1 00:00:12,898 --> 00:00:14,949 [mysterious music] 2 00:00:18,009 --> 00:00:20,023 [suspenseful music] 3 00:00:21,866 --> 00:00:23,257 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 4 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,897 A desperate text sent by a couple of young children. 5 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:38,340 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 6 00:00:38,445 --> 00:00:40,634 Days later, the kids' mom, Tiffany Hill, 7 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:42,164 is at a school event when she gets 8 00:00:42,268 --> 00:00:46,265 a phone call about her estranged husband, Keland. 9 00:00:46,370 --> 00:00:48,107 She looked like a ghost. 10 00:00:48,211 --> 00:00:51,965 She said, I have to go meet my social worker. 11 00:00:52,069 --> 00:00:53,286 He tried to buy a gun. 12 00:00:53,390 --> 00:00:54,362 [gun cocking] 13 00:00:56,102 --> 00:00:58,987 He went to Walmart and tried to purchase 14 00:00:59,090 --> 00:01:03,296 a bolt action rifle to take care of a varmint inside his home. 15 00:01:03,401 --> 00:01:04,582 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 16 00:01:04,687 --> 00:01:08,857 For weeks, Keland Hill stalks his wife. 17 00:01:08,961 --> 00:01:11,638 We were pressing the officer to check the car. 18 00:01:11,743 --> 00:01:15,183 There's-- there's no way that he would have known she was here 19 00:01:15,287 --> 00:01:16,921 unless he was tracking her. 20 00:01:17,024 --> 00:01:18,658 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Keland Hill was a Marine 21 00:01:18,763 --> 00:01:19,944 trained to be a killer. 22 00:01:20,048 --> 00:01:23,142 And the target ended up being his wife. 23 00:01:23,247 --> 00:01:26,826 What were her chances of her surviving the marriage? 24 00:01:26,931 --> 00:01:29,573 Tiffany always said, the only way I'm going to get 25 00:01:29,677 --> 00:01:31,309 out of this is if he kills me. 26 00:01:31,413 --> 00:01:33,047 He was a terrorist. 27 00:01:33,152 --> 00:01:34,647 He terrorized her. 28 00:01:34,751 --> 00:01:37,010 Nearly half of the women who are murdered 29 00:01:37,114 --> 00:01:39,131 are killed by their partners. 30 00:01:39,235 --> 00:01:41,181 But the men are also increasingly 31 00:01:41,285 --> 00:01:44,101 victims of domestic homicide. 32 00:01:44,205 --> 00:01:46,465 Are you sure the person lying next to you 33 00:01:46,569 --> 00:01:48,792 in bed would never hurt you? 34 00:01:48,897 --> 00:01:52,581 If not, you might want to pay attention. 35 00:01:52,686 --> 00:01:56,683 I'm Michelle Trachtenberg, and it's time for another tale 36 00:01:56,787 --> 00:02:00,053 of Meet, Marry, Murder. 37 00:02:00,157 --> 00:02:02,869 [theme music] 38 00:02:17,294 --> 00:02:18,788 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 2016. 39 00:02:18,891 --> 00:02:22,472 After moving to the city of Vancouver in Washington state, 40 00:02:22,576 --> 00:02:25,843 the Hill family largely kept to itself. 41 00:02:25,947 --> 00:02:29,667 Both ex Marines, Tiffany and Keland were professionally 42 00:02:29,771 --> 00:02:31,126 trained to fight. 43 00:02:31,230 --> 00:02:34,394 Which they tended to do in their marriage, as well-- 44 00:02:34,498 --> 00:02:35,991 a lot. 45 00:02:36,097 --> 00:02:38,321 Once his rage with the marriage 46 00:02:38,425 --> 00:02:41,658 started kind of, like, getting out of hand-- 47 00:02:41,762 --> 00:02:43,360 that's when he started becoming more physical. 48 00:02:43,465 --> 00:02:44,890 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 49 00:02:44,994 --> 00:02:48,261 Tiffany and Keland had moved to Sifton, just northwest 50 00:02:48,366 --> 00:02:49,790 of Vancouver. 51 00:02:49,894 --> 00:02:52,571 A quiet neighborhood where they could get a fresh start 52 00:02:52,675 --> 00:02:54,135 from their troubled past. 53 00:02:54,239 --> 00:02:58,029 Tiffany was very closed off. 54 00:02:58,132 --> 00:03:01,573 She didn't share herself with anybody. 55 00:03:01,676 --> 00:03:03,137 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 56 00:03:03,242 --> 00:03:05,640 But when Tiffany strikes up a friendship with fellow mom 57 00:03:05,744 --> 00:03:08,420 Karina Knight, she starts to open up 58 00:03:08,525 --> 00:03:10,297 about her eight-year marriage. 59 00:03:10,401 --> 00:03:12,348 Before they really knew each other, 60 00:03:12,451 --> 00:03:14,294 she didn't like him at all. 61 00:03:14,399 --> 00:03:16,658 She thought he was cocky. 62 00:03:16,762 --> 00:03:18,986 He was always flirting with everybody, 63 00:03:19,090 --> 00:03:20,655 and, you know, she's-- 64 00:03:20,759 --> 00:03:21,871 she's a New Yorker, you know. 65 00:03:21,975 --> 00:03:23,435 She's from Brooklyn. 66 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:26,215 She doesn't-- she didn't do that, and she's very smart. 67 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:27,502 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 68 00:03:27,606 --> 00:03:29,379 Back when they'd been deployed to Iraq, 69 00:03:29,483 --> 00:03:32,680 Tiffany had been Keland's commanding officer. 70 00:03:32,785 --> 00:03:37,233 They would work, like, 24-hour shifts, and it just blossomed. 71 00:03:37,339 --> 00:03:39,737 It was very short, you know, that it happened. 72 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:41,474 Then all of a sudden, they started dating. 73 00:03:41,578 --> 00:03:44,601 And I think it was-- they couldn't live together 74 00:03:44,706 --> 00:03:47,244 when they were going to be coming back over here, so they 75 00:03:47,348 --> 00:03:48,564 kind of rushed to get married. 76 00:03:48,668 --> 00:03:52,109 That way they could live together right away. 77 00:03:52,213 --> 00:03:56,280 In 2008, she sustains an injury 78 00:03:56,385 --> 00:03:58,817 and is forced to retire from the military. 79 00:03:58,921 --> 00:03:59,999 She retires as a sergeant. 80 00:04:00,103 --> 00:04:01,667 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 81 00:04:01,771 --> 00:04:04,101 As Tiffany's new friends learn more about her marriage 82 00:04:04,205 --> 00:04:07,785 to Keland, they start becoming concerned. 83 00:04:07,889 --> 00:04:12,512 I had asked her, at any point in your marriage, 84 00:04:12,616 --> 00:04:13,659 were you happy? 85 00:04:13,763 --> 00:04:15,466 And she said at the very beginning, but-- 86 00:04:15,570 --> 00:04:17,691 you know, we met in the military. 87 00:04:17,795 --> 00:04:22,418 And I didn't really want to date him, and he wore me down. 88 00:04:22,522 --> 00:04:25,024 And that was another huge red flag, to me. 89 00:04:25,128 --> 00:04:26,970 I went through Tiffany's house and went 90 00:04:27,075 --> 00:04:29,439 through all of her things. 91 00:04:29,543 --> 00:04:33,157 And I was able to find all of their love letters 92 00:04:33,262 --> 00:04:35,625 from the very beginning. 93 00:04:35,730 --> 00:04:40,318 Um-- and I only read one or two. 94 00:04:40,422 --> 00:04:43,028 It was an intense love from the very beginning. 95 00:04:43,132 --> 00:04:44,209 Very co-dependent. 96 00:04:44,314 --> 00:04:45,426 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 97 00:04:45,530 --> 00:04:46,990 But what began as an intense affair 98 00:04:47,095 --> 00:04:51,127 lost its spark when Tiffany and Keland started a family. 99 00:04:51,230 --> 00:04:55,645 She had just said that things seemed different when 100 00:04:55,749 --> 00:04:58,842 she'd had their oldest child. 101 00:04:58,947 --> 00:05:03,326 He did not like the attention that she and the baby got. 102 00:05:03,430 --> 00:05:07,323 He wanted 1,000% of her. 103 00:05:07,427 --> 00:05:08,504 All the time. 104 00:05:08,609 --> 00:05:09,547 He'd even tell her-- like, there'd 105 00:05:09,651 --> 00:05:11,042 be emails that she'd show me. 106 00:05:11,147 --> 00:05:13,649 I mean, he's even saying, like, if I can't have you, 107 00:05:13,754 --> 00:05:14,865 I don't want the kids. 108 00:05:14,971 --> 00:05:16,464 The kids-- that didn't matter to him. 109 00:05:16,568 --> 00:05:17,438 It was her. 110 00:05:17,542 --> 00:05:18,966 It was having her. 111 00:05:19,071 --> 00:05:20,148 That's what he wanted. 