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on a road in northern Virginia in
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broad daylight, employees of the C are
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victims of a shooting the whole country is
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in
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shock [Music] we appeal to the FBI but the
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searches across the country
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will quickly become a hunt for the
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international man after years
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of investigation the agents hope that
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the risky operation he is leading on the other
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side of the globe will eventually put an end
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to this
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pursuit
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it is Langle, Virginia, a suburb
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of Washington where the
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headquarters of the
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C are located Monday January 25,
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1993 another work week
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began for the several thousand
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employees of the C who went to
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their workplace
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a few of them were waiting at the
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traffic light to turn left
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towards the
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government agency facilities; most of them were
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alone in their cars
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except for one vehicle containing
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a newlywed couple who had
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met in
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Sirie he believed that his life owed
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them the young man was first hit
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by a shooter's projectile two
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employees who were behind
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the assailant got out of their
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car seeing him
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advance a third employee accelerated
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before he had time to
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fire two other motorists
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then ran the red light while their
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car was riddled with
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bullets the gunman then shot a
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61-year-old man twice at point blank range
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while looking behind him
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noticed that the first man
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he had shot at was still alive
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he aimed at him
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again this time he killed him but he
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spared his wife there was only one
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C employee left this 66
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year old man paralyzed by fear was killed
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instantly by bullets in
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quick succession at the Fairfax emergency department k
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we received dozens
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of calls all units were on
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the
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scene emergency personnel from several
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cities rushed to help the
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victims who rest between life and
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death the Fairfax County detective
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was given responsibility for
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this
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investigation the first thing we did
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was to ensure that the crime scene was
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no longer dangerous we did not know
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how type of individual we were dealing with we
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therefore posted armed guards all
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around the crime scene to
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protect against another
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attack the authorities
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then monitored the entire sector within a radius of
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5 km
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access from Route 123 to
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motorists at the scene of the crime the
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police found bodies and very seriously
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injured people other people including TR
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Women escaped unharmed
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special agent Brad Garet arrived
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on site a few moments after the
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shooting the prayer what to do when
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arriving on the SC of the crime it is to
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see overall what the case is for this
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idly for the CIA we could have
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blamed the victim but it was more
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likely that the shooter had wanted to
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make a public gesture especially since he
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had in the middle
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friends we quickly took the
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victims to the nearest hospitals
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during this time the investigators questioned
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the
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survivors it was necessary to quickly
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transmit the description of the fugitive and
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his vehicle to the local authorities
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unfortunately the witnesses did not have
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time to notice anything
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and moreover their testimony differed
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from each other
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the witnesses told us that the suspect
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was a man with a dark complexion and that he
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was armed with a
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rifle that was about all that we
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could use to make draw up
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his
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portrait the descriptions of his size
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Var that his vehicle was according to the
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testimonies a brown van or
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even a white van I believe that
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many witnesses were in a
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protected cell a woman had seen the suspect
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better than the
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others according to her the shooter was a
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dark-haired man in his
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thirties and wearing a light brown jacket
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and
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dark pants although she was in his
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field of vision he had chosen
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not to shoot at
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her we analyzed the profile of the victims
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to see if there could be a link
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between them had she done
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something in the past which provoked this
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intention of revenge both on a
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personal and
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professional level the crime scene measured
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50
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m² green fragments and shell casings
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littered the
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road the forensic technicians
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had to take note of all these
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details before removing the bodies of the
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two victims from their car as
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evidenced by detective Jeff Miller of
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[Music]
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my duty is to become the voice of
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his
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victims these people will not speak
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never again and someone had to do it for
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them that's how I see my
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job I become the voice of his
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victims and it's my job to
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do everything to identify and find the
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person responsible for these
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crimes recill casings of projectile
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probably came from an AK
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47 rifle a little behind the cars where the
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shooter had started to fire. The
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experts also collected a
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projectile which indicates to the investigators that
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the weapon used was semi-automatic and
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that it had been stopped before the gun
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managed to fire the first
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projectile
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by analyzing the location of the
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cartridge cases in relation to that of the flashes
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of green the team was able to draw up the
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trajectories of the projectiles and know
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in what order they had been
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fired the investigators
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also collected ice samples from
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all
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vehicles perhaps the combination
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of several types of worm at the same rate
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could become a
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significant clue to several cars from
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different manufacturers German
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American and
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Swedish the composition of the glass of these
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cars was not the same few
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fragments even microscopy of these
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shattering windows could have reached the
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shooter it could therefore be very
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compromising for a suspect that we
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found these three different types of
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worm on his
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clothes while the technicians
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continued to collect clues
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on the crime scene officers and
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detectives went to
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area hospitals to speak to the
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survivors of
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the attack
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the young woman who had lost her husband had
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barely time to see
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anything since she remained hidden
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under the painting On board almost all the
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time
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she discovered that the man could have walked away
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at any moment but that he had
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turned and left as
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he had done towards the other woman who
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had
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survived by command. of the woman
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best seen their mistake was with a D
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Jud qutes advised that the shooter was
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of Hispanic or
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Middle Eastern origin the woman did not have
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time to examine the murderer's car
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but she remembered that it was of a
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family the investigation transmitted the
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robot portrait to the
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public one of the first things we
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had to do was to provide a
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telephone number someone had witnessed the
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scene that morning we wanted him to
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call us and to to do this we had to
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establish a telephone line and
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give the number in the media as
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quickly as
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possible the calls did not take long to
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come in during this time the agents and
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police were still
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looking for the motive for this
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killing if they discovered what had
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pushed the murderer to such an act he
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thus reduced the list of
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potential suspects the agents examined the
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past of the victims by seeking to know
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why they had been
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targeted by examining the background of the
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victims the circ*mstances of the tragedy for
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example why was she at
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this intersection and C it became
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obvious at least to me that there
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was no connection between the victims any
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more than between her and the man who had
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shot barely 8 hours after the shooting
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Detective Jeff Miller of Fairfax examined
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the shell casings found on the roadway at
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the crime scene
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he was able to confirm that they were indeed
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casings from an AK47 assault rifle,
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a weapon used mainly by the
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Russian and
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[Music]
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Chinese armies following a closer examination
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he discovered a
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fingerprint on one
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of them what complicates things in
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these cases is the cylindrical shape of
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the socket
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the print covered about 80% of
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the circumference it made almost
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the whole
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turn so I had to photograph it in
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several
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stages I took a photo and then I
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rotated it a few millimeters
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I adjusted the lighting so that it was
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identical to that of the previous photo
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and I took another photo I
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repeated this process until the
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socket was photographed over its entire
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circumference this tedious process allowed
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a complete fingerprint to be obtained.
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This was the investigators' first solid lead. The
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fingerprint was introduced
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into a computerized system linked to 185
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other fingerprint databases. data all over North
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America
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[Music]
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we took this fingerprint and
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sent it to all the databases in
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North America
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we then asked them to
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check if this fingerprint
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was stored in one of their
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despite important searches we
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found
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[Music]
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nothing this meant that the suspect had
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no criminal record that he had
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never committed a crime on
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North American territory the next morning the
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police were looking for witnesses
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among the motorists who used
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route 123 and who could have seen
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something abnormal on the morning of the
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shooting
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the agents distributed the robot portrait
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of the suspect to 3000
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motorists imposed
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media coverage Allowed to obtain
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testimonies from almost everywhere in the
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United States even if none of these
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testimonies stood out from the others,
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they were all kept in the
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command post database which continued to
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grow throughout the evening, the
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patrollers on the roads of northern
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Virginia and near Washington
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remain on
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alert
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that evening a car whose
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description matched that of the
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suspect was stopped by a
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Virginia patrolman who asked for reinforcements
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before approaching the
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vehicle he did not know if it was the
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shooter and if it was the case if he
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was still armed with his
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47 on January 26, 1983 36 hours had
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passed since a shooter opened
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fire with an AK47 assault rifle in front of
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the CIA offices and killed two
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more people of injuring three
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others a Virginia highway patrolman
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stopped a vehicle whose
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description matched that of the
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suspect 's car witnesses said
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the suspect had a dark complexion and
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dark hair and was of
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average build well that the man arrested by the
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patrolman matched this
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description his fingerprints
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diff of C of the
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fugitive dozens of CIA agents
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from the ATF and the FBI had now
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joined the team of the detective fr from
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Fairfax K to find the
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shooter when we needed help we
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were given the support
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requested FBI was very generous in this
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sense we were provided not only with
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cutting edge computer technology and
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knowledge but we were also assigned
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employees of office capable of managing the
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system that we had set up
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to process the leads that came to us
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from the
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public but BR was still very
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concerned despite the fact that we found
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a fingerprint on the socket at
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the crime scene which had not yet been
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identified the perpetrator of the Eton shooting
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did not know his
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motive all we knew was
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that the shooter had used an AK 47 rifle
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I decided that we would go back in
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time and look especially arrests all
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AK47s purchased in the
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previous year we know that people who
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commit this type of crime
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generally buy their weapons shortly
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before committing
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the act in the following days the
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ATF agents visited to the
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gunsmiths of Virginia and those of
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Maryland excluding Washington
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content that the purchase or possession
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of firearms is prohibited in the
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capital the agents discovered that
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1000 AK47s had been sold in northern
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Virginia in During
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the year, 600 were sold in
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Maryland. Agents collected
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records of each of these sales. They
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then entered the names of the
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owners into their
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database on February 1, a week
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after the shooting. Investigators
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hope that their database
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Ever-growing data would allow them
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to establish a link between the thousands of
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names and police reports that were
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there. New
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parameters were set so that the
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suspect's characteristics could be compared to those of
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individuals in the county who had purchased an
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AK.
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47 the system then provides a name that
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of Mir emal Keny aged 28 years old he
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had acquired an AK 47 3
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days before the
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shooting this Pakistani immigrant
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lived in Den in Virginia and his
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roommate had reported his disappearance
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3 days later the
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killing the investigators immediately put
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a team of agents in search of
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miremal
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Ky he had not returned
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home but his roommate who had
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reported his disappearance worked at
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the Doos international airport he was
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also of Pakistani origin he
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was hired by a security company
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to operate a
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magnetometer this device which checks whether
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passengers are carrying weapons
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he told the FBI that he had not
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seen k for several
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days he added that he could not
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speak further to the agents for a long time because he
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was on duty but he
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could meet them later at
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his home and he would then answer
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all their questions.
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The roommate said he had to
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return to Pakistan later in
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the week but he assured the agents
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that he would cooperate with them until
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then but when the investigators
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went to his house he was not
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there
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he then discovered that he had moved ahead of his
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travel plans several of the
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things on Sunday
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are Ilis the owner of his
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apartment that he did on Tuesday on Thursday as
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previously he changed it to leave
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for Pakistan
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so there was no possibility
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for him to leave the country more quickly
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there was not even 24 hours left before the
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roommate's flight on agents
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monitor the apartment in the hope
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of seeing him or
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Keny arrive their work is bearing fruit he found
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the roommate at home
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alone the apartment was practically
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empty apparently Keny and his roommate
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had no intention of returning
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to the states- united the roommate declared
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that he did not know where k was but he
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allowed the investigators to search
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the almost
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empty apartment in the room the agents
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found in a suitcase of
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automatic pistols a Bereta and a maarov
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ammunition for an AK47 rifle as well as a
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bulletproof vest
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the roommate declared that he was unaware of
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the existence of these weapons and added
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that it was
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K's suitcase the investigators continued the
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searches under a sofa wrapped in
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plastic they found another
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firearm it was an AK47 either the same type
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of weapon that was used
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to shoot down two people and
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injure three others in front of the
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syie head office again the
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roommate declared that he was unaware of
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the existence of this weapon he said that he
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had met Ky a few months
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earlier when he came to live with
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him the roommate told us that he
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had met Ky through
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another man of Pakistani origin Ky was
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looking for accommodation and the roommate
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then told him offered to come and live
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with him he then agreed on
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the amount that i should give him to
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live
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there in the hope of no longer being
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the subject of the investigators' suspicions the
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roommate signed a document according to
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which he agreed to collaborate with
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them as part of the investigation in a
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closet the agents discovered a
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light brown jacket like the one worn by
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the
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shooter the roommate declared that it
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belonged to
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Keny in front of the apartment he showed them
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where Cany's vehicle was parked a
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[Music ]
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pickup the agents noted that it
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was indeed registered in the name of the
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suspect inside there was a
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road map unfolded precisely to
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indicate where the CA offices were located
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at
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the ingl next to them they noticed a
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newspaper clipping with a article
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about the director of the CA the agents
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should obtain a warrant to
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search the vehicle if it was indeed
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this van which was used in
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the shooting it in
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no way matched the description of the
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witnesses at the police station the
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investigators continue the interrogation
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of
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K's roommate this decaf who worked for a
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courier service since August
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1992 months earlier in February had obtained
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political asylum as well as a
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work permit from the immigration service
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we were lucky in this case
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because 'we had
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can's fingerprints not because he had a
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criminal record in the United States but because
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the immigration service had
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asked him to give them when he
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requested
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political asylum, so we obtained the file
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containing emintes from the immigration service
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onoscams following night while the
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investigators continued their
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questioning of the
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roommate according to him Cany was a
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rather
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taciturn man but when he listened to the
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television news and saw how
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Muslims were treated during the conflicts
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in Bosnia in Iraq and in Israel he
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came out of his
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control it was at these moments that he
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swore to take
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action the roommate ended up saying that
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Keny had confided to him that he was going to do
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something impressive and when
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we asked him we to say what he
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meant by that he said he
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wasn't sure but it could be
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a
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shootout told him he would do
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something important at the CIA office at
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the White House or at the
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Israeli embassy even if the agents believed
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that the roommate was not involved in the
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shooting, they would forbid him from leaving the
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country until the investigation was
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completed [Music] the Lab experts compared
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the collected print on the bullet
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casing from the crime scene to that of
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Keny on the immigration service poster
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they were
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identical we can then also
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confirm that the serial number of
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the weapon found in the apartment was
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the same as that of the rifle AK47 assault rifle
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made in China that Ky purchased
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3 days before the
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C shooting Ky presented two pieces
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of ID so police could
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run
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background checks the purchase was approved
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in just a few minutes
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FBI laboratory experts
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then compared projectiles and shell
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casings from the AK47 obtained during
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test shots to projectiles and
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casings collected at the
00:23:39
crime scene by Detective Jeff Miller of
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Fairfax
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Kante, the ballistics expert was able to
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affirm that the bullets from the
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crime scene had been fired with the weapon
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found at Cany's apartment.
