开放谋杀

我是克雷格·梅尔文。

I'm Craig Melvin.

干杯。

Cheers.

干杯。

Cheers.

干杯。

Cheers.

我一向是个乐观的人，现在我也在和一些同样以积极眼光看世界的人聊天。

I've always been a glass half full kinda guy, and now I'm talking to some people who look at the world that way too.

一些特别有趣的人，他们会分享人生的关键时刻、成功经历和遇到的挑战。

Some really fascinating folks who share their defining moments, their triumphs, their challenges.

他们的故事既幽默又坦诚。

Their stories are funny and quite candid.

希望你每周都能和我一起听。

So I hope you'll join me each week.

谁知道呢？

And who knows?

说不定听完，你也会开始用积极的眼光看世界。

You might just come away with your own glass half full.

在YouTube和各大播客平台搜索《Glass Half Full with Craig Melvin》，收听本期节目。

Search glass half full with Craig Meltzer from today on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts.

你好。

Hi.

我是凯特·斯诺，NBC新闻主播，也是NBC新闻播客《The Drink》的主持人。

It's Kate Snow, NBC News anchor and host of the NBC News podcast, The Drink.

这个月，我和前真人秀明星劳伦·康拉德一起喝了一杯雨果气泡酒。

And this month, I'm grabbing a Hugo Spritz with former reality star Lauren Conrad.

在《The Drink》，我们特别喜欢听人讲述他们如何一路走到今天。

Here at The Drink, we love learning about someone's journey to the top.

劳伦和我，从她非凡人生的起点聊起。

And Lauren and I, we go back to the very beginning of her extraordinary story.

我们聊了她为什么一直觉得真人秀只是暂时的，她如何面对公众的审视，以及为什么她说自己再也不会看《拉古纳海滩》了。

We talk about why she always saw reality TV as temporary for her, the scrutiny she faced in the public eye, and why she says she'll never watch Laguna Beach again.

希望你也来一起喝一杯。

Hope you'll join us for the drink.

欢迎在你收听播客的平台订阅和收听。

Listen and follow wherever you get your podcasts.

你一定还记得那句源自莎士比亚的古老格言。

You'll remember, I'm sure, the old adage taken from Shakespeare.

既不要借钱给别人，也不要向别人借钱。

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

这句话被广泛引用，无处不在，就像那位伟大剧作家的许多其他作品一样。

The phrase itself, borrowed, all the time and everywhere, like so much of the great playwright's work.

这算明智的建议吗？

Wise advice?

也许吧，但在现代生活中，大家往往都置之不理。

Perhaps, if widely ignored in modern life.

但借钱这件事，很快就在韦恩多弗谋杀案中变得关键起来。

But the question of borrowing was about to matter in the West Wendover murder investigation.

事情牵涉到一辆车，准确说是辆SUV——一辆雪佛兰Trailblazer，一辆借来的Trailblazer。

It had to do with a car, an SUV, actually, a Chevy Trailblazer, a borrowed Trailblazer.

为什么一辆借来的车，会和那位深受喜爱的少年米奇·科斯坦佐的谋杀案有关？

And why would a borrowed car matter to the investigation into the murder of that much loved teenager, Mickey Costanzo?

这辆SUV属于当地一位女性，年纪不小了，至少比年轻的科迪大不少。

Curious little story that the SUV belonged to a local woman, an older woman, you could say, at least compared with young Cody.

之前有过传言，说科迪可能和这位女士有过往来。

There had been talk, rumors that Cody may have been spending time with the woman.

但流言不值钱，对吧？

But talk is cheap, isn't it?

可从来没人找到过他们真有关系的证据。

And no evidence of a relationship ever surfaced.

再说，那时候科迪正忙着筹备和托尼·弗拉托的婚事。

And after all, Cody was at that very same time planning his marriage to Tony Frato.

所以，也许那位女士只是出于好意，把SUV借给科迪，让他去学校车间取他留下的那些汽车零件。

So perhaps that woman was simply offering the SUV as a favor to a friend to be used by Cody to pick up those car parts he'd left to the school shop.

但如今，科迪·帕顿成了谋杀案的嫌疑人。

But now Cody Patton was a murder suspect.

因此，伯纳姆侦探自然觉得有必要去问问那位车主。

And so, naturally, detective Burnham thought it prudent to talk to that woman, the owner of the car.

