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Feds - Season 2 - Episode 06: Hired to Kill
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00:04all i seen was sparks i think that was the time i knew that eric was gone the 28 year
00:11old was
00:12tragically gunned down just outside of his home i just screamed to the top of my lungs no words
00:18that could explain that feeling we're innocent victims they don't deserve what happened to them
00:23i didn't know what to do after that i didn't know how to live i didn't know how to breathe
00:27i didn't
00:28know how to do any anything so the big question is who is this guy gangs drug dealers a lot
00:38of them
00:38think that they're untouchable not realizing in the background we're watching this is a truly evil
00:44person he was a true serial killer do you know who committed that murder i do who wasn't you're insane
00:52you're a monster he called himself the next john wick he's a real life murder for money hitman
01:04i'm detective joe bamberski fbi task force officer i'm liz becker special agent fbi
01:13when serious crime strikes the special agents of the fbi answer the call fidelity bravery integrity
01:23this is fans
01:42what's up at work doing what i do
01:47heartbreaking foreign cars this is sunday night and the rain eric was literally love at first sight
01:55Two days later, he was moving me out of the apartment that I was in, and I was moving into
02:04his.
02:04It was so quick, but yet, we knew. We knew.
02:10Old new year, new beginnings.
02:172017, I'll be 40 years old. Would you believe it? 40.
02:21We were moving to down south. We were leaving.
02:28He had bought a truck from his mom. We were packing it up with a little bit of stuff that
02:33me and him had together.
02:35Relocate down south, start a new life.
02:39I don't ask for much. I just want to live.
02:44Some words are so powerful when I see that video. He just wanted to live.
03:00That night, I had been working at Melrose Place, the bar.
03:06It was a deli up front, tavern in the back.
03:12Eric, he was working for A-Bob's, the tow truck company down the street from the bar.
03:18I was outside, you know, on a break, and Eric came up.
03:23We were actually talking about, you know, how we were leaving.
03:31And we'd see this man, dark-skinned man, stonewashed jeans on, and he just opened fires.
03:41All I seen was sparks.
03:43And it was just rapid fire.
03:47I tried to grab him, but Eric pushes me where I'm in front of the bar door now.
03:57My back was burning.
03:59I had gun fragments that I didn't even realize were in my back.
04:03I know Eric saved my life.
04:07It got silent.
04:13And somebody was giving him CPR.
04:16I think that was the time I knew that Eric was gone.
04:35In 2017, I was brand new to the FBI.
04:39I wanted to work narcotics cases and violent crime cases.
04:43And so, therefore, this is unfortunately kind of the perfect place to be.
04:53Philly is a very large city, very vibrant city.
04:56It has a lot of great areas to visit.
05:00But there's also the other side where there's a lot of violence.
05:03Gangs, homicides, narcotics.
05:06It's an uphill battle.
05:08The city itself, unfortunately, has really bad narcotics problems and violent crime issues.
05:14We're fighting for the top of the most murders per city in the country.
05:27There's a famous quote in Philadelphia by Frank Rizzo.
05:32And it goes, the streets of Philadelphia are safe.
05:36It's the people in Philadelphia that make them unsafe.
05:41I was in the homicide unit for just shy of 28 years.
05:45It takes a toll.
05:47It takes a huge toll.
05:49I worked probably in excess of 2,000 murders with my partner, John McNamee.
05:56So my relationship with Joe is kind of like looking in the mirror, just not physically.
06:02I felt close enough to call him my brother.
06:06I feel like I know more about him than I did my own siblings.
06:16The unique thing with myself and my partner was that we were also cross-designated with
06:24the FBI as a task force officer, which basically means you're a local police officer who is
06:33then sworn in as a federal officer.
06:37They're the same as we are at that point, all working together, all sharing information,
06:42all to try to combat the violent crime problem that plagues us all.
06:49The FBI opened their door for us, and then we bring an enormous amount of investigative experience.
