[Michael] This is a chaotic violent scene,
suggesting this was planned, premeditated and personal.
There were stab wounds all over her body.
This was a brutal murder.
[Ron] She was a faithful woman.
Loving, caring mother and grandmother and didn't deserve to die.
[Hillary] She was probably targeted, but this is an elderly lady
Why this person, why this house?
This is so far off the beaten path.
[Ron] They stood to be the beneficiary of $5 million.
It's an enormous incentive for them to collect on those policies
as soon as possible.
[Randy] He calls them repeatedly,
saying when is she gonna die, when is she gonna die?
She was just a payday. They had to hasten the death
to realize their fantasies of greed.
[Hillary] The person looks just like the person
that was seen at the crime scene.
This could be the killer.
[narrator] Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered.
The key to solving the toughest of these homicides
lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life.
To crack the case, detective must reconstruct that critical timeline.
The minutes and hours containing evidence
that can help unlock the mystery and catch the killer
Colleyville, Texas, combines all of southern cha with modern day luxury.
[Hillary] Colleyville is an affluent suburban
bedroom community that's situated between Dallas and Fort Worth.
[Randy] There's a lot of money in Colleyville.
It's high-end homes not just anyone can afford a house there.
I could count on my hands how many violent crimes that we have.
There hasn't been a murder in Colleyville in over 30 years.
[narrator] But on a warm fall morning, 911 receives a call,
that shatters this peaceful community's sense of safety
[police sirens blaring]
[Hillary] Police officers arrived on scene and they found the gardener
and that she was hysterical
She told him that she found the housekeeper
laying on the floor inside of the house, laying in blood.
The detectives saw a woman laying on her back.
There was blood on her face on her body, on her hands, on the walls.
They noted that there were stab wounds all over her body
and what appeared to be blunt force trauma to the head.
[Hillary] It looked like that she may have had some type of defensive
wounds on her arms.
This was a brutal murder.
[Michael] There's also slice through her clothes
over top of where the stab wounds occurred,
suggesting some kind of edged weapon like a knife.
But there is no murder weapon to be found.
[narrator] The victim is identified as the housekeeper,
who worked at the residence
69-year-old Anita Fox.
Anita Fox lived in Alvarado, Texas.
She lived in a mobile home park.
She was a mother and a grandmother.
[Ron] Miss Fox had three children.
There was Virginia, her oldest daughter,
Al Fox III, her youngest so and her daughter, Jenna.
Her husband had passed away some years earlier.
Anita was big in her church,
she doted over her grandchildren
and that was what her life was all about.
[narrator] Heading up the investigation into Anita Fox's murder
are Hillary Wreay of the Colleyville Police Department,
and FBI Special Agent Ron Grosse.
[Hillary] After so many year of not having a murder in Colleyville
and this is the first one we've had, my first thought was,
why this person? Why this house?
This is so far off the beaten path.
This is an elderly lady.
These types of things just don't typically happen in Colleyville.
State of Anita's body suggests a frenzied attack.
This is a chaotic violent scene, therefore suggesting this was planned,
premeditated and likely it was personal.
[narrator] To catch Anita Fox's killer,
investigators will have to piece together her final 24 hours.
Based on the blood patterns and how fresh the body seems to investigators,
detectives deduced that the murder happened pretty recently.
Not far from when the gardener called the poli at 11:26 a.m.
[narrator] With a preliminar window of death established
investigators begin processi the crime scene.
[Hillary] When we searched the house, it didn't look like
there was any type of a burglary.
It didn't look like anythin had been gone through, there's no forced entry.
The rest of the house was in order.
Evidence technicians, they were looking for DNA.
Um, any type of blood transfer,
anything that may be left at the crime scene location.
[narrator] Then property owners Frank and Nancy Lope arrive home.
[Hillary] Nancy was, was ver distraught.
She said that Miss Fox had worked with them for several years,
was a trusted worker of theirs.
Miss Fox comes to her house every two weeks on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.
to clean her house.
She had given Miss Fox a ke so she would be able to let herself in.
Nancy didn't have any clue a to why somebody would do thi
[narrator] Detectives bring the gardener, Benita Garcia
the woman who discovered Anita's body,
down to the station for questioning.
