- Narrator: He was a high-flying air force reserve pilot
Dedicated to his job
And beloved by his fellow servicemen.
- He flew logistical missions and rescue missions,
He flew in combat zones.
- Narrator: However, unexpectedly the true danger
For this wartime pilot was not overseas,
But in his own home.
- He was shot twice in the back
And once in the head at close range.
- It was clear that this person,
This killer, wanted him dead.
- Narrator: As the murder investigation takes off,
A house full of twisted secrets
Is revealed behind closed doors.
- It was the first time in my, 25 plus year career
That I had ever seen a crime scene booby trapped.
It was staged in such a way that had somebody
Opened the closet door not carefully,
They would have been shot.
There was just something going on in that house
That was getting worse and worse.
- Narrator: And detectives will uncover
How far someone is willing to go to break free.
- She knew this relationship was over,
And it's almost like she wanted it to end on her terms.
- ♪
- Narrator: March 15, 2007. Trumbull county, ohio.
Airman gary dodge arrives at the
Youngstown air force reserve station
Looking forward to connecting with fellow pilot,
44-year-old karl hoerig, before a busy day of work.
There's only one problem... Karl is nowhere to be found.
- It was not common for karl to miss work,
So gary dodge placed a call to 911
To check the welfare of his friend karl hoerig.
- Narrator: The responding officer
Finds one vehicle in karl's driveway.
But a knock on the door goes unanswered.
- They tried to get in but because there was no answer,
They ended up contacting his father.
- I think that gave the friends and family
Grave concern right from the beginning.
- His father arrived and was able to let them into the home.
And that's when they made the discovery.
- Police discovered karl's body at the bottom of the steps
Near the front door
Covered in a comforter and he was deceased.
- He was the obvious victim of a homicide with gunshot wounds.
At that point, the officer secured the scene,
Made the calls to the detective bureau,
The prosecutor's office, and the coroner's office.
- Narrator: Outside, karl's father learns
The shocking fate of his son.
- For a parent to be there when a child's body is discovered,
As you can imagine, it-it was just heartbreaking
Ah, they did not want the father
To come into the home to see that.
- Narrator: Karl hoerig entered the world
On christmas eve 1963. The second of three sons,
Karl enjoyed an idyllic childhood
In newton falls, ohio.
- It was just a really nice
Middle america place to grow up in.
His mother and father, both very sweet,
Honorable, hard-working people.
Just wonderful.
- His father taught him the trades and woodworking
And karl was a fantastic woodworker
And was also good with automobiles
And anything mechanical
Was definitely a strong area for karl.
- Narrator: After graduating high school in 1982,
Karl enlisted in the military.
It was during karl's early years in the military
That he met his first wife, rhonda sharpe.
- I believe they met at an army formal ball.
Karl ended up taking the sister
Of one of his closest friends
And that sister was rhonda.
And they ended up eventually getting married.
- Narrator: Over the next decade,
Karl and rhonda raised two children together.
But the romance faded, and the couple divorced in 1998.
The split was amicable,
And karl remained a dedicated father.
- He loved both of his children, uh, eva and brent,
Very, very much and talked about them
And uh, was very supportive of both of them.
- Narrator: Following the end of his active service career,
Karl landed a well-paying job as a pilot for southwest airlines.
He also joined the air force reserves,
Where he eventually rose to the rank of major.
- He flew logistical missions and rescue missions,
He flew in combat zones. This was a guy
That dedicated his life to his community,
His country, his family.
- Narrator: It was on a flight abroad
Where karl met the woman he considered to be
The love of his life.
- Karl was on a routine mission to peru
And while he was there,
He met a young peruvian girl named karla.
And they kept in touch, and they started
Writing letters, and eventually, she came to visit him,
And they fell in love.
- Narrator: For the next two years,
The couple lived together in a small town
Outside of youngstown, ohio.
- Karl was absolutely head over heels in love
With karla, just adored her to no end.
After some time, things started to get a little bit complicated.
Karla wanted to get married and wanted to have children.
And karl wasn't sure that he wanted to have any more kids,
So he decided to break up with karla.
It didn't take karl very long, maybe six months or so
To realize that he had made a terrible, terrible mistake
But unfortunately, um,
Karla decided not to come back. She had moved on.
- Narrator: In April of 2005, cupid struck again
When karl met 40-year-old claudia sobral
On a dating website.
