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00:09Police are trying to figure out what led to a woman's death inside her home.
00:14She's great. She's very friendly.
00:16Great mom, very involved with her kids.
00:19She was about to get married. The wedding was like a week away.
00:23It looks like a gunshot went, and that's all I know right now.
00:26For an innocent mother of three to be killed in such a tragic manner in their own home, it's terrifying.
00:33Everything about this case rotates around three people.
00:37What would be the motive?
00:38I have no idea.
00:40He was lying about where he was at.
00:43If you had any suspicions, would you tell us?
00:46I interviewed him five times, but I couldn't get him over the fence.
00:50If anybody's going to break this case, it's going to be Ranger Holland.
00:55He set you up like a little bitch.
00:57You got screwed.
01:00Investigators have done just about everything they can do.
01:03But this is your opportunity to make it right.
01:06At the end of the day, someone had to talk.
01:37Hey, James.
01:38James, Jamal with the Rangers, how you doing?
01:40Yes, sir.
01:42Doing all right?
01:43What's that?
01:43What's that?
01:44What's that?
01:48What's that?
01:49What's that?
01:49How's that?
01:50How's that treating you today?
01:51Good.
01:53Another day in paradise, eh?
01:57Nothing like paradise.
01:59I'm working a case from Rallette, a small city
02:02outside of Dallas.
02:0429-year-old James Valetta is in jail
02:06for unrelated charges.
02:08He's also a person of interest
02:10in the murder of Laura Gorilla.
02:12I'm what they call a USIP Ranger, all right?
02:15Unsolved Crime Investigation Team.
02:18A super elite group.
02:20To be a USIP Ranger,
02:21you got to be really, really good at what you do, okay?
02:23It's like the epitome.
02:24It's the top level.
02:25And basically, I report to the governor.
02:28You actually reminded me of the mention
02:29of the six reviews that I heard about,
02:31but the old Wild West days.
02:33Yeah, yeah.
02:33They'll send all these marshals and sheriffs in there,
02:36and get to one Texas Ranger.
02:38One Wild and one Ranger, right?
02:41Rallette PD tells me they have a murder
02:43that occurred six months ago.
02:45They have several suspects,
02:47but they're not having any luck getting any of them to talk.
02:50The case remains unsolved.
02:52Why am I talking to you?
02:54Why am I sitting here today?
02:55Well, because we got a murder that's gone unsolved
02:57for six months.
02:59At the end of the day, there's just people
03:00that need to be punished.
03:01Can't get away with murder.
03:03You know where I'm going with this?
03:17You're hitting the cell phone.
03:23We're out at 9-1-1-1-2, just the emergency.
03:26Yeah, we need an ambulance.
03:30I just shut off, and I went to the kitchen,
03:33and I saw my auntie's father laying on the floor.
03:38Shut up.
03:39Okay, she, she's not moving?
03:44I don't know if I had it.
03:46Okay, hold on, just a minute.
03:47Let me get you some help going, okay?
03:51When the paramedics arrived,
03:53they realized that there was a woman shot on the ground,
03:56and she was not alive.
03:57So immediately, they got out of the home
04:00to wait for officers.
04:12All right, take a point.
04:14They make sure that there's no one in the house,
04:17or nobody else is injured.
04:19All right, let's back out.
04:23Ten houses cleared, three officers coming out.
04:26Clear?
04:27Yeah.
04:28The neighbors are coming out of the woodwork,
04:30like I'm putting on a fire line station.
04:32The officers called for investigators,
04:35and that's when we showed up to the scene.
04:43It was obvious to us that she had been shot
04:45one time in the head.
04:48I don't see any spatter going any other way, though.
04:53The patrolman identifies the victim as Laura Guerrillo.
04:57Based on a Rolette Police Department,
04:59an ID tag that she has.
05:02Laura was a volunteer at the Rolette Police Department.
05:07It didn't make sense.
05:09Laura was 37 years old.
05:12She was a mom of three.
05:15Laura was very well-liked and involved in the community,
05:18had lots of friends.
