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00:01My name is Dawn DeLuise.
00:03I was a celebrity esthetician for 30 years.
00:06Dawn's studio was in West Hollywood.
00:08It really was holy .
00:10I noticed a new skincare business opened next door to me.
00:13The name's Smooth Cheeks.
00:14You know, it's a double entendre.
00:15It's cheeks and cheeks.
00:18And I'm thinking there's trouble in our midst.
00:20I noticed a slashed tire one night.
00:22My face had been photoshopped on a woman
00:24with her legs spread wide open in the crotch showing.
00:27And there were people actually banging on her door.
00:29I'm here to rape you.
00:31It just kept getting worse.
00:32The only thing I did know was who I felt was responsible for it.
00:36And it was Gabriel Suarez.
00:38So Dawn had sent me a text message
00:40saying that she had found somebody to take Gabriel out.
00:44And I was just like, I can't believe this lady has this many problems.
00:51He ended up arresting her for solicitation to murder Gabriel.
00:56And they released that mugshot, which was a very rough mugshot.
00:59I was in the dark completely about how she hated me.
01:06She's dangerous.
01:07I could even have lured Gabriel to my home.
01:10I would have shot him.
01:12That is all troubling.
01:15Did she key Gabriel's car?
01:17No, we keyed Gabriel's car.
01:19Nick and I also posted Craigslist ads with her phone number
01:23and a photoshopped face of a woman in various sexual positions.
01:28Danone DeLuise is locked up behind bars on a million dollar bond right now as we speak.
01:57She is in jail.
02:01While I was in jail, my landlord managed to send an eviction notice to the jail
02:07that I hadn't paid my rent in a month.
02:10And then the same thing happened with my clinic.
02:13And I just had to watch my life fall apart in slow motion.
02:17Nothing I could do about it.
02:25This is my jail uniform that I wore when I was in L.A. County jail.
02:31I had always been active and it was very important to stay fit.
02:44What this originally was, was the backing of a bra.
02:47The two bras actually, not unlike what they have in gyms,
02:51when you want to do some strength training.
02:55I needed these things to basically feel like I was still a woman, still feminine.
03:01Not just a number, not just an inmate.
03:05I was shocked when I learned how Nick and Ed generated this whole campaign of denigration against me.
03:16By the time I was in jail, by the time I'm learning that, well, these two men are stalking you,
03:20it was so devastating to me.
03:22I was numb.
03:23Somebody could have pushed me over a building
03:25and my heart wouldn't have even gone up before I splattered on the pavement.
03:29So the flyers that were distributed had Don's face,
03:34photoshopped on somebody else's body in a sexual situation
03:38with some catchy taglines.
03:40First time free.
03:42Sex party tonight was a good one.
03:46We had flired her office and we had flired her apartment building.
03:54It really got crazy, right?
03:57So Don's friends, the ones she confided in,
04:00they're the ones behind all this abuse.
04:03The whole context for her anger, outcry against Gabriel Suarez was orchestrated,
04:09was manipulated by Nick and Ed.
04:11Meanwhile, Don's facing charges of solicitation of murder.
04:15About as serious as it gets.
04:18Prosecutors offered her plea deals, but she wouldn't take them.
04:22So now this case is headed to trial.
04:28Every time I laid my head on the pillow at night, I knew I was innocent.
04:32I was never going to concede to something I didn't do.
04:35Why in the world would I say I was trying to have someone murdered?
04:37Just so that I could go home early?
04:39Well, hell no, no.
04:40This story, it's got everything.
04:45It's got Hollywood.
04:46It's got revenge.
04:47It's got betrayal, intrigue.
04:49The public, eager to find out what really happened, is going to get an answer.
04:54We had kind of heard tidbits about it as we were getting called for jury duty,
05:02and you could tell this was going to be kind of a salacious case.
05:07Don Geloise made a series of really bad choices.
05:10And the more she dug her heels in, deciding that Gabriel Suarez was her nemesis,
05:17and she needed to get revenge, the more trouble she got herself into.
