02x01 - The Hunt Continues

[bunniefuu]

[ Siren wailing ]

Rodie:
another day, another body

Devoured up in these damn fields
out here.

If you want to get rid
of someone in louisiana,

This just the place
to bring them.

This climate, within a week

A body's completely
deteriorated.

In a month, it's dust.

[ Siren continues wailing ]

[ Police radio chatter ]

St. Angelo:
for the last six months,

We've been working
eugenie's case hard.

But we're an active department.

And, when homicides happen,

We still got
to roll out to those.

The things people do
in this world

Will make your skin crawl.

She's right up here
in this ditch.

What's the story on this?

Black female.

I think
she's 8 months pregnant.

What's the cause of death?

A fatal g*nsh*t wound.

A very gruesome
discovery by some men

Who were spraying pesticide
here in the cane fields.

They found a body in a ditch.

Because of the
90-degree weather,

You can only imagine how badly
decomposed the body was.

♪♪

Hebert: east baton rouge
is gonna go ahead and work it.

Whatever piece of [bleep]
dropped her off back here,

Hope he rots in hell.

Rodie:
I've seen a lot in my life,

A lot of sad cases.

Some have an ending.

Some don't.

Sometimes, I can't sleep.

You got images in your mind.

When you solve these cases,

Images disappear and go away.

But when you don't?

These images stay.

It's almost like
I live and breathe them

Every day of my life.

I want to find out who brutally
m*rder*d eugenie boisfontaine

And threw her
in a ragged-a*s ditch

Like a piece of trash.

Eugenie was last seen
alive in 1997.

Two months after
she went missing,

Her body was found
in iberville parish.

Cause of death,
blunt force trauma to the head.

Rodie:
the cases you don't solve

Will haunt you
till the day you die.

She walked out there,
and she said,

"I've been fighting
with my husband.

I want to have sex."

St. Angelo:
I think there's a possibility
that eugenie's k*ller

Could have been her lover.

It's more common
than most people think.

So it was
a pretty bad breakup.

Yes.

We are reopening
your ex-wife's case.

Bull[bleep]

"The dna swab will confirm
I did not k*ll my wife."

Hold, hold, hold.
Here he comes. He backing out.

We got him, aubrey.

The ex don't want
to give us dna.

So you know what?
We're gonna get it our way now.

That's the ex-husband.

I've been doing this
business for 30 years.

That's the first time

I've ever seen somebody
come with three attorneys.

St. Angelo: do you wish to make
a statement or talk to us now?

No. No.

He wants to play hardball?
Let's break out the bats.

Eugenie's ex-husband?

I think all the signs
are pointing in his direction.

♪♪

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Eugenie boisfontaine.

She was abducted in 1997

From the lsu lakefront.

Three months later,
she was found brutally m*rder*d.

Her body was dumped
in a k*lling field

Over there in bayou manchac,

Like a piece of trash.

For 20 years, I've been trying
to solve eugenie's case.

I have to finish
fulfilling the promise

That I made to eugenie's mother

But, most of all,

To myself, too.

The day that I put
eugenie boisfontaine's k*ller

Behind frickin' bars
where he belong,

Then I will rest and retire.

Hebert:
going back to eugenie.

You know
everybody in this room knows

The husband is looking,

To say the least,
very suspicious.

-Yeah.
-You know what I mean?

He has not tried
to cooperate with us

In any way, shape or form.

Everybody that walked
in this door cooperated...

-Mm-hmm.
-...had alibis...

-Yeah.
-...was eager to do it.

This a*s[bleep] had the nerve
to walk through here,

Not one, not two,
but three attorneys.

St. Angelo: do you wish to make
a statement or talk to us now?

No. No.

I mean, who got $15,000 just
to go throw on an attorney?

Exactly.

In order for us to obtain
an arrest warrant,

We need a probable cause.

We got to be able
to put his a*s in baton rouge

On the day of her disappearance.

And we're gonna need
physical evidence.

We got physical evidence,

The -- his similarities
in her undergarments.

Morgan:
that's the ex-husband.

I don't think
we have enough.

Hebert: well, I don't think
we got enough, either.

I think we need
some more physical evidence.