Friends of karl's instantly noticed how closely
Claudia resembled karla.
- He told me all about this girl from new york city,
And that, uh, that he really liked her.
But one of my first impressions when I met claudia
Was that she reminded me so much of karla.
- Narrator: Born and raised in rio de janeiro,
Claudia immigrated to the united states
From brazil in the mid-1980s.
- Claudia came to the united states
When she was fairly young, uh, maybe early 20s.
She went to new york city. She was an accountant
And so that's how she made a living in new york city.
- Narrator: Claudia's upbringing in brazil was difficult,
And she rarely discussed her past with friends.
By 1999, 35-year-old claudia
Was ready to leave life in brazil behind her
And put down permanent roots in america.
- Although she was born in brazil,
She had become a naturalized us citizen.
- Narrator: With a solid career in the big apple,
Claudia found herself longing for a romantic connection.
In 2005, she found her match online
With karl hoerig.
- So, from there things went amazingly fast
In the relationship, just almost mind-bogglingly fast.
I don't think it was even two to three weeks or so later
That he was talking about possibly marrying her.
- Narrator: Though claudia remained
Something of a mystery to friends,
Karl saw nothing but bright skies on the horizon.
Six weeks after they met, karl proposed to claudia.
- When karl first got engaged to claudia,
There is no doubt that I tried to talk him out of it.
I said, "why, there's just- there's no reason
"to move this fast. You-you-you don't even know her,
"you haven't even known her that long.
Why- why get married?"
And his response was, "I can't lose this one."
- Narrator: In June of 2005,
Karl and claudia married in las vegas.
After the ceremony, the couple set up their home
On a quiet tree-lined street in karl's hometown
Of newton falls, ohio.
- It's where his mom and dad were,
It's near where his brothers were.
He found a really nice house in a really nice neighborhood
That, that he absolutely loved.
- This was a whirlwind romance for karl hoerig an-and claudia.
- All of his friends were worried that
He'd only known her for two months,
And here he was married.
Those are all pretty scary signs if you're his friends.
- Narrator: And on March 15, 2007,
Less than two years after they exchanged "I do's",
Karl is found shot to death inside his home.
When authorities learn karl shares the home with claudia,
Questions immediately surface,
Since karl's wife is nowhere in sight.
- And so, at that time, they're wondering
What is going on here?
Is claudia, a victim, has something happened to her?
- Narrator: As the search begins for claudia hoerig,
Detectives arrive on scene
And try to piece together what happened.
- They observed karl's body at the bottom of the steps,
And it appeared he had been there at least for several days.
- Karl had been shot twice in the back and once in the head.
- Narrator: Detectives next
Make their way into the master bedroom.
But when they open the closet door,
Investigators find themselves
Staring down the barrel of a gun, literally.
- It was the first time in my 25 plus year career
That I had ever seen a crime scene booby trapped.
- Narrator: Coming up:
A deadly contraption raises investigators' suspicions.
- It was something none of us had seen before.
- Narrator: And police uncover evidence of a rocky marriage.
- He didn't have very many good things
To say about claudia at all.
They had lots of trouble at home.
- ♪
- Narrator: March 15, 2007.
After finding the body of 44-year-old karl hoerig
In his newton falls, ohio, home,
Police are unpacking the crime scene
When they make a disturbing discovery
In the master bedroom closet.
- When that closet door was opened, what you saw
Was the two-by-four going across the frame,
And then a gun suspended in midair
With just the barrel sticking through the hole
That had been bored out in that two-by-four.
- It was a firearm that was staged in such a way
That had somebody opened the closet door not carefully,
And the booby trap would have worked properly that,
That person who opened that door,
Most likely law enforcement, would have been shot.
- It was something none of us had seen before.
- If they're willing to- to leave a booby trap,
That could kill un-you know, some unknown person
Who just opens a closet door.
What are they gonna do when they're confronted
By law enforcement?
- Narrator: Thankfully, the device is quickly
And safely disassembled.
- Once they find this .357 magnum
And this booby trap set up, they immediately question
Whether this could be the actual murder weapon in this case.
So, they take it as evidence and they send it to
The states crime lab to investigate, to try and see
If it matches the bullets that karl was shot with.
- Narrator: Detectives head back downstairs
To survey karl's body and gather more evidence.
- He was the obvious victim of a homicide with gunshot wounds
That his body was covered with some type of a sheet.
