After someone executes a charismatic New Hampshire businessman in his sleep, the case goes ice cold. Detective Robert Freitas uses his wits and a wiretap to outsmart a deceitful associate who believed he’d long since gotten away with murder.
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00:00Describe to me what you saw when you looked into his bedroom.
00:17It looked like he was asleep in his bed, and I said, hey, get up.
00:20He didn't move, and then when I walked over the bed,
00:22I saw it looked like a brain or something coming out here.
00:25Three large-caliber gunshot wounds of the head are really ugly.
00:32The vast majority of homicides in New Hampshire aren't whodunit.
00:38This was a whodunit.
00:39So why did you have to shoot on that?
00:41I didn't shoot him.
00:43Information to solve cases comes from people telling you things.
00:48I don't know nothing.
00:50And if people do not want to talk to you, then you can't solve anything.
00:53Just be truthful.
00:55Huh?
00:57It's easy to mess with someone's head when it's filled with fear.
01:01How much can I make you believe that you're going to be tortured for the rest of your days on this planet
01:07unless you start telling me the truth?
01:09Did you shoot that man?
01:13Pressure works.
01:14I spent my career closing murder cases.
01:24But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
01:27It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable, to catch a ruthless killer, to find justice for the dead.
01:38That's what it takes to be an American detective.
01:44My name is Gary Bartas, born and raised right here in Manchester, New Hampshire.
01:54I grew up in a housing project, so there were two choices, be a criminal or be a cop.
02:00And I just wanted to be a police officer.
02:03And the last service for anyone is for Gary Bartas.
02:05I was a police officer in the state for 44 years.
02:10I was a detective sergeant with the Auburn Police Department.
02:16Auburn is a lot of open fields, beautiful, like, suburban homes.
02:20You think when you're going somewhere like Auburn that you're in a safe, family-oriented, pretty quiet location.
02:29People would always ask me, well, what do you do as a cop in Auburn?
02:32I said, I do the same thing as a New York City officer does, just a lot less of it.
02:37That morning, I was actually in the station.
02:42We received a 911 call that there was a dead body.
02:50There are always murders on Christmas.
02:53I always had a homicide, either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
02:57Everybody's home, everybody's drunk, and somebody is unhappy with yet another tie.
03:07When I first got to the scene, I was very familiar with the property.
03:12It's like an old cottage going back to, like, the 40s.
03:15It's on a big piece of land.
03:18The ashes who first discovered the body have confirmed, in fact, that the victim is the homeowner, 50-year-old George Jodwin.
03:27George Jodwin was well-known in the area.
03:29Never had any real serious calls to service at that residence.
03:33The artist goes, as directed by the patrol officers on the scene, to the upstairs master bedroom.
03:42First thing we see is George is in bed.
03:45For lack of a better terminology, it looked like his brain was on the pillow.
03:50They see a person with gaping gunshot wounds of the head.
03:55Large caliber gunshot wounds of the head are really ugly.
03:59It's like dropping a grenade in somebody's ear canal.
04:03It's incredible the amount of damage it does.
04:06There was blood splattered on the headboard of the bed and as well as the wall.
04:11They looked more closely at the gunshot wounds, two in the head and one in the neck.
04:16There were no shell casings in the bedroom, which indicated to us that it was a revolver.
04:24George was tucked under the covers.
04:26He didn't change into any pajamas or anything like that.
04:29There was no signs of any struggle.
04:31He's in a relaxed position, probably passed out from alcohol.
04:35You can always smell alcohol in someone's breath if you're close to them, but you can also smell it in their blood.
04:43He appeared to just be asleep when he is executed by somebody with a large caliber handgun and probably never felt it.
04:52Bardis can't think of a single reason why someone would want to fill his head with bullets, yet here he is.
04:57What I knew about George is that he had a personality, a big personality.
05:03He owned a pawn shop on the west side of Manchester.
05:07He was active in the community.
05:09He did run for the city office.
05:12He had his pilot's license.
05:14He played the piano.
