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In homicide we have,
it's called "the board.
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No pun intended, we live and die
by the board.
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All your detectives are lined up
one through twelve.
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It's the luck of the draw.
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If you're number one or number two
and that homicide line rings,
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you're up.
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That's how I caught
three cases back to back,
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uh, that, emotionally, made
a huge impact on me.
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Garcia's younger sister
found her stabbed to death.
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Police say 19-year-old Lena Kim Nguyen
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was stabbed to death.
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The body of 18-year-old
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Jennifer crecente
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found Thursday night
with a single gunshot wound.
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They were beautiful,
they were fun-loving,
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they were caring, charismatic.
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I could totally see myself as them.
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And they were all brutally murdered.
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Jenny, she had a gaping hole
in the back of her head.
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How many people
have you seen like that?
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It was like she was the...
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Detective that investigated the women
hater's club or something.
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As a female detective,
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it's a lot of trauma to deal with.
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My head was up.
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But working
in a predominantly male job,
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you do have to prove yourself.
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So how do you keep going?
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Growing up,
I always wanted to be a cop.
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My brother-in-law
had been a police officer
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and so I would see him in uniform,
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and I'd look him up and down
and look at his gun belt and the whole bit.
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And I'm like, "hey!
Why don't you take me out on a ride along?"
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I kept bugging him and bugging him
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and I wore him down
and he's like, "fine."
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He goes, "don't even ask me
to go to the restroom,
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you don't need water,
you don't need anything.
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We're going from call to call
and that's it."
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I'm like,
"all right, let's do it!"
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I was like,
"hey, I think this is what I wanna do."
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He's like, "you're crazy.
Women shouldn't do this." And we were on the drive...
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And every time he told me, "you shouldn't do this,"
I would do it. So...
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That was just one more thing for me,
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for him to tell me not to do that I did.
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Fast forward, I graduated
the Austin police academy in 1986
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and I spent, uh,
several years on patrol.
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I think police work
is always a boy's club.
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There's not a whole lot
of females that are attracted to police work.
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Uh, the Austin pd as of today
has 1,800 officers
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and there's still only maybe,
I would say, 11, maybe 12% female.
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Female police officers
in general, you know, already have like a,
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a bit of a barrier.
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But I've known Lisa since the day I stepped
on the street in a uniform,
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and I just expected her,
that she was gonna go.
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She's well-focused
on her mission.
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I went to work the gang unit, did that
for about five years.
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I did some undercover work,
including prostitution, narcotics.
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I enjoyed, you know,
working with the guys,
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but sometimes you'd open
that door and you'd be like,
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"all right,
I'm bleeding.
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And I'm in no mood.
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So don't with me right now."
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I ended up promoting to detective
in the year 2000.
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When I went to the homicide unit,
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I was like, "oh, my god.
This is real ," you know?
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Because, you know, with gangs and robberies
and whatever else,
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your suspects all circle back around,
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but with homicide it's... That's it.
That is the ultimate crime.
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9-1-1, where is your emergency?
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January 26, 2004.
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I got notified of a suspicious death
in northwest Austin.
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When I caught this case, or when this case
caught me, was early in my career.
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It's stress, it's a lot of pressure.
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Like, this was her first
major homicide investigation,
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and I was assigned as the primary
support investigator.
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I responded directly to the scene.
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Being the, the number one,
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you feel the weight of the world on you.
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You're trying to remember
everything that you're supposed to be doing,
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um, because you
don't wanna screw up.
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You, you just don't wanna screw up.
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Talking to the two young girls
that were living there, a 13-year-old
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and a 16-year-old, that the oldest sister,
18-year-old Virginia Garcia,
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also known as Jenny,
was found dead in her bedroom.
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Brutally murdered.
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As you walk into her bedroom,
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what you're seeing
is a half-naked young female,
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uh, her head covered in a pillowcase,
bloody pillowcase.
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She was nude from, from the waist down.
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This particular case
had what appeared to,
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to potentially be a,
a sexual component to it.
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She sustained three stab wounds.
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And the knife is protruding
from her, her chest.
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Her arms were bent at the elbows
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and pulled back behind her
to the small of her back.
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They appeared to be tightly bound.
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It was... it was very brutal.
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And I imagine, you know, that she was,
she was just in terror.
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The suspect broke a window,
went in through the laundry room.
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Um, that's how he gained
entry into the house.
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The family was a mother,
father and three young, young girls.
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The victim's sisters
came home from school
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and ended up finding,
um, their older sister in her bedroom...
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Deceased.
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And, so they're actually
the ones that, that placed the 9-1-1 call
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from the neighbor's.
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We're processing the crime scene.
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It appeared that each of the bedrooms
had been ran sacked.
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There was jewelry that was stolen.
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Honestly, my first thought
was it was burglary in progress,
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and she comes home,
and she catches the suspect.
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And at that point, he's like, "I'm .
I have to do something with this girl."
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It wasn't until we rolled her over
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that we were able to see
what she was bound with,
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which were the zip ties.
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So now it appeared
to be more methodical.
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It wasn't just a simple burglary.
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It looked intentional.
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I'm like, "you, you tied her up
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and you plunged that knife in her chest
as your exclamation Mark.
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I told Jenny, "I'm gonna find
who did this to you.
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Whatever it takes,
I'm gonna find who did this to you."
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As we were working the crime scene,
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we found that the phone lines
had been cut.
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An individual normally
would not go those lengths
to, to cut the phone line.
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And we also were not able
to find any other knifes inside that residence
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that matched that particular knife
that was used.
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It appeared that the perpetrator
brought that knife with him.
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So there was just more
and more mounting evidence
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that suggested that this
had been pre-planned.
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This wasn't just a random act.
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And there was certainly concern
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that we potentially
could be dealing with, with a serial killer.
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My initial thought was not
a serial killer necessarily,
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but it could it be somebody
that she really knows.
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Family members, a boyfriend
or an ex-boyfriend, or something.
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Because the pillowcase
being over the victim's head
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could be somewhat of an indicator
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that the suspect didn't want
the victim looking at him
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while he was murdering her,
so that it's not real.
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It's not real to the suspect.
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On Jenny's left upper thigh area
there was a...
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What looked like,
kind of, drying sperm
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which we collected in order
to be able to test for DNA.
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There was an uncapped lotion bottle
on the floor on the victim's bedroom,
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so it certainly gave the appearance
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that the assailant in this case, uh, was,
was possibly masturbating.
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Who, who, who does that?
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What kind of person does that?
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That's just some sick behavior.
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Around where the,
where the blade was at,
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there was blood smear
and it was in the shape of a heart.
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We look at that blood smear,
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and it didn't follow
the natural laws of gravity.
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And, to me, it wasn't accidental.
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It's weird what sticks out, you know, as
you're going through a crime scene.
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The house was very tidy
and organized,
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but there was chocolate wrappings
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just kind of around the house and so,
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I don't know, for some reason,
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they just... it was like
a glaring neon sign to me,
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that's why I instructed
crime scene to go ahead
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and, and collect whatever
wrappings they could find
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for any type of, like, DNA comparison
or fingerprint comparison.
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The image that will stay
forever in my mind
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is seeing those chocolates.
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In my head I'm thinking,
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"did this eat the chocolates
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while he was waiting
to kill this young girl?"
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We learned that the victim
in this case was a student
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at Saint Edwards university,
in south Austin.
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You know, we wanted
to pin down her timeline
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for, at least, the last 24 hours.
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We reached out to each one
of her professors
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and they established
that she was indeed present.
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So she had left school,
arrived home around 4:00
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and she was supposed
to pick up a younger sister at about 5:00 P.M.
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And when she failed to do so,
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that sister tried to reach her
by cellular telephone
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and was not able to establish contact.
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It was not long after that,
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that the body of the victim
was found in the bedroom.
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Jenny worked at a local restaurant.
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She was very well-liked.
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In interviewing, you know, the people
that she worked with,
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is that she was just a very kind of charismatic
well-liked, well-behaved.
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She was just a good girl.
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Who would have wanted
to do this to Jenny?
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We didn't have any leads
at that point in time.
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In homicide, your baptismal
is the first case, right?
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Depending if you up, they're like,
"you can't be in here.
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You cannot be in this unit."
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So, the weight of solving it,
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you wanna do everything right.
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I was lucky,
cause early on in my career,
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I was taught by the best.
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Bruce was not only my fto,
my field training officer,
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he was a mentor, a teacher,
but most importantly,
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he was like a brother to me.
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He was what was known
as a cop's cop.
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First man we caught.
