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Speaker 5 You don't know exactly what you're going to be finding up there and so just driving up there in itself you're kind of walking into the unknown.

Speaker 5 I believe I was a little nervous.

Speaker 8 I would describe it as being absolutely savage.

Speaker 5 This was someone who used a baseball bat to kill the family.

Speaker 8 What I see is an attack that is not only calculated and carried out with precision.

Speaker 10 There was blood all over the room, on the ceiling, on the floor.

Speaker 8 I also see a crime scene that smacks of

Speaker 8 the murderer having a very, very personal

Speaker 8 vendetta.

Speaker 5 Somebody just went off the deep end and once they started killing, they either enjoyed it or they couldn't stop themselves.

Speaker 8 In an upper-middle-class neighborhood of an upper-middle-class

Speaker 8 community,

Speaker 8 three unsuspecting and undeserving human beings

Speaker 12 were

Speaker 13 savagely beaten to death.

Speaker 15 There's blood, they're not breathing, I don't think it's safe here

Speaker 17 by somebody who they knew.

Speaker 8 Perfectly executed. Tonight's 48 Hours Mystery.

Speaker 8 It was a plan.

Speaker 18 A well-rehearsed, well-thought-out plan.

Speaker 19 What happened in this house on a hot summer night in 1994 brought tragedy and mystery to this quiet neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington.

Speaker 20 Just after 2 in the morning on July 13th, police were called to a crime that would take them 10 years to bring to justice.

Speaker 12 Had you ever seen anything like it?

Speaker 4 Never.

Speaker 30 James Jude Konat is a senior deputy prosecutor in King County.

Speaker 22 He and a team of detectives have been haunted by this crime and the killers who got away.

Speaker 5 They think that they are smarter than other people in the world. And I know that sounds just kind of a broad statement, but I really believe they believe that.

Speaker 36 The search for the truth would lead police to another country through a web of intriguing clues.

Speaker 25 Could this screenplay that described a murder unlock the mystery?

Speaker 41 And in the end, would a sophisticated undercover operation set in a make-believe world of crime catch the real killers?

Speaker 42 The story begins with a call for help.

Speaker 45 Sebastian Burns and his friend Atif Raffay had stumbled on a horrific scene.

Speaker 41 Atif's parents had been murdered.

Speaker 49 There is nothing that I can imagine about my parents that could

Speaker 49 have justified

Speaker 49 anyone to do what was done to them.

Speaker 8 Sultana Rafae, Atif's mother, was the first to be killed.

Speaker 51 Sebastian, what did you see when you walked through that door?

Speaker 53 We saw Atif's mom

Speaker 9 lying on the floor.

Speaker 8 Tariq Rafai was the next to be murdered.

Speaker 5 We could see

Speaker 54 there was blood around him.

Speaker 55 And it was clear that he had been attacked.

Speaker 15 Why do you think that they're dead? There's blood. They're not breathing.

Speaker 15 There's blood all over his face.

Speaker 5 It was basically an overkill.

Speaker 36 Detective Bob Thompson has been on the case since the night it began.

Speaker 5 It just looked like someone had hit him 40 or 50 times. Please, fast.

Speaker 15 Okay. They're on the way.
Okay. They're on the way.

Speaker 56 We'll be outside. Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 59 As the boys waited for help to arrive, a third victim, Atif's autistic older sister, Bosma, was clinging to life, moaning in her bedroom.

Speaker 8 The third victim was autistic. It would make sense that she's murdered last because everybody knows that she can't make a 911 call.

Speaker 22 Bosma died a few hours later at the hospital, taking with her the secret of who killed the Raffae family.

Speaker 19 The Raffays had just moved to Bellevue from Vancouver, Canada.

Speaker 35 Sultana had a doctorate in nutrition, but devoted her life to raising her gifted son and disabled daughter.

Speaker 49 I I think she was certainly an extraordinary person.

Speaker 12 Do you miss your mom?

Speaker 64 I do.

Speaker 12 What do you miss most about her?

Speaker 49 Well,

Speaker 49 the mere presence is enough, but she knew me in a way that I suspect that no one ever will.

Speaker 49 She was always able to look right through the adolescent sort of pomposities that I might have had and remind me that I was just

Speaker 49 a silly kid at times.

Speaker 27 Tariq Raffae was a structural engineer who had worked on buildings around the world.

Speaker 49 In a sense, we were all like kids around him, or like my mom was too, and we were all, I guess, sort of in his orbit.

Speaker 49 He was a brilliant person,

Speaker 49 probably a far better mathematician than I will ever be.

Speaker 65 No one could understand who would take the lives of this quiet family and spare their only son.

Speaker 59 Detectives began to look more closely at the crime scene.

Speaker 15 What's the problem there?

Speaker 5 There's been some kind of break-in.

Speaker 30 Sebastian had used the words break-in to report what had happened.

Speaker 10 Is it locked? It's not locked.

Speaker 5 This looks like someone set it up. Boxes were tipped over, drawers were opened, but nothing appeared to have gone through.

Speaker 67 That night, when police asked what was missing, Atif said two things, his disc man and a VCR.

Speaker 5 Someone came in, murdered three people, and took his walkman and a VCR.

Speaker 5 I mean, it makes no sense.

Speaker 22 Detectives probe deeper.

Speaker 69 Who were these teenage boys who reported the crime?

Speaker 70 The 1992-93 school year.

Speaker 26 Sebastian Burns and Atif Raffae had been best friends since high school.

Speaker 65 What'd you like about high school?

Speaker 28 I liked being a kid.

Speaker 72 I liked

Speaker 54 having free time and I liked hanging around with other kids and

Speaker 73 I just liked being young.

Speaker 19 The boys shared a sarcastic sense of humor and an interest in reading and debate.

Speaker 65 What would you guys talk about?

Speaker 12 What were you interested in?

Speaker 49 You know, it was things like

Speaker 49 Shakespeare and philosophy and Camus and things like that.

Speaker 68 They had a lot in common.

Speaker 68 They became very good friends because they were both precocious, they were both intelligent.

Speaker 22 Sarah Isaacs is Sebastian's high school sweetheart.

Speaker 68 He went to parties. He was athletic.
And he became friends with Atif and sort of

Speaker 68 showed Atif how to dress. He'd introduced Atif to girls.
He sort of helped Atif be

Speaker 74 a stud like he was.

Speaker 53 That's going back a bit.

Speaker 21 Sebastian was raised in a loving family with English roots.

Speaker 75 There was a lot of respect in our household.

Speaker 72 I mean,

Speaker 75 you didn't talk back to my parents. You didn't swear in the house.

Speaker 44 Sebastian's sister, Tiffany.

Speaker 75 We both grew up playing classical cello, so we had music lessons and we had to practice every day after school.

Speaker 60 In 2005, Tiffany was a TV reporter at the CBS station in Cleveland.

Speaker 7 She can't say enough about her little brother.

Speaker 75 He's very smart. I mean, he's definitely what you would call an intellectual.

Speaker 75 He's so well read. He's got so many fascinating things to say.

Speaker 36 Sebastian became a member of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and was given an award by Prince Edward.

Speaker 26 Atif made it to the Ivy League, attending Cornell University. It was the summer of their freshman year in college when their lives took that unexpected turn.

Speaker 5 It sort of is like a jigsaw puzzle where, you know, you just take that piece and you put it here and you

Speaker 5 start fitting it together and pretty soon you get a picture.

Speaker 63 Police took Sebastian and Atif to the station and examined them for traces of blood.

Speaker 20 They found nothing.

Speaker 35 When asked where they had been that evening, the boys provide a full account.

Speaker 46 At 8.30, they drove to a restaurant for a bite to eat.

Speaker 20 Then they went to a 9.50 showing of the Lion King.

Speaker 60 But why do you remember them?

Speaker 50 They were acting annoying, obnoxious.

Speaker 8 Everywhere they went, the people who came into contact with them remembered them.

Speaker 19 After the movie, they stopped at another restaurant and left the waitress a $6 tip on a $9 tab.

Speaker 82 They don't usually do that, especially young guys.

Speaker 83 Young guys don't tip very well.

Speaker 77 But something else troubled police. How could the boys remember so much detail about where they'd been that evening and yet not recall key moments at the murder scene?

Speaker 28 The police decided to interview Sebastian and Atif again, and detectives recorded the conversation.

Speaker 88 I found my mom.

Speaker 64 What did you do?

Speaker 88 I may have gone up to her. I can't remember.
I don't know what I did.

Speaker 4 I can't remember.

Speaker 64 Did you go walk over to your dad?

