[Music] [Music] because nothing else seemed to seemed a miss and what was that story it was just plain I thought he was going to shoot me so I shot first made sense Tim Newman's 357 Magnum was found on the ground not far from his right hand and the sheriff knew that Tim Newman had been baiting the bear fighting Joe Campbell's rules about who could or couldn't cross his land he carried a video camera with him this is what you have to go through with this gate Tim bould's Brass had been cutting pa
dlocks which Joe Campbell used to lock his Gates when I first talked to Mr Newman about this he admitted to cutting those locks and said that he was going to continue to do that and I said well I guess if that's the case me and you are probably going to be pretty good friends because I'll see you quite often did you charge Tim Newman I did I did uh you wrote up tickets for him I did for criminal mischief to the locks and Gates that he was cutting and and destroying saw a mountain lion Tim though
t that charges would put him in front of a judge where he would finally have a chance to set the record straight and preserve what he believed to be his natural right to use the trails across Joe's land to the very public National Forest but just days before the shooting the County Attorney dismissed all the charges against him saying it was not a criminal matter but a civil one which Tim Newman took as Tac permission to keep cutting the locks did ever say Tim but this is not a good way to go ye
ah we did I mean you go out and cut somebody's LS they not going to be a happy camper right yes which leads us back to the gate where Tim Newman now lay dead and Joe Campbell was telling sheriff's deputies a story he and his wife Tanny were walking up the trail toward their property said Joe when Tim started following them on his ATV they were frightened he said they hurried to his gate slipped through it and then as Joe sent his wife to call the sheriff he said Tim got out of his ATV and approa
ched the gate with a pair of bolt cutters then said Joe Tim leaned down to the padlock in the gate and noticed Joe was wearing a pistol on his hip he said oh your arm and he started putting the cutter down and then he started putting both hands on his gun and coming up and that's when I do my gun I shot and he spun around I thought i' hit him but I wasn't sure and he spun around and he still the gun in his hand and he was going down I shot him again I was to shoot again and then he dropped the g
un and he rolled over um and then he got up on his elbow and he said you shouldn't have done that Jo well that was Joe Campbell's story he was threatened so he shot Tim Newman Twice first in the chest and then in the back we didn't arrest him because he asserted that s self- defense in Montana now has a law that you don't have any duty to run if you feel threatened then you can protect yourself with deadly force so sens shoot first and figure it out later yes and figuring it out would take time
I can walk home so Joe cell was sent home that very day and Tim Newman's body was taken away for an autopsy but of course science would Eder the story science is glorious as all Outdoors to bat away foolish human vanities coming up this really all came down to what the body told you absolutely but Tim's neighbors had already decided they were why isn't he in jail he shot a person why didn't we do something when dat line continues [Music] in the days after Tim Newman was shot dead Joe cell went b
ack to his home on top of the mountain while many of his downhill neighbors let the death dissuade them from visiting their cabins on the land they loved but not Dan and Sue dear Rosa if all the neighbors had run and hid and and not come up to the mountain and stayed at home then hell he won then he's got the whole place to himself which is what he wanted originally and so we said we're we're going this was our paradise and even though it was shattered we weren't willing to walk away and many ne
ighbors vented to the sheriff about Joe Campbell they were why isn't he in jail he shot a person why didn't we do something about him yeah but there's a Montana law that guides our Behavior so the question became one of intent yes if you intend to defend yourself within the law if you intend to kill somebody because he's a pain in the ass against the law yeah they make him right cream for that I mean you don't need to shoot people for that but which was it in this case self-defense or murder rem
ember Joe Campell claimed Chim Newman confronted him leveled a gun at him so Campell was within his rights to fire first I shot and he SP around that second shot in the back half reflex half fear he said make sure he got the guy who threatened him shot him I was maybe the lower back or something except this was curious Tim was left-handed but his gun was found lying on the ground near his right hand and Tim's Gun hadn't been fired so if he had the drop on Joe as Campbell said he did how did Joe
get a shot off before him could pull the trigger the puzzle landed on the desks of Deputy Attorneys General Mary cokau and Dan gazinski I think Mary and I both feel like like most Montas feel that we have an absolute right to defend ourselves I think the challenge is is to try to Fair it out you know when there's a justifiable homicide versus a situation where they wanted to commit murder and they Ed the justifiable use of force to get away with murder the two prosecutors had to decide which app
lied in this case he looked at me and he said all your arm they'd heard Joe Campbell's side of the story but the only story Tim Newman could tell would come from his autopsy this really all came down to what the body told you what the wounds told you right absolutely and from that autopsy we learned that there were two shots to Tim Newman One Shot was to the back severed his spine and it would have paralyzed him instantly from mid chest down the other shot hit his hand first and then skimmed his
chest and whizzed past his head and to the prosecutors the angle of those shots strongly suggested that the first shot could have been in Tim Newman's back so it told us that the story that Joe Campbell had told law enforcement that he had shot into Tim Newman as Tim Newman was rising up with his own gun physically didn't work out from a common sense level this is your Miranda War they called Joe in for a second interview when again he said Tim was the aggressor chasing Joe and his wife with hi
s HV canny was scared really scared I asked tny twice I said maybe you should just go home and call the sheriff she didn't want to leave but she did said Joe and that's when Tim came at him and all of a sudden out come's gun stop you for just a second CU I had one question I don't want to forget it saying that you're really fearful but I was just wondering why you stay and don't take well we're on our own property and I didn't think I guess I was hoping that he wouldn't do anything instead said
Joe Tim walked right up to the gate and him and then then Joe Campbell's story could changed right after it happened Joe quoted Tim as saying oh you're armed now he claimed Tim pointed a gun right at him and said shoot it first something like that and then cut the walk shoot certainly that statement about shoot first or cut the locks I think he's trying to show that Tim Newman um verbally told him that he was going to shoot him and before that there was nothing and about that thought that the an
gles of the shot suggested the first shot was a shot in the back no no said Joe didn't happen not long after they sent Joe home again and wondered what was the truth and what wasn't uh shooting Reconstructionist and reconstruct the shooting at the scene but that reconstruction would have to wait for one of those only in Montana reasons right after Tim Newman had been shot there had been a big snowstorm and the the crime scene had been under snow that whole winter and we had to wait until May to
get him up to the crime scene so he could do his work and so once again it was Springtime in Montana and the answer pure and Mindless as the first tiny blossoms rose up from The Greening soil it was murder pure and simple yeah how did they know 8 months after the fact and how would they prove it to a jury different sort of science alog together that coming up in the old west it was the lowest thing you could do he shot him in the back in cold blind he admits that he shot him in the back and if t
hat was the first shot then this was murder he stated that the next time I see Tim Newman I'm going to push him down put him down L those were his words when dayl L [Music] continues Montana state capital in Helena February 2016 into the old Supreme Court Chambers please be seated came a small elderly man Joe Campbell 70 years old was charged with murder deliberate homicide they call it here accused of killing Tim Newman in Gold Blood it just made me wonder how it had gotten to this point where
someone died worse of breaking the unwritten code of the West you're accusing this man of doing probably the lowest thing you can do in Western mythology shoot a man in the back is that what he did really he shot him in the back and cobl he admits that he shot him in the back but was it campell's first shot or his second that could make the difference between murder and self-defense this was not a Justified killing and the state of Montana is going to ask that you find Joe Campbell guilty of del
iberate homicide remember the crime scene expert who had to wait for the snow to melt to make his calculations this is him my job was to independently investigate what could have happened at this particular crime scene William schneck a forensic scientist what he did was try with an assistant helping to reenact events as Joe Campbell claimed they had happened lining up body positioning track of the bullets that sort of thing and were you able to reconstruct the scene as Mr Campbell said it had h
appened no I was not able to do that for either shot but guess what did line up the point he falls to the ground on his back in the death position at that time Mr Campbell takes the second shot a grazing shot over the hand and across the chest missing the head look at it said the scientist with Tim fell by the first bullet to the back the second bullet travels south to North grazing his vest nicking his hand and zipping right past his head the only way it could have happened was he right why not
call a legend to confirm it legendary expert that is the state calls Dr wner Spitz Dr verer Spitz literally wrote the book on Forensic pathology he even brought the book to court I can only tell you this that if weight has a meaning by way of quality then this is 9 and a quarter okay all right 89 years old when he took the stand Dr Spitz investigated the assassinations of President Kennedy and Dr Martin Luther King and many many more he testified more recently in the Phil Spectre in Casey Antho
