The Detectives (2018) s02e01 Episode Script

Nothing like this had happened in Barrhaven ever before.
Can I have a drag? [GREG.]
: Barrhaven was pretty quiet.
A bedroom community, not so far from the city of Ottawa.
You wanna get some pizza or something? I don't know.
I'm pretty tired.
- [HORN.]
- God, I hate that guy.
To think that somebody was right in the heart of Barrhaven and did this kind of thing? It really shocked that community.
Have a safe walk home.
[GREG.]
: To see what a human being can do to another human being with your own two eyes.
It's disgusting.
Hey! You you left work really fast.
Oh, yeah.
I I don't like waiting around at night.
Oh.
You don't have to walk home alone.
You don't have to walk me home.
I could use the company.
An eighteen-year-old innocent girl that happens to wind up in the path of a predatory maniac.
This was just emotionally devastating.
[GREG.]
: I'll never forget it.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
I got a phone call that we have a young woman missing from Barrhaven.
Jennifer Teague was exactly the kind of person that went to work, socialized with her friends, went home, went to school the next day.
Jennifer's cell phone had been turned off.
We know there's been no banking activity.
I thought this is not gonna be a runaway or somebody that slept over at a friend's house and just forgot to call home.
[JOURNALIST 1.]
: Eighteen-year- old Jennifer Teague disappeared September 8th.
She'd worked the late shift at this fast food restaurant in Barrhaven.
[JOURNALIST 2.]
: Jennifer Teague met some friends at a nearby convenience store in Barrhaven.
Shortly after 1 a.
m.
, she said good-bye to her friends and set off for the ten-minute walk home.
She never arrived.
She was just such a nice girl that I don't see how someone would want to hurt her.
I had a very bad feeling right from the start that this was not gonna be a good outcome.
We were handling it as a homicide investigation.
We were gonna hit the ground at 100 miles an hour.
We parked the command post in the church parking lot.
There was a helicopter landing in the baseball field.
We have two teams.
We have detectives that are out in the field interviewing people, following up on tips.
And we have an intensive ground search.
[BROWN.]
: We need to start from the beginning: Square one.
Revisit all our witnesses, all our information.
[GREG.]
: We have two major suspects.
Initially, it looked fairly promising.
So let's bring in all our witnesses.
Polygraphs if we have to.
Starting with Mark Corman.
Jennifer's co-worker.
He walked her part of the way home that night.
Supposedly he had a thing for her.
Yeah, she didn't feel the same way.
And he had these scratches on his face.
Said he got them shaving.
When we first saw him, and with our own two eyes and we see all the scratches, you know, all of us kinda looked at each other and said "Holy cow! Look at this guy with all the scratches all over his neck.
" You still having razor problems? Did you shave that day? The day Jennifer disappeared? I I don't I don't know.
I can't remember.
I thought you'd want to look nice for her.
Why? What do you mean? It means you had a little bit of a thing for her, didn't you? No, no! No, I didn't.
She was a nice girl.
But I wasn't trying to date her; I was just walking her home.
Except you didn't.
Good night.
I thought you lived down that way.
Yeah, I do; I just, I thought it's pretty late out, so I'm good.
I'm meeting a couple friends so, yeah.
Right.
See you tomorrow? Yeah.
- Goodnight.
- Bye.
So I went home.
You willing to take a polygraph to show me that's true? [GREG.]
: He took a polygraph.
He had no issues with the polygraph.
He seemed like a very honest young man.
I mean, he was very embarrassed about looking like this with the scratches.
He voluntarily gave us the razor so that we could check it out.
He was eliminated fairly quickly.
[BROWN.]
: Boris Cerny drove past Jennifer and Alicia when they were at Mac's Milk.
- [HORN.]
- I hate that guy.
I checked with some kids at his high school and he has a history of stalking problems.
And Alicia remembered that Jennifer flipped him off that night.
He didn't seem too happy about it.
[GREG.]
: So Boris, he was just a very deceptive-by-nature person.
Paranoid, suspicious, which made our job much more challenging.
Not a lot of people have nice things to say about you, Boris.
Certainly not the girls at school.
They're all stuck up.
Does that make you mad? I don't get mad.
Why'd your ex get a restraining order against you? Jennifer didn't seem too fond of you, either.
