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00:00Medical Examiner is working to ID the body of a man found in Fallbrook wrapped in a sleeping bag
00:13in an SUV. The body was found in the parking lot of a local grocery store. The SUV had been
00:20missing for almost two weeks, along with its owner, who hasn't been seen since Friday before
00:26Christmas. It was a real whodunit from the beginning, and we didn't have much to go on at all other than
00:33a grainy nighttime surveillance video. We are just running around trying everything. NCIS got involved
00:41because Alvin was a member of the Army Reserves. Now we had more things pointing towards this having
00:48something potentially to do with the Marine Corps. You want to find where the crime had occurred so you
00:54could piece the story together on how it unfolded. Once the crime lab got here, we went inside, they
01:01did their thing, and I said, yeah, there's blood all over the place in there.
01:24Alvin was a member of the Army Reserves, and at the time he was a second lieutenant that was about to be promoted.
01:41DECEMBER 21st, 5 or 6 PM. He took a shower, and I asked him after his shower, I said, where are you going? It's already night. And he said, yeah, I'm gonna go clubbing, ma. But that's his routine every Friday.
01:59A couple of days pass, and the family grows concerned that Alvin has not contacted them.
02:06I got a call from my mom. They haven't heard from him. He would always give my mom a call, like, to let us know where he's at.
02:15He didn't call me. I know he's always called me. If he cannot answer me after 5 minutes, 10 minutes, he called me back.
02:26By that time, no. As a mother, as a brother, as a family member, my hands is like, you know, it's different.
02:38Because if he's not, something happened to him, of course he gonna call us.
02:44The police, they are helping, but they always said he's an adult. So my son hired a private investigator.
02:55He didn't find the clubbing on that Friday in the camera over there. He didn't find his face over there or anything on that night.
03:09Almost two weeks have passed since Alvin was last seen. And despite the efforts of the private investigator, his whereabouts remain unknown.
03:18January 3rd, there is no progress still. And then I talked to my son, why don't you call back again to the police and ask them what's going on?
03:32And then the police said to my son, oh, you know what? We found out the plate number of your brother's car is in Albertson parking lot.
03:43Maybe you can take a look over there and maybe is that your brother's car?
03:48So my husband and my son found the car and, yeah.
04:00The Bolaro family identified the abandoned vehicle as Alvin's SUV. After finding the car was locked, they called the police to inspect the scene.
04:08We were then able to come to that parking lot, secure the area and confirm that this was in fact the victim's vehicle.
04:17They were able to get inside of the vehicle and ultimately they found a body lodged in between the front and rear seats inside of a sleeping bag.
04:28After a body is discovered in the back of the SUV, detectives are called to the supermarket's parking line.
04:35Since it was inside of a parking lot, I was guessing there wasn't going to be a whole lot at the scene because my guess was this isn't where the crime occurred.
04:47If he got killed at that location in a shopping center, somebody's going to see something or hear something, but nothing.
04:56So I didn't think it happened at that location.
05:00We briefed the medical examiner just like we were briefed when we showed up.
05:04Tell him what's going on and he says okay and he talks to his partner and they decide to get the transportation vehicle to get the body onto a gurney.
05:14They open up the bag, they see that there's a deceased male in there with multiple wounds, stab wounds, gunshot wounds.
05:20And then they transport the victim to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy the next day.
05:29The car went onto a flatbed tow truck and then driven down to our crime lab and dusted it for prints.
05:38We did not get any evidence out of the car.
05:43I had all the deputies go around to all the various stores because this was, even though Albertsons is a supermarket, there's other stores all around it, kind of like a little outdoor strip mall, to go to all those stores to see if they had surveillance.
05:57But their surveillance didn't really cover the area that we needed it to cover.
06:03We saw the surveillance video and told the guy this is what we need from this date to this date, checked surrounding businesses for video, and then we packed up.
