1 00:00:02,275 --> 00:00:04,034 [dramatic music playing] 2 00:00:12,413 --> 00:00:17,000 [Joe] September 30th of 2015, at 6:42 in the evening... 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:18,206 [phone rings] 4 00:00:19,896 --> 00:00:23,034 a dispatcher for the Ault Police Department 5 00:00:23,103 --> 00:00:27,655 in Colorado, gets a call from a very distressed woman. 6 00:00:49,379 --> 00:00:51,551 Her mother's instinct tells her 7 00:00:51,620 --> 00:00:53,827 that something awful has happened. 8 00:01:01,103 --> 00:01:03,379 Mothers have instincts about these things. 9 00:01:03,379 --> 00:01:06,931 And if the mother says that, I would be concerned as well. 10 00:01:16,931 --> 00:01:19,896 [opening theme music playing] 11 00:01:19,896 --> 00:01:23,206 I spent my career closing murder cases. 12 00:01:24,482 --> 00:01:26,344 But I'm not the only one 13 00:01:26,413 --> 00:01:28,000 to answer the call. 14 00:01:29,586 --> 00:01:33,413 It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable, 15 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,033 to catch a ruthless killer, 16 00:01:36,586 --> 00:01:39,241 to find justice for the dead. 17 00:01:40,517 --> 00:01:41,723 That's what it takes... 18 00:01:42,378 --> 00:01:45,758 to be an American detective. 19 00:01:56,723 --> 00:01:58,137 [Ben] In 2015, 20 00:01:58,206 --> 00:01:59,896 I was the lead detective on this case 21 00:01:59,896 --> 00:02:02,827 for at the Weld County Sheriff's Office in Colorado. 22 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,379 This case first got started with a woman 23 00:02:07,379 --> 00:02:09,172 getting in touch with the Ault Police Department, 24 00:02:09,172 --> 00:02:12,310 and wanting to report her daughter is... as missing. 25 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,068 [Joe] The woman's name is Vonda Holt. 26 00:02:20,068 --> 00:02:22,689 Her daughter's name is Tera Lewandowski. 27 00:02:22,689 --> 00:02:25,965 Vonda thinks her daughter may be dead. 28 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,689 [officer] You're allowing us to search the premises... 29 00:02:28,689 --> 00:02:32,000 [Joe] Officers do their welfare check at the residence 30 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,448 where Tera lived. 31 00:02:34,172 --> 00:02:36,103 [Ben] They went out to the house 32 00:02:36,103 --> 00:02:39,724 to see if she was there, and talk to the folks that were on scene there. 33 00:02:40,379 --> 00:02:41,275 [Joe] They've encountered 34 00:02:41,275 --> 00:02:43,000 two roommates, 35 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,827 who also say they have no idea where she is. 36 00:02:49,793 --> 00:02:53,241 The roommates report that this girl, Tera, 37 00:02:53,310 --> 00:02:55,586 believe she was developing pneumonia. 38 00:02:55,586 --> 00:02:57,241 She had a terrible cough. 39 00:02:58,310 --> 00:02:59,586 [Ben] So, they took her 40 00:02:59,586 --> 00:03:01,724 into Greeley, and dropped her off at an urgent care. 41 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:05,758 [Joe] The roommates say that she never returned. 42 00:03:06,310 --> 00:03:08,689 DJ Meyer is the homeowner. 43 00:03:08,689 --> 00:03:12,551 And he has a girlfriend, Crystal, who lives with him. 44 00:03:12,620 --> 00:03:13,896 He invites the officers in, 45 00:03:13,896 --> 00:03:16,034 and they look around in the place. 46 00:03:16,103 --> 00:03:17,344 [officer] Okay, what's in here? 47 00:03:17,413 --> 00:03:19,965 [DJ] That should be [indistinct] 48 00:03:20,379 --> 00:03:21,482 [Joe] They look around. 49 00:03:21,482 --> 00:03:23,965 They find nothing of real interest. 50 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,482 They see nothing out of place, 51 00:03:25,482 --> 00:03:27,448 no evidence of a struggle or a fight. 52 00:03:27,517 --> 00:03:28,379 [indistinct conversations] 53 00:03:28,379 --> 00:03:29,793 [Joe] And they find no Tera. 54 00:03:29,793 --> 00:03:31,586 -[man] Just take a look at this. -[Joe] She is now 55 00:03:31,586 --> 00:03:32,724 a missing person. 56 00:03:34,067 --> 00:03:35,689 [Robert] And that starts the process 57 00:03:35,689 --> 00:03:38,310 going towards looking for what happened to Tera. 58 00:03:39,793 --> 00:03:42,793 [Joe] Detective Endreson and Detective Boyle 59 00:03:42,793 --> 00:03:44,517 need to find this girl. 60 00:03:49,172 --> 00:03:52,344 We dove in, and we did an interview with Vonda. 61 00:03:52,413 --> 00:03:55,413 So, will you tell us a little bit about your daughter, ma'am? 62 00:03:56,724 --> 00:03:58,896 [Vonda] I really felt like she had been murdered. 63 00:03:58,896 --> 00:04:00,379 I was really afraid 64 00:04:00,379 --> 00:04:02,551 they were [chuckling] gonna think I was nuts. 65 00:04:04,724 --> 00:04:08,655 Well, I wanted to learn more about Tera, and her history. 66 00:04:17,586 --> 00:04:20,172 [Vonda] Tera was a really happy child. 67 00:04:20,172 --> 00:04:22,000 She was extremely smart. 68 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:26,724 [Mechell] She had a lot of love and a lot of compassion to give. 69 00:04:27,689 --> 00:04:29,275 She always wanted to be a vet, 70 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:32,655 and that was before her dreams got crashed by a car accident. 71 00:04:34,310 --> 00:04:35,241 [sirens wailing] 72 00:04:35,241 --> 00:04:36,793 [Vonda] She had multiple surgeries 73 00:04:36,793 --> 00:04:38,448 out of that one accident. 74 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,448 [Mechell] It changed a whole trajectory of her life. 75 00:04:42,517 --> 00:04:44,448 She got hooked on painkillers. 76 00:04:44,896 --> 00:04:46,413 She was always in pain. 77 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,137 She was at a rehab. 78 00:04:50,206 --> 00:04:52,137 One of the ladies in there, 79 00:04:52,517 --> 00:04:54,103 was Crystal. 80 00:04:54,793 --> 00:04:56,517 They were friends. 81 00:04:57,896 --> 00:05:01,793 Crystal offers Tera a place to stay. 82 00:05:01,793 --> 00:05:07,241 Crystal Griffin is the girlfriend of DJ Meyer, the homeowner. 83 00:05:08,586 --> 00:05:11,689 So, DJ Meyer is, in fact, Daniel Meyer, 84 00:05:11,689 --> 00:05:13,586 a respected member of the community, 85 00:05:13,586 --> 00:05:16,034 and a respected member of the city council. 86 00:05:17,310 --> 00:05:18,689 She was on disability. 87 00:05:18,689 --> 00:05:22,068 And they were gonna rent her the room for $100 a month. 88 00:05:22,068 --> 00:05:24,241 She thought it was a great opportunity. 89 00:05:25,103 --> 00:05:27,344 [Joe] Tera moved into this house 90 00:05:27,413 --> 00:05:29,758 with DJ Meyer and Crystal Griffin. 91 00:05:32,896 --> 00:05:34,482 When's the last time you actually spoke 92 00:05:34,482 --> 00:05:35,896 -to Tera? -[sighs] 93 00:05:35,896 --> 00:05:39,103 [Robert] And then, one night, 94 00:05:39,103 --> 00:05:42,517 Tera texted Vonda, saying, "Stay by your phone, something might happen." 