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00:00A businessman is found deceased in her hotel room.
00:04She didn't have bullet wounds or stab wounds.
00:07There was no obvious method of death.
00:10We didn't find anything that would indicate foul play.
00:14However, there was evidence of cocaine in her system.
00:19When we found out that she had died that night,
00:22it left a huge emptiness with all of us.
00:30What seems like an accident gets a second look
00:33when investigators uncover a troubling pattern.
00:36We found out that several other people that he's been with
00:39died in unusual circumstances.
00:41These deaths were ruled as accidental and as undetermined.
00:47That's a red flag.
00:49A possible survivor surfaces
00:51that leads police to something more sinister.
00:54I have never felt such evilness in my life.
00:59I felt so responsible.
01:03You gotta wonder,
01:05were we actually dealing with a serial killer?
01:08Just after 10 a.m., Detroit Emergency Services receive a call from security at an upscale Detroit hotel.
01:18A man's wife has been found deceased in a guest room.
01:25Soon after, officers arrive to secure the scene.
01:28When I arrive at the scene, I noticed a guy down the hall sitting there.
01:31One of the officers told me, that's the guy whose wife died.
01:34The man is Ed Amos, the person who alerted hotel security to call police.
01:41We learned that the deceased's name was Roberta Amos.
01:44Everybody called her Bobby, and she was Ed Amos's wife.
01:47Detectives enter the room, where Bobby's body is lying on the bed.
01:54When I went in to the room, there were indications that people had been partying there.
01:59Empty drink glasses, cigarettes, those types of things.
02:06She didn't have bullet wounds, or stab wounds, or blunt force trauma.
02:07Anything like that that would suggest any obvious method of death.
02:09She didn't have bullet wounds, or stab wounds, or blunt force trauma.
02:12Anything like that that would suggest any obvious method of death.
02:19The bottom sheet had a huge, damped area on the sheet.
02:24She didn't have bullet wounds, or stab wounds, or blunt force trauma.
02:29Anything like that that would suggest any obvious method of death.
02:35The bottom sheet had a huge, damped area on the sheet.
02:41It was soaked.
02:43It appeared like there was a lot of water that had somehow gotten under her body,
02:51with no real explanation to it.
02:53It could be bodily fluid.
02:57We didn't know at that time.
03:02With little to go on, investigators speak to Ed Amos,
03:05who appears to be in shock over the death of his wife.
03:08It seemed kind of cold.
03:11Not a tear.
03:12Nothing.
03:13But that can be normal in these circumstances.
03:17Ed Amos told me that he didn't know what happened.
03:21He says that when he went to sleep, Bobby was still up.
03:27But when he woke up a little before 10 a.m., Bobby was deceased.
03:32And that's when he then called the front desk for help, and security notified the police.
03:39Ed reported that they were from Indiana, specifically the Anderson area,
03:45but they were in Detroit for a Christmas party for his new financial company.
03:52That business was run out of the Detroit area.
03:55He said that's why the Christmas party was held in Detroit that night,
04:01and the company had reserved several rooms.
04:06Ed Amos tells police that he and Bobby partied with employees until around 4 a.m.,
04:11when they went back to their room alone.
04:13Ed made the admission Bobby had brought cocaine to Detroit from Indiana,
04:19and that they had been doing cocaine in the room.
04:23Ed admitted that he had done some cleanup.
04:29He didn't want to have any cocaine there when the police got there.
04:34But Ed, other than having done cocaine with her,
04:38he claimed he hadn't anything to do with her death.
04:41After speaking with Ed Amos, investigators do not find any evidence of drugs in the hotel room,
04:47but they do observe an item that may provide a second account of what happened to Bobby that night.
04:52There was a camera sitting on the bedside table.
04:58The minute I saw the camera, I said,
05:01we got to get that film that was in it developed,
05:03see if there was any evidence to be had.
05:06At that time, we were looking at it as a possible accidental overdose.
05:11As police finish up at the crime scene,
05:14the family of Bobby Amos learns of her tragic death.
05:17We got the call that there was an emergency,
05:21and we needed to go to my mom's house.
