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["devil in me" by iora playing]

♪ oh, I looked ♪

♪ the devil in the eye ♪

Kelly siegler: A mysterious man

Walks into a family-owned houston wig shop

On the busiest shopping and day of the year

And stabs three people in broad daylight

For reasons that nobody can understand.

Manny silverio,

A longtime employee at the wig shop,

Was murdered that day.

The owners of the wig shop,

Roland and roberta ingrando,

Were seriously injured,

And their lives were forever changed.

♪ I looked the devil in the eye ♪

- Oh, my god. - Roberta: Hello.

- How are you? - Fine. Thank you.

- So lovely to see you. - You look beautiful.

Kelly: Oh, you're shaking.

- You look gorgeous. - So do you.

- You look just the same. - Thank you.

Yes, almost 25.

Wow. So the trial was in 2000.

Isn't it?

You wanna talk about it? It's okay?

That's all right. I'm crying too.

It was Friday the 27th of November.

I don't know what it-- I didn't--

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

♪♪♪

[suspenseful instrumental playing]

[disconnected line beeping]

Boy, it's heartbreaking for me now to hear this stuff.

I could actually hear the complainant being assaulted

While we're receiving the call in the dispatch office.

Randall: Day after thanksgiving, 1998,

Just finished medical school,

And was doing my residency surgical training.

And I'm on my way to my parents' house.

My dog needed some extra dog food.

I'm driving past where there's a wig store,

And there's a post office, and it's very interesting,

'cause I saw a 18- to 20-year-old kid or so,

And it looked like he was holding something in his hand

As he's running very, very quickly out of the wig store.

That's very odd. Something is going on there.

Being observant is super mandatory

In a job like a physician.

So, I follow him slowly in my car,

And he's running towards the back of the parking lot.

He got into this brand-new lincoln navigator.

As I pull behind the car,

I thought to myself, "let me write down his license plate

"really quickly on a sheet of paper."

And as he passes me up,

I saw him just three quick glances of his face,

And then he zooms off.

Certainly, his demographic of a young man

Running very quickly out of a wig store is off.

Something's going on,

Something's wrong in the wig store.

Maybe I could help.

[doorbell rings]

[brooding music playing]

Randall: Right when I opened the wig store,

Nothing was normal.

There was a ton of blood everywhere.

And right in between the front and the back

Section of the store, I see a lady on the ground.

There's two people screaming

In the back section of the store.

The lady that was screaming,

She had some blood spots on her chest and her arms.

And there was an older man there.

Part of me just turns into doctor mode,

And I turned the lady that was on the ground,

And I tried to resuscitate her,

But her throat was completely cut.

And there's no way to save her at all.

[brooding music playing]

The officers arriving at scene,

There's blood everywhere, bloody curlers,

Blood on the phone that was used to call the police.

Wigs all over the place.

And then as you walk into the store,

You're gonna notice the blood dripping along the floor,

And it leads you into the rear of the store

Where the worst part of the crime scene is.

And there's what we call signs of struggle.

This is a bad one.

Now you had three people stabbed.

The two owners of the store, husband and wife,

Roberta and roland ingrando,

Were both transported to the hospital.

The injuries were serious, especially with roberta.

She'd been stabbed 14 times.

Her husband was stabbed twice.

The other female was found dead, stabbed to death.

My mom worked at wigs by andre for over 24 years.

She loved doing hair.

She worked a lot with cancer patients,

Their wigs, their hair, making them feel good.

Making them feel like themselves again,

- Which is very important. - Right.

Yvette: She worked with roberta and roland ingrando.

Yvonne: They had a friendship.

Yvette: Roberta did the wigs with her,

And roland pretty much ran the office.

Yvonne: Black Friday after thanksgiving.

Well, we knew that was gonna be a busy day for her.

I called her, got to talking to her,

And all of a sudden, I heard the doorbell at wigs by andre.

[doorbell rings]

And then she says, "well, I've got to let you go."

She goes, "I got a customer that just came in."

No, that was the devil

- That came in. - Yes.

♪♪♪

Kelly: Oh, my god, dr. Beckman is fricking jackpot.

He saw something wrong

And wrote down the license plate number.

That's really unusual in the real world.

And he's crucial to this case.

He is a witness from heaven.

