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Killers: Caught on Camera - Season 4 Episode 3 - Collin Turner & Mary Kay Wohlfarth
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00:07This time, on Killers Caught On Camera, in Colorado.
00:12It seemed like they were the perfect American family.
00:16A loving couple, haunted by a mystery illness.
00:21How this healthy person could walk into the hospital
00:25and then now be brain dead, it was a mystery to them.
00:29And in Oregon, police follow a grim trail.
00:36We see shoe prints leading out of the shed in blood.
00:40To find a missing mom of three.
00:43You don't know if they're being held somewhere.
00:45You don't know if they're alive or dead.
00:52It just sounds like something bad is happening to her.
00:55We know what happened because the video tells us what happened.
00:58I heard some gunshots.
01:00I need to get her a cigar.
01:04Man, that's good.
01:06The camera doesn't lie.
01:14In the U.S., Colorado, the town of Aurora.
01:21Aurora is a very family-oriented, safe place to live, safe place to raise children.
01:28Since 1999, home to the Craigs.
01:35The Craig family were well-known in the community.
01:39Angela Craig was a stay-at-home mother of six children.
01:45She met Jim Craig, her husband, while he was in dental school.
01:50They were known as leaders in their church community.
01:55From the outside looking in, this was a happy family.
02:01I became the piano teacher for the Craigs for the better part of five years.
02:07Angela was a super mom.
02:09She was just so caring and thoughtful and really wanted the best for her kids.
02:13The family dynamic that I saw was an incredibly loving one from everybody in the family.
02:22Dr. James Craig was a beloved dentist.
02:26My approach to dentistry begins with sincerely listening to the patient.
02:31I also have a very strong philosophy that a happy team makes happy patients.
02:38In the community, he was known as Jim Craig.
02:41He was known as a great dad, a great family man, a great husband.
02:47It seemed like they were the perfect American family.
02:57The Craigs' everyday normality was captured on home surveillance.
03:09When Jim was at his practice, Angela ran the home.
03:15She was really healthy.
03:17She lived an active lifestyle.
03:19But really, she focused on her children and raising them and educating them.
03:24And being the best wife that she could be to her husband, Jim.
03:30But in the month of March, life in the Craig home would change forever.
03:40Angela got up early, as she often did.
03:43She worked out.
03:44She rode her bike.
03:45She had a smoothie.
03:48Sometime that morning, she started to feel ill.
03:52I saw her at the beginning of a piano lesson, where she normally was, on the couch in the living
03:57room.
03:58I remember she wasn't feeling that well.
04:02She was struggling to focus, and she texted her husband and told him,
04:07I'm not feeling well.
04:08I'm feeling dizzy.
04:11This was an otherwise healthy, athletic, active woman.
04:17They decided it was best to take her into the urgent care at a local hospital.
04:29Angela will possibly be thinking the worst.
04:32And that's often what patients do think.
04:34That when they come in, they're not necessarily thinking that this could just be food poisoning.
04:39And so what we're going to try and do is examine her, corroborate some of the things that she's thought
04:45about or suffering from.
04:46But really, it's like a detective trying to piece all the clues together.
04:52First, they drew blood, and then they did a CT scan, and then they did an MRI.
04:58And at the end of this visit, the doctor just simply could not figure out what was wrong with her.
05:04So they released her.
05:06They told her, if it gets worse, come back.
05:11On March 9th, she went back to hospital and once again reported these symptoms.
05:17But she reported that they were getting worse, and the ER staff noticed she looked worse.
05:24They drew more blood from her, and she and her husband are texting back and forth.
05:30What's wrong with me?
05:31He was responsive, and he took care of her.
05:36Not a day went by.
05:37It's fair to say not hours went by that he didn't tell her, I love you and I miss you.
05:46Jim keeps sending Angela messages, and it's so many messages in a way that isn't normal.
05:52There's something super weird about writing to someone, I like checking in on you.
