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Uh, it's magnificent.

World's best.

♪ Collin Street fruitcake
is the best♪

♪ North, south,
east and west♪

♪ So grab a tin
and come on down♪

♪ Corsicana Texas
Fruitcake Town! ♪

What Dom Perignon
is to champagne,

Collin Street Bakery
is to fruitcake.

We've been making
fruitcakes now for the past
125 years.

Collin Street Bakery
is about a $30 million
a year business

in terms of total sales.

They make good bank
off of fruitcake.

It's really good!

There was a few years
they didn't understand

why the bakery
wasn't making money.

We knew something was wrong.

Certainly nothing bad
on this scale had ever
happened to the bakery before.

When everything came
to light,

we were all standing
there, stunned.

A very significant
crime has occurred.

There is a lot of money
at stake.

A whole lotta stealing.

The numbers were continuing
to build

and we're starting to think,
"When is this number
gonna end?"

It can't be that much money.
But it was.

I'm like, holy guacamole,
this is, is a big case.

I'm thinking,
"Oh no, what have I gotten
myself into?"

I did not think that I would
have a massive fruitcake fraud
in my career.

How did they
pull this off?

This is a real stunt.
Now, how did you do this?

People kept asking me,
did you find money?

How in the world?

Now, predators are predators.
They're gonna get you
any way they can.

Obviously, he was the world's
best liar.

He thought that he would get
away with this.

I think he got in
a scheme that was way
bigger than him.

It's hard to keep
a secret in the can.

You can try all you want,
but it's gonna always
come out.

It's a town
with a sense of history,
and a sense of humor.

Corsicana, Texas.
It's one of the nicest towns
you'll ever meet.

He's so sweet.

Can I offer you all
a refreshment?

I have Coors beer,
I have pink Mumm champagne,

I have white wine,
I have red wine.

Oh! I've got some
pomegranate vodka.

I moved to Corsicana.
I was a freshman
in high school.

But most of the people
are the ones that have been
born and raised here,

their grandparents also,
you know,
born and raised here.

Mm-hmm.
It's a very nice, quiet town.

We pretty much know everybody.
We're very traditional,
I think.

Good or bad.
But I like tradition.

Oh, I'm moving,
I shouldn't be moving.

I should stay
where you told me to be.

I'll move up again.

It's a wonderful,
little small town,
kind of like Mayberry.

Mayberry, yeah, in...
Whatever that show is.

Which I probably shouldn't
mention, so.

Andy Griffith, is
what it was. Mm-hmm.

Corsicana was
the wealthiest town per capita
in Texas for a while,

because of the oil.
People were discovering
oil in their backyards.

It's old money.
There's lots of old money
in Corsicana,

that's what they call it.

The Big Gusher
was founded here.

Magnolia Oil Company,
which is now Exxon Mobil.
It all kind of started here.

It was a boomtown.

It is a small town.
I would normally say that
it's an insular town.

We do have a high society,
if you will.

I'm not gonna group
everyone together,

but, there's certain families
that have recognizable names,

that feel that they
created the earth.

There's lots of
different social groups.

There's supper clubs,
and things like that.
We have the country club.

Literary clubs
and things that are fun.

You have to be asked
and voted in.

There's a couple of ladies in
town that I know,

that have been put up three
times and they didn't get in.
So...

I'm not part of the
exclusive book club.

Oh, my shame.

It is very historic.
It started in the '50s.

And my husband's aunt
was one of the founders,

and it's just an old,
continuing, old book club.
And it's just a tradition.

It's just...
Corsicana.

Currently, probably,
most of the money in town
comes from agriculture,

manufacturing,
that kind of thing.

And fruitcakes.

♪ We wish you
a Merry Christmas♪

♪ We wish you
a Merry Christmas ♪

♪ We wish you
a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year! ♪

I'm Bob McNutt.

I'm the President
of the Collin Street Bakery
in Corsicana, Texas.

I started here
at three years old.

I am third-generation.

Hey, Bob!

He's as nice a man,
I think I've ever known.

Probably
the most genuine man
that you'll ever meet.

Besides my husband.

We're on this earth just
for a really short
period of time,

and I think you should try
and treat people fairly
and honestly.

And expect that in return.

He is one of
the funniest, warmest,

most generous human beings
that you will ever meet.

I'm Hayden Crawford,
uh, Vice President, partner,

uh, Collin Street Bakery's
Customer Service.

We're the world's largest
fruitcake company.

We turn out a million cakes
a year.

It's 125 years old, so
it was founded in 1896
on Collin Street,

thus the name.

It's
a family-owned business.

It's just a tradition.

During the fall,
when people began to think
of the holidays,

and they start
ordering from us,

the demand
goes through the roof.

We go from 10, 20 cakes
a week,

to 10, 20,000 cakes a day.

So, this is the facility
that we use to produce
our fruitcake.

Shipped to probably
190 countries
around the world.

It's the best you've ever
bought, baked, or eaten,
or you get your money back.

Before we mix the fruit cake,
you lock the bowl in
and as the bowl turns,

it just kind of simulates
a hand mix,

like you're turning
the batter over.

This is the, uh,
cooling tunnel.

So, the cakes come in,
this is all one chain.

Cakes come here,
down the line
to hand decorate,

and you're ready
to go.

I love what we do
for people worldwide.

And helping to shine
a little bit of happiness

and light
through our fruitcake,

uh, at Christmas
and during the holidays.

I've come all the way
from the North Pole
to Corsicana, Texas,

to the Collin Street Bakery.

Collin Street Bakery,
this is Santa speaking!

My mother thought
it was delicious and so,

she was delighted when she got
a fruitcake every year
for Christmas.

This fruitcake
tastes really good.

Mm! That's good!

- This is my sugar for the month right here.
- This is really good.

This is good stuff.

Come here, we'll give you a bite.

This looks wonderful,
where did it come from?

Eat the cherry off first.

Mm.

It is delicious.
Mmhmm.

Basically,
it was designed...

Fruitcakes were, you know,
served at Christmas.

Families.

Now, things have changed,
the tradition of Christmas
is not what it used to be.

No, kids go eat
a Pop-Tart now.

Tastes like home.

If I may,
I'd like to read a list
of our VIP customers.

Grace Kelly, actress.
She later became
Princess Grace of Monaco.

Princess Caroline,
Grace Kelly's daughter.

Chuck Norris, actor,
Walker, Texas Ranger.

Robert Urich, actor.
He played Dan Tanna
in the popular TV show, Vega$.

Uh, I loved it.

Dom DeLuise, comedian.
Julius Erving, Dr. J,

basketball great.

Lyle Lovett, musician.
Vanna White, TV personality.

And a fun story there,
my sister is married
to her brother.

John Ringling,
Ringling Bros Circus.

And what makes that
interesting to us

is that he would take cakes
from our bakery,

take them overseas,
give them out to family
and friends.

They would write us,
ask if they could get
another one,

and that's how we believe
that the business built.

Oh yeah, here's another thing.

You can see it
in The Godfather.

-There's our tin,
right there in the corner.

Fruitcake kind of came
under assault,
starting with Johnny Carson.

Johnny Carson says
there's only one fruitcake
in the world.

It just gets shipped
from person-to-person.

- Nobody eats them.
- You keep it for a long time.

- You put it up in the closet somewhere.
- Yeah.

And then you wait
till next Christmas,

and you give it to somebody else.

People can make fun of them,
but somebody's eating that

and enjoying it and paying
a lot of money for it.

People come from miles
to come get these things,

and they ship them
all over the world.

Johnny's gone,
but we're, we're still here.

So I think we know
who won that one.

Have y'all tried
the fruitcake?

I take a lot of fine
and the character of
the people that work here.

It is such
a wonderful place to work.

It's very family oriented.

Well,
my name is Jerry Grimmett.

I came to work at the bakery
in 1956.

I'm the only one that's still
alive that was part of
Collin Street Bakery...

in 1956.

Now, we're doing about
a million pounds of fruitcake,

maybe a little more than that,
maybe a million, five.

Collin Street Bakery
is about a $25-30 million
a year business,

in terms of total sales.

But,
there was a few years,

that they didn't understand
why the bakery wasn't
making money.

We'd start the year,
and we would think, "Okay,

we're gonna make one
to two million this year.

At the end of the year,
we'd look back and realize
we hadn't made it.

If we turned out
a million cakes a year,

we wondered...
What is this?

Where's the money?
It wasn't right.

Nobody knew exactly
what was going on.

Darlene as much as
anybody was jumping up
and down and screaming,

"These numbers aren't right!"

My name's
Darlene Johnston.

I've worked
with Collin Street Bakery
since 1982,

in various positions.

