You a friend of yours or? >> Yeah, I was just getting a ride. >> Well, man, I recognize you now. I pulled you over like two weeks ago. I heard you know your social. >> Okay, so that social not coming back whatsoever. >> Oh my gosh. You got to be kidding me. [music] 10:26. >> Monday, November 5th, 2018. Waterberry, Connecticut. At 5:00 a.m. on 97 Nullwood Circle, a gunshot breaks the stillness of a quiet neighborhood. Henry Ayala falls fatally wounded. The scene cools faster than the leads. Three men, Kevin Diaz, Santos Vasquez Rivera, and Carlos Alvaredo, vanish from sight, and the case goes cold for years. Seven winters later, more than 12,200 m away, a traffic stop in Moscati, Florida, shatters the inertia. The name Kevin Diaz reignites a homicide that Waterberry never truly forgot. But who was this man, and how had he managed to stay hidden for so long? I'm Tyler and this is your daily dose of crime. How you doing today? >> How you doing, man? Good. >> Good. Officer James and Mascid, you got driver's license on you? Okay. How you doing today, man? >> Good. Good. >> How dark are the tents on these things? I don't think it's five or six. >> You think it's five? Okay. >> Is there any reason why you got the tent below the AS1 line up front? >> I bought it like that. Okay. Y'all got anything crazy in the car? >> No, no, not at all. >> Okay. Where y'all headed to? >> I'm headed right here. Right there to my family. >> Okay, I got you. Is he a friend of yours or? >> Yeah, I was just getting a ride. >> Okay, no worries. I got you. >> I have food here. >> You got what? >> The food that I was taking. Okay, no worries, man. No worries. >> You're allowed to search the car anything. Okay. >> Yeah, man. Whose car is it? >> Your mom's car. Okay, I got you. >> Well, I think a matter of fact that you sent me cuz I was going to do cuz he has his permit. So, I was going to do one of his and he sent me a copy of >> Okay. >> driver's license. So, I think I should have >> You just got a permit. >> I got you, brother. Do you Do you have a valid license, man? >> No. No. No. >> Have you ever had a license or anything? >> No. Okay. >> Mike, how old are you, boss? >> Um, 16. >> You're 16. Okay. I got your brother. Any reason why you didn't get your your uh actual license yet? >> Need to wait like one month. >> Oh. Oh, you got you didn't get your license. >> No, he has to wait like for I think it's a year for permanent. >> Okay. So, uh, me and Brad, he get his, um, actually his driver's license. So, we only have like 2 months left. >> I get you, buzz, man. Do you have anything with your name on it? >> No, I do not. >> What's your name? Or do you know your social? >> Uh, yeah. >> June 27th, 2025. Moscati, Florida. Body cam footage captures what appears to be a minor stop. A car driven by a teenager on a local road. But behind this routine moment lies the missing piece of an unsolved crime. The man in the passenger seat, seemingly just another adult, has been a fugitive for six years and seven months, wanted for the murder of a man in Waterberry, Connecticut. That night in 2018, the man was found shot to death outside of a home on Nwood Circle after spending the evening with three men, Diaz, Vasquez, Rivera, and Alvarado. They disappeared within hours, leaving behind an investigation stalled for years and active warrants for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. What the officers are about to discover is that one of those fugitives has just crossed their path purely by chance. What begins as a simple traffic infraction is about to reopen a case thought to be long forgotten. Mom, how you doing? You speak English? Okay. >> I'm sorry. Um, he got pulled over. The tint on the windows, the window darkness. If you can speak Spanish to her. >> Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. >> Oh, okay. Okay. >> Mainly the windshield. Uh, cuz the windshield can't go below the AS1 line. I don't have a tint meter for the for the side windows, but yeah, the side windows are way too dark. >> So, he only has a learner's license. >> Okay. He can't drive a car without someone with a valid license in the car. >> You're Maria? >> No. No. She's um >> She's like one of her sister-in-law. >> Okay. Gotcha. Okay. So, yeah. So, he could drive with you in the passenger seat, but not him. Okay. >> Okay. >> So, I'll hand it back to you real quick. I'm just going to finish up with them and then you guys can swap out or take over. I need you just head right there, so I'm not too concerned about it, but um I'll be back in just a moment. Okay. >> Oh, okay. All right. Thank you. >> Mhm. Oh, okay. Brother, I've I've pulled him over before for this exact same thing. Oh my gosh. You got to be kidding me. 10:26. Boss man, does this window roll down up here? >> Uh, no. >> Can I open the door real quick? >> Okay, so that social not coming back whatsoever. Do you have a name and date of birth you can provide me? >> I appreciate that. Pause man. I recognize you now. >> I pulled you over like