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00:09Tonight on Dateline.
00:11It's not a place that you normally think of when you think of the glitz and glamour of Miami.
00:15It's scary, it's lonely, and that's where a lot of people go to dump bodies.
00:21There was a big fire, a big brush fire, and then we see a dead body.
00:26The shocking news is someone had murdered your brother.
00:28It was very, very shocking.
00:30We were just completely lost.
00:31Everybody was kind of astonished.
00:33He was just a regular, everyday guy who had a wife and a young child.
00:38There was a side of him you didn't know.
00:39He was having an affair.
00:41Exactly.
00:41Nobody knew.
00:43She was beautiful.
00:44She was elegant.
00:46She had everything.
00:47The yachts, the mansions, the Louis Vuitton bags.
00:49They bought burner phones.
00:51They would meet up in hotels.
00:53You've got a love triangle here.
00:55You've got a dead guy who's got a girlfriend who's somebody else's wife.
00:58Yes.
00:58You start to see things unfold before you.
01:01The MMA fighters.
01:02The rich supermarket owner.
01:04Who was who and who did what?
01:05Two women that was kind of face-off in the courtroom.
01:07Such an emotional moment.
01:10It was almost unfathomable that someone could have orchestrated this horrible murder.
01:16Secret lovers and a sinister crime.
01:19A twisted tale of murder in Miami.
01:22I'm Lester Holt.
01:24This is Dateline.
01:33Here's Dennis Murphy with The End of the Affair.
01:40Money.
01:41Sex.
01:42Jealousy.
01:43Rage.
01:44This case had all the elements of a bad Hollywood movie.
01:49It was an immigrant success story.
01:52Born and raised in Cuba, came here, the immigrant story, American dream.
01:56A dream that became an American tragedy.
01:59The body was still on fire.
02:01That's a sight you can't unsee.
02:03Unfortunately, no, it's not.
02:04It really was just dripping with drama.
02:09From waterfront mansions to the sawgrass swamps of the Everglades,
02:13this is not one of those stories that could happen anywhere.
02:17This is an only in Miami kind of case.
02:20Only in Miami.
02:24Camilo Salazar was a lucky man, living a life of second chances.
02:29He was married less than a year, living in a beautiful home in Coconut Grove,
02:34when his wife, Daisy, gave birth to a baby girl, Camila's sister, Carolina.
02:39Tell me about the arrival of Skylar.
02:41Wow, well, yeah, we were all super excited about it.
02:44And, yeah, Daisy was, you know, ecstatic about it.
02:48June 1, 2011 was just three weeks after Skylar was born.
02:52A routine morning, as routine as any day can be for a couple with a newborn.
02:57Daisy, an event planner, was already back in her office.
03:01She calls your brother and says, you know, can you bring the baby over?
03:04Correct.
03:04I want to nurse him.
03:05I've got some time now.
03:06And he does that.
03:07Right.
03:08Dropped off the baby.
03:09He actually ended up going back to the car because he forgot the pacifier.
03:13So he ran back to the car and then went back into the building to give the pacifier, you know,
03:19to Daisy.
03:20Camila kissed them goodbye and left.
03:22That was a little after 10 a.m.
03:24The Salazar's routine day ended then and there.
03:28At dinnertime, Daisy was at home when she called Carolina asking if she'd heard from Camilo.
03:33And I said, no.
03:35And I said, what's going on?
03:36She goes, nobody's heard from him.
03:38And she had told me that she had already started to call some hospitals and just seeing what's going on.
03:44Yeah, and then I then, of course, you know, I got worried.
03:48Friends and family fanned out looking for Camilo.
03:52His mother searched on foot near the house while others went to Daisy's office.
03:57Camilo's mother, Inez.
03:59They spent some time kind of canvassing the area and walking around and even opening up car doors that were
04:06unlocked just to see if he could be in there.
04:09They were looking everywhere.
04:12No sign of Camilo, but his mother would not stop.
04:15She kept walking and walking.
04:19She actually wore out the soles of her shoes.
04:22That evening, after he'd been gone around nine hours, the family called the City of Miami Police Department to report
04:31Camilo missing.
04:32The officer at the time really was treating it as it was not a big deal.
04:38One of these, call us tomorrow at noon and we'll see what's going on.
04:41Exactly.
04:41I don't think they really thought anything was wrong.
04:45And I think they thought Daisy was over-exaggerating what was happening.
04:50The officer said it was too early for a missing person investigation.
04:54But he didn't know Camilo.
04:56This was not his M.O.
04:57He was always in touch.
04:59But friends and family were getting desperate.
05:01They went back to Daisy's office and expanded the search.
05:05They started, you know, sort of backtracking.
05:08And then they realized, wait a minute, his car's right there.
05:10It never, it never left.
05:12The vehicle was parked on the street.
05:15The driver's side window was down.
05:17No keys inside.
05:18All right.
05:19There's obviously something really wrong here.
05:21And then everything started.
05:23They notified police about the vehicle.
05:25And that's when an investigation into Camilo's disappearance officially started.
05:30An officer came to the scene just before midnight and had the SUV towed the following morning for the forensics
05:36team.
05:39But nobody at Camilo's house knew that another discovery had already been made in the far reaches of the county.
05:46About an hour's drive from where friends and family were searching.
05:49It's not a place that you normally think of when you think of the glitz and glamour of Miami.
05:53It's scary, it's lonely, and that's where a lot of people go to, dumb bodies.
06:12As day turned to night, Camilo Salazar's family knew something was terribly wrong.
06:17He'd been missing for hours.
06:20One reason for concern, Camilo would never do anything to make them worry.
06:25No way.
06:25Children of immigrants, Latin family values, you put your family first for everything.
06:30So my brother was always the one to be there for us.
06:36Camilo was born in Colombia during the rise of Pablo Escobar's Medellin drug cartel.
06:41They were treacherous times.
06:44And that was one of the reasons that led us to make the move to come to Miami.
06:49The Salisars made the most of their new life in America.
06:53Camilo worked for his dad's import-export business, then found success on his own selling window treatments.
07:00Camilo always seemed to have a charmed life.
07:03He was a good student, made friends easily.
07:05He was surrounded by friends all the time, always smiling, always had something funny to say, or, you know, kind
07:14of made things light.
07:15He was also a star athlete, even as an adult.
07:19One sport in particular, which people probably didn't even realize was a sport back then, frisbee.
07:24Right, yes.
07:24He was a frisbee champion.
07:26He was, they would play get-together in a park in Miami for many years, and then they formed a
07:32league.
07:33They were called the Miami Refugees.
07:35Camilo was popular, fun, always smiling, and now he was missing.
07:41At the same time Camilo's family was searching for him,
07:45Lieutenant Angelo Andrade of the Miami-Dade Police was on assignment in a remote part of the county.
07:51He knew nothing about a missing person.
07:53He was in his patrol car looking for drug smugglers.
07:57We were doing an interdiction detail for narcotics through the zone of Okeechobee Road and Chrome Avenue from Southwest 8th
08:02Street.
08:02Nowhere land, right? That's the edge of the Everglades, right?
