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She was clearly beaten and tortured,

not to mention just terrified.

When you tie someone up, blindfold them,

and kidnap them in the back of a U-Haul truck,

how do you think it's gonna end?

She should not have been a pawn in somebody else's game.

It's just the nightmare scenario.

[narrator]ú On New Year's Eve in 2019,

Minneapolis homicide detectivesú are hoping for a quiet night.

We were the on-call team that week for the homicide unit.

@ This day, I think, was theúsixth day of us being on call,

@ and we were pretty sure weúweren't gonna get called out,

and we got a call on New Year's Eve.

We got a call of aú homicide that had happened

in a 1300 block, Queen to Russell,

@ up in North Minneapolis.

And that is our most violent crime area within the city.

[narrator] Detectives are called to an alley

off Russell Avenue North

after an automated gunshot detection system

known as ShotSpotter, alerts police to a shooting.

[gunshot]

A young woman is found shot dead,

but she carries no identification,

leaving detectives with a murder victim they can't name.

It was middle of winter, nighttime in Minneapolis,

very cold, and I just remember seeing blood on the snow

in the alley.

Everybody's sombre.

Still seeing red lights flickering off the houses.

She had at least three gunshot wounds.

She'd been bound with duct tape,

which is not common

@and not something that I wouldú call ordinary or routine.

That was noteworthy right away, for sure.

There was at least one spent silver .45 calibre casing,

and there was a inner shelf or a lockbox

that I recognized to be what a person puts on a house

when they're selling a house.

[narrator] As detectives search the alley for clues

and work to identify the young woman,

another call comes in.

There's been an earliershooting less than a mile away.

While we're at the crime scene

and we're searching for evidence,

trying to talk to officers that first arrived

and see if there's any witnesses,

we get a phone call from our lieutenant,

who was at a crime scene approximately like half a mile

to the north of that address.

[narrator] Inside a home

just minutes from where the woman is found,

a man has been shot.

When I went up to Humboldt, I observed

that there was multiple ...45-calibre shell casings

in the scene that I recognised to be the same calibre

and same colour as the single ...45-calibre spent shell casing

that was at the homicide scene in the alley,

1300 block Queen to Russell.

[narrator] The victim at the house is still alive.

As he's rushed to hospital,

police identify him as Jon Mitchell Momoh,

a well-known local rap artist.

[Paige] He's a rapper.

He's an artist.

He's been making music and collaborating

with other musicians for years.

Jon Mitchell Momoh'sú performed at First Avenue,

which is the venue in Minneapolis

@that's made famous by Prince.

It's probably the best known music venue in Minneapolis.

He's performed there before.

So that's pretty big.

[Mark] He has had some success in that world.

He's had some financial success as well.

You know, he's done fairly well for himself

and he does have a criminal history as well.

[narrator] Before he is shot,

Jon has been looking after the two children

he shares with his longtime girlfriend, Monique Baugh

at the home of her mother, Wanda.

I got a text from my neighbour,

@ and it just said, "Call me."

@And I called him right away,úand when I called him, he said,

"You know somebody got shot at your house?"

And I said, "No."

And then I said, "Well, where's my daughter?"

He says, "I don't know." I said, "Where's my grandkids?"

Monique and Jon had been pretty actively looking

for a place to get together at that time.

For the time being, at least,

Monique and the girls were staying at Wanda's,

and Jon would stay there occasionally as well.

[narrator] As Wanda makes her way home,

police are urgently searching for clues

as to who could have shot a father

in the presence of his two children.

The front door wasn't kicked in.

There's no evidence that, you know,

there was any sort of struggle there at the front door.

In the moment that the shooter comes through the front door,

Jon is actually sitting on the stairs

at the front of the house, holding his phone on his phone

trying to get a hold of Monique.

He's not hearing back from her.

That is extremely unusual.

[Mark] He was shot multiple times.

He then ran upstairs, and the suspect fled the scene.

There was a blood trail leading up the stairs

and into the bedroom where Monique and the girls stayed.

