1 00:00:16,226 --> 00:00:20,270 KAHL: East Gillespie is a small, tight-knit community, 2 00:00:20,347 --> 00:00:22,105 and you think it's safe 3 00:00:22,107 --> 00:00:26,193 to go out to mow your yard, and this happens to you. 4 00:00:26,236 --> 00:00:27,944 [banging noises, commotion] 5 00:00:28,021 --> 00:00:29,237 [dog barking] 6 00:00:29,314 --> 00:00:30,463 PAINTER: Just knowing somebody could do that 7 00:00:30,465 --> 00:00:32,574 to another human was really disturbing, 8 00:00:32,576 --> 00:00:35,494 especially, you know, in the presence of a four-year-old. 9 00:00:37,247 --> 00:00:39,790 REKART: He had a life that looked pretty picture perfect, 10 00:00:39,866 --> 00:00:42,709 and then he had a life of after hours. 11 00:00:42,711 --> 00:00:47,547 A guy called and said, "Snitches get stitches." 12 00:00:47,591 --> 00:00:49,841 FENLEY: That murderer runnin' around town, 13 00:00:49,843 --> 00:00:53,261 as far as I know, it was my next door neighbor. 14 00:00:53,263 --> 00:00:54,846 HARVEY: I'd give anything to change it. 15 00:00:55,808 --> 00:00:58,934 I miss her so much. 16 00:00:59,010 --> 00:01:01,728 It's the nightmare that I can't wake up from. 17 00:01:06,401 --> 00:01:09,736 [theme song playing] 18 00:01:34,304 --> 00:01:37,556 [somber music playing] 19 00:01:44,356 --> 00:01:47,023 PAINTER: I grew up here in the Gillespie area, 20 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:50,485 And it's odd how some names stick in your brain, and some 21 00:01:50,562 --> 00:01:52,946 names don't stick in your brain -- you know, Angela Lee, 22 00:01:52,948 --> 00:01:54,781 I'll never forget that name. 23 00:01:54,783 --> 00:01:57,576 At the time of the Angela Lee murder, 24 00:01:57,652 --> 00:02:00,579 in 2003, I was a road deputy, 25 00:02:00,655 --> 00:02:02,455 and I was off that night. 26 00:02:02,457 --> 00:02:05,292 Um, but being a smaller department, 27 00:02:05,335 --> 00:02:08,837 being a small, rural area, word travels fast. 28 00:02:12,843 --> 00:02:16,219 Angela Lee was found in her house 29 00:02:16,221 --> 00:02:20,724 by her boyfriend, Jason, her son's father. 30 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,393 When he came home that evening from work, 31 00:02:23,470 --> 00:02:25,687 he had worked a little bit later than normal, 32 00:02:25,764 --> 00:02:27,480 when he found her, 33 00:02:27,515 --> 00:02:29,983 she was laying in the dining room in a pool of blood with 34 00:02:30,027 --> 00:02:33,236 very traumatic injuries to her head and neck. 35 00:02:34,615 --> 00:02:36,781 Jason had said that he discovered his son 36 00:02:36,858 --> 00:02:38,992 in -- in one of the bedrooms, 37 00:02:40,162 --> 00:02:44,456 apart from the dining room, watching television. 38 00:02:44,532 --> 00:02:46,917 Jason then contacted 911. 39 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:48,376 [distant sirens wailing] 40 00:02:48,453 --> 00:02:51,338 KAHL: I heard the squad cars go by. 41 00:02:51,381 --> 00:02:54,382 I made a phone call and was informed that 42 00:02:54,384 --> 00:02:58,470 we had a homicide murder down in East Gillespie. 43 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:01,973 I was kind of shocked about it, you know, 44 00:03:02,050 --> 00:03:03,850 because we don't deal with a lot of murders 45 00:03:03,894 --> 00:03:06,686 in Macoupin County on a regular basis. 46 00:03:09,483 --> 00:03:14,694 This was the residence in which, uh, Angela lived in. 47 00:03:16,657 --> 00:03:18,782 This is the first time I've been here since 48 00:03:18,858 --> 00:03:21,201 the murder happened, and it, 49 00:03:21,245 --> 00:03:24,079 you know, brings up a lot of -- a lot of memories. 50 00:03:25,499 --> 00:03:29,834 This house is obviously a little different now. Um... 51 00:03:29,836 --> 00:03:32,837 but what I can kind of remember was when we found 52 00:03:32,914 --> 00:03:35,423 Angela, she was probably, 53 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:37,717 I'm gonna say right and about in this area. 54 00:03:37,761 --> 00:03:39,844 She was laying on her back, um, 55 00:03:39,921 --> 00:03:42,555 with her -- with her legs crossed. 56 00:03:43,850 --> 00:03:46,851 It was a very brutal crime scene. 57 00:03:46,928 --> 00:03:48,770 They felt like she was probably beat 58 00:03:48,847 --> 00:03:50,563 to death at that point in time. 59 00:03:51,984 --> 00:03:54,859 The whole thing is -- is just brutal, you know, 60 00:03:54,936 --> 00:03:57,988 and -- and such a terrible, terrible ordeal. 61 00:03:58,064 --> 00:04:00,740 But to think Angela's little boy, who was 62 00:04:00,784 --> 00:04:03,368 four years old, was at the house 63 00:04:03,445 --> 00:04:06,454 when this occurred, we were extremely 64 00:04:06,531 --> 00:04:10,750 relieved that he didn't harm her boy. 65 00:04:10,752 --> 00:04:12,294 Being in law enforcement, 66 00:04:12,370 --> 00:04:14,004 you know, you see bad things, and -- 67 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,298 and this was at the top of the list 68 00:04:16,374 --> 00:04:19,426 as far as bad things happening to somebody, you know, 69 00:04:19,469 --> 00:04:22,262 it's hard to believe that somebody would ever do this. 70 00:04:23,015 --> 00:04:27,475 The gun handle was found right here in this area. 71 00:04:27,477 --> 00:04:32,564 Investigators believe that she was possibly beat with the gun. 72 00:04:34,026 --> 00:04:36,443 In cases like this, you always have to look 73 00:04:36,486 --> 00:04:39,738 at that person that they're in a relationship with. 74 00:04:39,814 --> 00:04:42,657 And so we talked to Angela's boyfriend, Jason. 75 00:04:42,659 --> 00:04:45,535 Because of the nature of this crime, 76 00:04:45,612 --> 00:04:49,664 it looked like it was somebody that was really angry with her. 77 00:04:49,741 --> 00:04:52,125 And a lot of times when crimes like this occur, 78 00:04:52,169 --> 00:04:54,544 they are crimes of passion, where you just, 79 00:04:54,621 --> 00:04:58,256 the emotions and the feelings get so overwhelming, 80 00:04:58,333 --> 00:04:59,883 you just don't stop. 81 00:05:01,011 --> 00:05:03,345 KAHL: After canvass of the neighborhood, 82 00:05:03,347 --> 00:05:05,930 none of the neighbors really saw anything. 83 00:05:06,007 --> 00:05:08,683 Investigators did talk to an employee 84 00:05:08,760 --> 00:05:10,977 at the Cavallo Bus Lines who -- 85 00:05:11,021 --> 00:05:13,146 who worked in the garage of the bus lines, 86 00:05:13,148 --> 00:05:15,231 which was right across the street. 87 00:05:15,359 --> 00:05:18,526 This gentleman had indicated that he did see Angela 88 00:05:18,528 --> 00:05:21,696 out mowing her yard somewhere around five in the afternoon. 