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He was also able to examine the
00:23:54
cartridge cases obtained during
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laboratory test shots with the AK47.
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He compared them to those that I had
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collected at the crime scene and
00:24:04
concluded that these shell casings came from
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the same
00:24:09
weapon. The technicians then examined the
00:24:12
jacket found in the closet.
00:24:16
If it was indeed the jacket described by
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the witnesses of the shooting, we would
00:24:20
undoubtedly find shards of worms
00:24:21
embedded in the
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00:24:27
fabric of a German car, a
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Swedish car and an
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American car if one found all these
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types of worm on one's clothes or
00:24:35
shoes it would then be obvious that
00:24:37
if there were no was not the author of this crime he
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must necessarily have been on the scene for
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all these glass samples to be found
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simultaneously on
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him the technicians managed to
00:24:48
find glass particles on his
00:24:50
clothes which corresponded to the glass
00:24:52
of all the cars at the
00:24:56
crime scene investigators
00:24:58
now had enough informants to charge
00:24:59
MIREM al Ky with first degree domomicides
00:25:02
and with injuring others
00:25:03
with the intent to kill them the FBI
00:25:06
also charged him with hit and run to
00:25:08
evade justice, the
00:25:11
sum of $100,000 was offered to anyone who
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provided information leading to
00:25:15
Ky's capture. The agents then dispersed
00:25:17
to question members of the
00:25:19
Pakistani community in the
00:25:22
Washington area; they were looking
00:25:24
for Ky. acquaintances of Keny's friends or
00:25:26
anyone who would have been in contact with him
00:25:29
we learned that K had gone to a
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market
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of the owner of this market
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knew the manager of a travel agency
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questioned on this subject the manager
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told us that had come to see him
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in the afternoon of the 25th, the day of
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the shooting and that he had bought a
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one-way ticket to
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Pakistan weeks after a shooting in
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front of the offices of the c a
00:26:02
manhunt at the The scale of the planet was going to
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be organized the investigation was opened
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some 13,000 km from the crime scene
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in
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Pakistan in February
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1993 the Pakistani Mir Em Al Kensi, 32
00:26:19
years old, was wanted by the FBI for the
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murder of two CIA employees and
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wounding three others
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on the road outside
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CIA headquarters in LINGL,
00:26:30
Virginia weeks after the shooting
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agents learned that Ky had
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boarded a plane bound for Keta,
00:26:36
Pakistan on January 25 and he had
00:26:39
only purchased a one-way ticket
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Keta is less than 130 km from the
00:26:45
Afghan border now the fugitive could
00:26:48
be anywhere to start
00:26:50
looking for him at the other end of the globe
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presented big problems for
00:26:53
special agent Brad gar of the
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FBI
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is that we have no power we are just
00:27:02
another American citizen finding himself in a
00:27:06
foreign country the key to finding a fugitive
00:27:10
is therefore to deal with the
00:27:11
secret intelligence service therefore by
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the B
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of informant the F turns to the
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special AG and supervisor greory the deence
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amain of l against
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drugakist h and hashish the DEA
00:27:30
had numerous reliable contacts and
00:27:31
informants for around ten
00:27:36
years years at the time of this investigation
00:27:38
agent Lee was in charge of the
00:27:40
DEA office in karashi
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pakistan the work environment
00:27:47
was completely different from
00:27:49
what an FBI agent is used to in the
00:27:52
United States it was like he
00:27:54
found himself in a completely
00:27:55
foreign place where everything was new the language
00:27:59
the infrastructure how to work who
00:28:02
to meet but we could provide him
00:28:05
with protection weapons and everything
00:28:07
he needed to carry out his
00:28:12
investigation in this country of 35 million
00:28:14
inhabitants politically unstable
00:28:16
and where corruption had reached the
00:28:18
civil service the FBI would need
00:28:20
all the help
00:28:23
available Agent Garet
00:28:26
also said that Ken would find people
00:28:28
sympathetic to his cause in Pakistan and
00:28:30
Afghanistan the
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neighboring country he would be respected in Afghanistan
00:28:36
in fact he was already respected in
00:28:37
Pakistan the CIA in particular as well
00:28:40
as the American government in general
00:28:43
are not liked in these countries with
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the result that people refused to
00:28:47
divulge information to us
00:28:49
about cani because they found it heroic
00:28:51
what he had done as some
00:28:53
people told us
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in March
00:28:57
1993 the
00:28:59
United States Department of State declared that the attack on
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the CIA employees had been an act of
00:29:03
terrorism and offered the reward of 2
00:29:05
million dollars to anyone who
00:29:06
would provide information leading to
00:29:09
Ky's capture once the logistics were established
00:29:11
Agent Garret took a plane
00:29:13
to Karashi in Pakistan on a
00:29:17
21 hour flight upon his arrival the DEA agents
00:29:20
had arranged a meeting for him with an
00:29:24
informant they handed out
00:29:26
pamphlets and matchbooks
00:29:28
with Keny's photo
00:29:30
also mentioning the $2 million reward
00:29:31
in English, Arabic and
00:29:36
Pjabi the reward sparked
00:29:38
reactions from as far away as Thailand
00:29:39
and
00:29:43
England from informants in
00:29:45
Pakistan stated that K was hiding
00:29:47
in tribes and villages
00:29:48
in Afghanistan near the
00:29:52
border Ky's family was
00:29:55
originally from
00:29:57
Afghanistan
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it should not be forgotten that ki came from
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Keta in
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Pakistan a town less than 130 km from
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Afghanistan so there was a
00:30:13
natural link between ki Keta and
00:30:21
Afghanistan the agents went to
00:30:23
the house of K's family where they
00:30:26
questioned his brothers all of Rich
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ien this declared that Ky was welcome
00:30:33
in January a few days after the
00:30:35
shooting in
00:30:38
Virginia he had arrived without announcing himself
00:30:41
and had with him only a small
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suitcase it was rather strange given
00:30:46
the length of the
00:30:49
trip K's brothers had also
00:30:52
found it strange that he did not carry
00:30:54
any coat because it was during the
00:30:56
coldest time of the year he
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only stayed a few days then he
00:31:01
left as quickly as he had
00:31:05
arrived he to no one where he went and there has been
00:31:10
no news of him
00:31:12
since weeks later from
00:31:16
there information sought for
00:31:20
terrorism that was likely C in
00:31:24
Afghanistan just across the
00:31:26
border
00:31:29
we knew then that it would be
00:31:30
safer in Afghanistan and
00:31:33
particularly at that time because
00:31:35
this country was controlled by several
00:31:40
tribes it n there was then practically no
00:31:42
central government in this
00:31:45
country so we did not even ask
00:31:47
permission to go
00:31:52
there the investigation but
00:31:56
then the agents returned empty-handed to the
00:32:06
United States affair did not progress
00:32:08
over the following years it was then
00:32:10
that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
00:32:12
increased the reward to the amount of 3
00:32:14
and a half milli
00:32:15
dollars the ENT ESP that this generous
00:32:19
reward was an informant he worked
00:32:22
with the fingerprint experts of the FBI
00:32:24
in
00:32:26
Washington
00:32:28
a lot of time had passed
00:32:30
since the attack and Garet wanted to
00:32:32
know how to recognize
00:32:33
Keny's fingerprints if
00:32:35
the suspect were to be arrested in an
00:32:40
isolated area the agent studied the very
00:32:42
characteristics of K's fingerprints
00:32:44
that he had provided to the
00:32:46
immigration service a few years earlier
00:32:49
and the experts also showed aar
00:32:52
how to take the prints of a
00:32:53
rebel suspect in the
00:32:56
field I had to devote
00:32:58
most of my energies to this case
00:33:00
for a good long
00:33:03
time I think I was afraid of
00:33:05
never being able to
00:33:08
capture him and this fear was well-
00:33:13
founded in April
00:33:15
1997 after 4 years of chasing an
00:33:19
FBI agent at the American consulate
00:33:21
in Pakistan, he received a call from one of
00:33:24
his most
00:33:26
reliable sources the man claimed he knew where
00:33:29
Keny was hiding but he refused to say
00:33:31
more on the
00:33:34
phone he asked the agent to
00:33:37
wait for him in a public place and
00:33:39
told him that another man would call him on his
00:33:40
cell phone an hour
00:33:45
later Kari's rub bond provided
00:33:48
excellent cover for him informant
00:33:50
but if he was seen
00:33:52
talking to an American agent by
00:33:54
malicious people it could cost him his
00:33:56
life
00:33:58
as agreed the agent waited for the call at
00:34:00
the
00:34:24
planned place he hoped that the informant would
00:34:26
provide him with valid information which would allow him to
00:34:29
get hold of
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00:34:39
Keny the informant declared that not
00:34:42
only did he know where Ky was
00:34:44
but also that it would be possible for him to
00:34:45
lure him to a hotel at a
00:34:47
specific time so that
00:34:49
his
00:34:50
arrest could be made the informant represented
00:34:52
a group responsible for protecting Ky
00:34:54
who had been unable to resist the promise of
00:34:56
the generous reward
00:35:00
the American government followed this
00:35:02
affair
00:35:03
closely the White House approved the
00:35:06
secret plan for
00:35:08
the arrest the Secretary of State obtained
00:35:10
then the permission of the head of
00:35:12
Pakistan to let
00:35:13
American agents carry out this delicate
00:35:17
operation. The Pakistanis are very
00:35:20
sensitive about their image. They are
00:35:22
very proud people. He did not like that one of
00:35:25
their compatriots was identified as
00:35:26
a terrorist.
00:35:29
someone could go to
00:35:30
the other side of the planet to Washington
00:35:32
with the intention of killing
00:35:34
CIA employees that
00:35:38
in the agents arrived in Pakistan
00:35:40
accompanied by a team specialized in
00:35:42
special operations formed by the G
00:35:44
of the fbian Virginia he brought Hel located
00:35:48
in a desert town in the
00:35:50
northern part of Pakistan where the informant
00:35:52
promised to
00:35:56
shoot him after analyzing the plan of
00:35:58
the hotel each member of the team
00:36:00
was assigned a
00:36:05
task the agents s 'settled in a
00:36:07
room in front of
00:36:09
the hotel he could not in any way
00:36:12
verify if Keny was
00:36:15
really there he had to completely
00:36:17
trust
00:36:24
the informant on this
00:36:26
same
00:36:28
TRV
00:36:32
upper floor based on the plan of
00:36:34
the building the agents had planned to block
00:36:36
all the exits from the staircase before
00:36:38
breaking into
00:36:41
K's room informing him that the hotel door was
00:36:44
never locked and that there
00:36:45
was no security guard
00:36:48
with this information we have
00:36:51
clarified an
00:36:52
arrest plan we knew how we got into
00:36:55
the surill room
00:36:58
and what we would do once in the
00:37:00
room it was extremely important
00:37:03
when we set up a scenario like
00:37:04
that everyone must know exactly what they
00:37:06
have to
00:37:08
do after having closed the exits from H
00:37:11
of the hotel and the staircase a
00:37:12
disguised agent will lure the fugitive
00:37:14
outside his room by
00:37:16
announcing that it was time for
00:37:18
prayer the agents put on their vest by
00:37:21
B and check their
00:37:23
weapons to hide their weapons they wore
00:37:26
traditional clothing on
00:37:33
June 15,
00:37:35
1997 the plan for the arrest
00:37:38
of in
00:37:40
Bran the team arrived at 4 a.m. because at
00:37:43
7 a.m. we thought there would be fewer
00:37:47
passes but when the men tried
00:37:49
to enter the hotel they found the door
00:37:52
closed we couldn't enter we were
00:37:56
dressed at 4:5 a.m. in front of
00:38:01
the hotel our level of anxiety at its
00:38:04
highest point content of the situation
00:38:06
it was as if all this was not
00:38:09
real to make the situation even
00:38:12
worse the street is crowded with people who only
00:38:14
notice American
00:38:16
costume we know that it's very hot
00:38:19
in the summer in this
00:38:21
city therefore the comms work around
00:38:25
or 4
00:38:26
a.m. everywhere we hadn't planned that
00:38:31
either the informant was wrong
00:38:33
about the hotel door after 4
00:38:36
and a half years of chasing Keny the FBI
00:38:38
still came up against a
00:38:43
pitfall on June 15,
00:38:46
1997 an FBI arrest team who
00:38:49
wore traditional clothing
00:38:50
Pakistanis were trying to enter a
00:38:52
hotel in the north-central region of
00:38:54
Pakistan where suspected terrorist Al K
00:38:59
but according to FBI Special Agent Brad Garret
00:39:01
their informant had misled them
00:39:06
we were told the
00:39:08
hotel door would not be not locked and
00:39:09
that there would be no security guard,
00:39:11
but when we arrived the
00:39:13
door was locked and a few
00:39:15
minutes later we saw that there was
00:39:17
indeed a security guard,
00:39:20
the agents signaled the
00:39:22
guard to open the door for them and they
00:39:24
entered the hotel the team took
00:39:27
position in the hall while
00:39:28
some agents quickly went
00:39:30
upstairs they hoped that the informant
00:39:32
had not made a mistake in giving them the
00:39:34
number of Cany's room and
00:39:36
affirming that the fugitive was indeed
00:39:39
there when all the members of the team
00:39:42
took position the agent who served as
00:39:44
cover knocked on the door to
00:39:45
announce the start of prayer,
00:39:47
hoping that the occupant would come out of his room.