05:24And so we went to my mom's house,
05:27and she was crying.
05:30And that's when we found out that she had died that night.
05:34And just hearing that, all your emotions,
05:40what if, what if, what if, why, why, why,
05:44and it left a huge emptiness with all of us.
05:49I didn't think I would do this.
06:04Bobby grew up in Anderson, Indiana,
06:06just a four hour drive from Detroit,
06:08in a loving middle class family.
06:10I was the oldest, and then Bobby came.
06:13We were 13 months apart.
06:15And then my brother came 14 months after Bobby.
06:19Bobby and I, we were just best of friends.
06:22We danced when we were little,
06:24and we would just twist our waist off.
06:27As Bobby grew up, she was beautiful.
06:32She had dark curly hair and just a smile.
06:35She was kind and just a fun person to be around.
06:41She was the life of the party.
06:44After an idyllic childhood,
06:46Bobby graduates high school,
06:47skips collegiate life, and goes to work.
06:50Back then, everybody worked for GM.
06:54And Bobby, she started working at General Motors.
06:57And that's how she met Ed.
06:59Ed was also from Anderson.
07:01And he came from a family that was relatively well-to-do.
07:08Everybody knew Ed.
07:10Everyone knew the family.
07:12Ed was an executive in General Motors.
07:15He treated everybody well.
07:18Never allowed anyone to pay for anything.
07:21He wanted people who never had money.
07:23Ed drove a Cadillac.
07:24He had Rolex and was always dressed to the nines.
07:27He liked to live that lifestyle.
07:29Ed was very charismatic.
07:31And he was so gregarious.
07:33Bobby loved that.
07:35She loved playing golf and going to eat
07:38and, you know, going to the parties.
07:43Bobby fell in love.
07:45He swept her off her feet, literally.
07:47In early 1993, after two years of dating,
07:52Bobby surprises her family with news
07:54that she and Ed are getting married.
07:56We were all apprehensive.
07:58We, of course, welcomed him
08:01and were, you know, warm and kind.
08:04But he had a reputation at General Motors.
08:08He dated a lot of women.
08:10We knew that he had a past.
08:15Ed had previously been married two times prior to Bobby's marriage to him.
08:21But I had to be happy for her because she was just exuberant.
08:26And you felt the joy.
08:28She didn't have to work anymore.
08:30They went on a lot of vacations together.
08:32Money was never an issue for them.
08:34She lived a high life.
08:38Sadly, less than two years later, Bobby's joy is cut short by her tragic death.
08:43That night, we found out she was gone.
08:46Ed had come back from Michigan.
08:49He was upset, distraught.
08:52We didn't know how she had died that night.
08:55And we needed to know what happened that night.
08:58The next morning, Bobby Amos' body is brought in for autopsy.
09:03The autopsy didn't find any defensive wounds or indicators that she had been smothered.
09:10There were no injection sites found.
09:14They didn't find anything that would indicate foul play.
09:17The autopsy showed that, although Ed said that Bobby was doing cocaine,
09:23she had no cocaine presence at all in her nasal passages.
09:27However, the medical examiner does discover something surprising that backs up Ed's story.
09:32There was evidence of cocaine residue in her vaginal cavity.
09:38That's not expected.
09:41But the method of ingesting cocaine can vary depending on the person.
09:48She had fluid in her lungs, which is sometimes indicative of an overdose.
09:54The manner of death was ruled as undetermined, but it was reasonable to suggest that this may have been just an overdose accidentally.
10:05There were going to be additional testing, specifically toxicology reports, that would take weeks.
10:11Detectives reach out to Bobby's family to provide an update on their investigation.
10:20After the autopsy, we talked with Bobby's family, and nobody understood how this type of thing could happen.
10:30You had to know my sister.
10:33She enjoyed the party scene, but Bobby didn't do drugs.
10:38How would they have gotten into her system?
10:41Because she would not have done them willingly.
10:44That information made us start looking a little bit harder at what the real truth was in all this.
10:53Did she do cocaine or not?
10:55Is this an accidental overdose?