That's correct.

-Motive.
-And we have to have motive.

Without a motive, how the hell
are we gonna put him in jail?

Bradford: so what do you y'all
think about this second wife?

Check this out.
One month after his divorce

Was final with eugenie,
he's marrying another woman.

Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am.

I want this second ex-wife here,
in that interview room.

-We need to talk to her.
-Yeah.

Let's get to work.

-Let's go.
-Let's do it.

St. Angelo:
eugenie's ex-husband remarried

Just one month after
he divorced eugenie.

We believe that he and eugenie
were still seeing each other,

Based on the dna that was found
in her undergarments.

So hopefully the second ex-wife
can fill in some holes.

Hebert:
the ex should be on her way.

If she has the answers,
will she give 'em to us?

Hopefully she's bitter enough
where she's gonna want to

Give us those answers, you know?
Hey, good point,

'Cause, you know,
they did divorce.

-Right.
-She might be pissed at him.

Bradford: I mean,
that happens all the time.

A woman scorned.

If anybody know
about a love triangle...

[ Chuckles ]

...aubrey do.
[ Laughter ]

St. Angelo: the only way I know
about love triangles

Is because I'm caught
in your web.

-I think you're the expert.
-I take the rap for that.

I've been married six times.

My dad always told me,

"Ain't but one thing
worse than a woman.

And that's two of 'em

On your a*s at the same time."

I've been there, too.

You ever, like, divorce one,

And a month later,
you sleep with another one?

-Or you play doctor.
-Probably.

[ Laughter ]

I want an attorney!
[ Laughs ]

Rodie: she's here.

The ex-ex is here?

I think so. Yeah.

Hebert: as you know, this is
an ongoing investigation.

We need for you
to be as honest

As you possibly
can be with us.

Did you second-guess him?

Did that thought
cross your mind,

That he may have been involved
in something like this?

Apparently, y'all had
an relationship

Before his marriage
to eugenie ended. Correct?

-Look how nervous she is.
-Mm-hmm.

We might have to go
turn it up on her.

That child was
conceived in april.

That's several months
before the ex and eugenie

Finalized their divorce.

This is motive.

I started this.
And I didn't finish it.

Woman:
you're making everybody worry.

You're putting yourself
back into that evil ground.

St. Angelo:
this job consumes you.

It will eat you alive.

Hell, I knew he dumped her
thursday night!

I knew it!

Hebert: they found a black male
in a drum.

Here's another one
of rodie's cold cases

That drove me crazy.

Livaudais: the reconstruction
definitely matched

The features of your subject.

Before I go to my grave,
I want him found.

And I want some justice.

We don't tell you
that you k*lled somebody!

How the [bleep]
we told him?!

How?

You're [bleep] lyin'!

I chased that rotten [bleep]

For the last 30 [bleep] years.

This time
he'll be where he belongs,

Behind [bleep] bars.

Rodie:
this second ex-wife got pregnant

While he was married
to eugenie.

This has motive
written all over it.

August. His divorce
was final in august.

Hebert: this was, like,
less than 30 days?

20.

St. Angelo: so, if eugenie was
gonna blow the whistle

That he was still seeing her

While married
to the second ex-wife,

He could've lost his new family

And then have to pay
child support.

We're trying to think
of motive.

His dna is showing up
with similarities.

What if eugenie was ready
to blow the whistle

And call you up

And say, "hey,
this is what's goin' on"?

He would've lost
a lot of money, right?

Child support?

If it's found that
you're committing adultery,

The court would hit you so hard
for child support and alimony,

Money becomes the motive.

Hebert: I want you to tell me,
did you feel at that time

That he may have been
drifting back toward her?

Absolutely not?

Rodie:
eugenie lived in baton rouge.

She was abducted
from baton rouge.

She's putting the ex
in baton rouge

At the time of her m*rder.

And now we got motive.
We got opportunity.

Our whole timeline
is almost filled in.

St. Angelo:
the second ex-wife, she came in.
She cooperated with us.

We don't suspect
her involvement.

But this is a theory
that I think about.

Eugenie and the ex-husband
are having an affair.

They were divorced.

But we knew eugenie
still had strong feelings

For her ex-husband.