ny trials so what did Dr Spitz say about this case just to be clear doctor your opinion is that Mr Newman was shot in the back as he turned away from the gate some 10 ft from the gate yes that's correct and then he fell to the ground on his back that's correct and then he was shot a second time Landing in this death position and those wounds to the hand line up perfectly L up perfectly the big mystery then according to the prosecutors was why why would Joseph Campbell have shot Tim Newman In Col
d Blood well remember that video of Campbell taken by a Hunting Party in 2008 private property without we are prosecutors played it for the jury to show that Cabell wasn't afraid to confront and Chase off anybody who dared cross his property even when he was outnumbered you could see on that video that he was not scared of those hunters and to accept his story that he was terrified of Tim Newman a man a neighbor of his that he had known just seemed implausible nor was that an isolated incident y
our relationship with Mr Campbell how would you describe that relationship one word miserable and he looked up at me and he said I don't know who the you are Mister but you're trespassing and I don't ever want to see you again this woman was an army colonel on Le from Iraq out on a ride with her father when they were confronted by Campbell and his shotgun again he's like hey sweetheart who are you both my dad and I told him to put the gun down we were just trying to go on a horseback ride and I
told him I'm like hey I have to go back to Iraq tomorrow but he refused to put the shotgun down and he started Wai he's like this is my property and this is my property and can't be on my property the prosecutors argue that the clearest proof that Joe Campbell intended and planned to kill Tim Newman his own words like what he said to the deputy County attorney who declined to prosecute Tim for cutting locks this was days before the shooting he told me that if I wasn't going to take care of Mr Ne
wman that he would and this one he did refer to Tim leaving the top of the mountain in a body bag Joe's words to a contractor two days before the shooting he cleared his jacket back from his pistol and touched his like that and he stated that the next time I see Tim Newman I'm going to push him down I'm put him down L those were his words he said he was going to kill him and then he killed him it was murder the rule in Montana is is clear as day you can defend your castle if you're threatened ab
sent a threat then murder is what it is and what could Joe Campbell possibly say about that well well as it turned out Lots coming up I was trying to stay alive so want to do you were me and I I shot him I did dramatic testimony from the accused but would a jury believe him so all these people came into court took an oath and have lied in front of this jury is that right objection your honor a courtroom Showdown when Date Line continues point of view can change everything C it perspective even i
n the crisp clear Montana air where here inside the Grand Old Court The View was about to get decidedly hazier it's about self-defense that's what this Cas is about this is Joe Campbell's attorney Greg Jackson who wanted the jury to see a justifiable shooting by a terrified man in fear for his own life Joe looked into that he was faced with the horing decision at that point TR to stay alive or die all that fancy forensic testimony bolstered by legendary forensic pathologist Dr verer Spitz to sho
w Joe first jot him in the back just spin said the defense besides the defense had its own Legend pathologist Dr Vincent Deo who wrote the book on gunshot wounds and said you have to have some description as to where the shooter is and then you could say this is consistent or no no it's not consistent at all and in this case Dr de came to a far different conclusion than the prosecution experts there is nothing to disprove Mr camell's story Dr Dem offered his own theory that Tim could have been j
umping or falling backwards when the first bullet hit his hand and chest and then the second shot hit him in the back dueling experts maybe they canceled each other but if Joe Campell was going to walk out of the courtroom a free man the defense had to hope the jury perceived him and her in a favorable Way Joe Campbell's my husband so here was Tanny Converse Joe Campbell's wife and how long have you two been married 23 years and the only other Survivor of that confrontation on the hill so far yo
u've heard that Joe Campell was a bully there isn't any right away through here that he was a threatening mean and dangerous old man unafraid and aggressive but Tanny told the jury that in the weeks before the shooting it was Tim Newman driving a pickup who confronted them as they walked to their horse pasture he said Joe and Tanny Finally Found You Jo just said uh Tim we've given you a notice that you're not welcome on our place please don't harass us were you afraid of him when you were next t
o the road I was startled Joe just said let's go and he just hollered out the out his window um come on let's just get it over with right now and then he did drive off that's why she said she and Joe were afraid of Tim and why on October 18th as she and Joe walked toward home they were alarmed to see Tim coming up behind them what were the things that made you believe that he was going to physically harm you well if he was was just wanting to cut the lock why would he chase us up the hill why wo
uld he do that we were watching him he was on his ATV and he was off his ATV and he was grabbing the bult Cutters he was unpredictable he was highly agitated so what do you and Joe decide to do next Joe just kept saying you need to try to get out of here you need to try to get safe you need to try to get home need to call the sheriff I didn't want to leave Joe but she did leave she said and on her way to calling 911 heard gunshots placed the call rushed back and I saw Joe standing at the gate an
d he said he came at me with a gun and I didn't have a choice and I saw Mr Newman lying on the ground in their sometimes intense cross-examination prosecutors pointed out not so gently that elements of tanny's story had changed also from previous interviews but altered or not her story was emotional as was Joe Campbell call Joe Campbell to the stand so kindly and sometimes frightened grandfather of seven or neighborhood bully the man who brandished weapons at neighbors and strangers alike the de
fense set about changing perception private property without permission The Neighbors The Hunters did you threaten them with a shotgun anything of that nature no just they were trespassing I asked him to leave the Army kle and her father ever point a shotgun at him no sir but there was no getting around the fact that he told the deputy da he was going to take care of Tim Newman himself couldn't be more than one way to perceive that good we were going to get uh take a legal action we were really
frustrated I was really frustrated legal action that's how he intended to take care of Tim Newman said Joe he was just a peaceful and frustrated man he said and he was terrified when Tim Newman chased Tanny and him up the hill in a rage that day in October 2013 man had murder in his eyes said Joe it's hard to stand up here and say in front of everybody but I was trying to stay alive so I wanted to thinking about tny think about my kids my grandkids two were me and I I shot him I did had Joe cell
succeeded in changing the jury's perception before Mr Cabell could leave the witness D prosecutor Dan gazinski got a chance to cross-examine him and again present the book of the mountain the neighbors said they knew all too well Lamont mree says that approximately 2 3 days before you shot and killed Mr Newman that you told him I am going to put him down did you say that to Mr mree I did not so all these people came into court took an oath and have lied in front of this jury is that right objec
tion your [Music] honor ultimately the prosecutor said Joe Campbell could have avoided a confrontation could have but did not because he wanted it all you have to do to save your wife to save yourself is to turn downhill and walk jog run right down that hill to safety we I looked at some of those options Mr gazinski and it's a hell of lot harder up there on the hillside when somebody's threatening you than it is to stand here in a courtroom to a half years later so if you were a Jer what would y
ou think about Joe Campbell and the Gunplay on the mountain was it murder or self-defense coming up waiting for the jury there's so much anxiousness hoping for justice who is this guy that can just steal such a beautiful soul from this world when day line continues on the 3rd of March 2016 in the old Supreme Court chamber at Montana state capital building the question went to the jury did Joe Campbell have a right to shoot Tim Newman was it self-defense or was it coldblooded murder neighbors Dan
and Sue delar Roa waited and wied their thoughts into the Jury Room I believe he murdered him murder absolutely though they knew full well that since Montana passed a new law legalizing certain kinds of self-defense it was hard to know what a jury might decide they find it not guil he moves up there'll be four sale signs for everywhere up there so nervous hours around the old courtroom which turned into a whole day and then a second there's so much just an ious just waiting for the jury to come
back and then just after noon day two the jury set the judge a note please be seated everybody was summoned to the courtroom I am told that uh you folks are hopelessly deadlocked and that even if given more time you couldn't reasonably expect to reach a decision is that your understanding of events I'm going to declare mistrial a mistrial three weeks of testimony all for not and the state may or may not bring the case again we're done here thank you I couldn't believe it it was he just leave th
at courtroom and not have a guilty or not guilty and just like nothing happened like nothing happened what was the state to do well in this case said the prosecutors the decision was obvious they offered Jo Campbell a be trial because it's a dangerous situation and I'm concerned it'll be repeated and somebody else will be killed Joe Campbell remained out on bail with the Proviso that he remain at least 10 miles away from his property up on the mountain but less than 3 months later May 2016 Joe C