06:58It's a combination of, I guess you could say, old-school tenacity and new-school technology,
07:04and it's tough to overcome when they work together.
07:13On the night of January 12th, John and I were working the 4 to 12.
07:19On the 4 to 12 shift, you pretty much resigned yourself to the fact that you're going to be
07:24leaving the building to investigate a crime, a murder.
07:35I got the phone call.
07:37There had been a homicide up in the Frankfurt section of Philadelphia.
07:42One person is shot.
07:43They were pronounced dead.
07:46The victim's name in this case was Eric Robinson.
07:50Right here where we're standing, there was a lot of blood on the sidewalk from where the victim had fallen.
07:55He was shot multiple times.
07:58His girlfriend, who was standing right next to him, was right here.
08:03There's a lot of ballistic evidence, a lot of shell casings.
08:07It looked like a very personal shooting by the amount of violence that we saw directed at one person.
08:13There's a surveillance camera here.
08:18We knew by our observations outside that the store at the corner probably had video.
08:23And we recovered some very valuable video evidence.
08:33The video surveillance shows the person who committed the homicide look outside the window
08:39and you can see that person looking at Eric Robinson and Khadija
08:45who are standing just outside of camera view on the sidewalk.
08:50The video evidence from inside the store was amazing.
08:55It clearly shows the offender's face, his physical description, the clothes that he's wearing.
09:02In my years in law enforcement, I've never seen video surveillance footage that was as clear as the Eric Robinson
09:10homicide.
09:11In addition to that, the video shows the suspect exit the store, walk directly to the victim, and fire many
09:25shots.
09:27There was no struggle.
09:29This was a targeted attack.
09:30It was just a matter-of-fact execution of a person on the sidewalk.
09:37It's clear that Eric Robinson is the intended target.
09:41What is the motive of this murder?
09:43So, we have to look into the background of Eric Robinson.
09:46Where is he from?
09:47Who does he associate with?
09:49What's up?
09:51At work.
09:52Doing what I do.
09:54Torn cars.
09:56We find out he was a working man.
09:59Was not on anybody's radar in law enforcement for any kind of misconducts at this point in his life.
10:05I'm thinking that whatever this guy did, it was personal.
10:11So, we had to speak to Robinson's girlfriend.
10:19The next day, I walked back up to the bar, and I laid in front of the bar where he's
10:25in his blood.
10:28And so, my daughter and them came and got me.
10:34Because I didn't know what to do after that.
10:36I didn't know how to live.
10:37I didn't know how to breathe.
10:38I didn't know how to do anything.
10:43Because we had did everything so much together.
10:51And he didn't deserve that.
10:57I had to, of course, talk to the detectives.
11:01And they asked me, did he ever have an altercation in my bar?
11:04And I told them, um, a customer, he was being very disrespectful one night.
11:11Over flirtatious, but not respecting the fact that I'm telling you I have a man.
11:15And it was, it was very negative.
11:18It was nasty.
11:20Eric said a couple words back to him.
11:22He didn't like Eric because Eric stood up to him, you know, and, and walked away from it.
11:29That's what I had to tell the police.
11:33That's a very viable motive for why somebody would want to commit a murder.
11:37That happens all the time.
11:39You know, romantic interests cause people to do crazy things.
11:43So, we were chasing the lead given to us by Khadija when the following evening, another murder occurred that led
11:52us in a different direction.
12:05I love this picture.
12:07When he jumped in that pool and he came up, that had to be the funniest thing ever.
12:13He'll never get old.
12:16Khayyam and we're cousins, 30 days apart, literally.
12:20We were joint at the hip.
12:21It was not one day that went by that we didn't talk to each other.
12:27We just, it was, I don't know, it was magnetic.
12:29My brother and sister.
12:32We had a good childhood.
12:33We both spent a lot of time with my grandma.
12:37Khayyam always came around.
12:38He always made sure he stopped by.
12:41And Khayyam was her breath of fresh air.
12:47There's no words in the English language to describe him.
