1 00:00:02,836 --> 00:00:04,169 - FEMALE NARRATOR: A cold-blooded killing 2 00:00:05,064 --> 00:00:07,172 rocks a small Texas town. 3 00:00:07,249 --> 00:00:08,957 - She found him facedown. 4 00:00:09,034 --> 00:00:12,052 She began to say, "What's going on? What's the matter?" 5 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:19,468 - I could see that he had a wound to his chest, 6 00:00:19,544 --> 00:00:21,603 but he was probably dead before he left the scene. 7 00:00:22,765 --> 00:00:24,181 - NARRATOR: When officers arrive, 8 00:00:24,191 --> 00:00:27,860 they are in for more than they could have known. 9 00:00:27,936 --> 00:00:29,344 - JEFF: They put her at gunpoint, 10 00:00:29,421 --> 00:00:32,698 and she just looked extremely confused and frightened. 11 00:00:32,775 --> 00:00:34,107 - RODNEY: She had everything to lose, 12 00:00:34,184 --> 00:00:37,152 why would she kill this man? 13 00:00:37,229 --> 00:00:41,948 - Detectives took the time to chase down every rumor, 14 00:00:42,025 --> 00:00:43,083 talk to every person. 15 00:00:44,879 --> 00:00:47,046 - NARRATOR: To solve a vicious crime, 16 00:00:47,122 --> 00:00:51,633 investigators must sift through lies in search of the truth. 17 00:00:58,875 --> 00:01:01,727 - You have to wonder why his cell phone pinged there, 18 00:01:01,804 --> 00:01:05,939 and then soon after the crime, he is immediately hours away. 19 00:01:09,761 --> 00:01:12,071 - RODNEY: Mexia's just a little small community. 20 00:01:12,147 --> 00:01:15,908 Everybody knows everybody, sometimes by first name, 21 00:01:15,984 --> 00:01:19,194 but when this case came up, it makes you wonder, 22 00:01:19,271 --> 00:01:20,996 do you really know everybody? 23 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:27,211 - ♪ 24 00:01:29,114 --> 00:01:32,633 ♪♪ 25 00:01:34,670 --> 00:01:39,098 - NARRATOR: March 31, 2011, just after 7 a.m., 26 00:01:39,174 --> 00:01:44,019 operators in Mexia, Texas, get a frantic 911 call. 27 00:01:56,191 --> 00:01:58,066 - BETH: She sounded very out of breath, 28 00:01:58,143 --> 00:01:59,609 panicked and upset. 29 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:01,862 It was very fuzzy, but it was clear 30 00:02:01,938 --> 00:02:04,790 that she was saying that somebody had been shot. 31 00:02:06,610 --> 00:02:08,127 - NARRATOR: With limited information, 32 00:02:08,203 --> 00:02:10,745 police are dispatched to the potential shooting 33 00:02:10,822 --> 00:02:12,714 at a local scrapyard. 34 00:02:20,832 --> 00:02:22,141 - NARRATOR: Police learn from the caller 35 00:02:22,217 --> 00:02:25,802 that the victim is 56-year-old, Ray Jacoby, 36 00:02:25,813 --> 00:02:27,980 the owner of the scrapyard. 37 00:02:28,056 --> 00:02:31,641 - As the, uh, police officers pull up on scene, 38 00:02:31,652 --> 00:02:33,810 you're able to see a woman standing by the gate 39 00:02:33,821 --> 00:02:35,145 with her hand up on the gate, 40 00:02:35,156 --> 00:02:37,063 and it appears that she's on a phone. 41 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:41,318 And Ray is laying next to her on the ground facedown. 42 00:02:41,328 --> 00:02:43,778 - REVENDY: We roll him over, start assessing him. 43 00:02:43,855 --> 00:02:48,167 That's whenever I could see that he had a wound to his chest. 44 00:02:48,243 --> 00:02:51,003 - NARRATOR: As paramedics work to save Ray's life, 45 00:02:51,079 --> 00:02:54,289 police are anxious to secure the scene. 46 00:02:54,366 --> 00:02:56,008 - REVENDY: I notice out of the corner of my eye 47 00:02:56,084 --> 00:02:58,343 there was a police officer knelt down, 48 00:02:58,420 --> 00:03:01,004 one knee on the ground with his pistol drawn, 49 00:03:01,015 --> 00:03:03,682 pointing it toward the back of the scrapyard. 50 00:03:03,759 --> 00:03:05,300 I said, "What are you doing?" 51 00:03:05,377 --> 00:03:08,687 And he said, "We think the shooter's back here." 52 00:03:08,764 --> 00:03:11,932 - ♪ 53 00:03:12,008 --> 00:03:14,935 - And I was like, "Oh crap, let's get this guy and go." 54 00:03:15,011 --> 00:03:16,361 So, at that moment, 55 00:03:16,438 --> 00:03:19,689 we basically just scooped the guy up on to a backboard, 56 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:20,866 threw him on a stretcher in the ambulance, 57 00:03:20,943 --> 00:03:22,701 and we cleared the scene. 58 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,046 - NARRATOR: With Ray on his way to the hospital, 59 00:03:34,122 --> 00:03:36,831 and the potential of an active shooter, 60 00:03:36,908 --> 00:03:41,127 backup arrives to help clear the vast scrapyard property. 61 00:03:41,204 --> 00:03:44,172 Among them is Sergeant Rodney Irvin, 62 00:03:44,249 --> 00:03:49,302 who recognizes the 911 caller as 54-year-old, Mary Jacoby, 63 00:03:49,379 --> 00:03:53,181 the victim's ex-wife and business partner. 64 00:03:53,258 --> 00:03:57,143 - I knew Mary and Raymond from dealing with them personally, 65 00:03:57,220 --> 00:03:59,396 just from being a customer, 66 00:03:59,406 --> 00:04:01,648 and due to some criminal investigations 67 00:04:01,725 --> 00:04:03,984 that led me to their business. 68 00:04:04,060 --> 00:04:05,694 It was just tragic. 69 00:04:05,770 --> 00:04:08,121 You really don't know what's going on in their life. 70 00:04:11,085 --> 00:04:13,085 - ♪ 71 00:04:13,161 --> 00:04:15,161 - NARRATOR: Ray Jacoby's scrapyard business 72 00:04:15,238 --> 00:04:18,081 was built on a lifelong interest in mechanics 73 00:04:18,092 --> 00:04:21,668 and his own personal charm. 74 00:04:21,745 --> 00:04:24,921 - He was born April 30, 1954. 75 00:04:24,932 --> 00:04:28,758 He was very well-liked and lighthearted, laid-back. 76 00:04:28,769 --> 00:04:31,344 Dad loved working on cars and any and all equipment. 77 00:04:31,421 --> 00:04:34,014 He could make just a pile of junk run. 78 00:04:34,090 --> 00:04:36,850 - CHRIS: Raymond from a pretty early age was around cars. 79 00:04:36,926 --> 00:04:39,185 This was something that defined who he was. 80 00:04:39,262 --> 00:04:40,946 It wasn't just his chosen career 81 00:04:41,023 --> 00:04:42,397 when he eventually opened a salvage yard. 82 00:04:42,474 --> 00:04:45,025 This was his passion throughout his entire life. 83 00:04:45,101 --> 00:04:47,452 - ♪ 84 00:04:47,529 --> 00:04:49,738 - NARRATOR: Ray started racing on dirt tracks 85 00:04:49,814 --> 00:04:52,124 when he was just a teenager. 86 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:54,951 After a short marriage right out of high school, 87 00:04:54,962 --> 00:04:56,786 Ray fell in love again 88 00:04:56,797 --> 00:04:59,965 with a woman named, Diane Petty. 89 00:05:00,042 --> 00:05:02,292 - RON: He met my mom at the "R&R Saloon." 90 00:05:02,303 --> 00:05:04,085 That was the place to stop and have breakfast. 91 00:05:04,162 --> 00:05:05,470 Mom was a waitress there. 92 00:05:05,547 --> 00:05:07,806 Mom always said Dad was handsome, 93 00:05:07,883 --> 00:05:10,225 and he was nice and happy. 94 00:05:11,887 --> 00:05:14,763 - NARRATOR: Diane and Ray married in the mid-'70s, 95 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,984 and their son, Ron, was born in 1977. 96 00:05:19,061 --> 00:05:22,062 Though Ray tried to commit to domestic life, 97 00:05:22,138 --> 00:05:25,324 his first love was always the track. 98 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,327 - Mom thought that he was pumping a little too much 99 00:05:28,403 --> 00:05:32,072 attention and time into the racecar. 100 00:05:32,148 --> 00:05:34,991 Dad begged her to not leave, he really loved her. 101 00:05:35,002 --> 00:05:36,284 He did not want mom to leave. 102 00:05:36,361 --> 00:05:37,952 I've heard that from Mom, 103 00:05:38,029 --> 00:05:40,997 and, uh, you know, irreconcilable differences, 104 00:05:41,008 --> 00:05:42,883 and they divorced. 