All language subtitles for Lone.Star.Justice.S01E06.Long.Arm.of.the.Law.WEBRip.x264-CAFFEiNE

♪

Narrator: A summer vacation
to east texas turns deadly.

Barr: It was so senseless,
and these --

And these people were just so...

[ kick lands ]
[ grunts ]

[ sniffles ]
possessed by the devil.

Narrator: But there is more to
this murder than meets the eye.

Evil spirit.

A devil.
[ camera shutter clicking ]

A tormenter from hell.

That name sent shivers
down my spine.

Narrator: A ring of killers
is on the loose.

Man: He's not here!

She was one of the wiliest
suspects I've ever seen.

It's up to smith county's
top detectives

To chase down justice

Before another life is lost.

Man: Get on the floor!
Get on the floor!

Apparently, they haven't heard
about the long arm of the law.

♪

[ shouts indistinctly ]

♪

Smith: East texas --

It's a beautiful place,

But it's also home to madness,
mayhem, and murder.

For over three decades
as sheriff,

I put together one of the best
detective teams

In the state of texas.

Together, pam, joe,
and I made it known --

You do wrong in smith county,

We're coming after you.

-- Captions by vitac --
www.Vitac.Com

Captions paid for by
discovery communications

♪

Narrator:
When summer comes to east texas,

The woods around smith county
are dark, still,

But not entirely quiet.

There's a couple of things
that old-time law enforcement

Look at.

Crime seems to rise

During a full moon.

In the summertime,
a full moon

And the heat

Contributes to a lot more crime.

♪

[ siren wailing ]

Narrator: The caller
is 19-year-old aaron warren,

And his alarming story gets
smith county deputy sean parrish

Dispatched to the scene.

I met him there
at the intersection.

He was down there at 281369,
just standing.

The locals called it
"werewolf lane."

It was pretty rural.

There was a cemetery
further down on the left.

♪

Okay, son, I'm gonna need you
to put your hands up

Right where I can see them.

Got anything on you?

I was extremely lucky that

I just happened to be
2 miles away.

What's your name?

Aaron warren.

Alright, aaron,
tell me what happened.

Some guys robbed us,

And now I can't find adam.

-Who's adam?
-My friend.

Parrish: I didn't know
what we had at the time,

So my main concern right then
was trying to find his friend.

I didn't know if we had
an abduction,

If his friend was injured
and needed medical attention.

You know, there was just
too many unknowns.

♪

This your vehicle?
-No, no.

It's, um,
it's adam's mom's.

♪

It was facing west.

And both tires
on the driver's side were flat.

It had been disabled to where
it couldn't be driven.

Narrator: As deputy parrish
takes in the peculiar scene,

An uneasy feeling sets in.

I said, "well, could adam be
in the trunk of your car?"

He says, "I'm not sure."

♪

♪

And there wasn't anybody in it.

I started scanning both sides of
the roadway with my flashlight.

Hey, aaron.
[ police radio chatter ]

I'm-a need you to just stay
right here for me, all right?

And I discovered these two marks
in the dirt,

Like someone's heels
had been drug through the dirt.

I intensified my search
in that particular area.

♪

♪

I discovered a young white male,

Approximately
18 to 20 years of age,

Laying on the ground.

He was lifeless.

I put my hand on his back just
to check if he was breathing.

He was not breathing.

Narrator:
Hidden 50 feet off the road

Is 18-year-old adam carrier's
murdered body.

Parrish: This is unit 7753
calling in a 10-55...

[ police radio chatter ]

Narrator: Werewolf lane
sits right on

The smith county/tyler city
line.

This brings investigators from
both jurisdictions to the scene.

-Detective rasco?
-Yes.

-Inspector thomas.
-Sean.

There's a lot going on here.
Just...Just watch your step.

[ police radio chatter ]

He's right over here.

Narrator: Smith county detective
joe rasco is no stranger

To working with other agencies.

We have an exceptional
relationship here in tyler

Between the law enforcement
agencies.

Not all cities enjoy that.

