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To choke somebody to death requires.
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A great deal of intent.
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An innocent victim.
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She was very much a social butterfly,
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and everybody knew her.
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A dark mystery with multiple suspects.
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Love triangles are powder kegs.
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They are very unstable.
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We said, "hey, we think she's dead.
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Did you kill her?"
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If she's telling him it's over,
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he really has nothing to lose financially
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by killing her.
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The truth will be revealed.
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Boom... this is the guy who did it.
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Now we just have to prove it.
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Every day in North America,
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dozens of people are murdered.
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The key to solving the toughest
of these homicides
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lies in the final 24 hours
of the victim's life.
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To crack the case,
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detectives must reconstruct
that critical timeline,
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the minutes and hours containing evidence
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that can help unlock the mystery
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and catch the killer.
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Anna Maria island,
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a seven-mile strip of soft white sand
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in the Gulf coast of Florida.
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What's unique about Anna Marie island
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is it's just naturally beautiful.
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It's got wide beaches, soft sand.
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It does attract a lot of tourists.
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But the community has been
able to stay free of
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corporate tourism.
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It has that old Florida feel where
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the buildings are still low to the ground.
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There's not major signage everywhere,
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so it's really a gem.
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The criminal activity of
Anna Maria island relative to
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the rest of manatee county is pretty low.
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Murders are extremely rare.
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It's early morning, November 2008.
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Two patrol deputies pull over
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a white convertible for a broken taillight.
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But when they approach the car,
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the driver takes off running.
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First thing that pops
into their head is probably
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a stolen car.
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So the first person
you go after is the driver.
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The deputies give chase
and eventually apprehend
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Robert corona,
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a two-bit criminal known to local police.
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He's a car thief,
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and he had had several
convictions for that type
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of offense.
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However, he did not have
any violent convictions.
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When we first talked to him, he said,
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he met this woman and a man
in the gator lounge bar,
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and they wanted some crack,
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"so she loaned me
her car to go get it."
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And not having the whole story,
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we said, "okay."
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When investigators run the license plate of
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the convertible,
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they see it belongs to 49-year-old hotelier
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sabine musil-buehler.
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Sabine is a native German,
and she was in the tourism
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business there,
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and so she came to Anna Maria
and fell in love with it.
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She was very much a social butterfly,
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and sort of everybody knew her.
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She met her husband, Tom,
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and they decided to buy a hotel together,
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which turned out to be Haley's motel,
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a nice little popular spot
that people really loved.
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So I came out to Haley's motel
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where sabine lived with her husband
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to make notification that
her car has been impounded.
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And I said, "well, it was impounded
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"and in east
bradenton, off 14 street."
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Bradenton is just nine miles
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east of Anna Maria island.
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But in every way that matters,
it's a world apart.
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The area is not the best part of town.
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There is a certain amount of
street crime that occurs there.
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Her husband, Tom, says that
she doesn't go there.
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She doesn't drink.
She doesn't smoke.
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She doesn't do anything like that.
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She was not out there.
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There's prostitutes and bars,
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and she had no interest in either.
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Tom says he hasn't seen sabine in two days.
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Tom advised US that they were estranged,
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they had been estranged for quite a while,
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and that she was living mostly half
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a mile away at her boyfriend's apartment,
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bill cumber.
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Tom directs investigators to bill's
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apartment, but sabine isn't there, either.
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When we went to cumber's
residence and was talking
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to him, he said the last time he saw sabine
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was like about 10 o'clock November 4th.
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It was election night, and she had left
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to go to a party celebrating the election.
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Well, she never showed up.
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And she was very enthusiastic about
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President Obama's candidacy.
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So that was kind of a tip off
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right then that something might be wrong.
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In my experience, it's very
rare for someone to disappear
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off the face of the earth and
not come back within 12 hours,
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24 hours, 48 hours.
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And knowing that their car had been stolen,
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and they were nowhere to be found,
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that's very quickly a situation that
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becomes suspicious.
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Tasked with investigating
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sabine's disappearance is
detective Peter rampone.
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There's a lot of steps that
have to be taken to establish
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that someone who is missing is indeed dead,
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and it's very difficult.
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We checked all of her credit cards.
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We checked airline flights.
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But there was no paper trail of
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her having done anything after 10 o'clock,
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election night, November 4th.
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Detective rampone impounds the car
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and calls in the forensic team.
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There was evidence in the back of the car,
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which indicated that something had happened.
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The back seat was cluttered with newspapers,
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and there was some Halloween
stuff back there
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and some kind of a stuffed bird
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thing laying in the back seat.
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When they moved the bird, we saw the hole.
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The seat cushion was cut out,
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and the seat padding underneath of it,
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and it was like you could
see the floor of the...
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The vehicle.
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Investigators conduct a luminol test
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on the back seat.
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Luminol, which you spray on it,
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and if it turns a certain color, like blue,
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then it's human blood.
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It's definitive... there's blood all around
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the cutout patch in the back seat.
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So they took DNA swabs from
around that circular patch,
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both the inside of the patch
and then around it,
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and then they sent that
evidence off for DNA testing.
