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[Music] every reporter loves to get a great story this one was mine it was Charlie's
Angels meets Philip Marlo meets Orange County Housewives all wrapped into one package there were these hot soccer moms
who are also private eyes when the media got a hold of it they went wild why do you do this I know
it's crazy right on the outside you look like any PTA mom driving carpool okay now I want you to read that whole
sentence but behind the mommy exterior they are gun packing hard-hitting undercover
piis they were like Cub Scout den mothers in the morning undercover operatives at night
I'm a very good mother and I'm a great investigator the boss was this EX cop turned Pi named Chris Butler we got to
really move here Butler was a badass the coolest guy in the room he struck me as
being a pretty aggressive promoter we create these fantastic sting operations sometimes for corporate Espionage
infidelity Chris had a way of making his Universe seem sexier and more exciting than real life a lot of these guys
believe it while they're saying it they buy into their own line Chris was really
good at making everyone else look bad he knew how to pinpoint a weakness in a person in order to get that person to do
what he wanted they have no concept of remorse suddenly we were doing things that we said we would never
do Chris Butler wasn't exactly the person that I thought he was I never saw it coming the entire business was a
setup it's all about the rush get bigger get richer get faster it was immoral it
was SED it was illicit Chris Butler abused the power that he had the people he knew he took it and ran with it to
the extreme there was no doubt in my mind that they would have killed me here we
go I'm Moren mahard tonight on 48 Hours soccer moms confidential [Music] [Music]
when I got this story I knew I had something and I stayed up all night writing back in 2010 reporter Pete
Crooks was invited to profile a group of San Francisco Bay Area soccer moms turned private eyes I was invited to
come out to Chris Butler's office office I walked in and the first thing I noticed was the walls of the office were
covered with 8 by10 of all the 1970s and 1980s detective shows that I watched Growing Up Charlie's Angels and Magnum
PI those are the shows I loved when I was a kid so I was kind of Charmed by it and I knew the guy wanted to be on TV
krooks is a senior editor for a local Pop Culture magazine called Diablo and a CBS News consultant to him the
attractive confident women were real life Charlie Angels and their boss Chris Butler a charismatic entrepreneur who
spent 10 years as a cop was straight out of Central Casting it seemed like a no-brainer that we would that we would
cover that story Butler bought the agency back in 2000 and turned it into what he claimed
was one of the most successful private eye firms in the Bay Area investigating everything from insurance scams to
cheating husbands there's those times where I get a phone call hi oh hey Chris what's up okay
surveillance that's fine let me go ahead and call my sitter when he added soccer
moms as investigators he said his business boomed nobody is going to suspect the mom is sitting having coffee
with another friend who happens to be an investigator and Butler's team was getting noticed from People magazine to
morning TV shows why are moms good piis the pi moms also became a big story for the Dr Phil show today on an all new Dr
Phil you would never expect a mom in a minivan to be somebody that's on your tail we busted the guy we caught him and
now I've got to go to my son's baseball game I'm late Amy wils was one of the pi moms we
were beautiful women who went out and you know worked this male dominated career this job and we were different we
were funny exciting like Butler wils was also a former cop turned professional private investigator your C but she was
juggling a home life with three kids which Butler believed made her and the other moms uniquely qualified for the
job being a mom I'm able to multitask I'm also you know just naturally nosy and always trying to figure out what my
kids are doing on the Dr Phil show Butler talked about why he chose soccer moms they come into this field prepped
for the type of work that they're going to be encountering they're very good listeners I put them in the plastic bag
and I'm going to send it back they're probably more sensitive to people lying to them potentially dangerous it wasn't
a job for the faint-hearted but Butler said he had that covered he said that also that he trained all these Pi moms
extensively and self-defense and investigative techniques and Firearms besides the moms Butler also
employed attractive women to be decoys women like Ryan Romano I'm easy on the eyes basically it was acting it was my
normal life how far does he need to let it go she may start crawling all over you at that point we have all the
evidence that we need the decoys also known as operatives worked alongside the pi moms in standard field work but