05:20Just a great person, a great mom,
05:23very involved with her kids.
05:25And that's how she spent her days,
05:27was, you know, caring for the kids.
05:32Laura was about to get married.
05:35The wedding was like a week away.
06:05Her fiancé, John Macris, was from Greece,
06:07was about to get married.
06:08He and Laura kind of worked together.
06:10She did his books and he did the work.
06:13He was also one of our volunteers
06:14here at the police department.
06:16It seemed like anybody that knew Laura really liked her.
06:21for an innocent mother of three to be killed in such a tragic manner
06:25in her own home.
06:26It's terrifying.
06:34John, come here, come here, come here, come here, come here.
06:38John showed up at the scene about 20 minutes after the 911 call
06:42with his daughter because nobody went to pick his daughter up from school that morning.
06:49I don't know what's going on right now.
06:51All I know is there's somebody down inside the house that looks like a gunshot wound.
06:55That is all I can tell you and that's all I know right now.
06:59Who all lives here?
07:03Okay.
07:06Okay.
07:08John initially tells responding officers that Laura's brother,
07:12Brian, John's three children, and his mom live in the house.
07:17He fails to mention that his fiancé, Laura, lives in the house.
07:23Laura's brother, Brian, called 911 around noon saying that he had just woken up.
07:30When he went to the kitchen, he saw a woman laying on the ground.
07:33He assumed that it was John's mother who was in town for their wedding.
07:38He couldn't even make out who was on the floor.
07:42John, here's what I need, okay?
07:45Just to find out everything that's going on, okay?
07:48We're going to, all right?
07:51Listen to me.
07:51I need you to tell me that it's okay for us to go in the house and search and find
07:55out everything.
07:57I'll let you know everything when I find out, okay?
08:01Fair enough?
08:02Okay.
08:04Once we were able to enter the scene, we did an initial walk through to look and see what we
08:10were dealing with.
08:12Shell casing right here.
08:17We found the single shell casing a few feet away from Laura's body, close to her feet.
08:23It was a .40 caliber.
08:27She is just like we saw her.
08:29Okay.
08:30See that?
08:31Can you see her forehead?
08:34Yeah.
08:37How Laura was found was disturbing just because you could tell she was shot immediately getting
08:45into her house.
08:46We haven't touched anything, not even these shoes.
08:49Okay, cool.
08:51Seeing that her shoes were right by the door, the fact that she was still clutching her purse and her
08:56keys in her hand, I mean, you could just tell that this was, she was completely taken off guard.
09:02We could not find any forced entry. There was no doors kicked or pushed in or broken, windows broken,
09:09nothing like that.
09:11In the master bedroom, some drawers had been opened. There was a small safe that was there with the door
09:16standing open. There was no gun. There was no bloody fingerprints or anything like that.
09:24To our other breaking news in Rowlett, where police are trying to figure out what led to a woman's
09:29death inside her home.
09:30Right now, police only calling it a death investigation and could not go into many details.
09:36It's a developing situation.
09:42We did do some canvassing in the neighborhood, talked to a couple of the neighbors.
09:49I was just like shocked.
09:53They lived directly across the street, one house over. And whenever my kids would go outside,
09:59they'd meet their kids, you know, and they grew up with each other.
10:03Laura loved her kids. She was a great mom. So when something like this happened in the neighborhood,
10:08it was, it was, it was nerve wracking, you know?
10:15Her neighbor next door saw her come home that morning,
10:18which gave us the last time that we know for sure somebody saw her alive.
10:23And it was about eight, 10.
10:26Detectives also were able to confirm with the crossing guard that they saw
10:29John leaving the house around 745.
10:35One of the main people that the detectives wanted to interview was Laura's brother, Brian.
10:41They wanted to figure out how was it that someone who was there in the home could not hear a
10:46gunshot,
10:48especially a few feet away.
10:50So we brought Laura's brother down here to the police department to interview him.
10:56Turns out her brother suffered from hearing loss.
