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I used to love the water
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until I found myself trapped
down here in this icy tomb.
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While my body
is silently drifting,
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I'm now just a memory
frozen in time,
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frozen forever.
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Needless to say,
the life I always wanted
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isn't the one I got.
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My name is Kira Steger,
and this is "Me Hereafter."
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♪ ♪
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A Minnesota winter
in the city of St. Paul
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is always kind of magical.
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Today was no exception,
that cozy feeling
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of being warm inside while
snow softly collected outside,
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the way the Mississippi River
and lakes near my house
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slowed down
until they froze solid.
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The weather forecast for
tonight predicted a blizzard,
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but nothing would stop me
from going on date night
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with my husband, Jeff.
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We needed the time together
now more than ever.
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I'd been busy lately and
staying out late with friends.
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This night was going
to be just for us.
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I managed a clothing store
at the Mall of America.
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It's a big tourist
destination in Minnesota.
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People actually take trips
from all across the country
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just to come here,
which is kind of mind-blowing.
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She loved working at the mall,
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and the people that she worked
with became her best friends,
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and she took care of them.
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She was good at it
and friendly,
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and she had an eye for style.
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I just thought she was the most
beautiful person in the world.
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My shift
that night ended at 6:00,
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and then my husband and I
were going to meet up.
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Dinner and bowling,
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that was our plan
for date night.
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We got lamb meatballs
and sushi.
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Kira liked to eat a lot
of things that I do not.
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When we were kids,
she loved pickles.
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And she would drink
the pickle juice,
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which I thought was disgusting,
but--
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Jeff liked some
of the foods I did,
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which was nice.
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After dinner, I bowled a 148.
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Pretty good, I thought,
and no surprise to him
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based on how I was raised.
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We grew up in Fort Worth,
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and our parents worked
at a bowling center.
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While they were working,
Kira and I
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always spent time in there.
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We were really kind of
like twins growing up.
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When I was about eight,
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my family moved
to Wausau, Wisconsin.
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I graduated from high school,
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and then I stayed
in the Midwest.
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I was living with my sister
when I met Jeff.
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He lived in Minnesota
but was in town
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doing drywall on the new
local hospital being built.
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She dated him for a while
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and decided
to move to Minnesota.
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Jeff and I got
married in 2010
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and lived in a little house
in East St. Paul.
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That's where we were
headed after date night.
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As we got on the road,
the first flakes
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of a blizzard were falling.
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We were in separate cars,
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and he stopped quick
to get a movie.
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When we got back,
Matt was home,
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our friend who rented a room
in the basement
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to help make ends meet.
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We settled in as the snow was
coming down and getting worse.
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In a Minnesota winter,
you have to be prepared.
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And at about 2:00 a.m.,
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Jeff left
to get some gas in my car.
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That was the day I vanished.
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♪ ♪
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Millions of people are trying
to drive home on sheets of ice,
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the giant snowstorm
still on the move.
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Crash after crash
from this monster storm.
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Nearly 300 accidents
here in Minnesota alone.
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♪ ♪
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Minnesota weather
is never predictable.
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More than several inches
of snow dropped that day.
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According to Jeff,
Kira left in the morning
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and went to her gym,
and then to run some errands,
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and then go to work.
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Spinouts were
everywhere that day.
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I told Jeff I had interviews
to conduct at the mall,
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since we were hiring.
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Even though the roads
were treacherous,
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he had no reason
to think I wasn't OK
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because a lot of times,
I'd go out after work
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and stay the night
with friends.
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It wasn't out of the ordinary
for her not to come home.
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Jeff would tell police
he didn't realize
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anything was really wrong
until the next day.
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♪ ♪
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Some of her coworkers
from the Mall of America,
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where she worked,
had contacted him
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that she had not
shown up for work.
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She was never a no-show.
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She was first in, last out.
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So it's very much
out of the ordinary
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that she missed work.
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Outside, it still
hadn't stopped snowing,
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but Jeff and our roommate, Matt,
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headed out to look for me.
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Did the vehicle
go off the road
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and wind up in a ditch,
wind up on the ice,
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cracking, going through ice?
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They looked
in the Mall of America ramp
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where I usually parked.
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My white Chevy Cobalt
was nowhere to be found,
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and neither was I.
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An officer
who was a friend of one
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of the coworkers talked to him
on the phone and said,
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"If you don't hear
from her by Sunday,
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then you should
report her missing."
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That's exactly what he did.
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♪ ♪
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Jeff told the investigators
that they had gotten home
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from date night
and watched a movie.
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He said the last time
that he spoke to her
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was Friday morning.
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He shoveled the driveway,
he walked her to the car,
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and he put the time
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sometime between 8:00 and 9:00
in the morning.
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He told her to, "Let me
know when you get to work."
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He said he didn't hear
from her.
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Jeff told police we had
been having some problems,
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and it wasn't unusual for me
to be away for a day or two.
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He and Kira had been
in a rocky situation
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with their marriage
for the last several months,
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and they were working
on repairing their marriage.
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And he felt that they were
going in the direction
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of being together.
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He truly loved his wife,
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and I think
he knew what he had,
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that she was special,
and he wanted to stay with her.
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♪ ♪
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Once I didn't show up
for work on Saturday,
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he told police, that's
when he really got worried.
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He tried to look
for her with his roommate.
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Went to her gym to see
if her car was at the gym.
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Drove around
to some of the places
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where she was known to go,
and they never found her car.
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Police were concerned
that something bad
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had happened to me.
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At the time I went missing,
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so did several
other young women in my area.
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It was all over the news.
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Brittany Clardy went
missing February 22, 2013.
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Her body was
discovered in a car,
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the victim of a brutal murder.
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Anna Hurd was missing
around the same time
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that Kira
was reported missing.
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Her body was found
in a park in Maplewood
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not far from where
Jeff and Kira lived.
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Danielle Jelinek disappeared
in a northern suburb
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of the metro area.
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Having several women
that are close in the same age
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missing from the same area
around the same time
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is not normal.
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It could raise suspicions,
and for us, it did.
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We may have had
a serial murderer.
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Social media got involved.
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I believe it was on Facebook,
talking about the fact
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that she had been missing.
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Something
definitely spoke to me
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when I saw that picture.
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I knew that she worked
at the Mall of America,
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which was close by to me,
and I was worried that she
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was somewhere and needed help.
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Police had wondered
the same thing.
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Was I just the victim
of a terrible accident?
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But the prospect of foul play
was always front and center,
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especially with the other
missing and murdered women
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around town.
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There was a fear
in the community
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that there was a serial killer.
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If that was the case,
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what better place
to find a victim
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than the largest mall
in the United States?
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It's a huge mall.
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It's got an amusement park
and a courtyard in the middle.
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The Mall of America
has hundreds of thousands
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of people in and out daily.
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And being
an attractive young woman,
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it's a real possibility
that any person
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could have
possibly abducted Kira,
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and we just did not know.
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As a woman who left the
store nights after closing,
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I would sometimes try
to walk out with other people.
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I always parked my car
in the same place,
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close to the entrance
where Jeff had looked
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after I vanished.
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Jeff told police
there was evidence
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someone might have
been targeting me.
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Kira had found
damage to her vehicle
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in the recent past.
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It was intentional sabotage
to her vehicle,
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and someone was doing it.
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But who?
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Police needed
to talk to anyone
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I had contact with
around the time I disappeared.
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Something was not right.
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We didn't know where she was.
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We didn't know if Jeff was
a suspect at the time or not.
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Besides Jeff, there was Matt,
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who saw me Thursday night
when Jeff and I got back
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from our date.
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Police needed to talk
to each of them at length,
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starting with Jeff.
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Jeff Trevino
is from Arkansas.
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People would describe him
as a very caring person,
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a gentleman
who always opened a door,
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one of the kindest persons
you would ever meet.
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Jeff had served
in the military.
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He'd been a member
of a Patriot missile battery.
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He had previously
been married.
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We spoke to his ex-wife.
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She never described
any domestic violence.
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Jeff had a daughter,
a teenage daughter.
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We spoke to her.
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She had been at the house
over that weekend
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that Kira was missing.
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She didn't describe
anything unusual.
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I'd gotten to know
and love Jeff's daughter,
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and she was over
the day after I vanished.
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He and I had been married
for three years,
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but we'd been together
for eight.
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We got married in Costa Rica
and were excited
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to start a future together,
but things had gone downhill.
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One thing that police
learned in the investigation
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is that Kira and Jeff's
relationship had been
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on the rocks for a while.
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This was supposed to be
the big night to reconcile.
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He had been trying
to make the relationship work.
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Kira really was
kind of done with it.
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There was a problem
in the marriage.
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Kira would stay away from home
for periods of time.
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She was unaccounted for.
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Right away,
police looked into details
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of our date night.
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They wanted to know,
was Jeff telling the truth
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about where we went
and what we did?
