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00:00People want to come to Silicon Valley and make money.
00:05Every single day somebody wakes up with a whole new idea that we didn't think about.
00:09Hoping and dreaming to make that first billion dollars.
00:13The tech pro culture, it motivates a lot of people to come to Silicon Valley.
00:18But then there's the dark side of Silicon Valley.
00:23Some people make it, some people don't.
00:25And for those folks that don't make it, sometimes their minds take them places that we can't even imagine.
00:33Sergeant Sandra Brown, Palo Alto Police Department.
00:36I spent my career investigating major crimes in Silicon Valley.
00:40Like Kathy Anderson.
00:44My initial reaction was one of shock because it was such a gruesome scene.
00:52The police are trying to figure out how are these people connected?
00:58What are the odds that he comes over her home this specific night and she's dead?
01:04Menlo Park is a small town. Very wealthy.
01:16A lot of our CEOs and tech bros in Silicon Valley reside in Menlo Park.
01:35I worked 30 years for the city of Palo Alto.
01:38And when I first came to Palo Alto, Menlo Park was sort of like this beautiful residential community for all those folks who were working in those high tech industries.
01:51It was a very laid back, sleepy town.
01:55So it was a very safe area.
01:57You never locked the doors.
01:59I was employed by the town of Atherton and Kathy was working there too.
02:04So that's how we became friends.
02:08Kathy Anderson was the arborist for the town of Atherton, which is just north of Menlo Park.
02:17She was a really loving, caring person who was a light in the community.
02:22She loved gardening and liked making bouquets.
02:27That was her pastime.
02:29If she wasn't working, she liked to be in her garden.
02:34Kathy was amazing.
02:36She was like a sister to me.
02:37Ride or die, as they say, you know.
02:40And as the years went on, we did some traveling together with her husband, Billy.
02:46They were a wonderful couple.
02:49They adored each other.
02:51I was around them a lot and it was fun to be around.
02:56Just by the way they were living, I would assume they were doing quite well.
03:01Billy owned a very successful plumbing company that was over 100 years old in Palo Alto.
03:08Kathy and her husband benefited from this deluge of money coming into Silicon Valley in the 90s and the early 2000s.
03:16They lived in an old craftsman home, a hundred year old home that belonged to the old postmaster.
03:25And it had such charm.
03:27The garden was designed with the most incredible flowers.
03:32It was beautiful.
03:33It was a beautiful home.
03:34She never had children.
03:38It just wasn't in their cards, I suppose.
03:40I never knew why, but she would have been a wonderful mother.
03:44Kathy and her husband were a very happy couple.
03:48They were financially secure.
03:51They had a beautiful home in Menlo Park.
03:53But when he died of leukemia in 2007, Kathy found herself alone and she was very sad.
04:01She was very heartbroken.
04:02Just being young and losing your husband, it's hard.
04:10She was in her 50s at the time and you're still thriving when you're 50, you know?
04:16You're still having fun.
04:17You're still young.
04:18And that was her nature.
04:22She loved to have fun.
04:25Kathy's a very outgoing person.
04:28She's got a lot of girlfriends.
04:29They see each other quite often.
04:32But in reality, when Kathy's home, she's sad because she's alone.
04:38And in 2011, Kathy Anderson retired from her arborist job.
04:43That same year, a little tech company called Facebook moved into town.
04:50And it changed the landscape of Menlo Park.
04:54When Facebook showed up, they had a pretty small footprint.
04:56They had a kind of a small office in downtown Palo Alto.
05:01When they moved to Menlo Park, they bought a giant campus there.
05:05And at that point, I feel like the perception of them started changing within the community.
05:10They ballooned massively in terms of usage.
05:12They got way more employees.
05:15It kind of became a big negotiation between them and Menlo Park about how they can keep on expanding
05:21while still not disrupting the surrounding community too much.
05:26When Facebook came to Menlo Park, it attracted programmers, engineers, people who were into gaming, apps, creating new technology.
05:36Stay focused and keep shipping.
05:41So many people flooded into Menlo Park from all over the world.
05:44But it's caused an increase in property value.
05:52So there's been a turnover in some residents.
05:55It's not the same as it was.
