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[Music] all new at 5:00 Dallas Police say that they are very concerned about the city's
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murder numbers homicides to say it was a shocking murder would be an understatement broad daylight seven
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shots one person killed we see murders all day this one looked different a violent killing in
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North Oak Cliff involving an American Airlines manager Jennifer and her husband Jamie were walking their dog
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7:30 in the morning at that time someone approached from behind and simply started shooting Jamie Faith was shot
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seven times they they sound one after another b b b you knew it was a gunshot yeah you can smell in the air the
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gunpowder they they G bow all over we got a phone call from our mutual friend started the conversation with Jam's gone
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and I'm like what do you mean Jamie's gone and he's like he's dead what are you talking
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about so I started right away digging in trying to figure out give me details give me scenario what happened three
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times to the Head three times to the chest and once to the groin and then turns to the wife knocks her down takes
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the time to pull out duct tape and wrap her wrists Jennifer says that duct tape is used us to wrap around her hands to
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actually grab her and take her rings I went to that house Monday morning I briefly spoke with Jennifer faith I
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asked her can you tell me what happened she said it was awful here's a guy from small town
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Magano Wisconsin 7:30 in the morning residential area a theft something's not right
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somebody would have committed a murder to get a ring that may be worth $3,000 $2,000 does that make sense right this
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isn't Kim kardashan downtown Paris coming out of a hotel for a photo shoot with a $5 million watch a stranger
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police believe may have killed the American Airlines technology director on that Friday morning the one thing that
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entered our mind was because it was during the pandemic we thought maybe it was a disgruntled employee that he had
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just laid off the first time I found out about this case I heard it on the news and as soon as I saw it I thought that's
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a hit a hit as in like a professional a professional hit because it didn't make any sense I've been practicing criminal
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law for almost 30 years and none of it made sense who would want him dead nobody
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[Music] [Music] I hear the woman screaming for her life that's terrible it sound like a movie so
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I hurry up and call the police saying hurry and come I think my neighbors just got
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shot it was October 9th 2020 and residents of Oak Cliffe were still absorbing the shocking murder of Jamie
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faith Dallas police detectives began going house to house detectives need any and
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all information that might be related to the case Jaime's own front door security
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camera captured this haunting photo as he left his house with Jennifer and their dog Maggie it was taken seconds
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before jimie was shot to death as heard on this audio other cameras captured images of
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the Killer's getaway truck leaving the scene a black Nissan Titan pickup truck and it had something unique on its back
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window what was that police initially told us about the te on the back window here in Dallas if you see a te on the
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back window it's for the baseball team the Texas Rangers Steve picket a reporter for cbs1
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in Dallas Fort Worth noted that the cameras did not pick up the truck's license plate and so the effort begins
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to find this truck right that's right absolutely who is driving a black Nissan Titan with that te emblem on the back
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window for those who knew Jamie Faith the big question was not only who had committed the murder but
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why Jamie by all accounts was a funloving guy Jamie was the sweetest person and I said something just not
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right something wasn't right Shimona Jackson and her wife Melissa Gonzalez who lost her hair due
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to cancer treatments lived next door to jimie and Jennifer for years but moved when the pandemic hit they needed more
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space for their seven adopted children the first time I met them we all introduced ourselves and they were like
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do I have kids and I was like yeah we have a lot of kids is it true that the faith house was a really fun fun place
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for your kids to go yes Jennifer Faith instantly bonded with Shimona Melissa and their adopted
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children at least in part because she was also adopted the face welcomed them like
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family inviting them to swim anytime they liked in the Faith's backyard pool oh they love to go swimming that
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sometimes they'd spend the night over she would just leave us the code and we'd come in through the back gate swim
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give me a sense of what uh Jennifer Faith was like she was actually pretty fun I've never seen her get
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mad would you describe them as a loving couple yes yes on the morning of the murder a
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cousin of Melissa called her with the Dreadful news they rushed to the Faith home Jaime's lifeless body was still on
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the street by the way I noticed a gunshot to the Head but he was laying there just in the
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street no covering no nothing it was a heartbreaking um CU you hear somebody tell you that someone's passed but to
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see him there lifeless after we had just seen them and uh it was hard to believe two states away in Arizona
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Teresa and boss Jensen who had known Jamie for years were floored by the news and the two of us just stared at each
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other for a little while like what Teresa Jensen and Jamie Faith hail from the village of mwano Wisconsin and
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were classmates through high school and college he later introduced Teresa to her husband Ross a close college friend
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16 years later y there we said Jamie literally changed our Liv we never we never would have met
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yep jimie may have been a successful Matchmaker but he insisted that serious relationships were not for him he
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considered himself a confirmed Bachelor for as long as we knew him he said I'm never getting married get married never
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having kids I don't want a part of it but that changed in 2005 and then he met Jennifer the attraction was instant in
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terms of the commitment and the relationship and that was there that was there right off the bat they were two
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peas in a pod and that notion about not wanting children Jamie bonded with Jennifer's then 8-year-old daughter
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Amber from her first marriage and I remember thinking to myself that's interesting for a guy that didn't want
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kids how he stepped right in there and he would go to the dance recital and super
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supportive the two got married in Las Vegas in 2012 and when Amber turned 18 jimie legally adopted
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her he was working for American Airlines in Arizona and Jennifer worked in healthc care administration I
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believe all of our friends and mutual friends were very accepting of her Jamie Jennifer and Amber continued living in
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Arizona until 2017 when Jamie got promotion and they moved to Dallas he seemed very happy yep
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so did she they got along great and I mean that's all you want for your friends you know be happy but the good
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times ended in gunfire that October morning it was the day after the couple celebrated the 15th anniversary of their
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first date in later news reports Jennifer said she was having a hard time coping with
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Jaime's murder I'm not supposed to be widowed at 48 you know Jennifer told cops that the shooter
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was wearing a blue mask and a blurry image was captured by that security camera near the back of the faith house
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but the best lead was that black Nissan truck with the distinctive white te on the back window
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[Music] I have three dogs that I walk three four times a day what seemed like was a completely
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random act it could have been any of us Jennifer steelan and Jenna Wilson live in the same oakcliff neighborhood where
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Jamie Faith was Gunn down a man they could relate to learned that he was in it at a major airline my husband is in
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it at a major airline they were walking their dog a few blocks from us I was just go oh my
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gosh this could have been us though many neighbors didn't know the faiths personally they immediately stepped up
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to support Jennifer and her daughter Amber we have a really amazing community in Oak Cliff the day after the murder
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Jenna reached out to Jennifer and began coordinating a meal train to provide vegan meals as Jennifer requested how
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many different families were contributing food would you estimate goodness got to be over 50 oh definitely
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if you know what happened I need I need that for closer as Jennifer Faith appealed to the public for information
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money was pouring into a GoFundMe account set up by Jennifer fing it came in fast it was shocking to see how much
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people were contri contributing how much money was raised for the go over $60,000 father we thank you for the gift
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of this amazing man Jennifer held two funerals for Jamie one in Dallas and one in Phoenix each was meticulously planned
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they had all of the displays out little matchbooks for people to take cards for people to take
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coasters more than anything I've ever seen at any other funeral while she was mourning Jennifer kept pressing the
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public for more information about the murder of her husband truck is absolutely critical somebody has got to
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know whose truck this is it's a black Nissan Titan extended cab it had a Texas Ranger sticker in the back
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window as they do with every homicide investigation detectives looked into Jennifer's background they asked for her
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cell phone and found that in April 2020 6 months before the October shooting Jennifer had texted a friend to say she
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had gotten back in touch with an ex-boyfriend named Darren law enforcement goes through the phone and
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they look in her phone book and they find the name Darren Lopez Jim Holland is a retired Texas Ranger and a CBS News
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consultant they're going through and they're finding out every single thing they can about both these people really
