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00:00This program contains dramatizations of real events and is not intended for a young audience.
00:04Some names have been changed to protect the innocent.
00:09It's Thursday, August 19th, and it's Rachel Rashlin's first day as a teacher at Schaefer Elementary School.
00:16She was very excited about it. She loved working with children.
00:21That night, she returns home to Westmont, Illinois.
00:25Hi, Vince. It's Rachel.
00:27Call some friends and get ready for bed.
00:33At seven in the morning, Rachel's phone rings.
00:36Hi, dear. It's Mom. Can you call me as soon as you get there?
00:41Rachel doesn't return the call.
00:44The worried mother continues to call throughout the weekend.
00:47Please call as soon as you receive the message.
00:50Suddenly, the phone went silent.
00:53The number you called is not in service.
00:57Roslyn and a family friend, Vincent Adams, go to her apartment.
01:03Rachel's roommate says her car wasn't there.
01:06I wasn't here over the weekend.
01:08And that he hadn't seen her before the weekend.
01:11Behind the closed door, the room was empty.
01:15Rachel Rattling had vanished without a trace.
01:21Best friend.
01:23Mortal enemy.
01:25Protector.
01:27Assassin.
01:29Partner.
01:31Predator.
01:35Unlikely suspect.
01:37August 19, 1993.
01:41In Westmont, Illinois, a quiet suburb thirty kilometers from Chicago, Rachel Rattling has gone missing.
01:48The furniture had disappeared and the car was not in her parking space.
01:52The mother, Roslyn, who lives nearby in Rogers Park, goes straight to the police, along with a family friend, Vincent Adams.
01:59They both insist that Rachel wouldn't just disappear like that.
02:04I talk to her on the phone every day.
02:09We called relatives and friends, trying to find out where she might have gone, what might have happened to her, but we couldn't find anything.
02:19Strangely enough, the furniture and belongings disappeared, suggesting to the police that she had moved in a hurry.
02:27Roslyn and Vince think that's impossible.
02:30The fact that she had moved didn't make sense.
02:33She hadn't said anything to any of us.
02:36And frankly, she would need help to move.
02:39You don't make such an important decision without talking to the people closest to you.
02:44But things aren't that way.
02:47According to her mother, Rachel is too balanced to do something so impulsive.
02:52But she admits that Rachel has moved a few times in the past when she didn't like her place of residence.
03:00Could Rachel have a secret she hadn't told her friends and family?
03:05A month ago, Rachel, 29, had moved from Chicago to Westmont,
03:11to be closer to her new job as a teacher at the Schaefer school.
03:14It's a very private working-class community.
03:18Everyone knows each other in the city.
03:21Rachel found an apartment to share in the newspaper.
03:25and she was excited to begin a new chapter in her career.
03:29Rachel was affectionate and liked people.
03:33He didn't get things easily in life.
03:35And I think that compensated for working very hard.
03:39But now the dedicated and young teacher has completely disappeared.
03:47Convinced by Roslyn's desperate pleas,
03:50Westmont detectives register a missing person report.
03:54Rachel was placed in a police database.
03:56Anywhere in the country, anyone who did a search on her name and date of birth would find out.
04:00I would see that it was a missing person and that they should contact us.
04:04The police officers issue a police report for Rachel's car, a black compact sedan.
04:11They also check at the Forensic Medical Institute and local hospitals.
04:14and wherever she might be.
04:16I'm calling to find out if any unidentified women have come forward in the last week.
04:22And she took everything with her?
04:24Two detectives are sent to Rachel's apartment.
04:26and they find a colleague with whom she shared the apartment, named Donald Kawa.
04:30It's been a while.
04:32He said he hadn't seen her, that he wasn't home when she moved.
04:36and that everything had been taken.
04:38There is no evidence of anyone having entered the house, nor any sign of a crime.
04:42But it seems Rachel left in a hurry.
04:46The last time Kawa spoke to her was on Wednesday night.
04:50Hey!
04:51On August 18th.
04:52How was the orientation?
04:53Oh, thanks for asking. That's alright.
04:56He didn't speak to her on Thursday, but remember the door was locked.
05:01Rachel?
05:03And he wasn't worried when the door remained closed all day Friday.
05:08Then he went to his girlfriend's house to spend the weekend.
05:12By Monday morning, Rachel had already left.
05:18I really don't know.
05:19Kawa appears strangely calm when talking about Rachel.
05:22He didn't seem distressed, he wasn't nervous.
