Nightline (ABC) - 2009-02-17

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[0:05] Tonight on Night Line, the Repo Man.

[0:08] They're threatened, attacked, even shot

[0:11] at. We ride along with the Repo Man. It

[0:13] may just be the world's most thankless

[0:15] task, but in this economy, business is

[0:18] booming. When apes attack, the 911 tapes

[0:22] are released of yesterday's shocking

[0:23] chimpanzeee attack.

[0:25] >> SEND THE POLICE.

[0:27] >> What's the problem there? The chimp

[0:30] killed my friend

[0:32] >> as the woman who was brutally mauled

[0:34] clings to her life. So what caused the

[0:36] animals rampage? Plus married to the

[0:40] mob, murder, money, and muscle. But does

[0:43] the mafia really deserve a $50 million

[0:46] museum of its own? And could it keep the

[0:49] sin city economy from sleeping with the

[0:51] fishes? From the global resources of ABC

[0:55] News with Terry Moran, Martin Basher,

[0:58] and Cynthia Mcbaden in New York City.

[1:01] This is Night Line, February 17th, 2009.

[1:06] >> Good evening. It's just 4 weeks to the

[1:09] day since he took office, but President

[1:11] Barack Obama has signed the biggest and

[1:13] most expensive piece of legislation that

[1:16] his administration is likely to pass.

[1:19] The $787

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[1:25] track. Speaking earlier today, the

[1:28] president said, "I hope this investment

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[1:33] And he hoped it would spur new

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[1:36] future. But for many Americans, the

[1:38] problem is the present and in particular

[1:40] the housing crisis. And for many,

[1:43] foreclosure is not the end of their

[1:45] trouble. Next comes the repo man. As

[1:49] David Wright now reports,

[1:54] >> it may be the most thankless job there

[1:56] is. Nobody, but nobody likes the repo

[2:00] man.

[2:02] He's

[2:02] >> got a tip on a car up there at a

[2:04] apartment complex. We're going to check

[2:07] it out. See what's there.

[2:08] >> Is it going to be dangerous?

[2:10] >> Uh, I don't know.

[2:11] >> As most people see it, he's a vulture

[2:13] swooping in and snatching what little

[2:15] some poor soul has left.

[2:18] Chad Schllernetau cruises northeast Ohio

[2:21] on behalf of banks and car dealers

[2:24] rounding up the dead beatats. Or at

[2:26] least the dead beatats cars.

[2:29] It's dangerous work. The repo man has to

[2:31] be fast on his feet. No one is ever

[2:33] happy to see his tow truck.

[2:37] >> You've been doing this a while?

[2:39] >> Yep. About 6 years.

[2:41] >> About 6 years.

[2:42] >> Yep.

[2:44] >> So you must have seen it all. Especially

[2:46] in this economy, the repo man is busy.

[2:49] This part of Ohio's been in recession a

[2:51] little longer than the rest of the

[2:52] country. So here they're especially

[2:54] busy. So one more to add to the

[2:55] collection here.

[2:56] >> Yeah.

[2:57] >> The main lot at Central Ohio Recovery

[2:59] has just about every make model. Souped

[3:02] up sports cars, 4x4 trucks, earthmoving

[3:05] equipment, family minivans, all of them

[3:08] repossessed.

[3:10] Chad says on a good night he'll nab four

[3:13] or five vehicles. Not all of them go

[3:16] smoothly.

[3:16] >> I had a guy one time I had a car hooked

[3:19] up and I had it I actually had it

[3:21] strapped down and everything. The guy

[3:23] came out and got in it and drove off.

[3:27] Rip the bumper clean off the car.

[3:29] >> We were with him late at night as he

[3:31] tried to tow a Buick Lasaber from a

[3:33] snowy driveway in a tough corner of

[3:35] Canton.

[3:38] every minute increased the possibility

[3:40] that the Buick's owner might arrive with

[3:42] a shovel or a shotgun and not exactly in

[3:45] the mood to help.