When the investigators got the license plate number,

He called it into the office, "hey, can you run down

"this license plate, and tell us where it comes back to?"

The house that the vehicle's registered to

Came back to a mr. Goldberg on dunstan street,

Which is very close to the wig shop.

[officer over radio] uh, yeah, suspect is a white male,

Approximately 5'8".

Larry: When we arrived,

We walked to the backside of the house,

And we see the lincoln navigator.

The navigator is still warm to the touch,

Which indicated it had been recently driven.

The only person at the home is the maid.

She said that the homeowner was out of town for vacation.

♪♪♪

Mike: When the officers are out there in front of the house,

They're talking to the maid, they look up the driveway,

They see a young white male that matches the description

That the witness gave is at the scene walking towards them.

He's a white male, late teens, early 20s,

Slim build, short hair.

We asked him who he was.

He identified himself as dror goldberg,

The homeowner's son.

We informed him

What we were there for.

He said he didn't know, you know,

What we were talking about.

Mike: We can't search the navigator yet

Because it doesn't belong to him,

He can't give consent, so we make a determination

What to do next, which is to collect the vehicle

So we can process it after we get a warrant.

And then we asked him for permission

To do a search of his truck.

And he's cooperative.

We have a brutal murder

That involves a knife,

And during that search, we discovered a knife.

[dramatic instrumental playing]

These journals were a window into a sick mind.

In his writing, there was a title

"how to kill women." "do you feel pretty?"

That's the things that he told roberta

As he's stabbing her.

♪♪♪

[omiin dror's pickup truck,ng]d

It was a double-edged knife.

But this is texas. Everybody's got a knife.

I got a knife in my purse,

So that was not enough to lead to an immediate arrest.

20-year-old dror goldberg had direct access to the vehicle

That was seen driving away from the wig shop,

And he matches the description provided by dr. Beckman.

One of the things we discovered,

How close goldberg lived

To the location where the murder took place

And his dad's house.

If he wanted, he could have changed cars

Within a short period of time.

Larry: Dror agreed to give

A written statement.

Dror is asked,

"did you go to the wig shop today?

"did you kill anybody today?"

And the answer to those questions were "no."

Mike: From the time that this incident took place,

He really can't tell us where he was at or what he was doing.

That's what we call in homicide a clue.

They took a polaroid picture of goldberg, and they placed him

In what we call a six-pack, a six-figure photo spread.

And they presented it to the witness.

The photos were kind of a dot matrix type of a printing,

And the print quality wasn't that great.

However, I picked out goldberg.

And they asked me how certain I was.

And I said, about 80% or so. And they asked me "why?"

And I said, well, it couldn't be 100%

Based upon the quality of the printing.

[pensive music playing]

Mike: Dror consented to a video lineup.

We already had one witness that we're pretty sure

Can identify him, we're hoping that mrs. Ingrando

Can identify him as the person that attacked her.

But she's in rough shape at the hospital.

Roland lost his glasses during the struggle.

He felt that due to this,

He didn't get a good look at the suspect.

We didn't really have enough at this point,

And we released dror to his mom.

Kelly: Roland and roberta were still injured

And in the hospital that night.

They needed a couple of days to recover

In order to give a better id.

Dr. Beckman's identification,

He pegged at 80%.

Because of that,

They chose to let dror goldberg go that night

Without filing charges

To try and make the case better and stronger

To satisfy the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt

Burden of proof in the courtroom.

[pensive music]

Mrs. Ingrando recovered to a point

Where they could talk to her.

Where were you when he started cutting on you?

Back there? Come show me. Come show me.

Yeah.

Kelly: That's still your scar, huh?

And you can still remember all that.

Yes.

So I just came in, he was holding roberta up

By the neck and stabbing her.

When he saw me, he released her, and she fell to the floor.

And tried to grab me by the neck.

And that's when he sliced this hand.

And this part of the stomach there.

I had thrown some curlers at him,

And he just turned, and ran out.

Before you fainted, do you remember,

You looked into his eyes?

How do you forget 'em?

♪♪♪

The news is on in my bedroom.

I'll never forget this as long as I live.

[voice breaks] the news is on, and all I see is the wig shop

And yellow tape around.

And they said "two survivors."

In the waiting room.

