Are you kidding me? >> Come on, guys. Step out. >> Just sit down. Okay, buddy. >> He cut his head off. >> Dude, there's a big pull of in the grass. I don't want to walk close to cuz I don't want to get in trouble if I walk myself close to it. >> Cops are trained to handle the worst humanity has to offer. But what happens when they walk into a scene so vile that even the veterans on the force turn white and look away? >> You're my baby, bro. I know you're my son. Who's my baby, bro? It's a car soul, not a ratio. Let's go up with you, man. >> Oh my. Oh my good. I'm not going to lie. Smell soon as I open up the door. >> I was breathing through my mouth. >> Yeah, I tasted that. >> These were the moments when cop parents went pale after a horrifying discovery. We begin with the case of three missing boys whose frantic mother had no idea what had already been done to them. And what officers were about to uncover would leave everyone stunned. >> So, their son's phone is pinging to this house. I don't know anything about home. >> You don't know anything about it? >> Nope. >> Are you kidding me? >> Guys, step out. >> He was saying to just keep walking and to not turn around. >> Keep walking not to turn around. >> That he had a knife on me. >> He made us stand up and he kept us and he kept us wouldn't stay. >> On May 6th, 2025, a mother called police in tears saying her children had disappeared with a man nobody recognized. What made it immediately alarming was that someone had seen the children leaving with a stranger. Officers had no time to waste. >> Are you on the phone with your brother? >> He is my son. >> He's your son. >> Is there anything I can >> uh regarding >> any like do I like looking for anybody like >> So well two people actually. Uh give me one sec. >> This is a cage [laughter] for him. >> How How old is your son? >> Two boys are twins. my son. >> He's on Miller and >> Miller's right down there >> the next street. >> Is this a live Is this a live feed of where he's at? >> I can take you. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Come on. I can take him real quick. >> I'll head over there. See if I can find him. Okay. >> Yeah. 911's going to be >> related to my call. Where do you say that call was speaking from? >> Hey, if you see anybody over here, no. Is this is Johnson Lane, right? Okay. Where's 250? You don't know. You live over here? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. I guess the 250 is one of these. >> Using the kids' phones to track their location, officers zeroed in on an address on Johnson Lane. Then suddenly, a 911 call had pinged from the same spot. When they arrived, nobody answered, but officers weren't leaving empty-handed. Another call was already coming in that would change everything. Hello. >> Hey, this is Deputy S. I'm sorry. What was your son's name again? So, where where is his location showing on your phone? >> It's showing him over by the canal. [laughter] >> Ma'am, you said over by the canal. >> I think so. >> What does your phone tell you? Wait one second. >> All right. Where where's where's his location showing on her phone? >> Um, it's showing like down this like alleyway. Then we looked so at the Miller right after Ruby. >> So like like between between Ruby and uh Johnson. >> No, I guess it'd be between Ruby and Maine. >> Ruby and Maine. Yeah, like right before the hotel bar. Like where are you? And I can wait here. >> I'm on Ruby right now. Go for >> Oh. Oh. Are you the So police right here? >> So look to your left. >> So >> to your left. >> Yeah, I see you. So the dispatch received a 911 call near 25 Johnson, which is right right around over here between Ruby. They they received a 911 call from his phone number. >> Okay. Well, there was a house. So, it shows his location down this road, >> right? So, he he's somewhere over here. They received a 911 call from his phone number over by 2550 Johnson, which is right over here near Ruby where where he's pinging. He >> It was dark and that they're in a basement. >> So, they're in a basement. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, he need he needs to come out and contact us. >> I don't think they can. They said they took his phone. >> He's saying he's inside a basement. >> Yes. This is the where the location >> the brothers are telling the ARP that they are in the basement. >> The kids called their mother from a crawl space saying a man threatened to kill them. And when officers tracked the phone to that address, 23-year-old Gumaro Abote Cedra was spotted peering over the fence before he denied everything and disappeared over it. >> Hi. >> Hello. >> Who are you? >> Huh? >> Who are you? You live here. What's that? >> They can't come down here, are they? >> Yep. >> So, their son's phone is pinging to this house. I don't know anything. I don't know anything about phone. >> You don't know anything about it? Nope. >> You live here? >> This is my grandma's house. >> Your grandma's house? >> Who are you? >> Uh, I don't have to give you my name. >> Okay. >> They probably walked by here. >> No, his phone's here. >> I don't know. >> He just trespassed from over here. >> Yeah. >> So, they said they're in a basement and his phone's pinging to this house. So, we have a juvenile saying that it's dark. They're in a basement that that they took his phone. >> There's no one. They just came looking for some teenagers. Some kids and uh actually they probably uh >> talk to them. They're looking tire actually >> cuz they know who he is. So, we have somebody who's >> So, th this black dot is his phone. >> He's not here. >> This blue dot is me. This is her phone. >> Exactly. >> You want me to go to the front? >> They probably came by and slashed the tires. Anyways, >> want to keep an eye on him, but I'll make contact with him from the front. >> I don't know where he's going. >> Hey, dude. That guy right there said that there was three boys walking down >> this road and hoped >> and hop the fence right here. >> I'm going to go up front with him. I want you guys to keep an eye back here. >> Back here. >> Okay. Make sure that dude doesn't hop the fence or go anywhere. If he does, let us know. >> When Gumaro disappeared over that fence, the officers moved fast, circling around to the front of the house, knowing that if he slipped away now, those kids might never be found. >> Come here. Come here. >> Why were you over there and now over here? >> Cuz I'm a I'm a landscaper. >> You're a landscaper? >> Yeah. >> Here. >> Turn around for me real quick and get your hands behind your back. >> I don't know if he's got something to do with it or what. >> What is going I don't even know what's going on right now. >> Me either. Don't know what's going on. We've got like a phone ping and >> kids saying that. >> Got anything to do with kids, man? >> Any kids here? >> No, there's no kids at all. >> I'm just here to do a house >> yard work. You're doing yard work. >> Do you have any weapons on you or anything? >> Uh, no. Go ahead. >> Separate your feet. >> This is the parents. Hey, I need just go back to your car for me. We'll be right with you. >> What are you doing with my kids? I'm sorry. Hey, was this the male your son was with? Okay, go back to your car for me real quick, please. >> I need to know where my kids were trying to find me. How would I know anything about your kids? >> What are you talking about? Stop acting stupid. I need to know where my kids >> Listen, we're going to find him. >> No. >> How am I acting stupid? What? What? Kid, >> what are you doing with him? >> Listen, we're going to find him. Okay. Can you go back to your carpet, please? >> Yeah, please. We >> It's okay. It's okay. We're going to find him. >> I just got out. So, I literally just got out in ' 86. So, my missing juvenile call, that's what I was just on. She saw him with her kids. >> Why would I be with her kids? >> So, >> do you live over on Justin? >> Do you live off with Justin? >> Yeah. I can't even be there. I I can't be there. >> This is the the male subject that the kids were with. Where are the kids at, man? >> I do not know. >> Well, he is being detained in handcuffs. So, >> there is a phone in my backyard. >> There's a phone back there? >> How do we get back to your backyard? >> Uh, all the way around. With the suspect detained and the phone discarded in a neighbor's backyard recovered, officers were closing in fast. There were three missing children, elementary and middle school aaged, and every second mattered. Then came the moment that left everyone stunned. >> This is related to my missing juvenile. >> Is anybody in here? >> Was that Are you kidding me? Come on, guys. Step out. >> Who's all in there with you guys? Come on. Come on. >> You okay? What happened? What happened? >> Hey, stop it. >> Let's go out this way, guys. Come on. Do you guys need medical attention at all? >> Yes. >> What's wrong? What happened to you? [laughter] >> We need somebody. >> No. No. >> Hey, we need you guys to come with us. Okay. Come on. >> Come on. >> Come on, guys. Come with us. Go. >> We We got him. We >> What was he wearing? Is it just a three in there? >> Shorts? A hoodie? A hoodie? You know, shoes? Gray shoes? Mustache? A dirty mustache? >> Did he say anything, you guys? What happened? >> He took a video that he beat us on on my phone. He stole my phone. Come on, guys. >> There was a crawl space with the big rock on top of it. He's got he's got some bad like >> So he got Yeah, he got whipped in the back pretty hard or something. >> No, let's go. Go, please. I need you to go, please. Thank you. >> What the did I say hanging out? >> I got to give him the statement. Okay. >> All three boys were found alive in a crawl space under the house. A boulder placed on top to stop them from getting out. They were injured, shaken, and had been through something no child should ever experience. Once medics had checked them over and they were reunited with their parents. >> Have a seat in my car. Hang up. >> I just sit down. Okay, bud. I can't. Let me help you. [laughter] Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. big. >> So, he's badly hurt. He's badly hurt. Okay, don't touch him right now. >> So, uh I think they all might have wounds. He's got some wounds on his back. He said something about his legs as well. It's not nowhere near as bad as that. >> Yeah, he's got it on his upper back, on his >> I didn't see his legs yet. I was going to wait for you guys to look at his legs. >> Okay. Yeah. And I'll take a quick peek. The other the young man, his brother, this young man right here, had one on his leg. >> Do you have anything on your back, brother? Okay. telling me that my dad was saying people from some type of people in Mexico or something >> like a type of place and then he was saying that he knew I went to jail or something but I never >> No, he just started slapping me while I was on the swing and saying it would get worse if I didn't tell him stuff. >> And you've never seen him in your before in your life? No. >> And then he made us walk all the way through the freeway all the way over here. And then he made her stand up and he started like us with a stick. [laughter] >> Okay. So, I'm going to have to talk to him by himself. Okay. I need him to calm down for a second. >> I got medicine to come look at him. Okay. >> Don't worry about him right now. Okay. He's put away. Okay. >> What if he comes to bed? >> Trust me. >> He lives in there. >> Where's your mom at? >> My mom's over there. >> Let's go talk to your mom real quick. >> What did you think was going to happen? Hey, listen. I need him to calm down. So, if we could just separate, okay? Cuz I need him to be able to talk and tell me what happened. Okay? Make sense? >> The officers sat down with the boys to find out how they ended up trapped under that house. And as the first one described being approached at the park by a stranger who claimed to know their father, it was clear this was not a chance encounter. Okay. All right, buddy. So, listen. I need you to I can't Are you Can you good enough to talk right now? Okay. >> Okay. So, you guys were at the park. Okay. What were you doing at the park? >> We were just on the swings waiting for one of our friends so we could go to the bowling alley. >> Mhm. And then