05:25He just arrived and said, "Well, that's what happened."
05:28How long did she stay here?
05:30He told the police that he barely knew her, as she had moved away just a few weeks prior.
05:35Yes, that's right.
05:36Kawa was raised in Westmont and had been living in the apartment for four months, since she had received
05:40honorable discharge from the army.
05:42At the beginning of summer, Kawa needed help paying the rent and placed an advertisement.
05:47I'm reading the newspaper looking for someone to share an apartment with.
05:50Rachel was one of the first to be interviewed, and he chose her because she seemed calm and trustworthy.
05:55Thank you for your cooperation.
05:57The detectives end their conversation with Kawa.
06:00I hope they find her.
06:02And they talk to the neighbors in the apartments next door.
06:05I know her by sight.
06:07If Rachel moved, someone must have seen the things loaded onto the truck.
06:13But strangely, nobody remembers seeing any of that.
06:17She wasn't here over the weekend.
06:19Next, the detectives will speak with Kawa's girlfriend to investigate the story.
06:24from that weekend.
06:25Oh, really?
06:25Yes, he was here, but he...
06:28His girlfriend, Carrie Smithers, said yes, that she had been with Kawa over the weekend.
06:34Yes, he was here and we...
06:37When the detectives speak with Kawa's girlfriend, they wonder if she might have...
06:41Something to do with Rachel's unexpected disappearance.
06:43It seemed odd that the guy's girlfriend would allow him to have a tenant of the same age.
06:52that he and she would live together in the apartment.
06:55We found it a bit strange.
06:57Goodnight.
06:59Carrie Smithers said she never felt threatened by Rachel living with her boyfriend.
07:04She said she met Rachel Recklin and that everything seemed fine and that Rachel seemed to be
07:10happy.
07:11There was no romantic relationship between the two.
07:13They just split the rent for the apartment.
07:17He slept here on Saturday night.
07:20Although Kawa's girlfriend confirmed his whereabouts before Rachel disappeared,
07:26This still leaves Thursday and Friday unexplained.
07:31And the detectives take him to the police station for further questioning.
07:36Thursday is...
07:37My normal shift is from 2 PM to 10 PM.
07:40Kawa doesn't know when Rachel left the apartment or if she left that Friday.
07:47Her bedroom door was closed; I thought she was sleeping.
07:50You two didn't get a chance to talk to each other?
07:52I didn't see her.
07:53She used to leave early in the morning.
07:56He claims that he worked and then went to his grandmother's bakery.
08:00I went there to help her with a few things.
08:02I know.
08:03And then I went to my girlfriend's house to spend the night there.
08:07He's not sure, but he thinks Rachel's car wasn't in the garage parking space on Friday morning.
08:13What is the make of her car?
08:14I think it was a Nissan.
08:17Did she talk about the reasons why she had to move so suddenly?
08:22No, not that I know of.
08:24Kawa was as surprised as everyone else that Rachel had left so suddenly.
08:30We got along really well.
08:31It was a great time working together.
08:33Kawa signs a statement recounting what she said.
08:36And then it's released.
08:38Thanks.
08:39Thanks.
08:39The investigators decide to request Rachel's phone records to identify who she may have spoken to before disappearing.
08:51Her cell phone has been turned off and has shown no activity for the past week.
08:55Which is not surprising because Rachel only used it for emergencies.
09:00The telephone company confirms that the landline was disconnected on Sunday afternoon.
09:04But there are no documents proving whether Rachel made the request.
09:08The telephone company presented records from Rachel's landline showing three calls on Thursday evening, August 19th.
09:17One went to Vince in Adams.
09:19Hi Vince and Rachel.
09:21We both attended the University of Illinois at Chicago and dated for a year and a half.
09:26But we saw that it wasn't working, and after that we became close friends.
09:33He tells the police about Rachel's call to him.
09:36I went to Milwaukee with friends to spend three or four days over the weekend.
09:44And she left a message on my answering machine.
09:47Hi Vince and Rachel.
09:49It was a call to give me an update so we could see each other when I got back.
09:53I hope everything is alright with you, and please call me when you receive the message, okay?
09:58Rachel also called her best friend Jenny, who said there was nothing to indicate anything wrong that night.
10:04I wanted to tell you about my new job.
10:06Rachel seemed to be in high spirits.
10:08I don't know, I just wanted us to go out for drinks or do something.
10:12It was a final phone call she made that intrigued the detectives.
10:15It was for an ex-boyfriend named Brett Burwick.
