Afoot. Brutal, and violence, and chaotic, they are vicious killers. It was a horrible betrayal. This wasnt supposed to happen ever. It was a chilly december morning, 2020. The high desert outside of los angeles. In there, behind barbed wire and secure blocks of thick concrete, a prisoner was placed in front of a camera. It was a parole hearing, for a life or who was not supposed to be set free. 50 miles away, nervous and worried, the sisters of the mans victim listen to a live broadcast. With her, historic l. A. Homicide detective, now retired. And rick jackson. Powerless to intervene, they waited for the boards decision. And it all came flooded back. As if decades had vanished. And the strange, terrible events had only just occurred. I worked homicide, but by the end of my career what it was 20 years. And you also think that you have seen everything, and this is one of those cases that, that just did not make any sense. No, it did not. Still does not. And maybe never well. It was just
resort town, ski mecca, until he got busted on the highway for that fake passport, the new hideout for fugitive duncan martinez, a prime suspect in the murder of his good friend don baker. park city was just the next convenient place to disappear, until that inconvenient traffic stop followed by his arrest on passport fraud charges. that changed things. so duncan came up with a new plan, we get a call from narcan martinez attorney. informing us that duncan was willing to talk to us about what happened on the night of the murder, out of the clear blue sky. so, the detectives, and don t cancel tierney and the da
pizzeria, living in this apartment in a suburb called revere, and stealing a dead baby s name to try and get a passport and skip town. how do you have gotten that passport, who knows what would have happened. instead, lincoln s devious but cam had put him into a utah jail facing federal fraud charges, but, duncan had a plan, another one. coming up . we got a call from don martinez s attorney, informing us that he was willing to talk to us about what have been the night of the murder. and talk he did. duncan martinez spills a spellbinding tale putting himself at the scene of the crime. when dateline continues. ntinues.