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مسلسل Homicide مترجم - Episode 2
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05:35Bradbury's
06:07Bradbury's
06:17Bradbury's
06:23Bradbury's
06:54Bradbury's wife, Trudy's
07:05Bradbury's
07:07next thing we heard is another series of shots and then just silence with dr.
07:14Johnson he lived behind Mickey and Trudy and when he heard gunshots and he
07:22looked out he sees the bicycles going down Woodland Lane dr. Johnson saw two
07:30young black men on 10 speeds I mean that was that was obviously a route of escape
07:36dr. Johnson also said that Mickey Thompson he had a routine down at 6 o'clock every
07:44morning they would leave their house in Bradbury and drive all the way to
07:50Anaheim Stadium where their office was they used a van and Trudy would generally
07:55drive she would back it out he would then lower the door and then get in and
08:00they would drive to work we know that there's two men on bicycles who we are
08:05assumed are the shooters but what was their purpose and now it could be a
08:09robbery but when the detective you started checking the van that Trudy was
08:14driving it was full of jewelry very expensive jewelry and Mickey he had
08:20several thousand dollars in his wallet it wasn't taken wasn't touched obvious
08:25stuff is right on the seat and they didn't grab it that makes no sense and
08:33then the neighbor heard Mickey call out to Trudy and that they went after her
08:41first if this was a robbery they never kill the woman first they always kill the
08:46man first he's a big guy absolutely illogical Trudy was down on the ground
08:55there were fingernails broken off I mean I just felt like she was driving they
09:03shot through the window at her I think she was running away and not fighting and
09:09Mickey you know he was turned toward her and it just broke my heart it's the
09:23cruelest thing everybody is telling us Mickey loved Trudy he was totally devoted
09:32to her and he was just madly in love with her my dad and Trudy when they got
09:36married it was a it was a big deal she had a great personality and very jovial and they
09:42had a great relationship they were a really good team working together they're a good match in
09:49the same way that a court is a good court they're very very different but it worked
09:56in an amazing ways my aunt Trudy was an important part of my life Trudy had grace
10:06kindness and love she was the one who made people feel that they're appreciated
10:18the entire crime scene was outside but I was really trying to be observant and look at what is
10:24out of place we went into this office that was off the garage and out of the corner of my
10:37eye I see
10:39somebody in there and I screamed now of course the deputies come running in ray was there and it was
10:50a
10:50full-size mannequin of Mickey Thompson in his you know racing suit and I was so embarrassed we were
11:00all laughing but I you know it was a light moment another light needed light moment you have to lighten
11:08the air or you I don't know you have to last so you don't cry you know you just have
11:12to and then you
11:13know and then you just go okay this is this is my job I got to get back out there
11:17I was really looking
11:22around and really trying to evaluate what I could bring to the table I had photographs taken on the
11:29driveway of shoe prints in mud there was a stun gun on the ground by Mickey there were some cartridge
11:35casings next to the garage door were these small little orange trees and I looked and I saw orange
11:45peels on the ground they were cut and it was fresh I mean I was just I remember just thinking
11:54they were
11:54sitting up there and they're gonna have an orange while they're waiting to execute people it just made
12:01me know that they knew exactly where to sit and wait you you start piecing this all together they
12:08were lying in wait in front of the garage there was yeah the stun gun now was that used on
12:15Mickey was
12:15it used on her we're not quite sure but it was there obviously to try and take control 10 speed
12:22bicycles
12:22guns guns huh killing in the sequence it would do the most harm and pain for Mickey we're talking a
12:33hit it is a hit
12:41our primary suspects are two male blacks they're described as 20 to 30 years of age there was a woman
12:52that
12:52was driving down the road near Bradbury Estates as she's driving suddenly from across that little
13:00driveway these two male blacks on bicycles seemed like they were out of control they were going a
13:05little too fast but she got a look at them because she nearly hit them and as a good citizen
13:10calls in
13:11she made comment to the Sheriff's Department and the Sheriff's Department got her in contact with a
13:18forensic artist all the officers are aware all the surrounding areas and we put up traffic stops at
13:25major intersections we're handing out these artists renderings of the suspects homicide detectives in LA hope