05:56On the surface, that looks like a good thing.
05:59That looks like someone who's caring, who's considerate, who's constantly voicing and expressing his love.
06:05But, given the frequency, and given the amount of these texts he's sending, it's, if anything, probably quite oppressive for
06:15Angela.
06:16And the question, of course, is why?
06:17What is it in it for him when he should be at work, he should be doing basically anything else,
06:21rather than just constantly texting?
06:23And I think, sometimes you get people who almost become addicted to texting.
06:28And it's not that they are addicted to sending them, it's that they want to get the response, they want
06:33the attention, they want someone else to think about them.
06:36And the best way to get someone else to think about you is to send them a note, like, I'm
06:40thinking about you.
06:45Angela remained in the hospital.
06:47They took her through a battery of tests.
06:49On March 12th, there's some hope.
06:52She looks like she's doing better.
06:54March 13th, the same.
06:56And they let her go home on March 14th.
06:59But what's remarkable is they still have no idea what's wrong with her.
07:07As the breadwinner, Jim had to juggle Angela's mystery illness and his work schedule at the practice.
07:15Throughout Angela's illness, he is keeping his medical staff posted on what's happening with Angela.
07:21They're also concerned.
07:29On the morning of March 15th, she declined.
07:33She became worse, really disoriented.
07:36Her stomach started to give her great issues.
07:41At this point, her brother and her sister-in-law are in Colorado taking care of her.
07:47So they took her now to a different hospital.
07:56We see Angela Craig arriving with her brother.
08:01She's feeling worse than she's ever felt.
08:04And she's telling the doctors that.
08:07An hour later, Jim Craig arrived and sent Angela's brother home.
08:18This is James Craig walking into his wife's hospital room and spend some time.
08:26James Craig comes out of the room and he approaches the nurse station and he points at his arm and
08:31says,
08:32She's saying that her arm hurts.
08:35And you see the nurses get up and head into the room on an emergency basis.
08:41She had what is known as a crash.
08:45She became unconscious.
08:48James Craig appears distressed.
08:51And hospital staff stands by his side, gives him some comfort as they continue to rush into Angela's room with
09:01their emergency equipment as additional personnel goes into the room.
09:05At this point, they are fighting for Angela's life while at the same time having no idea what's wrong with
09:12her.
09:12And you could see James Craig with his phone in front of him.
09:17He is both taking photos and texting that his wife is now crashing in the hospital.
09:26In the moment where Angela crashes, Jim starts taking pictures.
09:30And maybe this is because he's feeling a sense of loss of control and he knows that taking pictures is
09:37something he can kind of do and he can share what's going on.
09:40But if you think about this in the context of his what seems like texting addiction, you could also say
09:45he's hyper sharing, over sharing his life.
09:48And he also shares it with his colleagues.
09:51And that ends up being a big mistake.
09:57While she was crashing, a employee of Jim Craig's medical practice reported something very, very concerning.
10:08Just days earlier, on March 13th, a package arrived at the dental office and it was addressed to Jim Craig.
10:19When the employee saw it had already been opened, she panicked because she was told by Jim Craig to not
10:27open that package.
10:29Inside was marked with the hazardous material sign on it.
10:34She saw that it was a delivery of potassium cyanide.
10:42She wasn't sure why a dental practice would be getting cyanide.
10:48While concerned, she just decided, you know what?
10:53He ordered this for a reason and I'm going to trust that.
11:00Cyanide is a highly poisonous, but a natural substance.
11:04It's main use has been in chemical warfare.
11:09So cyanide works as a poison at a cellular level.
11:13It stops the cell from utilizing oxygen.
11:16So what you're getting is you're getting cellular damage.
11:19And if you've got cellular damage to a large extent, what you've then got is organ failure.
11:27On March 15th, when Angela was in the hospital crashing,
11:31the employee reported this suspicious delivery of cyanide.