two weeks ago. >> Yeah. >> But guess what? Well, there's no lights. But >> now I got >> you driving by yourself with nobody in the car and owner's license and now you're doing it again. You got somebody. >> Yeah. >> But he ain't got a license. >> No. >> What happened? >> Was nobody else around to help to ride with you or >> No. >> Okay. >> Um they say over there, right? You told me to that time for pulling over. I'm not getting no points of the license. >> What do you mean? Like the the ticket is not going to um affect my license. >> Which one? >> The big license. You give me a ticket for the lights. >> Yeah. For for for having no lights on at night. I gave you a ticket for that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> But you told me that I'm not going to give no points of the license. >> Correct. Cuz it's a it's a non-moving violation. >> Yeah. And and I already paid, but they they told me they they it's going to affect my license. And they told me they gonna call you to ask you if you if you say that. >> No, I don't I don't know anything about that. Um I can take a look. This is Kevin >> Diaz. >> Diaz. Okay. Um I can take a look at that. But no, that that wouldn't I saw you had three points on your license for driving with no one in the passenger seat. You plead guilty on that one. So you got you got points for that. But I don't see any anything assessed to your license for for having no lights on. Um, I can take a look though. But no, as far as I understand that, that wouldn't give you any points in your license. Okay. Um, >> but you got to quit doing this stuff, man. >> Yeah. >> Hey, young fellas. >> I get you. Whose vape is that? >> Huh? >> The little vape? >> The blue The blue vape down there? >> Uh, it was here. >> It's just sitting there. >> Yeah. >> Okay. If you're in a car, those things can't be in the vehicle. Okay. cuz you're you're 16. You're not 21. Okay. All right. Give me just a moment. >> Who who are you to him? >> Uh we just your girlfriend. >> Like who are you guys to him? >> Uh he he's just like one of like his brother his brother his brother is married to one of one of her sisters. >> Okay. So he's kind of somewhat sort of in the family a little bit. You guys are kind of sort of family. >> Yeah. Yeah. Like in the family. >> Keep this guy on track. Okay. He cannot drive on a learner's license with someone in a car who does not have a valid license and is over the age of 21. Okay? That is 100% Florida law. You cannot because he's still learning how to drive. >> He needs someone with a valid license helping him learn how to drive for the duration of the time that he has a learner's license. Once he's f done all this stuff and he got a valid license, he's going to drive on his own all he wants. Now, if he drives terribly, that's up to him. But while he's on his owner's license, he needs someone in the car who knows the laws of the road and can help him drive who has a valid license. Okay. >> All right, sir. >> All right. Give me just a moment. >> Mascot 7. Was that social close to what his is or was that completely different? >> Mascot 74. All the other characteristics do match [music] this person. >> Uh that is uh so the man that we're about to pull out of that car. >> Let's get him out of the car now. >> Yeah, he's related to her. step for me from the bathroom. >> Hey, driver. >> So, go ahead and walk this way for me. Face the car. Put your hands on the car. Put your hands on the car. Do not reach anywhere. All right. I'm going to p you for come this way with the front of this car. I'm gonna have you help out too real quick, boss. Okay. >> The phone in the car for me. >> The phone's gonna stay in the car real quick. Sit back for me. Put your hands on the car for me. As the officers speak with the occupants, everything appears routine. A teenager driving without a license and an adult claiming to be teaching him, but each exchange exposes another inconsistency. Kevin Diaz presents what seems to be a valid license. Yet, state records flag it as suspended or invalid. In most stops, that would end with a citation, but this time, the officers decide to run a deeper check. One entry in the national database is all it takes to connect a Florida highway to a homicide in Connecticut. What looked like a harmless roadside conversation is moments away from turning into an arrest linked to a six-year-old murder case. All right. You got anything on you, crazy? >> No. >> Okay. So, listen. I'm going I'm going to set this $1 bill in the car real quick. Okay. Is that all you got on you? >> All right. Huh? >> Come on back over here for me real quick. Okay. All right, move your feet apart. Face the car and just lean up against the car for me. You have any idea what's going on right now? Not a clue? No. >> Okay. Let's take this hat off real quick. Okay, have you hop in the car for a second? He's got a social come back to anything. Didn't >> Oh, didn't come back to anything. >> I'm going to read something to you real quick. Okay. Do you understand English? Okay. Yeah. >> All right. right now. Does that make sense to you? >> Okay. I got a couple questions for you if that's okay. >> I'm going to ask you one question real quick. Did you give me a false name? >> That is your name? Okay. Um, so that name that you gave me returns showing an active warrant for conspiracy to commit homicide. Okay. You don't seem too surprised. >> So that's why I'm asking. Is that your actual name? >> Yeah. Okay. Does that ring a bell for you out of Connecticut? >> Did you ever used to live in Connecticut? