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just a few minutes ago police began arriving in one of san jose's quietest neighborhoods for what we believe to be the scene of a homicide police have not released the name of the victim but what we have gathered so far is that the victim lived alone and was the member of a prominent family [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] how's it tom o'donnell stock portfolio it is peachy some ceo gets a bad cough and the company drops 10 points you sure when we ride with you to pick up gertrude no you have to pack for l.a maybe

i'm gone for one day so have you told gertrude that you and i are a couple yet no but i think she's about to find out ah is that right [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] i need you to get every last leaf out of there because last time you left a few it rained the water just seeped right back into my living room i had a water stain down my wall and also i want you to be careful of my azaleas last week you crushed all of them you have to be careful virgil please

hi sweetie hello my dear i still wish you were staying through the weekend i can't say the weekend this guy doesn't listen to anything i say he's terrible you've been alone in pain in this ask him if he ever pays attention to what i say you know what i forgot i have to stop and drop the newspaper off next door share the paper with your neighbor saves each of us ten dollars a month okay [Music] i really wish you'd sell the house i had plenty of room or you could get something nearby so i can

keep an eye on you check with me when i turn 100. you know you love this city i'm serious about this gertrude [Music] this is just lovely you see you just needed a little touch of a man that's all gertrude hmm little jane's magic gravy oh yes so when are you two uh getting married well it's either that or you're grinning like that because you just won the lottery gertrude you really have to stop beating around the bush i'm just gonna fill you in you don't need my approval to be happy so um you have

a special date in mind we're just kind of sneaking up on it sounds more like a burglary than a wedding plan well the gold futures are all headed in the wrong direction so what i would like to do is i would like to liquidate and i would like to apply all of the proceeds to the german tech fund that we spoke about so if you could give me a confirming email that you received this that'd be great thank you there you are hey doing deals at this hour just leaving a message for my guy in

zurich that's there half a day ahead and how you keep track of all these companies on accounts so much for early retirement it takes more work to keep the money than it did to earn it mine appears to be shrinking i'm gonna have a look at your paperwork before i leave for la tomorrow so how did we score on the gertrude scale she said she's never seen me so happy tell me this what is the greenest thing you've ever seen big fat emerald no a baseball field nope a golf green ireland i've never seen ireland

do you remember my trust fund in switzerland that i spoke to you about uh-huh well it's gonna mature in three months and i really i really think that'll be enough to take care of us for the rest of our lives so i was thinking we'd head to zurich and stop by ireland on the way back making you happy makes me very happy [Music] so the football party's sunday i can pick you up if you want and drive all the way back down to san jose no you know what i'm happy to swing by and pick

up on the way back from l.a you know you too should spend your time planning a trip somewhere i hear ireland is very green this time of year that sounds like my car gertrude it's always a pleasure let me know if you change your mind i'm walking you out sweetie i had a chance to look at your portfolio this morning anemic huh you're not even keeping pace with inflation but i'm meeting with a couple investor pals in la so i will see what we can do okay bit henry carmichael's number's on the fridge my return

will get me in at 10 a.m on sunday you want me to pick you up no no no you have not to worry about with the football party oh ah lipstick ready to go sir are we good yeah all right i will call gertrude when i land just to make sure she didn't change your mind okay i love you that's my line okay i love you too [Music] any good well about every tenth book that this author recycles or plots well i'm impressed you can find nine original ones in between oh honey i am so

glad that you're having a happy life and i used to worry so much about you when you were little because you fretted about everything you worried about the dress you were going to wear and and the lunchbox you were going to take i stopped worrying like that when i married out mm-hmm it took care of everything the money counts a car to drive i guess i stopped thinking the world would end if i made a mistake and when he died it was like the roof fell in on me how long have you and tom known

each other is it like 10 years we're like 20. he always had his accounts with al and he used to travel all over the world he was divorced and come back with these really great stories he saved me i always thought i was a one-man for life kind of lady but one night he was teaching me chess and i just looked at him you know watching most women never find one good man and you you found two so come on time to take this woman home and no no i am not selling the house i

see that look oh yes love you i love you drive carefully okay uh hi gertrude hi i have the newspaper oh are you sorry you're dull thank you oh virgil the azaleas [Music] this is henry hi henry it's jane alexander it's tom around sweetie hey baby excuse me okay baby sorry about that we were just grabbing a bite how was your day uh it was good i went grocery shopping i bought stamps how was your day ah i drove around all day long saw some friends got a little bit of business done though speaking of

