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When one of Redlands, California newest residents goes missing, the distraught community bands together to help find her. But when the case shifts from missing to murder, everyone learns their tranquil little town has a much darker side.
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00:00The community was absolutely stunned, jaws agape. It was our own little Pearl Harbor.
00:18Did she go there voluntarily? Was she forced there? Was she kidnapped?
00:25The missing person case investigation that we had going has now merged with a murder investigation.
00:31You don't think it could happen in your town and it shouldn't because it doesn't and then it did.
00:38You're just suspended and there's no end in sight. It's torture.
00:46From the pulsating streets of big cities to Main Street USA, no neighborhood is safe from the unthinkable.
00:58These are the stories of innocence lost, of communities changed forever.
01:03This is City Confidential.
01:17Founded in 1881 and named for its vivid red soil, Redlands, California became known as ground zero for the world's citrus production.
01:26It all started when civil engineer Frank Brown and New York stockbroker E.G. Judson saw potential in Southern California's warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
01:39They realized the Mediterranean-like climate was perfectly suited for maintaining orange groves.
01:45There was just one problem. During the summer months, they would need a reliable source of water.
01:51The two raised money and built a large dam in the snow-capped mountains to collect rainwater and ice milk to be funneled to the area.
02:02Then they planted 15,000 acres of orange groves.
02:07Soon, over one million crates of oranges were being distributed from more than 30 packing houses annually,
02:14earning Redlands the moniker, the Naval Orange Capital of the World.
02:20But Redlands' real claim to fame didn't grow out of the red soil.
02:25It came from the little schoolhouse.
02:29Back in 1892, Kingsbury Elementary School teacher Mary Fackler asked her first graders to recite the newly written Pledge of Allegiance before the start of class.
02:41The young voices quickly echoed out of the red brick schoolhouse and across the nation.
02:48Pledge of Allegiance to the fire of the United States of America.
02:55Because of Mary Fackler and Kingsbury Elementary, the Pledge of Allegiance became a daily fixture in American classrooms.
03:03One nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
03:11Today, the schoolhouse is long gone, and many of the orange groves have disappeared.
03:17But the city of 70,000 still feels more like a small town.
03:22Yeah, Redlands is a very close-knit community, and anybody who has a complaint can go to either the council, the mayor, or the chief of police.
03:31You know, they know them by first-name basis.
03:34So in 2003, residents were shocked when they learned their bright-eyed school kids, still raised on the Pledge of Allegiance,
03:44had grown into young adults capable of shocking betrayals.
03:49And they used those celebrated orange groves to hide their terrible secrets.
03:55It's just after 10 p.m. on Monday, September 15th, when concerned resident Laura Williams walks into the Redlands Police Department.
04:16She says she lives with her friend, Diana Bullwinkle, and Diana's 18-year-old daughter, Kelly.
04:22Laura just got home from a five-day vacation, and Kelly is nowhere to be found.
04:27Kelly's mother, Diana, was an active-duty member of the Coast Guard, and she was out on a ship in the ocean at the time of Kelly's disappearance.
04:39Laura Williams was Diane Bullwinkle's former partner, but they had remained friends,
04:45and Laura was still living in the home with Kelly while Diana was deployed with the Coast Guard.
04:51Laura came home to a house that looked like there had been a party, and Kelly was not there.
04:58And Kelly's car was gone from the house, so it was very possible that she had just taken some type of a trip and would come back in the future.
05:07But Laura made the case very strongly that this was very uncharacteristic for Kelly.
05:16And there were a number of animals in the home that appeared to have not been taken care of for days.
05:22She was very worried that something terrible had occurred to her.
05:28When we did the search of the residence, we did notice that it didn't appear that Kelly had taken any of her possessions that would suggest she was going to be gone for any long period of time.
05:43More concerning, on the home answering machine, police find several calls from Kelly's employer beginning on Sunday morning.
05:52Kelly worked at Baker's Drive Thru, it's a local hamburger shop, and she had not shown up for work for a shift like she's supposed to.
06:00And we spoke to Kelly's employer, and he told us that the last he had seen of Kelly was when she clocked out of work on Saturday the 13th at around 4.30 in the afternoon.
06:15He felt it was out of character for Kelly to not show up and not call, and that having an unexplained absence was not something that she would have done.
06:27She missed work, she hadn't cared for the animals, the house was in disarray.
06:31But there was nothing to indicate anything, any act of violence or anything had gone on at the house besides a party.
