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In the criminal justice system,
sexually-based offenses
are considered especially heinous.
In New York City,
the dedicated detectives who investigate
these vicious felonies are members
of an elite squad known
as The Special Victims Unit.
These are their stories.
What's wrong?
Look at those.
Look at this!
I've been searching all over
The city for that pair of shoes.
I will buy them for you tomorrow.
We have to get here
when the store opens.
Wait a second.
Now what?
That's not a mannequin.
Oh, my god!
Who is it?
Robin Weller, 27
What he had his wallet
under his ***, too?
In the store room,
in his pants pocket
along with these keys.
One opens the front door.
He worked here?
Robin was the manager.
I got his name off from
phone list in the office.
I called the owner.
He closed the store 7 o'clock last night.
Robin left at five.
Maybe he forgot something, came back,
and brought the perp with him.
Or the perp showed up after
Robin was already inside.
And Robin must have known
him and let him in.
No forced entry.
He was shot right here,
execution style, small caliber weapon.
But there is no blood on any of his clothes
or anywhere else on him.
Perp cleaned him up,
this sponge was in the sink.
So we are thinking
that he was forced to strip,
sit in a chair, bounded with this wire,
and then shot.
How did he get in the display?
See those marks?
Perp dragged that chair
through the store
and lifted the body
into the window.
Guy's got a set on him,
doing it on full-view of the street.
I don't think anybody saw him,
those shades come
all the way down,
so they can change t
heir window dressing.
Gave him all the time
he need to stage the scene.
And write 'killer' in silver paint.
He went to a lot of trouble
to send the message.
If our dead guy is the killer,
who did he kill?
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The early bird catches the perp.
How're we doing?
Its gonna take weeks to rule out
the store employees and customers.
We got a busload of finger prints.
I doubt that killer left his,
the crime scene is
too much methodical.
Wires, shoes, lights that must've
taken at least an hour,
that's a long time to go
without slipping up
I don't think he did.
Every element of staging was
intentional and meaningful.
Ok, so what's up
with these shoes?
Well, they're all pointing at Robin as
if there is a crowd around watching one.
So you are saying, the perp staged
it like some kind of sick play?
Its theatrical, he wants the
attention as is if he is saying
"look at Robin",
we all stand in judgment of him.
- Tutuola
- Your perp is trying to tell the story.
To catch him, you gonna need to know
more about who Robin was.
We can ask his father, he's on his way
to the morgue to ID the body.
That's my son.
He looks so old.
He is not even 30.
When is the last time
you saw him?
Six or seven months ago.
You and him have a falling out.
Over his mother's death.
My wife passed away last year.
Robin and I disagreed about her care.
We need your permission
to search his apartment.
/ Of course.
Look, I'd like to go home and see
to the arrangements.
/ Sure.
His not going to be much help.
Guy's on a life time guilt trip.
Fights with his son
over his dying wife,
and never gets the chance
to say he is sorry.
You should take a look at this.
- I don't see anything.
- Hit the light.
No fluids or sign of *** trauma,
but check out his hand.
Green.
Looks like one of those stamps you get
when you go in and out of club.
Green Ballroom club is on 13th street,
not far from where Robin was killed.
If the stamp was more than a day old,
it would have washed off.
Looks like he went
there last night!
GREEN BALLROOM CLUB
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
Have you ever seen this guy?
Um, I don't recognize him,
but that doesn't mean anything.
We were packed last night,
a huge circuit party.
So everyone in the place was gay.
Not a lot of straight men feel
comfortable in that crowd.
We need to know
who was here last night.
We need to see your receipts, t
talk to your bouncers.
What time did they get in?
Um, seven, but I can help you now.
But, I thought you said
you didn't recognize him.
I don't, but no one gets
in here without ID.
We scanned them digitally
and store them.
Come on.
People say our business will fall off.
You know, big brother watching and all that.
But nobody really seems to care,
except the guys who are married.
There he is.
Robin Weller, line 71,
came in at 11:14 last night.
He may have come with friends,
we'll check names before and after.
System cost 11 grants.
We had put it in after we got hit selling
liquor to 15 year old girl.
