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[AUDIO LOGO] NARRATOR: This time
on "Killers Caught on Camera." In the UK, in Hull,
a young woman
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goes missing after being
refused entry to a nightclub. - I heard the voice in my head
saying, she's dead, she's dead,
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she's dead. RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
The CCTV picked up a man who was out looking
to commit sexual offenses.
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LISA SQUIRE: She was put in
a car, someone has taken her. NARRATOR:
And in the US, a body is
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found dumped in the foothills
of the Rocky Mountains after a date turns deadly. STANLEY SESSIONS: They
said we found your son.
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He's deceased. I had to go tell his mother. And she said, who would
want to hurt my Scotty?
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STEVE WRENN: The killer was
waiting behind the door. The depth of the cut
to the neck
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was significant
and violent, a laceration that nearly decapitated him. MAN 1: It just
sounds like something
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bad is happening to her. WOMAN: We know what
happened because the video tells us what happened.
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MAN 2: I heard some gunshots. POLICE: Drop it. Whatever it is, drop it. MAN 3: That does not prove
that I killed my wife.
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MAN 4: The camera doesn't lie. NARRATOR: In the UK,
in the North-East in Yorkshire,
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the city of Hull. RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Hull is,
like many Northern cities, had a very significant
industry and industrial past.
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It also has a significant
student population. NARRATOR: 21-year-old
Libby Squire was studying
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philosophy at Hull University. LISA SQUIRE: Libby was
an amazing daughter. She was incredibly funny.
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She had a wonderful
sense of humor. She was very caring. Her and I were
particularly close.
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NARRATOR: Affectionately
nicknamed Libby Pie by her mom, Libby was born on New
Year's day, 1998.
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LISA SQUIRE: I'd
always wanted children. My husband and I had
been together for eight
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years when we had Libby. She was a really,
really beautiful baby. I was a nanny when
I had Libby, and
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she came back to work with me
when she was three weeks old. I was very fortunate
that I was able to spend
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every day with her. NARRATOR: Libby was
the eldest of Lisa and her husband
Russell's four children.
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LISA SQUIRE: She was
an amazing big sister. She made sure that they knew
that she was number one.
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She adored them, and I think
in turn they all adored her. NARRATOR: When
she started school
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in her hometown of West
Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, Libby flourished. LISA SQUIRE: Within
the first week
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she'd made a whole
class full of friends. She loved to read. She could read before
she started school.
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Academically, she did really
well and really took to it. NARRATOR: But when
she reached her teens,
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Libby began to struggle
with anxiety and depression. LISA SQUIRE: I noticed her
mental health was really
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declining, that she
was self-harming daily, hourly at one point. It was horrendous.
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And sadly she had four suicide
attempts in her lifetime as well. It was really hard
as a mom because I
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couldn't take that
pain away from her, but it made her resilient. - Recent research from England
has actually found that about
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one in four, so a quarter, of
people between the ages of 11 and 16 who have
mental health issues
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attempt to kill
themselves or they engage in self-harming behaviors. So the rates are
really very high.
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Since about 2000, there has
been an increase in suicide generally in places
like the US and the UK.
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But exactly what's driving
that, that increase in numbers is a bit unclear. Some people point
to social media,
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some people point
to increased rates of anxiety and depression,
especially in teenagers.
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NARRATOR: Libby was determined
to turn her life around, and took a year off to deal
with her mental health problems
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before going to university. LISA SQUIRE: She spent lots
of time working on herself.
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She worked so hard. She spent time
with her boyfriend and spent lots of time
with the family.
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NARRATOR: Libby started
at the University of Hull in September 2017. LISA SQUIRE: She was
studying philosophy,
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and she was good at it. She really enjoyed it because
she'd found something that
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improved her mental health. She'd found her
place, actually. And it was lovely
watching her blossom
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into this beautiful woman. NARRATOR: Thursday,
January 31, 2019. Libby and her
university friends
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went to the Welly Nightclub
in the student area of Hull. LISA SQUIRE: It was 1:09
in the morning, so early
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hours of Friday morning. And I noticed a missed call
from one of Libby's friends.
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She said, we can't find Libby. And I said to her, what do
you mean you can't find Libby?
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And then she just went on to
say, we went to a nightclub and Libby-- wouldn't let
Libby in because they
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said she was too drunk,
so we put her in a taxi to send her home. NARRATOR: But when
Libby's friends
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returned to their shared house,
Libby was nowhere to be seen. LISA SQUIRE: I just had
this voice in my head
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saying, this is really serious,
because Libby would always call me if she was in trouble.
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We spoke three
or four times a day. It was the strangest
of feelings. I just was, oh my goodness.
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And I couldn't feel her. I couldn't connect with her
in any way, shape, or form.