06:16The day after the discovery, the medical examiner confirms the victim is 24-year-old Alvin Bolaro and reveals his cause of death.
06:28Usually the detective and a crime lab personnel, because they do the fingernail, scrapings, fur evidence, that kind of thing, they collected the two rounds that were found in the sleeping bag.
06:43He had two gunshot wounds to the forehead, 44-plus stab wounds, and a slashed neck.
06:53This was a brutal murder.
06:56They did not yet have a particular location where they could definitively say that Alvin was murdered.
07:03They could say that Alvin wasn't murdered inside of that vehicle because of the lack of forensic evidence in the vehicle that would indicate that a murder as
07:12brutal as this had occurred in that one discreet location.
07:17NCIS is on scene at that point in time.
07:20They were brought in because of Alvin's connection with the Army.
07:25I was informed that Alvin's vehicle, which had also been missing the entire time since Alvin had last been seen alive, had been found in a parking lot in Albertson's supermarket in Fallbrook, California.
07:38And this supermarket is just a stone's throw out the back gate to Camp Pendleton.
07:48Investigators speak with Alvin's family to learn more about his background.
07:55When I gave birth to him, he's a little bit brown.
07:59So I said, oh, you know, you are like a cookie, like a brownie's cookie.
08:07That's why we always call him Cookie.
08:10He likes it, so it means he likes to call Cookie, you know.
08:14So we always call Cookie.
08:18Alvin is the oldest, then John, then me, and then my other brother Jason, and then Safiya is the youngest.
08:28Most of my memories with him was, I would say, in the Philippines when we were still like, you know, childhood memories,
08:37because we loved playing outside with our cousins and we lived like 10 minutes away from the ocean.
08:44They always make me feel included, even these two boys, and then they do like, you know, boy stuff.
08:51Like, I started watching anime because of them when I was a kid,
08:54because all the TV would just, all the TV shows would just be anime.
08:59When we would walk to visit my grandma, grandma's house, Alvin would carry me on his shoulder,
09:07and then, because I don't want to walk, so he would just carry me on his shoulder to walk to see my grandma and my grandpa.
09:13He likes watching a Korean movie, reading and dancing, and singing.
09:22Oh, he loves to sing. He loves karaoke. He loves, um, I think my dad still has the karaoke machine.
09:31When we sing together in karaoke, sometimes it just goes on you.
09:38So, like, I will sing too, even though it's not a good voice.
09:44He goes to school here, college, to Kaplan University, and then he got his masters in Phoenix University in Murrieta.
09:56John was kind of like his best friend, because they grew up together.
10:02They went to school together. They went to kindergarten, daycare, grade school, high school.
10:09They went to the military together.
10:11He wants to give his family a good future, and then the only thing that he could think of is, like, you know,
10:18joining the military and buy a house for his family.
10:21And he was 21 when he bought a house in Fallbrook.
10:27We are proud to be a parent that your son is in the military, serve the country.
10:34I'm sure he loved it, because he made a lot of friends in the military.
10:37I could remember all of his friends coming over to the house and just,
10:41he's a very friendly guy, very friendly person.
10:44So, he made a lot of friends in the military.
10:47And even up until now, his friends are our friends.
10:51His friends are always like, you know, hey, like, always checking out on us, making sure we're okay.
10:59As investigators with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department focus on piecing together
11:03Alvin's movements from the time of his disappearance.
11:06They uncover critical information from his phone records.
11:11That is where the sheriffs were able to really determine that all of his final communications
11:16leading up to the very last, you know, right up to the last moments of his life
11:21were with one particular phone number.
11:33When you have a deceased victim, a murdered victim, and you don't really have a clear suspect,
11:38what you start with is you look at the victim. It would be called victimology.
11:41That's all you have to start working on. So, start with Alvin.
11:44You know, when was he last seen? What were his communications like?
11:47I wound up interviewing the family first thing Monday morning.
11:57They gave me cell phone records for Alvin's phone.