05:15He owned a yacht and he would go sailing to different countries.
05:19He's a confirmed bachelor.
05:21He is very successful in business.
05:22He paints a picture of a very interesting man, a renaissance man, perhaps.
05:27The Jodwin family was very well known.
05:30You just don't expect a family like that to be victimized.
05:34You don't really realize that these things could happen in your town until they do.
05:38And it is a shock and a wake-up call that these things can happen to anybody, anywhere.
05:50Nothing in the room was really disruptive except for some dresser drawers that were open.
05:55And so I thought that was kind of, like, odd.
05:59What would be the reason for that?
06:01There's no real fast, crazy tossing that happens in burglaries.
06:07Is this just a mess?
06:09Or was someone looking for something in George's dresser?
06:12The house didn't have any signs of forced entry.
06:16As a matter of fact, the door going into the kitchen was wide open, unlocked.
06:20There was no pry marks, nothing indicating a burglary.
06:24To me, as an investigator, that indicates that the person that committed the crime knew him.
06:31The kitchen was a pile of dishes in the sink.
06:34There's some empty alcohol bottles.
06:36It's the holidays.
06:38Perhaps a party was underway on the 26th.
06:41And this is the result, the aftermath of a party.
06:44The obvious question is, who is at this party?
06:48It would be likely to consider that one of them is responsible for this death.
06:55They do an area canvas.
06:57Most of the neighbors report that there were multiple gunshots in the afternoon.
07:01But to explain that that's not unusual, Mr. Jodowen often does target practice on his own property.
07:09The only thing that bothered them was they heard three distinctive gunshots late at night.
07:18Which is something that's never happened before.
07:22The neighbor that lives directly across the street, he had heard the gunshots.
07:26Looked at his digital clock that was on his bed stand and it said 1048.
07:30So we knew the time frame of the actual murder.
07:35When something bad happens, something this big, things spread like wildfire.
07:42All of a sudden, everybody knows what's going on.
07:46George Jodowen's brother arrives, Peter Jodowen, and wants to do everything he can to aid the police.
07:53I was fortunate that Peter arrived when he did because he was present at the party the house appears to have had the night of the victim's death.
08:05Peter was telling us that that particular day on the 26th, he had found George's .44 magnum in a piano that George had given him.
08:12And he brought it back knowing it was George's weapon.
08:15They asked Peter who was in attendance at this affair.
08:19And he says, one of George's friends, Ricky Caron, was there.
08:24Ricky Caron had used George's land to go hunting for birds.
08:27And then Arthur Collins had showed up.
08:30Arthur Collins was kind of a handyman, junk man, do-anything-fire-for-a-buck kind of guy.
08:37He was there towing a vehicle off the property.
08:39So there were three people with totally different reasons for being there.
08:46So they decided to take the gun Peter brought in target practice.
08:52They were having a few drinks and they were target practicing with a .44 magnum.
08:59It's a .44 magnum revolver, so no ejected casings.
09:05A .44 magnum is one of the largest calibers available in a handgun.
09:09So it would produce massive gunshot wounds.
09:12The same type that George Jodowen suffered from.
09:16So Bardis reasonably concludes that that's a murder weapon, and whoever used it took it with him.
09:29We were told that Arthur left earlier.
09:33And then eventually Peter had to leave because his daughter had a high school basketball game.
09:38So when he left, the only people present were George Jodowen, the victim, and Ricky Caron.
09:45They asked Peter, well, Ricky, does he get along well with George?
09:50Well, yes and no.
09:52They would have some squabbles about foolish things sometimes, but that's just the way their relationship was.
10:01So now we have two guys in a room separated by a .44 magnum and a bunch of alcohol, and they have a history of arguments.
10:09Just as Peter was telling us that Ricky was one of the last ones to see George alive, Ricky arrived at the scene.
10:25How convenient, Mr. Caron.
10:32He was nervous.
10:33He was upset, questioning what was going on.
10:36Why is he there?
