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He gets his inheritance this afternoon. That's why we're moving. We're going to bear all our bills off
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that we need to pay off and then take a long vacation. Less than 24 hours from this footage,
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Hina Thea Canoyer's husband, Steve Riley, was lifellighted to the hospital due to a sudden sickness that
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immobilized his body. Within an hour of being at the hospital, he would pass away.
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I thought everybody knew the story. [screaming] Oh my god. What the cop doesn't realize at this
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time is that AA is a very good actor and she knows far more about Steve's sickness than she leads on. You see,
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Steve was less than an hour away from cashing in a $37 million inheritance payment when he became fatally ill. And
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as the multi-week investigation would progress, detectives would quickly discover that Steve's death was due to
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poisoning. Someone had killed him. And everyone close to Steve all had dire needs to claim his newfound fortune by
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any means necessary. It was like 20s something million. Best thing you can do is to get on a plane
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and don't look back. Police Department. It's the police department. It's not Chad.
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This body cam was recorded the night before Steve Riley's death. Steve and Aa's drunken neighbor had been harassing
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them and other residents of the neighborhood. So, Aa called 911 to deescalate the situation. What makes
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this specific [music] footage interesting is not the situation with her drunken neighbor, but rather what
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Ana would tell police after. Her $37 million inheritance fund that she's just hours away from cashing in.
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Sorry. You thought it was Chad? Yeah. Who was trying to kick in everybody's door?
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Who was he? Busted to my light and look at the garbage can. Who was your Who was he fighting with
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out here? Uh my fiance. He went for a walk. Pull down. Who's your fiance? Steve Riley.
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Steve Riley. Yeah. Okay. What's your name? I'm ask. Okay. Is your fiance hurt at all?
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Uh, he got gash on his forehead. Okay. You know, we just want to talk with him, too, just to make sure he's all right if
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possible. There's blood all the way over there. So, what actually happened tonight? What
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were they fighting over? Chad was trying to kick in the door just for no reason or just
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just drunk. He does that. Where do you think your fiance would have went so we could just get inside of
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the story real quick? Oh, I I don't know. She got a phone on her. No, we don't have a phone until this
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afternoon. But this is where reveals something she shouldn't have. Their plans to pay off
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all of their bills, which had over the years been racking up. And she does this for one reason, to brag. He gets his
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inheritance this afternoon. That's why we're moving them. We're going to bear all our bills off
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that we need to pay off. And his lawyer gets here today at 2:00 to sign the paperwork for his money.
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Okay. And then he's going to go pay that and his lawyer pay the rest of his child's support
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and then take a long vacation. According to Aina, Steve is set to receive an inheritance from his late uncle
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tomorrow, which supposedly is enough money to turn their lives around completely. What police don't realize at
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this time is how enormous this inheritance sum really is. In 2016, Steve's friend had received a
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call from a man named Marcus Riley, who claimed to be Steve's longlost uncle from Ireland. He had explained that he
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finally wanted to get in touch with his nephew, Steve. After [music] connecting with each other, Steve had learned he
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was in line to receive an inheritance upon his uncle's passing, which was a sum of over $17 million at the time.
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This was enough to permanently fix the financial struggles he and had been dealing with. A couple of years later, 4
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months prior to the footage you just watched, Steve would learn of his uncle's passing from a British lawyer
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who had contacted him. Additionally, he would learn that his $17 million inheritance had grown to over $30
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million due to his uncle's successful investments over the years. That's why AA cannot hold herself from boasting to
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the police. Tomorrow, they plan to meet with their lawyer to officially sign the
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documents and claim the $30 million inheritance fund. The two plan to take the money and live with Steve's long-
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lost family in Ireland. Quote, "Living in the castles." In [music] less than 24 hours, aa will be rich. So, as officers
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leave for the night, aa would make one final statement about how her life was about to change forever.
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If you want to step back inside and then if Steve shows back up, we're going to try to look for him to get his side of
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the story as well. But if Steve shows back up, if you just want to give us a call or have him give us a call, we'll
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talk to him then. Okay. Yeah. He was going to stop by anyways, like I said. Sounds good.