05:58I remember in the old days, you knew everybody.
06:03And now, I don't even recognize the place anymore.
06:06Every time I go there, it's so crowded and, you know, it's not fun anymore.
06:11By 2018, people started to raise more big picture concerns.
06:20And it was exposing the negative part of what could happen in Silicon Valley.
06:25On December 12th of 2018, around 5.30 in the evening, the Menlo Park Police Department was dispatched to a house on Valparaiso in Menlo Park.
06:42911 emergency.
06:44Our dispatchers got a call from a frantic person reporting that someone had killed Kathy Anderson.
06:50The dispatcher asked if the person who killed Kathy was still there, and he said that he was.
06:57And he said, send everybody.
07:00When officers first arrived on scene, they could hear yelling coming from inside the house.
07:08And they saw a man inside the living room, and they called for him to come outside.
07:16The first man who walked out was kind of a regular-looking white male, a little bit older, maybe in his 50s.
07:25And he was very upset, crying, kind of hysterical, saying, he's inside, he's inside. He said he killed Kathy.
07:32The man was handcuffed by officers. Then they saw someone else was inside the living room.
07:39The second male who walked out, also white, but much younger, probably early 20s, very calm, not resisting arrest whatsoever, doesn't say anything, complies with the police request to put his hands behind his back.
07:56They don't know what's going on. They don't know who's done what, what the dangers are, who's in the house.
08:03They then started a search of the residence, and at the landing of the staircase leading into the basement was a pillow that was bloodied.
08:14And then in the basement, down in the dirt, they found the body of what was later identified as Kathleen Anderson.
08:27She was laying face down with a huge pool of blood underneath her head and neck area.
08:33She appeared to be in pajamas.
08:36There was a very bloody saw right next to her on the ground.
08:40They could see that she had been almost entirely decapitated.
08:45When investigators turned the body of the victim over, they saw that there was a foreign object in her left eye and realized that it was the back of a ballpoint pen.
09:00My initial reaction was one of shock because it was such a gruesome scene.
09:07When I think about all of the cases that I handled, this was without question the most horrific in terms of the way the killing actually happened.
09:16I have never seen or heard of a murderer where someone had a pen lodged in their eye.
09:24Any homicide is a horrific scene.
09:27But this homicide was such an example of overkill.
09:32This is a very gruesome murder scene and it's highly unusual.
09:39It is very rare to have a homicide where a suspect does this type of damage to a human body.
09:47This is one of the most horrifying murders in Silicon Valley history.
09:53We have two men in the home with the body.
09:57The question is, which one of them is the killer?
10:11I remember it was a Wednesday.
10:12I remember it really well.
10:14I was so sad.
10:18Yeah, it was hard.
10:20Before Kathy's death, there wasn't a murder there since like 12 years.
10:31I mean, I was shocked.
10:35You just don't believe somebody you care and love that much that happens to.
10:40Losing her life in that manner was just devastating, you know?
10:44Kathy Anderson was murdered in her own home.
10:51It's a horrific crime.
10:54And when investigators arrive, there are two men in the house.
10:59In a call like this, everyone who's inside the residence is going to be detained.
11:05We want to hold on to everyone and make sure that we identify who they are before anything else happens.
11:16Menlo Park police detained two suspects.
11:20One of them was a man named Daniel Baggett.
11:25He claimed that he called 911.
11:26He also informed the police that he and Kathy Anderson at one time had a relationship.
11:35The second man that was detained is a younger person.
11:38His name is Francis Wolke.
11:40He's not very cooperative with the police.
11:43He's not saying very much.
11:47So police are wondering who is Francis Wolke and what's his connection to Kathy Anderson?
11:52As we dig into our investigation of Francis Wolke, we learned that he first came to Silicon Valley around 2014.
12:06Francis Wolke grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.
12:09He was the oldest of eight children.
12:12Francis Wolke dropped out of the University of Cincinnati and then came to Silicon Valley via bus.
12:18He came to Silicon Valley with dreams of becoming very rich and joining the 1%, the most elite and the most wealthy in the world.