13:34someone somewhere will see this report on the murder of racing legend Mickey Thompson and his wife Trudy and
13:41volunteer information about these two men the media coverage I mean it was as sad as it was they just
13:49shoved it down your throat every two seconds police say he and his wife were shot several times the two
13:54men
13:54then fled on 10 speed bicycles the biggest question still unanswered is why it was on every station as
14:03on all the major networks and even the non-major web networks were there the media deal was out of
14:08control
14:10it was very oppressive and very hard seeing it on the news uh with the helicopters showing pictures of
14:25where their bodies were there was no personal space for grief
14:41now one of the things that you've got to do is you've got to learn your victim when did they
14:45get
14:45into that position where they were going to be victimized it's very important we were directed to
14:51go to a house up and not far from the crime scene where the family had gathered everybody was very
14:59very hurt
15:00very broken up and we were coming in to talk to him that's one of the worst parts about the
15:06job I think
15:07everybody was in a daze I mean is this really happening a part of the gathering was of course
15:19the sister who was is Colleen and she just loved Mickey and Trudy the death Danny who was trying to
15:27fill in as much information as he could but he was he was crushed he was hurting I told the
15:32investigators
15:33right at first this wasn't an easy residence to get in you had to have a plan and it had
15:42to be premeditated
15:49while we're interviewing everybody in the family they had a feeling of if it's done Mike Goodwin was
15:57responsible Mickey Thompson and Mike Goodwin were in similar businesses Mickey Thompson would bring in
16:07Baja style racing indoors Mike Goodwin was emulating that to a certain degree on the motocross circuit the
16:16two of them decided a partnership would benefit them Mike Goodwin was incredibly bright incredibly big
16:24personality incredibly charismatic and he was used to winning he wanted everything he did Mickey and Trudy
16:31he had focused in on the car side of it and at the same time Goodwin was beginning to promote
16:37motorcycle
16:38racing under similar conditions bringing the motorcycles in motorcycle events along with the car
16:45event together you know made made good sense Mickey Thompson had the name he was lending his name and his
16:51reputation to the event to fill the stadium my dad secured the contracts at Anaheim Stadium for both
16:59off-road and Supercross it looked like Goodwin would have been a good partner but I mean Goodwin
17:04after a couple events there he ran the bills up and didn't pay him and burnt the relationships with
17:09the stadiums you know by not paying and being Goodwin when we looked into Mike Goodwin's background
17:15one of the things we found about him is anytime he got a chance he would screw you he was
17:21a crook for
17:23Mickey and integrity and making sure that everyone was was taking care of was incredibly important
17:29there there was a realization on Mickey's part no I'm not going to lend my name to something like
17:36that so Mickey terminated the partnership and that was the beginning of a long legal battle all the court
17:47battles you know my dad kept winning and the judgments were in his favor and you know Goodwin
17:52started switching money around and you know claiming bankruptcy here and switching it to this person
17:58that person the last time that I saw Mickey and Trudy there was a phone call Mickey turned it over
18:07to
18:08speakerphone I recognized Goodwin's voice and what he was saying was I'm going to make you pay you'll
18:17never see the loss through the suit through its end Goodwin's tone was deadly serious one of the
18:25last conversations I had with my dad he warned me that Goodwin was out of control oh obviously we've
18:34now got to interview Mike Goodwin so we drive down to their law offices as we get in my Goodwin
18:43was
18:43standing behind his attorney his attorney said we're not going to allow him to talk to you and he stood
18:48there
18:49God he went through this this ritual of hands up ooh
18:57and kept pointing at his attorney I thought oh God I'm going to throw up
19:03Michael Goodwin had told his attorney that he was at a gym at six o'clock that morning and he
19:09was
19:10talking to people a lot of people could verify he was there Mike Goodwin was on a treadmill in Orange
19:17County at the time these two people were killed in the San Gabriel Valley so there was nothing
19:23connecting Mike Goodwin to their crime scene there is no direct evidence there is no smoking gun because
19:31no one ever determined who were the shooters and then a short time later Michael Goodwin and his wife
19:39they just disappear and when they contacted Michael Goodwin's attorney they said all that we know is they
19:47bought this boat and they left the country so he couldn't be questioned he couldn't be investigated