which i think we found a way to refinance the house cut the mortgage payment by about a third oh that's great and listen i found tickets to europe on sale if we fly in september oh i can't wait baby love you love you too [Music] [Music] oh that last batch went pretty quick that's like that not too stuffed immediately you know i'm no good at this look at look at it sorry sweetie hey plane took off late these are for you thank you hmm gave gertrude a call no answer oh well maybe she's in the

garden i don't know evelyn how are you thank you very much for taking care of things in my absence i'm trying to improve my cooking skills yeah a baby's everybody here watching the game yeah excellent hey wait janey left a big hole in your tray there hmm gertrude gertrude [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you baby okay okay okay [Applause] [Music] here we go here we go [Music] [Applause] yeah yes this is what it all comes down to right here [Music] okay i'm detective roman this is uh jane alexander gretchen mccabe's niece what happened please she was

the victim of a homicide [Music] maybe you better come soon we are trying to piece this together it appears she was sitting on the couch she was reading a book she stopped she had a little lunch there's a half-eaten sandwich on the coffee table and the book is opened up on the couch the best we can figure between 12 and 2 on saturday somebody obviously came to the front door there was no sign of forced entry one course trauma of the back of her head and as you saw there was stab wounds it was quite

a fear is it likely that she would have opened the door to a stranger no no no no never she would have given him anything he wanted he didn't have to kill her gertrude raised jane it smelled like the majority of her life she referred to his mom well does she have any enemies you have any disputes no no no there was two handymen i don't know she fired honey i'm gonna run to the restroom it was a long drive but detective they just called i got to go shoot a car accident blocking the freeway

i'll be back later okay ms alexander are you up for a walk-through please what we're looking for is missing objects things the killer might have taken where's her checkbook they're supposed to be a checkbook she always paid with chats we haven't found a checkbook anything missing here you can tell i don't know i uh your aunt was she getting a little forgetful confused maybe no she was forgetting little things we found almost 200 in this bag emergency money this is not right somebody stuck this in here gertrude was meticulous about her things this looks to

me like a robbery gone sour do this who would do this to a harmless old woman i've been asking myself that same question since i was a rookie can you tell me where you two both were on saturday afternoon yeah jane was in san francisco shopping for a party i was in l.a on business i'm happy to give you the ticket information phone number where i stayed central thank you we need to clear everyone so i can focus on the perpetrator detective if there's nothing else i'm gonna get her home good good now if there

is anything at all that you can think of that would help will do thank you as we have been reporting san jose police are continuing their investigation into the murder of gertrude mccabe which they are calling one of the most brutal and senseless crimes they have ever made why don't you take a break i have to write it all down all of it you need to eat something the only thing i need to do is make this monster pay for what he did to her i know i know gertrude was my life growing up she

raised me mom died she was the one who raised me she did my schoolwork with me she took me to the movies no child ever had a better mother i should have made herself a damn house and live with us well there's no way you could have forced her to do that that wouldn't have made her happy eating what you wanted to when you wanted it no i should have taken care of her have looked after her i'm gonna get this murderer that's the last thing i do okay come here come here i want to

know why i'm here can you tell me why i'm here i passed a leak in the roof i cleaned some leaves out of the gutter she paid me i left and that's all shut down you get along with mrs mccabe yes i got along with her listen to me mr jackman virgil someone killed that old woman maybe it was someone who thought they got shortchanged nobody sure changes me yeah i sense that about you sit tight mrs jackman your husband is in a holding cell downstairs it says in this file that you and he ran

a retirement home in florida and that virgil was fired for getting funny with the old folks money virgil can get funny with anything he puts his hands on did virgil have a beef with mrs mccabe you listen to me if virgil is responsible for mrs mccabe's death i don't have any issue with you but if you cover up for him you were going down to he worked extra for that old lady then she wouldn't pay him said he'd messed up some of her flowers he's got a mean streak virgil was virtual responsible for mrs mccabe's

day okay then let's do it that way right jane please tell me you have good news take a look at this you recognize it yeah this was a play gertrude's brother gave her when she graduated what are the chances that she would have given it to a worker in lieu of payment no no not in this lifetime okay come with me can you identify that man yes he was her handyman virgil we found this plate in the trunk of his car his wife said he did it we haven't found the checkbook yet but the bank

said the last check to clear was to mr jackman and it was cash just a few hours after your aunt's dead so that's it it's over that's it we're gonna ask the d.a to indict uh we cleared the crime scene so if you want to get your hands possession if you go with it [Music] you know what i can't figure why would virgil take gertrude's checkbook it just doesn't make any sense maybe he wanted to pay for the town with bad checks and then split how do you think about it a lot easier than pawning