06:38We put Kelly's vehicle in the California computer system so that if any officers took note of this vehicle and ran the license plate,
06:50they would know that it belonged to a person that we were looking for as being reported as missing.
06:57Cops then reach out to Kelly's mother, Diana, hoping she's heard something.
07:03She says Kelly always keeps in touch through email because she doesn't have a cell phone,
07:08and she hasn't heard from her since Saturday morning.
07:11In fact, she made plans to come home after hearing from Laura that Kelly was missing.
07:18Diana gives investigators permission to take Kelly's computer, hoping it will offer up some clues.
07:25If she was going to be gone, it's very highly likely there would be some evidence of communication between herself and wherever she was going as to when and where they expected her.
07:39But this is 2003, and a forensic computer analysis will take time.
07:44The one thing police are in short supply of when a responsible team just up and vanishes.
07:51Looking for fast leads, investigators try to learn everything they can about Kelly.
08:00She was born in Texas and lived in several places growing up, while her mom moved around working for the Coast Guard.
08:07Kelly's dad was really out of the picture, and so Diana was raising Kelly on her own, and I thought it was doing a remarkable job and a great job.
08:18You know, wherever Diana was stationed or had to be relocated, Kelly went along as a trooper.
08:24Finally, in 1997, Diana decided it was time to settle down.
08:29She chose Redlands because it was safe and had a good school system for 12-year-old Kelly.
08:36Kelly was so cute.
08:38You'd walk into a room and she would smile at you, and it was an ear-to-ear smile.
08:42Kelly was very small.
08:45She was short.
08:46She was skinny.
08:47She could be really excitable and giggly and talkative and was really passionate about things that she liked.
09:00Kelly had a passion for horses.
09:02She had a horse named Banner, and she competed in dressage.
09:08She probably was a little spoiled, though, too, because, like, how many kids have a horse, you know?
09:15Her clothes were pretty eclectic.
09:17Sometimes Kelly came to school wearing costumes almost, like a beret and sunglasses and long gloves to look like she was from an old French movie.
09:33She also loved writing and expressing herself through poetry.
09:39She cared a lot about music, and she was attracted to darker things, spooky things, or gloomy, morbid things.
09:50I think she felt at home in the creative world.
09:55She was very creative.
09:58And I think she liked to be a little bit different from other people.
10:04In her junior year, Kelly found her spirit group.
10:08The goth teenage clique at East Redlands High.
10:13She started dressing in darker clothes.
10:16She dyed her hair a reddish kind of color, changed her makeup.
10:20It wasn't like the girl next door kind of look anymore.
10:23I think Kelly was attracted to them because they liked the same things she liked, and she wanted to feel like she belonged.
10:33And for the first time in Kelly's life, she had a grounded home in a community known for making kids and orange groves blossom.
10:48But as the hours pass with no sign of Kelly, police become more certain there's something rotten in the city of Redlands.
10:56Old Kelly Bullwinkle disappears.
10:58Her best friend, Kinsey Nordman, contacts police and says she wants to do whatever she can to help.
11:06She told us that the last time she'd actually seen Kelly was Friday the 12th of September.
11:11And then on Saturday the 13th, they were supposed to get together.
11:14They did not get together.
11:15Kinsey went to Kelly's house, looked inside.
11:18Saw the house appeared to have a party or something inside, and Kelly was not there, nor was anybody else.
11:23Kinsey just assumed Kelly was away with other people, and that's why she didn't make their time together.
11:30But now Kelly's missing, and Kinsey says she has no idea where her best friend is.
11:37And so we brought out a number of officers, detectives, volunteers to canvas the neighborhood, contact friends of Kelly, to see if we could determine exactly where she might be.
11:51No one police talked to has seen Kelly in the past couple days.
11:56Concerned, her friends and neighbors help spread the word that she's missing by creating posters and papering the town.
12:04And just like that, Safe Little Redlands is looking at what could be a very scary situation.
12:12The feeling of someone being missing is the worst, because you can't ever stop thinking about it.
12:22You're just suspended, and there's no end in sight.
12:28It's torture.
12:34Another 24 agonizing hours pass.
12:37Still no sign of Kelly.
12:39Then, police get word, her car has been found at the Ontario Mills parking lot, a shopping mall 25 miles away from Redlands.
12:49It had been ticketed several times by the private security.
12:52They eventually notified Ontario Police Department, and once they ran the plates, they discovered it was a missing person's car.
12:59And then Ontario Police Department notified us.
13:01It wasn't hot-wired.
13:02It didn't have no broken windows.
