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REPORTER: A disturbing story has come in... (overlapping voices)
* *
REPORTER: Three individuals discovered amidst
what authorities are characterizing
as a gruesome scene.
Authorities are keeping silent
on the specifics of the murder method
or if there were any signs of forced entry.
STEVE MURPHY: You would think that a triple homicide
would be an unusual occurrence.
In South Florida, it wasn't.
My name is Steve Murphy.
I'm a retired special agent.
I have a total of 38 years of law enforcement experience
and 26 years with DEA.
On June 27, 1994,
the Miramar Police Department was investigating reports of
two missing girls,
Marie Rogers and Sharon Anderson.
The night before, they had been seen at Casey's Nickelodeon,
the club owned by a guy known as Butch Casey.
My mom called me on Sunday morning.
She said, "Sharon didn't come home last night."
And my sister and her had a date.
And no matter where Sharon was,
if she had a date with my mom, she made that date.
MURPHY: The investigators know from an employee of the club
that Butch had been seen with two young females earlier,
and at early morning hours
they left together.
A Miramar police officer goes to the home
of Butch Casey.
When he gets to the house, after he knocks
on the front door, he makes his way around
to the back of the house 'cause he can hear music
inside the house.
* *
When he gets to the back door, he can see through the window.
And in the house...
He can see
bodies lying on the floor.
CHUCK FEBRO: On June 27, 1994,
I was the Deputy Chief of Police.
And I also was in charge of
the criminal investigations division,
along with the patrol division
for Miramar Police Department.
This is the route I took down 33rd Street
to get to Miramar Isles to get to East Shore Drive,
and then we'll come up to scene of the triple homicide.
When I first arrived, all those palm trees
were all there, and there's a, uh, a fence here
that's probably six feet tall,
so it'd be really easy for someone
to approach this house with no one knowing.
When I pulled up,
there was police cars everywhere.
Crime scene tape, detectives at the front door.
MURPHY: When investigators arrive at the house,
one of the things they see is a blue T-shirt
lying on the ground.
And on that shirt were the words
Consolidated Electric Supply.
You don't know if that's evidence or not yet,
but just to be on the safe side,
you're gonna pick that up as evidence.
The front door was locked.
It appeared that all the windows were closed and locked,
but they found the back sliding glass door unlocked.
FEBRO: The house backed up
to a lake, and then there were a bunch
of finger canals, and a lot of people lived on the canals.
It's a very nice neighborhood.
Very private, very quiet.
Very little crime in that area.
MURPHY: There is no signs
whatsoever of forced entry into this house.
FEBRO: I was aghast
when I first walked in the house.
There was a lot of furniture pushed aside.
Looked like some burglars came in and had ransacked the house
to look for money.
The entire house, other than maybe the bedrooms,
were all marble tile floors, and there was blood drippings
on the tile.
And there was a shoe print...
...that had blood residue on it
and transferred it to the tile floor.
The three victims,
two very young women in their early 20s
and a white male, were laying in between
the living room and the dining room on the floor.
One of the female victims was tied up
with phone line on her ankles.
MARY'S MARTINEZ: And that's, in my opinion,
pretty symbolic.
Maybe she did something they didn't like,
like try to run away.
My name is Mary's Martinez.
I'm a crime scene investigator.
I specialize mostly in firearms
and general evidence that are located on crime scenes.
The male victim was laying on his back
with a gunshot wound.
He was beat up. His face was turned to the side,
and it was obvious that he had been struck in some manner
because he had numerous injuries to his face.
One of the female victims had two gunshot wounds.
She was the one with her ankles tied together.
And it appeared to me that she was fired at close range
and shot in the neck
and shot in the back of the head.
The second female victim was laying face down
with one wound to the back of her neck.
One of the victims was identified
as Butch Casey,
who was the owner of the house
and the owner of Casey's Nickelodeon.
MURPHY: Unfortunately, the two missing girls,
they were two of the victims in this triple murder,
Marie Rogers and Sharon Anderson.