112 00:05:20,252 --> 00:05:21,782 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 113 00:05:21,886 --> 00:05:25,570 As Tiffany popped out two more kids, Keland's jealousy grew. 114 00:05:25,674 --> 00:05:29,463 He wanted her all to himself, and moving to Vancouver 115 00:05:29,568 --> 00:05:32,348 had mainly been because of that. 116 00:05:32,452 --> 00:05:35,511 She did mention that they'd moved a couple of times 117 00:05:35,615 --> 00:05:37,075 to get away from family. 118 00:05:37,179 --> 00:05:40,412 And that this was the biggest move, to Washington state. 119 00:05:40,516 --> 00:05:43,331 She said it was to purposely get away from her family-- 120 00:05:43,436 --> 00:05:46,424 to kind of isolate her from her family and friends. 121 00:05:46,528 --> 00:05:48,058 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 122 00:05:48,162 --> 00:05:51,395 Moving 2,000 miles from Michigan to Washington state 123 00:05:51,499 --> 00:05:53,966 was a problem right from the start. 124 00:05:54,071 --> 00:05:58,242 Keland took the job, told them they were moving out here, 125 00:05:58,346 --> 00:06:00,917 and then left her there to pack. 126 00:06:01,022 --> 00:06:03,699 What Tiffany said was-- he moved 127 00:06:03,803 --> 00:06:06,653 her out here to get her away from the support 128 00:06:06,757 --> 00:06:09,259 network that she had. 129 00:06:09,364 --> 00:06:11,659 But for him, it was all sunshine and daisies, you know. 130 00:06:11,762 --> 00:06:14,473 He moved out here to make a better life for the family. 131 00:06:14,576 --> 00:06:15,968 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 132 00:06:16,072 --> 00:06:17,601 Keland apparently didn't anticipate that Tiffany would 133 00:06:17,705 --> 00:06:20,104 immediately start making friends and building 134 00:06:20,208 --> 00:06:22,015 a life in their new hometown. 135 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,664 She was new, and it was like an instant thing. 136 00:06:25,768 --> 00:06:27,715 She kind of just started sidling up to me, 137 00:06:27,819 --> 00:06:29,071 and we just got to talking. 138 00:06:29,175 --> 00:06:31,852 And from that moment on, it was like we'd 139 00:06:31,956 --> 00:06:33,589 always known each other. 140 00:06:33,693 --> 00:06:34,910 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 141 00:06:35,014 --> 00:06:37,551 At first, they seemed to fit in just fine. 142 00:06:37,656 --> 00:06:40,749 Turns out, I did actually like her husband quite a bit. 143 00:06:40,854 --> 00:06:43,355 Him and I got along instantly. 144 00:06:43,460 --> 00:06:47,701 And we just became friends over that, you know. 145 00:06:47,805 --> 00:06:48,952 Everybody loved Keland. 146 00:06:49,055 --> 00:06:51,976 Everybody that knew him liked him. 147 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,416 He was vivacious, he was fun, he was-- 148 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,850 you know, he was handsome. 149 00:06:57,954 --> 00:07:01,638 He could woo you in a minute. 150 00:07:01,742 --> 00:07:02,924 Like, he was just funny. 151 00:07:03,028 --> 00:07:04,349 You wanted to be around him. 152 00:07:04,455 --> 00:07:05,947 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 153 00:07:06,051 --> 00:07:08,902 Tiffany joined the local PTA, quickly getting a reputation 154 00:07:09,007 --> 00:07:11,716 among other moms at her kids' new school 155 00:07:11,821 --> 00:07:14,950 as a generous, hardworking member of the team. 156 00:07:15,054 --> 00:07:19,051 She would do, like, a staff breakfast to where she's 157 00:07:19,155 --> 00:07:23,917 up all night the night before, or she's up early that morning 158 00:07:24,021 --> 00:07:26,559 getting things ready and bringing things in. 159 00:07:26,663 --> 00:07:29,617 And they were super yummy (LAUGHS). 160 00:07:29,721 --> 00:07:32,676 And the staff just gobbled it all up, quickly. 161 00:07:32,780 --> 00:07:39,871 At one point, during her really rough patch, 162 00:07:39,975 --> 00:07:45,049 she was up until 2:00 AM making food for our staff. 163 00:07:45,153 --> 00:07:48,073 And she was crying because she said it's not enough. 164 00:07:48,177 --> 00:07:49,254 I didn't do enough. 165 00:07:49,359 --> 00:07:50,680 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 166 00:07:50,784 --> 00:07:53,287 For all that her friends appreciated her hard work 167 00:07:53,391 --> 00:07:56,415 and generosity, it seemed that for Keland, 168 00:07:56,519 --> 00:07:58,848 Tiffany could never do enough. 169 00:07:58,952 --> 00:08:02,323 The marriage wasn't the way he wanted it to be. 170 00:08:02,427 --> 00:08:06,077 He-- he wanted, like, you know, a 50s-style marriage, 171 00:08:06,181 --> 00:08:10,144 where the woman stayed home, and cooked, and did what he said. 172 00:08:10,248 --> 00:08:12,611 But Tiffany was an independent spirit. 173 00:08:12,715 --> 00:08:17,095 And she was extremely active in her children's education, 174 00:08:17,199 --> 00:08:19,771 and was volunteering all the time for everything. 175 00:08:19,875 --> 00:08:22,379 And she just gave of herself constantly. 176 00:08:22,483 --> 00:08:25,158 And so he would be upset that she wasn't-- 177 00:08:25,263 --> 00:08:28,425 she wasn't at home doing the dishes or cleaning the house, 178 00:08:28,530 --> 00:08:30,545 or have dinner ready because she was so 179 00:08:30,650 --> 00:08:33,778 busy volunteering all the time. 180 00:08:33,882 --> 00:08:36,871 You could tell there wasn't a closeness that you 181 00:08:36,976 --> 00:08:39,304 can see in a lot of marriages. 182 00:08:39,409 --> 00:08:43,544 There weren't, like, the little touches, the hand holdings. 183 00:08:43,649 --> 00:08:44,900 There weren't things like that. 184 00:08:45,004 --> 00:08:47,890 And I always saw that, from the very beginning. 185 00:08:47,994 --> 00:08:51,052 Whenever he'd enter a room, any time, 186 00:08:51,156 --> 00:08:54,214 she would automatically, like, stiffen. 187 00:08:54,319 --> 00:08:56,752 Like, her shoulders would kind of go up a little bit. 188 00:08:56,856 --> 00:08:59,916 She was no longer that relaxed, talking. 189 00:09:00,019 --> 00:09:01,583 He'd come in the room, and she automatically 190 00:09:01,687 --> 00:09:03,113 would start tending to him. 191 00:09:03,217 --> 00:09:06,171 Like, what he needed, what he needed to do, and like-- 192 00:09:06,275 --> 00:09:07,944 take orders from him. 193 00:09:08,048 --> 00:09:09,472 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: From the way 194 00:09:09,578 --> 00:09:12,496 they saw how Keland treated her, Tiffany's new friends 195 00:09:12,601 --> 00:09:15,834 got the sense that her marriage was far from perfect. 196 00:09:15,939 --> 00:09:20,874 But they had no idea just how bad it was behind closed doors. 197 00:09:20,978 --> 00:09:22,577 He was a terrorist. 198 00:09:22,681 --> 00:09:23,897 He terrorized her. 199 00:09:24,001 --> 00:09:25,078 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 200 00:09:25,183 --> 00:09:26,574 But the worst part? 201 00:09:26,678 --> 00:09:31,196 Keland routinely terrorized her in front of the kids. 202 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:34,880 He didn't think they'd notice, but they did. 203 00:09:38,390 --> 00:09:39,573 [dramatic music] 204 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:44,682 [theme music] 205 00:09:49,617 --> 00:09:51,250 [theme music] 206 00:09:59,072 --> 00:10:01,748 When Keland Hill made his wife, Tiffany, move 207 00:10:01,851 --> 00:10:05,293 to a new town where they didn't know anyone, 208 00:10:05,397 --> 00:10:09,012 it was just another example of the emotional abuse she had 209 00:10:09,116 --> 00:10:11,271 suffered since marrying him. 210 00:10:11,374 --> 00:10:13,251 I never saw any physical behavior. 211 00:10:13,356 --> 00:10:15,545 But the way he talked to her-- 212 00:10:15,651 --> 00:10:20,134 you know, once he got really comfortable around us-- 213 00:10:20,238 --> 00:10:23,228 that wasn't behavior of a good spouse. 