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Snapped: Behind Bars - Season 3 Episode 5 -
Cameo Clines
Cameo Clines
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00:00Cameo Clines, whose toxic romance led to a string of violent crimes.
00:07They were both young Hispanic males.
00:09They were found within three miles of each other.
00:11They were shot both execution style.
00:14What is it that y'all had planned for you and Cameo at that time?
00:18I almost loved him from the young women.
00:21We look at young women and we automatically assume or think
00:26that it was going to be a man that led them astray.
00:29And in this case, she is the one that set up both of the young men.
00:34Now serving two consecutive life sentences in the Texas Department of Corrections,
00:39Cameo Clines, Antoinette's partner in crime, speaks out for the first time,
00:45hopeful for a chance at redemption.
00:48I feel like meeting Antoinette just sparked up all the wrong stuff that I had left alone.
00:56I think I was under her spell, and she knew that.
01:01She had heard of this, you know, couple Bonnie and Clyde, and she found her Clyde in Cameo.
01:08Eventually, the parole board is going to give that opportunity to Cameo to ask for redemption
01:13in the hopes that he might be released.
01:15Personally, I don't believe that he should be released.
01:19I'm sorry.
01:20Ain't nothing I do or say can ever aid the wounds that I inflicted on him.
01:27But I will say that to please forgive me, you know, forgiveness is, forgiveness is freedom.
01:32My name is Cameo Clines, and I agree for this interview because I don't agree with people
01:56thinking that one mistake should define your whole life.
02:01Whether I was being naive at the time or not, you know, I take responsibility for my involvement
02:07in it.
02:08But I feel like Antoinette took advantage of me.
02:11I wouldn't call it love.
02:12I felt like I was baited in.
02:15She unconsciously baited me in, and that's how I got glued to her.
02:18I didn't think she could ever do something bad or wrap my mind around that, but now I
02:25can see it's very possible.
02:30June 18, 2014.
02:34At 6.30 a.m., a rancher in Bexar County, Texas, is checking on his livestock after he and his
02:41wife had noticed some suspicious activity on their land the night prior.
02:45That morning, the rancher and his wife were awoken by some loud noises.
02:53They believed it may have been gunshots.
02:55They weren't sure, but the gentleman did go out, and he discovered the body of a young
02:59man deceased by one of the fence lines of his property.
03:04When the sheriff's department made the scene, they did observe a young man with multiple
03:10gunshots to his body, one in the torso and one in the neck area.
03:18They are also able to determine that this person was bound by some brown packing tape.
03:25And they started looking for shell casings and other items of evidence, which they did
03:32find some located not far from the body.
03:36They discovered some carpet that appeared to come from inside of a trunk.
03:42They also discovered other things that would normally be kept in a trunk, such as a car jack.
03:51Based on the evidence, detectives theorized that the victim had been transported to the location
03:57in the trunk of a vehicle before trying to flee his captor.
04:02At the time they were not able to identify the victim, there wasn't any identification found
04:08on or near the body.
04:10About a day after the body was found, they were able to then work with the medical examiner's
04:17office to ID the body using fingerprints.
04:21He was a young man by the name of Xavier Cordero.
04:27Police notify Xavier's family of the devastating news.
04:33We give them time, you know, to process the whole situation.
04:37And then our next step after that is to try to get as much information from them that's
04:41going to assist us in trying to locate who was responsible for the death of their son.
04:47We do ask them if there's anything that's missing, either cell phones or vehicles, anything,
04:52you know, that their son might have had that we are not aware of.
04:56Mr. Cordero had a black Mitsubishi Lancer, which was a little bit of his pride and joy.
05:04He really loved his car.
05:06But his vehicle is no longer at his home and the family doesn't know where it is.
05:13Our first step was to put a BOLO out for any law enforcement agency, if they locate that
05:23vehicle, to contact me.
05:25Xavier's mom had access to his cell phone plan.
05:29And so she was able to give a printout of who he was speaking to.
05:34His mother prints out a phone log for them.
05:37And they find that his last phone activity was about 2.20 in the morning on June 18th.
05:43I just called the number of female answers.
