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♪♪ -We don't want to accept
that there's actually evil that walks amongst us. But it does.
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And this was pure evil. [ Camera shutter clicks ] -The Han family. I felt better
whenever I spent time
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with Henry, Jennie, and Emily. Henry was born to be a healer. -Henry was the guy.
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In the alternative
medicine world, patients would come in
from all different parts
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of the country to see him. When you go to the clinic, it just kind of oozed
of peacefulness.
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He had the magic. -Emily had her own little
table and her crayons. Her mom, Jennie, was there
working in the clinic.
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It was kind of good therapy
to be with the three of them. -They did make a good team.
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-We were business
partners with Henry, and we were becoming friends. -We really had a beautiful
road ahead of us.
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♪♪ -He had a 10 a.m. meeting with
his normal investment group. -It was probably, you know,
a good 45 minutes after
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the meeting was
supposed to start that we all kind of went,
"Where is Henry?" -If he was going to be
two minutes late, he called.
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-We're trying to call Henry and it was going
straight to voicemail, -So for him to miss this
meeting would be a big deal.
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-Yes.
-He just wouldn't. Something was not right. -We all had a pit
in our stomach,
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and we were trying
to find a reason why that pit shouldn't be there. Emily's birthday is coming up.
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Maybe they took her
to Disneyland. Somebody's got to go over to
their house and check on them.
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Mark finally gets in touch
with Don Goldberg. -Very unusual not to get
any communication
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from either Jennie or Henry. By midday, I decided
to go to the home. From the outside,
it looked normal.
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Went to the front door, the door was closed,
but it was not locked. The two vehicles
were in the garage,
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which you could see
through the windows at the top of the garage door. Then I called 911.
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They came over
and did a welfare check. -Around 5:30 that evening,
two deputies arrived.
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Made entry,
called out, no response, and then started to look to see if there was any sign
of foul play,
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and that's what led them
to open the garage door. And then if you walk
around the first car,
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they can see what appears
to be three bodies wrapped in plastic and duct tape. -Within a minute or two,
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sunk in that the -- the three bodies were
Henry, Jennie and Emily. My friends were gone.
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There was a certain amount
of shock that sets in. -We didn't hear back from Don.
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We didn't eat that night.
We didn't sleep that night. -A five year old. Three days short
of her birthday.
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It shook us all to our core. It was rough. Things started rapidly
going into the next phase.
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Who, how, and why? It's a huge home. There was biological
evidence throughout. Primarily in the upstairs,
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in the bedrooms where
the murders took place. The smell of bleach was there,
indicating a cleanup attempt.
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An entire family killed,
presumably while they slept. We knew there was
a monster out there,
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and we were going to
find him and get him. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -Mark and Marla Palumbo
were concerned
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when their friend and business
partner, Doctor Henry Han, failed to show up for
a meeting on March 23rd, 2016.
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They would learn
the horrific reason why the following day
from a news report. -I was in the kitchen
on my computer
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and I kept checking and I just remember screaming,
"They're all dead." -Doctor Han,
his wife Jennie,
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and their five-year-old
daughter Emily were found dead in the garage
of their Santa Barbara home.
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Mark had just seen them on his
way back from a business trip. -We went out for dinner,
played connect Four with Emily.
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-He brought his phone to me, and I'm just looking at
all these pictures of Emily,
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and they were taken
the Friday before. -Just horrific.
-Yeah. And she was just goofing
around with a book.
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Making all these funny faces. And you could tell
she was loving life. -The Palumbos
had recently embarked
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on a new business venture
with Doctor Han. -I really loved the guy. I mean, he really was smart
and curious and open minded.
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-He had to come with food
and in shorts and flip flops. You know, just no air about him.
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-But what made you trust him? -His passion. -Yeah. He cared about people. -Don Goldberg had known Doctor
Han for more than 25 years
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and thought of him as a brother. To Don, he was just Henry. -I was approximately
ten years older than Henry,
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but he still called me
his younger brother. You just don't come across
a friend like Henry.
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It's once in a lifetime... friendship. -When they met, Henry was
making a name for himself
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after emigrating from China, where he came from
a family of physicians. He would soon take over
the Santa Barbara Herb Clinic.
