1 00:00:06,047 --> 00:00:08,049 [unsettling music plays] 2 00:00:12,429 --> 00:00:14,055 [operator] 911. For what town or city? 3 00:00:14,556 --> 00:00:17,225 -[man] Uh, Calgary, Alberta. -[operator] Ambulance, police, or fire? 4 00:00:17,726 --> 00:00:18,810 [man] Oh my God, all. 5 00:00:20,562 --> 00:00:22,355 [operator] Okay, tell me exactly what happened. 6 00:00:22,439 --> 00:00:24,190 [man] I don't know. I just came home, 7 00:00:24,274 --> 00:00:27,360 and I found my wife downstairs, and there's blood everywhere. 8 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:30,238 -Oh my God. -[operator] Are you with her now? 9 00:00:30,947 --> 00:00:31,906 [man cries] 10 00:00:32,532 --> 00:00:33,742 [man] I don't know. 11 00:00:35,035 --> 00:00:36,119 [operator] Is she awake? 12 00:00:36,703 --> 00:00:37,746 [man] I don't know. 13 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:40,290 [operator] Is she breathing? 14 00:00:40,874 --> 00:00:42,167 [man] Oh my God. 15 00:00:42,250 --> 00:00:43,710 [operator] Is she breathing? 16 00:00:43,793 --> 00:00:45,086 [man] Hold on one second. 17 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:46,921 There's so much blood. 18 00:00:47,964 --> 00:00:48,798 Honey. 19 00:00:49,424 --> 00:00:51,134 No, she's cold! 20 00:00:53,011 --> 00:00:54,304 Oh no. 21 00:00:54,387 --> 00:00:57,390 [operator] I'm sending help. I'm sending someone to assist you. 22 00:00:57,474 --> 00:00:59,726 [man] Oh my God! 23 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:05,482 [ominous music plays] 24 00:01:37,055 --> 00:01:37,889 [music fades] 25 00:01:39,057 --> 00:01:41,059 [sirens wail] 26 00:01:44,979 --> 00:01:47,065 [dispatcher] Calgary Police. What's the address? 27 00:01:47,148 --> 00:01:48,024 [operator] It's EMS. 28 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:51,277 Can you attend with us, please, for an out-of-hospital death? 29 00:01:51,361 --> 00:01:53,571 Uh, caller states, uh, patient is cold. 30 00:01:53,655 --> 00:01:55,615 Not awake, not breathing, blood everywhere. 31 00:01:55,698 --> 00:01:58,034 -[dispatcher] What's the name? -[operator] Last name, Antoni. 32 00:01:58,535 --> 00:02:00,036 First name, Amanda. 33 00:02:03,039 --> 00:02:06,417 The Calgary Police Service first learned of Amanda's death 34 00:02:06,501 --> 00:02:10,547 through a 911 call that was placed by her husband, Lee Antoni. 35 00:02:12,006 --> 00:02:14,384 Lee and Amanda lived in the community of Castleridge, 36 00:02:14,467 --> 00:02:17,512 which was in northeast Calgary in Canada. 37 00:02:17,595 --> 00:02:20,557 [officer 1] 237, priority 2. EMS is on the scene 38 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,017 saying they're gonna be with a hysterical bystander. 39 00:02:23,101 --> 00:02:26,062 Looks like the husband was calling this in. It's gonna be very frantic. 40 00:02:26,771 --> 00:02:30,775 [officer 2] There's also a fairly large dog in the backyard, just so you're aware. 41 00:02:31,651 --> 00:02:32,902 [officer 1] Copy, thanks. 42 00:02:35,196 --> 00:02:37,240 I was the district sergeant that day, 43 00:02:37,323 --> 00:02:39,409 which means I was the patrol supervisor. 44 00:02:39,492 --> 00:02:42,370 So I was in command of all the patrol officers working in this area. 45 00:02:43,621 --> 00:02:46,291 And it turned out that I wasn't actually all that far away, 46 00:02:46,374 --> 00:02:48,710 so I was the first police officer on scene. 47 00:02:51,588 --> 00:02:53,214 When I arrived on scene, 48 00:02:53,298 --> 00:02:55,717 there was a male, who became known to me as Lee, 49 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,218 near the front porch. 50 00:02:58,178 --> 00:03:01,681 As I got near the… the front door, I could see that Lee was shaking. 51 00:03:01,764 --> 00:03:03,433 He was visibly upset. 52 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:08,104 And pretty much all I could get out of him was, "She's in the basement." 53 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:10,440 [tense music plays] 54 00:03:11,316 --> 00:03:13,443 [Trent] So I made my way to the stairwell. 55 00:03:14,235 --> 00:03:15,528 I looked down the stairs. 56 00:03:16,237 --> 00:03:17,530 One thing that stood out to me, 57 00:03:17,614 --> 00:03:20,617 what appeared to be a piggy bank that was partially broken. 58 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:21,993 That stuck in my mind. 59 00:03:23,328 --> 00:03:26,247 And at that point, I started making my way down the stairs. 60 00:03:29,626 --> 00:03:32,795 As I came into the basement, what really took me aback 61 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,756 was the amount of blood on the floor. 62 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:42,013 I could see Amanda lying on the floor. 63 00:03:44,807 --> 00:03:46,559 I didn't take a close inspection, 64 00:03:46,643 --> 00:03:50,313 but she appeared to have suffered quite a significant head injury. 65 00:03:50,396 --> 00:03:53,399 She definitely appeared to have been struck by something 66 00:03:53,483 --> 00:03:57,028 that caused a significant injury to the right portion of her face 67 00:03:57,111 --> 00:04:00,740 and her skull at where… where her eye meets her hairline. 68 00:04:03,034 --> 00:04:04,661 I made my way back up the stairs 69 00:04:04,744 --> 00:04:07,205 and joined the backup units to clear the house, 70 00:04:07,705 --> 00:04:10,833 and I made instruction for the next responding officer 71 00:04:10,917 --> 00:04:12,502 to stay with the husband. 72 00:04:12,585 --> 00:04:14,462 I wasn't sure what had happened 73 00:04:14,545 --> 00:04:17,090 or what his involvement would have been at that point. 74 00:04:18,675 --> 00:04:21,636 This was the bloodiest scene I'd ever walked in on. 75 00:04:21,719 --> 00:04:23,471 Quite frankly, it was gruesome. 76 00:04:24,555 --> 00:04:26,724 [reporter] Good afternoon. Police continue to investigate 77 00:04:26,808 --> 00:04:29,394 a suspicious death in the city's northeast. 78 00:04:29,477 --> 00:04:32,605 No one is in custody, though police are questioning the man 79 00:04:32,689 --> 00:04:34,607 that originally called police to the scene. 80 00:04:34,691 --> 00:04:36,901 It's what they found inside the home 81 00:04:36,985 --> 00:04:39,529 that makes them believe the death is suspicious. 82 00:04:45,576 --> 00:04:49,580 [Dave] At the beginning of any new investigation, a war room is set up, 83 00:04:49,664 --> 00:04:53,543 an operational center where information will kind of flow in, 84 00:04:54,585 --> 00:04:56,546 and we go through a process 85 00:04:56,629 --> 00:04:59,299 of understanding and interpreting the scene, 86 00:04:59,382 --> 00:05:04,220 in… in an effort to determine what happened to Amanda. 87 00:05:09,392 --> 00:05:13,396 Amanda Antoni was a 31-year-old female, 88 00:05:14,022 --> 00:05:18,901 found lying deceased on Monday, October 26th, 2015. 89 00:05:19,694 --> 00:05:22,905 When the medical response and the police officers arrived, 90 00:05:24,032 --> 00:05:26,868 they had found that she was in full rigor mortis 91 00:05:26,951 --> 00:05:29,287 on a basement floor inside of her residence, 92 00:05:29,370 --> 00:05:33,166 which potentially would suggest that she died sometime on Sunday. 93 00:05:36,002 --> 00:05:40,214 There's no signs, uh, that there was a robbery that occurred, 94 00:05:40,298 --> 00:05:44,385 or this was motivated by robbery, or that there had been a break and enter, 95 00:05:44,469 --> 00:05:47,805 or that there were any items removed or missing from the home. 96 00:05:50,266 --> 00:05:52,226 A chair had been found tipped over, 97 00:05:53,269 --> 00:05:55,563 and we learned that when Lee went into the home, 98 00:05:56,272 --> 00:06:01,194 he found Amanda's phone lying on the floor in the dining room. 99 00:06:02,070 --> 00:06:05,365 The phone had been broken, and the screen had been cracked. 100 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:10,078 The phone and the tipped-over chair 101 00:06:10,161 --> 00:06:12,872 indicated that there had been some sort of a struggle, 102 00:06:12,955 --> 00:06:16,834 some sort of a violent altercation that had occurred inside the home. 103 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,630 In Amanda's case, we certainly know at this point 104 00:06:20,713 --> 00:06:22,340 that her death is not natural. 