Can you pull up
the photo on line 78?
Ken Randall.
You know him?
Yeah, I know him.
Dad!
What are you doing here?
I need to talk you about something.
I've got company.
Is your company a guy?
Yeh.
You're gay.
Yeh.
You gotta problem with that dad?
Thought so! That's why I never told you.
I gotta go.
He didn't know Robin Weller,
didn't recognize him from his picture.
Crime scene is on the way
to Robin's apartment.
/ Let's go.
You said you want to know
about the victim,
I've pulled photos and
emails off his computer.
Victim liked to party.
on Fire Island.
South Beach, Palm Springs,
P-Town, all gay hot spots.
Started young, too.
Look at this.
Palm Springs White party was just 17,
and then 5 years later,
looks like his 30.
Father was right,
he got old quick!
I think I know why.
Anyone found his medicine, yet?
Ritonavir,
this one's called Enfuvitide.
Enfuvitide is a new fusion inhibitor.
- Both are anti-retrovirals.
- Robin was *** positive.
He had AIDS.
His T-cell count was extremely low,
and his viral load was through the roof,
and he got it recently.
- How did you know?
- When I saw his blood work,
I had the health department
fax me his notification letter.
He tested *** positive six months ago!
Isn't that awfully fast
to get full blown AIDS?
Its unusual,
speaking of which,
I already got a phone call requesting
Robin's death certificate.
The body is not even cold,
who called?
An insurance company.
His father took out policy on him.
How much?
$500,000.
We checked your financials,
you don't have a nickel in the bank.
Your credit rating is down the toilet.
You're broke!
You think I murdered Robin
for insurance money?
Half-mil will solve
your cash flow problems.
You don't understand,
we spent all our money on him.
On a son, you don't speaking to?
Oh, that happened later.
When his mother was sick,
Robin came home.
- I hadn't seen him in years.
- Why?
When he was 16,
he told us he was gay.
I couldn't deal with it.
I kicked him out.
When he came back,
I barely recognized him.
He looked terrible.
I asked him what was wrong.
He said he had drug problem,
wanted to stop but he couldn't.
You tried to help him?
I spent our entire life
saving paying for his rehabs.
I couldn't even afford
proper funeral for my wife.
Robin never stayed clean
more than a few months.
I knew it was just matter of time
before he overdosed.
So while he was clean,
you took out insurance policy
to get your money back!
I knew Robin was going to die.
If it wasn't from drugs,
it would be AIDS,
- or that boyfriend of his.
- They had violent relationship?
Last time, I spoke to Robin,
he called from the emergency room.
Crying, the guy had beat him up!
You know the boy friend's name?
Lydon Grant.
LOFT OF LYDON GRAN MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
You sure, this is ok?
Come on man, lets go.
No one home.
Oh, looks like a snow storm in here,
what the hell happen?
Fin!
Killer!
Single gun shot to the head,
entry wound small bore.
Just like Robin Weller.
Same theatrics, same perp.
How long his been dead?
Still warm, just going into rigor.
I'll say no more than 8 hours.
It wasn't a snow globe
that got busted in here.
Crystal?
Sex drug of choice.
That took a lot of crank
to blanket Lydon's loft.
Worth hell of a lot in the street.
You think, the murders were
about ***?
Well, we know that Robin
and Lydon were lovers,
its even money.
If Lydon used, so the Robin.
Explains the rehab, and
why Robin looks so much older.
I mean, *** ages you fast!
And it makes you violent,
and paranoid.
Could be they both got
high one night,
and killed somebody,
and this is just payback.
But it doesn't scan.
We talked to family, friends, colleagues.
These guys were well-liked,
there is no criminal records.
Crystal can change all that.
Lydon had methane in his blood stream
when he was shot!
But he wouldn't just using.
Nobody keeps that much
around unless dealing.
If his drug dealers,
it could a turf war.
It means our perp could be
another dealer.
Lets find out if Narcotics
has Lydon on their radar.
NARCOTICS TASK FORCE
SQUADROOM
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
We got nothing in the system
on this Robin Weller.
And this guy, Lydon Grant,
he is just the blip from the screen.
Low level *** dealer,
don't have much on him.