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Is there any video?
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That's the first question
for almost every case.
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We knew there was video
at the mall.
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There's lots
of cameras at the mall,
256
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so we gathered that video.
257
00:15:23,746 --> 00:15:26,853
As Kira and her husband
are leaving their date night,
258
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they are captured on video
coming through some entryways
259
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and heading
into the parking lot.
260
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He walked her to the car
and then went home.
261
00:15:38,009 --> 00:15:41,181
Jeff had told police
that after we watched a movie,
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he left at about 2:00 a.m.
to fill up my tank,
263
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so I'd have gas the next day.
264
00:15:47,093 --> 00:15:49,331
I went and retrieved
that video myself.
265
00:15:49,398 --> 00:15:53,472
The video does show
Kira's car being gassed up
266
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at that time in the morning.
267
00:15:55,811 --> 00:15:58,784
It showed Jeff
getting gas for Kira's car
268
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and then leaving.
269
00:16:01,188 --> 00:16:04,261
The video then showed
Kira's white Cobalt leave
270
00:16:04,327 --> 00:16:06,666
in the morning
pretty much at the time
271
00:16:06,733 --> 00:16:09,705
that Jeff said that she left
the house to go run errands
272
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and then go to work.
273
00:16:11,843 --> 00:16:13,814
Everything Jeff said happened
274
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appeared to be caught on tape.
275
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Because our roommate was part
of his account for the rest
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of the night
back at the house,
277
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police looked into him
278
00:16:22,798 --> 00:16:25,036
and what he had to say next.
279
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♪ ♪
280
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Matthew and Jeff,
they clicked together
281
00:16:34,254 --> 00:16:36,358
because of the gaming world.
282
00:16:36,425 --> 00:16:39,631
Matthew met Jeff
when Matthew was 16
283
00:16:39,698 --> 00:16:43,472
because Jeff worked
at a gaming store,
284
00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:46,311
and Matthew
would go in there often,
285
00:16:46,378 --> 00:16:48,583
and they became close friends.
286
00:16:48,650 --> 00:16:52,758
And Matthew told us
that he looked up to Jeff.
287
00:16:52,825 --> 00:16:56,398
In interviewing Matt,
he had come home.
288
00:16:56,465 --> 00:16:58,770
And he saw Kira and Jeff.
289
00:16:58,837 --> 00:17:01,274
They were watching a movie.
290
00:17:17,574 --> 00:17:20,246
He's on the computer
doing gaming.
291
00:17:26,793 --> 00:17:28,563
♪ ♪
292
00:17:28,629 --> 00:17:30,534
When he got up
in the morning,
293
00:17:30,601 --> 00:17:32,571
he left, he went to work.
294
00:17:32,638 --> 00:17:35,777
He didn't see Kira
or Jeff that morning.
295
00:17:37,246 --> 00:17:39,785
He told police
that on Saturday,
296
00:17:39,852 --> 00:17:42,356
they went to the Mall
of America and the place
297
00:17:42,423 --> 00:17:44,461
I was going to work out
to look for me,
298
00:17:44,529 --> 00:17:47,500
verifying what Jeff told them.
299
00:17:47,567 --> 00:17:51,776
Do I believe Matt's story?
300
00:17:51,843 --> 00:17:55,116
I don't have a reason
not to believe him.
301
00:17:55,183 --> 00:17:59,592
♪ ♪
302
00:17:59,659 --> 00:18:02,965
Other than Jeff,
Matt was the last person
303
00:18:03,032 --> 00:18:06,906
police knew that I'd seen
before I disappeared,
304
00:18:06,973 --> 00:18:09,177
but a new detail surfaced,
305
00:18:09,244 --> 00:18:14,020
adding another dimension
to the case.
306
00:18:14,087 --> 00:18:17,027
We received information
from talking
307
00:18:17,093 --> 00:18:21,268
with some of Kira's coworkers
that she was texting
308
00:18:21,334 --> 00:18:23,674
with another man.
309
00:18:23,740 --> 00:18:25,109
He's having an affair
with her,
310
00:18:25,176 --> 00:18:27,180
and he's the last one that
she really communicated with.
311
00:18:27,247 --> 00:18:28,783
You've got to look into that.
312
00:18:28,850 --> 00:18:31,488
♪ ♪
313
00:18:37,433 --> 00:18:40,807
I knew that everyone
was looking for me
314
00:18:40,874 --> 00:18:43,479
and looking for answers,
315
00:18:43,547 --> 00:18:46,986
but they certainly
weren't looking here.
316
00:18:47,053 --> 00:18:50,359
It's even colder than you
could possibly imagine.
317
00:18:50,426 --> 00:18:51,963
♪ ♪
318
00:18:52,030 --> 00:18:55,937
Questions hung like frost
in the air above too,
319
00:18:56,004 --> 00:18:58,576
especially for my family.
320
00:18:58,643 --> 00:19:00,079
♪ ♪
321
00:19:00,145 --> 00:19:03,452
My sister was making plans
to travel to town
322
00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:05,389
after finding out
I was missing
323
00:19:05,456 --> 00:19:07,961
in about
the worst way possible--
324
00:19:08,028 --> 00:19:10,266
online.
325
00:19:10,332 --> 00:19:13,438
I got a text message
326
00:19:13,506 --> 00:19:17,280
from my friend Angie that said,
327
00:19:17,346 --> 00:19:20,119
"I heard about your sister."
328
00:19:20,185 --> 00:19:22,624
Went on Facebook,
329
00:19:22,691 --> 00:19:25,463
and there was
the missing persons report.
330
00:19:25,530 --> 00:19:28,402
None of it made sense to me.
331
00:19:28,469 --> 00:19:31,509
♪ ♪
332
00:19:31,576 --> 00:19:35,283
We put out an Attempt
to Locate on her vehicle.
333
00:19:35,350 --> 00:19:41,328
Got her picture out there
with the family to the media.
334
00:19:41,395 --> 00:19:42,698
There was some speculation
335
00:19:42,765 --> 00:19:47,908
about a possible serial
abductor or serial killer.
336
00:19:47,975 --> 00:19:50,112
I didn't buy it.
337
00:19:50,179 --> 00:19:55,156
Being around people
who worked in law enforcement,
338
00:19:55,222 --> 00:19:56,959
you kind of reach a point
when you hear
339
00:19:57,026 --> 00:19:59,364
all these different stories
that it's somebody
340
00:19:59,430 --> 00:20:01,503
who was close to them.
341
00:20:01,569 --> 00:20:04,273
It wasn't--it's not random.
342
00:20:04,340 --> 00:20:06,311
Jodie was right.
343
00:20:06,378 --> 00:20:09,585
There was no serial killer.
344
00:20:09,652 --> 00:20:12,791
Anna Hurd was stabbed
by her boyfriend.
345
00:20:12,858 --> 00:20:15,262
Brittany Clardy
was killed by a man
346
00:20:15,329 --> 00:20:17,567
who solicited her for sex.
347
00:20:17,634 --> 00:20:20,172
And Danielle Jelinek
overdosed on drugs
348
00:20:20,239 --> 00:20:21,942
provided by her boyfriend,
349
00:20:22,009 --> 00:20:25,115
who was convicted
of third-degree murder.
350
00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:28,556
But what would they
discover about me?
351
00:20:30,994 --> 00:20:35,504
There was a ton of snow,
and it persisted.
352
00:20:35,570 --> 00:20:37,474
It wasn't going away.
353
00:20:37,541 --> 00:20:40,914
It made searching
very difficult.
354
00:20:40,981 --> 00:20:43,185
The weather was still frigid,
355
00:20:43,252 --> 00:20:45,824
but the idea I'd been lost
in the snow somehow
356
00:20:45,891 --> 00:20:50,567
or in a terrible accident
was basically ruled out.
357
00:20:50,633 --> 00:20:52,170
This is St. Paul.
358
00:20:52,237 --> 00:20:54,642
It's not like
she's out in the country.
359
00:20:54,708 --> 00:20:57,480
Your car might get stuck,
but you're not gonna get lost.
360
00:20:57,548 --> 00:20:59,585
And the fact
that she wasn't responding
361
00:20:59,651 --> 00:21:04,629
to her cell phone calls,
that was very concerning.
362
00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:06,666
Police believe
something more sinister
363
00:21:06,733 --> 00:21:09,705
had happened at the hands
of someone close to me,
364
00:21:09,772 --> 00:21:12,777
which is why it made learning
more about the last person
365
00:21:12,844 --> 00:21:16,919
I may have
communicated with important.
366
00:21:16,986 --> 00:21:20,193
When Jeff spoke with police,
he'd told them
367
00:21:20,259 --> 00:21:23,933
he'd found what he thought was
evidence I'd been unfaithful.