08:05Lieutenant Andrade was about an hour's drive and a world away from Camilo's beautiful home in Coconut Grove.
08:11I'm driving, so I look over to the horizon and I see a cloud of smoke.
08:16Was it a smoky fire or a fire with flames?
08:18It was a fire with flames.
08:20As Lieutenant Andrade headed toward the flames, he called in a request for a fire rescue.
08:26It was pretty far in there, maybe 500 feet.
08:29500 feet and to the right I remember it.
08:31And the brush was on fire.
08:34There was huge smoke coming out.
08:36You could see flames?
08:37Oh yeah, I felt it.
08:38Are there firefighters here yet?
08:39Not yet.
08:40You're ahead of everybody.
08:41Lieutenant Andrade felt the heat, but was stopped in his tracks by something else.
08:46At the center of the fire was a sight he'll never forget.
08:49A body.
08:50Where's the body?
08:51What are you seeing?
08:52I remember it on the floor.
08:54Still a little bit in flames.
08:57You're seeing flames coming out of the body?
08:59Yes, I see the brush and the body.
09:01Everything's engulfed.
09:03Then that's when fire rescue comes and they extinguish the fire.
09:07Andrade secured the scene and called for the homicide unit.
09:11Detective Chris Villano got the call and headed out.
09:14There was an unidentified white male who had his hands bound behind his back.
09:19On his back or his stomach?
09:21He was laying on his stomach.
09:23We could see that he had a slit throat.
09:26At that time, somebody had made a comment that it resembles that of a Colombian necktie.
09:33I've heard that phrase forever.
09:34Is that urban legend or is it true?
09:35I don't know.
09:36I, that was the first time I had heard it.
09:39It's too grotesque to describe, but a Colombian necktie is a type of murder supposedly carried
09:45out by drug cartels.
09:47Urban legend or not, there was no question this was a dangerous area known for drug trafficking
09:52and unhappy endings.
09:54It's a little bit of a lawless area.
09:56Back in 2011, David Ovalle was a reporter for the Miami Herald.
10:01It is a place where many, many bodies have been dumped over many, many decades in Miami-Dade County.
10:09In fact, another burned body was found nearby just a week earlier.
10:13As Detective Villano took a closer look at the body dumped near Okeechobee Road, the brutality of this murder came
10:20into focus.
10:20You had some blunt force trauma to the head and face.
10:25The pelvic region or the genital region of the victim was burnt extensively.
10:31There's a message.
10:32This is probably pretty personal with somebody.
10:34Personal?
10:35Seemed likely.
10:37But what exactly did it mean?
10:39Hard to say without even knowing who this man was.
10:42That's the next big question.
10:43Who do we have here, right?
10:44Correct.
10:45There was no personal items on him to include any sort of identification.
10:50The next morning, Detective Villano went to the morgue to observe the autopsy.
10:54A City of Miami police detective happened to be there, too.
10:58He was working a missing person case.
11:01He was there with a flyer of a white male affixed to a missing persons flyer.
11:07A missing persons flyer.
11:07Have you seen this guy, that kind of thing?
11:09Correct.
11:10It didn't take long to connect the flyer to the murdered man at the morgue.
11:14It was Camilo Salazar.
11:16He was just 43 years old.
11:20Carolina was at Camilo's house when detectives arrived with the dreadful news.
11:25I remember Daisy and my mom and there were other people that were in the living room inside the house.
11:30And the detectives had come inside and they told them the news.
11:35And I just remember hearing just loud screaming coming from the house.
11:40I saw my mother.
11:42I saw Daisy.
11:42Everybody was just wailing.
11:45So, uh...
11:46Did any of that make sense?
11:48No.
11:49No.
11:50We were just completely lost.
11:52So it was definitely a shock.
11:54For Camilo's mother, it was the cruelest possible ending to the American dream she'd wanted for her family.
12:00Always I figured in my mind that we are a table with four chairs.
12:05But now there was an empty chair at Inez's family table.
12:10Camilo's chair.
12:12Camilo's chair.
12:12Everything was done.
12:14We never had a piece.
12:17Yeah.
12:19Terrible pain.
12:20Collapsed my life.
12:21There's no really getting over that, is there?
12:23No.
12:24CAMILO'S MURDER WAS A TRAGEDY FOR HIS FAMILY, A MYSTERY FOR POLICE, AND FOR THOSE WHO
12:30FOLLOWED THE CASE AS IT UNFOLDED, IT WAS UNLIKE ANYTHING THEY'D EVER SEEN.
12:35IF THIS SAGA WAS A MOVIE, THIS WHOLE SAGA WOULD BE SOME SORT OF ONLY IN SOUTH FLORIDA
12:43TELENOVELA.
12:44VERY MELODRAMATIC AND VERY TRAGIC.
12:47AND THIS WOMAN WAS ABOUT TO TAKE CENTER STAGE.
13:03THE FIERY SCENE WHERE CAMILO SALISAR'S BODY WAS FOUND DIDN'T YIELD ANY FORENSIC EVIDENCE.
13:09BUT THERE WAS ANOTHER POTENTIAL CRIME SCENE ABOUT 40 MILES AWAY, THE SPOT WHERE CAMILO'S
13:14ABANDONED SUV WAS DISCOVERED.
13:17WE PROCESSED THAT VEHICLE AT THE CITY OF MIAMI.
13:19THEY WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN A LATENT PRINT OFF OF THE VICTIM'S VEHICLE.
13:25SO THAT'S PROMISING.
13:26YES.
13:27AND YOU RAN IT AND WHAT HAPPENED?
13:28WE DID NOT GET ANY HITS ON THAT.
13:31SO WITH NO MEANINGFUL FORENSIC EVIDENCE, DETECTIVE VIOLANO AND HIS PARTNER SERGEANT DOUG MCCOY
13:36DID A DEEP DIVE INTO CAMILO'S LIFE.
13:40STARTING WHERE THEY ALWAYS DO IN CASES LIKE THIS, WITH THE VICTIM'S MARRIAGE.
13:44WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO GO ON, SO WE TYPICALLY START WITH THE VICTIM.
13:49WE LEARN ALL WE CAN.
13:51WHEN DETECTIVES ASKED PEOPLE ABOUT CAMILO AND DAISY'S RELATIONSHIP, THEY HEARD PRETTY
13:55MUCH THE SAME THING FROM EVERYONE.
13:57THEY HAD A REALLY GOOD FRIENDSHIP.
14:00WHENEVER I SAW THEM, THEY SEEMED VERY HAPPY.
14:02THEY SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE HAVING, YOU KNOW, FUN.
14:04SINCE CAMILO'S BODY WAS FOUND IN AN AREA KNOWN FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING, THE DETECTIVES PURSUED
14:09THAT ANGLE.
14:11AS WE SPOKE TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS, HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ENEMIES.
14:15HE WAS NOT IN THE DRUG BUSINESS.
14:17IT DID NOT APPEAR THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
14:23HE WAS JUST A REGULAR, EVERYDAY GUY.
14:25JUST A REGULAR GUY, NOTHING TO EXPLAIN WHY HE ENDED UP DEAD.
