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[AUDIO LOGO] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] [PHONE LINE RINGING] DET. ERIC BARNES:
A 911 call came
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in from a resident that
lived within the neighborhood in North Oak Cliff, stating
that shots were fired.
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[GUNSHOTS] What happened? - And they observe the man
running to a black vehicle and driving away.
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[TENSE MUSIC] - Officers arrive
at the scene-- [SCREAMING] - We find Mr. Faith lying
in the middle of the street,
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a middle-aged executive
at American Airlines. - What could he have done to
elicit this type of response?
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- Very shocking.
Very shocking. - And he just kept going. [CRIES] - From the jump, this was
a very unusual incident.
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REPORTER: This video
provided by a neighbor shows a threatening man. He's seen walking past
a home holding an axe.
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[SHOUTING] [SIREN BLARING] [INTRIGUING MUSIC] - The scenario that
was given to us
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was that the victim,
Mr. Faith and his wife, had just left their home
to go walk their dog.
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And the suspect pulls up and
shoots Mr. Faith eight times in the middle of the street.
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DET. ERIC BARNES: There
was three gunshot wounds to the torso, three to the
chest area, one in the head
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and also one shot
to the groin area. One of the things
that stood out to us the most was the gunshot
wound to the groin,
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is the ultimate low blow. You've accomplished
what you need to accomplish by shooting
them in the head,
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but the shot to the groin
is kind of, in my opinion, with someone getting
the last laugh.
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ANDREW CHERAMIE:
You immediately start brainstorming
and trying to think, what is the motive behind this?
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What really happened here? DET. ERIC BARNES:
There was one witness that heard the gunshots.
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[GUNSHOTS] He walked out to the street
to see what was going on, and he saw a person
holding a gun walking
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towards him in his direction. But the shooter
got in his vehicle and drove off without any
words or any kind of conflict.
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One of the things that
the witness was able to do was to provide us with some
detail about the suspect.
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It was a medium-sized male,
um, wearing a blue mask, and there was a snap,
a photograph of the truck
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as it was driving away. Who would have
done this to Jamie? Because whoever is
on the other end of that gun
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needs to go to jail,
and they need to go to jail as soon as possible. At this point, the picture is
the best thing that we have.
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[EERIE MUSIC] NARRATOR: The man lying dead
on the street, Jamie Faith, had married Jennifer after
her first marriage broke down.
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The couple moved to this
quiet neighborhood when he was promoted at work. KEVIN KRAUSE: This case
really got a lot of attention
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because this was
an ordinary couple living in a nice
neighborhood with good jobs.
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We were pretty much on top of
this from the very beginning. We found out that they had
been together for 15 years.
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They met on a blind
date, and they had just celebrated their 15
year anniversary
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the night before this murder. They had a single
child, a daughter, Amber, who was Jennifer's
biological daughter.
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And then when she
turned 18, she asked Jamie to adopt her legally. And he did so very willingly.
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And they adored each other. All indications were that this
was a very loving relationship.
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By all accounts, they
were-- they were very happy, leading a great life. [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
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Jamie had a great job and was
making very good money. What could he have done to
elicit this type of response?
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Did he owe someone some money? Did he steal money? Was he having an affair? Maybe gambling debts?
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I'm wondering, like, what could
this guy have been involved in. It just really gripped
the imagination of people.
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ANDREW CHERAMIE: First and
foremost, you want to figure out what is the modem. Mr. Faith was a middle aged
executive at American Airlines.
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Certainly did not fit
the profile of someone who would be
an intended target, or normally who would
be a victim of homicide.
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The first thing is
to try to obtain video of the vehicle to
determine its route of travel
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out of the neighborhood. Time is absolutely of the
essence, because from the time
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that the initial officers and
investigators make the scene, we're behind the eight ball
because the suspect has
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fled in a vehicle
within a half an hour, you know, he could be 40
or 50 miles outside of Dallas.
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[TENSE MUSIC] DET. ERIC BARNES: While we were
canvassing the neighborhood looking for footage,
we found a neighbor
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that had video footage that
had a black Nissan pickup truck driving by. The video was good,
but it wasn't good enough
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to get the details
of the license plate or to get a picture
of the shooter's face.
