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Julia: This time on Killers
Caught on Camera. - Police! Anybody inside, come out.
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Julia: In Montana-- Cop: Police. Woman: Please don't shoot me. Julia: --police discover
a gruesome trail of revenge.
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Man: There is a suspect
that is somewhere at large. Julia: And in the UK-- Man: This is somebody
who's extremely persistent
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and doesn't follow the rules. Julia: --an obsessive
stalker ends a first date with violence.
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[tense music] Man: It just sounds
like something bad is happening to her. Woman: We know what
happened because the video
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tells us what happened. Man: I heard some gunshots. - I need to get rid of the gun.
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- Man, that's good. Man: The camera doesn't lie. Julia: In the US,
in Montana, Belgrade.
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January 7, 2018. [sirens blaring] Julia: Officers immediately
responded to the scene.
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Dispatcher: Female,
30 years old. She is alive. Cop: All right, copy. - I started notifying
all of my detectives
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at that point to mobilize
the whole team. Cop: I'm just
pulling up on scene. I could sure take
some extra help.
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Jeremy: Given the information
that law enforcement had when they first
responded, they have
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to work under the assumption
that there is a suspect that is somewhere at-- at large.
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cop: Where are we at? What's going on? Jordan: When law enforcement
arrived on scene,
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they found Audria
Audy, the female that was heard on the 911 phone
call outside of the house.
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Audria: I just came in,
and I saw that my back door had been broken in. So I went to the back,
and I could
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see footsteps in the snow. So I ran up to my room
to see if my roommate was OK. I have two roommates.
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One of them is dead, and the
other one is in her room, and she's still alive,
and she needs help.
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And I ran because I didn't know
if he was still in the house. Julia: Once backup arrived,
the officers went in.
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cop: You ready? - Yep. - Belgrade Police! Police department. cop: Anybody inside, come out.
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cop: I'm going this way. cop: OK, I got stairwell. Police! Kitchen clear. cop: Police.
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Garage. cop: Garage clear. - Inside one
of the bedrooms, they did determine that
there was one female
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that was deceased in her bed. cop: She's cold to the touch. cop: OK, all right,
let's back out.
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Kelly: When they went
to the other bedroom, there was a female. She was on the floor.
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cop: Police. Ashley: Please don't shoot me. Kelly: It was very obvious when
they entered the room that she
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was critically injured. cop: Hello? Ashley: No, please
don't shoot me. cop: I'm not gonna shoot you.
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Ashley: Please don't shoot me. cop: We're not gonna
shoot you, ma'am. - When the officers
ask her who shot you
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or where were you shot,
she denies being shot. Ashley: My name's Ashley. cop: Ashley, what's going on?
Who shot you?
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Ashley: Nobody. cop: Oh, what happened? Ashley: I don't know. Please come here.
cop: I'm right here.
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Can you see me?
Ashley: No. cop: Can you see anything?
Ashley: No. Cop: No? Ashley: No.
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Jeremy: She doesn't
understand what's happening. She doesn't know
the magnitude of her injuries.
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cop: Coming down. - I'm not gonna go
to the hospital. cop: You don't have a choice.
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We gotta get you
up to the hospital. Julia: Back
in the house, officers identified
the victim in the bed
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as 35-year-old Lauren DeWise. - There was an obvious gunshot
wound to her face, head area.
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She was found gripping her cell
phone as if she was picking it up to try to call for help.
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Julia: Lauren had only recently
moved in after separating from her husband, Paul.
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Jordan: Lauren and Paul
met because they were working at the same school. They began dating
and eventually
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moved up here to Montana, where
she got a job at a bank branch. She had two stepchildren,
who she treated just
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like her own children,
and their youngest child together or only
child together.
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- Look at that. That's cool. Jordan: She was still too
young to go to school, so Paul stayed home and took
care of their youngest child
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while Lauren was
the breadwinner. Julia: But after
their marriage deteriorated,
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Lauren decided
to leave Paul and move in with her
friend, Audria, who was first on the scene
after the shootings.
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Jordan: When Lauren
moved in with Audria, she continued to go to work,
provide for the family.
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She still bought
groceries for the family and dropped them off. She would spend time with their
youngest child, coordinating
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with Paul to pick her up. Lauren was really trying
to keep a normal life with the children while
still establishing
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herself outside of Paul. Julia: Back at the house,
officers confirmed Lauren's killer wasn't inside.
