1 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,200 What number am I thinking of? 2 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:26,080 It doesn't work like that. 3 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,920 Seven. It's always seven. 4 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:34,680 It's time. 5 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:53,920 I'm so sorry. I really tried. 6 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,160 Well, three different spot treatments didn't work. 7 00:00:56,240 --> 00:00:59,360 I wanted to get your okay. Before trying hydrogen peroxide. 8 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,720 Red wine is an acid, and silks hate acid. 9 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,000 Red wine? No, it's a, it's a ketchup stain. 10 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:07,480 No, ketchup's redder. When it's purple, it's wine. 11 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:09,560 No, no, no. My husband was at a Cardinals game 12 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,760 and someone walked into him holding a hot dog. 13 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:13,920 You know what? You're so right. 14 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,120 It's ketchup. Um, I will let you know. 15 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:18,840 - Thank you. - Okay, bye. 16 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:24,760 We're closed! 17 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:26,520 Special delivery. 18 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,160 - Oh. - Hey, Lorraine. 19 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:30,800 Now Ray, you're not here to get your tux cleaned. 20 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,840 I saw your car outside. I'm still getting your mail. 21 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,840 Oh. Thanks. 22 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,000 You figure if you wait long enough, they'll stop asking for their money? 23 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,680 I'm working late, aren't I? You stopped drinking. 24 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,720 How in the world can you know that? 25 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,400 Have you been going through my trash? 26 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,840 Oh, your pants are too loose. 27 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,200 You're down to the last loop on your belt. 28 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:53,040 Going on four months now. 29 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:54,360 Two meetings a week. 30 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,480 I dunno, maybe this time I'll stick. 31 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,080 That's great. Good for you, Ray. 32 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:00,600 How's things around here? 33 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,680 Well, I just got yelled at by Jeanie Franco, 34 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,840 whose husband's having an affair with a clumsy red wine drinker. 35 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:11,440 Tell me you did not put yourself in the middle of that. 36 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,760 I didn't say a word. You'd have been proud of me. 37 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:16,640 Hey, can I at least pay your cable bill? 38 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:19,640 I'm the reason you signed up for it in the first place, 39 00:02:19,720 --> 00:02:22,800 and I'm saving a fortune on my bar tab. 40 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,200 You're not paying my damn bills. 41 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,680 I could pay off all of 'em 42 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:29,160 and we still wouldn't be even, Lorraine. 43 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:32,080 Take off your pants. 44 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,440 - What? - I'll take 'em in. 45 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,400 You want me to walk out of here in my underpants? 46 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:39,360 I got something in your size. 47 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,440 He's not gonna come in looking for it? 48 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:43,520 If he hasn't needed a set 49 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,200 of work clothes in a month, he got fired. 50 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:47,080 - In Charlotte North Carolina this morning... - All right. 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,120 Melissa and Frank Conley 52 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,360 made an impassioned plea to the public 53 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,520 for the safe return of their son Rory Conley. 54 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:58,440 Rory is six. He's tall for his age, 55 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,920 with brown hair and gaps in his teeth. 56 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,360 He was dressed as a fox. 57 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:04,720 It's been a year since their five-year-old son 58 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,120 was abducted from Charlotte Comic Expo. 59 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,040 The good news is, I can always look for work 60 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,880 as a security guard. 61 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,040 The family now offering a reward... 62 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,280 - What? - Of up to $50,000 63 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,520 for information that could lead to his safe return. 64 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,680 Is it happening again? 65 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,680 Why are you being so dramatic? 66 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,520 You have the best view in the house. 67 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,120 You'll be okay. 68 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Yeah. 69 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,280 Are you frustrated with the police? 70 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,040 Do you know if they're following leads? 71 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:02,920 They say they're doing their best, 72 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,120 and I guess we have to believe them. Thank you. 73 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,320 Thank you for being here. 74 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:32,440 You have reached the Charlotte Mecklenburg 75 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:33,840 Police Missing Persons Unit. 76 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,720 Please leave your message and phone number after the ton. 77 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,680 Hello. My name is Lorraine Howell. 78 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:41,360 I live in Branson, Missouri, 79 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,600 and I am calling about Rory Conley. 80 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,680 I kept thinking the worst had passed. 81 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:50,600 But new lows would sneak up on us. 82 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,720 Each day that passed meant it was that much less likely. 83 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,680 The police said they'd call when they knew something. 84 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:00,160 But the phone never rang. 85 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:02,360 And then it did. 86 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,120 The detective on the case said someone had come forward 87 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,480 with information. It was unsubstantiated, 88 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:11,360 borderline insane, but... 89 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,120 when you're in pitch darkness, 90 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,680 no light is too small. 91 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:21,120 This will sound strange, but I can see things sometimes. 92 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,880 Images, strong, clear images, 93 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:28,080 not hallucinations, they're real. 94 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,080 I, I can see Rory. 95 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,120 He's is alive. 