10:37It was just, to me, very suspicious.
10:40At that moment, Bardis looks at Ricky Caron's pants, and they're covered in dark red specks.
10:46The assumption was they were bloodstains.
10:50There is a cloud of blood that emanates from a gunshot wound.
10:54The blood moves toward the killer.
10:57The killer is going to have high-velocity blood spatter on his clothing.
11:02It seems that Mr. Caron has a little explaining to do.
11:05Ricky Caron has shown up at the scene with what looks like high-velocity blood spatter on his pants.
11:18Caron says, I don't know what you think that is, but what it is is ink.
11:23I'm a screen printer.
11:24You never take a suspect at his word, but you do take what you think might be evidence from his person.
11:30And in this case, it's his pants.
11:31We brought him down to the police station, give him a pair of sweatpants,
11:37so the genes could be tested to find out if that was actually blood or some other substance.
11:43So, as it turned out, after the pants were examined by forensics,
11:47the dots, they're not human blood.
11:49They are ink, as Caron said they were.
11:53But we still wondered if he had anything to do with this,
11:56because he was the last one to see George alive.
11:59Ricky was concerned, nervous.
12:02He says he was on his way to have breakfast and saw the police activity
12:06and decided to stop and see what was going on.
12:08To me, it's not a coincidence that he's showing up.
12:11They questioned Ricky Caron about their prior day.
12:14What happened after everyone left but you?
12:17We had a little more small talk, George and I,
12:20talking about how he had some land for sale somewhere up north.
12:25When you left George's house, the time was roughly...
12:29Well, I know when I left, it was dusk.
12:31I had to go pick up my girlfriend then.
12:33And that was the last time I saw my friend.
12:38Ricky talked about going to the Aloha restaurant in Manchester.
12:42And I personally talked to a bartender and she verified that he had been there.
12:45Ricky Caron did not kill his friend.
12:48He had no opportunity to kill his friend.
12:52So they asked Ricky Caron,
12:55did George say what he was going to do for the rest of the evening?
12:57Well, he did say Arthur was going to come by later.
13:00George's handyman.
13:01You always look at who's the last person to see him alive.
13:05We ended up reaching out to Arthur and told him that, you know, we need to speak with him.
13:16Arthur Collins was interviewed by me and by Jim White of the State Police.
13:20Arthur Collins does have a long association with the victim.
13:35He does odd jobs for him.
13:37And he said, come over and get a couple of junk cars on it.
13:45So I did.
13:47I had to fix the tire on it.
13:49So I made a love trip and dropped the tire off.
13:53Arthur says, I got there at 7 o'clock.
13:55We had a couple of beers.
13:58I had to go for when I went home.
14:00What time did you get home on Wednesday?
14:02I'd say 9.30.
14:03We know from the neighbors that the shots were heard, the fatal shots, at 10.48 p.m.
14:11Mr. Collins has a solid alibi.
14:14We felt suspicious about Arthur Collins because the way he interviewed, he was nervous.
14:19But after checking the alibi and finding out that what he said was verified by his wife,
14:26he dropped off the suspect list.
14:29So who came by after Arthur Collins left?
14:33And wound up killing our victim.
14:38In every murder case, it's always interesting to speak to who found the body.
14:44Did you know to find it because you created it?
14:48George's body was initially discovered by his business partner, Glenn Baruti.
14:53They'd been partners for several years.
14:55In the pawn shop, I buy and sell everything.
14:57Everyone in town describes him as George's best friend.
15:02We had gone into the pawn shop.
15:08We spoke with Glenn.
15:09I was supposed to meet him at his house.
15:11He was planning on taking a trip to Kyrie at the end of the month.
15:14And he's got animals that have to be taken care of out there.
15:17So that's supposedly why Glenn went over there to be taught how to take care of the animals
15:22while George was out of the country.
15:24I pulled in a little after night.
15:26I saw his front door was open.
15:28I walked in the house figuring, you know, he was in the shower or something.
15:32Describe to me what you saw when you looked into his bedroom.
