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00:00...snapped killer couples told the story of Antoinette Martinez and Cameo Clines,
00:06whose toxic romance led to a string of violent crimes.
00:11They were both young Hispanic males.
00:14They were found within three miles of each other.
00:16They were shot both execution style.
00:19What is it that y'all had planned if you had Cameo at that time?
00:23I'm a Muslim. I'm a young lady.
00:25We look at young women and we automatically assume or think that it was going to be a man that led them astray.
00:34And in this case, she is the one that set up both of the young men.
00:38Now serving two consecutive life sentences in the Texas Department of Corrections,
00:44Cameo Clines, Antoinette's partner in crime, speaks out for the first time, hopeful for a chance at redemption.
00:52I feel like meeting Antoinette just sparked up all the wrong stuff that I had left alone.
01:02I think I was under her spell and she knew that.
01:05She had heard of this, you know, couple Bonnie and Clyde and she found her Clyde in Cameo.
01:12Eventually, the parole board is going to give that opportunity to Cameo to ask for redemption in the hopes that he might be released.
01:21Personally, I don't believe that he should be released.
01:24I'm sorry.
01:25Ain't nothing I do or say can ever aid the wounds that I inflicted on him.
01:32But I will say that to please forgive me, you know, forgiveness is, forgiveness is freedom.
01:37My name is Cameo Clines and I agree for this interview because I don't agree with
02:00people thinking that one mistake should define your whole life.
02:06Whether I was being naive at the time or not, you know, I take responsibility for my involvement in it.
02:13But I feel like Antoinette took advantage of me.
02:16I wouldn't call it love.
02:17I felt like I was baited in.
02:20She unconsciously baited me in and that's how I got glued to her.
02:23I didn't think she could ever do something bad or wrap my mind around that.
02:29But now I can see it's very possible.
02:35June 18th, 2014.
02:39At 6.30 a.m., a rancher in Bexar County, Texas, is checking on his livestock
02:44after he and his wife had noticed some suspicious activity on their land the night prior.
02:50That morning, the rancher and his wife were awoken by some loud noises.
02:58They believed it may have been gunshots.
03:00They weren't sure.
03:01But the gentleman did go out and he discovered the body of a young man deceased by one of the
03:07fence lines of his property.
03:09When the sheriff's department made the scene, they did observe a young man with multiple
03:15gunshots to his body, one in the torso and one in the neck area.
03:23They are also able to determine that this person was bound by some brown packing tape.
03:30And they started looking for shell casings and other items of evidence, which they did
03:37find some located not far from the body.
03:41They discovered some carpet that appeared to come from inside of a trunk.
03:46They also discovered other things that would normally be kept in a trunk, such as a car jack.
03:56Based on the evidence, detectives theorize that the victim had been transported to the location
04:02in the trunk of a vehicle before trying to flee his captor.
04:07At the time they were not able to identify the victim, there wasn't any identification found
04:13on or near the body.
04:15About a day after the body was found, they were able to then work with the medical examiner's
04:22office to ID the body using fingerprints.
04:26He was a young man by the name of Xavier Cordero.
04:32Police notify Xavier's family of the devastating news.
04:38We give them time, you know, to process the whole situation.
04:42And then our next step after that is to try to get as much information from them that's
04:46going to assist us in trying to locate who was responsible for the death of their son.
04:52We do ask them if there's anything that's missing, either cell phones or vehicles, anything,
04:57you know, that their son might have had that we are not aware of.
05:01Mr. Cordero had a black Mitsubishi Lancer, which was a little bit of his pride and joy.
05:09He really loved his car.
05:11But his vehicle is no longer at his home and the family doesn't know where it is.
05:18Our first step was to put a BOLO out for any law enforcement agency, if they locate that
05:27vehicle, to contact me.
05:30Xavier's mom had access to his cell phone plan.
05:34And so she was able to give a printout of who he was speaking to.
05:39His mother prints out a phone log for them.
05:42And they find that his last phone activity was about 2.20 in the morning on June 18th.
05:48I just called the number of female answers.
05:50I asked her for her name.
05:52At that time, she does identify herself as Antoinette Martinez, a young San Antonio woman.
05:59They asked her to come down for an interview, which she did do.
06:03When investigators are talking to Antoinette, she does give a little bit of a history of
06:10her friendship with Xavier.
