L.A. Confidential
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... Jack Vincennes, Bud white
and I learned the following:

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Your golden boy's
throwing his whole life away.

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The 3 Nite Owl suspects...
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... while guilty of
kidnapping and rape...

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... were innocent of the
multiple homicides at the Nite Owl.

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The gunmen were most likely...
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... Los Angeles police officers
Michael Breuning and william Carlisle...

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... and a third man...
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... who may or may not have been
Captain Dudley Smith.

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The objective:
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The elimination of
another police officer...

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... Richard Stensland...
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... who, along with former LAPD officer
Leland ""Buzz"" Meeks...

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... also committed multiple homicides
on behalf of Captain Smith...

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... and then betrayed him...
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... over 25 pounds of heroin...
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... the retrieval of which...
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... was the ultimate motivation
behind the Nite Owl killings.

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Beginning with the incarceration
of Mickey Cohen...

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... Capt. Smith has been assuming control
of organized crime in Los Angeles.

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This includes the assassinations
of Mickey Cohen lieutenants...

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... the systematic blackmail
of city officials...

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... and the murders of Susan Lefferts,
Pierce Patchett, Sid Hudgens...

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... and Sergeant Jack Vincennes.
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Captain Smith admitted as much to me...
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... before I shot him...
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... at the Victory Motel.
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That's it.
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well...
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... the press will have
a field day.

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Christ !
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It'll stain the Department for years.
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Decades.
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If we can get the kid to play ball...
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... who's to say what happened ?

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