14:30SO DETECTIVE MCCOY PUSHED DAISY TO TELL THEM ANYTHING ABOUT CAMILO THAT MIGHT NOT BE SO
14:34SQUEAKY CLEAN.
14:36SHE TOLD THEM ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED FIVE YEARS EARLIER.
14:40HIS WIFE, DAISY, TELLS US ABOUT A LAND DEAL THE VICTIM WAS INVOLVED IN IN 2006.
14:45AND IT WENT SIDEWAYS IN SOME WAYS?
14:47IT DID GO SIDEWAYS.
14:48SO THAT'S OF INTEREST.
14:49IT WAS, BECAUSE HE STOOD TO MAKE $100,000 IN THIS INVESTMENT.
14:53IT DID NOT WORK OUT.
14:56THERE WAS A LOT OF MONEY AT STAKE WHEN THE DEAL WENT BELLY UP.
14:59MORE THAN THAT, IT LOOKED LIKE THE DEVELOPER IN CHARGE WAS INVOLVED IN SOME SHADY FINANCIAL DEALINGS.
15:05THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF THE FBI, AND BACK IN 2006, THEY STARTED LOOKING INTO THE DEAL.
15:12CAMILO COOPERATED WITH THE INVESTIGATION.
15:14DOES THAT SOUND LIKE THE KIND OF THING THAT COULD GET A GUY KILLED?
15:16I GUESS IT ALL DEPENDS WHO YOU'RE DEALING WITH.
15:20REMEMBER THAT BURNED BODY DISCOVERED NOT FAR FROM CAMILO'S JUST DAYS BEFORE HIS MURDER?
15:25TURNED OUT, THAT VICTIM WAS ALSO A WITNESS COOPERATING WITH AUTHORITIES IN A CRIMINAL CASE.
15:30DID THE SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES MEAN THE TWO MURDERS WERE CONNECTED?
15:35INVESTIGATORS ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CROSS-REFERENCE THE CASES TO SEE IF, IN FACT, THERE IS ANY POSSIBLE
15:39RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO CASES.
15:43DETECTIVES COULD FIND NO CONNECTION AND NO EVIDENCE THAT CAMILO WAS KILLED BECAUSE OF THAT SHADY LAND DEAL.
15:49AFTER SPEAKING WITH THE FBI, THEY HAD INTERVIEWED SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS, BANKERS, THAT WERE PART OF THE LAND DEAL.
15:57AND THERE WAS NO THREATS MADE TO ANY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS, NOR WERE THERE ANY THREATS MADE TO CAMILO.
16:04THE LEAD WENT NOWHERE. SO WHAT DID DETECTIVES HAVE? ONE UNIDENTIFIED FINGERPRINT.
16:09IN OTHER WORDS, THEY HAD NOTHING UNLESS.
16:13UNLESS THERE WAS SOME SECRET LIFE THAT HE WAS LIVING.
16:18A SECRET LIFE?
16:20WELL, JUST DAYS AFTER CAMILO WAS KILLED, DETECTIVES HEARD FROM A WOMAN NAMED JENNY MARIN WHO SHED LIGHT ON THAT.
16:26IT WAS A HUGE BREAK IN THE CASE.
16:30WHEN DETECTIVES MET WITH HER, JENNY STARTED WITH A COINCIDENCE THAT WAS HARD TO BELIEVE.
16:34HER HUSBAND WAS MISSING TOO.
16:36HIS NAME WAS MANNY MARIN, CO-OWNER OF PRESIDENTE, A POPULAR CHAIN OF SUPERMARKETS CATERING TO THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY IN
16:44SOUTH FLORIDA.
16:46MANNY IS A BIG DEAL IN THIS COMMUNITY.
16:50HE WAS.
16:51GAYLE LEVINE, A VETERAN PROSECUTOR IN THE MIAMI-DADE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WOULD WORK HAND IN GLOVE WITH DETECTIVES VIOLANO
16:58AND MCCOY ON THE CASE.
17:00LEVINE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT MANNY MARIN.
17:02HE WAS LIKE THE SUCCESSFUL CUBAN EMIGRES STORY.
17:06ARRIVING WITH NOTHING AND ENDING UP WITH THE WHOLE BANK.
17:10EXACTLY.
17:10HARD-WORKING GUY.
17:12CAME WITH NOTHING.
17:14STARTED SUPERMARKETS IN NEW JERSEY.
17:17MOVED TO MIAMI.
17:19MORE SUPERMARKETS, MORE MONEY, AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE OPTIMIST CLUB, THE LITTLE LEAGUE TEAMS.
17:27WELL RECOGNIZED, WELL RESPECTED.
17:29WHEN JENNY MET MANNY, HE WAS STILL MARRIED TO HIS FIRST WIFE.
17:32HE WAS ALSO 20 YEARS OLDER THAN JENNY, BUT MANNY FELL HARD FOR HER.
17:37HE PURSUED HER.
17:39SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL.
17:41SHE WAS ELEGANT.
17:42SHE SAID, IF YOU DIVORCE YOUR WIFE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT.
17:46HE CAME IN WITH THE DIVORCE PAPERS, FLEED TO NEW JERSEY, AND SWEPT HER OFF HER FEET.
17:50SO HE'S DOWN ON ONE KNEE WITH BOTH DIVORCE PAPERS AND THE RING, HUH?
17:53EXACTLY.
17:54EXACTLY.
17:55COME BACK WITH ME.
17:56NOW'S THE TIME.
17:56AND SHE WENT.
17:58MANNY AND JENNY LIVED IN A SPECTACULAR WATERFRONT HOUSE ON A DOUBLE LOT IN LIGHTHOUSE POINT,
18:03ABOUT AN HOUR OR SO NORTH OF MIAMI.
18:05THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN TOGETHER AND ENJOYED A LAVISH LIFESTYLE.
18:09THE WAY JENNY EXPLAINED IT IS MANUEL MARIN WAS A GREAT FATHER AND JUST A GREAT SUPPORTER.
18:14CHRISTIAN COLON FOLLOWED THE STORY FOR BOTH NBC'S MIAMI AFFILIATE WTVJ AND ITS SPANISH LANGUAGE TELEMUNDO STATION.
18:24HE PROVIDED EVERYTHING TO JENNY.
18:27SO WHEN IT COMES TO TYPICAL MIAMI STUFF, I MEAN, YOU HAVE THE YACHTS, YOU HAVE THE MANSIONS.
18:31SHE WANTED NOTHING IN THE WAY OF LUXURIES.
18:33I MEAN, SHE HAD IT ALL.
18:34THE SIX BEDROOMS, THE LOUIS BATON BAG.
18:36SO SHE HAD EVERYTHING.
18:37SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORK.
18:38WHAT DIDN'T SHE HAVE?
18:39WHAT WAS WRONG IN THE MARRIAGE?
18:40LOVE.
18:41SHE DIDN'T HAVE THAT LOVE FROM MANUEL MARIN.
18:44JENNY'S MARRIAGE WAS A MESS.
18:46THERE WAS INFIDELITY, JEALOUSY, AND CONSTANT INFIGHTING.
