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Detective Ryan Jorstad follows a digital trail of evidence after police find a man shot and robbed in his own truck. As he uncovers a series of messages, he reveals a perpetrator who will stop at nothing to protect his identity.
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00:06If you've smelled a dead mouse, multiply that by 1,000.
00:13Then you have the odor of a human body.
00:16The killing is not me.
00:18I didn't do it.
00:19I'm not finna confess to it.
00:21I was able to actually see who he last communicated with.
00:25In his profile, they see a photo, and it's clear as can be.
00:29I said, you're not going to believe this.
00:31He was trying to lure a victim into meeting up with him.
00:37They're still trying to identify who this guy is.
00:40Who is Mr. X?
00:41So I kind of began to wonder, what if this photo was of somebody else?
00:47This is no longer a possible suspect.
00:49This is the suspect.
00:51Sir, sir, step down here.
00:53Who is he, and where can we put our hands on him?
01:00I spent my career closing murder cases.
01:05But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
01:10It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable.
01:14To catch a ruthless killer.
01:17To find justice for the dead.
01:21That's what it takes to be an American detective.
01:37I got a call about a noise ordinance.
01:40The neighborhood was Little Suwannee Point.
01:43There were some dirt bikes doing wheelies nearby and possibly playing loud music.
01:48When I pulled in the neighborhood, I activated my body cam.
01:52The first thing I noticed is the truck kind of sitting off to the side.
01:57Hey.
01:57How are you doing?
01:58No.
01:59There's a lady walking, and she kind of weighs me down.
02:01And she's like, hey, did you see the truck up here?
02:04It's been sitting there a couple days.
02:06This truck here?
02:07Yeah.
02:07And it has liquid and stuff.
02:11It's just weird.
02:12Interesting.
02:15And so I got out, checked the truck.
02:18The lady's like, yeah, it looks like there's oil underneath the car.
02:21I was like, that's not oil.
02:25The liquid pouring out of the bottom is blood.
02:34It's just weird.
02:35No, there's somebody in there.
02:37What?
02:38The woman was right when she said it was suspicious, because, boy, is it suspicious.
02:48My name is Ryan Jorstad, and I'm a sergeant with the Gwinnett County Police Department.
02:52My sergeant at the time gave me a call and just said, hey, there's kind of a weird situation
02:57going on over by the baseball stadium.
03:00The excitement starts of what is the case going to bring?
03:04Some cases are solved in five minutes, some five months.
03:12When I got on scene, the truck was parked on the opposite side of the road, kind of facing
03:16the wrong direction.
03:19And the truck is locked, so they call the fire department, who has the ability to open a
03:24vehicle with a specialized tool that they have.
03:31The first thing I remember upon opening that truck was just the odor that emanated from the
03:36truck.
03:37They're just, like, punching the face, really.
03:43He had been sitting in this hot truck for at least a couple days, so it was pretty bad.
03:49Like, horrendous.
03:50If you've smelled a dead mouse, multiply that by a factor of 1,000, then you have the odor
03:57of a human body.
03:58It's overwhelming.
04:01When I walked around and looked in, the victim was just in a very weird position.
04:06The person is not clothed.
04:08The person is not clothed.
04:08His shorts are down to his ankles.
04:11His face was down on the floorboard between the front passenger seat and the rear passenger
04:16seat, along with his arms.
04:17His left ankle and leg was hanging off the back seat.
04:22So why is this body upside down in the back seat of this truck?
04:27Well, that's what we're here to find out.
04:31So the victim only had one injury.
04:34It was gunshot wound at his left temple.
04:36It was kind of hard to see on scene just because it was covered in blood.
04:41There is no gun that's apparent, but there is an expended 9mm casing that has been ejected
04:48from a semi-automatic pistol.
04:50You know, initially we thought this might have been a suicide based on there only being
04:54one person in the back seat and one shell casing that could indicate a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
05:02But we don't have a visual on a gun.
05:04We may ain't laying on it or need to recover it.
05:06We also don't know where, if there's any entrance rooms or anything.
05:09I just can't see anything at all.
