1 00:00:06,940 --> 00:00:09,975 [Marilyn] This was a brutal attack on Katrina Smith, 2 00:00:10,076 --> 00:00:13,379 [narrator] A senseless murder of a bright young woman. 3 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,614 [Marilyn] The individual who attacked her. 4 00:00:15,715 --> 00:00:20,452 I was going to make sure that she did not survive. 5 00:00:20,553 --> 00:00:24,556 [narrator] As the investigation expands, the mystery deepens. 6 00:00:24,657 --> 00:00:26,692 [Vince] She felt that she was being followed 7 00:00:26,793 --> 00:00:28,494 or stalked by somebody. 8 00:00:28,595 --> 00:00:32,698 [Marilyn] Katrina knew that her life was in danger. 9 00:00:32,799 --> 00:00:34,633 [narrator] The truth will be revealed. 10 00:00:34,734 --> 00:00:36,868 [Vince] How did you know about blood in the trump? 11 00:00:36,936 --> 00:00:38,537 This is bigger than just one piece. 12 00:00:38,638 --> 00:00:41,373 This is a whole, huge corner of that puzzle. 13 00:00:44,911 --> 00:00:49,281 [narrator] Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered. 14 00:00:49,382 --> 00:00:52,785 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides lies in the final 15 00:00:52,886 --> 00:00:55,821 24 hours of the victim's life. 16 00:00:55,922 --> 00:01:01,060 To crack the case, detectives must reconstruct that critical timeline, 17 00:01:01,161 --> 00:01:03,729 the minutes and hours containing evidence 18 00:01:03,830 --> 00:01:07,032 that can help unlock the mystery and catch the killer. 19 00:01:15,775 --> 00:01:21,847 [narrator] Machesney Park, Illinois, a quiet enclave 90 miles west of Chicago. 20 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:24,883 Machesney Park is kind of like a bedroom community. 21 00:01:24,984 --> 00:01:26,452 It's a smaller community. 22 00:01:26,553 --> 00:01:27,786 It's... it's more quiet. 23 00:01:29,122 --> 00:01:30,923 It's very close, Nick. 24 00:01:31,024 --> 00:01:36,228 You can leave your doors open and there's not a lot of crime. 25 00:01:36,329 --> 00:01:37,930 [Vince] You have your vehicle burglaries. 26 00:01:38,031 --> 00:01:40,132 You have, you know, your home burglaries 27 00:01:40,233 --> 00:01:42,835 that happen, you know, crimes of opportunity. 28 00:01:42,936 --> 00:01:46,038 Crimes of violence in the Chelsea Park. 29 00:01:46,139 --> 00:01:47,539 That doesn't happen every day. 30 00:01:48,041 --> 00:01:49,208 That's not Chicago. 31 00:01:49,776 --> 00:01:51,543 It's more relaxed. 32 00:01:52,345 --> 00:01:54,246 It's a safer city. 33 00:01:54,347 --> 00:01:57,249 [narrator] But on the afternoon of October 23rd, 34 00:01:57,350 --> 00:02:00,752 that peaceful tranquility, is brutally shattered. 35 00:02:00,854 --> 00:02:02,855 [phone ringing] 36 00:02:10,430 --> 00:02:15,968 We had a frantic, distraught, worried husband, Todd Smith. 37 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:19,238 He reports that his wife has disappeared. 38 00:02:24,177 --> 00:02:26,778 He had seen her the night before. 39 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,249 Now all of a sudden, he's he's very concerned because, 40 00:02:30,884 --> 00:02:32,851 she hasn't contacted him. 41 00:02:32,952 --> 00:02:34,586 She hasn't answered the phone, 42 00:02:34,687 --> 00:02:37,656 and he doesn't know what's happened to her. 43 00:02:37,757 --> 00:02:41,793 [narrator] The Missing woman, is 30 year old, Katrina Smith. 44 00:02:41,895 --> 00:02:44,296 From the information we gathered about Katrina, 45 00:02:44,397 --> 00:02:49,835 she's a super friendly woman who would do anything for anybody. 46 00:02:49,936 --> 00:02:54,406 [narrator] Katrina works in Human Resource, is at a local automotive plant. 47 00:02:54,507 --> 00:02:58,610 She was at work every day at eight o'clock at Cameron Industries. 48 00:02:58,711 --> 00:03:03,582 Excellent employee, always had a smile on her face, always cheery. 49 00:03:03,683 --> 00:03:06,585 She attended church, in Rockford quite regularly. 50 00:03:06,686 --> 00:03:09,121 She was very devoted to her family. 51 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:12,224 [narrator] Tasked with investigating the 52 00:03:12,325 --> 00:03:13,859 disappearance of Katrina Smith, 53 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,428 our veteran Detective Vince Lindbergh, 54 00:03:16,529 --> 00:03:18,730 and Criminal Bureau chief prosecutor, 55 00:03:18,831 --> 00:03:20,165 Marilyn Hite Ross, 56 00:03:21,901 --> 00:03:23,168 [Marilyn] The state's Terri's office, 57 00:03:23,269 --> 00:03:26,672 is involved very early on on any crime investigation 58 00:03:26,773 --> 00:03:28,907 that appears to be suspicious. 59 00:03:28,975 --> 00:03:33,779 So once Katrina Smith was reported missing, we were involved immediately. 60 00:03:37,116 --> 00:03:40,652 [narrator] Investigators meet with Katrina's husband, Todd Smith, 61 00:03:40,753 --> 00:03:43,322 to gather more information about her disappearance. 62 00:03:43,923 --> 00:03:45,691 The night before, 63 00:03:45,792 --> 00:03:48,160 which would have been October 22. 64 00:03:48,261 --> 00:03:50,829 Katrina had confirmed a job interview, 65 00:03:50,930 --> 00:03:54,866 for the morning of October 23rd at 07:30, 66 00:03:54,968 --> 00:03:57,903 and then she was to report to work after that. 67 00:03:58,905 --> 00:04:01,206 [Vince] Before 7 AM Todd text, 68 00:04:01,307 --> 00:04:04,142 Katrina wishing her well in her job interview, 69 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:06,478 You know you'll do well, knock it out of the park. 70 00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:08,914 But she never appeared for the job interview, 71 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:12,217 and she did not report for work, on October 23. 72 00:04:14,887 --> 00:04:18,323 [Vince] He had attempted to call her, attempted to contact her. 73 00:04:18,424 --> 00:04:21,760 She had vanished. She had disappeared. 74 00:04:21,861 --> 00:04:24,429 [narrator] Investigators get their first big break, 75 00:04:24,530 --> 00:04:28,567 when Katrina is car is spotted only a few miles from her house. 76 00:04:28,668 --> 00:04:31,703 The car was recovered right about 07:50 that night, 77 00:04:31,804 --> 00:04:34,706 roughly two hours after Todd had made the report. 78 00:04:34,807 --> 00:04:39,811 It was on Ventura, which is about three to four miles away from the family house. 79 00:04:39,912 --> 00:04:43,615 It was parked like, near the edge of the river, 80 00:04:43,716 --> 00:04:46,652 and it was just abandoned. 81 00:04:46,753 --> 00:04:49,888 This is not a habitual place for anyone to leave their car. 82 00:04:49,989 --> 00:04:52,224 So this in itself is strange. 83 00:04:52,325 --> 00:04:55,394 [Marilyn] If it's someone who might have attacked her 84 00:04:55,495 --> 00:04:59,097 and wanted her vehicle week suspect that the vehicle would have been moved 85 00:04:59,198 --> 00:05:02,434 from the Winnebago County area, and it had not been moved. 86 00:05:02,535 --> 00:05:04,770 So, we were suspicious than that. 87 00:05:04,871 --> 00:05:07,472 She was probably not alive. 88 00:05:10,276 --> 00:05:14,946 I mean, this is a girl who is by every definition, 89 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:19,851 just a fantastic, solid family woman who has a solid job, 90 00:05:19,952 --> 00:05:22,387 a career that she's looking to improve. 91 00:05:22,488 --> 00:05:25,624 So, what we're thinking now is something suspicious. 92 00:05:25,725 --> 00:05:28,360 Something foul had happened to Katrina. 93 00:05:28,461 --> 00:05:32,297 [narrator] To solve the mystery, investigators will need to piece together 94 00:05:32,398 --> 00:05:34,633 the last 24 hours of her life. 95 00:05:34,734 --> 00:05:39,638 It's a puzzle, and each piece you have to see where it fits, 96 00:05:39,739 --> 00:05:43,442 to make a story, to make a case. 97 00:05:43,543 --> 00:05:46,211 So timeline is everything. 98 00:05:46,312 --> 00:05:48,280 [narrator] But with no sign of Katrina, 99 00:05:48,381 --> 00:05:51,149 detectives have their work cut out for them. 100 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:55,721 [Vince] There's forensic evidence that you can obtain from your victim, 101 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:57,489 which will narrow your timeline. 