果然，她证实了科迪的说法，也确认了他借车的原因——车够大，能装得下那些零七八碎的汽车部件。

And sure enough, she confirmed Cody's story, confirmed also the reason he asked to use it, because it was big enough to accommodate all that car stuff, parts, things.

当然，她以为那些东西只是汽车零件。

That is she assumed it was car parts.

接着，那位女士又提了一句：‘我们是不是漏掉了这个细节？’

And then the woman added, why don't we carry this little detail?

她把车钥匙交给科迪时，车是干干净净的，可等他还回来时，车却脏得不行。

Her SUV was spotless when she handed the keys to Cody, but It was very dirty when he returned it.

不只是年轻人那种乱糟糟的脏，而是外面特别脏、满是灰尘，像是开去越野了似的。

Not just teenager messy, but especially dirty and dusty on the outside as if he'd driven it off road.

但她当天就急着去洗车了吗？

But did she rush out to wash it that very day?

没有。

No.

她没那么做。

She did not.

相反，调查人员对那辆车进行了全面检查。

Instead, investigators had their way with that car.

他们从车头到车尾取了灰尘和泥土样本，和案发现场的土壤做了比对。

They swabbed it from bumper to bumper for samples of dust and dirt and compared those samples with soil samples from the crime scene.

结果确实很相似，但光是这样也可能是巧合，不能证明科迪对老朋友米奇做了什么可怕的事。

And they sure looked the same, which by itself could simply have been a coincidence, of course, didn't prove Cody did some terrible thing to his old friend Mickey.

但警察从车上拿走的还不止这些。

But that wasn't all those cops took from the car.

他们提取了轮胎的胎纹印痕，然后和发现米奇尸体的沙漠地带的车辙一一比对。

They took impressions of the tread on the tires, and then they lined them up with the tire tracks at that place in the desert where they found Mickey's body.

这些胎痕与那辆车所用的轮胎品牌和型号完全吻合。

They were consistent with the tire brand and model that was on that vehicle.

当然，这仍然可能是巧合，但可能性已经越来越小了。

Which, again, could have been a coincidence, though it was seeming less likely now.

接着，调查人员对科迪的住处进行了搜查——记得吗？他当时住在克劳德和卡西·弗拉托家。

And then the investigators conducted a search where Cody lived, which was, remember, at the home of Claude and Cassie Frato.

看看有没有发现刀具之类的物品，能用来束缚她的，或者和现场发现的物证能对得上的。

See if there was any type of evidence of, you know, knives or items that could have been used to restrain her or that coincided with what we'd found at the scene at the time.

你们找到什么了吗？

Did you find anything?

一开始什么都没找到。

We didn't find anything initially.

但在搜查房屋期间，卡西·弗拉托说她曾看到科迪房间里有一把铲子，现在那把铲子不见了。

However, during our search of the house, Cassie Frado stated that she had observed a a shovel in Cody's room and that the shovel was no longer there.

她还确认那是一把小型军用挖掘工具。

And she identified the shovel as a small military entrenching type tool.

就是那种用来挖地洞的铲子吗？

The kind normally used for digging a hole in the ground?

有可能吧。

Maybe.

当然，那铲子早就不见了，所以这个说法作为证据，实在有点靠不住。

Of course, it wasn't around anymore, so as evidence, that story was perhaps iffy.

但就在侦探们正琢磨这事的时候，事情发生了。

But just as the detectives were contemplating that, it happened.

就是那一刻。

The moment.

戏剧性又诡异，那种你总觉得不可能发生的事，偏偏就发生了。

Dramatic, strange, the kind of thing that just never happens until it does.

我听到那位父亲在哭喊。

I heard some wailing from the father.

我能听见他在大喊，听起来像是在哭。

I could hear him yell, and it it sounded to me like he was crying.

我是基思·莫里森，欢迎收听《离家五英里》，来自《今日档案》的播客。

I'm Keith Morrison, and this is five miles from home, a podcast from Dateline.

第三集：公开的谋杀案。

Episode three, open murder.

星期天晚上，在西温多弗，这条小街正热闹非凡。

Sunday night in West Wendover, a busy evening along the Little Strip.

五家赌场人声鼎沸，赌客云集，酒水不断，老虎机转个不停。

Its five casinos bustling with gamblers, drinks flowing, slots spinning.