05:11And so really the only thing we were waiting on was the medical examiner to get there so
05:15we could remove the body and see if the gun was underneath them.
05:20When they move the body, there is no gun.
05:24Now the suicide theory tends to wane.
05:28George's dad's experience tells him this is a homicide.
05:31This has just become more intriguing.
05:35In the front of the vehicle, there was all the stuff that had been rummaged through.
05:40Also the victim's hat was on the dashboard.
05:42After we collect evidence from the scene that's been processed for DNA and fingerprints,
05:46there was no match for fingerprints on the vehicle or on any documents inside the vehicle.
05:52The victim had no cell phone, no wallet, no keys, which immediately seemed to be an indication of a robbery.
06:01Whoever killed him also took the time to lock the vehicle up and then beat feet.
06:07But it was very strange to me that his pants were down around his ankles.
06:11Does that mean some kind of sexual encounter that goes wrong?
06:16Well, it didn't have to be sexual.
06:19It could also mean that someone pulled the pants off this individual in order to search the pockets.
06:27I racked my brain trying to think and make any kind of sense of why he would be in that
06:32position.
06:33You think he got shot and he scrambled fast enough to get to the back seat before he died?
06:38His pants were like fully off around his ankles, though.
06:42And the seats are pushed forward, indicating that that's probably not how they were when he drove here.
06:48So I'm wondering if he was in the back seat with somebody else.
06:50And I just kept coming back to the same thing.
06:52It had to be some sort of meetup with somebody.
06:55And most likely, whoever the victim met up with last was going to be our suspect.
07:02I started kind of trying to dig to see who this guy was.
07:05We didn't have a wallet.
07:07So I ran the truck.
07:08I ended up coming back to Garcia Gattis.
07:11And then after that, I ran his name and got a hit for a missing person out of Sandy Springs.
07:18When unfortunately, we could tell that it was Mr. Gattis that was dead.
07:22And then he was actually reported missing by his mother.
07:26So that just gave me a jumping off point of who I needed to go talk to first.
07:32Well, my name is Gilda Agis and Garcia Gattis is my oldest son.
07:37Even though he didn't have no kids, he was a family man.
07:42Because family was really important to him.
07:46We grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
07:48He had nieces and nephews that, you know, he took as his own.
07:55He's big, he's cuddly, a fluffy, big teddy bear.
07:59And he always would try out like he everybody's daddy.
08:03He always made sure, you know, we'd meet up for this, meet up for that.
08:06When we rolled together, he listened to nothing but gospel music.
08:12Glory, glory, glory to the new one.
08:17I said, music be loud, but it be gospel music.
08:20It was a joy, seriously, to be around him.
08:23He loved gospel music, loved singing, loved singing in the church.
08:28I paid the price from heaven to round.
08:38I want to say his voice was, it was, it could have been better.
08:43He couldn't sing.
08:45He'll try, but he loved it.
08:49He couldn't hold a tune in a bucket, but he didn't even care.
08:51He loved God enough to still sing.
08:53Thank you, Jesus.
08:56It's kind of sad, but when I laugh and think about it, you know, it's just joy that I had
09:02the time to spend with him while we did.
09:11Garcia's mother, she was devastated when I gave her the news.
09:15She really had no idea who would do this.
09:19George's dad explains to her the death of her son, allows her a recovery time, and then says to her,
09:25we need to know more about Garcia.
09:30Garcia's mother said they would talk, you know, multiple times a day.
09:33Always we're in constant communication with one another.
09:35We talk every day, and I talk to him that Thursday.
09:39And he said, I'm finna take me a shower.
09:42And every time we get out the phone, even with my kids, I tell them, I love you.
09:47Be safe.
09:48And that's the last time I had talked to him.
09:54Fast forward to October 24th, when I got involved, there had been three days where she had not heard from
10:00him.
10:00So that kind of gave me an idea of a time frame of maybe when this happened to Garcia.
10:05So the next question is, who is he in contact with?
10:09So I wrote, you know, an order for his cell phones, hoping to see if he had made a phone
10:14call to somebody or texted somebody prior to this.
10:17Unfortunately, there was just nothing.
10:18The phone, basically at the time he was murdered, was off after that and never came back on.
