allen gould was a vote as unrepentant the center a you re ever going to see the state put him on because h knew things but they wouldn t. knew things but they wouldn t. said, he fabricated it now in the hands of the jury. to save his own but. the 20 year old murder case was in the hands of the jury jurors deliberated late in the evening. around 9:30, they announced verdict. christian and i wer together holding hands. i had told him that no matte what happened, we would hold our heads high we the jury find th defendant, clifford bret friend, guilty of second degre murder second degree murder. the jury, apparently, believed gold story, but not that the crime was premeditated a sentencing, a few weeks later, lands long ago fiancée and spoke directly to christian,
it was around 11:00, th agent and his crew running dark they tailed the boat surreptitiously. quickly the element of surpris was lost i watch the passenger turnaround, and he spots i think. i tell one of my crew members, light him up with a spotlight. as soon as he lights up th boat, i notice the passenger rolled a large duffel bag of the side of the boat the chase is on. we think we have a narcotics case, a smuggling case tha went bad and at some point they jus stopped their vote, and both o them put their hands straigh up in the air. up in the air. during the questioning tha followed agents returned to the spo where the bag was dumped, bu it had already sunk. and with no drugs found on the boat, agents released the two. but their boat was seized for follow-up investigation. just another night in th office in the war on drugs or so agent him thought. so a week goes by, an sitting on the couch reading the newspaper. the newspaper.
would realize what he wa actually saying was that the love of his life was dead. i have to believe for christians sake that she i still alive. because he is just a five year old child. and he needs his mother, and h loves his mother so much ed it was driven, he woul not give up trying to find the love of his life he called on everyone, even th president to ask for help. he started a campaign writing to president clinton and lo and behold. we get a call from the fbi that said they would know like to join the investigation. but even with the top la enforcement agency in th country in on the search for lynn there was still no break in th case but then out of the blue, th deep dark blue, a chance encounter produced a lead from a most unlikely place in the case of a missing woman. coming up the federal agent on the lookout for a drug runners run
five, or told you about th bike who did he tell you was in the bag? bag? he says clifford told him h and lynn had argued, and the things got out of control. next thing he knew it was over he had lost it, he knocked her down and choked her out said what did you take thao mean it means that she was in th bag, she wasn t coming back. and that was the end of lynn clifford said he would need the 30-foot vote they owne together together condo on miami beach wanted to use the boat to take her out pretty deep water, and dum her. and when he told you that did you immediately turn and run out the door no. no. he decided to help his buddy out of a jam because of hi son. i basically didn t want t see the kid fatherless and i figured it was the lesser of the evil i figured it was just a tragic
thought they would never see a resolution to the case of th missing woman. but there was one woman person in particular tha didn t like to see the dusty jacket of unsolved cases in hi file in 2010, one of miami s most experienced prosecutors took over the case, along with hi assistant state attorney what did you think th biggest problem of the case was? i had nobody. i had no witnesses and i didn t have anything t show that she was actually dead well, i think tha especially now, juries hav high expectations. the csi speech that so many prosecutors given jury selection. they expect physica evidence they want to see a body. the two reexamined the 16 year old file and took a fresh look at a lead from back the that had never panned out. an acquaintance of clifford s, someone named robert messier told police about a disturbing