The Rookie Feds S01E12
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00:00Oh, careful.
00:08You was almost about to have to buy me dinner.
00:11Here we go.
00:14How long have you been with the FBI?
00:15Three whole months.
00:16In case y'all didn't notice, I'm black.
00:18So all this harsh light y'all got me under, it's going to be a problem.
00:23Y'all got a diffuser or something you could put on this?
00:25If not, you can dial down the key light and bring it a little closer, because it's either
00:29that or I'm going to have to wipe some Vaseline on the lens.
00:33Wow, you really know your stuff.
00:34I used to be a high school guidance counselor, so I had my share of substitute teaching the
00:38media arts department.
00:40How about I just help y'all out?
00:43Uh, actually that's not kosher with a E. So you're a rookie?
00:48Probationary agent.
00:49But even though I'm relatively new to it, I've seen some crazy things.
00:54Like the Laughlin investigation?
00:57Yeah.
01:00That one shook me.
01:13Good morning.
01:14Good to see you again.
01:15Thanks for doing this.
01:16You ready to jump right in?
01:18Let's do it.
01:19Tell me about the day you found the body in the hills.
01:21It was the morning I started filming my reality show.
01:23Wait, you have a reality show?
01:25No.
01:26When you've got a money maker like this and a life like mine, it demands documentation.
01:30I'm shooting a pilot episode myself.
01:33Wow.
01:34And what's it called?
01:46There was a heavy rain last night.
01:48So like, almost an inch.
01:51When water falls from the sky here, the City of Angels becomes the City of Demons.
01:59But not today.
02:02Not on Smitty streets.
02:05Holy s***.
02:17The name of the victim was Dante Smith.
02:20He was a missing persons, disappeared about eight months before his body was found.
02:24But the mystery was, I mean, he'd only been dead for less than 24 hours.
02:28We didn't know where he'd been for all that time.
02:32What did you know about him?
02:33The poor boy came to LA with a dollar and a dream, hoping to become an actor.
02:37But let's just say, he wasn't very realistic about his talents.
02:41Whoa, whoa, whoa.
02:42Hey, hey, hey.
02:43What?
02:44That's mean.
02:45You don't have to say that.
02:46You know he wasn't that good.
02:47Simone, he's dead.
02:50Listen, I am sorry that the boy is dead, but he had no business trying to act.
02:55That's the bottom line.
02:57Dante Smith, reading for the role of bartender.
02:59Here's your rum and coke.
03:01You always order dad drinks.
03:04The bartender instantly regrets saying that.
03:06Hope she didn't hear him.
03:08Yo, yo, make some noise.
03:10Repeat after me.
03:11To be or not to be.
03:13My G, that's the question.
03:15Fifty-two percent of men suffer from some form of erectile dysfunction.
03:22He had two puncture wounds on his neck.
03:25He died from, um, I can't say that word.
03:32Exsanguination.
03:33It means the victim died of blood loss.
03:35And how did you determine that?
03:37Well, blood coagulates after death, you see.
03:39And you usually see liver mortis within a few hours.
03:43It presents itself like bruising, mostly in the lower extremities.
03:46But in this case, there was none.
03:48Which means whoever killed him drained the body of blood.
03:52That's right.
03:54The murderer was a vampire.
03:56I knew I had to bring the feds in.
03:58They have an agent who's an expert in the field.
04:01Before I joined the FBI, I played vampire detective Stoker Ramsey
04:05for six years on Vampire Cop.
04:13Oh, damn, Stoker, you look better than our victim.
04:17Don't mind me.
04:19What do we got?
04:21Name's Lars Cross.
04:23He's a coder for a tech startup.
04:25Register app that went public last week.
04:27Looks like their IPO wasn't the only thing making a killing.
04:31I got a confidence bigger than this.
04:33What's a successful coder doing living in a place like this?
04:37Let's see if your blood memory will help us find out.
04:40Ah.
04:49Ready?
04:51Yeah.
04:55Ah!
04:57Ah!
04:59Ah!
05:03Oh.
05:05Ah.
05:07Ah.
05:09Stoker.
05:11What did you see?
05:15Killer came for his phone.
05:18Let's get a warrant for his cell records.
05:22But that doesn't make me an expert.
05:24What did I tell you about them and your son?
05:26Stop it.
05:28Okay, let me just say this.
05:30My boy here was a method actor,
05:32so he learned everything there is to know about bloodsuckers.
05:34Read every book.
05:36Went to Transylvania.
05:39He even got nominated for two People's Choice Awards.
05:42And remember when you won an MTV award for Best Kiss?
05:45Yeah, I do.
05:47So, yeah, I know a lot about vampiric lore.
05:50Um, happy?
05:52Okay.
05:54So, when Officer Schmidty called me,
05:56I took it straight to our boss.
05:58Tell me about the Special Investigative Unit.
06:00It's a pilot program of my design.
06:02I handpicked this squad
06:04in order to create a fast-moving, problem-solving unit.
06:06And one of the perks is I choose my own cases.
06:08And this one was right up our alley.
06:10And why was that?
