Real Detective (2016) s01e04 Episode Script

- (Narrator):
There are some murders
that touches you
more than others.
A young girl,
defenseless girl
when they're murdered,
it just strikes
you a little deeper.
There's a bond that develops
between an investigator
and a victim.
The way I was brought up,
just because somebody was poorer
than the rest of the community
doesn't make their life
any less important.
(water splashing)
You'll make promises
to a dead body
that you're gonna do
the best you can
or die trying.
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- Late 20's, white female.
Weighted down with pipe.
- What was the cause of death?
- Blunt force,
but also had water
in her lungs.
- So she went under alive.
(sigh)
- Definitely didn't think she'd
surface once the body bloated.
- How long was she under?
- About a week.
Tried to weigh her down
but she came up anyway.
- Takes a special kind of
monster to do something
like that.
You got an I.D.?
- Ridging on the fingers
are gone.
Prints are looking
near impossible.
- Yeah, well
you do what you can.
- Hmm-hmm!
- (Narrator): I was third to the
youngest of eight kids.
Daddy worked in the oil field.
I think they referred
to us as oil trash.
None of us went
to the penitentiary.
We was raised poor
but we was raised right.
You've got to carry
the ball for the victim.
Poor girl didn't have much
in life just like me.
Your first reaction,
it really pisses you off
that somebody would do something
to a human
and throw them away like a piece
of garbage.
Except for the grace of God,
there could be one of your kids
laying there on the table.
- (Detective King Bennett):
Rest of the missing
person's reports.
- Anything in there resembling
the dead girl? What about
the one in Decatur?
- (King): Nah,
not that one either.
- Only other one I can
think of is
what was that Boyd?
- I was liking that girl
over in Boyd.
Missing two weeks,
fit the description.
I called the husband you know,
get more details.
Dang woman herself
picked up the phone.
- Case solved.
I don't think we're gonna
find her in missing persons.
- What about fingerprints?
- (Phil): Nah.
She's in the water
too long. No prints left.
You know though
actually there is a way.
- (Coroner): Pretty damaged
but it's the only option.
- Well don't got much left
to go on.
- (Coroner): Mmm!
- (Narrator): That's what
eventually got her identified.
The M.E. took
the ones that had ridge
characteristics skin loose
and bagged them
in formaldehyde for me
and then we take them
to the lab in Austin
and with a glove
they can fit them back
on their finger
and get ink prints.
Her name,
Diana Daniel.
My first stop was to go visit
with the family.
- (Jess Daniels): Her mamma
called her Diane.
To me she's always DeDe.
Keep thinking
I'm gonna wake up.
- I could only imagine the pain
that you're going through
Mr. Daniel.
That's, that's a lot.
- DeDe was a great girl
detective. Had a laugh
that could,
could light up a room.
- When's the last time
you spoke to her?
- Couple of weeks ago I guess.
- Did she have a job?
- Yeah, she made good money
waitressing over
at the Executive.
- You know anybody
that might have
any reason whatsoever
to try to, try to harm her?
- I don't know.
- No. Everybody loved DeDe.
When she didn't always have
the best choice
in boyfriends detective,
but there's never
- any bad blood there, you know.
- She dating anybody?
- Nice fella
name of Verlin Hamilton.
He's a good man,
businessman, had money.
Give DeDe things
I never could, that's for sure.
They were getting pretty
serious. This is him here.
That's my little DeDe.
I remember when she was
just a little thing.
She's about three. She's always
trying to wink at me you know
(laughs)
She, she could never
get it right
but she'd try so hard.
Her nose would wrinkle up,
you know?
I'm her father, you know.
I should have been able
to protect her.
- You know something buddy?
I work hard at what I do.
From what I know
you're a damn good father
and she was lucky
to have you.
Don't ever forget that.
Can I keep that?
- Yeah sure.
- I tell you
one thing Mr. Daniel,
I'm gonna find out
who killed your daughter.
Damn it, I'm gonna find out.
- Thank you sir.
(Phil):
Thank you for your time.
(Narrator): I could just sense
that he, he cared deeply
about her.
Her family was robbed
of a sweet little girl.
They'll always have that void.
Thank God to this point
in my life I've not had
to go through
anything like that.
Your emotions play a role
in the investigation.
That's what drives you,
that what make you
put in a 15-hour days,
20-hour days,
sometimes three days
without sleeping.
- (Amanda): Hi there.
- Hi.
- What can I do for you?
- I'm Phil Ryan, Texas Ranger.
