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you want, come on. Stop, please stop! Please stop! Come on, man! Come on! Hey, please, please don't. Don't, come on, stop! Stop, no more! Come on, no no no no! Do you remember Minnie Yes we remember Minnie The thrill I never found You'll never recognize

your Minnie You mean to say that Minnie

was kicking the gong around I've got a date on

my estate down in Haiti Call my chariot so I can go (chainsaw revs) And should the boots

your walking Just tell them

you've been talking To the ghost of Smokey Joe Yes I remember Minnie She's that thrill

I never found People say that Minnie

was kicking the gong around I've got a date on

my estate down in Haiti Call my chariot so I can go And should the boots

your walking Just tell her

you've been talking To the ghost of Smokey Joe (maniacal laughing) - Hey Brock! Listen, I need your help

with something. I'm trying to catch up here. Does the name Lopez

mean anything to you? - That's a pretty

broad question, Kate. - I've been looking at

The Laughing Mask kills and I found something

pretty interesting. - What do you got? - [Kate] Check it out. - What, all these people had

deposits from this Lopez guy? - I mean that's the thing. I checked out all three

of them and no one named Lopez

knows any of them. - Did you run an

IP address search to find the location

of the computer that made these deposits? What, 'cause I'm

a bigger guy I'm not supposed to know

anything about computers? (chuckles) Let me help you out. - Learn something new

every day, huh? - Step aside for a second. Let me work my magic. All right, let's take

a look here. Huh. The computer used to make these transactions was located

in The Barn. - The strip club? - Yeah. Where Wink was just killed. (phone rings) - Yes? - [Cordova] Kate,

we have another one. - All right, text me

the address. I'll be right over there. (dramatic piano music) So what happened here? - Mr. John Grunswald

is the owner of the funeral home

that the victim... Larry Willows works at. He called us as soon as

he found him like this. - What's inside all these boxes? - Well it looks like Mr. Willows was doing some moonlighting as an Ebay seller on the side. He was selling stuff that was buried with the deceased. Clothes, toys, gold, etc. - Gold? - Gold teeth. - He's all yours, Kate. - How long have you

known Mr. Willows? - He's been working for me

for five years. - And did you know that he was selling the deceased's

personal items on Ebay? - No, of course not. I was shocked and appalled when I discovered what he was doing. I couldn't believe it. - Well thank you, Mr. Grunswald, and I'll contact you if I have any further questions. - Yes, ma'am. - Thanks. - Good of you to show up. - Hey, figured the body

wasn't going anywhere. - Hey, if we're gonna be

doing the mortuary humor, I get

to be the quippy CSI. - And this is the point in every crappy movie when

the cop comes in and says "What's

the cause of death?" - And I say something like

"He should've saw it coming." - But let's just

skip that, shall we? - [Amanda] Let's. - So what is the cause of death? - Well he should've saw

it coming. - Really? - Just a couple of

regular jokers, aren't we? - Shut up, Cordova. (squishing noise) What is that? (suspenseful music) (dramatic sting) ("Pop Goes the Weasel" melody) - I'm gonna need

a new pair of undies. - What the hell? - It looks like his

internal organs have been removed and

replaced with toys. - Well that's a f***ed

up pinata right there. - Keep looking. (muffled speaking) Hey Amanda, I need you to run

some DNA on this elephant. Let me know what you find. Call me and only me if you

find anything, all right? - What do you think this is? - I think it might be Barbara's, but I don't wanna get

anybody's hopes up. - No worries. I understand. - Thanks. Now I'm off to my closet

to find my hooker dress. - Yeah, well they said

that he used to do the... used to

play there during nights. - How you feeling, Jake? - I'm okay. - [Mark] Don't worry

about anything. Just forget everything

the critics have said and focus

on the sales. Just go out there

and be yourself, okay? - Mark, I'm fine. I've got this. - So you know what

not to ask, right? - Yes, I got all the e-mails

and texts, as in plural,

as in all 16 of them, Mark. - Good good, it's good to

be prepared I always say. Well let's get started then. Angela, this is Jake. - Hi Jake, nice to

finally meet you. - You as well, I apologize

for Mark, he can be a little protective. - It's okay,

nothing to apologize for, it's understandable,

let's get started. Are you ready for this? - Yeah I'm ready. - [Angela] Okay. - All right. - [Voiceover] We're going

live in five, four, three. (gentle piano music) - Hey everyone and thanks

for watching Rose Live, my name is Angela Rose

and we have a very special guest

with us today. His book, The Laughing Mask

of Vengeance, has been sitting as

a best seller on New York Times

for the last two weeks. Please help me welcome

Mr. Jake Johnson. - Hi. I'm sorry Angela,

before we begin, can I ask you a favor? - [Angela] Yes, Mr. Johnson. - No no, please, call me Jake. - Yes Jake, of course,

what is it? - My fantastic agent Mark

gave you a list of questions that

you could ask me, right? - Yes, I have them right here. - Tear them up. You better do it quickly before my agent has a heart attack. - Are you sure, once I do this it's no holds barred. - I wouldn't have it

any other way. - Okay, here we go. In your book, you go

into factual detail and then you go into

how you finally hunt and catch your killer. Your wife was murdered and your daughter was kidnapped,

is that correct? - That is correct, yeah. - Isn't it disrespectful to make money off your wife's murder, especially with

the ongoing search for your missing daughter,

it's a pretty sleazy thing to do. - Well don't pull

any punches now, Angela, I mean there's no need

to sugarcoat it. - You told me to tear the cards. - I did. It's a fair question. I've been listening

to a lot of critics talk about what

my intentions were when I wrote this book. And the truth is... I needed closure. In a case like this

where no evidence was found, no arrests were made, even if it was only

in a fictitious form, I needed vindication. - You know Jake, I just finished reading your book and I have to say the way you portray

the killer is nothing short

of a suicide note. I mean you extrapolate

how he was abused as a child and then has

a sexual dysfunction. - I said he probably can't get it up without torturing someone. A sadistic person like that gets off on other people's pain. They're usually cowards,

so they have to create a persona

to hide them from the failures they've created

in their own lives. - What about the money factor? You can't ignore that

millions of copies of your books are being sold,

and this has nothing to do

with the money? - All proceeds

from this book will be donated

to the National Center of Missing and Exploited

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