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00:00When you have a mastermind,
00:26it's not just someone who can plan a crime,
00:30because almost anybody can do that,
00:31but how do you plan the crime to successfully get away with it?
00:35That's where the real genius comes in.
00:38The mastermind, to me, he was the epitome of a,
00:43you know, the old-fashioned slickster car salesman.
00:49Very confident, arrogant, extremely clever,
00:53a fraudster, a sociopath.
00:55An evil person.
00:57They didn't know which way to look.
00:59There were a lot of theories.
01:01Whoever killed them was related to the phone cards.
01:05I 100% believed it was a personal servant for a sheik out there.
01:11I thought it was the gold.
01:15If they wrote a movie about it, you wouldn't believe it.
01:21You're being placed in arrest for murder.
01:22Murder?
01:23Yes, sir.
01:24Oh, my God.
01:25We had enough evidence against the killers.
01:29But the question was...
01:31In the early evenings of April 16, 2004, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department got a wellness call from Dennis Wood's son.
01:55He hadn't spoken to his father in two weeks.
01:58He was 71 years old at the time.
02:03Officers responded.
02:04One of the first things they noticed was that Dennis Wood's car was in the driveway.
02:11It had a layer of dust on it.
02:12It looked like it hadn't been moved in quite a while.
02:16There were also a number of newspapers in the driveway.
02:20The oldest paper was from two weeks before.
02:27The patrol deputies knocked at the front door, got no response.
02:35They tried the door.
02:36It was unlocked, but they couldn't open it.
02:38Something on the inside was blocking the door.
02:42The back door was slightly open, and the screen was locked from inside.
02:47So they tore a small hole in the screen, unlocked the screen, and walked inside.
02:52The house was...
02:55Unkempt.
02:59He had hundreds and hundreds of pages of files and notes and notebooks strewn about.
03:06The house looked like something that a mad scientist would live in.
03:10He had records in the kitchen, in his office, in the living room, in his car.
03:25He had two or three bedrooms upstairs, and he had records in all of them.
03:29But it didn't appear that anything had been removed.
03:33There was a strong odor in the house.
03:38You ever have meat rot in your refrigerator?
03:41It's very similar to that odor.
03:48As they made their way to the front door, they found Mr. Wood's dead body lying in the foyer, up against the front door.
03:55The detectives noticed, near Dennis's head, there were two spent .22 caliber shell casings.
04:04They found a third shell casing in the bodily fluid.
04:08The victim had been shot three times, once in the chest and twice in the head.
04:12This had all the earmarks of an assassination more than a murder.
04:16Any murder case, you have to learn about the victim and who they associate with.
04:31I was 23 years old when my grandfather was found killed in his residence.
04:36When my grandfather was young and living in Syracuse, his house was struck by lightning.
04:41And the lightning went through the wall and through his bed and electrocuted him.
04:45After that incident, he had to wear extremely thick prescription glasses.
04:50We called them Coke glasses.
04:52My grandfather and dad, you know, were extremely close.
04:56They'd go out to eat, they'd go to see movies, they'd go to batting cages.
05:00My grandfather was a very brilliant man.
05:03He worked as a consultant for the DOD.
05:08He would present computer seminars and whatnot around the country.
05:13He always had the newest computers that I remember when I would visit.
05:18It was above my head when he tried to explain those things to me.
05:22He was my dad for many, many years.
05:31He was my protector.
05:34When he thought mom was being a little tough on me, he'd come to my rescue.
05:40Even silly things like lima beans on my plate.
05:45He would scrape my beans off into his plate and said, shh.
05:50We had a great relationship.
05:55He was one of those people who were just so smart.
06:00Their brain were constantly working.
06:02He had a lot of interest.
06:03He would do all kinds of research.
06:05He was writing a book.
06:07It was something to do with codes that could be rendered from the words in the Bible.
06:12None of it made any sense to me.
06:17Do you remember that book by Dan Brown, Da Vinci Code?
06:21The Bible itself had a series of secret codes in it that would unlock the future, basically.
06:28I think Dennis was actually going to try to prove that there were secret codes or algorithms in the Bible itself.
