1 00:00:01,735 --> 00:00:07,474 ( alarm wailing ) 2 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:17,917 MAN: During the First World War, 3 00:00:17,984 --> 00:00:21,287 Time Square was the premier theater district in the nation. 4 00:00:21,354 --> 00:00:23,656 And today, as you can see, it's just as exciting. 5 00:00:23,723 --> 00:00:25,458 Hey, it's MTV where they filmed TRL. 6 00:00:25,525 --> 00:00:27,026 Great. Take a picture. 7 00:00:27,093 --> 00:00:28,161 You need to be in it, too. 8 00:00:28,228 --> 00:00:29,696 You're killing me with the pictures. 9 00:00:29,763 --> 00:00:30,697 You know that, right? 10 00:00:30,764 --> 00:00:32,098 We're on vacation. 11 00:00:32,165 --> 00:00:33,666 Ask take guy to take it for us. 12 00:00:33,733 --> 00:00:34,801 Hurry before we drive by. 13 00:00:34,868 --> 00:00:36,803 You want it so bad, you ask him. 14 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:39,205 Excuse me, sir? 15 00:00:40,273 --> 00:00:41,307 Hello? 16 00:00:41,374 --> 00:00:42,442 Excuse me? 17 00:00:42,509 --> 00:00:43,643 Sir? Hello? 18 00:00:44,277 --> 00:00:45,145 ( screaming ) 19 00:00:45,211 --> 00:00:48,515 ( siren wailing ) 20 00:00:49,849 --> 00:00:52,619 How long is this tour? 21 00:00:53,620 --> 00:00:55,288 That was funny. 22 00:00:56,556 --> 00:00:57,590 So, what do we got here? 23 00:00:57,657 --> 00:00:59,592 New twist on the "Bitch Ride to Hell." 24 00:00:59,659 --> 00:01:02,495 Gang members dig up a rival's corpse 25 00:01:02,562 --> 00:01:04,230 and send it around the city on the subway? 26 00:01:04,297 --> 00:01:06,232 I mean, this isn't Chicago, Mac. 27 00:01:06,299 --> 00:01:08,601 It's urban legend. Looks like 28 00:01:08,668 --> 00:01:09,803 a practical joke. 29 00:01:09,869 --> 00:01:11,771 Times Square. Tour bus. 30 00:01:11,838 --> 00:01:12,739 Tourist T-shirt. 31 00:01:12,806 --> 00:01:16,309 Somebody was trying to scare the tourists 32 00:01:16,376 --> 00:01:19,479 and used a prop shop skeleton, huh? 33 00:01:22,582 --> 00:01:24,651 TAYLOR: Store-bought skeletons are bleached and processed. 34 00:01:24,717 --> 00:01:26,085 They also have 35 00:01:26,152 --> 00:01:28,221 drill marks from when they were assembled. 36 00:01:28,288 --> 00:01:30,657 This skull is brown and no drill marks. 37 00:01:30,723 --> 00:01:32,625 And it's missing a mandible. 38 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,129 If this is a joke, I'm not laughing. 39 00:01:37,764 --> 00:01:39,799 These bones are real. 40 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:34,554 DR. HAWKES: This is it? 41 00:02:34,621 --> 00:02:35,555 TAYLOR: Yeah. 42 00:02:35,622 --> 00:02:39,759 Mannequin clothes, ball cap... 43 00:02:39,826 --> 00:02:43,329 bones... 44 00:02:43,396 --> 00:02:44,464 Clever. 45 00:02:44,531 --> 00:02:45,632 Not that clever. 46 00:02:45,698 --> 00:02:47,734 Whoever assembled your skeleton 47 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:49,602 never took an anatomy class. 48 00:02:49,669 --> 00:02:51,938 Humerus was where the ulna should be. 49 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:54,340 Metacarpals were reversed with phalanges. 50 00:02:54,407 --> 00:02:56,442 Held together by wire. 51 00:02:57,810 --> 00:03:00,313 He used this for the fingers. 52 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:03,616 Adhesive putty. 53 00:03:06,352 --> 00:03:07,120 Looks like our "sculptor" 54 00:03:07,186 --> 00:03:08,955 left a little piece of himself behind. 55 00:03:11,491 --> 00:03:12,859 There he is. 56 00:03:12,926 --> 00:03:14,327 TAYLOR: "He"? 57 00:03:14,394 --> 00:03:15,261 Yeah. 58 00:03:15,328 --> 00:03:16,729 Pronounced brow ridge. 59 00:03:16,796 --> 00:03:19,499 Large mastoid process behind where the ears would be. 60 00:03:19,566 --> 00:03:20,567 And this seals it. 61 00:03:20,633 --> 00:03:23,202 Inion hook. 62 00:03:23,269 --> 00:03:25,438 No doubt about it, this skull was male. 63 00:03:25,505 --> 00:03:27,206 Off to a good start. What else? 64 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:28,641 Well, head is long and narrow. 65 00:03:28,708 --> 00:03:30,243 Same with the nasal aperture. 66 00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:31,277 Nasal bone and spine are long. 67 00:03:31,344 --> 00:03:32,412 Stick out over the maxilla. 68 00:03:32,478 --> 00:03:34,447 Caucasoid traits. He's white. 69 00:03:34,514 --> 00:03:36,249 How old? 70 00:03:36,316 --> 00:03:37,784 Medial clavicle is the last bone to fuse. 71 00:03:37,850 --> 00:03:39,652 Happens between 18 and 25. 72 00:03:42,355 --> 00:03:43,656 A flake develops on the clavicle 73 00:03:43,723 --> 00:03:46,559 where it connects to the sternum. 74 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:49,228 It eventually envelops the entire end cap 75 00:03:49,295 --> 00:03:52,298 of the clavicle, smoothing it out. 76 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:54,000 But Look at his. 77 00:03:54,067 --> 00:03:55,969 Round and lumpy. 78 00:03:56,035 --> 00:03:57,937 Flake hasn't yet started to form. 79 00:03:58,004 --> 00:03:59,539 He wasn't even 18. 80 00:03:59,606 --> 00:04:02,408 He was just a kid. 81 00:04:03,409 --> 00:04:04,377 Homicide? 82 00:04:04,444 --> 00:04:05,778 Maybe. 83 00:04:05,845 --> 00:04:08,381 This fracture never healed. 