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My name is Dawn DaLuise.

I was a celebrity esthetician for 30 years.

[Edward] Dawn's studio was in West Hollywood.

It really was holy [bleep].

[Dawn] I noticed a new skincare business opened next door to me.

[Gabriel] The name's Smooth Cheeks.

You know, it's a double entendre,

cheeks and cheeks.

[Dawn] And I'm thinking there's trouble in our midst.

I noticed a slashed tire one night.

My face had been Photoshopped on a woman with her legs spread

wide open and the crotch showing.

[Dawn's friend] And there were people actually banging on her door,

"I'm here to rape you." -It just kept getting worse.

[Dawn] The only thing I did know

was who I felt was responsible for it,

and it was Gabriel Suarez.

So Dawn had sent me a text message saying that she had

found somebody to take Gabriel out.

[Chris] And I was just like, "I can't believe this lady

has this many problems."

[siren wailing]

[Edward] He ended up arresting her for solicitation to murder Gabriel.

And they released that mugshot, which was a very rough mugshot.

I was in the dark completely about how she hated me.

She's dangerous.

[Beth] "I could even have lured Gabriel to my home.

I would have shot him."

That is all troubling.

No, we keyed Gabriel's car.

Nick and I also posted Craigslist ads

with her phone number and a Photoshopped face

of a woman in various sexual positions.

[somber cello plays]

[theme music ends]

[reporter] Dawn DaLuise is locked up behind bars on a million-dollar bond.

Right now, as we speak, she is in jail.

[Dawn] While I was in jail, my landlord managed to send

an eviction notice to the jail

that I hadn't made my rent in a month.

And then the same thing happened with my clinic.

And I just had to watch my life fall apart in slow motion.

Nothing I could do about it.

This is my jail uniform that I wore...

when I was in LA County Jail.

♪♪

I'd always been active,

and it was very important to stay fit.

What this originally was was the backing of a bra.

The two bras actually, not unlike what they have in gyms

when you want to do some strength training.

I needed these things to basically feel like I was still

a woman, still feminine, not just a number,

not just an inmate.

I was shocked when I learned how Nick and Ed generated this

whole campaign of denigration against me.

By the time I was in jail, by the time I'm learning that,

well, these two men are stalking you, it was so

devastating to me. I was numb.

Somebody could have pushed me over a building

and my heart wouldn't have even gone up

before I splattered on the pavement.

So the flyers that were distributed had Dawn's face

Photoshopped on somebody else's body in a sexual situation with

some catchy taglines -- "First time free."

"Sex party tonight" was a good one.

We had flyered her office

and we had flyered her apartment building.

It really got crazy, right?

[Beth] So Dawn's friends, the ones she confided in,

they're the ones behind all this abuse.

The whole context for her anger, outcry against

Gabriel Suarez was orchestrated,

was manipulated by Nick and Ed.

Meanwhile, Dawn's facing charges of solicitation

of murder, about as serious as it gets.

Prosecutors offered her plea deals,

but she wouldn't take them.

So now this case is headed to trial.

[Dawn] Every time I laid my head on the pillow at night,

I knew I was innocent.

I was never gonna concede to something I didn't do.

Why in the world would I say

I was trying to have someone murdered?

Just so that I could go home early?

Hell no, no!

[Jim] This story, it's got everything.

It's got Hollywood, it's got revenge,

it's got betrayal, intrigue.

The public, eager to find out what really happened,

is going to get an answer.

We had kind of heard tidbits about it as we were getting

called for jury duty, and you could tell

this was gonna be kind of a salacious case.

[Christine] Dawn DaLuise made a series of really bad choices.

And the more she dug her heels in,

deciding that Gabriel Suarez was her nemesis

and she needed to get revenge,

the more trouble she got herself into.

[Gabriel] It would never dawn on me that we're competitors

because I predominantly wax.

Little did know that she was festering all this

behind my back, and I had no idea.

[juror #12] In one hand, we're being presented this white,

privileged lady who has friends in high places,

and maybe she just got fooled.

And then on the other side, you're being presented this

monster of a person who went after somebody.

I was very confused, to be honest.

[Beth] So we know that Dawn told the police that if she could

have lured Gabriel to her house,

she would have shot him and argued self-defense.

So she had the capacity to kill.

She could have done that, but instead she went up to

Big Bear, and she found this big, beefy former NFL player

who listened to her...

tell her sob story about the harassment.