05:23It would never dawn on me that we're competitors, because I predominantly wax.
05:27Little did I know that she was festering all this behind my back, and I had no idea.
05:33In one hand, we're being presented this white, privileged lady who has friends in high places,
05:39and maybe she just got fooled.
05:42And then on the other side, you're being presented this monster of a person who went after somebody.
05:48I was very confused, to be honest.
05:50So we know that Don told the police that if she could have lured Gabriel to her house,
05:57she would have shot him and argued self-defense.
06:00So she had the capacity to kill.
06:03She could have done that, but instead she went up to Big Bear,
06:06and she found this big, beefy former NFL player who listened to her,
06:11tell her sob story about the harassment, and it was terrible harassment.
06:15She texted to Ed Feinstein,
06:18I found someone who will take Gabriel out.
06:22Yes, Colin DeLuise was in fact victimized by her so-called friends.
06:28However, you don't get to take the law into your own hands.
06:32You don't get to become a vigilante.
06:35The lead detective was making this seem like a slam-dunk solicitation for murder,
06:39but the gentleman that they were claiming that Ms. DeLuise was soliciting for murder,
06:44he was not arrested.
06:46He gave no indication that he was in fact solicited.
06:51I was sitting on my couch, and the phone rang.
06:54He said he was a detective, and I thought someone was pranking me.
06:58You know, I said, come on, who is this?
07:01You know, this is funny, ha, ha, ha, okay.
07:04And he said, you might want to turn on the television.
07:07And I was like, what the heck's going on?
07:10The media was saying that I was hired by Dawn to be a hitman against this skincare guy,
07:19which is ludicrous.
07:21The most that I ever said was that I would show up with her arm in arm and walk by.
07:27That's it.
07:28That way I'd be a deterrent.
07:30Of the 6,000 messages, there were two messages that they tried to say connected her to this solicitation.
07:39And even those were not conclusive of trying to solicit somebody to murder Mr. Suarez.
07:45I didn't think clearly when I sent those texts out.
07:50I was just blowing off steam and blowing up phones with, if I could just kill this
07:54with my bare hands I would.
07:56I can't stand him.
07:58You know, I'm going to copy these Craigslist ads and send them into his home to rape him.
08:02And I'm going to use the same language.
08:04We're going to put a blindfold on you.
08:06And this son of a bitch, douchebag, you know, I'm going to kill him with my bare hands.
08:11And then I would say in that same thread to Edward Feinstein,
08:15oops, I'm running late for work and have to get my oil change first.
08:22Ms. DeLuise, even through all of this turmoil and all these things that she thought he was doing,
08:27she never marched 20 feet down the hall and said, Gabriel, WTF, what's going on?
08:33Why are you doing this to me?
08:35That never happened.
08:37Instead, she communicated to Chris Guile via text,
08:43is the Aryan Brotherhood only in prison?
08:48I can't believe I can't find some white supremacist who'd want to do harm to a double minority,
08:56a gay Mexican.
08:58It was a decidedly disturbing text message that she'd sent.
09:02And I think the jury from initially was looking at me kind of like, why are you on this case?
09:09I think as jurors, we were all pretty disgusted at the time of hearing these things being said.
09:15She was talking about people that, you know, represented people in the jury.
09:19And it affected me. I was definitely upset.
09:22Is this a woman in distress?
09:24Or is this a woman who's just racist and doesn't care about anyone else but herself?
09:30Dawn said she was trying to find somebody to take out a double minority Mexican gay?
09:36Take him out where? I mean, not dinner.
09:49Dawn sent my picture to Chris Guile.
09:51This is what Gabriel looks like.
09:53This is where he lives.
09:55That's not an innocent person.
09:57She may have shown me like his Facebook page or something like that.
10:01Anything else, that was all in her head.
10:04Just merely sharing a photo of someone is not solicitation.
10:10Now, if she would have shared a photo and then there's a discussion of when, where, and how this is going to be done,
10:16then of course that photo would be damaging information.