When you find a body that's covered up,
That often means that the person who committed that homicide
Had some type of a relationship
With the victim and didn't wanna view the body,
Just didn't wanna have to look at it.
- Narrator: In addition to the close-range shot
That ended karl's life, four more bullets
Were fired from a distance in his direction.
Two landed in a wall, the other two
Struck karl in the back and neck.
- From what police could tell is that this appeared to be
A surprise attack on karl.
The fact that he was sitting at the bottom of the stairs,
His shoes untied, a water bottle there.
It appeared as if he was getting ready to go somewhere,
Which was most likely work at that time.
- Narrator: When detectives search the rest of the home,
One possible motive for the murder
Is soon ruled out.
- There was not signs that the house had been burglarized,
The house was not ransacked or anything of that nature
With the exception of karl's body being covered
In a comforter at the bottom of the steps
The house was in good order.
- Narrator: As the crime scene search continues,
Detectives step outside
And examine karl's car in the driveway
With a hastily packed suitcase in the back seat.
- Looking into that vehicle,
They could see some clothes in a bag, his cell phone.
Those are also things that they didn't think
He would just leave basically out in the open like that.
- That would indicate to me that
Somebody was leaving. Somebody was either in fear
For their safety or they were
Gettin' ready to get out of there
And something bad happened
That would raise red flags right away.
- Narrator: Law enforcement also notices
That both claudia and her bmw are nowhere to be found.
- The father and family members
Who are all responding to the scene
Immediately told the detectives
That her vehicle and her were both missing from the residence.
- None of the neighbors really knew anything
About what happened. They didn't seem to
Hear anything or see anything odd.
But one man did say that on the 12th,
He saw the bmw peel out of the driveway.
- Narrator: The neighbor's timeline
Would seem to line up with the approximate date
Of karl's death, which means karl's killer
Could have a three-day head start.
- When a person is married and they are
Found deceased in their home, especially alone,
The first thought for concern is,
Where is the spouse? Is the spouse alive?
Has the spouse been kidnapped or hurt,
Or are they a suspect?
- So, police are doing everything they can
To find this bmw that the couple owned.
They put out the be on the look out for-
Bolo alert to authorities trying to find the vehicle.
- You see the totality of the crime scene,
The number one, the area that is not known for violent crime,
You then see that the occupant appeared to have been
Packing their vehicle to leave, the residence is locked,
The body's covered, somebody took the time
To place this booby trap in a closet.
All of that really indicates and leads to the fact
That this is most likely a domestic incident.
- Narrator: With the bolo out for the bmw
And karl's current wife,
Investigators look into the health of his relationship
With his ex-wife, rhonda.
- Ed hoerig who was karl's father
Told police that there was
No possibility that it was his ex-wife.
They were extremely close, and she also lived
In north carolina.
- Narrator: A phone call to rhonda at her home
In north carolina supports ed's assertion
That she and karl were on good terms.
In fact, she tells detectives
She had just seen her ex-husband a few days before his murder.
- They learned that he had been in north carolina
Visiting his ex-wife and his children
And had just gotten back to newton falls.
- Narrator: With his ex-wife ruled out as a suspect,
Investigators dive deeper into the dynamic
Between karl and claudia.
- Karl did share that he was having difficulty
In the marriage and, uh, was in the middle of a difficult time.
Didn't talk much about it, but you could see
He was troubled by it.
- He didn't have very many good things
To say about claudia at all.
Claudia was complaining that karl was comparing claudia
To other girls at times, like specifically his ex-carla.
They had lots of trouble at home.
- Karl's family and friends were concerned because,
Obviously now, karl's body is found, uh, shot
And claudia is nowhere to be found.
So, the first goal is to figure out
Where claudia is.
Is she responsible for this? And where did she go?
- Narrator: Unable to contact claudia,
Detectives consider the possibility
That she's on the run and quickly bring in
U.S. Marshals to track her down.
- The primary role of the u.S. Marshals
Is to find the fugitive,
Find the person who committed this crime
So they can be brought back to justice.
- Narrator: Coming up:
Investigators learn the true depth of the discord
In the hoerig household.
- Narrator: And a manhunt becomes
An international incident.
- And then at that point, everything just stopped,
And it turned into a legal and political issue.
- ♪
- Narrator: The investigation into the murder
Of 44-year-old karl hoerig is quickly pointing
In the direction of his brazilian born wife
Of two years, 42-year-old, claudia.