And it was terrible harassment.

[Christine] She texted to Ed Feinstein,

"I found someone who will take Gabriel out."

Yes, Dawn DaLuise was in fact victimized by

her so-called friends.

However, you don't get to take the law into your own hands.

You don't get to become a vigilante.

[Jamon] The lead detective was making this seem like a slam-dunk

solicitation for murder, but the gentleman that

they were claiming that Ms. DaLuise was soliciting

for murder, he was not arrested.

He gave no indication that he was, in fact, solicited.

[Chris] I was sitting on my couch, and the phone rang.

He said he was a detective,

and I thought someone was pranking me.

You know, I said, "Come on, who is this?"

You know, this is funny. Ha ha ha, OK?

And he said, "You might want to turn on the television."

And I was like, "What the heck's going on?"

The media was saying that I was hired by Dawn to be a hit man

against this skincare guy, which was ludicrous.

The most that I ever said was that I would show up with

her arm-in-arm and walk by.

That's it. That way I'd be a deterrent.

Of the 6,000 messages, there were two messages that

they tried to say connected her to this solicitation.

And even those were not conclusive of trying to solicit

somebody to murder Mr. Suarez.

[Dawn] I didn't think clearly when I sent those texts out.

I was just blowing off steam and blowing up phones with,

"If I could just kill this [bleep] with my bare hands, I would.

I can't stand him."

You know, "I'm going to copy these Craigslist ads and send

"men to his home to rape him.

"And I'm going to use the same language.

"We're gonna put a blindfold on you.

"And this [bleep] son-of-a-bitch, douchebag,

you know, I'm gonna kill him with my bare hands."

And then I would say in that same thread

to Edward Feinstein, "Oops, I'm running late for work

and have to get my oil changed first."

[Christine] Ms. DaLuise, even through all of this turmoil and all these

things that she thought he was doing,

she never marched 20 feet down the hall and said,

"Gabriel, WTF?

What's going on? Why are you doing this to me?"

That never happened.

Instead, she communicated to Chris Geile via text,

"Is the Aryan Brotherhood only in prison?

"I can't believe I can't find some white supremacist who'd

want to do harm to a double minority, a gay Mexican."

It was a decidedly disturbing text message that she'd sent.

And I think the jury from initially was looking at me

kind of like, "Why are you on this case?"

[juror #12] I think as jurors, we were all pretty disgusted at the time of

hearing these things being said.

She was talking about people that, you know,

represented people in the jury, and it affected me.

I was definitely upset.

Is this a woman in distress, or is this a woman who's just

racist and doesn't care about anyone else but herself?

Dawn said she was trying to find somebody to take out

a double-minority Mexican gay.

Take him out where? I mean...not dinner.

[Gabriel] Dawn sent my picture to Chris Geile.

"This is what Gabriel looks like.

This is where he lives."

That's not an innocent person.

[Chris] She may have shown me, like, his Facebook page

or something like that.

Anything else, that was all in her head.

[Jamon] Just merely sharing a photo of someone is not solicitation.

Now, if she would have shared a photo and then there's

a discussion of when, where, and how this is gonna

be done, then, of course, that photo would be

damaging information.

[Christine] Geile didn't have to say, "Oh, yeah, she promised me

the moon if I would kill this guy."

And I knew I wasn't gonna get that out of him.

[Jamon] They tried to make it seem like it was the facials in lieu

of the financial compensation.

But the thought that somebody would murder somebody for

free facials is just a hard pill to really swallow.

I know it looks like I need a lot of facials, but still,

I would never do anything like that.

I don't care what the price is.

[Jamon] The alleged victim, Gabriel Suarez, came off as

somebody that was trying to publicize his business.

And the cameras are there, and he has the hat on with

"Smooth Cheeks" giving an interview where

he's smiling, where he's laughing,

where he doesn't come across as

somebody that's concerned that he almost died.

It started to seem like a little circus, and it lost

its value that this is a potential murder.

I mean, this reminds me of Natalia Grace's story.

Well, I didn't know who to believe.

Everybody seemed to have a motive to lie,

not be completely forthcoming.

It's, like, my head was spinning in that story,

and it's starting to spin in this one, too.

[Jim] This case took less than 40 minutes for the jury to

determine that there was no murder for hire,

that Dawn DaLuise was in fact not guilty of soliciting murder.