214 00:10:23,332 --> 00:10:24,791 Kind of degrading things. 215 00:10:24,895 --> 00:10:28,997 Like, if she, you know, wore a nice outfit or something, 216 00:10:29,101 --> 00:10:31,673 he would just say-- 217 00:10:31,777 --> 00:10:32,958 talk down to her. 218 00:10:33,063 --> 00:10:34,558 Oh, what do you think, you're so hot you 219 00:10:34,662 --> 00:10:36,261 can wear stuff like that? 220 00:10:36,364 --> 00:10:37,825 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 221 00:10:37,929 --> 00:10:39,181 And that was just Keland's behavior in public. 222 00:10:39,285 --> 00:10:42,030 In private, it was even worse. 223 00:10:42,135 --> 00:10:43,525 She was tired. 224 00:10:43,629 --> 00:10:46,444 Because he also was sleep depriving her. 225 00:10:46,550 --> 00:10:48,460 When she would sleep, he would turn on the TV 226 00:10:48,564 --> 00:10:49,990 as loud in their bedroom. 227 00:10:50,094 --> 00:10:52,841 He put water all over her side of the bed. 228 00:10:52,945 --> 00:10:55,655 So when she'd get into bed, it would be soaking wet. 229 00:10:55,759 --> 00:11:02,572 She told me that he would keep her awake for hours, 230 00:11:02,676 --> 00:11:05,213 if not days at a time. 231 00:11:05,318 --> 00:11:09,731 Just to kind of play with the mental side of it. 232 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:15,293 And kind of slapped her around several times, sometimes 233 00:11:15,397 --> 00:11:16,614 in front of the kids. 234 00:11:16,719 --> 00:11:18,038 Keland was good. 235 00:11:18,142 --> 00:11:20,436 He would never show anything in front of anybody. 236 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:22,314 That's why you could never believe 237 00:11:22,418 --> 00:11:24,050 that this was happening. 238 00:11:24,155 --> 00:11:25,546 Once he got comfortable with me, 239 00:11:25,650 --> 00:11:30,168 he started speaking more freely. 240 00:11:30,272 --> 00:11:34,896 Of course, it was his version of the story, so-- 241 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,954 my wife, you know, we tell each other everything. 242 00:11:38,059 --> 00:11:42,820 And so she would tell me things about the relationship 243 00:11:42,924 --> 00:11:44,975 that Tiffany had told her. 244 00:11:45,079 --> 00:11:49,111 And-- and then I would hear his side of the story, 245 00:11:49,215 --> 00:11:52,900 but I wouldn't tell him that I knew those things. 246 00:11:53,004 --> 00:11:54,115 I'd keep that to myself. 247 00:11:54,219 --> 00:11:55,750 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 248 00:11:55,854 --> 00:11:58,253 The problem was that Tiffany's version of the things that she 249 00:11:58,357 --> 00:12:00,441 was telling to her friend Karina didn't 250 00:12:00,546 --> 00:12:03,918 match up with what Keland was telling to Karina's husband. 251 00:12:04,022 --> 00:12:06,454 In my own opinion, I had to be careful. 252 00:12:06,559 --> 00:12:09,896 Because I knew all of their deep, dark secrets-- 253 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,495 everything terrible that he was doing 254 00:12:11,598 --> 00:12:18,446 to her, and the torment that was going on in their marriage. 255 00:12:18,550 --> 00:12:21,470 But I knew that if I let on to him 256 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:25,154 that I knew what was going on, he would take it out on her. 257 00:12:25,258 --> 00:12:30,159 I have to present, you know-- 258 00:12:30,263 --> 00:12:33,009 a false persona, basically, to him. 259 00:12:33,113 --> 00:12:34,817 I have to pretend like I'm still his brother, 260 00:12:34,921 --> 00:12:37,214 I'm still his friend. 261 00:12:37,318 --> 00:12:38,153 To protect Tiffany. 262 00:12:38,257 --> 00:12:40,065 As soon as, I think, he realized 263 00:12:40,168 --> 00:12:42,740 that Tiffany was confiding in me, 264 00:12:42,844 --> 00:12:45,973 is when he started changing with me. 265 00:12:46,077 --> 00:12:47,536 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 266 00:12:47,641 --> 00:12:51,360 For Tiffany, it was part of an all too familiar pattern. 267 00:12:51,464 --> 00:12:53,863 Every time Tiffany found a friend to confide in, 268 00:12:53,967 --> 00:12:56,817 Keland would try to break them apart. 269 00:12:56,921 --> 00:12:58,833 She's like, he's starting. 270 00:12:58,938 --> 00:12:59,945 I was like, what do you mean? 271 00:13:00,049 --> 00:13:01,578 She's like, he's starting. 272 00:13:01,682 --> 00:13:04,881 He's starting to try to make me doubt my friendship with you. 273 00:13:04,986 --> 00:13:07,487 I call it schmoozing. 274 00:13:07,591 --> 00:13:10,303 Kind of schmoozing over and making sure everyone 275 00:13:10,407 --> 00:13:13,534 is on his side, and that she seems 276 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,908 crazy to think about these different things that 277 00:13:17,012 --> 00:13:18,678 are going on. 278 00:13:18,784 --> 00:13:20,278 That it's all in her head. 279 00:13:20,382 --> 00:13:22,537 It's nothing-- it's nothing big, it's nothing real. 280 00:13:22,642 --> 00:13:23,858 Of course. 281 00:13:23,962 --> 00:13:25,699 I wanted her to leave the very first time 282 00:13:25,804 --> 00:13:28,898 she told me this was going on. 283 00:13:29,001 --> 00:13:30,530 But he'd find her. 284 00:13:30,635 --> 00:13:32,894 No matter what she did or where she went, that was her thing. 285 00:13:32,999 --> 00:13:34,355 She's like, he'll find me. 286 00:13:34,459 --> 00:13:35,675 He will find a way to me. 287 00:13:35,779 --> 00:13:38,073 He will break apart every friendship 288 00:13:38,178 --> 00:13:39,985 and relationship that I have, and I 289 00:13:40,089 --> 00:13:41,583 will have to go back to him. 290 00:13:41,688 --> 00:13:43,148 Because she'd always forgiven him. 291 00:13:43,252 --> 00:13:46,831 She'd always let him come back, accepted his apologies, 292 00:13:46,937 --> 00:13:48,570 and he always went back to doing the same. 293 00:13:48,674 --> 00:13:49,821 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 294 00:13:49,925 --> 00:13:53,435 In late summer 2019, Keland finally did 295 00:13:53,540 --> 00:13:57,225 something Tiffany couldn't hide from her friends and neighbors. 296 00:13:57,329 --> 00:14:00,352 We were supposed to have our first official PTA 297 00:14:00,456 --> 00:14:02,786 meeting at the school. 298 00:14:02,890 --> 00:14:04,454 And she had texted me and said, I don't 299 00:14:04,558 --> 00:14:05,496 know if I'll be there tonight. 300 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:07,651 I have a concussion. 301 00:14:07,755 --> 00:14:09,424 All I could think of was, she must 302 00:14:09,528 --> 00:14:11,092 have got in a car accident. 303 00:14:11,196 --> 00:14:16,376 Because, for me, in my life, I had never been around-- 304 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,364 at least knowingly-- someone who was in a domestic violence 305 00:14:19,469 --> 00:14:20,407 situation. 306 00:14:20,511 --> 00:14:23,466 September 11, 2019. 307 00:14:23,570 --> 00:14:27,081 Keland gets angry and goes after Tiffany. 308 00:14:27,185 --> 00:14:29,930 He throws her into a wall, he chases 309 00:14:30,034 --> 00:14:31,564 her down a flight of stairs. 310 00:14:31,668 --> 00:14:33,199 She tries to call 911. 311 00:14:33,302 --> 00:14:34,346 She's terrified. 312 00:14:34,449 --> 00:14:36,709 He slaps the phone out of her hand. 313 00:14:40,150 --> 00:14:45,675 One of their children asked Google or whatever-- 314 00:14:45,779 --> 00:14:48,212 Amazon Echo-- that they had to call someone. 315 00:15:05,208 --> 00:15:06,391 They told her what was happening, 316 00:15:06,495 --> 00:15:09,414 and she called 911 from a different state. 317 00:15:09,519 --> 00:15:12,542 Because he had taken her phone, so she couldn't call 911. 318 00:15:19,007 --> 00:15:22,100 Tiffany was injured so badly in this assault 319 00:15:22,205 --> 00:15:24,845 that she had gotten whiplash and a concussion 320 00:15:24,951 --> 00:15:27,627 and had to be seen by neurologists. 