11:37When that was reported up the chain to the doctors who were now trying to figure out what's wrong with
11:45this woman,
11:46that just set off light bulbs and bells and whistles in their minds.
11:51And they immediately gave her an antidote for cyanide poisoning.
11:55And it worked in many ways.
11:58It got her heart back to where it needed to be.
12:01It got her breathing back to where it needed to be.
12:04But it could not reverse where her brain was at that point.
12:11One of the doctors explained what was happening and what they could do next.
12:18And Jim Craig told them, don't do anything.
12:22Just stop. Let's let nature take its course.
12:26And that was very concerning to the doctors.
12:29And by the 21st of March 2023, Angela Craig was declared dead.
12:42How this healthy woman could walk into the hospital and then now be dead.
12:49It was a mystery to them.
12:51And a full-on police investigation started.
12:57In the police investigation and part of their search of the Craig residents,
13:02they learned that there were a number of cameras.
13:07We believe that Jim Craig didn't know that those cameras were still recording.
13:12But they were.
13:19It was this glimpse behind closed doors of life in the Craig residents.
13:24And for the most part, it was life as normal.
13:27It was a loving family.
13:29It was a loving couple.
13:34But the cameras also captured some really concerning video footage
13:39that took place during the course of Angela's illness.
13:42And the course of Angela getting sick.
13:44And that's Jim Craig making a number of smoothies for his wife.
13:54His smoothie recipes included an ingredient not commonly found
13:59in something meant for human consumption.
14:03He was searching for where can one buy arsenic?
14:12Jim Craig was captured on camera clutching his delivery of arsenic.
14:19It was 48 hours before Angela's first trip to the hospital.
14:25The reason that arsenic historically has been used as a poison for almost 1,000, 2,000 years is that,
14:33you know,
14:33arsenic is odorless, it's tasteless.
14:36But what's mysterious about it is on small levels, it can mimic a variety of other illnesses.
14:42So it's easy to hide.
14:45As part of the investigation, toxicology labs retested all the blood samples taken from Angela during her 10-day decline.
14:57When Angela Craig first walked into hospital on March 6th, the FBI found evidence of arsenic in her blood, but
15:06not enough to kill her.
15:09The tests from the morning of March 15th showed cyanide, but again, not enough to kill her.
15:17But most importantly, there was a second blood draw the night of March 15th, where they found deadly amounts of
15:27cyanide in Angela's blood system.
15:29So the only logical, reasonable, believable inference was that someone gave Angela cyanide while she was in the hospital.
15:44Closer analysis of Jim's movements in the hospital led to a chilling revelation.
15:51You can see James Craig walking out of his wife Angela's room in the afternoon of March 15th, 2023.
15:59And he goes into a bathroom in the emergency department and he's in the bathroom for a couple of minutes.
16:10When James Craig walks out of the bathroom, you could see him reach into his pocket and he has in
16:17his hand the syringe.
16:22He walks into his wife's room with some of the medical personnel with that syringe in his pocket.
16:30It's also notable throughout many of the hospital visits in this case that James Craig is wearing the familiar blue
16:37scrubs of a physician.
16:40Although he was never there as a physician, he was always there to support his wife.
16:44Or in this scenario, to administer a lethal dose of cyanide to his wife.
16:52The lethal dose was administered in private, just out of frame, minutes before Jim Craig called in the emergency response
17:02team.
17:05When Angela was given the fatal dose of cyanide, the results would have been very quick and catastrophic.
17:12Our body has been designed to be a highly effective transport system.
17:17Our body needs oxygen, it needs fuel, it needs energy.
17:20Obviously our brain is the most vital organ that requires that oxygen.
17:24What we've got is we've got a poison effectively hijacking that highly efficient transport system.
17:30Wherever the poison is, the cells are unable to use oxygen.
17:34And that is the same as putting a person underwater, drowning them.
