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Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera

May 20, 2025 / 47:05

This episode of Killers Caught on Camera covers two tragic cases of road rage and domestic violence, featuring the stories of Whitney Gray and Kira Stagger.

In Missouri, Whitney Gray, a 22-year-old mother, was shot during a road rage incident while driving with her children. Witnesses reported that a man in a white SUV shot at her after a confrontation. Despite life-saving efforts, Whitney died from her injuries. The investigation led to the identification and arrest of Christopher Taylor, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter.

The second case takes place in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Kira Stagger went missing after a date night with her husband, Jeff Trevino. After several days, her vehicle was found with evidence suggesting foul play. Investigators uncovered video footage and blood evidence that pointed to Jeff as the primary suspect. He was eventually charged with second-degree murder.

The episode highlights the dangers of road rage and the complexities of domestic relationships, emphasizing the tragic outcomes that can arise from anger and control issues.

Both cases serve as a stark reminder of the potential for violence in everyday situations, whether on the road or at home.

TLDR

Whitney Gray was shot in a road rage incident, while Kira Stagger was murdered by her husband after a troubled marriage.

Episode

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This time on Killers Caught on camera. In Missouri, a young mom's early evening
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shopping trip with her children ends in lethal road rage. We have a guy that's already killed
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once. Is he going to kill again? We need to get this guy stopped. And in St. Paul, Minnesota, date night
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ends in a fight. That's the last time he saw her or talk to her. And a woman goes missing for
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months in the depths of winter. There was so much blood in there. I actually thought I was going to find her head in
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that bag. It just sounds like something bad is happening to her. We know what happened
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because the video tells us what happened. I heard some gunshots. Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. That does
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not prove that I killed my wife. The camera doesn't lie. In the heart of the United States,
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Missouri, just east of Kansas City, is Independence. Independence is sort of almost, you
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might call it the all-American suburb. It feels like small town America. It's
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quiet. It's peaceful. It was home to 22-year-old Whitney Gray. Whitney Gray was a young mother of two.
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She was thoughtful. All her friends said she was the kind of person you could count on. She was somebody you wanted
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next to you when there was trouble. She didn't lose her temper, but she also
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would fight for people who needed help. By the time she was 22, she had two small children and was a busy, caring,
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and active mother. [Music] One night in October 2016, Whitney went out to the grocery store with her
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six-month old baby, three-year-old child, and her young niece in the car. Shortly after, a 911 call came in.
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About 7:38, I believe, is when the incident happened. The officers responded to a shooting.
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Police arrived on scene surrounded by witnesses. Where's he at? Not breathing.
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They discovered female been shot. She did a tent right right here. Hang on. I only heard one gunshot.
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I've got a faint hang on. The female was shot in the chest and a chest wound is
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very difficult to recover from. I need your medic. She's got a gunshot wound right there chest. That car had
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traveled a short distance and crashed into a front yard of a of a residence. Also in the car with the victim were a
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teenage niece and two very small children. The very small children that were in their car seats in the car had
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to be consoled by responding police officers. It was a chaotic scene. What's your name?
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Hey buddy. Her driver's license and identification were in the car with her.
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The victim was identified as Whitney Gray. Obviously, the first step is to do life-saving measures, but it it was to
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no avail. She she had perished. [Music] Whitney Gray lived really close to the area where she was found.
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[Music] The scene's very tragic. A you have a dead young female laying on the road now
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and we have her child who is an infant and then we have another juvenile female with her that's
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hysterical. It was it was very traumatic for everybody on scene. The oldest child in the car was
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Whitney's 16-year-old niece. She's my aunt. She's your aunt. What happened, sweetheart? Could you tell me?
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Some guy kept cutting us off and riding our and so she kept going or whatever and he sat around us and she yelled him
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that she had kids and he said, "I don't give a" and then shot us. We tend to think that road rage or
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confrontational driving as it's called is a response to something outside of
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ourselves. So somebody cuts us off, somebody we feel tries to run us off the road, somebody's too slow. We think that