06:13She does say that they had a sexual relationship, but she hadn't seen them in about three months.
06:18She does indicate that that relationship was fairly short-lived and ended when she started
06:25a relationship with a young man, Cameo Clines.
06:31Detectives inform Antoinette that Xavier has been killed.
06:36She does appear to be very shocked and sad that something happened to Xavier.
06:43She does talk about Xavier did reach out to her the night prior, according to her.
06:49And they were supposed to see each other, but he never showed up to her apartment.
06:53She said she has no idea what could have happened to him after they got off of the phone.
07:02Investigators asked her if she had anything to do with the offense, and she said no.
07:07At this point, she is still a witness that needs to be talked to if there is any additional
07:14evidence that kind of comes up, because she is one of the last people to talk to Xavier.
07:19But she isn't arrested.
07:20She is allowed to leave while they still continue to conduct their investigation.
07:30At the time, Antoinette called, and she told me the police had contacted her.
07:35She was telling me that they were questioning her.
07:37I started feeling scared and worried because I was driving Xavier's car.
07:42And she told me to ditch the car, so I go, ditched her car, and she tells me where to ditch
07:49that.
07:49And after that, she comes and picks me up in a family member's car, and we went to her apartment.
07:57At this point, Xavier's vehicle had been missing for a few days, and that alert had been made
08:06into the system.
08:07And a police officer doing a standard patrol did come upon a vehicle that was abandoned.
08:14And when he ran the plate, it did come back to Xavier Cordero as being the owner of the vehicle.
08:21We started processing the vehicle, doing fingerprints and taking photos, processing it to see if we
08:32get any possible detection of any blood.
08:35In this case, we did.
08:37Towards the trunk area of the vehicle, we did get some reaction for blood that was recovered
08:42and eventually sent to the medical examiner's office for testing.
08:45They were also able to determine that the trunk liner of the vehicle was no longer in it.
08:51When you think about the original scene and there being a trunk liner found, you're able
08:57to then kind of look back and connect that to the vehicle.
09:04Ten days pass without any other leads.
09:08Then, on June 30th, investigators get word of another gruesome discovery.
09:15While police are still investigating the murder of Xavier Cordero, another body is found out
09:21in a cornfield in South Bear County.
09:25This person is shot in the head with a small caliber handgun.
09:30When I arrived to the scene, I noticed that he was moderately decomposed.
09:35There was no identifying kind of features to his face or anything like that.
09:39At the same time I'm at the crime scene, I'm getting information from SAPD that they had
09:45been working a missing person case by the name of Steven Rendon.
09:50So as they are giving me descriptions of what he was last seen alive in, I'm actually looking
09:56at his body at the crime scene and it's matching up to what he was last seen wearing.
10:01At that point, we knew we had a tentative identification on Steven Rendon.
10:07They are also able to determine that this person was bound by some brown packing tape, which
10:14was also something discovered at the Xavier Cordero body dump site.
10:24Investigators realize it's not the only similarity between the two murders.
10:29They were both young Hispanic males.
10:32They were found within three miles of each other, dumped in a rural, kind of a remote
10:37area in Bear County.
10:40Ballistics evidence later indicated that the bullets that were found both in Xavier's body
10:48and in Steven's body were from the .25 caliber firearm, which is not a common gun.
10:54Everything's similar and we're over here like, oh my God, you know, we might have some kind
10:59of serial killer here.
11:04Were you worried at all?
11:05Police were on to you?
11:07You always had the fear of getting caught.
11:08But at that time, I was more involved of how I felt towards Antoinette and not felt of what
11:15I was involved with.
11:17How did Antoinette seem?
11:19Did she seem worried?
11:20She always stayed more close to me for the sake of security or just the sake of if we get,
11:26if I get caught, we get caught.
11:30Coming up, as police race to find a connection between the two victims, the clues lead them
11:38to uncover a toxic romance.
11:40She was wild in a good way, but I was naive at that time.
11:45The relationship that they had together was a perfect storm.
11:50In June 2014, detectives in rural Bexar County, Texas, are investigating two brutal homicides that
12:10appear to be connected.
12:12We're talking about bodies that are found in very close proximity, time-wise.
12:18They are both found in a remote area.
12:21We're looking at two young men who have been shot.