[Matthew] She told the investigators that
she arrived at the property approximately 11:10 a.m.
At approximately 11:15 to 11:25,
she noticed that there was a truck sitting in front of the home.
[Ron] She was sitting in a parked car,
a house or two away from the residence,
and she noticed a man exiting the residence
sometime between 11:15 and 11:25 a.m.
[Hillary] Benita described him as a short fat man
and he was a white male with white or gray hair.
And he was carrying a orange bucket
kind of like a painter's bucket.
She said that he walked down the road a little bit
and got into a pickup truck
When Benita saw the white male exit the hous
she immediately got suspicio
because typically the Lopez's would tell her
if a handyman or somebody would be at the house.
[Randy] She observed what appeared to her to be a younger,
skinnier man in the driver's side of the vehicle.
[Ron] The vehicle involved was a Chevrolet.
It had ladder racks on it,
more like what a workman's truck would look like.
Police asked her if she was able to get a license plate,
and this is not something that she observed.
[Hillary] Once Benita told us
about the man leaving the house,
we automatically thought that this could be the killer.
[Michael] The fact that Benita saw this mystery man
leave the house sometime between 11:15 and 11:25 a.m
suggests that the murder occurred probably at that time.
Also, Benita tells detective
that this mystery man's features are distinctive enough
that she would recognize them if she saw him again.
[narrator] Investigators set Benita up with a forensic sketch artis
hoping they'll create a likeness
of the person they believe to be Anita's killer.
So at this point in the investigation,
they do have a sketch of somebody who was seen leaving the scene.
If we can find who this person is,
maybe this leads to the killer.
[Hillary] One of our theories was tha Anita was probably targeted
I felt that it was personal
because it was just very violent.
[Michael] There's still a lot police don't know about Anit
What else was going on in her life,
what people had infiltrated her life that may have,
unbeknownst to her, posed a danger to her?
We just didn't know at this point it was a real who-done-it.
[narrator] In the horrific stabbing of 69-year-old Anita Fox.
Detectives are building their case
around a police sketch of a man observed
leaving the crime scene
moments after the murder.
To find out more about
who might have wanted to kill this elderly housekeeper,
investigators turn to her family,
starting with her son, Al Fo
[Hillary] Miss Fox's son, Al Fox,
is just completely distraught.
He described his mother as just the sweetest person
and he was just in complete shock.
[Randy] Anita Fox appeared to be closer to him
than the other children because the other children lived out of state
and Al Fox lived near her in the RV Park.
Al said they had a good relationship,
even though at the time she didn't have a lot of money if she was happy.
[narrator] While talking about his mother's background.
Al Fox reveals their family is part of a tight-knit nomadic traveler community.
[Ron] Traveler communities,
they are spread out throughout the United States, mostly in the Southeast.
They travel across the count from town to town, trying to find work.
Typically, blue collar construction-type jobs,
but they'll return to their home base.
Often the businesses that they conduct are legitimate,
but sometimes they're not.
So, they keep their culture and their work and marriage within their own group.
[narrator] Detectives ask Al if he can think of anyone
who might have wanted to hurt his mother.
[Ron] Al described his mother as a loving,
churchgoing lady who had no enemies.
So when asked about a motive
Al believed that the only motive could be that
he thought that she had a million dollar life insurance policy.
[Matthew] In the traveler community it is very common for them
to take out life insurance policies
on their elderly relatives in hopes that when their loved ones die,
that they will receive a windfall for that.
[Ron] Life insurance is often investigated as a possible motive
because the beneficiary of the policy
typically has a financial incentive for that person to die.
In this case, the beneficiaries
would more than likely be the children.
[narrator] Believing Al and his two siblings
could stand to cash in on a $1 million life insurance policy,
detectives ask him about his timeline leading u to his mother's death.
[Ron] Al Fox said he last saw his mother
the night before she was murdered,
she came over and visited him at his house
And as he often did, he called her to make sure she got home all right.
On the morning of September 23rd,
Al told them he was in the business of paving
and he was on the job site,
paving the parking lot from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m on that day.
[Roots] Detectives know that Anita was killed
sometime Between 11:00 a.m. when she arrived at work and 11:15 a.m.
when the gardener witnessed the mystery man
who they believe to be the killer exiting the House.
