00:167-Matter-15, we're code 6 at the 911 call location.
00:20Any further contact from the distressed individual?
00:22Negative. Do you want me to start additional units?
00:24Uh, no. Give us a minute to scope it out first.
00:27You ready?
00:28Do I have a choice?
00:29Yes. That's a spirit.
00:39LAPD, we've received a distress call from this location. We are making entry.
00:51Do you feel that?
00:53Feel what?
00:54Something evil's in here.
00:56It sure smells like it.
01:06I can't die.
01:08It's inside of me.
01:10It won't let me die.
01:12It won't let me die.
01:14Elise, show yourself.
01:19I can't die. It's inside of me. It won't let me die.
01:23Don't touch that, all right? Just call this in. Call it in.
01:25I need an RA to my location for a stabbing victim.
01:28So I usually sit right next to the camera to keep the eye line tight.
01:30Then I'll just sit on the other side.
01:32No, because then you'll split his look.
01:34Oh, hey, hi. Thanks again for sitting down with me.
01:38Us?
01:38Us. What? Oh, right. Us. Why are you filming?
01:42Oh, I just wanted to document the new partnership. Abigail was very excited.
01:45It's not a partnership.
01:46It's totally a partnership. The judge was very clear.
01:48The judge?
01:49My name is Abigail Tierney. I'm currently trapped inside a secret lab at Westview Psychiatric.
01:54All attempts at escape have proven fruitless.
01:57I may have inadvertently used some of Abigail's footage in my last documentary without gaining the proper permissions.
02:02Translation, he stole my intellectual property. I sued, and the judge gave him a choice.
02:07Pay me 200,000 damages or give me equal partnership in his next project.
02:11He never said equal, but you know what? Never mind. Let's focus on the story that we're here to tell.
02:16Uh-huh. Seat. Perhaps the most shocking case of murder and mayhem we've ever seen.
02:23Would you say that's a fair assessment?
02:25Um. No, no. Stay back. Stay back. Stay back. You don't understand.
02:28Okay, relax here, okay? We're trying to help you. Who stabbed you?
02:31I stabbed myself. It's inside of me. I've tried everything else. I can't kill it. I can't die. See?
02:40No, don't pull that. Don't pull it out.
02:42Oh, God.
02:45No, he died instantly. I mean, the wound was fatal. You can't stab yourself in the heart and survive.
02:52But the way the knife was lodged, he wasn't bleeding. Once he pulled it out...
02:58It was Blood Fountain City.
03:00Not exactly, but...
03:01As shocking as that was, it was far from the most shocking thing you found.
03:04Oh, we should get him to say that to set up the opening credits?
03:07That's not... We don't put words in people's mouths. It's a documentary.
03:13Yeah, it was, uh... It was straight-up crazy.
03:18There's a body in there.
03:25Please don't kill us. We will join your cult.
03:28Oh, God.
03:30You arrived on scene as the sergeant's supervisor?
03:32Yes. I got there before the ambulance. Not that there was any aid they could have rendered.
03:37Is there a reason you didn't want us to interview you with Tim?
03:40What?
03:41No. We're just... I'm just shaking it up.
03:45Let's stay focused. Were you the first to recognize the victim?
03:48Uh, sort of.
03:50Um, I-I thought I knew his face, but it wasn't until we ran his prints that we got a
03:54name.
03:54Rich Rowley was retired LAPD.
03:57He had been with the department for 30 years and was a little bit of a legend.
04:00Mostly because he made a series of training videos from the mid-90s till his retirement in 2015.
04:07Which, by modern standards, are a little cringe.
04:11Hey, everybody. Rich Rowley here with another installment of...
04:17Now, today, we're going to be talking about proper cuffing technique.
04:22Excuse me, officer? I hurt my shoulder at the gym.
04:26Would you mind cuffing me in front?
04:29Pretty lady like you...
04:32What's the worst that could happen?
04:37You're welcome.