06:12Well, the body was found in a section of the canyon
06:14that is federal land, and that's our jurisdiction.
06:16Plus, it was also not your run-of-the-mill homicide,
06:19so it needed serious outside-the-box thinkers
06:21in order to solve it.
06:23Are your cell phones off, just in case?
06:25Uh, yeah. We're good.
06:27Okay, great. Then let's go.
06:29What were your first impressions of the victim?
06:31Uh, well, the victim had old bruises,
06:33collapsed veins, and track marks all over his arms.
06:35Telltale signs of intravenous.
06:38Drug use.
06:40Yeah, I'm a profiler by training,
06:42and I built a preliminary theory
06:44that Dante had developed a serious drug habit
06:46and lived on the streets,
06:48which, of course, would explain his eight-month disappearance.
06:50But we had to throw that theory out
06:52once the report came back from Dante's talk screen.
06:54Yeah, he had no signs of any drugs in his system.
06:56In fact, at the time of his death,
06:58Dante was in perfect health.
07:00Were you able to build a profile
07:02of who the killer might have been?
07:04No. Not at that time.
07:06You investigated Dante's death,
07:08and your unit never gave credence
07:10to the possibility of a supernatural suspect?
07:12Supernatural?
07:14You mean like vampires or something, right?
07:16You said you built a team of outside-the-box thinkers.
07:18Did you at least consider it?
07:20Okay.
07:22Let's, uh, let's play your game.
07:24In any vampiric folklore,
07:26when has a bloodsucker
07:28ever kidnapped someone for eight months
07:30and then, only then,
07:32drank their blood?
07:34So that's a no. You never considered it.
07:36No. I didn't.
07:38Perhaps you should have.
07:40I...
07:42Tell me, Brendan, why didn't you disclose
07:44that you had a conflict of interest in the case?
07:46A conflict of in-interest?
07:48Uh, no. I-I don't.
07:50What are you talking about?
07:52Brendan knew the murder victim.
07:54We have a photo.
07:56What? Let me see that.
07:58This was taken at a nightclub about a year ago.
08:00There's you, and there's Dante Smith, the victim.
08:02Huh.
08:04That is him, B.
08:06Yeah, it's weird. I-I've never met him.
08:08You sure about that?
08:10Uh, yeah.
08:12I mean, if he said he-he doesn't know him, he doesn't know him.
08:14Right. It's a picture of a drunken me
08:16at a nightclub and another guy,
08:18so, you know, it's a good old-fashioned coincidence.
08:20Coincidence.
08:22That was no coincidence.
08:24Brendan Akers isn't who he claims to be.
08:26Then who is he?
08:28A corpse with the blood of human victims
08:30or a scene-vampire cop?
08:32No way an actor could be that convincing.
08:44This ends tonight, Elvis.
08:46If you were a smart man,
08:48you'd get out of the way.
08:50Too bad I'm not a smart man.
08:52Ooh.
08:54Oh.
08:56Oh.
09:00Oh.
09:08What are you?
09:10Justice.
09:12Aah!
09:14Aah!
09:16Aah!
09:18Goddamn it.
09:26Had to learn the hard way.
09:28Crime sucks.
09:30No way that's an act.
09:32Brendan is the real thing.
09:34Is my son a real vampire?
09:36Well, I'll tell you one thing.
09:38His mom was a complete horror show who draved me financially.
09:40So there's nothing that supports
09:42the accusations that Brendan is, in fact,
09:44a vampire.
09:46Well, since I knew you'd be asking, I brought his baby teeth.
09:48Look at those canines right there.
09:50That little ragamuffin
09:52could tear through a stake at age two.
09:54Okay, okay. What are you doing?
09:56That's enough. That's enough, please.
09:58Thank you. That's a wrap. That's a wrap.
10:00Let's go. What are you doing?
10:02You can't just make that stuff up.
10:04People are gonna believe it. People are gonna believe it.
10:06Well, listen, it's great TV, man.
10:08Well, I will put you back in the zeitgeist.
10:10I don't want to be in the zeitgeist.
10:12And where did you get those teeth?
10:14I know a guy. What? You want some?
10:16Ew. How do you respond to allegations
10:18that Brendan Akers is a vampire?
10:22Well, as Brendan's
10:24training agent and as
10:26a rational human being, I can confirm
10:28he's not a vampire. My ex-wife grew up
10:30in New Orleans, and I've worked there for years,
10:32so I've heard all of the vampire lore,
10:34and these are just stories.
10:36Zero evidence it's even possible.
10:38Hmm.
10:40Hmm. Did you say hmm? Yeah.
10:42It's interesting hearing such skepticism
10:44from someone who believes in, um...
10:46Bigfoot?
10:48Well, that's different. Bigfoot's real.
10:50Uh-uh.
10:52Whatever you do, don't get Carter started
10:54talking about Skookum.
10:56Well, the thing about Bigfoot is... You know, I really think
10:58that we should just stay on topic.
11:00You know, about the murder.
11:02Okay, but...
11:04let's pick this up later? Uh, yeah.
