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00:01You've been wrong, but you can't cry.
00:04This was Odette's reality thanks to that man.
00:07Colonel Hath no fury, like a woman scorned.
00:11He went through four shots, so there was only one left.
00:14I thought, this is it. I'm gonna die, and there's nothing I can do now at this point.
00:19Is that the gun that he used?
00:21Looks like the gun.
00:22You were jealous of his wife.
00:23You know that?
00:25We, the jury, in the above-entitled case by the defendant, Ivan Rodriguez Duran, as follows.
00:34Vegas.
00:35It's exotic.
00:37Exciting.
00:38Excessive.
00:39I'm Steve Wolfson.
00:40I'm the district attorney here in Las Vegas.
00:42All rise.
00:43I'm not afraid of the cameras seeing what we do.
00:46First-degree murder.
00:48What happens here stays here, unless you gamble with crime.
00:52Then, DA Wolfson and his team will seek justice.
00:56He is not telling the truth.
00:58He needs to be locked up forever.
01:00From crime to conviction.
01:02Get ready for trial.
01:09Montgomery County, Missouri is roughly 1,500 miles from Las Vegas.
01:13Yet it's here where one of the Clark County DA's most challenging cases gets reignited after nearly two decades.
01:20Cuban immigrants Ivan Rodriguez Duran and Odette Juvenet were co-workers at Bally's Casino.
01:26They were also ex-lovers.
01:29On May 24, 1998, Duran allegedly kidnapped Odette, terrifying her as he played Russian roulette.
01:36Arrested a few days later, Duran fled after posting bail and disappeared for years until he was arrested for rape
01:43in Missouri.
01:43Found not guilty in the trial there in December of 2015.
01:47He was about to be set free when the Missouri D.A. who tried that case realized Duran was still
01:53a fugitive in Las Vegas.
01:54He got in touch with Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski.
01:58I felt passionately that this guy's a very dangerous man and, you know.
02:03Okay.
02:03He needs to be an independent injury rather than on the streets.
02:05I can do it. I'll take the case myself.
02:07Steve, you got a minute?
02:09Yeah, what's up?
02:10Hey, I want to talk to you real quick about a case.
02:12I just got a case from 1998.
02:15Aggravated stalking, burg, possession of firearm, first-degree kidnapping.
02:19I just got a call from the prosecutor down in Montgomery County, Missouri, saying that he knows that we have
02:25a case.
02:26So there was a warrant issued back in 1998.
02:28Yeah.
02:28And the warrant's been outstanding this whole time?
02:30Exactly.
02:31Unfortunately, they just tried him and got a not guilty on rape and incest.
02:36He's going to be brought out here?
02:38I want to let you know I'm proving extradition.
02:40You talked to the victim?
02:42Yeah.
02:42So the victim is still around. We were able to locate her.
02:45Right.
02:45And you talked to her and she's ready to move forward.
02:47She is. The rub on this one is he's a Cuban national.
02:51Homeland Security is going to release him in about an hour unless they see our hold at NCIC.
02:56Get on it.
02:56So I'm calling him, but I needed to tell you about it.
02:58Get on it.
02:58Okay, thank you.
02:59I got to call him right now.
03:00Good work.
03:02The state's case against Ivan Rodriguez Duran takes months to work through the legal system.
03:08In August of 2016, eight months after Bernie Zdrowski initially took the case,
03:14Duran's alleged victim, Odette Juvenet, arrives in Las Vegas.
03:18She's meeting Bernie for the first time.
03:21Bernie?
03:21Odette?
03:22I'll be darned.
03:23Finally get to meet you.
03:25Finally.
03:26How are you?
03:27Good.
03:27It's good to see you.
03:28How about your full time?
03:29Oh, thank you.
03:29So let's talk about the things we want to do is we want to go to those parts of town
03:35specifically where this happened,
03:37the place down off the strip where he first comes into your car.
03:42I've been trying so hard to remember.
03:4418 years later, I don't, obviously, nobody expects you to know exactly.
03:49But I do know for sure where he got in my car.
03:51It's going to be vitally important, quite frankly, to be able to see the area that it happened and how
03:57it happened.
03:58Okay.
03:58And I want to introduce you to our assistant DA as well.
04:02This is Robert Daskus.
04:04He's our assistant district attorney.
04:05Nice to meet you.
04:06This is Odette Juvenet.
04:07So when, when we on occasion get cases like this that occurred a long time ago,
04:14we're going to ask you to remember what you've tried to forget for 18 years.
04:19For some people in, in your shoes, it's therapeutic.
04:23And it's, it's almost healthy to, to go back and, and recreate and relive it.
04:28So.
04:29I want to because I need, I need to do what I need to do.