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cop: Is there tracks
going over the top of the fence or anything? cop: No. Julia: They secured
the crime scene
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and began looking for clues. Kelly: There were
footsteps that led around the side
of the residence
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to the back of the residence. It was pretty clear when
we visually inspected the footprints that there were
two different tread patterns
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in the snow. Julia: Both sets of footprints
were tracked to the back door. Jordan: The back door had
obviously been kicked in.
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They found numerous bullet
casings in both Lauren's room and Ashley's room. Julia: Officers needed
to find out who would want
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to harm Ashley and Lauren. They worked on a list
of potential suspects. Kelly: We were able
to determine that Lauren
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was going through a breakup
and likely a divorce soon thereafter. We were also looking
at Ashley's boyfriend.
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They had been together
the night before. So we were looking at both
of those males at the time
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to attempt to make
the determination as to who was the actual target. The initial person that
we made contact with
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was Ashley's boyfriend. They were sort of on again,
off again boyfriend-girlfriend.
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They had been together
the night before. One of the things that we were
able to determine with him
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was that his boot print did
not match the boot print size that was found at the scene.
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He was not the person who had
forced entry into the residence and committed this crime.
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Julia: Investigators then
turned their attention to Lauren's husband, Paul. - It became very
apparent that Lauren
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was manipulated and abused
by Paul from the beginning of the relationship. He would send Lauren
text messages every day
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asking when she was coming
home to make him lunch. And if she was busy
in a meeting or running late,
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he would throw a fit,
saying fine, I guess me and baby will just starve. He would make her come
home literally every day
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and make him lunch, even though
she was working and he was not. Julia: Paul DeWise is
manifesting various kinds
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of emotional abuse. And he's controlling
her calendar, controlling how she
can move in the world
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by saying things like, you have
to be home to make me lunch, which is both sexist, and it's
a way to control her day.
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The dynamic
of the relationship seems to be that he is the recipient
of her efforts, and her money,
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and her love while he
gets to make demands. Police tracked
down Paul DeWise. cop: OK, open up your door.
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cop: Hands up.
cop: Hands up. Walk over here. Keep coming. Keep coming. Stop. Get on the ground.
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Get on the ground. Julia: He was brought
in for an interview. - Hi, Paul. So the reason that I
wanted to talk to you
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is there were some issues that
happened over at Lauren's house last night or this morning.
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- What happened? - Well, someone broke into the
back door of her-- her place. The person that came
in ended up shooting her.
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So. - She's dead? cop: Yeah. So. - Oh my god. - He starts rubbing his
hands on his thighs and
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rocking as like a self-soothe. cop: Let me just say
right off the bat that I understand,
Lauren, regardless
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of your relational
issues, I understand-- - I love her. cop: --Lauren in very
important to you.
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- I love her. - And I'm so sorry that you're
going through this right now. - You think I did it.
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I didn't do it. cop: We gotta-- we gotta
look at the big picture. - I would never do anything.
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cop: I'm asking you to give us
any information that you can about anything that happened,
whether it was you or not.
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- He's asked
by our investigators if he could provide information
about his whereabouts.
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cop: Let's just start
with a basic timeline. Last evening, last night,
as detailed as you can.
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- He gives a general statement
of a fairly benign evening at home, that he did not go
anywhere other than maybe
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to buy beer. - I went and got
a six pack of beer around midnight at Town Pump. Yeah, I went
to bed around 2:00.
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cop: And that was
about midnight you got a six pack of beer, right? - Yep. Julia: Paul told
the police that Lauren
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was having a hard time. - She's going through
a midlife crisis, and, you know,
she's staying gone.
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She's coming home
late and drunk. I caught her cheating. [tense music] Julia: Paul's teenage children
were also interviewed.
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- Both give a very similar,
almost abnormally identical, recount of a very
benign evening.
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- It's very consistent in kind
of the highlight of details amongst all three. Jeremy: It's not
abnormal to have
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a family give consistent
stories of an evening. It's a bit more odd
to have a vague evening
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with very specific
data points that each recounts almost identically. Seemed odd to us.
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Julia: Paul and his
children were released while investigators
took their phones
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to search for evidence. A few days after
the shootings, the case took a remarkable turn.
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The second victim,
Ashley, had survived. - One of the bullets went
into the back of my head.