321 00:15:27,731 --> 00:15:29,329 The police came, and he was arrested. 322 00:15:29,433 --> 00:15:31,936 And that night, she came to the meeting. 323 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:35,065 And after the meeting, Karina-- 324 00:15:35,167 --> 00:15:36,558 who was her best friend-- 325 00:15:36,663 --> 00:15:39,165 came in with her, and she was crying. 326 00:15:39,271 --> 00:15:40,661 And I said, are you OK? 327 00:15:40,765 --> 00:15:42,919 And Karina said, you tell her and you tell her now. 328 00:15:43,024 --> 00:15:44,310 She needs to know. 329 00:15:44,415 --> 00:15:48,410 And so Tiffany had said, my husband pushed me. 330 00:15:48,515 --> 00:15:49,697 My head hit the wall. 331 00:15:49,801 --> 00:15:50,809 I have a concussion. 332 00:15:50,913 --> 00:15:51,991 He's abusive. 333 00:15:52,095 --> 00:15:53,624 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 334 00:15:53,728 --> 00:15:56,544 Injured and in pain, and, more importantly, with the knowledge 335 00:15:56,648 --> 00:16:00,158 that her children were now witness to her abuse, 336 00:16:00,262 --> 00:16:02,279 Tiffany was finally forced to confront 337 00:16:02,383 --> 00:16:06,832 the fact that her marriage wasn't healthy. 338 00:16:06,936 --> 00:16:08,431 KARINA KNIGHT: Her kids were getting older, 339 00:16:08,535 --> 00:16:10,064 and she was seeing, like-- 340 00:16:10,170 --> 00:16:14,408 this is what they're going to think is acceptable for them, 341 00:16:14,513 --> 00:16:15,695 you know. 342 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:18,092 That this is how people get to treat them. 343 00:16:18,197 --> 00:16:22,404 This time, she goes to police and she files on him. 344 00:16:22,508 --> 00:16:26,087 This time, Tiffany is not going to back down. 345 00:16:26,192 --> 00:16:27,513 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 346 00:16:27,617 --> 00:16:30,153 Detective Tanya Wollstein was waiting for Tiffany 347 00:16:30,257 --> 00:16:31,857 at the Vancouver Domestic Violence 348 00:16:31,961 --> 00:16:36,445 Prosecution Center when she came in to document the full history 349 00:16:36,549 --> 00:16:38,878 of Keland's abuse against her. 350 00:16:38,983 --> 00:16:42,040 80% or so of domestic violence victims recant. 351 00:16:42,145 --> 00:16:44,821 They don't want to cooperate with investigations. 352 00:16:44,926 --> 00:16:47,879 They are in such a state of being manipulated, 353 00:16:47,983 --> 00:16:50,208 and gaslighted, and financially dependent-- 354 00:16:50,312 --> 00:16:51,634 a number of other things. 355 00:16:51,738 --> 00:16:54,692 Tiffany had made that decision to break away. 356 00:16:54,796 --> 00:16:55,666 She was reporting. 357 00:16:55,770 --> 00:16:57,890 She was-- she was asking for help. 358 00:16:57,994 --> 00:17:01,052 Tiffany explained that this is all a game to Keland. 359 00:17:01,156 --> 00:17:04,633 And he's threatened to kill her before, and to kill her 360 00:17:04,737 --> 00:17:06,684 or hurt her would mean nothing to him. 361 00:17:06,787 --> 00:17:09,534 It's all a game to him, and she felt 362 00:17:09,638 --> 00:17:10,959 like she'd be the one to lose. 363 00:17:14,225 --> 00:17:16,137 What Tiffany and I talked about 364 00:17:16,243 --> 00:17:19,578 was a brief history of their relationship 365 00:17:19,683 --> 00:17:24,305 and then focused on what had been going on more recently. 366 00:17:24,409 --> 00:17:25,591 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 367 00:17:25,695 --> 00:17:27,676 After hearing Tiffany's story, authorities 368 00:17:27,781 --> 00:17:30,908 decide to take immediate action against Keland Hill. 369 00:17:31,012 --> 00:17:32,333 CAROLYN CANVILLE: The day after the attack, 370 00:17:32,438 --> 00:17:35,635 Clark County officials issue a no contact 371 00:17:35,739 --> 00:17:37,478 order against Keland Hill. 372 00:17:37,583 --> 00:17:40,051 In the paperwork that Tiffany fills out 373 00:17:40,154 --> 00:17:42,481 supporting this no contact order, 374 00:17:42,587 --> 00:17:47,382 she has written that if he were angry enough, and drunk enough, 375 00:17:47,487 --> 00:17:50,129 and he had a gun, he would use it on me. 376 00:17:50,233 --> 00:17:51,380 And he would kill me. 377 00:17:54,439 --> 00:17:58,680 Some victims, we do have great concerns about their safety. 378 00:17:58,784 --> 00:18:00,000 And Tiffany would be one. 379 00:18:00,104 --> 00:18:02,155 So I would say I have more contact 380 00:18:02,259 --> 00:18:05,456 with Tiffany than the average domestic violence victim. 381 00:18:05,561 --> 00:18:07,716 More along the lines of domestic violence victims 382 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:12,651 who I am seriously concerned will be seriously harmed 383 00:18:12,756 --> 00:18:16,127 or murdered by their abuser. 384 00:18:16,231 --> 00:18:19,533 Keland was served with the protection order and arrested. 385 00:18:19,637 --> 00:18:23,599 He was arrested for interfering with the report of 386 00:18:23,704 --> 00:18:26,450 domestic violence and assault. 387 00:18:26,553 --> 00:18:28,257 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG: Keland was released on bail 388 00:18:28,362 --> 00:18:30,412 and issued a restraining order, barring him 389 00:18:30,516 --> 00:18:33,263 from getting within 250 feet of Tiffany 390 00:18:33,367 --> 00:18:36,181 or making any kind of contact by phone. 391 00:18:36,285 --> 00:18:41,708 He was also banned from buying or possessing any firearms. 392 00:18:41,812 --> 00:18:45,914 But would that be enough to protect Tiffany's life? 393 00:18:46,019 --> 00:18:49,043 Especially after he had the restraining orders, 394 00:18:49,146 --> 00:18:51,267 and after he had been out of jail, 395 00:18:51,371 --> 00:18:53,907 he was showing me the dark side. 396 00:18:54,011 --> 00:18:57,245 He had a seriously bad evil in him. 397 00:18:57,349 --> 00:19:00,999 By September 2019, after some 10 years 398 00:19:01,102 --> 00:19:04,787 of marriage to Tiffany, and three children later, 399 00:19:04,891 --> 00:19:07,323 Keland Hill seemed to have only one thing 400 00:19:07,428 --> 00:19:10,383 in mind for his estranged wife. 401 00:19:10,488 --> 00:19:11,390 Murder. 402 00:19:11,494 --> 00:19:15,526 [dramatic note] 403 00:19:15,631 --> 00:19:17,264 [theme music] 404 00:19:21,853 --> 00:19:23,486 [theme music] 405 00:19:30,402 --> 00:19:33,149 A court might have ordered Keland Hill to stay away 406 00:19:33,252 --> 00:19:35,303 from his estranged wife, Tiffany, 407 00:19:35,408 --> 00:19:38,049 but this was one time the former Marine 408 00:19:38,153 --> 00:19:40,551 was not about to obey orders. 409 00:19:40,656 --> 00:19:42,324 RENE SUNDBY: We have an assembly at the school. 410 00:19:42,428 --> 00:19:44,410 She gets a phone call. 411 00:19:44,514 --> 00:19:47,850 She comes back out of the room that she was in-- 412 00:19:47,954 --> 00:19:49,623 she looked like a ghost. 413 00:19:49,728 --> 00:19:51,256 And I said, what's going on? 414 00:19:51,361 --> 00:19:55,288 And she said, I have to go meet my social worker. 415 00:19:55,393 --> 00:19:56,818 He tried to buy a gun. 416 00:19:56,923 --> 00:19:58,070 [gun cocking] 417 00:19:59,563 --> 00:20:02,622 He went to Walmart and tried to purchase 418 00:20:02,727 --> 00:20:07,453 a bolt action rifle to take care of a varmint inside his home. 419 00:20:07,558 --> 00:20:10,582 That is the day that I think her soul died. 420 00:20:10,686 --> 00:20:12,875 She was just a shell of a human. 421 00:20:12,979 --> 00:20:17,566 She was so devastated that he had tried to buy a gun, 422 00:20:17,671 --> 00:20:20,278 and what that was going to mean to her. 423 00:20:20,383 --> 00:20:22,677 As he tried to purchase this weapon, 424 00:20:22,781 --> 00:20:24,275 the background check was completed. 425 00:20:24,378 --> 00:20:26,396 And it showed up that he had been 426 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,725 charged with domestic abuse and had 427 00:20:28,829 --> 00:20:31,573 a protective order against him. 428 00:20:31,678 --> 00:20:34,216 Background checks are linked through all law 429 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,466 enforcement systems. 