06:37Dennis was described as a brilliant man, but in the 90s, Dennis had a very serious car accident
06:46that actually resulted in some brain damage that affected his short-term memory.
06:53Yes, his body was able to heal.
06:57His mind, no.
07:00And that put an end to his teaching.
07:06It changed his whole life.
07:12How sad it is that his, he, he lost so much.
07:27Their income stopped.
07:31And then they started different ventures.
07:36They got into selling t-shirts and perfumes and prepaid calling cards.
07:46So for people who remember, it was literally a card with an account number.
07:51And you would use that card in a pay phone or your home phone and get discounts on long-distance calls.
07:59The phone calls on the prepaid phone card were cheaper than they were on the sell plan.
08:04They were quite popular in California and the Mexican markets.
08:07That's what Dennis would do.
08:09He would buy cards in bulk and he would go around to the liquor stores and small markets and sell these cards out of the back of his cars.
08:18And that would be his profit.
08:21There was a convenience store in Oxnard, south of Ventura.
08:24There was a gas station up in Ojai.
08:27Realizing that he had this issue with his short-term memory loss, he had to develop a system for keeping track of all the money.
08:36He actually kept sticky notes and documentation of everything.
08:42Around 2004, people were starting to get rid of their landlines and were using cell phones for them.
08:48And so these prepaid phone cards weren't really needed.
08:55And so the business ventures were failing.
09:00And then his wife had passed away in December of 2002.
09:05They did open heart surgery on her.
09:15And she never made it home.
09:25Sorry.
09:28When she passed away, my grandfather took it pretty hard and she cared about that man more than anything.
09:34I think he got overwhelmed.
09:36And she was there to always get him back on track, have him focused.
09:41Now, he was on his own, more or less.
09:44He was lost.
09:46Very lost without her.
09:48I fell in looking at the house and some of the evidence that he was lonely at that time, probably depressed.
09:55But he was also felt a sense of urgency.
09:58He was on the verge of bankrupt.
10:01And I can't imagine the fear that was going through his mind having just lost his wife and that he could very well be losing his house very soon.
10:11And a few months later, he was murdered.
10:16I just, it's just so brutal, the way that he died.
10:23That should never be something that anybody has to think about.
10:33Being shot in the face repeatedly.
10:38The medical examiner estimated the level of decomposition at approximately two weeks.
10:50He was lying face down.
10:52The body was in advanced states of decomposition.
10:55The skin that was visible was black.
10:58There seemed to be a large pool of fluid around the area of his head and chest.
11:03You could still tell it was a human being, but you couldn't tell it was Dennis Wood.
11:07It was a pretty grotesque scene.
11:11At that point, the investigators didn't really understand what was going on.
11:16Nothing had been taken.
11:17So it wasn't a failed break-in.
11:19It wasn't a botched robbery.
11:21When you put two bullets in the brain and one in the chest, the intent is pretty clear that they wanted him dead.
11:27My father always believed his theory was that whoever killed him was related to the phone cards.
11:34The fact that he was just in a prepaid phone card sales business, the manner of his death made no sense to investigators.
11:43The monies he generated from that just didn't generate the kind of money that would warrant ultimately killing him.
11:49You would have to have business transactions in the several thousands of dollars.
11:53It's like looking at a blank canvas.
11:57Where do you start?
11:59We did find, after Dennis' wife had passed away in December 2002, he took out a line of credit against his house, using that as collateral of $100,000, to look for other business ventures to invest in.
12:13When investigators were at the crime scene, they opened up Dennis' computer.
12:20His computer was open to a website called Capital Gold Group.
12:27Dennis was in the process of buying two antique gold coins worth $40,000.
12:34But when investigators were searching through the house, they didn't find any gold coins.
12:45I thought it was the gold.
12:52The detective spent a few months trying to investigate the gold angle, and he did send $40,000 in cash to the company to pay for those coins.
13:00This wasn't some investment where Dennis was watching an infomercial and thought, I'll buy a coin that they're showing me on TV right now.
13:15This was a legitimate investment that he had hoped would generate a profit for him sometime soon down the road.
13:24I panicked, because Lord knows who he might have said anything about this gold coin to.
13:36For $40,000, Dennis lost his life.
