1 00:00:06,007 --> 00:00:08,807 [Michael] This is a chaotic violent scene, 2 00:00:08,876 --> 00:00:12,011 suggesting this was planned, premeditated and personal. 3 00:00:12,813 --> 00:00:15,514 There were stab wounds all over her body. 4 00:00:15,582 --> 00:00:18,784 This was a brutal murder. 5 00:00:18,819 --> 00:00:20,285 [Ron] She was a faithful woman. 6 00:00:20,287 --> 00:00:25,024 Loving, caring mother and grandmother and didn't deserve to die. 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:30,863 [Hillary] She was probably targeted, but this is an elderly lady 8 00:00:30,931 --> 00:00:32,765 Why this person, why this house? 9 00:00:32,767 --> 00:00:35,200 This is so far off the beaten path. 10 00:00:36,904 --> 00:00:40,939 [Ron] They stood to be the beneficiary of $5 million. 11 00:00:40,941 --> 00:00:43,976 It's an enormous incentive for them to collect on those policies 12 00:00:43,978 --> 00:00:45,310 as soon as possible. 13 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:47,880 [Randy] He calls them repeatedly, 14 00:00:47,882 --> 00:00:50,783 saying when is she gonna die, when is she gonna die? 15 00:00:50,785 --> 00:00:54,019 She was just a payday. They had to hasten the death 16 00:00:54,055 --> 00:00:57,956 to realize their fantasies of greed. 17 00:01:00,027 --> 00:01:02,761 [Hillary] The person looks just like the person 18 00:01:02,763 --> 00:01:05,064 that was seen at the crime scene. 19 00:01:05,866 --> 00:01:07,933 This could be the killer. 20 00:01:11,038 --> 00:01:15,808 [narrator] Every day in North America, dozens of people are murdered. 21 00:01:15,810 --> 00:01:18,310 The key to solving the toughest of these homicides 22 00:01:18,345 --> 00:01:22,548 lies in the final 24 hours of the victim's life. 23 00:01:22,616 --> 00:01:27,753 To crack the case, detective must reconstruct that critical timeline. 24 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:30,389 The minutes and hours containing evidence 25 00:01:30,391 --> 00:01:34,126 that can help unlock the mystery and catch the killer 26 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:48,507 Colleyville, Texas, combines all of southern cha with modern day luxury. 27 00:01:49,777 --> 00:01:52,945 [Hillary] Colleyville is an affluent suburban 28 00:01:52,947 --> 00:01:56,949 bedroom community that's situated between Dallas and Fort Worth. 29 00:01:57,017 --> 00:01:59,718 [Randy] There's a lot of money in Colleyville. 30 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:04,389 It's high-end homes not just anyone can afford a house there. 31 00:02:05,593 --> 00:02:09,228 I could count on my hands how many violent crimes that we have. 32 00:02:11,065 --> 00:02:13,999 There hasn't been a murder in Colleyville in over 30 years. 33 00:02:15,636 --> 00:02:19,905 [narrator] But on a warm fall morning, 911 receives a call, 34 00:02:19,907 --> 00:02:23,108 that shatters this peaceful community's sense of safety 35 00:02:47,935 --> 00:02:49,701 [police sirens blaring] 36 00:02:50,070 --> 00:02:53,839 [Hillary] Police officers arrived on scene and they found the gardener 37 00:02:53,841 --> 00:02:55,507 and that she was hysterical 38 00:02:55,576 --> 00:02:58,777 She told him that she found the housekeeper 39 00:02:58,845 --> 00:03:02,347 laying on the floor inside of the house, laying in blood. 40 00:03:04,318 --> 00:03:08,587 The detectives saw a woman laying on her back. 41 00:03:08,589 --> 00:03:13,358 There was blood on her face on her body, on her hands, on the walls. 42 00:03:14,495 --> 00:03:16,828 They noted that there were stab wounds all over her body 43 00:03:16,864 --> 00:03:19,498 and what appeared to be blunt force trauma to the head. 44 00:03:21,035 --> 00:03:23,502 [Hillary] It looked like that she may have had some type of defensive 45 00:03:23,537 --> 00:03:25,003 wounds on her arms. 46 00:03:26,874 --> 00:03:30,842 This was a brutal murder. 47 00:03:30,844 --> 00:03:32,978 [Michael] There's also slice through her clothes 48 00:03:33,013 --> 00:03:34,813 over top of where the stab wounds occurred, 49 00:03:34,815 --> 00:03:37,482 suggesting some kind of edged weapon like a knife. 50 00:03:37,484 --> 00:03:39,551 But there is no murder weapon to be found. 51 00:03:41,188 --> 00:03:43,889 [narrator] The victim is identified as the housekeeper, 52 00:03:43,891 --> 00:03:45,257 who worked at the residence 53 00:03:45,259 --> 00:03:48,060 69-year-old Anita Fox. 54 00:03:48,996 --> 00:03:51,730 Anita Fox lived in Alvarado, Texas. 55 00:03:51,798 --> 00:03:53,398 She lived in a mobile home park. 56 00:03:54,034 --> 00:03:57,603 She was a mother and a grandmother. 57 00:03:57,605 --> 00:03:59,705 [Ron] Miss Fox had three children. 58 00:03:59,707 --> 00:04:01,773 There was Virginia, her oldest daughter, 59 00:04:01,775 --> 00:04:06,945 Al Fox III, her youngest so and her daughter, Jenna. 60 00:04:07,014 --> 00:04:10,315 Her husband had passed away some years earlier. 61 00:04:10,985 --> 00:04:13,051 Anita was big in her church, 62 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,554 she doted over her grandchildren 63 00:04:15,589 --> 00:04:19,057 and that was what her life was all about. 64 00:04:20,594 --> 00:04:24,096 [narrator] Heading up the investigation into Anita Fox's murder 65 00:04:24,131 --> 00:04:27,399 are Hillary Wreay of the Colleyville Police Department, 66 00:04:27,801 --> 00:04:31,236 and FBI Special Agent Ron Grosse. 67 00:04:33,941 --> 00:04:36,842 [Hillary] After so many year of not having a murder in Colleyville 68 00:04:36,910 --> 00:04:39,911 and this is the first one we've had, my first thought was, 69 00:04:39,980 --> 00:04:42,714 why this person? Why this house? 70 00:04:42,716 --> 00:04:44,583 This is so far off the beaten path. 71 00:04:44,585 --> 00:04:47,619 This is an elderly lady. 72 00:04:47,621 --> 00:04:51,189 These types of things just don't typically happen in Colleyville. 73 00:04:51,859 --> 00:04:55,694 State of Anita's body suggests a frenzied attack. 74 00:04:55,696 --> 00:05:00,098 This is a chaotic violent scene, therefore suggesting this was planned, 75 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:03,368 premeditated and likely it was personal. 76 00:05:04,371 --> 00:05:06,938 [narrator] To catch Anita Fox's killer, 77 00:05:06,974 --> 00:05:11,476 investigators will have to piece together her final 24 hours. 78 00:05:11,512 --> 00:05:15,380 Based on the blood patterns and how fresh the body seems to investigators, 79 00:05:15,382 --> 00:05:19,017 detectives deduced that the murder happened pretty recently. 80 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:23,555 Not far from when the gardener called the poli at 11:26 a.m. 81 00:05:24,992 --> 00:05:27,793 [narrator] With a preliminar window of death established 82 00:05:27,861 --> 00:05:31,129 investigators begin processi the crime scene. 83 00:05:32,099 --> 00:05:34,366 [Hillary] When we searched the house, it didn't look like 84 00:05:34,368 --> 00:05:37,636 there was any type of a burglary. 85 00:05:37,638 --> 00:05:42,908 It didn't look like anythin had been gone through, there's no forced entry. 86 00:05:42,976 --> 00:05:45,143 The rest of the house was in order. 87 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:50,682 Evidence technicians, they were looking for DNA. 88 00:05:50,684 --> 00:05:53,852 Um, any type of blood transfer, 89 00:05:53,854 --> 00:06:00,125 anything that may be left at the crime scene location. 