let s return to dennis murphy with house of secrets. deputies canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had heard the gunshot blast that killed jim tan, but then this homicide wasn t a whodunit. the son had admitted moments after the deputies arrived that he was the shooter. he had to do it, he said, to protect his mom. self-defense is something we ll listen to. if something happened the law will bear that out. so we wanted to speak to him. that same night, charlie and his mother were taken down to the station to tell their stories. were you able to get a statement from charlie? we were not. his lawyers would not allow us to speak to him. his lawyers were already on scene? his lawyers were on scene a few minutes after me. without the cooperation of the admitted participants, the detectives were on their own. it turns out a very large piece of evidence was waiting to be found right there in their very office. a report from the house on coach
his son charlie told police he did it. he said he was defending his mother. so case closed. far from it. let s return to dennis murphy with house of secrets . deputies canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had heard the gunshot blast that killed jim tan, but then this homicide wasn t a whodunit. the son had admitted moments after the deputies arrived that he was the shooter. he had to do it, he said, to protect his mom. self-defense is something we ll listen to. if something happened the law will bear that out. so we wanted to speak to him. that same night, charlie and his mother were taken down to the station to tell their stories. were you able to get a statement from charlie? we were not. his lawyers would not allow us to speak to him. his lawyers were already on
mother. so case closed. far from it. let s return to dennis murphy with house of secrets. deputies canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had heard the gunshot blast that killed jim tan, but then this homicide wasn t a whodunit. the son had admitted moments after the deputies arrived that he had been the shooter. he had to do it, he said, to protect his mom. self-defense is something we ll listen to. if that s what happened then the law will bear that out. so we wanted to speak to him to determine that. that same night, charlie and his mother were taken down to the station to tell their stories. were you able to get a statement from the son charlie? we were not. his lawyers would not allow us to speak to him. his lawyers were already on scene? his lawyers were on the scene before me. without the cooperation of the admitted participants, the detectives were on their own.
he said he was defending his mother. so case closed. far from it. let s return to dennis murphy with house of secrets . deputies canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had heard the gunshot blast that killed jim tan, but then this homicide wasn t a whodunit. the son had admitted moments after the deputies arrived that he was the shooter. he had to do it, he said, to protect his mom. self-defense is something we ll listen to. if something happened the law will bear that out. so we wanted to speak to him. that same night, charlie and his mother were taken down to the station to tell their stories. were you able to get a statement from charlie? we were not. his lawyers would not allow us to speak to him. his lawyers were already on scene? without the cooperation of the admitted participants, the detectives were on their own. it turns out a very large piece of evidence was waiting to be found right there in their very office.
he said he was defending his mother. so case closed. far from it. let s return to dennis murphy with house of secrets . deputies canvassed the neighborhood, but no one had heard the gunshot blast that killed jim tan, but then this homicide wasn t a whodunit. the son had admitted moments after the deputies arrived that he was the shooter. he had to do it, he said, to protect his mom. self-defense is something we ll listen to. if something happened the law will bear that out. so we wanted to speak to him. that same night, charlie and his mother were taken down to the station to tell their stories. were you able to get a statement from charlie? we were not. his lawyers would not allow us to speak to him. his lawyers were already on scene? his lawyer was on scene a few minutes after me. without the cooperation of the admitted participants, the detectives were on their own.