Conviction Page #2

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Mano a mano, huh?

BETTY:
Come on.

KENNY:
Hey, we're Cool.

We're cool, he's all right.

Get some Wild Turkey.

Wild Turkey for my buddy here.

You okay, man?

Get some ice for my buddy here.

Sit down. Sit down.

This one's okay.

He's fine.

No.

We're sitting here having fun

and you had to go and do that.

Who's your buddy?

Who's your pal?

(BAND PLAYING MY SHARONA)

Come on, now it's a party.

You know what I'm saying?

Come on, come on!

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, let's dance.

Give the baby to Betty and let's dance.

Let's dance.

Come on, let's dance.

F*** you.

My, my, my

Whoo!

My my, my Sharona

When you gonna

give me some time, Sharona?

My my, my Sharona

My Sharona

Never gonna stop,

give it up

Such a dirty mind

Always get it up for the

touch of the younger kind

My, my, my

Whoo!

My my, my Sharona

(CROWD WHISTLING)

(CROWD WHOOPING)

Right here!

Right here!

Never gonna stop,

give it up

Such a dirty mind

Always get it up for the

touch of the younger kind

My, my, my, my

Whoo!

MAN:
I dare you, Kenny!

I dare you!

Kenny!

Kenny!

(CROWD CHEERING)

BETTY:
(WHISPERING)

He's awake.

(GURGLING)

(MOUTHING)

(WHISPERING) Betty Anne.

He won't let go

of my hand.

You keep waking him up because

you keep checking on him.

You gotta calm down. Babe.

I don't want to turn out

like my mother.

Oh, baby.

(PHONE RINGING)

Oh, sh*t. Quiet.

Hello?

Oh, no.

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

Benjamin Davenport,

beloved father,

grandfather and

great-grandfather,

was a hard-working man who

always put his family first.

Devoted to his wife, Eliza,

until the day she died,

his daughter, Elizabeth,

and all his grandchildren.

When times

were roughest,

Benjamin made sure there

was food on the table.

Can I help you,

Officer?

OFFICER:

Excuse me, Father.

Kenneth Waters,

you're under arrest.

What?

What?

We need you

to come with us.

Can't it wait? Show some respect!

It's my grandfather's funeral.

Now, Mr. Waters.

Please, can't it just wait

until after the funeral?

All right, okay. I'm coming.

Just take care of Mandy.

Okay.

Okay, I'm coming.

I'm coming, all right?

Please, can't this wait?

KENNY:

What's this for?

Just until after the funeral.

Come on, guys.

Give me a break over here.

What is this for?

A goddamn parking ticket?

What the f***?

Kenneth Waters,

you're under arrest

for the murder of Katharina Brow.

Are you out of your

f***ing mind?

You let me off

two years ago!

We got you now.

Look, these lawyers

want 25,000 up front.

(SCOFFS) 25 grand?

If I had 25 grand,

I'd buy a f***ing yacht.

This is a joke.

They got nothing on me!

They arrested you

for murder.

They must think

they have something.

No. The police

are f***ing with me.

A public defender

will be fine.

Hey, come on,

you're gonna get wrinkles.

Cops are drawn to me like

bees to honey, you know that.

I have a gift.

Yeah, some gift.

Hey, don't worry.

They got nothing.

It's gonna be okay.

He had a scratch on his face.

On the morning of

February 21, 1980,

he came home with

a scratch on his face?

Yes. Right here.

For the record,

you're showing them

just below the eye

to just below your lip?

Right

Did you have an argument with Mr.

Waters in July, 1980,

five months after the murder?

Yeah, he tried throwing me

out a second-floor window.

And at some point during the argument,

did he say something to you?

I asked him if he

killed that Woman.

He said, "Yeah,

what's it to you?"

FAHEY:
Ms.

Marsh, can you please tell the jury,

why did you wait more than

two years to tell the police

that Kenny said

he had killed Mrs. Brow?

I was afraid of him.

I thought he'd kill me, too.

(WHISPERS)

What is she doing to him?

I show you, Ms. Marsh, what's

marked as Exhibit number 64,

and I would ask if you

could identify that.

It's the same knife

Kenny carried.

And when Kenneth Waters

was brought in as a suspect,

did he have an alibi for the period

between midnight and 9:00 a.m.

On February 21 st?

He claimed that he was working

as a cook at the Park Diner.

And what did you discover when

you checked out his alibi?

We confirmed that he was

at work until 5:
00 a.m.,

but beyond that, there were no

witnesses who saw when he left.

His time cards

were never found.

KATSAS:
The head and chest were struck

with a ceramic lamp and a metal toaster,

and there were 30 stab wounds.

Six to the head and neck,

three to the back, one to the

abdomen and 14 to the chest.

Five of them

penetrated to the heart,

and one time it went through the

front and almost came out the back.

HIGGINS:
There was an enormous amount

of blood, mostly from the victim,

but some from

the perpetrator.

And what, if anything,

did you determine

With respect to the blood

of Katharina Brow?

Katharina Brow would be

identified as blood group B.

And with respect to

Exhibits SSA through F,

did you examine those items

from the murder scene

and determine the blood

group present on each?

Yes. The blood on each of those

items was from blood group O.

And did you have occasion

to test a sample

from the defendant, Kenneth Waters?

Yes. His sample is

from blood group O.

FAHEY:
And what was

your relationship

with Mr. Waters after you

met the summer of 1980?

ROSEANNA:
Mmm...

I guess you could say we were lovers

for a while, about six months.

FAHEY:
On those occasions when you

did some drinking with Mr. Waters,

do you recall anything he said to you?

(MOUTHING)

He told me he got picked

up for a murder in Ayer

and that they couldn't pin it on

him, and he laughed about ii.

FAHEY:
Sometime after

the summer of 1980,

did you have another conversation with Mr.

Waters about this murder?

YES.

Um...

He told me he stabbed her and

he took her money and jewellery

Did he tell you

anything else?

He called her an old German b*tch,

a f***ing old German b*tch.

After Kenneth Waters supposedly

told you, "I killed her,"

did you terminate

seeing him?

No. So you believed

him to be a murderer,

but you continued to be

romantically involved?

Yeah. Until he bashed

my teeth in.

FAHEY:
You have nine children by seven

different fathers, is that correct?

Objection!

Sustained.

Didn't the state, in fact,

declare you an unfit mother

and take your children

away from you?

Objection!

Irrelevant.

Sustained.

Watch yourself, Ms. Fahey.

Wasn't Kenny sent

to training school

for breaking into

K. Brow's home?

No! That wasn't...

And didn't your son

regularly break into houses

in the neighbourhood?

(STAMMERING) I never condoned that

type of behaviour from my children...

Just answer the

question, please.

Yes.

BETTY:
I hope

our place is as nice.

KENNY:
I'm not gonna

live in no trailer.

I'm gonna have a mansion

with 100 rooms.

(CHUCKLES) And 10 refrigerators

filled with candy.

And our own

private lake.

Lake Betty Anne

and Kenny.

Lake Kenny

and Betty Anne.

I Said it first.

Well, I'm older.

No, stop it!

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