12:51Handsome.
12:52Handsome from the word go.
12:53Such a lovable child.
12:56He called me Shorty.
12:57And I don't know why.
12:58Because I was taller than him.
13:01He was a poor real boy.
13:02And then he became a man.
13:03And I was so proud of what he did.
13:06He had two sons.
13:08Loved them to death.
13:09He took care of them.
13:10He was a grief provider.
13:13At the time, he worked at A-Bob's as a tow truck driver.
13:20He wanted to be a police officer.
13:22And he was on that path.
13:23He was on the path.
13:25He was working.
13:26That was my grandson.
13:29And I miss him.
13:31I miss that relationship.
13:54Friday the 13th.
13:56Sitting in my usual chair watching TV.
13:58My son's upstairs.
14:00Common Friday night for me.
14:02And all of a sudden, my son's coming down the steps.
14:04Come on, let's go.
14:06Kion's been shot.
14:06I said, what?
14:09We got there before the ambulance.
14:12As I'm standing outside the ER, watching across the street, I see the ambulance.
14:17The lights go out.
14:19And if you don't know what that means, that means that the person's gone.
14:23My heart just sunk.
14:26Well, they took him out of the ambulance.
14:28Then I looked.
14:30Turned around.
14:31I seen Kion's face.
14:32Couldn't believe it.
14:33His face was all swollen.
14:34His head was blown up.
14:35He'd always look big as I don't know what.
14:37But he still was Kion.
14:40And they called my son, his mother, and me.
14:43And they told us that he didn't make it.
14:46No words that could explain that feeling.
14:52And when we finally got the call, I just remember my knees, my, like, they just buckled.
14:58And I just screamed to the top of my lungs.
15:02And everything after that was just a blur.
15:04I didn't want to be touched.
15:06I didn't want to be held.
15:07I didn't want the comfort.
15:10Like, I just, I just wanted him.
15:13I never went to the hospital.
15:16I regret not going to the hospital.
15:18So, every day.
15:20Every day.
15:21And I want him to know that.
15:30I was following up leads on the Eric Robinson murder.
15:34The homicide unit was notified that another murder had occurred.
15:42The fact that they both worked at the same tow truck company, we suspected that the homicides were connected.
15:50So, the murder of Kion Fruster was then reassigned to John and I directly.
15:56I took a look at the CCTV and was able to see how Kion was killed.
16:05There's a tow truck sitting on the corner outside of Kion's house.
16:11Once Kion approached the tow truck, opened the passenger door, the shooter immediately ran up.
16:20And while the passenger door was open, began shooting Kion and basically executing him.
16:30Kion Fruster, he was a completely innocent person.
16:34The blatant disregard for human life is insane to me.
16:40The ballistic evidence that was recovered from the Kion Fruster murder was compared to the ballistic evidence recovered from the
16:48Eric Robinson scene.
16:49It was a match, meaning that the same gun killed both victims.
16:55We realized that Eric wasn't killed for romantic reasons.
17:01Now we're looking at a double homicide.
17:08We're now thinking, what's going on at the tow company that we need to start looking at?
17:15At that time in Philadelphia, we were experiencing a lot of unlicensed, unregistered tow truck operators.
17:24And some of them were warring with one another.
17:28Not to the extent that they were murdering each other, but it certainly wasn't out of the realm to think
17:34that it may have escalated to that point.
17:37We had a very clear picture of the shooter.
17:40We had a very clear picture of what he was wearing.
17:45So we get the CCTV footage of the Robinson homicide out on a billboard for people to hopefully call in
17:55and give us an idea of who the subject actually is.
17:58Once that happened, I was like, someone has to know who this person is.
18:02Someone's going to call.
18:04This will be an easily, easily solved homicide.
18:08That never happened.
18:10It was very strange that nobody came forward.
18:13What that means is he's so dangerous that nobody wants to come forward.
18:18We were starting to think that it's somebody in the city that has some kind of reputation.