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And one of them went
into my carotid artery, and it plugged
the hole perfectly. And so that's why I didn't
bleed to death that night.
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Doctors told my family that if
that bullet would have landed even millimeters
different, I would
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have bled to death that night,
so that alone is a miracle. Julia: When Ashley
was strong enough,
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investigators went
to speak with her. But she had no memory
of the night she was shot.
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- I remember getting out
of the car and closing the door and walking in and locking
the door behind me.
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I do not remember an intruder
coming into my room and being shot at all. Julia: Investigators
examined Paul DeWise's phone
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and found some
disturbing recordings. - Yes, I've been drinking. I'm having beer.
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But I'm not wasted. I'm very upset. But this woman, she's
taking everything from us.
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Everything. Everything. And she's not sorry. - This is an angry
drunk man who is ranting
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at himself, effectively. - I sacrifice every
day for this woman. I stay home with
our baby because that's
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what she wanted me to do. - What this feels like
is someone who is lonely. - I'm angry.
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I don't want her
to keep her job. I would like to protect
the community from her.
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- But he's also very firmly
blaming her for everything that he feels is going
wrong in his life.
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- And I'm angry. And my children are angry. - When really, he's the one
who's drunk at home,
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not working. And yet she's the problem. And she's the one who's
taking everything,
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even though she's the one
who's literally providing everything at this point. Jordan: He was constantly
berating her when she was home.
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Paul: I'm bothering you
by telling you facts, and you don't like facts. - Shoving his phone in her
face and not letting her
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go to sleep when she needs to
get up and work in the morning. - Just leave me alone.
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Paul: Why don't you attack
me in front of the camera? Why don't you talk to me
like you did a minute ago?
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- Leave me alone. Paul: Leave you alone. - He just takes her
time, attention, emotions whenever he wants.
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And he has complete callous
disregard for what she actually wants and what she needs.
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Paul: What you do is wrong,
and the bottom of your feet are dirty. And you don't even wash the
bottom of your goddamn feet.
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- There were hundreds
of audio recordings and video recordings
of him just verbally
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abusing Lauren to the extreme. Paul: You're so sweet
and so kind to everybody, except for me and your house,
where you're comfortable,
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and you treat me like [bleep]. Jordan: He cycles between
guilt tripping her about abandoning the family,
even though she's
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still paying for everything. - In Bozeman, there's
all these young 30-somethings with tons
of money that Lauren's chasing.
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She loves that. - He then goes
into the love bombing phase of I'm so sorry, I'll stop.
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- I don't care what you did. I'm sorry about what I did. Just please come home. And I love you.
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- I'll quit drinking.
Please come home. We need you. I don't know what
to do without you.
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- Please just [bleep] please. I'm sorry I wasn't
more understanding. I understand now.
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- This is the hallmark
of intimate partner violence, to allow yourself
to get very angry
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and to let it out
on your partner and to then try and enter
into a cycle of reconciliation.
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That's also why,
in some cases, at least, people stay with
their abusers because they--
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they know that there's
the good parts, and they allow them
to overshadow the bad.
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- If you give me another
chance, you won't be sorry. I promise. Julia: Paul's manipulation and
control extended to his kids.
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Paul: Was it my fault? Was I a bad husband to Lauren? No? Are you glad it's just gonna
be me, you, Joe, and Emma now?
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Why? - Because Mama moved away. Paul: How do you feel about
what happened with Lauren?
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- I'm angry and sad. Julia: This footage
of him interviewing the children is,
of course, a completely
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one-sided representation
of what's going on. Paul: Is it my fault, Joe? - No, not at all.
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- He is rubbing it
in that she left. Her kids think
she abandoned them or she's disappointed them.
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They're angry
at her, not at him. - I'm very upset. I don't understand. Julia: He's trying
to massage their reality
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to be in line with his,
even though that reality is harmful to them as well. To check Paul's
version of events,
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police got hold of the footage
from the gas station that Paul said he visited
the night Lauren was killed.
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Jordan: When police
watched that video, they see Paul drive
up in the RAV4, get out, go into the store.
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This video is actually at about
12:30, 12:20 AM, January 7. The store angle
catches Paul's feet,
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both coming into the store
and then also exiting. You can see on one foot the
two-tone pattern of the shoe.
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When we analyzed
the footage, it was established that they
were Merrell brand shoes.