10:24So after we spoke with Ms. Ages, the only thing I could think of to do is go talk to
10:28the roommate and see what information he might have.
10:33So Jorstad contacts the roommate and informs him of the untimely demise of his friend, Mr. Gattis.
10:40The roommate is very surprised and upset.
10:44All the appropriate reactions.
10:47The roommate also heard from Garcia last on that Thursday, October 21st, in the evening.
10:55The roommate explains he came home around 10 p.m. and Mr. Gattis was in the shower.
11:04The roommate goes into his room and when he finally comes back out, Mr. Gattis is gone.
11:11He said it wasn't out of the norm for Garcia to come and go, especially at night.
11:16He said he liked going out and meeting new people.
11:21So the roommate goes on to explain that Garcia Gattis was a gay male.
11:25And he often used a phone app to reach out to other gay men.
11:31So that kind of pointed my focus towards whatever dating app he may be using because whoever he last met
11:37was most likely going to be on one of those apps.
11:40It might be the owner of a 9mm handgun who put a round through Mr. Gattis' head.
11:49Jorstad asked the roommate, do you know the name of the app he would use?
11:53And he did know.
11:55And it was called Tagged.
11:58I know from previous experiences, I can't just snap my fingers and pull it up on the Internet.
12:04So from there, I just have to write court orders to those companies and hope I would get some information
12:10back.
12:13But in the meantime, Jorstad inquires, was there some particular individual that Garcia was involved with?
12:20Or was he just playing the field?
12:22The roommate did point out one person that he thought might be a person of interest.
12:29He tells Jorstad this guy's name was Cole Hampton.
12:32And Cole Hampton, he's married to a woman.
12:36And Jorstad's suspicions are immediately aroused.
12:39Emotion is a huge part of homicide.
12:43In these cases, you never know.
12:45The littlest piece of that information could lead you to an arrest.
12:49So you have to, you know, turn over every single stone.
12:51So we know Mr. Gaddis has seen other males.
12:55Could Mr. Hampton be jealous of that?
12:58What if it grinds at him that his lover is with other lovers as well?
13:04Jealousy is a very powerful and dangerous thing.
13:08It's white-hot anger.
13:10The kind of anger that pulls triggers.
13:22Detectives who are investigating the death of Mr. Gaddis have developed an unusual suspect.
13:28A Mr. Cole Hampton.
13:31Garcia was seeing a married man.
13:34So that was something I had someone look into.
13:39So detectives respond to the home of Cole Hampton.
13:43He answers the door.
13:45They announce they are investigating the demise of Garcia Gaddis.
13:50Hampton looks like he's going to pass out.
13:53Hampton admits that he has been seeing Gaddis.
13:56But he also says this was a casual thing because of their unique circumstances.
14:02Garcia Gaddis had no desire to cause Cole Hampton any problems in his marriage.
14:07And Mr. Hampton didn't care if Gaddis was seeing other people.
14:10It was a mutual truce.
14:13Mr. Hampton does not cause any alarm bells to go off or raise any red flags.
14:19The detectives decide that he is strictly a backburner individual.
14:24When I found out he wasn't really a person of interest, I just kind of let that laying dog lie.
14:28I wasn't trying to throw a grenade in his life.
14:31If you're bothered by dead ends, you need to find something else to do.
14:36Because in homicide, you encounter nothing but dead ends.
14:39There's always a lead.
14:40You just have to find it.
14:41And I just kind of keep that in the back of my mind of, well, I haven't found it yet.
14:45I'm going to keep working until I do.
14:48It's a critical step in the initial phase of a homicide investigation to establish a timeline.
14:54When was he alive and what happened between life and death?
14:59Knowing that the victim, you know, was found in his truck, what I wanted to do is retrace where that
15:04truck was.
15:05We have this great system called Flock.
15:08Flock's a license plate reader database.
15:11Basically, it's these cameras that take pictures of your license plate, and then we're able to go through and search
15:17for a specific vehicle.
15:19I just logged on, ran the victim's tag, and the last Flock hit was actually into a neighborhood across the
15:26street at the Little Swanee Point's neighborhood.
