Suspect Page #6

But of all those murder cases -

- this is the most horrible,

the most senseless, the most indefensible.

For nine dollars.

Nine dollars.

Nine dollars. That's all she had.

Is this what we've become?

Is the value of human life so cheap?

Elizabeth worked late that night.

It was cold. She was tired

and anxious to get home.

She took the bus to the parking lot

where her car was.

That's as far as she got.

We will show that Anderson had been

in that parking lot, breaking into cars.

He had been sleeping

in Elizabeth's car.

And a parking-lot attendant

had chased him away.

But he had come back.

And when he saw Elizabeth

alone and defenseless, -

- he beat her, dragged her down

to the river and killed her.

This isn't the eleven o'clock news.

We can't just shake our heads,

go to bed and forget about it.

We have a responsibility

to Elizabeth Rose Quinn.

She is, after all, too important.

Miss Riley?

Carl Wayne Anderson is not a decent,

hard-working citizen.

He is not a shining example

of the American dream.

Carl Anderson is

the American nightmare.

He's one of the nameless,

faceless derelicts -

- that wander through the streets

of our country by the thousands.

We step over them in doorways.

We cross the street -

- in order to avoid having to

come in contact with one of them.

We look at them with a mixture

of pity, contempt and fear.

And we choose not to see that

under their ragged, filthy clothes -

- is a frightened, lost human being,

just like you and me.

Carl Anderson was a soldier in Vietnam.

Not a hero, just a dog soldier -

- who believed in

and fought for his country.

And when he tried to regain his -

- identity and self-respect

in a veterans hospital,-

- he contracted spinal meningitis,

became deaf, -

- and suffered

a traumatic speech loss.

Carl Anderson lived in a world

where nine dollars -

- could mean the difference between

eating and starving to death.

They weren't supposed to vote

until next week.

They were ready to adjourn.

The leadership called for the vote.

- What's the count?

- The right yes puts us over the top.

No comment.

You lucked out. Her chairman must

have persuaded Comisky to vote yes.

- That must have been it, Congressman.

- Give me a call.

Nice job, Eddie.

- Could you describe what you found?

- She had been attacked from behind.

Her throat cut laterally across

the larynx and the carotid artery -

from left to right.

- What kind of instrument caused this?

- A very thin, straight blade.

A razor. A knife.

I'm showing you what's been marked as

government exhibit one.

Have you seen this knife before?

Yes. I was asked to do

a forensic examination of it.

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