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Kelly: We were
able to determine that they were a brand
that was sold at Walmart,
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and we were able to obtain
a similar pair of boots from Walmart
to actually physically
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look at the soles of the boots
and make the determination that that footprint was
indeed the same footprint that
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was located at the scene
of the crime. Julia: But the second
set of footprints was still unaccounted for.
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When police obtained a search
warrant for Paul's home, they made another
damning discovery.
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Jordan: The bullet casings
in Audy's house, which were of two
different brands, we
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found those exact same two
brands mixed in together 22 shells in Paul's house. To have that at both
locations was unique
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because it tied
the bullet casings directly to the main suspect. Julia: As investigators
continued
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to work their way through
hundreds of Paul's recordings, they found a chilling
declaration.
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- From Lauren's
perspective, this would be such
a terrifying experience, partly because you can hear in
his voice that he's seething.
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There's no kindness. There's no empathy. He's almost, like, drained
himself of his own humanity.
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Julia: Five days
into the investigation, police made a breakthrough. Jeremy: My crime
scene technicians
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tell us the second boot
impression at the crime scene is not a size 11. It's a size six
or a six and a half.
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That's the same size
boot that Joe wears. Julia: Police
brought Paul's son, Joe, in for another interview.
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Julia: Joe's
mother was present. - I could see and feel the
weight of all of this on him.
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It's like the weight of the
world on a boy's shoulders. - He has this horrible
story that's forced on him.
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- He's just a kid. - I am trying to let
him know that I am that safe space for him--
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- --that whatever it
is that he has to tell, he can tell it to me. - And with incredible strength,
he gets the words out.
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- He was the one who
stood up for the truth. - An incredible act of bravery
in the most difficult
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of circumstance. Julia: Paul DeWise was
arrested and charged with deliberate homicide
for the death of Lauren DeWise
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and attempt
of deliberate homicide for trying to kill
Ashley Van Hemert. Joe DeWise was not charged.
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- I just didn't feel that
a 15-year-old boy bore any responsibility for the death
of Lauren under those
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circumstances, so I made
it very clear that he was not going to be charged. Jordan: Joe was not
a willing participant.
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He truly felt that
if he didn't do what his dad said that his
dad was going to kill him
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and his sisters. Julia: When the trial
began in December 2019, Paul DeWise took the stand.
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- I am not
a controlling person. I don't even know
how to do that. And anybody who
knows me knows that.
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I have been falsely
accused here. I didn't do it. And I don't deserve
to go to prison.
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And what you've done is wrong. - It's just flipping
the narrative, isn't it? It's completely co-opting
reality and saying,
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I'm unwilling to accept this. He's just completely
turning it around. And it's something
that psychologists call
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an external locus of control. It's where you think that
everything that is happening,
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everything bad,
especially that you do, is because of things
that happen that are
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outside of your control. And every good thing you
do is inside your control. And so that external
locus of control
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just manifests in every
single thing he says. Paul DeWise was found
guilty and sentenced
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to 220 years with no parole. - When I found out
that he was actually gonna be in jail for 220
years, I just thought,
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well, that's reasonable. That's-- that's good. I'll never have to worry about
him hurting anybody else again.
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He killed the mother
of his child. I mean, even take me
out of the picture. He killed the mother
of his child.
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How could anybody ever do that? Jeremy: Lauren was doing what
she could to extricate herself
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from a very toxic
and dangerous environment that she found herself in. There was some
concern about why
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she left her small child
in that relationship with Mr. DeWise. I think you have
to recognize that Lauren
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had to save herself before
she could go back and try and save those kids. And I think she had made
the right step to do that.
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It's just unfortunate
that she didn't get a chance to-- to start
her new life over.
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Jordan: I think Lauren
should be remembered as a fantastic mother. She worked so hard
to provide for not
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only her child, but two kids
that she loved as her own. She needs to be
remembered as someone
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who has such a big heart. - Good boy. Come on. Jordan: There's
a side to this story
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of Lauren, which is so tragic. But then on the other
side of this, there's Ashley Van Hemert,
who is just a walking miracle.
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- Yes, that's my good boy. Life to me now is
honestly, it's-- I would say it's good.
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It's-- it's never perfect. It's always, you know,
striving to-- to be better. You can have
a life one way, and
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then something just
happens randomly that you don't see coming. But life can continue
even through really,
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really hard times. You can still live positively. I'm just trying
to live also the best
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life I can also really for
Lauren because she's not here to enjoy this life anymore.