105 00:05:45,537 --> 00:05:48,505 - NARRATOR: After the divorce, Ray was a fixture around 106 00:05:48,515 --> 00:05:51,350 California's '80s dirt track scene, 107 00:05:51,426 --> 00:05:54,519 which is where he met Mary Green. 108 00:05:54,596 --> 00:05:56,855 - RON: Mary was a "trophy girl." 109 00:05:56,932 --> 00:06:00,850 Back in the day, the gals would hand the trophy to the guys 110 00:06:00,861 --> 00:06:03,028 after they won the trophy dash or the main event. 111 00:06:03,105 --> 00:06:04,529 - CHRIS: Mary was a single mother, 112 00:06:04,606 --> 00:06:07,032 so her priority, of course, was her young son, Chapin, 113 00:06:07,109 --> 00:06:09,109 and she would do a lot of different jobs 114 00:06:09,185 --> 00:06:11,536 that are what she described as man's work. 115 00:06:11,613 --> 00:06:15,365 She didn't have any fear of getting her hands dirty. 116 00:06:15,376 --> 00:06:17,042 - RON: She was a little bit of the hippie, 117 00:06:17,119 --> 00:06:19,452 and Dad was a little bit more, uh, "I'll have a whiskey, 118 00:06:19,529 --> 00:06:22,047 and that's good enough for me." 119 00:06:22,124 --> 00:06:25,384 - Ray found something that he was wildly attracted to in Mary. 120 00:06:25,460 --> 00:06:27,210 They began to date for a number of years, 121 00:06:27,221 --> 00:06:30,797 and then finally tied the knot in 1983. 122 00:06:30,874 --> 00:06:32,132 - NARRATOR: Newly married, 123 00:06:32,208 --> 00:06:35,009 Ray and Mary moved to Trout Creek, Montana, 124 00:06:35,086 --> 00:06:37,387 to start their new life. 125 00:06:37,398 --> 00:06:41,307 - RON: Dad told me that Montana was the cheapest place to live. 126 00:06:41,384 --> 00:06:42,976 The goal was to go there and build 127 00:06:43,052 --> 00:06:45,019 Tuscor Speedway, a dirt track. 128 00:06:45,096 --> 00:06:46,312 Those were pretty good years with Mary, 129 00:06:46,389 --> 00:06:48,198 we were all pretty happy. 130 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:52,911 - NARRATOR: But as Mary and Ray ran the racetrack together, 131 00:06:52,988 --> 00:06:54,413 they soon realized 132 00:06:54,489 --> 00:06:58,074 that maintaining romance and a business partnership 133 00:06:58,085 --> 00:07:00,535 wasn't in the cards for them. 134 00:07:00,612 --> 00:07:02,587 - RON: There was certainly some complaining 135 00:07:02,664 --> 00:07:04,539 about money from Mary's side. 136 00:07:04,616 --> 00:07:06,425 Dad had used a lot of her inheritance money 137 00:07:06,501 --> 00:07:07,926 for a part of the track. 138 00:07:08,003 --> 00:07:09,502 He was probably a little too giving, 139 00:07:09,579 --> 00:07:11,504 and a little too easygoing, 140 00:07:11,581 --> 00:07:13,882 wanting everybody to have a good time. 141 00:07:13,958 --> 00:07:17,260 So, when the track was done, it was free beer for all, 142 00:07:17,271 --> 00:07:19,312 and it shouldn't have been. 143 00:07:21,183 --> 00:07:23,099 - NARRATOR: After decades of fighting, 144 00:07:23,110 --> 00:07:26,186 the couple divorced in 2003, 145 00:07:26,262 --> 00:07:30,023 and that's when Ray had his most lucrative idea yet: 146 00:07:30,099 --> 00:07:33,902 to open a salvage yard in Central Texas. 147 00:07:33,978 --> 00:07:37,289 - He had actually asked Mary to come help him run the scrapyard. 148 00:07:37,365 --> 00:07:39,958 So, at that point, their relationship kind of becomes 149 00:07:40,035 --> 00:07:43,119 more of a business relationship. 150 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:45,630 - He still cared about Mary even though they were divorced. 151 00:07:45,707 --> 00:07:48,416 He didn't want to see her fail. 152 00:07:48,493 --> 00:07:53,138 He didn't want to see her starve, so he employed her. 153 00:07:53,215 --> 00:07:55,256 - RODNEY: Raymond set up a warehouse 154 00:07:55,333 --> 00:07:57,300 that he bought and remodeled, 155 00:07:57,311 --> 00:07:59,311 and made into a living quarters 156 00:07:59,387 --> 00:08:02,388 approximately one block away from the scrapyard 157 00:08:02,465 --> 00:08:04,357 for Mary to reside in. 158 00:08:06,511 --> 00:08:09,896 - NARRATOR: The unconventional relationship seemed to work, 159 00:08:09,973 --> 00:08:12,565 but 55-year-old Ray still longed 160 00:08:12,642 --> 00:08:15,327 for a romance that would last. 161 00:08:15,403 --> 00:08:17,496 - Somewhere in 2008, 162 00:08:17,572 --> 00:08:20,332 Ray decided that he wanted to try to find a wife, 163 00:08:20,408 --> 00:08:24,077 maybe a kinder, softer, gentler person. 164 00:08:24,153 --> 00:08:27,005 - That's about the time where he started going 165 00:08:27,082 --> 00:08:29,958 to the Philippines, trying to find a companion 166 00:08:30,034 --> 00:08:32,335 to spend the rest of his life with. 167 00:08:32,346 --> 00:08:34,179 - Ray legitimately was looking for somebody 168 00:08:34,256 --> 00:08:37,682 who he had chemistry with. 169 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:40,176 - NARRATOR: Ray found what he was looking for 170 00:08:40,187 --> 00:08:44,430 when a friend introduced him to 30-year-old Atina Cagadas, 171 00:08:44,507 --> 00:08:47,183 a single mom living in Manila. 172 00:08:47,194 --> 00:08:48,935 - They began writing letters back and forth 173 00:08:49,012 --> 00:08:50,311 and communicating, 174 00:08:50,388 --> 00:08:52,030 and that was something that Ray was big on 175 00:08:52,107 --> 00:08:54,107 was, if somebody'll sit down and write you a letter, 176 00:08:54,183 --> 00:08:56,535 then you know that you mean something to them. 177 00:08:56,611 --> 00:08:59,028 - They started having phone calls, 178 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:01,322 and hit it off pretty well. 179 00:09:01,399 --> 00:09:05,210 On May 3, 2009, he went to the Philippines, 180 00:09:05,287 --> 00:09:08,037 and spent two weeks over there. 181 00:09:08,048 --> 00:09:12,542 - I know that that was a second or third penpal girlfriend 182 00:09:12,553 --> 00:09:14,553 he met over there, 183 00:09:14,629 --> 00:09:17,714 but the first one that he felt really good about. 184 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:20,466 He thought, "This is the gal for me." 185 00:09:20,543 --> 00:09:22,561 - BETH: He had proposed to her, 186 00:09:22,637 --> 00:09:24,387 and she thought he was kidding. 187 00:09:24,398 --> 00:09:26,306 And he said, "No, I'm serious, 188 00:09:26,382 --> 00:09:28,975 "I will petition for you to move to the United States, 189 00:09:29,052 --> 00:09:31,236 and marry me if you want to do that." 190 00:09:31,313 --> 00:09:34,239 And so, she told him that she would do it. 191 00:09:34,316 --> 00:09:36,074 - CHRIS: Ray applied for a fiancée visa, 192 00:09:36,151 --> 00:09:38,526 and arranged for Atina and her young daughter 193 00:09:38,603 --> 00:09:41,988 to move into his home in central Texas. 194 00:09:42,065 --> 00:09:43,415 - BETH: That's the first father 195 00:09:45,068 --> 00:09:46,418 that her daughter had ever known anything like a father figure, 196 00:09:46,494 --> 00:09:48,411 and they really hit it off really well. 197 00:09:48,422 --> 00:09:50,088 And Atina was really happy 198 00:09:50,165 --> 00:09:53,258 that he was willing to embrace her daughter that way. 199 00:09:53,335 --> 00:09:56,052 I think that really sealed the deal for her. 200 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:00,432 - NARRATOR: Atina and 10-year-old Charmaine 201 00:10:00,508 --> 00:10:05,386 finally arrived in Texas in January of 2011. 202 00:10:05,463 --> 00:10:08,765 - I know Dad was eager to train Atina to run the office 203 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:10,442 of the yard for him. 204 00:10:10,518 --> 00:10:13,603 He was gonna teach her everything she needed to know. 205 00:10:13,614 --> 00:10:15,614 - They had 90 days to get married, 206 00:10:15,690 --> 00:10:17,690 uh, or her visa would expire. 