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They also find drops of blood
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on the exterior rear left door.
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We believed at that point
we felt pretty certain
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that she was dead.
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We just didn't know where.
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A no-body homicide or a suspected murder
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but with no body, these are cases
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that overwhelmingly
point to that there is no other
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conclusion other than that
someone has been murdered.
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And in the absence of a body,
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you really need to build that
evidence through other means.
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To find out what happened
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to sabine musil-buehler,
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detectives must unravel
the last 24 hours of her life.
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It's extremely important,
especially when you have
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a whodunnit kind of thing.
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You want to establish
a timeline so that you can
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place people where they were
or weren't during that period,
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and you go through and rule
them out or add them in.
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Their first suspect
is the man caught driving
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sabine's car in the early
hours of November 6th,
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Robert corona.
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The first person you go after is the driver,
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because they're more culpable
to being involved in a crime.
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So we decided to go back
and talk to Mr. Corona.
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The potential theory would
have been that sabine
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had somehow driven into
the city of bradenton,
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encountered Mr. Corona,
that he had killed her
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and taken her car.
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Corona had initially
told them that sabine had
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lent him the car to go buy drugs.
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It sounded plausible, but
that was before they found
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the blood.
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So he's confronted, and he's told, "look,
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"this is... this is basically
a homicide investigation.
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"You better be straight with US about
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how you came into possession
of this car."
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We said, "hey, um," we think she's dead.
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Did you kill her?"
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And he readily admitted
that he stole the car at
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that point, that the drug
thing was made up by him.
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And he immediately gave US another story,
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that he was checking cars
behind the businesses.
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He found one at the gator
lounge with the window
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open and the keys in it,
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how convenient, and drove away
and got stopped and arrested.
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In an attempt to verify corona's story,
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detectives head to
the gator lounge in bradenton.
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They show the night bartenders
a picture of sabine
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and a picture of her car
and ask if they've ever seen
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either before.
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And they both said, "no,
we've never seen her before."
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And I asked about the camera
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in the back of the bar,
and he said, "it's fake.
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It's just there for looks."
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So we said, "okay," but the bar
manager did say that
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when she left after the bar closed,
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she saw sabine's car parked
in the southwest corner of
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the building, and it was just sitting there.
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And that fit
what Mr. Corona was saying.
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So at that point, we pretty
much eliminated corona.
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With corona's account believed to be true,
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detectives are now able
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to narrow down the timeline of
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sabine's disappearance.
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The bar manager
would have seen sabine's car in
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the parking lot after 2:30
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because that's when the bar was
officially emptied, closed.
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Corona
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said he went through the parking lot,
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walking down the back of businesses,
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and that was the only car
in the parking lot.
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And the time he got pulled over was
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just minutes after he took the car.
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The fact that the bar manager
sees the vehicle
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there in the early morning
hours of the sixth
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tells the investigators that
sometime between 10 and 11 P.M.,
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when cumber says he last saw her
alive, and the time that her
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vehicle is first observed at
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the gator lounge, she's likely been killed.
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With corona ruled out,
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investigators are looking
at just two main suspects.
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One of the things you do
when you have a homicide,
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the first thing you look at is
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the immediate circle of family and friends.
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And in this case, you know, Tom was there,
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cumber was there,
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and really nobody else was there.
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In cases where a female spouse
is the victim of homicide,
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we logically think of intimate partners.
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And in this case, you know,
you have the husband, who is
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a business partner.
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And then we also have
a current boyfriend with some
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potential motivation, as well.
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We got a lot of phone calls
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from friends of sabine,
and some people said, "well,
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Tom did it. Tom did it."
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You know, other people were
saying bill cumber did it.
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So it's... it's a mind game.
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With little physical
evidence to work with in
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the no-body homicide of
sabine musil-buehler,
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detectives are looking at both
her husband and her boyfriend
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as possible suspects... they start by
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interrogating her boyfriend.
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Tom and sabine had been married for years
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at the time of her disappearance,
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but the new element in
her life was William cumber.
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Bill cumber's 39 years old,
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and he's known as quite
a charismatic guy around town.
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And, you know, some people would say
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he was a good-looking gentleman.
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Mr. Cumber was very candid
about his background.
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He said he had a history of getting
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angry at women and doing
violent acts when scorned.
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He confessed to that
and was convicted of that
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and went to prison for that.
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But he insists that he's a changed man.
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Okay.
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Bill credits sabine with giving him
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the new start he so desperately needed
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three years earlier.
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Bill cumber showed up at Haley's motel
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one day and told a story of how he had
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just gotten out of prison
and was looking for work.
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He said, "I am coming from a difficult past
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"where I have been in prison.
I'm very handy with things.
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"Is there anything I can do
around your hotel
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for a little walking money?"
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So he began to do little projects,
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because they're very welcoming,
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you know, heartfelt people
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who saw a guy they wanted to help.
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Bill tells detectives that what started as
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a friendship between sabine
and himself soon became
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something more.
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He was a craftsman.
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He was an excellent woodworker.
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Saw some of the things he had made
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and they were just astounding.
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And I believe he was an artist, as well.
