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00:14I knew he was in trouble when he was sleeping with a 9mm under the couch.
00:20He was deep in gambling debts.
00:23I knew right away this is not going to end well.
00:27It occurred in broad daylight.
00:36Two armed men approached the truck and took away a sack of cash with a million dollars in it.
00:45One of the suspects was wearing a Santa Claus outfit.
00:53We needed someone on the inside to lay it all out for us.
00:59It looked like the body was killed somewhere else and buried in a snowbank.
01:04Loose lips sink ships.
01:06Usually end up with a bullet hole in these somewhere along the way.
01:09Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
01:11Yeah! Yeah!
01:12Yeah! Yeah!
01:27Southington, Connecticut.
01:31It's a quiet town.
01:34Middle class workers, a lot of them worked in factories.
01:41The town is approximately 28 square miles. It's rather rural.
01:50It's not a place where many crimes are occurring.
02:00December 20th, 1989, we were getting a lot of snow.
02:06It was below zero. It was that cold.
02:11That morning, one of the captains came in and said,
02:14I believe we have a homicide.
02:18The pastor of a church discovered somebody buried in the snow.
02:29I went to West Center Street where the crime scene was petitioned off.
02:34And sure enough, there was a body on top of the snowbank.
02:39It was pretty obvious that the person was deceased.
02:42Rigor mortis had set in.
02:45He was stiff. He certainly was not breathing.
02:49The victim had red hair, red beard, and emerald earring in one of his ears.
02:54And appearing to be about 25 years old.
03:00We asked the Reverend if he knew who this person was or had ever seen him before.
03:05And he had not.
03:07After a few minutes of looking around, it was quite obvious to us that the person did not die there.
03:17There was no sign of any struggle whatsoever.
03:20There was a snowstorm that night, but there was no tire marks in the snow.
03:27It appeared that he was just thrown out of a vehicle because of the way he was laying on the
03:32snowbank.
03:34I remember thinking nobody took time to hide it.
03:37They were rushing.
03:38Someone was just looking for a dark place just to get rid of the body.
03:44Then I noticed the blood.
03:47It looked like he had bitten through his tongue.
03:54I saw strangle marks around his neck telling me the victim had been strangled to death.
04:03We really had no clue as to who this person was and why he was murdered.
04:08We need to find out who murdered him and to bring them to justice.
04:35Connecticut, it's a small state.
04:38It's not all Martha Stewart.
04:40We're not all fancy houses.
04:43It's more working class than it is the wealthy.
04:51I grew up in New Britain, a working class city.
05:00Pubs and bars are more of a friendly, meet your buddies kind of place.
05:06It's really a small city.
05:08A little rugged.
05:10We were raised to always protect each other.
05:19There were six of us kids.
05:24The two oldest hung out a lot together.
05:27The two youngest hung out a lot together.
05:30And then there was me and Robert in the middle.
05:33And we hung out a lot together.
05:37Robert was just goofy.
05:39He took goofy pictures.
05:42He was always somebody that you could rely on.
05:51When I was 10, my brother Robert and I were out in the driveway shoveling.
05:58Mom came out with a suitcase.
06:01A friend of hers picked her up.
06:05And mom said goodbye, climbed in the car.
06:10We never saw her again.
06:14Just gone.
06:18I just don't think that she was cut out to be a mom.
06:24It hurt my dad.
06:26Real bad.
06:38Mom leaving was pretty difficult for all of us.
06:43Six kids.
06:46We got into some trouble probably because of it.
06:51There was some pain, disbelief.
06:54Robert asked what caused it.
06:56Was it us?
06:57It was pretty rough on Robert for a while.
07:01It was tough.
07:04After high school, Robert went in the military.
07:07He was stationed in Germany for two years.
07:11I asked for military police and he loved it.
07:15He came home and he did a lot of odd jobs.
07:18He did landscaping.
07:21He worked as a Loomis armored car guard.
07:24Which made sense.
07:26But he really wanted to get his own business.
07:30Robert worked as a bartender, bouncer at Zindi's, a bar in Canton.
07:42Jeff's owner was the owner of Zindi's and Robert was like, he's going to help me become a business owner.
07:49We're going to work together.
07:50He's helping me.
07:53In 1986, Jeff purchased Bankers.
07:56He called them Bankers because it was an old bank and it had a bank vault in it.
08:00Jeff wanted to turn it into a restaurant.
08:03Robert was working for Jeff, helping him, fixing it up.
08:07He loved it.