102 00:05:58,124 --> 00:05:59,791 Without a crime scene, 103 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:01,927 we just don't know. 104 00:06:02,028 --> 00:06:03,795 We're still kind of shooting in the dark here. 105 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:07,566 [narrator] The community of Machesney Park bands together, 106 00:06:07,667 --> 00:06:10,068 to help find Katrina Smith. 107 00:06:10,169 --> 00:06:14,940 Hundreds of people literally, come out from the community searching everywhere. 108 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:16,541 They were instructed anything they, 109 00:06:16,642 --> 00:06:20,078 thought was unusual or suspicious to right away, 110 00:06:20,179 --> 00:06:22,080 call us and we would have our crime scene officers 111 00:06:22,181 --> 00:06:25,684 come out and gather up that evidence. 112 00:06:25,785 --> 00:06:28,587 [narrator] After hours of searching, authorities find 113 00:06:28,688 --> 00:06:31,890 some unsettling items on the side of the road. 114 00:06:31,991 --> 00:06:35,460 [Marilyn] We located her cellular phone, which was found in a bush 115 00:06:35,561 --> 00:06:37,729 that was not far from the marital home, 116 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:40,265 and the area of the Rock River. 117 00:06:40,366 --> 00:06:43,502 We also located her purse, which was found, 118 00:06:43,603 --> 00:06:46,338 in that same area a short distance away. 119 00:06:47,273 --> 00:06:49,074 This is not consistent with someone, 120 00:06:49,175 --> 00:06:52,277 who just took the day off work and is playing hokey, 121 00:06:52,378 --> 00:06:58,717 or someone who has decided to go missing or make themselves disappeared. 122 00:06:58,818 --> 00:07:01,753 [narrator] The abandoned vehicle, along with the personal items, 123 00:07:01,854 --> 00:07:04,523 are an ominous sign. 124 00:07:04,624 --> 00:07:10,495 [Marilyn] What I'm thinking is that someone has probably killed Katrina, 125 00:07:10,596 --> 00:07:16,401 and I don't think at this point it's someone who was a total stranger 126 00:07:16,502 --> 00:07:19,070 because they left all of her valuables. 127 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:20,305 They didn't take her car. 128 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:21,807 They didn't take her purse. 129 00:07:23,276 --> 00:07:26,144 [narrator] The first person investigators want to interview, 130 00:07:26,245 --> 00:07:28,213 Is Katrina's husband, Todd. 131 00:07:29,515 --> 00:07:31,817 [Vince] Todd, was strong. 132 00:07:31,918 --> 00:07:35,153 He was so concerned about her, he loved her. 133 00:07:35,254 --> 00:07:38,089 They had just taken an anniversary trip 134 00:07:38,191 --> 00:07:40,659 and celebrated their seven year marriage. 135 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:45,130 The partners the first person that the investigators look at because, 136 00:07:45,231 --> 00:07:46,865 that's the person that has the most 137 00:07:46,966 --> 00:07:50,135 emotional investment into the victim. 138 00:07:50,236 --> 00:07:53,572 Whether it's a boyfriend, girlfriend, 139 00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:57,275 um, husband or wife, that's always the person 140 00:07:57,376 --> 00:07:59,778 that seems to be the most connected. 141 00:07:59,879 --> 00:08:02,214 [narrator] Todd is cooperative and willing to answer 142 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:03,815 any questions that come his way. 143 00:08:04,951 --> 00:08:07,686 I'm asked him, does she have a gambling problem? 144 00:08:07,787 --> 00:08:11,356 Todd tells me. No, she wouldn't do that. 145 00:08:11,424 --> 00:08:13,024 Does she have a drug problem? 146 00:08:13,125 --> 00:08:15,227 Nope. That's out of the question. 147 00:08:15,328 --> 00:08:17,696 Does she have a problem with having a relationship 148 00:08:17,797 --> 00:08:20,165 outside the family outside of him? 149 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:21,766 Absolutely not. 150 00:08:21,868 --> 00:08:25,804 They both supposedly had been cheated on the past, so that would never come up. 151 00:08:25,905 --> 00:08:29,574 That would never be a focus of any problems. 152 00:08:29,675 --> 00:08:32,477 Todd explain that to us, that their marriage was excellent, 153 00:08:32,578 --> 00:08:35,547 [narrator] But Katrina has been staying at a friend's condominium, 154 00:08:35,648 --> 00:08:38,250 which raises questions for detectives. 155 00:08:38,351 --> 00:08:40,218 [Vince] Why is she staying somewhere else, 156 00:08:40,319 --> 00:08:42,687 and you're staying at the family home? 157 00:08:42,788 --> 00:08:45,724 [Marilyn] He indicated that there were no issues in the marriage. 158 00:08:45,825 --> 00:08:49,094 Katrina was house sitting for her friend, 159 00:08:49,195 --> 00:08:53,265 at the condominium and that everything was fine. 160 00:08:53,366 --> 00:08:57,736 [narrator] Detectives questioned Todd, about the last time he saw Katrina. 161 00:08:57,837 --> 00:09:02,807 He tells us that Katrina had arrived home at about 6 PM, 162 00:09:02,909 --> 00:09:05,710 he said that she arrived at the home to do laundry, 163 00:09:05,811 --> 00:09:08,713 because he had a job interview in the next morning. 164 00:09:08,848 --> 00:09:10,715 Todd had told us that she was very concerned 165 00:09:10,816 --> 00:09:12,484 about her parents for the interview, 166 00:09:12,585 --> 00:09:14,920 so she wanted to go out and grab a new outfit. 167 00:09:15,021 --> 00:09:17,422 So she left the home at nine o'clock PM, 168 00:09:17,523 --> 00:09:19,391 to do some shopping for her job interview. 169 00:09:21,260 --> 00:09:24,763 [narrator] That night, Katrina was planning to sleep with the condo 170 00:09:24,864 --> 00:09:28,733 and was hoping to catch the end of the Chicago football game. 171 00:09:29,468 --> 00:09:31,036 She was a Bears fan. 172 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:32,737 She didn't want to miss the game, 173 00:09:32,838 --> 00:09:35,974 and so she wanted to get back to her friend's condo. 174 00:09:36,075 --> 00:09:39,544 He had sent her a message at about 11 PM, 175 00:09:39,645 --> 00:09:42,147 that night, saying sweet dreams 176 00:09:42,248 --> 00:09:44,115 and expected to hear back from her, he didn't. 177 00:09:44,216 --> 00:09:45,450 He didn't so he figured she was probably 178 00:09:45,551 --> 00:09:47,586 in bed with sleep because she was very focused 179 00:09:47,687 --> 00:09:50,555 on this job interview for the next morning, 180 00:09:50,656 --> 00:09:53,425 [narrator] Detectives searched the condo looking for clues, 181 00:09:53,526 --> 00:09:55,727 about what may have happened to Katrina. 182 00:09:55,828 --> 00:09:57,162 [Marilyn] There was no sign that Katrina, 183 00:09:57,263 --> 00:10:01,132 had slept there, the night before or had been there at all. 184 00:10:01,233 --> 00:10:05,136 We now know that she never made it back to the condominium. 185 00:10:05,237 --> 00:10:09,441 And so the question is, what has happened in between that time period. 186 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:13,144 [narrator] Detectives have now determined Katrina was likely killed, 187 00:10:13,245 --> 00:10:18,416 between, 07:30 AM and 09:00 PM, the night before, on October 22nd. 188 00:10:19,652 --> 00:10:22,420 Armed with this information, they questioned Todd 189 00:10:22,521 --> 00:10:25,390 about his whereabouts during this time period. 190 00:10:25,491 --> 00:10:29,160 After Katrina left the family home that night, Todd told us 191 00:10:29,261 --> 00:10:31,796 that he did do some e-mailing on his computer, 192 00:10:31,897 --> 00:10:33,632 and then went to bed. 193 00:10:33,733 --> 00:10:35,800 Now we know from Todd Cell Phone that, 194 00:10:35,901 --> 00:10:39,904 he did text Katrina at about 11 PM 195 00:10:40,006 --> 00:10:41,906 that night or shortly after 11 PM, 196 00:10:42,008 --> 00:10:45,710 and said, you sweet dreams. Good night. 197 00:10:45,811 --> 00:10:47,946 The next day, Todd had appointments to go out on, 198 00:10:48,047 --> 00:10:52,117 but during the morning he worked from home and he did some emails. 