Josh Margolin

Right. So Kifidi puts himself on record with authorities twice, 2008, 2009. Then additionally- Over the course of time from 2009 to 2023, he repeats this story several times. In one now famous clip in a documentary about death row records, he puts himself in the car and he talks about how this shooting went down, but he doesn't want to actually say who the trigger man was.

He says he's going to keep that for the code of the streets. In another interview, he does actually give more information. He ultimately releases a memoir titled, where he's one of the co-authors, a memoir of his life, and he talks about this. And this is in 2019, right? So he's implicating himself in writing them. Right.

He says he's going to keep that for the code of the streets. In another interview, he does actually give more information. He ultimately releases a memoir titled, where he's one of the co-authors, a memoir of his life, and he talks about this. And this is in 2019, right? So he's implicating himself in writing them. Right.

And so after the arrest, and as we're trying to investigate the investigation, and we spent a long time doing this, going back and forth to Las Vegas, to Los Angeles, interviewing all these various people who are directly involved, we were trying to figure out, first of all, why didn't they charge him back in 2009?

And so after the arrest, and as we're trying to investigate the investigation, and we spent a long time doing this, going back and forth to Las Vegas, to Los Angeles, interviewing all these various people who are directly involved, we were trying to figure out, first of all, why didn't they charge him back in 2009?

If he confessed then, it seems kind of like law and order that the first thing you do is go arrest the guy, right? So we wanted to find out what was going on with that, but he subsequently gives these additional accounts confirming his account originally that he was there in the car.

If he confessed then, it seems kind of like law and order that the first thing you do is go arrest the guy, right? So we wanted to find out what was going on with that, but he subsequently gives these additional accounts confirming his account originally that he was there in the car.

so vegas police it turns out in all those years they were following this case vegas police knew about the confession obviously that was made they believed that kifi d was somebody they could charge for this crime that he wasn't necessarily the trigger man but he had this role as the shot caller in the car

so vegas police it turns out in all those years they were following this case vegas police knew about the confession obviously that was made they believed that kifi d was somebody they could charge for this crime that he wasn't necessarily the trigger man but he had this role as the shot caller in the car

and so they spent all of these years trailing him you know figuratively what did he say where did he say it where are the breadcrumbs can we place him here can we get confirmations there i was like why don't you just charge him but they won't confirm they want something stronger than just one guy saying one thing exactly they were concerned that if they arrested him then and proceeded with just his confession if the confession for whatever reason got thrown out of court they'd have no case

and so they spent all of these years trailing him you know figuratively what did he say where did he say it where are the breadcrumbs can we place him here can we get confirmations there i was like why don't you just charge him but they won't confirm they want something stronger than just one guy saying one thing exactly they were concerned that if they arrested him then and proceeded with just his confession if the confession for whatever reason got thrown out of court they'd have no case

So their strategy was, let's wait, let's watch, let's build the case using the map that he was creating for detectives. And that's what they did. And it went year after year after year until finally... Las Vegas police, the Homicide Bureau, and prosecutors came to an agreement. Aha, we have enough. We have a solid case. Even if we lose the confession, we think we can get a conviction.

So their strategy was, let's wait, let's watch, let's build the case using the map that he was creating for detectives. And that's what they did. And it went year after year after year until finally... Las Vegas police, the Homicide Bureau, and prosecutors came to an agreement. Aha, we have enough. We have a solid case. Even if we lose the confession, we think we can get a conviction.

Let's charge it.

Let's charge it.

And so that leads us to when they raid his home in, what, 2023? So when police come to raid a home with a search warrant, in many ways, that's basically a press conference. That's a public act. They're kind of announcing to the world what they're up to. So they had most of their case locked down, at least the case that they believed they could proceed with.

And so that leads us to when they raid his home in, what, 2023? So when police come to raid a home with a search warrant, in many ways, that's basically a press conference. That's a public act. They're kind of announcing to the world what they're up to. So they had most of their case locked down, at least the case that they believed they could proceed with.

There were a couple of I's they wanted to dot, T's they wanted to cross. They did want to see if he had any guns in the home. And if any of those guns might match ballistics for the shooting, that would be icing on the cake. But yes, so that brings them to the raid. And then soon after the raid, they proceed with the arrest.

There were a couple of I's they wanted to dot, T's they wanted to cross. They did want to see if he had any guns in the home. And if any of those guns might match ballistics for the shooting, that would be icing on the cake. But yes, so that brings them to the raid. And then soon after the raid, they proceed with the arrest.

So like what happened here? We have been wanting to be able to interview him since he was arrested. It was clear almost from the get-go that they were going to use his own words against him. He was going to be his own worst enemy. The key witness for the prosecution was going to be the guy charged himself. So we obviously wanted to find out, hey man, why did you say all this stuff?