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay, understood. Is there anything you want to tell me about that? >> Okay. So, you're saying you don't want to answer any more questions? No. Okay. It's him. Hey, bud. Real quick, I know uh just a second ago he mentioned he was fine with us searching the car real quick. Is that cool? Okay. I appreciate that. You mind standing back over there for me? Also going on the lip. I read him Miranda. Um he when I told him that asked me if his real real name he gave me he said yeah. Uh I said well if that name comes back with a warrant out of Connecticut for um conspiracy to commit harms or whatever it was. And he didn't look surprised whatsoever. I said, "You're not surprised by that?" >> He just kind of said, "You've been to Connecticut?" "Yeah, >> I won't have you know him." >> So, okay. Then he said he wanted a lawyer answer questions. >> I won't have known him. >> One year. >> And you don't know his full name? >> You don't know his full name? >> He's got he's like friend with my brother. So, I see him sometimes. >> Uh do you know who this guy is? Not the the young kid up there, the one he was with. >> Oh, he's my friend. What's his name? who I don't know who who you got it. I know he's my friend, but the other guy here right there. He doesn't know who's in the He doesn't know >> even though they're going over his house. >> Okay. >> I think the one driving is the one driving. >> No, no, no. He knows the kid. I'm talking about the other person. >> Oh, no. No. He said he just turned into right now. He was the one. No, he said he was driving. He just pulled in. >> What? >> Okay. So then he's just >> Yeah, he just stopped. >> Yeah, he just stopped because he was going over. >> He was going to the place. >> All right, then. Right. Well, then that's fine. Um, come over with me real quick. I'm going to check in one more time for anything crazy. Kevin, I need you to hop out for me real quick. Okay. You want to hop back in? All right. Feel better now. >> Hello. [music] 2014 Jessica >> 10 for where at that address right now trying to get more 14 on that passenger that we have detained. Apparently, she doesn't know the guy, they live in according to. >> Okay. They came to drop off some items here as a favor. I saw some >> So, she doesn't know this dude. >> Nobody knows this guy. >> No, because uh that's a family friend, the driver. Apparently, that other guy that's with him lives with him at rents, I guess, an apartment or a room somewhere in Groville. >> Okay. And and that guy's claiming he doesn't know him. know that I'm I'm calling BS on that, but All right. >> All right. >> All right. Well, that works. >> Matt's got 57 to 71. Your driver and passenger live together in Brooklyn. Just signal 14. >> Diaz offers no resistance. His calm doesn't signal confusion, but adaptation. the practiced composure of someone who has lived too long under another name. The teenager beside him is removed from the vehicle without incident. He faces no charges, yet his presence illustrates how a fugitive can quietly weave himself into other people's routines without notice. While one officer documents the arrest, another inspects the vehicle, not to find evidence from 2018, but to secure the scene and preserve every record related to the detainee. In moments, the stop shifts from a roadside warning to a federal apprehension. Diaz is transported to Lake County where the extradition process to Connecticut will begin. The encounter ends peacefully, but its weight is enormous. After nearly 7 years, the case once again has a face and a name. >> It's murder and conspiracy homicide. Something like that. >> But is homicide and >> it shows murder, conspiracy, homicide? I don't I don't know the full. >> Sure. Sure. Sure. But he he was not the least bit surprised whatsoever when he heard that. He said you've known him for how long? >> Like one year. The two of you lived together. You don't know his name even though you live together? Do you know his last name at all? Do you know where he lived before he lived with you? >> Did he ever like live out of state? No. All right. This guy keeps saying this dude's name is Miguel, but I don't I don't know which I don't know. I don't buy it. >> Told me under Marina that Kevin Diaz is his name. >> All right. >> When I did not seem surprised whatsoever. >> Okay. >> Does anyone have a raptor in the area? Dude's fingerprint. >> Rapid ID. Yeah, county might