105 00:06:23,966 --> 00:06:27,136 We also know at this point that there's no indication 106 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:28,304 that it's suicide. 107 00:06:31,641 --> 00:06:33,101 [woman 1] It was quite obvious 108 00:06:33,184 --> 00:06:36,687 that something really violent had occurred in that basement. 109 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:41,025 She was covered in blood. Her clothes were covered in blood. 110 00:06:41,109 --> 00:06:43,319 There was blood on the walls. 111 00:06:46,614 --> 00:06:49,951 She had bruises in a lot of places, 112 00:06:50,034 --> 00:06:52,453 and it looked like she had been beaten. 113 00:06:53,162 --> 00:06:55,123 Wasn't a doubt that it was a homicide. 114 00:07:01,587 --> 00:07:03,673 [Dave] Another thing that was significant 115 00:07:03,756 --> 00:07:05,967 was that there appeared to be a weapon 116 00:07:06,050 --> 00:07:07,844 that had been left at the scene by an offender. 117 00:07:09,178 --> 00:07:13,933 A ceramic piggy bank on the ledge leading down into the stairs. 118 00:07:15,601 --> 00:07:19,105 The front of it was, uh, sheared off. 119 00:07:20,606 --> 00:07:25,695 You could see many pieces of the broken face of that piggy bank, 120 00:07:25,778 --> 00:07:28,114 you know, strewn along down the stairs. 121 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,784 [Dave] Pieces of the ceramic from that piggy bank 122 00:07:31,868 --> 00:07:35,496 were left embedded in, uh, Amanda's forehead. 123 00:07:35,580 --> 00:07:40,501 I believed it was a weapon that had been used, uh, by an offender 124 00:07:40,585 --> 00:07:41,961 to cause those injuries. 125 00:07:44,422 --> 00:07:46,507 The other piece that bothered me 126 00:07:46,591 --> 00:07:50,219 was the fact that she was partially clothed, 127 00:07:50,303 --> 00:07:54,307 and that the pants had been pulled down just about past the buttocks. 128 00:07:55,641 --> 00:08:00,438 The way she had been found, um, on the floor itself, 129 00:08:01,689 --> 00:08:05,359 it appeared like she had been the victim of a sexual assault, 130 00:08:05,443 --> 00:08:07,987 and in the course of that sexual assault was murdered. 131 00:08:19,790 --> 00:08:22,084 [phone rings] 132 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,757 [woman 2] I was home alone, and Lee called. 133 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:29,217 [phone rings] 134 00:08:30,843 --> 00:08:32,845 [woman 2] He just said, "Amanda's dead." 135 00:08:34,764 --> 00:08:37,600 And… it went from there. 136 00:08:41,312 --> 00:08:45,942 I had just pulled into my driveway, and my phone rings, and it's Mom. 137 00:08:47,276 --> 00:08:49,487 And she says, "Lee came home, 138 00:08:49,570 --> 00:08:52,365 found Amanda at the bottom of the stairs, and she's not moving." 139 00:08:53,616 --> 00:08:56,077 That's the only information I had. 140 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:01,499 Lee phoned me, hysterical, and said that Amanda was dead. 141 00:09:02,875 --> 00:09:04,544 I didn't think it was real. 142 00:09:05,711 --> 00:09:08,214 I just jumped in my vehicle 143 00:09:08,297 --> 00:09:12,593 and raced there as fast as I could 'cause I didn't know what was going on. 144 00:09:13,594 --> 00:09:18,099 And that's when they… they officially told us that, uh, um, something happened 145 00:09:18,975 --> 00:09:20,977 and, uh, Amanda had passed. 146 00:09:21,978 --> 00:09:23,688 -[woman] So I'm gonna show ya. -[man] Yeah. 147 00:09:23,771 --> 00:09:26,566 See if you can find anything suspicious with him. 148 00:09:26,649 --> 00:09:29,360 -[girl laughs] -[woman] We found a recipe on him. 149 00:09:29,443 --> 00:09:32,280 Grandma's strudel. Grandma's strudel recipe. 150 00:09:32,363 --> 00:09:34,574 [Allen] Amanda was the baby of the family. 151 00:09:35,324 --> 00:09:37,702 I'm the oldest of the three kids, 152 00:09:37,785 --> 00:09:41,914 and my younger brother is a year and a half younger than me, 153 00:09:41,998 --> 00:09:44,458 and Amanda was 13 years younger than me. 154 00:09:45,376 --> 00:09:48,004 We were foster parents, 155 00:09:48,087 --> 00:09:54,343 and she came into our home as a baby, at two months. 156 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:57,054 She had the most beautiful blue eyes. 157 00:09:57,138 --> 00:10:01,475 And, you know, you… you just fell in love with this baby right off the bat. 158 00:10:03,185 --> 00:10:04,145 She stole our hearts. 159 00:10:05,563 --> 00:10:09,191 Allen and I would spend a lot of time looking after her, 160 00:10:09,275 --> 00:10:14,530 and, you know, entertaining her, and… and, uh, just being big brothers. 161 00:10:17,408 --> 00:10:21,078 [Allen] She'd fall asleep on my chest while we're watching Flintstones, 162 00:10:21,162 --> 00:10:24,832 and she was so cute and adorable, and she was a girl instead of a boy, 163 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:27,668 so, you know, that was something new for our family. 164 00:10:28,419 --> 00:10:30,671 [Darrell] By the time she was 14 months, we had adopted her 165 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:33,132 and brought her in as, you know, part of our family. 166 00:10:33,215 --> 00:10:36,719 And from that day forward, she was one of us. 167 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:40,556 And it was quite exciting to just watch her personality 168 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:41,807 develop and grow. 169 00:10:43,142 --> 00:10:45,394 [Allen] She loved to prank and joke. 170 00:10:46,103 --> 00:10:49,231 [Linda laughs] Oh my God. 171 00:10:49,315 --> 00:10:50,733 [Allen] That's what you call hair! 172 00:10:50,816 --> 00:10:53,402 She loved cats. She loved dogs. 173 00:10:53,486 --> 00:10:57,156 She'd love to bring in strays by the dozens if she could've. 174 00:10:57,907 --> 00:11:00,159 [Linda] She had a very kind heart, 175 00:11:01,118 --> 00:11:03,788 and she just loved people. 176 00:11:04,955 --> 00:11:09,043 She was around 20 when she left home and met Lee. 177 00:11:10,419 --> 00:11:14,965 It was a mutual friend that introduced Amanda and Lee to each other. 178 00:11:15,049 --> 00:11:18,761 It wasn't long after that that they got an apartment together, 179 00:11:18,844 --> 00:11:21,972 and… and then got married a few years later. 180 00:11:23,766 --> 00:11:26,686 From this day on, I choose you to be my wife. 181 00:11:26,769 --> 00:11:28,938 From this day on, I choose you to be my wife. 182 00:11:30,022 --> 00:11:32,733 She would just light up when they were together. 183 00:11:32,817 --> 00:11:36,112 They had lots of fun together. Lots of giggles, lots of laughs. 184 00:11:37,238 --> 00:11:40,574 [Darrell] When they first met, Lee had a little bit of a wild side to him. 185 00:11:40,658 --> 00:11:43,869 Um, a little more partying and… and… and that type of stuff. 186 00:11:45,913 --> 00:11:49,375 Amanda had approached me a couple times through their relationship, just… 187 00:11:49,458 --> 00:11:51,585 I guess you could say a little frustrated. 188 00:11:54,004 --> 00:11:56,632 At the time of her death, Amanda had started her own business, 189 00:11:56,716 --> 00:11:57,717 doing house cleaning. 190 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,220 She was always having to look after a lot of the bills, things like that, 191 00:12:01,303 --> 00:12:02,638 when Lee was in between jobs. 192 00:12:04,515 --> 00:12:06,392 [Allen] Amanda was supporting Lee. 193 00:12:07,184 --> 00:12:10,438 Lee seemed to be in and out of jobs. 194 00:12:10,521 --> 00:12:13,816 He'd get fired, and Amanda… 195 00:12:13,899 --> 00:12:17,069 It frustrated her that he didn't have a job. 196 00:12:18,779 --> 00:12:24,118 I liked Lee, but there was times when Amanda was hurt 197 00:12:24,201 --> 00:12:27,872 that they had had fights or whatever, and it bothered me. 198 00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:29,206 It bothered me a lot. 199 00:12:31,959 --> 00:12:34,211 -[detective] Just have a seat here. -[Darrell] Sure. 200 00:12:35,713 --> 00:12:38,174 When I came into the interview room at the police station, 201 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:42,178 he let us know that Amanda had passed, and… and I asked what happened. 