207 00:10:17,767 --> 00:10:20,443 So, they planned to get married on April 4. 208 00:10:20,454 --> 00:10:23,613 That was going to be her 31st birthday. 209 00:10:23,624 --> 00:10:26,074 - NARRATOR: But just five days before the wedding, 210 00:10:26,150 --> 00:10:27,626 an unthinkable act 211 00:10:27,702 --> 00:10:32,288 could potentially destroy the joyous occasion. 212 00:10:32,299 --> 00:10:35,133 On March 31, 2011, 213 00:10:35,210 --> 00:10:38,211 local law enforcement is at Ray's scrapyard, 214 00:10:38,287 --> 00:10:41,473 where he was shot by an unidentified assailant. 215 00:10:41,549 --> 00:10:44,425 - RODNEY: Mr. Jacoby had already been transported 216 00:10:44,502 --> 00:10:46,478 to the local hospital. 217 00:10:46,554 --> 00:10:49,481 The patrol officers were still treating the scene as if, 218 00:10:49,557 --> 00:10:52,359 uh, there was still an active shooter present. 219 00:10:59,067 --> 00:11:00,325 - NARRATOR: Coming up, 220 00:11:00,402 --> 00:11:04,153 Had the nature of Ray's business made him a target? 221 00:11:04,164 --> 00:11:06,739 - Unfortunately, the people that came and scrapped there 222 00:11:06,816 --> 00:11:08,449 weren't the greatest of people. 223 00:11:08,526 --> 00:11:10,618 - They kept a large amount of cash inside that business 224 00:11:10,695 --> 00:11:14,080 to be able to pay people $10 to $15,000 a day. 225 00:11:14,157 --> 00:11:17,509 - NARRATOR: And tensions rise as officers face the possibility 226 00:11:17,585 --> 00:11:19,844 of an active shooter. 227 00:11:19,921 --> 00:11:22,180 - As they came in, they were really at a disadvantage 228 00:11:22,257 --> 00:11:23,631 from a tactical standpoint. 229 00:11:23,708 --> 00:11:25,633 That made the scene very dangerous 230 00:11:25,710 --> 00:11:27,435 for those initially responding officers. 231 00:11:28,763 --> 00:11:32,691 - ♪ 232 00:11:36,437 --> 00:11:39,948 ♪ 233 00:11:42,351 --> 00:11:43,201 - NARRATOR: Law enforcement officers 234 00:11:44,596 --> 00:11:46,946 in Mexia, Texas, have surrounded a local scrapyard 235 00:11:47,023 --> 00:11:50,283 where its owner, Ray Jacoby, was found shot 236 00:11:50,359 --> 00:11:52,160 near the front gate. 237 00:11:52,236 --> 00:11:54,287 With Ray en route to the hospital, 238 00:11:54,363 --> 00:11:58,332 detectives turn to the 911 caller, Mary Jacoby, 239 00:11:58,409 --> 00:12:01,502 a familiar face to police. 240 00:12:01,579 --> 00:12:03,713 - RODNEY: A lot of theft investigations that we did have 241 00:12:03,724 --> 00:12:05,840 led us to the scrapyard. 242 00:12:05,917 --> 00:12:10,729 If I went over there looking for a stolen piece of merchandise, 243 00:12:10,805 --> 00:12:12,638 they were cooperative in telling me 244 00:12:12,715 --> 00:12:14,557 who had brought it in there, 245 00:12:14,568 --> 00:12:16,809 so, I was familiar with Mary Jacoby. 246 00:12:16,886 --> 00:12:20,321 So I went over and asked her what had happened. 247 00:12:22,892 --> 00:12:24,358 - CHIP: She had called Ray, 248 00:12:24,435 --> 00:12:25,910 I believe around 6:50 in the morning, 249 00:12:25,987 --> 00:12:30,415 and said that she was coming around to the scrapyard. 250 00:12:30,492 --> 00:12:32,742 Uh, Ray was eating breakfast, 251 00:12:32,753 --> 00:12:36,421 and, uh, he said he'd open the gate when he was done. 252 00:12:36,498 --> 00:12:38,498 - JEFF: She said that after she spoke with Ray, 253 00:12:38,574 --> 00:12:40,416 about 10 to 15 minutes later, 254 00:12:40,427 --> 00:12:43,377 she had gone to the salvage yard. 255 00:12:43,454 --> 00:12:45,671 - RODNEY: She said when she got there, 256 00:12:45,748 --> 00:12:48,674 she pulled up in front of the scrapyard, 257 00:12:48,751 --> 00:12:50,676 and she noticed that the entrance gate 258 00:12:50,753 --> 00:12:52,678 to the scrapyard was slightly open. 259 00:12:52,755 --> 00:12:57,683 She walked over, she found him facedown. 260 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,944 She began to say, "Ray, Ray, what's going on, 261 00:13:00,021 --> 00:13:01,896 what's the matter?" 262 00:13:01,973 --> 00:13:04,524 - JEFF: He had made a noise that she described continually 263 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:06,951 as kind of like, "Uh, uh," or like a-- 264 00:13:07,028 --> 00:13:08,736 like a coughing sound. 265 00:13:08,813 --> 00:13:11,623 And that she didn't know what had happened to him at first, 266 00:13:11,699 --> 00:13:15,460 but that she then went to try to roll him over and couldn't. 267 00:13:15,537 --> 00:13:16,986 She sees the bullet hole, 268 00:13:16,988 --> 00:13:20,381 then goes back to her car, gets her phone, calls 911. 269 00:13:21,951 --> 00:13:24,043 - NARRATOR: Though Mary can't think of why anyone 270 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,878 would want to harm Ray, 271 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:29,632 investigators have begun speculating. 272 00:13:29,643 --> 00:13:31,476 - REVENDY: The first thing that pops into your mind, 273 00:13:31,553 --> 00:13:33,386 this guy has a scrapyard, 274 00:13:33,462 --> 00:13:35,388 you hear, uh, rumors about this guy 275 00:13:35,464 --> 00:13:37,974 that he's got money. 276 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:40,393 - JEFF: The salvage yard, being a cash business, 277 00:13:40,469 --> 00:13:42,770 obviously, they kept a large amount of cash 278 00:13:42,847 --> 00:13:45,398 inside that business to be able to pay people. 279 00:13:45,474 --> 00:13:48,326 Ten to fifteen thousand dollars a day, they would pay out. 280 00:13:48,403 --> 00:13:49,719 - CHIP: Unfortunately, 281 00:13:49,721 --> 00:13:51,571 some of the people that came and scrapped there 282 00:13:51,647 --> 00:13:52,905 weren't the greatest of people. 283 00:13:52,982 --> 00:13:55,825 Knowing that there was a large amount of money 284 00:13:55,836 --> 00:13:58,411 at that location from time to time, 285 00:13:58,487 --> 00:14:00,463 it was a concern that it could have been a robbery. 286 00:14:03,326 --> 00:14:05,677 - NARRATOR: But before investigators can confirm, 287 00:14:05,753 --> 00:14:07,962 they need to clear the scene. 288 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:13,593 An active shooter or shooters could be hiding anywhere. 289 00:14:13,669 --> 00:14:17,513 And Mary says Ray's fiancée, Atina, and her young daughter 290 00:14:17,524 --> 00:14:20,683 are somewhere on the property as well. 291 00:14:20,694 --> 00:14:23,695 - They were trying to secure the scene as best they could, 292 00:14:23,771 --> 00:14:26,531 um, that was challenging. 293 00:14:26,608 --> 00:14:28,941 - JEFF: As they came in, they were really at a disadvantage 294 00:14:29,018 --> 00:14:30,451 from a tactical standpoint. 295 00:14:31,538 --> 00:14:32,778 Lined on that street was just a whole bunch of junk, 296 00:14:32,855 --> 00:14:34,530 for lack of a better term, 297 00:14:34,541 --> 00:14:37,533 that quite frankly, made the scene very dangerous 298 00:14:37,544 --> 00:14:39,535 for those initially responding officers. 299 00:14:39,546 --> 00:14:41,045 They certainly had their work cut out for them, 300 00:14:41,122 --> 00:14:43,047 clearing the inside of the salvage yard, 301 00:14:43,124 --> 00:14:44,832 and securing the scene. 302 00:14:44,909 --> 00:14:46,551 - CHIP: They set up a perimeter, 303 00:14:46,628 --> 00:14:49,670 they kind of went through looking for people. 304 00:14:49,747 --> 00:14:51,130 When they were doing that, 305 00:14:51,207 --> 00:14:53,558 they found a lady by the name of Kayla Wendt. 306 00:14:55,586 --> 00:14:57,803 - NARRATOR: The 21-year-old identifies herself 307 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:01,015 as the girlfriend of Mary's son, Chapin. 