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- One of the things
that was very helpful was that in the right
rear glass of the vehicle,
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there was a white T sticker. We thought that that
was representing the Texas Rangers
baseball team, which is
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home here in Arlington, Texas. So that sort
of narrows your focus. DET. ERIC BARNES: Our job
is to kind of figure
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out where the truck went next. It was almost like looking
for a needle in a haystack.
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[EERIE MUSIC] NICK BARREIRO: What
we have here is an image that was
captured by a neighbor
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of the suspect's truck, fleeing
the scene after the shooting. The white T decal
on the back of the truck
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is the key to finding
this vehicle, and the old way would have been
just keeping an eye out for it.
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Nowadays, we have a lot cooler
tools to be able to find a vehicle like this. Cameras constantly scan and
take pictures of vehicles just
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like this truck,
and a database can be searched by make and model. Investigators can look
for Nissan Titans that
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were scanned in this
area, and very quickly narrow it down by looking
for that white T decal
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on the back window. [OMINOUS MUSIC] NARRATOR: While officers search
for the black Nissan pickup
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truck, detectives talk
to the victim's wife, Jennifer. - I know this is
a tragedy, and I
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can't imagine what you're
going through right now, but hopefully we can get out
to the bottom of this together.
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- My first impression
of Jennifer was she was very distraught. - He's my best friend.
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And [SOBS] such a good
kid, relationship-- - Jennifer's account of what
happened that morning was they
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had exited their front
door with their dog, and 15 to 20 feet away
from their front door,
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they were confronted
by a masked gunman. - And he just kept going! And I was-- stopping, and--
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[CRIES] he was shot. And my husband's expression-- I said, I don't know,
and he tackled me to the--
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to the ground, and he
is hitting my face and kept trying to turn
me over, and I--
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And he hit my side
and back and hitting, and then he tried
to take my rings. And then, um, he pulled
out a roll of duct tape,
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and he tied my--
taped up my hands. And I remember screaming, and
was just looking at the tape.
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And it was just-- I thought-- [CRIES] and I was-- I was screaming, help
me, help me, help me.
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- Jennifer said at that point,
neighbors started coming out, which startled the shooter, and
he ran to his truck and left.
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- Did you see what he had on? - I remember a bright
blue surgical mask, and everything
else was just dark.
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All I could see were
his eyes, like evil. - Jennifer had several
red marks on her arm
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where she was grabbed. Also, I believe she had
marks on the side of her face as well where she was struck.
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We just were unsure as to why
she wasn't shot as well. - Why do you choose
to shoot and kill
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Mr. Faith in such
an extreme manner, and all you do is put some duct
tape around Jennifer's hands
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and flee the scene? DET. ERIC BARNES: We kind of
went back and forth as to what this could have been about.
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We didn't know if someone
was waiting on him. Or if this was just
a crime of opportunity,
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being in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Could this have been
a disgruntled employee?
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We thought it may have been
more of an emotional thing with the actual groin shot.
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They were there to kill
him, but we didn't know why. And I think that that was
the-- you know, the biggest
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question that we had. [SOFT PIANO MUSIC] KEVIN KRAUSE: Jamie was
really, really well-liked
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in their neighborhood. Everyone said that he was
the nicest, kindest person. They were just
in disbelief that he could
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have been targeted this way. [OMINOUS MUSIC] DET. ERIC BARNES: We
found several videos,
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some from businesses,
some from residences. ANDREW CHERAMIE: They were
able to track the vehicle
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through the Oak
Cliff neighborhood up until it reached I-35,
which is a very busy freeway
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that runs through Dallas. DET. ERIC BARNES: It made
a couple of erratic turns throughout the neighborhood,
I believe, to see
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if someone was following him. And then he turned
onto his service road, which led to him
getting on the highway
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and traveling, um, eastbound. But we lost it after
it got on the freeway because there was no
cameras on that route.
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ANDREW CHERAMIE: Once we
lost track of the vehicle, the trail had
essentially gone cold.
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- We didn't have
a license plate. We don't have
a clear description of who our shooter is.
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And so the only thing we have
is just a basic description of this truck. And it's the only
evidence that we
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have linking us to our killer. NARRATOR: When detectives
get the autopsy report,
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it deepens the mystery. - One of the things we
look at is shot placement. And the placement of the shots
were pretty close together.