13:45Sorry.
13:54It took several months before we were able to determine that Mr. Wood never actually had the gold he owned in his possession.
14:04We had spoken to the Las Vegas broker, and they confirmed that we have it.
14:09It's here in the vault in Las Vegas, and it had never been delivered to Mr. Woods.
14:14I think what happened was the company was going to send him the gold coin, they just hadn't sent it to him yet before he was killed.
14:21So it wasn't about the gold.
14:24Detectives investigated a number of things, but they just couldn't find any reason to justify the murder of Dennis Wood.
14:31This was the time before there were marine cameras.
14:37You have a neighborhood that's, there's only one way in, one way out, and no one heard anything.
14:44My dad in July of 2004 discovered a piece of paper that had a sticky note on it from Dennis, and faxed it to the detective.
14:54And the document was primarily related to the gold that Dennis was looking to purchase.
15:01But in that document were some very strange notes.
15:04One of the notes referenced a loan he had given to a friend for $28,500, but there was no name.
15:12It also mentioned something about 4X.
15:15And lastly, it seemed to be a complaint in the notes saying that the friend wasn't following his program, meaning Dennis's program.
15:26But by itself, that didn't mean anything.
15:29And nothing came about from it.
15:34So the case had gone cold.
15:36My dad ended up shortly after that being diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
15:41It wrecked his body.
15:44He no longer was unable to stand straight up.
15:48And all along when he's going through this, he's also trying to figure out who would want my grandfather murdered.
15:55The whole murder took a huge toll on my father.
15:59He got overwhelmed.
16:01It took over my father's life towards the end.
16:03And in April of 2010, my father passed away.
16:18Two years have gone by.
16:21We just sort of kept the case alive, but we weren't really doing much with it, honestly.
16:27Then a call suddenly popped up.
16:30I get a call from the crime lab in 2006.
16:33Hey, we have a hit on a murder weapon that's been recovered in L.A.
16:37At the time of the murder, shell casings were recovered at the scene.
16:41And the crime lab uploaded those shell casings into a national database.
16:45And in 2006, the Los Angeles Police Department test fired that gun.
16:52And those shell casings matched.
16:54Our shell casings recovered at the scene.
16:56And we're like, this is great.
16:58This is good news.
17:00It was a .22 caliber pistol.
17:06Just like this one.
17:08Same caliber as the bullets recovered from Mr. Wood's body.
17:13When you're told, hey, the gun's been found, that's got to be a good clue.
17:17I've seen it on CSI.
17:19Right?
17:23The members of the Los Angeles Police Department arrested the juvenile for possession of the firearm.
17:27The juvenile's name was Tylan Merriweather.
17:30He was a gang member.
17:32And he was 17 at the time.
17:37But they had two issues.
17:40Number one, from the city of Moorpark to Compton, I would say that it's about 60 miles.
17:48How did he get to Los Angeles into the hands of a Compton gang member?
17:53Number two, how did he get into the hands of a juvenile?
17:56We made contact with this gentleman.
17:59No, he wasn't in Moorpark.
18:01No, he hasn't done any crimes in Moorpark.
18:03He had no connection to Ventura County.
18:06They had no evidence he'd ever been to Ventura County.
18:09He had no connection to Dennis Wood.
18:11He was pretty open with us.
18:13And he consented to a search.
18:15We found nothing related to Mr. Wood's residence.
18:18They had absolutely no idea how this firearm got into the hands of Mr. Merriweather.
18:22We asked Tylan about the origin of this pistol.
18:28He said he met a girl through school who sold him the firearm for $125 cash.
18:35He didn't even remember her name.
18:37Is that a believable story?
18:40Yeah, actually it was a very believable story.
18:42That happens all the time.
18:43And the reason is because firearms aren't cheap.
18:46And to just get rid of a gun is to throw away money.
18:50It's not uncommon for a gang member to sell it to another gang member without telling them what the firearm had previously been used for.
18:58And in the two years since Dennis' murder, the gun could have changed hands a number of times.
19:04It could happen. I could see it.
19:06We pretty much took his statement at face value and we pretty quickly wrote him off as a suspect.