00:39:49
room if Keny was there he could be
00:39:52
armed the agents prepared for the
00:39:56
worst
00:39:58
[Music]
00:40:01
as soon as the door opened the agents
00:40:03
burst into the
00:40:05
room the man tried to escape
00:40:10
shouting we d the Bonner to make sure
00:40:13
that 'he doesn't wake up the other
00:40:17
occupants after he calms down a little I
00:40:20
told him I'm going to remove you thison you
00:40:23
make me the Promise of
00:40:26
Paser
00:40:28
I took the Baon away from him and I asked him
00:40:30
what his
00:40:32
name was he m 'replied with
00:40:34
obscenities in English he looked
00:40:36
nothing like the photo we had of the
00:40:38
suspect he was bigger I
00:40:40
then told him I wasn't sure he
00:40:41
was the man we were looking for The agent
00:40:43
hoped that the fingerprints of the man he
00:40:45
had just captured would match the
00:40:47
C that Ken had given to the
00:40:49
American immigration service 6 years earlier.
00:40:52
He applied ink to
00:40:53
the man's thumb and compared the print obtained with
00:40:55
that of the thumb of
00:41:04
the two print was identical after
00:41:07
more than 4 and a half years and a journey of
00:41:09
almost 13,000 km the FBI had finally put its
00:41:12
hand on the collar of the alleged terrorist
00:41:14
MIREM al
00:41:15
kensy but the mission was not yet
00:41:20
ended not only did we have to arrest
00:41:23
Keny but we also had to get him out
00:41:25
of the hotel without incident and finally
00:41:26
that
00:41:31
the special and supervisor greory of the were
00:41:40
then housed in
00:41:44
foreign TER detention in a desert
00:41:47
as for
00:41:52
example had to bring this Pakistani to the
00:41:56
stat- united
00:41:59
the fact that Americans were holding a
00:42:01
Pakistani captive in his own
00:42:03
country was
00:42:07
dangerous the agents took the
00:42:09
fugitive to a helicopter where they flew
00:42:11
to Islamabad he obtained permission
00:42:13
to extradite the suspect the
00:42:17
next day the FBI headquarters
00:42:20
in Washington was informed of the success of the
00:42:22
mission by the following code the package was
00:42:26
delivered
00:42:27
the RAM arrest team in the
00:42:29
United States aboard a
00:42:31
military plane to avoid landing in a
00:42:34
foreign country we refueled P the
00:42:36
flight to ask for the political ace before
00:42:39
appearing in court in the
00:42:41
United States for the 9 p.m. flight that he had
00:42:45
remained in Afghanistan for almost 4
00:42:47
and a
00:42:50
half years he also admits that he was
00:42:53
responsible for the shooting in front of the
00:42:55
offices of the
00:42:56
S
00:42:58
he had decided to shoot employees
00:43:00
before he entered the
00:43:01
well-protected grounds of the agency to express
00:43:03
his dissatisfaction with the S and the
00:43:06
United States he added that he had not
00:43:09
killed a woman because Islamic law
00:43:12
prohibited him after the shooting he
00:43:14
was surprised to see that he was still
00:43:16
alive he then went to a
00:43:18
park then he ate before
00:43:20
buying a plane ticket to
00:43:23
Pakistan asked him ila C deors he
00:43:27
still had a lot of ammunition with
00:43:28
him according to his own words and that he
00:43:31
had left so many others in his
00:43:32
apartment and he told us that
00:43:34
it was because he had missed a
00:43:36
target affirming that he had given his
00:43:39
statement freely Ky signed his
00:43:44
confession after arriving in the United States
00:43:46
a helicopter transported him to a
00:43:50
guarded location the agents neglected
00:43:53
no security measures to hand
00:43:54
Keny over to the Fairfax police
00:43:57
he was facing charges
00:43:58
of homicide and assault
00:44:01
Detective Jeff Miller never forgot
00:44:03
that
00:44:05
day by capturing him and
00:44:08
repatriating him to the United States we showed the
00:44:11
rest of the world that our country as well
00:44:13
as the FBI and the CIA cannot let
00:44:16
something this bad happen
00:44:17
without
00:44:21
doing anything no matter how long it takes
00:44:24
no matter where these people are
00:44:26
hiding United will always do
00:44:28
everything possible to track down these criminals
00:44:30
and bring them to
00:44:34
justice Keny has been found guilty of
00:44:37
murder of shooting with intent
00:44:39
to kill and of using a
00:44:41
firearm with intent to commit
00:44:42
crimes he was sentenced to death he was
00:44:45
executed in
00:44:49
2002 following the shooting we erected a
00:44:52
monument in memory of the victims of
00:44:53
Route 123 at the same place where they
00:44:56
fell after being shot by the
00:44:58
shooter C has tightened security measures
00:45:01
at LINGL's head office as well
00:45:04
as at all its offices across the
00:45:05
world this successful investigation
00:45:08
added to the long series of
00:45:10
battles against
00:45:14
terrorism in the United States violent
00:45:17
extremists begin a campaign of
00:45:18
terror almost 20 years before the
00:45:20
Oklahoma
00:45:23
City bombing he robbed banks s
00:45:26
bombs and destroy everyone in their
00:45:30
path and when they kill innocent
00:45:32
victims the
00:45:34
FBI's counterterrorism experts team up
00:45:37
with State Police to stop these
00:45:39
violent extremists before they
00:45:41
move on again.
00:45:42
Music]
00:45:53
[Music]
00:45:55
the action
00:45:57
[Music]
00:46:09
[Music]
00:46:21
Highway 80 is an isolated road in
00:46:23
northern New
00:46:25
Jersey
00:46:28
on December 21,
00:46:30
1981 Patrolman Philip la Monaco of
00:46:32
the State Police forces a motorist to pull over
00:46:35
who had the CE of the
00:46:41
road the driver seems
00:46:44
nervous the Monaco const that he
00:46:55
was
00:46:57
don't stay
00:47:00
there got more weapons on you stay there
00:47:03
don't you move sir stay in the car St
00:47:06
the car sir stay
00:47:08
the stay in the
00:47:20
[Music]
00:47:25
sir
00:47:27
[Music]
00:47:31
a motorist saw the
00:47:33
abandoned patrol car and
00:47:37
stopped he was intrigued by the
00:47:40
presence of this car
00:47:42
[Applause]
00:47:45
empty in the snow he saw the body of the
00:47:48
patrolman iner covered in
00:47:51
s he used the vehicle's radio
00:47:53
to call for
00:47:55
help
00:47:59
[Applause]
00:48:01
the officers on duty at the
00:48:02
state police headquarters in blstown were surprised
00:48:05
to hear the voice of a civilian on the
00:48:11
radio all available units
00:48:13
respond
00:48:16
to Charles is a major in the
00:48:19
New
00:48:21
Jersey State Police almost all the patrol officers
00:48:23
were on duty then they responded
00:48:25
to the call we started by sending all
00:48:28
the highway patrol officers we are
00:48:30
always aware of the danger of this
00:48:31
job but we never think that it
00:48:34
can us arrived we never believed that
00:48:36
this would happen to agent
00:48:39
Monaco Monaco was practically a
00:48:42
legend within the service upon arriving
00:48:44
on the scene Lieutenant Richard Ry
00:48:47
could not believe that his colleague had
00:48:48
been
00:48:50
shot Philippe had first been hit
00:48:52
in the the chest he was wearing a bulletproof vest
00:48:54
but the impact of the projectile
00:48:56
turned the body a little and the
00:48:58
next bullet hit her in the armpit and
00:48:59
it went straight to the heart it was
00:49:01
this shot that killed her
00:49:04
killed the investigators noted that
00:49:06
the Monaco's weapon was empty so he had
00:49:10
fired so many
00:49:11
times the patrolman had not
00:49:13
died without
00:49:18
defending himself Lieutenant John Mandress
00:49:20
combed the crime scene and found
00:49:22
other
00:49:25
clues
00:49:27
I found glass fragments and
00:49:29
12mm projectile casings these
00:49:32
clues were in a snow bank and all over the place
00:49:37
from the size and
00:49:39
number of projectile casings
00:49:41
mandress establishes that the murder weapon
00:49:43
was a semi pistol -automatic with a
00:49:45
caliber of 9 mm he started looking
00:49:48
for the weapon but in
00:49:51
vain medical technicians
00:49:53
took the body of Philippe
00:49:55
Lamonaco to the hospital at the time when his
00:49:57
250 colleagues were
00:49:58
looking for his
00:50:02
murderer
00:50:04
New Jersey and
00:50:05
Pennsylvania State Police patrol officers stop motorists
00:50:08
for questioning A man
00:50:10
recalled seeing two individuals
00:50:12
leave the scene They were in
00:50:14
a 1977 Chevinova registered in
00:50:17
Connecticut Police officers set up
00:50:20
stations control all along the
00:50:22
laware river other officers are combing
00:50:24
the highway and secondary roads for
00:50:26
several miles around looking for the
00:50:29
murderers the response has been
00:50:31
amazing people have come from
00:50:33
everywhere to help us give us information
00:50:35
leads so that we found the car and
00:50:36
the guys responsible for this
00:50:40
Mor a few hours later an
00:50:43
inspector from the anti-drug squad and a
00:50:45
state patrolman found the
00:50:47
nova the car had been abandoned on
00:50:50
a rural road 5 km from the scene of the
00:50:54
crime the investigators found the
00:50:59
empty firearm they searched the
00:51:04
vehicle they found that it was
00:51:06
riddled with
00:51:09
bullet holes the hood and the windshield were shot
00:51:11
in particular on the
00:51:14
passenger side which indicated that the agent
00:51:16
had shot the
00:51:21
passenger the investigators assumed that
00:51:23
it was probably this passenger
00:51:25
who had shot Philippe
00:51:28
the driver was in such a hurry to
00:51:30
get rid of this vehicle that he had
00:51:32
left a precious clue behind him
00:51:35
on the dashboard we could see
00:51:36
the driving license of a certain Barry from
00:51:41
[Music]
00:51:43
where for the moment the name and address
00:51:45
of ry constituted the only link with the
00:51:48
murderer of the
00:51:51
Monaco this eveningl I searched the scene with
00:51:54
a patrolman and we
00:51:55
went straight stupid to explore
00:51:57
this track we went to
00:51:59
the driver's address located in
00:52:00
downtown New
00:52:03
Haven the address on the Isbury license
00:52:06
was that of a hotel and not a
00:52:10
private house it was a false
00:52:15
lead later in the morning
00:52:19
we met with FBI agents who
00:52:21
told us that he had gone to the
00:52:22
same hotel a few months earlier as
00:52:24
part of an investigation into a certain
00:52:25
crime
00:52:29
the vassur was doing. Part of
00:52:33
the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, agents
00:52:35
believed he was the leader of the
00:52:37
Sam Melville
00:52:40
Jonathan extremist group, which was suspected of being
00:52:42
responsible for a series of
00:52:44
bank robberies and bombings.