10:57Or somebody drugged this woman?
11:01We found out Ed was not going to derive any life insurance proceeds from Bobby.
11:10There is a financial angle to this.
11:13He's looking at a huge financial hit.
11:16Bobby had found out that his business trips were really not just business trips.
11:22That caused her to be suspicious.
11:25I told her, you need to be very afraid.
11:28I think you're in danger.
11:46In early December 1994, police continued to investigate the mysterious death of Bobby Amos,
11:52found deceased in a hotel room after her husband's company Christmas party.
11:56A day or two after Bobby's death, we were looking at it as, you know, a possible accidental overdose,
12:04pending the results of toxicology reports.
12:07But because Bobby's family told us that she didn't use drugs,
12:13we started delving into it a little bit more.
12:17Detectives begin by questioning any possible witnesses from the night of the party.
12:21The investigation was able to interview Ed's employees and other people who attended the Christmas party.
12:33When I asked about drug use at the party, they didn't admit to any cocaine being used in their knowledge.
12:40People had related to us that a bunch of them were partying for a while.
12:46And that Ed and his wife, Bobby, had gone back to their roommate about four in the morning.
12:52That would be consistent with Ed's story.
12:57Also, there was no suggestion Bobby and Ed weren't getting along.
13:03Basically, nobody knew anything, and some people, they didn't want anything to do with this.
13:09I think part of their reluctance was they didn't want to be accused of being involved in narcotics.
13:18Among them was one of Ed's employees, a fellow by the name of Daniel Percassi.
13:28Percassi said he didn't know anything about Bobby, but he was a little bit skittish.
13:35I got the opinion that maybe he was hiding something about Bobby's death.
13:42With no witnesses from the party providing any new information, detectives turned to the camera found on the bedside table next to Bobby's body, hoping it may contain evidence of her final hours.
13:54We had our film lab process, the film that was in it, and all it was was pictures of the people at the Christmas party.
14:02The one picture, there was a single guy.
14:06He was by himself, but nobody knew who the guy was.
14:11Investigators find it unusual that no one claimed to know this lone individual that was at their private party.
14:18I was sitting at my desk, and I had the pictures spread out, and one of my partners happened to walk by my desk, and he took the picture to show to some other detectives.
14:30And an hour later, he came back with the picture. He says the guy's name's on the back of the picture.
14:35Daryl Robertson.
14:38This guy at the party that they can't identify, he turned out to be a well-known drug dealer.
14:45I found he had been just picked up for a distribution of cocaine and was actually in custody.
14:53So I got him brought to headquarters where I could interview him.
14:57When I first sat down and told him what I wanted to talk to him about, he said he didn't have anything to say.
15:04And I said, well, if you're the person that supplied the cocaine that might have caused death,
15:10as far as this case goes, you can be a defendant or you can be a witness.
15:17He was concerned he was going to get jacked up on homicide charges.
15:23So he decided that it was prudent to talk.
15:30And that's when he admits that he was at the party to sell cocaine.
15:36He indicated that he had sold Ed Amos a half an ounce of cocaine and Ed had paid him $200 cash.
15:46The importance of identifying Daryl Robertson and the fact that he delivered the cocaine to Ed Amos on the day of the party.
15:54Ed had said that Bobby had procured the cocaine and brought it with her from Indiana.
16:01And then before we figure out the next move, we started getting phone calls about the death of Bobby.
16:09When word gets back to Anderson that Bobby Amos has died mysteriously in Detroit,
16:18a lot of people started discussing Ed Amos and his past.
16:22We received several calls, people indicating that he should really look into her husband, Ed Amos,
16:29because this is his third wife that's died under unusual circumstances.
16:34Within a few weeks of the death of Bobby Amos, as they await toxicology results,
16:53Detroit police receive information that could be crucial to the case.
16:57We started getting phone calls from Anderson, Indiana,
17:02that Ed's two prior wives died under unusual circumstances.
17:08So I called Anderson Police Department and they connected me with Mike.
17:12My first contact with Pat was by phone.
17:17We were able to confirm that both his first two wives had died.