89 00:05:21,698 --> 00:05:24,282 So that was really about the only witness 90 00:05:24,359 --> 00:05:28,661 we had of timeline, trying to figure out what -- 91 00:05:28,705 --> 00:05:30,330 what happened that day. 92 00:05:34,044 --> 00:05:37,462 So this is my Angie, 93 00:05:37,539 --> 00:05:40,006 and my dad took all these pictures. 94 00:05:40,050 --> 00:05:43,551 He loved her so much. 95 00:05:43,628 --> 00:05:47,055 She was just the happiest baby. 96 00:05:47,132 --> 00:05:48,640 This is... 97 00:05:49,476 --> 00:05:52,352 Angie's badge for school. 98 00:05:52,354 --> 00:05:58,233 She had just re-enrolled right before this all happened. 99 00:05:58,902 --> 00:06:03,071 What a waste of a beautiful life. 100 00:06:04,574 --> 00:06:09,994 July 30th, 2003, I got a phone call from Angie's dad, 101 00:06:09,996 --> 00:06:12,997 and he just told me that I needed to get there 102 00:06:13,074 --> 00:06:16,042 immediately. Well... 103 00:06:16,086 --> 00:06:17,710 I had to know what was going on. 104 00:06:17,754 --> 00:06:21,131 So I just kept asking and kept asking, 105 00:06:21,207 --> 00:06:25,051 and he finally told me that Angie had been murdered, 106 00:06:25,053 --> 00:06:26,428 and... 107 00:06:28,390 --> 00:06:31,683 I'm pretty sure I -- I hit the ground. 108 00:06:33,353 --> 00:06:37,355 I don't think I can even describe what it's done to me. 109 00:06:38,483 --> 00:06:42,402 I'd give anything to change this. 110 00:06:45,657 --> 00:06:49,617 Time does not heal all wounds, that doesn't happen. 111 00:06:49,652 --> 00:06:50,994 That's not true. 112 00:06:56,877 --> 00:06:58,626 KAHL: The next day, 113 00:06:58,628 --> 00:07:01,921 the investigators were still there processing. 114 00:07:01,965 --> 00:07:04,883 I was out just kind of walking in the area, just to make sure 115 00:07:04,959 --> 00:07:06,759 if anything was missed. 116 00:07:06,803 --> 00:07:12,682 I was over across the street where the Cavallo Bus Lines was, 117 00:07:12,684 --> 00:07:16,936 and I was walking along the road and looked down in 118 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:21,941 a ditch and saw that there was a blue rubber glove. 119 00:07:21,985 --> 00:07:25,111 I notified the investigators, and then they came over 120 00:07:25,155 --> 00:07:26,738 and -- and brought, you know, 121 00:07:26,814 --> 00:07:29,240 crime scene over, and they photographed and collected 122 00:07:29,317 --> 00:07:32,660 the rubber glove -- over in the Cavallo parking lot, 123 00:07:32,737 --> 00:07:35,580 they were able to find some balloon ribbon 124 00:07:35,657 --> 00:07:39,292 that matched up to what was in Angela's garage. 125 00:07:39,336 --> 00:07:43,713 So we kind of had an idea that maybe it got stuck to the foot 126 00:07:43,715 --> 00:07:46,508 of -- of the suspect, 127 00:07:46,584 --> 00:07:48,676 and they walked towards Cavallo, and it was 128 00:07:48,753 --> 00:07:51,763 recovered over in the Cavallo parking lot. 129 00:07:55,227 --> 00:07:57,602 FENLEY: As I was working at Cavallo Bus Line, 130 00:07:57,604 --> 00:08:02,065 I was a cleaner, cleaning buses outside and in. 131 00:08:02,067 --> 00:08:06,152 The hours were at nighttime, usually from 132 00:08:06,154 --> 00:08:09,948 about five at night until three or four in the morning. 133 00:08:09,950 --> 00:08:15,161 The day after the murder, Cavallo's was quiet. 134 00:08:15,163 --> 00:08:17,705 Nobody looked at anybody, nobody would talk to anybody, 135 00:08:17,782 --> 00:08:19,666 they were just going about their business. 136 00:08:20,418 --> 00:08:21,793 It was like a totally different 137 00:08:21,869 --> 00:08:23,962 world in there after that happened. 138 00:08:24,038 --> 00:08:26,381 The cops showed up to interview us, 139 00:08:26,457 --> 00:08:29,842 and that's a stressful thing to go through. 140 00:08:29,886 --> 00:08:31,277 It don't matter if you get 141 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:33,680 pulled over for speeding or interviewed for... 142 00:08:33,723 --> 00:08:36,140 it's just stressful. 143 00:08:37,269 --> 00:08:40,812 Every time I drove by Angie's house, I would feel sickness. 144 00:08:40,888 --> 00:08:42,730 Just that hair stands up on the back 145 00:08:42,732 --> 00:08:44,440 of your neck when you drive by there. 146 00:08:50,031 --> 00:08:51,239 REKART: Do you want to come help me? 147 00:08:53,326 --> 00:08:56,703 Okay, so put these patties 148 00:08:56,746 --> 00:08:59,831 onto here, and then put those on there. 149 00:08:59,907 --> 00:09:01,541 You might want to wash your hands first. 150 00:09:03,878 --> 00:09:08,423 I met Angie in the third grade, and she liked to do things 151 00:09:08,425 --> 00:09:10,008 other kids wouldn't like to do. 152 00:09:10,084 --> 00:09:13,136 She wasn't afraid to get messy or in the dirt. 153 00:09:13,888 --> 00:09:17,140 When I heard the details of how Angie was murdered, 154 00:09:17,216 --> 00:09:19,851 I threw up and stayed in bed for two days. 155 00:09:19,853 --> 00:09:22,895 My sister came and got me and took care of my kids. 156 00:09:22,939 --> 00:09:25,732 The last time I saw Angie, she had came to our house. 157 00:09:25,734 --> 00:09:27,183 She was really excited. 158 00:09:27,259 --> 00:09:29,611 They had just gotten a new home, and she was excited to 159 00:09:29,687 --> 00:09:31,362 decorate it and just start 160 00:09:31,439 --> 00:09:34,324 making a home for her and Jason. 161 00:09:34,326 --> 00:09:36,909 Angie started dating Jason around the time of 162 00:09:36,953 --> 00:09:38,328 her freshman year of high school. 163 00:09:38,330 --> 00:09:40,830 He was quite a bit older than us. 164 00:09:41,791 --> 00:09:46,461 When Angie told me she was pregnant, and she was 17, um... 165 00:09:46,537 --> 00:09:48,296 I was shocked. 166 00:09:48,298 --> 00:09:50,465 I think that her and Jason's relationship 167 00:09:50,541 --> 00:09:52,175 at that point was hard on her. 168 00:09:53,386 --> 00:09:56,304 Angie and Jason dated, on-again, off-again, 169 00:09:56,381 --> 00:09:59,432 for eight years, and in between that time, 170 00:09:59,476 --> 00:10:02,060 they would make up and break up 171 00:10:02,145 --> 00:10:03,686 and maybe date other people, 172 00:10:03,763 --> 00:10:06,272 and Brad Wolf came into the picture. 173 00:10:06,316 --> 00:10:09,150 Angie was dating Jason and kind of Brad 174 00:10:09,227 --> 00:10:11,069 in the same period. 175 00:10:11,145 --> 00:10:15,740 There was always that Brad and Jason... 176 00:10:15,742 --> 00:10:16,991 drama. 