1 00:00:01,835 --> 00:00:03,269 My name is Dawn DaLuise. 2 00:00:03,370 --> 00:00:06,039 I was a celebrity esthetician for 30 years. 3 00:00:06,139 --> 00:00:07,941 [Edward] Dawn's studio was in West Hollywood. 4 00:00:08,041 --> 00:00:09,976 It really was holy [bleep]. 5 00:00:10,076 --> 00:00:12,979 [Dawn] I noticed a new skincare business opened next door to me. 6 00:00:13,079 --> 00:00:14,247 [Gabriel] The name's Smooth Cheeks. 7 00:00:14,347 --> 00:00:15,615 You know, it's a double entendre, 8 00:00:15,715 --> 00:00:17,717 cheeks and cheeks. 9 00:00:17,817 --> 00:00:20,487 [Dawn] And I'm thinking there's trouble in our midst. 10 00:00:20,587 --> 00:00:22,389 I noticed a slashed tire one night. 11 00:00:22,489 --> 00:00:25,625 My face had been Photoshopped on a woman with her legs spread 12 00:00:25,725 --> 00:00:27,360 wide open and the crotch showing. 13 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:29,729 [Dawn's friend] And there were people actually banging on her door, 14 00:00:29,829 --> 00:00:32,832 "I'm here to rape you." -It just kept getting worse. 15 00:00:32,932 --> 00:00:34,167 [Dawn] The only thing I did know 16 00:00:34,267 --> 00:00:36,636 was who I felt was responsible for it, 17 00:00:36,736 --> 00:00:38,538 and it was Gabriel Suarez. 18 00:00:38,638 --> 00:00:42,275 So Dawn had sent me a text message saying that she had 19 00:00:42,375 --> 00:00:44,477 found somebody to take Gabriel out. 20 00:00:44,577 --> 00:00:47,347 [Chris] And I was just like, "I can't believe this lady 21 00:00:47,447 --> 00:00:48,882 has this many problems." 22 00:00:48,982 --> 00:00:51,217 [siren wailing] 23 00:00:51,317 --> 00:00:56,056 [Edward] He ended up arresting her for solicitation to murder Gabriel. 24 00:00:56,156 --> 00:00:59,659 And they released that mugshot, which was a very rough mugshot. 25 00:01:01,494 --> 00:01:05,965 I was in the dark completely about how she hated me. 26 00:01:06,066 --> 00:01:07,333 She's dangerous. 27 00:01:07,434 --> 00:01:10,470 [Beth] "I could even have lured Gabriel to my home. 28 00:01:10,570 --> 00:01:12,105 I would have shot him." 29 00:01:12,205 --> 00:01:14,908 That is all troubling. 30 00:01:17,043 --> 00:01:19,479 No, we keyed Gabriel's car. 31 00:01:19,579 --> 00:01:21,781 Nick and I also posted Craigslist ads 32 00:01:21,881 --> 00:01:25,351 with her phone number and a Photoshopped face 33 00:01:25,452 --> 00:01:27,954 of a woman in various sexual positions. 34 00:01:29,055 --> 00:01:31,191 [somber cello plays] 35 00:01:46,806 --> 00:01:48,741 [theme music ends] 36 00:01:51,945 --> 00:01:56,182 [reporter] Dawn DaLuise is locked up behind bars on a million-dollar bond. 37 00:01:56,282 --> 00:01:59,085 Right now, as we speak, she is in jail. 38 00:02:01,488 --> 00:02:05,125 [Dawn] While I was in jail, my landlord managed to send 39 00:02:05,225 --> 00:02:07,327 an eviction notice to the jail 40 00:02:07,426 --> 00:02:09,562 that I hadn't made my rent in a month. 41 00:02:11,097 --> 00:02:13,733 And then the same thing happened with my clinic. 42 00:02:13,833 --> 00:02:17,904 And I just had to watch my life fall apart in slow motion. 43 00:02:18,004 --> 00:02:19,305 Nothing I could do about it. 44 00:02:25,278 --> 00:02:28,381 This is my jail uniform that I wore... 45 00:02:29,449 --> 00:02:30,683 when I was in LA County Jail. 46 00:02:32,585 --> 00:02:34,621 ♪♪ 47 00:02:39,392 --> 00:02:40,426 I'd always been active, 48 00:02:40,527 --> 00:02:42,595 and it was very important to stay fit. 49 00:02:44,697 --> 00:02:47,700 What this originally was was the backing of a bra. 50 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,437 The two bras actually, not unlike what they have in gyms 51 00:02:51,538 --> 00:02:53,573 when you want to do some strength training. 