00:52:45
Music]
00:52:47
bomb we were now wondering if this
00:52:49
group was not also responsible for the
00:52:51
murder of police officer Philippe Lam
00:52:55
Monaco
00:52:57
the agents sent the VUR file to the
00:52:59
New Jersey State lab to have
00:53:01
his fingerprints compared to C
00:53:03
noted in the
00:53:05
nova
00:53:07
unfortunately we found ourselves taking a
00:53:12
closer look at the
00:53:17
career search the last
00:53:24
[Music]
00:53:25
then read the file
00:53:28
of the photo on the life of research
00:53:30
was that of the man he knew
00:53:32
under the name of
00:53:34
[Music]
00:53:37
bar the exper idenier les de in the
00:53:41
nova that the N of the pony
00:53:50
deomas de leste dangere fugitive
00:53:58
according to the information collected by
00:54:00
the fbiing had met the vassur in
00:54:03
prison where the two men were imprisoned for
00:54:05
illegal possession of drugs and
00:54:07
weapons and for theft of these men then
00:54:10
the group M Jason as a
00:54:16
specialist he knows the
00:54:18
tactics of gu well has several works on
00:54:21
this subject he studies the trmist documentation
00:54:25
from
00:54:27
the 60s until the beginning of the
00:54:34
70s the group had started its reign of
00:54:37
terror by claiming responsibility for the attack on the
00:54:39
bomb in Massachusetts and in the State of
00:54:41
New York between 1976 and 79 notably of
00:54:45
the
00:54:47
courthouse of that of Midlesex County in
00:54:51
Massachusetts and that of the courthouse
00:54:54
of County in Boston 20 people had
00:54:57
been
00:54:58
injured according to what it left say
00:55:00
about them the members of
00:55:02
Melville Jackson's group targeted
00:55:04
institutions and the capitalist world
00:55:06
as a protest against
00:55:08
unjust government and
00:55:10
corporate policies FBI Special Agent Ed Peterson
00:55:13
was investigating this
00:55:16
extremist group I believe he perceived himself
00:55:18
like the saviors of the oppressed and the
00:55:20
needy but they never
00:55:22
did anything to help the destitute all
00:55:24
he believed in was the VI
00:55:28
the agents suspected the group of
00:55:30
financing its activities through
00:55:32
bank robberies meticulously executed operations
00:55:34
planned that he executed with
00:55:39
military precision C typ was not like the
00:55:41
criminals that we meet most often
00:55:44
this organized group rang New
00:55:46
England to commit crimes,
00:55:47
the most serious of which was the murder of
00:55:49
agent
00:55:52
Monaco on Christmas Eve
00:55:55
1981 2000 police officers came from
00:55:57
several states to attend the funeral of
00:55:59
patrolman
00:56:01
Monaco this testimony of support from them
00:56:03
deeply touched don to his
00:56:06
wife I was amazed to see the cars
00:56:09
parked up to at least 1 km from the church
00:56:11
these cars were those of the police officers
00:56:13
who came to attend the
00:56:15
funeral phéipe la Monaco was one of the
00:56:17
most respected patrolmen in all of
00:56:19
New
00:56:20
Jersey he was truly an excellent
00:56:22
patrolman and I believe that what he
00:56:24
distinguished was that 'he deeply
00:56:27
his work and that he
00:56:28
respected him it was one of the
00:56:34
best the young patrol
00:56:36
the ADM he Ava my to several of
00:56:39
how to stop a car on
00:56:40
the highway and looked for illegal March
00:56:44
the police chief Clinton
00:56:46
Pagano solemnly to Donal Monaco that
00:56:50
the New Jersey State Police will do
00:56:52
everything possible to bring
00:56:53
her husband's murderers to
00:56:55
justice
00:56:57
I could see he was
00:56:59
sincere I knew he was telling the truth he
00:57:02
would do whatever it
00:57:03
took j I was then assured that the
00:57:06
culprits would be arrested and it didn't matter and we would
00:57:09
find them and arrest them because Clint
00:57:12
had
00:57:15
promised it in a municipal building in the
00:57:18
same neighborhood the New Jersey and
00:57:20
Pennsylvania police worked closely with
00:57:22
the F to find the
00:57:25
patrol boat murderers the special squad followed
00:57:28
dozens of
00:57:32
leads ballisti experts questioned
00:57:34
area gunsmiths to see
00:57:36
if any of them had sold
00:57:38
9 caliber ammunition a certain
00:57:42
Barry they found something in
00:57:44
strbur pennsylvania just on the other
00:57:46
side of the
00:57:47
river 3 months earlier a certain Barry
00:57:51
Easter and not eastbur had obtained
00:57:54
9 mm ammunition, the
00:57:58
name was too similar for it to be
00:57:59
a simple coincidence if
00:58:02
it was the projectil used to abre the
00:58:04
policeman the interval of 3 months between
00:58:06
the acquisition of deal and the crime was
00:58:10
clue to believe that the culprits lived
00:58:13
in the sector he did not just pass by
00:58:16
we then worked closely with the
00:58:19
state police of Pennsylvania and we informed him
00:58:21
of what we had
00:58:25
discovered
00:58:27
days later the police of this same
00:58:29
state received a rather
00:58:33
unusual call the owner of Maison
00:58:35
àoué wanted to file a
00:58:37
complaint
00:58:40
a called the police of Pennsylvania
00:58:43
it was just on the other side of the
00:58:45
river in the
00:58:49
Strasburg sector Miller owned several
00:58:52
properties in Oué in the
00:58:54
united sector was abandoned in one of
00:58:57
his
00:58:58
houses he had not seen the
00:59:00
tenants for almost 2
00:59:03
weeks according to Miller this house was
00:59:06
rented by a certain Barry
00:59:10
Easterley a SW unit
00:59:12
immediately went to this
00:59:14
[Music]
00:59:19
country house, the house was searched room
00:59:22
by
00:59:25
room,
00:59:26
the occupant of the premises seemed to have left
00:59:28
quickly because he had left behind
00:59:30
clothes,
00:59:32
personal photos and even his
00:59:35
dog in a room on police officers
00:59:38
found
00:59:39
extremist documentation and the sketch of an
00:59:42
h
00:59:44
47 assault rifle in a room there were all the
00:59:47
favorite tools of an
00:59:51
extremist we found a whole
00:59:53
range of objects information on
00:59:55
how
00:59:56
a B and stars for
01:00:00
in the police also find
01:00:02
9 mm ammunition or the caliber of the
01:00:05
projectile killed the patrolman
01:00:08
phipe they say that this rented property
01:00:11
constitutes the REP Thomas his wife and
01:00:14
children lived at the time of the murder of
01:00:18
Monaco the investigators hand on
01:00:20
documents which shed light on the
01:00:22
operations of this extremist group
01:00:26
apparently planning to rob a
01:00:29
bank in entown in
01:00:31
Pennsylvania we had found their plan
01:00:34
we also discovered a
01:00:36
written account of one of their bank robberies where
01:00:38
several police officers av were shot they
01:00:40
av d Laer behind all these things
01:00:42
because they were
01:00:46
quickly in another bedroom
01:00:54
lead contained there was no name
01:00:58
only first names and no area code
01:01:02
either the police also found the
01:01:05
photo of a man whom they were unable
01:01:08
to identify according to the owner
01:01:10
the man in the photo was sleeping in
01:01:15
Man's guest room the occupants of the house
01:01:17
called him Uncle
01:01:21
David the investigators came to
01:01:23
wonder if this man was not the
01:01:24
passenger of mining on the evening of the homicide
01:01:27
and if he could have been the author of the
01:01:28
murder of agent Philippe Laam
01:01:38
Monaco the search for a
01:01:40
police killer had transformed into a
01:01:42
hunt for finding a group of
01:01:43
domestic terrorists during the raid
01:01:46
of an abandoned country house in
01:01:47
Pennsylvania, important clues were collected
01:01:50
including a mysterious
01:01:52
photograph and an address book
01:01:56
which contained dozens of
01:01:58
numbers Sergeant EV of the
01:02:01
New Jersey police noticed that these numbers
01:02:03
do not have any
01:02:07
routine number of the region good the Lain morning
01:02:11
we are at B for
01:02:13
numbering
01:02:16
for telephone number to this deun
01:02:24
ilation
01:02:29
lesqute Ren the manager of this
01:02:32
Reise I the photo'answered I
01:02:36
see that R individuals
01:02:41
from ABIT this SEM re a new
01:02:44
dead end lesers glance content of the
01:02:48
address card right next to the
01:02:50
telephone number of the rental agency we
01:02:52
had written 275
01:02:54
dollars
01:02:56
I then asked the manager if he had
01:02:58
a lot of apartment in Lou for the
01:02:59
sum of 275
01:03:02
dollarselon managed only one apartment was
01:03:05
rented for this
01:03:06
amount it was vacant and was undergoing
01:03:11
renovation work the tenant did not leave
01:03:13
a new
01:03:16
address the G go late
01:03:24
am the girlfriend
01:03:30
she refused to reveal the name of her
01:03:31
boyfriend but gave them that of the
01:03:39
suspect's father-in-law. The next morning Lieutenant
01:03:42
Evens went to the suburbs of Boston
01:03:44
to question this
01:03:48
man seeing the photo he said but
01:03:51
what else did he say? done and I
01:03:54
how he'a
01:03:57
we contacted the command who
01:03:59
verified the name of the
01:04:01
suspect const the Digital emintes
01:04:04
that we had noted and his it's ASI
01:04:06
that we identified this
01:04:11
suspect was the passenger of
01:04:13
Thomas man's car on the evening of the murder
01:04:15
of Philippe l
01:04:17
Monac this violent extremist was
01:04:19
now wanted for the murder of a
01:04:22
police officer the authorities of the New
01:04:24
England join the eff
01:04:27
F and
01:04:30
Willams the special agent personut in charge
01:04:33
of AER the police of New Jersey in this
01:04:35
manhunt
01:04:37
it was essential for the FBI
01:04:40
and all other police services
01:04:42
to scrupulously examine all the
01:04:44
suspects and to scrutinize their contact
01:04:48
we tried to put in
01:04:51
place we want to understand
01:04:54
the leation
01:04:56
where he
01:04:58
[ Music]
01:05:00
allqu he examined the rign ob on the
01:05:04
[Music]
01:05:08
groupy
01:05:10
ID desation of for JIS ad
01:05:19
person
01:05:21
paross for CER the
01:05:24
identity
01:05:28
in 1981 a man entered the office of the
01:05:31
town clerk of brlebor in
01:05:33
Vermont to make a rather
01:05:37
unusual request he wanted to obtain the
01:05:39
birth certificate of a child who died
01:05:41
in the early
01:05:42
1950s the receptionist found the situation
01:05:46
suspicious in a small town
01:05:49
she knew the family of the child
01:05:54
who died
01:06:05
later lesers ID the man
01:06:09
on the car and near
01:06:13
the town hall ILP of having to forge
01:06:17
a new identity the birth certificate
01:06:19
of a child who
01:06:22
died in January
01:06:24
1982 the name of Thomas Manning was added
01:06:27
to that of levassur on the list of the 10
01:06:29
most wanted fugitives in the country the
01:06:32
authorities prepared to accentuate
01:06:34
pressure on the
01:06:36
suspects 4 months later FBI agent John
01:06:40
Marquier went to the scene
01:06:42
of a bank holdup two
01:06:44
Cagoulet men had stolen 60,000 dollars from
01:06:46
a bank in Burlington, Vermont
01:06:48
according to agent Marque the
01:06:51
meticulous way of The actions of the robbers
01:06:52
suggested that it could be
01:06:54
Melville Jack's group.