96 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,080 He... he's... 97 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,760 There's an older woman 98 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,240 with a Southern accent talking to him. 99 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,040 She's telling him to eat graham crackers, 100 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,560 but he's not listening. He has a, 101 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:48,520 he has a toy car in his hand, 102 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,120 a little purple toy race car. 103 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,760 He's driving it along a seam in the sofa upholstery, 104 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,160 making sounds like tires squealing. 105 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,880 She was so sure. She told us exactly what we needed to hear. 106 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,880 He has crumbs on his shirt. 107 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,480 He's, he's uh lost one of his bottom teeth. 108 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:15,200 He is being cared for. 109 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,080 Please don't give up. 110 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:19,280 Who wouldn't want to believe their missing son 111 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:20,840 is still alive? 112 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:23,960 Even if it was a lie? 113 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,360 Hey. Hey. 114 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:52,080 Hey. 115 00:06:52,680 --> 00:06:54,200 I got your pants. 116 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,720 Oh, thanks, Lorraine. Really. 117 00:06:57,960 --> 00:07:00,040 And you're throwing in a free fern? 118 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,360 I'm going out of town. Do me a favor, look after it when I'm gone? 119 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,240 I don't have the best track record for keeping 120 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,360 things alive. I can remember one marriage in particular. 121 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:11,400 You'll do fine. Indirect light, 122 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,040 somewhere nice and humid. 123 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:14,800 It'll drink as much as you give it. 124 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:16,640 My kinda plant. 125 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,800 So, how long am I taking care of Mr. Fern? 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:22,640 I don't know. Couple weeks, maybe. 127 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,600 It's the kid, isn't it? The one on TV? 128 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,520 Why, Lorraine? 129 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,080 It's never worth it, 130 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,440 putting yourself in the middle of all that pain. 131 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:34,520 You're always worse off on the other side. 132 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,240 - I have to do this. - No, you don't. Stay. 133 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:39,880 Let me take you out to dinner. 134 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:41,760 - I have to go. I have to go. - I mean, we... 135 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:44,520 Don't over-water it. You'll rot the roots. 136 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,680 The purple toy car, that's what did it. 137 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,280 He had it in his pocket the day that he... 138 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,080 It's people like her who claim to be psychics, 139 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:01,440 they do research. 140 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,440 Maybe she saw him holding it in pictures. 141 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,840 So given that skepticism, why bring her to North Carolina? 142 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,200 She said she needed to be in Rory's room. 143 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,520 Establish a connection. 144 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,920 I wasn't sure. Frank was. 145 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,040 And he knew the magic words. 146 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,000 He said the same thing I tell all my buyers 147 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:20,760 when they're looking at a house: 148 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,440 All the research in the world doesn't compare to the feeling 149 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,800 you get when it's right in front of you. 150 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,160 You must be Frank. 151 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,520 Thank you for coming. 152 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:45,680 Oh. 153 00:08:55,720 --> 00:08:56,840 Outcomes to yourself. - Oh, 154 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,440 - Through the power of manifestation, - sorry. 155 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,000 by focusing on positive thoughts... 156 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,280 My wife doesn't believe in any of this stuff. 157 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:04,560 She'd rather listen to nails on a chalkboard. 158 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:06,520 I guess even that beats the quiet. 159 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,520 Unless, do you need quiet to... 160 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:12,520 get the energies in alignment, or...? 161 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:14,120 If you'd rather, I can turn it off. 162 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:16,440 No, it's fine. I'm a... 163 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:18,440 normal person, I promise. 164 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:20,080 Okay. 165 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,200 I'll go get Melissa. Melissa! 166 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:50,800 Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Melissa Conley. 167 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:52,960 Uh... Lorraine. 168 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:54,920 I'm so sorry for what you've been through. 169 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:57,040 Thanks. Thanks for coming. 170 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,520 Oh. You smell that? Cookies. 171 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,040 She's been out of the real estate game for a year, 172 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,920 but she still pulls the open house trick. 173 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,640 Don't fall for it, Lorraine. Place is a dump. 174 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,040 I'll bet Rory loved oatmeal raisin. 175 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,880 I, I thought it might help. I don't know. 176 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:15,080 - Yeah. - Set the mood. 177 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:19,560 Anyway. Shall we... shall we begin? 178 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,240 It's this way. - Oh, okay. 179 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,880 Please. 180 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:53,360 Anything you need to get started, 181 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:55,360 you just let us know. 182 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,160 Or, if you'd rather, we could go over what we know. 183 00:10:58,240 --> 00:10:59,560 We've got that folder from the police 184 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:00,800 around here somewhere... - Frank. Remember... 185 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:03,280 what we talked about? - Yeah. Right. Sorry. 186 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:06,080 My husband's a talker, but maybe there are things 187 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,600 - you could tell us instead? - Mm-hmm. 188 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:10,960 Um... 189 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,520 You don't have to tell me anything. I just... 190 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,160 I get a feeling. 191 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:21,720 But only sometimes. 192 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:23,840 Yeah. 193 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,680 It comes or it doesn't. 194 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,800 - May I? - Yeah. 195 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,160 Was Rory allergic to peanuts? 196 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,080 No. He didn't have any allergies. 197 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:18,520 Then why did he sort his Halloween candy 198 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:20,640 one pile with peanuts, and one without? 