And she might've not
been ready to let go

And was gonna divulge
what was going on

Between her and the ex-husband.

I think that's why eugenie
would've been m*rder*d.

What y'all think?

-She puts him in baton rouge.
-Yeah.

And he doesn't have to be here
overnight to commit a m*rder.

We got to find out everything
we can about the relationship

Between the ex and eugenie.

You know,
at the time of her death,

Were they seeing each other?

We have to find
something significant

So we can charge him
with this m*rder.

♪♪

[ Siren wailing ]

St. Angelo: ...that you guys
would let us obtain?

Lawyer: we've already
made our position known

to the court.

Lawyer #2: he invokes
his right to remain silent,

his right to counsel,
and his rights --

I think you did have
some concern about your dna?

thank you.

but I have your dna.

thank you.

but I have your dna.

St. Angelo:
eugenie's case bothers me.

We've got a lot
of circumstantial evidence

That indirectly points
to the ex-husband.

But how can we put
the ex-husband in baton rouge

At the same time
she was m*rder*d?

do you wish to make a statement
or talk to us now?

Man: no.

These cold cases
are like a riddle.

would there be
any victimology

that you guys
would let us obtain?

Lawyer: no.

But I didn't know
it would consume me.

Eugenie's case
affects my family.

And it's played hell on my
relationship with little aubrey.

What is this?

-It's a picture.
-Of?

A picture of a lady
in the case I'm working.

We don't have hard facts.

It's all circumstantial
right now.

It's time
to chase down every lead.

Woman: clerk's office.
I have a last will and testament

That I'd like to see if I could
pull the documents on.

Could you help me
out with that?

In the last 6 months, we've been
looking into her finances.

We're looking into her will.

Bradford:
I'm investigating a cold case.

And I was trying to see
if there was any

Insurance policies out
on my victim.

The name is
eugenie boisfontaine.

Most murders are committed
because of this right here --

Money, money, money.

If eugenie's husband would have
benefited from her death,

We're gonna find out.

St. Angelo:
the results of the will.

It's her last will
and testament.

Hebert: "i, eugenie
boisfontaine, of sound

And disposing mind and memory,
name my mother

Executor of my estate
to serve without bond."

[ Sighing ]
oh, lordy.

All this proves is that

It may not be
a financial motive.

Maybe it's something to do
with the second ex-wife

And the fact that they were
having a relationship,

And there's a child involved.

What you think, aubrey?

I was always told,

When it ain't about the money,
it's about the money.

Rodie: we haven't got everything
we need on the ex-husband yet.

But I promise you,
we're gonna get it.

[ Sirens wailing ]

My best time to think about
eugenie's case is at night,

Because I'm by myself.

I don't have no distractions.

Eugenie has a spot
deep down in my heart

And will always have it.

She was outgoing, very kind,

Very generous,

And would never
harm or hurt anyone.

Eugenie didn't deserve
to die the way she did.

Peek-a-boo [bleep]

You know, sometimes, I just sit
on eugenie's ex's house.

I can see some cameras
on the apartment now

And some burglar bars
he done put up.

I don't know what you
so worried about now, buddy.

Sooner or later,

He's gonna have
to make a mistake.

Come on. Move.

Look out the window.
See me here.

Old rodie ain't
giving up on you yet,

You old, lying piece of [bleep]

We just need
that one little clue.

It's so close, I can smell it

Just like [bleep]
on a [bleep] damn pig farm.

[ Birds singing ]

[ Indistinct conversations ]

Hebert: lori, could you
come talk to me?

I got to call
from the lsu faces lab.

Listen to this.

Curtis smith, cochise.


Out iberville parish.

Poor fella,
he leaves his house

To go get diapers
for his young child.

And nobody's heard from him
or seen him since.

We didn't find a body.

We have found
absolutely nothing.

You know, rumor has it
that he was shot

And placed in a barrel

And thrown in the river.

Here's another one
of rodie's cold cases

That drove him crazy.

This is
the first I'm hearing

Of any body in a barrel

Since 1991.

Does he know about this?

You the first person
I'm talking to about it.

At some point in time, I'm gonna
raise his attention, you know.

