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About $1.7 million has been spent on personnel services, $1.1 million on public safety overtime, $500,000 on the park monitoring program and the remaining on overtime for various departments. Close to $1.4 million was spent on the city's small-business grant program; $1.3 million went toward the housing and isolation of the homeless, as well as isolation costs associated with exposed first responders; $750,000 in protective equipment; and $75,000 in general home equipment, signs, remote training and other associated expenses. Another $360,000 was used to buy vehicles so social distancing...

>> waiting there, his son mathias who had seen his father arrested at gunpoint and he was now at age 20, a man himself. >> this is going to be a new experience. and the defense attorney and that reporter, turned private eye, who in cannon's mind had made all the difference. >> i knew you'd do it, man. >> let's go home. >> the car's this way, buddy. >> after having your life taken away from you to have it drop back in your lap it's, wow -- it's -- i don't want to be cliche but you stop and smell the flowers and they smell good. >> the cap's half full. >> the cup is definitely half full. it's ov...

The suspect? this time, the estate owner herself, bimla boyd. what do all these deaths have in common? well, the owner, bimla boyd. that local investigative reporter, eric mason, was now covering a new murder case. the case of bimla boyd. >> all of a sudden, at 5909 orchard heights road, the same address, there's this shooting. >> it's my understanding she has been arraigned. >> bimla boyd had gone from witness in one murder to suspect in another. who was bimla boyd and what was the story behind this latest killing on the estate? the reporter began digging. here's what he found. bimla boyd was...

A fire inside the trailer, a fire apparently set near the wood stove to consume the evidence of the killings. she found the bodies and at 3:57 p.m., she called 911. despite the lack of evidence, investigators soon discovered information they thought might help identify the killer. jason kinser, the kid with the smile who was loved by everyone, turned out to be a small-time drug dealer with, police said, plans of making it to the big time. he had two previous drug convictions and a new arrest just weeks before the murder. more importantly, kinser had been involved in a number of drug deals that...

They began trying to identify the hispanic looking man whom cannon had always claimed was at the mobile home the day of the murders, look what they found in the dusty court file. a photo array or throwdown, as it's called, made by polk county detectives in the hours after the murder. like a police lineup with photos. in it, only dark-haired hispanic looking men. mason, the reporter turned private eye, took the photo array to prison and showed it to convicted killer scott cannon. >> ten years after this crime, i walk into the oregon state penitentiary and i said if the person that was there at ...