- Where's your intel come from?
- Wire tap, last year.
We were up on the cellular phone
that belong to a runner for MKS.
MKS? / Manhattan Killer Squad,
violent drug gang.
Oh, we have two homicides.
The perp painted killer on a side of wall.
MKS ever used that as their attack?
Not that I have seen, but its possible.
These kids are savages.
- And the crystal ***?
- Big time!
They killed their way into control
of the big chunk of the market.
- cooking it?
- Heisting it.
They look for gay men,
who're heavy users,
beat them half to deaths,
steal their drugs,
and they sell it back
to their gay dealers.
So, circuit party is like one stop shopping,
users and dealers.
Gang *** inside of MKS?
Had an informant,
surfaced in the east river.
Haven't found the right
replacement for him, yet.
MKS crew's mostly young
white psychos from suburbs.
- Psycho enough to kill a dealer?
- Oh, I wouldn't put it past them.
if MKS has your victim, there will
be chatter on the circuit.
Gay kids in the club scene
know what's going on.
Thank you for meeting me.
- Carrying water for my father?
- No, he doesn't know that I'm here.
We are working on a homicide
that may be connected to circuit parties.
So lets talk to the token gay guy?
What do you want?
Ever hear of MKS?
Bunch of little freaks
from the island,
they hit the clubs,
act like they're into the scene.
But they are not gay?
More like *** bashers.
MKS kid goes into the party,
spots the guy holding ***,
lures him outside.
Where the rest of his crew
is waiting to roll him?
They beat the crap out of him,
take his stash.
Have you ever been hurt?
I'm not into ***.
Fin probably thinks I am.
Another reason to hate me.
- Your dad doesn't hate you.
- Dad doesn't know me.
Why don't you give him sometime?
Look, you want to know about MKS?
There is a party tonight.
At a club called, Euphoria.
A lot of people will be tweaking,
dealers would be there.
"*** equals death! *** equals death!"
"*** equals death! *** equals death!"
What's happening up there?
Some kind of protest.
Those guys don't look like MKS.
I'm mean nothing going down
with all this drama out here.
Club people must have same idea,
they are opening the rear fire door
so people don't have to go
through the protest.
Captain, check out the guy
in white shirt!
"*** equals death! *** equals death!"
Play it safe,
here's your protection.
Go away man!,
leave me alone.
Hey, sweetheart!
You lonely tonight?
black shirt, blue jeans,
hustling a guy in a gray sweater.
Looks like he can be MKS.
It could be just go in for quickie.
Fin, check him out.
- Its going down!
- All units hit Courtland allay.
Police, stay where you are!
Don't move!
Captain,
- check that out! Killer!
- Come on.
Hey, Killer, You get that tattoo
for off somebody? / Its my posse.
Manhattan Killer squad,
they call you killer? / No.
King Henry.
- King of what?
- Garden City, Long island?
Henry Finello, possession seven,
grand theft auto, assault.
Oh, just turned 18,
three weeks ago.
Happy birthday,
you are an adult.
No more calling daddy,
no more juvee time.
I'll make bail before that
*** gets out of the hospital.
Who's calling who a ***?
You're gay doll must be jam.
Yeah, you may be just
too scared to come out.
- I'm not ***.
- You're on the circuit.
That is until we put you
in jail for ***.
***?
Yo, I never saw them.
Yes, you did.
You killed them.
You wrote your name right there.
You think I wrack those ***?
I ripped them off, that's it!
Why do you target gay men?
They're easy marks.
Don't call the cops
when they get jumped.
Don't want anyone to know about their
freaky sex lives, and their *** joints.
Killer, your tag, your crime.
I swear I didn't do it.
I didn't kill no one.
Can I talk to you two for a minute.
- I think I know what killer means.
- Yeah, him.
Doc doesn't think so.
Lydon Grant had AIDS
just like Robin Weller.
Oh, that's not a surprise,
they were lovers.
They both had same strain of ***,
so called Killer Strain.
Progresses from infection
to death less than a year.
Resistance to most drugs.
First time, I ever seen it.
If Robin and Lydon had
unprotected sex with anyone else,
they could have infected
their partners.