95 00:05:43,827 --> 00:05:45,793 And Vonda gets the text the next morning at, uh, 96 00:05:45,793 --> 00:05:47,655 at around 5:00 in the morning, when she's getting ready 97 00:05:47,724 --> 00:05:48,620 for work. 98 00:05:49,793 --> 00:05:51,103 [Vonda] When I woke up, 99 00:05:51,103 --> 00:05:53,241 I tried to reach her, and I couldn't get ahold of her. 100 00:05:54,068 --> 00:05:56,517 Tera had a pain specialist appointment that day. 101 00:05:56,896 --> 00:05:58,965 And so, I called, 102 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,241 and they said, "Vonda, she didn't show up." 103 00:06:04,275 --> 00:06:06,551 Vonda said she got this weird feeling 104 00:06:06,620 --> 00:06:08,000 come over her, and she thought, 105 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:11,000 "Something bad happened," and she called 9-1-1. 106 00:06:12,103 --> 00:06:14,482 [Joe] The mother explains that Tera has a dog 107 00:06:14,482 --> 00:06:15,793 that never leaves her side, 108 00:06:15,793 --> 00:06:19,586 a black Chihuahua, whose name is Diablo. 109 00:06:19,586 --> 00:06:20,965 [Ben] According to Vonda, she was very, 110 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,724 very attached to her dog, Diablo. 111 00:06:23,689 --> 00:06:27,344 [Vonda] Tera never went anywhere without her dog. 112 00:06:27,413 --> 00:06:30,862 It didn't matter if she went to the doctor, didn't matter if she went to the store, 113 00:06:30,931 --> 00:06:32,827 that was her sidekick, period. 114 00:06:34,103 --> 00:06:36,344 [Joe] The dog is also missing. 115 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,068 It's a total mystery. 116 00:06:39,068 --> 00:06:40,689 However, they are fortunate 117 00:06:40,689 --> 00:06:43,896 that someone was about to make a discovery. 118 00:06:43,896 --> 00:06:45,655 [dramatic music playing] 119 00:06:51,517 --> 00:06:52,793 [Ben] There was a rancher 120 00:06:52,793 --> 00:06:54,586 that called in to law enforcement, 121 00:06:54,586 --> 00:06:57,034 said, "Hey, I found this dog a few days ago." 122 00:06:57,931 --> 00:07:00,344 [Joe] A farmer sees this small, black Chihuahua 123 00:07:00,413 --> 00:07:02,241 wandering around on the side of the road, 124 00:07:02,310 --> 00:07:04,482 near the Pawnee Grasslands. 125 00:07:04,482 --> 00:07:06,931 And he thinks he's gonna rescue this creature. 126 00:07:08,724 --> 00:07:11,275 -[crowd noise on TV] -[man on TV speaking indistinctly] 127 00:07:11,275 --> 00:07:12,758 At the same time, 128 00:07:12,827 --> 00:07:16,034 Vonda posted a photograph of her daughter 129 00:07:16,103 --> 00:07:18,310 and the dog on Facebook. 130 00:07:19,103 --> 00:07:21,241 The farmer sees the posting, 131 00:07:21,310 --> 00:07:23,758 and decides he's got that dog. 132 00:07:25,586 --> 00:07:28,241 So, he calls the Weld County Sheriff's Department 133 00:07:28,310 --> 00:07:29,482 to report this. 134 00:07:30,896 --> 00:07:33,000 [Ben] I went out to that rancher's house, 135 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,310 and took a couple photos of the dog. 136 00:07:36,482 --> 00:07:38,034 And then, I sent those back 137 00:07:38,103 --> 00:07:39,965 to Vonda, and she confirmed that 138 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 that was Tera's dog, Diablo. 139 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:47,172 [Joe] This is a very promising event. 140 00:07:47,172 --> 00:07:49,896 We've solved one part of this mystery. 141 00:07:49,896 --> 00:07:51,965 Now, we need to solve the other part. 142 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,310 Where is Tera? 143 00:07:55,586 --> 00:07:57,379 They search far and wide 144 00:07:57,379 --> 00:08:01,586 around the Pawnee Grasslands, where the dog was discovered. 145 00:08:01,586 --> 00:08:06,793 We even had a state patrol fly over, looking for mounds of fresh... fresh dirt, 146 00:08:06,793 --> 00:08:08,172 or, like, a grave. 147 00:08:09,517 --> 00:08:12,482 [Ben] Those first few days, it was pretty extensive. 148 00:08:12,482 --> 00:08:14,586 But we just weren't finding anything. 149 00:08:14,586 --> 00:08:16,551 We were needing an additional lead 150 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:18,000 to follow up on. 151 00:08:22,413 --> 00:08:24,896 [Joe] So, they bring in Tera Lewandowski's roommate, 152 00:08:24,896 --> 00:08:26,241 DJ Meyer, 153 00:08:27,172 --> 00:08:29,413 as to knowledge of her disappearance. 154 00:08:44,793 --> 00:08:47,586 DJ Meyer is cooperative and helpful. 155 00:08:47,586 --> 00:08:50,379 He says, since she didn't drive, 156 00:08:50,379 --> 00:08:53,551 she asked him for a ride to an EmergiCare 157 00:08:53,620 --> 00:08:55,275 in Greeley, Colorado, 158 00:08:55,275 --> 00:08:57,103 a short distance away. 159 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:01,586 He then says, they tell her, when they drop her off, 160 00:09:01,586 --> 00:09:03,793 "We're gonna go get lunch with my grandmother. 161 00:09:03,793 --> 00:09:06,413 And we'll be back in about an hour, and pick you up." 162 00:09:14,896 --> 00:09:16,448 [Dan] He said, "I don't know where she's at. 163 00:09:16,517 --> 00:09:18,275 I took her to the doctor, haven't seen her since." 164 00:09:18,275 --> 00:09:19,379 [inaudible] 165 00:09:19,379 --> 00:09:20,379 [Joe] They asked him, 166 00:09:20,379 --> 00:09:22,137 "So, what do you think happened to her?" 167 00:09:22,206 --> 00:09:23,241 [inaudible] 168 00:09:23,241 --> 00:09:25,586 [Dan] DJ said she's probably downtown, 169 00:09:25,586 --> 00:09:27,034 looking for her drug dealer. 170 00:09:37,482 --> 00:09:41,172 [Joe] He believes that, instead of going into the EmergiCare, 171 00:09:41,172 --> 00:09:45,137 she went and found Cheech, and fell off the wagon. 172 00:09:46,586 --> 00:09:48,586 Endreson and Boyle have been looking 173 00:09:48,586 --> 00:09:51,241 for another place to go besides DJ. 174 00:09:51,620 --> 00:09:53,517 And he's just provided it. 175 00:09:53,724 --> 00:09:55,482 Who is Cheech? 176 00:09:55,482 --> 00:09:57,413 And where is he right now? 177 00:10:03,068 --> 00:10:04,551 [dramatic music playing] 178 00:10:04,620 --> 00:10:07,379 Detective Endreson and Boyle have received a tip 179 00:10:07,379 --> 00:10:10,586 from Tera Lewandowski's roommate, DJ Meyer. 180 00:10:10,586 --> 00:10:12,689 He says she may have made contact 181 00:10:12,689 --> 00:10:15,724 with a drug dealer he knows, as Cheech. 182 00:10:17,172 --> 00:10:19,137 [Ben] When he provided that information, 183 00:10:20,103 --> 00:10:24,241 we tried to track down that drug dealer, Cheech. 184 00:10:26,689 --> 00:10:28,482 [Joe] It's a street name. 185 00:10:28,482 --> 00:10:32,034 Every agency has these list of names, monikers, 186 00:10:32,103 --> 00:10:34,103 gang members, sex offenders. 