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NARRATOR: In the early
hours of Friday, February 1, Libby was reported
missing to the police.
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[PHONE RINGING] RICHARD WRIGHT KC: From
a police perspective, a young woman missing after
a night out in a student area
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is going to be a high priority. It was particularly
bad weather. It was very, very
cold outside, and
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so immediately the police
swung into action in terms of trying to locate her. NARRATOR: Libby's
mom and dad drove up
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to Hull as soon as they could. LISA SQUIRE: It was awful. And the whole time I was
just thinking, where are you?
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Where are you?
Where are you? It was the worst journey ever. It took us 5.5 hours
to get up there.
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The windscreen
wipers kept freezing and I just wanted to be there. I just wanted
to go and find her.
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- When somebody is
reported missing, they will speak to all
of the people who were last
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in contact with that person. But they'll also start a search
of closed circuit television.
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NARRATOR: Police
obtained CCTV footage from outside
the Welly Nightclub. It confirmed Libby arrived
at 11:14 PM on Thursday,
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January 31. RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Here is
Libby in the dark clothing with the bare legs, walking
towards the entrance
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of the Welly Club. We know this is Libby, so when
we're seeing lasered footage, we're able
to reference it across.
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NARRATOR: A mile away
from the Welly Nightclub, police obtained
surveillance footage
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from a camera near Libby's
home on Wellesley Avenue. It showed a taxi
arriving at 11:29 PM.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
The police were able to identify
the taxi driver and speak to him very rapidly.
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He gave an account
of dropping Libby off and that he then left the area. There was no question that
the taxi driver had in any way
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been involved in Libby's
disappearance. NARRATOR: Libby's
keys were later found right outside her front door.
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LISA SQUIRE: We knew that the
taxi driver had dropped her off and we knew she hadn't
gone into her house,
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but we then didn't
know what had happened. NARRATOR: As the police
continued searching through
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the footage, they
saw Libby emerge from Wellesley Avenue at 11:36 PM. RICHARD WRIGHT KC: We've
got the same clothing,
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we've no doubt that's her. She was walking
in an unsteady manner. She didn't appear
to have any purpose.
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She was going up
and down the road. She'd linger in one area,
then move on slightly and then
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go back and retrace her steps. NARRATOR: Libby was
at risk of hypothermia and extremely vulnerable.
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Police needed to find her. As they continued
searching through hours of surveillance footage, they
uncovered a disturbing figure.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC: Libby
was waiting in the area of a bus stop on Beverly Road. She is looking
down Beverly Road,
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the CCTV picked up
a figure of a man who appeared to notice Libby. And he's crossing the road, and
he goes down this side street.
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He hasn't gone away. He's just watching her. He's seeing what sort
of conditions she's in.
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She's still here
by the bus stop. And now she starts to move back
in the direction of her home.
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We can see she's not
moving very quickly. She's quite unsteady
still on her feet.
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But watch what he does. He sticks to the line
of the buildings and walks up this
side of the road,
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sort of tracking her movement. She's gone off,
away from safety. He crosses the road
and he follows her.
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At the moment, this green
arrow is going to disappear. That's when Libby
steps off the road
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into the grounds of a convent. Almost immediately,
the suspect follows her. He's watched her, stalked
her along the road
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and now he's moving in. We now knew that Libby had
come into contact with a man,
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and so it was
absolutely crucial that we identified
that man and could speak to him because we didn't
know what had then happened.
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NARRATOR: Libby's
parents appealed to the public for information. - Libby, my darling
Pike, we just
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want to know that you're safe. Please get in touch
with us any way you can. The whole family
is missing you.
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NARRATOR: The police
organized the largest missing persons search in the
history of Humberside Police.
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The whole community
came out in full force. - Please come home. We know we love you.
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All the support, there's over
200 people in there for you. Please, please come home soon.
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LISA SQUIRE:
The amount of people that were trying to find
her, the whole place just
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were really focused on trying
to get a good outcome for us. That really carried
us and I along,
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and we were really grateful for
all of the outpouring of love for her. I don't think there is a word
to describe that situation
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that we were in. It was a feeling
that I've never, ever, ever had
before, obviously,
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and I would never, ever want
anyone to go through that. NARRATOR: In the 18 months
before Libby went missing,
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there was a series
of disturbing incidents in the student area of Hull. [PHONE RINGING]
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JULIA SHAW: People who
engage in voyeurism and who engage in flashing
behaviors are repeat offenders.
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So it's very rare to have
someone who just does it once and then never does it again.
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And whenever you have
a repetition of a bad behavior, of an anti-social behavior,
you have generally
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a higher risk
of also escalation of all these other negative
consequences that we fear.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Those incidents included burglaries
where the burglar stole underwear and sex toys.
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They were incidents
of voyeurism, a man being seen
staring into windows, watching couples having sex.