These two little girls were there, too.

And so they observed, certainly at least part of it,

and were there when their father was gravely injured

and calling for help.

[narrator] While police focus on the scene,

Wanda is concerned for the whereabouts

of her daughter, Monique.

[Wanda] I tried to get a hold of Monique,

and she didn't answer, and it was so unlike her,

so unlike Monique.

I just wanted to get to my grandchildren,

and I just wanted to know where Monique was.

[narrator] As Wanda races home,

calls to her daughter remain unanswered,

but her grandchildren are unharmed.

They were asleep,

they were asleep at that time when they came in.

By the grace of God, they were sleeping.

[narrator] Wanda tells police what she believes

may have sparked the shooting of Jon Mitchell Momoh,

a music video he recently posted on social media.

It shows Momoh in the shower

and he's washing up with a large amount of cash.

He's washing his face and his body with all of the cash

and he's rapping to his song, "You don't know me."

And then after that, it goes to a dryer scene

where $100 of bills are just spinning in the dryer.

And I was very angry by that.

When I saw it, I'm like looking, I'm like,

"Wait a minute, that's my shower.

"You know, that's my dryer," you know?

And so, I told Monique about it, and she's,

"Oh, Mom, you know, that's just his image."

I said, "We will get killed for a like, a share, or a love."

I knew it was dangerous.

I said, "You know, people kill people for a lot less."

Suspicion at that point is maybe somebody came to rob him.

[narrator] As the investigation at the home continues,

Wanda spots something on the living room rug.

[Wanda] It was a purple key with a yellow butterfly.

And I got it from Monique when she moved back home.

I got it for her.

It was kind of like a welcome back, you know?

I knew it was going to be temporary,

but I just wanted her to have a key.

When I saw her key,

that's when I really knew.

I knew something was wrong when her key was on that rug.

That key should have still been with Monique.

[narrator] As police question Wanda,

a troubling possibility begins to emerge.

Could this second shooting be linked

to the unidentified young woman found in the alley

just hours earlier.

They were asking like about her tattoos and everything.

And then that's when,

that's when I was really thinking

that they were really just trying to find her.

At that point, I didn't even know

that it was trying to identify her body.

[Mark] Lieutenant Zimmerman told me

that Monique had a unique tattoo on her stomach area.

I was then in contact with, I believe,

is one of the patrol officers who confirmed

that she had that tattoo.

Sergeant Suchta was standing in front of me,

I just looked at him and I asked him, I said, you know--

Is it Monique? And he just--

He just shook his head and said yes.

That it was her.

And I just instantly just fell to my knees and I just said,

"You know, they killed my baby."

That's all I kept saying over and over again.

I said, "They killed my baby."

[narrator] 28-year-old Monique Baugh

began a career in real estate just a year before her murder.

Just told her if that's what, you know,

@she really wanted to do realúestate, you know, to go for it.

And she did. She loved looking at homes.

I mean, she would look at homes all day long on her computer.

She would get so excited, like, "Mom, come look at this house.

Oh, I think they'll love this house."

She just, you know, she found joy and excitement in that,

in helping people.

[narrator] But her greatest joy was being a mother.

[Wanda] She had originally said she wasn't gonna have any kids.

She told me I was gonna be a grandparent to a dog.

So fast forward two years later, she comes in.

She's like, "Mom, would you sit down?

I want to show you something."

So she gives me a card, like a greeting card.

And I sat down and I opened it up and it said,

"Do you want to be called Grandma or Glamma?"

And it had a little mirror in it.

And I said, "Monica, are you serious?"

And she goes, "Yeah."

And I said, "I thought you said you weren't,

didn't want to have any kids?"

And then I just felt my emotions welling up.

She loved most being a mom.

A mom was the best thing to her, her girls are her world.

[narrator] Minneapolis homicide detectives

now believe Monique's murder

and the shooting of her boyfriend,

Jon Mitchel Momoh are related.

There was no forced entry

into the front door of 4810 Humboldt.

