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The First 48 - Season 29 - Episode 07: Murder in the Bud Room/A Mother Taken
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00:01This program documents actual homicide investigations.
00:05Criminal charges are often dropped or reduced,
00:07and all suspects shown are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
00:20An industrial district in North Tulsa.
00:25Oh my God!
00:27This is innocent.
00:29Give me the area up now.
00:30Somebody's got that area up now, now.
00:33Okay.
00:33Tell me exactly what happened.
00:35I'm the hospital director.
00:37Is it a male or female?
00:39It's a male.
00:40Is he awake?
00:42He's laying there.
00:44Ma'am, Iron Man, I look...
00:46He's a friend of Iron Man.
00:47I look nervous right here.
00:50I understand.
00:51I have an ambulance on the way.
00:57First responders arrive at a marijuana dispensary.
01:02Close, clear it, clear it.
01:04Clear, clear it.
01:05Clear, clear it.
01:06Clear, clear it.
01:07And discover a man lying on the floor.
01:11Hey, can you hear me?
01:12Hey.
01:14Shot dead.
01:25For homicide detectives, their chance of solving a murder is cut in half if they don't get a lead within
01:32the first 48 hours.
01:51I want to see him.
01:53How are you?
01:54Good.
01:55Detective Max Ryden will lead the investigation.
01:59Do I have an inside?
02:00Yeah, he's right there on the floor.
02:02Okay.
02:04The victim's gonna be a Montez Thomas.
02:0835-year-old Montrez Thomas was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and attended Turvey High.
02:15After graduation, he moved to Tulsa with his girlfriend and enrolled in a commercial driving academy.
02:22Montrez leaves behind six sisters, three brothers, and six children.
02:30It looks like the victim came in with a friend of his.
02:35He goes to you.
02:37Montrez's friend is a student at the University of Tulsa.
02:41Our victim went in by himself.
02:44The victim's friend is sitting in the car the whole time.
02:47He doesn't even hear a gunshot.
02:49All right.
02:52The clerk saw it.
02:54The dispensary clerk, who called 911, told first responders that he witnessed the shooting.
03:00There was some sort of altercation.
03:03And then the victim was shot inside.
03:07The clerk said he was a mystery suspect.
03:10They left him.
03:12I was curious, how did this mystery suspect leave in a car on foot?
03:16Or is the clerk full of ?
03:17And the clerk did something we don't know about?
03:19The clerk had a gun on him.
03:21It was posted.
03:22Officers found a 9mm handgun on the clerk when they arrived on scene.
03:28All right.
03:29I want to go in there and look at the scene real quick.
03:36There's the furniture flipped over.
03:40One shot.
03:42Montrez was shot once in the chest.
03:46Shell casing.
03:49The team recovers a single 9mm shell casing next to Montrez's body.
03:54So whose gun is that?
03:57That gun is a load .22.
04:00And a .22 caliber pistol on the counter.
04:04I don't think it's been fired.
04:06Grab that gun.
04:09Okay.
04:09So we don't have a 9mm gun.
04:12Besides the clerk's.
04:149mm.
04:23Here's the deal.
04:24The facing's a 9mm.
04:25The clerk's gun is a 9mm.
04:28I'm not a rocket scientist, but I think the clerk shot it.
04:32Or there could be another person in there that was another customer.
04:35We don't know that yet.
04:38So we'll just take beefs to you guys downtown.
04:41Montrez's friend and the clerk who witnessed the shooting will be transported back to homicide.
04:49They have video.
04:51You're gonna stay here and get video?
04:52I'll do my best.
04:54Owner was supposed to be on his way up here.
04:56The other man.
04:58Oh yeah.
04:59I've had it downtown.
05:03Got a disturbance at a dispensary and maybe two customers got into a fight and one shot the other one.
05:09I really don't know.
05:11They said the clerk's being a little cagey.
05:14So I don't know what the deal is.
05:25Back at headquarters.
05:26Okay.
05:28I'm Detective Ryden.
05:29Ryden starts with Montrez's friend.
05:33How long have you gone to TU?
05:34Two months already.
05:36And where are you from?
05:37From Germany.
05:38Really?
05:38I'm sorry you're coming to Tulsa and this happened.
05:41Yeah.
05:42So let's go into how do you know the person that you arrived at the dispensary with.
05:47What's his name TU?
05:49Memphis.
05:52Okay.
05:52Like two or three weeks ago.
