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(man) florida is pretty crazy when it comes to crime.

(man) it was a made-for-tv movie that was happening in real life.

(man) landy fit in very well in st. Petersburg

because they are so welcoming to the lgbt community.

(man) he wanted nothing more than to find the love of his life.

(woman) that's when the crazy switch flipped on.

(narrator) in a flash,

landy's life is ripped away from him

when a twisted love triangle turns deadly.

It was one of the most horrific crimes

to hit southwest florida.

(man) it was crazy, absolutely crazy.

(man) landy was kidnapped and tortured.

(man) they keep saying that they are going to pour drano

down his throat.

(narrator) a sadistic killer videotapes landy's final moments.

(man) you could hear the murder happening.

(man) we had the victim speaking from the grave.

(narrator) just when these florida men

think they got away with murder...

They left a key piece of evidence behind.

(narrator) ...And it seals their fate.

(man) we wouldn't have a job if criminals were smart.

(deeson) when there is a bizarre story,

the first thing we always say,

what is the florida connection,

what is the tampa connection?

(vega) it's hot here year round,

people are drawn to this area,

and they bring their own brand of crazy

to the state.

♪

(narrator) tampa and st. Petersburg are sister cities

nestled on florida's gold coast,

the gulf of mexico.

(vega) st. Petersburg and tampa go together very well

as sister cities.

Tampa's more urban than st. Pete.

(narrator) although tampa is considered the metropolis of the gulf,

it does not have the hustle and bustle of miami.

(deeson) it's a little bit more down to earth.

It's a comfortable metropolitan area.

(narrator) just two miles away is st. Petersburg,

where the sun rains down as hot as two lovers on the beach,

and the sparkling water dissolves into magical sunsets.

(vega) we have by far one of the nicest beaches

that you can ever go to.

(deeson) it is a very cosmopolitan area.

(vega) there's so much diversity

that it makes it a very special place

to live and work in.

(narrator) the tampa-st. Petersburg area prides itself on being

a picture-perfect place to live.

(tense music)

but this serenity is shattered on December 21st, 2011,

at 10:04 a.M.,

when 9-1-1 dispatchers in pinellas county

receive a disturbing call.

(schaub) there was a 9-1-1 call

where it sounded like the victim

was under a great deal of stress.

(judy) he could be heard in the call

saying that they're going to kill him,

implying that there's more than one killer.

(snipes) and then you hear two gunshots.

(judy) then the line goes dead.

(schaub) it was very, very strange.

(narrator) police are able to trace landy's cell phone

to a neighborhood in tampa,

but they cannot find his exact location.

(judy) it's the difference between using a hard line

and a cell phone.

Hard line, we know where you are;

cell phone, we're relying on the phone company

-to give us a location. -That cell phone,

unlike a land line,

is not tied to a specific address.

So they have to take that cell phone,

the signal that it's sending,

and triangulate that from the cell towers

that are in the area

and get you a rough idea as to where that call

may be coming from.

(narrator) it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

(snipes) we were able to narrow it down to roughly two streets,

and our deputies went out and knocked on doors,

trying to see if anyone had heard or seen anything.

(narrator) officers are combing the neighborhood,

looking for anyone who might be in distress.

The deputies split up and begin knocking on every door.

One deputy goes to 58th avenue,

while the other stays on 57th avenue.

Deputy fitzgerald knocks on 5476 57th avenue

when his partner radios him.

(judy) he knocks on the front door, and that's all he does,

because the other deputy calls him on the radio and says,

"hey, I think it's gonna be over here,"

so this deputy did not walk around the house,

didn't check the house.

(narrator) the deputy leaves 5476 57th avenue

and goes around the corner to meet his partner,

who is speaking to a few concerned neighbors.

A neighbor said, "there's a man in here that's paralyzed

and he screams all the time."

(narrator) after questioning the man,

police conclude that he did not call 9-1-1,

and they continue to search for landy.

At 10:44 a.M.,

40 minutes after landy's 9-1-1 call,

pinellas county 9-1-1 dispatch receives a call

from a woman named yadira guzman.