The day of the lone ranger
is over with.

It's all about the camaraderie.

Whoa, that's brutal.

He had blunt force trauma

And several knife wounds
to the chest.

He was beaten.

His clothes were really bloody.

[ camera shutter clicking ]

His shoes were no longer
on his feet,

And he was just
left there in the woods.

[ camera shutter clicks ]

Got a knife handle over here,

Probably from the murder weapon.

Got a lot
of defensive wounds.

He didn't go quiet.

Good for you, buddy.

♪

We're gonna need to
bring the friend over here

To make a positive I.D.

[ siren wailing ]

[ gasps, sniffles ]

[ camera shutter clicks ]

Narrator: Aaron tells detectives
that he and adam

Are from
johnson city, tennessee.

This was their last day
of a 2-week trip to texas.

Aaron had come to tyler
on vacation with adam's family.

They were staying at a resort
at a lake nearby.

Rasco:
They were at lake palestine,

Just in the southern part
of smith county.

They were swimming, drinking,
and listening to music.

They'd been out there
all afternoon and evening.

♪

Narrator: When aaron gets into
the story

Of them leaving the lake,
something sounds strange.

What were you doing out
on this road?

Driving!
We were driving around.

-Just driving around?
-[ sniffles ] yeah.

♪

He said that him and his buddy
had been flagged down

By some vehicle behind them.

They flashed their headlights
to get 'em to pull over.

And then he said, "we got out
and we talked to 'em.

And then he just said,
"they started beating us up."

♪

Thomas: You could tell he was
being untruthful

About certain things
that had occurred.

Come on.

♪

Narrator:
Why would aaron be untruthful?

What is there for him to hide?

The one person in town
who might know

Is their chaperone for the trip,
adam's mother.

But first, detectives must
deliver her the dreaded news.

One of the detectives said,
"I don't know any other way

To tell you, jackie,
except adam's dead."

And I -- you know,
it's like, "what?"

And he said,

"I'm sorry, but adam's gone."

And he had just graduated
high school in may,

And this happened
on the first day of July.

And he had never disrespected me
his whole life.

He'd never raised his voice.

Just an all-around good kid,
you know?

♪

Narrator:
Jackie thinks just as highly

Of her son's best friend, aaron,
and can't fathom a reason

Why he wouldn't be
telling detectives the truth.

As far as we knew,
aaron was the last person

To have contact with the victim.

Narrator: But then, a second
911 call changes everything.

Usually, we're the ones
making the phone calls,

Looking for the suspects...
[ sirens wailing ]

Not the other way around.

This is someone that's saying
they know someone

Who committed this crime.

It could be nothing,
but what if it's everything?

♪

[ kicks landing ]
[ grunts ] ow! Aah!

♪

♪

Smith: When someone dies
in smith county,

Whether they're
a local citizen or not,

We treat 'em all
with the same priority.

But in the adam carrier's case,

It's pretty obvious his friend
aaron was lying about something.

Does that make him a suspect?

You bet it does.

Narrator: But just as
detective joe rasco's

About to put the screws
to aaron warren,

A new suspect
unexpectedly appears.

[ line rings ]

♪

Narrator: Tyler police
ask the tipster,

23-year-old michael thompson,
to come to the station.

There, he's questioned
by detective wayne thomas.

♪

Do you know where
we can get some weed?

Uh, yeah. Sure.

I got a guy who sells
up on the county line.

We take you.

You'll need at least one of us
to vouch for you, anyways.

We'll all go.
I roll the best joints around.

-Cool.
-Cool.

Yeah, we're in.

Narrator: Although michael's
story differs from aaron's,

The more he speaks,

The clearer it is they're
discussing the same case.

♪

Narrator: When the group
reached the road

Locals call "werewolf lane,"

Michael claims
they split into two.

He and an accomplice take
aaron warren

To another location,

Leaving adam carrier
behind with his friends.

So are we all gonna fit
in your car?

Actually, I don't think I should
bring everybody with me.

-No worries.
-All right, bro.