52 00:02:56,075 --> 00:02:59,978 I needed these things to basically feel like I was still 53 00:03:00,079 --> 00:03:02,682 a woman, still feminine, not just a number, 54 00:03:02,782 --> 00:03:05,018 not just an inmate. 55 00:03:10,456 --> 00:03:13,793 I was shocked when I learned how Nick and Ed generated this 56 00:03:13,893 --> 00:03:16,462 whole campaign of denigration against me. 57 00:03:16,563 --> 00:03:18,998 By the time I was in jail, by the time I'm learning that, 58 00:03:19,098 --> 00:03:21,267 well, these two men are stalking you, it was so 59 00:03:21,367 --> 00:03:23,203 devastating to me. I was numb. 60 00:03:23,303 --> 00:03:25,438 Somebody could have pushed me over a building 61 00:03:25,538 --> 00:03:27,073 and my heart wouldn't have even gone up 62 00:03:27,173 --> 00:03:28,474 before I splattered on the pavement. 63 00:03:29,876 --> 00:03:34,480 So the flyers that were distributed had Dawn's face 64 00:03:34,581 --> 00:03:39,418 Photoshopped on somebody else's body in a sexual situation with 65 00:03:39,519 --> 00:03:42,655 some catchy taglines -- "First time free." 66 00:03:42,755 --> 00:03:44,991 "Sex party tonight" was a good one. 67 00:03:46,626 --> 00:03:50,563 We had flyered her office 68 00:03:50,663 --> 00:03:52,832 and we had flyered her apartment building. 69 00:03:54,100 --> 00:03:57,270 It really got crazy, right? 70 00:03:57,370 --> 00:04:00,139 [Beth] So Dawn's friends, the ones she confided in, 71 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,942 they're the ones behind all this abuse. 72 00:04:03,042 --> 00:04:06,946 The whole context for her anger, outcry against 73 00:04:07,046 --> 00:04:08,915 Gabriel Suarez was orchestrated, 74 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:10,750 was manipulated by Nick and Ed. 75 00:04:11,884 --> 00:04:14,687 Meanwhile, Dawn's facing charges of solicitation 76 00:04:14,787 --> 00:04:18,457 of murder, about as serious as it gets. 77 00:04:18,558 --> 00:04:20,692 Prosecutors offered her plea deals, 78 00:04:20,793 --> 00:04:22,462 but she wouldn't take them. 79 00:04:22,562 --> 00:04:25,164 So now this case is headed to trial. 80 00:04:28,635 --> 00:04:30,570 [Dawn] Every time I laid my head on the pillow at night, 81 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:32,372 I knew I was innocent. 82 00:04:32,472 --> 00:04:35,008 I was never gonna concede to something I didn't do. 83 00:04:35,108 --> 00:04:36,075 Why in the world would I say 84 00:04:36,175 --> 00:04:37,777 I was trying to have someone murdered? 85 00:04:37,877 --> 00:04:39,112 Just so that I could go home early? 86 00:04:39,212 --> 00:04:40,246 Hell no, no! 87 00:04:43,983 --> 00:04:45,818 [Jim] This story, it's got everything. 88 00:04:45,918 --> 00:04:47,387 It's got Hollywood, it's got revenge, 89 00:04:47,487 --> 00:04:50,089 it's got betrayal, intrigue. 90 00:04:50,189 --> 00:04:52,592 The public, eager to find out what really happened, 91 00:04:52,692 --> 00:04:54,027 is going to get an answer. 92 00:04:58,431 --> 00:05:00,967 We had kind of heard tidbits about it as we were getting 93 00:05:01,067 --> 00:05:03,002 called for jury duty, and you could tell 94 00:05:03,102 --> 00:05:05,305 this was gonna be kind of a salacious case. 95 00:05:07,407 --> 00:05:10,910 [Christine] Dawn DaLuise made a series of really bad choices. 