DEBORAH BOWIE: Sometime in the afternoon
the following day, my mom called,
and when I answered, she asked
for my husband, which I thought was strange.
And I don't know why I said what I said,
but I said, "Is Sharon dead? Just tell me."
And he said, "Yes. She is."
It just felt like it just couldn't have been real.
You just feel like you're thrown into an alternative universe.
I was 24 when I lost my sister.
You cannot go through that and then return to who you were.
Right? I am not the same person.
Never will be.
(sniffles)
Sharon was 11 months older than me.
We were probably closer than most siblings would be
just because there really wasn't
an extended family except me and Sharon.
We were tight.
When we were little,
Sharon had wanted to be a police officer.
When she got older,
she wanted to be in front of the camera.
* *
She started modeling and doing photo shoots.
She saw herself in entertainment.
This was, like, early '90s, and Miami
was just getting on the scene for music videos.
And she was picked out of a line of thousands
of women on Miami Beach to star opposite
Heavy D & the Boyz in a video they shot in Miami
called "Gyrlz, They Love Me."
* Girls, they, girls, they love me... *
BOWIE: After she did the video, she had figured out
that "This is the world that I want to be in."
Marie also had a lot of dreams and hopes.
She was in fashion school.
She was very artistic and could do
really great things with costumes.
Sharon and Marie, they were good friends.
Marie was really chill, liked good music,
good food, loved her daughter.
She's who I would expect Sharon to be friends with.
She was giving, she was caring, she was kind.
But I didn't know who Butch Casey was.
* I got that honey *
* Sugar sweet... *
MARTINEZ: Butch Casey was described
as a playboy.
He owned Casey's Nickelodeon.
They were known for their ladies' nights, drink specials.
He was well off, he drove a Mercedes-Benz.
At the nightclub, he knew a lot of people
and would often bring them back to his house.
* *
MURPHY: We know that Butch moved from Buffalo, New York,
to Miramar, Florida, the Southern Florida area,
in the 1980s.
In Buffalo, he owned a nightclub up there.
He comes to Miramar and opens up Casey's Nickelodeon club,
and it's very successful.
Butch had several run-ins with the law
both before and after his arrival to Miami.
And he had a prior arrest for narcotics violations.
The '70s and the '80s is when the drug culture
really started hitting South Florida.
It's not unusual for there to be drug activity
in a lot of the nightclubs.
So, was Casey's Nickelodeon club the same?
Was this a drug deal gone bad?
FEBRO: The detectives located neighbor Gary Foy,
who had seen something suspicious
on the date of the murder.
As he left his house, he noticed
that Butch Casey's black Mercedes-Benz
was leaving the neighborhood.
He did not see Butch in the car,
but he saw two young males.
MURPHY: It's a great indicator that
there are at least two people involved.
So, our initial theory here...
...is that Butch and the two ladies
came back to Butch's house.
They fell asleep.
Two assailants entered the house from the back
through an unlocked door.
They start rummaging through the house,
presumably looking for things of value.
Jewelry, cash, drugs.
Butch hears this.
He gets up and encounters the two assailants.
A tussle ensues.
One of the assailants shoots and kills Butch Casey.
The two ladies hear this, they come out to investigate.
And now the assailants take control of them
and eventually kill them as well.
In their haste to get out of the house,
stepped in blood, left a bloody shoe print,
and dropped their blue T-shirt on the ground
as they make their escape.
But the investigators have no idea who they're looking for.
There are still
pieces of evidence that have been collected
from the crime scene
that are still going through analysis.
So, you're waiting on those to come back in.
MARTINEZ: As they're waiting for pending evidence results--
DNA, fingerprints--
investigators dug into other evidence
that was found within the crime scene.
The investigators stumbled upon what appeared to be
a collection of audiotapes,
some of which were conversations
that were recorded between Butch and a woman.
The way it sounds like on that audiotape,
these audio recordings were done secretly.
And it was, short of a better word, horrific to listen to it.
It causes my blood to boil.
MURPHY: Makes you wonder,
why does Butch Casey have those tapes?
* *
MURPHY: There's been three murders.