13:04There was no indication of foul play.
13:06It was just parked there like she got out and left.
13:11It kind of opened up a whole new area of concern.
13:17Did she go there voluntarily?
13:20Was she forced there?
13:22Was she kidnapped from the parking lot?
13:25Had she been kidnapped earlier, and they just dropped her car off there so that local law enforcement wouldn't find it?
13:34There were security cameras at the mall, but there weren't any that were directly located where they could see Kelly's vehicle enter into the lot or when it was parked, and who might have left the vehicle.
13:51Detectives impound Kelly's car.
13:56They comb through everything inside, dusting for prints and taking samples.
14:00They rush everything off to the lab, hoping to find something that will help the investigation and bring the 18-year-old back home.
14:09But before the forensic team can even dig in, cops get word a woman arrested on a narcotics charge is willing to help police with their mysterious case if they go easy on her.
14:21She tells them she's one of Kelly Bullwinkle's coworkers, and she knows Kelly isn't just missing.
14:28She's dead.
14:31She said that she knew an individual by the name of Mike McMillan, and that he told her that he had robbed Kelly, and that he had killed her.
14:46She says it all started when Kelly gave her $100 to buy some drugs.
14:51She says she took the money, but never gave Kelly anything in return.
14:55And when she told Mike that Kelly was bugging her about the money, he said he'd take care of it.
15:03A few days later, she met up with him again.
15:06She said that she had spoken to Mike in a vehicle, and he actually had something that was covered up.
15:15You couldn't really tell what it was, but that he was suggesting that it was a firearm, and that he had used that to shoot Kelly.
15:25Cops zero in on Mike McMillan.
15:30He's a name they're very familiar with, and they know he never does anything without his best friend, Eric McLaughlin.
15:38McLaughlin and McMillan both had criminal histories, primarily drug-related incidents, and auto theft and other theft-related incidents.
15:46They both were in custody by the Redlands Police Department for the theft of a vehicle.
15:54The fact that these two individuals were reputed to be car thieves, and the fact that Kelly's vehicle had been left abandoned or dumped at a mall 30 miles away,
16:07also suggested that maybe they were involved.
16:11Cops sit down with 21-year-old Eric McLaughlin first and let him know they suspect he's involved in the disappearance of Kelly Bullwinkle.
16:20We have a very limited timeframe here.
16:24If this gal is alive somewhere and not dead yet, and you withhold information, you could be considered a party to the crime because you let her die.
16:35Okay?
16:36I have no idea where she's at, though.
16:38If I knew...
16:39You have an idea.
16:40We need you to tell us what's going on.
16:43I don't know.
16:44You need you to tell us what you know.
16:45I don't know nothing.
16:46You do know something.
16:49When they talk to 19-year-old Mike McMillan, it's the same story.
16:55They did admit that they knew Kelly, and they had had some interactions with her.
17:02Okay, you ready to start?
17:03Yep.
17:04But they both denied having any part in the disappearance of Kelly.
17:10They denied that they had done her any harm.
17:13They were asked to submit to a polygraph examination, and both of them consented.
17:17Answer each question truthfully, yes or no only.
17:21The results were that they were not being deceitful.
17:24But we're not going to let them off the radar.
17:27They're still primary number one suspects.
17:30As part of our investigation into Eric and Mike, there was a rumor that maybe they had assaulted
17:41someone in the past, and that person had been tied up and left in an orange grove.
17:47The rumor was never substantiated, but it gets cops thinking, maybe Kelly ended up somewhere in those orange groves.
18:00To me, it looks like a straight-up execution.
18:02I want nothing more than to solve this case.
18:06And he was only 18 years old.
18:09You tell me how you want to play this.
18:13I did not shoot this man.
18:19That's our dude.
18:20Why did that happen the way it didn't?
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18:30Five days after Kelly Bullwinkle disappeared, police in Redlands, California shift their attention
18:48to the sprawling citrus farms on the edge of town.
18:51We organized a large number of volunteers and went into the field and searched the orange groves.
19:02We wanted to just make sure she wasn't left tied up somewhere.
19:08Word gets out into the community that police are conducting a ground search for Kelly.
19:14Everyone in town wants to be involved.
19:16You just had hundreds of volunteers scouring the community, surrounding areas, and for
19:23any clue they could find about Kelly.
19:25We put boots on and walked through brush.
19:28Walked through very desolate areas and just everybody, just like you see in the movies
19:35or, you know, on shows, people just walk in a line and going through bushes.
