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48 hours we take you there [Music] it's a terrible crime we've been reporting on from the start
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Sheila belush was a proud mother of six including quadruplets we got four so we just filmed four times
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black here then for no apparent reason she was murdered in Cold Blood to kill that little girl in front of those
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babies how could he do that there were Clues everywhere we have obtained a first degree murder warrant the gunman
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was quickly hunted down then this man was convicted for his role in The Conspiracy when she rebellious
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ex-husband Alan black going involved in her death but authorities were still after the suspected Mastermind
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Sheila's ex-husband it was a nasty divorce the first person that came into my mind was Alan Blackthorne your father
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now almost three years after the crime Sheila's wealthy ex-husband is on trial for murder Peter Van Sant investigators
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Ellen did you want Sheila murdered never Pure Evil the dramatic final chapter of
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a 48 Hours mystery I don't know if you've ever seen these pictures what you did to my wife will there be
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Justice for Sheila [Music] this is the case we've been following closely since the start about the
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terrible crime against a young woman who had so much to live for a mother of six
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with quadruplets and two older children as well she was just making a new start for herself
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the authorities were convinced that there had been a cold-blooded plot against this young mother
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there were the telltale signs of murder For Hire they said so even though the suspected gunman was caught there was
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always someone else suspected of being The Mastermind catching up with him would be a daunting task for
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investigators the victim's family always feared that someone was getting away with murder Peter Van Sant reports now
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on what could prove to be the final chapter in the search to find Justice for Sheila
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Helen did you have anything to do with killing your wife it was a sight the family of murder
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victim Sheila belich thought they would never see Alan Blackthorne Black Thorn you have
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anything to say about this Sheila's billionaire ex-husband being led to court for his murder trial on charges he
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allegedly arranged her brutal killing just months earlier Blackthorne a retired businessman was living the
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country club life in San Antonio Texas all right please others had been convicted of Sheila belush's killing we
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find it the defendant is guilty and although they had implicated Blackthorne in the 1997 murder for higher plot he
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had never been arrested Alan did you want Sheila murdered never in no way I didn't want her murdered I didn't want
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her hurt I didn't want anything in that nature to ever happen to her period despite blackthorne's denials Texas
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authorities kept digging it was a murder case they couldn't let go because of who
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had witnessed Sheila's violent death her four babies I don't understand how anybody in this face of the Earth could
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do that Gene Smith is Sheila's mother I've spent so many nights crying over those children
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because they were Sheila's angels she always said mama look at my angels we wanted a baby really bad and then we
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got four so we're like we just filmed four times luckier those angels were Sheila's quadruplets whose birth made
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Sheila and her new husband Jamie bellish local celebrities in San Antonio Francis
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Anthony is named after my father the day their quads were born the Bellis quadruplets have turned this household
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upside down baby care times four the updates on the bellish quads became a feature on local newscasts the first
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week oh that was scary she would just sit with them all around her and just say look at my babies you know and it
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was such a source of pride and joy for her going outside for the first time yes I'm
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going home now life was good for Sheila she had come a long way from a bitter divorce and custody battle with her
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ex-husband Alan Blackthorne it was a short marriage that wasn't good for either one of us it was a nasty divorce
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it was a adversarial relationship always say hi Danny when the quads were nearly two a b c d e f g Jamie a
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pharmaceutical salesman was offered a promotion and the family moved to Sarasota Florida
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Sheila had custody of her two daughters from her marriage to Blackthorne Daryl and Stevie now 16 years old people say
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you're like your mother do you like that compliment I think that's best compliment you know I've ever gotten
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but just two months after moving to Florida is it on yep should I make faces Stevie's warm-hearted mother became the
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victim of a cold-blooded crime some days I just I can't stop crying you know because I keep thinking about November