he just walked up to you randomly. >> Yeah, we were on the swings. >> And then does he know your names or No, >> no, >> he didn't know your names or nothing. >> So then who did So what happened when he came to you guys? What did he say? He just said my dad was saying something about Michigan or something and he was saying that me and my dad would find out if we told find out something if we told the police. >> So like he said your dad was saying like like part of my language what Mexico or Mexicans >> a part of Mexico I >> Oh like a certain part of Mexico screw that part. >> Okay. And then what? >> He just like started making us walk with him all the way over here. And then he made us like >> How did he make you though? Like what did he do? He said he hurted making us walk over there and he said he would kill us and he said he had a knife on him. >> So he was forcing you to go that way. What was he saying? >> He was saying to just keep walking and to not turn around. >> Keep walking not to turn around. >> Yeah. That he had a knife on him. >> Okay. Okay. And then and then you guys got here. >> So, and then what happened here? >> And then he started like >> it was in that backyard. That's all I know. >> Still back there. >> I never grabbed it. I followed you back to the [music] other yard. >> He started like he started us with a stick and then he like put me against the wall and like put a stick to my throat. It was like a sharp stick that he broke. >> That was over here back here. So, >> and then after he was like making us put our heads into like our laps and then he started hitting us with like like I think it was like a machete on our bags. >> Started with the machete. Do you have marks on your back now? >> I don't know. >> Here, take off your jacket for me. Okay. >> He made us sit down and he started talking. I forgot what he said necessarily. And and then he started um after that he grabbed what seemed to be a wooden stick and he started and he started smacking really hard behind from behind and um after that he he did it with the rest of us. He uh he made us stand up and yeah, he kept smacking us [snorts] and he kept us with the wooden stick and after that he smacked at the back of our necks and yeah, he just kept us at the back of the necks right here and the back area and he just kept doing all this to us and then he opened up the he opened like the gray thing that I assume led to the crawl space. Just when the officers thought they had heard everything, one of the boys held out his hand and what he showed them would leave every officer on scene speechless. >> Touch your hand where? Let me see. >> Right here. >> How do you do that with what? >> He had like something back there. I It was like some curving thing and it was like sharp. >> Okay, put your shirt back on. Is there anything else on your torso whatsoever on your on your body? >> Like this with a stick right here. Like he was turns like right here on my leg. Okay, I'm going to wait for medic to look at you. Okay, first. So, was he saying anything to you as he was hit? >> He was saying, >> "Turn this way. Just to your right. Turn to your right. Can I take photographs of him?" >> Yeah. >> You see injured? >> Yeah, he's injured. Can we turn this way? I don't want them. I don't think any of my bags are going to fit that. >> Do you recognize this? >> Yes. >> What is this? >> He tried cutting something and he cut he tried cutting my friend's hand open with it like a a a cartel mark. She just held it in his hands and he just punched it like if he was going to hit us. >> The boys also mentioned that the suspect had been holding a phone during the whole ordeal. So officers immediately began searching for it. And when they finally recovered that device from a neighbor's yard, the reason he had thrown it over the fence became terrifyingly clear. >> Have the suspect's phone but >> there was a phone his one of these juvenile phones he threw into the backyard over there. >> Okay. Cuz he's saying that uh he was using their phones and likely his phone to like record it. So, I don't know if there's like video evidence of this. If there's any phone, if we haven't seen his phone or have their phones yet. >> Oh, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. >> He took his phone, which I'm pretty sure it's this phone, and was recording him beating him. >> He He recorded it? >> No, no, no, no, no. Uh, the suspect recorded himself on juvenile's phone of him beating him >> with a stick. >> The stick? >> Do we know where that stick is? I don't know where the stick's at, but I have the phone right there. >> Okay. >> And I can look over here. >> That's the juvenile's phone. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, let's let's take it and then and see what's on it. >> Dude, there's video evidence of him doing it. Was that a broomstick? Yeah, that's the one I was just looking at. I just saw his legs. >> He has more He has more videos. I deleted everything. He told me to delete everything. Even the videos. They're not deleted. >> Why is there so many people? >> They're his family. So there's animation there. >> Do me a favor. >> Go sit by his car. >> Give Give us a second. >> If you go to my deleted and you scroll, there's there's probably more videos. >> Okay, I I'll look at him. Okay. >> What a weird That's what I was wondering. Like is it a gang initiation? Like what was this all about? >> When officers spoke to the suspect's family at the residence, a picture of who Gumaro really was began to emerge. His family revealed they had called the police on him before multiple times and had gone to court trying to get help. >> Who's the homeowner here? >> So, it's my grandma. She's in Mexico. My parents came because Larry came to go to take a look at the house just to make sure everything was right. >> Is this her truck? >> No, that's my cousin. He lives it here because he works. And >> my truck, she's in Mexico right now. >> Yeah, cuz my our great grandma passed away. So, >> hey, um can you do me a favor? If you pull up an address, can you tell me who lives here? Is there any way you can attach her to our call? She's the homeowner for this place. >> Awesome. Thank you. What's his name? >> GMO. Germa. >> Yeah. Okay. Do your last name >> and then first name. >> It's okay. That's okay. I know. >> Does he have like does he have mental problems? >> He started acting out like like we believe so. We've called we've called the city to our house multiple times like and we've asked them what can we do. She's gone to the court and asked them what can we do? Like it's not your >> mom need to calm down. Are you okay? >> Are you Bueno or is that right? >> Yeah. >> Sorry. I wish I knew Spanish. And you're a sister, correct? >> Yeah. >> Do you guys ever find drugs around >> in the house or anything? >> No, not in the house. >> Did you guys know to come here? >> Grandma's dad passed away, so she's in Mexico and they come and look at take a look at around the house just to make sure that everything's correct. And then when they got here, they call that. >> So you guys left? So you guys were planning on coming here when I was at your house? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So you guys just want to keep an eye on the house. >> Yeah, cuz like I said, they all left. >> Cuz he told us he was doing yard work here. Your brother? >> Yeah. I know. >> Pretty sure that's what he said, yard work. >> And they told me about a guy going up to three boys at the park and was like, "Oh, you you like to get bullied?" And like the out of them at the park. My daughter saw this. >> So I'm sorry. Which park is this? Is it the one at the trailer park? >> Yeah. Okay. >> At the trailer park. So I just asked my sister. I was like, "Did my did the girls tell you about what happened?" And she was like, "Yeah." and I told him to stay inside. After that, >> the man who had beaten those boys and trapped them under a house couldn't even make it through his own arrest without playing the victim, asking for water and claiming he was about to collapse the moment the tables turned. >> Are you willing to tell me what happened today? >> Uh, I'd rather have um a lawyer. >> Okay. What did he say? >> He said he rather >> I'm a little dizzy. >> He said he was going to answer my questions and then he just said he wants a lawyer. Okay. You are under arrest, sir. >> Okay. >> All right. >> I can't be seen by travel. I'm a little dizzy. >> You're a little dizzy? >> Yeah, >> a little dizzy. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Feel Fe feeling like I'm gonna pass out. >> Pass out or something, huh? Okay. Well, we'll uh we'll let the medic take a look. >> Can I get at least uh some water? >> Not right now. >> My mouth is dry. >> I don't have any water bottles or anything for you. >> Oh, step by real quick. I'm going to search you. Okay. >> Yes, sir. And >> after what you did, man. Turn around. Miss the car. Separate your feet. Oh, no. No, no, no. >> Stuff him back in the car. Hey, let's just get in the back of the car. They said >> the next day, Detective Mendoza sat down with Gumaro for a formal interrogation. His opening move was simple. Call it all a misunderstanding. He claimed the kids had been playing hide-and-seek. That he had no idea they were in the crawl space and that he had never seen them before in his life. None of it held up for very long. >> What the heck happened? Was it like a misunderstanding or how did you end up here? >> A misunderstanding. >> It's a misunderstanding. >> Mhm. >> Um, when did you get here? Okay. Oh, okay. Somebody's looking for a phone. Somebody look pinging for a phone. as I get. And then out of nowhere, they were looking for some kids. Why Why would Why would I know anything about them? >> Yeah. Why would you? >> Why would Yeah. Why would I know anything about him when they were there looking for a phone or something first? >> Oh, I'm sure. >> I I I do not know. I don't know anything about him. >> You ever seen him before? >> No. So, um, what else happened? What's your understanding on on kid on the word kidnapping? >> Kidnapple to my understanding taking somebody against >> Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. >> What is yours? >> That's that's what I was going to say. Taking someone against their will or using force, you know. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I never did that. >> Mhm. >> Kidnapping is putting somebody in, you know, in some type of vehicle or whatever and taking them force. >> Yeah. force forcibly. >> I never did. I thought I thought they were playing hide-and-seek. They were under my grandma's house. >> What part under? >> Oh, just like uh to go you know how you go check there's some parts where you go check and to see like the like the plumbing and stuff like >> like a basement. >> No, not even a basement. >> Not a basement. >> Not a basement. It's literally It's literally like Kaza and then >> just to go under. Oh, like where you see the FIFAs and like >> that wouldn't that be like a crawl space? >> Yeah, literally just a crawl space >> and that's where they were at. >> Yeah. >> Oh, wow. >> They were playing hide and seek. >> Uh, yeah, they were. >> Gumaro walked the detective through his version of that afternoon. And the story he told made it sound like those boys just decided to follow a stranger to a house they'd never been to for no reason at all. >> So, you didn't see them when you were walking out of your house? Um, [clears throat] did you only see them at what point? >> At the park. >> At the park. Okay. Did you go inside the park at all? >> No. Um, did they say something to you? >> Uh, yeah, I did go I I'll be honest. I did go I did go in the park >> because I was going to uh there was a fence right there and I was going to jump the fence. That's what I usually do. Just >> Oh, like to kind of skip to the where you're going. >> Yeah. Yeah. So I don't have to walk all the way down the street cuz I can't even I can't even walk all the way down the street cuz right here >> Cuz you would have to come back all around this way. >> Mhm. >> Instead of just crossing through there. Mhm. >> Okay. So, you cut through the park. Um, so they were already there. >> Yeah. >> What were they doing there? >> Uh, they were just I don't know what they were doing. They were just >> What What area of the park were they at? Like uh >> they were sitting on on the swings. >> Sitting on the swings. Okay. Um, and what part did you [music] like this side of the park or this side that you hopped a fence? >> Well, the wall is right here. >> Okay. >> Like >> So, is it like a little fence? This is like a >> like 8 foot 9 ft fence. >> Okay. >> 9. Yeah, like 8 8 and 1/2. >> Okay. So then you hopped the fence. >> I I I didn't hop the fence. >> Oh, okay. >> Well, then I did cuz like I'm telling you, I can't even go down the third street cuz there's another guy right there that uh I can't even I can't be I can't be uh 100 100 yards away from him. >> Oh man. I'm sorry. Okay. So, at what point did they follow you? when I started walking this way. >> Okay. So, you came here, you got to the park, you saw them by the flings. Um, you didn't jump the fence and then you started walking this way. >> Mhm. >> Okay. Why Why didn't you jump the fence and you walked this way? >> I have no idea. >> Cuz you said you usually just jump the fence to get there faster. >> Um, >> okay. Did you make it to the fence? Did like What happened when you got there? What did they So you said they were like the end of it type of thing. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Like in what way do you take that like in for >> they were just they were just looking at me but then when they started like they got up and they started following me I was like h >> weird. >> And then I I told them I told them just joking around. I was like we just going to go on a little walk. That's fine. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. [music] But for them to say I I forcefully took him out right. >> Okay. It was just, "Oh, we're going to go on a little walk." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. >> When she brought up the injuries, Gumaro was quick to suggest those kids probably showed up like that. That whatever happened to them started at home. But the detective asked Gumaro one question about how those marks looked that made that whole theory fall apart without her even raising her voice. >> So, I I appreciate you being quite honest, and I'm going to be quite honest with you, too. Um, basically, what I'm getting getting at is there was a little bit more to that. You know, they're going to have their story. You're going to have your side as well, which is okay. The part that I'm missing is that when they came out, they had injuries. >> I don't know nothing about that. >> No. >> Mhm. >> Okay. They didn't cause it to one another. >> It was It was probably from home. It was probably It was probably They're probably getting that from home. >> You think so? >> Yeah. like abuse at home. >> Probably pro probably. You never You never Everything's different be behind closed doors. >> Oh, absolutely. Okay. What if I was to tell you that they did not have those injuries when they left home? >> I couldn't tell you cuz I'm not tell you. >> Okay. I want you to like >> think maybe things happen kind of quick, but those injuries they got them when they were at that crawl space when they were in the backyard >> probably trying to get into the crawl space. >> M with the amount of stuff they had. You're a smart guy. You would be able to be like especially if you want to be a cop, you would look at it and you'll be like absolutely not. Like that happened a different way. So, what they're saying is basically that you [music] were you like trying to teach them a lesson? Like were you mad at them that they were trying to mess with you, punk you [music] and like were you doing that to kind of teach them a lesson kind of in a way they deserved it asking for it? Yeah. I mean with with [music] them being the way they are, I can see that happen. That's what happened. What you [music] pushing the buttons? Yeah, exactly. Is >> that kind of what happened? Yeah. >> The detective didn't interrupt him once while he talked himself in circles, but the question she was saving for last was the one he never saw coming. Tell me what happened uh with you getting a hold of their phone and recording it. What led to that? >> I just told him, "Can I see your phone?" And I I recorded it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> You know, the whole phone thing happened, so they didn't have a phone no more because you have the phone for recording them. Do you remember what you did with that phone? >> No, I don't. >> No. Do you think it probably stayed back in the backyard? Cross? >> I I'm just gonna be honest. I threw that mother as [ __ ] I threw it over the fence. >> Nice. >> Yeah. >> Just to like over the fence. >> Mhm. >> Okay. After recording >> after I was getting back to >> Okay. >> do the yard work. >> Okay. Did you throw it kind of [clears throat] so like they wouldn't call the cops or they wouldn't be calling? >> The cops were already there and they were going to try to find and do everything to, you know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Cuz >> So what was the point of throwing it then? >> Cuz the sheriffs who know what they know know and the ones the ones that don't know already you can just clearly see them. >> So there what was your reasoning for throwing it over? Was it so they wouldn't call for help? >> No. They they didn't need to call for help >> that I had for you that didn't make sense was when they were found that exact same tin um that you're describing was covering it. But there was um large rocks on top of it. >> No, there was only one. >> Oh, just one? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Where did you get that rock from? >> That rock was already on there. >> Be a smart guy. In order for somebody to go in there, the hole needs to be open. They go in there. Who placed that there? And where did you get the get the rock from? Please be honest. >> I put it on there. >> Okay. Where did you get the rock from? >> Right there. The same place. Is it usually what you guys use to keep it closed? >> What was that? Yeah, that that Yeah, that's what uh the rock right there is what we used to keep it closed. >> Okay. How big was the rock? >> It was It was pretty big. >> Yeah. So, would it prevent them from like coming out? >> I not really cuz it was already open and I I don't know how it got closed >> again. Me won't be a smart man. If they're inside, they can't close it. So if they remain there cuz they were inside fully inside when the um cops got there. So obviously they couldn't get out because of the rock. Did you tell them that's where they were going to stay? >> You three times. >> I I did. I did. >> I did three times. >> Out three times, right? >> I did beat three times. I'll be honest with that. Okay. >> But never I did not have any other intentions of doing anything else to them. I promise. In the end, Gummero Abote Cedra was charged with multiple counts, including kidnapping, abuse, and battery with a deadly weapon. His bond was set at nearly a million dollars, and he was sentenced to a minimum of 15 years in prison. [music] Next, we have a case where officers responded to a bizarre 911 call only to uncover a horrifying scene that left them momentarily struggling to process what they were seeing. >> Come over here. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Gies, >> has he said anything? >> He was smiling or laughing when he go, "Come on." >> Did you see the knife? >> The one that was sticking in the ground? >> Yeah, it was this big. This mother gets his head hacked off with a pen knife >> and nobody says nothing. >> On June 20th, 2021, officers in Las Cusus, New Mexico responded to a 911 call about a body lying in the middle of a park. And when they arrived, they had no idea that the person responsible was still right there watching them. >> Um, so I was just driving and then I pulled into the park >> and I seen a body laying on the floor and then I think his head was on the side of him. Could you tell people? >> I like >> um No, no, his head was completely off his body. >> What do you mean? >> Like he was decapitated. >> When officers got to the scene, they spotted a man sitting under a tree just a short distance from where the victim lay. And the moment they got close enough to see him clearly, they understood exactly why he hadn't bothered to run. >> 91 97. We got the east blocked off. We just need the south part of the park blocked off. >> Um, it looks old. >> Okay. Uh, >> go make 25 with them. Just sitting right there. 91. Just make two fight with the the dash in the middle of the park. Sir, put your hands up. Stand up. Come over here. Put your hands up. Put your hands up. Gies, put your hands where I can see them. >> Contact. You >> got cover. You got contact. Shift. Shift. Shift. [panting] >> I just lost my >> Just down, bro. >> Yeah. >> You cool if I take everything out of your pocket? >> Put gloves on, please. Put gloves on, please. Close. [sighs and gasps] You got Yeah, I got close. Here you go. >> Hey, >> we need somebody to stay at the intersection to make sure our scene doesn't get contaminated. Smith, get back to the intersection. >> Smith, go in the body. >> The victim was later identified as 51-year-old James Garcia. As officers began processing what they were looking at, the details of what had been done to him and where his body had ended up made one thing clear. This was not a typical crime scene. >> All right, let's look for any more victims. I cut his head off, >> dude. >> He has a knife. It's a small ass. >> Stand by with it. >> Over here by the rock cuz there there's a big pool of in the grass. >> I don't want to walk close to it cuz I don't want to get double for walk myself close to it. But they say they have a suspect or a possible suspect. >> I'm I'm I'm like 99.99. That's it. >> Oh, really? You think so? >> Right there next to the knife with the all the >> Oh, there's a knife over there. Yeah, it's like stuck to the ground. He get all the Oh, okay. Never mind. I didn't know that. >> I got Ortiz watching the where we got the dude. Okay. >> Has he said anything? >> He was smiling and laughing when we hooked him up. >> Did you see the knife? >> Uh the one that was sticking in the ground? >> Yeah, it was this big. >> Yeah, it's a small knife. There might be another one cuz that there's that bag that's covered in At least it looks like. >> Maybe there's another head in it. I'm actually thinking about that >> because there was clocks on it. >> Yeah. >> How the [ __ ] got by here? Nobody calls that. >> It took a while. You know how long to get this? >> My thing was is people calling code 24 this code. >> You can't call on the time yet. This mother gets his head hacked off with a pen knife >> and nobody says nothing. >> He was sitting there with the hands next to his bag and then we found out the tree. Dude, he cut against the tree too. There was like an ex. >> You think he's just crazy? >> But you have to be, bro. So they they did their business, came over here and let people like, "Hey, let this motherucker be seen on the street." >> No, it's just one dude. >> That's what I'm saying, dude. He had to be known at that thing for a while, though. Us spines, dude, are [ __ ] tough. >> Like you had it you you had to be going to town on that thing. >> An average nail several blows with an axe. >> Yeah. Like a That's a And that's meant for chopping. >> Yeah. >> You guys already cleared by that playground and everything? >> Yeah, let's put it all over there. Um Yeah. probably with a gun. So all 49 and >> Yeah, boy. >> Oh, and we got all 49. >> Okay, I think the park's clear now cuz I came up all the way from the west coming east. So go back with Ramirez and one of you all decide who's going to go 108. Okay. >> The man gave his name as Joel Arinega Science. And as that name made its way around the scene, one of the officers realized this wasn't their first time dealing with him. Just a few weeks before this, Joel had been picked up for smashing up local businesses and writing hateful messages in his own blood. A sign of something seriously broken that no one could have guessed would lead here. >> So the scene is right there. >> Right there. You see all the >> Why? How da got over there somehow. So had to pick it up. >> Pick