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Wild Crime: Mask of Sanity | S4 Ep. 4
The ranger suspected it was to do with narcotics trafficking. A bell went off in my head that this could have something to do with the bank robbery.
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The Code Breakers
David walks in this room, and it's to speak to David's confidence in that he's wearing a t-shirt that's about two sizes too small. He's wearing jeans that have holes in them. It looks like he hadn't slept in 14 days, his hair standing up. I have instant respect for him because I can tell this is a guy that doesn't give up.
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The Code Breakers
To listen to the emotion in those calls, you know, just gut-wrenching. In my 30-plus years, I'd never heard anything like it.
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The Code Breakers
She is not your typical victim by any stretch of the circumstance. It was an extremely unusual case.
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The Code Breakers
The crime scene investigators at the time also collected a lot of evidence from the house. And one of those pieces of evidence being the bedspread.
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The Code Breakers
I want you to think about the next words that come out of your mouth. Don't you think very hard about that. We felt like we had a home run right then and there.
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The Code Breakers
There's two people that know that story. You're one of them, and she's the other. And she can't talk.
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The Code Breakers
You know that every day that you don't solve that crime is a day that you're not going to be able to bring that perpetrator justice.
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The Code Breakers
And we got the call. This is our guy. This is a match. Of course, we're chomping at the bit to get there to Ohio.
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The Code Breakers
What we're here about is we're cold case investigators. Do you want that shock and awe factor? You want him to walk in the room, you want him to see a guy with a cowboy hat on, and he knows that this is not someone from Ohio. He thought we were there just following up on an old case. Like, hey, these guys, they don't have anything.
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The Code Breakers
They're just asking me all these questions in case they do one day. I don't think he had any idea that we had his DNA. So the crime that we're looking at is the murder of Mary Catherine Edwards. She was murdered in 1995. She and her sister, Allison, were actually in your wedding. Right. In 1982. Were you aware of the crime, even? No. You didn't know that Catherine Edwards was murdered? No, sir.
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The Code Breakers
Did not. Wedding night only would have been the only time you'd seen her? Probably so. Okay. Never, obviously, had sex with her? No. Never? Never. Did you ever go in her house at all? Any house that she ever lived in? No. Clay, I'm going to level with you, okay? Right here and now, and I want you to hear me real close. All right, sir.
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The Code Breakers
What I'm going to tell you right now is your DNA was on Catherine's bed and was inside Catherine.
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The Code Breakers
There's only one way for it to get there. And that's by you putting it there. There's two people that know that story. You're one of them, and she's the other. And she can't talk. What I ask you is, now, to be honest with us completely, and tell us, how did that happen?
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The Code Breakers
There were family there. There were friends there. There were former students of Catherine's that were there to see that justice was going to be served.
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The Code Breakers
I'll tell you that any time I've had a jury trial, I'm scared to death when they're walking back in that room. That is the most tense moment ever for me.
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The Code Breakers
Absolutely, all over the country and all over the world. But finding every case, I think, would be the goal. Every one. Every sexual assault, every homicide, every one of them.