199 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:22,200 - I'm allergic. - Frank... 200 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,920 I, I, I told Rory not to bring peanuts into the house 201 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,120 or he couldn't kiss me goodnight. 202 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,720 And so he would trade the ones with peanuts for sour gummy worms. 203 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,320 But that doesn't mean that he's alive. 204 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:33,040 Or that we're gonna find him. - Yeah. But, yeah, but... 205 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:36,240 No, no, no. You're right, you're right. This is scary 206 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,840 letting a stranger into your house. 207 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,840 Your heart's already broken, 208 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,440 you don't wanna have it broken again. 209 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,280 I promise I wouldn't put you through this 210 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,480 unless I knew there was reason to hope. Just hope. 211 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,920 She could have seen Frank's EpiPen in the car, 212 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,520 she could have noticed we had no nuts in our kitchen, 213 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,440 or a million other clues I might have missed. 214 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,440 But still. That night, I slept a full eight hours 215 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:07,960 for the first time in a year. So, I guess in some way, 216 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:09,240 I did believe it. 217 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:11,360 You put the defendant up in your guest room, correct? 218 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,240 Yes. It was impossible to know when, or if, 219 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:17,160 she'd see anything that we could have used. 220 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,120 So she stayed. 221 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,920 And did she ask for anything besides the room? 222 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,720 Some sort of payment? 223 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,800 We offered, she refused. 224 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:27,520 Then she got a call from her landlord. 225 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,080 She was behind on rent, so she'd have to go back 226 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:33,040 and move her things out. So we paid it off for her. 227 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:34,240 We could afford it. 228 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:36,480 Little by little, other things came up. 229 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:40,000 Loans. Car payments. So she stayed. 230 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,760 And a week turned into a month, which turned into two months. 231 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,280 Why welcome her in? Why pay off her debts? 232 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:48,400 What made you think she was legitimate? 233 00:13:48,480 --> 00:13:50,400 She'd done it before. 234 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,680 She found that girl. The one in Nevada. 235 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,840 Lorraine led the police right to her, 236 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,680 and now she's in college. 237 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,360 She'd done it once. 238 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,800 I thought she could do it again. 239 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,640 Hi. - Hi. 240 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,520 Still keep the freezer stocked with mint chip. 241 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:20,360 Good. 242 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,400 Never know when he might come back and want some. 243 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,640 Nothing new? 244 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:29,280 It's only been four days since I last saw him. 245 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:32,160 - Yeah. Yeah. - Don't read into it. 246 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,240 - Thanks. - Hm. 247 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,320 - You're all right to stay, yeah? - Of course. 248 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,520 There's no one missing me in Missouri. 249 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:43,120 - No one? No, no family? - Mm-hmm. Not really. 250 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,160 You and Melissa are... 251 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,360 It's good you have each other. 252 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,000 Yeah, it's a great balance. 253 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,400 She's vegetables, and I'm ice cream. 254 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:57,160 - Mm. - I was always the one 255 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:58,760 who indulged Rory. 256 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,880 Like the stuffed koala on his bed. 257 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:03,560 When he saw that at the convention, 258 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:04,680 he begged me for it. 259 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,960 He'd look at me with those big eyes. 260 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,920 I swear to god, the kid knew exactly what he was doing. 261 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,680 Yeah. There were so many people there. 262 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,600 I turned away for a second. 263 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,280 Maybe if I didn't, 264 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:21,640 he wouldn't have... 265 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,880 Hey. It's not your fault. It's not. 266 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:27,200 Yeah... 267 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,480 Nothing made him happier than mornings his dad 268 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,960 woke him up to play hooky. Nothing. 269 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:37,400 I bet. Good night. 270 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,680 Have you seen anything else? 271 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,680 - Not yet. - How, how long did it 272 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,480 take the last time? That girl you found in 2007. 273 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:49,120 Amelia Price. 274 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,560 How long until you saw the thing that led the police to her? 275 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:54,640 I couldn't piece it together. 276 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,160 I just saw fleeting images. 277 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,200 I kept... 278 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,280 I kept seeing this row of little jars 279 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:06,480 with peeling labels on a windowsill. 280 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,360 Then I could see past the grimy windowpane, 281 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:12,960 out to a water tower with faded lettering. 282 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,040 I-T-E space S-T. 283 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,840 Then someone found a manufacturer 284 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:19,160 named Granite State Steel, 285 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,120 and next to one of their, um, water towers was... 286 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:26,560 a trailer park. 287 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:28,480 They knocked on doors, 288 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,640 the guy ran, and they found Amelia. 289 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:36,360 Her family sends me Christmas cards every year. 290 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,240 It's been 17 years since you've seen a missing child? 291 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,320 Yes. 292 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,000 Good night. - Good night. 293 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:53,880 That's it? A blue sedan? 294 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:56,840 - From the '90s, right? - It could be the early aughts. 295 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,920 Definitely an older model. With a pull-down armrest 296 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,040 in the backseat. Rory was using to draw on it. 297 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,080 And, and there was a burger wrapper in the cup holder. 