We went downstairs,

And I was asking for my mom.

They didn't have her.

Roland's sister came up to me,

And said, "I'm so sorry.

"manny didn't make it. Manny didn't make it."

And I couldn't believe what she was saying to me.

And I just-- I passed out right there.

Yvette: What was his motive

For him to go in, and kill and go?

Why would he do this?

Yvonne: She was everything we had.

Yvette: Yes.

Yvonne: She was 18 years old

When she migrated from cuba.

She went to beauty school right away,

And then she became a hairdresser.

And that was her entire life. She loved doing hair.

Yvette: Yes, she did.

Yvonne: And this is a beautiful picture.

This is the last thanksgiving my mom had with my sister.

She's in the back right here.

She went to work, and, you know,

Who would've thought that--

I don't know.

If-- it's all the "what if's."

[sniffles] what if she wouldn't have gone to work that day?

Yeah.

That is what we gotta live with.

The primary thing you have that's really good

Is you have a living witness.

Roberta, she recovered to a point

Where the detectives presented her

With a video lineup.

There was a lineup, but the guy, he was right by the end.

But when I saw his eyes...

I know it was him.

Mike: She was able to make an identification

Of the suspect, so the detectives knew

They were on the right course building their case.

When you talk about murder cases today,

Evidence is super important, everyone has watched

These csi shows for the last 20 years,

And any circumstantial case that I've worked,

I've always wanted to have one big thing,

But this case seemed to have a lot of little things.

Eventually, we were able to obtain a search warrant

To process the lincoln navigator with the plates

That the witness wrote down for us at the scene.

They were able to recover fibers that were consistent

With those coming from a wig.

How many people have wig hairs in their car?

The circumstantial evidence case

Against dror goldberg is building.

We don't have any dna evidence, and we don't have a motive.

But those are not required in order to get

An indictment for murder.

But all of the little pieces of evidence

That we do have point to dror goldberg.

It took three months to get enough evidence

To indict dror goldberg

For the murder of manny silverio.

And then hpd finds out

That dror is nowhere to be found

When it's time to get him arrested.

He's not here. Damn.

[brooding music playing]

[ominous instrumental playing] three months now

Since the attacks and murder

At a family-owned wig shop here in houston,

And the evidence is still adding up against dror goldberg.

We have positive identifications from both roberta ingrando

And dr. Beckman.

And hpd processing the navigator

Tells us that we have wig fibers

Found inside that vehicle.

However, the knife found in dror's pickup truck

Is a double-bladed knife,

And the medical examiner told hpd

They were looking for a single-edged knife.

So it's not the murder weapon.

But we have enough evidence

To get dror goldberg indicted for murder,

And then hpd finds out he's missing.

Reporter: A houston resident,

Investigators believe goldberg is on the run.

Kelly: You have to get

Dror goldberg back to start the process

Of the criminal justice system.

But dror goldberg's parents tell the media

That he's gone off traveling the world,

But they're not able to reach him.

I don't think anybody ever believed that.

Nobody knows where he is.

If you knew where he was, you could figure out

Whether or not you could get him arrested

Or in custody, or extradited, but at that time,

They didn't even know where to start looking.

Now people would randomly call, and in houston,

The crime stoppers was very popular,

And then it was out in the media

That goldberg was among the missing.

We had goldberg sightings in mexico.

We had goldberg sightings in new york.

We had goldberg sightings all over the place.

It was like whack-a-mole, I'd get a clue,

And I'd run it down, there was nothing to it.

Pre-9/11, you didn't have all this automatic scanning,

And you didn't have cameras in the airport.

It was a little easier to disappear.

We had no idea where this kid was.

♪♪♪

Yvonne: Wherever he's hiding, we're gonna find him.

We'll shake this world,

Turn it upside down, but we will find him.

Our mother was not gonna be just a number.

- Yes. - We wanted to go out there,

And find answers.

The police held a press conference

To tell us that he was nowhere to be found.

So we held a press conference.

Anybody that's seen anything,

Anybody, just anybody.

Just please help us.

That's it, you know, the media's gonna help us.

Reporter: While survivors walk the neighborhood

Armed with his picture, investigators say

The suspect could be on the run overseas.

Reporter: He could be long gone.

Yeah, he could be long gone, exactly.

