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
utah, 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 ron 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 duncan martinez s 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 duncan s attorney and the da office agreed on some ground rules, he would tell the story all right, but only in exchange for some sort of limited immunity from prosecution, otherwise no story, no dice. we worked out a deal where he could talk to us freely, we couldn t use anything he told us against him. there is a term for the deal they made, they call it king for a day. fancy. he
i think there are things in the application for becoming the rat person have you filled out one? no. i m working on it. i think there are things missing here. like it doesn t really say do you have much of a team, or is this basically a sack and a pair of gloves? what are you supposed to do? and 2 million rats, how many do they think you re going to knock out? that s true. you all must be rat fans, right? rat pack. out of a full confession, maria, when i was in sixth grade, i had a pet rat. it was a hooded rat. i got it from a pet store. my mother has not forgiven me. three months later it tripled in size and i was horrified by it. i m not applying to be a rat czar. i m not horrified by that story. ratatouille, my kids grew up on that, and i have to say that they cutified rats for me. have you seen a subway rat? we live in washington, d.c., laura. true. i used to live in adams
out of necessity. you re going to see these images of people and remember the infamous pizza rat, remember? carrying up a full slice. what do you make of this? here s what i make of this. there s an estimate that there are 2 million rats in new york. i don t know how much we can rely on the rat census. i would say 2 million rats in new york. and you want to go after these rats and this is your job. i think there are things in the application for becoming the rat person. have you filled one out? i m working on it. i think there are thing missing here. it doesn t really say, do you have much of a team? or is this a sack and a pair of gloves? what are you supposed to do? and 2 million rats. how many do they think they ll knock out? you must be rat fans. no? not at all? i have a full confession. when i was in sixth grade, i actually had a pet rat. it was and whoed rat that i got