1 00:00:19,352 --> 00:00:20,270 CURTIS: Stacy Vollmer was last seen 2 00:00:20,353 --> 00:00:23,440 practicing alone on the school tennis court 3 00:00:23,523 --> 00:00:25,483 that Friday at around 9:00 p.m. 4 00:00:28,319 --> 00:00:32,198 The clothes she was wearing were found in her locker. 5 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:43,793 Her body was discovered near the football field 6 00:00:43,877 --> 00:00:47,714 by the landscaping crew the following Monday morning. 7 00:00:50,842 --> 00:00:52,635 Can you tell us the exact location of the body? 8 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:56,347 She was dumped in a flower bed, wrapped in a shower curtain. 9 00:00:58,266 --> 00:01:01,019 CSI arrived an hour later, 10 00:01:01,102 --> 00:01:03,521 excavated the body and began processing the scene. 11 00:01:08,067 --> 00:01:10,153 SINCLAIR: Dr. Robbins, can you tell us how Stacy died? 12 00:01:10,236 --> 00:01:12,655 ROBBINS: Beneath this laceration, 13 00:01:12,739 --> 00:01:15,658 I found a complex fracture of the occipital bone. 14 00:01:15,742 --> 00:01:19,621 Multiple shards of bone were driven into the occipital lobe 15 00:01:19,704 --> 00:01:21,206 of the brain, 16 00:01:21,289 --> 00:01:22,165 resulting in massive bleeding. 17 00:01:22,248 --> 00:01:26,836 The cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage, 18 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:28,838 consistent with a single, sharp blow to her head. 19 00:01:36,387 --> 00:01:38,223 A search of the defendant's home 20 00:01:38,306 --> 00:01:40,475 yielded a laundry hamper 21 00:01:40,558 --> 00:01:41,684 containing the clothes he wore 22 00:01:41,768 --> 00:01:42,685 the night of the murder. 23 00:01:42,769 --> 00:01:44,312 SINCLAIR: Did you find any blood 24 00:01:44,395 --> 00:01:46,397 or DNA on the clothes? 25 00:01:46,481 --> 00:01:48,358 No. We determined they had been bleached. 26 00:01:48,441 --> 00:01:52,320 Isn't bleach used to destroy blood and DNA evidence? 27 00:01:52,403 --> 00:01:52,403 Objection: argumentative. 28 00:01:52,403 --> 00:01:54,000 SINCLAIR: Withdrawn. 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Objection: argumentative. 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:54,447 SINCLAIR: Withdrawn. 31 00:01:54,531 --> 00:01:56,366 What else did you find in the house? 32 00:01:56,449 --> 00:01:59,035 Human hairs consistent with the victim 33 00:01:59,118 --> 00:02:02,539 were discovered in the drain of the bathroom sink. 34 00:02:02,622 --> 00:02:04,082 DNA was extracted 35 00:02:04,165 --> 00:02:06,334 and was also matched to the victim. 36 00:02:06,417 --> 00:02:09,963 And based on this evidence, police arrested Marlon West. 37 00:02:10,964 --> 00:02:12,507 That's correct. 38 00:02:12,590 --> 00:02:14,259 SINCLAIR: Thank you, Mr. Stokes. 39 00:02:14,342 --> 00:02:16,803 No further questions. 40 00:02:18,012 --> 00:02:20,390 The State now calls Hannah West. 41 00:02:20,473 --> 00:02:21,724 ALLRED: Your Honor, 42 00:02:21,808 --> 00:02:23,226 defense reiterates our objection. 43 00:02:23,309 --> 00:02:24,853 She's a 12-year-old girl. 44 00:02:24,936 --> 00:02:27,397 JUDGE: We've been through this already, counsel. 45 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,358 The defendant's sister is being called as a hostile witness. 46 00:02:30,441 --> 00:02:32,569 That means the district attorney is permitted 47 00:02:32,652 --> 00:02:34,529 to ask leading questions. 48 00:02:34,612 --> 00:02:36,281 Be nice. 49 00:02:45,540 --> 00:02:47,542 Now, Hannah, isn't it a fact 50 00:02:47,625 --> 00:02:51,296 that on the night of Friday, December 2, 2005, 51 00:02:51,379 --> 00:02:53,798 your parents left you and your brother, 52 00:02:53,882 --> 00:02:55,550 the defendant, home alone? 53 00:02:55,633 --> 00:02:56,926 They went away for a... 54 00:02:57,010 --> 00:02:58,052 Yes or no, please. 55 00:02:58,136 --> 00:02:59,429 Yes. 56 00:02:59,512 --> 00:03:01,306 SINCLAIR: And isn't it also a fact 57 00:03:01,389 --> 00:03:03,558 that you and your brother were not together 58 00:03:03,641 --> 00:03:06,394 between the hours of 6:00 and 10:00 p.m.? 59 00:03:06,477 --> 00:03:08,438 Well, Marlon-- he didn't really... 60 00:03:08,521 --> 00:03:09,439 Yes or no? 61 00:03:09,522 --> 00:03:11,566 Yes. 62 00:03:11,649 --> 00:03:12,567 SINCLAIR: Thank you, Hannah. 63 00:03:12,650 --> 00:03:14,444 I'd like to say something... 64 00:03:14,527 --> 00:03:15,778 No further questions, Your Honor. 65 00:03:15,862 --> 00:03:17,280 Cross-examination? 66 00:03:17,363 --> 00:03:19,282 Absolutely, Your Honor. 67 00:03:19,365 --> 00:03:21,284 Uh, Hannah, 68 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:22,744 wh-what were you trying to say? 69 00:03:22,827 --> 00:03:24,329 Objection: calls for a narrative. 70 00:03:24,412 --> 00:03:25,496 Overruled. 71 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:26,956 ALLRED: You go ahead, Hannah. 72 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:28,458 You say what you need to say. 73 00:03:30,752 --> 00:03:33,838 Marlon didn't kill Stacy. 74 00:03:38,635 --> 00:03:39,552 I did. 75 00:03:42,847 --> 00:03:45,642 And I was wearing this when I did it. 76 00:03:56,235 --> 00:04:03,493 Captioning sponsored by CBS, C.S.I. PRODUCTIONS 77 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:05,995 ♪ Who... are you? ♪ 78 00:04:06,079 --> 00:04:09,499 ♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪ 79 00:04:09,582 --> 00:04:12,168 ♪ Who... are you? ♪ 80 00:04:12,251 --> 00:04:13,878 ♪ Who, who, who, who? ♪ 81 00:04:13,962 --> 00:04:15,505 ♪ I really wanna know ♪ 82 00:04:15,588 --> 00:04:18,632 ♪ Who... are you? ♪ 83 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:18,716 ♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪ 84 00:04:18,716 --> 00:04:19,591 ♪ Who... ♪ 85 00:04:19,676 --> 00:04:23,513 ♪ Come on, tell me who are you, you, you ♪ 86 00:04:23,596 --> 00:04:26,933 ♪ Oh, you! ♪ 87 00:04:31,479 --> 00:04:33,022 Good news is Judge Crawford denied 88 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:34,857 the defense's motion to dismiss. 89 00:04:34,941 --> 00:04:36,025 Of course he did. 90 00:04:36,109 --> 00:04:37,235 She's just a mixed-up kid 91 00:04:37,318 --> 00:04:38,403 trying to protect her older brother. 92 00:04:38,486 --> 00:04:40,405 All the evidence points to Marlon. 93 00:04:40,488 --> 00:04:42,240 Yeah, and all the jury's going to remember 94 00:04:42,323 --> 00:04:43,658 is a little girl in a bloody shirt 95 00:04:43,741 --> 00:04:44,659 confessing to murder. 96 00:04:44,742 --> 00:04:47,370 That's reasonable doubt on a silver platter. 97 00:04:47,453 --> 00:04:48,204 All right, then we have to prove 98 00:04:48,287 --> 00:04:49,872 that Hannah could not have done this. 99 00:04:49,956 --> 00:04:51,541 Exactly. 100 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:53,209 We'll need a week to reexamine the evidence. 101 00:04:53,293 --> 00:04:55,169 Judge gave the D.A. a 72-hour continuance. 102 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:55,253 Come on... 103 00:04:55,253 --> 00:04:56,671 Best he could do, Nick. 104 00:04:56,754 --> 00:04:59,382 Now you go do your best. 105 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,461 MARLON: Everybody thought Stacy was so... 106 00:05:36,544 --> 00:05:38,087 special. 107 00:05:38,171 --> 00:05:39,922 She thought so, too. 108 00:05:40,006 --> 00:05:41,466 She wasn't. 109 00:05:41,549 --> 00:05:44,927 Stacy was a stuck-up bitch and a miserable person. 110 00:05:45,011 --> 00:05:46,929 I just put her out of her misery. 111 00:05:49,182 --> 00:05:51,768 I killed her and I put her in the ground. 112 00:05:51,851 --> 00:05:53,895 That's all I've got to say. 113 00:05:55,563 --> 00:05:57,315 The judge suppressed the video 114 00:05:57,398 --> 00:05:59,567 because a child advocate was never brought in, 115 00:05:59,650 --> 00:06:01,944 even though Marlon had waived his rights. 