05:45I asked her for her name.
05:47At that time, she does identify herself as Antoinette Martinez, a young San Antonio woman.
05:54They asked her to come down for an interview, which she did do.
05:58When investigators are talking to Antoinette, she does give a little bit of a history of
06:06her friendship with Xavier.
06:08She does say that they had a sexual relationship, but she hadn't seen them in about three months.
06:14She does indicate that that relationship was fairly short-lived and ended when she started
06:20a relationship with a young man, Camille Clines.
06:23Detectives inform Antoinette that Xavier has been killed.
06:31She does appear to be very shocked and sad that something happened to Xavier.
06:38She does talk about Xavier did reach out to her the night prior, according to her.
06:44And they were supposed to see each other, but he never showed up to her apartment.
06:48She said she has no idea what could have happened to him after they got off of the phone.
06:57Investigators asked her if she had anything to do with the offense, and she said no.
07:02At this point, she is still a witness that needs to be talked to if there is any additional
07:09evidence that kind of comes up, because she is one of the last people to talk to Xavier.
07:13But she isn't arrested.
07:16She is allowed to leave while they still continue to conduct their investigation.
07:25At the time, Antoinette called, and she told me the police had contacted her.
07:30She was telling me that they were questioning her.
07:32I started feeling scared and worried because I was driving Xavier's car.
07:37And she told me to ditch the car, so I go, ditch the car, and she tells me where to ditch
07:44that, and after that, she comes and picks me up in a family member's car, and we went to
07:52her apartment.
07:53At this point, Xavier's vehicle had been missing for a few days, and that alert had been made
08:01into the system, and a police officer doing a standard patrol did come upon a vehicle that
08:08was abandoned, and when he ran the plate, it did come back to Xavier Cordero as being the
08:15owner of the vehicle.
08:19We started processing the vehicle, doing fingerprints and taking photos, processing it to see if we
08:27get any possible detection of any blood.
08:30In this case, we did.
08:32Towards the trunk area of the vehicle, we did get some reaction for blood that was recovered,
08:37and eventually sent to the medical examiner's office for testing.
08:41They were also able to determine that the trunk liner of the vehicle was no longer in it.
08:46When you think about the original scene and there being a trunk liner found, you're able to then
08:52kind of look back and connect that to the vehicle.
08:5710 days pass without any other leads.
09:04Then, on June 30th, investigators get word of another gruesome discovery.
09:10While police are still investigating the murder of Xavier Cordero, another body is found out
09:17in a cornfield in South Bear County.
09:20This person is shot in the head with a small caliber handgun.
09:24When I arrived to the scene, I noticed that he was moderately decomposed.
09:30There was no identifying kind of features to his face or anything like that.
09:35At the same time I'm at the crime scene, I'm getting information from SAPD that they had
09:40been working a missing person case by the name of Stephen Rendon.
09:45So, as they are giving me descriptions of what he was last seen alive in, I'm actually looking at his body at the crime scene and it's matching up to what he was last seen wearing.
09:56At that point, we knew we had a tentative identification on Stephen Rendon.
10:01They are also able to determine that this person was bound by some brown packing tape, which was also something discovered at the Xavier Cordero body dump site.
10:15Investigators realize it's not the only similarity between the two murderers.
10:25They were both young Hispanic males.
10:28They were found within three miles of each other, dumped in a rural, kind of a remote area in Bear County.
10:34Ballistics evidence later indicated that the bullets that were found both in Xavier's body and in Stephen's body were from the .25 caliber firearm, which is not a common gun.
10:49Everything's similar.
10:51And we're over here like, oh, my God, you know, we might have some kind of serial killer here.
10:59Were you worried at all? Police were on to you?
11:01You always have the fear of getting caught.
11:04But at that time, I was more involved of how I felt towards Antoinette and not felt of what I was involved with.
11:12How did Antoinette seem? Did she seem worried?
11:15She just stayed more close to me for the sake of security or just the sake of if we get if I get caught, we get caught.
11:25Coming up, as police race to find a connection between the two victims,
11:31the clues lead them to uncover a toxic romance.