298 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:07,440 Didn't you say that? - Yeah. 299 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,320 Are, are you gonna write it down? 300 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,840 Okay. Uh, I'll write it down, 301 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:15,240 along with your other tips. Yeah. 302 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:17,120 An older woman with a Southern accent, 303 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,640 a backyard with a tire swing, 304 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:21,400 and the sounds of jack-hammering from a construction site. 305 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,880 You didn't also happen to see like a license plate? 306 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,960 Or um, a street sign? Or a state flag? 307 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,000 Lorraine has seen things that can't otherwise be explained. 308 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:33,800 She knew Rory had that purple car 309 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,160 the day he disappeared. - It's not much to go on. 310 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,120 Yeah, but it's something. 311 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:40,240 I didn't peg you as much of a believer, Ms. Conley. 312 00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:42,680 Well, at least it's better than the nothing your office 313 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:43,920 has to show for the past year. 314 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:45,360 Okay. Just because we don't have answers, 315 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,360 doesn't mean we're not still looking. 316 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,440 We're tracking half a dozen child-abduction cases. 317 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:51,600 Three in particular. 318 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,560 If we solve one of those, it could lead us to him. 319 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,480 So, I apologize 320 00:17:56,560 --> 00:17:58,600 if I'm not keen on wasting our resources 321 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:00,040 tracking down a palm reader's tip. 322 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,720 She found that girl, Amelia Price. 323 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:03,520 A broken clock's right twice a day. 324 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:05,200 But it's not just random guesses, 325 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,960 - I gave concrete details. - Yeah, that's great, fine, great, 326 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,640 but you're not exactly one for one, are you, Ms. Howell? 327 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,040 I looked you up on the NCIC database 328 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,720 and there were six cases, six I could find, 329 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:17,800 I'm sure there were more where you offered information. 330 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:19,920 For someone who can't force a vision, 331 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:20,960 you've got a lot to say. 332 00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:23,280 And not enough of a track record to back it up. 333 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:25,280 I wonder if you're more worried about your track record 334 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:28,160 than mine. Those are a lot of case files. 335 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,440 Maybe you've bitten off too much? 336 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,160 A man your age has to be looking at the clock, 337 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:34,120 hoping for that promotion to Captain. 338 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,800 Maybe it's easier to brush these pesky, 339 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,240 unsolvable cases out of sight. 340 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,680 I think we're done here. 341 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:51,920 Do yourself a favor? Start ironing your shirts. 342 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,520 You're so right, I mean, look at his case load. 343 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,040 He can't afford to have someone else show him up. 344 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:00,560 There were other cases? 345 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:03,000 - Sorry? - You said the last case 346 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,720 you took was the Nevada girl. But there were others. 347 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,600 Yeah six. Six, since Amelia Price. 348 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:13,320 - Why didn't you tell us? - In some cases, my... 349 00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:15,400 connection was severed. 350 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:17,280 So you lied. 351 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,080 Yes, I lied. 352 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:22,440 Did you really want to know 353 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,520 that I stopped being able to see 354 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,240 four of the six children, 355 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,200 and that they were later found dead? 356 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,000 Did you really want to know how often this doesn't work out? 357 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:35,000 I'm sorry, but I was protecting you. 358 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,280 Rory is alive. 359 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:38,960 That much I know. 360 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,480 Just like I knew about Amelia. 361 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:45,160 Ugh! 362 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:52,040 The day we found Amelia Price was a great day. 363 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,560 A great day. I was on Dan Rather, 364 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:57,080 and I remember, he called me a hero, and I said, 365 00:19:57,160 --> 00:19:59,040 look, the world had given up. 366 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,440 But not me. Not the family. 367 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:04,240 And not Lorraine. 368 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,360 We had no leads, you know. 369 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:08,160 Most of the team had been reassigned. 370 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,040 It was just me and the tip desk. 371 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:12,520 Lorraine was a godsend. 372 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,920 Deserved every bit of that reward. 373 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,800 And how much of the reward did you receive 374 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,360 for solving the case? - None. 375 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,880 And how were your financial circumstances at the time? 376 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:22,800 I was doing all right. 377 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:24,800 I picked the Steelers over the Seahawks 378 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:27,160 in the Super Bowl, so... - So you weren't experiencing 379 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,560 any financial hardship in 2006, correct? 380 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,160 - Not particularly. - Your Honor, 381 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,120 I'd like to offer into evidence the following document. 382 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,960 Detective, do you recognize what this is? 383 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:45,280 Yeah, it's a letter from the court from March 2006. 384 00:20:45,360 --> 00:20:47,360 You're eight months behind on your child support. 385 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,640 - Well yeah, but... - Explain the highlighted 386 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,080 portion on the list of assets from your divorce settlement? 387 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:55,200 Uh, this has nothing to do with it. 388 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:57,280 I'd just bought a new Ford F-150. 389 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:59,360 I was paying it off. Look, I saved up, 390 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:02,480 I got a promotion. I could pull in more overtime 391 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,000 once the Price case was off my desk, all right? 