Making them both killers.
Well, this could be revenge,
somebody who knew both Robin
and Lydon had new strain of ***.
Maybe *** partner,
one of them infected.
Or vigilante wiping out *** victims.
Specifically, crystal methane
users who are gay.
The whole country swimming in crank.
Why just kill gay men?
Because after years of keeping
*** in check,
*** has causing an increase in new infections.
Especially, among gay men
in club scene.
They call it PNP, party and play.
When you are tweaking on ***,
you can have sex for hours,
but you are high so you're
not likely to use ***.
And much more likely to spread ***.
Then why the perp tricked out the victims,
that just calls more attention to himself?
The guy is desperate.
He wants people to wake up,
and to pay attention to the danger.
But how did our perp know
the Lydon and Robin had ***?
This is not something you advertise.
it had to be a mutual friend,
or someone like doctor or
health care worker who knew
they were both infected.
As soon as tested positive,
they have to submit a list of their ***
contacts to the health department.
NEW YORK CITY
HEALTH DEPARTMEN COMPUTER CENTER
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
I can't discuss anyone's *** status.
Its not a discussion.
Its homicide investigation.
Department policy.
/ Look, sir!
Someone in this office could be
killing people with AIDS.
You don't help us,
we subpoena your records,
and bust you for obstruction.
Look, you didn't hear this from me.
They said don't talk about it.
Don't talk about what?
Our computers were hacked.
Somebody got the names
of people with ***.
It happened in the Florida, too.
Shouldn't you tell the public?
Our files are encrypted.
Hacker won't be able
to read the list.
We need those names.
We're reconstructing the files,
there were damaged when he copied.
He? You know who did this.
We can't prove it,
but our overnight supervisor
caught a janitor sitting at
a computer terminal.
What's the janitor's name?
Gabriel Thomason.
We fired him.
You wouldn't happen
to know where he lives.
No, but I can tell you
where he spends his time.
Wouldn't stop talking about some
AIDS group, called the 'Rainbow Army'.
We are looking for Gabriel Thomason.
Hey, Gabe! Got some folks
here to see you.
I'm Gabriel Thomason.
Can I help you?
Detective Benson, Tutuola.
Saw you last night
at a club Euphoria.
I had permit for the protest.
Yeah, where did you go afterwards?
I hit a couple of clubs
to look for condoms.
What's the matter with drug store?
I was checking on their supply.
There was a time when all the clubs
have bowls of free condoms.
So now, you run the condoms patrol,
since you got fired
from your janitor gig.
That was a misunderstanding.
We heard you hacked
the Health Department's computer.
Yeah, What were you looking for?
Yeah, actually, I was checking my e-mail.
Typical, right? Have a problem,
blame it on the *** janitor.
He's gonna stick to that story,
we can't prove it otherwise.
He knows we can't nail him.
I bet my paycheck, he got that list.
Maybe we should talk to somebody
at the gay officer's league.
Have a cop go undercover
inside the Rainbow Army.
Gabriel's already raised up,
he smelled a rat.
So where to next?
I'm gonna drop you off at the squad.
I got a stop to make.
- Informant?
- Maybe.
- I gotta go dad.
- I just need a minute.
I made enough mistake
with you already.
I'm not trying to do it, again.
Come on, man.
I'm working on a case.
The one Olivia told me about,
what the circuit parties?
She talked to you?
Yeah, about MKS.
I want to show you picture
of dead guy, can I do that? / Yeah.
Why killer?
Victim had new killer strain of ***.
Can't scare me out of being gay.
I'm not trying to.
Then why ask me about the case?
Ok, this guy was murdered
after he came out of
Green Ballroom club
the night you were there.
That's how you found
out about me.
It's all over the circuit
about these two guys.
I heard about this.
You ever heard
about the Rainbow Army?
See their flyers everywhere.
They do good work.
- You think they're involved?
- It's possible.
They're trying to help gay men,
not kill them.
Well, somebody is killing these guys,
and we don't find them,
I guarantee he's gonna kill more.
You telling me this because I'm gay,
and you want me to be careful?
- Yes, and also need a favor.
- Okay.
