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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?
00:29That's the spirit.
00:39LAPD, we've received a distress call from this location.
00:41We are making entry.
00:46Oh.
00:51Oh. Do you feel that?
00:53Feel what?
00:54Uh, something evil's in here.
00:56It sure smells like it.
01:07I 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.
01:19It can't die.
01:20It's inside of me.
01:21It won't let me die.
01:22Don'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 camera to keep the eyeline tight?
01:30Then I'll just sit on the other side.
01:32No, because then you'll split his look.
01:34Oh, hey, hi.
01:35Thanks, uh, thanks again for sitting down with me.
01:38Us?
01:38What? Oh, right. Us. Uh, 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.
02:14Let's focus on the story that we're here to tell.
02:16Uh-huh. Seat.
02:19Perhaps the most shocking case of murder and mayhem we've ever seen.
02:23Would you say that's a fair assessment?
02:25Um.
02:26No, 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?
02:32I 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.
02:45Oh, 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...
03:15It was straight-up crazy.
03:18You don't think that there's a body in there?
03:20Ha!
03:20Ha!
03:21And we have finally found it.
03:23Ha!
03:25Please don't kill us.
03:26We will join your cult.
03:27Yeah.
03:28Oh, God.
03:29You arrived on scene as the sergeant's supervisor?
03:32Yes. I got there before the ambulance. Um, 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?
03:40Um, what? No. We're just... I'm just shaking it up.
03:44Let's... Let's stay focused. Um, were you the first to recognize the victim?
03:48Uh, sort of. Um, I thought I knew his face, but it wasn't until we ran his prints that we
03:54got a name.
03:54Rich Riley was retired LAPD. He had been with the department for 30 years and was a little bit of
04:00a legend.
04:01Mostly 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 gonna 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. The life of the party, at least early in his career.
04:46Then, as the years went on, he became a little, uh, crazy.
04:52Crazy how?
04:52He was deep into conspiracy theories. He, 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, but that caused quite a controversy with some of
05:11the older officers.
05:12I mean, they said we were being insensitive.
05:14Why would updating training videos be insensitive?
05:17Even three years on, a lot of his friends were still mourning his death and saw the videos as a
05:22way to keep his memory alive.
05:24I'm sorry. I thought Rich died six months ago.
05:26Yeah. He did. I'm talking about the first time.
05:29Divers are searching for any signs of retired Los Angeles police officer Richard Rowley after a sailing trip gone wrong.
05:38Coast Guard responded to a distress call this morning from Rowley's wife, who says the 55-year-old fell overboard
05:44after the sailboat he was captaining was 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. The likelihood of us
05:59recovering it before it becomes fish food is low.
06:02And the circumstances were suspicious. By all accounts, Rich was a skilled sailor. It was a calm day, and the
06:08only witness to his demise was Darla Phillips, his on-again, off-again girlfriend who he married five days prior.
06:15So you suspected foul play?
06:17No!
06:19Not necessarily, but we couldn't rule it out.
06:21Why wasn't Rich wearing a light vest?
06:23He never did. He was a strong swimmer.
06:26He must have hit his head when 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 God knows what lurking below.
06:40You stand to inherit Rich's entire police pension. That's quite a bit of money.
06:44How dare you?
06:46I just watched the love of my life die in front of me.
06:50We don't know that for sure yet. They haven't found his body. Unless you know more that you're not telling
06:58us.
06:59Go to hell! This 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. But 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. But profiting off of that death, collecting Rich's pension and his life insurance, that'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. Why did Rich want to fake his death?
07:35After Rich retired, he kind of fell apart. His drinking got worse. And his paranoia, he was always a little
07:44intense.
07:45But it started to get scary. He covered all his windows with newspapers.
07:51He started writing down the license plates of passing cars.
07:55What was he so afraid of?
07:56He said there was this group. Like a secret society of dangerous and powerful people.
08:04He'd been onto them for years. But he said that they found out about him.
08:08That he was in danger because of it. It was too much for me. So I broke up with him.
08:14And then a year later, he showed up on my doorstep and asked me to help him fake his death.
08:21In return for his pension. I needed the money.
08:24So, we got married. And we did the deed. And I never saw him again.
08:29So you have no idea why there was a coffin in his garage.
08:34We'll probably hold this piece of the puzzle until the end of the first act.
08:37You know, hit the audience with a twist when it's dramatically expedient.
08:40Yeah, seems manipulative.
08:41All good storytelling is.
08:42Just tell us about finding the coffin.
08:45Uh, so once I arrived and we secured the crime scene, we cleared the rest of the house and then
08:51we moved on to the garage.
08:57Oh. Oh. You don't think there's...
08:59That there's a body in there? I absolutely do.
09:02Okay, are we going to open it? Because I don't want to open it.
09:06What do you think?
09:07I mean, it's clearly been dug up. Given the state of the coffin, it's clearly been underground for a few
09:13years.
09:13If there is a body in there, it's likely long dead.
09:17Unless...
09:17Unless what? Unless he put a fresh victim in an old coffin.
09:25Oh, okay.
09:26Got it.
09:27Oh. Oh, God.
09:35The body belonged to a 54-year-old truck driver named Marcus Ford, who was the victim of an unsolved
09:42homicide back in 2020.
09:44How was he killed?
09:44Uh, he was stabbed in the heart.
09:47Just like Rich.
09:49Wait. Rich murdered Marcus Ford. Did I just solve the case?
09:53Uh, no. We were able to alibi Rich out. He was hospitalized with double pneumonia the day Marcus died.
10:00Medical records say he was so weak that, uh, he could barely get out of bed.
10:04Or that's what he wanted you to think.
10:06Moving on.
10:06Digging up a body is no easy task. Why would Rich go to all that trouble?
