.
02:34I can't kill it.
02:35I can't die.
02:37See?
02:37No, don't pull it out.
02:38Don't pull it out.
02:39Oh, God.
02:43Oh, he died instantly.
02:44I mean, the wound was fatal.
02:46You can't stab yourself in the heart and survive.
02:49But the way the knife was lodged, he wasn't bleeding.
02:54Once he pulled it out.
02:55It was Blood Fountain City.
02:57Not exactly, but...
02:58As shocking as that was, it was far from the most shocking thing you found.
03:02Oh, we should get him to say that to set up the opening credits.
03:05That's not...
03:05We don't put words in people's mouths.
03:07Because it's a documentary.
03:10Yeah, it was, uh...
03:12It was straight up crazy.
03:16There's a body in there?
03:18And we have finally found it.
03:22Please don't kill us.
03:23We will join your cult.
03:26Oh, God.
03:27You arrived on scene as the sergeant's supervisor?
03:29Yes.
03:30I got there before the ambulance.
03:32Not that there was any aid they could have rendered.
03:35Is there a reason you didn't want us to interview you with Tim?
03:38What?
03:39No.
03:39But we're just...
03:40I'm just shaking it out.
03:42Let's stay focused.
03:43Were you the first to recognize the victim?
03:46Sort of.
03:48I thought I knew his face, but it wasn't until we ran his prints that we got a name.
03:52Rich Riley was retired LAPD.
03:54He had been with the department for 30 years and was a little bit of a legend.
03:58Mostly because he made a series of training videos from the mid-90s till his retirement in 2015.
04:04Which, by modern standards, are a little cringe.
04:08Hey, everybody.
04:10Rich Rowley here with another installment of...
04:14Now, today, we're going to be talking about proper cuffing technique.
04:19Excuse me, officer?
04:21I hurt my shoulder at the gym.
04:23Would you mind cuffing me in front?
04:25Thanks.
04:26Pretty lady like you.
04:29What's the worst that could happen?
04:34You're welcome.
04:38Rich was a trip.
04:40The life of the party, at least early in his career.
04:43Then, as the years went on, he became a little, uh, crazy.
04:49Crazy how?
04:50He was deep into conspiracy theories.
04:52He, uh, had a real thing for cults and cabals.
04:56To be fair, Los Angeles does have a pretty dark history.
04:58But Rich took it to the next level.
05:00And his training videos got more and more intense because of it.
05:03We finally got around to updating the videos this last year,
05:06but that caused quite a controversy with some of the older officers.
05:09They said we were being insensitive.
05:12Why would updating training videos be insensitive?
05:15Even three years on, a lot of his friends were still mourning his death
05:18and saw the videos as a way to keep his memory alive.
05:21I'm sorry.
05:22I thought Rich died six months ago.
05:23Yeah.
05:24He did.
05:25I'm talking about the first time.
05:26Divers are searching for any signs of retired Los Angeles police officer Richard Rowley
05:32after a sailing trip gone wrong.
05:35Coast Guard responded to a distress call this morning from Raleigh's wife,
05:39who says the 55-year-old fell overboard after the sailboat he was captaining
05:43was struck by a rogue wave.
05:46Anytime someone disappears from a boating trip, it automatically sets off alarm bells.
05:50Why is that?
05:51It's just an ideal place to cover up crime, throw a body overboard, weigh it down.
05:56The likelihood of us recovering it before it becomes fish food is low.
05:59And the circumstances were suspicious.
06:02By all accounts, Rich was a skilled sailor.
06:04It was a calm day, and the only witness to his demise was Darla Phillips,
06:09his on-again, off-again girlfriend who he married five days prior.
06:12So you suspected foul play?
06:16Not necessarily, but we couldn't rule it out.
06:19Why wasn't Rich wearing a life vest?
06:21He never did.
06:22He was a strong swimmer.
06:23He must have hit his head when he fell.
06:26Why didn't you jump in after him?
06:28I'm scared of dark water.
06:29Dark water?
06:30Water you can't see the bottom of.
06:33Just blackness.
06:35With condoms what lurking below?
06:37You stand to inherit Rich's entire police pension.
06:40That's quite a bit of money.
06:41How dare you?
06:42I just watched the love of my life die in front of me.
06:48We don't know that for sure yet.
06:50They haven't found his body.
06:52Unless you know more that you're not telling us.
06:56Go to hell!
06:57This interview is over.
06:59Did it ever occur to you that Rich might still be alive?
07:02As we said, we couldn't rule anything out,
07:03but there was no evidence that he'd faked his death.
07:07Until he turned up dead again.
07:09Needless to say, we had a few more questions for Darla.
07:11Helping someone fake their death isn't a crime.
07:14I checked.
07:14You're right, but profiting off of that death,
07:17collecting Rich's pension and his life insurance,
07:19it's fraud.
07:21Not to mention the resources that were wasted trying to recover his body.
07:24He could be facing some serious charges.
07:26So, tell us, why did Rich want to fake his death?
07:32After Rich retired, he kind of fell apart.
07:36His drinking got worse, and his paranoia, he was always a little intense.
07:43But it started to get scary.
07:45He covered all his windows with newspapers.
07:48He started writing down the license plates of passing cars.
07:52What was he so afraid of?
07:54He said there was this group.
07:56Like a secret society of dangerous and powerful people.
08:02He'd been onto them for years.
08:03He said that they found out about him.
08:06That he was in danger because of it.
08:08It was too much for me.
08:09So I broke up with him.