♪

Narrator:
Michael's vague about

How aaron ended up bruised,
penniless,

And abandoned in the woods,

But he does fill in some blanks
about adam's murder.

♪

Narrator: Claiming he had
nothing to do with the murder,

Michael thompson points
the finger

At his two associates --

Susana arroyo
and hersain "devil" gomez.

We knew aaron was lying.

Could he be hiding
something else?

That's what we need to find out.

Aaron, you're starting
to concern me.

We just got a call.

And now, I got a suspect that
says he and his friends met you

And adam earlier at the lake.

That ring a bell?

Those guys we were hanging
with at the lake, um,

They're the ones
that did this.

We were just, um,
hoping to score some pot.

Narrator: Given a second chance
to tell the truth,

Aaron confirms
michael thompson's story.

Everything seemed okay
until the group separated

Aaron and adam.

Hey, um...
[ chuckles nervously ]

Are you guys sure
this is the place?

That's when they started,
um, beating me up.

[ kicks landing ]
[ grunts ]

And then they grabbed my wallet
and ran off.

Oh! Ow!

And when I got up, I made
my way back to adam's car,

And they were all gone.
[ inhales sharply ]

So was adam.

♪

Rasco:
Aaron's not lying anymore.

He was protecting his friends.

They were good kids.

They're just naive.

And now, we have a murder
to solve because of it.

Based on the two witnesses,

Detectives develop
a working theory

Of what transpired that night.

The two victims
were from out of town.

They seemed to be easy targets.

♪

Narrator:
And after separating the friends

Under the pretense
of buying drugs,

Gomez's robbery plan
goes into motion.

No worries.

All right, bro.

At the other location where
they had parked

Adam's mother's car...

♪

Man: They're not here.

[ squish, air hissing ]

...The plan was
to puncture his tires.

-Hey, bro.
-What's up?

Think you ran over
something.

Susana: Damn.
That is one flat tire.

Aw, man.

Adam got out of his vehicle and
went to the trunk of the car.

He got a jack and a tire iron
out to change the deflated tire.

He started to take the tire off.

And at that time,
gomez came up behind him

And hit him over the head
with the spare tire.

♪

-Aah!
-Uhh!

[ adam grunting ]

-Hey, dude! What the hell?!
-Shut up!

Back off!

And the fight was on.

I think the surprise came when
adam carrier fought back.

Adam fighting back,
I think it enraged the suspects.

Adam was getting
the best of hersain gomez.

And at that point,
susana arroyo began assaulting

Adam carrier
with a tire tool.

[ thud ]
adam: Aah! [ gasps ]

Eventually, they knocked him
semi-conscious.

♪

Hersain "devil" gomez

Proceeded to stab adam
in the chest with a knife.

♪

The devil is an evil spirit,
a tormenter from hell.

♪

Grab his arm.

And they drug him
back into the woods.

It became clear who the two
main instigators were --

Hersain and susana,
gomez especially.

He's the one that introduced
the idea of killing adam.

He's the one
that told the group

That there's not much difference

If you get caught in punishment
for robbery or murder.

So why not just kill him?

It was so senseless,
and these people were just so...

[ sniffles ]
...Possessed by the devil.

♪

[ knock on door ]
hey, sheriff?

Yeah. Come in, joe.

Narrator: By the time
background checks on suspects

Gomez and arroyo return,
there is little surprise.

The two share gang affiliations
and hefty rap sheets.

They got records
that go back years --

Just little stuff at first,
but it's escalating.

Think they may have
graduated to murder?

Don't know,
but sure like to find out.

Trying to find these two
is not gonna be easy.

These suspects know
that we're looking for them,

And they've had hours
to run and hide.

♪

Narrator:
When the morning papers
hit the stand,

Sheriff j.B. Smith's media blitz
is off and running.

You don't just vanish
into thin air.

Somebody knows something.

It's possible that someone
may have seen something.

Narrator: Their instincts are
right on the money.

A man that runs a bus station
here in tyler

Happened to see
one of the newspapers

With a picture
of gomez and arroyo.