12:01It just showed calls. A call on this date and the number on this date.
12:05It was like the last 10 or 12 calls that he had made were all the same number.
12:10So, that was my next clue to go off of. Who's this person they talked to,
12:1510 to 12 occasions, the last time he used his phone.
12:22Alvin's phone records shifted the focus of the investigation
12:26to identifying the person he repeatedly communicated with prior to his death.
12:31We had a starting point. We had a phone number.
12:33And another thing that you can start to track from a phone number
12:36is every time it's used, it can be geolocated.
12:40Every time that phone either makes a phone call or sends a text message,
12:43it's pinging off the closest cell phone towers to it.
12:48And it pinged off of a tower on Camp Pendleton every time he used it.
12:54So, I'm thinking, okay, he looks like he's in the military
12:57and this thing's pinging off the base every single time he uses the phone.
13:01So, that led me to believe that this guy was in the military.
13:05When we discovered Alvin had been killed,
13:17a lot of effort had gone into who was in communication with him
13:20in the final days and moments before he went missing
13:22and was ultimately found to have been killed.
13:24It all came back to a specific phone number.
13:27We didn't know who the phone number was registered to.
13:29All we knew was it had been purchased under an alias of Michael Walsh.
13:32That phone number, for most of the communications that phone number had with Alvin Ballaro's phone,
13:38it pinged off of a cell phone tower in this rest area.
13:41So, if you look around, you see that there's just basically ocean, a highway, the rest area, and this 41 area on Camp Pendleton.
13:51So, for someone to sit and have extended text exchanges with somebody, they'd have to be stationary in one of these areas to keep hitting the same cell phone tower.
14:00So, the thoughts were either that someone was pulling over to this rest area to make all those text messages,
14:06or that they lived someplace very close to this cell phone tower, which would, the only place that makes any real sense would be the 41 area on Camp Pendleton.
14:15And if you look off towards the mountains, across the highway is a large part of Camp Pendleton to include the 41 area housing.
14:23All those beige buildings with the red roofs are the housing in the 41 area of Camp Pendleton.
14:30The best comparison I could make for what the barracks are like once you're inside is a college dorm room.
14:35There's just long hallways with rooms on either side that have one or two Marines living in them.
14:41All the mountains you see all behind there, that's all part of Camp Pendleton.
14:48So, it's all used for training, for doing, you know, mountain warfare training, for just doing combat maneuvers up in the hills.
14:56This is also, on the other side of this fence line, is also still part of Camp Pendleton going up as far as you can see.
15:02It extends about another 18 miles that way going up the coast is all part of Camp Pendleton.
15:07It is now up to NCIS to conduct a thorough investigation of the Army base.
15:17Once you kind of hit a bit of a wall, you have to be willing to try some long shots.
15:24We took those grainy surveillance images from the other vehicle in the Albertson parking lot,
15:30and we would spend days driving around the 41 area trying to see if the shape and scale of the back of the car matched any cars we saw,
15:40and we would pull license plates.
15:42And then we would go back and we would run every license plate, then run every California driver's license,
15:47just trying to look for someone who matched the appearance of the person we had on the Radio Shack surveillance footage.
15:54We ran hundreds of license plates and driver's licenses, unfortunately all to no avail.
16:00But that was some of the efforts that we started making, again, trying to focus on what can we do from the base side?
16:06Because now we had more things pointing towards this having something potentially to do with the Marine Corps.
16:13The San Diego Sheriff's Office and NCIS face significant challenges in tracking down the suspect,
16:24but they make sure to follow every available clue that might lead them to a break in the case.
16:29We were up in Fallbrook, going to the family, trying to get more information.
16:34Asked them about the sleeping bag. Did Alvin ever own a sleeping bag? They said he didn't.
16:39Our NCIS agent, while I was talking to family, took it upon himself to grab another detective and go to Camp Pendleton,
16:49to the exchange, where they sell items, to see if they sell that sleeping bag on base that Alvin was found in.