199 00:10:52,218 --> 00:10:55,754 Basically, the computer that he would have been working from home on 200 00:10:55,855 --> 00:10:57,656 confirmed that he was at home. 201 00:10:57,757 --> 00:11:00,258 [narrator] With Todd's alibi checking out, 202 00:11:00,359 --> 00:11:04,629 detectives now shift their focus to other potential suspects. 203 00:11:04,730 --> 00:11:08,800 We're looking for any speck of information that could give us a lead 204 00:11:08,901 --> 00:11:12,871 that I may be able to help us determine what has happened to her, 205 00:11:12,972 --> 00:11:15,373 Todd tells us, couple years prior, 206 00:11:15,474 --> 00:11:17,475 they had a peeping Tom at their house. 207 00:11:19,045 --> 00:11:22,547 Someone was peeping at their home, it was determined that it was 208 00:11:22,648 --> 00:11:24,816 a young man from the neighborhood area. 209 00:11:26,118 --> 00:11:28,219 Peeping Toms for years were dismissed 210 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,189 a sort of a nuisance crime, we now know better. 211 00:11:31,290 --> 00:11:35,827 Peeping Toms are actually a very high risk category of voyeur. 212 00:11:35,928 --> 00:11:38,630 These behaviors often escalate to actual attacks. 213 00:11:40,633 --> 00:11:44,135 This could have been a person lurking around the home 214 00:11:44,236 --> 00:11:48,440 to potentially attack her when she had left the home. 215 00:11:48,541 --> 00:11:50,842 [Vince] In the investigation, we find out the young man's 216 00:11:50,943 --> 00:11:53,378 actually connected to Katrina and Todd 217 00:11:53,479 --> 00:11:55,747 through a church youth organization. 218 00:11:56,649 --> 00:11:58,016 He lives in the neighborhood. 219 00:11:58,117 --> 00:12:00,918 He has been to the house before, 220 00:12:00,986 --> 00:12:03,955 We want to look into that. That's a potential lead. 221 00:12:04,056 --> 00:12:07,192 I mean, if he's peeping two years ago, 222 00:12:07,293 --> 00:12:10,695 has his behavior progressed to murder? 223 00:12:17,903 --> 00:12:21,439 [narrator] Working, a theory that a peeping Tom who targeted Katrina Smith, 224 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:24,509 two years prior might have turned violent. 225 00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:26,010 Detectives hunt him down. 226 00:12:27,213 --> 00:12:28,780 [Vince] We go back through all the reports 227 00:12:28,881 --> 00:12:30,982 of anything that has happened in that neighborhood. 228 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:32,484 That's suspicious. 229 00:12:32,585 --> 00:12:36,688 And there was a second report of a peeper in that same neighborhood. 230 00:12:36,789 --> 00:12:38,923 It was reported by a different woman, 231 00:12:39,024 --> 00:12:41,960 who had a very similar resemblance to Katrina. 232 00:12:44,029 --> 00:12:46,598 [narrator] Detectives canvas the neighborhood for information 233 00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:48,466 about a potential stalker, 234 00:12:48,567 --> 00:12:51,770 when they notice a video surveillance camera at a neighbor's home. 235 00:12:52,671 --> 00:12:54,172 We asked the owner for the video, 236 00:12:54,273 --> 00:12:56,908 and that video was not a great video. 237 00:12:57,009 --> 00:12:59,444 It's dark outside, it's raining heavily, 238 00:12:59,545 --> 00:13:04,482 but in that video, it discloses a figure 239 00:13:04,583 --> 00:13:07,619 crossing his yard on the 22. 240 00:13:09,088 --> 00:13:10,922 Late at night while it's raining. 241 00:13:11,023 --> 00:13:13,558 [Marilyn] The person appeared to be walking, 242 00:13:13,659 --> 00:13:18,763 in the direction of Katrina and Tez home at approximately 11:30 PM. 243 00:13:18,864 --> 00:13:22,567 You could not tell, who the individual was, 244 00:13:22,668 --> 00:13:25,970 but what you could tell is that it appeared to be a male. 245 00:13:26,071 --> 00:13:29,574 It appeared to be someone of small stature. 246 00:13:29,675 --> 00:13:34,813 [Vince] Then this figure goes across his yard and into a field. 247 00:13:34,914 --> 00:13:38,817 Now who's going to be out in a rainstorm like that, 248 00:13:38,918 --> 00:13:40,718 Cutting through a field, 249 00:13:40,820 --> 00:13:45,190 It's... It's just something that really raises red flags. 250 00:13:45,291 --> 00:13:48,927 [narrator] Identifying this person could be the break detectives need, 251 00:13:49,028 --> 00:13:52,530 to unravel the mystery of Katrina's disappearance. 252 00:13:52,631 --> 00:13:55,567 Is this the young man that was peeping two years ago? 253 00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:57,468 We need to look at him and find out. 254 00:13:57,570 --> 00:14:01,105 Is there any potential of him being a valid suspect, 255 00:14:01,207 --> 00:14:03,041 in the disappearance of Katrina. 256 00:14:03,142 --> 00:14:05,376 Is that my new possibility? 257 00:14:05,477 --> 00:14:07,745 Maybe the key to open up the whole case. 258 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:10,081 [narrator] Detectives tracked down the peeping Tom, 259 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:13,084 who's now living several hours away. 260 00:14:13,185 --> 00:14:18,056 This individual was in fact, in college, and was on the college campus 261 00:14:18,157 --> 00:14:20,225 at the time that Katrina went missing. 262 00:14:22,328 --> 00:14:25,663 [narrator] He tells detectives he never left campus that night. 263 00:14:25,764 --> 00:14:28,299 They checked the school security logs and video, 264 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,468 which confirmed the young man story. 265 00:14:32,238 --> 00:14:34,706 Law enforcement was able to substantiate 266 00:14:34,807 --> 00:14:36,808 that he was nowhere, near Katrina, 267 00:14:36,909 --> 00:14:39,177 the night she went missing or the marital home. 268 00:14:41,213 --> 00:14:44,415 [narrator] With the peeping Tom theory proving to be a dead end, 269 00:14:44,516 --> 00:14:46,451 detectives returned to the timeline, 270 00:14:46,552 --> 00:14:48,353 hoping it will reveal something new 271 00:14:48,487 --> 00:14:52,957 about Katrina Smith's final steps on the day she disappeared. 272 00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:55,960 Katrina Smith worked is an HR representative. 273 00:14:56,061 --> 00:14:59,998 She had worked in that field for approximately four to five years. 274 00:15:00,099 --> 00:15:04,202 She was very well liked by her coworkers and her supervisors. 275 00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:09,307 Christina, her supervisor, had last seen her on October 22nd, 276 00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:11,809 that Monday, at approximately 05:00 PM. 277 00:15:11,911 --> 00:15:14,512 When Katrina had left work. 278 00:15:14,613 --> 00:15:16,681 [narrator] Talking with Katrina's supervisor, 279 00:15:16,782 --> 00:15:19,050 detectives learn about an alarming incident, 280 00:15:19,151 --> 00:15:22,453 that recently took place at Katrina's office. 281 00:15:22,554 --> 00:15:25,390 Christina tells us, it was during a lunch hour, 282 00:15:25,491 --> 00:15:29,494 at Cameron Industries were a vehicle had pulled through the parking lot 283 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:33,831 and disseminated about three hundred or so flyers. 284 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:38,603 The Flyer was very derogatory, and it was disparaging 285 00:15:38,704 --> 00:15:41,673 the character of Katrina Smith. 286 00:15:41,740 --> 00:15:45,009 Why would anybody disseminate flyer school parking lot, 287 00:15:45,110 --> 00:15:51,049 of a business ridiculing and demeaning Katrina, 288 00:15:51,150 --> 00:15:52,984 so this is very disturbing. 289 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:57,388 [Michael] This is someone whose anger justifies 290 00:15:57,489 --> 00:15:59,023 and rationalizes what they do next. 291 00:15:59,124 --> 00:16:01,759 It could be distributing flyers one day, 292 00:16:01,860 --> 00:16:04,128 posting things on social media one day. 293 00:16:04,229 --> 00:16:07,265 It could be something much worse another day, 294 00:16:07,366 --> 00:16:09,934 [Marilyn] Initially was not reported to the police, 295 00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:12,870 because everyone thought it was just an isolated incident. 