Close to Home (2005) s01e11 Episode Script

Frank! Frank murphy.
40,philanthropist.
Owner of a local grocery store chain was reported missing last night by his wife carolyn.
She came home to find blood in their garage.
There was signs of a struggle.
The blood type matches frank murphy'S.
Detective branch, why don't you fill them in on the suspect.
Approximately three hours after murphy was abducted, this man-- craig schraeder attempted to use one of murphy's credit cards at a convenience store.
The store manager became suspicious when schraeder refused to show id.
The manager said he had to call the card in for approval.
Murphy ran.
Manager saw him blast out of the parking lot in a green van.
When the manager called police, he found out the credit card belonged to a person who was reported missing.
The police dusted the card for prints, matched them to craig schraeder, who had one prior arrest for disorderly conduct.
Schraeder returned to his house, police were waiting to arrest him there.
Inside of the green van was soaked with frank murphy's blood.
One of the cops got a little overzealous and shall we say beat schraeder up.
Where's the guy?! What'd you do with him?! Where is frank murphy?! Is he alive?! He's dead,man.
During the exchange schraeder said murphy was dead.
He admitted it? He didn't admit to killing him.
He just said he was dead.
You're not going to get that in.
The cop interrogated him without his miranda rights.
Even though,add that statement to the amount of blood in the van and in the crime scene, murphy is presumed dead.
- There's no body? - No,and schraeder's not talking.
- Did schraeder know the victim? - There are no links so far.
Could this have been a racial killing? Schraeder was unemployed,murphy was driving a lexus.
It's about money.
A white guy kills a black guy,it's not hard to consider it.
We should consider everything, but we should focus on the facts.
Annabeth,you're going to need to start making a case against schraeder.
Sounds like there's enough physical and circumstantial evidence to tie schraeder to the abduction.
Abduction's not going to cut it.
Frank murphy was a local hero.
He gave computers to schools, paid for his employees to go to college.
The community's going to be outraged.
We're going to need to prove murder.
Steve,you know how hard it is to prove murder without a body.
I do.
I also know we need to find a way.
Jennifer jordan, she was the first.
She was a cashier with us for three years.
Smart as a whip but didn't believe it.
Frank used to call her val-- for valedictorian.
Said she was the smartest one of us all and should go to college.
She said,"if I could afford to go to college, I wouldn't be working in this grocery store.
" So,frank paid for her to go.
She graduated third in her class from indiana state.
After that,frank put out the word-- any employee who wanted to go to college the business would pay.
All they had to do is keep their grades up and send us a picture when they graduate.
He left an amazing legacy.
Why would someone do this to such a good man? Just for money.
Are you sure are you sure he's dead? Schraeder said that he was.
And the blood we found suggests he was telling the truth.
I hope you're going to put that man away forever.
In order to do that,we need to find your husband's body.
Why? You just said schraeder confessed.
That statement is inadmissible.
Schraeder hadn't been read his rights.
And without a body,juries are very reluctant to convict on murder.
The defense will say that the victim could still be alive or that he went into hiding because of personal problems.
- Frank is not in hiding.
- I know.
This is craig schraeder.
Does he look familiar to you? No.
But I can check our records to see if he was ever employed by one of our stores.
The police have already done that.
There's no record of him ever working for you.
Why not just rob him and go? Why take frank away? That's a concern.
It makes me think there was more to this than a botched robbery.
Was your husband being threatened by anyone? Any business conflicts, fights with a neighbor? Not that I know of.
The one thing that I can't get out of my mind is that frank is out there somewhere.
Lying on the cold ground like some worthless piece of trash.
Frank treated people so well.
To have him treated he meant everything to me.
And the thought that I don't know where he is that I can't bury him, I can't visit his grave he's just gone.
I don't know how I'm going to live with that.
Frank murphy had no obvious enemies.
By all accounts he ran an ethical business, shared the wealth with his workers and encouraged them to make something of themselves.
Only the good die young.
His wife is devastated.
She just wants to bury her husband.
We still haven't located the body? No.
Schraeder lives here.
Frank murphy was abducted from his home at approximately 8:00 P.
M.
At this location.
Three hours later,schraeder tried to use his credit card at this location.