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discovering them Darren Lopez and Jen Jer had dated in high school and reconnected in early 2020 Lopez had a
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family of his own and was a special forces Army veteran who earned a purple heart and suffered a brain injury from a
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roadside bomb in Iraq that killed 19 soldiers in his unit he is a military veteran going through a divorce himself
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uh living in an isolated part of Tennessee uh raising his daughters [Applause] authorities learned Lopez owned this 20
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acre property in Cumberland Furnace Tennessee and there was something else Darren Lopez owns a Nissan Titan
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pickup that just so happens to be black in color a Nissan Titan the same make and
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model as the gunman's getaway truck in Jamie Faith's murder Texas authorities reached out to
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to law enforcement in Tennessee and they actually conducted aerial surveillance of Darren's house Christy Jack is a
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prominent Texas defense attorney we asked to review this case and lo and behold there's this truck with the tea
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on the back window the white tea the white tea all this time we thought Texas indeed it was for the University of
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Tennessee but authorities didn't arrest Lopez after finding his truck they continued to investigate and build their
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case digging into his phone records what they find is this enormous amount of communication between Jennifer faith and
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Darren Lopez sometimes they're communicating more than 500 times a day but starting the afternoon of
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October 8th the day before Jaimie was killed Darren and Jennifer stopped talking for approximately 28
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hours that same day Lopez told his daughters he was going out of town on a hunt trip for a few
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days according to debit card records he filled up at a gas station near his home
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set his GPS for the face house and headed west for the 10-hour drive to Dallas he doesn't realize it but he's
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bringing law enforcement along with the ride with all the evidence he's leaving behind he's leaving this Trail in some
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points it's you know giant markers and signs and others it's little breadcrumbs they can actually document where Darren
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Lopez was they've seen security video of him at a convenience or a gas station surveillance photos from an
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Arkansas gas station show Lopez wearing a blue mask the same color mask Jennifer
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Faith told police the killer War at 2:19 a.m. the next morning GPS data shows he arrived at the Faith home
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a security camera captured those grainy images of him at the vacant house next door it would make you wonder a lot of
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different things you know the level of patience that someone has to you know be able to Stage 5 hours early and sit
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there and wait for this murder to transpire at 7:30 a.m. when the Fai came out to walk their dog
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Maggie cops say he ambushed them killed Jamie investigators say he then drove 650 Mi back home to Tennessee law
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enforcement has to figure out why did he do it did he do it because of his own motives because of you know his love for
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Jennifer Faith or did someone else ask him to do it [Music] in January 2021 3 months after Jamie
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Faith was murdered Dallas detectives had discovered evidence including thousands
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of texts that suggested Jennifer and Darren Lopez had a profound connection bordering on Obsession despite not
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having seen each other for decades you have Jennifer who's you know happily married to Jamie and she's carrying out
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this a tremendous amount of communication with her former boyfriend there's no bigger motive for murder than
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love or wining to be with someone else and the texts weren't the only evidence against Lopez detectives also had that
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cell phone data placing him near the crime scene and GPS coordinates that showed his exact route they could track
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him from Tennessee to Dallas and back to Tennessee to the authorities it all added up to a murder charge now new this
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morning an arrest made 3 months after an American Airlines employee was gunned down while walking his dog in Dallas
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Police say Darren Lopez Sergeant Joseph Calhoun was there when police pulled Lopez over on January 11th 2021 in Dixon
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Tennessee not far from his home he appeared to be nervous um but at the same time he was very quiet inside the
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vehicle agents say they found a face mask the same color as the one Jennifer had told police the gunman wore she says
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that the man had black eyes and was wearing a blue mask as Sergeant Calhoun transported Lopez to the local jail the
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investigative team headed for his house their authorities say they found this 45
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caliber handgun we know that Jamie was shot with a 45 caliber handgun round authorities say ballistic test
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later matched the gun found in Lopez's house to shell casings found at the murder scene even more damning
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authorities say that traces of Jaime's blood were found on the gun why the heck would he throw that gun
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away you know I don't know if it wasn't some kind of momento some kind of symbol
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of his love for her or what he was willing to do to have her and on the day that he is arrested what is he charged
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with what he's charged with is a gun crime a federal gun crime and at the state level he's charged with murder he
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pleaded not guilty to both charges and was transferred to the Dallas County Jail where he was held on $1 million
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bail at this point police had become increasingly suspicious of Jennifer was she involved in the murder plot or
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covering up for Lopez after the fact on the day of Lopez's arrest Dallas detectives brought her in for more
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questioning is that just a coincidence no law enforcements would have Ed that exactly I mean everything is coordinated
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uh to ensure that Jennifer doesn't know that Darren's been arrested detectives say Jennifer denied ever having a sexual
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relationship with Darren Lopez but admitted the two communicated every day and the volume was astounding in the six
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months leading up to Darren Lopez's arrest cops say the two Tech at each other 116,000 times when did they have time to
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sleep when did they have time to eat it was constant they made sure that they communicated with each other all day
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long Homeland Security agents dug into Lopez's phone and recovered text messages where Jennifer and Lopez even
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discussed deleting texts where they're talking to one another about factory resetting their phone
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after Lopez texted Jennifer that he had deleted texts she wrote big smile over here at that Lopez's phone contained a
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lot of sexting between the two and many words of Love Darren wrote I love you with all of my heart and Jennifer
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responded sleep my angel holding you tight I mean it goes as so far that uh they're both telling each other good
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night and talking about you know eating chips and salsa but Jennifer Faith was not arrested from the start she had
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played The Grieving Widow remember that TV interview where Jennifer pleaded for help in finding the getaway truck truck
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is absolutely critical somebody has got to know who truck this is because investigators now knew that Jennifer
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later woke up panicked that the tea was still on Lopez's truck she wrote something is eating away at me telling
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me you need to take the sticker out of the back window of the truck at some point he responds to that text message
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it says sticker done meaning it's been removed he's taking it off Jennifer was euphoric Oh yay she texted and then
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hours later I feel so much better it looks like conspiracy it looks like a connection between those two individuals
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who are working together to ensure they cover their tracks my gut was screaming at me I said hey things things aren't
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adding out if you're going to kill someone you're going to kill the witness we wondered why Jennifer hadn't gotten
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shot we asked her why didn't he shoot you and she said I think he didn't have any more
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bullets investigators also learned what Jennifer had been saying to Lopez in December 2020 after she failed to
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collect Jaime's $629,000 life insurance policy Jennifer texted Lopez they aren't processing the
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claim yet because detective Walton told them I couldn't be ruled out as a suspect so I called him and basically
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said what the f she had the audacity the boldness to contact the police and be righteously
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indignant as to why she didn't know what was going on with the investigation and
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why she had not already been cleared as a suspect Jennifer was nothing if not bold after jimie died she began
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showering Lopez who was in financial distress with cash and gifts she got some of that money from the GoFundMe
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account set up to help her deal with Jaime's loss she drained that money within two months of people donating
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that sum records show that Jennifer paid Lopez cash through a venmo account bought airline tickets for him and his
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daughters and allowed Lopez to use her credit cards in an email she wrote please don't hesitate to use them for
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whatever you need this email is Jennifer directly to Darren here's both of my major credit
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cards MX has no limit and I think the Visa has like $35,000 limit I pay them both off every
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month so you never need to worry about them being declined There's No Limit here to do what she wants him to to do
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Jennifer seemingly was doing anything she could to keep Lopez in her Corner even after he was arrested she sent a
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message to him and she sent through a third party and she was telling him that she would always L him that she would
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always be there for him no matter what happened but was it love or loyalty Jennifer was after she wants to make
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sure that he does not talk go inside the case at 48 [Music] hours.com in early 2021 Darren Lopez was
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behind bars in the Dallas County Jail and authorities felt they had a solid murder case against him but Jennifer
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Faith remained free not charged with any Crime After Darren Lopez is arrested does he turn on Jennifer no no in no way