308 00:15:01,092 --> 00:15:04,352 - Chapin was in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 309 00:15:04,428 --> 00:15:05,895 serving some time. 310 00:15:05,906 --> 00:15:09,690 Mary and Raymond let Kayla stay on the, uh, property. 311 00:15:09,767 --> 00:15:12,526 - JEFF: Kayla was living in a travel trailer on the property. 312 00:15:12,603 --> 00:15:13,912 She said that she was asleep. 313 00:15:13,988 --> 00:15:15,738 I guess she just slept hard enough 314 00:15:15,749 --> 00:15:17,457 that she didn't hear the gunshot. 315 00:15:19,994 --> 00:15:22,495 - NARRATOR: Kayla is placed in a patrol car 316 00:15:22,571 --> 00:15:26,165 while police continue clearing the scene. 317 00:15:26,242 --> 00:15:30,378 Inside the building that houses both Ray's office and residence, 318 00:15:30,454 --> 00:15:33,047 they find a woman doing housework. 319 00:15:33,124 --> 00:15:34,840 - BETH: She had a broom in her hand, 320 00:15:34,917 --> 00:15:36,935 and when they came in and they saw her, you know, 321 00:15:37,011 --> 00:15:40,021 they were hollering to-- to put her hands up. 322 00:15:41,632 --> 00:15:45,017 - NARRATOR: The woman identifies herself as Ray's fiancée, Atina, 323 00:15:45,094 --> 00:15:47,436 and when she doesn't comply with the commands 324 00:15:47,447 --> 00:15:50,856 of law enforcement, tension only grows. 325 00:15:50,933 --> 00:15:52,367 - JEFF: They put her at gunpoint, 326 00:15:53,453 --> 00:15:55,662 and she just looked extremely confused and frightened. 327 00:15:57,123 --> 00:15:59,198 - NARRATOR: Investigators soon realize 328 00:15:59,275 --> 00:16:04,870 Atina's lack of cooperation is due to a language barrier. 329 00:16:04,947 --> 00:16:07,632 - She understood some very basic words, 330 00:16:07,709 --> 00:16:10,468 but not concepts at all. 331 00:16:10,545 --> 00:16:12,795 They wanted to know if anybody else was in there, 332 00:16:12,806 --> 00:16:15,589 and since she wasn't responding, they handcuffed her. 333 00:16:15,666 --> 00:16:18,217 They took her upstairs to wake up her daughter. 334 00:16:18,294 --> 00:16:20,052 And then they took the cuffs off, 335 00:16:20,129 --> 00:16:23,139 and took them outside where the police were, 336 00:16:23,149 --> 00:16:26,818 and where Mary was out where Ray's body had been. 337 00:16:28,637 --> 00:16:30,438 - NARRATOR: With all the scrapyard's residents 338 00:16:30,514 --> 00:16:31,981 now in custody, 339 00:16:31,992 --> 00:16:36,736 police search for anyone who's not supposed to be there. 340 00:16:36,812 --> 00:16:40,781 But whoever fired at Ray Jacoby seems to have vanished, 341 00:16:40,858 --> 00:16:44,043 leaving little in the way of evidence behind. 342 00:16:45,154 --> 00:16:46,671 - JEFF: They did locate, 343 00:16:46,748 --> 00:16:49,582 I believe it was two bullet holes in the fence 344 00:16:49,658 --> 00:16:53,586 that they believe could have been in the same trajectory, 345 00:16:53,662 --> 00:16:55,504 um, of where Ray's body would have been standing 346 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:56,756 when he was shot. 347 00:16:56,832 --> 00:16:58,174 And inside one of those holes, 348 00:16:58,184 --> 00:17:01,093 they were able to locate a projectile. 349 00:17:01,170 --> 00:17:03,471 - NARRATOR: A thorough search of the main building 350 00:17:03,547 --> 00:17:06,015 only adds to the mystery. 351 00:17:06,026 --> 00:17:07,933 - BETH: The office was open, 352 00:17:08,010 --> 00:17:11,520 and there was just cash in the drawers of the office 353 00:17:11,531 --> 00:17:13,022 that they used to pay people 354 00:17:13,033 --> 00:17:15,107 when they brought in their scrap. 355 00:17:15,184 --> 00:17:18,152 There were guns that weren't taken that were sitting there 356 00:17:18,229 --> 00:17:19,987 that would've maybe had some value. 357 00:17:20,064 --> 00:17:22,948 It just didn't look like a robbery. 358 00:17:23,025 --> 00:17:24,867 - JEFF: Obviously, the police confiscated every gun 359 00:17:24,878 --> 00:17:26,160 that they could find. 360 00:17:26,237 --> 00:17:27,870 All of the guns that they did locate 361 00:17:27,881 --> 00:17:30,790 were inside either the office or the living quarters. 362 00:17:30,866 --> 00:17:33,760 Those guns and those weapons belonged to Ray Jacoby. 363 00:17:36,705 --> 00:17:39,799 - NARRATOR: As investigators continue processing the scene, 364 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:43,052 there's bad news from the hospital. 365 00:17:43,063 --> 00:17:45,638 - REVENDY: They had pronounced him dead at the hospital, 366 00:17:45,714 --> 00:17:49,725 but you know, he was probably dead before he left the scene. 367 00:17:49,736 --> 00:17:54,072 - NARRATOR: Police deliver the news to Ray's loved ones. 368 00:17:54,148 --> 00:17:56,315 - RODNEY: The chief of police walked over to the truck 369 00:17:56,392 --> 00:17:58,818 where Mary was standing, 370 00:17:58,894 --> 00:18:04,248 and he said, "Uh, well, Mary, Raymond didn't make it." 371 00:18:04,325 --> 00:18:06,158 Mary looked at him, 372 00:18:06,235 --> 00:18:08,169 and she just kind of fell to the ground. 373 00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:13,666 - Mary started crying and hyperventilating, 374 00:18:13,742 --> 00:18:15,751 and it got very emotional. 375 00:18:15,762 --> 00:18:18,045 - RODNEY: We called EMS in. 376 00:18:18,122 --> 00:18:20,047 They came in to check Mary out, 377 00:18:20,124 --> 00:18:22,174 they cleared her. 378 00:18:22,251 --> 00:18:24,936 - Atina, on the other hand, did not have much of a reaction. 379 00:18:25,012 --> 00:18:27,847 She just looked at the ground, and just could not figure out 380 00:18:27,923 --> 00:18:29,816 what had in the world had happened. 381 00:18:33,113 --> 00:18:35,947 - NARRATOR: Investigators hope more focused interviews 382 00:18:36,023 --> 00:18:37,690 in a new environment 383 00:18:37,766 --> 00:18:39,775 with the three women who live at the scrapyard 384 00:18:39,786 --> 00:18:42,027 will yield some leads. 385 00:18:42,104 --> 00:18:47,792 - I transported Atina and her daughter and Kayla 386 00:18:47,869 --> 00:18:51,963 to the, uh, Mexia Police Department to interview them. 387 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:54,707 Mary drove in her own vehicle, 388 00:18:54,783 --> 00:18:58,294 and it was there that other investigators, Hunley 389 00:18:58,304 --> 00:19:01,213 and, uh, the ranger begin to interview them. 390 00:19:01,290 --> 00:19:04,049 - We know that he was alive at 6:55 391 00:19:04,126 --> 00:19:06,135 when he was talking to Mary on the phone. 392 00:19:06,146 --> 00:19:07,928 And we know at 7:06, 393 00:19:08,005 --> 00:19:10,097 he's been shot because of the 911 call. 394 00:19:10,174 --> 00:19:11,807 So, what we had to figure out 395 00:19:11,818 --> 00:19:15,060 was what happened in that 11 minutes. 396 00:19:15,137 --> 00:19:17,313 - The natural inclination when you have a murder 397 00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:20,658 is to get whoever did it locked up as fast as possible. 398 00:19:23,312 --> 00:19:24,778 - NARRATOR: Coming up: 399 00:19:24,855 --> 00:19:28,991 A potential suspect comes into focus. 400 00:19:29,002 --> 00:19:31,076 - We noticed that this number had been calling her 401 00:19:31,153 --> 00:19:32,995 just about every day. 402 00:19:33,006 --> 00:19:37,258 - He probably had some knowledge of a plan to kill Raymond. 403 00:19:39,846 --> 00:19:43,973 - ♪ 404 00:19:47,502 --> 00:19:50,938 - ♪ 405 00:19:52,883 --> 00:19:55,267 - NARRATOR: March 31, 2011, 406 00:19:55,344 --> 00:19:58,437 in the hours following the murder of Ray Jacoby 407 00:19:58,514 --> 00:20:01,023 at the gate of his own scrapyard, 408 00:20:01,034 --> 00:20:04,193 detectives in Mexia, Texas, prepare to speak 409 00:20:04,204 --> 00:20:07,997 to three women found at the scene of the crime. 