17:23So a little over three weeks after Bobby's death,
17:28I went down to Indiana and we started delving into it a little bit more.
17:34Police learned that in 1965, 22-year-old Ed Amos married his first wife,
17:3923-year-old Sondra Hurd in Anderson, Indiana.
17:43At the time of Sondra's death, I was a detective in the Anderson Police Department
17:49for probably two months.
17:51Ed just started at General Motors and Sondra was a school teacher.
17:56Ed and Sondra, they've been married for 15 years when she died.
18:02On the night of January 24th, 1979,
18:06Anderson police receive an emergency call from Ed Amos.
18:09He tells them that he found his wife deceased on the floor of their bathroom.
18:13When the police officer arrived with EMTs, they confirmed that she was dead.
18:18They didn't see any signs of a struggle, but she's got a head wound.
18:24Ed tells the authorities that she fell and hit her head.
18:28Ed's basic statement was that his wife had been out drinking,
18:33and then when she came home, she had wine with Ed.
18:37She went upstairs to get ready for bed.
18:40And a little while later, here's the thunk.
18:43And he says he thought it was the dog jumping off the bed,
18:47so he didn't go up immediately.
18:49But when he did go up, he found her unresponsive.
18:51There was an autopsy conducted, and the toxicology report indicated
18:56that there was, in fact, alcohol in her bloodstream.
19:01That would be consistent with Ed's claim that Sondra had been drinking.
19:08At the time of Sondra's death, there was no reason for the police to suspect any foul play,
19:17given the evidence.
19:19So the cause of death, where this rule is accidental.
19:25In 1980, just over a year after Sondra's death,
19:29Ed marries his second wife, Carolyn Traylor.
19:32There was the suspicion that he was dating Carolyn
19:36while he was still married to Sondra.
19:39They met through General Motors.
19:41They got together and moved to Henry County, not too far away.
19:46The marriage lasts nine years, until the night of April 6, 1989,
19:51when the Henry County Sheriff's Office receives another call from Ed Amos.
19:56When Henry County Sheriff's Department responded,
19:59they found Carolyn on the floor.
20:03Ed had told the police on this particular night he and Carolyn had gone out.
20:10They came back to the house.
20:12Carolyn was still having wine, and she retired to get ready for bed.
20:18Ed told the responding officers that she went upstairs to get ready for bed,
20:24and he said, I heard a thunk on the floor up there.
20:29I thought it was the dog jumping off the bed.
20:33At some point in time later, Ed went in to check on Carolyn
20:37and found her on the floor unresponsive.
20:42At Carolyn's autopsy, the coroner is unable to find any conclusive evidence as to how she died.
20:47The autopsy didn't reveal anything as to the cause of death.
20:52So as a result, the death was ruled at that point in time as undetermined.
20:56We've got more than one police agency involved.
21:00You've got Anderson dealing with the first wife's death,
21:02and now you've got Henry County dealing with the second wife's death.
21:06At the time of Carolyn's death, we did make contact with Henry County,
21:13but there was no shared information before Bobby's death.
21:19Ed was considered a possible suspect, but the investigation just dried up.
21:26It became a cold case.
21:29When we were looking back at everything in 1994, it was uncanny.
21:35His accounts to responding officers at two different scenes, years apart,
21:40with the same verbiage in each report.
21:43We were having a drink, she went upstairs, I heard a thunk.
21:47I thought it was the dog jumping off the bed.
21:49Same thing both times.
21:52After that, we felt that he could be involved in the murders of his first two wives.
22:00You lose one wife, it's a tough situation.
22:02You lose two, that's even tougher, but three times, it's a red flag.
22:07After digging deeper into Ed's background,
22:09detectives realize it wasn't just his wives who died under suspicious circumstances.
22:14A few months before Carolyn's death, Ed had been living with his mother for a few weeks.
22:23She was an elderly woman.
22:25She lived alone.
22:26And at some point in time, he called and reported that his mother was deceased.
22:32There was no autopsy performed on Ed's mother because of her age.
22:37She was in her later 70s, so they put it down as a sudden natural death.
