A teenager confesses to shooting a classmate, but claims it was an accident. Detectives also discover that he was responsible for a similar shooting two years earlier, but the records are se... Read allA teenager confesses to shooting a classmate, but claims it was an accident. Detectives also discover that he was responsible for a similar shooting two years earlier, but the records are sealed.A teenager confesses to shooting a classmate, but claims it was an accident. Detectives also discover that he was responsible for a similar shooting two years earlier, but the records are sealed.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several separate cases/incidents:
- The 1986 Rod Matthews case. In 1986, Rod Matthews, a 14-year-old boy in Massachusetts, planned and carried out the premeditated bludgeoning death of a classmate, 14-year-old Shaun Ouillette. For months, after having watched the film Faces of Death (1978), Matthews had bragged to other classmates that he wanted to know what it would be like to kill someone. Matthews invited Ouillette to his home to play pool and then suggested that they go to the woods to build a fort. (Matthews later told his friends that he had picked Ouillette because he had no friends.) Matthews instead took Ouillette into an abandoned warehouse and told Ouillette that he planned to set off some fireworks there. However, when they arrived, Mathews attacked Ouillette with a baseball bat. Later Matthews bragged to his friends and showed some of them Ouillette's body, threatening them if they told anyone. During the police investigation into Ouillette's disappearance, all evidence pointed to Matthews. During three separate police interviews, he denied having any knowledge of Ouillette's whereabouts. In a fourth interview, he admitted that Ouillette had come to his house but indicated that the missing boy had run away from home. Meanwhile, one of Matthews friends who had seen Ouillette's dead body wrote an anonymous tip to the police. Acting on this tip, investigators found Ouillette's body and arrested Mathews, who went to trial and was found guilty of the murder. [As of 2019, Rod Matthews is still in prison for the murder.]
- The 1989 Barbara Stager case. Stager was convicted in 1989 of murdering her husband, Russell Stager, in 1988. Russell was shot while in bed; Barbara reported the shooting as accidental. Her first husband also died under similar circumstances.
- The 1872 Jesse Pomeroy (a.k.a. "The Boston Boy Fiend") case.
- GoofsThe forensic technician describes the handgun found at the crime to Logan and Ceretta. There's no reason for her to do this as they were at the crime and almost discovered the weapon or saw it. as it was being processed for evidence.
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Executive ADA Ben Stone: There's no statute of limitations on murder.
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A very disturbed young man
The finding of a dead body by some kids brings Paul Sorvino and Chris Noth to the scene at a deserted waterfront warehouse. The body is that of a teen not much older than the youths who found him.
One other thing is found. A large caliber pistol on the edge of a pier where the perpetrator tried to fling it in the water. It has an owner Tom Mason who has a son Harley Cross, a very disturbed young man.
The parents are divorced and Mason has custody. It also turns out that there was another similar incident a few years back.
Justice is going to be hard to come by here. A combination of the father's wealth and sealed records which have to be obtained.
Cross gives a fascinating performance that makes one hearken back to the classic film The Bad Seed. He truly is one, but this seed got nurtured and developed in his father's house.
One other thing is found. A large caliber pistol on the edge of a pier where the perpetrator tried to fling it in the water. It has an owner Tom Mason who has a son Harley Cross, a very disturbed young man.
The parents are divorced and Mason has custody. It also turns out that there was another similar incident a few years back.
Justice is going to be hard to come by here. A combination of the father's wealth and sealed records which have to be obtained.
Cross gives a fascinating performance that makes one hearken back to the classic film The Bad Seed. He truly is one, but this seed got nurtured and developed in his father's house.
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- bkoganbing
- Nov 2, 2017
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