WEBVTT 00:07.465 --> 00:09.467 [helicopter whirring] 00:25.275 --> 00:27.277 [ambient traffic sounds] 00:27.360 --> 00:29.362 [vehicle accelerating] 00:40.707 --> 00:43.960 [man] I got a call from somebody over at my dad's office. 00:44.044 --> 00:47.547 They said, "There's something going on up at Bradbury." 00:47.630 --> 00:48.923 "But we don't know what it is." 00:49.007 --> 00:52.343 And so I jumped in the car and started going up to Bradbury. 00:52.427 --> 00:54.804 And, um, a cop stopped me. 00:54.888 --> 00:58.016 They said, "Who are you? We're not letting anybody go through." 00:58.099 --> 01:00.685 I said, "I'm Danny Thompson, Mickey Thompson's son." 01:00.769 --> 01:06.232 And the cop, I just saw it in his eyes, you know, 'cause they knew. 01:06.316 --> 01:08.485 And I went, "Ah, fuck." 01:08.568 --> 01:10.153 You didn't believe it. 01:10.236 --> 01:13.656 That was my dad. You couldn't kill him. He was untouchable. 01:13.740 --> 01:17.285 Race car driver Mickey Thompson and his wife were murdered 01:17.368 --> 01:19.370 in their driveway in a posh suburb of LA. 01:19.454 --> 01:22.999 Mrs. Thompson and Mr. Thompson were shot several times in the upper torso. 01:23.083 --> 01:25.543 [reporter] The ambush murders of Thompson and his wife Trudy 01:25.627 --> 01:28.254 in the driveway of the couple's Bradbury home… 01:28.338 --> 01:31.674 Police are calling it one of the most mysterious celebrity murders. 01:31.758 --> 01:34.636 It's an extent of evil that we hope we don't see. 01:34.719 --> 01:40.016 Mickey Thompson was beloved by everyone. He had no enemies, save one. 01:42.185 --> 01:43.937 [suspenseful music playing] 01:44.020 --> 01:46.856 [Tomlin] The LA County Sheriff's Department 01:46.940 --> 01:48.608 is the best of the best. 01:52.654 --> 01:55.824 [Jackson] Some of the highest-profile cases are tried in Los Angeles. 01:58.701 --> 02:01.871 [woman] You have to be dedicated 110%. 02:04.707 --> 02:07.627 [Lillienfeld] This is murder. There's no more serious crime. 02:09.712 --> 02:14.634 [man] It boils down to a passion and a sense of duty. 02:16.970 --> 02:19.264 Justice comes from finding the truth. 02:20.056 --> 02:22.058 [suspenseful music trailing off] 02:24.435 --> 02:26.855 [ambient traffic sounds] 02:30.650 --> 02:34.445 [man 1] One of the things about Los Angeles, it's huge. 02:35.113 --> 02:37.115 And to get around, is there mass transit? 02:37.198 --> 02:38.741 No! You have to drive. 02:40.368 --> 02:42.120 [Jackson] People love cars in Los Angeles. 02:42.203 --> 02:46.791 It's a huge area for car lovers to display their wares. 02:47.500 --> 02:52.213 Back in the '80s in Los Angeles, street racing, it was its own culture, 02:52.297 --> 02:55.466 from drag racing, to motocross, to off-road. 02:55.967 --> 02:58.553 And being into cars back then, 02:58.636 --> 03:01.389 I knew that Mickey Thompson was a legend. 03:01.472 --> 03:03.308 [rowdy rock music playing] 03:05.935 --> 03:08.396 [reporter 1] Thompson was always known as an innovator, 03:08.980 --> 03:12.984 a maverick car builder, and a driver that had to win. 03:13.067 --> 03:17.780 [reporter 2] The fastest man on wheels… Mickey Thompson. 03:18.364 --> 03:21.743 [emcee] See international speed kings in action. Mickey Thompson. 03:21.826 --> 03:24.787 [reporter 3] He has competed in every form of automobile racing. 03:25.413 --> 03:29.834 I think, at one time, my dad had over 370 records. 03:30.752 --> 03:33.504 But the one that put him on the map was 03:33.588 --> 03:36.799 when he was the first American to go over 400 miles an hour. 03:36.883 --> 03:37.800 [engine purring] 03:40.011 --> 03:44.891 His top speed, 406.6 miles an hour, 03:44.974 --> 03:46.976 a record for the one-way run. 03:49.270 --> 03:52.065 [man 2] Mickey Thompson was not just a winner, 03:52.148 --> 03:54.108 and not somebody who was just interested in cars. 03:54.192 --> 03:55.652 He was a promoter. 03:56.152 --> 03:59.530 He was the guy that basically invented indoor stadium racing. 04:00.114 --> 04:03.701 We now put on what's called "short course racing." 04:03.785 --> 04:06.746 We put it on in football fields, baseball fields, 04:06.829 --> 04:08.206 inside domes, any place. 04:08.289 --> 04:09.999 [commentator] Thompson taking the win! 04:11.918 --> 04:14.128 [reporter 4] Mickey's son Danny has also decided 04:14.212 --> 04:17.006 to dedicate his future to automobile racing. 04:17.090 --> 04:19.592 I was racing full-time in my dad's series. 04:19.676 --> 04:23.680 We'd fill these stadiums up. It was, I mean, incredible. 04:23.763 --> 04:25.765 [rowdy rock music continuing] 04:29.894 --> 04:31.646 [reporter 5] Thompson's own son took part, 04:31.729 --> 04:34.774 and his wife Trudy was also involved in promoting the event. 04:34.857 --> 04:37.777 I like to be close to him, and I like to do what he's doing, 04:37.860 --> 04:38.736 and I like to go fast. 04:39.320 --> 04:42.699 And I'm gonna be around for a long time driving race cars. 04:42.782 --> 04:45.326 And I'm gonna win a lot more races. 04:47.704 --> 04:50.456 [tense, quizzical music playing] 04:55.378 --> 04:58.006 I got a call early in the morning. 04:58.089 --> 05:01.509 They said, "Know who Mickey Thompson is?" I said, "Yeah. Sure." 05:01.592 --> 05:05.888 He says, "He and his wife, it appears, have been shot in front of their house, 05:05.972 --> 05:07.348 and you're rolling to assist." 05:09.100 --> 05:13.563 And we had the queen of our lab, Liz Devine. 05:13.646 --> 05:17.650 She's brilliant, and everybody always wanted her on your crime scene. 05:17.734 --> 05:23.406 I love going out. So I put on my jumpsuit and grabbed my kit and went out there. 05:24.073 --> 05:26.659 At the time of this case, I was a senior criminalist 05:26.743 --> 05:29.370 for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. 05:29.454 --> 05:33.458 We met and drove up to Bradbury Estates. 05:35.793 --> 05:39.505 Bradbury Estates is an upscale housing area 05:39.589 --> 05:42.717 that is… is a gated community. 05:43.593 --> 05:45.011 My daughter Juliana, 05:45.094 --> 05:49.807 she was taking horseback riding lessons in Bradbury Estates. 05:50.308 --> 05:53.102 Every time I went there, I had to show ID, 05:53.186 --> 05:57.857 I had to show permission from the stable owner just to get in. 05:57.940 --> 05:59.734 And I couldn't fathom, 05:59.817 --> 06:04.155 "How could somebody get in there to kill Mickey Thompson and his wife?" 06:05.365 --> 06:10.578 Driving up, it was obvious that this was a huge case. 06:11.871 --> 06:15.249 I've never seen so many cameras in one place in my life. 06:18.378 --> 06:21.130 Obviously, it's a very nice house. 06:21.214 --> 06:23.424 It's a very wide driveway. 06:24.884 --> 06:30.264 Mickey's wife Trudy was laid out at the bottom of the sloping driveway. 06:30.348 --> 06:31.641 And she had been shot, 06:31.724 --> 06:33.976 and blood was running down into the gutter. 06:35.853 --> 06:40.066 And Mickey Thompson is now laying up by the garage, which is on the top. 06:41.067 --> 06:42.944 He has been shot in the body. 06:43.528 --> 06:45.655 He had also been shot in the head. 06:45.738 --> 06:47.365 They shot her in the head too. 06:48.366 --> 06:52.578 We're going around and talking to people, and we talk to some of the witnesses. 06:54.122 --> 06:55.998 Uh, we heard a series of shots. 06:56.082 --> 07:01.295 All of a sudden, there was a period of about 10 or 15 seconds of silence. 07:01.379 --> 07:06.134 Then I heard Mickey Thompson yelling, "Don't hurt my wife! Don't hurt my wife!" 07:06.217 --> 07:10.263 And the next thing we heard is another series of shots and then silence. 