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And there had been
an incident where a man had approached two young
women who were walking home
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and had masturbated
at them in the street and ejaculated onto
their front door. - In one study that
looked at people
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who were caught for flashing,
they found that about one in four escalated in the
severity of their actions
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to what are called
contact offenses. And that included
rape and assault. NARRATOR: The last sighting
of Libby and the male figure
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was at the corner of Beverley
Road and Haworth street. Four days after
Libby went missing,
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police had a major
breakthrough. Hidden behind some blue
gates on Haworth street,
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a camera captured
a figure being put into the front seat of a car. Libby's mom and dad
were asked by the police
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to view the footage. LISA SQUIRE: They asked us if
we thought it could be Libby,
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and I said, absolutely,
that's Libby. I knew from the way
that her hair moved. And I said, no, she doesn't
get in the car like that.
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She doesn't get
in a car that way. She gets in-- she put her legs
down and swing her legs in.
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She doesn't climb
in a car like that. So I knew that she'd
been put in the car. And that lodged in my brain
someone has taken her,
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someone's taken her. - A member of the public
found on the street a watch. And it was Libby's watch.
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And that proved to be
important evidence because it told us something
about the circumstances
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in which she had
gone into that car. It suggested a struggle. NARRATOR: The police attempted
to track the vehicle which
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Libby was seen getting into. Just after midnight,
the car was spotted at Oak Road playing fields.
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- Next to the playing
fields there's a dead end. We were fortunate to find some
CCTV from residential property.
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And, obviously, it was very
dark, but what you could see were headlights
coming and going.
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And that captured this car
arriving and then leaving. We then had some crucial
evidence from a man who heard
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screams coming from a woman. And he was able to pinpoint
the timing of those screams
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because he checked the time. That meant that the screams
had to be related to Libby.
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NARRATOR:
As the police continued to track the vehicle
that Libby got into, they uncovered more disturbing
footage of the driver.
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- This individual was
masturbating in the street, and that was important
evidence because it revealed
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that he, obviously, had
an extremely high sex drive, insatiable, you might say. JULIA SHAW: The main reason
people masturbate in public
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is because of the excitement of
the thought of getting caught, because otherwise you're not
going to be in a public space,
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you're going to do it at home. And so this idea that
somebody could catch you, that risk, that
excitement, is arousing.
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The bigger question is why you
actually go through with it. NARRATOR: The net was closing
in on the male suspect.
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Then a huge breakthrough. At 3:00 AM on February
the 1, he walked directly towards the camera.
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- We know that this
is the same person because we've tracked the car. NARRATOR: Police
discovered the vehicle
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belonged to a local man, the
footage confirmed his identity. His name was Pawel Relowicz,
a 24-year-old Polish butcher
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who came to the UK in 2015. Married with two children, he
lived less than a mile away
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from Libby's home. The police moved in to arrest
Pawel for kidnap. RICHARD WRIGHT
KC: At that stage
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we didn't know
what had happened, we didn't know whether
Libby was alive or dead.
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And so kidnap was the obvious
charge to arrest him on. LISA SQUIRE: I
remember feeling sick,
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but I remember also
thinking they'll arrest him and he'll tell us where she is
and then we'll go and find her
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and I'll bring her home. NARRATOR: Police
questioned Pawel about Libby's disappearance.
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At first, he denied
having met Libby at all. But then he changed his story. RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
He then ran the story
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that he was effectively
acting as a good Samaritan. He was trying to get her
back to her home address.
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NARRATOR: When they
searched Pawel's vehicle, they uncovered some
alarming items.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC: They found
women's underwear, sex toys, and these were all
the things that he
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had stolen in this
series of burglaries when he was targeting
student homes. And it was from that
discovery that the police
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were able to suddenly
establish that all of these precursor
incidents had been the work of one person.
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And that person
was Pawel Relowicz. - Taking this underwear
and keeping it in the trunk
of your car, there's
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sort of an old
language around this, which is that offenders
sometimes like to take
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trophies from crime scenes. Typically for non-contact
sexual offenses like flashing,
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like masturbating
in public, you don't typically have stuff with you. This is much more prepared.
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There's more going on here than
just a spontaneous decision to flash somebody. NARRATOR: But Pawel Pavlovich
didn't just steal things.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
In some of the incidents, Relowicz had left either
a condom or semen at the scene,
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and they were able
to get a DNA sample. And in other cases,
individuals were able to recognize him
because he'd been seen
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peering into their windows. NARRATOR: The police confronted
Pawel about the items
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found in the pink bag. LISA SQUIRE: He
was the perpetrator of several
non-contact offenses.
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The realization of what had
likely happened did sink in, and I had thought
for quite some time
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that maybe he had assaulted
her and she'd had a breakdown and maybe she'd gone somewhere.