She gave you the finger that night.
Didn't see it.
I went to go get a pack of smokes.
After Jennifer disappeared, you had a broken window on your car.
Care to explain that? I must've slammed the door hard.
Wouldn't have something to do with a struggle now, would it? Someone trying to get out of your car? I didn't do anything! I told you! I thought you didn't get mad.
I didn't touch Jennifer.
Then take a polygraph to prove it.
Fine.
Good.
[GREG.]
: Boris was very defensive, but his polygraph results showed us he's not the person that's responsible.
We have no suspects.
We've searched pretty much every square millimetre of the ground.
And we have nothing.
Once you start getting into the third day, the fourth day, the sixth day, it becomes less and less likely we would find Jennifer alive.
Jennifer's mother had to face the truth.
[BROWN.]
: We searched every inch within three kilometres.
A hundred and twenty officers, plus volunteers.
We can't keep that up forever.
But we're not giving up.
You know, I have seven Major Crimes detectives on my team.
Seven? From a hundred and twenty to seven? These are experienced detectives.
They've solved a lot of cases.
Major Crimes.
What's that? Is that Is that murder? Oh, my God! [GREG.]
: That was a monstrous blow to Jean.
Six days have gone by; we have no sign of Jennifer at this point.
We have to stop the ground search.
To keep going with the massive amount of resources that it required wouldn't have made any sense.
With this smaller team, I don't know how we're going - to keep up.
- It's all right.
- We'll figure it out.
- Yeah.
Detective Brown? Jennifer's father is here with his wife.
For you, sir.
Thanks, Hodgins.
[GREG.]
: Ed Teague is Jennifer's dad.
Ed is remarried to a lady named Sylvie.
They were very, very devout Christians.
Good afternoon, Greg.
I understand you've called off the search.
Yes.
It wasn't my call, but we'd reached the limit of our resources.
I understand.
We're not giving up.
It just means that we're You're changing your focus.
I get it, Greg.
We knew this day would come.
It's all in God's hands now.
We're praying to His help.
I can't imagine what you're going through, Ed.
I know you and Jennifer were close.
More than you could ever know.
We're prepared to do whatever it takes to find her.
[GREG.]
: You have to strike a fine balance here.
There are family members that are impacted by the disappearance of Jennifer, but we can't dismiss them as suspects until they've been investigated.
I've been meaning to ask you about the night Jennifer disappeared.
You said you went to a baby shower around 7.
That's right.
At the church.
What time did you leave the house? Around 6.
And that was the church in Brockville, right? Yes.
See, here's the thing I stopped by there the other day.
It's only a few kilometres from your house.
Fifteen-minute drive, tops.
Do you remember why you left your house an hour early? When it was such a short drive? Well, we had to buy a gift.
I mean, we'd put it off, so we picked up something on the way from their registry.
Well, thanks for clearing that up for me.
Listen, if I have anything else, I'll be in touch.
And if you can think of anything, please let me know.
[GREG.]
: Looking into their histories, their whereabouts when this happened, I didn't have any concern that the family was involved.
Ten days after Jennifer disappeared, an off-duty Ottawa officer was out on the Lime Kiln Trail.
He smells a fairly distinctive smell that most police officers unfortunately become very attuned to.
You're sort of hoping against hope that she's gonna be found.
But what you knew was gonna be the outcome is now real.
[BROWN.]
: Let's get to work.
Re-interview.
Revisit.
Retrace.
I don't want to miss anything! Detective Brown.
Where is she? Yeah.
[GREG.]
: This beautiful young woman wasn't going to be going home to her family.
[GREG.]
: When we got the call that they had found a body, I knew it was Jennifer right away.
I went there to confirm the worst.
I want you to set up a tent down there.
Near the path.
But the body's down here.
I know.
I know.
I don't want the media knowing the location of the body.
[GREG.]
: We resisted disclosing any kind of information about the location of the body, the state of the body, the position of the body, whether the body was clothed, unclothed, any of those kind of things.
That was all holdback.
The more pieces of information that only can be known to the killer become crucial in a confession.
Jennifer was face down in a swampy, isolated area.
Her body was badly decomposed.
I cried.
That was the first thing I did.
It's tough.
Very, very tough.
