Single father disappears
While on a business trip.
David: He was trying to make a better
Life for his little girl.
- And he just vanished.
- We thought somebody potentially
Lured him to el paso.
It's not good.
This is not good.
Steve: People are lying about their names.
They're paying cash.
The drug cartels are there.
- There's violence there.
Somebody could have robbed him, somebody could have shot him.
Narrator: They track a suspect
To a dark and dangerous land.
Matt: We drive past an automobile salvage yard.
And I could see a gray-headed white man.
He said that I wasn't a part of what happened out there.
Narrator: And discover the truth
Is more horrifying than ever imagined.
Matt: They kicked over what they believed was a rock.
- It turned out to be a human skull.
If we ever believe that evil does not exist,
Take a look at what happened to this person.
Della: The chihuahuan desert goes on forever.
It is miles and miles of sand.
- As far as the eye can see.
Narrator: Stretching across southwest texas
To the mexican border, the chihuahuan
Desert is a rugged expanse of rocks, sagebrush, and sand.
- That's such a vast, deserted land out there.
[rattling]
Narrator: On this scorching summer day,
The remote landscape is crawling with multiple branches
Of law enforcement, including the famed texas rangers.
- We got a tip that there could
Be a body buried in a large tract of land
On the east side of el paso.
It is surrounded by mountains.
And it's just a very rough terrain to search.
- We focused in on a 25-acre square.
A us customs guy was standing on the back of a truck
And saw one of the dogs concentrate
On a particular area.
And he went and grabbed a shovel.
And he started digging in the sand.
After several shovels, he found what
He believed to be a sleeve.
Steve: And some bones.
- It was the skeletal remains of a human being.
And his legs were tied together.
Narrator: The body has been in the ground
For a very long time, and decomposition is advanced.
Investigators know they'll have to wait for the autopsy
To know if they've found their missing person.
Matt: Finding the body, you knew
Your business was unfinished.
- It was just beginning.
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Narrator: Halfway between dallas and austin
Is the central texas town of waco.
A friendly stop on a dusty cattle
Crossing, it is the proud home of the texas
Ranger hall of fame.
David: It's god fearing country.
- A good place to raise a family, go to church.
Della: It has a safe feel about the community.
- It's actually a great place to live.
Narrator: In the spring of 1997,
The quiet community of waco sees a builder's
Boom on the horizon.
Michelle: It was a good time in the economy.
- New construction was happening,
And it was kind of a boom town.
Narrator: The engineering firm
Brazos environmental is a necessary stop on the road
To planning and development.
- It was a very busy time for brazos
Environmental and engineering.
Narrator: Among the company's rising stars
Is draftsman gary patterson.
Della: Gary and I had been working together.
He was a super nice guy.
Very friendly, very polite.
He was never late for work.
Very structured and very punctual.
Narrator: After a difficult divorce,
The newly single father is working
On making a better life for him and his six-year-old daughter.
David: Gary is my younger brother.
And he loved crystal.
- That was basically what
Made him get up in the morning.
That little girl.
He was trying to make a better life for crystal.
Narrator: Gary's personal life
Is starting to look up, too.
Michelle: I met gary at our church.
They had a large singles group.
- And I kept hearing about this guy.
Michelle: He had an engineering background
And I have an architectural background.
- And I liked to study the bible,
And he liked to study the bible.
Michelle: He loved the lord
And loved his little girl with all his heart.
And his family were very important to him.
So how can you not like somebody that's like that?
Narrator: It's an exciting time for the young father, who
Has a new job on the horizon.
- It was a job opportunity in el paso
To oversee this new development.
Della: They were going to give him a new suburban.
A huge raise, salary.
- A lot of perks.
And it was just going to be this amazing opportunity.
Narrator: The new job would
Be a chance for gary to build a more secure future
For him and his daughter.
Michelle: He was excited and he
Was also nervous because he really wanted this job.
- So I go over to gary's house
And I help him pick out something to wear.
And he's got these black pants, plain
White cowboy looking shirt.
And his cowboy boots.
So he looked nice.
He had asked me to marry him two weeks
Before he left for el paso.
We were excited.
Narrator: Gary heads to the waco airport
To board the flight to paso and leaves
Little crystal at his folks' house for the weekend.
[plane whirring]
- I expected him to call me the next day.
And he never did.
Narrator: When gary left for el paso,
He'd also promised to check in on crystal
And let his parents know he'd arrived safely.