Speaker 88 Um,

Speaker 15 I don't think so. No.

Speaker 89 Did you touch your dad?

Speaker 15 I don't think so. Well, you'd know, though, wouldn't you? Yeah,

Speaker 15 I don't know.

Speaker 88 I don't know if I know, but I don't think I touched him.

Speaker 21 Cops became even more suspicious when Sebastian and Atif were spotted at a local video store renting movies the night after the murders.

Speaker 91 The behavior wasn't what you would expect victims or witnesses to be.

Speaker 24 So the police kept pressing the boys.

Speaker 61 They wanted to know what happened in that house.

Speaker 64 See, I don't understand this, Atif.

Speaker 64 Your sister is moaning. She's hurt, yes?

Speaker 74 And you don't want to help her.

Speaker 77 Detectives wanted to know why Atif didn't help his dying sister, even though he hurt her through her bedroom door.

Speaker 64 How hurt is she?

Speaker 4 I didn't know.

Speaker 15 Okay, you don't know how hurt she is.

Speaker 88 I don't know how hurt she is.

Speaker 94 All I know is that I can't.

Speaker 12 Sebastian and Atif were witnesses. By the time they left at the end of these statements, were they suspects?

Speaker 34 Yes.

Speaker 5 Definitely suspects. By the time they left, they were suspects.

Speaker 96 You know what I think? I think you know who it is.

Speaker 84 I would tell you.

Speaker 26 I would tell you if I knew who it did it.

Speaker 19 And investigators thought they not only knew who, they also knew why.

Speaker 8 $300,000 to $400,000 is about to slip through his fingers if she lives.

Speaker 93 Are you saying Atif didn't go to the aid of his sister because he didn't want to save his sister?

Speaker 17 Atif didn't go to the aid of his sister because unless she died,

Speaker 8 the whole plan came crumbling down on them.

Speaker 26 Three days after the murders, relatives gathered in Bellevue to bury the Raffays in a traditional Muslim ceremony.

Speaker 40 But the only surviving member of the immediate family was nowhere to be found.

Speaker 50 They were wondering, where's the teeth?

Speaker 5 Where's the son?

Speaker 46 On the day of the funeral, the raffae's only son was on a bus headed across the border to Canada.

Speaker 80 And with him was his best friend, Sebastian Burns.

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Speaker 14 Sebastian and Atif were now in Vancouver, Canada, out of reach of the Bellevue Police and an investigation that targeted them for the murders of the Raffay family.

Speaker 12 Did the boys go to Vancouver or did they flee to Vancouver?

Speaker 84 From our perspective, they fled back to Vancouver.

Speaker 75 He didn't flee.

Speaker 75 He went home.

Speaker 37 Their sudden bus trip across the border only raised more suspicion, even though both boys were Canadian citizens.

Speaker 53 How do you flee a country getting on a Greyhound bus?

Speaker 26 In fact, a representative from the Canadian Consulate informed the Bellevue Police of their trip in advance.

Speaker 62 She contacted the Bellevue Police Department to say these guys are leaving, they're going home, if that's okay with you.

Speaker 97 And she was told, quote, sure.

Speaker 12 She then tells the boys it's okay to go and they leave. That is not fleeing.

Speaker 5 It is not fleeing?

Speaker 12 I think it's asked permission.

Speaker 5 Atif and Sebastian both had my numbers. They knew I was even in the process of getting them a page or so we could keep in contact.
And they're gone. They don't tell me where they're at.

Speaker 5 They know I'm investigating the murders of their parents and they're gone.

Speaker 23 Detective Thompson was a veteran cop.

Speaker 5 This is the other.

Speaker 102 His gut told him that the boys were guilty.

Speaker 103 But he just didn't have the evidence to prove it.

Speaker 23 Investigators kept combing the house.

Speaker 10 Is it locked or signed locked?

Speaker 20 They found no forced entry.

Speaker 34 There was, however, an eerie clue.

Speaker 104 A forensic tool, Luminol, showed blood on the shower walls.

Speaker 16 The killer had used the shower before leaving.

Speaker 8 The person was so comfortable and calm and collected that he or she might then decide perhaps they'll have a shower before they go?

Speaker 8 It is inconceivable.

Speaker 26 Could that be the reason why the boys who had discovered the bodies at that bloody crime scene didn't have a trace of blood on their hair, their hands, or anywhere on their bodies?

Speaker 51 Are you a killer, Sebastian? No.

Speaker 54 Absolutely not.

Speaker 12 Did you hold that bat in your hands and kill those three people?

Speaker 54 No, I didn't.

Speaker 12 You're not lying to me. No.

Speaker 12 Would you have ever done anything, Atif,

Speaker 12 to hurt your parents? No.

Speaker 49 The single most distressing thing about this entire experience is the fact that I would even have to speak out and say, yeah, no, I did not do that.

Speaker 63 Even without physical evidence, detectives were determined.

Speaker 65 They began to build a case against the boys based on their odd behavior following the murders.

Speaker 5 They cooperated, they did everything that was asked of them. However, when they did things,

Speaker 5 they had this air or this attitude about doing it.

Speaker 60 They honed in on their demeanor at the crime scene and questioned why they sat in front of the house if they believed an intruder might still be there.

Speaker 5 He's out on the curb, you know, 20 yards away from the the front door where this supposed killer might be in the house and he's waiting for the police on the curb while the T7 was cigarettes.

Speaker 109 I'm not sure that anything that we did made any sense.

Speaker 54 I was not thinking in a normal way.

Speaker 59 Police also couldn't make sense of why Atif would notice that his disc man and VCR were missing.

Speaker 8 He's walking around the house claiming to discover the fact that the VCR is missing. And ultimately while his mother and father and sister lay in a state of

Speaker 85 carnage.

Speaker 8 Let's not mince words here. It is carnage.

Speaker 8 He claims to have discovered that the walkman was missing from his bedroom.

Speaker 110 And they've decided that my son and his friend are the guilty parties. They've decided that.

Speaker 53 I believe him to be totally innocent.

Speaker 53 as is Atif, and they have been damned.

Speaker 7 Sebastian's family and friends rallied around him and a tef.

Speaker 68 I remember sitting on those steps with Sebastian.

Speaker 13 I remember sitting on that field.

Speaker 44 Sebastian's former girlfriend, Sarah Isaac, says she knows his character better than anyone.

Speaker 95 Have you ever thought to yourself,

Speaker 12 maybe there was something I missed about Sebastian that I just didn't see?

Speaker 68 There's nothing that anyone could tell me. There's never a moment.
when someone could tell me something that made me think, honestly, maybe he did it.

Speaker 68 I never had to face that moment, ever. I know Sebastian.

Speaker 68 He was and is my very, very good friend.

Speaker 75 Did the cops investigating this just need to get home to dinner? I mean

Speaker 75 why didn't they follow up the leads that came their way?

Speaker 60 And there were other compelling leads.

Speaker 30 Within days of the crime, police received a tip from a reliable informant that someone had offered $20,000 to kill an East Indian family that had recently moved from Vancouver to Bellevue.

Speaker 12 There's no physical evidence that links Atif and Sebastian to the crime.

Speaker 84 Their alibis checkout.

Speaker 12 And now you get this lead from an informant in Canada that somebody had been bragging about a hit on an East Indian family in Bellevue, Washington.

Speaker 12 tells me that's the direction now you should be focusing your investigation since there's no evidence against these boys.

Speaker 5 Well, there is evidence against those boys. There was a lot of evidence against those boys and it was all circumstantial.
It wasn't evidence to convict them, certainly.

Speaker 12 Is it fair to say that you didn't properly check out this lead in Vancouver?

Speaker 5 You know,

Speaker 5 it may be fair to say that that lead was not fully checked out.

Speaker 5 You get all kinds of tips that come in. and you have to weigh them, but the leads didn't go that direction.

Speaker 5 The leads went directly to Canada and the leads followed we followed those leads to Sebastian and Atif.

Speaker 53 Atif fights when you talk to police.

Speaker 47 But on the advice of a lawyer the boys decided to stop cooperating with Bellevue authorities.

Speaker 5 The minute we went to Canada Burns and Rafae wouldn't talk to us at all. They were telling other people not to talk to us.

Speaker 26 So Thompson kept digging and found what he thought was a disturbing clue from their past.

Speaker 5 We started looking through their high school yearbook and Sebastian Burns was in a high school play called The Rope about two kids who commit the perfect murder.

Speaker 12 These are words that Sebastian's character said on stage.

Speaker 4 Do you mind reading it?