16:58Everything that goes with the body stays with the body until after the autopsy is over,
17:04which would include, in this case, the sleeping bag that he was in.
17:07You're not going to remove him from the sleeping bag at that point.
17:11It's all going to go together as one package.
17:14But after the autopsy, the sheriffs were able to seize the sleeping bag as evidence.
17:20And so what they got was the brand name, the make, and the model of that sleeping bag.
17:26It would be forensically processed.
17:29Possibly you're going to find the DNA of the person who manipulated the body into the sleeping bag.
17:34But that's only useful if that person has already been arrested for something else.
17:38And their DNA is in our system, which is called CODIS, which, once you're arrested, you're in there.
17:43And if they find unidentified DNA on a crime scene, it could pair back to that and tell you whose it is.
17:49But what you need to have there is that only helps if your suspect has already been arrested for something else.
17:54Most military members do not have a criminal history that has their DNA in CODIS.
17:59So it's being processed for that.
18:01But one thing that we decided to try was looking into who, in and around this area, sold a make and model of the sleeping bag similar to that in which Alvin Bellaro's body was found.
18:13Started off base with a lot of Walmarts and things like that, but eventually, after seeing that so much of the activity with the cell phone involved Camp Pendleton itself,
18:25we decided to check with the Marine Corps exchanges on Camp Pendleton.
18:29And in the military, the term exchange, that's a store similar to a Target or a Mall Mart that you'll find on the Marine Corps base.
18:38It's where a lot of Marine Corps folks do their shopping for all kinds of household goods, things like that.
18:42But they will also sell outdoor equipment to include things like sleeping bags.
18:49Investigators visit the Marine Corps exchange on Camp Pendleton to check if there is any record of who purchased this particular sleeping bag.
18:57This lead brings them closer to identifying Alvin's killer.
19:06Allegheny was the brand name of the sleeping bag in which Alvin was found.
19:11I checked on one exchange and they gave me a list of the 13 different types of sleeping bags that they sold.
19:17None of them matched.
19:18Then I checked another exchange and it turns out what I discovered was that they sold the type of sleeping bag that matched the brand name in which Alvin was found.
19:30So I asked them to pull all of the sales of that particular sleeping bag for the month of December, just leading up to when Alvin had been killed.
19:39And they had sold three that month. Two had been sold on the 17th of December, 2012. So they were able to pull up the surveillance footage of that transaction. It was date and time stamped.
19:52Saw an older man somewhere, probably close to 60 years old walking up and he bought two sleeping bags and a bunch of other things.
20:01We wound up contacting that man and he had honestly purchased these things for a camping trip with his grandchildren.
20:05It couldn't have been a more innocuous purchase.
20:10The sale of the third sleeping bag was on 21 December, 2012.
20:16The night that Alvin went missing.
20:24It was a real whodunit from the beginning.
20:27And we didn't have much to go on at all.
20:30But when we got the phone number off the phone records from Alvin's brother, and then we got the sleeping bag, it all started to fall into place.
20:44So got rather excited when I heard that information.
20:46I was there by myself, but it's always better to have a second person around when you're, you might be discovering a very key piece of evidence.
20:52So I called down to the San Diego Sheriff's Department and Dave Hillen was on another lead at that point.
20:59So it was a detective there named Brian Patterson, who I'd worked on a previous murder with.
21:03Got in touch with him and he came racing up from the San Diego Sheriff's Department.
21:07I was like, we have the sale of the sleeping bag the same day of the murder.
21:13A very good surveillance video.
21:15Like you see that video, you go, yeah, I know who that is.
21:17That kind of, and you know, just over shots, shoots the, uh, the checkout counter.
21:24So you could see the person, you could see him put their card in.
21:28It would look like a casino with the amount of security cameras they had.
21:32What we had was an overhead camera shot looking down on someone walking up and you see a person walking up.