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I've only been able to put like $5 on his fines, but at least it was something. Okay, sounds good.
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We're going to pay it all off all at once. Perfect. Thank you. Steve would return to his and AA's
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apartment [music] that night, and the two would patiently wait, not being able to sleep, [music] as they counted down
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the hours until they would receive their millions. The plan to receive the funds
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was simple. At 2:00 p.m., the group would go to the airport to meet their lawyer, who was flying in with their
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inheritance paperwork. Ana and Steve obliged and would arrive at the airport alongside their two friends, Billy and
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Wes, before patiently waiting. However, while they were waiting for the lawyer's
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arrival, Steve would become extremely sick. He would claim feeling drunk, even throwing up in the airport bathrooms.
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His heart rate was rapidly increasing, and his condition worsened to the point where Wes decided to take him home to
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help him treat his sickness. Aina would wait at the airport for the lawyer to arrive. However, he would never show up.
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And after a couple of hours with no lawyer, no money, and a sick fiance, she would return home as well.
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Everyone believed that Steve had suffered from a heat [music] stroke as a result of working on his truck for hours
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that morning. But Steve's symptoms were far more fatal than the heat strokes he had received in the past, even
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experiencing fatal signs of kidney failure throughout the night. And in the morning, Steve would become [music]
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completely unresponsive, forcing aa to call 911. 911, what's the cause of your emergency?
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Uh, my husband's really sick. He got heat drunk yesterday and now he's not waking up. And
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come on, wake up. What's the phone number calling from? I don't have a phone number.
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It's a phone that never got finished getting set up. Come on, babe. I've been trying everything. I water.
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Okay. But he is breathing. [music] Yes, [snorts] he's snoring. He won't talk to me anymore. He won't look at me.
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He won't OPEN HIS EYES. OKAY, I've got help on the way. Just keep an eye on his breathing and if
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anything changes with his breathing, tell me immediately. Hello. Yeah. It's officer Sullivan. Mine on PD.
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Yeah. Hang on. By the way, ran yesterday inside the home. Officers would find Steve fully unresponsive and they would
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drag him out of the house through piles of trash and filth. Quickly, he was rushed to the nearest hospital, but with
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if any of your personal data is exposed. After Steve was flown to the hospital, Ana would explain to the officers that
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Steve [music] had gotten a heat stroke which caused his illness. The officers had no reason not to believe her story,
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so they would comfort her throughout the day as Steve was being treated. Unfortunately, Steve would never again
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regain consciousness. This is Billy Burkehead, Steve and Aa's neighbor, and he was with Steve and Aa
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the entire day of his sudden sickness, even working on the truck with Steve and traveling with him to the airport. Billy
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simply refused to believe that Steve's death was caused by heat stroke, especially since Steve seemed perfectly
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fine all day until they reached the airport. Instead, [music] Billy suspected something far more sinister
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and wanted to share his theory with the detectives. So the day after Steve's death, Billy would call officers back to
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apartment 912A to detail his side of the story. We think she poisoned me. I'm almost sure she poisoned me.
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So what's your plan right now? We're making sure nothing goes. Cuz you know when they go to jail, they
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die and clean. How long are you going to stay here? I'm going stay here until the sun gets
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here. When's the sun supposed to get here? He's not dead. I told you. He stop. He's not.
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He's dead. And he was poisoned. Billy's explanation for Steve's death is well, horrifying. If Ana truly did
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poison Steve, then his symptoms would make sense and would add up far more than the idea of him having a heat
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stroke. However, why would Ana want to poison her husband if they were about to live such a good life? Well, Billy seems
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to have the exact answer to that question. The other day, she throwed all his stuff
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out out the yard from his from his house. Yeah. And he come out and he was holding
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his head down and then we were supposed to go up to the airport and meet this guy cuz he's supposed to get quite a bit
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of money. Come back. We had to help him out of the car. Had to help him in the house and everything was fine. Billy
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come home and then the next morning she's throwing all her stuff out. I think she was supposed to call the
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ambulance. She never called the ambulance. Billy thinks that Ana was [music] secretly planning to split with Steve
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after the inheritance was received, even going so far as to throw his belongings
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out of the house after they returned from the airport. Even worse is that AA lied about getting help for Steve after
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they returned from the airport, pretending to take him to get treated when in reality they never left the
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house. Unfortunately, AA overheard all of this talk and decided to give Billy a piece of her own mind.