Speaker 76 An immaculate murder.

Speaker 83 I have killed.

Speaker 82 I have killed for the sake of danger and for the sake of killing.

Speaker 19 Arianna McGregor performed in the West Vancouver High School production of Rope along with Sebastian.

Speaker 76 The character in the play is somebody who's arrogant and believes he's better than everybody else. And Sebastian had a quality of being superior.
He knew he was intelligent, knew he was good looking.

Speaker 97 What was Rope about?

Speaker 54 The gimmick of the play is that there's somebody is murdered at the start of the play and the villains put him into a box and then they invite guests over.

Speaker 54 Everybody's at this party wondering when the last guest is going to show up and nobody knows that actually he's in the box at the front of the play.

Speaker 54 And so there's lots of suspenseful giggles all the way through because everybody in the audience knows that there's this person, this

Speaker 13 thing in the box.

Speaker 4 He's black and quite ethical false.

Speaker 12 Your character on stage says, We've always said, you and I, that moral concepts of right and wrong don't hold for the intellectually superior. The only crime we can commit is a mistake.

Speaker 12 There are some people who believe those are words that the real Sebastian Burns might say.

Speaker 54 Wow, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 54 There was no time ever during any performance or any rehearsal that anybody was ever thinking anything serious about any of the supposed intellectual philosophies in this play or anything like that.

Speaker 23 But detectives believed the fictional murder story did inspire the real-life crime.

Speaker 80 Even more chilling, the weapon was the same, a baseball bat.

Speaker 36 Well, that's just a huge coincidence.

Speaker 53 I think Sebastian was actually mortified when he realized that he was a suspect in the baseball bat killings of the Raffets because he said, Christ, what's going to happen when they find out about the play?

Speaker 12 How does the play end?

Speaker 76 Their superior figures them out. Someone who is actually more intelligent than they are

Speaker 76 figures it out and they get caught.

Speaker 78 As the investigation continued in Bellevue, Bellevue,

Speaker 79 the boys were living well in Vancouver.

Speaker 20 With some of the money Atif inherited from his parents' estate, they bought a convertible and rented an apartment together with another high school pal.

Speaker 14 I think I'll stay here forever.

Speaker 37 Jimmy Miyoshi.

Speaker 44 Behind drawn curtains, they hid from the media, who were constantly in pursuit of them and their story.

Speaker 80 Hello, is Atif there?

Speaker 14 987.

Speaker 22 But while they weren't talking to the police, the police were listening to them.

Speaker 15 Hello? Atif Rafe? Oh, yes.

Speaker 79 Every word they spoke at home or in their car was being recorded.

Speaker 96 How are you doing?

Speaker 108 I'm okay, I guess.

Speaker 92 The boys had no idea they were now the targets of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the RCMP.

Speaker 8 The RCMP applied for and ultimately

Speaker 8 obtained authorization to do wiretaps.

Speaker 30 On April 10th, 1995, RCMP investigators intercepted this phone message.

Speaker 96 This is Crimper's hair salon calling for Sebastian to confirm his appointment with Gregory tomorrow, Tuesday, April 11th.

Speaker 36 Sebastian could never have imagined that he was about to fall into a trap set by one of the most sophisticated undercover operators in the world.

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Speaker 20 By April of 1995, Sebastian Burns Burns and Atif Raffay were Canada's most famous teenage murder suspects.

Speaker 68 I remember a time when we were at a bus stop and someone drove by and rolled down the window and yelled, murderers!

Speaker 68 That was typical. They were pariahs.
They were hated.

Speaker 54 I was unable to go to college.

Speaker 66 I was unable to get a job.

Speaker 29 But the boys had a plan to make their fortune and live out a lifelong dream.

Speaker 29 They started work on their very own screenplay about two best friends accused of murdering a family.

Speaker 8 The movie was going to be about Sebastian Barons and Atif Raffae and the injustice that was heaped upon them as a result of the suspicion about their involvement in this triple aggravated murder case in Bellevue.

Speaker 22 They called it the Great Despisers.

Speaker 54 We were worried that it would sound a bit nerdy because having the word great in the title makes it sound kind of nerdy. And if we'd called it, for example, just the Despisers,

Speaker 72 that would have been more unimpeachably cruel.

Speaker 54 However,

Speaker 10 we

Speaker 54 decided to have the courage to stick with this nerdy title.

Speaker 25 While the boys worked on what they say is their fictional story about two friends falsely accused, they had no idea the the real-life plot line was about to take an astonishing turn.

Speaker 96 This is Crimper's hair salon calling for Sebastian to confirm his appointment with Brent.

Speaker 44 That simple message from a local hair salon was the moment the RCMP was waiting for.

Speaker 75 I think they were very vulnerable to whatever the RCMP had in store for them. These were kids who'd lived pretty sheltered lives.

Speaker 23 When Sebastian was finished at Crimper's salon, a stranger was waiting.

Speaker 8 And when Mr. Burns comes out of the salon,

Speaker 8 the undercover operator just approaches him, what they call the cold approach.

Speaker 34 He

Speaker 54 seemed to me like some kind of an entrepreneur.

Speaker 9 He walks up to him and says, Hey, buddy, can you give me a hand?

Speaker 8 I seem to have locked my keys in the car.

Speaker 54 So he asked me for a ride to his hotel, and I gave him a ride.

Speaker 90 The stranger took Sebastian to a bar and bought him a drink for his trouble.

Speaker 54 I was impressed by that, and

Speaker 54 I

Speaker 54 was also sort of intrigued, I guess, or excited about the way that he seemed so ready to be interested in me.

Speaker 90 Sebastian told his new friend that he and his buddies had written a screenplay, but he didn't have a job and needed financing.

Speaker 44 The friend said he knew someone who could help.

Speaker 8 Ultimately, the goal was to get Sebastian to meet with the next guy up the chain,

Speaker 8 and it worked perfectly.

Speaker 44 Sebastian thought he was about to meet a connected businessman, but it was this man,

Speaker 7 Sergeant Hazlitt of the RCMP.

Speaker 23 We cannot show you his face.

Speaker 117 I don't think there's an undercover team like this anywhere in the world.

Speaker 117 And I say that very seriously.

Speaker 93 The best of the best.

Speaker 80 The best.

Speaker 27 The RCMP spent months preparing to manipulate their target.

Speaker 8 They had access to fancy cars, posh hotel suites, weapons, false international documents, beautiful women.

Speaker 38 Posing as professional mobsters, the RCMP set up the first meeting with Sebastian at a strip club.

Speaker 19 How important was this movie to Sebastian Burns?

Speaker 117 It was just about his whole

Speaker 4 life.

Speaker 60 The crime boss told Sebastian he did have cash to invest in his screenplay, but Sebastian would have to earn it.

Speaker 44 Sebastian had no idea he was being offered work in a make-believe world of crime.

Speaker 7 Jobs were also promised to Atif and their pal, Jimmy Miyoshi.

Speaker 7 Hope these guys are solid, man. These guys are

Speaker 7 never going to betray me. Ever.
All right.

Speaker 77 Sebastian's first assignment,

Speaker 34 transport a stolen car for the crime boss.

Speaker 68 He had nothing.

Speaker 68 And then he was offered something. He was offered something that was criminal, something that he probably wouldn't have thought was a good idea had he had something else going on in his life.

Speaker 26 He was only paid $200 for the job, and he wasn't happy.

Speaker 117 He was disgusted.

Speaker 117 He made it clear he wasn't happy. He told us he could make more money than that stealing his videos out of stores.

Speaker 44 It was essential to the undercover operation that Sebastian continue working for the organization so the next staged crime is easier for more cash.

Speaker 129 What I want you guys to do, which is no big deal. It's pretty straightforward.

Speaker 44 Sebastian and Jimmy Miyoshi go from one bank to another, laundering money.

Speaker 130 Cash is here, just taking deposit into this account.

Speaker 62 When you guys run it the first time, next time he's got a guy at a different bank.

Speaker 41 This time, for a day's work, they get paid $2,000.

Speaker 54 I couldn't help but be excited about having $2,000 put in my hand, and I'd hardly had to do anything for it.

Speaker 43 Months go by.

Speaker 65 The undercover operators take Sebastian to posh hotels, trying to build trust and draw him out.

Speaker 12 Did you sense that Sebastian felt he was smarter than you?

Speaker 117 Oh, there's no doubt he made it clear, told us that on more than one occasion.

Speaker 116 Tell me, smart you are.

Speaker 4 How many

Speaker 10 smart you are?

Speaker 89 I'm one of the most intelligent people in the world.