You still majoring in computer science?
RAINBOW ARMY
STOREFRON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
You know, I don't have classes
on Tuesday.
I could come every week.
Good, we do a lot of demonstrations.
So your parents have gonna problem
if you get arrested?
Ah, they would be proud of me.
There is this one dude,
his family can deal with him being gay.
But they hated it when
he wound up in the papers.
"You gotta be so public about it,
the whole world's gotta know"
Right, what would
the neighbors think?
Yeah, they��re more worried about
- that than their own kids.
- Hey, how is it going?
The glasses cam works great.
Whose Ken talking to?
His name is Jason,
office manager.
- Hey Jason.
- Hey, Gabriel
- Jason,This is your man?
- Ken Randall, Gabriel Thomason
There is our friend.
Jason told me all about you.
- Not much to tell.
- Well, we're glad to have you.
You know, we need
all the help we can get.
Seeing guys get sick
for being stupid,
makes me wanna do something.
Good, do you want to come
inside for a second?
- Sure.
- You good?
So Jason tells me
you're computer science major?
Thinking about software engineering,
unless I go premed.
But you're good with computers.
That's what my professors say.
Your fish just bit the hook
Not yet, he's still sniffing the bait.
I can teach you,
I think you guys do great work.
Good.
Well, actually, um,
I got a little software problem.
- What kind?
- Its a file, I can't open.
- Come to you by e-mail?
- Its on a disk.
From a different operating system?
You lost me.
Windows, Mac, Unix?
You go from one to another,
stuff gets garbled.
Well, if I just give you the disk,
you think you can open it?
I'll try.
There you go.
There is a better chance, I'll be able
to open this on my setup at home.
All right, well, just take it,
make sure I get it back
What's the file you need to open?
- It's the list of name.
- Got him.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
RESPONSE UNI ONE POLICE PLAZA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Theoretically, encryption is built
into a system
with its own encoding key,
but Gabriel corrupted the file.
When it wouldn't open,
he saved in another format.
- Is it compressed?
- I don't think so.
Maybe its a UUE extension
or something like that.
I'll try that.
There you go.
What do you think dad,
not bad, um?
That looks like our list.
Gabriel needs the list, why?
To warn men or to kill them?
He wants to stop this spread
of killer *** strain,
he might kill anyone who's infected.
Then we canvass everybody
on that list,
and anybody who slept
with Lydon Grant or Robin Weller.
Wait a minute.
Gabriel's last name is Thomason.
One of the name on Robin's list is
Alexander Thomason, age 23.
Died three months ago.
Before that he lived
at 458 West 10th street, apartment 3B.
That's Gabriel's address.
Alex Thomason is his younger brother.
I know a couple of families
with two gay kids.
If Alex and Gabriel were close
Gives Gabriel mondo motive
to *** Lydon and Robin.
And let the whole world know
they were killers.
But why the Health Department list?
He already revenged
his brother's death.
Gabriel wanted to know
who infected Lydon.
It's a chain, he's working
his way backwards.
Go pick Gabriel up
before he finds his next victim.
"*** equals death! *** equals death!"
"*** equals death! *** equals death!"
Gabriel Thomason!
We're busy, detectives,
I can speak with you at the office tomorrow.
Put the sign down, please.
This is a peaceful protest,
but she is gonna arrest me.
And what are the charges?
Loitering while gay?
No, homicide
Gabriel Thomason,
you are under arrest for murders
of Robin Weller, and Lydon Grant.
You have right to remain silent,
anything you say can and will be used
against you in the court of law.
I admit it.
I killed Robin and Lydon.
But what are two lives compared
to the thousands
that could be lost if the super strain
becomes an epidemic?
So you are confessing to ***?
What choice do I have?
They are high on ***, having sex
with each other night after night,
exposing their partners
who would infect their next partners?
Just like they infected your brother?
Alex always used a ***.
Got tested regularly.
Until Robin Weller got him
hooked on crystal ***.
I saw Robin at the club that night.
He was so high,
he didn't remember me.
I came onto him.
He took me back to the shoe store,
he was expecting sex.
He killed my brother,
I killed him.
