It's only a matter of time. >> No problem. I gave up everything on a chance. Somebody lied. Getting too many god chances, man. You know what? >> I was in the shower. I heard guns. I think my wife. >> Yeah. I feel really offended that you guys can try to pin an accident on me. >> Keith thought he had pulled off the perfect plan, but was eventually caught for his horrific crime. However, he's not the only one who believed he could get away with murder. >> Ma'am, did you see what happened? >> Was he? >> Not that I know of. I didn't do anything. >> It's okay. It's just procedure. >> I did not do this. I did not see this happen. >> These were the moments when killers realized they'd been exposed in their horrific crime. Starting off with the case of 51-year-old Heather Hoer, a teacher married to Robert Hoer. Heather claimed she had just made a horrifying discovery. Her husband was deceased and she believed he had taken his own life. But as investigators began looking closer, a much darker truth started to unfold. In the early morning hours of November 29th, 2020, officers received a 911 call from a woman claiming she had just found her husband lying lifeless on the floor. However, what they hadn't expected was to walk into a scene that appeared to be a staged suicide, but was in reality a disturbing and premeditated murder carried out by the wife. >> Exactly what happened? >> Um, I came into my room and my husband I think he's I think he's on the floor. I mean, I know he's on the floor. I think he's dead. Come on, honey. Wake up. He's cold. He's cold. >> Okay. >> Come on, Robert. Wake up, babe. Wake up. >> No, not at all. >> Is he breathing? >> No. No. Come on. Come on, babe. Wake up. >> If you want, ma'am. >> Yes. >> If you want to try, I can give you CPR instructions. >> But if you think he's beyond any help, >> come from send somebody now. They're They're on their way. What What is your name? >> Heather. Heather Hoer. >> Heather. They are headed that way. And I'm going to stay on the line with you until they get there. Okay. >> Okay. >> Has he been sick? >> Well, he kind of he injured himself. >> When was this? >> This evening. >> How did he injure himself? >> He got mad. During the 911 call, it was clear that Heather was forcing herself to sob and act as if she had just walked in on her deceased husband. She claimed it was a self-inflicted death. But when officers arrived at the scene, it didn't take long before things started pointing in a very different direction. >> Where is ma'am? Keep the door open or else you're coming. Yeah. Mhm. [Music] ma'am. Did you see what happened? >> 24.97. >> Where's the blood coming from when I am on his chest? And I fell asleep on the couch and I came in here and he was on the floor. He was [Applause] >> ma'am. Can you watch out? I need to check his pulse. >> He's cold. >> He's cold. >> He's cold. >> When did you last see him? >> About 3. And I guess he'd gotten his razor out. I don't know what he did. I don't know. >> Upon discovering Robert lying on the ground, officers quickly noticed blood coming from his chest. Something highly unusual if this had truly been self-inflicted. But coming up, Heather gave a statement suggesting they had been together when it happened and that she'd seen him pass away. This completely contradicted what she told the dispatcher where she claimed he was already cold to the touch when she found him. >> He got out. We were hanging out in his computer room and he wanted to cry and I made him cry and and then I brought him to bed. He's like, "It hurts. It hurts >> his chest." M and I took his shirt off and I don't know where I took his I took it off and I tried to clean it. >> It's okay. Have a seat for me. >> And then >> do you know what he cut himself with? >> He said one of the steak knives but I couldn't. >> Okay, let's not go reach around. I just don't want you to get cooked, ma'am. In case it's sitting around here. >> Say again. >> I don't want you reaching around just in case you get cut. Okay. >> Suicide. Not that I know of. >> Was he laying here and bedding to you to move him over off the ground? >> And when I got up, [Music] >> back here, search. >> Oh, am I? >> No. No. Um, we're not sure. He said he cut himself earlier in the night. Um, had been in bed in here and then she came over, pulled a pull him off the bed, took his shirt off. No, the lacerations I'm seeing are deep enough and have a lot of blood protruding. But >> that's the thing that's not deep. They weren't deep. They're not deep enough to keep them. >> What medication does he take, man? >> At this point, the officers were trying to piece together what had happened, but they were soon about to make an alarming discovery. Actually, that line is pretty decent. >> Yeah, two punctures. That's a puncture. That's a puncture. That's a puncture. >> Oh, man. You might have to detect. >> Yeah, >> I know. He's big. He's going to need your help. He's going in. >> Okay, >> we might have to call detectives. >> Yeah, if I will. >> Deep puncture. Deep puncture. Depuncture. I didn't see it. They look superficial cuz there's no coming out. But after we moved them, we saw that. We're just going to secure this and call detectives and they're going to get some information from you. Okay. Have it. What's that? >> Yeah. And that one. >> Yeah. >> Close the door. >> Okay. >> They look equal. We're going to find out. Okay. >> Change. >> You guys can get some of the information from her. >> Okay. >> While trying to move the body to a more accessible spot for investigation, officers noticed three deep puncture wounds. something Robert definitely wouldn't have been able to inflict on himself. As they waited for detectives to arrive on scene, they headed to another room in the house where Heather claimed they had been hanging out in the hours leading up to the incident. >> And do you know if it was in here where he ended up possibly hurting himself or what happened exactly, Heather? >> Yeah. Well, he went I was we were going to bed and he was like, "It hurts. It hurts." And I just, you know, I put him in bed and you know and >> and he is there any marks on him at that time? >> I didn't notice any at that time. And then I went a little later and there was he's like it hurts. I was there was I was like of course I said dirty words. What the did you do? Did this happen whenever you were moving him on your shirt? You have some blood. Oh, I'm sure it happened. Oh, when I took his and I took it off of him and I cleaned it up. >> He had he was wearing a shirt >> again. I now I can't find it. He was wearing a shirt and a jacket. >> So, with all that said, and I'm just going to kind of warn you ahead of time. They're going to probably collect your shirt, take pictures of you and your hands. Um, just because I didn't do anything. What do you think? >> And I just wanted to warn you ahead of time, just they're going to get here. I don't want you to be surprised by anything that happens, okay? Their investigation is going to be very thorough and they're going to ask you questions and just kind of try and get a timeline together. >> At this point, the officers were beginning to grow increasingly suspicious of Heather. >> What's catching me out is she said that she took her shirt and jacket off and now she can't find it anywhere on What time is that? >> 11 midnight. >> Is it before or after the pie? >> Mhm. >> Before after. >> So he wanted pie. >> Yeah. Who doesn't want pie? >> Well, I I love pie. >> So, um you warmed up some pie, >> right? >> Okay. And then he ate the pie. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And then he went to bed about 11 or midnight. That's about as far as you and I got earlier. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So then what happened after that? >> And then he said, you know, that's when he was like, "It hurts. It hurts." I was like, "What are you talking about? It hurts." And I saw him and I took his shirt off, cleaned it up. >> And you came to check on him, Heather, cuz could you hear him in there or were you in there with them saying, "It hurts. It hurts." I was in there. >> Had you been asleep prior to saying anything or was he kind of awake still? >> He was awake >> and I cleaned it up. I didn't think it was that I really didn't think it was that bad. You know, the steak knife, you really can't I didn't you know, they're not even like >> cuz I didn't notice any of them listening or any of that. So I was like and I woke up at 3:00 and um checked on him [Music] >> and then I woke up a minute ago and it was on my phone cuz I was asleep on the couch. >> So you had been in bed with him and he was saying it hurts. It hurts. No, no, no. I I mean, I was kind kind of, but I wasn't going to bed yet. It was >> Right. Were you laying down in bed with them, though? >> No, >> no, >> no. >> Detectives arrived on scene and began their investigation. Meanwhile, Heather was brought to the station for a formal interview where detectives aimed to clear up some of the discrepancies in her story. >> Some concerns. All right. Um, one you guys are saying that he had he he had there was no this is out of the blue. This is coming out of left field, right? Or right coming out of right field. >> Coming out of crazy. >> And um there was no indicators prior to this. >> No. >> Okay. Um you said you're a school teacher for about seven years. >> Yes. >> Um do they make you um do they make you take like first aid and stuff like that as a teacher? >> Yes. Yeah. CPR and first aid and stuff like that. Okay. Um, how often have you had to take that? >> Oh, it's