She's worried about her roommate, landy martinez.

(snipes) she had been trying to reach landy,

but he was not answering the call,

and what made her more suspicious

is the fact that they had surveillance cameras

at the house,

and when she tried to check the cameras online,

there was no signal from the cameras.

(narrator) worried that someone turned off the cameras intentionally,

yadira asks police to do a welfare check on landy,

and she gives them his address: 5476 57th avenue,

the same house that deputy fitzgerald knocked on

30 minutes earlier.

If this is the same landy martinez

who placed the 9-1-1 call,

police prepare themselves for what could be

a bloody murder scene.

Detectives cautiously make their way into the house.

They do not know what or who is waiting for them inside.

(snipes) they notice in the back of the house,

there's a broken window.

The door is open.

It looks like we have a break-in.

That's when they begin the process of opening the door,

announcing themselves,

and then checking the house to see if anyone's inside.

As they're walking through the house,

that's when they notice the bathroom.

The bathroom's in total disarray.

(schaub) the sliding glass shower doors

had been knocked off the tracks and broken.

There was drano.

There was a knife.

There was tape.

There was bleach.

There was a lot of blood.

It was obvious there was quite the struggle

in that area.

(narrator) investigators make a gruesome discovery.

(snipes) they found one of the bedroom door handles

seemed to be damaged,

and upon entering that room, that's when they found landy.

(schaub) mr. Martinez had been shot

once in the head and once in the chest,

lying face-down in his bedroom, dead.

(narrator) deputies confirm that 21-year-old landy martinez

is the victim who was pleading for his life

on the 9-1-1 call.

If landy had given his address to the 9-1-1 operator,

deputies might have been able to save his life.

♪

the news is devastating to his family and friends.

(rigg) when I heard he was murdered, I was in shock.

It was very surreal,

especially being like eight days after his 21st birthday.

Everybody was crying.

I think I just kind of walked around like a zombie

at work that day.

♪

landy was born in cuba.

His dad moved here first

and then brought him over later.

Landy's parents were divorced.

(narrator) at the age of eight,

landy moves to miami to live with his father,

but he holds on to his cuban roots.

(rigg) landy's mom stayed in cuba with her mother.

Landy was close with both sides of his family,

cuba and here.

(narrator) shortly after he turns 18,

landy comes out as a gay man,

and he decides to make a move to the lgbt-friendly town

of st. Petersburg.

(vega) landy came out when he was 18,

and for landy,

coming from a hispanic family,

it was probably very hard for him,

but landy would fit in very well in st. Petersburg

because they are so welcoming to the lgbt community.

(narrator) landy gets a job as a certified nursing assistant

at a nursing home in tampa,

just three miles from st. Petersburg.

(rigg) me and landy met at the springs nursing home.

We were in orientation together.

We did become friends pretty quickly.

He was sweet and kind and caring.

Residents loved him,

he loved the residents.

Eventually, he became the activity caregiver.

Landy loved his job, loved his co-workers,

loved the residents.

He just did a fantastic job there.

(narrator) everything is going great in landy's life.

He loves living with his roommate,

23-year-old yadira guzman,

and he recently started dating a new man

after celebrating his 21st birthday.

(schaub) he loved life.

He liked to be with people.

He had a lot of friends.

(deeson) he was trying to make his mark in america.

In fact, he told his cousin, "I'm gonna be somebody."

(rigg) landy was kindhearted, caring, sweet, social butterfly,

loved everybody,

made everybody happy.

It was a shock.

I cried every night for the first six months.

Landy was the best person I knew.

(narrator) with a killer on the loose,

detectives are scrambling to find answers.

Why would anyone want to kill this caring young man

in the prime of his life?

(judy) we learn that there was a new love interest for landy.

They're talking to him,

all of a sudden, he says, "do I need an attorney?"

innocent people don't need attorneys.

(snipes) landy decided that he did not want to be

-in a relationship any longer. -That in the detectives' minds

made him suspect number one.

(vega) it really was a horrific murder.

