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waring's invisible fate jumped its track. and quite unaware of the dark force descending, she disembarked to a future utterly changed. charleston, south carolina. it almost goes without sang, a showpiece of american history and southern manners. its charm is deeply embedded as the families who count seven, eight, ten generations here. kate waring was born to one of those families. grew up in a fine, big house along the historic waterfront called the battery. dance lessons, birthday parties. >> dad, if we catch a turtle, can we keep it? >> doting parents, janice and tom, who adored their own daughter. she had you essentially wrapped around her finger. >> oh, absolutely. she was the love of my life. and not stupidly so.
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when i was being manipulated, but some of the time. >> sure. >> no, katie and i had a very special bond always. >> she was the middle child. sandwiched between two brother, older joe, younger richard. she was bright. maybe too bright. school bored her, animals, all animals, enchanted her. she was naive, sweet, as younger brother richard saw it, she could not turn away a stray animal or human. >> she was a very, very kind person, whereas someone who would dismiss someone who wasn't generally accepted by most, she would kind of try to help those people out. >> but somewhere in the course of an enchanted childhood, something happened to kate. outsiders saw a fearless tomboy morph into a sophisticated debutante.
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often in secret with eating disorders, depression. college was a frequently interrupted disaster. >> she sort of ran toward risk. i noticed that in a lot of things that she did. she seemed to court it. >> her parents discovered she had been sexually abused when little by someone they knew. years of therapy followed. still she drank to excess, lost her driver's license, abused drugs, sobered up, she fell off the wagon. she came home to live with her parents. tried and failed at dozens of strategies to achieve the straight and narrow. finally out of desperation, tom waring offered kate a trip with him anywhere she wanted to go. anywhere on the planet. to see polar bears. it must have an amazing trip. >> it was the trip of a lifetime. i'm so happy we shared that
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>> the photographs show how happy she was there. >> she saw young men who were with their families about her age who were happy, and she said to me, "dad, i don't have to settle for what i've settled for, do i?" and i said, "no, honey, you don't. you can basically write your own script." >> and it was a bit of magic. the change seemed almost instant. kate reborn. on board the ship was a russian crewman who was amazed how quickly kate picked up his language which is why months after that trip, the newly inspired kate traveled to moscow to meet him again, to explore the city, the culture, and to test drive both the budding relationship and her fledgling russian skills. the snapshots of kate in moscow were far more than souvenirs. they were portraits of a young woman transformed. the kate who stood here on red square had a new passion in life.
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she was consumed by all things russian. in fact, she was making plans even here to return to russia in the summer to take up russian studies. finally her life was taking off. and that's why kate waring was in washington that fine may morning. she was on her way back to russia. but there was a problem with the visa. a paperwork mixup sort of thing that would have sent her into a tailspin once, but now, the new kate vowed to try again later. boarded the palmetto for charleston and threw herself into college classes and a children's book she'd been writing. big brother joe was, to say the least, encouraged. >> she when i talked to her was the happiest i can remember hearing her in the last ten years. she sounded good. she sounded as if she was ready, had a conviction about what she
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>> then it was june. heat rising in charleston's deepening green. on saturday morning, june 13, tom waring at his summer house outside the city, felt an absence. cell phone hadn't rung. no call from kate. kate who always called or texted her parents almost hourly. >> she always checked, in and it was unusual. >> he drove home to check her room here in the silent house on the tree. >> and all the lights were on, and it looked like obviously katie had planned to come back. and she'd left her medicine -- she never went anywhere without her medicine. >> and then on sunday, we came by the house also. no sign of her. >> now there was dread. was it possible that kate had slipped back into that old destructive life? >> we called the police station. we called the detention center. >> wow.
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weekend? >> nobody had a jane doe in the hospital. nobody had been brought in. we called some of her friends. nobody had heard from her. >> what to do? kate was 28, and though she lived at home, she was an adult. her decision bad or good were hers. they elected to give it one more day. if she wasn't back by monday, they'd call the police. word. no, not from kate -- from kate's bank. >> once i got off the phone with the branch manager, i called the police. >> yeah. what were you thinking then? >> i was thinking something is wrong. >> coming up -- something was wrong. but could they discover what? and would the police help? >> i thought i'm not going to put up with this.