187 00:10:34,103 --> 00:10:36,137 You name it, we've got a list. 188 00:10:37,379 --> 00:10:40,551 I had recently been undercover for the drug taskforce, 189 00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:42,965 so I called them. Nobody have ever heard "Cheech." 190 00:10:44,620 --> 00:10:47,000 So, they decided, "This is nonsense." 191 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,275 They're gonna roll it out. 192 00:10:48,275 --> 00:10:49,344 But, the problem they have 193 00:10:49,344 --> 00:10:51,862 at the moment is, they don't have a body. 194 00:10:51,931 --> 00:10:53,517 They don't have a crime scene. 195 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,758 They know that Tera texted her mother, 196 00:10:57,827 --> 00:11:00,379 and said, "Something bad might happen tonight," 197 00:11:00,379 --> 00:11:02,275 in DJ's house. 198 00:11:02,275 --> 00:11:05,137 That's all they have. So, 199 00:11:05,206 --> 00:11:06,655 you have to keep at it. 200 00:11:07,724 --> 00:11:09,689 [Vonda] She didn't have a phone at that time. 201 00:11:09,689 --> 00:11:12,793 She had a tablet that she was using, 202 00:11:12,793 --> 00:11:14,241 so she mainly texted. 203 00:11:15,172 --> 00:11:17,241 [Ben] There was no tracking her cellphone, 204 00:11:17,310 --> 00:11:18,655 because she didn't have one. 205 00:11:20,482 --> 00:11:22,862 [Joe] So, that's another strike against. 206 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:30,275 Right. Have a seat. 207 00:11:30,275 --> 00:11:31,241 [Joe] But then, 208 00:11:31,310 --> 00:11:32,344 two weeks in, 209 00:11:33,172 --> 00:11:36,000 their detectives' luck changes. 210 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:40,689 A man walks into Weld County Sheriff's Department. 211 00:11:40,689 --> 00:11:43,758 He says his name is Richard, and he has his sister, 212 00:11:43,827 --> 00:11:45,793 whose name is Crystal Griffin, 213 00:11:45,793 --> 00:11:47,758 DJ's girlfriend, 214 00:11:47,827 --> 00:11:50,620 and former roommate of our missing person. 215 00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:53,413 Richard says, 216 00:11:53,413 --> 00:11:55,931 "My sister knows something about this." 217 00:11:58,172 --> 00:12:00,896 [Ben] He said that, at some point, couple of weeks 218 00:12:00,896 --> 00:12:02,965 following the homicide, 219 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,965 she had disclosed to him that she had been in the house when 220 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,586 Tera had been murdered. 221 00:12:11,896 --> 00:12:16,413 This is the type of tip that convinces you that there is a God. 222 00:12:16,793 --> 00:12:18,620 We have a focus, now. 223 00:12:18,896 --> 00:12:19,965 [inaudible] 224 00:12:19,965 --> 00:12:22,172 If you're gonna tell anybody about a bad thing, 225 00:12:22,172 --> 00:12:24,827 you're gonna tell blood before you tell a stranger. 226 00:12:32,689 --> 00:12:34,241 They bring in Crystal Griffin, 227 00:12:34,310 --> 00:12:35,034 and take her back 228 00:12:35,034 --> 00:12:37,000 to an interrogation room. 229 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,172 [Dan] She started telling us this story. 230 00:12:39,172 --> 00:12:41,344 It was really hard to believe her, 231 00:12:41,413 --> 00:12:44,137 because it was really so far-fetched. 232 00:12:44,206 --> 00:12:47,034 So, tell us a little about DJ. 233 00:12:47,689 --> 00:12:50,000 DJ is kinda living a double life. 234 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,655 [Joe] Crystal begins her statement 235 00:12:51,724 --> 00:12:53,689 by saying that, "My boyfriend, DJ, 236 00:12:53,689 --> 00:12:56,137 you don't really know who he is. 237 00:12:56,206 --> 00:12:58,793 He's a member of the city council." "Yeah, he is." 238 00:12:58,793 --> 00:13:01,034 "But he's also the enforcer 239 00:13:01,379 --> 00:13:02,896 of a motorcycle gang, 240 00:13:02,896 --> 00:13:05,241 called 'The 21 Biker Club.'" 241 00:13:07,413 --> 00:13:09,551 Endreson and Boyle have never heard of that. 242 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,137 "What is that?" 243 00:13:11,206 --> 00:13:12,689 "Well, it's this group of people, 244 00:13:12,689 --> 00:13:15,620 they're all friends. And they all belong to this gang. 245 00:13:16,724 --> 00:13:17,827 "What do they ride?" 246 00:13:18,724 --> 00:13:22,034 "Well, they don't have motorcycles." "What? 247 00:13:22,103 --> 00:13:23,896 It's a biker gang, 248 00:13:23,896 --> 00:13:25,827 but they don't have motorcycles?" 249 00:13:27,103 --> 00:13:30,413 [Ben] She explained to us that this group was trying to be 250 00:13:30,689 --> 00:13:31,931 some sort of gang. 251 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,896 [Dan] She said they were infatuated 252 00:13:34,896 --> 00:13:37,172 with knives and weapons, 253 00:13:37,172 --> 00:13:39,896 you know, stabbing pillows and trees. 254 00:13:39,896 --> 00:13:41,965 -[man 1 grunts] -[man 2] There we go! 255 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,724 She kind of laid out the hierarchy a little bit of the group. 256 00:13:46,206 --> 00:13:49,896 Tom Vassil was Mike Vassil's father, 257 00:13:49,896 --> 00:13:53,344 and he was supposedly the president of this group. 258 00:13:53,413 --> 00:13:57,275 Mike Vassil would have been the second-in-charge. 259 00:13:57,275 --> 00:14:01,448 DJ Meyer was supposedly the enforcer of the group. 260 00:14:01,517 --> 00:14:05,206 Chad Iler was a friend of the group. 261 00:14:05,896 --> 00:14:09,275 Karly Hanchett was Mike's girlfriend. 262 00:14:09,275 --> 00:14:11,379 And then, Karly's brother, 263 00:14:11,379 --> 00:14:12,655 Scott Hanchett. 264 00:14:14,896 --> 00:14:16,000 [Dan] Except for Tom, 265 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,793 DJ was the oldest one at that time, and I think 266 00:14:17,793 --> 00:14:19,172 he was over 30. 267 00:14:19,172 --> 00:14:22,586 And all the way down to Karly, who was 17. 268 00:14:22,586 --> 00:14:26,862 She also said Tom Vassil had been part of some sort of biker gang when he was back 269 00:14:26,931 --> 00:14:28,034 in New York. 270 00:14:28,482 --> 00:14:29,896 [Joe] Supposedly, he was 271 00:14:29,896 --> 00:14:31,620 a former Hells Angel. 272 00:14:33,379 --> 00:14:35,965 [Dan] I think he maybe worked on bikes for them, 273 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:39,379 but not a full patch member, or anything. Um, and I think 274 00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:42,000 that history probably intrigued 275 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,965 the son, Mike, and the rest. 276 00:14:47,586 --> 00:14:50,000 [Crystal] I've seen seriously scary stuff. 