And we need him to come back to justice.

Yvonne: The media followed us.

They followed us to put the posters out.

- Day and night. - They followed us.

Yvonne and yvette, they are a textbook example

Of what all families should do who've lost a loved one.

They complained, they rallied,

They hung up flyers, they tried everything.

Reporter: How badly do you want this guy?

I want him bad.

If all victims' families understood

That they had the right to complain that loudly

To get justice for their loved one,

More cases would get solved in this country.

Good for them.

Yvonne: Everybody thought we were just gonna sit back.

- Sure. - And it wasn't gonna happen.

It wasn't gonna be that way.

We're too determined.

Our mother deserved it.

Dror goldberg's family hired dick deguerin.

Dick deguerin had, at that time,

Fought and won a lot of very high-profile cases

And he had a formidable reputation.

And he would do anything to win.

You have to appreciate that everything that dick does

Comes with the intimidation factor,

Not just prosecutors and witnesses and cops,

Judges are intimidated by him too.

When he walks in the courtroom, he commands the courtroom.

But his experience was way greater

Than mine back then, he was the best.

Reporter: Goldberg's attorney says...

He's not a fugitive. He's never been a fugitive.

Reporter: Goldberg's attorney claims the suspect

Spent the last several months

Backpacking through the middle east.

Kelly: Dror goldberg is wanted for murder.

He needs to be brought back to the united states

So he can face charges.

The idea that he was traveling,

I am suspect about that.

I just think that he thought that he was above the law.

And sort of did whatever he wanted to do.

He was not interested

In surrendering himself at any time.

I got ahold of an fbi agent I worked with,

And we filed a federal flight to avoid prosecution warrant

So that if he did turn up overseas,

At least the agency that recovered him

Would be able to hold him for us.

We were just desperate.

Dror goldberg was on a layover

In frankfurt, germany.

And while he was at the frankfurt airport,

A very alert german police officer

Named thorsten raupach

Noticed he was acting a little funny,

And found his warrant in the system and arrested him.

At that point, we were very happy,

And we started making arrangements

To get him extradited back to the united states.

- [siren wailing] - we go to the airport,

We accepted him from the us marshals,

We drove to the police station.

All way I'm in the car with dror, he's saying,

"my lawyer's dick deguerin. My lawyer's dick deguerin."

And I'm not saying anything, but I'm thinking,

"yeah, well, my lawyer's kelly siegler."

Then we hear $20,000 to get him out.

And we were livid.

- [tense music playing] - I was really surprised

That this was allowed to happen

After all the difficulty we had in locating him.

That he was allowed to walk out once he posted bond.

Kelly: The first time that I handled a murder case

And I learned that the standard bond

Was only $20,000, I was shocked.

Manuela's daughters were upset, rightfully so,

'cause they don't understand that that's what was standard.

It's a good relief that he has been caught,

But we should never be standing here right now

Appealing for him to be out on bond.

Kelly: The problem was, dror goldberg was a flight risk.

Once you flee one time,

The odds are, they're gonna flee again,

Especially when you're looking at a murder charge.

So his bond should have been higher.

♪♪♪

[pensive music playing]k oe because the prosecutor

Who was handling the case

Decided to run for district attorney.

And because he was busy campaigning,

He gave the case to lester and me to handle for trial.

Dick had the case for over a year.

He had all that time to get ready for his defense.

Lester and I had two months to get ready for trial.

That alone was pressure enough.

But putting all these little pieces together as evidence

Is what is critical to this case.

And the big crazy thing in this case is, where's the motive?

If you didn't do it because of a robbery

Or trying to take something from the crime scene,

Why would you do this horrible crime?

What is the motive?

It wasn't long before I found out.

I was working late one night in special crimes

And a phone rang down the hall,

And I answered the phone, and that witness

Turned out to be josh vogel,

Who was a close friend to dror goldberg.

Josh vogel tells me that when they were younger,

Dror goldberg started writing letters to josh vogel.

And it was what was in those letters

That he was calling to tell me about.

The letters were very graphic and very descriptive

About the need and the desire

To want to hurt somebody,

Specifically, to wanna rape somebody...

...To wanna kill somebody.

He talked about how it was changing him...

And turning him into a violent, bloodthirsty young man.