96 00:05:11,010 --> 00:05:13,279 And the more she dug her heels in, 97 00:05:13,379 --> 00:05:17,016 deciding that Gabriel Suarez was her nemesis 98 00:05:17,116 --> 00:05:20,186 and she needed to get revenge, 99 00:05:20,286 --> 00:05:21,788 the more trouble she got herself into. 100 00:05:23,489 --> 00:05:25,525 [Gabriel] It would never dawn on me that we're competitors 101 00:05:25,625 --> 00:05:27,760 because I predominantly wax. 102 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:30,997 Little did know that she was festering all this 103 00:05:31,097 --> 00:05:34,233 behind my back, and I had no idea. 104 00:05:34,334 --> 00:05:36,769 [juror #12] In one hand, we're being presented this white, 105 00:05:36,869 --> 00:05:39,439 privileged lady who has friends in high places, 106 00:05:39,539 --> 00:05:42,575 and maybe she just got fooled. 107 00:05:42,675 --> 00:05:44,977 And then on the other side, you're being presented this 108 00:05:45,078 --> 00:05:48,715 monster of a person who went after somebody. 109 00:05:48,815 --> 00:05:50,783 I was very confused, to be honest. 110 00:05:52,552 --> 00:05:55,221 [Beth] So we know that Dawn told the police that if she could 111 00:05:55,321 --> 00:05:57,023 have lured Gabriel to her house, 112 00:05:57,123 --> 00:06:00,293 she would have shot him and argued self-defense. 113 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:03,196 So she had the capacity to kill. 114 00:06:03,296 --> 00:06:04,797 She could have done that, but instead she went up to 115 00:06:04,897 --> 00:06:08,601 Big Bear, and she found this big, beefy former NFL player 116 00:06:08,701 --> 00:06:10,870 who listened to her... 117 00:06:10,970 --> 00:06:13,139 tell her sob story about the harassment. 118 00:06:13,239 --> 00:06:15,541 And it was terrible harassment. 119 00:06:15,641 --> 00:06:18,177 [Christine] She texted to Ed Feinstein, 120 00:06:18,277 --> 00:06:21,114 "I found someone who will take Gabriel out." 121 00:06:22,815 --> 00:06:26,619 Yes, Dawn DaLuise was in fact victimized by 122 00:06:26,719 --> 00:06:28,921 her so-called friends. 123 00:06:29,021 --> 00:06:32,492 However, you don't get to take the law into your own hands. 124 00:06:32,592 --> 00:06:35,762 You don't get to become a vigilante. 125 00:06:35,862 --> 00:06:38,431 [Jamon] The lead detective was making this seem like a slam-dunk 126 00:06:38,531 --> 00:06:40,933 solicitation for murder, but the gentleman that 127 00:06:41,033 --> 00:06:43,903 they were claiming that Ms. DaLuise was soliciting 128 00:06:44,003 --> 00:06:45,905 for murder, he was not arrested. 129 00:06:46,005 --> 00:06:48,908 He gave no indication that he was, in fact, solicited. 130 00:06:50,943 --> 00:06:54,213 [Chris] I was sitting on my couch, and the phone rang. 131 00:06:54,313 --> 00:06:56,315 He said he was a detective, 132 00:06:56,416 --> 00:06:58,818 and I thought someone was pranking me. 133 00:06:58,918 --> 00:07:01,320 You know, I said, "Come on, who is this?" 134 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:04,323 You know, this is funny. Ha ha ha, OK? 135 00:07:04,424 --> 00:07:07,260 And he said, "You might want to turn on the television." 136 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:09,629 And I was like, "What the heck's going on?" 137 00:07:11,898 --> 00:07:17,203 The media was saying that I was hired by Dawn to be a hit man 138 00:07:17,303 --> 00:07:21,607 against this skincare guy, which was ludicrous. 