You're looking for potential leads anywhere
you can find them.
When they were processing the crime scene,
numerous audio recordings were discovered in Butch's house.
One of the tapes was a recording
of Butch and a woman who was fighting.
And this recording was just days before the murder.
(woman wailing)
(woman screams)
MURPHY: It sounds like it was Butch
and what appears to be his ex-girlfriend
or current girlfriend, who knows?
So, who is this woman on the audiotape recording?
While investigating Butch's personal life,
the detectives run across
a domestic violence incident report
between Butch and his ex-girlfriend Kristal Fisher.
FEBRO: Any detective would look into,
when a husband is murdered or a wife is murdered,
usually look to the spouse or the girlfriend.
So that was definitely a possibility,
that it-- she could have been involved in these murders.
(Kristal screams)
MURPHY: During this conversation,
she's in a very submissive role.
But once she's left, she may become bitter.
Could she be so upset by what took place
that she wants to-- some type of retaliation against him?
Because nobody should talk to her like that.
Now, this introduces another theory.
Did Kristal decide,
"I'm not taking that from anybody,
I'm gonna get him back," and she decides
to hire someone to kill Butch Casey?
Maybe through the contacts she met at the bar,
there were two guys who were willing to commit a murder
for her, for money.
She surely knows
that his back sliding door is rarely locked.
The hit men got in the house, shoot Butch.
Sharon and Marie are potential witnesses.
So they kill both ladies.
They stage it to look like a robbery gone bad.
Maybe they decided their payment was gonna be
a black convertible Mercedes-Benz,
and they make their escape.
While Kristal Fisher may have had the motive
for killing Butch Casey,
did Kristal have the financial means
to order a murder, to order a hit?
Did she have the contacts?
Through their investigation, they subpoenaed phone records,
they subpoenaed financial records,
they talked to other individuals.
Eventually, it was determined that
there was no evidence whatsoever
that she was complicit in planning these murders.
And the investigators were comfortable with the fact that
most likely, it was not her.
So now investigators can set Kristal Fisher aside
and move on to other potential leads.
Is this just a straight-out robbery?
We just don't know. This is part of the investigative leads
that have to be followed up.
BOWIE: It was frustrating,
because you spend a lot of time waiting.
They might be a headline on the evening news,
but it's a whole other story when it's your family.
And in my family, Sharon was very much the glue.
And when you lose a presence like that in your family,
it has an immediate impact.
Right? Because then,
who's there, who's going to be hopeful
and look for the good?
It's hard when you lose that person.
MARTINEZ: Investigators have the T-shirt
that was on the front porch,
but they had yet to receive
any sort of DNA analysis.
MURPHY: What you're looking for is pieces
of the DNA that are referred to as markers.
And those markers are what you're looking for
to compare to known DNA samples.
You look for 20 markers, because 20 markers
may get you to the 99.9% match.
Once you know what those markers are,
then you can compare it to known DNA samples
of other people,
and you're looking for that match.
DNA is discovered
in your skin tissue,
in your sweat, in your saliva.
Anything that your body excretes, excretes a DNA sample.
We're always continually shedding skin cells.
That's gonna be on your clothing whether you want it to or not.
The blue shirt found at the house,
that's got to be full of DNA evidence.
Well, the analysis of the DNA test comes back,
and there's multiple pieces of DNA
on that shirt.
MARTINEZ: Except that only one
was able to be identified.
It was the DNA of Sharon.
Could the killer's DNA be on the shirt? Absolutely.
But given that it's 1994, they weren't able to identify
exactly who the other profiles are.
MURPHY: In 1994, DNA analysis
was continuing to evolve.
And at that time, what was required
was a large
collection of DNA in a pristine condition
where it hasn't been adulterated by another person's DNA
or an outside chemical that happened to get on that shirt.
To get that exact analysis
in 1994 was rather difficult.
MARTINEZ: So even though there was
two sets of DNA on the shirt,
it was ultimately a dead end.
MURPHY: When an investigation hits a wall,
a detective will reach out to the law enforcement community,
professionals, people that you trust.