21:38He's got a sleeping bag, an energy drink and a notebook and he puts them on the counter.
21:43And this is a person who's wearing a t-shirt.
21:46White male, stalkily built, light colored hair and high and tight haircut.
21:51So at this point, Detective Patterson and myself were like, we have our guy, this is him.
21:57I did watch him complete the sale at the point of sale with a credit card.
22:04So I knew if nothing else, there would be a credit card transaction that I could ultimately tie back to the person purchasing the sleeping bag.
22:14That itself can take time.
22:15So we decided we're going to try to keep working.
22:18He's like, let's identify this guy right now.
22:21We have him dead to rights.
22:23Let's find out who he is.
22:24So working with the asset protection folks at the exchange, we asked them to pull up every other transaction that that credit card had been associated with.
22:35And they were able to do so.
22:36And we went through them, each one.
22:37And every time he swiped, he would complete the transaction just hitting something on the pin pad, which stores an electronic transaction of the record.
22:45But that is something you'd have to go to the credit card company, the warrant, to get that information.
22:49We probably watched over a dozen purchases of his, everything that they had stored on this camera.
22:56And for some reason, not sure why, one purchase at a completely different date, for some reason, there must have been something wrong with the point of sale transaction,
23:03because he was forced to actually sign a printed receipt, kind of like the old school way of doing so.
23:10And that record actually maintained the name of the purchaser.
23:15And that's the first time we heard the name Kevin Cossé.
23:22After Kevin Cossé had been identified as the subject of this homicide, they started digging into his background as well, looking at his phone records, his credit card histories, things like that.
23:31We'd already known the credit card was used to purchase a sleeping bag in which the body of Alvin Bolaro was concealed.
23:37What they also identified was that the night of Alvin Bolaro's disappearance and death, Kevin Cossé's credit card had been used to reserve and rent a motel room in Fallbrook, California.
23:51Detective Hillen traveled to the Fallbrook Country Inn to inspect if this could be the location where Alvin Bolaro was murdered.
24:01They went to the Fallbrook Country Inn to follow up on that lead, and law enforcement was provided with information that an individual providing that identification of Kevin Cossé and that credit card number secured a room at the motel.
24:15And now law enforcement could focus on whether or not this was the particular area that Alvin was murdered.
24:22I went by myself. I didn't expect to find much. They said they did rent it to a Kevin Cossé. I showed them photographs I had, photographic lineup, to see if they could identify the subject that rented the room, and they picked his photo out.
24:40And I said, well, was there anything wrong with the room? And they were a little hesitant to tell me, but they eventually did. And they said, yeah, there was a big red stain on the carpet. They said they thought it was spaghetti sauce, so they cleaned it up. There was a hole in the door for the bathroom.
25:00The comforter was missing, things like that. And I'm like, did you ever think of calling the police? And they said, no, no.
25:08The manager opened up the room for me. There was nobody in there. The person had already left. I knew that was the room because that was the room they told me they had cleaned.
25:25I'm just looking at the room from the doorway, and I don't really see anything out of the ordinary until our crime lab people get there, take photographs, measurements, look for blood evidence, any type of evidence, maybe a shell casing, a knife, who knows what we might find.
25:47That's when I went in after they did their thing, and they were showing me all the specks of blood that are on the baseboard, on the wall.
25:56They peeled back the carpet, and like most carpets, there's a carpet pad beneath it, a kind of a quarter-inch thick spongy material.
26:03As they peeled back the carpet, they saw deep reddish-brown stains soaked into the carpet pad beneath the visible carpet, which had an appearance similar with saturated blood having soaked through the rug,
26:16and into the carpet pad underneath. There was a large volume of blood stained into that carpet pad underneath the rug.
26:26So we cut that out, took a piece of that, they took it to the crime lab, they expedited it. I got a phone call that night that that was Alvin's blood.
26:35I have been doing this for 18 years now, and I can say without a doubt that is the most violent murder I have ever encountered.