been a little while since I've had to take it. >> They usually do it like every couple years though, like when it expires, they have you renew it and stuff like that. >> Okay. So, I mean, if you had to do it every two years, you probably had you probably done it at least maybe been through that course at least three times since you've been a teacher, right? Okay. Um, do you remember anything about what they teach about like lacerations and and wounds and stuff like that and wound care and everything like that? Not Not really. >> Well, you know, when you're in that you I just >> it all gets lost. >> Yeah. Okay. It all just got lost. >> Okay. So, I'm a little concerned as well with why um you first see his injuries and then don't don't do anything. >> I didn't think they were that bad. I really don't they didn't look deep. >> Okay. But he's compl but he's complaining that he's hurting >> prior to bed. >> Um >> I didn't see him when I when he went to bed. That's the thing. >> And you Okay. But >> you know what I mean? I did not see him. You didn't you didn't see the injuries before bed, but you hear him >> or anything. >> Yeah, but you heard him complain. He said he was hurt his chest hurt. >> Yeah. >> Um >> but he gets like that when he gets his migraines. >> So I that's understood. But then when you went in the next time um and you find out that he had stabed himself or according to him, he said he stabed himself. >> I But I thought it was just you know like like a cut. >> Uhhuh. cuz I think he was I think in his past he was a cutter. >> Heather continued to put the blame on her husband, but the detective wasn't exactly buying her story. >> When she went to bed, how come you didn't just go to bed with him and lay down and like look at your do your social media and Facebook there in the bed? How come how come you didn't go to bed with him? Well, because I have rode many pairs of glasses laying down >> on my phone or reading a book and these are I just got these. >> Okay. >> I just really wasn't ready to go to bed. >> Uhhuh. >> How's that for an answer? >> Those are that's some of the biggest concerns is that he's been his his body's been manipulated in some in some form of way. The weapon that was used in this has been manipulated in some sort of way. Um, I don't think I don't think you're a bad person. Okay. >> I can tell in your eyes that you're >> But you think I did >> you're a good person, but things are not adding up. I think you're not I think you have more to tell me, right? >> I don't have anything else to say. I have nothing left. I've told you all I have. >> Mhm. >> I have nothing left. Nothing. >> Okay. Um, one of the things, um, we have a responsibility not just to you and to, um, to your husband to make sure that we do this correctly, but, we have an obligation to his family, too. Right. >> Right. >> Right. >> Um, and honestly, I just I just want to know I want to know what happened to him. >> I do, too. I I think I think you do know. Honestly, I think you know what happened. >> I didn't do this. >> Um and if you if you do know what happened, let's just hear me out. I think you know what happened. And um >> I did not do this. I did not see this happen. I did not do this. I'm not a bad person. I'm not. >> I mean, it doesn't make sense. >> He's 6' three. >> Mhm. >> How would I be able to hurt him like that? >> I don't know. But that's that's what I'm trying to figure out. Um, everything I've seen it it's from what I'm seeing, I don't think this is self-inflicted. >> You think I did this? >> I've not Have I I haven't come out and said that to you. >> Okay. >> But if he didn't do it to himself, somebody did. Surprisingly, it took officers 4 and 1/2 years to wrap up their investigation and determine who they believed was responsible for the crime. And all the evidence pointed back to Heather. >> So, I'm going to grab your stuff from you. Okay. >> Put your hands right back to Heather. >> What do I have a warrant for? >> For me, you have the right to remain silent. Any statements made by you may be used against you in court. You have the right to an attorney. You cannot afford an attorney. One will be appointed to represent you free of charge. You have the right to consult an attorney. >> Can I call my mom real quick? >> Yeah. Hold on. You have the right to consult. We're going to We're going to head up the police department right now and I'm sure we can let you make some phone calls when you get up there. Okay. Um do you guys have a key? Yeah. >> To lock these up. Hold on. Uh, we're going to have a park. Does that look good? >> So, you just have you just have animals in the house. >> You guys really had to risk me right in front of the kids I work with. Well, >> come on. >> We waited until the school got out. Now, >> you know, but I still have kids in the cafeteria. >> Heather seemed completely shocked that she was now about to be held accountable for the crime she had nearly gotten away with. >> Please don't let them plaster my face on um Facebook. Please. >> You know what I mean? >> No. Unfortunately, I know exactly what you mean. And I wish they would stop doing that. I really do. >> Well, mine is because of my profession, you know. Mhm. >> That's why I couldn't believe they grabbed me right here in front of my job. >> Unfortunately for Heather, her request didn't stop the police department from publicly announcing the arrest. When she arrived at the station, she was brought into an interview room. And unlike 4 and 1/2 years ago, this time she had much less to say. >> So, Miss Fernandez, you've been advised of your rights. >> Correct. >> Um, do you know why you're here? >> Just nope. >> Okay. So, the last time you and I talked was back in 2020. This has to do with >> your husband, Robert. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, we've completed our investigation. It took some time because we had a lot to process. >> Um but um our investigation from what we have, we we know what happened, okay? And this is your opportunity to tell us the truth about what happened. Okay? because what you told me last time, none of the evidence that we that we processed um matches with what you're telling us. So, I I know what happened to Robert. I just don't know why it happened to him. This is your time to tell me why. >> I'm going to need an attorney. >> Okay. All right. Um we'll get you up to the jail then. >> Heather abruptly ended the interview by stating that she wanted a lawyer. In the end, Heather Hoer was charged with seconddegree murder and tampering with evidence. Moving on to the disturbing case of Lventa Lazar, the son who tried to stage his mother's death only to get tangled in his own web of lies and realize he wouldn't be able to escape justice for the horrifying crime he'd committed. Yep. 44. All right. Just don't touch anything, but looks like a lot of pills. Oh, wait. No, >> there's a lot of blood. >> There's video surveillance cameras on your mom's apartment. >> Mhm. >> Did you know that? >> I did not. >> The video surveillance cameras show you going into your mom's apartment when she was murdered. >> Explain to me why why you killed your mom. >> I did something happen there. On October 25th, 2018, Officer Lopez arrived at a residence for a welfare check on 64year-old Athena Valentini. When he entered the quiet home, he stumbled upon a scene that immediately felt off. >> Check on a registered nurse that never showed up for work this morning. >> Oh. >> Um, so get here, we only we know she only has one vehicle registered to her from our information. Um, she's not answering the door. We spoke with the neighbor. She said the last time she saw her was 2 days ago. Uh but she did hear her yesterday uh speaking Hungarian. She is Hungarian and that's all she knows. She said that she has a regular routine. She locks the gate. She's got a small gate out front. Locks it with the padlock. Has a dog that she'll use out front. Okay. >> Um the padlock's not there. It's unsecure. There is no dog. >> Um she said that her son lives in the area. We tried contacting him. No answer. >> Okay. >> So >> So no answer with her phone either. >> No. >> Huh. Any cars that heard? >> This is her only red. >> This is hers. >> Yeah. >> What's her name? >> Uh Athena Valentini. My partner here saw some red red type of substance on the blinds. So I don't know if that'd be enough for you. >> You guys are scaring the [ __ ] out of me. Well, it's good enough if you guys are going to request to check the welfare. >> I don't need a warrant. Just go in. Okay. >> Know if she has any weapons or anything? >> No idea. >> Police department. Athena doesn't smoke it. Athena, police department. Yep. 7:44. >> At first glance, it looked like a tragic overdose, but then officers discovered something really sinister about the body. >> All right, just don't touch anything, but looks like a lot of pills. Oh, wait. No, there's a lot of blood. >> Yeah. >> Can't really tell if slice marks. Yeah, we're not going to touch anything. Looking at that, it's uh I can't tell if she sliced herself or something came up. Uh until we get somebody to move her, I I can't tell how she went. >> Copy. >> I would say ransack, but I don't know what she's ransacking about cuz her even her purse isn't ransacked. So, if they're going for valuables, she's located upstairs. There's a lot of pills around her, >> but she's doubled over and I can't tell if it's slice marks, but there's a lot of congal blood. She's like in a prone position or a curled fetal position upstairs. The cuts on her wrists were unusually clean, almost