116 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:03,821 We really didn't need a confession out of him. 117 00:06:03,905 --> 00:06:05,698 The case against this kid was solid. 118 00:06:06,699 --> 00:06:08,951 It started out as a prank: 119 00:06:09,035 --> 00:06:11,746 a sabotaged showerhead. 120 00:06:14,248 --> 00:06:17,335 PH tests later revealed the presence 121 00:06:17,418 --> 00:06:18,336 of a strong base substance 122 00:06:18,419 --> 00:06:20,296 which was later identified 123 00:06:20,379 --> 00:06:21,964 as sodium hydroxide. 124 00:06:22,048 --> 00:06:22,757 Sounds like Marlon packed 125 00:06:22,840 --> 00:06:24,592 the showerhead with elemental sodium. 126 00:06:24,675 --> 00:06:25,968 A high school chemistry favorite, yeah. 127 00:06:26,052 --> 00:06:27,762 Just add water, and instant kaboom. 128 00:06:27,845 --> 00:06:29,138 BROWN: Those out-of-order signs 129 00:06:29,222 --> 00:06:31,307 must've been part of his game. 130 00:06:31,390 --> 00:06:34,685 You funnel the victim to the right showerhead. 131 00:06:34,769 --> 00:06:35,686 Did you process these? 132 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:38,147 Yeah, I matched the spindle marks on the paper 133 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:39,315 to a laser printer 134 00:06:39,398 --> 00:06:40,775 in the high school library. 135 00:06:40,858 --> 00:06:42,401 Accessible to any student. 136 00:06:42,485 --> 00:06:43,945 Mm-hmm. 137 00:06:44,028 --> 00:06:46,322 "Multiple fragments of metal penetrating the skin and dermis 138 00:06:46,405 --> 00:06:49,534 "as deep as the superficial musculature 139 00:06:49,617 --> 00:06:51,327 of the back and neck." 140 00:06:51,410 --> 00:06:53,162 The showerhead explosion didn't kill her. 141 00:06:53,246 --> 00:06:54,622 No, no, it did not. 142 00:06:54,705 --> 00:06:57,250 What happened to the shower curtain? 143 00:06:57,333 --> 00:06:58,709 STOKES: Well, the vic was injured, 144 00:06:58,793 --> 00:06:59,961 disoriented. 145 00:07:00,044 --> 00:07:02,380 She grabbed the first thing she could to cover up and ran. 146 00:07:04,465 --> 00:07:07,718 STOKES: The intermittent blood trail started in the locker room 147 00:07:07,802 --> 00:07:08,803 and headed down a hall. 148 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:13,141 So Marlon followed her out just to hear her squeal? 149 00:07:13,224 --> 00:07:15,017 Or chased her out, yeah. 150 00:07:15,101 --> 00:07:16,519 There's no way to know. 151 00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:18,312 Either way, she ended up at the bottom of the stairs. 152 00:07:18,396 --> 00:07:19,856 The size of the blood pool 153 00:07:19,939 --> 00:07:22,525 indicates that the fatal wound occurred there. 154 00:07:22,608 --> 00:07:23,609 Do you have any physical evidence 155 00:07:23,693 --> 00:07:26,195 that would conclusively rule Hannah out as a suspect? 156 00:07:26,279 --> 00:07:30,700 Well, yeah-- she's four-foot-three and 65 pounds. 157 00:07:30,783 --> 00:07:33,619 The crime just required more strength than she's got. 158 00:07:33,703 --> 00:07:35,830 How old is she? 159 00:07:35,913 --> 00:07:37,290 Twelve. 160 00:07:38,124 --> 00:07:39,250 In high school? 161 00:07:39,333 --> 00:07:41,169 She's a high school senior. 162 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:43,254 She skipped six grades. 163 00:07:43,337 --> 00:07:44,213 She's a prodigy. 164 00:07:44,297 --> 00:07:47,717 Which means she has the brains for murder. 165 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:48,801 Yeah, but not the brawn. 166 00:07:48,885 --> 00:07:51,095 The body was moved from the high school building 167 00:07:51,179 --> 00:07:53,055 across a football field 168 00:07:53,139 --> 00:07:54,223 and then hastily buried. 169 00:07:54,307 --> 00:07:57,685 The vic's car was then driven two miles from campus 170 00:07:57,768 --> 00:07:59,395 and parked in front of the house of a kid named 171 00:07:59,478 --> 00:08:01,772 Scott Baird, Stacy's boyfriend-- 172 00:08:01,856 --> 00:08:03,608 I think possibly to frame him. 173 00:08:03,691 --> 00:08:05,401 Was he ever a suspect? 174 00:08:05,484 --> 00:08:06,694 No. He plays varsity hoops. 175 00:08:06,777 --> 00:08:08,779 He was out of town on an away game. 176 00:08:08,863 --> 00:08:11,073 I found blades of grass 177 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:13,367 with blood on them near the vic's car-- 178 00:08:13,451 --> 00:08:15,745 nondescript tracks headed towards 179 00:08:15,828 --> 00:08:16,913 the next-door neighbor's house. 180 00:08:16,996 --> 00:08:18,206 Marlon West. 181 00:08:18,289 --> 00:08:19,665 Yeah. This kid's been in trouble before. 182 00:08:19,749 --> 00:08:21,083 Multiple fights, threats. 183 00:08:21,167 --> 00:08:23,753 It just got out of hand this time. 184 00:08:23,836 --> 00:08:27,215 Marlon West killed Stacy Vollmer. 185 00:08:27,298 --> 00:08:31,302 His little sister's just trying to exonerate him. 186 00:09:01,958 --> 00:09:03,334 ♪ ♪ 187 00:09:33,656 --> 00:09:34,699 Hey, Nick. 188 00:09:34,782 --> 00:09:36,325 Hodges, did you get the soil analysis back 189 00:09:36,409 --> 00:09:37,326 on Hannah's shirt? 190 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:37,410 Matches the site of the body dump. 191 00:09:37,410 --> 00:09:39,017 Really! 192 00:09:39,017 --> 00:09:39,017 Matches the site of the body dump. 193 00:09:39,017 --> 00:09:39,620 Really! 194 00:09:39,704 --> 00:09:42,790 So does this make Doogie Howser-ette your killer? 195 00:09:42,873 --> 00:09:44,166 Uh, I kind of doubt it. 196 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:46,919 Don't be so sure. It's not easy. 197 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,131 What isn't easy, Hodges? 198 00:09:50,214 --> 00:09:52,341 Being profoundly gifted, 199 00:09:52,425 --> 00:09:54,468 knowing that everybody knows that you're always 200 00:09:54,552 --> 00:09:55,469 ten steps ahead of them. 201 00:09:55,553 --> 00:09:56,846 It's a lot of pressure. 202 00:09:56,929 --> 00:09:58,472 Some days, you feel 203 00:09:58,556 --> 00:09:59,807 like you're just going to snap. 204 00:09:59,890 --> 00:10:01,225 I know the feeling. 205 00:10:01,309 --> 00:10:04,478 SIDLE: In his confession, 206 00:10:04,562 --> 00:10:06,856 Marlon basically said that Stacy deserved to die. 207 00:10:06,939 --> 00:10:08,899 He was alone in that opinion. 208 00:10:08,983 --> 00:10:11,861 Everybody loved Stacy-- parents and students. 209 00:10:11,944 --> 00:10:15,865 4.0 GPA, varsity tennis team, homecoming queen. 210 00:10:15,948 --> 00:10:17,992 She even took a public virginity pledge 211 00:10:18,075 --> 00:10:20,077 with some of her classmates. 212 00:10:20,161 --> 00:10:22,038 Did they have those in your high school? 213 00:10:22,121 --> 00:10:23,539 No. 214 00:10:23,622 --> 00:10:25,041 Do you believe that Marlon killed her? 215 00:10:25,124 --> 00:10:26,876 I was looking right into his eyes 216 00:10:26,959 --> 00:10:28,836 when he told me he did it. 217 00:10:28,919 --> 00:10:31,839 There's no doubt in my mind. 218 00:10:31,922 --> 00:10:34,508 CURTIS: Two confessions, one crime. 219 00:10:34,592 --> 00:10:37,386 We don't get that a lot. 220 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:39,388 When did you last speak with Marlon? 221 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:42,558 The day the police came to my house and arrested him. 222 00:10:42,641 --> 00:10:43,768 You don't visit him? 223 00:10:43,851 --> 00:10:45,853 My parents won't let me see him in jail. 224 00:10:45,936 --> 00:10:47,772 Bad environment. 