15:38It looked like he was asleep in his bed.
15:39And I said, hey, get up.
15:40Your animals are hungry.
15:42He didn't move.
15:42And then when I walked over the bed, I saw it looked like it rained or something coming
15:46out here.
15:48And I just, I ran out of there.
15:52Now, Bartas expects to hear the next thing is that he called 911.
15:56He didn't do that.
15:58Baruti says something off the wall.
16:01I didn't know what to do.
16:02I went to my father.
16:03I said, you got to call the police.
16:05I can't do it.
16:06You didn't speak with the police?
16:09No.
16:09The fact that he rushed out of there to his father's house without calling the police,
16:15it's very odd.
16:17And one thing you don't like when you're a homicide detective is something being odd.
16:22What time did you close the business last night?
16:24Yeah, 7 o'clock.
16:25And then what did you go?
16:26I went right home.
16:28He left over, turped me, me and stuff.
16:31I read Mike magazine in bed and shut my light.
16:34And that was it.
16:35Look, what time about what did you think that was?
16:37It had to be a little after nine.
16:39Glenn Baruti does not have a verifiable alibi of any kind.
16:45So investigators try a different angle.
16:48Bardis asked Glenn if he can take a look at the pawn shop's records.
16:54Glenn was very, very forthcoming.
16:56He led us into his office.
16:59So they're going through paperwork.
17:00And inadvertently and innocently, they come across a recent last will and testament of George Jodowin.
17:10Ooh, look at this.
17:11George had changed the will and put everything in Glenn's name.
17:15So he was going to be the heir of everything.
17:19He had the business, the house, the boat.
17:22So Glenn had the most to gain.
17:23And I felt he's the man that committed the homicide.
17:28They have encountered no one else with a motive like this.
17:31And it is one hell of a motive.
17:33New Hampshire detectives are looking into the violent death of George Jodowin.
17:40And the natural emerging suspect is Glenn Baruti, his business partner and heir to George Jodowin's fortune.
17:49He has suspicions, yes, but there's no such crime as suspicion.
18:19During the whole investigation of George's homicide, we interviewed many people, friends, business associates.
18:29And none of it ever developed anything serious to give us a solid suspect.
18:36We ran out of leads and the case went ice cold.
18:40Are you frustrated at this point?
18:43I don't get mad.
18:44It's not my personality.
18:46I did my job, did the best we could.
18:48In law enforcement, we know that somewhere along the line, even if a case goes cold, somebody's going to talk.
18:54So, we're driving on the bridge in the west side several times.
19:02I've heard other people yelling out to say, hey, Bobby, hey, Bobby, come get your coffee and all this stuff.
19:08People know you around town.
19:09Well, when you're born here, a lot of people know you.
19:16And when you work here, especially as a policeman, it makes it easier for people to trust you because they know you.
19:23My name is Robert Freitas.
19:24I'm born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire.
19:26I'm retired from the Manchester Police Department.
19:29I think any cop that you talk to who's retired will tell you the same thing.
19:32It's the greatest job in the world.
19:33So, in 2011, I became involved in this case as a member of the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit.
19:42Members of the Joe Wynn family had contacted the Cold Case Unit about bringing George's case to the forefront of our investigations.
19:50They were very proactive with trying to get information to solve it.
19:55This was a whodunit.
19:56The vast majority of homicides in New Hampshire aren't whodunits.
20:02There was a lot of talk about this homicide for a long time.
20:07It has a larger impact than you can imagine because it makes us as a community feel safer to have an ending to a case like this.
20:16The whole idea of attacking an inactive murder case is to begin on page one.
20:25Review this case as if it just happened.
20:32Take a cold look at this with a new set of eyes.
20:36Bill Barry with the Auburn, New Hampshire Police Department.
20:39He was working with me on this case.
20:42Once I get involved with a case, I dig like a pit bull.
20:44I say, I'm not going to let go.
20:46I'd known him for a long time.
20:48We think alike.