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NARRATOR: 48 days passed before
the police got a breakthrough. RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
A pleasure fisherman
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saw what he believed
to be a body in the water, but what they could
also see is that around
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the neck of the body
was a delicate gold necklace with the letter L.
DNA samples were taken and
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examined, and it was confirmed
to be the body of Libby Squire. LISA SQUIRE: I handed
the phone to Russell
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because I just couldn't speak. And when he put
the phone down I said, so does that mean she's dead?
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And he said, yeah, it does. There was a big bit
of me it was like, I was so happy that
she'd been found,
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that she was coming home. NARRATOR: But it was almost
impossible to determine how Libby had died.
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- When bodies are
found in water, it's very, very difficult
to tell whether they
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went in dead or alive. And that was the position here. NARRATOR: Libby's mom went
to see her daughter's body.
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LISA SQUIRE: It was a week
after she'd been recovered. It was hard, but I was able to
go in and sort of hold her hand
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and just talk to her and say,
thank you for coming back. And I'm really sorry
I couldn't save you.
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I should have known that you
were in danger and I should have saved you, but I didn't.
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And I'm sorry but-- I just wanted to tell her--
nobody can ever hurt you again. You're safe now.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Although Libby's body had been in the water
for many, many weeks,
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a sample that was taken
was found to contain the DNA of Pawel Relowicz. It contained his semen.
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LISA SQUIRE:
And as far as I know, it's never been heard
of in the world before.
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Nobody else has ever held
on to DNA for 48 days in moving water. She's absolutely nailed him.
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NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz
was re-arrested. RICHARD WRIGHT
KC: When Relowicz was arrested for murder,
I mean, his reaction
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was quite incredible. He sort of giggled and laughed
as if he found it funny. And he simply
denied the offense.
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NARRATOR: At trial, the CCTV
evidence was crucial. RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
It enabled the jury
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to follow Libby on her last
journey, almost step by step. And it also then overlaid
on Libby's journey
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the movements of Relowicz. NARRATOR: It emerged that Pawel
relowicz went to McDonald's and
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fueled up his car, before
driving to Haworth Street to wait
for an unsuspecting victim.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC: And it
was quite sinister, really, when you piece
the CCTV together
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because you had this
idea of there was Libby in the center of events, not
knowing that circling around
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the outside of her was this
man who was out looking to commit sexual offenses. And then he spotted her.
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And you could see immediately
that when he spotted her, the die was cast. She was a perfect
victim for him.
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And so he was then
immediately stalking her and working out how he
could get her into his car.
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NARRATOR: Footage
recovered from Oak Road also revealed he had gone back
to the scene of the crime.
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RICHARD WRIGHT KC: That
return visit was absolutely dynamite in our hands. If he'd have just
raped her, there
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is no way he would have gone
back to the scene of the rape because he would not have
known whether the place would
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be swarming with police and
he'd be walking into an arrest. It was the fact he
had the confidence
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to go back that same night,
which demonstrated that he must have known he'd killed her.
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NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz was
convicted of rape and murder. He was sentenced
to life imprisonment
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with a minimum term of 27 years
for the murder of Libby Squire. - He can get out.
He can get married again.
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He can drive a car.
He can go on holiday. He can eat roast beef. He can do whatever he
wants, Libby can't, and
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that's not fair. He should never
get out of prison. RICHARD WRIGHT KC:
Throughout the trial,
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Relowicz never admitted
that he had raped Libby or that he had killed her. He did not give any explanation
for how she had died.
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He didn't give any
explanation for how she'd come into the water. He maintained his account
throughout that they'd
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had consensual sex. He'd left her fit and well. Sadly, in particular
for Libby's family,
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the consequence of Relowicz
continuing to deny his offenses is that we'll never know
exactly what unfolded
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on Oak Road playing
fields, and precisely the sequence of events. NARRATOR: In the wake
of Libby's death,
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her mother is determined
to do something positive. LISA SQUIRE: I
knew I'd never be
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able to stop rape
and murder, but she couldn't just die and nothing be done. The more I looked
into the non-contact offenses,
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I realized that, actually, one
of the biggest problems we have is that women don't report.
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JULIA SHAW: Sexual offenses
in general are underreported. So that includes rape,
that includes various kinds
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of assault. But if we look
at non-contact offenses like in flashing
or voyeurism, you
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have abysmal reporting rates. And so most of the time
people feel unable to report.
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They don't realize
it's something they can report
because it feels like this sort of hazy
thing that happened to them.
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This combination
of factors means that people who flash
others more often than not
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will get away with
it, and that's another reason why they
often go on to perpetrate
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this crime multiple times. NARRATOR: Together with
Thames Valley Police, Lisa has launched a campaign
called, It Does Matter.