11:00Detectives were able to find records to show that in fact,
11:03he couldn't hear at all in one of the ears. So if he slipped on his good ear,
11:08he wouldn't be able to hear anything.
11:11There was nothing but love between Laura and her brother.
11:15So we did eliminate him from being a suspect.
11:20Next person is the victim's fiancee, John.
11:33John is the last one to leave the house, and the murder happened shortly after.
11:43Hey, how you doing, sir?
11:48My next criminal name is on the private police.
12:01I'm sorry for your lungs.
12:08I want you to know that we're going to find out what happened.
12:13Yes, sir.
12:14We're going to find out the police response to it.
12:38It appears that somebody attacked Laura.
12:42What would be the motive for someone to come to you?
12:45in the house, attacked Laura.
12:48How many?
12:50No one here.
12:52You don't keep anything bad, valuable house cash money.
12:56The only thing we had was, uh,
12:58we can have the $9,000 cost.
13:00Laura, it's all that's safe.
13:04It appeared that we were missing $9,000 from the safe.
13:08The safe door was open, but there was no money in there.
13:12John's theory was that she interrupted a robbery.
13:29Let me ask you this.
13:29After John left home that morning, he said that he went to a home improvement store in Dallas,
13:34where he picked up some materials and ultimately made his way to his job site in Dallas.
13:42He pulled out his cell phone for the detective and started giving timestamps.
13:47He actually gave us consent to extract the data on his phone, so we did that.
13:53Investigative 101 stuff, you know, where do you start?
13:55You start at the epicenter.
13:56What's the epicenter?
13:58John.
13:58John.
13:59He says if he has an alibi, maybe the fact that he was gone at the time of murder
14:05was just a little bit too convenient.
14:08You have to really look at him and see if there's any possibility that he's capable of murder.
14:30New information from Rowlett, where neighbors are in disbelief.
14:34The death here inside this home is now considered a homicide.
14:38With no signs of a forced entry, investigators say either someone followed Laura into her home
14:43or was already inside when she returned home from taking her children to school.
14:47Many tonight say it just doesn't add up.
14:53The question is, did Laura's fiancé, John do it?
14:57John immediately plays out his alibi and law enforcement goes back to check it.
15:07John told us which stores he was at.
15:12We actually got a hold of the video.
15:15We were sifting through massive amounts of video surveillance.
15:22We looked for John on video at the home improvement store in Dallas where he told us he was.
15:40He was precise on his timeline and the video confirmed that.
15:46So we knew that at that point he didn't do it.
15:49So that made the question even bigger.
15:52OK, if John didn't do this, who did?
15:56Turns out John wasn't alone on video surveillance.
16:00Detectives also see John's two workers, James Valeta and Jesus Trevino.
16:06They did meet him at the store well over an hour after John arrived.
16:17Jesus Trevino had been a convicted felon for aggravated sexual assault of a child.
16:23And James Valeta was currently on probation for sexual assault of a child.
16:30They both really stood out to us.
16:33So we wanted to find out where were they in that hour before when Laura was killed.
16:49They both said that they had not come to Rowlett on the Friday of the murder.
16:55That they had met up with John.
16:58And he told me, don't be late.
17:01Don't be late to...
17:02What are we going to be up at?
17:05Which one?
17:06In Dallas.
17:10Just started moving doors and he pulled up and...
17:14Beat me in.
17:16John showed up and everything, we started working.
17:21Let me ask you this, I'm going to ask you.
17:22All right, that's okay.
17:23Laura lives in her life.
17:25If you had any suspicions or if you had any personal knowledge, would you tell us?
17:30Yeah, because if y'all find out I'm you, I'm ******.
17:38James is living in a shady motel in Dallas.
17:42So they both claimed that they met up in Dallas and stayed together at James' motel room before
17:48they went to meet up with John to pick up their job supplies for that day.
17:54In these types of situations to verify people's stories and whereabouts, we get their cell phone records.
18:01At that point, we had to wait for the cell phone data. We did not have enough reason to keep
18:06them in custody.
18:08So, after we talked to them, we released them.
18:13The next day, we did get their cell phone records in.