or jewelry come on let's change the voice for 15 minutes all right hello jane detective romer here is there an update i haven't heard anything well there's been a development it seems that uh virgil jackman was in monterey doing landscaping at the time of the murder the homeowner alibied him why would his wife say he did it she was lying she's done it before just to get even with him for hitting her so the only thing we can charge virgil jackman with is stealing the silver plate okay so what's next jane we've cleared everyone who's

ever worked for your aunt uh delivery man former handyman we're at a dead end i'm sorry jane so they cleared virgil [Music] hey it's a cop's job to find the killer it's my job to take care of you [Music] detective romero jack morris ah my replacement welcome to homicide detective morris oh you got a chance to look at the mccabe files everything in the file if you read everything in the file well good luck with it i see some dead ends in my day but this one takes the cake you want jane alexander's bank statements

and phone records you don't buy the robbery theory you do know we cleared jane and her boyfriend months ago she was in san francisco he was in los angeles they talked on the phone that night read that i got a theory yeah i heard you don't talk much your captain of narcotics said you were the best interrogator he's ever seen how does that work if you don't talk me talking ain't the point you uh you realize it's july right probably start wrapping these christmas presents after labor day and i can still make it there's something

missing tom and it's about the checkbook i really think we ought to take that trip to iowa let the police do their job you're gonna go crazy if you keep this up i can't go anywhere right now i'm not gonna allow whoever did this to make you a victim as well i'm not i'll get it hi detective morris sanders apd can i come in please yeah of course this way jane alexander detective morris san jose police department hi jane jack hi so what happened to detective romer he took a job in private security uh i'm

the new guy i just transferred in from narcotics oh so it's your first homicide they was giving the new guy a cold case cold case okay that's encouraging detective can i offer you glass of lemonade ah yes thank you kind of ran into a dead end on the robbery angle well yeah of course you did it's what robber's gonna throw her stuff around and then leave behind her cash jane's been reading a lot of gertrude's old mysteries hmm oh that's really good nice and tangy so do you have any leads detective i'm gonna look a

little closer to home uh friends acquaintances family members i'm her only family member and her friends are older than the automobile you don't have any financial dealings that uh mrs mccabe would have had loans private party purchases i borrowed 25 000 from her for house repairs and when i tried to pay it back she just tore up the check hmm ah boy that is really good it's a lot better than the stuff in the can um do you know what uh mrs mccabe's estate was worth houses insurance well it's all tied up in the homicide

even the insurance oh right i have a feeling you already know this detective ah i've been looking at it i think it's worth about a million dollars probably oh one more thing uh we're fingerprinting anybody who was a regular at uh the mccabe house would you two mind coming down tomorrow to be fingerprinted not a problem of course great lemonade spectacular thank you i'll see him out [Music] [Music] so you know the killer wore latex gloves there are no prints sometimes you have to stir the pot i want to thank you both for coming down

of course let's get this file from the fbi behavioral science unit they profile crimes difficult ones without that many clues okay i shouldn't be doing this but uh i would like to share some of this with you you mind sitting down sure it's probable the killer killers were known to the victim and acquainted with her normal routines the lack of a forced entry and trauma to the back of the victim's head indicates she trusted her assailant enough to permit him entry and turn her back or maybe she turned her back to run since investigators have

yet to identify missing objects other than the victim's checkbook the ransacking may be viewed as an attempt to mislead investigators into thinking the crime was a robbery the repeated attempts at killing the victim which included multiple stab wounds and bludgeoning suggest the killer was inexperienced in the commission of a violent crime the most likely motive for the murder of gertrude mccabe was to gain the proceeds of her estate do not eliminate the possibility the killer is a woman are you insinuating i killed my aunt the woman who raised me i'm just reading from the report

okay you know what detective this is ridiculous first of all jane doesn't need anyone's money i've got a trust that i'm about to cast that will more than take care of us financially and she's very aware of that not to mention the fact that she was in san francisco at the time of the murder you know baby i think the detective here is not interested in solving murder i think he's interested in clearing a case you're wasting your time detective and meanwhile there's a murderer getting away with that i think it's time to get you

an attorney all right well let's make sure that happens next up okay bye-bye tom they can't really believe i had anything to do with it i have a bad feeling that detective morris doesn't quite see it our way they can't arrest me for something i didn't do that's crazy i think they're giving a lot of credibility to that fbi report you know they said she was killed for the proceeds of her estate not rule out the prospect the perpetrator might be a woman i'm scared baby look i'm gonna go to switzerland i'm gonna take care

of business and i'm gonna come back and we're gonna figure this out i just need you to be strong right now we're gonna be together forever i just need to know that you're okay your finances are okay the house is taken care of i love you so much i love you too it's gonna be fun hello jane jack morris not calling too late am i uh no it's okay i was wondering if you could do me another favor could you and tom come back down to san jose tom just left for switzerland why what do