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LISA SQUIRE:
If your friend is drunk, never ever send
them home alone. Go home with them.
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And if you are a victim of a
non-contact offense, report it, you know. And if the police
don't take you
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seriously, find another
police officer and report it. Non-contact offenders
will keep offending
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and eventually they might
go on to rape and murder. She will always
be my first born.
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She'll always be my pie,
my Lippy pie, as I call her. She is still one
of the six of us.
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We are a family of six, we
always will be a family of six. People say to me, where
do you find your strength?
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And she gives me
the strength to carry on. She lives in my heart
forever and ever.
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I think it's really
important for people to remember her as Libby. Not as Libby, the rape
and murder victim,
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but as Libby, the friend, the
girl, the daughter, the sister. And remember the good
times with her
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because they're way more
important than how she died. NARRATOR: Pawel Relowicz
was able to perpetrate
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multiple sexually
motivated crimes before he was finally held accountable. - What you often find with
all manner of sexual offenses
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is that once one
person comes forward, other previous victims will
also report the same offense or
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the same person. It's very sad that
as a society we don't create enough
space for women
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to feel this way
in the first place, and that we sometimes
need a very brave individual to come forward.
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But other times, you
do have perpetrators held accountable for various
crimes that they've committed
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and yet they're able to go
on to commit heinous crimes. NARRATOR: And in our next
case, the actions
00:24:58
of a violent offender
with numerous convictions proved fatal. In the US, Colorado,
50 miles Northeast
00:25:09
of Denver, the city
of Greeley, a vibrant community with a lively music scene. - Greeley is about an hour
North of Denver, about an hour
00:25:21
South of the Wyoming border. It has a little over
100,000 people in it. Partly rural, partly urban,
a little bit of a unique mix.
00:25:30
NARRATOR: It was home
to 53-year-old Scott Sessions, affectionately called Scottie
by his father, Stanley.
00:25:39
STANLEY SESSIONS: Scottie
was just a good guy. He was just very
animated all the time,
00:25:46
just such a fun
personality to be around. He was quite an achiever. And when he was old enough, he
started to play the trumpet.
00:25:56
It was fun to watch him. NARRATOR: Scott and his
brother were adopted. STANLEY SESSIONS: Your parental
instincts kick in no matter
00:26:03
where the kids come from. He particularly loved his mom. He just had a knack
for making people feel good.
00:26:10
NARRATOR: Scott graduated
from Brigham Young University with a degree
in music, and performed
00:26:17
with a number of bands. STANLEY SESSIONS: He
told me many times, this is the only time
I am truly happy,
00:26:23
really, really happy is
when I'm on the stage. NARRATOR: But Scott's
musical talent
00:26:27
couldn't pay all the bills. STANLEY SESSIONS:
He painted houses. He was really good at it.
00:26:33
NARRATOR: Scott continued
to play on the music scene, but life wasn't always easy.
00:26:39
STANLEY SESSIONS:
It was tough times because he got to experimenting
with the drugs.
00:26:44
He got on this track
of wrong people around him and he had a tough
time for a few years.
00:26:50
NARRATOR: In early 2020,
Scott and his jazz band entered a music competition
in Memphis, Tennessee.
00:26:57
Scott had become
well-known and respected within the music community. ANNOUNCER: Northern
Colorado's best trumpet
00:27:04
player, Mr. Scott Sessions. [APPLAUSE] - He was ready to take
the next step in the big time.
00:27:12
He was ready to perform
on the big stage. NARRATOR: On Saturday,
February 8, 2020,
00:27:18
Stanley spoke with his
son Scott on the phone. STANLEY SESSIONS:
His mom was in a care
00:27:24
facility at that time. And I said, yeah, I'm going
to go down to see her tomorrow.
00:27:28
And he said, well, I
want to go with you. And he says, I'll
see you later. That was it.
00:27:32
NARRATOR: But on Sunday,
Scott failed to turn up to visit his mom. And his bandmates
started to worry when
00:27:40
he didn't show up for a gig. Monday, February 10,
70 miles Northwest of Greeley in Larimer
County, 911 dispatchers
00:27:52
received an alarming call. Police arrived and began
investigating the scene. STEVE WRENN: The body was
wrapped up in a blanket.
00:28:15
The initial indication
was that it was a homicide and the body had
been dumped there.
00:28:20
NARRATOR: Police
in Larimer County performed an autopsy
on the burnt body found in the mountains.
00:28:26
It revealed a brutal murder. STEVE WRENN: The autopsy
revealed a laceration to the neck from
front to back, cutting
00:28:34
all the way to the vertebrae. The depth of the cut
to the neck was significant
and violent, a laceration
00:28:41
that nearly decapitated him. The burning was determined
to be postmortem. NARRATOR: A fingerprint
scanner identified
00:28:49
the victim as Scott Sessions. STANLEY SESSIONS: I got a call
from the police department
00:28:55
who said we found your son. He's deceased. I knew that I had
to go tell his mother,
00:29:04
immediately that
was my thought. The next morning I did go. And she said, who would
want to hurt my Scotty?