10:19Guile didn't have to say, oh yeah, she promised me the moon if I would kill this guy.
10:26And I knew I wasn't going to get that out of him.
10:28They tried to make it seem like it was the facials in lieu of the financial compensation.
10:32But the thought that somebody would murder somebody for free facials is just a hard pill to really swallow.
10:40I know it looks like I need a lot of facials, but still, I would never do anything like that.
10:45I don't care what the price is.
10:47The alleged victim, Gabriel Suarez, came off as somebody that was trying to publicize his business.
10:53And the cameras are there and he has the hat on with smooth cheeks, giving an interview where he's smiling,
11:00where he's laughing, where he doesn't come across as somebody that's concerned that he almost died.
11:05It started to seem like a little circus and it lost its value that this is a potential murder.
11:14I mean, this reminds me of Natalia Grace's story where I didn't know who to believe.
11:20Everybody seemed to have a motive to lie, not be completely forthcoming.
11:27It's like my head was spinning in that story and it's starting to spin in this one too.
11:33This case took less than 40 minutes for the jury to determine that there was no murder for hire,
11:40that Dawn DeLuise was in fact not guilty of soliciting murder.
11:46I felt like a weight had been taken off my shoulders.
11:53How is this possible?
11:55She was trying to take me out as a double minority, a Mexican gay, which I think should be a hate crime.
12:01She gets off scot-free and continues to play the martyr.
12:04The system failed.
12:06The jury, I think they were driven by a sympathy for her because of this stalking that was happening to her.
12:16It felt good to know that we were going to be sending an innocent woman home that maybe made some bad choices,
12:23maybe trusted the wrong people, maybe said the wrong thing at times, but who hasn't in their life?
12:29I mean, really, Chris Giley is a patsy in this whole thing and in the end, he's collateral damage.
12:38He got hurt by this whole thing, never charged, but he paid a price.
12:42Dawn's never reached out to me or just to say, hey, I'm sorry, or anything like that because of this text she sent to her best friend.
12:52It's still on the internet, me and Hitman on the headlight.
12:57I hate that.
12:58It's a shame.
12:59It completely ruined me.
13:03So.
13:07After spending almost a year in jail, Dawn walks free.
13:10Not guilty is not a finding of innocence, okay?
13:14Not guilty just means you didn't approve your case.
13:17And now here's where things get even more surreal.
13:20The same prosecutor's office that charged Dawn with solicitation for murder now begins to prepare its case against Ed and Nick for the harassment that seemed to push Dawn over the edge in the first place.
13:37And like almost every element of this story, nothing is as straightforward as it first seems.
13:43I heard a faint knock at the door when the door then exploded off the hinges and it was the sheriff's department SWAT team.
14:00That was a whole moment.
14:03But I have to say for a SWAT team, they were all very old and very out of shape.
14:09It was like two flights of stairs and they were like, you guys okay?
14:16You guys okay?
14:17So anyway, I was handcuffed.
14:20Detective Macaulay said, well, you know, we're gonna arrest you for stalking Dawn.
14:25And I said, well, okay.
14:28I wasn't happy with my mugshot because I just had a facial like two days before.
14:32So I had a big, like, zit right there.
14:35So it wasn't a very flattering one.
14:37Not ideal.
14:38And looking at the level and sophistication of the cyber stalking and harassment of Dawn by Nick and Eddie,
14:47it strikes me that she's not their first victim.
14:50It's targeted.
14:51It's multi-layered.
14:52It's sinister.
14:53There's no way this is their first run around the criminal block.
15:03So there's a birdhouse straight up this driveway.
15:05But that's just kind of an odd place for a birdhouse.
15:08So I would imagine there's a camera in there.
15:11So my name is David Torres.
15:13I'm a retired detective with LAPD.
15:15I was assigned to North Hollywood Division of Property Crimes.
15:19So in 2009, Detective Torres was handed a file about a West Hollywood business
15:24that had been the victim of multiple incidents of fraud,
15:28perpetrated by a former employee named Ed Feinstein.