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center of charleston, south carolina. enter quietly the hushed suite of rooms overlooking the city where an influential philanthropist flipped through his mental rolodex and placed a call to his friend, the chief of police. >> i really need a favor. i really need help with this situation. sp>> the caller was this man -- john rivers. happened to be a childhood friend of tom waring, watched kate waring grow up. john rivers told the police chief he was worried about kate, too. >> and he told me that, you know, they got a lot of stuff going on. >> sure. >> but that he would assign his best and brightest to the case. and i felt pretty good about that. >> but now almost two months later, kate was still missing. and the investigation such as it was had accomplished nothing. and john rivers couldn't stand what it was doing to his best friend, tom waring.
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was having a hard time functioning. >> so rivers picked up the phone again and told this man, "do what it takes." his name is andy savage, former prosecutor, now famously tenacious criminal defense attorney. savage had heard about kate, too, and how police had no evidence of any crime. really? >> as soon as we scratched the surface just a little bit, we were absolutely convinced that foul play was involved. >> savage was given just two mandates -- find kate waring, tell police everything you find. that last part, keeping the police in the loop, should be easy figured andy, given the team he assembled. a band of retired policemen-turned-private eyes. each with a particular talent. >> bobby minter. >> bobby minter, human blood expert.
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>> bill capps. >> bill capps, techno geek. tracks bad guys through cyber-space. happens to be a crack shot. >> james randolph. >> james randolph. ex-police department rebel. strategy his specialty. shaking things up a particular skill. >> we're the cream of the crop. and our job was to find kate waring. not finding kate was not an option. >> experience told james the best place to start was with kate herself. >> if we listen to kate, she'll tell us where she is. >> james went to the house on the battery, up the stairs, down the hall, and into kate's bedroom. >> these type cases, you have to take on the personality, and you have to see this person's world through their eyes. >> he looked around, the notes in kate's handwriting made sense. why chinese paper money? and why was her brand new prescription sitting there untouched?
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had gotten for a prescription was still on her dresser, unused. >> that medication was her lifeline. she needed it to counter depression, anxiety, insomnia. she never left home without it. meanwhile, cyber-sleuth bill capps buried himself in social media sites. kate used them. bill scoured them all. >> if she was awake, she was facebooking, she was texting, calling people on the phone, she was e-mailing. and at the time she went missing, when everything immediately ceased. i mean, that was completely out of character for her. >> using kate's friends, capps built an electronic map of her communications the friday night she vanished. from kate's friend jason locke, capps retrieved the weird voicemail left that evening. >> 10:0 p.m., missed call. voicemail. voicemail said that someone had "stolen her identity," and had obtained a couple of credit
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she wanted me to sue the person responsible. >> the gym trainer and kate's romantic interest, howard gatts, told capps he heard from her at 10:30 p.m., still at dinner with ethan then. there was another call, it was after midnight, well after police believe she was dropped off at home. >> she told me she was at some friend's house. they had already made it to the house. she sounded a little buzzed. >> and then a very last message from kate. a text. very strange. >> "i'm off to greenville to pick up some lovely." whatever lovely was i had no idea, you know, and, "i'll be back in a few days." >> did that make sense to you? this time she did not text back. silence from kate. except the middle of the night, her cell phone pinged out on james island, miles from her
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the cops had surmised, remember, that a closer tower to her house may have been too busy to handle the call. but at 1:53 in the morning? not a chance, thought andy savage. >> just preposterous. they were looking for an explanation, plausible explanation consistent with the theory that she voluntarily left. [ ringing ] >> that middle of the night call, by the way, was to her voicemail. >> the mailbox is full -- >> the voicemail box that had been jammed full during which time she hadn't used it or called it at all. so the question -- >> why would she call voicemail? she would not be doing it. >> only one conclusion to draw. >> somebody else was using her phone. >> but where was kate now? had she as the one text suggested left town looking for drugs or lovely? if that's what lovely meant? for the moment, it was a dead end. and then -- then he called.