- I'm Amanda.
- Amanda. I just got
to ask you a few things.
Can you give me a cup of coffee?
- Sure thing.
There you go.
- You ever hear of a girl
named DeDe Daniel?
- Of course yeah,
but she's not on today so.
- When was the last time
you saw her?
- I mean it's been a while
since I've seen DeDe. You know
they took her off the schedule
because you know
she missed a shift.
She always did that.
I just figure it was because her
and her man
finally ran off together.
- Yeah. Her man?
- Yeah, Verlin something.
Nice guy.
- Why do you suppose,
why do you suppose they'd want
to run off together?
- Oh I mean DeDe and Verlin
was always talking about it,
you know? He couldn't
stay here because
Verlin was married.
- Pretty chatty aren't you?
- You know I'm just,
my manager says I talk too much.
He's probably right.
- Did Verlin's wife,
she knows about, about DeDe?
- Hell yeah.
One time DeDe came in here
all upset. Said the wife
went over her place,
called her out about Verlin,
the whole thing.
Is DeDe all right?
- You're Amanda, right?
Actually no, she's,
she passed away.
I'm investigating
a murder.
- Oh my God.
- Yeah.
- Oh my God.
- I'm sorry.
- It's all right.
It's all right.
- Hm
How?
- I think it's better
we don't get into all that.
- Sure.
- But
anything you could tell me
about the last time you saw her.
That would be helpful.
- Honestly I don't,
I don't know.
I'm sorry.
- Looks like she left
in a hurry.
- Place been cleared out,
that's for sure.
Question is was that before
or after she was killed?
- Either way, someone was here.
You look into that boyfriend
of DeDe's yet?
- Yeah.
Verlin Hamilton's his name
out of Fort Worth.
Got a construction company,
thinks he's a big-shot.
I been calling him but
he doesn't want to seem
to be around, you know.
- That seem strange to you?
- Everything seems strange
to me King.
Let me ask you a question.
If you were leaving town
for good would you leave a bunch
of personal stuff behind?
- If I was in a hurry.
- I never seen you
in a hurry King.
Look what I got,
address book.
- Something.
- Got to get the tech guys
in here. They'll look around
for some prints
and blood. Yeah.
(Phil): When's the last time
you spoke to DeDe?
Okay. All right.
Thanks. I appreciate your time.
Man.
You know what? I spoke to half
the people
in this book and
the most of them that knew her
said that after
she started dating Verlin
they never heard from her again.
But not a single one had
anything bad to say about her,
and the people
who knew Verlin,
they didn't have anything bad
to say about him either.
In fact, a few of them
said he was a nice guy.
- Verlin's wife.
- Linda Hamilton,
yeah. She's on the list.
(ringtone)
Ryan. Wait, wait, hold on,
hold on,
slow down,
slow down. Who?
Thirty minutes,
give me 30 minutes.
Okay.
Wow. That was Verlin Hamilton.
He wants
to meet with me.
He claims he knows
who killed DeDe.
- Mr. Ryan.
- Verlin?
- Verlin Hamilton.
- Appreciate the call.
- Have a seat.
- (Narrator): Well the first
time I, I meet Verlin
I've already checked
his criminal history.
Doesn't have a criminal history
and when you meet him
he seems like a nice enough guy.
- I spent ten days
looking for her,
went everywhere.
Ever since
she left me this guy
named Tommy Johnson.
- Tommy Johnson?
- Yeah,
the scumbag. Stole
my DeDe from me.
- Where do you suppose
they run off to?
- No idea.
I got into work and Henry,
this kid who works for me,
hands this note.
Around here somewhere.
Says DeDe gave it to him.
You can talk to him
if you want.
- We'll get to him later.
Why don't you finish your story?
- Well like I said,
Henry gets the note
and he sees DeDe get in
the truck and take off
with Tommy. Tall guy,
dark hair, thin as a rake.
Looked like bad news.
- You know I don't want
to push into
your business too far, but
if you were seeing each other
and everything was all right
then why do you suppose she run
off with this other man?
- Me and DeDe,
we loved each other.
I gave her everything: money,
an apartment,
I gave her a car and jewelry.
There's one thing
that she wanted from me
that I couldn't give her.
Wanted me to leave my wife
and my family.
- Yeah that's the big one,
- When I couldn't do it
she pawned all the jewelry
I gave her and left the car
in the lot with the title
in it. Said to sell it.
Use the money to repay the debt
that she owed me.