90 00:06:00,127 --> 00:06:04,296 [narrator] Then property owners Frank and Nancy Lope arrive home. 91 00:06:04,798 --> 00:06:07,766 [Hillary] Nancy was, was ver distraught. 92 00:06:07,834 --> 00:06:12,204 She said that Miss Fox had worked with them for several years, 93 00:06:12,239 --> 00:06:15,774 was a trusted worker of theirs. 94 00:06:15,776 --> 00:06:20,011 Miss Fox comes to her house every two weeks on Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. 95 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,780 to clean her house. 96 00:06:21,782 --> 00:06:27,452 She had given Miss Fox a ke so she would be able to let herself in. 97 00:06:27,454 --> 00:06:31,957 Nancy didn't have any clue a to why somebody would do thi 98 00:06:35,896 --> 00:06:38,964 [narrator] Detectives bring the gardener, Benita Garcia 99 00:06:39,032 --> 00:06:41,400 the woman who discovered Anita's body, 100 00:06:41,435 --> 00:06:43,301 down to the station for questioning. 101 00:06:45,105 --> 00:06:47,706 [Matthew] She told the investigators that 102 00:06:47,708 --> 00:06:51,309 she arrived at the property approximately 11:10 a.m. 103 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:57,783 At approximately 11:15 to 11:25, 104 00:06:57,818 --> 00:07:01,853 she noticed that there was a truck sitting in front of the home. 105 00:07:01,855 --> 00:07:02,987 [Ron] She was sitting in a parked car, 106 00:07:02,989 --> 00:07:05,223 a house or two away from the residence, 107 00:07:06,193 --> 00:07:09,995 and she noticed a man exiting the residence 108 00:07:09,997 --> 00:07:12,998 sometime between 11:15 and 11:25 a.m. 109 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:17,836 [Hillary] Benita described him as a short fat man 110 00:07:17,838 --> 00:07:21,440 and he was a white male with white or gray hair. 111 00:07:23,777 --> 00:07:26,545 And he was carrying a orange bucket 112 00:07:26,547 --> 00:07:28,447 kind of like a painter's bucket. 113 00:07:29,850 --> 00:07:31,883 She said that he walked down the road a little bit 114 00:07:31,919 --> 00:07:35,020 and got into a pickup truck 115 00:07:36,156 --> 00:07:39,724 When Benita saw the white male exit the hous 116 00:07:39,726 --> 00:07:42,160 she immediately got suspicio 117 00:07:42,162 --> 00:07:44,763 because typically the Lopez's would tell her 118 00:07:44,765 --> 00:07:48,600 if a handyman or somebody would be at the house. 119 00:07:48,602 --> 00:07:51,036 [Randy] She observed what appeared to her to be a younger, 120 00:07:51,071 --> 00:07:54,539 skinnier man in the driver's side of the vehicle. 121 00:07:54,541 --> 00:07:56,708 [Ron] The vehicle involved was a Chevrolet. 122 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:59,144 It had ladder racks on it, 123 00:07:59,146 --> 00:08:02,047 more like what a workman's truck would look like. 124 00:08:03,317 --> 00:08:06,852 Police asked her if she was able to get a license plate, 125 00:08:06,854 --> 00:08:11,289 and this is not something that she observed. 126 00:08:12,059 --> 00:08:13,525 [Hillary] Once Benita told us 127 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,594 about the man leaving the house, 128 00:08:15,596 --> 00:08:19,331 we automatically thought that this could be the killer. 129 00:08:20,601 --> 00:08:22,601 [Michael] The fact that Benita saw this mystery man 130 00:08:22,603 --> 00:08:26,204 leave the house sometime between 11:15 and 11:25 a.m 131 00:08:26,206 --> 00:08:29,508 suggests that the murder occurred probably at that time. 132 00:08:29,510 --> 00:08:31,009 Also, Benita tells detective 133 00:08:31,011 --> 00:08:34,446 that this mystery man's features are distinctive enough 134 00:08:34,448 --> 00:08:37,682 that she would recognize them if she saw him again. 135 00:08:37,718 --> 00:08:40,986 [narrator] Investigators set Benita up with a forensic sketch artis 136 00:08:40,988 --> 00:08:42,787 hoping they'll create a likeness 137 00:08:42,789 --> 00:08:45,323 of the person they believe to be Anita's killer. 138 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:49,227 So at this point in the investigation, 139 00:08:50,597 --> 00:08:55,734 they do have a sketch of somebody who was seen leaving the scene. 140 00:08:55,736 --> 00:08:57,903 If we can find who this person is, 141 00:08:57,905 --> 00:09:00,305 maybe this leads to the killer. 142 00:09:02,876 --> 00:09:07,078 [Hillary] One of our theories was tha Anita was probably targeted 143 00:09:08,315 --> 00:09:09,748 I felt that it was personal 144 00:09:09,750 --> 00:09:12,317 because it was just very violent. 145 00:09:15,155 --> 00:09:17,622 [Michael] There's still a lot police don't know about Anit 146 00:09:17,691 --> 00:09:19,691 What else was going on in her life, 147 00:09:19,693 --> 00:09:22,561 what people had infiltrated her life that may have, 148 00:09:22,563 --> 00:09:24,996 unbeknownst to her, posed a danger to her? 149 00:09:25,732 --> 00:09:29,100 We just didn't know at this point it was a real who-done-it. 150 00:09:35,776 --> 00:09:39,878 [narrator] In the horrific stabbing of 69-year-old Anita Fox. 151 00:09:39,913 --> 00:09:42,013 Detectives are building their case 152 00:09:42,015 --> 00:09:43,982 around a police sketch of a man observed 153 00:09:44,050 --> 00:09:45,951 leaving the crime scene 154 00:09:45,953 --> 00:09:47,319 moments after the murder. 155 00:09:50,457 --> 00:09:51,923 To find out more about 156 00:09:51,925 --> 00:09:54,960 who might have wanted to kill this elderly housekeeper, 157 00:09:55,796 --> 00:09:58,263 investigators turn to her family, 158 00:09:58,265 --> 00:10:00,498 starting with her son, Al Fo 159 00:10:02,202 --> 00:10:04,002 [Hillary] Miss Fox's son, Al Fox, 160 00:10:04,004 --> 00:10:07,072 is just completely distraught. 161 00:10:07,074 --> 00:10:10,775 He described his mother as just the sweetest person 162 00:10:10,777 --> 00:10:13,378 and he was just in complete shock. 163 00:10:14,781 --> 00:10:17,048 [Randy] Anita Fox appeared to be closer to him 164 00:10:17,117 --> 00:10:20,819 than the other children because the other children lived out of state 165 00:10:20,821 --> 00:10:24,889 and Al Fox lived near her in the RV Park. 166 00:10:24,958 --> 00:10:28,660 Al said they had a good relationship, 167 00:10:28,662 --> 00:10:33,198 even though at the time she didn't have a lot of money if she was happy. 168 00:10:35,235 --> 00:10:37,836 [narrator] While talking about his mother's background. 169 00:10:37,838 --> 00:10:43,074 Al Fox reveals their family is part of a tight-knit nomadic traveler community. 170 00:10:43,543 --> 00:10:45,243 [Ron] Traveler communities, 171 00:10:45,245 --> 00:10:49,014 they are spread out throughout the United States, mostly in the Southeast. 172 00:10:49,049 --> 00:10:53,284 They travel across the count from town to town, trying to find work. 173 00:10:54,755 --> 00:10:57,856 Typically, blue collar construction-type jobs, 174 00:10:57,924 --> 00:11:00,759 but they'll return to their home base. 175 00:11:00,761 --> 00:11:03,528 Often the businesses that they conduct are legitimate, 176 00:11:03,530 --> 00:11:05,730 but sometimes they're not. 177 00:11:05,732 --> 00:11:09,534 So, they keep their culture and their work and marriage within their own group. 178 00:11:12,105 --> 00:11:14,706 [narrator] Detectives ask Al if he can think of anyone 179 00:11:14,774 --> 00:11:16,941 who might have wanted to hurt his mother. 180 00:11:17,944 --> 00:11:20,311 [Ron] Al described his mother as a loving, 181 00:11:20,346 --> 00:11:23,548 churchgoing lady who had no enemies. 