(the cure's "lovesong" playing) man: i understand that, but i'm getting paid... i am listening. you're not listening. i'm getting paid... hey, baby. if you'd just give me a b. i'm not giving attitude. hello? hello? midnight, they're going to shut my gas. what'd you bring? chicken? for the concert. i got to do these bills. you should go. honey, i can see nirvana anytime. you know, you could ask krystal for the money. she'll help you. i know. i don't want to ask. ( tea kettle whistling )

i'm going to heave that thing out the window. man (over tv): give that they may grow, contribute to this ministry... here, grandma. here's your tea. ...so that we can spread the seeds to the far ends of the earth don't touch that. because one never knows when it might be... this is worse than pro wrestling. shush. you don't know anything about it. these guys'll bleed every last cent. can't take it with you. ...so that others might live in the light. (organ sustaining note) (distorted clattering) jeffries: so, it's a freezing february night. i'm up, get this call about midnight. oh, is this the jamaican job? that's a good one.

yeah, you know how jamaican jobs are, right? i mean, aliases, no papers. give me a bag of bones any day. yeah, well i'm in a slump, and i need a cake job like you wouldn't believe. so he gets this call out of, uh, north central. you telling this or me? no, go ahead. it's your story. so, anyway, we're riding out, and i'm thinking, "i hope this is not a jamaican." ( phone ringing ) please don't let this be a jamaican. don't finish... vera, homicide. so anyway, i get out there. this guy's on the front seat, frozen through. and he's a jamaican. no. he's a burmese buddhist monk. i take one look, i say to vera, "why couldn't he be a jamaican?" ( laughs ) hold on just a second, hold on. you couldn't wait? it's for you. another cold one. ( jeffries laughs ) why do you got to be like that? some othose stories of yours i like. uh, detective rush. man: i want to tell you about a murder. and this happened a while ago? in 1989. what's your name? i don't want to tell you my name. okay, what do you want to tell me?

she was elderly. who was elderly, the victim? her name was krystal hogan. mm-hmm. at her age, there was no defending herself. how old was she? almost 81. how is it you know she was murdered? i did it. (line clicks) (dial tone) captioning sponsored by warner bros. television

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guy confesses to murder, and then he won't tell you his name? maybe it's a hoax. i can't find a box on the lady. well, it's not krystal hogan, but i-i seem to remember a k. dugan when i was on the line. maybe an '87 job. ( rush sighs ) ( snaps fingers ) kendall dugan. drug shooting. oh, right. so, did you run her name through the computer? waiting for something to kick out. well, there's not much else you can do, though. jeffries: lil? that fellow's back on the line. you hung up on me. i was having second thoughts. now i'm not.

well, i don't have a box on krystal hogan. sorry. what does that mean? no box, no body, no crime. maybe you're just a guy who likes talking to police. you don't believe me? i'll tell you where the body is. okay. 2212 elm street... germantown. in the basement. want to tell me your name now? guy's real up front or messing with me good. gave you an address? i'll run it. don't have enough for a warrant. so, finesse the neighborhood. right. worth a door knock. ( knock at door ) are you brad meyer?

yeah. who are you? philadelphia police. detective rush. oh, low blow. someone called the cops on me? no. uh, can i talk to you a minute? what's going on? this is my wife, dana. she's police. i'm just looking into something that might have happened around here several years back. thought it was about us getting rowdy. we only moved in eight months ago. maybe you should try that lady, joan, across the street. she brought us a moving-in casserole and knows the neighborhood business pretty good. thank you. krystal hogan. she was an old pistol. so, you knew her? lived right over there. when was that? ten, 15 years ago. she moved in with her son's family. then-- this was awful-- the son and his wife died in a crash on the turnpike. that left krystal alone over there with her grandson. hmm. do you remember the grandson's name? james. just a teenager. acted like one, too.

always riding around in his car. (fine young cannibals' "she drives me crazy") ( car horn honking ) ( horn honking ) ( tiresquealing ) ( car horn honking ) ( honks horn ) james, was that you honking that horn? yeah. james, was that you honk, honk, honk.that horn? sorry. show some courtesy. i told you to be waiting outside. you don't tell your grandmother to wait outside. i have a date. and if we don't do this now... oh, hold your horses. i forgot my keys. i got keys. let's keep moving. james, will you stop rushing me? you know what? i'm screwed now anyway. ( sighs ) joan: taking care of his grandma put a real strain on james. anyway, poor old krystal eventually went missing.

when was this? '89, '90. wandered off. the kid went to the police. put flyers all around, including one on my door. used some kind of tape that took off the paint. brad: a body in our basement? it's a possibility. outrageous. i told you that was weird. what was weird? this cat from the moving company. what company? the other day they were moving a family in down the block. one of the workers stops over, says he grew up in this house. and he wants to have a look around? you'd think he'd want to see his old bedroom or something, but this dude-- he only wants to see the basement. i basically live down here. got my bar, my video games, stereo, various whatnots. that's odd. what are these bricks about? that's the old coal chute.