277 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:51,793 [Ben] Crystal disclosed that there had been 278 00:14:51,793 --> 00:14:53,172 some sort of an issue 279 00:14:53,172 --> 00:14:55,172 in the house, and that everybody else, 280 00:14:55,172 --> 00:14:58,758 um, had decided to kill Tera, 281 00:14:58,827 --> 00:15:00,241 upstairs in Tera's bedroom. 282 00:15:02,482 --> 00:15:04,517 -[objects clattering] -[woman screams] 283 00:15:05,827 --> 00:15:07,103 [woman grunts and yelling indistinctly] 284 00:15:07,103 --> 00:15:09,689 She said that, during that timeframe, 285 00:15:09,689 --> 00:15:11,965 she had gone into a downstairs bedroom, 286 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 and never went upstairs to see what was going on. 287 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,620 [woman screaming and yelping] 288 00:15:19,482 --> 00:15:24,758 And then, she said that, afterwards, she had been with them when they 289 00:15:24,827 --> 00:15:27,551 loaded Tera's body up and took it to dump it. 290 00:15:29,206 --> 00:15:34,034 She was not able to give us a specific location on where they had dumped the body. 291 00:15:37,620 --> 00:15:41,034 Both detectives understand this story is bizarre, 292 00:15:41,931 --> 00:15:43,448 but they also know 293 00:15:43,517 --> 00:15:47,413 there is a house where Crystal says this crime occurred. 294 00:15:48,896 --> 00:15:51,551 Based on her information, they obtain a search warrant 295 00:15:51,620 --> 00:15:52,379 for the house, 296 00:15:52,379 --> 00:15:54,344 which is owned by DJ. 297 00:15:57,275 --> 00:15:59,655 [Robert] There is a lot of cleaning products out in the kitchen. 298 00:15:59,724 --> 00:16:02,310 If I remember right, there was, uh, a bottle just labeled "Bleach." 299 00:16:03,586 --> 00:16:05,172 It seemed a little odd. 300 00:16:07,068 --> 00:16:10,172 [Joe] They're looking for evidence of death in this house, 301 00:16:10,172 --> 00:16:11,758 primarily, blood evidence, 302 00:16:11,827 --> 00:16:14,517 in a place that is thought to be a violent crime scene. 303 00:16:16,172 --> 00:16:18,000 They use a technique called "luminol." 304 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,793 Luminol is a chemical 305 00:16:19,793 --> 00:16:23,758 that will cause human blood to fluoresce in darkness. 306 00:16:23,827 --> 00:16:26,482 They go into the room where Tera lived, 307 00:16:26,482 --> 00:16:29,413 and they "luminoled" the walls, the ceiling. 308 00:16:33,379 --> 00:16:35,586 There is no blood in this room 309 00:16:35,586 --> 00:16:38,310 where Crystal says she was killed. 310 00:16:39,103 --> 00:16:41,068 They checked the other rooms, 311 00:16:41,068 --> 00:16:43,172 and they find nothing. 312 00:16:43,172 --> 00:16:45,965 There is no evidence of blood in this house. 313 00:16:47,482 --> 00:16:49,103 Did they clean up? 314 00:16:49,103 --> 00:16:52,137 Or Crystal story isn't true. 315 00:16:54,275 --> 00:16:55,655 [clicks] 316 00:16:55,724 --> 00:16:57,344 Hey, folks. 317 00:16:57,413 --> 00:16:59,655 -[Joe] Endreson goes outside. -How's it going? 318 00:16:59,724 --> 00:17:02,241 And he sees two people next door. 319 00:17:03,275 --> 00:17:05,068 He goes over and introduces himself, 320 00:17:05,068 --> 00:17:07,689 shows him a badge, and says, "Is there anything unusual here 321 00:17:07,689 --> 00:17:09,103 in the last few days?" 322 00:17:09,689 --> 00:17:10,931 "Oh, yeah." 323 00:17:11,586 --> 00:17:12,827 "And what was that?" 324 00:17:14,205 --> 00:17:16,792 "Well, DJ, the guy that lives there, 325 00:17:16,792 --> 00:17:19,275 we saw him digging a hole in the backyard, 326 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:21,931 and he had something wrapped up in a blanket." 327 00:17:23,723 --> 00:17:24,964 They say, "We thought 328 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,619 he was digging a grave." 329 00:17:26,792 --> 00:17:27,827 "Really?" 330 00:17:29,379 --> 00:17:31,413 They go check the backyard. 331 00:17:32,793 --> 00:17:35,482 They do find, what appears to be, a grave, 332 00:17:35,482 --> 00:17:37,000 and freshly-turned earth. 333 00:17:38,620 --> 00:17:40,034 [Ben] They ended up excavating, 334 00:17:40,103 --> 00:17:42,000 what appeared to be, a fresh gravesite. 335 00:17:44,793 --> 00:17:46,586 [Dan] And then, it happened. 336 00:17:46,586 --> 00:17:47,862 [woman] There's something here. 337 00:17:47,931 --> 00:17:49,241 I can't remember who dug it up, 338 00:17:50,482 --> 00:17:52,344 but they said there's bones. 339 00:18:01,793 --> 00:18:04,068 [Joe] They begin looking at this gravesite. 340 00:18:04,379 --> 00:18:06,103 They find bones. 341 00:18:08,620 --> 00:18:10,068 But there's a problem. 342 00:18:10,586 --> 00:18:11,758 They're not human. 343 00:18:12,896 --> 00:18:14,413 They're a dog, 344 00:18:14,620 --> 00:18:16,413 a buried dog. 345 00:18:17,172 --> 00:18:19,172 They know this is not Tera's dog, 346 00:18:19,172 --> 00:18:20,758 'cause they have Tera's dog. 347 00:18:20,758 --> 00:18:22,413 It's with the mom. 348 00:18:22,482 --> 00:18:23,724 So, where are they now? 349 00:18:24,862 --> 00:18:27,344 No body, no crime scene. 350 00:18:27,344 --> 00:18:30,482 Crystal's story didn't seem to make a lot of sense, 351 00:18:30,482 --> 00:18:33,310 and then she has a relationship with DJ. 352 00:18:33,379 --> 00:18:35,000 What if she's just mad at him, 353 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,103 and wants to give him up 354 00:18:36,103 --> 00:18:38,137 for a disappearance and a homicide? 355 00:18:38,137 --> 00:18:41,000 It's time to talk to her again. 356 00:18:44,517 --> 00:18:47,000 Crystal said, in her initial statement, 357 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:48,689 she was forced to accompany this group, 358 00:18:48,689 --> 00:18:51,000 as they dispose of the remains. 359 00:18:51,068 --> 00:18:54,137 "Okay, Crystal. Take us to the body." 360 00:18:55,586 --> 00:18:57,103 They put her in a car, 361 00:18:57,103 --> 00:18:59,413 and they drive north toward Wyoming. 362 00:19:02,172 --> 00:19:03,896 [Ben] We spent a lot of hours in the car, 363 00:19:03,896 --> 00:19:06,965 trying to get her to remember things that she had seen, 364 00:19:06,965 --> 00:19:09,827 um, when Tera's body was dumped. 365 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,689 [Joe] She said, "It was dark, it was late at night. 366 00:19:13,689 --> 00:19:14,758 I'm not sure, 367 00:19:14,758 --> 00:19:17,896 but there was water running nearby." 368 00:19:17,896 --> 00:19:20,931 [Ben] She took us right over the Wyoming border. 369 00:19:21,689 --> 00:19:23,172 She would show us different things 370 00:19:23,172 --> 00:19:25,068 that she had thought looked familiar, 371 00:19:25,068 --> 00:19:26,758 but it was never the right place. 372 00:19:28,586 --> 00:19:30,793 [Joe] So now, Crystal has another problem 373 00:19:30,793 --> 00:19:32,413 with her story. 