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34-year homicide detective now retired. >> i believe that if a man commits a crime, he should be prepared to do the time. >> thing is about gene frazier, here on charleston's james island where his ancestors go back to slave days, gene gets tips. all kinds of tips. and one day a church friend told been to ethan mack's house. and something strange about that. >> said, "listen, i don't think this is right," he says. "ethan mack is living in an apartment that i have rented out to his father." >> but the police didn't search this place where ethan actually lived, said the landlord. they searched his mother's house on a different island miles away where ethan told them he lived. >> and he says, "i think that he's trying to mislead the police." >> what did you think when you heard that? >> this guy got something to
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>> and on that very day, gene frazier joined a band of ex-cops which, from now on, we'll call the a-team. a mysterious woman enters the picture. >> katie had this strange girl in the room with her. >> who was she? the a-team was about to launch a hidd cmera surise. evr 13cine can lproteou from pnmoccalumonia, an i that can caus ng, est pain diffulty breng, y ev put you the hpital. evyou already beennate wi anotheroniacine, nar ay h e adal pion. r 13 used indus 50 older to help evenfections om 1stins t bac cause pneumococcal. u should recei prr 13
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slip the invisible net the a-team had so carefully woven. >> mind you, we had the camera, we had the gps, we've been tracking every movement that they have. >> so they made a call here to the quiet office overlooking charleston where the team's money man, john rivers, decided he'd pay ethan's rent. secretly, of course. and it was a plan which after a little brainstorming offered a bonus, a built-in opportunity. here's how -- the a-team wanted to know if heather or ethan forged kate's $4,500 check, but they needed original handwriting samples. >> we determined what was on the check that we needed comparison samples to. and we had numbers, obviously, on the check. >> then the a-team helped than's landlord prepare ious that contained the numbers and letters. therigned e ocei p heentas,
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bobby minter knew how. >> bobby put on every telephone very vacant house, every oak tree, every stop sign, "wanted: information, missing person, kate waring's" poster. >> where the people hung out. >> wherever they went, including on mack's windshield when he was working that day, we put posters to send a psychological message to them. >> but no response. at which point john rivers said -- >> perhaps what they do understand and on the street as it were is andrew jackson. and maybe benjamin franklin. and they would recognize their faces on a $20 bill or $50 bill. >> $10,000 worth of bills went into a grocery bag. >> 10s, 20s, 50s, and 100s. a bag with -- when you open it
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everybody sees that. the eyes just jump. >> well where better to leave the bag of money, they decided, than under the nose of the neighbor heather was going to see. the man named terry williams, the one who seemed to be kiting checks with her. >> we knocked on the door, and terry williams come to the door with no shirt on. >> uh-huh. >> no shirt on, short pants. terry, listen, we know you're great friend with these people, mack and kamp. you don't have to live in this condition. we know you're back on your rent. we know -- look at that bag of money. this could be all yours. >> now to close the sale with terry williams, they try to bluff. >> tell us what happened to kate and where we can find her. we know mack and kamp killed her. and this money could be yours. and at that point, that's when the side -- the bedroom door busts open, and there's a lot of yelling and screaming. >> to their utter surprise, there came heather came.
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didn't appear to be a business meeting the team interrupted. the detectives told her who they were and who they worked for. >> and then heather kamp gets on the cell phone and makes a call to ethan mack. and says, "ethan, investigators are here trying to get terry williams to roll on us." and when she said that, the three of us looked at one another and -- police terms, we knew that was definitely the case. k hthane yf stin madepetleawhr haeno kate n ck a hehemp iup t rb. kneom
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the lingering summer heat lay close to the marshes of wadmalaw island, steamed up through the dense bushes toward the city beyond. it was october of 2009. a delegation of charleston policemen had sifted through the brush, eyes to the ground. police cadaver dogs nosed along the shores of polly point road. heather kamp sat in the back seat of the police cruiser. and bill capps, from the the cops had brought hgh -- heather here to lead them to kate waring's body. >> i asked if they had luck, they just said, "no," and continued driving. >> police called off the search,
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she's over there ratting you out." she started waving her arms trying to get ethan's attention. so she snaps and breaks. >> with a little more encouragement from andy savage, that is. his deal -- if heather told him exactly where to find kate's body, and if it turned out she had nothing to do with any murder, andy would help her with her forgery charges. and at that moment, heather kamp agreed to tell the a-team what they needed to know. her directions were precise. they drove out here right away. >> that's the large old tree that she described with the -- and then she says, "if you look farther up between your left in the marsh, you'll see a dark that's running down to the water." she said, "after you do, that you'll look to your left over here," on my right and left, and
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underbrush growing." and she said that kate remains -- she said the body -- is five feet from this path, from this roadway. >> incredibly detailed. just the sort of place to leave a body. but just like the police, the team found nothing. >> i was very disturbed. why are we not finding her? because we were -- we were convinced that she was here. >> they searched until darkness finally forced them out of the marsh. then they called andy savage who was out of town on business. >> they're on a cell phone from where they are on a hotel in boston, punched up the address for google earth. and i'm looking at the satellite imagery of where they are. i said, "well, james, is there a dock off to your left?" so i was pretty well able to identify where they were. i said, "what you got to do is just print that off." >> isn't that amazing, you can do it from thousands of miles away?