01:06:58
The three individuals entered the
01:07:00
bank immediately after the delivery
01:07:01
of money by an
01:07:03
armored van. A man was standing at
01:07:05
reception while the other two
01:07:08
went over the counter one of them
01:07:10
took the money in the drawers and
01:07:12
the other the money that had just been
01:07:17
delivered the money contained in the drawers
01:07:19
contained bags
01:07:22
of 'encb they grabbed a stack of
01:07:24
notes but when we take these notes out of
01:07:27
the bank an electronic detector
01:07:29
comes into operation and in less than 7
01:07:30
seconds it causes the dispersion of
01:07:32
tear gas in the air and
01:07:34
the bursting of the bags
01:07:37
They then threw about $20,000
01:07:39
out the window because the bills
01:07:41
were stained
01:07:44
with ink. Months later, three men
01:07:47
stormed a Syracuse,
01:07:48
New York, bank and fled with
01:07:50
loot of nearly 195,000 dollars their
01:07:53
modus operandy was practically
01:08:01
entered by Leon blind not taken in the
01:08:05
tiir there is no problem of the bags
01:08:08
of enc I in that we were ready with the
01:08:11
same as the braing of the
01:08:14
bintonit
01:08:16
conclci of Laer behind the content of the
01:08:19
tiir because of the
01:08:22
sach in barely months more than 235,000
01:08:27
dollars had been stolen from the banks
01:08:28
of the
01:08:29
region the authorities were worried at the idea
01:08:32
that the malvilleckson group could
01:08:34
prepare for a new campaign of
01:08:35
terror with all this
01:08:40
money on December 16 the police of White
01:08:44
PL in the State of New York received a
01:08:47
distress call an unknown person had called the
01:08:49
local newspaper to say that he had
01:08:51
hidden a bomb in an office building
01:08:54
fortunately at the time of
01:08:56
the explosion we were able to evacuate the
01:08:59
few dozen
01:09:05
employees the detonation was so violent
01:09:07
that all the windows were
01:09:11
shattered while searching the premises the
01:09:14
investigators got their hands on a
01:09:15
press release left by a group
01:09:16
calling itself the united
01:09:18
liberation front the
01:09:20
uff the group claimed responsibility for the
01:09:24
bombing the agents investigating
01:09:26
the case recognized the group's logo
01:09:31
he saw a loblable in the era
01:09:44
deag of
01:09:46
librationend made Nau n for the
01:09:49
individual guilty of the murder of the
01:09:54
Monaco
01:09:56
during the following year l The UFF
01:09:59
claimed responsibility for four more
01:10:02
bombings on December 14,
01:10:04
1983. The group contacted the press with
01:10:07
a terrifying message
01:10:09
threatening to destroy the offices of a
01:10:11
Department of Defense contractor
01:10:12
in
01:10:15
Queens. The group claimed to have left
01:10:17
a statement written in a
01:10:19
manatton mailbox
01:10:20
in this letter he denounced
01:10:23
the interference of the American government
01:10:25
Central America in the Caribbean and
01:10:27
the
01:10:29
Middle Eastquad antiom manages to defuse
01:10:31
bombs found in
01:10:33
briefcases thus finding bombs before they
01:10:35
explode is a stroke of luck as
01:10:37
special agent John explains to us,
01:10:40
used to make these bombs
01:10:43
were similar to the bombs of Sam
01:10:46
Melv Jonathan Jackson's group during the attacks
01:10:48
of the
01:10:51
years, for example the type of alarm clock
01:10:54
used,
01:10:58
a hole was made in the
01:10:59
quartz crystal to insert a screw
01:11:02
in
01:11:06
lon special agent Leonard cross was
01:11:09
not too familiar with this method of
01:11:11
manufacturing he had investigated the
01:11:13
first bomb attacks of the group
01:11:15
in the 70s in February
01:11:18
1984 read the coordination of the
01:11:22
search for
01:11:24
extremists Radic é in his 8th
01:11:28
year the terrorists were always
01:11:30
one step ahead of the authorities
01:11:32
by regularly changing
01:11:33
their identity the agent cross supported PARAD of the
01:11:37
FBI decided to try a new
01:11:41
approach we tried to clearly define
01:11:43
everything we knew about them where they had
01:11:45
lived they had installed booms where they
01:11:48
had robbed banks we
01:11:50
started by indicating everything on a
01:11:54
map
01:11:55
slowly but surely we noted
01:12:00
constants the activities of the group and
01:12:02
concentrated
01:12:03
on New York the massachuss the verm
01:12:10
conc
01:12:11
1984 the F
01:12:18
the operation of this mission
01:12:21
to intercept dangerous
01:12:24
fugitives
01:12:27
in
01:12:28
1984 the FBI launched Operation West SEP
01:12:32
with the aim of apprehending same cl of an
01:12:34
extremist group
01:12:39
raped the this group responsible for
01:12:42
several terrorist attacks
01:12:45
pre new jersyp of susp of having killed
01:12:50
the patrolman
01:12:52
[Music]
01:12:54
PhIP
01:12:58
hundreds of investigators rang the
01:13:06
group's favorite territory the agents discovered the
01:13:08
group's REPs the fpch of the units to search
01:13:12
the
01:13:14
li but fitif av always one
01:13:17
step ahead on the police as
01:13:24
we have long said that the more we
01:13:26
continue to commit crimes, the
01:13:28
greater our ability to
01:13:30
apprehend them. Agent John Mar tried to
01:13:32
predict when the terrorists would
01:13:35
strike based on the
01:13:37
very particular lifestyle of the members of the group
01:13:39
came up with an
01:13:43
ingenious theoryrib Ban's
01:13:46
198283 robbery in northern New York not far
01:13:48
from Highway 90 between Syracuse and
01:13:54
Alban Marquey divided the total
01:13:56
money stolen by the number of days
01:13:58
elapsed between
01:13:59
thefts he calculated that the group
01:14:02
lived on a budget of 737 dollars per
01:14:07
day by this calculation we could predict
01:14:11
when the next robbery would take place
01:14:13
I deduced that they would rob their
01:14:15
next bank between June 1 and 14,
01:14:21
1984 the predictions of marquey
01:14:23
proved to be right
01:14:28
on June 9 the pr group of a bank of
01:14:31
norfk in
01:14:33
Virginia of operation é the
01:14:36
same in the establishment
01:14:41
parto the personnel of the BAN àin
01:14:45
deign in the IT he of Argenton
01:14:49
has just come from delivered by
01:14:54
blind van they did not take the money from
01:14:56
the cashiers' drawers so they
01:14:58
avoided ending up with
01:15:00
bags of ink and libil and did
01:15:02
not trigger the
01:15:05
alarm system the members of the group seemed to
01:15:07
become more more astute with
01:15:09
each new heist the investigators
01:15:11
desperately need such a
01:15:13
small lead to finally be able to shed
01:15:15
light on
01:15:17
the entire AFF the
01:15:23
special AG so Refuted or
01:15:27
not we know very well that they will one
01:15:29
day end up committing an
01:15:32
error during the summer of 1984 the
01:15:36
fugitives finally made this
01:15:38
error on 4T the owner of a
01:15:41
warehousing company in Binghampton
01:15:43
in the State of New York contacted the
01:15:45
FBI one of his clients had not paid him
01:15:48
for 2
01:15:49
years in opening the storage space
01:15:52
to sell its contents to lanc he
01:15:54
found ch
01:16:03
terrifying in a rented space there
01:16:06
were books on making
01:16:08
bombs and handling firearms
01:16:11
there was documentation on
01:16:13
several companies and many
01:16:15
extremist or
01:16:19
Marxist books the agents found
01:16:21
diagrams on the manufacture of
01:16:23
bombs they saw a timer
01:16:25
assembled with the IDE of in
01:16:28
lon or rather during the investigation the
01:16:31
agents had discovered
01:16:33
intact bombs assembled in exactly the same
01:16:37
way this bomb was intended to detonate
01:16:39
several sticks of dynamite using
01:16:41
a simple
01:16:44
electrical charge this
01:16:46
characteristic design linked
01:16:48
the vassur and his group
01:16:50
to several bombings committed
01:16:52
throughout
01:16:53
new england
01:16:56
the rented space contained hundreds
01:16:58
of clues that the investigators will have to
01:16:59
examine even if they were sometimes difficult
01:17:02
to
01:17:05
decipher a magazine which had no
01:17:07
value at first
01:17:10
glance but an address on an old
01:17:13
catalog of Sem Perm investigators
01:17:15
coming across a new
01:17:19
name went to the address of his house
01:17:23
in according to neighbors oring had moved
01:17:27
with his whole family a few years
01:17:30
earlier the patrolman signed up for this
01:17:32
case thought he was still in
01:17:34
a dead end but he continued
01:17:37
to question the suspect's neighbors and
01:17:39
a few houses further on he came
01:17:41
across the guard
01:17:44
The teenager remembered them well.
01:17:49
She told the patrolman that
01:17:50
Madam was a mother like any
01:17:52
other and that the children were
01:17:54
well behaved
01:17:55
throughout the time she had
01:17:56
worked for them. Nothing
01:18:00
unusual had happened. then she remembered a
01:18:03
particular detail one day that she shared with
01:18:06
Madame Acdent
01:18:09
d'auto F at her initiation the patrolman
01:18:12
followed this PIST and consulted the
01:18:15
vehicle tracer accident linking a
01:18:18
Mad but there was an accident report which
01:18:21
had place at the same place and the same
01:18:23
day
01:18:26
what helped us was that we had
01:18:28
noted the name of the guard who was a
01:18:29
passenger in the
01:18:32
accident vehicle the name of the driver
01:18:34
was not but
01:18:38
Jud's license was now
01:18:41
awarded having been replaced by a
01:18:44
New York State driver's license in
01:18:46
1980 then replaced again by a
01:18:48
deuirer license in
01:18:53
oh V last license was
01:18:58
still J's name as well as his
01:19:01
address in
01:19:02
columbuschemin au
01:19:05
serent I then contacted the
01:19:07
Columbus police and I asked that they say that
01:19:09
there was at this address they told me
01:19:11
it was a post office box C we it was
01:19:14
very suspicious because it corresponds to the
01:19:16
way of
01:19:17
proceeding espev never run to their
01:19:23
house in Columbus the FBI rented a house
01:19:27
in front of the post office box
01:19:30
from there the agents could film
01:19:32
the
01:19:35
scene this post box was accessible
01:19:38
24 hours a day 7 days a week it
01:19:40
would be difficult to
01:19:44
monitor it on November 3 3 and a
01:19:47
half weeks after the start from the surveillance
01:19:49
a woman came to open the post office box
01:19:53
with the ID of the wife of
01:20:00
the it was the first time in 10 or 12
01:20:02
years that the authorities were able to see these
01:20:06
people so you can imagine the
01:20:09
adrenaline level of our
01:20:13
AGs there The fugitive's wife was the
01:20:17
only link between the terrorists and the
01:20:20
police. Instead of
01:20:22
arresting him, the agents followed them in the
01:20:25
hope that she would lead them to her
01:20:30
husband. In
01:20:33
1984, the FBI and a Special Squad were
01:20:37
looking for of a group of
01:20:40
terrorists these violent extremists
01:20:43
were suspected of a series of holdups
01:20:45
and bombings in addition to the
01:20:48
murder of a patrolman of the State of
01:20:50
New
01:20:53
Jersey
01:20:57
investigators had traced
01:20:59
the group by searching a
01:21:00
warehouse space in Connecticut which
01:21:03
led them to a post office box in Columbus in
01:21:05
oh after a decade their only lead
01:21:09
to the terrorists was the wife of the
01:21:11
leader Rayd
01:21:13
Levasseur the agents followed her
01:21:16
after she collected his
01:21:17
mail at the post box he knew
01:21:20
that like the rest of the group Levasseur's wife
01:21:22
had mastered the art
01:21:24
of hiding her tracks and that she might
01:21:25
realize that she was being
01:21:27
followed so they took care to stay at a
01:21:30
distance by having her watched by
01:21:32
deserted road in case she escaped them
01:21:38
she took and left the highway
01:21:39
several times stopping
01:21:41
looking all around her
01:21:43
also taking secondary roads it was
01:21:48
difficult 2 hours later the suspect
01:21:52
stopped in front of a house in Deerfield
01:21:54
in
01:21:55
oh the patrol Richard watched the
01:21:58
house from a
01:22:04
distance about 20 minutes later a
01:22:07
man came out of the
01:22:09
house he got in his car and
01:22:14
left the man was Richard Williams he
01:22:17
was wanted for the murder of
01:22:19
patrolman Philippe lamonaco
01:22:20
New Jersey State Police
01:22:25
FBI agents followed Williams
01:22:27
to his haunt in
01:22:30
Cleveland he now had to
01:22:32
keep watch on houses 100 miles
01:22:34
apart at one of these locations there
01:22:37
was the suspected of Philippe la Monaco
01:22:39
and the other the fugitive round l whose
01:22:42
name appeared at the top of the list of the 10
01:22:44
most wanted men by the FBI
01:22:46
the teams maintained surveillance
01:22:47
of the premises until the
01:22:52
morning around 9:4 a.m.