surgical, and the house was untouched. No signs of forced entry, struggle, or theft. If this had been a robbery or suicide, it wasn't following any familiar pattern. Everything pointed toward a disturbing possibility. Someone had murdered Athena and tried to make it look like she took her own life. Detectives knew they had to dig deeper and find possible witnesses. So they turned to neighbors and co-workers. >> So it was confirmed that she was at work yesterday from 06 to400. >> 1400 yesterday afternoon. >> Yeah. >> Was she supposed to be at work today? >> Yeah. That's how we ended up. >> Okay. What time is she supposed to be at work today? Um, I got what was told to me was at 0730 that she was no contact and a no-show. >> So, sometime between um,400 and 0730, something happened. >> Athena had left work around 2 p.m. the day before, but never showed up the next morning. Her phone went silent. One neighbor mentioned hearing voices from Athena's home that evening. She wasn't alone. >> Hello, Sergeant Grove Beach PD. >> Mhm. >> I'm trying to get a little more information on your neighbor here at the first department. When's the last time you seen her and talked to her? >> It was probably two days ago. And I think I heard her either last night or the night before. >> You heard her? >> Yeah, she was talking to someone in Hungary and I think it was her son. >> Oh. On on a phone or something like that? >> No, in person. >> Okay. >> Did you catch that? According to the neighbor, Athena's son, Levente, had been at the house the last night Athena was seen alive. What began as a potential suicide now looked more like a murder. Just 5 days after the discovery, officers knocked on Levente's door to deliver the news. His reaction was strange. >> Hi. >> Hello. Are you Lazar or Mr. Lazar? >> Yeah, Lventi Lazar. >> Okay. Is Miss Valentini your mother? >> Yes. >> Can I step in and speak to you, please? >> Uh, my girlfriend lives here, but >> Sure. >> Is it you live here with her though? >> Yeah, she's here and a dog. >> Okay. Would you mind if I come in? >> Oh, yeah, sure. >> Okay. Thank you. Hi, puppy. He's on. >> Hello. How are you? >> Hello. Good. How are you >> doing? Pretty well. Um, I was contacted this afternoon. >> Okay. >> By the St. Louis Bispo County Sheriff's Department or District Attorney's Office. I don't remember which one. >> Okay. >> Um, your mother's passed away. >> Very, very sorry for that. Obviously, >> what happened? >> I don't know. They they didn't really give me any details. Um, they just asked that we come and make a notification to you. >> Okay. >> And then have you get in touch with them? >> Uh, do do you have a phone number? >> I do. I have a phone number for you. have it written down already. >> It's Casey Neil and that's his telephone number. >> And you don't have any other details? >> No. No. He will be able to he'll be able to to give you any kind of details or whatever. And that's general practice. They don't really tell us a whole lot when it's especially what's out of state. They just ask us to come and and make notification. >> Okay. >> Very sorry for your loss. >> Thank you so much for the uh the house call, though. >> Obviously, that's a very >> Yeah. >> Hard thing to have to deal with. So, >> Levente didn't show shock or grief. No tears, no questions. It was as if he already knew. >> When was the last time you spoke with your mom? >> Uh on Monday. And I've been calling her and uh it goes straight to voicemail. And then the voicemail says it's full. >> Okay. >> But she's been having a tough time with with her phone. I thought maybe it was a phone issue. >> Okay. Sorry to have to bring bad news to you. >> Thank you so much though. I really appreciate it. >> Sorry about that. >> Have a wonderful day. >> You too. >> Only minutes after the officers left, Levente called Detective Neil. He was calm. too calm and said he hadn't seen Athena in a while. He claimed to be in Bloomington, Indiana at the time of her death, over a thousand miles away. However, that story quickly unraveled when detectives tracked Levent's phone and saw it had been active at Athena's house the very night she was believed to have been killed. With that, Detective Neil contacted Levente for a voluntary interview at the Bloomington Police Department. Levente didn't resist. He walked right in. >> So, I I wanted to first again extend my condolences. >> Thank you. I know this is a very difficult >> yes >> thing to deal with and you know I just wanted to let you know that um we all um uh wanted to extend our condolences and work very hard in this case. >> Thank you. >> It's very difficult losing a parent. I've I've lost one as well and uh so >> thank you. >> I actually lost two parents now because my father passed away from a heart attack. >> Levente appeared relaxed, even cheerful. No signs of grief. real quick. So, in order to to share this stuff with you and talk to you about it, I had given you an advisement because we're in a police department. So, um you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can be used against you in court. Do you understand that? >> Yes, I do. >> Okay. And you have the right presence of attorney before and during any question if you wish. You can't afford one. One can be appointed for you free of charge. >> Okay. Understand? >> Sorry, that's just a formal advice. >> I understand. >> Um and you said you last went to California to see your mom in January. >> No, this year. I think January 6th. That's what Hannah said. 2018. So, that was the last time I saw her in person. And I just want to make it clear, you're welcome to access my phone or to come to my house or anything like that. I don't you don't need a warrant. I can invite you in. >> I didn't make that clear on the phone or if I did, I I forgot. But I I just want to kind of help in any way I can. >> I appreciate that. And that's that's what I'm looking for is a little bit of help here. >> To a trained investigator, his eagerness to cooperate raised red flags. He offered up his devices and passwords freely. Too freely. It felt rehearsed. Detective Neil then began pressing harder. He already knew where Levente had been thanks to cell tower data. He used that knowledge to confront Levente with his lies. >> To give you a little more information, your mom um I uh believe she was attacked and killed on the 24th of October. >> What day is that? >> That was Thursday when So >> because I don't know the dates. Sorry. >> Sure. So, >> yeah. So, it was Wednesday. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, you talked to her on Monday, right? >> Yes. >> And then you went to Indianapolis on Tuesday. It was the 23rd. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, then Wednesday is when I believe she was killed. >> Okay. And she texted me um and >> she texted you on >> on Thursday on the 25th. >> Yes. >> At 900 p.m. Okay. And then you you've been in Bloomington since then? >> Yeah. or just like a nearby area. So when Monday the day I spoke to her, >> I've been in like 100 mile range >> of your house. >> Yeah. Of Bloomington. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Well, that I mean that's kind of what I need a little bit of help with is because and you've had your phone with you that whole time. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I was able to get records for all the your re recent people that have called your mom. >> Okay. >> Um and so your number was one of them on the 22nd. Yeah. >> So they came back with those records when I asked from uh AT&T. >> Okay. >> And so they showed your phone going to Springfield, Missouri um on the 23rd, I believe. >> 22nd 23rd. >> Can you help me explain that? >> Not Missouri. I went to um Ver uh Mount uh Vernon in uh Missouri, but that was I'm sorry, in Illinois. >> I thought that was Illinois. Yeah. >> Yeah. But that's as far as I went. I didn't go to Missouri that that day. >> Now I >> It's just strange. I mean, so basically when our phones travel, they talk to cell phone towers. >> Correct. >> Right. So you're a smart guy. You probably know better than me. Every time they connect to a tower, >> it it shows the towers location. Your phone has to be within close proximity of those towers. >> Right. >> So um the fact that your phone shows going, you know, from your house basically to the spring area. >> I understand. I understand. >> On the 22nd, 23rd. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> I was not in Missouri um this month. Last month, June was the last month I was in Missouri. >> Huh. I looked at your phone records. What I did was I looked at um the other callers that called your mom. Okay. And I found another Cincinnati, Ohio number. >> Mhm. >> That looks like it was traveling with your phone to your mom's house. And >> I don't have another phone either. >> Yeah. Well, so when I looked at that and I put two records together. >> Oh, I understand. >> I have a map from your house to your mom's house. >> Oh, to my mom's house. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> With those two phones, it maps directly from your house on the 22nd. >> Mhm. >> To your mom's house on the 24th. >> Using a tactic called presumptive questioning, Neil spoke to Levente as if his guilt was already proven. It boxed Lventa in, shifting the conversation from did you do this to why did you do this? >> There's other systems that we can check that they have what's called a license plate reader. >> Okay. >> Okay. And when a license plate gets scanned on that as you're driving down the road >> Mhm. >> it takes a picture of your car. >> Mhm. >> Okay. And the picture it took in Texas and in Arizona >> Mhm. >> and California is a picture of your car. I was not careful this year. >> All right. Except in January. >> Okay. Listen to me. >> I listen. >> Okay. >> All those records clearly show it was your Jeep. >> Mhm. >> Okay. There's video surveillance cameras on your mom's apartment. >> Mhm. >> Did you know that? >> I did not. >> The video surveillance cameras show you going into your mom's apartment when she was murdered. Okay. So, what I'm here to do today to talk to you is about I already know that you're the one that went there. Okay? I need you to help me understand why you did this to your mom. >> I didn't do anything to my mom. >> Levente, it's clear to me. There's clear as day. Unfortunately, we went and bought that phone at Best Buy. You're on video there, buying that phone, the Cricut wireless phone that you used during this trip. I have you on video there. I have your video on your mom's house. I have a video afterwards with Athena leaving. Okay. >> You have to We're past that part. Okay. I know it's tough. This is something hard to talk about, but >> No, there's nothing hard to talk about. It It's the fact that I >> Explain to me why why you killed your mom. >> I think >> Did something happen there? You know what I've looked into? Listen to me for a minute. You know what I've looked into? It sounds to me like your mom was kind of a taskmaster and she, you know, I know she was upset a little bit about, you know, your choices for school and that she would kind of push on you a little bit and I and I >> No, but she didn't even want me to go into academia. She wanted me to be a nurse in our end. >> Well, listen, I can understand growing up how you you had a tough childhood, >> okay? And I know you know you guys moved here. You lost your father. She has many different men. >> Since I was 18, since 2010, I have been independent. I have never relied on her financially, emotionally. I mean, we've shared bonds, but that was it. Like, she she never controlled when I went to um Davis when I switched majors. She wanted me to be a doctor. I wanted to be a historian at the time. >> Mhm. >> I >> Well, there had to be something to where No, she listen to me. It It's clearly my tape. Let me Let me show you a couple things here. Okay. Just so you know, so we can get past that part cuz it's it's more about why. Okay. >> It's not about wanting. >> Okay. Okay. >> Oh, I understand what you were saying. >> This is your house right here where this is this is your mom's house. >> Yes. >> Okay. You understand that pictures caught you along the route. That's your Jeep, correct? >> Yes. Okay. >> So, what you're telling me about being in Indiana and never leaving and not seeing your mom in January of this year? >> No, I saw her. >> Clearly, well, you were at her house on the 24th of October. >> I was not in her house of October of this year. I was not. >> Lamente, do you see what I'm showing you? You want to see more? Sure. Pictures of your Jeep was taken all along your route with you in it. Knowing that Detective Neil was closing in on him, Levente tried to save himself by using the argument of motive. Why would he do this towards his mom? >> I'm trying to understand is >> did something happen when you were there that caused a struggle with your mom? Were you just mad at her? Was are you trying Do you need money? >> No, I don't I don't need money. >> So, what happened? >> Tell me what happened. That's the only way we're going to understand this a little bit better cuz you seem like a very intelligent, smart, and a nice person. And something had to have happened that day. >> We all make mistakes. >> No, I I mean I understand everybody makes mistakes, but No, I >> First of all, first of all, you know, as you as you pointed out, I I had a rough childhood, but you know what? I've always had my mom. >> Always had my mom. >> She was the number one person with the exception of the dog that I could go to. >> Mhm. >> There's no reason for me to hurt her. I never hurt her. I never did. I If anything, I went out of my way to help her all the time. There's no >> Can you explain this? >> I cannot. I absolutely cannot. But I did not do anything to her. >> Detective Neil then tried to pressure Leventi by claiming there were surveillance cameras that had captured his every move, even though this was an exaggeration of the truth. >> Do Do you understand that there was video surveillance all over that complex? >> Okay, there was. I watch you go in and out of the house. I watch you. Your mom actually had a video surveillance her house cuz she was worried about the transients. >> Okay. >> Okay. I watched you do it. >> Okay. >> What do you mean you watch me do it? I didn't do anything. Casey, >> help me explain why. >> Why? Why? What? >> What happened that day? What happened in your life around that time that where you decided >> nothing I have to do this? >> Nothing. >> Was it a spur of the moment? So your mom You called her that day several times and she actually told her friends about it and left voicemails about talking to you. >> Yeah. >> On the 24th. >> Yeah, I spoke to her. >> Oh, did you catch that? Detective Neil just caught Levente in an obvious lie. >> Yeah, I spoke to her. >> You told me earlier that you didn't. You said on the 27th you didn't buy a phone at Best Buy. I'm >> saying I didn't hurt my mom. You're saying >> I didn't buy a a phone cell phone >> at Best Buy. >> At Best Buy. You did not >> I didn't I didn't go to California this year except in January to see and I flew there. I didn't even drive. Um >> do you realize these text messages you show me from your mom or after she was dead? >> They were sent after she was dead. >> You sent those texts? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> From my phone, >> right? >> You you sent those texts from your mom's phone to you cuz she was already dead. She couldn't >> What? No. Look, look, look, look. Hold on. I'm sorry. No, I didn't send those text messages. >> Okay. >> I don't know. Look, I finished the test. First of all, why don't you Is there a way to see? You're accusing me of hurting my own mom. >> Well, do you understand why? >> Because of a map of a phone and another phone traveling >> videos of you at her house, >> walking into the house, walking out with a dog. Okay, I know this. Where's Athena? >> I don't have Athena. >> Where is she? >> I don't know because I >> Did you leave her there? >> Is she still alive? >> I don't have the dog. I don't know if she's alive. I haven't seen the dog or my mom since January. I didn't. >> Levente tried to deflect, claiming he had no reason to harm his mother. But detectives had also found a printed copy of Athena's will among his belongings. >> No, I don't have that. I I don't have that because it's this. No, it's not this. I don't have that. I just have the property titles. >> That's at your house. >> I only have the property titles. You're saying >> I don't have any will or testament. I don't have that. >> That's at your house. >> I don't have that. I don't have that. I don't have that. I'm telling you right now, I don't have it. >> They told me they just found this in your >> I I don't have that. I really do not have that. I only have property titles. >> Are you ever going to show me that picture or that video of me walking into my mom's house? >> Is that what it would take for you to tell me the truth? >> I'm curious because >> would you tell me the truth if I showed you that? >> Well, you've you've mentioned >> Would you tell me the truth? >> You've mentioned a lot of evidence, but you've never showed me anything except the Google uh like >> would you tell me the truth if I showed it to you? I mean, is that what it takes? >> Is this is this a psychiatry thing going back and forth with questions? I'm asking you, are you ever going to show it? It's either yes or no. It's not a a question back. That's what I'm asking. >> What if I showed it to you? >> The same thing. You just showed >> What would you say? >> Well, I got to see it. I don't know. I have to >> Why would you have to see it? >> You know, >> because No, I don't because you're you're telling me this. You're telling me you have so much evidence of this and that, but you haven't shown me anything except the uh you know the map, the map and the cell phone. >> Levent's story was falling apart. And coming up, as Detective Neil pressed for a confession, he revealed the search history investigators had discovered on his iPad. >> What am I going to see on your internet browsing history? weird like weird questions or weird weird things that Hannah and I talk about medically about animals >> like what >> like um like she's she's a she's a medical student you know we talk about a lot of weird things like some of the patients it okay I know what you're going for nothing related >> go through yeah >> you know your trip >> back from >> Yeah. >> California. >> Look, let let's just Okay, I I understand you have you have evidence. You have the videos. You have the videos. >> Let's just let the jury decide, okay? Let's just do that because because here's the thing, Casey, here's the thing. Let me let me tell you what's what's what's going to happen here because I already know what it will. You're asking me questions about my PC, about my >> May I just one just one minute. Just you're asking questions about my PC, about my phone, about my shoes. Um, you're going to go to my house. That's fine. Whatever. I told you where the marijuana is. You're going to talk to Hannah. That