Three hours could have gotten him into another state and back.
People don't usually carry bodies that long.
They dump them pretty quickly.
We have a helicopter with thermal imaging capabilities doing periodic sweeps of a three-hour zone, looking for a decomposing body, but so far,no luck.
But if the body were hidden in say,a house or a storage unit, thermal imaging won't find it.
Police are going to use bloodhounds again this afternoon, but there's a lot of woods and farms in this area, so it won't go fast.
Danny,what do we know about schraeder? Uh,he's been unemployed for six months.
He was arrested once for a bar fight,but the charges were dropped.
That green van was never registered with the dmv.
And a guy by the name of gary poindexter cosigned for the last vehicle he registered, which was a pickup truck.
That was not found at the schraeder house.
Any chance of getting schraeder to talk to us? No.
He asked for a lawyer immediately.
Do you have an address or phone number for this gary poindexter? It's right here.
Eric foster was assigned as his pd.
Really? Is there some history here that I don't know about? Eric foster is a friend of mine from law school.
I haven't seen him in a while.
Well,you're going to be seeing him pretty soon.
You have an evidentiary hearing in a half hour.
What are the issues? He's going to come at you on the confession and the blood in the van.
I'm assuming I'll lose the confession,but i can't lose the van.
Right.
Get out to gary poindexter's house.
Maureen and detective branch, go talk to him,see if you can find anything about schraeder.
Try to track down friends,former coworkers.
Maybe he bragged about the crime.
I'd better get to court.
So opposing counsel's your old boyfriend.
- Briefly.
- Never mind.
You don't need to tell me.
Just please tell me you did better than him in law school.
Back soon.
Annabeth chase.
Ladies and gentlemen, she does exist.
Eric,hi.
That's the last friendly contact we're going to have until this case is over, so I hoped you enjoyed it.
Oh,with all my heart.
How's the baby? She'S well, she's so cute.
You've got to come by my office and see some pictures.
You'll see I'm not kidding about the cute thing.
I will do that.
And maybe I'll bring my fiancee along.
You're getting married? You make it sound like I'm a freak.
People want to marry me these days.
I'm sure they do.
I'm just surprised you left work long enough to meet someone.
Actually,she came to my office.
She was consulting on a case I was handling.
I'm happy for you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Okay,Back to business Listen,eric,we both know your client killed frank murphy.
He as much as told the arresting officer.
- That statement's never coming in.
- I've got a case for abduction.
And given the amount of murphy's blood in that van, I think I've got murder.
I'm willing to offer 30 years.
- As opposed to what? - The death penalty.
In exchange,schraeder will make a full confession and give us the location of frank murphy's body.
It would really mean a lot to his wife.
I can't accept that offer.
You really think you're going to convince the jury he's innocent after they've seen the blood evidence? You're about to lose most of your blood evidence.
We'll see about that.
Mrs.
Poindexter? Yes.
Can I help you? My name is maureen scofield.
I'm an assistant deputy prosecutor.
This is detective branch.
Is gary poindexter home? He's out back.
Why? We'd like to ask him a few questions about a man named craig schraeder.
Do you know him? Of course.
He's our son-in-law.
- Gary? - Coming.
Gary,this is detective branch, and ms? - Maureen scofield.
- I don't want to get you dirty.
So what's this about? Craig schraeder.
He's a suspect in an abduction and a murder.
Oh,my lord,there must be some mistake.
It doesn't appear that way.
You cosigned on a truck for mr.
Schraeder.
Did you give him access to any of your property? Maybe a garage or a storage facility? No,nothing like that.
Have you been in contact with him in the last week? Not me.
I don't know about bernice.
No,I haven't seen him.
Maybe you could direct us to your daughter.
She's no longer with us.
I am so sorry.
What happened? It was about a year ago.
Craig was working third shift and sylvie was in the house by herself.
A couple of hoodlums broke in to rob the place.
Shot her.
All they got was a television set and whatever little bit of money was in the house, and for that,they murdered sylvie in cold blood.
Craig was never the same after that.
He lost his job.
It was around this time he was arrested for a bar fight.
That was just a drunken lapse of judgment.
The guy even dropped the charges afterwards.