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I'm taking off. I'm not worthy of my life. Hey, stay here. Stay here. I need to take a picture. Picture
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[music] what? Building truck. Oh, you can sit on this. Steve collapsed yesterday.
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Mhm. Went to the hospital. I found out was poison. How'd you find that out? [ __ ] You told me. I'm just telling you,
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son. Don't ever stop that nasty people. They're nasty people. They're nasty. Aa coincidentally seemed to put the
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blame on the neighbors, calling them evil people. [music] It's become more clear that Steve's
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death was far more sinister than officers had first expected. Officers now had a potential homicide case to
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investigate. But as they went to leave, one officer accidentally [music] broke the news to Aina that her fianceé had
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passed away. I thought everybody knew. I'm sorry. Oh my god. I guess the sun is is on his way here.
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Okay. Apparently the sun is on the way here. So the sun better tomorrow. Yeah. Aa's reaction to her husband's
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passing is one of the strangest I've ever seen. She starts balling her eyes out, then suddenly jumps right back to
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her normal self, as if she hadn't even heard the terrible news to begin with. It's becoming more and more clear that
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something is not adding up. Billy was not the only person to initially put the blame on AA. In fact, he was only one of
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many who would come forward with their concerns. In fact, Billy's wife, Lynn, had stated that AA had made horrifying
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statements in the past, alluding that if she was to ever kill her partner, she would poison him using an antifreeze. To
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add to the pile of already incriminating information, Steve would be tested for ethylene glycol in his bloodstream, a
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key ingredient in antifreeze. To nobody's surprise, the results showed toxic levels of ethylene glycol in his
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system. [music] This information would serve as the catalyst for initiating a formal homicide investigation into the
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death of Steve Riley. Following the commencement of the investigation, a series of intensive interrogations would
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be conducted with all parties connected to the incident, [music] including AA to
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ultimately solve Steve's murder. However, before that, AA would launch a plan of her own.
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It must have been made apparent to her that she was in hot water as the day after this encounter with the police,
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she would call them back to apartment 912A to explain theories of her own. Hi. Yeah.
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Okay. What's going on? I don't know. We've been here. He keeps trying to take Steve's truck.
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Where's the truck at? In the garage. Is this the paperwork on the thing or No, no, no. This is uh property
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that Steve was buying. Oh. After his inheritance got here. I think he left it to his son, but I had to
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Google where to go to get his inheritance switched over to the people he left it to. I don't know. I don't
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know. The day he was supposed to meet his lawyer. Apparently, I thought it was Heathro. Apparently he was poisoned.
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I'm finding out with anifreeze. All right. And I don't know how to get a hold of a
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guy in London with his inheritance. He should be here in town. He never showed up at the airport. Of course.
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Yeah. Trying to figure out why. Aina seems to conspire to the idea that Steve may have drank the antifreeze
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himself or that someone may have poisoned him. However, despite all the suspicion being thrown her way, she can
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only stay on track for minutes before going back on tangents about her inheritance fund. It was clear at this
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point that somebody had poisoned Steve. The idea of this being self-inflicted was unlikely, as Steve had a
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life-changing amount of money waiting for him and would have had to drink the antifreeze just hours before going to
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claim the cash. Clearly, Aina can be made out as the lead suspect due to the amount of
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fingers being pointed her way, but the other potential suspects should not be ruled out either. With this in mind,
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officers would bring their first suspect in for questioning, Rebecca. Rebecca was
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another neighbor of AA and Steves, who was very involved with the entire case so far, pitching her opinion to police
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whenever she could. Rebecca was brought in primarily to add to the pile of evidence to confront AA with later. But
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as the interview would continue, strange red flags would arise from Rebecca's odd
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personality. You guys know my daughter? Yes. Yeah. How's she doing? Yesterday, um, God works on mysterious
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ways. She was arrested, released. She said, uh, this is, um, the demons that are in her, the spirits that follow her,
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was able to change her butt cheeks, so maybe they'll stop following her now, she said.