368
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,004
Jeff thought there
was another person involved
369
00:21:26,071 --> 00:21:29,344
in Kira's life,
another man or someone
370
00:21:29,410 --> 00:21:32,884
that she was dating,
seeing, involved with.
371
00:21:32,951 --> 00:21:37,661
♪ ♪
372
00:21:37,727 --> 00:21:40,433
Ryan had hired me
three months before I vanished
373
00:21:40,499 --> 00:21:42,504
to run the store.
374
00:21:42,571 --> 00:21:45,075
He didn't seem like
a violent person,
375
00:21:45,142 --> 00:21:48,481
but you never know what's
lurking beneath the surface.
376
00:21:48,549 --> 00:21:49,852
She was
the manager of the store,
377
00:21:49,919 --> 00:21:52,023
and he was
the regional manager.
378
00:21:52,090 --> 00:21:54,629
He was the man that she
was having an affair with
379
00:21:54,695 --> 00:21:56,599
for a number of weeks.
380
00:21:56,665 --> 00:21:59,672
We had been trying
to contact him.
381
00:21:59,739 --> 00:22:01,709
Investigators
even went by his house.
382
00:22:01,776 --> 00:22:04,347
His vehicle was not there.
383
00:22:04,414 --> 00:22:06,452
Ryan made me smile.
384
00:22:06,519 --> 00:22:08,823
He made me laugh.
385
00:22:08,890 --> 00:22:13,431
He was very good-looking,
and I was attracted to him.
386
00:22:13,498 --> 00:22:15,871
The last time
I texted with Ryan
387
00:22:15,938 --> 00:22:19,578
was after I got home
from my date with Jeff.
388
00:22:19,645 --> 00:22:22,984
Ryan was a huge hockey fan.
389
00:22:23,051 --> 00:22:26,659
The last known text
was with Ryan
390
00:22:26,726 --> 00:22:29,798
about the Minnesota Wild winning.
391
00:22:31,268 --> 00:22:32,838
♪ ♪
392
00:22:32,905 --> 00:22:35,844
Jeff said I drove off
the next morning.
393
00:22:35,911 --> 00:22:38,616
Police knew
that finding my car might be
394
00:22:38,683 --> 00:22:41,421
the key to finding me.
395
00:22:41,488 --> 00:22:46,866
♪ ♪
396
00:22:46,933 --> 00:22:48,836
Police
were looking for Kira's car,
397
00:22:48,903 --> 00:22:51,041
and on Monday,
that vehicle turned up
398
00:22:51,108 --> 00:22:52,176
in the Mall of America.
399
00:22:52,242 --> 00:22:54,782
According to
the parking violation stickers
400
00:22:54,848 --> 00:22:57,253
on the vehicle, it had
been there a couple of days.
401
00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,494
Her car had been
backed into a parking spot.
402
00:23:01,562 --> 00:23:06,872
On the other side
of the parking spot is grass,
403
00:23:06,939 --> 00:23:10,112
and the trunk liner
was seen there.
404
00:23:10,179 --> 00:23:13,920
A red substance was seen
on that trunk liner,
405
00:23:13,987 --> 00:23:16,324
as well as a red substance
on the vehicle
406
00:23:16,391 --> 00:23:19,163
that was believed to be blood.
407
00:23:19,230 --> 00:23:22,069
That's when things really
started to change for us.
408
00:23:22,136 --> 00:23:23,940
♪ ♪
409
00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:31,087
After police found my car,
410
00:23:31,154 --> 00:23:33,893
they notified my family.
411
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,098
They came to the Twin Cities
almost immediately
412
00:23:36,164 --> 00:23:39,137
from Wisconsin
to talk to the police.
413
00:23:39,203 --> 00:23:41,374
She wasn't
a very skilled driver.
414
00:23:41,441 --> 00:23:46,318
She would never have reverse
parked her car that way.
415
00:23:46,384 --> 00:23:52,263
I had learned that they
had found blood in her car.
416
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,271
I knew that it was bad.
417
00:23:56,338 --> 00:23:58,677
♪ ♪
418
00:23:58,743 --> 00:24:00,346
When did my car show back up
419
00:24:00,413 --> 00:24:02,116
in the mall parking ramp?
420
00:24:02,183 --> 00:24:05,056
That's what police
wanted to know.
421
00:24:05,122 --> 00:24:08,429
Jeff said he and Matt
never saw it
422
00:24:08,496 --> 00:24:10,800
when they went looking for me.
423
00:24:12,136 --> 00:24:15,644
Her car was not
where she usually parks.
424
00:24:15,711 --> 00:24:17,748
Her purse was in the vehicle.
425
00:24:17,815 --> 00:24:19,852
Her cell phone was not.
426
00:24:19,919 --> 00:24:23,759
We had the vehicle towed
to our secured lot.
427
00:24:23,826 --> 00:24:26,966
When the vehicle
was being processed,
428
00:24:27,032 --> 00:24:32,811
we found divorce papers
that Kira had in the vehicle.
429
00:24:32,878 --> 00:24:37,186
They were blank divorce papers,
but that really led us
430
00:24:37,253 --> 00:24:41,829
to believe that Kira was
planning to file for divorce.
431
00:24:41,895 --> 00:24:44,668
Police would soon learn
that my relationship
432
00:24:44,735 --> 00:24:49,044
with my husband was in even
worse shape than they thought.
433
00:24:49,110 --> 00:24:50,947
She had been looking
at apartments,
434
00:24:51,014 --> 00:24:54,320
one-bedroom apartments,
for just herself.
435
00:24:54,387 --> 00:24:57,025
It appeared that she was done
with the marriage,
436
00:24:57,092 --> 00:24:59,599
but she hadn't broken that
to Jeff yet.
437
00:25:02,470 --> 00:25:04,975
It was becoming
more and more important
438
00:25:05,041 --> 00:25:08,983
for police to talk to Ryan,
the man I was seeing.
439
00:25:09,050 --> 00:25:12,891
We needed to look at Ryan
as a person of interest.
440
00:25:12,958 --> 00:25:15,229
Finally,
we were able to contact him,
441
00:25:15,296 --> 00:25:18,235
and he was not in town.
442
00:25:18,302 --> 00:25:22,644
When he did get back,
he told police all about us.
443
00:25:22,711 --> 00:25:24,548
Ryan was in Colorado.
444
00:25:24,614 --> 00:25:26,318
He was on a ski trip.
445
00:25:26,385 --> 00:25:30,292
He brought in receipts
for where he was,
446
00:25:30,358 --> 00:25:33,899
gas receipts,
restaurant receipts.
447
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,439
They were able to eliminate
him very quickly as a suspect,
448
00:26:10,507 --> 00:26:13,111
and he
was entirely cooperative.
449
00:26:13,178 --> 00:26:16,885
Ryan wasn't involved
in my disappearance.
450
00:26:16,952 --> 00:26:18,990
But it was becoming clearer,
451
00:26:19,056 --> 00:26:22,931
there was at least one person
who might be.
452
00:26:22,998 --> 00:26:25,335
My sister told police
something important
453
00:26:25,402 --> 00:26:27,507
about a conversation
she had with Jeff
454
00:26:27,574 --> 00:26:29,812
right after
she found out I was missing
455
00:26:29,879 --> 00:26:33,352
and before they found
my abandoned car.
456
00:26:33,418 --> 00:26:37,059
Keri Anne had a conversation
with him that ended up being
457
00:26:37,126 --> 00:26:39,064
pretty important in the case.
458
00:26:39,130 --> 00:26:42,938
I've never
gotten a good feeling
459
00:26:43,004 --> 00:26:47,548
in my interactions
and engagements with Jeff,
460
00:26:47,614 --> 00:26:50,787
ever.
461
00:26:50,854 --> 00:26:54,962
I called him on February 24th,
462
00:26:55,028 --> 00:26:59,003
and he had told me
463
00:26:59,070 --> 00:27:03,378
that Kira was going
through a midlife crisis.
464
00:27:03,444 --> 00:27:08,422
And he said, "I loved Kira.
I thought I knew her."
465
00:27:08,489 --> 00:27:12,731
And then I asked him
why he was speaking
466
00:27:12,797 --> 00:27:16,305
about her in the past tense.
467
00:27:16,371 --> 00:27:17,941
He swore at me.
468
00:27:18,008 --> 00:27:21,080
He tried to correct
what he had said,
469
00:27:21,147 --> 00:27:26,290
and I made it very clear
that I heard him.
470
00:27:27,660 --> 00:27:29,998
I knew Kira was gone.
471
00:27:31,802 --> 00:27:33,371
The police were convinced
472
00:27:33,438 --> 00:27:35,577
that something
had happened to Kira,
473
00:27:35,643 --> 00:27:41,020
and they were very suspicious
of her husband, Jeff.
474
00:27:41,087 --> 00:27:42,857
We knew we needed to go back
475
00:27:42,924 --> 00:27:45,797
to Jeff and Kira's house.