11:36She was wild in a good way, but I was naive at that time.
11:41The relationship that they had together was a perfect storm.
11:45In June 2014, detectives in rural Bexar County, Texas, are investigating two brutal homicides that appear to be connected.
12:07We're talking about bodies that are found in very close proximity, time-wise.
12:13They are both found in a remote area.
12:16We're looking at two young men who have been shot.
12:19Authorities discover that 19-year-old Stephen Rendon had been reported missing by his mother four days earlier.
12:27Now that we have a potential ID of Stephen Rendon, police do go out and speak with his mother.
12:35Two gentlemen from the Bexar County Sheriff came in.
12:38I thought maybe they were going to be there to kind of talk to me, you know, ask me more questions or anything like that.
12:43And he kind of just said they had found a body out in the field.
12:47And everything kind of just went blank.
12:56Detectives learn that Stephen had recently graduated high school and was living at home in order to save money for a place of his own.
13:06He was a very easygoing person.
13:09Very loving, you know, he just, he had a very big heart.
13:14I would always tell Stephen, and Stephen knew that.
13:16I said, I don't know what I did in my life to deserve someone like you.
13:22I said, God gave me a beautiful gift.
13:26Stephen was a giant goofball.
13:28He always had a smile on his face.
13:30We were in band together.
13:32We both were playing percussion.
13:34He was definitely talented.
13:36He was like making music.
13:38He was a comedian.
13:40And he was just an all-around good guy.
13:43After high school, Stephen attended a vocational institute to pursue mechanics.
13:52But just one year into his training, he suddenly vanished.
13:56When he went missing, I mean, that's when, like, the alarm bells started going off.
14:05Because it's not in his character to disappear like that.
14:09Investigators need to figure out what happened on the last time his mom saw him.
14:15At this point, she is able to let them know that the evening that he left, he said he was going to go meet up with some friends.
14:23About 1.30, 2 o'clock in the morning, I remember hearing his phone ring, like when someone's sending you a text message.
14:36And maybe about a couple of minutes later, that's when he went to my door.
14:40And he goes, Mom, he goes, can I go to my friend's house?
14:44He forgot his backpack.
14:45And I was like, no, I said, it's too late already.
14:50I said, can you just wait until the morning?
14:53And he kind of just gave me the look, like, you know, like, come on, Mom, you know, can I just go?
14:58And I said, I was like, look, I go, just go, do what you, you know, just drop off the backpack and come back home.
15:06I go, because it's late.
15:07And he goes, okay.
15:09He goes, I'll be back.
15:10You know, and he left.
15:11Later on, I ended up getting a text from him.
15:17And it said, you know, Mom, I'm going to be out a little later.
15:21Then I thought, he was going to turn off my phone.
15:24I love you.
15:31The next morning when I woke up, I looked out the window, because I, you know, remembered I didn't hear him come home.
15:37So when I woke up, I looked out the window, and I noticed that his car still wasn't home.
15:40So I started calling him, you know, the phone would just ring, you know, don't answer.
15:49When investigators ask Kathy for a description of Stephen's car, they're surprised by her response.
15:57He was driving a orange Mitsubishi Lancer.
16:00Both of our victims actually drove the same type of vehicle.
16:05In Stephen's case, he drove a orange Mitsubishi Lancer.
16:10And we have Xavier Cordero driving a black one.
16:14After speaking with Stephen's mother,
16:17Bexar County investigators put out a bolo for his missing vehicle.
16:20That same day, they received pivotal news about an armed robbery from San Antonio police.
16:28There was an aggravated robbery case that happened within the city limits.
16:37A store clerk was shot in the face.
16:39The clerk, thankfully, is just grazed by the bullet, but the bullet and the shell casing are recovered there.
16:47It was a .25 caliber firearm, which is the same type of firearm used in both of the murders.
16:54A witness at the store had followed the assailant across the street and directed police to his location at an apartment.
17:03Police SWAT showed up and eventually set up an area around the apartment.
17:08After the store got robbed, I was in Antoinette's apartment.
17:14What, like, led you then to go rob the convenience store?