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shape or form he's being a good soldier right yeah he's the Knight he has a sense of Duty and this honor towards
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her prosecutors went ahead and built their case against Jennifer without Lopez's cooperation and on February 24th
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2021 48-year-old Jennifer faith is now facing obstruction of justice charges related to the murder investigation of
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her husband Jennifer Faith was arrested but she was not charged with homicide she was charged with obstruction of
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justice an in-house camera shows her being booked at the Dallas County Jail the obstruction of justice means if
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you're tampering with or you're destroying evidence to prevent its availability in a later trial or to to
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prevent it being available at all which is what she was doing in destroying or deleting text messages on her phone or
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asking Lopez to take that t- sticker off his truck's window the obstruction charge wasn't enough for Jim's friend
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Ross Jensen and I said that wasn't the charge that I was expecting I said well that's it that's what the
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charges Jennifer later pleaded not guilty I think the police were being very thorough in their investigation and
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they wanted to bring her into custody then she doesn't have another opportunity to destroy any further
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evidence and authorities may have been glad they did in Jennifer's house they found computers containing a cache of
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emails that took the investigation in a whole different direction you know the emails get absolutely bizarre the
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strangest and most disturbing emails came from an account in Jamie Faith's name and on the surface it appeared as
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though Jamie sent these messages most of the email s are too explicit to show on
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television and they contain explosive claims that Jim was physically and sexually abusing Jennifer and there was
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more the emails were addressed to Darren Lopez revealing an apparent connection between the two men in Jennifer's life
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it's Jamie Faith sending messages to Darren that he is going to harm his wife he's going to sexually abuse his wife
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and he wants Darren Lopez to see it he writes I am finally going to get what I want from her this weekend he was
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wanting Darren to believe that he was going to sexually assault her in all sorts of ways the highly charged emails
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seem designed to taunt Lopez to challenge him to action enjoy knowing you can't do an effing thing about it he
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was provoking him he was provoking him he was goting him him as investigators looked more closely at the emails they
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discovered that some were coming from a second email address in the name of one of Jennifer's male friends that friend's
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emails corroborated the claims of abuse some even had photos attached supposedly
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depicting what jimie had done to Jennifer pictures that showed injuries pictures that showed injuries and
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claiming this this is my body this is what he's doing to me right and there were messages from the friend asking
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Lopez for help in getting Jennifer away from Jamie Jim Holland now a retired Texas Ranger says the emails clearly
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made Lopez fear for Jennifer's safety Lopez wrote to the friend's account I know I won't feel better about her
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situation until she is away from him or she lets me put a bullet in Jaime's head
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I keep offering and she keeps telling me no laugh out loud it's really pushing daring into this protective mode where
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he has to help her he has to be the hero he has to save her Holland says one of Jaime's wounds suggests the emails had
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their desired effect on Darren Lopez that gunshot to the groin I would guess that there's some
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type of sexual background or connotation to the murder based on the shot to the groin you know we sometimes use the
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phrase that you know you couldn't sell this if you were a screenwriter in Hollywood it's like a psychological
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Thriller do you agree yeah I mean this is stuff that I don't think anyone could really make up there there's so many
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layers to the onion you know fact is is better than Fiction at times in this in this case for
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sure prosecutors weighed the emails along with all the other evidence they were collecting against Jennifer
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including her pain ments and gifts to Lopez and in September 2021 7 months after she was charged with
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obstruction Jennifer was charged a second time Jennifer faith is now charge with murder for hire a federal offense a
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Dallas woman accused of orchestrating her husband's murder could face the death penalty I said that's the right charge
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that's what I was waiting for in their indictment prosecutors laid out the murder for hiring case against Jennifer
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revealing details of the vile email sent to Darren Lopez and a shocking secret about who sent them it was not Jamie at
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all that was sending these messages someone else was someone else posing as Jamie pretending to be Jamie it was
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Jennifer all along [Music] when Jennifer Faith was finally charged with murder For Hire prosecutors
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delivered that bombshell Jennifer was the one who wrote all those horrible emails to Darren Lopez there is no
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question that Jennifer Faith was the puppet master and Darren Lopez was her puppet pulling the strings and
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orchestrating her husband Jaime's murder it is mindboggling the wherewithal you have to have to help cultivate fake
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people fake emails pretending to be your husband to try to manipulate Darren Lopez I haven't seen anything like that
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in a very very long time just my mouth on the ground couldn't believe what she had
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done the mystery is why what drove Jennifer to want Jamie dead she seemingly had it all a husband
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and daughter who loved her Financial Security and a happy home I think the grass is always greener and there were a
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million reasons why on top of it if you combine his life insurance and his 401k that's more than a million dollar she
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wanted more people always want more they always want more than what they have they always think having more having
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different having a different person having someone exciting is going to be better than what they have and 48 Hours
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found that incredibly it wasn't the first time Jennifer went down this path she did the exact same thing to me we
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track down this man Rick erob who was married to her in the early 2000s she just the most evil person I've
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ever come in contact with he says shortly after they began dating they took a trip to Disneyland
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the so-called happiest place on Earth where Jennifer spun an ugly story of how she'd been abused by her first husband
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physical mental emotional sexual just it was shocking it definitely came to a point where
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I want to kill him and that lasted for a long time but then he says Jennifer changed her mind it was like oh
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you can't do this to my daughter's dad there is no evidence of any abuse Rick says Jennifer wouldn't go to the police
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we reached out to her first husband but got no response what is it about of her faith that was so irresistible to men do
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you think well there's something about her personality that really Drew men in she had a way about her of portraying
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herself as a victim of something and Rick admits he fell for it was he just the dry run yeah I think so I think
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ultimately where her failure was in Rick is this wasn't a guy who's capable of killing
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someone now is there in a person that you would look at and think he's capable of killing someone a US Special Forces
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operative for more than 20 years in the military who's been in combat yeah this is a guy you know is going to get the
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mission done shortly after the murder for higher charge Holland says self-preservation kicked in and Jennifer
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Finally Revealed the details of her intricate manipulative plot to have her husband killed Jennifer Faith decides to
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accept a plea agreement she will cooperate with authorities on February 7th 2022 with attorney Toby shook by her
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side Jennifer appeared in a Dallas courtroom and pleaded guilty to one count of use of interstate comce in the
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commission of murder for hire in exchange for the guilty plea prosecutors agreed to take the death
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penalty off the table and recommend a life sentence Jim Holland says even the guilty plea was vintage Jennifer she
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can't allow herself to face the death penalty because she's incapable of killing herself because at the end of
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the day that's the only person she really loves there was one important detail that authorities insisted be part
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of that plea she has to admit to the fact that her husband never abused her physically or sexually and as for those
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photos she'd sent showing injuries she sent images that we know are stock images fake images they're not
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real Jennifer also came clean about how she'd spent the GoFundMe money her supporters were devastated it's
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heartbreaking it's heartbreaking do you feel that you were taken advantage of it's hard not to feel that way do you
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feel betrayed it's hard not to feel that way what kind of person would do that a
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Monster yeah a monster she may have used the GoFundMe account to pay Darren Lopez but court
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records show that Jennifer did not pay for Jaime's funeral expenses and to this day owes
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$6,500 what's more court records also show Jennifer has asked that $200,000 from Jaime's estate be put into
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her prison commissary account it's a case of greed manipulation it's a tragedy all the way around she robbed
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the community of someone that they respected she robbed her daughter of a father it was a very selfish act on so
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many levels Jaime's parents and sister did not attend the hearing the family home was sold and Amber moved out of
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Texas with their dog Maggie after Jennifer signed her plea deal Lopez also agreed to answer
00:38:29
questions and admitted killing jaim he told investigators he reconnected with Jennifer because he was in a very dark
00:38:38
place and initially never intended to reunite romantically or break up her family it's difficult to say which came