26:47With the amount of blood that had soaked into the carpet pad, and the amount of injuries, and we're talking about head wounds, gunshot wounds to the head, we're talking about stab wounds multiple to the torso, in the areas of the heart, neck.
27:05You know, these are going to be heavily bleeding injuries.
27:11I can't even, the place must have just been absolutely covered in blood.
27:16A lot of it depends on how long Alvin would have been able to be up and moving about, for how widely distributed the blood would have been in the room.
27:24The amount of blood that Alvin would have lost from the amount of injuries he's had, it must have been just, just shocking to be in that room.
27:35He had befriended Alvin, or Alvin befriended him on Facebook, so there was messages going back and forth.
27:44That's how they made their meet, to originally show up.
27:50The purpose of luring someone to kill them is you get them to a isolated place that you control.
27:57You get them with their guard down, thinking that they're going to meet somebody for what should be something positive.
28:05But you get them into a motel room that may have already been staged and prepared to help Kevin commit the murder.
28:13I believe the entire time the motivation was to kill Alvin Bolaro.
28:18It was now clear to investigators that Alvin Bolaro had been murdered in the motel.
28:31Investigators had to go through extensive amounts of video surveillance to piece together how Alvin's body was transported back to the supermarket parking lot.
28:39And how this connected to their main suspect, Kevin Cossé.
28:43We looked at the Chase Bank, and I actually had deputies go to each one of these stores here.
28:50But they went and checked, and the only one that had video of that spot was the Albertsons.
28:58We found out that Albertsons had good video.
29:02So we checked the video out inside Albertsons, and we saw the suspect and the victim meet up.
29:09And a couple hours later, we see them come back.
29:12One person got out of the car, got into his vehicle and left, and the other car stayed here.
29:17That was on the 21st of December.
29:22That was a two-week span that they had to review surveillance footage for.
29:27And it takes a lot of time.
29:28These are cameras that are constantly running and constantly recording, capturing any motion that's occurring in the parking lot.
29:35As they study the CCTV footage more closely, they uncover a significant detail about the night of Alvin's disappearance.
29:44The man gets out of the dark sedan, walks over to Alvin's car, gets into Alberts' car, and they leave the Albertsons' parking lot together just sometime shortly after 8.40 p.m.
29:57At around 11.30 p.m. on the same day, you see Alvin's vehicle drive back into the parking space, where he's ultimately found.
30:06You see a man get out of the car.
30:08He briefly checks the trunk of Alvin's vehicle, goes back to the sedan that you saw pull into the parking lot just before Alvin did, and he drives away.
30:17So what we had at that point was a very grainy image of the suspect leaving Alvin's car and getting back into his own vehicle.
30:30Investigators are able to uncover Alvin's final moments, including the location where he was killed.
30:35As they collect more evidence linking their main suspect, Kevin Cose, to Alvin's murder, they find that the phone belonging to the suspect was close to the parking lot on the night Alvin's body was discovered.
30:48The night we recovered the vehicle with the body in it, that burner phone pinged off the tower right across the street from Albertsons.
31:05So he drove back to the scene as we were recovering Alvin's body and car.
31:13My theory is he was on military leave, and that was supposed to go into sometime in January, and he came back like two days early.
31:25Nobody in the military ever comes back early from leave.
31:29They just don't do that.
31:31I think he came back to get the car to make it go away.
31:39He was going to drive it somewhere and burn it.
31:42That's my theory of what he was going to do.
31:44We never recovered the keys for Alvin's car, but we saw him.
31:48We saw Cose lock the car with the alarm keys before he took off.
31:54So we knew he had the keys and we never recovered them.
31:57I'm sure he tossed them after we found the body in the car.
32:01They ran the background on that phone number that had been contacting Alvin Bellaro in all the moments leading up to his death.
32:12That phone number was assigned to a prepaid phone that had been purchased in Oceanside, California.
32:17It's going to be one of these over here.