225 00:10:47,855 --> 00:10:51,025 Marlon didn't put me up to this. 226 00:10:51,108 --> 00:10:52,360 He was trying to protect me. 227 00:10:52,443 --> 00:10:54,737 It would've been wrong to let him be punished 228 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:56,405 for something I did. 229 00:10:59,450 --> 00:11:01,952 You don't think I could have done it. 230 00:11:02,036 --> 00:11:03,871 Neither one of you. 231 00:11:03,954 --> 00:11:06,707 That's a big job for a little girl. 232 00:11:06,791 --> 00:11:10,044 Not if you have the right tools. 233 00:11:10,127 --> 00:11:14,256 Smart kid like you... knows your brother's suffering. 234 00:11:14,340 --> 00:11:16,467 You feel bad, you want to help, 235 00:11:16,550 --> 00:11:19,095 so you fabricate some evidence. 236 00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:21,097 If you thought that the evidence was fake, 237 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:23,140 I wouldn't still be in jail. 238 00:11:25,976 --> 00:11:28,729 Aren't you going to ask me why I did it? 239 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:30,606 Would you like to tell us? 240 00:11:32,650 --> 00:11:34,235 I throw off the curve. 241 00:11:34,318 --> 00:11:35,736 When I'm in a class, 242 00:11:35,820 --> 00:11:38,739 people who usually get A's, suddenly get C's. 243 00:11:38,823 --> 00:11:40,908 Stacy was applying to Harvard. 244 00:11:40,991 --> 00:11:43,619 She wanted me to dumb myself down. 245 00:11:43,702 --> 00:11:45,538 I said no. 246 00:11:45,621 --> 00:11:47,706 She didn't like that. 247 00:11:51,544 --> 00:11:54,296 Uh... babies use the wall dryer. 248 00:12:02,388 --> 00:12:05,307 So you killed her because she messed up your hair? 249 00:12:05,391 --> 00:12:06,976 No. 250 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:09,103 I'm used to pranks like that. 251 00:12:09,186 --> 00:12:11,814 I get them most every day. 252 00:12:11,897 --> 00:12:13,983 But Stacy... didn't stop there. 253 00:12:14,066 --> 00:12:17,319 She had to take it to another level. 254 00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:19,822 And she used Scott to do it. 255 00:12:19,905 --> 00:12:21,949 Scott Baird, Stacy's boyfriend. 256 00:12:22,032 --> 00:12:25,661 I was his tutor. 257 00:12:25,744 --> 00:12:27,580 SCOTT: You know, I was really pissed off 258 00:12:27,663 --> 00:12:29,248 at Stacy when I heard about the whole... 259 00:12:29,331 --> 00:12:31,625 hair dryer thing, 260 00:12:31,709 --> 00:12:33,836 but her... her friends had put her up to it. 261 00:12:33,919 --> 00:12:36,172 Stacy wanted me to give you something. 262 00:12:38,215 --> 00:12:39,800 It's a peace offering. 263 00:12:39,884 --> 00:12:42,178 I think you'll look great in it at the Spring Formal. 264 00:12:42,887 --> 00:12:44,638 Oh, you are so going. 265 00:12:46,724 --> 00:12:48,851 You like him. 266 00:12:48,934 --> 00:12:52,021 He's on the basketball team. 267 00:12:52,104 --> 00:12:53,856 I'm 12; I'm not allowed 268 00:12:53,939 --> 00:12:56,025 to like him, but... 269 00:12:56,108 --> 00:12:57,818 I went anyway. 270 00:13:08,704 --> 00:13:10,748 Over here. 271 00:13:33,812 --> 00:13:36,065 The pictures were up on MySpace that night. 272 00:13:36,148 --> 00:13:38,275 I got a ton of e-mails. 273 00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:40,569 You put sodium in the showerhead to get back at her? 274 00:13:40,653 --> 00:13:43,948 A prank for a prank. 275 00:13:44,031 --> 00:13:45,908 I thought that there'd be a few sparks, 276 00:13:45,991 --> 00:13:48,410 that she'd freak out and that'd be it, 277 00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:52,331 but the nozzle exploded. 278 00:13:52,414 --> 00:13:56,752 Stacy ran... and fell down the stairs... 279 00:13:56,835 --> 00:13:58,587 and died. 280 00:14:00,130 --> 00:14:02,925 I tried to cover it up. 281 00:14:03,008 --> 00:14:04,593 You miscalculated. 282 00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:08,013 I guess I did. 283 00:14:11,642 --> 00:14:13,435 You rang? 284 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:16,272 Got the DNA results on the blood from Hannah's sweater. 285 00:14:16,355 --> 00:14:18,107 Stacy. 286 00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:19,608 Hannah. 287 00:14:19,692 --> 00:14:22,278 So she fabricated evidence, 288 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:24,613 and put her own blood on the shirt. 289 00:14:24,697 --> 00:14:25,781 Maybe, maybe not. 290 00:14:25,864 --> 00:14:28,492 The soil on the shirt was consistent with the dump site. 291 00:14:28,576 --> 00:14:30,703 Hannah could've been at the scene. 292 00:14:32,204 --> 00:14:34,915 She could have cut herself burying the body. 293 00:14:38,210 --> 00:14:40,004 Or she could have gone back to the field 294 00:14:40,087 --> 00:14:41,964 at any time within the last four months 295 00:14:42,047 --> 00:14:44,174 and rubbed her shirt in the same kind of dirt. 296 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:46,093 And counted on us to make the match? 297 00:14:46,176 --> 00:14:47,761 Well, that's just plain scary smart. 298 00:14:47,845 --> 00:14:49,805 I mean, my daughter's a few years older than her, 299 00:14:49,888 --> 00:14:51,765 and the most important thing on her mind right now 300 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:53,934 is how much belly button to show off at the mall. 301 00:14:55,603 --> 00:14:57,646 Never thought I'd be grateful for that. 302 00:15:05,738 --> 00:15:08,824 WOMAN: You have to understand. 303 00:15:08,907 --> 00:15:10,534 My child's not capable of murder. 304 00:15:10,618 --> 00:15:12,995 I assume you mean Hannah. 305 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:14,997 Of course. 306 00:15:18,125 --> 00:15:19,418 Well, Marlon's your child, too. 307 00:15:19,501 --> 00:15:21,295 Marlon's from my wife's first marriage. 308 00:15:21,378 --> 00:15:22,921 He's more like his father. 309 00:15:34,808 --> 00:15:36,852 STOKES: This is Marlon's room. 310 00:15:36,935 --> 00:15:38,187 No kidding. 311 00:15:38,270 --> 00:15:40,022 It's pretty much the way I left it. 312 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:45,110 The bleached clothes were in the hamper. 313 00:15:46,904 --> 00:15:48,322 But the real action... 314 00:15:48,405 --> 00:15:50,658 was in here. 315 00:15:54,411 --> 00:15:57,998 Shared bathroom. Very Brady. 316 00:15:58,082 --> 00:15:59,917 Pulled Stacy's hairs out of the sink trap 317 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,086 the first time through. 318 00:16:02,169 --> 00:16:05,547 And I found some burn marks 319 00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:07,049 around the bathtub drain. 320 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:10,928 pH tested positive for sodium hydroxide, so... 321 00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:14,556 I figured Marlon probably did a test run. 322 00:16:43,752 --> 00:16:46,088 The scope of the warrant only covered Marlon's room 323 00:16:46,171 --> 00:16:48,090 and other common areas of the house. 324 00:16:48,173 --> 00:16:49,591 I popped my head in here. 325 00:16:49,675 --> 00:16:52,261 Nothing in plain sight at the time. 326 00:17:08,318 --> 00:17:09,778 Was this here before? 327 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:11,155 It wasn't in plain sight. 328 00:17:11,238 --> 00:17:12,573 I didn't check it. 329 00:17:12,656 --> 00:17:14,950 Looks like Hannah won the science fair 330 00:17:15,032 --> 00:17:16,617 with a project about sodium. 331 00:17:20,164 --> 00:17:22,374 Hannah's just trying to help Marlon. 332 00:17:22,458 --> 00:17:23,751 So they're close? 333 00:17:23,834 --> 00:17:25,586 No, not really. 334 00:17:25,669 --> 00:17:27,503 Sometimes I think if they didn't share a bathroom, 335 00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:29,173 they wouldn't see each other at all. 336 00:17:29,256 --> 00:17:30,299 What do you mean? 337 00:17:30,382 --> 00:17:32,092 They're on different academic tracks. 