11:08Okay. Anyway, statistically
11:10speaking, murderers usually
11:12bury and dump bodies in places they know,
11:14live, or frequent, so we began
11:16the investigation where Dante's body
11:18was found, and after canvassing the neighborhood,
11:20we, uh, spoke to several residents
11:22who all pointed to one man.
11:24Andrews Huxley. Uh, he had an
11:26extensive rap sheet.
11:28Assault, battery, public intoxication.
11:30Word was Mr. Huxley
11:32only went out at night, which is
11:34an opportune time to bury a body.
11:36So we paid him a visit.
11:38Though in retrospect, we probably
11:40should have waited until daylight.
11:42Hmm.
11:50Hi.
11:52Is that blood?
11:54Yeah, that's blood.
11:56Door's ajar.
11:58Does the blood give us PC to go inside?
12:00Someone may be in imminent danger,
12:02so, yeah, it does.
12:04FBI!
12:06Anyone in there?
12:14Mr. Huxley?
12:16Anyone here?
12:18Carter.
12:20More blood.
12:22Let's go up.
12:32Okay.
12:42Is he breathing?
12:44Is he dead?
12:46I don't know.
12:48Mr. Huxley?
12:50Oh, my God!
12:52FBI!
12:54Oh, my God!
12:56FBI!
12:58Hands! Where we can see them!
13:00I mean, none of us really believed
13:02Andrews was actually a vampire.
13:04Pale skin, sharp teeth, red eyes.
13:06He did have some attributes
13:08that might lead one to assume
13:10he was a creature of the night.
13:12Am I being swatted?
13:14I don't know about this.
13:16People make a fake 911 call as a prank
13:18to get the cops to raid a house.
13:20It's not a prank.
13:22Why are you here?
13:24I just wanted to ask a few questions
13:26about a murder victim we found near here.
13:28Let me guess.
13:30All the neighbors said it was me.
13:32Just because I'm different,
13:34it doesn't mean that I'm a killer.
13:36I have porphyria.
13:38It's been called vampire's disease.
13:40It's like a blood disorder that affects the skin,
13:42so tell them.
13:44Porphyria, people with this condition
13:46have a severe aversion to sunlight.
13:48Also, it can lead to gum recession
13:50so that the teeth show more.
13:52They look like fangs.
13:54Then tell them about Count Dracula.
13:56Yeah, the Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler,
13:58a.k.a. Vlad Dracula, Count Dracula.
14:00He apparently had porphyria.
14:02Left untreated,
14:04it causes massive paranoia,
14:06hallucinations.
14:08Vlad apparently thought everyone was after him,
14:10so he would just kill them first.
14:12And is that why you thought
14:14Anders Huxley killed Dante Smith?
14:16I didn't kill anyone.
14:18And an unfounded allegation
14:20does not give you the right
14:22to charge into my home.
14:24Well, we saw a trail of blood.
14:26That's why we came in.
14:28What happened to your hand?
14:30I caught it in an Uber drawer this morning.
14:32Blood everywhere.
14:34So why didn't you clean up the blood?
14:36I was just so damn jet-lagged.
14:38Where were you last night?
14:40On a plane, flying back from a work trip.
14:42My condition means
14:44I try to avoid being awake
14:46when the sun is up.
14:48You wouldn't believe what our alleged vampire did
14:50for a living.
14:54I'm a children's book author and illustrator.
14:56Wait, you're the author of
14:58Alistair the Aye-Aye?
15:00Yes, and I used to read his books to my son Isaiah
15:02when he was a kid.
15:04Alistair was always teased because he was different
15:06from all the other animals,
15:08but then he'd teach them that differences
15:10were what made each of them special.
15:12Anders turned his own experience
15:14of being ostracized for his condition
15:16into a hit children's book series.
15:18So we apologized to Mr. Huxley
15:20for the intrusion,
15:22and he was really kind and forgiving
15:24about the whole mix-up,
15:26just like Alistair the Aye-Aye is.
15:28He even gave us signed copies.
15:30Yeah, that was nice.
15:32Are federal employees allowed
15:34to read books?
15:38So Mr. Huxley wasn't a vampire or the killer after all.
15:40That is correct, which is why we could
15:42officially put this ridiculous vampire theory to rest
15:44once the medical examiner
15:46finished her report.
15:48Is that when you realized you might have a serial killer
15:50on your hands?
15:52A body completely drained of blood,
15:54buried in the hills above Nichols Canyon.
15:56It did. It had commonality with the M.O.
15:58of the Canyon Killer.
16:00Great. I mean, not great.
16:02It's great that you had a lead.
16:04Oh, no, no, no. There's a problem here, you see.
16:06The Canyon Killer couldn't have done it because he's in prison.
16:08Put there by one of your own agents,
16:10isn't that right?
16:12Yeah, that's right.
16:14I caught the Canyon Killer.
16:16We caught the Canyon Killer.
16:18Ah, yes.
16:20And you are?
16:22Special Agent Mark Atlas, FBI, Behavioral Science Unit.
16:24We led the investigation together.
16:26Which was built on my profile.
16:28She gave some of the clues.
16:30The important ones.
16:32And what were the clues?