而他们当然不知道，就在镇子另一头的西温多弗警察局，警探凯文·麦金尼还在继续盘问科迪·帕顿。

Oblivious, of course, to the real life action just across town at the West Wendover Police Department, where detective Kevin McKinney was still grilling Cody Patton.

你没把全部真相告诉我们。

You're not telling us the whole truth.

你只说了些零零碎碎的部分，但根本没把全部真相说出来。

You're telling us bits and pieces, but you're not telling us the whole truth.

这时候，已经快凌晨一点了。

By this time, it was almost 1AM.

除了最死忠的赌客，其他人都已经散去，星期天也悄然变成了星期一。

All but the most dedicated gamblers had drifted into the night, and Sunday had given into Monday.

麦金尼侦探已经连续工作了整整二十四小时。

Detective McKinney had been up twenty four hours straight.

他先是开车赶到西文德沃，接着在米基·科斯坦佐的遗体被挖出时监督现场，然后又去学校调看了监控录像。

First, driving to West Wendover, then supervising the crime scene when Mickey Costanzo's body was exhumed, followed by a trip to the school where he studied surveillance video.

而现在，他正和十八岁的科迪·帕顿面对面坐在一间狭小闷热的审讯室里。

And now here he was face to face with 18 year old Cody Patton in a cramped and stuffy interrogation room.

几个小时来，他们反复讨论米基到底发生了什么，科迪一直否认。

For hours, they had gone back and forth about what happened to Mickey, with Cody denying.

我没有杀人。

I did not kill.

我杀了很多人。

I killed extensive.

而警官则在给他一个坦白的机会。

And the cop offering a way to confess.

我觉得你不是早有预谋的。

I don't think you planned on it.

我觉得你并不是真想说‘是我干的’。

I don't think you intend to I did it.

我觉得你是突然慌了。

I think you panicked.

那时候，科迪，可能觉得被逼到墙角了，就要求休息一下。

At which point, Cody, perhaps feeling cornered, asked for a break.

他要求见他父亲。

He asked to speak with his father.

所以我们让他们在审讯室见了面。

So we allowed them to meet in the interview room.

你有听到他们说了什么吗？

Did you overhear what

没有，我没听到。

they No.

他们互相说了什么？

Said to each other?

我没听见他们说了什么。

I didn't hear what was said.

但有一会儿，我听到那位父亲在哭喊。

But at one point, I heard some wailing from the father.

里面到底发生了什么事？

What in the world was going on in there?

麦金尼警官又安静地等着。

Detective McKinney waited, quiet again.

几分钟后，我们回到审讯室，他父亲告诉他，必须告诉我们发生了什么。

And a few minutes later, we went back into the interview room, and his father told him he needs to tell us what happened.

男子汉一点。

Be a man.

对。

Mhmm.

就在那时，他把整个事情告诉了我。

And that's when he told me the story.

对。

Mhmm.

如果当时请了律师，会不会阻止科迪说出实情？

Would a lawyer have prevented Cody from telling his story?

但科迪根本没要求请律师。

But Cody didn't ask for a lawyer.

他听从的是他父亲的建议。

His father's advice is what he sought.

他父亲听了那些话后深受震撼，坚持认为现在最重要的是说出真相，哪怕真相再难听。

And his father, in some kind of shock from what he had heard, insisted that the truth was what was needed now, ugly though the truth certainly was.

这是基普·帕特森在两位侦探面前对儿子科迪说的话。

This is Kip Patton in the presence of the detectives speaking to his son, Cody.

你做的事根本没那么疼，科迪。

What you did is painless, Cody.

我一点都不想丢下你。

I don't wanna abandon you at all.

明白吗？

Okay?

你得配合他们，他们需要答案。

You've gotta do what they need you to do, and they need their answers.

家人也需要答案。

And the family needs their answers.

你懂的吧？

You know?

就现在了，兄弟。

This is it, man.

咱们得把这事解决了。

We have to fix this.

然后，麦金尼警官确认录音机还在运行，身体前倾，专心听科迪·帕顿开口说话。

And then detective McKinney made sure his tape recorder was still rolling, and he leaned forward in his chair and listened intently as Cody Patton began.

他说，他从学校接上米奇，然后一边开车一边聊天。

He picked up Mickey at school, he said, and they started driving and talking.

科迪说，正是从那时起，米奇开始惹麻烦了。

Said Cody, is when Mickey started all the trouble.

