the case, he resigned from the job he loved. good luck. do something good with your life. i learned a lot from bobby. not just police work. he is one of those honest salt of the earth guys and he agreed to help me. bobby had not heard of the case. after we reviewed it, we met the south bronx in a parking lot. you look a little older since the last time. strangely enough, it is almost 19 years to the day of the murder and even the same time of day. 1:30 in the afternoon. how did this go down? it starts right around here. this is where the initial contact happened. bobby explained that four people were involved.
remember. and i was not really involved in that much of the case. he was a cop with the nypd for 41 years. most of that time as a detective in the bronx. he tells me he played a minor role in the investigation but an important one. this is the statement that richard rosario gave the night he turned himself in. you took that statement from him. yes. what do you make of that statement when you proceed statement? what do you make of it? it is a denial statement. he claims he was not involved. he claimed he was not around at the time. what do you do with that when it is done? it is put into the file. when he gives that you statement of 13 alibi witnesses, is it your responsibility to follow up on it? no. it s not. whose responsibility is that? it is the responsibility of the lead detective and i guess eventually it goes to the d.a. for prosecution. what was done or what should have been done, i really don t recall. i show silky clips of the alibi witnesses telling me
i ve been doing that about ten years now. michael is friends with john torres. and like everyone else i ve spoken with down near florida, this is what he says about richard rosario. he was staying in johnny s house. he was there celebrating the birth of johnny s son. first the cop, then a pastor, now a federal corrections officer. this is starting to sound like a bad joke. but if what they re all saying about richard rosario is true, this is not funny. yes. he was in florida. no doubt. yes. you re 100% sure. 100% sure. when he was arrested, did you ever hear from anybody? did anybody ever call from you the nypd? did a lawyer ever call you and say hey, was he down here? negative. no. i m confused and concerned about what i m hearing. especially after speaking on the phone with two more names on rosario s list. not related to the others. who insist he was in florida. i can t stop thinking about the facts of this case. i just spoke with six people who are certain rosario
any alibi witnesses. i m thinking if he gave police 13 alibi witnesses, surely a detective would have followed up. back at the crime scene, i asked bobby about that. if the suspect when you pick him up says i was in florida, and here s some information. do you look into that? i would say you should. maybe the detectives didn t have the time. it was busy back then. i hate to say this but it comes to dollars and cents. you have an a. case is closed. move on. are you kidding me? i need find out if this is true. go to florida. go to the d.a. s office and ask if they ll pay for you. you re kidding. i m not kidding. you have two eyewitnesses that say he did it. but he has 13 eyewitnesses that say he didn t. it is more important to him to prove it. tell him to put on it his dime. so i decided to put on it my dime and find out. [ cough ]
it s detective 101. the way that i took it was the cop said, confirm that s the guy. that s what i got from that. that he s saying once he picked here picked, the cops confirmed to him, yes, you got the right guy. is there a problem with that? yeah. i would never tell somebody, yeah, you got the right guy. what s the problem with doing that? because you re influencing him at that point. you re confirming that you ve already convicted him. yes. you got the right guy. you re telling him this is the murderer. even though lead detective gary whittaker didn t want to go on camera derg say he would never show a witness just a few photos and everything was done by the book. i also called the nypd and they declined to speak about the case. the only other evidence against rosario is the person who first