So now we have our flyers out there with all the local police,
asking anybody for any potential leads.
Investigators received a call from the Palm Beach County
Florida Fire Department.
They'd found a...
black convertible Mercedes-Benz on fire.
The tags on the car
came back to Butch Casey.
MARTINEZ: This was a huge break
for the case
because Butch's neighbor
stated he saw two males
getting into the black Mercedes next door.
So we can assume that it was driven
from the home by the same person that committed the murder.
They might still have an attempt at DNA samples.
The responding crime scene investigators
collected various samples and submitted them
for analysis at the lab.
Usually, when vehicles are torched,
the heat and the flames will kill off any DNA.
It's 98% water.
So amongst the water, you know, the sweat,
amino acids, things like that, all of that will evaporate,
given that the fire would reach such a high degree of intensity.
But despite the extent
of the damage from being set on fire,
they were able to lift a couple fingerprints
from the vehicle door handles.
The fact that they were able to get some prints off of it,
that was amazing.
Unfortunately for this case...
...it wasn't a hit in the AFIS system,
which stands for Automated Fingerprint
Identification System,
the database that is used by crime scene investigators
to upload any prints that may have been collected
and then make an identification
off of the names that are stored in the database.
It's just dead end after dead end.
MURPHY: You're looking for potential leads anywhere
you can find them, so investigators
go back to the crime scene.
While I was at the crime scene,
I was next to an entertainment center,
and there was a red light that was illuminated.
That meant something was being recorded.
Just a couple feet from me,
I look over and they've got all these potted plants
on top of the entertainment center.
And I notice that there was a couple
that were pulled a little bit apart.
So I said, oh, what's back there?
So I pull the plants apart,
and there was a camera on a tripod.
And I looked at the crime scene tech
and I said, "No, it couldn't be."
They said, "Well, you think we could
take a look and see what that's recording?"
It appeared that Butch had set this up
to record, for whatever reason.
MURPHY: Why would Butch Casey have
a video camera hidden
inside of his house?
I'm going to guess that the investigator
that found that is like,
"Guys, you're not going to believe this."
I don't know. But here's the bottom line.
Did Butch put that camera up there
and record his own murder?
MARINEZ: There is a huge break in the case
when one of the investigators notices that there is
a surveillance camera in Butch's living room.
Even more lucky than this was found was the fact
that the camera was pointed in the very direction
of where the entire incident took place.
Could this camera have caught
Sharon, Marie's and Butch's murder?
MURPHY: In 1994,
security cameras were starting to come along,
mostly in businesses.
But I don't know of a soul
who had one in their house.
Butch Casey did.
And lo and behold, they turn it on,
and it was recording.
And it recorded this heinous crime.
People are just amazed.
They'd never seen anything like that.
Never had anybody had a video recorder running.
I'm thinking, boy, this is going to be
an important part of evidence.
And sure enough, it was an extensive video,
and it looked like we had a very valuable tool
to assist us in this investigation.
(phone ringing)
(ringing continues)
BOWIE: I got a call from the Miramar Police Department,
and they said, "Your sister's murder was caught on tape."
And I said, "What?"
I didn't know what that meant.
Are you saying that somebody recorded it?
And he said, "No, it was a home security camera.
"And they're going to unseal it tomorrow,
so we wanted you to know."
And I flew down to the Miramar Police Department
with a really good family friend,
and I watched the unedited tape.
MARTINEZ: The video shows Marie,
Sharon and Butch.
They are having a drink, talking.
They were kind of like in the early hours of the morning,
having a good time post having been at the club.
But then it happened.
Two offenders are seen
walking directly into the living room from
the backyard sliding glass door.
One of the offenders goes straight to Butch and hits him
in the face, resulting in him falling to the ground,
where he continues to punch and physically assault Butch.
Sharon runs to a different room of the house,
and a second offender chases after her.
One of them was wearing a hat and a pair of sunglasses,
and the other was wearing fabric-looking
either cloth or a rag across the front of his face.
Both were wearing some sort of work gloves or latex gloves.