10:18Hi Brett, it's Rachel calling you back.
10:21We were curious as to why she would talk to Brett, since he was an ex-boyfriend, and we investigated his past.
10:26Rachel dated Brett years ago when she lived in Chicago.
10:29Nothing about the ex is noteworthy.
10:34He has no criminal record, just a bunch of unpaid fines.
10:40Brett Burwick?
10:41Yes.
10:42I'm Detective Sheck, Detective Camp.
10:45Burwick said that he and Rachel separated amicably and that they remained friends.
10:50When was the last time you saw Rachel?
10:52One week.
10:53He wasn't home when Rachel called, but he said she left a message on his answering machine.
10:58She asked him to call back and said that something strange had happened at school.
11:04Well, what happened was...
11:05How is that strange?
11:06I don't know, she didn't say.
11:07This is the first consistent clue that not everything seemed so good in Rachel's life on the day she disappeared.
11:13Something strange happened and I wanted to tell you about it.
11:19What had happened at Sheffer school?
11:21And could that be the key to his sudden and unexplained disappearance?
11:25The detectives will speak with the school principal.
11:29When was the last time you saw Rachel?
11:31She was here on Thursday, she was tidying up her classroom.
11:35She confirms that Rachel was there on August 19th, but that the following day she didn't show up for work and didn't get in touch to give an explanation.
11:44Did something strange happen at school?
11:45No, not that I know of.
11:46The principal also doesn't know where Rachel went after school that first day.
11:53It's been almost a week since they last saw or heard from Rachel, and her friends and family are desperate.
12:00They put up posters all over Westmont, all over the western part of the suburb, with her picture on them.
12:07Everyone has been very cooperative, trying to give the Westmont police as much information as possible to help them find her.
12:13As the search for Rachel intensifies, the whirlwind of publicity soon pays off.
12:20Great, thank you very much. If you can be there at seven...
12:23We received a call that a maintenance worker had found several things that might belong to Rachel, and that this had happened on August 20th.
12:31The day after Rachel was last seen.
12:34A resident across the street from Rachel's building saw a janitor in the parking lot sorting through household items that might have come from Rachel's apartment.
12:45The maintenance supervisor was identified as Jacob Togerson, 48 years old.
12:52At his workplace, you'll find a brand-new TV, a telephone, and a jewelry box.
12:56All items consistent with Rachel's personal belongings.
13:02We asked her mother to come forward and see if she recognized anything, and she did indeed identify the items as belonging to Rachel's daughter.
13:13Togerson started working at a building complex shortly before Rachel moved there.
13:17Hey.
13:18Hi, Rachel.
13:19Yes, the toilet is clogged.
13:20And without a doubt, he was able to see her new furniture.
13:25He has a master key to all the units, which could explain the absence of forced entry.
13:32We have a person who not only has the victim's belongings, but also has access to their apartment.
13:40Togerson vehemently denies having anything to do with Rachel's disappearance.
13:45I don't know who said that, it's not true.
13:47When asked why he had Rachel's belongings, he simply said he found everything in the trash.
13:52People throw away a lot of things.
13:54When the police speak to the person in charge of maintenance, suspicions lessen.
14:00He didn't seem like the type of person who would do that kind of thing.
14:04After investigating his life, we didn't find any connection to someone who entered the house and harmed the girl.
14:10And what freed him, more than anything, was that all the things in his apartment belonged to Rachel.
14:20So, he didn't have anything that belonged to Donald Coward.
14:25If he had robbed the apartment, he would have been a selective thief, because he would only have taken things that belonged to Rachel.
14:33Togerson is released.
14:34But Rachel's discarded belongings suggest that she didn't move on a whim.
14:41It seems something more sinister has happened to the young teacher.
14:4699% of the time the person shows up or we find them.
14:50And this case was a little different.
14:54Therefore, we think this is not a typical missing person case.
14:58There is no record.
14:59Some of Rachel's belongings are still missing, including her bed and her car.
15:04We had to find Rachel or her car so we'd have somewhere to start.
15:09And then, suddenly, I don't know why, I had a hunch.
15:12Why not contact the airports? What do we have to lose?
15:15Rachel's apartment in Westmont is about 30 kilometers from Chicago's main airports.
15:21O'Hare to the north and Midway to the east.
15:24Detective Dietman contacts the Chicago police at O'Hare Airport.
15:28And I gave the vehicle information.
15:31I said, I need a favor.
15:33Look in the parking lot.