139 00:07:21,707 --> 00:07:24,710 The most that I ever said was that I would show up with 140 00:07:24,811 --> 00:07:27,346 her arm-in-arm and walk by. 141 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:29,816 That's it. That way I'd be a deterrent. 142 00:07:31,951 --> 00:07:35,321 Of the 6,000 messages, there were two messages that 143 00:07:35,421 --> 00:07:38,691 they tried to say connected her to this solicitation. 144 00:07:38,791 --> 00:07:42,261 And even those were not conclusive of trying to solicit 145 00:07:42,361 --> 00:07:44,430 somebody to murder Mr. Suarez. 146 00:07:46,065 --> 00:07:50,303 [Dawn] I didn't think clearly when I sent those texts out. 147 00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:53,573 I was just blowing off steam and blowing up phones with, 148 00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:56,676 "If I could just kill this [bleep] with my bare hands, I would. 149 00:07:56,776 --> 00:07:58,411 I can't stand him." 150 00:07:58,511 --> 00:08:01,214 You know, "I'm going to copy these Craigslist ads and send 151 00:08:01,314 --> 00:08:02,715 "men to his home to rape him. 152 00:08:02,815 --> 00:08:04,417 "And I'm going to use the same language. 153 00:08:04,517 --> 00:08:06,185 "We're gonna put a blindfold on you. 154 00:08:06,285 --> 00:08:09,021 "And this [bleep] son-of-a-bitch, douchebag, 155 00:08:09,121 --> 00:08:11,324 you know, I'm gonna kill him with my bare hands." 156 00:08:12,425 --> 00:08:14,393 And then I would say in that same thread 157 00:08:14,494 --> 00:08:16,662 to Edward Feinstein, "Oops, I'm running late for work 158 00:08:16,762 --> 00:08:17,997 and have to get my oil changed first." 159 00:08:22,368 --> 00:08:25,805 [Christine] Ms. DaLuise, even through all of this turmoil and all these 160 00:08:25,905 --> 00:08:27,173 things that she thought he was doing, 161 00:08:27,273 --> 00:08:29,609 she never marched 20 feet down the hall and said, 162 00:08:29,709 --> 00:08:32,411 "Gabriel, WTF? 163 00:08:32,511 --> 00:08:34,514 What's going on? Why are you doing this to me?" 164 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:36,782 That never happened. 165 00:08:38,251 --> 00:08:44,090 Instead, she communicated to Chris Geile via text, 166 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:47,560 "Is the Aryan Brotherhood only in prison? 167 00:08:48,961 --> 00:08:52,865 "I can't believe I can't find some white supremacist who'd 168 00:08:52,965 --> 00:08:58,371 want to do harm to a double minority, a gay Mexican." 169 00:08:58,471 --> 00:09:01,974 It was a decidedly disturbing text message that she'd sent. 170 00:09:03,543 --> 00:09:07,346 And I think the jury from initially was looking at me 171 00:09:07,446 --> 00:09:10,082 kind of like, "Why are you on this case?" 172 00:09:10,182 --> 00:09:13,753 [juror #12] I think as jurors, we were all pretty disgusted at the time of 173 00:09:13,853 --> 00:09:15,922 hearing these things being said. 174 00:09:16,022 --> 00:09:18,257 She was talking about people that, you know, 175 00:09:18,357 --> 00:09:21,427 represented people in the jury, and it affected me. 176 00:09:21,527 --> 00:09:23,329 I was definitely upset. 177 00:09:23,429 --> 00:09:26,766 Is this a woman in distress, or is this a woman who's just 178 00:09:26,866 --> 00:09:31,037 racist and doesn't care about anyone else but herself? 179 00:09:31,137 --> 00:09:33,706 Dawn said she was trying to find somebody to take out 180 00:09:33,806 --> 00:09:35,540 a double-minority Mexican gay. 181 00:09:36,642 --> 00:09:39,478 Take him out where? I mean...not dinner. 