他说，米奇坚持要科迪跟未婚妻托尼·弗拉托分手，转而和她交往。

And how did she do insisted Cody break up with his fiancee, Tony Frato, and date her Mickey instead, he said.

科迪说，这根本不可能发生。

Well, that wasn't going to happen, said Cody.

于是他们开始争吵，科迪继续开车，一路深入沙漠。

So then they started arguing, and Cody kept driving deep into the desert.

科迪说，后来米奇彻底发火了，逼他把车停下。

But then Mickey got really mad, said Cody, insisted he stop the car.

他们于是下了车。

So they got out.

她终于冲我大喊大叫，我说那是因为我不是莉娜，她一听就激动起来，开始猛捶我的胸口什么的。

She was finally yelling at me, and I said that it's because I'm not Lena told you how that she started, like like, pounding on my chest and stuff.

到那时候，科迪说，他也很生气了。

By this time, said Cody, he was upset too.

更火了，他是这么说的。

More mad, as he put it.

就在那一刻，事情发生了。

And that is when it happened.

他狠狠地推了她一把，他说。

He shoved her pretty hard, he said.

然后

And

她摔倒了，头撞在地上，我看着她躺在那儿，眼睛开始发黑。

She fell down and hit her head, and I and she just laid there and, like, her eyes started to turn black.

她开始抽搐，那时候我就知道不对劲了。

And she started to shake and seize and at that point, I knew something was wrong.

我看了看她倒下的地方。

I looked at where she was at.

她旁边有一块大石头

There's this big rock she had

她就是撞在那上面的。

hit her head on.

戈迪受过急救训练，他说，当他检查脉搏时，根本摸不到，她整个人都在抽搐。

Gody had been trained as an EMT, said when he checked for a pulse, he couldn't get anything, and she was just flopping.

他当时非常难过。

He was very tearful.

我们不得不多次停下来，让他平复情绪。

We had to stop several times to allow him to gain his composure back.

有几次，他在向我们描述细节时，说自己快吐了。

A couple times, he told us he was getting physically ill while he was describing details to us.

我们就不继续转述科迪所说的他在沙漠里对米奇做的那些事了。

We will spare you the rest of Cody's description of what he said he did Mickey out there in the desert.

简单说，那远不止是推了一下、摔了一跤那么简单。

Suffice to say, it was more than just a push and a fall.

不管事实到底是什么，科迪根本没有用他作为急救员的技能去救她。

And whatever it actually was, Cody did not use his EMT training to save her life.

相反，他说他当时慌了神，完全不知道该怎么办。

Instead, he said he panicked, didn't know what to do.

而他后来做的，他说，是跑到车里拿了那把铲子，确保她真的死了。

And then what he did do, he said, was go to the car and grab that shovel and use it to make sure she was dead.

我发誓，我挖了个小坑，把她埋了，然后把衣服拿去烧了。

I swear, the little crazy thing I dug, covered her up, and I took the clothes and burned them.

他说，衣服是在几英里外的另一个地方烧掉的。

Burned them, he said, at another location a few miles away.

之后，他去接了托尼，跟她说什么都没发生。

After which, he went and picked up Tony, he said, and told her nothing about what he had done.

两人一起吃了饭，过了一会儿就回家了。

The two went and got food, and after a while, went home.

他说，就是那时候，他把铲子藏到了弗拉托家的房子底下。

And that, he said, is when he stashed the shovel under the Fratto's house.

他就这么说了，整个可怕的故事都摊在了桌上，说完之后，科迪又补充了一句。

There it was, he claimed, the whole awful story, after which Cody offered this.

我只是想说，我很抱歉。

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry.

最讨厌的就是，偏偏在错误的时间、错误的地点，摊上这种事，而且受害者还是个这么无辜的人。

Hate being me being in the wrong place at the wrong time, that that it had to happen to someone that that didn't deserve it.

唐纳德·伯恩汉姆警探从没听过这么详细、这么骇人的供词，更没想到，说这话的竟是科迪·帕顿——一个普通的本地少年。

Never before had detective Donald Burnham heard a confession as detailed, as awful as that one, and from Cody Patton, of all people, just a regular local kid.