84 00:04:08,448 --> 00:04:09,682 So, it could have been a death blow? 85 00:04:09,749 --> 00:04:11,517 Well, without the rest of the bones, 86 00:04:11,584 --> 00:04:13,019 all I can do is speculate. 87 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:15,021 Well, tendons, tissues and ligaments are all gone. 88 00:04:15,088 --> 00:04:18,690 What, probably three years since he died? 89 00:04:18,757 --> 00:04:19,858 Mm-hmm. Bones are in good shape. 90 00:04:19,926 --> 00:04:22,562 He was probably shielded from Mother Nature. 91 00:04:22,629 --> 00:04:24,564 Only thing out of the ordinary is their color. 92 00:04:24,631 --> 00:04:28,368 The natural decomposition color of bones is brown. 93 00:04:28,434 --> 00:04:32,405 So, where did this black discoloration come from? 94 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:34,540 Well, that's for you folks on the outside. 95 00:04:36,609 --> 00:04:38,444 I need to borrow a finger. 96 00:04:41,514 --> 00:04:42,715 Skeleton on a tour bus 97 00:04:42,782 --> 00:04:43,983 in Times Square. 98 00:04:44,050 --> 00:04:46,653 The Post is going to love this story. 99 00:04:46,719 --> 00:04:47,820 Practically writes itself. 100 00:04:47,887 --> 00:04:48,955 It's not news. 101 00:04:49,022 --> 00:04:51,557 True, but it's gonna sell a hell of a lot of papers. 102 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:53,459 Only because of where it was found. 103 00:04:53,526 --> 00:04:57,063 The real story is that these are the bones of a teenage boy. 104 00:04:57,130 --> 00:04:58,731 The media don't care. 105 00:04:58,798 --> 00:05:00,967 I do. 106 00:05:05,505 --> 00:05:07,407 Mac, when can I get my hands on that skull? 107 00:05:07,473 --> 00:05:08,941 One step at a time, Aiden. 108 00:05:09,008 --> 00:05:11,577 We have to find the rest of his skeleton first. 109 00:05:11,644 --> 00:05:15,481 I'm just saying, intact skulls are few and far between. 110 00:05:15,548 --> 00:05:17,817 If the time comes, I don't want it farmed out. 111 00:05:17,884 --> 00:05:19,652 I can handle it. 112 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:20,653 Relax. You got it. 113 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,455 I'll find you when I need you. 114 00:05:22,522 --> 00:05:24,557 Human skull. 115 00:05:24,624 --> 00:05:25,792 Big fun. 116 00:05:28,661 --> 00:05:31,998 Danny, what do you see? 117 00:05:34,667 --> 00:05:36,369 The substance isn't just coating the bone. 118 00:05:36,436 --> 00:05:37,904 It's layered on itself. 119 00:05:37,970 --> 00:05:39,872 Means it's been there a while. 120 00:05:39,939 --> 00:05:41,074 Take a deeper sample. 121 00:05:51,551 --> 00:05:54,620 Top layer is composed of aromatic hydrocarbons. 122 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:56,355 Engine exhaust. 123 00:05:56,422 --> 00:05:57,990 MTBE? 124 00:05:58,057 --> 00:05:59,792 No. Means the engine was diesel. 125 00:05:59,859 --> 00:06:01,494 Rules out most cars. 126 00:06:01,561 --> 00:06:04,097 Probably came from a truck or a bus. 127 00:06:04,163 --> 00:06:06,466 So, your boy's laying low in a high-traffic area. 128 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:08,534 Unfortunately, in New York, that's everywhere. 129 00:06:08,601 --> 00:06:10,470 ( beeping ) 130 00:06:15,641 --> 00:06:17,744 Deeper sample is also diesel exhaust. 131 00:06:17,810 --> 00:06:20,079 But check the benzene concentration. 132 00:06:22,548 --> 00:06:23,816 Through the roof. 133 00:06:23,883 --> 00:06:25,418 What kind of diesel engine spits out 134 00:06:25,485 --> 00:06:26,986 this much particulate matter? 135 00:06:27,053 --> 00:06:27,720 An old one. 136 00:06:27,787 --> 00:06:29,522 EPA changed 137 00:06:29,589 --> 00:06:32,525 diesel emissions standards in 1994. 138 00:06:32,592 --> 00:06:34,527 So, if he has this much benzene on his bones, 139 00:06:34,594 --> 00:06:37,530 he's been collecting dust a lot longer than three years. 140 00:06:37,597 --> 00:06:41,534 He's been dead a decade, at least. 141 00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:45,505 Our timeline just jumped. 142 00:06:45,571 --> 00:06:46,672 I heard. 143 00:06:46,739 --> 00:06:49,108 Brings back bad memories in this city. 144 00:06:49,175 --> 00:06:50,610 '90 to '93, 145 00:06:50,676 --> 00:06:53,780 the average murder rate was 2,000 per year. 146 00:06:53,846 --> 00:06:55,782 "Dream with me a city that can be better 147 00:06:55,848 --> 00:06:57,517 than the way it is now." 148 00:06:57,583 --> 00:07:01,854 Inauguration speech from Giuliani's first term, 1994. 149 00:07:01,921 --> 00:07:03,990 I was working Narcotics back then out of Brooklyn North. 150 00:07:04,056 --> 00:07:06,993 We'd collared up every day; barely made a dent. 151 00:07:07,059 --> 00:07:10,763 In the parks, you found more crack vials and hypos than kids. 152 00:07:10,830 --> 00:07:12,832 It was a dangerous time. 153 00:07:12,899 --> 00:07:16,536 BONASERA: Here we go. We have six possible matches to the body fingerprint. 154 00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:18,538 Who do you want to start with? 155 00:07:18,604 --> 00:07:20,540 ( printer clacking ) 156 00:07:27,513 --> 00:07:28,848 With him. 157 00:07:29,782 --> 00:07:31,951 Lester Jayne. 158 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:04,684 Stella. 159 00:08:18,097 --> 00:08:20,099 Admiring your work? 160 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:22,201 Hey. 161 00:08:24,770 --> 00:08:26,706 Can't believe you're jamming me up for this. 162 00:08:26,772 --> 00:08:27,840 I burned a few tourists. 