18:50BUT WHAT DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CAMILO SALIZAR?
18:53ONLY EVERYTHING.
18:54AND JENNY WAS ABOUT TO TELL THE DETECTIVES ALL ABOUT IT.
19:15DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING CAMILO SALIZAR'S MURDER WERE CONTACTED BY A WOMAN NAMED JENNY MARIN.
19:21SHE TOLD THEM ABOUT HER MARRIAGE TO SUPERMARKET MOGUL MANNY MARIN.
19:25IT WAS DISFUNCTIONAL, BROKEN BEYOND REPAIR.
19:28JENNY IS RESTLESS.
19:29SHE'S NOT FEELING ANY WARMTH.
19:31SHE'S FEELING VERY LONELY AND ISOLATED.
19:33SHE DIDN'T HAVE ANY, YOU KNOW, FRIENDS.
19:36BUT JENNY DID HAVE AT LEAST ONE FRIENDSHIP, A MAN IN HER SOCIAL CIRCLE SHE'D KNOWN FOR YEARS.
19:41EVENTUALLY, THEIR CASUAL RELATIONSHIP TURNED INTO A VERY SECRET AFFAIR.
19:46THEY DID EVERYTHING UNDER THE RADAR.
19:49YOU KNOW, THEY BOUGHT BURNER PHONES SO THEY COULD TALK TO EACH OTHER.
19:52THEY WOULD MEET UP IN HOTELS, YOU KNOW, NEAR ONE OF THE SHOPPING MALLS WHERE SHE WOULD GO EVERY DAY.
19:57AND SO IT WAS A VERY, VERY HUSH-HUSH KIND OF THING.
20:01DESPITE THOSE EFFORTS, MANNY FOUND OUT ABOUT THE AFFAIR.
20:04HE WAS FURIOUS AND CONFRONTED JENNY.
20:07HE'S ON A SIX-LANE HIGHWAY.
20:10SHE WANTS TO JUMP OUT OF THE CAR.
20:11IT'S DANGEROUS.
20:13SHE SCREAMS FOR HIM TO PULL OVER.
20:14AND HE PULLS SO CLOSE TO THE GUARD RAIL THAT SHE CAN'T EVEN OPEN THE DOOR.
20:19SO SHE ACTUALLY JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW.
20:21SHE FLEES THE HUSBAND THROUGH THE CAR WINDOW?
20:24THAT'S RIGHT.
20:24SHE'S ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD?
20:25THAT'S RIGHT.
20:26ON A VERY, VERY BUSY MIAMI HIGHWAY.
20:30EVEN AFTER THAT DRAMA ON THE HIGHWAY, JENNY AND MANNY STAYED TOGETHER.
20:34BUT THINGS DIDN'T GET BETTER.
20:36AND MONTHS LATER, ABOARD THEIR YACHT, THEY GOT INTO IT AGAIN.
20:39HE TOLD HER IN SPANISH THE AFFAIR WAS A DISGRASIA, A DISGRACE, AND ORDERED HER TO END IT.
20:46BUT JENNY DECIDED TO END HER MARRIAGE INSTEAD.
20:49AND WHEN MANNY DISAPPEARED A FEW DAYS LATER, SHE FELT THE TIME WAS RIGHT AND PAID A VISIT TO A
20:54DIVORCE LAWYER.
20:55SHE TOLD THE DIVORCE LAWYER, I HAVE A BOYFRIEND, MY HUSBAND FOUND OUT, I WAS SUPPOSED TO STOP THE AFFAIR,
21:02I DIDN'T.
21:03JENNY SAID NOT ONLY WAS HER HUSBAND MISSING, BUT NOW HER LOVER WASN'T ANSWERING HER CALLS AND TEXTS.
21:09HER LAWYER DID AN INTERNET SEARCH ON THE BOYFRIEND.
21:12WENT ON TO GOOGLE AND SAW THAT THERE WAS A CRIMESTOPPER'S TIP.
21:16DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY INFORMATION?
21:18WOULD THIS BE YOUR LOVER?
21:20YEP.
21:21THE CRIMESTOPPER'S WEBSITE WAS ASKING FOR TIPS ABOUT A MURDER CASE.
21:25THE VICTIM'S NAME WAS CAMILO SALAZAR.
21:29YES, THAT CAMILO SALAZAR.
21:31HE WAS JENNY'S SECRET LOVER.
21:33IT WAS A STUNNING TURN OF EVENTS.
21:35JENNY HAD GONE TO THE LAWYER SEEKING A DIVORCE, THEN CONFESSED TO AN AFFAIR, AND LEARNED THAT HER LOVER HAD
21:41BEEN THE VICTIM OF A GRISLY MURDER, ALL IN ONE MEETING.
21:44HER LAWYER SAID THIS WASN'T A STORY FOR A DIVORCE ATTORNEY. JENNY NEEDED TO TALK TO THE POLICE.
21:50AND THAT'S HOW DETECTIVES INVESTIGATING CAMILO'S MURDER ENDED UP TALKING TO JENNY MARIN.
21:56YOU'VE GOT A LOVE TRIANGLE HERE, APPARENTLY. YOU'VE GOT A DEAD GUY WHO'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND WHO'S SOMEBODY
21:59ELSE'S WIFE.
22:01YES.
22:01AND THERE WAS MORE.
22:02MANUEL MARIN'S PASSPORT WAS MISSING.
22:05AND THE REASON SHE KNEW THAT IS BECAUSE SHE WAS THE PERSON WHO KEPT ALL THE PASSPORTS.
22:10SHE HAD ALSO, DURING THE INTERVIEW, PROVIDED US THE TELEPHONE NUMBER TO HER HUSBAND.
22:16WITH THOSE LEADS, DETECTIVES WERE ABLE TO LEARN THAT JUST DAYS AFTER CAMILO'S MURDER,
22:20MANUEL MARIN HAD FLOWN TO PARIS, A ROUND-TRIP TICKET, BUT HE NEVER RETURNED.
22:26SO MANUEL MARIN, THE SUPERMARKET WEALTHY MOGUL GUY, IS NOW IN EUROPE?
22:30CORRECT.
22:30OFF THE GRID, NOBODY KNOWS WHERE HE IS?
22:32NO ONE KNOWS WHERE HE IS.
22:33BUT NOW THEY KNEW THAT HE WAS THE ODD MAN OUT IN A LOVE TRIANGLE.
22:37AND HIS DISAPPEARANCE WAS OF HIS OWN DOING.
22:41THAT WAS A GAME CHANGER.
22:43DO THESE SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES MAKE HIM THE NUMBER ONE PERSON OF INTEREST ON YOUR LIST?
22:47YES.
22:48HE'S NOW SOMEONE WANTED FOR THE MURDER OF CAMILO?
22:51AT THAT POINT HE IS A PERSON OF INTEREST OR A MAIN SUSPECT IN OUR CASE.
22:56JENNY'S STORY HAD TURNED HER HUSBAND INTO A SUSPECT.
22:59AND WHEN SHE GAVE DETECTIVES MANY'S CELL PHONE NUMBER, IT LED TO ALL SORTS OF NEW LEADS.