476
00:27:45,864 --> 00:27:47,801
I wrote a search warrant.
477
00:27:47,868 --> 00:27:49,436
We went back to the house
478
00:27:49,504 --> 00:27:54,347
and interviewed
Jeff and Matthew again.
479
00:27:54,414 --> 00:27:56,351
♪ ♪
480
00:27:56,418 --> 00:27:59,123
When we told Jeff that we
were going to be executing
481
00:27:59,190 --> 00:28:02,830
a search warrant,
Jeff wanted to stay.
482
00:28:02,897 --> 00:28:04,433
He wanted
to stay at the house.
483
00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:07,206
He wanted to be there while
we did the search warrant.
484
00:28:07,273 --> 00:28:08,910
We explained
he couldn't be there,
485
00:28:08,977 --> 00:28:11,047
so then he asked
if Matt could stay.
486
00:28:11,114 --> 00:28:13,586
We explained
that they could not stay.
487
00:28:13,652 --> 00:28:15,489
Matt told me multiple times
488
00:28:15,557 --> 00:28:20,165
that if he heard something
or knew something,
489
00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:22,738
he would tell me.
490
00:28:22,805 --> 00:28:26,579
He insisted he didn't,
but in looking at the house
491
00:28:26,646 --> 00:28:29,484
and the evidence
they were about to discover,
492
00:28:29,551 --> 00:28:32,757
police would have a hard time
believing he was at home
493
00:28:32,824 --> 00:28:35,362
and didn't hear
anything at all.
494
00:28:35,429 --> 00:28:38,368
Between the bed
and the wall on the baseboard,
495
00:28:38,434 --> 00:28:42,209
there was a little spot
of what appeared to be blood.
496
00:28:42,276 --> 00:28:44,480
They started looking closer.
497
00:28:44,548 --> 00:28:48,522
The next thing they noticed was
that there were indentations
498
00:28:48,589 --> 00:28:52,296
in the carpet that made it
appear that the furniture
499
00:28:52,362 --> 00:28:54,100
had been moved.
500
00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:57,206
Not only was
the furniture rearranged
501
00:28:57,273 --> 00:29:00,312
and the bookshelf
was pushed up against the bed,
502
00:29:00,379 --> 00:29:05,356
but the box spring was also
twisted around 180 degrees.
503
00:29:05,422 --> 00:29:07,459
And that's important
because the box spring
504
00:29:07,527 --> 00:29:10,800
had a lot of spots
of blood spatter on it.
505
00:29:10,867 --> 00:29:13,906
♪ ♪
506
00:29:13,973 --> 00:29:16,377
When luminol was sprayed,
507
00:29:16,444 --> 00:29:20,352
especially in the master bedroom,
508
00:29:20,419 --> 00:29:24,795
it was obvious
that this was most likely
509
00:29:24,862 --> 00:29:27,433
where the crime happened.
510
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,370
♪ ♪
511
00:29:29,437 --> 00:29:33,011
Underneath the carpet,
this was probably one
512
00:29:33,077 --> 00:29:36,518
of the most disturbing parts
of the search.
513
00:29:36,585 --> 00:29:39,090
You could see what
I believe to be
514
00:29:39,157 --> 00:29:42,731
the outline of the torso,
515
00:29:42,798 --> 00:29:45,703
her head, the shoulders,
516
00:29:45,770 --> 00:29:48,976
her upper body in the blood.
517
00:29:49,043 --> 00:29:53,284
♪ ♪
518
00:29:53,351 --> 00:29:56,926
Detectives spent
seven hours examining the home
519
00:29:56,992 --> 00:29:59,363
Jeff and I shared.
520
00:29:59,430 --> 00:30:03,639
The living room
where we watched movies,
521
00:30:03,705 --> 00:30:08,414
the kitchen
where we shared meals,
522
00:30:08,481 --> 00:30:11,989
the bedroom
Jeff and I once slept in.
523
00:30:12,056 --> 00:30:14,761
♪ ♪
524
00:30:14,828 --> 00:30:17,934
And while most of the blood
was in the bedroom,
525
00:30:18,001 --> 00:30:20,606
it was in other rooms too,
526
00:30:20,673 --> 00:30:22,443
and on the stairs going down
527
00:30:22,511 --> 00:30:25,449
to the basement
where Matt lived.
528
00:30:25,517 --> 00:30:29,323
At that point,
they did consider the fact
529
00:30:29,390 --> 00:30:32,496
that Kira was most likely
no longer alive.
530
00:30:32,564 --> 00:30:35,068
And so then it turned
from a missing person
531
00:30:35,135 --> 00:30:38,107
to a homicide case.
532
00:30:43,585 --> 00:30:46,858
It's been five days
since I vanished.
533
00:30:46,925 --> 00:30:51,201
Each day that passes means
it's closer to spring.
534
00:30:51,268 --> 00:30:55,442
Down here, though,
you'd hardly know it.
535
00:30:55,509 --> 00:30:58,549
I may still be trapped
in my icy tomb,
536
00:30:58,616 --> 00:31:02,991
but the secrets of my death
have started to break free.
537
00:31:05,529 --> 00:31:07,333
We were
still looking for Kira,
538
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,508
but not in the way that we
may have thought previously.
539
00:31:11,575 --> 00:31:16,083
The homicide
investigators told us
540
00:31:16,150 --> 00:31:17,954
that she wouldn't
be found alive
541
00:31:18,021 --> 00:31:20,893
based on the blood in the home.
542
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,768
Jeff was arrested and brought
to police headquarters.
543
00:31:24,835 --> 00:31:27,774
Go ahead
and have a seat, Jeff.
544
00:31:27,841 --> 00:31:29,243
I'll to be
with you in a minute.
545
00:31:29,310 --> 00:31:30,646
Do you want something
to drink or anything?
546
00:31:30,713 --> 00:31:34,253
- No, I'm fine for now.
- OK, I'll be right back.
547
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,191
Is it OK if I use my phone?
548
00:31:36,257 --> 00:31:38,361
- Sure.
- OK.
549
00:31:39,664 --> 00:31:44,240
Jeff had a call
to make to an attorney.
550
00:31:44,306 --> 00:31:46,244
Yes, this is Jeff Trevino
calling again.
551
00:31:46,311 --> 00:31:49,249
I talked to you this morning?
552
00:31:49,316 --> 00:31:53,793
Well, they finally showed up
to explain the situation.
553
00:31:53,860 --> 00:31:56,130
They didn't
really explain any--
554
00:31:56,197 --> 00:31:59,270
they didn't explain anything
once they got there.
555
00:31:59,337 --> 00:32:01,407
They said it would be better
if we went down
556
00:32:01,474 --> 00:32:03,913
to the St. Paul
Police Department.
557
00:32:03,979 --> 00:32:07,085
The attorney wanted
to know one thing.
558
00:32:07,152 --> 00:32:09,758
Attorney wants to know
if I'm under arrest.
559
00:32:09,825 --> 00:32:11,260
You're not free to go.
560
00:32:11,327 --> 00:32:14,400
He says I'm not free to go.
561
00:32:14,467 --> 00:32:16,338
I'm gonna use my right
to remain silent
562
00:32:16,404 --> 00:32:18,441
until I can speak
to my attorney.
563
00:32:18,509 --> 00:32:20,279
This is when Jeff
really became
564
00:32:20,345 --> 00:32:21,882
the defiant Jeff Trevino.
565
00:32:21,948 --> 00:32:25,388
You don't have anything on me.
Prove it.
566
00:32:59,090 --> 00:33:02,830
♪ ♪
567
00:33:02,897 --> 00:33:04,601
A half hour would pass
568
00:33:04,668 --> 00:33:07,507
before Jeff found out
what that was.
569
00:33:07,574 --> 00:33:11,549
♪ ♪
570
00:33:15,789 --> 00:33:18,963
Jeff, here's what's
gonna happen.
571
00:33:19,029 --> 00:33:25,208
You're gonna get booked
into Ramsey County Jail, OK.
572
00:33:25,275 --> 00:33:28,314
- OK, so I'm under arrest?
- Yep, yep.
573
00:33:28,381 --> 00:33:32,022
And the way it works,
maybe you know,
574
00:33:32,089 --> 00:33:36,431
it's a 36 to 48-hour process.
575
00:33:36,497 --> 00:33:40,438
So it'll probably--I'm not
real sure around the time,
576
00:33:40,506 --> 00:33:43,712
but 36 to 48 hours,
they have to charge you.
577
00:33:43,779 --> 00:33:46,785
If they don't charge you,
then they release you.
578
00:33:46,852 --> 00:33:48,856
And that's--we bring everything
to the county attorney,
579
00:33:48,923 --> 00:33:50,124
and they look at it.
580
00:33:50,191 --> 00:33:51,728
And they're the ones
that make that decision.