sort of thing. And you know what? >> She's in med school. She doesn't have to deal with this. So even even if you at the very end, you find out that I did not do this, right? The whole like my relationship is done with her. It's you. It's already been established at this point because you have to do your job. And I'm not blaming you. Okay, here's the coat. Give me a pair of pants. I'll give you these. And then whatever happens happens. Okay, but in the end, I already know what I already know that I didn't do anything to my mom and that'll be established eventually. If it's not, I don't know what to say. But I didn't do anything. Okay? And I don't want to waste my time and your time here. >> Yeah. Listen to me for a minute. >> This whole thing, it's not only just that my mom died, but now my whole life is going to be just just just by by the news, by you guys saying that you leaked that didn't leak that story. Give me a break. Okay? And now you're going to go to my stuff and my girlfriend's belongings and stuff. Jesus Christ. It's going to ruin her. Okay? All because And you're going to find out. You're you're going to find out. Okay? But in the end, it doesn't affect you. I can move on. It's not a big deal. There's a million fish out there, but man, >> well, listen, Lvente, >> sure. >> There's two things, Lamente, that I know, okay? >> One, it's it's not about who did it, okay? I know you did it, but here's what here's what like the juryy's going to see or Hannah's going to see more importantly is you either one, you're a cold-blooded killer who has no remorse and killed your mom, planet, did it or two, something would happen there when you went to see your mom that I don't know about that you cannot fill in and that's the only thing that the jury or Hannah needs to know about you. >> No, because you understand that I do. >> So, I do. >> Are you a cold blooded killer? Or or did something else happen in the house? >> I never I never >> What else happened in the house then? >> I never saw. >> No, that's that's We're past that. Levente. >> All right, we are. >> How are we past that? >> We're way past that. >> Prove it to me. >> I'm telling you. I've already proved it. Okay. That you did this. >> Only you haven't. >> Okay. To me, Lorente, you need to be able to explain this cuz no one else is going to understand. and you're the only one who could give us that part. >> Okay, see I I told you I I there's no reason for me to Okay. >> Investigators extracted data from Levent's iPad and found disturbing Google searches. Levente Lazar suspect Grover Beach and Murder Grover Beach on 9inth Street. All made an hour before Athena's body was discovered. It was impossible to explain away. the phone data, surveillance footage, the will, and now the search history, all pointed in one direction. Levente was arrested and charged with murder. At trial, the coroner testified that Athena had been stabbed from behind while in bed, then collapsed on the floor. One year later, a jury found Levente Lazar guilty of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Moving on to the chilling case of Keith Johansson, a 36-year-old man married to 25-year-old Brandy Johansson. Keith had just stepped out of the shower when he found his newlywed wife lying lifeless on the bedroom floor. According to him, she must have accidentally shot herself. >> Do you think she did this to harm herself or you think this was accidental? Any idea? >> No. >> No, I think it's accidental. >> Then I heard this secondary and I ran out there and seen her laying there going. So I called you guys immediately. She had her little scream and then I heard two guns. >> I feel really offended that you guys can try to pin an accident on me. >> On April 7th, 2018, Keith Johansson placed a frantic 911 call claiming that his wife had herself while he was taking a shower. >> She brea she talking to you breathing anything? >> Yes, she's breathing. >> All right. She able to say anything to you, >> baby. Hey, baby. No. Do you think you'll hear it? >> Okay. >> I can hear her breathe, though. >> Can you apply? Are you applying pressure to that wound? >> No, I can't like that. I'm wet in my sliding on my floors. >> You can't apply pressure. >> I can't see it. Listen, I got wood floors and I'm sliding. I don't want to risk hurting her or possibly one of the guns going off, too. >> Hurry. >> We are We're on our way. They're getting there as fast as they can. All right. The first officers at the scene found Keith's wife lifeless in the bedroom just feet away from where her son sat watching TV in another room. Brandy had been twice in the chest with a 9 mm handgun, a detail that raised immediate suspicions. How would she be able to hit herself twice in the chest? >> Cool, man. Relax. Relax. So, you got in the shower. How long were you in the shower? What' you say? >> Maybe 5 minutes. >> 5 minutes. All right. And I heard boom boom and I thought it was a >> How many shots did you hear? >> Two. >> You heard two? >> And I thought it was a balloon at first. >> Then I heard this secondary shot and I ran out there and seen her laying there going. So I called you guys immediately. >> Keith's accounts were inconsistent and the officer noticed that he was not wet at all despite his claim of just getting out of the shower. At first, he claimed that this must have been accidental, and then he claimed she had been suicidal. Over time, his story grew even more bizarre. >> I was going to tell her mom. >> All right. Hey, listen. You >> at this point at this point, just listen. You're going through a traumatic experience right now. Just relax. Deep breaths. Try to try to just collect your thoughts. Right? Listen, this is not something that you're going to be able to do like that. Okay? >> Right? So, just I don't want nobody in my family to ever have a gun again. >> Okay, just Okay, you're just right now. You need to try hard. There's >> nothing nobody can say to me. I >> I know. But >> Keith's deep emotions seem to convince the friends and family around, but the officers and detectives seem to think otherwise. Deputies on the scene discussed the lack of water on his body and defensive scratches on his torso that would likely be consistent with a struggle. A lot of scratches on. >> Yeah. He's not wet. >> No, >> he was in the shower. >> Yeah. >> Um, the only thing that that thing is the shower is underneath his shirt. >> Under her shirt? >> Under his shirt? >> Where? >> It's like right at the foot of the bed. >> Dude, he's got scratches and blood all over him. And he said that he was in the shower. He's not wet at all. >> As the deputies dug deeper, the narrative began to unravel. The Johansson's home was equipped with surveillance cameras, capturing almost every angle both inside and outside the house. The night before Brandy passed away, Keith and Brandy had a verbal dispute. Footage shows her sobbing on the bed while he verbally assaults her. >> It's only a matter of time so much threatened to spend the rest of your days as an institution. I can throw you there tomorrow. You did? No problem. Can you push a person to either beat or you because you're on 911 get me out of here or you waking up. I want to just hurt you and leave. God knows you deserve just too many chances, man. to show a cop these videos. >> In a calculated move, he removed the cameras before the incident. >> What usually happens? >> I don't even know. These aren't usual occurrences, so I'm sure they don't want to be standing out in the rain and the sun. Looks like it's about to downpour. >> No, I mean like house is not helping. Oh, I I'm sure they have a whole list of they get paid a lot more than I get paid to know how to handle these situations because I don't know if I'm going to be all right. >> Keith was brought into an interrogation room where detectives were waiting for him. If it hadn't been for the surveillance footage, the jury would have most likely believed his claim that it was truly an accident. However, the motive was clear. >> And about 3 minutes later, I had a pop, you know, I was like, "What the heck?" You know what I mean? So I just thought then I heard a pop and it was just you know that's how it went pop and I was like ah something's wrong. Went out slipped across at the floor was looking around. I didn't see her at first and then I was like what the heck man and I looked over and she was laying right there like this >> and I was like Brandy and at that point there was no blood or nothing. I was like, "Brandon, Brandy." Then I looked out and seen the guns and I immediately called 911. I mean, immediately. >> Here's the first major inconsistency in Keith's story. He claimed he couldn't rescue Brandy because he was wet and slipping on the floor. But surveillance footage from inside the home tells a different story. Instead of staying by Bry's side, Keith was seen running around the house, hiding illegal contraband, all while pretending to be with her. In reality, he was letting her pass away on the floor. The only person in the house at the time of the incident was Bry's six-year-old son, Keith's stepson. Speaking with him became a crucial part of the investigation. >> She She had her little scream and then I heard two gunshots. >> More evidence began to unfold, but Keith kept rejecting his involvement when he was questioned in the interrogation room. >> Can you tell me in as much detail as you can >> in your mind what you think really happened? In my mind, what I think happened from where she was and the way she was is maybe she was trying to make a bed and she grabbed