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So she was kind of receptive
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to those traits that this guy
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portrayed and possessed.
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Bill's criminal past
is viewed as suspicious,
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so investigators ask him
for a detailed breakdown
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of the last day he spent with sabine.
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He said they had gone to
the dentist in the afternoon,
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sabine and cumber,
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and she was paying for him
to have some dental work done.
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And I think she left him for a time and then
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came back to the apartment
on magnolia Avenue
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where they had dinner.
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According to Mr. Cumber,
he made vegetarian spaghetti.
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She drank wine.
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Mr. Cumber claimed
that he had not spoken
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to sabine since then.
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He had been attempting to reach her by phone
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several times.
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He then went over to
Haley's motel on the morning
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of the fifth to confer
with Tom buehler about
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her disappearance.
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Mr. Cumber claimed Tom buehler
had told him that sabine
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sometimes just went off on her own and,
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would reappear.
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He didn't seem upset.
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He didn't appear to be
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in any frantic hurry to help look for her.
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Detectives subpoena bill's phone records
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to see if he's telling the truth about
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trying to reach her.
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There were no calls.
Nothing.
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After 10 o'clock on November 4th,
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there's no record of him calling anybody,
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and that's a big red flag.
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While they can't rule bill out,
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detectives struggle to find
a reason why he might want
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sabine dead.
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She was taking care of him completely.
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She was renting the apartment,
providing the food.
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Um, she was the money person.
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And so that didn't really add up very well.
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This relationship was
serving many needs for bill.
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He gets out of prison.
He has nothing.
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He has somebody who's willing to cultivate
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a relationship with him
and even financially support
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that relationship.
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Mr. Cumber obviously
was a suspect,
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given his prior history,
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but police were never able to find any
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ultimate motive that established him as
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the perpetrator.
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He was losing a great deal with her,
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with her being gone.
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He's still on the list, and we're watching,
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but evidence and interviews and situations
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took US in a different direction.
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When asked who he thinks
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would want to hurt sabine,
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bill points the finger
directly at her husband,
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Tom, insisting he was jealous
of their relationship.
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Love triangles are powder kegs.
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They are very unstable.
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You introduce jealousy,
you introduce resentment,
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you introduce humiliation,
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and those can be powerful
motivators for someone
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who needs to be in control.
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Then, out of the blue,
investigators get a call
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that a fire has broken out at Haley's motel.
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When the fire broke out at the hotel,
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it was such a second shock
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that immediately people believe
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that the two are related...
Her disappearance
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and the fire and whether Tom maybe set it
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because the hotel was struggling.
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Fire is always
a great eradicator of evidence,
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that's why when it shows up in an unusual
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or suspicious circumstance,
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you always need to dig deeper
in terms of was the fire
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the main crime?
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After a fire rages through Haley's motel
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just 12 days after sabine's disappearance,
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investigators hone in on her
estranged husband, Tom buehler.
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To me, the obvious or intuitive reasoning
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behind why Tom may have
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burned down the hotel is
obviously, number one,
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to potentially destroy evidence.
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Number two would come back to money... fires
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equal insurance settlements,
for the most part,
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and in this case, you could
have that double whammy.
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With heightened suspicions about
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Tom's involvement in sabine's disappearance,
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detectives subpoena the motel's public
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financial records.
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There was some financial problems.
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The business wasn't doing that well,
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and Tom had a buyer from Europe, Germany
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to be specific, who was
interested in buying the place.
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And with sabine being gone,
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Tom gets all the money.
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With money being a possible motive,
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detectives ask Tom whether or not he had
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taken out an insurance policy
on sabine's life.
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Tom told one of my detectives that he has
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an insurance policy out on her for $100,000.
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Tom volunteered that
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he forgot about the $300,000 policy
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he had taken out years before,
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um, and that concerned US, as well.
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Not only that, investigators discover
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that he had recently filed court papers
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to have sabine officially declared dead.
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And as that played out, people started to
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00:21:58,918 --> 00:22:01,629
dig up those possible feelings of, well,
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if they haven't found her,
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00:22:03,489 --> 00:22:06,067
why would he want her
declared dead at this point?
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You know, maybe there's
still hope she's alive.
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00:22:08,061 --> 00:22:10,004
This is kind of strange.
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00:22:10,129 --> 00:22:12,006
With their suspicions deepening,
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detectives question Tom about
his whereabouts between 10 P.M.
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On November 4th and 2:30 A.M.
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November 6th, the window in
which they believe sabine
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was killed.
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Tom said he was attending an election party
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and was there with his girlfriend,
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and there were several people
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that would have attested to his whereabouts
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during the time of her disappearance.
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00:22:36,289 --> 00:22:38,299
Alibis can be tricky
in that just because you were
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at a certain place at a certain time doesn't
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necessarily mean that you
couldn't have also been
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somewhere else immediately
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thereafter and returned
to the original place.
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We may be dealing with a large,
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as we are in this case, window of time,
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00:22:53,072 --> 00:22:55,383
where you have the opportunity
to literally be in multiple
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places not at once,
but in immediate succession.
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Detectives search Tom's house, looking
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00:23:03,549 --> 00:23:05,316
for any evidence of foul play.
