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[Music] Erica Sandaval is the person that you could meet on the street and say, "Wow,
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she seems like a really nice person." [Music] She had the type of upbringing that
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millions of people have had before. [Music] She dated. Uh, she fell in love. [Music]
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She was so into Daniel. The first time she spoke about him, she was just like, "Oh, color of his eyes."
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And he was so nice to her. She was just in heaven. All Daniel truly wanted was a family.
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That's all he ever wanted. and that's what he was trying to achieve with Erica. My name is Misty Gray and I am Daniel's
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little sister. My name is Matthew Green and I am Daniel's identical twin brother. 4 minutes give or take. You
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know, Erica always wanted to just have a stable relationship, have children. They
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weren't together very long before they got married. when everything was going the way they should be in her eyes, she
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was pleasant to be around. It's only when things didn't go her way that she became nasty and and things got
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ugly between the two of them. And from what I saw, the bad was really bad. She had cut up the couch and she had cut
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up the bed springs and stabbed holes in the wall and, you know, taken a bottle of like pancake syrup and just spread it
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all over the carpet. Just a ridiculous amount of vandalism. It was a very toxic relationship.
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People should absolutely know and understand that it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman, you're 5 foot
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or 6 foot, you can be a victim of domestic violence. Matt, did you ever tell Daniel to leave?
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Of course. A lot. A lot. Yeah. He knew it was bad. People don't change. She's not going to change. That's not what
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happens. Daniel loved being a cop. He loved getting out into the community and making a difference.
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So on the day of the incident, Daniel was supposed to come into work right before me.
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When I got to the police station, I asked the lieutenant where Daniel was. You get this gut feeling that
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something's wrong, that something bad was happening. Matt calls me and I'd never heard Matt's
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voice like this and he says, "Hey." And I said, "What's going on?" And you can't
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really get it out. Like I I couldn't say anything. It It was like he There were no words.
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And I said, you knew. I said, "Just tell me Daniel's okay. Just tell me he's okay.
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And Matt said I can't [Music] [Music] On February 6th, 2015, in midafter afternoon, time stood still into county
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[Music] when we in the law enforcement community came to find out that Daniel Green was
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executed that afternoon in the sanctity and privacy of his own home. District Attorney Tim Ward says police
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officer Daniel Green was ambushed at a moment when he was most vulnerable. He was executed.
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Here's a man who was literally on the toilet when he was shot. Green was 31 years old and an 11-year veteran of the
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Exiter Police Department. He was murdered at his home in Gan, part of Taller County, a bucolic area of central
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California lined with farmland and orchards. this crime when this happened uh really ripped apart not only this
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small town uh that he was from and and was a police officer in but kind of the law enforcement community as well. The
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killer fired four bullets at Green. The fatal shot hitting him in the forehead. He was found lying on his back
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in the bathtub where he had stumbled. Later that afternoon, when Daniel didn't report to work, an exit police
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supervisor became concerned. And one of his fellow officers is the one that discovered him that day. No neighbors
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heard the shots or called 911. No eyewitnesses saw the killer enter or leave the house, and the killer fled
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with a murder weapon. [Music] So, with one bullet fired directly into Daniel's forehead, investigators had to
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consider the possibility that this was a professional hit. Hours into the investigation, detectives
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were just piecing together the facts. They knew Daniel Green was at that point divorced and living alone and that he
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had had a tumultuous relationship with his ex-wife Erica Sandival, but she had rushed to the scene after a friend
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texted her and was tearyeyed when she spoke with police. She denied seeing Daniel that day. If it had been years
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earlier, I think I would have automatically assumed it was her, but we just seen them together um you know, a
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month before and um it didn't seem like there was any tension. So, I just didn't
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know. I didn't know what had happened. Matt Green, Daniel's identical twin brother, and their younger sister, Misty
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Gray. I was confused. I didn't know what to think. Were overcome and terrified. I
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actually slept next to a gun because I didn't know if it was workrelated. I just didn't know.
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Ever since that initial shock, Misty says she's struggled to cope with her new reality. We will never be the same.