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-I had several patients who
had had medication side effects. They would say,
"I went to see Doctor Han
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and it went away," and it was like,
"I got to meet this guy." -Doctor Glenn Miller,
a psychiatrist,
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says he and Henry
developed a mutual respect and even partnered on a book about how Eastern and Western
medicine could work together
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to improve patients
quality of life. -Henry's practice was
flourishing as far as active patients he would see,
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like in a month,
it was hundreds. But he also tried to balance it. -In 2009, that balance he was
seeking became a reality
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when Henry met
and married Jennie Yu. -He seemed incredibly happy. It was good to see
Henry that happy.
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-Jennie was absolutely
warm and lovely. -When they had Emily,
the dream was complete.
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-Henry was just on cloud nine. He was very proud father. -They were often
together at the clinic
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where Jennie had quickly
become Henry's right hand, says her friend Isaiah Oregon.
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-He really trusted her and
let her kind of take the reins. -In the spring of 2016...
-It's my turn.
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-...they were getting
ready to celebrate Emily's sixth birthday. -Where should I go?
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-Wherever.
-Go wherever? -We were making plans
for her birthday party. And you know,
I had all her presents wrapped.
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-But just three days shy
of her birthday, her loved ones were
stricken with grief.
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-I don't really have adequate
words to describe how I felt. The sadness is too deep.
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-As night fell on the Han estate
on Wednesday, March 23rd, Don tried to process
what he had just witnessed.
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He had called 911 when he
couldn't find the Hans anywhere, and he was with sheriff's
deputies when they discovered
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the bodies in the garage
wrapped in plastic. -None of it made
any sense at all. -Prosecutor Ben Ladinig says
it was shortly before midnight
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when Santa Barbara sheriff's
investigators obtained a search warrant
and began to piece together
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what had happened
inside the house. It appeared the family
had been shot while they slept upstairs
on the second floor.
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Henry in the couple's bedroom,
and Jennie and Emily across the hall in Emily's room.
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-Emily's room
was tough to see. Mom probably read her stories
to have Emily go to sleep
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that night and was
sleeping with her. -What did that tell you
about the depravity
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of the kind of person who
could do something like that? What were they after? -We didn't know
what he was after.
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But the depravity, I've never
seen anything like it. -Detectives picked up
on the distinct smell
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of the murderer's attempts
to cover his tracks. -The smell of bleach was there. We had bleach bottles found.
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There were bleach stains
on the carpet and throughout other
items upstairs. And then you see bloody things
in a washing machine.
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-All the bedding which had
been stripped from the beds, was found piled in the
laundry room and in the machine.
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-The washing machine --
the alarm had gone off because the load was unbalanced. And within there are
a huge group of bloody sheets.
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-Wedged in pillows
in the laundry, crime scene, investigators found a .22 caliber bullet
and bullet fragments.
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Three matching shell
casings were found within the wrapping
of Jennie's body, and one was later found
lodged between the baseboard
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and box spring of Emily's bed. -We had one bullet that
was a through and through.
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It was perfect for comparison
for the murder weapon. As things are going,
we start to find clues
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as to who potentially
could be involved. -Inside a paper bag
next to Henry's bed,
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detectives found a document
signed the last day Henry was seen alive. It provided a name.
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-It's basically a four page
business contract between two partners. Partner one, Pierre Haobsh
and partner two, Doctor Han.
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-Don Goldberg knew a Pierre that Doctor Han was
associated with, but Don thought he was harmless.
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-I did not think that
Pierre was capable of murder. I never really saw Pierre
become angry or agitated.
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-But the Palumbos
had a bad feeling. -You didn't trust him?
-I did not. ♪♪ ♪♪ -This community was left
with a scar.
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-The indelible scar
left by the murders was the kind that not even
Doctor Han could have healed.
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-Oh.
It was like a bomb exploded. Nobody could move for weeks. There was something very,
very, very dark going on.
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-Kymberlee Ruff says
Doctor Han treated her family for two decades. -He could do anything.
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-Ever since she was
diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after giving
birth to her son,
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Kymberlee says Doctor Han's holistic approach allowed
her to nurse her newborn while still treating her tumors.
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-No matter how scared
you might be or frightened, you just love feeling like
it's going to be okay.
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Yeah, he was something. -Instilling hope may have
been one of the secrets to why his patients say
Doctor Han could heal
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just about anything. -Doctor Han,
like, saved my life. -Sheri Buron was also
a young mother with cancer
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when she went to Doctor Han. -My daughter Abby
was 15 months old. I felt a lump under my armpit.