you want i need you to take a polygraph you want me to take a lie detector test i just need to clear every one i can trying to refocus the case this is insane come down tomorrow get a good night's sleep yeah i'm sure i'm jim road jane's attorney i'd like to see the questions that you're gonna ask her chris [Music] is your name gene alexander yes do you live in pacific heights yes did you enter the home of gertrude mccabe on october 6th of last year no did you learn of the death of gertrude

mccabe by phone call did you learn of the death of gertrude mckay by phone call yes did you plan the murder of gertrude mccabe with anyone prior to her death no did you take the checkbook from gertrude mccabe's home no did you assist anyone in planning the murder of gertrude mccabe no were you present at the home of gertrude mccabe at the time of her death no did you murder gertrude mccabe no you didn't do it of course i didn't that's pretty sure you didn't why did you put me through that i had to make

sure you had no obama before or after are we done here sure what's your next step same old step catch a murderer hello hi hi joel it's jane alexander up in san francisco yeah what can i do for you um i'm just wondering if maybe you heard from tom lately he's in switzerland but i has he called you at all no not in a while not since he left if he calls you can you just ask him to get in touch with me sure no problem take care thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] jack you got

some coffee i got something you need to see look at that it's a car rental receipt with your name on it yesterday i flew to los angeles i rented that car and i drove from the airport to san jose i marked the mileage at the bottom 672 miles now look at this receipt henry carmichael that's the same car same license plate rented the day that your aunt was murdered look at the mileage you're telling me henry carmichael killed my aunt no henry carmichael rented the car he never left los angeles i checked i don't understand

henry carmichael gave the car that he rented to someone who didn't want his name on the rental car receipt tom o'donnell drove to san jose tom o'donnell murdered gertrude mccabe have you gone completely mad i've known this man for 20 years i've never even heard him raise his voice the mileage points to tom what possible motive could he have the oldest motive in the world money your aunt's estate was worth almost a million dollars no tom is not related to gertrude he doesn't get a penny i knew this was gonna be difficult for you yeah

i'll tell you what's difficult my aunt is dead and since you can't nail it on me you're gonna nail it on someone else who had nothing to do with it something else i want you to look at this is a picture of a tissue that was found in your aunt's house didn't match anything she had it's also a lipstick smudge and we checked around and it didn't match anything that she owned and you just think about this check it out where did they find it they found it stuffed down her throat in a crude attempt

to keep her silent good night detective this detective said you rented a car and gave it to tom i put the rental car on my credit card because i owed town money you know he spent all day going to banks trying to refinance your house for you i i can't believe this jane i'm sorry jane you don't have enough to cover it how can my balance be this low i'm never overdrawn and been in this bank forever you weren't aware that tom transferred a large sum before he left he's just managing some stocks well he

transferred the money somewhere what about the line of credit on my home looks like you're maxed out plus you have a balloon payment due sorry [Music] so [Music] my dearest jane i asked a friend to forward this letter to you when i returned to switzerland the authorities were investigating my former business partners for some of our transactions it's a mess my partner's tried to blame me they've been threats and i fear it could be dangerous for anyone i'm close to it pains me more than you will ever know but you must not try to contact

me until this mess is cleared up i only want what's best for you and i miss you more than you can imagine i will never forget our magnificent years together all my love tom [Music] this is a picture of a tissue that was found in your aunt's house it's also a lipstick smudge and we checked around and it didn't match anything that she owned [Music] they founded stuff down her throat in a crude attempt to keep her silent [Music] this is an antique it belonged to my aunt so 200 is the best i'm gonna do

on that okay so thank you very much i got a message you wanted to see me something important yep you moving no um the bank foreclosed on my house i owe more than it's worth so they're just gonna take it off my hands let's go inside you can keep an eye on this right this is lipstick i kissed him when he was going to la and he wiped it off and put the tissue in his pocket this is the exact tube he's very clever giving me the photo some people you push some people come by

their own design i got this from tom on christmas eve he says he's in europe he's still in the country isn't he i checked every airline and cruise ship from canada to mexico and unless he swam he's in the u.s somewhere i feel like the world's biggest idiot you said it yourself jane he never gave you any reason to mistrust him and that trust has taken everything from me even with this i have no evidence there is one thing that i can do you fill out a complaint for him taking your money and i will

put it out on the wire and when we find him i will interrogate this guy from murder this guy's dangerous jane there's no telling what he's going to do when he finds out we're on his trail okay urs tom o'donnell i can take care of myself it's kind of small kind of small you know i maybe it should come with a shoe horn or something what do you think it's cozy wait a minute come on you're not seriously thinking of living here it's very cheap at san francisco standards well how about free come live with