sometimes the decoys went beyond that to do some Noto standard operations for example this sting that Butler shared
with Dr Phil where a decoy Sharon catches a cheating husband we inserted Sharon into the
hotel bar well sure enough once our investigator was in the bar and he walked in he made a beine right for her
Sharon is a professional and she does know what's expected of her on these cases and that's I'm going to include
hugging kissing and she knows to stand at a 90° angle to the camera so if there's any kissing that's going on
we'll be able to get that on the show Dr Phil questioned whether Butler had gone
too far with the decoy Sharon one of the pi mom operatives was in a very romantic
situation with the target here and you I kept saying wow I mean are there boundaries to your scope of employment
because things are getting pretty rich upon the balcony here I mean that to me seemed like to go beyond the pale it's
like they had overstepped their bounds is this okay with you is it okay with your husband is it this wouldn't be okay
with me and it's well you know you do what you got to do criticisms like that didn't slow Butler down in fact his real
life private investigating team was about to become a reality TV show for the cable network lifetime he just was
like on the rise of being this huge star in his mind and that this was going to it with the reality show cameras
following the moms on their investigations Butler would need help with the case load I've always been that
type of person who's always wanted to to uh you know to serve to help people Carl
Marino is another ex cop how did you end up meeting Chris Butler I'd actually seen his uh his ad on
Craigslist Marino spent 17 years as a deputy in Upstate New York Butler's ad seemed like a terrific opportunity for
marine who had recently moved to the Bay Area they were looking to hire decoys for I
think he termed it as the most successful private investigative company in the in the Bay Area but when Carl
interviewed for the job he learned it wasn't a typical Pi agency and it was it was kind of a strange interview they
they they asked a lot of strange questions like what you know do you drink alcohol how comfortable I was with
nudity and they would tell me the reason they're asking those questions is because in decoy situations you might
possibly have to drink shots and possibly get naked in a hot tub with whoever the person is Marino didn't seem
to mind and with his law enforcement experience it was a perfect fit Butler hired him it was kind of the type of
work that I'd always imagine Pi's doing to and I think little On The Fringe Always On The Fringe is always on the
Fring yes for a place operating On The Fringe there were plenty of real cops coming and going including this man Norm
Welsh the commander of the contracosta County Narcotics task force Welsh and Butler had worked together and were
friends he would show me how how well he was doing he would tell me how well he was doing he was um he had a beautiful
car he had a great lifestyle at least it appeared so with those real cops hanging
around Butler's employees didn't challenge him on some of those questionable operations like the ones
that came to be called Dirty DUIs which set up husbands in the middle of bitter divorces I was hired by Chris Butler to
be a decoy to attend a party in hopes to get the target to do something illegal to see if I could see if he was involved
in any illegal stuff including drugs and just to be a pretty face I mean who's going to say no to a pretty girl the
Trap sending a pretty girl or decoy as Butler called them to come on to the husband get them liquored up and then
suggest that they drive somewhere to have fun just as the husband would pull out onto the street a cop who'd been
called by Butler would pull him over for driving Under the Influence Ryan says Butler paid her to
drink and flirt with those targets it was like dangling candy in front of a baby it's hard to say no to a lot of
things in life and when you have alcohol in the picture and you you impair their
judgment it makes it even harder the arrests of the men caught in Butler's s would then be used in court
proceedings which would clearly put the soon Tobe Ex-Wives in a much better bargaining position there was something
not right in the fact that he probably got high off of doing all this like he found a thrill with the reality show now
in production and the national media exposure Chris Butler's dreams of stardom appeared to be just a red carpet
stroll away but what no one knew was that dream was about to turn into a nightmare I was floored the amount of
stuff that he was doing was just [Music] unbelievable oh I get a kiss how was school good good did that cough medicine
help yeah you we're so excited about the show I'm telling them all about it and there you go this is a great opportunity
for pi mom Amy wils the new reality show B boy was going to be a huge break for her and the others miss you too it was a