202 00:12:42,261 --> 00:12:46,474 And he said, "It's too early to tell, uh, but it looks suspicious." 203 00:12:46,557 --> 00:12:49,435 And my next question was, "Where's Lee?" 204 00:12:50,561 --> 00:12:52,646 [Darrell] Do we know what's going on with Lee? 205 00:12:52,730 --> 00:12:56,358 [detective] Don't know. I have nothing… I don't know anything about that. 206 00:12:57,318 --> 00:12:58,694 [Darrell] Wondering how he's doing… 207 00:12:58,778 --> 00:13:02,364 Part of me was, "Make sure you guys are talking to him, 208 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:05,493 just in case he had something to do with this." You know, um… 209 00:13:06,118 --> 00:13:08,913 You know, that's my little sister. [chuckles] You know? 210 00:13:10,623 --> 00:13:12,750 [detective] How were things between Lee and Amanda? 211 00:13:12,833 --> 00:13:15,294 Any bad vibes from Lee, as the older brothers? 212 00:13:16,128 --> 00:13:17,338 [Darrell exhales] 213 00:13:17,421 --> 00:13:18,255 Yeah… 214 00:13:18,339 --> 00:13:20,508 It… it was such a blur that day. 215 00:13:20,591 --> 00:13:23,761 [detective] So, your sister, does she go by Amanda? Is that what she goes by? 216 00:13:23,844 --> 00:13:26,806 I don't remember a whole lot about the interview. 217 00:13:26,889 --> 00:13:29,642 I did have concerns about Lee. 218 00:13:29,725 --> 00:13:31,602 -I think he loves her. -[detective] Yeah? 219 00:13:31,685 --> 00:13:35,147 -But I don't 100% trust him. -[detective] Okay. 220 00:13:35,231 --> 00:13:38,484 [Allen] I… I'm not, you know, saying that he did it, but… 221 00:13:38,567 --> 00:13:40,861 -I think he's very impulsive. -[detective] Okay. 222 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:43,155 -He could be, with his rage. -Okay. 223 00:13:43,239 --> 00:13:47,034 The husband is the blinking light when the wife has been found dead. 224 00:13:47,117 --> 00:13:49,620 If you need to go to the washroom or something, 225 00:13:49,703 --> 00:13:52,832 you can just knock on the door and we'll come and get you, okay? 226 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:55,167 [Dave] He was the person that found Amanda deceased 227 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:59,964 and was central to trying to figure out who's responsible for her death. 228 00:14:00,047 --> 00:14:02,508 -[officer] Knock if you need anything. -[Lee] Thank you. 229 00:14:05,511 --> 00:14:06,387 [exhales deeply] 230 00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:13,310 Very early on in the investigation, Lee Antoni always presented 231 00:14:13,394 --> 00:14:17,481 as a, uh, distraught, despondent husband. 232 00:14:18,315 --> 00:14:20,484 [Dave] Did you have anything to do with Amanda's death? 233 00:14:20,568 --> 00:14:21,735 [Lee] No, sir. 234 00:14:21,819 --> 00:14:25,573 That first interview, Lee told us that he left the residence on a Friday. 235 00:14:29,118 --> 00:14:30,911 He'd gone to Saskatchewan. 236 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:33,205 He was going there to visit with his mother 237 00:14:33,289 --> 00:14:37,877 to help settle the estate of a father who had passed a… a year prior. 238 00:14:39,128 --> 00:14:40,963 Returned back on a Monday 239 00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:44,842 to find his wife dead. 240 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:50,764 According to Lee, over the course of their relationship, 241 00:14:50,848 --> 00:14:55,185 Lee and Amanda had never spent really a night apart from one another. 242 00:14:57,062 --> 00:15:00,024 And so, for him to go away on this one weekend, 243 00:15:00,983 --> 00:15:03,277 what is the statistical probability 244 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,071 this would happen the one weekend he goes away? 245 00:15:10,951 --> 00:15:12,870 [Dave] Are you involved in this, Lee? 246 00:15:12,953 --> 00:15:15,581 [Lee] I'm not. I am not, man. 247 00:15:15,664 --> 00:15:19,919 -[Dave] I'm gonna find out if you are. -[Lee] Yeah. Yeah. You go right ahead. 248 00:15:21,086 --> 00:15:23,005 I was at my mom's all weekend. 249 00:15:23,714 --> 00:15:25,716 [tense music plays] 250 00:15:26,759 --> 00:15:31,013 [Dave] Once we'd learned how he had driven to Saskatchewan, 251 00:15:31,096 --> 00:15:34,266 two investigators were sent to travel along his route 252 00:15:34,350 --> 00:15:40,105 and collect video from gas stations that he told us that he had been at. 253 00:15:40,189 --> 00:15:44,735 And, uh, we did collect video that absolutely confirmed 254 00:15:44,818 --> 00:15:47,488 that Lee was in Saskatchewan at the time Amanda died. 255 00:15:49,323 --> 00:15:51,158 [Dave] Do you know who did this to Amanda? 256 00:15:51,241 --> 00:15:53,202 [Lee] No. I wanna know what happened. 257 00:15:53,285 --> 00:15:54,620 [Dave] Well… And so do I. 258 00:15:54,703 --> 00:15:58,374 And I guarantee you we'll find out eventually. Okay? 259 00:15:58,457 --> 00:16:00,376 [Dave] We did consider the possibility 260 00:16:00,459 --> 00:16:04,421 that Lee may have hired somebody to take Amanda's life, 261 00:16:05,381 --> 00:16:08,467 but there was no evidence found 262 00:16:08,550 --> 00:16:12,221 that would suggest that Lee was in contact with somebody else 263 00:16:13,555 --> 00:16:15,849 or that there was any kind of arrangement made 264 00:16:15,933 --> 00:16:17,559 that when he left the residence 265 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:21,730 that somebody else was gonna show up on his behalf and kill Amanda. 266 00:16:23,273 --> 00:16:26,193 [reporter] Jamie Mauracher is live at Westwinds Police Headquarters tonight. 267 00:16:26,276 --> 00:16:28,737 Jamie, police say they don't have a suspect in custody, 268 00:16:28,821 --> 00:16:30,906 so where is this investigation at now? 269 00:16:30,990 --> 00:16:35,869 They have been speaking with Lee Antoni. They say he is cooperating. 270 00:16:35,953 --> 00:16:39,039 They're actually ruling Lee out as a suspect. 271 00:16:39,123 --> 00:16:41,125 [somber music plays] 272 00:16:43,794 --> 00:16:45,379 [Lee] Amanda was my better half. 273 00:16:47,172 --> 00:16:49,717 I fell in love with her personality. 274 00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:54,596 She's a person where, when she walks in the room, 275 00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:56,724 everyone smiles. 276 00:16:56,807 --> 00:16:59,268 She always makes everyone comfortable. 277 00:17:01,895 --> 00:17:05,733 When they were doing their investigation, I was not worried. 278 00:17:05,816 --> 00:17:07,151 They were doing their job. 279 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:12,448 And it's always the spouse, always first. And I get that. 280 00:17:13,574 --> 00:17:14,825 I was fine with that. 281 00:17:14,908 --> 00:17:18,996 Because why? I want to know what happened. I want to know what happened to Amanda. 282 00:17:19,663 --> 00:17:21,665 [tense music plays] 283 00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:24,877 You and Amanda live in your home… 284 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,378 -[Lee] My wife, yes. -Your wife. 285 00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:29,214 A big part of what we do in the beginning of an investigation 286 00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:33,093 is, uh, we delve into, in this particular case, 287 00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:36,472 Amanda's activity prior to her death. 288 00:17:36,555 --> 00:17:40,476 On Friday, you decided to go to Saskatchewan. 289 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:42,686 There was a plan that Amanda and Lee 290 00:17:42,770 --> 00:17:45,064 were going to travel together to Saskatchewan. 291 00:17:46,607 --> 00:17:50,736 But at the last minute, Amanda stayed home because she wasn't feeling well. 292 00:17:52,362 --> 00:17:54,364 [somber music plays] 293 00:17:59,369 --> 00:18:01,705 [Linda] I had talked to her that morning. 294 00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:04,958 She didn't really have any plans. 