182 00:11:23,550 --> 00:11:25,517 So when asked about a motive 183 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:27,952 Al believed that the only motive could be that 184 00:11:28,021 --> 00:11:31,890 he thought that she had a million dollar life insurance policy. 185 00:11:31,958 --> 00:11:34,726 [Matthew] In the traveler community it is very common for them 186 00:11:34,728 --> 00:11:36,928 to take out life insurance policies 187 00:11:36,930 --> 00:11:40,765 on their elderly relatives in hopes that when their loved ones die, 188 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:45,003 that they will receive a windfall for that. 189 00:11:46,573 --> 00:11:49,574 [Ron] Life insurance is often investigated as a possible motive 190 00:11:49,642 --> 00:11:52,010 because the beneficiary of the policy 191 00:11:52,045 --> 00:11:55,480 typically has a financial incentive for that person to die. 192 00:11:57,184 --> 00:11:58,817 In this case, the beneficiaries 193 00:11:58,819 --> 00:12:00,485 would more than likely be the children. 194 00:12:05,659 --> 00:12:07,592 [narrator] Believing Al and his two siblings 195 00:12:07,594 --> 00:12:12,030 could stand to cash in on a $1 million life insurance policy, 196 00:12:12,065 --> 00:12:16,167 detectives ask him about his timeline leading u to his mother's death. 197 00:12:17,070 --> 00:12:18,803 [Ron] Al Fox said he last saw his mother 198 00:12:18,805 --> 00:12:20,472 the night before she was murdered, 199 00:12:20,474 --> 00:12:23,808 she came over and visited him at his house 200 00:12:23,877 --> 00:12:27,378 And as he often did, he called her to make sure she got home all right. 201 00:12:29,015 --> 00:12:31,015 On the morning of September 23rd, 202 00:12:31,084 --> 00:12:32,951 Al told them he was in the business of paving 203 00:12:32,953 --> 00:12:34,618 and he was on the job site, 204 00:12:34,620 --> 00:12:39,224 paving the parking lot from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m on that day. 205 00:12:41,061 --> 00:12:43,762 [Roots] Detectives know that Anita was killed 206 00:12:43,830 --> 00:12:48,800 sometime Between 11:00 a.m. when she arrived at work and 11:15 a.m. 207 00:12:48,802 --> 00:12:51,102 when the gardener witnessed the mystery man 208 00:12:51,171 --> 00:12:55,006 who they believe to be the killer exiting the House. 209 00:12:56,109 --> 00:12:58,743 And Al Fox's colleagues verified 210 00:12:58,779 --> 00:13:01,846 that Al was indeed on the job site 211 00:13:01,848 --> 00:13:04,549 from nine o'clock until noo the day his mother was kille 212 00:13:07,788 --> 00:13:09,521 [narrator] With Al ruled out, 213 00:13:09,523 --> 00:13:11,890 investigators show him a sketch of the man 214 00:13:11,958 --> 00:13:13,558 witnessed leaving the crime scene 215 00:13:13,593 --> 00:13:15,126 who they believe is the killer. 216 00:13:16,963 --> 00:13:20,999 [Hillary] Al said he did not recogniz that person at all. 217 00:13:21,968 --> 00:13:25,003 [Randy] The investigators describe the Tan Chevrolet pickup 218 00:13:25,005 --> 00:13:27,305 with a ladder rack on it. 219 00:13:30,043 --> 00:13:33,077 Now, Fox says, wait a minute, I've seen that truck. 220 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:35,780 Several days earlier, 221 00:13:35,782 --> 00:13:39,951 he was paving the parking lo of Texas oncology. 222 00:13:40,854 --> 00:13:43,188 And his mother shows up on the job site. 223 00:13:43,190 --> 00:13:44,455 She brought him lunch. 224 00:13:48,094 --> 00:13:51,863 And Al notices a truck drop by. 225 00:13:51,898 --> 00:13:54,132 The people in the truck are kind of eyeballing him. 226 00:13:55,168 --> 00:13:56,734 And they drove by several times, 227 00:13:56,803 --> 00:13:58,703 and it raised concern, 228 00:13:58,705 --> 00:14:01,306 but not enough to do anything at that point 229 00:14:03,210 --> 00:14:05,643 Al Fox also saw the vehicle 230 00:14:05,712 --> 00:14:06,778 on September 20th, 231 00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,246 driving around the trailer park, 232 00:14:08,248 --> 00:14:09,347 where he and his mother lived. 233 00:14:10,884 --> 00:14:12,817 On September 21st, 234 00:14:12,853 --> 00:14:14,919 two days before the murder. 235 00:14:14,988 --> 00:14:16,955 He sees it at Big Willies, 236 00:14:16,990 --> 00:14:19,958 which is a convenience store that's nearby. 237 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:21,759 Al said he tells his wife, 238 00:14:21,761 --> 00:14:24,629 that's too many times, we've seen this truck too many times. 239 00:14:24,631 --> 00:14:26,664 Take a picture of that truck. 240 00:14:26,733 --> 00:14:30,068 So she takes a picture of the truck and the license plate. 241 00:14:31,204 --> 00:14:33,037 The investigators were convinced 242 00:14:33,039 --> 00:14:34,639 it was the same truck 243 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:38,042 that was present at the murder scene. 244 00:14:38,044 --> 00:14:41,512 [Hillary] Detectives were able to obtain surveillance 245 00:14:41,548 --> 00:14:43,348 video from the area. 246 00:14:45,118 --> 00:14:48,453 And see the truck that Al described. 247 00:14:49,623 --> 00:14:52,490 This corroborated what he was saying, that, you know, 248 00:14:52,558 --> 00:14:55,760 that this truck had been following him. 249 00:14:55,828 --> 00:14:58,997 [Ron] But the police were not able to make out the complete license plate. 250 00:14:58,999 --> 00:15:01,499 They were able to make out the last three numbers. 251 00:15:02,602 --> 00:15:05,203 Also, the police were not able to determine 252 00:15:05,205 --> 00:15:08,940 who the driver was of the truck that they observed on the security camera. 253 00:15:10,010 --> 00:15:13,778 [narrator] While police wor to track down the tan truck 254 00:15:13,780 --> 00:15:15,947 Detective Ray and FBI agent Grosse 255 00:15:15,949 --> 00:15:21,953 turned to another beneficiar of Anita's alleged $1 millio life insurance policy. 256 00:15:21,955 --> 00:15:25,990 Her estranged daughter, Jenna Lee and her husband, Paul. 257 00:15:28,061 --> 00:15:30,495 Jenna, had had some problems in the past with um, 258 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:32,463 drug and alcohol abuse. 259 00:15:32,465 --> 00:15:37,769 [Ron] Investigations that involve people who are drug and or alcohol abusers, 260 00:15:37,771 --> 00:15:39,904 they often have a financial motive in a crim 261 00:15:39,906 --> 00:15:42,440 because it takes money to pay for your habit, 262 00:15:42,442 --> 00:15:44,842 so a potential suspect who has drug problems 263 00:15:44,844 --> 00:15:47,679 would be of keen interest to the police. 264 00:15:47,681 --> 00:15:51,049 Anita's relationship with Jenna Lee was strained 265 00:15:51,051 --> 00:15:56,254 and Jenna had not spoken to Anita in months prior to the murder. 266 00:15:57,390 --> 00:15:59,356 [narrator] Detectives ask Jenna Lee 267 00:15:59,358 --> 00:16:04,062 if she has any knowledge abo her mother owning $1 millio life insurance policy. 268 00:16:05,265 --> 00:16:07,031 [Matthew] Jenna had no idea that 269 00:16:07,033 --> 00:16:10,435 her mother might have had $1 million life insurance policy on her 270 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:13,237 [Hillary] During the interview, 271 00:16:13,239 --> 00:16:18,309 we noticed that Paul had a scratch on his nose and also on his hands. 272 00:16:19,312 --> 00:16:22,847 One of our theories is that Anita was fighting back 273 00:16:22,849 --> 00:16:24,515 and scratched him on the face. 274 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:28,019 So, it immediately raised suspicion 275 00:16:28,054 --> 00:16:31,222 that he could have possibly been the murderer. 