me and bob i can't let you i can't i can't let you stay here ev you're a great friend but i dug myself into this hole i'm digging myself out of it [Music] honestly when i spoke to the agency i was a little concerned why well the job recruiter said you hadn't worked in um what is it oh it's a little while oh i worked on wall street makes me wonder why they sent you here something about nobody else wanting this job okay do you mind if i ask you why you requested the night shift

um during the day i'm tracking a killer if you drill hill rest home how may i direct your call [Music] this guy's dangerous jim there's no telling what he's gonna do when he finds out we're on his trail [Music] uh [Music] hmm [Music] do [Music] do [Music] hello jane jack morris have you been getting me letters you mean rose's red and violet's blue tom o'donnell is laughing at you we got a whole pile of them you can expect more jane listen to me if tom is in touch with his friends and he finds out you're

trying to track him down that increases the chances of him coming after you okay let's look at it this way if tom o'donnell kills me he'll be easier to catch you can expect more letters [Music] good night jane trying to keep awake okay hello hello hello [Music] [Music] [Music] hello is this shelley markham this is jane alexander oh hey joel told me you called a while back how are you doing did the cops ever find that guy who killed your aunt no no they no they didn't i'm just wondering if you've heard from tom not

in a while do you remember when you saw him last he did mention that he might um swing by las vegas and see you and joel on his way to europe yeah yeah he stayed with us on his way to sweden or something switzerland switzerland you saw him on his way to switzerland yeah hey i gotta get to work you take care okay okay jack you have to take a trip to las vegas not a bad place to hide vegas blend in with all those tourists [Music] [Music] [Music] hello cowboy you've been bad tom stealing

jane's money i didn't steal anything then there's the other matter you know gertrude mccabe and you wonder why i left is there anyone competent there where you work anyone at all detected i found the car your buddy henry rented for you the one with all those miles you could explain that this will all go away time if i was fleeing a murder charge why would i move to vegas where anyone with a brain could find me besides if you had me on murder charges you wouldn't be arresting me for fraud that's for sure what do

you mean you won't extradite him he murdered an old woman first of all you don't have sufficient evidence the issue isn't murder right now it's fraud for stealing your money i mean on the surface the jury could see this a financial dispute no i want this guy for the murder of gertrude mccabe you don't extradite him we'll lose him forever god help you if you let that happen extradition proceedings aren't cheap you're kidding right how do people like that get in power they get elected not by me so where are we well unless we can

wave a magic wand and get him to volunteer for extradition tom and donald walks tomorrow not if i can help him don't do something you're gonna regret a lot more [Music] are you okay yeah yeah jane i'm fine why why would you do that to me i didn't want to file the fraud complaint tom please the bank was gonna come after me i never wanted to do it but you know why i took that money i took it so i could go to zurich and cash the trust for you i did that for you and

now you know what that crazy detective is saying that i killed gertrude me i know have you ever seen me hurt anyone never threaten anyone no no no never tom please come back willingly and talk to them don't make them extradite you please i would never testify against you and i'll drop the fraud charges i settled gertrude's estate i'm going to get you an attorney i'll post your bail please come back [Music] i love you baby i miss you so much [Music] you've reached detective morris please leave a message jack i waved the magic wand

tom o'donnell just agreed to voluntary extradition all right all rise please be seated thomas o'donnell you pled guilty to one count of fraud for the theft of monies from jane alexander do you have anything to say before sentencing yes your honor i'm innocent jane alexander actually requested that i invest a sum of money for her which i did it wasn't until i paid myself a fee that she filed fraud charges against me i pled guilty under duress because of false information provided by miss alexander which is also the reason i returned here voluntarily wrong speech

mr o'donnell what i was looking for was i'm sorry i stole her money and ruined her life perhaps four years in the state penitentiary will give you some time to mull it over bailiff remand him to custody counselor would you approach the bench please yes but we still can't charge him with murder d.a needs more evidence right now tom's got an alibi for everything jack i'm gonna get justice for gertrude if he kills me [Music] excuse me do you know where margaret is over there thank you margaret jane how are you i heard what tom

did taking your money i can't say i'm surprised why is that well my husband and me gave him money to invest we never got no statements nothing he said the company went bankrupt big lie that was margaret i i was looking at my phone bill and i noticed he called you the morning my aunt was murdered he called to say she died and and that he was coming into some money so he could finally pay us back i gotta go are you sure that was the morning gertrude was killed he called you three times that