08:11And then a year later, he showed up on my doorstep
08:15and asked me to help him fake his death
08:18in return for his pension.
08:20I needed the money.
08:22So we got married, and we did the deed.
08:25And I never saw him again.
08:26So you have no idea why there was a coffin in his garage?
08:31We'll probably hold this piece of the puzzle
08:33until the end of the first act.
08:34You know, hit the audience with a twist
08:35when it's dramatically expedient.
08:37Yeah, seems to manipulate him.
08:38All good storytelling is.
08:39Just tell us about finding the coffin.
08:42Uh, so once I arrived and we secured the crime scene,
08:47we cleared the rest of the house,
08:48and then we moved on to the garage.
08:53Oh.
08:54Oh.
08:55You don't think there's...
08:57That there's a body in there?
08:58I absolutely do.
08:59Okay, are we going to open it?
09:01Because I don't want to open it.
09:03What do you think?
09:04I mean, it's clearly been dug up.
09:07Given the state of the coffin,
09:08it's clearly been underground for a few years.
09:10If there is a body in there,
09:13it's likely long dead.
09:14Unless...
09:15Unless what?
09:16Unless he put a fresh victim in an old coffin.
09:23Oh, okay.
09:24Got it.
09:25Oh.
09:26Oh, God.
09:31The body belonged to a 54-year-old truck driver
09:35named Marcus Ford,
09:36who was the victim of an unsolved homicide back in 2020.
09:39How was he killed?
09:41He was stabbed in the heart.
09:43Just like Rich.
09:45Wait.
09:46Rich murdered Marcus Ford.
09:48Did I just solve the case?
09:49No.
09:50We were able to alibi Rich out.
09:53He was hospitalized with double pneumonia
09:55the day Marcus died.
09:56Medical records say he was so weak
09:57that he could barely get out of bed.
10:00Or that's what he wanted you to think.
10:02Moving on.
10:02Digging up a body is no easy task.
10:04Why would Rich go to all that trouble?
10:05Initially, we thought it was simply
10:08the demented act of a clearly disturbed mind.
10:12And in some ways, it was.
10:13But then we found the tattoo.
10:16At first, it was a little bit difficult
10:17to make out exactly what it was.
10:20A half a decade of decomp does a number on the skin.
10:23But when we look back at the case file,
10:25there was a photo of it taken during the original autopsy.
10:28That's actually kind of sick.
10:29I wonder if there's a way to track down the artist.
10:31I've been meaning to start the sleeve on my other arm.
10:34Like, uh.
10:34To my collaborator's point,
10:36lots of people have tattoos.
10:38What was it about this one that jumped out at you?
10:40Well, something about it was familiar to both of us.
10:44But we couldn't place it.
10:45So we started asking around
10:47and the answer couldn't come from a more unlikely place.
10:52I watched the Rich Rally training videos
10:54more than any person alive.
10:56So I recognized the symbol immediately.
11:00Sometimes citizens panic
11:01when they can't get in touch with their friends or loved ones.
11:04That's why we always advise the public
11:06to wait 24 hours before reporting someone missing.
11:10Well, most missing person reports
11:12stem from a lapse in communication.
11:14Every once in a while,
11:15you'll encounter a true, workable case.
11:18Officer, help!
11:19My sister is missing!
11:21When's the last time you saw her?
11:22Last night at the bar.
11:24Her boyfriend said she never made it home.
11:26You always want to take a report like this one?
11:29Seriously.
11:30So Rich hid the same symbol in his training videos
11:33that was tattooed on the body of a murder victim.
11:35What did you think that meant?
11:38Uh, I don't know.
11:39I can't believe I'm saying this,
11:40but Smitty was right.
11:42In Lesson 187,
11:43the tattoo symbol was hidden in the background.
11:45Although, the instructions to wait 24 hours
11:48before reporting a missing person
11:49are wildly outdated.
11:51Anyways, it got me thinking.
11:53What if Rich put messages in other videos?
11:56What kind of messages?
11:58I'm not totally sure yet.
11:59I binged every single Rich training video
12:01I could get my hands on.
12:02Yeah, it's been a fun few nights.
12:03And I did find a few other possible leads,
12:06but there's a problem.
12:07The department's archive is incomplete,
12:08and without all of the videos,
12:10I can't be sure that I'm not missing
12:11a vital piece of information.
12:12So what happened to the missing videos?
12:14So when the training topics
12:15and the videos become outdated
12:17because of new laws or protocols,
12:20the department has to make new ones.
12:22And obviously, videos are supposed to be digitized
12:24and archived for historical record.
12:27But Rich is...
12:28were just gone.
12:30Gone is then destroyed?
12:31Like a cover-up?
12:32No one's saying that.
12:34Most likely it was a human error.
12:36You know, someone got lazy,
12:38didn't archive them.
12:39I tried reaching out to the production company
12:41that made the videos
12:42to see if they had any copies left.
12:44Bad news is,
12:45they went out of business a few years back
12:47and auctioned off all their equipment.
12:49What's the good news?
12:50Well, I managed to track down the auction logs,
12:54and I actually know the person
12:56who purchased the studio's old hard drives.
12:58Careful, I'm very ticklish.
13:00Like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
13:02Same.
13:02I hear it's a sign of intelligence.
13:05Is that a fact?
13:06Then I am smart as the dickens.
13:09So, you purchased hard drives from Speak Now Studios?
13:12Yeah, Dropout was still in its infancy.
13:14I was building the company from the ground up.
13:17We had to be smart about how we were spending our money.