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If somebody said,
"what's the one officer
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you would wanna have with you
on any given call?"
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He would be the first one chosen.
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Although he was a patrol officer,
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he could run circles around detectives,
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or sergeants, or lieutenants.
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And so, even when
I was in homicide, I would count on him.
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I know she was still consulting
with Bruce on investigations.
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Bruce was always there in her career
and in her life.
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I spoke to Bruce about
Jenny Garcia's crime scene.
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I wanted him to, in his head,
see what I saw.
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And then get his feedback
on the type of suspect.
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We talked about binding and gagging her.
He terrorized her.
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And I told him, "I'm thinking
it may have been boyfriend or ex-boyfriend."
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And he goes,
"but what if it's like some dude
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that, you know,
she didn't wanna mess with?"
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And I'm like,
"well, then there's that possibility."
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To plunge a knife in her chest
through her heart,
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that, that's a lot of hate.
Bruce agreed, it was hatred.
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That was hate.
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My recollection of the father
is that he appeared overly distraught.
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Very, uh, melodramatic.
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He was inconsolable.
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The father was a taxicab driver
here in Austin.
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Turns out he was
at work at the time.
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Mrs. Garcia was very,
I mean, she was distraught, but she held it together.
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She couldn't break down,
she had to keep her together for everybody else.
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And I believe she did that
because she knew
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that her husband was inconsolable.
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I don't think that there's
another job on this planet
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where the weight and gravity
of somebody's death
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gets thrust upon you like that.
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You learn a lot about,
a lot about yourself.
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I used to ask the family
for a photograph
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and then I would post that photograph
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and every day
I didn't solve that homicide,
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that was my reminder
of how hard I had to work.
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As you're progressing on the case,
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several things
are running through your mind,
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and you can't box yourself
in just with one theory.
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Whether it was a current boyfriend,
an ex-boyfriend,
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a stranger, you have
to leave everything open,
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and the evidence will take you
where it takes you.
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Jenny did have a boyfriend
at the time.
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He was a person of interest.
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They worked together
at the same restaurant.
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He was obviously
still in a state of shock,
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but it looked
like Jenny and him were...
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They were in a good place
in their relationship.
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From the other interviews,
nobody had anything negative to say about Jonathan.
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And he was even asked for a DNA sample,
which he voluntarily gave.
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Jenny Garcia, we approximate,
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she was dead by the, by the time,
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a little after 5:00.
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Eventually, we were able to confirm
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that he had been
at work at the time.
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So, we had to, you know,
look for another suspect.
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The way the Austin police department homicide unit
functions at a high level
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is because it becomes a full-team effort.
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Basically, you have a homicide briefing
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and as the lead detective,
which would be me,
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you start tasking different detectives.
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So, we're at the homicide unit,
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talking about the case...
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...and the homicide main line rings,
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and detective Walker answers the phone.
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You could kind of hear him,
he was a little bit bothered by the, by the caller
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and somebody turned around and said, "who was that?"
And he goes, "I don't know.
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I got some guy named David,"
I think,
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and he was asking if his friend was okay
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because he sees the news crews
were out at her house.
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Walker asked him,
"well, who's your friend?"
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And he mentioned the victim's name.
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TV was on in the room
where we were briefing.
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Jenny's younger sister
found her stabbed to death...
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We're looking at the TV
and the cameras from the local news crews
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were not at her house.
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They were down the street
at the, at the corner at an intersection.
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And so, I was like,
"how did he know all that information?"
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That definitely piqued our interest.
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This looked to be
a fishing expedition that an individual
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was wanting to know
what we knew and what we thought had happened.
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Once he hung up, we tracked the phone number
down to David Diaz Morales.
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That phone call turns out to be
a big break in this case.
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So we asked Jenny's boyfriend
about David Diaz Morales.
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He recognized the, the name
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and they all worked together
at an Austin diner.
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And David always wanted
to try to hook up with Jenny
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and Jenny was like,
"no, no, no,"
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and she finally had
to tell him, "no way, no how.
It will never happen."
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I asked detective
de los Santos and detective scanlon
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to go out and pick up
this David Diaz and bring him to the station.
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Me and another detective got it a car
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and went to his apartment,
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woke up his sister,
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woke him up and just told him
who we were
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and that we would like for him
to come down to the office
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and talk to us about his friend, Jenny.
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He didn't ask any questions,
"why me?" You know.
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He just said, "okay,
let me get dressed."
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It was really cold outside,
we went in the apartment
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and we're standing there
while he's getting dressed in his room
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and I'm just kinda
scanning with my eyes
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and I see some jewelry sitting on top of a, like,
an entertainment cabinet.
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They know that the Garcia home
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had basically been burglarized
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and jewelry was stolen.
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I was like, "holy."
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He's brought back to the office,
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you know, it's 2:00, 3:00
in the morning.
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I don't remember exactly
what time it was.
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We put him in an interview room
and, eventually,
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myself and detective
Eric de los Santos went in
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and conducted an interview with him.
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Detective scanlon
and detective de los Santos
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were interviewing
David Diaz Morales.
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I think David Morales reacted
better to kerry and Erick
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as males as opposed
to if I had interviewed him.
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He had some sort of, like,
female issues, you know?
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The interview was one of those
where the suspect that you're talking to
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is convinced that he can convince you
that is not him.
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De los Santos noticed that the t-shirt
that Morales was wearing,
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um, had a stain on it.
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00:30:29,995 --> 00:30:32,596
And Erick looked at it and said,
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00:30:32,598 --> 00:30:36,366
"I think that's a body fluid."
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He may have been using
the lotion to masturbate with
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00:31:31,190 --> 00:31:33,023
and then he ejaculated
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00:31:33,726 --> 00:31:35,525
and then part of his ejaculation
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00:31:35,527 --> 00:31:38,996
ended up on her, on her thigh
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00:31:38,998 --> 00:31:42,399
in addition to, possibly,
the t-shirt he was wearing.
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It was just kind of surreal to me
333
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because he really couldn't argue
that it wasn't.
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00:32:11,130 --> 00:32:13,430
You know, as he's being interviewed...
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I'm thinking,
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00:32:18,904 --> 00:32:24,808
"were you in that house
waiting to kill Jenny
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00:32:24,810 --> 00:32:27,311
eating these peoples' chocolates?"
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00:32:30,449 --> 00:32:31,915
Like, "it's no big deal.
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00:32:31,917 --> 00:32:34,651
I'll just sit here and wait
because, you know,
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I have a plan and I know
what my endgame is gonna be,
341
00:32:38,624 --> 00:32:40,958
but in the meantime,
I'm just gonna sit here
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00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,527
and, oh, yeah,
I'll have some chocolate."
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In my experience,
I have not seen
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any suspect that has broken
into a residence
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00:32:49,835 --> 00:32:53,136
and sat there and ate
the victim's food.
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00:32:55,774 --> 00:32:56,873
It's crazy.
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00:32:59,778 --> 00:33:04,648
So I got a search warrant
for Morales' apartment.
348
00:33:04,650 --> 00:33:05,849
So we secured the search warrant
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00:33:05,851 --> 00:33:08,251
at the residence of Dave Morales,
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00:33:09,621 --> 00:33:13,724
where we found a number
of pornographic DVDs
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that depicted victims
in various cases of bondage.
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00:33:18,464 --> 00:33:21,765
We also discovered that,
behind his television set,
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00:33:21,767 --> 00:33:25,102
there were a number
of loose black zip ties
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00:33:26,472 --> 00:33:29,973
that were consistent with the bindings
that were used on the victim,
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00:33:29,975 --> 00:33:32,175
that were used to tie
her hands behind her back,
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00:33:32,177 --> 00:33:36,380
and we were able to confirm that the knife
that was entailed in the chest cavity
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00:33:36,382 --> 00:33:40,417
of the victim, that was consistent with the set
of knives at his apartment.
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00:33:49,428 --> 00:33:53,964
I remember thinking,
"this wormy guy
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00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,236
broke into this girl's house, tied her up,
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00:34:01,974 --> 00:34:03,974
jacked off on her.
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00:34:04,877 --> 00:34:10,981
He got rejected by her
and his way of dealing with it is to kill her."
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00:34:24,563 --> 00:34:27,030
He had requested an attorney,
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00:34:27,032 --> 00:34:30,167
but, in the meantime,
we ended up arresting him.
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00:34:35,707 --> 00:34:39,076
David Diaz Morales
met with his sister.
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00:34:43,682 --> 00:34:46,983
He essentially admitted to her
that he had killed Jenny,
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00:34:49,121 --> 00:34:53,056
but really wouldn't give her
a reason why.