00:29:15
NARRATOR: Police needed
to find the killer. They searched Scott's
house and found
00:29:21
some messages on his computer
to a woman named Heather Frank. STEVE WRENN: The messages
between Heather and Scott
00:29:30
indicated that they were
starting a new relationship and that there was
some romantic interest
00:29:35
between the two of them. NARRATOR: 48-year-old
Heather Frank was a manager at a diner in Loveland.
00:29:42
She had three
grown up children. AVA GLASS: Heather
was vivacious. She was extremely creative.
00:29:49
She liked crafts. She liked arts. She liked music. She loved going out
to listen to bands.
00:29:55
People who knew Heather
said she was the kind of person who lit up a room. She had the most
infectious laugh,
00:30:02
and she had a spirit about
her that people noticed. And when she grew up,
that traveled with her.
00:30:08
NARRATOR: One of Heather's
last messages to Scott was an invitation to come
over to her apartment
00:30:14
late on Saturday, February 8. Detectives checked Heather
and Scott's phone records.
00:30:23
The data confirmed
they'd both been at Heather's apartment on
Saturday, February 8, the night
00:30:29
Scott disappeared. Police checked the area
around Heather's apartment for surveillance footage,
and by Wednesday, February 12,
00:30:38
they got a major breakthrough. They found Scott's car
in the parking a grocery store.
00:30:46
STEVE WRENN: The keys
were still inside the car. The doors were unlocked. The floor mat from
the driver's side
00:30:53
had been placed just
outside the driver's side door in the snow. Once they found
the car, they started
00:30:59
pulling surveillance
videos from nearby to see if they could determine
how it got there and when.
00:31:05
NARRATOR: Police
uncovered a crucial piece of footage which showed
Scott's car being
00:31:10
driven into the parking lot. STEVE WRENN: The direction
that it comes in from is important because Heather
Frank's apartment
00:31:18
is a short distance away. And this video was taken
on February 11, which was the day after
Scott Sessions's body
00:31:27
was found in the mountains. NARRATOR: A male
figure was seen getting out of Scott's vehicle.
00:31:33
- He walks back around
the back side of the car over to the passenger side. We see him putting
something on the ground,
00:31:40
shuffling his feet
almost as if they were trying to wipe away
footprints in the snow,
00:31:47
and then walking
away from the car. NARRATOR:
Investigators continued searching for more
surveillance footage
00:31:55
to see where the man went. At the same time,
they were also looking for the last
known person
00:32:03
to see Scott, Heather Frank. STEVE WRENN: They
started digging into her background a little
bit more, and what they found
00:32:09
was that she had
been the victim of some acts
of domestic violence at the hands
of a former boyfriend
00:32:16
by the name of Kevin Eastman. NARRATOR: 48-year-old
Kevin Eastman was already known to the police.
00:32:23
- Kevin Eastman has
an extensive criminal history. His crimes go back years. Among the many offenses
he's been charged for
00:32:31
were domestic violence multiple
times, vehicle offenses, burglary, weapons offenses.
00:32:39
NARRATOR: In 2015,
he violently attacked Heather and pleaded guilty
to assault in the third degree.
00:32:46
He was sentenced
to two years probation. Four years later, after another
altercation with Kevin Eastman,
00:32:54
Heather had to receive
treatment in the hospital. - Allegedly, Eastman punched
Heather multiple times
00:33:01
in the ribs, leaving her
with serious injuries. This attack was
so savage, it left
00:33:06
Heather fearing for her life. And she pleaded with
police for protection. NARRATOR:
Investigators obtained
00:33:14
Kevin Eastman's phone records. They revealed he'd also
been at Heather's apartment
00:33:19
on Saturday, February 8,
the night Scott went missing. STEVE WRENN: All
three phones, that
00:33:25
of Scott Sessions, Heather
Frank and Kevin Eastman, had converged at the same
time on Saturday
00:33:31
night at Heather
Frank's apartment. At that point, Scott
Sessions's phone dies or is turned off
and never moves again.
00:33:40
But the next morning, Heather,
Frank and Kevin Eastman's phone leave the area of Heather
Frank's apartment
00:33:47
and begin traveling
up the Poudre Canyon towards Pingree Park, which is
where Scott Sessions's body is
00:33:53
ultimately found. Now you have Kevin
Eastman and Heather Frank as the primary suspects
in the disappearance
00:34:00
and death of Scott Sessions. NARRATOR: Investigators tracked
Kevin and Heather's cell phones
00:34:06
and began to look for footage
in the same locations. STEVE WRENN: One
of the key videos
00:34:14
that they find is a video
from Pooter Canyon on the way to Pingree Park. It's 837 in the morning.