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police station. >> the map showed the a-team exactly how and where they lost the trail. after investigating so much, savage wasn't ready to give up on heather. but he wasn't naive either. >> we knew that she was a sociopath liar. i wanted something specific from her. give me something that nobody else knows so that we can believe what you're saying is truthful. and that's when she told us about the souvenirs from kate's body. the jewelry she was wearing and where it was located. >> they found kate's jewelry at a pawn shop. and behind the dresser in their tiny apartment, kate's bulldog key chain, the one she'd gotten in moscow. ethan said heather took it from kate's purse as a memento. she was telling them the truth. so they decided next morning first light to use the google map and more detail from heather, the team would return to the island. >> you know, all that we were believing was coming to
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while his jury tried to decide if he did or did not smother, beat, taser, and drown his best friend, the woman he claimed was like a little sister to him. and then after 14 interminable hours, they trooped back into the courtroom and told the judge they could not decide whether or not ethan was guilty of murder. >> what i'm going to do is on the murder charge, i'm going to declare a mistrial on that. >> this trial, a hung jury. >> huge letdown. >> right. >> it wasn't going to be over. it wasn't going to end. we were going to possibly have to relive that whole event again. >> as she packed up her file, solicitor scarlett wilson vowed to find just somehow. and then quite unexpectedly, there was an intervention from a surprising source. it was ethan mack's own
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mother. she had testified during the trial for her son, of course. told what she was made of. >> corrine mack dean, d-e-a-n. >> he's a mama's boy, isn't me? >> yes, he is. >> do you know anything about your son having any involvement with kate waring's murder? >> no. >> if you did, would you stand here and support him? >> he know i'll turn him in. >> then as ethan's mother sat through the trial, she heard things she knew her son, knew when he was hiding something. she went to see him in jail. ethan's attorney heard it all. so it did get loud in that cell when they were talking. >> he got confrontational. basically his mother said, "there's more to the story, and you need tell it. and you need to tell it right now." his mother wanted him to tell the truth and tell what happened.
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soon after ethan and his mother had their talk, he appeared before the judge and admitted he did participate in the murder of his good friend, kate. he agreed to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for a 25-year prison sentence. >> you understand that the court still treats this as a guilty plea. >> yes, ma'am. >> and that your criminal record will reflect that as a guilty plea? >> yes, ma'am. >> of course, since heather pleaded guilty to murder and forgery and obstruction of justice, they didn't need a trial for her either. guilty but mentally ill, by the way. at her sentencing, her attorney said she developed after a deeply traumatic childhood a whole basket of seriously psychological orders. some which rendered her incapable of separating truth from her elaborate fictions and led to failed marriage. aban abandoned children and constant drifting. if heather was hoping for a
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that, she didn't get it. instead, solicitor scarlett wilson noted she continued to lie about important details after she made her deal to testify. because she broke the deal, the sentence, 39 years. 14 more than ethan. >> this was heather kamp's kill. while certainly ethan mack was involved and certainly he laid his hands on kate, i do not believe that but for heather kamp we would be here. >> still, said andy savage after the fact, solicitor wilson could have had a much stronger case had the charleston police acted more aggressively. just one example -- when police arrested ethan and heather -- >> because of their incompetence, they released the property, the crime scene where the homicide took place, they turned it back over to the landlord without examining it. the landlord went in and vacated the premises. he took their furniture and put it in storage. >> cleleed the place.
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it wasn't until two weeks later, knowing that the property had already been tainted, the crime scene was destroyed. >> no wonder scarlett wilson didn't have all the ammunition she'd have liked, said andy savage. the charleston police said they didn't see it quite that way. they did take the case of kate waring very seriously, they said, right from the beginning. and the second-guessing from the a-team was puzzling. at least according to captain thomas robertson. >> i'm surprised. i really am. they both did a fabulous job, and i think the team of detectives that i had working from this agency and the support that we had is -- it was fantastic. >> what may have looked like inaction, said detective david osborne, was actually a careful and thorough investigation. one that didn't leave out any possibilities. was there some point at which you thought this girl has -- she's probably dead? she's come to some serious harm? >> early on. >> early on? how many days after would you say?