338 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:33,761 Never take any of the same classes, 339 00:17:33,844 --> 00:17:36,847 and travel in completely different social circles. 340 00:17:36,930 --> 00:17:38,140 From what we understand, 341 00:17:38,223 --> 00:17:40,768 Hannah doesn't really have a social circle. 342 00:17:40,851 --> 00:17:44,271 The other students bore her. 343 00:17:44,354 --> 00:17:46,815 Hannah spends most of her time with her teachers. 344 00:17:46,899 --> 00:17:48,192 And Marlon? 345 00:17:49,234 --> 00:17:51,403 I guess... 346 00:17:51,487 --> 00:17:54,490 I guess he spends most of his time alone. 347 00:18:09,379 --> 00:18:12,007 "Rainbow party"?! 348 00:18:12,090 --> 00:18:14,551 Yeah, it's a party game where boys get the girls 349 00:18:14,635 --> 00:18:16,845 to wear different colored lipsticks 350 00:18:16,929 --> 00:18:18,055 while they have oral sex. 351 00:18:18,138 --> 00:18:20,182 Boy with the most colors wins. 352 00:18:20,265 --> 00:18:21,308 Supposed to be trendy. 353 00:18:21,391 --> 00:18:23,060 So much for "Spin the Bottle." 354 00:18:23,143 --> 00:18:25,521 Carrie. 355 00:18:25,604 --> 00:18:27,231 "Weird high school girl 356 00:18:27,314 --> 00:18:28,565 "gets humiliated at the prom, 357 00:18:28,649 --> 00:18:30,275 only to exact her revenge." 358 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:32,569 Hannah wanted us to find this. 359 00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:34,071 Maybe. 360 00:18:34,154 --> 00:18:37,825 Question is, did she read the book before... 361 00:18:37,908 --> 00:18:39,493 or after the murder? 362 00:18:39,576 --> 00:18:42,204 We had Hannah's I.Q. tested when she was eight. 363 00:18:42,287 --> 00:18:45,040 It's 177. 364 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:47,668 She really is one in a million. 365 00:18:47,751 --> 00:18:48,710 Hannah's special. 366 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:50,295 She's an indigo child. 367 00:18:50,379 --> 00:18:51,839 Indigo child? 368 00:18:51,922 --> 00:18:53,549 A new breed. 369 00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:55,551 Hannah doesn't just see the world, 370 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:56,718 she sees through it, 371 00:18:56,802 --> 00:18:58,720 through people, 372 00:18:58,804 --> 00:19:01,265 with an intuition none of us can comprehend. 373 00:19:01,348 --> 00:19:03,809 She's compelled to help others, 374 00:19:03,892 --> 00:19:06,603 whether they're worth helping or not. 375 00:19:29,668 --> 00:19:33,714 ♪ ♪ 376 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:43,765 Ah, the shower curtain 377 00:19:43,849 --> 00:19:45,142 the vic was wrapped in. 378 00:19:45,225 --> 00:19:46,935 Yeah, I had Mandy run the unknowns 379 00:19:47,019 --> 00:19:49,229 from the original case against Hannah's prints. 380 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:50,230 She got a match. 381 00:19:50,314 --> 00:19:52,232 Okay. 382 00:19:52,316 --> 00:19:54,985 But Hannah uses those showers after gym class. 383 00:19:55,068 --> 00:19:57,654 This curtain was used in the handicapped shower. 384 00:19:57,738 --> 00:19:58,989 Why would she do that? 385 00:19:59,072 --> 00:20:00,449 Probably hiding her body. 386 00:20:00,532 --> 00:20:02,159 She's 12. 387 00:20:02,242 --> 00:20:04,912 She hasn't reached puberty. 388 00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:06,914 Undeveloped teen girls are very self-conscious. 389 00:20:06,997 --> 00:20:08,248 Mm-hmm. 390 00:20:08,332 --> 00:20:11,919 Four... fingers, closely spaced. 391 00:20:12,002 --> 00:20:13,837 Grabbing, maybe. 392 00:20:13,921 --> 00:20:17,549 Could be from Hannah dragging Stacy's body. 393 00:20:24,222 --> 00:20:26,308 Hannah weighed 65 pounds. 394 00:20:26,391 --> 00:20:27,809 Stacy about a hundred. 395 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:29,311 Dead weight. 396 00:20:29,394 --> 00:20:31,897 Plastic slides on grass. 397 00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:34,650 It makes it easier. It's certainly possible. 398 00:20:34,733 --> 00:20:37,319 D.A.'s not going to like the sound of that. 399 00:20:42,532 --> 00:20:44,493 MAN: Sodium demonstration is always 400 00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:44,576 a real crowd pleaser. 401 00:20:46,244 --> 00:20:49,957 It's ended up in a senior prank more than once. 402 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,042 I keep it over here, under lock and key, 403 00:20:52,125 --> 00:20:55,295 but, unfortunately, the lab's always getting broken into. 404 00:20:58,382 --> 00:20:59,716 It's certainly possible 405 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,051 Marlon got the sodium from here. 406 00:21:01,134 --> 00:21:02,761 Everyone have their goggles on? 407 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:12,896 Which is precisely what I told the cops 408 00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:14,690 four months ago. 409 00:21:14,773 --> 00:21:16,400 You need gloves to handle elemental sodium. 410 00:21:16,483 --> 00:21:17,359 Of course. 411 00:21:17,442 --> 00:21:19,486 It burns skin. 412 00:21:19,569 --> 00:21:21,863 We keep it in kerosene to stabilize it. 413 00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:24,700 Do you think it's possible that Hannah could have stolen it? 414 00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:27,160 Hannah would never do that. 415 00:21:27,244 --> 00:21:31,415 I'm just wondering if it's possible. 416 00:21:31,498 --> 00:21:33,000 She obviously has access 417 00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:33,083 to this room. 418 00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:35,377 Ms. Sidle... 419 00:21:35,460 --> 00:21:38,255 I've had my share of good students over the years, 420 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:40,424 but Hannah... 421 00:21:40,507 --> 00:21:42,426 Sometimes, right in the middle of a lecture, 422 00:21:42,509 --> 00:21:43,927 I'll catch her staring at some 423 00:21:44,011 --> 00:21:47,389 little thing in the yard-- a tree, a squirrel... 424 00:21:47,472 --> 00:21:50,225 and all I can think about is how much I wish 425 00:21:50,308 --> 00:21:52,185 I could see it the way she does. 426 00:21:52,269 --> 00:21:54,062 If Hannah came up and asked me 427 00:21:54,146 --> 00:21:56,398 for a chunk of sodium, I'd give it to her, 428 00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:59,609 just to see what she would do with it. 429 00:21:59,693 --> 00:22:03,280 The victim's car. 430 00:22:03,363 --> 00:22:05,407 Originally impounded... 431 00:22:05,490 --> 00:22:07,909 in front of Scott Baird's house. 432 00:22:07,993 --> 00:22:10,746 Traces of blood and soil consistent with the crime 433 00:22:10,829 --> 00:22:12,581 were found in the front seat. 434 00:22:12,664 --> 00:22:17,461 Now, if Hannah's the killer, she had to drive this car. 435 00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:21,465 Well, it's got adjustable seats, 436 00:22:21,548 --> 00:22:23,383 tilt and telescoping steering wheel-- 437 00:22:23,467 --> 00:22:24,843 it's certainly possible. 438 00:22:28,847 --> 00:22:31,391 Soil and blood on the carpet. 439 00:22:31,475 --> 00:22:32,559 That was in the report. 440 00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:45,530 But this wasn't. 441 00:23:17,062 --> 00:23:19,439 I'd say the killer moved the seat. 442 00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:21,316 Yeah. 443 00:23:30,450 --> 00:23:32,035 12-year-old killer, huh? 444 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,704 Starting to look that way, yeah. 445 00:23:34,788 --> 00:23:37,165 I bet that Grand Theft Auto had something to do with it. 446 00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:38,250 Mm, I don't know. 447 00:23:38,333 --> 00:23:40,502 I don't think Hannah's really the video-game type. 448 00:23:40,585 --> 00:23:41,670 Never know. 449 00:23:41,753 --> 00:23:44,548 Between you and me, I actually think it's a ton of fun. 450 00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:54,766 WEBSTER: Print is a match to a Scott Baird. 