him and when she grabbed them, one went off and she dropped the other or wore them both. I have no idea. But it was just you don't think you're going to get out of the damn shower and see this. No. Um, immediately when I stain her down, I know that she had accidentally let off a round. Um, and that's what I think happened. Um, of course I have I I don't know cuz I wasn't there for sure. Um, but that's what I would think would happen. Why she'd be moving them makes sense. M >> um why she did move in, I have no idea. Only she knows that. And uh that's the only thing that I can think of. >> How familiar with guns is she? >> She's newer. >> Okay. >> Newer to it. >> Law enforcement had a lot of evidence against him, and the autopsy report only backed up their suspicions. In the blood spatter analysis that was conducted, it became clear that two bullets had been fired. one from a short distance and one from a distance. In other words, Brandy couldn't be the one who fired these bullets. And his story about this being an accident was falling apart. >> How often does it happen that somebody accidentally shoots themsel twice? >> I don't know if she was shot once or twice. I don't know. >> Well, you said it went off twice. >> Yes. Yes. Um I don't know. I don't know. Um, she dropped the other one. You know, it happens. >> Sure. >> Um, I have never I have never heard of it being like that unless you drop it, >> right? Heard of it being like what? I'm sorry. >> Like AMS fire. >> We need to have a little bit of a harder conversation. >> Good. Because as much as I want to believe that the guns fell and went off and shot her, what we have at the scene just doesn't show that. So, I want to keep our relationship open and honest, and I want to be able to respect you, and I want to be able to preserve the love that you have for Brandy, and I also want to give Brandy the justice that she deserves. And I think we need to have a harder conversation. >> Go for it. >> Is there any chance at all >> that something different happened that you have not told us? >> None. Because that's what happened. I got a I got no reason to lie to you guys. I mean, you guys are investigators for God's sake. Um, that's what I seen and that's what I heard. Well, I mean, you said you have no reason to lie. I mean, I'm not saying that you're flat out lying to us. That's not what I'm saying at all. >> Okay. >> What I am saying is that what we have at the scene, >> okay? >> Does not add up to what you're telling us. >> I want I want to believe you. I do. And I want to keep this relationship going that we have so that it's not difficult for you. I don't want to add to the trauma that you've already gone through. I really don't. >> It's not going to be difficult. >> Well, yes, but you can make it easier for yourself. We cannot. >> Sure. Sure. >> If after we leave out of this room today, I'm able to say that I feel comfortable with everything that we've talked about, >> you'll never have to see me again. Okay? >> And at this point, I don't feel comfortable with that. >> That's fine. You can investigate as much as you want. and we're going to >> fine. >> But this is your opportunity to help yourself and to lay it all out for us because there's a backstory. This isn't the story. >> This is the story and I'll get a lawyer and I will prove that this is the real story. >> Okay? And you are completely entitled to that. >> Um, ask Ryland. I mean, that's all that happened. >> We did ask him. Okay. >> And you know what he told us? >> Do you want to know? >> Yeah, because I wasn't up. >> He told us that he heard his mom scream. >> I heard no screams at all. >> None. >> Why would he make that up? >> Ask him. >> Is he a liar? He has been known to tell verbs. Yes. >> Does he tell you on the regular that his mom screams in the bedroom? >> No. >> Has he ever told you that his mom screams and it was a lie? >> No. Not not screaming, but he lies about a bunch of other different things. You can ask his real father and he'll tell you that, too. >> So, why on this date would he lie about his mom screaming in the bedroom? Notice how Keith's body language and tone shift when the detective starts pressing him harder. This is a classic interrogation tactic known as good cop bad cop. Used to see if a suspect will crack under pressure. >> You guys can try to pin whatever you want on me. Shoot and scream. >> Listen, dude. Nobody's trying to pin anything on you. >> I'm just telling you what I heard, man. That's it. What I heard, what I seen. I mean, if you're trying to pin something on me, why would I have called 911? You have a conscience. That's why. You love your wife. That's why. >> So why would >> happens in the heat of the moment. You're not a bad person. You're not a monster. >> No. Um I would never do anything like that. Um >> accidents happen. >> I feel kind of offended. >> I feel offended too if we're going to go to that level. I feel really offended that you guys can try to pin an accident on me. >> No, no, no, no, no. >> I thought that's what you were getting at. >> Not at all. If an accident happened, >> we are more than willing to listen to them. But what I'm telling you is what you're conveying as the accident that happened isn't the accident that happened. If something else happened that was accidental, Sure. We could lay that out and I would be happy to listen to it. I am not saying that you're I am not saying that you're a bad person, but what I am saying is with my training, my experience, and the crime scene, the accident that you're laying out isn't the one that happened. >> Well, that's what I seen when I came out. That's what I seen. >> No, it's hard. >> Very hard. >> I know it is. >> Okay. And uh I can't tell you something that I don't know. I'm not going to make up stuff. I just can't. Well, you can test me for gunpowder. Go ahead. I don't care. Do whatever test you need. I do not have nothing that I haven't told you. I haven't stepped out of my box and told you stuff. >> And that took a lot. In court, it only took the judge 3 hours to conclude that Keith had taken the life of his wife. He was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without parole. Moving on to the case where a routine welfare check completely caught the killer off guard and led to the horrifying discovery of a 75-year-old woman found deceased inside the home. >> Is she sleeping? >> Yes. >> Is Dorothy? >> Okay, step back. Step back. She's dead. What do you mean? She's She's going to stop. Stop resisting, >> sir. Right in the head. >> Stop right the head. >> On November 14th, 2022, 911 received a concerning call from a woman reporting that 75-year-old Dorothy Douglas was in her home with an aggressive roommate who had possible mental health issues and that she might be in danger. The responding officer was greeted by the roommate, 31-year-old Israel Webb, whose strange behavior immediately put him on edge. Okay. After you got this, you got to make sure you got an animal or something. >> Yeah. Go ahead. >> As the officer entered the cluttered apartment, Israel grabbed a brake rotor and followed him inside. The average weight of a brake rotor is 10 to 15 lbs. And it could easily be used as a deadly weapon. >> What? This one? >> Yeah. >> What's up for? >> Oh no. Block the door. Slink open. Got you. You want to just do it for me? Rocky. He's laying on her bed. [Applause] [Music] Dorothy. >> Where's your bed at? >> Yeah. >> You got any lights here? >> Uh, yeah. >> You got lights on. >> Hey, you know where you go from? Yeah. Come on. >> What do you mean? She's right here. >> Oh. >> Cautious of Israel's suspicious behavior, the officer asked him to go into the room first. The officer was under the impression that Dorothy was inside the room, but he soon realized she was lying right next to where he had been standing. >> She's right here. >> Dorothy. >> Is she sleeping? >> Yes. Okay. How long has she been sleeping for? >> Uh like since six. >> What's the bag for? She >> wet the bed. She left the bed. Yeah. >> Why you got to cover it like that? >> Cuz you're in here with the window and stuff. >> You pull the cover back from Why is she curving up like that? Her face. All right. Just step back. Miss Dorothy. Miss Dorothy. >> Why don't you got flowers and stuff around her like that? >> Okay. Step back. Step back. >> She's dead. >> What do you mean she's dead? >> She's dead. I was going to call her relatives in the morning. >> Okay. Put your hands up. >> Put your hands up. >> All right. >> Put Turn around. Put your hands behind your back. >> After pulling back the covers, the officer found Dorothy deceased with fake flowers placed on her body. The officer proceeded to detain Israel, who had already committed a crime by failing to report a death. But it turned out Israel had a very specific reason for not wanting to interact with law enforcement. He had three outstanding warrants for disorderly conduct. Sir, >> don't head right back. You're looking at me. Don't do that. Why you look? >> No, you're not going to get shot. But you looking at me like that is kind of making me nervous. >> 2 3 4. >> Don't do that. I'm telling you. Stop looking at me. You're going to get tased. You hear me? >> I'm just letting you know. Don't do that. All right. I got a taser right now. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> All right. Please shoot me in the face. >> No. No. >> Please shoot me in the face. Her relatives. Call her relatives. Call her relatives, please. >> Make that squad 107, please. >> 72, but you also responded 238 North 1072. No, >> don't move. >> Don't move. Just don't move. Put your hands up >> cuz you're doing too much moving and you're making me >> No. >> The officer called for backup as Israel made a disturbing plea to be shot in the face. The officer commanded Israel to lie down, but that was when the situation suddenly escalated. On the ground. >> On the ground. On the ground. On your stomach. >> No. On your stomach. >> Please shoot me, >> sir. On your stomach. >> Okay. You're doing too much. >> Okay. Okay. Don't take it. >> No. You're going to get to this. >> Okay. I'm down. >> Put your hands behind your back now. Hands behind your back. Behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your hands behind your back. Put your other hand behind your back. Again, >> your other hand behind your back. >> 48 lower. >> Stop resisting. >> I'm not resisting. >> Put your hand behind your back. Your other hand. >> Yep. Put it behind your back. Don't move. This is going to stop. Stop resisting. [ __ ] Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop. >> Stop. >> Stop. Stop. >> Give me another, >> sir. >> Right in the head. >> Stop. >> Right in the head. >> You will be right. Stop. >> Right in the head, please. Right in the head. >> Stop. >> When the officer attempted to cuff him, Israel grabbed a two-ft long metal pipe and began attacking. In the struggle, the officer's body cam fell off as they fought over the possession of the officer's gun. Israel continued to beg to be >> Drop the P. >> Right in the head. >> Drop the pole. >> Right in the head. Please >> drop the pole. >> Right in the head. >> Right in the head. Do it. >> Drop the pole. >> Right in the head. >> Drop. >> Do it in the right. Please. Right in the head. Right in the head. >> Drop the pole. >> Right in the head. Come on. Come on. Have to shoot. >> Right in the head. Right in the head. Come on. Do it. Please. >> Come on. You don't know what I see. Do it, >> sir. >> Do it. >> Drop the ball. >> Do it. You knew what I see. Do it, >> sir. >> Right in the face, man. >> Right in the face. Come on. Come on. >> Drop the P. >> Come on. Right in the face, man. Please. >> Right in the face. >> On your on the ground now. >> Right in the face. Come on. >> On the ground. >> Make it quick. >> On the ground. >> Please. Make it quick. >> Okay. Don't take it. >> Drop it. Drop it now. >> Right in the face. >> Drop it. Right in the face. >> The officer deployed his taser, but Israel kept doing whatever he could to provoke deadly force. >> Drop it >> right in the face. >> Drop it >> right in the face. Come on. >> Drop it. >> You got to do it, man. Right in the face. >> Drop >> right in the face. >> The weight now. >> Right in the face. >> Drop the weight. >> Right in the face. >> Drop the weight. >> Right in the face. >> Drop the weight. Subject is at gun. Squad. Right in the face. Mama. >> At this point, backup arrived at the scene. This one. >> Give me your hand. >> Check it. I got to go. >> Someone get medical now. Call for medical. >> As Israel raised the metal pipe and repeatedly reached for the first officer's gun, he was shot three times in the chest and arm. After receiving treatment for his injuries, Israel was charged with felony battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, two counts of bail jumping, and first-degree murder. Moving on to the case where muffled screams led officers to one of their most disturbing discoveries yet. And despite the scene, the suspect insisted he never meant to take the victim's life. loud music playing. You can't hear the screams. >> In the black box. >> Oh my god, dude. >> Long story short, I wanted to see what >> on May 2nd, 2023, officers were dispatched to a residence in Ohio after receiving a tip about a missing woman who was allegedly locked up in a man's basement. Here's the footage of how the incident unfolded as the officers made contact with the man. Bro, you dog y'all can't be here like this. >> Oh, >> you can't be here like this, bro. >> I'm just knocking on your door. >> I understand that, but you making you making me hot. >> What? >> You're making me hot. >> What does that mean? >> I'm about to come out. >> All right, come on out. >> Apparently, this all started in Brunswick. >> Give me a few minutes to take a look. >> How you doing, sir? >> I can't be out here like this. >> My name's Officer Robas. That's officer. Oed, just so you know, everything's recorded. >> Listen. >> Yes. >> Turn those cameras off, please. >> Well, what's what's going on? >> Can you please turn the cameras off? >> You have to give me a reason, and I can't. >> You guys are making my my spot hot. I work for you guys. Okay, long story short, I work for you guys. Please get out of here. You guys are blowing the spot up. >> Who do you work for? >> I can't tell you that. Why? I cannot tell you that because I'm not allowed to tell you that. >> When officers made contact with the suspect, 31-year-old Dante Edmund Guyger, he asked them to turn off their body cams, claiming he was some sort of undercover FBI agent. Of course, they didn't comply. And as the scene unfolded, the disturbing reason why he didn't want anything caught on camera began to surface. >> Okay, so just understand that. >> Well, here, go home. >> We have a call here, sir. Let me just tell you why we're here and then we'll leave. It could be nothing. I don't know. I don't know anything about you. >> All right. I'm just saying y'all can't be here. Y'all making my spot high. All right. >> Well, that doesn't make any that doesn't make any sense. >> Don't I I don't It don't need to make sense to y'all. You So, what I need y'all to do >> Hey, sorry. Can you come over to this address for a minute? >> No, don't don't do that, bro. >> The man was suspected of having a woman tied up in his basement. And this was likely the reason why he didn't want the officers to enter the home. >> Okay, long story short, I need y'all to leave. Make a phone call. >> Well, we're not going to leave that quickly until the There's nothing. We were told that the lady's tied up in the basement. >> There ain't nobody tied up in the basement. >> Can we look? >> No. No. But why? >> Why not? >> Because I say so. Um, >> there's someone tied up down there. >> No. >> What's your name, buddy? >> I can't tell you that, bro. >> What do you mean you can't tell me that? >> This your truck? >> My dump truck? That's my company truck. >> That's right. It's in my It's Yeah, there's nothing going on with your name. >> No. >> Then why why don't you want to tell us who you are? Dude, I'm trying to tell you I am an confidential informant. That's all I have to say. You guys are bing right now. You guys are >> No, that's not all you have to say. >> That's >> Who told you that? >> I I can't say nothing else. >> Well, if there's something happen in the basement, we got >> There's nobody in the basement. I just did what I >> So, why can't I look? >> Why do you Why do you >> All that stuff that went on in the past with those three girls, man, we got to take this seriously. >> What three girls? >> The Gina, the Jesus, >> and I don't know the mother stuff. You know what I'm saying? No. If we don't take this seriously, >> I'm about to give him my social security number. >> Oh, yeah. Please don't. >> We're not going in without >> Yeah, he can't do that. Tell him please not to do that. >> Do what? >> Not going in there. >> All right. That's fine. Sergeant, please tell him not. He's not going. >> Okay. I'm going to give you my social security number. >> I want you to run it. >> Okay. >> Don't come up clean. What's going on is you guys had a crackhead make a foster claim. >> All right. >> Okay. Okay. Well, that's an answer. >> That's it. >> Well, then we still have to follow up on it. >> There's nothing going on, sir. >> All right. But do you understand our point? >> I understand your point. You're actually >> If we just walk away and somebody actually is there, what are we going to do? >> Well, that's what you guys are going to have to do because I'm not letting you inside. >> You see where Do you see where the problem lies? >> No, there is no problem. >> We don't just write he said it's cool and we leave. >> Well, that's that's how it goes. Because if I >> No, that's not. >> So, how what do you mean? Listen. >> So they're not going to let this go. >> Well, listen. >> So either today, tomorrow, the next day, in the next 5 minutes, you're going to conspiracy have these problems. And if we have to call Detective Smith and say, "Hey, do you think this guy would have a girl kite up in his basement?" >> He's going to say no. >> Is he? >> 100%. Bro, I just >> He's willing to risk his career for all that. >> You think I'm [ __ ] Oh my gosh. You're going to take a a crackhead his word over uh Detective Detective Smith's word, right? >> I haven't spoken to Detective Smith. >> Well, you going to talk to him, man. He going to let you know what's going on. I I was down there for an hour with him yesterday. Okay. I just left my probation officer. >> Why would somebody Why would somebody say >> crackheads? >> But why would a crackhead say that about you? >> They're crackheads. But probably cuz they want more crack, bro. >> Do you have crack? >> No, I'm not going to Why would I say that? Why would you ask me that on camera? >> I don't know. >> You do that to me. I know I don't have no crack. >> It's my job. Well, why would the crackhead be here then? >> The officers noticed major inconsistencies in the story of why they weren't allowed to enter the basement. Despite this, the officers insisted on coming into the house to search for the