410 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:13,285 - RODNEY: Kayla was a girlfriend of Mary's son, 411 00:20:13,362 --> 00:20:16,872 and she stayed in her travel trailer on the property. 412 00:20:16,883 --> 00:20:20,167 She did not hear any loud noises, 413 00:20:20,244 --> 00:20:21,886 she didn't hear any-- 414 00:20:21,963 --> 00:20:25,681 she didn't hear anything until she was woke up by the police. 415 00:20:27,042 --> 00:20:31,771 - In her interview, Kayla was very evasive in her answers. 416 00:20:32,923 --> 00:20:34,232 - JEFF: She didn't really have an alibi 417 00:20:34,308 --> 00:20:37,226 because she was the only person inside of the trailer, 418 00:20:37,237 --> 00:20:38,569 that she was asleep, 419 00:20:38,646 --> 00:20:41,739 and so the answers to her question typically were, 420 00:20:41,816 --> 00:20:44,858 "I don't know, I don't have any information." 421 00:20:44,935 --> 00:20:47,027 - CHIP: Her interview wasn't that long, 422 00:20:47,104 --> 00:20:50,456 she just--she didn't respond well to police. 423 00:20:52,418 --> 00:20:54,243 - NARRATOR: Investigators turn their focus 424 00:20:54,254 --> 00:20:56,754 to Ray's fiancée, Atina, 425 00:20:56,831 --> 00:21:01,041 and find a way to break through the language barrier. 426 00:21:01,118 --> 00:21:03,094 - RODNEY: I remember her telling me, 427 00:21:03,170 --> 00:21:07,172 "I can understand you if you speak slowly." 428 00:21:07,249 --> 00:21:10,268 - NARRATOR: Atina confirms what Mary told police on the scene 429 00:21:10,344 --> 00:21:12,436 about talking to Ray on the phone. 430 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:28,027 - She said he sounded like he was, 431 00:21:28,103 --> 00:21:31,530 you know, kinda agitated by it 432 00:21:31,607 --> 00:21:33,958 because she was bugging him this early in the morning. 433 00:21:38,113 --> 00:21:40,289 - BETH: When she was doing that, she went into the restroom, 434 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:41,957 she looked out the window, 435 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:44,427 and she saw Mary sitting in her truck. 436 00:22:09,070 --> 00:22:11,987 - CHIP: She saw Ray walk out to the gate. 437 00:22:11,998 --> 00:22:13,447 When she saw Ray start to open the gate, 438 00:22:13,524 --> 00:22:14,990 she went back to sweeping, 439 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:16,950 and went back towards the back of the house. 440 00:22:17,027 --> 00:22:18,919 And she said she heard a boom. 441 00:22:20,414 --> 00:22:22,456 - RODNEY: We're like, "Okay, what do you mean by boom?" 442 00:22:22,533 --> 00:22:24,583 She says, "There's a lot of noises 443 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:26,960 "and heavy equipment moving around, 444 00:22:27,037 --> 00:22:28,429 I didn't think anything of it." 445 00:22:47,891 --> 00:22:50,150 - JEFF: Atina was cooperative, she was forthcoming. 446 00:22:50,227 --> 00:22:52,828 She was able to communicate to the best of her ability. 447 00:22:54,207 --> 00:22:56,490 - NARRATOR: Though Atina's presence at the scrapyard 448 00:22:56,567 --> 00:22:58,659 during the timeframe of Ray's murder 449 00:22:58,735 --> 00:23:02,538 made her an initial suspect, after speaking with her, 450 00:23:02,548 --> 00:23:06,166 investigators can't rationalize a motive. 451 00:23:06,243 --> 00:23:08,335 - RODNEY: Atina had everything to lose in this. 452 00:23:08,412 --> 00:23:13,966 It's like, why would she kill this man 453 00:23:14,042 --> 00:23:17,970 and face deportation back to the Philippines? 454 00:23:18,046 --> 00:23:21,232 That's the last thing that you would want to see happen, 455 00:23:21,308 --> 00:23:25,310 you know, and have all of your dreams shattered 456 00:23:25,387 --> 00:23:28,297 a week before you were to get married. 457 00:23:32,102 --> 00:23:35,154 - NARRATOR: With Atina becoming a less likely suspect, 458 00:23:35,230 --> 00:23:38,532 investigators ask her if she noticed any conflict 459 00:23:38,609 --> 00:23:42,211 between Ray and his ex-wife, Mary Jacoby. 460 00:24:05,186 --> 00:24:07,603 - NARRATOR: With the information from Atina in hand, 461 00:24:07,613 --> 00:24:12,283 investigators have their first real chance to question Mary. 462 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:49,436 - NARRATOR: Investigators press harder, 463 00:24:49,513 --> 00:24:52,314 even questioning whether Mary was upset 464 00:24:52,325 --> 00:24:54,617 about Ray and Atina's upcoming wedding. 465 00:25:06,363 --> 00:25:10,466 - NARRATOR: Mary insists she's happy about Atina marrying Ray. 466 00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:26,139 - Mary was acting how I've always known her to act, 467 00:25:26,216 --> 00:25:27,691 uh, just kind of calm. 468 00:25:27,768 --> 00:25:29,693 It wasn't anything out of the normal. 469 00:25:32,347 --> 00:25:36,608 - NARRATOR: Mary also seems to be incredibly cooperative. 470 00:25:36,685 --> 00:25:38,702 - Mary lets them see her phone, 471 00:25:38,779 --> 00:25:41,154 so now Chip is going through her phone, 472 00:25:41,231 --> 00:25:42,748 looking at her call log. 473 00:25:58,749 --> 00:26:01,341 - NARRATOR: As investigators scroll through her call history 474 00:26:01,418 --> 00:26:03,468 from the morning of Ray's murder, 475 00:26:03,545 --> 00:26:05,437 one contact stands out. 476 00:26:45,179 --> 00:26:48,430 - NARRATOR: Though the mysterious Dennis is a red flag, 477 00:26:48,441 --> 00:26:51,516 Mary seems to have an answer for everything, 478 00:26:51,593 --> 00:26:54,603 and investigators run out of questions. 479 00:26:54,614 --> 00:26:57,564 - RODNEY: We decided to do a gunshot residue 480 00:26:57,641 --> 00:27:00,117 on all three of 'em. 481 00:27:00,194 --> 00:27:05,289 I did two of 'em on, uh, Kayla and Atina. 482 00:27:05,366 --> 00:27:08,834 The other investigator did the gunshot residue kit on Mary. 483 00:27:20,330 --> 00:27:21,588 - NARRATOR: Unfortunately, 484 00:27:21,665 --> 00:27:24,466 the results could take months to complete, 485 00:27:24,477 --> 00:27:28,595 until then, the women are all free to go. 486 00:27:28,672 --> 00:27:31,223 - Once we wrapped up all the interviews, 487 00:27:31,299 --> 00:27:33,609 um, they left together. 488 00:27:36,563 --> 00:27:38,230 - NARRATOR: With the women gone, 489 00:27:38,306 --> 00:27:41,608 investigators dig deeper into Mary's cell phone records, 490 00:27:41,685 --> 00:27:44,578 and make a suspicious discovery. 491 00:27:45,831 --> 00:27:47,831 - We noticed this number had been calling her 492 00:27:47,908 --> 00:27:52,619 just about every day, 30--like, 32, 33 times, 493 00:27:52,696 --> 00:27:54,413 we were like, "That's odd." 494 00:27:54,489 --> 00:27:56,256 It came back to Dennis Killy. 495 00:27:57,510 --> 00:27:59,584 - NARRATOR: The same man who called Mary 496 00:27:59,661 --> 00:28:03,171 about an hour before the murder. 497 00:28:03,182 --> 00:28:04,673 - CHIP: Dennis was a former employee 498 00:28:04,684 --> 00:28:06,850 of the scrapyard as well, 499 00:28:06,927 --> 00:28:10,762 and, uh, a couple of years prior to the murder, 500 00:28:10,839 --> 00:28:13,524 he and Ray had actually got into a fist fight. 501 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,809 - NARRATOR: In her interview, Mary had claimed 502 00:28:15,886 --> 00:28:18,603 that Dennis was calling from Dallas that morning, 503 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,939 nearly 90 miles away. 504 00:28:21,016 --> 00:28:23,525 - CHIP: When we tracked his GPS location, 505 00:28:23,536 --> 00:28:28,372 we actually found him in Mexia the morning of the murder. 506 00:28:28,449 --> 00:28:30,323 And then he was going back to East Texas, 507 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:31,825 where he lived. 508 00:28:31,902 --> 00:28:34,703 - CHRIS: You have to wonder why he was there. 