I felt like a weight had been taken off my shoulders.

[Gabriel] How is this possible?

She was trying to take me out as a double minority,

a Mexican gay, which I think should be a hate crime.

She gets off scot-free

and continues to play the martyr.

The system failed.

[Christine] The jury, I think they were driven by a sympathy for

her because of this stalking that was happening to her.

[juror #12] It felt good to know that we were going to be sending

an innocent woman home that maybe made some bad choices,

maybe trusted the wrong people,

maybe said the wrong thing at times,

but who hasn't in their life?

I mean, really, Chris Geile is a patsy in this whole thing.

And in the end, he's collateral damage.

He got hurt by this whole thing, never charged,

but he paid a price.

[Christine] Dawn's never reached out to me or just to say,

"Hey, I'm sorry," or anything like that because of this text

she sent to her best friend. It's still on the internet.

Me and "hit man" on the headline -- I hate that.

It's a shame. It completely ruined me.

So.

[Beth] After spending almost a year in jail, Dawn walks free.

Not guilty is not a finding of innocence, OK?

Not guilty just means you didn't prove your case.

And now here's where things get even more surreal.

The same prosecutor's office that charged Dawn with

solicitation for murder now begins to prepare its case

against Ed and Nick for the harassment that seemed to

push Dawn over the edge in the first place.

And like almost every element of this story, nothing is as

straightforward as it first seems.

♪♪

[Edward] I heard a faint knock at the door...

when the door then exploded off the hinges...

[dramatic music playing]

...and it was the Sheriff's Department SWAT team.

That was a holy [bleep] moment.

[laughing]

But I have to say, for a SWAT team,

they were all very old and very out of shape.

It was, like, two flights of stairs, and they were...

[panting]

[chuckles] "You guys OK?"

So anyway, I was handcuffed.

Detective McCauley said, "Well, you know, we're going to

arrest you for stalking Dawn." And I said, "Well, OK."

I wasn't happy with my mugshot

because I just had a facial like two days before.

So I had a big, like, zit right there.

So it wasn't a very flattering one.

Not ideal.

[Beth] And looking at the level and sophistication of

the cyber stalking and harassment of Dawn by Nick and Eddie,

it strikes me that she's not their first victim.

It's targeted. It's multilayered.

It's sinister.

There's no way this is

their first run around the criminal block.

♪♪

So, there's a birdhouse straight up this driveway.

[David] But that's just kind of an odd place for a birdhouse.

So, I would imagine there's a camera in there.

So, my name is David Torres.

I'm a retired detective with LAPD.

I was assigned to North Hollywood Division Property Crimes.

[Beth] So in 2009, Detective Torres was handed a file about

a West Hollywood business that had been the victim of multiple

incidents of fraud perpetrated by a former employee

named Ed Feinstein.

Ed Feinstein, our "reliable" narrator.

Or is he unreliable?

[David] My victim, in my case,

she owned a pet grooming company.

When a customer uses their debit card or credit card,

they swipe it through the machine.

And so, the funds will eventually go into

your business account.

I think it was about 30-some-thousand dollars before my victim understood

that money was no longer going into her business account.

We had to find out what account it went to,

and this came back to Mr. Feinstein.

While I was working on that, my victim complained of

a second instance.

Feinstein was in charge of taking the checks

and the daily receipts, but instead of depositing it

into her business account,

he was depositing it into his personal account

to a tune of maybe $100,000 or more.

That's when we arrested him.

He's a smart, intelligent guy, so he really knows how to talk

to people, but unfortunately, he used it,

in my opinion, in the wrong way.

[Beth] Ed was convicted of identity theft and grand theft

and sentenced to 16 months in prison, and he served his time.

So, you know, it seems like these crimes are motivated by

greed, but when Ed got out, he returned to West Hollywood.

He's got a vendetta against his former grooming business

employer, and that's where we see the seeds of the MO

that he later unleashed on Dawn.

[David] The same victim contacts me, and she says that she's getting

text messages, pictures of her house and her car coming

out of her driveway, with some threatening messages,

basically saying, you know, "I'm following you,

do you know who this is?" And so forth.

She suspected it was Mr. Feinstein.

I investigated, and based on that, and he was gonna violate

on his parole, and sent him back to prison for a little bit.

He doesn't let things lie, you know?

