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The case was a true whodunit mystery.
It was just very cold, very calculated.
They were methodical.
[distant sirens wailing]
Our team responded to process the scene.
The body was located in two 55-gallon burn barrels.
the smell was absolutely putrid.
So our team had to get
respirators from a local fire company.
It was brutal homicide.
the most gruesome cases I ever experienced.
George Newhart.
it actually checked out.
to identify this person.
[Shawn] It was very late when investigators initially got
the following day, on July 13th.
[Jody] In one barrel was the victim's torso,
burnt, which tells us that
was at the properties there's a 10-hour window from when this
the victim from both barrels.
And they sort of had to figure out, OK, what body parts do
At that point, we couldn't determine if it was
a man or a woman.
ground to cover.
This person was killed and dismembered somewhere else.
a 40-foot cable, and it was low.
There was a lock on it, and it would have taken two
people to get their vehicle underneath that cable, one to
there was no evidence of dragging from the road.
Then the speculation part started, you know.
[Shawn] So we are trying to think like the offender.
Or that someone had more of an intimate knowledge of this
You have this two-pronged approach.
the ground, looking for witnesses, looking for anyone
[Jody] As we begin this process, we know
[Jody] Seeing what happened to this individual makes me sick.
and bring those responsible to justice.
[Shawn] We know that the body was wrapped in a blue plastic.
and did some research.
[Shawn] It was so disgusting -- you don't get
that smell out of your head.
Who would go through these lengths to get rid of a body?
We knew that we were dealing with something
dismembered and burned in a couple burn barrels.
Number two, we have to identify that person in order to
we could to identify the victim.
a face of this victim.
We were hoping to get some type of face out there.
We were doing everything we could.
You have the human emotion
but we were never gonna give up.
We weren't going to stop fighting for that victim.
And so we continued and continued and continued
responsible for this really get away with murder?
a Kingston Township home where he lived.
before they found the body in Jackson Township.
He burned his victims to ash, literally.
find out, is there a nexus between the two cases?
We knew we had to keep pressing on, and it really all came back
through the system as many times as it takes,
[Shawn] Lo and behold, in November of 2003, we get a hit on
picture of who Bob is.
Bob was my stepbrother.
When I first met Bob and got to know him,
I had moved to Reno and was starting work at the new hotel.
Bob was just part of the family.
After the Marines, Bob had relocated to the East Coast.
Bob's mother told me, you know, like, that he had moved
No matter what, he would never miss her birthday.
his remains had been identified as a murder victim
being, and then just dumping like a piece of garbage.
They didn't care about anything except covering up
maybe we've met our match.
of the victim,
Bob Roudebush.
[Jody] It's like a shot of adrenaline.
But we still didn't have a crime scene as to where
These individuals were smart enough to transport that body
the point of not identifying the victim.
Fortunately, that didn't happen.
It was strained.
We asked, "Is there anyone that would want to hurt Bob?
[Jody] When you have Hugo Selenski burning bodies on his property,
it's only logical to think that there may be --
there may be a connection between the two.
see if there had been anything new about what had happened
and any suspects.
There was sadness, there was an emptiness that was there,
But at the end of the day, it got very frustrating because
every lead, every idea, everything we tried
Around the time we released the identity to the press,
we received a call from James Britton, an inmate who says
he has information regarding this investigation.
and I conducted an interview.
Wilkes-Barre with his wife, Stacy.
friends with the victim because they were ex-Marines,
at the Brittons' house on July 4th, but he didn't show up,
and James said he never talked to him again.
James went on to tell us a story how he was assaulted by
and threatened to rape his wife all over a stolen MP3 player.
your skull like Bob.
James was completely putting it out there that Larry Tooley
and that he didn't want to end up like him.
This is a shocking development for the investigators.
during a home invasion.
Now, Bob was discovered in July of 2002.
So there was a lot of interest in Larry Tooley at this point.
James was very believable, and he became
They want to get ahold of James's wife, Stacy.
[Shawn] I reached out to Stacy Britton.
She immediately goes into Larry Tooley and talking about being
information, but she gave a few extra tidbits.
would go back and forth between Wilkes-Barre and Newark,
New Jersey for business.
I said, "Well, would you ever stop anywhere?"
She said, "Well, my brother lives near there,
[Shawn] I knew that once the victim was identified, we would make moves
So we're gonna explore every possible aspect before we make
She says, "Listen, I wasn't having an affair with
Bob Roudebush."
She said, "They're liars, don't believe anything
that they say."
In fact, the girlfriend said she only saw Bob
as a deflection, you know, and trying to give,
like, a smokescreen.
They definitely knew more than they were saying.
[Shawn] The Brittons had been very believable.
[Jody] Anyone could have done it.
but we still need that one clue or piece of evidence
to push us in the right direction.
It seemed to me like James did wanna talk.
and she shut down the interview.
directions but it doesn't seem like it's leading to the person
or people who committed this murder.
I couldn't believe that she was reaching out again
She said she and James weren't husband and wife anymore,
but they were living together and things weren't going well.
but she wanted to tell us a story.
I knew that that was a tipping point,
On August 14, 2015, we finally got that break.
just like that.
And we felt we had enough to charge James.
So we took James into custody and we set up
And that's where James went into his version of what
At this point Stacy and James are both trying to pin it on
each other and investigators have to figure out
what really happened to Bob.
[Michael] Now it started to become more like a cat and mouse scenario
and with every increase in detail, Stacy was becoming more
and more of an active participant.
[Shawn] We had more questions.
stations, and that's where they conducted
her own confession to what she had done.
And they proceeded to go to North Road.
And someone had to hold the cable.
lit the remains on fire
killing Bob, that she was going to be OK,
and wouldn't be arrested.
[Michael] It appeared Stacy was going to beat James to the punch by
that was the best evidence.
So investigators arrest both James and Stacy.
[news broadcast] After 14 years of police trying to find the person
[Will] November of 2016, Stacy Britton is convicted of
[Jody] This is the Super Bowl,
the crime of all crimes, and I'm proud to be a part of
I think it's so interesting that it was their own mouths
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Christina had been missing longer than she had been alive.
We had always hoped to bring Christina home.
Whoever did this really knew what they were doing