23:05IN TODAY'S WORLD, I HATE TO TELL ALL THE POSSIBLE CRIMINALS IN THE WORLD, BUT YOUR PHONE TELLS EVERYTHING.
23:11NOW YOU START GETTING ISSUING SUBPOENAS TO THE CELL PHONE COMPANIES.
23:15AND WHERE WAS THAT TRAIL LEADING YOU TO?
23:16IT LED US TO THREE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEMED TO BE RECEIVING AND MAKING ALL OF THE CALLS AT THE
23:25TIME.
23:26THE CELL PHONE RECORDS DID NOT INCLUDE ANY GPS OR TRACKING DATA TO SHOW WHERE THE PHONES WERE.
23:32BUT IT DID SHOW THAT ON THE DAY CAMILO WAS MURDERED, MANY MARIN'S PHONE WAS BLOWING UP WITH CALLS TO
23:37AND FROM THREE MEN.
23:39ALL OF THEM INVOLVED IN THE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHT GAME.
23:42SO THIS ALL MOVES INTO THE KIND OF WEIRD WORLD OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS AND GYMS.
23:47MANY ALWAYS HAD A SPECIAL PLACE FOR WRESTLING.
23:51AND HE BECAME FRIENDLY WITH A YOUNG GUY THAT HAD WON THE BRONZE MEDAL IN THE ATLANTA OLYMPICS.
23:56FOR CUBA.
23:57FOR CUBA.
23:58AND HE HELPED HIM DEFECT THROUGH PUERTO RICO.
24:00AND THIS IS A GUY NAMED?
24:02ALEXIS VILA PERDOMA.
24:04VILA PERDOMA.
24:05VILA GAINED NOTORIETY IN AMERICA AS A MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTER.
24:09MANY MARIN'S PHONE RECORDS ALSO LED TO ARIEL GANDULA, ANOTHER CUBAN MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTER
24:15WHO TRAINED IN THE SAME GYM WITH VILA.
24:18AND THEN THERE WAS ROBERTO ISAAC.
24:20HE WAS VILA'S FRIEND AND ONE OF HIS CORNER MEN IN THE FIGHT GAME.
24:24DETECTIVES BROUGHT ISAAC IN FOR QUESTIONING.
24:26ARE YOU ASKING HIM THE WHEREABOUTS QUESTION?
24:28WHERE WERE YOU ON?
24:29WE DIDN'T EVEN GET THAT FAR.
24:31HE INVOKED HIS RIGHTS.
24:32SO WE DIDN'T GARNER ANY NEW INFORMATION FROM THAT INTERVIEW.
24:36THEY INTERVIEWED THE OTHER TWO MEN AND DIDN'T GET MUCH FROM THEM EITHER.
24:40BUT THE DETECTIVES FELT CERTAIN THE THREE MEN HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH CAMILO'S MURDER,
24:44EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NO EVIDENCE TO PROVE IT.
24:47AND MANY MARIN, THE MAN THEY BELIEVE WAS BEHIND THE WHOLE THING,
24:51HE WAS STILL NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.
24:52THE AUTHORITIES KNEW WHO IT WAS, PROBABLY.
24:56BUT COULDN'T PUT THEIR HANDS ON HIM AND BRING HIM INTO A COURT ROOM.
24:58RIGHT, YEAH, AND THAT WAS VERY FRUSTRATING.
25:01THAT FRUSTRATION WOULDN'T LAST FOREVER.
25:03DETECTIVES WERE ABOUT TO TRACK DOWN A WITNESS WITH AN INCREDIBLE STORY
25:07ABOUT THE DAY CAMILO WAS MURDERED.
25:09WAS CAMILO STRUGGLING OR FIGHTING OR SCREAMING, YELLING?
25:29IT WAS A LOVE TRIANGLE THAT ENDED IN A GRIZZLY DEATH,
25:32A CASE WITH NO ARRESTS BUT A LOT OF LEADS.
25:36A BIG ONE CAME FROM CELL PHONE TOWER RECORDS.
25:39WE DID FIND MANY'S PHONE PINGING IN THE AREA IN AND AROUND
25:44WHERE THE VICTIM'S BODY WAS FOUND.
25:46DEVASTATING EVIDENCE OR JUST INTERESTING SMOKE?
25:50PROSECUTOR CATHERINE FERNANDEZ RUNDLE IS THE MIAMI-DADE STATE ATTORNEY.
25:54IT'S A CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE. DOES THAT WORRY YOU?
25:56WHAT YOU'RE REALLY WORRIED ABOUT IS YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE EYEWITNESSES AT THAT POINT.
26:02ANOTHER BIG WORRY FOR INVESTIGATORS WAS THEIR PRIME SUSPECT.
26:05MANUEL MARIN WAS STILL OUTSTANDING.
26:08BUT TWO YEARS AFTER THE MURDER, DETECTIVES AND PROSECUTORS GOT A LEAD THAT CHANGED THAT.
26:14AFTER MANY FLED THE U.S., HIS WIFE JENNY FILED FOR DIVORCE.
26:18MANY RESPONDED WITH DOCUMENTS FILED OVERSEAS.
26:22ALL THE DOCUMENTS ARE IN SPANISH AND NOTARIZED WITH A SPANISH SEAL.
26:26I FIGURE HE'S IN SPAIN.
26:28DO YOU HAVE AN ADDRESS FOR HIM IN SPAIN?
26:30ABSOLUTELY NOT.
26:31THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT DIDN'T OFFER TO SEARCH FOR HIM.
26:34SO LAVINE ASKED THE FBI FOR HELP.
26:37SHE DIDN'T GET THE ANSWER SHE WANTED.
26:39THEIR RESPONSE IS, CALL US BACK WHEN YOU HAVE AN ADDRESS.
26:41IT WAS A PROMISING LEAD, BUT IT JUST DIDN'T PAY OFF.
26:45AND THE INVESTIGATION STALLED.
26:48BUT THEN IN 2015, FOUR YEARS AFTER CAMILO'S MURDER, DETECTIVE VIOLANO WENT BACK TO THE CASE FILE AND NOTICED SOMETHING.
26:55WE HAD A FINGERPRINT STILL LEFT.
26:58THE UNIDENTIFIED FINGERPRINT FOUND ON CAMILO'S SUV.
27:02VIOLANO DECIDED TO RUN THE PRINT AGAIN AND BINGO.
27:06THIS TIME THERE WAS A HIT.
27:08WHO LEFT THAT PRINT?
27:09ARIEL GANDULA.
27:11ARIEL GANDULA, THE MIXED MARTIAL ARTS FIGHTER WHO WAS ON THE PHONE WITH MANY THE DAY OF THE MURDER.
27:16AFTER CAMILO'S MURDER, GANDULA HAD BEEN ARRESTED ON A DRUG CHARGE.
27:20AND NOW HIS FINGERPRINT WAS IN A NATIONAL DATABASE.
27:24WOULD THINK THAT WOULD BE A BIG DEAL.
27:25IT WAS A VERY BIG DEAL.
27:26I REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY.