19:39And we'd do that for a couple hours and then we'd come home and then we'd go the next day.
19:45And then the Coast Guard came out and they were able to get some helicopters.
19:50It's sickening because you want to find something, but you don't want to find something.
19:55So you're walking and you're like, oh my God, I can't believe this is, we're doing this.
19:59We're actually looking for Kelly.
20:01The search continues for days, but no sign of Kelly turns up.
20:09And back at the jailhouse, police polygraphed Mike McMillan and Eric McLaughlin several more
20:14times looking for answers.
20:16They were passing these polygraphs when they were asked directly if they had anything to
20:21do with the disappearance of Kelly Bowling.
20:24We weren't coming up with any facts that could tie Mike or Eric to this event.
20:32And it just appeared that they were not involved.
20:38Eric McLaughlin and Mike McMillan are scratched off the suspect list.
20:45We're back to square one and, you know, where's Kelly Bowling going?
20:51It was incredibly discouraging.
20:55None of her friends could offer any more clues.
20:58There was no way to really track her banking information, which had not yielded anything.
21:03No evidence came from the car.
21:05It was getting very discouraging.
21:08Kelly's normally private mother, Diana, takes to the airwaves, desperately asking the public for help.
21:16Anybody who has Kelly, please send her home.
21:20Don't hurt her.
21:21She's a great kid.
21:22We were at Diana's house every day.
21:27We would make dinner, bring food to the house.
21:30And all we did is just spend time with her.
21:33It's really the only thing that we could do to help.
21:37Just, just be there.
21:41She would say, my little girl, my little girl, where is my little girl?
21:46She would say that over and over.
21:49I think that she knew that something terrible happened and Kelly wasn't going to be coming home.
21:55Then, three weeks after Kelly disappeared, two local guys visit one of Redlands abandoned orange groves and make a horrifying discovery.
22:16Two gentlemen told the police they were in the area shooting paintball guns
22:21and came across an old couch, and underneath the couch,
22:25there was what appeared to be a human bone sticking out from underneath the couch.
22:32Crime scene technicians carefully excavate the area.
22:36The victim was in what you typically call a shallow grave,
22:39something, you know, 8 to 14 inches deep in a sandy bottom,
22:44and then the couch was placed on top of the victim.
22:47The human remains were basically skeletal remains that decomposed in the body,
22:52clothed in a white shirt and blue jeans, small stature,
22:57and two .25 caliber shell casings were located in the area right near the remains.
23:05The cause of death obviously can't be determined until the coroner conducts his or her investigation,
23:09but there were two obvious deformities in the skull of the remains.
23:15One, what I would say, looked like a bullet hole in the skull.
23:19Using dental records for comparison,
23:22investigators quickly confirmed that the search for Kelly Bullwinkle
23:25has finally come to an end.
23:35Four days after Kelly Bullwinkle's remains are found,
23:39Redlands PD holds a press conference.
23:42The missing person case investigation that we had going
23:45has now merged with a murder investigation,
23:47and Kelly is unfortunately the victim of that.
23:55I planned everything for her, with her, around her,
23:59just so she has a better life, good life.
24:06And what do I do now?
24:08I expect her to come home from school,
24:09and I see her picture,
24:12and I'm like, never going to see her again.
24:17My heart's been ripped out.
24:20I couldn't have imagined anything like that happening in Redlands.
24:24That's when it sinks in, like, this, she's not coming back.
24:27She's really, really gone.
24:31I just got on a bus,
24:34and then I got off the bus,
24:36and I didn't know where I was,
24:38but I was standing in front of a tattoo shop.
24:43And I walked in and told them I wanted a broken heart.
24:51I knew that whatever the explanation was
24:54of what happened to her,
24:56nothing could change
24:58that she was gone
25:02and that someone did it on purpose.
25:08And that pain would never
25:10go away.
25:12As Kelly's family and friends struggle with the loss,
25:26the medical examiner's report comes in.
25:32It confirms Kelly was brutally murdered,
25:36gunned down execution style,
25:37at point-blank range,
25:39with a .25-caliber firearm.
25:43She had been shot two times in the head.
25:46One behind the ear,
25:49one that just grazed her,
25:51and one that was shot into the skull.
25:53The intense summer heat destroyed most of the remains,
25:59but there's enough to estimate time of death.
26:03The medical examiner's opinion,
26:06based on the decomposed nature of the body,
26:08indicated that the victim had been out there
26:11for about three weeks.
26:12That means Kelly was probably killed
26:16in the orange grove on Saturday,
26:18September 13th,
26:19sometime after she clocked out of work.