[3:46] >> Try one more time.

[3:48] >> Chad doesn't want to have to wait for

[3:50] the tow truck. In general, he'd rather

[3:52] avoid any confrontation with the car

[3:54] owners. To him, they're just a name and

[3:56] address on the repo sheet. What he's

[3:58] after is the vehicle make, model, and

[4:01] bin number. The car we're looking for is

[4:04] a uh it's an O2 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

[4:08] >> The address on file for the next car is

[4:10] a pleasantl looking house on a suburban

[4:12] culde-sac. Not exactly the sort of place

[4:14] you'd associate with the repo man.

[4:16] >> The house is empty.

[4:19] Doesn't explain the tracks going into

[4:20] the garage, though.

[4:21] >> Chad knocks on the door of the

[4:23] neighbor's house.

[4:24] >> Hi.

[4:25] >> Hi. How are you?

[4:26] >> Good.

[4:26] >> I was uh wondering if you could tell me

[4:28] anything about the house next door here.

[4:30] They tell him the house next door was

[4:32] foreclosed in September. The couple

[4:34] living there split up. The man moved to

[4:36] Arizona. The woman apparently is still

[4:38] in the area.

[4:39] >> At last they knew she worked at a

[4:41] nursing home in downtown Canton.

[4:44] >> Still driving the car.

[4:46] >> Yep. She has the car.

[4:49] >> Chad's job is one part car thief, one

[4:52] part detective. He's constantly

[4:54] following up on leads. Next stop, the

[4:56] nursing home where the woman who owns

[4:58] the black Jeep Cherokee works.

[5:01] >> Excuse me, ladies.

[5:03] >> Is um working right now?

[5:05] >> No.

[5:06] >> Apparently, the owner saw him coming the

[5:08] very next night Chad got the Jeep.

[5:10] Apparently, she figured trying to hang

[5:12] on to it wasn't worth the hassle. The

[5:14] repo man may seem like a villain, but as

[5:17] Bob Nicewander explains it, he's just

[5:19] doing a job. Bob and his wife Sharon

[5:22] co-own Central Ohio Recovery. This is a

[5:25] very interesting business to look at

[5:27] right now because it's kind of at the

[5:28] intersection of two struggling

[5:30] industries, banks and cars. How do you

[5:34] see that playing out on the ground? I

[5:35] guess,

[5:36] >> you know, I think it's too early to tell

[5:37] really at this point.

[5:38] >> Of the two of them, Bob is definitely

[5:40] the more hard-nosed. He's been a repo

[5:43] man for 20 years. Shot at twice and

[5:46] verbally abused more times than he can

[5:48] count. Somebody has been borrowing

[5:50] something from somebody since they were

[5:52] able to walk on two legs. And uh I

[5:55] suppose there was somebody there to go

[5:57] back and take it back when they didn't

[5:58] get it back or didn't get paid for it.

[6:00] So if we're not doing it, somebody else

[6:02] is going to.

[6:03] >> But even he says something's different

[6:05] now.

[6:06] >> Our country is in such a state. You

[6:08] know, I'm disappointed that all our

[6:09] manufacturing is left. Um you know, it

[6:12] all trickles down to what we're doing.

[6:14] You know, if we had the industry we used

[6:16] to have, I probably wouldn't be in this

[6:17] business.

[6:18] probably a lot of other people around

[6:20] wouldn't be there wouldn't be a need for

[6:21] it necessarily.

[6:22] >> His wife Sharon has plenty of sympathy.

[6:25] Before she married Bob, she had lost her

[6:27] job herself.

[6:28] >> We always tell the guys, treat them with

[6:30] respect. You have no idea what the

[6:32] situation is. You don't know if there's

[6:33] been a death in the family. You don't

[6:35] you don't know. Don't pass judgment on

[6:37] somebody who's in this situation because

[6:39] you never know if it could be you. and

[6:41] and we stress that

[6:44] >> part of her job now is to deal with the

[6:46] stuff that gets accidentally

[6:48] repossessed. All the stuff people left

[6:51] in their cars.