296 00:16:12,972 --> 00:16:16,641 But after she went missing, we were able to recover the video. 297 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:22,046 [Vince] The driver of that vehicle, he or she was disguised 298 00:16:22,147 --> 00:16:26,084 with a wig, glasses and, unfortunately, the vehicle. 299 00:16:26,185 --> 00:16:28,453 Although it was black, we had no license plate, 300 00:16:28,554 --> 00:16:30,922 because the license plates we're not on the vehicle. 301 00:16:31,023 --> 00:16:35,193 [narrator] From the video it's impossible to identify the car or the driver, 302 00:16:35,294 --> 00:16:37,462 but detectives have gained a shocking new detail, 303 00:16:37,563 --> 00:16:39,530 about Katrina is personal life. 304 00:16:39,631 --> 00:16:42,533 The Flyer also indicated that she was having 305 00:16:42,634 --> 00:16:46,671 an affair with someone and was cheating on her husband. 306 00:16:46,772 --> 00:16:49,774 [Vince] So now we have a flyer that's being disseminated 307 00:16:49,875 --> 00:16:54,012 by an unknown suspect that's referring to Katrina 308 00:16:54,113 --> 00:16:59,384 having a relationship with somebody at work named, Guy. 309 00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:02,320 [narrator] Guy Gabriel, is a recently divorced co-worker, 310 00:17:02,421 --> 00:17:05,256 who has been seen spending time with Katrina. 311 00:17:05,357 --> 00:17:09,327 [Vince] We're getting this information from Kristina, at work, 312 00:17:09,428 --> 00:17:11,496 that there is rumors, 313 00:17:11,597 --> 00:17:16,501 that Guy Gabriel and Katrina are having a relationship. 314 00:17:16,602 --> 00:17:21,973 [Marilyn] Katrina had eventually started to confide, in Kristina, 315 00:17:22,074 --> 00:17:27,845 that there were marital issues and that the marriage was not going well. 316 00:17:27,946 --> 00:17:30,515 [Vince] This was something that was never mentioned, 317 00:17:30,616 --> 00:17:33,151 by Todd Smith, in the initial interview. 318 00:17:33,252 --> 00:17:35,420 We don't know that Todd Smith, 319 00:17:35,521 --> 00:17:37,955 has any knowledge of their relationship, 320 00:17:38,057 --> 00:17:40,825 and as a matter of fact, in his statement, 321 00:17:40,926 --> 00:17:45,129 he swore that they had gone through some relationship problems in the past 322 00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:48,866 and that they would never seek comfort outside the home. 323 00:17:50,736 --> 00:17:55,006 [narrator] Detectives learn more about Katrina's relationship with Guy Gabriel. 324 00:17:55,107 --> 00:17:59,677 [Vince] When our crime scene officers ended up diving into Katrina's phone, 325 00:17:59,778 --> 00:18:02,513 we confirm that Guy Gabriel and Katrina, 326 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:04,982 were having a romantic relationship. 327 00:18:05,084 --> 00:18:08,686 They went out a couple times for launch a few times and talked and, 328 00:18:08,787 --> 00:18:11,322 and she shared problems with a guy. 329 00:18:11,423 --> 00:18:15,860 But then, eventually that relationship became closer, 330 00:18:15,961 --> 00:18:21,999 and he had come to the point where their conversations had been 331 00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:26,471 about Katrina divorcing Todd Smith. 332 00:18:26,572 --> 00:18:30,508 [narrator] Investigators bring Guy Gabriel into the station for questioning. 333 00:18:30,609 --> 00:18:35,513 He was irritated a bit that that we wanted a formal interview. 334 00:18:35,614 --> 00:18:37,582 [narrator] They asked him to recount the last time 335 00:18:37,683 --> 00:18:38,783 he saw Katrina Sunday. 336 00:18:40,085 --> 00:18:42,153 Sunday night, which was 21st, 337 00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:47,125 Guy Gabriel and Katrina, had stayed together, at Kelly's condo. 338 00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:50,094 On Monday morning, Guy Gabriel gets up. 339 00:18:50,195 --> 00:18:55,533 This is the morning of the 22nd, uh, and he sees her off to work. 340 00:18:55,634 --> 00:18:58,236 [narrator] The next time, Guy communicates with Katrina, 341 00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:02,273 is when she returns to her home that night after work. 342 00:19:02,374 --> 00:19:07,111 [Marilyn] The last communication that we believe Katrina made to guide Gabriel, 343 00:19:07,212 --> 00:19:11,949 was at approximately 07:30 PM, when she indicated she wanted 344 00:19:12,050 --> 00:19:15,753 to be with the condominium for Monday Night Football. 345 00:19:15,854 --> 00:19:19,123 [narrator] Katrina may have only texted guy once that night, 346 00:19:19,224 --> 00:19:21,492 but he was texting her nonstop. 347 00:19:21,593 --> 00:19:23,895 [Vince] The night of October 22nd. 348 00:19:23,996 --> 00:19:28,266 He's on edge, waiting to hear from Katrina, 349 00:19:28,367 --> 00:19:31,636 on whether or not she was going to disclose to Todd, 350 00:19:31,737 --> 00:19:33,070 that she wanted to divorce. 351 00:19:34,173 --> 00:19:37,041 That night, there, text messages indicate, 352 00:19:37,142 --> 00:19:39,544 that guy was very concerned about. 353 00:19:39,645 --> 00:19:40,811 Have you told him yet? 354 00:19:40,913 --> 00:19:42,747 How's things going? 355 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:46,884 He wants her to tell Todd, that the relationships over with. 356 00:19:46,985 --> 00:19:48,286 Now that does send up red flags. 357 00:19:48,387 --> 00:19:50,922 Because now you have, 358 00:19:51,023 --> 00:19:53,958 somebody who is having a relationship with Katrina, 359 00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:58,996 that appears to be very obsessed with her, leaving her husband. 360 00:19:59,097 --> 00:20:01,132 This could very quickly escalate to become 361 00:20:01,233 --> 00:20:03,834 very dangerous, volatile situation. 362 00:20:03,902 --> 00:20:05,203 You introduced jealousy. 363 00:20:05,304 --> 00:20:06,938 You introduce resentment. 364 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:10,274 And those could be powerful motivators for someone who lacks 365 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:15,046 basic impulse control, on who needs to be in control. 366 00:20:15,147 --> 00:20:20,251 [Vince] We don't know that she's ready at that point for sure to tell Todd, 367 00:20:20,352 --> 00:20:21,986 that she wants things done with. 368 00:20:22,087 --> 00:20:23,287 Maybe she's changing her mind. 369 00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:24,488 Maybe something else has happened. 370 00:20:24,590 --> 00:20:26,457 Did Guy Gabriel then get upset? 371 00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:29,493 And something happened between the hours of nine o'clock, 372 00:20:29,595 --> 00:20:32,129 and the following morning. 373 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:34,966 At this point, we don't know exactly where he's texting her from. 374 00:20:35,067 --> 00:20:37,034 Is he texting or from around the corner? 375 00:20:37,135 --> 00:20:38,703 Is he watching the house? 376 00:20:39,871 --> 00:20:42,607 Is it possible that after she leaves her home, 377 00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:44,875 as Todd says, to go back and shop, 378 00:20:44,977 --> 00:20:46,911 that her and Guy Gabriel meet up? 379 00:20:47,679 --> 00:20:49,580 He is our primary focus. 380 00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:51,916 He is our primary suspect. 381 00:20:52,017 --> 00:20:55,353 Could this be the guy? We have to investigate. 382 00:21:03,128 --> 00:21:06,297 [narrator] Detectives are zeroing in on a new person of interest 383 00:21:06,398 --> 00:21:08,733 in the disappearance of Katrina Smith, 384 00:21:08,834 --> 00:21:12,270 her secret boyfriend, Guy Gabriel. 385 00:21:12,371 --> 00:21:16,507 So, did Guy Gabriel have any contact with her 386 00:21:16,608 --> 00:21:19,210 that night, either near the home, 387 00:21:19,311 --> 00:21:21,445 or did they meet up later that night, 388 00:21:21,546 --> 00:21:24,582 and then, things went awry from there? That is a possibility. 