S2 [9] Ophelia | The Ballad of Billy Balls

The Ballad of Billy Balls

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History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Rebecca's grief in the years following Billy’s death leads her to an unlikely source of comfort, and a big surprise.

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0:00.0	Wow!
0:05.0	I never thought there would be an actual eye witness report of what happened, and we have
0:11.0	absolutely no way of knowing whether that's true at all.
0:14.2	I'm showing my dad, Seth, the police report from Billy's shooting.
0:20.9	Is he saying that Billy came into the bathroom with a pistol drawn?
0:26.6	That makes no sense.
0:29.1	The subject came into the bathroom and observed the PO writing on the paper.
0:34.3	At that point, the subject drew a 25 caliber automatic and stated to the PO, give me the
0:40.4	fucking paper, give me the fucking paper.
0:43.7	And then the PO took out money to make the deal while the perp was holding the gun on
0:48.3	him and said, cop, I'm loaded.
0:50.3	While you're holding that gun on me, let's do this deal.
0:53.0	That's what happened, you say?
0:54.8	Okay.
0:56.7	You see now are those facts?
0:59.3	Is that the truth?
1:00.3	Am I looking at the truth?
1:02.1	Is that what this is?
1:03.8	When people put this money like decoration around it and stamp it from the city, this
1:12.2	is truth from the perspective of the perpetrators of a homicide.
1:18.6	I mean, you know, the police do have a reputation.
1:23.6	Many arc was a very dangerous city.
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