ampbell elected not to face a second trial instead he walked into a courtroom and waved his claim that the shooting was legal how do you plead to the charge of negligent homicide no contest Char a plea of no contest meaning Campell neither admitted nor denied the charge that he committed negligent homicide and reduced charge from the original allegation of intentional homicide Montana's parlan for first-degree murder I believe it's in the best interest of myself and my family in a case like this
said the prosecutors you take what you can get we're focusing on community protection and we think it's probably the best agreement that we could reach and have a guaranteed resolution of this case before the judge pronounced Campbell's sentence Tim Newman's wife Jackie went to the podium just because you are killis and have no remorse I want you to be aware as Tim's wife you have affected our lives in a horrendous way Tim's daughter Christie also sent a state unable to be present because she j
ust had a baby a granddaughter Tim never got to see my dad died a hero what will if you die it makes me very angry yeah very upset very sad like who who is this guy that can just steal such a beautiful soul from this world the judge offered Joe a chance to explain or apologize is there anything that you would like to say no you C also declined a chance to explain a DAT line his lawyer issued a statement which reads in part the plea agreement allowed Mr Campbell his wife and family to go forward
with the certainty of freedom and the removal of constant Stress and Anxiety while still allowing him to maintain his innocence and continue to maintain he acted necessarily in self-defense for your plea of no contendre to charge it was of course part of Joe's deal with the state 20 years but not in any prison all of it a suspended sentence and no fines or restitution is imposed but as the neighbors listen the judge told Joe he'll have to abide by some very important conditions he'll never again
be allowed to possess a firearm and for 20 years even if the old man manages to live that long he cannot return to the mountain he once called home he will never again set foot in his house his Forest his Trails his precious property ironic isn't it you care so much about your property that you never get to see it again yeah yeah it's very ironic you know before he owned all the big property he recreated just like all of us and he walked down those Trails across everyone else's property and and
hunted and enjoyed it life was good but when he decided he needed to take control is when it all changed it's like a fable isn't it yes asop could have written there you go huh and if Tim Newman were on a cloud up there somewhere said his daughter Christie he'd be telling her well she knows exactly what he'd say sorry sorry darland sorry for going up to that gate without someone with me sorry I'm not there to meet my granddaughter I'm sorry we can't go on another hike together or I love you you
know praise the Lord for this [Music] country that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us Manson has come to represent the malignant side of humanity these people enjoyed killing things that the police had never seen before Sharon Tate begged her please don't kill me please don't kill me average kids from average American Homes turn out to be the killers he would dose them with LSD are you say same that's Rel Charles mansy stole lives grief like you could not imagine stole innocenc
e he looks beautiful he looks happy and this draws a lot of people and left a city living in fear gun stores sell out guard guards are now selling for $5,000 good you may think you know the Manson story but not like this he's a very evil sophisticated con man knows exactly what he's doing it's all a play isn't it I'm Lester Holt and this is dline here is Keith Morrison with Manson April 14th 2016 a clear Blustery Day in the high desert outside Los Angeles inside the walls of the California Insti
tution for Women a gray haired 66-year-old inmate appears before a parole board as she has done many times before but this time something remarkable a parole board panel is recommending the release of former Charles Manson follower Leslie van hton Leslie van hton a name on a list forever linked with one of the most famous crimes and criminals of the 20th century Charles Manson you don't understand me that's your trouble not my fault because you don't understand me I don't understand you either t
he story of Charles Manson his family and all the horror they wrought is buried in archives memorialized in media long Obsolete and yet somehow it feels present that hot summer night that caught the world utterly unprepared when Los Angeles became suddenly a very scary place [Music] it was August 9th 1969 around 8:00 a.m. officer Jerry D Roa was a young cop with the LAPD working the day shift the first call I got was the call to go to cello drive it came out as a drunk and a car officer D roza c
ruised up Benedict Canyon and found the dead end street called cello drive a neighbor flagged him down and suddenly the drunk in a car call became something else he had told me that the maid came running back out yelling blood and bodies D Roa all alone nosed his squad car up the Gated driveway he could see right away things weren't right the telephone wires that have been cut are hanging over the gate I go through the gate and there's a car parked in the driveway in the car he found not a drunk
but a b he had been shot and I walked around the front of the location and there were two more bodies on the lawn then backup arrived and they went into the house and found the scene horrible in a way that would go down in history there was a young woman there are multiple snab Bones on her and then there was a uh a thick rope that was wrapped around her neck and something else the young woman was pregnant 8 months pregnant she'd been stabbed repeatedly next door her a man with a bloody towel o
ver his head he'd been shot at close range also stabbed it was a blood bath have you ever seen such a thing before no no it was it was uh it was horrendous D roza could see down the hall out the back door he saw a guest house near the swimming pool he and the second officer went to check it out and inside they found a young man alive I thought this is this guy knows something 19-year-old William Garrison said he was the caretaker he told D Roa he knew nothing had seen nothing and heard nothing w
ith all the screaming and the gunshots and the fighting how could he not hear it you would think so I handcuffed him and walked him through the property they walked past the bodies on the front lawn you didn't seem shocked by no not at all Garson was the first and most likely suspect D Roa took him to the Station House to book him then the detectives arrived in cellow drive and the coroners and of course the Press are you all rolling at 8:30 this morning Chapman an employee came to work at 10005
0 cello and found several bodies in the house the LAPD didn't share right away the awful details or that the phone wires had been cut so no one could call for help or that an American flag had been draped over the couch or that someone had Written in Blood on the front door one word p you have any kind of apbs out any suspects at all no the only person we have at this time is Mr garrson whom we were questioning the LAPD wasn't saying much didn't know much much the body is badly mutilated uh this
I'd rather not discuss Who would know that fear would spread so fast choke what was left of Innocence infect us still but that night the main thing no one knew was what was started on cellow drive wasn't over coming up there was still another big shock to come the identities of the victims my boy friend called my mother and he had heard five people were dead and it was rumored to be the house of Sharon [Music] T it was medor frenzy 1969 style recorded on 16 mm film we have a weird homicide with
uh two bodies inside two bodies outside but Word of Mouth had skewed The Awful Truth by the time 16-year-old Deborah Tate heard it my boyfriend called my mother and he had heard that there was a fire in Benedict canion and five people were dead and it was rumored to be the house of Sharon Tate Sharon Tate Deborah's big sister Sharon Tate's biggest film Valley of the Dolls was 2 years behind her already Now 26 she was known less for her acting than for her beauty her style and her husband direct
or Roman palansky had recently shot to fame with Rosemary's Baby in which a woman discovers she may be carrying the child of the devil in real life Sharon Tate and Roman palansky were expecting to she was so terribly excited like a a new mom to be creating the nice little home nest for the family to welcome the new life and now Deborah frantic to learn what happened to her sister pressed her panic-stricken mother mother what what tell me what she must have been oh she was out of her mind crazy g
rief like you could not imagine but it was no mistake and the murders already gruesome now took on the trappings of celebrity this was at the home of movie director Roman palansky and it was his wife Sharon Tate who was one of the victims with Sharon Tate 25-year-old coffee arys Abigail fer she'd been working with poor kids in WTS it was her body officer D Roa saw in the front yard besides her was her boyfriend votic farsky 32 a sometime actor and old friend of Romans inside the house next to Sh
aron the man with a towel over his head was 35-year-old Jay Sebring famous hairdresser to the stars who had been Sharon Tate's boyfriend Jeff Quinn wrote the 2013 book Manson they had remained friends and Sharon Tate had invited Sebring over that evening at D Maria is Jay sebring's nephew one of the sad ironies is that Jay was not supposed to be there that night he was supposed to be in Las Vegas and for whatever reason he decided to stay the body in the car took longer to identify he turned out
to be 19-year-old Steve parent who had been visiting the property's caretaker parent went out to his car at just the wrong moment never got out of the driveway La struggled to understand why would anyone kill kill all these people and why in such a sadistic manner the LAPD search for clues in the surrounding brush among the neighbors as of course did the ever growing Army of reporters the lights weren't on and usually the gate light is on at least why would you take note of that it's always bee
n on strange despite all the Carnage no real Clues though there was was this one thing it was revealed that a small amount of Narcotics was found in the foreign sports car of sebr some pot and hash were found in the house too and so now police and the Press began to Wonder Could the murders have had something to do with the lifestyles that Sheron and her fabulous friends [Music] LED in morning in Shar director Roman palansky found himself in front of a camera defending his dead wife Shon not onl