07:13.141 --> 07:17.311 Well, Dr. Johnson, he lived behind Mickey and Trudy, 07:17.395 --> 07:20.064 and when he heard gunshots, 07:21.482 --> 07:22.400 and he looked out, 07:22.483 --> 07:27.738 he sees the bicycles going down Woodlyn Lane. 07:28.573 --> 07:33.286 Dr. Johnson saw two young Black men on ten-speeds. 07:33.369 --> 07:36.247 I mean, that was obviously a route of escape. 07:36.914 --> 07:42.295 Dr. Johnson also said that Mickey Thompson, he had a routine down. 07:42.795 --> 07:48.759 At six o'clock every morning, they would leave their house in Bradbury 07:48.843 --> 07:52.555 and drive all the way to Anaheim Stadium, where their office was. 07:52.638 --> 07:56.601 They used a van, and Trudy would generally drive. 07:56.684 --> 07:57.810 She would back it out. 07:57.894 --> 08:01.230 He would then lower the door, get in, and they would drive to work. 08:02.064 --> 08:04.525 [Bowers] We know that there's two men on bicycles, 08:04.609 --> 08:06.486 who we assume are the shooters, 08:06.569 --> 08:08.029 but what was their purpose? 08:08.112 --> 08:09.572 Now, it could be a robbery, 08:09.655 --> 08:14.410 but when the detectives started checking the van that Trudy was driving, 08:14.494 --> 08:18.080 it was full of jewelry, very expensive jewelry, 08:18.581 --> 08:22.877 and Mickey, he had several thousand dollars in his wallet. 08:22.960 --> 08:24.962 It wasn't taken, wasn't touched. 08:25.046 --> 08:28.424 Obvious stuff is right on the seat, and they didn't grab it? 08:28.508 --> 08:29.926 That makes no sense. 08:32.845 --> 08:35.681 And then the neighbor heard 08:35.765 --> 08:38.684 Mickey call out to Trudy, 08:38.768 --> 08:41.979 and that they went after her first. 08:42.813 --> 08:45.691 If this was a robbery, they never kill the woman first. 08:45.775 --> 08:48.069 They always kill the man first. 08:48.152 --> 08:49.570 He's a big guy. 08:49.654 --> 08:52.114 Absolutely illogical. 08:52.198 --> 08:54.200 [somber, pensive music playing] 08:54.283 --> 08:56.327 Trudy was down on the ground. 08:56.410 --> 08:59.080 There were fingernails broken off. 09:00.248 --> 09:02.750 I mean, I just felt like she was driving. 09:02.833 --> 09:05.044 They shot through the window at her. 09:05.127 --> 09:07.797 I think she was running away and not fighting. 09:09.757 --> 09:13.970 And, Mickey, you know, he was turned toward her. 09:15.012 --> 09:16.055 And it just… 09:20.142 --> 09:21.310 broke my heart. 09:22.853 --> 09:24.313 It's the cruelest thing. 09:25.147 --> 09:27.108 [light, inquisitive music playing] 09:27.191 --> 09:30.486 [Verdugo] Everybody is telling us Mickey loved Trudy. 09:30.569 --> 09:32.613 He was totally devoted to her, 09:32.697 --> 09:35.116 and he was just madly in love with her. 09:35.700 --> 09:38.953 My dad and Trudy, when they got married, it was a big deal. 09:39.453 --> 09:41.872 She had a great personality, very jovial, 09:41.956 --> 09:44.041 and they had a great relationship. 09:44.542 --> 09:46.711 They were a really good team working together. 09:47.503 --> 09:48.963 [man] They were a good match 09:49.046 --> 09:51.716 in the same way that a chord is a good chord. 09:51.799 --> 09:54.051 They were very, very different, 09:54.593 --> 09:58.347 but it worked in… in amazing ways. 09:59.473 --> 10:03.102 My Aunt Trudy was an important part of my life. 10:04.437 --> 10:07.481 Trudy had grace, kindness, and love. 10:07.565 --> 10:11.027 She was the one who made people feel that they were appreciated. 10:12.737 --> 10:14.739 [suspenseful, erratic music playing] 10:19.076 --> 10:21.370 [Devine] The entire crime scene was outside, 10:21.454 --> 10:25.124 but I was really trying to be observant and look at what is out of place. 10:29.712 --> 10:33.382 We went into this office that was off the garage. 10:36.385 --> 10:41.223 And out of the corner of my eye, I see somebody in there, 10:41.807 --> 10:43.392 and I screamed. 10:43.476 --> 10:45.478 [eerie music playing] 10:46.312 --> 10:49.482 Now, of course, the deputies come running in. Rey was there. 10:50.191 --> 10:56.822 And it was a full-size mannequin of Mickey Thompson in his racing suit. 10:58.282 --> 11:00.242 And, um, I was so embarrassed. 11:00.326 --> 11:03.329 We were all laughing, but I… 11:03.412 --> 11:07.041 You know, it was a light moment. Another… like, needed light moment. 11:07.124 --> 11:09.752 You have to lighten the air or… I don't know. 11:09.835 --> 11:13.047 You have to laugh so you don't cry. You just have to. 11:13.130 --> 11:17.885 Then you go, "Okay, this is my job. I gotta get back out there." 11:18.594 --> 11:20.596 [measured, mysterious music playing] 11:21.222 --> 11:22.890 I was really looking around, 11:22.973 --> 11:26.560 really trying to evaluate what I could bring to the table. 11:27.144 --> 11:31.357 I had photographs taken on the driveway of shoeprints in mud. 11:31.440 --> 11:34.360 There was a stun gun on the ground by Mickey. 11:34.860 --> 11:36.695 There were some cartridge casings. 11:37.530 --> 11:42.535 Next to the garage door were these small, little orange trees. 11:42.618 --> 11:47.248 And I looked, and I saw orange peels on the ground. 11:48.165 --> 11:49.166 They were cut. 11:50.751 --> 11:51.752 And it was fresh. 11:51.836 --> 11:55.589 I mean, I remember just thinking, "They were sitting out there 11:55.673 --> 11:58.968 and they're gonna have an orange while waiting to execute people." 11:59.051 --> 12:01.804 It just made me know 12:01.887 --> 12:05.808 that they knew exactly where to sit and wait. 12:05.891 --> 12:08.269 [Verdugo] You start piecing this all together. 12:08.352 --> 12:11.272 They were lying in wait in front of the garage. 12:11.355 --> 12:13.774 There was, yeah, the stun gun. 12:13.858 --> 12:17.862 Now, was that used on Mickey? Was it used on her? We're not quite sure. 12:17.945 --> 12:21.365 But it was there, obviously, to try and take control. 12:21.449 --> 12:24.493 Ten-speed bicycles, guns… 12:25.327 --> 12:30.875 Ah, killing in the sequence that would do the most harm and pain for Mickey. 12:30.958 --> 12:33.711 We're talking a hit. 12:33.794 --> 12:34.879 It is a hit. 12:35.546 --> 12:37.548 [music trails off] 12:41.719 --> 12:46.182 Our primary suspects are two male Blacks. 12:47.016 --> 12:50.060 They're described as 20 to 30 years of age. 12:51.187 --> 12:55.900 There was a woman that was driving down the road near Bradbury Estates. 12:56.650 --> 13:00.654 And as she's driving, suddenly from across that little driveway, 13:00.738 --> 13:03.574 these two male Blacks on bicycles. 13:03.657 --> 13:06.285 It seemed like they were out of control. They were going too fast. 13:06.368 --> 13:08.621 But she got a look because she nearly hit them, 13:08.704 --> 13:11.081 and as a good citizen, calls in. 13:11.665 --> 13:14.877 Uh, she made a comment to the sheriff's department, 13:14.960 --> 13:19.632 and the sheriff's department got her in contact with a forensic artist. 13:20.341 --> 13:23.302 All the officers are aware, all the surrounding areas, 13:23.385 --> 13:27.181 and we put up traffic stops at major intersections. 13:27.264 --> 13:31.018 We're handing out these artist renderings of the suspects. 13:32.478 --> 13:36.106 [reporter] Homicide detectives in LA hope someone somewhere 13:36.190 --> 13:39.819 will see this report on the murder of racing legend Mickey Thompson 13:39.902 --> 13:41.529 and his wife Trudy, 13:41.612 --> 13:44.740 and volunteer information about these two men. 13:45.866 --> 13:47.701 The media coverage, it was… 13:48.410 --> 13:51.455 As sad as it was, they just shoved it down your throat every two seconds. 