392 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,320 You said you were the only one monitoring the tip line, 393 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:09,880 and had a tip come in, you would have received 394 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,680 none of the reward money, correct? 395 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:14,040 That's what I said. 396 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,000 So, just at time that you were short on funds, 397 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,920 an outside party who claimed to have a supernatural gift, 398 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,880 happened to offer up information 399 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,280 that would reinforce her claim 400 00:21:24,360 --> 00:21:26,120 and secure her the reward money? - Hold on... 401 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,640 Wouldn't you both have benefited 402 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:28,760 from splitting the reward money? 403 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:30,720 That's not at all what happened, all right? 404 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,480 I did my job, I brought Amelia home, 405 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:35,280 and I'm not the one on trial here. 406 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:36,880 No further questions, Your Honor. 407 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,560 I... 408 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:45,040 I-I can't get my statements. 409 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,200 The bank's records don't go back that far. 410 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,080 But I used the reward to pay off my credit card debt. 411 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:51,920 I didn't know that man before. - Okay. Okay. 412 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,240 I didn't speak to him after. You have to trust me. 413 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,480 Detective Serrano, you have stated 414 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,680 that the defendant fed the Conleys false hope, 415 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,520 that her so-called visions had nothing to do 416 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,280 with the disappearance of Rory Conley. 417 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,040 - Can you state that conclusively? - Yes, I can. 418 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:20,880 And how do you know that for a fact? 419 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,480 Frank? 420 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:26,840 Maybe it's better if we sit. 421 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,080 - No, I don't want to sit down. - Ms. Conley... 422 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,520 Just say it. 423 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:31,880 I have some news. 424 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:33,680 It's not good news, 425 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,200 but maybe, I hope, it'll bring you 426 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,760 some amount of peace. 427 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,000 Last night, we charged a man with the murder of your son. 428 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,280 No. 429 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,400 How do... how do you know? 430 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:48,560 He confessed. 431 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,240 Oh! Oh no! 432 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,720 Four days ago, a retired contractor 433 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:02,960 named Matthew Lee Boyd was stopped at a D.U.I. 434 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:04,920 checkpoint in Virginia. 435 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:06,400 His fingerprints matched those 436 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,600 of a case of a missing Pittsburgh boy, Noah Jackson. 437 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,080 In the trunk of his car, we found children's toys 438 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:13,400 and zip ties. 439 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:15,760 Now, while under interrogation, 440 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,760 he admitted to two more murders. 441 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,280 One boy had gone missing in Richmond, that's Caden Greer, 442 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,200 and the second was... was Rory. 443 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,240 Did he... 444 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,160 Did he tell you where he took Rory? 445 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,800 Well, he was on a bender, so he doesn't remember much, 446 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:37,440 but he is cooperating. It'll take some time 447 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,040 to track down the bodies. But for now, 448 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,440 we have his license plate charged with a highway toll 449 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,320 on I-85 around the time that Rory disappeared. 450 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,160 - Are you sure that's... - No! You don't talk! 451 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,680 You don't say one single damn thing. 452 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,640 What are you doing? Why aren't you packing? 453 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,040 Do you need some help? Here, I'll help you. 454 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,080 - Melissa, hey, whoa... - I told you to get out. 455 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,480 What is wrong with you? Why won't you go? 456 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,600 The police have it wrong. 457 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,760 The police have it wrong. - How do you know? 458 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,560 Oh Frank, please don't keep falling for it. 459 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:24,560 How can they say anything conclusively 460 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,320 if there's no physical evidence? - Evidence? 461 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:28,960 You read tea leaves! 462 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,360 Don't talk to us about evidence! 463 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,400 I swear, I can still feel him. 464 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,080 Yeah, and so can I. 465 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,880 But he was my son, and I knew him and you didn't. 466 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,760 And you watched this news clip and hallucinated a boy 467 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,440 that was already dead, you leech! 468 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,800 Just get her out of here. 469 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,080 Wait, Lorraine. 470 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,560 Maybe I'm stupid for still believing you. 471 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:15,880 Maybe it's just wishful thinking. 472 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:17,720 But I don't want you to go. 473 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:22,400 ' Cause once you go, it's over. I'm never finding him. 474 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,960 So Frank kept her around. 475 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,000 And that's when all hell broke loose. 476 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,600 Inside, a man is being charged for three murders, 477 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,680 but there are only two bodies. 478 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,720 I feel for the parents of Noah Jackson and Caden Greer, 479 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:39,840 who are experiencing the unimaginable, 480 00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,560 but at least they know what happened to their child. 481 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,320 I don't. Matthew Lee Boyd has not been able 482 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,400 to point to Rory's body. He doesn't know. 483 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,200 The true crime podcasts. The social media sleuths. 484 00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,120 Someone found CCTV footage of a blue '98 sedan 485 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:55,960 near the convention center that day, 486 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,720 so that meant Lorraine must be right. 