26:22And her car was dumped later
26:24at the Ontario Mills Mall
26:25to throw off police.
26:29Investigators believe the killer
26:31is most likely a local
26:32who knows the wild orange trees
26:34can provide a perfect cover for murder.
26:37But who?
26:38One week later,
26:43the forensic analysis
26:44of Kelly's computer comes in,
26:46and it looks like Kelly had a falling out
26:49just days before she was killed
26:51with a Redlands friend named Elodie Romero.
26:56Like Kelly,
26:57Elodie was very small,
26:59short, cute,
27:01dark hair and eyes.
27:04She seemed
27:05a little mischievous.
27:10She could be sarcastic.
27:12She was funny.
27:14And from the various IMs
27:15between the two girls,
27:17it looks like Kelly and her
27:18were competing for the same young man,
27:2119-year-old Damien Guerrero.
27:25Damien was a broody,
27:29goth boy.
27:30He was always dressed well
27:34and all black.
27:36And I think he really cultivated
27:37an air of mystery
27:39and power.
27:42Girls seemed to like him.
27:46Damien had his little trophy girlfriend,
27:48Elodie.
27:50And Damien liked to fool around
27:51with all the other little cuties,
27:53and Kelly was the other cutie
27:55amongst others.
27:57And so it was one of those situations.
27:59The online conversation
28:01indicated that Damien
28:03had cheated on Elodie
28:04with Kelly.
28:06And they were bickering
28:08back and forth.
28:09Stop.
28:10Elodie was saying,
28:10don't sleep with my boyfriend.
28:12You know, he's my boyfriend.
28:14Stay away from him.
28:15Something bad might happen to you.
28:18With the threats
28:19that Elodie had made,
28:21it rose her name
28:22to the suspect list of,
28:24was she involved somehow?
28:26There was some comments
28:29that you made to her
28:29on September 2nd
28:32during an online conversation.
28:35Yeah, I remember what I said.
28:36What did you say?
28:37I said, stay away from Damien
28:39before something bad happened to you.
28:40Okay.
28:41Exactly.
28:42And what the bad happened to her?
28:43I mean,
28:44I think it's a huge coincidence.
28:47Elodie described her relationship
28:49with Damien
28:49as full-on boyfriend, girlfriend.
28:52But she knew he was just
28:55a womanizer.
28:58At the time,
28:59he and her were really
29:00getting along.
29:01I mean, I obviously
29:01didn't like her.
29:03Because, I mean,
29:03I was always a woman
29:04for Kelly.
29:05I mean, I was just
29:06too upset over the situation.
29:07Because, I mean,
29:08I knew that some things
29:10had gone between them,
29:11but both of them
29:11weren't telling me
29:12the whole story.
29:14So I was really upset.
29:16I just said things
29:17that, you know...
29:18I guess since she felt
29:20that if she could pull off
29:22a little idle threat,
29:23Kelly might back off
29:24and Damien's all hers again.
29:27I talked to her
29:28for several hours.
29:30When I was done
29:30talking to her,
29:31I was 100% sure
29:33she had nothing to do
29:34with Kelly Bullwinkle's murder.
29:37And when asked
29:38where she was
29:38when Kelly disappeared,
29:40Elodie says she never
29:41left her house that weekend.
29:44Everything that Elodie told me
29:46was the truth,
29:47and it was backed up
29:48by proof,
29:49by phone records,
29:51her mother's account,
29:53things of that nature.
29:55And that's how
29:56we were able
29:57to eliminate her
29:58as having anything
29:59to do with Kelly Bullwinkle's
30:00disappearance or murder.
30:02But there's another side
30:04to this messy love triangle.
30:06And now cops want to know
30:08what the broody
30:09goth Lothario of Redlands
30:11has to say.
30:13Two weeks after
30:18Kelly Bullwinkle's
30:19remains were found,
30:20detectives sit down
30:21with Damien Guerrero.
30:23The young man Kelly
30:24and her friend Elodie
30:25were fighting over
30:26before Kelly was killed.
30:30He looked like a normal
30:3118, 19-year-old.
30:33He was dressed nice.
30:34He was a little arrogant,
30:35but nothing out of the ordinary
30:37for, you know,
30:37that age full of himself.
30:39He was very articulate,
30:40well-spoken.
30:43He said that him and Elodie
30:44had broken up
30:45for a little bit,
30:45and then he kind of
30:46had a fling with Kelly,
30:48but then realized
30:49he really wanted
30:50to be with Elodie,
30:51so he stopped
30:53the relationship
30:54with Kelly.