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It appeared as if someone had
some experience with using a firearm, but we
definitely believe it wasn't
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their first time shooting. ANDREW CHERAMIE:
And I remember when I spoke to Detective
Barnes about it,
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my first I think
comment to him was, man, something's up with this. This is not right,
and he agreed.
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[SOFT MUSIC] DET. ERIC BARNES: We did
go back to Jennifer's house because she had several
cameras mounted to her house,
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and we wanted
to take a closer look to see if there was some
minor detail that we missed.
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[DOOR CLOSES] The doorbell footage that I
watched of Jamie and Jennifer, it really, you know,
kind of hit home
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because he had no idea
what was around the corner waiting on him. It was just a normal day,
early in the morning,
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just trying to get the wheels
turning for the day. And then a few steps later,
you're being murdered
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in front of your wife. And it just kind of,
uh, hit home that you never can be too comfortable.
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[TENSE MUSIC] NARRATOR: Detectives also
examine footage retrieved from the neighbor's house.
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- What happened? - You can hear very
distinctly there is a yell, or someone yells, hey.
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And I believe that
it was either two-- two people. It was either
Jamie yelling, hey,
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because he saw this
masked gunman approaching, or it was the shooter yelling,
hey, to get Jamie's attention.
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And then we hear a barrage
of gunshots just one after the other, very violent,
very rapid, just one right
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after the other. [GUNSHOTS] And then we hear
Jennifer yelling. Her yells on that
video are just like--
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just you can hear it
coming from, like, the pit of her stomach. She's just-- just
scared of her life
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and she's also just sickened
from seeing her husband being killed in front of her.
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[SCREAMING] WOMAN: Are you OK? NICK BARREIRO: So you can
see this resident when he comes out his front door.
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He's immediately
looking to the right. His dogs are interested
in whatever's
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happening to the right. And you can hear
a female screaming. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] - What happened?
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What'd you get? - And then you can
hear this homeowner yelling, what happened?
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I want to enhance the audio
so I can hear better. What's happening with those
faint screams in the distance,
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and see if there's anything
more being said, any more evidence that we can extract
from that faint audio
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in the distance. In the spectrographic
view of this recording, the-- the bright yellow
and orange represent a higher
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amplitude, a higher volume. Those represent the male
coming outside and yelling,
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what happened? Those are going to be
the brightest portions because those are the loudest.
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I'm interested in the more
faint audio that's represented by the darker
orange, the parts
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in between these louder
sections where the female can be heard screaming. [SHOUTING ON RECORDING]
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So it's possible that
the female is yelling, call the police here. It's hard because there's not
a lot of detail in this audio
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because she is so far
away from the microphone. But most of it sounds like
unintelligible screaming.
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But at this point, she may
be saying, call the police. It certainly gives
the appearance that she didn't
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know what was about to happen. She was legitimately
in distress that she had just
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watched her husband be killed. [SOMBER MUSIC] NARRATOR: As investigators
search through surveillance
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camera videos,
they find one clip recorded the morning Jamie was
killed, which looks suspicious.
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DET. ERIC BARNES: There was a
camera on the side of her house that was pointing towards
her neighbor's backyard,
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and around 2:00
or 3:00 AM, there was a-- a male walking
around the backyard, just kind of wandering around.
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We were unable to see
his face just because of the combination
of the darkness and also the angle
of the camera.
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The immediate thoughts were,
this could be our suspect. But Jennifer gave a very good
explanation of who it was.
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She said that she believed
it was the-- the guy that used to live next door
to her old neighbor,
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and he from time to time--
after they got evicted, time to time, he would just
wander around the backyard
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of that residence. One of the things
that you learned in working murder
investigations,
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it's like a roller coaster. At this point
in time, everything hasn't led to anything.
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So we're still working
around the clock to figure this thing out. [INTRIGUING MUSIC]
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One of the things we did was
ask for Jennifer's cell phone. We wanted to make sure that
we covered all our bases,
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and checking her cell
phone was one of them. I believe she was a little
surprised that we asked for it,
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but she-- she gave it over. She passed it over
without any question. It would have been
a huge red flag for her
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not to pass her phone over. [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] NARRATOR: When
the results come back
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from a forensic
analysis of the phone, it gives detectives
their first serious break.