他以前是高中橄榄球队的，朋友很多，都是些再普通不过的孩子，可突然间，他残忍地杀害了一位从小一起长大的朋友。

He was on the high school football team, had lots of friends, also regular kids, but then out of the blue, he brutally murdered a lifelong friend.

就因为她让他甩了托尼，改做她的男朋友？

And just because she wanted him to dump Tony and be her boyfriend?

这完全说不通啊。

Well, that didn't make any kind of sense at all.

对了，科迪还提了一件事。

Oh, and there was one other thing, said Cody.

他对此非常坚持，非要坚持这一点。

He was adamant about this, insisted on it.

他声称当时只有他和迈克ala在一起。

He stated he was alone with Michaela.

他从未提到还有别人在场或知道这件事。

He never implicated anybody else even being present or aware of it.

是他一个人干的。

He did it alone.

他有没有说为什么要这么做？

Did he tell anybody why?

没有。

No.

他没说。

He did not.

侦探伯纳姆在听完科迪的故事后，仍有些震惊，那天晚上他又做了一次调查。

Detective Burnham, still reeling a bit after Cody's story, did one more bit of investigating that night.

他去了弗拉托家，想再找一遍科迪说他用过并藏在房子底下的那把挖沟铲。

He went to the Fratto's house to look again for the trenching shovel Cody said he used and then hid under the house.

果然，就在那儿。

And sure enough, there it was.

看起来被人擦得干干净净。

It looked like it had been wiped clean.

伯纳姆把它装进证物袋，送去了法医实验室做检测。

Burnham bagged it, had it sent to the crime lab to check for clues.

警探凯文·麦金尼试着理清他从科迪那里听来的那些话。

Well, detective Kevin McKinney tried to make sense of what he had heard from Cody.

你觉得那时候你已经听到了全部真相吗？

Did you think you got the whole story at that point?

还不完全。

Not completely.

我始终怀疑他并没有把发生的事全告诉我们。

I was never convinced that he told us the complete truth about what happened.

这时候，天快亮了，正是星期一早上，警察终于逮捕了科迪，告诉他当天晚些时候检方就会正式起诉他。

By now, it was a few hours before dawn on what was Monday morning when the police actually arrested Cody and told him he'd be charged by the DA later that very day.

他的未婚妻托尼·弗拉托和她的家人还焦躁地坐在审讯室外面，满心以为马上就能带科迪回家。

His fiancee, Tony Frato, and her family were still sitting restlessly outside the interview room, fully expecting to take Cody home.

但他们当然没能做到。

They would not do so, of course.

这是托尼的母亲卡西。

This is Tony's mother, Cassie.

警察出来告诉我们，科迪刚刚认罪了。

The police came out and told us that Cody had just confessed.

简直让人崩溃。

Devastating.

我们根本不敢相信。

Did not believe it.

我们一直跟他合作得那么努力。

We had been working so hard with him.

我们一直努力帮科迪走上正轨，希望他能高中毕业，然后参军。

Working hard to help Cody keep his life on track so he could graduate from high school and join the marines.

我们以为自己正在把他拉回正路。

We thought we were bringing him around.

我们觉得一切都在好转，直到最近这一周，才意识到他心里憋着火。

We thought things were going well until the last week or so, and we knew he was angry about something.

在谋杀案发生前的那一周，科迪只说了一句：事情快要爆发了。

All Cody would say the week before the murder was things are coming to a head.

我得解决这个问题。

I need to take care of this.

托尼就问他：你怎么了？

And Tony would say, what is wrong?

你为什么对米凯拉这么生气？

Why are you so angry with Mikaela?

她到底做了什么？

What did she do?

他就会说，这不关你的事。

And he would say, it's none of your business.

这是科迪的未婚妻，托尼。

Here's Cody's fiance, Tony.

他会在事情逐渐升级、过去发生的一些事时告诉我。

He would tell me as things were building up and things that happened in the past.

他不会多说细节，也不会再对我多讲别的。

He would not go into further detail, and he would not say anything else towards me.

他现在也不会告诉她了，因为科迪已经被送到一百英里外的内华达州埃尔科县监狱，关押到接受谋杀审判为止，很可能面临死刑，虽然还没最终决定。

And he wouldn't be telling her now because Cody was taken a 100 miles away to the county jail in Elko, Nevada, where he would be held until they could put him on trial for murder, quite possibly facing the death penalty, though that had yet to be decided.

但事情就这么结束了吗？

But was it over now?