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-Even though she had
the prescribed surgery and chemotherapy, she credits
Doctor Han with her survival.
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-There were so many people
that passed away around me, he got me through it. -What was the impact
for you of his loss?
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-It's the fear of if
something comes back, and I'm trying every day
to be positive
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and try to stay with
his level of calm and how much confidence
he had that like everything's taken care of.
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-That conviction is what
had drawn the Palumbos, who worked in
the skincare industry
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into their partnership
with Doctor Han, hoping to treat
various skin maladies. -Henry was very
interested in CBD.
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-Having used CBD
in his practice to treat pain and inflammation, Henry wanted to harness
its full potential.
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It was groundbreaking
science at the time, and he wanted 25-year-old Pierre Haobsh
to help develop it.
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-Pierre,
from what we gathered, had a lot of experience, uh -- in laboratories
in this case relating to CBD.
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-Henry had taken
a liking to Pierre after meeting him
through another associate,
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but the Palumbos
were uncomfortable with Pierre from the start. -You know how when
you meet somebody,
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you can't put your finger on it, but something's not right. That was Pierre. -There was always this kind
of little boiling simmer.
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-When it came time
to do the lab work, the Palumbos say
the results were disturbing.
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-What we came to find out was he
was using toxic materials. When we called him on it,
he said, you know,
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"I'm just learning more
about the molecules." It was just weird. -As it turned out, Pierre wasn't
a formally trained scientist.
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He didn't even have
a college degree. -The more you got
onto that surface, the more you realized
that he could talk a game
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and stay over the folks
heads a bit scientifically. -Sounds like he was sort of a
snake oil salesman type, right?
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-He was.
-Sophisticated one. Yes. -Yeah, very sophisticated one. -There was more
eyebrow-raising behavior --
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Pierre had also made
odd charges on Henry's account. -I was doing all
the finances and I'm like,
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this doesn't look right. -Not a business expense.
-Not at all. -After Marla flagged
the charges to Henry,
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he discovered they were
for escort services. -Henry was, "You won't
believe this! Pierre's out."
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-That was the final straw.
-That was Henry's final straw. -But then, a few weeks
before the murders,
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Mark and Marla say Henry brought
up Pierre out of the blue. -Henry mentioned that he
had learned a lot more
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about Pierre's upbringing, how much Pierre had to
overcome from his childhood. Mark nor I really responded.
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We didn't want to have Pierre
back in our fold at all. -The Palumbos were not alone
in being wary of Pierre.
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Jennie's friend Isaiah
says Jennie also had concerns and confided in him about them
four days before the murders.
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-It was weighing
on her heavily. Do we trust him?
Do we give him another chance?
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I was like, absolutely not. If he stole from you before, he's going to steal
from you again.
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-But Pierre had already
ingratiated himself back into Henry's goodwill. -Henry had a very
trusting nature.
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Henry had shared with me that
Pierre told him that he was ill, that it was late-stage cancer,
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and that he was going to do
what he could to help Pierre. -Using Henry's good nature
by lying to him.
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By manipulating him. -Authorities learned
that Pierre had been an overnight guest
at the Hans home
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before the murders, and had formed a new
partnership with the healer. There was that contract found
in the master bedroom
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they had signed the last day
of Henry's life. But prosecutor Ben Ladinig says
it didn't seem legitimate.
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-It was like a college
sophomore drafted it. It was not notarized,
not witnessed.
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-Detectives had found
something else of interest. -A brilliant detective found packaging to
the plastic wrapping
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that all three of
the Han family were wrapped in. In a trash can
in the kitchen area
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next to packaging
of 3M duct tape, similar to the duct tape that was used to wrap
all three of the bodies.
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-He recognized the plastic
wrap was a Home Depot brand and reached out to the company's
security department.
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-And Home Depot was, within hours of us
gaining entry into the house, able to run those two
items together to see
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if they had been purchased in
the Southern California region within the last
several days or weeks.
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-A Home Depot in Oceanside,
California, had security footage of a man who matched the DMV photo
of Pierre Haobsh
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who also happened to have
an Oceanside address. -And that was, bam --
We knew. He's walking out with
three huge plastic rolls
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and sure enough, duct tape. -So within hours of the
crime scene being discovered,
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Pierre Haobsh became
person of interest. -Yes. -But where was Pierre now? Detectives had a hunch.