And Al Fox's colleagues verified
that Al was indeed on the job site
from nine o'clock until noo the day his mother was kille
[narrator] With Al ruled out,
investigators show him a sketch of the man
witnessed leaving the crime scene
who they believe is the killer.
[Hillary] Al said he did not recogniz that person at all.
[Randy] The investigators describe the Tan Chevrolet pickup
with a ladder rack on it.
Now, Fox says, wait a minute, I've seen that truck.
Several days earlier,
he was paving the parking lo of Texas oncology.
And his mother shows up on the job site.
She brought him lunch.
And Al notices a truck drop by.
The people in the truck are kind of eyeballing him.
And they drove by several times,
and it raised concern,
but not enough to do anything at that point
Al Fox also saw the vehicle
on September 20th,
driving around the trailer park,
where he and his mother lived.
On September 21st,
two days before the murder.
He sees it at Big Willies,
which is a convenience store that's nearby.
Al said he tells his wife,
that's too many times, we've seen this truck too many times.
Take a picture of that truck.
So she takes a picture of the truck and the license plate.
The investigators were convinced
it was the same truck
that was present at the murder scene.
[Hillary] Detectives were able to obtain surveillance
video from the area.
And see the truck that Al described.
This corroborated what he was saying, that, you know,
that this truck had been following him.
[Ron] But the police were not able to make out the complete license plate.
They were able to make out the last three numbers.
Also, the police were not able to determine
who the driver was of the truck that they observed on the security camera.
[narrator] While police wor to track down the tan truck
Detective Ray and FBI agent Grosse
turned to another beneficiar of Anita's alleged $1 millio life insurance policy.
Her estranged daughter, Jenna Lee and her husband, Paul.
Jenna, had had some problems in the past with um,
drug and alcohol abuse.
[Ron] Investigations that involve people who are drug and or alcohol abusers,
they often have a financial motive in a crim
because it takes money to pay for your habit,
so a potential suspect who has drug problems
would be of keen interest to the police.
Anita's relationship with Jenna Lee was strained
and Jenna had not spoken to Anita in months prior to the murder.
[narrator] Detectives ask Jenna Lee
if she has any knowledge abo her mother owning $1 millio life insurance policy.
[Matthew] Jenna had no idea that
her mother might have had $1 million life insurance policy on her
[Hillary] During the interview,
we noticed that Paul had a scratch on his nose and also on his hands.
One of our theories is that Anita was fighting back
and scratched him on the face.
So, it immediately raised suspicion
that he could have possibly been the murderer.
[narrator] With suspicion cast on the couple,
detectives ask about their whereabouts
the day Anita was killed.
[Ron] They had an alibi
for the day that Anita Fox was killed,
they were 1000 miles away or so in Minnesota.
[narrator] Investigators eliminate Jenna Lee and her husband
as suspects
and move on to the last potential beneficia
of Anita's supposed $1 milli life insurance policy.
Her daughter, Virginia, and her husband Mark Bucklan
[Ron] During the interview, Virgin
described their relationshi with Anita as wonderful.
Great mother-daughter relationship, no problems.
They would talk to each other almost daily.
Police Department asked if there was any insurance on Anita fox.
Virginia Buckland says no,
there would be no insurance on my mother.
[Matthew] So, Anita's son
Al said that there was $1 million policy on Anita Fox
and Jenna and Virginia denied that,
and so investigators in Colleyville,
they didn't understand why there was a misunderstanding about tha
[Ron] So when the investigators asked where Virginia and Mark wer
on the morning of September 23,
they advised that they were both employed in Minnesota.
[narrator] Investigators show Virginia and Mark
the sketch of the man observ leaving the crime scene,
whom they believe killed Anita.
[Ron] The composite sketch
of the man who came out of the house, it didn't ring any bells,
they didn't recognize the sketch or the description of the truck.
As the Buckland's were leaving,
Mark Buckland pulled aside one of the investigators
and told them that he had not been completely truthfu
when they asked him about life insurance on Anita Fox.
Mark Buckland said I own a monster policy
on my mother-in-law.
He said that Anita had $5 million worth of insurance on her life.