13:19We bought a huge amount of equipment secondhand.
13:22Hard drives, cameras, wigs.
13:24Wait, wait.
13:25You bought secondhand wigs?
13:26Give them a little shake before we put them on.
13:28That's awesome.
13:29Do you still have that wig connect?
13:30Because I'd love a referral my guy is.
13:34Back on track.
13:35The hard drives you bought contain police training videos.
13:38Did you happen to watch any of them?
13:39Of course.
13:40Rich Rowley, right?
13:41We were obsessed with those videos.
13:43We probably watched them like a dozen times.
13:46I'm Rich Rowley, and this is Survive the Streets.
13:49That's great.
13:50Vic can do the best impression.
13:51Do you think you'd be able to make copies for us?
13:54I totally would, but I can't
13:57because we wiped all of those hard drives
13:58to use as servers months ago.
14:00Sorry, I couldn't be of more help.
14:02You'll still feature this interview, right?
14:06Yeah, probably not.
14:07Wait, you said you and the Dropout crew
14:09watched the video like dozens of times, right?
14:12Yes, sometimes on an edible, mostly sober.
14:14I have an idea.
14:16Okay, so then you'd be like,
14:17don't forget to check the closet, you'll die.
14:19So, I don't know.
14:19I think it's a little bit more like,
14:21if you forget to check the closet,
14:23Freddy and Jason,
14:24then Chucky will rip off your scrum.
14:25Okay, I think there's less foot stuff.
14:27I feel like he's like,
14:28and then your crazy met the ex-girlfriend
14:31who's been hiding in the hallway closet
14:33will chainsaw your face when you get home
14:34because you forgot to clear the room.
14:37Clear the room!
14:38Check the room!
14:39I think he was so close to pulling out of the gun.
14:41What are you guys doing?
14:42That's a great question.
14:43They're reenacting the police training videos
14:44since you guys wiped them off your hard drive.
14:46Oh, the Rich Rowley ones.
14:47Those are so funny.
14:49I actually stole one of the hard drives
14:51so I can watch it when I'm in the tub.
14:52You're talking about your time, man.
14:53A little self-care, you know,
14:54trying to relax a little more.
14:56It's not working.
14:57Can we have it?
14:58If you want to borrow it, I could, you know.
14:59No, I think this is actually working great.
15:02You could.
15:02Okay.
15:02I'll keep this up.
15:03We're riffing.
15:04Clearing the room!
15:05Help us.
15:05Okay, I finally finished watching
15:07all of the Rich Training videos,
15:08and there is a lot.
15:11Take lesson 277.
15:17My azaleas!
15:18A cold case where victim Azalea Robinson
15:21was found stabbed near a ski resort.
15:23You're kidding.
15:24No.
15:25And in lesson 290,
15:26Rich is holding a folder with a post-it note on the back
15:29with a brown star drawn on it.
15:31I'm lost.
15:32Right.
15:32So I looked up the cold cases
15:33to see if there were any victims
15:35with names like Star or Stella,
15:37and there was one hit.
15:39Stella Brown also found stabbed in the chest.
15:42In all, Lucy found clues
15:45pointing to seven different cold cases.
15:47But why was Rich hiding the names
15:48of murder victims in police training videos?
15:51Based on what we could piece together,
15:52he believed he had stumbled upon a conspiracy,
15:55a series of connected murders
15:56committed by person or persons unknown.
15:58If that were the case,
15:59why not just report his suspicion?
16:01He was a cop for 30 years.
16:03Well, Rich had a bit of a reputation
16:05within the department
16:06for, shall we say,
16:08magical thinking.
16:10So, unfortunately,
16:11his theory was dismissed out of hand.
16:14But why did he think
16:14the murders were connected?
16:15Well, for starters,
16:16they were all stabbed in the chest.
16:18But more importantly,
16:19each victim was found
16:20with a penny either in or on their person.
16:23What do you mean in?
16:23One had a penny in her stomach.
16:26Another had one shoved up his nose.
16:28Stella Brown lucked out.
16:29Hers was just clasped in her hand.
16:31And when we re-examined
16:32Marcus Ford's corpse,
16:33the Emmy found one inserted
16:35into the heel of his left foot.
16:38Why?
16:38Did we mention that
16:39they were all minted in 1930?
16:41Okay.
16:42Well, I just got goosebumps.
16:43Rich's autopsy also revealed
16:45that he had swallowed
16:45close to 50 pennies
16:47before he died.
16:48Gross.
16:48So at this point,
16:49was your theory...
16:50I actually have no idea
16:51what the theory would have been.
16:52Yeah, well, I would tell you,
16:54but we were way off the mark.
16:55Which we were about to discover
16:57when we got access
16:58to his cloud account.
17:00Okay.
17:02We may have finally found it.
17:05I'm so close
17:06to getting some real answers.
17:10See that?
17:22Oh, my God.
17:26Oh, my God.
17:32No, no, no.
17:36A guy pretending to be dead
17:38breaking into a secure
17:40military facility
17:41doesn't seem like
17:41the best idea.
17:43No, he wasn't just
17:43breaking into
17:44any military facility.
17:46It was Area 67.
17:48What does that mean?
17:49That's where the government
17:50keeps the aliens.
17:57So Rich broke into
17:58a secret government base
17:59on the hunt
18:00for a massive conspiracy
18:01then stabbed himself
18:02in the chest?
18:03I mean, at that point,
18:03it's obvious what happened.
18:05Is it?
18:05Come on.
18:06Remember what Rich said
18:07right before he died?