451 00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:57,602 Isn't that the victim's boyfriend? 452 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,524 MR. BAIRD: Two people confessed to the murder, 453 00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:04,651 and now you're accusing my son? 454 00:24:04,734 --> 00:24:07,154 Kids do stupid things. 455 00:24:07,237 --> 00:24:08,572 Marlon covers for Hannah, 456 00:24:08,655 --> 00:24:10,490 Hannah covers for Scott. 457 00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:10,574 Dad... 458 00:24:10,574 --> 00:24:12,409 Don't say a word. 459 00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:15,162 DNA confirmed your fingerprint in Stacy's car, 460 00:24:15,245 --> 00:24:16,663 in Stacy's blood. 461 00:24:16,746 --> 00:24:17,664 Scott loved Stacy. 462 00:24:17,747 --> 00:24:19,374 We all did. 463 00:24:19,457 --> 00:24:21,376 And when whoever killed her 464 00:24:21,459 --> 00:24:24,045 parked her car in my driveway to frame my son, 465 00:24:24,129 --> 00:24:25,881 I understood why you had to talk to him. 466 00:24:25,964 --> 00:24:27,507 But this? 467 00:24:28,758 --> 00:24:30,552 That's it. 468 00:24:30,635 --> 00:24:32,846 We're leaving. Come on, Scott. 469 00:24:32,929 --> 00:24:34,306 This is the only chance you're going to get. 470 00:24:34,389 --> 00:24:36,433 If you walk out that door, 471 00:24:36,516 --> 00:24:37,767 you're under arrest. 472 00:24:37,851 --> 00:24:38,768 I want a lawyer. 473 00:24:38,852 --> 00:24:39,769 I want to talk. 474 00:24:39,853 --> 00:24:40,896 Scott. 475 00:24:41,771 --> 00:24:43,148 Without my dad. 476 00:24:52,490 --> 00:24:54,409 ( over speaker ): This is ridiculous. 477 00:24:54,492 --> 00:24:56,578 I asked you guys to rule out one suspect, 478 00:24:56,661 --> 00:24:58,788 now we have three. 479 00:24:58,872 --> 00:25:00,498 If he's willing to talk, 480 00:25:00,582 --> 00:25:01,750 I'd say we caught a break. 481 00:25:01,833 --> 00:25:03,752 The father's going to sue. 482 00:25:03,835 --> 00:25:05,587 Oh, I'd put money on that. 483 00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:06,588 CURTIS: Okay, Scott. 484 00:25:06,671 --> 00:25:07,881 You said you wanted to talk. 485 00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:09,299 Let's talk. 486 00:25:09,382 --> 00:25:13,762 This doesn't get back to our families, all right? 487 00:25:13,845 --> 00:25:17,098 My dad's a deacon, and Stacy's dad is, too. 488 00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:19,476 They'll never understand. 489 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:20,977 They won't hear anything from me. 490 00:25:23,563 --> 00:25:27,609 I was pressuring Stacy to have sex. 491 00:25:27,692 --> 00:25:29,945 She kept resisting. 492 00:25:30,028 --> 00:25:31,571 It was that stupid virginity pledge 493 00:25:31,655 --> 00:25:34,699 that she had taken at the high school. 494 00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:37,118 I told her that I loved her, 495 00:25:37,202 --> 00:25:40,580 and that nothing should get in the way of that. 496 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:44,251 Not even God. 497 00:25:44,334 --> 00:25:46,586 I take it that convinced her. 498 00:25:49,381 --> 00:25:50,423 Yeah. 499 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:55,637 I mean, really? 500 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,639 You really do? 501 00:25:57,722 --> 00:25:58,640 Yeah. 502 00:25:58,723 --> 00:26:01,142 I love you. 503 00:26:01,226 --> 00:26:03,812 I love you with all of my heart. 504 00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:09,651 There was a little blood. 505 00:26:09,734 --> 00:26:12,696 Not a lot, but... 506 00:26:12,779 --> 00:26:16,658 After, she... she started feeling guilty, 507 00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,743 so I went back into the front of the car 508 00:26:18,827 --> 00:26:20,120 and I tossed the condom. 509 00:26:20,203 --> 00:26:23,790 And... then I... 510 00:26:23,873 --> 00:26:25,667 wiped my fingers under the seat. 511 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:26,918 HODGES ( over phone ): Hello? 512 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:28,003 Hodges, Stokes. 513 00:26:28,086 --> 00:26:31,256 Listen, there's a bloody fingerprint in the back freezer 514 00:26:31,339 --> 00:26:33,049 from Stacy Vollmer's car. 515 00:26:33,133 --> 00:26:36,177 Pull it and test it for spermicides and lubricants. 516 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:37,721 We need it quickly, all right? 517 00:26:37,804 --> 00:26:39,180 HODGES: I'm on it. 518 00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:41,933 If it tests positive, it will clear him. 519 00:26:42,017 --> 00:26:43,184 Yeah. 520 00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:45,353 Which means we're down to Malcolm and Hannah. 521 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:47,772 Right back where we started. 522 00:26:47,856 --> 00:26:50,692 SCOTT: Stacy said that she was afraid 523 00:26:50,775 --> 00:26:53,737 that God would punish her for having sex. 524 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:56,573 I told her that was crazy. 525 00:26:58,158 --> 00:27:00,493 Guess I was wrong. 526 00:27:00,577 --> 00:27:03,663 SIDLE: Archie is not getting much off of 527 00:27:03,747 --> 00:27:04,539 Hannah's computer. 528 00:27:04,622 --> 00:27:07,792 Most of her files are encrypted AES-256. 529 00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:09,586 It's going to be nearly impossible to crack. 530 00:27:09,669 --> 00:27:10,712 What do you mean by "most"? 531 00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:11,546 Well, it's not much, 532 00:27:11,629 --> 00:27:13,673 but apparently Hannah had I.P. access 533 00:27:13,757 --> 00:27:15,550 to the laser printer in the high school library. 534 00:27:15,633 --> 00:27:18,178 Same one that printed the "Out of Order" signs for the shower. 535 00:27:18,261 --> 00:27:21,056 If she printed those signs, it shows intent. 536 00:27:21,139 --> 00:27:22,057 Mm-hmm. 537 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:23,975 Ah, teen lust. 538 00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:26,644 Starts with some chemistry, and then you mess around 539 00:27:26,728 --> 00:27:27,854 with some biology, 540 00:27:27,937 --> 00:27:30,774 and once you have some experience "under your belt," 541 00:27:30,857 --> 00:27:32,901 then you introduce the physics. 542 00:27:32,984 --> 00:27:35,695 Apparently, chivalry is not dead: 543 00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:36,738 the bloody fingerprint tested positive 544 00:27:36,821 --> 00:27:38,239 for nonoxynol spermicide. 545 00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:39,407 So much for the boyfriend. 546 00:27:39,491 --> 00:27:41,910 If we can't pin this on Hannah or Marlon, 547 00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:44,704 they could both walk. 548 00:27:44,788 --> 00:27:46,581 You could flip a coin. 549 00:27:46,664 --> 00:27:48,917 I have a better idea. 550 00:27:53,171 --> 00:27:55,590 I bet you really liked high school. 551 00:27:55,673 --> 00:27:56,925 Yeah, playing football, chasing girls, 552 00:27:57,008 --> 00:27:59,427 books when I wanted to learn something-- what's not to like? 553 00:27:59,511 --> 00:27:59,511 Hey, guys. 554 00:27:59,511 --> 00:27:59,987 Hey. 555 00:27:59,987 --> 00:27:59,987 Hey, guys. 556 00:27:59,987 --> 00:28:00,595 Hey. 557 00:28:00,678 --> 00:28:00,678 This is Darcy, my wife Tina's niece. 558 00:28:00,678 --> 00:28:03,264 SIDLE: Hi, Darcy. 