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it's this external factor that's causing this feeling, but really road rage is an
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intrinsic thing, which means it's happening inside of us, and it is how we're reacting to a situation, often
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unreasonably. So, we blame the world, but really it's inside of us. The gunshot went through the
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windshield of of the van that Whitney Gray was driving. [Music] A white SUV had pulled up next to them
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and was screaming and yelling at them in the car. The niece said that she had a cup of water and that she had just
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tossed it at the car that was yelling and screaming at them. A cup of water thrown by her and the
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next thing happening is he's shooting out of his car into their car. Whitney told her she was shot and then
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she veered off. Over the last two decades, researchers have found that there is a
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400% increase in gun-related deaths due to road rage. And one of the reasons that's often cited for this increase is
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the easier access to guns. And so the more people who have guns in their cars, obviously you're more able to reach for
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a weapon when you experience road rage. When we're looking at Missouri as a state, it's actually the second most
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confrontational state for drivers in the United States. And that together is a problematic combination.
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What What does this car look like? Uh, white excuse me, white SUV. Any information that we can get about
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the suspect in terms of vehicle that they're in, the direction that they traveled is vitally important.
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What the guy look like in the car? He was white. How old do you think? Late 20s.
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Where is the suspect? Where is the shooter? We had no idea whether or not this was isolated or not. We knew we
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needed to find this guy before he did this again. Several hundred feet south, they found a
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bullet casing. But what they really needed was cameras that recorded what happened.
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Starting at the place where Whitney Gray was shot in her car, we started working
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backwards from there. One of the patrol officers observed uh cameras on a house literally on the west
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side of Sterling Avenue and it was pointed directly at our seat. We're looking at surveillance from
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a house at Sterling Avenue. There is an intersection on the other side of the railroad track. We believe that's when
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the drink was thrown out of Whitney Gay's car, hit his car, and then he made
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the decision to then shoot out of his car through the middle of the windshield of her car right into her
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chest. So, we're looking for a large white SUV. We're not going to get a lot
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of detail, but all of this is helpful, but on close inspection, a breakthrough. We see this white SUV here. It's driving
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away at high rate of speed. Raises a lot of suspicion to us. They now knew which direction the
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shooter [Music] escaped. The question remained, why was Whitney shot? Was she involved in a
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disturbance prior to this incident happening? The clue was in the car. a bag of groceries from a store called Price
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Chopper. That was going to be the next place on our list to look for surveillance.
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[Music] They found Whitney and the children walking into the store. This is Whitney
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walking in on the phone with her niece and her kids. In this footage, we're just
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looking for somebody that she gets into it with in this store that causes the other events. And by all accounts, she's
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just shopping. She was just a normal mom. She has no way of knowing that this will be
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the last few moments of her [Music] life. This is Whitney's car. Here she is
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passing the groceries in to her niece. She's going to go around to the driver's
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side. But again, nothing out of the ordinary has happened. She hasn't had an
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altercation, an argument. Nothing so far from the grocery store and her has indicated that anything is wrong this
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[Music] evening. She pulls out of this parking lot. Witnesses have told us that it
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started at the intersection that's at the top of the screen there. So, this will be really important to see what we
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can see as she leaves the parking lot of the grocery store. She's waiting to turn
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out now. She pulls out and as she does from left to right there, you see the big white SUV that comes in at a high
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rate of speed behind her. Had to hit his brakes. He has to hit his brakes anyway. It's a red light.
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But I think that that is the moment that he decided that Whitney Gray became his
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problem. Detectives needed to check the cameras on the other side of the road. This is Taco Bell across the