And he liked it.

It was crazy to think somebody would feel this way

Coming from this, what you would think would be,

An all-american boy.

But dror goldberg was writing it down

Exactly what he wanted to do.

So the idea that this was really

A thrill kill is building.

So, we took those letters, asked for a hearing,

Had the judge read the letters to present to her the fact

That she has a man out on bond, out of her court,

Walking around with these desires

Percolating in his brain.

Yvonne: As the judge is reading the letters,

I can see the judge's face.

And right then and there she said, "bond revoked."

And we're like, "yes!"

[brooding music playing]

Dror goldberg was facing trial for the murder charge

Against manny silverio.

The charges that could have been filed

For the attack and the aggravated assault

Against the ingrandos was saved for another day.

That could always be used and addressed down the road

If something went wrong in the trial for murder.

But in this case, the issue was always gonna be

Why would dror goldberg do this, it doesn't make any sense.

The people that think they know him best

Really know him the least--

His grandparents, his parents, his friends.

He looks like the perfect all-american boy,

And he's nothing like that.

The defense counters, and comes out full speed ahead

With, "this is mistaken identity."

But the eyewitness testimony is what's critical to this case.

[tense music playing]

Kelly: I mean, I've heard a lot

About what dick deguerin does in a courtroom,

Doing everything he can to poke as many holes

To add reasonable doubt.

I'd never seen him in trial before.

And, boy, did I learn a lot.

When we went to court the first time,

And when we saw what dror looked like,

I was horrified.

He looked so different.

'cause that's exactly what they try to do.

They try to make him look different.

So now he no longer has his highlights,

His hair combed down,

And he had gained like 40 pounds.

From day one they were putting doubt

That these eyewitnesses were not right.

It made me very nervous.

[tense music playing]

Roberta, on the witness stand,

I thought she did great.

She came across as very consistent and credible.

But dick tried to pick on her in cross-examination

With the color of dror's hair.

Dick was trying to say to roberta,

If you look at dror in the courtroom today,

His hair is dark, and if you look at his hair

In the video lineup,

It's a different color than sandy.

"there's no sandy hair here. Why are you saying sandy hair?

"you got the wrong person."

Reporter: Also testifying, this witness,

A medical resident who took dow a license plate number.

When kelly was asking me questions,

You know, the eyewitness accounts

And the photo lineup,

And it was just basically like story time, it was very casual.

When dick deguerin was asking me questions,

He had a co-lawyer with him too,

And they were asking me multiple questions,

And they seemed to ask me the same question

Multiple times, and trying to change the words

A little bit to try to, I guess, trick me up.

Kelly: Oh, my god, cross-examination

Is dick's best tool and weapon.

And I had no idea exactly why

Or how he did it, but I got a firsthand class

At why he's a master at that.

I also got to see what he did with enough witnesses

To where I could figure out how to beat him at his own game.

Randall: He asked me was I wearing eyeglasses.

And, you know, "were you wearing them at the time?"

And I thought dick was trying to disqualify my testimony.

Dr. Beckman, you couldn't get a better witness.

Mr. Cross-examination dick deguerin

That likes to cross people to exhaustion,

He knew he was not gonna beat that man

At asking him questions.

He gave up on randall beckman,

'cause he knew who won that round.

In addition to trying to discredit roberta

And then trying to discredit randall beckman,

He also brought in elizabeth loftus.

Elizabeth loftus is a phd

That took it upon herself to become an expert

In eyewitness identification.

Unconscious transference is what elizabeth loftus

Tried to say happened to randall beckman.

That because randall beckman worked in a hospital

Where dror goldberg's father also worked,

Dr. Beckman had to have seen dror goldberg

At lunch one day with his daddy,

And that was implanted in his brain,

And that's what was causing him

To identify dror goldberg as being the person

Running out of the wig shop, that's what she said.

We're sitting there like, "really?"

Kelly: Well, when you pick apart all of the underlying reasons

Why she says you shouldn't trust eyewitness identification,

None of them applied in this case.

Dr. Loftus talks a whole lot

About how when a gun is pointed in your face,

You can't focus on the person holding the gun,

'cause you're too worried about the gun.

Well, maybe great if that's roberta,

But it didn't apply to randall beckman.