19:54every homicide investigator in the history of mankind has one or two cases that they can't pull
20:02the trigger and that last bit of evidence there is those cases that you think my god I that one
20:08bothers
20:09me Mickey didn't deserve this Trudy didn't deserve this and you have this punk Mike Goodwin fleeing
20:15yeah I mean I think it really hurt those detectives they all were really upset that they couldn't just
20:22couldn't break it everybody wanted that to be solved and they don't always get solved
20:43the cold case unit of the LA County Sheriff's Department at that time was composed of about six
20:48older mature close to retirement detectives a great detective a guy named John Yarborough he basically
20:56said hey I've got this really big unsolved cold case the Mickey Thompson and Trudy Thompson murders and
21:03I'd like you to learn about the nuances of this case because there's a lot to it and I'm old
21:09I'm gonna
21:10retire soon you're young and it'll be easy for you it won't be hardly anything at all kid he
21:18ultimately retired around 1994 and myself and my new partner then kind of assumed control of the case
21:26from that point on I'd never heard of Mickey Thompson in my life until I got introduced to the case
21:34it's a
21:35high-profile case and I'm really at the beginning of my murder career I've only been a murder cop two
21:41years I went to Ray for advice I respected him greatly and he gave me great advice only one way
21:47to eat an elephant one bite at a time Mark Lillefeld I was always impressed by him if I am
21:54murdered I
21:55want him investigating my murder he has the skills tenacity intelligence humor and he was not impressed or
22:04pushed around by a hierarchy it's good sometimes to question authority you got to think globally be
22:14open to other ideas but to not dismiss out of hand certain other theories that may come up with
22:21somebody mad at somebody else for another reason other than this business dispute between Michael
22:26Goodwin and Mickey Thompson you've got to be open to that so one of the first things we did was
22:32I met
22:32Colleen Campbell Mickey Thompson's kid sister Colleen Campbell is a force of nature she's an amazing
22:42woman anybody that's had somebody murdered I think understands it there's so much anger inside of you
22:48and if you don't get past it and you relive it every night in your nightmares the first time I
22:59met
22:59Colleen was at her home and I hit it off with her I liked her right away we kind of
23:03had a connection and of
23:05course after you know four minutes of being in the home I had to use the restroom so as I'm
23:10walking down the
23:10hallway I see a photograph of a young man on the wall and it was Scott her son
23:19in 1982 Colleen suffered you know the most horrific tragedy any parent could suffer is the loss of a child
23:25Scott had been hanging around the wrong people he was killed and his body was tossed out of a plane
23:35she basically investigated herself she brought everything and all the information together she
23:41worked those innards to make them outwards and she was very instrumental in pushing for prosecution I
23:52I mean she was relentless never given up and she was just all the time on it and on it
23:57in ways that
23:58you would never even imagine you know Larry Cowell was ultimately convicted for the murder of Colleen's
24:05son and Colleen you know she described repeatedly you know you really need to at least look at this and
24:12eliminate Larry Cowell because turns out during the trial of Larry Cowell and his crime partner for
24:17the murder of Scott Campbell Mickey Thompson actually testified Larry Cowell was deeply enmeshed in the
24:26narcotics world because he was a dope dealer but also he was a big auto racing guy and Mickey testified
24:33is an
24:34expert witness regarding these car parts found in Larry Cowell shop the trial ended eight or ten months prior to
24:44the
24:44death of Mickey and Trudy Thompson it's kind of unusual that murder should hit a family like that so we
24:51looked for a connection we reviewed all of the Scott Campbell murder reports we spoke to the original
24:57detective you know we took it seriously there was not a shred of evidence to indicate any relationship
25:04between the murders of Mickey and Trudy Thompson and the murder of Mickey's nephew Scott Campbell other
25:10than the fact that they devastated a very nice big warm loving family my partner and I we wound up
25:22going
25:22back really square one you know we'd come up with theories would come up with ideas all those things
25:27have been eliminated and the one thing that hasn't been eliminated is the fact that somebody was paid to
25:32do this murder and that they were paid by Michael Frank Goodwin once Mickey Thompson was murdered once
25:43Trudy Thompson was murdered if Mike Goodwin had nothing to do with it you would expect him to live
25:47his life very normally going about his business not changing anything of any note but what did Mike