16:34Well, the Canyon Killer's first victims were found in the Hollywood Hills
16:36in the summer of 2018.
16:38All the victims had evidence of being bound by the wrist
16:40and they were drained of blood before they were buried.
16:42So while Agent Atlas was focused on the killer's M.O.,
16:44I gathered details on the victims
16:46and retraced their steps
16:48before their time of death.
16:50You both seem very pleased with yourselves.
16:52Do your colleagues find that annoying?
16:56I can be very passionate about what I do.
16:58I take a lot of pride in profiling.
17:00And some people may feel like that steps on their toes,
17:02but that's not my problem.
17:06Shoot a little more.
17:08The Canyon Killer made national headlines.
17:10I followed the story in D.C.
17:12I was calling my dad every night to check in
17:14because Los Angeles was,
17:16it was on the edge.
17:18When you were here at that time, B, were you scared?
17:20Oh my God, yeah.
17:22Me and my friends, we stopped clubbing for weeks.
17:24I mean, we fit the victim's profile perfectly,
17:26you know, like young, super hot guys
17:28with, uh, hairless...
17:32That sounded pretentious. Can, uh...
17:34Who cares? Tell your truth.
17:36If you're cute, you're cute.
17:38If you're hot, you're hot, and if you're not, you're not.
17:40Right. So we're gonna cut that?
17:42Leave it in. Leave it in.
17:44I really like that target on your wall.
17:46Did you actually fire the bullets that went through that,
17:48or did you just stab it with a pen and hang it up?
17:50I, uh...
17:52I won it in a raffle.
17:54So, um,
17:56did you work the Canyon Killer investigation?
17:58I consulted with Laura and Mark Atlas
18:00on the Canyon Killer task force.
18:02It's where I first saw Laura in action on a case,
18:04and she was brilliant.
18:06No stone left unturned.
18:08Which is why I eventually asked her to join my squad.
18:10That's a complex profile.
18:12May it look easy.
18:14Oh, you delivered great evidence.
18:18At first, the Canyon Killer was meticulous,
18:20but then, after the sixth body,
18:22he got sloppy.
18:24They all do.
18:28Hmm.
18:30Sorry, you go. No, you go.
18:32Well, you should start.
18:34Okay, um, where should we start?
18:36The victimology? Victimology, yes.
18:38So, all right, well, we, um,
18:40we realized that he was gregarious
18:42and probably attractive himself.
18:44It's why he felt he could approach his victims with such ease.
18:46He ran in the same circle as they did.
18:48And we figured he worked in the service industry.
18:50Like many of his victims,
18:52all aspiring actors or models.
18:54And then, on top of that,
18:56all of his victims lived or worked
18:58near the Franklin Corridor.
19:00See, just there?
19:02And then, on the seventh murder,
19:04we caught a break.
19:06Forensics discovered primo trace evidence of that crime scene.
19:08Purple wig hair.
19:10Yes, but not just any purple wig.
19:12This was a custom job with real human hair
19:14that had been professionally dyed.
19:16It was a signature headpiece.
19:18Hollywood bullseye, baby.
19:20Bam.
19:22Is that a term? Is that a thing? A real thing?
19:24Well, you know what I'm saying. It's like a...
19:26Like nailed it.
19:28Nailed it. That's what I'm trying to say.
19:30Now, we have pulled over here
19:32because you do not want to miss
19:34what is on your right
19:36across the street from the famed Bronson Gate.
19:38The apartment building where Bela Lugosi,
19:40the world's most famous Dracula,
19:42died of a heart attack in 1956.
19:44Now, Lugosi was found in his bed, naked,
19:46locked to the final curtain,
19:48a movie he was set to star in
19:50for schlock film maestro Ed Wood.
19:52It's all over, Ferris.
19:54We need to talk.
19:56Oh!
19:58Oh!
20:00Hands behind your back.
20:02Okay, FBI, put the phones down, please.
20:06Get you on the road soon enough.
20:08That was a good day.
20:10Yeah, it's probably one of our best.
20:12We gave the victims' families closure,
20:14let the people of Los Angeles rest their fears,
20:16and put a monster behind bars.
20:18I'm an innocent man.
20:20Of this current murder, perhaps,
20:22but it's interesting how Dante Smith
20:24died in the exact same way as you killed your victims.
20:26Do you think you have a copycat?
20:28No.
20:30Because I've never killed anyone.
20:32Ever.
20:34What exactly are you saying?
20:36That I'm not the Canyon Killer.
20:38I've only been saying that since my arrest.
20:40Special Agent Laura Stinson framed me.
20:42I'm at the center
20:44of the biggest FBI cover-up
20:46since Bigfoot.
20:48And how's this for your little TV program?
20:50I have proof.
20:52That's ridiculous.
20:54Yes, of course he says he's innocent.
20:56They all do.
21:00I did not frame Mr. Ferris.
21:02So you've said,
21:04but I've seen the evidence, and it's quite damning.
21:06Which means the real killer could still be out there.
21:08And if he is,
21:10then the blood of this newest victim,
21:12well, that's on your hands.
21:18Are you suggesting that Special Agents Stinson
21:20and Atlas framed a serial killer?