05:53Okay.
05:54I was trying to play basketball and I went to the gathering place, met him.
05:59He says he became friends with Montrez after they met playing pickup basketball.
06:05Then he asked me if I want to hang out with him today.
06:09And I was like, okay, okay.
06:11Okay.
06:12Then Memphis was picking me up from my door.
06:15We want to go to some bar.
06:17Okay.
06:18So we leave the bar and where do you guys go next?
06:22We went to the store.
06:24Okay.
06:25When it happened.
06:27He went inside and I just, I just waited in the car.
06:31Then I was listening to music.
06:34I was waiting for him, waiting, waiting, waiting.
06:36And then I was like, I heard Zyrene's.
06:39Okay.
06:41I saw police cars approaching.
06:44Then I was like, okay, something's going wrong here.
06:50And yeah, that's it.
06:52That's it.
06:53Did you ever see Memphis with a gun tonight?
06:57No, ever.
06:58Okay.
06:59Do you have any idea why somebody would want to shoot and kill him tonight?
07:01No.
07:03We had the conversation before.
07:05I was telling him that I don't want to get in trouble because I'm just here for like an
07:09excellence semester.
07:10Right.
07:11And he was saying that he's never getting me into trouble.
07:16But then, yeah.
07:19Got you.
07:21It's kind of shocking, I assume.
07:22Really shocking.
07:24Okay.
07:25Sit tight and I'm going to get them to come get you a ride, okay?
07:27Thanks.
07:33We're good.
07:33You can take him now.
07:34All right.
07:41Two hours in.
07:43I want to interview the clerk.
07:46Oh, yeah.
07:50Oh, yeah.
07:53Okay.
07:55Appreciate your patience.
07:57How long you work at the dispensary?
08:00Okay.
08:02The victim, had you ever seen him before?
08:07Okay.
08:09Okay.
08:10In your own words, what happened?
08:12Yeah.
08:13Customers.
08:15I was ringing someone up.
08:17My other co-worker was in a lobby.
08:20He reveals that another man was working in the dispensary when Montrez was shot.
08:26What's the other guy's name?
08:29Mike.
08:30Do you know Mike's name?
08:32No.
08:33Is Mike a regular employee like you?
08:35Yeah.
08:36Yeah.
08:37So, uh, what was going on about going to another dispensary?
08:43And bro was like, I mean, you still can.
08:45And then, like, it just went from there.
08:50Do you think he was trying to get the guy to leave and not have a problem?
08:54Yeah.
08:55Okay.
08:56Like, next thing I know, I'm going out there, trying to break it up.
09:02They had started getting heated.
09:05I'm trying to tell dude, you know what I'm saying, just to go, just to leave.
09:10Okay.
09:11They want to leave.
09:12So, I was breaking up up in the lobby.
09:15So, when I got him apart, Mike, I went back behind the gate.
09:18He was trying to, like, leave it alone every day.
09:21So, where customers aren't supposed to be?
09:22Yeah.
09:23Okay.
09:23He kept trying to come at him.
09:25And then, you know, two dudes, three goes.
09:29Then I'm going to let it go.
09:31Did Mike shoot him?
09:34Yeah.
09:49Tell me what Mike did after.
09:52He missed.
10:00So, how am I going to go hold of Mike?
10:02Because it sounds like Mike can help himself out if he comes and talks to me and Detective Zuniga.
10:07No, no.
10:07I don't have to.
10:09You think the owner should have it?
10:11I don't think so.
10:12All right.
10:13Sit tight.
10:13We'll get you at it real soon.
10:20I think the employee was a little concerned about being involved in a homicide and having to tell a co
10:25-worker.
10:26But, at the end of the day, he told the truth.
10:29Now, I have to watch the video and we'll see if it's self-defense or if Mike went too far.
10:33All right.
10:40An hour later, Detective Vernon McNeil returns with the dispensary's surveillance video.
10:48Is this beginning?
10:49Yeah.
10:51So, the way that dispensaries work here in Oklahoma is you can enter into a small little lobby area.
10:57Once they check your ID, then they'll buzz you into security where you can actually purchase product.
11:12He gets into this verbal altercation with this other clerk named Mike.
11:22Mike buzzes him into the back where you can purchase product.
11:27Him and Mike are kind of talking.
11:29Since there's no audio, it's hard to tell what's being said,
11:31but it appears it starts to get a little animated between the two.
11:38There's a gun in his hand right there.
