00:12My eyelid was hanging off my eye.
00:16Then all of a sudden, I get attacked from behind.
00:19We're arrested for assault though, right?
00:22Well, if I feel like I'm a 10, then I feel like she's a 1.
00:25So you assume that she just knew that you were a world-famous porn star, is that correct?
00:31There was one man right there and one man right there.
00:36I didn't know what to do. I just cried.
00:39I'm just sick to my stomach.
00:40Can we ask him what he's sick to his stomach about?
00:43Twelve and a half years of not feeling like I was good enough.
00:48I hate it when I feel like I let down my victims.
00:54Vegas. It's exotic, exciting, excessive.
00:59I'm Steve Wolfson. I'm the district attorney here in Las Vegas.
01:02All right.
01:03I'm not afraid of the cameras seeing what we do.
01:06First degree murder.
01:08What happens here stays here unless you gamble with crime.
01:13Then D.A. Wolfson and his team will seek justice.
01:16He is not telling the truth.
01:18He needs to be locked up forever.
01:20From crime to conviction.
01:22Get ready for trial.
01:38They don't call it the strip for nothing.
01:40With nearly 30 gentlemen's clubs, the thousands of exotic dancers in Sin City fight for attention and tips.
01:47Sometimes literally, as Las Vegas police find out, when they respond to an altercation at Sapphire,
01:54reportedly the world's largest strip club.
01:56On January 17th, 2016, police body cameras record officers speaking with an injured dancer named Jack Winnetta Price,
02:05who also goes by the stage name Simone Clare.
02:08They were always jealous of me.
02:10So they went, push me, punch me, fire me.
02:13Sensing there are inconsistencies in Price's story, they speak to the other woman in the altercation,
02:19another dancer at Sapphire, Dominique Alfaro.
02:23Police then arrest Price on assault charges.
02:26Everything's all on camera.
02:27Oh, yeah.
02:28Yeah, the cops can check the camera, and you'll see that she pushed me.
02:32The camera Price refers to is one of many surveillance cameras inside Sapphire.
02:37Footage of the altercation that night is turned over to the DA's office.
02:41Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski and Deputy DA Michelle Sudano head up the prosecution,
02:47seeking two to ten years on battery with a deadly weapon.
02:51Michelle, what I want to do is take a look at the video.
02:55Okay.
02:56So there's the girls right there.
02:58All right?
03:00There's victim pushes.
03:01There's, oh, no, you didn't.
03:04Bam, the fight's on.
03:05Now, obviously, the big worry is that initial push right there.
03:10Boom.
03:11That's not a little push.
03:12That's correct.
03:13Okay, so we've got our Vic.
03:15She's going to say that she saw her with a rocks glass and she hit her with a rocks glass.
03:23The reaction of hitting somebody with a glass is not proportional to getting pushed.
03:29Yeah.
03:31As the trial nears, each side meets with their client.
03:35Defendant Jack Winnetta Price retains defense attorneys Michael and Jennifer Pandulo.
03:39While the victim, Dominique Alfaro, sits down with prosecutors Zadrowski and Sudano.
03:45Each woman recounts what happened that night.
03:47While both worked at Sapphire, neither danced on stage.
03:52Instead, they each performed private dances for customers willing to pay more than $1,000 an hour.
03:58Dominique, what I like to do as a prosecutor, I want to put myself in their shoes.
04:03Mm-hmm.
04:03And say, all right, how did they see this?
04:06She obviously lied to police and, you know, saying, well, maybe I pushed her and that sort of thing.
04:12She just did not want me to be there.
04:13First, she told me she was going to kill me, push me from behind.
04:16A reasonable person wouldn't react by taking a rock glass and smashing you in the head.
04:22No.
04:22Causing you a broken nose, almost losing your eyesight, headaches, et cetera, et cetera.
04:27That's not reasonable.
04:29You know, I seen her throw something that looks like a glass, I don't know, tall or short,
04:32but it was just throwing really hard at me in the air.
04:35I mean, I could have lost my eye.