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00:23:07,887 --> 00:23:10,965
Tom had an injury on his head,
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a small scratch, and we asked him about it,
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and he said, "I was hanging
some blinds in my bedroom,
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"and when I was hanging them,
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they fell on me and struck me
in the head."
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00:23:22,135 --> 00:23:23,544
So we went and looked at the blinds,
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and they were kind of askew,
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00:23:24,937 --> 00:23:27,348
and there's a little drop of
blood on one of the blinds,
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which is consistent with
the story he had told US.
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00:23:32,078 --> 00:23:35,490
So he didn't hide it, you know,
he told US right away
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what he... where he got it.
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00:23:38,184 --> 00:23:40,762
And when the fire
marshals tests Tom's hands for
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accelerant found in the motel's debris,
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00:23:43,956 --> 00:23:45,156
they find nothing.
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00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:52,440
Finally, detectives confront
Tom about bill's claim that
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he was jealous of his wife's
extramarital relationship.
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Tom said the romantic
aspect of the relationship
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had ended years ago,
446
00:24:32,038 --> 00:24:35,283
but they remained friends
and business associates.
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00:24:35,408 --> 00:24:37,185
They had the house divided.
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00:24:37,310 --> 00:24:39,821
He lived in half, she lived in the other.
449
00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:41,689
The kitchen was in the middle.
That was neutral.
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00:24:41,814 --> 00:24:44,492
That way both stayed
out of each other's way.
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Tom had a girlfriend,
so the idea that somehow
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he suddenly became enraged
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00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:52,756
and jealous at this particular
point didn't seem very likely.
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But despite the fact
that detectives aren't able to
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conclusively rule out Tom
or bill at this point,
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00:25:01,667 --> 00:25:03,978
there just isn't enough
evidence to charge either
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of them in sabine's disappearance.
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00:25:06,572 --> 00:25:09,617
I only have heard of one case
where they prosecuted
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somebody without a body,
and they got a conviction,
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00:25:12,945 --> 00:25:17,291
and we had to...
We really had to get a body.
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00:25:17,416 --> 00:25:20,762
The sheriff's office
brings in cadaver dogs to search
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a section of the beach near Haley's motel.
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00:25:24,090 --> 00:25:25,466
We felt pretty certain she had
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been buried out at the beach somewhere.
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We started using...
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Dogs, ground-penetrating radar.
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Then we used a bulldozer, and
we would scrape very little,
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and if they hit a branch
or something, they'd stop,
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dig around it and find, "no,
keep going."
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And we dug up...
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A mile of beach, very wide
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and went down as deep as you could.
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But they come up empty-handed.
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It got to a point where no,
nobody's dragging a body
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this far.
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Then a tip comes in.
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There were two women who claimed to have
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seen someone who looked
like sabine at the airport.
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There's cases of missing
persons who go on vacation
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for, say, a month and don't tell anybody,
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and they come back from their vacation,
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and everybody's wondering,
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you know, where they've been.
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So it was raised as a distinct possibility.
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Could she have gone somewhere
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and not returned?
Or maybe she'll show up.
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But she would have to use some
form of money to survive on,
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and we couldn't find a trace of that.
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There was no record of
sabine having taken any flight.
490
00:26:52,445 --> 00:26:56,624
Also, video camera footage
from the airport was reviewed,
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and there was no image
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of sabine at the airport
at the time the women claimed
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to have seen her.
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You have to chase every
lead until you hit a wall,
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00:27:06,492 --> 00:27:08,636
and then you go to the next
lead, and you're chasing
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00:27:08,761 --> 00:27:09,637
that one until you
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00:27:09,762 --> 00:27:11,806
gather every... enough information.
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00:27:11,931 --> 00:27:14,932
Detectives finally catch a break in the case
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when they get a call from
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a neighbor of sabine's
who lives on the beach.
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00:27:22,074 --> 00:27:25,319
They have a sidewalk, which
is just wide enough for, say,
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a golf cart to go down, and it runs
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parallel to the beach.
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00:27:31,751 --> 00:27:34,762
There was a little jut of
wooded area that came
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off that sidewalk towards
the beach with trees,
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00:27:38,124 --> 00:27:39,534
and the neighbor,
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he was out clearing out some stuff,
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00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:43,838
and he moved some logs or debris,
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00:27:43,963 --> 00:27:45,696
and he found a purse in there.
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00:27:49,335 --> 00:27:54,582
He did open it and looked,
and it was sabine's purse,
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00:27:54,707 --> 00:27:57,941
with her ID and some, I guess,
credit cards and cellphone.
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Whoever disposed of it there
had to know the area kind of
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00:28:03,749 --> 00:28:06,294
to be on that walkway that's,
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00:28:06,419 --> 00:28:08,863
you know, only accessible by
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side streets,
516
00:28:10,256 --> 00:28:13,801
and this wasn't near
a side street, it just...
517
00:28:13,926 --> 00:28:16,070
Made US think, well, I know who knows
518
00:28:16,195 --> 00:28:17,395
this area pretty well.