389 00:21:24,683 --> 00:21:27,518 [narrator] They look into Guy's movements in the critical window 390 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:30,054 during which Katrina went missing. 391 00:21:30,155 --> 00:21:33,124 Guy Gabriel indicated that Sunday night, 392 00:21:33,225 --> 00:21:36,761 he had stayed at the condominium with Katrina Smith. 393 00:21:36,862 --> 00:21:39,063 Katrina went to work that morning, 394 00:21:39,164 --> 00:21:41,666 and then, that evening he left to go to work 395 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:44,669 because he worked the graveyard shift. 396 00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:48,339 [narrator] Guy's shift began at 8 pm on October 22nd, 397 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:52,243 and he said he was at work until 8 am the next morning. 398 00:21:52,344 --> 00:21:54,912 There's always an opportunity to leave work, right? 399 00:21:55,013 --> 00:21:56,914 So we went to Cameron Industries. 400 00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,917 [narrator] Detectives check video surveillance and the security logs 401 00:22:00,018 --> 00:22:01,786 at Guy Gabriel's workplace. 402 00:22:01,887 --> 00:22:04,622 They show that he was in the building the whole night. 403 00:22:04,723 --> 00:22:08,359 We were able to pull all the video footage of him being in and out 404 00:22:08,460 --> 00:22:12,530 supervising other individuals who had interacted with him. 405 00:22:12,631 --> 00:22:14,765 [Vince] If Guy Gabriel would have left Cameron Industries 406 00:22:14,866 --> 00:22:16,434 that evening during work, 407 00:22:16,535 --> 00:22:19,236 we would have seen it on that video. 408 00:22:19,338 --> 00:22:22,239 So, we were able to eliminate Guy Gabriel. 409 00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:24,909 [narrator] With Guy Gabriel now in the clear, 410 00:22:25,010 --> 00:22:27,411 the investigation hits a roadblock. 411 00:22:27,512 --> 00:22:28,879 [Vince] It's frustrating. 412 00:22:28,980 --> 00:22:32,750 I try to take a personal approach to every case I work. I really do. 413 00:22:32,851 --> 00:22:35,586 This case for me was about Katrina. 414 00:22:35,687 --> 00:22:39,156 And once you learn about Katrina and what a wonderful person she was, 415 00:22:39,257 --> 00:22:43,294 and what a wonderful family she has, you want to do the best job you can for them. 416 00:22:43,395 --> 00:22:47,431 You want to solve this case and you want to do it right. 417 00:22:47,532 --> 00:22:49,767 [narrator] Investigators turned to her family 418 00:22:49,868 --> 00:22:53,604 for more information regarding Katrina's final movements. 419 00:22:53,705 --> 00:22:56,507 [Marilyn] Bruce was Katrina stepfather. 420 00:22:56,608 --> 00:23:01,345 He basically raised Katrina with her mom, Vikki. 421 00:23:01,446 --> 00:23:04,749 [Vince] He was with us. He was so concerned about her. 422 00:23:04,850 --> 00:23:07,418 [narrator] Detectives ask Bruce if he knows of anyone 423 00:23:07,519 --> 00:23:09,553 who would want to harm Katrina. 424 00:23:09,654 --> 00:23:13,057 [Vince] He tells us that Katrina feels that she's being followed 425 00:23:13,158 --> 00:23:16,994 and stocked by somebody. She just didn't know by whom. 426 00:23:17,095 --> 00:23:20,831 Katrina was so concerned that she has a conversation 427 00:23:20,932 --> 00:23:22,967 with a Verizon employee 428 00:23:23,068 --> 00:23:26,904 talking about is there any way somebody could bug or clone her phone 429 00:23:27,005 --> 00:23:31,409 because she feels like somebody's keeping track of her and following her. 430 00:23:31,510 --> 00:23:34,011 And then all of a sudden, on the 19th, 431 00:23:34,112 --> 00:23:38,182 he gets this text from her asking about getting a gun for protection. 432 00:23:38,283 --> 00:23:41,552 So, you know, the alarm bells were going off with him. 433 00:23:41,653 --> 00:23:45,356 [narrator] Talk of getting a gun just days before she goes missing, 434 00:23:45,457 --> 00:23:48,592 suggests Katrina was looking to defend herself. 435 00:23:48,693 --> 00:23:52,663 [Vince] It is apparent that Katrina was in fear of something 436 00:23:52,764 --> 00:23:57,301 and that she felt that she was being followed or stalked by somebody. 437 00:23:57,936 --> 00:24:00,938 [Marilyn] Katrina knew, 438 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:04,241 that her life was in danger and in jeopardy. 439 00:24:04,342 --> 00:24:06,777 [narrator] As detectives worked to uncover the identity 440 00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:09,146 of who could be stocking Katrina, 441 00:24:09,247 --> 00:24:12,216 they take note of something unusual. 442 00:24:12,317 --> 00:24:15,586 [Marilyn] Every day people are searching for Katrina. 443 00:24:15,687 --> 00:24:18,589 They're searching for evidence. 444 00:24:18,723 --> 00:24:24,595 Todd is at the search party scenes but does not appear to be engaged. 445 00:24:24,696 --> 00:24:28,699 Todd is conducting interviews with the local media. 446 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,435 There's crying with no tears. 447 00:24:31,536 --> 00:24:34,405 It's been horrible. [crying] 448 00:24:35,407 --> 00:24:37,608 I just want her to come home. 449 00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:40,811 It's just like his emotions weren't genuine. 450 00:24:40,912 --> 00:24:46,116 His crocodile tears, his sadness and everything. 451 00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:49,119 [Marilyn] You know, there is emotion without emotion, 452 00:24:49,221 --> 00:24:53,691 and we're seeing this play out before the cameras. 453 00:24:55,060 --> 00:24:58,596 [Michael] For good investigators, gut instincts are honed. 454 00:24:58,697 --> 00:25:03,334 This is where investigators need to pay particular attention to the nuances, 455 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:08,439 the micro-expressions, as we call them, of potential persons of interest. 456 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:12,476 [Vince] I'm a detective that watches behavior. 457 00:25:12,577 --> 00:25:16,146 Todd's behavior was very inconsistent 458 00:25:16,248 --> 00:25:18,549 with somebody that was 459 00:25:19,618 --> 00:25:24,221 suffering from a missing wife, a missing loved one. 460 00:25:24,289 --> 00:25:26,624 [narrator] Based on his suspicious behavior, 461 00:25:26,725 --> 00:25:28,792 detectives take another look at Todd. 462 00:25:28,894 --> 00:25:31,195 Now as a potential suspect. 463 00:25:31,296 --> 00:25:33,731 [Vince] Todd had told us the marriage was excellent. 464 00:25:33,832 --> 00:25:36,300 He maintained the whole time that they weren't going to get divorced. 465 00:25:36,401 --> 00:25:40,704 [narrator] But when detectives talked to Katrina's friends, they get a different story. 466 00:25:40,805 --> 00:25:44,341 October 13th, she went out for a girls' night with her girlfriends. 467 00:25:44,442 --> 00:25:47,778 During that night, she told one of her girlfriends, Jill, 468 00:25:47,879 --> 00:25:49,813 that she was not happy in the marriage, 469 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:54,885 and she had brought up the word "divorce" several times in the conversation. 470 00:25:54,986 --> 00:25:59,290 The night of the 22nd, Jill's husband made a phone call that Todd. 471 00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:03,193 Todd told him that Katrina was coming over to do laundry 472 00:26:03,295 --> 00:26:06,196 and that she wanted to talk to him, 473 00:26:06,298 --> 00:26:11,001 and Jill's husband said, "Well, that sounds good. Maybe that's good." 474 00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:14,071 Todd says, "No, I think it's done. 475 00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:15,606 I think she's done with me." 476 00:26:16,608 --> 00:26:18,509 [narrator] This new information reveals that 477 00:26:18,610 --> 00:26:22,513 Todd hasn't been truthful with police from the very beginning. 478 00:26:22,614 --> 00:26:25,583 [Vince] The whole time Todd is telling us the marriage is great. 