- Wow.
- She didn't owe me nothing.
I loved her.
- (Narrator): Yeah I could see
some distress and emotion
in his voice
when he was describing
their relationship. Yeah,
he genuinely cared for her,
I really believe that.
The girls at the bar's idea
was Verlin was gonna leave
his wife and they were
gonna get married,
but some of the boyfriends
of her husband's
would tell me, said we knew
he never would, you know,
he didn't fool us like
he has the girls.
- When's the last time
you were at her place?
- When me and Henry
cleaned it out,
most of it anyway.
DeDe just up and left
all her stuff.
- You know the one thing
that sticks in my mind is
why didn't you ever
report her missing?
- Mr. Ryan,
I'm a well-known man
in this town.
- Yeah, yeah I know,
I can see that, yeah.
- I was embarrassed
because my wife, she couldn't
put up with much more of my
philandering.
I'm sure you appreciate that.
- Yeah I can.
- Oh he's right here. Henry's
here. Henry, come over here
for a second.
- All right.
- (Verlin): Don't mind him now.
He's a bit slow.
Henry, this here
is Mr. Ryan.
He's a Texas Ranger.
- How you doing Henry?
- How do you do sir?
- Good, good.
- Gonna be sunny all day.
- Henry,
Detective Ryan here
wants to ask you
a few questions about DeDe.
- Oh, about DeDe.
She was always very nice to me.
- Well when's the last
time you saw her?
- (Verlin): It's all right,
you can talk to the man.
- She came by. She gave me
a note to give to Mr. Hamilton.
- You see who
she comes by with?
- Some guy.
I, I never seen him
here before.
- What happened to that note?
- (Verlin): Oh I got it.
It's in my office.
- Could I see it?
- (Verlin): Yeah I got it.
It's right here.
- (Narrator): Verlin was leading
me in directions
he wanted to go.
He was quick to talk
about this Tommy guy.
He was trying to make up
my mind for me
about what could
have happened.
- You got to be kidding.
- (Narrator): Do you have any
idea how many Tommy Johnson's
there are in Texas?
- 3,000.
- 3,000!
- Just about.
Want to start cold calling,
make a day out of it?
(laughs)
- (Amanda): You're back.
- (Phil): Heard you had
the best chicken wings in Texas.
- You heard right,
but I'm taking it
you're not here for the wings?
- No, sure not.
Did you ever see DeDe
hanging around with some guy
named Tommy Johnson?
- Hum
Yeah, I think there was a guy
named Tommy. He went by T. J.,
she was friends with.
Used to come in sometime
and sit at the bar when she was
working. Boys liked DeDe.
(Phil laughs)
- I'm starting
to get that, yeah.
What did he look like?
- Tall guy,
thin, dark hair.
He used to take the corner seat
right over there.
I don't know why she liked him
so much.
You know,
he always drank too much,
get loud. I had
to kick him out a few times.
- I tell you what.
You ever run into
this Tommy Johnson again,
you know where he is,
call me. All right?
- Yeah, anything for DeDe.
- She was a good friend,
wasn't she?
- Yep.
- (Narrator): When you're
working case like this
the images are fresh
in your mind;
you see, hear, smell,
all that stuff when you start
thinking about the case.
I went several months before I
could drink water out of the tap
because I knew my water
I was drinking
came from the lake
where we recovered DeDe,
and every dang time I went
to get some water
I could smell her.
Now that stayed with me
for a long time.
- I don't have much time.
- (Phil): Yeah I understand that
but
I just want to ask you
a couple questions.
Ever see that girl before?
- She worked for my husband
part time.
- What exactly did she do
part time?
- Answer phones,
got coffee, menial stuff.
I'd say talk to Verlin
but he's hunting
with our close friend David.
He's a U.S. Marshall.
- Hell I already spoke
to him about it,
so I was kind of hoping
to talk to you.
- Well you're gonna have
to keep on hoping detective
because I'm too busy.
- Well you better find the time
because that girl's dead.
- I don't know how long it was
going on and I didn't want to.
Verlin said it was over
and I believed him.
- You and DeDe
ever have a chat?
- Once. At her apartment
we had some words.
You know girls
like that.
(Phil laughs)
- Girls like what?
- (Narrator): Linda really
just wanted DeDe out of her life
and her husband's life.
Verlin, he had
a sense of entitlement
that he deserved everything.
He wanted his cake
and eats it too.
I mean he wanted
his family life and he wanted
a, a, a girl that he had fallen
in love with I really believe.