12:24Authorities discover that 19-year-old Stephen Rendon had been reported missing by his mother
12:30four days earlier.
12:32Now that we have a potential ID of Stephen Rendon, police do go out and speak with his mother.
12:39Two gentlemen from the Bexar County Sheriff came in.
12:42I had thought maybe they were going to be there to kind of talk to me, you know, ask me
12:46more questions or anything like that.
12:48And he kind of just said they had found a body out in the field and everything kind of just
12:54went blank.
13:01Detectives learn that Stephen had recently graduated high school and was living at home in order
13:07to save money for a place of his own.
13:11He was a very easygoing person, very loving, you know, he just, he had a very big heart.
13:19I would always tell Stephen and Stephen knew that.
13:21I said, I don't know what I did in my life to deserve someone like you.
13:27I said, God gave me a beautiful gift.
13:31Stephen was a giant goofball.
13:33He always had a smile on his face.
13:35He was just, we were in band together.
13:37We were both playing percussion.
13:39He was definitely talented.
13:41He was like making music.
13:43He was a comedian.
13:45And he was just an all around good guy.
13:50After high school, Stephen attended a vocational institute to pursue mechanics.
13:57But just one year into his training, he suddenly vanished.
14:01When he went missing, I mean, that's when, like, the alarm bell started going off.
14:10Because that's not in his character to disappear like that.
14:14Investigators need to figure out what happened on the last time his mom saw him.
14:20At this point, she is able to let them know that the evening that he left,
14:25he said he was going to go meet up with some friends.
14:34About 1.30, 2 o'clock in the morning, I remember hearing his phone ring,
14:38like when someone's sending you a text message.
14:41And maybe about a couple of minutes later, that's when he went to my door.
14:45And he goes, Mom, he goes, can I go to my friend's house?
14:49He forgot his backpack.
14:50And I was like, no, I said, it's too late already.
14:55I said, can you just wait until the morning?
14:58And he kind of just gave me the look, like, come on, Mom, you know, can I just go?
15:03And I said, I was like, look, I go, just go, do what you, you know,
15:08just drop off the backpack and come back home.
15:11I go, because it's late.
15:13And he goes, okay.
15:13He goes, I'll be back.
15:15You know, and he left.
15:16Later on, I ended up getting a text from him.
15:22And it said, you know, Mom, I'm going to be out a little later.
15:26Then I thought, he was going to turn off my phone.
15:29I love you.
15:36The next morning when I woke up, I looked out the window,
15:39because I, you know, remembered I didn't hear him come home.
15:42So when I woke up, I looked out the window,
15:43and I noticed that his car still wasn't home.
15:45So I started calling him, you know, the phone would just ring,
15:49you know, don't answer.
15:54When investigators ask Kathy for a description of Stephen's car,
15:58they're surprised by her response.
16:01He was driving a orange Mitsubishi Lancer.
16:06Both of our victims actually drove the same type of vehicle.
16:10In Stephen's case, he drove a orange Mitsubishi Lancer.
16:14And we have Xavier Cordero driving a black one.
16:19After speaking with Stephen's mother,
16:22Bexar County investigators put out a bolo for his missing vehicle.
16:26That same day, they received pivotal news
16:29about an armed robbery from San Antonio police.
16:32There was an aggravated robbery case that happened within the city limits.
16:42Our store clerk was shot in the face.
16:44The clerk, thankfully, is just grazed by the bullet,
16:48but the bullet and the shell casing are recovered there.
16:52It was a 25-caliber firearm,
16:55which is the same type of firearm used in both of the murders.
16:59A witness at the store had followed the assailant across the street
17:03and directed police to his location at an apartment.
17:08Police SWAT showed up
17:10and eventually set up an area around the apartment.
17:13After the store got robbed,
17:17I was in Antoinette's apartment.
17:19What, like, led you then to go rob the convenience store?
17:24Antoinette didn't have no more money.
17:25I said, well, what do you want to do?
17:27And, uh, came up with that idea.
17:32I was looking out the blinds.
17:34Next thing I know, I see a couple of cop cars go to the back.
17:36The chief police had told me,
17:39you got to come out or we're going to go in there and get you.
17:42So I was like, all right, I'm going to come out.
17:44Right before I come out, actually,
17:46Antoinette's behind that door.