[6:52] >> So, this is it, huh?

[6:53] >> This is it. This is where all the

[6:55] personal property is kept.

[6:56] >> The repo company hangs on to it in a

[6:58] storage locker for 30 days and then

[7:01] donates it all to the Salvation Army.

[7:03] >> I mean, this is somebody's life here.

[7:05] >> Yeah, absolutely.

[7:08] >> What's this thing?

[7:11] Oh,

[7:13] >> now you know somebody's missing that.

[7:16] Yeah,

[7:16] >> because that that's been

[7:18] >> somebody loved this little guy.

[7:19] >> Yeah.

[7:20] >> I have an angel watching over me and I

[7:22] call her Nana.

[7:23] >> Mhm.

[7:27] It's hard.

[7:29] >> Must break your heart.

[7:31] >> It does sometimes.

[7:32] >> She says the stuff almost always goes

[7:34] unclaimed. The owners too embarrassed to

[7:37] take it back.

[7:38] >> Do you ever feel guilty? Absolutely.

[7:41] >> Yeah, absolutely.

[7:43] >> As for the cars, after 10 days, the repo

[7:46] man sells them.

[7:47] >> I'd like to welcome you to a central

[7:49] Ohio auction

[7:50] >> to the highest bidder.

[7:51] >> Hey, look at here. You tell me what

[7:54] about 25.

[7:55] >> The repo company gets a flat fee. The

[7:57] bank or the loan company takes the rest.

[8:00] Not surprisingly, in a tough economy,

[8:01] plenty of bargain hunters come to the

[8:03] auction.

[8:04] >> I always find a good deal. Everybody

[8:06] always finds a good deal. And it's great

[8:09] because you save so much money.

[8:11] >> But keep in mind that savings comes at

[8:13] someone else's expense. If the auction

[8:16] price doesn't cover the original car

[8:18] loan, and usually it doesn't, the person

[8:20] who defaulted is still responsible for

[8:23] the difference. In other words, you can

[8:24] lose your car and still have to pay up

[8:27] on the loan.

[8:29] Is it any wonder nobody likes the repo

[8:31] man? I'm David Wright for Night Line in

[8:35] Canton, Ohio. Our thanks to David

[8:38] Wright. And when we come back, a chimp

[8:40] on the rampage and the chilling 911 call

[8:44] released just hours ago.

[8:48] >> She's dead. She's dead.

[8:50] >> Why? Why are you saying that she's dead?

[8:52] >> She's dead. He ripped her apart.

[8:53] >> He ripped what apart? Her face.

[8:56] >> Everything.

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[12:06] It was as brutal as it was unexpected. A

[12:09] 14-year-old chimpanzee living as a

[12:12] household companion in Connecticut

[12:14] suddenly turned wild yesterday, mauling

[12:17] a middle-aged woman to within an inch of

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[12:21] agonizing 911 call from the owner of the

[12:24] animal was released. Sharon Alons has

[12:26] the latest. And we must warn you that

[12:28] what you're about to hear is graphic and

[12:31] disturbing.

[12:35] >> He'd appeared in commercials, a comical,

[12:37] lovable chimpanzee. But Monday night,

[12:40] something went terribly wrong.

[12:42] >> He's killing my friend.

[12:44] >> Who's killing your friend?

[12:45] >> Kill my chimpanzee?

[12:47] >> That's the chimp's owner pleading for

[12:49] help.

[12:49] >> Oh, your chimpan is killing your friend.

[12:53] >> He ripped their part. Hurry up. Travis,

[12:55] who had escaped once before in 2003,

[12:59] escaped again on Monday. His owner,

[13:01] 70-year-old Sandra Herald, says he'd

[13:04] been agitated all day. She gave him tea

[13:06] with Xanax to try to calm him down, but

[13:09] he wouldn't come inside.

