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The real motive was much different and as it turns out had nothing to do with politics at all. It's July 13th, 1974
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in DC, a time of epic unrest [music] in the capital city. Watergate just broke. Nixon is like a month away from
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resigning from the presidency. And when this is happening, Metro PD homicide detective Bobby Moore gets a call that a
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judge has been shot. He rushes to the hospital and finds Judge Lewis A. Sysler dying in a bed. And some of his final
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words to the detective are telling him that he had been at his father-in-law's house. [music] And when he opened the
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door, there was a group of people who shot at him as they tried to get into the house. [music] They didn't, but they
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got him. And shortly after giving that information to the detective, Lewis dies. With only those few facts to go
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on, Bobby sets out investigating what is now a homicide. So he goes back to the scene of the crime, which as Lewis told
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him was at his father-in-law's house, Samuel Haynes. Samuel's daughter, Barbara, had married Lewis 23 years
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before, and they'd built a life together in northern Indiana, where Lewis had been a state judge. They'd left their
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three adult children and moved to DC for Lewis's work. because after he retired as a judge, he went to work for a
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senator on Capitol Hill and he was also a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. So for a hot minute,
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considering the political climate, they probably wondered if Lewis was targeted for his work. Yeah,
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>> but the real motive was much different and as [music] it turns out had nothing
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to do with politics at