where the merrimons lived. when did you clean up blood? when up in the morning. even more important, she implicated her own mother. was your mother already in the process of cleaning the blood when you woke up? yes. amber tells them her mother was with her cleaning up the blood on the stairs. investigators used larry s last meeting with justin merrimon to get the message across. yourhe sister are in trouble. you can t break. my mom s involved in this. this cold case, this forgotten murder looks like it s solved. time to move. justin merrimon is charged with the rape and murder of katrina montgomery. it was a done deal. i mean, the whole murder case. not so fast. all that compelling evidence is just talk from informants. witnesses, criminals who want to make deals. their evidence in court will only be as good as their
get their volunteer out of jail, temporarily. he is secretly shuffled out the back door into the custody of investigator volpei, with a warning that if this informant doesn t come back mark volpei would be taken until he did come back. now, camera rolling, the message is delivered that larry nicassio is talking to police. but, i don t know, for some reason, i think they got [ bleep ] larry, dude. the bottom line is we created the illusion that everybody is talking to us. i think larry went and ran his mouth too much. but it seemed that merriman isn t buying the story. does he smell a rat? before the day is out, this volunteer is back in jail, having barely escaped disabling to himself. merriman had come after him with a razor blade. the sting had backfired, and now merriman must know the cops were closing in. he wouldn t be saying much any time soon. you can see yourself, you re this close, and then when it s over, you re like farther away than you were. i mean, that hu
justin merriman brutally raped katrina montgomery. they could hear her whimpering and crying. she s in a great deal of pain. she s scared. and she can t stop him. and they won t help her. merriman went on for hours until, says nicassio, finally he did stop, but his brutal assault wasn t over. she was hunched down on the floor putting her shoes on and justin was standing next to her and all of a sudden i seen him hit her like this. merriman pushes a knife into katrina s neck. larry describes how herren hand went over her neck and you could see the blood coming through her fingers and she fell on the ground. and ryan started saying, don t do it, don t do it. and she s begging justin not to do it. and justin is saying she s going to rat. she s going to rat. you know what happened to rapists in prison. she s going to rat.