13:51.539 --> 13:54.333 Police say he and his wife were shot several times… 13:54.416 --> 13:57.294 [reporter] The two men then fled on ten-speed bicycles. 13:57.378 --> 14:00.756 The biggest question still unanswered is, "Why?" 14:00.839 --> 14:02.508 It was on every station. 14:02.591 --> 14:06.846 It was on all the major networks. Even the non-major networks were there. 14:06.929 --> 14:08.639 The media was out of control. 14:08.722 --> 14:10.224 [helicopter whirring] 14:11.392 --> 14:17.273 It was very oppressive and very hard seeing it on the news… 14:18.816 --> 14:22.862 uh, with the helicopters… 14:23.821 --> 14:26.907 [voice breaking] …showing pictures of where their bodies were. 14:30.661 --> 14:34.290 And there was no personal space for grief. 14:41.338 --> 14:44.925 [Verdugo] Now, one of the things you've got to do is learn your victim. 14:45.009 --> 14:48.137 When did they get into that position where they were gonna be victimized? 14:48.220 --> 14:49.138 It's very important. 14:49.930 --> 14:55.311 We were directed to go to a house not far from the crime scene 14:55.394 --> 14:57.521 where the family had gathered. 14:58.480 --> 15:01.358 Everybody was very, very hurt, very broken up. 15:01.859 --> 15:04.028 And we were coming in to talk to 'em. 15:04.111 --> 15:06.155 That's one of the worst parts about the job. 15:06.238 --> 15:08.324 I think everybody was in a daze. 15:08.407 --> 15:10.868 I mean, "Is this really happening?" 15:12.703 --> 15:16.415 I tell you one thing, they killed the finest two people in the whole world. 15:17.333 --> 15:21.045 [Verdugo] Part of the gathering was the sister, who is Collene, 15:21.128 --> 15:24.131 and she just loved Mickey and Trudy to death. 15:24.214 --> 15:28.761 Danny, who was trying to fill in as much information as he could, 15:28.844 --> 15:30.471 but he was… he was crushed. 15:30.554 --> 15:31.805 He was hurting. 15:32.306 --> 15:36.935 I told the investigators right at first, "This wasn't an easy residence to get in." 15:37.937 --> 15:39.730 "You had to have a plan." 15:41.607 --> 15:44.151 "And it had to be premeditated." 15:50.282 --> 15:54.870 While we're interviewing everybody in the family, they had a feeling of, 15:54.954 --> 15:58.749 "If it's done, Mike Goodwin was responsible." 15:58.832 --> 16:00.626 [tense music playing] 16:00.709 --> 16:05.631 [Jackson] Mickey Thompson and Mike Goodwin were in similar businesses. 16:06.131 --> 16:10.803 Mickey Thompson would bring in Baja-style racing indoors. 16:10.886 --> 16:13.639 Mike Goodwin was emulating that to a certain degree 16:13.722 --> 16:16.100 on the motocross circuit. 16:16.183 --> 16:19.728 The two of them decided a partnership would benefit them. 16:20.729 --> 16:25.442 Mike Goodwin was incredibly bright, incredibly big personality, 16:25.526 --> 16:28.320 incredibly charismatic, and he was used to winning. 16:28.404 --> 16:30.155 He won at everything he did. 16:30.239 --> 16:33.867 Mickey and Trudy had focused in on the car side of it, 16:33.951 --> 16:37.079 and at the same time, Goodwin was beginning to promote 16:37.162 --> 16:40.499 motorcycle racing under similar conditions. 16:41.333 --> 16:43.252 Bringing the motorcycles in, 16:43.335 --> 16:46.422 motorcycle events along with the car event together, 16:46.505 --> 16:47.923 you know, made good sense. 16:48.882 --> 16:50.467 [Jackson] Mickey Thompson had the name. 16:50.551 --> 16:54.722 He was lending his name and reputation to the event to fill the stadium. 16:55.806 --> 16:58.642 My dad secured the contracts at Anaheim Stadium 16:58.726 --> 17:00.769 for both off-road and supercross. 17:00.853 --> 17:03.856 It looked like Goodwin would've been a good partner. 17:03.939 --> 17:07.818 But Goodwin, after a couple events there, ran the bills up, didn't pay 'em, 17:07.901 --> 17:10.738 and burnt the relationships with the stadiums, you know, 17:10.821 --> 17:12.948 by not paying and being Goodwin. 17:13.031 --> 17:15.701 [Verdugo] When we looked into Goodwin's background, 17:15.784 --> 17:17.578 one of the things we found about him is, 17:17.661 --> 17:20.289 any time he got a chance, he would screw you. 17:20.372 --> 17:22.624 He was a crook. 17:22.708 --> 17:24.084 For Mickey, 17:24.168 --> 17:28.047 integrity and making sure that everyone was taken care of 17:28.130 --> 17:30.049 was incredibly important. 17:30.632 --> 17:33.761 There… There was a realization on Mickey's part. 17:34.386 --> 17:37.139 "No, I'm not gonna lend my name to something like that." 17:37.222 --> 17:40.142 So Mickey terminated the partnership, 17:40.225 --> 17:45.314 and that was the beginning of a long legal battle. 17:47.191 --> 17:48.484 [Danny] All the court battles. 17:48.567 --> 17:52.112 My dad kept winning, and the judgements were in his favor. 17:52.196 --> 17:54.531 Goodwin started switching money around, 17:54.615 --> 17:56.700 and, you know, claiming bankruptcy here, 17:56.784 --> 17:59.244 switching it to this person, that person. 17:59.745 --> 18:02.748 [Weissler] The last time that I saw Mickey and Trudy, 18:02.831 --> 18:04.458 there was a phone call. 18:06.210 --> 18:08.587 Mickey turned it over to speakerphone. 18:08.670 --> 18:11.882 I… I recognized, uh, Goodwin's voice, 18:12.382 --> 18:14.551 and what he was saying was, 18:15.260 --> 18:17.179 "I'm going to make you pay." 18:17.262 --> 18:20.099 "You'll never see the loss through its end." 18:20.766 --> 18:22.976 Goodwin's tone was deadly serious. 18:24.603 --> 18:26.772 [Danny] One of the last conversations I had with my dad, 18:26.855 --> 18:31.693 he warned me that Goodwin was out of control. 18:33.779 --> 18:37.116 [Verdugo] Well, obviously, we've now got to interview Mike Goodwin. 18:38.575 --> 18:40.953 So we drive down to their law offices. 18:41.453 --> 18:44.915 As we get in, Mike Goodwin was standing behind his attorney. 18:44.998 --> 18:48.085 His attorney said, "We're not gonna allow him to talk to you." 18:48.168 --> 18:49.461 And he stood there… 18:49.545 --> 18:51.922 God, he went through this ritual of… 18:53.048 --> 18:54.842 Hands up. [sarcastically] "Ooh!" 18:54.925 --> 18:57.177 [cryptic music playing] 18:57.261 --> 19:01.640 He kept pointing at his attorney. I thought, "Oh, God, I'm gonna throw up." 19:03.308 --> 19:05.018 [Danny] Goodwin had told his attorney 19:05.102 --> 19:09.439 that he was at a gym at six o'clock that morning, 19:09.523 --> 19:10.983 and he was talking to people. 19:11.066 --> 19:14.361 A lot of people could verify he was there. 19:14.444 --> 19:17.698 Mike Goodwin was on a treadmill in Orange County 19:17.781 --> 19:21.326 at the time these two people were killed in the San Gabriel Valley. 19:22.327 --> 19:25.956 So there was nothing connecting Mike Goodwin to that crime scene. 19:27.708 --> 19:30.794 [Bowers] There is no direct evidence, there is no smoking gun, 19:30.878 --> 19:33.505 because no one ever determined who were the shooters. 19:33.589 --> 19:34.965 [cryptic music playing] 19:35.048 --> 19:38.927 And then a short time later, Michael Goodwin and his wife, 19:39.011 --> 19:40.637 they just disappear. 19:40.721 --> 19:46.226 And when they contacted Michael Goodwin's attorney, they said, 19:46.310 --> 19:48.604 "All that we know is they bought this boat, 19:48.687 --> 19:51.356 and they left the country." 19:51.440 --> 19:54.443 So he couldn't be questioned, he couldn't be investigated. 