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7th November 7th 1997. the day started well I was actually running home from school I had some good
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news news she was anxious to share with her mom I found out a guy that liked me was
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going to ask me out so I was so excited and I had to run home and tell her that I was going to
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sit by the phone all weekend I walk through the front door the first thing I really saw is uh the babies
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[Music] crying that was the only noise I heard was babies crying and so I didn't understand you know how
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she could just let them sit there and cry because she didn't do that I had done two circles around the house
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trying to find her and kind of struck me to check the laundry room There Was You Know blood like all over
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the floor there was blood everywhere even on the babies three of them had it like
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streaked on them one of them had it in his hair it was their mother's blood I don't think it registered in my mind
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that she was right at my feet you know I didn't believe it I looked at her at her face again
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and and when I actually bent down and looked at it that's when I realized that she
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was 10. hello hello hi this is the 911 Center what's the matter laughs [Laughter]
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Janie rushed home to confront an unimaginable horror sometimes the whole experience is somewhat surreal and I
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can't believe it's really going on [Applause] and he tried to comfort Stevie here's
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Stevie I mean 13 year old girl comes home from school and finds her mother with a bullet
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through her face and her throat cut it's gonna be tough for her do you think the babies somehow remember
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oh sure they do hug Timothy I think he has a cognitive recollection of the murder
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he says you know mommy had a bad boo-boo and a man did it the man who did it left a trail of Clues
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at the murder scene a fingerprint a knife a bullet shell and that's not all the day of the murder neighbors saw a
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suspicious man wearing combat fatigues on Mark Rich Road near the bellish home they saw a man wearing camouflage they
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saw a man in a white car they saw a man with a Texas plate police tracked the out-of-state license plate number and
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four days later we have obtained a first degree murder warrant charging Jose Luis
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Del Toro Jr with a November 7th murder of Mrs bellish Jose Luis Del Toro a former High School football star is on
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the Run launch a massive Manhunt for Del Toro in Florida Texas and Northern Mexico
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[Music] The Savage crime becomes national news America's Most Wanted we've named him
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our Public Enemy Number One and the cops are hoping you can help find him tonight
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two weeks later Del Toro is arrested in Monterey Mexico police believe they have a strong case
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against Del Toro there's his fingerprint found at the bellish's home a gun discovered inside del Toro's car was the
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weapon used to shoot Sheila also found in del Toro's car incredibly were the directions to Sheila's house
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but why was Sheila murdered the house wasn't robbed and police say Del Toro didn't know Sheila
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Stevie belush had no doubt who was behind her mother's murder the first person that came into my mind
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was Alan Blackthorne your father it's the only logical explanation I had for this but Alan Blackthorne was
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playing golf at the time of Sheila's murder more than a thousand miles away in San Antonio
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could he really be involved there is no evidence that I had any involvement in this whatsoever that's next thank you
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hello ready happy birthday to you Courtney Bellis just turned three so did Frankie belich
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Timmy belt their father Jamie bellish certainly has his hands full you know having quadruplets is pretty
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easy when they're in the hospital the problem is when you bring them home that's when he gets tough
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and it's even tougher for Jamie and the kids now because missing from this celebration
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and from their lives is the quadruplets mother Sheila belush I don't think a day goes by when I don't
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think about her big hug hug and a kiss Jamie bellish is also trying to cope with his wife's
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murder there's days when I do great and there's days when I break down and cry but more than anything Jaime wants
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Justice for Sheila I believe with all my heart that everyone involved in this crime will be eventually put behind bars
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Joey Del Toro accused of killing Sheila is already behind bars in a Mexican jail
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Sammy what message do you have for the embellish family today I said how you doing Texas police have also arrested
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del Toro's cousin Sammy Gonzalez do you regret happened and a golf Hustler named Danny
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Rocha all three men now Stand Accused of conspiring to kill Sheila belush none of