581
00:33:51,795 --> 00:33:53,532
- OK.
- All right?
582
00:33:53,599 --> 00:33:56,137
So I don't get
to see any of this stuff?
583
00:33:56,203 --> 00:33:57,774
No.
584
00:33:57,840 --> 00:33:59,142
Once somebody is charged,
585
00:33:59,209 --> 00:34:01,782
and they make
their initial court appearance,
586
00:34:01,848 --> 00:34:07,594
then they get the police
reports and that type of thing.
587
00:34:07,660 --> 00:34:10,132
It's common
to take off their clothes
588
00:34:10,198 --> 00:34:12,035
down to their underwear
and see if there
589
00:34:12,102 --> 00:34:13,706
are any injuries on them.
590
00:34:13,773 --> 00:34:15,509
We're going to take some
pictures of the same thing,
591
00:34:15,576 --> 00:34:18,582
up against the wall
if that's OK.
592
00:34:18,648 --> 00:34:20,786
If that's OK.
Do I really have a choice?
593
00:34:20,853 --> 00:34:22,322
No, not really.
594
00:34:22,389 --> 00:34:24,159
If you look
at the photograph closely,
595
00:34:24,226 --> 00:34:27,666
there actually was a small
wound on one of his hands.
596
00:34:27,733 --> 00:34:30,138
It could have been
from a struggle.
597
00:34:30,204 --> 00:34:33,612
We don't know
if a weapon was used.
598
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:36,217
It wouldn't take long
for Jeff to be suited up
599
00:34:36,284 --> 00:34:38,756
and ready for jail.
600
00:34:38,823 --> 00:34:43,599
What was he thinking as he
shook his head and sighed?
601
00:34:45,670 --> 00:34:50,980
♪ ♪
602
00:34:51,047 --> 00:34:53,384
Police still had
a lot of questions
603
00:34:53,451 --> 00:34:55,590
that would go unanswered
by Jeff,
604
00:34:55,657 --> 00:35:01,568
including, if he killed me,
did he act alone?
605
00:35:01,634 --> 00:35:03,506
The roommate was actually home
606
00:35:03,573 --> 00:35:06,343
that night that this happened.
607
00:35:06,410 --> 00:35:08,180
When he said, "I didn't
hear anything that night,"
608
00:35:08,247 --> 00:35:10,118
police were pretty skeptical
about that.
609
00:35:10,185 --> 00:35:13,124
Once we had seen
the blood evidence,
610
00:35:13,190 --> 00:35:14,961
it was very hard to believe
611
00:35:15,028 --> 00:35:17,567
that he was downstairs
and didn't hear anything.
612
00:35:17,634 --> 00:35:21,574
♪ ♪
613
00:35:21,641 --> 00:35:24,179
Have a seat here.
614
00:35:25,950 --> 00:35:29,524
From being in the house
and from the statements
615
00:35:29,591 --> 00:35:32,095
that you've told me,
I know you know a lot more.
616
00:35:32,162 --> 00:35:34,967
I don't know anything else.
617
00:35:35,034 --> 00:35:36,270
All right.
618
00:35:36,337 --> 00:35:37,774
And this is what
I need you to understand,
619
00:35:37,841 --> 00:35:40,044
and I tried to explain
that to you yesterday.
620
00:35:40,111 --> 00:35:45,556
It is much, much better
to be a witness than a suspect.
621
00:35:45,622 --> 00:35:47,192
I didn't witness anything,
622
00:35:47,259 --> 00:35:48,428
so there's nothing
to be a witness on.
623
00:35:48,494 --> 00:35:50,231
Your friend Kira is not OK.
624
00:35:50,298 --> 00:35:52,035
I understand that.
625
00:35:52,102 --> 00:35:55,341
And everything
happened inside that house,
626
00:35:55,408 --> 00:35:59,584
and we have
all the evidence, OK?
627
00:35:59,650 --> 00:36:02,623
All I'm saying is,
I'm not aware of anything
628
00:36:02,690 --> 00:36:04,828
that happened.
629
00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:08,569
If something happened,
I don't know about it.
630
00:36:08,636 --> 00:36:11,273
Investigators went
at Matt pretty hard,
631
00:36:11,340 --> 00:36:13,612
looking for the truth.
632
00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:16,116
There is a horrific crime scene
633
00:36:16,183 --> 00:36:19,456
at that house, horrific.
634
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,431
- OK?
- Where did it--
635
00:36:23,498 --> 00:36:26,270
It is through that upstairs--
636
00:36:26,337 --> 00:36:28,675
it is through that house, OK?
637
00:36:28,742 --> 00:36:32,015
So what I'm telling you,
you're in the house
638
00:36:32,082 --> 00:36:33,686
while this is happening
639
00:36:33,753 --> 00:36:34,754
You had to--
640
00:36:34,821 --> 00:36:36,123
I guarantee
I wasn't in the house--
641
00:36:36,190 --> 00:36:37,761
well, if there's
something happened there,
642
00:36:37,827 --> 00:36:40,198
I wasn't there.
643
00:36:40,265 --> 00:36:42,504
Am I under arrest?
644
00:36:42,570 --> 00:36:44,541
You're not free to go.
645
00:36:44,608 --> 00:36:46,110
So that's why
I read you your rights.
646
00:36:46,176 --> 00:36:47,379
You're not free to go.
647
00:36:47,446 --> 00:36:48,915
I haven't decided
if you're under arrest,
648
00:36:48,982 --> 00:36:50,719
but you're not free to go.
649
00:36:50,786 --> 00:36:54,928
♪ ♪
650
00:36:54,995 --> 00:36:56,798
They had Matt
take off his clothes
651
00:36:56,865 --> 00:37:00,840
to look for any evidence
of a struggle on his body.
652
00:37:00,907 --> 00:37:02,677
The forensic evidence
653
00:37:02,743 --> 00:37:06,751
that we found
from Thursday night...
654
00:37:06,818 --> 00:37:08,320
Yeah.
655
00:37:08,387 --> 00:37:11,929
Demonstrates
to us that there was a lot
656
00:37:11,995 --> 00:37:15,837
of noise on that floor,
and it was loud.
657
00:37:15,903 --> 00:37:17,405
If there was something,
I, honest to God,
658
00:37:17,472 --> 00:37:19,777
didn't hear a thing.
659
00:37:19,844 --> 00:37:22,616
- It was loud.
- I honestly--
660
00:37:22,683 --> 00:37:26,124
And we're gonna do
some more forensic testing
661
00:37:26,190 --> 00:37:28,762
that we didn't complete, OK?
662
00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:30,398
I don't know how to say it,
it doesn't make--
663
00:37:30,465 --> 00:37:31,935
Did you hear any
noise upstairs at all?
664
00:37:32,002 --> 00:37:33,471
I didn't.
665
00:37:33,539 --> 00:37:34,975
While you were sleeping,
did you hear any noise?
666
00:37:35,041 --> 00:37:37,880
I didn't, but I can say
that in the past,
667
00:37:37,947 --> 00:37:39,584
my dad had a seizure
at my place.
668
00:37:39,651 --> 00:37:41,755
Ambulance, police,
everybody was in our house.
669
00:37:41,822 --> 00:37:44,594
I woke up the next morning,
I didn't even have a clue.
670
00:37:46,196 --> 00:37:50,272
Police wondered,
could that really be?
671
00:37:50,338 --> 00:37:53,946
The original house that
Jeff, Kira, and Matt lived in
672
00:37:54,013 --> 00:37:55,883
had been added onto.
673
00:37:55,950 --> 00:37:58,054
Where Matt lived
was in the basement,
674
00:37:58,121 --> 00:38:00,458
which was under the original
part of the house.
675
00:38:00,526 --> 00:38:02,663
The crime scene was
in the master bedroom,
676
00:38:02,730 --> 00:38:04,033
which was part
of the addition,
677
00:38:04,099 --> 00:38:05,902
and there was
no basement underneath.
678
00:38:05,969 --> 00:38:09,009
So I think that's probably part
of the reason
679
00:38:09,076 --> 00:38:11,013
that he didn't hear anything,
is because where he was
680
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,318
in the house,
nothing really happened
681
00:38:13,384 --> 00:38:14,687
above where he lived.
682
00:38:14,754 --> 00:38:18,193
This guy would have cracked,
I can tell you.
683
00:38:18,260 --> 00:38:19,964
Police pressed him really hard.
684
00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:22,269
He would not have been able
to stick to his story
685
00:38:22,336 --> 00:38:23,539
if it was a lie.
686
00:38:23,605 --> 00:38:25,342
Honestly,
if something happened--
687
00:38:25,408 --> 00:38:28,782
And here's kind of where I
see you, OK, in this picture.
688
00:38:28,849 --> 00:38:34,359
And a lot of times, people
get caught up in things
689
00:38:34,426 --> 00:38:37,700
and they're in a bad position.