182 00:09:49,922 --> 00:09:51,891 [Gabriel] Dawn sent my picture to Chris Geile. 183 00:09:51,991 --> 00:09:54,093 "This is what Gabriel looks like. 184 00:09:54,193 --> 00:09:55,161 This is where he lives." 185 00:09:56,529 --> 00:09:58,598 That's not an innocent person. 186 00:09:58,698 --> 00:10:00,666 [Chris] She may have shown me, like, his Facebook page 187 00:10:00,766 --> 00:10:01,834 or something like that. 188 00:10:01,934 --> 00:10:04,637 Anything else, that was all in her head. 189 00:10:06,806 --> 00:10:10,710 [Jamon] Just merely sharing a photo of someone is not solicitation. 190 00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:13,479 Now, if she would have shared a photo and then there's 191 00:10:13,579 --> 00:10:16,382 a discussion of when, where, and how this is gonna 192 00:10:16,482 --> 00:10:18,651 be done, then, of course, that photo would be 193 00:10:18,751 --> 00:10:20,586 damaging information. 194 00:10:20,686 --> 00:10:23,356 [Christine] Geile didn't have to say, "Oh, yeah, she promised me 195 00:10:23,456 --> 00:10:26,025 the moon if I would kill this guy." 196 00:10:26,125 --> 00:10:28,995 And I knew I wasn't gonna get that out of him. 197 00:10:29,095 --> 00:10:31,163 [Jamon] They tried to make it seem like it was the facials in lieu 198 00:10:31,263 --> 00:10:32,898 of the financial compensation. 199 00:10:32,999 --> 00:10:36,869 But the thought that somebody would murder somebody for 200 00:10:36,969 --> 00:10:40,239 free facials is just a hard pill to really swallow. 201 00:10:40,339 --> 00:10:43,309 I know it looks like I need a lot of facials, but still, 202 00:10:43,409 --> 00:10:44,944 I would never do anything like that. 203 00:10:45,044 --> 00:10:46,712 I don't care what the price is. 204 00:10:48,014 --> 00:10:50,883 [Jamon] The alleged victim, Gabriel Suarez, came off as 205 00:10:50,983 --> 00:10:53,653 somebody that was trying to publicize his business. 206 00:10:53,753 --> 00:10:56,989 And the cameras are there, and he has the hat on with 207 00:10:57,089 --> 00:10:59,358 "Smooth Cheeks" giving an interview where 208 00:10:59,458 --> 00:11:01,527 he's smiling, where he's laughing, 209 00:11:01,627 --> 00:11:03,329 where he doesn't come across as 210 00:11:03,429 --> 00:11:06,265 somebody that's concerned that he almost died. 211 00:11:06,365 --> 00:11:10,436 It started to seem like a little circus, and it lost 212 00:11:10,536 --> 00:11:14,573 its value that this is a potential murder. 213 00:11:16,942 --> 00:11:19,245 I mean, this reminds me of Natalia Grace's story. 214 00:11:19,345 --> 00:11:21,113 Well, I didn't know who to believe. 215 00:11:21,213 --> 00:11:24,483 Everybody seemed to have a motive to lie, 216 00:11:24,583 --> 00:11:27,887 not be completely forthcoming. 217 00:11:27,987 --> 00:11:30,256 It's, like, my head was spinning in that story, 218 00:11:30,356 --> 00:11:31,891 and it's starting to spin in this one, too. 219 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:38,064 [Jim] This case took less than 40 minutes for the jury to 220 00:11:38,164 --> 00:11:40,766 determine that there was no murder for hire, 221 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:45,671 that Dawn DaLuise was in fact not guilty of soliciting murder. 222 00:11:47,406 --> 00:11:52,678 I felt like a weight had been taken off my shoulders. 223 00:11:54,513 --> 00:11:56,048 [Gabriel] How is this possible? 224 00:11:56,148 --> 00:11:57,883 She was trying to take me out as a double minority, 225 00:11:57,983 --> 00:12:01,587 a Mexican gay, which I think should be a hate crime. 