21:22I'm just looking for the truth.
21:24No. No, you're not.
21:26You're fishing for provocative soundbites
21:28that you can edit out of context.
21:30Anything to make this little documentary of yours
21:32a bit more salacious?
21:34This isn't some news mag with gotcha questions.
21:36I'm an award-winning documentarian.
21:38Film is my medium. I deal in truth.
21:40Yeah, right.
21:42Look, I don't appreciate what you're insinuating,
21:44especially when we have the proof.
21:46No, you don't. We do.
21:48Overwhelming evidence that proves that Mr. Ferris
21:50was the one and only Canyon Killer.
21:52And how dare you, huh?
21:54How dare you disparage Laura Stinson's good name?
21:56She is one of the finest FBI agents
21:58to ever carry the badge.
22:00She's a train wreck.
22:02My lawyer found evidence that she was mentally unstable
22:04around the time she arrested me.
22:06Wait, you've been screwing my best friend
22:08behind my back for months, and somehow that's my fault.
22:10No, I never want to see your face again.
22:12Do you hear me?
22:14Never! You're such a...
22:16Get your stuff
22:18out of my condo
22:20right now!
22:22Do you hear me, you...
22:26Relax a second, okay?
22:28Oh, yeah, relax!
22:32What, Crystal?
22:34You can't trust this woman to catch a serial murderer
22:36when she couldn't even tell her own fiancé
22:38was stepping out on her.
22:40Agent Stinson was too busy spiraling
22:42to solve the case.
22:44I'm the real victim here.
22:46Okay, yes, fine. At the time of Mr. Ferris's arrest,
22:48my personal life was challenged,
22:50but that in no way
22:52affected my performance at work.
22:54Not at all.
22:56Of course it did.
22:58She got fired from the BSU right after her meltdown.
23:00But to keep her from losing her job,
23:02they conspired and, uh,
23:04falsified evidence against me.
23:06Wait. Who are you saying
23:08conspired with her?
23:10Special Agent Mark Atlas.
23:12That's a wild accusation.
23:14Why would Agent Atlas do that?
23:16If it looks like a duck
23:18and it quacks like a duck,
23:20those two FBI agents are having sex.
23:22Agent Atlas, did you
23:24conspire with Agent Stinson because of a secret
23:26romantic relationship?
23:28Nothing could be further from the truth.
23:30So you didn't cover for Agent Stinson?
23:32No, of course not.
23:34And are you having a secret romance?
23:36Okay, enough with this tabloid BS.
23:38Excuse me?
23:40All of these questions about our personal life,
23:42it's utterly shameful.
23:44So you're denying your affair.
23:46Can we just stop the cameras from rolling right now?
23:48I just need a minute.
23:50Okay.
23:52We can take a break.
23:54Yeah, thank you.
23:56Keep rolling.
23:58Can you believe this?
24:00Just because a man and a woman
24:02work closely together, people think
24:04that we're, what, having sex? It's offensive.
24:06We are having sex.
24:08We could be having more sex.
24:10Yes, but we were not having sex then.
24:12We were working together with your partners
24:14on the Kinnan killer case.
24:16It was strictly business.
24:18Stop that.
24:20I'm ready to tell people about us.
24:22Okay.
24:24Whoa.
24:26Do you have your mic on?
24:30I do.
24:32What?
24:34I do have my mic on.
24:36Uh-oh.
24:38Excuse me, what?
24:40My Atlas and, uh,
24:42Laura.
24:44I definitely didn't know that, no.
24:46Why didn't he tell me?
24:48Wait, did you know?
24:50Yeah.
24:52What?
24:54What do you mean, Laura?
24:56I mean, she finally getting some.
24:58When you say romantically, you mean like...
25:00Somebody is jealous.
25:02And then the case of the
25:04Mudslide Marauder took a...
25:06Wait a second. Mudslide Marauder?
25:08No one calls it that.
25:10On Smitty Streets, they do.
25:12Your claims of patsies and copycat killers,
25:14you know, it may help boost ratings,
25:16but it's irresponsible to cast
25:18aspersions on my people and the FBI.
25:20Dante Smith's murderer
25:22is the Canyon Killer, and you know that.
25:24So stop creating a narrative
25:26that never existed. It's lazy storytelling,
25:28and you're better than that.
25:30Fine. You were saying?
25:32The case of the Mudslide Marauder
25:34took a turn.
25:36911, what's your emergency?
25:38This is Dr. Candace Sadler from the
25:40Medical Examiner's Office. I need to report
25:42a burglary. Okay, tell me what was stolen.
25:44A dead body.
25:46So, the ME
25:48came into work that morning to do the autopsy
25:50on Dante Smith's body, and, uh...
25:52It was gone. Body gone.
25:54And last I checked, dead bodies
25:56do not move themselves.
25:58The undead do.
26:00Officer Smitty, what are you saying?
26:02What everybody's thinking. Dante,
26:04the victim, took a turn,
26:06became a vampire,
26:08and escaped. Seriously, you're
26:10still on the vampire thing?