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You're my boy. Yeah. What I'm really
trying to do now is just live the best life
that I can with what I'm given.
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And that's what I would be
a strong message to everybody, you know? No matter what life you're
given, just live the best life
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you can. Make yourself proud. Do what makes you happy
and what fulfills your life.
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[tense music] Julia: Paul DeWise showed
basically throughout his trial not a shred of remorse.
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Instead, he kept saying,
I feel bad for me. And why are you
doing this to me? And you're the ones who
are doing things wrong,
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and that is actually
representative. If you look at research
on men who've been in prison for murder,
quite often, researchers
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will find that the men
say that they actually feel more sorry for themselves
than they do for their victims.
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And this is
socially significant because we as a society
think that remorse is really important.
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And so that remorselessness
is something that can echo
through cases, and it can leave us incredibly
unsatisfied with the outcome,
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even of a successful trial. [tense music] Julia: In the UK, in Hampshire,
the port city of Southampton.
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Paul: The city
of Southampton is littered with CCTV
cameras, which can be unnerving
for some people
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but also can be
reassuring for others. - Consistently,
we see Southampton being our highest
area for referrals
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received for stalking. Paul: Police are
starting to understand stalking a lot more now.
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What history has shown is that
stalking is extremely serious. It is a precursor to murder.
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[tense music] At approximately 9:15 PM
on the 21st of September 2019, Hampshire police control
room received a 999
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call from a distressed
male who described an attack taking place. He managed to flee the scene
to call the police.
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They were dispatched
immediately. You've got a person
at that address who is potentially armed
and dangerous with a knife.
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When the police arrive,
they go into the kitchen, and they find a female who
is lifeless on the floor
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with injuries to her neck
and her torso and her arms. This was a savage attack. Chelsea: Paramedics also
arrived, but she was sadly
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pronounced dead at the scene. Paul: The victim was identified
as 28-year-old Cristina
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Ortiz-Lozano, a Spanish
national who had moved to Southampton recently. She was ambitious.
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She had landed
a really good job with the cruise liner
company in Southampton, and she was living life.
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♪ ♪ Chelsea: In total, she was
stabbed more than 23 times with some of the individual
stab wounds
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having been punctured
more than once. Paul: This would
suggest this is somebody who's got
this particular rage
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or hatred towards the victim. Having established that
the perpetrator wasn't within the house,
the police then
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searched the grounds
of that house, and they found
in the rear garden a male with several
stab wounds to his chest
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and some other minor injuries
clearly caused by a knife. And he was identified as
Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat,
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also a Spanish national. ♪ ♪ Julia: The man
in the garden was taken to Southampton General
Hospital for urgent treatment.
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Paul: They managed
to identify the person who called in to the police. He was on a date that night
with Cristina in Southampton.
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He was clearly distressed. And he explains to the police
that whilst they were out
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in the pub, Cristina identified
that they were being followed by a male that she knew.
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She was extremely
concerned by this. Officers would now be
pulling in all the CCTV
00:33:45
from the surrounding areas. We've got the endpoint
where Cristina was found, which was her home address, and
then you work out backwards.
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Speaking to her
date, that witness, we identified that
they first met in Sprinkles, which is an ice
cream parlor above Bar Street
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in Southampton. We could pull CCTV
from that area and then work up to Giddy
Bridge in London Road, which
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is the pub where they
were, and then follow the trail that they would
take back to her home
00:34:11
address in Spear Road. ♪ ♪ What they will then
look for is anything suspicious around those two.
00:34:25
And sure enough, they
identify a figure in the shadows watching them. ♪ ♪ Julia: Footage
from a supermarket
00:34:40
nearby confirmed the identity
of Cristina's stalker. Paul: Officers can
now confidently say
00:34:49
that the person
following Cristina is who's subsequently
been found in the garden
00:34:54
with these-- these injuries. Abdelaziz El Yechioui
Ourzat was her ex-boyfriend. We have Cristina lying
dead on the kitchen floor.
00:35:05
So I'm left wondering whether
there were other things going on in the background
and whether something
00:35:10
had happened
previously and ended up with Cristina losing her life. - Cristina Ortiz-Lozano
and Abdelaziz
00:35:19
El Yechioui Ourzat originally
were together for 12 years. They met whilst they were
teenagers at school in Spain.