18:18And detectives were able to get tower locations from Jesus Trevino's phone.
18:23They showed that Trevino's phone traveled from Dallas and went all the way to Rowlett and then quickly came back
18:31to Dallas.
18:33At about 7.30, he pinged the tower in Mesquite, which is halfway to Rowlett.
18:37And about 8.30, he pinged the tower on the north side of Rowlett.
18:42And that short time frame of Laura's murder matched precisely when Trevino was in Rowlett.
18:51Trevino was lying about where he and James were at.
18:53We knew that we were on to the right people. Now we just got to prove it.
18:58In researching social media on Jesus Trevino, we were able to obtain a photo of a woman holding a handgun.
19:10We were able to identify that gun as a Springfield XD-40. It's a .40 caliber handgun.
19:17The same caliber of round that was used to kill Laura.
19:21I mean, it's not completely uncommon, but not something that we see a lot.
19:27The woman in this photo dated Jesus Trevino at the time that Laura was killed.
19:33She was able to provide information that helped to finally break the case wide open for us.
19:41When we went to talk to her, she explained that Jesus told her, several months prior to Laura's death,
19:49that he had been paid or was going to be paid by his boss to kill his box's wife.
19:57She thought enough about that information to make a local police report.
20:02We knew who had committed the murder, but we didn't have enough probable cause to take him to custody.
20:12Laura's fiance, John, has an alibi that checks out. We know that he didn't pull the trigger.
20:18But we have a story about him asking Jesus Trevino to kill his wife. If what we're hearing from Jesus'
20:24ex-girlfriend is correct,
20:25then it looks like he is going to be behind pulling the trigger, which leaves James as the driver.
20:32And obviously, it makes no sense that anyone other than John ordered this hit.
20:40We interviewed John multiple times. He's not going to open his mouth and say anything,
20:45because he's the farthest one from what actually happened. Between John's two employees,
20:51the type of personality and their backgrounds, the way they portrayed themselves in the interview,
20:57we thought that James was going to be the weaker of the two. So we decided to put more pressure
21:03on James.
21:09We went to James' motel in Dallas.
21:12Since we're here, I was going to see if it's okay if we search the room.
21:17Cool.
21:19He signed a consent form. And we searched.
21:25I saw a backpack under the bed. And so I reached down there under the bed and I pulled that
21:31black
21:31backpack out. When I pulled that backpack out, he turned his head and he stared at it. He had like
21:39a
21:39startled look on his face. And he stared at the backpack. And he said, that's not mine. That's Jesus'.
21:46And I unzipped it.
21:49And inside was latex gloves and two burner phones.
21:54We're investigating a murder. Why do you have this backpack with this type of things in it,
22:00stashed under your bed?
22:08During our search of James' motel room, the detectives did find a small amount of marijuana.
22:13And we did ultimately make the decision to charge James with possession.
22:18So we've got James in custody, but we couldn't get him to understand the position that he was in
22:24and try to save himself. He still continued to stick to his story, which is, I don't know anything about
22:31what happened to Laura.
22:34I interviewed him five times, but I couldn't get him over the fence.
22:40At this point, Jesus Trevino is a person of interest, but he had just up and disappeared.
22:47No one knew where Trevino was. So detectives do put his information out on the news.
22:54Laura Grillo was found shot to death inside her home. Tuesday,
22:59Rowlett police announced a person of interest. 30-year-old Jesus Trevino.
23:05If someone could provide us with information, that will help us in locating him.
23:10John also went ahead and gave an interview here in the parking lot of our police station.
23:15Why somebody will do something like that with her? I mean, I'm not talking about Jesus. I'm talking about,
23:21in general, why? And I mean, now a name comes up, it's somebody that I know.
23:28It's like, the why now is even bigger.
23:32Why is John actually saying this to the news media?
23:35Is he really surprised? Or is he protecting himself?
23:48Why is he protecting himself?
23:49Four months after the murder of Laura Grillo, our prime suspect, Jesus Trevino, is on the run.