177 00:10:17,702 --> 00:10:19,068 As a young man, 178 00:10:19,145 --> 00:10:21,079 there's only so many times that you're going to be 179 00:10:21,081 --> 00:10:22,538 chosen second, 180 00:10:22,657 --> 00:10:25,291 whether it was Jason being chose second or Brad being 181 00:10:25,293 --> 00:10:28,336 chose second, somebody was being chose second and pissed. 182 00:10:28,413 --> 00:10:33,049 So, you'd have to ask if it was one of them. 183 00:10:43,019 --> 00:10:46,479 MOON: The media response to the Angela Lee murder 184 00:10:46,481 --> 00:10:47,914 was shock. 185 00:10:50,819 --> 00:10:53,903 And wondering who is this person who would do such 186 00:10:53,980 --> 00:11:00,201 a thing in our small town, and is anybody else in danger? 187 00:11:01,371 --> 00:11:02,995 ROBINSON: After Angie's murder, 188 00:11:03,039 --> 00:11:05,456 there was a rumor going around that she owed someone 189 00:11:05,533 --> 00:11:09,585 lots of money, and maybe that's why that they did it. 190 00:11:09,587 --> 00:11:13,381 MARBURGER: My reaction was that she might have been involved 191 00:11:13,458 --> 00:11:16,467 with something, because I had speculation 192 00:11:16,544 --> 00:11:18,219 that there were people doing things that 193 00:11:18,296 --> 00:11:19,595 they shouldn't be doing, 194 00:11:19,630 --> 00:11:22,056 like partying at the dealership, and I felt my -- 195 00:11:22,058 --> 00:11:24,142 my gut was, like, that made sense 196 00:11:24,144 --> 00:11:25,560 if there was a connection to that. 197 00:11:25,562 --> 00:11:27,437 That was my personal feeling on it. 198 00:11:28,815 --> 00:11:31,524 KAHL: There was a lot of fear in the community 199 00:11:31,568 --> 00:11:33,276 when this happened. 200 00:11:33,352 --> 00:11:35,778 The chatter going around the normal, well, 201 00:11:35,780 --> 00:11:37,196 did the boyfriend do it? 202 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,074 Did the ex-boyfriend do it? 203 00:11:40,076 --> 00:11:43,202 Anytime you have a homicide like this, 204 00:11:43,246 --> 00:11:45,830 um, your first is to look at the boyfriend, 205 00:11:45,832 --> 00:11:48,791 family members -- I mean, that's just -- 206 00:11:48,868 --> 00:11:52,170 in police work, that's 101 in a homicide. 207 00:12:00,305 --> 00:12:02,805 The investigators interviewed Jason, 208 00:12:02,882 --> 00:12:06,100 Angela Lee's boyfriend, and tried to get a timeline 209 00:12:06,177 --> 00:12:09,395 from Jason as to what was going on. 210 00:12:09,439 --> 00:12:14,525 Jason said that normally, he's home at around five from work, 211 00:12:14,602 --> 00:12:19,030 but in that particular day, he didn't get home until about 212 00:12:19,032 --> 00:12:21,783 nine that night, because he had to work overtime. 213 00:12:21,859 --> 00:12:23,409 Well, that's really, like, 214 00:12:23,411 --> 00:12:25,161 the first time that that's ever happened. 215 00:12:25,238 --> 00:12:27,830 So in our minds, you know, that -- that's -- 216 00:12:27,907 --> 00:12:30,082 that throws up somewhat of a red flag. 217 00:12:30,126 --> 00:12:31,918 So obviously, you know, we gotta -- 218 00:12:31,961 --> 00:12:34,045 we gotta track that lead. 219 00:12:34,047 --> 00:12:36,839 We spoke with Jason's employer. 220 00:12:36,916 --> 00:12:40,927 They indicated that yes, he was at a residence installing 221 00:12:40,929 --> 00:12:43,596 a satellite, but, you know, 222 00:12:43,598 --> 00:12:46,182 it was always in the back of our mind, did he, you know, 223 00:12:46,259 --> 00:12:48,142 have somebody else do this? 224 00:12:49,229 --> 00:12:52,688 When the investigators asked the question of who he thought 225 00:12:52,765 --> 00:12:54,148 murdered Angela, 226 00:12:54,150 --> 00:12:58,069 he thought that Brad Wolf was involved in the murder. 227 00:13:02,575 --> 00:13:06,118 So this used to be the dining room. 228 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,831 This is now the Santa room. 229 00:13:11,125 --> 00:13:12,875 It just kind of blew up. 230 00:13:13,878 --> 00:13:16,254 My favorite one, who I can't get all 231 00:13:16,330 --> 00:13:20,341 the way over to, is definitely this one. 232 00:13:22,095 --> 00:13:26,222 I started collecting Santas when I lost Angie. 233 00:13:26,299 --> 00:13:27,932 She was more than my daughter. 234 00:13:27,934 --> 00:13:29,684 She was my best friend. 235 00:13:31,354 --> 00:13:34,730 I got pregnant with Angie 236 00:13:34,732 --> 00:13:37,775 in between my junior, senior year. 237 00:13:37,852 --> 00:13:42,321 Having Angie at the age of 17 was difficult, 238 00:13:42,323 --> 00:13:45,116 but I wouldn't change a thing. 239 00:13:45,118 --> 00:13:47,243 The best thing about being a young mom 240 00:13:47,245 --> 00:13:49,370 was growing up with her. 241 00:13:51,499 --> 00:13:55,084 Angie was playing fast-pitch softball, 242 00:13:55,086 --> 00:13:59,338 and she really was good, she excelled at that, 243 00:13:59,340 --> 00:14:04,552 but she outgrew the softball and became fond of boys, 244 00:14:04,629 --> 00:14:08,598 and that whole season of her life started, 245 00:14:08,674 --> 00:14:12,518 and then at some point, she met Jason. 246 00:14:12,562 --> 00:14:15,104 As the years went on, and I found 247 00:14:15,181 --> 00:14:18,357 out things that were happening between him and Angie, 248 00:14:19,277 --> 00:14:21,819 I didn't like him quite so much. 249 00:14:21,896 --> 00:14:25,698 Neither of them were perfect, nobody's perfect. 250 00:14:25,742 --> 00:14:30,953 Angie she did date Brad Wolf during a period of time when 251 00:14:31,030 --> 00:14:34,373 her and Jason had split up, but I think 252 00:14:34,417 --> 00:14:37,835 she was a little bit afraid of him and his connections, 253 00:14:37,837 --> 00:14:40,504 and people that he associated with, 254 00:14:40,506 --> 00:14:45,843 she didn't want anything to do with, but he was border -- 255 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,180 I would say borderline obsessed with Angie. 256 00:14:49,182 --> 00:14:51,557 When I was told that she was murdered, 257 00:14:51,601 --> 00:14:54,852 I remember screaming Brad Wolf. 258 00:14:55,688 --> 00:14:59,357 I was sure it was him. 259 00:15:03,613 --> 00:15:07,990 Okay, so Angie's name, I got nine days after she was killed. 260 00:15:08,067 --> 00:15:09,450 I got that tattoo, and the star 261 00:15:09,452 --> 00:15:12,078 that dots the I, we always -- we both would, like -- 262 00:15:12,121 --> 00:15:14,288 we both had an I in our names, so we would dot it with 263 00:15:14,365 --> 00:15:17,166 a star, and I still do that to this day. 264 00:15:17,168 --> 00:15:22,964 I was Angie's best friend for pretty much our whole lives. 