y didn't use drugs she didn't touch alcohol she didn't smoke cigarettes all Sharon was thinking about was her baby he added their baby who died with her we see lot of [Music] blood all over the place baby clothes and that's all but then another rumor hit the press that the killings Were Somehow connected to pinsky's horror movie Rosemary's Baby this time a representative V for py Sharon and all other three friends were rational people with no interest in mysticism or anything ult the news liked
to try to pin on Sharon and her friends you know the drugs sex rock and roll devil worshiping horrific yes all those ugly theories there was this kind of Gossip subtext that these people brought this on themselves these where people were engaging in drugs or some sort of you know orgy tragically for the victims especially that they were played off as a form of a morality tale drugs orgies there was no stopping the gossip but if anyone believed it then what happened next made no sense at all comi
ng up everybody in Los Angeles is petrified where are they going to strike next and then someone does I felt that there was an immediate connection when dayline [Music] continues nearly 24 hours after this truly horrific crime with LA and deep shock the police were baffled anything that I'd tell you at this point would be mere speculation and then it happened again the bodies of a man and his wife found in their home both been stabbed to death repeated stab wounds did you know the people in this
home oh god I've known these people for 30 years what's their name Lan Rosemary and Leno Lanka Rosemary's children found them the scene every bit as awful as the one 10 miles away on cello Drive Eno's hands were tied with a leather cord his face covered with a pillowcase Rosemary had a lamp cord around her neck loo had been stabbed 26 times Rosemary 41 Overkill would be an understatement and again just as it was at Sharon Tate's house the murder scene seemed almost AR directed to elicit fear a
fork was jammed into Leno Lan's AB and left sticking there painted in blood on one wall was the word rise on another death to pigs and on the refrigerator Helter Skelter like the song from the Beatles White Album on his body the word r had been carved in the chest these were brutal killings Ela aradas has written about the case for People magazine in the middle of the night showing up with knives stabbing people multiple times you know even when they were dead things had the police had never see
n before The Killers seem to have no conscience they killed a husband and wife took a shower in their home calmly ate some food and left over two successive nights seven people and an unborn baby had been ruthlessly slaughtered La braced itself for the next wave especially after that initial suspect William Garson was cleared and released there's some crazed Killers roaming Los Angeles and there's an immediate Citywide Panic even though it was a Hot August angelinos closed their windows locked t
heir doors gun stores sell out guard dogs who are going for $200 a piece are now selling for $5,000 everybody in Los Angeles is petrified where are they going to strike next Hollywood was even scared and you know as my understanding Roman poiny started getting paranoid thinking it was someone among his peers Warren B had said it was like a small nuclear device had gone off in Hollywood and people were really scared and they needed to make sense and try to make sure that they were somehow insulat
ed not involved in this people all over town knew it in their gut the murders had to be related I felt that there was a an immediate connection so did everybody in my family why why did you think there was a connection because of the writing on the wall that was the main thing officer Jerry doosa who was working the Tate crime scene thought so too I had heard about some of the conditions that were at the location at the L Bianca house and I thought to myself I wonder if this is connected some wa
y writing the blood on the wall the stabbing your mind went there pretty well right away yeah but it did not seem that way to the Brass of the LAPD the department assigned a team of detectives to investigate tape murders they assigned another team of detectives to lanca the two teams worked out of the same Squad room problem was they didn't work together they didn't like each other they didn't get along very well and they didn't exchange information for months so each of those murders was pursue
d separately detectives acknowledged the crime scenes looked similar but the lancas were middle class folks who own grocery stores they didn't hang out with movie stars and coffee arises unlikely the same people committed both crimes they said homicide officers theorized the Loban killer may have used the same technique As the Bell Air killer to throw police off the track the media was quick to sort of say hey these two crimes look similar and the police were quick to say no it's copycat because
what would one have to do with the other it didn't make sense on the surface so the lanca cops looked into the usual was it a workplace dispute a love triangle a robbery turned violent even as the tape cops looked for murderous drug dealers both teams struck out both cases stayed open and the terror lingered that late Summer of 69 for weeks like the smog over downtown LA but there a time you thought this would never be solved early on yes it seemed to have gone on forever but'll never find out
who did this never find out and that what that's that's its own kind of hell and all the while the cops failed to realize the killers were hiding in plain sight all it would take was a chance encounter between two unlikely characters in an LA jail to crack the case wide open coming up a jailhouse chat with a killer she proceeded on to tell me how Sharon Tate begged her please don't kill me please don't kill me and a dark obsession with the Beatles they really did listen to The White Album over a
nd over [Music] autum of 69 it was still hot in LA but the police investigation of the grizzly Tate Lobby an of murders was ice cold not a lead a clue or a suspect in sight then in October a woman widely known on the Hollywood party circuit found herself in the LA County women's jail her name was Virginia Graham and she knew people once even dated Frank Sinatra this wasn't her first fling with the law I was there for a violation of probation so that's where Virginia was when she met a young woma
n who was not like the other inmates she was very pretty uh very friendly always happy singing doing cartwheels in fact up and down the aisle the woman's name was an Atkins Virginia was intrigued I casually asked her one day what she was there for and this is when she said murder Susan told Virginia she'd been accused of killing a guy out of the suburbs months earlier but then she went on bragging that the cops didn't know a fraction of what she'd really done she as well you know those murders o
f Benedict Canyon of course everyone in La knew about that she said you know who did it don't you and I looked at her and I said no I don't and her words to me were well you're looking at her and just that casually Susan Atkins confessed to the crime the whole nation was talking about enthusiastically described the killings in all their blood curdling detail Sharon Tate begged her please don't kill me please don't kill me and she said she looked at her eye to eye and said [ __ ] uh I don't care
if you're going to have a baby or not uh I'm going to kill you and then Atkins told her she was part of a group and they'd kill lots more people celebrities like Frank Sinatra The Very fact that there were going to be other murders committed of other people uh I would never ever be able to live with that Reen you got through to the police and told the whole story so now LAPD Detectives zeroed in on Susan Atkins and learned she belonged to a commune called the family which had recently moved to a
rundown Old Ranch way out of Death Valley the leader was a short scruffy guy and habitual smalltime criminal named Manan Charles Manson and the cops to their surprise discovered Manson and several of his followers were already in custody not for murder but for theft Manson was a lifelong criminal who never could go more than a day or two of his free life without breaking some law and the people with him young mostly women were barely more than half his age they're easily influenced you know the
y came from broken homes or they were bullied at school they didn't fit in and he was able to tap into all of that [Music] will police began to interview these women one was 18-year-old Barbara hoit who spoke about life inside the family and What attracted her to Charles Manson he was very loving he was very much a father figure how did it make you feel when he was nice to you like that and those made me feel special felt like we were all fingers on one hand like we were the digits and Charlie w
as the hand police spoke with other Manson women too and learned that in the fall of ' 67 Manson moved to Los Angeles where he s his girls out to find someone anyone who could make him a rock star they encountered Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys who took Manson to The Beach Boys Studio where he recorded [Music] this it never went anywhere Manson didn't measure up as a singer songwriter he and his family about 20 of them had settled in the rugged Foothills outside La in a place called spawn Ranch
an old movie location for Hollywood Western one of the best things about spawn Ranch was they were allowed to stay there because they would do chores when they weren't working the family went dumpster diving for food panhandled for money sometimes stole cars there were a lot of drugs and plenty of sex all directed by Manson he told people who to sleep with what to eat where to you know do their bodily functions arbar Hoy told the detectives that Charlie preached to his flock constantly he would
apprach from The Book of Revelation which he knew pretty well not pretty well we're talking word for word then detectives found out about Charlie's other source of inspiration they really did listen to The White Album over and Over The Beetles sprawling double album released a few months before the murders one song in particular captivated Charlie Helter Skelter with lyrics The Beatles said were inspired by an amusement park ride harmless fun but the people who heard Charlie preach told the cop