It opens people's eyes to a new level of evil

that many people won't experience.

Called 9-1-1,rk music) 21-year-z

he knew he was in danger.

That was the last time anyone would hear his voice.

On December 21st, 2011,

when 21-year-old landy martinez is brutally murdered

in his home,

law enforcement looks to the crime scene

to piece together what happened.

The house was legitimately broken into.

(snipes) the house was in total disarray.

Looks like someone's intent was to burglarize the house.

Surveillance cameras disconnected,

things taken and moved out of place.

There was a large-screen television

lying on the pool table in the family room.

(judy) computer systems, gaming systems, clothing,

and they were stuffing it in pillow cases

and boxes and suitcases,

and everything was stacked at the front door,

just like you see in a regular residential burglary.

What we believed happened is that the break-in occurred

and that landy was confronted by the perpetrator.

They bound him, beat him,

forced him into the bathroom.

(narrator) however, detectives find clues

that suggest that the killer may have been familiar

with the layout of the house.

They find suspicious items like drano in the bathroom.

(judy) we know that the perpetrator

actually obtained drano from a kitchen cabinet,

which is a good distance from the bathroom.

(narrator) if this was a random burglary,

why would someone go to the trouble

of getting drano from the kitchen sink

and bring it to the bathroom,

and how would they know that it was even in there?

(judy) someone had to know that it was there.

We know that they used a hammer and a kitchen knife,

'cause all these were found in the bathroom of the residence.

We don't know if the initial intent was

to take some things out of the house,

or if the intent was to kill landy.

(schaub) big-screen tvs, computers, clothes,

all types of items he had stacked up ready to go.

So I think the killer was loading up these items

and planning to clean house.

(snipes) the bathroom is across the hall

from where landy was actually found.

(schaub) but at some point in time,

he made it into his bedroom.

(judy) and he must have locked himself in there,

because there's signs that they tried to break down

these interior doors.

(snipes) they found that one of the bedroom doors,

the door handle seemed to be damaged.

(schaub) and at that time, landy was able to call 9-1-1.

(snipes) I believe that landy,

at the point that he knew that they were

breaking into that door,

called 9-1-1 to let them know that he was in extreme danger.

(schaub) they broke into that room and were able to apprehend

and shoot and kill landy at that time,

and that's when the 9-1-1 phone call terminates.

(vega) you hear the actual murder on the 9-1-1 call.

(narrator) the autopsy report confirms

that not only was landy shot twice,

he suffered multiple knife wounds

and had burns from drano being poured into his eyes

and down his throat.

(snipes) it was determined that he was shot

once in the chest just above his right nipple

and a second time in the rear portion of his head.

What happened to the chest

would have taken longer to kill him,

but the shot to the head was the immediate cause of death.

(narrator) if this was a random burglary,

why would the killer spend so much time

torturing landy?

Although detectives do not find the actual murder weapon,

they do find clues that help them determine

-what kind of gun was used. -Inside the bedroom,

there was at least one shell casing

that was found on the floor near his body.

(judy) the perpetrator was armed with a handgun,

at least one, we know that for sure.

(narrator) detectives analyze landy's 9-1-1 call,

and they note that landy repeatedly says

that "they are going to kill me."

(judy) so at least two killers were in the house.

We knew that from the very beginning of the investigation.

(narrator) did the perpetrators kill landy

because they heard him on the 9-1-1 call?

Or is it possible that this was not a burglary

and something else entirely?

(schaub) there was a broken window in the back of the house.

The glass was broken from inside the home.

(glass shatters)

(narrator) if this was a home invasion,

then why would the burglar break the window

from the inside of the house?

(snipes) it could very well have been the intent of them

to try and throw law enforcement off

by making us believe that a burglary happened there.

(judy) the forensic team and the crime scene detective

were able to locate an apple iphone

that was underneath a mattress on top of a box spring.

(narrator) could this be the phone that landy used

to call 9-1-1?

Are there clues on the phone that could lead detectives

to the killer?

