- - i don't knknow how to dese jerry jacobson. jerry had a way about him. they're either gonna love him, or they're gonna hate him. there's no in-between. he couldld snap inin a millisecocond anand you don't even know why he snapped. my kids s did not get alalong with h him. he laid hands on 'em more times than i knew about. [dramatic c music] - jejerry jacobson was actually my stepfather. you know, he was prone to have a short, short, fuse and a a pretty badad temper. ♪ ththe most vivid memory y i hav: we werere in the b basement. i i can't rememember what the i issue was.. seememed insigninificant to me atat the time.e. and jerrrry justst kind of l lost it. he pickeked my brother up by the h head and wawas, li, bouncicing his heaead off the e. and d i was in t the room juju. kikind of more scared and hopig it didn't turn towards me 'cauause i didn'n't understatat at the timime. - i i stepped inin between t m and d i told micichael, my oldesest one, to r run out thehe front do. and i remember yelling out the front wiwindow, "j"just run, m michael, ruru" and michaeael was, likike, ninene at the time. that wasas the reason we s split up. [crickets s chirping]] we d didn't commmmunicate after r we split u up. i i was still l a cop, but he would show up on my police calls. alall of a sududden i looked d and there he is. nobobody knew how he kneww wherere my police calls were. he was j just there.e. [ominous music] he made pepeople afraiaid of hi. he h had a .45, , 'cause thahs what we cacarried in h holly, anand was tradading gun pap. and d he told meme this hims: bebecause he w was gonna s shoe anand then put his gugun back together so that if they ran ballistics on it, it w wouldn't show that the bullet came from that gun. ♪ - he's a bad man, okay? and i knew what he had my husband do. my husband pointed a shotgun at somebody's head by the order of jerome jacobson toto collect s some money, and that's notot the firstst t. hehe is not sosome sweet littlele old man s sick. he's a a fricking g gangster. ♪ gangster.. anand i'm not t afraid if f het a bulletet with my n name on . we all g gotta go sometime. [crashing, glass s shattering] ♪ - there was a rumor going around that it could've been a possible hit that it could've been a possible hit to get my brother out of the situation. - coululd it have e been? - - i don't knknow. [dramamatic music]c] ♪ [siren wailing] [i[indistinctt policece radio chahatter] - i was crcrushed against t the wall,, covered d in blood.. i reremember looooking this sy and ththere was a a policemn and d a fireman n right the. and d i said, "give e me frankieie, my so" jerry hahad just takaken frane out ofof the car s seat so he could lalay down to take a a nap becacause he wasas getting c c. and ththey said, "mrs. colombo,o, stay stili. we gotta c cut you outut withth the jaws s of life."" i sasaid, "that't's my son" [indistincnct polilice radio c chatter] and sosoon as theyey cut me ot anand took me e out, the painin just wentnt... [w[whooshes] all l through mymy body, and i justst screamed.d. and i could look over, and i saw my son sucking a lollipop, so i knew he was okay. jerry actutually crawlwled out t of the carar with no o blood on h him. - ththe telephonone rings. "oh, h hey, jerry.y. how are " "oh, i'm o okay. wewe got into o an acciden. we're all l being airlrlifted to the hosospital." i i said, "arere you suree you'u're all rigight?" he s said, "yeahah, i'm fin" like notothing at all was wron. - i got t the call a at wok and d raced up t there toto the hospipital. he wasas in icu, anand they hadad him hookekp to all thehese machinenes. anand robin hahad, i thinknk, five to six stitcheses on top of her head. - shshe had cut t her h. franankie's arm m was brokn and d he had, i i think, a bump o on his nosese. - yeahah, and thatat was i. most of ththe force ofof the k hit ththe passengeger door, but t they seememed like he was gononna be okayay, which was s kind of ododd becacause