11:41He immediately goes to the gun.
11:45I don't think the victim was able to purchase anything.
11:47I think Mike kicked him out before he could finish the purchase.
11:56That kid actually tried to defuse it.
11:58I don't think the victim was going to be able to get a gun.
12:06Mike walks ahead of him and is outside with a gun.
12:10So he comes out, and he's like, man, hold on, man.
12:14I'm about to come out there with your own gun.
12:21Mike swings at the victim.
12:27He goes and gets another gun.
12:28The gun got stuck.
12:29The gun gets lodged in the bar that connects to the door.
12:35He took the gun out of the door.
12:42He got his ass whipped.
12:51He goes and gets another gun.
12:54That one he probably left with.
13:01Oh, he's shot him right there, man.
13:03There you go.
13:06Oh, this is very premeditated there.
13:09That fight was over.
13:14So he drops.
13:15The guy's looking at him just like...
13:17I think he's like saying, stop, stop, stop.
13:23Are you pissed to whip him?
13:27Bam!
13:28Damn.
13:29Wow.
13:31That ain't self-defense, bro.
13:33No.
13:34No.
13:34No, not even close.
13:38Mike goes outside, and then he ran, dude.
13:44He's going east.
13:46He's an employee.
13:48So did they figure out at the scene, like, his real name?
13:50Yeah, their boss shows up, and we're like, okay, who's Mike?
13:54They know it's Mike Bell.
13:58Let's see here.
13:59Michael Bell.
14:01Michael Bell.
14:01Michael Bell.
14:05Yeah, that's him.
14:0840-year-old Michael Bell has prior convictions for attempted robbery by force and false impersonation.
14:15So I guess I'll just start time out of a warrant.
14:17See if we can get warrants to start doing their searches on him.
14:22Yeah, I think we can do that.
14:24And we'll have a conversation after he gets arrested for a screenwriter.
14:27All righty.
14:37Later that day, the Fugitive Warren's squad scours the city for Michael Bell.
14:44But as the first 48 ticks away, he's nowhere to be found.
15:06Three weeks later, Michael turned himself in.
15:14Michael Bell turns himself into the Tulsa County Jail and is brought to homicide for questioning.
15:20Been doing this for 18 years, and very rarely does someone turn themselves in.
15:26So we'll get his side of the store and take him back down to the jail.
15:35Okay, Michael.
15:39I'm Detective Bryan.
15:41This is Lieutenant Watkins.
15:43How long were you working at the dispensary before this incident?
15:46Almost a year.
15:47Okay.
15:48And what was your job title?
15:50I'm a tender and security guy.
15:53Gotcha.
15:54In your own words, what happened that night with you and the customer?
16:15I asked the guy his name, and he said, uh, Thomas.
16:19So I looked up to Thomas, I said first name.
16:22So he goes, uh, so I was like, I just made a funny joke like, well, he's already high.
16:29Right.
16:30He was like, no, we just don't let a bitch-ass know what we're doing.
16:37I was like, what?
16:38Okay.
16:41I was like, I have to have your first name to let you in.
16:44Right.
16:45He finally gave it to me.
16:46Then he came in, and he starts saying, I'm from Memphis, mother.
16:53Had you ever seen this guy in your life before?
16:55Never.
16:56That's why I couldn't understand why he was so aggressive.
16:59Okay.
17:01He said, I could take my money elsewhere.
17:03I said, sir, it's your money.
17:05You could do whatever you want with.
17:07Nobody's making you shop here.
17:08Right.
17:09After that, he was getting his tree, but then he follows me outside.
17:16I swung on him.
17:17At the front door?
17:18Yeah.
17:19Okay.
17:20We started fighting.
17:21He got me down on my knees.
17:23Right.
17:24He punched me.
17:25And he kept laughing.
17:27Okay.
17:28And I hurry up and ran back in there.
17:29Okay.
17:30He says he ran back behind the counter.
17:33And the guy still wouldn't leave.
17:35I said, man, this dude's going to kill me.
17:38And grabbed another gun from behind the computer.
17:41So then what happens?
17:43I see him coming back towards me again.
17:47I just shot him in the chest, man.
17:51I was dazed out.
17:53I couldn't understand what was going on.
17:56Like, oh, look what I've done.
18:01So then what did you do?
18:03Kicked him in his face and I took off.
18:09You're sorry this happened?
18:12Man, I'm so sorry.