15:35This vehicle is located.
15:37And they said, okay.
15:39The license plate number again?
15:40Nissan Centra Black, plate number B6P748.
15:44Approximately 15 minutes later I received a call from the airport police.
15:48They said, we found the vehicle.
15:49Records show she was there since August 20th, the day Rachel was last seen.
16:00The detectives notice that there is something very wrong with the vehicle.
16:05The back of the car was very low, and they noticed a liquid leaking from the bottom of the trunk.
16:15And everyone smelled a very strong odor.
16:21There was something in the suitcase.
16:23We didn't know what it was, but it didn't look good.
16:29I approached the vehicle, inserted the key, and opened the trunk.
16:33As a police officer, we have moments that surprise us.
16:39Completely covered in dirt.
16:41The suitcase was filled with 200 kilograms of soil.
16:45I was more afraid that there was a body under that ground and that it was probably Rachel's.
16:54We need...
16:57And as I moved away from the dirt a little so as not to disturb a crime scene,
17:01I see a white sock appearing in the right corner of the suitcase.
17:05It's a terrible crime scene.
17:11The investigators have no idea what condition the body is in or what else they will find beneath that earth.
17:17Without wanting to interfere with or destroy evidence, it was decided to seal the trunk and take the vehicle to the Cook County forensics department in Chicago.
17:27where the body would be removed and the evidence could be preserved.
17:30We removed the sand with our hands, little by little, and placed it on a sheet of plastic.
17:40It's a delicate and repulsive task.
17:48Finally, beneath that earth, there was a body wrapped in a sheet.
17:55It had been folded and twisted to fit inside the small suitcase.
17:58What appeared to be the head had been wrapped in a white garbage bag.
18:08During the autopsy, the bag is removed, revealing the decomposed face of a woman.
18:14whom the police believe to be Rachel, 29 years old.
18:18Until that moment, the cause of death was only speculation.
18:22Could she have been suffocated with a plastic bag?
18:26We didn't know yet.
18:26Then, from inside the bag, the expert retrieves a .22 caliber bullet.
18:35They also found three bullet holes in her skull.
18:38suggesting that she was shot at point-blank range in the back of the head.
18:46There were no signs of a struggle, injuries, or marks.
18:51There was also no sign of sexual abuse.
18:53The rest of Rachel's body shows no signs of trauma or anything unusual.
19:00in addition to natural decomposition.
19:03And then, the medical examiners look inside Rachel's mouth and find one thing in common.
19:09It was her dental braces.
19:11She only used the device at night, while she was sleeping.
19:15The medical examiners also noted what Rachel was wearing when she was unearthed in the trunk of the car.
19:22She was wearing a t-shirt and underwear.
19:27And the way she was dressed was important.
19:30because, as her mother and friends later revealed to us,
19:34That was how she used to sleep at night.
19:37This gives the police a clear indication of when she was shot and killed.
19:43It would have been on the night of August 19th,
19:46after their first day at school.
19:49The entry point for the bullets.
19:50and the fact that there is no evidence that Rachel did anything to defend herself,
19:56They point precisely to how the murder happened.
19:59She was probably sleeping.
20:01Then, the criminal approached from behind.
20:06and shot him three times at point-blank range.
20:12Death must have been instantaneous.
20:16The shooter then used the bag to put it around her head.
20:19and keep the blood that was flowing there.
20:23There was one final detail in the autopsy of Rachel's body.
20:26Rachel had been in the trunk of the car for ten days.
20:32under the Chicago summer heat
20:34and her body was badly decomposed.
20:38Positive identification was only made
20:40when a forensic dentist saw the x-rays of Rachel's teeth
20:45and compared it with previous X-rays
20:49and was able to make a comparison and conclude that it was Rachel Recklin.
20:56The tragic news is delivered to the family.
21:03Rachel's mother still had hope that she would be found alive.
21:08And she was devastated.
21:11And the two brothers were devastated as well.
21:14But they wanted answers and they wanted justice.
21:17Emotionally, it's very difficult to go through this.
21:19Sadness is the first thing we feel.
21:23And it's difficult to say when that changes.
21:28And when we start thinking about what might have happened
21:31And who could have done this?
21:36The hunt for Rachel's killer.
21:38The detectives focus on the evidence found in the car.
21:42starting with the mound of earth.
21:43The 200 kilograms of soil were speckled with white grains.
21:50It didn't look like ordinary soil dug up from a plot of land.
21:54It looked like garden soil.