19:55.068 --> 19:58.906 Every homicide investigator in the history of mankind 19:58.989 --> 20:00.908 has one or two cases 20:00.991 --> 20:04.077 that they can't pull the trigger on that last bit of evidence. 20:04.161 --> 20:06.496 There is those cases that you think, 20:06.580 --> 20:09.458 "My God, that one bothers me." 20:09.541 --> 20:12.336 Mickey didn't deserve this. Trudy didn't deserve this. 20:12.419 --> 20:15.797 And you have this punk Mike Goodwin fleeing. 20:15.881 --> 20:19.051 Yeah, I mean, I think it really hurt those detectives. 20:19.718 --> 20:23.680 They all were really upset that they just couldn't break it. 20:24.348 --> 20:26.725 Everybody wanted that to be solved. 20:27.351 --> 20:29.102 They don't always get solved. 20:31.021 --> 20:33.023 [engine revving] 20:36.276 --> 20:39.446 [tense music playing] 20:43.700 --> 20:46.578 [Lillienfeld] The Cold Case Unit of the LA County Sheriff's Department 20:46.662 --> 20:48.038 at that time was composed of 20:48.121 --> 20:52.918 about six older, mature, close-to-retirement detectives. 20:53.502 --> 20:55.879 A great detective, a guy named John Yarbrough, 20:55.963 --> 21:00.217 he basically said, "Hey, I've got this really big unsolved cold case, 21:00.300 --> 21:02.636 the Mickey Thompson, Trudy Thompson murders." 21:03.387 --> 21:06.932 "And I'd like you to learn about the nuances of this case 21:07.015 --> 21:11.687 because there's a lot to it, and I'm old. I'm gonna retire soon." 21:11.770 --> 21:16.650 "You're young. It'll be easy for you. It won't be hardly anything at all, kid." 21:18.402 --> 21:21.446 He ultimately retired around 1994, 21:21.530 --> 21:23.615 and myself and my new partner 21:23.699 --> 21:27.369 then kind of assumed control of the case from that point on. 21:29.871 --> 21:32.291 I'd never heard of Mickey Thompson in my life 21:32.374 --> 21:34.584 until I got introduced to the case. 21:35.252 --> 21:37.129 It's a high-profile case, 21:37.212 --> 21:39.589 and I'm really at the beginning of my murder career. 21:39.673 --> 21:41.925 I've only been a murder cop two years. 21:42.426 --> 21:44.970 I went to Rey for advice. I respected him greatly. 21:45.053 --> 21:46.471 He gave me great advice. 21:46.972 --> 21:48.932 "Only one way to eat an elephant." 21:49.016 --> 21:50.350 "One bite at a time." 21:50.851 --> 21:53.520 Mark Lillienfeld. I was always impressed by him. 21:53.603 --> 21:56.898 If I am murdered, I want him investigating my murder. 21:56.982 --> 22:01.445 He has the skills, tenacity, intelligence, humor, 22:01.528 --> 22:07.451 and, uh, he was not impressed or pushed around by hierarchy. 22:09.161 --> 22:11.663 [Lillienfeld] It's good sometimes to question authority. 22:11.747 --> 22:16.209 You gotta think globally, be open to other ideas, 22:16.293 --> 22:20.589 but to not dismiss out of hand certain other theories that may come up. 22:20.672 --> 22:24.760 Was somebody mad at somebody else for another reason other than 22:24.843 --> 22:28.680 this business dispute between Michael Goodwin and Mickey Thompson? 22:29.181 --> 22:30.474 You've gotta be open to that. 22:30.557 --> 22:33.935 So one of the first things we did was I met Collene Campbell, 22:34.019 --> 22:36.688 Mickey Thompson's kid sister. 22:36.772 --> 22:40.525 Collene Campbell is a force of nature. 22:41.193 --> 22:42.778 She's an amazing woman. 22:42.861 --> 22:46.239 Anybody that's had somebody murdered, I think, understands. 22:46.323 --> 22:50.369 There is so much anger inside of you, and you don't get past it, 22:50.452 --> 22:53.371 and you relive it every night in your nightmares. 22:54.790 --> 22:56.792 [plaintive music playing] 22:58.293 --> 23:00.545 [Lillienfeld] The first time I met Collene was at her home. 23:00.629 --> 23:03.006 I hit it off with her. I liked her right away. 23:03.090 --> 23:04.508 We kind of had a connection. 23:04.591 --> 23:07.928 And of course, after four minutes of being in the home, 23:08.011 --> 23:09.554 I had to use the restroom. 23:09.638 --> 23:11.264 As I'm walking down the hallway, 23:11.348 --> 23:14.017 I see a photograph of a young man on the wall, 23:14.101 --> 23:15.894 and it was Scott, her son. 23:19.523 --> 23:21.733 In 1982, Collene suffered, you know… 23:21.817 --> 23:25.946 The most horrific tragedy any parent could suffer is the loss of a child. 23:26.696 --> 23:29.449 Scott had been hanging around with the wrong people. 23:31.076 --> 23:34.329 [Verdugo] He was killed, and his body was tossed out of a plane. 23:36.081 --> 23:38.208 She basically investigated it herself. 23:38.291 --> 23:41.419 She brought everything, all the information together. 23:41.503 --> 23:44.631 She worked those innards to make 'em outards. 23:44.714 --> 23:51.096 And she was very instrumental in pushing for, uh, prosecution. 23:51.930 --> 23:54.599 [Danny] I mean, she was relentless, never giving up, 23:54.683 --> 23:56.768 and she was all the time on it, 23:56.852 --> 24:01.231 and on it in ways that you would never even imagine. 24:01.314 --> 24:06.445 Larry Cowell was ultimately convicted for the murder of Collene's son, 24:06.528 --> 24:09.698 and Collene, she described repeatedly, 24:09.781 --> 24:12.909 "You need to at least look at this and eliminate Larry Cowell." 24:12.993 --> 24:16.830 Because it turns out during the trial of Larry Cowell and his crime partner 24:16.913 --> 24:18.665 for the murder of Scott Campbell, 24:18.748 --> 24:20.834 Mickey Thompson actually testified. 24:22.252 --> 24:27.883 Larry Cowell was, uh, deeply enmeshed in the narcotics world 24:27.966 --> 24:29.134 'cause he was a dope dealer, 24:29.217 --> 24:31.470 but also, he was a big auto racing guy. 24:32.304 --> 24:35.056 And Mickey testified as an expert witness 24:35.140 --> 24:38.059 regarding these car parts found in Larry Cowell's shop. 24:40.228 --> 24:46.860 The trial ended eight or ten months prior to the deaths of Mickey and Trudy. 24:47.444 --> 24:50.322 It's kind of unusual that murder should hit a family like that. 24:50.405 --> 24:52.365 So we looked for a connection. 24:53.033 --> 24:55.952 We reviewed all the Scott Campbell murder reports. 24:56.036 --> 24:58.038 We spoke to the original detective. 24:58.538 --> 25:00.415 You know, we took it seriously. 25:00.916 --> 25:05.128 There was not a shred of evidence to indicate any relationship 25:05.212 --> 25:07.672 between the murders of Mickey and Trudy Thompson 25:07.756 --> 25:10.258 and the murder of Mickey's nephew Scott Campbell, 25:10.342 --> 25:16.973 other than the fact that they devastated a very nice, big, warm, loving family. 25:17.849 --> 25:20.352 [heavy, foreboding music playing] 25:20.435 --> 25:23.438 My partner and I wound up going back, really, to square one. 25:24.523 --> 25:26.983 We'd come up with theories, ideas. 25:27.067 --> 25:30.779 All those things have been eliminated. The one thing that hasn't been eliminated 25:30.862 --> 25:33.240 is the fact that somebody was paid to do this murder, 25:33.323 --> 25:35.533 and they were paid by Michael Frank Goodwin. 25:41.081 --> 25:42.791 [Jackson] Once Mickey Thompson was murdered, 25:42.874 --> 25:44.209 once Trudy Thompson was murdered, 25:44.292 --> 25:46.211 if Mike Goodwin had nothing to do with it, 25:46.294 --> 25:48.797 you'd expect him to live his life very normally, 25:48.880 --> 25:50.215 going about his business, 25:50.298 --> 25:52.384 not changing anything of any note. 25:52.467 --> 25:55.637 But what did Mike Goodwin actually do after Mickey was killed? 