226 00:12:01,687 --> 00:12:02,788 She gets off scot-free 227 00:12:02,888 --> 00:12:04,123 and continues to play the martyr. 228 00:12:05,591 --> 00:12:07,526 The system failed. 229 00:12:07,626 --> 00:12:11,931 [Christine] The jury, I think they were driven by a sympathy for 230 00:12:12,031 --> 00:12:16,202 her because of this stalking that was happening to her. 231 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:20,473 [juror #12] It felt good to know that we were going to be sending 232 00:12:20,573 --> 00:12:24,477 an innocent woman home that maybe made some bad choices, 233 00:12:24,577 --> 00:12:26,445 maybe trusted the wrong people, 234 00:12:26,545 --> 00:12:28,180 maybe said the wrong thing at times, 235 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,015 but who hasn't in their life? 236 00:12:32,151 --> 00:12:35,855 I mean, really, Chris Geile is a patsy in this whole thing. 237 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:38,457 And in the end, he's collateral damage. 238 00:12:38,557 --> 00:12:40,826 He got hurt by this whole thing, never charged, 239 00:12:40,926 --> 00:12:41,927 but he paid a price. 240 00:12:43,629 --> 00:12:46,265 [Christine] Dawn's never reached out to me or just to say, 241 00:12:46,365 --> 00:12:51,270 "Hey, I'm sorry," or anything like that because of this text 242 00:12:51,370 --> 00:12:54,907 she sent to her best friend. It's still on the internet. 243 00:12:55,007 --> 00:12:58,944 Me and "hit man" on the headline -- I hate that. 244 00:12:59,044 --> 00:13:02,414 It's a shame. It completely ruined me. 245 00:13:03,516 --> 00:13:04,483 So. 246 00:13:08,087 --> 00:13:11,257 [Beth] After spending almost a year in jail, Dawn walks free. 247 00:13:11,357 --> 00:13:15,194 Not guilty is not a finding of innocence, OK? 248 00:13:15,294 --> 00:13:17,997 Not guilty just means you didn't prove your case. 249 00:13:18,097 --> 00:13:21,333 And now here's where things get even more surreal. 250 00:13:21,433 --> 00:13:24,470 The same prosecutor's office that charged Dawn with 251 00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:28,841 solicitation for murder now begins to prepare its case 252 00:13:28,941 --> 00:13:33,279 against Ed and Nick for the harassment that seemed to 253 00:13:33,379 --> 00:13:37,216 push Dawn over the edge in the first place. 254 00:13:37,316 --> 00:13:41,320 And like almost every element of this story, nothing is as 255 00:13:41,420 --> 00:13:43,055 straightforward as it first seems. 256 00:13:45,790 --> 00:13:47,827 ♪♪ 257 00:13:49,361 --> 00:13:50,830 [Edward] I heard a faint knock at the door... 258 00:13:52,198 --> 00:13:55,167 when the door then exploded off the hinges... 259 00:13:55,267 --> 00:13:57,503 [dramatic music playing] 260 00:13:57,603 --> 00:14:00,206 ...and it was the Sheriff's Department SWAT team. 261 00:14:02,308 --> 00:14:03,342 That was a holy [bleep] moment. 262 00:14:03,442 --> 00:14:04,810 [laughing] 263 00:14:06,378 --> 00:14:07,847 But I have to say, for a SWAT team, 264 00:14:07,947 --> 00:14:10,049 they were all very old and very out of shape. 265 00:14:11,817 --> 00:14:13,986 It was, like, two flights of stairs, and they were... 266 00:14:14,086 --> 00:14:15,554 [panting] 267 00:14:15,654 --> 00:14:17,356 [chuckles] "You guys OK?" 268 00:14:17,456 --> 00:14:20,259 So anyway, I was handcuffed. 