15:29This pickup truck was seen by a Flock system camera at 1117 on the 21st of October.
15:38They're closing in on the time of death.
15:40I was excited because that gave me a time frame to where I could just canvas that neighborhood for any
15:46other video footage and see where this truck went.
15:51Everybody has cameras, but no matter how much technology is out there, you need both feet to find it.
15:57We have a sign in our office that says, get off your ass and knock on doors, which is what
16:02we had to do in this case.
16:05Based on the Flock camera, the victim came in from this direction, so that's kind of where I, my starting
16:10point, and we literally just walked up and down the street, and it literally just took, you know, walking, you
16:16know, miles a day, knocking on all these doors.
16:18And then luckily, we came in the middle, this pool house, and I was immediately drawn to this corner up
16:23here, the surveillance camera.
16:26I was super excited, knew I had to get this footage because the camera angle should cover a wide variety
16:32of the parking lot, so if anything were to happen, it would have been captured here.
16:35I was very fortunate talking with the HOA.
16:38They gave me the code, and they allowed me all full access to wherever I needed, which was pretty awesome.
16:44So I was able to take the footage from the DVR and review it right there at the clubhouse.
16:50I knew my starting point was 1117.
16:53That's what time Mr. Gattis' truck came into the neighborhood.
16:57Joristad is watching the videos from the pool house.
17:00He sees Gattis pull into the parking lot of the municipal pool shortly after 1117 p.m.
17:09You can see Mr. Gattis' truck picking up somebody.
17:13And then 12 minutes later, you can see him kind of on the outskirts of the camera above, walking back
17:18towards the direction of a house.
17:20So I was pumped.
17:21I was ecstatic that we had that because whoever this male is, is my suspect.
17:28Now this is no longer a possible suspect.
17:32This is the suspect.
17:33Who is he, and where can we put our hands on him?
17:38The suspect appeared to be a black male, you know, 5'7", 5'8", kind of slim build.
17:43He had shoulder-length, dreadlock-style hair.
17:45He was wearing some kind of hooded jacket, some kind of blue jeans, and then some tan Timberland-style boots.
17:50The fact that he showed up on foot and came back on foot told me he lived in that area,
17:56told me I needed to focus in that neighborhood, that my suspect was there.
18:01He just committed a murder.
18:02He's not running.
18:04He's casually walking through the parking lot.
18:07It means nothing to him.
18:09He's calmly walking across like it's a day in the park.
18:12That kind of told me he was very callous and a very harsh person.
18:17At that point, I made a bolo, and I sent that to our agency, saying, hey, this is who I'm
18:23looking for for this homicide.
18:24And if anybody comes across, anybody that looks like it, give me a call.
18:30In the meantime, he finally gains access to Garcia Gattis' dating profile.
18:35He went by the username Country Boy.
18:39I was able to actually see who he last communicated with.
18:42However, the person he's talking to is only identified by a series of numbers.
18:48It looks like a telephone number, but it's not.
18:50It's a number assigned by the dating app.
18:54Reading the messages between Gattis and Mr. 614, it's clear to Jorstad that they're planning a meeting for that night,
19:03the night that Gattis meets his death.
19:06Did Garcia Gattis go on a date with his own killer?
19:10Well, it certainly seems like he did.
19:18Detective Jorstad has a copy of a conversation between Garcia Gattis and the mysterious man who probably killed him.
19:26Communication was kind of almost too perfect leading up to meeting up with him.
19:32At 10.03 p.m., Garcia sends the first message to the user.
19:37They establish they're both looking for a hookup.
19:40Then the man sends his photo to Garcia.
19:45It was a black male with shoulder length, dread length hair.
19:48And that's exactly who I was looking for based on the pool house footage.
19:55They agree to meet up and the man provides Garcia with an address.
19:59That address puts you in the area of the pool house.
20:03The suspect was savvy enough not to put the exact address he lived at, but would put Garcia in the
20:10right area for him to be able to flag him down.
20:17The last message from the user is, at 11.16 p.m., he tells Garcia he is waiting by the
20:24pool building.
20:26That just confirmed that who I saw on video is this account user and got in the car with Garcia.