s that for him C scouter meant something apocalyptic what in the world did a beetle song have to do with the brutal murders of the tat and lanca homes in Los Angeles it all made perfect sense to Charlie Manson coming up Manson's unshakable hold on his family he dances he sings uh he looks beautiful he looks happy and this draws a lot of people and the possible motive behind the murders Charlie would be king of the world but that's crazy talk wasn't to us when dat line [Music] [Music] continues O
ctober 1969 after 2 months of false leads in the Tate and L Bianca murders suddenly there was news police apparently got their break in the Tate case when this girl Susan Atkins a member of Manson's family was arrested in another Los Angeles murder and talked to his soulmate about the tape killings that information LED investigators and eventually the media to a hippie cult called the family and their leader Charles Manson he dances he sings uh he looks beautiful he looks happy and this draw is
a lot of people just like people are drawing to little babies they look like all the other hippies hanging around La hippies up to this point were associated with peace love sharing but prosecutor Vincent buosi interviewed them extensively and soon found out as he told us in 2008 these hippies were different especially their leader Manson an excon and WABE Rockstar obsessed with the Book of Revelation and the Beatles he thought they were prophets speaking to him and other tuned in people sublimi
nally beneath the lyrics of their songs in particular that cut called Helter Skelter Manson's followers were well aware of the racial tension which flared up around the country including riots and La now Manson told them the song Helter Skelter was the Beatles prophecy of a race war between blacks and whites the vision of Armageddon Manson preached to his followers both bizarre and deeply racist there will be an allout War during this war he will will lead his family into death valley where ther
e is a bottomless pit and a city underneath the surface they will go down there and be safe when the war is over the blacks will live won but they will not have the intellectual capacity to govern [Music] themselves then Charlie told them the family would take over in other words Charlie would be king of the world but then again Manson was feeding them a steady diet of LSD he was serious about this K the world thing yeah but that's crazy talk wasn't to us the world was crazy to us investigators
learned from anon's followers that he was not content to wait for Helter Skelter he wanted to started by murdering wealthy white people whom he called in homage to another Beatles song Piggies but Manon didn't plan to kill the piggies himself he wanted his so-called family to do that by that point they were willing to do anything for him because they loved him because they feared him because they were under his spell what they say that at that time they were [Music] brainwashed it hardly seemed
possible and yet as prosecutor buosi was able to piece it together Manson sent Susan Atkins Tex Watson Patricia krenwinkel and Linda caban to the home of Sharon Tate and her friends a group of people Manson did not even know he did know the former resident a music producer from whom he tried but failed to get a record contract he was well aware the producer had moved out but he also knew this whoever's living there now has to be rich and famous nobody else could afford a house like that to house
is picked because of its location then Manson sat the same group plus lesie van hon to the lanaa home the following night seven Savage murders all in the service of one man's Twisted Fantasy he knew exactly what he was doing he's not crazy at all he's very evil he's a very evil sophisticated con man but he's not insane at all buosi convened a grand jury Susan that was his star witness revealed all the gruesome details about how she and other family members shot and slashed everyone of the takon
lob Bianca homes and then scrolled in blood what Charles Manson had taught them and when the words Helter Skelter were found printed in blood at the murder scene that was the equivalent of Manson's fingerprints being found at the murder scene then in December of 69 about 4 months after the killing in California five members of a So-Cal religious cult including Charles Manson The Guru or high priest have been indicted in the murder of Sharon Tate and six others they brought Charles Manson in to
Los Angeles to the police station and they're expecting my God this must be some kind of monster and instead of some big beast you know barely restrained there's this little tiny guy with long hair are you say say that's relative now as the turbulent 60s came to a close and with the whole world watching Charles Manson would go on trial he was The Mastermind these murders would never have taken place if it had not been for Charles Manson but if looking back the case against Charlie seems obvious
it was not then not for buosi Matson didn't personally commit the murders there was no physical evidence to prove he manipulated his group turned them into a buio he called bloodthirsty robots I had to bring them in by way of circumstantial evidence so the prosecutor decided to use Helter Skelter it played well on the White Album but how would it play with a jury coming up before [Music] OJ this was the trial of the century Charlie always wanted to be famous and by God if this was how it was goi
ng to happen he was going to do it right it's all a play isn't it and does one of the killers have a chance at Freedom the 60s gave us the Summer of Love In 1970 in the summer of mens all the elements are present for one of the most Sensational murder trials in American history that's summer Charles Manson Life Magazine cover boy and three of his followers went on trial for the tapate banca murders I think Mr Manson feels that he is a product of our society prosecutor Boo's task was extremely da
unting a case like no other had offended like no prosecutor had ever encountered he had to prove that Charles Manson this weird little guy could have some control over these other followers to make them commit murder but not to the extent that the followers were mlly incompetent to be tried either that's a tricky business it is very tricky and the trickiest part would be making a charge of first-degree murder stick against Manson himself it's a little more difficult to convict him because he did
not physically participate in these murders buoi had a two-part strategy prove Manson's domination over his family and explain his motive to the jury but what a motive that motive was Helter Skelter to ignite a war between blacks and white Whits it was he who introduced Helter Skelter to the family talked about it all the time buosi had a star witness lined up Susan Atkins the woman who' confessed the whole lued story in jail and repeated everything to a grand jury now that you had me how you f
eel but then Atkins recanted said she'd made up the whole thing so buosi turned to other family members like Barbara Hoy who' left the family when Manson's Behavior frightened her I decided Well do I want to live with myself when I get old and that was a deciding factor Barbara became a wary witness for the prosecution she knew she'd take the stand in full view of her former family of Manson followers what was it like to testify seeing them out there they were really kissing up to me when I was
in the back of the courtroom blowing me kisses and you know smiling at me and all that of course that changed when I started opening my mouth in the witness stand day after day members of the Manson family demonstrated at the courthouse performance art with a Sinister gloss your system wants destruction and that's what it's going to get inside Charlie's codefendants lesie van hton Patricia cranwinkle and Susan Atkins played to the cameras it was a circus of weird mansion in the center ring are y
ou guilty of plotting any murders I killed a chicken once any human beings no no you're absolutely innocent of any conspiracy to uh commit murder or telling anyone to commit murder or planning it I'll plead guilty to the Indians one day Matson appeared in court with an X scratched into his forehead the rest of the family quickly follows suit it was theater Charlie always wanted to be famous and by God if this was how it was going to happen he was he was going to do it right how you doing J good
how are you this morning sh Hat's little sister Deborah seed as she watched the attics on TV uh it's a it's all a play isn't it they were mocking America they were mocking our very Foundation everyone seemed to be watching everyone seemed to have an opinion even the president of the United States here is a man who was guilty uh directly or indirectly of eight murders without reason next day headline Ali times around the country Manson guilty Nixon declares through the trial and to a turmoil all
the while Manson basted in the glare of the media saying anything about anyone the judge made a fool of himself again any questions my sanity I question him at the end of the 22- we trial buosi told the jurors Charles Manson's family preached love but practiced coldblooded murder and literally slaughtered the victims in a uh in an orgy of murder the verdict came after 9 days of deliberations the jury found all four defendants guilty of first-degree murder in my uh verdict I wanted to protect thi
s Society how about the after all this is the United States of America and we have a Heritage and this is something we must protect they were all sentenced to death is he prepared to die is he talked to you about death he already dead he's already dead he has no thoughts he has no opinions he's just an empty hole he's infinite Tex Watson who did most of the actual killing was convicted and sentenced to die in a separate trial but in 1972 the California Supreme Court ruled the death penalty uncon
stitutional the sentences were reduced to life in prison there would be no gas chamber for any of the Manson family which meant that all of them even Charles Manson himself would have a chance at Freedom after serving their sentences Manson Tex Watson Patricia Ken winkl and Susan Atkins all had parole hearings and each time they were denied in 2009 Atkins died in prison the rest kept trying here's lesie van hton speaking at a parole hearing doesn't matter whether I wielded the Fatal blows or not
I feel responsible for both of their deaths in April 2016 the parole board recommended releasing vanon it did so on five different occasions but each time the governor's office overruled the decision Sharon Tate's younger sister Deborah was relieved I don't think she deserves it these people were brutally butchered there has to be some kind of accountability in this world but then in the spring of 2023 Deborah Tate got the news she had feared for years the California court of appeals overruled