559 00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:05,100 STOKES: You were right; she's about Hannah's size. 560 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:05,183 More or less. 561 00:28:05,183 --> 00:28:05,987 Stop talking about me. 562 00:28:05,987 --> 00:28:05,987 More or less. 563 00:28:05,987 --> 00:28:07,977 Stop talking about me. 564 00:28:08,061 --> 00:28:09,270 Hey, that's the best part! 565 00:28:09,354 --> 00:28:11,773 BROWN: That's what the pause button's for. 566 00:28:11,856 --> 00:28:13,942 It's time to work, it's child labor day. 567 00:28:14,859 --> 00:28:15,944 Okay. 568 00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:18,029 Crime started right here. 569 00:28:21,324 --> 00:28:23,368 Think you could reach that? 570 00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:29,290 BROWN: It's kind of hard to sabotage 571 00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:30,792 a shower head you can't touch. 572 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:33,294 STOKES: Depends on what's behind the curtain. 573 00:28:34,421 --> 00:28:35,463 Look at that. 574 00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:40,218 Just like the one in Hannah's bathroom. 575 00:28:40,301 --> 00:28:41,803 Try this. 576 00:28:47,725 --> 00:28:49,978 SIDLE: Hannah had access to the chem lab, 577 00:28:50,061 --> 00:28:52,105 and she knew how to handle sodium... 578 00:28:59,904 --> 00:29:02,490 SIDLE: Stacy would not have known what hit her. 579 00:29:02,574 --> 00:29:03,950 Or where she was going. 580 00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:16,754 Stacy landed here and bled out 581 00:29:16,838 --> 00:29:19,841 from the trauma to her skull. 582 00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:22,093 Darcy, why don't you put those headphones back on? 583 00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,554 Like I didn't hear what you guys just said? 584 00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:27,682 Hannah could have done this. 585 00:29:27,765 --> 00:29:28,600 Maybe. 586 00:29:28,683 --> 00:29:31,686 But the next part, that was the toughest. 587 00:29:33,938 --> 00:29:35,356 DARCY: It's too heavy! 588 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,233 BROWN: Come on, you're almost there! 589 00:29:37,317 --> 00:29:38,735 It's building character! 590 00:29:38,818 --> 00:29:40,653 SIDLE: It's slow going, but you're doing it. 591 00:29:40,737 --> 00:29:41,821 Yeah, so far. 592 00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:42,697 That's okay. 593 00:29:42,780 --> 00:29:44,866 Look, even if she makes it to the grass, 594 00:29:44,949 --> 00:29:46,367 you think she could've pulled the body 595 00:29:46,451 --> 00:29:47,869 the entire length of the football field? 596 00:29:47,952 --> 00:29:50,038 There were scratches on the shower curtain-- 597 00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:52,207 the body was dragged at least part of the way. 598 00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:54,876 SIDLE: There's no way Hannah pulled it the entire distance. 599 00:29:54,959 --> 00:29:56,878 Not by herself. 600 00:29:58,588 --> 00:29:59,380 They did it together. 601 00:29:59,464 --> 00:30:01,049 DARCY: So... 602 00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:02,967 Did I help the dead girl? 603 00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:10,892 If Marlon and Hannah committed this crime together, 604 00:30:10,975 --> 00:30:12,727 then they're probably still working as a team. 605 00:30:12,810 --> 00:30:14,062 It's all part of the plan: 606 00:30:14,145 --> 00:30:16,064 he confesses, then she confesses. 607 00:30:16,147 --> 00:30:17,065 Muddy the waters enough, 608 00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:17,148 they both get off on reasonable doubt. 609 00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:18,014 Mm-hmm. 610 00:30:18,014 --> 00:30:18,014 they both get off on reasonable doubt. 611 00:30:18,014 --> 00:30:20,401 Mm-hmm. 612 00:30:20,485 --> 00:30:22,904 Well, if we can't get one to implicate the other, 613 00:30:22,987 --> 00:30:24,322 we're screwed. 614 00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:27,116 I don't get it. 615 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:28,368 What's wrong with you people? 616 00:30:28,451 --> 00:30:30,537 You want me to confess? Again? 617 00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,580 Fine, I will. 618 00:30:32,664 --> 00:30:33,581 Marlon, you need to confirm 619 00:30:33,665 --> 00:30:34,916 that you're willing to talk to me 620 00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:36,876 without a parent or lawyer present, 621 00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,753 just a child advocate. 622 00:30:38,836 --> 00:30:40,380 I already said that was okay. 623 00:30:40,463 --> 00:30:42,757 I killed Stacy, what else do I have to tell you? 624 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,094 Well, the truth works for me. 625 00:30:46,177 --> 00:30:47,262 I like the truth. 626 00:30:47,345 --> 00:30:49,138 HANNAH: Look, I don't need a lawyer, 627 00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:50,557 and I don't need my parents. 628 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,225 I just want to do what's right. 629 00:30:52,308 --> 00:30:55,019 Hannah, taking the blame for something you didn't do 630 00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:57,480 may be noble, but it doesn't make it right. 631 00:30:57,564 --> 00:30:59,857 That's deep. 632 00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:01,609 Okay. 633 00:31:01,693 --> 00:31:02,902 It happened like this: 634 00:31:02,986 --> 00:31:05,697 Stacy humiliated me, I wanted revenge. 635 00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:07,407 Yeah, and you knew that there was no way you were ever 636 00:31:07,490 --> 00:31:08,408 going to get it by yourself. 637 00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:10,410 STOKES: You moved the body, 638 00:31:10,493 --> 00:31:13,079 you buried it... 639 00:31:13,162 --> 00:31:14,581 I know I did; I was there. 640 00:31:14,664 --> 00:31:15,748 What's the problem? 641 00:31:15,832 --> 00:31:18,209 Well, the problem is what happened in the locker room. 642 00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:20,003 I mean, you're not the kind of guy 643 00:31:20,086 --> 00:31:22,964 who puts sodium in a shower head to get back at somebody. 644 00:31:23,047 --> 00:31:24,382 You just trip them in the hallway. 645 00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:28,678 So you think I'm too stupid to have done it. 646 00:31:28,761 --> 00:31:30,471 Great, join the club. 647 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:32,807 I don't think you're stupid, Marlon, 648 00:31:32,890 --> 00:31:35,143 I didn't say you were stupid. 649 00:31:35,226 --> 00:31:37,478 But this is Hannah's game. 650 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:37,562 The whole way. 651 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:39,105 Uh-uh. 652 00:31:39,188 --> 00:31:40,315 I broke into the chem lab. 653 00:31:40,398 --> 00:31:41,649 I stole the sodium. 654 00:31:41,733 --> 00:31:42,650 Me. 655 00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:43,818 All by myself. 656 00:31:43,901 --> 00:31:45,236 It takes skills 657 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,654 to handle a chemical like that properly. 658 00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:50,533 And, quite frankly, man, you just don't have the skills. 659 00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:52,160 Your prank went bad, and Stacy 660 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:52,243 ended up dead. 661 00:31:52,243 --> 00:31:53,661 That's what I said. 662 00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:54,996 Marlon helped you bury her. 663 00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,331 No. Why won't you believe me? 664 00:31:56,414 --> 00:31:57,749 Marlon wasn't there. 