479 00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:28,552 No problems in the marriage and everything is going well. 480 00:26:28,653 --> 00:26:31,288 But Katrina is relaying to her friends, 481 00:26:31,389 --> 00:26:34,692 her coworkers, that her marriage isn't good. 482 00:26:34,793 --> 00:26:37,428 So, the statements that Todd gave us, 483 00:26:37,529 --> 00:26:42,232 we are able to pick apart some of those statements as untruth. 484 00:26:42,334 --> 00:26:45,102 [narrator] As detectives become more suspicious of Todd, 485 00:26:45,203 --> 00:26:48,739 the forensic results from Katrina's car finally come in. 486 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,543 What the tests reveal shakes them to their core. 487 00:26:52,644 --> 00:26:55,212 [Marilyn] It was pretty much neon lights 488 00:26:55,313 --> 00:26:59,416 when luminol was sprayed into the trunk of the vehicle. 489 00:26:59,517 --> 00:27:03,854 We were able to see the outline of a body 490 00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:07,024 that had been placed in the trunk of her vehicle. 491 00:27:08,193 --> 00:27:10,628 [Vince] How do you explain blood in a trunk? 492 00:27:10,762 --> 00:27:16,767 It was apparent that someone had been placed in that trunk. 493 00:27:16,868 --> 00:27:20,104 We believed that blood was Katrina's. 494 00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:31,382 [narrator] Detectives have found Katrina Smith's blood all over the trunk of her car, 495 00:27:31,483 --> 00:27:35,352 revealing that this may be more than just a missing person's case. 496 00:27:35,453 --> 00:27:38,288 [Marilyn] Katrina had bled out significantly. 497 00:27:38,390 --> 00:27:40,891 There was even blood on the bumper of vehicle, 498 00:27:40,992 --> 00:27:44,061 so we know that when she was placed in the vehicle, 499 00:27:44,162 --> 00:27:49,033 she was most likely substantially incapacitated. 500 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:54,405 [Michael] Sometimes you have some, even without a body, evidence of a crime. 501 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:56,340 You have some blood spatter. 502 00:27:56,441 --> 00:27:58,042 You have what's called exsanguination. 503 00:27:58,109 --> 00:28:02,946 Which is blood volume, which, in terms of no body homicides, 504 00:28:03,048 --> 00:28:06,150 is as close to a smoking gun as you can get. 505 00:28:06,251 --> 00:28:08,018 [Vince] Now we know we have a crime scene at the car, 506 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,788 whether it happened there or somewhere else. 507 00:28:10,889 --> 00:28:13,457 And the car was just used as transportation 508 00:28:13,558 --> 00:28:16,860 to hide/eliminate the body. 509 00:28:16,961 --> 00:28:20,864 [narrator] With suspicion now building around Katrina's husband, Todd, 510 00:28:20,965 --> 00:28:24,001 investigators dig into his background. 511 00:28:24,102 --> 00:28:27,071 We know that Todd Smith had a business 512 00:28:27,172 --> 00:28:30,674 where he was a financial advisor. 513 00:28:30,775 --> 00:28:32,810 And this was his own business. 514 00:28:32,911 --> 00:28:38,415 It was not as productive and successful as he had portrayed it to be. 515 00:28:38,516 --> 00:28:42,953 He was facing a fraud lawsuit in federal court. 516 00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:46,757 Katrina was actually the breadwinner in the family. 517 00:28:46,858 --> 00:28:51,495 She was the one that paid for the mortgage on the home, that paid all of the bills. 518 00:28:51,596 --> 00:28:54,264 [narrator] Todd's potential motive for murdering his wife 519 00:28:54,365 --> 00:28:56,300 starts to become crystal clear. 520 00:28:56,401 --> 00:29:01,305 We also learned that Todd was very possessive and jealous of Katrina. 521 00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:04,074 And the fact that she might now want to move on 522 00:29:04,175 --> 00:29:08,011 and get a divorce was very disturbing to Todd. 523 00:29:08,113 --> 00:29:10,681 [narrator] As detectives look deeper into Todd's past, 524 00:29:10,782 --> 00:29:13,851 they learn something even more alarming. 525 00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:17,888 [Vince] In the investigation, I ended up speaking with a family member 526 00:29:17,989 --> 00:29:20,324 of Todd Smith's, 527 00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,092 and his name was Justin. 528 00:29:22,193 --> 00:29:25,262 Justin was a half brother to Todd. 529 00:29:25,363 --> 00:29:28,432 The story was that at 17 years old, Todd ended up 530 00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:31,735 disconnecting a gas line from the stove 531 00:29:31,836 --> 00:29:33,837 and ended up blowing up the home 532 00:29:33,938 --> 00:29:38,809 in an attempt to kill Justin, his sister, the mom and the dad. 533 00:29:38,910 --> 00:29:42,679 [narrator] At the time, Todd was sentenced to thirty months' probation 534 00:29:42,781 --> 00:29:47,417 and he became permanently estranged from his family. 535 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:52,823 [Marilyn] It paints a picture of someone who appears to be a meek and mild individual. 536 00:29:52,924 --> 00:29:58,529 But underneath there's a seething pot of anger and jealousy 537 00:29:58,630 --> 00:30:01,098 that erupts in a violent manner 538 00:30:01,199 --> 00:30:03,567 that could end in someone's death. 539 00:30:04,936 --> 00:30:07,204 When we learned more about Todd's past, 540 00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:11,975 that he's this troubled, violent, fire-starting teenager, 541 00:30:12,076 --> 00:30:13,744 this Jekyll and Hyde character emerged 542 00:30:13,845 --> 00:30:18,849 that then cast, I think, further doubt on, uh, all of his stories. 543 00:30:18,950 --> 00:30:21,985 [narrator] As detectives uncovered Todd's criminal past, 544 00:30:22,086 --> 00:30:25,422 they get a phone call that turns the case on its head. 545 00:30:25,523 --> 00:30:28,559 [Vince] Todd is upset. Todd is very upset. 546 00:30:28,660 --> 00:30:32,362 And he discusses how upset he is about Katrina's blood 547 00:30:32,463 --> 00:30:34,698 being found in the trunk of the vehicle. 548 00:30:34,799 --> 00:30:37,534 [narrator] For detectives, this is a red flag. 549 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:40,737 No one in the sheriff's department has released the information 550 00:30:40,839 --> 00:30:44,374 about Katrina's blood being found in the car. 551 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:48,212 He tells us one of Katrina's family members told him about it. 552 00:30:48,313 --> 00:30:51,515 So, we're talking to the family members. 553 00:30:51,616 --> 00:30:53,650 None of them knew anything about it. 554 00:30:53,751 --> 00:30:56,420 So how did Todd know about blood in the trunk? 555 00:30:57,856 --> 00:30:59,489 [Marilyn] Only the killer would know that 556 00:30:59,591 --> 00:31:03,594 there would be blood in the trunk that had not been released to the public. 557 00:31:03,695 --> 00:31:07,297 It had not been disclosed to the family members. 558 00:31:07,398 --> 00:31:10,367 [narrator] Now, believing Todd likely murdered Katrina, 559 00:31:10,468 --> 00:31:14,805 investigators search for physical evidence to tie him to the crime. 560 00:31:14,873 --> 00:31:18,609 We searched the computers and we were able to find 561 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:20,978 remnants of this disparaging flyer 562 00:31:21,079 --> 00:31:27,284 that had been distributed at Katrina's workplace before she went missing. 563 00:31:27,385 --> 00:31:28,986 [Vince] Now, how does that flyer 564 00:31:29,087 --> 00:31:32,623 outlining a relationship, very rudely might I ask, 565 00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:35,058 between Guy and Katrina-- 566 00:31:35,159 --> 00:31:38,128 How does that flyer end up on his computer? 567 00:31:38,229 --> 00:31:39,596 Did Katrina put it there? 568 00:31:39,697 --> 00:31:40,898 No. 569 00:31:40,999 --> 00:31:43,400 Who's the only other person that could have authored that 570 00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:46,203 on his laptop? Him? 571 00:31:47,505 --> 00:31:50,707 The individual distributing the flyers in disguise, 572 00:31:50,808 --> 00:31:53,410 in fact, ended up being Todd. 573 00:31:55,179 --> 00:31:56,713 LORI ANN: Todd did everything he could 574 00:31:56,814 --> 00:31:59,549 to try to erase everything. 