17:38Within three to four minutes, you've got irreversible brain death.
17:43Sadly, Angela didn't stand a chance at that point.
17:49Investigators poured over Jim Craig's personal messages to try to find an explanation.
17:56Why would a happily married family man suddenly turn to murder?
18:02We found out that Jim was having intimate contact with a number of women.
18:08Towards the end of Angela's life, there were three women that he was texting back and forth and seeing back
18:14and forth.
18:18Even as his wife was dying, Jim had other things on his mind.
18:24At this point, they are fighting for Angela's life.
18:28And you can see James Craig with his phone in front of him.
18:31And he is texting at least one of the women that he's having intimate contact with.
18:44What's remarkable in this situation is that Jim Craig is also texting one of the three women he's having an
18:50affair with.
18:51And he's sending her messages. He's saying he's so concerned.
18:54And that, again, feels quite performative.
18:58Like he's showing, look, I do care about the woman in my life.
19:02I care about my wife.
19:03But also maybe there's like a hint of, but I care about you more.
19:08I think it could be that he's almost like addicted to further get reactions out of people and to further
19:14show people that you're a good person.
19:16So almost your whole life becomes a sort of performance in order to get attention from other people, particularly in
19:23this case, women.
19:28Jim Craig was arrested and taken into custody for first degree murder charges.
19:35I have all the answers that you need, but I can't, I can't talk. I can't.
19:40The one attorney that I've talked to has said, don't say anything because you can just incriminate yourself.
19:46And I'm totally naive at this. I don't know what I'm doing.
19:49And you both seem very nice, but I know your job is to put me away.
19:55And our point is not to put you away. It's to put the person away that caused this to your
20:00wife.
20:01And that, that's, that's where the person is my wife.
20:07Jim Craig wants everyone to believe that Angela Craig was suicidal, that Angela Craig had this death wish.
20:16I'm sorry that I didn't just let her go through this years ago.
20:19He kept telling us this was an assisted suicide.
20:23Jim Craig was putting all of this on Angela.
20:27I'm scared to death. I don't know. I want desperately to talk to you because I trust you.
20:32And he was trying to present himself as a grieving husband, a grieving father of six kids who just lost
20:40their mother.
20:43You have a warrant, so we're going to go to jail today.
20:45What did you say, homicide warrant or something?
20:47First, with intent after deliberation.
20:50What does that mean?
20:52Especially after deliberation, that you deliberated it.
20:56You, you found this out and had intent to do it.
21:01What Jim Craig is doing here is he's leaning into the fact that poisoning is what's called an equivocal death.
21:07In other words, you can't tell by looking at someone whether a crime has actually occurred.
21:11It could be that she took poison on purpose.
21:14As in, it's a suicide.
21:16And so I think he's leaning into this, this ambiguity that comes with the type of murder he's chosen.
21:23So, so.
21:31Jim Craig pled not guilty to the charges.
21:35He wanted to have his day in court.
21:37And that's what we gave him.
21:42The videos from the 10 days of Angela's slow death became the prosecution's star digital witness.
21:51Those videos showed Angela fighting for her life and trying to figure out why she was sick.
21:57All the details of every medical, everything, everywhere we go.
22:03Let's say to her, I'm afraid she did this to herself.
22:06This is after Angela started feeling sick, after she had been to hospital and she was frustrated.
22:14It's your fault they treated me differently.
22:16It's your fault they treated me like I was a suicide risk.
22:20Like I did it to myself.
22:22That, to us, was very powerful evidence that behind closed doors, in a video clip that Jim Craig probably thought
22:30nobody would ever find, that nobody would ever see, she's saying, I'm not suicidal.
22:38Nobody in their right mind would ever become kill myself before I killed you.
22:43Nobody.
22:48In hindsight, this is a really dark moment because he's already starting to lay the groundwork for the potential of
22:53her being suicidal.