665 00:31:57,832 --> 00:31:59,459 Stay away from Hannah. 666 00:31:59,542 --> 00:32:01,461 She had nothing to do with this. 667 00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:05,131 No, no, she had everything to do with this. 668 00:32:05,214 --> 00:32:06,007 You two were working together 669 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:06,090 from the beginning. 670 00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:07,800 Just leave her alone. 671 00:32:07,884 --> 00:32:09,135 SIDLE: Marlon helped you move the body. 672 00:32:09,218 --> 00:32:09,218 He didn't! 673 00:32:09,218 --> 00:32:11,471 You expect me to believe 674 00:32:11,554 --> 00:32:12,889 that a little girl like you 675 00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:14,307 lugged a hundred pounds of dead weight 676 00:32:14,390 --> 00:32:15,642 the length of a football field 677 00:32:15,725 --> 00:32:15,725 by yourself? 678 00:32:15,725 --> 00:32:17,644 No, of course not, 679 00:32:17,727 --> 00:32:19,395 that's why I had to use the cart. 680 00:32:20,813 --> 00:32:22,023 What cart? 681 00:32:22,106 --> 00:32:23,066 The electric cart. 682 00:32:23,149 --> 00:32:24,859 The one the landscapers were using. 683 00:32:24,942 --> 00:32:27,695 It was just sitting there, right outside the door. 684 00:32:40,833 --> 00:32:43,044 Wait a minute. 685 00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:44,629 I got something. 686 00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:48,925 Let me clean up this image. 687 00:32:54,972 --> 00:32:56,808 I see a cart, Sara. 688 00:33:01,437 --> 00:33:03,898 So Hannah could be telling the truth. 689 00:33:03,981 --> 00:33:05,900 It's enough for reasonable doubt. 690 00:33:05,983 --> 00:33:09,529 Great. Thanks, Warrick. 691 00:33:09,612 --> 00:33:11,614 BROWN: Yeah. 692 00:33:18,621 --> 00:33:19,414 STOKES: The evidence says 693 00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:21,082 either one of them could have done it, 694 00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:23,084 but I think they were in it together. 695 00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:25,128 Okay, I'll proceed against Marlon 696 00:33:25,211 --> 00:33:27,588 for the murder and bring charges against Hannah 697 00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:28,589 for conspiracy. 698 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:29,924 Another trial? 699 00:33:30,007 --> 00:33:31,718 You sure you want to go through all this again? 700 00:33:31,801 --> 00:33:33,970 SINCLAIR: Stacy's parents and the community 701 00:33:34,053 --> 00:33:35,596 will have my ass if I don't. 702 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:36,931 Well, then maybe this is good news. 703 00:33:37,014 --> 00:33:38,266 I was just going over Sofia's notes 704 00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:40,476 from the original investigation. 705 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:41,561 The night of the murder, 706 00:33:41,644 --> 00:33:43,271 Hannah and Marlon's parents had left them alone 707 00:33:43,354 --> 00:33:45,106 in the house. 708 00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:48,317 A pizza was delivered to the residence around 9:00 p.m. 709 00:33:48,401 --> 00:33:50,570 That's right around Stacy's T.O.D. 710 00:33:50,653 --> 00:33:53,156 So, did anybody talk to the delivery guy? 711 00:33:53,239 --> 00:33:55,158 Yes, and at the point that Sofia did, a month had passed. 712 00:33:55,241 --> 00:33:56,909 Now, the delivery guy's at the house all the time. 713 00:33:56,993 --> 00:33:59,120 He recognized photos of both kids, 714 00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:03,166 but he could not be sure which one answered 715 00:34:03,249 --> 00:34:04,000 the door that night. 716 00:34:04,083 --> 00:34:06,544 But one of them did answer the door. 717 00:34:07,587 --> 00:34:09,130 So that means they were not together 718 00:34:09,213 --> 00:34:10,672 at the time Stacy was killed. 719 00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:12,175 Yeah. So much for conspiracy. 720 00:34:12,257 --> 00:34:14,385 We're right back where we started. 721 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:15,178 Where we are is in the crapper. 722 00:34:15,261 --> 00:34:16,804 Look, I have to disclose the cart. 723 00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:18,598 Defense is going to eat me alive. 724 00:34:18,681 --> 00:34:19,931 STOKES: Marlon's your guy. 725 00:34:20,016 --> 00:34:21,601 He's your guy-- just because Hannah wasn't there 726 00:34:21,684 --> 00:34:23,101 doesn't mean she didn't help plan this. 727 00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:25,855 Well, I sure hope it's Marlon, because he's the one 728 00:34:25,938 --> 00:34:28,024 we have on trial. 729 00:34:28,107 --> 00:34:30,193 I stand by the case we filed. 730 00:34:30,275 --> 00:34:31,027 I agree. 731 00:34:31,110 --> 00:34:33,279 The girl's just trying to protect him. 732 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:35,697 Sara? 733 00:34:40,911 --> 00:34:42,621 This was more about brains than brawn. 734 00:34:42,705 --> 00:34:44,498 I think Hannah did it. 735 00:34:46,583 --> 00:34:48,503 Two out of three. 736 00:34:48,585 --> 00:34:52,757 In my world, that's called an acquittal. 737 00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:02,183 High school. 738 00:35:02,266 --> 00:35:04,310 Even if you're popular, 739 00:35:04,393 --> 00:35:08,356 or a jock, or a brain... 740 00:35:08,439 --> 00:35:10,441 it can be hell. 741 00:35:10,525 --> 00:35:12,985 Everybody here remembers 742 00:35:13,069 --> 00:35:15,238 what it was like... 743 00:35:15,321 --> 00:35:17,198 what it was really like. 744 00:35:17,281 --> 00:35:19,200 Now take a look 745 00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:20,660 at Marlon West. 746 00:35:20,743 --> 00:35:24,705 Take a good, hard look. 747 00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:28,417 Not popular... 748 00:35:28,501 --> 00:35:32,338 not a jock... not a brain. 749 00:35:34,340 --> 00:35:39,053 Now imagine what it must be like to be Marlon West 750 00:35:39,136 --> 00:35:43,015 day after day after day 751 00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:45,935 in the sociological pressure cooker of high school. 752 00:35:46,018 --> 00:35:50,898 This imposing, struggling outsider like Marlon 753 00:35:50,982 --> 00:35:52,233 resenting someone 754 00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:53,734 like Stacy Vollmer, who made it look 755 00:35:53,818 --> 00:35:59,782 so easy to be popular, athletic and smart. 756 00:36:01,158 --> 00:36:05,413 That strong resentment was already festering 757 00:36:05,496 --> 00:36:07,248 when Stacy made Marlon's sister the object 758 00:36:07,331 --> 00:36:10,543 of a typical high school prank. 759 00:36:12,003 --> 00:36:15,214 And that is when Marlon, his resentment 760 00:36:15,298 --> 00:36:17,758 boiling over, crossed a line: 761 00:36:17,842 --> 00:36:22,305 He stalked Stacy. 762 00:36:22,388 --> 00:36:24,223 You've seen and heard evidence 763 00:36:24,307 --> 00:36:28,728 illustrating the elaborate pains he took to rig a shower head 764 00:36:28,811 --> 00:36:30,938 to torture Stacy, 765 00:36:31,022 --> 00:36:36,736 how he forced her to run and fall, 766 00:36:36,819 --> 00:36:40,323 and watched her die in a pool of her own blood. 767 00:36:40,406 --> 00:36:43,326 You know, for the first time in his life, 768 00:36:43,409 --> 00:36:44,493 Marlon feels like a hero. 769 00:36:44,577 --> 00:36:47,330 He's not invisible anymore. 