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In the early 2000s,

Hef was dating multiple people
at a time.

He was getting
a lot of attention for it

and his girlfriends
were getting a lot
of attention, too.

For Sandy Bentley,
living at the mansion
as one of Hef's girlfriends,

you get to be
the center of attention.

But there's also
restrictions too,

and Sandy knew
what the redline rules were.

Sandy
was under contract.

She was to be
with Hugh Hefner.

No one else.

It wasn't your typical
run-of-the-mill

"Oh, I have
a rich boyfriend" thing.

It was very unusual.

He did not care
about Hugh Hefner.

He didn't care about
what Hugh Hefner did,
thought, or said.

All he was focused on
and obsessed with
was Sandy Bentley.

In the late '90s,
Hef was in his 70s,

he had just separated
from his second wife

and he was looking
to date again.

He was going out
to the hottest night clubs
in LA several times a week.

That's where he first met
the Bentley twins.

The Bentley twins
are Sandy and Mandy.

Hugh Hefner's always had
a thing for twins.

And Sandy and Mandy
were perfect twins for him.

They posed for Playboy

and then he started
a relationship with them.

And in the early 2000s,
they ended up
being celebrities.

Please welcome
Hugh Hefner and his pals,
the Bentley twins.

You're sisters?

-Twins, yes.
-Yeah, yeah.

-We're sisters.
-My mom knows her dad.

They knew each other
a little.

They were on
Sex and the City,

they were on
Two and a Half Men.

There was one--

And it was all through
Hugh Hefner.

The Bentley twins,
Sandy and Mandy,

grew up in Joliet, Illinois.

They had a very strict
Catholic upbringing

and they really
weren't allowed

to do many of the things
that teenagers growing up
were allowed to do.

They weren't allowed
to drink soda,

they weren't allowed
to have junk food.

And most importantly,
they weren't allowed
to date boys

or even really consider
dating boys.

Sandy absolutely loved her mom
and had a great relationship.

The big problem
that she shared with me
many times was about her dad,

that he was an alcoholic.

And, you know,
it ripped out her heart

that this was part of her life
that she grew up with.

The twins attended
a Catholic high school

and then went on
to the College of St. Francis

and from there,

Sandy moved on
to the University
of Las Vegas.

And her age
might have been 19,

but she was very intelligent,
very smart, very wise,
very shrewd.

She was very, very driven
as far as getting her degree
at UNLV

because she wanted to work
in the business arena.

In 1997,
I dated Sandy Bentley.

I'm a championship
tennis player,

so I was on the court

and Sandy Bentley
is sitting in the benches
right by center court.

And I looked over
several times during the match
and I thought,

"Oh, my God, she's taken
my breath away."

She was from Joliet
and she told me that
right away.

She told me about
her identical twin Mandy.

They were so striking
and gorgeous and beautiful

that even though
they weren't celebrities,

when people saw them,
they craned their heads.

The guys, they craned
their heads to see the twins.

So I said to Sandy,
"Have you ever thought
about modeling?

You're statuesque
and you're beautiful."

And she told me
that celebrities,
sport stars, entertainers,

those were
her biggest interests.

Eventually,
Mandy decides to visit
her sister Sandy in Las Vegas,

and the two of them
then decided

that they were
going to take a road trip
to Los Angeles, California,

to the Garden of Eden.

The Garden of Eden
was one of the biggest
night spots at the time.

It was frequented
by many, many celebrities

and it was really the place
that you wanted to be
if you wanted to be seen.

All the celebrities,
the beautiful people,
would go.

It was really almost mythical.

Hef used to go there
and that's where he first met
the Bentley twins.

In 1998,
when Hef saw the twins
from across the bar,

he was just completely struck
with their beauty,

he really wanted
to get to know them better.

For somebody
in their 70s,

I would say Hef
came across much younger,

you don't see a lot
of 70-somethings
out at the night clubs

dancing and meeting
new people.

Hef starts to invite them
to some of the parties
at the Playboy Mansion.