it up and moved it or he kicked it or rolled it or something like that. >> So we got a tattoo. >> Yeah, we got some stab wounds. Good stab wounds. >> Multiple stab wounds. And you're [music] saying it's a 2 inch knot sab right there. >> What's that, Dustin? glass >> right there. >> See that? That shiny stuff there and there. What is that? >> Could be [music] spit. >> Yeah. Could be spit. >> Looks homeless kind of. >> Yeah, there's camp that's up here. See where they're at. >> See, they said there's a camp up there. So, I'm wondering if that's where he's actually been staying at. >> And you think drug? [music] >> They got drug marks. If you look, if you shine your light up there, right by this tree, there's a puddle of right there and [music] he either was carrying the head or the head fell off from that time. >> It looks like [music] the And there's a roll right there. >> That's a roll. >> Yeah, cuz he tossed it. >> There's blood right there or kicked it. >> Yeah, >> bro. What's your name? [music] >> Fine. >> So, this is what he gave me. I don't know if you guys found any death vacation. Laser said he didn't feel >> wet. >> You know who the suspect is? >> Science. >> It's Joel. >> Huh? It's Joel. >> Joel. >> Joel. >> Science. >> He's the one that code five Vex [music] wrote death to in his own and signed his name. >> When detectives sat Joel down for questioning, he gave them almost nothing to work with. But after they collected his clothes and DNA, the digging into his past turned up a 2017 murder arrest where he walked free because the weapon couldn't be tied directly to him. >> Joel. >> Yes, sir. I'm detecting on Las Cusus Police Department. This is my partner, Detective Lockage. You feeling all right right now? Oh, yeah. Okay. What were you doing at Apadaka Park this past night? I don't know. >> You don't know? >> Who are you there with? >> Tell me what you do know, Joel. >> H tell me what you do know. >> What do you know? >> What happened? What'd you get on your hands? What's that? >> I don't know. >> You don't know what you got on your hands? >> And you don't know what you were doing in a dark part tonight? >> What are you doing? >> I wasn't in a dark part until I got called. >> You didn't either. >> That's what officer said. >> I guess. >> So, why do you think you're here, Bill? >> You guys brought me here. >> I'm asking you why we brought you here. >> Why did you ask me? >> You hurt me. With the direct approach going nowhere, detectives changed tactics entirely. Knowing Joel's history of homophobic vandalism, they deliberately suggested the victim had been his boyfriend. Not because they believed it, but because they knew exactly what it would do to him. What came out of Joel in the next few minutes was something nobody in that room had anticipated. >> Joel, I'm just trying to find out more information about James. So, was he your boyfriend? Were you guys dating each other? >> Okay. Were you guys in some kind of lover's coral? >> Yeah. >> Oh, >> who was that? >> Like because he's your boyfriend and you guys got in an argument. >> They told me that. >> That's just what I'm getting. >> Just getting that. >> You tell me, man. >> Why would you call me? >> I'm not calling you gay. Yeah, I'm not judging you. >> I'm married. You're not married. >> You're married? >> Yeah. >> Who you married to? >> Are you married to James? >> Are you trying to insult him? >> Huh? Are you insulting? Why you call? >> No, I'm not insulting you. I'm not calling you gay. >> Why are you calling me gay? >> I'm not calling you gay. >> I didn't call you gay. Call me gay. >> I said, >> are you married to James? >> No. Who told you I'm married? >> Okay. Well, I'm trying to find out why James is in a park and you were have his all over your hands. >> I'm not gay. I bet you are. >> Where are you getting this? You're lying. >> I'm not lying about anything. You lying. >> You're telling me I don't know everything, >> detective. Yeah, you act like a child. >> I'm not acting like a child. >> Yes, [music] you are. >> Okay, I'll [ __ ] up. >> So then tell me about James. >> Tell me about James. >> Is that why you're pissed? Because James thought you were gay? No. >> Did James hit on you? >> No. Did >> he make some kind of advance toward you that you didn't like? >> [music] >> Yeah. >> Want to fight me? >> I don't want to fight you. >> Well, let's do some [music] things. [snorts] >> I don't want to fight you. >> Don't Don't call me gay. >> Not call me gay. >> I'll beat the I'll beat the >> Okay, here's what I think happened. You and James are in a relationship. He said something to you and you him. >> Where did you go? Does your wife know where you're at right now? No. >> Does she know that you're sleeping in the park with another guy? >> No. >> You told me earlier you're sleeping in the park. You and James are the only ones in the park. >> I didn't do that. >> That's exactly what you told me. >> It's on the camera. >> That's not what I said. >> Look, Joel, you know what you did. You want to know why you did it. When Joel finally gave his reason for what happened to James Garcia, the story he told seemed to explain everything. But when detectives went back to check, they discovered that nothing he said was actually true. >> So why did you that guy? It's >> cuz he my wife. >> You're your wife. When did this happen? >> Four years ago. >> Four years ago. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Was that reported? >> No, we were all homeless. >> What's that? >> We were all homeless. You guys are all homies. >> Homeless. >> Homeless. I'm sorry. >> Those are those are our bags that you had. He was stealing from us. >> Okay. Which bags are yours? >> Most bags belong to them. I bar two friends. >> Okay. >> I wanted to get them back. I just tried to take him. He pulled the gun on me. You saw it. So yeah, I have a knife and I stab. >> And what else did you do? >> I cut his head off. I drag his body down. Okay, that's fits. I'll prove his head. >> He plays soccer with his head. >> Yeah, I'll keep that passing cars. I told you. >> I appreciate that. I appreciate you being honest with us. I need a cigarette. >> You want a cigarette? >> I guess I'm going to do for you. Okay. See you. >> In the end, Joel Aringa Science was charged with first-degree, but the case dragged on for years after he was declared mentally unfit to stand trial due to a condition he had been living with since childhood. In March 2025, he was finally ruled competent, found guilty, and sentenced to life [music] in prison. Next up, we have the case where officers responded to an illegal street race where a 13-year-old boy had been struck. And the chaos they walked into was only the beginning of a night that no one on scene would ever forget. >> My baby, bro. >> I know you my baby, bro. >> He didn't listen to me. Oh, I should have stopped him. >> Come on. Come on. >> On January 29th, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, just after midnight, a motorcycle traveling well over 100 mph, tore through an illegal street racing gathering on 28th Street North, and struck a 13-year-old boy crossing the road. Ethan Martin had been there with his father and older brother. By the time officers arrived, the scene had already descended into chaos with witnesses fleeing, parents screaming, and a family falling apart in real time. >> We got you, bro. >> All right, bro. >> Hey, bro. It's your dad, bro. It's your dad. Don't do >> I know you want to do something, [ __ ] Bro, I'm not home. >> I'm not bro. It's okay. Calm down. John >> son, relax back on the other side of the fire truck. >> All right, come on. >> Hey guys, we got we got we got to move back. All right, we better get you back on the fire trucks. >> You're my baby, bro. >> I know you're my baby, bro. I know. I know. [laughter] >> Mr. Martin, come on, man. We got to We got to We got to move you. Okay. >> Ethan's older brother, William, kept repeating that it was his fault, that he should have made Ethan stay by the truck, and watching their father, Johnny, try to calm him down while his own world was collapsing, told the officers everything about how tight this family had been before everything changed. >> Should have stayed home. We should have stayed home. >> Need about two more officers over here to start talking. >> I told him get in the truck. He didn't listen to me. It's my fault. >> I should have stopped him. I should have told him to go. It's not your fault. >> Not your fault. Not your fault, man. It's not your fault. >> You guys get out with us. >> I should have stayed at the track. You would have stayed with me. It's okay, buddy. It's okay. I shouldn't stay next to you. >> It's not your fault. It's not your fault, son. >> Not your fault. >> It's not your fault. >> No, it's okay, buddy. Don't blame this on you. >> That's all you wanted to do is play Fortnite with me. We should have just stayed home. >> It's It's okay. Relax. Relax. >> Everybody on. >> Don't blame this on you. Don't blame this on you. I got going to say >> what the is she going to say? She's going to shoot you. She's going to bring you. Your life is >> your life is >> I'll deal with everything from you, bro. She's going to take the shot, the house, the car. She's going to do anything. >> Don't worry about that. >> Relax. >> I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about your brother right now. >> This person by the 20 minute. >> No, you're not. Relax. >> Calm down again. Johnny was doing everything he could to keep his son from spiraling. But in between the words meant to comfort William, the rage he was holding back kept slipping through. And the officers on scene knew that keeping these two separated from the crowd was the only way to stop something worse from happening. >> I want I want to calm down. Hey, stop what you're saying, dude. >> Stop what you're saying. Take it out of anger. Most >> a couple more units. You guys need more up there. Just calm down. >> We need two people on the south here. We got to move emergency back once we get >> calm down >> because couple cars are in the >> You're not going to retaliate. You're not going to do nothing. Let the law do investigation this man. This is not right. >> You need to come from the south on 28th Street. We don't need anyone coming from the north anymore. >> Okay. >> That other motorcycle. Okay. >> Look at me. >> We're not going to move anything. It's just got people here. This is my baby boy. >> Motorcycle up there. >> You know my baby boy too. And >> I need you here too. Okay. >> Let him do it. Let him do his job. Okay. >> Let them do the damn job. Okay. >> Courtney, brother, >> father's right. It's a traffic homicide investigation right now. You need to be there for your dad and your dad needs to be there for you. All right. All you Charlie Sierra silver uh stop. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Your helmet, dude. You're not my gas can. William finally managed to explain what he saw, telling officers that nobody was really racing, just spinning tires, and that he only crossed the street to film a car he liked, never realizing Ethan had followed him until the sound of the crash turned everything silent. >> I'm not trying, >> you know. >> I would have took the impact. >> It's me old. I don't give a about me. It's 13, man. >> I'll be 14. It was supposed to be just a car show. Nobody racing. Nobody was even racing at all. >> What ended up happening? >> All the people The only thing was people just spinning tires. That's it. >> And they just stopped 10 ft. That's it. 10 ft. 20 ft. >> Yeah. >> But nobody was racing at all. >> And then I went over here to look to take a video of a car that I liked. So I cross the street >> and then some motorcycle crash. I ran to the motorcycle. >> I didn't know he's he crashed because he hit my son. I didn't know Ethan was behind me. You're supposed to stay by the truck. I told him stay by the truck. >> Mhm. >> Stay by the truck. >> It's a car, not a race show. >> Nobody's supposed to be racing here. My first time in seven years in a racetrack. >> Come on, man. >> This is my boy. No, I'm not right, but >> my boy. >> My boy. The officer talked to one of the witnesses sitting in a car near the scene. And from the very first question, the kid's answers felt slippery, like he was choosing each word carefully, hoping the officer wouldn't notice the pieces that didn't fit together. >> What's going on? >> How you doing? >> Were you guys out here for all this whole stuff that happened? >> No, we got our friend. >> Do me a favor. Turn the car off, please. >> So, we had an accident that was a Oh, sorry. With the door, man. >> Oh, my bad, man. >> Uh, whose uh glove is that >> without touching it? Don't reach down and touch it, but is that your glove? >> Sure. No, it's not. Okay. Um, were you out here? Did you see uh maybe what happened down there? >> No. >> No. >> No. I mean, >> you weren't out here or you just didn't see it? >> I just got a call. >> Okay. Put your hand out of your pocket for me, will you? >> Yes. >> Let me just take everything out. >> No, no, you're fine, man. Just if you can, just while you're talking to me. >> All right. What's your first name? >> Anthony. >> Uh, whose car is this? >> This is uh >> You got any ID on you? >> This is my buddy's car. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Your buddy's car? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Who's your buddy? >> He's He's already over there. >> Who? Who is it? >> He's with them. That's >> He's with him. >> What's your buddy? What's his name? >> David. >> David? What? >> Uh what's his last name? >> He's your buddy, but you don't know his last name. >> Well, I don't know his last name, obviously. >> But it's his car, though. >> All right. Uh >> What time did you guys get here? >> I got here probably about 15 years ago. around. >> All right. So, what did you see down here, man? I mean, obviously, >> we have a pretty bad accident. So, what happened? >> Yeah. >> I pulled I pulled up and saw the ambulances and everything and my buggy. >> My buggy was here. My other buggy was here already and I pulled up and I just >> Your buddy David, right? >> No, no, no, no. Another buggy. He already left. >> He had his car keys and I got >> You got car keys? >> David's. >> This car? >> Yeah. This for this car. And he told me how did you get here? What were you driving? >> My truck and my buddy at my buddy took my truck GMC truck there that left. >> I was going to just drive his car to his house and that's it. >> Who has the keys to this car? >> I have the keys to his car right now. >> Oh, okay. But that's David's car. >> That's David's car. I was just going to drive it to his house. >> Okay. So, were you out here when the accident happened? Help us out here so we can figure out what happened. >> No, I was not. >> I was not. >> You're going to tell me that you guys rolled up after? >> Yeah, cuz I got a call. I was already in the area. >> Uh-huh. Okay. So, where were you? >> I was in the area. I was on I was >> Where were you? >> I was down there. >> So, I was coming from I was coming from the >> I was on the [ __ ] the bridge. >> Listen, you're not being honest with me, man. Now, I got to go back and tell them that you're not being honest with me for whatever reason. I don't really know why at this point, but your story stinks. Why can't you just be straight with me, man? you know, because it's all going to come out in the wash anyways, you know, and it's going to look really not great if they come to find out you were directly involved somehow, which they will find out. >> Mhm. >> You know what I mean? So, that's what I'm I'm asking you now. Like, what's going on, man? >> All right. >> The mother pushed through the chaos looking for her boy. And even as officers tried to hold the scene together, witnesses quietly gave up the one piece of information they had been chasing all night. Who was riding that bike? >> I know. I know. >> Miss, what's going on? >> My son. Who's your son? >> Christian Todd. >> How old is your son? >> 17. He was his best friend's brother's the one that got >> Listen. Listen. >> I need to see my son. >> Listen. I I understand. But what we have Listen. Listen to what I'm saying. We have an active scene over there. And I can't just have you running over there just just because you think maybe he's there, maybe he's not. We don't know where he is. >> So, what I can't have you doing is run through an active scene cuz you're going to run into problems. I'm panicking. >> I get it. But I'm going to need you to stand by for a second. Let us handle what we got to do up there. Let us figure it out. Okay. But I can't have you just running through there yelling your son's name. >> Find him. >> Just Just give us a minute. Okay. >> We don't even know your son's name yet. >> We don't even know your son's name yet. >> Christian. >> All right. So, >> Christian. >> Okay. And then uh >> were you like the ball or what's going on? >> My buddy was on the bike. >> Your buddy was on the bike. >> He was just cruising down. >> You can't see down there and the kid ran in front of the boat. >> So, your body was going this way. >> Yeah. It was just like >> Okay. And then uh somebody or he somebody pedestrian ran across the road and pedestrian hit the pedestrian. Gotcha. Is this like a meet up spot that you guys meet up? So around >> Yeah. I don't really come down here much cuz I live in Pasco County. So >> um my girl and her cousin I just picked up her cousin from the airport. So >> yeah, >> we knew some car just a car chill car going on. >> Yeah. Yeah. You guys meet up like street sometimes. Yeah. I just like seeing the cars and stuff. >> Right. Right. Right. >> So, this all the spots you guys made of? >> Yeah, I guess. >> Yeah. >> So, this is not like the first time basically like you're here in this spot. >> This is the first time I've came to this spa. Usually, I go over to like the grandmar or like that racetrack gas station, >> right? Right. The race. >> Yeah. Cuz I mean, I'm not really here to race my car. I don't >> have set up by your body. Is this his first time or no? >> Um, he's in the military. He's a marine. Um, he used to live here, then he got stationed. He's just down here for the weekend. >> Yeah. Was he on this lane or like >> He was on this lane? >> Yeah. >> Are you related to anybody here or just >> No, I'm not related. I'm really good friends with him though. >> Got you. Pretty much. >> What? What did you see? What happened? >> So, he was on the bike. He was coming this way. >> Do you know who was on the bike? >> Yeah. Uh Carlos. >> Do you know Carlos? Like you guys? >> Yeah. Your friend? >> Yeah. He's my close friend. >> Okay. >> Um he was riding this way on the bike and a group of people tried to like run across the street. I'm guessing is what they're doing. But they ran across the street and they ran in front of him, man. >> Gotcha. And what you remember what like was all running the same direction people? Like were they crossing this way? Were they crossing this way? >> That way on that side of the road going that way and they were crossing that road. >> The name they gave up was Carlos. And when officers found him near the scene, he was too broken to speak. But the girl standing nearby mentioned that her cousin Natalie had been recording on her phone and what she captured was about to change everything. >> Stay over here. >> Yeah. I got to let him know something, bro. >> We'll let him know. We'll let him know. Y can't let him know, >> man. Man, can't be sure he's not going to see him. Okay, be coming back. >> I got to let him know, bro. I got to stop letting him know, man. I got to be cool with you. >> It's just between me and him. It's between me and >> he was going to come over here, too. Okay. >> Let me talk to him. Let me talk to him. Let me talk to him. >> Please, let me talk to him. Let me talk to him. Let me talk to him. >> We're just trying to clear people out right now, but we don't want anyone. >> What the [ __ ] >> Dude is 13. >> 12, bro. Dude is 12. >> 13. Same [ __ ] >> Hey, he's not, bro. He just got pronounced as a [ __ ] teen either, bro. >> Oh god, bro. What the is this [ __ ] bro? >> I remember Carlos wanting to try his friend's bike. >> Okay. >> And that was the black one. >> Okay. >> But he was riding blue one all night. >> Carlos was riding a blue one all night. >> Yes. But then he wanted to try his friends or uncle. >> Was he racing? >> H >> was he racing? >> He went out alone. I don't think he was racing anywhere. >> Okay. He went that way and then I think he turned around. >> But was he going fast? >> I went to go record on my phone and my phone was >> recording what you could >> on my phone. >> The race. >> The races. it. I just wanted to like record like my friend go by and my phone was and then my cousin Natalie in the car, she's afraid to tell you that she has a video on her phone. >> But at first I thought it only recorded him like, you know, like zooming by. But we went back and we watched it and you can hear everything happen. >> Okay. I'm gonna need to see that. >> Yeah. But it's she's scared to talk to you. >> But that's Do you know how fast he was going? Roughly. >> No, but there's a video. >> When officers finally sat down with Natalie and watched that video, they didn't just see Carlos flying down the road. They could hear the impact, the screaming, and the exact moment a night of watching cars turned into something nobody could take back. >> You're not in trouble. Okay. Do you got your driver's license on you or anything? >> In the car. >> In your car. Okay. Go ahead and grab it. She's just got to get her driver's license. Going pretty fast. And my cousin was on the floor and she took a video of it. And then when the video You could hear the crash and you hear the crash in real life. Then we ran down and then there was a blue bike and I just seen the one body and I then my cousin stood my phone and I had her call 911. >> Can't see the video. I'm >> trying to rewind it back. The following day, officers shifted their attention to the two men whose decisions had set the stage for everything that happened on that road. The uncle who owned the bike and the father who had brought his sons to watch. Neither of them had been behind the handlebars, but the questions waiting for them weren't about what they did. They were about [music] what they allowed. Yes, sir. >> Owner of the uh the bike that was involved in the accident. >> Yes. >> With your nephew. >> Okay. Uh what I'm asking you now is consent to basically do DNA swabs on the front of the bike. Basically [music] >> Oh, yes. >> to prove uh you know that that's the bike that >> the juvenile and that your nephew was the one that was riding the bike. Just to eliminate everything. So, you're okay with me [music] doing DNA swabs on the bikes? >> Yes, I destroy him. >> That's unfortunately that's the only that I can uh give because it's the only thing that didn't have any or anything on it. Okay. So, [sighs] where we're at in the case, uh I've been discussing with the state attorney about possibly filing charges and stuff like that. Okay. I guess the motorcyclist and even the uncle for basically allowing his nephew to [music] ride the motorcycle. >> No, no, he he he's he's of age. But the thing is is he doesn't have a motorcycle endorsement, so he shouldn't have been riding that bike. [snorts] Uncle was there, the owner [music] like and everything, and obviously the nephew was, too. All right, so that's where we're at on the investigation. I'm still conducting it. It's still kind of early, but I have discussed it with the state. >> Have my lawyer on top of this, too. I'm I'm going let the law. >> That's That's exactly what you said. >> I know that night they say a lot of things. I was pissed. >> Yeah. >> And I was hurt, but I'm letting you guys handle this. >> Okay. >> At first, I was scared cuz I put him in danger. I thought I was going to go to jail. Just trying to have fun on my side. So, all right. Go ahead. >> Ever took a fishy fishy. >> Days later, a new lead sent detectives to a young woman named Jasmine. And while she had nothing to do with the crash herself, her boyfriend Steven had been standing just feet from Ethan when it happened. Close enough to see things he hadn't told anyone yet. >> What's your middle name? >> Uh, Steven. >> So, I'm a traffic homicide investigator. and I'm investigating a crash that caused the death of somebody. >> Yes. Yes, sir. >> Um, >> so I'm going to show you a