17:19Antoinette didn't have no more money.
17:21I said, well, what do you want to do?
17:22And, uh, came up with that idea.
17:27I was looking out the blinds.
17:29Next thing I know, I see a couple of cop cars go to the back.
17:33The chief police had told me, you got to come out or we're going to go in there and get you.
17:37So I was like, all right, I'm going to come out.
17:39Right before I come out, actually, Antoinette's behind the door.
17:43And right before I step out the door, she says, Cameo, I love you.
17:46And I look at her and I just walk out.
17:50That was the first time she said that.
17:52I felt like it was insurance, though, because we were about to get locked up.
18:08In June of 2014, San Antonio police have taken Cameo Clines into custody as the suspect in an aggravated robbery of a convenience store.
18:20Cameo's girlfriend, Antoinette Martinez, is also taken into custody for questioning.
18:26The aggravated robbery happened within city limits.
18:30So at that point, it was the San Antonio police department robbery unit that is starting that investigation.
18:37They had obtained a search warrant.
18:39And when they are going through Antoinette's apartment, they start finding things that are connected to these other two homicides.
18:48They found driver's license in the toilet bowl tank.
18:53One was Xavier Cordero and the other one was Stephen Rendon.
18:57And there was an orange Mitsubishi Lancer parked right in front of the apartment complex.
19:08Stephen's car was right there, you know, at that apartment.
19:12When Bexar County investigators arrive, they recover a .25 caliber handgun,
19:19the same type of weapon used in the convenience store robbery and in the murders.
19:24We also found some brown packaging tape.
19:28I knew immediately that that was a close resemblance of the packaging tape that I saw at the crime scene of Stephen Rendon and also Xavier Cordero.
19:42Authorities immediately book Cameo Clines and Antoinette Martinez on suspicion of murder.
19:49Cameo is taken to the Bexar County jail, where he is also arraigned on robbery charges,
19:56while Antoinette is transferred to the sheriff's office for questioning.
20:00And Antoinette starts off just sort of talking.
20:05You get this girl that you think she's going to be a sweet, innocent girl,
20:10perhaps just a witness who got involved with a young man who made some bad choices and she kind of went along for the ride.
20:22She was my role model growing up.
20:25She was super cool.
20:26She was easygoing.
20:28But I also felt bad for Antoinette because she did go through some hardships.
20:33Her mom passed away.
20:34I mean, it was traumatic.
20:35I know her dad went through some stuff.
20:36At the age of 12, Antoinette went to live with an aunt.
20:42But despite a difficult childhood, she appeared to thrive in her teens.
20:48She was really smart.
20:51And I know she did have good grades.
20:53Antoinette was a young woman who had a lot of promise in her life.
20:58She had finished high school, had moved out of her home.
21:03So she was on her own.
21:04Antoinette supported herself by getting a job at a fast food restaurant,
21:10which is where she met Cameo Clines in the spring of 2014.
21:1720-year-old Cameo Clines was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas.
21:22I grew up in a household of one older sister, two older brothers.
21:29My household had split apart when I was around 13.
21:32My mom and father had a divorce.
21:35Everybody went their own separate ways.
21:37And I got stuck out on the streets.
21:40The house became more of an in-and-out stop for me.
21:44I didn't feel loved.
21:46Ain't nobody go searching for me.
21:47Ain't nobody was worried about where Cameo was.
21:50I fell into drugs and whatnot.
21:53And I was in juvenile detention centers for quite a few years.
21:58I looked for love in the wrong places, you know.
22:01Then I always gravitated to women that liked to party.
22:05But that was a point in my life that had got me a good woman to be with.
22:10I really wanted to start a family.
22:12At 20 years old, Cameo got a job at a fast food restaurant where he met 19-year-old Antoinette Martinez.
22:24She was wild in a good way.
22:28She was very blunt.
22:30She'll speak what's on her mind.
22:32And I see that same quality in me.
22:35We were similar that way.
22:37I didn't do heavy drugs.
22:38But I did smoke marijuana.
22:41And that's one thing I seen that she did on break and before she leaves and whatnot.