04:41Rich was a trip.
04:42The life of the party, at least early in his career.
04:46Then, as the years went on, he became a little, uh, crazy.
04:51Crazy how?
04:52He was deep into conspiracy theories.
04:55He, uh, had a real thing for cults and cabals.
04:58To be fair, Los Angeles does have a pretty dark history.
05:01But Rich took it to the next level.
05:03And his training videos got more and more intense because of it.
05:06We finally got around to updating the videos this last year,
05:08but that caused quite a controversy with some of the older officers.
05:12I mean, they said we were being insensitive.
05:15Why would updating training videos be insensitive?
05:17Even three years on, a lot of his friends were still mourning his death
05:21and saw the videos as a way to keep his memory alive.
05:24I'm sorry. I thought Rich died six months ago.
05:26Yeah.
05:27He did.
05:28I'm talking about the first time.
05:30Divers are searching for any signs of retired Los Angeles police officer Richard Rowley
05:35after a sailing trip gone wrong.
05:38Coast Guard responded to a distress call this morning from Raleigh's wife,
05:42who says the 55-year-old fell overboard after the sailboat he was captaining
05:46was struck by a rogue wave.
05:49Anytime someone disappears from a boating trip, it automatically sets off alarm bells.
05:53Why is that?
05:54It's just an ideal place to cover up crime, throw a body overboard, weigh it down.
05:58The likelihood of us recovering it before it becomes fish food is low.
06:02And the circumstances were suspicious.
06:05By all accounts, Rich was a skilled sailor.
06:07It was a calm day, and the only witness to his demise was Darla Phillips,
06:11his on-again, off-again girlfriend who he married five days prior.
06:15So you suspected foul play?
06:19Not necessarily, but we couldn't rule it out.
06:21Why wasn't Rich wearing a life vest?
06:23He never did.
06:24He was a strong swimmer.
06:26He must have hit his head.
06:28When he fell.
06:29Why didn't you jump in after him?
06:30I'm scared of dark water.
06:32Dark water?
06:33Water you can't see the bottom of.
06:36Just blackness.
06:37With condoms what lurking below.
06:40You stand to inherit Rich's entire police pension.
06:42That's quite a bit of money.
06:44How dare you?
06:45I just watched the love of my life die in front of me.
06:50We don't know that for sure yet.
06:52They haven't found his body.
06:54Unless you know more that you're not telling us.
06:59Go to hell!
07:00This interview is over.
07:01Did it ever occur to you that Rich might still be alive?
07:04As we said, we couldn't rule anything out.
07:06But there was no evidence that he'd faked his death.
07:10Until he turned up dead again.
07:11Needless to say, we had a few more questions for Darla.
07:14Helping someone fake their death isn't a crime.
07:16I checked.
07:17You're right.
07:18But profiting off of that death, collecting Rich's pension and his life insurance, it's fraud.
07:23Not to mention the resources that were wasted trying to recover his body.
07:27He could be facing some serious charges.
07:29So, tell us.
07:31Why did Rich want to fake his death?
07:35After Rich retired, he kind of fell apart.
07:39His drinking got worse.
07:41And his paranoia...
07:43He was always a little intense.
07:45But it started to get scary.
07:48He totally would, but I can't because we wiped all of those hard drives to use as servers months ago.
07:54Sorry, I couldn't be of more help.
07:55You'll still feature this interview, right?
07:59Yeah, probably not.
08:01Wait, you said you and the Dropout crew watched the video, like, dozens of times, right?
08:05Yes, sometimes on an edible.
08:07Mostly sober.
08:08I have an idea.
08:09Okay, so then he'd be like, don't forget to check the closet, he'll die.
08:12So, I don't know.
08:13I think it's a little bit more like, like, if you forget to check the closet, Freddy, Jason, and Chucky
08:17will rip off your scrum.
08:19Okay, I think there's less foot stuff.
08:21I feel like he...
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