That, for us, really is a red flag because
they didn't deposit any fingerprints anywhere.
MURPHY: The first assailant has Butch down on the ground,
and the assailant continues to maintain control
of Butch, and he uses his handgun,
which appears to be a TEC-9, because that's
what it looks like to me on the video.
And repeatedly
slaps Butch with that in the head.
Why did they continually beat him?
It looks like they're trying to extract information.
But you can't tell because
there's no audio to go along with the video.
And then assailant number two brings the female from
that room and puts her next to the other female and Butch
so that all three are there together
in that dining room area.
And her feet have been bound with a telephone cord.
It's obvious they're looking for something.
It could be money.
Butch has a successful nightclub.
I'm thinking the two assailants probably thought
that Butch kept the cash in the house.
When he runs back out, Butch pays the price every time.
Because I think they're saying we can't find what we're
looking for, and he was struck again with the weapon.
If it's a robbery, well, now it's a robbery gone bad.
Because not only do you have Butch there,
you've got two females who appear
to be there just simply at the wrong time.
Sharon was begging.
He made her get up.
But then she laid on the floor.
And then he comes and stands over my sister,
and he shot her.
And then he shot at Marie.
And then he shot at Butch.
It's... It's hard to watch.
You're watching human lives being taken.
Despite the years that we have working the crime scenes
or seeing certain things,
it's different when you're seeing it actually take place.
This video shows the panic in the girls
while also beating up Butch.
It was just really sad to see, and just gruesome.
You can't watch that and go to sleep at night sometimes.
I could be at a party or at a dinner... (crying)
It's always there.
Always.
I don't ever have to see it again.
And I can tell you every single frame.
It definitely changes you.
Time goes on. You know,
maybe you don't think about it quite as much.
But, I mean, for years
I thought I was losing my mind.
Because you can't escape your thoughts.
There's no way. You can tell people you're okay, right?
You can go on with your day,
but, you know, at some point,
you're just alone with yourself.
And then there's that tape.
MURPHY: As you're watching this video, you cannot identify
either one of the two assailants.
But then, one of the assailants
does something that's completely unexpected.
He takes the shirt off his face.
Did we just discover who one of the killers is?
MURPHY: Now that all three victims are dead,
suspect number two has taken his-- the shirt off his face
and revealed himself.
He certainly didn't know about the camera.
He's to the point where he's not worried about anybody
identifying him because there's nobody else in the house.
The fact that one of the assailants
is now revealing his identity,
as an investigator,
that's a fantastic piece of evidence
that you have a videotape
of a triple homicide.
Your initial reaction is, this is a slam dunk case.
We've got them. We've got them on tape killing this guy.
But then reality sets in when you watch the tape.
This is 1994, and you realize it's in black and white.
And the quality of the cameras were not
4K, like we have today.
You've got to look at an investigation
from how a defense attorney is going to look at it.
'Cause he's going to try and pick apart everything
in your case that you're using as evidence.
Investigators could tell from that video
that suspect number two
was approximately six feet tall,
roughly 170 pounds, brown hair.
But is that descriptive enough?
So the investigators decided to send that tape
to the FBI to see, could this be enhanced any?
My understanding of the enhancement process
at that time is they had to take still photographs
taken from the videotape,
and that is what the Bureau tries to enhance.
And I'm sure it was state of the art at the time.
They could maybe reduce some of the motion blur involved,
because, you know, on a video, people are moving.
But it was nothing like you could do today.
So it's not that final "gotcha" piece of evidence, you know,
that you're going to have to convict somebody in a trial.
And then once it was enhanced,
they had a sketch artist come in.
What we learned is that the clarity of the picture
still wasn't there.
It was still hard to identify the assailants.
The sketch artist was able to draw a picture without having
the blurriness associated with enhancing a photograph.
Law enforcement released a composite sketch
of the two possible offenders
to the public and media outlets in efforts
to have someone come forward
and identify who these people may be.
MURPHY: A few weeks later, on July 14,
Metro Dade Police investigated a home invasion
in which two suspects were arrested.