He will harass you, and if he feels you did him

wrong or you got him in trouble, Eddie would definitely

make you crazy, thinking that you're being followed,

thinking that you're being stalked,

because he can lead danger to your door,

and he doesn't hesitate to do so.

[Edward] I was young when everything happened and unfortunately

ran with the wrong crowd.

And I might've gotten into a little bit of trouble for

borrowing some money that wasn't mine.

Served my time, and it is what it is.

And what am I gonna do?

Lop off my hand and repent for the rest of my life?

[Tamar] To the outside world, it might seem crazy that this is all

over facials and waxing. This is LA.

Our facialist is just as important as

our priest, our rabbi,

and our therapist.

I'm Tamar Arminak, and I am an attorney in Los Angeles.

I was hired by Nick originally,

and that's how I got familiar with the case.

[Beth] Nick Prugo gained notoriety as the head of a crew

of cat burglars in Los Angeles.

In fact, the most famous cat burglars in the history

of Los Angeles.

Nick Prugo was part of this LA bling ring crew.

And for several months, they really terrorized

the LA celebrities.

The bling ring was a huge media sensation who would break into

celebrities' homes like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton

and Orlando Bloom.

[Elissa] All of L.A. was on high alert.

They were trying to figure out who was behind this crime ring.

And it turned out that it was basically a group of teenagers

from the Valley.

One of the members of the bling ring was caught on

security camera. She was picked up.

She turned in Nick Prugo

and said, that's the ringleader.

[Beth] The bling ring was brought down in 2009.

Nick Prugo pleaded no contest

and was sentenced to two years in prison.

[Edward] I met Nick through mutual friends

a few years before Dawn came into the equation.

Then he had gone to jail and then we had picked up

the relationship once he was out.

[Beth] And this is where our two stories collide.

I remember exactly when Dawn first mentioned Nick to me.

In 2013, she was doing well, and she was looking to

leverage the connections that she had acquired in Hollywood.

Celeb reality was kind of the thing at the moment.

And she thought, you know, why not take his notoriety

and try to see if it had any value in the reality TV market?

And Dawn decided that she was going to be Nick's manager.

So I guess in Los Angeles,

you can be an agent-hyphen-facialist?

[Dawn] Since he was such an expert burglar, the show might have

him talking about how people can better secure their homes

so that, you know, they don't get robbed.

And the catchphrase was going to be

"Take it from me before I take it from you."

But at the same time, I was giving him facials

in my clinic because he had terrible skin.

[Elissa] They were spending a lot of time together.

They had formed a personal friendship.

[Dawn] There were multiple times Nick Prugo himself

had reached out to his parole officer and said,

"Would you please start talking

"to this woman named Dawn DaLuise?

She takes care of me. I'm going to her for skincare."

Dawn claims that the parole officer "deputized her"

as a parole agent to watch over Nick, which...is that legal?

[Elissa] Nick and Dawn's relationship was starting to grow a little

acrimonious because Dawn was sort of forsaking

her skincare business in order to help sell the show.

[Dawn] He started to get too full of himself.

He wasn't showing up for meetings.

He was sort of blowing me off in an indignant way.

He's not taking his urine tests and he's been going to Vegas.

And I immediately called up that parole officer

and told him that because I says,

"I don't want to be accountable for him anymore."

It's when I dropped him that things got really bad.

Now, after Dawn reported Nick,

he went back to prison for violating his parole,

which essentially ended their friendship.

[Edward] When you're on parole, you're not supposed to leave

the state, but, I mean, we just went for the weekend

and we came back.

It's not like we were committing crimes in Nevada.

I don't think that that was something that...

she should have called and tattled

because he ultimately went to jail for it.

And according to Dawn, this is the answer to

the question, "Why?"

Nick was so angry at the perceived betrayal that

he and Ed gaslit Dawn into believing that Gabriel was out

to get her, all while they were harassing her in the shadows

in the name of revenge.

That's just an [bleep] thing to do.

But I guess she got her karma

because she went to jail for a year, so.

Dawn's version of this always was that Ed and Nick were

behind all of this, gaslighting her the entire time,

telling her that it was -- it was Gabriel.

And she was acquitted based on that.

That is not what this was.

[Edward] I feel like with Dawn, the best analogy that I have is

she likes to say, "Well, you know, I was found not guilty."

Well, you know what?

So was OJ Simpson, and we know what really happened there.

So...

Sorry, Dawn.

She was in on it.

From the very beginning, this is exactly the path that

Dawn wanted to go down.