17:48And right before I step out the door,
17:50she says, Cameo, I love you.
17:51And I look at her and I just walk out.
17:55That was the first time she said that.
17:57I felt like it was insurance, though,
17:59because we were about to get locked up.
18:06In June of 2014,
18:16San Antonio police have taken Cameo Clines into custody
18:20as the suspect in an aggravated robbery of a convenience store.
18:25Cameo's girlfriend, Antoinette Martinez,
18:28is also taken into custody for questioning.
18:32The aggravated robbery happened within city limits,
18:35so at that point,
18:36it was the San Antonio Police Department robbery unit
18:39that is starting that investigation.
18:42They had obtained a search warrant,
18:44and when they are going through Antoinette's apartment,
18:48they start finding things
18:49that are connected to these other two homicides.
18:54They found driver's license in the toilet bowl tank.
18:58One was Xavier Cordero,
19:00and the other one was Stephen Rendon.
19:05And there was an orange Mitsubishi Lancer
19:09parked right in front of the apartment complex.
19:13Stephen's car was right there,
19:16you know, at that apartment.
19:17When Bexar County investigators arrive,
19:20they recover a .25-caliber handgun,
19:23the same type of weapon used
19:25in the convenience store robbery
19:27and in the murders.
19:29We also found some brown packaging tape.
19:33I knew immediately that that was a close resemblance
19:38of the packaging tape that I saw at the crime scene
19:41of Stephen Rendon and also Xavier Cordero.
19:47Authorities immediately book Cameo Clines
19:50and Antoinette Martinez on suspicion of murder.
19:54Cameo is taken to the Bexar County jail,
19:57where he is also arraigned on robbery charges,
20:01while Antoinette is transferred
20:02to the sheriff's office for questioning.
20:06Antoinette starts off just sort of talking.
20:09You get this girl that you think
20:12she's going to be a sweet, innocent girl,
20:15perhaps just a witness who got involved
20:17with a young man who made some bad choices,
20:21and she kind of went along for the ride.
20:26She was my role model.
20:29Growing up, she was super cool.
20:31She was easygoing.
20:33But I also felt bad for Antoinette
20:35because she did go through some hardships.
20:37Her mom passed away.
20:39I mean, it was traumatic.
20:40I know her dad went through some stuff.
20:42At the age of 12,
20:44Antoinette went to live with an aunt.
20:46But despite a difficult childhood,
20:49she appeared to thrive in her teens.
20:53She was really smart,
20:56and I know she did have good grades.
20:58Antoinette was a young woman
20:59who had a lot of promise in her life.
21:03She had finished high school,
21:05had moved out of her home,
21:08so she was on her own.
21:10Antoinette supported herself
21:12by getting a job at a fast food restaurant,
21:14which is where she met Cameo Clines
21:17in the spring of 2014.
21:2220-year-old Cameo Clines
21:24was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.
21:27I grew up in a household of one older sister,
21:32two older brothers.
21:34My household had split apart when I was around 13.
21:37My mom and father had a divorce.
21:40Everybody went their own separate ways.
21:42And I got stuck out on the streets.
21:45The house became more of an in-and-out stop for me.
21:49I didn't feel loved.
21:51Ain't nobody goes searching for me.
21:52Ain't nobody was worried about where Cameo was.
21:55I fell into drugs and whatnot.
21:58And I was in juvenile detention centers
22:01for quite a few years.
22:03I looked for love in the wrong places, you know.
22:06Then I always gravitated to women that liked to party.
22:10But there was a point in my life
22:11that had got me a good woman to be with
22:15and really wanted to start a family.
22:17At 20 years old,
22:23Cameo got a job at a fast-food restaurant
22:26where he met 19-year-old Antoinette Martinez.
22:30She was wild in a good way.
22:32She was very blunt.
22:35She'll speak what's on her mind.
22:37And I see that same quality in me.
22:40We were similar that way.
22:41I didn't do heavy drugs.
22:44But I did smoke marijuana.
22:46And that's one thing I seen that she did on break
22:49and before she leaves and whatnot.
22:51And I think that's what got us to associate more.
22:57And as time went by, you know,
22:59I started having feelings for her.
23:01They then entered into more of an intimate relationship.
23:04It sounds like those two were almost like flames
23:12that connected each other,
23:14where they were able to really see the good in each other
23:18when others may have told them that there was no good.