[13:10] >> They went to many of the cars on the

[13:12] property, banging on the cars in an

[13:14] effort to go for a ride. The Herald's

[13:16] friend, Charla Nash, came over to try

[13:18] and help. But as she stepped out of her

[13:20] car, 200B Travis, attacked, mauling her

[13:24] face in the driveway.

[13:26] >> What is the monkey doing? Tell me what

[13:27] the monkey

[13:28] >> He ripped her face off.

[13:29] >> He ripped her face off.

[13:31] >> He tried

[13:32] >> trying to attack me.

[13:33] >> Harold tried to stab her pet chimp with

[13:36] a butcher knife and save her friend.

[13:38] >> Tell them they got to shoot him because

[13:40] I tried stabbing him and he's not and it

[13:43] made him worse.

[13:45] Okay,

[13:46] >> have them shoot him.

[13:47] >> But Travis ran off, coming back later

[13:50] and attacking police. Here you can see

[13:52] him knocking down the side mirror of a

[13:54] police cruiser. Moments later, he opened

[13:57] the driver's side door. The officer

[13:59] inside shoots multiple times, killing

[14:02] Travis. I'm so

[14:04] >> Sandra, can you hear me? I know they

[14:06] just shot the monkey. I heard gunshots.

[14:08] >> It was an attack no one saw coming.

[14:11] Travis was more a part of the family

[14:13] than a pet. His owner once bragged that

[14:15] he bathed himself, could use the

[14:17] computer, and even drank wine out of

[14:19] stemware.

[14:21] >> It was just uh friendly. I I I can't

[14:24] believe when I heard what happened.

[14:26] >> The incident has reignited the debate

[14:28] about the wisdom of keeping wild animals

[14:31] as pets. I have monkeys here that the

[14:33] people have had for 20 years. Never had

[14:36] a problem. all of a sudden and they

[14:38] don't even know what set the monkey off.

[14:40] 20 years later the monkey attacks. So,

[14:43] it's just something it's going to

[14:45] happen. It's not a matter of, you know,

[14:46] if it's if they're going to attack, it's

[14:48] when.

[14:48] >> For chimpanzees, that when is usually

[14:51] around age six when they mature. Experts

[14:54] say they become increasingly aggressive.

[14:57] Travis was 14.

[14:59] >> I'm sure they loved him with all their

[15:00] heart. They let him live in the house

[15:02] with them um as a as a part of their

[15:05] family. um they treated him like a child

[15:08] and um but I think that they should have

[15:11] placed him um when he was around the age

[15:14] of 7 years old. So he could have been

[15:16] with other chimps um and before he

[15:19] became dangerous.

[15:20] >> Mikey, do raspberry. Raspberry.

[15:23] >> Judy and Greg Harrison know it's a

[15:25] heartbreaking decision. They raised

[15:27] Mikey and his little brother Louie.

[15:29] Mikey appeared in everything from

[15:31] commercials. Funny how the primate

[15:33] depositor has evolutionized business

[15:35] banking. Making deposits is so easy.

[15:37] >> And on album covers, and the two were,

[15:40] of course, the stars of the Christmas

[15:42] home videos. But as much as the

[15:44] Harrisons loved them, they say the

[15:46] chimps became strong and increasingly

[15:48] hard to control. I always allowed my

[15:51] chimp to groom me, groom my hair, groom

[15:54] my mouth. There was no other chimp at

[15:56] that at that time that he could groom

[15:58] with. So I used to open my mouth and let

[16:01] him groom my teeth. And as he was

[16:04] grooming it, all of a sudden I felt this

[16:05] severe pain and blood started coming

[16:08] down my mouth. And what did Mikey have

[16:10] in his hand? He had my tooth root and

[16:13] all.

[16:13] >> Another time she lost control of Mikey

[16:16] on a set.

[16:17] >> He got so excited he jumped off the

[16:18] platform, ran across the set, and leaped

[16:22] jumped at one of the production crew

[16:24] members. He didn't hurt him. He was 6

[16:28] years old. He weighed approximately 80

[16:32] lbs.