22:43A reasonable person's got to look at the big picture and say, you got this one person that all these stories, something's not right.
22:54You got to wonder whether you're actually dealing with a serial killer or somebody that is just unbelievably unlucky.
23:06As police consider that these accidental deaths may actually be murders, they discover a possible common motive, money.
23:14During the investigation, we found that Ed had received $25,000 from a life insurance policy regarding his first wife, Sandra's death.
23:25Ed had received $400,000 in life insurance funds from Carolyn, his second wife's death.
23:33And regarding his mother's death, he received $1.3 million that he split with his siblings.
23:42Ed was making pretty decent money, but he liked to live that lifestyle.
23:47I think everybody had that impression that Ed lived maybe beyond his financial means.
23:54Police want to know if Bobby also had a life insurance policy going to Ed.
23:58Not wanting to tip him off about their growing suspicions, they reach out to Bobby's family for information.
24:04Talking to Bobby's family about that, we learned that Ed wasn't in line for any big insurance payoffs for Bobby's death, but we found out through Bobby's family that Bobby was planning on leaving Ed.
24:20Bobby was going to divorce him, so although it wasn't going to derive any life insurance proceeds from Bobby, there is a financial angle to this death.
24:34Did she get half of the business he owned, half of any money in the bank account?
24:38I mean, all of a sudden he's looking at a huge financial hit.
24:42So that was possibly the motivation for Ed to kill his wife.
24:46Still unsure of exactly how Bobby Amos died, police suspect her husband, Ed Amos, may have killed her.
25:07While continuing to investigate, they speak with Bobby's family members to learn why she was planning to leave Ed.
25:13Bobby was getting away from Ed because she thought he had been having an affair with an individual in Michigan.
25:21Ed would spend a lot of time in Detroit, that's where he was starting his business, while Bobby stayed in Anderson.
25:28So through the week, he'd be up in Detroit by himself.
25:32Bobby had found out that his business trips were really not just business trips.
25:39In early December 1994, just days before her death, Bobby received a phone call from a woman claiming to be Ed's mistress.
25:48She actually called her, and they'd had a long conversation about the relationship.
25:54And it was devastating, but not surprising.
25:59And Bobby was just kind of, it's over.
26:04And we believe Ed knew Bobby found out about the affair.
26:09Then, even though they are splitting up, Bobby made a decision that she's going to go to this Christmas party with Ed.
26:18It was just one of those things that we wish she didn't go.
26:21After learning that Ed Amos was potentially having an affair when his wife died, investigators reach out to the other woman to find out what she may know.
26:30We learned from Bobby's family that her name was Mary Zellinger.
26:37It was January 1995.
26:41I received a phone call, and it was Detective Hennehan.
26:46He said, I'd like to talk to you.
26:49He had told me that Bobby Amos was dead.
26:53And I was just, my legs just gave out.
26:57I went to the floor.
26:59I was in shock.
27:03The next day, Mary goes to the police station to give a formal statement about her relationship with Ed and what she knows about Bobby.
27:12She admitted that her and Ed had an intimate relationship, but that it was over.
27:18And then she told me the story.
27:22When I first came in contact with Ed Amos, I was working in the telecommunications field.
27:28We did a project together for his company.
27:32He was a little flirty, a very handsome man.
27:37Ed explained to me that he was widowed, and I felt really sad for him.
27:43But I enjoyed his company a great deal.
27:47I lived outside of Detroit, and Ed traveled back and forth from Indiana to Detroit regularly.
27:54And we began seeing each other every other week, depending on what his projects were.
28:00It was a casual, very fun relationship.
28:05And that then continued for a few years.
28:08And then things changed.
28:13She related to me that there were a couple of times when she felt like she had been drugged.
28:22One evening, Ed invited me over after work to have dinner.
28:27And I didn't know if it was in the food or the alcohol.
28:31But something wasn't right.
28:35I went into the bathroom, and I just began to vomit violently.
28:40And I was in so much pain, and I just wanted to die.
28:44It persisted, and a week later, I finally made an appointment with my doctor and told him how violently ill I had been.