great idea you had these women who had various backgrounds but would all come together and work these cases and follow
people go into stores and get covert video fun very much a lot of fun sexy yes very
I and to help get publicity for the new show reporter Pete Crooks was invited Along on a piom
stout in one of the mom's minivans I started to go out to the van and Charmaine said now I've got to be a
mommy here everybody has used the bathroom and we we're all ready to get in the car now welcome Chris Butler and
three of his Pi moms the moms who were taking part in The Ride Along were some of the same ones who appeared on the do
Phil Show Denise and Charmaine so you guys get in the car everybody gets their juice box and their backpack and they've
all done a py run before they take off and what happens next so we get into position and we were looking for a white
uh Mercedes with Crooks and toe the pi moms were hot on the trail of this man whose older wealthier wife to be
suspected him of cheating we start following that car and we stayed right behind him Crooks even
got into the action when he spotted the Wayward fiance picking up a sexier younger woman
voluptuous mid 20s siren with long brunette hair and her right arm is tattooed from shoulder to wrist as the
pi mom spied subject and the Mystery Date walk into a jewelry shop the cheating couple got cozy they come out
with a couple of gift bags arm and- arm I believe there's a kiss crook says he couldn't believe how much luck the pi
moms were having they got out of their car they stopped right in front of our van to kiss and Denise captured that all
on video and there was a new twist every half hour or so did you think man I am just a lucky lucky reporter today yeah
as the minivan followed the couple to the Napa Valley Chris Butler sent in a backup team it's Carl Marino and his
wife who was also working for Butler that day it was going to be the first introduction of us to the media is what
Chris's big story was why did you need to be introduced to the media Chris wanted us to be in his own words the the
real life Mr and Mrs Smith as in Brad Pit and Angelina [Music] Jolie as Crooks watched Carl and his
wife Yona worked their way into the sting by striking up a flirtatious conversation with the cheating fiance
and his mistress at a winery all the while texting the salacious details to the pi moms back in the minivan they
just invited us back to their hotel is the third text and like so this went from nice to meet you to let swing in
five minutes you know did you say this is unbelievable it was it was unbelievable
um and I was just sort of saying like what's going to happen next as outrageous as that Stakeout was
nothing could have possibly prepared Crooks for what would happen next just before before he was about to go to
print Kooks received an email that would blow up his entire story or at least what he thought was the
story the first Monday back in the office after the New Year's weekend this email comes in that's from a a character
named Ronald Rutherford that says don't run that story Rutherford's email said quote it would be a mistake to publish
the article unquote because the ride along with the pi moms was fake so I called Butler at his office and he said
in that kind of cool voice hey Pete what's going on I said hey you know I got this email that said that that right
along was uh scripted and he his voice just like peaked out he said what that is bull crap it's the only time I ever
saw him Spike like that but the emails from Rutherford kept coming got an email at 3:00 a.m. that was the entire
itinerary of the ride along this is an inter office email setting up the entire shoot
itinerary location Etc sent the day before the Ride Along along that's pretty damning yeah and the attachment
is a Google Earth map of the holiday and express with little notes on it Mercedes
Parks here couple walks through the hotel gets into silver Honda Civic parked here can drive away without being
seen later Rutherford would send Crooks this photo to prove the Ride Along had been an enormous
fake remember Ryan the decoy she played the sexy girlfriend my role in The Ride Along was to be the mistress or to be
the girlfriend that the fiance was cheating on his fiance with and that fiance according to Ryan
was also an actor hired by Chris Butler and elaborate over-the-top setup designed to get Chris Butler and his new
reality show a huge splash of publicity I never thought anyone would find out the truth that this whole thing was fake
it was fun it was easy money and I got to go to lunch and go wine tasting and have a great day did you not say to
yourself at any point I'm not really comfortable with this this this guy thinks he's doing a real story I wasn't
really comfortable the entire time investigations but again this is CHR Butler show he's done it 100 times
already no one's ever figured it out and ultimately it's to get more business for
the business that he's hired me to run for Chris Butler it may have been business as usual but Pete Crooks was