163 00:08:27,907 --> 00:08:29,041 That's all. It was a joke. 164 00:08:29,108 --> 00:08:30,643 NYPD didn't find it funny. 165 00:08:30,710 --> 00:08:32,544 That's their problem. 166 00:08:32,611 --> 00:08:33,613 No, it's yours. 167 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:35,881 Autopsy revealed the skeleton's a homicide victim. 168 00:08:37,717 --> 00:08:39,118 Murder? 169 00:08:40,119 --> 00:08:42,520 No. I ain't buying that. 170 00:08:42,587 --> 00:08:44,524 Your little joke had a fractured skull. 171 00:08:44,590 --> 00:08:46,259 Which had nothing to do with me. 172 00:08:46,325 --> 00:08:47,693 No? Then who does it have to do with? 173 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:48,961 LESTER: I know what you guys do. 174 00:08:49,028 --> 00:08:50,029 You twist things all around 175 00:08:50,096 --> 00:08:51,597 till I don't know which end is up. 176 00:08:51,664 --> 00:08:53,766 I told you, all I did was screw with some tourists, 177 00:08:53,833 --> 00:08:55,234 and I'm not saying another word. 178 00:08:57,637 --> 00:08:59,605 Where's he going? 179 00:08:59,672 --> 00:09:02,608 ( bus engine roaring ) 180 00:09:12,952 --> 00:09:14,954 ( distant siren wailing ) 181 00:09:33,706 --> 00:09:36,142 ( horn blaring ) 182 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:27,960 ( bus engine roaring ) 183 00:11:00,059 --> 00:11:02,728 ( thudding ) 184 00:11:06,198 --> 00:11:08,000 ( softly groans ) 185 00:11:12,805 --> 00:11:14,874 BONASERA: Decomposition on the clothes 186 00:11:14,940 --> 00:11:18,044 and under the bones. 187 00:11:18,110 --> 00:11:20,746 I think this is where he died. 188 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:28,788 I think it's also where he lived. 189 00:11:41,033 --> 00:11:42,701 What do you think? 190 00:11:42,768 --> 00:11:43,903 Runaway? 191 00:11:43,969 --> 00:11:46,105 Maybe. 192 00:11:49,909 --> 00:11:51,277 "A.M." 193 00:11:51,343 --> 00:11:52,478 Initials? 194 00:11:56,949 --> 00:11:58,150 Home must've been pretty bad 195 00:11:58,217 --> 00:12:00,352 to trade for this place. 196 00:12:00,419 --> 00:12:03,389 I'm sure this wasn't what he had in mind. 197 00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:06,992 Skull fracture. 198 00:12:07,059 --> 00:12:10,196 Blunt force trauma? 199 00:12:21,173 --> 00:12:22,208 Pocketknife. 200 00:12:25,544 --> 00:12:26,479 Must have been 201 00:12:26,545 --> 00:12:28,814 pretty important to him to keep it in his shoe. 202 00:12:37,156 --> 00:12:39,992 "Bright Lights, Big City." 203 00:12:41,861 --> 00:12:43,929 Pages are dog-eared. 204 00:12:43,996 --> 00:12:45,931 Highlighted. 205 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,236 Copyright 1984. 206 00:12:52,238 --> 00:12:53,939 He may have been lying here for 20 years. 207 00:12:55,407 --> 00:12:56,775 Have you ever read it? 208 00:12:56,842 --> 00:12:59,111 No. You? 209 00:12:59,178 --> 00:13:00,346 Yeah. 210 00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:01,814 It's about a guy who lives up New York for all it's worth. 211 00:13:01,881 --> 00:13:03,015 How's it end? 212 00:13:03,082 --> 00:13:06,352 He gets out before the city kills him. 213 00:14:15,354 --> 00:14:17,590 ♪ ♪ 214 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:38,410 It's tough being in the bullpen, huh? 215 00:14:38,477 --> 00:14:39,378 Waiting for the nod. 216 00:14:39,445 --> 00:14:42,514 Thanks for your concern. 217 00:14:42,581 --> 00:14:45,384 Here we go. 218 00:15:11,043 --> 00:15:12,645 Very nice. 219 00:15:32,531 --> 00:15:33,632 Got a full skeleton now. 220 00:15:33,699 --> 00:15:35,301 No more speculation. 221 00:15:35,367 --> 00:15:36,502 Facts from here on out. 222 00:15:36,568 --> 00:15:38,504 Femur gives stature. 223 00:15:38,570 --> 00:15:40,306 He was five-foot-ten. 224 00:15:40,372 --> 00:15:42,508 Mandible completes the skull. 225 00:15:42,574 --> 00:15:44,043 Check out his teeth. 226 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:46,679 Nice. 227 00:15:46,745 --> 00:15:48,113 Too nice. 228 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:48,180 Braces? 229 00:15:48,180 --> 00:15:49,515 Had to be. 230 00:15:49,581 --> 00:15:52,051 Two canine teeth, two second bicuspids, 231 00:15:52,117 --> 00:15:53,419 but no first bicuspids. 232 00:15:53,485 --> 00:15:55,454 Caucasians commonly suffer from dental crowding. 233 00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:56,488 Teeth were pulled 234 00:15:56,555 --> 00:15:58,957 to make room for the others to straighten out. 235 00:15:59,024 --> 00:16:00,125 Okay. So, at some point in his life 236 00:16:00,192 --> 00:16:01,226 he saw a dentist and an orthodontist. 237 00:16:01,293 --> 00:16:04,697 Which means he probably had parents who paid the bill. 238 00:16:04,763 --> 00:16:06,665 It was probably the last time he got to see a doctor. 239 00:16:06,732 --> 00:16:09,068 At least, that's what his tibia's saying. 240 00:16:12,438 --> 00:16:14,306 Broke his leg. 241 00:16:14,373 --> 00:16:16,141 And let it heal on its own. 242 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:17,643 Probably left him with a solid limp. 243 00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:21,046 This kid was moving in the wrong direction. 