08:08He wanted to do big things.
08:11He had big dreams.
08:13Robert and Jeff got to be buddies.
08:16They did a lot of things together.
08:18He was just a really good friend of Robert's.
08:29Robert lived in New Britain with me.
08:33Robert worked at night.
08:35I worked days.
08:36He would borrow my car, which was fine.
08:38As long as he was home in the morning so I could go to work.
08:48After a while living with him, I could sense something was going on.
08:55He would get up and run to the window and look out and the car would stop.
09:00And I kept asking him what was wrong.
09:02And he would tell me, what you don't know can't hurt you.
09:09And then I knew he was really in trouble.
09:13When he was sleeping with a 9mm under the couch.
09:17Robert wasn't small.
09:18He was 230 pounds so, for him to carry a gun, yeah.
09:22It's kind of a telltale sign, something's up.
09:28On December 19th, 1989, he got dressed, he was going to work.
09:36I found the gun under the couch after he was gone.
09:40That was unusual, because that gun went with him everywhere.
09:45Later, he called me from bankers and told me that he had to go to New Haven.
10:02The next morning I got up and my car wasn't in the driveway.
10:08And Robert wasn't on the couch.
10:11I started calling around.
10:15I couldn't find Robert anywhere.
10:17I didn't know where he was.
10:19That was not like Robert.
10:21Robert was reliable.
10:23If I said, you can use my car, but I need it back by 12, he was there by 12.
10:27Always.
10:30There was just a gut feeling.
10:33I just knew something was not right.
10:41He owed everybody in town head IOUs over the place.
10:45You don't know who's stealing the cards.
10:47They could set you up and then take you for it all.
10:52Robert confiding in me was mind-numbing.
10:55And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me.
10:58I was stunned.
11:00It was the total setup from the beginning.
11:22December 20th, 1989, in the morning.
11:26I got up and my car wasn't in the driveway.
11:28I started calling around, trying to find my car.
11:33And I couldn't find my brother Robert anywhere.
11:36I didn't know where he was.
11:42That morning, in Southington, the captain got the phone call that there was a body found in a church parking
11:48lot.
11:53The body was frozen, solid like a block of ice, buried in a snow bank.
11:58There was no signs of a struggle there.
12:02There was no footprints.
12:04No blood.
12:05No snow.
12:06And it looked like the body was killed somewhere else and dumped there.
12:12It had snowed that night.
12:14And the rigor mortis kicks in a lot quicker when it's that cold.
12:21The victim was tall.
12:23He had red hair and a red beard.
12:26He had an earring in his left ear.
12:29And we noticed some blood on his face and the groin area of his pants.
12:35And we didn't see any bullet holes or anything like that.
12:40You could see strangle marks on his neck, which went all around except for the back, making me suspect that
12:47he was strangled in the sitting position from behind.
12:50But probably in the car because the headrest would prevent the ligature marks to go completely around his neck.
13:00I also found on top of the body a glove manufactured by Boss.
13:14The body had no identification on it whatsoever.
13:18We really had no clue as to who this person was.
13:22The snow on the snow bank hadn't been disturbed hardly at all.
13:26No tire marks.
13:28Nothing.
13:31I knocked on the few doors, some of the neighbors, nobody had seen anything.
13:36At that time, the body was taken to the coroner's office.
13:46We went back to the police station.
13:51Sent an APB out to all police departments informing that we had a victim.
13:56No ID.
13:58Red hair, red beard, and emerald earring in one of his ears.
14:01And appearing to be about 25 years old.
14:04No long after that, a detective from Canton, Connecticut, calls and says it might be a guy he knows, a
14:11bouncer named Robert Schmidt.
14:13This detective said that he worked for a guy named Jeff Stenner who owned Zindi's Bar and Banker's Bar in
14:20New Britain.
14:21So we reached out to Jeff Stenner.
14:24He told me that him and Robbie were good friends.
14:28I asked him to come with us to the coroner's office and make an ID.
14:38When the sheet was pulled, I saw Jeff kind of hesitate.
14:42You could tell this affected him.
14:45And he goes, yeah, that's Robbie.
14:48And he was quite upset.
14:54I got a phone call and Jeff told me that they had found Robert's body.
15:01It just, it shattered my life.
15:05I mean, Rob was my friend.
15:09He was the one I called when good things happened.
15:21Stunned, flabbergasted, denial, heartbroken.
15:29Not what a holiday is supposed to be.
15:33And it has changed everyone ever since.
