Matt Murphy

So what happens is, I don't know if you used to watch Get Smart, the old show Get Smart.

There's a gag that he'd do over and over again.

Right when he gets caught, Maxwell Smart would say, would you believe?

Like, okay, I know I said this, but would you believe?

And that's what Ed does.

Ed was getting on a plane to go to Canada, which was a violation of his probation in Riverside.

And also, we're getting pretty close here.

And

So I made the decision that, you know, we needed to we needed to step up the investigation and basically take him off the plane before he flew out of the country.

So we communicated with his probation officer to determine whether or not he had a probation vote or whether he could leave the country without permission.

And he could not.

So Ray and Don arrested him at LAX and they drive him down and they have.

an interview with Ed and they kind of let him talk for a while and tell us the same story that he told the detectives at Laguna Beach.

And then he told Steve Smith, the dad, and he basically tells the same tale.

And then they confront him with all the information they have.

They confront him with, you know, the forensics and everything else that had just been put together.

And and

he essentially changes the story to, okay, okay, here's what really happened.

Would you believe we got in a big argument over money and he attacked me and we got in this fight and I pushed him down and he hit his head on the corner of the desk.

And I didn't know what to do and I panicked.