But OK, like, let's redouble our efforts and really get to work here.
We're near the parking lot.
So whoever brought her here probably drove.
It's also secluded.
So I'll bet uh, whoever did this knew the area.
They knew this was a good place to dump a body.
If you find anything, you keep it confidential.
Right? - Need to know only.
OK? - Got it.
[TECHNICIAN.]
: Hey! I found something.
[GREG.]
: I have a vivid recollection of going to Jean's house the next day.
No! No! No! No! Jennifer was a huge part of her life and so to have Jennifer snatched away from Jean really impacted on me, seeing the pain.
I really wanted to solve it for her.
I think a lot about her.
No.
It can't be her.
I want to see the body.
I'm afraid that's not possible.
Nonsense! If that really is Jennifer, I have every right to see my daughter.
She was found naked in the woods.
The rain and the weather left her in a state of deep decomposition.
There's no way to visually identify her.
I'm sorry, Ed.
[GREG.]
: I think that was probably one of the hardest things I've had to do in 33 years on the job.
[BROWN.]
: Nothing.
Forensics found nothing at the crime scene, other than the earring.
Right? Not a single piece of clothing.
No blood.
No hair, no fibers.
How about a cause of death? Cause of death? The decomposition was so bad, they couldn't even determine a time of death.
[GREG.]
: We have no suspects.
We have no forensics.
And people were very, very worried.
Jennifer's case was very similar to another case we had in the area.
Ardeth Wood was a young woman who disappeared a few months earlier in the east end of Ottawa.
Like in Jennifer's case, after an extensive search, we did find Ardeth's body.
But her killer was still out there.
We have to consider the possibility that Ardeth Wood's murder is connected to this case.
Both young blonde females.
Both abducted late at night.
Ottawa doesn't have these cases every week or every year or every decade.
So we have two within a couple of months? People are absolutely terrified.
I think that everybody's a lot more nervous now, especially with that whole Ardeth Wood thing and now this.
I think everyone's just gonna be a lot more careful.
Investigators may refuse to admit the trail has gone cold.
But what is obvious is that after launching one of the most intensive and expensive investigations in the city's history, Ottawa police have made very little progress.
So there was pressure.
Pressure from the community, pressure from the media.
There was a lot of discussion in the community about safeguarding your children.
The public was very scared.
So we're canvassing police agencies across Canada, the United States.
We're looking at people on the sex offender registry in and around the Barrhaven area.
At this juncture, we're thinking possible serial killer.
When Jennifer's body was discovered, Ardeth Wood's case hadn't been solved to that point.
A lot of us, at this juncture in the investigation, are thinking this is a potential serial killer.
[JOURNALIST.]
: Police found these sunglasses near Ardeth Wood's body.
They may belong to her killer.
Investigators believe he's a white male, early twenties to thirties, about six feet.
With a muscular build and a tattoo that looks like this.
I got some news.
Ardeth Wood.
They've made an arrest.
Some guy, Chris Myers.
They've got him down at the station.
This could be it.
When that came to our attention, we had a momentary sense of "Boy, that could be our guy too.
" Which very quickly disappeared.
I need the exact dates.
You sure? OK.
Thanks.
[GREG.]
: More bad luck.
Chris Myers was not in Barrhaven at the time of the murder.
Jennifer's killer was still out there.
[NEWS ANNOUNCER.]
: The announcement of an arrest in the Ardeth Wood murder ends speculation that the same person may have also been responsible for Teague's death.
The man charged in Wood's murdr was in North Bay when Teague disappeared.
He obviously has no connection with what happened with Jennifer Teague, so I'm sure that uh, people living in Barrhaven and living in the western part of the city will still be waiting for that investigation to run the same course as this one has.
[GREG.]
: It was incredibly frustrating.
Essentially, we had to go back to square one.
I'm releasing the surveillance footage from Mac's Milk.
We still haven't identified everyone from that night.
The public can help.
We have video from inside the Mac's Milk.
We have quite a number of the customers depicted on the video accounted for.
They've been interviewed.
But some people hadn't come forward.
That's not going to be a problem? Posting faces and video on the web connected to a murder investigation? These are innocent people.