the governor and granted lesie van Hon's parole what do you want to call me a murderer for I've never kill anyone I don't need to kill anyone Charlie Manson would spend the rest of his life behind bars in November 2017 shortly after his 83rd birthday nearly 50 years since he orchestrated those brutal crimes he died in prison throughout his long life he never admitted regret or remorse remorse for what you people have done everything in the world to me doesn't that give me equal right I can do an
ything I want to you people at any time I want to because that's what you've done to me Charles Manson will remain forever seared into the public Consciousness evil personified the man some say helped bring down the curtain on the 60s as an Age of Innocence who ultimately in his own Twisted way achieved the fame he'd been seeking all along that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us we used to have a debate about who loved each other more momy I love you more no I love you more and
sometimes I even go to sleep and I still say it like Mom I love you more that's kind of stuff the kid never forgets she was the single mom mom who kept him safe she was also Keeping a Secret she was really working for the CIA that's my understanding yes an undercover job handling classified documents but the real Intrigue started when she went missing there something WR I didn't want to believe that this was actually a reality we had concerns that there may be missing classified information they
could turn into an Espionage investigation Espionage was this some kind of international spy aper or maybe it was something closer to home what we got was the information that would break this case Wide Open The Case of the CIA mom could a clue from her son help solve this mystery I'm never going to give up never going to give up on anything I'm Lester Holt and this is dat line here's Josh manowitz with missing Marine secrets we all have them some are small some large some professional others v
ery very personal this is a story about secrets about a woman who was very good at keeping them and about what happened when that woman suddenly disappeared she was beautiful my mom was really beautiful and a great person nice person as a little boy Marcus Singleton couldn't possibly foresee the loss he would suffer or the terrible Choice he would one day have to make all he knew back then was his mother's love I mean she helped people you know there was a kid in the who needed something she wou
ld pull over and see if they were okay you know she was she was that type of person that taught me to basically put others before myself first Marie was single when she had Marcus he was the center of her world Kelly Clayton was Marie's hairdresser and good friend she talked about him a lot the things that he was doing in school she got it really excited about Marcus Marie's friends and cowork Bridget Harris and Jean Jones appell he was like the Apple in her eye he just sparkled every time he sh
e was around she loved hugging him we traveled a lot together so it was just us two for her job yeah Marie worked for the federal government in Los Angeles but friends say she was driven and ambitious in other areas too she was an entrepreneurs that's what I know most about it because she talked about owning her own business but Marie wanted more more than work and success I know that she wanted to have somebody in her life what kind of guy was she looking for someone that will take care of her
love her protect her that was kind of missing she didn't have that guy figure the father figure from Marcus then one day Marie told her friends met this guy you know and then they had a lunch date and he was cute and just you know the excitement of being somebody new his name was Andre Jackson a handsome single father of two Sparks flew immediately I mean she would just light up every time she talked about him I mean just smile oh the glow he was he was her her her everything the methodical busi
nesslike Marie seemed to change overnight were you privy to the courtship with Andre the world win courtship yes well that's that's yeah that's the way we would put it because one day she was smitten next day she was in love and then she was pregnant pregnant and having a a wedding and no one knew about it Marcus knew about it he was there your mom was happy yeah she looked happy Andre was happy yeah we all were happy at age eight Marcus found him s welcoming a little brother named Maris I think
once my little brother came into the picture it was more you know then I realized that it wasn't just the two of us anymore but we're actually starting to become a family and there were two other step siblings in the mix Andre Jr and Andrea and you got along with them yeah like it was pretty great I had a brother and a sister at home and it was a pretty cool experience another cool experience for the first time having a dad he taught me how to swim taught me how to throw football he even rode m
e on the back of his motorcycle a few times it was good to actually have a male figure in the house that I could you know do stuff with so Andre was living up to his job as your father yeah anyways for Marcus and his mom everything seemed just perfect honestly it was like a complete family it felt like I finally had a complete family it was the best fing in the world like the ult high and then suddenly the ultimate low the ultimate low because on November 11th 1994 Marie Singleton Rock Solid wif
e mother businesswoman vanished the local police investigated of course but so did an FBI agent named Rick hael we had concerns that there may be U missing uh classifying information you government information classified information yes as we said before everyone has secrets and Marie had a big one one she had told very few people officially Marie Singleton worked for the Department of Defense that's what was uh publicly disseminated yes but she was really working for the CIA that's my understan
ding yes a clandes job with a CIA when we come back a question could Marie Singleton be hiding other Secrets it could turn turn into that kind of a case the mystery was just beginning when day line [Music] continues the day that changed Marcus Singleton's life began like any other except that he had the day off from school it was Friday November 11th 1994 Marcus then 8 years old was glued to the TV in his family's living room was watching a cartoon movie Buck Bunny Movie my mom comes up the stai
rs she says something to me I'm thinking she's going somewhere you know I'm like okay yada y y I'm watching television you were zoned out I was zoned out and then I'm so zoned out and then finally I fall asleep Marcus woke up later that evening to the sound of his baby brother crying so I go downstairs I'm like why is this little kid crying where's everybody at finally the phone rang my stepfather calls me and he tells me you know he's saying hey is your mom there is your mom home yet whatever a
nd she and I'm like no where the heck are you guys I've been here and Maris won't stop crying like he just won't stop and he says okay okay I'll be there soon I'll be there soon Andre said he'd last seen Mar around 5:00 p.m. just before he left for his son Andre Jr's football game now when he returned home Marie and her car were gone Andre made a round of calls to friends nobody knew where Marie was he then took all the kids to his mother's house and dropped them off I remember somebody asked hi
m where are you going and he says he's going to go check with my mom's girlfriends to see if he can find out where she's at Andre's first stop was the home of Marie's friend Bridget Harris whom he'd called earlier first he called and then I didn't really think anything of it because I'm like well she'll be back and then when he showed up is when I got concerned I'm like she's still not back cell phones were still pretty rare in those days so I paged her cuz I knew if I PID she would immediately
call me back but Marie did not call back the next morning Andre knocked on the door of another friend Jean Jones appell and he said he had an argument and I said well we had a little argument don't worry about it but the second he told me that he had the baby I knew something was wrong and so you paged her how many times I I couldn't count how many times I paged her and no answer no answer by now it was Saturday 10:20 a.m. Marie had been missing for almost 18 hours Andre called the Englewood pol
ice yes I can follow Mr an officer came out to the house and met with Andre you know I see him talking to the cops but I still don't see my mom anywhere and I think that's when I found out that my mom still didn't come home yet had no idea where she was at police started interviewing Witnesses searching the neighborhood but the weekend passed with no sign of Marie that's when the phone rang on the desk of FBI agent Rick hle we got the report I believe on a Monday maybe a Tuesday that uh she was
missing didn't report to work of course they were concerned at her disappearance and that was unlike her absolutely it's unusual for the bureau to get involved in a missing person's case but it turned out that Marie Singleton was no ordinary missing person not with her job they called it Department of Defense they didn't call it CIA but uh she was working for the US government for the agency working on uh Communications for them unbeknownst to just about everyone in her life Maurice Singleton wa
s a code clerk for the Central Intelligence Agency she wasn't a spy but she did handle classified Communications from Agents overseas information that might be very interesting the enemies of the United States part of what the FBI does is investigate things like this if a CIA employee goes missing right exactly it could turn into an Espionage investigation for example if uh you have missing classified information uh and somebody's going over helping the Russians the Chinese somebody like that it
could theoretically uh turn into that kind of a case so now there were parallel investigations the local cops look for a missing person the FBI covertly looked for an intelligence worker who might have been kidnapped or changed sides Marie's family meanwhile just wanted her back they started making flyers for my mom you remember the Flyers yeah definitely remember the Flyers soon a number of Marie's co-workers and friends were posting flyers on telephone and light poles storefronts and shopping
centers Kelly Clayton remembers how she and a friend asked Andre what they could do to help he asked us to pass them out by the beach at this time um my asked him why would we pass him out at the beach and so then he said well you know that's okay you don't have to pass him out at the beach did he mention a specific Beach or just anywhere in Southern California no doc Wilder Beach doc Wilder Beach is about 8 miles from Andre and Marie's home near Los Angeles International Airport where flights