22:46And I think that's what got us to associate more.
22:52And as time went by, you know, I started having feelings for her.
22:55They then entered into more of an intimate relationship.
23:03It sounds like those two were almost like flames that connected each other,
23:09where they were able to really see the good in each other
23:13when others may have told them that there was no good.
23:18There was some form of connection through the lens of trauma.
23:22I felt like meeting Antoinette just sparked up all the wrong stuff that I had left alone,
23:33you know, and I didn't even know that it was being awakened.
23:40When investigators confront Antoinette about the murder of her former fling,
23:45Xavier Cordero, she continues to claim ignorance.
23:49What do you know about what happened to Xavier?
23:54He never showed up to my parents.
23:57When investigators present Antoinette with the mounting physical evidence
24:01found at her apartment, she begins to break.
24:05What is it that y'all had planned for you and Camille at that time?
24:09I'm like vlogging.
24:11This is all for rent money.
24:12Rent money?
24:13She had told me she had lost her rent money.
24:16She didn't know who took it and we're searching for it and she never found it.
24:21It was possible she was going to lose her apartment and that's where she needed money.
24:27Cameo and Antoinette developed a plan to lure people over to their apartment and rob them at gunpoint.
24:34I thought we were just going to drop the most of it and just have them walk back home or something.
24:42She's trying to put the responsibility on Cameo.
24:46She wanted us to believe that she didn't ever know that anybody was going to be killed.
24:53She wanted herself to sound like she was less responsible in the involvement.
24:59It was a mutual agreement, but it was not my plan.
25:02In Bexar County, Texas, investigators are questioning Antoinette Martinez
25:19about the murder of her former lover, Xavier Cordero.
25:24She claims that she and her new boyfriend, Cameo Clines, came up with a plan to get some easy cash.
25:32The first person that gets lured over is Xavier Cordero.
25:38Antoinette does comment that she knew that he generally had cash on him.
25:44And of course, that's something that they're looking for.
25:47She also knew that he had a car, which is the other thing that they were looking for.
25:51So once she gets him over to the apartment, we have Cameo, who's hiding.
25:58And she is trying to get Xavier comfortable.
26:03She kind of makes all of these admissions all at the same time.
26:27She doesn't appear to be remorseful.
26:32They tied him up.
26:33They walked him to his vehicle, which was parked outside.
26:36They had him get in the trunk of that car, and they drove him up to a rural field.
26:40Antoinette claims she stayed in the car while Cameo dragged Xavier out of the trunk.
26:51She says the plan had only been to rob Xavier, so she expected Cameo to let him go after taking his wallet.
27:00But she was surprised by what she heard next.
27:04I think he was stuck with me, and he got back to go make checks.
27:13Shot him.
27:15He did.
27:16The wallet itself, did you get any money from the wallet?
27:21I don't know.
27:22The wallet that he had money, so how much money did he have?
27:25I noticed when the $125,000 and $250,000.
27:29So you're driving back.
27:30What happens?
27:31What are you talking about?
27:32I don't know.
27:33I don't know.
27:33Huh?
27:34It's like a bonnet type.
27:36It's a bonnet type.
27:36I don't know.
27:41Antoinette admits that she and Cameo continued driving Xavier's car for the next 24 hours,
27:48until authorities brought her in for questioning the first time.
27:53I think the fact that once Antoinette had, you know, talked to police and she was allowed to leave,
28:01she didn't get that feeling that she was going to be a suspect, which then I think also kind of gave her that feeling of power that she was going to be able to get away with this.
28:13And while that investigation was going on, Antoinette and Cameo were continuing to plan additional crimes.
28:23June 25th, the same type of event took place.
28:27This time it involved a stranger, and that stranger was Stephen Rendon.
28:32Her whole plan was to rob him.
29:01Of course, Stephen Rendon doesn't know that he's coming over for a possible sexual encounter with Antoinette Martinez.
29:07She tells me that as soon as he walks into the door, she tells him that, hey, this is a kind of a kinky thing.
29:17Let me tie you up with this tape.
29:19He agrees with it, he goes along with it, and Antoinette Martinez then goes and uses that brown packaging tape and tapes his arms, his hands, and his legs.