25:53Goodwin actually do after Mickey was killed Michael Goodwin and his wife decided to sell their house and
26:00they take all the assets that they have and they funnel them into a Caribbean bank 88 days after the
26:10murder he had fled the country on a boat that he obtained through fraud in 1993 Mike Goodwin was charged
26:20with fraud after he came back to the United States he was found guilty and went to federal prison
26:29and he would receive a sentence of two and a half years
26:35Mike Goodwin he wasn't going to talk he never talked to the cops but we had his phone calls
26:40monitored at the same time every person that was ever interviewed by the original detectives my
26:46partner and I went back and re-interviewed those people in speaking with Dr. Lance Johnson who was
26:52kind of an ear witness to the assault he said my daughter her best friend a girl named Allison
26:56Triarcy lived across streets from Mickey Thompson she saw the whole thing and he wasn't sure if law
27:03enforcement had ever contacted Allison Triarcy well it turned out ultimately in reviewing the records
27:08law enforcement never had they didn't overlook her the time of the murders Allison Triarcy who's a 15
27:15year old girl she was actually hidden by her parents because of the psychological trauma that
27:20she had I get it if I had children if it was my dog there was an eyewitness I would
27:26have hidden my
27:26dog I wouldn't let my dog talk to the cops either so I get it Allison Triarcy she's a grown
27:32woman now so
27:33we were able to locate her Allison told my partner and I that she was getting ready to go to
27:38school and
27:39she heard this really high-pitched screaming as she ran to these front living room windows that
27:46looked down upon the Thompson estate so Allison actually saw Trudy Thompson crawling on her hands
27:56and knees down the driveway Mickey Thompson was kneeling with his hands raised begging please don't
28:02kill my wife please don't kill my wife not begging for his life begging for her life when Trudy got
28:08to
28:08the end of the driveway the suspect pulled the trigger of the gun and fired around into Trudy's
28:12head Allison watches that same suspect walk up the hill and then shoot and kill Mickey Allison was
28:21able to describe right away that it was two african-american males that fled on 10 speed bicycles
28:28they wanted Mickey to watch her suffer allowing him to understand that the last thing he's ever gonna see
28:37on this earth was the love of his life being executed he so treasured her it was that kind of
28:47person the fact
28:49that he tried put himself in harm's way to protect her was no surprise at all it was planned to
28:56torture my dad
29:01cut and dry and and it did
29:11hearing Allison's version of what had occurred really kind of drove you know the nail into the
29:16coffin a little bit more in corroborating what we already believe she is the only living eyewitness
29:24that was able to describe the actual shooting of both victims so she was pretty critical it's one
29:30thing to hear about it it's another thing to actually see it there was only one reason to kill these
29:36two
29:37people in this manner and that was pure unadulterated revenge but more evidence is needed to literally
29:44tether Mike Goodwin to the actual murders
29:51Mike Goodwin paroled from federal prison he flew out to Orange County Santa Ana Airport so I wound up having
29:58his luggage somewhat lost when the plane landed so I pretended you know that I was a passenger on the
30:06plane too and we're both pissed off and waiting for our luggage he was clueless I had a tape recorder
30:12going because I want to record his voice because I knew at some point in time I was going to
30:18attempt to wiretap
30:20his telephones so I wanted to know what he sounded like so that was really my primary goal
30:26and secondarily was simply just to meet the guy much like knowing about your murder victims the more you know
30:33about your suspect the more you can find their weak spots and exploit that to your advantage
30:38during that 40-minute airport meeting it was all Mike Goodwin all the time and it was all bullshit
30:45Mike Goodwin claims to be the youngest Eagle Scout in the history of Eagle Scouts bullshit Mike Goodwin
30:50claims to a you know bet at every Playboy bunny bullshit Mike Goodwin claims he's the Golden Gloves
30:55champion of Pensacola Florida bullshit really bullshit inconsequential lies that don't amount to
31:01a hill of beans but they show a pattern of conduct the guy can't tell the truth his whole life
31:06was a lie
31:14at first it was very quiet and nothing was really happening and as much as I like Lillian
31:20field he didn't tell me anything but he couldn't that's not he his job is not to go blab around
31:25everything his job is to investigate it and figure it out after so many years of this Mickey Thompson
31:33Trudy Thompson killing you needed to approach it in a different way the Sheriff's Department
31:40Homicide Bureau were not media driven but I had used the TV show America's Most Wanted previously on