295 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:09,129 She wasn't feeling too good. She had the migraine. 296 00:18:10,798 --> 00:18:12,549 [Darrell] Amanda would get migraines. 297 00:18:12,633 --> 00:18:16,303 Um, not all the time, but when she got 'em, they were pretty severe. 298 00:18:17,471 --> 00:18:20,766 I… I figured her headache or whatever she was feeling that day 299 00:18:20,849 --> 00:18:23,310 must have been pretty bad for her not to go with Lee. 300 00:18:23,393 --> 00:18:25,395 [tense music plays] 301 00:18:25,771 --> 00:18:29,024 [Lee] So Amanda knew, like, "You gotta go help your mom." 302 00:18:29,608 --> 00:18:30,442 "I'll stay here, 303 00:18:30,526 --> 00:18:33,028 and I'll see you on Monday when you come back home." 304 00:18:35,155 --> 00:18:37,449 So I left on Friday. 305 00:18:39,535 --> 00:18:41,120 That was the last time I saw her. 306 00:18:41,203 --> 00:18:42,996 [tense music crescendos] 307 00:18:45,082 --> 00:18:47,084 [tense music plays] 308 00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:54,883 [Lee] When I got to Mom's, I talked to Amanda. 309 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:57,261 I asked her how she was doing. 310 00:18:58,178 --> 00:19:00,264 I asked her about her headaches and stuff. 311 00:19:00,347 --> 00:19:02,432 And she said, "They're still kind of bad." 312 00:19:04,184 --> 00:19:07,771 Lee and Amanda were in almost constant communication 313 00:19:07,855 --> 00:19:09,565 from the Friday that he left. 314 00:19:10,983 --> 00:19:15,904 There's a very, uh, long record of text messages back and forth. 315 00:19:16,905 --> 00:19:21,743 The last time he spoke to Amanda was at about 7:00 p.m. 316 00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:23,245 on the Saturday night. 317 00:19:23,328 --> 00:19:25,247 [tense music plays] 318 00:19:27,082 --> 00:19:29,293 [Lee] She said her migraines were going away. 319 00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:32,880 Then, all of a sudden, Ruby barked. 320 00:19:32,963 --> 00:19:34,590 [dog barks] 321 00:19:34,673 --> 00:19:37,217 [Lee] Amanda told her to shut up. Like, "Quiet, Ruby." 322 00:19:38,844 --> 00:19:40,053 Ruby yelped. 323 00:19:40,137 --> 00:19:40,971 [dog yelps] 324 00:19:41,054 --> 00:19:43,056 [tense music continues] 325 00:19:43,807 --> 00:19:46,810 [Lee] She was walking, and I could hear a… [imitates crunching] …sound. 326 00:19:46,894 --> 00:19:48,979 Then, all of a sudden, it just cut out. 327 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:54,985 And I said, "Hello? Honey?" 328 00:19:55,652 --> 00:19:57,779 "Amanda? Amanda?" 329 00:19:59,489 --> 00:20:00,908 And there was nothing. 330 00:20:01,909 --> 00:20:05,537 So I hung up, tried it again. It went just straight to her voicemail. 331 00:20:06,288 --> 00:20:08,373 So I called on my mom's house line. 332 00:20:09,082 --> 00:20:10,959 No answer. Straight to her voicemail. 333 00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:14,755 When the phone cut off, I didn't know what to think. 334 00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:17,007 I thought maybe she dropped her phone. 335 00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:19,801 Maybe her phone died. 336 00:20:19,885 --> 00:20:23,639 Maybe she's gonna recharge it. I'll get a phone call back. 337 00:20:23,722 --> 00:20:26,934 So then I waited for a while. I texted her. 338 00:20:27,017 --> 00:20:28,810 [tense music plays] 339 00:20:28,894 --> 00:20:29,937 [Lee] No reply. 340 00:20:31,980 --> 00:20:35,776 Sunday, got up. Texted her again. 341 00:20:37,903 --> 00:20:39,154 I didn't get no reply. 342 00:20:39,947 --> 00:20:43,909 So I'm like, "Well, maybe she's busy. She'll call me later." 343 00:20:43,992 --> 00:20:45,702 'Cause you don't think of the worst. 344 00:20:45,786 --> 00:20:47,287 You never do think of the worst, 345 00:20:47,371 --> 00:20:50,499 especially if stuff like this has never happened to you. 346 00:20:52,292 --> 00:20:56,296 I thought, "Maybe she's out with Darrell. Maybe she's visiting Mom." 347 00:20:56,380 --> 00:20:57,673 Her family was very close. 348 00:20:57,756 --> 00:21:01,385 So that's where I thought maybe she was at Darrell's. 349 00:21:01,468 --> 00:21:02,761 I was so busy with Mom, 350 00:21:02,844 --> 00:21:07,891 and we were trying to organize stuff and get stuff so Mom could sell stuff. 351 00:21:07,975 --> 00:21:09,977 And I was busy. I was busy. 352 00:21:11,853 --> 00:21:13,814 Then Sunday night, and I'm like, 353 00:21:13,897 --> 00:21:16,483 "You know what? I'm, like… I'm gonna go to bed tonight, 354 00:21:16,566 --> 00:21:20,487 I'm gonna wake up in the morning, and I'm gonna come home and surprise her." 355 00:21:24,825 --> 00:21:26,827 [uneasy music plays] 356 00:21:31,498 --> 00:21:35,836 [Lee] So Monday, I left. I think it was around, like, 8:30 in the morning. 357 00:21:35,919 --> 00:21:38,130 Only time I stopped was to fill up gas. 358 00:21:38,213 --> 00:21:40,215 Other than that, just kept on trucking. 359 00:21:40,716 --> 00:21:42,718 [uneasy music continues] 360 00:21:45,554 --> 00:21:48,473 [Lee] When I came home, I know the front door was locked, 361 00:21:48,557 --> 00:21:49,933 because I had to unlock it. 362 00:21:52,102 --> 00:21:53,603 I walked into the house. 363 00:21:54,855 --> 00:21:55,856 She wasn't there. 364 00:21:56,523 --> 00:21:58,108 Let the dog out the back door, 365 00:21:58,191 --> 00:22:00,444 'cause I know she had to go to the bathroom. 366 00:22:02,070 --> 00:22:06,074 And then I thought, "I'm gonna go upstairs. Maybe Amanda's having a nap." 367 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:09,661 First, I went into our bedroom. Nothing. 368 00:22:09,745 --> 00:22:11,246 Went in the bathroom. Nothing. 369 00:22:12,247 --> 00:22:14,291 And I'm thinking, "Where else could she be?" 370 00:22:15,834 --> 00:22:19,171 Then I thought, "The only place I didn't look was down in the basement." 371 00:22:19,254 --> 00:22:22,132 Amanda never really liked the basement that much. 372 00:22:22,215 --> 00:22:25,635 I don't know why. She just had a creepy kind of feeling about the basement. 373 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:27,929 [quiet, ominous music plays] 374 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:32,017 [Lee] I walked down the first four stairs… and I… 375 00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:36,396 found Amanda. 376 00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:43,028 She was laying in the middle of the basement, 377 00:22:44,196 --> 00:22:45,280 covered in blood. 378 00:22:47,366 --> 00:22:50,535 I can't describe the feeling I went through. 379 00:22:50,619 --> 00:22:54,247 I yelled, "Amanda! Amanda! Amanda!" 380 00:22:54,331 --> 00:22:56,958 She didn't answer. I just turned around and started shaking. 381 00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:58,377 I almost dropped my phone. 382 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:00,712 And I called 911. 383 00:23:00,796 --> 00:23:02,631 [tense music plays] 384 00:23:02,714 --> 00:23:06,093 [Lee] The 911 said, "Do you know if she's alive?" 385 00:23:06,176 --> 00:23:10,138 And I said, "No." She said, "Can you go back downstairs and see if she's alive?" 386 00:23:11,098 --> 00:23:12,933 I didn't want to go back downstairs. 387 00:23:17,062 --> 00:23:19,064 [breathes heavily] 388 00:23:21,942 --> 00:23:23,110 I didn't want to… 389 00:23:27,739 --> 00:23:29,574 [Lee cries] 390 00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:33,120 [Lee] That was the hardest thing, and I didn't know how to do it. 391 00:23:34,538 --> 00:23:36,915 As I was talking, I was screaming. 392 00:23:39,918 --> 00:23:42,921 And as soon as I touched her, she was cold. 393 00:23:43,004 --> 00:23:45,006 [somber music plays] 394 00:23:49,344 --> 00:23:51,346 [sirens wail] 395 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:57,269 [police official] An autopsy by the office of the Chief Medical Examiner is ongoing. 396 00:23:57,352 --> 00:24:01,314 I can assure everyone that we're, uh, devoting sufficient resources 397 00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:05,110 to ensure that we conduct a complete and thorough investigation 398 00:24:05,193 --> 00:24:08,196 to identify the person responsible and hold them accountable. 