speak for that person, you know, most crimes you have the ability to talk to a to the victim and ask them what happened and they can explain it to them and show them photographs. we don t have that luxury in homicide. down at the lab, some of the crime scene analysts were working on the tape used to bind the victims. there was a lot of tape involved in this case. we are looking at many, many hours if not a couple of days for dave to complete his processing on this evidence. specifically, on the tape, we were hoping to find the killer s fingerprints. there are two different patterns. we have a loop pattern and a small whirl pattern. anything involved in a wrapping of the tape around the ankles or ankles or face, that would be the person to wrap the tape on the victim. we got our second big break about 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning one night.
left in a vehicle so in the apartment now are nicolas and a girl. at some point we needed to make a decision whether we were going to continue to wait for the other suspects to arrive or take nicolas into custody. we decided to move forward without them because the information that we d gotten about their whereabouts was very sketchy. we didn t know if they were in las vegas or arizona or even in the united states at that point. so we decided to take what we could get. why don t the three of you get in your cars? since we are about to confront an armed and violent suspect, i got my body armor on just in case. yep. i went down in my car, got in and got myself prepared. at one point, i got my shotgun out. at this point, we are going on the offensive. the shotgun is an offensive weapon. yeah. right now, got to be ready for anything.
they lived together at the same house. a friend owed him money and they were trying to they were talking about going over to collect their money. do you know what that s for? i don t know. after i got done, mark and i met up and told him what i had learned. yeah, yeah. there you go. this is the two guys. who owed this guy money? that we don t know yet. clioafas. it s a real mystery right now. cause of death is at this point, unknown. we got back to the office. mark and i recalled a murder approximately a week earlier where the victim was tied or taped in a similar manner. we are just checking to see if there s anything linking the two. at that point we decided to talk to the detectives investigating that case. thanks, phil. they were tied in the same manner. and i mean, it is really unusual to see somebody tied up the way
the reality of a homicide investigation are not two dimensional. it s very three dimensional. the sights, the sounds, the smells, the feel. everything about it is extremely real. and usually very graphic. that is burned into my mind. to be able to take a case like this one where we have nothing we have two guys laying there, we know nothing about them. we don t know how they died, and yet to fast forward to having three guys in custody, that s very satisfying. there s nothing more solemn than reaching out and being the one that is able to speak for the person who is dead and can t point out their killer, can t say that s the person who commit this had crime against me. when justice is served in this case, nicolas felix and the other suspects will get exactly what they deserved.
s.w.a.t. uses distraction devices, they distract suspects when they make entry. sweet. nico had a loaded weapon within hand s reach but no one got hurt. they took nicholas felix into custody. felt good about that. it wasn t an easy case. it was our job to take it from there. i searched the apartment for evidence. yeah. there s a loaded .38 over there. i found a loaded weapon and a large quantity of methamphetamine. this way. okay? i went and got nico and i took him down in my car. okay. there you go. i brought him back to the homicide office for interrogation. speak english? once again, since his primary language is spanish, we called in roberto vargas to assist me with the interrogation. we have got to somehow hit him with something to cause him to want to talk to us. you know?