04:37Seriously, I mean, as I look at the scar, you're literally talking less than a half an inch to your
04:43eyeball.
04:43Yeah.
04:44How's your hand, by the way?
04:46Oh, it's, I can't even close it.
04:47It's like, and I can't feel half of my index finger.
04:51You've come across very honest, and I think the jury is going to see the real you,
04:57and they're going to, I think they're going to believe you.
05:00I just don't want her to do this to anybody else.
05:02I really don't.
05:03It's not right.
05:04And if she doesn't get any kind of consequences, I feel like it'll happen again.
05:09So we're going to do our best to make sure that doesn't happen.
05:43And as a result, he's never arrested.
05:45Although police recover a sample of his DNA, 12 years later, Las Vegas authorities get
05:51a hit on that DNA sample when career criminal Calvin Smock is arrested again, this time on
05:57robbery charges in Pomona, California.
05:59What's been an ice cold case has just heated up.
06:02This is like what I look like about that time.
06:04For Catherine and her fiance, Jack, it's all about reopening old wounds in order to bring
06:10about new and unexpected closure.
06:13This will be an interesting one.
06:15Trying the case, our chief deputy DA's Rob Stevens and Jennifer Clemons.
06:19They're part of the office's special victims unit.
06:22Catherine, this is Jenny.
06:23In January of 2017, Catherine sits down with the prosecutors and DA investigator Elaine Knepp.
06:30For Catherine, this is just another step in a dark emotional journey, one that began more
06:36than 12 years ago with a sexual assault and came back to light when she received a letter
06:41out of the blue in 2016.
06:43Guess what I'll first start off with is I'd kind of like to know kind of the background.
06:47This is a kind of an older case.
06:49So it happened in 2004.
06:51Yeah.
06:52Over the years, Catherine's story has changed a bit.
06:54She originally told police only one man attacked her, but is now confident it was two men.
07:00We're here for the Marine Corps ball.
07:02Who came with you?
07:03There was a group of us.
07:05Uh-huh.
07:06So we were at Carnival Court.
07:07Let's go have some drinks.
07:08Yeah.
07:08We're on vacation.
07:10There was a DJ there.
07:10It's like a nightclub, but outside.
07:12And I know I had at least one mixed drink.
07:15But I remember saying, I got to go break the seal.
07:17There's no restroom outside of the Carnival Court.
07:19So you have to go into the casino.
07:20Okay.
07:20I can't even tell you how long I was actually in the casino.
07:23It was, must have been a lapse of time at least 30, 45 minutes because it was enough
07:28time for to pass out on the dance floor.
07:32Uh-huh.
07:32An ambulance to be called, an ambulance to get there, an ambulance to look at her.
07:36Yeah.
07:36And then load her in.
07:37And so I walk out and that's when I started to panic.
07:41I see Calvin and his friend.
07:46Okay.
07:46You refer to him as Calvin.
07:48Did you know his name at the time or do you know it from the paperwork?
07:50I know it from the paperwork.
07:52And I asked, you know, hey, you remember the girl with the blonde hair you were talking to?
08:00Yeah.
08:00And they said, you know, hey, we know where she went and we have a car.
08:06Like we drove.
08:07Okay.
08:07We could take you.
08:09I basically said, you know, really?
08:11Oh my gosh, thank you.
08:12And I believe it was Calvin who led me out through the hotel to the parking lot that was under
08:18construction on the opposite end of the hotel.
08:20What's going through your mind at that point then?
08:22Honestly, I said I've seen enough forensic files to know what happens.
08:29So you guys get to that construction parking lot.
08:31When do you see the second guy?
08:33At the fence.
08:34Okay.
08:34It's kind of a blur.
08:37Part of my memory remembers him being there at the fence.
08:42And another part of my memory is him coming in once he led me onto the bus.
08:49What was the condition of the bus?
08:51Very dirty, run down.
08:53Like it had been there for a while.
08:55Tell me what happens when you get inside the bus.
08:58They were already starting to tighten their grips and be a little more aggressive.
09:03I remember seeing one up above me and one at the other end.