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first whether it's the chicken or the egg whether their romance was rekindled at the same time as her realization that
00:38:52
he's the perfect Pawn now when you say romance it's very unusual Romance one in which apparently they physically
00:39:00
were never together they were never physically together at that time but memories are powerful Lopez who hasn't
00:39:08
changed his not- guilty plea also told authorities the murder was Jennifer's idea his attorney has said publicly that
00:39:17
Jennifer took advantage of Lopez who suffered that traumatic brain injury in the Army I almost feel that Jennifer is
00:39:26
more responsible for Jam's death and Darren because Darren was in my opinion was just prayed
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upon by her and she manipulated him to do what she wanted [Music] done those who knew and loved Jamie like
00:39:49
former neighbor Melissa Gonzalez are still coping with his death he cared about people it didn't matter what your
00:39:57
race religion he didn't care about any of that he was just an easygoing guy right
00:40:06
he was the guy for our kids that meant a lot the kind of guy that he was you can't just get that anywhere friends
00:40:15
Teresa and Ross Jensen are grieving too he was just all around wonderful guy I was blessed to know him I hope that
00:40:27
Amber carries some of Jamie forward I hope she really does something unique and special with his
00:40:37
[Music] memory who do you think is more responsible for Jamie Faith's death an intruder came into her house
00:41:03
and attacked her stabbing her repeatedly a woman's Iron Will there's no earthly reason why I'm alive none and the thin
00:41:10
line between life and death the amount of strength that goes into that is just unimaginable 48 Hours next on CBS and
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streaming on Paramount Plus [Music] ever think in your wildest dreams that someone might want to kill
00:41:37
you I would have never thought that anyone would want to kill me ever in my life ever my dad's a sweet guy I mean
00:41:44
he's very calm he's full of laughter he's full of energy he's like a life of the
00:41:50
party my life was once beautiful wonderful I have three wonderful kids was married to a a beautiful lady hi
00:41:59
guys my name is Lulu my business was booming and I'm R head coach box welcome to wom's boxing and
00:42:09
fitness outside the ring boxers they're very loving they want love from their fans and they want to give it
00:42:18
back they're the nicest people I was a very very a low-key kind of guy that's the farthest thing from my
00:42:25
mind that somebody wanted me dead I remember walking in one night as the gym was in its final hours before it closed
00:42:34
I remember a conversation was taking place about Hitman what was it about this conversation that caught your attention
00:42:42
what caught my attention was whose name came up did they mention Ramon yes now my focus was just on talking to
00:42:51
Ramon I say Mundo you're joking around you know what's going on Ramon was like don't don't play with me like that this
00:42:56
is some serious stuff and then he said I seen that look on people's eye before that want to kill
00:43:02
somebody it's like a screenplay something straight out of Hollywood and it would fit right in with every other
00:43:07
horror flick that we've seen in the past except this is real it is real we're taking you inside the twists
00:43:15
and turns of a complex sting operation and here's what makes it unique the target of the murder For Hire plot
00:43:23
becomes an undercover operative to catch the person who wants him dead so Lieutenant where are we heading
00:43:33
we are heading to what we referred to as the Dig side this is the actual grave where I was supposed to be dead they had
00:43:39
me lay down with my hands behind my back my head turned it was a photographer all I could hear was just
00:43:47
the clicking of the camera that was somebody's choice they told someone this is what I want this is how I want you to
00:43:53
do it and this is where I want you to put him it's horrifying I saw myself in the grave dead
00:44:00
literally I was supposed to be dead I'm the only person alive that has ever walked out of his own grave
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[Music] [Music] to this day Ramon Sosa finds it surreal that he was the Target in a murder for
00:45:08
higher plot I would have never believed it I would have I would have thought it was
00:45:13
just something that is you only see in movies or on TV I would have never thought that it
00:45:20
would be happening to me he appeared to have the perfect life from rubbing shoulders with
00:45:31
celebrities like Hugh Hefner to owning a successful boxing gym in Houston and he had found the love of his
00:45:42
life Lulu life was very sweet Beth Blair is a friend of the SAS I saw two fun outgoing love to party
00:45:55
love to get together with people and have barbecues and the more people the marrier Ramon Zess for life started
00:46:05
early he was born with a fighting Spirit originally from Carolina Puerto Rico Ramone grew up boxing with his father I
00:46:14
fell in love with the sport of boxing I saw how the training and and there was a
00:46:18
few world champions that trained there and I just loved it from from the time I I was little after training for more
00:46:25
than 10 years Ramone took a shot at the pro boxing circuit they used to call me uh the
00:46:33
Puerto Rican Express when I turned 17 I turned Pro so did you ever knock anybody
00:46:37
out in the ring oh yeah there was a lot of Knockouts eventually the Puerto Rican
00:46:43
Express ran out of steam Ramone hung up his boxing gloves and decided to pursue the American dream I went back to school
00:46:52
uh got my education and and in start and I still kept training you know always wanted be involved with boxing in some
00:46:58
kind of way Ramone got married young and had three children with his first wife he
00:47:05
eventually settled down in Houston Texas where he opened a boxing gym of his own
00:47:10
where he could continue to teach his passion I think Ramon is a a nice humble guy friendly uh family oriented Raul
00:47:20
Marquez is an Olympic boxer and Showtime commentator he is also Ramon's longtime sparring
00:47:30
buddy anybody that goes in the ring it's got to be tough it's got to be mentally
00:47:34
tough you know I think he's physically and mentally tough but like I always say he wasn't tough enough to beat me you
00:47:40
know beat my butt you know Ramon's first marriage ended in 2000 by 2007 Ramone then 40 was ready to
00:47:52
get back in the ring but this time he was looking for a different kind of knockout and a friend of mine said hey
00:47:58
man there's a place where they play live music and I heard there's a lot of beautiful ladies out there Latina
00:48:05
ladies Ramone decided to go and see this place for himself and as soon as he arrived someone special caught his eye
00:48:14
place was packed and I noticed her are you thinking man I'm fighting out of my weight class here yeah yeah she was very
00:48:21
very attractive you know she looked very nice and she danced very very well so I
00:48:25
just kep my ass on her the woman he noticed was Lulu Dantes next thing I know she walks by me and she steps on my
00:48:34
toe now do you think she might have stepped on your foot on purpose oh she sure did she she even admitted later
00:48:41
on rone and Lulu had an instant connection and that was it I mean as soon as we started dancing we didn't get
00:48:49
out the dance floor for the whole night Ramone still remembers the very first song they danc to a popular Latin tune
00:48:56
that the salsa band played that night it would become their [Music] songia is a song by Grand Puerto Rico
00:49:12
and it means what witchcraft Witchcraft and forgive the pun but you were under her spell right basically yes I was
00:49:19
under her spell Spellbound after dancing the night away Ramon went home with Lulu
00:49:26
and the rest was history she doed on him she was great Beth had a ringside seat to their
00:49:33
relationship she'd bring him coffee and get up every morning with him and make his breakfast and I always just thought
00:49:41
it was really neat their relationship you know they got along really well after less than a year of dating
00:49:48
Ramone dropped to one knee I proposed to her it was around Christmas time I remember proposing to her she
00:49:55
started crying she cried and cried and cried you know and she was happy you know and but she
00:50:03
couldn't wait to get married Lulu dures became Lulu Sosa on March 15th 2009 she treated me well she treated me like a
00:50:14
king Lulu originally from Mexico came to the United States with her son and daughter what brought her to Houston you
00:50:23
know to have a new life a better life for her children to you know to start again because she
00:50:30
was divorced in Mexico and then she come here Natalia Flores is a hair stylist and one of Lulu's closest friends she
00:50:38
met Lulu back in 2007 she was a nice friend a good mom a good worker a hard worker in 2010 Ramon opened a second
00:50:52
gym this time Lulu was by his side she kept the books and became a personal trainer we offer boxing kickboxing and
00:51:01
Fitness training come check us out how big of operation was the gym was about 5,000 ft and we average about 200 and
00:51:08
some members a month everything was great little did Ramone know he would soon be in the fight of his life
00:51:27
[Music] what was it like growing up Sosa oh my gosh it was like being a superstar
00:51:44
almost because everyone knows my dad everyone knows who my dad is for Ramon's daughter Mia a former model and beauty
00:51:52
pageant contestant and her two brothers growing up around a local boxing celebrity had its perks it was just fun
00:52:01
our dad was a jokester so every time we were around it was tons of laughs and smiles and all things like that lots of
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Blended families experience Growing Pains but Mia says life after Lulu arrived hi my name is Ramos SAA I am
00:52:18
Lulu SAA was not as harmonious as those gym ads made it seem she didn't want anything anything
00:52:26
to do with us we were like nothing to hurt Mia found Lulu's coldness not just mean but ominous it wasn't like she was
00:52:38
trying to become a stepmom she knew that at some point we weren't really going to
00:52:44
be in her picture what's more the spell Lulu seemed to cast Over Ramone started to eat away at his relationship with his
00:52:52
own children she didn't like him spending money on his kids and seeing up we're not hanging out as much and I know
00:53:00
we're not doing it because he's got someone else that he's paying his attention to and it's like why I'm your
00:53:06
daughter don't where are you going Ramon says there was so much animosity between
00:53:12
Lulu and his children they weren't there for a major event in his life my kids didn't go to my wedding that's one thing
00:53:19
that hurt me that day that we found out that he had got married it was heartbreaking heart
00:53:27
heartbreaking Ramon and his new bride focused on growing their gym into a Powerhouse for world class training and
00:53:37
fitness how much money were you guys making a month or a year that was probably about over 18 20,000 a month
00:53:43
$18 $20,000 a month in profit yeah but after 6 years of marriage the Sosa spell began to break Lulu started
00:53:54
confiding in her friends she told me that he doesn't want to work too much and he stay more at home and she's
00:54:00
working hard and hard and hard death and accusations of Ramon's laziness were just the
00:54:07
beginning and she said on an occasion or two that he was physical with her that he had come in drinking and was physical
00:54:14
with her what did she mean by physical like grabbing her or pushing her because he's a strong guy he came
00:54:24
and forced to do things that she doesn't want in that moment like sex uh-huh did she ever tell you that Ramone
00:54:35
would force himself upon her and force her to have sex with him when she did not want to yes she did she had said
00:54:42
that on occasion Lulu claims that you have raped her yeah she's tried everything to ruin my life from rape
00:54:52
being abusive to being a drunk and all these acclaims now one of them not one have have I been uh charged for and and
00:55:02
I tell you sir that these hands have never HD a woman in my in their lives these have always been for fighting in
00:55:10
the ring not even in the streets not even in the streets for her to say something like that that was really
00:55:19
hurtful around the same time that Lulu was complaining to her girlfriends Ramone says another problem problem
00:55:26
suspiciously appeared missing money after we started having problems at home with the marriage there was
00:55:35
issues with the gym I'm working people out a lot more and I seen you faces all the
00:55:41
time but when I see the bottom line here it's not adding up are you worried that
00:55:45
she's skimming money I I was worried and I was wondering what she was doing with
00:55:49
the money Ramon soon learned where some of that money may have gone in March 2015
00:55:56
Lulu hired divorce attorney Julio hlar Lulu was in fear for her safety hlar says he was shocked by what Lulu brought
00:56:06
with her to his office she was able to take pictures of scratches that he left on her arms legs
00:56:18
shoulders he shared the photos with 48 Hours according to Lulu this was caused by Ramon at one time when wanted to
00:56:26
force himself to her and there was a altercation and Ramon grabbed her and can I see scratched her
00:56:37
yeah that is evident that he was using Force to push her legs out there's scratches on her upper arm and she
00:56:45
claims there's a bruise on her leg that you inflicted on her those are all fabricated I I can tell you those are
00:56:53
all fabricated this is but there was one photo that even Ramon says was not made
00:57:00
up as you can see in this picture uh Ramon punched that door and that can give you an idea of the strength of this
00:57:10
man that admit to that punch she was accusing me of stuff and that's one thing I did I took my frustrations