Even so,mr.
Schraeder never had problems with the police before.
Would you say be became increasingly violent after your daughter's death? He was angry.
Who wouldn't be? They never found the guys that did it.
After sylvie died craig cried all day and all night.
He couldn't stop crying.
That's how much he loved my little girl.
And if those animals hadn't taken her that's who you should be looking for-- the animals that killed my daughter.
I have reviewed the police reports and mr.
Schraeder's medical report.
It seems fairly evident that one of the arresting officers got a little out of control.
Yes,your honor.
My client was already in custody when he was interrogated without his miranda rights.
Therefore,any statements made by mr.
Schraeder to the arresting officer must be excluded from this case.
Ms.
Chase,do you intend to fight that? No,your honor.
The state acknowledges that the statement is inadmissible.
I'm granting the motion to suppress.
The defendant's statement to the arresting officer will be excluded.
Anything else? Your honor,the police violated search-and-seizure rules when they arrested mr.
Schraeder.
They failed to get a warrant to search mr.
Schraeder's van.
Therefore,all evidence collected from the van should be excluded.
Your honor,the search of the van was authorized under search incident to arrest, which states that, "a search of the suspect's immediate surroundings" is permitted to secure the safety of the arresting officers.
" The police were waiting for mr.
Schraeder at his home.
They did not have to arrest him in the van, there by putting the arresting officers at risk.
They deliberately chose to take mr.
Schraeder in the van.
It was a pretext for an illegal search.
It was not a pretext.
The defendant drove up in the van.
What they did was legal.
Not to mention the fact that mr.
Schraeder was being arrested for using a credit card which was stolen from a man who had been reported missing.
For all they knew,frank murphy was in that van.
They had an obligation to search.
The also had an obligation to read my client his rights and to refrain from throwing him on the ground.
The officers came and they were ready to do whatever they felt was necessary to get a confession.
Now the system should not reward that behavior,your honor.
I'm finding that there was probable cause to search the vehicle.
Mr.
Foster,your motion to suppress the evidence in the van is denied.
Okay,okay,let's talk.
I don't know if you were listening,eric, but I just did a lot of talking.
Judge seemed to hear me.
I'll take the deal to my client.
What deal? I offered a deal earlier, but that deal's long gone.
Come on,annabeth,this is a robbery gone wrong.
This guy's life was falling apart.
He needed money.
He never meant to kill anyone.
Well,he did.
What if I can get you the body? He'll tell you where it is? I think so,yeah.
Let me talk to him.
Oh,I talked to annabeth.
She may have a deal to get murphy's body back.
- How many years? - 35.
Did you talk to the guy who cosigned for schraeder's truck? - Gary poindexter.
- And his wife,bernice.
Schraeder was married to his daughter,sylvie.
She was murdered about a year ago.
The killers were never found.
I think that's what started schraeder's decline.
I'm getting a warrant to search the in-law's property in case schraeder hid something there they don't know about.
And I'm on my way to check out the bar where he was arrested for fighting.
He may still have some friends there.
Or enemies.
Take danny.
Bar full of guys, you may need some help.
You've obviously never seen me in a bar full of guys.
we need to talk.
I was wondering when you were going to give me an answer.
What took so long? I had to go somewhere,do some research.
About? Your offer.
I can't make the deal.
Eric,you're never going to get a better deal than this.
I understand.
I'm sorry.
Wait,wait,wait so what happened? He wouldn't tell you where the body was? Oh,he told me.
Is that where you went? To verify that he actually had the body? Yeah.
Why on earth would you do that? I don't know what kind of people you deal with all day, but I've had way too many clients promise information they couldn't deliver and confess to things they didn't do.
I need to know what I'm dealing with.
So why won't he take the deal? He's not going to get a better one,eric.
You need to explain to him what he's facing here.
It's my call,annabeth.
What are you talking about? What is it? Off the record? Okay.
If I tell you where the body is, I'll be further incriminating my client.
Further? Your client murdered someone.
I mean,how much more incriminating can you? You found more than one body.
How many? You know I can't go any further with this.
I'm bound by attorney-client privilege.
- Eric - I've gone as far as I can go.
I'll see you in court.