The very first party I went to
at the Playboy Mansion
was in August 2000.

It was a Midsummer Night's
Dream Party

and Hef was still dating
the Bentley twins at the time
and I remember seeing them

and just thinking they were
the best-looking women
I'd ever seen.

They were really tall, thin,
gorgeous, had perfect hair,
had the prettiest costumes.

I was just in awe,
I thought they were
so beautiful.

To walk into
your first Mansion party,

even though there's
so many beautiful women,

you definitely feel
on display,

the center of attention.

It was the biggest,
most elaborate party
I'd ever seen.

There were
celebrities everywhere.

In LA, it was the place to be
at the time.

Everybody wanted
to get a chance to go.

After the twins got to
experience a taste of this
completely different lifestyle

than the one
that they grew up with,
they started to think,

"We could really
get used to this."

In 1998, both of them
moved into the mansion

and officially became
Hef's girlfriends.

My relationship ended
with Sandy before she was
at the Playboy Mansion.

But knowing Sandy
when she has an invitation
from Hugh Hefner,

who's one
of the most famous people
in the entire world,

it's a no-brainer decision
that this young girl
from Joliet

is gonna live
at the Playboy Mansion
with Hugh Hefner.

I have no doubt
that Sandy as well as Mandy
made that decision instantly.

Sandy and Mandy
were really young,
22 years old.

Mandy was
a little more reserved

and Sandy was more confident,
assertive, business-like.

She knew how
to put herself together

and just had
a really bright future
ahead of her.

These are my girlfriend.

-Every one of them
is your girlfriend?
-Yes.

It was definitely
a strange gimmick

to be dating two twin sisters
at the same time.

I don't know how seriously
people took that,

but it
was definitely controversial,

it was definitely something
that got a lot of attention.

You must feel so special.

We all have
a great time together.

-We're all best friends.
-Yes.

Early 2000s was kind
of pop-misogynistic.

This is the height
of the Howard Stern
shock jock era.

You had all these shows
like The Man Show
and things like that.

And you know,
Hef's response to that was,

"Look at me,
I'm dating three women
all at once.

Two of them
are identical twins,"

and that got him
a lot of publicity.

My name is Stacy Burke
and I was one of Hugh Hefner's
seven girlfriends.

During the 2000 era.

The Bentley twins were before
the seven-girlfriend thing.

This started it.

He was with them.
With Sandy, Mandy,
and Brande Roderick,

who was a Playmate
and Hugh Hefner's
main girlfriend

during the Bentley twin era.

Hi, I'm Mandy Bentley.

I'm Sandy Bentley.

I'm Hef Bentley.

And I'm Brande Roderick.

Living at the mansion
as one of Hef's girlfriends,

you get to order
whatever you wanna eat
at any time of the day,

you're living
on this gorgeous property.

But there's
also restrictions, too.

There's a curfew,
you're not supposed
to date anybody else,

you're not really
being allowed to do
your own thing necessarily.

When it came
to what Hugh Hefner
expected of his girlfriends,

he had a lot of demands.

He wanted all of his girls
to always be ready
in full hair and makeup.

The Bentley twins
got the $1,000 a week

plus when you go out
for special events,

Hef has an allowance
for outfits, 'cause he knows
you have to get dressed up.

We have to have the shoes,
you gotta have the hair,
you gotta have makeup.

Basically everything
is taken care of for you
and extra.

If you wanted a boob job,
you wanted a nose job.

Anything you wanted
was taken care of for you.

He ended up
putting the Bentley twins
on the cover

in the May 2000 issue
of Playboy.

Playmates are reserved
for up-and-comers.

Playboy wants to be,
"This is who we discovered."

They're kind of like
the debutante ball.

The twins' pictorial
was really stunning.

They were on these
orange-colored satin sheets,

they were wearing pajamas
that were supposed to look
like Hef's pajamas.

Like, one of them had the top,
one of them had the bottom.

And it showed them
in the limo,

it was supposed to give you
kind of a feel for,

"What would your night
look like if you were dating
these women?"