[16:34] He could have killed him. He could have.

[16:38] And I knew it.

[16:39] >> So, the Harrisons made the heartbreaking

[16:41] decision to give Mikey and Louie to a

[16:44] zoo.

[16:45] >> Oh, I miss him terribly. I miss him

[16:48] every minute.

[16:50] >> Just want a hug.

[16:52] >> Many animal advocates say it's an unfair

[16:55] ending for the chimpanzees. They're wild

[16:57] animals and shouldn't be pets to begin

[16:59] with. Their behavior, they say, is

[17:01] instinctive and unpredictable.

[17:05] Watch this video. Pack of adult males

[17:08] showing dominance overwhelms,

[17:11] dismembers, then eventually kills

[17:13] another chimp in almost a ritualized

[17:15] fashion.

[17:16] >> And the first thing they do is they take

[17:18] off the hands, the feet, the testicles,

[17:20] the ears.

[17:21] >> Timmy D. Roso works with a charity that

[17:23] cares for retired apes from TV and film.

[17:26] She loves them, but says she never

[17:28] forgets they're wild animals.

[17:30] >> When they attack, they are dead serious

[17:33] about it.

[17:33] >> A horrible lesson resonating well beyond

[17:36] the streets of Stanford tonight.

[17:38] >> Oh my god.

[17:43] Oh my god.

[17:44] >> For Night Line, Sharon Alonsy, ABC News,

[17:47] New York. And the victim, Charla Nash,

[17:50] is reportedly in critical condition with

[17:52] injuries to her face and hands described

[17:54] as life-changing, if not

[17:56] life-threatening. Our thanks to Sharon

[17:58] Alonso. And when we come back, their

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[22:08] with Martin Basher.

[22:10] >> In the popular film Casino, a gangster

[22:13] played Joe Peshy summed up the

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[22:17] Vegas. Lots of holes in the desert,

[22:20] Peshi's character said, and a lot of

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[22:24] now, a $50 million proposal for a mob

[22:27] museum in the heart of Sin City. Forget

[22:30] about it. Not so fast. And for Neil

[22:33] Kolinsky, it's a sign of the times.

[22:38] >> In oldtime Las Vegas, the bright lights

[22:41] hid a dark underworld run by some of the

[22:43] most popular bad guys in modern history

[22:46] with names like Bugsy Seagull, Frank

[22:48] Leppy Rosenthal, Tony the Ant Spelatro,

[22:52] and Frank Colada.

[22:53] >> What was your life exactly? Who were you

[22:55] >> then? Yeah,

[22:56] >> I was I was a gangster. I was a burglar.

[22:59] I was a murderer. I was an extortionist.

[23:02] I was a arsonist. I was everything that

[23:05] you wouldn't want to be. I was. I'm not

[23:07] no more that. I'm a different man now.

[23:10] Frank Colada is a retired mob guy and

[23:12] murderer fresh out of the witness

[23:14] protection program and not willing to

[23:17] tell us the name he goes by today.

[23:19] >> Who'd you kill?

[23:21] >> Well, a couple people. Uh, one was out

[23:24] here in Vegas and one was in in Chicago,

[23:27] a suburb of Chicago, which was a carbon

[23:30] man.

[23:31] >> Whether or not you know Frank, you

[23:33] probably know his work.

[23:34] >> I was so good that whenever I bet I

[23:37] could change the odds for every book

[23:38] maker in the country.

[23:40] >> He was a technical adviser to Martin

[23:41] Scorsesei for the film Casino, where

[23:44] this guy, the actor Frank Vincent,

[23:46] played a character based on him.

[23:49] >> You want to have dinner? Come on.

[23:51] Instead of playing himself, Frank had a

[23:54] small role as yet another tough guy.

[23:58] >> If there was ever a city to embrace its

[24:00] sorted past, Las Vegas is it. Built on

[24:03] mob money and proud of it.