00:57:19
out but as far as putting a hint on her never ever despite allegations of physical
00:57:27
abuse Ramon and Lulu remained in the same house even after she filed for divorce they lived on different floors
00:57:36
and was Lulu afraid of Ramon afraid that he may seriously hurt her yet she was afraid of that and it was at that time
00:57:45
in June 2015 that this man who asked we not show his face was working out at the
00:57:52
gym he said to call him Mund ramosa he's a friend he's a very good Mentor to me Mundo had grown up on the
00:58:05
tough streets of East Houston and he had a very very rough background gangs and and drugs and fighting in the streets
00:58:13
and he wanted a new life and he became like like a son to me Mundo says he was friends with Lulu as well she was there
00:58:22
talking to her 16-year-old daughter when he overheard them a conversation was taking place about a
00:58:29
customer that was there that supposedly was claiming to be a big shot that he had connections of a Hitman or or just
00:58:37
people that could inflict harm what CAU my attention was towards the end U of the conversation whose name
00:58:44
came up did they mention Ron yes stunned Mundo said nothing he came back here the next day and confronted
00:58:55
Lulu who told him that Ramone was physically abusing her then she said something
00:59:04
else she's like I'm tired you know I'm tired of him it's already too much you know I wish he'll disappear I wish
00:59:12
something you know and I'm like disappear what do you mean disappear like what disappear and I did the pistol sign
00:59:26
[Music] [Music] Mundo was certain that Lulu had murder on her mind and that his friend Ramon
00:59:49
was in danger and what was it about the way she was talking to you that made you
00:59:55
think this was something more than just Idle Words her eyes just her eyes I've seen that look before just
01:00:04
people that are serious about what they're saying knowing Lulu was dead serious Mundo had to think fast he came up with
01:00:12
a plan to stop her Mundo offered to get involved and hire the Hitman himself I gave Lulu the impression that I was
01:00:22
going to reach out to a Hitman that I have the guys already ready Mundo convinced Lulu he believed her claims of
01:00:30
abuse and would help her but it was actually all aoy to protect his friend Ramone who he called as soon as he left
01:00:38
the gym and he tells me Lulu wants to kill you as shocking as the news was Ramon says he instantly knew
01:00:48
why if I died after the divorce was finalized she was not going to get the money that I have for my retirement the
01:00:56
value of the gym the value of home she had everything already figured out Ramone immediately contacted police but
01:01:04
was told nothing could be done based only on conversations with an angry wife as threatening as they sounded the
01:01:12
sheriff's department needed more they need more evidence so the two old boxing buddies came up with a plan they would
01:01:19
launch their own sting operation tape recorder I'm going use using his street smarts Mundo would pretend to hire a
01:01:26
hitman he'd send texts to this fictitious killer with details about the hit details he'd share with Lulu she
01:01:35
needs to see that I'm going back and forth with somebody Ramon and Mundo bought two disposable cell phones little
01:01:42
did Lulu know that the target her own husband was holding that second phone and the phone he's going to use to play
01:01:51
his own Hitman play his own Hitman yes sir I started stressing because cuz you know here we are me and Mundo doing this
01:01:58
amateur investigation or undercover investigation I don't know what I'm doing but Mundo
01:02:05
did he started recording his daily conversations with Lulu [Music] as the days passed both men worried Lulu
01:02:33
might have another Hitman waiting in the wings my thing was what if her patience
01:02:39
runs up the raon ends up dead or what if her patient runs out and I end up dead Ramon told no one about what he and
01:02:48
Mundo were up to and living in fear over what Lulu might be up to took its toll he started carrying a gun I'd be at a
01:03:00
stoplight and and you know I would put the gun in between my legs you know looking left and right the whole time at
01:03:06
a light Ramone could not even Escape his fear at night and you're in bed where's
01:03:12
the gun uh used under there underneath my pillow loaded so Mundo kept the pretend
01:03:19
negotiations on track we use that phone acting as the middleman between the fake
01:03:25
hit man and Lulu she's like well tell them I'm offering the white truck tell them I'm offering them jewelry tell them
01:03:32
I'm offering them you know this much money all this time Ramon and Lulu were still living under the same roof on June
01:03:42
9th 2015 before Mundo overheard Lulu's threat police had been called to the Sosa house please don't take my sir
01:03:50
Lulu's attorney says there was an argument between Lulu's son and Ramon over a truck which Lulu's son recorded
01:03:58
on his whose vehicle is this this is my vehicle I have legal documents on the right which I need today please don't
01:04:06
take my vehicle Ramon went to take the vehicle away from Lulu's son and when Lulu's son basically told him no you're
01:04:14
not going to take my vehicle please step out of my car Ramon punch him on his face remot please step out of my car
01:04:26
Ramone was issued a citation for assault but he says his hand only made contact with the phone I'm an ex- professional
01:04:35
fighter if I would have hit that kid believe me he would not be standing up right now rone please step out of my
01:04:41
car I didn't put my hand on that kid on June 30th Ramon and Lulu faced off in court Lulu wanted a restraining order
01:04:51
against him her attorney wrote up the ORD that I was abusive that I hit her son that they fear for their lives you
01:04:57
know living with me staying in my house Ramon was ordered to move out of their home and stay away from the Woodland's
01:05:03
gym but he also got an order restraining Lulu from the first gym he owned the one
01:05:09
he'd opened before meeting her Ramon says he kept his eye on the bigger prize exposing Lulu's plot against
01:05:18
him you know she thought she had me on the ropes about to knock me out in box me that's called an a count I took an a
01:05:24
count I got Ked out my own house but the boxer was about to make a comeback 10 days after launching their
01:05:33
sting Ramon posing as Paco the fake Hitman tchs Mundo he's gotten a 9mm gun costing
01:05:43
$200 when Mundo received the down payment for the gun to have me kill from Lulu that's when I said you know what I
01:05:51
think we have enough let's take this to the police now I got a call on a Sunday Lieutenant Mike Atkins works for the
01:05:58
Precinct 3 Constable's office in Montgomery County Texas we had a individual claiming that uh there was a
01:06:05
murder For Hire against him how unusual was that it's extremely unusual it's uh the first one of my career impressed
01:06:13
with the amateur Sting the professionals were now ready to take over but they needed a StreetWise rookie in their
01:06:20
Corner Mundo I was afraid sir that they might get that person to actually do the
01:06:27
job they might go with they might it was important that we not change the investigation we not change and move
01:06:35
Mundo out of the situation because that might bring alarms Mundo kept stringing Lulu along
01:06:42
assuring her he was trying to get things done as soon as possible finally he let
01:06:48
her know everything is a go for a meeting on July 20th with the Hitman who was really an undercover agent he looked
01:06:58
like he can be a bad guy in a movie I said hey this is the man that's supposed to kill you lulu agreed to a night
01:07:05
meeting in this parking lot not far from the gym she brought several watches and
01:07:10
some jewelry as a down payment Lulu then went to an ATM machine and withdrew $500 which she brought back here to seal
01:07:20
the deal when someone in a murder For Hire case actually pays is some money have they crossed a threshold they have
01:07:29
it shows the uh the level of intent it shows the fact that they are serious and it's come to a point where you can't
01:07:37
turn back police had enough to arrest Lulu right there and then but they had concerns namely Lulu's claims of Ramon's
01:07:48
abuse Lulu has never had any problems with the law she's a beautiful lady mother you we don't want to go to a dur
01:07:55
trial and had one of the jurors f s for her and so police told Ramon what they needed to do next we're planning to take
01:08:04
a picture of you uh dead see more of Ramon and Mundo handing over their amateur investigation to
01:08:16
police at 48 hours.com [Music] [Music] for Ramon the police sting to bring down Lulu seem to be taking a queue from
01:08:40
witchcraft the first song they ever dance [Music] to one of the lyrics you want to send me
01:08:53
to my cold tomb yeah going to take a picture of you dead you know like in a grave and we're going to show it to her
01:09:01
to show proof that the Hitman did the job he was kind of dumb struck but then as it was explained to him he was well
01:09:10
on board in order to get Ramone camera ready it is a bullet wound police first had to consult some experts being a a
01:09:20
bunch of middle-aged men we don't you know we're not exactly versed on applying makeup
01:09:25
so naturally we went to YouTube and learned how to apply makeup from uh from teenage girls but they also had some
01:09:34
deadly examples to follow luckily we had no shortage of crime scene photos to to
01:09:39
use as references the assistant day was there and he brought out some pictures of actual dead
01:09:46
people people with bullet holes to the Head they picked up the one that they thought that was going to be the best
01:09:52
one and I looked at and they showed you that picture I was horrified next they had to find Ramone a
01:10:01
grave we're heading to to what we refer to as the Dig side luckily for us the county owned a
01:10:09
rideway that would give us the Privacy we needed what was going through your mind well I really didn't know what the
01:10:17
what it was going to look like I was at this point already I mean I already had the uh the makeup they already started
01:10:23
with the with the Bullet Hole the the Final Touch fake blood and they told me once we got to
01:10:30
the uh site they were going to put more blood on me this is it Mo's final resting place so where
01:10:40
were you lying in this grave my head was there in that corner right there and and
01:10:45
I was right over there yeah it looked like I had my hands tied behind my back they even threw dirt on my on my
01:10:52
head it looked like a movie scene honestly was it emotional for you to be in here yeah it's very emotional it was
01:10:58
hot it was uh scary it was it was just a feeling of of thoughts of you know I can't believe this what I'm doing I
01:11:06
cannot believe what I'm doing this is what Lulu wanted right here this is what she
01:11:12
wanted now it's time to show Lulu that this is done and it's uh it's time to get paid so a second meeting was
01:11:23
arranged between Lulu and the Hitman in the same parking lot but this time it was all caught on
01:11:36
camera it's July 22nd [Music] 2015 Lulu then pays him um Lulu is shown the photo of Ramon dead
01:12:06
in a [Music] grave she starts laughing no shock at all no shock what does that tell you
01:12:20
about Lulu she's a pretty cold character the undercover detective and Lulu discussed the remaining payment all told
01:12:31
$3,000 in cash watches and jewelry and Ramon's white pickup then Lulu is given more details of her husband's final
01:12:41
moments Lulu maintains she was the victim here the reality of Ramon's death continues to sink in and Lulu's mood
01:13:09
appears to lift she was happy she even made a comment to the Hitman she asked him if he was dead if I
01:13:23
was not going to get up like a joke yeah she wanted to make sure that I was dead
01:13:27
she made gestures with her hand like you know racing the roof little did Lulu know that her roof was about to come
01:13:35
crashing down the next morning police come to the gym and it's not for a workout we want
01:13:43
to come and and say you know hey we're inquiring about your husband that's been missing and we want to get her reaction
01:13:52
wearing body cameras hey okay detective Martinez with the's office police make it seem like they're
01:14:02
stopping in to do a wellness check on Ramone is there someone we can talk in private sure apparently Mr s hasn't been
01:14:10
at work today Lulu claims she has no idea where Ramon might be I haven't seen him I haven't talked to him we're going
01:14:20
for a divorce when's the last time you you saw Mr we saw him on Wednesday he the last day
01:14:32
the L seems pretty relaxed she does she knows that sooner or later the police are going to come either to say he's
01:14:39
missing or they found his body remember the night before she had seen this picture she was all happy she was all
01:14:45
giggles and happy that see me dead and now she was acting concerned in front of the cops so he hasn't contacted you in
01:14:52
the last 24 hours no no she police let Lulu's performance go on a few minutes longer then lower the boom okay missa
01:15:04
stand up please you're under arrest you're under arrest why prior to her interview Lulu is read
01:15:13
her rights and refuses to speak without a lawyer Lulu is charged with solicitation
01:15:21
of capital murder it's an injustice says her divorce lawyer Julio hlar I think that Ramon SAA is someone
01:15:31
that was very violent to his wife and I think that the constant hammering the constant violence the constant Behavior
01:15:40
towards his wife made his wife fear Him I believe that that's what forced her at the end
01:15:48
to make a decision that otherwise she would have never made the question now will a jury
01:15:56
believe Lulu's claims of abuse here lies Ramon Sosa right yes sir this is like a scene from a movie where
01:16:22
where they kill these guys and just you know and just dig up a hole anywhere and put them away
01:16:28
very scary for 3 Days Ramon had to play the part of a dead man and nobody knew where I