265 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:29,011 She was, like, the person that if -- whatever it was, 266 00:15:29,088 --> 00:15:31,180 she would be the one I could call first. 267 00:15:32,266 --> 00:15:35,142 This is the box that has the pictures that I have 268 00:15:35,219 --> 00:15:36,978 of Angie. 269 00:15:37,054 --> 00:15:41,065 So this is -- Angie and I had gone with my cousins 270 00:15:41,142 --> 00:15:44,652 to a water park, and that's where we're at there. 271 00:15:46,864 --> 00:15:50,825 And this one is at our friend Melissa's house, 272 00:15:50,901 --> 00:15:53,995 and that's Brad Wolf in the background. 273 00:15:53,997 --> 00:16:00,084 Brad Wolf was just a very huge ego. 274 00:16:00,161 --> 00:16:03,254 Um, he really thought that he was the man, 275 00:16:03,330 --> 00:16:06,298 but he didn't do anything to be the man, 276 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:07,967 he was just given everything. 277 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,386 After Angie was killed, 278 00:16:10,463 --> 00:16:15,474 I had heard that Brad basically bragged that he was 279 00:16:15,518 --> 00:16:18,602 the one that had done it and telling girlfriends of his, 280 00:16:18,604 --> 00:16:23,691 uh, pretty much if you don't do this, that, or the other, 281 00:16:23,768 --> 00:16:26,235 that you'll end up just like Angie did. 282 00:16:26,946 --> 00:16:32,199 And so Brad Wolf was a suspect, but the thing is, what was 283 00:16:32,276 --> 00:16:35,911 so weird, like, several weeks before Angie was killed, 284 00:16:35,913 --> 00:16:38,873 she was let go from the dealership where she worked 285 00:16:38,991 --> 00:16:43,711 because of something to do with her not agreeing to whatever 286 00:16:43,788 --> 00:16:47,798 maybe possibly shady business they had going on there. 287 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:52,553 And so then, about a week later, a guy called a friend of mine 288 00:16:52,555 --> 00:16:56,265 and Angie's and said literally used the term, 289 00:16:56,342 --> 00:16:59,810 "Snitches get stitches," referring to Angie, um, 290 00:16:59,812 --> 00:17:01,729 as if she had told on some 291 00:17:01,806 --> 00:17:03,647 weird thing they were doing, I don't -- 292 00:17:03,724 --> 00:17:07,651 I don't know, so once Angie was killed, I thought for sure 293 00:17:07,737 --> 00:17:09,028 that has to be who did it, 294 00:17:09,072 --> 00:17:11,447 because who else would want to kill her? 295 00:17:11,449 --> 00:17:14,116 She's been murdered, and we have somebody that has 296 00:17:14,193 --> 00:17:15,826 threatened her life a few weeks before. 297 00:17:15,953 --> 00:17:17,536 It's gotta be from that, right? 298 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:25,211 PAINTER: Brad Wolf was a suspect because of 299 00:17:25,213 --> 00:17:27,797 the past relationships that he had with Angela. 300 00:17:28,925 --> 00:17:33,594 My experiences in contacts with Brad Wolf in the past started 301 00:17:33,671 --> 00:17:36,931 way back when I worked as a patrol deputy. 302 00:17:37,007 --> 00:17:41,852 He became this person that -- of interest that we knew was 303 00:17:41,854 --> 00:17:43,729 involved in illegal activity. 304 00:17:43,773 --> 00:17:47,066 But we could never really get somebody to turn on Brad, 305 00:17:47,110 --> 00:17:49,610 because he had been connected in so many different ways. 306 00:17:49,687 --> 00:17:51,904 Because of this relationship 307 00:17:51,948 --> 00:17:53,572 that he had with law enforcement, 308 00:17:53,616 --> 00:17:55,449 knowing that he was always a suspect that 309 00:17:55,526 --> 00:17:58,285 hadn't been caught or hadn't got caught yet, 310 00:17:58,362 --> 00:18:01,080 um, was kind of a legend in his own mind. 311 00:18:09,382 --> 00:18:11,090 When the investigators talked to Brad 312 00:18:11,134 --> 00:18:14,802 about Angela Lee's murder, Brad had said that him 313 00:18:14,804 --> 00:18:18,055 and one of his friends went to a party the night before, 314 00:18:18,132 --> 00:18:22,101 didn't get back into town until around noon-ish, 315 00:18:22,103 --> 00:18:23,602 drove around town, which is 316 00:18:23,646 --> 00:18:25,563 something that they would normally do, 317 00:18:25,565 --> 00:18:27,606 and then around five, his friend 318 00:18:27,650 --> 00:18:29,733 dropped him off at his parents' house. 319 00:18:30,611 --> 00:18:35,447 Investigators did have Brad Wolf take a polygraph test, 320 00:18:35,491 --> 00:18:37,867 and any questions that he had been asked, 321 00:18:37,943 --> 00:18:39,285 he answered according to 322 00:18:39,287 --> 00:18:42,329 the polygrapher as being truthful and honest. 323 00:18:43,416 --> 00:18:47,084 KAHL: Investigators were able to eliminate Brad, 324 00:18:47,161 --> 00:18:50,129 but just to the extent of her injuries, 325 00:18:50,164 --> 00:18:54,133 it -- it seemed like it just had to be a personal thing, 326 00:18:54,218 --> 00:18:59,180 and so it was very difficult to clear the boyfriend, Jason. 327 00:18:59,256 --> 00:19:02,558 It was always was he involved or was he not involved? 328 00:19:02,635 --> 00:19:04,143 That was the question. 329 00:19:16,199 --> 00:19:18,824 HARVEY: The police thought that the person 330 00:19:18,868 --> 00:19:21,493 who did this to Angie would have 331 00:19:21,537 --> 00:19:25,331 to be someone that she knew, because it was considered 332 00:19:25,374 --> 00:19:26,957 a crime of passion. 333 00:19:27,793 --> 00:19:29,877 I mean, the brutality of it. 334 00:19:31,130 --> 00:19:34,882 So when Brad Wolf was eliminated, 335 00:19:34,959 --> 00:19:36,634 I was sure it was Jason. 336 00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:40,888 Whether he had done it himself or had somebody else do it, 337 00:19:40,965 --> 00:19:43,766 I was sure that he was involved in some way. 338 00:19:46,562 --> 00:19:51,315 I didn't talk to him until after the funeral. 339 00:19:51,392 --> 00:19:55,236 Jason started talking about the way Angie looked 340 00:19:55,238 --> 00:19:57,196 when he found her. 341 00:19:57,198 --> 00:20:01,283 He was sure that she had been shot. 342 00:20:01,285 --> 00:20:06,163 He said that he had seen wounds like that before, 343 00:20:06,165 --> 00:20:08,958 and he said he was sure that somebody 344 00:20:09,034 --> 00:20:12,920 had shot her right here. 345 00:20:13,881 --> 00:20:16,840 Jason said this all very matter-of-fact. 346 00:20:16,842 --> 00:20:20,803 He did not act or have the emotion 347 00:20:20,879 --> 00:20:24,473 that you would expect after what he saw. 348 00:20:34,860 --> 00:20:37,903 When dealing with young children in crimes like this, 349 00:20:37,947 --> 00:20:42,825 you have to be careful as to not sway them into what to say. 350 00:20:44,203 --> 00:20:47,121 The Springfield Advocacy Center was contacted, 351 00:20:47,156 --> 00:20:48,789 and they have people that are 352 00:20:48,866 --> 00:20:51,417 experienced in forensic interviewing, um, 353 00:20:51,419 --> 00:20:53,544 that were able to contact and talk to him 354 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:55,713 about the crime itself. 