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00:35:09,608 --> 00:35:13,977
This case, it was...
368
00:35:16,548 --> 00:35:19,416
It was very difficult.
It was very difficult.
369
00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:25,589
Every time Christmas comes around
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00:35:25,591 --> 00:35:28,758
and I see those chocolates,
it just...
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00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,427
It takes me back to that crime scene.
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00:35:31,663 --> 00:35:35,165
I associate chocolate
with Jenny's death.
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00:35:35,734 --> 00:35:38,635
I actually went
and bought chocolates
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00:35:38,637 --> 00:35:40,937
and I'm like,
"I just can't do it."
375
00:35:40,939 --> 00:35:43,073
I love chocolate,
but I just can't do that.
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00:35:45,144 --> 00:35:50,280
It taught me, I guess that,
you know, it can go from roses one day
377
00:35:50,282 --> 00:35:55,218
to a knife in the chest the next day.
378
00:35:56,622 --> 00:36:00,090
The smear of blood on her chest
in the shape of a heart,
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00:36:00,993 --> 00:36:03,927
that question never got answered.
380
00:36:03,929 --> 00:36:07,130
And you don't always get
those answers, right?
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00:36:08,734 --> 00:36:11,735
But you got the person that did it.
382
00:36:11,737 --> 00:36:16,006
I felt a sense of relief
knowing that we had
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00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:19,676
the right person that killed Jenny.
384
00:36:19,678 --> 00:36:22,012
I felt like I belonged,
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00:36:22,014 --> 00:36:26,683
that the Jenny Garcia case
gave me the, the confidence
386
00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:30,954
to know I can hang with some
of these guys in homicide
387
00:36:30,956 --> 00:36:34,391
that I had, you know,
looked up to and admired.
388
00:36:34,393 --> 00:36:36,259
I can, I can do this.
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00:36:46,171 --> 00:36:47,404
Kerry pages me.
390
00:36:47,873 --> 00:36:51,241
I was at dinner with my husband,
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00:36:51,843 --> 00:36:55,745
he's like,
"hey, I'm out at a scene
392
00:36:55,747 --> 00:36:58,081
and it looks like it's gonna be a murder."
393
00:37:00,319 --> 00:37:01,751
I thought, "oh, my gosh."
394
00:37:01,753 --> 00:37:06,022
Now there's another young woman that,
that has been murdered.
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00:37:15,334 --> 00:37:18,201
Police say
19-year-old Lena Kim Nguyen
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00:37:18,203 --> 00:37:22,272
was found Wednesday evening
around seven by her sister.
397
00:37:22,274 --> 00:37:26,009
Lena was stabbed to death
in her gracy farms apartment.
398
00:37:27,946 --> 00:37:30,113
We were notified by her sister
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00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:31,514
when she came home,
400
00:37:31,516 --> 00:37:34,150
she found the door
was locked from the inside.
401
00:37:34,686 --> 00:37:36,786
She knew that her sister was there,
402
00:37:36,788 --> 00:37:41,358
tried to knock several times
and there was no answer.
403
00:37:45,631 --> 00:37:48,798
At which time the sister
calls her boyfriend,
404
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,069
the boyfriend comes over
and he tries to get in.
405
00:37:53,772 --> 00:37:55,972
It was a second story apartment,
406
00:37:55,974 --> 00:38:01,144
so he ends up scaling the balcony
407
00:38:01,713 --> 00:38:04,814
and gets onto the patio area
408
00:38:04,816 --> 00:38:09,419
and the patio door is open,
409
00:38:10,922 --> 00:38:14,624
which was not too unusual
because they had a dog
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00:38:14,626 --> 00:38:17,861
and so, they would leave
the patio door open
411
00:38:17,863 --> 00:38:20,030
so the dog could come in and out.
412
00:38:24,469 --> 00:38:26,002
Lena's sister's boyfriend
413
00:38:26,004 --> 00:38:29,339
found Lena in that apartment
and called the police.
414
00:38:33,612 --> 00:38:36,413
As we enter the apartment,
415
00:38:36,415 --> 00:38:37,947
it's only a one-bedroom apartment,
416
00:38:37,949 --> 00:38:41,117
and so we walk through the front door
417
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,621
and it's a small living room area
418
00:38:44,623 --> 00:38:46,690
with an adjacent little kitchenette,
419
00:38:46,692 --> 00:38:49,225
that's where the computer was.
420
00:38:51,596 --> 00:38:55,365
It appeared to me that she
was seated in a chair
421
00:38:56,568 --> 00:38:58,702
and her attacker came up behind her
422
00:38:58,704 --> 00:39:01,137
and pulled her down onto the floor.
423
00:39:02,808 --> 00:39:06,176
And assaulted her with a knife.
424
00:39:10,582 --> 00:39:15,819
Nothing can prepare you for seeing
425
00:39:15,821 --> 00:39:19,155
some of the horrific things
that you see at crime scenes.
426
00:39:21,059 --> 00:39:24,227
The dog was running around
in the apartment
427
00:39:25,163 --> 00:39:27,397
and had been, uh...
428
00:39:27,399 --> 00:39:34,337
Had been licking on Lena
and had blood on his, on his mouth.
429
00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:41,177
And I remember thinking,
"man, if you could only talk," you know?
430
00:39:41,179 --> 00:39:43,146
"What would you tell me?"
431
00:39:43,915 --> 00:39:45,882
She had just gotten
out of the shower.
432
00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:48,084
I believe her hair was still wet
433
00:39:48,954 --> 00:39:51,054
and she was on her computer.
434
00:39:59,865 --> 00:40:02,031
And he...
435
00:40:02,033 --> 00:40:05,235
He grabbed her by the hair,
exposed her neck,
436
00:40:06,138 --> 00:40:07,604
first couple of puncture wounds
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00:40:07,606 --> 00:40:10,807
was enough to have killed her.
438
00:40:10,809 --> 00:40:14,043
All the other puncture wounds
were post-mortem.
439
00:40:17,816 --> 00:40:22,051
Multiple stab wounds
like that, somebody's angry.
440
00:40:23,021 --> 00:40:24,954
Someone is angry.
441
00:40:25,557 --> 00:40:27,424
This is personal.
442
00:40:27,426 --> 00:40:33,096
It didn't appear as if it
was a burglary gone bad.
443
00:40:35,467 --> 00:40:38,902
As I'm standing there,
looking at the victim,
444
00:40:38,904 --> 00:40:43,239
it takes me back
to Jenny Garcia's crime scene.
445
00:40:52,918 --> 00:40:56,286
Another young woman in Austin, Texas,
446
00:41:00,892 --> 00:41:04,360
murdered during the prime of her life.
447
00:41:08,166 --> 00:41:14,170
As a female detective,
that, that moment
448
00:41:16,408 --> 00:41:18,341
hits you really hard.
449
00:41:19,845 --> 00:41:23,146
It's a lot of trauma to deal with.
450
00:41:30,021 --> 00:41:34,257
I still keep
a framed photo of, of Lena.
451
00:41:37,262 --> 00:41:39,996
And it's in a box at, at my house.
452
00:41:44,736 --> 00:41:49,372
And she's just a gorgeous girl
with just a really beautiful smile.
453
00:41:50,141 --> 00:41:52,141
So young and full of life.
454
00:41:52,611 --> 00:41:54,777
It just... uh...
455
00:41:54,779 --> 00:41:57,814
She looks like sunshine,
that's my best description of her.
456
00:41:57,816 --> 00:42:00,283
She looks like sunshine in that picture.
457
00:42:01,753 --> 00:42:04,153
Every day,
I would, I would look at it.
458
00:42:04,923 --> 00:42:06,823
I imagine her telling me,
459
00:42:06,825 --> 00:42:09,092
"have you found who did this to me?"
460
00:42:09,828 --> 00:42:12,128
Similar to Jenny, you know,
461
00:42:12,931 --> 00:42:14,697
I told her,
"I'm gonna..."
462
00:42:14,699 --> 00:42:19,135
You know, "I'm gonna try
my hardest to find out who, who did this to you."
463
00:42:33,585 --> 00:42:37,687
As the lead detective,
you're kinda watching,
464
00:42:37,689 --> 00:42:42,592
you know, all your people
that you delegated to do x, y, and z,
465
00:42:42,594 --> 00:42:45,328
and they're coming back to you,
466
00:42:45,897 --> 00:42:48,998
and, and giving you information.