21:55And we suspected it was from a gardening site.
22:00or from a landscaping company.
22:02And as he began to investigate the source of that land,
22:05Rachel's car is examined from top to bottom.
22:08Experts discover something in common.
22:12between the driver's seat and the door.
22:17It was a men's watch.
22:19and she had hair caught in the clasp of that watch's bracelet.
22:25The watch and the hair are sent for laboratory analysis.
22:32Rachel's body...
22:33The key to the disappearance...
22:35The police did not provide details.
22:37The discovery of Rachel's body is making headlines in the Chicago area.
22:41And the cause of death.
22:43And it doesn't take long for clues about the case to arrive at the police station.
22:47One of them is from a limousine driver named Ray Kravitz.
22:51who saw the story on the evening news.
22:54Thank you for coming.
22:55Are you the detective?
22:56Detective.
22:58Ray Kravitz came forward spontaneously after Rachel's body was found.
23:03I've been watching the news about the case on television.
23:06And I think it has to do with a guy I picked up at O'Hare.
23:13Kravitz told police that on Friday, August 20th,
23:17He received a call to pick up a man named John Noble at the airport.
23:24What was interesting about the man was that Kravitz noticed he had no luggage.
23:28He said he was in town just to visit friends.
23:34And where did he go?
23:35Noble asked to be taken to the address in Westmont.
23:39less than a mile from Rachel's apartment.
23:43How much was it?
23:4455.
23:45He then tried to get a discount coupon for the limousine service.
23:49I thought he was from out of town.
23:51Where did you get that?
23:52But the coupon had only been advertised in newspapers in the Westmont area.
23:57And it wouldn't be available to someone who was from out of town.
24:00The limousine driver thought that was strange.
24:03Do you remember what he looked like?
24:04It was dark in the car.
24:06We couldn't see his face.
24:07I know.
24:07A check of the arrival records shows no one named John Noble.
24:11Arriving at O'Hare Airport on August 20th.
24:15Noble's limousine request could not be found because it was made from a public phone.
24:20There was no one in Rachel's life with that name.
24:24But there are many John Nobles scattered throughout the Chicago area.
24:29Finding someone who used the limousine would take weeks.
24:31The results of the forensic examination of the car and Rachel's body show nothing.
24:40What did you achieve?
24:40So far, no one has been able to say where the earth came from.
24:45And the lab experts said that the hair caught in the watch found in the car
24:50It belonged to Rachel.
24:52No usable fingerprints were found on the clock.
24:56Were the prints erased, or were there no prints at all?
24:58The crime has been under investigation for 24 hours.
25:01But the threat is already reaching a dead end.
25:04But the investigation involving Rachel's neighbors yields a new clue.
25:10Yes, I saw her around that time.
25:12AND.
25:13A neighbor reported seeing Rachel arguing with a man outside.
25:19And it was around 3 in the morning.
25:22Were they arguing?
25:23Yes. And they were shouting.
25:25And she couldn't identify who Rachel had argued with, but it was a heated argument.
25:29And the incident occurred just days before Rachel disappeared.
25:35The man grabbed her by the wrist and she stepped away.
25:38The man was described as having dark hair and possibly being 1.80m tall.
25:43A tall man.
25:46It was kind of dark, but...
25:47When the witness describes the man, the detectives suspect it might be someone they spoke to shortly after Rachel disappeared.
25:55Her ex-boyfriend, Brett Burwick.
25:57Whoa! Wait a minute!
26:01Do you want to be my friend?
26:02Of course!
26:03I've always been your friend above all else.
26:05Lie!
26:06I don't know what happened between them.
26:09But it seemed that something had gone terribly wrong.
26:11Do you want me to go?
26:12Yes, I want you to go!
26:13The four-month relationship between Burwick and Rachel had been tempestuous.
26:18There were reports of heated arguments between the two.
26:21Which ultimately led to the separation.
26:23Did Burwick try to rekindle his romance with Rachel?
26:29What led to the fight in the early morning?
26:31What are you seeing with you?
26:32So, on August 19th, Burwick allegedly sneaked in while the apartment owner was away.
26:37...and fired three shots into Rachel's head while she slept?
26:46Once again, Burwick finds himself face to face with the detectives.
26:50We received a report that she had an argument with a tall, brown-haired man who...
26:54It fits you, more or less, around that time.
26:57Could it have been you?
26:58We had some discussions.
27:00Burwick admits that, like any couple, he and Rachel argued when they were together.
27:05But that ended when they separated.