19:12It was extremely disheartening when it was discovered that the person that was in possession of the gun at that time had nothing to do with the case and had just come across the weapon.
19:25Meanwhile, there is kind of a strange twist in the investigation.
19:36About two and a half years after our murder, there is another victim out in Los Angeles.
19:44So December 1st of 2006, there was a death investigation in South Central Los Angeles.
19:55Jesse had owned a furniture manufacturing business.
20:00He was pretty good at it.
20:01However, competition from China who could provide furniture cheaper forced him to ultimately close his factory down.
20:10And he was financially desperate.
20:13He was seated in the driver's seat of his pickup truck, kind of slumped over the steering wheel, shot three times in the head.
20:24And stabbed six times in the chest.
20:31One of the first things they noticed was that there was a blood smear found on the truck.
20:37And this ultimately linked to two killers.
20:41Alex Baracamonte was the one who stabbed him.
20:47He had cut himself during the stabbing, which placed him at the scene inside the truck.
20:53And during one of the interviews, he implicated Raul Vasquez.
20:58Raul Vasquez was the, I guess for lack of a better term, son-in-law of Alex Baracamonte and ultimately confessed that he did pull the trigger and he did shoot Jesse.
21:16Raul was always scruffy looking.
21:19Raul was always scruffy looking.
21:21He certainly wasn't a rocket scientist either.
21:25And Alex Baracamonte was a friend of Jesse's and actually would stay as a night watchman security guard at the furniture business in exchange for a place to lay his head at night.
21:40There was nothing that really stuck out to me like clear cut motive for the two of them.
21:48So my partner and I felt extremely confident that it was orchestrated by three individuals, not two.
21:59And we had learned further information about Jesse.
22:04There were several hundred thousand dollars that were never accounted for.
22:08According to both Mr. Vasquez and Mr. Baracamonte, along with several other witnesses that were interviewed at the time, led us down a particular road towards this individual named Tony, who turned out to be Antoine Neme.
22:27Antoine Neme was born and raised in Lebanon.
22:33His family lived in Saudi Arabia between 1976 and 1986.
22:36During that time, he was the personal servant for a sheik out there.
22:40In 1986, he was able to immigrate his wife and his son and daughter to the United States.
22:47He purchased a gas station in Ojai and renamed it Tony's American Gas.
22:52I don't think you can immigrate from Lebanon in the 70s to Saudi Arabia and then figure out a way to get you and your family all the way to the United States where you then become a citizen without having intelligence and drive.
23:07Another thing that he also was very good at was manipulation.
23:13To me, he was the epitome of a, you know, the old-fashioned slickster car salesman.
23:21Through interviews, we learned Tony was orchestrating these business ventures, selling furniture in England, another business venture in Mexico, selling of wheat in Egypt.
23:36And apparently Tony Neme was running some sort of inheritance scam where he had a friend who died in London and didn't have any heirs and he would have people show up suddenly with certain certified documents stating that they were in fact heirs of this person.
23:54Therefore, that person should receive that estate as inheritance.
24:00For Jesse's case in Los Angeles County, we thought Jesse, he might have been involved in the supposed business ventures.
24:09We actually spoke with Mr. Neme. He came in for an interview.
24:14Mr. Neme said that he knew Jesse, was quite fond of Jesse.
24:30Who's Jesse your friend?
24:33He's my best friend.
24:34He's my brother.
24:35He's my brother.
24:36Where's your brother?
24:37You know, Jesse got a second on his house for a while.
24:40Yes.
24:41Do you know where that money went?
24:42I don't know, sir.
24:43He was your friend.
24:44He was your son.
24:45Now, where do you think the money went from?
24:47I have no idea.
24:48Neme didn't bite on anything.
24:50If I know anything, I'm the first one to come to you guys to tell you about Jesse.
24:57Okay.
24:58All right.
24:59So for Jesse's murder, my partner Kevin Lloyd and I were both very confident that we had enough prosecutorial evidence against the two killers.
25:14However, we didn't have enough evidence to implicate.
25:18There was an involvement of a third person who had orchestrated his killing.
25:24L-A-D-A only charges Bracamonte and Vasquez.