20:49And we kind of gelled together.
20:51We came up with a plan to reinvestigate.
20:55Reviewing the case, we knew that Ricky Caron, Arthur Collins, and Peter Jobin were there that night.
21:03And Glenn Baruti was the one that found George in his bed on that morning of the 27th of December.
21:09But was it possible that somebody else could have been involved?
21:13We thought potentially was it maybe a jilted lover, somebody that George may have been involved with at some point.
21:19George Jobin had a reputation as being a ladies' man.
21:24Jealousy is always a powerful emotion.
21:26What if he's dating someone, and then she discovers that there are other women in his life?
21:31Well, hell hath no fury, as they said.
21:35So he starts there.
21:37Fredis, over time, he meets with many women who have enjoyed George's company.
21:44But they all say one thing.
21:46He's a gentleman.
21:47Not a heartbreaker.
21:48But they discover some interesting gossip.
21:54There was a rumor that George Jobin was bisexual.
21:59Through the investigation, there were a lot of weird stories that came out about George.
22:05But no one wants to confirm anything.
22:07So they developed no suspects from any of that conversation.
22:13Fredis is being thorough.
22:14So he continues looking into past relationships, and they come across a woman named Tammy Floyd.
22:20And she just so happens to be the sister-in-law of George's handyman, Arthur Collins, typical of a small town.
22:30We went to Tammy's address in Manchester, New Hampshire, to speak with her about a potential relationship that she had with George Jobin.
22:38And her daughter, Belinda Floyd, was also there.
22:41While we were talking to Tammy, I had asked her if she had a relationship with George.
22:45Tammy Floyd denied any relationship whatsoever with George Jobin.
22:49So we kind of ruled that out.
22:51At that point, we asked them about any recollection they had of the night of George's homicide.
22:58One thing that Tammy did finally say was, well, my daughter was actually at Arthur's house the night of the murder.
23:04Her daughter, Belinda Floyd, told us she had been at Arthur's home that night playing cards with Arthur's wife.
23:15Fredis thinks this could be a real opening.
23:18No one knew Belinda existed.
23:24Belinda was only 16 at the time.
23:26She was in school, so she was staying with them over school vacation.
23:31One of the questions that I asked Belinda was, what time did Arthur get home the night of December 26th?
23:37Looking back at Arthur's statements to the original detectives, he said it was 9.30 when he got home.
23:42Belinda says none of that is true.
23:46She remembered specifically that Arthur came in sometime after midnight that night.
23:50He appeared to have been drinking, and he went right to his bed.
23:53And there was no other talk with him.
23:56We know the murder took place around 10.48 p.m.
24:00That was a key at that point.
24:02That changed everything.
24:03It was possible that it was, in fact, Arthur Collins that murdered George Showman.
24:10So Fredis goes back and re-interviews the wife of Arthur Collins and says,
24:16how certain are you as to what time he came home?
24:19She said, I thought it might be 9.30, but it could have been midnight.
24:24So they have shot his alibi full of holes.
24:26Did they do it with a .44 Magnum?
24:28Well, we're about to see.
24:31Arthur Collins was the type of guy that would live paycheck to paycheck some weeks,
24:35and no paycheck to no paycheck other weeks,
24:38and would often pawn property at George's shop in Manchester because he needed money.
24:44It was like Groundhog Day with Arthur Collins because he would show up,
24:49pawn off his tools, get some money, end of the month come back, retrieve his tools,
24:54and then the same thing over and over again.
24:57But George was so nice to him that he would give, you know,
25:00Arthur extra time to come and retrieve his tools,
25:03and he wouldn't even attempt to sell them.
25:06In February of 2012, Bill Berry and I picked up Arthur at his home in Manchester.
25:13The true advantage of a cold case investigator, the element of surprise.
25:19Ten years later, when a new policeman knocks on the door,
25:23Arthur Collins is hopelessly unprepared.
25:25So he's at his weakest point, the perfect time to talk to him.
25:29And we kind of confronted him with the information that we had.