25:56.763 --> 26:00.058 [Bowers] Michael Goodwin and his wife decided to sell their house, 26:00.141 --> 26:04.229 and they take all the assets that they have, 26:04.312 --> 26:08.984 and they funnel 'em into a Caribbean bank. 26:09.067 --> 26:12.904 Eighty-eight days after the murder, he fled the country on a boat 26:12.988 --> 26:14.823 that he obtained through fraud. 26:17.367 --> 26:22.205 In 1993, Mike Goodwin was charged with fraud 26:22.289 --> 26:24.666 after he came back to the United States. 26:24.749 --> 26:28.378 He was found guilty and went to federal prison. 26:29.504 --> 26:33.466 And he would receive a sentence of two and a half years. 26:36.136 --> 26:37.971 [Lillienfeld] Mike Goodwin wasn't gonna talk. 26:38.054 --> 26:41.224 He'd never talk to the cops, but we had his phone calls monitored. 26:42.100 --> 26:42.934 At the same time, 26:43.018 --> 26:46.229 every person that was ever interviewed by the original detectives, 26:46.313 --> 26:48.940 my partner and I went back and re-interviewed those people. 26:49.691 --> 26:51.443 In speaking with Dr. Lance Johnson, 26:51.526 --> 26:54.446 who was kind of an earwitness to the assault, 26:54.529 --> 26:57.490 he said, "My daughter, her best friend, Allison Triarsi, 26:57.574 --> 26:59.326 lived across the street from Mickey Thompson." 26:59.409 --> 27:00.660 "She saw the whole thing." 27:00.744 --> 27:05.957 And he wasn't sure if law enforcement had ever contacted Allison Triarsi. 27:06.041 --> 27:10.086 It turned out, in reviewing the records, law enforcement never had. 27:10.670 --> 27:11.838 They didn't overlook her. 27:11.921 --> 27:15.634 At the time of the murders, Allison Triarsi, a 15-year-old girl, 27:15.717 --> 27:18.345 she was actually hidden by her parents 27:18.428 --> 27:21.056 because of the psychological trauma that she had. 27:21.139 --> 27:23.350 And I get it. If I had children… 27:23.433 --> 27:26.478 If it was my dog that was an eyewitness, I would have hidden my dog. 27:26.561 --> 27:28.897 I wouldn't let my dog talk to the cops either. 27:30.398 --> 27:32.859 Allison Triarsi, she's a grown woman now, 27:32.942 --> 27:34.944 so we were able to locate her. 27:36.196 --> 27:37.614 Allison told my partner and I 27:37.697 --> 27:39.532 that she was getting ready to go to school, 27:40.033 --> 27:43.203 and she heard this really high-pitched screaming 27:43.286 --> 27:47.957 as she ran to these living room windows that looked down on the Thompson estate. 27:50.293 --> 27:53.254 So Allison actually saw 27:53.755 --> 27:57.008 Trudy Thompson crawling on her hands and knees down the driveway. 27:57.592 --> 28:00.637 [Jackson] Mickey Thompson was kneeling with his hands raised, 28:00.720 --> 28:04.140 begging, "Please don't kill my wife. Please don't kill my wife." 28:04.224 --> 28:06.559 Not begging for his life, begging for her life. 28:07.811 --> 28:09.562 [Lillienfeld] When Trudy got to the end, 28:09.646 --> 28:12.899 the suspect pulled the trigger and fired into Trudy's head. 28:12.982 --> 28:13.858 [gunshot] 28:14.359 --> 28:18.947 Allison watches that same suspect walk up the hill, shoot, and kill Mickey. 28:20.407 --> 28:22.742 Allison was able to describe right away 28:22.826 --> 28:27.080 that it was two African-American males that fled on ten-speed bicycles. 28:29.040 --> 28:31.876 [Jackson] They wanted Mickey to watch her suffer, 28:32.836 --> 28:34.754 allowing him to understand 28:34.838 --> 28:38.133 that the last thing he's ever gonna see on this earth 28:39.050 --> 28:42.011 was the love of his life being executed. 28:42.512 --> 28:43.513 [somber music playing] 28:43.596 --> 28:45.181 [Weissler] He so treasured her. 28:45.682 --> 28:47.767 He was that kind of person. 28:48.268 --> 28:52.230 The fact that he'd try and put himself in harm's way to protect her, 28:52.939 --> 28:54.566 it was no surprise at all. 28:55.650 --> 28:58.361 [Danny] It was planned to torture my dad. 29:01.281 --> 29:02.115 Cut and dry. 29:02.699 --> 29:04.033 And it did. 29:09.205 --> 29:11.291 [suspenseful music playing] 29:11.374 --> 29:14.127 [Lillienfeld] Hearing Allison's version of what occurred 29:14.210 --> 29:18.173 really kind of drove the nail into the coffin a little bit more 29:18.256 --> 29:20.759 in corroborating what we already believed. 29:21.259 --> 29:24.137 She is the only living eyewitness 29:24.220 --> 29:28.558 that was able to describe the actual shooting of both victims. 29:28.641 --> 29:30.101 So she was pretty critical. 29:30.185 --> 29:34.063 It's one thing to hear about it. It's another thing to actually see it. 29:34.647 --> 29:38.109 There was only one reason to kill these two people in this manner, 29:38.193 --> 29:40.820 and that was pure, unadulterated revenge. 29:41.446 --> 29:43.323 But more evidence was needed 29:43.406 --> 29:48.119 to literally tether Mike Goodwin to the actual murders. 29:51.623 --> 29:54.167 Mike Goodwin paroled from federal prison. 29:54.250 --> 29:57.337 He flew out to Orange County, Santa Ana airport. 29:57.420 --> 30:02.801 So I wound up having his luggage somewhat lost, um, when the plane landed. 30:02.884 --> 30:07.055 So I pretended, you know, that I was a passenger on the plane too, 30:07.138 --> 30:09.432 and we're both pissed off, waiting for our luggage. 30:09.516 --> 30:10.642 He was clueless. 30:11.476 --> 30:14.729 I had a tape recorder going 'cause I wanted to record his voice, 30:14.812 --> 30:17.482 'cause I knew at some point in time 30:17.565 --> 30:21.194 I was gonna attempt to wiretap his telephones, 30:21.277 --> 30:23.238 so I wanted to know what he sounded like. 30:23.321 --> 30:26.032 So that was really my primary goal, 30:26.741 --> 30:29.536 and secondarily, it was simply just to meet the guy. 30:30.036 --> 30:32.455 Much like knowing about your murder victims, 30:32.539 --> 30:34.415 the more you know about your suspect, 30:34.499 --> 30:38.837 the more you can find their weak spots and exploit that to your advantage. 30:38.920 --> 30:41.381 During that 40-minute airport meeting, 30:41.464 --> 30:43.383 it was all Mike Goodwin, all the time, 30:43.466 --> 30:45.176 and it was all bullshit. 30:45.260 --> 30:49.389 Mike Goodwin claims to be the youngest Eagle Scout in history. Bullshit. 30:49.472 --> 30:52.934 Mike Goodwin claims to have bedded every Playboy Bunny. Bullshit. 30:53.017 --> 30:57.981 Mike Goodwin claims he's the Golden Gloves Champion of Pensacola, Florida. Bullshit. 30:58.064 --> 31:00.650 Really bullshit, inconsequential lies 31:00.733 --> 31:04.153 that don't amount to a hill of beans, but show a pattern of conduct. 31:04.237 --> 31:05.905 The guy can't tell the truth. 31:05.989 --> 31:07.824 His whole life was a lie. 31:11.619 --> 31:14.455 [cryptic music playing] 31:15.039 --> 31:18.209 [Danny] At first, it was quiet. Nothing was really happening. 31:18.293 --> 31:21.713 As much as I like Lillienfeld, he didn't tell me anything. 31:21.796 --> 31:23.631 But he couldn't. That's not… He… 31:23.715 --> 31:28.386 His job is not to blab around everything. His job is to investigate, figure it out. 31:30.096 --> 31:36.269 After so many years on this Mickey Thompson, Trudy Thompson killing, 31:36.352 --> 31:38.730 you needed to approach in a different way. 31:38.813 --> 31:42.817 The Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau were not media-driven, 31:42.900 --> 31:47.697 but I had used the TV show America's Most Wanted previously 31:47.780 --> 31:49.782 on another unrelated murder case, 31:50.366 --> 31:52.535 and it generated some really good clues. 