month i'm pretty sure there was a football game on tv 49ers and broncos i really gotta go i'm sorry homicide detective morris jack tom called his niece and told her gertrude was murdered an hour before we knew she was dead and he told her i was coming into gertrude's money okay so there's your motive she's sure that's the only call he made to her during that period no he called her three times that month but she's pretty sure cause she remembers the football game being on i'll call the d.a and let him know mr macarthur

i'm jane alexander remember did you review detective morris's note on tom o'donnell's niece the note says margaret wilson was uh pretty sure about the date of tom's call i can't convict i'm pretty sure you're a pretty good prosecutor right what is it 82 convictions on major felonies a lady who does her homework yeah well somebody has to batting average like that should earn you big fat salary and private practice right i'm gonna need more than this and i'm gonna need a prosecutor with some guts you don't happen to know where i can find one do

you joyce saldano a guy in my office calls her the queen of lost causes she'll try any case if she believes in it thank you i'll call you back jane yeah george sheldon hi do you mind if we get straight to the point please frankly this case stinks there's no physical evidence not a strand of hair a fingerprint nothing no murder weapon no witnesses cases based on circumstantial evidence get one all the time and every bit of this points to tom o'donnell then there's the motive i searched every murder conviction in this county going back

30 years there's not one case of a suspect murdering someone so that someone else could collect the victim's estate unless unless they're in it together we're just off to a rousing start thomas brand henry still claims that tom went to vegas and was back in the afternoon too early to have driven to san jose and back personally miss saldano i would charge henry with perjury and accessory to murder that's exactly what i intend to do i thought you said you weren't going to take the case i said the case stinks i didn't say i wasn't

going to take it why don't you sit down and have some dinner i have a few questions to ask you please sit down fire away jane if we fail tom o'donnell is a free man but he isn't free yet no no no don't tell me model prisoner first offense gets out this week he only had to serve nine months of the four-year sentence see this is why they call it the criminal justice system because it's criminal the way they administer justice just don't ask me to hide from him you know detective morris tells me that

you're quite adept at finding the little pieces of this puzzle i sure could use some more pieces i just don't understand the purpose of this i got time to agree to one more interview told him if he checks out that he never has talked to me again that you're lying right me why do i murder and his attorney charlie vaughn i'm mr o'donnell's attorney i want to remind you detective that we're here voluntarily anything i can help you with here i'd like to clear up this gertrude mccabe stuff not as much as i would it

says um here you you drove to vegas correct i drove to las vegas i drove up and down the vegas strip i was waiting for a woman to get off work for for personal reasons detectives i can't find her name you're gaming us detective mr o'donnell has refused to supply her name the lady was married i'll tell where this rendezvous took place you remember every hotel you've ever been in every restaurant and yes i did i paid cash i didn't want to hurt jane if she stumbled across a credit card statement was your big hotel

little hotel i was meeting a woman in a hotel room detective i was more interested in her than the decor i would appreciate it detective if jane alexander didn't find out about any of this despite making my life miserable i actually care about her i'll just keep that between the two of us this is a rental receipt it's the car henry rented and you drove okay it amazes me that the mileage is exactly the distance between the los angeles airport and gertrude mccabe's house and back i was in las vegas detective the round trip to

las vegas is 220 miles closer than san jose you would have had to have driven up and down the strip 84 times to make up the difference i got lost driving back to l.a i was tired i was actually falling asleep at the wheel and i accidentally pulled down a country road i found a bird town uh named atolla or a latoya something like that that totally explains it i wish you'd have said that before how far up the road is this little town atoller atolia how do you spell that look it up detective unless

you're planning on rearresting my client he walks in two hours let's go yep at least he really cares about my feelings he's that kind of man you think you know someone your whole life and one morning you wake up to the devil they're gonna let him go and you have to be more careful than ever [Music] it's a tola a tolla anything a a-t-t-o-l-i-a anything it's a town [Music] oh my god oh my god oh my god what happened someone broke in one of your neighbors heard noises called 9-1-1 i put you on a watch

list with the san francisco pd i came as soon as they called is it tom no it's not tom i called his parole officer in san diego he's right where he should be this is a random event now what am i supposed to do what am i supposed to do now what am i supposed to do you called me with some information yeah the town atolla atola is a ghost town i talked to the sheriff no one's lived there for 40 years tom probably found a map in the prison library and calculated how far he

had to drive to make up the mileage on the rental car i guess if you lie nothing sooner or later one of those lies is gonna catch up the deal i've already got joyce issuing an arrest warrant oh they've been living together for months hey baby he met her online using a computer in the prison library told her he was an investment banker that's how he can afford the fancy lawyer he found another one as pathetic as me the pathetic one is in handcuffs your honor just how many continuances is mr o'donnell going to receive