519
00:28:27,206 --> 00:28:29,717
The discovery of
sabine musil-buehler's purse
520
00:28:29,842 --> 00:28:31,619
buried near the beach provides
521
00:28:31,744 --> 00:28:34,388
the first solid clue
to who might be responsible
522
00:28:34,513 --> 00:28:35,723
for her murder.
523
00:28:35,848 --> 00:28:38,960
Its location is critical,
because it's just a couple
524
00:28:39,085 --> 00:28:43,264
blocks down from Mr. Cumber's
residence on magnolia Avenue,
525
00:28:43,389 --> 00:28:45,099
and it just keeps pointing back to
526
00:28:45,224 --> 00:28:48,292
Mr. Cumber, that he is
the person responsible.
527
00:28:49,662 --> 00:28:51,706
With that in mind, detectives take
528
00:28:51,831 --> 00:28:54,642
a closer look at bill cumber's
prison record.
529
00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:57,445
A few years before,
530
00:28:57,570 --> 00:29:00,381
Mr. Cumber met a woman,
531
00:29:00,506 --> 00:29:03,217
um, felt that she had rejected him,
532
00:29:03,342 --> 00:29:05,853
and so he set fire to
the residence that she was
533
00:29:05,978 --> 00:29:07,521
residing in at a time
534
00:29:07,646 --> 00:29:09,223
she and several other individuals
535
00:29:09,348 --> 00:29:10,748
were inside the house.
536
00:29:14,754 --> 00:29:16,831
Now knowing that bill's history includes
537
00:29:16,956 --> 00:29:18,599
an arson conviction,
538
00:29:18,724 --> 00:29:21,669
investigators question him
directly about the fire
539
00:29:21,794 --> 00:29:23,704
at Haley's motel.
540
00:29:23,829 --> 00:29:27,642
Fire marshals said there was
an accelerant used.
541
00:29:27,767 --> 00:29:31,112
Um, at some point,
I believe the fire marshal
542
00:29:31,237 --> 00:29:35,016
spoke with cumber.
543
00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:36,317
They did some kind of test,
544
00:29:36,442 --> 00:29:40,087
and he had some kind of
accelerant on his hands.
545
00:29:40,212 --> 00:29:44,458
And cumber explained that away,
as at his workshop,
546
00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:47,551
his lock was stuck, and
he sprayed wd-40 in there.
547
00:29:49,121 --> 00:29:52,566
Mr. Cumber does allow
them to search his apartment.
548
00:29:52,691 --> 00:29:56,837
They looked for any kind of
gasoline containers.
549
00:29:56,962 --> 00:29:59,640
They examined the area of
550
00:29:59,765 --> 00:30:03,377
the apartment for traces of an accelerant,
551
00:30:03,502 --> 00:30:04,779
but they weren't able to find anything
552
00:30:04,904 --> 00:30:07,314
to definitively link him to the arson.
553
00:30:07,439 --> 00:30:10,685
But they find, um,
554
00:30:10,810 --> 00:30:13,721
blood on the couch inside the apartment,
555
00:30:13,846 --> 00:30:18,059
which they then take swabs of
and submit for DNA testing.
556
00:30:18,184 --> 00:30:21,295
Then detectives notice something else.
557
00:30:21,420 --> 00:30:24,632
I noticed on his hand, he had
558
00:30:24,757 --> 00:30:28,135
a wound right in the center of his palm.
559
00:30:28,260 --> 00:30:31,305
And I asked him, I said,
"where did you get that?"
560
00:30:31,430 --> 00:30:33,307
And he goes, "I was riding
my bike, and I skidded,
561
00:30:33,432 --> 00:30:37,244
and I fell into the shells,
and I scraped my hand."
562
00:30:37,369 --> 00:30:40,915
No, I've done that my entire life as a kid.
563
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,019
You don't get a blister
in the middle of your hand.
564
00:30:45,144 --> 00:30:48,111
That blister on his hand was from a shovel.
565
00:30:49,882 --> 00:30:51,459
Detectives bring cumber down to
566
00:30:51,584 --> 00:30:54,161
the station for a more serious sit down.
567
00:30:54,286 --> 00:30:58,065
What they see solidifies their suspicions.
568
00:30:58,190 --> 00:31:01,402
We had him come into the office,
569
00:31:01,527 --> 00:31:05,773
and detective alvarado and detective kenney
570
00:31:05,898 --> 00:31:07,475
interviewed him.
571
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,577
I was watching on a video,
572
00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:13,147
and they questioned him for quite a while,
573
00:31:13,272 --> 00:31:15,916
and they asked him what about
the cut in the seat,
574
00:31:16,041 --> 00:31:18,242
something to that effect.
575
00:31:18,377 --> 00:31:20,888
And he made an up and down motion like
576
00:31:21,013 --> 00:31:23,390
he was holding a knife and making a circle
577
00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:26,350
and cutting out the seat cover.
578
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:30,564
So for him to have
made that gesture indicated
579
00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:34,024
he knew the shape that had
been cut out of the seat.