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Never. My life will forever be changed by this. That's just how it is now. [Music]
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Daniel, Misty, and Matt had grown up in nearby Porterville, California. We were kind of like a team.
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It was the three of us against the world type of thing. As teens, the Green Boys found their
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calling when Daniel became friendly with a local cop. Daniel took a shining to him. It was probably about the age of 14
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that he did decide that uh he wanted to be a police officer. Matt is now a lawyer, but like Daniel,
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he also started out as a police officer. I always thought it was neat that my my
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big brothers who were twins uh were both police officers at the same time and I actually have the same photo of the two
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of them and I cherish it. Daniel Green settled into his job where he became known as a hard-nosed by the book cop.
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But off the job, Daniel was more of a free spirit. He even joined a local motorcycle club
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that calls itself Team Flatline. That's a little odd name for a motorcycle club,
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isn't it? Yeah. Um it's just showing that Team Flatline, you're going to ride until you go until you flatline. It's um
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the love of writing. Club member James Bonds. Yes, you heard it right. James Bonds
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grew close to Daniel. So, you and Daniel bonded over motorcycles, right? What is
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that? What is it that you love? It's a It's a freedom. It's an escape. Some people go hunting, some people go
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fishing, some people drink, but when you're on a bike, you're just free. Those who knew Daniel Green say he
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enjoyed the fast lane on a bike and also when he was dating. How would you describe the women that Daniel would
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date? Did he date a lot growing up? I'll let you take that one. That's yours. Yes. Um, thanks for that. Uh
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Daniel Daniel liked to dates. He I don't know if he liked the attention, but he definitely liked to date.
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That's for sure. There was a period of probably two years where every family function there was someone new
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and they and we were getting together pretty regularly. We were we were getting together a lot.
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At the end of 2009, Daniel met Erica Sanderval and his revolving door of girlfriends
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stopped. I think he loved her in his way. He wanted the family. He wanted so desperately to have a family. Uh Matt
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was married by then. I was married and he was the only one that was not. Erica became part of Daniel's family,
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but she was about to turn his world upside down. [Music] [Music] Matt Green says he doesn't remember much
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about how Daniel met Erica Sandival, but he does recall his brother being excited
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about what was then a new relationship. He was, you know, infatuated with her. It's like a little girl. Like, you know,
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when they get candy, they get super excited. Erica's friend, Angelica Ramirez, says
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there's no doubt Erica, at least initially, felt the same way about Daniel. She was so into Daniel, was she?
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She was. Erica was from a close-knit, middle-class family from Southern California who had moved to Viceelia
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during her high school years. Erica's brother, David Sandival, says that as the only daughter in the family, Erica
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was made to feel special. We spoiled her and and every kind of way. I mean, she was the only girl. She was the princess.
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When she turned 15 years old, her family threw her a party. A traditional kin sierra. Erica's whole life was in front
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of her. [Music] She wanted to find the right guy and then obviously start having a family.
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Less than a year after Daniel and Erica met, they surprised their friends and family by getting married in Las Vegas.
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Daniel was 26 years old, Erica 23. I remember getting a text message at 10:00 at night with a picture of her marriage
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license in Vegas. A few weeks later, Erica's family threw her a wedding reception and Erica did it
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up big, complete with a wedding gown. It was a happy time. I think that's what she wanted and that's what he wanted at
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the time. Daniel's motorcycle buddy, Herbami, attended even though he was no fan of Erica's. A
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few things happened before they even actually got married. And I pulled Daniel aside and I said, "Dude, don't
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marry this chick." Tell me why. What was What happened that made you say that? It was the It was all
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the the incidents at the house. Herb says Daniel had told him the story about Erica cutting up the furniture
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with a razor blade. Matt had seen that damage firsthand, and both he and Misty on separate occasions,
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said they had heard Daniel crying after Erica laced into him. It devastated me to hear my brother crying and to hear
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the way that she was talking to him. It broke my heart. Erica was trying to create a rift in the
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family between us. To Missy and Matt, it all felt far too familiar. The reason the Green siblings were so
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close, they say, is because they grew up in a troubled home with an abusive stepfather.