04:37To prepare Odette for trial, Bernie and his co-counsel Steven Rose retrace the route Odette took on the night
04:43Duran allegedly got into her vehicle and kidnapped her.
04:46All right.
04:47So.
04:48You are coming back.
04:50Tell me.
04:50From Bally's.
04:51You're coming back from Bally's.
04:52What are you doing down there at Bally's?
04:54You just get off your shift?
04:55I get off from work.
04:56Tell us what's going on.
04:56I see a car that pulled behind me and then I see a guy getting out of the car.
05:02So you're looking.
05:03But for a second I don't see who it is and I don't care.
05:06I'm not expecting him to be there.
05:08Right.
05:08Then I see it's him and I'm like, oh shoot.
05:11Then I start pushing my lock button.
05:14The lock button.
05:15Okay.
05:15At the same time I'm trying to run the red light and leave.
05:19But I couldn't because our car was coming and by then he's already in.
05:23As soon as he got in the car and he handcuffed me.
05:27The light came green.
05:28So you're handcuffed to the car and making your left hand turn on the sandhill.
05:33I'm handcuffed to him.
05:34Oh, you're handcuffed to him.
05:35So he puts you like.
05:37Yes.
05:37Okay.
05:38I'm going to show you where I lived.
05:40Okay.
05:40The fourth house.
05:41This is where I lived.
05:42The house with the big fence and the big, the big iron fence.
05:46This one right here?
05:46Yeah.
05:47So I'm driving by and I want to cry because I'm seeing my house here.
05:50Then I thought this is it.
05:53I'm going to die and there's nothing I can do now at this point.
06:12All right, so I figure we'll just park right here.
06:16Let's get out real quick.
06:18Okay.
06:19To set the scene here, so to speak, this wall here didn't exist.
06:24These houses were not there.
06:26You're sitting in the passenger seat the whole time.
06:28The whole time.
06:29That was horrible.
06:30He would go from being nice and soft to I'm going to kill myself.
06:35Well, let's talk about that for a minute.
06:37How long were you sitting there before he pulls out the gun and starts to play Russian roulette?
06:42Maybe five, ten minutes.
06:43How long did the, did the game lapse?
06:46About a century.
06:49Seemed like.
06:49Seemed like it.
06:50There was one bullet in.
06:51I can tell you he was.
06:52Did he show it to you?
06:53He was insane enough to, he put the bullet in.
06:56You saw him put the bullet in the gun right there?
06:59Yes.
06:59Yes.
06:59Wow.
07:00Who actually drove home?
07:02Do you remember?
07:03Do you remember?
07:04I drove.
07:05I drove him to his apartment complex.
07:08He made me see him the very next day and the very next day.
07:11Until the third day, that's when Bollies took over.
07:26Good afternoon, Rage Mel.
07:28In the fall of 1997, Odette Juvenet started dating the defendant, Ivan Rodriguez Duran.
07:35And they dated for a few months until approximately April of 1998, when Odette ended the romantic part of the
07:43relationship.
07:44The defendant's response is, well, if he can't have her, then it's going to be a war.
07:49And he tells her, you can run, but you can't hide.
07:52What some of you might be wondering at this point is, why are we here 19 years later?
07:56Well, he cannot hide what he did anymore.
08:00We're going to ask you to find the defendant guilty for what he did to Odette Juvenet back in 1998.
08:06One count of burglary while in possession of a deadly weapon, and one count of first doing kidnapping with use
08:11of a deadly weapon.
08:12Thank you very much.
08:14Ms. Woodruff?
08:17Ladies and gentlemen, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
08:22Odette Juvenet fell in love with Ivan.
08:24But you're going to hear, Ivan didn't love her.
08:27She knew Ivan was married.
08:29At that time, she was jealous of his wife.
08:32Jealous of the fact he wouldn't leave his wife.
08:34So what does she do after she's being followed, harassed, stalked?
08:40She doesn't go to the police.
08:41She goes to Fally's, the place that they both work.
08:45And tells them, you're going to say she was trying to get Ivan fired from work.
08:50Ladies and gentlemen, this whole case is going to come down to the testimony of Odette Juvenet.
08:54Make no mistake, the prosecution's case rises and falls with Odette Juvenet, and whether you find her credible, whether you
09:03find her trustworthy, whether you believe what she is saying beyond a reasonable act.
09:11All right, the state may call their first witness.
09:13Your Honor, the state calls Odette Juvenet.
09:24You do solemnly swear the testimony you're about to give in this action shall be the truth, the whole truth,
09:28and nothing but the truth, so he'll be done.
09:31Good afternoon, Ms. Juvenet.
09:33Can I call you Odette?
09:34Yes.
09:35First thing I want to ask you, are you familiar with a person by the name of Ivan Rodriguez Duran?
09:40Yes, I am.