27:29THE FINGERPRINT CONNECTED HIM DIRECTLY TO CAMILO SALAZAR.
27:33BUT DETECTIVES COULDN'T FIND GANDULA.
27:36LIKE MANY, HE HAD ALSO DISAPPEARED.
27:38THE DETECTIVES NOW BELIEVE THEY HAD A WINNING CASE.
27:41BUT PROSECUTORS SAID IT STILL WASN'T ENOUGH TO BRING CHARGES.
27:45FOR CAROLINA AND HER FAMILY, WAITING FOR JUSTICE WASN'T EASY.
27:50IT FELT LIKE FOREVER.
27:52AND I JUST KEPT THINKING WE HAVE TO BE PATIENT.
27:55THE CASE LANGUISHED WITH NO NEW EVIDENCE.
27:58BUT DETECTIVES VIOLANO AND MCCOY KEPT PUSHING PROSECUTORS.
28:00AND FINALLY, IN 2018, AFTER YEARS OF INTERNAL DEBATE, THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE DECIDED TO CHARGE THE FOUR SUSPECTS WITH
28:09MURDER.
28:10YOU GOT TO GO WITH WHAT YOU HAD.
28:12SO WE CHARGED PEOPLE.
28:13WE CHARGED ALL FOUR OF THEM.
28:14MANY AND ABSENCIA.
28:16GANDULA AND ABSENCIA.
28:17AND WE KNEW WE HAD VILA AND ISAAC.
28:19THEY BROUGHT VILA AND ISAAC INTO CUSTODY, BUT STILL NEEDED TO FIND GANDULA AND MANY.
28:25HE WAS SOMEWHERE IN SPAIN AND LIVING A COMFORTABLE LIFE WITH MONEY, THEY DISCOVERED, BEING PROVIDED BY HIS SON YARIEL,
28:32WHO WAS BACK IN FLORIDA.
28:33SO GAYLE LEVINE BROUGHT CHARGES AGAINST THE SUN FOR AIDING AND ABETTING.
28:37AH, THE SUN.
28:39THE AIDER AND ABETTER AS YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
28:41THAT'S RIGHT.
28:41IS HE SHAKING IN HIS BOOTS?
28:42I DON'T KNOW, BUT HE'S GETTING A LOT OF BAD PRESS.
28:45THE PRESSURE ON THE SUN MUST HAVE BEEN FELT ALL THE WAY TO SPAIN.
28:48BECAUSE ON AUGUST 24, 2018, MANY MARIN DECIDED TO GIVE UP HIS LIFE IN EXILE.
28:55ALL OF A SUDDEN MANY SHOWS UP IN THE SPANISH EMBASY AND SAYS I'M WANTED IN THE UNITED STATES.
29:00GIVES HIMSELF UP?
29:01GIVES HIMSELF UP.
29:03FINALLY, AFTER SEVEN LONG YEARS, MANY WAS IN CUSTODY AND BACK IN FLORIDA, CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF CAMILO SALAZAR.
29:10THREE OF THE FOUR SUSPECTS WERE NOW BEHIND BARS, BUT THEY WEREN'T TALKING.
29:15MAYBE PROSECUTORS WOULD HAVE BETTER LOOK WITH ARIEL GANDULA, BUT HE WAS STILL AT LARGE.
29:20YOU GOT TO FIND THE WEAK LINK HERE.
29:22GANDULA.
29:22YOU GOT TO FIND THE PERSON THAT'S GOING TO FLIP ON THE OTHERS.
29:24THAT'S RIGHT.
29:25SO THEY SET OUT TO FIND GANDULA.
29:29SO WHERE IS THIS GUY GANDULA?
29:30VANCOUVER, CANADA.
29:31HOW DID YOU LEARN THAT?
29:32GOOGLE.
29:33THE PROSECUTORS IN THIS COUNTRY USE GOOGLE TO MAKE THEIR CASES?
29:36YOU USE WHATEVER YOU CAN.
29:37THE TEAM MADE THE 6-HOUR FLIGHT TO CANADA, AND GANDULA AGREED TO TALK TO THEM IN A
29:42VANCOUVER POLICE STATION.
29:44CAN WE CALL YOU ARIEL OR DO YOU PREFER MR.
29:47GANDULA?
29:47ARIEL.
29:48HIS ANSWERS ARE NOT LINING UP WITH THE EVIDENCE THAT WE HAVE.
29:53SO AFTER SEVERAL HOURS OF HEARING HIS STORY, WE NOW START PRESENTING HIM WITH THE EVIDENCE THAT
30:01WE HAVE.
30:02AND NOW HIS STORY STARTS TO CHANGE.
30:05HIS DEMEANOR STARTS TO CHANGE.
30:06HE JUST FOLD BEFORE YOUR EYES?
30:07HE SITS BACK IN HIS CHAIR.
30:09HE FOLDS HIS ARMS.
30:10HIS HEAD GOES DOWN.
30:12YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, AND HE KNOWS IT.
30:17GANDULA CRACKED AND STARTED TELLING A HARROWING STORY.
30:21HE SAID BACK ON THAT JUNE DAY IN 2011, HIS FRIEND ROBERTO ISAAC TOLD HIM HE NEEDED HELP
30:27INTIMIDATING A MAN WHO OWED SOMEONE MONEY.
30:30IT WAS CAMILO, A MAN THEY'D NEVER MET, BUT THEY HAD A PHOTO OF HIM AND AN ADDRESS.
30:35AFTER CAMILO DROPPED HIS NEWBORN OFF AT DAISY'S OFFICE, HE WALKED TO HIS SUV
30:39WHERE THE MEN WERE WAITING FOR HIM.
30:41MR. ISAAC ACTED AS HE WAS POSSIBLY A POLICE OFFICER OR SOME SORT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
30:47THEY THEN ABDUCT MR. SALAZAR, PUT HIM IN THE BACK OF THE TRUCK.
30:53GANDULA SAID THEY ZIP-TIED HIS HANDS BEHIND HIS BACK AND HELD HIM HOSTAGE FOR HOURS,
30:58THEN MET MANY AT AN EMPTY LOT IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA WHERE THERE WOULD BE NO WITNESSES.
31:02GANDULA SAYS MANY DRAGED CAMILO INTO HIS MERCEDES.
31:06MR. GANDULA SAYS, YOU KNOW, WHEN CAMILO SEES MANUEL MARON, HE STARTS TO FREAK OUT.
31:11THE VICTIM SAYS, OH MY GOD, THAT'S THE WOMAN I'M HAVING IN AFFAIRS WITH, WHAT HUSBAND?
31:19THIS WAS WAY BIGGER THAN COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS WAS ABOUT JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.
31:26WAS CAMILO STRUGGLING OR FIGHTING OR SCREAMING, YELLING?
31:37WHEN GANDULA REALIZED WHY THIS WAS HAPPENING, HE SAID HE WAS DONE.
31:42HE'S NO LONGER GOING TO HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS.
31:45SO HE ACTUALLY GETS INTO THE TRUCK, HE PULLS THE TRUCK AWAY AND HE DRIVES HOME.