22:55And it almost feels like she can kind of tell that he's using this strategy as a way to control
23:02her and to control the way that the doctors interact with her.
23:04But I wonder if, if we take it back to his attention seeking, I wonder if the idea she's having
23:11isn't so much he's trying to kill me, but he's trying to get attention because he's the good guy who
23:17brought in the suicidal wife.
23:19And they've been married for a long time.
23:21They have six kids together.
23:22So I think at this point, there's no world in which she thinks that he is capable of murdering her.
23:30On July 31st, 2025, a jury found Jim Craig guilty of first degree murder by poisoning.
23:40The judge handed down a life sentence.
23:44In my 35 years of doing this work, I have never seen such a calculating, cold, planned, deliberated murder.
23:58Jim Craig watched his wife get sick and rather than help her, made her sicker.
24:05And when she just did not die as quick as he wanted her to, he murdered her in her hospital
24:13bed.
24:24Angela should be remembered as the super mom that she was.
24:28She was over the top caring.
24:33She was a special person.
24:37So, I'd like her to be remembered for that.
24:41How special she really was.
24:55In murder cases where you've got false promises of monogamy,
24:59you've got someone telling their partner, their spouse, their husband, their wife,
25:02that you are the only one for me, but they're actually cheating on them,
25:06either by sending hundreds of texts a day to other people
25:08or by engaging in romantic relationships otherwise.
25:12That might be something you can get away with in the context of a relationship
25:17where you can conceal your phone, you can conceal all the digital footprints you have.
25:22But as soon as a murder investigation takes place in the digital age
25:25and they are forensically examining every message you've ever sent,
25:29what this false monogamy can reveal is a bad character, a pattern of lies,
25:35and it can lead police to motive.
25:48In the U.S., Oregon, the Emerald City of Eugene.
25:58Eugene's a beautiful area.
26:00We're about an hour and a half from the coast and from the snow and the mountains.
26:05We have in Lane County a lot of rural areas and there's forest everywhere around you.
26:11That whole area is basically a great place to hide a body.
26:21On August 5th, 2016, at about 10 p.m., one of our patrol officers was driving in the north part
26:28of Eugene
26:29and he saw a vehicle.
26:34A license check of the registration showed that the vehicle was stolen out of another county.
26:40That officer tried to make traffic stop of that vehicle.
26:44Get out of your face, buddy. I'm going to talk to you real quick.
26:48When the vehicle pulled over, the driver fled on foot.
26:54He failed to obey lawful order for him to stop.
27:00They did manage to arrest him, but that fleeing added to the concern about the whole case.
27:06The driver was Jeremy Maluth.
27:10Police officers tried to ask him about the car and he immediately requested to speak to a lawyer.
27:18The police officer searched the vehicle.
27:20What he found was a little bit bizarre.
27:25They found a pair of bloody female underwear.
27:29They also found a wallet belonging to Cheryl Hart.
27:35They did ask him about the ID that belonged to this woman.
27:39He claimed that he did not know her.
27:43The trunk release had been disabled and the officers were not able to get into the trunk.
27:52That suggested there was more to the story than just a stolen vehicle.
27:56Patrol officers contacted Cheryl's mother.
28:01It was 2 a.m. August 5th. The police come to my door here and they said,
28:07where's Cheryl?
28:08And we said, what are you talking about? We don't know.
28:11She's with Jeremy.
28:14Mr. Maluthan said that he did not know his own girlfriend.
28:18That really raised our hackles.
28:20That really told us that something bad might have happened in this case.
28:24And we needed to figure out what that was.
28:29I was up all night calling around, even waking people if I didn't care.
28:35My mom called and said that my sister was missing and Jeremy's in jail.
28:40I remember thinking, no, she's hiding somewhere safe.
28:43And she'll come back, you know.
28:47When police learned that she hadn't been seen or communicated with in some time,
28:52that became less of a yellow flag and more of a red flag.
28:59Cheryl was a very, very kind person.