355 00:20:55,715 --> 00:20:59,216 KAHL: When they interviewed Angela Lee's son, 356 00:20:59,218 --> 00:21:02,469 he indicated that they had been outside mowing. 357 00:21:02,471 --> 00:21:05,055 Um, when they got done mowing, 358 00:21:05,132 --> 00:21:08,809 him and mommy went inside. 359 00:21:08,811 --> 00:21:13,147 He says that he remembers seeing a guy, the killer. 360 00:21:13,149 --> 00:21:18,485 Then the killer goes after mom, and mom tells her son to run -- 361 00:21:18,562 --> 00:21:20,571 run and hide. 362 00:21:20,573 --> 00:21:23,615 He indicated that, uh, 363 00:21:23,659 --> 00:21:25,284 the guy, 364 00:21:25,328 --> 00:21:28,245 um, was the same color as his dad 365 00:21:28,322 --> 00:21:31,999 and indicated that it was a big, ugly guy. 366 00:21:32,877 --> 00:21:35,294 PAINTER: At some point during the investigation, 367 00:21:35,338 --> 00:21:40,257 uh, the interviewer asked if -- if this was dad that 368 00:21:40,384 --> 00:21:43,635 had committed a crime, and the son had said no. 369 00:21:44,722 --> 00:21:46,555 KAHL: Unfortunately, you know, 370 00:21:46,557 --> 00:21:49,516 the really the only thing he could tell us that he was just 371 00:21:49,593 --> 00:21:52,686 a big, ugly man. 372 00:21:52,688 --> 00:21:55,230 So at that point in time, Jason was 373 00:21:55,232 --> 00:21:58,734 pretty much ruled out as a suspect in it. 374 00:21:59,612 --> 00:22:02,780 But, you know, for a four-year-old 375 00:22:02,782 --> 00:22:06,617 to have to experience this, see this -- 376 00:22:06,693 --> 00:22:11,080 just, you know, it -- it rips you right to the core. 377 00:22:20,883 --> 00:22:23,842 HARVEY: One of the first things he said to me was... 378 00:22:27,932 --> 00:22:30,265 he asked me why I didn't come get him, 379 00:22:33,646 --> 00:22:36,730 and I told him that I didn't know. 380 00:22:36,732 --> 00:22:38,440 I didn't know what had happened, 381 00:22:38,442 --> 00:22:40,275 or I would have came and got him. 382 00:22:42,988 --> 00:22:44,363 It was terrible. 383 00:22:46,534 --> 00:22:48,492 I always say 384 00:22:48,569 --> 00:22:51,203 I'm so thankful that he wasn't hurt, 385 00:22:52,248 --> 00:22:53,956 but he really was. 386 00:22:55,459 --> 00:22:59,920 And he still is. He's a grown man now. 387 00:23:01,340 --> 00:23:02,631 I feel like... 388 00:23:03,759 --> 00:23:07,469 when I lost Angie, I lost him, too. 389 00:23:12,476 --> 00:23:14,184 I'd give anything to change it. 390 00:23:17,148 --> 00:23:18,730 Anything. 391 00:23:24,363 --> 00:23:26,238 [shaky exhale] 392 00:23:34,582 --> 00:23:36,014 [phone ringing] 393 00:23:36,016 --> 00:23:40,836 Um, this is just one part of the Angela Lee file, 394 00:23:40,913 --> 00:23:43,046 and there's numerous other boxes 395 00:23:43,123 --> 00:23:44,965 of evidence that -- that is here. 396 00:23:45,042 --> 00:23:47,092 This is how big the case was. 397 00:23:47,845 --> 00:23:49,386 Working on this case, 398 00:23:49,388 --> 00:23:54,057 the most overwhelming aspect was the amount of 399 00:23:54,852 --> 00:23:58,854 people that we had talked to, um, interviewed. 400 00:23:58,931 --> 00:24:02,983 We took DNA from an ungodly amount of people. 401 00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:09,281 PAINTER: During the course of the investigation, 402 00:24:09,325 --> 00:24:12,367 investigators had ran DNA 403 00:24:12,444 --> 00:24:13,911 on some of the items that 404 00:24:13,987 --> 00:24:16,497 they had retrieved from Angela's house, 405 00:24:16,573 --> 00:24:19,333 and through DNA technology, 406 00:24:19,409 --> 00:24:21,710 um, Elias Montano, 407 00:24:21,787 --> 00:24:24,963 a local Gillespie man, had became 408 00:24:25,007 --> 00:24:27,007 a person of interest to talk to. 409 00:24:27,084 --> 00:24:29,510 His name was mentioned numerous times through 410 00:24:29,586 --> 00:24:32,846 different contacts that we had with different interviews, 411 00:24:32,923 --> 00:24:36,934 and his -- his relationship with Angela Lee and past 412 00:24:37,010 --> 00:24:39,144 employment with some of the car dealerships. 413 00:24:39,146 --> 00:24:41,605 And through DNA 414 00:24:41,607 --> 00:24:43,065 retrieved from the crime scene, 415 00:24:43,141 --> 00:24:47,027 investigators had determined that Montano's DNA 416 00:24:47,104 --> 00:24:50,239 was all over different places at the house. 417 00:24:53,827 --> 00:24:56,620 REKART: My husband, Elias, and Angie 418 00:24:56,697 --> 00:24:59,289 worked at the car dealership together. 419 00:24:59,366 --> 00:25:02,584 I didn't really think anything too much when they came 420 00:25:02,661 --> 00:25:03,935 and told us, you know, 421 00:25:03,937 --> 00:25:05,796 when they initially told us that people at 422 00:25:05,798 --> 00:25:07,506 the dealership were being spoke to, 423 00:25:07,508 --> 00:25:10,592 and they came to my house and questioned me. 424 00:25:10,669 --> 00:25:13,387 It wasn't until the police came to our house 425 00:25:13,422 --> 00:25:14,888 the second time and took him to 426 00:25:14,965 --> 00:25:18,684 the police station that I started wondering how Elias had 427 00:25:18,686 --> 00:25:22,729 more to do with what was going on. 428 00:25:22,806 --> 00:25:25,649 The police officers told me that Elias's DNA 429 00:25:25,684 --> 00:25:28,694 and fingerprints was all over Angie's home. 430 00:25:28,737 --> 00:25:32,114 I was asking Elias, "When were you in Angie and Jason's home?" 431 00:25:32,116 --> 00:25:34,658 And he kept telling me he had never gone to their home. 432 00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:36,785 I did not believe him. 433 00:25:36,862 --> 00:25:39,580 At that point, I started wondering, why would they think 434 00:25:39,656 --> 00:25:42,291 that my husband would do anything like that? 435 00:25:42,367 --> 00:25:44,084 Then you start questioning everything. 436 00:25:44,161 --> 00:25:46,378 Do I know this person? 437 00:25:46,422 --> 00:25:49,298 I'm -- am I sleeping next to a stranger? 438 00:26:00,936 --> 00:26:04,021 This is our Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy, 439 00:26:04,097 --> 00:26:06,189 Family Martial Arts and Fitness. 