he's i in icu. [i[indistinct t chatter] mymy brother s said that h he h- i think k it was $15,000 0 to $20,00000 in thehe glove boxox and d then a cououple of hunud ththousand dolollars in a a sue in r robin's momom and dad's's e inin jacksonviville and totold me to t take cae of thihis one, takeke care of t that one. soso we went t to the junknky, and there e was nothining inin there. eveverything w was gone. anand the moneney in the h hous. disasappeared. evereryone claimims that i it was nevever there. jerry woululd not tellll me that he hahad money atat the e if he e didn't havave money at the h house. so then n i took it t upon mf toto go to hisis house. - - he made a a little detetr wiwithout anyoyone knowing. - i i made a litittle detourur withouout anyone k knowing, and i madede some thihings disappppear, becaususe i knew t things werere getting r really ugly. i gogot a couplele of itemss out t of his frereezer. he had a about fourr or fivive tickets.s. not surere if robin n knew they were e in there o or n, but i i didn't wanant robin tote acaccess to ththose ticketets. i wawas not surere if the acct was an accccident. was it a setup? we didn't know. ♪ - it could've been a hit. i really believe that. i don'n't have anyny proof of t, but i'm m thinking somethining went wrorong. and i was s feeling itit and i i got that i impressio. because e jerry wawas getting g a little.... on edgdge 'cause t the pressue was onon him from m someone, you knknow what i i mean? somemething was s different. [monitoror beeping]] - bebeing a big g guy, whenen they put t him in thehe , ththey didn't t realize he hadad internal l damage, so they y were treatating him for hihis broken l leg and d they didn'n't catch te ininternal damamage that h h. [mononitors beepeping] and byby the timee theyey caught itit, they r realized his lulung had colollapsed, his ribsbs were brokoken. - - up to thatat time, it was j joking. it wasas lightheararted. he didid not seem m like he w was in shocock. even tilill this d, i'm m just astononis- astonisheded that the n wawas activelyly d. [ventilatotor hissing]g] - he was i in and outt of c consciousneness. he hadad a ventilalator, so he wasnsn't able toto ta. they hadad him on alall ththese differerent machinin. robin n literally y came a couple o of times toto visi, and d that was p pretty much. the only t thing robinin was alwaways worrieded about wa, "i"i gotta getet to the hoh. i gotta geget to the h hous" mymy sister-inin-law didn't givive a rat's s ass abouout my brothther whwhile he wasas in the hohospi. [melanchcholic music] ♪ - one of t the reasons why ron didndn't come araround, thou, also, there was a fight. jerry's s mother basasically, you knknow, "you did t this on pururpose. you did ththis." and her r swearing u up and , "i"i didn't dodo it on pururp. i didn't s set this upup. i i didn't do o this." - ifif it was inin fact and it w was-- if t there was a any proof thatat she was i involved with that.t... - she woululdn't be he right t n. - i can guguarantee yoyou she wouldn't be e here rightht . - - i will guauarantee . ♪ - the lastst few days,s, it w was me, my y brother, mymy mom and d dad. and ththe last worords that h he said, he mouththed them toto my mom: "happy motother's day,y," 'c'cause it wawas mother's's . ♪ and d once that t happened,, hihis body jusust started d sg down l little by l little. there e was nothining anyoyone could d do. and the lalast couple e of hour, everyone w was inin the waititing room. but i i was like, , "i'm not gonna leavave my brothther's sie anand leave hihim in thehe room by h himself." so i stood there.. i sat nenext to him.m. i keptpt talking to him, kept t talking to o him. till this day,y, i mean, i don't know if h he heard meme or not, but i held his h hand, and d i stayed t there ununtil the..... until ththe last mononitor wentnt down. anand... till this s day, i dodon't regret it, because e he didn't t die by himself. i mamade sure that