20:34Unfortunately, it was just a user with some random numbers at that time.
20:37So I just turned around and wrote the same court order I did for the dating app, but just for
20:43the suspect account and waited.
20:46And it's an absolutely maddening wait, because you know how critical that information is.
20:53He's already killed once.
20:54After that, it's just numbers.
20:57So I just continued to chip away at, you know, any possible lead that I can find.
21:05Garcia and the suspect had sent photos to each other, so I worked with our crime analyst department.
21:10We have facial recognition software where we literally can upload the photo, and it just pulls from open source databases
21:16that, you know, your picture might be in.
21:19They submit the photograph to the facial recognition, and it kicks out a Facebook account.
21:24His name is Aaron Chambers.
21:26He's 20 years of age.
21:28This could certainly be the guy.
21:30I was just excited and knowing that I was about to solve the case.
21:34So George Stead now is totally focused on this individual.
21:37He's looking at his Facebook account, and it's picture after picture of Aaron Chambers in Florida, specifically in Miami, over
21:46extended periods of time.
21:49And I was looking for somebody that had some sort of tie to Gwinnett County, and he had nothing.
21:54He looks at him and says, you know, the facial features are very similar, but the location is widely off.
22:01So I kind of began to wonder, what if this was a catfish photo?
22:07Catfishing has become common, unfortunately, when somebody uses a photo to misrepresent themselves.
22:14What you're seeing is not actually the person you're communicating with.
22:19We get that a lot.
22:20They'll just take a picture off of Google Images, put it as a profile picture, and, you know, start sending
22:26you messages, and then you'll go meet them, and you'll get robbed or worse.
22:30The photo used by the suspect was of somebody else to throw us off, you know, the track or the
22:37scent of who he really was.
22:41In this case, you know, weeks went by.
22:44Got continuous phone calls from Miss Ages, Garcia's mother.
22:48You call some detectives, they'll brush you off.
22:51They don't want to talk to you.
22:52But if I call Joe Stead, he'll call me, and I really appreciate him for that.
22:58I didn't lose no hope.
22:59I kept the faith and believed that we would go get justice.
23:02They're going to find out who did.
23:08They're still trying to identify who this guy is.
23:11Who is Mr. X?
23:12And finally, the dating app information comes in.
23:16I start going through looking at it all, and it was a little disheartening.
23:20He didn't have his real name in the account.
23:23He uses the name Money Dash, so yet another layer to this onion.
23:28You could almost tell that they were trying to leave everything generic.
23:30You know, they didn't actually use their real name.
23:33The birthdays seemed to be made up.
23:34You know, the city was just Atlanta.
23:36Well, that's, you know, a huge metropolitan area.
23:40In his profile, they see a photo of him, and it's clear as can be.
23:46This is the picture of the man in the pool house video.
23:49Not someone looks like him, but him.
23:53Then taking a deep, further dive into all the context of the messages,
23:59I was able to see, you know, within that time frame, he was talking with other users.
24:05His profile indicates clearly that Money Dash contacted over 30 people asking him if they want to hook up.
24:13And he was very, it seemed aggressive in his communication.
24:18So that, to me, said he was trying to fish or lure a victim into meeting up with him for
24:24whatever purpose, most likely a robbery.
24:27Unfortunately, you know, Garcia was one of the first ones to reply.
24:33So, George Dad needs to identify Money Dash by something other than Money Dash.
24:39He needs his real name.
24:40He goes back to the IT department.
24:43Gwinnett County Police Department has a division called the Electronic and Financial Crimes Unit.
24:47They can take cell phones, and they can help us figure out where someone was going or has been.
24:53Even if you're not using it, your phone is in constant communication with towers and networks.
24:58So it's great, you know, evidence-wise, because it can really pinpoint where their phone or device is connecting to.
25:07So as soon as I saw that Money Dash was hooked into a Wi-Fi network, I was able to
25:12get the actual address, which was on Cedar Drive, you know, right in front of the pool house.
25:17Well, Mr. Dash, you're about to find out what the dating scene is like in the Georgia State Penitentiary, because
25:23that's where you're going.