31:50GANDULA LEAVES.
31:51HE LEAVES.
31:51AND THAT'S WHERE GANDULA'S STORY ENDED.
31:54HE SAID HE DID NOT WITNESS THE MURDER.
31:56NEVER MADE IT TO THAT HORRIBLE SCENE IN THE OVERGLADES WHERE CAMILO'S BODY WAS FOUND,
32:0130 MILES AWAY FROM WHERE HE MET UP WITH MANI.
32:04STILL, IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE STORY.
32:06AND EYEWITNESS GANDULA HAD PLACED MANI MARON IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
32:10WHILE THEY WERE STILL AT THE POLICE STATION IN VANCOUVER, LEVINE MADE A SNAP DECISION.
32:15SO RIGHT THEN AND THERE, I MAKE THE QUICKEST DEAL I EVER MADE IN MY LIFE.
32:19I'LL GIVE YOU THREE YEARS FOR KIDNAPPING IF HE WALKS ACROSS THE BORDER.
32:23TELLS THE STORY.
32:25GANDULA TOOK THE DEAL AND WOULD BECOME A WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION.
32:29BUT IT WAS THE TWO WOMEN AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM WHO WERE GETTING THE HEADLINES.
32:33AND THEY WERE ABOUT TO TELL THEIR DRAMATIC STORIES AT MANI MARON'S TRIAL.
32:52IT WAS A BRUTAL, CRUEL, DISGUSTING MURDER CASE.
32:59IT WAS ALMOST UNFATHOMABLE THAT SOMEONE COULD HAVE ORCHESTrated THIS HORRIBLE MURDER.
33:06ALMOST 12 YEARS AFTER CAMILO SALISAR'S MURDER, THE CASE FOUND ITS WAY TO A JURY.
33:11IN THE SPRING OF 2023, ALLEGED MASTERMIND MANI MARON WAS ON TRIAL CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER.
33:19PROSECUTOR JUSTIN FUNK TOOK THE LEAD.
33:21IT WAS REVENGE. IT WAS MACHISMO. MANI HAD BEEN WRONGED.
33:25HIS WIFE WAS CHEATING ON HIM, AND THIS WAS THE MAN WHO DID IT, AND WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH
33:29IT.
33:30PROSECUTORS SAID MANI HIRED THE MMA MUSCLE TO KIDNAP CAMILO AT DAISY'S OFFICE.
33:35MANI LATER MET THEM AT THAT EMPTY INDUSTRIAL LOT, DROVE OUT TO THE EVERGLADES, AND VICIOUSLY MURDERED HIM.
33:41IT'S A DESPERATE MAN WHO BELIEVES HE'S BEEN DISGRACED,
33:45AND HE KNEW THAT THE LOYALTY OF SOME OF THESE PEOPLE WAS GOING TO HELP EFFECTUATE WHAT HE WANTED TO
33:51ACHIEVE.
33:53PROSECUTORS WANTED THE JURY TO HEAR FIRSTHAND FROM THE TWO WOMEN AT THE HEART OF THIS TRAGIC LOVE TRIANGLE.
33:58DAISY, CAMILO'S WIFE, AND JENNY, HIS LOVER.
34:01THEIR STORIES WOULD PROVIDE THE MOTIVE FOR THE MURDER.
34:04YOU COULD PROBABLY HEAR A PIN DROP IN THAT ROOM THAT DAY WHEN THAT HAPPENED, BECAUSE IT WAS JUST, I
34:10THINK THERE WAS A LOT OF ANTICIPATION.
34:11DAISY, THE HEARTBROKEN WIDOW, TOLD THE JURY ABOUT HER LAST MOMENTS
34:15WITH CAMILO WHEN HE BROUGHT THEIR BABY TO HER OFFICE.
34:18YOU FORGOT HER PACIFIRE?
34:21SO HE RAN BACK OUT, GRABBED THAT, BROUGHT IT TO ME.
34:25HE WAS, AND THEN HE SAID, I'LL SEE YOU SOON.
34:29DID HE GIVE YOU A PISSED GOODBYE?
34:31YES.
34:32NO ONE SAW HIM AGAIN.
34:34DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA THAT YOUR HUSBAND WAS INVOLVED WITH SOMEONE ELSE WHILE YOU WERE WITH HIM?
34:40NO.
34:41WE WERE VERY HAPPY, VERY PRESENT.
34:44HE WAS PRESENT ALL THE TIME.
34:46THE PROSECUTION THEN CALLED JENNY TO SHOW THE JURY HOW HER AFFAIR HAD TRIGGERED HER HUSBAND'S RAGE.
34:52MANY MORAN GAVE YOU EVERYTHING YOU COULD HAVE WANTED, CORRECT?
34:57YES.
34:57BUT YOU FELL OUT OF LOVE WITH HIM?
34:59YES.
35:00YOU DISRESPECTED HIM?
35:02YES.
35:03HE LOVED YOU?
35:06YES.
35:07AND YOU CHEATED ON HIM?
35:08YES.
35:09YOU'RE STILL ALIVE?
35:12YES.
35:13AND CAMILO'S DEAD, RIGHT?
35:15YES.
35:16JENNY DESCRIBED HOW SHE MISUNDERSTOOD SOMETHING MANY SAID DURING THAT ARGUMENT ABOUT HER AFFAIR ON THEIR YOT.
35:23THAT CONFRONTATION WAS JUST HOURS BEFORE CAMILO WAS KILLED.
35:27REPORTER CHRISTIAN COLON WAS IN THE COURTROOM.
35:30MANUEL MARIN SAYS, JENNY, IF YOU DON'T STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING, YOU'RE GOING TO CAUSE A DESGRACIA.
35:34WHAT IS THE WORD THAT HE USED IN SPANISH FOR DISGRACE?
35:38DESGRACIA.
35:39AND JENNY TOOK IT AS, YOU'RE GOING TO CAUSE A DISGRACE.
35:42BUT IN CUBAN SLANG, DESGRACIA IS KNOWN AS A CALAMITY, OR IN ANOTHER WORD, A TRAGEDY.
35:48IT MEANS THAT I'M GOING TO COMMIT A TRAGEDY BECAUSE OF THIS.
35:51SO THAT WAS A BIG THING.
35:53IT WAS ALMOST LIKE AN ADMISSION.
35:55IT WAS ALMOST LIKE A CONFESSION BEFORE IT HAPPENED?
35:57CORRECT, CORRECT.
35:57CONFESSION OR NOT, IT WAS A CALAMITY.
36:01PROSECUTORS ARGUED IT WAS A CRIME OF PASSION, CARRIED OUT AGAINST CAMILO IN A MERCILESS WAY
36:06BY ENRAGED HUSBAND MANUEL MARIN.
36:09I BELIEVE THEY TURNED HIM OVER AND LIT HIM ON FIRE FROM HIS PENIS.
36:15YOU ONLY DO THAT IF YOU HAVE ONE THING IN MIND, REVENGE.
36:20NOT ONLY WAS THERE A STRONG MOTIVE, PROSECUTORS SAID THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT MANUEL WAS THERE
36:25THE DAY CAMILO WAS MURDERED.