30:56Kelly didn't take it
30:58very well,
30:58and then there was
30:58an incident
30:59in downtown Redlands
31:00where Kelly confronted him
31:01about their relationship.
31:03Damien says
31:04Kelly's best friend
31:05Kenzie Nordman
31:06was right there
31:07when it happened.
31:08Damien and Kenzie
31:11were seated
31:12in a booth
31:13at Denny's
31:14when Kelly walked in,
31:16and Kelly led off
31:18with a few foul words
31:20for Damien
31:21and then stormed off.
31:23Damien says
31:24that was the last
31:25he saw of her,
31:26and he says
31:27he had nothing to do
31:28with what happened
31:29to Kelly.
31:30The night she disappeared,
31:32he was with
31:32Kenzie Nordman again.
31:35Kenzie and Damien
31:36were very close,
31:38not romantically involved,
31:39but very close.
31:40They had gone to dinner
31:41and then gone
31:42to a movie together.
31:44Damien actually
31:45provided us
31:46with the receipt
31:48from the movie theater.
31:50And when police
31:51ask Kenzie
31:52about the night,
31:53she confirms
31:53Damien's story.
31:57Cops go back
31:58to Kelly's circle
31:59of friends
31:59to see if anyone
32:00they know
32:01owns a gun.
32:02One kid says
32:03he'll never forget
32:05the first and only time
32:06he's ever seen
32:07a pistol in real life.
32:09He was with
32:10Damien Guerrero
32:10and Kenzie Nordman.
32:14Damien was driving,
32:15Kenzie Nordman
32:16was in the front
32:16passenger seat,
32:17and for some reason,
32:19either Damien or Kenzie
32:20opened the glove compartment
32:21and could see
32:23into the front of the car
32:23from where he was sitting,
32:25and he saw
32:25a small chrome pistol
32:27in the glove compartment
32:28of Damien's car.
32:30Damien or Kenzie
32:31then shut the glove compartment
32:32right away,
32:33and he didn't ask them
32:35about the pistol.
32:36It just made him
32:36feel uncomfortable.
32:37He never rode
32:38in Damien's car
32:39after that.
32:41Cops confront Damien
32:42about the gun.
32:44And we asked him,
32:44has he ever had any,
32:45been in possession
32:46of any firearms?
32:47At which point,
32:47he said no.
32:48So we confront him
32:49that we know
32:50he had a pistol,
32:51and then he kind of goes,
32:51oh, that pistol?
32:53He then admitted
32:53that he did have a pistol
32:55that his brother
32:56had given him.
32:58Damien says the gun
32:59was a .25 caliber,
33:01the same type of weapon,
33:03cops know,
33:04was used to kill
33:05Kelly Bullwinkle.
33:07Damien told me
33:08he had it in his car
33:09for a while,
33:10but after a while
33:10he didn't want
33:11to get caught with it
33:12with the cops,
33:12and he threw it
33:13in a gutter
33:14in the city of Redlands.
33:16He pinpoints the area,
33:17and police conduct
33:18an extensive search
33:19for the gun.
33:21They don't find it,
33:22and there's no way
33:23it just washed away.
33:25This is Redlands,
33:26known for year-round sunshine.
33:28So police get a warrant
33:31for Damien's home.
33:33We went up
33:34to Damien's residence
33:35to serve the search warrant,
33:36and his brother
33:37showed up at the house.
33:39And I asked him
33:39about the gun
33:40that Damien brought up
33:41in the interview.
33:42He told me
33:43that he had purchased
33:45the gun
33:45from a friend of his
33:46and had, in fact,
33:47given that gun
33:48to Damien.
33:49Police track down
33:50the gun seller,
33:51and the guy
33:52doesn't miss a beat.
33:53He not only owns up
33:55to hawking the gun
33:56to Damien's brother,
33:57he admits he even used it
33:59for target practice
33:59behind his house
34:00before he got rid of it.
34:03But he, the night,
34:03went out in his backyard,
34:05and when I say backyard,
34:06it's not grass.
34:07It's the side of a hill
34:08with tumbleweeds
34:09and bushes and brush.
34:11We searched in our hands
34:13and knees for hours.
34:15I actually found
34:16a fired cartridge case.
34:20The shell casing
34:22is rushed to the crime lab
34:23and compared to the ones
34:24recovered near Kelly's body.