12:34If you're a technologist or a programmer, when you see the possibility of becoming a billionaire, flying around in jets, buying islands, that could be intoxicating if you have ideas that you think could shape the world.
12:46It motivates a lot of people to come to Silicon Valley to kind of join that exclusive club.
12:531%. I see it as the masters of the world. You made it to the top. You have power. You have wealth. You have influence. The master of the universe.
13:03We read about the CEO all the time who's giving himself blood infusions. He wants to live forever. If you're not a millionaire, it would be almost unheard of. But if you have money to burn, it seems kind of more reasonable.
13:17I think Francis Wolke probably wanted to be a tech bro or at least be part of that tech community.
13:24He was described by some of his friends in the tech world as being very smart.
13:31That he had a really interesting program that people were actually interested in at one point.
13:39Well, he was working on a computer operating system and it was meant for people who wanted to educate themselves about computers and coding without schools.
13:48A lot of people are doing startups. A lot of them are tech oriented. And not all of them are going to be the next Facebook. But I think that's kind of what Francis Wolke was dreaming of.
14:03Francis Wolke goes to a cryptocurrency convention and he runs into a young man who's very similar to him, Daniel Gertjevic. Daniel and him hit it off. They're both programmers.
14:21Daniel Gertjevic was an engineer who worked for SpaceX. And since they were doing the same thing, they became very fast friends.
14:27When Gertjevic found out that Wookie didn't have anywhere to live after they had hit it off and they were both coding, he invited him to stay with him.
14:36He stayed with Daniel for a little while at an incubator house called the Embassy House.
14:42If you've ever seen the TV show Silicon Valley, you may be familiar with the concept of incubator houses.
14:49It is a home where engineers, app creators, game creators are all living in a single house.
14:55They're all splitting the cost of living there.
14:58An incubator is basically a place where it nurtures young entrepreneurs. If you have an idea to start a business, you have mentorship, you have space where you can work.
15:07Basically, you have resources to help you kind of bring your ideas to fruition.
15:14Francis Wolke wanted to follow the advice of Mark Zuckerberg.
15:18Move fast and break things.
15:21It's easy to see why somebody who wants to start a revolution or introduce a new product that changes the world would ascribe to that kind of mindset.
15:31There is, I guess, a culture around tech to really dedicate yourself to it.
15:35But he had an unhealthy lifestyle, according to his friends. He was isolated. He worked a lot.
15:45He would sometimes stay awake for days at a time. He would drink five to eight cups of coffee a day and just work on the code 24 hours.
15:53I think he took it to such an extreme that he thought that the founders of the Microsoft operating system were after him and wanted to kill him for his ideas.
16:06He was definitely experiencing paranoia.
16:08Daniel Gercevich is starting to regret that he invited Francis Wolke to move in.
16:16He's being very rude to the other designers and the other programmers.
16:21The thing that was universally said about him was that he was very arrogant, thought he was smarter than everybody else, thought he was better than everybody else.
16:33Francis Wolke's behavior eventually reaches a point that Daniel Gercevich asks him to leave and now Francis Wolke is homeless.
16:43When I think of like the tech bro, I don't think of someone who's homeless and as arrogant as he was about his sort of superiority in the world.
16:51Now, his parents back in Ohio find out about this and they've been sending him money, but they had to cut him off.
16:56They're very concerned about him, so they send him a bus ticket and they have him come back home to Cincinnati, Ohio.
17:07Francis Wolke was another one of those dreamers that came to Silicon Valley.
17:13He had a great idea. He was looking for a way to make it big.
17:17It didn't work out so well for him, so he went back to Ohio, but he didn't stay very long.
17:21Investigators discovered that his bus ticket, which was located in his backpack at the crime scene, said he got back to Silicon Valley just two days earlier.
17:35Two days before Kathy Anderson was murdered.
17:39Investigators are looking at why is he in Kathy Anderson's home at the conference room where they're going to interview them.
17:51Francis Wolke is not talking. He seems to just shut down.
17:56On the other hand, the second man wants to talk. He wants to tell his story.
18:05And this is where the case takes a crazy turn.
18:16As we recall, Menlo Park police find two men in Kathy Anderson's home.
18:20We've already discussed Francis Wolke, and he's looking like a very strong suspect.