We're gonna get our asses sued! Weighing a person's privacy interest from being in a Mac's Milk at one o'clock in the morning versus the objective of trying to solve a serious homicide, to me that was a no-brainer.
[NEWSREADER.]
: The photos show 24 people the police want to talk to.
They were snapped by a surveillance camera at this Barrhaven Mac's Milk.
They are customers of Mac's Milk who were there the night Jennifer disappeared, who may have information that could be crucial to the investigation.
Tactically, that was a good strategy.
That generated a composite sketch which then generated a press conference where the sketch was brought out.
We've received over 1,000 tips from the public and we've followed up with almost 800 of them.
But we're counting on you.
Keep the information coming in.
[GREG.]
: The case was rediscussed; the media took another interest in it.
Suddenly everybody again was talking about the Jennifer Teague murder case.
We wanted to create the impression in the killer's mind that the police were homing in.
And it worked.
I killed Jennifer Teague! Come! We just picked up a confession.
- Where? - Fallowfield Road.
- Where is he now? - Hospital.
- No use.
We can't talk to him.
- Of course, we can! We can't! No police interviews allowed.
Bullshit! The guy confessed! We picked him up under the Mental Health Act.
Severe overdose.
The guy took 10 grams of magic mushrooms.
- It takes 2 to hallucinate.
- So our confession? It's useless.
We can't even talk to him - until he's discharged.
- All right, I want everything we have on this guy.
Criminal record, employment history, address.
- Everything.
- All right, I'm on it.
[GREG.]
: I was really pissed.
He's in the care of psychiatrists.
We can't just barge in and say we have a whole bunch of questions for this person.
We have to wait until they're treated medically.
Anything? No, not much.
Kevin Davis.
Twenty-four.
Lives in Barrhaven with his mother.
- Criminal record? - It's clean.
No flags.
He's a manager at a pizza place.
There is this, though.
His address.
Jennifer would have walked right by his place on the way home from work.
Good job.
You keep digging.
"I killed Jennifer Teague.
" Of all the stupid things to say, that's the stupidest thing you could say if you live in Barrhaven.
That's gonna automatically get you in trouble.
A week later, he was released from the hospital psychiatric ward.
I don't know what I was saying.
I never even met that girl.
I guess I just kept hearing about this case, over and over and over again.
And when I got high - Do you get high a lot? - No.
No, not really.
I've just been feeling down lately.
I broke up with my girlfriend, and you know how that goes.
Where were you the night Jennifer disappeared? I was at my friend Nick's place, playing video games.
You remember that evening, Mrs.
Davis? He was here when I went to bed.
He was here when I got up, too.
So you're saying you never met Jennifer Teague.
Look.
He said he never met her, OK? You think you can just come in and - bully him to say what you want? - Mom, come on, OK? I'm sorry.
I just don't think I'm gonna be any help to you.
And I'm sorry for the confusion and everything.
But I didn't kill that girl.
[GREG.]
: Kevin offered an alibi that he was at Nick's place; they were playing video games.
He knew that his alibi was going to be challenged.
He was gonna be in for microscopic attention in the intervening days.
Davis's alibi from the night of Jennifer's disappearance.
His buddy, Nick.
A few months ago, he gets into a car accident.
Has a major head injury; now he has amnesia.
Can't remember a thing about that night.
I know.
And Davis can't prove his alibi.
But we can't prove he lied.
Damn it.
[GREG.]
: Once you're starting to get into the eighth, ninth month of continuous frustration, it's very tough.
[KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK.]
- Hey.
- Figured I'd find you here.
Hi.
You OK? [SIGH.]
I'm OK.
Come home.
I'm sorry.
I I can't.
[GREG.]
: My wife was pregnant.
I was gonna have a daughter, but then I was dealing with a family who had lost their daughter.
Jennifer's parents had been without answers for eight or nine months at that point.
I had to report frequently bad news.
Excuse us? This lead didn't work out.
We don't have any new leads.
We don't have anything promising.
But we're still working at it.
I hope you know, that you are doing the Lord's work.
I'm trying.
I haven't Would you like to pray, Detective? Yes.
I would.
Come.
Join us.
Everyone turn your Bible back to Romans, chapter five.
[GREG.]
: Even if you're not a religious person and you're not inclined to go to church and pray for something good to happen, I think you also have to spend some alone time where you can let your mind just wander.