Detectives will not know these crucial answers

until they can look inside the phone.

(snipes) we had to get a search warrant

in order to search the contents of that phone.

And that usually takes a couple days.

(judy) we learned from neighbors that there were

some suspicious solicitors going door to door.

They were magazine sales personnel.

That was odd for them to be in that neighborhood at that time.

(deeson) they saw two men leaving the house.

If you have two strangers in a neighborhood

where a murder occurs,

the police are certainly going to look at them

and see if they are the perps.

(narrator) detectives take on the daunting task

of locating the magazine salesmen,

while the csi unit continues to process the crime scene.

(snipes) the only dna evidence that was found inside that scene

belonged to landy.

(narrator) landy lived with yadira and another girl named mia.

Yadira was the woman who called 9-1-1

and asked police to do a welfare check on landy.

Both women were out of town at the time of the murder.

(judy) yadira and mia were snow skiing up in north carolina.

(narrator) after police confirmed their alibis,

yadira and mia are eliminated as suspects.

But they give police an interesting

tidbit of information.

(snipes) we talked to yadira, first over the phone,

and then she drove back from north carolina,

back to st. Petersburg where she was interviewed again.

(July) yadira and mia told us that landy had a new boyfriend.

(narrator) one month before the murder,

landy started dating 25-year-old jonathan galicia.

Landy jumped into things way too quickly.

Landy wanted to get married, have a family,

grow old with somebody, and enjoy life.

(judy) there's actually statistics.

Most people are murdered by someone they know.

It's always good to start with a domestic partner.

I know that's sad but it's true.

So, basically, if they didn't go there to rob the house,

this could have been a jealousy lover homicide.

(narrator) could landy's new boyfriend have the answers

police are searching for?

Does he know what happened to landy?

Landy martinez was found dead in his 57th avenue home.

It is believed that his murder was random,

possibly the work of men selling magazines door to door.

Police are following multiple leads

in the mysterious murder of 21-year-old landy martinez.

They learn that landy just started a new relationship

with jonathan galicia,

who lives over an hour away.

While they track him down,

police meet with eyewitnesses who saw several suspicious men

in the neighborhood at the time of the murder.

(schaub) coincidentally,

there was two young fellows in the neighborhood.

They were young,

they were in the area going door to door.

(deeson) when the police were canvassing the neighborhood,

they talked to folks who the salespeople had called upon.

One of the people had a card

that one of the salespeople left with him,

so now they say, "oh, now we're gonna be able

to track these guys down."

this was not that easy.

(judy) the solicitors were a little bit harder to track down.

They were with a company out of california.

We had to locate them,

and then they used people that responded to a craigslist ad,

they were independent contractors.

(narrator) as police try and locate the salesmen,

another eyewitness comes forward and tells police that they saw

two men leaving landy's house at the time of the murder.

(snipes) we had not only one group of people

that were canvassing the neighborhood

to sell magazines,

but we also had a couple folks who saw

two people leaving the area in a hurry.

(narrator) eyewitnesses tell police

that the two men leaving in a hurry were hispanic,

and detectives are trying to determine

if these are the same people who were selling magazines.

After some digging,

police are able to confirm that the two salesmen

were college students,

but neither of them are hispanic.

(snipes) we were able to identify

some of the students that were there,

none of which matched the description of the two people

that left the area later on.

(judy) we were able to locate them and interview them,

finding where they were at the time of the offense.

(narrator) police determine that landy's murder occurred

at 10:04 a.M.,

while he was on the call with the 9-1-1 operator.

According to the magazine salesmen,

they took a break at 9:30 a.M.

(schaub) they had alibis.

They had a receipt from a coffee shop

in downtown st. Petersburg at the time of the killing,

so they couldn't have been responsible.

(narrator) police eliminate the magazine salesmen as suspects.

But they turn their attention back to the two hispanic men

eyewitnesses saw leaving the crime scene.

(schaub) we started thinking that these two young individuals

may have been responsible,

because it was the time that the killing would have taken place,

and they were seen running, leaving that neighborhood.