467
00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:55,405
There was a neighbor
who witnessed an individual
468
00:42:55,407 --> 00:42:58,174
run from the vicinity
of the apartment complex
469
00:42:58,176 --> 00:43:01,077
that was dressed
in dark clothing articles.
470
00:43:02,247 --> 00:43:05,648
I found a shoe impression
in some dirt,
471
00:43:05,650 --> 00:43:07,216
and we took a picture of it.
472
00:43:08,753 --> 00:43:11,721
We did a technique called luminol...
473
00:43:11,723 --> 00:43:14,090
...to try to illuminate blood stains
474
00:43:14,092 --> 00:43:16,326
that we didn't see with our naked eye.
475
00:43:18,997 --> 00:43:23,967
And it reacted to the kitchen sink.
476
00:43:26,838 --> 00:43:30,940
Did somebody after they stabbed her,
477
00:43:30,942 --> 00:43:33,343
you know, wash their, wash their hands?
478
00:43:37,816 --> 00:43:40,950
When we swab the dog,
the blood on the dog,
479
00:43:40,952 --> 00:43:46,923
we were hoping that we can develop
a profile from the blood
480
00:43:46,925 --> 00:43:49,092
that might help us
identify our suspect.
481
00:43:49,494 --> 00:43:53,196
But the dog only had
Lena's blood on her.
482
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,801
After all the efforts
we put into this crime scene,
483
00:43:58,803 --> 00:44:01,404
the swabbing of different objects
484
00:44:01,406 --> 00:44:04,974
and hoping that we were going
to collect something
485
00:44:04,976 --> 00:44:07,410
that was gonna help us
to develop a profile,
486
00:44:07,412 --> 00:44:08,911
be it to our frustration,
487
00:44:08,913 --> 00:44:11,881
ultimately we didn't find
any DNA at the crime scene.
488
00:44:11,883 --> 00:44:13,383
Through the autopsy,
489
00:44:13,385 --> 00:44:15,985
through the medical
examiner's report,
490
00:44:15,987 --> 00:44:18,354
we found out that she had not been
sexually assaulted.
491
00:44:20,291 --> 00:44:27,930
With no DNA coming back,
I didn't feel like we had any solid evidence.
492
00:44:27,932 --> 00:44:32,268
And that's when personal relationships
become very important.
493
00:44:37,409 --> 00:44:41,377
Lena was a young, beautiful girl.
494
00:44:41,379 --> 00:44:47,583
She was popular, she was dating a guy
by the name of Chris.
495
00:44:47,585 --> 00:44:52,855
Lena's sister, she gave me the backstory
on their relationship.
496
00:44:52,857 --> 00:44:55,692
There was nothing
significant about Chris
497
00:44:55,694 --> 00:45:01,064
that stood out to me
as him being suspicious.
498
00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:05,134
There were several guys
that were interested in her.
499
00:45:05,136 --> 00:45:08,738
There was an older white male
in the complex
500
00:45:08,740 --> 00:45:10,940
apparently that took a liking to her.
501
00:45:11,276 --> 00:45:13,976
So, I had to research
502
00:45:13,978 --> 00:45:20,349
and be able to eliminate
a bunch of these other loose ends.
503
00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:23,486
But the one name that kept coming up
504
00:45:23,488 --> 00:45:26,956
was Lena's ex-boyfriend, tai ho.
505
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:32,528
They had separated, you know, upwards
to six months ago.
506
00:45:32,530 --> 00:45:35,698
But we're now learning
that he was harassing her,
507
00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:38,201
and we found out
through another individual
508
00:45:38,203 --> 00:45:43,406
that he would become upset
whenever there was mention of her name.
509
00:45:43,408 --> 00:45:48,344
We found out that they had somewhat
of a volatile relationship.
510
00:45:49,848 --> 00:45:52,148
And he was living
in the fort worth area,
511
00:45:52,150 --> 00:45:57,353
which is about 170 miles
from, from Austin to fort worth.
512
00:45:59,991 --> 00:46:03,726
So we immediately made plans to depart Austin
and head to fort worth
513
00:46:03,728 --> 00:46:06,262
to, to contact this individual.
514
00:46:12,670 --> 00:46:16,606
Tai ho was living with his friend
and his friend's family
515
00:46:16,608 --> 00:46:19,675
because his own family
moved to California.
516
00:46:19,677 --> 00:46:24,347
He remained in Texas
to finish high school.
517
00:46:27,752 --> 00:46:32,855
So we meet up at the address
where tai ho is living
518
00:46:32,857 --> 00:46:39,328
and we end up getting
consent from tai ho
519
00:46:39,330 --> 00:46:40,963
to search his vehicle.
520
00:46:47,772 --> 00:46:52,041
We did locate photographs
of Lena in his car.
521
00:46:53,344 --> 00:46:58,581
He, somehow, saw a picture of Lena
522
00:46:58,583 --> 00:47:03,186
and the new boyfriend and they were kissing
and that affected him.
523
00:47:04,522 --> 00:47:08,024
He was asked if he would be willing
524
00:47:08,026 --> 00:47:10,359
to come down to the fort worth
police department.
525
00:47:16,501 --> 00:47:20,603
I had already been up
over 24 hours at that point.
526
00:47:20,605 --> 00:47:26,976
My first impression
of tai ho is he was just, he was very calm.
527
00:47:29,547 --> 00:47:35,585
So his story was that he
drove his friend to school in fort worth,
528
00:47:35,587 --> 00:47:42,425
dropped him off, came back home,
slept, got up,
529
00:47:42,427 --> 00:47:47,797
went to go play basketball
with some people that he really couldn't identify
530
00:47:47,799 --> 00:47:54,670
or give me names and then, eventually,
comes back home.
531
00:47:54,672 --> 00:47:57,173
He was trying to play it
really, really cool.
532
00:47:57,175 --> 00:48:01,310
Like, "no big deal,
I was here in fort worth."
533
00:48:01,312 --> 00:48:05,147
We're evaluating his responses
to our questions,
534
00:48:05,149 --> 00:48:09,318
and I noticed that he had sustained an injury
to his left hand.
535
00:48:12,891 --> 00:48:14,257
It appeared to be fairly fresh.
536
00:48:14,259 --> 00:48:18,327
It was something that was scarred
or even scabbed over.
537
00:48:19,764 --> 00:48:23,633
Definitely piqued my interest,
because he didn't have a reasonable explanation
538
00:48:23,635 --> 00:48:26,002
as to why that injury
was sustained.
539
00:48:26,671 --> 00:48:30,539
He denies killing her
throughout the whole time
540
00:48:30,541 --> 00:48:32,842
and he denies ever being in Austin.
541
00:48:32,844 --> 00:48:37,847
But he does tell me
that he still loved her
542
00:48:37,849 --> 00:48:39,382
and that he wanted to be with her.
543
00:48:40,518 --> 00:48:43,686
The interview started about 9:45 P.M.
544
00:48:43,688 --> 00:48:47,123
And we finally ended
at 4:00 in the morning.
545
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:54,397
And then... tai ho asked,
546
00:48:54,399 --> 00:48:58,601
"do you guys know of a church
that is close by?"
547
00:48:58,603 --> 00:49:04,073
And I think Dave and I looked
at each other, like, "what?"
548
00:49:08,546 --> 00:49:10,880
"Okay, is this the moment?"
You know?
549
00:49:10,882 --> 00:49:13,282
"Is he fixing a crack at this point?"
550
00:49:15,353 --> 00:49:19,088
It was clever not to push
and ask in that particular point in time,
551
00:49:19,090 --> 00:49:21,657
so I posed a question,
I asked him if he was religious.
552
00:49:21,659 --> 00:49:24,226
And he indicated that he was not.
553
00:49:24,629 --> 00:49:28,564
I think that he
was probably thinking,
554
00:49:28,566 --> 00:49:33,035
"I should just spill it.
I should just tell them what I did."
555
00:49:33,271 --> 00:49:36,038
But he couldn't quite
get himself there.
556
00:49:37,742 --> 00:49:44,013
He became more than just
a person of interest to me at that point.
557
00:49:45,583 --> 00:49:48,351
He goes from person
of interest to suspect.
558
00:49:50,989 --> 00:49:53,356
He was a senior at crawley high school.
559
00:49:57,095 --> 00:50:01,564
One of the girls at the high school
tells us that tai ho
560
00:50:01,566 --> 00:50:06,402
was wanting to get gloves, wanting
to get dark clothing, wanting to get a gun.
561
00:50:06,904 --> 00:50:09,705
She heard tai ho talking to people,
562
00:50:09,707 --> 00:50:12,241
asking specifically for these things.