And he recognized them.

And so he looked through
his records and recalled

The night of the murder,
that someone had came in

And bought two tickets
to laredo, texas,

In the name
of susana arroyo.

Once he confirmed that,

He contacted
the police department

And he was definitely able
to positively identify them.

Rasco: We know exactly
what time they left.

That bus left at 1:30
in the morning.

It was a very short time frame

From the time
this incident happened

To the time they disappeared.

They're gone.

♪

Connecting the dots,

Detectives speculate the pair
crossed the border into mexico.

Laredo is right there
on the border

Of texas and mexico.

They get off the bus,
and it's a short walk.

The u.S. Marshal service

And the fbi violent crimes
task force in tyler

Start the process

Of trying to find these
two individuals in mexico.

♪

Narrator:
Weeks go by, then months.

Still, "devil" gomez and
susana arroyo remain at large.

Two years pass -- nothing.

And as years go by, these people
were not prosecuted.

It gets frustrating.
It gets exasperating.

It was, um,

A long -- a long, hard road.

A lot of, um...

A lot of real intense moments.

But I made a promise to adam
that night

That I would see it to the end.

As long as I had breath
to breathe,

That I would see that
they were brought to justice

For what they did to him
and what they took from him,

And what they took from me.

♪

Narrator: In 2001,

Detective pam dunklin
joins the homicide squad,

And as soon as she does,

Her new partner enlists her
on the case.

I personally had just about
given up on this

Because of the fact
that they were in mexico,

And I didn't expect them
to be found.

But joe and pam don't give up.

Narrator: Rasco tasks dunklin
with keeping tabs

On the suspects' families
in smith county.

The hope is, her fresh eyes
can pick up a clue.

You're watching
their family members here,

Seeing if there's any contact.

You continue to talk
to witnesses to find out

Maybe where specifically these
individuals can be located.

You just have to be watching
for that one slip-up

That'll turn the whole case
around in your favor.

♪

Narrator:
And it doesn't take long

For that slip-up to take place.
[ siren wailing ]

Rasco: You're working on
a murder case.

And all of a sudden,
out of nowhere,

It dovetails into another.

You can't make this up.

Narrator: The evil connection
between these cases

Is beyond what
anyone could've predicted.

It just goes to show,

You never know where
the road's gonna lead you.

[ gunshots, siren wailing ]

♪

♪

[ gunshots ]
[ women screaming ]

[ siren wailing ]

[ police radio chatter ]

♪

Early on a Sunday morning,
the tyler police department

Received a call
of a possible homicide

There inside the city limits.

Narrator: The scene is just
a mile northeast

Of downtown tyler,

In a thriving
hispanic community.

Thomas: I responded
to that location.

There were bullet holes that
went all through that house.

And there's a lone body
there in the house.

♪

Narrator: The case is inside
tyler p.D.'s jurisdiction,

But they call
in the smith county
sheriff's office

To lend a hand.

♪

This particular incident,
they needed our help.

Tyler p.D. Doesn't have
a blood spatter expert.

We do.

Dunklin:
What've we got?

Well, looks like these fellas
were having a party,

Ended up with a corpse
on the couch.

Rasco:
I'm gonna go check it out.

Narrator: As detective rasco
helps process the scene,

Detective dunklin interviews
possible eyewitnesses.

But she's got her work
cut out for her.

Dunklin: The witnesses there are
spanish-speaking.

There's confusion.
It's very difficult.

So exactly where were you when
you started hearing gunshots?

[ speaking spanish ]

You don't speak any english.

No. Sorry.

They are fearful of you
because they don't know w--

What you're asking them.

Despite the language barrier,
detectives dunklin and thomas

Work to piece together
the events of the night.

So, was the victim
a friend of yours?

He's -- he's a-a friend.

Thomas: They were just
hanging out,

Drinking beer there
at the house.

We -- we have a party

And we -- we drink a lot
and we play.

Narrator:
As the partygoers open up,

They identify the victim
as 31-year-old joel garcia.