woman. You can't hear the screams. >> I know that's There's a loud music. I had to knock for a minute on the back. So, you just can't control it, son. All right, let's go. >> Yes, you can, bro. I'll talk to you in your officers coming to the Texas. >> I do, too. I only want you I only need you in my house, bro. >> We'll be fine. Please, please, please. >> You understand the the safety issue of it, right? For a police officer, bro. >> You know what I mean? >> Trust me, he's fine. He's the only cat. >> Um, anybody got lighter? I smoke my nerves. >> I do. If you >> My nerves are really bad. >> Let's get out of the way. >> Just stay here. >> I want to get out of here, too. >> I talked to you. >> No, dude. There's too much going on. >> No. No. No. >> All right. Stand outside. Leave this crack though in case you scream. The basement turned out to be empty, but the officers weren't convinced that was the end of the story. >> No cost. >> Okay. >> Later that night, a different informant told the officers a haunting story about the suspect. his girlfriend. See, he has a girlfriend named who's a black girl and they tied her up, stabbed her, beat her, and killed her. He showed me pictures. He they made he made her write a thousand times, "I am a rat. I am a snitch. I am a rat. I am a snitch." Then where he murdered her at, he ripped up for the fireplaces, he ripped up all like the tile right there and told me I have to paint it and I have no choice. wants me to paint it tomorrow and he was telling me everything about my pierce. He said, "I'll do you, too." He's like, "It's be a little harder to he my friend Katie seen her in the basement, called the police, and they said it would he called the detective. Detective said, "Well, just let let them search your um basement." So, he moved her body from the basement to upstairs and let The cops come in here and search the basement. >> Apparently, the suspect had moved the body from the basement earlier that day after hearing that police were on their way. The woman's account of what had really been inside became a major breakthrough. Officers returned to the home, this time with a greater sense of urgency and a much clearer idea of what they were looking for. >> Hey, forward. >> Okay. Um, >> hey, did did you talk to Detective Smith? He tell you what's going on. >> Yes. Yes. All right. So, I appreciate this. Um, he's a li before this. >> Yeah. >> You know, what's up, bro? How y'all doing? Sign people. People >> I'm in the overtime now, man. Come through the door. Okay. >> Yeah, I can do that. >> Is that cool? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> You sure? >> Yeah. Thanks for all my bro. Sorry for my attitude. Okay. Give me 5 seconds. Meet me at the back car. Oh, no. All right. In these quote 5 seconds, the suspect was most likely trying to hide the body for the second time. After waiting for about a minute, the suspect came to the back door. >> Yo, Jake, do they know they do they know what I told you about, though? >> Listen, we're here to look to see for a body. That's it. Um, you give us consent to make sure there's no one laying down in here. >> This is my uncle. >> Yeah. Go outside. You >> going to let him out? >> Yeah. Yeah. You take off, man. >> You do you give us consent? >> I'm going walk I'm going walk you up through this. >> As the officers searched the house, they heard a harrowing sound coming through the walls. >> Where you at? >> Where you at, man? >> M35. You can send us two numbers. >> All right, we're looking. >> Hey, how do you get to her? >> In the black box. >> Yeah. >> Oh my god, dude. >> Radio silent. >> Oh my gosh. I'm very wise. >> All right. >> How old are you? >> 60. >> 60-year-old female. >> Step up. EMS. >> Are you injured besides that? >> I'm paralyzed. >> You're paralyzed. >> I'm paralyzed. >> What's your name? >> EMS is EMS is in route. Are you cold? >> I hurt. >> You hurt? All right. We want to get you out of there, but I'm afraid to move you. I'm going to let EMS do all that. Okay. It >> hurt so bad. What did he do to you? >> He did what? >> At least get her upight. >> She said she's here. They can >> Are they here? >> No. I mean, >> they've been dispatched. >> Huh? >> Did he stab you? >> Where are you, you think? In >> my arm. >> Your arm. All right. Did he sexually assault you at all? No. >> Okay. Do you know how long you've been here? No. >> Did is it just one day? >> The victim was transported to the hospital. As for Delante, he was taken into custody and brought to the station where detectives led him into an interrogation room. >> That was stupid as like I wasn't going to. So, I wasn't going to I've been feeding her and you know what I'm saying, but I just can't have her. probably going to I just cuz I'm working with Detective Smith trying to get him 10 guns, five AKs, four Glock Street that's supposed to be going into the valley like next week. You know what I'm saying? I'm trying to get him mov 6 ounces a day on crack and I'm trying to get him descriptions of ounces a day. But like I found out that this is that and you know what I'm saying? And if I was when you found out who I was that that that the lady that that that what I was taking care of in my house um is a rat and if she was to get back out on the street exposed. >> Okay. I can't get you know what I'm saying? So like I'm new to this. I understand I know I can't get out of this. This is bad. You know what I'm saying? I know I know it's >> Dante recounted the details like it was pretty basic for him to deal with stuff like this. >> Tuesday. So she probably got there like Monday or something. >> Yeah. One day she was kicking it true, cool, calm, collected, hold up, hold up, hold up. You know what I'm saying? Eating, lying to me. Like, dude, like I do that. You know what I'm saying? So that's how that went down, bro. I apologize, bro. Okay. But I like I just die out here in these streets with all with these crackheads >> cuz this is serious. I keep on telling them like I need to talk to a a corporal. Put me in a room by myself. Like the way y'all play like it was 50 cars in front of my house. I don't think the streets talk. You know what I'm saying? Type [ __ ] Like, so like I up, but like I'm new to this >> and I feel like my life is in danger, bro. People trying to three times already. You feel me? I' been shot in my underarm, blood, all type of weird. This is crazy. And I felt like I was going to die. If I didn't hold her for like two days and tell her like let her know what was going on, I was going to kill her. Feel like would have been dead. Long story short, if I wanted to kill her, she would have been dead. would you mind walking me through again? I I know it's a little tough right now and it's it's bad time but like everything that went through like the time where you and were together like what happened during those days and moved her from the basement to another room fed her showered her gave her some water. Put a blanket over her. I'm just telling you the truth, bro. >> No, that's fine. >> Was I raping her? >> No. >> Okay. >> Was that what you about to ask me? >> No. What you about to ask me? >> No. Like, were you giving her drugs and stuff like that? >> Why would I give her my >> I didn't know where. >> All right. So, at any point were when was she asking to leave different things like that? >> She has nowhere to go. >> Okay. >> She has nowhere to go. All she was just asking was why. Stop. I won't do it again. I'll never tell. I'll never tell. I'll never tell. Bless, please. I'll never tell. I know I deserve this, but I'll never tell. Like, that's a code in the streets. You know what I'm saying? You got four beautiful kids. >> Okay. So, during this time when the traffic stop occurs and she goes on her way, was there anybody that ever said like besides like if she was doing anything that like, "Yeah, she told me." >> No, I thought it was somebody else until I did my homework. >> Okay. So this is all you transpiring, doing everything, doing all your own >> stuff in your head and like, "Hey, >> listen to the detectives as we log out the car. Detectives like you can go. Thank you." >> Okay. >> Okay. You ain't even get searched. It's credit bomb. $20 worth of in a car and skill and they just You didn't even get searched. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Get your bag. You forgetting your bag. >> They're helping her out. >> Don't forget your bag. Go ahead. Go. Thank you. >> Dante mocked the detectives and then tried to cut a deal to dodge the charges. >> Like that I see it on TV. I'm excited. I'm so slick. I'm slick and dear, y'all. Man, I almost got I almost got away. Y [ __ ] Them cops is horrible, boy. I'm slick, boy. I ain't trying to brag no boss. I try to brag no boss, bro. You know what I'm saying? We going We I'm help y'all out flat out. But I can't be I can't sit in this room. I can get keys and keys and keys and keys and guns and guns. You going to see it in my phone. I know everybody big. I just want to help. I know. I know I'm in trouble right now. I know I'm in trouble right now with this this happen after I make those ble. >> You know what I'm saying? The judge will understand that. She should understand that. You know what I'm saying? Like >> Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like you you know what I'm saying? >> Right. Right. So like I need to go home. home turned out to be the last place that Dante was going. He pleaded guilty to felonious assault, kidnapping, tampering with evidence, and having weapons under disability. He was sentenced to 16 to 20 years in prison.