When they took the suspects to the station,
one of the officers realized that the suspects looked
very much like the composite drawing
that Miramar Police had distributed to everyone.
So they contacted the detective in charge at Miramar PD,
said, "Hey, you may want to come down
and take a look at this person."
And, "It looks an awful lot
like the person in your drawing."
Investigators from Miramar PD went down
to see these two potential suspects in the murder case--
Pablo Ibar and Francisco Rincon.
The sketch of Ibar,
there's no doubt in my mind that's him.
Unfortunately, the second assailant kept
his hat and glasses on all the time,
so the identifying characteristics are not there
like they are with Pablo's drawing.
As this investigation has developed,
we now know that Pablo and his crew have been involved
in another home invasion robbery.
They're known to be very violent.
They're known to assault anybody and everybody
to control the situation.
MARTINEZ: While under arrest, law enforcement collected
the shoes that were being worn by Francisco and Pablo
in an effort to compare
the bottom of the shoes to the bloody footprint
that was located on the crime scene.
MURPHY: You have an expert do an analysis.
Do any of these shoes match?
The shoes from Pablo didn't match.
However, the shoes that Rincon had on in jail...
Guess what?
They matched the bloody footprint.
Law enforcement approached Rincon--
"Hey, what's going on here?
"Why do you have these shoes on
that match from the murder site?"
Of course...
(chuckling) he wants nothing to do with that.
So he explains that Pablo Ibar
and a third roommate share a place together,
and it's not unusual for us
to change clothing, to change shoes.
We wear each other's clothes all the time.
What he says is those shoes actually belong to Pablo Ibar.
MARTINEZ: Pablo said that was a lie.
He stated that he lives with his mother
and provided his mother's address.
So, of course, the investigators go to the mom's house.
Now, remember,
Pablo's in custody down in Dade County.
They show Pablo's mom
the composite drawing, and she immediately
identifies it as her son,
Pablo Ibar.
They also learned
that Pablo's mother works for a company called
Consolidated Electric.
If you remember the blue shirt that was found in the front yard
that's being tested for DNA,
what was on that shirt?
Consolidated Electric.
MARTINEZ: Which ties in Pablo
via his mother and her employment,
but also the fact that Sharon's DNA
was found on the T-shirt.
So the real question is,
why is the victim's DNA on that shirt?
* *
MARTINEZ: After investigators go to Pablo's mother's house,
detectives execute a search warrant to Pablo's apartment.
They find a box of latex gloves
and also a operator's manual
for a firearm known as a TEC-9.
MURPHY: That's not a common weapon for people to own.
For me, creates suspicion that whoever has
possession of that TEC-9
may be involved in some criminal activities.
We know on the video that we saw
what we believe is a TEC-9 machine pistol.
Are these the same?
At the house, they come across Jean Klimeczko.
Now, Klimeczko said he's only been staying there
just for a short amount of time.
Says he's not involved in this triple homicide.
They show him a composite drawing,
and he identifies the people
in the composite drawing as Pablo,
and another guy named Seth Penalver,
who might be the guy with the hat and the glasses on.
He looks like the person holding the TEC-9,
the one that assaults Butch immediately.
They ask Jean Klimeczko what he knows about
that particular date and time, on June 26,
the day the three murders were committed.
Here comes Pablo and Seth into the house, and he said,
Pablo goes into his bedroom,
comes out with a TEC-9 nine-millimeter machine pistol.
And Pablo and Seth leave.
Later that morning, after 7:30 a.m.,
well, here comes Pablo and Seth back.
And they've got
Pablo's maroon car."
And Klimeczko looks outside and sees a black Mercedes
convertible sitting in the driveway as well.
The detectives go to Casey's Nickelodeon.
They made contact with the bar manager,
who recognized Seth and Pablo's pictures.
He said he did, in fact,
see Pablo and Seth that night at the bar,
that they were frequent customers and that they were
looking at Butch.
But he didn't think much of it.
Just because of the type of person that Butch is,
he would call a lot of attention to himself.
He was flashy.