01:22:55
the Lass that the
01:23:02
house l unit took
01:23:07
action we arrested them and their
01:23:15
FEM we immediately transmitted the news
01:23:18
of Lur's arrest to the team in oh
01:23:21
the team then wanted to take assut the
01:23:23
clevel marker
01:23:27
in Cleveland the agents surrounded the
01:23:30
house by Richard
01:23:34
Williams this one an alleged murderer
01:23:37
and a terrorist surrendered without
01:23:43
resistance after several years of
01:23:45
hard work the squad was finally able to
01:23:48
capture wanted TR men in
01:23:49
less than an
01:23:53
hour
01:24:00
ê the AG Bombard Williams question
01:24:04
about from the place where
01:24:06
Thomas Willams was found passing several
01:24:11
hours the more time passed and the more the
01:24:14
fugitives had time to
01:24:18
flee finally Willam the address
01:24:23
of
01:24:26
one of REP was that of
01:24:32
thomasend at this location and we have searches
01:24:37
exha Willams' tactics of keeping
01:24:40
silent fruit them the time to
01:24:44
flee but not enough to
01:24:47
eliminate all the
01:24:50
TR in the den the investigators hole
01:24:52
guns
01:24:55
false
01:24:57
identity documents and 32,000 dollars in
01:25:00
cash they also found a
01:25:02
detailed 1000-page report on the
01:25:09
group's activities in one room a
01:25:12
radio wave transmitter tuned to a
01:25:14
frequency used by the
01:25:17
FBI was discovered in another room agents
01:25:20
found explosives and
01:25:22
bomb-making equipment
01:25:24
there was also a assortment of
01:25:26
several parts including the same screws
01:25:28
in characteristic length as those of the
01:25:31
intact bombs found between 1976 and
01:25:37
1983 a
01:25:39
semi-automatic pistol with a caliber of 9
01:25:45
mm was collected at the FB forensic laboratory the
01:25:49
technicians analyzed the firearm they
01:25:51
then compared the projectile
01:25:53
extracted from the patroller PhIP
01:25:55
la Monaco wound to the projectile obtained during
01:25:57
ESS shooting with the gun in
01:26:00
question we were able to determine that this
01:26:02
weapon had shot down Philippe la
01:26:08
Monaco although we finally found
01:26:10
the murder weapon he would be difficult to
01:26:13
find its owner because someone
01:26:15
had filed off the serial number
01:26:19
the technicians applied a
01:26:22
special solution allowing him to
01:26:24
identify this number it was barely
01:26:28
[Music]
01:26:31
readable having succeeded they were able to
01:26:34
determine that the weapon had been purchased
01:26:36
in an armory from norf in Virginia by
01:26:38
a certain Deb
01:26:42
Fury she had given an address in
01:26:44
Virginia
01:26:47
Beach the investigators went to
01:26:49
this
01:26:50
address it was once again
01:26:52
a post office box
01:26:54
a surveillance team stationed itself
01:26:56
in front to see who would come looking for
01:26:58
the
01:26:59
courier a woman soon came to
01:27:02
open the locker and the agents
01:27:06
identified her it was Debra Ann Fury the
01:27:09
wife of Thomas
01:27:10
man the FBI had finally found the
01:27:14
person who would lead them to the last
01:27:16
member of a violent group
01:27:19
of extremists l special agent Leonard
01:27:23
Cross we were sure that the couple
01:27:25
had a radio wave scanner and
01:27:27
that she would find the frequencies
01:27:28
used by the police and the FBI. We
01:27:30
then had special coded radios
01:27:32
so she would not be able to hear
01:27:34
our communications. She was
01:27:36
followed and led us
01:27:39
north. Man's wife led the
01:27:41
investigators to a house in Norfolk,
01:27:43
only 30 km
01:27:47
away. He didn't want to stop her until he
01:27:49
was sure that her husband
01:27:51
was
01:27:53
home an hour later he followed her
01:27:56
again to a
01:28:02
nearby mall while an
01:28:04
arrest team apprehended the woman
01:28:06
another team moved on to the
01:28:09
man's house he was outside unaware that we
01:28:15
were monitoring he was not armed we
01:28:18
made the decision to take action
01:28:20
because then there would be no injuries
01:28:28
Thomas the last terrorist of the group
01:28:31
was arrested in his own
01:28:35
backyard in
01:28:37
1987 Thomas Richard Williams appeared at
01:28:41
New jersey don mono the patrolman
01:28:45
phipo was present l de
01:28:53
leé knew exactly how things had
01:28:55
happened I wanted to be sure
01:28:57
that it was really them who had killed
01:29:01
Philippe the two men who
01:29:02
described themselves as revolutionaries were
01:29:05
sentenced to prison life for the
01:29:06
murder of Officer Philippe l Monaco they
01:29:10
received additional sentences for their
01:29:12
role in a series of bank robberies
01:29:13
and bombings starting in
01:29:17
1975 in another trial the wife of
01:29:20
Thomas Manning was found guilty
01:29:22
of conspiracy and was
01:29:28
served 45 years of incarceration for his
01:29:31
role in the
01:29:33
terrorist group his wife was
01:29:35
released after a few months in
01:29:40
detention I believe there are real
01:29:43
things about
01:29:49
willamsut
01:29:53
crimin t revolutionaries but in the
01:29:56
end they were just
01:29:57
criminals there is nothing added to
01:30:01
that when you rob banks
01:30:04
you plant bombs and you
01:30:06
shoot a policeman who was just doing
01:30:07
his
01:30:09
job you are a criminal a that
01:30:12
's it,
01:30:14
decades have passed since
01:30:17
the death of Philippe la Monaco and
01:30:19
yet people still leave
01:30:21
flowers and small flags near
01:30:22
the new highway which he was
01:30:28
monitoring an attempted murder
01:30:30
of a
01:30:31
police officer a shooting linked to the sale
01:30:34
of
01:30:37
[Music]
01:30:39
drugs a violent bank robbery
01:30:42
a gang of dangerous criminals
01:30:45
threatens an entire
01:30:47
community FBI agents and a former
01:30:50
police officer will put their lives on the line during
01:30:52
a special operation
01:30:54
to find the
01:30:55
[Music]
01:31:07
[Music ]
01:31:13
[Music]
01:31:22
bandits
01:31:24
[Music]
01:31:28
[Applause]
01:31:30
[Music]
01:31:34
the city of Camden in New Jersey is
01:31:37
located just across the river from Philadelphia,
01:31:39
it is one
01:31:41
of the most deprived cities
01:31:42
in America and where the crime rate
01:31:45
is the
01:31:46
highest on February 12,
01:31:49
1997 agent Stephen Leon carried out his
01:31:52
patrol
01:31:57
it was 4:20 a.m.
01:32:00
[Music]
01:32:02
morning the agent stopped for a moment
01:32:05
to take care of some
01:32:12
administrative matters I I then heard
01:32:14
gunshots coming from the
01:32:16
Camden area over 50
01:32:22
times it is not unusual to hear
01:32:25
gunshots in Camden I was trying to
01:32:27
determine in which area it had happened
01:32:29
before relaying the news to the
01:32:31
other patrol units to prevent
01:32:33
the police from roaming the city
01:32:34
in all
01:32:36
directions, agent Léonis headed towards
01:32:39
the place where the shots were coming from
01:32:41
the streets were deserted he
01:32:45
then saw a
01:32:47
suspicious car he followed him
01:32:56
the driver seemed to realize
01:32:58
that a patrol car was following him
01:33:00
and he veered
01:33:20
left i leaned back in my seat
01:33:24
and when i got up i had a
01:33:26
taste of blood in my
01:33:28
mouth officer lon had been hit in the
01:33:30
face he managed as best he could to
01:33:32
get out of his
01:33:34
vehicle I got out of the car
01:33:37
to hide behind the vehicle in
01:33:39
case my attackers were still
01:33:40
in the area I knew that I had
01:33:43
received a projectile in the face and
01:33:44
that I was injured but I didn't know the
01:33:46
seriousness of this injury I called
01:33:49
the center to report that an agent
01:33:51
had been
01:33:52
hit
01:33:56
[Music]
01:34:00
in less than a few minutes desciers from
01:34:03
the rescue teams arrived at the SC
01:34:05
of the crime badly
01:34:09
injured the man's car, he had the
01:34:12
ambulances stabilize his front and
01:34:15
left, closer to the
01:34:18
projectile frag Seta lodged in the policeman's face,
01:34:24
I had one in the scalp, one
01:34:26
in the left eye socket and another in
01:34:28
the eye socket right and a small piece in
01:34:29
the nose I am lucky not to have
01:34:31
lost my
01:34:34
sight the ambulances the Enton at speed to
01:34:38
the hospital pant this
01:34:40
time cry research
01:34:44
of ind the prosecutor
01:34:50
deand cot of TI Surer
01:34:55
we mobilize all our resources and this
01:34:57
as quickly as
01:35:00
possible the experts searched the surrounding area for
01:35:02
the shooter's car
01:35:04
the police then dispatched to a
01:35:07
house near the crime scene a
01:35:09
man had heard gunshots
01:35:11
earlier in the
01:35:13
evening the front door riddled with
01:35:16
holes of the
01:35:26
evening the man had grabbed his
01:35:28
firearm the intruders had heard
01:35:30
moving in the house and had opened
01:35:32
fire the occupant of the house had
01:35:34
responded forcing his attackers to
01:35:45
leave [Music] the police believed that this
01:35:47
attack was what we call in the
01:35:48
industry a ninja style robbery men
01:35:51
with masked faces enter a house
01:35:53
to steal drugs or money
01:35:55
more than 50 projectiles had been fired
01:35:57
into the
01:36:02
[Applause]
01:36:09
house one of the bullets had passed through a
01:36:11
wall a fridge and then the back wall
01:36:13
of the house we never found it
01:36:16
another had gone through the ceiling the
01:36:18
floor of the upper floor and the roof
01:36:20
we never found it either these
01:36:22
guys had guns very
01:36:23
powerful
01:36:35
later in the morning the
01:36:37
police found an abandoned car
01:36:42
it matched the car described
01:36:44
by agent
01:36:47
Leon there were fragments of glass
01:36:49
projectile casings
01:36:51
from an AR 15 and a caliber pistol
01:36:53
4
01:36:54
u we relayed traces
01:36:58
of ai one of the attackers had been
01:37:03
hit a police officer checked the
01:37:05
license plate number of the car
01:37:08
it belonged to a woman from the
01:37:11
neighborhood a dog from the ES can a smell
01:37:14
in the car and in followed the trail
01:37:16
to the address of the owner of the
01:37:21
vehicle or had been injured a
01:37:25
unit was preparing to storm the
01:37:27
house in case the shooters
01:37:29
were still
01:37:31
inside the school was closed
01:37:33
elementary not far from there because we
01:37:35
feared that there would be an exchange of
01:37:36
gunfire with these heavily
01:37:41
armed individuals in the apartment we found
01:37:44
no trace of the
01:37:52
shooters
01:37:54
but the owner of the abandoned vehicle
01:37:57
[Music]
01:38:04
they learned that she was the
01:38:06
girlfriend of Charlie
01:38:08
Rodriguez one of the most
01:38:10
violent criminals in Camon
01:38:13
between 1984 and 1989 charlie had been
01:38:16
arrested for illegal possession of weapons
01:38:18
and drugs as well as for making
01:38:22
terrorist threats and was a guy ready for
01:38:25
anything he n There was nothing wrong with him,
01:38:28
he was the type of man who
01:38:31
would dare to attack a police officer, a
01:38:32
person or a child without any
01:38:36
scruples. The unit found no trace of the
01:38:39
shooter. The police searched the scene and
01:38:41
questioned the girlfriend of the shooter.
01:38:46
suspect declared that she was at
01:38:48
her workplace at the time of the
01:38:49
shooting and that she had reported the
01:38:51
theft of her car.
01:38:55
Investigators searched her house and found
01:38:56
traces of blood. Experts were brought in
01:39:00
so that he could collect evidence.