25:34Arthur now says, well, I really don't remember what time I got home.
25:39We got pretty drunk.
25:40We knew that he was not being truthful with us.
25:43We weren't going to let him off the hook.
25:46So Freitas continues to apply the pressure.
25:49How much can I make you believe that you're going to be tortured
25:52for the rest of your days on this planet unless you start telling me the truth?
25:57Pressure works.
25:58It was at that time that Arthur told us that he was present
26:04during the time of George's homicide, but it wasn't him that did it.
26:09He knows who killed George.
26:11He's been shielding him for ten long years.
26:15Now we're getting somewhere.
26:16At this point in this investigation,
26:22Freitas now knows that Arthur Collins, by his own admission, was present when
26:27George Jodowin was shot to death.
26:29He just came right out and says, yeah, I was there, but I didn't do it.
26:34Arthur said it was in fact James LaRoche that was the one that murdered George Showman.
26:41Arthur told us that he had gone back to George's property with Jimmy LaRoche and the three of them
26:56at the property drank.
26:57It got to the point where Arthur didn't want to stay anymore.
27:03Arthur went out to his vehicle.
27:04He started his vehicle up, warmed his vehicle, because it was December at the time, so it was cold.
27:09All of a sudden, Arthur heard three distinct loud gunshots.
27:19And he saw muzzle flashes in the upstairs bedroom window.
27:23And then Jim LaRoche came running out.
27:28Got into his truck and said, I hurt George bad.
27:33We need to get out of here.
27:34So Arthur then drove James LaRoche back to Manchester, where he dropped him off at his residence on the west side.
27:44Arthur did admit at that point that he lied about his timeline account, because he was afraid of what James LaRoche may do to him.
27:54The cat is out of the bag, Arthur, and we're under no obligation to ignore it.
28:00James LaRoche now becomes suspect number one.
28:04So Freda rounds up James LaRoche and brings him in.
28:11I had kind of asked Jimmy LaRoche, what does he remember about George's homicide?
28:17And he says immediately, I know nothing, very abruptly, very fast.
28:23He said, not only didn't I not do this, I wasn't even there, because I was in Florida at the time.
28:28So at that point we said that he was done talking with us and didn't want to be bothered anymore.
28:34So we did some research, and from some Manchester police reports that we were able to dig up, we knew that James LaRoche was not in Florida at the time of George's homicide, that he was in fact in Manchester.
28:47So he's trying to provide an alibi, and instead he provides a lie.
28:53It's never good to lie to the police, because they're going to make you eat it.
28:58So Freda thinks, all right, Arthur, you say this is what happened, so we're going to set you up with a recorded telephone, and you're going to talk to James LaRoche and bring up this murder and see what happens.
29:12Arthur was very cooperative and appreciative of the fact that we were trying to eliminate him as a suspect.
29:18You're constantly trying to talk to me every day, and I'm getting sick of it.
29:28Hey, don't feel bad. My phone goes off all day long, too, so...
29:31Did you tell anybody about that, or...?
29:33Tell anybody about what?
29:36What night? What night are you talking about?
29:39The night we were out there.
29:41I wasn't out there with you.
29:43Jim LaRoche had, you know, was kind of dodging the questions.
29:49You could tell he was thrown off guard.
29:51So why did you have to shoot him, then?
29:54Who?
29:54You.
29:55I didn't shoot him. Crazy f***ing.
29:59James LaRoche denied any involvement in the homicide, told Arthur, hey, I don't know what you're talking about. This is crazy.
30:06I don't f***ing know nothing, Arthur.
30:08I didn't do anything, so I don't know nothing.
30:10James LaRoche doesn't say anything about the murder. He doesn't say anything about anything.
30:17At that point, Bill and I met with James LaRoche and convinced him to take a polygraph examination concerning his involvement in the Joban homicide.
30:27And that test was administered by Sergeant Scott Gilbert.
30:31Scott was a member of the Caucasian unit with me.