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street. Going to give us a different vantage, a clearer view. You can see the minivan that Whitney was driving that
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she just got into. You can see the white SUV right behind already tailgating her.
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It gives us the clearest view yet of the suspect car. We still can't see the
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license plate. I still can't see the driver's face. We still had no idea what the make
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and model of this vehicle was. In fact, at this point in the investigation, it's
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a true who done it. [Music] and investigators started moving south along Sterling Avenue to check any and
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all places that could have additional surveillance so we could find more images of the suspect car and the
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suspect. Tracking back down south, a gas station looked like a promising spot for
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additional cameras. [Music] That particular gas station was scheduled to be demolished 24 hours from
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the time the officers went in to look at at at their cameras. They rolled the footage back 5 minutes
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before Whitney pulled out of the parking lot at Price Chopper. As they're looking
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at the Quick Trip surveillance, they see a white Toyota Sequoia. pull into the parking lot and pull in and park
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directly under one of their exterior cameras. Crystal clear view of the license plate. Looks like there's one
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person in the car at this point. Looks like a white male. This is what witnesses have told us leading up to
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this. We're very excited at this point to see this footage. You can see the suspect getting out of the car. You can
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tell how he's dressed. You can see the type of uh hat that he's wearing.
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good profile view of him. So, right here as he enters the store is the first picture we get of his
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face. Perfect. Got him. This is the guy that likely shot and killed Whitney Gray.
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At this point, we're kind of looking for reasons why he might be so agitated that
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he's getting ready to murder somebody. This quick trip was getting ready to close, so it was also short on some
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merchandise. He's shaking his head. Looked agitated to me. It was a great picture of his face, but he leaves
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without buying anything. Presumably, they didn't have what he wanted, so he's agitated by
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that. and to me appears to speed out of the parking lot. He's pulling out in
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front of traffic. I think he's already agitated. When it comes to the kind of person who
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is most likely to engage in road rage, there's a personality that's emerged,
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which is people who have what's called high trait anxiety. High trade anxiety
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is basically when somebody is in the world and they perceive more things as hostile and normal things to other
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people to you are massively frustrating and they trigger this anxious response. The other thing that happens is that you
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get into this anger rumination spiral. And if you're unable to analyze the fact
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that these thoughts are irrational, then you might start to look for reasons and
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you might get more angry. And so it doesn't matter that it's trivial what
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started it. What matters is that that cycle begins. We have a face. We have a license plate. We have a guy that's
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already killed once. Is he going to kill again? We need to get this guy stopped.
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And we find out it's registered to somebody named James Taylor. It's not the same person. Is a much
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older male. They tracked down James Taylor. He was brought in for an interview the day
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after the shooting. It turned out he was the suspect's father. He told us right
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away that we were probably looking for his son, Christopher. And we asked him why that was so. And he said, "Well,
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because the Toyota Seoia belongs to my son, Christopher." And I I keep thinking about that poor
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woman or the kids in the car, too. Thank God. Why would he do that? Michael Hunt was the district attorney
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assigned to the case. I think he's frightened for what could happen. His cooperation is based upon he
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wants to try and help his son so he will get captured and without you know danger
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to himself or others. What emerged was an isolated man who only found a sense of purpose while
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doing military training for quite a while. Even up to the point where when he went into the service he
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just he didn't have any any outlook ahead of him. He's trained in firearms.
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He's trained in escape. He's trained in all different kind of things that is
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going to make things difficult for law enforcement to capture him. I'll tell