But another day passes and still no word from gary.
The family knows something is very wrong.
David: My mama called me on the phone.
- I could hear she'd been crying.
And she said, gary's missing.
And I said, what are you talking about, gary's missing?
- Dc, his father, called the police.
Narrator: Waco investigators
Meet with the family to file a missing persons report.
- Mr. Patterson told me that his son gary had gone
To el paso on a job opportunity, and he
Did not hear from him since.
He just disappeared.
Dc didn't know who gary was meeting.
Dc patterson appeared to be a man
That was extremely sick at his stomach
That he can't find his son.
Narrator: The patterson family's concern is justified.
Gary had mentioned a planned visit
To a job site east of el paso, deep in the chihuahuan desert.
- The concern there is that the area east of el paso
Is right across the border from juarez, where they have 7,500
Murders in a year, every year.
- Juarez is infamous for its corruption,
For its violence, and for its crime rate.
From time to time, it spills over
Into el paso and the surrounding communities.
Steve: The drug cartels are there.
There's violence there.
Somebody could have robbed him, somebody could have shot him.
- Somebody could have abducted him for ransom.
Steve: Just about anything could have happened.
Michelle: I knew in my heart, he's in trouble,
And we need to find him quick.
Steve: He was keeping a phonebook
Of all of his contacts around the world.
Matt: We know that they know each other.
- And it's not circumstantial.
Steve: We have a federal fugitive.
And the case is getting bigger by the day.
Are searching for 33-year-old gary patterson, who failed
To return from a business trip in el paso
More than two days ago.
- All the conditions of gary
Patterson's disappearance met the criteria he was missing.
Steve: We gathered all of gary's information.
5'11", 155 pounds.
Dark jeans, black shirt.
- Hair color.
And we put it out through the state national computer system.
After checking the manifest of the flight
And speaking to a few of the passengers,
We know he's made it to el paso.
But shortly after that, that lead went cold.
David: El paso pd did point us
Towards the american consulate so that we
Could make sure he wasn't in a mexican jail
Or in a mexican hospital.
But nothing panned out.
He was just--
- Just vanished.
Matt: We also checked if any unidentified bodies
That showed up in el paso.
- Mortuary services, hospitals, stuff like that.
With no luck on someone who would match gary's description.
Narrator: Dc patterson told police
That his son gary had recently gone
Through a turbulent divorce.
Steve: I looked into gehry's relationship
With his ex-wife lisa urick patterson.
- It was a very bitter, ugly, long, drawn
Out divorce and custody issues.
David: It was one of these divorces
That you see in the movies.
- Multiple motions filed
On both sides and nasty allegations thrown around.
David: It really got pretty ugly.
Then lisa started moving around to a whole nother state.
Gary spent a whole lot of money on a private investigator
Trying to find crystal.
It was probably a couple of years
That lisa was in the wind with crystal.
They finally found her in oregon.
And crystal was taken back to gary.
And he had already filed for full custody at that point.
Narrator: The family history is a bitter tale,
And dc patterson urges investigators
To check in with lisa.
She's been back in waco on parole
And working out a visitation schedule for crystal with gary.
Steve: We went to speak to lisa urick patterson.
- She indicated that she hadn't seen him in weeks.
Steve: Lisa didn't seem very concerned about gary's
Disappearance at all.
- She had an alibi.
She wasn't in el paso.
Steve: She was in waco at that time.
Her story checked out.
She wasn't a person of interest.
Narrator: Investigators now
Want to talk to the last person who saw gary alive--
His fiancee.
- Then we went to talk to michelle.
Michelle: Detective jan had
Asked me about the last time that I had seen gary.
- And I told them that actually the night
Before that he went missing.
Michelle: We talked about some
Of the logistics of the trip, of what they were expecting
From him and how he was getting there
And how he was coming back.
He was really trying to find out about me to make
Sure I wasn't tied in to it.
I was so distraught.
I wanted gary back.
Steve: In talking with michelle,
She seemed to be very concerned, very upset.
She seemed to know that the person he was going to meet
Was a guy named ed.
But michelle did not know his last name.
After leaving the conversation with michelle,
There was no doubt that she was marked off the list.
She had an alibi.
- She loved gary.
Narrator: Investigators want
To find out more about gary's job opportunity in el paso.
Steve: We went to gary's workplace.
They were surprised about his trip to go to el
Paso and his disappearance.