The suspect made entry to the house

by opening up the front door with Monique's key.

Obviously, in order for the suspect to have access

to Monique's key,

they had to have access to Monique.

They had to have access to her for a while.

So now I'm starting to think in my head,

was Monique abducted?

Was she interrogated?

How did they get her keys?

Your brain starts to think like,

@ like what was going on here?

What was the plan?

What is the reason?

I remember going, what was going through my mind was,

this is how 2020 is starting out for it

for Marcus Benner and the city of Minneapolis.

[narrator] Police put out an alert on Monique's black BMW.

And then shortly after we get the call

from the patrol sergeant up at Maple Grove,

saying that they had found her vehicle up at Niagara Land.

[Marcus] It was a very nice neighbourhood,

where the streets curved.

There was cul-de-sacs and very nice homes.

And we pull up to the address where her car was located.

It was sitting in the driveway.

And it was very unique because the house was for sale,

and a lockbox was on the front door

with part of it missing.

The house is empty. It's spotless.

That was also strange in this case

because usually we're searching houses that have been lived in,

maybe junkier than the average house, crowded.

And this one was totally empty.

And I saw one pink fingernail

outside the bathroom on the floor.

It was a pink acrylic nail.

That was pretty creepy.

@ They were salon-applied,ú built-out manicured nails,

@ not the kind that you wouldú press on from the drugstore,

but actually like professionally applied

@and that they had been appliedúwithin the previous few days.

In my mind, I'm thinking she struggled and she fought.

We now have three crime scenes

and we have a lot of evidence that needs to be processed

and we have to move quickly.

@ The different occurrences were so spread out

that it wasn't like some cases where

@there's a manhunt for three days

@and it's the top story in theúnews for three days in a row,

@ and then the body is foundú or the suspect is arrested.

It wasn't like that.

It was more like, "This is

one of the most horrific things I've ever heard."

And then a week later, "Oh, my God,

this horrific story has gotten even worse."

And so it was dark, and it just got darker

and darker and darker.

[narrator] By now, police are able to talk to

Monique's longtime boyfriend,

Jon Momoh, in the hospital.

The first thing Jon says when they walk in is,

"I'm trying to find out about my girl.

I'm worried about my girl."

It is still on his mind.

He is still concerned. He still hasn't heard,

and he doesn't have his phone at that point.

[Marcus] He was in bad shape.

He's trying to figure out who shot him.

[Mark] Jon Momoh had a limited description

of the male who shot him.

He knew that he was a Black male.

He knew that he was wearing a cotton ski mask

with just one hole in it.

And I believe he described him right around 5 foot 9.

[Marcus] Then we also had to tell him

that Monique had been found and she'd been murdered.

And he completely lost it.

He broke down.

Jon Momoh told us that he last saw her,

right around 2 p.m.

is when she told him that she was going to do

a showing for a house.

And she had mentioned to him that it was strange

because the person that she was doing the showing for

did not contact her through the website

or any of the Realtor apps.

They contacted her through her personal phone,

which she found to be odd.

[narrator] The following day,

police obtained video surveillance

of the Maple Grove home where Monique's car was found.

We found video surveillance from across the street

which showed a U-Haul come to the showing

shortly after Monique had arrived.

[Marcus] We first see Monique arrive by herself,

park in the driveway.

@ You see a carefree Moniqueú walking in to do a showing

like any other day,

not realizing what's about to happen.

She walks up and she opens the front door and enters.

Around that time, you see the U-Haul drive by,

and then it circles back down the street

and it parks just off to the side of the camera view.

You see a shorter Black male wearing dark clothes

walk up the driveway and enter through

the front door of the home.

A few moments later, that U-Haul enters the frame,

and it backs up into the driveway.

After a period of time, you see a larger Black male

wearing dark clothes exit the driver's side.

He then enters the home through that same front door.

You see the garage door open.

And eventually, we see people leave through the garage door,

go in the U-Haul and leave.

And as you carefully looked at the video,

you could see that somebody had grabbed Monique from behind

and kind of shuffled her out the garage

and forced her into the back of the U-Haul.