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DET. ERIC BARNES: Once
a forensic download was done, we were able to go back through
some of her old messages,
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and we found a text
message thread between her and one of her girlfriends. And in the text messages,
there was a conversation
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in which Jennifer
said she reconnected with her high school sweetheart
over email named Darrin Lopez.
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There was no communication
on the phone with Darrin, just old text messages
with her girlfriend.
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We believe that those may
have possibly been deleted. We intentionally didn't speak
with Jennifer about Darrin
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because we believed that we
needed to learn a little bit more about the relationship
before we approached her on it,
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so we wanted to keep
everything under wraps while we continue the investigation.
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- We certainly want
to follow this lead, just like we follow any
leads, as quickly as possible.
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NARRATOR: Detective
subpoena all of the messages
on Jennifer's phone, hoping to retrieve
the ones that were deleted.
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- We wanted to see
how far back they began communicating
with each other, and if they were communicating
around the time of the murder.
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NARRATOR: The information
comes back on Jennifer's phone. Unfortunately, detectives
are unable to access
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the content of her
messages with Darrin, but they are able to see
how many they exchanged.
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- There were
an extraordinary amount of text messages between Darrin
Lopez and Jennifer Faith.
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And when I say extraordinary,
I mean extraordinary. - So I turned over 122,000
text messages and phone calls
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between Darrin and Jennifer,
only occurred over like, a seven or eight-month period.
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I mean, that's, like,
constant communication. I mean, how could you
be in touch with someone
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this many times? - There was an extensive
background done on Mr. Lopez. We found out that Mr. Lopez
was a US Army veteran,
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that he was a combat
veteran, that he had had several deployments
to the Middle East,
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that he had been
injured in combat, and that he had won several
awards for his valor
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as army soldier. KEVIN KRAUSE: He was
very badly injured, saw his comrades killed
in a roadside bomb,
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was permanently disabled with
a traumatic brain injury, also suffering from PTSD.
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He was in a very dark place. NARRATOR: Detectives need
to take a closer look at Lopez,
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but he lives more
than 600 miles from Dallas, in remote
Cumberland Furnace, Tennessee.
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- I was able to reach out
to the Nashville field division and ask for assistance
with doing surveillance.
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They got great aerial
footage of Darrin's property. One of the agents that was
involved in coordinating
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the flyover got a still
photo from the pilot, and he sent it
to me immediately, and I couldn't believe it.
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Parked in the driveway
of Darrin's residence was a black Nissan Titan pickup
truck with a white T emblem
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on the rear windshield. [OMINOUS MUSIC] Our initial knee-jerk reaction
is we wanted to go slap
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some cuffs on him. But the truth was, we didn't
know who was driving the truck.
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If this was,
in fact, our vehicle, we still needed to put
Darrin in the driver's seat
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to connect him to Dallas,
or to figure out where he was when the murder took place.
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[INTRIGUING MUSIC] ANDREW CHERAMIE:
Jennifer Faith decided to reach out to the local
news media and did a story,
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and in her interview,
she was sort of critical of the Dallas
Police Department, indicated that she didn't feel
that they were doing enough
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to investigate Jamie's death. She appeared to be very
distraught and concerned
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about the investigation. It is an unusual move
on her part to sort of take a stab at the investigators.
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- We sent our search
warrants for Google, and we were able to see that
one of Darrin's devices,
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which we believe
to be a tablet, was used to navigate
from his address in Cumberland
Furnace, Tennessee,
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to Jennifer's address
in Dallas, Texas. To be able to put him
in Cumberland Furnace,
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navigating his vehicle
with Google Maps, driving step by step,
hitting every single cell
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tower from Cumberland
furnace to Dallas hours before Jamie walked out
of his house was big.
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NARRATOR: This data, together
with the thousands of texts with Jennifer, is
enough to get a warrant
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to arrest Darrin Lopez. - ATF flew
approximately 40 to 50 members, uh, from
the Dallas Field Division,
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and also members from
the Nashville Field Division. The way we looked
at it, the more people
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that we had there, the less
likely we were to use force. - We know from
a tactical perspective
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that given Mr. Lopez's military
history and his background, that this is someone
who needs to be
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approached very cautiously. However, things didn't go
down as we had planned.
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- While we were briefing, one
of the tactical team members said, hey, Darrin's
just got in a vehicle.