09:41I met him while I worked at Bollies, and we became friends, and then we became boyfriend and girlfriend.
09:48I just started realizing that he wasn't what I really wanted from me.
09:55I don't know.
09:56Can you tell the jury who decided to break this relationship off?
09:59I did.
10:00You did?
10:00And what was his response?
10:03I guess that's why we're here today.
10:05If that's how you want it, if you don't want to be with me, that's how you want it, then
10:10we're going to have a war, and you're just going to be sorry.
10:15Those things that he said to you, specifically, if you don't want to be with me, we're going to go
10:22to war, did you tell Valley Security that he said this to you?
10:26Yes, I did.
10:27Okay.
10:27Let me ask you this.
10:28Why didn't you go to the police immediately?
10:32I was kind of hesitant and scared and didn't know if that was going to be the safest thing for
10:41me.
10:42Was it your desire to get Ivan Duran fired from his job?
10:47Never wanted him fired.
10:48Were you jealous of Ivan Duran's wife that you had never met?
10:55No.
10:56Never.
10:59No.
11:16Permission to approach the witness?
11:18Yes.
11:19Ms. Juvenet, do you see that?
11:21Yes.
11:22Is that the gun that he used?
11:25It looks like the gun, it does, oh I'm sorry.
11:30Well, I mean you can ask her some more questions about the gun she saw that evening first.
11:34Can you describe the gun from the time that you saw it?
11:39It looked exactly like that one.
11:41And this has been cleared, you can touch this if you're fearful of guns, it's not going to fire.
11:46You don't have to.
11:46I don't need to touch it, no.
11:47Okay.
11:48Thank you, Ms. Hoja.
11:51On direct examination, you described your relationship with my client as quote, a beautiful romance.
11:58Yes.
11:59You wrote him love letters.
12:01Yes.
12:02You believe that he loved you.
12:04Yes.
12:05And you loved him.
12:08Yes.
12:09But during this time, Ivan was married to someone else.
12:14Yes, I found out.
12:16Okay.
12:16Mr. Zdrowski asked you on direct examination about whether you were ever jealous of Ivan's wife.
12:22And you said, no, never.
12:25No.
12:25But when you were with him, when you were in a relationship with him, when you were together, you were
12:31jealous of his wife.
12:33Yes.
12:34You know that?
12:35Do you disagree?
12:37I disagree.
12:38Okay.
12:39Do you remember testifying at a preliminary hearing in this case?
12:42Yes.
12:43Preliminary hearing that occurred on June 16, 1998?
12:47Yes.
12:49Page 50.
12:51You were asked, were you jealous of his wife?
12:54Your response, when I was with him, yeah, I was.
12:58Then at some point, you find out that Ivan is reconciled with his wife and his wife is living with
13:03him again.
13:04He told me.
13:05He told you.
13:06Yes.
13:06So you found that information out?
13:08Yes.
13:08He told me that.
13:09And then, first week of May, you go to Bally's and tell them that Ivan has been harassing you and
13:17stalking you.
13:18Yes.
13:19And it was your understanding that Bally's told Ivan if he bothered you again, he'd be terminated.
13:24After I filed the report?
13:25Yes.
13:26Yes.
13:27And then, two weeks later, you made another complaint to Bally's.
13:32You told a supervisor at Bally's that Ivan had kidnapped you at gunpoint?
13:35My supervisor and I were close, so I told her my personal side of it because I actually trusted her
13:43and I asked her not to tell anyone.
13:46So I didn't file with Bally's.
13:49I didn't want her to go and tell anyone at Bally's.
13:53So that was a yes?
13:55Judge, she just answered.
13:57I don't think it was a yes.
13:59Your Honor.
14:00She just said, I don't think it was a yes.
14:01She just said, I don't think it was a yes.
14:01Go ahead and ask your question again.
14:03Okay.
14:03You told a supervisor at Bally's that Ivan had kidnapped you at gunpoint?
14:08Yes.
14:10Now I want to talk to you about what happened that day.
14:13You say you know the gun was loaded.
14:17I saw him loading the gun.
14:18You saw him loading the gun.
14:20And then you say he fired at least four times?
14:25Four times.
14:26Four times.
14:27Two in the chest?
14:28Two on his head.
14:30Two in the head.
14:31Yes.
14:31Yes.
14:32Gun never fired.
14:34No?
14:36I'll pass the witness for him.
14:39Defense counsel asked you about the timing period about when you found out about his wife
14:46moving back in the house.
14:48Do you remember that question a moment ago?
14:49Yes, I remember.
14:50Did that have anything at all to do with that police report that you filed?
14:55No.
14:57I'll leave it at that.
14:59Fine, done.
15:00Thank you very much for your time.
15:01The last couple of days, you'll excuse me.
15:03All right.