399 00:24:08,864 --> 00:24:11,032 [tense music plays] 400 00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:13,702 [Dave] Based on the facts and the evidence in this case, 401 00:24:13,785 --> 00:24:17,080 we believed the assault on Amanda 402 00:24:17,164 --> 00:24:20,917 likely occurred around seven o'clock on the Saturday evening. 403 00:24:22,544 --> 00:24:25,422 That is the last time we know that she was alive, 404 00:24:26,339 --> 00:24:31,553 because there was no activity on her phone after that time. 405 00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:37,392 We had significant concerns that a violent offender 406 00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:40,020 was running around northeast Calgary. 407 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:46,485 And so we put a lot of reliance on our forensic crime scene unit 408 00:24:46,568 --> 00:24:50,989 to assist us in identifying somebody using evidence from the scene, 409 00:24:51,072 --> 00:24:56,077 including fingerprints, footprints, and offender DNA. 410 00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:58,163 [tense music continues] 411 00:24:59,748 --> 00:25:02,292 I was a sergeant, uh, within the unit, 412 00:25:02,375 --> 00:25:05,754 and I was also the bloodstain, uh, pattern analyst as well. 413 00:25:08,006 --> 00:25:10,759 It's one of the worst scenes that I've ever actually been in, 414 00:25:10,842 --> 00:25:12,093 and I've never had one 415 00:25:12,177 --> 00:25:15,639 with so many different types of patterns and stains that were visible. 416 00:25:17,057 --> 00:25:21,019 This here is the stairwell coming down. And then this was the basement. 417 00:25:21,102 --> 00:25:24,856 Um, and then this is the location within the basement 418 00:25:24,940 --> 00:25:26,775 of where Amanda was located. 419 00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:29,194 You could kind of see the outline within the blood 420 00:25:29,277 --> 00:25:31,029 once she was removed from here. 421 00:25:34,449 --> 00:25:38,203 [camera shutter clicks] 422 00:25:39,621 --> 00:25:42,624 [T.L.] I was the primary forensics investigator, 423 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:47,879 responsible for processing the scene and seizing all the exhibits. 424 00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:53,301 One thing that I did was to dust doors for fingerprints, 425 00:25:53,385 --> 00:25:55,679 which might assist us in determining 426 00:25:55,762 --> 00:25:58,181 who might have been in the house with Amanda. 427 00:25:58,932 --> 00:26:00,725 I didn't find any fingerprints. 428 00:26:02,394 --> 00:26:07,691 In the blood, we found about 12 impressions. 429 00:26:08,817 --> 00:26:12,821 Most of them appeared to have been made by a foot rather than a hand. 430 00:26:13,655 --> 00:26:15,657 [tense music plays] 431 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:17,617 [Dave] One of the things that was very perplexing 432 00:26:17,701 --> 00:26:20,412 is there were two footprint impressions 433 00:26:20,996 --> 00:26:22,247 facing up the stairs. 434 00:26:22,330 --> 00:26:24,040 They were right in this area here. 435 00:26:26,167 --> 00:26:29,462 [Jodi] The toes were practically touching the base of the stairs, 436 00:26:29,546 --> 00:26:32,048 but they didn't proceed up the stairs. 437 00:26:33,633 --> 00:26:36,886 [Dave] You could also see at the base of the stairs two slippers. 438 00:26:37,596 --> 00:26:39,306 Amanda must've been wearing slippers, 439 00:26:39,389 --> 00:26:43,435 or I would presume she was wearing slippers at the time this occurred. 440 00:26:45,437 --> 00:26:47,647 [Jodi] I think the most puzzling part for me 441 00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:50,859 was the fact that I couldn't find any shoe impressions. 442 00:26:53,236 --> 00:26:55,363 And the only impressions that we did locate 443 00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:57,115 were barefoot impressions. 444 00:26:58,992 --> 00:27:01,953 But in this area here, there were swipe marks, 445 00:27:02,037 --> 00:27:05,081 kind of back and forth, back and forth in the blood. 446 00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:09,252 And I thought, "Okay, somebody is covering up their footwear 447 00:27:09,336 --> 00:27:11,504 to get out of the scene and be undetected. 448 00:27:13,548 --> 00:27:17,636 [Dave] There was no, um, obvious defensive wounds on her body. 449 00:27:17,719 --> 00:27:21,640 However, Amanda was covered in a number of bruises. 450 00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:25,727 [Jodi] A lot of the times in violent crimes, 451 00:27:25,810 --> 00:27:29,648 the offender also ends up with some kind of a bloodletting injury. 452 00:27:30,815 --> 00:27:34,235 And, uh, usually when they're exiting the scene or moving around the scene, 453 00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:35,737 they'll drip blood as well. 454 00:27:37,781 --> 00:27:42,077 In grid number seven, we have these nice, dark brown bloodstains. 455 00:27:43,370 --> 00:27:48,166 When you find a bloodstain drip pattern like this, 456 00:27:48,249 --> 00:27:51,419 it automatically makes me think, "Okay, maybe this is our offender 457 00:27:51,503 --> 00:27:53,713 who would have bled in this particular area." 458 00:27:55,548 --> 00:27:59,552 Blood swabs are collected and sent off to the lab for a DNA analysis. 459 00:28:03,264 --> 00:28:06,726 [Dave] So as we waited eagerly for our crime lab results to come back, 460 00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,605 we needed to turn our mind to looking for any other clues 461 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:13,233 that may assist us in identifying an offender. 462 00:28:20,907 --> 00:28:22,867 There was no signs of forced entry. 463 00:28:22,951 --> 00:28:25,286 So whoever the offender was 464 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:29,165 either gained access to the residence with a key, or using a key, 465 00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:33,378 or entered into the home through an unlocked back door. 466 00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:37,549 [Lee] What beats me up every day is the back door. 467 00:28:38,842 --> 00:28:41,219 I cannot stop thinking about that back door, 468 00:28:41,302 --> 00:28:42,971 if it was locked or unlocked, 469 00:28:43,555 --> 00:28:46,683 'cause I just automatically grabbed the knob, 470 00:28:46,766 --> 00:28:48,727 opened the door, let the dog out. 471 00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:52,564 [woman on radio] 70-3-5, Code Six… 472 00:28:52,647 --> 00:28:57,026 [Dave] Investigators canvassed the area in and around, uh, Amanda and Lee's home. 473 00:28:59,988 --> 00:29:02,866 Castleridge has a statistically higher level of crime 474 00:29:02,949 --> 00:29:06,119 over most other communities within Calgary. 475 00:29:08,496 --> 00:29:10,623 [woman] It's just not a good neighborhood. 476 00:29:11,958 --> 00:29:16,921 There was crime constantly, with break-ins, shootings. 477 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:20,759 Physical attacks and assaults were constant. 478 00:29:20,842 --> 00:29:23,136 There was always police cars. 479 00:29:24,721 --> 00:29:29,517 [Dave] This alley was an alley that was of concern to Amanda back in 2015. 480 00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:31,770 Amanda and Lee both reported 481 00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:35,106 that people had been entering into their backyard 482 00:29:35,732 --> 00:29:38,902 and actually stealing bottles and cans from inside here. 483 00:29:39,527 --> 00:29:41,696 Sometimes our back fence was open. 484 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:43,406 Like, left open, the door. 485 00:29:43,490 --> 00:29:46,284 Sometimes you could see footsteps through the snow. 486 00:29:47,118 --> 00:29:51,331 Through this back gate, we get to, uh, Lee and Amanda's back door. 487 00:29:51,414 --> 00:29:54,501 And, uh, this is the door that Lee is not certain 488 00:29:54,584 --> 00:29:57,670 whether or not he unlocked at the time of his return. 