Like if you were Hef
and you were dating
these women.

To be Hef's girlfriend,
basically, whatever's Hef's
schedule is your schedule.

You're part of him,
you're his shadow,
you're his arm candy.

You're expected
to look a certain way.

When you're asked questions
about the relationship,

you're expected to answer
in a way that Hef
would approve of

and in a way that's
only flattering to him.

So you definitely
have to keep an eye
on everything you're doing.

Even though Hef dates
multiple women at once,

all of his girlfriends
were expected to be
completely faithful to him.

Not only was it
a personal thing,

but the concept of fidelity
was really tied up
into his public image as well.

If you were
seeing someone on the side,

it's not good for his image
because that's his image,

having these girlfriends
at his side, being loyal.

There was a definitely
a streak of possessiveness.

The other side
of moving into the mansion

is it's a world
of other things
you don't think about,

like private investigators,
curfews,

you're being watched
all the time whether
you realize it or not.

Sandy was driven
like a magnet to men
who had power.

She absolutely was attracted
to men with power.

There's not even
a question about it.

I think one
of the worst things you can do

in a relationship
with Hef from his standpoint
is be seen with another man.

And Sandy knew
what the redline rules were.

A lot of men, whether it was
rock stars in the '80s,

or young Wall Street guys
in the 2000s, like,

they would look
at Playboy Magazine

and pick people out
and be like,
"I wanna meet her."

And if a woman wanted to meet
a successful man,

posing in Playboy
could definitely be an avenue

to meeting those kind of men,
for sure.

In the summer of 1999,
in Las Vegas,

Sandy Bentley
met Mark Yagalla.

Mark was incredibly
successful, was a high roller,

he's buying homes
for $1.2 million,

he's got a fleet of cars,
an oil company, a race horse.

Mark Yagalla was,
in the late '90s...

Best description I could give
of him is an absolute
runaway train.

Mark was and is brilliant.

In high school,
he realized that he could
make money in investing.

When Mark was 20,

he had hundreds
of thousands turning
into millions of dollars.

So, what do you do?
You go to Las Vegas.

And that's what he did.

He really could buy
anything he wanted.

It wasn't just
materialistic things,

it was access
to the upper echelon women.

Shortly after,
Mark and Sandy begin dating

and their relationship
took off like a house on fire.

He flew her by helicopter
to a Bentley dealership

and bought her
a milk and honey Bentley.

The American Express
bill for one month,

it was over a million dollars.

That's how much money
he was spending on Sandy.

Mark was spending
a lot more money on Sandy
than Hef was.

The understanding was it had to be kept quiet.
Sandy was dating Hef.

Mark was never disillusioned

and never thought
that Sandy only liked him
because of who he was.

The largest part, certainly,
was the money that he was
spending on her.

Mark Yagalla
was buying Sandy
a million-dollar house,

he was buying her
all these jewels.

It was a lot,
it was very unusual.

It wasn't your typical
run-of-the-mill,

"Oh, I have
a rich boyfriend" thing.

But also, it's a bad look.
Sandy was cheating
on Hef.

Mark did not care
about Hugh Hefner,

he didn't care about
what Hugh Hefner did,
thought, or said.

All Mark was focused on
and obsessed with
was Sandy Bentley.

All was going well in the Mark
and Sandy relationship

and one night out
in Las Vegas at the Bellagio,

they ran into
a friend of Hef's.

And his eyes almost popped out
of his head

when he looked down
at this short,
well-dressed man,

Mark Yagalla,
arm-in-arm with Sandy.

There were some
photos taken

which Sandy got
very upset about

because she couldn't afford
to have Hugh Hefner
seeing those photos.

Even after I moved in,
I saw women get kicked out

and not let back
in the mansion.

All their stuff was packed up
and put out the back gate

because they were caught out
with another man.

Hef, when he found out,
was very, not only hurt,

but pissed off, angry.

In the fall of 2000,

Sandy and Mandy Bentley
ended their relationship
with Hef

and moved out
of the Playboy Mansion.