23:55But then law enforcement gets a tip from his ex-girlfriend.
23:59She was contacting him through social media and was able to give his location,
24:03and the U.S. Marshals were able to apprehend Trevino.
24:08And he is brought back to Texas.
24:17Our other suspect, James Veleda, is in custody as well, on a drug charge,
24:24and had been interviewed by these detectives multiple times,
24:27and they aren't getting anywhere with him.
24:36So Ranger Jim Holland is brought in to be the closer for this case.
24:42Ranger Holland has a natural connection with people.
24:46So if anybody's going to break this case wide open, it's going to be him.
24:52Everything about this case rotates around three people.
24:56And the whole thing was about who's going to break.
25:01Ranger Holland said, James is going to give it up.
25:05And that's exactly what we thought from the beginning, too, is James is the weak link in this
25:09whole situation and who we were hoping would be the one to confess first.
25:23Hey, James.
25:24Jim Holland with the Rangers. How you doing?
25:26Yes, sir.
25:27I know he's been interviewed four or five times.
25:30And James strikes me as this person who's not a brain surgeon.
25:36And so I basically had to represent these things in a more straightforward manner
25:43and make sure that he understood what I was talking about.
25:53Well, I'm going to be honest with you, all right?
25:55I'm not real good at blowing smoke.
25:58I just kind of throw stuff out there.
25:59And probably the most important decisions that you're ever going to make in your life,
26:03you're going to make tonight.
26:05I know it's hard, but it's got to be the truth.
26:08Because, you know, Jesus already talked.
26:11As I worked into the interview with him, I embellished that Jesus Trevino was obviously
26:17talking and was obviously looking for a deal and was obviously throwing information out there
26:22that would implicate James in the crime.
26:27What do you think of Jesus?
26:28Do you think he's a good person?
26:29Do you think he's a bad person?
26:31I thought he was pretty good.
26:32I mean, I did notice looking at it over and over again that he was a friend,
26:38but he was kind of distant.
26:40As I'm talking to Valeta, I guess I'm trying to weigh how tight they are as friends.
26:46Does he like this guy?
26:49Is he going to lie for this guy?
26:51And how far will he go?
26:53Well, this is the difference between a good person and a bad person.
26:55Good people say that they're sorry for the mistakes that they made.
27:00They make amends and they pray and they go down the road.
27:05A bad person, he makes a mistake, he just keeps walking.
27:09He just keeps walking down the road because he's a bad person.
27:15Your boy, Jesus, you think he's a brain surgeon or you think he's a dumbass?
27:22Dumbass.
27:22He is.
27:24I'm going to show you some pictures.
27:27You know this young lady?
27:35No.
27:36No clue.
27:40Guess who she dated?
27:44Guess what Jesus told her over a year before the murder?
27:49Jesus tells her a year before the murder that he's fixing to come into a bunch of money
27:53because he's fixing to kill his boss's wife.
27:58Get this shit.
27:59She's so freaked out by it, guess what she does?
28:04He calls Dallas Police Department and reports it over a year before the murder.
28:08Gives Asus's name.
28:10Says, I don't know the boss's name, but I know that he says he's getting paid to kill her.
28:15You think Asus is a brain surgeon?
28:18Tell me he's not the dumbest son of a bitch you ever heard of in your entire life.
28:22My thought process was to lay the entire thing out there, this insurmountable
28:27hurdle, something that he couldn't avoid.
28:30The question is, will he finally break?
28:34You know where I'm going with this?
28:48When Laura Gorilla was murdered, I mean, you had an innocent mother of three being
28:54gunned down in her own home. The Rowlett police detectives on this case really took the time
29:00and used every resource possible to get as much justice for Laura and her family as possible.
29:07They've repeated interview after interview. They've gone through phones.
29:11They've gone through towers. They have a really, really solid circumstantial case.
29:18But this thing wasn't going to come together unless one of these people broke down
29:22and provided information against the other two.
29:25one of these people broke down.
29:35How do you believe a gun look familiar to you?
29:40You ever seen your boy with a gun?