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He's leaving his property. - Now that he's mobile, that
means that we have to try to do
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a mobile takedown operation
while he's operating a 4,000-pound vehicle. There's a high
possibility that he's
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got a firearm in his vehicle. We don't know if he knows
that we're looking for him,
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but there are so many
unknowns and so many things that
could go wrong that we have to be really careful
how we approach this
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from a tactical perspective. [SIREN BLARING] [TENSE MUSIC] DET. ERIC BARNES: Darrin was
followed by the tactical team
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members for several miles. He pulled into a parking lot. And once he pulled
in the parking lot,
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they assaulted the vehicle. - Maintaining
the element of surprise and took him into custody
without incident.
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It was a relief,
absolutely a relief. We searched the property. The front of the house was
surrounded by a wooden porch,
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and right at the entrance
to the kitchen was a empty FedEx box that had
an address label on it that
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was addressed to Darrin
Lopez, and the return address was Jennifer Faith. - So before we even
got in the house,
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there was evidence
of their relationship. ANDREW CHERAMIE:
Why is she sending this fella a big screen TV?
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It sort of has us
asking more questions than are being answered. The search was challenging
because the residence
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was in complete disarray. It was quite alarming
and gave us some insight that things were not
right with Mr. Lopez,
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because the living
conditions were horrible. DET. ERIC BARNES:
As agents searched
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the inside
of their house, they found a green military backpack. Inside the backpack
was a Red Bull,
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a DVD and also a silver
firearm that appeared to have blood on the slide. That gun was significant
for two reasons--
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the-- the caliber
of the firearm initially matched the caliber
of the shell casings
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recovered at the crime scene. Also, there was physical
blood on the firearm. Once we got the pickup
truck in our custody,
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the one thing that stood out
was that the decal was no longer on the rear windshield.
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The T was no longer there,
but you could see marks on the glass where someone used
a razor blade to scrape it off.
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So we knew that there was a T
at some point on the vehicle. NARRATOR: Detectives also
search inside the pickup.
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DET. ERIC BARNES: We
found a cell phone and we found a backpack. In that backpack
was a blue mask
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that was similar to the mask
that was worn by the shooter during the time of the murder.
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I felt at that point
that we definitely had the right person. ANDREW CHERAMIE:
We make the phone
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call to the troops in Dallas. We got him. Go pick up Jennifer. [TENSE MUSIC] - As, you know, I'm trying
to get down to the bottom
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of this investigation, OK? DET. ERIC BARNES: At the time
that Jennifer came down
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to the station, she had no clue
that Darrin had been arrested. - Have you ever heard
of a name, Darrin?
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Darrin?
- Darrin Lopez. Yeah. - Who is Darrin? - He was one
of my best friends. - Jennifer said that her and
Darrin had been in this, uh--
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they had reconnected and they
had been communicating, but there were nothing
more than friends, and
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that Jamie was aware of it. - Jennifer, if I
were to tell you as far as like, I know that
there's more to you and
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Darrin's relationship,
you know, what would you say about that? - I don't know what more you--
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I don't know what more
you're talking about. - I believe that you knew
what happened that day.
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I really do. - We showed her
a photo of Darrin where he's wearing
a blue mask, putting
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gas inside the black
pickup truck, at which time she was informed that
Darrin was the individual
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responsible for killing Jamie. - I don't know
what to tell you. - Instead of her
saying, oh my God, this
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is the guy, oh my god, I can't
believe he's involved in this, she wanted to where
did we get the photo?
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- We said-- we sat
and we told the world. We told everybody.
- I know! - We sat in front
of his parents.
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We told them. - Because I wanted to-- - But this same guy that
killed your husband, Jennifer,
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is the same guy that
you-- you're communicating with every day. You had over 24,000
text messages and calls.
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24,000. - I don't work, he's retired. We talked throughout the day. - Jennifer, besides the point.
00:30:01
This guy killed your husband. - How do you know that? - Because I have proof. And guess what.
00:30:08
Darrin right now is currently
(STAMMERING) in jail locked up for murder right now.
00:30:13
- Oh my god. - So my main thing
is right now, what is he going to tell me, OK? Why would somebody-- why
would he kill this guy?
00:30:22
- I don't know.