当然没有。

Oh, no.

远没结束。

Not at all.

那后面呢？

And the rest of the story?

嗯，是这样。

Well

这完全说不通。

It didn't make sense.

不像是我认识的那个人。

It's not the person that I knew.

我就想，肯定是有人逼他这么做的。

And I said, then somebody made him do it.

有人逼他在那个应用里干了那些事。

Somebody made him do staff on the app.

关键在于你跟谁搭上了关系。

It's the connections you make.

如果没有好的身心状态，你什么都没有。

Without good mental and physical health, you have nothing.

它告诉我该怎么做饭，才能保持健康。

It tells me how to cook to keep myself healthy.

我看看

I look

打开我的应用，才发现今天走了七千步，真没想到。

at my app and I'm like, wow, didn't know I did 7,000 steps today.

Start Today 会根据你的现状来支持你。

Start Today meets you where you are.

现在就去苹果或安卓设备上下载 Start Today 健康应用吧。

Download the Start Today wellness app now on your Apple or Android device.

条款适用。

Terms apply.

详情请见应用内说明。

See app for details.

那些引起公众关注的严重暴力犯罪，听起来像电影情节，但最可怕的罪犯，有时就住在你隔壁。

Most violent crimes that capture the public's imagination seem larger than life, but sometimes the most terrifying criminals are right next door.

他一直在大喊大叫，意思就是他们杀了我儿子。

And he's just yelling, which translates to they killed my son.

在ID出品的《Fear Thy Neighbor》播客节目中，我们将深入探讨这些真实故事，听听当邻里纠纷发展到不可挽回的地步时，究竟会发生什么。

On the Fear Thy Neighbor podcast from ID, we'll explore these true stories and hear what happens when neighborly disputes reach the point of no return.

你

What do

想要什么？

you want?

就这些。

Just this.

在各大播客平台收听《Fear Thy Neighbor》。

Listen to fear thy neighbor wherever you get your podcasts.

大家好，我是威利·盖斯特，提醒大家去听听《周日对谈》播客。

Hey guys, Willie Geist here reminding you to check out the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

本周节目中，我和摇滚巨星米克·贾格尔聚首，聊聊滚石乐队的新专辑，以及他心目中乐队历年来的经典唱片。

On this week's episode, I get together with the biggest rock star of them all, Mick Jagger to talk about the Stones latest album and his favorite of the band's iconic records over all these years.

你现在就可以免费在任何播客平台收听我们的对话。

You can get our conversation now for free wherever you download your podcasts.

几个月后，他本打算参军，被派往圣地亚哥附近的海滨基地。

In just a few months, he planned to be on his way to the Marine Corps to be stationed by the beach near San Diego.

但如今，科迪·帕顿穿的不再是军装，而是一套红色连体服，他的‘岗位’变成了内华达州埃尔科的一间小牢房。

But now Cody Patton's uniform was a red jumpsuit At his station was a tiny jail cell in Elko, Nevada.

而在西温多弗的家乡，警方在一场新闻发布会上公布了令人震惊的消息。

Well, back home in West Wendover, the police made the shocking announcement at a press conference.

帕顿一直是西温多弗中小学的学生，直到被捕前一直在上学。

Patton has been enrolled as a student in the West Wendover junior senior high school and has been attending until the time of his arrest.

对此，他的同学们都感到难以置信。

To that, his classmates expressed a kind of universal disbelief.

科迪真的对米奇干了这种事？

Cody did this to Mickey?

这让我很生气，因为我们还缺太多信息。

It just makes me angry and that we don't have all the information.

知道她走了，大家都深受打击。

Knowing that she's gone is just really really hitting everybody hard.

我们的心情，根本找不到合适的词来形容。

There's no words that could explain what we're feeling.

我只想知道到底发生了什么，为什么会这样。

I just want to know what happened, why it happened.

对。

Yes.

学生和老师都承认，科迪在学校里确实有问题。

Students and teachers alike all acknowledge Cody had problems at the school.

他有时候会欺负人，让人感到害怕。

He could be a bully, sometimes intimidating.

但说他杀害了从小一起长大的朋友、人缘这么好的米琪，还如此残忍地袭击她，把她丢在沙漠里？

But to murder his childhood friend, the very popular Mickey, attack her so viciously and dump her in the desert?

那真的完全无法想象。

Well, that was that was unimaginable.