29:42You know, never, never in his backpack.
29:48The latest interview lasted several hours.
29:51I felt like the longer I kept him in there,
29:53the better opportunity I had to actually get him to communicate with me.
30:01What do you know about that?
30:03It belongs to Jesus, and he was in my motel room.
30:07And why was it in your motel room?
30:09Because we cleaned out the trunk of his car.
30:12It was apparent that he wasn't going to provide information against Trevino.
30:16The question was, why?
30:18Is he protecting him?
30:20Are they friends?
30:21Is he afraid of them?
30:23There's a reason that he reached out to you three weeks ago when he got you a job.
30:27Because he couldn't get anyone else to drive him.
30:29And he set you up like a little bitch.
30:32You got screwed.
30:34But this is your opportunity to make it right.
30:40Did you know why you were driving him there?
30:44Beleda would basically laugh when presented with a very uncomfortable question.
30:50He would laugh right before he responded or lied.
30:56You think?
30:58I don't think.
31:03It's your decision.
31:04This is probably the most important moment of your life.
31:09Let me help you through this.
31:14Hypothetically, when does he first approach you?
31:19You're my friend, right?
31:21I'm trying to be your friend.
31:23It's a self-serving world, my friend.
31:25You know that, and I know that.
31:27But today I can be the best friend in the world.
31:29And you need a good friend.
31:35I really felt like he was going to provide information.
31:40I think the real question was, how truthful was it going to be?
31:44And how long was it going to take?
31:47Whatever the case, I'm not going anywhere until I get to the truth.
31:53I'm here to be your friend right now.
31:55All right?
31:56You want me as your friend.
32:02All right, when, um,
32:06I just first mentioned anything about this,
32:09I disregarded it.
32:11Mm-hmm.
32:11I thought it was just non-stop.
32:13Mm-hmm.
32:14Perfect enough.
32:19He shows up in the morning,
32:21we get in the car, and we go.
32:30All the time, I'm like, I'm still thinking he's bullshit.
32:36I mean, even when he gets there.
32:40Mm-hmm.
32:41He's down, he does his thing.
32:42Mm-hmm.
32:45I heard nothing.
32:53And when he gets back in the car, what does he say to you?
32:58Let's go.
32:59Okay.
32:59Did he give you any details?
33:00Did he talk about it at all?
33:02Say it's done?
33:02Or has he cried or begged for her life?
33:05Or was he joking about it?
33:07Was he bragging?
33:08Or was he freaked out?
33:10He didn't say nothing.
33:11Just, let's go.
33:12Okay.
33:12Later on, that's when he starts talking.
33:16Mm-hmm.
33:18Last year, she actually tried to run.
33:27And that's when he said, yeah, he shot her.
33:29Is that how he did it, or?
33:32He just shot her.
33:34Right in the head.
33:34Mm-hmm.
33:37I think he just felt like if he could present himself
33:40as being on a different side than Trevino,
33:44then he was in a better place.
33:47But this isn't over.
33:49He's given up the Trigger Man,
33:51but I need him to give up the mastermind, John.
34:17What happens with John?
34:19Was John asking for details?
34:21Did he want all the gory details of how Jesus did it?
34:24Or did she say anything?
34:25Or, I mean, what was he saying?
34:26What was he asking?
34:27Just everybody keep quiet.
34:29Shut up.
34:30But it's pretty obvious that John ordered it.
34:33Yeah.
34:35It took hours to get him to start moving in the right direction.
34:41And he confesses, because at the end of the day, it's his only play.
34:46It's really the only thing he can do.
34:49Did you ever say how much John paid him for it?
34:53He was, um, posting about something about 15 grand.
35:00What did he pay you?
35:02No.
35:03You gotta be honest.
35:04No.
35:05He says he won't give me a grant.
35:07Mm-hmm.
35:10After he comes out of the house, tell me for sure what he does with the gun.
35:14He takes it apart.
35:16It's in a black bag.
35:17He pulls it to the gas station.
35:18He's, like, here.
35:20The dumpster.