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the suspects apparently knew Sheila but investigators quickly focused on someone
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who did Sheila's ex-husband Alan Blackthorne he's evil Pure Evil Sheila's mother Gene Smith he's the only person
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on the face of the Earth that ever hurt Sheila put your faces right next to each
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other Sheila's younger sister Carrie says she heard Blackthorne threatened to kill Sheila he made the common show
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would never leave me because she'd never see her children and she'd never leave her children and by chance she did get
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the children I would just kill her you heard him say I heard him say that yes did you ever threaten
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in front of Sheila's sisters to kill her if she were to ever leave you and take the girls no never
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no threat of any kind period Alan you have been described by your enemies as evil insane manipulative
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who are you well I'm a husband I'm a father um I'm a golfer Alan Blackthorne is a wealthy San
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Antonio businessman who can afford to play a lot of golf maybe maybe oh he made his fortune
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selling medical equipment play golf Monday through Friday play with my family on the weekends
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Blackthorne lives in this million dollar mansion with his fourth wife and their two children we're a strong family my
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wife is awesome my kids are great Alan can be very very Charming and it took me a long time to see the
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real Allen was Sheila afraid of Alan yes Sheila's older sister Kathy says the real Alan
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is a violent man shortly before she decided to leave Allen they had gotten into an argument
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and he had pulled her hair and hit her in the face and busted her lip this 1987 San Antonio police report
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backs up Kathy's claim Blackthorne was arrested and pled guilty for assault you don't deny that you physically abused
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Sheila is that true I did I did hit her it was a very low point for me in my life I've never denied it but I struck
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her once and that's all I ever struck her in 1987 after five years of marriage Sheila filed for divorce her ex-husband
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was always dragging her into court some way or another it was a constant battle a battle that continued years after the
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divorce this San Antonio police log shows that there were many family disturbance calls in the middle of all
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this turmoil well do you like to barbecue I love it yeah girlfriend shoot the Met Jamie bellish I'm gonna drive
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her home soon after they were married [Applause] Sheila's new start seemed complete when
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Blackthorne finally gave up custody of his daughters Stevie and Daryl agreeing to have nothing to do with them
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ever again Sheila Beatty she took him back to court because she wanted to get on with her life and
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get away from him and she had gotten the girls something that he said would never
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happen if she left him now free to leave San Antonio Jamie bellish accepted a job promotion in
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Sarasota Florida and the family moved here it was a fresh start for the bellish family 1200 miles away from
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Ellen Blackthorne two months later Sheila belush was dead when you heard that Sheila had been murdered
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what did you think well at first it's disbelief and then it's horror and then it was like
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he finally did it blackthorn's Alibi on the day of the murder checks out playing golf and who was his partner
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that day a man named Danny Rocha was Sheila belush's ex-husband Alan Blackburn involved in her death the same
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Danny Rocha who would stand trial for his role in the murder of Sheila Bella why would you hire someone to kill her
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why would Danny Rocha who says he didn't know Sheila why would he get involved in
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a plot to kill her if you didn't ask him to I don't have any idea I don't know what has gone on with Danny rocheck was
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Alan black throwing a ball will Rocha linked Blackthorne to the murder of his ex-wife I don't think anybody believes
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that I acted alone that's next foreign [Music] [Applause] months since Sheila belush was murdered
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he fellas and his stepdaughter Stevie are heading to Sarasota Florida for the trial of one of the alleged conspirators
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Danny Rocha Rocha is the man accused of organizing the murder plot and paying Joey Del Toro to kill Sheila belush I
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want to make sure the sun is put in jail for the rest of his life so does Sarasota prosecutor Charlie Roberts good
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afternoon this is a case ladies and gentlemen of a heinous murder Roberts is out to prove
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that although Rocha didn't pull the trigger he's still guilty of first-degree murder this is a case of
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the murder of a woman named Sheila belich who had her throat slashed and was shot in the face
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would you please take your name Stevie bellish the trial will not be easy for Jamie Stevie or Sheila's mother
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Gene Smith I have almost died over this the grief has been unbearable just comes