18:09I can't die.
18:10It's inside of me.
18:11It won't let me die.
18:13Yeah, I'm not following.
18:14Rich was exposed
18:15to an alien parasite.
18:17It was inside him.
18:19Were you familiar
18:21with Area 67?
18:22I'd heard of it.
18:23Yeah.
18:24There's this AM radio station
18:26I used to listen to
18:27back in Foxburg.
18:28Kept me awake
18:28when I was working late.
18:30The host was obsessed.
18:31With UFOs.
18:32Val's Velvet Bunker?
18:34That's the one.
18:35He was a little bit out there,
18:37but always entertaining.
18:39Area 51 is theater.
18:41Do you believe,
18:43do you really believe
18:44the most secretive
18:46military installation
18:47in the world
18:47would let itself
18:49become a tourist attraction?
18:51No, no, no, no.
18:52Area 51 is the distraction.
18:55Area 67 is the real deal.
18:57You know why California
18:59has all those earthquakes?
19:00It's not San Andreas Fault,
19:02my friends.
19:03It's the sonic resonance
19:04from Area 67's
19:06underground testing chambers.
19:08Did you believe
19:09in his theories?
19:10No, no.
19:11Like I said,
19:12just entertainment.
19:13Let's hear from a caller.
19:14Hi, name's John.
19:15Long-time listener,
19:16fourth-time caller.
19:17Hey, John from Foxburg.
19:19Welcome back.
19:19What have you got
19:20for us tonight?
19:20I swear to God,
19:22I just saw a UFO.
19:26John is such a common name.
19:28I'm open to the possibility
19:30of extraterrestrial life.
19:31You are?
19:32Yeah.
19:33I mean, it's a big universe.
19:34Anything could be out there.
19:35I don't know.
19:36People who claim
19:37to have seen aliens
19:38tend to be a little off.
19:39You were friends
19:40with the corpse, right?
19:41Well, yeah,
19:41we were more than friends,
19:42but fair enough, okay.
19:44Legally,
19:45is it necrophilia
19:46if she only did
19:47over-the-closed stuff?
19:48That's a great question.
19:49Oh, I definitely believe.
19:51In fact,
19:52I've been abducted
19:53by aliens.
19:54Really?
19:55Multiple times.
19:57Apparently,
19:58I'm a fascinating subject.
20:00I remember the last time
20:01Smitty was abducted.
20:03Turns out he partied
20:04too hard in Vegas
20:05and woke up in Wisconsin.
20:07Missing time.
20:08One of the hallmarks
20:10of alien abductions.
20:12Had been strengthened.
20:12Point is,
20:13the government
20:14had little gray men
20:16in their secret labs.
20:18for decades.
20:19What are they doing
20:20with them?
20:20They're implanting
20:21the aliens
20:22in unsuspecting hosts
20:23and taking over
20:24their bodies.
20:25You just never know
20:26who might be one of them.
20:30Some people
20:30in the station
20:31believed Rich
20:32dabbed himself
20:33to kill an alien parasite.
20:35But,
20:35I wouldn't say
20:37that was a dominant theory.
20:38It wasn't long
20:39before we figured out
20:40Rich believed
20:41something darker.
20:42And it was connected
20:43to the seven murders.
20:44Then why did Rich
20:45break into the army base?
20:47Yes,
20:47I remember the incident.
20:49Rich Rowley
20:50cut through a fence.
20:51He trespassed
20:51on government property.
20:52He was promptly apprehended
20:54and sent on his way.
20:55Do you have any idea
20:56what Rich was looking for?
20:58As it turns out,
20:59he was looking for me.
21:00But,
21:01not because of any
21:02alleged aliens.
21:04So,
21:04why did he come?
21:08This part is
21:09a little bit embarrassing.
21:12Before I found
21:13my calling
21:13in the military,
21:14I thought
21:15that I wanted
21:16to be an actor.
21:17And,
21:18I was in a few
21:19DTV movies.
21:20What's DTV?
21:21You're so young.
21:23Direct to video.
21:24They made all these
21:24super cheap movies
21:26back in the 80s and 90s.
21:28You make them
21:28as cheaply as possible
21:29and then hope
21:30that someone was drawn
21:31in enough
21:31by the cover art
21:32to rent them.
21:34A guy can't have
21:35a side gig?
21:36Totally.
21:36How did you get into acting?
21:37Some director
21:39scouted me
21:39when I pulled him over.
21:41He said I had a
21:42bitchin' bod.
21:44Well, he wasn't wrong.
21:45But, I gave it up
21:46because the people
21:47of this city
21:48needed a savior.
21:50Yeah,
21:51you are the model
21:51of public service.
21:53Right?
21:53Anyway,
21:54Rich became interested
21:55in this terrible
21:57B movie
21:58that I was in.
21:59I played a monk.
22:00It was called
22:01300 Days of Hell.
22:07Terrible B movie,
22:08that's what he called it?
22:09300 Days of Hell
22:10is the scariest film
22:11of the 1990s.
22:12Really?
22:13The Ring,
22:13Scream,
22:14Blair Witch Project?
22:15Which one of us
22:15executive produced
22:16a horror movie?
22:17Trust me,
22:18T-H-D-O-H
22:19is true nightmare fuel.
22:21It's not that scary.
22:23She may be watching
22:24the beginning
22:24of our relationship.
22:25When he was still
22:26trying to impress me.
22:29You want to watch
22:29it again tonight?
22:31I would.
22:33Totally.
22:33I do have plans,
22:35though.