690
00:38:37,767 --> 00:38:39,069
If I--
691
00:38:39,136 --> 00:38:40,906
Will you--will you--
will you just--
692
00:38:40,973 --> 00:38:42,009
Yes, yes.
693
00:38:42,075 --> 00:38:44,412
All we need
is the truth from you.
694
00:38:44,479 --> 00:38:45,916
That's it.
695
00:38:45,983 --> 00:38:49,557
I don't know anything else,
I swear to you.
696
00:38:53,097 --> 00:38:54,300
I'm sorry.
697
00:38:54,366 --> 00:38:56,003
What--
698
00:38:57,741 --> 00:39:00,579
Police ruled Matt out,
and they thought
699
00:39:00,646 --> 00:39:03,619
my husband was my only killer.
700
00:39:03,685 --> 00:39:05,656
He was charged with
intentional and unintentional
701
00:39:05,722 --> 00:39:08,227
second-degree murder.
702
00:39:08,294 --> 00:39:10,097
There was just
one big problem in terms
703
00:39:10,164 --> 00:39:12,570
of building a case
against Jeff.
704
00:39:12,637 --> 00:39:16,711
The most important piece
of evidence was missing,
705
00:39:16,778 --> 00:39:18,715
me.
706
00:39:18,782 --> 00:39:21,453
Everyone was looking
for Kira's body.
707
00:39:21,521 --> 00:39:22,690
How do you prove
that somebody is dead
708
00:39:22,756 --> 00:39:24,927
if you don't have a body?
709
00:39:24,994 --> 00:39:27,700
It's not impossible,
and the law doesn't say
710
00:39:27,767 --> 00:39:30,204
you have to have a body,
but it's difficult.
711
00:39:30,271 --> 00:39:31,875
♪ ♪
712
00:39:31,942 --> 00:39:34,814
Today,
we're here to advise you guys
713
00:39:34,881 --> 00:39:36,316
that we set up a tip line,
714
00:39:36,383 --> 00:39:39,289
and the tip line
is actually for Kira.
715
00:39:39,356 --> 00:39:41,628
It's to find out
where she's at,
716
00:39:41,694 --> 00:39:43,164
where she went,
717
00:39:43,230 --> 00:39:45,903
and to really help us
complete our puzzle.
718
00:39:45,970 --> 00:39:48,675
You realize
719
00:39:48,742 --> 00:39:52,348
how very, very large
this world really is
720
00:39:52,415 --> 00:39:56,156
when you
are trying desperately
721
00:39:56,223 --> 00:40:00,666
to find someone you love.
722
00:40:00,732 --> 00:40:03,037
We know somebody
out there has seen her,
723
00:40:03,104 --> 00:40:05,776
might have seen something,
something suspicious,
724
00:40:05,843 --> 00:40:08,147
something
that may be very minute.
725
00:40:08,214 --> 00:40:11,788
But we really need
those answers to the questions
726
00:40:11,855 --> 00:40:13,792
that we currently have.
727
00:40:13,859 --> 00:40:16,531
There was
a core group of people
728
00:40:16,598 --> 00:40:20,038
that helped our family.
729
00:40:20,104 --> 00:40:23,545
I started a page for people
730
00:40:23,612 --> 00:40:25,983
who wanted to help search.
731
00:40:26,049 --> 00:40:29,690
I used the media
to be able to advertise
732
00:40:29,757 --> 00:40:32,697
where the searches were
and what we needed,
733
00:40:32,764 --> 00:40:37,707
underwater cameras,
if we needed boats,
734
00:40:37,774 --> 00:40:39,476
any kind of tools or anything
735
00:40:39,544 --> 00:40:42,048
to be able
to dig through the snow.
736
00:40:42,115 --> 00:40:46,692
The police department
gave us a 100-mile radius
737
00:40:46,758 --> 00:40:50,231
from her home
to start searching.
738
00:40:50,298 --> 00:40:52,503
While my family
and friends hunted
739
00:40:52,570 --> 00:40:54,640
for my body
in the bitter cold,
740
00:40:54,707 --> 00:40:56,677
investigators pieced together a case
741
00:40:56,744 --> 00:41:00,853
against my husband
one video at a time.
742
00:41:00,919 --> 00:41:03,525
Jeff may have thought
he could outsmart everyone,
743
00:41:03,591 --> 00:41:07,265
but he wasn't nearly as
cunning as he thought he was.
744
00:41:07,332 --> 00:41:09,570
The same video clip
that originally helped
745
00:41:09,637 --> 00:41:12,108
prove Jeff was telling
the truth about getting me gas
746
00:41:12,175 --> 00:41:16,884
on date night told another
story if you looked closely
747
00:41:16,951 --> 00:41:19,256
as he pulled out in my car.
748
00:41:19,323 --> 00:41:21,694
As the police watched
that security video
749
00:41:21,761 --> 00:41:23,532
from the gas station,
they saw something
750
00:41:23,598 --> 00:41:25,501
that was very unusual,
751
00:41:25,569 --> 00:41:28,107
given the circumstances
Jeff described.
752
00:41:28,174 --> 00:41:30,378
When he got back
in Kira's white Chevy Cobalt
753
00:41:30,445 --> 00:41:32,816
to leave the gas station
to go home to the wife
754
00:41:32,883 --> 00:41:36,189
that he had just
patched things up with,
755
00:41:36,256 --> 00:41:38,227
instead of taking a right,
which would have been
756
00:41:38,293 --> 00:41:40,365
the direction,
the shortest route home,
757
00:41:40,432 --> 00:41:43,037
the car turned left
towards the interstate.
758
00:41:44,507 --> 00:41:47,980
Turning left
gets you right to 35E.
759
00:41:48,047 --> 00:41:49,717
Once you're on 35E,
you can get anywhere
760
00:41:49,784 --> 00:41:51,788
in the Twin Cities.
761
00:41:53,291 --> 00:41:54,894
That's important.
762
00:41:54,961 --> 00:41:57,165
Remember when Jeff
was first interviewed,
763
00:41:57,232 --> 00:42:00,271
and he said he was alone
in the car that night?
764
00:42:10,058 --> 00:42:12,730
But was he really by himself?
765
00:42:12,796 --> 00:42:14,934
Police believe
I was in the trunk,
766
00:42:15,001 --> 00:42:17,238
and he had to get rid of me.
767
00:42:17,305 --> 00:42:19,877
We know that that's
when he disposed of the body.
768
00:42:19,944 --> 00:42:23,752
St. Paul Police asked to
take another look at the video
769
00:42:23,819 --> 00:42:25,622
from the Mall of America,
and they were able
770
00:42:25,689 --> 00:42:27,893
to find the car arriving
the morning
771
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,331
that Kira
was reported missing.
772
00:42:30,398 --> 00:42:32,236
♪ ♪
773
00:42:32,302 --> 00:42:36,878
Police were then able to
pick up Jeff on other cameras.
774
00:42:36,945 --> 00:42:39,551
His clothing was helpful,
and that allowed us
775
00:42:39,617 --> 00:42:43,191
to be able to track him
from one location to another
776
00:42:43,257 --> 00:42:45,662
through multiple cameras.
777
00:42:45,729 --> 00:42:47,265
You could tell
that that person
778
00:42:47,332 --> 00:42:50,138
was wearing white shoes.
779
00:42:50,205 --> 00:42:53,912
It was very distinct,
these white shoes.
780
00:42:53,979 --> 00:42:56,785
That shadowy figure
we see get out of the car,
781
00:42:56,852 --> 00:42:59,557
that person then walks
to the taxi stand,
782
00:42:59,624 --> 00:43:02,563
gets in a taxi
Friday morning.
783
00:43:02,630 --> 00:43:05,001
That cab
was equipped with GPS.
784
00:43:05,068 --> 00:43:07,840
And it ended up stopping,
not on Jeff and Kira's block,
785
00:43:07,907 --> 00:43:09,744
but on the next block.
786
00:43:09,810 --> 00:43:12,517
The figure gets
out of the taxi and walks
787
00:43:12,583 --> 00:43:16,223
towards the house where
Kira and her husband lived,
788
00:43:16,289 --> 00:43:19,897
similar outfit, top, pants,
and those white shoes.
789
00:43:19,964 --> 00:43:22,537
The figure turns
and looks back.
790
00:43:22,603 --> 00:43:26,177
And at that point, you can see
a pretty specific design
791
00:43:26,243 --> 00:43:28,314
on the sweatshirt.
792
00:43:28,381 --> 00:43:31,453
And I said to my partners,
that's the sweatshirt
793
00:43:31,521 --> 00:43:34,025
that is in the dining room
in the Trevino house
794
00:43:34,092 --> 00:43:37,465
that we saw on Monday.
795
00:43:37,533 --> 00:43:39,236
We wrote
another search warrant,
796
00:43:39,303 --> 00:43:41,874
and that sweatshirt
was still there.