- When the detectives took the information
From friends and family saying he was involved in
A tumultuous relationship with his wife,
And they said right away if something happened to him,
They felt she was responsible. So based on that information,
She quickly became a person of interest
And a suspect in his death.
- Narrator: According to friends and family,
The couple's marital problems began
Shortly after they exchanged vows.
- After they came back from las vegas,
She went back to brooklyn where all her things were.
And of course, he went to his house in newton falls
And he had a terrible time getting her to agree
To come to newton falls.
I remember after two or three weeks,
I-I think he had to say, look, you're my wife
And yo-you have to come.
- Narrator: But it seems their problems ran much deeper
Than deciding where to call home.
- Within weeks or- or possibly a month or two
Of them getting married, uh,
Karl already was-was complaining.
They had trouble in
Just about every area that you can imagine.
They would try to make it work for a while
And it kind of went back and forth,
And back and forth, which was
Probably very, very hard on both of them.
- Narrator: Friends say karl's infatuation with his ex, carla,
Caused him to jump too quickly into marriage with claudia.
- In my opinion, I think what happened was
After he got married and she came back to newton falls,
Karl started to realize that she wasn't karla.
She was nothing like karla. All she did was look like karla.
She did not have the same personality at all.
- Narrator: Apparently, the pressure to fill carla's shoes
Was having a noticeable effect on claudia.
- The family was describing her as having erratic behavior
That she seemed like she was unstable.
- Narrator: During their search of the hoerig home,
Police find a recording on a computer
Of a family meeting from February 5, 2007.
It's clear that claudia called the surprise meeting
To address the tension in her marriage.
And while karl and his parents were present,
No one knew claudia recorded the entire exchange.
- Narrator: It's not long before karl's former flame, carla,
Becomes the focus of the discussion.
- Narrator: Through the fiery dispute,
It becomes clear to investigators
That the marriage was nearing its end.
- ♪
- Karl hoerig's family was under the understanding
That he was going to leave claudia.
In fact, he had already found another place
That he was planning to move into.
- Narrator: After hearing how hostile
Karl and claudia's marriage had become,
Authorities crack down on locating claudia.
Luckily on March 16th, they get their next lead.
- We learn that claudia's bmw was located in a parking area
At the pittsburgh international airport.
- Obviously, we were excited that the car was found.
But now the next problem that is presented to us is
Where did she go? Did she board a plane?
- Narrator: Detectives suspicions are heightened
When they comb over the couple's financial records
And discover a major red flag.
- They find out that claudia hoerig
Cleaned out a bank account and basically dumped
All of her money into an account in brazil.
- The amount of money was nearly $10,000 in us currency.
- Narrator: To verify that it was actually claudia
Who authorized the transaction,
They check the bank surveillance footage
And clear as day, on March 12th,
Three days before karl was found dead,
Claudia is caught on camera.
- This was right around the same time
That the homicide obviously occurred.
So, that led investigators to believe that,
You know, this was something
That was premeditated, this was planned.
She had this money withdrawn before the homicide occurred.
- The thought going through our head is,
She's wiring money down to brazil,
So she will have money when she gets there.
It sure would lead one to believe
That she was heading back to her home country.
- Narrator: And when investigators
Scrutinize claudia's cell records,
They determine that claudia's travel plans
Were highly coordinated.
First, leaving her car in pittsburgh
And then flying to laguardia airport in new york.
- We were then able to see that she traveled from laguardia
Across town to jfk airport,
Where her phone was again turned off.
And her last known location was at jfk.
- So, the next part of that then becomes now we gotta start
Tracking flying information and, and her- her, uh,
Ticket information to determine where
She may possibly be so we can locate her.
- We discovered that she had actually
Boarded that flight from jfk to brazil,
We had the ticket. We knew she was on that plane.
Then that's when the next- the next stage of the investigation,
You know, really kicked off.
- Narrator: Back in trumbull county,
A forensic analysis is conducted on the handgun
Found inside the hoerig's closet,
And it's determined to be the weapon used to kill karl.
And what's more, the gun was purchased by claudia.
- Police learned that it, in fact,
Was the murder weapon and that it was purchased
By claudia hoerig, karl's wife,
Just two days before the murder.
- We talked to the employees at the indoor gun range.
They remember claudia being there
And I talked to the subject who sold her the weapon.
Claudia had laser sight grips installed on that weapon
When she bought it. That way when you hold the gun,
The laser comes on and, you know, shows you where
The bullet's gonna hit.