And think about whatever it wants to think about on the case.
And that's sometimes where you get these really great spontaneous sort of ideas.
We may not have any forensics, we may not have any suspects, but nobody outside of this room knows that.
So let's use that to our advantage.
How does that help? It helps by keeping the pressure on.
Right? If the community thinks we're closer than ever to solving this case, then maybe we can flush out a new tip.
Maybe even the killer.
I'm not sure what much more we can do.
We've already interviewed every witness and searched the entire neighborhood.
Not the entire neighborhood.
This is where Jennifer was found, right? And this? This is where she was last seen.
This is the area we've already exhaustively searched.
Right? It's all public lands.
Streets, alleys, parking lots.
But what about this? This is all private property.
Houses, garages, yards.
Exactly! We haven't searched any private property in the entire area.
Come on, Greg.
We can't get warrants to search every house in a three-kilometre radius.
We don't need warrants.
We just ask the residents.
Consent searches? Think about it.
This is a very close-knit community that cared deeply for Jennifer and her family.
They want this case solved.
So, if they're not involved, they're gonna be more than happy to let us into their homes.
[GREG.]
: I thought a good step would be to ask the public.
We just want to come into your house.
We don't care about the weed on your coffee room table.
We don't care about pictures on your computer.
We don't care about anything like that.
One officer will take five minutes.
Open your closet doors, look in your basement.
Just to make sure there's nothing related to the Jennifer Teague murder case.
We did a massive canvass of hundreds and hundreds of homes.
We went back to places we've already searched before.
We wanted to keep the pressure on the killer.
[RADIO.]
: So far police have received nearly 1700 tips from the public.
A team of investigators is busy checking them all out, but they still have more than 700 to go.
Can I help you? What if I told you something that would make you famous? Would you want to hear it? You have a nice day.
Even if I told you I killed Jennifer Teague? What did you say? I killed her.
And I believe I should be punished.
So we have Kevin Davis who's confessed under the influence of mushrooms.
I killed Jennifer Teague! Then said, "That was crazy, you know, I should have never said that.
" We put him under intensive police pressure and I think that played on his mind.
Some ten days later, Kevin Davis confessed to an off-duty police officer.
I killed her.
And I believe I should be punished.
The difference was this time he wasn't hallucinating.
No.
I I just want to confess, OK? I just want this to be over.
I don't.
Why can't you understand that? You want my advice? Just do what your lawyer says.
I don't need a lawyer.
I need someone to listen.
I can do that for you.
Come on.
His rights were read repeatedly.
He was cautioned that anything he had to say would be used against him in court.
And he was fine with all of that.
He just said he wanted to get it off his chest.
I'd been driving around for weeks, just looking for a girl, you know? I was so sick and tired of girls hurting me.
Leaving me.
I wanted to hurt them back.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I know you are, son.
And you're doing the right thing.
[GREG.]
: There was absolutely no thoughts about empathy.
My strategy at that point was just to keep Kevin Davis talking.
I didn't pose threatening questions or create an environment that was oppressive, that would convince somebody against their will to confess.
I wanted to make this confession absolutely perfect for court.
How do I know that it's you who's responsible for this.
Other than your word? I need you to prove it.
I need to know that it was really you.
So the family can finally get some peace.
Show me what happened.
[ANNOUNCER.]
: This is Kevin Davis on the day of his arrest.
Police have just charged him with murdering eighteen-year-old Jennifer Teague nine months earlier.
Davis confesses all without a lawyer present.
The detectives put Davis in a car and drive him to the scene of the crime.
Davis tells them he decided to randomly select a teenage girl and rape and kill her.
After she left Mac's, I followed her here.
Why did you pick her? [SIGH.]
I don't know.
I guess this street wasn't well lit so whatever happened, no one would see.
[ALICIA.]
: Have a safe walk home.
[GREG.]
: I think he calculated when the two young ladies separated, this one's gonna go on a vulnerable path; this one's not.
The individual didn't really matter to Kevin Davis.
Having the victim in the vulnerable place was his key.
[PANTING.]
He was just waiting to see if the right set of events were gonna unfold for him.
And unfortunately, they did.
Get off me! Stop! [GREG.]