15:38For sure.
15:52One of the first things we did was we ran Robert Schmidt's background.
15:56That's something we always do.
15:57And he had a pretty clean record.
16:00During the investigation, we brought in Robert's two brothers,
16:04Steven and Keith, to find out if there is anyone who wanted to hurt their brother.
16:09They said that on March 4th, 1987, Robert Schmidt was working with the Loomis Armored Car Services when he was
16:17the victim of an armed robbery while he was working.
16:21Anyone who was involved in that robbery, if they felt that Robbie was ratting them out, that would be motive
16:27enough for them to kill him.
16:28Two years later, Robert Schmidt was found deceased in a snowbank.
16:34Is there some connection between these two cases?
16:38We were not quite sure.
16:40The brothers also said that Robert Schmidt was a pretty good-sized gambler.
16:46I found out that Robert was gambling through the police.
16:50I was shocked.
16:51You don't know who's dealing the cards.
16:53So he could set you up and then take you for it all.
17:01The next day, I started interviewing people that were employees of Banker's Restaurant.
17:07We interviewed the owner, Jess Stenner.
17:10He led me to believe that Robbie was deep in gambling debts, owed everybody in town, had IOUs over the
17:17place.
17:18His sister, Laura, told us he was being paranoid, catering a gun with him.
17:24I thought maybe it was he had a gambling debt.
17:27I knew this was probably a good motive to kill him.
17:32According to the people I spoke to, Robbie was supposed to be picked up by someone at 10 o'clock
17:38that night.
17:40He left the downstairs lounge, went outside, nobody saw him after that.
17:48The owner just then was telling me that Robbie's car, he had borrowed from his sister, Laura, was in the
17:55parking lot outside of Banker's.
17:59When I approached the car, it was unlocked.
18:02I find that kind of odd, especially in that section of town.
18:06I popped the trunk, I look and I find some rope, which is approximately the same circumference of the ligature
18:13marks on the victim's neck.
18:16I look underneath the seat and I find a tag from Boss.
18:22And I remember there was the Boss glove that was found on top of the body.
18:29I talked to Laura about the rope in the trunk and the glove.
18:33And she said, no, it's not my glove.
18:36And she said, I had no rope in the trunk of the car.
18:41I said to myself, Bingo, this is it.
18:45This car is where he was murdered.
19:07On the morning of December 20th, 1989, Robert Smith was found and murdered, buried in a snowbank.
19:19We believe that he was killed in the sister's car.
19:28And we seized Robbie's sisters on the Civic.
19:33We process it from the front to the back.
19:36We check for fingerprints, we check for DNA, and we wait for their results to come.
19:47During one of the interviews with Robbie's boss, Jess Stenner, he led me to believe that Robbie was deep in
19:53gambling debts.
19:54I thought that maybe this is why he was murdered.
20:00If he had a lot of debt, you have to find who would want to kill him.
20:14Christmas time, 1989, we spent that entire holiday knowing we had to bury my brother.
20:26We did Robert's Wake on the 26th.
20:30I've never seen my father weak until then.
20:37To watch him bury his son.
20:41Dad's aged like a hundred years in that period of time.
20:53As a detective, I always go to the wake to pay my respects and sit there and just listen and
21:00watch.
21:02You never know what you're going to find out.
21:06I see Jeff Stenner walk into the funeral parlor and with him is his wife, Jill.
21:14Jill was really uncomfortable.
21:16She just wouldn't look at me at all.
21:19Not long after the wake, Robbie's father told us that Jeff had asked the funeral director for a death certificate
21:26on Robbie Schmidt.
21:27My father was furious that Jeff Stenner had the audacity to show up at our brother's wake and ask for
21:34a death certificate.
21:36That's ballsy.
21:45So I brought Jeff Stenner back in for another interview.
21:49He informed me that he had life insurance policies on key employees in the amount of $100,000.
21:55It was just a way to protect his business.
21:59Needless to say, I find that suspicious.
22:02It goes to motive.
22:05He was the beneficiary of a lot of money.
22:09So that changed my attitude of Jeff Stenner.
22:13He went from being a friend to a suspect.
22:22After that, I started interviewing customers who had been at Banker's Restaurant the night prior to the body being found.
22:32I spoke to a man, he was a stockbroker, and he says the night of December 19th, he saw Robbie
22:41Schmidt with Jeff Stenner in the parking lot with two guys.
22:45His words, they look like bodybuilders.
22:50It took me a while to put a name on these two guys.