Claudia bought ammunition and actually practiced
Shooting that weapon with the laser grips on it.
- Narrator: With proof that claudia purchased
The same weapon used to kill karl,
On April 12, 2007,
Authorities file murder charges against her.
But with their prime suspect
More than 4,500 miles away in brazil,
Bringing her home to face justice
Will not be easy.
- Brazil was putting up a fight regarding the extradition.
- The brazilian constitution says,
If they are a brazilian citizen,
They're not gonna extradite back to our country.
There is never, ever a brazilian citizen
Extradited back to the united states of america
In our history.
- And then at that point, everything just, you know,
The law enforcement side of things really just stopped,
And it turned into a legal and political issue.
- Narrator: Coming up:
As the decade-long fight
To bring claudia to justice continues...
...It's claudia who finally taps out.
- The two of us are sitting there and she says,
"you know, a wife doesn't kill her husband for no reason."
- ♪
- Narrator: On April 12, 2007,
Ohio authorities obtained an arrest warrant
For claudia hoerig for the murder of her husband, karl.
But now that she's fled to her home country of brazil,
Extraditing her back to the states
Poses a challenge to us marshals.
- We quickly learned that the brazilian constitution
Does not allow for the extradition of their citizens
To foreign countries, and because claudia
Had been born in brazil, they were considering her
Still a citizen of their country,
So the extradition process did not even start.
But she took an oath of citizenship
To the united states. And in that oath of citizenship,
It clearly states that you renounce
Your citizenship in any other country
When you become a us citizen.
- She commits a murder here in the united states,
Flees to her home country of brazil,
And brazil tells us they're not giving her back to us.
So that- that- that's very frustrating.
She needs to face charges for this.
- No one expected this battle between the courts
And a battle between two countries.
- Narrator: For nine years, us authorities look for a way
To cut through international red tape
And find justice for karl hoerig.
As for claudia, life in brazil was treating her all too well.
- Throughout this entire process after she was initially located,
Uh, the us marshals international investigators,
With the assistance of our partners down in brazil,
Were keeping, I don't want to say constant tabs
But random tabs on claudia.
We were making sure we knew where she lived,
We were keeping an eye on her. We find out, she bought a house,
She started her own business, she actually got remarried.
These were all things that, you know, smack in the face
To the- to the victim, to the family
And really, really frustrating to the-
The detectives and the marshals involved in the case.
- Narrator: After nearly 10 years of appeals
To officials in 3 different us presidential administrations,
In April of 2016, the fight to bring claudia back
Finally pays off.
- One of the avenues that was pursued vigorously
Was the fact that because she became a united states citizen,
That means she had to renounce her citizenship in brazil,
And she shouldn't have those protections
Of being a brazilian citizen.
She tried to use this loophole
As a way to get away with murder.
- And that little nuance, the way I understand it,
Went all the way to the supreme court of brazil
Where she lost by one vote.
- So, the brazilian federal police arrest her
And then begins the next legal process,
Which is the formal order of extradition
Ordering her removed from the country.
- At that point, I was able to work with my headquarters
And- and get a private plane.
And I flew three of my deputy us marshals,
An fbi agent, and a state department agent
Over there to brazil to pick her up.
- We were at the airport police station,
And we were told she was in the next room over.
It was kind of a surreal moment.
We, you know, we had spent, you know, over a decade
Trying to find her and then trying to get her
Brought back to justice in the us.
- Narrator: But perhaps no one is more surprised
Than claudia herself.
- Myself and the, uh,
State department agent entered the room.
We identified ourselves in english
And asked if she understood us,
And you- you could see the look on her face.
I mean, she went from, you know, kind of having a normal day,
You could see that look come over her face
When she realized who we were and- and where she was going.
- Narrator: After an 8-hour flight,
Claudia arrives back in ohio and is escorted
To the police station for an interview.
During the car ride,
She makes a shocking statement to the us marshals.
- The two of us are sitting there and she says,
"you know, a wife doesn't kill her husband for no reason."
- Narrator: Claudia's bombshell confession
Leads investigators straight to an interrogation room
To see what else she'll share.
And her list of grievances against karl
Starts with his regret over his lost love, carla.
- She began talking, trying to describe
An abusive relationship, not physically abusive,
But what she described as
Emotionally and sexually abusive.