Speaker 44 Slowly, the undercover operators bring up the investigation in Bellevue.

Speaker 77 Hazlitt tries to get Sebastian to confess by telling him he already knows what happened.

Speaker 114 Sebastian doesn't admit guilt, but he confides in the mobsters that if the police did find something to tie him to the crime, he might want them to destroy it.

Speaker 69 And he has a very practical theory.

Speaker 23 As one of the best-known murder suspects in Canada, is confident that his movie would make millions if he is suddenly proven innocent.

Speaker 130 And a film with that kind of promotion, because the things as it is right now, it's like controversy, right, which in itself promotes, right?

Speaker 130 But this is like, oh, you're heroes if something goes up to 25-30 million.

Speaker 44 Taking their cue again from their target, the businessmen raise the stakes. They tell Sebastian that the Bellevue Police have physical evidence tying him to the crime.

Speaker 34 Well, I'll tell you,

Speaker 34 they're coming to luck your ass up.

Speaker 16 Here's your friends.

Speaker 46 To make it seem real, Hazlitt shows him this phony memo on Bellevue Police Letterhead detailing the evidence linking Sebastian to the murders.

Speaker 29 The mobsters offer to destroy the so-called evidence, but they need Sebastian to tell them exactly what happened in the Raffé house the night of the murders.

Speaker 77 Finally, on July 18th, 1995, one year after the murders, Sebastian meets the crime boss Sergeant Hazlitt at the Ocean Point Resort.

Speaker 29 And the cameras are rolling.

Speaker 131 He

Speaker 17 walks into this hotel room and takes off his shoes.

Speaker 8 He stretches out on a love seat.

Speaker 17 It's only then that Mr.

Speaker 8 Burns lets his guard down and the dirty little secret that he's been protecting for the last 12 or 13 months starts to unravel on video for the whole wide world to see.

Speaker 44 It has taken three months of undercover work to get to this moment.

Speaker 85 Both guys are coming in and say, hey, let's go off your

Speaker 6 family and get all their money.

Speaker 6 Basically.

Speaker 6 Essentially, yeah, I mean.

Speaker 117 And he told me the details how him and Atif Rafe did commit the murders in Bellevue?

Speaker 132 How about you fing knew three people at once?

Speaker 117 Extremely, extremely

Speaker 47 cold individual.

Speaker 117 It's phenomenal.

Speaker 30 The next day, Sebastian brings Atif to the crime boss to tell his story.

Speaker 89 what I wanted to achieve in this life.

Speaker 114 That's all all the police needed to hear.

Speaker 117 Those were solid, strong confessions that only the individuals that were responsible for that murder would be able to sit down and tell it like it was.

Speaker 89 Cheers.

Speaker 77 Sebastian, Atif,

Speaker 44 and Jimmy Miyoshi are all arrested.

Speaker 86 But this case is just beginning.

Speaker 23 Sebastian says he's lying, that undercover officers intimidated him into making a false confession.

Speaker 81 I believe that if I'd crossed them, they would have me killed.

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Speaker 100 Sebastian Burns and Atif Raffae, best friends who once dreamed of making it big in movies,

Speaker 101 were now behind bars.

Speaker 77 But no sooner were Sebastian and Atif arrested than the same Canadian government that set a trap to catch them led an international battle to spare their lives.

Speaker 19 We should not be sending anybody back.

Speaker 101 The case went all the way up to Canada's Supreme Court.

Speaker 134 Persons who leave the country and commit offenses outside of the country should expect that they will be punished under the laws of the jurisdiction in which they committed

Speaker 57 the crime.

Speaker 69 Sending the boys back across the border to Washington meant they would face the death penalty if convicted.

Speaker 44 A punishment Canada had long since abolished and considered inhumane.

Speaker 54 We never knew when we were going to be leaving for the United States.

Speaker 75 And every time we heard, oh, there may be a trial, you know, next year, then it became the next year.

Speaker 54 And that lasted for about four years where where we thought that we were a week away from extradition.

Speaker 60 After six years of legal wrangling, the King County prosecutor in Seattle agreed to Canada's demands not to seek the death penalty.

Speaker 44 Sebastian and Atif, now 25-year-old men, were finally extradited to face murder charges.

Speaker 5 Mr. Rafa, you're charged.

Speaker 70 Mr.

Speaker 28 Burns, you're charged in the cause numbers that I just read with three counts of aggravated murder in the first degree.

Speaker 90 If convicted, the penalty would now be life with no parole.

Speaker 109 That goes with the motion to dismiss.

Speaker 32 They were appointed a team of attorneys.

Speaker 115 Representing Sebastian was Teresa Olson, an ardent, if eccentric, public defender who believed in the boy's innocence.

Speaker 109 Of course they didn't do the killings. The evidence is clear that they didn't do the killings.

Speaker 101 Olson worked tirelessly on the case, running down leads and witnesses.

Speaker 65 But in the summer of 2002, the case took a bizarre turn.

Speaker 77 Guards at the King County Jail reported seeing Olson having sex with Sebastian during an attorney-client meeting.

Speaker 34 Shut up!

Speaker 90 The well-publicized scandal even caught the attention of late-night comic Jay Leno.

Speaker 13 A female lawyer in Seattle is in trouble for having sex in jail with her client, who is a murderer. How creepy is that? Huh? Sex with a lawyer.

Speaker 7 And brought the trial to a grinding halt.

Speaker 10 This court had no choice but to appoint new counsel.

Speaker 46 Sebastian's new attorneys were a dream team.

Speaker 114 Ivy League trained Jeff Robinson and Song Richardson.

Speaker 82 There is a lot at stake for Sebastian Burns, and we will be fighting till the end.

Speaker 50 187s are retired artists.

Speaker 59 They were among Seattle's best and most expensive criminal defense lawyers.

Speaker 114 At a public defender's wage.

Speaker 109 They have been essentially judged and treated as though they were guilty from the beginning when the evidence just isn't there.

Speaker 93 What kind of pressure is on all of your shoulders as we approach this trial?

Speaker 50 Nothing more or less than the rest of Sebastian Burns' natural life.

Speaker 105 They were up against two of the most seasoned and respected prosecutors in Seattle.

Speaker 84 We're going to get him.

Speaker 107 Roger David Heiser would be joining James Conat on the case.

Speaker 8 It's not just justice, it's the truth. What we're after here is the truth.
And I would submit to you, that's what separates our side from theirs.

Speaker 16 By September 2003, Sebastian and Atif had been in jail for more than eight years, charged but never convicted for the Raffay family murders.

Speaker 68 You have to recognize that these are human beings.

Speaker 68 and they have had their lives stolen from them. And to make it worse, they've had their lives stolen from them

Speaker 68 to somehow resolve a murder that they didn't commit.

Speaker 90 The case would turn on those controversial confessions.

Speaker 63 Make-believe mobsters extracting confessions from teenagers.

Speaker 12 Is that allowed in the state of Washington?

Speaker 50 It's not allowed in the state of Washington. And I don't think it's allowed anywhere else in the United States under the circumstances that it was done in this case.

Speaker 12 Are you comfortable using the results from an illegal undercover investigation by U.S.

Speaker 79 laws in your case?

Speaker 66 This investigation was not illegal because it was conducted in Canada by Canadian authorities targeting Canadian citizens.

Speaker 136 It was an investigation that they undertook separate and apart from the Bellevue investigation.

Speaker 96 This case, it's not only about the lives of my two friends.

Speaker 68 It's about the responsibility of police and prosecutors to do their job properly and to act in good faith.

Speaker 68 And they have not done that in this case.

Speaker 42 It would be up to Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel

Speaker 101 to decide if Sebastian and Atif's chilling confessions caught on tape would be allowed to damn them in an American court.

Speaker 50 Other prosecutors in other cases with evidence just like that have told jurors, just like the ones that will sit in our case, that it's a slam dunk.

Speaker 50 And those jurors very comfortably have convicted people and sentenced them to die. And they've been wrong.

Speaker 90 Judge Mertel was about to make the most controversial ruling of his career.

Speaker 26 The boys' lives would depend on what he was about to say.

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Speaker 68 I think that everyone who knew Sebastian thought that he was going on to do something interesting with his life. Yeah, people expected him to be a leader, to do something interesting.
And

Speaker 68 I hope one day he will.

Speaker 39 Sebastian Burns and Atif Raffey should have been celebrating at the West Vancouver High School 10-year reunion.

Speaker 105 Instead, they had become the Class of 93's most infamous graduates.

Speaker 46 Prosecutors say just one year out of high school, these brilliant best friends tried to commit the perfect murder.