563
00:50:12,944 --> 00:50:14,844
I knew at that point
in the investigation
564
00:50:14,846 --> 00:50:16,979
that there was a witness
565
00:50:17,515 --> 00:50:19,348
that was near the apartment complex,
566
00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:21,550
around the time
of the murder in Austin
567
00:50:21,552 --> 00:50:24,920
who observed an individual
wearing dark color clothing
568
00:50:24,922 --> 00:50:27,957
fleeing from the vicinity
of the apartment.
569
00:50:29,260 --> 00:50:31,727
In interviewing this girl,
570
00:50:31,729 --> 00:50:36,365
I asked her if she thought
that tai ho was capable of murdering somebody
571
00:50:37,035 --> 00:50:39,969
and she said, "yeah."
572
00:50:41,005 --> 00:50:42,972
She thought he was capable.
573
00:50:49,213 --> 00:50:54,583
We checked attendance records
and tai ho was not at school
574
00:50:54,585 --> 00:50:57,253
on the day of Lena Nguyen's murder.
575
00:50:59,824 --> 00:51:03,392
But that was circumstantial evidence.
576
00:51:04,762 --> 00:51:05,661
I wanted more.
577
00:51:09,100 --> 00:51:11,867
We were searching
her cellphone activity,
578
00:51:11,869 --> 00:51:14,703
we're searching
her computer activity
579
00:51:14,705 --> 00:51:19,075
and we finally catch
a big break at that time.
580
00:51:19,877 --> 00:51:24,046
We discovered that tai ho
hacked into her account.
581
00:51:26,050 --> 00:51:30,686
There was indication
that he had been harassing her
582
00:51:30,688 --> 00:51:33,222
up until the point of,
he was stalking.
583
00:51:34,592 --> 00:51:37,893
We found through tai ho's aol account
584
00:51:37,895 --> 00:51:40,696
that he had documented a conversation
585
00:51:40,698 --> 00:51:45,901
in which he pretended
to be Lena Nguyen
586
00:51:45,903 --> 00:51:49,772
where he acted as though
it was a loving engagement back and forth
587
00:51:49,774 --> 00:51:51,307
between the two of them
588
00:51:51,309 --> 00:51:54,076
where he would ask how she was doing
589
00:51:54,078 --> 00:51:57,646
and then he would impersonate her
and respond that she was fine.
590
00:51:57,648 --> 00:51:59,849
This was clearly an individual
that was not willing
591
00:51:59,851 --> 00:52:01,851
to give up on the relationship.
592
00:52:01,853 --> 00:52:05,554
She posted this thing
like, "leave me alone.
593
00:52:05,556 --> 00:52:08,657
Quit bugging me.
You're blowing up my phone.
594
00:52:08,659 --> 00:52:13,696
It's over. Stop calling me
1,000 times a day.
595
00:52:13,698 --> 00:52:16,499
What do I need, a restraining order?"
596
00:52:16,501 --> 00:52:19,301
And I believe, to me,
in reading that post,
597
00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:25,407
she's referring to tai ho
without actually saying his name.
598
00:52:27,044 --> 00:52:32,081
And there at the end of that entry,
she's pleading for help.
599
00:52:39,690 --> 00:52:42,124
While investigating tai ho,
600
00:52:42,126 --> 00:52:44,293
we pulled his cellphone records.
601
00:52:45,796 --> 00:52:49,098
Cell tower hit waco,
602
00:52:50,535 --> 00:52:54,837
which would be the,
the path taken by tai ho
603
00:52:54,839 --> 00:52:58,240
from the fort worth area
through waco to Austin.
604
00:53:00,611 --> 00:53:04,213
That was a huge lead in, in this case.
605
00:53:04,949 --> 00:53:10,386
Ultimately, we were able
to put his, put his cellphone
606
00:53:10,388 --> 00:53:14,356
in Austin at the time
of Lena's murder.
607
00:53:15,726 --> 00:53:19,828
I contacted tai ho and told him
608
00:53:19,830 --> 00:53:25,634
that if he wanted to drive
down to Austin to pick up
609
00:53:25,636 --> 00:53:28,771
some of the items
that I had seized from him
610
00:53:28,773 --> 00:53:32,107
after Lena's murder,
he could come pick them up.
611
00:53:32,343 --> 00:53:34,944
He drove to Austin,
612
00:53:34,946 --> 00:53:38,180
we wanted to see if he would submit
to a polygraph.
613
00:53:39,250 --> 00:53:45,955
He voluntarily took
a polygraph and he failed it.
614
00:53:45,957 --> 00:53:51,594
The da felt that we had
enough at that point to, to cut a warrant.
615
00:53:51,596 --> 00:53:53,362
We took his vehicle again,
616
00:53:53,364 --> 00:53:56,265
and this time for forensic processing.
617
00:53:57,802 --> 00:54:00,869
It's during the course of this search
we found a pair of shoes
618
00:54:00,871 --> 00:54:03,672
in the trunk of the vehicle.
619
00:54:03,674 --> 00:54:06,275
The imprint impression at the scene
620
00:54:06,277 --> 00:54:08,277
appeared to be one and the same.
621
00:54:25,696 --> 00:54:30,299
We had really solid evidence against tai ho
at this point,
622
00:54:32,303 --> 00:54:36,272
but I still knew that I had to get
a confession.
623
00:55:16,681 --> 00:55:20,416
So during the course of the interrogation,
I'm thinking about Bruce.
624
00:55:21,619 --> 00:55:23,652
Since he had been
my field training officer
625
00:55:23,654 --> 00:55:25,821
and my partner in the gang unit,
626
00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:29,958
I learned interview
and interrogation skills from him.
627
00:55:30,795 --> 00:55:33,896
You work in an interview interrogation
different ways
628
00:55:33,898 --> 00:55:37,833
and within that same interrogation
you might go hard,
629
00:55:37,835 --> 00:55:39,935
you know, on somebody
and then back off
630
00:55:39,937 --> 00:55:41,937
and then give them
a little bit of time to breathe,
631
00:55:41,939 --> 00:55:43,405
think about things.
632
00:56:49,774 --> 00:56:55,144
I spoke to Bruce about just the marathon
interview with him.
633
00:56:57,248 --> 00:57:02,284
It's just mentally
and physically
634
00:57:02,286 --> 00:57:08,857
and emotionally exhausting interviewing
somebody for hours on end.
635
00:57:08,859 --> 00:57:12,060
He goes, "and what did you get out of it?
" I said, "Jack"
636
00:57:28,779 --> 00:57:32,014
At that point, we felt like we had
637
00:57:32,883 --> 00:57:37,953
enough probable cause
to, to arrest him.
638
00:57:40,724 --> 00:57:41,890
That could be the extra pressure
639
00:57:41,892 --> 00:57:45,227
needed to try to get a confession.
640
00:57:50,768 --> 00:57:56,004
He tells us that he wants
to talk to Lena's sister.
641
00:57:56,006 --> 00:57:58,440
We didn't know
the nature of the request
642
00:57:58,442 --> 00:58:01,210
at that particular point in time,
643
00:58:01,212 --> 00:58:04,780
but it's definitely intriguing
that he was wanting to, to reach out.
644
00:58:04,782 --> 00:58:07,716
At some point, we have to make
a calculated decision
645
00:58:07,718 --> 00:58:14,656
to see if the suspect
regrets any of his actions
646
00:58:14,658 --> 00:58:19,528
and will confess his crime
to the victim's family.
647
00:58:19,530 --> 00:58:24,633
So, in essence, she was being used
as a, a vehicle,
648
00:58:24,635 --> 00:58:28,437
but I prepped Lena's sister,
thoa, before allowing her
649
00:58:28,439 --> 00:58:30,606
to go into the room
with tai ho.
650
00:58:30,608 --> 00:58:36,245
I felt bad for her,
I mean, I did not want to have to send her in,
651
00:58:38,048 --> 00:58:42,351
but she wanted to step up
to the plate to try to help her sister.
652
00:59:51,755 --> 00:59:53,488
He whispered in her ear
653
00:59:53,490 --> 00:59:55,324
something to the fact that...
654
00:59:56,393 --> 00:59:58,894
"You've got the right person in the chair"
655
00:59:58,896 --> 01:00:00,462
and that he was responsible.
656
01:00:01,832 --> 01:00:07,636
I think maybe he felt like,
you know, thoa was, she wasn't law enforcement.
657
01:00:07,638 --> 01:00:09,838
If he actually said it to me,
658
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:15,143
then that would mean
that, yes, he did it.