01:16:41
was even my family everybody was looking for me I was very very upset rage and sadness all the emotions
01:16:50
came through me okay Mr s St you're under arrest you're under arrest why following
01:17:01
Lulu's arrest on July 23rd 2015 Ramone faced the unimaginable task of telling his children that their
01:17:11
stepmother had tried to kill him I had just got off of a shift from working at a comedy club and it was late
01:17:20
you know I didn't expect my brother to be sitting on my bed you can just feel something was wrong
01:17:29
Mia's brother handed her the phone her father was on the line and he says very low Mia I'm okay and I said what what
01:17:38
are you talking about and he says I'm okay I'm somewhere safe but Lulu tried to have someone kill
01:17:48
me that's okay and at this point I mean you don't don't hear anything I didn't know what
01:17:57
to do with myself except cry I remember sliding on the back of the wall down to the ground and huddled
01:18:06
into my knees crying my eyes out now Ramone had a new fight on his hands defending his
01:18:19
reputation that was was hurting me so much she had so many people believe all this stuff that I had put my hands on
01:18:25
her that I was an alcoholic that I hate her [Music] son that's how psycho this person was
01:18:34
still would Lulu use these allegations as part of her own defense give me a sense how strong now is your case
01:18:43
against Lulu Sosa we think it was a very strong case we had our video we had a down
01:18:50
payment we had a confirmation to her that the murder had taken place so you've got
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her we got her as Lulu awaited trial that assault charge against Ramon Ramon please step
01:19:09
out of my car was dismissed and Lulu agreed to a divorce settlement that handed Ramone the gym
01:19:17
and the house she gave it all up after 15 months in jail awaiting trial on the murder for higher charges
01:19:28
Lulu gave up the fight in October 2016 as Ramone looked on she pleaded guilty to A reduced charge of second deegree
01:19:37
solicitation of murder avoiding trial and a possible life sentence she came here with an American
01:19:46
Dream and she got her American Dream quick and to lose everything that way she did is sad
01:19:54
Lulu was given 20 years in prison is 20 years enough I don't think so but I'm happy that is over with I'll take
01:20:04
it I was just shocked that trying to hire somebody to kill her husband that that's really all she got was 20 years
01:20:12
personally because that's my father I want you away forever I don't want you to come out not everyone agrees was that
01:20:19
Justice in your opinion my opinion no Lulu's divorce ER Julio hogar because because nobody got to hear her
01:20:30
sight many times I saw her crying and I felt her desperation Ramon says the ordeal has
01:20:39
left scars are you haunted by this I'll never be the same person ever again I call my
01:20:47
kids as much as possible might be the last day I say that I love him Ramon's near-death experience has changed him
01:20:55
they love our family Mia is now back in Texas having patched up their relationship after Lulu drove them apart
01:21:03
it's been a really good outcome for me and for him you're going to get knocked out sometimes you're going to get up
01:21:11
take the loss and you're going to try harder and get a win now Ramone is a sought after speaker
01:21:19
telling his incredible Story of Survival he shared that journey to appreciative audience in London thank you thank you
01:21:27
London I'm alive the man who Lulu thought would help kill her husband is now an author
01:21:37
Mundo has written a book about his experience if Lulu is watching this broadcast is there anything you would
01:21:44
want to say to her redeem yourself you don't have to be what everybody tells you you are you
01:21:51
know everybody's tell me I was something else prove everybody wrong so you could do
01:21:57
the same today Ramone wears a precious reminder of how his time on earth almost ran out tell me about the watch that's
01:22:09
on your left wrist there she told Mundo that when to kill me to make sure to take my watch that's what I wear all the
01:22:17
time now I think she ended up picking the wrong man to victimize don't you yeah it's the last minute of the last
01:22:24
round she had me on the ropes and she had no idea that the whole time I had a plan
01:22:30
[Music] too Lulu Sosa comes up for parole once a year her next hearing is scheduled for
01:22:39
later this month Ramon Sosa published his story in a book called I walked on my own grave Lulu's arrest captured on
01:22:46
police body cameras now online on Facebook at 48 Hours crime suspense suspicion a second
01:22:55
night of 48 hours Wednesday Joe Exotic is this wild cartoonish large animal owner his sworn enemy this carol the Big
01:23:05
Cat Rescue Carol's second husband Don Lewis disappeared and he just vanished for the first time on TV a new witness
01:23:13
you guys had a large freezer that had a padlock on it 48 Hours suspicion Wednesday at 109 Central on CBS
01:23:22
[Music] the one thing I've learned in this job is that anything is possible people will do
01:23:50
anything and if you have $80,000 to throw around you can absolutely Ely find someone in Los Angeles County to kill
01:23:56
your wife this story is definitely ripe for a made for TV movie where you have the
01:24:04
ex-model turned housewife with the millionaire husband who is cheating on his wife and tries to hire a hitman
01:24:12
because he's not winning his divorce Monica olssen used to be a model and she ran her own skincare company
01:24:21
Dino gelly was a successful businessman in Los Angeles he was the lead singer of a rock band
01:24:31
but he would pay to have the rock band play at the House of Blues and he would tell his employees that they were
01:24:39
required to go to his shows Monica and Dino they were married for about 7 years and it looked to be a
01:24:51
pretty happy marriage they had two really beautiful children what Monica didn't know was that there wasn't a time
01:24:57
that he wasn't cheating on her she was in love with this man yeah and had no clue no what was going on behind her
01:25:06
back Dino wanted too much he wanted the hot model wife and his kids but then he also wanted
01:25:15
everything on the side and I think he wanted Monica to be a certain person or to just follow
01:25:22
whatever he said and do whatever he wanted her to do and control her but he couldn't do
01:25:28
[Music] that someone like Mr gly Melly when they don't get their way will do whatever
01:25:35
they need to do legal or illegal to get their way and ultimately he decided that
01:25:42
he wanted to end it not through the legal proceedings but he wanted to kill his wife and he wasn't going to do it
01:25:47
himself he was going to get somebody else to do it he wanted her dead he didn't care how it was done beat her up
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cut her head off put her in a ditch my name is Richard Ferman and Dino gamelli hired me to murder his
01:26:06
wife I'm Troy Roberts tonight on 48 Hours the millionaire the model and the Hitman
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] tonight's 48 Hours appropriately said in Los Angeles is a twisted tale of greed
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and murder that at times may seem like a Hollywood Blockbuster like any good thriller it's one part romance two parts
01:27:08
Hitchcock but in the end it's all true it wasn't a joke to him it was very serious get it over with be bloody be
01:27:19
bad about it and end it meet Rick Ferman in 20 2 millionaire Dino gamelli asked him to kill the
01:27:28
mother of his children did you ever say how would the children feel if they lost
01:27:32
their mother more than once and what did he say he would say they'll be much better off without her I will find them
01:27:39
a good mother and I'll even have you check her out first and make sure she's great and make get your
01:27:44
approval just 9 years earlier this Horror Story was a love story Monica Olen a smalltown girl from Canada made
01:27:53
it big as a new New York fashion model and then moved to Los Angeles to try her hand at acting Monica was working very
01:27:59
hard towards it being successful in modeling and acting Monica's close friend Olia banar she was beautiful I
01:28:07
mean she's very photogenic if this whole thing would have happened we would see her on the big screens by now
01:28:14
definitely Olia says Monica wasn't in Los Angeles for very long before she was swept off her feet by Dino a Charming
01:28:22
Farm Boy from a big family in Wala Wala Washington we all grew up in the same house where my parents live
01:28:32
currently amelo gugo melli says his brother Dino's First Love was [Music] music he's always been a musician very
01:28:45
very interested in music Dino dropped out of college and moved to Los Angeles to be a rock
01:28:52
star but that's not how he would make his fortune living in the land of health and
01:28:58
fitness Dino saw a need and capitalized on it he started making and distributing
01:29:04
vitamins and other dietary supplements there's nobody in the world doesn't want to live longer and uh so he parlayed
01:29:11
that into a great business Dina would eventually build the hugely successful multi-level supplement and skin care
01:29:18
company Creations Garden Dino was a young successful men with a lot of money and a lot of power and when he met
01:29:26
Monica he wanted her and he knew how to get her 6 months after they met Dina flew Monica to Italy and proposed sounds
01:29:36
like a fairy tale in the beginning because he proposed to her in Venice I mean there was a lot of First Sight you
01:29:42
don't hear those stories happened the couple was married just 3 months later and Dino's brother Gino gamelli attended
01:29:50
the lavish wedding it was pretty fancy for me the whole thing thing Gino says Dina's model wife seemed to complete his
01:29:58
baby brother's transformation from Farm Boy to MoGo he had a successful business
01:30:03
he had nice cars I think that just added to the image what were your impressions
01:30:09
of Monica I didn't care for her I thought she was a gold digger and had other motives I don't know what it was
01:30:16
something about her I didn't really care for she wanted her lifestyle that wasn't
01:30:20
sitting at home you know her lifestyle was go to Hollywood and whatever they do in Hollywood they had nannies people
01:30:28
with the girls you know all day long so he he probably spent more time with him because when he'd come home from work
01:30:36
sometimes he wouldn't come back until later in the evening I think she was a great wife and
01:30:42
from what I saw uh of their life I mean they were perfect together but Gino lived with his brother
01:30:50
and Monica for 6 months early on in their marriage and says he saw trouble from the start just two people with the
01:30:58
same kind of eagles and I think she really wanted to have a career and I think he wanted her to be a mom Olia
01:31:06
says Monica was a great wife and mother but when she wanted more their relationship changed and so did Dino
01:31:14
Monica was at home taking care of kids for a couple years and it was time for her to be more independent I think Dino
01:31:21
was scared of losing control of Monica start him being more aggressive more controlling towards
01:31:27
her by the time Rick Ferman came into the picture the marriage was in its final act I knew that he was dating all
01:31:35
sorts of girls because he liked to brag about it Rick and Dena were in business together supplying vitamins and
01:31:42
supplements to the military Rick had served as an listed man years earlier and had contacts and says that impressed
01:31:50
Dino you two became friends close and the closer they got the more dino confided in Rick Dino told me that
01:31:59
Monica was a very bad mother always gone all the time and slept around with men women drank too much did drugs Dino
01:32:09
filed for divorce and Rick says he became consumed with the thought of losing half his assets and custody of
01:32:16
his children Dino is uh for lack of a better word a complete control freak and a game player he had to be one step
01:32:24
ahead of everybody he had to win at the end of the day Rick says when Dina was ordered to pay a whopping
01:32:32
$55,000 a month in alimony he hatched a plan to have his Canadian born wife arrested and deported and he turned to
01:32:40
Rick for help with my military background Dino thought I was perfect he would like me
01:32:47
to plant drugs in her car follow her around and call the police when she's driving erratically to see if she can
01:32:52
get pulled over I had Monica's house keys Monica's car keys Monica's credit card statements showing me everything
01:33:00
that she's done every place that she's been Dino filed papers showing his company was in trouble and the alimony
01:33:07
was reduced to 25,000 but Rick says it was still too much too late what was the final straw for him he got an email from
01:33:17
his own attorney to him stating that he was just better off to give her the $25,000 a month and the credit card and
01:33:25
just leave it alone and that to him that he just lost his own attorney he said dude you
01:33:32
just you you lost give it up just just pay it's like asking him to stop breathing he he can't do that so what
01:33:39
were his instructions to you this has got to end she's got to go get it get it done if I wasn't going to do it he was
01:33:47
going to find somebody to do it rick told Dino he would take care of Monica and he did
01:33:54
just not the way Dino wanted why are you still alive you know I I think Rick had did the noble thing
01:34:04
Monica Olen remarkable and Deputy district attorney Emily Cole Monica is really lucky that
01:34:11
Mr googly Melly picked the wrong guy otherwise she'd be dead [Music] I remember the first time I saw him he
01:34:34
was smiling at me when Monica Olsen married Dino gugy she was sure he was her happily ever after he was persistent
01:34:44
he was Charming she never dreamt their story would end so tragically you don't think that the person that you've
01:34:55