- I don't really-- - This doesn't even make sense.
- Listen to me.
00:30:26
- We haven't seen each other. - Jennifer was very, uh-- very aggressive in her
tone from that point on.
00:30:34
- Do I need a lawyer
at this point? - It's your call. Whatever you decide. - I think that she felt
like she had been played.
00:30:45
She was, like, man, these
guys got me down here playing the victim, they
played this thing up,
00:30:50
they got me here. Now they're slapping
me in the face with this picture of Darrin.
00:30:54
[OMINOUS MUSIC] ANDREW CHERAMIE: We have a lot
of pieces to the puzzle now. We have our suspect in custody.
00:31:01
We have a lot
of forensic evidence. However, probably one
of the most crucial pieces
00:31:10
to the puzzle is
that we still don't know why Jamie was targeted. What is it that Jamie Faith did
to provoke such a violent act
00:31:22
from someone who seemingly
he has no relationship with and doesn't know? DET. ERIC BARNES: We knew
that Jennifer may have
00:31:32
had a role in the offense. We just couldn't prove it. - We have to keep digging
and the investigation goes on.
00:31:42
NARRATOR: While Jennifer
is released without charge, Darrin Lopez awaits
trial in jail.
00:31:56
Then, in a twist, Lopez's
ex-wife contacts the police, saying she has evidence that
Jamie was sending Lopez emails
00:32:09
before the murder. Their content is dark. - Darrin's ex-wife
gave us information
00:32:23
regarding emails and involving
Jamie and Darrin. She believed there
was something
00:32:31
that the police needed,
and she called right away and provided me
with screenshots.
00:32:36
And the screenshots--
there was several emails that appeared to be
sent by Jamie to Darrin,
00:32:42
and they detailed sexual
encounters with Jennifer. ANDREW CHERAMIE: The content
that was being uncovered
00:32:50
was particularly disturbing. Jamie was bringing
multiple men into the home to commit acts
of sexual assault,
00:33:00
that she was being
beaten, that she was being held down against her will. - It was very, very dark
and twisted in its nature.
00:33:12
The emails got more
and more violent. The sexual acts got
more and more dangerous.
00:33:19
KEVIN KRAUSE: When I
read these emails that were sent to-- to Darrin,
they were really sordid
00:33:26
and kind of chilling in a way. It painted
a portrait of someone who was like a sadist who had
these like, sadistic
00:33:34
sexual fantasies. You know, very lurid details
about the violent things that he would do to her, that
he would have men come by
00:33:42
and rape her and watch
this, and, you know, that he wanted
Darrin to see this. It seemed like a--
00:33:49
a really twisted mind that
would come up with something like this. NARRATOR: Did these emails,
seemingly from Jamie,
00:33:58
provoke Darrin to kill him? - You know, when I
think about Darrin now, you know, he's got
a reason to show
00:34:06
up and kill a guy
in the morning while he's taking a walk. ANDREW CHERAMIE:
Mr. Faith certainly
00:34:12
didn't fit the profile
of a violent sexual predator. - You know, from
the aspect of being Jamie,
00:34:21
I'm an executive with
American Airlines, you know, I have a high-profile job.
00:34:26
If one of these
emails were leaked, I could lose everything. So it doesn't make sense
for me to document it and
00:34:32
put it in an email
to someone who's going to be upset by me sending. So it-- it just didn't
pass the smell test.
00:34:38
I had suspicions as to who
was sending these emails, but I had no way
of proving it at the time.
00:34:46
NARRATOR: Detectives
get the forensic results from Lopez's cell phone
retrieved from his pickup.
00:34:54
While Jennifer had
deleted their texts, they discover that Lopez hadn't. - The lab called
and said, hey, we
00:35:02
were able to access
the phone, so we had access to weeks and weeks
worth of text messages
00:35:07
between Darrin and Jennifer. It told us everything we
needed to know about who in that relationship.
00:35:15
Jennifer was the one--
she was the boss. [TENSE MUSIC] She was telling
Darrin, hey, I need
00:35:23
you to remove the--
the decal off of the truck. Let me know when
you get it done.
00:35:30
So he texts back, OK. It's done. - It is becoming more
and more apparent that there is a manipulation
scheme afoot, that Jennifer
00:35:44
is feeding Darrin
this information to possibly entice him or to
convince him to kill Mr. Faith.
