The Bad Son

Where are we? Over here?

Victim is female,

approximately17 to 20 years of age,

fair skin, freckles, red hair--

how longhas she been dead?

Decompositionis early stage.

Estimated time of deathis seven to 10 days ago.

Cause of death?

Do you mind?I'm filing my report.

File it later.

I'm getting old.

What was the cause of death?

Victim was severely beaten,strangled,

and burned on boththe hands and face.

It's not apparentat this time

which of these wasthe cause of death.

A complete autopsywill fully disclose...

Do you know somethingthat I don't, detective?

You don't brutally beat,strangle,

and burn the faceoff a teenage girl with acid

just to kill her.

Murder wasn't enough.

Rage, holt.

Cause of death was rage.

Bad plan, christy.

I don't like this littleplan of yours at all.

You didn't careif I liked your plan.

My plan?

And I don't careif you like mine.

No, that wasyour father's plan.

Okay, that is so patheticyou blame him.

I'm not blaming him,

but I wasn't the onethat ran off to arizona

with a 24-year-oldbartender.

Oh, christy, come on,life is hard.

It doesn't always work outthe way we want it to.

Oh, you think?

That doesn't meanthat we don't love you.

That I don't love you.

Can I go, please?

Divorce is hard on everyone,you know.

I know that you'reupset and confused--

I'm not confused.You are--

but you have gotto finish high school.

No, I don't!

I'm getting a job.

I want my own money.I want my own life.

You'll have all that,i promise you.

You will have all of it,but 16 is just not old enough.

It's my life.

I'm notgoing to let you do this.

Fine.

Try and stop me,I'm in phoenix the next day.

Oh, god...

How long'sshe been missing?

Five days.

Is it unusual for younot to hear from her

for five days?

Well, yes and no.

She quit schooland ran away from home

when she was 14.

Hadn't spoken to her for years,

and then,a couple months ago,

she got in touch.

Her relationshipwas bad news.

She wanted to come backto ohio, start again.

After that,we spoke most every day.

Planned the whole thing.

Mr. Brennan, I don't want youto take this the wrong way,

but if colleen has a historyof running away,

how do you knowthat she hasn't done it again?

She has a kid.

Kevin.

She'd neverleave that boy.

All she talked about

was bringing him back to ohio,

getting him away from finn.

Finn, is that her husband?

Fiance.

John david finn.

You know that feeling you getwhen something's wrong?

That's how I felt.

When's the last timeyou were in contact with her?

Well, I called hercell phone yesterday.

Somebody picked up,but didn't say nothing.

I got that same feeling,you know?

Like it was him.

Then I heard a childcalling out for his mommy.

It sounded like kevin,

but they hung up real quick.

Do you have a local addressfor her?

She sent a cardafter they got engaged.

She was livingthere with finn,

but that was three,four years ago.

I think something badhappened to her,

detective mcadams.

I can't stop thinkingit's something bad.

I'm not buying anything.

I'm not sellinganything.

Look, I already toldyou people.

The sprinklerson the second floor

of that building

will be fixed as soon asthe parts come in.

What else do you want from me?

Are you john david finn?

No.

Does he live here?

No.

Do you know where he lives?

No.

I'm detective ronnie mcadams.

You are?

Gerry o'connor.

That's better, gerry.

Look,i got an appointment to go to.

Do you thinkmaybe we could--

finish the conversation inside?

That's fine with me.

No, no, no, we can, uh...

I'll talk here.

Do you own this house?

Yeah, I own this house.

A michael brennanreported

his daughter colleenmissing for five days.

And she was engagedto john david finn,

and they gave thisas their last permanent address.

Do you know him?

Yeah.I'm his uncle.

Did he live with you?

Uh, no.

I mean, uh, yeah.

Well, it was a while ago.

He was, uh...

He was applyingfor a security job,

and he neededa permanent address,

so I let them use mine.

Do they have one now?

I don't...

I don't think so.

They...

Well, they move around a lot,you know?

Who was he applying with?What company?

I don't remember.

But you remember colleen,right?

Yeah, I know her.

You saw her?

Well, we allwent out for dinner

last w

last week sometime.

I don't rememberwhat day it was.

Where did you eat?

Uh... it was...

Pizza, maybe.

Yeah, yeah, it was pizza,i think.

Um, I don't rememberthe place too well.

It had, uh...

It had pictures of italyon the wall.

Yeah, that's it.

Were john and colleen arguing?

Did they have a fight?

Not that I know of.

Everything was fine.

We had pizza.

Everybody was happy.

Look, you know, I, uh...

I really got to go.

People aremoving in.

I got to deliverthese keys here.

So, uh...

I'm sureeverything will be all right,

and I wish I could beof more help.

Mcadams.

Yeah?

Okay, go.

Wait one second.

Polaris security.

Spell that?

And a john finn,not a john david finn?

Uh-huh.

Do they have a home address?

Okay, fantastic.

Gotcha. Bye.

Who are you?

Oh, good afternoon.I'm detective ronnie mcadams.

So?

I was given this addressby polaris security.

I'm looking fora john david finn.

Does he live here?

I live here.

Could I have your name, please?

There's no law tha

look, ma'am, I've beena detective for 12 years.

You don't want to bethe first person

that I have to haul downtownto get their name, do you?

Frances reynolds.

Thank you, mrs. Reynolds.

Do you know a john finn?

I'm his mother.Of course I do.

Do you mind if I step inside?

We can have a little chat.