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you, don't give your life up for him. And I'm serious. He's got to know that
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he you're looking for. Yes, sir. You know, and whether or not he would just give up, I don't know.
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Christopher Taylor was on the run, but his car was on a payment plan installed with a tracker.
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That was a big break because they were able to tell us that that car and their GPS was at a hotel on I90 in Box Elder,
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South Dakota. This is moving very quickly, so we need to get him into custody before he makes it further
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north. Rapid City police sent units officers to this motel and sure enough there's the
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white Toyota Seoia with the Missouri license plate parked in the hotel. Rapid City police moved in to arrest
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Chris Taylor. They did search the car and inside were hundreds if not thousands of rounds of
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ammunition, camping equipment, tents, meals ready to eat like you have in the military.
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I think he just wanted to go hide. He was going to hide forever. I was sitting at the
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lights at 23rd Street in Sterling. There's a vehicle in front of me. Couple more to the
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right. We start light turn green. We're going up the hill. And the car in front of me was going
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slow. And I was just sitting there waiting for them to speed up, but they didn't. So I
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wait for something to clear off to the side, and I sped up and went around them, get up to the speed limit.
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And right then the van starts speeding up next to me and yelling at me and I rolled out
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the window and she says, "My kids are in the car." And I said, "Okay, well, you
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can at least do the speed limit." And I started to speed up. You know, they sped up, too. and
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whoever was in the passenger seat threw something at the car. And with my training and everything, it
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was almost like reacting to contact. Your training is not to pull a gun and fire immediately. You know, I'm around
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police officers every day. Their training is never to pull a gun and fire is your first reaction. So, I know I
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don't believe that one bit. I think what happened? He got mad. It was instantaneous. I didn't even think it
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just happened. And I don't know why. So, I fully missed making the shot, but God knows that didn't mean it to
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happen. I don't buy it. I don't buy it one bit. He was pissed off, made him more
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upset, and he acted out. It happened like that. There's, like I said, it was reactive
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contact, and it was just trained response, muscle memory. He pulled a weapon because a cup of water,
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you know, got thrown at his car. He was never in combat. He was never in a situation where people were shooting
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at him. So that just never made sense. I'm driving forward and something comes
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and hits the car and I always have my hand Mhm. right there just like we do. And as soon as it just like that, you
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check out the window. The kind of person who has their hand on a gun while they're driving at all
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times, that is someone who is high in trait anxiety. So, they are worried about what the world might do to them.
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And that person is more likely to overreact and to interpret something like a bang as an attack. With a gun in
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the car, we know that people are three times more likely to be aggressive. They're more likely to engage in road
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rage behaviors. So, just the presence of a gun emboldens people. And in this moment, maybe what's going through his
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mind is finally, I'm using my gun to defend myself. Christopher Taylor was charged
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with seconddegree murder and armed criminal action. Murder in the second degree is
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intentionally killing another person. My argument to the jury was that pulling a
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handgun that was loaded, cocked, ready to go, firing at a windshield, hitting this woman dead center in the chest was
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an intentional act that caused her death. And that was murder. Christopher Taylor was found guilty of
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the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter and of armed criminal action. They gave him 17
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years. I think it wasn't enough. He robbed a 20some year old of her life. Her children aren't going to know
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her mother. I think he should be there for life. It's one of those things that
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never leaves you. That road rage is out there all the time, but you cannot, you know, get involved with it because you
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never know if that person's going to have a gun, if they've had a bad day, if
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they didn't get the water that they wanted. Uh, is it something that's going
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to come back at you with a bullet? It's just so pointless. That's the sad