28:53And it was just lingering.
28:55He did some blood work and found nothing wrong.
28:59She didn't know specifically how she thinks he drugged her, but she felt that way.
29:05And it was very confusing.
29:07My sense was that he'd been using drugs on me, but it just didn't add up.
29:13I trusted him.
29:15I knew he cared for me.
29:18Mary tells police she pushed aside any doubts she had about Ed's character until she discovered a disturbing secret.
29:26It was in the fall of 1994.
29:29I noticed his dry cleaning, and I looked at the tag from the cleaners, and I saw this name, Bobby Amos.
29:40When I saw that, I realized that he's married.
29:45That caused her to be suspicious and start questioning things.
29:51I didn't tell Ed I saw that tag.
29:55I wanted to see how things played out.
29:58And so we had dinner that evening, and he may have noticed something's different.
30:04But he looked at me and said, you need to get far away from me because I'm a bad dude.
30:15With just a kind of dead stare, it sent a chill down my spine.
30:20The voice that he used, the look on his face.
30:24I have never felt such evilness in my life.
30:29And that was the last time I saw Ed.
30:31I was done.
30:32That's why she made the phone call to Bobby.
30:35I went through all the information that I had from Ed's business, and eventually I came across a number that I felt was probably a home number.
30:47So I called that number, and Bobby answered the phone, and I said, my name is Mary, and I want you to know who I am.
30:57And I want you to know that I did not know that you were married to Ed Amos.
31:02And then I said, you need to be very afraid.
31:07I think you're in danger.
31:09I felt like I was trying to help her, but I knew she wasn't going to trust me or believe me.
31:17And then that call ended.
31:20And that was December 1st, 1994.
31:23And so 10 days after I made that call to her, she was dead.
31:30There's no words to describe the dirtiness, the self-loathing.
31:36I felt so responsible that I couldn't do more.
31:55Soon after hearing Mary's harrowing account, investigators receive Bobby's toxicology report.
32:01The blood cocaine level on an average fatal overdose would have been 0.25.
32:09Bobby's blood cocaine level was 5.7, which put 15 times the amount it would take for a fatal overdose.
32:21The medical examiner also explained that there would be no way for Bobby to self-administer that amount of cocaine.
32:31He said she'd have passed out long before she could have ever gotten that much cocaine into her system.
32:38The medical examiner was able to confirm that there was no accidental or potentially suicidal explanation for Bobby's death.
32:50So her manner of death was then changed to homicide.
32:54It was very big revelation.
32:59We were on the right track.
33:01We had all along felt that Ed Amos was not only responsible for Bobby's death, but his two prior wives and possibly his mother.
33:09And I wanted to make sure that he didn't get away with murder again.
33:15Now we had to gather up the evidence and prove it.
33:18Shortly after Bobby's death is ruled a homicide, detectives learn the results of the forensic examination of the water-soaked bed sheet that she was found on at the crime scene.
33:41There was evidence of cocaine solution that had been on the bed with Bobby.
33:50Our theory was that the cocaine was liquefied with water and Ed administered it into her system enough to kill her.
34:00Possibly using an oversized syringe.
34:06Needing hard evidence or a witness to back up their theory, investigators turned back to Ed's employee Daniel Porkasi, who they believe knows more than he is saying about the night Bobby died.
34:18When I initially was interviewing Porkasi, he seemed nervous.
34:25I got the opinion that maybe he didn't want to be accused of being involved in narcotics or Bobby's death.
34:33So I had him come to headquarters where I could interview him.
34:37Ultimately, Porkasi admitted that he had removed a bag from Ed Amos' hotel room the morning of the death.
34:49That morning, before the officers arrived, Ed called and told him, I need you to come to my room now.
34:57And Porkasi went down there, Ed gave him a small satchel, like a toilet article kit, and said, I need you to take this and get it out of here.
35:08Porkasi immediately checked out of the room and got out of there.
35:12He's an employee, so he says, hey, take it back, he takes it.
35:15Later in that same day, Ed drives 40 miles away to Daniel's house, collects the bag.
