“What a civil case gets you is discovery.

Sworn testimony.

Documents.

The right to put Russell Tannehill under oath and ask him what he did on the twenty-second of April and make him answer.

“Nothing else in the legal system gives you that.

You cannot buy it, you cannot get it from the police at this distance, and it disappears in twenty-four months.”

Part Twenty-Seven: Russell Tannehill

He was seventy-one.