487 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,400 Right now, I'm focused on convicting 488 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:01,760 a confessed criminal, okay? So please, out of my way. 489 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:03,840 I understand why Detective Serrano 490 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:05,360 wants this case closed, but he hasn't 491 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,000 produced sufficient proof. 492 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,480 You don't always get the physical evidence, 493 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,000 but I'm pretty damn close. 494 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,040 If the police are asking me to abandon hope 495 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,600 that my son is alive, I need certainty. 496 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,720 Not "pretty damn close." 497 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:19,640 You can't blame a grieving father. 498 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,360 He wanted to keep his boy alive. 499 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:22,800 But what did she want? 500 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,680 Why couldn't she let it go? 501 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,760 Maybe she needed to keep her resume clean for next time. 502 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:33,960 Can I come in? 503 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:35,920 Yes. Of course. 504 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,520 I found this place on our credit card statements. 505 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,120 Sixty bucks a night? 506 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,280 That's highway robbery. 507 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,160 Well, Frank said he wanted to... 508 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:50,040 Frank doesn't have it in him to tell you no. 509 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:51,800 Same as with Rory. 510 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,280 He lets you take advantage of him. 511 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,320 Rory couldn't take advantage of you, could he? 512 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,560 No. I was the strict one. 513 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:02,760 Someone had to be. 514 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:04,040 Yeah. 515 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,560 Otherwise, he'd be up till midnight every night eating Froot Loops. 516 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,080 And you thought, when he was older, he would understand. 517 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:15,360 I figured he'd have self-control, 518 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,800 and teeth with no cavities, and he'd thank me. 519 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,560 But now he's gone. 520 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,520 And he knew me as the lady who only said no. 521 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,040 - I'm sure he didn't... - The district attorney reached out to me. 522 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,280 They want to prosecute you for exploiting our situation 523 00:27:31,360 --> 00:27:33,680 and standing in the way of an investigation. 524 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,040 These things carry prison time. 525 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,760 Forfeiture of assets. 526 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,920 Wh... Why are you telling me this? 527 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,840 They won't have a case without my testimony. 528 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:48,400 - So I won't cooperate. - Oh. 529 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:49,880 On one condition. 530 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,400 Tell Frank you got it wrong. 531 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:56,120 Tell him Rory's gone. 532 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:57,680 - Melissa... - As long as you keep 533 00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,760 his hope alive, the wound will never heal. 534 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,880 And-and we have to move on. 535 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,280 And it is not too late, and we could start over, and... 536 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:07,640 Please. 537 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:09,640 Please? 538 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,000 I've already lost my son. 539 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,520 I can't lose my husband, too. 540 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,960 I didn't ask for this. I saw something. 541 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,880 You said it had enough truth to it that I should uproot my life. 542 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,080 And yes, I didn't leave much behind. 543 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,200 And yes, I accepted your money, 544 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,360 but that doesn't mean I am a fraud. 545 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,680 Please, just tell me how much. Please. 546 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,080 Look at where I am. 547 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,560 If I could be bought, don't you think 548 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,840 I would have been bought? If, if I were a fraud, 549 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:47,480 I would cut my losses 550 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,360 and take the get-out-of-jail-free card. 551 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,080 If, if I were a fraud, 552 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,640 I would be able to sleep at night 553 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,480 without seeing a missing child I never knew. 554 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,240 Do you have any idea what this gift has cost me? 555 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:02,920 A marriage. A family. 556 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,200 Everyone wants me to see something! 557 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:07,480 But if I can't, or if I do, but it's not the right thing, 558 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:10,560 then I am a con artist and a liar! 559 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,440 I don't see lottery numbers! 560 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,040 I see pain. 561 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,720 I... 562 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,240 I turn toward it... 563 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,320 'cause I am the only one who can. 564 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,480 Why didn't Matthew Lee Boyd's case go to trial? 565 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,600 He took a plea. Three life sentences. 566 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,240 - Was that your recommendation? - Absolutely not. 567 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,640 I said forget the death penalty, I'll strangle him myself. 568 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,120 But when it came down to it, 569 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:51,680 I could forego the punishment 570 00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,840 to save the families from sitting through a trial. 571 00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,360 So other words, he was so guilty 572 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,680 beyond all reasonable doubt, 573 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,720 a trial would only serve to prolong 574 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,560 - the victims' families' pain? - Correct. 575 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,480 Your Honor, I would like to offer the following video into evidence. 576 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,480 Detective, what do you recognize this video to be? 577 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,800 That is my interrogation of Matthew Lee Boyd. 578 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,000 There's another one, isn't there? 579 00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,480 - There was a third. - A third kid? A boy? 580 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,080 - A boy, yeah. - Where? 581 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,400 - I don't remember. - Yeah, you do. 582 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,320 What do you remember? Are they gonna kill me? 583 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,000 Maybe. These are capital crimes. 584 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:28,360 But if you cooperate, 585 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,320 we may not pursue the death penalty. 