35:23And I threw it in the dumpster.
35:24I don't know the street, but I could take you that way.
35:32After James confessed to Ranger Holland, he took detectives on that ride along.
35:38He said that after the murder, as they were driving back to Dallas,
35:42Jesus was throwing out pieces of his clothing out of the window.
35:48Sure enough, seven months after the murder, there were still pieces of a black hoodie,
35:53as well as shoes, found exactly where he said that it would be.
35:58We couldn't find a gun.
36:00But James' confession and confirmation of how the murder took place,
36:05who ordered it, who got paid, this is major.
36:10I felt like if we could put information that Valetta turned,
36:14that John would have little choice but to kind of roll in that direction.
36:22Unfortunately, unbeknownst to me, Rowlett and the Rangers get kind of excited,
36:28and they jump the gun.
36:29And they immediately go out and arrest John.
36:34My original plan was to talk to him before cuffs were put on.
36:38But now that he's been arrested, the possibility of him talking is nil to know.
37:00John's a pretty intelligent person.
37:04Does he have a lot of psychopathic tendencies?
37:06Yeah.
37:07I think so.
37:09We believe he planned this meticulously, from leaving the empty safe open at the crime scene,
37:15so it looked like a robbery, to coordinating with his two employees to get them there at the exact right
37:21time.
37:22Let me cut to the chase a little bit.
37:24Jesus is a dumbass.
37:26Alright?
37:28No, he really is a dumbass.
37:31At the end of the day, you shouldn't hire a dumbass to do a job,
37:35because he's going to screw it up.
37:36And if he doesn't screw it up, he's going to talk about it.
37:39And that's what happens with him.
37:41He screwed you over.
37:43You go to hire this dumbass, and he tells people that you want him to kill your wife.
37:49I didn't hire the dumbass. That's my problem.
37:52Do what?
37:53I did not hire the dumbass.
37:55I did not pay him any money. That's my problem.
37:58I already know that you hired him. I know that he drove.
38:01I know that he's an idiot. I know that he pulled the trigger.
38:04Okay?
38:05I already know those things. It's not a question.
38:07Alright? I'm not asking you questions.
38:09Did you do that? I already know the answer to that.
38:19I need to talk to his attorney.
38:24At the end of the day, yes, I was disappointed when I left the room without a confession.
38:33But the most damning thing to him was the fact that the jury never saw him being remorseful about what
38:41happened to his fiancee, Laura.
38:45After James and John, I talked to Jesus. He just wants to meet with his attorney first.
38:53Jesus doesn't confess.
38:57But what James Veleda provided was 100% corroborated.
39:05We had sent out search warrants for John's email records.
39:10So, at this point, we finally got the content of those accounts.
39:15In those records, an email came out from Laura to John saying that their relationship wasn't getting better.
39:24They weren't progressing as she wanted them to.
39:27And that she was looking at leaving Texas and taking John's child.
39:33John had been through this situation before.
39:35He had had an ex-wife move out of state and take the kids.
39:38Facing this again, he didn't want to leave Laura.
39:42He just wanted her out of the way.
39:45And so, he planned it.
39:50I think if Jim Holland hadn't joined the investigation,
39:54we would not have had a strong of a case on John because having an actual party to say,
40:02John said this.
40:04These were the words that came out of John's mouth.
40:06All those details made this such an airtight case.
40:34This is the epitome of a senseless crime.
40:36You have, you know, by all accounts, this wonderful, loving woman, adored by neighbors and the community.
40:45There's three kids.
40:46They're going to grow up without a mom.
40:49There's a mother that lost her daughter.
40:52There's a brother that lost the sister that loved him and took care of him.
40:59Does putting three people in jail deliver justice?
41:05You know, I guess it's as close as we can get.
41:18One of the worst experiences I've ever been through.
41:21I was supposed to go pick her up and she never showed up.
41:24It's obvious he had a problem with women.
41:26I've heard some real weird shit.
41:28But this is one of the oddest that I've ever heard.
41:32November 5th.
41:33Do you remember that day?
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