Pushkin.

A Malibu dad who'd killed his wife and her young child out of greed,

it sure looked that way to Stan Roden, the Santa Barbara District Attorney.

This is Dempsey Billy, a DA's investigator who worked on the case.

I think we had five or six or seven criminal investigators,

and then probably about 12 deputy district attorneys.

And so the round table to see if the district attorneys should file that case.

When the facts of Fred's case were presented, there were crickets.

Nobody really wanted the case. They didn't think there's enough evidence there to accuse Fred Rayler.

And then Stan Roden felt very strongly about it and took it and ran with it.

Stan Roden was the elected official, the boss, and he wanted to argue the case himself.

He was determined to bring Fred Rayler to justice.

He's the one I'll take it myself.

He put the full weight of his office behind the effort.

Law enforcement was investigating five deaths with possible connections to Fred.

Verna, Doug, the Navy diver who had drowned while using Fred's scuba equipment.

And also Verna's first husband, Bill, and Fred's first wife, Gene.

The Santa Barbara detectives, Fred Ray, and Claude Tuller had turned up a ton of dirt on Fred.

For every person in Malibu who admired him had seemed, another one thought he was a creep.

He was cold, he was harsh, he was weird, he was kind, he was true, you could trust him with your life.

Fred hired a high-powered defense attorney and engaged a team of privatized.

They started re-interviewing the detective's sources.

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