34:27I remember walking
34:28out of our detective office
34:29into the main hallway,
34:31and our forensic specialist,
34:32Rick Dysart,
34:32came walking out,
34:33and he told me
34:34that they all matched.
34:38And at that point,
34:39that was the most incredible
34:40feeling as a detective
34:43or police officer
34:44that I'd had up to that point.
34:45Knowing then,
34:46we had our guy.
34:48Now, cops need to see
34:50if they can put
34:50the murder weapon
34:51in Damien's hands.
34:52You said, uh,
34:55you told me
34:55you just wanted
34:56an attorney, right?
34:57No, my attorney.
35:00The car's right here
35:00in the name
35:01that you took from me.
35:02You asked for an attorney,
35:03you didn't want
35:03to answer no question.
35:04I can't talk to you
35:05unless you re-initiate
35:06the conversation.
35:08Good luck.
35:09With Damien shut down,
35:11police have to find
35:12another way in.
35:13They turn to
35:14Kenzie Nordman
35:15to see where
35:16her Pledge of Allegiance lies.
35:19She can't be both
35:20Kelly Bullwinkle's
35:21best friend
35:21and her suspected
35:23murderer's alibi.
35:28Seven weeks after
35:29Kelly Bullwinkle's murder,
35:31cops sit down again
35:32with her friend
35:33Kenzie Nordman.
35:34My general impression
35:36was that she thought
35:37that he got nothing on me.
35:38What do you want to know?
35:39I had nothing to do
35:40with Kelly's murder
35:42or disappearance.
35:42I'm her good friend
35:44until we started
35:45into the hardball stuff
35:47of, okay, we know
35:48she was killed
35:49with a .25 caliber
35:50handgun
35:51that Damien
35:52had possessed earlier.
35:55Damien pulled
35:56the trigger, did it?
35:57I don't know.
35:59What you got to hope for
36:00is that nobody ever
36:02says a word
36:02about your involvement.
36:04But that's all
36:04you guys are waiting for,
36:05though, I mean,
36:06for somebody to confess
36:07to this stuff.
36:07No, we're not waiting
36:08for a confession.
36:09What does it matter?
36:09We could care less
36:10if Damien confessed or not.
36:11We have enough
36:12to convict him.
36:13And I want to talk
36:14to Damien before...
36:14The interview goes on
36:16for more than an hour.
36:17Kinzie insists
36:18she knows nothing
36:19about what happened.
36:20Are we telling you
36:21about all the...
36:21Cops turn up the heat.
36:24We already told you
36:25we know who's involved,
36:26right?
36:26And we're right.
36:27Okay.
36:28Believe me,
36:28Damien's going to seem
36:29like a burden
36:30when he sees all the evidence
36:32compiled against him.
36:34I guarantee you
36:35he ain't going to give
36:36a shit about you.
36:37We're trying to give you
36:38the benefit of the doubt
36:39and you aren't taking it.
36:40We've laid it out for you.
36:42We know...
36:43You know the truth.
36:44You're making a huge mistake
36:46by not telling
36:47your side of the story.
36:48I'll tell.
36:49Yeah, I'll tell.
36:52Kinzie says
36:53she and Damien
36:53were angry at Kelly
36:54for confronting him
36:55at the restaurant
36:56in downtown Redlands.
36:58And they wanted her
36:59to back off
37:00because she was causing
37:01trouble in their group.
37:03So they planned
37:04on scaring her.
37:05on Saturday,
37:07September 13th,
37:09Kinzie asked Kelly
37:10to come with her
37:11to the Orange Grove
37:12after she got out
37:13of work to catch up.
37:16So Kelly and I
37:17were just hanging out
37:17there for like two hours
37:18just smoking weed.
37:20And I was like,
37:21screw it, Kelly.
37:21Let's go get some tacos.
37:22And he comes in.
37:24And he was just going
37:25to bring a gun
37:26and scare her
37:27and that was going to be it.
37:28And we went down
37:29to the kill
37:31where she was found
37:32and she was standing
37:34by the hole
37:36because we went on Friday
37:37to dig a hole there.
37:38We were walking around
37:39at night trying
37:39to find a place
37:40thinking, oh,
37:40this is going to be
37:41some fun, stupid thing.
37:42So you and Damien
37:43dug the hole on Friday?
37:44We had a hole on Friday
37:44night, yeah,
37:45and the shovel
37:45was still there.
37:47And she was laughing
37:49at it with me.
37:50She's all, look,
37:51it's a fresh shovel.
37:55I'd heard this
37:56loud bang.