440 00:26:07,234 --> 00:26:09,651 What I love about Jiu-Jitsu is 441 00:26:09,728 --> 00:26:12,904 it's the most difficult thing I've ever done. 442 00:26:12,948 --> 00:26:15,699 It's very, very challenging, not just physically 443 00:26:15,701 --> 00:26:17,576 but mentally, um, 444 00:26:17,578 --> 00:26:20,996 but it provides a lot of joy and reward. 445 00:26:21,073 --> 00:26:24,791 Angie was a coworker with me at my dealership. 446 00:26:24,793 --> 00:26:30,297 I was the finance manager, and she was the receptionist. 447 00:26:30,299 --> 00:26:32,466 The murder in the workplace 448 00:26:32,542 --> 00:26:34,259 really just kind of opened my eyes that 449 00:26:34,303 --> 00:26:38,263 things like that could happen anywhere, evil is everywhere. 450 00:26:38,307 --> 00:26:40,307 There were some bad apples in our store. 451 00:26:40,384 --> 00:26:42,893 There were some people that, you know, that there were little 452 00:26:42,969 --> 00:26:44,311 cliques of people that I knew 453 00:26:44,313 --> 00:26:46,355 that partied -- the work environment 454 00:26:46,431 --> 00:26:47,722 was very fast-paced. 455 00:26:47,724 --> 00:26:49,274 It's just moving and shaking, because we moved 456 00:26:49,318 --> 00:26:51,693 a lot of cars out of that location. 457 00:26:51,770 --> 00:26:53,654 Elias, which I called Lee Montano, 458 00:26:53,656 --> 00:26:56,281 he was a sales consultant at the time. 459 00:26:56,316 --> 00:26:58,492 I took some salesmanship from him, 460 00:26:58,568 --> 00:27:00,661 just kind of watching how he interacted with customers. 461 00:27:00,737 --> 00:27:02,954 He was very smooth. 462 00:27:02,998 --> 00:27:06,792 When I heard about Elias being a suspect, 463 00:27:06,835 --> 00:27:08,960 I was just kind of shocked. 464 00:27:09,004 --> 00:27:12,673 I never once thought that he could have done it. 465 00:27:12,675 --> 00:27:13,799 It just seemed bizarre. 466 00:27:13,842 --> 00:27:16,134 It was -- it was so close to home. 467 00:27:22,351 --> 00:27:24,142 Here's your sweet tea. 468 00:27:24,186 --> 00:27:26,645 -Thank you. -You're welcome. 469 00:27:26,647 --> 00:27:29,064 The day that Angie was killed, 470 00:27:29,066 --> 00:27:32,234 Lee Montano went to the ER and had a broken wrist or hand, 471 00:27:32,236 --> 00:27:35,821 and, um, supposedly Elissa said that 472 00:27:35,864 --> 00:27:38,657 it was from punching something, I think, because he was mad. 473 00:27:38,701 --> 00:27:43,745 I don't remember exactly, but, um, I was suspicious of him, 474 00:27:43,822 --> 00:27:47,207 and I even went out with Elissa and Lee, 475 00:27:47,284 --> 00:27:49,000 just trying to get information. 476 00:27:49,044 --> 00:27:51,753 He's sitting there telling me about how he knew Angie 477 00:27:51,755 --> 00:27:53,797 and he would never kill anybody, he would never do this. 478 00:27:53,874 --> 00:27:57,551 And I'm just thinking, I never said you did or might have. 479 00:27:57,627 --> 00:27:59,386 Why are you trying to convince me you didn't do this? 480 00:27:59,463 --> 00:28:03,265 So it just really became suspicious. 481 00:28:08,063 --> 00:28:11,815 We looked into Lee Montano, because his fingerprints were 482 00:28:11,892 --> 00:28:15,819 all over the furniture that was located in the house. 483 00:28:15,896 --> 00:28:19,030 When communicating with Mr. Montano, 484 00:28:19,074 --> 00:28:22,492 he would swear that he'd never been to Angela's house. 485 00:28:22,569 --> 00:28:24,828 He was very adamant that he 486 00:28:24,830 --> 00:28:28,081 had nothing to do with Angela's murder. 487 00:28:30,419 --> 00:28:32,711 MONTANO: The first time I met Angie was at the car dealership. 488 00:28:32,755 --> 00:28:36,339 She was hired to be a secretary. 489 00:28:36,416 --> 00:28:38,592 She seemed young, uh, ambitious. 490 00:28:38,710 --> 00:28:39,968 She was an attractive girl. 491 00:28:40,846 --> 00:28:42,429 Her death was absolutely a shock to me. 492 00:28:43,474 --> 00:28:45,932 I remember, when I got to the car dealership, 493 00:28:46,009 --> 00:28:48,018 I noticed there was some police cars there. 494 00:28:48,020 --> 00:28:50,061 When I walked in, um, 495 00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:51,980 I was pulled aside, and I was asked if I'd 496 00:28:51,982 --> 00:28:55,066 come down to the police station. 497 00:28:55,101 --> 00:28:56,518 I felt very nervous, you know, 498 00:28:56,594 --> 00:28:59,070 I'm just nervous around police officers in general. 499 00:29:00,282 --> 00:29:03,241 When I was at the police station, and the police 500 00:29:03,243 --> 00:29:07,204 officers informed me that they had my fingerprints 501 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,750 and DNA at Angie's house, I was very confused, 502 00:29:11,794 --> 00:29:13,960 because I've never stepped foot in Angie's house. 503 00:29:14,037 --> 00:29:16,963 Police officers were implying that I absolutely knew 504 00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:18,965 something about her murder. 505 00:29:19,042 --> 00:29:21,259 My mind was wondering why they 506 00:29:21,303 --> 00:29:24,304 were pressing so hard about my DNA. 507 00:29:24,381 --> 00:29:27,432 They mentioned a couch. 508 00:29:27,476 --> 00:29:30,352 Then it clicked, because we gave her 509 00:29:30,428 --> 00:29:32,187 the furniture, because I was buying new furniture. 510 00:29:32,264 --> 00:29:33,939 That's why my DNA was there, 511 00:29:33,941 --> 00:29:35,857 that's why my fingerprints were there, 512 00:29:36,026 --> 00:29:37,709 and why they -- 513 00:29:37,711 --> 00:29:40,278 the police department pressed so hard on the fact of me being 514 00:29:40,322 --> 00:29:43,114 at her house, and I knew where she lived. 515 00:29:43,116 --> 00:29:45,826 PAINTER: Investigators in the case that had talked to Montano, 516 00:29:45,902 --> 00:29:49,579 they had to be able to confirm what Montano was saying. 517 00:29:49,656 --> 00:29:53,542 So the investigators reached out to Jason and was able 518 00:29:53,544 --> 00:29:56,127 to confirm that they did receive this couch 519 00:29:56,171 --> 00:29:58,213 from Montano. 520 00:29:58,290 --> 00:30:01,758 And so the investigation hit another brick wall. 521 00:30:06,390 --> 00:30:08,849 MONTANO: After the interrogation at the police department, 522 00:30:08,851 --> 00:30:10,475 the buzz at the dealership wasn't 523 00:30:10,519 --> 00:30:12,686 the same -- sales started to go down. 524 00:30:12,688 --> 00:30:14,229 People were not being as personable. 525 00:30:14,306 --> 00:30:17,023 It definitely impacted the dealership. 