He Killed Three Coffee Shop Workers and Walked Out Without the Money

It was the Sunday night at the end of the July 4th weekend in 1997. After closing time, a gunman walked into a Starbucks coffee shop near Georgetown in Washington, D.C., forced three employees into a back office, and killed all of them over the keys to a safe. He left without taking the money.
For twenty months, nobody knew who did it. Then a television rerun, a woman's tip, a hidden microphone, and a joint effort by D.C. police, Prince George's County police, and the FBI led to Carl Derek Cooper.
This episode of The FBI Files remembers Mary Caitrin Mahoney, Emory Evans, and Aaron Goodrich, and traces how investigators solved one of the most shocking crimes in Washington's history.
Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.


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