Hey,do we have a deal with schraeder? No.
Why not? Eric foster confided to me off the record that schraeder told him where murphy's body is.
He also implied there were other bodies.
So we can't make a deal without exposing his client to further prosecution.
Get a judge to compel eric foster to testify to the location.
I can't do that.
He's bound by attorney-client privilege.
You'll have to find a way around it.
Steve,I can't get around it.
The right of a defendant to speak freely with his attorney is at the heart of our system of justice.
It's right up there with not being forced to incriminate yourself.
Okay,but maybe this isn't privileged information.
By going to that location, eric foster made himself a witness in this case.
And,by telling you,he opened the door to testify.
He told me in confidence.
Well,maybe he shouldn't have.
Lawyers share this kind of information all the time.
They don't turn it around and use it against each other.
This case started as an abduction and turned into a murder.
That murder has turned into a multiple homicide.
And,before we're through, we may be looking at a serial killer.
We need to find those bodies to put schraeder away.
Danny! Do a search of all missing persons whose disappearances are similar to frank murphy'S.
I'm on it.
We have at least one other victim out there.
Maybe that will be the key to nailing schraeder.
You know it's almost impossible to get around attorney-client privilege,right? It's a hail mary,but we need the information.
There's only two people who have it: Schraeder and his lawyer.
And,if we can't get schraeder,we'll go after eric foster.
This is a frivolous and ridiculous request,your honor.
I am bound by my attorney-client privilege, and cannot provide the information the state seeks.
Your honor,I'm not asking what his client told him.
I'm asking what he saw with his own eyes.
Anything I may have seen or experienced at that location was as a result of privileged information.
Mr.
Foster opened this door when he told me that he'd personally seen the body.
Your honor,did i tell ms.
Chase I'd seen the body,yes.
Was it a mistake? Perhaps, but let's be clear.
I did not incriminate my client, and as we stand here right now, the state is no closer to convicting my client than it was before my conversation with ms.
Chase.
Ms.
Chase, your argument has merit, but I have to weigh all of the consequences.
You are,in fact,asking mr.
Foster to incriminate his client, because if he tells you where the body is, you'll go there,and your case against mr.
Foster's client presumably will be made.
At this point,I see nothing that tips the balance in your favor.
Then I'd like you to consider another issue,your honor.
Eric foster has admitted knowledge of at least one dead body which has been left unburied.
Failure to report a dead body, or give it a proper burial,is a violation of health code 164172.
Oh,for heaven's sake.
This is a serious matter,your honor.
Mr.
Foster's decision to withhold information puts public health at risk.
I am inspired by your creativity,ms.
Chase.
And while I believe mr.
Foster made an error in judgment by revealing information to the prosecution, I'm not inclined to make the situation worse by eroding mr.
Foster's client's rights any further.
I'm denying the request to compel mr.
Foster to testify.
excuse me.
Can you tell me where I can find the owner? Found him.
Tom hudson.
Mr.
Hudson, I'm maureen scofield from the prosecutor's office.
This is my associate,danny robel.
We need to ask you a few questions about this man-- craig schraeder.
Ask away.
I'm gonna talk to those guys.
How well do you know craig schraeder? He's one of my regulars.
Still? Even after you had him arrested for fighting? It wasn't much of a fight.
He kicked the crap out of the guy.
- Why? - Let's just say the guy didn't belong here,,and and schraeder let him know it.
What do you mean, the guy didn't belong? He just didn'T.
You guys know a man named craig schraeder? You ever seen this guy before? What are you doing with her? I work with her.
That's the kind of thing that gets you messed up around here.
I don't understand.
When's the last time schraeder was in? A month ago,maybe.
Hit a rough patch,couldn't pay for his drinks, wouldn't let anybody else help him out.
I'd tell him we're all brothers in arms here, but he stopped coming.
Brothers in arms,huh? What,you guys in the military? No.
Not uncle sam'S.
Sort of got our own little army.
Was the guy that,uh,schraeder beat up in here african-american? What's that got to do with it? Simple question.
Yeah I believe he was.
What was going on in there? I think you may want to amend your charges against schraeder.
- To include what? - Hate crime.
You called it,maureen.