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flooding back that the brutality of her murder it's so senseless not only do prosecutors want
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Rocha they're hoping he will implicate the man they believe is The Mastermind behind the murder Sheila's ex-husband
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Alan Blackthorne Danny roach is the key to this thing Henry Lee is a member of the prosecution team the only witness
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that met with Alan Blackthorne have any comments sir that was involved in this conspiracy with Danny Rocha was Sheila
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belush's ex-husband Alan black going involved in her death he was the one that could tell us what was actually
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said how did this tragic event begin the defendant Daniel Rocha met a wealthy man named Alan Blackthorne he made it
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obvious to me that he wanted something done Danny Rocha has never denied his involvement in the conspiracy but he
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insists the plan never included murder just beat the hell out of her so that she couldn't take care of the kids no no
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it wasn't it wasn't that Rocha who decided not to take the stand in his case did agree to speak to 48 Hours well
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I'm at uh Alan Blackthorne just after the New Year of 96. we became friends we played golf quite a bit played golf and
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gambled sometimes as much as seven thousand dollars a hole roaches says it was on the golf course that Alan
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Blackthorne would complain to him that Sheila was physically abusing their two daughters Stevie and Daryl What
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specifically did he ask you to do he asked me if I knew anybody that and at the time she was living in Bernie Texas
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that would go to Bernie and um you know rough her up a little bit so Rocha who had never been arrested
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agreed to find someone who had beat up Sheila I knew it was wrong but I thought it was helping
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I thought it was helping two children but prosecutors say Rocha was out to help himself in a nutshell
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the defendant would be set for life that Blackthorne was going to reward Rocha with a partnership in a new golf
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course regardless of the reason Rocha called up his friend Sammy Gonzalez I said how you doing the third man
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arrested in the murder conspiracy Gonzalez who cut his own deal with prosecutors is now testifying against
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his friend Danny Rocha is it Court started saying that um this but if he said it has an ex-wife that he wanted to
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get beat up did you ask him who the person was yes when I told him who's this person that was his ex-wife beat up
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that's what he said Alan you recognized the name Alan Blackthorne yes Gonzalez says Rocha offered him four thousand
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dollars to rough up Sheila he could persistent persistence you gave Sammy Gonzalez four thousand dollars in cash
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where did you get the money from out from Ellen blocks right you gave Sammy Gonzalez one picture of Sheila right and
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her address where did you get that information yeah so Alan Blackthorne was the Puppeteer
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here sure I don't think anybody doubts that I mean I don't think anybody uh believes that I
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acted alone why would Danny Rocha who says he didn't know Sheila why would he get involved in a plot to kill her if
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you didn't ask him to I don't have any idea I don't know what has gone on with Danny Rocha he says
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this was your idea to either scare or beat up Sheila Danny Rocha is a liar Gonzalez then recruited his cousin Joey
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Del Toro to do the job athletic very quick very very powerful then according to prosecutors Del Toro got a gun described
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to the jury what type of weapon it is a 45 Auto caliber and drove 1200 miles to Sarasota
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120 Margaret where he shot Sheila in the face and slashed her throat the tip itself is bent all in front of
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her four babies the area around her body there was a large amount of blood I didn't participate in that I didn't
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realize that was going to happen in motion you said it I was a part of it if you had said to Alan Blackthorne no I
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would be Sheila belush would be alive today that's correct you didn't pull the trigger Danny and I didn't know that
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there was a trigger wheeled the knife but you all but opened the front door of the house and said go get her
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um didn't you I don't even know how to answer that Peter Peter all right please the only verdict
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members of the jury that the evidence supports and that Justice requires is guilty as charged on both counts
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during his final statement prosecutor Charlie Roberts closed in on Danny Rocha would Frankie
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Timmy Courtney Joey Devi and Daryl's mother still be alive today if it weren't for that man
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over there five hours later the jury had the answer the defendant is guilty of principle to
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murder in the first degree the defendant is guilty of conspiracy to commit murder in the third degree
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for Jamie it was a Bittersweet victory Rocha will spend the rest of his life in prison