30:35James LaRoche was convincing that he was sitting for this because he didn't do it.
30:40And I assured him that if he didn't have any involvement in this, that he was going to pass this auger exam and detectives can move on.
30:49He answered all my questions without hesitation.
30:52We discussed whether he was responsible for this, and he showed no deception.
31:01Squatty came out and said he passed with flying colors. He didn't do it.
31:08Investigators asked LaRoche why did he lie about being in Florida at the time of George's murder.
31:15And he said, well, I was drinking heavily, and I black out a lot.
31:21He made a comment to us that most of 2001 was a blank to him.
31:27That's a reasonable statement.
31:28So all this time, Arthur Collins has been trying to deflect suspicion away from himself and onto his wife's cousin, James LaRoche.
31:38He was blaming someone else that actually wasn't even there.
31:42He thinks this plan is going to work, which wouldn't make any sense to a six-year-old, but Arthur isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
31:49Arthur, thank you so much for being an idiot. We're now in a position to shove this down your throat.
31:59So, we wanted to speak with Arthur and get him to take a polygraph, and he agreed to take it.
32:06On the day that we were supposed to do it, and we went to pick him up, he was not home.
32:12Arthur ghosted us.
32:14For about three weeks, he won't answer phone calls, we go to his home, he won't answer the door.
32:21He was making himself scarce.
32:24Arthur is in the wind.
32:26He doesn't want to talk about this polygraph, because he knows what that could mean.
32:30And so does Freitas.
32:32So he devises a better plan.
32:34We sat here, we made a call to him, telling him that we were going to come by his house around 11 to speak with him.
32:46He sets up a tactical team around Arthur's house, so there is no escape by car from his home.
32:55Trappist said, let's see if it springs.
32:58Waited, and we saw him emerge from his building to get into his vehicle.
33:04He was beating feet to get out of the area before we got there.
33:07And as he passed fear, the attack team got behind him down here and made a stop.
33:16The officers that approached him in the car had full tactical gear.
33:21I think it had a psychological effect on him.
33:24I think in his mind, he's thinking that, am I getting arrested for a homicide?
33:29It's easy to mess with someone's head when it's filled with fear.
33:33Arthur, Arthur is a ball of yarn.
33:36Freitas is the captain.
33:39A short time later, Bobby and I pulled up behind him.
33:43We said, you know, what's going on out there?
33:46And I explained to him, if you take the polygraph examination and you pass it, we won't bother you again.
33:53So he agreed to do that.
33:55Well, I appreciate you coming in today so we can get this resolved.
33:58Yeah.
34:00So now here is Arthur in the hot seat.
34:03We hook him up to a box and start asking him questions about the murder of George Jodowen.
34:10He was very quiet.
34:12He didn't really speak unless spoken to.
34:16But he was adamant that he wasn't involved in it.
34:19Just be truthful.
34:21Yeah.
34:21All right.
34:23Ready?
34:24Yeah.
34:25Did you shoot that man?
34:31No.
34:35I could immediately see that this is not going to be good for him.
34:41Arthur Collins failed the polygraph examination.
34:44The only question he doesn't fail is, is your name Arthur Collins?
34:51I set him back down and I told him.
34:56What?
34:57Jim LaRose did not shoot George Jodowen.
35:00No?
35:01No.
35:03I bet.
35:04Well, I'm hoping you're going to tell me because now I know for a fact that you've lied to me.
35:12I did?
35:12And yeah, you lied to me.
35:15He's telling Arthur Collins chapter and verse, the lies he's telling, causing Arthur to wind up like a $2 watch.
35:25Please, don't keep it to yourself.
35:27It's the last thing you want to do.
35:29I know.
35:31He didn't get up and run out or say, I want a lawyer.
35:35I knew that there was more for him to say.
35:39And then I bring the detectives in and they have further conversation with him.
35:44Arthur then admitted that he's the one that pulled the trigger, that he's the one that killed George.
35:50He didn't seem emotional.
35:52He just, it was just matter of fact.
