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We now return to "vegas homicide: race against the clock" with stone phillips. >> at this point, we have two guys in custody for kidnap and murder. we have a major man hunt that we have to put together to find nico and we have two additional associates that we need to locate we only know by a first name. >> a few days after the arrest of the initial two suspects, we received another big break. an informant had contacted our sergeant. >> and the informant was a close friend of nicos. he was in a ...

Their friends and it is just utter destruction. >> i want to get nico very bad at this point. to me, it was of vital importance to get him because he posed a serious threat to the public safety. we had five suspects, two in custody. at this point its two down, three to go. and nico was at the top of the list. >> tomorrow, the man hunt begins. >> the detectives hatch a plot to catch the prime suspect on the tape. what they find is chilling. >> that tape was worth its weight in gold. ♪ ♪ ♪ t...

And we came out in the office and we discussed what are we going to do now? >> he is trying to down play his involvement. he said, yeah, okay, i was there. but i wasnt hitting him. you wont find my fingerprints. >> yeah. he was wearing gloves. i brought up the fact to show him the ci tape. >> there hes saying, pretty smart, eh? i put them there. i put them in the car. left them for ten hours. i killed them. okay? thats different than being one of the guys that -- you wont find -- i didnt beat th...

Upstairs from them asked to borrow some tape and some rope. >> one of the witnesses told our sergeant what he had seen when he had been upstairs at his neighbors apartment. >> goes up there, goes into the apartment and in one of the bedrooms he sees two pairs of male legs bound together with rope. and then a couple of other guys in the apartment kind of shut that door and throw him out. >> the witnesses hadnt called the police before then because they were very afraid. and when we learned how he...

At this point weve got three in custody, and two on the loose, and we only know their first names. thats not much to go on. i want to catch the other two guys. >> i heard its real nice -- >> the problem we have got is the potential danger to our ci. >> could be bluffing. hes not bluffing. this is like -- >> he has the video. there he is sitting on the couch saying, yeah, i killed him. >> we convince nico that the tape had come from a legitimate drug enforcement surveillance of the informant hims...

Information they could give me about nico, particularly his whereabouts. >> im about to go in the first interview with the first suspect. thats him sitting there. right now, i dont know whats going to happen when i walk in there. i dont know if hes going to immediately want to speak with a lawyer and thats that or if hes going to give us a statement so right now, im going to go in cold. get him up with miranda and see if hes willing to talk to us. here we go. >> inside the interrogation room, ca...

Went over to the apartment and by the time they arrived, the two guys had already been tied up. he said he then witnessed nico beating the guys up and then assisted in placing one of the guys into a suitcase still alive. >> the fact that he assisted and did nothing to stop it and he didnt call the police, hes as guilty as any of them. what he told us is that julian had basically stolen some drugs from the drug organization he was affiliated with and the murders were in retaliation for that. we a...

On the tape. >> him? >> so much for his minimized story. >> yeah. okay. things are going to change a little bit now, huh? >> yeah. we learned that vikio or his name is really eduvijes pena. we learned that his prints were on that tape. that was on our victims. so that point, we knew that he was actively involved in tearing the tape off. and more than likely putting it on the victims, as well. >> he said that nico was directing him and the other guys activities. and said nico was wearing gloves a...

They couldnt get no air so they died. pretty smart, huh? >> that tape was worth its weight in gold as far as evidence in the murder. it wasnt a matter of whether or not we were going to get him. it was just when. nicholas felix was still -- the informant told us two of the suspects had gone to phoenix and would return later the next night with a large amount of drugs. >> they deliberately delayed coming back to arrive around dark. >> we got together with the narcotics detectives to try to devise...

Their friends and it is just utter destruction. >> i want to get nico very bad at this point. to me, it was of vital importance to get him because he posed a serious threat to the public safety. we had five suspects, two in custody. at this point its two down, three to go. and nico was at the top of the list. >> tomorrow, the man hunt begins. >> the detectives hatch a plot to catch the prime suspect on the tape. what they find is chilling. >> that tape was worth its weight in gold. when "vegas h...