Narrator: But one employee remembers a surprise visitor
At the engineering firm.
- I sat at the front desk.
So I would see everyone that came and went.
Some weeks before gary went missing,
Well, a man walks through the front door.
Introduces himself as ned wright.
And he asked to speak with gary patterson.
Steve: He talked about developing some modular homes.
And he insisted on trying to meet gary patterson.
Narrator: Even as he prepared
For his final interview in el paso,
Gary had kept the job opportunity and the trip
To el paso a secret to most.
- Shortly after gary met with ned,
He shared with me this great opportunity.
Della: But it was a secret.
I was the only one that knew in the office.
Because if gary's employer knew that he
Was interviewing for another job, that doesn't look well.
Narrator: No one else seemed
To interact closely with ned wright,
So investigators have little else to go on.
But as they are leaving, one employee
Remembers a key detail.
- I thought it was worth sharing that ned had
Arrived and left in a taxi cab.
That stood out to me.
Steve: I went to the taxi cab company.
- They provided me with the detailed log.
And it showed that that particular driver
Took ned wright back to the fairfield inn.
So that was a great lead.
Steve: Followed the trail.
- I go to the front counter of the fairfield inn,
Talked to the clerks.
I had to take a list of everybody that
Was in the hotel on that day.
And there were no ned wrights on it.
Steve: After obtained the phone records and the phone
Logs for the hotel, I finally found out
That there was phone calls made from room 105
To brazos environmental.
I went back to the hotel manager and asked them--
- Did the person in 105, how did they pay?
They said they paid with cash.
But they do require a driver's license.
And so hotel manager went back into the file
And pulled the driver's license for a theodore donald young.
Steve: Driver's license out of florida.
Narrator: It doesn't add up.
Who is theodore young?
And where is the mysterious developer ned wright?
Steve: I made a photo lineup.
And I placed that photograph of theodore young
Into that lineup to show the employees
In brazos environmental.
Several of them identified ted young
Immediately as being the ned wright that
Had come through their office.
So I ran a check on theodore donald young.
- It showed that he was
Convicted of a massive fraud in south carolina for $26 million.
He failed to surrender and is currently
Wanted by federal authorities.
Steve: This is not looking good.
People are lying about their names.
- They're pretending to be other people.
They're paying in cash.
All those are indicators of criminal activity immediately.
Steve: It just didn't make sense to me at all.
What did he want with gary patterson?
Nvestigation,
Waco detectives have learned that missing father gary
Patterson traveled to el paso to unknowingly meet
With ted young, a con man on the run from a $26 million
Fraud conviction in south carolina.
- At this point in the investigation,
We know we have a federal fugitive.
Case is getting bigger by the day.
The texas rangers have statewide jurisdiction, plus they
Have contacts reaching all over the place, including el paso.
- I knew that just logistically an investigation
Between waco and el paso is going to be very difficult.
The rangers have a lot of experience.
They have a lot of resources.
They can bring to bear on any given case
All the resources of the state and federal government,
If need be.
And we can cross jurisdictional lines.
Gary had gone to el paso to be interviewed
With a promise of a job.
By a man that was wanted by the federal government
Out of south carolina for a multimillion dollar fraud.
Narrator: It's still unclear what a fugitive con man
Would want with gary patterson.
Investigators searched for a connection between ted
Young and gary patterson.
They circle back to gary's personal life for new leads.
Steve: Mr. Patterson believed
Gary's ex-wife, lisa's father.
- That sam urick was a very shady character.
Steve: They said sam urick ought to be a person
That should be looked at.
- Because he was angry about what
Had gone on during the divorce and child custody issues.
- Gary patterson and his wife
Lisa at one point worked for sam urick, lisa's father.
Matt: It was just one get rich scheme after another.
Whenever something went wrong, people lost money.
- They would come looking for sam,
And sam would be gone.
Matt: Gary mainly was left holding the bag.
Within just a couple years, lisa and gary were divorced.
- Lisa took crystal, and they
Went on the run, which is a criminal violation in texas.
It's interfering with child custody.
Parental kidnapping.
David: Gary filed for full custody
And filed the kidnapping charges on lisa.
- That became very contentious with sam urick.
Steve: I attempted to call and make
An appointment with sam urick.
And he did not want to set up an interview with me.
Our hands were really tied, because we could
Not compel him to talk to us.
Narrator: Investigators circle back to early interviews
And discover that there is one lead they had not yet pursued.