26:12That's not
26:14at all what happened. Earlier that morning,
26:16someone broke into the morgue and stole his body.
26:20I
26:22suppose I could speculate as to
26:24why someone would steal a dead body
26:26from a morgue before it had even been
26:28autopsied and processed for forensic
26:30evidence, but... But the odds were
26:32whoever took him out, took him
26:34out.
26:36So your suspect got away with Dante's
26:38body. How did he pull that off?
26:40Our subject was able to walk out of the Medical
26:42Examiner's Office with Dante's body
26:44by impersonating a morgue attendant.
26:46He was smart enough to cover his face from all the
26:48surveillance cameras, but not smart enough to cover the
26:50license plate on his car,
26:52which was registered to our body snatcher,
26:54Jake Albert.
26:56So my team went to go pay him a visit.
27:02Jake Albert, show us your hands!
27:04Hey!
27:06Something off at the back.
27:10Jake!
27:18Oh!
27:24Where's Dante's body?
27:26I have no idea what you're talking about.
27:30Carter, check the freezer.
27:38So who's Jake Albert?
27:40Jake moved to L.A. from Montana five years
27:42ago. Spent a year trying to
27:44make it until a modeling
27:46scout saw him working in a Jamba Juice
27:48and plucked him from obscurity.
27:50After that, he was on a
27:52hot streak. Emphasis
27:54on the hot.
27:56Are you seriously trying to deflect from your
27:58relationship with Atlas like that? What? No.
28:00Who told you we were in a relationship?
28:04Really?
28:06Jake was a, you know, model on the rise,
28:08worked with all the big fashion houses.
28:10At the height of his career, he even dated
28:12Layla Laughlin. The cosmetics
28:14founder of Untold Cosmetics
28:16and the inventor of DeLeon
28:18Miracle Cream.
28:20The woman's an icon.
28:40DeLeon Miracle Cream.
28:42Ageless.
28:44Timeless.
28:46Beautiful.
28:48By me.
28:50Layla Laughlin.
28:52Layla was a single
28:54mother working as a waitress
28:56when she had a dream to start her own
28:58beauty company. She used to mix
29:00all her products in her own kitchen
29:02and then sold them to local moms
29:04out of the back of her minivan.
29:06You admire her. What's not to admire?
29:08I mean, she took a risk. She bet on
29:10herself, built a Fortune 500
29:12company all while raising her son.
29:14Plus, have you
29:16seen her? The girl had looks,
29:18poise, and always had a young
29:20hot boy on her side.
29:22She was living her best
29:24life for sure. And that life
29:26included Jake.
29:28Until it didn't.
29:30Jake was riding high
29:32until the harsh realities of the business
29:34brought his dreams crashing down.
29:36He hit 30 and his modeling contracts
29:38dried up. Layla left him
29:40for Dante.
29:42That's right. Dante
29:44was dating Layla Laughlin at the time
29:46of his disappearance. Hey, uh,
29:48you're not gonna wait until like 40 minutes into this thing
29:50to tell the audience this part, are you?
29:52I hate when docs do that. Hold back
29:54information that the investigators knew on day one.
29:56Ugh, the worst. Don't screw with the audience.
29:58I would never.
30:00911, what is your emergency?
30:02My name's Layla Laughlin. I need to
30:04report a missing person. My boyfriend,
30:06he hasn't called or texted me back in days.
30:08I'm worried something's happened to him.
30:10Okay, what's his name?
30:12Dante Smith. Please help.
30:14I was never at the morgue.
30:16Mm, but we saw you in security footage.
30:18I have an evil twin.
30:20I swear to God, we barely even talk.
30:22We have surveillance footage of your vehicle.
30:24It's not even my car. It's registered to you.
30:26Someone stole it. We found the body in your freezer.
30:28I have an evil twin. You tried that one already.
30:30Oh, damn it.
30:32Those improv
30:34classes were a total waste of money.
30:38Why were you so confident
30:40about Jake Alpert? Jake Alpert
30:42had clear motive to kill Dante Smith.
30:44Jealousy because he was now dating
30:46Layla Laughlin, who dumped him? Yeah.
30:48And stealing the body shows consciousness of guilt.
30:50But for a slam dunk, we needed to tie him to
30:52the murder with physical evidence.
30:54And we were most definitely able to
30:56do that. So once we processed him,
30:58we found traces of Dante's DNA.
31:00Isn't that to be expected since
31:02he moved the body? Oh, DNA, yes.
31:04But he actually had Dante's blood on him.
31:06But Dante had been completely drained
31:08of blood before he was buried. Exactly.
31:10So here's the thing.
31:12We didn't just find Dante's
31:14blood under his fingernails, which is
31:16where most murderers get caught.
31:18We found traces of his blood all over
31:20his hands and his arms
31:22and his face and his chest.
31:24What, did he bathe in it?
31:26No. It's even
31:28weirder, actually.
31:30Dante's blood had been infused in his
31:32anti-aging cosmetic cream.
31:36Jake!
31:40Layla Laughlin's number one selling
31:42anti-aging cosmetic cream, Deleon,
31:44was made of human blood.
31:46Our victim's blood.