580
00:31:35,394 --> 00:31:37,738
I was watching the video,
581
00:31:37,863 --> 00:31:40,241
and I'm like, "my gosh,
582
00:31:40,366 --> 00:31:44,645
that's how the seat cover
was taken out."
583
00:31:44,770 --> 00:31:47,915
Mr. Cumber would have had
no means of knowing that other
584
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,651
than having been the person
who cut out the piece
585
00:31:50,776 --> 00:31:52,319
of upholstery.
586
00:31:52,444 --> 00:31:55,656
And in our minds then, boom,
this is the guy who did it.
587
00:31:55,781 --> 00:31:57,070
Now we just have to prove it.
588
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:01,462
Detectives decide to force bill
589
00:32:01,587 --> 00:32:03,631
into showing his hand.
590
00:32:03,756 --> 00:32:06,767
Police will often bluff
suspects by presenting them
591
00:32:06,892 --> 00:32:08,002
with claims of evidence
592
00:32:08,127 --> 00:32:10,538
that they don't actually have in hopes of
593
00:32:10,663 --> 00:32:12,206
getting an admission.
594
00:32:12,331 --> 00:32:14,708
Detectives know that
the camera at the back of
595
00:32:14,833 --> 00:32:15,776
the gator lounge,
596
00:32:15,901 --> 00:32:18,913
where sabine's car was found,
isn't functional.
597
00:32:19,038 --> 00:32:21,715
It's a fake, but bill doesn't know that.
598
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,985
When we interviewed cumber the next evening,
599
00:32:25,110 --> 00:32:27,188
we mentioned to him,
600
00:32:27,313 --> 00:32:31,692
"well, there's a camera out
behind the gator lounge.
601
00:32:31,817 --> 00:32:33,994
"We haven't got the tape yet,
602
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:37,198
and then when we do,
we gotta process it."
603
00:32:37,323 --> 00:32:40,968
Which is nonsense, "but,
604
00:32:41,093 --> 00:32:44,071
whoever dropped that car
off is gonna be on that video."
605
00:32:44,196 --> 00:32:46,140
That led Mr. Cumber
606
00:32:46,265 --> 00:32:48,809
to go to the gator lounge and confront
607
00:32:48,934 --> 00:32:50,678
the manager and ask, in fact,
608
00:32:50,803 --> 00:32:53,948
whether they had video cameras
trained on the parking lot,
609
00:32:54,073 --> 00:32:56,540
which only a guilty person would have done.
610
00:32:56,675 --> 00:32:58,652
No innocent person would be concerned
611
00:32:58,777 --> 00:33:01,021
that he had appeared on a video.
612
00:33:01,146 --> 00:33:03,657
So that was one of the most telling aspects
613
00:33:03,782 --> 00:33:07,027
of the case that pointed
to Mr. Cumber's guilt.
614
00:33:07,152 --> 00:33:10,097
That was an indication that
we're on the right track,
615
00:33:10,222 --> 00:33:13,801
you know, we got him.
We just got to get him.
616
00:33:13,926 --> 00:33:15,636
While investigators wait for the lab
617
00:33:15,761 --> 00:33:18,606
to process the blood
found in bill's apartment,
618
00:33:18,731 --> 00:33:21,275
they uncover an important clue.
619
00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,246
November 4th, sometime after 10,
620
00:33:25,371 --> 00:33:29,639
sabine's car had been parked
out on the beach,
621
00:33:30,943 --> 00:33:34,955
a quarter of a mile away from
the apartment she shared
622
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,893
with William, and that raised concern.
623
00:33:39,018 --> 00:33:42,396
And the reason we found that out is because
624
00:33:42,521 --> 00:33:46,066
a deputy was driving around
that night, and he saw
625
00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:49,303
a car parked in a no parking zone,
626
00:33:49,428 --> 00:33:51,094
and he wrote it a ticket.
627
00:33:52,498 --> 00:33:55,142
The discovery helps
illuminate sabine's movements
628
00:33:55,267 --> 00:33:56,977
on the night she disappeared.
629
00:33:57,102 --> 00:33:59,880
The timeline we had was
630
00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:02,149
sabine's last known
to be with Mr. Cumber
631
00:34:02,274 --> 00:34:04,919
between 10 and 11
according to his statement.
632
00:34:05,044 --> 00:34:08,122
Her car is documented two blocks away
633
00:34:08,247 --> 00:34:09,723
by the parking ticket
634
00:34:09,848 --> 00:34:14,461
at 5:10 A.M. on the 5th,
so roughly six hours
635
00:34:14,586 --> 00:34:17,731
after he last said he had been with her.
636
00:34:17,856 --> 00:34:19,767
Well, it's only two blocks away from where
637
00:34:19,892 --> 00:34:21,168
Mr. Cumber lives.
638
00:34:21,293 --> 00:34:24,905
It would make sense for him to want to place
639
00:34:25,030 --> 00:34:26,941
her car somewhere other than their residence
640
00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:28,809
if he's killed her.
641
00:34:28,934 --> 00:34:31,078
And then, of course, he can easily walk
642
00:34:31,203 --> 00:34:34,548
the distance back to
his residence that evening.