Speaker 36 It was a brutal crime

Speaker 25 that shocked the upscale suburb of Bellevue, Washington.

Speaker 22 Atif's mother, father, and sister bludgeoned to death.

Speaker 104 The motive, insurance money.

Speaker 65 The boys got away and were living in Canada until undercover police officers caught them on tape boasting about how they did it. How did you fing three

Speaker 42 Now on the eve of their murder trial a judge would decide if a jury would get to hear those chilling confessions.

Speaker 133 I do not find the undercover officers' conduct in this case shocking or outrageous, although they were deceitful, persistent, and aggressive. They engaged in tricks, but not dirty tricks.

Speaker 19 It was a controversial ruling allowing the boys' own words to be used against them.

Speaker 90 And would set the tone for the whole trial.

Speaker 12 Just how powerful is the impact of this video of these two boys confessing to murders?

Speaker 50 It's incredibly powerful. When I first saw it, I was taken aback.
I was shocked.

Speaker 50 They're two young men seemingly laughing about slaughtering three people and saying, I did it.

Speaker 115 And while the confessions may be shocking, the defense says they're not true.

Speaker 50 This case is about what happens when a presumption of guilt, when a gut feeling that you have the right suspects, takes over from logical and objective evaluation of the evidence.

Speaker 50 This case is about what happens when you pursue individuals as opposed to pursuing the truth.

Speaker 26 Finally, in November 2003, more than nine years after the Raffay family murders, Sebastian and Atif get their day in court.

Speaker 128 The jury's going to finally hear the story of what really happened to the Raffae family and they'll hear the story of Sebastian and Atif's innocence.

Speaker 100 But prosecutors had a very different story to tell.

Speaker 17 Sebastian Burns is

Speaker 8 young, thoughtful, charismatic, manipulative, manipulative, and most importantly, a killer.

Speaker 34 A brutal killer.

Speaker 12 You've been portrayed as a monster.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 93 Maniacal, plotting, a murderer.

Speaker 119 Are you those things?

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 50 The state's theory is we want to make the jurors hate these two young men. Essentially, they make it a test of character as opposed to a test of evidence.

Speaker 47 And character is at the heart of the prosecution's case.

Speaker 128 All right, Superior Court is now in session.

Speaker 41 The defendants were two young men who believed they could commit the perfect murder. Roger David Heiser opened for the state.

Speaker 81 Ladies and gentlemen, what you will hear in the end is that it was this very hubris that sealed their fate.

Speaker 81 and their arrogant and unrealistic belief that they were smart enough to achieve mastery over the police and their investigation.

Speaker 104 He zeroed in on the piece of evidence that launched the case and for the first time revealed a startling flaw in the boys' plan.

Speaker 137 They made that 911 call too quickly.

Speaker 5 My belief is that they just walked straight into the house and made the 911 call.

Speaker 25 The timing was critical, so we asked Detective Thompson to retrace their drive home from downtown Seattle, where they were last seen that night.

Speaker 5 18 minutes.

Speaker 81 What does that tell you?

Speaker 5 And 18 minutes would give them three minutes in the house.

Speaker 44 And three minutes, said the prosecutors, was not enough time in the house to find the bodies and do all the things Sebastian and Atif told the police they did.

Speaker 81 And think about what they had to do in that three minutes.

Speaker 137 Three minutes to arrive home, pull the family car into the garage, enter the home through the garage, discover and comprehend that Sultana, Tariq, and Bosma had been brutally attacked and laid dead in three different areas of that house.

Speaker 115 The revelation startled the defense, but Sung Richardson was thinking on her feet.

Speaker 82 I'm asking you, how long does it take to walk into a house and see these two brutally butchered bodies of Atif's family and then run downstairs and call 911?

Speaker 7 And turn the prosecution's argument on its head.

Speaker 34 How long

Speaker 82 is three minutes?

Speaker 82 Well,

Speaker 53 let's see.

Speaker 33 That was about a minute and a half.

Speaker 101 But remember, it wasn't just the murders. In that three minutes, the boys also had to figure out there'd been a burglary and that a VCR and disc man were missing.

Speaker 117 This was some kind of break-in.

Speaker 8 I hear the voice of a person who has contrived a story that can only be explained by somebody who knew very well what had happened in the Raffé family home.

Speaker 66 I was out of my mind at the time.

Speaker 54 I was totally in shock, totally

Speaker 54 staggered and confounded and

Speaker 53 was almost totally hysterical.

Speaker 40 In a case where every minute matters, the defense bolsters their claim of the boys' innocence by playing up statements the neighbors on both sides of the Raffae house gave to police in the days following the murders.

Speaker 103 The neighbors initially said that they heard pounding coming from inside the Raffae house at a time when the boys have an airtight alibi.

Speaker 12 You were standing in this driveway and that.

Speaker 60 Mark Seidel lived right next door to the raffaes.

Speaker 12 How loud were the bangs you were hearing?

Speaker 66 A little bit harder than you'd hang a picture.

Speaker 104 Seidel says back then he didn't think a murder was taking place next door and figured the raffaes, who had just moved in, were probably unpacking.

Speaker 93 I sort of thought about going over and helping them so they could go to sleep, but luckily that night I didn't.

Speaker 60 The Raffé's other next-door neighbor, Julie Rackley, testified that she also heard sounds.

Speaker 82 Initially, I thought it just sounded like hammering.

Speaker 83 It had sort of an odd resonance to it.

Speaker 109 The neighbors who heard these sounds, described them in great detail, and verified what they were for the police. all heard them well before 10 o'clock at night.

Speaker 60 And at 10 o'clock, Sebastian and Atif were still seen at the movie theater.

Speaker 93 If the jury believes these initial reports that Mark Seidel and Judy Rackley gave to police, your case could be in trouble.

Speaker 17 Absolutely.

Speaker 66 You can't be in two places at one time.

Speaker 136 There is no debating that point.

Speaker 95 There are two independent neighbors who separately heard the murder happen.

Speaker 5 at the end of twilight before 10 o'clock.

Speaker 54 And we were known to be on the other side of town when that happened. It was impossible for us to have committed this crime.

Speaker 23 Prosecutors contend it is possible.

Speaker 11 Even though the boys were seen going to the 950 movie, there's no proof that they stayed.

Speaker 81 Is there a way for these two boys to exit the theater without drawing attention to themselves?

Speaker 12 Say during the movie.

Speaker 101 Jose Martinez sold the boys movie tickets that night, and he showed us how they could sneak out from this theater.

Speaker 111 Got this exit behind the curtain or the other one over there.

Speaker 79 If they slip through this curtain, you're not letting any light into the theater.

Speaker 72 Correct.

Speaker 26 Then up these stairs.

Speaker 111 And out this exit door.

Speaker 15 Two doors outside.

Speaker 22 The defense protested that even though it could have happened that way, there was no proof that it did.

Speaker 60 and that prosecutors were grasping at straws to get a conviction.

Speaker 68 They sifted through Sebastian's history and his life, and Atif's history and his life, and and tried to find anything that would make them look like bad people.

Speaker 105 In fact, months into the trial, prosecutors brought this intriguing surprise witness from the boys' past, who said she had evidence that could turn the case.

Speaker 16 But first, they would have to convince the judge to let the jury hear what she had to say.

Speaker 133 Swear or affirm.

Speaker 23 Nazgol Schifte was a friend from the boys' high school days who had dated Sebastian.

Speaker 56 What was this comment that Sebastian Burns made that stood out at you?

Speaker 76 He said,

Speaker 76 I want to try to kill someone one day to see how it would feel because I think I would find it enjoyable.

Speaker 101 She claimed a late-night conversation she'd had years ago with the boys in her bedroom

Speaker 26 had planted the seeds for murder.

Speaker 81 Did you think he was serious?

Speaker 76 He wasn't laughing and he said it in a serious tone.

Speaker 90 Sebastian doesn't deny having the conversation, but emphatically says he wasn't serious.

Speaker 54 It's

Speaker 54 a one-line paraphrase of a sarcasm from a hippie-dippy 3 a.m. conversation 10 years ago, and I can't remember enough about it to defend myself against it.

Speaker 68 If anyone would reflect on that and think, imagine if the worst parts of my personality, maybe the worst moments when I was 18 years old, that I would be reminded of them for the next nine years of my life, and that

Speaker 68 in the public's eye would be the person that I'd become, I think people would really shudder. It's a nightmare.

Speaker 133 Thank you for your time and your testimony.

Speaker 90 It was certainly damning testimony, but the jury would never hear it.