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Alcohol, drugs, alcohol, abuse, stuff like that. Were any of you abused? Physical abuse probably and some neglect
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and stuff. Would your stepfather hit you? Yeah. with with his hand or with belts, boards,
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um what I guess whatever was laying around. Matt and Misty's stepfather had a long
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criminal record that included arrests for assault, domestic violence, and driving under the influence. The Green
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Boys often took the brunt for Misty, who was three years younger. Matthew and Daniel always protected me. They would
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get in between my stepdad trying to physically harm us and um when I would get scared, I would go crawl in bed with
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my brothers. Their mother at one point did get a restraining order against their
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stepfather, who is now dead. [Music] The domestic abuse that Matt and Misty saw as children seemed to be repeating
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itself with Daniel and Erica. In the case of my brother, he was the one constantly being controlled and and
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isolated and, you know, verbally and emotionally abused. As a officer, he would probably run into women who were
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being abused. Would he not recognize himself in that same situation? I think he did. He just probably felt like he
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had nothing he could do about it, that he was maybe trapped in a cycle. I think men don't come forward for many of the
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same reasons that women don't come forward when they are experiencing domestic violence. Katie Meer is chief
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executive of Tulary Family Services and she says she recently expanded the Viselia Women's Shelter to include rooms
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for the men who were fleeing the abuse of their female partners. Erica would cut up mattresses and couches. Is that
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domestic abuse? Absolutely. Property damage is very common. Female victims, they will often describe, well, well, my
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partner never hit me, but he did punch a hole in the wall. And so, there's this threat of physical violence. If I can uh
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do this to your property, if I can do this to the things that you love, what can I do to you? But Angelica Ramirez
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says Erica told her that Daniel was the abuser. She would tell me constantly that he would grab her and choke her.
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She told me he choked her and that she felt like she was going to pass out. The problems in Daniel and Erica's
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marriage came to a head in February 2011. Neighbor Josh Miller witnessed the confrontation. She was cussing at him
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and this and that. It sounded like she was like trying to get him to put hands on her, but he knew as an officer,
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you're not going to do that cuz he's not going to risk his career. At that point, he's just call the cops,
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Josh. Call the cops. And I dialed 911. The police came and both Daniel and Erica were arrested for domestic abuse.
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No charges were filed against either of them. But that was the last straw for both. Divorce papers were filed and the
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marriage was officially over in January 2012, a little more than a year after it
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began. I remember thinking he he escaped this without, you know, anything terrible happening and that maybe he
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could get peace and be happy. But then came news that Erica was pregnant with Daniel's child. I was
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like, gez. He stuck with her for 18 years. [Music] The marriage of Daniel Green and his
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wife Erica Sandival was over. But not the relationship. Just months after the divorce, Erica began telling
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close friends like Angelica Ramirez that she was pregnant with Dan's baby. It was the spring of 2012.
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And I was mad. You were? That's the one thing I told her not to do. And how did she feel about having a baby?
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I think she had mixed emotions. But those mixed emotions did not stop Erica from moving back in with Daniel.
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His siblings, Matt and Misty, were apprehensive, but hoped for the best. When she got pregnant with Aiden, Matt
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and I tried again. We're going to put all of the past behind us. We're going to try and bring her into our family and
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see what happens. But a big part of Daniel's life was riding his motorcycle. And that did not sit well with Erica.
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She hated that motorcycle. Yep. Despised it. You know, he'd get on his bike and he'd take off and, you know, she
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couldn't sit next to him in the passenger seat yelling at him. Arguments about the motorcycle came to a
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head one day when Daniel was out riding with his friend Mark Cortez. They reached this busy intersection and
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Cortez says he was shocked when he watched Daniel blow right through a red light. So we stopped there and I'm like,
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"Hey, what's going on, man?" Daniel told Cortez that his brakes had failed. He grabbed both hands and he
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just grabbed all the wires and he just pulled them out. It was all the wires were all cut up and I'm like, "Oh my
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goodness, this is crazy." Daniel told Cortez that he had no doubt who would cut them. He had no question
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it was Erica. Yeah. Erica denied she had cut the brake lines, telling a friend she had just
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snipped wires. It was a harrowing incident. But Daniel never reported it to the police and
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initially didn't even tell his siblings. He hid a lot of the stuff that was going
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on. I think he knew that it would upset us. No one quite knows why, but Daniel continued to live with Erica. And on
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January 5th, 2013, their son Aiden was born. I don't have any doubt that the day his
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son was born was the happiest day of his life. Daniel, Erica, and the baby all lived in
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his home in Goan. And outwardly, it seemed a happy time. There were times where where everything was good. They
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were happy. He was just a proud father. It changed him. Daniel even sold his beloved motorcycle.