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thing. She was a 22-year-old mother and he didn't give her a chance. Whitney Gay's death was the result of a
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failure to control dark thoughts. In some cases, our metacognition fails. In other words,
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we're unable to think critically about the thoughts and feelings we're having.
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And that failure is instant. It's in a flash of anger that we don't get under
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control. In other cases, that emotion and that metacognition is a failure that lasts a lot longer and resentments and
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emotions fester. And in our next case, long-term festering anger spilled over into
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[Music] murder. Minnesota, the state capital, St. Paul. It was home to 30-year-old Kira
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Stagger. She was my oldest daughter. Kira was one of four children. She had two sisters and a brother. Kira
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loved spending time with her siblings. She was very close with each of them. She loved to read. She loved to color.
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just always a very happy, easygoing little girl. She loved animals. She loved her baby, which was
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her dog, Cayman. In 2003, a new love. Kira met Jeff Trevino. He was 27 and she was
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20. Kira got a job at the Mall of America as a store manager. She loved her job. When they would close
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the store, Kira would turn up the music. They would dance or sing while they were
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finishing up for the day. It wasn't work. They loved it. Kira and Jeff had been together for 7
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years. When they decided to take things to the next level, one day, Kira turned around and
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she's like, "Mom, I have something to show you." She showed me your hand with
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the engagement ring. Jeff and Kira got married in Costa Rica. I said, "Kira, as long as he makes
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you happy." But after 10 years, the relationship became strained. Kira was seeing more of a man
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at work. At home, she'd sleep in the spare room or stay with friends. By February 2013, Kira and Jeff
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decided to meet up to work on their marital issues. The next day, Kira missed an
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appointment with her personal trainer and stopped replying to messages. 2 days later, on Saturday,
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Kira didn't make it to [Music] work. Andy Johnson is an assistant attorney in Ramsey County.
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When Kira didn't show up for work, the co-workers start calling her husband and
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saying, "Hey, she didn't show up for work. Do you know what happened to her?"
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At this point, Jeff didn't seem terribly concerned because he said that Kira had
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been kind of disappearing for a couple days at a time, staying with friends. Kira failed to turn up for work again on
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Sunday, February 24th. 3 days after his last contact, Jeff reported Kira missing.
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911. Where is your emergency? I need to report my wife missing and I don't know
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exactly how to do that. All right, I'll help you with the process. What city is
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this? St. Paul. Dr. Lissa Johnson is a forensic psychologist. His response was that he wouldn't do
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anything until 3 days after the fact. If your partner goes missing, you would well the expectation is that you would
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be quite frantic. he would be worried, concerned for their well-being and where they might be.
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After Jeff reported Kira missing, he called her mother, Marcy. He hadn't seen Kira. She was missing. We
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knew that she would never just leave. [Music] Sheila Lambi was an investigator assigned to the missing person's case.
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Once a police report comes in that there's a missing person, we start an investigation. Whether it is talking to
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family members or friends, when was this person last seen, last talked to Kira's phone records revealed that
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she'd actually been texting during her date night with [Music] Jeff. The text messages were playful,
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flirtatious. It's hard to imagine that Jeff would not notice her texting throughout date
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night. Investigators went to Jeff and Kira's house to speak with Jeff. He told them about the last time
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he'd seen Kira. We learned that uh Jeff and Kira having date night on Thursday.
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They decided to go bowling. They had dinner. Detectives reviewed surveillance footage
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from the Mall of America to look for Kira and Jeff. Their night out was analyzed by
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Kelly Fickner, a digital forensics expert. When we see Kira and Jeff enter the frame here, we can see that Jeff is
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upright. He's swinging the bag casually. His shoulders aren't slumped. They're engaged in
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conversation. He doesn't appear to be upset in any way. At 9:24 p.m., Kira's car was captured on
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camera leaving the mall. We know Kira and Jeff came in separate vehicles. Uh she was working