about to learn that his fake Ride Along was just the tip of the iceberg that's because his mysterious Source Rutherford
was about to reveal a set of Darker and far more dangerous secrets [Music] [Music]
is this exciting definitely now that his piom reality show for Lifetime television was in full production truth
lies on here Chris Butler appeared to be on the fast track to reality TV stardom
that's all he talked about was the show the show the show and the moms and he was ready to be a star but while Chris
Butler was basking in the reality TV Spotlight the bizarre string of emails from the mysterious Rutherford continued
I became Beyond fascinated obsessed with trying to figure out the equation of who
knew what and who was continuing to lie and and what was the motivation of Rutherford to tell me this but
Rutherford still had one more secret to reveal about Butler and it was a bombshell Rutherford
says that Chris Butler is attempting to sell uh narcotics that have been seized by the contracosta County Narcotics
enforcement team CET that's right Rutherford was now alleging a far more serious situation that Chris Butler was
a drug dealer and his old friend Norm Welsh one of the County's top drug cops was the supplier Butler is conspiring
with Norm Welsh a the highest ranking narcotics enforcement officer in the area to take those drugs and put them
back on the streets and sell them he's the cop who has seen what it does out on the street he's the guy that sent
somebody to jail for selling the drugs in the first place Brook says Rutherford sent him
this photo to prove Butler had asked him to sell marijuana now Rutherford was looking for a way out he's not a drug
dealer he doesn't want to go any further with this but he doesn't know who to go
to because you can't go to the top cop in the county did you feel like Rutherford was afraid for his life I got
the feeling that Rutherford was backed into a pretty dangerous corner with some pretty bad guys krooks was able to
connect Rutherford with a contact at the California Department of Justice it's a
pretty unbelievable position to be in yeah it was really really weird and really stressful Rutherford safety could
be in Jeopardy and that it would be because of the ball that I got rolling after some intense moments Rutherford
was finally meeting the right people I got an email from Rutherford that said finally made contact from the da bruford
not only told them about the alleged drug sales but other potential illegal activities Butler was running like those
dirty DUIs within a day or two after that Rutherford had met with the Department of Justice and kind of gave
them the full download and the investigation began the California doj asked Rutherford to start secretly taping
Chris Butler and Norm Welsh Butler was oblivious he was feeling the pressure from the reality show there was friction
and cases were falling through first of all there weren't a whole lot of real cases coming in second of all the real
cases that did come in that people didn't want their dirty laundry aired on a reality TV show so when Butler's Pi
agency got a missing teen case to solve Carl thought it was good news a father came in to uh hire us to find his
missing daughter she was a 15-year-old girl who'd been missing for uh just over two months did the parents think she was
kidnapped no it was it was very obviously she'd run away Carl tracked the teen to the home of her boyfriend he
confirmed with the boyfriend's mother that the girl was safe and texted the good news to Butler he rides back wow
that's that's amazing don't actually go find her though cuz he wants to wait until there's lifetime cameras to film
that which that's disgusting and it really is but Butler didn't let on to the pi
moms that Marino had already solved the case instead he had his Pi moms work their own
investigation he would rather have success with the show than success with the case well he wants both he wants
success with the case but the show involved and I'm not a pi Mom I'm not part of the
show and when the pi moms did get involved they tracked the woman who was hiding the missing girl to this Safeway
parking lot with the lifetime cameras rolling for the reality show they ambushed her but they were literally
over the top of her accusing her of everything Marino says Butler got physical and grabbed the woman you know
there was a lot of yelling there was a lot of arguing it was just wild I'm looking at Chris B and I go up to him
and I'm like what are you doing what's going on and I can see he's lost control of the
situation the police were called to break up the melee for Lifetime it was the last straw according to Marino who
says Chris Butler had failed to deliver everything he promised soon after the reality show shut down production at
that moment I knew that I was done because I I just couldn't work for someone who would sabotage their own
cases but the news was about to get far worse for Chris Butler what's up while the reality cameras had been turned off