She wanted the Craigslist ads posted.

She wanted the flyers done. She wanted the text messages.

[Tamar] She used Nick and Ed to direct the setup of

Gabriel's harassment.

She's the one that came up with everything.

Nick and Ed are innocent.

So Gabriel moved into the complex to ultimately

poach her clients, according to Dawn.

And she was just extremely paranoid with him being

one door down.

And she really felt that she needed to get him gone.

I had worked for a property management company.

So she had asked, like, "Hey, look, you know, I'm having

a problem with this guy," which was Gabriel.

"I need to get him out of the building.

From your standpoint, could I do that?"

And in the brief knowledge that I had, I said,

"Well, if you have a police report, I would assume

that your landlord would have to do something."

Dawn had brought up the idea, which was our downfall.

"Hey, boys, I don't really know how to use

"the computer that well.

"Do you think you could help me out, and I won't

charge you for facials?"

At $150 a pop, couple times a week,

sure, yeah, I'll help you.

[Tamar] Ed went along with the whole thing, was in for it,

just like Nick was.

That's got to be a really good facial.

[Edward] At any time, she could have told us, "Stop."

We would have stopped. We had no reason to...

do it on our own.

She was our friend.

She was caught participating in the stalking of herself.

[Beth] Here's the problem with Ed's subversion

that they were just doing this for Dawn.

It makes a lot more sense that they engage in this harassment

for revenge and not for a lifetime of free facials.

Nick and Ed both had prior felony convictions.

And in California, which is a three-strike state,

if you're smart, you don't want to take any chances

because the third strike can carry a life sentence.

If Ed and Nick were doing this out of revenge, well, people go

to all kinds of lengths for revenge.

So was the harassment against Dawn motivated by retribution

on the part of Nick, with Ed helping his friend

in this situation?

This seems incredibly risky, but possible.

[Edward] Three strikes? [bleep] that.

You automatically get two strikes for bad skin in this town.

So another thing that Dawn kind of claims is that all of this

kind of "harassment" that was happening to her, happened after

the fact of her calling the parole officer and Nick

ultimately going to jail for a parole violation.

But that's not true. Her timeline...

is very imaginatory, and it doesn't line up

to -- to the facts.

We went through 6,000 messages from Dawn's phone.

If there were messages between her and Ed,

or between her and Nick, stating,

"Let's set up this ruse," we would have seen those.

Stalking myself, slashing my own tires so that I would have

a legitimate reason to murder this business rival next door.

I was not doing any of that.

She never changed her phone number.

I know if I was getting hundreds of texts a day

and [bleep] pics, I probably would change my phone number, right?

That'd be number one.

There were never any recorded calls of her calling 911,

saying somebody's trying to break in.

She wasn't getting the response that she needed from

the police department to get Gabriel out of the building.

So she asked us to escalate it.

That is when there's text messages

and there's phone calls between Dawn and Ed

directed to terrorize Gabriel.

Do I have any proof? I mean...

[laughing]

...what don't I have?

I have texts of Dawn talking about how she's going to post

Craigslist ads for Gabriel to have men come over

and potentially assault Gabriel.

I have text messages where Dawn asked us to key Gabriel's car.

[Gabriel] My car got keyed twice.

I had a beautiful Audi convertible

that I had just bought.

I believe that she was nudging me, she was picking at me.

She wanted a reaction out of me.

She was egging me on until she got a confrontation to --

that she could tell people that we had one.

We never had one. I never gave it to her.

That's the real story.

In some of the text messages, she had brought up that she was

going to lie to the police and say that Gabriel was in

her apartment, that Gabriel was gonna kidnap her.

And she sort of acted it out

for us in kind of a comical way.

She bound her wrist with some scarves and gagged herself like

she was kidnapped and escaped and looking for help.

[Edward laughing]

She was very much orchestrating and directing

what Nick and Ed were doing for her.

[Edward] We were laughing and she was laughing.

And again, we never really took anything serious because...

we knew what was going on, right?

That video was a big thing in court.

My attorney, Tamar, had asked, "Hey, is there a video of

you tying yourself up, pretending that you're kidnapped?"

"No, absolutely not."

And then Tamar said,

"Hit the lights, play the video."

And at that point, I just feel like any

credibility that she had, which was not much, was gone.

I can't -- it wasn't me being tied up in video.