He was a mexican citizen,
and he was in texas working.

And he had family in mexico,

And the money that he would
make working here

He would send back
to his family in mexico.

Okay.

The victim was struck
multiple times.

It was pretty much
a bloody mess.

Narrator:
But the harshness of the scene

Does help fill in the blanks
as to how this all happened.

With blood spatter,

There are specific patterns
that we look for.

Well, noel,
what are we looking at?

Hmm. Very strange, joe.

I'd expect to see an empty space
and cast-off blood

Where the shooter
was standing.

But there isn't one.

Bingo.

So where was the shooter?

I had one of the officers
that was probably

One of the best at crime scene
in the state of texas.

The texas rangers, fbi,
secret service --

They've all used noel.

He's one of the best.

This is plum crazy as far as
I'm concerned.

Means that your shooter...

...Is out there.

Outside?

[ camera shutter clicks ]

So the bullets went through
the wall,

Through his body,
and into the other wall.

Worked a lot of murder cases
over the years.

[ camera shutter clicks ]

Never heard of that.

This shooting is a drive-by
without a car.

Those were some strong rounds
that got through those walls.

So this wasn't just
a handgun.

His sense of the weapon
was that it was an ar-15,

And this is
a very powerful rifle.

[ gunshots ]

♪

Narrator: Meanwhile, outside,
dunklin's persistence pays off.

She's found one brave witness
willing to talk.

At some point, the group of
friends ran out of beer

And needed to make a beer run.

Narrator: And that's when

The friendly labor day
celebration

Went south.

-[ woman laughs ]
-[ men speaking spanish ]

When they ran out of beer,
there was a disagreement

On who would leave
and make the beer run.

So a fight broke out between
joel garcia and another man.

The other guy ran outside
to his truck,

Retrieves an ar-15.

He saw joel garcia
run into the house.

[ gunshots ]
he fires several shots

And kills him.

You wanna give me a name?

♪

Sí.

Narrator: The eyewitness
names the shooter --

Saul arroyo.

I said, "joe, you're going
to want to hear this."

Saul arroyo --
we were very familiar with him.

Narrator: They take
their findings to sheriff smith.

There's a suspect,

And he's gonna look
familiar to you.

Narrator: Saul arroyo,
the brother of susana arroyo --

Prime suspect in the murder
of adam carrier.

For two years, susana
and hersain "devil" gomez

Had been two of
smith county's most wanted.

That name sent shivers
down my spine.

Murder was a family affair
for these people.

We just got an address for him
here in tyler.

We're about
to head over there.

All right. Keep me posted.

We got this, boss.

♪

Narrator: 36 hours
after joel garcia's murder,

A task force is dispatched
to saul arroyo's home.

Dunklin joins them on-site.

[ police radio chatter ]

We figured if we find
saul arroyo,

Then we'll probably find
susana arroyo,

And then maybe hersain gomez.

Narrator:
As they pull up to the home,

The idea that true evil
is waiting for them

On the other side of the door
becomes very real.

This is a known criminal
with an assault rifle.

They're walking right into
the lion's den.

Dunklin: This is what
our job's about.

This is what we train for --

Getting the worst of the worst
off the street.

[ door bangs open ]

♪

♪

Dunklin: So here we are.

Joel garcia's been murdered
because saul arroyo

Didn't wanna pay for more beer.

His sister, susana, has been on
the run from us for two years

For the murder of adam carrier.

And law enforcement needs
to act fast.

Saul arroyo has a rifle --

A fact that isn't lost
on anyone.

Narrator: Once the task force
is in position

Outside the arroyo family home,
the order is given to move in.

If we can nab saul, then we've
got one bad guy behind bars,

And that puts us a little closer
to adam's killers.

[ man shouts indistinctly ]

[ door bangs open ]

Man: Get on the floor! Get on
the floor now! Get on the floor!

♪

Man over radio: Negative.
Negative. It's abandoned.

♪

Narrator:
But like his sister susana,

Saul is a step ahead
of detectives.