526 00:30:17,100 --> 00:30:19,484 My wife did ask me point blank if 527 00:30:19,486 --> 00:30:22,904 I did it, and obviously, I said no. 528 00:30:22,981 --> 00:30:24,322 When she asked me that question, of course, 529 00:30:24,366 --> 00:30:26,091 I was upset. 530 00:30:26,093 --> 00:30:29,578 There was definitely friction at home, and that was probably, 531 00:30:29,654 --> 00:30:33,373 um, you know another log on the fire of why, you know, 532 00:30:33,375 --> 00:30:35,667 we got divorced shortly afterwards. 533 00:30:37,462 --> 00:30:39,754 REKART: Through the course of the investigation, 534 00:30:39,756 --> 00:30:43,341 the police told me that Elias had a double life. 535 00:30:44,386 --> 00:30:46,970 He had a life where he had a wife 536 00:30:47,047 --> 00:30:49,764 and children at home that looked pretty picture perfect. 537 00:30:49,766 --> 00:30:51,349 And then he had a life of 538 00:30:51,393 --> 00:30:54,936 after hours that was not so picture perfect. 539 00:30:55,013 --> 00:30:57,939 And so, at the end of this investigation, 540 00:30:57,974 --> 00:31:00,567 I did not know who I had married. 541 00:31:00,644 --> 00:31:03,653 We divorced -- I immediately filed for divorce. 542 00:31:09,077 --> 00:31:10,660 MONTANO: After all the interviews were done, 543 00:31:10,662 --> 00:31:11,727 after all the DNA was done, 544 00:31:11,805 --> 00:31:14,372 Angie's dad had it stuck in his head 545 00:31:14,416 --> 00:31:17,042 that either I did it or I knew who did it. 546 00:31:17,044 --> 00:31:19,961 Probably frustrating on Angie's dad's end, 547 00:31:19,963 --> 00:31:21,963 but it was just as frustrating on my end, 548 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:25,425 being accused of something that I had nothing to do with. 549 00:31:25,427 --> 00:31:28,595 But, yeah, my life was ruined all because 550 00:31:28,672 --> 00:31:30,889 I gave someone a couch. 551 00:31:51,036 --> 00:31:54,120 Hi, there. How you guys doing? 552 00:31:54,197 --> 00:31:58,124 In 2007, when we formulated this small 553 00:31:58,201 --> 00:32:00,335 task force to work on this case, 554 00:32:00,337 --> 00:32:03,338 I kind of knew we had to go a new direction. 555 00:32:03,507 --> 00:32:05,507 We had to look at other things. 556 00:32:05,583 --> 00:32:08,677 Cavallo Bus Lines was a lot of people employed from 557 00:32:08,753 --> 00:32:10,971 the Gillespie area and throughout 558 00:32:11,047 --> 00:32:13,264 central United States. 559 00:32:13,266 --> 00:32:16,768 It's really the only business in East Gillespie, 560 00:32:16,812 --> 00:32:19,854 large business, anyways, at that point in time, 561 00:32:19,856 --> 00:32:22,482 and it was right across the street from 562 00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:24,067 Angela's house. 563 00:32:24,144 --> 00:32:27,862 We needed to get the Cavallo employee list, 564 00:32:27,981 --> 00:32:29,823 and the Macoupin County State's Attorney at 565 00:32:29,899 --> 00:32:32,242 the time was able to get in touch with 566 00:32:32,244 --> 00:32:35,870 Cavallo and finally get us this list so we could run down 567 00:32:35,947 --> 00:32:37,789 the employees and try to -- try to 568 00:32:37,791 --> 00:32:40,417 figure out if anybody saw anything. 569 00:32:40,493 --> 00:32:43,169 PAINTER: It was binder after binder of information 570 00:32:43,246 --> 00:32:46,715 to go through, but the list was finally prepared 571 00:32:46,717 --> 00:32:48,675 to where the investigators were able to 572 00:32:48,752 --> 00:32:51,011 look at the employees that were there and go 573 00:32:51,087 --> 00:32:54,514 back and compare to who had originally been spoken to 574 00:32:54,591 --> 00:32:56,641 the day of the crime and -- and to 575 00:32:56,727 --> 00:32:58,643 who still needed to be contacted. 576 00:33:03,316 --> 00:33:06,526 FENLEY: I was at work and got called home, 577 00:33:06,603 --> 00:33:09,988 said there was two detectives there waiting on me. 578 00:33:10,032 --> 00:33:12,240 I'm like, man, what did I do now? 579 00:33:13,577 --> 00:33:16,202 I get there. The state police are there, 580 00:33:16,279 --> 00:33:19,748 and I told the police that I seen -- 581 00:33:19,824 --> 00:33:23,251 I was on the bus cleaning, and the night 582 00:33:23,328 --> 00:33:25,628 before the murders, there was a mechanic parked on 583 00:33:25,705 --> 00:33:27,464 the side of the alley by the corn field. 584 00:33:27,540 --> 00:33:29,340 Then I looked up, and I seen 585 00:33:29,426 --> 00:33:31,468 a car take off with a high rate of speed, 586 00:33:31,544 --> 00:33:34,471 no headlights, headed out that way. 587 00:33:35,724 --> 00:33:38,224 It's unusual to see a mechanic at Cavallo's 588 00:33:38,226 --> 00:33:40,101 at 10 o'clock at night. 589 00:33:40,178 --> 00:33:42,645 Kind of made you wonder what he was doing. 590 00:33:54,618 --> 00:33:56,576 FENLEY: When the cops spoke to me, 591 00:33:56,653 --> 00:33:59,162 I told the police the night before the murders, 592 00:33:59,239 --> 00:34:01,915 around 9:30, 10 o'clock at night, 593 00:34:01,991 --> 00:34:05,335 we were cleaning buses about right here. 594 00:34:05,411 --> 00:34:07,212 I heard a car door. 595 00:34:07,214 --> 00:34:10,465 I look up, and it was Tony. 596 00:34:10,542 --> 00:34:14,594 Tony Ashby was a mechanic, and so I thought, 597 00:34:14,596 --> 00:34:16,638 "Well, what's he doing here? 598 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,515 He shouldn't be here." 599 00:34:18,591 --> 00:34:20,558 The mechanics worked in the daytime. 600 00:34:20,602 --> 00:34:22,310 The cleaning crew was here at night. 601 00:34:22,312 --> 00:34:24,646 So it should only have been cleaning crew here. 602 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:28,024 Tony was parked over here. 603 00:34:28,101 --> 00:34:30,318 We noticed him 604 00:34:30,395 --> 00:34:34,447 taking off at a high rate of speed with no headlights. 605 00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:38,118 The fact that his headlights were off was really weird. 606 00:34:38,153 --> 00:34:42,330 About a week later, Tony had quit, but it wasn't anything, 607 00:34:42,332 --> 00:34:44,165 you know -- Cavallo's was a turnaround. 608 00:34:44,242 --> 00:34:45,583 People come and go all the time. 609 00:34:45,585 --> 00:34:47,794 So I didn't put two and two together. 610 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:54,634 At this point in time of the investigation, 611 00:34:54,636 --> 00:34:56,928 Anthony Ashby was never mentioned, 612 00:34:56,972 --> 00:34:58,763 never on our radar. 613 00:34:59,850 --> 00:35:03,184 We started doing the background on Anthony Ashby. 