- Verlin has a family, children,
a business. We have a
- Reputation.
- People know us.
- Yeah I bet they do.
I, I wouldn't know
about that because
I never been very popular.
- Verlin's a good husband,
a good father.
He just got distracted.
(laughs)
- Does he get distracted often?
- You married detective?
- Twice ma'am.
- Then you know the drill. Far
as I'm concerned, DeDe Daniel
was a train wreck.
Couldn't even pay her own bills.
Made one mistake after the
other. Never should have run off
with that trucker.
- Trucker?
- I'm just piecing together
the story through Verlin.
- Well why don't you tell me
how the story goes?
- Wasn't exactly taking notes
as my husband
described the details
of his girlfriend leaving town.
DeDe wanted Verlin's money.
Verlin stood up to her,
she left.
End of story.
- (Narrator): In our business
it's In God We Trust,
everybody else is suspect.
We've already got Tommy Johnson,
we got Verlin
and then now you got
to add Linda to it.
She was pretty hot
when she found out about it.
- (King): Ah it's a bunch
of nothing.
Photos of DeDe
and her friends,
stuff with her and Verlin.
Nothing for us to go on.
- (Narrator): I hadn't gained
any ground.
I'm right back where I was.
Don't have a murder weapon.
Still struggling for,
for the evidence
that will point me
in the right direction.
Where is that address book?
- There's a Tommy in here.
Could be a small miracle.
Tommy Johnson.
Tommy Johnson.
- Johnson, it's Dayton.
- Can you prove that?
- See?
Tommy Dayton, not Tommy Johnson.
- You ever hear of a girl
name DeDe Daniel?
- Maybe.
- Of course you have. When's the
last time you saw her?
- I don't know, months.
Girl was a real piece of work,
you know what I'm saying?
- Listen smart ass,
would you like me to take your
head and stick it in that grill?
The girl's dead.
Try to be a wise guy,
why don't you do something nice?
Try to help us out.
- (King): Maybe your lady friend
can help us out.
Maybe she knows DeDe.
- All right kid. All right,
all right, all right.
- (Narrator): I didn't have a
murder weapon, I didn't have
Tommy Johnson
and this Tommy Dayton guy
didn't pan out,
so I'm at square one basically.
I know that I'm not the sharpest
investigator there ever was.
My daddy told me,
he said, "Those of us
that aren't too bright
can make up for it
by hard work
and a good attitude."
Look at that.
Linda Hamilton's wearing
those same earrings,
the very same ones.
Yeah.
- I found them in Verlin's
truck, okay? I knew
he bought them for her.
He bought everything for her.
- Listen, you better start
playing straight with me
because right now things
ain't looking so good for you.
That little chat you had
with DeDe, did you threaten her?
- That woman tried to steal
my family. I did nothing
but protect what was mine.
- DeDe Daniels is dead.
You know
how that looks
for you, for Verlin?
Where is he by the way?
- Hunting. Detective,
girls like that should know
their place in the world.
(sigh)
- What place would that be?
- (Narrator): DeDe's dead
and Linda
probably thinks
that she had it coming
just because of who she was.
This case stood out to me
because of the way
she was treated
like garbage.
Makes your blood boil
how some people in the community
really didn't want
or care that much about her.
Just awful
what happened to that girl.
It did take a toll on me.
- (King): We got company.
- Uninvited.
- Detective Ryan.
- Yeah.
- Name's David.
- Hey David.
- I'm good friends
with the Hamilton's.
- (Mrs. Hamilton): I'd say talk
to Verlin about it,
but he's hunting
with our close friend David.
He's a U.S. Marshall.
- I didn't know U.S. Marshals
got involved in homicide cases,
but your car
is a dead giveaway.
I been seeing it
all over the place.
- Well the Hamilton's
don't know I'm doing this.
- (Phil): No?
- No.
Verlin and Linda
is good people.
Linda never
would have hurt DeDe, ever.
- Well that's
a very sweet story Dave.
- (David): DeDe had no problem
with infidelity.
- Uh-huh.
- Who's to say what
other trouble she would
have brought on to her life?
- So in other words what you're
saying is that they got
an awful lot of money
and a lot of big
and powerful friends
just like you, and so that means
that there's no way
she could have done it
and the next thing
you're gonna say is that
I should back off, right?
- I'm just saying,
maybe you need to look
at indifferent direction.
- Girls like DeDe.
- Oh girls like DeDe.
What about girls like DeDe?