i was t ther. i'm sorry.y. [sniffles] [sniffleles] i'm sorry. [e[exhales deeeeply and snsniff] usually i don't cry.y. jujust... i couldn't't let him sit there e by himselflf. i couldndn't do it,, so i stayeyed there wiwith him. hardest thing i'veve ever donene in my lifife but ththe best thing i've e ever done i in my life.e. he alwayays wanted his soson, francesesco, to be in karate and this and that and all this kind of stuff. and i promomised him i i ws gonna helplp take carere of . i sasaid, "i'm g gonna look over r your son.. i'i'm gonna mamake sure he grows up to be a good kid." and i promised him that he'd be okay. i said, yoyou know, "it's okokay," you k know, "i'll l take care e of him. i'll watatch over hihim." anand if he wawas hearing g , i i just wanteted him to k knot the onone thing ththat he rereally careded about wasas hi. uh.... and that w was it. i i just wanteted to be e sure that t he knew. ♪ [sniniffles] ♪ - his heart stopped because he didn't react to the medicatioion. - no, i wasn't actually at the hosospital because i was... i really didn't think he was gonna die. you don't think it. it was early in the morning. my mother got the call, and she told me, and i just lost it. yeah. it was so horrific. ♪ [sniniffles] and that w was that. so i hadad the guiltlt of driv, the e guilt of l losing my h hd and my son losing his father. ♪ it was just too much to bear. ♪ - my namame is francesco o gennaro cocolom, named d after gennnnaro colom, and d that was m my dad, jere, who, youou know, is s being-- everybodody's kind o of talklking about t him now, you knowow, 'cause i in the '9, he's one o of the guysys who n the mcdodonald's mononopoly sc. soso... i'm m his son. [chuckleles] - giveve daddy a p punch. give daddydy a karate e kick. - hihiy! - - ow! - we g got in the e accidet three e days beforore my birt. i was twtwo. i i was in thehe back seata. and d one thingg thatat's always s stood out te isis, my mom s said that m md took me e out of thehe car s. sure enonough, minututes late, we gotot in the acaccident and ththat car seaeat was crus. so if theyey wouldn't't have donene that, then i i wouldn'tt be herere right now. my grandndma, my nononna, she shshowed me a a picture of thehe accident.t. i believeve i was, l like, nine or teten. and ththat traumatatized m. it's notot somethingng that a a kid shoululd see, espepecially thahat that's the car r that theirir dad wasn anand that's w why he's's not here e anymore. ♪ there yoyou go. [chuckles]s] [d[dog barks]] - wewell, hello.o. - there yoyou go. alall right. mwah. uh-oh. - uh-oh. - [chuckckles] uh-ohoh. my wholele life, i've alwlways knownn thatat there wasas somemething emptpty, you kn? therere was alwaways sosomething mimissing. and i i always felelt that that was m my dad. and thenen the momenent ththat she camame into my y l, it was i instantly f fille. since i i didn't knonow him, i felt likike he didn'n't know. but now ththat i have e a ki, i understatand that, y you kn, so mucuch has happppened inin this firsrst year. want to o dance withth this o? you lilike this onone? [musicic playing]] - [gigiggles] - i'm m sitting ththere plplaying withth her, and d . every day,y, i thinink about mymy dad. - owow! take care e of his sonon, frfrancesco. - - but there e was a lott of t things backck then ththat happenened. ththere was a a fight over cusustody of frfrances. - - my family,y, they dididn't want u us to be anany part ofof francescoco's life whwhats. we werere both devevastate. - lalast i heardrd, he's hd a bababy and so o forth and d. i wishsh him the b best. if anyththing else c comest of this,s, i want hihim tow that w we desperately did try to b be part of f his lif. - yeyeah. [melancholic music] - my dad--honestly, i don't have physical memories of him. but t i have a l lot of memos frfrom seeing g home video. - say, "hihi, i'm franankie." - i'm franankie. - lalaugh. - - [laughs] - oh, , say--franknk, say, "i"i don't feeeel good." bebe