She was so good that
she became the first
female executive

at Collin Street Bakery.

They made me
Vice President of marketing.

We were all wondering,
you know,

why are we not doing
as well is we should be?

We're working hard,
like usual.

My name is Randy Wilson.

I'm a Corsicana native.

I was office manager.

We knew money was missing.

It did not make sense.

What are you spending on this?
What are you spending on that?

We didn't know
what was going on.

So they decided the cost
was going so high,

so we started cutting back on
how we were advertising.

- That wasn't it.
- They talked for years about,

- well, we've got a computer glitch.
- That wasn't it.

It has to be in
some kind of process.

Is it in a waste
of ingredients?

And that
wasn't the problem.

Our controller at the time,
a guy named, Sandy Jenkins.

We approached him.
What-- Can you spot
what's going on?

What's going wrong?
And he was digging
into the numbers but...

He never found them either.

It was just a mystery.

But what do you do?
Start accusing everybody?

You know that
it's like your family.

But, people were
really hurt by this.

Different things
were being cut.

Our staff stopped
getting raises.

There were layoffs.

It was affecting
the staff,

it was affecting the
community.

My name is Semetric Walker

and I was working
in finance and administration.

Semetric,
we had just brought her on.
She was brand-new.

And so the CFO said,

"I would like you to pull
all your invoices
and give it to Semetric.

And let her go through it.
And see what she finds."

Of course,
I did my due diligence,

trying to go through
the system.

And I stumbled across
a transaction that was
on the bank statement,

that wasn't in our system.

And so, concurrent
with us investigating

where is this money
possibly going,

she makes the discovery.

And I was just
beside myself, I mean,

I can remember
just being hysterical.
I was crying.

It was just shock.

Just, unbelief
that this was the cause
of all of our problems.

It was hard to comprehend,
hard to get our minds around,

and, uh, and to realize
that it was a friend
who did it to us.

When I first
came to the bakery,
I was the youngest employee.

I didn't engage in a lot of
conversation with people.
I was, you know, very shy.

Really, kept to myself.
Did my work, you know,
and went home.

On that day
I discovered the check,

I wasn't privy to really,
the financial state
of the bakery.

It happened on
Thursday,

that's was when Semetric
realized something was wrong.

It was just
a normal day for me

and I stumbled across
a check for $10,000
written to Capital One bank.

As an organization,

Collin Street Bakery
did not have a relationship
with Capital One.

I was like, "Okay,
I need to get Sandy involved."

He was my boss,
I was fairly new.

He had complete control
of the entire system,

from invoice writing
to bank reconciliation.

She took it
immediately to her boss,
as one would.

Can you explain this?

I was like, "Sandy,
uh, this check cleared
our account.

But, I don't see
any financial data related
to it in our system.

And also, you know,
we don't have an account
with Capital One.

So, I'm not sure how this
check could've cleared
our account."

And then he gave her an answer
that didn't make sense to her.
It didn't add up.

His response
let me know

there's more to it than what
really meets the eye.

He said, "I know what
that is, I'll fix it,

it's just a glitch
in the system."

He was like,
"Oh, it was a mistake."

And she said
that he turned very white.

There was like
a ghostly white appearance
that came over him.

And I could tell that this
conversation was making him
very uncomfortable.

So, he told me that
he was leaving because
he had a doctor's appointment.

I have a great sense
of discernment.

I can, you know,
look at someone

and I can tell when
they're not being truthful
with me.

Just by his reaction,
I knew that I needed
to look deeper.

And she decided to do
her own investigating,
very quietly, at her own desk.

That's when
I discovered several checks
that didn't make any sense.

She found
these others,
but she kept digging.

First,
she was able to find
like, 16 checks.

But she starts
looking further,
and spots more.

She just kept looking.

Each year,
you're working
your way backwards

and it's like,
oh my goodness,
you know,

thirteen, 12, 11, it's like,
how many years
are we going back?

The numbers were
continuing to build.

Within
the next weekend,

they knew that it was
stretching into the millions.

But then the number
kept going up.

What we thought
was three million became
seven million, 12 million,

we're starting to think,
when's it gonna stop?

When, when is this number
going to end?

People
were dismissive.

They were like,
it can't be that much money.
There's not that much money.

It can't be.

But it was.

When it hit
that last figure,
it was like...

oh my gosh.

I came in and they said,
we have caught Sandy stealing.

And I said, "Really?
How much?"

And they said,
"A whole lot of stealing."

He was able to embezzle
$16.5 million.

It was close to $17 million.

How in the world?

He got caught.

With his hands
in the cookie jar. Literally.

In the end,
they found that he had
written 1888 checks.

It'd been going on
for years.

Got away with it
for a long time.

Really?
How could you let
that go for that long?

I am terrified
at that point.

Here I am,
a person of the
Black-American race,

and I have just identified
that a person of another race

was taking something
that didn't belong to them.

Sandy,
he was kind of,
under the radar.

I bet I'd go sometime,
two or three weeks
and never even talk to him.

I didn't know anything
about him other than
he was a controller.

Now, Sandy was
very unassuming.

You would not have selected
Sandy for much of anything.

But look, you don't...

You don't assume that anybody
in the organization's going

to attempt to steal money
like that.

So, he was just...
Very, very quiet
and soft-spoken.

If somebody said,
"Sandy Jenkins has stolen
from the bakery,"

I'd say, "I bet you a dollar
he hadn't."

And I would've lost that bet.

He really had us all fooled.

I would've described
Sandy Jenkins as a good friend
and a caring person.

He's a very nice guy.
I mean, he...

A couple times a year,
he'd come into my office
and say, you know,

"I think you're going to like
this bottle of wine,

I had it last night
and I thought of you

and it's a gift from me
to you."

He was
very easy-going.
Never raised his voice.

He was really funny.

He had interesting stories
and he had kind of a dry wit.

He was like Walter Mitty.

He was, uh...

Quiet and demure
and soft-spoken.

Short, grey-headed.

Kept kind of stubby like?
Yeah.

He wasn't skinny,
or anything like that,

I guess he didn't eat
a lot of fruitcake.
I don't know.

The truth is,
the first time I met him,

I had a feeling
that something was off.

But everybody said,
"No, he's great,
he sits back here with us,

he's wonderful,
he's one of the guys."

And I thought, "Well,
I'm probably wrong."

We just didn't think Sandy
was anything other than
a trusted employee.

And a member of the team.

So there are a lot of...

Decisions that we had to make
and one of the decisions was,
we just need to go ahead

and fire Sandy.
We need to get rid of him.

When we fired Sandy,
we brought in a policeman
so that nothing would happen.

From a physical standpoint.

I saw Sandy and his boss
go into our COO's office.

And they shut the door.

I was so nervous.
I just didn't know
what was going to happen.

The next morning
when I show up,
Sandy...

I'm not sure what was going on
in his head.

He come into his office,
and he was like, "Guess what?

I really didn't have
a doctor's appointment.

I was really out
house shopping."

And he showed me a house
that he was going to view
on Mills Place,

which is a very
prestigious street here,
in Corsicana.

And so I'm thinking
in my head,
I was like, wrong response.

So, they bring Sandy
into the COO's office.

Confront him with it,
show him the checks.

He doesn't know what to say,
uh, he turns white.

So, they said, "We're not
going to embarrass you.

We'll let you walk out
of the building.

But we have
a policeman down there,

he's not gonna
let you back in.

We'll ship your stuff back
to your house,

but you're fired."

He was dismissed
and so he comes back
to his desk,

and he gathers his things
in a cardboard box and he is
escorted out of the property.

I was standing at my desk,
and Sandy was being
lead out the door.

It was a total
and complete shock.

I was the reporter
who covered the story
when it first came out.

But, the gossip mill
knew before I did.

Corsicana
is a very small town.

And it's a very close town
and everybody knows everything
before you know it.

As soon as you get home,
the stories have already
beat you home.

Someone told me once
when I got here,

do not ever talk
about anybody.

Because, it will get back
to them.

You don't know what's going on
in Corsicana?
Somebody else--

Ask your neighbor.
They know.

Ask, ask anybody, they know.
They know what's going on.

It's hard to keep
a secret in the can.

You can try all you want,
but it's gonna always
come out.

But the town knew
almost immediately.

It was no secret
within the first week.

Everybody was all
in an uproar.

It was the biggest...
Like in that movie,
it was the terrible awful,

That it happened
in Corsicana.

Wow.
I mean, gossip just spread
very quickly.

People were fascinated
and very interested
and wanted to talk about it

and wanted to go over it.

And as with most small towns,
there is a code of honor.