244 00:16:21,113 --> 00:16:22,181 Checked him head to toe. 245 00:16:22,247 --> 00:16:23,315 With what I've got, 246 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:26,151 the only potential fatal injury is a skull fracture. 247 00:16:26,218 --> 00:16:28,754 Danny's running prints on a pipe we found at the scene. 248 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:28,821 Could that have done the trick? 249 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,000 Easily. 250 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:30,000 Could that have done the trick? 251 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:30,522 Easily. 252 00:16:30,589 --> 00:16:30,589 He ID'd? 253 00:16:30,589 --> 00:16:32,591 Sent out dentals. 254 00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:34,259 Results aren't back yet. 255 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:36,462 I'll cut a section of mid-shaft femur, send it to DNA. 256 00:16:36,528 --> 00:16:39,331 But if he's a street kid, I wouldn't expect much. 257 00:16:39,398 --> 00:16:42,000 I got a back-up plan. 258 00:16:42,067 --> 00:16:44,002 Been waiting all day for this. Talk to me. 259 00:16:44,069 --> 00:16:45,337 White, John Doe teenager. 260 00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:48,574 Nice teeth. Bum leg. No face. 261 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:50,109 No problem. 262 00:17:30,716 --> 00:17:33,719 ♪ ♪ 263 00:18:02,581 --> 00:18:06,185 ♪ ♪ 264 00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:48,594 ♪ ♪ 265 00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:19,892 ♪ ♪ 266 00:19:36,408 --> 00:19:37,509 Here he is. 267 00:19:37,576 --> 00:19:39,811 John Doe teenager. 268 00:19:50,756 --> 00:19:52,391 ( distant sirens blare ) 269 00:19:52,457 --> 00:19:54,826 TAYLOR: Fingerprints Danny lifted went nowhere. 270 00:19:54,893 --> 00:19:59,698 Whoever left them... isn't listed in AFIS. 271 00:19:59,765 --> 00:20:00,699 Do you have a name? 272 00:20:00,766 --> 00:20:01,800 No. 273 00:20:01,867 --> 00:20:05,270 Got usable DNA off the bones, but there are no matches 274 00:20:05,337 --> 00:20:06,872 in the CODIS Missing Persons Database. 275 00:20:06,939 --> 00:20:09,875 We can't ID him on DNA. 276 00:20:14,012 --> 00:20:16,582 Mac... 277 00:20:16,648 --> 00:20:18,717 you still with me? 278 00:20:18,784 --> 00:20:20,986 Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. 279 00:20:21,053 --> 00:20:24,656 I was just thinking about something you said earlier... 280 00:20:24,723 --> 00:20:27,292 about a guy following his dreams... 281 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:30,295 getting out before the city kills him. 282 00:20:32,464 --> 00:20:34,399 He never got out. Why? 283 00:20:35,767 --> 00:20:37,636 Hey... Danny just called. 284 00:20:37,703 --> 00:20:40,706 Says there's some people who want to see you... 285 00:20:40,772 --> 00:20:42,407 about him. 286 00:20:45,911 --> 00:20:50,315 MAN: We, uh, we waited for this day so long-- 287 00:20:50,382 --> 00:20:52,851 finding Aaron, our son. 288 00:20:52,918 --> 00:20:55,754 Mr. Moreland, we haven't been able to positively identify 289 00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:57,389 the remains that were found. 290 00:20:57,456 --> 00:20:59,391 We read in the papers, and the detective 291 00:20:59,458 --> 00:21:01,693 at DCPI confirmed, that a backpack 292 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,329 and a pocketknife were found. 293 00:21:04,396 --> 00:21:05,797 Uh... uh... they belonged to Aaron. 294 00:21:05,864 --> 00:21:09,801 The backpack was monogrammed. I stitched it myself. 295 00:21:09,868 --> 00:21:14,473 And the pocketknife was a gift for his 13th birthday. 296 00:21:14,539 --> 00:21:16,375 I ordered it special. 297 00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:20,545 We found other items, also. 298 00:21:20,612 --> 00:21:23,415 Clothes... a book. 299 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:45,737 ( sniffles ) 300 00:21:45,804 --> 00:21:47,773 It's Aaron. 301 00:21:48,974 --> 00:21:51,810 Was Aaron an artist? 302 00:21:51,877 --> 00:21:52,844 Yes. 303 00:21:52,911 --> 00:21:54,746 A musician. 304 00:21:56,481 --> 00:21:59,451 MR. MORELAND: Uh... Aaron, uh... 305 00:21:59,518 --> 00:22:02,654 he left home in 1987. 306 00:22:02,721 --> 00:22:06,324 Uh... he was 17, just out of high school. 307 00:22:06,391 --> 00:22:09,061 He wanted to see something other than Minnesota 308 00:22:09,127 --> 00:22:11,596 before thinking about college. 309 00:22:11,663 --> 00:22:15,667 This is a reconstruction of what the skeleton would look like. 310 00:22:34,786 --> 00:22:36,955 It's, um... 311 00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:38,523 it's not Aaron. 312 00:22:39,858 --> 00:22:41,426 That's... 313 00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:43,995 not our son. 314 00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:48,967 I-I don't know who that is. 315 00:22:56,808 --> 00:22:58,877 I'm sorry. 316 00:23:09,454 --> 00:23:12,090 MESSER: Nice. Just the person I was looking for. 317 00:23:12,157 --> 00:23:14,993 I put some of my time into that fingerprint I pulled from the pipe. 318 00:23:15,060 --> 00:23:16,528 Extra effort. I like that. Talk to me. 319 00:23:16,595 --> 00:23:18,063 I got 117 arrest records for people 320 00:23:18,130 --> 00:23:19,998 charged with crimes that were committed 321 00:23:20,065 --> 00:23:22,901 within three blocks of where our skeleton was found. 