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Yeah. Well, hopefully she missed out. I pray she does. Starting off a homicide interview,
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explaining how demons left your daughter's butt is an interesting way of proving your innocence. But the
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detective isn't here to judge, rather to get to the bottom of Steve's death. So,
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he'll ignore these strange remarks. It sounds like you might know something. I'm a nosy neighbor.
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It's good. I like it. Well, I know. Um I know what cars belong, what cars don't. Um who lives in
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my neighborhood, who doesn't. So, yes. That's good. We're investigating Steve's passing just because it sounds like
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maybe there's something. Yeah. I can I suspicious about whatever I know. How long have Steve and Anna lived there
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that you know of? Approximately 2 years. Okay. How was their relationship that you know?
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The first year was Steve was looking great, doing great. The past year, I don't know if she suffers from mental
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illness at times, but her mental state went downhill the past year. Okay. When you lose weight, when you're
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not acting right, shady stuff going on, you're not working. Yes, he was. And it got worse the past couple months.
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It seems as though Steve's life wasn't as straightforward as initially thought. Having drug issues, weight loss, and
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possibly depression. Whether or not was a large contributor to these deteriorating issues is something they
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will soon learn as this interview would become a pivotal piece of evidence. Laying the groundwork to dismantle her
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defense entirely during the interrogation. You think and it got worse the past couple months.
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Using you think lately is that theme whatever. Yes. Do you think she was using? Yeah.
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Okay. And alcohol used too. Okay. Yes. Both of them with alcohol. Okay. So Steve had mentioned before like in the
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past about about getting money. Yes. How many? Like 2 million. The amount Steve had planned to receive
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was something he kept very secret. Often lying to people like Rebecca on how much
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he was actually getting. As we'll soon find out, this number was much much larger than 2 million.
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His uncle passed away. Um yes. First he said he was going to leave it to Ena and
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then they were fighting and and a couple months later he said he went back and changed the will. He told me he was like
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don't tell Ena but I changed it. This statement from Rebecca would explain what was talking about last time
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she spoke to police and how she was trying to switch the will over from Steve's son to herself. If AA discovered
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his plan, it would have given her a strong incentive to do whatever it took to change the will back in her favor,
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possibly by any means necessary. Cuz it started 5 months and he told me, "Yeah, I got a will. I'm leaving
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everything to Ena if something happens." And then it seemed like 2 months after that, he's like getting nothing cuz she
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cuz she's a So that was how he Yeah. Was he ever talking about leaving Ena? Yes. Okay.
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You know, I'm going to get this money and leave her, get my own place. So, I go back to California.
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Okay. I I met her son last night. Oh, okay. Her son came. I No, I'm sorry. His son. I'm old.
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That's okay. He flew in. He I He came up to my apartment. Um but as he's leaving, she
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came up, knocked on my door when he was up there. Yeah. To get him. I think she was
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nervous. She It was like she was pissed. He was up there. And then she's like, "I
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just want to let you know I found the willpapers." So she said in front of you though that
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she found willpapers. Yes. Yep. Aa clearly had become obsessed with the idea that she was about to live the life
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of her dreams with Steve's inheritance. But after rumors of Steve leaving her, it seems a became terrified that she
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might not receive the funds and would be stuck with her depressive living conditions. It's now become obvious how
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these events and Steve's strange death could be correlated to one another. However, as Rebecca had stated herself,
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she was a nosy neighbor, looking for any rumors or conspiracy theories to help solve the neighborhood drama. I've also
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cut out over 40 minutes of completely false information Rebecca gave to detectives, which certainly doesn't add
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to her authenticity. In order to further confirm the accuracy of these claims, two more reliable sources would be
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brought in the following day. Steve's son Ryan and Billy Burkehead. If anyone would be able to give proper insight
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into Steve's life, it would be these two as they were by far the closest people to Steve.