374 00:19:32,482 --> 00:19:35,896 The body isn't in the area where she says it was. 375 00:19:35,896 --> 00:19:39,137 So, has Crystal just invented this whole thing? What is... 376 00:19:39,137 --> 00:19:40,241 What's going on? 377 00:19:41,896 --> 00:19:43,379 [Ben] In the car, 378 00:19:43,379 --> 00:19:44,655 we ended up trying to gather 379 00:19:44,724 --> 00:19:47,206 as much information from her, verbally, 380 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,586 to, at least, paint a picture 381 00:19:49,586 --> 00:19:51,758 of what had happened with Tera. 382 00:19:51,758 --> 00:19:54,344 [loud rock music playing on stereo in the distance] 383 00:19:54,344 --> 00:19:55,965 [loud rock music playing] 384 00:19:55,965 --> 00:19:58,551 -[music volume decreases] - Crystal's story was, that... 385 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:00,896 Tera had had some sort of a disagreement 386 00:20:00,896 --> 00:20:02,586 or an argument with Karly... 387 00:20:02,586 --> 00:20:04,137 -[music playing continuously] -...the night before. 388 00:20:07,275 --> 00:20:10,275 And it was all over, uh, a stereo. 389 00:20:10,275 --> 00:20:12,103 It was too loud. 390 00:20:12,103 --> 00:20:14,379 Tera had said something that made the group think 391 00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:16,310 that she had disrespected Karly. 392 00:20:17,586 --> 00:20:19,551 [volume increases] 393 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:20,793 [scoffs] 394 00:20:23,517 --> 00:20:25,172 [Karly] Who does she think she is, anyway? 395 00:20:25,172 --> 00:20:27,413 This is so messed up! 396 00:20:27,482 --> 00:20:29,793 -[Karly sighs in exasperation] -[Ben] Being that Karly was dating Mike, 397 00:20:29,793 --> 00:20:32,586 who was the second-in-charge of this... this gang, 398 00:20:32,586 --> 00:20:34,206 they had to do something about it. 399 00:20:35,862 --> 00:20:38,000 [Joe] She has been disrespected, 400 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,931 and it's meaningful thing in the biker world, 401 00:20:41,482 --> 00:20:43,931 and it's a death penalty offense. 402 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,310 Even though these people have no idea 403 00:20:46,379 --> 00:20:48,482 what the biker world is all about, 404 00:20:48,482 --> 00:20:51,620 only what they have heard or seen in the movies. 405 00:20:52,896 --> 00:20:54,241 According to Crystal, 406 00:20:54,241 --> 00:20:56,827 because of the rules of the gang, 407 00:20:56,896 --> 00:20:59,931 the enforcer is called upon to carry it out. 408 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,586 And that is DJ, 409 00:21:01,586 --> 00:21:03,000 the owner of the house. 410 00:21:04,068 --> 00:21:05,689 [Ben] We were wondering... 411 00:21:05,689 --> 00:21:08,275 We were wondering if she was even being truthful about a lot of it. 412 00:21:08,275 --> 00:21:10,413 She doesn't want to paint herself into a corner 413 00:21:10,482 --> 00:21:14,172 where she's suspected of doing something more than she did. 414 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,379 When Crystal tells him about this, they run 415 00:21:21,379 --> 00:21:24,689 all the names of these individuals who supposedly 416 00:21:24,689 --> 00:21:27,275 are members of this gang, and no one has 417 00:21:27,275 --> 00:21:29,620 a criminal record of any kind. 418 00:21:31,862 --> 00:21:34,000 I mean, supposedly, they went from basically 419 00:21:34,068 --> 00:21:36,000 zero history to murder. 420 00:21:37,793 --> 00:21:41,241 They're a motorcycle gang, missing a few components, 421 00:21:41,241 --> 00:21:42,689 like a motorcycle. 422 00:21:44,172 --> 00:21:48,172 All those other names, and no one has a criminal record. 423 00:21:49,068 --> 00:21:51,689 So it's another aspect of the story that raises 424 00:21:51,689 --> 00:21:54,000 an eyebrow about Crystal. 425 00:21:57,620 --> 00:21:59,931 [Robert] We have a girl that's missing for several weeks. 426 00:22:01,034 --> 00:22:03,275 We start interviewing the people that lived at 427 00:22:03,275 --> 00:22:06,103 the house as well as other associates of theirs. 428 00:22:07,172 --> 00:22:11,137 And when they came in, they all denied any sort of 429 00:22:11,137 --> 00:22:14,137 wrongdoing or knowledge of where Tera was at. 430 00:22:15,344 --> 00:22:18,000 Mike Vassil says he has no idea about 431 00:22:18,068 --> 00:22:20,310 a 21 Club motorcycle gang. 432 00:22:20,379 --> 00:22:21,482 Doesn't even know what that is. 433 00:22:21,482 --> 00:22:22,896 Well, that makes two of us, Mike, 434 00:22:22,896 --> 00:22:24,517 because we don't know what it is either. 435 00:22:25,896 --> 00:22:29,758 They're getting no confirmation from anybody so far. 436 00:22:29,758 --> 00:22:34,172 And then they speak to DJ Meyer, the supposed enforcer. 437 00:22:35,034 --> 00:22:36,724 [Dan] He came in for a second interview. 438 00:22:37,793 --> 00:22:41,000 With DJ, I mean, my whole point was just to win his trust. 439 00:22:48,379 --> 00:22:50,000 So I talked to him some more and I said, 440 00:22:50,068 --> 00:22:51,758 "DJ, I just need you to be my witness. 441 00:22:51,758 --> 00:22:53,517 You need to tell me what went on." 442 00:22:57,413 --> 00:23:00,413 They continue to press him, because they can feel it, 443 00:23:00,482 --> 00:23:02,655 that he's emotional about this. 444 00:23:08,689 --> 00:23:10,517 And he becomes emotional. 445 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,655 And he said, "Yes, I do know something." 446 00:23:26,482 --> 00:23:29,758 He then says that Tera and Crystal had 447 00:23:29,758 --> 00:23:33,482 a love-hate relationship, and they would get into 448 00:23:33,482 --> 00:23:35,586 arguments all the time. 449 00:23:35,586 --> 00:23:38,793 And on the night in question, Crystal and Tera got in 450 00:23:38,793 --> 00:23:40,068 a heated argument. 451 00:23:53,172 --> 00:23:55,758 What are you doing? [screams] 452 00:23:57,241 --> 00:23:59,482 He then says Crystal grabbed a knife 453 00:23:59,482 --> 00:24:01,413 and stabbed her to death. 454 00:24:02,896 --> 00:24:06,310 And DJ's mistake was to help her cover it up. 455 00:24:12,517 --> 00:24:13,827 [sniffles] 456 00:24:28,586 --> 00:24:32,620 So we have Crystal pointing her finger at DJ 457 00:24:33,344 --> 00:24:37,000 and DJ pointing his finger back. 458 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,931 Which finger should we believe? 459 00:24:49,275 --> 00:24:53,689 The detectives believe that Tera's dead by someone's hand. 460 00:24:53,689 --> 00:24:57,000 Crystal alleges this group of nitwits who call themselves 461 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,275 a gang are the ones responsible. 462 00:24:59,275 --> 00:25:03,586 DJ says it's a simple catfight between two women. 463 00:25:05,103 --> 00:25:06,241 Which one's true? 464 00:25:08,758 --> 00:25:09,965 We'll see. 465 00:25:10,482 --> 00:25:12,724 [Ben] We didn't have any murder weapons. 