Looking at a big revolver pointed at my friend.

In Hollywood on a hot summer night in 1987, a 21-year-old man was

fairly shot during an attempted card-jacking outside a popular nightclub.

This crime started a murder case that has lasted more than three decades.

It's tested the principles of our justice system and has illustrated how easily

our courts can be manipulated.

This is Murderbook. Murderbook is a true crime podcast about the real stories of

the American justice system, flaws and all. I had no doubt he did our murder.

It wasn't my blood 16-something years ago. What's going to make it mine now?

We just lost our best witness.

He's been allowed to commit a murder and live a free man and that disgusted me.

I'm Michael Connolly. From the Lincoln lawyer movie to the Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard books

to the Bosch TV show, you may know some of my work.

I've been a journalist and an author for 40 years. And during most of those years, I've watched

detectives work and make cases. I've watched justice be carried out.

And I've watched it stumble and fall a few times as well.

We're second. The whole cold case unit had played a part in this.

He just should not be out in the doubt. He's a murderer walking in my bathroom.

Murderbook. One case solved by the end of the season. Our first crime, the telltale bullet.

A Hollywood murder that remained open for three decades.

I've been waiting 30 years for this.

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Murderbook. Launching January 2019.

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