So you play God,
decide who lives and who dies.
Its called Messiah complex.
Gabriel believes that
he can see things
no one else can see,
like a prophet.
/ So he's insane.
No, he knows
that it's wrong to kill,
he just feels justified in his action.
Then why was he so careful
not to get caught?
Because he still has work to do.
Killing for the cause.
He believes in what he is doing,
that's why he confessed.
And the defense will argue
extreme emotional disturbance,
Gabriel was driven temporally insane
by grief over his brother's death.
You really think that I'm
that predictable? Casey?
Oh, you are too late, Carolyn.
Your client gave it up.
- Did he?
- Mm-hmm.
Doesn't matter.
Gabriel won't serve a day in prison.
How you gonna pull that off?
You really expect me
to give you all my secrets.
See you at arraignment.
Docket ending 497.
We will hear a plea, Miss.
Maddox.
Not guilty.
The defense can't argue
diminished capacity.
Gabriel Thomason clearly
stated in his confession
that he knew what he was doing
and he knew it was wrong.
We're not arguing EED.
Your honor, the plea is self-defense
under the accepted theories
of imminent harm and greater danger.
Self-defense?
Robin Weller was tied to a chair
and shot point blank in the head.
How could he have posed a risk
to Gabriel Thomason?
Robin Weller and Lydon Grant
were the carriers of lethal virus.
But Gabriel wasn't having
sex with them.
He was never in danger.
Two men with ***, having
drug fueled, compulsive sex
puts other gay men in danger.
My client was defending
the entire gay community
from two men whose *** behavior
threatened thousands.
Your honor, this is ludicrous.
It's an interesting argument.
I'm not sure it'll work,
but the jury should hear it.
I'm gonna allow the defense.
TRIAL PART 46
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11
At the Centers for Disease Control,
we monitor *** exposure patterns.
Then you must be very concerned
about this new strain of ***.
It may be more lethal than anything
we've seen in history of this epidemic.
What does CDC recommend we do?
Notify the public, increase education,
and preventive measures.
Some people are proposing
more radical solutions.
like what? / Prosecuting people,
who knowingly infect their partners
or making them bear a part
of the cost of their medical treatment.
How about killing people
who have the virus?
Certainly not.
Killing is obviously not the answer.
Thank you, your witness.
Dr.
Sloan, is there any treatment
for this new strain of ***?
It's resistant to most drug therapies.
We are trying to develop new treatments.
The virus has mutated, changed
to fight off our attempts to kill it.
If it spreads further,
we may not be able to stop it, ever.
So you're saying those
infected will die quickly.
Yes, I believe we might be
on the verge of disaster,
- a new world wide pandemic.
- So what can we do?
Test everyone and quarantine those
with *** to a desert island?
Back in the 90s, the New York City Health
Department established detention centers
for people with TB
who refused take their medicine.
Sounds like a good way
to protect the public,
why haven't you tried that?
The law doesn't allow us
to quarantine people with ***.
So those infected with this new strain
can keep on having unprotected sex,
and spreading this virus?
Yes, we have no way to stop them.
Thank you.
I came of age hearing about
how so many gay men died.
In the 80s when there was no treatment.
And now it's happening again
because of crystal ***.
How does that make you feel?
Lonely, afraid, hopeless.
How do you deal with that?
By trying to make difference,
teaching young gay men
to protect themselves.
I joined Rainbow Army to bring
the message to the circuit.
Have you efforts been successful?
I couldn't save my own brother.
Alex tested positive last year,
and he died 5 month later.
After the funeral, I read his diaries.
I made a list of people who he slept with.
Why?
So I can tell them to be tested.
Was Robin Weller,
one of men you talked to?
Yes.
He told me that
he had killer strain, too.
That it was positive
before he had sex with my brother,
that he knew, he didn't tell Alex,
and he infected him.
And that made you angry?
Yes, and I saw Robin at the clubs
picking up young guys.
I tried to warn them,
but they were high on ***,
they wouldn't listen.
I couldn't save them.
Robin was gonna *** them,
just like he murdered my brother.
That's why you killed the two men
responsible for Alex's death?
Oh, I had to protect the other men
they would have infected,
and all the men
they would have infected.