People value that
more than money.

And he broke that code.

The thing about it is,
with him,

he was a predator,
the way I see it.

Because, he preyed and took
advantage of a family-owned,
tradition in Corsicana,

and he had no right to.

That's what really
upsets everybody.

I know he had friends
outside of the bakery.

They were stunned too.

-Hi, I'm Brad Tekell.
- I'm Janet Tekell.

We were friends with
Sandy and his wife, Kay,
and their daughter.

When they first got here,
They went to work
for the church as cooks.

They cooked the Wednesday
night meals and then,

some of the senior activities
would have food that they
would provide for.

Sandy was a deacon,
Brad was a deacon,

and we went
to supper club with them

and went to Sunday school
parties at their house.

Then we just got closer
and closer and our girls
got closer.

And t hey were
not, like, outgoing.

They just were real quiet,
just kinda...

Very, very reserved.

They were very giving,
very friendly,
very generous.

Everybody trusted them.

For Bob and me
and the rest of the folks
at the bakery,

it was, "Okay."

Now we know it wasn't
something else.
It was Sandy Jenkins.

He was stealing the money
that should've been
ours and was ours.

But, he's out.
He's not yet been tried
and convicted,

and he's just
living his life.

So, the police come
and they begin to investigate

the criminal act of,
of this embezzlement.

Uh, my name
is Paul Ward.

I worked with the Corsicana
Police Department
from 1993 to uh, 2015.

We initially got the report
and it was assigned to me,

that a clerk at
Collin Street Bakery,

had discovered Sandy Jenkins
was using their account system
to pay for his debt.

At that point we were waiting
on the bakery to complete
their audit.

We wanted to have everything
in order and make sure

that all the evidence
that we had
was properly attained.

Vice President
and a couple of others,

I think the COO of the company
had already confronted
Mr. Jenkins.

Pretty much as soon as
he had been terminated,
he left the area.

He disappears.

I mean,
I was a little terrified
when I heard about that.

And I would live my life
sometimes looking
over my shoulder,

and seeing if, you know,
driving and making sure
no one's following me.

He had lots of money
and we had learned that,

He had another home
in another state.

Which,
we didn't know exactly
where he was.

We had an idea but...

It did change
the way that our case would go

because we no longer had
the element of surprise.

We knew that if we were
to contact Mr. Jenkins,

that he already knew
that we would be coming
to contact him.

And, it also could potentially
change his answers to what he
felt like we wanted to hear.

Sandy used the mail
to mail the check

across interstate lines,
to steal money.

Using the banking system,
wire transfers,

many of the acts
that he was doing,

was actually
a federal offense.

The Corsicana Police
Department started
looking at what they had

and when they realized
that he had used the mail,

they were like, you know what?
This needs more power
than we've got.

At that point,
we knew that it was
going to fall

under the jurisdiction
of the FBI.

When you hear FBI,

automatically, it's like,
"Oh, no. They're serious."

Like, these are not just cops.

It was, that's big news
for Corsicana,
the FBI to show up.

And the FBI came down
like a ton of bricks.

They brought in investigators,

they brought in
forensic scopes,
they brought in accountants.

They brought in power.

I'm Christine Edson.
I'm a Special Agent

with the FBI's office
in Dallas, Texas.

I grew up in Dallas
and my dad really liked
fruitcake for a long time,

So every Christmas,
we would get the tin from
the Collin Street Bakery.

When my boss got the call,
I knew exactly the company
he was talking about,

and I said,
"I want that case."

I was the main case agent
on this case.

At the time,
I'd only been an agent
for a little over a year.

So, I was relatively new.

I saw my role
as an investigator,

to figure out where
the stuff was and also,
to be able to show

exactly how Sandy Jenkins
stole money in a way that
we could charge federally.

And ultimately, arrest him.

She was the classic,
TV FBI agent.

Pretty girl,
big .45 on her hip.

Just as cool
and calm as she could be.

When she left,
everybody's like,
wasn't she on television?

It's definitely
the case that's gotten

the most attention,
um, from the media,

of any other case
that I've worked.

It was
fruitcake money.

And it was $17 million worth
of fruitcake money.

People were fascinated.

I would hear about it
in restaurants

and I would be like,
wow, okay,
we've struck a nerve here.

There was lines of cars
that would go by their house,
you know,

just to see
if you could see anything.

And people would
drive by his house and be
like, shouting things

out the window at him and Kay.
And so he left Corsicana.

The FBI,
they were knocking on doors,
they were getting interviews,

to figure out what Sandy
was doing and using that
to build their case.

I talked to Bob McNutt,
I talked to Hayden Crawford,

I talked to Semetric Walker.

Um, I talked to some other
employees who may have been
friendly with Sandy,

to understand
what his lifestyle was like.

And to learn more
about his wife as well.

Kay was a talented
caterer.
Very good cook.

She catered
several meals here,

when we'd serve employees.

Kay was a fabulous cook.
She was an excellent,
excellent cook.

I remember she did yoga.

Kay was
a very friendly person.

Our children were friends.
My girls loved Kay.

They spent a lot of time
at the Jenkins.

And she would cook for them
and they would stay up late
and watch movies.

And...
She just had a way
with everybody.

She had
some female friends,
um, she got along well.

She was supportive
of Sandy's career.

Kay was always
very nice to me.

But, she was someone
who was very much in charge.

She just knew
how to draw you into her

and then when
she was finished
with you,

- she was finished. You were done.
- She would...

They just kind of,
went to that next level.

We used to have
dinner with them,
my husband and I,

about once a week.
But then after a while,
we didn't.

And I just thought, well,
he's moved on to, uh...

higher realms.

We saw
a pattern later of things that
they did to draw people in

to their friendship.
They were manipulating
them, I think.

There were
lots of people that...

Drank the Kool-Aid,
as they say now.

I only knew Kay through
the old Quintillion book club,
that I am a member of.

And she was the treasurer.

We have a wine and cheese
every year.

For two years in a row,
Kay Jenkins donated the wine

and we have 200 women plus
that come to these things.

I never really engaged in much
conversation with her,
'cause I just always thought,

I don't know,
I just had this eerie
feeling about her.

I don't know,
just intuition or whatever.

I really never got
too much involved with her.

You know, she just,
was just kind of snooty to me.

But, Sandy Jenkins?
He wanted to know
how much money it took

to be in the social scene
in Corsicana.

What he considered
the social scene in Corsicana.

Mm-hmm.

They wanted bigger and bigger things.

More friends.

Maybe money buys friends,
I don't know.

We learned
from interviewing
the employees at the bakery,

and then also friends
of Sandy and Kay Jenkins
that...

Sandy and Kay Jenkins
bought a lot of jewelry.

Sandy Jenkins' wife
wanted to show off to my wife,

and so she brought
this gorgeous
Van Cleef & Arpels necklace.

It's very noticeable,
I mean, you know what it is
when you see it.

That costs about $32,000.

There were some
jewelry stores that actually
drove items down to Corsicana.

One of the jewelers
from Dallas had came,

and brought a briefcase
that was handcuffed to him.

And brought to Sandy
in his office.

He opened up
a case of diamonds

and wanted us to look
at the ones he had picked out.

And I was like...

Wow, that is so gorgeous.

One time, he wanted
me to put a watch in the safe.

And of course,
I mean, I'm nosy!

I went online
and I googled the watch
and I remember like,

sending my sisters
a text saying,

"I just put a watch
in the safe for my boss
and it was $80,000."

I like watches too,
but I don't have
those kind of watches.

The amount of jewelry
was in excess of $3 million.

They bought
so many watches
from de Boulle,

that when I went to get
their records,

they were like, "Actually,
we still have two watches
in the vault

that they never picked up."

So, it was like $100,000
they just left sitting
in the safe at de Boulle

for multiple years.

Some
of the things
that you saw

that they had bought
was just crazy.

His main home here,
in Corsicana, I think

comes out to a little bit
less than $200,000,

in appraised value.

But his New Mexico home
was worth 3/4
of a million dollars.

Kay
bought a Jaguar.

A new Jaguar.

They had many,
many Lexus, Mercedes.

Sandy and Kay Jenkins spent
approximately $2 million
at Sewell Lexus.

The joke that I heard from
the Sewell employees was that,

uh, they bought cars
as frequently as people
get oil changes.

Sandy had this plane
that he would take
almost every weekend.

He would fly
somewhere,

and it would cost him $50,000.

That jet probably has
$20,000 worth of fuel costs
that comes with it.

They were
flying everywhere.
Going to the Caribbean.

Going to Napa Valley
all the time.

Went to Napa Valley to buy
all that wine and cases of it
and bring it back.