575 00:31:59,651 --> 00:32:04,721 But he doesn't realize that a computer keeps secrets 576 00:32:04,822 --> 00:32:06,290 even when you try to delete them. 577 00:32:08,059 --> 00:32:09,960 Todd, passing out with these types of flyers 578 00:32:10,061 --> 00:32:13,797 and trying to degrade, humiliate Katrina 579 00:32:13,898 --> 00:32:15,365 is horrible enough in itself. 580 00:32:15,466 --> 00:32:19,136 This, in my mind, has violent motivation as well. 581 00:32:19,237 --> 00:32:21,838 When investigators comb through Todd's computer, 582 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,241 it yields even more clues. 583 00:32:25,476 --> 00:32:29,813 We also discover a tracking software, 584 00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:34,985 which coincides with a small box 585 00:32:35,086 --> 00:32:36,720 that one of our detectives located, 586 00:32:36,821 --> 00:32:38,455 and right away identified 587 00:32:38,556 --> 00:32:40,390 as some kind of housing for a tracker. 588 00:32:41,659 --> 00:32:44,061 Before she disappeared, Katrina believes 589 00:32:44,162 --> 00:32:47,030 she was being followed, and she was right. 590 00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:49,800 Todd had been tracking her every move. 591 00:32:49,901 --> 00:32:53,136 That tracking software that was on the computer 592 00:32:53,204 --> 00:32:57,341 was forensically analyzed by one of our detectives. 593 00:32:57,442 --> 00:33:02,512 He was able to show that the night Katrina disappeared, 594 00:33:02,613 --> 00:33:05,449 the night of October 22nd, 595 00:33:05,550 --> 00:33:09,052 that tracker was taken from the car, 596 00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:16,526 then seen following a path through the woods, 597 00:33:16,627 --> 00:33:19,029 which coincides with the resident 598 00:33:19,130 --> 00:33:21,765 who has the videotape of that figure 599 00:33:21,866 --> 00:33:25,102 going across that gentleman's front yard. 600 00:33:26,270 --> 00:33:29,573 It then concludes its tracking 601 00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:31,708 just a very short distance 602 00:33:32,543 --> 00:33:33,877 from the Smith home. 603 00:33:35,713 --> 00:33:39,950 What we believe Todd did was after he had dumped her car, 604 00:33:40,051 --> 00:33:42,085 he removed the tracking device, 605 00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:45,655 but he thought it was off, and it was not. 606 00:33:47,392 --> 00:33:49,760 VINCE: This is that huge piece of puzzle. 607 00:33:49,861 --> 00:33:51,395 This is bigger than just one piece. 608 00:33:51,496 --> 00:33:54,164 This is a whole huge corner of that puzzle. 609 00:34:00,271 --> 00:34:03,907 Katrina Smith's husband, Todd, has become the prime suspect 610 00:34:04,008 --> 00:34:06,710 in her disappearance and presumed murder. 611 00:34:06,811 --> 00:34:08,912 Detectives bring him in for questioning 612 00:34:09,013 --> 00:34:11,415 and confront him about what they've discovered. 613 00:34:11,516 --> 00:34:13,150 VINCE: I confronted him with the flyers. 614 00:34:13,251 --> 00:34:14,584 I confronted him with the marriage. 615 00:34:14,685 --> 00:34:16,086 I confronted with the track sticks. 616 00:34:16,154 --> 00:34:18,522 I confronted him with everything. 617 00:34:18,623 --> 00:34:21,525 VINCE: His response was to ignore those confrontations. 618 00:34:21,626 --> 00:34:23,226 He didn't say a word. 619 00:34:23,327 --> 00:34:25,829 He didn't respond to my accusations. 620 00:34:25,930 --> 00:34:27,898 If you were being accused of murder 621 00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:30,901 and didn't do it, wouldn't you come back at me? 622 00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:32,803 He didn't do that. He just sat there. 623 00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:36,440 And then at the very end, he said: "I didn't do it. 624 00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:38,175 I want a lawyer." 625 00:34:38,276 --> 00:34:40,343 And then he pointed up at the camera 626 00:34:40,445 --> 00:34:43,814 and said: "I want a lawyer!" and he was screaming. 627 00:34:43,915 --> 00:34:45,715 He was so upset. 628 00:34:45,817 --> 00:34:47,384 Detectives have enough evidence 629 00:34:47,485 --> 00:34:50,087 to tie Todd Smith to his wife's murder, 630 00:34:50,188 --> 00:34:51,822 but they still don't arrest him. 631 00:34:52,423 --> 00:34:53,824 They have nearly 632 00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:55,592 all the circumstantial evidence they need, 633 00:34:55,693 --> 00:34:57,761 but they hold out and stay focused, 634 00:34:57,862 --> 00:35:00,897 looking for that final piece to close the circle. 635 00:35:00,998 --> 00:35:02,766 Good evidence often can mean 636 00:35:02,867 --> 00:35:04,401 the difference between making an arrest 637 00:35:04,502 --> 00:35:06,403 and someone being acquitted at trial 638 00:35:06,504 --> 00:35:07,938 and making an arrest and making sure 639 00:35:08,039 --> 00:35:09,539 that person never gets out. 640 00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:12,142 Then, on November 9th, 641 00:35:12,243 --> 00:35:13,710 three weeks after Katrina Smith 642 00:35:13,811 --> 00:35:16,379 went missing, investigators get the break 643 00:35:16,481 --> 00:35:18,748 they've been waiting for. 644 00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:22,552 An off-duty firefighter noticed what appeared to be 645 00:35:22,653 --> 00:35:26,223 something in the water that shouldn't be there. 646 00:35:26,324 --> 00:35:28,992 Unfortunately, through that investigation 647 00:35:29,093 --> 00:35:31,328 and through that autopsy, 648 00:35:31,429 --> 00:35:33,864 we were able to determine it was Katrina Smith. 649 00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:36,766 Individuals always think that 650 00:35:36,868 --> 00:35:38,468 when they toss the body in the river 651 00:35:38,569 --> 00:35:40,437 that they get rid of evidence. 652 00:35:40,538 --> 00:35:42,239 But they really do not. 653 00:35:43,341 --> 00:35:46,309 I knew eventually Katrina would surface, 654 00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:50,046 and her body would be able to tell me 655 00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:53,850 how she died and how she spent the last minutes of her life. 656 00:35:55,052 --> 00:35:57,420 Katrina's body is badly decomposed, 657 00:35:57,522 --> 00:35:58,955 but the coroner declares 658 00:35:59,056 --> 00:35:59,956 the cause of death 659 00:36:00,057 --> 00:36:01,892 as blunt force trauma to the head. 660 00:36:03,561 --> 00:36:07,063 She was probably most likely struck from behind, 661 00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,267 and defensive wounds on her forearms 662 00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:14,304 would have indicated an attempt to protect herself. 663 00:36:14,405 --> 00:36:17,340 The type of weapon that would cause those types of injuries 664 00:36:17,441 --> 00:36:19,376 is some kind of cylindrical object. 665 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:22,512 We were able to determine from the evidence 666 00:36:22,613 --> 00:36:24,281 that that cylindrical object 667 00:36:24,382 --> 00:36:28,985 was more than likely a pipe, or a bat. 668 00:36:29,086 --> 00:36:32,422 This was a brutal attack on Katrina Smith. 669 00:36:33,457 --> 00:36:35,625 The attack showed that the individual 670 00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:38,395 who attacked her was very aggressive, 671 00:36:38,496 --> 00:36:40,463 was very emotional, 672 00:36:40,565 --> 00:36:42,165 and was going to make sure 673 00:36:42,266 --> 00:36:45,101 that she did not survive the attack. 674 00:36:47,238 --> 00:36:48,939 Detectives searched the Smith home 675 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:50,740 looking for the murder weapon. 