18:23And it's a dangerous reputation.
18:26It's extremely frustrating.
18:28The case did stall.
18:30The case hit a point where we weren't able to move forward.
18:45Months went by.
18:46In fact, the whole year went by.
18:48And it wasn't fair.
18:50It wasn't fair to him.
18:51And I wanted to get to the bottom of it.
18:54So I investigated.
18:56I discovered Kayan was to testify against this man named Arthur Rowland.
19:01And that's where it went from there.
19:05I found out Kayan was getting his car towed.
19:09They were hooking it up to the tow truck.
19:11The guy pulled a gun.
19:13So Kayan called the cops.
19:15Kayan had to go to court.
19:17He was testifying that this guy threatened him with a gun when he was doing his job.
19:21He was doing the right thing.
19:25So I investigated a little bit more into this Arthur Rowland's lifestyle.
19:30I'm on the computer and I'm looking up his history.
19:33He's got a rap record like this.
19:36So I'd call the detectives and I let them know.
19:39I thought, this is the man.
19:41This is the reason.
19:43And that's how Detective Bemberski took over.
19:49Kayan's grandmom came to us and said that Kayan was due to testify against Arthur Rowland.
19:57When we looked into Arthur Rowland's background, I could see that he's a person who's in the drug trade.
20:03And had been so for a very long time.
20:10On the night that Kayan was making an attempt to tow Arthur Rowland's pickup truck,
20:17the police recovered the firearm that was used to threaten Kayan,
20:21as well as a significant amount of narcotics.
20:24And then the day before Fruster was to testify in this case against Arthur Rowland,
20:31he was murdered.
20:33The sticking point with that was Eric Robinson.
20:39We could not connect him to Arthur Rowland in any way.
20:43And there was no doubt that when we were reviewing the video footage of both locations,
20:50that the shooter was not Arthur Rowland.
20:53He had a legitimate alibi for both murders.
21:00We needed someone that could help us with information.
21:04So we took the information, the Task Force members,
21:07and instantly, Agent Becker informed us that he's a suspect in a major drug investigation that I'm conducting.
21:19Arthur Rowland was a known subject in the violent drug trafficking game in Philadelphia.
21:28He was one of those people that it was very difficult to get a case on him because he was
21:34very surveillance conscious.
21:35But we always knew that he was the person that we needed to focus on.
21:41I would say that Arthur Rowland is probably one of the most dangerous people that I have ever investigated.
22:04Over the course of months, we finally got a wiretap going on who we believe to be a very senior
22:14figure
22:15in the hierarchy of Arthur Rowland's drug organization.
22:23It was clear that Arthur Rowland, otherwise known as Bo, really had his tentacles in everything.
22:41Arthur Rowland was one of the main members of this drug organization.
22:45He was a drug trafficking organization, receiving large amounts of methamphetamine and distributing it to his people on the street.
22:52There's more coming tomorrow.
22:54You know what I'm saying?
22:56The money?
22:56He's sending eight pieces.
22:57You heard me?
22:58I heard you, brother.
23:00This is what the Bureau does, and we do it very, very well.
23:04Gangs, drug dealers, a lot of them think that they're untouchable, that law enforcement can't get to them.
23:10Not realizing in the background, we're watching.
23:13There's not an organization that we can't get into, you know, if we decide that's where we need to be.
23:23Because that's how you talk to me, like I'm not listening, when I ask you simple questions.
23:28That's what I'm saying.
23:30So when Joe and John said that they believe Rowland was a part of their investigation, we were very interested.
23:37They're given all access to our case files, information, whatever they need, and whatever we need to work a case
23:43together.
23:44And that's the beauty of this task force.
23:53We need to know anybody and everybody that's connected to Arthur Rowland.
23:57So as individuals are being identified on the wire, we were cross-referencing those images, their photos, to the CCTV
24:08footage of the Eric Robinson homicide.
24:11None of that was panning out.