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but Alan Blackthorne is still a free man something tells me deep down inside that Justice will be done in this case
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how long is that going to take [Music] no statue limitations on murder coming up a dramatic Revelation as a
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private investigator claims Alan Blackthorne hired him to find Sheila I saw the murder in the newspaper
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and it was like Ice Water started to run through my veins because I'm sitting there putting
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two and two together that's next [Music] four investigators trying to solve the murder of Sheila belush winning a
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conviction against Danny Rocha in a murder-for-hire plot was no small feat but they were still a long way from
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proving their Theory and capturing a much bigger prize pinning the crime on Alan Blackthorne millionaire businessman
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Danny roaches ex-golfing buddy and Sheila belush's ex-husband for one thing unraveling the whole Twisted scheme
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hinged largely on roaches credibility as a witness not exactly money in the bank
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the authorities would have to do a lot more digging to prove that Alan Blackthorne was The Man Behind the
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murder here again is Peter Van sand the 911 Center what's the matter you're part of all that I am I haven't
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denied that who made you God Danny Rocha will spend the rest of his life in prison for his
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part in the murder of Sheila belush now your life too is over a woman he never met
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but the person he says wanted Sheila killed is still a free man why are you in prison and Alan
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Blackthorne is still out playing golf that's that's a question you have to ask the state attorney's office I mean I I
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can't arrest them based on the testimony in court why hasn't an arrest warrant been issued for Alan Blackthorne
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the only witness that met with Alan Blackthorne that was involved in this conspiracy was Danny Rocha Sarasota
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prosecutor Henry Lee the problem is we don't know what Rocha tells us is the truth he has told us so many different
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things we don't know what to believe which is why building a case against Blackthorne based on roach's testimony
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alone would be risky at best what is it going to take do you think what sort of break in order for you to move
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on Alan Blackthorne we need some more evidence and we're looking for that our first involvement was a phone call
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from Alan Blackthorne Chuck Chambers runs a private investigation agency near Sarasota hired by Blackthorne just weeks
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before Sheila's murder that phone call came in requesting us to locate Sheila belush did you find Sheila yes we did
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she was very hard to find now Chambers office wrote up this report after the call it lists blackthorne's name address
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phone and Visa card number in the middle of the document it says Target James Jamie and Sheila belich once you've
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found Sheila what did you do with the information we gave that directly to Alan Blackthorne
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about the same time Danny roaches says he was given Sheila's address where did you get that information I'm from Alan
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how did Danny Rocha get Sheila's address in Sarasota Florida oh I haven't got a clue I have no idea
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Chuck Chambers claims that he gave you the address to Sheila's home Danny Rocha says he got Sheila's address
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from you three weeks later she's murdered at her home it's like connect the dots isn't that a damning piece of
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evidence against you I don't think so at all I had nothing to do with the death of Sheila belich
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hey Frank where's your pants Jamie bellish has moved his family back to the small town in New Jersey where he grew
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up Jamie never gives up hope that someday Blackthorne will be brought to Justice
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good morning then an unexpected dramatic announcement in San Antonio Texas I've called this conference this morning to
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announce the arrest of Alan Blackthorne on the charges of murder more than two years after Sheila's
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murder a Federal grand jury indicts Blackthorne Alan do you have anything to say
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it's nice that he's off the golf course it's nice that he's sitting in a cold dark cell but do prosecutors have enough
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new evidence to put Blackthorne away for life I'm not going to go into all the specifics of the evidence at that time
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we need to do that in a court of law coming up next the murder trial of Alan Blackthorne damn it I'm going to prove
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myself innocent thank you ever since Sheila belush's body was found on November 7 1997 her ex-husband
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has been a suspect in her murder you're accused of being responsible for your ex-wife's death what do you say and from
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the beginning back of the attorney Blackthorne has maintained his innocence you can look me in the eye and say I had
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nothing to do with this I had absolutely nothing to do with this period okay how
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do you check now all right two and a half years after Sheila's death Alan do you have anything to say the murder