(snipes) the key thing about the two people

that were leaving the area after the 9-1-1 call is,

those people were leaving between the time

that the 9-1-1 call was made

and the time that the second call for a welfare check

came in.

They're the only ones that were leaving the area in a hurry,

which drew attention to them.

You have two strangers in the neighborhood,

and someone says, "we saw two males leaving the house,"

well, all of a sudden, the detectives go,

"hey, these could be our guys.

We're gonna solve this real quickly,

it's gonna be nice and neat."

that was not the case.

(narrator) according to yadira,

landy's boyfriend jonathan often spent the night.

Is it possible jonathan is one of the men

eyewitnesses saw leaving the scene?

If jonathan was familiar with the house,

could it be that he was the one

who put the drano in the bathroom?

(deeson) police then looked at the closest person to landy.

That would be his current lover, jonathan.

(vega) he wanted a boyfriend.

He wanted nothing more than to have love and happiness

in his life.

(narrator) according to friends,

landy spent a lot of his free time enjoying the nightlife

in st. Petersburg.

(rigg) he went out dancing a lot.

Landy was a very good dancer.

(vega) landy fit in very well in st. Petersburg.

Gay bars, they were open and they were friendly

and they were thriving around that time.

(rigg) landy, he had a charismatic personality, bubbly.

When we went out dancing,

everybody pretty much just stopped and watched him dance.

(narrator) one month before the murder,

landy caught the eye of 25-year-old jonathan galicia.

(rigg) when I met jonathan,

I thought he was like the sweetest guy in the world.

Very cute, charming, kind, caring,

seemed to like landy a lot.

(narrator) within weeks of meeting,

the couple starts dating seriously.

But the relationship has a rocky start,

because landy just ended another relationship.

It's an insecure love.

Let's all remember when we were 21 years old.

The relationship was just starting out,

was just blossoming.

(narrator) before jonathan and landy started dating,

landy had been in a long-term relationship

with 24-year-old jose adame,

but it was over.

(rigg) landy's the one that broke up with jose.

Landy seemed so happy with jonathan.

But jonathan was jealous about jose.

(deeson) jonathan and landy had not been together all that long.

It was not a long-term relationship,

so they don't know whether he was out to get landy,

what he was doing, but it wasn't that

they had been together for a long time.

So that increased in their minds

the possibility that he was the perp.

They start first off telling jonathan

landy's been murdered.

They look for a reaction.

Does he have a reaction like he knew?

Was he shocked? Was he upset?

(judy) jonathan asked in his initial interview

if he needed an attorney.

(deeson) when someone says to a law enforcement officer,

"do I need an attorney,"

their radar goes off.

(judy) innocent people don't need attorneys,

and in my career investigating homicides,

no person ever asked for an attorney

-that wasn't guilty. -That in the detectives' minds

made him suspect number one.

(narrator) law enforcement is

landy's current boyfriend, jonathan galicia.

Jonathan claims that he was home alone

on the morning of the murder,

and that he made multiple calls to landy.

We followed that up

by subpoenaing his cell phone records,

(narrator) while they wait for the cell phone records

to verify jonathan's story,

police question him about his relationship with landy,

and he tells police that he was involved

in a love triangle with landy and his ex-boyfriend,

24-year-old jose adame.

(judy) on our interview with jonathan galicia,

we learned that there was a three-way phone call

the night before this homicide

between jonathan, landy martinez, and jose.

We didn't know about the three-way call

until jonathan told us about it.

(narrator) jonathan and landy's fragile love affair

was just beginning when the murder happened.

(deeson) jonathan thinks that landy still has feelings for jose,

and he says, "no, there's no way,

I'm done with him," and he said, "I'll prove it to you."

so he arranges a three-way call,

and the new partner, jonathan, is quiet on the call.

(vega) landy wanted to make sure that jose knew

things were over with.

"we're not getting back together,

I have a new boyfriend,

we're moving on with our lives together."

(judy) and then, at the end of that call,

which was over an hour long,

jonathan identified himself as being on the call.