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Um, we assigned the case of your dad's passing. You're really the only next of kin that's
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maybe had a relationship with your dad, it sounds like. Yeah. Okay. Did he ever talk to you
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about Eno when you guys talked to him last year? Uh, yeah. He was talking about how he
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was getting a large sum of money and he kind of just wanted to leave her cuz she
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didn't really have a job and was like leeching off of them. Did Steve ever talk about leaving Hina
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all the time? Okay. every day. She was she talked about poisoning Steve, okay, and me because we're always together
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[music] and she didn't like that. And I don't know how much it was is supposed to be. It's way up there in the money.
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It was like 20 something million. Best thing you can do is get on the plane and don't look back.
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Yeah. I said that's the best thing you can do. Almost every piece of information the
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detectives receive leads straight to AA as the killer. It also makes sense why AA hated Billy and [music] Steve's son
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so much, as they knew far more information than she would have liked about the inheritance and her schemes to
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obtain it. These interviews wouldn't last long as detectives got all the information they needed from the two and
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could directly confront AA [music] with it. But before leaving, they would break
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disturbing news to Ryan, which would make this case even more of a terrible tragedy.
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So, this inheritance now, um, I'm thinking that's the same thing we're thinking, which I mean, and I don't
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obviously I don't know for sure, but by all accounts of looking at it, it looks like it's a scam. looks like it's a I
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mean the letter has different fonts in it and things and so and the fact that your dad [clears throat] gone there
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several times to me some letter never showed up to their report that and all the emails that they tried
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to send back to the sender of those emails it always came back undeliverable the inheritance was a scam Steve had
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lived for the past 7 years under the impression that if he just patiently waited living through his terrible
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living conditions he would come out with more money than he could dream of and finally enjoy life. Even worse was that
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this very scam that stagnated his life for years may have been the cause of his very own death. With such a pity of a
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case, detectives would go on to interview a handful of other suspects in order to get as much information as they
00:26:01
possibly could to help break down AA's defense. And after multiple days of interviews, the day finally came to
00:26:09
confront AA with everything they've gathered. But despite all this evidence against her, officers knew they would
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have a hard time prosecuting a without a confession or incriminating statements.
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And that's exactly what they were determined to get. Inside [music] this cut down 1 and 1/2 hour interview,
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you'll see some of the most clever interrogation tactics [music] I've ever shown on this channel. slowly
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dismantling AA's story until all she has left is an incoherent string of lies. So, like I said, we have been just
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talking to everyone like Billy, Russ, everybody um that kind of just knew Steve just to get an idea of like what
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was going on in his life. So, you and Steve were in a relationship. Yep. Okay. How long had you guys been
00:26:58
together? 13 years. [music] Okay. Where did you guys meet? Homeless shelter in buffet dinner
00:27:05
in North Dakota. Washington. In Washington. Okay. The detectives would go on to get more
00:27:11
information about aa and Steve's early relationship. But it wouldn't last long before would start conspiring against
00:27:17
Billy and others she wanted to paint as suspects. And I begged him to, you know, stay away
00:27:24
from We've even gotten into fights to stay away from Lynn. Billy and Lynn. Okay.
00:27:31
I don't like calling people nasty and I've seen they seem worse than Steve because he's tall and mean-l looking.
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People were intimidated by him. Okay. Just by his look. So what why would you want him to stay
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away from Billy and Lynn? Cuz they're really really nasty people. Felonies. Uh breaking into places.
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Okay. Uh I knew they did more than pot, you know, smoking more than pot. Did Steve
00:28:00
smoke more of the marijuana? No, he's allergic to marijuana. Okay. Did he Did he use other drugs?