They actually hired a private
jet to fly them from Corsicana
to Austin to go to lunch.

So it was
like, an $8000 lunch.

They flew 223 times over,
I think, a 10-year period.

So, they spent $3.2 million
on private jets.

And then we found
out about their nicknames
with Neiman Marcus,

Fruitcake and...

I think Cupcake or something
like that. Yeah.

Nicknames.
I mean that's...

That's amazing.

Gucci, Prada,
Louis Vuitton.

Purses
and all the furs.

One thing that I learned
from interviewing
the personal shopper there,

was that at one point
she just ran out of things
to sell them.

Which I thought was pretty
hard to do at Neiman Marcus.

They spent $11 million
on the Black AMEX
over an eight-year period.

I think it was like,
$120,000 a month.

Whereas Sandy was making
$50,000 a year.

Because
how Sandy spent money,

I remember asking someone,

"Are you sure, you know,
he didn't win the lottery?"

We often scratched
our head about how this...

how is he financing
these junkets off in a jet?

We just never could
figure it out.

He asked me one
time,

if my husband and I
would like to, uh, split
a villa with them in Italy.

And I said, "I work for
Collin Street Bakery
and I can't afford that."

The thing that probably
should have just,
struck a note,

was that,
if you're a guy that's making,
you know, $50,000 a year,

and taking $25,000-a-week
trips out to Napa Valley,

why would you even want
to continue to come
in to the office?

Obviously,
he was the world's best liar.

Sandy Jenkins
was a very nice guy,
I thought.

I ended up realizing he is
a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde

and he had this one persona
here, and he had this entirely
other persona,

that we didn't know about.

We didn't know
really, who we've been
working with.

His whole identity
was like, false.

The... you know,

soft spoken,
the easy-going Sandy,

now turned out
to be a monster.

I think when you have
that kind of spending,

that kind of lifestyle,
in Corsicana,

you're going
to attract speculation.

And people had to wonder,
where does that money
come from?

In retrospect,
you can look back
and say you know,

you should've seen
this coming,

because there was
a lot of evidence.

But Sandy had a back story
for everything.

One of his stories was
he had an uncle who owned
a lot of funeral homes.

So, he would just let Sandy
use his private plane

and that was his story
about how he had this plane.

His story
was of course,
that they had inherited

this money
and we're going like... Hmm.

Pretty good inheritance,
I guess.

He told people that he was
like a car investor.

That he had figured out
how to just trade cars
and make money in the process.

He said he sued
his father-in-law
because they had a trust fund

and he won the suit
and he got the trust fund.

He said he had expensive
watches that his dad
had collected

and that he had been selling
some of those watches,

to buy some of this
other stuff.

I believed what they told me.

He could look you
right in the eye

and tell you anything
you wanted to hear.

I had no reason
to not believe the man.
None of us did.

I thought he was
a nice person.

He was one of our own.
We, we trusted him.

And he had millions
of dollars, of our dollars,
in his hands

and he chose to abuse it.

And I felt very betrayed
that...

to think back,
that he could just never

show any guilt
about any of it.

And that he was spending
bakery money to do all this.

Which was taking away
from the bakery,
which in the end,

takes away from each
and every one of us,
employees.

And it was
very devastating.
And it was hard.

Very hard to accept.

There were people
who were really hurt.

Financially.

People who weren't
able to have raises,
for years.

Our staff
stopped getting raises.

We were paying less
in, in sales taxes
to the community.

He had no idea
what impact he was having
by that selfish act.

Bob... what an
invasion, what betrayal.

and his family has,
you know,

worked so hard to make
that business,

And then for them to lie
so much about everything...
You know?

It's terrible.

I saw Bob cry over,
over this.

Um, he came to me and said,
"I'm, I'm going to quit.

Uh, it's because of me
this happened."

He took it
on his shoulders.

Uh, he was ready to give up
his family business for the
guilt he felt over this loss.

When it comes
to the theft,

and all the money
that was stolen,

there's really only one person
that's responsible,
and that's me.

You know, it's affected,
certainly my family,
and the people up here,

with you know,
the sense of betrayal.

That's just, you know,
unbelievable.

I can't get my arms
around it, really.

that you could look somebody
in the eye every day, smile,

and just know
that you're stealing.

What kind of tormented
soul is...

you know, what kind
of existence is that?

I am Randy Goolsby.

I lived in Wortham, Texas,
with Sandy.

I remember him
coming to Wortham.

It's a rural town of,
they say 1000.

Everybody knows everybody.

If you had children,
those children know
your children.

So, we all grew up a very
close, little community.

Sandy was a little different
than the guys in my class.

Sandy didn't care
about sports.

He was very
musically inclined.
He loved the piano.

And he came in like
he was going to a prep school.

He had a little knit shirt,
a little black belt,
khaki pants,

hard rimmed glasses.

When the Who's Who day came
to vote on people in school,

Sandy and a girl
were voted most fashionable.

Well, Sandy got that
three years running
at Wortham High School.

His parents were storeowners.

Sandy's father, Claude,
was a very quiet man,
always.

And his mother, Helen,
was very vocal.

And I, I remember
one of the women at my
mother's beauty shop,

one time said,
"Lord, there comes Helen."

Said, "Let's go in
and get all our talking in,

because we won't be able
to talk when she gets here."

So...

I kinda laughed,
but Helen was that way.

She had a lot to say
and she wanted you
to know about it.

Claude, Helen
and Sandy ran their store
with zero other employees.

And they did well with it.

He got to see
that this is what you get
for your money.

You know?

You can put
your K. Wolens shirt
beside your Neiman shirt,

and you can tell
the difference.

And that difference
is what you pay.

And what other people
think about it.

So, I think Sandy got that
side of wanting more,
from Helen.

She loved the name Neiman's.

And Claude made the statement
that if Neiman-Marcus
sold poop in a bag,

that she would give them
whatever they wanted for it.

And she had those things
that allowed her to, uh...

To do what Sandy hadn't done.

And that was to have
a lot of friends.

Sandy wanted
to, to fit in.

And, uh, he lacked for
companionship that was close,

that the rest of us had.

He was that person that,
we're going to be nice to him,

because not only
did the teachers say,
and my mother would say,

"Randy, Sandy doesn't have
any friends.

And I expect y'all
to be friends."

Sandy went straight
to school after graduating.
He met Kay.

We never crossed paths again,
until Sandy was working
at Collin Street Bakery.

They were
seeking a job when they
came to Corsicana.

They got the cook job
and then he got the job
at the bakery.

They got
everything they wanted.

But, I don't think that
the ever could get past
that stigma of cook.

That, a lot of people, um,
wouldn't accept them
into their group because,

maybe they had been a cook.

When
Sandy was working at
Collin Street Bakery,

instead of being the shy,
not fit in,

Sandy was part of it.
And you could tell.

He had a feeling
about him that, by golly,

he finally found
a clique he fit in.

He just worked his own
way through the organization
there, whatever,

until he was I guess,
controller.

And he never
missed a Christmas

of sending Ethel,
my mother, a fruitcake.

I don't think until my mother
left this earth,
that she ever believed,

that her little fruitcake
fairy was capable
of doing something like that.

But when he did it,
he did it big.

My name's Nick Bunch.
I'm an assistant
United States attorney

with the United States
Attorney's Office

for the Northern District
of Texas.

From the start of this case,
I start working with the FBI
agent, Christie Edson.

And we began the process
of putting the case together.

I have the investigative role,
but, um, he's going to be
using that evidence

to charge someone
with a crime.

We made the decision early on
and this is working
with Melissa Childs as well,

that the actual items
Sandy bought,

were going to be things
we wanted to seize.

My name is
Melissa Childs.

I'm an assistant
United States attorney.

My job is to follow the money
and find what they did with
the proceeds of that crime.

And take back the things
that the defendants have
acquired with those proceeds,

um, in order
to liquidate them

and recover as much
as we can for the victims.

We believed that there
would be evidence of this
crime located in their house.

We were able,
pretty quickly, to get
what we needed

for a search warrant.

When we got
to Sandy's house,
nobody was there.

I received
a warrant that essentially
gave me the ability

to seize anything of value.

Sandy had a huge jewelry safe
installed in a downstairs
closet in his house.

So, we knew that we needed
to get into the safe

and recover the assets
for the victim.

There was just
so much stuff to take.

There was a wine
and liquor collection,
there was a grand piano,

there was a cedar sauna
that we found in the house.

Our photographer
was literally driving
down the street

and he saw the activity.

And so, he called us
at the paper

and I went down
and started talking to people.

It was attracting attention,
people had stopped their cars.

