back at the police station, they re hoping nicassio will tell them what really happened that night five years earlier when 20-year-old katrina montgomery went missing. we have things we want to share with you and things we want to talk about. does that sound fair? this video is the actual interrogation. you have the right to remain silent. anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. but nicassio is not the only suspect in custody. remember ryan bush? nicassio s fellow skinhead. he was also at that last party with katrina. both are suspects and both are being interrogated at the same time, just a hallway apart. you are suspected of committing the crime of murder. do you understand that? yeah. as much as you want to go away, it s not going to go away. never go away. all night, they question the suspect, believing that eventually one will make a deal and turn on the other. can you show us where the body of katrina montgomery is?
so very carefully, they set up a sting. its target, one of the prime suspects, the youngest one, the one they believe might be most vulnerable. they hope this ex-girlfriend will help them extract a conviction. it s late on a friday night. the suspect, larry nicassio has been lured to a ventura motel. she s cooperating. she s in on the sting. the cops are in the next room. it s been years since they saw each other, but all during that time, she has suspected nicassio, may have killed katrina. so at considerable risk to herself, she s agreed to meet alone in a motel this potentially dangerous man. was she a little nervous? we all were. yeah! that was a petrifying evening. when you tell a 5 1 woman who is 22, 23 years old, and you have a person you think could possibly be a rapist and a killer, you know, it s not exactly a good day if god forbid
so they wire the young skinhead, nicassio, and send him into the lion s den. if i go to trial, what am i going to say? do not make that statement in trial. he tells nicassio not to bring his name into it. another bit of evidence, but they need more. and then merriman, who has no idea at all that this is being recorded, gives the investigators an important clue. don t tell me that. you re making me nervous. you [ bleep ] hauled that [ bleep ], you know what i mean? it s subtle, but there it is. a key piece of the puzzle falls into place. when merriman hisses that nicassio helped haul the body, helped get rid of the evidence. the prosecutor knows it the instant he hears it. in his own crude way, merriman is confirming nicassio s credibility. he didn t say he killed her or raped her. he said, you helped bury her, you re liable.
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the investigation had been moving fast. it s been only a month since the sting back at the motel. then the two arrests. then the search of merriman s house. and then everything just stops. they ve been trying hard, but they re not getting anywhere. and they begin to realize they could wind up just like the lapd before them. stuck. merriman, now the chief suspect, is still out there. the two other suspects are still in jail and still not talking. but every day, bamieh makes sure they re reminded, especially the youngest, larry nicassio, that the only way they can avoid the worst kind of punishment is by talking. and finally, the pressure works. the date is march 30th, 1998. i m senior deputy district attorney, ron bamieh. we think the deal with larry was big-time for me. we were walking on air. in exchange for reducing the charges, nicassio agrees to tell his story. years after the murder, years