sad. - - aww. - - aww. - thatat's who i r remembe. you u know, i don't t see his momobster gy who did d all these e things. i justst see my dadad. ♪ - before i i knew it,, he w was gone. i justst didn't eveven know what to o think anymymore. i mean, , i wasn't t thinking about the e money. i was jujust thinkining, "oh, my y god, whwhat am i gogoing to do?? what a am i gonna a do?" i i don't haveve anyone to talalk to. i dodon't have a anyone to g go. it's just t me. - - after my b brother passed a away, a week a and a half f afterward, evererything wasas gone inin his housese-- all l of the antntiques, alall of the f furniture.. he had m mickey mantntle card, babe rututh cards. he had s so many thihings inin that housuse. everythihing disappepeared. ♪ and robibin claimed d that, "oh, we gogot robbed while we w were in thehe hospit" rereally? - mm. - i thinink robin as welell as frienends of hs stole e everythingng from m my brother.r. all his jejewelry, gonone. alall his furnrniture, gon. - - there was s nothing. - they robobbed him blblind. ♪ - yeah.. - yeah, yeyeah. - yeah.. i had--- there e was a buncnch of, lik- we had a a casino. and theyey got alall our slotot machines.. - yeah. - i don't t know. i dodon't kn. i didndn't care. whenen you lose.e... you don'n't think ababout-- you don't t give a shihit. i i didn't givive a shit about thatat stuff at all.. he wasn't t messing wiwith the momost savory y kind of pep, yoyou know? um...[.[scoffs] i don't knknow. i don't t know. [s[sniffles] - my grarandparentss did d point blamame at my m, anand that's n not cool. she lolost her hususband, you knowow? shshe lost herer soul matet. i 100%0% don't belelieve thatat was sometething thatat she did o on purpose. i dodon't--not a at all. - robin had lived the lavish lifestyle when she w was marrieded to j. she hahad the moneney. she e had the cacar. she hahad the big g house. she had d everythingng. oncece jerry pasassed , that m mon, thatat cash cow,w, you mamay call it,t, is gone. so now a at this poio, rorobin's hungngry for thahat , so she lititerally wowould do anynything at a l to h have the momoney. - the whwheel of jusustice. let's s spin the w wheel and sesee who it l lands on this week.k. looks likeke we're gononna comp on ms.s. colombo.. she's bebeen on the e wheel a a couple of f weeks. - okay, rorobin colombmbs wawanted for g grand theftft . - - if you knonow where shss oror any of ththe suspects on t the wheel,, pleasese call crimime stopper. that numbeber is (866)6) 845-. offificer hartleley, thank y yo. - - always a p pleas. [dramatitic music] - so she started doing check fraud. she would get checks that were unworthy and no mononey to backck them and shshe would write ththem out andnd cash th, and shshe got caugught for t. i remember francesco actually explaining this, as youngng as he wasas, ababout how hehe would gogo into a ststore and his s mom would d tell m to pick k up a a $200, $30000 pocketboook and d just carryry it out because ththe securityty woululdn't stop p a child. - - or if theyey did, it w was, "oh,h, put that t down, frananc" - yeahah. - "t"that's not t yours." - - yeah, "thahat's not yo" she was s training h him at a a very younung age 'cauause she neeeeded that m m. ♪ - i wentnt to prisonon. i wawas trying to keeeep up the l lifestyle. uncle jejerry nevever even contacted me after r jerry, my y husband, d. nope.. i dodon't--yeah.h. - - i mean, i'i'll admit,, the first coupuple of daysys, i had tickckets in my y hand. i'm m like, "whohoa. should i i take overer his busisiness now?"