643
00:34:34,673 --> 00:34:35,950
It gave US a timeline,
644
00:34:36,075 --> 00:34:38,752
told US where the vehicle had been
645
00:34:38,877 --> 00:34:40,788
as opposed to the gator lounge,
646
00:34:40,913 --> 00:34:44,325
and it just kind of all fit.
647
00:34:44,450 --> 00:34:47,394
When detectives attempt to arrest bill,
648
00:34:47,519 --> 00:34:49,730
they find that he's left town.
649
00:34:49,855 --> 00:34:54,335
He was making a getaway,
trying to disappear.
650
00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,461
Fleeing is kind of
a good indicator of guilt.
651
00:35:07,539 --> 00:35:09,984
As investigators zero in on bill cumber
652
00:35:10,109 --> 00:35:13,253
for the suspected homicide
of sabine musil-buehler,
653
00:35:13,378 --> 00:35:15,923
he's apprehended fleeing the state.
654
00:35:16,048 --> 00:35:19,793
He's heading up north towards i-4,
655
00:35:19,918 --> 00:35:21,662
and he had a taillight out,
656
00:35:21,787 --> 00:35:25,322
and he shouldn't have been
driving... he's got no license.
657
00:35:27,626 --> 00:35:28,826
And he's on probation.
658
00:35:30,629 --> 00:35:33,763
Well, normally, violation
of probation, you know,
659
00:35:35,267 --> 00:35:39,279
you may get a little bit of jail time, or...
660
00:35:39,404 --> 00:35:42,539
You can get before a judge
who finds out that there's
661
00:35:42,674 --> 00:35:44,184
a murder investigation going on,
662
00:35:44,309 --> 00:35:47,488
and you can get 13, 14 years,
663
00:35:47,613 --> 00:35:50,991
which is what he got, so he's on ice.
664
00:35:51,116 --> 00:35:54,161
That gave US all some
breathing space to try to
665
00:35:54,286 --> 00:35:56,630
continue the investigation
without having to worry that,
666
00:35:56,755 --> 00:35:58,933
you know, he could potentially
kill somebody else.
667
00:36:00,259 --> 00:36:01,268
Meanwhile,
668
00:36:01,393 --> 00:36:03,837
the detectives finally
get the forensic results
669
00:36:03,962 --> 00:36:06,940
from the blood taken from sabine's car.
670
00:36:07,065 --> 00:36:09,043
DNA is perhaps
671
00:36:09,168 --> 00:36:13,113
the most persuasive physical
evidence you can have.
672
00:36:13,238 --> 00:36:19,153
We had Mr. Cumber's DNA
on the driver's seat area
673
00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:24,091
and also in and around the area
that had been cut out
674
00:36:24,216 --> 00:36:25,426
in the back seat.
675
00:36:25,551 --> 00:36:29,430
And we have sabine's blood in
the area that's been cut out,
676
00:36:29,555 --> 00:36:32,499
keeping in mind
that Mr. Cumber
677
00:36:32,624 --> 00:36:35,202
supposedly had never driven that car.
678
00:36:35,327 --> 00:36:38,639
So we decided we had all
the evidence we were going
679
00:36:38,764 --> 00:36:42,743
to get... we were probably
not gonna find her body.
680
00:36:42,868 --> 00:36:45,579
And so, ultimately, the decision was
681
00:36:45,704 --> 00:36:48,649
made to charge
Mr. Cumber with murder.
682
00:36:48,774 --> 00:36:51,452
As they prepare
their case against bill cumber,
683
00:36:51,577 --> 00:36:54,688
detectives put pressure on him to confess.
684
00:36:54,813 --> 00:36:57,324
We hounded him for years and years.
685
00:36:57,449 --> 00:36:58,325
We just didn't let up.
686
00:36:58,450 --> 00:37:02,229
And he just was exhausted, and knew he was
687
00:37:02,354 --> 00:37:04,164
gonna be in jail for a long time,
688
00:37:04,289 --> 00:37:05,589
and he just gave up.
689
00:37:23,242 --> 00:37:25,652
Cumber finally tells detectives exactly
690
00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:27,387
what happened to sabine musil-buehler
691
00:37:27,512 --> 00:37:30,390
in her last 24 hours.
692
00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:32,148
She took him to the dental office
693
00:37:34,319 --> 00:37:37,364
for him to get some dental work done,
694
00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:40,724
and he was observed to be in ill temper.
695
00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:45,672
They then watched the election returns.
696
00:37:45,797 --> 00:37:50,410
She drank a bottle of wine, and somewhere in
697
00:37:50,535 --> 00:37:54,882
the area of 10 to 11, he tried
to smoke a cigarette.
698
00:37:55,007 --> 00:38:00,377
She found out about it and
basically told him it was over.
699
00:38:50,729 --> 00:38:53,807
He then wrapped her up in a blanket,
700
00:38:53,932 --> 00:38:56,109
put her in the back seat of the car,
701
00:38:56,234 --> 00:38:58,590
and he decided he was gonna
Bury her out on the beach.
702
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:03,984
The following day, he takes the car,
703
00:39:04,109 --> 00:39:05,975
he drives it into bradenton.