18:29But there's another man, Daniel Baggett.
18:33He tells the police he called 911, and he also claims that he and Kathy Anderson at one point had a relationship.
18:40Investigators discovered that Daniel Baggett and Kathy Anderson met in 2009 at a bar two years after her husband passed away.
18:48I was there that night. We decided to stop at this dive bar next to my house.
19:04You know, we went there just for fun to have a glass of wine.
19:06All of a sudden, I turned around, and Kathy's sitting, talking to this guy.
19:14So I walk up, introduce myself, and he says, my name is Dan, Dan Baggett.
19:20I noticed he's a lot younger. Kathy didn't notice. She liked it. She didn't have any problem with it.
19:29I know that she started seeing him after that. But I was not impressed. Not at all.
19:36Just something about the way he presented himself, the way he talked, his demeanor.
19:44But I just never, I never want to tell her, you know, don't see her. You know, I'm not that type of person, because I figured they'll figure it out on their own.
19:52But she met him, and he was giving her a lot of attention. And a lot of times, when ladies get older, they like that attention from a young guy.
20:02Plus, he had a daughter, and Kathy felt so sorry for her, because Dan was a single dad, and she just wanted to help her.
20:12So a couple of weeks later, I spoke with Kathy on the telephone, and she had told me that Dan and his daughter, Haley, had moved in.
20:20I was really surprised that that was her choice.
20:24After Daniel and his daughter moved into Kathy's home, that's when the trouble began.
20:30I know the problem was the daughter.
20:39I do remember money being taken.
20:44Things were missing. Kathy would complain to me about it.
20:48And I was told that the little girl got very violent with her often, would try to hit her, which shocked me.
20:55In fact, there was a day that she broke a door, put her hand through a wall.
21:02Yeah, she was an angry child.
21:04Haley eventually moved out and went off to college.
21:13But police learned after Daniel Baggett's daughter went to college, Kathy and Daniel's relationship was still struggling.
21:18There were still problems.
21:24Finally, in 2018, she asked him to leave.
21:27But during the investigation, the police find out that Daniel Baggett has returned to her home a few times.
21:35He was still coming around.
21:36I think he kind of really wanted to continue their relationship.
21:41I gave her really bad time.
21:43I go, what? Why are you still seeing that guy?
21:45What are you seeing that guy for?
21:47Pam, I've got to be nice to him because he might drop the charges.
21:51You know, I got arrested.
21:53I go, what?
21:54Even though she and Daniel Baggett have officially broken up and he's moved out.
22:05One night, Daniel's over at Kathy's house and they get into an argument.
22:09She wants to put more separation between the two of them.
22:11It starts to get heated.
22:13And she ended up having to pull a gun on him to try to get him to leave.
22:18She starts yelling and the neighbor heard her yell.
22:23And then the police come because the neighbors complained about her yelling that she was going to shoot him.
22:29And then they arrested her for brandishing the weapon.
22:32It's not long after Kathy and Daniel Baggett got into it in her home where she pulled the gun,
22:39when the police discover her murdered in their own home.
22:42You have a situation where people have dated, someone's at the crime scene, and you have half of that relationship who is dead in the basement.
22:56You know, domestic violence murders happen all the time.
23:01And so there is always some suspicion when you have a situation like this, was this person involved?
23:07When Kathy was murdered, the first thing I thought was that Dan had something to do with it.
23:15He had something to do with Kathy's demise, for sure.
23:23I didn't know very much about Francis Wolke, but the first thing I thought was, hmm, did Dan know this guy?
23:29I thought, well, maybe he told this guy about Kathy's place.
23:37This is a strange case.
23:40You have Kathy Anderson.
23:42You have Daniel Baggett.
23:44You have Daniel's daughter Haley.
23:47And you have Francis Wolke.
23:49The police are trying to figure out how these people are all connected.
23:53And right now, they can't answer that question.
23:57Well, there's apparently one person who might be able to answer that.
24:01My name's Daniel Baggett, and I figure you're going to tell the story anyway, so I might as well, you know, have my, uh, speak my piece.
24:24Speak my piece.