32:24I went inside and I talked to one of the workers and told him what I was there for.
32:32And the guy was very helpful and said, sure, come on down.
32:35And he helped me with the surveillance video and finding the purchase on the video and the information the subject gave when he purchased it.
32:45What I found there was the video of Kevin Cose purchasing the phone and the information he provided to the clerk during that purchase, a name, an address.
32:56It's a prepaid phone.
32:57You can purchase a phone that already has minutes on it.
32:59It's got cellular service.
33:00And typically when you get there, they will ask you for a name, a secondary phone number, maybe an email address, something like that.
33:09And they learned by then that Kevin Cose had given the name Michael Walsh.
33:14He had not provided any kind of identification or anything like that.
33:17He had just identified himself as Michael Walsh.
33:20The Radio Shack employee reported he'd asked the person identifying himself as Michael Walsh if he had a backup phone number to assign to this prepaid phone he was buying.
33:31And Kevin Cose said, no, he didn't have a phone number.
33:34But the Radio Shack employee found that suspicious considering he'd seen him texting on a phone the entire time he was in line.
33:41And then when he was asked to provide an email address, he said he didn't have an email address.
33:45Police had gathered enough evidence to prove Kevin Cose was the killer.
33:53Now their next task is to track him down.
33:56With the name Kevin Cose, C-O-S-E-T, it was not a super common name, was able to very quickly run him through military records.
34:05I could just do that over the phone calling back to our headquarters.
34:07And it turns out there was a corporal, Kevin Cose, who was assigned to Camp Pendleton at that time.
34:13And he lived in the 41 area where all the cell phone activity had been occurring from.
34:18This seemed like the kind of person who was already, for lack of a better term, good at this.
34:23He'd been getting away with it now for almost three weeks.
34:25He'd gone completely undiscovered up until this point.
34:28So he was a real concern that this is the kind of person who does kill again.
34:32The surveillance folks had been watching Kevin Cose throughout the day.
34:36This was towards the end of the afternoon.
34:38He'd come home from work.
34:39He was just back in his barracks room.
34:41And one thing that they observed and they recorded was that he seemed hypervigilant.
34:46When he stepped out of his car, they said he was very obviously scanning his environment the entire time.
34:53They said before he went into his room, before he unlocked the door, once again he was checking his surroundings the entire time.
35:09I've been a part of a lot of arrests of even violent people.
35:12I've fortunately never had to see it go poorly where the arresting agent or officer actually had to shoot somebody.
35:19This was probably as close as I ever thought I was going to come to seeing deadly force need to be used to execute an arrest.
35:27Agent Kierman rushed to secure an arrest warrant as quickly as possible and raced back to Camp Pendleton to apprehend Kevin Cose.
35:44They had his, one of his commanders call him to come pick up a package at a nearby office.
35:54As Kevin was walking from his barracks room to go pick up this package that didn't exist, the arresting officers quickly collapsed on him.
36:04I was there for it. There was no doubt these were guys who are good at what they do when it comes to executing commands and tactically putting someone in custody.
36:13And so they, you know, police, turn around, get down on your knees.
36:18He seemed very surprised, but he got visibly angry.
36:24I was very concerned. I was like, oh, this is, this could go badly.
36:28Because instead of putting his hands up, turning around and following the commands and he, the commands were being repeated.
36:33Turn around, face away from me, get down on your knees.
36:36Kevin was not doing it. He was just locked eyes with the person that, that was giving the commands.
36:41And there was another person off to the side who had a gun pointed at him and he started to blade his body,
36:46which is a sort of a sign of a getting ready for a fight.
36:49And he's now looking them both up and down.
36:51And you can tell this is a person who's trying to assess, can I take these two in a fight?
36:57And they're pointing guns at him, but you can tell he is not afraid and they are ratcheting up their commands.
37:04If you make a move, I will kill you. I will shoot you. Do not do anything.