created a life with can want to harm you and make you suffer Monica is very intelligent and
01:35:03
has a master's degree in international finance but she says that like a lot of women she was blinded by Dino's charm
01:35:11
and The Spoils of his riches we went out on a date and he said you know I have two plane tickets and I want to take you
01:35:17
to Paris throughout our marriage he spoiled me but Monica says things began to change
01:35:26
in 2008 when she decided she wanted to go back to work and asked Dino to help her create a skincare line called Skin
01:35:34
by Monica that was kind of my baby but Dino took charge everything was kind of under his control and I was kept
01:35:45
out of the loop don't ask too many questions Monica says the more questions she asked the angrier Dino becames
01:35:54
so she worked on reigniting her modeling career but that just made Dino Furious there was a change in his
01:36:03
personality huge he went dark I mean it was it was as if he was possessed Monica
01:36:10
says she was never the one sleeping around and doing drugs Dina was and at the Hun of that madness he
01:36:20
created his heavy metal rock band I want to find out Dino dyed his hair and Polished his
01:36:27
nails black and told Monica it was all for show but she says she became terrified of him and started documenting
01:36:34
his behavior everything that's going on she's recording on cell phone which is fine she can do that she has every when
01:36:42
Dina started behaving really badly uh Monica would record him on on her cell phone come on let's go let's get your
01:36:50
backpack showing these videos to everyone saying look I don't know what happened to him this is this is really
01:36:56
crazy he's behaving like a lunatic in this incident Dino fired a nanny who his children loved you don't understand you
01:37:03
can't be here because she was too loyal to Monica you can't do that look it's not a
01:37:15
choice after Dino filed for divorce he had refused to move out what Monica didn't know is that while Dino was
01:37:22
living in the guest house he was already planning to get rid of her by paying his
01:37:26
friend Rick Ferman to do it how did he want Monica killed that would depended on the
01:37:33
day Rick says he tried to keep Dino happy and stall him through the divorce hoping it would all end when there was
01:37:40
an agreement but things just kept escalating she was definitely putting him through the
01:37:46
ringer and he wanted her to suffer so I came up with this idea of letting him know that she was infected with AIDS
01:37:55
and then just a matter of time you know it'll all be over don't worry about it and that worked for months how did he
01:38:00
react when you told him that you infected Monica with HIV virus how big can you smile it's not a joke I mean
01:38:08
literally how big can you smile cuz this was pretty big Rick made it clear he never actually infected Monica with the
01:38:14
virus it was just a lie to stalino but meanwhile things at the Google Melly home were about to spiral
01:38:23
at of control it was the night of January 16th 2012 he was getting in my face right
01:38:30
then and there in front of the kids my first thing was to get the kids removed Monica says she rushed the
01:38:38
children into her room and lock the door but before she could dial 911 Dino once
01:38:44
again beat her to it and accused her of assaulting him he said that she wrapped her hands around his neck and it caused
01:38:53
scratches and that she hit him Monica was arrested and Emily Cole was assigned to the case the story was
01:39:03
corroborated somewhat by their daughters so the case was filed as a misdemeanor domestic violence case so
01:39:10
there was evidence that she had struck him there were pictures he showed me a picture that his daughter or one of his
01:39:18
friends took or something of this EDB a little cut and I basically said man up I've cut myself worth
01:39:24
shaving still Dina was able to get a restraining order against Monica and was granted full custody of their
01:39:32
daughters I'm being given a restraining order to stay away from my kids to stay away from the house to stay away from my
01:39:40
business it all sounds too familiar to this woman do you see parallels between your story and Monica's it's the same
01:39:48
story almost Lea Divine Dino's ex-wife at any given moment he would do anything to make me lose my kids that was his
01:40:00
goal Lea says during their divorce Dino accused her of doing drugs and being abusive and then took everything their
01:40:08
daughter their home and the business they started together creation's Garden the dino I married was a caring and
01:40:16
compassionate guy the guy I divorced was callous mean calculating the the best way to describe
01:40:24
it is jacalon Hyde looking back in hindsight this is exactly what he did to his second wife
01:40:30
he brought up domestic violence charges and he was able to get custody of their child then and that's exactly what it
01:40:38
looks like he was doing with Monica I'll do the pink fairy you do Monica lost custody of her girls for 13 months and
01:40:44
then charges were finally dropped for lack of evidence but that's when Dino pushed Rick Ferman to execute the plan
01:40:52
the pressure was on to kill 3 5 7 10 times a week phone calls at 4:00 a.m. in the morning when's this
01:40:59
going to end are you sure you can get it done there's always problems even in normal divorces with couples that fight
01:41:06
over certain things but you somehow make it work for the benefit of your children
01:41:14
there is no such a concept in his mind it's all or nothing it's the Hunger Games it's kill or be killed Monica was
01:41:26
about to find out how right she was Rick Ferman couldn't stall Dino any longer and says he's no killer so he decided to
01:41:33
visit Monica's divorce attorney and spill the beans we had quite a detailed discussion and you told
01:41:43
him you told him everything that Dino wanted Monica dead absolutely how did your husband want you
01:41:49
killed I mean in a horrific way he wanted to make it look like a drug killing like I had been kidnapped in
01:41:59
Mexico and he wanted me raped and he wanted my head cut off it's pretty horrific Monica's lawyer took Rick
01:42:11
furman's information to the district attorney's office and the case of attempted murder was assigned to none
01:42:16
other than Emily Cole I didn't automatically recognize the googly Melly name it was his daughter's names that I
01:42:23
recognized from the domestic violence case that's what clicked in my head that I'd met this guy before but before Cole
01:42:31
could make an arrest her investigators needed solid evidence the detective said would you be willing to wear a wire and
01:42:39
I said sure on October 1st 2013 he did just that you're positive that what you want her dead
01:42:51
oh 100% why wouldn't I why wouldn't you good [Music] question on the afternoon of October 1st
01:43:12
2013 Rick Ferman and Dino goler Melly did something they' done many times they were just going to have lunch and uh
01:43:21
this is where they usually went spicy mint chicken let's do the pen and Curry Beef but prosecutor Emily Cole made sure
01:43:31
that this time the tables were turned the detectives in this case from the sheriff's department Major Crimes they
01:43:39
were sitting here watching Dino and Ferman have their lunch was it nerve-wracking having that
01:43:47
lunch yeah I was pissed I was very angry I literally just wanted just grab him from off the you know other side of the
01:43:56
table and just rack his brain a little bit and go do you understand that you've got everything you've got the fraking
01:44:01
American dream and you're just an idiot instead Ferman set about catching a killer on
01:44:10
tape there's no going back when we get up out of the seat so what did fman have to get out of
01:44:19
Dino well first of all he needed to give him an opportunity to say no to back out
01:44:25
at all times um but he needed for Dino to understand that at the end of this conversation by the time they walked out
01:44:32
that door that there was no way that Dino was going to be able to stop what he would put in motion how he happy when
01:44:38
it's all over that's we did exactly the same routine as we've done for a year it was the same
01:44:46
conversation nothing was changed nothing was embellished nothing was made up in a moment Rick calls typical Dino
01:44:55
is heard justifying his desire to have Monica killed because she lied during a deposition in the domestic violence case
01:45:02
against her she went into her deposition and lied and said that I scratched myself to set her
01:45:10
up and that she never touched me and that all those scratches came from me going into the bathroom scratching
01:45:18
myself and she looking straight in the eyes and said that's when I hear that I [Music]
01:45:24
that I could never ever trust her anything anything came out of M I knew she would do anything to hurt this is a
01:45:33
clip from the recording that was made that day at this restaurant between Dino and Mr Ferman I I ask you a simple
01:45:43
question you're positive the what you want her dead a 100% are you sure the girls are they're
01:45:53
fine they're totally fine is your dad is their dead so this is significant because it
01:46:03
was this was a clear declaration that he wanted his wife dead no matter the consequences he wants her dead
01:46:11
regardless of who it's going to hurt it's like a dream come serious she's tried so hard H for
01:46:22
so long and done so much you know evil things for your four times I gave him the way out are you
01:46:35
sure you want her dead when I get up out of this seat it's done it's over I think his words were
01:46:42
it's been a long time but why wouldn't I why wouldn't I why wouldn't you good question but what are the kids going to
01:46:49
do for a mother don't worry about it I'll find a good one by the time we're out of lunch it's
01:46:55
already done you just need to figure out how to pay me oh I'll pay how much you already told me how
01:47:03
much 80,000 that's what you told me Rick says that in earlier conversations about
01:47:08
killing Monica Dino made it clear he wanted it done while she was traveling abroad so Rick told Dino that while they
01:47:14
were at lunch Monica was away on vacation in Mexico where she would die that day
01:47:22
are you telling me it's going to be young today are you serious yes want to leave this room Rick convinced Dino that
01:47:31
a hired assassin in Mexico would kill Monica before they had time to digest their lunch I don't want to know
01:47:38
anything there you go I'm not going to say anything that I'll read about it in paper yes you
01:47:42
will mexic paper maybe painfully aware of the stting operation Monica was hiding out in a
01:47:50
hotel room in Beverly Hills that night Dino went home to his daughters presumably thinking their mother was
01:47:58
dead the following day the recording was brought to me we listened to it and and
01:48:04
then I filed the case Dino gamelli was arrested at his home in valenia California in front of his daughters and
01:48:11
charged with attempted murder they saw him being arrested the girls were taken into protective custody and Monica had
01:48:18
to pick them up at the jail what I don't understand is why the hate the deep-seated anger and hatred
01:48:29
towards you you know um that's a question for him one I would eventually get to ask
01:48:40
him over the phone you have a prepaid call from an inmate in corpin California [Music]
01:48:59
[Music] [Music] hello Dino hi TR I just want to remind you that you are you are being recorded
01:49:20
Dino the only way I could ask Dino goog Melly why he wanted his wife Monica killed was via telephone my first
01:49:28
question to you is what mistakes did you make what are you guilty of Dino is being held in this facility in corkran
01:49:36
California which doesn't allow cameras well I would say I'm probably uh I could say that I'm guilty of allowing
01:49:45
myself to to be betrayed and manipulated I'm guilty of working too hard I'm guilty of trusting
01:49:54
Dino says he is the victim here he calls Rick Ferman and master conman who convinced him they could make millions
01:50:02
selling vitamins and supplements to the military when that con started to unravel Dino says Rick set him up for
01:50:09
attempted murder you're not taking any responsibility for this no no mman why did he do it after two
01:50:20
years in a manipulation on a military and all this stuff why did he do that he didn't have to I wasn't going out trying
01:50:28
to find somebody to knock off my wife he had a conversation prosecutor Emily Cole
01:50:34
confirms that Rick did indeed cond Dino into thinking there was a big contract coming his way Rick forged Department of
01:50:43
Defense documents to lead Mr googly Melly to believe that there was some big business deal and Mr Ferman explains
01:50:52
that he did did that in order to keep Mr googly Melly happy because a happy Dino
01:50:57
doesn't want to kill his wife is there a military contract there's military contracts given every day um I
01:51:05
particularly am seeking one for supplements um and I'm still working on it today and that's really all I'll say
01:51:13
with that our investigation brought forward the information that Mr Ferman only spent a year in the military he had
01:51:20
a very basic military background was honorably discharged on injury Rick Ferman is a chameleon because he'll be
01:51:26
whatever you want him to be and just like Emily Cole we found Richard Ferman hard to pin down are you a
01:51:34
Hitman no have you ever killed somebody um not on us soil that's it move on but you have killed someone
01:51:47
move on he'll say and do what he thinks you want him to do I think Dino and Mr Ferman were very
01:51:57
similar in that respect and I think that's why they got along so well but while it was obvious that Rick
01:52:03
Ferman was a phony The Conspiracy to kill Monica was very real by the time we're out of lunch it's already done you
01:52:11
just need to figure out how to pay me oh I'll pay how much you already told me how much 80,000
01:52:20
that's what you told me [Music] I've listened to the tape and it's very clear on the tape you wanted your wife
01:52:28