But you know
he wanted to retire, so...

-He's gonna freak out.
-Exactly.

I want you to run
to the faces lab,

Because,
let me tell you something.

If that's cochise
in that barrel,

This is gonna be just like
stirring a hornet's nest.

Morgan:
does he know about this?

You the first person
I'm talkin' to about it.

I want you to run
to the faces lab,

Because,
let me tell you something.

If that's cochise
in that barrel,

This is gonna be just like
stirring a hornet's nest.

♪♪

Thanks for meeting
with me this morning.

We've had a body
missing for 25 years --

Mr. Curtis smith,
they call him cochise.

He was also allegedly m*rder*d
and placed in a barrel.

And so, to have this barrel
pop up in natchitoches,

You know, we were like,
"what?" Okay. He was --

Consistent
with your missing person.

It's very consistent.
Yeah.

Can you tell me
what y'all have done so far?

What anthropologists look at
is the skeleton.

We were able to produce
this biological profile

From examining the bones.

We were very fortunate,

Because the skeleton
was mostly complete.

To determine race
or the ancestry background,

We use the skull.

And we did determine
that he was black.

-Okay.
-We estimated between 18

And 30 years,

5'6" To 5'10".

And then, from the skull,

We were able to produce
a facial reconstruction.

I establish a foundational
structure in clay.

And then we go
to a computer-generated

Photo montage piece.

There it is.

Wow.

Solid jaws

And solid cheekbones.

Everything we've talked about --
the postmortem interval,

The height,
the age, the sex --

It matches.

St. Angelo: hey, major.

Rodie: all right.
Let's head over there.

What would you do
without me?

[ Scoffs ]
a lot.

What you got?

It's a drawing for half
a billion dollars right there.

-Half a billion?
-Half a billion.

I'm-a win that.

If I win,
I'm-a buy you something nice.

What?

I'll buy you a coffin.

Not just any coffin,
the best coffin money can buy.

When my a*s is put
in the ground,

I don't give a [bleep]
what I'm in.

What if you go
before me?

You're not happy
with anything I do for you.

Get your mind off
the coffin thing.

Let's get --
get your game face on,

Because we fixing
to go see mr. Bounds.

All right, my friend.

[ Dog barking ]

Mr. Bounds?
How you doing, sir?

-Officer st. Angelo.
-Officer sanchez.

Nice meeting you, sir.

As you know,
we investigating

The eugenie
boisfontaine case.

We understand that you
may have some information

That you could provide us.

Eugenie had a husband.

Rodie: how long did y'all
work together?

Uh, he probably left
around '94 or '93.

We started working together,
I think, in '88 or '89.

How many times
you met eugenie?

Dozens of times.

She would watch
my kids after school.

And the kids loved her.

You know,
she was very sweet.

What was their relationship
at the time you knew 'em?

Did he ever seem
bothered towards her?

-Or get out of --
-no.

I don't think
I ever saw any emotion.

When he was married
to eugenie,

You know that he was
seeing somebody else

-At that particular time?
-No.

So you never met this other girl

That supposedly
was pregnant for him?

No. No. There was nothing
like that ever said.

Did you know of him to have to
go to baton rouge for any work?

No.

I don't want to hear that.

You know, you're starting
behind the eight ball of this.

But all we need
is one diamond in the rough

That could possibly
solve this case.

Could you help us out with
the kind of vehicle he drove?

He drove
a silver nissan truck.

I did think I saw a truck.

Two boys took off
as I came --

Approached 'em,
which I thought was curious.

Woman: one evening,
she was getting out of her car.

She had several bags
of groceries.

And so I went across the street
to help her carry them.

-Okay.
-So I said,

"Why are you parking over here?"
And she says, "I'm scared."

She said
somebody was following her.

I'm pretty sure it was a silver-
or gray-colored nissan truck.

He drove that
every day to work?

-As much as I could see, yeah.
-Yeah, seen, yeah.

I'm not gonna sit here
and say [bleep] guilty.

But I'm damn sure not gonna say
he's innocent.

You got things
that are starting to mount up.

That husband drove
a silver truck.

It matches the silver truck

That was bouncing
around eugenie's house.