31:48another unrelated murder case and it generated some really good clues I was trying to identify the two
31:54shooters so they were still interested we got a couple of hundred phone calls and some of them were the
32:05crazy phone calls the alien phone calls or you know John Wayne did it or whatever but a number of
32:10them
32:10were of value what makes mark so great is he's gonna find these little things and figure out a way
32:21to get
32:22information in this case found a girl that got done wrong by him we received a phone call on a
32:30tip line
32:31this woman she'd had a brief romantic relationship with Mike Goodwin she told us on the phone that Mike Goodwin
32:37and her were watching a crime show on the Mickey Thompson murders and that Mike had confessed to her
32:43his responsibility for having arranged those murders and he was kind of bragging about how he would never
32:49be caught because he was too smart so she became a good witness but it was you know one part
32:56of the bigger
32:57puzzle that the women in Mike Goodwin's life had obtained admissions from him and God knows how many
33:02other women are out there that hold that secret I was asked by mark you know hey I'd like you
33:10to to
33:11head this up I want you to go to Virginia to monitor the activity of Goodwin's ex-wife Mike Goodwin
33:17was
33:17married at the time of the murders of Mickey and Trudy Thompson but eventually he and his wife of that
33:23time divorced Mike Goodwin paroled from federal prison pretty close to the same time his ex-wife Diana Goodwin
33:32went to live with her parents in Virginia Beach Virginia so we applied for and received permission
33:38to do a wire intercept in the state of Virginia on Diane Goodwin's home phone and her business telephone
33:45during undercover operations we sometimes want to stimulate people to talk about crime
33:53one of the ways and it's very common is quite frankly by calling the person I'm detective Mark
33:59Lillifield from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide I would love to talk to you about your ex-husband
34:05I don't really care if she talked to me or tells me to go fuck myself or not which is
34:09basically what
34:10she did all I care about now I got her brain going when she started getting phone calls from Mark
34:17Lillifield we were there to monitor her in an assortment of surveillance tactics and see what
34:25what she did because it's going to lead to more evidence one phone call in particular we listened
34:31to she basically makes an admission that Mike had admitted to her that he was responsible for the
34:37Thompson murders so we've got two different people in two different states at two different times
34:42making the same statement that Michael Goodwin had admitted being responsible for the murders
34:46of Mickey and Trudy Thompson that's good shit a legal term in my world
34:54everything about this case was circumstantial in terms of connecting Mike Goodwin to the actual
35:01murders that changed with the revelation of new eyewitnesses the America's Most Wanted show generated a
35:10call from a gentleman who was an accountant and he said hey I've got a client and he saw some
35:16suspicious activity a couple days before the murder and he's tried calling the cops a couple
35:21times but they always brush him off this gentleman's name is Ron Stevens basically he said hey I didn't
35:26know Mickey Thompson I'd never met him but I lived about three blocks away from where he was killed at
35:31his home so Ron goes on to tell me he says I come home early and my wife steps outside
35:35the house to
35:36greet me in the driveway and she said hey I'm glad you're home there's a really suspicious car parked on
35:41the street and it's got two men in it and they got binoculars and I think something is up and
35:45there's
35:46a grade school down the street maybe they're pedophiles maybe they're kidnappers I don't know
35:50and Ron Stevens actually walks towards the street where this car is parked and he can see the side of
35:57the driver the driver was white the passenger was black oh and Ron Stevens gets closer to the driver
36:02he gets out of there he like peels rubber leaving the the scene and Ron thinks god that's odd
36:08and he called the LA County Sheriff's Department sadly we never sent a radio car out there so it's on
36:15us
36:15it's our bad this is about four days before the Mickey and Trudy Thompson murders and when he describes
36:23a driver he describes Michael Goodwin almost to a T could this have been Mike Goodwin could he have
36:31been there actually surveilling the area in in order to set the plans in motion to have them murdered
36:37so now what had to be done was there had to be a lineup to see if this witness really
36:44could identify
36:45Goodwin that was the problem how are you going to do that if the person was in custody you could
36:52do it
36:52so the idea was well let's arrest him on a Ramey warrant Ramey is a term we use in California
37:00for a