22:37Yeah,
22:37I'm not watching
22:38that crap,
22:38even if it is
22:39for a case.
22:40I see enough
22:41horror on the job.
22:42That being said,
22:44300 Days of Hell
22:45was our first
22:46real window
22:46into the rabbit hole
22:47that Rich had gone down.
22:48A rabbit hole
22:49filled with demons,
22:50or rather,
22:51a demon.
22:52So Rich believed
22:53a demon had killed
22:54all those people?
22:55No,
22:55the killers
22:55were definitely
22:56human.
22:56Killers,
22:57plural?
22:58Yeah,
22:58there was
22:58different trace DNA
22:59on all the bodies,
23:01all from different
23:01subjects,
23:02and none of them
23:03were in the system.
23:04Meaning?
23:05The murders
23:05were committed
23:06by a group of people
23:07with shared beliefs.
23:08A murder cult?
23:10The cult believed
23:10a demon named
23:11Malifus
23:12had been possessing
23:13people all across
23:14the city,
23:14jumping from host
23:15to host,
23:16and it was up
23:17to them
23:17to stop it.
23:23The legend
23:24of Malifus
23:25is centuries old.
23:27The first mention
23:27we see of him
23:28is 1433's
23:30lesser
23:30Grimoire of Solomon
23:32by Slovenian
23:33Inquisitor
23:33Terencius Bruma.
23:36A reference text
23:37of demons
23:38and their attributes.
23:40Gnarly.
23:41Right?
23:42He's also known
23:43as the deceiver,
23:44the infester,
23:45and demon
23:46of 300 days.
23:47Why?
23:47Once summoned
23:48to Earth,
23:49Malifus won't rest
23:50until he finds
23:50a human host.
23:52After possession
23:52begins,
23:53he incubates
23:54300 days.
23:57What happens
23:57after 300 days?
23:59He reaches
23:59full strength
24:00and his power
24:01becomes uncontainable.
24:04Uh-oh.
24:06Um,
24:07if Malifus
24:08was summoned
24:08to Earth,
24:08how would one
24:09stop him?
24:10Bruma suggests
24:11killing the host
24:12might slow Malifus
24:13down,
24:13forcing him
24:14to regenerate
24:15before he can
24:16find a new host,
24:17a process that
24:18also can be
24:19slowed
24:20by the use
24:21of copper.
24:23It was the pennies.
24:24The pennies.
24:24It all came back
24:25to the pennies.
24:26Before 1984,
24:28U.S. pennies
24:29were 95% copper.
24:30So the copper
24:31and the pennies
24:31was meant
24:31to bind the demon,
24:33but what about
24:33the 1930 part?
24:35Are you familiar
24:36with numerology?
24:38Some ancient peoples
24:40and Taylor Swift
24:41believed there
24:43was a mystical
24:44connection
24:44between letters
24:46and numbers.
24:47Using the
24:47Chaldean method,
24:48the name Malifus
24:49becomes a digit
24:501930.
24:51So you're saying...
24:52We had a theory.
24:54Whoever killed
24:54those people
24:55believed the victims
24:56were possessed
24:57by Malifus.
24:59They had to
25:00reach Malifus' host
25:01before he reached
25:03his true form.
25:04A 1930 penny
25:04was the perfect tool.
25:05Yeah, Rich's talk
25:07of it's inside me,
25:08it won't let me die,
25:09he thought he was
25:10infested by this demon
25:11too, and that's
25:12why he killed himself.
25:14Wait, I thought
25:15Rich didn't believe
25:16in Malifus.
25:17Isn't that why
25:17he was trying
25:17to stop the cult?
25:18Yes, but I mean
25:19years of obsession
25:20and paranoia
25:21can do a number
25:21on a person's psyche.
25:23I mean, it seems
25:23as though in the end
25:24Rich could no longer
25:25distinguish fantasy
25:26from reality.
25:27And you got this theory
25:28from Rich's files?
25:29Well, I mean,
25:30we actually got it
25:30from Opus.
25:31And they say
25:32watching old horror movies
25:34isn't a good use
25:35of time.
25:36I never said that.
25:45Are we safe, brother?
25:47Is Malifus banished?
25:49His sigil is drawn.
25:51The right is spoken.
25:53We have sealed
25:54his last human vessel
25:55with copper.
26:03Heaven forgive us.
26:05Indeed.
26:07For hell will not.
26:11Midnight.
26:13The 300th day.
26:15Our task was done
26:17none too soon.
26:45Yeah, that was me.
26:49Do you guys want a glass?
26:50You got anything stronger?
26:53Fine, I'll just
26:54take a glass.
26:56Okay, I'll just
26:57I'll have nothing,
26:58actually.
26:58No fun for me.
27:00Yeah, that was
27:01my first big movie role.
27:04Well, my only one,
27:05really.
27:07Rich was so excited
27:09when I told him
27:09I booked it.
27:10He helped me run lines.
27:12Did Rich buy into
27:13the Malifus mythology?
27:14No.
27:15Weirdly,
27:16given all the conspiracies
27:17that Rich believed in,
27:18he was a total atheist.
27:21But I wouldn't have
27:22blamed him
27:22after everything
27:23that happened
27:23on that shoot.
27:24Like what?
27:27Before production
27:28wrapped,
27:29the DP was paralyzed
27:30driving to set.
27:31A stunt person
27:32had his leg
27:33amputated.
27:34There were divorces,
27:35bankruptcies,
27:36careers ended.
27:37One of the actors
27:38even died
27:39in his hotel room.