leave daily from Moscow and Bing on Tuesday November 15th 1994 4 days after Marie disappeared Andre himself went there to post Flyers he had an encounter with a perfect stranger and asked for help and that's when this story took another strange turn coming up I couldn't be huge break in the case and a heartbreaking moment at home everyone in tears when Date Line [Music] continues [Music] Tuesday November 15th 1994 Marie Singleton wife mother and secret CIA employee had been missing for 4 days po
lice were looking for her so was the FBI she might have been a runaway a crime victim or a double agent but Tim kff didn't know any of that when he stopped by Dockweiler Beach near LAX to take a short walk and unwind after work I saw a man uh posting Flyers um for a missing person the man was Andre Jackson he actually mentioned that he was doing this because it was his wife and that she had last been seen on Friday and um he was seemed very concerned and obviously worried about it he asked me th
en if I would take one of his Flyers so I I said sure the flyer had a picture of Marie a description of her car and the car's license number KF studied it and put it in his pocket a short time later he finished his walk got into his car and started to drive home I was parked here on V delar facing south so I got in my car I made a u-turn to head north and as I started heading North I saw the gray sa was parked here along the road there was something oddly familiar about that car so I made anothe
r U-turn pulled up behind it and then saw that the license plate on the car was the license plate on the flyer a perfect match what were the odds I couldn't believe that I was seeing the car that this man was just looking for Ken called police the next day November 16th the gray Sab was towed to the Englewood PD Impound Lot police looked it over very carefully there were several parking tickets under the windshield wipers it had been there for a while the battery had been removed the driver's se
at had been tilted forward and a cell phone unusual at the time was left in plain sight after inspecting the interior investigators opened the trunk and made a ghastly Discovery maie Singleton was missing no longer she had been beaten and strangled to death mauie son Marcus then just 8 years old knew something was wrong when he came home from school and saw that all over the neighborhood his mom's missing Flyers had been taken down he walk in the room and everybody's in there crying I say what t
he what's going on what's going on and my grandom is just she's just crying and my stepfather's crying too but he's you know he grabs me in pulls me and he hugs me and you know he tells me straight up he said they found your mom's body in the trunk of her car she's dead Marie's sister Elaine rre had just arrived from Philadelphia like the rest of the family she was devastated Elaine was one of the few people who knew Marie worked for the CIA but even she didn't know exactly what Marie did we lov
ed her as a sister we respected her as a sister and with her job she traveled a lot we knew she worked for the government for the CIA and that was it and you never asked what she did never asked but now Elaine had a lot of questions starting with what could possibly have induced Marie to leave 8-year-old Marcus and infant Maris Home Alone that was Preposterous that would have never happened so Ela started to compare notes with friends and family but the ation weren't about the CIA they were tell
ing me different incidents and different things that they had had with Andre Andre Marie's first there was Jean's story about what she saw that Saturday morning when Andre showed up at her home looking for Marie he had a bruise on his lip Andre had a bruise on his lip he did he said oh I bruised playing football with Andre Jr really it's kind of fresh then there was Kelly Clayton who spent the better part of Sunday calling Andre's house hoping Marie would show up and with each phone call Andre s
eemed to have a new developing story first it was this she had drank a little and she wanted to go to his son's football gang he told her that he did not want her to go and they had her argument and she stormed out but during the next phone call Andre said one of her old boyfriends was in town and she was with him and then finally he let me know that when she does get there I'll call you I mean I'll have her call you let me know don't call her no more then on Monday when Marie's friends went to
the condo to help pass out flyers Jean noticed something in Andre and Marie's bedroom there was a big hole in the wall that was a reality check for me cuz it wasn't where the door knot was it's it was above it like someone had put their fist through it big enough for like a head cuz it went straight through Elaine heard all of this and contacted Englewood police and found out they were way ahead of her I had spoke with the one detective over the telephone and he said that Andre was a suspect I w
as also told that this would probably be resolved because they may arrest him at the funeral you thought Andre was going to be arrested yes yes pretty quickly yes but Andre wasn't arrested at Marie's funeral or the next day or the day after that after the service Elaine and her relatives flew back to Philadelphia a few weeks later Marcus joined them Marie's relatives still expected an arrest any day but days turned into weeks and then months until a whole year had passed and that's when a myster
ious letter arrived for the Singleton family an anonymous letter that sent this investigation in a whole new Direction coming up her job the questions start all over again you didn't want to give up I couldn't give up it was my sister when dat line [Music] continues [Music] it had been about a year since maie Singleton's body was found in the trunk of her car at a Los Angeles [Music] beach her son Marcus 8 years old at the time of her murder was being raised by an ant in Philadelphia but his mot
her was never far from his mind we used to have a debate about who loved each other more you know I love you more no I love you more no I love you more and sometimes I even go to sleep and I still say it like Mom I love you more you know it's that's the kind of stuff a kid never forgets ever he also stayed in touch with Marie's husband Andre Jackson you still felt a connection to him yes he was my dad you know that was the only father I had and I missed him meanwhile the rest of mar family wonde
red if Andre knew more about her death than he was saying they believed police had those same questions but Andre had never been arrested and then came that letter which changed everything handwritten or typed it was typed the unsigned letter read in part it is very unlikely that the individual or individuals responsible for her death will be brought to Justice although you may be receiving lip service from her former office believe me when I tell you that the agency has literally placed her dea
th on the back burner the agency of course meant Marie's secret employer the Central Intelligence Agency she worked for them and they never offered a reward for her any information regarding her case or anything the letter continued her former colleagues at work have been placed under a gag order by their office they have ordered these people to cease all contact with you and Marie's family in Pennsylvania someone in your family needs to stir the pot we didn't know where the letter came from bec
ause it was Anonymous and because she worked for the CIA so it opened up that door of suspicion that maybe they had something to do with it as well remember when Marie first disappeared the FBI investigated on the theory it might have been espionage but the family didn't know the results of that investigation and didn't know why police hadn't moved against Andre and since we didn't have the answers it was always a wonderment to us on why it was taking so long and maybe they all were working in c
ahoots with each other despite their dark suspicions the family turned the letter over to Englewood police but still no answers not for years I constantly called California to find out what was being done and what was happening with the case you didn't want to give up I couldn't give up it was my sister the family didn't know it but there was someone else who refused to give up FBI agent Rick hle he had never found any evidence of Espionage in Marie's murder but he'd also never forgotten about h
er so here it is now January 2002 I'm a squad supervisor now I'm the guy that assigns the cases instead of investigating them and I'm talking with an agent and I said Tony how about reopening this case as an assault on a Federal Officer case all just because you never stopped thinking about it exactly I just I didn't like the the fact that you got a woman who's given her life uh uh dedicated to the government murdered and just lying out there because nobody cares and so I thought well let's give
it another shot so 8 years after the murder FBI agent Tony V Oley called on Inglewood PD and met detective Russ enyard who was a month shy of retiring they started combing through the old files and were assisted by a new Englewood detective Steve Syler technology advances so quickly that uh in 2002 I said to Tony basley hey maybe there's fingernail scrapings maybe there's something of that nature in fact there were fingernail scrapings in this case there were was also a drop of blood on Marie's
Sab but at the time of Marie's murder DNA analysis was still in its infancy those samples had never been tested in 2004 detective Syler called John Leen a prosecutor with the LA DA's office Major Crimes division Luen specializes in cold cases they had collected originally the fingernail scrapings they had collected the blood and detective en had been unable to get the lab to test it so when I first got on the case um I started trying to cash in favors at the crime lab to get it done but a 10-ye
ar-old Cold Case was not a priority three more years passed before those samples were tested finally in November 2007 the FBI crime lab came through what we got was the information that would break this case wide open coming up a b old move from the Cold Case prosecutor it was very hard I had to have Marcus arrested Marcus Marie's own son under arrest what was that all about when dat line [Music] continues after years of murky speculation that maie Singleton was targeted for her work with the CI