And then they drove away.

The initial news that we got was that a real estate agent

was kidnapped and tortured and murdered

from one of her showings.

And right away, you think,

that could have been any one of a thousand real estate agents

because you think they show up at these showings

really with a lot of trust,

potentially meeting somebody that they've never seen before.

It's nightmare fuel.

It's just the nightmare scenario for anyone

that has a job like that.

It's hard to describe what it's like to see

somebody's last moments...

and know what's about to happen.

Yeah, there's definitely a powerlessness

that is very difficult to know

that this horrifying thing is about to occur.

And yeah, you can't do anything to stop it.

We were then able to call U-Haul,

and we were able to find out that that vehicle

had been returned.

That next day was when we went up to the U-Haul dealership

and we found the U-Haul.

The U-Haul was completely empty

except for puddles of bleach and ammonia,

and there was four pink acrylic fingernails,

just like the fingernail I found in the house.

That was the turning point of the investigation.

I mean, that's when red flags are up.

This is our fourth crime scene.

[Marcus] Inside the cargo area of the back of that U-Haul,

Monique's blood is on the walls.

It's on the roll-up door.

Her handprint

is on the inside of one of the walls in the cargo area.

Investigators collected the plastic packaging

that goes around a roll of duct tape before-when you buy it.

And it was Gorilla Tape packaging.

That tape appeared to be consistent with what had been

used to bind Monique's wrists.

[narrator] The U-Haul manager also gives police items

he'd collected from the cab of the truck.

He provided police with some other items

which included some zip ties and a bottle cap.

[narrator] And he offers up the names of the individuals

who rented the vehicle.

We knew the next thing that we had to do

was talk to these people.

They told us that they were heroin users themselves

and that their heroin dealer asked them

to rent the U-Haul for him.

And he gave them heroin in exchange

for them renting the U-Haul in their name.

And when we asked who that person was,

they said his name was Cedric Berry.

[narrator] Cedric Berry is arrested immediately,

but remains tight-lipped.

The first thing I said to him, I said, "Do I know you?"

He said, "I've known you your whole freaking career,

your entire career."

And I was like, Chicago Franklin days?

That's where I started out as a beat cop.

And he goes, "Yeah."

And he said the oddest thing.

He goes, "I knew you would get this case."

He literally said he knew I'd get this case

and he knew what I did.

I thought it was gonna be an easy interview.

He never confessed.

[narrator] It doesn't take long for police to identify

and arrest the second suspect.

When we took Cedric Berry into custody

up at the Double Tree Hotel,

Berry Davis was seen on video surveillance

at the hotel.

Berry Davis and Cedric Berry

were kind of connected at the hip.

They were seen with each other all the time.

[Paige] The description that we get from witnesses

is when you see one, you see the other.

These two are like Bert and Ernie.

They are always together.

[narrator] But Jon Momoh doesn't recognize either name.

[Marcus] Well, he goes, I can't think of anyone

who'd want to harm me or her.

But he said, the only name I can think of

that I'm having somewhat of a beef is, is LA.

Who we would later know as Lyndon Wiggins.

Lyndon Wiggins was a high-end narcotic dealer

that the FBI and our task force had been investigating

and had been following and monitoring for quite some time.

Lyndon Wiggins was also an artist, a rapper,

involved in the music industry, had an ownership stake

in the music label that Jon rapped under,

Black Bag Entertainment.

Within that past year, within 2019,

in around the spring of that year,

Jon and Lyndon Wiggins had had a falling out of some kind.

As I started to learn the details of their relationship,

it was, you know, they were working together,

it was symbiotic, but then at a certain point,

Jon Mitchell Momoh, I think, started to believe

that he didn't need Lyndon Wiggins.

Jon would tell you that he was the guy

who was up and coming,

that it was his music that was popular,

that people liked his lyrics,

and really, Wiggins was just there,

and that there was some jealousy by Wiggins

because he didn't like the fact that Jon was a star.