276 00:16:32,692 --> 00:16:34,959 [narrator] With suspicion cast on the couple, 277 00:16:34,995 --> 00:16:37,061 detectives ask about their whereabouts 278 00:16:37,063 --> 00:16:39,530 the day Anita was killed. 279 00:16:39,532 --> 00:16:40,798 [Ron] They had an alibi 280 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:42,667 for the day that Anita Fox was killed, 281 00:16:42,669 --> 00:16:46,337 they were 1000 miles away or so in Minnesota. 282 00:16:47,974 --> 00:16:49,874 [narrator] Investigators eliminate Jenna Lee and her husband 283 00:16:49,942 --> 00:16:51,075 as suspects 284 00:16:51,077 --> 00:16:53,878 and move on to the last potential beneficia 285 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:57,982 of Anita's supposed $1 milli life insurance policy. 286 00:16:58,051 --> 00:17:01,285 Her daughter, Virginia, and her husband Mark Bucklan 287 00:17:02,956 --> 00:17:04,689 [Ron] During the interview, Virgin 288 00:17:04,691 --> 00:17:09,060 described their relationshi with Anita as wonderful. 289 00:17:10,697 --> 00:17:13,431 Great mother-daughter relationship, no problems. 290 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:17,001 They would talk to each other almost daily. 291 00:17:17,003 --> 00:17:23,007 Police Department asked if there was any insurance on Anita fox. 292 00:17:32,018 --> 00:17:35,086 Virginia Buckland says no, 293 00:17:35,088 --> 00:17:37,255 there would be no insurance on my mother. 294 00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:40,024 [Matthew] So, Anita's son 295 00:17:40,026 --> 00:17:45,329 Al said that there was $1 million policy on Anita Fox 296 00:17:45,331 --> 00:17:47,432 and Jenna and Virginia denied that, 297 00:17:47,434 --> 00:17:50,334 and so investigators in Colleyville, 298 00:17:50,336 --> 00:17:54,305 they didn't understand why there was a misunderstanding about tha 299 00:17:56,109 --> 00:17:59,877 [Ron] So when the investigators asked where Virginia and Mark wer 300 00:17:59,946 --> 00:18:02,580 on the morning of September 23, 301 00:18:02,648 --> 00:18:05,950 they advised that they were both employed in Minnesota. 302 00:18:06,719 --> 00:18:09,120 [narrator] Investigators show Virginia and Mark 303 00:18:09,122 --> 00:18:12,123 the sketch of the man observ leaving the crime scene, 304 00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:14,292 whom they believe killed Anita. 305 00:18:15,628 --> 00:18:17,228 [Ron] The composite sketch 306 00:18:17,230 --> 00:18:19,997 of the man who came out of the house, it didn't ring any bells, 307 00:18:20,033 --> 00:18:24,001 they didn't recognize the sketch or the description of the truck. 308 00:18:24,871 --> 00:18:26,971 As the Buckland's were leaving, 309 00:18:26,973 --> 00:18:29,507 Mark Buckland pulled aside one of the investigators 310 00:18:29,575 --> 00:18:31,776 and told them that he had not been completely truthfu 311 00:18:31,778 --> 00:18:35,279 when they asked him about life insurance on Anita Fox. 312 00:18:35,281 --> 00:18:38,783 Mark Buckland said I own a monster policy 313 00:18:38,785 --> 00:18:42,053 on my mother-in-law. 314 00:18:42,121 --> 00:18:46,357 He said that Anita had $5 million worth of insurance on her life. 315 00:18:47,427 --> 00:18:50,261 Mark Buckland stressed with the investigators 316 00:18:50,263 --> 00:18:54,966 that while he and his wife may have been beneficiaries of these policies, 317 00:18:54,968 --> 00:18:59,537 they in no way were involve in her murder and that they loved Anita. 318 00:18:59,539 --> 00:19:02,940 [Matthew] He claimed that the reason w he withheld it from the poli 319 00:19:03,009 --> 00:19:05,643 was because he didn't want Al Fox to know 320 00:19:05,645 --> 00:19:08,379 because they didn't want Al Fox to get any of the money. 321 00:19:09,883 --> 00:19:11,782 [Ron] The police considered this an enormous break, 322 00:19:11,784 --> 00:19:15,453 because the fact that the Buckland's stood to 323 00:19:15,488 --> 00:19:19,590 be the beneficiary of $5 million is an enormous incentive for th 324 00:19:19,592 --> 00:19:21,759 to collect on those policie as soon as possible, 325 00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,061 which would mean that Anita Fox had to die. 326 00:19:35,475 --> 00:19:38,876 [narrator] In the murder of 69-year-old Anita Fox, 327 00:19:38,945 --> 00:19:42,813 Detectives have learned that her own daughter, Virginia Buckland, 328 00:19:42,848 --> 00:19:45,149 along with Virginia's husband Mark, 329 00:19:45,218 --> 00:19:49,420 took out a life insurance policy on Anita worth $5 million. 330 00:19:51,024 --> 00:19:52,322 [Ron] $5 million. 331 00:19:52,324 --> 00:19:54,892 That's a lot of money. It's a lot of money for anybody. 332 00:19:54,961 --> 00:19:56,660 It was a lot of money for the Bucklands. 333 00:19:56,662 --> 00:20:00,498 Now, the focus was on the potential involvement of Virginia and Mark. 334 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,835 [narrator] To help navigate the complexities of this cas 335 00:20:04,871 --> 00:20:07,838 detectives consult with Sergeant Randy Waters, 336 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:11,309 an Investigator with the Texas Department of Insurance. 337 00:20:13,046 --> 00:20:15,913 [Ron] When the police and the Texas Department of Insurance 338 00:20:15,915 --> 00:20:18,049 investigate the policies on Anita's life, 339 00:20:18,051 --> 00:20:20,651 they did confirm that the beneficiaries 340 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:25,590 were Mark Buckland and or his wife, Virginia Buckland. 341 00:20:25,658 --> 00:20:30,094 [Randy] It's not enough to link the to the murder itself, 342 00:20:30,096 --> 00:20:33,864 but it's suspicious that they would have that much insurance on her 343 00:20:33,866 --> 00:20:36,934 and here she is murdered. 344 00:20:37,837 --> 00:20:42,006 [Matthew] They also discover that there were recorded phone calls 345 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:45,876 to the insurance companies, supposedly by Anita Fox, 346 00:20:45,945 --> 00:20:48,312 talking about the life insurance policy. 347 00:20:50,116 --> 00:20:52,450 [narrator] Detectives invite Anita's son, 348 00:20:52,452 --> 00:20:54,819 Al Fox down to the station to verify 349 00:20:54,821 --> 00:20:58,422 that Anita was, in fact, the one making those calls. 350 00:20:59,792 --> 00:21:02,360 [Matthew] Detectives play ba the recordings for Al. 351 00:21:03,696 --> 00:21:05,930 And Al told Detective Waters 352 00:21:05,998 --> 00:21:08,266 that's not my mother. That's Virginia. 353 00:21:10,136 --> 00:21:12,937 [Ron] Virginia pretending to be her mother, 354 00:21:12,939 --> 00:21:14,138 it's a red flag. 355 00:21:15,708 --> 00:21:18,476 [Randy] During my conversation with Al Fox, 356 00:21:18,544 --> 00:21:21,145 he told me about a situation in which, 357 00:21:21,147 --> 00:21:24,148 he drove to his mother's hom and when he got there, 358 00:21:24,150 --> 00:21:27,118 he sees that his mother is talking to someone 359 00:21:27,186 --> 00:21:28,486 who he later 360 00:21:28,554 --> 00:21:32,256 determines to be Charles or Chuck Mercier. 361 00:21:32,258 --> 00:21:34,458 Chuck Mercier was an insurance agent 362 00:21:34,527 --> 00:21:36,227 out of South Carolina. 