36:27ARIEL GANDULA TOLD THE JURY ABOUT SEEING HIM AT THAT INDUSTRIAL LOT.
36:31AND PROSECUTORS SAID THE CELL PHONE DATA PUT MANUEL AT THE SPOT
36:35WHERE THEY FOUND CAMILO'S BODY.
36:36THERE WAS NO WAY THAT ANYONE WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN THE CELL PHONE, THE FLIGHT
36:43BY MANUEL GANDULA'S TESTIMONY.
36:45YOU JUST COULDN'T EXPLAIN THAT AWAY.
36:46WHEN IT CAME TIME FOR THE DEFENSE, BARON'S ATTORNEY, JOSE QUINON, DISPUTED ALL OF THE STATE'S
36:52EVIDENCE AND TOLD THE JURY THAT MANUEL HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MURDER.
36:56NOT A SINGLE ONE PIECE OF EVIDENCE POINTS TO MR.
37:01MARIN, NOTHING.
37:02THE DEFENSE DID ADMIT MANUEL WAS AT THAT INDUSTRIAL LOT, NOT TO TAKE PART IN A MURDER,
37:07BUT TO WATCH CAMILO TAKE A BEATING.
37:10THIS WAS INDEED NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS THAN AN ATTEMPT TO SCARE MR.
37:18SALAZAR IN ORDER TO STOP THE AFFAIR.
37:21AND NO ONE WILL COME INTO THIS COURTROOM AND TESTIFY THAT MR.
37:27MARIN KILLED CAMILO SALAZAR.
37:31THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAID MANUEL WAS NOT AT THE LOCATION WHERE CAMILO'S BODY WAS FOUND.
37:36HE SAID THE CELL PHONE DATA WAS SIMPLY NOT PRECISE.
37:40IT COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THIS BIG TWO-MILE RADIUS.
37:43IT COULD BE ANYWHERE.
37:44AND ARIEL GANDULA, THE DEFENSE CALLED HIM A LIAR.
37:48YOU NEED TO WATCH OUT.
37:50HE'S TRYING TO STRIKE A DEAL WITH THE PROSECUTORS.
37:54HE HAS TREMENDOUS MOTIVE TO LIE.
37:58IT COULD BE ANYWHERE.
37:59AS FOR THE AFFAIR, THE DEFENSE BERATED JENNI ON THE WITNESS STAND,
38:03CHASTISING HER FOR HER ROLE IN THE TRAGEDY.
38:05WERE YOU READY TO BREAK UP WITH CAMILO AT THAT TIME AND JUST DEVOTE YOURSELF TO YOUR KIDS AND YOUR
38:10HUSBAND?
38:10I WANTED TO, YES.
38:13WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?
38:15YOU COULD HAVE DONE IT.
38:16YOU'RE RIGHT.
38:17I COULD.
38:17WHAT WAS PREVENTING YOU?
38:18WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING THAT IS ACCESSIBLE, THAT IS REACHABLE, THAT THE HUSBAND IS ASKING YOU TO DO,
38:23WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?
38:24HE'S ASKING YOU TO DO IT.
38:25YOU CAN DO IT.
38:26IT IS THERE.
38:27WHY NOT?
38:28TELL ME.
38:29WHY NOT?
38:31I DON'T KNOW.
38:32I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
38:35AFTER NEARLY TWO WEEKS OF TESTIMONY, IT WAS TIME FOR CLOSING ARGUMENTS.
38:41THE PROSECUTION WENT FIRST.
38:43MANNY MARIN IS THE REASON WHY THEY'RE HERE.
38:45WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE HIRED ANSERS.
38:47THIS IS THE ARCHITECT.
38:48WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF MANUEL MARIN'S OWN EGO.
38:53BUT THE DEFENSE SAID MANNY WAS NO ARCHITECT, NO KILLER.
38:56HE'S A PEACEFUL GUY, NO VIOLENCE, NONE OF THIS.
39:00THIS IS NOT WHO HE IS, AS OPPOSED TO THIS OTHER INDIVIDUAL WHO IS A VIOLENT PERSON.
39:07THE DEFENSE SAID THAT OTHER INDIVIDUAL WAS ROBERTO ISAAC.
39:10HE WAS THE ONE WHO KILLED CAMILO.
39:13AFTER A SIX-HOUR DELIBERATION, THE JURORS WALKED BACK INTO THE COURTROOM, VERDICT SHEET IN HAND.
39:19THE DEFENDANT IS GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER, A LESSER-INCLUDED CRIME.
39:24GUILTY, BUT NOT OF SECOND-DEGREE MURDER.
39:27THEY WENT FOR THE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
39:28THEY DID, MANSLAUGHTER WITH A WEAPON.
39:30THEY STILL FOUND HIM GUILTY OF THE DEATH OF CAMILO SALAZAR.
39:34ONCE THEY READ THE VERDICT, IT WAS JUST AS LIKE, FINALLY, YOU KNOW, FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, IT'S FINALLY
39:42COMING TO A CLOSE.
39:43BUT DO YOU EVER REALLY SHED THE AWFULNESS OF WHAT HAPPENED?
39:45IT'S NOT GOING TO BRING MY BROTHER BACK, THAT'S FOR SURE.
39:4969-YEAR-OLD MANNY MARIN WAS GIVEN A LIFE SENTENCE.
39:53VILA PERDOMO AND ISAAC WERE TRIED SEPARATELY.
39:55ISAAC WAS FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER.
39:57VILA GUILTY OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER.
40:00THE FELONY CHARGES AGAINST MARIN'S SON, YADIEL, WERE DROPPED.
40:04I THINK THE OUTCOME IS WHAT, YOU KNOW, NOT FOR US AS THE DETECTIVE OR THE DEPARTMENT, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY,
40:11THE CLOSURE FOR THE FAMILY.
40:14BUT CLOSURE IS NOT ALWAYS AN EASY THING, ESPECIALLY FOR A MOTHER WHO LOST HER ONLY SON.
40:20INES, HOW ARE YOU DOING AFTER ALL OF THIS?
40:23SURVIVE DAY AFTER DAY.
40:25SURVIVE DAY AFTER DAY.
40:30CAROLINA TRIES TO HONOR HER BROTHER BY REMEMBERING HIS BIG SMILE, INFECTIOUS LAUGH, AND THE WAY HE EMBRACED LIFE.
40:38WHEN CAMILA WAS WITH YOU, IT WAS LIKE YOU'VE KNOWN HIM FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE.
40:44RIGHT NOW HE'D BE SITTING DOWN, JOKING WITH YOU, MAKING YOU LAUGH, MAKING YOU SMILE.
40:49THE WORLD COULD USE A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE.
40:50REALLY COULD, YEAH.
40:53THEY REALLY COULD.
40:59THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF DATELINE.
41:02WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN FRIDAY AT 9, 8 CENTRAL.
41:05AND OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEK NIGHT FOR NBC NIGHTLY NEWS.
41:08I'M LESTER HOLT.
41:10FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOOD NIGHT.
41:18THANK you.
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