23:23There was some form of connection
23:26through the lens of trauma.
23:27I felt like meeting Antoinette
23:32just sparked up all the wrong stuff
23:37that I had left alone, you know,
23:39and I didn't even know that it was being awakened.
23:45When investigators confront Antoinette
23:47about the murder of her former fling, Xavier Cordero,
23:51she continues to claim ignorance.
23:54What do you know about what happened to Xavier?
23:59He never showed up to my apartment.
24:02When investigators present Antoinette
24:04with the mounting physical evidence
24:06found at her apartment, she begins to break.
24:10What is it that y'all had planned
24:11you and Camille at that time?
24:13I'm like logging.
24:16This is all the rent money.
24:17Rent money?
24:19She had told me she had lost the rent money.
24:21She didn't know who took it,
24:23and we were searching for it,
24:24and she never found it.
24:26It was possible she was going to lose her apartment,
24:28and that's where she needed money.
24:32Cameo and Antoinette developed a plan
24:34to lure people over to their apartment
24:37and rob them at gunpoint.
24:39I thought we were just going to drop a monster
24:41and just have them walk back home or something.
24:47She's trying to put the responsibility on Cameo.
24:50She wanted us to believe
24:53that she didn't ever know
24:55that anybody was going to be killed.
24:58She wanted herself to sound like
25:01she was less responsible in the involvement.
25:04It was a mutual agreement,
25:05but it was not my plan.
25:07In Bexar County, Texas,
25:21investigators are questioning Antoinette Martinez
25:24about the murder of her former lover,
25:27Xavier Cordero.
25:29She claims that she and her new boyfriend,
25:32Cameo Clines,
25:33came up with a plan to get some easy cash.
25:36The first person that gets lured over
25:40is Xavier Cordero.
25:43Antoinette does comment that she knew
25:46that he generally had cash on him,
25:49and, of course, that's something
25:51that they're looking for.
25:52She also knew that he had a car,
25:54which is the other thing that they were looking for.
25:57So once she gets him over to the apartment,
25:59we have Cameo, who's hiding,
26:02and she is trying to get Xavier comfortable.
26:11Cameo came out with a gun,
26:14get on the ground,
26:14didn't get on the ground,
26:15didn't take him,
26:16he still didn't move,
26:17hit him with a gun in his nose,
26:19that's where he was bleeding.
26:20He got blood on my carpet,
26:22that's when I got mad.
26:23I was like, what the hell,
26:25you got blood on my carpet,
26:26but now it's personal between me and you.
26:28She kind of makes all of these admissions.
26:31All at the same time,
26:32she doesn't appear to be remorseful.
26:37They tied him up,
26:38they walked him to his vehicle,
26:39which was parked outside.
26:41They had him get in the trunk of that car,
26:43and they drove him up to a rural field.
26:45Antoinette claims she stayed in the car
26:53while Cameo dragged Xavier out of the trunk.
26:56She says the plan had only been to rob Xavier,
27:00so she expected Cameo to let him go
27:02after taking his wallet.
27:05But she was surprised by what she heard next.
27:08So, you're driving back.
27:35What happens?
27:36What are you talking about?
27:37Antoinette admits that she and Cameo
27:49continued driving Xavier's car
27:51for the next 24 hours,
27:53until authorities brought her in
27:56for questioning the first time.
27:58I think the fact that once Antoinette
28:02had, you know, talked to police
28:04and she was allowed to leave,
28:06she didn't get that feeling
28:09that she was going to be a suspect,
28:11which then, I think,
28:12also kind of gave her that feeling of power
28:15that she was going to be able
28:17to get away with this.
28:19And while that investigation was going on,
28:22Antoinette and Cameo
28:23were continuing to plan additional crimes.
28:26June 25th, the same type of event took place.
28:32This time, it involved a stranger,
28:34and that stranger was Stephen Rendon.
28:37Antoinette, I think,
29:07Steven Redone doesn't know that he's coming over
29:09for a possible sexual encounter with Antoinette Martinez.
29:13She tells me that as soon as he walks into the door,
29:17she tells him that, hey, this is a kind of a kinky thing.
29:22Let me tie you up with this tape.
29:26He agrees with it.
29:27He goes along with it.