363 00:21:36,229 --> 00:21:38,796 And he was there to sell his mother insurance, 364 00:21:38,831 --> 00:21:41,866 and Al says no way. 365 00:21:41,868 --> 00:21:44,735 He does not want his mother taken out of the insurance, 366 00:21:44,737 --> 00:21:47,605 because as he puts it, it puts a target on her. 367 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,941 And he tells the guy, Leave, get out of here. 368 00:21:50,943 --> 00:21:54,712 [Ron] Al Fox was concerned about these life insurance policies 369 00:21:54,714 --> 00:21:57,982 because a member of their family had been murdered 370 00:21:57,984 --> 00:21:59,417 for the benefit of a policy. 371 00:22:01,154 --> 00:22:02,586 [narrator] When detectives revealed 372 00:22:02,588 --> 00:22:03,821 that Virginia and Mark 373 00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:06,324 are the sole beneficiaries of the $5 million 374 00:22:06,326 --> 00:22:07,992 life insurance policies. 375 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:09,193 Al is stunned. 376 00:22:11,064 --> 00:22:13,864 [Ron] Al Fox was not aware of the $5 million 377 00:22:13,866 --> 00:22:15,299 of insurance on his mother's life. 378 00:22:16,936 --> 00:22:19,770 [Hillary] Virginia and Mark are starting to 379 00:22:19,772 --> 00:22:22,473 look like they may be involved. 380 00:22:23,843 --> 00:22:24,508 [narrator] Working the theory 381 00:22:24,577 --> 00:22:26,076 that Virginia and Mark 382 00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:29,413 conspired to have Anita killed for the insurance payout, 383 00:22:29,482 --> 00:22:31,015 detectives question them again. 384 00:22:32,552 --> 00:22:35,619 [Ron] When Mark and Virginia Buckland were being questioned 385 00:22:35,621 --> 00:22:38,956 about the fact that Virginia had impersonated her mother, 386 00:22:38,958 --> 00:22:41,125 on a couple of calls with the insurance company. 387 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,461 Virginia assured them that 388 00:22:43,529 --> 00:22:44,662 her mother knew about the calls 389 00:22:44,730 --> 00:22:48,799 and that she knew about the $5 million of insurance. 390 00:22:48,868 --> 00:22:51,969 [Matthew] They claimed that they had Anita's permission 391 00:22:51,971 --> 00:22:53,938 and that she just didn't have time to do it, 392 00:22:53,973 --> 00:22:57,141 and so she asked Virginia to do it for her. 393 00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:01,112 [Ron] Virginia and Mark Buckland told the investigators 394 00:23:01,114 --> 00:23:06,050 that the policies were applied through Charles Mercier. 395 00:23:07,019 --> 00:23:09,487 It was their story that Anita wanted 396 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:11,756 more life insurance on herself, 397 00:23:11,758 --> 00:23:14,358 for the benefit of her children and her grandchildren. 398 00:23:16,829 --> 00:23:19,930 So there was a total of five policies totaling $5 million 399 00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:22,433 written on the life of Anita Fox. 400 00:23:24,003 --> 00:23:26,437 [Randy] There was a challenge in making the payments. 401 00:23:28,007 --> 00:23:32,243 The premium increase from basically $3000 to $6000. 402 00:23:33,813 --> 00:23:37,314 Virginia realizes, hey, we cannot keep this going. 403 00:23:38,017 --> 00:23:40,484 [Ron] But Mark Buckland want to find out a way 404 00:23:40,553 --> 00:23:43,621 to lower the amount of premiums he was paying, 405 00:23:43,623 --> 00:23:46,357 which meant that he might have to let one of the policies go. 406 00:23:47,994 --> 00:23:52,696 Mercier thought that he could find a buyer or quote an investor 407 00:23:52,698 --> 00:23:53,831 for one of the policies. 408 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,067 And Charles Mercier was indeed able to locate 409 00:23:57,069 --> 00:23:58,936 a group of Irish travelers 410 00:23:58,938 --> 00:24:01,739 who were interested in purchasing 411 00:24:01,741 --> 00:24:04,975 one of the million dollar policies on Anita Fox's life. 412 00:24:04,977 --> 00:24:06,977 This is a group of investors, 413 00:24:07,046 --> 00:24:09,713 whom Virginia and Mark Buckland said they had no knowledge of. 414 00:24:09,715 --> 00:24:11,182 They didn't know who they were. 415 00:24:13,152 --> 00:24:16,821 Since one of the policies now has a new beneficiary 416 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:18,122 that brings in a new suspect. 417 00:24:21,894 --> 00:24:23,727 [narrator] Could this mysterious group 418 00:24:23,729 --> 00:24:25,796 of policy buyers have something to do 419 00:24:25,798 --> 00:24:27,698 with the murder of Anita Fox 420 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:29,567 Looking for answers, 421 00:24:29,569 --> 00:24:33,170 investigators haul the insurance agent, Charles Mercier, 422 00:24:33,172 --> 00:24:35,139 down to the station for questioning. 423 00:24:36,242 --> 00:24:39,877 Charles Mercier would sell to mainly travelers 424 00:24:39,879 --> 00:24:42,246 who were basically profitin 425 00:24:42,248 --> 00:24:44,148 from the death of their loved ones. 426 00:24:44,984 --> 00:24:46,817 Charles Mercier told us, 427 00:24:46,819 --> 00:24:48,185 people in the traveler community 428 00:24:48,221 --> 00:24:51,555 want to buy policies that are on other people, 429 00:24:51,557 --> 00:24:53,524 even if they don't know them 430 00:24:53,526 --> 00:24:56,494 In hopes that the person dies before they spend 431 00:24:56,562 --> 00:24:58,996 as much money as they spend on the premiums. 432 00:24:59,899 --> 00:25:01,899 [Ron] During the interview, 433 00:25:01,901 --> 00:25:04,835 he confirmed meeting with the Buckland's. 434 00:25:04,904 --> 00:25:09,273 But he did acknowledge that the application for the policies was fraudulent 435 00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:12,209 Anita's network was grossly inflated. 436 00:25:12,211 --> 00:25:15,779 Her assets were made up. 437 00:25:15,781 --> 00:25:17,681 [Matthew] The signatures 438 00:25:17,717 --> 00:25:22,019 that were on the transfer of the beneficiary document 439 00:25:22,021 --> 00:25:24,288 were not Anita Fox's signature. 440 00:25:26,125 --> 00:25:27,658 [Ron] Mr. Mercier told us th 441 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:29,894 Mark Buckland was having trouble paying 442 00:25:29,896 --> 00:25:33,063 all of the premiums for the $5 million. 443 00:25:34,267 --> 00:25:35,966 [Randy] Charles Mercier found someon 444 00:25:35,968 --> 00:25:37,368 to take over the policies. 445 00:25:38,905 --> 00:25:40,538 His name was Pat Gorman. 446 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:43,674 There would be three other brothers also involved in the policy 447 00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:48,913 Mike, Harry and Gerard "Big Joe" Gorman 448 00:25:48,915 --> 00:25:52,483 The Gorman's are also part of the traveler community. 449 00:25:53,553 --> 00:25:55,686 [Ron] So Mercier arranged for the 450 00:25:55,688 --> 00:25:57,988 change of beneficiary on this policy to be made 451 00:25:57,990 --> 00:26:01,492 from Virginia Buckland to Patrick Gorman. 452 00:26:02,528 --> 00:26:05,763 But the beneficiary has to have a relationship 453 00:26:05,765 --> 00:26:06,964 with the insured. 454 00:26:06,966 --> 00:26:08,999 So since there was no relationship, 455 00:26:09,068 --> 00:26:11,268 Patrick Gorman did not know Anita Fox, 456 00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:13,137 didn't know the Buckland's. 457 00:26:13,139 --> 00:26:14,939 It was decided that 458 00:26:14,974 --> 00:26:17,141 Patrick Gorman would be portrayed 459 00:26:17,143 --> 00:26:20,044 as a business partner of Anita Fox. 460 00:26:21,714 --> 00:26:23,247 [Randy] The four brothers 461 00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:27,851 got together and said, Okay, let's use Pat to own the policy. 