22:54I was talking to an undercover New Britain narcotics officer.
22:57Through my talking to him, giving him a description of these guys, he came up with two names.
23:03Scott Cancel and John Gretzschek.
23:12So I went directly to Scott Cancel's place.
23:15And John Gretzschek is there.
23:18And I asked him about the story.
23:22They're cooperating with the stockbroker told me.
23:25Scott Cancel said, yeah, we were in the parking lot.
23:28I was talking business with Jeff and Robbie.
23:30They want some renovation done.
23:33We didn't have probable cause to take their fingerprints.
23:36So I checked on both of them.
23:39And John Gretzschek had no fingerprints on file at all.
23:42He had no criminal record at all.
23:44Scott Cancel had an extensive police record.
23:47So I took Scott Cancel's fingerprints that were on file and had the forensic lab check them to see if
23:53they match any of the fingerprint list that was obtained on Laura Scar.
23:58There was no match.
24:03But I never wrote them off.
24:06Every person we had available, we interviewed, we did everything.
24:10But it got to the point where nothing was coming our way.
24:22And then, one day, Robbie's brother, Jay, came to my office.
24:27And he said he had something to tell me.
24:30I told the police that my brother and I were having a drink together.
24:35I hadn't seen him in a while.
24:36And he asked me, do I know anything about Santa Claus robberies in West Hartford?
24:44He said he was part of it.
24:47And I said, what? What are you talking about?
24:51He was shaky, scared.
24:54He said, yes.
24:55Jeff robbed the armored car in his Santa Claus suit.
24:59I didn't say anything because I was the only one that knew.
25:03It's a brother's bond.
25:06It's a brother's bond.
25:06We're not going to snitch on each other.
25:08But Robert ended up dead.
25:10So, I told him everything.
25:14Jay said that on December 20th, 1988, Jeff Stenner was a lone gunman,
25:20and he made Robbie Smith the driver of the getaway car.
25:27It was just a total setup from the beginning.
25:31My brother said, Jeff's the only one that saw the money.
25:34I knew Robert was scared.
25:36I think Jeff had Robert in his pocket.
25:39He said, if dad ever finds out, dude, you're done.
25:41My father would have dragged him right to the police station.
25:46I knew right away, this is not going to end well.
25:49Loose lips, sink ships.
25:51Usually end up with a bullet hole in you somewhere.
25:57$1.8 million total was stolen.
26:03His jaw dropped.
26:05He says, okay, I'll tell you everything I know.
26:08If they felt that he was ratting them out, that would be motive enough for them to kill him.
26:26Late in December 1989, Robbie's brother Jay came to my office and he said he had something to tell me.
26:35Jay said that Robbie had told him that Robbie had been involved with an armored car robbery with his boss,
26:42Jeff Stenner.
26:45Anyone who was involved in that robbery, if they felt that Robbie was ratting them out or talking to the
26:52feds, that would be motive enough for them to kill him.
26:57Unfortunately, Jay is just telling me a story.
27:00He didn't have any concrete evidence.
27:03It's all hearsay information.
27:06So, couldn't get enough probable cause to make an arrest on it.
27:09I was at a dead end on this.
27:12And so, the case got cold.
27:21I arrived in the summer of 91 to Hartford as a brand new FBI agent.
27:26We were investigating two separate armored car robberies.
27:31One in March of 87 and the other in December of 88.
27:35We believed that it was Jeff Stenner who robbed the armored cars.
27:40We just couldn't prove it.
27:44The first robbery was on March 4th of 1987.
27:49Two armed men approached the Loomis truck while it was making a delivery.
27:55And took away a sack of cash with a million dollars in it.
27:59The FBI found out at the time Robbie Schmidt was working for Loomis and was one of the guards that
28:06had been robbed.
28:09We now believe Robbie Schmidt was the inside man.
28:14There was that theory that Stenner was manipulating Robbie Schmidt into doing this.
28:23The second armored car robbery was on December 20th of 1988.
28:29And it occurred in broad daylight.
28:33One of the suspects was wearing a Santa Claus outfit.
28:38And he and his associate took almost $800,000.
28:43So, $1.8 million total was stolen in both.
28:48Based on the description of one of the witnesses at the Santa Claus robbery,
28:53we had the newspapers put out the sketch.
28:56It just didn't match anybody.
29:00But suspicion was cast on Jeffrey Stenner and his associates.