27:07Any discussions?
27:07He says he wasn't involved in the fight during the early morning hours.
27:10After the separation, who do you know?
27:12No, it was too much.
27:13He then provides an alibi for the time the police believe Rachel was shot.
27:17He was working a 20-hour shift at a hospital in Lakeshore.
27:22It was a long shift.
27:23The police are investigating the alibi.
27:25But before being released, Burwick talks about his theory regarding Rachel's killer.
27:30He says she mentioned meeting the guy after she moved to Westmont.
27:35Look, a guy from the telephone company.
27:37Ah, I'm trying to organize things, so it's all a huge mess.
27:41I think it's well organized.
27:42He was a telephone installer named Jonas Devon.
27:46One of the things Rachel insisted on when moving into the apartment was having her own private phone.
27:52Where do you want to put it?
27:52Yes, I wanted it to be placed there.
27:54The telephone company sent Jonas to do the job at the beginning of July.
27:59Do you often go out with a partner in crime?
28:03Do you want to be my partner in crime?
28:05Oh, I would love that.
28:06I could even call your new phone number.
28:08Oh, really? Now I have a phone, right?
28:10So it is.
28:10According to Burrick, Jonas and Rachel got along well from the moment they got installed.
28:15We found out that he spent the night with her once.
28:17He was at her apartment, she met him, and they were intimate.
28:21Could something have gone wrong in the relationship, leading Jonas to kill Rachel and make her disappear without a trace?
28:30Investigators are working on the theory that Rachel's belongings and furniture were taken.
28:34and the phone was turned off to make it seem like Rachel had moved.
28:38Who better than a telephone installer to disconnect the line and leave no trace of who authorized it?
28:47I want to ask you some questions about Rachel Wrestling.
28:50You know her, don't you?
28:53Yes.
28:53How did you meet her?
28:54I installed her phone.
28:55When questioned, Jonas is evasive about his relationship with Rachel.
29:01He said he took care of the phone and that was all.
29:05The police know he's lying.
29:07Therefore, he pressures him, and Jonas finally confesses.
29:10He said he had been intimate with Rachel, but that it was only once, five weeks ago.
29:16Things didn't work out and he never saw her again.
29:18When asked about an alibi, he said he was home alone watching television on the night of the crime.
29:26We investigated further and concluded that it had been a passing thing between the two.
29:31and that he probably had nothing to do with the crime.
29:34Let's go.
29:35With nothing to link him to Rachel's murder, the telephone installer is released.
29:39Per hour.
29:42Two days after Rachel's body was found, the police were eager for new leads.
29:47A warrant is issued to search the last place where she was seen alive.
29:51Her apartment.
29:53Could a forensic search uncover evidence that no one saw when Rachel was declared missing two weeks ago?
29:59His roommate, Donald Calva, is not home, and the building's doorman opens the door.
30:06The experts go straight to Rachel's old room.
30:09One of the things they wanted to check was for the presence of blood in the room.
30:14This is achieved through the use of luminol.
30:18Luminol is a chemical that reacts with blood and glows if human blood is present.
30:24Luminol is sprayed evenly throughout the room.
30:27After application, bloodstains invisible to the naked eye appear under black light.
30:34Please close the blinds so we can see what's in here.
30:37No one expected what happened when Rachel's room went dark.
30:41Our!
30:43The carpet throughout the apartment was gleaming.
30:47Everything was lit up.
30:48It was as if the entire room was soaked in blood.
30:52A detailed examination explains the curious discovery.
30:55The luminol was not reacting to the presence of blood.
30:59A chemical in the carpet was causing the ethereal glow.
31:04The carpet had been treated with a type of antioxidant.
31:09Because antioxidants react to luminol, just like blood.
31:13One of the liquids that contains antioxidants is the powerful industrial carpet cleaner.
31:19Obviously, he tried to clean it.
31:22No one cleans carpets with such a powerful cleaner, unless they have something to hide.
31:28A thorough search of the rest of the apartment reveals more disturbing evidence.
31:34In a kitchen cupboard, I found a white garbage bag.
31:38similar to the bag that was on Rachel's head when we found her in the trunk of the car.
31:43In Kawa's room, investigators noticed that he was sleeping on a new mattress.
31:52The exact type of mattress that Rachel had bought a month earlier.
31:58It's her bed.
32:00We also found a pair of sneakers with dirt on the soles.
32:04The dirt on the sole is also speckled with the same white grains found in Rachel's car trunk.