00:35:56
DET. ERIC BARNES: We did
a financial snapshot of Darrin just to figure out what
was his financial outlook.
00:36:04
He was several months
behind on his mortgage and his home was going
through foreclosure,
00:36:11
so he was at a very
desperate place financially. Once we looked
into Jennifer's bank accounts,
00:36:17
we saw that she had made
several transfers to Darrin. Also, she had provided him
with the credit card that had
00:36:25
a $40,000 credit limit
that she paid off, so it had a zero balance. So Jennifer had more than
just an emotional involvement
00:36:35
in this case. She also was the brains
behind a lot of things. She directed Darrin
how to not get caught.
00:36:42
She also was financially
supporting him. So if he did get caught, now
he has an allegiance to her.
00:36:49
So I felt like it was
a whole lot of, like, mental manipulation going on. [OMINOUS MUSIC]
00:36:56
NARRATOR: With these
texts, it's enough evidence to arrest Jennifer. DET. ERIC BARNES: We
went early one morning
00:37:06
and knocked on her front door. ANDREW CHERAMIE: We immediately
placed her in handcuffs.
00:37:11
She, um, acted
been surprised and asked what we were doing there,
why she was being arrested.
00:37:19
And I said, you're
being arrested because you were involved
in killing your husband.
00:37:24
And she gave me just
a deadpan look and said, I had nothing to do
with killing Jamie.
00:37:32
DET. ERIC BARNES: We
don't have the evidence to charge her with murder, but
we believe that she definitely
00:37:36
was the reason ultimately
behind Darrin moving to decal from the vehicle. So we charged her with
tampering with evidence.
00:37:44
NARRATOR: Jennifer is
taken into custody. Meanwhile, the police
and DA, who've
00:37:51
been building the case
against Lopez, get the forensic
results on his gun. - Fortunately for us, we
get a ballistic match,
00:38:03
essentially telling
us that the firearm is, in fact,
the same firearm that was used to commit the murder.
00:38:14
In addition to that, and sort
of the icing on the cake is that a DNA swab is
taken of the frame,
00:38:21
and that smudge
of blood that was recovered from
the frame of the firearm matches Jamie Faith's DNA.
00:38:32
Not only does it prove
that that firearm was used to commit
the murder, it shows
00:38:38
what close proximity Mr.
Lopez was to Mr. Faith when he shot him, that
the victim's blood splashed
00:38:48
back and got on the firearm. DET. ERIC BARNES:
Without a doubt, this is the gun used
in a murder in Dallas.
00:38:57
Darrin is our killer. [INTRIGUING MUSIC] NARRATOR: While
the case against Lopez is strong, for now,
all detectives
00:39:06
have against Jennifer is that
she tampered with evidence. NICK BARREIRO:
The actions on the screen
00:39:12
are-- they appear
unremarkable at first. There is a couple
that appears to be going out to walk the dog.
00:39:21
I just want to get
a better look at this video as they walk away
from the door. To me, it looks
like he's almost
00:39:29
trying to catch up
to her, and she's not really waiting for him. She's not intending to just
be walking next to him.
00:39:41
She doesn't-- doesn't turn
around to see where he is. She just keeps walking
and he appears to be
00:39:46
trying to catch up to her. Once we know what's coming,
that her boyfriend is
00:39:54
about to murder
this man, then it starts to make
sense why she would be distancing herself from
him right before this happens.
00:40:07
NARRATOR:
The investigation takes another extraordinary
turn when Detective Barnes
00:40:14
is contacted by Jennifer's
previous husband. DET. ERIC BARNES: What he told
us was that Jennifer tried
00:40:21
to hire him
to enlist him to kill someone for her several
years prior to this. Jennifer gave him this story
about her being sexually
00:40:32
assaulted by a guy, and it was
so graphic and just cold and brutal that he was so upset
that he actually was, you know,
00:40:44
thinking about committing
a murder for her. But, you know, his sense kicked
in and he decided not to do it.
00:40:51
And so when he heard
about the narrative with Jamie and with
Darrin, it reminded him
00:40:58
of his past encounter with her. - I think my initial reaction
was, you gotta be kidding me.