After
Mark and Sandy's relationship
was out in the open,

Mark had the opportunity
to have Sandy all to himself.

She was amassing this
beautiful jewelry collection

of necklaces
and rings and earrings.

She even had a replica
of the necklace

from the movie Pretty Woman
that was worth $250,000.

And, for all intents
and purposes,

living with Mark Yagalla
in Vegas.

In the summer of 2000,

Mark was respected
by people in not just
the financial world

but he was respected
by celebrities just by virtue
of who he was hanging out with

and who was on his arm.

Mark perfected this facade.

But Mark's business became
your classic Ponzi scheme.

The bulk of it was going
to fund his lifestyle.

In October 2000,

that's when Mark
ran out of money

and it all became very clear
it was a slam-dunk case.

And so the cops arrested him
in his yellow Corvette

and he was arraigned
on federal securities
fraud charges.

Mark Yagalla is sentenced

to more than five years
in prison

and he also has to pay
$30 million back
to his investors.

To the surprise
of no one,

as soon as Mark gets arrested,
Sandy drops him
like a hot potato.

After everything ended
with Playboy
and with Mark Yagalla,

Sandy started
spending more time

with a man
named Michael Tardio.

Michael Tardio
was 35 years old,

was a father of two,
and was separated
from his wife.

He raced motorcycles,
he was part of the scene
there in LA.

Michael Tardio
recently moved to Los Angeles
from New York

and he was working there
as a part-time model

as well as being doorman
at the Garden of Eden club
where he met Sandy Bentley.

Somehow they hit it off.

So Sandy and Michael
kind of hook up.

Sandy and Michael
seemed to have
a genuine connection,

they were similar in age,
they had shared interests,

nobody could point to this
and say it was
a transactional relationship.

Sandy
is still living in Las Vegas,

but Mark Yagalla's
been arrested.

He's in a prison
down in Florida,

and Sandy's back
with Michael Tardio.

Sandy was trying
to put everything
with Mark Yagalla behind her,

but the SEC wasn't finished
with her yet.

When in the effort
to recoup some of the money

that Mark had stolen
from his investors,

the SEC starts tracking
where this money's gone.

Every single thing
that Mark bought
for Sandy Bentley

was with OPM,
Other people's money.

Sandy didn't know
that Mark was stealing
this money to buy her things.

In total,
it was estimated

that Mark had spent
about $7 million on Sandy.

Once it was discovered
that much of this money

was actually spent
on Sandy and her home,
and her vehicles,

her expensive furs
and her jewelry,

Sandy was actually
ordered to give
all of that stuff back.

We settled with her,
she agreed to give back
all the ill-gotten gains.

We went out to Vegas
to retrieve these assets,

per an agreement
with Sandy and her counsel.

When we got there
and she wasn't there,

obviously that was
not a good sign.

The safe was locked,
so we had to bring in
a locksmith.

As soon as the SEC
was able to gain entry
and access to the home

and do an inventory
of all the assets,

they realized there is no way

Sandy didn't abscond
with at least some
or all of this jewelry.

Through counsel,

Sandy claimed
that some of the jewelry
that Yagalla had given her

was stolen well before
Mark was arrested.

That was her story
and she was sticking to it.

And we weren't really
in much of a position
to find otherwise.

Um, but we kept looking,
we kept digging

and trying to connect Sandy
and the stolen jewelry.

And we were getting
a lot of pressure
from the SEC

because these folks
lost a lot of money.

In 2001,
after confronting Sandy
about the stolen jewelry,

the SEC is at a dead end.

Sandy is living her life in LA

and they cannot prove
that Sandy has committed
a crime,

so the case goes cold.

In 2002,
the detective at LAPD
reached out to me

'cause he was dealing
significantly with
Sandy Bentley.

That's when
we first learned
about the murders.

When I heard
a Playboy Playmate
was involved in this,

it didn't strike me
as anything unusual
at the time.

I didn't learn
until later how deep
that involvement went.