430 00:20:35,570 --> 00:20:37,240 It's almost real time. 431 00:20:37,344 --> 00:20:39,674 So if someone's attempting to buy a weapon, 432 00:20:39,778 --> 00:20:42,036 and they have a protection from abuse order or something 433 00:20:42,141 --> 00:20:44,816 like that, the jurisdiction that issued 434 00:20:44,921 --> 00:20:47,109 it is almost immediately notified. 435 00:20:47,214 --> 00:20:50,899 The theory behind it is to catch someone in the act. 436 00:20:51,003 --> 00:20:53,192 Because it is illegal to attempt to purchase 437 00:20:53,296 --> 00:20:56,773 a weapon knowing that you have a protection from abuse 438 00:20:56,877 --> 00:20:58,232 order against you. 439 00:20:58,338 --> 00:21:02,681 A sheriff's deputy shows up at the scene and talks to Keland. 440 00:21:02,786 --> 00:21:04,176 And Keland's real calm. 441 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:08,520 That-- that deputy then reports it to the Clark County 442 00:21:08,625 --> 00:21:10,537 officials in Washington state. 443 00:21:10,641 --> 00:21:11,683 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 444 00:21:11,787 --> 00:21:13,874 The next day, a warrant is issued 445 00:21:13,978 --> 00:21:16,342 for Keland Hill's arrest. 446 00:21:16,446 --> 00:21:19,399 But since he's no longer living in the family home, 447 00:21:19,504 --> 00:21:22,250 deputies can't find him to serve it. 448 00:21:22,354 --> 00:21:25,690 He said he stayed at a friend's house-- 449 00:21:25,795 --> 00:21:30,173 his other friend, who lived half hour, 450 00:21:30,278 --> 00:21:32,224 45 minutes from their house. 451 00:21:32,328 --> 00:21:37,334 And he would also say things like, he's living in his car, 452 00:21:37,438 --> 00:21:39,003 you know, by the river. 453 00:21:39,107 --> 00:21:40,775 But he would just say things. 454 00:21:40,878 --> 00:21:43,660 I don't know if it had any truth to them whatsoever. 455 00:21:43,764 --> 00:21:47,864 He was-- he had so much untruthfulness about him. 456 00:21:47,969 --> 00:21:50,751 He would just say whatever he had to. 457 00:21:50,855 --> 00:21:53,601 So he's not arrested, nothing happens. 458 00:21:53,704 --> 00:21:54,748 And he's still out there. 459 00:21:54,851 --> 00:21:55,999 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 460 00:21:56,102 --> 00:21:58,432 It takes five more weeks before police 461 00:21:58,536 --> 00:22:00,308 can take Keland into custody. 462 00:22:00,412 --> 00:22:03,124 In the meantime, Tiffany's friends are doing 463 00:22:03,227 --> 00:22:05,556 all they can to keep her safe. 464 00:22:05,660 --> 00:22:08,407 And we did plan on-- here are the things that we need 465 00:22:08,511 --> 00:22:10,492 to do to try to keep you safe. 466 00:22:10,596 --> 00:22:12,681 Because we know that he's out there 467 00:22:12,785 --> 00:22:14,837 trying to purchase a firearm. 468 00:22:14,942 --> 00:22:17,339 We talked about calling 911 immediately, 469 00:22:17,442 --> 00:22:18,763 and leaving the area immediately, 470 00:22:18,868 --> 00:22:20,397 and many other things. 471 00:22:20,502 --> 00:22:21,580 KARINA KNIGHT: We'd been practicing 472 00:22:21,684 --> 00:22:24,012 lock downs at the school. 473 00:22:24,117 --> 00:22:25,437 They were prepared. 474 00:22:25,542 --> 00:22:29,295 There were security guards at the school every day. 475 00:22:29,398 --> 00:22:31,068 I believe they sent his picture 476 00:22:31,172 --> 00:22:33,258 to all the staff members. 477 00:22:33,362 --> 00:22:35,135 And, you know, this person is-- 478 00:22:35,239 --> 00:22:37,915 because there's a restraining order-- 479 00:22:38,019 --> 00:22:39,723 he could have came and got the kids out 480 00:22:39,827 --> 00:22:41,355 of school, because the restraining order 481 00:22:41,459 --> 00:22:43,650 wasn't based at the children. 482 00:22:43,754 --> 00:22:44,589 It was on her. 483 00:22:44,693 --> 00:22:45,979 But she was always there. 484 00:22:46,082 --> 00:22:49,628 KARINA KNIGHT: If Keland showed up, doors locked. 485 00:22:49,732 --> 00:22:50,567 They hit the button. 486 00:22:50,672 --> 00:22:51,540 Classrooms lock. 487 00:22:51,644 --> 00:22:53,103 Everything locks. 488 00:22:53,207 --> 00:22:56,267 Whenever we'd go to somewhere, I would go somewhere first, 489 00:22:56,371 --> 00:22:58,491 take a look around, make sure he wasn't there. 490 00:22:58,595 --> 00:23:00,646 And then she'd come behind me. 491 00:23:00,750 --> 00:23:04,574 You know, if we went out to lunch, I'd go in first. 492 00:23:04,678 --> 00:23:06,275 Let her know, OK, you're good. 493 00:23:06,380 --> 00:23:08,084 And then she could come in. 494 00:23:08,188 --> 00:23:08,848 And can you imagine? 495 00:23:08,953 --> 00:23:10,379 Like, what a way to live. 496 00:23:10,483 --> 00:23:14,167 I think the hardest part, for me, was being at the school 497 00:23:14,271 --> 00:23:17,294 and walking out to my car with Tiffany and the kids. 498 00:23:17,398 --> 00:23:20,145 I never tried to let her walk out by herself. 499 00:23:20,249 --> 00:23:23,237 But having to tell my 10-year-old 500 00:23:23,341 --> 00:23:29,006 if you see the kids' dad, and I tell you to run-- 501 00:23:29,111 --> 00:23:31,579 I want you to run, and I want you to hide. 502 00:23:31,683 --> 00:23:33,734 And I don't want you to come find me. 503 00:23:33,839 --> 00:23:35,367 I don't want you to look back. 504 00:23:35,471 --> 00:23:36,862 I don't want you to come for me. 505 00:23:36,967 --> 00:23:38,635 I want you to find a safe place. 506 00:23:38,739 --> 00:23:40,235 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 507 00:23:40,339 --> 00:23:43,535 A few days after Keland's first failed attempt to buy a gun, 508 00:23:43,639 --> 00:23:47,255 he breaks his restraining order once again. 509 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:51,599 On October 10, 2019, Keland shows up 510 00:23:51,704 --> 00:23:54,693 at the Peach Tree Restaurant where, coincidentally, 511 00:23:54,797 --> 00:23:56,674 Tiffany Hill is there. 512 00:23:56,778 --> 00:23:59,768 We have-- just a board meeting at a restaurant 513 00:23:59,871 --> 00:24:01,365 here in Vancouver. 514 00:24:01,470 --> 00:24:03,035 And we're all leaving. 515 00:24:03,139 --> 00:24:06,232 And I see this man walking up, and he smiles at me. 516 00:24:06,336 --> 00:24:09,638 And I think to myself, well, that looks like Keland. 517 00:24:09,743 --> 00:24:12,070 And I said, all right, he's not supposed to be here. 518 00:24:12,174 --> 00:24:13,287 He can't be here. 519 00:24:13,391 --> 00:24:15,686 And I hear Tiffany say, oh my god. 520 00:24:15,791 --> 00:24:19,752 And she starts running for the car. 521 00:24:19,857 --> 00:24:20,934 Keland's yelling at her-- 522 00:24:21,039 --> 00:24:23,228 I just want to see my kids-- 523 00:24:23,332 --> 00:24:27,121 and then realizes, you know, we're all coming towards him. 524 00:24:27,224 --> 00:24:30,667 Like, this is going to be us forming a circle around her. 525 00:24:30,770 --> 00:24:32,299 And he runs. 526 00:24:32,404 --> 00:24:35,670 Sheriff deputies were called to the Peach Tree Restaurant. 527 00:24:35,774 --> 00:24:37,652 And when they arrived, he had already left. 528 00:24:37,756 --> 00:24:39,009 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 529 00:24:39,112 --> 00:24:41,613 Keland Hill remains free to continue terrorizing 530 00:24:41,718 --> 00:24:43,734 Tiffany for another four weeks. 531 00:24:43,839 --> 00:24:48,531 He pops up at the grocery store, at restaurants, school. 532 00:24:48,634 --> 00:24:51,033 It seems like he's everywhere. 