It's too coincidental.
He just happened to attack a black man in this bar and then chose to kill murphy.
I agree,but we saw the arrest report of the bar fight.
The victim didn't claim it was racially motivated.
Think it's worth hearing the story face-to-face? Yeah.
Let's call him in.
I'll tell you what happened, but there's no way I'm going to show up in court and testify against this guy,okay? We don't think that'll be necessary,mr.
Weathers.
Just tell us about your encounter with schraeder.
It was pretty fast from my point of view.
I came in to use the bathroom.
There was a game on, so I decided to grab a beer.
Before I knew it,something hit me in the back of the head.
The police report mentions a broken bottle.
That's right.
All I know is I was stunned and bleeding and schraeder was standing over me kicking me, calling me names.
Racial epithets? Every single one you've ever heard.
You didn't mention this to the police.
You even dropped charges against schraeder.
One of the other guys had a swastika tattooed on his arm.
He put it real close to my face.
Said he didn't want any confusion over what they were willing to do to me.
I just counted myself lucky I got out of there alive.
Make sure you search that alley.
There are a couple of dumpsters back there.
Detective branch, I don't see why you have to treat us this way.
We answered all your questions, then you wait till my husband's at work so you could come and rummage through our things.
We came as soon as we got the warrant, mrs.
Poindexter.
I know it's unpleasant, but it's for your own protection.
your son-in-law may have concealed evidence on your property without your knowledge.
He wouldn't do that.
I'm sorry.
Branch.
Yeah.
Excuse me,ma'am.
You're back.
Please tell me you got further than I did today.
No luck in court? Judge salter mistook my legal argument for a comedy routine.
He was amused,but not convinced.
- How was the bar? - Not a friendly place.
Apparently,some of schraeder's bar buddies wear swastikas.
- Lovely.
- Yeah and the owner referred to them as "our own little army.
" Danny's checking databases of known hate groups to see if schraeder's name comes up.
Lab found out that schraeder's wife had been murdered a year ago.
I checked the file.
There were no arrests made, but two african-american men were questioned and released.
You think murphy's murder was a hate crime? Right now I'm waiting for the evidence to back me up,but yeah,I do.
detective branch, how's the search going? Oh,no.
Okay.
Okay,keep me informed.
There's been another abduction.
An african-american attorney named miles burke.
He disappeared from his home this afternoon.
His car was in the driveway with the door open and there was blood on the floor.
Just like frank murphy.
Schraeder has an accomplice.
Or god forbid, his own little army.
Miles burke is a well-known attorney.
He's very involved in the community.
The similarities to frank murphy's kidnapping are undeniable.
So schraeder's working with somebody else? Maybe a group of people? And he's targeting leaders of the black community.
The mo is exactly the same as with murphy.
The attacker followed burke home, forced him out of his car,and put him in another vehicle.
And we know how abductions go.
The odds of finding the victim alive diminish rapidly after a few hours.
We need confirmation that this attack is affiliated with schraeder.
So far,schraeder's name hasn't come up on any web sites or watch lists for white supremacy groups, but the owner of the bar,tom hudson,did.
The police are questioning him now as well as some of his customers.
Well,we better hope one of them cracks.
That's the only way of breaking this case quickly.
Well,now that we know that these are racial killings, maybe I can find a way in with schraeder.
I'm going to take a shot, see if I can get him to tell me who he's protecting.
You'll have to offer him a deal.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
These guys like to hear themselves talk.
The trick is to get 'em to talk about what I want them to talk about.
Exactly.
If you can get 'em onto something personal, something other than the philosophy he's been hiding behind, he may do himself in.
Annabeth,don't waste time.
Offer him a deal,a good one.
We'll find another way to get him for more time, but we've got a killer on the loose.
The priority here is finding miles burke alive and making these attacks stop.
Are you miss chase? - Yes.
- I'm meredith burke.
- My husband is - miles.
I'm so sorry,mrs.
Burke.
The police are doing everything they can to find your husband.
I will do anything.
I will pay any amount of ransom.
Just bring him home.
There has been no request for ransom.
Then why are they doing this? Why would somebody take him if they didn't want money? We're not sure.