My name's Tim Shaw.

I worked for LAPD
for approximately 34 years.

This murder case
was very unique
and very different

than any case I'd ever worked.

This was a very layered case

with many factors
and many players
in this investigation.

I remember arriving
to the scene at about 3:40
in the morning.

I remember the scene
being very, very dark.

A black Mercedes SUV
in a well-to-do neighborhood

was found completely engulfed
in flames.

There were two bodies
in the passenger seat
of this Mercedes SUV.

The coroner gets there

and at that point
they discovered
the cause of death.

Both victims
had gunshot wounds
to the back of the head.

The whole thing may have been
set up by thugs

because coroner's office
determined that whoever
the shooter was,

he was sitting
in the back seat
with the victims.

And then set the car on fire.

The victims were removed
from the vehicle at the scene.

North Hollywood
homicide detectives
start their investigation

trying to find out
who these two people are
and why they ended up dead.

The two victims
were Chris Monson

and Sandy Bentley's boyfriend
Michael Tardio.

Michael Tardio
and Chris Monson
were best friends.

They raced
motorcycles together,

they were two well-off men
in their 30s

that seemed to be
living respectable lives,

they were close
to their families.

So the cops were trying
to figure out who would want
these guys dead.

We ran
the license plate number
for the black Mercedes SUV.

The vehicle was registered
to a rental car company.

We sent detectives
to get information
on who had rented the vehicle.

It was a repeat customer,
Michael Tardio,

who had rented
this Mercedes-Benz
a couple of days earlier.

Michael Tardio, we learned,
was the doorman

at a popular
Hollywood night club,
the Garden of Eden.

Investigators go over
to the Garden of Eden
night club to ask questions.

While investigators
were interviewing people,

famous Playboy Playmate
Sandy Bentley showed up.

Sandy identified herself as
Michael Tardio's girlfriend.

Sandy's really worried.

She had made
20 something calls
to Michael that morning.

She hasn't heard from him.

But it wasn't until
she ran into the homicide
detectives at Garden of Eden

that she found out
about Michael Tardio
and Chris Monson being killed.

I first heard
about the murders

from one of Hef's friends
at the dinner table one night

before Hef came downstairs.

I was like, "What now?"

I never heard Hef
say a word about it,

if any investigator
ever spoke to him about it,
I don't know.

This was two years
after Sandy and Mandy
had left the mansion.

I just know
that Hef would have wanted
to keep himself and Playboy

as far from the story
as possible.

They ask her,
"When's the last time
you saw them?"

Sandy says that she had seen
them the night before

and that Michael
had actually gone

somewhere in Hollywood
with Chris Monson.

Sandy says Michael told her,
"Hey, if something happens,
call this number."

This is the guy
Michael Jacobs.

And that was all she knew.
She didn't know why
they ended up dead.

When she told them
Michael Jacobs,

the detectives take that name,
go back to the station,
run up to do a check on him.

On September 27, 2002,
we obtain Michael Jacobs'
cell phone records.

The cell phone
records indicated

that Michael Jacobs
was in contact,

the night of the murder,
with Michael Tardio.

We find Michael Jacobs
at his residence,
and his girlfriend.

And Michael Jacobs voluntarily
went back to the station

and was interviewed
by detectives

while I stayed at his house
along with other detectives

and interviewed
his girlfriend.

When the detectives talked
to Michael Jacobs, he did say,

"Oh, yeah,
I knew Michael Tardio
and Chris Monson,

but I don't know
what happened to them.
I was with my girlfriend."

So the murder occurs
in North Hollywood

which is on the east side
of the valley,

Michael lives over
in Woodland Hills.

Michael Jacobs says,
"I wasn't there."

Well, why is your cell phone
pinging off the tower

that's right next to where
the murder happened?

His answer to that,
"The telephone
company's wrong."

But the phone stuff
was so new at the time

that detectives could not
hold Michael Jacobs,
they had to release him,

but they put surveillance
on him.

Then once again,
North Hollywood detectives

go down to the Garden of Eden
in Hollywood.