the mysterious Rutherford had turned on a tiny undercover camera hidden in his keychain okay come on back here let's
see that s it captures an astonishing scene Butler and his cop buddy Norm Welsh in the orange t-shirt making a
drug deal they count out nearly $10,000 and carefully divide it in two before Butler goes for the drugs let me
the burrito the burrito is a TI wrapped package of crystal meth which Butler weighs 1 then hands over to ruford who
continues to play along all right let me I can but as soon as the deal is done Rutherford brings the incriminating
video to the California Department of Justice which finally has enough evidence to make arrests the very next
day Butler and Welsh are arrested you know it's the lead story on the news that night
tonight the head of contracosta County's narcotics task force is behind bars accused of dealing
drugs I actually got a phone call from one of the moms and she said are you sitting down I have something to tell
you Chris was arrested today both men are in the contracosta county jail accused of selling narcotics that's
really out there you know that's that's bad Chris were you the Puppet Master Behind These criminal schemes Chris
Butler along with Norm Walsh was arrested and later charged with multiple federal drug charges plus Butler was
also charged for his alleged role in those dirty DUI scams Chris is this all your fault now the man who once loved
busting bad guys in front of the cameras was out on bail hiding in shame but one question remained
unanswered who was the mysterious ruer the man who brought Chris Butler [Music] down for weeks writer Pete Crooks
received dozens of emails from the mysterious Rutherford alleging Chris Butler was a fraud and a
drug dealer and who is Ronald Rutherford I'm Ronald Rutherford that's right Carl
Marino was Rutherford Chris Butler's number two man the director of operations for the agency had exposed
the Dark Side of Butler's operation did you suspect it was Carl when I got the initial email from Ronald
Rutherford no I didn't are you curious about what is the motivation of Rutherford absolutely I'd like to say
it's it was the good person in me in his old Life as a cop Marino says he spent his entire career fighting drugs and
turning in Butler and Welsh was simply the right thing to do it definitely had a lot to do with the cop and me also I
mean literally it was that day when I first saw those drugs that I knew I was going to do something about it I had no
idea what it was how I was going to do it when I was going to do it but knowing where those drugs came from I knew
something had to be done I mean I want to know were you terrified wearing a wire oh yeah I you're not just dealing
with a guy who's an incredible scam artist who's scheming constantly now you're dealing with a allegedly a drug
dealer who's allegedly got the head of Narcotics on his side there's not a lot of safe places to run outside of that I
think that the scariest part about it is I'm filming the master of stings kind of
the same way that he would do it is it too dramatic to ask if you were afraid for your life if those guys had have
found out what I was doing there was no doubt in my mind that they would have killed me that's why is Rutherford he
confided in Pete Crooks who put him in touch with the California Department of Justice did you feel like Rutherford was
disseminating the information because it was the right thing to do or because he
was afraid he was going to get sucked into it or he was trapped both he said straight up in that first email I'm not
a drug dealer and I'm not going to sell the drugs for Chris but I can't tell him
no I'm not interested in doing that because he trusted him enough to um let him in on the big secret and norm and
Chris are scary guys you know to be in that position so my feeling was that Rutherford was doing something very
brave and doing the right thing but why would Chris Butler get involved in selling drugs in this lengthy statement
obtained by 48 hours Butler puts the blame squarely on his old pal the boss of the County Narcotics task force Norm
Welsh Butler itemizes more than 20 crimes that he says Welsh forced him to commit for example Welsh instructed me
to sell this marijuana and Welsh instructed me to sell the oxycotton for $25 to $40 per
pill Norm Welsh is accepting some responsibility I feel horrible that I did this and anybody that knows me would
know that it's not me and I I want to admit to what I've done and I just want people to know that I'm very truly sorry
forget the pi moms forget Dr Phil people all that other stuff putting drugs back
on the street that's really really hard to swallow it really is it for me too it's very difficult for me to to live
with that shame every day I mean I I did it well she was out on Bale says he'd been ill for several years and became
became easy prey for Butler when a debilitating nerve disorder disfiguring his feet threatened to end his career I