Jose wished them well as a couple

and he'd actually said that he had a new boyfriend.

Jose was in north carolina at the time during that call,

that night.

(narrator) jonathan tells police

that on the morning of the murder,

he received suspicious texts from landy,

which tipped him off that something was wrong.

(deeson) those texts were saying,

"I'm going back to jose.

I really love jose.

It's over between us.

We haven't been together that long,

I don't want you.

Jose is the person I love."

♪

(narrator) after the three-way call,

did landy have second thoughts about his new love, jonathan?

Did his feelings rekindle for jose?

(vega) they've looked at jonathan as the obvious suspect,

thinking that he's the new, jilted boyfriend.

(snipes) jonathan galicia tried to reach out to landy

to no avail.

He wasn't calling him back.

(vega) jonathan at that time

was concerned,

because just a couple hours ago,

jose was out of the picture, jose was moving on.

He thought it was very unusual,

and he suspected that there might be something wrong.

(narrator) jonathan tells police he became concerned

when landy wasn't answering his phone,

so he called landy's roommate yadira,

who was out of town.

(schaub) at that point in time,

she decided she needed to call law enforcement,

and that's when his body was found.

(narrator) police are suspicious of jonathan's story,

and they cannot verify it until they get his cell phone records,

which can take a few days.

In the meantime,

detectives take a deep dive into landy's relationship

with his ex-lover, jose adame.

We were able to determine that there were several

domestic issues in the past.

(narrator) in July 2009,

just months after publicly coming out,

landy meets jose adame on a dating website.

(rigg) I wasn't surprised landy met somebody online.

I figured nowadays, that's the way anybody meets anybody.

Landy and jose's relationship seemed pretty good

in the beginning,

seemed like they got along great,

liked each other a lot, fell in love.

(narrator) first love can be intense,

and as time passes, there are warning signs

that the relationship is beginning to crack.

(rigg) jose was very jealous.

I believe if you saw jose and landy in a room,

jose would be more off to the side,

while landy would be the one in the middle, going,

"hey, let's have a great time!"

(narrator) the fighting between jose and landy escalates,

and two months before the murder,

the couple calls it quits.

I wasn't really surprised that landy and jose broke up,

with all the fighting that was going on

and things like that.

It wasn't too long after the breakup

that landy started dating jonathan.

(narrator) although landy and jose's breakup

was amicable on the surface--

landy even allowed jose to borrow his car--

things quickly begin to sour

when landy starts dating jonathan

and jose begins lashing out.

(snipes) jose began doing things to get back at landy.

He took the car up north

and was driving through intersections

where he knew that there were cameras

that would record the plate and the tag.

(judy) landy was getting these $50, $60, $70 tickets

with no recourse.

(narrator) the car was registered to landy,

who is now responsible for the tickets

that jose is racking up.

Furious with his ex,

landy hatches a scheme to get the car back.

(schaub) mr. Adame came back into pinellas county,

and at that time,

he thought he was meeting mr. Martinez,

but he actually was meeting mr. Martinez

and local law enforcement,

and local law enforcement took back that vehicle

at that time and returned it to mr. Martinez,

leaving jose adame stranded there.

(narrator) is it possible that losing the car

and the three-way phone call with jonathan

pushed jose over the edge?

When police try to contact jose,

he refuses to speak to them,

so they orchestrate a call between him and landy's friend

gail rigg.

She made a controlled call to jose

where we recorded it trying to gather evidence,

but he said that he was not in florida,

he was at his new boyfriend's house,

and when she told him landy was murdered,

he said, "that's not true,

you're just trying to mess with my brain."

he wouldn't believe it.

(schaub) jose indicated that he was also involved

in a new relationship,

with a person with a lot of money,

and bought him a new car, a lexus,

and he was very happy.

(narrator) although jose stays on police radar,

they do not have any evidence to tie him to the murder,

and they turn their attention back to the apple iphone

that was found at the crime scene.

(schaub) they were able to get a search warrant,

opened up that phone,

and saw a videotape of a torture scene.