00:34:22
Can't see the license
plate number, but you can see some damage
on that passenger side front
00:34:27
Fender that we later
find to be consistent with Kevin Eastman's vehicle. NARRATOR: Just over three
hours later, at 11:46 AM,
00:34:37
the police identified
a similar vehicle driving back along the same road. STEVE WRENN:
The timing works here
00:34:45
because it's about
an hour drive to the area where Scott Sessions's
body was disposed of.
00:34:51
NARRATOR: As the evidence
slowly built up a map of their movements,
police decided to put both Kevin
Eastman and Heather Frank
00:34:59
under surveillance. They attached a camera
to a lamp post directly opposite Heather
Frank's apartment,
00:35:06
and put GPS trackers on both
Kevin and Heather's vehicles. Heather kept to her
normal routine,
00:35:15
as if nothing had happened. AVA GLASS: In the days after
Scott Sessions was murdered,
00:35:20
according to police,
Heather appeared to go about life as normal. She went to work,
she went shopping,
00:35:26
she went out to dinner. But later when investigators
talked to the people she worked with, they said they
knew something wasn't right.
00:35:34
Something simply seemed
off with Heather. JULIA SHAW: The fact
that she's going to work
00:35:39
and she isn't reporting
the crime immediately suggests that he's
threatened her with something
00:35:44
or he's threatened that
if maybe he gets caught, he'll figure out
another way to kill her.
00:35:48
And this is
exacerbated by the fact that he has made these
kinds of threats before.
00:35:53
It's reasonable for the police
at this point to say, maybe she was
in on it because why
00:35:57
else wouldn't she report it? What has she got to gain
from not reporting? But it's also equally
likely that she's
00:36:03
going to work because he's
saying you need to act normal, otherwise there will
be consequences.
00:36:09
NARRATOR: On Saturday,
February 15 at 5:15 PM, Kevin and Heather were seen
leaving her apartment together.
00:36:18
- At this point, the police
have arrest warrants for both Heather and Kevin. We see Kevin Eastman coming
out of that apartment
00:36:27
walking towards his Subaru. They're watching
their movements to formulate a plan
as to when they're going
00:36:33
to effectuate that arrest. Looks like Heather is
a little unsteady on her feet. Whether she's injured
or intoxicated,
00:36:42
we don't know but something
seems a little off here. She's holding some
coats, Kevin also
00:36:49
appears to have some clothing. Whether or not they're
headed out for a longer trip,
00:36:54
we don't know. They get in the car and they're
about to drive off here. NARRATOR: The vehicle was
tracked driving to a ranch
00:37:03
15 minutes outside of Greeley. The following morning,
Kevin Eastman was observed
00:37:09
by police acting suspiciously. - Kevin Eastman is
near a fire pit, and that he is
starting to burn some--
00:37:18
something, some
material of some kind. After watching Kevin
Eastman do that for a while,
00:37:23
he sees Kevin Eastman get into
his car and leave the ranch and begins driving toward town.
00:37:30
Kevin Eastman proceeds
to drive to a gas station. He parks at one of the pumps,
gets out of the car,
00:37:37
but then takes
a red plastic gas can out of the back of his
car and begins filling it up.
00:37:44
The detective is
concerned that Eastman's getting more gas to take
back to the burn pile
00:37:50
to destroy additional evidence. NARRATOR: The lone police
officer made the decision
00:37:56
to arrest Kevin Eastman. STEVE WRENN: When
Eastman was arrested, they found two spent shell
casings and three live rounds,
00:38:04
as well as a large
hunting knife. NARRATOR: Kevin Eastman
was questioned by police.
00:38:15
STEVE WRENN: Kevin
Eastman starts off by talking about his
relationship with Heather.
00:38:38
NARRATOR: When the interview
turned to Scott Sessions, Kevin gave away a crucial
piece of information.
00:39:03
- People do often slip
up a bit in interviews, especially if they haven't
really rehearsed their story.
00:39:08
That's a big slip up to say
that this person is dead. And, yeah, it
could happen if you
00:39:15
assume that missing persons
after a certain time are going to be dead but it does
very much point to he
00:39:20
has guilty knowledge. He knows something more
than he's willing to accept at this point.
00:39:24
STEVE WRENN: Kevin begins to
change his tune a little bit. He begins providing police with
bits and pieces of evidence
00:39:33
indicating that he was
either there at the time Scott Sessions was killed or
that he came immediately after.
00:39:49
NARRATOR: And police asked
Kevin where Heather was. While Kevin Eastman
was being interviewed,
00:40:04
detectives conducted a search
at the ranch property where Kevin had been
seen burning things.