31:53.453 --> 31:56.748 I was trying to identify the shooters. They were still interested. 31:56.831 --> 31:57.832 [phones ringing] 32:01.586 --> 32:03.713 We got a couple hundred phone calls, 32:03.796 --> 32:06.549 and some of them were the crazy phone calls, 32:06.633 --> 32:09.802 the alien phone calls, or John Wayne did it, or whatever, 32:09.886 --> 32:11.471 but a number were of value. 32:13.139 --> 32:17.018 [Devine] What makes Mark so great is 32:17.101 --> 32:19.395 he's gonna find these little things 32:19.479 --> 32:23.816 and figure out a way to get information. 32:23.900 --> 32:28.279 In this case, found a girl that got done wrong by him. 32:29.280 --> 32:31.366 [Lillienfeld] We received a call on a tip line. 32:31.449 --> 32:34.869 This woman, she'd had a brief romantic relationship with Goodwin. 32:34.953 --> 32:37.830 She told us on the phone that Mike Goodwin and her 32:37.914 --> 32:40.875 were watching a crime show on the Mickey Thompson murders, 32:40.958 --> 32:43.211 and that Mike had confessed to her 32:43.294 --> 32:47.256 his responsibility for having arranged those murders. 32:47.340 --> 32:50.218 And he was bragging about how he'd never be caught 32:50.301 --> 32:51.427 'cause he was too smart. 32:51.511 --> 32:52.845 [cryptic music playing] 32:52.929 --> 32:54.973 So she became a good witness, 32:55.056 --> 32:57.809 but it was one part of the bigger puzzle 32:57.892 --> 33:01.437 that the women in Mike Goodwin's life had obtained admissions from him, 33:01.521 --> 33:05.233 and God knows how many other women are out there that hold that secret. 33:06.943 --> 33:09.487 [man] I was asked by Mark, 33:09.570 --> 33:11.823 "Hey, I'd like you to head this up." 33:11.906 --> 33:16.536 "I want you to go to Virginia to monitor the activity of Goodwin's ex-wife." 33:16.619 --> 33:17.578 Mike Goodwin was married 33:17.662 --> 33:20.832 at the time of the murders of Mickey and Trudy Thompson, 33:20.915 --> 33:24.794 but, eventually, he and his wife of that time divorced. 33:25.878 --> 33:28.548 [Lillienfeld] Mike Goodwin paroled from federal prison 33:28.631 --> 33:32.427 pretty close to the same time his ex-wife Diana Goodwin 33:32.510 --> 33:36.222 went to live with her parents in Virginia Beach, Virginia. 33:36.305 --> 33:39.517 We applied for and received permission to do a wire intercept 33:39.600 --> 33:42.395 in the state of Virginia on Diane Goodwin's home phone 33:42.478 --> 33:44.105 and her business telephone. 33:45.940 --> 33:47.650 During undercover operations, 33:47.734 --> 33:51.195 we sometimes want to stimulate people to talk about crime. 33:51.279 --> 33:53.197 [phone ringing] 33:53.281 --> 33:58.244 One of the ways, and it's very common, is quite frankly by calling the person. 33:58.327 --> 34:01.956 "I'm Detective Mark Lillienfeld from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Homicide." 34:02.040 --> 34:05.043 "I would love to talk to you about your ex-husband." 34:05.543 --> 34:09.005 I don't really care if she talks to me or tells me to go fuck myself, 34:09.088 --> 34:11.007 which is basically what she did. 34:11.090 --> 34:12.800 All I care about is I got her brain going. 34:14.010 --> 34:17.930 [Smith] When she started getting phone calls from Mark Lillienfeld, 34:18.014 --> 34:24.187 we were there to monitor her in an assortment of surveillance tactics, 34:24.270 --> 34:25.730 and see what she did, 34:25.813 --> 34:28.065 because it's gonna lead to more evidence. 34:29.025 --> 34:31.986 [Lillienfeld] One phone call in particular we listened to, 34:32.069 --> 34:36.324 she basically makes an admission that Mike had admitted to her 34:36.407 --> 34:38.618 that he was responsible for the Thompson murders. 34:38.701 --> 34:40.286 We've got two different people 34:40.369 --> 34:42.622 in two different states at two different times 34:42.705 --> 34:43.706 making the same statement, 34:43.790 --> 34:47.043 that Michael Goodwin admitted being responsible for the murders 34:47.126 --> 34:48.461 of Mickey and Trudy Thompson. 34:48.544 --> 34:50.755 That's good shit, a legal term in my world. 34:53.091 --> 34:54.592 [tense, mysterious music playing] 34:54.675 --> 34:58.596 [Jackson] Everything about this case was circumstantial, 34:58.679 --> 35:02.350 in terms of connecting Mike Goodwin to the actual murders. 35:02.934 --> 35:07.980 That changed with the revelation of new eyewitnesses. 35:08.064 --> 35:11.317 The America's Most Wanted show generated a call from a gentleman 35:11.400 --> 35:13.528 who was an accountant, and they said, 35:13.611 --> 35:17.490 "I've got a client, and he saw some suspicious activity 35:17.573 --> 35:19.408 a couple days before the murder." 35:19.492 --> 35:23.037 "He's tried calling the cops, but they always brush him off." 35:23.121 --> 35:24.914 This gentleman's name is Ron Stevens. 35:24.997 --> 35:27.792 Basically, he said, "I didn't know Mickey Thompson, 35:27.875 --> 35:28.709 I never met him, 35:28.793 --> 35:31.879 but I lived about three blocks away from where he was killed." 35:31.963 --> 35:34.382 Ron goes on to tell me, "I come home early, 35:34.465 --> 35:37.468 and my wife steps outside the house to greet me in the driveway." 35:37.552 --> 35:39.303 "She said, 'Hey, I'm glad you're home.'" 35:39.387 --> 35:41.848 "'There's a suspicious car parked on the street.'" 35:41.931 --> 35:44.183 "'It's got two men in it, and they got binoculars, 35:44.267 --> 35:45.643 and I think something is up.'" 35:45.726 --> 35:49.981 "'There's a grade school down the street. Maybe they're pedophiles, kidnappers.'" 35:50.064 --> 35:55.695 And Ron Stevens actually walks towards where this car's parked, 35:55.778 --> 35:58.447 and he can see the side of the driver. 35:58.531 --> 36:00.283 Driver was white. Passenger was Black. 36:00.366 --> 36:03.911 When Ron Stevens gets closer to the driver, he gets out of there. 36:03.995 --> 36:06.956 He, like, peels rubber leaving the scene. 36:07.039 --> 36:08.833 And Ron thinks, "God, that's odd." 36:08.916 --> 36:10.918 He called the LA County Sheriff's Department. 36:11.002 --> 36:13.629 Sadly, we never sent a radio car out there. 36:13.713 --> 36:15.756 So it… it's on us. It's our bad. 36:16.340 --> 36:18.092 [mysterious music continuing] 36:18.176 --> 36:21.971 This is about four days before the Mickey and Trudy Thompson murders. 36:22.054 --> 36:24.307 And when he describes the driver, 36:24.390 --> 36:26.601 he describes Michael Goodwin almost to a tee. 36:26.684 --> 36:29.020 [suspenseful music pulsing] 36:29.103 --> 36:30.646 [Jackson] Could this have been Goodwin? 36:30.730 --> 36:33.858 Could he have been there actually surveilling the area 36:33.941 --> 36:37.320 in order to set the plans in motion to have them murdered? 36:37.403 --> 36:42.325 So now what had to be done was there had to be a lineup 36:42.408 --> 36:46.996 to see if this witness really could identify Goodwin. 36:47.079 --> 36:49.457 That was the problem. How are you gonna do that? 36:49.540 --> 36:52.627 If the person was in custody, you could do it. 36:53.252 --> 36:55.379 So the idea was, 36:55.463 --> 36:58.007 "Well, let's arrest him on a Ramey warrant." 36:58.090 --> 37:02.345 Ramey is a term we use in California for a probable cause arrest warrant, 37:02.428 --> 37:05.264 where we take the actual warrant to a judge. 37:05.348 --> 37:07.391 He signs it. The prosecutor is not involved. 37:08.184 --> 37:10.519 So I write an arrest warrant for Mike Goodwin. 37:11.103 --> 37:12.021 Fuck Mike Goodwin. 