27:41People say
27:41the production
27:42was cursed.
27:43What about you?
27:44What do you believe?
27:45I believe the real curse
27:47was the director.
27:49He was a reckless
27:51maniac that didn't
27:52know how to run a set.
27:53Cuts!
27:54Cuts!
27:55Arthur!
27:56Arthur!
27:57Your strangulation,
27:58it has to be
28:00real.
28:01I want to feel
28:02a life draining
28:03from him.
28:03You!
28:04You!
28:04You cannot
28:05move.
28:06From your position,
28:08not even an inch.
28:09Guys,
28:09this ritual
28:11is extremely specific.
28:14Okay?
28:14Let's go again.
28:15Okay.
28:16I thought I was
28:17choking you pretty well.
28:18I'm sorry.
28:18Okay?
28:18I'm going to choke
28:19you a little hard.
28:20Ready?
28:20Douglas was real touchy
28:21about the religious stuff.
28:23I guess he had grown up
28:24in some sort of commune,
28:25and this was all based
28:26on stories he was told
28:28growing up.
28:28Okay,
28:29but what I heard
28:30is that they accidentally
28:31summoned Malifus
28:32for real.
28:32The director found
28:33some ancient tome
28:34and inserted
28:35the incantation
28:36and rituals verbatim.
28:38Ooh,
28:38I love that.
28:39And that's what
28:40got me thinking
28:41about the penny killings.
28:42We found the first victim
28:43just a little under
28:44300 days after
28:46the summoning ritual
28:46was filmed.
28:47We knew Rich was aware
28:48of the Malifus legends.
28:49It was only natural
28:51to link them.
28:51So Rich thought
28:52that penny victims
28:53were killed by people
28:54trying to stop Malifus.
28:55Was he able to identify
28:57any of these killers?
28:58We know he tried.
29:00Hey, how are you?
29:02Jared.
29:02Hello.
29:04Wow.
29:05It's a pleasure
29:06to meet you, gentlemen.
29:07Pleasure to meet you, too.
29:08Why don't you tell us
29:09about yourselves?
29:10Yeah, we co-starred
29:13on a TV show together
29:14for 15 seasons
29:17called Supernatural.
29:18Yeah, we played Sam
29:19and Dean Winchester,
29:21brothers that, you know,
29:23tracked and fought
29:24Supernatural beings.
29:26Like K-pop demon hunters?
29:28No, no, not like that.
29:30I mean, you're kind of like that.
29:33Okay.
29:33Can you tell us
29:34about your encounter
29:35with Rich Rowley?
29:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:37Rich Rowley.
29:38He came to a fan event
29:40we did last year
29:42at MonsterCon.
29:43Yeah, you know,
29:44those people show up
29:45and they just want
29:45the autograph for a photo.
29:49But Rich was
29:50a little bit
29:51of a different beast altogether.
29:53Yeah, yeah.
29:53He was super fixated
29:55on this one
29:56particular episode
29:57where we fought a demon.
29:59Relifus.
30:00Yeah, that one.
30:01Anyway, he seemed to think
30:03we, like, knew more
30:06about it than we were saying.
30:08More about what?
30:09Demon hunting.
30:10He kept, like,
30:11asking these
30:11super pointed questions
30:13like he was
30:15testing us or something.
30:17Did you have an answer?
30:18No.
30:19No, I mean,
30:19we didn't come up
30:21with these stories.
30:22You know,
30:22we just did what
30:22the writers wrote.
30:23It's called acting.
30:25There's no actual
30:26demon hunters
30:27in real life.
30:28Exactly.
30:28Uh, that's not
30:30exactly true.
30:31There is at least one.
30:33And it actually
30:34connected to the movie.
30:36We heard the director
30:37brought a priest
30:38named Father Simon McCabe
30:40to bless the set
30:41every day before filming.
30:42Well, it was either that
30:43or the whole crew
30:43was going to walk.
30:44Does that name
30:45mean anything to you?
30:48About 15 years ago,
30:50Lopez and I had just
30:51finished our rookie years.
30:52We responded to a,
30:53call it a house
30:53of a priest
30:55doing an exorcism
30:56with a 16-year-old girl.
30:57It had been going on
30:57for three days.
30:58Father!
31:01Police!
31:04Help her!
31:05Please!
31:09Excuse me.
31:11Speak to you, son.
31:12I mean...
31:13Get away from her!
31:17Father, forgive me.
31:19I don't know.
31:24Did you feel like
31:25you'd seen the devil?
31:26The only thing in that room
31:27that belonged in hell
31:28was Father Simon.
31:29He kept saying
31:30he had to.
31:31The whole way
31:32to the station.
31:33I'm sorry I had to.
31:34I'm sorry I had to.
31:35Because he believed
31:36she was possessed.
31:37She had a brain tumor.
31:39That's what they found
31:40after the autopsy.
31:41She needed a doctor,
31:42not an exorcism.
31:43And he wasn't a man of God.
31:45He was a killer.
31:46The courts agreed.
31:47So Father Simon
31:48was convicted
31:49of first-degree murder.
31:50When we processed him,
31:52we found a penny
31:52in his pocket.
31:53Nothing else,
31:54just a penny.
31:54Didn't mean anything
31:55at the time,
31:56but after Rich
31:56connected those seven murders,
31:58it seemed likely
31:58he was involved.
32:00Involved?
32:00Like he killed them?
32:01No, Simon was already
32:03in prison when
32:04five of the murders
32:05took place,
32:05and his DNA
32:06didn't match any
32:07that was found
32:07on the corpses.