[narrator] No physical evidence connects Lyndon Wiggins

to Monique's murder or the attack on Jon Momoh.

But police do uncover a connection

to the two suspects already in custody.

Berry Davis and Cedric Berry

worked together as part of their drug trade.

Berry Davis is someoneú who has known Lyndon Wiggins

for many years at this point, I believe--

@ I want to say they metú in prison at some point

in the early 2000s.

He is someone who moves drugs for Lyndon Wiggins,

who sells drugs and distributes drugs for Lyndon Wiggins,

who delivers profit back to Lyndon Wiggins.

[Mark] We did a search warrant of Cedric Berry's car,

@we found 13 bundles of heroin.

@ We found his cell phone.

We found a black cotton ski mask with just one hole

that would expose the eyes,

identical to how Jon Momoh described the ski mask

of the suspect who came through the front door.

And we found two-way radios.

And we found a roll of Gorilla Tape in the trunk.

@Within days, his fingerprintsú were found on the duct tape

@that were on Monique's wrists.

We had Berry Davis' DNA inside the U-Haul.

I believe it was on the gear shifter.

And that helped corroborate the belief that he was the driver.

[narrator] Police tracked the two-way radios

to a purchase at a local Walmart.

I was like, "Could you at least tell me

what else is on the receipt?"

And they said, "We have two-way Midland radios,

a two-person tent,

and we have bleach and ammonia on the same receipt."

When that person told me

the words "bleach and ammonia" on the receipt,

I literally smelled the bleach and ammonia again

that I smelled the morning when I found the U-Haul.

And they pulled up the video of somebody purchasing

two-person tent, bleach, ammonia, and the radios.

And that person was Berry Davis.

This was done days before Monique was taken.

@ That, to us, showed that this wasn't, again,

@ a random act of violence,

that Cedric Berry andúBerry Davis clearly had a plan,

and they were going to try to hide

@ whatever evidence they could

@ of the crimes that theyú had committed that day.

[narrator] But it is a voicemail left on Monique's cell phone

that breaks the case wide open.

I have done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds

of search warrants on people's cellular accounts.

It was the only time ever, and still to this day,

I have never, ever gotten a voicemail

from a search warrant return on somebody's cell carrier.

It's never happened.

And that voicemail wasn't LA,

it wasn't Berry Davis or Cedric Berry.

It was a female who identified herself as Lisa Polowski,

and she said that she was very interested

in looking at the house up at 8300 Niagara Lane

up on Maple Grove.

They're also able to tell what phone number was used

to leave that voicemail.

So with that, they basically work backwards.

They see where it was purchased

and then they go back to that store.

They end up eventually pulling the surveillance videos

and that's where you see Cedric Berry

standing inside the store,

having a conversation with the person behind the counter.

We also knew as we examined the cellular data

for Lyndon Wiggins and Berry Davis

that they were in the immediate area of that store

when Cedric Berry had purchased that phone.

We also have documentation that Berry Davis

called into the store when Cedric Berry was there,

and he was communicating to him

what name to put on the account,

the false name of Lisa Polowski.

That phone only called one number,

and it called Monique.

So we're clear that that phone was used only

to set up this whole homicide.

Officer Jesse Standall,

he was the key of putting this together.

He had literally been researching

Lyndon Wiggins and his crew for like over a year.

Right as we just got done listening to the voicemail,

Jesse Standall was walking by our desk.

Officer Standall said, I know that voice.

I know who that is.

That is Elsa Segura.

She's a Hennepin County probation officer,

and she is the girlfriend of Lyndon Wiggins.

So now everything was pointing to Lyndon Wiggins

as being the mastermind for setting up this homicide.

Elsa Segura was taken into custody,

and she was played the voicemail.

And she acknowledged that it was her that called

and left the voicemail.

She said she didn't know what was going to happen

as a result of that.

And then she requested a lawyer.

Obviously, this is all dark.

It's all very dark.

But for me, the moment

that I really shook my head in surprise

@ was when a probation officer for Hennepin County

was arrestedú with a role in the crime.