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Uh, not for the longest time. Was he using was using that? No. Okay. So, he didn't after that. After he
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got the max the last time. Yep. He's like, "Screw this. I'm going to just do what I want and want what I
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want." Okay. So, that's when he started using I think so. Okay. This would be the first of AA's lies
00:28:32
during this interrogation. She knew Steve had been using long before the incident she described. But in order to
00:28:38
make Billy seem like the villain in their lives, she wanted to make it seem as though he was the reason for Steve's
00:28:44
drug use. Take note of AA's body language while she clearly lies. She glances up and avoids eye contact,
00:28:51
constantly fidgets and scratches her skin, and most notably stutters and slurs on her speech as she tries to make
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up a story. Keep this in mind for the rest of the interrogation, and you'll be able to accurately point out when AA
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isn't telling the truth. But now, the police would ask her perhaps the most intriguing question. What exactly did
00:29:11
she plan to do with the inheritance money? So, how when did he find out about this
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inheritance? I want to say three months ago. Four months ago. So, what what is the inheritance? I know
00:29:22
you had shown that first day Lieutenant Day and I came um you showed us kind of that letter that was on Steve's phone.
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Mhm. Um is that that's the inheritance that was the the letter. Okay. Uh and he was talking to an actual
00:29:36
lawyer, I guess. Okay. From [clears throat] London. Was so this lawyer reached out to him
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and said he's I guess I don't even know how he found out about it. He just it just
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appeared and he was reading that the money wasn't cursed or whatever. Every single person that went for the
00:29:56
the Riley money over there uh even this 21-year-old had passed away. Clearly aa is running out of resources
00:30:06
to take suspicion off herself. And the detectives won't take long before making her abundantly aware of how horrible of
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a liar she is. [music] But for now, they'd like to get some more information on this inheritance and if aa would
00:30:20
admit to trying to claim it all for herself. How [snorts] much money was it? It ended up It was supposed to be 17
00:30:28
million uh 17 million 500,000. So, but with all the properties sold off, it ended up being
00:30:38
37 million. So, there was cash on the properties versus Okay. So I gave all information supposed to be
00:30:46
coming from. Who was the family member? Marcus something. Riley was a [clears throat] brother or uncle.
00:30:54
That was an uncle. Okay. Did he live in Ireland? Okay. How does it get to Is it starting
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to be that the lawyer is starting to give him like a time that he's coming to my not?
00:31:08
Yeah. That's pretty much when he kept saying, "I'm going to show up at this time."
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And Steve would ride down there. And he wasn't there. And then he'd get the email afterwards that he wasn't uh going
00:31:20
to come until later. Okay. The detectives would spend the next 25 minutes trying to understand's timeline
00:31:30
for the day they planned to receive the inheritance. Whenever she gave a time for when the group went to the airport,
00:31:35
she would conveniently change that time entirely, just a few minutes later. But one detail would stay the same. Unlike
00:31:43
her original claims to officers on the day of the murder, she would insist that Steve had never gone to the airport, but
00:31:49
rather Wes had gone instead to represent Steve. This was confusing, but AA's reason as to why Steve couldn't make it
00:31:58
to the airport would make just as little sense. cuz he was drinking beer all day.
00:32:04
He was working in the garage. He was spray painting his truck, you know, with the doors and the and the windows
00:32:11
closed, barely drinking any water. So, he he consumed almost a case of beer and Oh, he drink more than that.
00:32:20
Pay attention to here. She's carefully crafting a story to deflect suspicion, but the detectives came prepared.
00:32:27
I've seen him drink a couple cases, but on that day, yeah, it was a case beer. from probably 6:00 or 7:00 in the
00:32:34
morning until 2:00 in the afternoon. So 5 to 6 hours. Does that sound right? Probably. Okay. Do you drink anything
00:32:43
else? Uh just a glass of water and his tea. I made iced tea cuz he begged for iced
00:32:51
tea. Steve had no traces of alcohol in his system the day of his death proven by a
00:32:56
blood test and toxicology. So detectives know clearly AA is lying through her teeth.
00:33:02
So I just have a lot of concerns here. Okay. And I'm just going to be honest with you. You told the paramedics when
00:33:08
they were there that morning or afternoon that he had been drinking till 5 in the morning. That he had been cons
00:33:13
consuming alcohol. That's on body cam. Okay. You said he was drinking all day the day before and that he drank his
00:33:18
last drink at 5:00 a.m. Okay. And now you're telling me that's not what you say on this video. Okay.