466 00:25:12,793 --> 00:25:14,931 We didn't have Tera's body. 467 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,137 So we were just hoping that we'd get lucky with finding something. 468 00:25:19,137 --> 00:25:23,068 So we continued doing the area searches to find Tera's body. 469 00:25:24,482 --> 00:25:26,482 [Joe] Endreson is the kind of detective 470 00:25:26,482 --> 00:25:28,000 that just won't stop. 471 00:25:29,068 --> 00:25:31,000 The best kind of detective. 472 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,310 He won't ever quit. 473 00:25:34,896 --> 00:25:37,965 I figure there's six and a half, seven billion people 474 00:25:37,965 --> 00:25:40,034 on the planet, and if I'm the one that was trying to help 475 00:25:40,034 --> 00:25:42,000 and it still didn't go right, I at least tried. 476 00:25:43,965 --> 00:25:47,000 [Joe] They searched for days and weeks 477 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,413 in the Wyoming border area, and they find nothing. 478 00:25:59,758 --> 00:26:03,517 We're still trying to corroborate things that Crystal had said. 479 00:26:03,586 --> 00:26:07,413 We went out to the house where Tom Vassil, Mike Vassil, 480 00:26:07,482 --> 00:26:09,517 and Karly Hanchett were living, 481 00:26:09,586 --> 00:26:11,206 outside of Nunn, Colorado. 482 00:26:12,344 --> 00:26:14,620 [Joe] They go see Thomas Vassil, 483 00:26:14,689 --> 00:26:17,724 expecting to find a hardened biker. 484 00:26:19,793 --> 00:26:22,551 [Dan] Tom Vassil's an unhealthy older gentleman, 485 00:26:22,551 --> 00:26:25,068 extremely overweight, on oxygen, 486 00:26:25,068 --> 00:26:27,413 pretty much stays at home. 487 00:26:28,172 --> 00:26:31,137 But he is also supposedly the leader of this gang. 488 00:26:32,034 --> 00:26:35,448 Instead of finding a badass biker, 489 00:26:35,448 --> 00:26:39,551 they find Santa Claus, who's inhaling oxygen. 490 00:26:39,551 --> 00:26:41,827 Not exactly an inspiring look. 491 00:26:43,241 --> 00:26:48,000 But this was someone we had to be careful with because 492 00:26:48,068 --> 00:26:50,241 Tom had a Glock stuck in the couch next to him. 493 00:26:52,758 --> 00:26:55,275 [Joe] He is a sick old man at the moment, 494 00:26:55,275 --> 00:26:58,413 but six pounds of pressure makes him Godzilla. 495 00:26:59,275 --> 00:27:01,689 That's how much pressure it takes to pull a trigger. 496 00:27:05,689 --> 00:27:07,000 He claimed not to know anything 497 00:27:07,068 --> 00:27:08,413 about what we were talking about. 498 00:27:09,379 --> 00:27:12,275 Thomas does what you would expect him to do. 499 00:27:12,275 --> 00:27:14,137 Yeah, my kid Mike, he's a good kid. 500 00:27:14,896 --> 00:27:16,620 He has some friends, they're all good kids. 501 00:27:16,689 --> 00:27:18,000 You wanna look around, go right ahead? 502 00:27:19,482 --> 00:27:22,103 When Endreson and Boyle are talking to Thomas, 503 00:27:22,103 --> 00:27:26,793 they smell an odor from what is likely a burn pit. 504 00:27:28,862 --> 00:27:32,137 A lot of people that live remotely in Colorado, 505 00:27:32,137 --> 00:27:35,586 there's no garbage service in those remote areas. 506 00:27:36,482 --> 00:27:38,413 You have to burn your trash. 507 00:27:40,344 --> 00:27:43,275 We did a search warrant out there, and then 508 00:27:43,275 --> 00:27:46,758 our field evidence technicians sifted through all the ashes. 509 00:27:46,758 --> 00:27:51,068 There is no body or body parts, nothing like that. 510 00:27:51,068 --> 00:27:54,413 It's very difficult to destroy a human body with fire. 511 00:27:54,482 --> 00:27:56,172 This looks pretty interesting. 512 00:27:56,172 --> 00:28:00,827 It takes the heat generated in a crematorium to do that. 513 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:06,103 During the search, they found the back of an iPad. 514 00:28:08,172 --> 00:28:10,344 Consistent with what Vonda had told us, 515 00:28:10,344 --> 00:28:13,275 that Tera always had this iPad. 516 00:28:13,275 --> 00:28:15,931 It was pretty suspicious. You know, who burns an iPad? 517 00:28:17,103 --> 00:28:19,310 [Joe] An iPad is an expensive toy. 518 00:28:19,379 --> 00:28:22,793 They don't burn an iPad unless it belongs to a murder victim, 519 00:28:22,793 --> 00:28:25,517 and that's most likely what this is. 520 00:28:25,586 --> 00:28:28,068 People will destroy evidence of their involvement 521 00:28:28,068 --> 00:28:31,724 in a crime, believing that they burn it, it's destroyed, 522 00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:33,137 it can't be used against them. 523 00:28:34,103 --> 00:28:36,896 But people look for things that people throw away, 524 00:28:36,896 --> 00:28:38,931 particularly guys that carry a badge. 525 00:28:41,482 --> 00:28:46,310 [Ben] So all of this definitely gave some value to the story that 526 00:28:46,379 --> 00:28:49,000 they were trying to cover up something that had been done. 527 00:28:50,448 --> 00:28:52,655 We have Crystal's story about the whole gang 528 00:28:52,655 --> 00:28:55,000 being involved and her charming boyfriend 529 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,413 DJ's tale of only Crystal being involved. 530 00:28:59,482 --> 00:29:04,310 This burned and destroyed iPad in Thomas Vassil's burn pit 531 00:29:04,379 --> 00:29:09,413 is evidence of what Crystal said as being the truth 532 00:29:09,482 --> 00:29:12,482 and what DJ is saying is a lie. 533 00:29:17,344 --> 00:29:19,413 [Robert] We got a search warrant from the phone company 534 00:29:19,482 --> 00:29:21,517 for all the phone records of the gang. 535 00:29:23,689 --> 00:29:26,689 When those phones are recovered by the police, 536 00:29:26,689 --> 00:29:28,620 they discover something very intriguing. 537 00:29:30,551 --> 00:29:33,586 [Ben] All the different phones from all these different gang members, 538 00:29:33,586 --> 00:29:35,724 it appeared that, for the most part, 539 00:29:35,793 --> 00:29:38,655 they all stopped at the same time 540 00:29:38,655 --> 00:29:41,827 and didn't come back on until the next day. 541 00:29:43,275 --> 00:29:45,413 [Joe] There was, however, one exception. 542 00:29:46,241 --> 00:29:48,896 Mike Vassil, the number two wizard 543 00:29:48,896 --> 00:29:51,689 of the gang, left his on. 544 00:29:54,068 --> 00:29:56,000 [Ben] I don't know why he left it on. 545 00:29:56,068 --> 00:29:58,241 Probably some level of narcissism that 546 00:29:58,241 --> 00:30:01,724 he's the only one that's capable of communicating if need be. 547 00:30:03,793 --> 00:30:07,862 So we were able to use his phone and, using towers, 548 00:30:07,862 --> 00:30:11,827 figure out where they went to dump Tera's dog, Diablo, 549 00:30:12,586 --> 00:30:15,000 which then makes sense where he was found. 