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they put out an apb, checked the morgues, hospitals, jail system. took statements, from this james, some others-- says there were no other relatives.. jeffries: they got dementia written down, question mark, case was filed pending more info. mm-hmm, but then, in '94, james petitioned the court to declare grandma dead. that allowed him to collect on a $50,000 life insurance policy. well, it won't buy you the 76ers, but it does give you motive. mm-hmm. what about the moving company? does james work for one? haven't made that connect yet. but we're thinking he's the caller? vera: rush. line two. it's him. any way to trace this, boss? we wish. detective rush. i don't like that you said that. said what? that i just like talking to police. i wouldn't be doing this if i didn't have to. so, why are you doing this? listen, james, i'm just trying to do my job here.

still there? i'm here. are you surprised i know your name? uh... guess not. look, did you find the body? james, the best thing for you is to come in to police headquarters. just tell me, yes or no. dmv photo. i know you found her. i mean, you had to have. hello? uh, uh, i'm here. um, uh, i was thinking. thinking what? i understand what you're doing. i that. i'll, uh, i'll be in a dark mood and i'll turn to people who i don't really know. seems safer. i don't want to talk. james, how about we hang up?

you want to hang up? yeah, i'll give you my cell phone number. that way you can take a bunch of breaths, collect your thoughts, and then we'll figure this out. james? yeah. 5-5-5... 0-1-9-8. risky play. i was losing him. give him my number, maybe build the trust. what is our take on this guy? we know he was orphaned. lost both parents on the same night. and at 19, he was solely responsible for an 81-year-old woman. no other family? all alone in the world. vera: auto-track just spit out his current address. we got him. philadelphia police. vera: police! anyone here?!

clear. you know guy didn't finish he's in a hurry. chicken potpie. knew we were on to him. you find something? something. "listen, darling, i don't mean to make you tense. "i'm sorry. "i just want us to move up in the world. love you, sherry." sherry, who? "fox." postmark: february, 1989. you still reading your love letters from 14 years ago? ( grunts ) this guy's reliving a better time, 'cause brotherly luv movers is paying a slave wage. guy's living alone, got a bad job, getting older. self-esteem's shot, so he's breaking out the old love letters? guilt over grandma's gaining on him. but still, why does he crack after 14 years? why not 12 or 19? hmm, i'm going to call jeffries,

get him on the hunt for this foxy lady. in the meantime, let's see if brotherly luv has any for james. yeah, i had a job over in germantown, three days ago. james hogan was on that crew? yeah. listen, that guy's a hell of a worker. shows up on time, doesn't clown around, dependable. so he's full-time? yeah, and then some. been with us close to three years now. why isn't he here today? this ain't union, but a guy puts out, i give him the days he wants. this was the first time james asked, so i told him to take the week. he ever talk about a girl named sherry? beats me. any girls at all? look, i don't know. some of the humps around here give him a hard time about that, but let's face it, he's not george clooney. ( phone rings ) excuse me. ( ringing continues ) ( ringing continues ) lilly rush.

i saw you at the apartment. so you stuck around, huh? you were watching? now there's a cop out front. i can't get back in. it's not just your house, james. there's an apb out on you. what'll happen to her body? what do you want to happen? i thought maybe a service of some kind and then bury her at the county cemetery. don't think so. why not? i'm not trying to upset you, but, uh, if next of kin doesn't claim the body, the coroner has procedures. like what? oh, he'll cremate her, then, uh, put her remains in a plastic bag. probably stamp on a ticket number or some id, then box it up and stuff it away in a warehouse somewhere. you want to come in, james? talk face-to-face? we can see about a real funeral for grandma that way. do you really get dark moods or were you just conning me?