18:14And I know that won't bring him back.
18:18I'm going to tell the DA you turn yourself in.
18:20I'm going to tell him you admitted what happened.
18:23I can't tell you what's going to happen at the end of the day,
18:25but I think those are all positives.
18:27Sound good?
18:28Okay.
18:36Michael made a mistake, but clearly there's no self-defense.
18:39Michael, at the end of the day, realized he got angry
18:42and his emotions got the best of him.
18:45Just because you lose a fight and you're upset about it
18:47doesn't mean you can go shoot someone
18:48and kill him for no reason.
18:50He's the one that made the bad decision to use the gun,
18:52and he'll have to ask for what he did in court.
19:07I hope the arrest and the confession
19:09will bring some pleasure to the family.
19:12He did show her more some.
19:14Hopefully that will give the family some peace.
19:16It's a sad deal.
19:17But I'm glad it all came to a resolution.
19:25Six months later...
19:27It's been hard for all of us.
19:31Montrez's family gathers in Olive Branch, Mississippi
19:33to remember him.
19:36Sometimes I just break down because he left a hole in my heart,
19:41and I don't know if it ever would be filled.
19:51When I heard that the young man had shot him
19:56and my son was unarmed,
19:58it really took me for a loop.
20:01That's what's really the hole in my heart right now.
20:04I don't think I'm ever going to get over that.
20:08My brother was innocent.
20:10He was on the right path,
20:12and for somebody to take that away from him is crazy.
20:17He took away my daddy.
20:20He took away a part of me.
20:22He definitely will be missed.
20:32800 miles southeast in Gwinnett County, Georgia.
20:38Gwinnett County, Maryland 1.
20:40All right, I'll let you make a report.
20:42It's an emergency.
20:44Okay, and what do you need a report on?
20:49They kidnapped my friend, Ruby.
20:54Okay, the person that you're translating for,
20:58who is that?
20:59Her sister and her son.
21:00He's 3 years old.
21:02Kate is telling us that
21:03the ex-husband is connected.
21:21There was a call that came in for a welfare check.
21:23Corporal Kyle Howes from the Behavioral Health Unit
21:26will start the investigation into Ruby's disappearance.
21:30According to Ruby's sister,
21:31no one has heard from her in about six hours.
21:3628-year-old Ruby Maldonado Nava
21:38was born and raised in Guerrero, Mexico.
21:42After graduating from college,
21:43she married her high school sweetheart,
21:46Miguel,
21:46and they had two children.
21:48The family later moved to the U.S.,
21:50where Ruby worked as an account supervisor
21:52for a cleaning business.
21:54Ruby and Miguel separated six years ago,
21:57and she started dating Alejandro Contreras
21:59and had her third child.
22:04According to Ruby's sister,
22:06her ex Alejandro may have abducted her.
22:09With calls like this,
22:11where someone hasn't seen Ruby
22:13for a long period of time
22:14and the ex is involved,
22:17that can be very concerning
22:18because it can turn very violent
22:19and potentially fatal.
22:23Howes heads out to Ruby's apartment
22:25to meet with her sister.
22:29Ruby's not here?
22:30No.
22:31She's Zuri.
22:33She's Zuri.
22:33Okay.
22:34Social worker Diane Deguera
22:36will translate for officers.
22:39Her son is a three-year-old.
22:41Ruby and her three-year-old son, Nico,
22:44share the apartment with her sister, Zoradani.
22:48The kid said the ex was out here this morning.
22:52According to Ruby's son,
22:54his father, Ruby's ex-boyfriend,
22:56showed up at their apartment.
22:58The three-year-old was the only one
23:00who saw the incident this morning.
23:01Yeah, that he hit her in the face
23:03and hit her in the pod.
23:07I've been out here before two months ago
23:09and I arrested Alejandro.
23:12Alejandro was arrested for battery
23:14against Ruby three months ago.
23:16And then he went to jail for that DV stuff.
23:19And was released on bond
23:20under the condition
23:21that he have no violent contact with her.
23:24With Alejandro over here over the night?
23:26Like, we was actually in the home?
23:29No, no, no, no, no.
23:35He was pissed off.
23:36And she saw him last night
23:39in his car circling around.
24:03According to Ruby's sister,
24:05Alejandro moved in with a co-worker
24:06two months ago,
24:07but she doesn't know the address.
24:11Do you hear a description
24:12of what type of car he got her into?
24:14I'm not here.