37:01probable cause arrest warrant where we take the actual warrant to a judge he signs it the prosecutor's not
37:07involved so I write an arrest warrant for my good one fuck my good one mr. Goodwin you were here
37:17today because you refused to volunteer for the lineup would have been easier now looking at hindsight to
37:22just simply volunteer for this lineup rather than go through this no I think we have to challenge this
37:27government misconduct whenever we can but let me ask you this if I committed otherwise a perfect crime
37:32would I have been so stupid to go to the scene of the crime I mean this is beyond belief
37:39I coordinate
37:40a live lineup in men's central jail with Ron Stevens with him and his wife we have them both view
37:46the
37:47lineup they both identify Michael Frank Goodwin as a guy sitting in the car with an african-american
37:54three blocks from Mickey Thompson's house four days before the murder being able to place him at the
37:59crime scene or close to the crime scene was a revelation it was a huge deal we got him now
38:04and
38:05we charged him with murder this whole thing is a farce and a setup and my treatment in jail was
38:11exemplary of
38:12that I looked up in the sky and I talked to Mickey about I said you think you've gone through
38:27some
38:27endurance races in your life buddy let me tell you we just gone through a 13 year three or nine
38:34months
38:35endurance race and this is a tough one but I did what you always taught me to do never never
38:41give up
38:42I remember when he was arrested it was hopeful but it wasn't done Goodwin called the case against
38:50him character assassination knowing what a slimy bastard Goodwin was you know is he gonna wiggle his
38:55way out of this one Mike Goodwin had a hot red burning hate for me after I'd arrested him the
39:03threats and everything kind of started around that time you know when he had people working for him
39:07and it was like a continual you know never-ending thing Mark Lillifield was starting to get some
39:15pretty significant threats threats on his life death threats but Mark was of the opinion look I've got a
39:21job to do I'm not gonna be deterred you know Mark is one of those guys that learned how to
39:26let the blows
39:26glance off of them and I was that dumb Irish boxer that stood there you know taking absorbing every
39:32frickin blow to show her when how tough you are right you know to do it as long as Mark
39:37did it you
39:37have to be like Mark where you really can let things glance off of you after seeing what these people
39:46will do I am concerned about anything they will make up evidence the DA's office didn't want to get
39:53involved in this thing if it was a loser if you don't have all your ducks in order you don't
39:59want
39:59to take a chance especially in a publicity case like this I met Ron Bowers he was a deputy district
40:06attorney he had retired at the time and he'd been hired back in their trial support division so the two
40:13prosecutors Alan Jackson and Pat Dixon had elicited Ron's help in preparing all of the court exhibits
40:21and helping get the case organized it was a massive case and I said well you know I'm more than
40:26happy to
40:26look at it but I'm gonna have to have the case files and Mark said okay we'll take care of
40:34it next day I come
40:36to work and I barely can get into my office it is filled with boxes and boxes and scribbled on
40:44my
40:45yellow tab Mark had written Ron these are the boxes that you requested now put the case together and do
40:53it
40:53quickly Ron Bowers was integral to putting together a blueprint presentation to get the case to trial
41:03Ron was a master at that I put together a presentation showed it to the district attorney
41:10and the district attorney said okay we're gonna file it so that was the beginning of the preparation
41:18for the trial of Michael Goodwin from day one literally day one Michael Goodwin had bad intentions I'm
41:36unaware of any other case in the history of California where the actual shooters were never even identified
41:43there's just no other conclusion that's reasonable but that Mike Goodwin hired these people we just
41:50kept coming back to the idea that I don't have to prove that Mike Goodwin did it as much as
41:57I can
41:58prove that seven billion other people on the planet didn't do it nobody else wanted Mickey Thompson dead
42:03so in this case Modi became very very important Mike Goodwin was homicidal angry claiming to
42:12everybody that would listen I'll see Mickey Thompson dead before I give him a nickel of my money the
42:17killers of Mickey and Trudy Thompson have never been identified never been named never been caught never
42:23been arrested the defense's case could be most easily summed up as Michael was at a gym at the time
42:32these two
42:33people were killed he had nothing to do with it and there are too many unanswered questions there were
42:39many many witnesses we called to testify regarding the threats regarding the pre-offense conduct that