15:32Ed Feinstein, our reliable narrator.
15:37Or is he unreliable?
15:39My victim, in my case, she owned a pet grooming company.
15:45When a customer uses their debit card or credit card, they swipe it through the machine.
15:50And so the funds will eventually go into your business account.
15:55I think it was about thirty-some thousand dollars before my victim understood that money was no longer going into her business account.
16:02We had to find out what account it went to, and then this came back to Mr. Feinstein.
16:07While I was working on that, my victim complained of a second instance.
16:12Feinstein was in charge of taking the checks and the daily receipts,
16:15but instead of depositing it into her business account, he was depositing it into his personal account.
16:21To a tune of maybe a hundred thousand or more, that's when we arrested him.
16:25He's a smart and intelligent guy, so he really knows how to talk to people,
16:28but unfortunately he used it, in my opinion, in the wrong way.
16:32Ed was convicted of identity theft and grand theft and sentenced to sixteen months in prison.
16:40And he served his time.
16:43So, you know, it seems like these crimes are motivated by greed,
16:46but when Ed got out, he returned to West Hollywood.
16:49He'd got a vendetta against his former grooming business employer,
16:53and that's where we see the seeds of the M.O. that he later unleashed on Don.
16:58The same victim contacts me, and she says that she's getting text messages,
17:05pictures of her house and her car coming out of her driveway with some threatening messages,
17:10basically saying, you know, I'm following you, do you know who this is, and so forth.
17:13She suspected that it was Mr. Feinstein.
17:16I investigated, and based on that, he was invalidated on his parole
17:20and sent back to prison for a little bit.
17:22He doesn't let things lie, you know.
17:24He will harass you, and if he feels you did him wrong or you got him in trouble,
17:29Eddie would definitely make you crazy thinking that you're being followed,
17:33thinking that you're being stalked, because he can lead danger to your door,
17:37and he doesn't hesitate to do so.
17:39I was young when everything happened, and unfortunately ran with the wrong crowd,
17:54and I might have gotten into a little bit of trouble for borrowing some money that wasn't mine.
17:59Served my time, and it is what it is, and what am I going to do?
18:03Lop off my hand and repent for the rest of my life?
18:07To the outside world, it might seem crazy that this is all over facials and waxing.
18:17This is LA.
18:19Our facialist is just as important as our priest, our rabbi, and our therapist.
18:26I'm Tamar Armanach, and I am an attorney in Los Angeles.
18:30I was hired by Nick originally, and that's how I got familiar with the case.
18:35Nick Prugo gained notoriety as a head of a crew of cat burglars in Los Angeles.
18:41In fact, the most famous cat burglars in the history of Los Angeles.
18:46Nick Prugo was part of this LA bling ring crew.
18:52And for several months, they really terrorized the LA celebrities.
18:59The bling ring was a huge media sensation who would break into celebrities' homes like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton and Orlando Bloom.
19:06All of LA was on high alert.
19:08They were trying to figure out who was behind this crime ring.
19:11And it turned out that it was basically a group of teenagers from the valley.
19:15One of the members of the bling ring was caught on a security camera.
19:20She was picked up.
19:21She turned in Nick Prugo and said, that's the ringleader.
19:24The bling ring was brought down in 2009.
19:29Nick Prugo pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two years in prison.
19:33I met Nick through mutual friends a few years before Don came into the equation.
19:41Then he had gone to jail, and then we had picked up the relationship once he was out.
19:46And this is where our two stories collide.
19:53I remember exactly when Don first mentioned Nick to me.
19:59In 2013, she was doing well.
20:02And she was looking to leverage the connections that she had acquired in Hollywood.
20:09Celeb reality was kind of the thing at the moment.
20:12And she thought, you know, why not take his notoriety and try to see if it had any value in the reality TV market?
20:19And Don decided that she was going to be Nick's manager.
20:24So I guess in Los Angeles, you can be an agent hyphen facialist?
20:32Since he was such an expert burglar, the show might have him talking about how people can better secure their homes
20:39so that, you know, they don't get robbed.