29:32That's when Cameo comes out, and then he starts holding the gun to Stephen Rendon's head.
29:42They were able to walk Stephen Rendon down the stairs and actually get him into the car and drive him out into the area where he was shot and killed.
29:52As soon as Stephen Rendon walks into the field, that's when Cameo Clines pulled the trigger.
30:04Mr. Rendon, when he was robbed, didn't have a lot of cash on him.
30:09So Cameo decided to commit a separate aggravated robbery.
30:12Down the hall, investigators bring Cameo Clines into another interrogation room.
30:22Mr. Clines was denying everything.
30:24He's basically saying that he wasn't involved in anything in regards to a homicide.
30:29We talked to Antoinette Martinez, and she agreed to try to convince Cameo Clines to confess.
30:37She wants to be alone with him, so if we can step out for a minute.
30:42All right, I'm probably just going to get you under the bus.
30:46You throwing me under the bus?
30:48Huh?
30:49No, it's not cool.
30:51I don't know how you're going to dump me under the bus.
30:53Be honest with you.
30:55Dump me under the bus.
30:58Go for it.
31:00Okay.
31:01Her saying that, it really opened my eyes.
31:05Antoinette was not the person I thought she was.
31:09We stopped that interview.
31:11I escorted Antoinette Martinez out.
31:19As I'm coming back into the room, thinking that I was going to interview Cameo again about, you know, what was going on, I noticed that he was crying on the floor.
31:28At this time, when I was in an interview room, the weight of what happened was fully on me.
31:35I was thinking about everything that had just happened the weeks before, a month before, whatnot, and I couldn't bear it anymore, you know.
31:44I felt a lot of remorse, you know, and it's just like everything was playing in my mind.
31:50And when you go through situations and people ask you questions, you know, about it, you've got to tell them the truth.
31:58On June 30th, 2014, investigators are questioning Cameo Clines about his role in the murders of Xavier Cordero and Stephen Rendon.
32:21After Cameo's girlfriend, Antoinette Martinez, claimed he shot and killed both men.
32:27I only knew Antoinette a couple of months before this happened.
32:31I was naive at that time, and, you know, I went along with things because I just wanted to satisfy her.
32:38For what reason did y'all do this to Xavier?
32:42It's not me that he persuaded.
32:44Mm-hmm.
32:45So she persuaded you to do this?
32:48Yes, sir.
32:48She didn't like how she treated her.
32:51I didn't know Xavier.
32:53Antoinette didn't.
32:54She had opened up to me and said that they had a relationship and that they used to love each other and that he broke her heart and this and that.
33:01So who's the one that shoots him?
33:04He's both right, I have to.
33:08Both of y'all shoot him?
33:09Mm-hmm.
33:12I felt like that after what happened to Xavier that she felt emboldened since she didn't get caught.
33:19Tell me why.
33:21I'm trying to make money.
33:23Okay.
33:24Mm-hmm.
33:24Easy victim.
33:26She wanted money for rent.
33:27I was just really satisfying her needs, number one, to keep that sense of her wanting my presence.
33:41That's kind of a theme that just sort of recurs through all of this.
33:45It's Antoinette needs money, Antoinette needs a car.
33:48And so you have Cameo who is trying to help her.
33:54They could have done that by getting second jobs, but that's not the route that they took.
33:59They decided to go for easy money.
34:01I believe that they were on like this ride of trying to get money and driving with no brakes on.
34:15I think that she had heard of this couple, Bonnie and Clyde, she knew what they were about, and she aspired to be them.
34:27They wanted that lifestyle.
34:29They wanted the money, and she found her Clyde in Cameo.
34:34Bonnie and Clyde went on a roll of murders, I believe.
34:39And I would never say that about us because I would never want to be remembered as that, because that wasn't me.
34:48I 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.
35:07Following his confession, Bexar County authorities charged both Cameo Clines and Antoinette Martinez with two counts of capital murder.
35:22It was hard.
35:23It was hard for the judge to say that you're charged with capital murder.
35:30Yes, it was very heavy.