He blew town quicker than
a jackrabbit on fire.

Saul's gone.
You wanna challenge us, saul?

We'll take that challenge.

We've put together
a task force of some

Of the finest law enforcement
officers in the country.

We're gonna get you.

You better watch your back.

Narrator: Needing a lead,
detectives move in on the family

And apply pressure.

We wanted to talk to the father,

Because he's got
to know something.

And usually, they know more
than they're gonna tell ya.

But unexpectedly,
saul's father is forthcoming.

His father told us his truck
was gone.

His father was surprised.

And he found that his keys
were missing.

It appears saul went
straight from the crime scene

To his daddy's house,

Took his keys,
and took his pickup truck.

Probably within 30 minutes
of when this happened,

He was gone.

Criminals are
creatures of habit.

They will go to family.

Rasco: There was no doubt in
our minds where he was gonna go.

We knew his sister
was in mexico.

We figured that saul arroyo
carried himself to mexico.

[ siren wailing ]

Narrator: The border between
texas and mexico

Is 8 1/2 hours away,
a straight shot down I-35.

But from there, there are dozens
of checkpoints along the border.

We issued a bulletin on that
license plate of that truck,

But there's a massive amount
of people

That pass through that border --
massive amount of people.

Detectives rasco and dunklin
scramble to contact

All state
and border patrol authorities

To try to intercept
saul arroyo at the border.

We've got the best border
network in the world,

But they are looking
for one truck out of thousands.

And once you cross that border,
you're in no-man's land.

With no sign of saul
or the truck at the border,

Detectives fear
they're too late.

But, all hope is not lost.

Him fleeing to mexico
might be to our benefit,

Because if we could catch him,

Maybe we could find
susana and gomez,

'cause they're not
gonna be far apart.

The fbi, u.
S.

Marshall's service --
they have a presence in mexico.

They have communications
inside of mexico

That we don't have,
and they have informants.

In a situation like this,
you've gotta circle the wagons.

And you can bet in this
instance,

We're gonna hitch
our wagon to theirs.

We got the license plate
of the truck saul's driving.

If we can pick him up
on the road,

I bet you he'll lead us
straight to his sister.

I think that's right
on the money.

And in the meantime, our folks
here in tyler and smith county

Will keep our eyes
and ears open.

Right. And if we here anything
on the fugitives' whereabouts,

You're our first call.

Despite the long odds, no one's
giving up on getting justice

For the families of joel
garcia and adam carrier.

I stayed in contact
with adam carrier's mom

And joel garcia's family.

Just tried to keep them updated

And let them know that we were
continuously seeking justice.

I said, "I wanna know
what's going on,

And I wanna know weekly
what's going on."

I believed that if you know
you're right

And you push,
you get more done.

They were very dedicated.

♪

Smith county authorities have
a few tricks up their sleeve.

You can run anywhere you want --

The next county,
the next state, even mexico.

But we're not gonna stop
looking for you.

And the folks back home,

They're gonna tell us if
they hear something.

Narrator:
And when you're dealing

With jailhouse informants,

A little persistence pays off.

♪

♪

Y'all come in.

We had received information
from various people

To the fact of there
were locations

Pinpointed
where they may be.

You've got an address
in mexico.

Yeah.

An informant overheard
the family talking about it --

A small town a few hours
south of the border.

Yep. The marshals are
headed out now

To see if they can
round 'em up.

Hot dang.

Well, keep me posted.

♪

By the time the marshals arrive,

The fugitives have fled
once again.

Dunklin:
It was very frustrating,

But by no means were we
going to give up.

We were going to find
these people

And get justice for the victims
and the families.

Narrator: For three more years,
susana arroyo, saul arroyo,

And "devil" gomez
remain at large.

Authorities in smith county
and mexico

Get no leads
to their whereabouts...

Until the summer of 2004,

When one of the fugitives
slips up.

Homicide, dunklin.

In mexico city.

When?

The fugitives --
they haven't heard

About the long arm of the law,

So they felt like
they were safe in mexico.