On September 23,
we interviewed one
of Michael Tardio's coworkers

who said that in early 2001,
Monson and Tardio
had driven to Las Vegas

and collected jewelry and furs
worth approximately $500,000

from Sandra Bentley's house

and drove back to Los Angeles
in an Escalade.

This was the first time
I'd heard of the jewels
and furs.

Previously,
Sandy had claimed

that the jewelry that Yagalla
had given her was stolen.

But once Tardio and Monson
were found killed,

that explanation
no longer made sense.

At this point
in the investigation,

it became very clear
that Sandra Bentley

is not being forthright
and honest with us.

So we started an investigation
into Sandra Bentley.

When we
first got the case,

the investigation
at that point had shown

that jewelry was missing
from the house in Las Vegas

where Sandy lived
with Mark Yagalla back in 2001

and that Michael Tardio
and Chris Monson

may have had that jewelry
in Los Angeles.

Before she left
Las Vegas,

Sandra Bentley
had given testimony to the SEC

that she didn't know anything
about the jewelry

and now it's becoming clear
that that jewelry was in fact

in possession
of Michael Tardio
and Christopher Monson.

We knew that Sandy
was the most important person
that we needed to speak to.

Sandy's residence
was in West Los Angeles.

A nice house,
really nice neighborhood.

My partner and I went out
to talk to Sandy
and she invited us in,

she's all dressed up
really nice,

but we sit down
and talk to her,

we knew
that she was holding back.

It must have been
really jarring

to go from living
at the mansion for two years

where you're very controlled
and sheltered

to living the high life
with Mark Yagalla

and then the next thing
you know,

you're in the middle
of this big case

and maybe you don't have,
like, the resources
or the people to talk to.

And all of a sudden,
you know, you feel like
you're in big trouble

and don't know
what to do next.

She denied anything
about the jewelry.

She doesn't know anything
about why Michael
and Chris were killed.

I mean, she was
just stonewalling us.

I personally thought

there was so much jewelry
stolen from the house
in Las Vegas.

She still had to have some
in her house in Los Angeles.

I just remember
when I left there,
telling her that,

"When you see me again,
you may not like it."

One of Detective Cox's
first moves was to execute
a search warrant

on Sandy's property.

We went to her house
early in the morning.

I was there,
the district attorney
had come with us,

which they usually don't.

FBI had come with us,
and the IRS.

A search warrant
was also served
on Sandy's sister, Mandy,

on the same day, because one,
they're twin sisters,

they stayed with Hef together
at the same time
at the mansion.

We know that Sandy and Mandy
were close,

that they lived
close together.

Maybe Mandy is holding
some of the jewelry.

Evidence is really
what we're looking for.

The federal agents
came and searched
the twins' houses

which must have been
absolutely terrifying.

It became clear
that Mandy didn't know,
really, anything.

So we released Mandy,
but in Sandy's house,
we found evidence.

A Louis Vuitton bag.

Sandy became
my best friend that day

because murder
is much more important
than tax evasion.

So, we played
the good guy and said,

"You know, we can take care
of your IRS problem
if you play with us."

After that, Sandy told us
the whole story.

In her confession,
Sandy admits to the police

that she and Michael Tardio
did steal the jewels
from her old residence.

But she says this all spawned
because of the financial
hardship that she was facing

in the wake of the end
of her relationship

with Playboy
and with Mark Yagalla
back in 2001.

Sandy's really upset
about losing this money,

losing her home,

and she speaks
to her boyfriend,
Michael Tardio.

She calls him
crying one night
from Las Vegas,

saying, "I have to leave,
they're kicking me out
in the morning

and I will have nothing.

No money, no house to live in,
no cars, nothing."

They come up with the idea
to steal some of those jewels
and furs.

Michael and Chris
drive to Las Vegas.

Chris stays in the car,
Michael jumps the fence
in the back,

goes inside the house.

He sees the jewelry
that Sandy has there
and he goes,

"Oh, no, that's not enough.

We need more."