?" yoyou know, 'cause i c could've eaeasily... - - he could'v'. - i could'd've easily y went to u uncle jerryry and said, , "hey, you u know, lelet's contininue this."" i could'd've easilyy kept i it going, but t i didn't,, 'cauause i didn'n't want to look k over my shshoulder. i i thought ththey had it t stod when m my brother r passed aw, so i wasn'n't gonna ususe the. i wasnsn't gonna g give thm to anynybody. i i wasn't gononna try to sell l them, whatat have . i i just destrtroyed them, hohoping that t it was never gogonna be fouound out. thatat was my gogoal. like i've e always saiaid my whohole life, "if f you can geget away wiwith somethihing over a and over anand over, you only g gotta be cacaught on" - once. - you geget caught o once, you'u're done. [birdsds singing]] - - at this popoint, operation n final answswer was s moving fasast. evererything wasas on the tat. [phone rinings] it's kind d of like a a fact. i mean, , everybody'y's work. evererybody's wrwriting. they're e reviewing g tape. i meanan, it's a w whole elaborate e team efforort pro. ♪ in o order to dodo this scam, jerry jajacobson neeeeded what we rerefer to as s middl. one of t the early m middlemn was jerrrry colombo,o, who passeded away, didied in a cacar accidentn. okayay, now whatat? the one ththing that w was ststill out ththere was, rereally how m mechanicallly is j jerry jacobobson doing g ? and d that was, , you know, , kf this nagagging queststion mar. - wewe were justst buildingg the e puzzle from a all the pieieces, and d there werere so many y different t pieces ththat we werere putting t tog. ♪ - we werere working g a lot with thehe atlanta d divisi, who had a a surveillanance t. kikind of likeke in the m movies, youou know, guysys parked inin cars are follllowing withth, yoyou know, binocuculars and c cameras, you know, painting t the pictue of thihis guy, hisis backgroud and, you know, who he was. undercover tapes and the video were coming in. conversations on the wiretap were coming in. lot of movoving parts.s. - jejerry was paparanoid. he's b been talkining ababout his phphone being g d ever sinince we werere in flo. he would a always say,y, "don't s say that. our phonones might b be tappe. "somebebody be lisistening. you nenever know who's gogonna hear y you." and onone day, we were jujust chitchahattin, and d i said somomething. i didn't t think itit was a bigig deal. and he s said, "watctch ou. don't say y it like ththat" soso in a few w minutes, i finanally said, , "hey, je, whwhen did youou tell leoo to go o kill the p president" and hehe hung up o on me. [chuckles]s] i'm thininking to mymyself, "why d do you thinink someboy would d find you s so interestg that they y would wantnt to tapap your phonones?" [line e rings] - jejerry jacobsbson's contrtg all the e pieces at t that po, soso he neededed to r replace cololombo as quickly as possible. identification of sources that he could use of recruiters becameme his full-l-time job. - one e of the mididdlemen, aj glolomb, came on n the radar r scren fairly e early. afteter colombo o died, glomomb had a nunumber ofof telephoninic conversasats with j jerry jacobobson, and d you followow-- you know, , follow where the e evidence l leads y. ♪ - mymy name is a andrew glo. i i go by aj.. one day, a a friend ofof mine called me e up and he e said, "i have e somethingg you mimight be intnterested i. "wririte down ththis numberr anand go to a a phone bootoh and d call me."" i said, , "oh, no, n no." [c[chuckles] i saysys, "i had e enough of tt in m my life. i-i-- comeme on, i jusust got offf probatation a coupuple years a" i had jujust finishehed up a a drug sentetence, anand i didn't't want anytyg to happen.n. - actutually, thatat's, like, onone of the b best partss of t the whole s story. [smoototh music] firsrst time i ever d did any kinind of ds was withth harold rorobbin, the writiter, and d we were inin monte cara. ♪ and d he had a b bunch of girls w with him. anand so we'rere talking a an, and i i says, "i"in your booooks, whenever t they were h having, they alwlways did amamyl nite befofore they hahad an orgas" [chuckckles] soso i says, " "harold, do you h have anany amyl nititrate?" he said, " "oh, yeah, , yeah, y. you wawant some?"" i said, , "yeah." i dididn't know w what i wasas . so i'm s sitting thehere, and ththis girl sasays, "let's danance." so i getet up. ♪ i s