series of photos um that we got. So, this is a first photo. Do you recognize the car like the headlights or anything? I know it's kind of like cuz of it's dark. >> Uh, yes sir, I do. >> Yeah. What do you How do you recognize that? >> The car. >> It's your car. Um, yes sir. >> Okay. So, there's the second one. Obviously, this is a little closer if you were there. >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. >> Why'd you leave? >> With a weak stomach. And then actually in those pictures, I'm pretty sure you got that from the video. >> Yes. Yes. >> The guy, he said, "Back up." >> Back up. Yeah. He said, "Go." >> Okay. >> That's literally the only reason why. >> Who told you just back up? >> The dude that was recording. I don't know. >> LG. Okay. Did you see >> bike? >> Um, so I'm going to be 100%. >> Yep, that's fine. And that's what I want. >> No, no, no. The the biker was not racing at all. >> Okay. See how fast he was going? >> 100 something. >> 100 something. So >> 100 something. But he he was not racing. >> Were you in the car when it happened? >> No. No. No. No. I was actually like standing like 5t in front of where the kid was. >> Like 5t. >> I was uh on the side of the road. You know how there was a center lane? uh the lane and then there's another lane and the road >> like the turn that turn lane. >> Yeah, I was I was standing over there everybody. >> Okay. Well, a little bit down in the turn lane. >> Um >> Okay. So, you weren't in the car itself? >> No. No, sir. Uh the kid the kid and the brother were in the middle lane and the kid at the last minute tried to run across the bike. He was like a deer in the headlights. It was crazy. In the end, Carlos Fernandez was charged with vehicular homicide, reckless driving, causing serious bodily injury, street racing, and operating a motorcycle without an endorsement. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison, followed [music] by 13 years of probation. His uncle was charged with street racing as a spectator and culpable negligence for handing over a bike to someone who had no business riding it. [music] Next up, we have the case of a woman who was supposed to be cared for by her own sister. But what officers found behind a locked door inside that house was something no one could have prepared for. >> Can I see your ID, and can you show me where she's at, please? >> No. You look good. >> That's all right. Let me go in there. >> I don't want to go to jail. >> Okay. Can you walk? >> Oh, look at her. >> Can you walk? >> She's sitting in a chair curled up in a ball terrified >> laying on her back in that hospital treatment bed. To me, she looks like a breathing corpse. >> On November 28th, 2023, Baldwin County deputies responded to a call from a worried aunt who hadn't seen her niece Stacy in 2 years and feared she was being held captive inside her own home. The woman who showed up at the door was Bobby. Stacy's own sister. Bobby started dodging every question and begged them to wait for her husband. But nothing could have prepared them for what waited in that house. >> I don't think this thing's been used in forever. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, it does. >> How are you? You live here, I assume. Yeah. >> Okay. What's your name? >> Bobby. Okay. Give me Do you remember who we're looking for? >> Bowen. Who is it that we're supposed to be looking for? We got contact with somebody. >> Stacy. Stacy. 33y old female. >> Stacy. Do you know where she's at? >> Yeah. I just went to my husband. How many of them? >> Where's Stacy? Does she stay here with y'all? >> Okay. Where is she at right now? >> She is there. >> Can I talk to her? Can I see her real quick? >> She don't talk to nobody. >> Well, I just >> She want to do nothing for me. >> Well, can you show me where she's at? I just want to see her. Put eyes eyes on her and make sure she's okay. >> She won't take no bath. >> Go ahead. >> She don't even got no clothes on. I can't control her. I don't know what to do myself. And I didn't want to call y'all or no place like that cuz I have kids. >> I got you. Okay, sweetie. Do you have your >> My mom and daddy had died and left her behind and I don't know what to do no more. I don't know. What is she to you? >> That's my sister, but I ain't got no written paper saying that she's my um >> Okay. Can I >> that I'm guardian or nothing? >> Can I see your ID and can you show me where she's at, please? >> She don't look good. >> That's all right. Let me go in there. >> I don't I don't I don't want to go to jail. I'm telling you. >> What are you going to go to jail for? >> For the way she looks. >> Have you been doing anything to her? >> No. I mean, I put her food in and all, but >> Well, that's good. Just >> She tries to fight people. Oh, that's fine. >> She don't have her on no clothes. Just a shirt. I'm telling And she's real skinny. >> All right. All right. What's your >> Stop taking the medicine. She won't take it for us. >> Okay. >> And none of my other family will not help. >> I got you. >> I just don't know what to do myself. >> And she is your sister. >> We working on moving out this house cuz this house is really old. >> When Bobby finally led them to the room, she admitted she kept her sister locked inside with a twisted coat hanger through the door because she claimed Stacy tried to fight people. But the way she said it made it sound like she was the one who needed protecting. >> Can I Can you show me what she got? >> She come home right now. >> Had anymore. >> I had to do this. >> She tried to beat on me for that. >> Okay. So, she's locked in there right now. >> And she tries to jump up with a kid, but we don't know what to do with it. And I didn't want her go to jail or something. >> What's up by something you let her out? >> Not for 23 years. I know. She comes out and she just she acts crazy. >> What's all this? >> Is this on here or now? >> No. >> I told >> Can you open it for me real quick? >> She won't take a bath. >> Just crack a little bit. >> Yeah, just open the door for me, please. Nasty one, too. I can't handle her. She's bad. >> She's in that room in there. >> Okay, that's fine. Copy Joe Barber 27. >> Hey sweetheart, how are you? When roing your EMS, please you okay? What I need? uh severely malnourished lady. We have contact with her. The sisters here had her locked up in her front. >> The husband, Jerry, showed up shortly after and started talking just as fast as Bobby, blaming Stacy for everything wrong in that house while conveniently leaving out the part where they had been cashing her disability checks and living under her roof without providing any real care. >> Can you move the things away from the door so I can open it? >> Ma'am, why is the door like that? Just so she can't get out. Yeah. >> Where uh >> I know of. I don't >> see. >> Oh, when does your husband get home? >> He can come home now, but it's almost time to pick our kids up. >> Hey, how are you? >> We're good. >> Um, who are you? Are you Do you live here? >> I'm her husband. >> Oh, okay. All right. Um, we just got called here to do a welfare chat. >> Um, >> we don't want her here. I mean, she she can't she don't want to do nothing. She done tried to scratch me. I try to give her a bath. I'm a guy. She's a girl. >> And I know for a fact if you drag somebody to go give them a bath more than what 10 foot is kidnapping charge, and I don't want that neither. >> So, you guys, I guess, just kind of ended up being like, >> we're stuck because we have no family. All I have is my daddy. He lives down in her family ain't working. They don't have nothing to do with us. It's just me, >> okay, >> and our kids. >> Y'all got left with this other lady. >> We got left with her >> when her parents died. >> When her parents died and we was trying to get out before her mama and then her mama didn't stay here with her daddy and then her daddy died. Then we got stuck here and nobody wanted to help with her. >> Yeah. So, [music] I guess there's no other family to help take care of her. Does she have any problems or >> she's all I know? They keep saying she's [ __ ] That's all I know. So maybe she >> I don't know. I know she has seizures, but I know she ain't taking medicine because she won't damn take it. She'll try to scratch you, eat you, cuss at you, >> and she scares the living out of my kids all time. So we we just don't want >> So I'll try to just keep her on that side. >> Do you have your sister's ID? >> She don't have one. She would never go get one. >> I got you. >> It's my daddy. Couldn't hold a hand either. >> What's her name? >> Stacy. Gotcha. >> You know her social? You don't know her shoulder? >> I don't think I got her so good, mama. >> Okay. >> No, but daddy, he was in pretty bad shape and she would beat him >> before he died. >> And he didn't know what to do with her and I was just going to try to take care of her as long as I could. But she got she wouldn't do nothing. >> Somebody told us we could take her to the emergency room and drop her off up there. But like, why we going to drop her off up there? Then you won't know what's going to happen to her then. >> Yeah. >> I don't. The moment officers finally got that door open and saw Stacy curled up in a fetal position, the officer knew they were past the point of asking questions. The couple was placed under arrest while medics rushed in to help a woman who looked like she hadn't been touched by sunlight or kindness in years. >> How long has she been here with y'all? >> Just, you know, daddy died about a year ago. >> Does she have a bathroom in that room that she's in? >> No, we was trying to give her baths and everybody's bathroom. Our bathroom. >> How many bathrooms are in this house? >> Just one. >> The just one bathroom. Like I said, we was in we in the process of trying to save up money to move out of this house cuz it ain't no good. >> Gotcha. Well, >> I mean, I see it's in pretty bad conditions in here. What? >> I want your name. >> Okay. All right, sweetheart. What we do? We're just going to have to >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Say, you can you walk? >> I want your name. >> Come here. >> Can you walk? >> Come see your hands. >> I want >> you. Okay, we got you. We can do that. >> Okay. >> Oh my. >> Hey, open the door. Open the door. Come here, sweetheart. >> All right, take a seat right there. >> Have a seat, sweetheart. >> Sit right here. >> Kitty. >> Yeah, we're we're going to get the kitty for you. Okay. >> Let's go over here. Okay. >> Oh, my toy. >> Okay. >> Oh my. She that's under >> two. All right. >> No, it's okay. Nothing to be sorry about. Okay. >> Can you ever get that out? >> Put your left foot on there. Left foot. Right foot. Right foot. Can I please get these in front of me? Right foot, >> please. >> No, no, no. Right foot. Are you going to make me put your foot in there? >> No. >> Well, please just put it. >> Can I have some air? >> Please put your foot in. >> Okay. Take the hood off of him again. >> You kind of I'm big. >> Try to scoot a little more. Scoot. Scoot. Scoot. Scoot. >> Detectives began photographing the room in Stacy's body for evidence. The smell alone stopped officers in their tracks. A detail that said everything about how long Stacy had been left in those conditions. >> Before you give me one second cuz we're going to have to get pictures. >> Okay. You want to take pictures of her real quick before they strip her, brother? >> Absolutely. That's the telephone. >> Look at Oh, you all >> Well, there was one that was ti was tied up with a co. >> Yeah, >> there's another one. As you go in there, the door that's right there. It's >> I I Well, I went about to where she was. I could I could >> The smell. >> It's terrible. >> You have ID on her? >> She She does not have an ID, my understanding. >> So, name and date of birth in the call notes is all we have. >> Yep. I will be no name and date of birth on her. We have a name and date of birth. that you don't have a positive ID. >> She never had an ID apparently. I don't know where she was out for me. >> Your arm out. >> Leave your arm right there. >> You want me to close the door? >> There's no bathroom. >> Was this key already in this door? >> Huh? >> Was the key in that door? >> Yeah. She was sitting in a chair, curled