770 00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,790 He's a killer... 771 00:36:49,874 --> 00:36:54,587 and he is guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. 772 00:36:56,213 --> 00:36:58,299 ALLRED: "Reasonable doubt." 773 00:36:58,382 --> 00:37:00,593 You know, I'm not surprised 774 00:37:00,676 --> 00:37:03,387 to hear the prosecution say those words, 775 00:37:03,471 --> 00:37:08,351 because its case offers nothing but reasonable doubt. 776 00:37:08,434 --> 00:37:11,145 Access to sodium?! 777 00:37:11,228 --> 00:37:12,480 Marlon couldn't find sodium 778 00:37:12,563 --> 00:37:14,982 on a periodic table of the elements, 779 00:37:15,066 --> 00:37:17,777 let alone a locked supply closet. 780 00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:21,322 Access to library printers? 781 00:37:21,405 --> 00:37:24,784 Do you really think a kid like Marlon 782 00:37:24,867 --> 00:37:29,330 spends any time in a library? 783 00:37:29,413 --> 00:37:32,333 The shower head-- yes, Marlon's tall enough. 784 00:37:32,416 --> 00:37:36,337 He could reach it, but he still would have had to have handled 785 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:41,550 a volatile chemical with expert safety precautions 786 00:37:41,634 --> 00:37:45,888 in order to orchestrate an explosion. 787 00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:47,390 I mean, ladies and gentlemen, 788 00:37:47,473 --> 00:37:49,350 do you know how to do that? 789 00:37:49,433 --> 00:37:52,019 I don't know how to do that. 790 00:37:52,103 --> 00:37:54,814 Right? You'd have to be... 791 00:37:54,897 --> 00:37:57,817 a genius. 792 00:38:00,611 --> 00:38:02,738 Marlon? 793 00:38:02,822 --> 00:38:05,700 Not a genius. 794 00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,034 You know, one of the underpinnings 795 00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:10,538 of our justice system is that it is better 796 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:17,503 to send a hundred guilty men free than to imprison even one 797 00:38:17,586 --> 00:38:20,256 who's innocent. 798 00:38:20,339 --> 00:38:24,677 Marlon West is an innocent man. 799 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:31,726 Reasonable doubt compels you to find him not guilty. 800 00:38:59,712 --> 00:39:01,255 Defendant shall rise. 801 00:39:03,549 --> 00:39:05,134 Madam Foreman, 802 00:39:05,217 --> 00:39:06,719 what is the jury's verdict? 803 00:39:06,802 --> 00:39:09,221 FOREMAN: On the sole count of murder in the first degree, 804 00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:11,432 we, the jury, find the defendant, Marlon West... 805 00:39:11,515 --> 00:39:13,392 not guilty. 806 00:39:18,856 --> 00:39:20,483 JUDGE: So noted. 807 00:39:20,566 --> 00:39:22,735 Court orders the defendant released from custody. 808 00:39:22,818 --> 00:39:24,445 Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, 809 00:39:24,528 --> 00:39:25,738 thank you for your service. 810 00:39:25,821 --> 00:39:27,198 Court is adjourned. 811 00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:00,064 OFFICER: Sign here. 812 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:07,822 Hey, there. 813 00:40:07,905 --> 00:40:09,949 Did you come to say bye? 814 00:40:10,032 --> 00:40:12,660 No. Actually, you and I are going to be seeing 815 00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:13,494 a lot of each other. 816 00:40:13,577 --> 00:40:15,579 If you thought the DA wouldn't prosecute 817 00:40:15,663 --> 00:40:18,165 a 12-year-old for murder, you were wrong. 818 00:40:18,249 --> 00:40:20,668 He wants justice for Stacy and her family. 819 00:40:20,751 --> 00:40:23,754 Of course. He's a totally linear thinker. 820 00:40:23,838 --> 00:40:25,673 Most of you guys are. 821 00:40:25,756 --> 00:40:27,508 Shame on you, Ms. Sidle. 822 00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:28,342 Come on, Hannah. 823 00:40:28,425 --> 00:40:30,302 You don't need to listen to this. 824 00:40:30,386 --> 00:40:32,805 Mom, just give us a second. 825 00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:41,689 You were saying? 826 00:40:44,442 --> 00:40:45,442 Here. 827 00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,536 Hannah, with your gifts, 828 00:40:55,619 --> 00:40:57,872 you could've done anything you wanted, 829 00:40:57,955 --> 00:41:00,040 and you picked murder. 830 00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:02,251 You can't take that back. 831 00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:05,713 You're worried how I'm going turn out. 832 00:41:05,796 --> 00:41:07,214 Of course I am. 833 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:09,383 I know it seems like a really long time, 834 00:41:09,466 --> 00:41:11,802 but... in five years, 835 00:41:11,886 --> 00:41:14,763 the Stacies of the world would've been behind you. 836 00:41:15,806 --> 00:41:17,224 Let me guess. 837 00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:18,809 You were a smart kid in school. 838 00:41:18,893 --> 00:41:21,770 Maybe you feel we're a little bit alike. 839 00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:23,898 There aren't many people like you. 840 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:26,901 That's what my parents always say, too. 841 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:30,779 The last four months, all they cared about 842 00:41:30,863 --> 00:41:35,367 was the effect of the trial on me... not Marlon. 843 00:41:35,451 --> 00:41:37,411 It's been that way 844 00:41:37,494 --> 00:41:39,246 ever since I was 14 months old 845 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,041 and started spelling words with plastic letters. 846 00:41:42,124 --> 00:41:45,461 It's so unfair, and nobody ever sees it. 847 00:41:47,504 --> 00:41:49,590 He doesn't deserve to go to jail. 848 00:41:51,675 --> 00:41:56,096 If I get convicted, what's the worst-case scenario? 849 00:41:56,180 --> 00:41:57,806 I mean, I'll be out in five years 850 00:41:57,890 --> 00:42:00,017 with an undergraduate degree. 851 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,645 There's no "Son of Sam" law in Nevada-- 852 00:42:02,728 --> 00:42:04,438 that was ruled unconstitutional-- 853 00:42:04,521 --> 00:42:07,191 so I'm free to write a book about all this. 854 00:42:08,192 --> 00:42:09,944 The story'll be worth millions. 855 00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:12,613 Freaks are always good box office. 856 00:42:12,696 --> 00:42:14,823 You're not a freak. 857 00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:17,618 When's the last time you had to sit down 858 00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:20,579 to be eye-level with a murder suspect who was standing up? 859 00:42:20,663 --> 00:42:22,623 Hannah, you are smart. 860 00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:24,458 So I've been told. 861 00:42:24,541 --> 00:42:26,293 But you're not smart enough to get away with murder. 862 00:42:26,377 --> 00:42:27,836 I think I am. 863 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:29,463 A lot of people are smart enough 864 00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:30,673 to get away with murder. 865 00:42:30,756 --> 00:42:32,800 You probably are, too. 866 00:42:32,883 --> 00:42:34,885 But you have to be really smart 867 00:42:34,969 --> 00:42:38,639 to make people think things happened that never did. 868 00:42:39,682 --> 00:42:42,643 What do you mean, exactly? 869 00:42:42,726 --> 00:42:43,644 Please don't worry about me. 870 00:42:43,727 --> 00:42:45,896 I'm going to be fine. 871 00:42:50,567 --> 00:42:53,487 ( whispering ): I didn't kill Stacy. 872 00:42:53,570 --> 00:42:55,656 Marlon did. 873 00:42:55,739 --> 00:43:07,793 Captioning sponsored by CBS, C.S.I. 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