Mark Buckland stressed with the investigators
that while he and his wife may have been beneficiaries of these policies,
they in no way were involve in her murder and that they loved Anita.
[Matthew] He claimed that the reason w he withheld it from the poli
was because he didn't want Al Fox to know
because they didn't want Al Fox to get any of the money.
[Ron] The police considered this an enormous break,
because the fact that the Buckland's stood to
be the beneficiary of $5 million is an enormous incentive for th
to collect on those policie as soon as possible,
which would mean that Anita Fox had to die.
[narrator] In the murder of 69-year-old Anita Fox,
Detectives have learned that her own daughter, Virginia Buckland,
along with Virginia's husband Mark,
took out a life insurance policy on Anita worth $5 million.
[Ron] $5 million.
That's a lot of money. It's a lot of money for anybody.
It was a lot of money for the Bucklands.
Now, the focus was on the potential involvement of Virginia and Mark.
[narrator] To help navigate the complexities of this cas
detectives consult with Sergeant Randy Waters,
an Investigator with the Texas Department of Insurance.
[Ron] When the police and the Texas Department of Insurance
investigate the policies on Anita's life,
they did confirm that the beneficiaries
were Mark Buckland and or his wife, Virginia Buckland.
[Randy] It's not enough to link the to the murder itself,
but it's suspicious that they would have that much insurance on her
and here she is murdered.
[Matthew] They also discover that there were recorded phone calls
to the insurance companies, supposedly by Anita Fox,
talking about the life insurance policy.
[narrator] Detectives invite Anita's son,
Al Fox down to the station to verify
that Anita was, in fact, the one making those calls.
[Matthew] Detectives play ba the recordings for Al.
And Al told Detective Waters
that's not my mother. That's Virginia.
[Ron] Virginia pretending to be her mother,
it's a red flag.
[Randy] During my conversation with Al Fox,
he told me about a situation in which,
he drove to his mother's hom and when he got there,
he sees that his mother is talking to someone
who he later
determines to be Charles or Chuck Mercier.
Chuck Mercier was an insurance agent
out of South Carolina.
And he was there to sell his mother insurance,
and Al says no way.
He does not want his mother taken out of the insurance,
because as he puts it, it puts a target on her.
And he tells the guy, Leave, get out of here.
[Ron] Al Fox was concerned about these life insurance policies
because a member of their family had been murdered
for the benefit of a policy.
[narrator] When detectives revealed
that Virginia and Mark
are the sole beneficiaries of the $5 million
life insurance policies.
Al is stunned.
[Ron] Al Fox was not aware of the $5 million
of insurance on his mother's life.
[Hillary] Virginia and Mark are starting to
look like they may be involved.
[narrator] Working the theory
that Virginia and Mark
conspired to have Anita killed for the insurance payout,
detectives question them again.
[Ron] When Mark and Virginia Buckland were being questioned
about the fact that Virginia had impersonated her mother,
on a couple of calls with the insurance company.
Virginia assured them that
her mother knew about the calls
and that she knew about the $5 million of insurance.
[Matthew] They claimed that they had Anita's permission
and that she just didn't have time to do it,
and so she asked Virginia to do it for her.
[Ron] Virginia and Mark Buckland told the investigators
that the policies were applied through Charles Mercier.
It was their story that Anita wanted
more life insurance on herself,
for the benefit of her children and her grandchildren.
So there was a total of five policies totaling $5 million
written on the life of Anita Fox.
[Randy] There was a challenge in making the payments.
The premium increase from basically $3000 to $6000.
Virginia realizes, hey, we cannot keep this going.
[Ron] But Mark Buckland want to find out a way
to lower the amount of premiums he was paying,
which meant that he might have to let one of the policies go.
Mercier thought that he could find a buyer or quote an investor
for one of the policies.
And Charles Mercier was indeed able to locate
a group of Irish travelers
who were interested in purchasing
one of the million dollar policies on Anita Fox's life.
This is a group of investors,
whom Virginia and Mark Buckland said they had no knowledge of.
They didn't know who they were.
Since one of the policies now has a new beneficiary
that brings in a new suspect.
[narrator] Could this mysterious group
of policy buyers have something to do
with the murder of Anita Fox
Looking for answers,
investigators haul the insurance agent, Charles Mercier,
down to the station for questioning.