550 00:30:18,275 --> 00:30:21,172 [Robert] And then the police basically put a map on their travels, 551 00:30:21,172 --> 00:30:23,724 the early morning hours of Tera's murder, 552 00:30:23,793 --> 00:30:25,068 and also the days following where they were, 553 00:30:25,068 --> 00:30:27,034 what they were doing. 554 00:30:27,034 --> 00:30:30,448 [Joe] They discover the route of travel from Pierce, Colorado to 555 00:30:30,448 --> 00:30:31,896 the Wyoming border. 556 00:30:33,896 --> 00:30:36,448 They see a stop in a convenience store 557 00:30:36,448 --> 00:30:39,241 that sells gas and is open 24 hours 558 00:30:39,241 --> 00:30:41,137 near the Wyoming border. 559 00:30:44,758 --> 00:30:47,517 Investigators were able to locate video footage 560 00:30:47,586 --> 00:30:49,034 of them going to that gas station 561 00:30:49,034 --> 00:30:51,172 and the pickup that they were in. 562 00:30:51,172 --> 00:30:55,000 And there is the 21 Motorcycle Gang 563 00:30:55,068 --> 00:30:56,620 in all their glory. 564 00:30:58,172 --> 00:31:01,724 All together with a dead victim 565 00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:03,379 in the back of the truck. 566 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,000 It's obvious that Thomas Vassil had 567 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,965 some level of involvement in this. 568 00:31:09,965 --> 00:31:12,827 At this point, there's no evidence to support 569 00:31:12,896 --> 00:31:14,241 that he was directly involved. 570 00:31:15,172 --> 00:31:17,137 He's not in the video surveillance, 571 00:31:17,137 --> 00:31:20,000 but everyone else is in. 572 00:31:22,448 --> 00:31:25,275 So that was a big thing for us. It was huge. 573 00:31:26,862 --> 00:31:28,724 [Joe] There's always a moment in a case 574 00:31:28,793 --> 00:31:30,827 that's been a mystery up to this point. 575 00:31:32,344 --> 00:31:35,241 That things begin to fall together. 576 00:31:35,241 --> 00:31:37,517 They're not all the way together yet, 577 00:31:37,586 --> 00:31:40,931 but there's a definite sensation that it's about to be. 578 00:31:51,482 --> 00:31:53,000 At this point, they've got evidence 579 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:54,896 against all the players in this. 580 00:31:54,896 --> 00:31:56,275 This is the case. 581 00:31:57,172 --> 00:32:00,620 We still didn't have Tera's body, but the detectives 582 00:32:00,689 --> 00:32:03,103 and I knew these guys were good for the murder. 583 00:32:03,103 --> 00:32:05,931 We felt we had enough to get arrest warrants for them. 584 00:32:07,241 --> 00:32:11,241 [Joe] What does Endreson know for sure about this group? 585 00:32:11,241 --> 00:32:13,620 He knows they're idiots. That's obvious. 586 00:32:14,448 --> 00:32:15,931 Endreson puts it out. 587 00:32:16,586 --> 00:32:17,758 Come get your cell phones. 588 00:32:17,758 --> 00:32:19,275 There was nothing of value on them. 589 00:32:19,275 --> 00:32:20,620 We'll get them back. 590 00:32:23,379 --> 00:32:26,517 Karly and Mike show up at headquarters to get 591 00:32:26,586 --> 00:32:30,379 their phones back and wind up wearing handcuffs instead. 592 00:32:31,689 --> 00:32:35,655 [Ben] Crystal was arrested at her brother's house in LaSalle. 593 00:32:35,655 --> 00:32:39,275 Chad Iler was arrested without incident at his house as well. 594 00:32:40,379 --> 00:32:43,620 And then the U.S. Marshals took Scott into custody 595 00:32:43,689 --> 00:32:45,034 at a gas station. 596 00:32:50,103 --> 00:32:53,758 But DJ, there was 24-hour surveillance set up on him 597 00:32:53,758 --> 00:32:55,689 to make sure that he wasn't going anywhere. 598 00:32:57,103 --> 00:33:00,068 That next day, he was arrested. 599 00:33:03,965 --> 00:33:05,379 [Dan] All right, okay. 600 00:33:14,379 --> 00:33:15,931 [Joe] He tells what happened. 601 00:33:16,655 --> 00:33:19,275 He confirms Crystal's story. 602 00:33:20,275 --> 00:33:22,241 What Crystal's been telling them. 603 00:33:22,241 --> 00:33:25,068 The dispute between the victim and Karly 604 00:33:25,068 --> 00:33:27,000 was actually true. 605 00:33:27,689 --> 00:33:31,344 Karly became furious when Tera demanded 606 00:33:31,344 --> 00:33:32,896 she turn down her music. 607 00:33:34,172 --> 00:33:36,896 [Ben] The group decided that they needed to punish her 608 00:33:36,896 --> 00:33:39,275 for the disrespect that she had shown towards Karly. 609 00:33:46,241 --> 00:33:50,965 Thomas orders her to be killed for this act 610 00:33:50,965 --> 00:33:54,310 and he orders DJ as the enforcer. 611 00:33:54,379 --> 00:33:56,827 Be responsible to carry it out. 612 00:34:11,896 --> 00:34:14,068 [Dan] So they formed up a plan. 613 00:34:14,068 --> 00:34:16,137 They all got their weapon of choice. 614 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,793 Their plan was to go up the stairs, Karly's going to hit her 615 00:34:20,793 --> 00:34:23,000 with a pipe, and then they're basically going to stab her. 616 00:34:27,585 --> 00:34:30,000 -[cell phone vibrating] - [Ben] Tera texted her mother in the middle of the night. 617 00:34:31,482 --> 00:34:32,896 and told her to stay by her phone 618 00:34:32,896 --> 00:34:35,103 because something may happen. 619 00:34:35,103 --> 00:34:38,172 Crystal went into a downstairs bedroom and then Mike 620 00:34:38,172 --> 00:34:42,516 had everybody else go kill Tera upstairs in Tera's bedroom. 621 00:34:44,688 --> 00:34:46,137 -What are you-- [screams] -[thuds] 622 00:34:46,137 --> 00:34:48,103 They then confront her. 623 00:34:48,103 --> 00:34:52,000 Karly hits the victim over the head with a lead pipe. 624 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,585 Then DJ stabs her with a hunting knife. 625 00:34:54,862 --> 00:34:56,103 [Tera screams] 626 00:35:06,896 --> 00:35:10,137 Scott sees that she is suffering from these wounds, 627 00:35:10,137 --> 00:35:13,034 and he decides to give her a quick death, 628 00:35:13,034 --> 00:35:15,068 and stabs her in the spine, 629 00:35:15,275 --> 00:35:16,758 once, 630 00:35:16,758 --> 00:35:19,000 resulting in her immediate demise. 631 00:35:21,551 --> 00:35:23,172 When they searched in the room, 632 00:35:23,172 --> 00:35:25,517 they found no evidence of blood, 633 00:35:25,586 --> 00:35:28,310 so the normal homicide occurs by stabbing 634 00:35:28,379 --> 00:35:30,482 as one killer and one victim. 635 00:35:30,482 --> 00:35:34,275 One blade was driven into the victim over 636 00:35:34,275 --> 00:35:36,620 and over, and there's cast off from that blade. 637 00:35:37,275 --> 00:35:39,551 Here we have several killers. 638 00:35:39,551 --> 00:35:41,896 Each person has a knife stabbed once, 639 00:35:41,896 --> 00:35:43,275 removes the blade, 640 00:35:43,275 --> 00:35:45,655 it wipes through the clothing coming out, 641 00:35:45,655 --> 00:35:49,241 it's clean, no cast off. 642 00:35:49,241 --> 00:35:52,862 That would explain why the house was clean from blood. 