29:28And Antoinette Martinez then goes and uses
29:30that brown packaging tape and tapes his arms, his hands,
29:36and his legs.
29:38That's when Cameo comes out.
29:40And then he starts holding the gun to Steven Redone's head.
29:48They were able to walk Steven Redone down the stairs
29:52and actually get him into the car and drive him out
29:54into the area where he was shot and killed.
29:58As soon as Steven Redone walks into the field,
30:02that's when Cameo Clines pulls the trigger.
30:06Mr. Redone, when he was robbed, didn't have a lot of cash on him.
30:13So Cameo decided to commit a separate aggravated robbery.
30:21Down the hall, investigators bring Cameo Clines
30:24into another interrogation room.
30:27Mr. Clines was denying everything.
30:29He's basically saying that he wasn't involved in anything,
30:32uh, in regards to a homicide.
30:34We talked to Antoinette Martinez, and she agreed to try to convince
30:39Cameo Clines to confess.
30:41She wants to be alone with him, so we can step out for a minute.
30:46Right.
30:47I'm probably just going to get you under the bus.
30:50You throwing me under the bus?
30:52Huh?
30:53No, it's not cool.
30:54I don't know how you're going to throw me under the bus.
30:57Be honest with you.
30:58Throw me under the bus.
31:00Go over it.
31:02Try it.
31:04Okay.
31:05Her saying that, it really opened my eyes.
31:10Antoinette was not the person I thought she was.
31:15We stopped that interview.
31:16I escorted Antoinette Martinez out.
31:24As I'm coming back into the room thinking that I was going to interview Cameo again about,
31:30you know, what was going on, I noticed that he was crying on the floor.
31:33At this time when I was in the interview room, the weight of what happened was fully on me.
31:40I was thinking about everything that had just happened the weeks before, a month before,
31:46whatnot, and I couldn't bear it anymore, you know.
31:49I felt a lot of remorse, you know, and it's just like everything was playing in my mind.
31:56When you go through situations, and people ask you questions, you know, about it, you got
32:02a lot of them to choose.
32:03On June 30th, 2014, investigators are questioning Cameo Clines about his role in the murders of
32:23Xavier Cordero and Steven Rendon after Cameo's girlfriend Antoinette Martinez claimed he shot
32:30and killed both men.
32:33I only knew Antoinette a couple of months before this happened.
32:36I was naive at that time and, you know, I went along with things because I just wanted to satisfy her.
32:42For what reason did y'all do this to Xavier?
32:49Mm-hmm.
32:50So she persuaded you to do this?
32:52Yes, sir.
32:53She didn't like how he treated her.
32:56I didn't know Xavier, Antoinette didn't.
32:58She had opened up to me and said that they had a relationship and that they used to love
33:02each other and that he broke her heart and this and that.
33:05So who is the one that shoots him?
33:08Both of y'all shoot him?
33:13Mm-hmm.
33:14I felt like that after what happened to Xavier that she felt emboldened since she didn't get caught.
33:23Tell me why, Steven.
33:26You're trying to make money?
33:27Okay.
33:28Mm-hmm.
33:29Easy victim.
33:30She wanted money for rent.
33:32I was just really satisfying her needs, number one, to keep that sense of her wanting my presence.
33:46And that's kind of a theme that just sort of recurs through all of this.
33:50It's Antoinette needs money, Antoinette needs a car.
33:53And so you have Cameo who is trying to help her.
33:59They could have done that by getting second jobs, but that's not the route that they took.
34:04They decided to go for easy money.
34:06I believe that they were on like this ride of trying to get money and driving with no brakes on.
34:20I think that she had heard of this, you know, couple Bonnie and Clyde.
34:27She knew what they were about.
34:30And she aspired to be them.
34:33They wanted that lifestyle.
34:35They wanted the money.
34:36And she found her Clyde in Cameo.
34:39Bonnie and Clyde went on a roll of murders, I believe.
34:44And I would never say that about us because I would never want to be remembered as that.
34:52Because that wasn't me.
34:54I believe that the relationship that they had together was a perfect storm, meaning that he was psychologically immature, infatuated with her, and that she could manipulate him.
35:15Following his confession, Bexar County authorities charge both Cameo Clines and Antoinette Martinez with two counts of capital murder.
35:26It was hard.
35:28It was hard for the judge to say that you're charged with capital murder.