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and he met her at the mall. So, seeing her vehicle leave at specific time corroborated Jeff's story of when they
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left the mall. The police still had no idea where Kira could be. The timeline corroborates Jeff's
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story of what they did that evening, dinner, bowling, and then heading home from the
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mall. It doesn't appear that there's any kind of argument happening. Neither of
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them is gesturing or being quite violent with their hand [Music] motions, but the police still needed to
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corroborate Jeff's version of what happened when they returned home. They came home and watched the
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movie and then Cara had said that she needed gas in her car. So Cara went to bed and Jeff took her car and got gas in
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the car. The next morning, she left to go to the gym, and Jeff said that's the last time
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he saw her or talked to her. Investigators checked his timeline of events against local surveillance
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footage. They found one camera which gave a direct view of Kira and Jeff's house. It was moving fast and the
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footage was hard to work with. and watching this frame by frame took a long time.
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A few hours after Kira and Jeff got back, a car was spotted at the house. The neighbor surveillance camera
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actually shows the vehicle backing up. It doesn't show it driving out, but it
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does show it backing up towards the garage very late at night. This is strange behavior. Why would somebody do
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that? A few minutes later, the car leaves. [Music] Appeared to be an odd time for someone
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to be leaving their home. Jeff's trip to get gas in Kira's car was confirmed by surveillance
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footage, but he didn't appear to head home. When the car leaves the gas station, the
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car should be heading east to go back to Kira and Jeff's house. The car did not
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go east. The next time Kira's car was seen was the morning after date night. According to Jeff, it was Kira
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going to the gym. The pixel values inside the window area here are different and they form the
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outline of the driver of the vehicle. But without any further pixel information, we can't tell who's
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[Music] driving. We start to wonder, is Jeff telling us everything? Is Jeff not sharing everything with the status of
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their marriage? Was Cara done with this relationship? Kira's mom, Marcy, had her own view.
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It was not any kind of 50/50 relationship. If he liked something, she would like it. It was all about
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control. After they got back from Costa Rica after the wedding, the controlling behavior started to turn into
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possessive behavior. And this was something that could be seen throughout the relationship like she couldn't be
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too far from him. In general, all of us engage in some kind of controlling behavior in an
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attempt to manage what's happening around us. So in an attempt to maintain control, we start trying to mold things
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into how we think they should be. It gets ramped up now when we start putting limits. we are putting actual limits on
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other human beings. Um, and so they no longer really had their own identity. So that's a different level of of control.
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3 days after Kira went missing, police got their first breakthrough. Kira's vehicle has been located at the
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Mall of America in a parking ramp. The car had two timespecific parking citations and was due to be
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towed. What's more disturbing, the tow truck driver noticed that there was what he
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suspected to be dried blood on this vehicle. You could see there was a trunk liner. It almost looked like it had been
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thrown from where Kira's vehicle is out into the snow. And it did look like it
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had possibly blood on that trunk liner. Inside the car, the police also found Kira's
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purse. It is not likely that she left her purse behind in a car willingly. Any piece of information you
00:34:45
get is like almost like a lifeline at that point cuz the not knowing the not knowing is the worst part.
00:34:57
It's like a an early grieving when you've lost someone. You don't know
00:35:00
what's happened. You you don't know if this is a choice that they have made or
00:35:05
if someone has done something to harm a loved one. So, it's really scary and the
00:35:13
uncertainty can leave you feeling a bit lost and helpless and hopeless. One parking citation is for 3:00 in the
00:35:25
morning Saturday morning. So, we know we need to work backwards. Traffic cameras picked up
00:35:34
Kira's white Chevrolet driving back to the Mall of America the morning after
00:35:39
Jeff and Kira went on the date. It went into a specific parking area where the car was found. And it was from
00:35:48
that parking area we watched for any either other vehicles leaving or anyone on foot.
00:35:57
When they looked through the footage, they discovered a lone figure. This individual appears to be
00:36:04
male based on body type and build and gate, dark top, dark pants, and white shoes.
00:36:13
We are able to keep an eye on those white shoes as the individual walks across the street to the taxi
00:36:20