Charles Mercier would sell to mainly travelers
who were basically profitin
from the death of their loved ones.
Charles Mercier told us,
people in the traveler community
want to buy policies that are on other people,
even if they don't know them
In hopes that the person dies before they spend
as much money as they spend on the premiums.
[Ron] During the interview,
he confirmed meeting with the Buckland's.
But he did acknowledge that the application for the policies was fraudulent
Anita's network was grossly inflated.
Her assets were made up.
[Matthew] The signatures
that were on the transfer of the beneficiary document
were not Anita Fox's signature.
[Ron] Mr. Mercier told us th
Mark Buckland was having trouble paying
all of the premiums for the $5 million.
[Randy] Charles Mercier found someon
to take over the policies.
His name was Pat Gorman.
There would be three other brothers also involved in the policy
Mike, Harry and Gerard "Big Joe" Gorman
The Gorman's are also part of the traveler community.
[Ron] So Mercier arranged for the
change of beneficiary on this policy to be made
from Virginia Buckland to Patrick Gorman.
But the beneficiary has to have a relationship
with the insured.
So since there was no relationship,
Patrick Gorman did not know Anita Fox,
didn't know the Buckland's.
It was decided that
Patrick Gorman would be portrayed
as a business partner of Anita Fox.
[Randy] The four brothers
got together and said, Okay, let's use Pat to own the policy.
And then when Anita Fox passes away,
he'll get the million dollars and he can divide it between the four of us.
That was their plan.
Charles Mercier told Pat Gorman that Anita Fox
was only going to live for a year.
So you buy this policy, pay $2,800 a month
and you're only going to have to worry about a year.
She has a hole in her heart
and they don't expect her to live that long.
[Matthew] The Gorman's had been
paying premiums for a year.
And they were concerned that they might be paying
those high premiums for years to come.
[Randy] One of the brothers,
Gerard Big Joe Gorman,
calls Mercier repeatedly saying
when is she going to die? When is she going to die? What's going on?
[Ron] Charles shared with the investigators
that Big Joe Gorman had called him
asking for Anita Fox's address.
These new revelations were extremely important.
The revelation that there was now
not only a new suspect in Patrick Gorman,
but maybe four suspects in the four Gorman's.
And the fact that Gerard Gorman expresse
that he might pay a visit to Anita Fox was, was extremely important.
It is another red flag.
In this crime you have a virulent mix of personality traits,
a level of callousness and premeditation here.
Perhaps Anita Fox was just a payday.
Then, they had to hasten the death to realize their fantasies of greed.
[narrator] In the brutal homicide of loving grandmother, Anita Fo
the focus of the investigation has shifted to the Gorman brothers,
who shortly before Anita's murder,
purchased a $1 million life insurance policy on her
The policies themselves,
which were obtained fraudulently,
were an incentive for the murder of Anita Fox.
So it didn't rule out some type of involvement of Virginia and Mark Buckland.
But there was more focus on the Gorman's at this point.
[narrator] Detectives move to question Patrick Gorman,
who's named as the sole beneficiary of the million dollar policy.
[Randy] Patrick has an address in Illinois.
They spoke with Gorman's wif Catherine.
She informed him he was away, out of state on a job.
But his wife was able to provide the police with a picture of Patrick.
But the picture of Patrick Gorman was very different
than the sketch of the suspect in Anita Fox's murde
Patrick Gorman appeared to b much thinner, younger than the composite drawing.
And while he might not have been the man who murdered Anita Fox.
The police did not rule out that he had something to do with it.
[narrator] Detectives tracked down Patrick Gorman in Columbia, South Carolina
[Ron] Patrick Gorman acknowledged
that he was the beneficiary of this policy,
as a set up by Charles Mercier.
He acknowledged that he did not have a business relationship
with Anita Fox.
He told us that he had never been to Colleyville,
didn't know Anita Fox and had nothing to do with her murder.
Patrick Gorman's alibi for the day that Anita Fox was murdered was,
he was in Texas, but he was there for the wedding of his son.
So he had a lot of witnesses to verify that.
So, Patrick was eliminated as the one who committed the crime.