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trial of Alan Blackthorne begins in San Antonio Texas this is really it I mean I've waited for this for so long and
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finally the day was here the day was here that he was going to be tried for murder the month-long trial was held
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here in federal court where no cameras are allowed prosecutors presented the jury with more than 400 pieces of
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evidence they claimed linked Alan Blackthorne to the murder of his ex-wife it was really difficult for the jury it
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was a complicated puzzle we had to piece it back together in order for it to make
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a sense today only one person took to the stand and that one person was Daniel Rocha the chief witness against
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Blackthorne was his old golfing buddy Danny Rocha I'm the only way they're going to get to Alan Blackthorne and
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they know that oh okay already convicted and sentenced to life for his role in The Killing Rocha was the only member of
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the murder conspiracy who had face-to-face contact with Blackthorne do you believe that Alan Blackthorne is
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just as responsible for Sheila's murder as you are of course he's more responsible I was just helping a friend
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I was just kind of passing this information on in three days of testimony Rocha fingered Blackthorne as
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The Mastermind and financier of the murder plot but would the jury believe Rocha a man
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who had lied to investigators in the past after his testimony I said thought to myself if this is second day of
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testimony and no further questions stays in trouble we knew he lied we knew he had the capability of lying so we heard
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what he said and we took certain statements and they had to be backed up by fat prosecutors set out to do just
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that they portrayed Alan Blackthorne as a man so obsessed with his ex-wife Sheila he was willing to pay fifty
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thousand dollars to have her badly beaten or killed all he needed was Sheila's new address
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in Sarasota Witnesses were called to show that Blackthorne would stop at nothing to get it
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Chuck Chambers took the stand Chuck when did Alan Blackthorne first get in touch
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with you remember he was the Florida private investigator hired by Alan Blackthorne he was very precise in what
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he wanted cold straightforward non-emotional finder I want her found another witness a former employee of
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blackthorns testified that he asked her to come to this church in Sarasota where
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Sheila belush attended Services Blackthorne told the woman to follow Sheila home and write down her address
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[Applause] there was more the jury heard a series of recorded telephone conversations in
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which Blackthorne posing as a bookie trying to be as discreet as I can be called a bail bonds company trying to
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get Sheila's new address I'm not asking you to release any information to me all
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I'm trying to find out is have they registered the address with you can you give me that information Blackthorne
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didn't know that this company routinely recorded its phone calls and who am I thinking was just my first name oh my
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name's Al and prosecutors say Blackthorn even lied to his own daughter Daryl to get Sheila's address she's like
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oh I need I need the address and I'm like why do you need it and he's like because I'm going to come visit you this
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Christmas and I'm gonna come see you and spend some time with you a promise that
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Blackthorne couldn't possibly have kept since he had given up all parental rights to his daughters agreeing to have
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nothing to do with them ever again what bothered me was he was so adamant about getting that address that he manipulated
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his daughter and telling her I will visit you at Christmas which he knew full while he couldn't do
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When Alan Blackthorne took the stand he testified that he wanted Sheila's address for a very different reason to
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protect his daughters Blackthorne told the jurors that his girls were being physically abused by Sheila and Jamie he
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kept saying that he loved his children so much and this is why he was involved in the whole case because because of his
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children and children here and children there and evidence were presented to me that I didn't think he meant what he
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said about his children jurors also had trouble with blackthorne's demeanor during his
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testimony he was very mechanical he it was like it was very staged it was like he had been scripted the voice was
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even killed never High never low never raised an eyebrow took direct air blinked barely I mean it was
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very strange and the jurors say with all those phone calls to Florida there was one Blackthorne didn't make that
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troubled them he didn't call and check on his kids are you okay did they get hurt did they were they hurt by the
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killer despite all of this some jurors weren't convinced it added up to murder I wasn't sure that he had intended for