533 00:24:51,138 --> 00:24:52,493 But how? 534 00:24:52,597 --> 00:24:56,769 On November 7, Tiffany and her friends begin to figure it out. 535 00:24:56,873 --> 00:25:01,773 I tell her, the only way for him to know that you're here-- 536 00:25:01,877 --> 00:25:04,415 because we're parked in the very back-- is he has to be 537 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,222 following you or tracking you. 538 00:25:06,327 --> 00:25:07,821 That is the only way. 539 00:25:07,925 --> 00:25:09,489 The parking lot was all the way in the back. 540 00:25:09,594 --> 00:25:12,200 I mean, you would have never seen someone pull in and park. 541 00:25:12,305 --> 00:25:15,537 We knew that he was somehow tracking her. 542 00:25:15,642 --> 00:25:16,857 We didn't know how. 543 00:25:16,962 --> 00:25:18,283 We didn't know if it was by her phone, 544 00:25:18,386 --> 00:25:20,750 or there was something on her car, but we just-- 545 00:25:20,854 --> 00:25:24,399 we knew that there was some way of him tracking her. 546 00:25:24,504 --> 00:25:30,691 We were pressing the officer to check the car. 547 00:25:30,795 --> 00:25:33,820 Eventually, they searched Tiffany's vehicle. 548 00:25:33,923 --> 00:25:36,599 And beneath the wheel well of the vehicle 549 00:25:36,703 --> 00:25:43,029 was a small black box that was used as a GPS tracking device. 550 00:25:43,134 --> 00:25:44,871 At that point, Keland was arrested taken, 551 00:25:44,975 --> 00:25:49,633 into custody for stalking and violating his protective order. 552 00:25:49,738 --> 00:25:53,352 His vehicle and his cell phones were taken as evidence. 553 00:25:53,456 --> 00:25:55,924 On November 8, 2019, Tiffany Hill 554 00:25:56,028 --> 00:25:58,254 goes back to the prosecution center 555 00:25:58,358 --> 00:26:03,328 to report yet more violations of the domestic violence 556 00:26:03,432 --> 00:26:05,134 no contact order. 557 00:26:05,238 --> 00:26:08,819 And the Vancouver police decide, you know, they 558 00:26:08,923 --> 00:26:11,390 want to do a risk assessment. 559 00:26:11,495 --> 00:26:13,128 Tiffany was very concerned that Keland 560 00:26:13,233 --> 00:26:14,310 was going to murder her. 561 00:26:14,414 --> 00:26:15,805 We use a danger assessment that's 562 00:26:15,910 --> 00:26:18,307 essentially a lethality predictor for our victim. 563 00:26:18,411 --> 00:26:21,054 She scored very high on that, 31 out of 41. 564 00:26:21,158 --> 00:26:24,111 Which is an extreme risk category for us. 565 00:26:24,215 --> 00:26:26,129 We were all very concerned about Tiffany's safety. 566 00:26:26,232 --> 00:26:27,866 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): For a minute, 567 00:26:27,970 --> 00:26:30,055 Tiffany's able to breathe a sigh of relief, 568 00:26:30,159 --> 00:26:32,488 knowing Keland is behind bars. 569 00:26:32,593 --> 00:26:36,103 But her reprieve only lasts until Keland's bail 570 00:26:36,207 --> 00:26:39,683 hearing on November 21, 2019. 571 00:26:39,788 --> 00:26:42,289 The state believes that if the defendant is released, 572 00:26:42,394 --> 00:26:43,923 he will kill the victim. 573 00:26:44,027 --> 00:26:47,016 The prosecutors argue to the judge, this man is dangerous. 574 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,631 If he gets out, he will kill her. 575 00:26:50,736 --> 00:26:53,064 So they argue for Keland's bail to be raised 576 00:26:53,168 --> 00:26:56,401 from $75,000 to $2 million. 577 00:26:56,505 --> 00:26:59,945 She had hired a lawyer to advocate 578 00:27:00,049 --> 00:27:02,135 for her, who told the judge-- 579 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,213 he will kill her. 580 00:27:03,317 --> 00:27:04,257 Tiffany is begging you. 581 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,889 He will kill her. 582 00:27:05,993 --> 00:27:09,226 She had done all these things to help protect herself 583 00:27:09,330 --> 00:27:12,250 and to work within the system. 584 00:27:12,354 --> 00:27:14,822 I've stopped reporting because he's made aware of it 585 00:27:14,926 --> 00:27:18,159 if I report, and I'm scared of his anger and retaliation. 586 00:27:18,263 --> 00:27:19,723 Despite my non-report, he continued 587 00:27:19,826 --> 00:27:22,780 to escalate because he feels he's smarter than everybody 588 00:27:22,885 --> 00:27:23,963 else and he's untouchable. 589 00:27:24,067 --> 00:27:25,284 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 590 00:27:25,388 --> 00:27:26,951 In a court statement, Tiffany desperately 591 00:27:27,056 --> 00:27:31,088 tries to explain just how afraid she is of her husband. 592 00:27:31,192 --> 00:27:32,722 He is here now because he placed 593 00:27:32,826 --> 00:27:37,345 a tracking device on my vehicle and tried to possess a weapon. 594 00:27:37,449 --> 00:27:39,987 Those two things are major indicators of what I've 595 00:27:40,090 --> 00:27:41,584 known all along, deep down. 596 00:27:41,689 --> 00:27:44,470 That he's going to kill me if he's given the opportunity. 597 00:27:44,574 --> 00:27:48,710 I beg you to not allow him to get to me and my children. 598 00:27:48,814 --> 00:27:50,135 We have no family here. 599 00:27:50,239 --> 00:27:51,526 Nowhere to go. 600 00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:53,227 We have no money and nowhere to hide from him. 601 00:27:53,332 --> 00:27:54,583 He's made sure of that. 602 00:27:54,688 --> 00:27:55,591 Thank you. 603 00:27:55,696 --> 00:27:56,739 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 604 00:27:56,843 --> 00:27:59,101 Unfortunately for Tiffany, the law 605 00:27:59,206 --> 00:28:00,910 didn't quite see it her way. 606 00:28:01,014 --> 00:28:03,308 The judge looks at the records, 607 00:28:03,412 --> 00:28:05,427 and he says, well, I don't know. 608 00:28:05,531 --> 00:28:07,374 I mean, this guy-- 609 00:28:07,478 --> 00:28:10,467 you know, he doesn't have a criminal history. 610 00:28:10,571 --> 00:28:12,622 Because, of course, he has forced 611 00:28:12,726 --> 00:28:16,759 Tiffany to drop all the charges, including attempted murder. 612 00:28:16,863 --> 00:28:18,113 He has a job. 613 00:28:18,217 --> 00:28:19,434 He's gainfully employed. 614 00:28:19,539 --> 00:28:21,937 He's not a flight risk. 615 00:28:22,041 --> 00:28:25,031 He has served in the military, honorably. 616 00:28:25,135 --> 00:28:27,465 And then the prosecutor argues, well, 617 00:28:27,569 --> 00:28:30,174 if you're going to not raise the bail, 618 00:28:30,278 --> 00:28:34,137 then at least put an electronic tracker on him. 619 00:28:34,241 --> 00:28:38,100 And the judge says no, I don't think so. 620 00:28:38,204 --> 00:28:40,844 For a period of a month, he had violated 621 00:28:40,948 --> 00:28:42,652 the domestic violence order-- 622 00:28:42,757 --> 00:28:45,433 the protection order-- 64 times. 623 00:28:45,537 --> 00:28:46,615 That we know of. 624 00:28:46,718 --> 00:28:48,178 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 625 00:28:48,282 --> 00:28:51,168 According to Washington state senator, Lynda Wilson, who 626 00:28:51,273 --> 00:28:54,122 actually fought for a law to monitor people accused 627 00:28:54,226 --> 00:28:58,535 of domestic violence, tracking abusers like Keland Hill 628 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,212 is the key to stopping them. 629 00:29:01,317 --> 00:29:03,229 The gist of it is-- 630 00:29:03,332 --> 00:29:06,216 for victims of domestic violence that 631 00:29:06,322 --> 00:29:09,554 can get electronic monitoring on their abuser, 632 00:29:09,659 --> 00:29:13,968 this bill will create a real time notification 633 00:29:14,072 --> 00:29:16,158 of this electronic monitoring. 634 00:29:16,262 --> 00:29:18,069 So 24/7. 635 00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:20,572 And then, if the abuser gets too close, 636 00:29:20,676 --> 00:29:25,577 then they will get an alert on their phone through an app. 637 00:29:25,681 --> 00:29:27,210 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 638 00:29:27,314 --> 00:29:30,234 But for Tiffany Hill, there was no such protection. 639 00:29:30,338 --> 00:29:34,404 Keland Hill is released on bail. 640 00:29:34,508 --> 00:29:39,271 $250,000 bail, meaning he only had to post $2,500. 641 00:29:39,375 --> 00:29:41,668 Would putting Keland Hill back on the streets 642 00:29:41,773 --> 00:29:43,963 end up being a big mistake? 