509 00:28:34,714 --> 00:28:38,457 His cell phone pinged there, and then soon after the crime, 510 00:28:38,533 --> 00:28:40,342 he is immediately hours away. 511 00:28:43,556 --> 00:28:45,338 - NARRATOR: Investigators need to talk 512 00:28:45,415 --> 00:28:47,883 to Dennis Killy straight away. 513 00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:51,553 - Unfortunately, it was tough to track Mr. Killy down. 514 00:28:51,564 --> 00:28:54,347 I would like to be able to find out the truth. 515 00:28:54,424 --> 00:28:58,485 Is it possible that Dennis was involved in the murder? 516 00:28:59,763 --> 00:29:01,054 - NARRATOR: Coming up: 517 00:29:01,131 --> 00:29:04,858 Had a hit man cashed in a bounty on Ray's head? 518 00:29:04,935 --> 00:29:06,651 - He just tensed up, 519 00:29:06,728 --> 00:29:09,321 and he was like, "You know what, we need to end this interview," 520 00:29:09,397 --> 00:29:10,622 and he just shut down. 521 00:29:15,946 --> 00:29:20,382 - ♪ 522 00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:27,389 - ♪ 523 00:29:28,750 --> 00:29:30,601 - NARRATOR: Forty-five-year-old Dennis Killy 524 00:29:30,677 --> 00:29:35,272 has just become a prime suspect in Ray Jacoby's murder 525 00:29:35,349 --> 00:29:38,350 when phone records place him in the vicinity of the shooting 526 00:29:38,426 --> 00:29:40,560 on the morning it happened. 527 00:29:40,637 --> 00:29:44,397 - Dennis was a former employee of the scrapyard as well, 528 00:29:44,474 --> 00:29:48,109 and, uh, a couple of years prior to the murder, 529 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,780 he and Ray had actually got into a fist fight at the scrapyard. 530 00:29:51,791 --> 00:29:53,448 - NARRATOR: The dozens of phone calls 531 00:29:53,459 --> 00:29:54,950 between him and Mary 532 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:59,454 only add to the suspicion of his possible involvement. 533 00:29:59,465 --> 00:30:03,750 - He was in question as well, and--and, uh, unfortunately, 534 00:30:03,827 --> 00:30:06,053 it was tough to track Mr. Killy down. 535 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:13,426 - NARRATOR: While officers attempt to track down Dennis, 536 00:30:13,503 --> 00:30:15,971 detectives are desperate for more details 537 00:30:15,981 --> 00:30:18,807 on Ray's scrapyard business. 538 00:30:18,818 --> 00:30:21,393 They speak to some of Ray's employees, 539 00:30:21,469 --> 00:30:23,478 who paint a much different picture 540 00:30:23,489 --> 00:30:25,564 of Mary and Ray's relationship 541 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,659 than Mary had led police to believe. 542 00:30:28,735 --> 00:30:30,485 - CHIP: She said her and Ray got along, 543 00:30:30,496 --> 00:30:32,404 even though they were divorced. 544 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,990 But she minimized her dislike for Ray, 545 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,493 according to other people that were always around them. 546 00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:39,828 - CHRIS: In one particular incident, 547 00:30:39,839 --> 00:30:41,830 an employee described intervening in a fight 548 00:30:41,841 --> 00:30:43,999 that was escalating between Ray and Mary. 549 00:30:44,009 --> 00:30:45,676 And Mary turning to that employee, 550 00:30:45,752 --> 00:30:48,345 and saying, "I wish Ray was dead." 551 00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:53,592 - NARRATOR: Another employee describes driving Ray 552 00:30:53,668 --> 00:30:57,804 to the airport about ten days before the murder. 553 00:30:57,881 --> 00:30:59,764 - BETH: When he came back from the airport, 554 00:30:59,841 --> 00:31:02,809 he went in the office, and he heard Mary say, 555 00:31:02,886 --> 00:31:04,603 "If that plane would crash, 556 00:31:04,679 --> 00:31:06,864 it would take care of their problem." 557 00:31:09,726 --> 00:31:14,613 - NARRATOR: On April 15, 2011, 2 weeks after Ray's murder, 558 00:31:14,689 --> 00:31:17,032 a friend of Ray and Mary's comes forward 559 00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:19,868 to get something off his chest. 560 00:31:19,879 --> 00:31:21,712 - RODNEY: We had been looking for Dennis Killy, 561 00:31:21,788 --> 00:31:23,496 and we hadn't been getting any leads. 562 00:31:23,573 --> 00:31:25,165 We're sitting at the office one day, 563 00:31:25,241 --> 00:31:28,835 and in walks Robin-- Robin Dabney, 564 00:31:28,912 --> 00:31:31,046 and his wife, Kim Dabney. 565 00:31:31,056 --> 00:31:33,724 Robin sat down at the desk, and he took a long sigh. 566 00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:45,068 - He said, "Mary wanted to give me $30,000 to kill Ray." 567 00:31:45,145 --> 00:31:48,188 And we're like, "Dude, what?" 568 00:31:48,264 --> 00:31:50,732 - BETH: I believe it was in October of 2009 569 00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:55,487 when Ray had gone to see Atina the second time. 570 00:31:55,563 --> 00:31:58,573 Kim and Robin Dabney were having dinner with Mary 571 00:31:58,584 --> 00:32:01,242 in her fifth wheel in the scrapyard. 572 00:32:01,253 --> 00:32:03,703 And at the end of dinner, 573 00:32:03,780 --> 00:32:07,799 she asks Robin if he would kill Ray for her. 574 00:32:14,082 --> 00:32:16,433 - She said she would find the body. 575 00:32:16,510 --> 00:32:18,760 And that she would take care of them 576 00:32:18,771 --> 00:32:20,854 for the rest of their lives basically. 577 00:32:27,262 --> 00:32:31,773 - He said that Mary actually took $15,000, 578 00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:33,942 and put it on the table. 579 00:32:33,953 --> 00:32:35,902 And said, "I'll give you half now, 580 00:32:35,979 --> 00:32:37,237 and half when it's over." 581 00:32:37,313 --> 00:32:38,780 And Robin declined. 582 00:32:38,791 --> 00:32:40,624 He said, "I'm not getting involved in that." 583 00:32:40,701 --> 00:32:44,285 And Kim backed the story up. 584 00:32:44,296 --> 00:32:47,872 Ultimately, the DA asked us to have them both polygraphed, 585 00:32:47,949 --> 00:32:49,582 and they both said they would. 586 00:32:49,659 --> 00:32:52,085 And they both passed with flying colors. 587 00:32:52,162 --> 00:32:55,964 We knew that Mary wanted Ray gone at that point. 588 00:32:55,975 --> 00:32:58,976 - ♪ 589 00:32:59,052 --> 00:33:00,635 - NARRATOR: Robin's statement 590 00:33:00,646 --> 00:33:03,480 is a huge piece of the puzzle for detectives, 591 00:33:03,557 --> 00:33:07,651 but it's not enough for an arrest. 592 00:33:07,728 --> 00:33:09,144 - CHRIS: They needed to have a solid case 593 00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:11,980 to bring to the prosecution to present at trial. 594 00:33:11,991 --> 00:33:14,149 It was all circumstantial at this point. 595 00:33:14,159 --> 00:33:15,993 They didn't wanna leave any stone unturned. 596 00:33:19,355 --> 00:33:23,667 - NARRATOR: On July 6, 4 months after Ray Jacoby's murder, 597 00:33:23,744 --> 00:33:28,288 investigators finally track down Dennis Killy. 598 00:33:28,364 --> 00:33:29,956 - RODNEY: We got to working with the authorities 599 00:33:30,033 --> 00:33:31,416 up in Henderson County. 600 00:33:31,493 --> 00:33:33,334 And then we later learned that he was recently arrested 601 00:33:33,345 --> 00:33:38,173 on an unrelated charge, and was currently in jail. 602 00:33:38,183 --> 00:33:42,844 Ranger Cantu and I went over to interview him. 603 00:33:42,855 --> 00:33:45,597 - NARRATOR: At first, Dennis seems forthcoming. 604 00:33:45,673 --> 00:33:48,183 He swears he had nothing to do with the murder, 605 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,193 and explains that the altercation 606 00:33:50,270 --> 00:33:52,854 between him and Ray all those years ago 607 00:33:52,865 --> 00:33:55,690 was just a misunderstanding. 