00:33:25
I want to see this video. Okay. Well, I I'm not going to show you the body cam. I'm just telling you that
00:33:29
that's what's on there. There's reports that Wes came to the house that morning and you said that Steve was at the
00:33:36
walking clinic. He wasn't at the clinic. Steve didn't want to see Wes anymore. Okay. But Steve wasn't at the walk-in
00:33:43
clinic. He was at the hospital. He wasn't at the hospital. He just left with the ambulance when Wes
00:33:50
showed up there. That's not what's been reported to us. Wes was there prior to Yeah. The time stamps prove that. Hello,
00:33:57
lawyer. Okay, that's fine. Realizing she's running out of options to defend herself and with the
00:34:04
detectives closing in, resorts to something surprisingly clever as a lastditch effort, asking for a lawyer.
00:34:12
Um, am I being arrested? Nope, you're not being arrested. We're just talking. So, but if you want if you
00:34:17
want a lawyer, we can stop talking right now. That's fine. Um, but I'm telling you the god honest
00:34:22
truth. Okay. I don't know what happened. I wasn't there. I WISH I WAS THERE. I WISH I WAS
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WITH HIM EVERY [laughter] SECOND OF THE DAY THAT DAY. I WISH I WATCHED EVERY SINGLE BUT I'M NOT HIS GODDAMN MOM.
00:34:38
You asked for a lawyer, Anna, so we're just going to end this now. Okay, I'm not going to talk anymore. All right.
00:34:44
YOU GUYS ARE SO UNBELIEVABLE. [ __ ] The second AA realized the detectives saw right through her story, she folded
00:35:00
under the pressure and insisted on a lawyer. Aa had finally realized her game was over. Following this interrogation,
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Ana would [music] roam free while detectives scrambled for concrete evidence that she had poisoned Steve.
00:35:14
Ana would continue fighting for her innocence, making more deranged theories such as Steve drinking the antifreeze
00:35:21
out of shame that the lawyer was a fraud or that she had too been poisoned just months prior. Unfortunately for her,
00:35:29
police managed to file a search warrant on apartment 912A, [music] finding multiple alarming items. An old
00:35:37
Windex bottle without a cap containing a bright green liquid suspected to be antifreeze as well as a Kors Light
00:35:44
bottle containing antifreeze [music] found in the garage Steve had been working in that morning. This exact
00:35:51
Coors Light bottle was what used to poison [music] Steve with. Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol, an ingredient
00:35:59
[music] that makes the liquid taste sweet. By mixing this with tea, Steve was fully unable to tell this fatal
00:36:06
substance apart from his typical morning tea. Additionally, by hiding the liquids
00:36:10
in the dark corors light bottle, Steve was unable to see the bright green color of this drink. With all of this
00:36:18
newfound, completely incriminating evidence, as well as the numerous lies and false claims had told law
00:36:25
enforcement, she would finally be arrested on October 30th, 2024. Oh my god. I know.
00:36:37
Please lock up my house. Yeah, we'll lock up the house for you. I'll give you the key.
00:36:41
We'll lock it up. We'll lock a house up for you. [music] Why me? So, right. We let you smoke a cigarette. You're
00:36:55
going to be decent. I'm decent. I never dealt with you. So, just been arrested before like this.
00:37:03
I've never done anything. I haven't done anything. It seems like I'm an easy scape goat.
00:37:10
Cuz all I am is an eating skit goat. All I've ever been if I was going to kill him, I would have killed him the day he
00:37:17
lied to me and I found out you were doing drugs. Just going to grab your so far. Right.
00:37:23
And I would have done it physically, not physically. Yeah. I'm a physical woman. Okay.
00:37:30
Nobody out here to watch the dogs. Just you? No friends or anything? Only one here.
00:37:34
You have any friends at work that would take them? We just don't want them to die in there,
00:37:39
[music] right? Why? How long are you holding them? We don't know. So, we'll have our
00:37:43
officers grab the dogs. We'll put a hold on them. All right.