24:16Her car's not here.
24:18All right.
24:20Do you hear a description
24:21of what type of car she has?
24:23She has a picture.
24:27Maroon Toyota RAV4.
24:29The team will put out a bolo
24:31for Ruby's Maroon RAV4.
24:34At this point,
24:35I got a really bad feeling
24:36with her ex, Alejandro.
24:39We think he may have done something to Ruby,
24:41so we definitely need to get
24:42our homicide unit involved.
24:51What's up?
24:54Ruby, not a nodo, Nava.
24:57Corporal Isles gets
24:57Sergeant Dallas York up to speed.
25:00I can send someone out there, too.
25:03All right, thanks, man.
25:06Ex-boyfriend.
25:08Alejandro.
25:09York looks up Ruby's ex-boyfriend.
25:12Last name's from Scherz.
25:1631-year-old
25:17Jahir Alejandro Contreras Sagajan
25:20was born in Mexico
25:21and moved to Norcross, Georgia,
25:23eight years ago.
25:25He works as a contractor
25:26and has no prior convictions.
25:29They have a previous
25:30domestic violence incident
25:32back the end of January
25:33where he got arrested for battery.
25:38We don't have a current address on him.
25:41We need to go out
25:42and talk to their kid
25:42that they share together.
25:44You just want me
25:45to try to get the kid
25:46to say what he saw?
25:48Yeah.
25:49Okay.
25:54Detective Julie Price
25:55heads out to Ruby's apartment
25:57to interview her son, Nico.
26:00It's hard talking to a child
26:02who's witnessed something
26:03like a homicide
26:05because you're asking them
26:07to basically relive it
26:08and that can cause trauma.
26:10But I have child-first training.
26:14Child-first training is
26:15you learn to talk to kids.
26:18You learn to first figure out
26:20like their speechability,
26:21how much they can retain,
26:23and then there's a specific way
26:25of questioning them.
26:26I mean,
26:28he will put it together later
26:30that something happened
26:32to his mom.
26:34So you want to try
26:35to get the information
26:36out of them
26:36the most delicate way possible.
26:44Nico!
26:46¿Qué haces?
26:49Okay.
26:50So, Nicolas,
26:52I'm Detective Price.
26:53Ella es la Detectiva Price.
26:56Want to play?
26:57Yeah.
26:58Okay.
27:00How old are you?
27:01Quanto sign of the piano?
27:04Three?
27:06You're three?
27:07While Price talks
27:08to Ruby's son.
27:13We're not counting, 911.
27:15A call comes in
27:17from a 911 operator
27:18in Clayton County, Georgia,
27:20125 miles south of Atlanta.
27:24And the gentleman
27:24on with him.
27:25He's an employer
27:27who has an employee
27:28that called him
27:29to advise that he
27:30has killed his wife.
27:33Okay.
27:34Hello, sir.
27:36Hello, hello, hello.
27:37When did he call you, sir?
27:39He just called me
27:39like 40 minutes ago.
27:41What's his name?
27:43Alejandro Contreras.
27:46And her name is
27:47Ruby Lava.
27:49When he said that,
27:51stop.
27:51I'm going for the police.
27:56He gives them
27:57Alejandro's address.
27:59I don't know
27:59what else I can do.
28:01All right, sir.
28:01Thank you so much.
28:03All right.
28:07Minutes later,
28:10What's up?
28:12Alejandro's coworkers
28:13have gathered outside
28:14the house
28:15where he's been living.
28:17He's been renting the room.
28:18Right.
28:18But he's not there.
28:22He was here today.
28:24When the coworkers
28:25checked the house,
28:26they found evidence
28:27Alejandro had been there
28:28earlier.
28:30Pizza on the counter.
28:33There was a kid's
28:34lollipop on the counter.
28:35Okay.
28:37Dolly on the back seat.
28:51Patrol will keep eyes
28:52on Alejandro's house
28:53in case he returns.
28:55Make sure nobody
28:56goes in the house.
28:57Logo that.
29:00Meanwhile,
29:01back at Ruby's apartment.
29:04He's good.
29:05I don't think I can get
29:06much more out of him.
29:07Okay.
29:08Good job.
29:10Gracias.
29:16So it sounds like
29:17it got into a fight.
29:19He hit her.
29:20So it's probably
29:21she took a couple
29:22of blows to the head.
29:24She went down
29:25onto the ground.
29:26Said that she was
29:27on the floor.