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Him having a kid was the best thing for him. On his Facebook, every day it was a
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picture of his kid. That was his life. That was his pride and joy. But Facebook is not real life.
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And behind closed doors, the tension was mounting. In June of 2013, about six months after Aiden was born,
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Daniel asked Erica to move out. She did, but she took Aiden with her. Aiden's absence shook Daniel, but made
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him determined to fight for custody. The couple began to engage in a war of words. Nasty and contentious texts
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between Daniel and Erica became part of the court record. Dan Chambers is Erica's lawyer. There's
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a lot of bitterness and anger throughout these text messages. No question about it. I mean, Daniel does call Erica some
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very bad names in here, and Erica uh does the same. And yet, inexplicably, no matter how bad
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it got, the draw was still there, and the couple continued to spend an occasional night together. We know that
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uh children who are raised in homes where there's been domestic violence or other abuse are much more likely to end
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up in these types of relationships going forward. Family services chief Katie Meter, you will model relationships that
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have been modeled for you. One night in the fall of 2014, when the couple was once again sleeping together,
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Daniel told friends he got the shock of his life when he awoke to find Erica pointing a gun to his head. He told you
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that she woke up, dreamed that he had been with another woman, and held a gun to his head. What did she say to him at
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that point? She said that she was going to kill him if he left her. Yeah. or if he cheated on her. Daniel and Erica went
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their separate ways yet again, but came together in January 2015 to celebrate Aiden's second birthday with a family
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party. Matt and Misty were watching them closely. It was 1 month before Daniel's
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murder. We thought that Daniel and Erica were getting back together. Before we all left, Daniel actually kissed her on
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the cheek. And I was like, "Yep, it's going to happen." it. Maybe it's maybe it's the right time now. Maybe they're
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finally growing up and it's okay. And uh as long as everybody's happy, that's all
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that matters. But then weeks later, Daniel told friends he was dating a new woman. I
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think he probably expressed that that this was somebody that was going to be around, you know, maybe forever. You
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think that really is what set everything off? I do. I truly thought one day that she was
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going to kill him. [Music] The morning of February 6th, 2015, Daniel Green dropped off his son Aiden
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with Erica Sandaval's mother and then went to the gym. But shortly after he returned home, Toari District Attorney
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Tim Ward says Daniel was shot dead with bullet wounds to his hand, his chest, neck, and forehead.