659
01:00:21,352 --> 01:00:22,584
But if he told thoa,
660
01:00:22,586 --> 01:00:27,055
then it was just basically,
he's like, "I'm sorry."
661
01:00:29,526 --> 01:00:31,860
That was a confession at that point.
662
01:00:31,862 --> 01:00:36,365
For him to now say that we had
the right person in the chair,
663
01:00:37,001 --> 01:00:39,067
that was quite a revelation.
664
01:00:50,714 --> 01:00:53,849
Tai ho was charged with the murder
of Lena Nguyen,
665
01:00:53,851 --> 01:00:57,319
and he was sentenced
to 75 years in prison.
666
01:00:59,823 --> 01:01:03,659
I take Lena's picture down
and then I file it
667
01:01:03,661 --> 01:01:07,896
in the, in the case jacket,
at the very front of the case jacket
668
01:01:07,898 --> 01:01:10,699
so that you,
you see the person's face.
669
01:01:10,701 --> 01:01:13,168
It's not just a case number.
670
01:01:17,841 --> 01:01:21,009
My brother-in-law,
like I said earlier,
671
01:01:21,011 --> 01:01:27,215
was not real keen on women
being police officers,
672
01:01:29,186 --> 01:01:33,288
but after the Lena Nguyen's case,
673
01:01:33,290 --> 01:01:37,325
he's like, "oh, okay,
I'm proud of you."
674
01:01:37,327 --> 01:01:40,295
You know, just that quick,
"okay, I'm proud of you."
675
01:01:45,936 --> 01:01:49,671
The other homicides detectives
had kind of dubbed me
676
01:01:49,673 --> 01:01:53,075
"the women hater club detective"
677
01:01:53,077 --> 01:01:58,447
because I had these back-to-back
homicides of young females
678
01:01:58,449 --> 01:02:00,282
that were being murdered.
679
01:02:06,056 --> 01:02:09,791
I'm like, what...
You know? How do these young women's cases
680
01:02:09,793 --> 01:02:11,560
land on my, on my lap.
681
01:02:11,562 --> 01:02:13,195
Um...
I don't know.
682
01:02:14,531 --> 01:02:19,534
Working homicides
are more of a calling.
683
01:02:19,536 --> 01:02:23,872
It's almost like your life
doesn't really belong to you anymore.
684
01:02:23,874 --> 01:02:26,041
Your life belongs to the board.
685
01:02:26,710 --> 01:02:28,210
The board is cruel.
686
01:02:31,782 --> 01:02:35,417
On February the 17th, 2006,
687
01:02:35,419 --> 01:02:40,188
I was wrapping up
Lena Nguyen's case and...
688
01:02:41,058 --> 01:02:44,760
I'm up on the, on the board
again as the number one.
689
01:02:47,030 --> 01:02:51,600
I get a call and I thought,
"oh, my gosh,
690
01:02:51,602 --> 01:02:55,370
not another young woman that,
that has been murdered."
691
01:03:05,516 --> 01:03:10,352
I responded to the 8,500 block
of coppiano drive.
692
01:03:11,889 --> 01:03:16,558
A man walking his dog
found a body in the woods,
693
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:20,028
just on the other side
of a retention pond.
694
01:03:22,566 --> 01:03:29,004
One that particular day,
it was a cold and overcast.
695
01:03:32,075 --> 01:03:37,179
We had to walk through some cedar trees
to get to the body.
696
01:03:43,420 --> 01:03:47,422
Growing up,
I always wanted to be a cop,
697
01:03:47,424 --> 01:03:52,394
but nothing can prepare you
for the things that you see in the homicide unit.
698
01:04:10,647 --> 01:04:14,649
Although it's beautiful
what they've done with this crime scene area,
699
01:04:14,651 --> 01:04:19,287
the vision in my head
will always remain the way I last saw her.
700
01:04:26,797 --> 01:04:30,532
She had a large gaping wound,
701
01:04:30,534 --> 01:04:33,368
and the back of her head
had been shot off.
702
01:04:35,906 --> 01:04:39,708
I couldn't see her face
because her actual hair
703
01:04:39,710 --> 01:04:41,710
was over her, and she had long hair,
704
01:04:41,712 --> 01:04:45,080
was over her, her head.
705
01:04:48,652 --> 01:04:52,754
One of the things that was really significant
to me and very memorable
706
01:04:52,756 --> 01:04:58,860
was she had kind of light brown hair
707
01:04:58,862 --> 01:05:04,065
and strands of her hair
were in the tree branches.
708
01:05:11,675 --> 01:05:14,342
Her brain was scattered
709
01:05:14,344 --> 01:05:18,413
as a result of the weapon
that she was shot with
710
01:05:18,415 --> 01:05:23,952
and in processing
the crime scene and walking around there,
711
01:05:25,789 --> 01:05:29,157
I had accidently stepped
on a piece of her brain.
712
01:05:29,893 --> 01:05:31,826
And I was like, "oh, no."
713
01:05:31,828 --> 01:05:33,862
That felt horrible.
714
01:05:33,864 --> 01:05:36,197
It's just...
That was a horrible feeling.
715
01:05:36,767 --> 01:05:37,966
Um...
716
01:05:39,569 --> 01:05:41,736
In this case,
717
01:05:41,738 --> 01:05:45,373
the devastation that resulted from the wound
inflicted on her...
718
01:05:49,780 --> 01:05:52,881
I mean, I wouldn't even
describe it for you
719
01:05:52,883 --> 01:05:55,250
because I don't want anybody else...
720
01:06:01,825 --> 01:06:05,026
A young girl out in the woods...
721
01:06:05,696 --> 01:06:10,332
Just...
Dying in that manner.
722
01:06:11,835 --> 01:06:15,904
I mean, any homicide
detective will tell you,
723
01:06:15,906 --> 01:06:17,973
yeah, it does, it takes a toll on you.
724
01:06:20,544 --> 01:06:23,178
We found a Texas driver's license
725
01:06:24,114 --> 01:06:26,348
that identified her
as Jennifer crecente.
726
01:06:31,054 --> 01:06:32,287
Jenny Garcia,
727
01:06:34,558 --> 01:06:35,957
Lena Nguyen,
728
01:06:37,094 --> 01:06:39,127
now we have Jennifer crecente.
729
01:06:59,683 --> 01:07:01,483
Quiet coppiano St. overtaken by cops,
730
01:07:01,485 --> 01:07:03,551
cruisers and crime scene tape.
731
01:07:03,553 --> 01:07:08,723
The body of 18-year-old Jennifer found Thursday night
with a single gunshot wound.
732
01:07:08,725 --> 01:07:11,760
Doug mamouser found the body
while walking his dog.
733
01:07:11,762 --> 01:07:14,462
My heart was racing and, uh...
734
01:07:14,464 --> 01:07:17,165
It was just very upsetting.
735
01:07:20,804 --> 01:07:25,407
While I was processing
the crime scene,
736
01:07:25,409 --> 01:07:28,977
kerry's at the mother's house
interviewing her.
737
01:07:32,582 --> 01:07:36,084
You could just see she was crushed.
738
01:07:40,157 --> 01:07:43,158
They talked to me for a long time.
739
01:07:44,227 --> 01:07:45,693
Over 30 minutes
740
01:07:45,695 --> 01:07:50,098
and then they finally said
that, yes, that was her.
741
01:07:50,767 --> 01:07:54,035
And I put my head down
on my coffee table
742
01:07:54,404 --> 01:07:56,571
and then I just started
743
01:07:56,573 --> 01:08:01,142
banging my head on the coffee table
and I started to cry.
744
01:08:02,412 --> 01:08:04,979
I just remember looking
at her and looking around
745
01:08:04,981 --> 01:08:07,682
and there was nobody there
for her except for us.
746
01:08:07,684 --> 01:08:10,285
Doesn't feel good telling somebody
747
01:08:11,121 --> 01:08:13,655
that you just found
their daughter in a field.
748
01:08:17,027 --> 01:08:24,132
Jennifer was a very unique girl.
749
01:08:25,469 --> 01:08:28,970
She was born an adult.
750
01:08:29,906 --> 01:08:35,043
She was pretty fiercely protective
of the people that she loved,
751
01:08:36,947 --> 01:08:41,149
and I know very strongly
that she knew
752
01:08:41,651 --> 01:08:45,186
that I loved her beyond measure.
753
01:08:48,425 --> 01:08:51,159
In talking to Jennifer's mother, Elizabeth,
754
01:08:51,862 --> 01:08:54,963
we knew that one of the last people
755
01:08:54,965 --> 01:08:58,566
that Jennifer was probably with
756
01:08:58,568 --> 01:08:59,534
or had talked to
757
01:08:59,536 --> 01:09:03,304
was her ex-boyfriend Justin Crabbe.