10:10Initially, we thought it was simply the demented act of a clearly disturbed mind. And in some ways, it was.
10:17But then we found the tattoo.
10:19At first, it was a little bit difficult to make out exactly what it was. A half a decade of
10:25decomp does a number on the skin.
10:27But when we looked back at the case file, there was a photo of it taken during the original autopsy.
10:32That's actually kind of sick. I wonder if there's a way to track down the artist.
10:35I've been meaning to start the sleeve on my other arm.
10:38Like, uh...
10:38To my collaborator's point, lots of people have tattoos. What was it about this one that jumped out at you?
10:44Well, something about it was familiar to both of us, but we couldn't place it. So we started asking around,
10:51and the answer couldn't come from a more unlikely place.
10:56I watched the Rich Rally training videos more than any person alive, so I recognized the symbol immediately.
11:04Sometimes citizens panic when they can't get in touch with their friends or loved ones.
11:08That is why we always advise the public to wait 24 hours before reporting someone missing.
11:14While most missing person reports stem from a lapse in communication, every once in a while, you'll encounter a true,
11:20workable case.
11:22Officer, help! My sister is missing!
11:25When's the last time you saw her?
11:26Last night at the bar. Her boyfriend said she never made it home.
11:30You always want to take a report like this one? Seriously.
11:34So Rich hid the same symbol in his training videos that was tattooed on the body of a murder victim.
11:39What did you think that meant?
11:42Uh, I don't know.
11:43I can't believe I'm saying this, but Smitty was right. In Lesson 187, the tattoo symbol was hidden in the
11:49background.
11:50Although, the instructions to wait 24 hours before reporting a missing person are wildly outdated.
11:56Anyways, it got me thinking. What if Rich put messages in other videos?
12:00What kind of messages?
12:02I'm not totally sure yet. I binged every single Rich training video I could get my hands on.
12:06Yeah, it's been a fun few nights.
12:07And I did find a few other possible leads, but there's a problem.
12:11The department's archive is incomplete, and without all of the videos, I can't be sure that I'm not missing a
12:15vital piece of information.
12:16So, what happened to the missing videos?
12:18So, when the training topics in the videos become outdated because of new laws or protocols,
12:24the department has to make new ones.
12:26And the obsolete videos are supposed to be digitized and archived for historical record.
12:31But Rich is... were just gone.
12:34Gone as in destroyed?
12:35Like a cover-up?
12:36No one's saying that. Most likely it was a human error.
12:40You know, someone got lazy, didn't archive them.
12:43I tried reaching out to the production company that made the videos to see if they had any copies left.
12:48Bad news is, they went out of business a few years back and auctioned off all their equipment.
12:53What's the good news?
12:54Well, I managed to track down the auction logs, and I actually know the person who purchased the studio's old
13:01hard drives.
13:02Careful, I'm very ticklish.
13:04Like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
13:06Same.
13:06I hear it's, um, a sign of intelligence.
13:09Is that a fact?
13:10Then I am smart as the dickens.
13:13So, you purchased hard drives from Speak Now Studios?
13:16Yeah, Dropout was still in its infancy.
13:19I was building the company from the ground up.
13:21We had to be smart about how we were spending our money.
13:23We bought a huge amount of equipment secondhand.
13:26Hard drives, cameras, wigs.
13:28What? Wait.
13:29You bought secondhand wigs?
13:30Give them a little shake before we put them on.
13:32That's awesome.
13:33Do you still have that wig connect?
13:35Because I'd love a referral.
13:36My guy is...
13:38Back on track.
13:39Uh, the hard drives you bought contain police training videos.
13:42Did you happen to watch any of them?
13:43Of course.
13:44Rich Rowley, right?
13:45We were obsessed with those videos.
13:47We probably watched them like a dozen times.
13:50I'm Rich Rowley, and this is Survive the Streets.
13:53That's great.
13:54Vic can do the best impression.
13:55Do you think you'd be able to make copies for us?
13:58I totally would, but I can't,
14:01because we wiped all of those hard drives
14:02to use as servers months ago.
14:04Sorry, I couldn't be of more help.
14:06You'll still feature this interview, right?
14:10Yeah, probably not.
14:11Wait, you said you and the Dropout crew
14:13watched the video like dozens of times, right?
14:16Yes, sometimes on an edible, mostly sober.
14:19I have an idea.
14:20Okay, so then you'd be like,
14:21don't forget to check the closet, you'll die.
14:23So, I don't know.
14:23I think it's a little bit more like,
14:25if you forget to check the closet,
14:27Freddy, Jason, and Chucky will rip off your scrum.
14:29Okay, I think there's less foot stuff.
14:31I feel like he's like,
14:33and then your crazy met the ex-girlfriend
14:35who's been hiding in the hallway closet
14:37will chainsaw your face when you get home
14:38because you forgot to clear the room.
14:41Clear the room!
14:42Check the room.
14:43I think he was so close to pulling out of the gun.
14:45What are you guys doing?
14:46That's a great question.
14:47They're reenacting the police training videos
14:48since you guys wiped them off your hard drive.
14:50Oh, the Rich Rowley ones.
14:51Those are so funny.
14:53I actually stole one of the hard drives
14:55so I can watch it when I'm in the tub.
14:56You're talking about your tub, man?
14:57A little self-care, you know?
14:58Trying to relax a little more.
15:00It's not working.
15:01Can we have it?
15:02If you want to borrow it, I could, you know.
15:04No, I think this is actually working great.
15:06Okay.
15:06You can keep this up.
15:07We're riffing.
15:08Clearing the room!
15:09Help us.
15:09Okay, I finally finished watching
15:11all of the Rich training videos,
15:13and there is a lot.
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