31:48I admire
31:50the woman and all, but
31:52damn, it's just
31:54Gross. Nasty.
31:57In all your years
31:59at the Bureau, have you ever seen anything
32:01like this? Well, let me think. I don't know.
32:03Have I ever worked a case where someone
32:05completely drained the victim of their blood
32:07only to use it as an ingredient
32:09in an anti-aging cosmetic
32:11cream?
32:13What do you
32:15think? Well, Elizabeth Bathory,
32:17she was the first female serial
32:19killer in history. The phrase
32:21bathed in blood originated with her.
32:23Because supposedly,
32:25she would drain her victims
32:27and then wash herself in their blood.
32:29Wow. Now, Elizabeth Bathory,
32:31she had nothing
32:33on Layla Laughlin. And Layla
32:35got rich while doing a Deleon miracle
32:37cream, grossed over $200 million
32:39last year alone. It's the signature
32:41product in untold cosmetics.
32:43Did you have any theories at the time as to why
32:45Layla targeted her own boyfriend?
32:47Yes. It's because Dante
32:49had an exceptionally rare blood type.
32:51RH null. And what's
32:53that? RH null is known as
32:55golden blood. You know, it's the
32:57rarest blood type. Only 40 people
32:59on the entire planet have it. Well,
33:01make it 39 now. Right.
33:03Yeah. So, anyway, most people have
33:05eight common blood types. You know, O positive,
33:07O negative, A positive,
33:09et cetera. But what most people don't know
33:11is that there's actually millions
33:13of blood types determined by the presence or absence
33:15of certain antigens. But there's also
33:17a protein called RH factor, which determines
33:19if your blood is positive or
33:21negative. Most people have some RH factor,
33:23but if you lack it entirely,
33:25you're RH null.
33:27You're golden.
33:29Damn.
33:31How did you know all that?
33:33Vampire Crop, season four. Our big bad
33:35was Golden Boy. The vampire only fed on
33:37RH null blood. He became invincible,
33:39killed my character in
33:41the cliffhanger. I regenerated
33:43and came back the next season. But
33:45you said you watched every episode.
33:47That's a whole storyline.
33:49Yep. I did.
33:51You...
33:53You was so good on that show.
33:55Wasn't he good? Have you ever
33:57seen it? So, we brought Miss Laughlin
33:59in for questioning. We found
34:01that your daily-owned miracle cream was
34:03infused with Dante's blood.
34:05That's
34:07insane. We agree.
34:09But Dante was never
34:11really missing. You held him
34:13captive for eight months,
34:15all for his rare blood.
34:17What happened? Went too far one day, took too much blood?
34:19Did Dante go into shock
34:21or just die of blood loss?
34:23And then you buried him in the shallow grave
34:25thinking nobody would ever find him.
34:27But what you didn't count on was the
34:29mudslide that caused Dante's body to
34:31resurface.
34:35You think that I
34:37killed Dante
34:39for his blood?
34:41We tracked a $50,000 payment from your
34:43company to Jake Albert. Sounds to us
34:45like you hired him to steal the body bags
34:47for the evidence. Again, she would never be discovered.
34:49I had nothing to do with Dante's
34:51murderer or any of this.
34:53Miss Laughlin,
34:55I really looked up to you.
34:57Single mom,
34:59like myself, getting her second
35:01act at life.
35:03You taught me the key to success
35:05was helping others.
35:07What happened to that woman?
35:09You're staring her
35:11in the face right now, and she is
35:13saying that you're good enough at your job
35:15to find
35:17Dante's real killer.
35:19Now that's it for me.
35:21I want my lawyer. Now.
35:23We obtained a search warrant
35:25and raided the lab at Layla's company
35:27looking for proof of Dante's
35:29demise. However, it was
35:31squeaky clean. Layla's smart.
35:33Doing any sort of experimental blood work in her
35:35place of business would raise too many
35:37red flags and create potential witnesses.
35:39So we got a warrant for her residence.
35:43Ma'am, we have a warrant
35:45to search the premises. Is Miss Laughlin here?
35:47They're fighting.
35:49Who is? Miss Laughlin and Chance.
35:51Who is Chance?
35:53Chance was Layla's son.
35:55The boy genius. More of a con man if you ask me.
35:57Talked his mother into giving up
35:59control of her own company
36:01so he could run it.
36:03Let us in.
36:07So, Layla,
36:09you and Chance,
36:11so Layla's
36:13son was the one putting Dante's blood
36:15in the cosmetic cream? That's right.
36:17And after Carter and I interviewed her, Layla
36:19figured it out, but instead of telling
36:21us that her son was the real-life
36:23vampire stealing that poor boy's
36:25blood, she confronted him on
36:27her own. Which was a bad idea.
36:29Yes, it was. And by the time we got there,
36:31it was already too late.
36:37Stay right there.
36:39FBI!
36:41Drop it! Do it now!
36:43Mom? Chance?
36:45Put the gun
36:47down now.
36:51I didn't mean for any of this
36:53to happen.
36:55She's going to be okay, right?
36:57Right?