489 00:30:02,717 --> 00:30:05,720 [Darrell] There was a lot of transients in that neighborhood. 490 00:30:06,596 --> 00:30:10,099 If they're that brazen to come in her yard and do that, 491 00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:12,185 what else are they capable of doing? 492 00:30:12,268 --> 00:30:14,354 And she was a little concerned about that. 493 00:30:17,190 --> 00:30:20,610 [Dave] We were going to obviously have to consider all possibilities, 494 00:30:20,693 --> 00:30:23,363 including a stalker. 495 00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:26,241 [uneasy music plays] 496 00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:29,619 [Dave] Somebody who followed her home at some point in time, 497 00:30:30,161 --> 00:30:34,791 and then used the opportunity of Lee, uh, being away from the home 498 00:30:34,874 --> 00:30:37,252 as their opportunity to strike. 499 00:30:37,335 --> 00:30:39,337 [uneasy music continues] 500 00:30:55,186 --> 00:30:56,938 [Dave] We did learn from one neighbor 501 00:30:57,021 --> 00:31:01,276 that between 6:30 and seven o'clock on the Saturday night, 502 00:31:01,359 --> 00:31:05,613 around that same time that Lee is saying that he heard the… the, uh, dog yelp 503 00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:07,782 and the… the phone disconnect, 504 00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:12,161 that Amanda's and Lee's dog had been barking. 505 00:31:12,245 --> 00:31:13,913 [dog barks] 506 00:31:13,997 --> 00:31:17,584 [woman] A scary dog bark. Like, "Get out of here" dog bark. 507 00:31:18,251 --> 00:31:20,712 You'd hear it from time to time, but you wouldn't… 508 00:31:21,379 --> 00:31:23,715 It wouldn't be to the point you're wondering what's going on. 509 00:31:23,798 --> 00:31:25,717 Except that night. 510 00:31:26,301 --> 00:31:30,555 Then we heard, like, a yell coming from Amanda's house. 511 00:31:30,638 --> 00:31:32,599 [ominous music plays] 512 00:31:32,682 --> 00:31:33,892 [dog barks] 513 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:36,728 [Amanda] And then our neighbor to the right of us, 514 00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:40,773 they said that they'd seen someone running through our yard. 515 00:31:42,108 --> 00:31:44,444 It was really unnerving. 516 00:31:46,821 --> 00:31:50,241 [Lee] For Ruby to bark, something would have had to cause her to bark. 517 00:31:51,117 --> 00:31:52,911 She was not that type of dog. 518 00:31:55,580 --> 00:31:58,958 So Ruby would have barked if someone came in the house. 519 00:32:00,710 --> 00:32:03,338 And if someone confronted Amanda, 520 00:32:04,088 --> 00:32:05,757 Amanda would have put up a fight. 521 00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:11,846 She was a little girl, but she could hold her… hold her ground. 522 00:32:16,893 --> 00:32:18,436 [detective] Okay, Linda, I have the… 523 00:32:18,519 --> 00:32:20,605 [Dave] As we delved into the investigation, 524 00:32:20,688 --> 00:32:22,857 we're talking to family members and friends, 525 00:32:23,858 --> 00:32:27,195 and we go through phones, electronic devices, 526 00:32:28,029 --> 00:32:30,198 journals, diaries, things of that nature. 527 00:32:33,743 --> 00:32:35,411 One question we have, 528 00:32:35,495 --> 00:32:39,415 is it possible that Amanda could be involved in an affair 529 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:40,833 that had gone wrong? 530 00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:47,173 And was it possible that she was expecting somebody to come over to the home, 531 00:32:47,256 --> 00:32:48,508 uh, while Lee was away? 532 00:32:49,926 --> 00:32:53,137 When he arrived home and found Amanda deceased, 533 00:32:54,597 --> 00:32:56,933 Lee had noticed that she appeared to be wearing 534 00:32:57,016 --> 00:32:59,519 a fancier pair of undergarment or underwear, 535 00:33:00,103 --> 00:33:03,731 outside of the casual sets of underwear that she would wear throughout the week. 536 00:33:04,232 --> 00:33:07,610 And so that was certainly something that was considered. 537 00:33:10,613 --> 00:33:14,826 But… this theory was quickly dismissed by us, 538 00:33:14,909 --> 00:33:17,578 because there is nothing that we found 539 00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:21,124 that would indicate that there was any sort of a, uh, a relationship 540 00:33:21,207 --> 00:33:23,876 with another intimate partner outside of the marriage. 541 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:31,175 [Allen] Lee and Amanda had fights, like most people, 542 00:33:32,051 --> 00:33:36,639 but I have no doubt that they loved each other the whole time. 543 00:33:36,723 --> 00:33:39,517 Like, Amanda loved him just as much as he loved her. 544 00:33:42,311 --> 00:33:46,065 [Dave] She wasn't involved in drug activity, or gang activity, 545 00:33:46,149 --> 00:33:48,067 or any of those kinds of things. 546 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,032 It was quite clear that Amanda did not have a lot of enemies. 547 00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:57,577 But during Lee's interview, 548 00:33:57,660 --> 00:34:01,539 Lee identified somebody he thought could be a suspect. 549 00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:07,545 [Darrell] We were called back into the police station for a family meeting. 550 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:11,716 Lee was sitting there with us, 551 00:34:11,799 --> 00:34:14,260 and he looked across the table at Allen and I, and said, 552 00:34:14,343 --> 00:34:16,637 "I think my sister had something to do with this." 553 00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:20,975 [Lee] My sister hated my wife. 554 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:24,312 [Dave] And what would the reason for your sister be to kill your wife? 555 00:34:24,812 --> 00:34:27,982 [Lee] My sister, at that time, was into bad drugs. 556 00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:31,444 So then I called child services on my sister. 557 00:34:32,862 --> 00:34:35,239 Because all I care about is my… my niece. 558 00:34:35,323 --> 00:34:39,035 It was my sister and Lee that phoned social services, or child services, 559 00:34:39,118 --> 00:34:40,995 and had the child taken away. 560 00:34:42,038 --> 00:34:46,542 [Lee] My sister called every day, 20-some times, man, a day, 561 00:34:46,626 --> 00:34:48,169 "Where the fuck is my daughter?" 562 00:34:50,171 --> 00:34:52,048 [Lee] My sister was really mad at me. 563 00:34:54,008 --> 00:34:55,426 And she was mad at Amanda. 564 00:34:58,846 --> 00:35:04,060 [Allen] There had been threats that Lee's sister had made to Amanda. 565 00:35:05,895 --> 00:35:09,899 And for my sister to be scared was something significant, 566 00:35:09,982 --> 00:35:12,276 because not much scared her. 567 00:35:13,611 --> 00:35:18,574 [Darrell] So I thought, "Did Lee's sister have some guy come over, 568 00:35:19,325 --> 00:35:20,868 knowing that Lee was out of town?" 569 00:35:20,952 --> 00:35:24,080 'Cause his sister would have known Lee was out of town that day. 570 00:35:26,749 --> 00:35:31,420 [Dave] Lee's sister was brought to our police facility 571 00:35:32,004 --> 00:35:35,842 and was interviewed by an experienced investigator. 572 00:35:38,052 --> 00:35:42,890 But there's no evidence to suggest that she was the person responsible 573 00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:45,017 for, uh, taking Amanda's life. 574 00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:47,103 [ominous music plays] 575 00:35:49,605 --> 00:35:52,233 [reporter 1] Police still don't have any suspects in custody 576 00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:56,279 since Amanda Antoni's body was found slain in her northeast Calgary home. 577 00:35:56,362 --> 00:35:58,531 [reporter 2] Amanda's family released this statement. 578 00:35:58,614 --> 00:36:01,033 They're pleading with the public for any information, 579 00:36:01,117 --> 00:36:04,203 saying the family needs and deserves closure. 