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Data from the Hans cell phones,
which were missing, showed they were
traveling south,
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further and further
from Santa Barbara. -Then, inexplicably,
Henri's phone goes dark.
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But Jennie's is still on,
and it keeps going south. We're getting basically
digital footprints leading
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down to the Oceanside area
from a dead woman's phone. ♪♪ ♪♪ -Anytime you're trying
to stop somebody
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that is wanted for homicide,
the stakes are going to be high. -The day after the Han
family was found murdered,
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a manhunt was underway
in Oceanside, California, nearly 200 miles from
the crime scene.
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Sergeant Anthony Flores
and his partner were part of the local
Oceanside police team
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assisting the Santa Barbara
investigation. -We had come in to work with
our Special Enforcement section,
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and we were going to be
the stop car for that day if given a window of opportunity
to take him into custody
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or potentially stop him. -Meanwhile,
undercover detectives were conducting surveillance
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at the residence Pierre Haobsh
shared with his father and updating all units, including the homicide team
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that had driven down
from Santa Barbara with prosecutor Ben Ladinig. -All of a sudden,
we get chatter on our intercoms.
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"Dad's on the move." -The surveillance team
followed Pierre's father as he drove to
a Walmart parking lot,
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where security cameras
captured him meeting up with none
other than Pierre. -That's dad driving in sedan
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and then you see the Lexus
following shortly behind. They appear to be
communicating briefly together.
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You can just see
that trunk pop on dad's car. -After transferring two large
duffel bags to Pierre's car,
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they both drove off. -We gotta move quickly. -It was a little after midnight, and we just got the update that
the suspect was on the move.
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As we're traveling,
we're hearing that he's pulling into the ARCO station. He had a few miles
of a head start.
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-The other units and Ladinig had
pulled over by the ARCO station waiting for
the arrest team to arrive.
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-And all of a sudden,
you see an unmarked car drive right through the middle
of that intersection.
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Sparks fly and it just
basically comes in and pulls in
and lays on the brakes. Two huge dudes
get out of the car
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and pull a gun on him
and prone him out. And our eyes are like saucers. -We're like, "whoa."
-Wow.
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-It's 200 miles away that
this investigation started and it culminated here. Sergeant Flores
had handcuffed Pierre.
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What do you remember
about that arrest? -I remember it
going down really fast. All of our senses
were heightened.
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-Within 48 hours
of the murders. Investigators had
the Han family's alleged killer in custody.
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Pierre Haobsh waived
his Miranda rights and started talking
to detectives. What he told them was
something out of a spy thriller.
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He claimed that
his life was in danger. He claimed he was
being targeted because of a scientific
marvel he had invented.
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-Pierce said he had gone
to Doctor Han's house earlier in the week
to install one of his
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perpetual energy devices, and that the plastic
wrap and duct tape he was seen purchasing
were for that purpose.
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♪♪ ♪♪ -Pierre said he had left
Santa Barbara around 2 p.m. on March 22nd,
the day before the murders
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after signing the contract, but detectives pushed back. ♪♪ ♪♪ -Pierre was adamant he
would never hurt the family,
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and insisted the shadowy figures who had been after him
had killed the Hans and were trying to
frame him for murder.
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♪♪ -It was this massive
conspiracy to keep this next level energy system
from getting out to market.
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"James Bond,"
"Mission Impossible," this fantastical life. -Pierre's outlandish
story continued.
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But then detectives received
an unexpected call from someone who claimed to have
information about the murders.
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-I'm a pretty
rough-around-the-edges guy. I have rough-around-
the-edges friends.
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-TJ Direda was
a marijuana grower who said Doctor Han
had approached him about supplying
CBD-rich strains.
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TJ had also met Pierre. -Doctor Henry had
told me that he was like a prodigy street chemist.
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He had done some stuff
that was ahead of his time. -So a little bit of
a mad scientist, perhaps?
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-Yeah, I would say. -According to TJ,
Pierre had a penchant for making up grandiose stories
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to seek attention, but he befriended him
nonetheless. -He was that awkward kid
that wanted to fit in,
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and I was the guy in high school that stuck up
for kids like that. So I took an interest
in him in that regard.