[24:05] >> You didn't pay him the money that was

[24:06] due to him when it was due. His favorite

[24:08] method of torture was an ice pick to the

[24:10] scrotum. Yeah. Makes me cringe, too.

[24:13] >> This 2-hour mob tour on a bus is child's

[24:16] play compared to what the city's mayor

[24:18] has planned. Courtroom should be around

[24:21] here to the right.

[24:22] >> Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman took us on

[24:24] a tour of the city's old courthouse,

[24:27] shuttered long ago. It is a place filled

[24:30] with the ghosts of Sin City's mob past

[24:32] where organized crime hearings were held

[24:34] back in the 50s. Today, the mob is

[24:37] coming back.

[24:38] >> This is the quintessential mob museum.

[24:40] There's not going to be anything quite

[24:41] like this. Mayor Goodman believes a $50

[24:44] million mob museum is the key to

[24:46] revitalizing a sagging downtown Vegas

[24:49] economy. Even as critics complain the

[24:51] mayor is glorifying criminals and should

[24:54] be building something more cultured like

[24:56] an art museum.

[24:58] >> What do you say to those critics? You

[24:59] say, "Come on, why are you making a mob

[25:00] museum? Why don't you should make an art

[25:02] gallery?"

[25:02] >> Yeah. I say, "Jump in the lake.

[25:04] >> Jump in the lake."

[25:05] >> I say, "Jump in the lake and have, you

[25:07] know, concrete shoes on, too."

[25:09] >> This is a mayor who knows the mob. Here

[25:11] he is in the 1980s when he was the

[25:13] lawyer for Tony the Ant Spelatro, the

[25:16] real life bad guy played by Joe Peshy in

[25:19] the movie Casino. He defended Frank

[25:21] Lefty Rosenthal, too, the man who

[25:23] inspired Robert Dairo's character. And

[25:26] Mayor Goodman even had a role in the

[25:28] film as himself, which completely

[25:31] absolves Mr. Roststein from any

[25:33] wrongdoing.

[25:33] >> Well, they used to call me the attorney

[25:34] for the mob.

[25:36] >> You like I like it. It got me a lot of

[25:39] business and put me in a financial

[25:40] position where I was able to run for

[25:42] mayor. You know, I found out what I was

[25:44] doing and who I was representing after I

[25:46] saw the movie Casino. Then I understood

[25:48] what it was all about.

[25:49] >> The mayor, a colorful character who

[25:51] actually sits on a throne in his office,

[25:53] says the mob has been good to him before

[25:56] and will be again. He estimates the new

[25:58] museum, which is now under construction,

[26:00] will bring in 800,000 visitors a year.

[26:04] tourists who aren't eager for culture,

[26:06] but for gritty, in-your-face history

[26:09] about people like Frank.

[26:11] >> I should put my hand on your shoulder,

[26:12] like this.

[26:13] >> Should I be worried about that?

[26:14] >> Nah, unless this one comes out with

[26:16] something.

[26:18] >> Whether the museum is the answer to this

[26:20] town's sagging fortunes or not, Frank

[26:22] says things would be different if that

[26:24] group of guys he calls the outfit was

[26:27] still around.

[26:28] >> Vegas is having a rough time. I

[26:30] guarantee if the alpha was still here,

[26:33] there'd be some money here. There'd be

[26:34] some money here. They'd be getting

[26:36] people into this town to spend some

[26:37] money. Maybe the mob will deliver. Only

[26:40] this time has artifacts on display for a

[26:42] generation that's heard of all the

[26:44] murders, torture, and extortion, and

[26:46] wants to buy a ticket to learn more. I'm

[26:49] Neil Carlinsky for Night Line in Las

[26:52] Vegas.

[26:53] >> I guess it's worth a gamble. Our thanks

[26:55] to Neil Kolinsky. And when we come back,

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[32:39] Nightly News is straight ahead tonight

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