37:59And I look at Kelly
37:59in the ground.
38:02And I didn't know
38:03what happened.
38:06And she was moving
38:08and making this noise.
38:11Kinsey said
38:12that she then
38:13picked up the gun
38:14that Damien had dropped
38:16after he fired it
38:17and that she shot Kelly
38:22in the head
38:22to put her out
38:23of her misery.
38:26I wanted her to die
38:27because I didn't want
38:27to suffer.
38:29I bet she was still alive.
38:33And then how close
38:34are you?
38:34Pretend I'm Kelly.
38:35I got real close
38:36because I had never
38:37shot again before
38:37so I wanted to get close,
38:39I guess.
38:39Okay, pretend I'm Kelly.
38:40Put the gun to how close
38:41you're right?
38:42I was probably
38:42about that close.
38:47Kinsey stated
38:48that after they had
38:50buried Kelly,
38:51they needed to dispose
38:53of her vehicle.
38:54So they drove it
38:55to the Ontario Mills
38:57and parked it
38:58in the parking lot.
39:01Damien followed her
39:02and then drove them
39:04back to Redlands
39:05where they had dinner
39:06and then went to a movie.
39:08On November 5th, 2003,
39:21police arrest
39:22Kenzie Nordman
39:23and Damien Guerrero
39:24for the murder
39:26of Kelly Bullwinkle.
39:27We're just like,
39:31wow.
39:33Everyone was just sick
39:33and they're like,
39:34oh my God,
39:35that girl,
39:36her own friends
39:38did this to her?
39:39And it was like,
39:40we couldn't believe it.
39:42The community
39:42was absolutely stunned.
39:44Jaws agape.
39:45It was our own
39:46little Pearl Harbor
39:46because people
39:48could not believe
39:49that somebody
39:51who had been involved
39:52in the search
39:52and had been
39:52their best friend
39:53was charged
39:55in connection
39:56with the murder of Kelly.
39:57People just didn't get it.
40:00I was angry
40:01and I was confused.
40:06I was shocked
40:07because I knew
40:08they had both
40:10really cared about Kelly
40:11and it was hard
40:14to reconcile
40:15those two things.
40:16on March 9th, 2005,
40:26Kinsey Nordman
40:27is convicted
40:27of first-degree murder
40:29and sentenced
40:30to 45 years to life
40:31in state prison.
40:33But the jury
40:34deciding Damien Guerrero's fate
40:36can't reach
40:37a unanimous verdict.
40:38It was an 11-1 decision
40:41and the one juror,
40:44she genuinely believed
40:45that the evidence
40:46against Damien
40:47did not surpass
40:49the threshold
40:50of beyond a reasonable doubt.
40:52Some of the jurors
40:53apologized to Diana
40:54in the hallway.
40:56They were crying
40:57that they couldn't
40:58reach a verdict.
41:01The district attorney
41:02had the choice
41:03to either have
41:05a second trial
41:06or to take a plea
41:07from Damien
41:08and that's what
41:09Damien and his attorney did.
41:13On July 25th,
41:152008,
41:16Damien Guerrero
41:17pleads guilty
41:18to second-degree murder
41:19and is sentenced
41:20to 15 years
41:21to life in prison.
41:33In 2012,
41:35Diana Bullwinkle
41:36establishes a scholarship
41:38in Kelly's name
41:39to be awarded
41:40to be awarded
41:40each year
41:40to a deserving student
41:41from Redlands East Valley
41:43High School.
41:44But she never really recovers.
41:47After Kelly,
41:48just nothing,
41:49nothing mattered.
41:51She withdrew
41:51and became more
41:54and more depressed
41:54and irritable
41:57and she just let herself go.
42:04On February 1st, 2014,
42:07Diana Bullwinkle
42:08dies of a broken heart
42:10at just 54 years old
42:12in Redlands, California,
42:14the city where she believed
42:15her only daughter
42:16would be safe preparing
42:18for her bright future.
42:19As for the residents,
42:24they still struggle
42:25with the memory
42:26of how their innocent children
42:28raised on sunshine
42:29and the Pledge of Allegiance
42:30could have transformed
42:32one of those iconic
42:33orange groves
42:34into a killing field.
42:36It's heartbreaking
42:37just to see these
42:38kids destroying so much
42:41for nothing,
42:43with no gain.
42:44It was just devastating
42:46to me.
42:47I grew up in the town
42:47and you don't think
42:49it could happen
42:50in your town
42:50and it shouldn't
42:51because it doesn't
42:52and then it did.
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