- Narrator: According to claudia,
The breaking point in the marriage
Came down to the fact that claudia wanted children
And karl did not.
After suffering from two miscarriages,
Claudia became suicidal.
- Narrator: On March 9, 2007,
Just three days before the murder,
Claudia claims she took a pregnancy test,
And it came back positive. The next day,
Claudia made a surprising purchase.
- Narrator: To show how serious she was about her intentions,
Claudia claims that when she told karl she was pregnant
She held the newly purchased .357 to her head.
- She said that those statements infuriated her so bad
That when he turned his back
That instead of killing herself, she shot him.
- Narrator: For detectives, claudia's confession
Appears to be the damning final piece of evidence.
Less certain is whether a jury
Will interpret her admission the same way.
- Getting her back here and having her sitting in,
In, in, in the county jail isn't the final step,
There's still a trial.
This thing's not over till the trial's over.
- Narrator: Coming up:
Claudia makes her case to the jury...
- The one thing that everyone wanted to see
Was whether or not claudia hoerig
Would take the stand.
And when she did, everyone wanted a front row seat.
- ♪
- Narrator: January 24, 2019.
After more than a decade on the run,
Claudia hoerig is led into an ohio courtroom
To stand trial for the murder of her husband, karl.
- Narrator: Claudia's defense team
Acknowledges that she fired the shots that killed karl,
But they insist it was provoked by abuse
Suffered at the hands of her spouse.
- Her defense was basically she had suffered so much
Emotional abuse and sexual abuse
That she wasn't responsible for her actions
Or that her, her actions were justified.
- Narrator: And in an attempt to sway the jury
On the provocative allegations, claudia makes a stunning move.
- During this trial, the one thing
That everyone wanted to see was whether or not
Claudia hoerig would take the stand.
And when she did, everyone wanted a front row seat.
The court room was packed.
- Narrator: On the stand, claudia repeats the same story
She told investigators following her extradition.
- Narrator: In fact, claudia tells the court
That the booby trap found inside her bedroom closet
Was actually designed to harm her...
- She said she researched suicide
And- and she said when some people try to commit suicide,
They hesitate at the last second,
Move the- the barrel of the gun and then they don't
Kill themselves and they survive.
And she didn't want that to happen.
So that's why she built that thinking that it would
Keep the weapon in place and when she pulled the trigger,
She would accomplish her goal of killing herself.
- Narrator: The prosecution is quick to point out
One glaring hole in claudia's story,
The lack of evidence she has to support her allegations.
- We did not hear any information
That would lead us to believe that karl acted in a way
That claudia said he did.
- There were things that just did not add up to his ex-wife,
To his brother, to his parents,
Knowing the man that he was.
They felt that everything she was saying
Was totally going against everything that karl was.
- Frankly, I've forgotten most of that nonsense
That she brought up.
It was just ridiculous.
- She had made some comments about being pregnant
On several occasions and having miscarriages.
She was not able to provide doctors, hospitals,
She couldn't provide any information whatsoever
To support those claims.
- Narrator: Nor did claudia ever give birth to another child
After karl's death, suggesting her claims
Of a positive pregnancy test were false.
- The prosecution was able to prove
That this crime had been planned by claudia,
Mostly because of the purchase of the firearm
A few days in advance of karl's shooting,
The laser grips that were installed on that weapon.
Obviously, if you're gonna kill yourself,
Uh, you don't need a laser sight
To accomplish that goal.
- He was preparing to leave to avoid confrontation.
She wasn't gonna let that happen.
She knew he was getting ready to leave,
And if she couldn't convince him to stay,
Then she was going to kill him. I think that was something
That she had already decided in her mind.
That if he tried to leave, I have to kill him,
And I'm going back home to brazil.
- She knew this relationship was over,
And it's almost like she wanted it to end
On her terms.
- Narrator: On January 24, 2019,
After less than 4 hours of deliberation,
The jury's verdict is announced...
- Narrator: On February 8th, 2019,
Claudia hoerig is sentenced to life in prison.
Nearly 12 years since the crime occurred,
Karl's wife is finally held accountable
For her actions.
- Karl, we got justice for you.
And I'm hoping that you have found peace
And that your family has found peace as well.
- It ended way, way too soon for karl,
And I'm sure if he were here, he would tell me,
"hey, I didn't get to live as long as you, you know.
"enjoy it, buddy. Enjoy it as best you can
Because you never know when it's all going to end."
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