- We find out that years ago,
A private investigator named scott sotimo was hired out
Of california by gary patterson to search
For and try to locate gary's daughter
Crystal and lisa patterson.
And he had focused his attention on sam urick.
Steve: Because he felt sam was financing
Their travels or their hiding.
I want to just talk to scott sotimo
To see what kind of information he has on sam urick.
- Scott sotimo, he let us
Know that he had obtained some documents
During his investigation.
But he did it in such a manner that he didn't
Want to get in trouble for it.
He had removed a day planner/journal
From the front seat of sam urick's car.
At that point, we were taking any evidence that we
Could help find gary patterson.
Narrator: Scott sotimo offers to send investigators
Sam's journal on the off chance it can help
Them locate gary patterson.
Steve: So this day planner comes through the mail.
- And I open it up and I start looking through it.
It had thousands of names, thousands of phone numbers
Of contacts around the world.
At one point as I'm scanning down the page,
I see theodore donald young.
His number and name there.
I mean, that's not a coincidence.
That is a lead.
Steve: This is sam urick's day planner.
Theodore donald young is one that
Went to brazos environmental.
A federal wanted fugitive convicted
Of $26 million the massive fraud in south carolina.
- And it's not good.
This is not good.
- Inside the book were the playlist
Of all the characters in this investigation,
Including ted young.
Matt: Who comes to waco masquerading as someone else,
Trying to get gary patterson to come to el paso.
- The focus of our investigation
Now is going to be the connection between sam
Urick and ted young.
We know that they know each other.
- There were flags going off in my head.
- At this point, we know what we need to do now.
We need to talk to ted young, we need to talk to sam urick.
But we didn't know where they were.
Matt: It could be the bone of a male human.
- But we needed the rest of the skeleton.
Matt: A light bulb went off in our head.
- That's a logical location if somebody
Was going to bury a body.
He hunt
For 33-year-old gary patterson, investigators
Find an unexpected connection between $26 million
Fraudster ted young and the missing man's
Ex father-in-law, sam urick.
- We definitely needed to talk to sam urick.
He had a trucking company down in conroe.
Steve: So I got a federal subpoena for the phone
Records down in conroe.
- And it revealed that he
Had calls all over the united states,
And somehow the country.
Matt: At that point, we're trying
To make more of a connection.
- It was sam urick conversing with.
It's like a puzzle, and we were getting more pieces every day.
Narrator: Sam urick's extensive business contacts
Reach beyond texas state jurisdiction.
Believing he is an expert at living below the radar of law
Enforcement, investigators enlist the help of the us
Marshals to find their suspect.
- We ended up talking to a federal supervisor
Who, when he heard the name sam urick,
He stopped the conversation.
He says, I'm not sure I can even talk to you about this.
- We find out that sam urick is flagged in the state
National computer by the cia.
Matt: He was allegedly involved
In some shady dealings with rogue government agents
Back in the '80s.
Steve: He was possibly a participant
In getting some c-4 explosive out of the houston port
That went to muammar gaddafi.
And that same c-4 took down the lockerbie
Scotland flight and also the berlin discotheque bombing.
- For the first time in the investigation,
We understand how extremely dangerous sam urick is.
Narrator: Investigators explain their alarming
Discovery to gary's family.
- Knowing the whole sam urick story
And knowing the kind of shenanigans
That he was involved in, we knew.
We knew.
David: Gary was gone.
- My mama had not come to grips
With it, to grips with that.
She wanted to believe that in the end,
He was going to come back to us.
But as a police officer, I knew how small of a chance that was.
Michelle: As time went on, I just can't
Imagine the worst is happening.
I don't let myself go there.
- I'm not ready.
I'm still not ready to give up.
Narrator: Investigators believe sam urick is involved
In the disappearance of gary patterson,
But they'll have to find sam to prove it.
- We knew from the long distance telephone records
From sam urick's trucking company building
That there was someone in el paso
That sam urick was conversing with often.
Once again, this investigation went back
To sam urick's address book.
Matt: In this address book were other names
Of other people in paso.
- Very likely, they had some information.
Narrator: Convinced that gary's trip is connected
To sam urick's phone calls, waco investigators make a surprise
Visit to el paso, hoping to squeeze information
From sam urick's known accomplices.
- They told us about a sam urick gold mine scheme
In the desert outside of el paso.
Matt: A light bulb went off in our head.
- That's a logical location if somebody
Was going to bury a body.
