It's 11:00 a.m. in Louisville, Kentucky, where police respond to a disturbing 911 call [music] about a suspicious maggot covered bag found in a home partly [music] occupied by the boyfriend of a woman recently arrested for murder. welfare check on a black female. >> So, what's going on with she has apparently got arrested this weekend for killing the guy in >> putting him in the crawl space. This guy's been missing. They haven't seen anyone in the building since the 15th. And the mom said he's missing. I called him. I talked to the mom this morning. >> We went down in the basement crawl space down there. There's a god awful smell. And there's a bag in there that's got maggots on it. >> It's underneath a bunch of like carpet and ceiling tile. >> Okay. Well, nobody who has been in there. >> Me. >> Me and him went in the crawl space. All three of us. >> Go ahead. Go ahead and get me your IDs and just stand by. Uh let me uh Okay. Before we move any further, I'll contact homicide. The landlord of the multifamily home seen here along with two workers said they [music] found a bag covered in maggots in the basement area and grew suspicious after the mother of the man who had been living there allegedly [music] told him she hasn't heard from her son for nearly 2 weeks. Furthermore, [music] the witnesses said the missing resident was dating 44year-old Sarah McQuillin, who had been arrested as a murder suspect in [music] another case. >> Hey, search. So apparently, yeah, it's related to the Sarah McCullen. Um, and that uh he's been missing. When was the last time you said they seen him? >> The 15th of September. Um, and they went into his apartment at um already, but they said that the bag is covered in maggots and it's a god- aful smell, like something was rotting flesh or something. I'll go ahead and call I'm going to call homicide. Okay, goodbye. >> I mean, it could be a dead angle, but I don't >> No, don't want to take the chance. >> It's too close to coincidence. >> Thank you, guys. You went in the other, didn't you? Did you go in? >> I went in the house and changed the locks. I drilled it open. >> Okay. >> Cuz they wouldn't go in >> unless we had access to it, I guess. >> 514 back. I'm switching stairs. 7 days earlier, police said they believe Sarah shot and killed 64year-old Jerry Cardin before hiding his [music] body in his Louisville homes crawl space. His body was discovered 3 days later, falling into the time frame when investigators [music] believe Sarah struck again, stabbing and beheading 39-year-old Douglas [music] Brooks before also stuffing his body in a crawl space. That takes [music] us back to September 27th when police said Sarah was caught driving Jerry's truck with evidence in the truck bed, including surveillance footage that allegedly showed the suspect taking things from Jerry's home and stashing them in the victim's [music] truck. Upon her initial arrest, police said Sarah admitted to stabbing the 64year-old to death in hiding his body. She also allegedly admitted to using a gun in the crime that [music] was later found in her purse. That takes us back to just hours later where police are about to discover her alleged second victim. >> Who did you make contact with that said they hadn't seen him? >> Let me know. >> Number four. >> Number four. >> Number three. >> Number three. >> Okay. >> And then I talked to the mom this morning and she says, >> I got her number. >> Hello. >> Hey sir, this is Hey, uh I'm out here on >> right here. Um >> we have a gentleman who's been missing apparently since the 15th and apparently he's associated with Sarah McQuillin >> and the property manager came over today to gain access uh to his apartment since he's been missing. They drilled the locks, went into the apartment, didn't see anything suspicious. >> Um, and then went into the basement and there's, you said it was a garbage bag. >> A garbage bag. We didn't touch it, but there's some stuff on top of it, and there's maggots on top. >> There's a garbage bag that has other articles stacked on top of it. But the garbage bag itself is covered in maggots, and it's >> gross looking, and apparently it reeks to high health. How would you guys describe the smell? >> I mean, it smells like a dead animal. >> Dead animal. Okay. >> Smells to me like a dead animal. I've >> never smelled a dead person. >> As soon as you walk in that door down there, you smell it. >> Oh, yeah. It knocked you out. >> And other tenants have been complaining the same smell? >> Yes. >> Did the mom ever say what his relationship was with the murder suspect? on and off girlfriend, I believe. >> Okay. >> We've had several calls on them down here for screaming. >> When we walk in that first room in the basement, we'll come into a second. >> Uhhuh. >> Right. The smell and all that ledge. >> Okay. >> Follow the flag. >> Okay. Well, thank you. You don't have any tape or anything, do you? Crack. >> You don't have any tape or anything, do you? tape. Yeah. Tape off. >> There's a back door. So, nobody goes down