Episode 3: Combative Grandma, Gary Murphy Assassination

Host Mike Spencer private eye shines the light on the prime suspect in the broad daylight slaying of Gary Murphy, the grandmother who fought Murphy for custody of his then 6-year-old daughter. This is the 25th anniversary of the June 12, 1998, killing when a gunman chased Murphy through a halfway house that he managed near Ocean Beach in San Francisco, shooting him twice in the back. The hitman ran to an awaring getaway car. The grandmother is Spencer's former client.

Spencer digs deeper into grandma's hair-trigger temper and family background. He learns that her family at one point ran a sizeable East Bay marijuana cultivation and sales empire. A federal court file on one or her sons discloses family secrets, including that grandma had once worked in counseling state an federal inmates. She is at the center of a conspriacy that involved possibly three or more ex-cons from San Quentin state prison.

Murphy's daughter, Eden, talks in the episode about what it was like to grow up in a house dominated by grandma's temper and mood swings. She wants to know why the San Francisco Police and San Francisco District Attorney won't disclose more details about the case. She feels that her grandmother was responsible for the murder but wrestles with what justice would look like in the case.