322 00:23:22,968 --> 00:23:23,969 Time frame-- 1984 to '94. 323 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:24,035 You used the CARS system. 324 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:26,138 Yeah, where suspects 325 00:23:26,204 --> 00:23:28,073 are acquitted or the charges are dropped. 326 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:30,609 Which means the fingerprints won't be found in AFIS. 327 00:23:30,675 --> 00:23:32,778 They're somewhere in a sealed file of the NYPD. 328 00:23:32,844 --> 00:23:34,780 Mm-hmm. I just got to find them. 329 00:23:34,846 --> 00:23:37,048 And hope that they match the prints you pulled off the pipe. 330 00:23:37,115 --> 00:23:38,150 That's a long shot, Danny. 331 00:23:38,216 --> 00:23:40,852 What're you saying? You want me to drop this lead? 332 00:23:40,919 --> 00:23:42,721 No, I want you to stick to the hot evidence first. 333 00:23:42,788 --> 00:23:45,190 The clothes the victim was found in, I'm already on it. 334 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:47,592 Good, all right? You learn something, find me. 335 00:23:47,659 --> 00:23:50,495 You come up dry, get back on those arrest records. Got it? 336 00:23:50,562 --> 00:23:52,497 Got it. 337 00:24:22,627 --> 00:24:24,896 ( footsteps ) 338 00:24:30,569 --> 00:24:32,103 Hi. 339 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:33,605 Playing hangman? 340 00:24:33,672 --> 00:24:34,840 ( sighs ) 341 00:24:34,906 --> 00:24:36,208 Actually, yes. 342 00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:38,109 But I've run out of letters. 343 00:24:38,176 --> 00:24:40,879 I have... I have no idea what this is. 344 00:24:42,314 --> 00:24:44,516 For now. 345 00:24:54,059 --> 00:24:55,760 What do you make of this? 346 00:24:58,063 --> 00:24:59,798 Look familiar? 347 00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:01,967 Not really. 348 00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:03,668 It's the last 349 00:25:03,735 --> 00:25:05,103 sketch in his book, and... 350 00:25:05,170 --> 00:25:07,038 looks like it could be an island, 351 00:25:07,105 --> 00:25:09,040 but not in New York. 352 00:25:09,107 --> 00:25:11,009 No people, no buildings. 353 00:25:11,076 --> 00:25:12,777 Got a call from Missing Persons. 354 00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:16,047 They pulled all the Unsolved Case folders from teenage boys 355 00:25:16,114 --> 00:25:17,649 missing within our time frame. 356 00:25:17,716 --> 00:25:18,583 Thumbed through them 357 00:25:18,650 --> 00:25:21,052 by hand, based on Aiden's reconstruction. 358 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:22,053 No matches. 359 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:23,855 Unlike Aaron Moreland, 360 00:25:23,922 --> 00:25:25,757 there's no one out there looking for this kid. 361 00:25:25,824 --> 00:25:28,260 So all we know about who he was, 362 00:25:28,326 --> 00:25:30,262 are his images of New York. 363 00:25:30,328 --> 00:25:32,163 Skyline. 364 00:25:32,230 --> 00:25:34,599 Busy Grand Central Station. 365 00:25:34,666 --> 00:25:36,601 Empire State Building. 366 00:25:36,668 --> 00:25:38,203 See his perspective? 367 00:25:38,270 --> 00:25:39,704 Street level. 368 00:25:40,639 --> 00:25:43,642 Part of the city, moving with the flow. 369 00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:45,543 Yeah, but look at this one. 370 00:25:46,244 --> 00:25:49,881 He's totally alone in Times Square. 371 00:25:49,948 --> 00:25:52,250 He was swallowed up by the city. 372 00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:55,921 Lost. 373 00:25:55,987 --> 00:25:58,189 Reality rarely lives up to expectations, 374 00:25:58,256 --> 00:26:00,158 especially if you're a teenager. 375 00:26:01,993 --> 00:26:03,128 This one 376 00:26:03,194 --> 00:26:04,596 with the crisscross beams. 377 00:26:04,663 --> 00:26:05,697 That's the Port Authority. 378 00:26:05,764 --> 00:26:07,198 Upper parking deck. 379 00:26:07,265 --> 00:26:08,867 Yeah, but he's looking at it straight on. 380 00:26:08,934 --> 00:26:13,838 Which means... he's inside the only building in the city 381 00:26:13,905 --> 00:26:16,775 that allows homeless kids free reign 382 00:26:16,841 --> 00:26:19,311 to every floor. 383 00:26:19,377 --> 00:26:21,646 I started Danner House in a tenement 384 00:26:21,713 --> 00:26:24,716 on the Lower East Side in 1969. 385 00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:27,319 Intended it to be a youth crisis center. 386 00:26:27,385 --> 00:26:30,322 Nobody under the age of 21 would be turned away. 387 00:26:30,388 --> 00:26:34,125 First month, 500 kids came through the door. 388 00:26:34,192 --> 00:26:36,127 5,000 by the end of the first year. 389 00:26:36,194 --> 00:26:39,064 There's never a shortage of people that need help. 390 00:26:47,739 --> 00:26:49,674 Guess we're not an uncommon sight around here. 391 00:26:49,741 --> 00:26:52,677 Joel, how we doing today? 392 00:26:52,744 --> 00:26:54,612 Uh... We're running low. 393 00:26:54,679 --> 00:26:56,247 I don't think we're going to make it. 394 00:26:56,314 --> 00:26:57,682 Call over to St. Juliana's. 395 00:26:57,749 --> 00:26:58,516 See if they have 396 00:26:58,583 --> 00:26:59,484 any meals left over from yesterday. 