25:32This case is unusual in the sense that the perpetrator, Money Dash, spent a great deal of effort to create
25:39a series of masks, which he hides behind for various reasons, making it impossible for the police to find him.
25:48Well, impossible is a big word.
25:50The impossible just takes a little more time.
25:55So now that I have this address, we were able to see that there was a call recently of an
26:00eviction, which was kind of disheartening to know that whoever was in that house at the time of the murder,
26:06now they're gone, and I have no idea where they are at.
26:11The sheriff's department handles evictions, so I reached out to them saying, hey, were they equipped with a body camera?
26:17Was it on? Do you still have the recording?
26:20And luckily, they still had it, so they were able to send it to me.
26:27Hello?
26:27Hey.
26:28I know we coming out.
26:29Okay.
26:30At first, you know, the deputies, they encounter, you know, the female living there and a small child.
26:36Anybody else in here other than you?
26:38Yeah.
26:39Who's all here?
26:40Uh, me and the four-name.
26:41Okay.
26:42Go ahead and call your friend out real quick.
26:43Okay.
26:45But then a male kind of walks down the back stairs and turns and runs back up.
26:49Hello?
26:49No, sir, sir, step down here.
26:53No, come here.
26:54We don't know who else is upstairs.
26:56I get it.
26:57Come on.
26:59And as soon as he turns to walk down the stairs, I mean, it's a full-body shot.
27:04It's clear as day.
27:05This is the suspect from the tagged account.
27:08All right.
27:09Let's let everyone go ahead and step outside.
27:12He's also wearing the tan Timberland boots.
27:16There's no doubt that that's him.
27:18I definitely paused.
27:19I called everybody in the unit over.
27:21I said, you're not going to believe this.
27:22The person is 23-year-old Mark Antonio White.
27:27This is Money Dash.
27:30You can certainly hide your identity or try to, but ultimately you cannot, particularly
27:35when a competent detective is on your trail.
27:39So reading through his criminal history, we were able to see that he had an active arrest
27:44warrant out of the College Park Police Department for an incident back in July of 2021, a couple
27:49months prior to the homicide.
27:51An incident involving his former girlfriend and her mother.
27:57I was pretty excited to learn that there was going to be somebody else I could talk to
28:01to get any kind of information on Mark.
28:04So she is more than happy to tell them everything she knows about her ex-boyfriend because he's
28:10such an ass.
28:11But we happen to be looking for one of those.
28:16The ex-boyfriend was able to, you know, tell me that she actually met Mark through the tagged
28:20app.
28:21She describes Mark White as a hot-tempered fool who she's afraid of and further says he always
28:28has a gun no matter where he goes.
28:31She said that he was kind of a very reckless, careless person, that he was going to do whatever
28:36he needed to do to survive.
28:38And she was to the point to where she had to get away from him, so she did.
28:43She said he was, you know, a very jealous type person.
28:46Even after they broke up, he would continue to try to talk to her.
28:49She moved in with her mother, and in a fit of rage, she said, that Mark White shows up demanding
28:57she return to him.
29:00And he was just very aggravated and agitated.
29:05And as they're telling him to get out of there, and her mother's on the phone to the police,
29:10she said that he turns and walks by her car and shoots the windshield out of her car.
29:19Then flees.
29:21Police came out, they took the report, and they took the warrants out for Mark.
29:25The police that night didn't find any shell casings, because it was dark out.
29:29But she went out the next day to where it happened and actually found the shell casings from Mark's
29:34gun and kept them.
29:35And she said, I have them on a bag right here on my counter.
29:40Mark made the mistake of scorning his girlfriend and frightening her mother.
29:45And it was going to cost him everything.
29:49So having these shell casings, I can compare that to the one shell casing in, you know, Garcia's truck.
29:57George's dad, he brought back a plastic bag of casings, and we would like you to put them
30:03into the ballistic system and run them, see if they're a match to what we found on scene.
30:07While I don't have the gun to compare, if these were fired from the same gun,
30:11this was going to further tie Mark to this homicide.
30:15Those casings were then entered into our ballistic system, and they were matched.
30:23Mark's 9mm is a murder weapon.