29:02On Christmases, she would always bring in the people that didn't have anywhere else to go.
29:09We would just talk, talk, talk.
29:11I could just stop by her house and just see what's going on.
29:15Or she'd just stop up here.
29:18Cheryl was 35 and had two boys and one girl.
29:23She loved babies, loved her children.
29:28I was her youngest. I was 10.
29:31She was really strong-headed, very independent, you know.
29:35As long as you knew mom was around, you were fine.
29:38She didn't need anyone, but she always wanted someone.
29:43In 2015, Cheryl rekindled a relationship with her childhood sweetheart, Jeremy Malutin.
29:53I looked up to Jeremy. I cared about Jeremy a lot.
29:57He told me that he would try to teach me how to be a man.
30:01He was kind. He was fine. He helped out. It was good. And then it got bad.
30:10He wouldn't let us see Cheryl. He just kept her inside.
30:15It was this gradual controlling thing.
30:19She tried her best to shield us all from him, but I was scared. I was always scared.
30:24When you see someone else, the strongest person you know get knocked down,
30:28it drives you, like, wild. And you're like,
30:31well, if she's not strong, then what am I supposed to do?
30:35She just thought she loved him, I guess.
30:38You can't tell somebody who they can be with, but I didn't understand why she would be with him.
30:43He didn't bring anything to the table. He didn't provide in any way for her.
30:47We would be in each other's faces, me and him, at times.
30:53I think it made him even more controlling when he knew we were angry.
30:59Family members, people outside a relational system, are going to see things a little clearer
31:04and possibly sooner than before the people in the relationships.
31:09There's a tricky dynamic and dance going on between Cheryl, her support system, and Jeremy.
31:15And the nature of coercive and controlling relationships is that you try to isolate the person from their support system
31:22so they don't have undue influence against you.
31:27While Cheryl might have had concerns about his behaviour because she spoke to her family,
31:32it seems like she wasn't in full acknowledgement of it and it was a little bit in denial
31:38and it's going to have felt really frustrating and scary for her family to see Cheryl stay in a relationship
31:45that was not healthy and not good for her and had many abusive elements.
31:51In the last days of July, Cheryl and Jeremy went on a spontaneous road trip.
31:58It was very unusual for her to just take off and we were very angry.
32:01There was a lot of anger mostly at him, like what in the world is going on?
32:05Why would you be with him over your kids?
32:07So we didn't know what to think.
32:10It was just days after they left together that Jeremy was stopped by police without Cheryl.
32:18One, can you confirm that the stolen organ played on a Buick?
32:24In custody, Jeremy refused to talk to investigators.
32:29But in a phone call with his mom, he insisted he dropped Cheryl off at a campsite near Eugene.
32:37When Jeremy said he dropped her off at a campsite, you're hoping that's true. You're hoping beyond hope that that
32:43is true.
32:46Cheryl's family made a huge effort to try and find her.
32:49They had people, volunteers, putting up missing posters and things like that in Eugene.
32:55You're driving down a road and every side road, you have to go down it. You have to search it.
33:00Because what if it was that one?
33:01Police went back to the stolen car to look for more clues about Cheryl's last known journey.
33:10When we searched the vehicle, we found a bottle of bleach.
33:13It was the house brand for a grocery store in Eugene.
33:18We were then able to get surveillance footage from that store at about 7 o'clock in the morning on
33:24August 5th.
33:27It showed the man driving up in the same car that the patrol officers found, and then going in and
33:34purchasing a bottle of bleach.
33:37We were able to identify that person on the video as Jeremy Maloud.
33:47Why is he buying bleach? Bleach is used to clean things up, and that added another layer of concern that
33:55he was trying to destroy evidence.
33:59The bleach in the stolen car appeared to be related to a clumsy attempt to hide evidence.
34:07The trunk couldn't be opened. It had been tampered with.