25:30And during the trial, Vasquez starts providing information to Los Angeles detectives in the hopes of currying some favor for himself.
25:41And one of the things he talks about is a murder that he drove Alex Bracamonte to somewhere in Ventura County.
25:53LA County called me at my desk, informed me that he had a defendant in custody.
25:58And he had information about a murder that occurred in Moorpark.
26:01I asked Sergeant Lloyd to have his informant draw him a sketch of the house and the street that it occurred on.
26:11Sergeant Lloyd called me back a few hours later and said,
26:13It's a match.
26:14It was Mr. Woods' home.
26:18And so the next day, my partner and I jumped in the car and drove down to L.A. County Jail and had an interview with Raul Vasquez.
26:28It's very casual. We're sitting across the desk from each other.
26:35What Raul tells them is that he drove two men, Alex Bracamonte and Antoine Namy.
26:45Raul even describes the dirty blue car parked in the driveway.
26:49He said as he waited in the car, those two men approached this house, knocked on the door, and Alex Bracamonte shot the man with a gun that he had concealed in a box.
27:04I called the crime lab.
27:05Hey, can you re-examine the recovered bullets from the crime scene?
27:09And during that examination, the crime analyst actually discovered brown paper around the bullet.
27:19Now this was big because this verified that what Raul Vasquez was telling them was true.
27:31Raul said that the motive for the crime was financially based.
27:36Only he didn't know what that connection was.
27:39Ventura County detectives start looking into Antoine Namy, and what they realize is that Antoine Namy owned this gas station in Ohio called Tony's American Gas, where they sold a variety of items, including, ultimately, prepaid phone cards.
27:58Dennis had a list of vendors and contact information of every single person or business that he sold prepaid phone cards to.
28:07And under the city of Ojai, there was only one business that Dennis sold prepaid phone cards to.
28:17And that was Tony's American Gas.
28:20And in the month of March, there were several phone calls between Dennis and Tony.
28:26And in fact, on the afternoon of March 31st, 2004, the day prior to the murder, there were two phone calls within a short time of each other to Antoine Namy.
28:40But we had a problem here. Detectives never had that direct connection that said Antoine Namy ordered Dennis Wood to be murdered by Alex Procamonte and Raul Vasquez.
28:55I had no idea why Namy would want Dennis murdered the way he was.
29:02Their entire ability to file the case hinged on the words of Raul Vasquez.
29:08We needed to know, can this be proved beyond a reasonable doubt?
29:12We needed to talk to Raul one more time. And it didn't go as planned.
29:19Raul had now changed his story.
29:25Now the story was that Alex Procamonte went to the front door by himself when he shot and killed Dennis Wood through the box.
29:36Now he doesn't know anything about Tony's involvement in this thing.
29:41We just didn't know why. He changed his story, but he appears to be lying about something.
29:47I don't think his memory is that bad. And we're kind of sitting back on it. We're just like, what do we do next?
29:55That change in his story was so significant. It sort of killed the investigation at that point.
30:06In April of 2023, the case has now been reassigned to the cold case unit of Ventura County.
30:14And the two detectives assigned to the case now were Detectives Gerardo Cruz and Eric Hernandez.
30:21They started going through the crime scene photographs.
30:26Well, the detectives at the time had taken several photographs of Dennis Wood's car.
30:31Well, in the car on the front passenger floorboard was a box.
30:37And the box contained a number of files.
30:42It's like the way somebody carries a briefcase, only instead of a briefcase, Dennis carried a box.
30:49And so when they saw that, they pulled that file from evidence.
30:52And mind you, the files in that box had not been looked at since they were booked into evidence in 2004.
30:58And when the cold case detectives opened that file, that's what really broke the case.
31:09When the detectives looked at those photographs, the very first file in the front was American Gas, that Antoine Ani owned.
31:19And this file was a piece of paper.
31:21And it was unusual because it had nothing to do with the prepaid phone card business.
31:28The paper on the back of it said, loan to Tony.
31:32And stapled to it was a copy of a deposit slip and some handwritten notes by Dennis that said that $5,700 in cash had been deposited into the bank account of Antoine Ani.
31:47And attached to that paper, there was also a post-it.