That truck could be
a crime scene,

A crime scene that could hold
forensic evidence.

Rodie: if I find
that silver pickup truck

And evidence in the back of it,

Eugenie's ex-husband,

He will be in angola
shucking and cutting sugarcane.

Hebert: if that's cochise
in that barrel,

There's another one
of rodie's cold cases

-That drove him crazy.
-Does he know about this?

You the first person
I'm talking to about it.

Listi: we were able to produce
this biological profile.

The height, the age,
the sex, it matches.

-Hello?
-Hey.

The human remains found
in that barrel,

Eerily similar to cochise.

Well, we have no more
human tissue on the remains.

But what's interesting
is the jawbone

Has practically all the teeth
still embedded in it.

The enamel in the tooth

Creates a more protective
environment

-For the dna.
-Right.

They're gonna send it
to a lab

And hopefully
get a positive profile

For cochise that way.

♪♪

-Hey, baby.
-Oh, man.

Rodie: let me squeeze in here
a minute, my love.

-Hey, t.t.
-Hey. How you?

How y'all been?
Doin' good?

Now rodie thinks he's the mayor.
Look at him.

Look at him hanging
on all them women.

Man: could be working
on wife number seven.

[ Laughs ]

Stassi: this is our third annual
crawfish boil.

We all work hard.
I push everybody hard.

Thank y'all for what y'all do.

Enjoy the crawfish. God bless.

Rodie:
crawfish are good.

Probably the prettiest crawfish
we had this year.

I tell you what.
I enjoy it.

You got anything new
on the eugenie case?

Well, we still
working on it, sir.

St. Angelo:
you know, I look at rodie,

And I see how these
cases wear on him.

To have a case
and be right there with it

And not be able
to cross the finish line,

This job will stress you out
to the hilt.

You got these people
thinking

That we got a chance
to solve this thing.

You got
to follow through.

Rodie: you know, it's not just
me that cares about eugenie.

This whole community's heart
went out to her.

The town wants it solved.

The sheriff definitely
wants it solved.

And it's up to us

To find out what happened.

You just keep digging.

Make sure you live up

To what you promised
that family...

-I will do everything --
-...or die trying.

What we need right now
is to find that silver truck.

And once I find that truck,

It's a old saying in louisiana.

[ Speaks creole ]

That means "good night,
son of a b*tch,"

'Cause I got your a*s.

Hebert: hey, rodie.
Where you at, buddy?

I don't want to go home.

You know, my wife,

If it's up to her,

I should have retired
months ago.

But, you know, there's a k*ller

That is walking the streets
all these years.

And I'm gonna put
the son of a b*tch in jail.

♪ Where's that woman ♪

♪ Where'd she go ♪

♪ Everybody tryin' to find her ♪

♪ Nobody knows ♪

Hebert:
no doubt in my mind,

Eugenie's case
is gonna be solved.

-Good.
-It's gonna be solved.

-Good.
-Come hell or high water,

It will be solved.

-Thanks, buddy. I'm with you.
-Thank you. Thank you.

Let me show you something.

Don't get mad.
[ Chuckles ]

Oh, lord.

What you got now,
brother?

I got a call
from the faces lab.

There was a body
located in a barrel.

Don't [bleep] with me,
ronnie.

Well, this is what I did.
I sent lori morgan.

And lori goes to the faces lab,
right, and reports to me.

She says, "look.
The body they found,

They did a recreation."

That's a facial
reconstruction

Of what that person
would look like.

Look.

Cochise.

You put 'em side
by side...

I see.

...lot of resemblance there,
a lot of similarities.

Rodie: curtis smith,

Nickname cochise,

In 1991, he came up missing.

Word spread
through this community

That he had been ex*cuted,

Shot in the head,

Stuffed in a barrel,

And thrown in the mighty
mississippi river.

This is john doe
right now.

But it could also
be cochise.

This is the best information
I've heard in 30 years.

And, you know,
from day freakin' one,

I could just feel it in my gut
who did it --

Tommy francise.

Francise confessed to me,

Looking in my eyes,

That he shot cochise

And threw him in the water.

They didn't solve it
at the time.