20:42And the catchphrase was going to be, take it from me before I take it from you.
20:46But at the same time, I was giving him facials in my clinic because he had terrible skin.
20:51They were spending a lot of time together.
20:54They had formed a personal friendship.
20:57There were multiple times Nick Prugo himself had reached out to his parole officer and said,
21:02would you please start talking to this woman named Dawn Deluise?
21:05She takes care of me.
21:06I'm going to her for skin care.
21:08Dawn claims that the parole officer deputized her as a parole agent to watch over Nick, which is that legal?
21:17Nick and Dawn's relationship was starting to grow a little acrimonious
21:22because Dawn was sort of forsaking her skin care business in order to help sell the show.
21:28He started to get too full of himself.
21:32He wasn't showing up for meetings.
21:34He was sort of blowing me off in an indignant way.
21:37He's not taking his urine tests and he's been going to Vegas.
21:40And I immediately called up that parole officer and told him that because I said,
21:44I don't want to be accountable for him anymore.
21:46It's when I dropped him that things got really bad.
21:49Now, after Dawn reported Nick, he went back to prison for violating his parole,
21:54which essentially ended their friendship.
21:56When you're on parole, you're not supposed to leave the state.
22:00But I mean, we just went for the weekend and we came back.
22:03It's not like we were committing crimes in Nevada.
22:06I don't think that that was something that she should have called and tattled
22:12because he ultimately went to jail for it.
22:15And according to Dawn, this is the answer to the question, why?
22:20Nick was so angry at the perceived betrayal that he and Ed gaslit Dawn into believing that Gabriel was out to get her,
22:29all while they were harassing her in the shadows in the name of revenge.
22:35That's just an thing to do.
22:39But I guess she got her karma because she went to jail for a year, so.
22:44Dawn's version of this always was that Ed and Nick were behind all of this, gaslighting her the entire time,
22:54telling her that it was Gabriel.
22:57And she was acquitted based on that.
23:00That is not what this was.
23:02I feel like with Dawn, the best analogy that I have is she likes to say,
23:07well, you know, I was found not guilty.
23:09Well, you know what?
23:10So was O.J. Simpson.
23:11And we know it really happened there.
23:13So, sorry Dawn.
23:17She was in on it.
23:19From the very beginning, this is exactly the path that Dawn wanted to go down.
23:26She wanted the Craigslist ads posted.
23:28She wanted the flyers done.
23:30She wanted the text messages.
23:33She used Nick and Ed to direct the setup of Gabriel's harassment.
23:39She's the one that came up with everything.
23:41Nick and Ed are innocent.
23:49So Gabriel moved into the complex to ultimately poach her clients, according to Dawn.
23:58And she was just extremely paranoid with him being one door down.
24:03And she really felt that she needed to get him gone.
24:08I had worked for a property management company.
24:11So she had asked, like, hey, look, you know, I'm having a problem with this guy, which was Gabriel.
24:16I need to get him out of the building.
24:18From your standpoint, could I do that?
24:21And in the brief knowledge that I had, I said, well, if you have a police report, I would assume that your landlord would have to do something.
24:32Dawn had brought up the idea, which was our downfall.
24:36Hey, boys, I don't really know how to use the computer that well.
24:40Do you think you could help me out and I won't charge you for facials?
24:43And at $150 a pop a couple times a week, sure, yeah, I'll help you.
24:48Ed went along with the whole thing, was in for it, just like Nick was.
24:55That's got to be a really good facial.
24:58At any time, she could have told us to stop.
25:00We would have stopped.
25:01We had no reason to do it on our own.
25:03She was our friend.
25:04She was caught participating in the stalking of herself.
25:09Here's a problem with Ed's subversion that they were just doing this for Dawn.
25:16It makes a lot more sense that they engage in this harassment for revenge and not for a lifetime of free facials.
25:26Nick and Ed both had prior felony convictions.
25:29And in California, which is a three strike state, if you're smart, you don't want to take any chances.