24:38So here's Daniel Baggett, the ex-boyfriend of Kathy Anderson.
24:42Remember, she kicked him out of the house.
24:44What are the odds that he comes over her home this specific night, and she's dead?
24:49I'm suspicious of that.
24:51If that's all I have, I'm suspicious of him.
25:04Um, look, I'm going to be honest with you.
25:08Yeah, I mean, Kathy and I did have a contentious relationship at times.
25:10We, you know, we were very loud, vocal people.
25:14And, and we could be having an argument, but, you know, this, I love Kathy very dearly.
25:25Even though, you know, I was 13 years younger than her, it didn't really matter to us.
25:31It never was an issue for her and I, we just, we were having, we were having fun.
25:34And we were, we were romantically involved for a while.
25:39And then I moved out in 2018.
25:41There was, there was, there was definitely, you know, a lot of ways it could have gone.
25:45And people looked at it from a lot of different ways.
25:47They didn't know the facts.
25:48That night, I just, I had this feeling in my stomach, just telling me to go by the house.
26:02I tried calling her earlier in the day.
26:04And I think the evening before, and I was unable to get ahold of her, which was uncommon.
26:09She always answered her phone.
26:10I got out of the truck and I noticed that the garbage cans were still in front of the house, which was extremely odd because she was very religious about pulling those in as soon as they would be dumped.
26:27And so the fact that those cans were still there told me that either A, she wasn't home, you know, or, or something was wrong, you know.
26:34So Daniel started bringing the garbage cans towards the back of the residence.
26:40And upon getting to the back of the house, he saw that Kathy's car was parked there.
26:47He said there were just things that having lived there, he saw as immediate red flags.
26:55I called her again.
26:58And she didn't answer.
26:59And so I went inside and I started calling her name.
27:04And I saw her headband laying on the ground.
27:08And I went to the stairs.
27:13And that's when she came out of what used to be my daughter's bedroom.
27:18I mean, I don't live there anymore.
27:19So I wanted to make sure this wasn't a house guest or something.
27:21So I asked him, like, who are you?
27:23You know, what are you doing here?
27:24He didn't say anything.
27:25And he had this weird look on his face.
27:28I asked him, I said, where the is Kathy?
27:30And who the are you?
27:31Daniel said that the man did start walking down the stairs as if he planned to leave.
27:38So Daniel claimed to have been the person who called 911.
27:43He made a calculated decision that he could run to the kitchen and grab a knife, which he did, and got back to the staircase before the man was able to leave.
27:54And I told him, I said, there's no way out except for down these stairs.
27:57And yeah, it was shortly thereafter when I heard the sirens.
28:02Daniel later told us that he didn't see Kathy.
28:04He never went down to the basement.
28:06But he sees this guy who he does not know.
28:08And Francis was saying to him, she's dead.
28:12I killed her.
28:13I killed her a while ago.
28:14And so Daniel is extremely distraught.
28:20They took me to the police station and they're asking me, where were you?
28:24Well, why did you go there?
28:26They asked me what happened.
28:27Like the interaction between me and Mr. Wolke.
28:29They asked me if I'd ever seen him before.
28:31And then they would ask me to go through it again.
28:33Maybe Daniel Baggett knew Francis Wolke and maybe they came to some agreement and that's how Francis Wolke got there.
28:43Or maybe his daughter Haley knew Wolke and there's a connection there that led to Wolke being in Kathy's house that night.
28:51We needed to do an investigation to see whether or not there was a connection between Daniel Baggett and his family and Francis Wolke.
29:00It's a question that has to be asked.
29:03So the police detained Daniel Baggett for about 16 hours.
29:09But they have nothing to hold him on, so they let him go.
29:12When we released Daniel, we still have a lot of work to do to clear Daniel Baggett to confirm that he was not involved in any way in the homicide of Kathy Anderson.
29:25And part of that is going to be looking at all the communication records that we could get a hold of.
29:30So Daniel turned over his cell phone so that we could look at it and download it.
29:33Daniel Baggett is now released from custody and lo and behold, he comes back to Kathy's house yet again.
29:50Daniel Baggett is found again trying to enter Kathy Anderson's house.