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This was not anything other than a coldblooded, calculated execution. The next day, sheriff deputies, aware of
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the toxic relationship Daniel had had with his ex-wife Erica, brought her in for questioning, and her stories started
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to shift. There are recorded interviews where different statements are given. Erica had said she hadn't been inside
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Daniel's house in weeks, but investigators told her that a neighbor's surveillance camera told a different
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story. The video that is out there shows um a female um enter into that home. Investigators were not able to ID the
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woman in this video, but they tricked Erica, telling her they knew it was her. Detectives placed Erica under arrest and
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they say she confessed and led them to an empty lot where they recovered the murder weapon, a car 9 mm gun belonging
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to her former husband. The evidence against Erica seemed overwhelming, but nearly 5 years pass
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before her firstdegree murder trial finally begins on October 1st, 2019. Council, are you ready? I am. Assistant
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District Attorney David Alvesos tells jurors Erica killed Daniel one week after he posted this Instagram photo
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featuring his new 20year-old girlfriend, Brenda Vela. Is it possible that Daniel
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Gray would still be alive if he had never posted that picture on social media? That's an impossible question,
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but you wonder. It's such a tragedy that we'll never know. You know, we'll never
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know. But it does point to motive. And Alveso shows jurors what was found in Erica's purse when she was booked. A
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yellow sticky note with Brenda's name and birth year. Erica also bombarded Daniel with 167 phone calls in the days
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leading up to the murder. I think when Erica found out that the girl was hanging out with her son and
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that kind of made her snap. Yet, when it's his turn, defense attorney Dan Chambers shifts the
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spotlight away from Erica to Daniel Green himself and in essence puts the dead police officer on trial for the way
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he treated his ex-wife and at the end of the day, he was abusive. Chambers says Daniel Green
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would obsessively record their verbal battles like this one when the couple is fighting over Aiden, who was a baby at
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that point. Give them back to me down here. No, don't touch me. You're going to Don't hit me. Okay. All right. You're
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going to jail, you But only one person can really talk about what happened the day Daniel was
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murdered. And so Chambers takes an extraordinary and risky step and puts Erica on the stand. It was a collective
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decision and it wasn't an easy decision. At that point, we were arguing a lot. In
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direct testimony, Erica begins with a litany of stories about the abuse she claimed she suffered from Daniel over
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the years. He grabbed me by the shirt, my shirt, and he started shaking me back and forth. as he was yelling in my face,
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"Shut the up." He's like, "You know, I could kill you and make it look like an accident." That's when um when he uh
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grabbed me from my ponytail, he slammed my head up in the dashboard while I was holding Aiden. And there was a witness
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to that incident, but Erica did not call police then and says she rarely reported
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abuse because Daniel was a cop. It appears now that the objective of some of this is to murder his memory. And as
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horrible as the relationship was, Erica admits that she and Daniel continued to have sex. Again, she blames Daniel. He
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would allow me extra time with Eden in order to go over and do a sexual act with him. So, why did you feel like you
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had to do those things? I preferred a happy Daniel as opposed to an angry Daniel.
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She testifies the two even had phone sex on February 5th, 2015. Just one day later, she tells jurors she
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showed up at Daniel's house to just snoop around. Saw the kitchen window and I figured I'd
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try to see if it was open. And so I took off the screen and I wedged it and it was open.
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Moving through the house, Erica says she grabbed two of Daniel's guns. Erica spotted Daniel's open safe and she found
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what she says were two photos depicting child pornography. The first picture I saw
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um it was like a girl. She looked to be maybe like 12, 13 next to a bed. Her story takes the prosecution by
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surprise. Erica had never mentioned the photos in any of her previous statements. That was the very first time
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um that we ever had even heard that or anything close to that. Ward says no such photos were found, but Erica
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insists she saw them and left them in the safe. It just made me think like the fantasies that he like
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had with me, the school girl outfits he'd want me to wear. I thought, you know, like is he watching
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this kind of stuff around my son? What's the next thing you remember doing? I heard his truck.
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That's when Erica says she ducked into Aiden's closet where she had her ex-husband's two loaded guns.
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[Music] One month into her trial, Erica Sandival explains for the first time publicly how
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and why she killed her ex-husband, Daniel Green. She tells jurors she was obsessed with fears that Daniel may have
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been abusing their son. I was thinking about Aiden. I don't know if he was doing stuff to Aiden, maybe. Erica
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explains how she hurried into her son's bedroom closet when she heard Daniel come home that afternoon. And I heard
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him coming down the hallway, passing by the room. I was scared. I didn't know where he was going.
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When Daniel was in the bathroom, Erica says she snapped and did the unthinkable.
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I stepped out of the closet. I stepped out of Aiden's room and I stood right there in front of Daniel. He was on the
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toilet. As soon as he saw me, he said, "I'm kill you." And he started getting up as soon as he started raising
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my arm. Then I shot many times. I didn't know how many times I shot, but I know I shot.
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It's such a shocking admission that her attorney, Dan Chambers, tries his best to take some of the edge off. Do you
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regret what you did? Of course, I regret it. Everything. I regret it everything.