up in a ball, terrified. >> The officers were standing in a house that belonged to Stacy. Yet, she was the one locked away like she didn't matter. While the sister and brother-in-law, who were supposed to be looking after her, acted like they had been doing her a favor all along. >> Hey, darling. >> I'm Detective Burrell. >> How old is she? >> 33. Uh, >> is that what they said? >> Uh, 519 1990 33. >> My blanket. >> Your blanket? >> Yes. >> Where's your blanket at? >> I ran it. I don't know if anybody came back. >> Be still for me, baby. Yeah, it's deficated on multiple times. I'm sure you can see it and all the stains down her legs. >> I'm sure >> another blanket. >> Yeah, we need a blanket. >> Huh? >> We need the children, too. >> Yeah, I'm going to get that. >> Whose house is this? >> It was their father who passed away a year ago. >> So, they stay here and they're supposed to be taking care of her. >> I have a sister. >> Um, okay. Hang on. There's a >> yeah from the school bus kids to worry about now would be back the girls the girl's sister. >> Well that house anyway they probably need to be involved anyway. >> Who who who called this aunt? >> Her aunt. >> Her aunt >> that has not seen her >> that has not seen her in two years >> and knew she was locked in >> and knew she was locked in the room >> or potentially. With the couple in custody, officers scrambled to track down their two young children who were still at school, making sure they wouldn't come home to a house that had just been turned inside out by what their parents had allowed to happen. >> So, we need to get the names of the kids. >> That's correct. >> And then we need to go ahead and get the schools involved and pull those kids out of class if they're all defects. >> What are your kids' name? >> H Let me come to that side. Okay. >> What are you going to do to my kid? I just got to You're not here, so I got to go make sure that they're going to be okay. >> And I want y'all to take Ricky in. >> What are their names? >> Do you have family members? We can turn them over to them all. >> Yay. >> Okay. >> He's probably on the way. He's from Dublin. >> Who's he? >> No. Go ahead. >> His daddy. >> His daddy. >> I just don't think this is fair cuz y'all ain't looking at my side of the story. >> We She g any kind of street. >> All anybody ever cared about was Harry. My mom and daddy. >> Okay, Bobby. I goes to that school and she goes to Midway Hills I mean primary photograph her as well. >> Okay, give me one second. Let me write this down just to make sure I get it correct. What's her birthday? And she goes to what school? >> Midway Hills Primary. >> Midway Hills Primary. What? Since you said you know everybody's social, what's Emma social? >> I just know my husband. >> Okay, I got you. >> Okay, sweetie. And >> have two two kids. All right. And what school is she at? >> That one right there academy. >> Oh, the one that's right here. Okay. >> After Stacy was taken to the hospital, the officers who remained at the scene couldn't shake what they had just witnessed. And when a supervisor arrived to debrief them, the details they shared painted a picture of suffering so severe it bordered on torture. >> I know. I not going to lie. smell. Soon as I open up the door, >> I I was I was >> No, I threw up. >> I was breathing through my mouth. I >> Yeah, I tasted that. I threw up. >> I threw up. >> My lunch that I was just eating in the front yard. >> So, from what she told me, her dad passed away about a year ago and the sister stayed in their possession. That's the way she put for them to take care of. The parents used to live at this house. The parents died nine months apart from each other. And uh so they stayed in the house. I asked if the sister is on been diagnosed with anything and she said no, she just suffered from uh seizures. I said, "Is she on any medication?" She has refused to take it for about a year. So she went and got the medication. The medication is in the front seat of my car. It's expired. I believe Melissa made the comment that it's almost full. That's all I know about the girl that got taken to the hospital. >> Detectives started the interrogation with Bobby and right out of the gate, she painted Stacy as the problem. A woman who couldn't read, write, or bathe herself while carefully leaving out the part where she was the one in charge of making sure Stacy survived. >> How long have you lived at that house? >> Well, we all used to live on Mount Pleasant Church Road. >> Okay. >> And then we moved over there. It's been I'm trying to remember how long it's been. I don't I youngest was like not even one years old yet. So >> Okay. >> And she's eight now. >> So she's eight. So 7 years ago was about the time that you all moved over there >> with my mom and daddy >> with your mom and dad. Okay. >> Dad was alive. >> Okay. So your mom and dad are deceased now. >> Yeah. See, I ain't I ain't never lived with nobody else except my mom and daddy. >> Okay. >> So [music] I was still living with them. >> How old are you today? >> Have to take care of them. I'm 31. Well, just had a birthday. 32. >> Yeah. 32. >> Okay. >> And I was helping I always help take care of my mom and daddy. I tried to help take care of my sister, but >> Okay. >> Everybody just don't understand that she ain't right. >> Okay. When you say she's not right, what do you mean? >> She she she don't know how to read. She don't know how to write. She don't know. >> And this is Stacy. >> Yes. She don't know how to give herself a bath. >> Okay. >> She can feed herself. >> Okay. cuz I feed her every day. She could feed herself. >> Okay. [clears throat] Is she able to communicate? She's able to talk to you. Okay. >> She could talk, but but [music] some of her stuff, she had imaginary people that she talked to and all. >> When her mama and Daddy died, >> right? >> We was already living there. >> Okay. >> So, when her mama died, me and my wife had plans to move out before her mama died. Then her mama died, then we could move out. But we staying there with her daddy. Then her dad died. Then what was stuck with her? Stuck with the funeral. Everybody at the funeral said, "Oh, y'all going to take care of >> Bobby admitted she had thought about calling for help before, but claimed she was too afraid of losing her own kids. Yet buried in that excuse was the truth that she [music] had taken control of Stacy's disability check and had no intention of letting that monthly income walk out the door. >> Did you think about calling like uh adult protective services or defects?" >> Yes, but like I said, I didn't want our kids to get took away just for that. I gotcha. So, you didn't call the state agency cuz you were afraid that that they may come in. >> I did try to call, you know, before it got too bad or whatever. Okay. [snorts] >> I tried to call the um like the nursing home to put it in place, you know, >> but they said that I would have to um be her legal guardian or something. >> Okay. >> And >> so there were there was never any paperwork drawn up. There was no, you didn't go to probate court and become be assigned her guardian or nothing like that. >> The only thing I had over was her check, but I would it was have to pay the rent. >> Okay. >> And buy food. >> So, how were you put over her financial responsibility? How were you put in charge of that? Well, they I called to see if I could get that done because I figured, you know, since I'm trying to take care of her, I mean, they could buy her food and stuff that she needed. >> Okay. So, you so you can admit that that that she's probably not been properly taken care of under under your care. Is that fair [music] to say? >> Well, it makes me sound bad. I I ain't agree with nothing like that. >> Do what now? I try I found her. >> Okay. >> Like I said, if she I tell her to come and get a bath and she won't go get one, what am I supposed to do? I ain't going to sit there and be nobody. >> When asked about how Stacy ate or used the bathroom while locked in that room, Bobby's answers kept shifting. >> But if she's locked in that room with the coat hanger, with the wire hanger through the lock, how does she get to the refrigerator to eat? >> I take her food to her. >> You take it to her. Okay. >> Yeah, [clears throat] she eats and drinks stuff all the time. >> Okay. So, the other door that's got the cord tied to it, tell me >> where the bathroom is. >> Okay. So, where does she use the bathroom? >> She won't go to the bathroom anyway cuz I tried to take it. She won't go. She's not [snorts] a person that's going to walk to the bathroom by herself. >> Okay. >> She [clears throat] wasn't my mom and daddy. She's never been since she was born. >> Okay. >> So, where does she use the bathroom at? Heck, >> I don't know. >> Just wherever she uses it. I guess, like I said, I didn't go in there that much because she did try to jump on me one time in front of my kid. >> Okay. >> So, that's why I know we should do something sooner than now, but I can't take back what's been done. >> So, you're home all day long? >> Yeah. >> So, if she needs something, she can call out to you or >> And I give her something to drink and eat, >> right? How many times a day do you give her something to eat and drink? >> Maybe twice. >> Maybe twice. When's the last time you actually laid eyes on your sister? >> I seen her the other day. I see her from time to time. >> Okay. >> But she don't ever try to talk to me. >> So, do you see her like every couple days or do you see her every day or [clears throat] do you see her once a week? >> Probably every couple days. >> Every couple days >> I see her. But she's always wanting to stay in that room, >> right? >> And she won't come out and I put her food in there. >> So, if you see her every couple days, how do you put her food in there? >> We got a heater right here in the living room. >> Okay. And I set the food and drink on it and she'll sneak out that bedroom and get it. >> So you go into one room and set her food down on that the living room. >> Yes. And she'll come out and get it. She >> And then she'll come out of her bedroom. >> And then sometimes here lately it's been kind of scary, but that's why I had was seriously getting ready to call somebody cuz Yeah. >> She would go banging on them doors and start cussing at me. What was she saying when she was cussing at you? >> She's telling me to get out of the house. >> The detective showed Bobby the photographs, the state of Stacy's body, the visible signs of prolonged neglect, evidence that was impossible to look away from and [music] impossible to explain. >> When's the last time you actually laid eyes on her to be able to make a light >> somewhat of an assessment that says, "Hey, this room stinks or >> Mhm. >> He's been messed up at work because I've been stressed out at work." >> Mhm. stressed out at home, worried about stuff and everything. >> Worried about my daddy, >> worried about money, just worried about everything. >> Look, I get it. [music] >> And I don't go in there and cigar sometimes. >> It's on her chest. I don't know what it is. It's I don't know if it's truly I don't know if it's if it's food. Now, here's her hands. Okay. Here's her fingernails. Mhm. >> And all this, you know, it's on her abdomen. You notice anything else about this picture? >> What's this right here? >> That right there. >> Yeah. >> Why is she so skinny? I feed her every day. >> It's my point. Why is she so skinny? If you're feeding her every day. >> I am feeding her every day. >> That's her pelvic girdle. I don't know why she's that skinny. >> There's bruising. [music] >> It hurts my feelings cuz I feed her every day. >> Down here, there's a big there's uh brown mass or something. I don't know if it's uh I don't know if it's I don't know if I can just tell you that it's not normal. Whatever it is, these are [clears throat] fingernails. You know, >> I tried cutting in before, too. >> Yeah, she was crazy. >> So, she's using the bathroom somewhere. No, didn't smell anything. >> Well, it does smell a little bit, >> you know. Now, here's the other side of her knee all bruised up. So, her body's breaking down. She's whatever. I mean, somebody wasn't going in that room and checking on her to make sure that >> I was >> that she