made these decisions on my own and I I don't want to make it that I'm blaming anybody but inside my heart I do feel
that I've been manipulated in that I've been used something Walsh's attorney Michael Cardoza says Butler is very
capable of is he guilty of manipulating every single one of these people the pi moms Carl Marino Norm is he guilty of
puppeteering this entire situation I think he really is guilty of that if there were such a crime he did
manipulate everyone from the get-go Chris Butler is a very intelligent man he understands people he understands how
to use people he understands how to groom people and to bring them along slowly what will you do here for me will
you do this all right you'll do that will you do this now well if you'll do that
then let's take the big step into crime will you get some marijuana for me and that's what Norm stepped into do you
think Chris Butler is a dangerous man no I don't think a dangerous man but a man who can talk a cop a good cop into
committing crimes and he can Puppeteer all these other people into lying and manipulating is that a dangerous man I
think that makes him a sociopath you have Butler out there deal dealing with the television show fooling the
producers of that fooling the people who we spoke to People magazine fooling Peter Crooks at Diablo magazine we
welcome Chris Butler and three of his Pi moms fooling Dr Phil going on The Today
Show and fooling them a lot of people were manipulated by him for pi mom Ami wils she feels
nothing but betrayal and says she knew nothing about the alleged drug deals it was humiliating um to find out that he
was doing these things right under our noses I guess I just wish that he would have just either fired me and told me
you know go instead of dragging me into this fortunately I didn't know he was a criminal so I wasn't involved in
anything illegal believe it or not there's still one more outrageous chapter to Chris
Butler's dark story here we go it's like I'm going for the brass ring I'm going to get it out there I push the envelope
get bigger get better Chris get richer get faster from an ex cop with a successful
Pi business to allegations of dirty DUIs and Drug deals it appeared it couldn't get much worse for Chris
Butler but there was one one more dark chapter in this Twisted tale and it would be written by this woman my name
is Megan bnab Bay I uh was hired to work as a private investigator for Chris Butler and to write a book about my
experiences when aspiring author Megan bab Bay took the job at Butler and Associates she said she had no clue what
she was signing up for when she was assigned to work as a decoy she had to kiss targets to help in
Butler's St by manipulating us and by breaking us down emotionally and psychologically
Chris was able to push us to do things little by little that crossed that moral boundary until suddenly we were doing
things that we said we would never do and she was totally unprepared for what Butler told her about next an
unusual case he was working on with his old cut buddy Norm Welsh Chris Butler told me that he was running a massage
parlor for Norm Welsh a massage parlor that was allegedly a front for prostitution Megan
says Chris Butler showed her the operation and claimed he was gathering evidence for Welsh in an undercover
police sting the story was that the women who worked there were communicating with norm and telling him
who these men were who were frequenting the massage parlor and that way Norm supposedly would have evidence on them
and be able to go out and find the other massage parlor through them it was all very convoluted and not
believable prosecutors weren't buying it either they added charges related to running an illicit massage parlor and
extortion to the long list both Butler and Welsh faced so how did it come to this
spectacular Fall From Grace how does somebody go beyond that man status and move into more dangerous territory and
convince people to do really dangerous illegal Behavior well you know a lot of times you'll see these people with a
narcissistic or Psychopathic personality they are often very good and very persuasive at what
they do and they basically have no fear and their use and abuse of other people is based on a complete lack of empathy
[Music] welcome the owner Christopher Butler the desire for stardom with his Pi mom's reality TV
show and his insatiable appetite for publicity may have contributed to Butler's demise Chris is this all your
fault if they feel an adrenaline rush maybe that'll bait him into talking about our client from being on The Today
Show or being in some big article in the newspaper or a magazine that ego Rush drowns everything else out
and their ability to predict the consequences of their actions their ability to see wow there could be a real
downside here never makes the radar screen for them when I switched to women specifically Pi moms Dr Phil says he had
no idea when Butler appeared on his show that Butler was anything but a private eye with the unique idea of employing
