2021-05-27
45 分钟第 1 季 第 3 集
You know, the funny thing about when you know your child is dead, the funny thing about that is there's always still that little piece in the background that says, please let me be wrong.
Please let me be wrong.
Please, God, just let me be wrong.
Corey Kaufman had been missing for more than a year and a half when a hunter found his bones deep in the mountains.
DNA confirmed his identity.
This is his mother, Terry Hudson.
I prayed, I begged God, please let me be wrong.
But I wasn't.
The discovery of Kaufman's remains in August 2013 made the newspapers.
Investigators withheld details of the bodys condition, but scraps of information circulated freely through the gossip networks in Stanislaus county, through bars and backyards and drug dens along Highway 99.
A forensic exam of the remains provided no link to Frank Carson, the prominent Modesto defense attorney suspected of involvement.
But Carson had become increasingly worried that the district attorney's office would somehow charge him.
Carson opted for a brash frontal assault.
He decided to run for district attorney.
He wanted to unseat Burgitt Flatiger, the very person threatening to prosecute him.
Flatiger told me she saw his political campaign as a naked ploy to derail the Kaufman murder probe.
Yeah, there's no other reason why he would run, right?
I mean, his long term criminal defense attorney makes, I'm sure, a ton of money, so there's no reason he would.
There's no reason to run, except he's being investigated for homicide.
Carson was a political novice, and his chances were slim against the entrenched incumbent.