killed and you were willing to pay $8,000 to make it happen well the whole money aspect come up numerous times
01:52:38
about him wanting money and needing money and I've been paying him money for a long time I don't know how much money
01:52:44
I paid him I think I've in total i' I paid him probably $50,000 to secure the military contract
01:52:51
and it was always how you going to get me the money and where's the money going to come from I was question all the time
01:52:57
by the time the hour and a half lunch was up and he asked me those questions I wasn't you know was it about killing
01:53:03
somebody I really didn't think anybody was gonna be dead I'm just answering the question I know what the tape appears to
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be like but I didn't take any of it seriously I really didn't Dino claims it was Rick Ferman
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who wanted to get rid of Monica because she was trying to sabotage his military contract he can vinces me that Monica is
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calling them and trying to kill the contract so he's like you know I want to get her out of the country I want
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anything I can do to get rid of her I'm like Richard don't talk like that just we'll just pay her when the contract
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happens no no no we're not going to get the contract do you understand what she's doing she's sending letters to
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them are you saying to me Dino that Rick Ferman was the one who proposed killing
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Monica all the time yeah and you and you never said that no you never said The more I
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pressed Dino about what he said on the tape the more he blamed Rick Ferman and the less his story made sense well on
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the tape it's very clear that you understood that once the lunch with Rick was over there was no turning back that
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he was going to kill Monica he said that to me many times there's no turning back
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once this happens he he would say there's no turning back we don't pay the people in the military contract they're
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going to kill both of us I mean these were things that he used to say all the time I didn't take any of it
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seriously I mean it's it was normal protocol for him to keep talk like that I don't think it's my place to go into
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detail because but we listened to the whole tape and there is no mistaking what Dino and Rick were discussing even
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Dino's brother agrees did you hear the recordings yes between your brother and Rick Ferman yes what is your make of
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it um the recordings kind of speak for themsel that they had a conversation about uh killing
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Monica Dan know made it clear more than once that he wanted her done yes and he was willing to pay $80,000 to have it
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done yes yes he did does that surprise you yes it does surprise me and uh I truly believe though the whole whole
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situation snowballed out of control I believe in my heart there may be you know how guys talk everybody gets mad
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you say things and whatever he could say I wish he was gone somebody say I can get rid of her for you if you want the
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guy was a real blo hard and I could see the situation where he said I can take care of that no problem I can do that
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for you sure go ahead Richard told me the whole time I don't know Monica but I hate her guts what she's done to you and
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those children she should be deported she should be this she should be that I mean to the depth of the deception here
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I'm not lying I'm telling you the truth yeah I fell into a military contract where I was blinded by that I just kind
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of ignored it because that was my focus and that was wrong it does show a weakness in me being greedy I should
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have recognized what was going on and I'll never forgive myself for that but to Emily Cole this wasn't about
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a phony military contract or Rick Ferman this was a clear-cut case of murder For
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Hire by Dino are you sure the girls are they're fine they're totally fine all they need is their dad all they all they
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need is their dad there was just one problem Cole's star witness was was an alleged con man
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were you concerned about putting Rick Ferman on the stand to an extent why he had his own credibility issues
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and that was brought forward in the preliminary hearing there were a lot of things that the defense attorney brought
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up that didn't make him look great the defense portrayed Ferman as a fraud who manipulated Dino with a
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fictional multi-million dollar military contract for supplements Cole knew that would happen again if Ferman was called
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as a witness in front of a jurry but the case wasn't Mr Ferman it was the tape but would the tape be enough to convince
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the [Music] [Music] jurry you're positive the what you want her dead 9 months after Dino gamelli was
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caught on tape and charged with attempted murder for trying to have his wife killed Emily Cole Was preparing for
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trial the evidence from the tape had the potential to send Dino away for life when Mr Ferman tells him that when he
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leaves this room he can't change the fact that Monica is going to be killed and Mr googly Elli agrees to that that
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is Mr googly Melly pointing the proverbial gun at Monica and there's no way for them to like come
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track it back to me right cuz no that's why I asked you about the money Cole had solid evidence on that
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tape but she also had a big problem Rick Ferman himself just before trial she decided she wasn't going to take any
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chances and made a stunning decision she offered Dino a deal plead guilty to attempt to murder in the second degree
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and serve only 9 years in prison he had never spent a day in jail previous to this incident he didn't have a record Mr
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googly Melly didn't commit violence on anyone either and I think this was a fair sentence I think my life is worth
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more than that to me the intent shows the Criminal Mind the intention so if I try to kill you and the bullet misses
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you by half an inch am I less of a criminal because I don't have a good aim is he less of a criminal
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because Richard came forward did you want this to go to trial yes absolutely I was
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shocked I remember calling asking them why are you offering him a plea um what I got back was don't worry
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about it he'll never take it don't worry about it he's going away for life why did you take
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the I didn't want to did you know I went all the way to the last second before I
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took the deal with my mom M um my my whole family pleaded with me to take the deal I wasn't going to I thought the
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Wonder I chance was really worth taking the risk and I told him all that um I didn't think a jury was going
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to find me guilty um but after my mom said please just take the deal I took the deal Dino is serving his time here at
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this state prison in corkran California he will be eligible for parole in 2021 he will get out
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angry he will get out vengeful and he will get out thinking that the game still needs to be
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won despite suspicions that Rick Ferman is a con man he has not been charged with any crime his biggest fear is when
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Dino is released that's what's scary for me there isn't any doubt in my mind that
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my life would be in danger and Monica fears for her safety as well I know that my husband's very
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resourceful he may have asked Rick but he could ask many other people too he had a lot more than 880,000 at his
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disposal to have me killed so do you believe money will be waiting for him when he's released if he has control
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over it from prison then absolutely he will have access to um several Millions Dino's brother Gino insists there is no
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money left she claims that there's $4.5 million overseas okay go find it his second wife oh
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there's $20 million overseas go find it how come nobody's finding it seriously where is
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it honestly the guy is in prison can't somebody go get it do you have any sympathy for
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Monica no I think she I think she much brings on all of her Misfortune herself but I didn't like her before so
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I'm certainly not going to like her now what if your brother was actually associating with a real
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Hitman Monica could be dead today I guess by the tape it's probably true but I believe that my brother in
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his business World probably knew more capable people if you wanted something like that done than Richard Ferman
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that's why I think it was just a something said between two guys that spired out of control does Monica have
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any reason to fear for her safety after you are released from prison of course not I just want my I want to take care
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of my kids I want to pay child support I want to be a good providing Citizen and
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a good providing father but Dino might have a hard time with that Monica is perceived meeting with divorce fighting
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for the house whatever money is left and she has full custody of their daughters
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how do you explain something like this and how do you make them adjust to a new life knowing that their father's alive
02:03:08
knowing that their father you know is in prison do they know why he's in prison yes they saw him being arrested so they
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were they were very present that morning vandela my my youngest she said um she said you know Mommy God gave daddy a
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time out but Dino still claims he is the victim I've been criminalized TR which is just destroyed my
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life and I don't get it I don't understand why everyone wants to attack me and this guy set me
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up Monica is lucky because in the end Rick Ferman is not a killer he's someone that might bend the truth
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or omit the truth but he's not a killer and that's what saved Monica Monica's main concern now is her
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children I know his intention is to reunite himself with the kids and take those children away from me I know that
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that's is that one of your greatest fears do I think about it yes am I going to live in fear every day no I'm not
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going to allow this man to do this to me no I intend on really making something of my experience and not shying away
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from what happened um because I think that if somebody can look at my life and what I've been through and learn from
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it then I've done something right anything else you want to say you have 30 seconds
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remaining um you know it's 15 minutes of fame has turned into 30 seconds of Fame
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