He takes the jewelry,
Sandy also had four furs
that were made for her.

Her name was embroidered
on the inside of the coats.

They took that,
they took some
Louis Vuitton bags,

but the big thing
was the jewelry and the furs.

Sandy and Michael
were putting it in bags

which they were
then throwing over the fence
into the neighbor's yard

where Chris Monson
was waiting to collect
these items.

Sandy and Michael
put all the stuff in the car
and they drive back to LA.

When that relationship
with Mark Yagalla ended,

Sandy needed money
and so did Michael Tardio,

and they thought they were
gonna pretty quickly be able
to sell that jewelry.

But the idea of, "Let's sell
this stolen jewelry"
is a dangerous game.

Michael took it
to a jeweler there
in Beverly Hills.

He laid out all this jewelry,

he gave a story like
somebody had died
and left this jewelry.

The potential buyer
ended up backing out

after she started to think
that this deal just looked
too good to be true.

After a year,

Sandy and Michael
were still holding on
to the jewelry.

Michael had been going
to the Garden of Eden

and looking for somebody
to potentially buy
these jewels

or put them in contact
with somebody who can help.

Through these conversations,

Michael Jacobs
and Michael Tardio

became acquainted
with each other.

Michael Jacobs
tells Tardio,

"I got a buyer,
I can set you up
with the buyer."

Sandy told Detective Cox
that this person was somebody

that was only going
by the name of Mr. Big.

When Michael Tardio
knew he was going to go
meet a buyer for his jewelry,

he rented the Mercedes
and he wanted someone

that he knew
could cover his back in case
something happened.

So Chris, just being
the good friend he is,
said he would go with him.

Sandy says on that day,
Michael had gone out
to get a money counter.

That's how naive he was.

He thinks he's gonna collect,
I don't know, maybe a quarter
of a million dollars

and Mr. Big is gonna
give him a quarter million
dollars in cash.

He even took
counterfeit markers
to check the bills.

He had all
the jewelry cleaned,

he had all the furs cleaned,
he picked it all up,

he had it all
in the rented Mercedes.

He has Chris
in the car with him,
it was like 9:00 at night.

They go over to Sandy's house
and they tell Sandy,
"Okay, we're gonna go."

And they would make
contact with each other
through the telephone.

The last contact Sandy
had with them

was they were driving through
the Mount Olympus area
in the Hollywood Hills.

Michael tells her
that they are getting ready

to go meet up
with this buyer, Mr. Big.

And that was the last
she ever heard from him.

Sandy said, "You know,
I never even thought
about them being killed.

That was the last thing
that I ever thought of."

With jewelry,
there's a concrete lead
for police,

because you would think
that the killer is trying
to sell these jewels somehow.

If the police
can find the jewels,

they might be able
to find the killer.

I found out from Sandy

where Michael Tardio
had the jewelry appraised
back in early 2001,

so we went
to the jewelry store
which was in Beverly Hills.

A woman at the jewelry store
told us about how she had seen

Michael Tardio's
appraisal slip.

She wasn't involved
in that jewelry stuff,
but she had seen it.

Then a month or so later,
after Michael and Chris
were killed,

she was working
when this man comes in.

The man shows
an appraisal slip
to the man behind the counter

who doesn't know
anything about it.

But the girl had seen it.

She recognized it
as the same appraisal

that Michael Tardio
had brought in
just the month before.

Now Michael's dead,

who is this guy
who's coming in
a month after Michael

with the same appraisal slip?

If Sandy would have been
more cooperative

at the beginning,

had been more upfront
and honest with us,

we probably would have
gotten things done quicker.

They still have
Michael Jacobs on their radar,

maybe they can find some way
to tie him to these murders.

They get him,

they take him to the station
and they start
questioning him.

Now as a detective,
you're counting on him
giving you something.

Maybe when you talk to him,
he may think, "Oh, you know,
the gig is up, I gotta talk."

And Michael Jacobs
was a complete wreck

because he knew that we were
continually doing this case.