wish i was conning you. look, you can talk to me. don't you feel that? yes. so come in. we'll talk. about what? how about... sherry? sore subject? off-limits. maybe because she's no longer a fox. she goes by mrs. stephens now. lives on the main line. sherry: is is a mistake. there was no homicide. james's grandma went missing. well, it ain't a mistake. have you seen james recently? talked to him? not in three years.

still, this doesn't make sense. but you two were involved, right? well, he was my boyfriend. we lived together forever. you break up with him? we met at a bowling alley. at the time, that kind of life was really fun to me. ten years later, it wasn't. how long till you got married? a year. that's pretty quick. doesn't seem so quick when you're over 30. sher, going back, were you around when krystal supposedly went missing? mm, not the exact day. but i was staying over a lot. what was that like? how do you mean? before krystal was gone. sleeping over with grandma in the house? mostly okay. but sometimes not. ( kissing, girl moans ) let's go upstairs. no, it'll be better here. what if krystal comes in? let her.

( chuckling ) no, come on. what? times change, grandma. you got to accept that things ain't like when you were a kid. i just came to give you a check for groceries. you don't like it here, grandma, i can make other arrangements for you. but james threatened to put her in a home, not murder her. now, krystal was chipping in on the bills, right? she didn't mind helping out when james got in a pinch. well, please tell me he's not in trouble. wish i could. thanks for your time. vera: so, she outgrew the guy. he's still pining for her all these years later. most people get over this stuff. she left him three years ago, grandma died 14 years ago, but i still don't get why he's reaching out today.

vera: remember when i ran james through ncic, pcic? yeah, he was clean. yeah, well, i got his social, i ran him again. got an assault charge. why didn't it show up earlier? he wasn't charged under the name james hogan. he was charged under the name james gable. gable? half-brother to the victim, lonnie gable. so he has some family after all. i don't know if lonnie's going to see it that way. what did james do to him? beat on him... with a brick.

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rush: james was using your last name? 'cause i bought him his first car. i told him not to do that. sounds like you looked out for him. he was my little brother. so, how did he end up alone with krystal? i was in baltimore, working for a mortgage company. when mom died in that wreck, i came back. i didn't want to mo in. i've got a life. but i told him to get live-in help for her. he didn't want to do tt? i couldn't force him. she was his grandma, not mine. actually, he and the old girl got along pretty good. he always said how much he liked his talks with her. i lived nearby, i figured i could look over his shoulder. but then you two had that falling out. he was begging for me to meet sherry. you weren't too high on her?

i had them over she's nice, whatever.becue. then suddenly she says that she wants this certain wine cooler, so james goeon a run. for the next 20 minutes, this girl goes on parade. flirting, prancing, bending over-- real intentional-- showing me the world. i just look away, whatever. and then she says will i take her away to new york? it was such a sideways thing to say, i just laugh, and she follows it up with, "whatever you want, wherever you want, for the rest of your life." so, then what happened? i got her the hell out of my yard. james comes back, i figure i'd better tell him befo she starts lying, so we sit on this back stoop that i'm fixing up. you can guess the rest. vera: he opened you up pretty good. so why did you pull back on pressing charges? what, am i goi to send him to jail? i figure it's best just to walk away and not look back. the shocking thing was he was really fond of krystal.

krystal's benefit checks were $812 dollars a month. good bank for a 19-year-old. and they flowed in long after her death. these here were dated before the murder. that's krystal's signature. the rest, dated after she died. i know that writing. see the little tails on both s's? mm-hmm. did sherry endorse these checks? well, let me send it over to questioned documents. what if sherry the fraud or the murder? or both. so, you're saying lonnie's story is starting to ring true? well, these checks showed she was no angel, and if james got on so well with grandma the way lonnie says... plus your crush on him. ( phone ringing ) james just got sloppy. see if you can id this. two-four-two-seven. hello.

what did sherry say to you? you going toollow me, james, you might as well just come in. tell me. cops get information, they don't give it. i wasn't following you. you asked about sherry, so i knew you'd go see her. but you were there. i was around. you "around" sherry's house a lot? do not accuse me of that. i know what you're accusing me of. then help me understand, james. i'm not a stalker. that was the first time i've ever gone by. only once in three years? i've been doing what you're supposed to; i'm working. i haven't been in trouble. you can check. i did. it's true. okay, then. so, why are you flipping out today, james? what happened to make it today? i don't want to tell you that. everything she used to give me, i don't have anymore. but that's not new. that's a three-year-old problem. tell me what she said. please.