397 00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:02,687 They usually run out of meals before we do. 398 00:27:02,754 --> 00:27:04,689 Would you by chance recognize this young man? 399 00:27:04,756 --> 00:27:06,391 We don't have a name for him, 400 00:27:06,458 --> 00:27:08,994 but we think he might have stayed here sometime between 401 00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:11,096 1984 and 1994. 402 00:27:11,162 --> 00:27:12,764 It's been a long time. 403 00:27:14,766 --> 00:27:17,902 I've been here 35 years. 404 00:27:17,969 --> 00:27:22,874 I used to try to get to know the kids, but... 405 00:27:22,941 --> 00:27:25,844 After a while, all the faces start to look the same. 406 00:28:40,819 --> 00:28:41,820 I'm going to check with Danny, 407 00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:42,787 see how he's doing on the clothes. 408 00:28:42,854 --> 00:28:44,722 You going to follow up with the piece of paper 409 00:28:44,789 --> 00:28:46,257 we found in the jeans? 410 00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:49,727 Mr. and Mrs. Moreland? 411 00:28:49,794 --> 00:28:53,231 Do you know who the boy was that had Aaron's things? 412 00:28:53,298 --> 00:28:56,434 No. No, unfortunately we don't know anything new 413 00:28:56,501 --> 00:29:00,004 that you that you haven't already read in the papers. 414 00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:03,475 But he-he had Aaron's backpack an-and pocketknife. 415 00:29:03,541 --> 00:29:05,176 How did he get them? 416 00:29:05,243 --> 00:29:06,444 We don't know. 417 00:29:06,511 --> 00:29:08,813 But they're the only connection to my son. 418 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,750 They had to know each other, right? 419 00:29:12,817 --> 00:29:15,286 I need to know what happened. 420 00:29:15,353 --> 00:29:17,856 I know the reality-- 421 00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:19,023 he's probably dead. 422 00:29:19,090 --> 00:29:21,025 I've accepted that, but... 423 00:29:21,092 --> 00:29:24,362 but this is the closest that we've, we've come 424 00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:26,364 to the truth in 17 years. 425 00:29:26,431 --> 00:29:28,800 Please. 426 00:29:28,867 --> 00:29:31,436 What happened to my boy? 427 00:29:38,910 --> 00:29:43,281 He's somebody else's case, 428 00:29:43,348 --> 00:29:44,549 isn't he? 429 00:29:48,853 --> 00:29:50,155 You don't know what... 430 00:29:50,221 --> 00:29:51,990 what happened to Aaron... 431 00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:57,395 because you're not looking for him... 432 00:29:57,462 --> 00:29:58,930 Are you? 433 00:30:02,133 --> 00:30:03,434 No. 434 00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:34,866 Mac? 435 00:30:34,933 --> 00:30:36,167 I took some new photos 436 00:30:36,234 --> 00:30:37,535 of the reconstruction. 437 00:30:37,602 --> 00:30:38,870 I thought I'd send 438 00:30:38,937 --> 00:30:40,271 them out nationally, and maybe 439 00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:41,873 someone will recognize him. 440 00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:42,941 Work One Police Plaza. 441 00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:45,376 Use the in-house reporters from the major papers. 442 00:30:45,443 --> 00:30:47,178 Get his face all over the city. 443 00:30:48,947 --> 00:30:50,848 You've already done that, haven't you? 444 00:30:50,915 --> 00:30:52,517 I figured it was one of the few times 445 00:30:52,584 --> 00:30:54,986 that us and the media are on the same team, so... 446 00:30:55,053 --> 00:30:55,987 Well, stay on them. 447 00:30:56,054 --> 00:30:57,155 Keep him front page. 448 00:30:58,656 --> 00:31:00,992 Hey, do you need anything else? 449 00:31:02,660 --> 00:31:04,929 Yeah. 450 00:31:04,996 --> 00:31:06,864 I need to know what this is. 451 00:31:38,563 --> 00:31:40,164 Anyway, most of the shirt was gone, 452 00:31:40,231 --> 00:31:41,165 but I can make out 453 00:31:41,232 --> 00:31:42,500 a small portion of the logo. 454 00:31:42,567 --> 00:31:44,168 An "L." Lagaronne. 455 00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:45,503 Fancy, and expensive. 456 00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:47,405 And synthetic. Nylon microfiber. 457 00:31:47,472 --> 00:31:49,307 All the rage in the early '90s. 458 00:31:49,374 --> 00:31:50,408 The victim had a couple of things on him 459 00:31:50,475 --> 00:31:51,409 that didn't belong to him. 460 00:31:51,476 --> 00:31:52,944 Same probably goes for the shirt. 461 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:55,046 You know, five-finger discount. 462 00:31:55,113 --> 00:31:56,981 Yeah, but not from a store. 463 00:31:57,048 --> 00:31:57,815 What do you know? 464 00:31:57,882 --> 00:31:58,850 I reached out to the manufacturer. 465 00:31:58,916 --> 00:32:01,319 Turns out that shirt never went on the market. 466 00:32:01,386 --> 00:32:02,453 Prototype from 1988. 467 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:04,689 All right, well, if there was no store 468 00:32:04,756 --> 00:32:06,991 to steal it from, how'd he get it? 469 00:32:07,058 --> 00:32:09,327 Seventh Avenue, right off the rack. 470 00:32:22,473 --> 00:32:23,508 Rack runner. 