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her to die I thought just the way it was done I thought well maybe he intended for her to get hurt we
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will have a hung jury on this count before we feel we just are going along with it
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we need to be absolutely sure coming up on 48 hours this jury has been deliberating for over a week now for
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more than 30 hours the jury appears to be deadlocked you may feel like he's guilty he may look guilty but the
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government has to show that he's guilty my biggest concern was the son of a was going to get off
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that this son of a was going to walk that's next [Music] even to this day sometimes I go out to
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that grave and I stand there and I go I still can't believe this is real more than two and a half years have passed
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since Sheila belush was murdered in front of her four babies and for her husband Jamie I didn't know
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what was going to happen the jury's deliberation in its fourth day felt like an eternity I was thinking we're headed
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for a hung jury we need to be absolutely sure jurors had spent more than 30 hours
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pouring over the evidence there were still a few that were undecided then we took another hour and we took another
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hour and based on what was presented testimonial evidence became the decisions this is breaking news the verdict is
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guilty guilty on both Federal counts I watched Ellen blackthorne's face as they read the verdict he sat there
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stone-faced cold as could be had no expression whatsoever I jumped up and down and kept saying yes it was almost
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like my team winning the Super Bowl but why did Alan Blackthorne a man who seemed to have it all a beautiful home a
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beautiful wife and children paid to have Sheila murdered once she took those kids
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out of the state he'd had it that was it he was just gonna he was just gonna kill
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her because he that was those were his kids and he wasn't going to allow her to take advantage of him like that if he
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didn't do it how did Rocha get the address unless Blackthorne gave Rocha the address the
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chances that he could have got it otherwise were very slim so that eliminated uh most reasonable doubt he was blinded
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by his hate he didn't think he was going to get cut he was a gambler a risk taker
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he was down Blackthorne nothing was going to happen to him yeah and he felt that something happened
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in my mind I'll find a way out of it I always have I always come on top on the same day Blackthorne was found guilty in
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San Antonio all right in a Florida courtroom an incredibly dramatic moment what relationship were you to Sheila
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Miller Sheila belush with my beloved wife sir for the first time Jamie bellish confronted Joy Del Toro the man who
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actually shot Sheila in the face and cut her throat Mr Del Toro I don't know if you've ever seen these pictures what you
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did to my wife I'd like to show them to your family does your family realize that when you
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stab her in the neck that the blade of the knife bent on her spinal column you are a worthless coward with no remorse
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in your heart your honor put this cowardly worthless animal in a cage or he can rot away moments later Joey Del
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Toro was sentenced to life in prison with no chance ever for Pearl Jamie you're right I do deserve to die and I
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am what you what you told me how would you set up me I am it was finally over everyone involved in the conspiracy to
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murder Sheila belush including its Mastermind was now behind bars Alan Blackthorne will be sentenced to
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life without parole in November it's satisfying for me satisfying for my entire family Sheila's entire family
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including Sheila's mother Gene Smith can Sheila rest in peace now yes she's smiling today Sheila's smiling today but
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for the babies the quads Justice for their mother comes with a terrible cost there's going to be recitals and there's
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going to be graduations and there's going to be weddings where there's going to be an
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empty place and there'll be an empty spot in their heart and as they grow up I'll I'll tell them
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I'll tell them about her and what a wonderful woman she was for almost three years it appeared Alan
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blackthorne's position of wealth and privilege might spare him from being held accountable for the murder of his
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ex-wife the burden of proof on investigators was great in this circumstantial case it had
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to be built slowly and painstakingly a case which always seemed to be in danger of collapsing
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ultimately though with patience and persistence detectives and prosecutors got their man
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Alan Blackthorne would not get away for the victims family there is now at least a measure of peace and closure
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and there is Justice for Sheila [Music] [Music] thank you