643 00:35:52,862 --> 00:35:54,724 Because there was no cast-off to find. 644 00:35:54,793 --> 00:35:56,000 It's not there. 645 00:35:58,551 --> 00:36:00,620 From there, all the others got in the truck 646 00:36:00,689 --> 00:36:03,413 and loaded her and Diablo up. 647 00:36:10,241 --> 00:36:12,689 Scott was supposed to kill the dog and dump the dog out 648 00:36:12,689 --> 00:36:14,206 in the middle of the grasslands. 649 00:36:15,379 --> 00:36:17,068 But he couldn't bring himself to do it, 650 00:36:17,068 --> 00:36:18,827 so he just kicked the dog loose. 651 00:36:21,689 --> 00:36:24,379 He doesn't mind killing a human. That's not a problem. 652 00:36:24,379 --> 00:36:26,586 But to kill a dog? No, he can't do that. 653 00:36:33,793 --> 00:36:35,000 Quite. 654 00:36:41,275 --> 00:36:45,000 The problem remains, where is the victim? 655 00:36:46,862 --> 00:36:48,689 No one can remember. 656 00:36:49,482 --> 00:36:52,137 They're all willing to say what they know, 657 00:36:52,137 --> 00:36:54,517 but they don't know enough. 658 00:36:56,896 --> 00:36:59,137 They've got evidence against all the players in this, 659 00:36:59,137 --> 00:37:01,137 with the exception of Thomas Vassil. 660 00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:05,793 And Thomas winds up providing that evidence by talking 661 00:37:05,793 --> 00:37:10,000 to his kid on a recorded line inside a jail. 662 00:37:10,068 --> 00:37:12,793 This results in the arrest of Thomas. 663 00:37:15,034 --> 00:37:16,724 [Robert] Just because the leader doesn't get involved 664 00:37:16,724 --> 00:37:19,620 and actually do it, they can still be charged with conspiracy under the law. 665 00:37:19,689 --> 00:37:21,000 So that's what we did in this case. 666 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:25,620 [Joe] They're found guilty of all these various crimes 667 00:37:25,689 --> 00:37:27,068 or sentenced to various terms. 668 00:37:29,655 --> 00:37:31,862 DJ is sentenced to life in prison. 669 00:37:31,862 --> 00:37:33,517 Everybody gets locked up. 670 00:37:34,379 --> 00:37:36,206 So it was a really strong case. 671 00:37:38,793 --> 00:37:41,896 But finding the body, that was our main goal. 672 00:37:41,896 --> 00:37:45,413 To get justice the best way we can in our system for Vonda. 673 00:37:47,172 --> 00:37:50,413 All I did for like six months was drive around, 674 00:37:50,482 --> 00:37:52,137 try to find Tera's body. 675 00:37:54,896 --> 00:37:57,965 Crystal had described a one-lane dirt road, 676 00:37:57,965 --> 00:38:02,275 a sign that said Laramie, and she could hear water nearby. 677 00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:05,827 And I went into Google Maps, found an area near that sign 678 00:38:05,896 --> 00:38:07,517 that appeared to match the description. 679 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,793 And then several of us went up on a road trip 680 00:38:11,793 --> 00:38:13,000 up to Wyoming again. 681 00:38:13,068 --> 00:38:15,034 We got back in that area and gave it maybe 682 00:38:15,034 --> 00:38:16,620 a half-mile stretch of road. 683 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,448 Detective Guyer and Detective Walker started on 684 00:38:20,448 --> 00:38:22,172 one side of that half-mile stretch, 685 00:38:22,172 --> 00:38:24,517 and then the rest of us went up to the other side, 686 00:38:24,586 --> 00:38:26,241 and we just started working towards each other. 687 00:38:27,379 --> 00:38:29,482 We were out there for 15 or 20 minutes, 688 00:38:29,482 --> 00:38:31,482 and then we came across the carpet. 689 00:38:31,482 --> 00:38:33,517 [soft music playing] 690 00:38:36,586 --> 00:38:43,413 There is Tera, laying there undisturbed for 187 days. 691 00:38:45,896 --> 00:38:49,034 [Ben] Sergeant Halloran at the time had cleared everybody out 692 00:38:49,034 --> 00:38:53,344 and just kind of let me stay there by myself for a minute. 693 00:38:53,344 --> 00:38:57,000 Then immediately after that, I went to find Vonda. 694 00:39:03,448 --> 00:39:06,034 When he came over, he said that 695 00:39:06,034 --> 00:39:08,103 they're pretty sure they found her. 696 00:39:09,379 --> 00:39:10,413 [exhales] 697 00:39:12,275 --> 00:39:14,241 It became very real that day. 698 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,965 Even though it was already real, 699 00:39:16,965 --> 00:39:19,379 it was set in cement that day. 700 00:39:19,689 --> 00:39:21,620 [sniffles] 701 00:39:21,689 --> 00:39:23,724 That she wasn't coming back. 702 00:39:23,793 --> 00:39:26,793 I'd never talk to her again. I'd never hold her again. 703 00:39:29,482 --> 00:39:31,068 That my baby was gone. 704 00:39:35,275 --> 00:39:36,862 [sighs softly] 705 00:39:38,689 --> 00:39:42,275 [Robert] The autopsy revealed cause of death was stab wounds. 706 00:39:42,275 --> 00:39:44,206 Manner of a death was homicide. 707 00:39:45,793 --> 00:39:49,137 [Dan] You get very jaded in this profession, 708 00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:51,482 just when you think you've seen the worst in somebody, 709 00:39:51,482 --> 00:39:55,103 the next person's like, "Hold my beer. Watch this." 710 00:39:56,241 --> 00:39:58,137 But it's also cases like this, 711 00:39:58,137 --> 00:40:00,517 this is why you're in it. Cases like this. 712 00:40:02,965 --> 00:40:06,620 Although Tera's surrounded herself with the wrong type of people. 713 00:40:08,379 --> 00:40:10,000 She was trying to make the right decisions 714 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,827 and now the world is without a good person 715 00:40:12,896 --> 00:40:14,586 and that's unfortunate. 716 00:40:16,448 --> 00:40:20,000 [Joe] The 21 Biker Club was a dream 717 00:40:20,586 --> 00:40:23,000 and nothing more than a dream. 718 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,793 -[all laughing] -And they wind up doing this. 719 00:40:28,758 --> 00:40:30,206 First degree murder. 720 00:40:33,103 --> 00:40:37,586 But Endreson spent 187 days of his life 721 00:40:37,586 --> 00:40:40,103 to find a homicide victim, 722 00:40:40,103 --> 00:40:43,000 to bring peace to the family. 723 00:40:43,068 --> 00:40:46,586 To try to find some level of justice in the world. 724 00:40:46,655 --> 00:40:49,931 When you do, for those few moments, 725 00:40:50,482 --> 00:40:53,034 all is right with the world. 726 00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:55,000 [soft music playing] 727 00:41:17,034 --> 00:41:19,310 Next time, on American Detective... 728 00:41:23,172 --> 00:41:24,758 We still have no DNA. 729 00:41:24,758 --> 00:41:26,862 There is no body that's been found. 730 00:41:26,862 --> 00:41:30,103 We were hoping these texts would prompt him 731 00:41:30,103 --> 00:41:32,448 to take us to the body. 732 00:41:32,448 --> 00:41:35,172 Whoever did this was some violent monster.