462 00:26:27,853 --> 00:26:31,155 And then when Anita Fox passes away, 463 00:26:31,157 --> 00:26:34,858 he'll get the million dollars and he can divide it between the four of us. 464 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:36,393 That was their plan. 465 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:42,099 Charles Mercier told Pat Gorman that Anita Fox 466 00:26:42,101 --> 00:26:44,535 was only going to live for a year. 467 00:26:44,537 --> 00:26:47,871 So you buy this policy, pay $2,800 a month 468 00:26:47,873 --> 00:26:49,640 and you're only going to have to worry about a year. 469 00:26:49,642 --> 00:26:51,842 She has a hole in her heart 470 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:55,012 and they don't expect her to live that long. 471 00:26:58,918 --> 00:26:59,817 [Matthew] The Gorman's had been 472 00:26:59,885 --> 00:27:01,485 paying premiums for a year. 473 00:27:02,622 --> 00:27:04,888 And they were concerned that they might be paying 474 00:27:04,890 --> 00:27:07,157 those high premiums for years to come. 475 00:27:07,159 --> 00:27:08,158 [Randy] One of the brothers, 476 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,394 Gerard Big Joe Gorman, 477 00:27:10,396 --> 00:27:13,063 calls Mercier repeatedly saying 478 00:27:13,065 --> 00:27:16,667 when is she going to die? When is she going to die? What's going on? 479 00:27:16,735 --> 00:27:19,136 [Ron] Charles shared with the investigators 480 00:27:19,171 --> 00:27:21,839 that Big Joe Gorman had called him 481 00:27:21,907 --> 00:27:25,009 asking for Anita Fox's address. 482 00:27:38,524 --> 00:27:40,991 These new revelations were extremely important. 483 00:27:41,994 --> 00:27:43,060 The revelation that there was now 484 00:27:43,062 --> 00:27:46,163 not only a new suspect in Patrick Gorman, 485 00:27:46,165 --> 00:27:48,666 but maybe four suspects in the four Gorman's. 486 00:27:48,668 --> 00:27:50,901 And the fact that Gerard Gorman expresse 487 00:27:50,936 --> 00:27:54,238 that he might pay a visit to Anita Fox was, was extremely important. 488 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:56,507 It is another red flag. 489 00:27:58,244 --> 00:28:02,813 In this crime you have a virulent mix of personality traits, 490 00:28:02,815 --> 00:28:06,817 a level of callousness and premeditation here. 491 00:28:06,819 --> 00:28:10,721 Perhaps Anita Fox was just a payday. 492 00:28:10,723 --> 00:28:16,026 Then, they had to hasten the death to realize their fantasies of greed. 493 00:28:20,399 --> 00:28:24,601 [narrator] In the brutal homicide of loving grandmother, Anita Fo 494 00:28:24,670 --> 00:28:28,472 the focus of the investigation has shifted to the Gorman brothers, 495 00:28:28,474 --> 00:28:31,208 who shortly before Anita's murder, 496 00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:34,545 purchased a $1 million life insurance policy on her 497 00:28:35,848 --> 00:28:36,980 The policies themselves, 498 00:28:36,982 --> 00:28:38,982 which were obtained fraudulently, 499 00:28:38,984 --> 00:28:41,552 were an incentive for the murder of Anita Fox. 500 00:28:41,554 --> 00:28:46,123 So it didn't rule out some type of involvement of Virginia and Mark Buckland. 501 00:28:46,759 --> 00:28:49,193 But there was more focus on the Gorman's at this point. 502 00:28:50,362 --> 00:28:53,464 [narrator] Detectives move to question Patrick Gorman, 503 00:28:53,532 --> 00:28:57,634 who's named as the sole beneficiary of the million dollar policy. 504 00:28:57,636 --> 00:29:00,137 [Randy] Patrick has an address in Illinois. 505 00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:04,007 They spoke with Gorman's wif Catherine. 506 00:29:04,810 --> 00:29:09,012 She informed him he was away, out of state on a job. 507 00:29:12,318 --> 00:29:16,053 But his wife was able to provide the police with a picture of Patrick. 508 00:29:16,722 --> 00:29:20,390 But the picture of Patrick Gorman was very different 509 00:29:20,459 --> 00:29:25,295 than the sketch of the suspect in Anita Fox's murde 510 00:29:25,364 --> 00:29:29,533 Patrick Gorman appeared to b much thinner, younger than the composite drawing. 511 00:29:29,535 --> 00:29:34,304 And while he might not have been the man who murdered Anita Fox. 512 00:29:34,373 --> 00:29:38,976 The police did not rule out that he had something to do with it. 513 00:29:38,978 --> 00:29:43,347 [narrator] Detectives tracked down Patrick Gorman in Columbia, South Carolina 514 00:29:45,184 --> 00:29:46,683 [Ron] Patrick Gorman acknowledged 515 00:29:46,685 --> 00:29:49,086 that he was the beneficiary of this policy, 516 00:29:49,088 --> 00:29:51,922 as a set up by Charles Mercier. 517 00:29:51,924 --> 00:29:53,924 He acknowledged that he did not have a business relationship 518 00:29:53,926 --> 00:29:56,527 with Anita Fox. 519 00:29:56,529 --> 00:29:58,462 He told us that he had never been to Colleyville, 520 00:29:58,464 --> 00:30:01,932 didn't know Anita Fox and had nothing to do with her murder. 521 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:07,070 Patrick Gorman's alibi for the day that Anita Fox was murdered was, 522 00:30:07,072 --> 00:30:11,208 he was in Texas, but he was there for the wedding of his son. 523 00:30:11,777 --> 00:30:15,112 So he had a lot of witnesses to verify that. 524 00:30:17,983 --> 00:30:23,053 So, Patrick was eliminated as the one who committed the crime. 525 00:30:23,722 --> 00:30:26,156 But the other three brother were not eliminated 526 00:30:26,158 --> 00:30:31,128 as potential assailants in the murder of Anita Fox. 527 00:30:32,698 --> 00:30:35,632 [narrator] With Patrick claiming no knowledge of the murder, 528 00:30:35,634 --> 00:30:38,802 detectives seek the whereabouts of his brothers 529 00:30:38,804 --> 00:30:42,039 But like many in the Irish traveler community, 530 00:30:42,041 --> 00:30:44,408 they're elusive and seem to have disappeared. 531 00:30:47,813 --> 00:30:51,582 [Hillary] This is the first that we had ever dealt with anyone 532 00:30:51,584 --> 00:30:53,083 in the traveler community. 533 00:30:53,085 --> 00:30:56,653 And when we started searching for names, 534 00:30:56,655 --> 00:31:00,357 we would get, you know, pages of aliases. 535 00:31:01,126 --> 00:31:03,026 It's just hard to track them down 536 00:31:03,061 --> 00:31:07,130 and get a positive identification on them. 537 00:31:07,165 --> 00:31:11,001 [narrator] But then, investigators catch a break 538 00:31:11,069 --> 00:31:12,636 [Ron] During the course of the investigation, 539 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:16,373 the crime lab in Texas was able to digitally enhanc 540 00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:19,409 the photograph that Al Fox's wife took off 541 00:31:19,444 --> 00:31:23,513 the license plate of the tru that had been following the in Colleyville. 542 00:31:23,515 --> 00:31:28,518 With that digital enhancemen they were able to see the entire license plate. 543 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,290 And determine that the plat on the truck was registered to a Bernard Gorman. 544 00:31:34,193 --> 00:31:37,494 Further investigation determined that Bernard Gorman 545 00:31:37,496 --> 00:31:39,897 was the nephew of Patrick Gorman, 546 00:31:39,932 --> 00:31:43,100 who was the beneficiary of the million dollar policy in question. 