People who were out walking
had stopped and they were
collecting in little clumps.

If somebody
was down there,

and something big
was going on,
they'd call around to you.

"Gotta get on down here
and see what's going on."

I think I called you.

I was probably at the store.

Somebody must've called me
and said --

Somebody called her and,
"Hey, did you hear
about Jenkins?"

Of course we called
somebody else, "Yeah, hey!

Yeah, there's FBI crawling
all over his house down here."

I mean,
we popped in our car
and ran on down there

and parked!

To get the bird's eye view.
I mean, it was the biggest
entertainment in town, that.

Once we finally
found the items we were
looking for,

we had somebody
come drill the safe.

In the safe,
there was jewelry items

that just looked like
museum-type pieces.

So it was really

something to behold.

When we searched Kay's closet,
we found

a lot of expensive clothes
and shoes and handbags.

But then, as we went
through the closet,

we also started finding notes,

and we found
these spiral notebooks.

Once I started going through
the notebooks,

I realized what they were,
which was essentially a record

of all of the expensive
jewelry and watches

that they had purchased.

With dollar amounts.

Although there was jewelry
and watches in a safe,

it was evident that maybe
there were items missing

just from the placement
in the safe.

They had searched very closely
in that house,

but they were also wondering,
okay, where else
is there stuff?

He had to know
that eventually,

the house of cards
was gonna fall.

I was sitting
at Nick's office,

um, at the US
Attorney's office,

uh, just talking
about this case
in general,

and sort of strategizing
how to go forward.

I can remember
sitting in Nick's office
with Christie.

Out of the blue,
we get a phone call...

...from an officer

um, with the Austin
Police Department.

And they ask us
if we're investigating

something related to Sandy
and Kay Jenkins,

and we're like,
"Yeah, we are."

Sandy Jenkins
has a daughter

who lives in Austin,

so he's got connections
down there,

and we're
certainly interested.

And then what we learned
is that an off-duty

University of Texas
police officer

had been on a hike
with a friend.

Down in Austin
just south of downtown,

there's something
called Town Lake,

very nice part of Austin.

Me and my friend
were just enjoying the day

and as we were
coming around here,

she happened to see a watch
laying at the water's edge.

And as you kept walking,

every five, 10 feet,

there was another item
sitting at the water's edge.

You know, like, oh look,
there's another one.

And it was more of a...

...like an Easter egg hunt,
of course,

uh, picking items
out of the lake.

Piece of jewelry
after piece of jewelry

after piece of jewelry
after piece of jewelry.

So we're just kind of
trundling down
the walkway here

holding fistfuls of jewelry
and watches in our hands.

To say we were in disbelief
was an understatement.

We actually went back
to my house

and started Googling
some of the names

and finally found a match.

Turns out that
that particular one

was valued at,
like, $30,000.

Who throws away
a $30,000 watch in the lake?

How crazy, you know?
Why would you do that?

Who does that?

Just a strange
occurrence.

Throwing these watches,
you know, $30,000,

just start throwing them
in the lake,
just getting rid of them

I don't know if he just
panicked or did whatever.

Why would you go dispose of it
in that manner?

I... who knows?
That's crazy to me.

So we took them
to a random jewelry store

just to try to authenticate
is this a real watch or not.

It was determined
that they were real.

So at the time I worked for

one of the local
police departments
here in Austin.

I turned everything over
to the Austin
Police Department.

The Austin Police Department
contacted Rolex.

That watch actually
had a serial number

that came back registered
to Kay Jenkins.

And so that
ended up being the reason

that they called the Corsicana
Police Department

and then the Corsicana
Police Department was like,

"Oh. We know
what this is about.

You need to call the FBI."

I had friends who worked
at the Austin
American-Statesman,

and they called me and said,

"You are not gonna believe..."

Ended up recovering, I think,
16 watches that day.

So I was actually

playing Call of Duty
at the time.

The doorbell rings,
I answered the door

and just like in the movies,
so to speak,

some folks in black suits
asked for me.

I think, you know,
the FBI can be a little, uh,

direct and intimidating,
for lack of better words.

They basically
wanted to know
when I found the items,

how I found the items,
where were the items at,

who was with me.

I'm not sure what they thought
my involvement was,

but I wanted to be honest
with them and let them know,

hey, I just happened
to find these items.

That's it.

We had a dive team
go into the lake.

They basically
did a training exercise

with magnetometers

in Lady Bird Lake
and recovered

another huge amount
of watches.

I think there were 38 watches
total recovered from the lake.

And a gold bar

and a couple of gold coins,

which ended up amounting
to about

a half million dollars
worth of stuff.

I had friends down in Austin
who said,

"Well, we're going swimming
this weekend!"

I was like, well...

Who finds
bars of gold

and gold coins

and thousands of dollars'
worth of jewelry laying
in the lake?

Never in your wildest dreams

would you think
that you would be involved,

let alone be
intimately involved in it.

The guy that spotted this,
I've never met him.

I'd love to meet him.

Think when
Bob McNutt sees this,

I think he's gonna send you
a fruitcake.

And that'll be the first,
first fruitcake I have.

We'll see how good it is.

When they said
they found where he had dumped

the bag into the edge
of the water,

we couldn't help but wonder

if they'd dumped some more
somewhere else.

They went to Austin
when they got found out

and so we really have no idea

where they might've
carried it.

And because they had that jet
and was flying everywhere,

you know, who knows?

You know, I heard

that they were going
to Switzerland all the time

for day trips
and overnight trips and stuff,
so...

...maybe there's money hidden
over there. I don't know.

I think he probably
has stuff stashed

in various places.

I think there's
still something out.

I don't know if it's gonna be

gold bricks or dollars
or what.

I think
there's money hidden,

and probably jewelry hidden.

Where is it?
You know, I don't know.

Somebody will find it.

Oh, look!

If Sandy dropped
all of it in one place

or if he scattered it,

or if he just chunked
the whole thing in the lake,

I don't know.

But regardless,

you don't throw
a Rolex in a lake,

and he did.

So it gives you an idea

this is not a person
who is still
operating rationally

or is in control anymore.

He had lost control
by that point.

There are a variety of things

that, that criminals
can do with money,

assets that are hidden
somewhere,

they are transferred overseas.

It's not like
the bakery took his passport.

He was not arrested
immediately.

He had time
to flee the country.

He had time to cash out.

He didn't.

They went
to their daughter's house
in Austin,

and then they went
to their vacation home
in New Mexico.

So we were working
as fast as we could

to gather evidence
that we could charge him
with a crime,

so then we would have
the ability to arrest him.

That was why we ended up
going back the second time.

We get a second search warrant
and we go back down there.

They showed up
in, in all their gear
with all of their trucks.

We knocked
on the door

to announce our presence.

Maybe thought the FBI
wouldn't come back.

And it just so happened
that Sandy was there that day.

So he came out
very quickly.

It must've been a shock
to him.

He was gone
at least three weeks

from the time he got fired
to the time he returned.

I mean, why wouldn't you go
out in the country

and hide in a shack
or something? But no.

But since he was there

and we had evidence of him
trying to dissipate assets
into Town Lake,

we made the decision to just
go ahead and charge him,

and they went ahead and made
the arrest of Sandy Jenkins.

And so
we put the handcuffs on him,

put him in the back
of the car

and drove him
back to Dallas.

That day when they came
to arrest him,

my sister and my mom
sent me a text.

"Hey, the FBI
is at Sandy's house.

Hey, we're seeing
all these cars taken away."

So, they were keeping me
updated on what was going on

'cause I was here at work.

And the neighbors
got mad at us

because she thought we didn't
have anything better to do

than to sit out there
and watch this all go on.

Well, it was entertainment!
It was facts.

I mean,
where else would you be?

His lawyer
convinced him

to just waive his right
to what's called
a detention hearing

where the judge would have to
rule on that motion.

And so the court ordered him
detained at that point

and so he went straight into
a federal detention center.

Kay was allowed
to live in the house

even though they had
surrendered everything
that they owned,

except the clothes.

She called somebody
within Quintillion
and wanted to know

where to send
her membership money,

and we were in one
of our meetings,
and we were like,

you've got to be kidding.

She thinks she's gonna come
back in here

and be a member
of Quintillion?

Kay wanted
to divorce him,
I guess to try to prove

that she wasn't a party
to anything that he was doing.

They got divorced.

Surprise, surprise.

There's no way
she didn't know.

She may not have
wrote the checks,

but she was glad
to spend the money.

His wife always seemed to wear
the pants in the family.

When the electricity
got cut off,

she went to Austin.

But we knew that
there was a possibility

of her facing
criminal charges, as well.