37:12.104 --> 37:14.106 [low, suspenseful music playing] 37:16.234 --> 37:17.693 [reporter] Mr. Goodwin, you are here 37:17.777 --> 37:20.154 because you refused to volunteer for the lineup. 37:20.238 --> 37:22.490 Would it have been easier, in hindsight, 37:22.573 --> 37:25.159 to simply volunteer rather than go through this? 37:25.243 --> 37:29.121 No, I think we have to challenge government misconduct whenever we can. 37:29.205 --> 37:32.833 But let me ask you this, if I committed otherwise a perfect crime, 37:32.917 --> 37:36.003 would I have been so stupid to go to the scene of the crime? 37:36.629 --> 37:39.298 I mean, this is beyond belief. 37:39.382 --> 37:42.760 I coordinate a live lineup in Men's Central Jail with Ron Stevens, 37:43.344 --> 37:44.428 with him and his wife. 37:45.513 --> 37:47.223 We have them both view the lineup. 37:49.600 --> 37:51.727 They both identified Michael Frank Goodwin 37:51.811 --> 37:54.772 as the guy sitting in the car with an African-American 37:54.855 --> 37:57.984 three blocks from Mickey Thompson's house four days before the murder. 37:58.067 --> 38:00.945 [Jackson] Being able to place him at or close to the crime scene 38:01.028 --> 38:03.030 was a revelation, was a huge deal. 38:03.614 --> 38:06.909 We got him now, and we charged him with murder. 38:06.993 --> 38:09.453 This whole thing is a farce and a setup, 38:09.537 --> 38:12.540 and my treatment in jail was exemplary of that. 38:13.791 --> 38:15.501 -[lawyer] That's it. -It's a Bible. 38:15.584 --> 38:16.794 [reporter] Thank you. 38:18.212 --> 38:20.214 [somber, introspective music playing] 38:23.551 --> 38:25.928 [Campbell] I looked up in the sky, and talked to Mickey about… 38:26.012 --> 38:29.807 I said, "You think you've gone through some endurance races in your life." 38:29.890 --> 38:31.058 "Let me tell you." 38:31.726 --> 38:36.022 "We've just gone through a 13-year-nine-months endurance race." 38:36.105 --> 38:39.734 "And this is a tough one, but I did what you taught me to do." 38:40.317 --> 38:41.652 "Never, never give up." 38:42.445 --> 38:44.739 I remember when he was arrested. 38:44.822 --> 38:46.115 It was hopeful. 38:46.699 --> 38:48.534 But it wasn't done. 38:48.617 --> 38:51.620 [reporter] Goodwin called the case against him "character assassination." 38:51.704 --> 38:54.457 Knowing what a slimy bastard Goodwin was… 38:54.540 --> 38:56.792 Is he gonna wiggle his way out of this one? 38:58.753 --> 39:03.299 Mike Goodwin had a hot red, burning hate for me after I'd arrested him. 39:03.382 --> 39:05.843 The threats and everything started around that time. 39:06.427 --> 39:07.803 He had people working for him, 39:07.887 --> 39:12.266 and it was a continual, you know, never-ending thing. 39:12.350 --> 39:16.395 Mark Lillienfeld was starting to get some pretty significant threats. 39:16.479 --> 39:18.773 Um, threats on his life, death threats, 39:18.856 --> 39:20.649 but Mark was of the opinion, 39:20.733 --> 39:23.194 "I've got a job to do. I'm not gonna be deterred." 39:23.778 --> 39:27.698 [Smith] Mark is one of those guys that learned to let blows glance off them, 39:27.782 --> 39:29.867 and I was that dumb Irish boxer 39:29.950 --> 39:32.995 that stood there taking… absorbing every frickin' blow 39:33.079 --> 39:34.663 to show everyone how tough you are. 39:35.581 --> 39:38.459 To do it as long as Mark did it, you have to be like Mark, 39:38.542 --> 39:41.629 where you really can let things glance off of you. 39:45.383 --> 39:49.470 After seeing what these people will do, I am concerned about anything. 39:49.553 --> 39:50.721 They will make up evidence. 39:52.056 --> 39:56.227 [Bowers] The DA's office didn't want to get involved in this if it was a loser. 39:56.727 --> 40:00.189 If you don't have all your ducks in order, you don't want to take a chance, 40:00.272 --> 40:02.691 especially on a publicity case like this. 40:03.859 --> 40:07.279 [Lillienfeld] I met Ron Bowers. He was a deputy district attorney. 40:07.363 --> 40:09.031 He had retired at the time, 40:09.115 --> 40:11.951 and he'd been hired back in their Trial Support Division. 40:12.034 --> 40:16.413 So, the two prosecutors, Alan Jackson and Pat Dixon, 40:16.497 --> 40:18.958 had elicited Ron's help 40:19.041 --> 40:23.045 in preparing all of the court exhibits and helping get the case organized. 40:23.129 --> 40:24.255 It was a massive case. 40:24.338 --> 40:27.174 And I said, "Well, I'm more than happy to look at it, 40:27.258 --> 40:30.594 uh, but I'm gonna have to have the case files." 40:30.678 --> 40:34.306 And Mark said, "Okay, we'll take care of it." 40:35.516 --> 40:39.728 Next day, I come to work, and I barely can get into my office. 40:39.812 --> 40:43.065 It is filled with boxes and boxes. 40:43.566 --> 40:46.318 And scribbled on my yellow tab, 40:46.402 --> 40:48.070 Mark had written, 40:48.154 --> 40:50.823 "Ron, these are the boxes that you requested." 40:50.906 --> 40:54.285 "Now put the case together, and do it quickly." 40:56.495 --> 40:57.913 [Jackson] Ron Bowers was integral 40:57.997 --> 41:01.000 to putting together a blueprint presentation 41:01.083 --> 41:02.209 to get the case to trial. 41:02.293 --> 41:03.752 [suspenseful music playing] 41:04.336 --> 41:06.464 Ron was a master at that. 41:07.173 --> 41:11.010 [Bowers] I put together a presentation, showed it to the district attorney, 41:11.093 --> 41:14.972 and the district attorney said, "Okay, we're gonna file it." 41:15.556 --> 41:18.476 So that was the beginning of the preparation 41:19.059 --> 41:22.021 for the trial of Michael Goodwin. 41:22.104 --> 41:24.106 [quizzical music playing] 41:26.650 --> 41:28.652 [Jackson] From day one, 41:29.570 --> 41:31.822 literally day one, 41:33.032 --> 41:35.534 Michael Goodwin had bad intentions. 41:36.118 --> 41:38.871 I'm unaware of any other case in the history of California 41:38.954 --> 41:42.833 where the actual shooters were never even identified. 41:43.959 --> 41:46.504 There's just no other conclusion that's reasonable 41:46.587 --> 41:49.465 but that Mike Goodwin hired these people. 41:49.548 --> 41:52.176 We just kept coming back to the idea 41:52.259 --> 41:57.139 that I don't have to prove that Mike Goodwin did it 41:57.223 --> 41:58.807 as much as I can prove 41:58.891 --> 42:01.644 that seven billion other people on the planet didn't do it. 42:01.727 --> 42:03.562 Nobody else wanted Mickey Thompson dead. 42:03.646 --> 42:07.691 So in this case, motive became very, very important. 42:08.692 --> 42:13.572 Mike Goodwin was homicidal, angry, claiming to everybody that would listen, 42:13.656 --> 42:17.159 "I'll see Mickey Thompson dead before I give him a nickel of my money." 42:17.243 --> 42:19.286 [lawyer] The killers of Mickey and Trudy Thompson 42:19.370 --> 42:20.788 have never been identified. 42:20.871 --> 42:24.166 Never been named, never been caught, never been arrested. 42:24.750 --> 42:29.463 The defense's case could be most easily summed up as 42:29.964 --> 42:33.926 Mike Goodwin was at a gym at the time these two people were killed. 42:34.009 --> 42:37.471 He had nothing to do with it. There are too many unanswered questions. 42:38.931 --> 42:41.350 [Lillienfeld] There were many witnesses we called 42:41.433 --> 42:44.061 to testify regarding the threats, 42:44.144 --> 42:48.148 regarding the pre-offense conduct that occurred between Mickey and Goodwin. 42:49.024 --> 42:52.361 [Weissler] I testified about hearing the threats made 42:52.444 --> 42:54.405 and recognizing Goodwin's voice. 