25:35Because the third strike can carry a life sentence.
25:39If Ed and Nick were doing this out of revenge, well, people go to all kinds of lengths for revenge.
25:45So was the harassment against Dawn motivated by retribution on the part of Nick?
25:52With Ed helping his friend in this situation?
25:55This seems incredibly risky, but possible.
26:00Three strikes, that.
26:03You automatically get two strikes for bad skin in this town.
26:06So another thing that Dawn kind of claims is that all of this kind of harassment that was happening to her happened after the fact of her calling the parole officer and Nick ultimately going to jail for a parole violation.
26:21But that's not true.
26:22Her timeline is very imaginatory and it doesn't line up to the facts.
26:31We went through 6,000 messages from Dawn's phone.
26:35If there were messages between her and Ed or between her and Nick stating, let's set up this ruse, we would have seen those.
26:46Stalking myself, slashing my own tires so that I would have a legitimate reason to murder this business rival next door.
26:54I was not doing any of that.
26:56She never changed her phone number.
26:58I know if I was getting hundreds of texts a day and , I probably would change my phone number, right?
27:05That would be number one.
27:06There were never any recorded calls of her calling 911, saying somebody's trying to break in.
27:12She wasn't getting the response that she needed from the police department to get Gabriel out of the building.
27:20So she asked us to escalate in.
27:23That is when there's text messages and there's phone calls between Dawn and Ed directed to terrorize Gabriel.
27:33Do I have any proof?
27:34I mean, what don't I have?
27:38I have texts of Dawn talking about how she's going to post Craigslist ads for Gabriel to have men come over and potentially assault Gabriel.
27:50I have text messages where Dawn asked us to key Gabriel's car.
27:57My car got keyed twice.
28:00I had a beautiful Audi convertible that I had just bought.
28:04I believe that she was nudging me.
28:06She was picking at me.
28:07She wanted a reaction out of me.
28:09She was egging me on until she got a confrontation that she could tell people that we had one.
28:16We never had one.
28:17I never gave it to her.
28:19That's the real story.
28:20In some of the text messages, she had brought up that she was going to lie to the police,
28:26and say that Gabriel was in her apartment, that Gabriel was going to kidnap her.
28:31And she sort of acted it out for us in kind of a comical way.
28:37She bound her wrist with some scarves and gagged herself like she was kidnapped and escaped and looking for help.
28:45She was very much orchestrating and directing what Nick and Ed were doing for her.
28:56We were laughing and she was laughing.
28:58And again, we never really took anything serious because we knew what was going on, right?
29:06That video was a big thing in court.
29:08My attorney Tamar had asked, hey, is there a video of you tying yourself up pretending that you're kidnapped?
29:14No, absolutely not.
29:15No, absolutely not.
29:16And then Tamar said, hit the lights, played the video.
29:19And at that point, I just feel like any credibility that she had, which was not much, was gone.
29:26How do you explain that video?
29:28I can't.
29:29It wasn't me being tied up in video.
29:31It wasn't.
29:32No.
29:33If this is my apartment, there was a window right there.
29:36And one day I was sitting there and a woman with a gag on and her hands tied is smashing against my window and going,
29:46and it scared the crap out of me.
29:48This is before those men were around or anything.
29:50I thought it was a hostage that had escaped from one of the other tenants' area.
29:56I go out there and I see a man and a woman pushing her into one of the apartments.
30:02And I learned later she was a severely autistic relative.
30:06She was just very, very handicapped.
30:08Whatever was wrong with her made her like this all the time and she finally had to have her hand.
30:12And I was trying to tell them this thing happened and it scared the crap out of me and I was pantomiting it.
30:19Dawn was like a birthday clown performing, right?
30:23Like everything that she said, she was just caught in a lie.
30:30Dawn's explanation to our producers about why she was tying herself up in a video pretending to be kidnapped raises serious questions about her credibility.
30:40We have learned during the course of investigating this story, and Dawn has confirmed that even before Gabriel moved in next door to her, there was another facialist.