But the other three brother were not eliminated
as potential assailants in the murder of Anita Fox.
[narrator] With Patrick claiming no knowledge of the murder,
detectives seek the whereabouts of his brothers
But like many in the Irish traveler community,
they're elusive and seem to have disappeared.
[Hillary] This is the first that we had ever dealt with anyone
in the traveler community.
And when we started searching for names,
we would get, you know, pages of aliases.
It's just hard to track them down
and get a positive identification on them.
[narrator] But then, investigators catch a break
[Ron] During the course of the investigation,
the crime lab in Texas was able to digitally enhanc
the photograph that Al Fox's wife took off
the license plate of the tru that had been following the in Colleyville.
With that digital enhancemen they were able to see the entire license plate.
And determine that the plat on the truck was registered to a Bernard Gorman.
Further investigation determined that Bernard Gorman
was the nephew of Patrick Gorman,
who was the beneficiary of the million dollar policy in question.
[Hillary] Finally, we have a connection and a break.
We have Bernard Gorman, who is registered to the truck
that was described at the crime scene.
We knew we were on the right track.
[narrator] Detectives also received additional security footage
from Big Willy's convenience store.
[Ron] Investigators were able to determine
that at 7:38 p.m., on September 21st,
the truck that they had been attempting to find with the ladder rack
was seen in the video and a large older man exited the vehicle.
[Hillary] The person looks just like the person that was in the sketch.
When they discovered these details,
they immediately thought we've got our prime suspect.
The Texas Rangers, found the truck
and they eventually executed a traffic stop and arrested Bernard Gorman
[narrator] The Texas Ranger impound the truck
and bring Bernard Gorman to Colleyville for questioning.
[Ron] When asked about the insurance policy on Anita Fox,
Bernard Gorman said he had n knowledge of that.
He did not know Anita Fox. Never heard of her.
He told the investigators he'd been nowhere near Colleyville
on September 23rd, 2014.
[narrator] Investigators pressed Bernard
about how his truck ended up in Colleyville, on the day of the crime.
[Ron] Investigators told him they had photograph of the truck
being in and around Colleyville on September 23rd.
At that point, he said that he had loaned his truck to his father.
Bernard says that his dad's name is Gerard Gorman.
We were automatically suspicious.
This is the brother who's been making threatening phone calls
to Charles Mercier.
In addition, Gerard Gorman could be the person
that was also seen by the gardener at the crime scene.
The revelation was extremely important
because Gerard was one of the four Gorman brothers
who stood to benefit from the million dollar policy on Anita Fox.
So Gerard Gorman and his son are now high on the list of suspects
in the murder investigation
But they ask him if he knows where his father is?
Bernard says he doesn't know where his father is
and that his father doesn't have a cell phone
so he doesn't know how to get a hold of him.
So while the investigators question Bernard Gorman's story,
the police don't have enoug evidence to hold Bernard.
He doesn't match the description of the assailant,
and they have no direct evidence that he was, was in Colleyville
on the 23rd of September.
[narrator] With Bernard Gorm released for now.
Investigators turn their attention to his father, Gerard Gorman.
[Ron] They obtained a driver license photograph
from the Department of Moto Vehicles of Gerard Gorman
and made a comparison between that photograph
and the composite sketch that was made.
The sketch was a very accura depiction of Gerard Gorman.
[narrator] The case against the Gorman's gets an added boost
when the forensics come bac on Bernard Gorman's truck.
[Ron] Crime scene specialist examined the truck for any evidence of the crime.
They were not able to find any blood or hair forensic evidence
that would tie to the crime scene, but they did find Bernard Gorman's cell phone.
They were able to do a forensic analysis of the phone,
which indicated on Septembe 23rd that phone was pinging off towers
in the Colleyville area, not in Houston, Texas, where he claimed to be.
Investigators also found that there had been interne searches on the phone
using the words Anita Fox, Fort Worth, Texas.
[helicopter crossing]
[narrator] With Bernard and Gerard Gorman now
the prime suspects in the murder of Anita Fox.
Investigators mobilize to bring them both in for questioning.
[Hillary] After the detectiv received all this informatio
Bernard and Gerard,
basically disappeared and we were unable to find them.