this is the fifth one this is a murder case your honor the defense needs time to prepare mr o'donnell is stalling his alibi witness his pal mr carmichael has cancer mr carmichael is afraid i'll slap him with perjury when he's called in to testify mr o'donnell is stalling until mr carmichael dies well if that happens we'll proceed without mr carmichael's testimony until then mr o'donnell will remain in jail i know you've had a long day and i'm not going to keep you here any longer than i have to but there's something i have to show

you these are the original photos taken at the crime scene this picture was misfiled taken by a second photographer later that day someone put the checkbook back in the drawer while you're still in the house where was tom at one point he excused himself to go to the bathroom unbelievable this guy's a piece of work he put the checkbook back in the drawer not knowing the desk had already been photographed why would he do that because he knew the estate the big money would be tied up with the homicide he wanted to know how much

cash kirk trood had on hand he was desperate for money that's why he killed her hang on maurice henry carmichael's dead tom's attorney's demanding the right to a speedy trial jane can i speak with you please i'm concerned about you testifying tom's attorney has asked to see everything you've touched every witness that you spoke to and every letter you sent to the cops is coming after you gene i can handle it look what you did was miraculous but it's my case now just facts ma'am circumstantial evidence is like playing chess with just the pawns if

your anger takes over the defense will eat you alive this is one of the most heinous crimes ever the cold calculated and remorseless murder of gertrude mccabe the defendant tom o'donnell bludgenter stabbed her repeatedly and when she wouldn't die he strangled her all so that the victim's niece jane alexander who had no knowledge of any of this could inherit the estate and mr o'donnell could enjoy the proceeds would you stop please you're driving me crazy you're gonna have to chain me up you want to explain to me why they don't want you sitting in on

the opening arguments because they don't want any witnesses to be influenced by someone else's statements you know maybe you should consider a career in criminal justice it's really scary but you're getting good at this stuff maybe i should consider a career on a bomb squad which is saner than this no thanks the defendant was clever enough to dispose of the murder weapon and wear latex gloves that alone proves premeditation he plotted an elaborate alibi which he later changed repeatedly when being interviewed by detectives our case is built on circumstantial evidence and all of it points

to the defendant tom o'donnell tom said gertrude had been murdered and jane was going to inherit her money then he was gonna pay us back the money that we gave him to him best marked exhibit three let the record show that tom o'donald made that call to san francisco to his niece two hours before the body was found when did you first hear your uncle mention gertrude mccabe's death before her body was found jane told me jane alexander so you didn't report it to the police no this whole thing the time of gertrude mccabe's death

your uncle being the alleged culprit all of this came from jane alexander yes she came to visit me at work and what was the reason for the visit objection calls for speculation it establishes the underlying motive of the prosecution's star witness i'll allow she was looking into who killed her aunt detective morris this was a difficult case wasn't it yes so difficult that you felt like you needed to seek outside help defense exhibit 11 your honor this is a report from the behavioral science unit of the fbi a report you requested would you read the

underlying portion please the most likely motive for the murder of gertrude mccabe was to gain the proceeds of her estate do not eliminate the possibility the killer is a woman uh i'm sorry one more time the last piece there do not eliminate the possibility the killer is a woman which led you to suspect jane alexander until i found out she was still in san francisco at the time of the murder providing your theory about the time of the murder is correct the body wasn't discovered for at least 24 hours isn't that right right and yet

you continued to question her several times who gained financially from ms mccabe's death no one yet but that's only because the insurance company refused to pay while mrs mccabe's house deteriorated because the estate was in probate now how much was the estate worth at the time of her death estimate around one million dollars and jane alexander was the sole beneficiary yes one million reasons to suspect the woman who is now your star witness oh yeah perfect nobody said anything but i can tell from joyce's face we're not doing so well well i hate to say

that i agree with you but i gotta say that i agree with you they're trying to pin this on me and we can't even tell the jury i passed the polygraph gene how does anybody get through an ordeal like this i mean they don't they take their poison one grain at a time we're awaiting the arrival of star witness jane alexander to take the stand the defense has portrayed the victim's niece as a woman who tampered with witnesses a woman bent on revenge witnesses have testified that you made phone calls tracked witnesses collected evidence what

exactly is your training and criminal procedure i read a lot of books sort of a self-taught sherlock holmes objection a jury can draw their own conclusions sustained you were obsessed with this case i was determined to get justice for a woman who never hurt anyone mr o'donnell's niece margaret whom you visited knew you were out to get him objection stan please would you rephrase did mr o'donnell's niece know that you were out to prove that mr o'donnell was guilty of this crime no no when i spoke with margaret i had no idea he'd mentioned the