00:24:10
-Do you think
he trusted you then? -Oh, he absolutely trusted me. -As TJ revealed to detectives,
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Pierre had reached out to him via text the morning
of the murders. The message,
sent at 9:39 a.m., said,
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♪♪ What was he asking for? -Uh, he needed my help
moving something. -He says Pierre told him
he was in Santa Barbara
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and needed to talk face-to-face. So TJ had him come to
his house in Thousand Oaks
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about an hour away. -The first thing
out of his mouth. "Just so you know,
I'm a monster."
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He had told me right then and there that he had
killed Doctor Henry, his wife, and his child
and needed help.
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-Did he give you details
of what he did? -He did. -TJ told detectives
Pierre said he had tried
00:25:02
to put the bodies in his car, but they wouldn't all fit
and Henry was too heavy,
00:25:08
details Ladinig says only
the killer would know. -How the killings were done,
how the bodies were wrapped up,
00:25:15
how he had the doctor's phone. -TJ told detectives
Pierre had also revealed his motive -- $20 million,
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that he planned to drain
from Henry's accounts after killing the family. TJ says he didn't know
if what he was hearing was
00:25:30
another one of Pierre's
far-fetched stories, and until he knew for sure, he decided to play along.
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-I just wanted to get him
out of the house and confirm whether what he
had just said was true or not.
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I said, let me work on it
and I'll call you later. -Once Pierre was gone,
TJ tried to reach Doctor Han
00:25:49
and anyone who might have
information, to no avail. -I didn't want to call
the police because I didn't --
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I wasn't sure yet.
It was chaotic. It was --
it was scary and also confusing. -Pierre kept messaging him.
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Around 5 p.m., when TJ still
hadn't provided any assistance, Pierre texted him
with a proposition.
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What did you think the reason for that all-of-a-sudden
trip to Vegas? -At that point, I wasn't sure.
It didn't sound right.
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He was probably going to kill me and somehow make it look like
I had something to do with it.
00:26:24
-You were going to
be the fall guy. -Right. TJ made up an excuse
why he couldn't go.
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And Pierre would send him one
final text at 7:35 that night. ♪♪ Ladinig says Pierre had
just returned to the crime scene
00:26:46
with a big truck to
transport the bodies, but law enforcement had
beaten him to the scene.
00:26:53
-He knew his goose was cooked. ♪♪ ♪♪ -Pierre Haobsh's arrest
near Oceanside, California,
00:27:11
had come at a critical juncture. He was armed with a
nine millimeter handgun that was in plain view on
the driver's side floorboard.
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He also had his passport
and those duffel bags, which he had received from
his father minutes earlier.
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-To-go bags. Basically, whatever you need -- clothes, everything for the
person to live for months.
00:27:34
-Haobsh's father was also
detained and questioned, but he was released
later that morning.
00:27:40
-We could have charged him
as an accessory, but we didn't have any
indication that dad was involved
00:27:47
in any way, shape
or form in the killing. -The next day,
during a closer examination
00:27:52
of Haobsh's car
at the crime lab. -You name it,
we found it in that car. -There was Henry's wallet,
credit card,
00:27:59
and social security number, along with an
expended shell casing. There were also the victim's
phones and tablet,
00:28:07
all wrapped in aluminum foil, in an attempt to evade tracking. -In the trunk, you lift up
where the spare tire would be.
00:28:15
The murder weapon, suppressor,
silencer, ammunition. -A week after the murders, the autopsies revealed the
victims had been shot 14 times,
00:28:25
three each into
Henry and Jennie. And most disturbing,
eight in Emily. -That ammunition is
the same stuff
00:28:34
that we found at the crime scene
in the decedent's bodies. Match, match, match,
match, match -- everything.
00:28:40
-Pierre Haobsh was charged with three counts of
first degree murder, making him eligible
for the death penalty.
00:28:47
-It was one of the
most challenging cases, if not the most challenging,
case I ever came upon.
00:28:53
-Defense attorney
Christine Voss, who was with the public
defender's office at the time,
00:28:58
represented Haobsh. -He really wanted to
be vindicated. To me, the goal was
for him to not get death.