But they weren't.

Police in mexico just
picked up one of our guys

In the adam carrier deal.

No, thank you.

All right, bye-bye.

Let's go tell him.

We've located
one of smith county's

Most wanted fugitives.

Hersain gomez --

He had been arrested
for burglary there in mexico.

Now we're on to something.

Authorities in mexico
pressure gomez

To reveal where
the arroyos are hiding.

Narrator: This guy's
way too hardcore for that.

Narrator: The career criminal
doesn't give in so easily.

He's not gonna give
these people up.

Look at what they've done.
Look who they are.

What's he gonna gain
by giving these people up?

Nothing, until we get him
back here.

We want to go get him.

We want to go now.

When are we gonna go get this
guy and bring him home, sheriff?

Well, as much as I want

Gomez back on our turf,
we're gonna have to hold on.

Yeah, we can't risk
spooking the other two.

Yep, and the goal is
all three.

One ain't enough.

If you pounce on him
immediately,

You trigger a chain reaction
to the others in the family.

So what do you do?

You back off and you watch.

Pam, keep an eye
on the family here in town.

Joe, every source you got,
we wanna hear from.

You got it, boss.

This is not over.

I said I wanted all three,

And I'm not gonna back off
of that.

All eyes are you now, arroyos.

The clock's ticking.

♪

♪

Narrator: After years of evading
arrest south of the border,

Suspect hersain "devil" gomez is
finally in police custody.

Catching gomez was huge,
but we still have the arroyos --

Susana and saul.

We need to catch them.

The team we put together is
going to find them,

And I guarantee you
they're running scared.

Narrator: And the smith county
team's efforts

To track down the arroyos
pays off.

♪

Man: Get on the ground!
Get on the ground right now!

Get down! Get on the ground!

Down! Get on the ground!
-Okay, okay, okay!

♪

When saul was found, he was
leaving his house to go to a job

He had gotten there in mexico.

-Where's your sister?
-[ laughs ]

Saul, is your sister
in the house?

Take the house.

♪

[ man shouts indistinctly ]

♪

She's not here!

She fled out a window.

Dunklin: I don't know how she
slipped through their cracks,

But she did.

She was one of the wiliest
suspects I've ever seen.

♪

Two days later in a hotel,
susana arroyo was located.

And they didn't let her
crawl out through

The back window this time.

Her mistake --
she thought we'd give up.

Not going to happen.

The law will eventually
catch up.

And we did.

Susana arroyo, saul arroyo,

Hersain gomez --

The law's got you now.

Narrator: All three suspects

In the murders of joel garcia
and adam carrier

Are returned
to smith county, texas,

To stand trial for murder.

Now we've got our chance
to put 'em in

One of smith county's jail cells

Along with the other dirt bags,
right where they belong.

Narrator:
To help make that happen,

Additional witnesses, now free
from fear, start coming forward,

Including gomez's brother,
benito.

♪

Narrator:
On may 17, 2005,

Hersain "devil" gomez
pleads guilty

To the murder of adam carrier.

After being sentenced
by the judge to life in prison,

He makes a statement in court.

On January 26, 2006,

Susana arroyo is also
convicted of murder

And sentenced to life in prison.

On December 5, 2006,
a jury finds saul arroyo guilty

Of the first-degree murder
of joel garcia.

They send him to prison
for life.

Throughout the investigation,
I stayed in contact

With joel garcia's family
and let them know

That we were continuously
seeking justice for him.

It was important to finish
that investigation

And make sure that family
was able to get closure.

This case was solved by
a whole team of investigators

That just wouldn't give up.

After years and years, they were
not going to let it go.

It wasn't going to go away.

I had a talk with my preacher
several times later on.

Um, I told him, "I know god
wants me to forgive.

But," I said, "I would be lying
to you, I would be lying to god,

I'd be lying to myself
if I could honestly say

That I could find it
in my heart now

To forgive them
for what they did to my son."

In smith county,
we never give up.

Doesn't matter
how far away you go,

And this case proves that.

♪