42:46had occurred between Mickey and Goodwin I testified about hearing the threats made and recognizing Goodwin's
42:53voice he looked smug like he was sure that he wasn't going to be convicted yet at the same time
43:00he never
43:01met my eyes but it was a big acknowledgement to me that he knew the pain he had caused
43:15our closing arguments one of the things that I thought was incredibly poignant sad but still important
43:25was the way Mickey drew his last few breaths Mickey Thompson's last vision on this planet was that of his
43:34wife being executed why is that so important
43:38because there's no other person on the face of the earth who wanted Mickey Thompson to suffer like that there's
43:47only one guy and that was my good one
43:52that's going what if you guys were to come for him and I'm looking over what I'm going to see
43:52him when I'm looking over to him and I'm in the
43:53you when Alan Jackson came on and did closing arguments I was I was pretty dazzled I was going yeah
43:57yeah now he convinced me did he
44:01convince those other 12 people over there
44:11the jury deliberated about six days and that weight was brutal so you're left in this limbo
44:19of not knowing what those jurors are going to think of your presentation
44:24when the jury buzzed to say that they have a verdict it was a very very jarring moment
44:31thinking okay here we go we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant michael goodwin
44:38guilty when they came back with that colleen squeeze in my hand and it was just like
44:47there is justice you know there is justice
44:52my good one was convicted of all charges two counts of murder and special circumstances
44:58and he was ultimately sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole
45:03i stood up turned around and colleen was just sobbing with joy and and relief
45:14this is for mickey this is for mickey he won this race
45:20it's a great feeling this doesn't bring my dad back but uh there's some justice here
45:25when i heard the verdict i remember saying out loud finally
45:33i gave a piece of myself to the case there's an enormous amount of personal satisfaction
45:40knowing that the family of mickey thompson and trudy thompson what they had fought for
45:47dedicated their lives to for every fiber of myself that i gave to the case i got so much more
45:53back
45:53from them my promise to colleen and gary campbell and the thompson family really was simply that i
46:00would work it as hard as anybody and do my best i intentionally don't use i think it's a horrible
46:06word and a horrible term and that would be the c word meaning closure when you lose two loved ones
46:13through a horrible act of violence you're not getting any closure
46:17i remember when the verdict came in there was finality to that both for me and for the family
46:23but there was a nagging little thing in the back of my brain but it's unresolved
46:28the two killers are still out there we've got one out of three but we still want these people
46:35during the entire investigation we never developed a solid lead
46:39on who the actual shooters were that's still an active ongoing case
46:45it's wonderful to know that a conviction was gotten
46:52but their murder
46:55is part of my life
46:57my aunt trudy
47:00she's there in the back of my mind
47:02and mickey decided it was time to fulfill his lifelong dream
47:05and to set the world's land speed record
47:08the one thing that my dad never accomplished
47:11was the world land speed record
47:15he did it one way
47:16but he didn't have the official record
47:18so when he called me in 1987
47:21and he said i want you to drive it
47:23that meant more to me probably
47:26than maybe anything else
47:28and then we started talking about how to do it and everything
47:31and then
47:32my dad got murdered
47:35then i let it go
47:36and i let it sit for 22 more years
47:39and then i thought
47:40you know what
47:41i don't want to be sitting on the couch when i'm 80
47:44wondering if that car would have gone
47:47450 miles an hour
47:50we gave up everything
47:52to do that
47:53i mean we gave up every single thing we had in life
47:55to do that
48:10and it happened
48:13car went 459 mile an hour
48:17i take my helmet off
48:19i'm still standing in the car
48:20and i'm looking up
48:25i
48:26finished his mission
48:29and completed mine
48:32probably one of the most meaningful moments
48:37ever
48:54if there's one enemy of a homicide detective
48:59it's time
48:59time is your enemy
49:04teresa brudrow was found naked
49:06and dead on the beach
49:10it's been 33 years of no answers
49:14what was your wife's name again
49:15terry t-e-r-r-i
49:18and you guys were legally married right
49:20okay
49:23everybody thought i did it
49:27i got away with it
49:28a murder case is never closed
49:30until someone's held accountable for it
49:32somebody out there knows something
49:40you
49:44you
49:45the
49:46here
49:49it
49:51here
50:02here
50:04this
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