Sunday 10/29’s Cold Case
Let me start by detailing a bit about Scotty. His brother was apparently molested by a coach in their childhood. Scotty was warned by some associates that the coach was being tried for molestation and that Scotty’s brother may be a victim. Since Scotty mentioned it to his brother, his brother has taken to spending all day in bed and creeping around his house at night. That offshoot is featured tonight, but not in great detail.
The real case involves a 1958 suicide of a D.J, “The Hawk.” After a computer geek starts toying with tapes from that fateful night, evidence comes to light that someone else was in the room when Hawk supposedly shot himself. He may have been murdered.
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The case begins with Hawk’s exwife. She sends them to Hawk’s assistant who was apparently peeved that Hawk wouldn’t play his song on the air. Back then it was the DJ’s that made or killed a potential hit.
After visiting the former assistant, he tells them that Hawk had made one enemy - a man who claims Hawk impregnated his teenage daughter. They interview that man, and he admits the girl finally admitted it was her boyfriend, not Hawk. The man does, however, tell them that Hawk had been hitting on some girl in a diner and that the girl’s boyfriend was not amused.
They track down the boyfriend, he has a record for armed robbery, so he becomes a key suspect. He points them to his girlfriend. After questioning her, they learn that Hawk was threatened by a music producer after Hawk learned his assistant had taken bribes from this producer to play some of his songs on the air.
They return to the assistant who then points them to the girl he met in the diner. She had a song that she’d given to Hawk and it was the song that was playing the night Hawk died. Things begin to unravel when they discover the missing lyrics to that song - the girl wasn’t Hawk’s secret girlfriend, she was his daughter.
Turns out Hawk made plans to quit his job and tour the country with his very talented daughter. Unfortunately, the girls mother was not having that. He’d walked out on the daughter once and she wasn’t going to have him steal the girl from her now. So she shoots Hawk, makes it look like he killed himself, and walks away.
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