It wasn't, no, um --

if this is my apartment, there was a window right there.

And one day I was sitting there

and a woman...

with a gag on and her hands tied

is smashing against my window and going, [nonsense muttering].

And it scared the crap out of me.

This is before those men were around or anything.

[nonsense muttering]

I thought it was a hostage that had escaped from one of

the other tenants' area.

I go out there, and I see a man and a woman pushing her into

one of the apartments.

And I learned later she was a severely autistic relative.

She was just very, very handicapped.

Whatever was wrong with her made her like this

all the time, and she finally had to have her hand.

And I was trying to tell them this thing happened,

and it scared the crap out of me, and I was pantomiming it.

Dawn was like a birthday clown performing, right?

Like, everything that she said, she was just caught in a lie.

[goofy music playing]

[Beth] Dawn's explanation to our producers about why she was

tying herself up in a video pretending to be kidnapped

raises serious questions about her credibility.

We have learned during the course of investigating

this story, and Dawn has confirmed, that even before

Gabriel moved in next door to her, there was

another facialist.

And she had problems with that facialist.

I remember there was a group of women.

They moved into the building, and she was freaking out about

them potentially taking her clients.

She said they were causing problems.

She said that she was calling the building manager a lot.

And eventually, the women were just out of there.

I don't know if they got kicked out or they just had enough.

I had problems with her because she was accosting my clients.

And she was gone in no time because of the landlord

kicking her out when he learned.

It was an odd after-hours sex sort of thing.

Not only was it a brothel, but it was also

a mini-transvestite, um...

gathering.

Sound familiar?

Maybe this is a pattern on Dawn's part.

[Edward] This is exactly what Dawn does.

She just has to go balls to the wall to get him kicked out,

whatever she needed to do.

[Beth] So, Ed and Nick...

were charged with felonies for stalking Dawn,

but they didn't go to trial, because in the end,

they were offered misdemeanor stalking plea deals

with three years probation and 350 hours of community service,

and they jumped at it because they're both convicted felons.

And so they would have served some significant state prison

time for what they say they were just doing

because Dawn asked them to.

A lot of these allegations can come down to,

really, a he-said, she-said.

There is corroboration for them, but you've got to believe

their stories to believe one side or the other, and both of

them have credibility problems.

In fact, Ed is currently

engaged in a situation with his neighbor in Leona Valley

that includes allegations of stalking.

[Carrie] Edward Feinstein.

Everyone knew that he was someone to be leery of.

My name is Carrie Lynne, and I'm at Medicine Horse Ranch

in Leona Valley, California.

Leona Valley is a small town.

We've only got two restaurants, a store, a feed store.

So not a lot of us out here,

but those of us who are here really love being here.

In the fall of 2019, I had received a call from a friend

who had a new neighbor move in.

In Leona Valley, a lot of the properties were divided

many, many years ago.

Most people, if the property lines are off by a foot or whatever,

we just agree to leave it that way because it's a lot easier

than tearing down fences

and drawing a new line a foot over.

That wasn't the case with the new neighbor,

Edward Feinstein.

[Edward] I hired a surveyor.

The neighbor wasn't happy about it,

and it kind of spiraled

into not a good situation.

Edward was very upset about the property line and started

having a dispute with my friend who is his neighbor.

He had gotten quite vocal and threatening.

And so she looked him up and it didn't take long for her to

discover that he had quite a history.

So when she told me what she had found,

his connections to the bling ring guy and what happened

to the esthetician,

and how worried she was about this neighbor,

so then I was intrigued.

And I looked up...

Dawn and found her contact information and reached out to

her and asked, "How much danger am I in?"

We agreed to meet in person and have a chat,

and she wanted to learn more about me

and tell me a little bit more about her story with Edward.

I connected with Carrie,

and I really liked her right away.

So, you know, we're comparing notes and all that,

and she would tell me horror stories about what

she would endure with him.

She had visited the ranch a couple of times.

She was really trying to keep

as close to tabs on Edward as she possibly could.

You know, it just made me extremely uncomfortable

because Dawn is now coming

an hour and a half out of her way,

passing my house, knowing where I live,

what kind of vehicle I drive,

to go to this person's house to, you know,

sit there and talk about me.

[Beth] OK, so this neighbor reaches out to Dawn and Dawn goes up to

visit and become friends with somebody who did have

an issue with Ed? That is just not smart.

Get on with your life, rebuild yourself,

and just stay away from him.

