Wiretaps, Search Warrants, and DNA Swabs

Murder Book

Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 3 - Police Sergeant. Rollin 60's gang member. Father. Murderer. Who is Pierre Romain? How did a gangster accused of killing an innocent man become a cop? As the investigation peers into Romain's rise to a badged uniform, LAPD Detective Rick Jackson and the District Attorney’s Office continue to build the case, awaiting DNA results and examining wiretaps of conversations between Romain and his associates. But even with all their efforts, they aren't prepared for the unexpected turn that takes them even further away from justice for Jade Clark.

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0:00.0	Just a heads up, this episode contains explicit language and subject matter not suitable for young listeners.
0:30.6	What you just heard was a segment of a wiretap recorded by the Los Angeles Police Department in December 2003.
0:38.0	The phone they were listening to belonged to Pierre Romain and that is his voice you just heard
0:43.0	talking about drive-by shootings and taking care of business up close and personal.
0:48.6	He sounds to me like a gang member and the police said the person he was talking to who we
0:53.2	won't name here was a gang member as well. They were listening to Pierre's phones because he was
0:58.8	a suspect in a murder in Hollywood 16 years earlier. But at the time of this recording in 2003,
1:06.9	Romain was a sworn police officer with the Department of Defense. In fact, he was a supervisor
1:14.3	and charged several other officers at Los Angeles Air Force Base. The LAPD had Pierre
1:21.1	Romain's voice on hundreds of hours of telephone recordings and some of them he spoke like a gang member
1:27.2	in some like a cop and others like a husband and a father. But all told Romain was still a mystery man.
1:35.2	He was the man who outwardly showed all signs that he had left gang life behind and was on the road
1:40.3	to redemption. He had moved far away from South Los Angeles and started a family. He worked as a
1:49.8	police officer and had risen to the ranks of his department to sergeant. Thus we get two sides of
1:56.4	Pierre Romain gangster and cop accused of cold blooded murder. In this episode, we are going to get
2:03.4	into the split persona of Pierre Romain. This is chapter three of the Telltale bullet. I'm Michael
2:10.8	Connolly. This is Murderbook. We just lost our best witness. I don't know what the hell I saw
2:23.9	if I saw anything or not. We're now going to get justice for Jay Clark.
2:33.0	Thank you to this week's sponsor, the website Novel Suspects. I'm fascinated with the mystery of
2:47.6	Pierre Romain and why he wanted so much to be a police officer. The irony of it is that his
2:54.4	efforts to join the police department were what popped him up again on the radar of Detective Rick
2:59.2	Jackson and ultimately led to murder charges being filed against him. So in the end, his desire to
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