09:09The person that was above me, I didn't see his face all too well.
09:13Okay.
09:13But I remember Calvin's face.
09:16He was forcing his penis in my mouth at one point.
09:19Both of them had.
09:20Okay.
09:20Did anyone's penis ever go anywhere else?
09:22He did put his penis in my vagina and my anus.
09:28Because I remember I cried.
09:32I know that when everything was done and over with, I had blacked out.
09:37I woke up and I didn't have my pants on me, I don't think.
09:41And I remember just trying to look for my phone, trying to look for my purse.
09:46Law enforcement came.
09:48And I think I was still like blacking out during that whole time.
09:53I remember giving, you know, my statement to the detective.
09:56Okay, so you only drank.
09:57And I said, yes, I only drank.
09:59Well, then why are there traces of meth?
10:01He was pouring something in my mouth trying to get me to wake up.
10:04And so that's when he was like, are you sure you didn't just do it?
10:08You know, trying to insinuate that you're a party girl.
10:12You know, these things happen.
10:13Did that really happen?
10:14Did it not happen?
10:16Absolutely certain there were two men.
10:17Absolutely certain I didn't want it.
10:19Absolutely certain I was being violated.
10:22Why are you more certain now that there are two guys?
10:28There was one man right there and one man right there.
10:32Okay.
10:33That's why.
10:34Okay.
10:35Before you got the letter, what did you think had happened with this case?
10:38Did you think it just kind of nothing was going to happen and moved on and forgot?
10:41I buried it.
10:42What were your thoughts then at that point when you got that letter?
10:44I mean...
10:44I just got off work.
10:45I came home.
10:47I saw Las Vegas Police Department.
10:50It said up at the top left-hand corner of the envelope,
10:54handwritten said re-sexual assault.
10:58And I was in complete shock that it was even written on the envelope.
11:05And my first thought was, my mailman read this and knows that I was raped.
11:12And I locked myself in the bathroom.
11:16I didn't know what to do.
11:17I just cried.
11:18I just cried.
11:39In the state sexual assault case against Calvin Smock, prosecutors Rob Stevens and Jennifer Clemens and their investigator sit down
11:46with Smock's alleged victim, Catherine.
11:48Now we're 12 years from the incident.
11:51You're back to testify.
11:54Are you nervous?
11:58Um...
11:58I'm nervous, yes.
12:00Yeah?
12:00What if the jury doesn't find him guilty?
12:02Mm-hmm.
12:02You know?
12:03What if he does this to somebody else?
12:05My family's just really happy that this is going to be done and over with.
12:11But for the last year now, they watched me go from being a very vibrant, happy soccer mom, you know,
12:20very active with my kids, to being very withdrawn.
12:24There's really a lot of points that I think the defense are going to focus on you with.
12:27And one is the fact that there's meth in your system.
12:29I think they're going to harp on that.
12:31And then two, I think they're going to harp on you a lot about the, you know, how many guys
12:36were actually involved during this incident.
12:38Just answer honestly.
12:40And, you know, the truth is what needs to be told here more than anything else.
12:47Prosecutors then sit down with Catherine's fiancee, Jack.
12:50So when did you first meet Catherine?
12:53That would have been July of last year.
12:55He wasn't in Catherine's life in 2004 when the sexual assault occurred and recounts learning about it for the first
13:00time in a way he could never have anticipated.
13:03So when's the first time that you kind of hear anything about this?
13:08The day the letter came in the mail.
13:10Okay.
13:10I never thought anything different until that day.
13:12And it was this fake wall that she'd built up.
13:15Uh-huh.
13:15She pretended it.
13:16For about an hour and a half, two hours, I was knocking like, babe, what's going on?
13:20Knocking on the door in the back.
13:21Yeah.
13:21What's going on?
13:22You got to talk to me.
13:24I said, you can hate me if you want, but I said, I got to know what's going on.
13:27Okay.
13:28She's like, before she told me, she said, I don't think you're going to want to be with me or
13:31you're going to love me.
13:32She was concerned about you breaking up with her because of what happened here in Las Vegas.