So he knew
it wasn't going away.

According to Michael Jacobs,

he was just going out
to connect Michael Tardio
and Mr. Big.

On the night
that this all happened,
they're in Hollywood,

they're both parked there
on the side street waiting
for Mr. Big.

So when he saw
Mr. Big's car come,

he just says adios to Tardio
and Monson and he leaves.

We want to know
who Michael Tardio
was going to meet.

Mr. Big, who is this guy?

And Michael's gonna tell us
'cause we have him,

we have him
right where we want him,
he wanted to tell us.

I think he was kind of tired
at this point

of always thinking
he was being followed

or the case was still
being investigated.

He took us right to the point
where it looked like he was
gonna tell us something,

but Michael Jacobs
feared someone else
more than he did the police.

He let us down
by not saying anything.

And so we had to release him.

We never were able to find out
who the man was that came in
to try to sell this jewelry.

With so many loose ends,

police are now forced
to put together

the last moments
of Chris Monson

and Michael Tardio
as best as they can.

I personally think
that whenever
Michael and Chris

are driving up
through the hills

and they last had
contact with Sandy,
shortly after that,

they made a stop
and this is where they think
they're gonna make the deal.

They let somebody
in the back seat

who they think is gonna
pay them the money

or look at the goods
or whatever it is,

but that's not what happens.

I mean, the thing
with Michael and Chris,
they had no street smarts.

They had no street smarts,
and when you get yourself
involved in that,

you're gonna get hurt.

We have no idea who Mr. Big is
still to this day.

Even Michael Jacobs says,
"I don't know who Mr. Big is."

And Sandy didn't know.
It's a cold case.

This case
has never been solved.

You would think
that the paper trail

would have given
somebody away.

You would have thought
that somebody trying
to recover these jewels,

that would have
come out somehow

and it's surprising to me
that whoever did this
got away with it.

It would be different
if it happened now,
but back in 2002, no.

The jewelry
may have been melted down
and broken apart.

There are some pieces
that maybe serialized,

there still may be some hope
for those pieces.

But at this point,

the jewelry's never
been found.

Meanwhile,
Sandy and Mandy Bentley

are doing their best
to stay out of the spotlight.

Sandy has decided
to settle down,
she started a family.

The image the twins had
when they were dating Hef,
they just looked so gorgeous,

and I know Hef spent
a lot more money on them

than he did with
like girlfriends
that came after.

When I moved into the mansion,
things were not as luxurious.

And I think that is because
he felt so burned

by that first relationship
after his marriage

that he was a lot more careful
with his girlfriends
moving forward.

It's sad
when you have
a double homicide,

you have families
that are torn apart.

Their loved ones
that they'll never
get to see again

and their special occasions
throughout life that they'll
never be a part of.

So it's still frustrating

that that closure wasn't
provided to the families.

While this case has been
considered a cold case

for quite some time,

investigators actually
did decide to recently reopen
the investigation

into the deaths
of Chris Monson
and Michael Tardio.

I know someone
that's working
on that cold case team.

I think that if anybody
can help solve it,

then she will do
whatever she can, so...

I'm hoping.

The Playboy mansion is
very mysterious.

You're being watched all
the time

whether you realize it or not.

If you get the wrong set
of eyes on you,

it could lead to something
really awful.

I called it the Playboy curse,

because once you were associated
with that world

things went horribly wrong.

When Hugh Hefner has
a master plan for you,

you do what
he tells you to do.

A beautiful woman.
A murder of another woman.

She was accused of something
that she said she didn't do.

She was supposed to be
at Sharon Tate's home.

The people who murdered her
friends were out to get her.

When a girl does Playboy

you never know who you are
surrounded by.

It's one of the most
heinous cases I've ever worked.

This is an animal out there
that did this.

Sadomasochism,
choking, bondage, snuff films.

It's a really sick thing.

We find a female subject
lying in the bathroom

clearly had been shot.

Her tremendous success
only got them in trouble.

There is a fantasy
of being in Playboy

and then there is the reality.