37:10And once they finally get him down on the ground and on his stomach and they handcuff him,
37:14that's when they discovered that even though he was just walking from his barracks room to his boss's office,
37:21he had a semi-automatic handgun tucked into the rear waistband of his camouflage pants and he had a knife in one of his pockets.
37:30So he was armed with two weapons at the time of his arrest just walking around bays.
37:39They find a pair of his shoes with blood on them.
37:43When they analyzed that blood, it belonged to Alvin.
37:48There was a journal in his room, handwritten, dated.
37:53And one of the entries was, I had to kill for the third time tonight a man in Fallbrook named Alvin Bilaro.
38:01We tried to find out if there's any other victims.
38:05We tried other areas like Virginia because he was stationed in Virginia at one time.
38:10He drove from Virginia out here.
38:12We were checking all along the freeways, whatever agency was in charge of that particular area to see if they had any murders at like rest stops or something like that.
38:22And then I was thinking, maybe he killed a couple of people while he was in the military overseas.
38:27I don't know.
38:28So we were trying to find if there was, we never found if there was any other victims.
38:32He made some reference to Alvin being a member of some conspiracy group that he thought was trying to ruin his life.
38:41He had done so much preparation.
38:43There was a consideration among some that he put that there, maybe hoping that if he was ever caught, he could try to say, I'm insane and I'm not guilty by reason of insanity.
38:53So what his actual motivation was, I don't know, but there was nothing to say that he had a reason to violently hate Alvin Bilaro they'd never met before.
39:02And there was nothing in the rest of his life to indicate that he was some sort of paranoid schizophrenic who actually thought he was the target of some vast conspiracy.
39:11I just thought, oh, this is great.
39:16That's a kind of like a written confession because we did have him do handwriting analysis later on so that he couldn't come back and say, no, I didn't write that.
39:25And it showed that that was his handwriting.
39:29As investigators prepare for court, the pretrial hearings are repeatedly postponed and Alvin's family are forced to wait years for the trial.
39:39He's a lot of drama before. Yeah. And then the cases keep on, on and off. It's so unfair for us to keep going in the court.
39:54There are a lot of postponement because he always is that acting drama that is like crazy.
40:02It's a lot goes to five years, more than five years before goes to the jury.
40:13In 2018, the wait was finally over as Kevin Koze finally faced the jury.
40:19However, just an hour into the proceedings, things take an unexpected twist.
40:24Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:28He pled guilty on that time.
40:31And by taking the plea, he got a lesser sentence.
40:37He got sentenced to 51 years.
40:40I think that was an appropriate sentence given the allegations that the defendant pled to as a first degree murder.
40:47That charge carries a possible prison term of 25 years to life.
40:51The gun allegations that attach to that also carry a 25 year to life potential sentence.
40:57And then there was the use of the knife, which carries a one year term.
41:00So adding that all together, the court essentially gave the defendant the maximum possible sentence it could under the terms of the plea.
41:11After a prolonged judicial process, there is justice for Alvin Bolero.
41:17But his tragic loss is felt every day by his family.
41:22He's so hard for me as a mother.
41:24Every minute, every hour, I always remember him.
41:28When I go out, I mean, I'm facing to my children.
41:31I need to be happy because I don't want them to...
41:38I don't want them to think about me that I'm depressed.
41:43I'm...
41:44So hard.
41:45We are so very happy and then all of the sudden very quick that...
41:50What's going on?
41:52So hard.
41:53I always dream about him.
41:54He always visits in my dream and...
41:58I always dream about him.
42:04He always visits in my dream,
42:06and all of my dreams were just him laughing
42:09and just being jolly.
42:12And then I think one day I woke up
42:15and I told myself, like,
42:16maybe he wanted to remind me that,
42:19hey, it's okay.
42:22So I told myself, like, you know, it's okay.
42:26Because even in my dreams,
42:28he wants me to know that
42:31he wants to be remembered as a happy person.
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