32:08But he could have been
32:10part of whatever group
32:11Rich was so afraid of,
32:12which means he knew
32:13more than he had told us,
32:15so we had to go back.
32:18Officers.
32:19I remember you.
32:20You were the ones
32:21who tried to stop
32:21the ritual.
32:22I just wish
32:22we would have gotten
32:23here sooner.
32:24Becca Scott might
32:24still be alive.
32:25Oh, she was long gone
32:26before you arrived.
32:28Demon saw to that.
32:30Malifus?
32:32Do not say its name
32:33in my presence.
32:34Boy, are you afraid
32:35we might accidentally
32:35summon it?
32:37You may scorn me
32:39and my beliefs,
32:40but I have fought
32:40this evil.
32:41I know enough
32:42to fear its power.
32:44What's more evil
32:44than murdering a child?
32:46I took no pleasure
32:47in the act.
32:48I'm grateful I had
32:49the courage
32:50to do what was necessary.
32:51Courage?
32:52Tell us about the penny
32:53that was in your pocket.
32:55In the movie
32:56300 Days of Hell,
32:56Malifus is sealed
32:57inside his host
32:58with copper
32:59before he can be killed.
33:01Banished.
33:02Not killed.
33:03What's the difference?
33:04The demon is a parasite.
33:07It needs a host.
33:09Once you kill the body
33:09that inhabits it,
33:11find a new one.
33:12Becca Scott
33:13was just a single battle
33:15in a larger war.
33:16If you're in here,
33:18who's doing the fighting now?
33:21The Knights of Avila.
33:23Los Angeles
33:24has a long history
33:25of spiritualism,
33:27esoteric religions
33:28that go back
33:28over 100 years.
33:29So think
33:29Aleister Crowley,
33:31Jack Parsons,
33:32L. Ron Hubbard.
33:33He freaking loves this stuff.
33:34I do.
33:35Anyway,
33:36a lot of these groups
33:37started out
33:37as fraternal orders,
33:39similar to the Freemasons,
33:40where people would gather
33:42and share...
33:43Well, yeah.
33:44Yes,
33:44and some women,
33:45and they would share new ideas,
33:48explore philosophies.
33:49They also liked partying,
33:51doing drugs,
33:52and performing weird sex rituals.
33:55Sign me up.
33:57For the intellectual
33:59exchanging of ideas,
34:00obviously.
34:01So the Knights of Avila
34:02is one of these groups?
34:03It was.
34:04Like a lot of the similar
34:05organizations at the time,
34:06it fell apart
34:06when the founder died.
34:07It hasn't been active
34:08in 60 years?
34:10Then what was
34:11Father Simon talking about?
34:12Based on Tim and Lopez's
34:13conversation with Father Simon,
34:15we began to believe
34:16that the group,
34:17or at least the name,
34:19had been revived
34:20sometime in the late 90s
34:22to the early 2000s
34:23and rebranded
34:25as some kind
34:25of demon hunting cult.
34:28So Rich was actually right.
34:30There was a murderous
34:31cabal after him.
34:32It seemed that way,
34:33and we were getting close
34:35to discovering
34:36who their ringleader was.
34:40I found him.
34:41Found who?
34:42Doug Roberts.
34:43I want to fill a life
34:43training from him.
34:45Oh, you mean the director
34:45of the sad little demon porn?
34:47Where?
34:47I was going through
34:48some old industry trades
34:49from around the time
34:50THDOH was slated
34:51to come out.
34:52One of the articles
34:53mentioned that Roberts
34:54was a client of
34:55Stuart Wynecliffe
34:56at the Golden Talent Agency.
34:57The guy hasn't made a movie
34:58in 26 years.
34:59I doubt they still read him.
35:00Not actively, no,
35:01but I called their offices
35:03and I bribed or like...
35:04I talked one of the assistants
35:06into giving me the address
35:07where his residual checks
35:08are sent.
35:08It's downtown.
35:09Let's go.
35:09Uh, hold on.
35:11You just want to go
35:11doorstep the guy?
35:12If that means go knock
35:13on a door while also
35:14filming, then yes.
35:15Yeah, I'm not in the business
35:16of gotcha journalism.
35:17What about the business
35:18of making that paper?
35:21The guap?
35:23Money, guy.
35:24Come on.
35:24The doc business
35:25is oversaturated these days.
35:27We need footage
35:27that P.O.P.'s.
35:29And what pops more
35:30than blindsiding
35:30a potential cult leader?
35:32Come on.
35:34What's the worst
35:34that could happen?
35:36This is it.
35:38Okay.
35:40Um, uh, here.
35:40Here's your camera.
35:42Um, I don't operate.
35:43Oh, well.
35:47Now, you do.
35:51Let's go.
35:53What floor is it on?
35:55Eight.
35:55But, uh, there's an elevator.
35:57Don't worry.
36:04Are you sure it's that way?
36:05Yep.
36:07Nope.
36:08You know,
36:09at the risk of being
36:10called a scaredy cat,
36:12you do understand
36:13that this is inherently
36:14neither a wise
36:15nor safe activity?
36:16You're asking a woman
36:18if she understands
36:19that it's inherently dangerous
36:20to go anywhere
36:21or do anything?
36:23When you put it that way,
36:24I sound like an ass.
36:27Oh, that's a new one.
36:28Do you doubt me?
36:29Maybe we should
36:30come back?
36:32Hey, hello,
36:33Douglas Roberts.