Sandy's lawyer,
Brett Stalcup,

was another
interesting character

in this case that, that was
the Collin Street Bakery case.

The pigs get fat,
and hogs get slaughtered.

That's, that's the motto
we live by.

That sounds like
a Brett Stalcup thing.

I'm an old-fashioned
lawyer that believes that
we take care of our own.

I'm proud to be a lawyer.
I'm one of those guys that

if I say it, I think
that you can count on it.

My life changed a little bit
when Sandy Jenkins came in.

He sat down,

and he looks

very meek, sad,

cowardly, almost.

Doesn't talk much
unless you pull it out of him.

Sort of like that cartoon.
What was that cartoon

with the laughing hyena?
You remember? And the bear?

Yogi Bear
and the laughing hyena?

And he never-- oh me, oh my.

That's what he sounded like.
Right?

The Yogi did
all the talking for him.

And he started talking about,
well, I've been accused of...

...taking money
from my business,

and I asked him how much,
and he said an amount.

I'm like, holy guacamole.
This is gonna be,

this is a big case.

So we wanted
to talk to Sandy

and, um, get his side
of the story

about what happened.

At that point,
everyone is wanting

to talk to Sandy.

Sandy could help himself
by cooperating, right?

He ended up facilitating Sandy
talking to us.

I was
suggesting, look,

you don't have
anywhere to go.

Now everyone's mad
at you, anyways.

You're going to get some time.

Let's go ahead
and start doing it.

You know, he just
sat across the table from me

and just started,
um, explaining

why he had done it.

Um, when it started,
how it started,

how exactly he did it.

He spoke very softly

with a lot of fear
in his voice.

He was lost.

He had a lot inside him

that he never probably
ever got out, you know?

He needed more than a lawyer.
He needed a,

he needed a counselor/friend.

He was full of shame
and full of guilt.

I think
he pretty quickly realized

that the gig was up,
and he was pretty cooperative.

He told me it had
been going on for so long

and I think he had
just had this, um...

...this feeling of fear
all the time.

So, it was almost a relief
when it was all over.

He was able to corroborate
some of the, um, details
that we had

from the bakery regarding,
um, sort of,

how he had engaged
in the fraud.

And Sandy told me that,
for him, it started

stealing from petty cash.

That it sort of started small
with kind of skimming

from the till and then
really spun out of control
from there.

I asked him why he threw stuff
in the lake.

And he said, "I don't know.

It's probably the stupidest
thing I've ever done."

And then he said, "Well,
maybe the second stupidest
thing I've ever done."

I'll never forget
on his deposition

Sandy said he threw
the watches, he threw some,

I think, in a trash can,
some Rolexes,

and they were platinum.
They weren't gold.

They were platinum,

diamond bezel,

50, $75,000 watches.

This lawyer says,

"Draw me a map."

I want to go find
those watches.

We really were trying
to figure out, um,

if there were
any remaining places

we needed to look for stuff,
and also to understand sort of

what was going through
his mind when he started this.

The main issue was that
um, he was the one
writing the checks,

but he was also the one
reconciling the books.

There was no audit
conducted, uh, periodically,

and so he was able
to create this system
where he was paying

the bakery's bills
and his bills

at the same time.

Semetric Walker found expenses
that didn't make any sense.

Sandy had complete control
of the entire system

from invoice writing
to check printing.

That's an accounting no-no.

What he would do is he would
make up an invoice

to an authorized
Collin Street Bakery vendor,

and that check
written to that vendor

would be thrown in the trash.

He would then make up
a check to a vendor

that he wanted to pay,

and that check would be voided
in the system,

but the check would clear.

The young girl,

she figured it out.
The checks that were missing,

the checks that were
voided out but yet the money
was, all this--

She's the one
that figured it out.
One smart little girl.

I always told her

that she's really
the hero of this story

because she figured it out.

And I just came in later
and investigated,

but she was really the one
that stopped the scheme.

If he would've stopped
a year earlier,

I don't think
he would've ever got caught.

He was in it too deep.

There was a lot
of dead bodies.

I think he got in a...

...a scheme
that was way above him.

Way bigger than him.

Sandy's embezzlement scheme
started gradually

where he showed up
with a nice watch,

and then he bought himself
a nice car.

And so, that timeframe,
he and Kay

were traveling to Santa Fe
quite a bit

and they ended up
applying for a mortgage

on a second home
in Santa Fe.

Every
embezzlement case,

the motivation
is largely the same.

It's people who think
that they are undervalued.

They see others
in the company

getting better opportunities,

more money, benefits,
and they decide
that they're going to kind of

fix that problem on their own.

He felt that he was...

...not getting what
he deserved at the bakery.

He told me that before.

I think it all goes back
to not being grateful
for what we have

and wanting
what somebody else has.

I think he felt

the McNutts have all this,

I should have some of it.

It became like a drug for him.

Like, I'm doing this
and no one has caught me.

Then, of course, he needed
to sustain his lifestyle.

He got a position

that his lifestyle was here,

and he couldn't go back
to a $50,000 a year lifestyle

when he's living on
a $2 million year lifestyle.
He couldn't go back.

So he got away with it,
then he couldn't
get out of it,

Like, he just was spending,
spending, spending.

I think he saw
material things,

perhaps, as something that
would kind of

help fill the void.

I think his desire,

his strong desire to be liked
drove him to do this.

They longed
for social acceptance.

I believe that.

And, uh, you know,

you can certainly
buy some friends
for some time.

I don't think he ever amounted
to what he wanted to be.

He didn't have any friends.

I think his friends
were vendors, right?

People that worked
on his house or fixed it up

or selling him
a watch or...

How many cars did he buy?
30? 40?

They're all friends then.

Then when they figure out
what's going on,

it's sort of like
you're patting that dog
until it bites you.

Then you quit patting it.

It's sad.

And his wife and him
were two separate entities,

and I don't think
he ever got approval.

Just a little remark
he'd say about,

well, I gotta
keep Kay happy.

Kay was
the dominant person

in that relationship.

He did march to her beat,
you know,

whatever she wanted,
he made sure that it happened.

Sounded like
his marriage

was just miserable.

Despite the glamour
of spending all that money.

Their marriage
on a one to ten,

if you were to ask me,
for my opinion,

was a two.

That picture in that Learjet
tells all

if you really look at it,

with his wife,
and trying to make her happy.

He had his hand
inside her arm, you know,

but there's,
there's no love there.

So initially, the indictment
charged Sandy

with multiple counts
of mail fraud

related to the check invoicing
scheme.

So, we picked out 10 instances
where we could show him

mailing a check to one
of his personal creditors

from the bakery's funds,

using the logbook
that we obtained
from the bakery

showing that Sandy
was mailing it.

And then,
because their spending

was so excessive

and, and trying to chase
and trace all of that money

through the property
that they had acquired,

enabled us to bring
money laundering charges.

Our focus in the investigation
didn't really turn to Kay

until a little bit later.

We were trying to figure out,
um, exactly how much

Kay Jenkins knew
about what was going on.

I mean, she had to have known.

She was shopping
in one of the most,

some of the most expensive
jewelers in Dallas.

She had two huge Louis Vuitton
steamer trunks.

I mean, come on.

If my husband
had brought home

a new Mercedes
every few months for me,

I would've known
there was something up.

So, yeah.

She would always buy

the same car
in the same color.

She would get
the exact same car model,

everything,
except just a new year.

And one time
her new car came in,
and it was in the wrong color

and she had him replace it.

It was supposed to be peacock,
or something, blue.

She was angry with him
and said,

"Take this one back,
everybody will know,

and get me the one
I always get."

She wanted the exact
same color and everything

so nobody'd know
she had a new one.

You know?
They went to extremes

to cover things up.

Her defense, of course,
was that she didn't know,

just the level of spending

and, and knowing
how much he was making

and how much
they were spending.

That didn't make sense.

She had to realize, um,
that something was going on.

When we were interviewing
her friends

and, um, gathering evidence
specific to Kay Jenkins,

while she said that
she didn't know
how much things cost...

One of
the highlighted items

from the search
of the home

was actually the ledger.

We have necklaces
and bracelets.

Here we have
diamonds and rings.

Kay had the itemized list

and inventory, including
the dates and amounts spent

on each item of jewelry

that they had acquired.

Multiple rings, some pearls.

That was really helpful.

The amount of spending
that was specifically
tailored to Kay Jenkins

was a huge portion of it.

We had discovered
with the bank loan application

for the Santa Fe,
New Mexico, property,

that there had been
false statements made
on that application.

And those false statements
were, um, signed,

under penalty of perjury,

by both Sandy and Kay.