01:39:05
investigators sampled the
01:39:07
area and questioned the neighbors of the
01:39:09
suspect's girlfriend Ilb about someone
01:39:12
who had seen men at
01:39:14
the young woman's house very early this
01:39:17
morning after having taken photos
01:39:20
of
01:39:22
BA men on parole
01:39:26
after being incarcerated for
01:39:27
manslaughter and for
01:39:29
having firearms in his possession
01:39:31
the police found ba at his
01:39:33
DEPF New
01:39:36
Jersey apartment the suspect was quickly taken into
01:39:39
custody
01:39:40
the investigators noticed an
01:39:43
injury to the
01:39:48
suspect's hand a projectile had hit him
01:39:50
had tried to sew up the PL himself
01:39:54
the police arrested Baz for
01:39:56
violating the conditions of his
01:39:57
release and to take a
01:39:58
sample of his
01:40:02
blood in the laboratory his blood was compared to
01:40:05
that which had been collected in
01:40:06
the
01:40:08
shooting case they were able to demonstrate that he
01:40:11
was the one who had left the
01:40:12
blood marks in the house and the
01:40:15
vehicle the investigators
01:40:18
now had proof that baes
01:40:19
was in the car at the time when
01:40:20
agent Léonie was injured but
01:40:22
nothing dem that it was he who had
01:40:24
pulled the
01:40:29
trigger at the beginning refused to speak to the
01:40:34
authorities but after weeks of
01:40:36
detention he finally agreed to
01:40:38
meet the
01:40:49
investigators finally agreed to deler but
01:40:56
FAM he declared that chare Rodriguez had
01:40:59
participated in the robbery of St ninja even the
01:41:01
riflel during which the Enton was
01:41:05
injured I believe that cavorted with us
01:41:08
because Charlie had threatened his
01:41:11
family it was because he was afraid
01:41:13
that he was so
01:41:15
cooperative the prosecutor's office
01:41:19
deê
01:41:22
contz
01:41:23
[Music]
01:41:26
ll
01:41:28
desarration sup Laé name of Rodz list
01:41:33
of fitif most
01:41:36
wanted
01:41:38
daysouille the search for char
01:41:42
rodzme well Conn the habit of the city
01:41:47
too much to speak
01:41:48
here fear is a powerful weapon for a
01:41:51
guy like char rodriuez
01:41:54
during the month following the Léony affair
01:41:56
the police questioned their
01:41:57
informants but all they
01:41:59
learned was that Charlie was hiding
01:42:01
somewhere across the river in
01:42:05
Philadelphia where Charlie was suspected
01:42:08
of having fled to another state. The police
01:42:10
called in the
01:42:13
FBI after obtaining a tip. federal arrest warrant
01:42:15
agent John was put in charge of the
01:42:18
manhunt for Charlie
01:42:22
Rodriguez I start by obtaining
01:42:24
good photos then I examine the
01:42:26
suspect's criminal file his
01:42:28
prison file to see who his
01:42:30
companions were cell who visited him
01:42:32
during his incarceration in order
01:42:34
to identify who he would have been in
01:42:38
contact with the FBI agents cast a
01:42:41
huge
01:42:43
net but like the police they
01:42:46
discovered that people were too afraid
01:42:48
to
01:42:52
talk about the fear of being a merciless killer
01:42:54
people were very cautious
01:42:57
when it came to talking about
01:43:02
him the agents so put
01:43:04
Charlie's girlfriend under surveillance
01:43:06
hoping she would lead them to
01:43:09
him Rodriguez was cunning enough
01:43:11
not to make contact with his
01:43:13
girlfriend that didn't therefore did not
01:43:15
help us over the following months the
01:43:18
agents continued to question their
01:43:19
informants they soon learned that
01:43:21
Charlie was hiding in the lower
01:43:23
a very violent neighborhood of
01:43:26
Philadelphia it was a very
01:43:28
harsh neighborhood where there was a lot of
01:43:29
drug dealing the people who lived there were
01:43:31
constantly intimidated by criminals
01:43:33
it was very difficult to find a
01:43:34
fugitive there because it was almost
01:43:36
impossible to get cooperation
01:43:38
from anyone
01:43:39
the Swit units searched the
01:43:42
buildings in the Badlands where the we
01:43:44
suspected Charlie of
01:43:47
hiding we called the
01:43:49
special intervention group we arrived at
01:43:51
5 a.m. and we made a raid at
01:44:02
the same time in the unsecured r
01:44:06
of the F investigation for another
01:44:11
case the AG
01:44:22
special brother Joseph and other guys
01:44:25
planned to commit a bank robbery or
01:44:28
attack an armored van
01:44:35
soon Joseph Rodriguez was previously
01:44:37
convicted of murder in
01:44:39
a drug bust
01:44:40
in the
01:44:42
1990s teenagers were then shot
01:44:45
on a street corner in
01:44:48
South Camden according to an
01:44:50
informant and
01:44:52
jphodz particular in the neighboring town of
01:44:55
Wood in New
01:45:00
Jersey the agents formed
01:45:04
surveillance teams if the brothers rodriuez came to
01:45:06
this bank the police would be ready to
01:45:10
stop them unfortunately the weeks
01:45:12
passed without any GIS we did
01:45:15
not maintain the surveillance for
01:45:17
longer because we lacked personnel
01:45:19
about a month and a half later we stopped
01:45:21
the surveillance
01:45:24
on July 19,
01:45:26
1997 a few weeks after the end of
01:45:28
the surveillance operation several
01:45:30
heavily armed men attacked the
01:45:32
bank of
01:45:38
[Music]
01:45:42
Wood C é paralyzed with
01:45:51
fear
01:45:54
two thieves forced a teller to
01:45:55
empty the
01:45:58
cash drawers the other thieves monitored
01:46:00
the entrance and regularly indicated to
01:46:01
their accomplices how much time had
01:46:03
passed since their arrival a thief
01:46:05
tried to force the director to open
01:46:08
the door of the vault, she
01:46:10
told him that she could not
01:46:11
do it, the vault was connected
01:46:13
to a
01:46:14
timer, he then told her that she
01:46:17
had to open the vault, otherwise
01:46:19
he the
01:46:26
shooting in New Jersey of
01:46:29
a Camden police officer led the
01:46:31
FBI into a manhunt for
01:46:34
a violent ex-prisoner
01:46:35
named Charlie
01:46:37
Rodriguez 5 months later three men
01:46:40
armed with rifles semi-automatic had
01:46:42
stormed a bank in Woodland,
01:46:44
New
01:46:47
Jersey the manager of the establishment
01:46:49
could not open the vault because
01:46:51
it was connected to a
01:46:54
timer one of the thieves threatened to
01:46:58
kill her the thieves no longer had enough of
01:47:02
time he had to flee before the arrival
01:47:05
of the
01:47:06
[Music]
01:47:11
police the director on the life
01:47:21
saves
01:47:28
lesyés of the B
01:47:31
terf
01:47:33
[Music]
01:47:35
special g é in shock a fre transport
01:47:40
to
01:47:41
the hospital a
01:47:44
peaia carère violent of I I
01:47:47
immediately knew that it was Char Rodriuez
01:47:49
and his
01:47:51
brother
01:47:57
the agents and police officers put the
01:47:59
Philadelphia bridges and the
01:48:00
New Jersey highway under surveillance but
01:48:02
no trace of the brothers was found
01:48:07
[Music]
01:48:10
Rodriguez Joseph Rodriguez lived in
01:48:12
Camden but the FBI did not have
01:48:15
enough clue to
01:48:17
arrest him and the agents put him under
01:48:19
surveillance hoping that he would
01:48:21
lead them to Charlie
01:48:24
he had realized that we
01:48:26
could trace his brother through
01:48:27
him and they therefore decided
01:48:29
to stay away from each
01:48:31
other during the Mo in the sector of
01:48:36
a theft of Ban soup the Rodriguez
01:48:39
even if the policecune form of the
01:48:49
[Music]
01:48:51
involvement
01:48:53
a torture town to the north of
01:48:59
C on 23,
01:49:01
1998 more than a year has passed since the
01:49:04
gunshots which
01:49:05
injured the HES just before
01:49:10
8:30 a.m. there were assault rifles and
01:49:16
machine guns the doors of the bank had
01:49:18
not yet been
01:49:21
unlocked
01:49:27
the thieves had lost a
01:49:29
precious time he realizes that a
01:49:32
bank employee had undoubtedly triggered
01:49:34
the
01:49:35
silent alarm of CA VI the
01:49:43
cash drawer a very shooter monitored the
01:49:47
regular entrance to count how much time had
01:49:51
passed he found that the cashiers
01:49:53
were not going quite
01:49:56
[Applause]
01:50:03
quickly the thieves eff a Cère who arrived
01:50:06
in
01:50:17
[Music]
01:50:21
delay thieves did not
01:50:24
panic they ordered the CA to give him
01:50:27
the keys to his
01:50:36
car they fled in the
01:50:38
car of the
01:50:46
[Music]
01:50:51
Cassière
01:50:54
judging by the behavior of the
01:50:55
thieves, agents Tam and Walsh were
01:50:58
of the opinion that it was
01:50:59
probably the Fres
01:51:01
Rodriguez. They obtained other clues by
01:51:04
examining the photos taken from the
01:51:05
recordings of the surveillance cameras,
01:51:07
the weapons, the balaclavas, even
01:51:10
some The clothes look very
01:51:12
similar to what the
01:51:14
Wood bank robbers wore. The photos show that he
01:51:17
wore identical clothes in
01:51:18
both
01:51:19
cases, but the agents did not
01:51:24
allow him to accuse the
01:51:25
Rodrigz
01:51:26
Deoldb brothers of the compement of the thieves.
01:51:28
seemed to have changed it more and more
01:51:35
violent gang was more and more
01:51:39
brutal someone possibly to be killed
01:51:42
either a Ban loyalist or a hundred or a
01:51:45
police officer dispatched to the
01:51:47
scene someone was going to be killed sooner or
01:51:49
later it was
01:51:51
inevitable
01:51:53
the agents Tam and Walsh met then
01:51:56
the police departments of all the
01:51:57
cities in the area to describe the
01:51:59
method of thieves at the end
01:52:01
of July 1998 the ob a
01:52:06
promising lead from the lieutenant of the
01:52:09
Merchille Police Department in New
01:52:16
Jersey cont is to roduezna well
01:52:21
sounder will be able to help us find out where
01:52:24
crazy
01:52:26
Rodz is hiding a year and a half after the start of
01:52:29
the investigation the FBI can finally bet on
01:52:31
someone who could provide
01:52:33
information on Charlie
01:52:35
[Music]
01:52:37
Rodriguez it was our biggest stroke
01:52:40
of luck because from the start we
01:52:42
were in the dark and we were looking for
01:52:43
someone who would cooperate with us and who
01:52:45
would know where
01:52:48
Rodz
01:52:50
lienantoreanis was RRE
01:52:54
plan for roduez dere in
01:52:59
phadelphia the trainer was a steel worker who
01:53:02
had to resign because of del
01:53:04
minor relating to the possession
01:53:09
of ARM I found him intelligent very
01:53:12
articulate considering the fact that he had
01:53:14
grown up in a very harsh urban environment
01:53:18
m seemed honest and reliable
01:53:23
the informant declared that he wanted to
01:53:25
arrest Charlie before he shoots
01:53:27
someone and more particularly
01:53:29
a police officer and
01:53:31
kills him we talked about his relationship with
01:53:33
Joseph
01:53:35
Rodriguez the agents believed that Joseph
01:53:38
must necessarily be in contact with
01:53:40
his brother to plan their
01:53:42
theft I suggested that he ask
01:53:45
Joseph if he had heard from his
01:53:47
brother if he was in contact with him and
01:53:49
if so how often he spoke
01:53:54
we hoped that this information
01:53:56
would help us trace Charlie
01:53:59
Rodriguez Agents Tam and Walsh hatched
01:54:02
a plan to encourage Charlie
01:54:04
to come out of
01:54:06
hiding he knew that the ex-policeman
01:54:08
had already sold
01:54:10
weapons he had worked for a
01:54:13
gunsmith and it was a known fact in
01:54:15
the
01:54:17
Camden community the dealer had however lost
01:54:20
the right to own or sell firearms
01:54:23
the agents decided to use
01:54:24
their informant's past to give him
01:54:28
cover he would go meet Joseph
01:54:30
Rodriguez and ask him if he
01:54:32
would not be interested in buying a
01:54:33
pistol we thought it would be a good
01:54:36
pretext he would make people believe to Rodriguez
01:54:38
that he had decided to enter
01:54:39
the
01:54:42
criminal world I knew that would be of interest
01:54:45
because Rodriguez criminals are
01:54:47
always looking to obtain new weapons
01:54:50
they can take from Cell
01:54:53
and use new weapons that we
01:54:55
cannot link to
01:55:00
previous crimes accept talk to Joseph L
01:55:02
about a family meeting planned a few
01:55:04
days later at the beginning Joseph SEM
01:55:08
suspicious Joseph knew that he had been a
01:55:10
police officer and that he had to
01:55:12
resign the service of that to
01:55:15
approach him he said I 'was fired for
01:55:17
the wrong reasons they made
01:55:19
life hard for me to hell with the
01:55:21
police
01:55:27
a few days later Joseph contacted
01:55:29
the ex police to arrange a time
01:55:31
to
01:55:32
see him again JPH read said he had spoken
01:55:35
with char and that he was interested
01:55:37
in buying a
01:55:39
pistol we were finally progressing in this
01:55:41
investigation we knew that Charlie Rodriguez
01:55:43
was in the
01:55:45
[Music]
01:55:48
paragent aler that he had to organize
01:55:51
for RR
01:55:53
[Music]
01:55:55
Joseph roduez was ready to buy this
01:55:57
weapon and to hand it over later to Char
01:55:59
Rodriguez but that hardly advances us
01:56:03
so I clearly specified to our
01:56:05
informant that he had to hand over the weapon
01:56:07
to Char Rodriuez himself Eton then took advantage of it
01:56:09
to
01:56:12
arrest him the FBI had not no
01:56:15
intention of letting someone sell
01:56:16
a firearm to one of the Roduez brothers
01:56:24
the expier went to Joseph's apartment
01:56:26
to finalize the
01:56:29
transaction our informant takes
01:56:32
great risks he will have been killed immediately
01:56:34
in my opinion char Joseph Rodriuez
01:56:37
discovered that he collaborated with
01:56:46
us New Jersey in
01:56:51
1998 an expicer participated in a
01:56:54
dangerous secret operation organized
01:56:56
by the
01:56:57
FBI char Rodriguez known under the name
01:57:01
of Crazy é soup of having attacked a
01:57:04
police officer and having committed several thefts of
01:57:10
Ban l expert tries to infiltrate
01:57:12
Chare's gang by offering to sell him
01:57:18
firearms the informant met Chare's brother
01:57:24
[Music]
01:57:26
Joseph Rodriguez who had already been
01:57:29
imprisoned
01:57:30
for the madman to see if there
01:57:32
were any microphones on