Because when you have people like that

as part of law enforcement extension,

you just expect better.

[narrator] Investigators dig deeper

into Lyndon Wiggins' relationship

with Monique Baugh's boyfriend, Jon Mitchell Momoh.

@ In September, Jon Momohú was stopped in a vehicle

with several otherú males that had firearms

inside the vehicles.

Jon Momoh was not charged for that crime,

and he was released.

In October of 2019, the task force,

@ the federal and state drugútask force here in Minneapolis

@ had conducted some raids

on various residences

and locations throughout the cities.

And those raids were targeted,

and those locations were linked to Lyndon Wiggins.

Cash, drug ledgers, enormous amounts of marijuana,

fentanyl pills, just piles of evidence

was seized by the task force.

Lyndon Wiggins was also located and arrested

in Minneapolis that day.

One of the people that Lyndon Wiggins

calls from the jail multiple times is Elsa Segura.

In those calls, Lyndon Wiggins also tells Ms. Segura,

I'm hearing that Momoh was just in here.

I'm hearing that he was just in here,

he got picked up and he got let out without charges.

When the marijuana farm is raided,

Lyndon Wiggins became very paranoid.

@ It's like, who snitched?

How did they know where to go?

How did they have this information?

And when someone becomes paranoid,

they start looking cross-eyed at people

that are in their immediate orbit.

Jon Mitchell-Momohú is the one that he suspected

snitched on him.

Jon Mitchell-Momoh

never provided information to the police.

He was never an informant.

He had absolutely nothing to do with

the police building enough of a case

to conduct those searches in October.

He was never a snitch.

But that was a conclusion that Lyndon Wiggins had come to,

and we believe that that contributed

to the motive and why Jon Momoh was shot.

@[news] The search warrants filed by Minneapolis police

@ say that Baugh's boyfriend told police

@ the only person he could see doing this

@ was a former friend of his,

identified in theú warrant only by initials.

@ According to the warrants,

Baugh's boyfriend said he and that friend

had a falling out about a record deal.

Baugh's boyfriend also told investigators

according to the warrants

that he was recently flashing

a lot of money on social media

and that he thought a lot of people think

that he had snitched and might be after him.

And a question that remains unanswered in all of this

is why Monique was abducted and killed

when the warrants detail a plot against her boyfriend.

[reporter 2] Yeah, that is still a mystery.

Thank you, Jennifer.

Jon Momoh told us that nobody knew where he lived.

[Marcus] They never knew where he laid his head.

And if someone had to get at him,

they'd had to figure out where he lived.

@And he said that, but we didn'túreally know what that meant.

And it wasn't until, like, as the investigation was going,

he really did keep this other location locked down.

Like, he was very good at that.

That's when we realized the only way to get to Momoh

was through the mother of his children

and through the love of his life.

One of the reasons, if not the reason,

for kidnapping Monique and getting her house key from her

was to enable the perpetrators in this case

to take Jon Mitchell Momoh by surprise.

The inescapable truth is that Monique was only targeted

because she was Jon Mitchell Momoh's girlfriend.

She was his romantic partner.

They were known to be associated with one another,

and she was a way to get to him.

Nobody had a beef with Monique.

Nobody had a problem with her.

She wasn't out there mixing it up with people

that would have led her to be a target of anything.

[Mark] I don't know if they intended

to kill Monique all along.

They may have, we don't know for sure.

But the problem with kidnapping somebody

to interrogate them, to set up a murder

is if you let them go,

now you have a witness who's alive,

who can identify you.

She'd be able to identify Cedric Berry and Berry Davis.

She'd be able to give eyewitness testimony to the police.

And so I believe that they executed her simply

because they had to get rid of the one and only alive witness.

Monique was a true victim in this case.

She truly was.

She was completely innocent in this case.

She did not contribute to this in any way.

That's the hard part,

@ because she was not justúsomeone's girlfriend, you know?

You-is a girl-she wasú a girlfriend of someone

@that he didn't like, you know?