They had to sign
a mortgage statement

and in which Sandy said,

that he made
25,000 a month.

Not 50,000 a year.

And she had to co-sign that.
For me, that's it right there.

She had to know that things
weren't on the up and up.

The evidence
was very overwhelming.

We indicted Kay Jenkins.

Kay was charged
with conspiracy
to commit money laundering

and then some substantive
money laundering counts,

and also making
a false statement

to a financial institution.

She pleaded not guilty.

She said
she didn't know anything.

She said she wasn't
part of that, and that

he had told her lies
and that she was innocent.

We were all gobsmacked.

This was a somewhat
unique aspect to this case,

in that the bakery

wanted the return
of the seized property.

The vehicles and the piano

and the wine collection,
to do with what they pleased,

presumably liquidate
and sell them,

but we gave that stuff
back to them

instead of having
the marshals sell it

and give the Collin Street
Bakery a check at the end.

The house in Corsicana

was so chock full
of personal property

that needed to be catalogued
and itemized and inventoried,

and, frankly, disposed of,
before the home could be sold.

I'm Denise Harper.

Well, I was the listing agent
on the Jenkins house.

I've been selling real estate
for 22 years,

and I've never had
to go through with a listing

working with the FBI.

It was quite unique.

The woodwork is beautiful.

The wood floors are beautiful.

The kitchen
had been remodeled

and updated
with some high-end appliances,

but it still had kept
the charm of the age
of the house.

It was a great listing.

There was a lot of interest
just because of the, you know,

the stuff that was going on.

So there were a lot of people
that just wanted to look.

A buyer had come into town
to meet their agent

and put an offer
on another house,
and was actually

just driving down Third,
saw the sign up,

one of the first days
it was up, and was like,

"Oh, my gosh,
I've gotta see that house,"

and she put in an offer.

The house sold for...

ready, y'all?

$197,000,

which sounds crazy today,

but at the time,
it was market value.

When I first
bought this house
people did not know me,

they just knew where I lived.

And, you know, people would
point and then I'd hear
"She bought the house."

I like to collect
napkin rings with cats.

I like to collect a lot
of things with cats on it.

And I've lived here
a little over seven years.

Welcome to the foyer.

Even though,
sometimes it seems
like a waste of space,

to me, it's just cool
to have a foyer.

This is the chandelier that
the Jenkins bought.

A friend of mine
looked it up.

They paid at least
15,000 for it.

I found this house
by accident.

I knew nothing about
the Jenkins.

I figured it out,
people told me.

Here. Come look at this
real fast.

This is where he hid
the jewelry.

People kept asking me,
"Did you find money?"

I found one credit card.

A kid that was helping me move
found it underneath
the desk drawers.

Wedged in where Mrs. Jenkins
did her office things.

So she hid it there, I guess.

I was hoping I'd find
some gold too, but I did not.

'Cause they had an estate sale
when I bought the house.

The personal
possessions of the man accused

of embezzling nearly
$17 million

from the Collin Street bakery
will go on sale tomorrow.

They had talked about doing
an auction in the front

and then they talked about
moving it, but there was
so much stuff

that just wasn't feasible,
so they opened it

for people
to come in to shop.

It was
a giant garage sale.

And so, it was the stuff that
they were trying to offload

to recover some of the money.

Proceeds
from the sale will go

to the Collin Street Bakery.

And, you know, you get
a little piece of history.

Get a little something.

But some stuff, like you're
wondering, what was that?

It was stuff that had
been bought with stolen money

and so it gave it an extra
cache of excitement,

a little titillation
of you know,

this is my part of that crime.

It was newsworthy enough
for us to put it
on the front page.

Um, but they also
had an ad in the paper.

It gets around.

People just talking.

It just, you know,
spread like wildfire.

Second day
of the Jenkins estate sale.

Big line.

They had a long line,
you know.

So I took a box of cookies
over there,

you know, just trying
to, you know,
get everybody to bid it up.

Tell 'em to buy something,
pay a lot. You know?

Bob walks
up and down the line

of people waiting
to get in

telling them to have
a free cookie on him

and spend as much
as they could in the house.

May as well make
lemonade out of lemons,
you know?

A bad situation,
try to make it

at least profitable
for the company.

But I think
a lot of people were
there out of curiosity.

They wanted to see
more than they wanted to buy.

Other people were hoping
to get a bargain, right?

I know that they shopped
at Neiman Marcus,

so I'm gonna get me some
Neiman Marcus stuff for cheap.

He bought things that showed.

He wanted people to know
he had wealth.

They had, you know,
all sorts of cabinets
everywhere

to house their,
their expensive things.

Paintings and they had
all the lamps,

the fancy lamps
about them.

They started at like
six or 700 and went on up.

Bedding, couches, you know,
purses, kitchenware,

dishes just everything that
you would think
would go into a house.

The most interesting thing
to me was a mattress

that was upstairs.

They had a mattress
that was made out of horsehair

that was $39,000.

Who in their right mind would
pay $40,000 for a mattress?

They slept in separate rooms

and I don't know which one
had the mattress.

I did not want his mattress,
thank you very much.

- Someone else did.
- Somebody bought that mattress

and I'm thinking, "Really?"

I went as a reporter
and I turned around
and went back as a customer.

But a lot of it was ugly.

I don't mean to be unkind
but these people

did not have the best taste.

If you're gonna steal money
why wouldn't you spend it

on things that, to them,
would be useful.

Or beautiful. Or...
But he didn't.

Certainly the people
that I talked to

said "I could've spent
that money better."

Or "I could've been wiser
about that money."

What would I do with 17--
well, I wouldn't steal it

but if it just fell in my lap,
what would I do
with $17 million?

Oh, boy. 17 million.

Are you saying
tax-free dollars?

I don't know,
I'm not answering that.

I'd have a great time.

I'd buy myself
some steamer trunks.

No, I'm just--

Well, I would probably
give a great deal of it away.

Yeah, I'd be a lot
more generous

if I had an extra 17 mil.

Those, uh, cat places
that they save cats

would have gold floors.

I've always said,
and I believe this,

there's a certain amount
of money if I could get it,

I'd probably steal it.

The problem is, I don't know
what that number is.

I think maybe another house
or something like that.

Um, but...

In the context
of this conversation

I don't wanna think
about $17 million.

Whether it was, you know,
a small kingdom or not,

it was something
that he had built.

It reflected his taste
and his lifestyle

and now it was
parceled out

to anyone who had $5.

So that part is sad.

I went
to the estate sale.

I wanted to see
what all was in there.

And seeing some of the stuff

and the pricing that was on it
really upset me more.

And I didn't want stuff
to remind me of it.

Arguably,
the whole thing was sad.

There are elements
of humor in it

but it was the breakup
of a family from within.

One of their own.

Sandy Jenkins, it was
very clear from the beginning

that he was not
gonna fight this.

We approached Sandy's lawyer
and we worked out
a plea agreement.

16 million.

On a case like that,
you look at the guidelines

and you start going backwards,
how can we go down
off the guidelines?

And cooperate.
We want you to accept

some responsibility,
and he did accept

responsibility for what he did.

He pled guilty to one count
of mail fraud,

one count of being in
a conspiracy with his wife

to spend the money that they
had stolen

and one count of lying
on the loan applications.

Facing up to 70 years
in prison.

She signed
a factual statement

as part of her guilty plea.

She didn't admit that she
knew it was embezzled

from the bakery but that
she knew it was almost
like a willful blindness

that she knew
the money was bad.

So, that was the most we were
able to get her to say.

Both Sandy and Kay
were set for sentencing

on the same day.

The courtroom was packed,
as it usually was,

because the Collin Street
Bakery people brought
a lot of witnesses.

I remember
going to court in Dallas

in a, uh, chauffeured,
uh, van.

They had a TV screen
on the back

and when we got in,
it had a picture of Sandy
and Kay sitting in their jet.

A group of us,
we all went together.

For one thing,
we were curious that,
just what all has he done?

You know, what are they
gonna do to him?

Uh, they both
belong in prison.

In court, you had
a whole row of people
from the bakery

who looked very serious
and very solemn
and a little nervous.

And then we saw
Sandy the first time
he came in

in shackles
and an orange suit.

It was
a crowded courtroom.

I was standing by
the entry exit door

and Sandy walks right by me.

I was looking straight.

I did not look at him
in his face.

Um, but just
a very awkward moment.

I mean, it was so sad
seeing him in shackles

and with, uh,
jail, uh, issued glasses

because he was always
very particular
on what glasses he wore.

When he was at Collin Street
he was, you know,
well put together.

He took very good care
of himself.