01:57:34
him no recording equipment on
01:57:37
him because it was Cigna that he would be killed if
01:57:39
anyone
01:57:42
found him slowly but surely through the
01:57:45
B of a series of meetings the excer
01:57:47
ends up gaining the trust of
01:57:51
Joseph
01:57:56
the informant RV to FBI agents John
01:57:58
Tam and Jim Walsh that Joseph asked him for
01:58:01
advice on the best way to
01:58:03
go about an upcoming
01:58:05
theft I read it's an excellent idea you
01:58:08
could even tell him that you are
01:58:10
interested in it
01:58:21
Charlie Rodriguez was
01:58:23
planning his biggest hit yet
01:58:25
and was hoping to get his hands on a
01:58:27
loot of at least 100,000
01:58:29
dollars I said well we're going to
01:58:31
make them a
01:58:35
suggestion if they want to rob someone
01:58:38
we're going to provide them with the
01:58:39
[Music]
01:58:41
target the wal agents planned a
01:58:44
scam to lure Charlie Rodriguez
01:58:46
without putting anyone in
01:58:51
danger
01:58:52
the key in this case was
01:58:53
to have credibility the criminal
01:58:56
must believe in the scenario
01:58:57
presented to him there would be money in this
01:58:59
scenario there would be a great opportunity
01:59:01
it all had to be plausible
01:59:03
for him to decide to move forward
01:59:04
with this plan I suggested that we
01:59:07
get them to steal the armored van that
01:59:09
was powering an ATM near
01:59:10
the New Jersey
01:59:13
Turnpike so we would be in a
01:59:15
safe environment because we
01:59:17
could isolate the rest stop where
01:59:19
the ATM was located which
01:59:20
would allow us to capture them
01:59:24
[Music]
01:59:25
agentis the place
01:59:29
better we chiseled it from close to the
01:59:33
houses all
01:59:39
around if there were gunshots fire the
01:59:42
projects would be blocked by the
01:59:43
rocky walls and not
01:59:48
everywhere
01:59:51
more it was difficult to control the
01:59:55
situation the informant made his
01:59:57
proposal to
01:59:58
Joseph he carefully evaluated the
02:00:02
plan he met Joseph Rodriguez and
02:00:05
he told him that an armored van driver
02:00:07
that he knew would agree to
02:00:09
help them because he was riddled with debt from
02:00:11
sports betting and
02:00:13
gambling he would do it on condition of
02:00:16
receiving his share of the
02:00:18
loot the expier added that the driver
02:00:21
of the Fourg
02:00:22
comped him and that the armored van
02:00:24
would contain more than 200,000
02:00:26
[Music]
02:00:38
dollars days later Joseph
02:00:41
contacted him again to
02:00:42
let him know what they had
02:00:44
decided Joseph
02:00:46
rod cro that it's an excellent idea we
02:00:48
can start planning this
02:00:50
move that he wanted to go examine the
02:00:53
rest with a very
02:00:58
accomplice this change of plan worried
02:01:05
the excer JPH said don't worry you
02:01:09
can trust him
02:01:11
the very accomplice
02:01:16
[Music]
02:01:20
appait
02:01:23
ep of
02:01:30
conditional establishment they are returned to the '
02:01:32
rest to see if he can easily
02:01:34
steal the van at this
02:01:37
location there was a service road at
02:01:39
the back of the rest that allows you to
02:01:42
arrive and leave without ever
02:01:43
having to go all on
02:01:47
the highway he qu 'he can easily
02:01:49
escape without being seen by anyone,
02:01:54
the thieves have everything about this
02:01:57
place and the FBI has him. However, because it
02:02:00
allows them to be isolated, he could
02:02:05
pose a danger to the population if he
02:02:08
were to be beaten of fire or anything
02:02:12
else j turn of the rest in
02:02:16
the tineire Fouron blind that
02:02:20
ilimichetaque Joseph Rodriguez had become
02:02:23
well familiar with the place and he
02:02:24
was at
02:02:26
ease it is moreover he who sold
02:02:28
the idea to Charlie our informant did
02:02:30
n't even have to
02:02:39
do it the informant notified the FBI that
02:02:42
Charlie Rodriguez the target of the scam
02:02:44
organized by the agents had approved
02:02:46
the neck the flight was planned for August 27th
02:02:57
now that the plan was in action
02:02:59
the FBI contacted the department responsible
02:03:02
for the highway and the IRE of rest
02:03:03
that is to say the police of the State of New
02:03:08
Jersey
02:03:10
Lionel made of the situation the
02:03:12
patrol had to block the access of all the
02:03:14
sector and the motorway
02:03:20
lesutist the radios which fly over the
02:03:23
roads and which would have informed the
02:03:24
listeners that the motorway was
02:03:26
blocked for the plan to work it
02:03:28
was necessary to block access to the rest air
02:03:30
only a few moments before
02:03:31
the arrival of the suspects to avoid
02:03:33
sowing
02:03:36
panic the units would either be stationed
02:03:39
at the highway entrances and in the
02:03:42
rest area buildings 3 days before the scheduled date of the
02:03:44
flight agents Tam and Walsh organize a
02:03:47
meeting between the FBI and the heads of
02:03:49
SWAT units in order to review the plan for
02:03:51
the arrest of the Rodguez brothers and
02:03:54
so we knew that he would be heavily
02:03:57
armed and at least in the case of Charlie
02:03:59
Rodriguez that he would not hesitate to
02:04:00
use their weapons if they props
02:04:03
trapped onjet to evacuate the rest area
02:04:06
a few minutes before the arrival of the
02:04:09
Rodriguez gang the FBI informant parked
02:04:12
behind the rest area and
02:04:14
then went on foot in front of the
02:04:15
main building so as not to be in the line
02:04:17
of
02:04:18
fire memes the unit would be hidden
02:04:22
in a delivery truck it would be
02:04:24
covered by snipers stationed
02:04:25
on the roof of the
02:04:29
building a tow truck driven by an
02:04:32
FBI agent was to take the
02:04:36
access route the agent was to ram the
02:04:38
Rodriguez's car at this
02:04:40
precise location in order to prevent them from
02:04:43
fleeing once the thieves are
02:04:45
trapped the unit could proceed to
02:04:49
arrest them and P that if these guys had
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any common sense he would
02:04:55
surrender on August 27, 1998 the agents and
02:04:59
police gathered in the air of
02:05:02
rest the trap was in
02:05:08
place crazy Charlie was considered
02:05:11
a very dangerous and
02:05:13
unpredictable criminal I believe that everyone who
02:05:15
participated in this operation knew well
02:05:18
that he would not allow himself to be captured
02:05:19
easily and even if we plan everything
02:05:22
carefully a shooting is
02:05:24
always
02:05:33
possible camdden in New Jersey Charlie
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Rodriguez was suspected of having injured
02:05:39
a police officer and of having committed several
02:05:43
bank robberies on 27 a 1998 agents John Tam
02:05:48
and Jim Walsh of the FBI had put at the point of
02:05:51
a complex operation aimed at
02:05:52
arresting the dangerous fugitive and his
02:05:57
gang nearly 100 agents and police
02:05:59
were in position at a rest area
02:06:00
on
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[Music]
02:06:04
the highway but Charlie and his gang did
02:06:08
not come we wondered what we could have
02:06:10
done harm had he discovered the
02:06:12
pink post he suspected our
02:06:16
informant the agents were worried
02:06:18
about their informant an expicier who
02:06:20
had infiltrated the Rodriguez gang if
02:06:23
Charlie Rodriguez learned that he had
02:06:24
been trapped he would suddenly kill
02:06:26
him FBI informant
02:06:32
early this morning the informant
02:06:35
called me to tell me that the
02:06:37
Rodriuez brothers who were supposed to meet him at his
02:06:39
Merchantville apartment had not
02:06:41
yet
02:06:45
arrived, so he was told to try to
02:06:47
contact Joseph to find out why
02:06:49
he had not come as planned
02:06:53
despite the risks he ran
02:06:54
the informant agreed to speak to
02:07:11
Joseph Joseph lu announced that the day before the
02:07:14
police had come because he was looking for one
02:07:16
of the men of the gang r
02:07:20
so the informant called the FBI agents
02:07:22
to break the
02:07:25
news the sheriff's office had a
02:07:27
warrant against Jose Soto for failure to
02:07:29
pay
02:07:31
his child support that scared the thieves
02:07:33
and they decided not to go
02:07:35
ahead with their
02:07:38
plan Officer Walsh asked the police officer
02:07:41
to tell Soto that he only wanted one
02:07:43
thing from him: a promise that he would pay
02:07:45
child support as
02:07:47
expected. The Rodriguez brothers and Soto
02:07:49
were
02:07:50
relieved
02:07:52
the next day. Joseph met the expicer
02:07:54
near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to
02:07:56
announce to him that Charlie had chosen a
02:07:58
new date for the theft on
02:08:03
September 1st. The operation launched by the FBI
02:08:06
was going to take its course as
02:08:10
planned the morning before the theft.
02:08:12
The FBI informant waited for the arrival
02:08:14
of the gang at his
02:08:20
apartment had not seen Chare
02:08:22
Rodriguez since the beginning of this whole
02:08:27
affair he finally met Charlie
02:08:29
in
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[Music]
02:08:50
person
02:08:51
our informant then had the opportunity
02:08:53
to go out and get some
02:08:55
orange juice and donuts for the
02:08:59
men he took the opportunity to call the
02:09:04
gentâ the theft would be committed as
02:09:16
planned at the apartment the men put on
02:09:19
the vest by B
02:09:27
weapons the FBI trainer put on an
02:09:30
easily
02:09:32
identifiable cap we asked him to put on
02:09:34
a special cap so we
02:09:36
would know that it was was our
02:09:40
informant the thieves set off
02:09:43
towards the rest air in two
02:09:46
[Music]
02:09:49
cars the agents assigned
02:09:51
surveillance regularly informed
02:09:53
their colleagues of where they
02:09:54
were so that we could evacuate the
02:09:56
rest air before their
02:09:58
arrival we blocked access to the
02:10:00
rest air and to the highway in the space of 10
02:10:02
or 15
02:10:04
[Music]
02:10:07
minutes the informant parked one of the
02:10:09
stolen cars in a neighboring neighborhood
02:10:11
[Music]
02:10:13
the car was supposed to to serve the
02:10:15
men when he fled after the
02:10:16
[Applause]
02:10:17
[Music]
02:10:19
robbery he then drove so and the
02:10:22
Rodriguez brothers to the access road which
02:10:24
was behind the
02:10:28
rest stop the FBI agents who were already
02:10:32
there were preparing to take
02:10:35
action they all knew that this
02:10:37
operation was risky our
02:10:39
informant would be in serious danger
02:10:40
just as several agents and
02:10:43
police officers the FBI SO Unit waited
02:10:46
aboard a
02:10:50
delivery truck snipers were
02:10:52
stationed on the roof of the main building
02:10:54
in case the thieves got out of the
02:10:56
car and tried to escape
02:10:58
or fired at officers or
02:11:02
anyone. Nearly 100 police officers were
02:11:05
hidden all around the
02:11:09
rest area. The informant led the gang
02:11:12
onto the access road behind the rest area,
02:11:24
our man stopped exactly where we
02:11:26
had
02:11:31
indicated to him. Our task was to return the vehicle to
02:11:34
working order, ramming it
02:11:36
with the
02:11:39
tow truck, the unit then ended the
02:11:44
rel who drives the tow truck waits for
02:11:47
signal he passes that the informant
02:11:49
gets out of the car
02:11:53
our main concern was to
02:11:55
get our informant to safety
02:11:58
once he got out of the car I
02:12:00
told myself everything would be
02:12:03
fine but before the informant
02:12:06
time to move away from the
02:12:08
car intuition that something turns
02:12:11
[Music]
02:12:13
not forcing him back on board preventing
02:12:17
the unit from taking
02:12:20
action
02:12:22
the agent had a difficult decision to
02:12:33
make I told the unit so to put
02:12:35
plan B into action which consists of taking them
02:12:38
[Music]
02:12:42
assut here too the tow truck had to
02:12:45
the car the driver of the
02:12:47
tow truck prepared to rush into the
02:12:50
thieves' car
02:12:52
as the tow truck approached
02:12:54
Charlie said to our informant
02:12:56
something is wrong it's
02:12:58
a trap leaves
02:13:01
here to protect his identity
02:13:04
the informant he quickly leaves
02:13:07
the unit of shooting at the agents the
02:13:11
members of the unit immediately open the
02:13:17
FE when the blows of both of us began to
02:13:21
accidentally injure
02:13:26
the informant the tow truck hit the
02:13:29
rear part of the
02:13:47
thieves' car when it was all over and we
02:13:49
finally detained this guy we all
02:13:51
felt immense relief and
02:13:53
great satisfaction that everything went so
02:13:55
well
02:13:56
miraculously the informant
02:13:59
suffered no
02:14:09
injuries [Music] FBI agents collected
02:14:13
the numerous firearms from Soto and
02:14:14
the brothers
02:14:16
[Music]
02:14:18
Rodrig I have never seen or heard
02:14:21
of a robbery where there were
02:14:22
as many guns and ammunition as
02:14:24
what we found in this
02:14:27
car their firepower was such
02:14:30
that they could have robbed 1000
02:14:33
banks among the weapons was an
02:14:36
AR15 transformed to be automatic
02:14:38
a machine gun equipped with a silencer
02:14:40
and a Chinese copy of an AK47
02:14:42
also transformed to be
02:14:47
automatic each of the men
02:14:49
also had short weapons whose number
02:14:51
was Lim ASI that dozens of
02:14:53
magazines filled to full
02:14:56
capacity in all they had more than
02:14:59
1000
02:15:02
cartridges the rodriuez brothers were
02:15:04
violent criminals he had killed and still
02:15:08
the only way to stop them was
02:15:10
to put them behind bars
02:15:12
forever and that's what
02:15:16
happened on March
02:15:19
2000am the Federal Court to 37 years in
02:15:23
prison for attempted theft of an
02:15:24
armored van and for illegal carrying of weapons
02:15:27
as for Charlie and Joseph
02:15:30
Rodriguez, they all received
02:15:32
sentences of life imprisonment without the
02:15:33
possibility of parole
02:15:35
for bank robberies for attempted
02:15:37
theft of a armored van and for illegal carrying
02:15:39
of weapons