00:29:07
-At the 11th hour,
the DA's office agreed to waive the death penalty in exchange for a more
expedient bench trial,
00:29:15
which meant a judge, not jury,
would render a verdict. On October 25th, 2021, more than five and a half
years after the murders,
00:29:25
the prosecution delivered
its opening statement and laid out its theory
of the case
00:29:30
that Pierre Haobsh had plotted
the murder of the Han family for financial gain. They painted him as a career con
man who, up until the murders,
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flaunted his intelligence
and supposed wealth. -His entire life's drive
was being rich.
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-He sent screenshots
of his Chase account from anywhere from about
$3 million up to $940 million
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to various people,
attempting to dupe them that he is this jet-setting
billionaire.
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-Haobsh claimed
he had received big offers for his energy technology. -I'm not a scientist,
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but I don't know
that there's a such thing as a perpetual-energy machine. -But several years
before the murders,
00:30:12
Haobsh was actually being paid
to build one. -It was gonna be
a new source of energy,
00:30:17
as if he was, you know,
an Elon Musk. -Samantha Spidell met
Pierre Haobsh circa 2012,
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when he moved into a penthouse
apartment in a luxury high-rise she managed in Tempe, Arizona.
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-He pulled up
and had this bright-red Ferrari. It was very flashy. -Ladinig says had Haobsh duped a
group of high-rolling investors
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into financing his invention until they realized
it didn't actually work. -He had basically defrauded
all these people,
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and the money dried up. When the murders were committed, I think he had less than $500
to his name.
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-Hmm. Prosecutors presented
a detailed timeline retracing Haobsh's movements, including his digital footprint
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in the days before
and after the murders. They say as early as March 17,
six days before the murders,
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he had looked into impersonating
the doctor at his bank. -He's searching for Asian
disguises and real flesh masks.
00:31:18
-Like a "Mission: Impossible"
face mask? -Right. 100%. This is his fantastical world
that he lived in.
00:31:24
-There's no evidence
he ever purchased a mask, but a timestamped receipt
and security video
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placed him
at an Arizona gun store four days before the murders, purchasing ammunition
and two firearms,
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including the alleged
murder weapon. -.22 pistol
with a threaded barrel for what is a silencer,
a suppressor.
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-On March 20, he was back
in Oceanside, California, buying supplies before driving
up to the Hans' house,
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under the guise of installing
the energy machine. Instead, Ladinig says
Haobsh bugged Henry's computer
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with a spyware app
called a keylogger. -What keyloggers do is every stroke,
every click of the mouse,
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every navigation page you go, it documents all of it. -To their surprise, investigators also found the
keylogger on Haobsh's laptop.
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On March 21, while Haobsh
was still at the Hans' home, the keylogger had recorded
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chilling search terms
on his laptop. -What part of the skull
is more penetrable?
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What ammunition would be better? -As a guest in Dr. Han's house?
-Yes. -And staying there
for the two nights before,
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planning this execution-style
murder. -Yes. -Pierre Haobsh left
the Han residence on March 22,
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but prosecutors allege
he went back around 4:00 a.m.
the next morning to carry out the murders.
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They say later that day, he began frantically trying
to siphon money from Henry's accounts.
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-He's using phones. He's using fake e-mail accounts. He's doing all these things
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from personal identifying
information of Dr. Han's that he stole earlier that week.
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-A Chase fraud alert
had flagged an attempted payment
for $72,000. Meanwhile, Haobsh
also rented that big truck
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he allegedly drove
to the crime scene, hoping to move the bodies. -There are black-and-whites
all over that house.
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The crime scene's
being processed. -The Palumbos say the meeting they were supposed to have
with Henry
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just hours after he was murdered had foiled
Pierre Haobsh's plans. -He thought that he had that
whole day to clean up his mess
00:33:43
before Henry would be missed. -He wasn't fast enough.
-I think we screwed it up
for him.
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Happily. -That's when prosecutors say
he fled, driving south toward Oceanside, Ladinig argues Haobsh's
subsequent searches
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betray his guilty conscience. Incredibly, he even consulted an
online psychic named Count Marco
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and asked him... -And Count Marco replies, "Well,
what did you do, Pierre?" -Pierre Haobsh never gave
Count Marco an explanation.
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But on the stand,
he couldn't stop talking. [ Soft music plays ] ♪♪ -This was a tough case.
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But that didn't change the fact that Pierre was entitled
to a vigorous defense. -Defense attorney Christine Voss
was in an unusual position.
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-This was a really
well-investigated case. Because my client
wanted to have a trial
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and wanted me to turn
every stone, I did. -Turn every stone and raise
any possible reasonable doubt.