608 00:33:55,701 --> 00:33:58,026 - Ray thought Dennis had taken a tire or something 609 00:33:58,037 --> 00:33:59,652 from the scrapyard, 610 00:33:59,729 --> 00:34:02,155 and, you know, Dennis said he didn't. 611 00:34:02,232 --> 00:34:04,207 One or both of 'em were charged in that, 612 00:34:04,284 --> 00:34:07,285 just kind of disorderly conduct-type deal. 613 00:34:07,362 --> 00:34:09,204 - RODNEY: When we begin to question him 614 00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:11,372 about past history with law enforcement, 615 00:34:11,383 --> 00:34:13,625 then I guess he just tensed up, 616 00:34:13,701 --> 00:34:16,219 and he was like, "You know what, we need to end this interview." 617 00:34:16,296 --> 00:34:17,837 I felt like he thought 618 00:34:17,914 --> 00:34:20,057 that we were probing him to some other area, 619 00:34:20,133 --> 00:34:21,683 and he just shut down. 620 00:34:24,229 --> 00:34:26,888 - NARRATOR: With Dennis refusing to talk, 621 00:34:26,899 --> 00:34:29,724 detectives are still looking for more evidence 622 00:34:29,735 --> 00:34:31,902 to bring charges in the case. 623 00:34:31,978 --> 00:34:33,978 Finally, in September, 624 00:34:34,055 --> 00:34:37,074 the gunshot residue test results come in. 625 00:34:37,150 --> 00:34:38,691 - JEFF: In giving the GSR, 626 00:34:38,768 --> 00:34:40,068 the three elements that they're looking for 627 00:34:40,079 --> 00:34:41,745 are antimony, barium, and lead, 628 00:34:41,822 --> 00:34:43,905 and it needs to be in a high enough concentration 629 00:34:43,916 --> 00:34:46,658 on the same general location on your skin 630 00:34:46,734 --> 00:34:48,827 for them to be able to say that this is consistent 631 00:34:48,903 --> 00:34:50,912 with being gunshot residue. 632 00:34:50,923 --> 00:34:54,916 - RODNEY: Atina and Kayla had one element on their hands, 633 00:34:54,927 --> 00:34:58,002 which is an element that is typical 634 00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:00,380 just from probably working in the environment 635 00:35:00,456 --> 00:35:02,182 that they were working in. 636 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:07,929 Mary came back with all three elements, 637 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:11,775 and I was like, "Oh boy, this ain't good for her." 638 00:35:11,852 --> 00:35:13,768 - NARRATOR: Detectives feel an arrest warrant 639 00:35:13,779 --> 00:35:15,779 is almost within reach, 640 00:35:15,856 --> 00:35:18,356 but they hope for one more piece of evidence 641 00:35:18,433 --> 00:35:20,942 to push them over the edge. 642 00:35:20,953 --> 00:35:22,443 - RODNEY: From conversations that we had 643 00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:23,954 with the county attorney, 644 00:35:24,030 --> 00:35:25,956 it was more like we're almost there, 645 00:35:26,032 --> 00:35:28,959 but you had the feeling like it was something missing. 646 00:35:29,035 --> 00:35:32,912 So it was--it got to a point where it's, like, okay, well, 647 00:35:32,989 --> 00:35:35,415 let's let her get in her own comfort zone. 648 00:35:35,491 --> 00:35:37,417 Since it's taken so long to make an arrest, 649 00:35:37,493 --> 00:35:39,419 maybe she will slip up, 650 00:35:39,495 --> 00:35:42,130 and give us that key piece of evidence 651 00:35:42,141 --> 00:35:43,807 that we were looking for. 652 00:35:46,311 --> 00:35:48,803 - NARRATOR: The case drags on for months, 653 00:35:48,814 --> 00:35:53,984 then years, as authorities conduct hundreds of interviews. 654 00:35:54,060 --> 00:35:55,819 - There were so many rabbit trails 655 00:35:55,896 --> 00:35:58,479 we had to go down in this investigation. 656 00:35:58,490 --> 00:36:00,815 That's probably why it lasted five years. 657 00:36:00,826 --> 00:36:03,902 It just always came back to Mary. 658 00:36:03,978 --> 00:36:06,154 - We didn't want to just jump to that conclusion, 659 00:36:06,165 --> 00:36:09,073 and immediately accuse the ex-wife. 660 00:36:09,150 --> 00:36:11,334 And of course, we just kept looking for the weapon. 661 00:36:11,411 --> 00:36:13,712 That would've been very nice to have. 662 00:36:16,032 --> 00:36:19,334 - NARRATOR: While investigators spend years chasing leads, 663 00:36:19,344 --> 00:36:22,337 Mary takes over the scrapyard. 664 00:36:22,347 --> 00:36:25,506 - After Ray dies, Mary's walking around the scrapyard 665 00:36:25,517 --> 00:36:27,008 like she owns the place. 666 00:36:27,019 --> 00:36:29,010 Uh, to many people on the outside, 667 00:36:29,021 --> 00:36:32,180 it appeared that she had taken over the business entirely. 668 00:36:32,191 --> 00:36:35,358 - Atina was scared, she was afraid of Mary, 669 00:36:35,435 --> 00:36:38,978 and then Mary was goin' over to the yard in and out there, 670 00:36:39,055 --> 00:36:44,317 while Atina and Charmaine were trying to be, you know-- 671 00:36:44,394 --> 00:36:46,527 trying to get through this rough situation 672 00:36:46,538 --> 00:36:48,279 that had just occurred. 673 00:36:48,356 --> 00:36:50,323 - Ron, Ray's son, hears word of this, 674 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,033 comes in, takes over the yard. 675 00:36:52,044 --> 00:36:54,002 And before you know it, Mary doesn't have a job. 676 00:36:56,957 --> 00:37:01,718 - NARRATOR: Mary's son, Chapin, is released from prison in 2016, 677 00:37:01,795 --> 00:37:05,004 and with no job left for Mary in Mexia, 678 00:37:05,081 --> 00:37:09,342 the two move 300 miles away to George West, Texas, 679 00:37:09,419 --> 00:37:13,054 both hoping for a fresh start. 680 00:37:13,065 --> 00:37:15,473 Back in Mexia, Ray's loved ones 681 00:37:15,550 --> 00:37:19,394 wonder if justice will ever be served. 682 00:37:19,404 --> 00:37:21,229 - RON: You gotta be persistent, you know, 683 00:37:21,240 --> 00:37:25,358 and if you don't go, you know, make the wheels squeak, 684 00:37:25,435 --> 00:37:27,202 no one's gonna do anything. 685 00:37:28,488 --> 00:37:30,405 - CHIP: Ron and his mom, 686 00:37:30,415 --> 00:37:32,865 they were continuously calling us, 687 00:37:32,942 --> 00:37:35,910 and--and, you know, "When are you gonna arrest Mary? 688 00:37:35,921 --> 00:37:37,504 When are you gonna arrest Mary?" 689 00:37:39,758 --> 00:37:41,258 - NARRATOR: Coming up: 690 00:37:41,334 --> 00:37:45,878 A new witness statement reinvigorates the case. 691 00:37:45,955 --> 00:37:48,548 - We didn't have to prove she's the one that pulled the trigger. 692 00:37:48,624 --> 00:37:51,592 She's just the one that got him to the dance. 693 00:37:51,603 --> 00:37:54,854 - Finally, we were getting what we had waited for. 694 00:37:56,016 --> 00:37:58,191 - ♪ 695 00:38:03,839 --> 00:38:07,325 - ♪ 696 00:38:09,529 --> 00:38:11,863 - NARRATOR: Five years after Ray Jacoby's murder, 697 00:38:11,939 --> 00:38:14,949 all suspects other than his ex-wife, Mary, 698 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:16,951 have been eliminated. 699 00:38:16,962 --> 00:38:19,579 - Of course, it's hard to hold onto a secret like that. 700 00:38:19,655 --> 00:38:21,464 You know, we all thought at some point, 701 00:38:21,541 --> 00:38:24,968 Mary might brag about it or admit it to somebody, 702 00:38:25,045 --> 00:38:27,846 or somebody would come forward that she had talked to about it. 703 00:38:31,217 --> 00:38:34,427 - NARRATOR: But when no new information comes to light, 704 00:38:34,504 --> 00:38:39,223 prosecutors decide to take their chances with what they have. 705 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:41,392 - CHRIS: So the D.A. is gonna take a gamble here, 706 00:38:41,469 --> 00:38:43,644 because there is a lot of circumstantial evidence, 707 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,897 but that gamble pays off with the grand jury. 708 00:38:45,973 --> 00:38:47,607 They come back with an indictment. 