30:28After everything I've learned, I was confident that, you know, Mark White was Garcia's killer.
30:32Let's get him into custody.
30:34The fugitive team is now in process of trying to locate him, and it's just a matter of time
30:39before they do.
30:40They hunt humans.
30:42They know how people run.
30:45Mark's used a gun twice now, so his propensity for violence is pretty high.
30:49His face was in the news.
30:51So, at some point, they will find him.
30:57After eight months of searching, finally a tip comes in that says where he is.
31:03Fugitive unit, they reached out to me, and they said,
31:05you're never going to believe who we just saw.
31:10Officers were staking out the area.
31:13He had some food delivered to his house that he was staying at,
31:15and Mark walked outside and picked it up.
31:18Mark White always came out on top when he's against an innocent, unsuspecting guy.
31:23But now he's against the police.
31:25And now they're going to hammer him into the ground like a tent pig.
31:34They finally got the name.
31:36They got an arrest warrant, and now they have him by the throat.
31:42This is going to be the big moment when they finally crank a gun up this idiot's nostril
31:47and arrest him.
31:53I was lucky enough to be able to go and be on scene and was able to watch Mark be
31:58taken into custody.
31:59It was a pretty gratifying moment seeing him get walked out of the house in handcuffs.
32:06And now he gets to sit across from him and ask him questions to which there are very few good
32:12answers.
32:14So preparing for the interview, you know, there's, you know, some key things I want Mark to admit,
32:19but, you know, getting him to even speak to me is a hurdle in and of itself.
32:37His body language, he was very, very calm, cool, collected.
32:44I was confident in this case that I had the right person.
32:47So if he confesses to the crime, that's huge.
32:49If I ever I can assist to clear my name, because I want to live my life.
32:55But if he doesn't and he lies, well, I have all this other evidence to show you are lying.
33:01So do you ever remember being in Gwinnett in October?
33:04No.
33:04I have not been to Gwinnett.
33:06Okay.
33:07Don't be in the Gwinnett area and don't travel out of my area, because there's no reason to.
33:14Does this truck look familiar to you?
33:17The truck from the TV.
33:19What do you know about that truck?
33:22Nothing.
33:23Earlier than my name is connected to it.
33:26Have you ever been inside this truck?
33:28Like I said, no.
33:32That's just a bold-faced lie.
33:34It kind of also lets me know he's going to be, you know, denying everything kind of from that point
33:40forward.
33:41Like I talked about, we need to be honest, okay?
33:44I got surveillance video of you getting in this truck.
33:53I was not shy about giving him the evidence I had.
33:56I wanted to show Mark that I had overwhelming evidence to say that it was him in hopes that he
34:02would, you know, stop lying and finally start telling the truth.
34:05And I want you to tell me the truth, okay?
34:08Um, who's that?
34:13Who did I do?
34:15That's you.
34:20Nah, that ain't me.
34:24Remember how he talked about being honest?
34:26And I am.
34:27That's not me.
34:28Okay.
34:28That, that, that, that's you.
34:30Why, because he got drapes?
34:32No.
34:33Mark, I just met you and I can tell you that's you, man.
34:36See what this writing is?
34:38This is a screenshot from an officer's body camera.
34:42That's you, man.
34:43Come on.
34:44It's not like it's got you sitting in a truck because you're walking down a set of stairs, man.
34:48I'm saying, it's not me.
34:49It was almost comical how, you know, blatant, he was just lying that that wasn't him.
34:55Y'all putting a picture in front of me and saying that this is me.
34:58That's not me.
34:59I don't even dress like this for number one.
35:01Mark, Mark, Mark, Mark.
35:03That's dark skin.
35:04If I look at my skin color, that, I'm light.
35:08I'm too light for this picture.
35:10Okay.
35:11Okay.
35:11Take it easy, man.
35:12No, you don't know nothing.
35:14These are picture of someone else, okay?
35:17And I'm not, I don't give a what you're talking about.
35:20That's a different skin color.
35:22I've been had tattoos on my hand.
35:25Redecorated, recolored.
35:27This ain't got no tattoos nowhere.
35:30Mark White denies everything.