24:13None of the people that are tied into Rowland are fitting into the image of the person who committed the
24:20murders.
24:20They are clearly not the same person.
24:23Again, the frustration level rises because you can't get past this one part of the case that's now taking months
24:31to do.
24:34One of the disappointing aspects of being a homicide detective in Philadelphia is a lot of murders go unsolved.
24:42And that's frustrating for the loved ones of the homicide victim.
24:48I didn't want to wait anymore.
24:50Every day I wake up, I think about Eric.
24:53Every morning.
24:54Every night.
24:56How do you get away with this so long?
25:00I would call them, they would call me, Bob, back and forth.
25:04They did the work.
25:05They did the footwork.
25:06But they couldn't connect it.
25:10I was thinking to myself, how are we going to tie this all together and connect the two murders and
25:19link it to the drug organization?
25:22Is there something else that I'm missing here?
25:25You just need that one piece.
25:37Please, I'm going to help you.
25:39Two black cars pulled into the parking lot.
25:42Okay.
25:43And then I heard a gunshot.
25:44One car took off.
25:46The other car, I called to see if anybody was there.
25:49It's still running, but nobody's asking.
25:55I was coming to work that day when I was notified that there was a murder.
26:00The victim in the case is a male by the name of Sean Smaller.
26:04Police are now looking for the gunman responsible for the murder that occurred in the Overbrook Park section of the
26:09city.
26:12So here in the parking lot, we find the victim.
26:15He slumped over from the driver's side into the passenger side.
26:18He's been shot one time, execution style, in the side of the head.
26:23We have one witness who sees the shooter come back up to the victim's car.
26:28Now, this time, the shooter was on foot.
26:30He reaches inside the car.
26:32The shooter then wipes down the side of the car with his jacket and then proceeds this way here towards
26:3875th Street.
26:40So the first thing I want to do is I want to look for cameras.
26:47When we reviewed that video, it was right there in the top corner.
26:52It's not great surveillance footage, but you can see the unknown male get out of the vehicle, approach Sean Small's
26:58vehicle.
27:00He stops and fires the shot.
27:04And that was it.
27:05Then later on, he returns one foot.
27:08We were able to get another video that showed the shooter.
27:12He's wearing black and bright yellow jackets, so it was easy to follow him on surveillance footage.
27:21He sees the police arrive, and then he runs through one of the back alleyways.
27:27What can we do to find out who that person is?
27:32When I speak to Sean's brother, he provides me the information that he met with Sean the night before, that
27:42it was Sean's birthday.
27:44He had met him at a bar.
27:47So now I needed to get their video.
27:50We see a series of vehicles pull up.
27:54Three males get out of all three vehicles.
27:56One of them was our victim, Sean Small.
28:02And he's with his brother, a gentleman who went by the name PR.
28:10The fourth guy, we don't know, but that was the exact person that we had on camera from the crime
28:19scene.
28:19He's wearing this distinct shirt and a sneakers match.
28:23Sean's brother, he told me that he was with two gentlemen, that one he knew was PR, and the other
28:29one he did not know, but was introduced to him as burn, earn, dance, something like that.
28:37So I watched the video from inside the bar, and it was then when I got a really good picture
28:43of the shooter.
28:45So the big question is, how do I get to this guy?
28:48Who is this guy?
29:02Now at this point, I'm like so close.
29:05So I go to what's called the photo imager.
29:08Here it's a list of people's arrest photos, and I do a cold search.
29:13How the photo machine works is you're putting in combinations.
29:16I have a description physically, decent picture of his face, and his name's Vern, Earn, Vance, something like that.
29:26So I just start breaking down combinations of those first page, nothing, second page, nothing.
29:34I'm going through the pages.
29:37On the third page, bang, there he is.
29:42That's the guy.
29:43The guy from the picture in the bar to this guy.
29:47It's the same guy.
29:49The name was Ernest Presley.
29:52Presley was arrested two days prior on another case.
29:56I really was getting one break after the other.