And then her theory of unconscious transference,

Maybe that applied to randall beckman

If you wanna believe that crazy story.

But it didn't apply to roberta.

It was very clear she never even bothered

To read one page of the police report.

Deguerin really thought

By putting this expert witness there,

That was it, it was a done deal.

Kelly did her homework, his homework,

- And everybody else's homework. - Yes, she did.

I read every word of every one of her books

And took her to town on her theories.

By the time she left the witness stand,

She said that because of me,

She never wanted to come back to texas.

[chuckles]

Every prosecutor understands

That whatever your facts might be,

However strong they might be in a murder,

You still need to establish a motive.

So in order to do that, and to do that in this case,

We called to the witness stand

The one person in this world at that time

Who could prove what dror goldberg's motive really was.

♪♪♪

[pensive instrumental playing],

And the case is going really well

From all that I can see.

But dick is doing his level best

To try and poke as many holes in the case as he possibly can.

We called a lab tech with the hpd crime lab

Who testified to the jury about the fact

That when the lincoln navigator was processed,

They found, in the floorboard area

At the driver's side and all around that area,

Wig fibers.

So deguerin goes in there and tries to dissect this.

And he's saying, "it's a wig fiber,

"you don't know what wig it came from."

See, that's another thing that I've learned

That dick deguerin always does.

He always tries to have an enter for everything

And he always overplays his hand and goes too far.

Dick had to come up with an explanation

For the wig fiber.

So what dick came up with was,

He put dror goldberg's

Sweet little old grandmother

On the stand to testify that she--

She went to that wig shop

A couple of days or a week earlier,

And she must have gotten some wig fibers on her shoes.

And she wears a wig sometimes even herself.

And that's why wig fibers ended up in that dang navigator.

Ha!

Grandma was so coached that the minute

Kelly asked her one question, threw her off completely.

Which was my favorite.

When I asked her,

"well, where'd you sit in the car, mrs. Goldberg?"

She looked at dick.

'cause she didn't know what to say.

So that blew up in his face too.

Yvonne: I mean, kelly's discrediting her completely.

But what did the jurors believe?

No fingerprints, no dna, no murder weapon.

Yvette: The knife is not the right one.

No motive. There's no motive.

We're always taught that a motive

Is not a required element to prove in a murder case.

But if you can't show why someone would commit

A murder, especially one like this,

Where there's no connection at all

Between the defendant and the victim,

You're not gonna win that case.

To prove the motive, we had to try and establish

That dror goldberg did this murder

Because of a need and a desire to wanna see what it felt like

To kill somebody, so in order to do that,

We called to the witness stand the one person

In this world at that time

Who could tell us what kind of brain

Ticks inside his head.

Back in 1995 when dror goldberg

Was a student at bellaire high school,

Susie pendergrass was an officer

Assigned to that school at the time.

When dror goldberg leaves the school parking lot

And throws a beer can out the car window,

They stop the car, they get him out of the car,

Then they take him to the principal's office.

I am looking through his backpack

Looking for dope, marijuana, whatever he's got in there.

Then I get a spiral notebook out,

Start going through the pages.

Kids will put dope anywhere.

And when I flip the page,

There was a title "how to kill women."

He says that the urge to kill is getting stronger.

He doesn't know if he can fight it.

I've never been so disturbed and so emotional

Over a writing in my life.

The journal ended up being returned

To michelle goldberg, dror's mother, gone forever.

But because when susie pendergrass

Read those writings, it affected her so greatly,

She can recall what it said,

The law allows for you to talk about that

Because of the impression it made on her at the time.

He says, "I'm making tiny slits

"all over her body

"so that when she looks down, she'll see red."

And he started to cut here, cut here,

At the neck, you know, just--

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"and she knows she's gonna die.

"I'm asking her, 'do you feel pretty?'"

"I'm gonna cut your ear. I gonna make you pretty."

"I'm gonna do it some more.

- "do you feel pretty?" - yvonne: Wow.

And then you realize what a psychopath he really is.

Kelly: Susie testified,

And it was very clear to everybody in that courtroom

This was a thrill kill.

Inside his mind

Ticked the head of someone

Really, really sick and depraved.

It's just wow, wow.

When she starts talking about the notebook,

And says everything in detail,

And then we find out that's the things that he told roberta

As he's stabbing her.