643 00:29:44,067 --> 00:29:46,499 I think we all know the answer to that question. 644 00:29:46,604 --> 00:29:48,030 We heard the tones. 645 00:29:48,134 --> 00:29:50,115 It initially sounded like, perhaps, a school shooting. 646 00:29:50,220 --> 00:29:51,645 It came out rather quickly that this 647 00:29:51,749 --> 00:29:53,694 wasn't like an active shooter situation. 648 00:29:53,798 --> 00:29:54,807 [intense music] 649 00:29:58,317 --> 00:29:59,499 [theme music] 650 00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:06,103 [theme music] 651 00:30:14,202 --> 00:30:15,662 Vancouver, Washington. 652 00:30:15,766 --> 00:30:18,302 November 26, 2019. 653 00:30:18,406 --> 00:30:20,736 After losing the court battle to keep her husband, 654 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,586 Keland, behind bars, Tiffany Hill 655 00:30:23,690 --> 00:30:26,853 has her mother come from New York to give her some support. 656 00:30:26,957 --> 00:30:31,684 That afternoon, Keland Hill drives to Sarah 657 00:30:31,788 --> 00:30:34,187 J. Anderson Elementary School. 658 00:30:34,291 --> 00:30:38,080 The school where he knows that his wife 659 00:30:38,184 --> 00:30:41,172 will soon be arriving to pick up their three children. 660 00:30:41,276 --> 00:30:42,528 He must have been parked in such a way 661 00:30:42,633 --> 00:30:44,162 that he could see Tiffany's car, so he 662 00:30:44,267 --> 00:30:45,761 could see when she came out. 663 00:30:45,865 --> 00:30:48,958 He was there, in the lot, for approximately 20 minutes 664 00:30:49,062 --> 00:30:52,989 talking on the phone with his mother. 665 00:30:53,094 --> 00:30:57,091 After the 20 minutes, he pulled out of his parking spot, 666 00:30:57,196 --> 00:30:59,350 pulled up in front of Tiffany's vehicle 667 00:30:59,454 --> 00:31:02,340 so he was parked kind of perpendicular to her vehicle, 668 00:31:02,444 --> 00:31:05,641 got out of the vehicle, stood in front of the driver's side, 669 00:31:05,745 --> 00:31:08,283 and shot several times through the driver's side window. 670 00:31:08,387 --> 00:31:09,534 [gun shots] 671 00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:16,104 And then had some kind of a malfunction with this firearm, 672 00:31:16,207 --> 00:31:17,424 it appears. 673 00:31:17,528 --> 00:31:19,927 Went back to his car trunk and appeared 674 00:31:20,031 --> 00:31:22,152 to kind of reload or clear his malfunction. 675 00:31:22,255 --> 00:31:25,174 Came to the side of the driver's side 676 00:31:25,279 --> 00:31:28,095 and fired a couple additional rounds. 677 00:31:28,198 --> 00:31:30,943 Then got into his car and fled. 678 00:31:33,830 --> 00:31:37,061 The fact that he would fire inside a vehicle-- 679 00:31:37,166 --> 00:31:40,328 there-- there are all sorts of dangers. 680 00:31:40,431 --> 00:31:44,673 Ricochet, pass through-- oh, god. 681 00:31:44,778 --> 00:31:46,654 It's just-- it's numerous. 682 00:31:46,758 --> 00:31:49,956 Firing a firearm in any small space 683 00:31:50,060 --> 00:31:51,798 is a dangerous undertaking. 684 00:31:51,903 --> 00:31:53,744 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): Also in the car 685 00:31:53,849 --> 00:31:55,761 with Tiffany is her mother. 686 00:31:55,865 --> 00:31:57,951 Tiffany's mom was shot trying to protect her. 687 00:31:58,055 --> 00:32:02,678 Tiffany's mom leaned over and did the thing that they-- you 688 00:32:02,782 --> 00:32:05,319 know, just the instinctual reaching out 689 00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:07,753 to try to protect her daughter. 690 00:32:07,856 --> 00:32:12,270 And she was shot in her arms, in her hands-- 691 00:32:12,374 --> 00:32:13,626 several times. 692 00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:17,171 Clark County deputies were actually executing a warrant 693 00:32:17,275 --> 00:32:18,908 just a few blocks away. 694 00:32:19,012 --> 00:32:23,356 So when the call came out, they left the scene of the warrant. 695 00:32:23,461 --> 00:32:27,633 And I believe he probably heard the sirens. 696 00:32:27,737 --> 00:32:31,178 So they were right on him as he was leaving. 697 00:32:31,282 --> 00:32:33,820 Keland's first objective, and his primary objective, 698 00:32:33,925 --> 00:32:35,452 was to kill Tiffany. 699 00:32:35,557 --> 00:32:37,608 And then secondarily, he perhaps would have focused on others. 700 00:32:37,712 --> 00:32:41,291 And perhaps, if Clark County hadn't been so close, 701 00:32:41,396 --> 00:32:42,995 and he had more time-- 702 00:32:43,099 --> 00:32:45,116 we don't know what he would have done. 703 00:32:45,220 --> 00:32:46,714 So I'm certainly grateful that they 704 00:32:46,818 --> 00:32:48,140 were there, because I believe they 705 00:32:48,244 --> 00:32:50,572 saved those children's lives. 706 00:32:50,676 --> 00:32:53,387 Once the first responders get to a school 707 00:32:53,491 --> 00:32:54,847 and there's been a shooting like that, 708 00:32:54,952 --> 00:32:57,142 immediately the school is going to be on lockdown. 709 00:32:57,246 --> 00:32:59,678 There's going to be a perimeter set around the school. 710 00:32:59,782 --> 00:33:02,597 And a search is going to begin. 711 00:33:02,702 --> 00:33:07,012 I just heard part of the lockdown procedure 712 00:33:07,117 --> 00:33:11,182 go into place, and I wasn't quite sure. 713 00:33:11,287 --> 00:33:13,825 Like, is this real or not real? 714 00:33:13,929 --> 00:33:15,770 So I was at work at the Domestic 715 00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:17,578 Violence Prosecution Center. 716 00:33:17,682 --> 00:33:19,107 So we heard the tones. 717 00:33:19,212 --> 00:33:21,923 It initially sounded like, perhaps, a school shooting. 718 00:33:22,027 --> 00:33:24,668 So we all began gearing up and getting ready to leave. 719 00:33:24,773 --> 00:33:26,302 It came out rather quickly that this 720 00:33:26,406 --> 00:33:29,429 wasn't like an active shooter situation. 721 00:33:29,534 --> 00:33:32,662 And then they mentioned Tiffany's name on the air, 722 00:33:32,766 --> 00:33:35,408 and that's when I knew it was Tiffany. 723 00:33:39,023 --> 00:33:40,100 It was devastating. 724 00:33:40,204 --> 00:33:42,568 I mean, I remember just yelling to Prosecutor 725 00:33:42,672 --> 00:33:43,924 Boyd across the office. 726 00:33:44,028 --> 00:33:46,703 It's Tiffany, it's Tiffany. 727 00:33:46,808 --> 00:33:51,153 And just feeling so terrible. 728 00:33:51,258 --> 00:33:52,335 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 729 00:33:52,439 --> 00:33:54,386 While one set of first responders 730 00:33:54,490 --> 00:33:56,714 rushed to help Tiffany and her mom, 731 00:33:56,818 --> 00:34:01,545 another was hot on Keland Hill's tail as he fled. 732 00:34:01,650 --> 00:34:06,793 Keland was located, and he led police on a high speed chase. 733 00:34:06,898 --> 00:34:10,720 Speeds up to 75 miles per hour on busy streets. 734 00:34:10,825 --> 00:34:16,177 In a situation, such as a fleeing person 735 00:34:16,283 --> 00:34:20,662 at a very populated area or dangerous area, 736 00:34:20,766 --> 00:34:24,381 one has to decide which one would cause 737 00:34:24,485 --> 00:34:26,987 the less amount of damage. 738 00:34:27,092 --> 00:34:31,957 Letting this person run free, or pursuing them? 739 00:34:32,061 --> 00:34:34,877 But if the police officers pursued, 740 00:34:34,981 --> 00:34:37,241 or the first responders pursued Keland, 741 00:34:37,345 --> 00:34:38,978 it was because they thought he was a higher 742 00:34:39,082 --> 00:34:44,400 risk by fleeing with a firearm. 743 00:34:44,505 --> 00:34:45,652 He was-- he was a danger. 744 00:34:45,756 --> 00:34:47,389 He was a danger to himself, and he was 745 00:34:47,493 --> 00:34:49,475 a clear danger to other people. 746 00:34:49,580 --> 00:34:53,506 Deputies actually attempted to stop his vehicle 747 00:34:53,610 --> 00:34:56,843 by ramming it with theirs and pursued him 748 00:34:56,948 --> 00:34:58,581 until he got caught in traffic. 749 00:34:58,685 --> 00:35:00,492 And that's when Keland exited the vehicle, 750 00:35:00,596 --> 00:35:05,636 turned to face the oncoming officers, and shot himself. 