: Kevin Davis had no idea who Jennifer was when he abducted her.
She just fit the profile and she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
[BROWN.]
: Where'd you take her? [DAVIS.]
: Home.
To my bedroom.
Wasn't your mother there? One room over.
She has sleep apnea; her pills knock her right out.
She couldn't hear a thing.
[GREG.]
: Kevin Davis' mother just slept through the whole thing because she was under the influence of the sleep medication.
He brought Jennifer directly to his bedroom, closed the door I blindfolded her.
Tied her hands behind her back.
She started saying, "I have to get going.
My mother's waiting for me.
" Then I strangled her until it was over.
Yeah.
[GREG.]
: He strangled her to death, wrapped her in his grandmother's quilt and carried her down the stairs and put her in the trunk of his mother's car.
His mother was there asleep in the next bedroom the whole time.
I parked my mom's car right here.
And then I dragged Jennifer through here.
That's where I left her.
Are you sure? Positive.
Do you remember how you left her? Was she face down or face up? Face down.
I want you to show me where she was.
Exactly.
OK? [NEWSREADER.]
: This afternoon, Kevin Davis made a brief court appearance and was remanded in custody until a hearing on Friday.
Police are giving out few details of the murder, including the cause of death.
But they do say Davis was living close to the spot where Jennifer was abducted [GREG.]
: Kevin Davis is formally charged with first-degree murder.
The confession was absolutely ironclad.
I've never seen such a bulletproof statement in my career.
Ultimately, his lawyer must've told him.
"We have to plead guilty.
They have insurmountable evidence against you from your confession and from corroborating evidence that the police discovered.
" He's indicated to me that he wants to plead guilty to the charges before the court.
That's first-degree murder.
That's his decision.
[GREG.]
: He made a decision to plead guilty.
But there's a couple of questions that we needed answered.
Some fine points related to his confession.
Good afternoon, Kevin.
I just wanted to go over a few things from your confession.
You still believe that shit? What kind of moron are you? You confessed to the killing of Jennifer Teague.
Yeah.
On like, three days without sleep.
I talked to a psychiatrist and he said I was out of my mind when I made that statement.
We found her Discman in your home.
So what? There's a million Discmans just like that one.
It won't hold up in court.
Well, your confession will.
Cause you were able to locate the body.
Please.
I walked into the woods and picked a spot.
Anyone could have done that.
[BROWN.]
: So you guessed.
[DAVIS.]
: Everyone knew it was in the woods.
It was in the paper.
Right.
See this? This is where the media reported the body was found.
And this is where it was really found.
Where you took us.
Different trail.
Different spot.
I don't want the media to know the location of the body.
We took a little walk in the woods.
This.
This is where you put your pen.
And this? This is where the body was found.
Perfect match.
Only the killer would know exactly, exactly where her body was found.
Only you.
You know, for a while, I believed you.
I believed that you felt remorse for what you'd done.
That you had a God-fearing soul in there.
[GREG.]
: It was infuriating.
I was standing two feet across from somebody that choked the life out of a eighteen-year-old woman and was smirking about it.
Most people will tell you I'm actually a very calm person; I don't get angry very much.
But I was absolutely furious.
I think he's just an evil monster.
I think he deserves to be locked up for the rest of his life.
When he pled guilty, there was not a dry eye in that courtroom.
[REPORTER.]
: In court, Teague's mother heard for the first time the details of her daughter's last hour.
The hardest part was hearing what her last words were.
That my mom will be worried.
That was the hardest part of it all.
The only dry eye in the whole courtroom was Kevin Davis.
I think that pretty much says it all.
Jennifer Teague was a gentle, loving friend.
Somebody that cared more about other people than her own self.
I know where she's buried.
I go and visit from time to time and think about her and reflect on the person that Jennifer was.
Pray for her soul.
I think she was just a wonderful young lady that had a lot of potential that was taken from us way too early.
[NEWSREADER.]
: For the Teague family, the arrest and charge have created mixed emotions.
Does it bring relief? Well, a certain amount, but it won't bring our daughter back.
Um Am I elated? I don't know; I'm so tired I can't tell.
I'm glad that somebody has come forward.
And I'm so thankful for the investigative officers that have worked so hard: Greg and Tim, you just Number one.