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within that first week for sure. >> yeah? so you knew it was a murder investigation at that stage. >> no. i mean, it could have been an overdose. it could have been an accidental death. i think we felt like we were probably dealing with a death investigation. >> right. but neither tom nor janice waring was the least bit satisfied. hadn't the police suggested early on that kate may simply have skipped town on her own? it didn't seem to the warings that they were trying very hard to find her. what about the other families of missing people they asked. families without the resources it hire an a-team? >> unfortunately, missing people are low on the priority list nationwide. >> i feel like that a missing person or missing child should be just as important as a bank robbery because lots of people never find out what happened to their child. >> it was late, after midnight,
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story. ushered there by two people she believed to be good friends of hers. and nobody, not the warings, not the a-team, not the police, has heard the story you are about to hear. the competing stories of the last hours and minutes of kate waring's life. question is, whose story will you believe? her long-time friend, the uncle of her godson? or the charming grifter, the woman who played with fate on the train? ha coscnce.
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professed her love for kate's buddy, ethan mack, and then eventually married him, that love was true, too, so she says now. and when she told them both all those well-practiced lies about being a doctor, about her husband and child being killed in an accident, et cetera, et cetera, those stories, she says, were just part of the schtick of, she admits it, of a con artist. >> that's what i do. that's who i am. that's how i learned to survive. >> but remember, in court, the prosecutor called heather the mastermind who lied to con kate, lied to manipulate ethan. lied about murder. you were the decisionmaker, you were the person who caused kate's death. >> i don't take it as that. >> stole from her, yes. but kill kate? no. heather kamp will not cop to that. instead, this was the story the grifter had for us. it was all ethan from the start. >> my husband wanted to rip her
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>> wait, why would ethan want any harm to come to his good friend, kate? >> the trouble was is that ethan never considered her a friend. >> not a friend at all? >> no. >> not like a sister or -- >> no. he was baby sitting her. and she became a problem for him. >> became a real problem, says heather, when kate found out that she and ethan were stealing from her. >> she was like, "i'm going to put you guys in jail." and that scared ethan. and the whole nightmare began that night because he was not going to go to jail. >> so you're saying ethan of the mastermind, not you? >> yes. yes. didn't see the taser he was holding. >> he starts tasing her and
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and by the time he removed the taser, she's not moving inside the suitcase at all. he races into the bedroom, grabs a pillow off the bed, comes back in. pushes me away, unzip the suitcase, takes the pillow, compresses it over her mouth, maybe four feet away. takes the wine bottle, crack, crack. i think maybe it's three times he hits her. he tells me to go inside the >> she was terrified, she says. did you say, "ethan, stop?" >> i didn't say anything. >> didn't say anything at all? why not? >> i cried but i didn't say anything. i didn't know what to do. i didn't know what to say. when he told me to do something, i did it. >> she filled the tub, she says. >> he asked me to help her pull in there. i tried, but i can't do. i start crying, ad i throw up in the toilet. >> why didn't you pull her out of the water? >> at that point, i -- the only thing i was thinking about was how am i going to make it out of
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>> did you think ethan would kill you, too? >> why not? who else knows but me? why not? why wouldn't i be next? >> she helped him put kate's body in the car. watched him dump her out on the island. of course she lied, she admits, when she told ethan she was pregnant. that was for her own safety, says heather. >> i thought, if i'm carrying his kid, i'm okay. he's not going to try to hurt me. >> really? so a moment later when asked why she didn't just leave ethan, slip away like she always did, she reverses herself. >> i didn't want to. i really loved him. >> eventually she says she just had to confess. >> conscience is a [ bleep ], and i had a big conscience, and he doesn't.doonie >>'s gonesh, hevy gld.
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to m. . announcer: and now, a message from new york mayor miaeblmbg. ( cheers and applause ) thank you. good evening and welcome, everyone. it's now been six days since hurricane sandy first hit our city. and while we're not out of the woods yet, i'm happy to report the power is back on for 70% of new yorkers, with the rest on schedule to return in the beginning of next week. this has been an incredible tywide team effort. i want to take a moment to thank

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