- What about them?
(Phil laughs)
- You know that badge
you got on?
Ought to just take it off
and throw it in the dirt
because you don't
deserve it.
(David laughs)
- Have a good evening.
- (Phil): Sure enough.
Them damn Hamilton's
are starting to piss me off.
I'm believing it now
more than ever it's one of them.
Never send that fool out here
if they weren't guilty as hell.
- (Narrator): I subpoenaed
the Hamilton bank records
and phone records.
I'm looking for anything
that will link it
to where DeDe's body was found.
- Hey. Think I found that thing
you were looking for.
- Phone call made
to the Hamilton residence
from Highway 14.
- That's smack on the way
to Lake Bridgeport.
- (Phil): What time?
- Four a.m.,
night of the 26th.
- Okay, well that's like
eight hours exactly.
Last time
she was seen alive.
- We got a phone call
around the time DeDe
went missing
to the Hamilton residence.
- Yeah, that call made
to that residence was made
with Verlin's credit card.
- You think Verlin
made the call?
- Yeah, I sure do.
I think we should start thinking
a lot more about Verlin.
- (Narrator): Everything
pointed to
Verlin Hamilton
as being the killer
and I really thought
this was my lead.
- (Verlin): Tommy Johnson
made that call.
- (Phil): Tommy?
- Yeah, he had my credit card.
She gave it to him.
Cussed me out something fierce.
- You know,
I hate to keep asking
the same question over and over
but when is the last time
you saw DeDe?
- I already told you
that ages ago detective.
You looking into me?
- Yeah. You're
damn right I am.
Why don't you send
your U.S. Marshall pal over
to see me again?
Let's see how that goes.
- Look, I came to you remember?
- Yeah.
- Do your job detective.
Tommy Johnson is the scum
that killed DeDe, not me.
- You sure?
- We're finished here.
- For now.
- (Narrator): We know that
DeDe's body
was found in the lake
at Lake Bridgeport.
Now I'm looking for anything
that will link Verlin to where
DeDe's body was found.
- I think that here's where
the call was made yeah.
That's where they found
the body.
- You got all these homes
right over here.
- Sure, all around
the lake on either side.
Is there a public record of
the Hamilton's owning
property in Bridgeport?
- I can call Bridgeport County
Tax Department.
- I got a better idea.
Why don't we just go?
- (Narrator): Verlin
came across as,
as self-centered and spoiled.
- Evidently no one ever taught
Verlin the difference
between right and wrong.
He always got what he wanted
until he didn't.
- Got something?
- Well maybe.
- (Narrator): DeDe took the
first blow in the jaw
and then took two more blows
in the head.
There was no forensic
or blood evidence
that would indicate
to me what murder weapon it was.
- Find anything?
- That horseshoe stake
is missing.
Go get the luminol.
That looks like blood to me.
- (Narrator): I mean it looked
like somebody carried somebody
out there dripping blood
and if it's an outdoor scene
you have to wait at night
for the sun to go down
and then spray some luminol.
- Not dark enough yet.
Luminol won't read.
Sure looks like blood.
- I found more down there
by the horseshoe pit.
- (Narrator): In the meantime,
we collected everything
that we thought we might need
to take to the lab,
and you can't wait to find out
if it is or is not blood.
- Can I help you?
- Sure can. Is this your place?
- Yes it is.
- Name DeDe Daniel
mean anything to you?
- Who the hell
wants to know?
- Phil Ryan. I'm a Texas Ranger.
- You got a warrant
to be here?
- You got something
you got to hide?
- No, I got nothing to hide.
- You don't mind us taking
a look around then huh?
- I suppose not.
- (Narrator): The man's name
was Fred Benson.
Turns out he's friends
with the Hamilton's.
I think I found my pipes
and asked him about it
and he said that was his.
It was left over
from building a pipe fence
and he brought it out here
to see if he could use it
somewhere.
- (Phil): Well looky there,
big ball of wire.
There's some
damn duct tape too.
- (Phil): Hey Fred. Listen,
thanks a lot.
- Sure.
- Appreciate it.
One more thing.
You mind if we take
a look inside?
We need to try to find something
that ties DeDe to this property.
- Yeah, but who the hell
was she here with?
- Verlin.
- What? Linda found out? Made
her way up here
and killed her? You figure
she's kill him too.
- Here in the play land.
- (King): What you got there?
(laughs)
- You think that old man
drinks these?
- I don't even drink.
- Yeah, I didn't figure
you for the
cooler type.