42:54.488 --> 42:58.409 He looked smug, like he was sure that he wasn't going to be convicted. 42:58.993 --> 43:01.996 Yet, at the same time, he never met my eyes. 43:02.997 --> 43:07.835 It was a big acknowledgement to me that he knew the pain he had caused. 43:09.670 --> 43:11.672 [strained, distressing music playing] 43:15.384 --> 43:16.635 [Jackson] Our closing arguments, 43:16.719 --> 43:22.224 one of the things that I thought was incredibly… poignant, 43:22.308 --> 43:25.060 sad, but still important, 43:25.144 --> 43:30.107 was the way Mickey drew his last few breaths. 43:30.190 --> 43:33.569 Mickey Thompson's last vision on this planet 43:33.652 --> 43:36.447 was that of his wife being executed. 43:37.072 --> 43:38.907 Why is that so important? 43:38.991 --> 43:43.704 Because there's no other person on the face of the earth 43:43.787 --> 43:46.790 who wanted Mickey Thompson to suffer like that. 43:46.874 --> 43:48.667 There's only one guy. 43:49.793 --> 43:51.128 And that was Mike Goodwin. 43:52.463 --> 43:56.383 [Danny] When Alan Jackson came on and did closing arguments, I was dazzled. 43:56.884 --> 43:58.927 I was going, "Yeah! Yeah!" 43:59.011 --> 44:00.804 Now, he convinced me. 44:00.888 --> 44:03.390 Did he convince those other 12 people over there? 44:03.474 --> 44:05.476 [ponderous, mysterious music playing] 44:11.649 --> 44:15.194 [Jackson] The jury deliberated about six days, 44:15.277 --> 44:17.404 and that wait was brutal. 44:17.905 --> 44:20.282 So you're left in this limbo 44:20.366 --> 44:24.078 of not knowing what those jurors are gonna think of your presentation. 44:25.120 --> 44:28.040 When the jury buzzed to say they have a verdict, 44:28.123 --> 44:32.002 it was a very, very jarring moment, 44:32.086 --> 44:33.420 thinking, "Okay, here we go." 44:34.421 --> 44:36.882 [foreperson] We the jury in the above entitled action 44:36.965 --> 44:39.468 find the defendant Michael Goodwin guilty. 44:42.721 --> 44:45.349 When they came back with that, Collene's squeezing my hand. 44:45.432 --> 44:46.558 It was just like… 44:47.976 --> 44:50.479 There is justice. You know, there is justice. 44:52.815 --> 44:55.859 [Jackson] Mike Goodwin was convicted of all charges, 44:56.610 --> 44:58.862 two counts of murder, and special circumstances, 44:59.446 --> 45:03.742 and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole. 45:04.702 --> 45:07.955 I stood up, turned around, and… 45:08.038 --> 45:10.541 Collene was just sobbing 45:11.041 --> 45:14.128 with joy and… and relief. 45:14.211 --> 45:17.089 This is for Mickey. This is for Mickey. 45:17.172 --> 45:18.882 He won this race. 45:18.966 --> 45:20.801 [gentle, mournful music playing] 45:20.884 --> 45:22.010 [Danny] It's a great feeling. 45:22.094 --> 45:24.972 This doesn't bring my dad back, but there's some justice here. 45:26.014 --> 45:27.641 [Weissler] When I heard the verdict, 45:28.725 --> 45:32.020 I remember saying out loud, "Finally." 45:33.772 --> 45:36.775 [Jackson] I gave a piece of myself to the case. 45:37.568 --> 45:40.571 There's an enormous amount of personal satisfaction 45:40.654 --> 45:45.325 knowing that the family of Mickey Thompson and Trudy Thompson, 45:45.409 --> 45:49.163 what they had fought for, dedicated their lives to… 45:49.246 --> 45:51.832 For every fiber of myself that I gave to the case, 45:51.915 --> 45:54.501 I got so much more back from them. 45:54.585 --> 45:57.337 [Lillienfeld] My promise to Collene and Gary Campbell, 45:57.421 --> 45:59.339 and the Thompson family, really, 45:59.423 --> 46:03.260 was simply that I would work it as hard as anybody and do my best. 46:03.886 --> 46:05.345 I intentionally don't use… 46:05.429 --> 46:08.640 I think it's a horrible word and a horrible term, 46:08.724 --> 46:10.851 and that would be the C-word, meaning closure. 46:12.227 --> 46:15.439 When you lose two loved ones through a horrible act of violence, 46:15.522 --> 46:17.149 you're not getting any closure. 46:18.066 --> 46:21.236 I remember when the verdict came in, there was finality to that, 46:21.320 --> 46:23.030 both for me and for the family, 46:23.614 --> 46:26.950 but there was a nagging little thing in the back of my brain. 46:27.034 --> 46:29.661 "But it's unresolved. The two killers are still out there." 46:30.537 --> 46:34.333 [Campbell] We've got one out of three, but we still want these people. 46:35.292 --> 46:39.755 During the entire investigation, we never developed a solid lead 46:39.838 --> 46:41.799 on who the actual shooters were. 46:41.882 --> 46:43.675 That's still an active, ongoing case. 46:45.969 --> 46:50.891 [Weissler] It's wonderful to know that a conviction was gotten. 46:52.518 --> 46:53.685 But their murder… 46:55.687 --> 46:56.939 is part of my life. 46:57.815 --> 46:59.441 My Aunt Trudy, 47:00.609 --> 47:02.236 she's there in the back of my mind. 47:02.319 --> 47:05.280 Mickey decided it was time to fulfill his lifelong dream 47:05.364 --> 47:07.157 and to set the world land speed record. 47:08.200 --> 47:11.411 [Danny] The one thing that my dad never accomplished 47:11.495 --> 47:12.996 was the world land speed record. 47:14.915 --> 47:18.210 He did it one way, but he didn't have the official record. 47:18.293 --> 47:23.632 So when he called me in 1987, and he said, "I want you to drive it," 47:23.715 --> 47:27.970 that meant more to me probably than maybe anything else. 47:28.053 --> 47:31.306 And then we started talking about it, how to do it and everything, 47:31.390 --> 47:35.018 and then my dad got murdered. 47:35.727 --> 47:38.897 Then I let it go, and I let it sit for 22 more years. 47:38.981 --> 47:41.191 And then I thought, "You know what?" 47:41.275 --> 47:43.277 "I don't want to be sitting on the couch when I'm 80 47:44.528 --> 47:48.156 wondering if that car would have gone 450 miles an hour." 47:50.784 --> 47:52.786 We gave up everything to do that. 47:52.870 --> 47:56.331 We gave up every single thing we had in life to do that. 47:56.415 --> 47:58.083 [riveting music playing] 48:03.213 --> 48:04.590 [music swells] 48:04.673 --> 48:05.674 [music trails off] 48:10.345 --> 48:12.097 And it happened. 48:12.848 --> 48:13.682 [man] Way to go! 48:13.765 --> 48:15.726 [Danny] Car went 459 miles an hour. 48:17.311 --> 48:19.229 I take my helmet off. 48:19.313 --> 48:22.232 I'm still standing in the car, and I'm looking up. 48:25.027 --> 48:28.071 I finished his mission… 48:29.656 --> 48:31.158 and completed mine. 48:32.701 --> 48:35.245 Probably one of the most meaningful moments… 48:37.998 --> 48:38.999 ever. 48:39.499 --> 48:41.501 [gentle, sentimental music playing] 48:47.299 --> 48:49.301 [engine revving] 48:55.599 --> 48:59.978 If there's one enemy of a homicide detective, it's time. 49:00.062 --> 49:01.063 Time is your enemy. 49:03.815 --> 49:08.278 Teresa Broudreaux was found naked and dead on the beach. 49:10.989 --> 49:14.117 It's been 33 years of no answers. 49:14.201 --> 49:15.786 [officer] What was your wife's name? 49:15.869 --> 49:18.163 [interviewee] Terri. T-E-R-R-I. 49:18.246 --> 49:19.957 [officer] And you guys were legally married? 49:20.040 --> 49:21.083 [officer] Right? Okay. 49:21.583 --> 49:22.960 [exhales heavily] 49:24.044 --> 49:25.337 Everybody thought I did it. 49:26.755 --> 49:28.507 That I got away with it. 49:29.007 --> 49:32.678 A murder case is never closed until someone's held accountable for it. 49:32.761 --> 49:34.262 Somebody out there knows something. 49:34.346 --> 49:36.348 [suspenseful music trailing off] 49:37.641 --> 49:39.643 [dramatic outro music pulsing] ]