34:11We actually had to crawl through the car into the trunk to search it.
34:15And what they found inside the trunk of the car was a lot of blood.
34:26We released that image of Mr. Maloudan buying the bleach and requested assistance from anybody in the community.
34:37The images circulated of Jeremy buying bleach prompted a lead from a friend who'd recently seen them both.
34:44He told us Cheryl and Jeremy had the desire to elope to get married.
34:49But when they ran out of money, they had to turn around and come back.
34:54It's an unfortunate but common thing where people think, if we get married, if we have children, that that will
35:02fix the relationship.
35:04In some ways, I would blame Hollywood.
35:06We are fed this narrative that you find your soul mate and we'll live happily ever after.
35:12But given that the relationship was already disturbing, there was already violence in it, we all have to face reality
35:20and we often don't want to face reality.
35:23And we just put our heads in the sand and have wishful thinking that, you know, it's fine when it's
35:28really not fine.
35:33The friend told investigators that Cheryl and Jeremy had camped out in a shed owned by his sister.
35:41When we walked into the carport of this residence, I immediately saw something that kind of looked like an oil
35:48spot.
35:50I said, that looks like blood to me.
35:56We see shoe prints leading out of the shed in blood.
36:05Inside the shed, we found blood on the mattress.
36:11We also found a package of bungee cords, packing tape, and we thought that was relevant.
36:20We just didn't know exactly how it was at the time.
36:24That blood that's right there, that's Cheryl Hart's.
36:29You don't know if that person is being held somewhere.
36:33You don't know if they're alive or dead.
36:37Without knowing whether Cheryl was okay, detectives needed a break to find Jeremy.
36:44The owner of the shed was missing money and credit cards.
36:48We got the bank records and it showed a number of transactions, not just in Eugene, but also in Klamath
36:54Falls.
36:55We were able to get surveillance footage from each and every one of those stores.
36:59One of the most stunning videos that we got was from a car wash.
37:04Security cameras filmed the same stolen vehicle that Jeremy was driving when he was arrested.
37:14One of the things I've never come across in my career was somebody washing a stolen car.
37:21What that video shows us is he's trying to get rid of Cheryl Hart's blood.
37:29With the car washed, Jeremy continued his cleanup operation.
37:33The stolen credit card led detectives to more cameras.
37:37He purchases a shower, exits the store.
37:44Shortly he'll come back in and he's carrying this large backpack.
37:48He enters the coat, goes into the restroom, you notice what he's wearing.
37:5245 minutes or so later, you'll see him come out and look, he's wearing a totally different outfit.
37:57Pants are rolled up different here.
37:59His tattoos are still visible and you can see he's now wearing a different hat.
38:04He's still got the same backpack though.
38:07This is the clothing that he was wearing at the traffic stop the night of August 5th, 2016.
38:17What this does is this tells us he's in there, not just showering, but he's washing away evidence.
38:23He's washed the car so far, now he's washing himself.
38:29The one thing that we never see in all of this video is Cheryl Hart.
38:34And that's pretty notable.
38:36And if we weren't sure before that she had been murdered, that did it.
38:44When we were standing in the police department, the Eugene police department, and we were showing the videos and Cheryl
38:49wasn't there.
38:51Jeremy's in jail.
38:52He was not saying anything.
38:55I think it was cruel.
38:58I'm pretty evil of him, really.
39:02We're blindly searching.
39:04We have no clue where to go.
39:07Jeremy was still in custody, but not for much longer.
39:11At this point, Jeremy was still only charged with, at best, unlawful use of the vehicle.
39:18We didn't have a body.
39:20And you can prove a murder without a body, but it is extremely hard.
39:24But on August 9th, at 1221, Jeremy makes a terrible mistake.
39:29He's on a phone call with his mom.
39:33I'm the one in here looking at all this time, man.
39:35I'm looking at, this is going to be like a life sentence.
