I was taught when you speak for the dead, you never close a case.

You never give up.

You're speaking for the dead forever until this matter solid.

You keep looking, you keep analyzing things, you keep going back, never give up.

I've got wine burger.

Best of the head of journalists and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anisee Gennick-A-Lazy, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation

discoveries through conviction.

And this is Anatomy of Murder.

Every week we try to give you a peek behind the curtain into cases by the people we talk

to, whether it's an NCIS investigator or a nobody expert, the guests take you behind

the scene to what really happens in a homicide case.

And today's interviewee is no different.

John Flynn is the current district attorney of Erie County, New York.

There's 105 lawyers and about 100 support staff, which includes about 15 investigators.

You know, I think people really don't realize the role that prosecutors, including the

chief prosecutor, the DA have when it comes to homicide cases, you know, as it prosecutors

were involved in homicide cases very often from the time that someone dies.

But it is the DA's office that calls the shots or makes that ultimate decision at least

when we authorize and arrest.

Our case begins on August 4, 2005, where the male man on his deli root sitting in his

male truck on Orange Street near the downtown area of Buffalo.

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