30:49And she had problems with that facialist.
30:51I remember there was a group of women, they moved into the building and she was freaking out about them potentially taking her clients.
31:03She said they were causing problems.
31:05She said that she was calling the building manager a lot.
31:08And eventually the women were just out of there.
31:11I don't know if they got kicked out or they just had enough.
31:15I had problems with her because she was accosting my clients and she was gone in no time because of the landlord kicking her out when he learned.
31:24It was an odd after hours sex sort of thing.
31:27Not only was it a brothel, but it was also a mini transvestite gathering.
31:33Sound familiar?
31:35Maybe this is a pattern on Dawn's part.
31:37This is exactly what Dawn does.
31:40She just has to go balls to the wall to get him kicked out.
31:44Whatever she needed to do.
31:46So Ed and Nick were charged with felonies for stalking Dawn, but they didn't go to trial.
31:52Because in the end they were offered misdemeanor stalking plea deals with three years probation and 350 hours of community service.
32:00And they jumped at it because they're both convicted felons.
32:05And so they would have served some significant state prison time.
32:10For what they say they were just doing because Dawn asked them to.
32:13A lot of these allegations can come down to really a he said, she said.
32:17There is corroboration for them, but you've got to believe their stories to believe one side or the other.
32:24And both of them have credibility problems.
32:27In fact, Ed is currently engaged in a situation with his neighbor in Leona Valley that includes allegations of stalking.
32:37Edward Feinstein. Everyone knew that he was someone to be leery of.
32:42My name is Carrie Lynn and I'm at Medicine Horse Ranch in Leona Valley, California.
33:01Leona Valley is a small town. We've only got two restaurants, a store, a feed store.
33:07So not a lot of us out here, but those of us who are here really love being here.
33:12In the fall of 2019, I had received a call from a friend who had a new neighbor move in.
33:18In Leona Valley, a lot of the properties were divided many, many years ago.
33:22Most people, if the property lines are off by a foot or whatever, we just agree to leave it that way.
33:28Because it's a lot easier than tearing down fences and drawing a new line a foot over.
33:33That wasn't the case with the new neighbor.
33:36Edward Feinstein.
33:38I hired a surveyor. The neighbor wasn't happy about it.
33:42And it kind of spiraled into not a good situation.
33:49Edward was very upset about the property line and started having a dispute with my friend who was his neighbor.
33:55He had gotten quite vocal and threatening.
33:58And so she looked him up and it didn't take long for her to discover that he had quite a history.
34:04So when she told me what she had found, his connections to the bling ring guy and what happened to the esthetician.
34:13And how worried she was about this neighbor.
34:16So then I was intrigued.
34:18And I looked up Dawn and found her contact information and reached out to her and asked,
34:25How much danger am I in?
34:27We agreed to meet in person and have a chat and she wanted to learn more about me
34:32and tell me a little bit more about her story with Edward.
34:35I connected with Carrie and I really liked her right away.
34:40So, you know, we're comparing notes and all that.
34:42And she would tell me horror stories about what she would endure with him.
34:45She had visited the ranch a couple of times.
34:48She was really trying to keep as close a tabs on Edward as she possibly could.
34:53You know, it just made me extremely uncomfortable because Dawn is now coming an hour and a half out of her way,
35:01passing my house, knowing where I live, what kind of vehicles I drive,
35:06to go to this person's house to, you know, sit there and talk about me.
35:10Okay, so this neighbor reaches out to Dawn and Dawn goes up to visit and become friends with somebody who did have an issue with Ed.
35:19That is just not smart.
35:21Get on with your life, rebuild yourself, and just stay away from him.
35:26Carrie just kind of went with the Dawn story and told everybody I was this awful person.
35:33And that small town kind of turned on me.
35:36There was a number of us ladies in town who formed an email group about, let's, you know, let me know what you discover, if anything happens, because we just don't know what kind of threat he is.
35:48So this lady apparently thinks that she's the town crier because people don't mind their business when things don't have anything to do with them.