39:39That, to us, was a huge indicator that if he's saying he's looking at a life sentence, then Cheryl must
39:46be deceased.
39:49Because you don't go to jail for life for a stolen car.
39:53Do you understand that? I'm not ever going to see outside these walls.
40:00The picture this is building for investigators is that something happened in Eugene,
40:05and that Jeremy almost certainly took Cheryl Hart somewhere near Klamath Falls.
40:13This investigation spans several hundred miles.
40:16In between Eugene and Klamath Falls, it's a lot of forest, it's a lot of high desert,
40:22which really leads to endless possibilities of where could Cheryl be.
40:27We really wanted to solve this case before the snow hit,
40:30because with the snow on the ground, it would be near impossible to find any remains.
40:37But after four weeks, police got some new information.
40:43Law enforcement received a tip from a gentleman who was aware of the case,
40:47and aware of the vehicle that Jeremy was driving.
40:50He actually recalled seeing that vehicle on a very remote back road in Klamath County.
40:58That caused a search effort from volunteers.
41:03On September 10th, they found human remains.
41:09They found Cheryl.
41:15My grandma pulled me in and hugged me and told me she had passed.
41:20And I don't quite remember how I reacted.
41:23My brother told me I'd screamed or something, but my brain just blocked that out, like for a long time.
41:33took a month but it was definitely a relief to a founder because we wouldn't stop we'd
41:39be searching to this day it was also heartbreaking you know because that's my best friend yeah
41:50at the scene we had found electrical cords and some bungee cords that had been used to wrap up
41:57Cheryl's body during the autopsy the medical examiner noted the ligature around her neck
42:04damage that is typically associated with strangulation
42:09Cheryl Hart had a pacemaker implanted and from that we were able to determine her heart stopped
42:15at 11 17 p.m. on August 4th you don't die just with pacemaker and then it kicks you back
42:25on
42:28and that's a tough one to think about because so many women are strangled and if I even hear a
42:32story
42:33then that comes back but she had a pacemaker I don't know try not to think about it
42:44in search of a motive police downloaded the messages off Jeremy's phone one of the things
42:52that we found on his cell phone were messages to other women sexual messages it looked like Cheryl
43:01had caught wind of Jeremy's infidelity Cheryl posing as Jeremy had been texting saying I found the woman
43:10in my dreams I'm not interested in you please don't contact me again well Jeremy found out about this
43:16one of the first messages he sent after he came back into town was to this woman and she asked
43:24who
43:24is that and he said oh that was nobody well that nobody is Cheryl who he just killed he's already
43:33out
43:33looking for another relationship this is another view into the soul of Jeremy Maloudon
43:43getting to the kind of common nature of domestic violence and coercive controlling relationships
43:50where traditionally it's a man who wants to maintain control whose self-esteem and self-worth is based on
43:58feeling loved and getting the attention that they just feel they deserve or want and when they don't
44:04get what they want they will turn to extreme acts of either violence or worse in this case murder instead
44:12of actually processing and managing and handling their own emotional reactions now that we have Cheryl's
44:21body we are able to finally charge Jeremy with murder on May 22nd 2018 Jeremy pled guilty on June 1st
44:33of 2018
44:33he was sentenced to 30 years in prison shortly after that everybody moved to our family house we're all
44:50closer we are closer we cherish each other more because we lost someone which are so much we all just
45:01feel
45:01her presence if we're all in the same room I already know she's just there how could she not be
45:06so I
45:07always feel like she's always around when Cheryl's body was recovered she had a necklace on took it from
45:20evidence cleaned it up I went to a jewelry store and I asked him for a box and I mail
45:27it to her mother
45:49she was wearing that when she was she was taken and when they found her and
45:58it means a lot it's a part of her it's been hard but she's touched a lot of people her
46:09positivity has really helped us
46:17she's my baby girl
46:30so
46:31and
46:39so
46:41I
46:41I
46:55I
46:56I
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