We have theories which we're actively pursuing.
I promise you we'll keep you informed.
These are our children.
Miles' children.
Don't let them kill him.
Our lives will be over.
Do you understand that? Yes.
please excuse me.
Miss chase is willing to offer you another deal in exchange for some information.
Let's just hear her out,okay? Mr.
Schraeder,we know you've been working with an accomplice, maybe more than one.
The state is willing to offer you 25 years if you tell us who they are and how we can find miles burke.
Forget it.
We have a very strong case against you.
You go into that courtroom without a deal, you'll be facing a death penalty.
I think we should consider the 25 years.
- Not interested.
- A man's life is at stake here.
Not really.
Are you saying he's already dead? All I'm saying he's not really a man.
What if I was able to offer you 20 years? I've resigned myself to my fate.
Others will carry on the mission.
What mission? An all-out war against anybody who tries to weaken the white race.
Mr.
Schraeder,I suggest you stop talking.
All-out war? How are you going to pull that off? Well,first you got to cut the head off the snake.
Take out the leaders.
- Craig? - Shut up.
And then we go to get the white race to start thinking straight.
Stop subsidizing the inferiors.
Let them wither on the vine.
And then we will expand our territories, until all the good lands of this planet earth are ours.
And that will be a great day.
What did sylvie look like? What? Your wife sylvie.
Was she pretty? I just I have this image in my head and she's pretty.
Am I right? What do you care? Just wondered.
She was so young when you lost her.
What was she,25? That's rough.
Did she want children? I have a child.
She's the light of my life.
Did you want children? - What are you doing? - Nothing.
We're just talking.
Well,I don't want to talk to you anymore.
It must have been devastating to have the love of your life taken from you like that.
- You don't know anything about it.
- No,you're right,I don'T.
But carolyn murphy does.
She's the wife of the man you kidnapped and killed.
Careful,annabeth.
Craig,I strongly advise you to stop talking.
Meredith burke knows what you felt.
She's miles burke's wife.
They have two little girls so small.
They don't know what to make of this.
Those little girls are going to cry every night until they see their father again.
Craig,you know what that's like,don't you? You remember crying every night when sylvie was taken from you,don't you? You're a traitor to your race and you will be what would sylvie think about what you're doing? It would break her heart.
- You don't speak for sylvie.
- She loved you.
She would want you to live out the rest of your life.
She would want you to stop the killing.
It's never going to stop! Miles burke isn't going to get out of that room alive any more than murphy did! They're going to hang there side-by-side and the devil's going to come and take their souls at a time of his choosing! The white race will be purified.
- Eric- don'T.
You heard what schraeder said.
You have to come forward.
For the love of god,don't let that man die.
I can't give up my client,annabeth.
Your client just told us both that miles burke is being held in the same location as frank murphy's body.
- You know where that is.
- Do you realize what you're asking me to do? Yes.
And I know that's it's not in my place or my right, but I'm begging you,eric.
Do the right thing.
I have been doing the right thing by protecting my client's rights.
But now you can prevent the commissionof a future crime which will result in serious bodily harm.
The law allows you the right to do that.
No attorney utilizes that right.
The brave ones do.
Yeah? Well,maybe I'm not so brave.
This goes to the heart of what it means to be a defense attorney, annabeth.
This is the thing you never understood.
I understood the justice system.
I just never understood how you,eric, the person I cared about could defend rapists and murderers.
It's not about me or you or how we choose to live our lives.
It's about keeping the system fair for everyone.
I've only been a lawyer for a couple of years and you want me to be the guy who makes this stand? How could I ever do this work again? How, how could I face my clients? You could face them because you saved a man's life.
You don't know that.
For all we know,burke's already dead.
There's still a chance.
We have to try to save him.
I know you.
You are that guy.
Your honor,I know I have the right to come forward and testify to information I have which may prevent a serious crime from occurring.
I wish to exercise that right.
I move to withdraw myself as craig schraeder's counsel and to advise the prosecution that I am willing to give a statement.
This is a highly unusual step,mr.
Foster.
Have you given this decision thorough consideration? I have,your honor.
Granted.
You will be removed from mr.
Schraeder's case and another attorney will be provided to him.