00:35:15
You argued that there were
elements presented that were implausible,
unprovable,
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and simply impossible. Those were your words.
-Yeah. -Voss expressed concerns that the alleged murder weapon
and silencer
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found in Haobsh's car
didn't match up. -It absolutely did not connect
to the firearm
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that they believed
was the murder weapon. -She seized on discrepancies
in the location data
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from found in Haobsh's car
and phone that the prosecution
had used in its timeline.
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-He could not possibly have been in San Diego and Santa Barbara
simultaneously, or Thousand Oaks and
Santa Barbara Simultaneously.
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But that's what
the GPS data showed. -And she attacked
the credibility of the prosecution's
star witness, TJ Direda.
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Voss questioned why Direda waited nearly two days
to contact authorities and argued in that time,
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he could have gotten details
about the crime scene that the prosecution
claimed only the killer knew.
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-It was not
the best-kept crime scene. He was making
various phone calls after he heard about
the death of Dr. Han.
00:36:28
-But Voss concedes
much of Direda's testimony was corroborated
by the evidence. -This case was over
within the first 72 hours.
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-In fact, the only witness
who provided testimony that someone other than
Pierre Haobsh was the killer
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was Pierre Haobsh. During three days on the stand, he repeated
the action-packed account
00:36:52
he had given detectives about having shootouts
with shadowy figures. Now he said he was sure
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they were sent
by the Department of Energy. It sounds like there'd be
a trail of bodies,
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but yet is there proof of this
trail of bodies anywhere, to your knowledge? -No.
Which further made him believe
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it was the Department of Energy. -And what about all that
evidence investigators found?
00:37:18
-The DoE planted them there. It's all a frame.
All that stuff is framed. The banking stuff -- frame job.
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What's in my car -- frame job. -It was difficult for me
to embrace Pierre's testimony.
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-Do you think he himself
believed some of the things he was saying were true?
-Oh, yeah. Definitely.
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-He was obsessed
with the government. -Samantha Spidell attests there were some kernels
of truth in his stories.
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-Pierre mentioned that his dad
had ties to the CIA, and I could tell that
he wanted his dad's approval.
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-When his father died in 2023, his obituary stated he was
a key player in clandestine
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Central Intelligence Agency
operations during the 1980s. Haobsh also told Spidell
00:38:14
that his sister was going
to star in a reality TV show. -She got cast
on a newlyweds reality show,
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and Pierre was gonna be in it. Come to find out that was true. -In fact, both Haobsh and his
father made appearances
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on the second season
of the Bravo TV series "Newlyweds: The First Year." -Start by filling that up.
00:38:39
-Pierre was even shown giving his brother-in-law
a cooking lesson. -More black pepper.
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-But prosecutor Ben Ladinig
argued any grains of authenticity
in Haobsh's life were far outweighed by deceit.
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You called him a lying liar
who lies about lying. -Right. Lie, lie, lie, lie. Hundreds of lies
we found on him.
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His life was a con. [ Dramatic music plays ] -On November 24, 2021, Judge Brian Hill
would get the case.
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None of Pierre Haobsh's family
members attended his trial. The judge made his ruling --
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guilty on all counts. The judge,
when he issued his ruling, said his decision was beyond
a shadow of a doubt.
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Absolutely no doubt
of Pierre Haobsh's guilt. -Yeah.
Very satisfactory to hear that.
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-I wasn't surprised. -And what was Pierre's reaction
upon hearing that ruling? -Well,
he was visibly disappointed.
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-On April 15, 2022, Pierre Haobsh was sentenced
to three life terms without the possibility
of parole.
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It was little comfort
to those still mourning Henry, Jennie, and Emily. -I don't understand how
there really could be justice.
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-He's still alive,
and they're not. He took precious moments
that we'll never get.
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[ Soft music plays ] -I want him to feel every pain
possible for what he did. -Not enough bad things
can happen for him.
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-Nearly a decade
after the murders, the wounds are still raw. -It's hard to think of them.
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♪♪ -He was a really good man. You don't replace a Henry Han. No. -Pretty much every day, I think
of Henry and Jennie and Emily.
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-I love you. -There's an old phrase that a good man and a good
family lives for a limited time,
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but a good name
shall live forever. They lived too short, but their name lives on forever.
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♪♪