Voyeur Page #4

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That's a lot of investment, a lot of time,

and a very small return

on your investment,

except once in a while you see a murder.

I'm concerned about lots of things,

and I predicted things.

I think I could be implicated,

and maybe accessory to a crime.

I was observing, and there was

a white male and a white female.

He was a drug dealer.

I saw him distribute

and sell drugs to kids.

He hid 'em in a register

that was along the wall.

Screwed it out

and put 'em in behind a register.

That's where he had his stash.

The voyeur, who had a son

who had a drug problem,

was angry at seeing drugs sold.

And when he left the room,

guess what I did?

I went in there and screwed 'em off

and took the stash

and flushed it down the toilet.

When he came back that night,

he went over to the thing and...

When he pulled that sack out

and there was nothing in there,

he started blaming people.

He said, "Who the hell was in here?"

The only person who knew

where he hid it was his girlfriend.

And he accuses her,

and she quickly denies it,

but he insists that it must've been her.

Who else knew? "Wasn't me."

"Yes, it was."

She says,

"I don't know anything about it."

Starts slapping her around.

She stood up and was in his face.

He slaps her. "I wanna know. Where is it?"

She kicks him in the groin.

And he just got crazy.

He reached up and grabbed her

by the neck and choked her.

And just kept choking her.

I said, "Come on."

I was thinking, "Come on, let her go.

Let her go, man."

And pretty soon he just quit,

and she fell to the floor.

Fell right in front of the vent,

so I was looking straight down.

And I swear to you,

I could see her chest rising,

up and down, up and down.

And then he got all angry.

He was throwing things around the room.

He picked up her purse

and dumped it out on the bed

and took all the money she had.

Out the door. Into the car and gone.

This guy up there,

the voyeur is watching this...

and, of course, doing nothing.

He was stilled, he was confused,

he was frozen into inactivity.

And I looked and I swear...

I swear to God

that I saw her chest moving.

And I thought, "Well, she's okay."

So I left.

Fact is, that made me so sick

that I quit observations for the night.

The next morning, maid came to work,

and I watched her

as she went down the rooms.

And then pretty soon

she came to that room,

and she opened the door and she went in.

All of a sudden, she came running out.

I said, "Oh, no."

She came running into the office.

She said, "Gerald..."

I think the lady in number ten is dead."

Donna came in and said,

"She's dead, Gerald. She's dead."

The police came...

and pretty soon the coroner shows up

in his little panel truck.

And I'm going, "Oh."

- "I'm sick." Gay, you know?

- Yeah.

And I'm saying,

"I could be responsible for that."

We have a deal.

This man, Gerald Foos, and I have a deal.

That is for me to tell the truth

and him to live with it.

The motel, he doesn't own it now.

In 1997, he sold it to a Korean family

that has no idea what was going on.

When he sold it, he made sure

he took his magical vents with him.

He told me it was completely covered up.

That's a pretty sloppy job, Gerald.

Look at that.

There's situations that could

result in me being jailed, I don't know.

I just feel uneasy and I feel nervous.

When we first started discussing this

a year ago, we thought it was time

because the statute of limitation

has potentially passed.

But now I've found out

there's a new word called...

Uh... uh...

Whatever, but I'm the guy

they're going to indict, not you.

- Because I...

- That's what you're telling me...

I'll tell you something.

This letter that you wrote me,

I read this morning.

In this letter, you warn me

that you don't want the name

of the Manor House Motel published.

You said if this happens,

this Korean guy,

who has not a clue what happened,

is gonna potentially lose customers,

and that could cause damages.

I also talk about

what's gonna happen to Anita and me.

You would think

that I'd gotten this across to him.

I wouldn't have talked to him

if I didn't have permission.

It would've been no deal,

as it had been for 30-plus years,

so there's no change in my policy.

But suddenly this guy is forgetting

what we've agreed to.

If you have no trust

between your source and yourself,

you're in real trouble.

After you've won

the confidence of someone,

then you have to show

enormous amount of patience.

You're also not interested

in making their life

any more difficult than it may be.

- Jerry, I've been doing this all my life.

- I know you have.

It's second nature.

There she is.

Anita, she had had a marriage

to a trucker, some truck driver.

And he was a rough character.

She had two children.

One of them was born crippled.

So their lives, these two wives of Gerald,

and his own life,

filled with sadness and illness.

When you think about what

they have going for them,

it isn't a lot.

I'll turn her off.

We got several alarm systems

to protect our house.

And... Go in.

You don't have

a surveillance camera, do you?

No, no surveillance.

I don't have one of those.

That's too bad.

Anita and I don't have

any housekeepers or anything.

We're not here for that.

Why don't we start here

with the Barbie dolls?

All right.

These are a couple of interesting dolls.

He's an extremist in his obsessions.

These are the coins

that Anita has ecclected just this year.

Jesus!

When he was a boy,

one of the things he did notice

in addition to the body

of this beautiful aunt he had,

was she collected things.

This is my stamp collection.

- There's this drawer. There's this drawer.

- Oh, my God!

He told his mother

he would like to start collecting things

like beautiful Aunt Katheryn.

This started his lifelong hobby

of collecting things.

I have two Lugers here.

When you had a motel,

you used to carry a gun.

I carry guns all the time.

The entire basement area,

you think you're in a museum.

How many cards? Your total collection.

About two to three million.

- Cards?

- Cards.

There's a million cards right there

I've never even looked at.

Jesus!

I don't even know what's in there.

One of the reasons

he wanted to divulge his story,

because he'd get press attention

and he could brag about

his collection of sports memorabilia,

and he wanted to sell it.

These cards are gonna make us

multi-millionaire,

just the cards themselves.

Now this card, the Mickey Mantle card,

it's worth anywhere

from 200 to a million dollars.

And I once had over a thousand of 'em.

He has these prices he keeps quoting,

and I don't know, is this guy nuts?

But on the other hand,

I don't know. I'm not a collector.

This card here could be worth 500 grand.

- Oh, my God.

- Maybe more.

And who is it?

How do I know what these things are worth?

How do I know

if he's totally exaggerating?

I don't know.

If I reflect that he's a braggart,

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