580 00:36:05,746 --> 00:36:08,374 [Dave] Despite a heavy media presence, 581 00:36:08,457 --> 00:36:11,460 no tips from the public came in, 582 00:36:11,544 --> 00:36:18,176 which, just from my own experience, is highly, highly unusual. 583 00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:29,020 When the autopsy results came in, 584 00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:32,315 toxicology showed signs of cannabis in her system, 585 00:36:33,608 --> 00:36:35,443 but to quantify the amount of cannabis, 586 00:36:35,526 --> 00:36:39,322 to say whether it's intoxicating or not, it's very difficult to do. 587 00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,451 And finding cannabis in her system is consistent with the fact 588 00:36:43,534 --> 00:36:47,330 that Lee told us that she may have been using cannabis for a migraine. 589 00:36:49,457 --> 00:36:52,210 Cause of death was blunt-force trauma, 590 00:36:53,669 --> 00:36:58,257 but it was as a result of that injury that she actually bled to death. 591 00:36:59,425 --> 00:37:01,844 [T.L.] There was no trauma to the brain. 592 00:37:02,511 --> 00:37:07,308 There weren't any broken bones, aside from a broken right orbital bone. 593 00:37:08,768 --> 00:37:10,978 [Dave] I was surprised. 594 00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:13,814 I thought that you would see skull fractures 595 00:37:13,898 --> 00:37:15,524 and… and things of that nature. 596 00:37:15,608 --> 00:37:16,943 None of that was there. 597 00:37:17,693 --> 00:37:21,530 Amanda's body was, uh, bruised in a number of locations. 598 00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:24,408 Uh, her elbows were bruised. She had bruises on her knees. 599 00:37:24,492 --> 00:37:26,327 She had bruises on her hips. 600 00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:30,164 But there was no reason for Amanda to have died, 601 00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:34,794 except for the fact that she had lost so much blood. 602 00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:44,595 At this point in time in the investigation, 603 00:37:44,679 --> 00:37:48,975 we were very anxious to, uh, get results back from the lab 604 00:37:49,058 --> 00:37:51,227 that I had hoped would identify a suspect. 605 00:37:52,812 --> 00:37:55,314 But when the DNA results came in, 606 00:37:55,398 --> 00:38:01,112 there wasn't one swab that came back attributed to anybody else but Amanda, 607 00:38:01,195 --> 00:38:03,197 including those passive drip stains. 608 00:38:05,408 --> 00:38:07,368 [Jodi] I had hoped it would be the offender, 609 00:38:07,451 --> 00:38:11,330 and was anticipating that it would, because it was such a violent scene. 610 00:38:11,414 --> 00:38:13,874 And was quite surprised and shocked, actually, 611 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:16,752 to find out that it was all Amanda's DNA. 612 00:38:19,463 --> 00:38:24,385 They found no evidence that she had had any contact with any other person, 613 00:38:25,261 --> 00:38:28,055 which means that Amanda had not been sexually assaulted. 614 00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:31,017 Beyond that, 615 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:37,690 fingerprints, palm prints, and footprints collected from the basement of the home 616 00:38:37,773 --> 00:38:39,692 all were attributed to Amanda. 617 00:38:39,775 --> 00:38:41,527 There was no evidence 618 00:38:42,236 --> 00:38:45,906 that anybody else had been in the basement except for Amanda. 619 00:38:46,407 --> 00:38:48,409 [tense music plays] 620 00:38:55,374 --> 00:38:58,586 [Dave] Throughout the year and a half that we investigated, 621 00:39:00,546 --> 00:39:05,843 I was in contact with a very experienced group of behavioral science investigators. 622 00:39:07,386 --> 00:39:10,222 And when they examined Amanda's case, 623 00:39:10,931 --> 00:39:14,018 and the lack or absence of evidence in the home, 624 00:39:15,936 --> 00:39:19,482 they actually suggested that Amanda's death 625 00:39:19,565 --> 00:39:23,694 wasn't as a result of somebody else's wrongdoing. 626 00:39:23,778 --> 00:39:26,489 That her death may actually be an accident. 627 00:39:26,572 --> 00:39:28,574 [somber music plays] 628 00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:38,334 [Dave] I go back through the whole entire investigation. 629 00:39:42,129 --> 00:39:44,256 There was no fingerprints found on the pig. 630 00:39:44,340 --> 00:39:47,468 The dust on the top of the pig was settled, you know. 631 00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:49,804 It didn't look like it had ever been picked up. 632 00:39:50,679 --> 00:39:55,184 There's no evidence to suggest that piggy bank ever left the shelf. 633 00:39:56,310 --> 00:39:59,271 Could she have struck the piggy bank in a fall down the stairs? 634 00:39:59,355 --> 00:40:01,107 Is that a possibility? 635 00:40:01,190 --> 00:40:06,445 So we hired a biomechanics engineer to also review the case. 636 00:40:07,279 --> 00:40:09,156 They found that, 637 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:15,204 although very rare for a woman of, uh, Miss Antoni's age, 638 00:40:15,287 --> 00:40:17,832 the type of injuries that Amanda suffered 639 00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:23,129 were consistent in the literature for accidental stair falls. 640 00:40:24,380 --> 00:40:30,136 And so we had to look at the possibility that this was just a tragic accident. 641 00:40:32,096 --> 00:40:35,683 And if it's an accident… how that happened. 642 00:40:40,813 --> 00:40:44,817 I do believe, based on all of the evidence that we've collected, 643 00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:50,281 that this opening is really ground zero for what happened to Amanda. 644 00:40:51,615 --> 00:40:55,619 Is it possible that Amanda tripped over the dog and fell down the stairs? 645 00:40:56,704 --> 00:40:57,788 It's possible. 646 00:41:00,416 --> 00:41:03,544 What we do know from examining this opening, 647 00:41:03,627 --> 00:41:05,796 there was an impact that occurred 648 00:41:06,547 --> 00:41:10,259 where Amanda came through this space, struck the pig, 649 00:41:10,342 --> 00:41:12,970 and the pig was driven into the back of the wall. 650 00:41:13,053 --> 00:41:16,682 We know that because behind the piggy bank, 651 00:41:16,765 --> 00:41:19,602 a small divot was left in the drywall. 652 00:41:21,103 --> 00:41:23,105 But what nobody can ever say 653 00:41:23,189 --> 00:41:25,024 with 100% certainty 654 00:41:25,107 --> 00:41:27,026 is that did she fall down the stairs, 655 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:30,821 or could somebody have pushed her down those stairs? 656 00:41:31,989 --> 00:41:35,201 What works against the accident theory is that, if she fell down the stairs, 657 00:41:35,284 --> 00:41:39,038 why isn't the laundry basket that you see at the top of the stairs disturbed, 658 00:41:39,121 --> 00:41:44,043 or how did the pig not get knocked off the… the ledge as… as she fell? 659 00:41:44,126 --> 00:41:49,089 Or how was it that the phone was lying about eight to ten feet away, 660 00:41:49,173 --> 00:41:52,468 far away from where she would have fallen down the stairs? 661 00:41:52,551 --> 00:41:56,222 There was a possibility that, yes, she had been pushed into the piggy bank 662 00:41:56,305 --> 00:41:58,057 by our culprit or our assailant. 663 00:42:10,027 --> 00:42:12,738 [Linda] I don't believe Amanda's death was an accident. 664 00:42:14,949 --> 00:42:16,700 There's something not right. 665 00:42:18,702 --> 00:42:21,872 I just feel it in my heart that there's something not right. 666 00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:24,875 [uneasy music plays] 667 00:42:27,002 --> 00:42:28,796 [Lee] If I didn't see what I saw 668 00:42:29,505 --> 00:42:31,757 and they would have told me that she fell down the stairs, 669 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,217 I would have believed them. 670 00:42:34,426 --> 00:42:39,974 But because I found Amanda in the basement and what I saw, 671 00:42:40,474 --> 00:42:42,142 it just… it didn't add up. 672 00:42:45,854 --> 00:42:48,774 [Jodi] When I heard that they thought it might have been an accident, 673 00:42:49,942 --> 00:42:52,653 my gut reaction was, "No way. She was beaten." 