269 00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:23,128 Detective McCauley said, "Well, you know, we're going to 270 00:14:23,229 --> 00:14:27,366 arrest you for stalking Dawn." And I said, "Well, OK." 271 00:14:28,634 --> 00:14:30,002 I wasn't happy with my mugshot 272 00:14:30,102 --> 00:14:32,438 because I just had a facial like two days before. 273 00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:34,874 So I had a big, like, zit right there. 274 00:14:34,974 --> 00:14:37,476 So it wasn't a very flattering one. 275 00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:38,577 Not ideal. 276 00:14:40,779 --> 00:14:43,582 [Beth] And looking at the level and sophistication of 277 00:14:43,682 --> 00:14:46,785 the cyber stalking and harassment of Dawn by Nick and Eddie, 278 00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:49,788 it strikes me that she's not their first victim. 279 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:52,024 It's targeted. It's multilayered. 280 00:14:52,124 --> 00:14:53,192 It's sinister. 281 00:14:53,292 --> 00:14:54,560 There's no way this is 282 00:14:54,660 --> 00:14:57,229 their first run around the criminal block. 283 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:01,400 ♪♪ 284 00:15:03,535 --> 00:15:06,138 So, there's a birdhouse straight up this driveway. 285 00:15:06,238 --> 00:15:08,607 [David] But that's just kind of an odd place for a birdhouse. 286 00:15:08,707 --> 00:15:09,975 So, I would imagine there's a camera in there. 287 00:15:12,077 --> 00:15:13,245 So, my name is David Torres. 288 00:15:13,345 --> 00:15:15,514 I'm a retired detective with LAPD. 289 00:15:15,614 --> 00:15:19,585 I was assigned to North Hollywood Division Property Crimes. 290 00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:23,022 [Beth] So in 2009, Detective Torres was handed a file about 291 00:15:23,122 --> 00:15:26,825 a West Hollywood business that had been the victim of multiple 292 00:15:26,926 --> 00:15:30,496 incidents of fraud perpetrated by a former employee 293 00:15:30,596 --> 00:15:32,564 named Ed Feinstein. 294 00:15:32,665 --> 00:15:36,869 Ed Feinstein, our "reliable" narrator. 295 00:15:38,137 --> 00:15:39,438 Or is he unreliable? 296 00:15:41,473 --> 00:15:43,108 [David] My victim, in my case, 297 00:15:43,208 --> 00:15:45,844 she owned a pet grooming company. 298 00:15:45,945 --> 00:15:49,081 When a customer uses their debit card or credit card, 299 00:15:49,181 --> 00:15:50,716 they swipe it through the machine. 300 00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:53,686 And so, the funds will eventually go into 301 00:15:53,786 --> 00:15:55,421 your business account. 302 00:15:55,521 --> 00:15:59,425 I think it was about 30-some-thousand dollars before my victim understood 303 00:15:59,525 --> 00:16:02,394 that money was no longer going into her business account. 304 00:16:02,494 --> 00:16:04,163 We had to find out what account it went to, 305 00:16:04,263 --> 00:16:05,731 and this came back to Mr. Feinstein. 306 00:16:07,366 --> 00:16:10,002 While I was working on that, my victim complained of 307 00:16:10,102 --> 00:16:11,236 a second instance. 