00:40:11
STEVE WRENN: One
of the officers who's conducting the search
leaves the area of the burn pit
00:40:16
and lifts up a wooden
tabletop that is nearby, and discovers another body. The body that is found
underneath the tabletop
00:40:26
is wrapped in plastic
and baling wire. NARRATOR: The body was
confirmed to be Heather Frank.
00:40:34
STEVE WRENN: Heather died
from two gunshot wounds to the chest. They were two 22
caliber bullets.
00:40:41
NARRATOR:
In the interview room, police confronted Kevin
with this new information.
00:40:59
JULIA SHAW: People do break
down and cry in interviews, but in this case, it's
such a quick turn and
00:41:07
such a dramatic sobbing, I
haven't seen this before. I guess if you're worried
that this could have happened
00:41:14
and it's your worst
nightmare and then they confirm it and you've
already been thinking it,
00:41:17
maybe you could quickly
escalate like this, but if it is coming
out of the blue,
00:41:21
it seems difficult
or, certainly, unusual to see someone
breaking down like this.
00:41:26
STEVE WRENN:
Detectives do get him to start talking
about what he sees at Heather Frank's apartment.
00:41:33
And what he describes is
seeing a lot of blood. JULIA SHAW: I guess it's
something we don't really think
00:42:07
about that someone who has
been the perpetrator in a crime is surprised, perhaps even, by
the extent of the crime scene
00:42:15
that they've created. We know that people can have
flashbacks, for example, to both the act itself and
the consequences of the act.
00:42:23
And just because you are
the reason that there was blood at the scene,
it doesn't
00:42:26
mean that you can't
still have flashbacks and intrusive thoughts. NARRATOR: Officers
obtained a search warrant
00:42:36
for Heather Frank's apartment. STEVE WRENN: They found some
things that weren't adding up.
00:42:41
Her cell phone and purse
were left at the apartment. There were also
some spots of blood
00:42:48
on a couch near the entryway. NARRATOR:
But the biggest discovery was by the front door.
00:42:54
STEVE WRENN: When they pulled
back a large black rubber mat near the entryway,
they discovered
00:43:00
a large pool of blood. NARRATOR: The blood
was later determined to belong to Scott Sessions.
00:43:06
STEVE WRENN: The location
of the large pool of blood suggests the Scott
Sessions never
00:43:11
made it more than a couple
steps inside the front door. I always believed
that the killer
00:43:17
was waiting behind the door. As soon as Scott Sessions
stepped into the entryway,
00:43:22
that he was
attacked from behind and his throat was
cut at that time. Now police are discovering
that Kevin Eastman is leaving
00:43:29
a trail of dead bodies. He had been at the scene
of Scott Sessions's death, he had been at the location
where Scott Sessions's body was
00:43:38
placed, and now he was
the last person to be seen alive with Heather Frank. As the police wrap
up the interview,
00:44:01
they have enough
evidence at that point to charge him not only with
the death of Scott Sessions,
00:44:07
but with Heather Frank as well. Heather was present for Scott's
death by Kevin Eastman,
00:44:21
but I don't have any indication
that she instigated that, wanted it, was involved in it.
00:44:28
She was trapped and was
a victim of his violence. I think every indication is
that she was under the thumb or
00:44:36
control of Kevin Eastman,
and was just too scared to do anything about it. AVA GLASS: In the days
after Heather's death,
00:44:45
there was a great
deal of sadness in the community,
but also anger, especially among her family and friends.
00:44:53
She was caught in Kevin
Eastman's violent control, and it seemed to many
people that if things
00:45:00
had been done differently,
she might still be with us. NARRATOR: As well as the video
surveillance footage,
00:45:06
DNA evidence proved vital. STEVE WRENN: There
were a pair of jeans found in amongst Kevin
Eastman's property
00:45:15
in the garage. Those jeans were ultimately
tested and determined to have Scott Sessions's
DNA or blood on them,
00:45:25
linking Kevin Eastman
scientifically to Scott Sessions's death. NARRATOR: In court,
the jury found Kevin Eastman
00:45:34
guilty of the murder
of both Scott Sessions and Heather Frank. He was sentenced
to two consecutive life
00:45:41
sentences as well
as an additional 27 years. - I have never been
one to let other people
00:45:50
affect my happiness. In fact, I will not
allow you, Mr. Perp, you to affect how I live
the rest of my life.
00:46:02
I'm going to forgive
you because I don't want to carry this burden. This is your burden
to carry alone.
00:46:08
A few days after the trial,
we held a memorial for Scott. It was truly a memorial,
not a funeral.
00:46:15
A lot of people came
forward and told me what a great guy he was. They told me
incidences of kindness,
00:46:23
they told me they'll miss him. I was very grateful for that. [MUSIC PLAYING]