Carrie just kind of went with the Dawn story and told

everybody I was this awful person, and that small town

kind of turned on me.

There was a number of us ladies in town who formed

an email group about, you know, let's -- let me know

what you discover, if anything happens, because we just don't

know what kind of threat he is.

So this lady apparently thinks that she's the town crier

because people don't mind their [bleep] business when

things don't have anything to do with them.

[Carrie] I was riding my horse past his ranch one day,

and he had come out

of his gate quite aggressively and approached me on my horse

and was threatening that he has ways to destroy us

and my mortgage could be in trouble.

And I was like, "What the hell?"

And this was after a couple months of him flipping us the bird

every time we drive by.

There were a couple of law enforcement people

that I spoke with who did indicate that

I should be careful,

saying, watch yourself.

My concern was this person who was able to do this to Dawn

now lived five doors away from me and hated my guts.

We were [bleep] mortal enemies,

and I would not piss on her if she was on fire.

[Carrie] I was diagnosed with breast cancer early in the spring of 2022.

And my friends were posting on my Facebook and, you know,

wishing me luck and good health

and things as I was going into treatment.

And I had gotten a friend request from a local person

with just a cartoon picture, very naive of me,

but this person had also befriended a lot of

my other friends in Leona Valley.

So I thought, "Oh, maybe it's a new person."

And it was a woman's name.

And so I accepted the friend request.

And it wasn't very long after that.

There was a loose peacock running down the road.

I had known Edward had peacocks.

And I emailed him and said, "Is this your peacock?"

I said, "I was just trying to be neighborly."

And he said, "What would have been more neighborly is you had

"to mind your own effing business this whole last two years.

And you deserve the cancer that you have."

There is that saying that for every action,

there is a reaction.

And she got a hell of a reaction.

And it clicked in my head because I thought,

how on earth do you know?

And then I thought about this person, this unknown

Facebook friend, and I went back and looked again, and it was

clearly a fake profile.

This is Edward.

[Edward] First of all, don't add people you don't know

or don't have social media.

Problem solved.

[Beth] So when you look at all the key players in this story,

Dawn and Ed and Gabriel and Nick,

who's the most reliable storyteller?

Who doesn't have credibility issues?

Who doesn't have a record?

It's Gabriel.

Gabriel is the one who comes out the most credible.

It's really astounding the lengths people will take to

preserve the life they've built.

Here it's Dawn and her business in the highly competitive

skincare industry and how people will do almost anything to have

beautiful skin, like Ed and Nick.

Until, of course, things went sideways with Dawn.

[Dawn] It's always good to do dumpster diving behind any kind of

salons, because you never know what they will throw out.

[laughs]

I hope this isn't to parody me as a fool.

Ugh. [laughs]

I just hope there aren't any rats in here that start to bite.

Hmm.

[laughs]

Let's see what this is.

Oh, my goodness. You guys.

Dermalogical skin hydrating mask.

Are you freaking kidding me?

This has got to be at least about $90.

Just poking around in here, right?

I promise I didn't plant these things.

Oh, wait. Wait.

Look.

What is this? A skin perfecting primer?

I've actually needed one of those.

Dawn has the brightest...

outlook on life, even with all the tragedy that

she has suffered.

You guys, this is about $200 worth of stuff,

and it hasn't been opened either.

Who would get rid of that? You gotta wonder.

There is no -- oops!

There is no rhyme or reason,

there is no logic behind throwing these things away.

Even though these horrible individuals tried to ruin

her life, she is back to the Dawn --

and looking fabulous --

that I always knew.

[Dawn] Yeah, who knows what else I'll find before the day is over.

Wow.

I live a very normal life, and I keep to myself.

I'm not fixated on Dawn or hacking into Carrie's Facebook

to find out what she's having for dinner tonight.

I definitely think that Dawn tracks me, and I definitely

feel like she's probably on my Facebook under a fake account.

I mean, if she wants to know what I'm up to,

she can definitely come pick up a pitchfork and help me pick up

some horse[bleep] -- that would be appreciated.

So, Dawn, if you're watching this, call me

and I can put you to work.

You can keep your top on this time.

There's a rumor that a school principal

hypnotizes kids.

-It never seemed harmful at first.

-And then the kids fall into his lap.

Like he looked like he was like...

-Who gave him the right to be God?

I didn't.

-There's sinister people in this world.