And I said this before.

I said, she died because of egos and hearsay, you know?

I believe that. And it's hard,

because I cannot get another daughter back.

Monique was my only child.

Even if I had 50 of them, I would still want her.

The girls, Legend and Legacy, they had one mother.

One. And I mean, she was taken.

For what?

[narrator] Investigators believe the trap to lure Monique

to a false showing

was carefully planned by Lyndon Wiggins.

[Mark] Lyndon Wiggins was the mastermind

who set up this whole thing.

The day before, that was a showing

that Elsa Segura had set up.

Monique went to that showing and there was a no show.

So Elsa, who set up the showing, did not show up.

And we believe that that was Elsa Segura confirming

that Monique was actually at the house.

It was kind of like a test run

for what they were going to do the next day.

[Lou] Elsa Segura was a willing participant.

She wanted to be part of his orbit.

She wanted to be special to him,

and she was highly influenceable.

She, while dating Lyndon Wiggins,

was more than happy to help him when she could

with his drug operation

and ultimately help him with this murder plot.

[Chris] Lyndon Wiggins is sly.

He's smart.

@And he wanted to keep an arm'sú length distance from this.

That's what he did in his drug trade.

He always had somebody else involved.

Somebody collected his money, somebody distributed the drugs,

somebody else was dealing.

You can never put your finger on Lyndon Wiggins.

And that was the same thing here.

Lyndon Wiggins wanted to be an arm's distance away

from what was going on.

[narrator] Berry Davis and Cedric Berry

chose to celebrate after the fact.

On the night of the murder, just

an hour and a half to two hours

after putting a bullet in Monique's head,

these guys met up with their wives at Applebee's

and had drinks and appetizers.

It's surreal to watch the video.

They're just celebrating a murder,

another day in the life of a criminal at Applebee's

on New Year's.

[narrator] In the end, all four are charged.

Cedric Berry, Berry Davis,

Elsa Segura, and Lyndon Wiggins

were all indicted by a grand jury

here in Hennepin County for first degree murder,

attempted murder of Jon Mitchell Momoh,

and kidnapping of Monique.

Those cases went to trial kind of sequentially

over the following couple of years.

@[narrator] Wanda Williams-Baugh attends every trial

@ and offers sobering testimony,

particularly atú Elsa Segura's sentencing.

She could have been a hero.

She could have warned Monique.

Something that really resonated with me

throughout Elsa Segura's part of this whole thing

was Wanda, Monique's mom,

consistently saying you could have stopped this.

You could have been a hero.

And even the judge in the case said the same thing.

[news] Wanda noted in her victim impact statement

at Segura's sentencing that the defendant

who survived the 35W bridge collapse in her youth

and went on to become a probation officer

showed no emotion in her trial.

And Segura was among just a few people in the courtroom

with a dry eye when Wanda shared this.

Monique's oldest daughter, Legend,

said to me a couple weeks ago,

she said... she said she wants to die.

And I said, no, baby, why would you say that?

And she said, because I want to see my mommy.

And she said, "You can bring me flowers."

And I know she was referring to the times

that we bring Monique flowers to her grave.

Elsa Segura, sat there stone-faced,

and I'll never forget how can you sit there

and hear this, the impact of what you did,

and feel nothing.

[narrator] All four defendants are found guilty

and sentenced to life in prison

without the possibility of parole.

But shockingly, the convictions of Elsa Segura

and Lyndon Wiggins are later overturned.

The Minnesota Supreme Court found that the jury instructions

that had been given at Elsa Segura

and Lyndon Wiggins' trials,

as they related to aiding and abetting,

justified a new trial for each.

My first thought when the

Minnesota Supreme Court overturned this was,

"Not this case. Why put this family through more?"

It just, it didn't feel fair.

The Minnesota Supreme Court, in addition to finding

that the jury instructions had been in error,

also found that there was insufficient evidence

to support the conviction of Elsa Segura

for aiding and abetting

first-degree premeditated murder.