797
00:43:41,941 --> 00:43:44,880
So were the white shoes.
798
00:43:46,951 --> 00:43:49,957
Weeks would go by
before another big lead
799
00:43:50,024 --> 00:43:52,730
in the case would come in.
800
00:43:52,797 --> 00:43:55,535
We thought
there's a real possibility
801
00:43:55,602 --> 00:43:58,307
maybe Kira's in Keller Lake.
802
00:43:58,374 --> 00:44:03,050
There was a tip that came in
where there was two individuals
803
00:44:03,117 --> 00:44:04,854
walking across the lake,
carrying something
804
00:44:04,921 --> 00:44:07,993
that looked like
a rolled up piece of carpet
805
00:44:08,060 --> 00:44:10,365
or possibly a body.
806
00:44:10,431 --> 00:44:12,102
When police had interviewed
807
00:44:12,168 --> 00:44:13,872
our roommate, Matt,
they believed
808
00:44:13,939 --> 00:44:15,575
he hadn't been involved.
809
00:44:15,642 --> 00:44:19,216
This tip raised suspicion
that, if this was me,
810
00:44:19,282 --> 00:44:22,054
maybe Jeff had
a different accomplice.
811
00:44:22,121 --> 00:44:23,490
Where were they going,
812
00:44:23,558 --> 00:44:25,762
and what were they carrying?
813
00:44:25,829 --> 00:44:27,365
The police went out there,
814
00:44:27,432 --> 00:44:29,002
and in the middle
of Keller Lake,
815
00:44:29,069 --> 00:44:31,440
they found
a spearfishing hole.
816
00:44:31,507 --> 00:44:34,580
It wasn't an ice fishing hole.
It was a spearfishing hole.
817
00:44:34,647 --> 00:44:36,049
And the reason
that's important is
818
00:44:36,116 --> 00:44:38,020
because the spearfishing hole
would be big enough
819
00:44:38,086 --> 00:44:40,457
to get a body through.
820
00:44:40,525 --> 00:44:44,333
We put divers
with robots in the waters.
821
00:44:44,399 --> 00:44:46,336
We used a cadaver dog.
822
00:44:46,403 --> 00:44:49,611
The handler was telling us,
the dog is hitting.
823
00:44:49,677 --> 00:44:53,585
The thing is,
even though I was underwater,
824
00:44:53,652 --> 00:44:56,322
I wasn't in Keller Lake.
825
00:44:56,389 --> 00:44:58,795
No one spearfishing
had anything to do
826
00:44:58,862 --> 00:45:00,766
with what happened to me.
827
00:45:00,833 --> 00:45:04,707
But police and the hundreds
of people trying to find me
828
00:45:04,774 --> 00:45:08,414
in the bitter cold would find
a different clue that day
829
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,486
in the park
surrounding this lake.
830
00:45:11,554 --> 00:45:13,257
♪ ♪
831
00:45:13,324 --> 00:45:17,966
My granddad
had flown up from New Orleans.
832
00:45:18,033 --> 00:45:20,973
I miss her really badly,
833
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:24,412
but she's not--
834
00:45:24,479 --> 00:45:27,251
she's gone for no reason,
and that's what hurts.
835
00:45:27,318 --> 00:45:31,260
When I had gotten there,
my granddad had just
836
00:45:31,327 --> 00:45:35,602
found a bag.
837
00:45:35,669 --> 00:45:38,942
He couldn't quite
see what was in it.
838
00:45:39,008 --> 00:45:42,048
The grandfather
found the plastic bag
839
00:45:42,114 --> 00:45:44,152
that was a Walmart bag
with the bloody pillow
840
00:45:44,219 --> 00:45:46,289
and the bloody sports bra.
841
00:45:46,356 --> 00:45:48,562
The BCA sent
the crime scene truck out,
842
00:45:48,628 --> 00:45:49,997
and they did testing.
843
00:45:50,064 --> 00:45:52,068
And Kira's blood
was on the pillow
844
00:45:52,135 --> 00:45:53,838
that was found
by her grandfather
845
00:45:53,905 --> 00:45:56,209
in Keller Lake Park.
846
00:45:56,276 --> 00:45:58,515
We were on the edge
of our seats waiting
847
00:45:58,581 --> 00:46:00,351
for a body to be discovered.
848
00:46:00,417 --> 00:46:02,590
We were waiting
for the weather to change,
849
00:46:02,656 --> 00:46:05,261
and it just would not.
850
00:46:06,096 --> 00:46:07,933
I've seen
how slowly things move
851
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:10,371
in the dead of winter,
852
00:46:10,438 --> 00:46:13,110
everything except
for preparations
853
00:46:13,177 --> 00:46:16,216
for my husband's trial.
854
00:46:16,283 --> 00:46:18,020
He was counting
on the possibility
855
00:46:18,087 --> 00:46:20,458
they'd never find my body.
856
00:46:20,525 --> 00:46:22,696
And if they didn't,
that he'd have
857
00:46:22,763 --> 00:46:25,100
a good chance to walk free.
858
00:46:25,167 --> 00:46:26,436
The defense attorney
in this case
859
00:46:26,504 --> 00:46:30,645
did demand a speedy trial,
and that was a tactic.
860
00:46:30,712 --> 00:46:33,283
Only two killers
had ever been convicted
861
00:46:33,350 --> 00:46:36,156
in Minnesota in cases
where the victim's body
862
00:46:36,222 --> 00:46:38,729
hadn't been found.
863
00:46:38,795 --> 00:46:43,772
We knew that at some point,
if we didn't have the body,
864
00:46:43,838 --> 00:46:45,407
we would have
to make the decision,
865
00:46:45,474 --> 00:46:47,646
do we proceed
to trial without the body based
866
00:46:47,713 --> 00:46:50,552
only on the circumstantial
evidence that we had?
867
00:46:50,618 --> 00:46:54,560
And if we did that and lost,
868
00:46:54,626 --> 00:46:56,597
and then the body turned up,
869
00:46:56,664 --> 00:46:59,403
we wouldn't be able to come
back and try him again,
870
00:46:59,469 --> 00:47:00,772
double jeopardy.
871
00:47:00,839 --> 00:47:02,408
We get one shot at this.
872
00:47:02,475 --> 00:47:05,114
So then the question is,
if we don't have the body,
873
00:47:05,180 --> 00:47:08,988
do we drop the charges
or release Jeff and wait
874
00:47:09,055 --> 00:47:10,826
for the body to turn up?
875
00:47:10,892 --> 00:47:12,428
And then what do we do?
876
00:47:12,495 --> 00:47:14,465
He knows where the body is.
We don't.
877
00:47:14,533 --> 00:47:17,105
It's not realistic to think
that the police are gonna
878
00:47:17,171 --> 00:47:19,977
be able to tail him 24/7.
879
00:47:20,044 --> 00:47:22,482
He would have had
an opportunity
880
00:47:22,550 --> 00:47:24,553
at some point
to get to the body
881
00:47:24,620 --> 00:47:26,757
and maybe hide it even better.
882
00:47:26,824 --> 00:47:29,530
♪ ♪
883
00:47:36,343 --> 00:47:38,414
It's been two months
since Jeff was charged
884
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,985
with my murder.
885
00:47:41,052 --> 00:47:44,058
Spring has finally arrived.
886
00:47:44,125 --> 00:47:47,399
As the earth blooms
and stirs to life,
887
00:47:47,465 --> 00:47:52,910
it will reveal what more than
three dozen searches couldn't,
888
00:47:52,977 --> 00:47:55,314
me.
889
00:47:55,381 --> 00:47:59,222
Despite the evidence
found around Keller Lake,
890
00:47:59,288 --> 00:48:01,092
I was miles away.
891
00:48:01,159 --> 00:48:02,963
♪ ♪
892
00:48:03,030 --> 00:48:05,100
There's
a barge repair facility
893
00:48:05,167 --> 00:48:09,677
that's just downriver
from Downtown St. Paul.
894
00:48:09,743 --> 00:48:12,616
And this particular morning,
this guy's job
895
00:48:12,683 --> 00:48:15,321
was to go out and push
the debris in the river
896
00:48:15,388 --> 00:48:18,995
away from the area where they
needed to do the welding.
897
00:48:19,062 --> 00:48:21,768
♪ ♪
898
00:48:21,834 --> 00:48:25,374
And among that debris,
he spotted something.
899
00:48:25,441 --> 00:48:27,312
So they called police, who
called the medical examiner,
900
00:48:27,379 --> 00:48:30,150
who came
and got it out of the water.
901
00:48:30,217 --> 00:48:31,921
The medical examiner
identified Kira's body
902
00:48:31,988 --> 00:48:35,628
with her dental records.
903
00:48:35,695 --> 00:48:38,835
I had been
in the Mississippi River.