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What has it cost you? My son, my family. In 2011, you didn't mention anything about recording. Erica sticks to her
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story even when cross-examined by assistant district attorney David Alvesos, who clearly doubts her claim
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about finding photos of child porn. You know, they're not in the report, so you just expected them to magically show up.
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No, I advised my attorney as to what I saw and nobody else. No, just my attorney. Erica says she deliberately
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didn't tell investigators. I didn't trust them. They've never given me a reason to trust
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them. Daniel always told me how they always had each other's backs. She's going to come up with whatever narrative
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she think will work at getting her off. The question hangs over the trial. Did those child porn photos actually exist
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or is Erica lying to make her actions more understandable to the jury. Allevesos has an answer. That's a
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disgusting lie to make you feel Daniel's not worth a murder charge to devalue him as a human being.
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That is the sole purpose of it. But Chambers counters that Daniel had hundreds of pornographic videos and
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photos of adults on his phone and computers. Chambers also says there were thousands of unknown images that were
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somehow deleted from Daniel's cell phone in the years before he was killed. 17,000
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images deleted. Why? What were they? Why would somebody need to delete that many photographs?
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And you asked why what? But the more important images, according to the prosecutor, are the ones Erica would
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rather forget. He forces her to look at photos of Daniel after she shot him. One
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of your shots, people seven, went right through Daniel's neck. Yes, it's right up there.
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Look at it. Yes. After nearly two months, the attorneys make their final arguments.
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Allevesos tells the jurors that Erica was the real abuser. Whether you're trying or not, you're
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doing it. And he plays more audio and sometimes video recordings that Daniel made. Eric, leave me alone. I need to
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get ready for work. No, you need to chill. I didn't do anything to you. You're bothering me now. I have to get
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ready for work. What part of that is too difficult for you to understand? You don't have to yell at me. I'm right
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here. Okay. Leave me alone. Go. Go away. So, let me get this straight. The prosecutor's argument is that this And
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in his closing, Dan Chambers puts the blame on both Erica and Daniel, tied together, he says, by a traumatic bond
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that is difficult to understand. Both are victims and both are aggressors. On November 20th, 2019, the case finally
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goes to the jurors. If they find Erica guilty of murder in the first degree, lying in weight, she could get the death
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penalty. Do you, either one of you, worry that there might be one juror? My biggest
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fear is that she won't pay for what she's done. The jurors deliberate for nearly four
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days before telling Judge Joseph Kalashian they can deliberate no more. I am going to declare mistrial at this
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point. A mistrial. The jury deadlocked at 11 to one with one single juror refusing to
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convict Erica of murder in the first degree. These three jurors agreed to discuss that hold out juror.
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it came uh evident that after day after day, hour after hour that we she wasn't going to waver and uh then the reality
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of a hung jury started to sink in and she just never gave much reasoning behind why she felt the way she did.
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They say the hold out's position even led to a screaming match between two jurors. Tensions just got high and they
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started yelling at each other and it they were getting emotionally involved. As for Erica's allegations that Daniel
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Green possessed child pornography photos, there was never any pictures that we saw. You could tell she
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obviously lied on the stand and I think a lot of the trial was spent by the defense, not defending her, but rather
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attacking Daniel. I think every juror had uh empathy for her. Uh they also had u empathy for him. uh we saw just how
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vindictive or or forceful that she was towards him and uh why is she still staying there? Why is
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he still staying there? As for the defense, Dan Chambers says he feels good about the outcome. In the defense world,
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a hung jury is always considered a win because it means you get to live to fight another day. But Chambers says
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Erica is struggling with the reality that she'll need to sit through yet another murder trial. Right now, she's
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got to process a lot of emotions. She's kind of a whipssaw of emotions. [Music] Daniel's sister Misty and his identical
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twin Matt declined to talk about the mistrial. They are still grappling with the loss of their brother. It's
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devastating. There's a a hole that'll never be filled. It'll never heal ever. The siblings do, however, have at least
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one reminder of Daniel that brings them joy. His son, Aiden. Erica's parental rights have been
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terminated, and Matt and his wife decided to adopt the child. You're raising Daniel's son. Was that a
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tough decision? No, not at all. The least that I could do is make sure that he knew how much his father loved him.
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