stand. Police needed to know if this was the person who left Kira's car in the
00:36:25
parking lot. They tracked the taxi. The destination was just a block away from Kira's
00:36:40
home. Moments later, a figure emerges into frame. We see dark colored top, dark pants. We see the logo on the front of
00:36:53
the shirt and with light colored or white shoes. This person is now heading towards the home that Kira and Jeff
00:37:03
share. It was enough to warrant a search of Jeff and Kira's house. They started looking in the in the
00:37:13
bedroom. They noticed a number of things. It looked like the furniture had been moved because there were
00:37:18
indentations in the carpet suggesting that at least sometime recently the the furniture had been in a somewhat
00:37:24
different order. Then they started looking at the walls and they noticed a spot on the
00:37:31
wall that appeared to be blood. And then they started looking around again and they found more spots and more
00:37:38
spots and more spots. There was some clothing that had been freshly washed and it was hanging
00:37:49
up to dry. It was the same hoodie Jeff was wearing at the mall the last time Kira
00:37:56
was seen alive. We found receipts for cleaning supplies that had been purchased over the
00:38:08
weekend. Forensic investigators used luminol, a chemical that will fluores and glow when blood is detected under UV
00:38:17
light. It became very obvious to us that there was a fight and a struggle that happened
00:38:28
in the Trovina home and it looks like it happened in that master bedroom. We could see a line of the lumininal
00:38:41
coming out of the bedroom into the living room through the kitchen and it looked like the carpet
00:38:50
cleaner had been used. 15 days prior to Kira going missing, Jeff stopped at my house to
00:39:02
borrow my carpet shampooer. My carpet shampooer was used to clean up all the blood, even to the point of the human
00:39:16
tissue from her being stuck in the bristles. and a selfie revealed a cover up. We knew the furniture had been
00:39:27
rearranged clearly an attempt to cover up the blood spatter. When we saw the amount of blood in that
00:39:37
house, we believed we were looking for a body. As the video evidence stacked up,
00:39:43
Jeff's red car was spotted at the gas station the morning after Kira and Jeff's date.
00:39:51
When I saw this video, I knew it was Jeff. He's getting cash from the ATM. Uh, it's the cash he uses to pay the
00:39:59
taxi home from the Mall of [Music] America. When I saw that video and I saw that
00:40:10
sweatshirt, that exact sweatshirt is in the kitchen of Jeff and Kira's house.
00:40:21
The logo on the sweatshirt seemed to match the hoodie worn by the man getting out of the
00:40:27
[Music] taxi. Inside of Kira's vehicle, they also found some divorce papers, the kind
00:40:37
that you fill out yourself. They suggested that her marriage wasn't going well.
00:40:43
Jeff Trevino is no longer our person of interest. He is our number one suspect in this case.
00:40:50
Jeff was arrested. Go have a seat, Jeff. Kira was still missing, but her husband didn't seem to be helping to
00:41:00
find her. I'm going to use my right to remain silent until I can speak to my
00:41:04
attorney. Despite his silence on where Kira might be, Jeff was charged with seconddegree
00:41:12
murder. [Music] Kira's friends and family did all they could to find her. The search for Kira
00:41:21
was extraordinary. Her family was very involved. Her friends were very involved. Everyone was looking
00:41:28
everywhere possible. Even Kira's 70-year-old grandfather turned detective. My dad decided to walk up along the side
00:41:42
of the road and he he just by chance, I mean, he looked into the woods and he he
00:41:48
saw something up against a tree and it was a bag. There was so much blood in there.
00:41:57
He goes, "I actually thought I was going to find her head in that bag."
00:42:02
[Music] We recovered this evidence and it turned out to be Kira's blood. I didn't have to get my hopes
00:42:15
up. I knew that Kira was [Music] dead. The search continued. Then on May 8th, almost 3 months after
00:42:29
Kira went missing, a barge worker on the Mississippi River made a discovery. Now that the river was free
00:42:38
flowing with water and not frozen, the body was found. We found out through dental
00:42:47
records and DNA this person was indeed Kira. The autopsy report revealed that Kira
00:42:56
had suffered a broken finger and multiple blunt force injuries that ultimately caused her
00:43:02
death. I can only imagine the level of pain she went through. to not know if did she call for
00:43:15
me. That still haunts me what she must have gone through. In court, the prosecution had
00:43:24
to present a solid timeline to prove that Jeff Trevino was Kira's killer. The video evidence was crucial
00:43:32
for revealing Jeff's movements the night that Kira was killed. Jeff is very obviously trying to hide
00:43:41
what happened and without that video of those actions, it would have been very difficult to prove the wrongdoings.
00:43:50
The footage also shed light on what really happened in the early hours of Friday, February 22nd.
00:43:59
When Jeff leaves the gas station and he is heading west, not towards his house, I believe Kira is in that vehicle in the
00:44:07
trunk and Jeff is going to dispose of her body. But the question remained, why did
00:44:16
Jeff kill Kira? She had just turned 30. She's rethinking her life. And I I believe
00:44:25
that when she got home from date night, she realized there's there's nothing more
00:44:31
for me here. She had made up her mind. She had decided, "No, I'm I'm going to go on my
00:44:41
own." And then that's when she told him, and he couldn't handle it.
00:44:50
Jeff Trevino was found guilty on one count of secondderee unintentional murder. He was acquitted on an
00:44:58
additional count that alleged he intended to kill his wife. The jury concluded that after a
00:45:05
fight, Jeff Trevino used a pillow to try to silence Kira, not to kill her. I think maybe he felt he lost control
00:45:15
and so you regain control in this case unfortunately by taking taking their [Music]
00:45:29
life. So this is a Mother's Day card from Kira. She always knew what to say.
00:45:40
Joyce chose the perfect card. I love you, Kira. I love you, baby. I think about you every every
00:45:52
day. What I hope that happens when anyone that hears Kira's story is believe it can happen to anyone.
00:46:02
Anything that does not feel right, trust yourself. and get out of that situation. It's better to be extra
00:46:14
careful or upset your significant other. Take that chance. Don't take the chance to to stay.
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[Music] [Music]