It's hard to see someone
in that state.

I mean, you just feel
sorry for someone.

I felt sorry for him.

It was really a weird feeling.

I guess I sort of wanted him

to look over
and acknowledge us.

And of course, he didn't.

He didn't.

Kay was there,

um, and of course, um,
she did not look at us.

I mean, no eye contact.

You wanted him and her

to get what they deserved
for hurting the bakery

and for hurting each and every
one of the employees.

He could've
destroyed this business.

We wanted to see
justice served.

Every day we make cakes,
pies and everything else.

In the case of cookies,
we have what is called
'Cookie Court'.

Hope we got
a good effort today.

We review the quality
of the cookies.

And it's on a 1 to 100 scale.

- Cookie court.
- All right.

It's unusual
to get anything below 96.

So 96, 97.

Tell us what's your number.

I would say a 98.

Once they start throwing
out 98s, I start putting
people on probation

saying, "Maybe their
judgement ain't that good."

What do you think?

98.

- There you go, all right.
- 98!

At Sandy
and Kay's sentencing,
they allowed Bob to speak.

And Bob spoke about
how he didn't only hurt

the maintenance
and the bakery,

how he had hurt
each and every one of us
that was sitting there.

The, you know,
sentencing hearings are
always the most impactful.

Victims have an opportunity
to, um, speak and be heard

to understand how
that defendant's actions
have impacted others.

"To whom it may concern,

it is hard to describe
the depth of betrayal
one feels

when confronted by
the theft by a couple,
Sandy and Kay Jenkins,

who attend your father's
funeral, then steal $50,000
from you the next day.

I respectfully urge the court
to order stiff sentences

for both Sandy
and Kay Jenkins.

Signed, Bob McNutt."

Just into
the CBS 11 newsroom,

conviction on a felony
embezzlement charge.

Sandy Jenkins,
former executive
of Collin Street Bakery

is now gonna spend 120 months
in prison.

His wife, Kay, gets five years
probation in this matter.

I mean, we were just
in total disbelief.

I was surprised
that he got off
with such a light sentence.

10 years for $17 million.

It wasn't near
matching the amount of money

and pain and loss
and everything that we all
experienced because of him.

Kay didn't show any remorse
and she just...

You know,
just was nonchalant.

I remember all of us thinking
how wrong that was.

We felt that, you know,
although he committed
the acts,

she was a major contributor,

a major supporter, um,
to the crime
that he committed.

I don't know how you sleep,
but then that may be why
he bought

the most expensive
mattress in the world,
full of horsehair

to sleep on, was probably
'cause they couldn't sleep
with their conscience.

We used to wave at the
jail when we'd go to Dallas,

us girls go have lunch
and go shopping,

we'd wave at the--
"Hey Sandy!"

Because he was in that
federal thing, jail house

that was right there
off of 45.

They say that he went from
wearing Italian leather shoes

to where he was begging people
to send him money

so he could get socks
and things from the commissary
in the jailhouse.

How about that?

I don't know if he would
regret it or not.

He had a good haul
over those years.

He had fun.

I don't think being in prison
would be much fun.

So, um, that would be
the only downside

that he missed
all his jewelry.

He was just a mere prisoner
after that time.

Nothing special.

So...

That wasn't a place Sandy
was supposed to be.

I can hardly imagine
picturing him in a jail cell.

I mean, did he grab 'em
with his hands and look out

and wish I could see
daylight or...

He just, he had to pay
the price.

I think,
for him the humiliation
may have been worse

than the prison sentence.

Because his ego had been
built up for those years

and years of spending lavishly
and entertaining lavishly

and being that
center of attention.

So many of his friends
turned their backs on him.

He didn't have people
in that courtroom

saying "Yay, Sandy"
or you know,
"We got you buddy"

or "We're praying for you."

He didn't seem to have that.

He did not seem to have
supporters who were still
there later on.

Destroyed his,
his family.

I don't know what's
happened to it. His life.

At the end
of the day,
all his friends were gone,

family gone and the people
that he supported the most,
you know, with the money

that he was taking from
Collin Street, you know,

they weren't there
and they forsook him.

There wasn't
anything waiting
on him outside.

Everything went back to zero.

And he had forgotten
how to play the piano

and he had forgotten
he didn't have a mother
and father pushing him.

I think of Sandy
as such a sad person.

I guess, in the end,
greed's not worth it, is it?

Keep your fingers
out of the cookie jar.

That's it.

Be honest.

Be a good citizen.

And if you're
looking for happiness in money
you're never going to find it.

Money only personifies
your character.

We're lucky
to have survived.

It's a big hole
to climb out of.

We really went through
everything with
a fine tooth comb

to retrieve as much as
we could in terms of

the watches and items
of jewelry and vehicles.

Unfortunately, as is often
the case with fraud like this,

much of the luxury
spending and excessive
spending occurs on travel

and just consumption
and there was a lot

of gluttonous consumption
in this case.

Typically, in embezzlement
cases, a lot of money
is just spent.

We knew we weren't gonna find
$17 million worth of stuff.

We recovered probably
close to $5 million.

Sandy's theft, you know,
it certainly affected me

from the standpoint
as a leader of the business.

You can't ever
not be on your toes.

But I think we've learned
kind of the determination
to get it back.

It's something that, you know,
you've gotta overcome this

in order to come out
the other side,
we'll be better.

The bakery is a,
has been a real
successful story.

What they've accomplished
is the fruitcake capital
of the world

in Corsicana, Texas.

It's gonna take a while,
but it's...

I think under Bob's guidance,
they'll, they'll eventually
get back.

We wanna see
Collin Street be here
another 125 years, you know?

Maybe one day,
I'll be the Jerry.

I got this letter
in December of 2017.

"Dear Bob, as I've reflected
lately about my crime,

it has occurred to me
that I have really never asked
for your forgiveness.

I am truly sorry for taking
money from the bakery.

For whatever reasons
I may have had.

There was really no excuse
on my part.

I could've done the right
thing and just quit.

My entire life of being
an honest person
was destroyed.

I really had nothing against
you personally or the bakery.

I actually loved the business
and had great respect for you.

Please forgive me for anything
I did that hurt the bakery,
you personally or your family.

I hope your business
is good this year.

God bless you, Sandy Jenkins."

December 17, 2017.

I, I think
he was sincere.

I don't hold bitterness
in my heart, so...

I, uh, you know,
I take him at his word
for his...

his apology.

I hope the letter lifted
a burden from him
a little bit.

One of the few times I talked
to him as it was over,

he's talking about,
"Well, you know, I've got
to get out of here

so I can start
getting you paid back."

I didn't really think his
prospects were gonna
be that good but...

You know, at least
the sentiment was there.

Do you remember
where you were,

how you learned that Sandy
had committed suicide?

Uh...

Just now.

I didn't know that
he committed suicide.

Well.

He was
so close to being out

and having that behind him.

It was just more than,
more than he could take maybe.

Before
he committed suicide,

he called me from jail.

I am sorry
for what I did.

I had nothing against you
or the bakery.

It was something
I couldn't get out of.

Okay.

Look,
whether you believe me or not,
I mean, it's the truth.

I think he was sorry.

I did not
for one time in my life

have my mother to tell me

"Randy, you should go
visit Sandy."

He doesn't, uh,
he doesn't have a lot
of friends where he is.

It was not a big long trip
to go see Sandy

and, and I regret
that I didn't.

I missed an opportunity,
uh, to really know
who Sandy was.

Maybe I would have learned
something I could've passed
on to others.

There's gonna be
that little cupcake,

that little fruitcake
over there

that just doesn't
quite fit in.

But just because he has
nice clothes and wears

those horn-rimmed glasses

doesn't mean that you
shouldn't befriend him.

The guy that doesn't look
like he fits in,

he may just need a friend.

He may need somebody
to talk to.

Look out for the guy
that can't look out
for himself, you know?

For Sandy, maybe it would've
swayed him early on.

Can a friend do that?
I think friends can.

Uh, they can send you
on a, on a new journey.

When this show airs,

people will say "Wow,
you know, I never heard
of something like that."

But they also say,

"I wonder, how can
a fruitcake be that good?

Maybe I need to order one."

Fruitcake is great.

Very sweet.
Uh, very nutty.

I forgot how much
I liked it.

Mm.

I don't use a fork,
gotta use your fingers.

Oh, that's good.

Mm-hmm!

I'd say it's my
first time to try it.

Now I need
something to drink.

So there's no coffee
is what you're telling me?

Nice little fruitcake.

You know there's
no way they found
all of it, either, right?

I mean, I know there's...
where it is... I know.

Somebody will find it.

"Oh, look."