35:24And we're like, so what was so important that he had to run out there immediately to get it back.
35:28And he said, he didn't look.
35:30And my thought, looking him right in the eye, was like, come on, really, you didn't peek?
35:40And finally, he said, yeah, he looked.
35:42We asked him, so what was in it? What was in that little satchel?
35:49He says he found a syringe and a washcloth that had some kind of a stain on it.
35:57He said it was a big syringe, and that helped prove our theory about how Ed administered the cocaine to her with a large syringe.
36:09Investigators are now confident they know what happened to Bobby in the hotel room the night she died.
36:14It's reasonable to assume that Ed had stuck something in her drink to cause her to further be incapacitated so she wouldn't resist.
36:27He diluted half an ounce of cocaine in water, which is a lot of cocaine, and then pulled it up into the syringe and injected it into her vagina.
36:40It would have entered into her system right away, and she began to overdose from it.
36:46And then, of course, he did some cleanup.
36:49Put the syringe and the cloth in that satchel, called one of his employees, and he gave them that satchel to take out.
36:59Ultimately, that bag was given back to Amos before the police had a chance to take it for possible evidence.
37:08And then two hours later, Ed calls the desk at the hotel saying his wife is deceased.
37:13He was diabolical. He knew exactly what he was going to do, and he thought that he would get away with it again.
37:21We took about a year putting all the pieces of the puzzle together and getting to where we wanted to be as far as pursuing the prosecution.
37:29And then we got the warrant for Amos' arrest.
37:32In November 1995, investigators traveled to Las Vegas to arrest Ed Amos for the first-degree murder of his wife, Bobby.
37:43Ed had relocated to Las Vegas, so I went to Vegas to make the arrest.
37:49I told him, you're under arrest for the murder of Bobby Amos.
37:53That's when I advised him of his rights, and he didn't want to make any statements.
37:58And then we put him on a prisoner transport bus back to Detroit.
38:04When Ed was finally arrested, the family, we were relieved and happy, but also afraid that, is he really going to go to jail this time?
38:18In September of 1996, nearly two years after Bobby Amos' death, the trial of her suspected killer and husband, Ed Amos, begins.
38:42Michigan state law had changed not too long prior to Bobby's death, where that would allow the prosecution to introduce what would be termed as prior bad acts, even if they weren't charged criminal.
38:59That was huge.
39:02That showed the jury that there's a history here.
39:06We had witnesses from Indiana, Michigan, family members, and Mary Zellinger up to testify.
39:16Testifying was hard, but I had to do that.
39:20It was humiliating, embarrassing to have had a relationship with a very evil man.
39:26But obviously, sociopaths are chameleons.
39:29He thought he was smarter than everyone else, and probably he laughed at us that we trusted or believed in him.
39:42If they walk among us, these perverted people, they will sweep you off your feet.
39:49They're charming, and they could be the one that will take your life.
39:53After three weeks of testimony, on October 24, 1996, the jury returns with a verdict.
40:04We were shaking because we didn't know what to expect.
40:08And then when they said guilty, there was a cheer, there was such a sigh of happiness, if there could be happiness, that this guy is off the streets.
40:27Ed was found guilty of first-degree murder and the death of Bobby Amos, and was sentenced to life in prison, no parole.
40:38I felt so much relief, joy, that justice had been served, and that he would never do this again to anyone else, and that was all we could ask for.
40:55One of my first thoughts when he was found guilty is, I thought about the family of Sandra Amos.
41:03I thought about Carolyn's family.
41:06I felt that there was finally some closure in this, and that his serial killer got what he deserved.
41:13We put a lot of effort and a lot of hard work into it.
41:16It's what they call a career case.
41:19Yeah, I'm happy with the results.
41:21I'm proud to have been just a part of this whole investigation.
41:28It was a team effort, and hopefully Bobby's family will have some sense of closure as well.
41:35I have pictures of her in the house, and I just always talk to her, just telling her I miss her.
41:56It is sad that we don't have her, but we have the memories, and we still talk about her.
42:16So I think that's how we keep her alive.
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