around the crime and drug-ridden city where wallace souza posted this television show called canal livre, with some gruesome murders. one of the reporters says here's the body, there's smoke around. this was reality television as gritty as you get. it was an execution in the jungle me reports. souza was a former cop and crusader against crime who leveraged television fame into election as a legislate later as well. when i worked for the police around 1979, he says, this kind of thing did not happen. no, it probably did not. souza was so plugged in his cameras often reached the scene ole ic murder before the which got the police thinking and then investigating. and this grainy video shows how during the investigation ae purported hit man was shot dead on camera by another hit man. it made great television but the police believe like also called unscripted television the plot of souza's show canal livre had a guiding hand from producers, and that souza was so far ahead of the cops that he generated the murders. at least five murders the cops claim. souza's son here on the tv was swept up i

it's called "canal livre." they say he use the journalism and the investigative technique.ere's what the cops are saying about the investigation. let's listen. >> the big theme was how crime was going out of control. it turned out he may have been part of a crime wave in which his tv show was also first on the scene at these murders which helped rates sufficient. >> all right. there you have it. again, creating content for the show, as you said, campbell. to drive up the ratings. you wonder where they get the information. police are telling the associated press, former employees, security guards who work for the souza, allegedly part of a agang, former police officers involved in drug trafficking. that's where they got the info here. >> mike, any information? have you heard anything from souza himself? >> yes, first of all, denies all allegations. denying everything. and we've heard it. we've heard it in the newsrooms. oh, we have good sources. we listen to police scanners. you got to wonder, campbell, how are you first on the scene at least five times over. you're beating