Previously on Bearbrook Season 2, a true crime story.

To cut you a break would utterly undermine the public's confidence in the criminal justice system.

Conviction take on this mythical power.

Once this conviction happens, it's like that story is what happened.

Who came up with that version of the story?

You know what I mean? Then how do we... who said that? That's how it happened?

Somebody had to say that that's how it happened, so obviously it happened.

The larger-than-life detective. It's such a crime story trope.

Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Elliott Stabler.

Their personalities are as much a part of the story as the crime itself.

But as often happens, life imitates art.

And in this case, the line separating them is especially blurry.

Detective Roland Lamy made an impression on almost everyone I talked to about the Sharon Johnson case.

30 odd years later, people forget a lot of the finer points, but they remember the lead investigator.

And over and over again, people would compare Lamy to the same guy.

I like to think of was remember the TV detective, Kojak.

Maybe you remember Kojak. I did not.

But thanks to YouTube, I now know that Kojak was a TV detective in the 1970s.

Kojak was big, bald, or nice suits, and seemed to always have a lollipop in his mouth.

He was a cop with an attitude, the kind who liked to grab the crooks by their lapels,

who didn't seem too concerned about their civil liberties.

This is private property.

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