And so when her case came back for retrial,

that charge, that kind of what we call top count,

most serious charge, we couldn't retry her on that charge.

@[narrator] Second time around,ú Elsa Segura pleads guilty,

@ but is sentenced to only 20 years in prison.

Anger is an understatement, but let me tell you,

she still has to go in front of the ultimate judge,

and that's God himself.

[narrator] In October, 2025, Lyndon Wiggins is retried.

And I told this jury in my opening,

there might be days where you will never hear

the name Lyndon Wiggins during this trial.

But the one thing that will become clear at the end

is that the only person that ties Berry Davis,

Cedric Berry and Elsa Segura together is Lyndon Wiggins.

He was the puppeteer.

You know, you don't see him

because he's off behind the curtain.

He is the great Oz that you never see,

but he is the one that's in charge.

[news] Tenacious testimony

in the courtroom this afternoon

in the first day ofú Lyndon Wiggins' retrial.

@ He's the alleged mastermind

of the 2019 kidnapping and murder

of real estate agent Monique Baugh.

Lou Raguse was in the courtroom today

and joins us live with developments. Lou?

[Lou] Prosecutors say Wiggins

was a record producer who signed Momoh,

a hip hop artist, but the two men

had a falling out.

Momoh testified that Wiggins

was cut out of the record company, blamed Momoh,

and hatched a plan to get to him through Monique.

[narrator] Outside court, Jon Mitchell Momoh

delivers a devastating reflection

on the murder of Monique Baugh.

Unspoken rule that everybody knows right

is women and children

are off limits, right?

So I respected it if they were to have just killed me

and left her alone.

[news] Monique Baugh would have turned 34, two weeks ago.

Her babies are now little kids

and three people are in prison

convicted for their roles inher 2019 kidnapping and murder.

But prosecutors are now asking a jury for justice

against whom they believe is most to blame.

Lyndon Wiggins.

Assistant Hennepin County Attorney Paige Starkey

in her closing argument,

telling the jury Monique Baugh

was the ultimate victim in this case.

She had nothing to do with this.

She didn't even know these people.

Her only crime was loving an imperfect man,

and that thankfully is not a crime.

Most of all, Monique loved her two girls.

And she said she was gonna be a soccer mom

and she was on her way to do that.

That was taken from her.

[narrator] Lyndon Wiggins' second trial

also results in a conviction,

and he is again sentenced to life

without the possibility of parole.

We always think that when the jury comes back

and they say, "Guilty," that justice has been served.

And when the judge finally sentences that person to life

without the possibility of parole,

that justice has finally been served for that family.

But there's no justice here.

Justice to me is two girls having their mother.

That will never happen.

We can never...

fix the harm that was done.

There will... [clears throat]

There will always be two girls

that will never have their mother.

And there will be Wanda

who will never have her daughter.

Christmases, birthdays.

No sentence is ever justice.

[Paige] They were so little when she was taken,

and, um...

As a mom of girls, I know that, uh--

I know what she missed out on

and what she continues to miss out on.

And those girls are what's left of Monique in this world.

And it is a wonderful thing.

What's left of her is valuable beyond measure

in legend and legacy.

[narrator] In the wake of incomprehensible loss,

Wanda Williams-Baugh is now raising the children

of her only child.

[Wanda] I said this from day one.

Monique's life ended and I pretty much picked up

where she left off.

I know I'm not doing things exactly the same as her

and that bothered me because I was always thinking,

"What will Monique do?

What will Monique say?"

And she was such a great mother.

And I always wanted to just honour her, honour her that way.

[narrator] Wanda's commitment to Monique's memory

led her to co-author a children's book

with her granddaughters.

A tale that ensures a mother's love is never out of reach.

It's Ruby and Onyx and the Magical Pillow adventure.

It is about having your mommy close to you,

still having her with you when she's not.

I want them to understand and know

that she wanted to be here with them.

More than anything in this world,

she wanted to be here with them, and she wanted to raise them.

She did not want to leave them.

She-and I know she fought hard

to be able to be here with them.