547 00:31:43,969 --> 00:31:48,071 [Hillary] Finally, we have a connection and a break. 548 00:31:48,073 --> 00:31:52,809 We have Bernard Gorman, who is registered to the truck 549 00:31:52,811 --> 00:31:55,178 that was described at the crime scene. 550 00:31:56,282 --> 00:31:57,981 We knew we were on the right track. 551 00:31:59,551 --> 00:32:02,719 [narrator] Detectives also received additional security footage 552 00:32:02,721 --> 00:32:05,122 from Big Willy's convenience store. 553 00:32:06,525 --> 00:32:08,492 [Ron] Investigators were able to determine 554 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,663 that at 7:38 p.m., on September 21st, 555 00:32:12,698 --> 00:32:16,733 the truck that they had been attempting to find with the ladder rack 556 00:32:16,735 --> 00:32:22,105 was seen in the video and a large older man exited the vehicle. 557 00:32:24,944 --> 00:32:29,413 [Hillary] The person looks just like the person that was in the sketch. 558 00:32:32,017 --> 00:32:34,518 When they discovered these details, 559 00:32:34,553 --> 00:32:38,121 they immediately thought we've got our prime suspect. 560 00:32:38,657 --> 00:32:41,191 The Texas Rangers, found the truck 561 00:32:41,193 --> 00:32:46,363 and they eventually executed a traffic stop and arrested Bernard Gorman 562 00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:49,666 [narrator] The Texas Ranger impound the truck 563 00:32:49,668 --> 00:32:53,470 and bring Bernard Gorman to Colleyville for questioning. 564 00:32:53,505 --> 00:32:56,506 [Ron] When asked about the insurance policy on Anita Fox, 565 00:32:56,575 --> 00:32:58,675 Bernard Gorman said he had n knowledge of that. 566 00:32:58,677 --> 00:33:02,079 He did not know Anita Fox. Never heard of her. 567 00:33:02,147 --> 00:33:05,048 He told the investigators he'd been nowhere near Colleyville 568 00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,351 on September 23rd, 2014. 569 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,987 [narrator] Investigators pressed Bernard 570 00:33:09,989 --> 00:33:14,458 about how his truck ended up in Colleyville, on the day of the crime. 571 00:33:14,526 --> 00:33:18,195 [Ron] Investigators told him they had photograph of the truck 572 00:33:18,197 --> 00:33:22,165 being in and around Colleyville on September 23rd. 573 00:33:23,535 --> 00:33:29,006 At that point, he said that he had loaned his truck to his father. 574 00:33:43,956 --> 00:33:47,557 Bernard says that his dad's name is Gerard Gorman. 575 00:33:48,427 --> 00:33:51,795 We were automatically suspicious. 576 00:33:51,830 --> 00:33:54,931 This is the brother who's been making threatening phone calls 577 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,099 to Charles Mercier. 578 00:33:56,535 --> 00:34:00,003 In addition, Gerard Gorman could be the person 579 00:34:00,072 --> 00:34:03,940 that was also seen by the gardener at the crime scene. 580 00:34:04,610 --> 00:34:05,976 The revelation was extremely important 581 00:34:05,978 --> 00:34:08,645 because Gerard was one of the four Gorman brothers 582 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:13,083 who stood to benefit from the million dollar policy on Anita Fox. 583 00:34:14,753 --> 00:34:18,755 So Gerard Gorman and his son are now high on the list of suspects 584 00:34:18,791 --> 00:34:20,490 in the murder investigation 585 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:25,896 But they ask him if he knows where his father is? 586 00:34:25,898 --> 00:34:27,931 Bernard says he doesn't know where his father is 587 00:34:27,999 --> 00:34:29,866 and that his father doesn't have a cell phone 588 00:34:29,868 --> 00:34:32,836 so he doesn't know how to get a hold of him. 589 00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:36,506 So while the investigators question Bernard Gorman's story, 590 00:34:36,508 --> 00:34:38,809 the police don't have enoug evidence to hold Bernard. 591 00:34:38,811 --> 00:34:42,212 He doesn't match the description of the assailant, 592 00:34:42,214 --> 00:34:45,449 and they have no direct evidence that he was, was in Colleyville 593 00:34:45,484 --> 00:34:48,018 on the 23rd of September. 594 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:51,721 [narrator] With Bernard Gorm released for now. 595 00:34:51,723 --> 00:34:56,493 Investigators turn their attention to his father, Gerard Gorman. 596 00:34:56,528 --> 00:34:58,795 [Ron] They obtained a driver license photograph 597 00:34:58,797 --> 00:35:01,665 from the Department of Moto Vehicles of Gerard Gorman 598 00:35:01,667 --> 00:35:04,701 and made a comparison between that photograph 599 00:35:04,736 --> 00:35:06,870 and the composite sketch that was made. 600 00:35:06,938 --> 00:35:11,441 The sketch was a very accura depiction of Gerard Gorman. 601 00:35:12,878 --> 00:35:15,479 [narrator] The case against the Gorman's gets an added boost 602 00:35:15,514 --> 00:35:19,649 when the forensics come bac on Bernard Gorman's truck. 603 00:35:19,718 --> 00:35:23,954 [Ron] Crime scene specialist examined the truck for any evidence of the crime. 604 00:35:23,956 --> 00:35:26,890 They were not able to find any blood or hair forensic evidence 605 00:35:26,892 --> 00:35:31,695 that would tie to the crime scene, but they did find Bernard Gorman's cell phone. 606 00:35:31,697 --> 00:35:34,331 They were able to do a forensic analysis of the phone, 607 00:35:34,333 --> 00:35:37,734 which indicated on Septembe 23rd that phone was pinging off towers 608 00:35:37,802 --> 00:35:42,038 in the Colleyville area, not in Houston, Texas, where he claimed to be. 609 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,910 Investigators also found that there had been interne searches on the phone 610 00:35:46,912 --> 00:35:49,746 using the words Anita Fox, Fort Worth, Texas. 611 00:35:49,781 --> 00:35:51,581 [helicopter crossing] 612 00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:53,850 [narrator] With Bernard and Gerard Gorman now 613 00:35:53,852 --> 00:35:56,686 the prime suspects in the murder of Anita Fox. 614 00:35:56,688 --> 00:36:00,390 Investigators mobilize to bring them both in for questioning. 615 00:36:02,761 --> 00:36:05,996 [Hillary] After the detectiv received all this informatio 616 00:36:08,567 --> 00:36:11,401 Bernard and Gerard, 617 00:36:11,436 --> 00:36:15,105 basically disappeared and we were unable to find them. 618 00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:19,676 [Randy] And that was a concern, because in the traveler community, 619 00:36:19,711 --> 00:36:23,180 sometimes they disappear and you'll never find them again. 620 00:36:30,455 --> 00:36:33,857 [narrator] Father and son du Gerard and Bernard Gorman 621 00:36:33,859 --> 00:36:38,261 are wanted in the brutal murder of beloved grandmothe Anita Fox. 622 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:43,833 But the manhunt comes to an abrupt halt 623 00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:48,838 when police get a call from a nearby Police Department. 624 00:36:48,907 --> 00:36:52,842 [Hillary] Brookshire R.P.D. reaches out to let us know that they had a male 625 00:36:52,844 --> 00:36:55,779 that has been found decease in their hotel room, 626 00:36:55,781 --> 00:36:59,316 and they said that his name was Gerard Gorman. 627 00:37:00,619 --> 00:37:04,921 He is an older man with the gray hair, overweight, 628 00:37:04,957 --> 00:37:10,894 and he has the description of Gerard Gorman. 