Matt Murphy

They didn't clean up a bank account.

They don't all these different things that are going on there.

And so she's like the, you know, the victim that you want when it comes to putting one of those cases together.

So, of course, when the body showed up, that got everything jumped up into high gear.

So arrest warrant was put together.

We had a surveillance going on for Scott down in San Diego by agents from Department of Justice, Ernie Lamone and his crew down there, because we didn't have enough cops to help out on this.

So we used help from a lot of different agencies throughout the state.

So we drove down to San Diego and we hooked up with those guys and then we were going to make the arrest the next day.

when the DNA results were going to be released.

Bill Lockyer was the attorney general in California at the time, and he was going to be in charge of releasing those results to the media and to the public.

And the instructions that we got from Judge Beauchesne, who gave us the arrest warrant, was,

I know what you have here, but don't execute this arrest warrant until you get those DNA results, if you can.

He didn't tell us we couldn't, but he wanted us to wait until we got those results.

And so when we started following Scott that next morning...

he was a i don't know if he was nascar quality but he was a pretty darn good driver i mean high speed and he could cut lanes and take an off ramp and of course we we didn't drive like that we'd roll our car or something and so we'd have to miss them you know we'd drive down another off ramp it was just a big you know it was kind of like a comedian of cars driving around it was ridiculous so they had a helicopter up so luckily we were able to stay on him but even the helicopter lost him at one point

Well, you know, we couldn't rule that out.

I mean, he knew San Diego well.

He grew up down there.

And, you know, that's not very far from Mexico.

We didn't know if he was if he thought the cops were after him or if he thought that you guys were after him, you know, trying to, you know, get an interview or, you know, dye their hair for us, John.