758
01:09:06,176 --> 01:09:10,245
Jennifer dated Justin
for two-and-a-half years
759
01:09:10,247 --> 01:09:14,549
and it was up, down, all around.
760
01:09:14,551 --> 01:09:16,684
It was pretty volatile.
761
01:09:16,686 --> 01:09:19,420
And she was experiencing dating abuse.
762
01:09:20,056 --> 01:09:24,459
It was emotional and verbal abuse,
763
01:09:24,461 --> 01:09:26,961
it was not physical abuse.
764
01:09:26,963 --> 01:09:31,399
I literally woke up every single day and said,
"how can I help her today?"
765
01:09:32,536 --> 01:09:36,004
"What can I say?
Who can I go to?"
766
01:09:36,006 --> 01:09:38,940
There was a stay-away agreement at school,
767
01:09:38,942 --> 01:09:40,775
he showed up anyway.
768
01:09:40,777 --> 01:09:43,077
I asked Jennifer's therapist
769
01:09:43,079 --> 01:09:48,082
to, to help and so many people
I went to and said,
770
01:09:48,285 --> 01:09:51,219
"please, help my daughter."
771
01:09:51,221 --> 01:09:55,156
But I would hear things like, "well,
she's in a bad boy stage,
772
01:09:55,158 --> 01:09:57,091
you just need to let that play out."
773
01:09:57,928 --> 01:09:59,327
It was scary.
774
01:10:00,363 --> 01:10:04,499
Yeah, it was just a toxic relationship
775
01:10:04,501 --> 01:10:10,305
and that's been confirmed
through the statements from Jennifer's friends.
776
01:10:11,408 --> 01:10:13,408
So we knew we had to find Justin.
777
01:10:16,213 --> 01:10:18,746
So I'm going back to the office
778
01:10:18,748 --> 01:10:23,985
and conducting computer research to see
what kind of involvement
779
01:10:23,987 --> 01:10:26,988
Justin had with the Austin
police department
780
01:10:26,990 --> 01:10:30,124
and try to figure out where he was at,
781
01:10:30,460 --> 01:10:33,161
at the time of, of Jennifer's murder.
782
01:10:36,266 --> 01:10:40,201
With all my homicide cases,
I always talked to Bruce about them.
783
01:10:40,203 --> 01:10:44,105
He was my touchstone, he was my rock.
784
01:10:44,107 --> 01:10:48,376
He was the go-to person for me.
785
01:10:53,416 --> 01:10:56,351
My phone rings and it's my supervisor
786
01:10:56,753 --> 01:10:59,554
and...
787
01:10:59,556 --> 01:11:05,159
He was very, very nervous and he was like, "Lisa,
I have to tell you something,"
788
01:11:05,161 --> 01:11:09,430
you know...
Uh, "Bruce killed himself."
789
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:11,032
And...
790
01:11:11,768 --> 01:11:12,600
Uh...
791
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:20,341
I just instantly started, uh, shaking.
792
01:11:25,582 --> 01:11:27,382
There are no words
793
01:11:27,384 --> 01:11:29,851
when somebody that you know and you love,
794
01:11:29,853 --> 01:11:33,354
and you admire, and you respect
commits suicide.
795
01:11:35,825 --> 01:11:38,259
I personally do not know...
796
01:11:40,797 --> 01:11:44,065
What was going
through his mind at the time.
797
01:11:44,434 --> 01:11:47,435
He told me that he was gonna retire.
798
01:11:47,437 --> 01:11:53,841
I was a little concerned
about him retiring because he's always worked.
799
01:11:53,843 --> 01:11:58,012
So after his suicide,
everybody goes through this.
800
01:11:58,014 --> 01:12:01,949
"What if I had done this?"
"What if I had done that?"
801
01:12:01,951 --> 01:12:05,053
You know, the back-to-back
murders of these young women
802
01:12:05,055 --> 01:12:10,291
and then Bruce's suicide
absolutely pushed me to the...
803
01:12:11,061 --> 01:12:12,360
To my limit.
804
01:12:14,564 --> 01:12:16,130
I was up.
805
01:12:19,536 --> 01:12:23,638
After his, his suicide,
you know, going back to work,
806
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:27,475
I felt like did
the other homicide detectives
807
01:12:27,477 --> 01:12:30,945
really want me in that condition
808
01:12:30,947 --> 01:12:37,385
coming back to a unit
where you have to give 150%?
809
01:12:37,387 --> 01:12:43,257
You don't wanna screw it up,
so I had a meeting with the other detectives
810
01:12:43,259 --> 01:12:47,095
and, and the sergeants,
and I actually told them,
811
01:12:47,097 --> 01:12:48,463
"I feel like I'm up.
812
01:12:48,465 --> 01:12:51,899
Um... but I'm trying to work through it.
813
01:12:51,901 --> 01:12:56,371
But if you guys don't feel
that I'm up to par to do the job,
814
01:12:56,373 --> 01:12:58,406
then let me know and then I'll go find
815
01:12:58,408 --> 01:13:02,043
another, another position within
the police department."
816
01:13:11,654 --> 01:13:15,590
After Bruce's death,
when Lisa came back to the office,
817
01:13:15,592 --> 01:13:19,327
um, she did acknowledge
that it was really...
818
01:13:20,597 --> 01:13:23,598
Some... something that's impacted her.
819
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:25,867
I walked out, let them talk.
820
01:13:25,869 --> 01:13:28,936
But I did not want to leave.
821
01:13:30,340 --> 01:13:33,241
These were cases
that were very, very involved
822
01:13:34,210 --> 01:13:38,312
and taxing on everyone
in the homicide unit.
823
01:13:40,750 --> 01:13:44,419
I knew what Bruce meant to Lisa.
824
01:13:44,988 --> 01:13:49,123
I worked Bruce's suicide.
825
01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:54,061
I remember looking at him and thinking,
826
01:13:54,964 --> 01:13:58,933
"we just played golf together,
like, last week,"
827
01:13:59,035 --> 01:14:00,067
and...
828
01:14:03,106 --> 01:14:04,138
Um...
829
01:14:05,775 --> 01:14:07,909
It just, it doesn't get easy.
830
01:14:12,849 --> 01:14:15,650
But when Lisa expressed that, you know,
831
01:14:15,652 --> 01:14:18,352
she possibly couldn't do
the job anymore,
832
01:14:19,823 --> 01:14:22,924
my thought was to let her know that,
"yes, you can," you know?
833
01:14:22,926 --> 01:14:24,492
"You absolutely
can still do this job
834
01:14:24,494 --> 01:14:28,329
because you're that good
of a detective."
835
01:14:30,500 --> 01:14:36,370
I... to the last one,
every detective, sergeant in that unit was
836
01:14:37,073 --> 01:14:41,175
there behind her 100%.
We needed Lisa.
837
01:14:41,578 --> 01:14:43,077
You know, sure enough,
838
01:14:43,079 --> 01:14:47,148
I came back and they're like, "nope.
We still want you in here."
839
01:14:48,485 --> 01:14:52,386
My coworkers helped me
get through Bruce's death.
840
01:14:56,359 --> 01:14:59,293
I think through the other
homicide detectives' eyes,
841
01:14:59,896 --> 01:15:03,030
when I first came into homicide,
842
01:15:03,500 --> 01:15:06,767
in their eyes I belonged,
but in my own eyes
843
01:15:06,769 --> 01:15:13,107
it wasn't until I got pushed
to the absolute edge after his suicide
844
01:15:13,610 --> 01:15:18,846
and their "yes, we want you here"
845
01:15:18,848 --> 01:15:24,218
that in my mind I felt, "okay, I belong.
I do belong in here."
846
01:15:25,588 --> 01:15:29,023
They taught me,
I guess that...
847
01:15:30,426 --> 01:15:33,227
I'm a lot stronger than
what I even thought I was.
848
01:15:33,229 --> 01:15:35,396
Like I had enough in me
849
01:15:36,599 --> 01:15:41,602
to know that the way
to help me heal
850
01:15:41,604 --> 01:15:48,809
was to go back to a job
that deals with death.
851
01:15:48,811 --> 01:15:51,746
I don't know if that
makes sense to anybody, but...
852
01:15:51,748 --> 01:15:54,181
I felt like...
853
01:15:56,786 --> 01:15:59,086
I felt like that's what I needed.