904
00:48:38,902 --> 00:48:40,973
♪ ♪
905
00:48:41,039 --> 00:48:43,410
My office at the time
was right on the river.
906
00:48:43,477 --> 00:48:45,816
I had a window that looked
right out over the river.
907
00:48:45,882 --> 00:48:48,187
And where the body was found,
her body had to have
908
00:48:48,254 --> 00:48:50,959
floated right past my office.
909
00:48:51,025 --> 00:48:56,135
We found her just in time.
910
00:48:57,071 --> 00:48:58,440
Jeff was in jail,
911
00:48:58,508 --> 00:49:01,614
and he was overheard
on the phone making a comment,
912
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,818
something to the effect
that he wasn't--
913
00:49:03,885 --> 00:49:07,592
he didn't think her body
would be recovered so fast.
914
00:49:08,862 --> 00:49:10,766
Though my body
had been underwater
915
00:49:10,832 --> 00:49:16,009
for 2 1/2 months, it betrayed
the trauma I'd suffered.
916
00:49:16,076 --> 00:49:18,314
The medical examiner discovered
917
00:49:18,380 --> 00:49:20,317
that my pointer finger
was broken,
918
00:49:20,384 --> 00:49:22,454
my lip was bruised,
919
00:49:22,522 --> 00:49:25,328
and there was a deep gash
on my forehead.
920
00:49:25,394 --> 00:49:27,231
The medical examiner
was never able
921
00:49:27,298 --> 00:49:31,272
to determine for sure
what the cause of death was.
922
00:49:31,339 --> 00:49:34,647
Our theory is that she was
smothered with a pillow.
923
00:49:34,713 --> 00:49:37,252
The injuries to my body
showed the violence
924
00:49:37,318 --> 00:49:40,759
I'd suffered,
but now they needed
925
00:49:40,826 --> 00:49:44,734
to pinpoint
exactly when I was murdered.
926
00:49:44,801 --> 00:49:48,040
Proving Jeff was
the last one to see me would
927
00:49:48,107 --> 00:49:50,813
be the nail in his coffin.
928
00:49:51,881 --> 00:49:53,884
The medical examiner
just sort of threw out there,
929
00:49:53,951 --> 00:49:56,189
"Boy, if I knew when she'd
eaten and what she'd eaten,
930
00:49:56,256 --> 00:49:58,661
I can probably tell you
when she died."
931
00:49:58,728 --> 00:50:01,166
And Andy and I looked
at each other and were like,
932
00:50:01,232 --> 00:50:04,105
"We know what she ate
during date night
933
00:50:04,172 --> 00:50:06,009
at the Mall of America."
934
00:50:06,076 --> 00:50:08,782
Police went back
to the restaurant and said,
935
00:50:08,848 --> 00:50:11,119
"I want you to make me
this exact meal
936
00:50:11,186 --> 00:50:14,392
the way it was made."
937
00:50:14,458 --> 00:50:17,866
They brought that out.
It was lamb meatballs.
938
00:50:17,933 --> 00:50:20,237
And they--
the police brought that dish
939
00:50:20,304 --> 00:50:22,609
to the medical examiner.
940
00:50:23,778 --> 00:50:26,851
He talked to the chef
at the restaurant.
941
00:50:26,918 --> 00:50:30,424
What is this stuff on top
of the lamb meatballs?
942
00:50:30,491 --> 00:50:32,763
It was ground pistachios,
943
00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:35,100
and she had ground pistachios
in her stomach.
944
00:50:35,167 --> 00:50:40,812
♪ ♪
945
00:50:40,879 --> 00:50:43,117
Jeff's statement
is that Kira was alive
946
00:50:43,183 --> 00:50:45,889
the next morning.
947
00:50:45,956 --> 00:50:48,494
If she had survived
to the next morning,
948
00:50:48,562 --> 00:50:51,400
that food would
have been digested already,
949
00:50:51,466 --> 00:50:53,604
which was
pretty incriminating evidence
950
00:50:53,671 --> 00:50:55,240
against Jeff.
951
00:50:55,307 --> 00:51:01,419
♪ ♪
952
00:51:01,486 --> 00:51:04,458
We begin
with a Minnesota man on trial
953
00:51:04,526 --> 00:51:06,463
for allegedly killing his wife,
954
00:51:06,531 --> 00:51:08,602
pretending that she had gone missing.
955
00:51:08,668 --> 00:51:11,239
You don't want to lose
the biggest case in the state,
956
00:51:11,306 --> 00:51:12,509
and it certainly
was the biggest case
957
00:51:12,576 --> 00:51:14,278
in the state at the time.
958
00:51:14,345 --> 00:51:17,017
In my opening statement,
I said that this was
959
00:51:17,084 --> 00:51:19,489
about rage and jealousy.
960
00:51:19,557 --> 00:51:21,125
In Jeff's mind,
this was gonna be
961
00:51:21,192 --> 00:51:22,662
the big night to reconcile.
962
00:51:22,729 --> 00:51:24,967
This was the last stand,
the last effort
963
00:51:25,034 --> 00:51:26,638
to save the marriage.
964
00:51:26,704 --> 00:51:29,442
And she spent
the evening texting somebody,
965
00:51:29,509 --> 00:51:31,412
and we know
that it was the person
966
00:51:31,479 --> 00:51:33,718
that she was having
the affair with.
967
00:51:33,785 --> 00:51:36,456
So the theory was
that at some point,
968
00:51:36,524 --> 00:51:41,601
Jeff wanted to know
who she was texting
969
00:51:41,668 --> 00:51:44,172
and wanted
to see these text messages...
970
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,275
♪ ♪
971
00:51:46,342 --> 00:51:48,615
That there was a struggle
over the phone,
972
00:51:48,682 --> 00:51:52,088
that Kira's finger
was broken in that struggle.
973
00:51:52,155 --> 00:51:54,660
♪ ♪
974
00:51:54,727 --> 00:51:58,466
At some point,
I got the gash on my head.
975
00:51:58,534 --> 00:52:02,943
Then he took a pillow
and covered my face.
976
00:52:03,010 --> 00:52:06,584
♪ ♪
977
00:52:06,651 --> 00:52:09,188
He killed her.
978
00:52:09,255 --> 00:52:13,363
He put her
in the trunk of her car.
979
00:52:15,234 --> 00:52:19,911
She took off her clothes,
he duct taped her,
980
00:52:19,977 --> 00:52:22,816
and he threw her away.
981
00:52:22,883 --> 00:52:24,753
♪ ♪
982
00:52:24,820 --> 00:52:29,328
I wanted the judge to give
Jeff the maximum sentencing.
983
00:52:30,164 --> 00:52:31,701
♪ ♪
984
00:52:31,767 --> 00:52:35,642
The jury convicted Jeff
of second-degree murder,
985
00:52:35,709 --> 00:52:39,517
and he got 27 1/2 years
in prison.
986
00:52:39,583 --> 00:52:44,125
His anticipated release date
has him out at age 57,
987
00:52:44,192 --> 00:52:47,465
long enough for him to live
more life than I ever did
988
00:52:47,533 --> 00:52:50,739
in my 30 years on Earth.
989
00:52:50,805 --> 00:52:53,377
I don't have any idea
what flashed
990
00:52:53,443 --> 00:52:56,215
through my husband's mind
when he killed me,
991
00:52:56,282 --> 00:52:59,221
but he never
showed any remorse.
992
00:53:01,259 --> 00:53:05,067
It is true
that Kira had been talking
993
00:53:05,134 --> 00:53:09,442
to someone while she
was trying to leave Jeff.
994
00:53:10,945 --> 00:53:14,252
And I'm glad she did.
995
00:53:14,319 --> 00:53:17,458
I'm glad she did.
996
00:53:17,526 --> 00:53:22,468
Because I think,
for just a sliver of a moment,
997
00:53:22,536 --> 00:53:25,307
she was loved well...
998
00:53:25,374 --> 00:53:27,411
♪ ♪
999
00:53:27,478 --> 00:53:33,156
Or cared for
the way she deserved to be.
1000
00:53:33,223 --> 00:53:36,630
♪ ♪
1001
00:53:36,697 --> 00:53:42,642
My motto in life was
Pura Vida, the Pure Life,
1002
00:53:42,709 --> 00:53:44,747
simple.
1003
00:53:44,813 --> 00:53:49,623
My death made my life
anything but simple or fair,
1004
00:53:49,689 --> 00:53:52,495
but my smile should tell you
that once upon a time,
1005
00:53:52,563 --> 00:53:56,970
I was happy, I was loved.
1006
00:53:57,037 --> 00:53:59,777
I wasn't me hereafter.
1007
00:53:59,843 --> 00:54:02,448
I was me before.
1008
00:54:02,516 --> 00:54:05,354
♪ ♪
1009
00:54:08,393 --> 00:54:15,541
♪ ♪
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