29:55He was climbing through a window to get into the house and he got caught.
30:00It's a crime scene and so no one was supposed to go inside.
30:07Why is Daniel back at the house? Is he trying to find evidence that he left behind?
30:12All of Daniel Baggett's behavior about this case is very suspicious. It doesn't make sense.
30:19It's possible that Daniel Baggett's story is a lie.
30:30So it's not long after Kathy Anderson was murdered, Daniel Baggett comes back to Kathy's house again and the police are called.
30:42And his story is, I came to check on her cats.
30:47Strange.
30:48So you climbed in the window to go feed the cat.
30:52That's correct.
30:54Why didn't he just contact the police to let them know, hey, I want to go take care of her cats. Would that be okay?
31:01Not just go back into the house after there's been a homicide, after he's been a suspect. Very strange.
31:06It didn't look good, you know, but Kathy loved those cats. And I was even thinking these cats have gone a good two plus days without food and water.
31:18Like, I got to go feed those cats.
31:20It's a crime scene. And so entering it is essentially tampering with evidence.
31:27That's why someone would get arrested for doing that.
31:30Daniel's explanation for why he returned, while it made the case more difficult, I can't fault him for going to the residence that he used to live in, where the lady that he loved was killed viciously to take care of the cats that were still surviving.
31:51Because ultimately, I couldn't find a motive for him to want to have Kathy Anderson killed.
31:56Daniel Baggett was not an heir to any of Kathy's property.
32:03Daniel and his daughter didn't stand to gain financially from her death.
32:12After a very thorough investigation, it was abundantly clear to everyone that Daniel Baggett was in no way, shape or form involved in the murder.
32:21Nothing that we could find connected Francis Wolke to Daniel Baggett or his family.
32:27All the evidence shows that Francis Wolke is the only person who is responsible for the murder of Kathy Anderson.
32:34The police discovered through the autopsy that the pen that was in Kathy Anderson's eye actually matched another pen that was located in Francis Wolke's backpack that was found in the guest room in her home.
32:50They also found Kathy's blood on Francis' pants.
32:56That's enough to tell us that they have the right suspect in this case.
33:01Why did he do this?
33:03And how and why did Francis select this house? Was there something about it?
33:08So we think he was looking for food. You know, he was tired, he was hungry, he'd been on a bus for five days.
33:19When he got back from Cincinnati, he didn't have anywhere to stay.
33:21So he was actually sleeping on a balcony in Palo Alto at the Stanford campus.
33:27He maybe initially thought that this was an unoccupied house and I can go find some food and take a nap.
33:39He went in and ate something and then he went upstairs and saw the victim in her bed.
33:45And then he told a defense investigator, he says he started hearing voices.
33:54And the voices told him, don't bitch out, time to join up.
34:00And he understood the voices to be saying, you need to kill this person in order to join the 1%.
34:07And he had always wanted to make it big in Silicon Valley.
34:10Not only that, the voices in Francis Wilkie's head said if he really wanted to be part of the 1%,
34:17he had to kill someone and consume their flesh.
34:24Francis Wilkie told one forensic psychologist, he believed that the 1% would kill and consume human flesh for eternal youth and success
34:35and becoming part of this elite group of people.
34:37It's horrific. It's outlandish.
34:41But I do feel like the horror kind of draws a little bit from the whole biohacking culture that I think many in Silicon Valley have been experimenting with.
34:50The fact that he felt he needed to commit this heinous crime to get there just speaks to the pull of that kind of myth.
34:59Kathy Anderson was up in her bed when Francis Wilkie began his attack.
35:08He began by strangling her.
35:12But when it didn't work, he stabbed her in the eye with a pen.
35:16And then he took her downstairs and attempted to behead her.
35:23It was gruesome. It was brutal. It's every woman who lives alone's worst nightmare of what happened to her.
35:31I think that it's hard to understand the randomness of this act to imagine that someone at home alone would have an intruder from across the country walk into their home and kill her is almost beyond comprehension.
35:49And that may be one of the reasons that people initially thought that Daniel might have had something to do with it.
35:59From my perspective, Daniel did a heroic job of keeping the suspect there.