Mr. Martinez was in his bathroom.

He was kneeling, he was crying out for help.

(judy) that phone was landy's phone.

(whimpering)

(snipes) in 23 years of doing homicide investigations,

this is probably the only case that I saw a video of the victim

prior to his being murdered.

(narrator) although the actual murder is not captured on film,

the sadistic torture is documented.

(judy) the shower's running.

He's bound by his wrists with duct tape.

He's wearing a white t-shirt.

He's crying.

It is horrific.

He knows he's in big trouble,

that something bad's gonna happen to him.

It's a horrible video.

It's hard to watch a man being tortured,

pleading.

(deeson) they were using drano and a knife.

The thought of having drano poured down your throat

or into your eyes, threatening to stab him,

that is psychological as well as physical torture.

(snipes) and seeing the pain and the anguish on his face,

knowing that he was in a lot of trouble,

that he most likely might not make it out of that bathroom.

You can see clearly that he is not the person

holding the cell phone.

(judy) landy makes a statement in spanish.

He is a terrible person,

everything was landy's fault.

(narrator) was the three-way call the tipping point

in this toxic love triangle?

Could one of landy's lovers be a sadistic killer?

(deeson) he says, "jose, I'm sorry."

(schaub) he got physically sick when they confronted him.

(snipes) we used the u.S. Marshals office

to go and locate him.

(narrator) police are analyzing a disturbing cell phone video

of landy martinez in the moments before his death...

And it reveals a shocking twist in the case.

(deeson) he says, "jose, I'm sorry,

please don't kill me, please don't kill me,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

(schaub) he was begging for forgiveness

and apologizing to mr. Adame,

and telling the world that mr. Adame is not responsible

for what had occurred.

♪

(narrator) autopsy reports confirm that landy was murdered

by two gunshot wounds.

Did jose pull the trigger,

or was it his accomplice?

Does jonathan know more about what happened to landy

than he is admitting?

Police turn to him and demand answers

about the morning of the murder.

What the police found out

is that jonathan had nothing to hide.

(snipes) by subpoenaing his cell phone records,

we were able to show that he was in that area

where he lived at the time that this all happened,

so we know that he couldn't have been down in st. Petersburg

doing these texts,

making these phone calls,

and murdering landy at the same time.

(deeson) and that in essence eliminated jonathan.

(narrator) while police confirm

that jonathan was not in st. Petersburg

at the time of the murder,

they begin to look into jose's whereabouts.

Although jose told landy he was in north carolina

while on the three-way call the night before the murder,

police uncover a different story.

(judy) we found that on the night before the murder,

on the three-way call between jose, landy, and jonathan,

jose adame's cell phone is in largo, florida,

which is right next door to st. Pete, florida, which is--

this is where this homicide occurred.

And then, in the morning,

jose adame's cell phone hit off the same cell tower

that landy's cell phone hit off of.

(narrator) jose's cell phone records

give detectives exactly what they have been looking for:

Proof that jose was in st. Petersburg not only

while on the three-way call

but also on the morning of the murder.

(judy) we knew it was jose.

(snipes) we had to devise a plan

in order to help us locate jose.

We used the u.S. Marshals office to go and locate him.

Once he was taken into custody,

our detectives responded to north carolina,

and then they met with jose at the county jail.

(snipes) he tried to tell the detectives

that he was in north carolina the entire time.

He got physically sick when they confronted him.

(judy) during the interview,

which was a little over two hours long,

he vomited so much that it got to the point

where he was producing green bile only,

so, you know he was definitely under a tremendous amount

of emotional stress.

We thought he'd committed the murder with another person,

based on landy's 9-1-1 call.

He does say, "they're gonna kill me,"

indicative of more than one person,

so at least two.

(snipes) but jose would not divulge

who the second person was.

(judy) the way jose acted during the interview,

when he wasn't gonna give up the second person,

much more likely that it's a family member.

(snipes) the detectives went back to the house

and began interviewing the family again.