854
01:16:02,125 --> 01:16:06,027
Because, you know,
and it's not about you.
855
01:16:09,866 --> 01:16:11,032
It's about Jennifer.
856
01:16:11,501 --> 01:16:14,035
Figuring out who did this to her.
857
01:16:16,706 --> 01:16:23,644
I think with Justin Crabbe
and the history of that relationship,
858
01:16:23,646 --> 01:16:28,082
you have to recognize the toxicity
859
01:16:29,385 --> 01:16:31,686
or maybe she just finally had it with him
860
01:16:31,688 --> 01:16:33,888
and this time they were broken up
861
01:16:33,890 --> 01:16:37,391
and, you know,
with a lot of these guys
862
01:16:37,393 --> 01:16:40,328
it gets to be, "well,
if I can't have her, nobody will."
863
01:16:45,168 --> 01:16:47,635
I'm getting a notification
864
01:16:47,637 --> 01:16:51,505
from the crime scene and the detectives out there
that they found a shotgun
865
01:16:51,507 --> 01:16:55,076
in a duffle bag
that was discarded out there.
866
01:16:55,078 --> 01:16:57,445
Around the same time,
I go to the office,
867
01:16:57,447 --> 01:16:59,380
I get a notification that Justin
868
01:16:59,382 --> 01:17:03,017
was seen diving out
the back window of his house,
869
01:17:03,019 --> 01:17:06,921
climbing over a wood privacy fence
to the street behind his
870
01:17:06,923 --> 01:17:09,724
and jumping into a waiting cab
871
01:17:09,726 --> 01:17:11,926
and when he got in the cab, he ducked down.
872
01:17:11,928 --> 01:17:14,795
My sergeant's talking with the officers,
873
01:17:14,797 --> 01:17:16,631
he lets them know that, you know,
874
01:17:16,633 --> 01:17:19,734
they need to go ahead
and stop him and detain him.
875
01:17:19,736 --> 01:17:21,335
He's brought back to the office...
876
01:17:31,047 --> 01:17:33,280
He's defeated
before we even get in a room.
877
01:18:08,885 --> 01:18:17,058
In that interview, he was just like not engaging
at all, parley with me.
878
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:19,427
Um, he kept playing
his head down on the table.
879
01:18:21,631 --> 01:18:22,997
I'd been working
a long time, right?
880
01:18:22,999 --> 01:18:25,633
This was like starting at 7:00,
881
01:18:25,635 --> 01:18:27,802
or so the night before
and, you know,
882
01:18:27,804 --> 01:18:30,538
and I'm just looking at somebody
883
01:18:30,540 --> 01:18:34,742
that I feel like has just wrecked
a lot of lives
884
01:18:34,744 --> 01:18:39,780
and, um...
I just opened the door, and I grabbed that table,
885
01:18:39,782 --> 01:18:42,149
and I pushed that table out the door.
886
01:18:53,930 --> 01:18:57,098
Now he tells a story
and it's a lot different
887
01:18:57,100 --> 01:18:58,599
than what he was telling before.
888
01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:08,542
And that his friend has
this shotgun in his hands
889
01:19:08,544 --> 01:19:10,411
and he's acting like he's Elmer Fudd
890
01:19:11,714 --> 01:19:14,248
hunting rabbits and hunting
ducks in the woods.
891
01:19:24,527 --> 01:19:26,727
And now he tells a story
892
01:19:26,729 --> 01:19:31,866
that Jennifer is walking about 20 to 30 ft.
In front of him
893
01:19:31,868 --> 01:19:34,902
and his friend,
not paying attention to them,
894
01:19:34,904 --> 01:19:39,006
and Justin says,
"I reached over his hands
895
01:19:39,008 --> 01:19:42,843
and grabbed the shotgun and said,
896
01:19:42,845 --> 01:19:44,779
'let me have it for a minute or whatever'."
897
01:19:44,781 --> 01:19:48,282
And his words were...
898
01:19:55,391 --> 01:19:56,490
I already know that's not true
899
01:19:56,492 --> 01:20:00,227
because I've been briefed
by detective morrill.
900
01:20:01,998 --> 01:20:06,300
So his story didn't match up
to the crime scene.
901
01:20:07,970 --> 01:20:11,772
She was on her knees, bent over,
902
01:20:11,807 --> 01:20:16,677
one arm bent and the other,
903
01:20:16,679 --> 01:20:22,416
like the other hand kind of like
in this position, like in an upward position.
904
01:20:22,418 --> 01:20:26,020
You know, she's trying
to beg for her life
905
01:20:26,556 --> 01:20:30,391
by trying to reason with the shooter.
906
01:20:33,729 --> 01:20:39,300
He realized that she was
directed to get on her knees
907
01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:42,236
and essentially be executed.
908
01:20:48,611 --> 01:20:52,213
We knew that we
were going to arrest him at that point.
909
01:21:05,628 --> 01:21:09,830
In the end, Justin and his lawyer
and the prosecution
910
01:21:09,832 --> 01:21:14,401
came to a plea agreement
for 30 years or 35 years
911
01:21:14,403 --> 01:21:17,004
in the Texas department of corrections...
912
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:19,139
And...
913
01:21:21,911 --> 01:21:26,046
I don't know,
I just don't feel like that was enough.
914
01:21:28,784 --> 01:21:32,987
It isn't until kinda
after you wrap the case up
915
01:21:33,155 --> 01:21:36,790
and you put the killer in jail
916
01:21:36,792 --> 01:21:42,963
that you sit back
and can breathe a little bit.
917
01:21:43,566 --> 01:21:45,966
So I don't,
I don't really feel complete
918
01:21:45,968 --> 01:21:50,137
until I know that
they're actually in prison.
919
01:21:51,707 --> 01:21:54,174
These amazing detectives,
920
01:21:54,176 --> 01:21:58,312
i'm, I'm still really grateful to them
921
01:21:58,314 --> 01:22:04,018
that they're able to relate to me
922
01:22:04,020 --> 01:22:07,788
and, you know,
I take them cookies down to the homicide unit
923
01:22:07,790 --> 01:22:10,024
and we sit, and we talk.
924
01:22:10,026 --> 01:22:11,625
There were a lot of little kindnesses
925
01:22:11,627 --> 01:22:15,229
along the way and that made me
feel hopeful.
926
01:22:16,098 --> 01:22:19,967
They chose to do their job,
but, but... but with a heart.
927
01:22:31,013 --> 01:22:35,049
I look at all these girls,
they were beautiful,
928
01:22:35,051 --> 01:22:39,219
they were fun-loving,
they were caring, charismatic.
929
01:22:39,221 --> 01:22:46,527
And their killers took
that light from these girls.
930
01:22:46,529 --> 01:22:51,432
They died before they got a chance
to even know who they are.
931
01:22:52,802 --> 01:22:55,035
When you talk
about Jenny Garcia
932
01:22:55,037 --> 01:22:57,871
and Lena Nguyen
and Jennifer crecente,
933
01:22:57,873 --> 01:23:01,342
detective morrill becomes
a part of those stories.
934
01:23:02,812 --> 01:23:07,214
Those stories also become
a part of detective morrill.
935
01:23:08,951 --> 01:23:12,853
I don't ever believe
that the families of the victims
936
01:23:12,855 --> 01:23:16,090
ever get closure.
937
01:23:16,092 --> 01:23:20,160
I think that they learn
to deal with their loss,
938
01:23:20,162 --> 01:23:23,163
but it's always lingering,
they'll never forget.
939
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:26,700
It's the same thing with me.
940
01:23:26,702 --> 01:23:30,204
I will think about these girls forever.
941
01:23:32,775 --> 01:23:36,543
But I realized afterwards
that working homicide
942
01:23:36,545 --> 01:23:38,479
has been the most satisfying job
943
01:23:38,481 --> 01:23:41,348
within the police department
that I have ever worked.
944
01:23:44,754 --> 01:23:47,254
And sometimes I think,
"what would Bruce tell me?"
945
01:23:50,526 --> 01:23:54,261
He would tell me,
"if you wanna stay there, then stay there."
946
01:23:57,533 --> 01:24:00,334
You just keep going,
you keep moving forward.
947
01:24:06,742 --> 01:24:10,144
Just by doing
this job and doing it right,
948
01:24:10,513 --> 01:24:13,280
doing it with the heart that she has,
949
01:24:13,282 --> 01:24:16,350
she makes other detectives
around her that much better.
950
01:24:17,853 --> 01:24:19,987
It truly is...
951
01:24:21,957 --> 01:24:25,125
It truly is a band
of brothers and sisters.
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