35:54Arthur said that he arrived at George's home that evening after fixing the tire, that the two had engaged in some drinking.
36:04Arthur claimed that George had attempted to sexually assault him at the table.
36:09And then George grabbed him and took him into the bedroom.
36:13Okay, all right, so what happens next?
36:15He's just trying to do stuff to me, grabbing me and stuff.
36:18Arthur says that George unbuckles his pants and, quote, tried to put his thing in my mouth.
36:26According to him, he was extremely angry, enraged.
36:42He took the gun, went back into the bedroom.
36:44Did George say anything to you?
36:46No.
36:46I just pointed at him and the thing went off.
36:50Went off like a hair trigger.
36:53It was really fast.
36:54And I ran out of here.
36:56So it has a hair trigger and just went off.
36:59And then it went off again.
37:02And then it went off again.
37:04So the gun decided to fire three times because you contacted it mentally.
37:12Nothing even makes any sense.
37:14He's become a babbling idiot.
37:17So there is Arthur's story.
37:20The detectives are grateful to have it because a confession is a confession.
37:28I don't believe his account that George Jodwin sexually assaulted him is true.
37:33I don't believe that at all.
37:34It is clear at the moment this occurs, Jodwin is so drunk he falls face down on the bed and goes to sleep.
37:42You want us to believe that he was going to sexually assault you and tried to?
37:45I don't think so.
37:47Further conversations with Glenn Baruti, his business partner, reveal a different set of facts.
37:54Earlier in the day on December 26th of 2001, George had called Glenn to get some advice on Arthur's request to pawn his tow truck for money.
38:08He was specifically looking for approximately $3,000.
38:13The issue with the pawn of the truck was that Arthur wanted to keep the truck and wanted the money.
38:19And Glenn didn't think that was a good idea.
38:22Although it can't be proven, the likely scenario is that George Jodwin probably told him,
38:30you're a nice kid, Arthur, but we can't justify the loan and I'm going to have to say no.
38:35It's possible that Arthur may have left the residence, George had gotten into bed to go to sleep for the night.
38:43Arthur sits in his truck and he stews.
38:49He's on the point of boil.
38:52And Arthur becomes furious because he really needs that money.
38:59Arthur walks right back in, picks up the gun and goes upstairs.
39:07George is laying face down on the bed.
39:13And boom, boom, boom.
39:19My thought is, after he did that, Arthur was going through the dresser drawers looking for money.
39:25I believe that it was pure and simple.
39:27It was just, it was money.
39:29He was a desperate guy who needed cash.
39:34Despite Arthur's confession, the .44 Magnum has never recovered.
39:39He disposed of that weapon and holster in the salvage yard in Manchester.
39:44It was crushed and possibly transported overseas for recycling.
39:51After Arthur's polygraph examination, his confession, we took him into custody.
39:56When they made the arrest of Arthur Collins against my personality, I got angry.
40:04Because I said, damn, we missed it.
40:07But I think the people in Auburn will believe that now it's come to a close.
40:12So Arthur Collins, in July of 2015, pled to second-degree murder.
40:16And he received a sentence of 30 years to life.
40:19One of the sad parts about this is the fact that George treated him really well.
40:24And there was no, no reason for Arthur to, to do what he did to him.
40:31Murder has no statute of limitations.
40:34And there's always somebody looking for the person that's responsible for it.
40:38And that should give some family members of unsolved homicides some solace in knowing
40:43that their loved one hasn't been forgotten.
40:48George Jodowin forgot something about human nature.
40:52Humans don't change.
40:54Some people cannot be helped.
40:57But they're the same they've always been.
40:59Self-centered and dangerous.
41:01Period. The end.
41:03Believe otherwise, and you do so at your own risk.
41:06On the next American detective.
41:13We now have the identity of all five victims.
41:16They have a spree killer on their hands.
41:19Once he begins, he will not stop.
41:22Why is he doing this?
41:24Who is he targeting?
41:26The fear was he would strike again, and he has.