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This episode stands out for the following:

  • 90
    Most shocking
  • 85
    Most heartbreaking
  • 85
    Biggest twist
  • 80
    Most emotional

Episode Highlights

  • Lethal Road Rage Incident
    A young mother's shopping trip turns deadly due to road rage.
    “Is he going to kill again? We need to get this guy stopped.”
    @ 00m 27s
    May 20, 2025
  • Whitney Gray's Tragic Death
    Whitney Gray, a young mother, is shot during a road rage incident.
    “The victim was identified as Whitney Gray.”
    @ 04m 04s
    May 20, 2025
  • Capture of the Suspect
    Police track down the shooter using surveillance footage.
    “We have a face. We have a license plate.”
    @ 15m 11s
    May 20, 2025
  • Trial and Sentencing
    Christopher Taylor is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Whitney's death.
    “He robbed a 20-some year old of her life.”
    @ 22m 37s
    May 20, 2025
  • Discovery of Kira's Blood
    Kira's vehicle is found with evidence of blood, raising alarm about her fate.
    “What’s more disturbing, the tow truck driver noticed that there was what he suspected to be dried blood on this vehicle.”
    @ 34m 06s
    May 20, 2025
  • Jeff Arrested
    Jeff Trevino becomes the prime suspect in Kira's disappearance and is arrested.
    “Jeff Trevino is no longer our person of interest. He is our number one suspect in this case.”
    @ 40m 48s
    May 20, 2025
  • Kira's Disappearance
    Kira goes missing after a date night with Jeff, leading to a frantic search.
    “Kira was still missing, but her husband didn’t seem to be helping to find her.”
    @ 40m 57s
    May 20, 2025
  • Kira's Body Found
    Kira's body is discovered in the Mississippi River, confirming fears of her fate.
    “We found out through dental records and DNA this person was indeed Kira.”
    @ 42m 50s
    May 20, 2025
  • Trial and Verdict
    Jeff Trevino is found guilty of unintentional murder in Kira's death.
    “The jury concluded that after a fight, Jeff Trevino used a pillow to try to silence Kira.”
    @ 44m 56s
    May 20, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • I thought I was going to find her head in that bag.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera
  • I actually thought I was going to find her head in that bag.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera
  • The camera doesn’t lie.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera
  • She was a 22-year-old mother and he didn’t give her a chance.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera
  • The not knowing is the worst part.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera
  • It’s better to be extra careful or upset your significant other.
    Shocking Road Rage Murder of Whitney Gray | Killers Caught On Camera

Key Moments

  • Road Rage Incident00:20
  • Surveillance Breakthrough08:20
  • Whitney's Last Moments10:01
  • Capture of Christopher17:51
  • Trial Outcome22:21
  • Missing Person Report26:59
  • Investigation Begins27:52
  • Blood Evidence Found37:31

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