murder several hours before the body was found you were angry with mr o'donnell for losing your money and investments no at the time of my aunt's murder i was unaware of his theft but you became angry vengeful that your financial setbacks eventually cost you your house they weren't financial setbacks mr vaughn your client robbed me but your anger had to have fed this desire to see tom o'donnell behind bars justice is fed by many things common decency being one of them prior to her death how much money did you borrow from gertrude mccabe prior to

her murder i borrowed 25 000 which you never repaid so once she died you were off the hook you know i tried repeatedly to repay her but she wouldn't take it so there's no hook right and i was never on one you were desperate for money after tom o'donnell stole my money i had to take care of myself as any sane person would do motion to strike is non-responsive your honor you asked about a financial state of mind overruled but continue so you were not motivated in any way by anger or revenge anger will kill

you and revenge isn't justice your honor the defense has exhausted this line of questioning not to mention the entire courtroom we'll take a noon recess when we return mr vaughn you'll move on hello yeah this is morris yes sir i'm the detective on the mccabe case i'm at the courthouse room 103. can you get that to me i'll be here [Music] it pains me to say it but his lawyer is really good well i should before tom's new sweetie's probably paying him you're doing great up there jane just stay vigilant keep your answers focused he's

trying to wear you down and trip you up just answer the questions don't offer anything he doesn't ask you remember focus i need to see you uh you guys uh why did you just go sit down what's up this might help good because the defense keeps attacking like they are i don't know what's gonna happen [Applause] let's not say anything about this right now thank you ms alexander the police originally suspected you of committing this crime didn't they uh yes yes they did until uh the evidence pointed to tom o'donnell could you please read the

underlined portion of the fbi profile do not eliminate the possibility the killer is a woman pretty damning conclusion well it's it's just wrong because he's the killer much money did you stand to inherit when ms mccabe died gertrude mccabe was murdered a forensic accountant said it was a million dollars you really had no idea i'm not the one who put a dollar sign on her life you told friends and police that you would do anything to convict tom o'donnell of this murder originally i told him i would do anything to clear his name then this

evidence started piling up and even a fool like me had to believe it you told police that in all the years you knew tom o'donnell you never met a kinder man that he never used an unkind word yes that's true that's true i was completely fooled by him and then all of a sudden this gentle generous man turns into a cold-blooded killer yes he did i'm sorry miss alexander it just doesn't seem plausible nothing further your honor the defense rests miss aldano does the prosecution want to re-examine the witness briefly your honor i'd like to

submit this document that i've just received as evidence objection permission to approach the bench your honor the defense was not given proper notice overruled i'll allow thank you your honor miss alexander this document was just given to me by detective morris a few minutes ago could you tell the jury please what is the document it's a life insurance policy and who is the insurer i am and what is the amount 1.5 million dollars did you take out that policy no i didn't and is that your signature no it looks a little like it but i've

never seen this before could you please tell the court whose name is there as the beneficiary tom o'donnell jack was right you're gonna kill me next [Music] all rise please be seated now in the matter of the people versus thomas j o'donnell and the sole count of murder in the first degree how do you find we the jury finder defendant thomas o'donnell guilty mr o'donnell given the time that it has taken to bring this case to justice and the jury has found you guilty do you uh have anything to say for yourself yes your honor

the uh fbi report said the crime was committed by someone timid someone inexperienced understand me i was raised in montana i know how to hunt and kill i've killed deer elk bear and i know how to do it with a gun knife or stick if i wanted to kill gertrude mccabe i'd do it right clean and fast i like some pathetic amateur [Music] miss alexander i'm jury number four and i just want to tell you that i prayed every night for you to survive on that witness stand i am so happy for you need a

police escort okay where'd you find the policy i had a phone call from a guy named daniel niles insurance broker he sold a policy to tom o'donnell for 1.5 million dollars with your name on it he was watching the case but two and two together me i answered the phone no you saved me no you saved yourself but then again that's why i make the big bucks miss alexander are you happy with the verdict um justice was served nothing's gonna bring back my aunt the defense betrayed you is a spurned woman bent on revenge how

would you describe yourself moral you borrow 50 bucks you pay it back you kill someone you go to jail miss alexander miss alexander yes lyle sanders hi thanks for taking this meeting with me uh i read about what you did getting justice for your aunt i only hope if i was murdered someone would do the same for me so tell me about your sister well uh a husband shot in the kitchen of the house he claimed that the gun went off accidentally and the police closed the case in four days they ruled it was an

accident what they didn't know was that she inherited a large sum of money from our parents and we're scared the death of a husband how long ago did this happen it was 12 years ago here's the police file i'll call you as soon as i read it thank you thanks thanks a lot [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hmm [Music] do [Music] um [Music] um [Music] [Music] bye [Music] you