614 00:35:03,186 --> 00:35:05,061 He had a fairly clean record. 615 00:35:05,138 --> 00:35:07,188 Um, but there was some sort of 616 00:35:07,265 --> 00:35:09,566 domestic disturbance that had occurred in 617 00:35:09,642 --> 00:35:11,734 Litchfield, Illinois. 618 00:35:11,736 --> 00:35:14,154 The Litchfield Police Department went 619 00:35:14,230 --> 00:35:16,781 to Anthony's residence -- as they approached 620 00:35:16,825 --> 00:35:19,117 the door and they began knocking on the door, 621 00:35:19,161 --> 00:35:21,077 they heard a gun go off. 622 00:35:21,079 --> 00:35:22,954 [gunshot blasts] 623 00:35:22,998 --> 00:35:24,555 Police! 624 00:35:24,557 --> 00:35:26,958 KAHL: They got the door open, rushed inside the house, 625 00:35:27,002 --> 00:35:28,793 took the individual down, 626 00:35:28,837 --> 00:35:33,006 which turned out to be Anthony Ashby, and recovered a gun that 627 00:35:33,082 --> 00:35:35,258 he had discharged inside the house 628 00:35:35,343 --> 00:35:37,093 while they were outside the door. 629 00:35:38,638 --> 00:35:41,431 We went over to Litchfield Police Department 630 00:35:41,507 --> 00:35:43,641 to see if they still had the gun. 631 00:35:43,676 --> 00:35:46,019 They took me into one of their office areas, 632 00:35:46,095 --> 00:35:48,146 pulled the gun out. 633 00:35:48,148 --> 00:35:52,650 Grips were missing off the gun, and the sight was missing. 634 00:35:52,694 --> 00:35:56,070 Early on in the investigation, we had parts of a firearm, 635 00:35:56,147 --> 00:35:58,990 and parts that were missing 636 00:35:59,034 --> 00:36:02,702 from Anthony's seized gun and the parts that were collected 637 00:36:02,704 --> 00:36:05,788 as evidence at the crime scene matched. 638 00:36:05,790 --> 00:36:08,541 Everything linked together. 639 00:36:17,385 --> 00:36:20,053 That's the hard part of trying to get everyone 640 00:36:20,055 --> 00:36:21,763 in the thing here. 641 00:36:23,058 --> 00:36:26,392 We sent investigators to Anthony's workplace 642 00:36:26,394 --> 00:36:27,977 to interview him. 643 00:36:35,779 --> 00:36:38,279 KAHL: During the interview, he was pretty quiet. 644 00:36:38,356 --> 00:36:40,990 He didn't seem agitated or anything. 645 00:37:23,451 --> 00:37:25,410 KAHL: During the course of the interview, 646 00:37:25,412 --> 00:37:28,454 Anthony was asked about the gun discharge. 647 00:38:03,616 --> 00:38:05,867 And he was asked, has it ever been 648 00:38:05,943 --> 00:38:09,287 out of his possession, and he indicated no. 649 00:38:09,289 --> 00:38:12,373 So at that point in time, we knew that 650 00:38:12,450 --> 00:38:14,500 he had never gave this gun to anybody else, 651 00:38:14,502 --> 00:38:16,210 and he'd always had this gun since -- 652 00:38:16,287 --> 00:38:18,254 since the murder happened. 653 00:38:30,852 --> 00:38:34,270 KAHL: Once we started pushing him, pressuring him, 654 00:38:34,347 --> 00:38:36,773 then he became more agitated. 655 00:39:12,310 --> 00:39:15,686 With DNA on some of the items that they had 656 00:39:15,688 --> 00:39:17,480 retrieved from the gun that was in 657 00:39:17,557 --> 00:39:19,607 Anthony Ashby's possession, 658 00:39:19,684 --> 00:39:22,902 um, they had obtained DNA that matched 659 00:39:22,979 --> 00:39:24,904 Angela Lee's DNA. 660 00:39:24,981 --> 00:39:28,366 That was the nail in Anthony's coffin. 661 00:39:33,289 --> 00:39:35,456 When I first heard that Tony was 662 00:39:35,533 --> 00:39:38,751 arrested for the murder, I about crapped my pants. 663 00:39:40,004 --> 00:39:44,090 I couldn't read it out of Tony that he was a violent person. 664 00:39:44,092 --> 00:39:46,175 Tony didn't show no violence. 665 00:39:50,432 --> 00:39:52,932 HARVEY: I cried and cried. 666 00:39:52,934 --> 00:39:56,769 I was happy and sad. 667 00:39:56,846 --> 00:39:59,647 Relieved -- oh, huge relief. 668 00:39:59,724 --> 00:40:02,275 Like, the world lifted off my shoulders. 669 00:40:02,351 --> 00:40:04,527 It was very close to him 670 00:40:04,604 --> 00:40:07,780 not ever being caught -- very grateful. 671 00:40:09,659 --> 00:40:12,618 PAINTER: Ashby ended up killing Angela Lee, 672 00:40:12,695 --> 00:40:16,456 most likely looking in the windows and somehow 673 00:40:16,458 --> 00:40:19,083 fantasized about being with her. 674 00:40:19,127 --> 00:40:21,085 Had tried to take that fantasy 675 00:40:21,129 --> 00:40:24,213 one step further and had gotten caught. 676 00:40:24,215 --> 00:40:28,092 At the point that him getting caught in some way, in his mind, 677 00:40:28,136 --> 00:40:32,472 he felt that he could explain it away to her to make it okay, 678 00:40:32,548 --> 00:40:34,474 and when he found out that he couldn't 679 00:40:34,509 --> 00:40:36,642 make it okay, he had to kill her. 680 00:40:54,454 --> 00:40:58,623 PACE: When he took the 33-year plea, I felt cheated. 681 00:40:58,666 --> 00:41:00,708 I felt like Angie was cheated. 682 00:41:00,785 --> 00:41:02,502 I did not feel that was justice. 683 00:41:02,504 --> 00:41:04,253 He'll get out when he's 60 years old. 684 00:41:04,255 --> 00:41:07,089 I fear certain things, like when he gets out of jail. 685 00:41:07,091 --> 00:41:09,467 What if I did see him at a gas station or something? 686 00:41:09,511 --> 00:41:13,471 Just the thought of even running into -- 687 00:41:13,473 --> 00:41:15,431 I can't even imagine, 688 00:41:15,433 --> 00:41:18,142 I don't -- I don't know what that would be like. 689 00:41:18,186 --> 00:41:21,020 FENLEY: Angie's murder changed me by the way 690 00:41:21,097 --> 00:41:23,606 I look at people now, the way I trust people, 691 00:41:23,641 --> 00:41:25,816 the way I process through my head. 692 00:41:25,818 --> 00:41:27,902 Are you the next killer that's coming around? 693 00:41:27,979 --> 00:41:29,362 And before that happened, 694 00:41:29,364 --> 00:41:30,863 I wouldn't look at you like that. 695 00:41:32,116 --> 00:41:35,826 This kind of affected me in -- in a lot of ways. 696 00:41:35,828 --> 00:41:39,247 It has made me understand that you never give up. 697 00:41:39,323 --> 00:41:41,666 You never stop working on the case. 698 00:41:42,877 --> 00:41:47,088 HARVEY: My heart is so broken from losing my daughter. 699 00:41:47,164 --> 00:41:50,967 Not just losing her, but the way that I've lost her. 700 00:41:52,303 --> 00:41:53,469 And I miss her. 701 00:41:53,546 --> 00:41:56,389 There's not a day that I don't 702 00:41:56,424 --> 00:42:00,017 wake up and realize she's not here. 703 00:42:00,061 --> 00:42:01,852 I'm never gonna see her. 704 00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,233 It's the nightmare that I can't wake up from.