36:06And I don't know what would have happened to this case if it hadn't been for Daniel Baggett.
36:13He was the one that stopped Francis Wilkie from getting away.
36:20If Francis Wilkie had gotten away, it's possible that they would have never found him.
36:30The papers were pretty hard on me in the beginning because, you know, I got arrested for trespassing.
36:33I was never treated like a hero, let's just say that.
36:36But I just, I just wish she was still here.
36:40I loved Cathy very dearly and I was just glad that I was able to do what I believe Cathy wanted me to do, which was to make sure he didn't get away with it.
36:49And because I firmly believe that that night, the thing that was pulling me to that house was her.
36:54You know, don't let that son of a bitch get away.
36:57You probably said, well, the one person I know that could, that'll handle this is probably Dan, you know?
37:04Francis Wilkie pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
37:05Francis Wilkie pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
37:09To claim that you are not guilty by reason of insanity, one needs to either not realize that what they're doing is going to cause death to another person.
37:18Francis Wolke pleads not guilty by reason of insanity.
37:25To claim that you are not guilty by reason of insanity, one needs to either not realize that what they're doing is going to cause death to another person or not realize that what they're doing is being done to another person.
37:40The prosecution argued that Francis Wolke knew what he was doing because it took him several attempts to actually kill Kathy Anderson.
37:54One of the other arguments against the insanity plea from the prosecution was that in the two weeks following his arrest, he wasn't seen speaking to himself or living in any delusions.
38:10Ultimately, the jury did not agree that Francis Wolke was insane due to the evidence, and they came back and convicted him of first-degree murder with a penalty of 26 to life.
38:25I don't think we're ever going to completely know what led Francis down the dark path he ultimately went down.
38:33When he first got to the Silicon Valley, he seemed to be making a very good-faith effort to do this computer program.
38:39And things began to really unravel for him.
38:43It's impossible to know if that unraveling was because of pre-existing mental illness and the fact that he was sort of failing in life.
38:52Certainly, all of those things may have been a factor.
38:56Some of the tropes that led him down that path are, to me, related somewhat to the tech pro culture in a sense that he felt he needed to join the 1%.
39:04It's kind of an obsession with some of the tech people.
39:10Francis Wolke had dreams like everybody else in Silicon Valley, and I think failing in Silicon Valley led him down a very dark path.
39:18And unfortunately, it led to the brutal murder of Kathy Anderson.
39:25Kathy was an amazing person.
39:27She would just go out of her way to do things for people.
39:32We had great fun together.
39:35I miss her.
39:36She was, yeah, an amazing lady.
39:39Yeah.
39:43I loved her very much and do still.
39:46Her influence on me, still with me every day.
39:50And I'm a better person for having known her.
39:54And she helped me be the father that I am to my daughter.
39:59My daughter wouldn't be where she is today, you know, without Kathy's help.
40:06And that's, you know, that carries her legacy on.
40:09And her success is Kathy's success.
40:11Silicon Valley is a place where people's dreams can turn into realities.
40:36But it can also be a place where those dreams can turn into nightmares.
40:39What is the address we need to come out to?
40:43He has a gun or a knife.
40:44I think there were several people that he wasn't paying.
40:48You talk about money, greed.
40:50Those are big motivations for murder.
40:52The DNA of Silicon Valley is risk-taking.
40:55You have people that are willing to go all in.
40:59And sometimes they get involved in things that they shouldn't.
41:02This case had all those elements.
41:04Google, prostitute, murder, not.
41:07Every morning I would wake up to a good morning text from him.
41:11And that morning I had nothing.
41:14Success in the tech world can change an individual.
41:17Some people think that they can get away with anything, even murder.
41:22Oh my God, he shot somebody.
41:23Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
41:24That night when you die when you phobic proximity to me.
41:26That you don't have to worry about anything, even murder.
41:27You're gonna lose weight.
41:28Oh my God.
41:29You're gonna lose weight.
41:42You're gonna die again.
41:43You are not gonna lose weight.
41:44Welcome to the Ð phoing Alberta.
41:45Some people think you are not doing or not doing this.
41:47You're going to bite the bad now.
41:49You're gonna die again.
41:50You're gonna die again.
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