- I had no idea
about DeDe.
Verlin and I had
an open door policy.
He had keys; he came
and went as he liked
until I found out
about that girl.
- How'd that affect
your friendship?
- Some you know.
Being friends with both
Linda and Verlin, huh,
well you know
how that goes.
- Yeah.
When's the last time old Verlin
was up here anyway?
- Couldn't really say.
Three months at least.
If he couldn't bring DeDe,
he didn't have much reason
to come up.
- Yeah.
- (King): Blood.
- Yeah, that's DeDe's.
- (Narrator): It just clicked in
in your mind, this is where
she met it right there.
Visually you could put
DeDe there, you know.
It, it was a little sad.
Somebody went right over to that
pipe, went out here and got
the wire, tied her up
and hauled her and dumped her.
- (Jess): I can't say for sure
that's DeDe's cozy
but that's sure
her drink.
- You sure?
- Oh yeah.
I always keep some in the fridge
when she comes over.
She liked them sweet things.
I got that six pack before,
before the
(sigh)
We'd sit on the porch.
I'd sip on a beer, you know.
We'd talk for hours.
You think that's gonna help us
find her killer?
- I hope so.
- I keep thinking about them
last few hours before she died.
She must have been scared
to death.
I can't get it out of my head.
- You ready for this?
- What is it, blood report?
- No, that's still processing.
That letter you got
from Verlin.
- She came by.
She gave me a note
to give to Mr. Hamilton.
- The kiss off letter.
- Yeah, that's the one.
The writing on the outside
of the envelope
belongs to DeDe Daniel.
The letter itself matches
someone else's handwriting.
- Not DeDe Daniel.
(laughs)
- Ain't that a piece of news?
- Oh my God.
- The handwriting expert
was very, very positive
that, that was not
DeDe's handwriting.
- (Narrator): I really wanted to
find the author because that,
that would help me find
the real killer.
- There's no proof that either
one of them, Linda or Verlin,
were anywhere near the cabin
during the time
of DeDe's death,
that's the problem.
- Except that phone call made
from Verlin's credit card.
- Which he claims was done
by Tommy Johnson,
somebody we don't even have yet.
- It's all circumstantial.
- Yeah it is.
And there's something
about this letter
that's till bugging me.
- Yeah, she didn't write it.
- Yo, Henry.
How you doing?
Remember me?
- Looks like it's gonna rain.
- You think so?
- Yup, definitely gonna rain.
- There's blue skies Henry.
Listen, can I ask you
a question?
You mind if I ask you
a question?
Did DeDe give you a note
or did she not?
- Well.
- I already know the answer
so just tell me the truth.
- I don't want Mr. Hamilton
to get in trouble.
He said he gonna sell me
DeDe's car.
- You know what son?
There's a lot of cars
in the world
and if you don't tell me
the truth it's gonna be you
that gets in trouble, all right?
Forget all about him.
Now did she or did she not
give you that damn note?
All right.
Did you ever see her
leave here
with some guy?
- I never saw no Tommy guy.
DeDe was never here.
- Okay.
- Not for a long time.
- Okay Henry, all right.
You know something son?
You did the right thing.
I thank you.
- Poor kid's terrified
of Verlin.
- Get me an arrest warrant
for Verlin Hamilton.
I'm heading
over there right now.
- (Narrator): I got him.
(sirens)
This story and what happened
to DeDe is a tragedy.
A young life gets taken
under these circumstances
just for loving somebody?
If DeDe were alive
I'd just say kid,
you did nothing wrong
except love the wrong man.
It's funny
how people like Verlin
act when they realize
that their power
and money is not gonna be able
to help them.
(voices on radio)
When I found out Verlin
went home and killed himself
I said a prayer,
let there be a suicide note
explaining all this. No note.
He was selfish to the end.
But the feeling
I felt of satisfaction
over being able to keep
my promise to DeDe
even before I knew it was DeDe
was great.
- Here you go,
some nice ones
in there. Yeah,
happy ones.
- Thank you detective.
- (Narrator): You've got to
carry the ball for the victim
and that's why the scales
of justice
are equal and sometimes you've
got to put your thumb on it
to elevate your victim
to the same equal status.
Make sure that
you know I don't care
how big and rich you are,
you don't do this to anybody.
If Verlin were alive today
I would make him
hear the stories
of how much she loved him
and make him realize
that she tried to love him
and make it work
and was faithful to him,
and he turned right around
and did this
and I'd just leave it at that.
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