13:36Yeah.
13:36She got done and she asked me, she's like, so what do you want to do now?
13:41And I said, I want to give you a hug.
13:44And she's like, you don't think any less of me?
13:46I said, why would I think less of you?
13:48I said, I actually think more of you.
13:50I said, you're stronger than any woman I've ever met.
13:55Okay.
13:55Thanks.
13:58After listening to Jack and Catherine, her story resonates deeply with prosecutors.
14:02However, they won't be investigating this possible second attacker since Smock has never mentioned an accomplice and there's no hard
14:10evidence regarding this man's identity.
14:14Hey boss, it's Bernie.
14:16Hey, listen, I got something I want to talk to you about.
14:18As the battery with a deadly weapon case against Jack Winnetta Price nears its trial date, there's a twist.
14:24While Price is the defendant in her case, she finds herself the victim in an unrelated case when she's robbed
14:30at gunpoint inside a Vegas gas station two months before her trial and initially refuses to surrender her belongings.
14:38Well, the twist is I've got a prosecutor that's got a file in his left hand where he's prosecuting a
14:43lady and a file in his right hand where the same lady he's prosecuting is a victim.
14:48Exactly.
14:49All right, so in her new case where she's a victim, let's think ahead.
14:54If those guys plead guilty or are found guilty at trial before you take Jack Winnetta to trial, then Jack
15:02Winnetta can give a victim impact statement.
15:05Right.
15:05And if that's the case, you could go into the courtroom and listen to her and kind of size her
15:11up as she might be as a defendant testifying.
15:15Exactly.
15:15When she's a victim testifying and giving a victim impact statement.
15:19It's kind of strange, but that's something you could do ethically.
15:22Yeah.
15:33This is your chance to speak to the court.
15:35And as a victim, this is very important, I understand.
15:38I just wanted to mention, this is the sixth time I've been robbed.
15:42The sixth time you've been robbed?
15:43And this is the first time that, you know, the thief has been, you know, caught.
15:46But I'm just asking for my, the stuff that I haven't, wasn't found, I would like back.
15:51Um, I didn't receive my phone that was stolen.
15:55Your cell phone?
15:56Yeah, because I guess they found that my, my bag.
15:59Please tell me where my phone is.
16:05What happened?
16:07Well, I'm glad I went because this was different.
16:10This was weird.
16:11You know, what I want to take away is, I mean, I thought you did really well.
16:14Not very victimly.
16:17Do you think her resisting the robbery a little bit, that when faced with somebody who might
16:22have a weapon and is trying to take her property, and she's not backing down from that, do you
16:27think that plays into her not backing down in our case?
16:30That is a great point.
16:32I didn't think about that.
16:33She's a tough cookie.
16:34She's not going to be a victim.
16:35You're not there, you know, playing the victim.
16:37So if she feels like she's been wronged, like in our case, being pushed, then she's going
16:42to fight back.
16:43I was thinking all along, oh, she's not a good victim.
16:46This, this actually works for us.
16:49But this may actually work against us.
16:51I don't know.
17:00The trial of Jack Winnetta Price will hinge on one thing.
17:03Which woman will the jury believe?
17:06Dominique Alfaro is called to the stand first.
17:08Let's go to January 17th of 2016.
17:12On that particular day or evening, were you working at Sapphire's here in Clark County,
17:17Nevada?
17:18Yes.
17:18And did something significant happen to you?
17:20Absolutely.
17:21What happened?
17:22I got a call to go to the front, and so I did.
17:26The table we were at, when I walked up, the, the customer, um, was standing, like,
17:32to the side of it, and then there were three dancers on the other side.
17:36Let me ask you this.
17:37At that point, did you know whether other dancers had been called to that table?
17:41In addition to you?
17:42I have no idea.
17:42No idea.
17:43To introduce myself, just to not be rude, she proceeded to be like,
17:47Why are you here?
17:49Leave.
17:49You need to go away.
17:50I didn't understand what I had done.
17:52It is.
18:00All right.
18:01Okay.
18:21Let me 28.
18:21I can documentation of you.
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