709 00:38:47,683 --> 00:38:51,944 Mary Jacoby is arrested on April 22, 2016. 710 00:38:52,021 --> 00:38:54,238 - CHIP: She had no facial expression. 711 00:38:54,315 --> 00:38:57,950 I really expected her response was gonna be different, 712 00:38:58,027 --> 00:39:00,119 but when she just kind of smirked, 713 00:39:00,196 --> 00:39:02,663 it just showed you how cold she was. 714 00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:04,957 - It was most certainly joy, 715 00:39:05,034 --> 00:39:07,251 and--and some satisfaction, you know, 716 00:39:07,328 --> 00:39:09,921 and feeling like finally we were, you know, 717 00:39:09,997 --> 00:39:11,639 gettin' what we had waited for. 718 00:39:14,594 --> 00:39:17,095 - NARRATOR: As prosecutors prepared for trial, 719 00:39:17,171 --> 00:39:19,522 they revisit an initial person of interest 720 00:39:19,599 --> 00:39:21,974 in the case--Dennis Killy, 721 00:39:22,051 --> 00:39:25,144 who has recently been released from jail. 722 00:39:25,221 --> 00:39:26,270 - JEFF: I would say approximately 723 00:39:26,347 --> 00:39:28,031 six months before the trial, 724 00:39:28,108 --> 00:39:30,441 we were able to arrange a meeting with Dennis Killy, 725 00:39:30,518 --> 00:39:34,487 and our goal of that meeting was just basically to listen. 726 00:39:34,564 --> 00:39:36,539 And it was at that time that he informed us 727 00:39:36,616 --> 00:39:41,035 that Mary had at some point prior to the murder 728 00:39:41,046 --> 00:39:43,296 actually asked him if he would kill Ray. 729 00:39:44,532 --> 00:39:46,207 - NARRATOR: The offer described by Dennis 730 00:39:46,218 --> 00:39:50,461 matches up with Robin Dabney's previous statement. 731 00:39:50,538 --> 00:39:54,715 - That was one of the most damning statements about Mary, 732 00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:56,559 which was that she had asked him before 733 00:39:56,636 --> 00:39:58,686 to kill Raymond for $30,000. 734 00:40:02,067 --> 00:40:05,402 - NARRATOR: At trial, in October of 2017, 735 00:40:05,478 --> 00:40:07,562 the prosecution paints the story 736 00:40:07,572 --> 00:40:11,282 of a woman driven by jealousy and greed. 737 00:40:13,269 --> 00:40:15,412 - JEFF: With Atina and Charmaine coming in, 738 00:40:15,488 --> 00:40:18,406 and--and helping Ray run the salvage yard, 739 00:40:18,417 --> 00:40:21,251 I think there's several factors coming together kind of 740 00:40:21,327 --> 00:40:25,255 all at once that led to this March 31 date. 741 00:40:25,331 --> 00:40:31,085 - Mary wanted life to continue to be business as--as usual, 742 00:40:31,096 --> 00:40:33,713 once Raymond was out of the picture. 743 00:40:33,789 --> 00:40:36,766 Chapin would come home from incarceration. 744 00:40:36,843 --> 00:40:38,435 He would run the yard, 745 00:40:38,511 --> 00:40:40,103 and she would continue to run the office there 746 00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:41,980 at the recycling center. 747 00:40:43,183 --> 00:40:44,599 - JEFF: When Atina had come to live with Ray 748 00:40:44,609 --> 00:40:46,609 in March of 2011, 749 00:40:46,686 --> 00:40:48,778 she's really starting to see the writing on the wall 750 00:40:48,855 --> 00:40:51,230 as to kind of what's happening. 751 00:40:51,307 --> 00:40:52,615 - CHRIS: Now she's being pushed out of the picture, 752 00:40:52,692 --> 00:40:54,284 or so she thinks. 753 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,069 Her life was going to change on April 4, 754 00:40:57,146 --> 00:41:00,623 and that was a big threat to what her plans were. 755 00:41:00,700 --> 00:41:02,366 - CHIP: I think she shopped around 756 00:41:02,443 --> 00:41:04,619 with Killy and Robin Dabney 757 00:41:04,629 --> 00:41:07,622 to find somebody to do her dirty work, 758 00:41:07,632 --> 00:41:11,292 and she never could find somebody to do it, 759 00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:14,253 so she ultimately did it herself. 760 00:41:14,330 --> 00:41:16,306 - RON: I think she had a bit of a broken heart, 761 00:41:16,382 --> 00:41:18,549 and I--and that's part of the reason why I think she did it, 762 00:41:18,626 --> 00:41:20,643 'cuz she shot him in the chest. 763 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:23,646 I think she was tryin' to hurt his heart. 764 00:41:23,723 --> 00:41:25,264 - [gunshot] 765 00:41:25,341 --> 00:41:28,151 - ♪ 766 00:41:28,228 --> 00:41:30,811 - NARRATOR: Between Mary's shifting timeline, 767 00:41:30,822 --> 00:41:34,324 Atina's testimony about seeing Mary at the gate, 768 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,068 and the positive gun residue test, 769 00:41:37,144 --> 00:41:41,072 the prosecution lays out a compelling case, 770 00:41:41,148 --> 00:41:46,077 though questions of a potential accomplice remain unanswered. 771 00:41:46,153 --> 00:41:48,829 - Is it possible that Dennis was involved 772 00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:50,790 in the murder? It is. 773 00:41:50,866 --> 00:41:53,343 Um, did he fire the--the shot? 774 00:41:53,419 --> 00:41:55,512 I--I believe that the evidence supports 775 00:41:55,588 --> 00:41:57,588 that Mary was the one that-- 776 00:41:57,665 --> 00:42:00,299 she either fired the weapon or handled the weapon. 777 00:42:00,376 --> 00:42:03,686 Now, Dennis could have got rid of the weapon, who knows. 778 00:42:06,266 --> 00:42:07,524 - BETH: We didn't have to prove she's the one 779 00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:08,858 that pulled the trigger. 780 00:42:08,935 --> 00:42:11,102 She's just the one that got him to the dance. 781 00:42:11,178 --> 00:42:13,187 And you know that clearly, 782 00:42:13,198 --> 00:42:14,697 she had done that with the phone calls, 783 00:42:14,774 --> 00:42:16,533 and changing the schedule. 784 00:42:16,609 --> 00:42:18,535 And she's the one with the motive, 785 00:42:18,611 --> 00:42:20,194 and all the other statements. 786 00:42:20,205 --> 00:42:22,830 And had tried to get somebody to do it before. 787 00:42:25,544 --> 00:42:28,545 - NARRATOR: After just two hours of deliberation, 788 00:42:28,621 --> 00:42:32,373 the jury finds Mary guilty. 789 00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:36,127 She is sentenced to life behind bars. 790 00:42:36,203 --> 00:42:37,720 - I don't know how someone in her shoes 791 00:42:37,797 --> 00:42:40,390 can't stop and think about the children. 792 00:42:40,466 --> 00:42:41,724 You know, who's thinking about 793 00:42:41,801 --> 00:42:43,843 my--my--my son and my daughter 794 00:42:43,919 --> 00:42:46,512 that will never meet their grandfather? 795 00:42:46,589 --> 00:42:47,888 - BETH: It was hard to understand 796 00:42:47,899 --> 00:42:50,641 how a 56-year-old woman, 797 00:42:50,718 --> 00:42:54,312 who had benefited so much from this man's generosity, 798 00:42:54,388 --> 00:42:57,240 and giving her a job even after they were divorced. 799 00:42:57,317 --> 00:42:59,734 It was hard to get our head wrapped around the fact 800 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:03,487 that she was mean enough to kill him. 801 00:43:03,564 --> 00:43:07,867 - Mexia is a small town, and everybody knows everybody. 802 00:43:07,943 --> 00:43:11,254 But when this case came up, it makes you wonder, 803 00:43:11,331 --> 00:43:13,706 do you really know everybody? 804 00:43:13,783 --> 00:43:17,594 - It breaks my heart, 'cuz I know how much he gave. 805 00:43:17,670 --> 00:43:19,170 You could always count on him. 806 00:43:19,246 --> 00:43:20,671 He'd always be there to help you. 807 00:43:20,748 --> 00:43:22,765 The world misses a hard worker, 808 00:43:22,842 --> 00:43:27,386 and a man that would always love and give as best he could. 809 00:43:27,463 --> 00:43:33,276 - ♪