35:32He's not even sure he's Mark White.
35:35Let me ask you this.
35:36Why did you shoot Garcia in the head?
35:38I didn't.
35:39Because I don't know Garcia.
35:41Was I in Grenade?
35:43No.
35:44Is this me?
35:45No.
35:47He's doing my picture.
35:48Why did you ask?
35:49Why did you take his cell phone, his wallet, and his keys?
35:53I have no reason to do any of those to anyone when I have a family that would give it
35:58all to me.
35:59I come from a family with wealth.
36:01You see what I'm saying?
36:01Like, don't need to kill no one.
36:03Don't need to rob.
36:03Don't need to steal.
36:05I don't need my name or anything involved in something such as like this.
36:10Come too smart for something like this.
36:11It wasn't until I showed him a photo from the tagged account, I said, well, can we agree that this
36:17is you?
36:18And he said, yes, that's me, which was a win for me because he's admitting he uses tagged.
36:23So on October 21st, Mr. Gaddis was, you know, you guys were talking on, uh, tagged.
36:30I know that because I first got the victim's tagged account, which showed him talking with you, given the address
36:37of this pool and getting picked up there.
36:53He seemed to be very insulted, very upset that I would even mention or question that he was maybe into
37:00that lifestyle.
37:17So at some point I said, well, if you're not going to be honest, you know, we're going to end
37:20the interview.
37:20And I got up to leave and he actually stopped, you know, Detective Pearson and said he wanted to talk
37:27to him.
37:27I'm going to answer you a question.
37:29Why don't you make this go away, right?
37:31What do you mean?
37:32Why don't you make this go away?
37:35I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying, Mark, but this, this can't go away.
37:40Garcia's dead.
37:41We can't make deals or promises.
37:43And he just kept asking that over and over again and never really got anywhere.
37:46So at some point we just had to end the interview.
37:51Despite the lack of a confession, with the digital trail of evidence, they have a very good idea of what
37:56happened that night.
37:59Mark White was a master manipulator who used dating apps to prey on vulnerable men.
38:06Our victim Garcia was frequent on those apps to meet people as, as people do.
38:12On the added question, Mark posed as someone else to convince Garcia Gattis to meet him for a date.
38:20Mark sent an address and a time to meet and the trap had been set.
38:25They met up at a pool area, which is a common place for people to meet.
38:34They literally drove not even a quarter mile away.
38:40It's unclear what actually happened inside the truck, but it's obvious when they both got in the back seat.
38:50Mark White pulled a gun.
38:56Based on the evidence, ultimately, Mark robbed and killed Garcia.
39:02And calmly left the truck, leaving Gattis dead in it.
39:09Unfortunately, we never found Garcia's phone wallet or keys.
39:14And Mark didn't have the gun with him when he was arrested, so that gun is somewhere.
39:20Mark White was not convicted of any crime for the incident involving his former girlfriend.
39:25However, in the trial, Mark Antonio White is convicted of felony murder, harm or robbery, and possession of a firearm.
39:34And he is given a life sentence.
39:43How did you feel when the trial was over?
39:47Bless and thanking God that we got justice and our prayers was answered.
39:55It was the best feeling when I was able to call Ms. Ages and tell her that we had Mark.
39:59It's a big, powerful moment.
40:02We got the justice that we asked for.
40:07By the grace of God, we had to remember we still have each other.
40:11And he would want us to stand by each other and try to hold each other up in the midst
40:15of all of this.
40:17I keep his memory alive every day.
40:21I talk to him, I, you know, express, I miss him, and, you know, things like that.
40:27But we just take it every day, one day at a time.
40:32It was just easy to love him because of the way he really was.
40:41I love my child, and I, I miss him.
40:44Can't bring him back, but I really miss him.
40:54The case that Jorstad assembled is an example of excellent police work.
41:00He never got discouraged.
41:01He simply carried on until he put together something that cannot be denied.
41:09On the next American Detective.
41:12Police believe there are people out there who know something about Lisa's murder who have not yet come forward.
41:18What? What are you talking about?
41:20Some people are wolves who kill because they like it.
41:26There's no more dangerous than that.
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