Speaker 133 There is no question had I known about this

Speaker 133 last spring, I would have admitted this four months into this thing. I can't stop this process and let everyone dash to the four winds to try and research this.

Speaker 30 The judge's decision flustered prosecutors,

Speaker 104 but there's another witness more powerful and much more damning.

Speaker 11 You swear or affirm that the testimony of the friend the boys swore would never betray them.

Speaker 5 Do you recognize Mr.

Speaker 81 Burns and Mr. Rafae are in the courtroom here today?

Speaker 50 Yes, I do.

Speaker 90 It had been years since Jimmy Miyoshi had seen his high school buddies, Sebastian and Atif.

Speaker 47 Jimmy had moved to Japan and was living under another name when prosecutors forced him to return to Seattle and face his friends at their murder trial.

Speaker 8 He was, in no uncertain terms, conflicted.

Speaker 8 In fact, he spent the last two or three years of his life trying to avoid the eventuality of being compelled to come to court and testify against his two best friends.

Speaker 60 Jimmy could have easily been sitting next to his best friends, charged with a crime.

Speaker 90 Back in 1995, during the undercover operation, Jimmy was also a target of the RCMP.

Speaker 90 The RCMP believed Miyoshi helped the boys plan the murder of the Raffae family, and they wanted him to give a full confession on tape, just like his friends had done.

Speaker 130 You know what I'm down there in that house?

Speaker 130 What went on?

Speaker 90 Yeah.

Speaker 101 But no matter how much he was pressed for details, Miyoshi refused to implicate his friends in the murder.

Speaker 101 I just wanted you to explain to me exactly the purposes of a Uwinding note.

Speaker 132 Is that so we can establish this kind of totally for trust?

Speaker 129 Totally for trust.

Speaker 12 Totally. In some ways, was Jimmy Miyoshi the smartest of them all?

Speaker 117 He's not in jail.

Speaker 44 In fact, Jimmy was arrested with Sebastian and Atif and interrogated by authorities in Canada.

Speaker 50 He was told that he might face the death penalty himself. He was told that his family, his job, his future would be ruined unless he said that Sebastian and Atif confessed to him.

Speaker 45 Back then, Jimmy told the police that his friends were innocent.

Speaker 56 At the time of your arrest on July 31, 1995, were they honest answers?

Speaker 94 They were answers that I guess the intention of a lot of those answers was to protect Sebastian and Atif.

Speaker 56 At that point, on July 31, 1995, why is it that you gave answers that were designed to protect Sebastian and Atif?

Speaker 94 I guess it was also in a way to protect myself,

Speaker 94 but in general, because I didn't want Sebastian and Antif to get

Speaker 94 arrested and potentially convicted.

Speaker 38 But under increasing pressure, Miyoshi eventually agreed to cooperate.

Speaker 23 And in exchange, he was granted immunity from charges of conspiracy to commit murder.

Speaker 47 Suddenly, he began to reveal more to the police about what he knew.

Speaker 38 But now the question loomed, would Miyoshi betray his best friends?

Speaker 5 Had this subject ever come up before?

Speaker 81 The notion of Atif Rafe killing his family?

Speaker 94 No, this was the first time.

Speaker 100 In a halting voice that often dropped to a whisper, Jimmy told the court that it was during a drive from Seattle to Vancouver when Hatif first brought up the idea of killing his family.

Speaker 8 What was your response to the notion of

Speaker 73 Hatif's notion of killing his family?

Speaker 94 I guess I was listening and

Speaker 119 I,

Speaker 94 I mean, he was my friend at the time and I guess in a way I was neutral on that notion.

Speaker 44 On the stand, Jimmy recounted a discussion about how the boys would commit the crime.

Speaker 14 Remember which methods were discussed?

Speaker 94 I remember something about

Speaker 94 gassing the house and I remember discussion about,

Speaker 94 I guess, using a baseball bat.

Speaker 81 What do you remember about

Speaker 8 why

Speaker 8 a baseball bat could or should be used?

Speaker 12 Yes, a quick and

Speaker 94 painless way of killing someone.

Speaker 8 I don't think there's any question that he was a sounding board for them.

Speaker 105 The prosecution says Jimmy consulted on an especially chilling part of the plan.

Speaker 103 Sebastian and Atif stayed here at the Raffae family home during the five days before the murders, and it was no coincidence.

Speaker 41 It was part of the plan, prosecutors say, to commit the perfect crime.

Speaker 94 If they had been living in the house previously, that any kind of

Speaker 94 hair or whatever samples that were collected after

Speaker 94 wouldn't

Speaker 94 necessarily mean

Speaker 22 that they had done it.

Speaker 8 By virtue of their being in the house for several days, any fingerprint that would be found or could be found could be explained as a result of their having been there for several days.

Speaker 8 Any hair evidence that might be found could be explained for them having been in the house for several days prior to the murders.

Speaker 95 It's diabolical, but it's pretty clever.

Speaker 8 Damn clever.

Speaker 107 Finally, Jimmy gave the prosecution what they needed.

Speaker 106 In this case, he said that Atif watched while Sebastian bludgeoned the family.

Speaker 94 And I remember hearing about how,

Speaker 82 I guess,

Speaker 94 Atif was pretty distraught, and that

Speaker 94 from the moment that Sebastian had struck his mother, that it was kind of a there's no going back.

Speaker 12 How hard was it to sit and listen to Jimmy Miyoshi's testimony?

Speaker 49 It was enormously difficult. I think it was difficult for him as well.

Speaker 49 As I say,

Speaker 49 I am

Speaker 17 outraged that he did it,

Speaker 49 but at the same time,

Speaker 49 I think

Speaker 49 I

Speaker 48 reserve my

Speaker 49 real outrage for the people who forced him to do it.

Speaker 12 Did you discuss a plan to murder the Raffae family with Jimmy Miyoshi?

Speaker 17 No, we didn't.

Speaker 12 Why did Jimmy Miyoshi testify that you did?

Speaker 49 Because he had

Speaker 54 a life sentence held to his head.

Speaker 54 And if he didn't say what the police and the prosecution wanted him to say, that life sentence was going to go off.

Speaker 50 It's the first time in eight years that you have ever said anything like that, isn't it, sir?

Speaker 94 I'm not sure.

Speaker 29 And isn't what happened?

Speaker 60 The defense tried to hammer back.

Speaker 26 Jimmy once lied to save his friends.

Speaker 90 So he could be easily lying now to save himself.

Speaker 50 You're making it up as you go along, sir. That's why you're saying things for the first time yesterday.

Speaker 54 No, I don't believe I am.

Speaker 63 Do you believe that Jimmy Miyoshi is a liar?

Speaker 50 Jimmy Miyoshi is a self-admitted liar.

Speaker 50 Jimmy Miyoshi acknowledges that he has lied. The question will be, how many lies does Jimmy Miyoshi get to tell? Mr.
Miyoshi, this conversation was on the...

Speaker 29 The defense needed to come back with something strong, and they had an arsenal of forensic evidence that flew in the face of Miyoshi's testimony.

Speaker 41 They told the jury that there were three killers in the house that night.

Speaker 29 Experts analyzed the patterns of blood on the wall and found drops everywhere except this area where there was no blood, indicating another killer may have stood there during the attack.

Speaker 80 They also said a pillow was moved during the bludgeoning.

Speaker 135 So we have killer number one moving the pillow. We have killer number two bludgeoning Dr.
Raffae with the bat.

Speaker 135 And then we have killer number three who has to remain in the exact same place throughout the entire duration of the attack on Dr. Raffae.

Speaker 79 And there was even more tangible evidence.

Speaker 90 A single hair on Tariq Raffae's bed.

Speaker 135 According to the police officers there, this was an important hair. Because this hair, according to the Bellevue Police Department, would tell them who committed this crime.

Speaker 12 Did it match Atif?

Speaker 8 No.

Speaker 113 Sebastian? No. Sultana?

Speaker 37 No. Bosma? No.

Speaker 93 Tariq? No.

Speaker 136 We don't know whether that hair originated from someone who sat in the same seat that Sebastian Burns sat in at the movie theater, or whether it was picked up by Dr.

Speaker 51 Raffae at his workplace, or how it got on that bed.

Speaker 93 Or if it was a hair from the killer.

Speaker 81 Or if it was a hair from the killer.

Speaker 104 Prosecutors also added, DNA evidence needs to fit a pattern and appear in more than one place at a crime scene.

Speaker 8 That DNA profile appeared nowhere else in that house. There was absolutely no other pattern of trace evidence that could even be remotely suggested to be related to that hair.