704
00:39:07,346 --> 00:39:10,557
This is now November 5, 2008.
705
00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:14,094
And he leaves it at the gator
lounge with the keys
706
00:39:14,219 --> 00:39:16,630
in the ignition in the hopes
that someone will take it
707
00:39:16,755 --> 00:39:18,565
and thus become the prime suspect
708
00:39:18,690 --> 00:39:21,535
in Ms. Musil-buehler's
disappearance.
709
00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:25,572
He takes the last bus back to the island
710
00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:28,765
and goes back to the apartment
that they had shared.
711
00:39:30,702 --> 00:39:33,814
I don't think Mr. Cumber
planned to kill her
712
00:39:33,939 --> 00:39:37,884
prior to the evening of November 4th.
713
00:39:38,009 --> 00:39:40,487
I believe he was angry at
714
00:39:40,612 --> 00:39:43,223
the loss of what she could provide for him,
715
00:39:43,348 --> 00:39:45,993
financially.
716
00:39:46,118 --> 00:39:49,096
Having been denied something he wanted,
717
00:39:49,221 --> 00:39:50,453
he chose to kill her.
718
00:39:52,224 --> 00:39:54,835
However, to choke somebody to death
719
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,471
requires a great deal of intent.
720
00:39:57,596 --> 00:40:01,241
It's not a split-second
act like shooting a gun
721
00:40:01,366 --> 00:40:02,743
in the heat of the moment.
722
00:40:02,868 --> 00:40:05,045
It requires a sustained effort,
723
00:40:05,170 --> 00:40:08,738
which shows some intent to kill.
724
00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:13,854
In exchange for a reduced sentence,
725
00:40:13,979 --> 00:40:17,380
cumber agrees to reveal
the location of sabine's grave.
726
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,795
Mr. Cumber then got
in a law enforcement vehicle
727
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,698
and took the police to the location,
728
00:40:24,823 --> 00:40:27,634
which was a couple blocks away
from Haley's motel,
729
00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:30,937
under a covered area where people can
730
00:40:31,062 --> 00:40:33,730
sit on a bench and look at the beach.
731
00:40:35,767 --> 00:40:37,444
He was somber.
732
00:40:37,569 --> 00:40:40,914
He kneeled down at the burial site,
733
00:40:41,039 --> 00:40:42,839
supposedly said a prayer.
734
00:40:46,144 --> 00:40:49,222
He affected remorse.
735
00:40:49,347 --> 00:40:51,347
Whether he actually felt it, I don't know.
736
00:40:53,685 --> 00:40:56,697
Investigators begin
digging for sabine's remains.
737
00:40:56,822 --> 00:41:00,901
We started finding items
associated with sabine
738
00:41:01,026 --> 00:41:04,538
roughly three feet down
from the surface of the sand.
739
00:41:04,663 --> 00:41:07,374
Her clothing was with her.
740
00:41:07,499 --> 00:41:10,577
I believe a piece of jewelry was with her.
741
00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:14,147
The remains were completely skeletonized.
742
00:41:14,272 --> 00:41:17,451
I think finding the body
provided the family with
743
00:41:17,576 --> 00:41:20,921
a measure of relief and certainty
744
00:41:21,046 --> 00:41:22,823
that they had lacked.
745
00:41:22,948 --> 00:41:25,659
I think ultimately, this was
746
00:41:25,784 --> 00:41:28,184
something that gave them some peace of mind.
747
00:41:29,654 --> 00:41:32,265
Bill is sentenced to 20 years in prison.
748
00:41:32,390 --> 00:41:35,736
He will be eligible for parole in 2029.
749
00:41:35,861 --> 00:41:38,438
The timeline is important in
all murder cases,
750
00:41:38,563 --> 00:41:42,776
but in this case, because
she initially wasn't found,
751
00:41:42,901 --> 00:41:46,613
we had to come up with
a convincing narrative,
752
00:41:46,738 --> 00:41:49,950
potentially to a jury that,
in fact, she is dead,
753
00:41:50,075 --> 00:41:51,952
and this is why we know she's dead,
754
00:41:52,077 --> 00:41:54,654
and the timeline was basically
755
00:41:54,779 --> 00:41:57,891
the critical aspect of that narrative.
756
00:41:58,016 --> 00:42:00,494
But the victory is bittersweet.
757
00:42:00,619 --> 00:42:04,331
You never forget the
family members of the victims.
758
00:42:04,456 --> 00:42:06,266
You never forget their trauma.
759
00:42:06,391 --> 00:42:11,872
It's the ultimate act of
violence, and it disturbs
760
00:42:11,997 --> 00:42:13,173
a family typically.
761
00:42:13,298 --> 00:42:16,943
And in this case, it
disturbed an entire community.
762
00:42:17,068 --> 00:42:20,881
You gotta weigh closure against
sorrow and loss, you know,
763
00:42:21,006 --> 00:42:23,316
and that's a difficult thing to measure.
764
00:42:23,441 --> 00:42:26,509
For the family, can't ever
really be closure,
765
00:42:28,113 --> 00:42:30,647
'cause you wake up every day
and you know they're gone.
59571
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