29:59So I prepare an arrest warrant for Presley for the murder of Sean Small.
30:10So I kind of have the who, so where's the why?
30:16And this is when I dig into PR, and then I find out that PR was associated with Arthur Roland,
30:22and their business is drugs.
30:25The more I dug into Roland, and the more I dug into PR, there was no way that I felt
30:32that a federal agency wasn't watching them.
30:37John and Joe were the FBI task force, so I reached out to them.
30:42He calls me over, and he says, take a look at this guy.
30:47And I look, and I look closer, and I'm like, that's it.
30:54That's our shooter.
30:56Ernest Presley is the shooter of Eric Robinson and Kay Ann Fooster, as well as the shooter of Sean Small.
31:07It was like, we got the guy.
31:10We knew we had the right guy.
31:12There was no questioning that it wasn't the same person.
31:15But in the beginning, Presley wasn't cooperating.
31:19Arthur Roland was still out on the street.
31:21Presley was like, I can't speak on these guys, because I know what will happen to me.
31:27The same thing that happened to Sean Small.
31:29But at that point, we have enough evidence against Arthur Roland.
31:34We've had enough pounds of methamphetamine that we had seized.
31:38We had enough phone calls that we were listening into.
31:42We know how they're operating.
31:44We know who's doing it.
31:45And we decided it was the right time.
32:00So that morning, it was a massive coordination where we had search warrants and arrests going on in California, and
32:07then also in Philadelphia.
32:10Arthur Roland is living on close to what we call the mainline, which is a very nice part of Philadelphia
32:18in a high-rise condo.
32:22We went up to the apartment that Arthur Roland was living in.
32:26Roland actually refused to open the door.
32:28So once FBI SWAT forced open the door, he was inside, and he was taken into custody.
32:37The house is searched.
32:39We find narcotics, large stacks of money.
32:44He had a gold necklace that had diamond-encrusted pendant on it that said, Bo, which is his nickname.
32:53So it just really gave a good picture of how much money he was making.
32:59There was a handgun right by the door, and Liz Becker recovered two machine guns that were secreted in the
33:07nightstands in the bedroom.
33:09It was a kid's room that Arthur Roland was keeping two extremely dangerous, high-powered, semi-automatic rifles in.
33:18It tells me a lot about him.
33:34Once Roland was finally arrested, we were hoping that Presley would be more inclined to talk to us.
33:40In April of 2019, Ernest Presley came in for an interview at the FBI Philadelphia office.
33:50It's Liz Becker, Kevin Coleman, myself, and Joe.
33:54So I said, OK, let's sit down.
33:58So I'm going to read this right off the corner, right?
34:00Work with questioning concerning the crime of murder.
34:03I couldn't even get the Miranda warnings out when Ernest Presley said, I'm going to tell you everything.
34:10So the person in the video wearing the Eagles hat and the jeans?
34:14That's me.
34:15That's you.
34:15OK.
34:16Can you tell me what happened?
34:18A murder happened.
34:19OK.
34:20And do you know who got murdered?
34:24I don't know his name personally, but I know.
34:29You know?
34:30Mm-hmm.
34:30Do you know who committed that murder?
34:33I do.
34:33Who was it?
34:34It was me.
34:35OK.
34:36And then we knew we had him.
34:39And at that point, it was pretty much, OK, can you elaborate on why you would do these things?
34:47And he elaborated on why he would do them.
34:49Can you tell me why that murder was committed?
34:54I'll stay to the door.
34:56These are things that everyone's familiar with because generally they're television shows.
35:01But this was real, a real-life murder-for-money hitman.
35:19After he identified himself of killing Robinson, we really still suspected that Brewster's murder was connected.
35:29You just told me that you did the first incident, right?
35:32I'm asking about the second one the next night.
35:35Also, yes.
35:37You're responsible for that?
35:38Yes.
35:39Ernest Presley tells us that he was hired to kill Kyan Fruster.
35:44Then we ask the next question, which is, why did you kill him?