35:35Yes, it was very heavy.
35:36Authorities continue to build their case against the couple.
35:41It was determined that that same .25 caliber firearm used in the robbery was also used to kill both Xavier Cordero and Steven Rendon.
35:54With a mountain of evidence against the couple, attorneys for Cameo Clines approach the prosecution about a plea bargain.
36:02And on January 12, 2016, Cameo pleads guilty to two counts of murder.
36:10Mr. Clines pled to two concurrent life sentences for murder.
36:16And then stacked on top of that was the 20 years for the aggravated assault against the storekeeper.
36:23I chose to take a plea deal because I wanted everything to be over with already.
36:29And, you know, I was not, how could you fight the truth?
36:35I felt just, I felt so guilty and bad about everything that I knew I deserved the prison sentence.
36:43I knew I deserved to be away from my involvement.
36:46Anbanes on them.
36:47Uh-huh.
36:50Ananet, however, decides to take her case to trial.
36:52In 2017, more than a year after Cameo pled guilty to murder, Ancanet pleads not guilty.
37:03On September 12th, her case goes to trial.
37:04trial. She argued that this was duress and coercion from Cameo. Cameo came down and testified
37:12for her. And in that testimony, he basically said that he was the mastermind, that he was
37:19the reason. When you really kind of look at why these offenses happen, you see that it's
37:28not really Cameo as the reason, it's Antoinette. But as a prosecutor and a trial attorney, you
37:35realize that sometimes you can have the world's best case and you lose.
37:39In September 2017, Cameo Clines testifies on behalf of Antoinette Martinez, claiming that
38:00he was the mastermind behind the murders of Xavier Cordero and Steven Rendon. But prosecutors
38:08make the opposite argument.
38:13A lot of times we look at young women and we automatically assume or think that it was going
38:20to be a man that led them astray. And in this case, Antoinette was the one that set up both
38:27of the young men. She's the one that got them to come to her apartment.
38:33In the end, the jury sides with the prosecution.
38:36Antoinette was found guilty of capital motor.
38:40The only time that we saw Antoinette Martinez show any emotion is after she was found guilty.
38:49And there were definitely tears for herself. She was sentenced to life without the possibility
38:56of parole. So unless laws change in the future, she will die in prison.
39:05Now, nine years into his own prison sentence, Cameo Clines says that Antoinette manipulated him
39:12to take the fall. I was still naive and I was still trying to protect her.
39:19When there are couples, a male will oftentimes try to do the noble, although it's a displaced
39:26nobility, to take the rap for the female that they feel that they have to protect.
39:33I think I was under her spell. And she knew that if I could speak to Antoinette, I would
39:39say, with all grace, I forgive you because I want to be forgiven.
39:43In my communication with Antoinette, it was a lot of not wanting to look at the crime, own
40:02the crime, which I found it hard to process myself because you've been in these number of
40:09years already. So how do you not take ownership of that? But Cameo has expressed a very deep
40:19remorse. He's tried every day to work toward becoming a better person.
40:26I'm sorry, you know, and, uh, ain't nothing I do or say can, uh, ever aid the wounds that,
40:38uh, I inflicted on him and my involvement. But I will say that to please forgive me,
40:44you know, forgiveness is, forgiveness is freedom.
40:52I'd always be ashamed of what I was involved with, always, until, until my last breath. But,
40:57uh, one thing I keep in the forefront of my mind is just to be, be, be a good person and a better
41:02person I was back then. Our system is set up in a way that there are certain people that can ask,
41:11um, for forgiveness and seek some sort of redemption. And eventually the parole board is
41:17going to give that opportunity to Cameo to ask for redemption in the hopes that he might be released.
41:23Personally, I wouldn't say that he's remorseful, except for maybe feeling sorry for himself. So I
41:32don't believe that he should be released. And I really hope that the families attend parole hearings
41:38and let them know how they're still affected every day by what he and Antoinette did.
41:48I think it's a waste of resources to keep them alive. You know what's right and you know what is wrong.
41:56They've done bad things, but they are not bad people. That's just how I feel. Cameo was a broken ship,
42:05but I believe in rebuilding broken ships so they can save them again.
42:11I have a hope of being outside these walls one day and, and helping the youth not go down the same
42:17path that I went down when I was younger.
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