15:05The prosecution calls retired detective Laura Anderson to the stand.
15:09Deputy D.A. Rose has her read from her arrest report from May 26, 1998.
15:15It's to show exactly what steps she took in the investigation and to allow the state to bring in a
15:21key piece of evidence.
15:22Rodrigo stated that he had purchased the gun in handcuffs two weeks ago from a gun store and that no
15:27one knew about him purchasing or owning such items.
15:30Ms. Anderson, I'm showing you now what's previously marked.
15:32The state's proposed Exhibit 5A.
15:34Would you mind opening the box, please?
15:36Could you just describe the ladies and gentlemen of the jury what that is?
15:39These are standard issue. These are called chain cuffs. These, again, are pretty old. We don't use these anymore. The
15:48department uses what's called hinge cuffs.
15:53Let's talk about some things you didn't do in this case. You didn't record your interrogation with my client, correct?
15:59I don't believe there is a recording.
16:01You didn't go and interview Mr. Rodriguez Duran's roommate.
16:08Again, I didn't talk to a lot of people that you're probably going to tell me about, but they're not
16:14germane to the actual case and the probable cause and the information that I was given at the time.
16:21So you didn't send any of the evidence to forensic lab for testing?
16:24There's no testing to be done. Everything that I can testify to is in that arrest report. If it's not
16:29in the arrest report, I have no memory of it. None.
16:35Truth is done.
16:47Truth is done.
17:00One of the things that he alleged was that the intent was to kidnap her dad.
17:05He entered that car while he possessed that gun, and the moment he entered that car,
17:09he had the intent to either kidnap her or kill her.
17:15And he even did one. He kidnapped her.
17:17You can run, but you can't hide.
17:20This was reality. This was Odette's reality thanks to that man.
17:26I am guilty of all counts.
17:28The first count is burglary while in possession of a firearm.
17:31The second count is the first to be kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon.
17:35Thank you. Thanks so much.
17:37Ladies and gentlemen, the state's entire case is premised on the idea that she was the center of his world.
17:45That he was so distraught by her leaving him.
17:50That he did this insane thing.
17:53That he did this series of insane things.
17:55Following her.
17:57Stalking her.
17:58Leaving her nose.
18:00Handcuffing her.
18:02Driving her to the middle of the desert.
18:04He didn't love her.
18:05She was at the center of his world.
18:08They have given you nothing.
18:10The state has not proven their case, ladies and gentlemen.
18:18Mr. Arrizadas.
18:20I'm perfectly happy with giving this case to you.
18:24The reason why?
18:26Prosecutor Zydrowski believes the gun would never have fired if Duran pulled the trigger four times or 400.
18:31He believes Duran most likely loaded in a spent cartridge, like the one he holds in his left hand.
18:37Unlike this real .38 caliber bullet he also shows the jury, a spent cartridge would never fire.
18:43When we talk about what this case is about, you know what it's about.
18:48It's about control.
18:49Thank you very much.
18:58District Court, Clark County, Nevada.
19:00The state of Nevada versus Ivan Rodriguez Duran.
19:03Verdict.
19:04We the jury in the above entitled case find the defendant, Ivan Rodriguez Duran, as follows.
19:10Count one.
19:11Burglary Wilde in possession of a firearm.
19:15Not guilty.
19:18Count two.
19:19First degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon.
19:23Not guilty.
19:28For Ivan Rodriguez Duran, his name has finally been cleared in this case after 18 long years.
19:35What did the jury say?
19:36My impression from that was they think that something happened, but they have too many questions.
19:40What did I tell you?
19:41To say beyond reasonable doubt.
19:44Why wouldn't they then find him guilty of something?
19:49Did you ask them that?
19:50I asked them kind of what were the tipping points?
19:52What was the stuff that you needed to see to change your mind?
19:56And only one person gave me an answer and she was like, well we just had too many questions going
20:00back there.
20:00I've always thought that because I know I had the truth.
20:05But that would be.
20:06But that's not, that's not how our system works.
20:09Our system isn't, we know we're telling the truth and we're going to win.
20:13Our system isn't about that.
20:15It's about proving each and every element of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
20:21And it just goes to show you that that's hard to do.
20:24You know what I'm afraid?
20:26To go back and tell my kids.
20:28They were so, so sure.
20:31Mom, you're going to go, this guy's going to be in jail for a long time for what he did.
20:35And now I'm going to go tell these young kids that nothing.
20:51You guys still tried to get justice.
20:54Justice for this victim.
20:56Yeah.
20:57This is a good learning thing for you, Stephen, a young prosecutor.
21:00Yeah.
21:01You don't only take winners in.
21:02You take cases in where you seek justice and sometimes they're tough cases.
21:07Yeah.
21:08So my kudos goes to you guys for a valiant effort.
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