A the case suddenly came into sharp Focus first that mysterious letter suggesting Marie's death was related to her top secret job that turned out to be a dead an written by a coworker who just wanted to encourage police to work harder next there was the DNA more than a decade after Marie's murder they tested both the blood stain on the car and the scrapings under the fingernails the DNA found under Marie's nails and the blood found on the hood of her car were from the same person a man and polic
e thought they knew who that man was Marie's husband Andre but Andre had moved out of California we did not have his blood to test how'd you get a match well what we did was we tried to find him and we couldn't locate him we were finally able to track down his son Andre Jackson Jr and to get his DNA when we got his DNA we got what you would characterize as a a near miss a familial hit a near Miss but still enough to get an arrest warrant the FBI's fugitive task force caught up with Andre in Temp
e Arizona he wasn't expecting it no he was not expecting it Andre also said he didn't do it didn't kill his wife but he couldn't make bail so he sat in a jail cell even though prosecutor Luen knew the evidence was not as strong as it might be although Andre's inconsistent statements the bruise on his face his appearance at the very Beach where Marie's car was later found all seemed suspicious they might not be enough for a jury we have to be able to say is a jury going to be able to look at the
evidence we have and prove the case Beyond A Reasonable Doubt do we take this risk or not even the DNA was not absolute proof after all Andre and Marie were husband and wife to find his DNA on her car or even under her fingernails was not necessarily evidence of murder after Andre had been in jail for nearly four years Luen decided to offer a deal we offered him voluntary manslaughter he would have had to serve roughly another year and he didn't want it his attitude was you don't have any eviden
ce so the case was going to trial Luen knew he needed more evidence to make the jury believe his theory of the crime I believe that they had probably some kind of argument I believe that Marie said that she was leaving I believe that that argument turned violent and I believe that at some point during the argument Andre hit her and then he made the decision you know what I can't let her walk out of here what Luen needed most was a witness and no one had seen anything on the day of the murder yet
Luen found there was a secret buried in the memory of a grown man who was all of 8 years old when a murder was being committed Marie's son Marcus Singleton we interviewed Marcus in 2004 really the first in-depth interview that had ever been done Marcus was deeply conflicted between his feelings for his mom and the love he still felt for his stepfather Andre and at first he had no intention of talking with investigators but finally he broke down and told the story of what an 8-year-old Marcus ha
d seen on October 1st 1994 6 weeks before the murder it's a story he also told to us I remember hearing them screaming and going into the bedroom them arguing [Music] [Music] we heard the clatter like some silverware falling on the ground I run upstairs the draw is out on the floor there's a whole bunch of silverware on the floor they're still arguing Marie ran back into the bedroom and locked the door he knocks on the door I think she doesn't open it and he kicks the door in and he walks in and
he PS the door frame back on the door and he closes the door and then it's it's just quiet for a while after that somehow during the struggle Marie managed to call 9911 but the call was cut short hello and then after a few minutes the cops come you know I guess my mom told them everything was okay they left and 6 weeks later 6 weeks later his mother was dead I hate the fact that I didn't go and call the cops myself you know so the cops could to talk to me instead of her add to that the guilt he
feels about the day she disappeared I hate the fact that I can remember that it was a Bugs Bunny movie on the television but I can't even remember the last words that my mom said to me you were what 8 years old no I hate that yeah because why you think this is your fault you've got to know intellectually this had nothing to do with you I feel like I could have done something to protect my mom I could have just changed up one thing and yet even now Marcus still couldn't accept the idea that the
man he once considered his father had killed his mother Marcus didn't want to testify against Andre Luen had to serve him with a subpoena for a pre-trial hearing Marcus ignored it I got sapena to go to court and said no I'm not going I ripped it up threw it away l had to do something he'd never done before I had to have Marcus arrested it was very hard I've got to have him arrested when he's a victim unpleasant very unpleasant Luen the prosecutor and Marcus the witness were at odds and if the pr
osecutor star witness didn't show up for trial Andre could easily walk free coming up did you kill your wife no I did not the case heads into court and Andre Jackson heads to the stand at last he tells his own story I approached her in the bedroom and embraced her and kissed her will a jury believe him when dat line [Music] continues February 17th 2012 nearly 18 years after Maurice Singleton's body was discovered her husband Andre went on trial for her murder it might be hard to accept but that
man murdered his wife and he needs to be held accountable in the weeks leading up to trial prosecutor John Leen wondered if his star witness would show up he wouldn't even come out here Marcus was terribly conflicted over the guilt he felt at night not speaking up sooner and the love he still felt for his stepfather Andre he didn't like the idea of testifying against Andre no he did not but a day before opening statements much to leen's relief Marcus did show up for trial but he was to say the l
east a reluctant witness in the beginning when I first came to speak with Mr Len uh I defended Andre on my family side and I didn't want to believe that he did it then I found out that I'm probably going to have to accept the truth a truth that I really don't want to have to accept even the day to be honest Marcus told the jury his harrowing story of the fight he' witnessed between his mom and his stepdad 6 weeks before her murder they were frantic and my mom was like she was distraught I guess
is the best word like she was just like she was screaming you know she was call the police call the police compelling damning but it turned out the defense had a star witness too you think Andre was going to take the stand no I was I I was very surprised um I would say shocked Andre's defense attorney got right to the point with his first question to his client did you kill uh your uh wife Marie Jackson no I did not do you have any idea who did no I do not then Andre gave his innocent account of
the day His Wife disappeared for starters he said though he and Marie may have argued six weeks earlier they didn't fight the day she vanished when you got home did you did you greet Marie yes I did how did that go I approached her in the bedroom and and embraced her and kissed her then he said he left Marie at home and drove to his son's football game as for Witnesses who said he had a bruised lip that day Andre said it happened at the game where he and his son son accidentally collided as I a
pproached him he was jumping around and he wasn't aware that I was near him and he jumped and his helmet hit me on the on my mouth Andre told the court he didn't know Marie was missing until he returned home after the game and did you try to paage her or call her I did as for his decision to post Flyers at the very Beach where Marie's car was later found I was in the area picked up some lunch and went down to sit down by the beach and just pray and and and try to figure out put things together o
f what was going on at the time did you see Marie SB no I did not did you know that Marie Saab was at or near doc Wilder Beach no I did not of course prosecutor Luen thought Andre was lying about everything on Cross examination he it out that when Andre left the beach he had to drive right past Marie's car is it fair to say that as you're driving Mr Jackson the main thing on your mind is looking for that car where could that saw be is that fair to say not in in that moment where I was driving on
a cynic route at the beach Wait went a scenic route yes your concern with scenic routes when the mother your 8-month old son is missing Luen also wanted to get Andre's thoughts about why Marcus testified against him are you aware of you sit here of any motive that he might have for trying to say that you're responsible um for his mom's death yes you are aware of it and what is that the influence by many who pretty much tainted him and telling him negative things about me over the years from his
relatives to the law enforcement people who interviewed him finally Luen asked a question that seemed to get under Andre's skin isn't it true Mr Jackson that Marie told you that she was leaving you absolutely not Day November 11 absolutely not after 3 months in court and 18 years after Marie's death co-prosecutor Pat Cary gave the prosecutions closing arms argument there's only one person in this case who 6 weeks prior to the murder was observed choking Marie there's only one person in this cas
e who drove right past Marie's car when they were looking for it there's only one person who left a fresh drop of blood on Marie's car there's only one person that murdered Marie Jackson and he's sitting right there but the prosecution was pointing in the wrong direction said the defense attorney in his closing remarks to the jury the actual evidence does not support the allegation that that Andre killed Marie it certainly doesn't support it Beyond or doesn't prove it Beyond A Reasonable Doubt w
hy there's a simple answer Andre didn't kill Marie nearly two decades after Marie's murder the case was finally before a jury and just two and a half hours later there was a verdict we the jury and the above entitled action find the defend Andre Jackson guilty of the crime of first-degree murder Andre Jackson was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for Marcus Singleton this victory was bittersweet he still wants to hear the truth from Andre himself he knows he says that that may never come b
ut he hopes his mother would be proud that he finally spoke up I triy to live my life to make her proud of me I'm never going to give up never going to give up on anything that I feel is important and and that's her and that's her you know that's living for her that's honoring her and honoring her name that's all for now I'm Lester Holt thanks for joining us
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