31:51And it had two lines on it.
31:53The first one said, $11,000 cash, no rec.
31:59Just below that, it said, $12,000 cash, no rec.
32:03But Dennis's handwriting was pretty bad.
32:06And so I need someone who can come in and tell us what these records are and what these records mean.
32:16And so the only person alive on earth who could potentially do that was Dawn Hauser.
32:21I could identify the meaning of the ledgers.
32:29No rec. What does that mean?
32:32It was not received.
32:35Now it all makes sense.
32:39There was a document we got from Dennis's son, Bruce Simmons, way back in the beginning of the investigation in 2004.
32:48It had vague references to a friend that Dennis had loaned $28,500 to, which is very close to the $28,700 that Dennis had lent to Antoine Ami.
33:02I think that this friend was Antoine Ami.
33:09And it seems that Antoine Ami manipulated him to make an investment.
33:16Dennis was providing large sums of cash to a man that he didn't really know, seeking a return of four times.
33:22This was the first time that detectives realized that there was a significant financial connection between Dennis Wood and Antoine Ami.
33:32So after getting that information, we were going to get Alex Bracamonte, who already serving a life term for murder for the Los Angeles case.
33:43But he had never been interviewed regarding Dennis Wood.
33:45Without Alex's testimony, we don't have a case against Antoine Ami.
33:52Believe it or not, he fully confessed to the murder and gave us details only the killer would know.
33:59He drove me over there, because I didn't have a car.
34:03Who did?
34:04I drove over there.
34:05Okay.
34:06And he set it up.
34:07Who set it up?
34:08Tony.
34:10The basic story is that Antoine Ami and Alex Bracamonte kill Dennis Wood was because he didn't want to pay the money back.
34:19So, Ami gives Alex the gun to use, which was a .22 caliber semi-automatic firearm.
34:24And Alex Bracamonte puts the gun in a box.
34:28And then what happened?
34:29I got up, walked, and knocked on the door.
34:31I said, delivery.
34:32He opened the door.
34:33I went in.
34:34How far did you go to the house?
34:36As far as where the door is free and then you can close it behind you.
34:40And Dennis starts raising his voice.
34:42And then I shot him.
34:44Once in the chest and two in the head.
34:46And that's how the murder took place at Dennis Wood.
34:50You got me there.
34:51Of course I have an eye on it.
34:52Stop.
34:53Mr. Nemi is driving his green jaguar, and deputies pulled him over.
35:01Once on the way, sir.
35:02Hi, Mr. Nemi?
35:04Yes, sir.
35:05All right.
35:06Step out of the car for me.
35:10Open it up.
35:12All right, take your seatbelt off and step out.
35:14Step out.
35:15Priver's car and...
35:16Step out.
35:17Let me drive our stuff out.
35:21Turn and face the car for me.
35:23Yes, sir.
35:24All right, go ahead.
35:25Hands on your back, palms together, and lace fingers.
35:26What happened?
35:27Hey, Mr. Nimi, you're being placed under arrest for murder.
35:30Murder?
35:31Yes, sir.
35:31Oh, my God.
35:33And informed him he was arrested for murder.
35:36No, he didn't tell me what's the problem.
35:38You're being arrested for murder.
35:40Murder who?
35:41Huh?
35:41Who?
35:41For it to be someone that he had a business relationship with, selling cards, I was in shock.
35:55If you could just tell me whether or not you understand you tried, yes or no, okay?
35:58Murder who?
35:59Just, I'm trying to talk to you, okay?
36:01Yes, sir.
36:02I'm trying to make you random, okay?
36:04There was a look of anger on his face.
36:07No remorse.
36:13And that was probably the evil showing.
36:17They interviewed him.
36:19When's the last time you were here in Ventura County?
36:212003.
36:23I sold my gas station in Ojai.
36:26What was the name of the business?
36:27Tony's American Gas.
36:28Tony's American Gas.
36:29Now, make no mistake, Mr. Nimi lied throughout the entire interview.
36:32Did you ever sell any other things like, God, 2004, I don't even know if they had them, like cell phones?
36:37No, no, no, no, never.
36:38How about, like, phone cards?