32:13The search produces a great deal of circumstantial evidence.
32:16They all point to Rachel's roommate, Donald Kawa, as her killer.
32:22But there is no sign of the .22 caliber weapon used to shoot Rachel.
32:27Without the murder weapon or more substantial evidence,
32:30The police don't have enough evidence to arrest Kawa.
32:34He is called to testify again.
32:38hoping that he will contradict himself and eventually make a confession.
32:43Donald Kawa.
32:45They don't tell what they know.
32:47but they ask him about essential facts,
32:49like where he had bought the mattress.
32:52Let's talk about Rachel's furniture.
32:55Mr. Kawa said the mattress was his and that he had had it for two years.
32:59He is sure?
33:01I have.
33:02We discovered that that mattress,
33:05specifically that model,
33:07It had been released just six months earlier.
33:09It was impossible that Donald had a mattress two years ago.
33:12And the police don't have enough physical evidence to make a definitive arrest.
33:17Looking for errors in his version.
33:20From beginning to end,
33:21He insists he knows nothing about Rachel's death.
33:25And the police don't have enough physical evidence to make an effective arrest.
33:30I thought she had moved.
33:32We talked with Donald for the rest of the evening about details and everything else.
33:36The following morning, early in the morning, he was released.
33:39Kawa is kept under close surveillance.
33:41While the detectives are determined to build a more solid case against him,
33:46starting with his girlfriend, Carrie Smithers.
33:48She has no idea of his involvement in Rachel's death and is willing to help with the investigation.
33:54She says she was with Kawa the weekend after Rachel was killed.
33:58But she cannot guarantee where he was during the time period of the crime.
34:02between Thursday night and Friday morning.
34:05We then did what could be described as a watch presentation.
34:09We're going to show you some watches, and we want you to...
34:12The detectives won't tell Carrie what they want.
34:14hoping she will recognize the piece of physical evidence they believe Kawa left behind.
34:21The watch, a Britannia brand, was found in Rachel's car.
34:24The girlfriend picks up the watch that she's sure she gave him for Christmas.
34:32Ah, this one.
34:33And it's the same watch that was found in the car.
34:36Are you sure this is the one?
34:37Yes, without a doubt, that's the one.
34:38With the pieces of the case falling into place against Kawa,
34:41The most damning evidence comes from Rachel's bank.
34:45Local checks, how long do they take? A day? Two?
34:48We discovered that several checks signed by the victim had been cashed at the bank.
34:52And that the checks were used to pay utility bills for the apartment she shared with Donald.
34:58The problem is that Rachel was already dead when the checks were signed.
35:04There was about a thousand dollars in her account, and soon after she disappeared, the balance dropped to 45 dollars.
35:10I want to see those checks.
35:12We took all the checks and a handwritten statement from Donald during the initial investigation into his disappearance.
35:20for analysis by a handwriting expert.
35:23There is a distinctly masculine trait in the way the R's are written.
35:27We concluded that it was highly likely that the checks had not been signed by the victim.
35:32which were signed by the same person who had written the statement during the investigation into the victim's disappearance.
35:39We then became even more certain that Donald was the person we should focus on.
35:43On September 9th, a week and a day after Rachel Resslin's body was found,
35:51Donald Kawa is arrested at his grandmother's house and charged with first-degree murder.
35:59Westman Police Department.
36:01With the rope tightening around Donald Kawa's neck,
36:05The police are investigating his identity along with a key witness.
36:10Some people were lined up.
36:12The limousine driver, Ray Kravitz, observed the line of men.
36:19It's him, number 4.
36:20He is sure?
36:22He positively identified Donald Kawa as the person he had met at the airport.
36:28on Friday, August 20th, and taken to Westman.
36:32The police obtained a lot of evidence against Kawa.
36:36But he still doesn't know why he wanted to kill Rachel Resslin.
36:42One of Rachel's friends helps the police discover the motive that led Kawa to commit the crime.
36:47She commented that she was very unhappy.
36:50She tells the police that Rachel had trouble adjusting to living with a man.
36:54and that he never felt comfortable in the apartment.
36:57Well, good night.
36:59Goodnight.
37:00On the night it happened, I believe Donald probably realized that Rachel wanted to move.
37:11And that caused Donald to panic, because he needed money.
37:14He was having serious financial problems paying his bills.
37:18And I think he mistakenly believed that was a way to solve the problem.
37:21Part of Donald Kawa's plan was to capture Rachel when she was most vulnerable.