35:49And I'm going to ask you again, can you tell me who paid you to do that?
35:54Bo.
35:55Bo being?
35:57Arthur Rowland.
35:58OK.
36:00Presley is alleging that Arthur Rowland was the one getting the firearms for the homicides and then paying the individual
36:07to do them.
36:09Do you know why he paid you to do that?
36:12Yes.
36:13And they got into an argument where he pulled out guns and the guy called the cops on him.
36:18He was arrested and that's how he chose to dissolve the case.
36:25The intent was to kill Kyan Fruster and prevent him from testifying against Arthur Rowland.
36:32He knew if the guy never showed up for court, the case would be thrown out.
36:36There's no witness.
36:38There's no crime.
36:39But I still have that gnawing thought in the back of my mind.
36:44Why Eric Robinson?
36:47In terms of the first guy, OK, how did you get put on to these guys?
36:52Actually, it was supposed to be a form of Mr. Arch.
36:59Explain that to me.
37:00Meaning that the first guy was just a sacrificial man, so to speak.
37:06He wanted to make a beam seem like it was kind of like a robbery thing going on.
37:11So his plan was, we'll kill a tow truck driver tonight.
37:16And tomorrow night, when we kill Kyan Fruster, it'll look like a tow truck war.
37:23Which is exactly the path we followed.
37:27Eric Robinson, he just happened to be wrong place, wrong time.
37:31And they targeted him just because of where he worked at.
37:35First guy that was like, never even known his name.
37:37It was just, he was a sacrificial lamb.
37:40Classifying Eric Robinson as a sacrificial lamb,
37:43you almost wonder if there's like a soul in there.
37:47It was frightening.
37:48And I realized that we're talking to somebody who's capable of incredible amounts of violence
37:55without any remorse or guilt.
37:57I say very, very few times in my life I've encountered a truly evil person.
38:05This is a truly evil person.
38:08You took this man for no reason.
38:10You're insane.
38:12You're a monster.
38:14Not only that, he did that.
38:17But then you turned around and took another young man who had just had a baby.
38:22There's so many families affected.
38:27Ernest, I said, you're looking at three murders here.
38:31The U.S. Attorney's Office was seeking the death penalty.
38:34When we brought up cooperation, he immediately responded with,
38:40I know how cooperation works over here, and I'm going to tell you everything.
38:46I'll tell you about two more murders, which almost knocked everyone out of their chair.
38:52He admits to five that he pulled the trigger on, and then co-conspirator on another homicide.
38:58So we solved six murders.
39:00He was a true serial killer.
39:04One of the cell phones that was seized from Ernest Presley at the time of his arrest,
39:08I got to look at myself, and how he names his phone was John Wick.
39:15I think that he took pride in being a hitman and called himself the next John Wick.
39:33Presley took a guilty plea for all of the incidents that he was involved in,
39:37and he was sentenced by the judge to life in prison.
39:41He declined to cooperate any further at that point,
39:44and he never testified against Arthur Rowland or anybody else.
39:50Arthur Rowland was never charged for the actual murder for hires of those individuals.
39:56However, because of the drug conspiracy, the judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison.
40:18We were able to take two extremely dangerous individuals off the street
40:25for a really, really long time, and one for the rest of his life.
40:30The families that were there for the sentencing,
40:33they got to see somebody come to justice,
40:36and hopefully that that brought them some kind of closure in the end.
40:40That is why we wear the badge and we carry the gun.
40:49I spoke at Presley's trial, and I let them know that he took something.
40:54He took a good person off the face of this earth.
40:57I miss my grandson.
40:59How much?
41:01Immeasurable.
41:03Boy, where you've been.
41:06He should have been here.
41:09He should be here.
41:14Erick's with me every day.
41:17And his love shines through all of it.
41:20And eventually I'll be back with him.
41:23I'm gonna give him the biggest kiss and hug I could probably ever give somebody
41:28in my whole entire life.
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