- We drove out in the middle of nowhere, tall
Fence, gated.
Matt: And we're looking at this massive piece of property.
And all of a sudden, I see a cloud of dust.
- And the dust cloud gets bigger and it gets bigger,
And it's coming our way.
Matt: The vehicle came on us at a very high speed.
And a security guard gets out.
And he says, can I help you?
- Are we going to show our hand?
Or are we going to leave?
What's our play?
Narrator: Uncertain what the man will
Do, they take an unusual tack.
- We befriend him.
Steve: This guy would be what I'd call a groupie.
- He loves law enforcement.
- He said, there is a lot of shady things
Happening out here.
Steve: We asked him if he ever found any bones
Out there or anything.
And he said, yeah, I've found a couple.
Narrator: Cautious of his employer,
The security guard agrees to meet the investigators
After work at his home.
Matt: We go to his house.
And he goes and gets the bones off of his workbench.
- And he gives us to them.
And some, they were small animals or something.
And he had one in particular that I
Was a little concerned about.
- Brought the phone back to waco.
We allowed a forensic anthropologist to look at it.
Steve: They said that they thought it was a human bone.
Matt: Her further analysis of that bone
Said it could be the bone of a male, human.
Maybe in his 30s.
Steve: This was pivotal in this investigation.
- We felt like it could be gary patterson's.
Narrator: Investigators
Is involved in a mining scheme on a sprawling
Ranch east of el paso.
The operations security guard has found
A human bone on the property.
- We all believe that this was gary patterson.
But we needed more.
We needed the rest of the skeleton.
- So we decided we're going to search that ranch.
- There was a search team that was walking
Along a culvert near a ravine.
Matt: And they kicked over what they believed was a rock.
- It turned out to be a human skull.
- And some of the other remains
Were scattered on the side of the mountain
Around the property.
Steve: But we were able to recover quite a few parts
Of the skeletal remains.
- We could not make an identification
On it, because it was so badly decomposed.
Matt: We found the body in a 600 acre tract of land
That has a direct connection to sam urick.
So we thought it was gary patterson.
Narrator: The discovery could firmly
Tie sam urick to gary patterson's disappearance,
And now, his murder.
Investigators decide to lean on lisa
Urick for more information.
In the years since investigators first questioned lisa
About gary's disappearance, she's
Been ordered back to prison for a parole violation
Related to her previous custody and kidnapping charges.
- We go to the jail and talk to lisa patterson
And confront her with the fact that we'd
Made the connection with ted young,
Her father, and that property.
And we showed her some pictures of the bones.
Steve: And we told her we thought
That bone belonged to gary.
- She was visibly shaken by what
We were telling her.
Steve: She then started breaking down.
- She let us know that she knew her father had
Intentionally lured gary to el paso
And didn't mean to kill him but had been beating on him.
Steve: She claimed that it was
Only to get her daughter back.
- To us, this was a confession
And it broke the case wide open.
Narrator: Soon, the forensic report
Arrives with an analysis of the bones found on the property.
Steve: The testing was done by the medical examiner.
And there was something extremely
Strange on the person we found.
- Well, come to find out el paso police were looking
For a missing person also.
He was known to have these knots on his head
That looks like horns.
Narrator: The cranial anomaly found on the victim
Matches the missing el paso man.
- It was determined it was not gary patterson.
Narrator: Though el paso pd
Have solved their missing persons case,
It means gary is still out there.
Investigators share the difficult news
With the patterson family.
They will not be bringing gary home tonight.
- I understand someone might say you would
Be relieved that it wasn't him.
But we weren't.
You certainly don't want somebody
To walk in and say, hey, we found your brother's body.
But at the same time, that's what's got to happen before we
Move forward to anything else.
So it's a mixed bag of emotions that you go through.
Narrator: Investigators are
Confident the body found in the desert
Isn't related to gary patterson or sam urick.
But lisa's confession makes clear
That her father and ted young had plotted an attack on gary.
- So we sit down with us prosecutors in waco
And show them every single piece of evidence that we have.
All the connections, all the players.
- We had enough to get an arrest warrant for sam urick
And for ted young.
Steve: Us marshals had been tracking sam
And found him in las vegas.
- They go snatch him up and they've got him in custody.
Steve: And at that point, he was not talking.
- So we're in a real awkward place,
Because we have sam urick in custody.
We have lisa urick with a confession.
We don't have gary patterson's body.