Good luck,mr.
Foster.
Thank you,sir.
Schraeder's directions took me east on route 40 past greenfield.
At first,it just looked like somebody's farm.
Nothing special.
I drove past the barn,couple of storage buildings.
But the further I drove,the place looked more and more abandoned.
The woods got thicker,more overgrown.
The road became narrow.
It turned into a dirt road.
At the end,there was a boarded-up outbuilding used for hanging and carrying meat.
It was locked but I could see through the boards.
There were two men hanging by their wrists.
They were both african-american men.
The bodies were beaten and bruised.
There were tools on the table nearby, wrenches,hammers a hunting knife.
The men had been tortured? Yeah.
Did you recognize either of the men? One of them was frank murphy.
The other body I didn't recognize.
It had obviously been there a long time.
His name is jackson reed, age 28, successful stockbroker.
He disappeared two months ago.
His bmw was found abandoned in his business parking lot.
Has his family been notified? They have.
Miles burke's body wasn't with the other two.
Hopefully,that means he's still alive.
Or it means the accomplice knew that schraeder gave up the location to his lawyer so he's not dumping the victims there anymore.
Who's had contact with schraeder while he's been in custody? Police traced the deed to the farm where the bodies were found.
Belonged to a deceased man named david bell, whose only known relative was gary poindexter, schraeder's father-in-law.
And guess whose name I found on a white power web site? - Gary poindexter? - Bernice poindexter.
The mother-in-law? According to the web site,she's been affiliated with the white women's power movement for ten years.
After her daughter was murdered, she went on a rant about what she wanted to have done to those responsible.
She just assumed they were black.
That's,um this is payback for sylvie's death.
Have the police picked them up yet? They disappeared.
Police just put out an apb.
police! Turn off the vehicle.
Throw the keys out the window.
Put your hands on the dash.
Throw the keys out the window! we need an ambulance.
We have the victim and he's alive.
I repeat: The victim is alive.
We're here to set bail for craig schraeder, gary poindexter,and bernice poindexter.
Ms.
Chase.
These three people were on a mission to punish and destroy an entire race of men because they hated them.
It's as somple as that They tried to justify their violent acts by invoking the name of their dead wife and daughter, but they were racists long before sylvie lost her life.
These three defendants were trying to eliminate successful,african-american men.
That's not about revenge for a wrong done to sylvie.
That's about racial hatred.
Their first victim was jackson reed,age 28.
His body was found in the outbuilding of the farm inherited by gary poindexter.
Frank murphy was abducted from his home as he exited his car.
His blood was found in craig schraeder's van.
He too had been tortured before he died.
Preliminary hair and fiber tests show that both craig schraeder and bernice poindexter had contact with mr.
Murphy.
And finally,miles burke, he was abducted from the driveway of his home by gary and bernice poindexter.
We know this because mr.
Burke lived to tell us.
Your honor,the state is charging each of these defendants with multiple charges of first-degree murder and felony kidnapping all in the commission of a hate crime.
We believe the nature of these crimes is so heinous as to justify maximum punishment.
And,therefore,we ask that you hold them without bail.
Granted.
I'm so happy for mr.
And mrs.
Burke.
You gave them a happy ending,ms.
Chase.
I wish I could've done the same for you.
As do I.
But you made it possible for me to bury my husband say good-bye.
And for that,I'm grateful.
I hope it gives you some comfort.
You're leaving? For now.
I need some time to think.
Figure out whether I can still do this.
You're always welcome up in the prosecutor's office.
I don't think that's going to happen.
Not every defendant is craig schraeder.
And somebody needs to keep the ordinary people from getting railroaded by overzealous system.
I agree.
But I am glad burke's alive.
Is he okay? He's going to be fine.
I don't think his wife will let him out of her sight for a while.
Don't stay away too long.
This place needs you.
Sorry I'm late.
You're right on time.
This is annabeth chase.
Annabeth,this is lila crane, my fiancee.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you,too.
Congratulations on your engagement.
He's a really good guy.
Yes,he is.
I'm going to go.
So,uh,bye,eric.
And thank you.
I won't be able to do this much more.
I'm about to be a married man soon.
as long as it's for a good cause.