Gabriel, do you think
you did the right thing?
I do.
By stopping two lives,
I saved thousands more.
Thank you.
Stopping two lives,
that's some pretty fancy gift wrapping.
You murdered two men, didn't you?
Yes, but they could have murdered
thousands of innocent others.
Oh, like your brother?
You think Alex was innocent?
Of course.
Your brother wasn't ***.
He chose to have sex without a ***.
You blaming him?
You heard Dr.
Sloan testify about
the need for personal responsibility.
Robin Weller wasn't behaving responsibly,
but neither was your brother.
Oh, Alex, um Alex did not know any better.
He was young.
- He was high.
- So was Robin Weller.
You blame one, you blame both.
What if Alex hadn't died?
What if He had gone
on using *** and partying?
He could've infected others,
would you have stopped his life?
Answer the question!
Would you have killed
your own brother?
There are no mysteries here,
two people are dead.
Gabriel Thomason has told you that
he shot and killed them both,
and why he did it.
In 1981, 41 gay men were diagnosed
with rare form of cancer
no doctors that ever seen before.
Now, 40 million people are
infected with ***.
Gay and Straight.
And we keep hoping
that they'll do something
about it before its too late,
and no one does.
That's why Gabriel Thomason took
matters into his own hand.
Robin Weller and Lydon Grant
infected dozens of men.
And could have infected hundreds,
if their drug and sex binge continued.
They were terrorists.
Let me put it to you this way.
You walk out of here tonight,
and on the courthouse steps
Osama Vin Laden holding a dirty bomb.
Everything you know about this men
tells you that he will detonate it,
and turn Manhattan
into a nuclear waste land,
you've got a gun.
Would you shoot him to save city?
Desperate times require
desperate measures.
Gabriel Thomason did
what he had to do to save innocent lives.
Now, its your turn.
Do what you have to do,
find them not guilty.
Millions dying of AIDS isn't
an unimaginable tragedy.
But does that mean that two more death,
two murders, don't matter?
The defense argues that
these murders were justifiable,
because they prevented future death.
It might sound rational,
but consider this.
Tobacco executives,
they make cigarettes.
And hundreds of thousands of people
who smoke die of lung cancer.
Would it be all right to ***
the tobacco CEOs?
You think that two situations
aren't the same, think it again.
People who smoke,
they know the risks,
and they choose
to smoke despite them.
Just like people
who choose to get high,
and have sex without a ***.
Don't blame the victims.
Gabriel Thomason broke the law.
He killed two men.
He knew what he was doing,
and he knew it was wrong.
You must hold him responsible.
Two to one, he walks.
I wouldn't take those odds
on a double homicides,
Safe money, 25 to life.
You didn't see Gabriel on the stand.
When he cried, the jury believed him.
No, they didn't.
Guilty.
*** two, both counts.
I guess jury didn't buy his tears.
Sentencing report will ask for the max,
consecutive, Gabriel gets fifty to life.
Judge could still drop it down.
Not after she hears
Robin Weller's father.
He's looking for revenge,
she'll give to him.
SENTENSING HEARING
PART 46
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13
Your honor, Robin Weller's father
would like to make a statement
before you sentence
Gabriel Thomason.
Step up Mr.
Weller.
I miss my son.
I miss him everyday.
There were years
when we didn't speak.
When I was so angry at him
for his life, for his behavior.
But now I regret that.
It's painful everyday.
But the last six months,
I missed him the most
because he wasn't my son anymore.
He had been taken over
by his addiction,
and the Robin I knew was gone.
I don't know how many people
Robin infected,
or how many more he
would've infected, if he'd lived.
I don't approve of what Gabriel did,
but I understand why he did it.
I didn't think I'd feel this way.
I thought I'd want revenge.
Please, don't punish him
too severely.
Thank you,
the court appreciates your statement.
Hi, I couldn't stay and listen.
How much time Gabriel get?
Would gotten a lot more,
if you had't spoken up.
I did so many things wrong with Robin.
Sure you did the best you could.
The night he told me he was gay,
I told him I wished he was dead.
I give anything to have
another chance with my son.
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