He carried large amounts of cash.
So he could have been at the club,
maybe took out money,
and someone saw him and then followed them home.
MURPHY: Now that the investigators have placed Pablo and Seth
at the club the night before the murders...
...our final theory is
that this is a burglary that went wrong.
Pablo and Seth decided to rob Butch.
So after leaving the club,
Butch, Marie and Sharon come back to Butch's house.
Pablo and Seth followed him.
They came in through the sliding glass door.
They encountered Butch Casey.
Seth immediately struck Butch and knocked him to the ground.
Sharon went into a bedroom area,
and Pablo follows her in there to get control of her.
Pablo comes out of the room
asking questions to Butch.
And then he'll run back into the bedroom
and search for things of value.
Eventually, Pablo brings Sharon out of that bedroom
with her feet bound.
And she was laid next to Marie.
It got to the point where Seth and Pablo became
so flustered that they executed Sharon and Marie
along with Butch.
On the way out of the house,
Pablo left bloody footprints on the floor.
And Pablo threw that shirt down in the front yard.
And they make their getaway in Butch's Mercedes.
MARTINEZ: On August 25, 1994,
two months after the triple homicide,
Pablo Ibar and Seth Penalver were indicted.
BOWIE: Nothing really prepares you to go to court.
I didn't want to have to sit in there one day
and see any of them.
But who's gonna be there for my sister?
So we were there every single day.
MURPHY: When the case finally goes to trial,
it resulted in a hung jury.
Now, that resulted in a second trial.
But this time,
the defendants have been separated
and go through individual trials.
In both trials,
both defendants were found guilty and sentenced to death.
BOWIE: You know, you think you're done.
Guilty, guilty.
And you feel like I could breathe a little bit,
like, I don't have to come back down here.
We finally had, like, a period of a couple of years
where we didn't have to live in this space anymore.
MURPHY: In 2012,
after almost two decades in prison,
Seth's case was overturned,
and he was found innocent.
Seth Penalver was released from prison.
How did that happen?
Pablo Ibar's mom recanted her statement.
Jean Klimeczko recanted his statement,
and it was determined
that there was no forensic evidence
that would result in a conviction.
BOWIE: I was just shocked.
But that jury
didn't hear the same evidence the other jury heard.
You just have to accept it. What can I do?
That's our legal system.
He was acquitted. You accept it, you move on.
MURPHY: Then, in 2019, 25 years
after the murders of Butch, Marie and Sharon,
convicted murderer Pablo Ibar is appealing his conviction.
Are the charges gonna be dismissed?
Investigators and prosecutors feel
100% certain that they have
the right suspect convicted of the murder
and in prison, where he belongs.
So, wanting an airtight case,
investigators go back and review the evidence.
They pull out that blue T-shirt.
In 1994,
there were multiple DNA samples found,
but there was only one positive identification.
And that was the DNA of Sharon Anderson,
one of the victims.
The technology for DNA back then wasn't as advanced as it is now.
The techniques that have been developed over the years
through trial and error,
have enabled the forensic analyst
to not require as large a sample of DNA
to conduct the analysis.
With the advancement of DNA testing,
they were now able to prove without a shadow of a doubt,
that the DNA on that T-shirt belonged to Pablo Ibar.
DNA, along with that tape...
...meant
you're not going to be acquitted.
* *
There is no such thing as one day you're just over it.
The only thing that's different is time.
You feel less intense over time.
Although it is still painful.
It will be painful till the day that I die.
* Look up to the sky *
* And it all feels pretty dark... *
BOWIE: I think Sharon would have been
really a great mother.
I just wanted her to live her life.
* Looking to myself *
* And it feels like I fell apart... *
BOWIE: Sharon and Marie were just robbed of all of that.
25 is too young.
* Don't know where to go *
* Am I out here all alone? *
No one's life should end like that.
Not just for being at somebody's house.
* 'Cause if we hold together *
* Black or white don't matter *
* If we listen for each other *
* What sweet songs whisper *
* To wish us well *
* To wish us well, to wish us well *
* To wish us well. *
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