676 00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:53,543 The bat was found during the execution 677 00:36:53,644 --> 00:36:55,478 of one of the search warrants, 678 00:36:55,580 --> 00:36:57,714 in the garage, in a corner. 679 00:36:57,815 --> 00:36:59,983 The testings of the bat show 680 00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:02,953 that there was presence of human blood 681 00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:05,388 in different areas of the bat. 682 00:37:06,190 --> 00:37:08,191 It ended up being Katrina's blood. 683 00:37:09,293 --> 00:37:11,428 Luminal is sprayed throughout the garage 684 00:37:11,529 --> 00:37:13,763 where the murder weapon was found. 685 00:37:13,864 --> 00:37:17,267 Crime scenes saw what they believed was a evidence 686 00:37:17,368 --> 00:37:19,369 that a large amount of blood 687 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:21,671 had been cleaned up from the area. 688 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,508 We could see that the place 689 00:37:25,610 --> 00:37:28,345 that she was killed was in the garage. 690 00:37:28,446 --> 00:37:30,447 They finally have the physical evidence 691 00:37:30,548 --> 00:37:33,450 proving Todd killed his wife. 692 00:37:33,551 --> 00:37:38,421 We believe that Todd took his marriage vows literally, 693 00:37:38,522 --> 00:37:41,691 "till death do us part." 694 00:37:41,792 --> 00:37:44,294 And his motive in killing Katrina 695 00:37:44,395 --> 00:37:48,231 was to maintain her as his wife forever. 696 00:37:50,468 --> 00:37:53,003 Investigators are now able to complete the picture 697 00:37:53,137 --> 00:37:54,871 of what they believe happened 698 00:37:54,972 --> 00:37:58,808 to Katrina Smith in the final 24 hours of her life. 699 00:37:59,710 --> 00:38:01,578 October 22nd, 700 00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:04,114 she went to work at approximately 8 am. 701 00:38:04,215 --> 00:38:08,285 She got off work at approximately 5 pm, 5:30 pm. 702 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:12,522 She got to the family residence at about 6 pm, 703 00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:15,292 where she started her laundry for her job interview 704 00:38:15,393 --> 00:38:18,461 the following morning at 7:30. 705 00:38:18,562 --> 00:38:21,197 That night, Katrina tells Todd she wants a divorce. 706 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:24,067 Todd is pressuring her to stay in the marriage 707 00:38:24,168 --> 00:38:25,935 and not to seek a divorce. 708 00:38:27,204 --> 00:38:29,606 Investigators determined that Guy Gabriel 709 00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:32,409 was trying to help Katrina. 710 00:38:32,510 --> 00:38:35,779 We believe that she is looking for someone to support her 711 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,581 in her decision to end the marriage. 712 00:38:38,683 --> 00:38:41,184 Guy is providing her that support 713 00:38:41,285 --> 00:38:44,654 through their text messages that night. 714 00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:47,490 We believe what happened next is when she got ready 715 00:38:47,591 --> 00:38:49,859 to leave the home and go back to the condo, 716 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:51,861 Todd was very upset. 717 00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,835 MARILYN: We believe that when she is leaving the home, 718 00:38:58,936 --> 00:39:01,071 Todd struck Katrina 719 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:02,839 to the back of the head with a bat. 720 00:39:03,808 --> 00:39:06,543 She then attempts to protect her head 721 00:39:06,644 --> 00:39:10,080 by putting up her arms, which shows linear marks 722 00:39:10,181 --> 00:39:12,816 that fit the shape of the bat, 723 00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:15,652 as he continued to beat her repeatedly. 724 00:39:24,428 --> 00:39:27,497 He then dragged her to the back of her vehicle 725 00:39:27,598 --> 00:39:29,566 and placed her in the fetal position 726 00:39:29,667 --> 00:39:32,135 in the trunk of that car where she died. 727 00:39:33,237 --> 00:39:34,637 We believe that Todd drove 728 00:39:34,739 --> 00:39:36,906 Katrina's body to the bridge 729 00:39:37,007 --> 00:39:41,778 shortly after 11 pm, he dumped Katrina's body into the river. 730 00:39:42,947 --> 00:39:44,748 VINCE: He then proceeded to drive the car 731 00:39:44,849 --> 00:39:48,518 to Ventura and Obispo, where he ditched the car. 732 00:39:49,754 --> 00:39:54,090 Then at 11:24, we have a text from Todd 733 00:39:54,191 --> 00:39:56,192 to Katrina's phone that says "Sweet dreams. 734 00:39:56,293 --> 00:39:57,193 Good night." 735 00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:02,065 The last text message he sent to her 736 00:40:02,166 --> 00:40:04,734 was a signal of: "You know what? 737 00:40:04,835 --> 00:40:06,703 You will forever be my wife. 738 00:40:06,804 --> 00:40:07,937 You will die my wife." 739 00:40:17,114 --> 00:40:19,816 On November 21st, 2012, 740 00:40:19,917 --> 00:40:23,686 Todd Smith is charged with first degree murder. 741 00:40:23,788 --> 00:40:26,856 The timeline basically put this case together 742 00:40:26,957 --> 00:40:28,658 and tied it in a bow. 743 00:40:29,994 --> 00:40:31,327 It was rock solid. 744 00:40:31,429 --> 00:40:34,497 We were able to pinpoint his movements. 745 00:40:34,598 --> 00:40:36,065 We were able to pinpoint 746 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:38,902 Katrina's movements and when she went off the grid, 747 00:40:39,003 --> 00:40:41,838 we knew that in order for her to be off the grid, 748 00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:43,606 she was most likely dead. 749 00:40:45,776 --> 00:40:50,814 In January 2017, four years after Katrina's murder, 750 00:40:50,915 --> 00:40:52,982 Todd Smith finally stands trial. 751 00:40:54,919 --> 00:40:56,853 The murder of Katrina Smith was just 752 00:40:56,954 --> 00:40:59,155 a brutal, heinous crime. 753 00:41:00,024 --> 00:41:02,058 She was a beautiful young woman 754 00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:04,394 who wanted to live her life. 755 00:41:04,495 --> 00:41:07,497 She just wanted to live it without Todd. 756 00:41:07,598 --> 00:41:09,966 And instead of allowing her to do that, 757 00:41:10,067 --> 00:41:12,702 he decided to take her life. 758 00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,939 Todd believed that he could commit the perfect murder, 759 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,609 and I think his downfall was the arrogance 760 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:21,411 that he could get away with that. 761 00:41:22,379 --> 00:41:23,480 VINCE: She wasn't wrong. 762 00:41:23,581 --> 00:41:25,582 Her instincts were right there. 763 00:41:25,683 --> 00:41:27,450 She was being stalked. 764 00:41:27,551 --> 00:41:29,285 She just didn't know by whom. 765 00:41:29,386 --> 00:41:32,455 It was her own husband stalking her. 766 00:41:32,556 --> 00:41:33,890 For years. 767 00:41:33,991 --> 00:41:37,794 The jury finds Todd Smith guilty of first degree murder. 768 00:41:37,895 --> 00:41:40,930 He is sentenced to 59 years in prison. 769 00:41:41,031 --> 00:41:42,732 I think about her all the time. 770 00:41:42,833 --> 00:41:45,869 I have pictures of her during her beautiful life 771 00:41:45,970 --> 00:41:47,804 that her family has shared with me. 772 00:41:47,905 --> 00:41:49,939 And I keep those pictures close at hand, 773 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,576 as a reminder of why we do what we do. 774 00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:55,912 More importantly, why I do what I do. 775 00:41:57,214 --> 00:42:01,217 With every police officer with every detective, 776 00:42:01,318 --> 00:42:03,019 with everybody in law enforcement, 777 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:05,388 there are those cases that attach themselves 778 00:42:05,489 --> 00:42:07,657 to your soul, to your heart. 779 00:42:08,459 --> 00:42:10,126 Katrina and her family... 780 00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:22,105 ...they have permanently 781 00:42:22,206 --> 00:42:24,107 attached themselves to my heart.