471 00:32:23,574 --> 00:32:25,376 No experience necessary. If you can walk 472 00:32:25,443 --> 00:32:27,512 from point "A" to point "B," you're hired. 473 00:32:27,578 --> 00:32:29,247 It's a perfect job for a teenager, 474 00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:30,248 and easy access 475 00:32:30,315 --> 00:32:32,483 to clothes you can't afford. 476 00:32:36,054 --> 00:32:38,056 FLACK: So management's 477 00:32:38,122 --> 00:32:39,724 official statement is that they unofficially 478 00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,559 hire street kids to run the racks. 479 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:42,560 In other words, 480 00:32:42,627 --> 00:32:44,462 cheap labor, no paperwork. 481 00:32:44,529 --> 00:32:45,563 Did anyone recognize the vic? 482 00:32:45,630 --> 00:32:47,999 Life span with the racks isn't too long. 483 00:32:48,066 --> 00:32:49,267 Here today, gone tomorrow. There's nobody 484 00:32:49,334 --> 00:32:51,135 working here now that was working here in '88. 485 00:32:51,202 --> 00:32:52,970 Of course not. 486 00:32:53,037 --> 00:32:55,106 Time marches on, the practice stays the same. 487 00:33:00,778 --> 00:33:02,113 ( knock on door ) 488 00:33:04,182 --> 00:33:06,117 Dead end on the shirt. 489 00:33:06,184 --> 00:33:07,485 But it wasn't a total loss. 490 00:33:08,686 --> 00:33:10,588 Since it wasn't made till 1988, 491 00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:12,457 we know he was alive then. 492 00:33:12,523 --> 00:33:14,225 So we've narrowed our time line. 493 00:33:14,292 --> 00:33:17,228 Yeah, six-year window instead of ten. 494 00:33:18,429 --> 00:33:19,997 TAYLOR: Make that four. 495 00:33:20,064 --> 00:33:23,568 He was alive February 21, 1990. 496 00:33:23,634 --> 00:33:23,634 Pawned a watch. 497 00:33:23,634 --> 00:33:24,000 Yeah. 498 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Pawned a watch. 499 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,403 Yeah. 500 00:33:25,470 --> 00:33:28,272 And we have the ticket. 501 00:33:29,540 --> 00:33:32,643 I'm sorry, pal, but you're a few hours late. 502 00:33:32,710 --> 00:33:34,545 Owner just came in and picked it up. 503 00:33:34,612 --> 00:33:36,748 The owner's been dead since Dinkins was mayor. 504 00:33:36,814 --> 00:33:38,616 He didn't just come by. 505 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,251 Look, what do you want me to tell you? 506 00:33:40,318 --> 00:33:42,320 I had that watch forever. 507 00:33:42,387 --> 00:33:44,322 Today a guy comes in, describes it perfectly. 508 00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:45,723 Even the inscription on the back. 509 00:33:45,790 --> 00:33:49,060 Ticket or no ticket, the thing had to be his. 510 00:33:49,127 --> 00:33:51,796 No coincidence the watch is picked up today after 14 years. 511 00:33:53,364 --> 00:33:54,699 Somebody else knew it was here 512 00:33:54,766 --> 00:33:56,200 and didn't want us to get it first. 513 00:33:56,267 --> 00:33:58,202 Someone who knows we're looking for him. 514 00:33:59,737 --> 00:34:01,773 But it's not 1990 anymore. 515 00:34:01,839 --> 00:34:04,208 It's gotten a lot harder to hide. 516 00:34:07,278 --> 00:34:09,380 Guy played the camera perfectly. 517 00:34:09,447 --> 00:34:12,083 Kept his head down the entire time. 518 00:34:12,150 --> 00:34:14,252 So this is our best view of the only suspect we have? 519 00:34:14,318 --> 00:34:15,753 Unfortunately. 520 00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:17,121 Get creative. 521 00:34:17,188 --> 00:34:19,190 Done. 522 00:34:19,257 --> 00:34:21,125 Okay... 523 00:34:21,192 --> 00:34:23,060 from the top. 524 00:34:25,129 --> 00:34:26,464 Mystery man enters. 525 00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:30,067 Keeps his head down, goes straight to the counter. 526 00:34:30,134 --> 00:34:32,103 Didn't even stop to look at the jewelry. 527 00:34:32,170 --> 00:34:32,804 BONASERA: He doesn't have to, 528 00:34:32,870 --> 00:34:34,237 he knows what he wants. 529 00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:37,608 Freeze it. 530 00:34:38,876 --> 00:34:41,145 Bruno's glasses. Can you pull a reflection? 531 00:34:41,212 --> 00:34:42,112 Mm-hmm. No problem. 532 00:34:45,248 --> 00:34:48,619 Cleaning up, we have... 533 00:34:48,686 --> 00:34:50,121 A great shot of his baseball cap. 534 00:34:50,188 --> 00:34:51,589 Keep going. 535 00:35:00,531 --> 00:35:03,100 He's steps away from freedom. What's he doing? 536 00:35:04,268 --> 00:35:05,136 It's not on screen, 537 00:35:05,203 --> 00:35:06,704 but that doesn't mean it's not on tape. 538 00:35:06,771 --> 00:35:09,807 NTSC signals are overscanned. 539 00:35:09,874 --> 00:35:11,342 All right, how much are we missing? 540 00:35:25,356 --> 00:35:27,492 Creative enough for you? 541 00:36:05,696 --> 00:36:08,232 Partial DNA profile from the guitar strings 542 00:36:08,299 --> 00:36:11,202 has got a hit in the CODIS Missing Persons database. 543 00:36:14,505 --> 00:36:18,276 The missing kid who owned the backpack and pocketknife? 544 00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:19,443 Aaron Moreland. 545 00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,779 You're kidding? 546 00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,881 He disappeared in '87. 547 00:36:23,948 --> 00:36:25,316 He was 17 years old. 548 00:36:25,383 --> 00:36:27,385 Which means he's now 34. 