00:41:07
NARRATOR: The forensic
report comes in on the sexually explicit
emails, supposedly from Jamie
00:41:15
to Lopez. - When they dug into those
a little bit more to find out exactly
who sent them,
00:41:23
and that's when they found out
they did not come from Jamie, they came from Jennifer.
00:41:27
NARRATOR: Jennifer is
charged with arranging the hit on her husband. - When Jennifer then
was-- was charged with--
00:41:37
in connection with
a murder for hire, being behind her own
husband's murder,
00:41:43
with seemingly no reason
for wanting to do this, the-- the community just-- there
were shock waves of horror
00:41:54
and surprise and disbelief. It just, it had
a huge impact and people could not believe it.
00:42:04
It was betrayal upon betrayal. - Before the judge gave
her a sentence, as Jennifer
00:42:11
approached, she was doing
the whole crying, upset tears, snot running down her face,
and the judge told her
00:42:19
she could stop
the act, that she was past the point
of someone believing that she was sorry about
anything that happened.
00:42:28
- Judge Boyle said,
basically, uh, you're pure evil and also disgusting. And that is not what you
want to hear from a judge
00:42:38
when you're about
to be sentenced. NARRATOR: Jennifer is
given life behind bars.
00:42:46
- There wasn't any
emotion after that, and she was led away
by the marshals,
00:42:51
shuffled away in chains,
and that was it. To this day, I
still rack my brain with trying to think up,
like, you know, a reason
00:43:02
for-- for wanting to do this. She didn't have
to worry about finances. They are financially
independent.
00:43:10
You know, I sometimes
wonder know, yeah, could she have just been bored? I don't think she was
ever serious about having
00:43:24
a life with Darrin. That seemed to be
complete artifice. She was very coldly
and calculatingly using him.
00:43:33
[OMINOUS MUSIC] DET. ERIC BARNES: I believe for
Jennifer, this all was a game. She found the right
person that was suffering
00:43:42
from a mental illness
and traumatic brain injury, and that she knew how--
exactly how to push his buttons
00:43:50
to get him to kill. - She is a disturbed
individual, and maybe it was just
for the hell of it
00:43:58
to see if she could
get away with it, to see if she could have that
sort of control over someone
00:44:06
to make him do what
she wanted him to do. I have no sympathy
for Jennifer Faith whatsoever.
00:44:15
She got what she deserved
and she'll die in prison. NARRATOR: When Darrin
Lopez goes to trial,
00:44:21
he pleads not guilty. - I mean, the prosecutor
said that she weaponized Darrin Lopez.
00:44:28
She knew which
buttons to press, what would get him riled up. He was, in a sense,
a victim, just like Jamie.
00:44:37
He-- he fought in combat. He suffered a terrible injury. His life is falling
apart, and now he--
00:44:44
he meets this old flame
and his spirits are high, and he thinks it'll lift
him out of his depression.
00:44:51
And then he finds
out she's been manipulating him all along. And-- and now he's facing
the-- the loss of his freedom,
00:44:59
spending the rest
of his life behind bars. NARRATOR: Darrin Lopez is found
guilty of murdering Jamie Faith
00:45:07
and sentenced to 62 years. - When Jamie died, there was
a life insurance policy as well
00:45:13
as his retirement
fund over $1 million, and that entire estate was to
be inherited by his daughter.
00:45:26
Jennifer asked her daughter
if she could put aside $200,000 for her prison account, which
you use to buy toiletries,
00:45:35
snacks, things like that. And, you know,
here she is, like, having admitted to taking
Amber's father from her
00:45:45
so cruelly and--
and she's asking her, oh, some of this money that you're
supposed to inherit from Jamie,
00:45:52
by the way, I need
$200,000 of it so I can live in comfort in prison. [SOFT PIANO MUSIC]
00:45:58
DET. ERIC BARNES: Darrin,
we saw what he was capable of doing as a killer. But I think the most
dangerous people are
00:46:04
the ones that can influence
others to kill for them, and that was Jennifer. Jennifer 100% is
a cold-blooded killer.
00:46:13
ANDREW CHERAMIE: In my 24
years in law enforcement, this was the most
bizarre investigation
00:46:20
that have ever been a part of. It's truly in my entire law
enforcement career, nothing
00:46:27
like I have ever seen. [THEME MUSIC] [AUDIO LOGO]