29:28Then Daddy put a blanket
29:30over her,
29:32picked her up,
29:33and carried her outside.
29:34And then he got dropped
29:36off at the babysitter.
29:38But other than that,
29:39I don't think he remembers
29:40anything else.
29:45Minutes later,
29:48a car pulls into
29:49Alejandro's driveway,
29:51then quickly backs out.
29:53I've got it for you.
29:59Turn off the car.
30:02Keep your hands where we can see them,
30:04and step out.
30:07Turn off the car.
30:14Come on, I'm arriba.
30:28Passenger, walk backwards
30:29to the sound of my voice.
30:40Yeah, he's in the car.
30:43What's your name?
30:45Alejandro.
30:48Driver, exit the vehicle.
30:51Keep your hands up.
30:53Keep walking.
30:56Keep walking.
30:57Keep coming.
30:58Just stay where you're at.
31:03Am I being arrested?
31:05No.
31:05Right now,
31:06you're being detained.
31:08I think, uh,
31:09he's more who we're looking for,
31:10not you.
31:15Where'd you pick him up from?
31:18The driver
31:19says he picked up Alejandro
31:21in a neighboring county
31:22east of Gwinnett.
31:29Yeah, on the side of the road.
31:33Do you have a GPS
31:34from where you picked him up at?
31:36Yeah, he sent me a location.
31:39Can we get that from him?
31:40Uh, yeah.
31:46So, this one, Sammy.
31:48He shows officers
31:49the location
31:50where he picked up Alejandro.
31:52It's on the east side of Athens.
31:56I appreciate it, man.
31:58Ordered that to York.
31:59The officer sends the GPS data
32:01to Sergeant York
32:02back at Homicide.
32:04We know that you weren't involved
32:06in anything.
32:07And lets the driver go.
32:08Yeah.
32:1211-57.
32:13Home Depot.
32:15Officers find a receipt
32:16in Alejandro's pocket.
32:18He buys hand truck.
32:20Hand truck from Home Depot.
32:21So, he bought
32:22two gallons of gas,
32:24a lollipop,
32:24and a Coke 4.
32:26And they'll be a car fire.
32:28Nope.
32:29That would explain
32:30why he didn't have the rat for him.
32:34While Alejandro
32:35is transported back
32:35to Homicide
32:36for questioning,
32:38Corporal Fuller
32:38sent these coordinates.
32:40York looks up
32:41the location
32:41where Alejandro's friend
32:42picked him up.
32:45looking at the arrow view,
32:46it's out in the middle of nowhere.
32:48It's a very wooded,
32:50rural area,
32:51about an hour and a half
32:52east of here.
32:53So, I contacted
32:54authorities with
32:55Oglethorpe County
32:56to do a flyover there
32:57and see if they could
32:58locate your car.
32:59A helicopter from the
33:00Georgia State Patrol
33:01Aviation Unit
33:02is dispatched
33:03to search for
33:04Ruby's RAV4.
33:06When Alejandro
33:07was detained,
33:08he had a receipt
33:09from Home Depot.
33:10York turns the case over
33:12to Detective
33:12Rodrigo Araya.
33:14And on the receipt
33:15was the purchase of,
33:16I believe,
33:17it was two gas cans.
33:18The team will try
33:19to get surveillance video
33:20of Alejandro
33:21inside the store.
33:23This guy may have
33:24actually killed this girl.
33:25We don't have a body
33:27or the car
33:28or anything like that,
33:29but, I mean,
33:29I'm more inclined
33:30to say that he
33:32killed her,
33:33took her out of there
33:33and scorched the car.
33:35It's just going to be
33:35a matter of finding it.
33:37GSP Aviation
33:38is out there now.
33:46An hour later.
33:50Down here,
33:51back in the woods,
33:51back to the right.
33:54Following coordinates
33:55sent by air support
33:56officers,
33:58county sheriffs
33:59find Ruby's RAV4
34:00in the middle
34:01in the middle
34:01of an abandoned
34:02logging site.
34:06Tires all blowed.
34:11Inside.
34:12Just looking in there,
34:13the body's burned
34:14down to the bone.
34:16They find Ruby's remains.
34:19Looking in there,
34:20luck might have some
34:21trauma to the top
34:21of the head or something.
34:24Probably the worst body,
34:25burnt body I've ever seen.