00:35:28
They then moved
to Liverpool and then after that moved
to Southampton in July of 2019.
00:35:37
Paul: He actually got himself
a job as a baggage handler also down at the docks
for the cruise ships.
00:35:41
He wasn't as successful
as Cristina, but he had landed a job. Julia: Only months after
the couple's move to the UK,
00:35:49
his behavior became
too much for Cristina. Chelsea: On the 24th of August
2019, Mr. Ourzat was drink
00:35:58
driving and crashed his car. When the police
arrived on the scene, Mr. Ourzat refused to provide
a specimen of breath
00:36:06
and was arrested
for this offense. On the same day, Cristina
ended the relationship,
00:36:12
stating that she was fed
up with his behaviors and his alcohol consumption. Julia: Cristina asked
Abdelaziz to move out.
00:36:22
Chelsea: He didn't
take this well at all. He became extremely violent,
smashing up the property,
00:36:29
causing a lot of damage,
smashing sinks, toilets, even going as far as to rip
the wardrobe doors off
00:36:35
and throwing them
out the window. Paul: She was extremely scared,
to the point where she called
00:36:42
the police and they
had to attend and arrest him for criminal
damage and harassment.
00:36:48
Julia: His bail
condition included no contact with Cristina. Paul: Unfortunately, he
ignored those conditions,
00:36:55
and he turned up
the following day just hanging around outside. Shawn: As far as the
motivations for stalking,
00:37:03
you could feel
rejected by someone, and you could have a false
belief that they're
00:37:08
still interested in you. For Cristina, it's gonna feel
very intrusive and invasive,
00:37:13
and she did
everything she could as far as dealing with
this unwanted disturbance
00:37:18
of stalking. She was very, yeah,
boundaried and proactive and doing what she could
to-- to protect herself.
00:37:26
But of course, relationships
that break down, and if you have someone
who's not very stable
00:37:32
and someone who has
a lot of wounding, their behavior is gonna
be very distressing.
00:37:39
Julia: Cristina called
the police again, but her appeal for protection
failed to materialize.
00:37:45
- During that short
period, he was sending her
threatening emails, and so he was again
charged with harassment
00:37:52
and also malicious
communication offenses. Chelsea: The behaviors
displayed by Mr. Ourzat at this stage
would be very common behaviors
00:38:03
of a rejected stalker, somebody
that is not willing to accept the relationship's over.
00:38:10
He's still yearning for that
power and control dynamic. Shawn: There's kind
of a consistent escalation
00:38:17
of the intensity
of the stalking behavior. I think it's very possible that
the initial stalking could have
00:38:24
been as a way to try to get
her to align herself with him and perhaps to try to repair
their relationship.
00:38:33
But I think that's,
for me, enters more into coercive control
and domestic violence.
00:38:41
Paul: The fact that he'd been
given bail conditions not to contact Cristina yet ignored
those shows me that this is
00:38:47
somebody who's
extremely persistent and doesn't follow the rules. And for me, that is extremely
concerning and a red flag.
00:38:56
She was starting to make
inquiries with her company to see whether she could
be transferred back
00:39:00
to Spain because she felt safer
in Spain than she did in the UK whilst Ourzat
remained over here.
00:39:08
Julia: While Cristina
waited for a transfer, on the evening of September
21, 2019, she went on a date.
00:39:17
Police pulled the remaining
video to reconstruct Cristina's last night. Watts Park was a four-minute
walk from where
00:39:26
Cristina went on her date. CCTV in the area revealed the
extent of her ex's obsession.
00:39:36
♪ ♪ Chelsea: What we can see
here is him loitering for quite a period
of time outside the park,
00:39:48
and it looks to me
as if he's on his phone. That could indicate there may
be some form of tracking device
00:39:54
that he may have
on Cristina and that he's using that
to try and establish exactly where her location is.
00:40:03
Julia: At 7:35,
Cristina and her date left the ice cream
parlor, unaware that they were being tailed.
00:40:12
♪ ♪ Chelsea: I find it
really interesting that he's choosing to walk on
the opposite side of the road.
00:40:25
He's choosing
to keep his distance, trying to maintain that
power and control of I
00:40:30
don't want to be seen
yet, and I will choose when I'm going to be seen. And then what is really
telling here, and quite scary,
00:40:38
is that he stops
for a few seconds, kind of hiding
in the shadows, choosing when he's going to move again.