We don't have theodore young in custody, either.
Narrator: Without a body, prosecutors
Will be hard pressed to make the murder conviction stick,
Even with the confession.
They must attempt to locate the other man in the scheme--
International fraudster ted young.
- We had interviewed a witness
In el paso who told us very earnestly
That ted yong was in honduras.
And a telephone record from sam urick's building
Indicated that there were numerous calls to honduras.
When you start hearing honduras from multiple sources,
That's what we call a clue.
Narrator: Working with federal authorities
And the international police organization,
Investigators head to honduras to hunt down sam
Urick's accomplice, ted young.
- We had a phone number of where ted and his wife
Were living.
Matt: In honduras, when you have a home telephone,
It stays with the home.
- We were able to use the honduran officials to tell
Us where the address was.
We finally make it down to san pedro sula
And we drive past an automobile salvage yard.
As we made a slow run past the gate,
I could see down this corridor of cars
Was a gray-headed white man.
And I'm thinking, that's ted young.
Narrator: But the arrest operation
Will be handled by interpol.
The american team is sent back to their hotel
For an anxious night.
Matt: I get a phone call that evening.
- Interpol police have captured ted young.
Ed young
Has been captured by interpol.
American authorities stand ready to question him about the still
Missing father gary patterson.
- I said, I don't care what you did in south carolina.
I'm here to talk to you about gary patterson
And who murdered him.
At that point, ted just dropped his head.
He said, I am not going to go to prison for the rest of my life
For something sam urick did.
Matt: He admits to every part of it.
Narrator: Ted young lays out
In chilling detail exactly what happened to gary
Patterson 15 months before.
- Ted young went to waco.
He lured gary patterson to el paso.
He picked him up there, took him out into the desert
Where sam was waiting.
Ted had a gun and he held it to gary's head
While sam duct-taped him.
And he said that, I left at that point.
I wasn't a part of what happened right there.
Matt: I was told to come back out in the morning.
The next day, and I went out there, I said, where's gary?
- And he said, we don't have
To worry about gary anymore.
Matt: I sanitized the area.
He killed gary patterson.
Narrator: The gruesome details
Of ted young's confession confirm
Investigators' worst fears.
Matt: But we still need to know
Where the body was located.
- And I said, well, why don't you draw me a map?
Steve: They fax it to my hotel room in el paso.
We follow the trail on this map.
And we focused in on 25-acre square.
Us customs guy was standing on the back of a truck
And saw one of the dogs concentrate on the area.
And he says, this has got to be it.
And he take some shovel.
He's going to go out there and dig that spot.
- And he finds that sleeve.
Matt: Everything was just as ted had described.
- He was still wearing the black pants, the
White shirt, and cowboy boots.
But his legs were tied together.
Narrator: Investigators call in the forensic team
To carefully remove the body and transport
The remains to the office of the medical examiner.
- The medical examiner determined
That he was hit with some kind of blunt force object.
You can see the bruising.
And we think sam urick beat him to death on that.
Narrator: The medical examiner
Found sand in the nasal cavity and lung area.
- Gary patterson got buried alive.
Narrator: Dental records confirm
That the victim found buried in the sand
Is, in fact, gary patterson.
- If you ever believe that evil does not exist,
Take a look at what sam urick did to gary patterson.
That's pure evil.
- My dad called me and told me that they
Had confirmed that it was gary.
David: My brother's gone.
- And that's just something you
Shouldn't have to go through.
- When they found him,
It just hit me like a ton of bricks.
I was like, so it's true.
He's not coming back.
And then-- I'm sorry, it just hit me.
[sniffles]
- I knew we had to get through this
To get to the next step.
Narrator: Prosecutors seek the death penalty.
But in September of 1999, sam urick and ted young make a plea
Agreement and avoid trial.
It's bitter justice for the family.
David: Sam urick was evil incarnate.
- Just mean as a snake.
Narrator: When sentencing is handed down,
Ted young receives 20 years for his role in the crime.
Lisa urick receives five years as a knowing accomplice.
And mastermind sam urick receives life
In prison for the murder of gary patterson.
David: Nothing's going to bring your brother back.
Is it 100% total justice?
No.
- But then, what is?
David: Gary was a good, god-fearing man
Who loved his family.
- And he didn't deserve what happened to him.
Michelle: If he can look down from heaven,
He's proud of crystal.
He was such an awesome man.
- And gentleman.
A true southern gentleman.