674 00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:55,489 "She had way too many markings on her." 675 00:42:55,573 --> 00:42:58,993 I've attended a lot of accident scenes, and it was never that amount of blood. 676 00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:03,914 [Allen] There was more to it. 677 00:43:06,667 --> 00:43:10,004 The dog was barking. There was a chair overturned in the room. 678 00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:12,840 I just don't… 679 00:43:12,923 --> 00:43:14,717 I don't believe it was an accident. 680 00:43:15,384 --> 00:43:17,761 Somebody pushed her down the stairs. 681 00:43:20,222 --> 00:43:22,349 [Dave] Amanda did not die right away. 682 00:43:22,933 --> 00:43:25,769 You know, it took some period of time 683 00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:27,980 for her to sort of lose that amount of blood 684 00:43:28,063 --> 00:43:31,400 that would actually ultimately be the reason for why she dies. 685 00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:37,114 We know that Amanda, after receiving the laceration to her forehead, 686 00:43:37,197 --> 00:43:41,035 spent a lot of time moving around. 687 00:43:42,411 --> 00:43:45,873 At points in time, she was clearly standing and walking, 688 00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:49,668 and that's evident by, uh, footprint impressions 689 00:43:49,752 --> 00:43:51,587 found in the blood itself. 690 00:43:53,922 --> 00:43:58,552 It was almost 48 hours from the time that Lee last spoke to Amanda 691 00:43:58,636 --> 00:44:02,765 and that phone disconnected at 7:00 p.m. on the Saturday evening 692 00:44:03,974 --> 00:44:07,102 to the time he returned back to Calgary on the Monday. 693 00:44:10,314 --> 00:44:15,778 Part of this mystery is the fact that the animals that lived in that home 694 00:44:16,695 --> 00:44:19,531 never ventured down into the basement 695 00:44:19,615 --> 00:44:24,328 during that 48-hour period that Amanda laid there, uh, dying. 696 00:44:26,664 --> 00:44:29,500 We didn't see any paw prints in the blood, 697 00:44:30,709 --> 00:44:33,462 which just didn't seem logical. 698 00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,466 [Lee] To find no paw prints in the basement, 699 00:44:38,217 --> 00:44:40,469 that does sound kind of unusual, 700 00:44:40,552 --> 00:44:46,141 because if Amanda or myself ever got hurt, or we were crying, 701 00:44:46,225 --> 00:44:49,019 Ruby would come up to us to kind of comfort us. 702 00:44:49,978 --> 00:44:51,647 I have a Lab myself, 703 00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:54,566 and wherever I go in the house, the dog goes. 704 00:44:56,276 --> 00:44:59,405 If Amanda fell and is in distress, 705 00:45:00,531 --> 00:45:04,868 why does the black Lab not go downstairs and check on her, or go to see her? 706 00:45:06,495 --> 00:45:10,791 Was there somebody in the house to prevent the dog from going downstairs? 707 00:45:11,458 --> 00:45:12,626 [footsteps echo] 708 00:45:13,627 --> 00:45:14,753 [dog barks] 709 00:45:15,421 --> 00:45:19,717 [T.L.] There are still a lot of unanswered questions with this case. 710 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,094 Factors that I can't explain. 711 00:45:22,177 --> 00:45:24,388 Things that just don't make any sense at all. 712 00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:27,516 One thing I know for certain, 713 00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:29,768 there was a point in time in that basement 714 00:45:30,394 --> 00:45:32,938 where Amanda stood at the base of those stairs, 715 00:45:34,064 --> 00:45:37,234 because of the bloody footprints seen on the floor. 716 00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:39,862 She was right here. 717 00:45:40,362 --> 00:45:43,741 Why did she not make the ascent back up the stairs? 718 00:45:43,824 --> 00:45:47,494 I will to this day never really truly understand, 719 00:45:48,370 --> 00:45:50,164 because she was capable of it. 720 00:45:54,251 --> 00:45:57,546 [Darrell] Why the heck did she not try coming upstairs? 721 00:45:57,629 --> 00:45:59,757 As stubborn as she was, 722 00:46:00,340 --> 00:46:03,886 hell or high water, she would have made those stairs. 723 00:46:03,969 --> 00:46:05,095 Hell or high water. 724 00:46:05,846 --> 00:46:07,931 So, why didn't she even attempt? 725 00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:11,185 That haunts me. 726 00:46:14,813 --> 00:46:17,065 [Dave] There's only two things that could have happened. 727 00:46:17,566 --> 00:46:19,860 One, the loss of blood 728 00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:23,280 could have potentially diminished her ability for rational thought. 729 00:46:24,281 --> 00:46:25,115 Or two, 730 00:46:26,325 --> 00:46:29,077 whoever caused her injury was still inside the home. 731 00:46:29,161 --> 00:46:32,790 The threat was still inside the house, and she felt safer in the basement 732 00:46:32,873 --> 00:46:35,876 than going back up to the stairs to face the threat. 733 00:46:35,959 --> 00:46:37,961 [uneasy music plays] 734 00:46:44,218 --> 00:46:46,428 [Dave] I don't have all of the answers, 735 00:46:46,512 --> 00:46:52,518 and, ultimately, the accident theory can never answer everything at the scene. 736 00:46:54,728 --> 00:46:58,357 A case like Amanda's case is never closed, 737 00:46:59,149 --> 00:47:03,695 but the case at this point is inactive until new information is received. 738 00:47:03,779 --> 00:47:05,781 [tense music plays] 739 00:47:06,990 --> 00:47:09,535 [Dave] There are days where I think, you know, 740 00:47:09,618 --> 00:47:11,745 if I ever get to the same place that Amanda went, 741 00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,206 she's one of the first people I want to run into. 742 00:47:14,289 --> 00:47:16,667 I'm gonna ask her, "What happened to you, girl?" 743 00:47:17,334 --> 00:47:18,585 "What happened to you?" 744 00:47:18,669 --> 00:47:20,671 [tense music continues] 745 00:47:31,431 --> 00:47:32,850 [melancholy music plays] 746 00:47:32,933 --> 00:47:34,017 [operator] Is she awake? 747 00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:35,561 [Lee] I don't know. 748 00:47:35,644 --> 00:47:36,728 [operator] Is she breathing? 749 00:47:37,354 --> 00:47:38,605 [Lee] Oh my God. 750 00:47:38,689 --> 00:47:40,107 [operator] Is she breathing? 751 00:47:40,190 --> 00:47:42,192 [melancholy music continues] 752 00:47:42,818 --> 00:47:45,445 [Lee] It's been eight years since Amanda passed away. 753 00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:50,117 It changes a person, 754 00:47:50,659 --> 00:47:52,661 especially losing the love of your life. 755 00:47:53,245 --> 00:47:55,998 One that you always thought that you could grow old with. 756 00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:59,084 [melancholy music continues] 757 00:48:00,085 --> 00:48:03,547 If I could have changed the past, I would have stayed home. 758 00:48:09,386 --> 00:48:11,054 Because then she'd still be here. 759 00:48:11,763 --> 00:48:12,681 [music fades] 760 00:48:12,764 --> 00:48:13,599 [sniffs] 761 00:48:18,562 --> 00:48:20,272 [Darrell] Amanda comes to my mind… 762 00:48:22,316 --> 00:48:23,150 every day. 763 00:48:23,775 --> 00:48:28,238 You know, we had that brother-sister bond, and she's telling me not to quit. 764 00:48:29,615 --> 00:48:32,075 She's telling me that something happened. I just know it. 765 00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:33,744 She doesn't want me to give up. 766 00:48:35,329 --> 00:48:38,999 So if anybody out there… knows anything, 767 00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:42,336 I beg 'em just to come forward. 768 00:48:43,712 --> 00:48:44,671 Say something. 769 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:46,757 [melancholy music plays] 770 00:49:05,025 --> 00:49:05,984 [music fades] 771 00:49:07,861 --> 00:49:09,863 [ominous music plays] 772 00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:21,643 [music fades]