Speaker 8 That was an isolated hair.

Speaker 63 So, with the forensic evidence inconclusive, the case comes down to whom the jury would believe.

Speaker 12 You're saying the testimony of one of my best friends, don't listen to that.

Speaker 12 My own words on the videotape, don't listen to that. Just take my word for it.

Speaker 12 We didn't do it.

Speaker 50 Defense calls Sebastian Burns.

Speaker 50 All rise for the jury.

Speaker 23 More than 100 witnesses would take the stand in the state versus Burns and Raffae.

Speaker 104 Could you kill again?

Speaker 89 Circumstances are rare.

Speaker 102 Finally, Canada's most secret undercover operation would be exposed before the jury.

Speaker 92 And so would the question that had lingered for so many years.

Speaker 12 Why would you confess to a murder you didn't do?

Speaker 54 At that point, it seemed like the only safe choice. It seemed like the best choice.

Speaker 75 Why on earth would anyone confess to a murder they didn't do unless they were petrified?

Speaker 75 That they were actually going to be killed themselves or people they loved were going to come to some type of harm?

Speaker 25 The defense set out to prove that the scales were tipped from the beginning.

Speaker 104 Professional liars.

Speaker 117 In 1975, I was first trained in the undercover work.

Speaker 23 Against teenage boys.

Speaker 81 Have you worked as the primary undercover operator before?

Speaker 117 Yes.

Speaker 97 I am frightened

Speaker 50 by the fact that this kind of undercover operation can be used ostensibly to search for the truth when it is built in whole on lies and manipulation and threats.

Speaker 133 Mr. Burns, come on forward.

Speaker 105 Sebastian would have to convince the jury to believe him now and not to believe what he said on those tapes.

Speaker 54 I was in way over my head and I

Speaker 54 did not want to be involved with these guys. I was upset with myself for having agreed to drive the car.

Speaker 36 Sebastian began his side of the story with the first assignment from the crime box, transporting that stolen car.

Speaker 50 What was your reaction when you heard that they wanted you to drive the stolen car?

Speaker 33 Pretty quickly, I felt that I'd been tripped.

Speaker 12 Sebastian, why didn't you just look at him and say, I am out of here?

Speaker 97 Walk away.

Speaker 95 No, but there is no walking away. You want to know what I fing

Speaker 130 my time for? I fing told him to go there. When it came time, the finger court.
The person that could finger me, they're not around anymore.

Speaker 60 Sebastian says he couldn't walk away from criminals whose power seemed to be so far-reaching.

Speaker 55 I believe that if I'd crossed them or if they weren't happy with me or if they thought I was going to betray them, that they would have me killed.

Speaker 55 I just assume that, you know, you with your connections, that if I were to f ⁇ k you around, okay, I would just assume that I would wake up one day with a bullet in my head.

Speaker 7 On the stand, Song Richardson pressed Sergeant Hazlitt about his scare tactics.

Speaker 33 Sebastian could easily, very easily, have believed that you and your organization would hurt people if they crossed you, right?

Speaker 117 He could have believed it, yes.

Speaker 128 And that you would kill people if they ever crossed you, right?

Speaker 58 Well,

Speaker 129 I've never said that.

Speaker 117 It goes to Sebastian Burns' imagination. Let him sit back when he goes home at night and imagine whatever he chooses to.

Speaker 12 Is there any time in which your character character directly threatens Sebastian Burns?

Speaker 117 No.

Speaker 117 Never.

Speaker 29 The idea was not to frighten Sebastian, but to make him comfortable talking about murder to other murderers.

Speaker 117 I know he did that.

Speaker 51 That's why you're here for yourself.

Speaker 12 Could Sebastian Burns have walked away from his relationship with you at any time he chose to do so?

Speaker 117 Without a doubt, he didn't have to return our calls.

Speaker 15 Hey, it's Sebastian leaving message number three.

Speaker 105 Sebastian stayed, the defense argued, because he believed the Bellevue police were fabricating evidence against him.

Speaker 64 I'm going to show you something.

Speaker 130 You never saw this from me.

Speaker 36 That phony memo detailing the evidence that the cops had against the boys.

Speaker 89 Just read this piece of ⁇

Speaker 47 The undercover operators only offered to destroy the evidence if Sebastian confessed.

Speaker 82 You don't say to Sebastian, look, Sebastian, if you didn't do it, just say so.

Speaker 82 We'll still deal with that evidence for you.

Speaker 33 We'll deal with it so you won't get convicted.

Speaker 82 But if you didn't do it, just say so. We'll still help.
You never said that, right?

Speaker 129 No, I didn't say that because up until this time, Sebastian Burns had never denied the involvement in the murders to me.

Speaker 12 Going into the meeting on July 18th, what was your plan?

Speaker 54 My plan was to claim to be the murderer that they insisted that they believe that I was.

Speaker 61 And to be convincing, Sebastian says he studied newspaper accounts so he'd know details of the murders.

Speaker 89 Which go first?

Speaker 23 As the cameras rolled, Sebastian confirmed the police theory that the weapon was a baseball bat.

Speaker 23 Um, metal

Speaker 28 and the eerie notion that the killer had showered before leaving.

Speaker 89 They could sarah clean up, bringing blood and making a step.

Speaker 28 And that wasn't the only reason why detectives found no blood on the boys.

Speaker 130 It's on the baseball, man.

Speaker 89 You have to shower

Speaker 107 Sebastian pointed out how he and Atif would profit from the crime.

Speaker 89 Whatever money we get, it was like we would invest it in our family, I guess.

Speaker 30 And he gave up the most sought-after clue, the loophole in the alibi.

Speaker 89 What you

Speaker 14 do the dirty deed

Speaker 87 Atif explained that while Sebastian killed his family, he staged a break-in.

Speaker 130 What did I do when you were in the house?

Speaker 18 Sit around,

Speaker 88 rank down the VPR.

Speaker 137 You told Hazlitt, am I correct, that you committed these murders of the Raffais, the Raffae family, during the movie. Am I right?

Speaker 54 Correct.

Speaker 65 That the VCR was taken to also contribute to the simulation of a breaking and entering?

Speaker 54 That's right.

Speaker 66 You had the alibi of the movie.

Speaker 30 The prosecution had another bombshell ready to drop on the defense.

Speaker 107 It wasn't the first time Sebastian used a movie as an alibi.

Speaker 137 You got into a car collision, didn't you?

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 137 You were driving your family car at the time?

Speaker 53 That's correct, yes.

Speaker 7 I mean, you hit a pole in a parking lot.

Speaker 137 Did you own up to it at the time?

Speaker 54 No, I did not.

Speaker 24 When he was 16, Sebastian staged an elaborate cover-up to conceal the fact that he had wrecked the family car.

Speaker 137 Mr.

Speaker 136 Burns, the reality is what you said about doing was very similar to what you told Hazlitt you did in this case, isn't that correct?

Speaker 28 I told Hazlitt that we committed a murder, which we didn't do.

Speaker 137 Well, Mr. Burns, let me stop you there for a moment.

Speaker 18 Roger David Heiser drew a haunting parallel between the accident scene and the murder scene.

Speaker 40 Back in high school, Sebastian went to great lengths to make it seem like someone else did the damage while he was at the movie.

Speaker 27 But the insurance company caught him in the cover-up.

Speaker 81 And in March of 1992, albeit with this stupid little car crash, what you decided to do was to pick up the pieces of evidence that were at the scene of this collision.

Speaker 137 Am I right?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 137 You put those back in your car, am I correct?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 137 You took them to an entirely different location in North Vancouver, am I right?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 137 And you staged a scene in a parking lot, am I right?

Speaker 6 Basically.

Speaker 66 You manipulated the evidence to appear as though it was something that it wasn't.

Speaker 137 Am I right?

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 67 And the reason you did that, sir, was so that you could say

Speaker 24 that this accident occurred while you were at the movies.

Speaker 137 Am I right?

Speaker 6 Correct.

Speaker 66 Sir, you weren't at the movies when that accident occurred, were you?

Speaker 34 No.

Speaker 54 The difference is that the first one is a car accident and the second one is a homicide.

Speaker 136 That's correct, Mr. Burns.

Speaker 53 That is a difference.

Speaker 54 And the difference is also that in the first case, I was responsible for the car accident, and in the second case, I had nothing to do with this homicide.

Speaker 87 David Heiser wasn't about to let that statement go in front of the jury.

Speaker 61 He had more of that damning tape.

Speaker 15 Can't tell you, like, I, you know,

Speaker 15 I felt like, you know, I was capable. And

Speaker 15 like you there, kill the person.