(judy) the big break we got in the case was,

jose's cousin maria, she said,

"well, I'm pretty mad because jose took my little brother leo

and borrowed my mom's car to drive back down to florida."

we asked maria where the car was.

We requested a search warrant and we were issued one

by catawba county, north carolina,

and during that search,

we found blood on the steering wheel,

and we found a glove,

a black, inside-out cloth glove,

between the seat and the center console.

Both of these items had blood on them.

Lab results showed that the blood belonged

to landy martinez.

So now we have blood that belongs to landy

in a vehicle that was used by jose adame.

Landy would have never been in that vehicle

in his entire life,

so that pretty much sealed the case for us

against jose.

D

and he was indicted for first-degree murder.

(narrator) the arrest also brings relief

to martinez's parents.

They were too shook up to go on camera

but say they hope adame spends the rest of his life

behind bars.

(rigg) I felt a lot of relief knowing jose was finally caught.

(snipes) the second suspect was jose's 16-year-old nephew.

We did not find any evidence in the line of fingerprints

or blood or any type of dna, hairs, or anything like that

we could link back to his nephew.

(judy) the state attorney's office didn't think there was enough

to charge leo with homicide.

(narrator) jose's cousin leo was not charged with any crime

in connection with the murder of landy martinez.

(rigg) I think jose was driven by rage and jealousy and anger.

(deeson) he is pushed over the edge

when landy tricks him into coming back,

thinking he's gonna get back together

with the man he loves,

and then loses his mode of transportation.

♪

(schaub) when he came down here,

he literally stalked landy.

We were able to get cell phone data

to show his locations during these times,

and that showed he followed him

to and from his home,

to his place of employment.

He'd follow him all over town

until the morning that he conducted

the killing of landy martinez.

(deeson) there was so much rage from breaking up,

the phone call and then the truck,

he was gonna get even.

♪

landy and jose,

when they were together as partners,

bought two iphones together.

They looked exactly the same.

And when jose grabbed what he thought was his phone,

he didn't realize it was landy's cell phone.

As they're torturing landy,

he's capturing this on landy's cell phone.

(snipes) I believe that landy knew at that point

that he was about to die,

and that's gonna be the only piece of evidence

that he had.

So, to hide that phone was his last way

of helping us.

♪

(schaub) the trial was very unusual,

because we had the victim speaking, basically,

from the grave.

(landy shouting, pleading)

the jury got to see that video

of landy crying, begging for his life.

(whimpering)

no, no...

(schaub) you see the physical pain

and the mental pain

that landy martinez went through.

The jury got to see that

and jose adame got to see that.

The videotape was the most compelling piece of evidence.

(rigg) in court, jose just looked like no remorse, you know,

a little "I did it; who cares?"

no emotion on his face.

(narrator) jose adame is found guilty of first-degree murder.

Although he manages to avoid the death penalty,

he is sentenced to life in prison.

(rigg) the saddest part is losing my best friend.

When landy was murdered,

the world lost an amazing person.

All-around great guy I loved hanging out with,

kind, caring person, made me laugh,

even if I was having a bad day at work.

That left a really big hole in my heart, you know,

but I just take it day by day

and just remember all the good times.

Landy was cremated and sent back

to his mother in cuba.

(schaub) there was no doubt jose thought

he could get away with this crime.

(judy) I believe he wanted that video as a trophy, absolutely.

(vega) I think that jose really wanted to kill landy

and enjoy doing it.

He thought he was just gonna walk away

and this was never gonna be brought up again.

There were a lot of mistakes that jose made.

(schaub) he didn't realize

that he didn't clean up that car well enough

to remove the blood,

and that we were able to get dna from that.

And then, of course, he had no idea where that phone was.

(deeson) jose was an idiot,

an absolute idiot,

because the cell phone with the incriminating evidence

was left behind.

In real life, this does not happen.

(schaub) he had landy plead for his life,

but not just plead for his life,

but to tell the world that jose adame was a good guy,

that jose adame was not at fault.

That's a very, very sick mind that would do that.

(rigg) saddest part for landy is he didn't get to have

his family and his children and his happy ending.