34:26The Oglethorpe County
34:28coroner determined
34:29that the extreme heat
34:31of the fire
34:31left Ruby's body
34:32too fragile to move,
34:34requiring an on-site
34:36examination.
34:38Pretty sure I'm sorry.
34:42Back at homicide.
34:45He's got urn marks
34:47all over his hand
34:48and on his forehead.
34:49He does reek
34:51of gasoline.
34:53Smell it.
34:55Araya
34:56will interview
34:57Alejandro.
34:59Hello, sir.
35:05So, I wanted to talk
35:07and I know
35:09that you killed him.
35:10How did you tell that?
35:13How did you tell that?
35:17I know
35:18that you're hurt.
35:20I'm looking for something
35:23that happened.
35:27What happened?
35:32What happened?
35:45.
35:45.
35:45.
35:45.
35:45.
35:45.
35:46.
35:46.
35:47.
35:48.
35:49.
35:49.
35:49.
35:50.
35:50.
35:51and told me that I had a single person and that gave me a lot of rabies.
35:59Yes, of course.
36:01I said, I want to see you, I want to deal with things, I want to be together with you.
36:06I went more late, I went to the hospital and I went to the hospital.
36:13What happened after that?
36:28He says Ruby wanted $500 a week in child support for Nico.
36:34No.
36:47What happened afterwards?
36:48I went to the hospital.
36:50I went to the hospital.
36:56I went to the hospital.
36:57I went to the hospital.
37:00Did you get the hospital with your hands?
37:05Yes.
37:06Oh, like this?
37:08With one hand?
37:09With this.
37:11Okay.
37:20He says after he killed Ruby, he wrapped her body in a blanket and put her in the back of
37:25the RAV4.
37:29Okay.
37:30And put Nico in the passenger seat.
37:53He says after buying the supplies, he dropped Nico off with a babysitter.
38:03I drove east, looking for a place to dispose of Ruby's body.
38:14He says when he set Ruby's RAV4 on fire, it burst into flames.
38:20Yeah.
38:21Thank you, bind him.
38:22Boiled up.
38:23So, you can see your back up.
38:27Okay.
38:30Give me a...
38:30Give me a second.
38:32Do you want a question for me?
38:36Do you want to answer my best?
38:37No that sorry to my son.
38:39Do you want your sister of Ruby's ex-wife?
38:45I want a turn.
38:45That is your sister, organize me.
38:45Yeah....
38:46To get out of the hospital.
38:57then so this is uh the home depot
39:01corporal randy blackburn returns with surveillance video
39:05which shows them arriving in the maroon rav4
39:11this is where the vehicles is right here
39:18here's the suspect and his child entering the home depot
39:27he's rolling the dolly and he's having the kid carry the gas can
39:35it's awful that he knows what he's about to do he's making his kid carrying that
39:43how cold alejandra was to allow his son to be carrying that gas canister
39:48he just doesn't care that he's getting his son involved in this
39:52ruby she tried her best to try to make her life better for her and her son
39:57but when the relationship ended
40:00malajandro was jealous and he started losing control over her
40:03and he needed to gain control again
40:06as young as nico was it definitely struck a nerve
40:09you know you lose your mother from this heinous crime and now
40:13your father is going to be probably in jail for the rest of his life
40:17it's going to hunt nico for the rest of his life
40:2018 hours after ruby was reported missing
40:25alejandro contreras is charged with her murder
40:47two years after ruby was killed
40:56her family gathers at her older sister's house in arizona to remember her
41:02she always was crying
41:04she always was crying
41:05she had a very beautiful charisma
41:09she made us laugh
41:12she made us laugh
41:13the children of ruby were everything for her
41:17the most difficult part is that
41:19I see my children
41:21and I wonder why these children
41:24why my children have to be suffering
41:28since the age of ruby
41:31we have children in therapy
41:33and still it has been very difficult
41:35for them to adapt to that situation
41:38that they lived
41:41with nico has been more complicated
41:45yet he lived all that
41:47he was present there
41:49he was growing
41:52he remembers
41:54how things happened
41:55what happened
41:56what happened
41:57what happened
41:57what happened
41:57his mother
41:57he narrated
41:58he was a very evil man
42:06he removed
42:07a part of our heart
42:10he removed
42:11a part of our heart
42:12he removed
42:15to protect her
42:16I just ask them
42:17I ask them
42:19justice
42:19이쪽
42:21to my daughter
42:25to take the time
42:28to break my daughter
42:42You
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