What kind of sick mother[bleep]er is this?

Yes.

That certainly was something

That you could offer to a judge and jury

To explain where this person is coming from.

These journals were certainly a window into a sick mind.

That journal and what it says about dror goldberg

Is, again, exactly what I said in opening statement.

You think you know him because he looks like this,

Like the all-american boy.

None of us have any idea what he's really like,

How sick he really is.

These writings tell us what kind of a person he is.

But just looking at him here in the courtroom,

Just growing up with him and going to school with him,

You don't know what he's like.

I knew he was gonna kill.

I've never had a feeling about anybody like that before.

In his writing, he had talked about wanting

An audience of women.

Mannequins look like plastic women.

In the wig shop, there were all these mannequins.

And they looked real.

And I thought, "this is his audience of women.

"this is his audience of women."

We don't have the murder weapon,

And we don't have any dna evidence.

But you know what?

Hpd and lester and I have put together

A beautiful case against dror goldberg.

The jury now has the case in their hands,

And it's time for us to just sit here

And watch the clock tick and wait for their verdict.

♪♪♪

[tense music playing]ld or to say,

"I'm not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt,"

But kelly siegler doesn't back down.

She didn't back down to mr. Deguerin.

She wouldn't back down to the devil himself.

Mike: There's anxiety anytime

You're waiting for a jury to come back on a trial.

You've done your best job.

You've taken your best shot, you just hope it's good enough.

If he's not guilty, he's out on the streets like nothing.

Kelly: It was a really hard-fought case

With a lot of things to consider,

And maybe a difficult case to get your head around.

[tense music playing]

Reporter: The verdict is read.

Goldberg is guilty of murdering manuela silverio

At a southwest houston wig shop in November 1998.

- Yvette: Guilty. - Yvonne: Yeah.

- Wow. - That's all we had to hear

- Was guilty. - That's it.

We have justice for her mother.

Yvette: Yes.

Mike: It's definitely a relief.

I wouldn't say there's, like, joy involved in it,

Because so many lives are ruined.

But there's a sense of relief that we did our jobs

And everything came out right.

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Reporter: Just before hearing his sentence,

Dror goldberg winks at his family,

And mouths "I love you" to them

Just seconds later goldberg shows little reaction

As the jury sentences him to 48 years in prison.

I hear 48 years, and I did not hear life?

I was like, "oh, my god, I can't believe

"he didn't get life, he didn't get life."

And now we gotta fight to keep him in.

A psychopath cannot go anywhere.

[tense music playing]

Kelly: So, now he's fighting for parole.

What do you think about that?

Have you said your opposition to it?

- Yes. - Good for you.

Kelly: If you protest, that's all you can do.

There's no way the parole board could ever--

I mean, I'm asking them, I'm asking them,

Please don't let him out.

An animal like that,

The way he murdered and tortured my mother,

He would be a danger if he is let out.

We all would be in danger.

I had nightmares over this.

This was something that never left me.

Never left me.

I knew he was gonna kill.

And he's a cold-blooded,

Sadistic, evil, torturing killer.

He didn't get the life sentence, but we did.

And we have to fight for our mom,

And we have to do this so justice is served.

And he needs to rot in hell.

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I want my children not to have to worry about this.

And my grandchildren.

We just would like to see that he is--

He will stay in prison.

- You didn't let him beat you. - No.

- To win. - Yes.

So many pieces of the case just came together like a miracle.

- You know that, roberta? - Oh, yeah.

The best miracle is that you're standing here,

You know that?

Yeah, and a strong lady to go through all this.

That helps. [laughs]

Kelly: That day changed their whole world.

Yvonne and yvette fought as hard as any two daughters or family

Could ever fight their cause for what happened to their mom.

She would be proud of them.

[pensive instrumental playing]

Kelly: Thank god, we got justice.

It wasn't a weak case.

It wasn't just a circumstantial evidence case

Like that's a bad word.

Criminal trials started with eyewitness testimony

Before fingerprints and ballistics

And dna and everything,

And this case goes back to that reminder.

Dr. Beckman is a witness from heaven.

You had roberta

And you had susie pendergrass

With their eyewitness testimony,

When you put it all together, this was a beautiful case.

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