soccer moms to do some snooping I didn't know him that well our Focus was on the
women because there were what we were interested in just what was fake and what was real
about Butler's Pi mom's operation depends on who you talk to Carl Marino says it was a little bit of both we were
working on real cases that had fake elements to it we were working on fake cases that had real elements to it where
some people knew they were fake but other people thought they were real but according to Pi mom Ami wils who now
runs her own Pi agency in the Bay Area hey Chuck it's Chris if Butler was manipulating cases to beef up the
reality TV show she was not in on it and did you work any cases that were specifically for the show yes I did and
were those legitimate cases no one ever told me that they were fake to my knowledge even today those were real
cases that we were working and if you you believe or you're discovering now that these cases were all setups how do
you feel about Chris putting you in that position well I I mean it's over and done with it is shocking to me that
you're telling me this Megan babay thinks it's not unreasonable to believe that the pi moms
really were in the dark about what Butler was up to it is very possible that people who worked at the office
didn't know anything about what Chris was up to and you can just say you know I I I'm just not comfortable he let
people in on things as he chose and if he didn't choose to let you in on what he was doing then you would have no way
of knowing a private investigator connected to a police corruption Scandal cut a
deal do you think you did anything wrong Chris facing seven felony charges a lot
of damning evidence and a possible life sentence Chris Butler decided to take a plea deal and on May 4th 20 12 he
appeared in court to plead guilty to crimes ranging from extortion to robbery to conspiracy to deal drugs Butler has
turned himself into a government witness Butler agreed to cooperate fully with prosecutors which could include
testifying against Norm Welsh when he goes on trial Welsh who also faces a possible life sentence tried but failed
to make his own deal with prosecutors he denies any involvement with the massage
parlor scheme but continues to apologize for stealing drugs I feel so bad and horrible
about the citizens of California paying me to do a job and I violated their trust I mean I've always told my guys
that I was training that Integrity is the only thing you got in life when it comes down to it and my Integrity is
gone not everyone is buying Welsh's story especially the man that helped bring him to Justice this is the guy
that would go into schools eam addicts and tell children you have to stay off marijuana because it leads to crystal
meth and this is the guy that's taken those same drugs and put him back on the street he's the ultimate hypocrite he's
the dirtiest of dirty cops there are Carl Marino will likely play a large role in the legal proceedings against
Welsh and is still having a tough time dealing with everything that has happened I'd be lying if I say I don't
have nightmares about it times and dream about it quite frequently I still sleep with the loaded
Glock that I got from the TV show underneath my bed Chris got any reality TV ideas the story that reporter Pete
Crooks finally wrote for Diablo magazine was a very different one from the one he
set out to do Chris Butler's universe is like a snow globe that you can peek into
and it's fascinating inside investigations what was very strange and a bit scary
was to realize that I wasn't looking at the snow globe I was inside the snow globe I was in his Universe at his
invitation we got to really move here and everybody that gets sucked into his Universe I think has a bit of their soul
taken with it okay bye-bye [Music] [Music]

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Brief Summary

Soccer moms turned private eyes face betrayal and crime in Chris Butler's fraudulent agency.

Key points

The Secret Lives of Soccer Moms. A group of soccer moms moonlight as private investigators, leading to wild stories and unexpected twists.
The Setup Unveiled. A shocking email reveals that the ride-along with the PI moms was scripted and fake.
Dark Secrets Exposed. Chris Butler is accused of selling narcotics, revealing a dangerous side to his operations.
The Undercover Camera Revelation. A hidden camera captures Butler making a drug deal, leading to his arrest. "Okay, come on back here, let's see that."
Chris Butler's Arrest. Chris Butler, head of the narcotics task force, is arrested for drug dealing. "Tonight, the head of contracosta County's narcotics task force is behind bars."
Rutherford's Betrayal. Ronald Rutherford, Butler's former associate, exposes him as a fraud and drug dealer. "I'm Ronald Rutherford, that's right, Carl Marino was Rutherford."

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The entire business was a setup; it's all about the rush.

1:48WatchOct 29, 2024

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