37:05Shockwaves
37:07rippled around the world as
37:09cosmetics mogul Layla Laughlin
37:11was shot and killed in her Bel Air home
37:13earlier today. The alleged shooter,
37:15her son, Chance Laughlin, was arrested
37:17by FBI agents at the scene.
37:19In related news, Laughlin's
37:21new miracle cream, DeLeon, is
37:23being recalled after it was determined
37:25that the secret ingredient that promised
37:27the Fountain of Youth was, in fact,
37:29human blood. Where did this blood
37:31infused cream idea come from?
37:33After we arrested Chance,
37:35we learned that once he took the reins
37:37from his mother, he became the company's head scientist
37:39in charge of research and development.
37:41And in an effort to boost sales,
37:43he created the DeLeon cream
37:45using Dante's golden blood.
37:47And at that point, well, Layla
37:49was just a figurehead. She had no knowledge of her son's
37:51misdeeds. Chance had sunk,
37:53you know, millions into R&D
37:55trying to isolate the anti-aging
37:57antigens from normal human blood.
37:59And then when Dante walked
38:01into his life with his
38:03golden blood...
38:05Like a gift from above.
38:07Who was banging his mom.
38:11So you had no ill will towards Dante?
38:13No. No, not
38:15when I found out he has golden blood.
38:17He was one of six people
38:19with RH null blood in the whole
38:21country. Hospitals
38:23all around the world would call on him to donate.
38:25Chance knew Dante would never
38:27agree to donate for cosmetics,
38:29so... He abducted him and held
38:31him prisoner. Chance fed him nourishing food
38:33and kept him well-rested.
38:35In order to keep Dante, and most importantly,
38:37his blood, healthy. But Dante's blood
38:39was basically a renewable resource.
38:41Why kill him? I'd have kept him locked away
38:43indefinitely.
38:45What'd you know?
38:49Let's move on. Mm-hmm.
38:51So what went wrong? Why did Chance kill him?
38:53It was an accident. The demand for the DeLeon
38:55cream skyrocketed. And one day,
38:57Chance took too much blood, and Dante
38:59had a heart attack and died. So you drained him
39:01of every last drop?
39:03I even had to punch holes in his
39:05neck to suck out that precious blood
39:07from his carotid.
39:09That was annoying. Yeah, I bet it was.
39:11Then, you buried him
39:13in a shallow grave like an animal.
39:15I know. I know. My bad.
39:17Okay, but do you know how hard it is
39:19to dig a six-foot grave
39:21in the rain?
39:23I just don't have that kind of upper-body strength.
39:25The guy was an unrepentant
39:27megalomaniac. And it made me
39:29realize that if Dante died,
39:31Chance would need a new victim
39:33with the golden blood to keep making
39:35product. So we searched his house.
39:37FBI!
39:41Okay.
39:43You're gonna be okay.
39:45I need a medic in here now.
39:47Mr. Laughlin contacted
39:49Kumiko through an RH Null
39:51support group website. Helping folks
39:53with golden blood navigate the medical
39:55system. Chance lured her to Los Angeles
39:57last week with the promise of a high-paying
39:59job, then kidnapped her.
40:01She was lucky. Though the
40:03trauma of her abduction and
40:05torture will live
40:07with her forever. You seem proud of
40:09your team. I am.
40:11I am.
40:13We solved a homicide,
40:15saved a life,
40:17and ended a global cosmetic
40:19conspiracy. I mean, it doesn't get any better than
40:21that, right?
40:23You know what? I think this interview
40:25is over. But I still have
40:27a few more questions. Well, I know, but I don't care.
40:29I got work to do.
40:31Can I reschedule with your...
40:33Okay, thanks.
40:35Okay, yeah, I think I...
40:37Yeah, I remember.
40:39You have a plane to catch.
40:41I do, but I'm not ready to leave yet.
40:43You know, the only reason I came here to do this dumb
40:45documentary was so I could spend more time with you.
40:47You know that, right? Well, it's just sex.
40:49We don't need an excuse. We can do it any time.
40:51What if I want more than that?
40:53No.
40:55Okay.
40:57Oh, my God. What?
40:59Your mic is still on?
41:03Ugh.
41:05Get a life!
41:07Douchebags!
41:09You're stupid. I'm sorry. I didn't...
41:11I don't know how I didn't see it. Given you were a fan of
41:13Layla's, how do you feel about the news that her company
41:15had gone bankrupt? I admire
41:17how Layla refused to let people
41:19count her out. I mean, just because she was
41:21a woman of a certain age.
41:23Uh-huh, but what about her company?
41:25Her company?
41:27I'll put it to you like this.
41:29After working this case, I realized
41:31all she was really doing was
41:33making folks feel bad about growing old.
41:35Mm-hmm. So you're not using
41:37any more of her products? Hell no.
41:39Who knows what other bodily fluids that
41:41crazy son of hers might have put in it.
41:43Yeah. I mean, who the hell wants Layla
41:45Laughlin products now?
41:47Not me. Not me either.
41:51I bought out every store
41:53I could before the recall.
41:55That's just being smart.
41:57I don't care what's in it. This stuff works.
42:17You