29:06Because Jeff Stenner and his wife Jill St. John were going to the banks with hundreds of small amounts, $3
29:12,000 and $4,000.
29:14Some of the deposits were occurring the same day of the robberies.
29:20Unfortunately, that is not enough to charge them because you need to prove the underlying offense to show that the
29:26money was gotten through illicit means.
29:35Robbie Schmidt was found murdered on December 20th of 1989 on the one-year anniversary of that second robbery.
29:45Talking with Detective Cliff Saucier, we thought that if we could at least find Jeff Stenner guilty of the armored
29:52car robberies,
29:53it would put pressure on Stenner and his cohorts.
29:57And that the charges would bring leverage against Jeff Stenner in the murder of Robbie Schmidt.
30:04We were up against the timeline because the statute of limitations for bank robberies is five years.
30:10So I only had until March of 92 to solve the case.
30:16The clock was ticking.
30:24I really need someone on the inside to cooperate.
30:28So according to the files, we believe that Stenner also used his employees.
30:35I went to one of the waiters and I knocked on his door and the minute I introduced myself, I
30:41knew that he had been involved in the robbery.
30:43I could just tell by his demeanor.
30:46He denied any involvement, but I told him I'd be back.
30:52We only had less than a month left on the clock before the statute of limitations expired.
30:58We had to get our witness to cooperate.
31:01We needed someone on the inside to lay it all out for us.
31:06And so I kept going back three or four more times.
31:11I went to his house once more.
31:14I said, look, I have a grand jury subpoena for you.
31:16If you don't tell the truth, you could get in a lot of trouble.
31:21And his jaw dropped.
31:24He says, OK, I'll tell you everything I know.
31:27He agreed to cooperate.
31:28And so we agreed not to charge him.
31:31And then I put him in a motel under an assumed name.
31:36He was fearful for his life.
31:39He said, we all know Jeff Stenner killed Robbie Schmidt.
31:43And they were friends.
31:45I'm not even his friend.
31:46So he'll kill me without even batting an eyelid.
32:06And then late January of 92.
32:09I finally got this witness to cooperate.
32:13We were up against the clock because we only had a few days left before the statute of limitations expired
32:19on March 4th.
32:23The next morning, we got the arrest warrants for Stenner and we prepared an arrest plan.
32:35The day of the arrest, we all got together very early in the morning.
32:41The FBI team and Detective Saucier was with us as well.
32:44On January 30th, 1992, three years after Robbie Schmidt had been murdered,
32:51we affected the arrest of Jeff Stenner at his condo in New Britain, Connecticut,
32:56for the armored car robberies and the money laundering.
33:07After all the evidence was presented against him, including the witnesses,
33:11Jeff Stenner agreed to reach a plea deal with the government to avoid a trial.
33:18He agreed to plead guilty to the second Santa Claus robbery.
33:22And the first robbery was dropped.
33:25He was sentenced to eight years in federal prison.
33:30The $1.8 million in cash to this day is unaccounted for.
33:36At the time of Jeff Stenner's arrest for the armored car robberies,
33:39we did not have enough evidence to link him to the murder of Robbie Schmidt.
33:46But the hope was that by charging him that we could shake something loose with his accomplices
33:53that would help in that homicide investigation.
33:58At that time, I got promoted to detective sergeant.
34:02So now I was in charge of the entire detective bureau.
34:08One of the first things I did was to tell two of my detectives,
34:12go through everything, re-interview people that we've already interviewed,
34:16and I want you to resubmit all that evidence we have back to the lab again.
34:26We get a hit this time on a fingerprint that was gathered from the rear-view mirror
34:31next to the driver's side, out of the car where Robert Schmidt was killed.
34:36We found out the fingerprint belongs to a John Greske.
34:40The first time I interviewed John, he had no record and no fingerprints on the file at all.
34:46But now, 2000, he applied for a gun permit.
34:50In Connecticut, when you get a pistol permit, you have to be fingerprinted.
34:54That means now that person has fingerprints that are in this system.
34:58So now, this time, we did have a hit on the fingerprint that we found in 1989.
35:08Your heart does beat a little faster when you get some very good evidence like that.
35:13It just opened up the case wide.
35:19The detectives went to interview him.
35:22At first, he played like he didn't remember the murder.
35:25So, they turned the pressure up on him, showed him some pictures from the crime scene.
35:31And then they showed him the results of the fingerprint identification.
35:36And that's when he said he was involved.
35:39We learned that John had completely turned around.
35:43He was married, he had a family, never got involved in any trouble.