549 00:36:27,451 --> 00:36:29,520 And the prime suspect in a murder. 550 00:36:29,587 --> 00:36:30,888 Where are we? 551 00:36:30,955 --> 00:36:31,856 We're there. 552 00:36:31,923 --> 00:36:36,260 In 1987, Aaron Moreland was a 17-year-old kid. 553 00:36:36,327 --> 00:36:38,896 Here's a pretty good idea of what he looks like today. 554 00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:51,609 You guys know him? 555 00:36:53,611 --> 00:36:55,947 It was your DNA on the guitar string. 556 00:36:57,949 --> 00:36:59,817 I was going to be a musician, you know. 557 00:36:59,884 --> 00:37:02,386 That's why I came to New York. 558 00:37:02,453 --> 00:37:03,955 To be a rock star. 559 00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:06,324 But I was 17. 560 00:37:06,390 --> 00:37:10,795 Had spent every day of my life in a town 561 00:37:10,861 --> 00:37:12,463 with one intersection. 562 00:37:13,664 --> 00:37:16,367 I wasn't prepared for this city. 563 00:37:16,434 --> 00:37:18,970 By the end of my first week here, I was broke... 564 00:37:19,036 --> 00:37:20,805 and hooked. 565 00:37:20,871 --> 00:37:22,340 Did you know him? 566 00:37:25,309 --> 00:37:26,877 Sort of. 567 00:37:28,512 --> 00:37:30,581 I used to ran racks down on Seventh Avenue 568 00:37:30,648 --> 00:37:32,316 and I'd see him there every now and then. 569 00:37:35,653 --> 00:37:37,388 He always had money 570 00:37:37,455 --> 00:37:38,789 and I always needed it. 571 00:37:41,826 --> 00:37:43,361 How'd he get the pocketknife? 572 00:37:43,427 --> 00:37:46,530 When I was high, I'd get angry very easily. 573 00:37:46,597 --> 00:37:47,431 And so I didn't want 574 00:37:47,498 --> 00:37:49,367 to do anything that I would regret later. 575 00:37:49,433 --> 00:37:51,402 So you also sold the knife? 576 00:37:51,469 --> 00:37:53,537 Yeah. He was easy to find. 577 00:38:01,345 --> 00:38:03,481 Port Authority... all those busses. 578 00:38:03,547 --> 00:38:05,449 All you had to do was get on one. 579 00:38:05,516 --> 00:38:08,052 I didn't want to go home. 580 00:38:08,119 --> 00:38:10,521 Here you go, man. 581 00:38:10,588 --> 00:38:12,790 It's a pawn ticket. For my watch. 582 00:38:19,930 --> 00:38:21,399 Man, that's all you got?! 583 00:38:21,465 --> 00:38:22,333 I need more. 584 00:38:25,369 --> 00:38:27,605 You killed him over two dollars? 585 00:38:29,006 --> 00:38:30,741 Six years later, I got clean. 586 00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:33,077 Changed my life. 587 00:38:33,144 --> 00:38:35,413 My name. Began helping others. 588 00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:37,415 And forgot about your past. 589 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:41,452 Until I picked up the paper and it all came back. 590 00:38:41,519 --> 00:38:43,354 So you tried to cover it up. 591 00:38:43,421 --> 00:38:44,488 You're not in the system. 592 00:38:44,555 --> 00:38:46,090 Your own parents thought you were dead. 593 00:38:46,157 --> 00:38:48,092 Everything was good. 594 00:38:48,159 --> 00:38:49,927 But you knew there was still one thing out there 595 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:51,462 that connected you to the victim. 596 00:38:51,529 --> 00:38:52,363 Your watch. 597 00:38:57,935 --> 00:38:59,870 You may have started over, 598 00:38:59,937 --> 00:39:02,506 but your mother and father never stopped looking for you. 599 00:39:07,044 --> 00:39:08,479 Get up. 600 00:39:17,521 --> 00:39:18,689 Aaron... 601 00:39:18,756 --> 00:39:21,058 what was his name? 602 00:39:24,562 --> 00:39:26,397 I don't know. 603 00:40:23,554 --> 00:40:25,022 You already know how it ends. 604 00:40:27,124 --> 00:40:29,527 That's not why I'm reading it. 605 00:40:33,631 --> 00:40:35,499 "But what you are left with 606 00:40:35,566 --> 00:40:37,735 "is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, 607 00:40:37,802 --> 00:40:41,539 "like a book you have read too quickly, 608 00:40:41,605 --> 00:40:43,908 "leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, 609 00:40:43,974 --> 00:40:47,812 until all you can remember is a name." 610 00:40:47,878 --> 00:40:49,146 His name. 611 00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:51,682 It's the only thing we don't know. 612 00:40:57,054 --> 00:40:58,856 Now we never will. 613 00:41:07,631 --> 00:41:12,002 So that's it, huh? Case closed. 614 00:41:12,069 --> 00:41:13,204 Yep. 615 00:41:15,706 --> 00:41:17,975 Listen, a bunch of us are going to Sullivan's for a drink. 616 00:41:18,042 --> 00:41:19,076 Want to come with? 617 00:41:19,143 --> 00:41:24,481 Nah, I got case files to the moon. 618 00:41:24,548 --> 00:41:27,251 Case files can wait, Mac. 619 00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:28,953 Come on, you need to get out. 620 00:41:29,019 --> 00:41:31,755 If this case taught us anything, it was to live life, right? 621 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:34,191 Thanks anyway. 622 00:41:34,258 --> 00:41:35,593 Next time. 623 00:41:35,659 --> 00:41:37,561 All right. Suit yourself. 624 00:41:40,598 --> 00:41:41,532 Hey, Stella... 625 00:41:41,599 --> 00:41:43,133 Yeah? 626 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,970 How's the coffee there? 627 00:41:46,036 --> 00:41:48,606 They have Irish coffee. 628 00:41:48,672 --> 00:41:50,140 You're gonna love it.