there. >> Yeah. So, this these three gentlemen, he's the property manager and these two guys are the maintenance guys. They came over this morning. Apparently yesterday day work the mom of the missing guy that lives here called and said hey um my son hasn't been seen since the first part of September um he is the girlfriend he's the boyfriend of >> hang >> yeah cuz >> so his body >> that was in west >> well apparently he said that the neighbors are always calling on him on Miss Quillin and him >> because they're always having knockout dragout domestics. >> So >> So he's underneath where >> in the basement. >> You got to go inside. >> Yeah, I'm going to secure the back door right now. >> Back the ward up. >> It's around the back. They said they said the smell is gone awful. No. >> Witnesses tell police the couple often had heated disputes before the man's disappearance. Next, one officer heads to the home seller to try and confirm the witness's suspicions. >> Oh, hell. She put a guy in the crawl space without anybody noticing. >> That's what I'm saying. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Need a light? >> Yeah. I'm going to need a light. >> Need a light? >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. >> Yep. All right. Good. >> Yeah, I'm good. >> I'm Can you have the Can you have Mr. Come down here? >> Yeah. Did you find anything? >> No, I can't find the bag they're talking about, but jeez. >> Okay, Mr. Richardson. Yeah, he's in the white polo. Coming down. That is death. >> Mhm. Mhm. >> That is a smell of death. >> Mhm. >> With the flies to go with it. >> Mhm. >> Where's your baggie? >> Talking about it. >> He said it was in this room and then to the right, but I can't see it. >> Back here. Well, it leads to this >> in that. Okay. >> But I don't see a bag or anything. If >> I take a peek. >> Yeah. Let me back out cuz there's a whole bunch of room. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. The smell down here, that's for sure. >> Mhm. >> Are we sure it's not coming from upstairs? >> No. They checked the apartment. They said the bag is got the one with the maggots on it. >> Where exactly? >> If you go into that other room. >> Okay. >> As soon as you turn the corner left here, there's a bunch of junk here. There's a roll of a pad or something. It's right next to the pad. You can see the mag. >> So, you go left from the stairwell where he's >> Okay. Just go. As soon as you go in there, look to the left. There's a bunch of gar >> and there's a bag underneath some stuff. >> I guess it's right here. The officer discovers the bag in question stuffed under a pile of junk in the crawl space and quickly exits to report his findings >> under. >> Okay. >> Is it an actual body? >> It's not just trash, right? We're not bringing out here for trash. >> It's something. It's melted. It's O. You can go back out front. Thank you. >> In the carpet or is it in the trash? >> No, it's rolled up buried under some like insulation and >> like an exercise mat. >> Okay. Uh, >> thank you. >> I don't want to move anything in case >> but I'm trying to want to confirm what it is or it isn't. >> It's something. >> It's something dead. It's not what it's called. >> We don't want to bring homicide in here. We >> have to judge what's going to happen. We got to confirm it. We're going to have to pull it out. >> Okay. Well, >> well, who who spoke to homicide? >> I didn't. They said like, "Do you want us to >> just verify?" >> Well, confirm whether or not Well, I told him. I said, "I don't know what we got in the basement, but it's definitely something rotting." >> Right. And they were like, "Well, >> just let them know that you found what it you found where it is, but you >> have to disturb their scene in order to get to." >> That's what I don't want. I was >> Make sure they want to disturb it before we >> It's been a while since I've not >> Yeah, that's going to be that's going to permeate the uniform real >> uh if we go by the timeline, I think around the same time. Judging by the size of the maggots, it's pretty recent. >> Investigators would later confirm the victim to be 39-year-old Douglas Brooks, who was also determined to have been stabbed to death. But unlike Sarah's other alleged victim, Douglas was missing his head. A head that was never found. >> He told me, but I can't take it. >> Magazine, >> my fingernail right there. >> Do you see the fat? >> There was a fat one that was like >> fat. There was a fat grub on there, but most of them weren't any wider than that. So as far as length, >> but it was literally like dripping like fat drippings. >> Probably >> it was on the floor. >> No, no. So you know how how these old houses like have like that crawl space like there's the basement and then there's like the dirt crawl space that sits up. There's a bunch of crap that's shoved back in there like old insulation, foam mats, >> just looks like stuff that they've ripped out like when they did remodeling and just chucked it over there. >> There's a bag buried underneath all that >> that has got whatever's permeating that smell through the room. That's where it's at. >> It's buried underneath all that stuff. >> On top of that >> on top of that little shelf that's down there. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So, >> and you can hear the flies. >> Yeah. >> So, it's live on this floor. >> Yeah. Yeah, he lives in the front apartment. >> In order to get to it, we would have to move all that stuff, which would >> potentially compromise her >> and rupture the bag further. >> Yeah, >> it's not a rupture. Whatever. >> And then there's like a little retaining wall that goes up about waist high. I mean, it's just dirt all the way back to the actual sidewalls. It's shoved up on that shelf of that dirt packed underneath. >> Somebody did a lot of work to uh to do all that then. >> Yeah, like you did with the last one. The other guy on the floorboard. Yeah. If if this is the same thing. >> Yeah, I'm gonna >> It's kind of looking kind of looking that way. >> If it's walking like a duck, it's quacking like a duck. >> I'm going to go ahead and say it might be a duck. >> You're preemptive. I know. But hey, >> it's not just trash. >> No, a living. And it's a big living something. >> This makes me uh think of all like those crime shows, you know, where they're digging around and then somebody finds a body and then everybody's like, "Oh god, the smell." Right. It's like, "No, >> no, you will smell it long before you ever find it." >> Mhm. >> Now, detectives arrive on scene. >> Storming the castle, boys. Tell me what >> first unit was on scene at 11:04. >> You're welcome. 34. >> Somebody runs out. >> Hope y'all didn't leave here. >> I was here at 5:30. 5:30 4:30. >> But she when I she confessed, but I'm guessing she is saying >> if she's guilty of this. >> Yeah. >> For like 40 minutes. I want to call >> That's her. >> Oh yeah, she >> doing this. And I'm like, >> she kind of looks like the chick that used to be the serial murderer that they was her name. That's what I thought. Come to find out the paddles weren't working. >> Actually shot him when they were trying to >> she made a shooting victim and placing him in the crawl space. >> It's poor cover up. >> What was What was that serial killer? >> A female Charlie's there and played her like where she uglied herself up player. >> Oh, I know who you're talking about. Yeah, >> kind of what she looks like. A >> little bit. A little bit. It says she confessed to the first one, but she didn't confess to this one. >> We never answer. >> Oh, well, you know, if you're catching me for one, I might as well be. >> So, is this a shared basement or >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> That's taking an awful big risk. >> It's not a basement I'd imagine a lot of people go down into. >> It's It's like my grandmother's basement. Like damp and nasty. >> Yeah. It's It's one of those old earn basement. >> Back in the front of the home, officers try to piece together what exactly they think happened here. >> No, it's so like you know how the old houses they have like a crawl space shelf. >> So it's kind of like that and there's a pile of stuff that goes back like 10 ft and you can't even reach it. where there's a roll and there's insulation. There's a you can see a garbage bag underneath it and maggots. I >> mean, yeah, there's something dead, but what is it? >> Yeah, but I mean, too much of a coincidence. >> True. >> I told Sergeant before I left the division, I was like, is she is she becoming a black widow? Killed two guys, put them in driver's bags, put them in basement or cross spaces. >> Possibly. Who called it in? >> Sarah, who was already in jail at the time of this discovery, was charged with complicity to murder, secondderee complicity to manslaughter, two counts of abuse of a corpse, and two counts of tampering with physical evidence and theft. The 44year-old later entered an Alfred plea, an agreement that allows criminal defendants to maintain their innocence while also accepting that there is enough evidence against them for a conviction. She was sentenced to 20 years behind bars. Well, what happened was yesterday the reverse day day work came over here because they were like, "Hey, >> mom." >> Yeah. Mom hasn't seen her son since early September. Neighbors are saying they haven't seen him since September 15th or something like that. Well, she decided to call today and have him come over here and he was going to evict him anyways cuz he hasn't been paying rent. So, >> he's missing. So they they knocked on the door, didn't see anything, didn't hear anything, saw the broken window, decided to go ahead and just bust the lock, change the locks, and then I don't know what made them go down in the basement, but they went down in the basement. And he said soon as they opened that first door on the outside, he said it just hit them. >> They were telling us where to find it. And me and Woods could not find it. We were like, "We smell it. We see the flowers, but we can't see it." under it's under there and me and B it's