was You can't tell me. You can't convince me that you were in this room, going in her room and looking in on her. >> Detectives described Stacy's condition as someone who had been left to disappear. And as they walked Bobby through the images of matted hair and skin peeling from her feet, it became impossible to believe that anyone who claimed to love her could have let things reach this point. >> These are all sores on her right hip area. If I had to describe that picture of her laying on her back in that on that hospital treatment bed, to me, she looks like a breathing corpse. I've seen people who have died that are in better physical condition than she is. I'm trying to understand how and why she got in that condition if you all were her caregivers. I didn't sign a favor center for caregiver. >> I just said that I was trying to help take care of her. I didn't mean for her to look like that. >> Understand? >> I can't sit there and wait on her hand to foot like mom and daddy. >> This is her hair all matted. We had to I say we the nursing staff cut all this out. Um, these are these are her legs. One of the things that stands out to me is how big the kneecaps are and how skinny the upper the lower part of the thigh is. I mean, it just, you know, she's got some abrasions on her feet, skin's peeling on her feet. >> Bobby finally broke down and admitted she should have made the call for help. But even in that moment of supposed remorse, she couldn't stop talking about how hard her own life had been and how much she had lost. As if Stacy's suffering was just another burden she had been forced to carry. >> How do we fix this? >> Because I love her. I really do love my sister. It ain't nothing like that against her because they didn't love her more. >> Well, [clears throat] I'll I'll throw this out there to you. >> Well, mama daddy's gone now. >> If if if you love her as you say you do, that's a strange way to show you love her. You know what I mean? Can you agree with that? >> Yes, sir. I said, you know, >> so her money was being used for her care, her food, >> rent, >> obviously, for part of the rent, >> part of the [clears throat] lights and >> stuff like that. >> Yeah. Her medicines. So, my point being to you is we all have different challenges, but that's unacceptable. this care and treatment when you all decided that it wasn't you weren't able to take care of her, you needed to make that call then. So then the question is why didn't you? Like I said, I was scared and I didn't want my own kids to get took away because the way stuff look in the house. I didn't told you this. >> In the end, Bobby and Jerry Barber were indicted on multiple counts, including exploiting a disabled adult, false imprisonment, and failing to provide basic care. Stacy was finally receiving the medical attention she had been denied for so long while the couple's children were placed with family. Next up, we have the case of a dog walker who unzipped a suitcase in a park expecting trash and what he found inside sent officers rushing to a scene they'd never forget. >> Police search warrant. >> I pulled it up, unzipped it. I couldn't really see and I opened it up and >> it is >> I can't >> I don't get how you can hate your own kids enough to kill them to bury them. On March 2nd, 2026, Cleveland police received a call that immediately told them this was no ordinary situation. A dog walker had found something buried in a park near his home. Something that had been sitting there for nearly a week while his dog kept stopping at the same spot every single day. >> Cleveland, please. What's the address of the emergency? >> Um, it's a park Midland and 162nd Street. I [snorts] just found a head uh in a suitcase in the park. >> Okay. And is it a human head or an animal head? >> Yes. No, it's a human head in a suitcase with like it looks like uh some other body parts. >> I was walking my dog and my dog stopped and there was something like half buried. It looked like a suitcase. I pulled it up and unzipped it and opened it and that's what it was. >> Okay. >> Philip, who was the caller, had been walking past that same spot for an entire week. His dog stopping and sniffing a little too long every single time. What he assumed was merely a strange abandoned suitcase turned out to be something that would haunt him for years to come. >> How you doing, sir? >> Little checking up right now. >> Understood. >> If you go, you can see you can see the case from back here. It's all the way straight to the back. >> Close to that sign. >> Yeah. See the little black >> straight ahead in front. Okay. Straight. >> It's a suitcase. >> It's a suitcase. I've been walking past it for about a week now cuz I take my dog. I stay right here. >> I take my dog. I usually walk her through there and then come around here. >> Okay. >> And for the last week, she's been st it's like a mound of dirt. She been stopped and sniffing like a little too long. >> Okay. >> And today I was like, "Well, I'm going to take I hope it's not what I'm >> right." >> And I It was halfway buried. It's about this thick. It's about halfway buried. I pulled it up, unzipped it. I couldn't really see. And I opened it up and head >> buried under the dirt. It was >> halfway. You can see a little part of it sticking out. >> And you said you noticed it for about a week already. >> Yeah. It's been sitting over there like somebody buried it or tried to bury it. >> And like I said, I walk my dog over there and she keeps stopping. She sniff sniff a little too long. You know, she sniffed stuff, but >> and I'm like, >> I don't know what that is. I'm not going to with it. And I today I was just like, let me see what the that Billy is. >> It's back there up so it's kind of standing up and it stinks like >> Okay. You're right here at 670. What was your name, sir? >> Phillip. >> Phillip. Okay. I'm going to check it out. I'll be with you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> When the officer arrived at the scene, he chose not to open the case alone and waited for backup before going any further. Inside the first suitcase, they found the remains of a young girl. But the horror didn't end there. Just a short distance away, partially buried in the same park. A second suitcase held another child's remains. Good. >> I got you. So, I haven't even I haven't opened it yet. Um the dude I talked to the caller, he said that >> there was this um suitcase partially like buried in the ground that he said he's been noticing for like a week and his dog keeps trying to uh you know get to it. >> So he said that he pulled it out today and uh to see what was in there cuz it was kind of heavy and he noticed like a head and hurry you know he just left it and called the police. >> So I'll just wait till you guys get here before I open it. I mean, it's like partially partially buried. [music] He said it was sticking out for like a week. He finally decided to uh open it up. I just want to see you flash a light. I just want to see if there's any or anything in there. No. >> Yeah. >> You on? >> Yeah. I forgot. You uh bring it closer. I can't see. Look like a foot. >> Yeah. No. >> Oh, yeah. It is like a kid. >> Yeah. >> I can't see >> a scroll. It's attached. It's just like fold in the fetal position. >> No, frozen. >> What they found inside those two suitcases were the bodies of two young girls, 8-year-old Mila Chapman and 10-year-old Amore Wilson. What made it even more devastating was that investigators discovered both girls had been completely off the radar for over 3 years. Their mother had pulled them from school in November 2022, requested a transfer to an online academy where it was later confirmed neither girl had ever been enrolled there. From that point forward, both girls had simply vanished from every system that should have been protecting them. 2 days after the heartbreaking discovery on March 4th, 2026, officers arrived at the home of 28-year-old Elliot Henderson. >> Police search war. >> Police search war. >> Watch it. >> Hands up. Come on. Come on down. Hands up. Come on down. Hands up. Come down now. Hands up. >> Anybody else inside? >> Come here. >> Got her. >> The girl down. >> Got it. >> Anybody else here? >> Go ahead. >> You good? >> I got you covered. >> While speaking with reporters, Mila's father revealed he had spent 5 years trying to find his daughter. Courts, lawyers, CPS, welfare checks, but every door was shut as he had no address. He found out his daughter was gone through the news. I say she emotionally unstable. She a grown woman that don't know how to control her emotions. I feel like she want to be she want to be the bigger picture. I I can't say but it's from my eye it's probably jealousy of the kids. I don't know. But like I don't I don't get how you can hate your own kids enough to them to bury them to do all this to do all this and go right there to that home right there and live there with your kids and right here and go be a mother to another child. Why you just your other two? >> When was the last time you saw your daughter? Um, I've been looking for my daughter for 5 years. Um, I've been calling CPS, going to the courts, um, trying to get emergency custody. Um, calling the police for welfare checks. Um, but they deny all access because she's a mover, I guess. So, you know, in the state of Ohio, if you don't if you don't have the address of the person, but you have their full name and social, but if you don't have the address, it's nothing they can do for you. So, I've been in I've been trying to contact them. CPS told me um the CPS told me they going to get in contact with her. They got in contact with her, called her and said, um asked her did the babies have food in the refrigerator in a bed. She said yes. They c they closed the case. um went down to the courts multiple multiple times. I can't in the last 5 years I didn't had so many different lawyers. Even the lawyers couldn't get it. They told me if I don't have no address for nothing we can do. I've been trying to get her emergency custody like 5 10 times. They denied everything. >> Mila's father also made clear that he wasn't alone in this. Amore's father had been searching just as desperately for years and the system failed both of them equally. Oh, the last time I did had contact with her was about she's eight, she's about to be nine. So, 4 years ago when she started kindergarten, uh Aaliyah reached out to me and asked me to help her for school clothes, school shoes, books, and stuff that the um class needed. She gave me the list. I bought everything, reached out to her, said, "I got it. Where do you want to meet?" And then she disappeared again. Ain't talked to her since. So, I've been looking nonstop and come to find out yesterday me and my friends was just talking about how the world sad with these little girls they found. Come to find out is my daughter and another another young lady um that I was a part of her life too. What I'm feeling is hate. I ain't going to lie. I feel hate. But I feel I asked you I asked you numerous occasions. Just give me my daughter. If it's too much for you, just give me my daughter. I just want my daughter. You told me I'm too family oriented. You told me I'm too family oriented and you go and do this. All you had to do is give me my daughter. My daughter will be alive today. Both more and will be alive today because we're not going to go unheard. her father her father and her father family was looking for him looking for a more they wanted her too. It was the same situation. He was he was looking for her just like I was looking for my daughter. We both was looking for our child. So all the naysayers saying how could a father do this? They don't know when it come to this system. The system fell us a lot. It's law. It's laws that need to be changed. It's laws that need to be heard. In the end, Elliot Henderson was charged with after CCTV footage and DNA analysis linked her directly to both girls. During her arrest, a third child, a healthy six-year-old she shared with another man was found in the home with no signs of mistreatment. That child's father is currently being investigated as a potential suspect, though no arrest has been made. As of the creation of this video, the cause of motive has still not been released.