:03:00
in the city of Los Angeles
on March 23, 1958.
:03:21
The coroner ruled that
the unsuccessful suicide...
:03:23
had suddenly become
a successful homicide.
:03:26
To explain -- the suicide
was confirmed by a note...
:03:30
in the right hip pocket
of Sydney Barringer.
:03:33
At the same time young Sydney
stood on the ledge...
:03:38
an argument swelled
three stories below.
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The neighbors heard,
as they usually did...
:03:44
the arguing of the tenants...
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and it was not uncommon
for them...
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to threaten each other
with a shotgun...
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or one of the many handguns
kept in the house.
:03:51
I'm going to put you down!
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And when the shotgun
accidentally went off...
:03:55
You asshole!
:03:58
Sydney just happened to pass.
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What?
:04:01
Shut the fuck up!
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Added to this,
the tenants turned out to be...
:04:08
Fay and Arthur Barringer...
:04:10
Sydney's mother and father.
:04:13
When confronted
with the charge...
:04:15
which took some figuring out
for the officers on the scene...
:04:19
Fay Barringer swore she did not
know the gun was loaded.
:04:23
She always threatens me with it,
but I don't keep it loaded.
:04:27
And you didn't load the gun?
:04:29
Why would I load the gun?
:04:31
A young boy
who lived in the building...
:04:33
sometimes a visitor and friend
to Sydney Barringer...
:04:36
said that he had seen,
six days prior...
:04:38
the loading of the shotgun.
:04:40
Ricky, come here a minute.
:04:42
It seems that all
the arguing and fighting...
:04:44
and violence was far too much
for Sydney Barringer...
:04:47
and knowing his mother and
father's tendency to fight...
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he decided to do something.
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He said he wanted them
to kill each other...
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and all they wanted to do
was to kill each other...
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and he would help them do that
if that's what they wanted.