586 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:31,720 Where was the third boy? 587 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,040 Near the water. Big crowd. 588 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,520 A convention? 589 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,160 Yeah. A convention. 590 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:44,280 So Boyd had no lawyer during a confession 591 00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:45,560 that led to a guilty plea, 592 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:47,320 and no trial during which that confession 593 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:48,400 could be properly examined? 594 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:49,400 He waived his right to a lawyer. 595 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:51,960 If he pointed you to the other two bodies within hours, 596 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:53,560 why not make the location of the third body 597 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:54,800 a condition of the plea agreement? 598 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,920 - It wasn't up to me. - Did you recommend 599 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:58,360 not pursuing the death penalty 600 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,160 in order to elicit a confession for Rory Conley's murder? 601 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,360 Yes. That's how confessions happen. 602 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:04,640 Even knowing his confession 603 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,680 rested upon information you yourself gave him? 604 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:17,960 Do you swear that the evidence you give to the court 605 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:19,720 shall be the truth, the whole truth, 606 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,880 and nothing but the truth, so help you God? 607 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:23,400 I do. 608 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,240 When did you first become aware 609 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,760 you possessed such an extraordinary gift? 610 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,720 I was too young to remember 611 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,240 when my brother was shipped off to Vietnam. 612 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,200 But I remember when my family 613 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,360 got the call saying his unit 614 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:44,440 had gone out on night patrol and never come back. 615 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:46,640 Four confirmed dead, two Missing in Action. 616 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,360 We knew what that meant. He was dead, but no bodies. 617 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,520 My mother was out of her mind. 618 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:54,800 Joe was the oldest, 619 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,800 her golden boy. 620 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,880 I didn't understand what was happening. I couldn't... 621 00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:03,080 console her. 622 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,960 One day, I was in Joe's room. 623 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:09,360 Um, and I saw him. 624 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,080 Somewhere far away, wrapped in a checkerboard quilt. 625 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:17,640 Green and white. 626 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,280 What did you make of it? 627 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,720 I knew it wasn't a hallucination. 628 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,520 I tried to imagine where he was before, 629 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,120 but this was different. 630 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:26,520 I knew... 631 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,160 this was happening. 632 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,200 I knew he was alive. 633 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,400 Did your family believe you? 634 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,920 My mother didn't need any convincing. 635 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,280 We'd sit... together at night 636 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:45,600 and I'd tell her what I saw. 637 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,480 How Joe needed a haircut and... 638 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:52,920 a shower. 639 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,280 And then you got the call. 640 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,400 Yes. They had negotiated his release... 641 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,800 from a prison camp, and he was alive and coming home. 642 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,000 It... 643 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,000 And it was, it was like our lives were starting up again. 644 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,520 Um... 645 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,920 The day after he came back, he said that the one thing 646 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,520 that kept him going was playing chess. 647 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,120 And it turned out that... 648 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:30,120 that chessboard was green and white. 649 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,680 We have some clippings from the local paper 650 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,440 to offer into evidence. 651 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,560 So, if you are a fraud, is it fair to say 652 00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,480 you began your grift quite early? 653 00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,280 And for no money at all? 654 00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,120 Ms. Howell, did it feel good, 655 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,360 seeing how grateful the Conleys were? 656 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:04,880 How much your information meant to them? 657 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,000 I was happy to be able to provide that hope. 658 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:09,920 Hmm, just as I'm sure you were happy to provide 659 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,960 - hope that to your own mother? - Yes. 660 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,280 Now you said that your brother was the golden child. 661 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:15,360 What did that make you? 662 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:18,320 I was shy. Quiet. The youngest of five. 663 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:22,040 Uh, my mother was sure I would ruin my eyesight 664 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:23,440 with how much time I spent reading. 665 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,920 But she was much more focused on my brothers. 666 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,240 And when you were the only one that knew your brother was alive, 667 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,840 did it bring you together? 668 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,480 Yes. We leaned on each other. 669 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,920 Gosh, that feeling, that feeling of being a hero, 670 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,640 being important... 671 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,120 must have been intoxicating? 672 00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,560 I suppose. I was very young. 673 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:45,160 Well, fast-forward to now. 674 00:34:45,240 --> 00:34:47,600 You've had some very high-profile successes, 675 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,440 some quiet failures. 676 00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,200 Tell me, why do you keep going back to it? 677 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,640 Because I... I... 678 00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:58,560 - I have to. - You "have to". 679 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:00,080 You have to what? 680 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,640 Make up for your first, greatest failure? 681 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,080 Please tell us about the passing of your brother. 682 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,200 Uh, four years after he came home, 683 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,960 he was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver on Route 108. 