751 00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:06,853 [gun shot] 752 00:35:06,957 --> 00:35:08,140 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 753 00:35:08,244 --> 00:35:10,050 Maybe in hindsight, it's not surprising 754 00:35:10,154 --> 00:35:13,075 that a relationship that began on the battlefield 755 00:35:13,179 --> 00:35:15,959 ended in bloodshed. 756 00:35:16,063 --> 00:35:19,609 But at the time, as word of what happened started to get out, 757 00:35:19,713 --> 00:35:22,111 it still shocked everyone. 758 00:35:22,215 --> 00:35:24,023 ISAIAH KNIGHT: I had just gotten home from work. 759 00:35:24,127 --> 00:35:28,854 All of a sudden, her phone just started blowing up. 760 00:35:28,958 --> 00:35:30,801 You know, Karina, have you heard? 761 00:35:30,905 --> 00:35:32,435 There's a shooting at the school. 762 00:35:32,538 --> 00:35:33,859 It's Tiffany. 763 00:35:33,963 --> 00:35:37,266 I had just turned on my phone and was already on Facebook, 764 00:35:37,369 --> 00:35:39,975 and it said school shooting. 765 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,513 And I knew instantly. 766 00:35:42,617 --> 00:35:44,043 I called her phone first. 767 00:35:44,147 --> 00:35:45,468 I called the school. 768 00:35:45,574 --> 00:35:47,901 And then, about three minutes later, the school called me. 769 00:35:50,369 --> 00:35:53,740 And they said you need to get here. 770 00:35:53,845 --> 00:35:54,957 The kids are waiting for you. 771 00:35:55,062 --> 00:35:56,520 They know you're coming. 772 00:35:56,625 --> 00:35:58,953 Tiffany and her mother were both taken to the hospital. 773 00:35:59,057 --> 00:36:01,107 Tiffany was pronounced dead on arrival, 774 00:36:01,212 --> 00:36:04,131 and her mother miraculously survived. 775 00:36:04,236 --> 00:36:07,468 We immediately left our three kids with our neighbor. 776 00:36:07,574 --> 00:36:10,597 We booked it down to the school. 777 00:36:10,701 --> 00:36:13,516 We had to be cleared before we could go in. 778 00:36:13,621 --> 00:36:15,672 When we went in there, the kids 779 00:36:15,776 --> 00:36:17,270 had no idea what was going on. 780 00:36:17,374 --> 00:36:19,007 They saw their mother get shot, but they 781 00:36:19,112 --> 00:36:20,503 didn't know she was dead. 782 00:36:20,607 --> 00:36:24,430 We were with the children when the sheriff told them 783 00:36:24,535 --> 00:36:26,307 that their father had killed their mother 784 00:36:26,411 --> 00:36:27,489 and then killed himself. 785 00:36:27,593 --> 00:36:28,809 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 786 00:36:28,914 --> 00:36:30,478 In the aftermath of Tiffany Hill's murder, 787 00:36:30,582 --> 00:36:33,120 Senator Lynda Wilson became even more 788 00:36:33,224 --> 00:36:36,247 determined to push forward her bill protecting 789 00:36:36,352 --> 00:36:39,201 victims of domestic abuse. 790 00:36:39,306 --> 00:36:41,427 Well, I was watching television, 791 00:36:41,531 --> 00:36:44,102 and I saw the police report on the news. 792 00:36:44,207 --> 00:36:47,821 And, of course, when I saw that, it broke my heart, 793 00:36:47,925 --> 00:36:53,590 because I witnessed domestic violence as a child 794 00:36:53,695 --> 00:36:54,981 pretty consistently. 795 00:36:55,086 --> 00:36:58,456 Senator Wilson contacted Karina and had said, 796 00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:00,924 you know, I'd really like to use Tiffany's 797 00:37:01,029 --> 00:37:05,200 name for this act we're trying to pass to become a law. 798 00:37:05,305 --> 00:37:08,606 And then, with our testimony-- you know, our personal 799 00:37:08,711 --> 00:37:10,273 experience and what we knew-- 800 00:37:10,378 --> 00:37:11,839 it went from there. 801 00:37:11,943 --> 00:37:15,071 And it wasn't, in my mind-- 802 00:37:15,175 --> 00:37:17,087 it wasn't gonna stop. 803 00:37:17,191 --> 00:37:18,442 I told them-- 804 00:37:18,546 --> 00:37:21,432 this-- that I would like to honor Tiffany 805 00:37:21,536 --> 00:37:24,386 in a way that would help others. 806 00:37:24,489 --> 00:37:26,541 I think it's an important piece of legislation. 807 00:37:26,646 --> 00:37:30,051 And I think that, at the very best, it can save lives. 808 00:37:30,156 --> 00:37:31,893 And at the very least, maybe give 809 00:37:31,997 --> 00:37:34,951 the victims of domestic violence control 810 00:37:35,055 --> 00:37:37,385 and some feeling of peace in their lives. 811 00:37:37,489 --> 00:37:38,809 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 812 00:37:38,914 --> 00:37:41,799 Senator Wilson still believes that giving victims 813 00:37:41,903 --> 00:37:43,745 the ability to track their abusers 814 00:37:43,849 --> 00:37:46,595 is the best way to protect them. 815 00:37:46,699 --> 00:37:49,514 Had this technology been around then, 816 00:37:49,619 --> 00:37:52,990 and Tiffany had been available to it, 817 00:37:53,094 --> 00:37:57,821 she would have known more often when he was lurking. 818 00:37:57,925 --> 00:38:01,645 Because she would be notified on her phone or her watch. 819 00:38:01,749 --> 00:38:03,730 Then they would get a real time notification. 820 00:38:03,833 --> 00:38:05,816 So as soon as that happened, then they 821 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,388 would be notified that this person 822 00:38:08,491 --> 00:38:11,167 was within their geoprotection zone. 823 00:38:11,272 --> 00:38:13,741 So many times with domestic violence victims, 824 00:38:13,845 --> 00:38:15,270 these-- they-- 825 00:38:15,375 --> 00:38:17,806 it's the element of surprise that takes them off guard. 826 00:38:17,912 --> 00:38:19,023 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 827 00:38:19,127 --> 00:38:21,387 As a result of Senator Wilson's work, 828 00:38:21,491 --> 00:38:23,820 Washington state lawmakers passed 829 00:38:23,924 --> 00:38:26,670 the Tiffany Hill Act in 2020. 830 00:38:26,774 --> 00:38:28,928 All those in favor of adoption of the proposed substitute, 831 00:38:29,033 --> 00:38:29,868 please say aye. 832 00:38:29,971 --> 00:38:30,945 Aye. 833 00:38:31,049 --> 00:38:32,405 All those opposed, say no. 834 00:38:32,509 --> 00:38:33,829 The proposed substitute is adopted. 835 00:38:33,934 --> 00:38:35,255 MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (VOICEOVER): 836 00:38:35,359 --> 00:38:37,827 Tiffany's friends hope similar laws will protect 837 00:38:37,931 --> 00:38:39,460 more women like Tiffany-- 838 00:38:39,564 --> 00:38:43,318 not only in Washington, but across the entire country. 839 00:38:43,423 --> 00:38:48,149 Which is exactly what Tiffany would have wanted. 840 00:38:48,254 --> 00:38:50,652 She loved God. 841 00:38:50,756 --> 00:38:52,911 She loved people. 842 00:38:53,015 --> 00:38:57,187 She would give you the shirt off of her back. 843 00:38:57,290 --> 00:39:00,558 She loved her kids, her community-- she worked really 844 00:39:00,662 --> 00:39:04,658 hard at building a community. 845 00:39:04,763 --> 00:39:06,222 She knew how important it was, she 846 00:39:06,327 --> 00:39:09,039 knew it-- it takes a village. 847 00:39:09,143 --> 00:39:11,679 Tiffany Hill is gone, but because 848 00:39:11,783 --> 00:39:14,496 of her, domestic violence victims 849 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,093 will be safer in our state. 850 00:39:16,197 --> 00:39:20,925 And Tiffany really will continue to serve in a different way. 851 00:39:21,029 --> 00:39:24,678 Tiffany and Keland Hill got married in 2008. 852 00:39:24,782 --> 00:39:27,876 But by 2019, they would both be dead. 853 00:39:27,981 --> 00:39:31,596 Victims of Keland's uncontrollable rage. 854 00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:35,417 Just another reminder that the person you meet and marry 855 00:39:35,522 --> 00:39:38,928 could end up being your murderer. 856 00:39:39,033 --> 00:39:44,456 I'm Michelle Trachtenberg, and this is Meet, Marry, Murder. 857 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,236 [determined music]