have some. >> Go and ask them. Take them up there. They're going to finger. >> Yeah. Uh check around. What are we doing with him >> right now? He's saying he's the driver. I mean, I I was just going to issue him a citation and call it a day, but I just >> had a written warning. All right, Buzzman. Listen. No citation today. Okay. It's a written warning. Doesn't affect your license at all, but listen. You have got to have someone with a valid license in the car or wait till you get your actual license. Okay. >> Okay. Yeah, exactly. Um, but just to let you know that tint super duper dark. Way too dark. Okay. >> Yes. All over the car. I don't have a tint meter to read that. But when you tell me it's 5% that that's way too dark. I think like 35 is like it's it's too that tint's way too dark. Okay. There's legal levels to tint. That's not one of them. especially on the windshield. The AS1 line, which is a little a little uh uh black line on the passenger side, shows you how low tint can go. Yours was going below that. Okay? Can't be doing that. All right. You can paint that thing black, as black as you want, just above that AS1 line. Okay. You didn't show me any You showed me a full driver's license. I didn't have any of that. So, I didn't I don't nothing to get back to you. Do you have any questions on anything right now? Okay. >> Um so, I'd like So, we're trying to confirm something right now. Once we confirm that, I'd like if you want to wait here cuz in case he gets released, I'd like him to have a little ride to get home. I know he lives right down the street. So, if you want to stay here, you're no longer detained in any way, shape, or form. So, you can leave if you want. He said nothing else that car belongs to him. He had a dollar bill in there. He said just leave it in there. So, he wasn't concerned about it. So, free dollar bill. Um, but if you want to stay here for a little bit until we confirm this and let you know, hey, he's actually going to come with us or he's going to come with you, that'd be cool. Um, that that's all to you, man. All right. You're you're you're you're free to go right now. Okay. Thank you. Of course. >> Yeah, sure. If you want to stay in here, wait, you can. Or if you want to sit in the car, whatever you want to do. I know it's hot out, but yeah, you're you're good to do whatever, bud. Okay. >> Yes, sir. I appreciate your cooperation. Okay. >> See if we got a photo of the dude. >> That is my guy. >> Yep. >> Yep. Photo hit. Can you let uh him know we're going to transport? >> He's got a warrant out of the state of Connecticut. Major major warrant. Okay. Yep. >> Wait, isn't she the one that was living? Isn't she the one that said she didn't know him when we were talking at the house? >> Uh, okay. Yeah, she straight up said she didn't know him. So, suddenly she's his girlfriend. I don't believe it. >> With Diaz in custody, the investigation expands to his surroundings. Officers canvas neighbors and contacts trying to learn how a man wanted for conspiracy to commit murder could live in Florida unnoticed. Interviews reveal a familiar pattern amongst long-term fugitives. A low profile, limited movement, and few lasting ties. No one suspected that the man stopped for a traffic violation was connected to homicide in Waterberry, Connecticut. For years, all three suspects had remained fugitives under warrants issued by the Waterberry Police Department and upheld by the Superior Court of Connecticut. The teenager confirms he barely knew Diaz, ruling out any connection to the case as officers explain the process for reinstating his learner's permit. The operation quietly wraps up, but the true impact is only beginning. The arrest in Moscotti marks the first tangible breakthrough in an investigation frozen for almost 7 years, paving the way for Diaz's extradition to Connecticut on a class A felony charge, carrying a potential sentence of up to 10 years to life in prison. Got it. I wish I fall. We're going to head straight on into these doors over here. >> Diaz's transfer to the Lake County Jail in Tavvarez, Florida, closes the operation, but opens a more broad judicial process. Within hours, the police department confirms his identity and activates interstate extradition under the Uniform Criminal Extradition Act, which allows fugitives to be returned to the state where they were charged. Less than 2 months later, Diaz is scheduled to appear before the Waterberry Superior Court facing conspiracy to commit murder, a class A felony carrying up to life imprisonment. His capture ends nearly seven years of uncertainty and revives a case that was once believed to be unsolvable. A murder committed on November 5th of 2018. Meanwhile, Santos Vasquez Rivera charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder and Carlos Alvarado charged with conspiracy to commit murder remain at large. The reopening of the case restores more than a legal path. It reaffirms a promise. Time may cool the trail, but it never erases the pursuit of justice.