37:29And that would be perfect when she was sleeping.
37:39He had a small-caliber weapon that he knew wouldn't make much noise.
37:43He wrapped her head in a plastic bag so that the blood wouldn't drip onto the pillow and mattress.
37:48After shooting Rachel Rashlin in cold blood, Kawa made sure to get her out of the apartment.
37:59He went to the airport, stopping somewhere along the way to fill his suitcase with dirt.
38:07He left her in the parking lot.
38:10Then he took a limousine back to Westmont.
38:12I'm arriving from Los Angeles.
38:13He was careful to use a false name and ask to be robbed a short distance from his apartment.
38:20The next day, he threw some of Rachel's belongings in the trash and disposed of the gun, which was never found.
38:28He vigorously cleaned the carpet to get rid of any microscopic drop of blood that might have been there from the gunshots.
38:34Believing he could convince everyone that Rachel had moved, he felt free to empty her bank account by forging checks.
38:43It unites, copies, envies.
39:03When a woman doesn't get what she wants, she can become deadly.
39:07They're back, more dangerous than ever.
39:11In May 1996, Kawa's case went to trial.
39:26After three weeks of testimony, Kawa was found guilty of first-degree murder and armed robbery.
39:36During the trial, an ironic fact emerges.
39:39One of the checks from Rachel's account, which Kawa forged, was used to pay for the newspaper ad he had placed earlier in the summer, looking for someone to share his apartment.
39:52Rachel had no idea of the cruel fate that awaited her when she responded to Kawa's advertisement.
39:57What a terrible thing it is when someone moves to a place where they think they'll be happy, with a new job at the local school, life going in the direction they want.
40:13And then this happens, when the only thing you did that day was go to bed and sleep.
40:17And there was no way Rachel could have suspected the evil that lay behind Kawa's placid demeanor.
40:24He was the perfect nice guy, with a loving girlfriend.
40:29He even helped his grandmother bake cakes.
40:31But it was just a facade for the cowardly killer inside him.
40:38Donald Kawa was a young man who didn't look like a murderer.
40:44He had no criminal record, except for one charge of fraud.
40:49I lived in a great neighborhood in DuPage County.
40:53He wanted to share the apartment.
40:56The tenant moved out.
40:57And no one would have suspected that two weeks later he would kill that person.
41:03He doesn't fit the profile of a typical killer.
41:07And that made him an unlikely suspect.
41:10Looking at him, you wouldn't think twice.
41:14He wasn't a gang member, he didn't have tattoos, he was just over 1.65m tall, and he was thin.
41:20She worked in computing, and seemed like an ordinary citizen walking down the street.
41:29In her interactions with Rachel, Kawa never gave any indication that the room rental contract lacked an option for early cancellation.
41:39Her decision to quit exposed what he really thought of her.
41:44That Rachel was disposable, as long as he had access to her money.
41:50She stayed there for a month and he thought, okay, I have a monthly income, suddenly, boom, they're going to move me.
41:57But wait, what about my money?
42:01In his mind, Rachel was exactly what he told the police when he was arrested.
42:06Just a girl.
42:08What do they think I am? A serial killer?
42:10Let's get him out of here.
42:11During his arrest and trial, Kawa showed a complete lack of remorse for his senseless act of brutality.
42:19He never confessed, and made several unusual comments.
42:23One of them was, I want my Star Wars poster in my cell.
42:26When you think of someone like Donald Kawa, it's good for society that he's no longer with us.
42:34Because if he thinks that way, what could he do if the waitress at a café doesn't serve the coffee?
42:40And he thinks he can do whatever he wants and get away with it?
42:44For some reason, I think he had a feeling of invincibility.
42:48And people with that feeling, with the right occupation, with a focused mind, that's fine.
42:51But if someone wants to commit a crime, that person is dangerous to everyone.
42:56Even as time passes, the loss of Rachel Rashlin is deeply heavy for her friends and family.
43:0421 years have passed.
43:06I still miss her.
43:08They say time heals all wounds, and I say it just disguises them.
43:11Of course, when you have someone so close...
43:16She never leaves his thoughts again.
43:21Donald Kawa was sentenced to 100 years in prison.
43:29He will only be eligible to appeal in 2045, at the age of 76.
43:38Brazilian version, audio-body.
43:41So sometimes, history is implemented at a moment of worst risk.
44:03So, I have to...
44:04Your friends are here and your wedding is in 2020.
44:05Transcription and Subtitles by Pedro Negri
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