35:32Authorities continue to build their case against the couple.
35:36It was determined that that same .25 caliber firearm used in the robbery was also used to kill both Xavier Cordero and Steven Rendon.
35:49With a mountain of evidence against the couple, attorneys for Cameo Clines approach the prosecution about a plea bargain.
35:57And on January 12, 2016, Cameo pleads guilty to two counts of murder.
36:04Mr. Clines pled to two concurrent life sentences for murder, and then stacked on top of that was the 20 years for the aggravated assault against the storekeeper.
36:19I chose to take a plea deal because I wanted everything to be over with already, and, you know, I was not, how could you fight the truth?
36:30I felt just, I felt so guilty and bad about everything that I knew I deserved the prison sentence.
36:39I knew I deserved to be away from my involvement.
36:41Antoinette, however, decides to take her case to trial.
36:46In 2017, more than a year after Cameo pled guilty to murder, Antoinette pleads not guilty.
36:56On September 12, her case goes to trial.
36:59She argued that this was duress and coercion from Cameo cameo cameo cameo cameo cameo cameo cameo cameo and testified for her, and in that testimony, he basically said that he was the mastermind, that he was the reason.
37:14When you really kind of look at why these offenses happen, you see that it's not really cameo as the reason, it's Antoinette, but as a prosecutor and a trial attorney, you realize that sometimes you can have the world's best case and you lose.
37:33In September 2017, Cameo Clines testifies on behalf of Antoinette Martinez, claiming that he was the mastermind behind the murders of Xavier Cordero and Steven Rendon.
38:00But prosecutors make the opposite argument.
38:07A lot of times we look at young women and we automatically assume or think that it was going to be a man that led them astray.
38:16And in this case, Antoinette was the one that set up both of the young men.
38:21She's the one that got them to come to her apartment.
38:25In the end, the jury sides with the prosecution.
38:30Antoinette was found guilty of capital motor.
38:34The only time that we saw Antoinette Martinez show any emotion is after she was found guilty.
38:42And there were definitely tears for herself.
38:47She was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
38:52So unless laws change in the future, she will die in prison.
38:56Now, nine years into his own prison sentence, Cameo Clines says that Antoinette manipulated him to take the fall.
39:09I was still naive and I was still trying to protect her.
39:14When there are couples, a male will oftentimes try to do the noble, although it's a displaced nobility, to take the rap for the female that they feel that they have to protect.
39:28I think I was under her spell and she knew that if I could speak to Antoinette, I would say, with all grace, I forgive you because I want to be forgiven.
39:39In my communication with Antoinette, it was a lot of not wanting to look at the crime, own the crime, which I found it hard to process myself because you've been in these number of years already.
40:05So how do you not take ownership of that?
40:09But Cameo has expressed a very deep remorse.
40:15He's tried every day to work toward becoming a better person.
40:21I'm sorry, you know, and ain't nothing I do or say can ever aid the wounds that I inflicted on him.
40:35And my involvement.
40:36But I will say that to please forgive me, you know, forgiveness is forgiveness is freedom.
40:46I'd always be ashamed of what I was involved with always until until my last breath.
40:51But one thing I keep in the forefront of my mind is just to be a good person and a better person than I was back then.
41:01Our system is set up in a way that there are certain people that can ask for forgiveness and seek some sort of redemption.
41:09And eventually the parole board is going to give that opportunity to Cameo to ask for redemption in the hopes that he might be released.
41:18Personally, I wouldn't say that he's remorseful except for maybe feeling sorry for himself.
41:25So I don't believe that he should be released.
41:28And I really hope that the families attend parole hearings and let them know how they're still affected every day by what he and Antoinette did.
41:41I think it's a waste of resources to keep them alive.
41:47You know what's right and you know what is wrong.
41:50They've done bad things, but they are not bad people.
41:54That's just how I feel.
41:58Cameo was a broken ship, but I believe in rebuilding broken ships so they can sail again.
42:06I have a hope of being outside these walls one day and helping the youth not go down the same path that I went down when I was younger.
42:13When I was younger.
42:14When I was younger.
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