36:40No, no, no, no.
36:40At first, he denied knowing Dennis Wood or having any sort of business relationship with him.
36:45Then went for the sentence with some facts.
36:46He acknowledged that he did know Dennis Wood and that Dennis Wood sold him prepaid phone cards.
36:52Besides the prepaid calling business with this gentleman, did you do any other type of business with this gentleman?
36:58No, no, no, no, no, no, nothing, period.
37:00Was there any type of loans given out, like a...
37:02No, no, no, no, no.
37:03Did somebody borrow money for whatever reason?
37:05From me?
37:05No.
37:06From you or to you?
37:07No.
37:07If I want a bottle, I go to the bank.
37:09They know me.
37:10They know my business.
37:11Okay.
37:12He lied and lied and lied.
37:15Do you recognize who that is?
37:16You've never seen that person before?
37:18I don't.
37:19We believe this is the person that you were in business with buying prepaid calling cards.
37:24Oh, this one?
37:25Yeah.
37:25This is Dennis Wood.
37:27Dennis, yes, Dennis.
37:28So Dennis is the person that you were in business with.
37:30I remember, yeah.
37:31So this is a deposit going into Bank of America.
37:34When confronted with the deposit slip that showed Dennis had given him cash.
37:40It's for $5,700.
37:42And per the notes, it was received in cash and then deposited into your, it looks like a personal
37:47account.
37:48He now had to admit that, yeah, oh, I misunderstood the question originally.
37:53Yes, I did borrow money from him.
37:55This one, I remember what it is.
37:57I called Dennis and my family was in the old country and I was short of money.
38:04And I asked Dennis if he could loan me some money.
38:08He claimed his wife and kids were in Lebanon at this time, but his family was not in Lebanon
38:15at the time of the murder, but were in fact in the United States.
38:20This is what you said.
38:21You said, you do not borrow money.
38:22If you need to take a loan, you go to the bank, but now you're telling us that you did
38:27take a loan.
38:28I did from him.
38:29Yeah.
38:29So earlier when we asked you, you said, no, I don't take loans.
38:32Maybe I missed it.
38:32Maybe I missed it.
38:33You were perfectly clear.
38:35Totally.
38:36You're telling me about a month later, you paid him off.
38:3940 or 45 days.
38:4140 or 45 days after March 31st.
38:45Yeah.
38:45You know why I can't believe that?
38:47Yeah.
38:47Because on the 16th, he was found dead.
38:50You know, you think for 5,700, I'm going to kill somebody?
38:54No, I think it was for more.
38:55What is it?
38:56Show me.
38:57Tony, here it is.
38:58You're under arrest for the murder of Dennis Wood.
39:00Me?
39:01The interview was a cherry on top for me because it shows not just his intelligence, but it
39:07shows his deceit and his willingness to lie in the face of facts in the hopes of trying
39:12to get away with his crime.
39:15You got him.
39:16Got him.
39:17It was a relief.
39:27It was emotional, especially emotional because my father wasn't alive to hear that news.
39:34These detectives are heroes to me.
39:41We had given up hope because there are people, good people, who are working hard to find those
39:49answers for you.
39:53At the age of 71, Dennis was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
40:00He was clearly an easy mark for a fraudster to come in and take advantage of him.
40:07It's kind of a strange twist of irony that the brain injury that likely ultimately put
40:14him into a position where he had to reach out to a man he didn't know and led to Dennis
40:18Wood's murder was also the reason he had to develop a system of record keeping.
40:23And investigators were able to solve it.
40:31Antoine Némy is an evil person.
40:37It seemed that Antoine had his finger in a bunch of different pies.
40:43Who knows what other things could possibly be out there that he had involvement in that
40:50we have no idea about.
40:53I have wondered if there is other murders that Tony is behind or orchestrated.
41:01Over the years, since Dennis Wood was murdered, I don't know.
41:06Just cold-blooded to execute three people.
41:14We figured some Italian good-looking guy, when we saw him, we were like, wow.
41:19It wasn't like she was going out with Brad Pitt.
41:23There was some embezzling.
41:25He was having an affair.
41:27Coincidences?
41:28I don't believe in coincidences.
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