00:40:44
♪ ♪ Julia: Cristina and her date
went for a drink at a pub. Ourzat lurked outside
for nearly two hours.
00:41:01
Chelsea: We see him
walk past the pub here. And that is quite
a bold move to make.
00:41:07
And when we talk about
intrusive behaviors from a stalker, he's choosing
this moment for her to see him.
00:41:16
Cristina recognized
Mr. Ourzat in the pub and wanted to leave
immediately. We know how scared Cristina
must have been in that moment.
00:41:26
It's been described
from the date that she was at that her
face changed dramatically
00:41:31
and that she looked so scared,
as if it was somebody fearful of a wild animal. ♪ ♪
00:41:41
Paul: She said to her date,
I think we better leave. Let's go back to my house
instead, where she felt more
00:41:46
secure and more comfortable. And that's what they did. ♪ ♪ Julia: Ourzat was
filmed again following
00:41:56
Cristina and her companion. But this time, his behavior
took a sinister turn. Chelsea: What we can
see here is Cristina
00:42:06
and her date walking along
a road in the city center. This footage was actually
taken from Mr. Ourzat's phone.
00:42:15
What this demonstrates is
his need to want to document Cristina's every move. There's a possessiveness
to this.
00:42:24
Capturing an image
of your ex-partner walking with somebody else,
it's highly intrusive.
00:42:30
But it just goes to show
how obsessive Mr. Ourzat was in wanting to know
every intimate detail
00:42:36
in what Cristina was doing,
especially on this evening. Julia: Cristina and her
date walked towards her home
00:42:46
without knowing
whether they'd actually managed to lose Ourzat. Chelsea: Cristina and her
date went out of their way
00:42:54
to keep themselves safe. They didn't go
the normal route home. They changed their route.
00:42:58
♪ ♪ Here we see Mr. Ourzat
entering into Spear Road, knowing that he's breaching
his bail conditions
00:43:14
by entering this road. He's clearly going there
for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is
to attend Cristina's property.
00:43:23
It must have been absolutely
petrifying for her. It is extremely common for us
to see stalkers doing exactly
00:43:30
as Mr. Ourzat is
doing, which is turning up at a property
unannounced, unwelcome, unwanted.
00:43:40
Julia: Cristina tried to get
inside her home to safety. Paul: He pushes his
way into the address,
00:43:48
and an argument breaks
out between Cristina and Ourzat, where he then
draws a knife from the kitchen
00:43:53
drawer, begins to attack her
in a frenzied way, extremely violently, ending her life.
00:44:02
♪ ♪ Shawn: This is really tragic. His self-worth, his
self-esteem could have been linked
to being loved,
00:44:17
and so if he's not loved, he
could then feel worthless. And that could evoke tremendous
shame and humiliation and rage.
00:44:24
He could have
just felt slighted and wanted to get revenge
to get back at her. It could have been just
the ultimate control.
00:44:32
If you're not gonna have me,
then no one's gonna have you. Paul: In March
2021, Ourzat stood
00:44:41
trial at Winchester Crown Court
for the murder of Cristina. He pleaded guilty
to manslaughter on the grounds
00:44:49
of diminished responsibility. Julia: But the footage
painted a different picture.
00:44:59
Paul: This wasn't somebody who
just turned up at the address and just happened
to come across Cristina
00:45:04
and her new date for the
evening and just lost it. This is somebody
who'd been following
00:45:09
her for a couple
of hours all the way back to her home address. He's getting
angrier and angrier.
00:45:17
That is premeditation. ♪ ♪ Chelsea: On the 17th
of March, 2021, Mr. Ourzat was sentenced to life
imprisonment for him to serve
00:45:31
a minimum of 19 years. Now, whilst this does bring
some justice and comfort to the family, I can't imagine
any sentence being passed down
00:45:40
being enough to fill a void
that Cristina's family will now feel for the rest
of their lives.
00:45:48
Paul: Cristina absolutely
did the right thing by contacting
the police as soon as she felt scared
or threatened
00:45:53
by Ourzat's behavior. But when people are
obsessed with other people, it doesn't matter what
conditions you put in place
00:46:01
or how much the victim
contacts the police to try and get an intervention. He ignored those conditions.
00:46:09
And sadly, she paid
for that with her life. [tense music] ♪ ♪ [theme music] ♪ ♪