629 00:37:10,962 --> 00:37:15,632 [Ron] There was rumors that well, maybe somebody killed Gerard Gorman to shut him u 630 00:37:15,634 --> 00:37:19,102 because of his knowledge of the insurance fraud. 631 00:37:19,104 --> 00:37:24,941 So an autopsy was done and it was determined that Gerard died of a heart attack. 632 00:37:26,278 --> 00:37:28,111 But there's some disappointment in that, 633 00:37:28,113 --> 00:37:31,348 that likely perpetrator is not held accountable by the justice system. 634 00:37:31,350 --> 00:37:35,118 So, you know, it's a mixed emotions, but there is stil work to do. 635 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,488 They have the potential involvement of his son, Bernard Gorman. 636 00:37:40,692 --> 00:37:42,058 [Hillary] In order to find Bernard, 637 00:37:42,060 --> 00:37:45,862 we took to social media to see if there was any clue 638 00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:48,765 we found his wife's Facebook post 639 00:37:48,833 --> 00:37:54,037 where it showed that they were in Disney World in Florida. 640 00:37:54,039 --> 00:37:57,607 [narrator] Detectives bring Bernard to the Colleyville police stati 641 00:37:57,609 --> 00:38:00,610 and question him again about Anita Fox's murder, 642 00:38:00,679 --> 00:38:03,113 hoping he'll confess his involvement. 643 00:38:04,716 --> 00:38:06,549 [Ron] During this interview Bernard admitted 644 00:38:06,551 --> 00:38:10,287 that he had been in Fort Worth area on September 23r 645 00:38:11,256 --> 00:38:13,890 and he had been with his father. 646 00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:17,060 He finally admits, okay, I was with my father 647 00:38:17,062 --> 00:38:19,195 and I drove him around up there. 648 00:38:20,132 --> 00:38:22,132 [Ron] Bernard also told investigators, 649 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,967 they were following Anita Fo 650 00:38:23,969 --> 00:38:26,036 He said he didn't know why. 651 00:38:28,607 --> 00:38:32,042 Bernard also admitted that he did drive his fathe 652 00:38:32,044 --> 00:38:34,544 to the house in Colleyville where Anita Fox was working 653 00:38:36,148 --> 00:38:40,283 His father told him that he was looking at doin a paint job in that house, 654 00:38:41,653 --> 00:38:44,954 so he was waiting for his father while he went in the house. 655 00:38:45,957 --> 00:38:49,526 When his father came out, police asked him 656 00:38:49,528 --> 00:38:52,228 if there was anything unusua about his father, 657 00:38:52,964 --> 00:38:55,498 and he said his father was very agitated 658 00:38:56,635 --> 00:38:59,102 and there was, looked like blood on his arm. 659 00:39:01,106 --> 00:39:04,474 But he never questioned his father about what happened in the house. 660 00:39:05,911 --> 00:39:07,476 [Ron] Bernard Gorman's story was.. 661 00:39:07,478 --> 00:39:10,680 Was completely incredible and unbelievable to investigators. 662 00:39:10,682 --> 00:39:13,983 The investigators in no shape or form going to believe that... 663 00:39:13,985 --> 00:39:16,553 Bernard Gorman had no knowledge of the murder of Anita Fox. 664 00:39:18,023 --> 00:39:19,656 The most blunt way to put it, 665 00:39:19,658 --> 00:39:21,257 you'd have to be a moron. 666 00:39:21,326 --> 00:39:26,930 I don't even think a moron would not know what transpired in that home. 667 00:39:26,932 --> 00:39:31,901 [narrator] Detectives can no reconstruct Anita Fox's final 24 hours. 668 00:39:31,903 --> 00:39:33,670 [Michael] Unbeknownst to Anita, 669 00:39:33,672 --> 00:39:36,706 Gerard had basically put a $ million bounty on her, 670 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:38,675 that he himself was going to collect. 671 00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:41,244 It turns out she wasn't dying fast enough for him. 672 00:39:42,681 --> 00:39:45,815 [Hillary] On September 23rd just before 11:00 a.m. 673 00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:48,451 Anita Fox arrives at the Lopez residence 674 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,453 in Colleyville for her house cleaning job. 675 00:39:51,656 --> 00:39:54,591 [Ron] At 11:03, Bernard Gorman parked his truck 676 00:39:54,593 --> 00:39:57,961 a couple of houses down from the Lopez home. 677 00:39:58,930 --> 00:40:02,332 Before going into the house Gerard grabbed a paint bucke 678 00:40:02,901 --> 00:40:06,102 so that anybody who saw him going into the house 679 00:40:06,171 --> 00:40:08,271 would naturally assume that he's going in there for... 680 00:40:08,339 --> 00:40:10,073 some type of work on the hom 681 00:40:11,042 --> 00:40:16,312 [Hillary] We believe that, when Gerard entered the house at 11:10, 682 00:40:17,949 --> 00:40:22,352 he encountered Anita and she put up a fight. 683 00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:27,957 But once on the ground, Gerard attacked her. 684 00:40:31,530 --> 00:40:34,030 Stabbing her, multiple times 685 00:40:34,032 --> 00:40:36,065 And killed her. 686 00:40:38,937 --> 00:40:42,372 The entire attack lasted less than five minutes. 687 00:40:46,077 --> 00:40:48,711 [Ron] At approximately 11:15 a.m. 688 00:40:48,780 --> 00:40:50,980 Gerard Gorman leaves the house, 689 00:40:51,049 --> 00:40:54,851 and he was seen walking out of no Lopez home. 690 00:40:54,853 --> 00:40:59,789 This was a very intentional, premeditated attack. 691 00:40:59,791 --> 00:41:03,293 [narrator] Bernard Gorman is charged with conspiracy to commit murder. 692 00:41:04,930 --> 00:41:07,030 He agrees to a plea deal 693 00:41:07,065 --> 00:41:09,032 and is sentenced to 14 years for his role 694 00:41:09,034 --> 00:41:12,435 in the murder of 69 year old Anita Fox. 695 00:41:13,572 --> 00:41:17,240 The most challenging thing for me was trying to figure out 696 00:41:17,242 --> 00:41:21,377 the traveler culture, it's something that we've never dealt with. 697 00:41:22,414 --> 00:41:24,914 I truly feel for the family 698 00:41:24,950 --> 00:41:30,720 and I'm glad that there was some justice with Bernar getting some time. 699 00:41:30,722 --> 00:41:33,823 However, I really wish that Gerard would have been alive 700 00:41:33,825 --> 00:41:36,059 to be able to see his sentence. 701 00:41:37,629 --> 00:41:39,863 [Ron] Life insurance is such a big part 702 00:41:39,898 --> 00:41:42,866 of wealth accumulation in the traveler community. 703 00:41:42,868 --> 00:41:45,668 It's almost an obsession, 704 00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:49,806 but it highlighted how often older folks in the community are expendable 705 00:41:49,808 --> 00:41:52,876 and that... that proved out in this case. 706 00:41:52,944 --> 00:41:58,147 [Randy] Had there not been $5 million life insurance on Anita Fox, 707 00:41:58,183 --> 00:42:00,950 this murder would have never happened. 708 00:42:00,985 --> 00:42:02,185 [Matthew] Al fought hard 709 00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:06,356 to make sure that the murderers were brought to justice. 710 00:42:07,826 --> 00:42:10,860 [narrator] Despite their tragic and painful loss, 711 00:42:10,862 --> 00:42:14,964 Anita's family continues to celebrate her joyful spirit. 712 00:42:17,102 --> 00:42:19,502 [Ron] Anita Fox was sweet, hardworking. 713 00:42:19,538 --> 00:42:21,037 She was a faithful woman. 714 00:42:22,140 --> 00:42:26,109 She was a loving, caring mother and grandmother 715 00:42:26,111 --> 00:42:27,277 and didn't deserve to die.