684 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,120 He was on his way to pick me up from school. 685 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,000 And when you failed to foresee the accident, did you blame yourself? 686 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,480 He was on his way to pick me up, how could I not? 687 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,880 But I, I never claimed to be able to see the future. 688 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,160 I wish I could. 689 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:30,800 But your mother believed wholeheartedly 690 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,120 in your gift, didn't she? 691 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,320 And did that belief lead her to place 692 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,000 all the responsibility for keeping your brother safe onto you? 693 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:38,880 She didn't blame me, no. 694 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,800 But she never quite trusted me again. 695 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,240 And what about the rest of your family, 696 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,600 would you consider yourselves estranged? 697 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:48,400 No. 698 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,120 When was the last time you saw them? 699 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,360 2002 at my mother's funeral. 700 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,720 Is that why you seek out new families? 701 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,600 Desperate, broken ones like the Conleys, 702 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,560 who welcomed you with open arms? 703 00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,600 I just wanna help. 704 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:07,640 Maybe. 705 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,000 Maybe by offering them what you couldn't provide 706 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,200 for your own family gives you meaning in your life? 707 00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,000 If I did it only for myself, 708 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,880 I'd have learned by now to stay far, far away. 709 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:20,680 And yet you've spent your life seeking to be indispensable 710 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,360 to people in pain, haven't you? 711 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,640 Would you say, Ms. Howell, that the trouble 712 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:26,960 with an unpredictable gift, felt only by the one 713 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,560 who possesses it, is that it bears a striking resemblance 714 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,760 to somebody just making guesses? 715 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,720 But I'm not just making guesses. 716 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:39,560 I'm, I'm not lying. 717 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,080 But how can you be sure you're telling the truth? 718 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,600 I mean, after all, isn't a truly successful fraudster's 719 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:47,520 first victim herself? 720 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,400 No further questions Your Honor. 721 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,800 In a trial for fraud, the State is required 722 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,400 to prove three things beyond a reasonable doubt. 723 00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:02,520 One: That the defendant knowingly misrepresented facts. 724 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,720 Two, the defendant had an intent to deceive 725 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,360 and succeeded in that deceit. 726 00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,600 And three, the deception was done for financial benefit. 727 00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,280 It's not a question of whether the defendant was right or wrong. 728 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,640 That much we may never know. 729 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:17,880 It's not a question of whether she profited financially 730 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,080 when all is said and done. 731 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,560 It doesn't even matter 732 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,040 whether you believe she's entirely delusional. 733 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,800 What it comes down to is this: 734 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:27,000 Did Lorraine Howell 735 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,040 believe what she was telling the Conleys? 736 00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,160 The girl who kept her family's hope alive, 737 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,480 the woman who knowingly exposes herself 738 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,600 to some of the worst pain in the world... 739 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,360 Does that woman have faith in her own gift? 740 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,880 I don't want the money back. 741 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,080 I don't want her to go to jail. I didn't do it to punish her, 742 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:15,600 I did it to convince you. 743 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,480 Maybe seeing it all laid out, in court... 744 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,320 You saw the same tape I saw. 745 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,880 - It wasn't a real confession... - Stop. 746 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,000 I can't keep going around and around. 747 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:29,600 There will always be reasons to doubt. 748 00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,360 What kind of father would I be if I gave up? 749 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,960 You were a wonderful father. 750 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,480 And you could be, again. 751 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,560 But I'm tired of hoping, Frank. 752 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,080 I can't do it anymore. 753 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,200 Has the jury reached a verdict? 754 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,640 We have, Your Honor. 755 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,120 We the jury, in the case of the State of North Carolina 756 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:08,160 versus Lorraine Howell, find the defendant not guilty. 757 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,400 Jurors, thank you for your service. 758 00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,440 This court is adjourned. 759 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:17,560 All rise. 760 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:26,920 - Congratulations. - Thank you. 761 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,760 Lorraine. Lorraine. 762 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,520 You'll call me, right? 763 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:35,560 Even if you think something's too small, 764 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,320 I wanna, I wanna hear it. 765 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:39,080 Yeah. 766 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,360 Yeah, this isn't over. It isn't over. 767 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:47,760 Thank you. 768 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,800 I figured since you weren't calling me back, 769 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,040 you probably didn't want me sitting in the back 770 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,120 of the court for the trial. 771 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,840 But I wanted to be here when it was over. 772 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,840 It's good... It's good to see you, Ray. 773 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:30,040 You ready to go home? 774 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:35,600 Car's fixed. 775 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:40,200 Um, more or less. 776 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:44,920 Come on. Let's, let's just go home. Yeah? 777 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,600 You should go. 778 00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:55,080 You did all you could. 779 00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,520 What else was there to do but tell the truth? 780 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:17,400 You okay?