[Randy] And that was a concern, because in the traveler community,
sometimes they disappear and you'll never find them again.
[narrator] Father and son du Gerard and Bernard Gorman
are wanted in the brutal murder of beloved grandmothe Anita Fox.
But the manhunt comes to an abrupt halt
when police get a call from a nearby Police Department.
[Hillary] Brookshire R.P.D. reaches out to let us know that they had a male
that has been found decease in their hotel room,
and they said that his name was Gerard Gorman.
He is an older man with the gray hair, overweight,
and he has the description of Gerard Gorman.
[Ron] There was rumors that well, maybe somebody killed Gerard Gorman to shut him u
because of his knowledge of the insurance fraud.
So an autopsy was done and it was determined that Gerard died of a heart attack.
But there's some disappointment in that,
that likely perpetrator is not held accountable by the justice system.
So, you know, it's a mixed emotions, but there is stil work to do.
They have the potential involvement of his son, Bernard Gorman.
[Hillary] In order to find Bernard,
we took to social media to see if there was any clue
we found his wife's Facebook post
where it showed that they were in Disney World in Florida.
[narrator] Detectives bring Bernard to the Colleyville police stati
and question him again about Anita Fox's murder,
hoping he'll confess his involvement.
[Ron] During this interview Bernard admitted
that he had been in Fort Worth area on September 23r
and he had been with his father.
He finally admits, okay, I was with my father
and I drove him around up there.
[Ron] Bernard also told investigators,
they were following Anita Fo
He said he didn't know why.
Bernard also admitted that he did drive his fathe
to the house in Colleyville where Anita Fox was working
His father told him that he was looking at doin a paint job in that house,
so he was waiting for his father while he went in the house.
When his father came out, police asked him
if there was anything unusua about his father,
and he said his father was very agitated
and there was, looked like blood on his arm.
But he never questioned his father about what happened in the house.
[Ron] Bernard Gorman's story was..
Was completely incredible and unbelievable to investigators.
The investigators in no shape or form going to believe that...
Bernard Gorman had no knowledge of the murder of Anita Fox.
The most blunt way to put it,
you'd have to be a moron.
I don't even think a moron would not know what transpired in that home.
[narrator] Detectives can no reconstruct Anita Fox's final 24 hours.
[Michael] Unbeknownst to Anita,
Gerard had basically put a $ million bounty on her,
that he himself was going to collect.
It turns out she wasn't dying fast enough for him.
[Hillary] On September 23rd just before 11:00 a.m.
Anita Fox arrives at the Lopez residence
in Colleyville for her house cleaning job.
[Ron] At 11:03, Bernard Gorman parked his truck
a couple of houses down from the Lopez home.
Before going into the house Gerard grabbed a paint bucke
so that anybody who saw him going into the house
would naturally assume that he's going in there for...
some type of work on the hom
[Hillary] We believe that, when Gerard entered the house at 11:10,
he encountered Anita and she put up a fight.
But once on the ground, Gerard attacked her.
Stabbing her, multiple times
And killed her.
The entire attack lasted less than five minutes.
[Ron] At approximately 11:15 a.m.
Gerard Gorman leaves the house,
and he was seen walking out of no Lopez home.
This was a very intentional, premeditated attack.
[narrator] Bernard Gorman is charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
He agrees to a plea deal
and is sentenced to 14 years for his role
in the murder of 69 year old Anita Fox.
The most challenging thing for me was trying to figure out
the traveler culture, it's something that we've never dealt with.
I truly feel for the family
and I'm glad that there was some justice with Bernar getting some time.
However, I really wish that Gerard would have been alive
to be able to see his sentence.
[Ron] Life insurance is such a big part
of wealth accumulation in the traveler community.
It's almost an obsession,
but it highlighted how often older folks in the community are expendable
and that... that proved out in this case.
[Randy] Had there not been $5 million life insurance on Anita Fox,
this murder would have never happened.
[Matthew] Al fought hard
to make sure that the murderers were brought to justice.
[narrator] Despite their tragic and painful loss,
Anita's family continues to celebrate her joyful spirit.
[Ron] Anita Fox was sweet, hardworking.
She was a faithful woman.
She was a loving, caring mother and grandmother
and didn't deserve to die.