Couldn't prosecute a fella
in a m*rder case

That didn't have a body,
they said.

I chased that rotten
mother[bleep]

For the last
30 [bleep] years

And done everything
I possibly could

To put his a*s away.

But he's always slipped
out of my freakin' hands.

The sheriff, well, he said,

"I want eugenie's case
continued.

But I want
this case started.

And I want somebody's a*s
in jail for both."

Do you have another one
in you?

Woman:
a very gruesome discovery

By some men
who were spraying pesticide

Here in the cane fields.

They found a body in a ditch.

Who the hell drops
a body off in, you know --

In the middle of
a frickin' cane field ditch?

-Pregnant 8 months, pregnant.
-Pregnant. Pregnant.

Woman:
this may be lyntell washington.

A man named robert marks
was arrested.

Man:
he is the assistant principal

At the school
where washington worked.

Woman: washington was 7 months
pregnant with his baby.

So I guess that's that.

I'm just thankful that she was
able to be found, some closure.

Rodie: well, eugenie's case
bothered me all these years

'Cause I didn't know
who k*lled her.

♪♪

Cochise, that case
bothers the hell out of me

'Cause I think i do know
who k*lled him,

'Cause he [bleep] told me

To my face,
looking in these eyes.

"I shot cochise."

Even with a confession,

Never could lock him up,

'Cause the body
could not be found.

Tommy francise
is walking the streets

And terrorizing
the iberville parish

And the people in this town.

You know, me and tommy been in
the ring together a long time,

Like two old fighters
going back and forth.

I'm still fighting him.

Tommy wants me to be

Right where cochise is
to this day.

Came out of his own mouth.

If that really is cochise
in that barrel,

That's the evidence
I've been looking for

To put tommy away.

That's what I'm gonna do.

♪ As I went down
in the river to pray ♪

♪ Studyin' about
that good old way ♪

♪ And who shall wear
the starry crown ♪

♪ Good lord, show me the way ♪

♪ Oh, brothers, let's go down ♪

♪ Let's go down, come on down ♪

♪ Come on, brothers,
let's go down ♪

♪ Down in the river to pray ♪

You feel for every one
of these poor victims.

But some of 'em will haunt you
for the rest of your life.

[ Thunder rumbles ]

♪ Oh, sinners, let's go down ♪

♪ Let's go down, come on down ♪

♪ Oh, sinners, let's go down ♪

♪ Down in the river to pray ♪

St. Angelo:
every minute, every second,

Every hour of every day,

I think about my job.

What did we do today?

What do we have to do tomorrow?
What can I do to break it?

♪ I went in the river to pray ♪

Rodie: I want to put
tommy francise in jail

Just as bad as I want
to catch eugenie's m*rder.

♪ The robe and crown ♪

♪ Good lord, show me the way ♪

And if tommy said
he wants to k*ll me,

All I can tell you is come on.

♪♪

"Does rodie have
another case in him?"

You [bleep] damn right I do.

[ Thunder rumbling ]

I don't have the heart
and the drive

And the faith
like I used to anymore.

And there's either
something wrong with me,

Or there's something wrong
with this world.

We have not given up
on eugenie's case.

This is your truck? You didn't
buy it from this man, huh?

We are looking
under every haystack,

Every junkyard.

If there's evidence
in that vehicle,

We find that,
we got our m*rder*r.

Right here, he said he rolled
the barrel in the water.

And he said it drifted.

Woman: and I told him, "do not
go over there with tommy."

Tommy gonna k*ll him.

Hebert: tommy is a frickin'
powder keg ready to blow.

Woman:
he thinks I'm scared of him.

He said he's gonna k*ll rodie.

He's still walking.
He's gonna k*ll your a*s.

And he's gonna
continue to walk.

If y'all would've done
what y'all supposed to do,

My daddy would've
still been here.

Before go to my grave,
I want him found.

And I want some justice.

So she says he tells her,
"it doesn't make a difference

They find the body or not.

They can't prove I did it."

You're [bleep] lyin'!

Get this [bleep] straight!

Rodie: we're not gonna let
a [bleep] dog

Stop us from doin' our job.

-On the ground.
-Get on the ground!

Get on the ground.