35:47So, he was willing to testify and give up whatever information he had for some leniency from the state's attorney.
35:55He confesses to being the driver of the car where Robbie was murdered.
35:59And then he gives them the guy who did the actual strangling in the backseat.
36:04A guy named Delgado.
36:06John Gretzczyk also tells investigators that night that they were being followed by Scott Cancel.
36:12And a guy named Salvatore Stampy in another car.
36:15John Gretzczyk and Delgado each got a thousand dollars by Jeff Stenner to do the murder.
36:24Now, we had enough new information based on the fingerprints and interviews to get a warrant for Jeff Stenner.
36:32Jeff Stenner was the mastermind. He was the planner. He was the manipulator. He was the one pulling all the
36:41strings.
36:42And he hired these people to, quote unquote, take care of Robbie Schmidt.
36:49We're going to get every single person involved in that homicide.
37:07In the summer of 2001, we got the hit on that fingerprint we collected from the rearview mirror in 1989.
37:16We found out it belongs to a John Gretzczyk.
37:21They went and interviewed him.
37:25He told them that Jeff Stenner hired people to have Robbie Schmidt murdered because he thought Robbie was writing to
37:34the FBI about the bank robberies.
37:36So they were able to get arrest warrants for all of those involved.
37:48So two detectives went out to the prison.
37:51When Stenner saw him, he right away knew who they were and says, hi, boys.
37:56Are you here because I'm getting out of prison tomorrow?
37:59And they said, you know, matter of fact, we have a warrant for your arrest on the Robert Schmidt case.
38:07John Gretzczyk pled guilty, Delgado pled guilty, and Zampi pled guilty.
38:14John Gretzczyk drove the car and Delgado strangled him to death.
38:18So they were both sentenced to 25 years in prison.
38:23Salvador Zampi, for his role in the crime, received three years in prison.
38:27But Scott Cancell and Jeffrey Stenner wanted a jury trial.
38:37Scott Cancell's trial took place in 2002.
38:42John Gretzczyk testified to everything that took place inside the vehicle on December 20th, 1989.
38:51According to their confessions, Jeff Stenner paid Scott Cancell to hire two or three men to have Robbie Schmidt murdered.
39:03Jeff Stenner sent them on an errand.
39:05And then Robbie went along because Stenner was his boss.
39:09John Gretzczyk drove Laura's Honda Civic while Robbie sat in the passenger seat.
39:14And Gilbert Delgado rode in the back seat.
39:20Eventually, John parked the car near Southington Reservoir.
39:24Robert had no idea what was happening when Gilbert Delgado pulled a rope around his neck.
39:32Strangled him.
39:42Around midnight, John and Gilbert pulled into a church parking lot in Southington.
39:49And John Gretzczyk and Delgado got out of the car and grabbed Robbie and pulled them into the snowbank.
39:58And then they left.
40:02And then Salvatore Zampi threw out their clothes.
40:06They were all associates of Jeffrey Stenner.
40:09And they did this at the behest of Jeffrey Stenner.
40:14Jeff Stenner got away with it for a while, but not for long.
40:18After the trial, Scott Cancell was convicted of first-degree murder.
40:23Judge sentenced him to 60 years in prison for his part in the murder.
40:28At Jeff Stenner's trial, I testified that Jeff came in as a friend and mentor for Robert Schmidt.
40:35And then he did the hiring for this murder.
40:39I believe Jeff wanted to eliminate Robbie to prevent him from talking to the authorities.
40:48The jury found him guilty.
40:51And just sentenced him to 60 years in prison for first-degree murder.
41:00Knowing that Jeff is going to go to jail for life is satisfying, but it'll never take the pain away.
41:13Never.
41:15My brother was only 26.
41:17He was just a boy trying to become a man.
41:23And it's a shame that his life was ended in such a drastic and horrible manner.
41:29It's 35 years.
41:35Some days it feels like yesterday.
41:43I want the world to remember Robert and his big heart.
41:47I try to remember more of the smile and the goofy grins and the guy he was to me.
41:57He's missed.
41:58He's loved.
42:01I wish he had the opportunity to be a dad.
42:05I know he would have made an amazing uncle.
42:08I wish my girls got a chance to meet him.
42:14I miss my friend.
42:18Just miss my friend.
42:41I miss my friend.
42:42I miss my friend.
42:44I miss my friend.
42:45I miss my friend.
42:47Kendra Kaurub and I will come back with him.
42:47Bye-bye.
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