就连校长都震惊了。

Even the school principal was stunned.

科迪是我们认识的孩子，我们一直想多给他一些支持，希望他能顺利毕业。

Cody was a kid that we knew, and we were trying to give extra support as well so that he would hopefully graduate.

他一直梦想参军，做那些事情，所以我们一直努力帮他规划一个未来。

And he had dreams of going into the military and doing some of those things, so that was obviously our push to be able to help him have some type of future.

但这一切都白费了。

But it was all for naught.

科迪的未来，在他含泪认罪几小时后，就被检方以一级谋杀罪定了性。

Cody's some type of future was defined a few hours after his tearful confession when the DA charged him with open murder.

在内华达州，‘一级谋杀’这个指控相当于 homicide 案件的万能选项。

Open murder in Nevada is a kind of legal one stop shopping when it comes to homicide cases.

它让陪审团有选择的余地。

It would give the jury a choice.

他们可以判定他犯有一级谋杀、二级谋杀，或者过失杀人。

They could convict him of first degree murder or second degree murder or manslaughter.

检察官喜欢这个罪名，因为它通常能确保定罪。

Prosecutors like it because it can often ensure some kind of conviction.

但审判还得等上好几个月。

But the trial would be months and months away.

在陪审团见到科迪之前，还有很长的路要走。

There were miles to go before any jury would lay eyes on Cody.

与此同时，调查还得继续进行。

And meanwhile, more investigating was still needed.

还有很多疑点没理清。

There were lots of loose ends.

所以，在科迪认罪的第二天，麦金尼警探决定去监狱看看他。

So the day after Cody's confession, detective McKinney decided to stop by the jail and pay him a visit.

科迪看起来精疲力尽，情绪低落。

Cody looked exhausted, depressed.

这也不奇怪，现实终于开始压到他身上了。

Hardly surprising, reality was setting into a cell with him.

我们想弄清楚几件事。

There's a couple of things we wanted to clear up.

首先，麦金尼侦探想知道，科迪到底把米奇的衣服和其他随身物品藏哪儿了——那些没和尸体在一起的东西。

First, detective McKinney wanted to know exactly where did Cody stash Mickey's clothes and her other personal things, those that weren't with the body, that is.

他埋她的时候，她只穿了一半衣服。

He'd buried her half naked.

别忘了，科迪在供词里说，他把那些东西带到远离案发现场的地方烧掉了。

Remember, in his confession, Cody said he burned them somewhere away from the murder scene.

可具体在哪儿烧的？

But where?

科迪说，他把这些东西带到了州界外的犹他州，那儿有个大焚烧坑，当地孩子常去那儿生篝火。

Now Cody said he'd taken them over the state border to Utah to a big burn pit where the local kids often staged bonfires.

指望米奇的手机在火里幸存下来，或者她那个印着波点的背包，可能性恐怕太小了。

It was probably too much to hope that Mickey's cell phone survived the fire, that or the polka dot backpack she always carried.

那部手机能提供很多线索。

That cell phone could tell them a lot.

于是侦探就问了科迪这件事，但他对那个可怕的夜晚的这部分记忆已经很模糊了。

So the detective asked Cody about it, but he seemed to have only a vague recollection of that part of the awful night.

我最后一次见到她的手机，是放在她

The last time I saw her cell phone, it was all in her

口袋里的。

in her pocket.

不过我们在现场哪儿都没找到它。

Well, we didn't find it at the scene anywhere.

会不会是

Could it have

被扔到别处了？

got thrown out away from the scene somewhere?

我在努力回想。

I'm trying to think.

好吧。

Okay.

那现在呢？背包怎么样？

What now what about the backpack?

她来的时候带着背包吗？

Did she have it with her when she came?

是的。

Yeah.

我也把背包带过来了。

And I brought the backpack too.

它就在原来那个地方。

It was in the same spot.

麦金尼记下了这一点，因为他们很快就搜查过焚烧现场。

McKinney made a note of that, knowing they had searched the burn site soon.

又一次，科迪自己主动提供了更多对他不利的关键证据。

Once again, Cody himself had voluntarily provided more key evidence against himself.

明白了。

Alright.

谢谢你，科迪。

Thanks, Cody.

非常感谢。

Appreciate it.

希望你一切都好，好吧？

And I hope you're good, okay?