Speaker 137 And on July 18th of 1995, after you told him that you had in fact killed the Raffay family, you told him that you did it because you felt capable of killing, right?

Speaker 108 Correct, yes.

Speaker 70 Did you see it happen?

Speaker 56 Yeah.

Speaker 51 All three?

Speaker 88 No, only what?

Speaker 130 Which one?

Speaker 113 The demeanor with which they deliver this this message of what they accomplished that that night in Bellevue is chilling.

Speaker 130 Didn't even fight?

Speaker 130 Um

Speaker 41 uh

Speaker 41 yeah.

Speaker 24 Well, that's a story that hasn't really been told because I think the ones telling us

Speaker 136 you can hear a chief giggling in the background and and kind of going, Oh god, oh god.

Speaker 97 Basically, uh the father who was uh

Speaker 34 nothing and

Speaker 132 curious episode what it was.

Speaker 4 Um

Speaker 130 the sister who basically um

Speaker 54 well yeah standing up and walking around or whatever.

Speaker 12 Your behavior on that tape when there's some laughing, did you think that the murder of the Raffae family was some sort of a comedy?

Speaker 54 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 54 But we were lying and I was not thinking about the murder of the Raffae family when I was talking.

Speaker 49 To a certain extent, I had essentially

Speaker 49 put the real events out of my mind entirely, so that I was really only thinking of the story that I was selling to Mr. Hazlitt.

Speaker 113 That's not part of a story that two scared individuals come up with because they think it's what two mafia characters want to hear.

Speaker 80 That's the truth.

Speaker 136 That's the truth coming from the mind of Atifa Fay and Sebastian Burns.

Speaker 56 It's a challenge to sum it all up in a couple of hours.

Speaker 23 Six months of testimony comes down to one final argument.

Speaker 95 There is no gray area. There is nothing in between.
Either you must believe what Sebastian Burns says and every single thing he says, or you must convict him.

Speaker 20 James Conat will speak for the state.

Speaker 26 You like your odds?

Speaker 95 Very much.

Speaker 26 Are you ready?

Speaker 97 Absolutely.

Speaker 39 Jeff Robinson knows this is his last chance in front of the jury, and he will have to counter with everything he has.

Speaker 50 How many times does the evidence have to tell us it's not Sebastian and it's not Atif

Speaker 50 before we listen?

Speaker 50 Please listen.

Speaker 40 He points to the bloody scene in Tariq's bedroom and evidence of three killers.

Speaker 50 Three people went into Dr. Afe's room

Speaker 50 and there are three unknown DNA profiles.

Speaker 107 Robinson reminds them that there is no forensic evidence linking the boys to the crime.

Speaker 50 And the question that you're required to ask yourselves is, what has the state shown me? to make me believe that he is guilty without having one reason to doubt it. Mr.

Speaker 133 Conan, the floor is yours.

Speaker 81 There can be no doubt in your mind that these two are the killers.

Speaker 11 The prosecution insists it is Sebastian's own words that leave no room for doubt.

Speaker 89 How'd you f ⁇ three people at once?

Speaker 56 And ultimately, the words that came out of Sebastian Burns' mouth led to his demise.

Speaker 8 His hubris led to his demise.

Speaker 105 What would be most compelling to the 12 jurors?

Speaker 25 Would it be the neighbors who thought they heard the murders that night when the boys were spotted at the movie theater?

Speaker 42 Or would they be haunted by Jimmy Miyoshi's words damning his two former best friends?

Speaker 45 Would the jury believe that Sebastian was scared of those undercover operators?

Speaker 41 Or is this the picture of a young man who thinks he's about about to get away with murder?

Speaker 23 For the last time, the jury is asked to envision the last moments in the Raffay family home.

Speaker 56 This is the horror that they left behind, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 6 This is what we must not lose sight of.

Speaker 25 Finally, it is up to the jury to make its decision.

Speaker 133 Okay, ladies and gentlemen, you're retired to deliberate your verdicts.

Speaker 22 In the script for the Great Despisers, two boys are wrongfully convicted and executed.

Speaker 104 After four days of deliberations, 10 years after the murders, the final act in the real-life plot line.

Speaker 7 All ride for the jury.

Speaker 108 We the jury find the defendant, Glenn Sebastian Burns, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree as charged in Count 1. Verdict Form 1F.

Speaker 108 We the jury find the defendant, Tif Ahmed Reffey, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree as charged in Count 3.

Speaker 127 I did not believe that they didn't have reasonable doubt.

Speaker 55 I just didn't believe it.

Speaker 111 I'm afraid of him. I think he's very scary.
I looked at him a few times and he was glaring at me personally and anybody that committed a crime like that is a frightening person.

Speaker 81 I was looking at individual jurors just to see if they,

Speaker 55 I don't know, I guess I was looking for some kind of an answer.

Speaker 75 I wonder

Speaker 75 how they sleep at night

Speaker 75 I wonder how they came to that decision

Speaker 12 with the verdict that was given can you sleep well at night now yes

Speaker 70 no second thoughts no no way not with anyone not a doubt

Speaker 111 I personally myself to the very day of the end of the trial wanted them to be innocent And in the end I was totally overcome by the evidence, obviously, but I think all of us were wishing that some suspect would be guilty so that we could not convict these two young men.

Speaker 29 On October 22nd, 2004, five months after the verdict, good morning,

Speaker 77 Sebastian and Atif were back in court.

Speaker 77 This time to hear their sentence from the judge.

Speaker 73 Send Mr. Burns a very clear message that he has been found guilty.
Send him to prison for the rest of his natural life, times three, three consecutive life sentences.

Speaker 133 Mr. Burns?

Speaker 13 Thank you, Your Honor.

Speaker 139 Sebastian had his own message for the court.

Speaker 95 With all due respect to the jurors,

Speaker 62 the verdict was wrong.

Speaker 45 In the audience were jurors who had convicted him and the undercover operators who had sealed his fate.

Speaker 81 I certainly feel sorry for the victims.

Speaker 54 I feel sorry for their surviving son.

Speaker 78 This was his only expression of sympathy.

Speaker 64 Before I continue, I would just encourage you to consider.

Speaker 139 In a speech that went on

Speaker 65 for almost two hours.

Speaker 31 Our jury was

Speaker 66 made to have.

Speaker 72 I

Speaker 48 want to insist today on the truth. that we are innocent.

Speaker 23 Atif never took the stand during the trial.

Speaker 41 And I loved my parents.

Speaker 48 I revere their memory to this day.

Speaker 105 He used this moment to admit he was ashamed.

Speaker 48 Your Honor, the impersonation that I gave on those videotapes,

Speaker 48 there's no relation. It's alien to everything that I've ever felt or thought.

Speaker 114 I truly admired my father.

Speaker 48 I was probably closer to my mother than to any other person that I ever will be.

Speaker 131 And the memory of her wit and her charm and her keen human sympathy,

Speaker 48 they're dear to me to this day.

Speaker 41 Mr. Raffae, thank you.

Speaker 133 Unlike your colleague, I find you genuinely remorseful, Mr.

Speaker 8 Raffae.

Speaker 133 I think the tragedy for you and ultimately your family

Speaker 133 was a meeting, a fateful meeting at probably a school cafeteria or a school school ground. I don't know where it occurred, with Mr.

Speaker 106 Burns.

Speaker 102 Judge Mertel saved his harshest words for Sebastian Burns.

Speaker 133 Mr. Burns, you're not immoral.
You're amoral. You are an arrogant, convicted killer.

Speaker 133 You are not a kid, as you so often refer to yourself. You're an adult, and you will be held responsible as an adult.

Speaker 133 for your premeditated, naked, vicious massacre of this family.

Speaker 133 It is therefore the conclusion of this court that you should be sentenced on count one to life without possibility of parole, count two to life without possibility of parole, and on count three to life without possibility of parole.

Speaker 133 Those three sentences to run consecutively.

Speaker 45 It has taken nearly a decade, but prosecutors will send the Raffae's only son and his best friend to prison.

Speaker 107 Three consecutive life terms, one for each life that was taken.

Speaker 52 Justice has been done for the three victims, and our community has held the two individuals responsible for this accountable for their conduct.

Speaker 51 There is a great deal of satisfaction.

Speaker 17 in being part of that, a great deal of satisfaction.

Speaker 91 Burns and Raffae remain in separate prisons in Washington state and both maintain their innocence.

Speaker 91 In 2017, Raffae married a volunteer with Innocence International, which continues to advocate for both men.