36:34We're here to question you
36:35about murders and demons.
36:37That should get his attention.
36:39Oh!
36:41I am just an intern.
36:44So,
36:46clearly we're not deceased,
36:48which means...
36:49We saved you
36:50from certain deaths?
36:50I'm not sure how certain
36:51it was, right?
36:52Oh, it felt pretty certain to me.
36:54Please don't kill us.
36:55We will join your cult.
36:56Is there a membership fee
36:57or a secret handshake?
36:58I love a secret handshake.
36:59Ignore her.
37:00She's not right in the head.
37:01In fact,
37:01she has short-term memory issues,
37:03so if you let her go now,
37:03she won't remember any of this.
37:05Just shut up.
37:05No one's going anywhere.
37:06I mean,
37:07technically we're all
37:07going somewhere.
37:13All right, let him go.
37:14Get your hands up.
37:15Up against the jeep now.
37:17Let's go.
37:24Oh, my God.
37:25Yeah.
37:26Thanks for trying to save me,
37:28even though I'm the one
37:28who put us in danger.
37:30No problem.
37:32I was about to do the same thing,
37:33but you just beat me to it.
37:35I can be noble, too.
37:37No doubt.
37:37Yeah.
37:38I get very claustrophobic.
37:40Can I just point out
37:40how claustrophobic I get, please?
37:42So, when did you and Douglas meet?
37:45The movie.
37:45He was, you know,
37:47so commanding and driven
37:49and everything I wasn't.
37:51When did he start talking
37:52about killing the demon?
37:53It was at least a year after that.
37:56He would call me late at night
37:58and talk about the demon
37:59and how scared he was for the world,
38:01and eventually it started to make sense.
38:04And he told you
38:05that someone was possessed?
38:08Correct.
38:08Her name was Cynthia.
38:10Um, she cried when I tied her up,
38:13and she kept saying
38:14that she was not a demon.
38:16She begged me to believe her,
38:19and...
38:22At that point,
38:23he was very deep in my head.
38:26And then tonight, you know,
38:28all the lies he was spewing
38:29at the end,
38:30it was like somebody
38:31turned on the light switch.
38:32I could just see him
38:33for who he was.
38:35It was so pathetic.
38:39We'll need you to write up
38:40a detailed confession.
38:46I would like to make a deal.
38:50Uh, we have already located
38:52your co-conspirators.
38:53You don't really
38:53have anything to offer.
38:56You don't want to know
38:57what an alien spaceship looks like?
39:00I am all that stands
39:02between the world
39:05and damnation.
39:06So all of the people
39:07that you had targeted,
39:08they had to die
39:09for the greater good?
39:12Yes.
39:12And my heart breaks
39:14for each of them.
39:15But I will not let
39:16innocence fall to perdition.
39:19Okay.
39:19Have you had your fill of BS?
39:21God, yes.
39:22Okay, me too.
39:23So, uh, first victim.
39:26Cynthia Green.
39:27You dated for two years
39:28before she cheated on you.
39:29Marcus Ford.
39:30He worked as a teamster
39:32on your movie,
39:32then later sued you
39:33for non-payment.
39:35Pamela Jones
39:37wrote a scathing review
39:38of your movie.
39:39Really?
39:40I...
39:41I had no idea.
39:42All seven victims
39:43were people
39:44who wronged you
39:45in some way.
39:46You don't even believe
39:47in the demon.
39:47You just used it
39:48as a tool
39:49to get people
39:49with weak minds
39:50to do your dirty work
39:51for you.
39:54Exactly.
39:56I was the director.
39:57I think you'll find
39:58I never laid a finger
40:00on any of the victims.
40:01And I think
40:02you will find
40:03that Manson
40:04died in prison.
40:08All right.
40:09Uh, anything else?
40:10No, I think
40:12we got everything.
40:12Okay.
40:14That was a crazy one, huh?
40:16Tell me about it.
40:17And look,
40:17thanks so much
40:18for all of your time
40:19and for saving our lives.
40:20Anything from
40:21my favorite documentarian?
40:22Actually,
40:22the only documentarian I know.
40:24Not true.
40:24I'm a documentarian, too.
40:26Of course, yes.
40:27Oh, speaking of,
40:28how did this whole
40:29working together thing go?
40:31Is this the start
40:32of a beautiful friendship?
40:34I don't know.
40:35I mean,
40:35we have very different styles
40:37and instincts
40:38and, well,
40:39basically everything,
40:40but I'd be open
40:41to another collaboration.
40:44Oh, um,
40:46it's just,
40:47I, uh,
40:47I kind of signed
40:48an exclusive
40:49three-film deal
40:50with Hulu.
40:51What?
40:52Yeah, I, um,
40:53I sent them a sizzle reel
40:54of this project.
40:55Just the me parts.
40:56And, uh,
40:56they freaked.
40:57Said I'm gonna be
40:57the new face
40:58of true crime.
40:59Their words.
41:00Wow, I mean,
41:01you'd probably be able
41:02to bring him along,
41:03though, right?
41:04Oh, totally.
41:06Totally.
41:09I gotta go.
41:10But, uh,
41:10thanks again.
41:11Hello?
41:12No,
41:13I said Toronto
41:14and then camp.
41:17She'll probably call you.
41:19Yeah.
41:29and then tie it around.
41:31That's all.
41:32I'll be right back.
41:38Bye.
41:40Bye.
41:44Bye.
41:46Bye.
41:46Bye.
41:47Bye.
41:48Bye.
41:51Bye.
41:56Damn it.
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