那是科迪最后一次和麦金尼警探说话，因为几天后，一名由州政府指派的律师来看他。

That would be the last time Cody ever spoke to detective McKinney, because a few days later, a state appointed attorney came to see him.

但这不是普通的公设辩护人。

But this wasn't just any public defender.

这位律师专门负责帮被控谋杀的人避免死刑。

This one specialized in keeping accused killers off death row.

他叫什么名字？

His name?

约翰·奥尔森。

John Olson.

这案子真难搞。

Tough case.

特别难搞的一个案子。

Real tough case.

奥尔森是一位声誉卓著的律师，背景非常出色。

Olson was a highly regarded attorney with an impressive pedigree.

斯坦福毕业，范德堡法学院出身。

Stanford grad, Vanderbilt law.

四十年职业生涯里，他处理过大约三四十起死刑案件。

He'd handled some three dozen death penalty cases during his forty year career.

但这个案子呢？

But this case?

这个案子跟以往任何一桩都不一样。

This case was unlike any other.

等我接手的时候，当局早就心里有数了。

By the time I got in the case, the authorities knew it.

他们已经有了确凿的证据，知道是谁干的。

They had the proof of whodunit.

唯一的问题是，他们打算怎么处置他。

Who And the only issue was what they were gonna do with him.

科迪不可能回家了。

Cody was not going home.

在那场和警方的面谈之后，他就不可能回家了。

After that interview with the police, he was not going home.

奥尔森六十多岁，一头银发，气场强大，思维敏锐。

Olson was in his sixties with silver hair, a commanding presence, a keen analytical mind.

我一开始考虑这个案子时，就在想该怎么阻止陪审团判他死刑。

When I first thought about it, I started thinking about how I was going to prevent a death verdict from being entered in the case.

死刑的判决似乎

And a death verdict seemed

有可能。

possible.

从检方的角度，理性来看，这确实是一个符合判处死刑的案件。

I I think it was from the prosecution point of view, from a rational point of view, it was a legitimate death penalty case.

任何陪审团听了大概都会认同。

And probably any jury would agree.

如果他们听到那些证据，了解到这位年轻女性被杀害后埋在沙漠里的经过，那真是令人难以承受。

If they heard the evidence presented and what had happened to this young woman being killed and buried in the desert, that's tough stuff.

是啊。

Yeah.

那确实太残酷了。

That that is tough stuff.

关键是受害者的身份。

It was the identity of the victim.

还有行凶手段的残忍程度。

It was the brutality of the killing.

再加上案件中一些照片所展现的强烈冲击力。

It was the poignancy of some of the photographs in the case.

这真让人心碎。

It would just break your heart.

这个案子中有大量令人难过的事实。

And there were a lot of tough facts on the case.

很多令人痛心的事实。

A lot of tough facts.

第一个棘手的事实就是科迪的供述。

And tough fact number one was Cody's confession.

他对此无能为力。

Nothing he could do about that.

要让他免于死刑监禁，恐怕很难。

Keeping him off death row could be difficult.

难怪奥尔森说这是个危险的案子。

No wonder Olsen called it a dangerous case.

我处理每一个案子时，都抱着要上庭面对陪审团的打算。

I approach every case with the thought that I'm gonna try it to a jury.

我接手案子后，一开始就按去打官司来准备，根本没考虑过认罪协商。

And I start preparing the case for trial without thought to a plea in the case.

你相信他做的那份供述吗？

Did you believe the confession that he had given?

我一般不会这么早下结论，因为客户通常会在后续提供更多信息，一开始说的未必可靠。

You know, I I like to reserve judgment on those things because he generally will get more information from a client later on than you will at the beginning.

所以那件事上，我一直保持观望。

So I I I think I held my water on that.

科迪说他动手杀人的时候心里到底怎么想的，只有老天知道了。

What Cody had in mind when he told him that he did the killing, god knows.

但约翰·奥尔森并不是唯一对科迪·帕顿的供述感到困惑的人。

But John Olsen wasn't the only one puzzled by Cody Patton's confession.

西温多弗很多人也都怀疑这供词的真实性，尤其是米基·科斯坦佐的家人，他们最不信。

A lot of people in West Wendover just weren't buying it, especially, of all people, Mickey Costanzo's family.

科迪的供述里，有些部分我觉得确实像他会做的事。

There's parts of Cody's confession that I can see it being Cody.