36:01I was riding my horse past his ranch one day, and he had come out of his gate quite aggressively and approached me on my horse and was threatening that he has ways to destroy us and my mortgage could be in trouble.
36:18And I was like, what the hell?
36:19And this was after a couple months of him flipping us the bird every time we drive by.
36:24There were a couple of law enforcement people that I spoke with who did indicate that I should be careful, saying, watch yourself.
36:35My concern was this person who was able to do this to Dawn now lived five doors away from me and hated my guts.
36:43We were mortal enemies and I would not piss on her if she was on fire.
36:51I was diagnosed with breast cancer early in the spring of 2022.
36:56And my friends were posting on my Facebook and, you know, wishing me luck and good health and things as I was going into treatment.
37:03And I had gotten a friend request from a local person with just a cartoon picture, very naive of me.
37:10But this person had also befriended a lot of my other friends in Leona Valley.
37:15So I thought, oh, maybe it's a new person and it was a woman's name.
37:18And so I accepted the friend request.
37:21And it wasn't very long after that, there was a loose peacock running down the road.
37:28I had known Edward had peacocks and I emailed him and said, is this your peacock?
37:33I said, I was just trying to be neighborly. And he said, what would have been more neighborly is you to mind your own effing business this whole last two years.
37:40And, and you deserve the cancer that you have.
37:44There is that saying that for every action, there's a reaction and she got a hell of a reaction.
37:54And it clicked in my head because I thought, how on earth do you know?
37:59And then I thought about this person, this unknown Facebook friend, and I went back and looked again and there was, it was clearly a fake profile.
38:07This is Edward.
38:10First of all, don't add people you don't know or don't have social media. Problem solved.
38:20So when you look at all the key players in this story, Don and Ed and Gabriel and Nick, who's the most reliable storyteller?
38:30Who doesn't have credibility issues? Who doesn't have a record? It's Gabriel.
38:35It's Gabriel. Gabriel is the one who comes out the most credible.
38:43It's really astounding the lengths people will take to preserve the life they've built.
38:49Here it's Dawn and her business in the highly competitive skincare industry.
38:54And how people will do almost anything to have beautiful skin like Ed and Nick.
39:00Until of course, things went sideways with Dawn.
39:03It's always good to do dumpster diving behind any kind of salons because you never know what they will throw out.
39:14I hope this isn't to parody me as a fool.
39:19I just hope there aren't any rats in here that start to bite.
39:21Hmm. Let's see what this is. Oh my goodness. You guys.
39:36Dermalogical. Skin hydrating mask. Are you freaking kidding me?
39:39This has got to be at least about $90. Just poking around in here, right? I promise I didn't plant these things. Oh, wait, wait, look.
39:50What is this? A skin perfecting primer? I've actually needed one of those.
39:54Dawn has the brightest outlook on life, even with all the tragedy that she has suffered.
40:04Guys, this is about $200 worth of stuff. And it hasn't been opened either.
40:08Who would get rid of that? You gotta wonder. There is no rhyme or reason. There is no logic behind throwing these things away.
40:16Even though these horrible individuals tried to ruin her life, she is back to the dawn and looking fabulous that I always knew.
40:27Who knows what else I'll find before the day is over?
40:30Wow.
40:34I live a very normal life and I keep to myself. I'm not fixated on Dawn or hacking into Carrie's Facebook to find out what she's having for dinner tonight.
40:46I definitely think that Dawn tracks me and I definitely feel like she's probably on my Facebook under a fake account.
40:55I mean, if she wants to know what I'm up to, she can definitely come pick up a pitchfork and help me pick up some .
41:01That would be appreciated. So Dawn, if you're watching this, call me and I can put you to work.
41:08You can keep your top on this time.
41:09There's a rumor that the school principal hypnotizes kids.
41:21It never seemed harmful at first.
41:24And then the kids fall into his lap.
41:26Like he looked like he was like demonic.
41:29Who gave him the right to be God?
41:32I didn't.
41:33There's sinister people in this world.
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