308 00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:14,473 Feinstein was in charge of taking the checks 309 00:16:14,573 --> 00:16:16,709 and the daily receipts, but instead of depositing it 310 00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:18,110 into her business account, 311 00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:20,913 he was depositing it into his personal account 312 00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:23,449 to a tune of maybe $100,000 or more. 313 00:16:23,549 --> 00:16:25,451 That's when we arrested him. 314 00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:27,686 He's a smart, intelligent guy, so he really knows how to talk 315 00:16:27,786 --> 00:16:29,888 to people, but unfortunately, he used it, 316 00:16:29,989 --> 00:16:32,024 in my opinion, in the wrong way. 317 00:16:34,293 --> 00:16:37,763 [Beth] Ed was convicted of identity theft and grand theft 318 00:16:37,863 --> 00:16:41,000 and sentenced to 16 months in prison, and he served his time. 319 00:16:42,835 --> 00:16:45,170 So, you know, it seems like these crimes are motivated by 320 00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:48,774 greed, but when Ed got out, he returned to West Hollywood. 321 00:16:48,874 --> 00:16:52,411 He's got a vendetta against his former grooming business 322 00:16:52,511 --> 00:16:55,814 employer, and that's where we see the seeds of the MO 323 00:16:55,914 --> 00:16:57,616 that he later unleashed on Dawn. 324 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:04,556 [David] The same victim contacts me, and she says that she's getting 325 00:17:04,656 --> 00:17:07,358 text messages, pictures of her house and her car coming 326 00:17:07,459 --> 00:17:10,229 out of her driveway, with some threatening messages, 327 00:17:10,329 --> 00:17:11,964 basically saying, you know, "I'm following you, 328 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:13,799 do you know who this is?" And so forth. 329 00:17:13,898 --> 00:17:16,502 She suspected it was Mr. Feinstein. 330 00:17:16,602 --> 00:17:19,605 I investigated, and based on that, and he was gonna violate 331 00:17:19,704 --> 00:17:22,674 on his parole, and sent him back to prison for a little bit. 332 00:17:22,775 --> 00:17:24,742 He doesn't let things lie, you know? 333 00:17:24,843 --> 00:17:27,212 He will harass you, and if he feels you did him 334 00:17:27,311 --> 00:17:30,315 wrong or you got him in trouble, Eddie would definitely 335 00:17:30,416 --> 00:17:33,285 make you crazy, thinking that you're being followed, 336 00:17:33,385 --> 00:17:35,087 thinking that you're being stalked, 337 00:17:35,187 --> 00:17:37,189 because he can lead danger to your door, 338 00:17:37,289 --> 00:17:38,624 and he doesn't hesitate to do so. 339 00:17:49,168 --> 00:17:52,638 [Edward] I was young when everything happened and unfortunately 340 00:17:52,738 --> 00:17:54,273 ran with the wrong crowd. 341 00:17:54,373 --> 00:17:57,109 And I might've gotten into a little bit of trouble for 342 00:17:57,209 --> 00:17:59,878 borrowing some money that wasn't mine. 343 00:17:59,978 --> 00:18:02,514 Served my time, and it is what it is. 344 00:18:02,614 --> 00:18:03,782 And what am I gonna do? 345 00:18:03,882 --> 00:18:07,152 Lop off my hand and repent for the rest of my life? 346 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:15,427 [Tamar] To the outside world, it might seem crazy that this is all 347 00:18:15,527 --> 00:18:19,431 over facials and waxing. This is LA. 348 00:18:19,531 --> 00:18:21,934 Our facialist is just as important as 349 00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:24,203 our priest, our rabbi, 350 00:18:25,571 --> 00:18:27,339 and our therapist. 351 00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:30,542 I'm Tamar Arminak, and I am an attorney in Los Angeles. 352 00:18:30,642 --> 00:18:32,711 I was hired by Nick originally, 353 00:18:32,811 --> 00:18:35,647 and that's how I got familiar with the case. 354 00:18:35,747 --> 00:18:39,118 [Beth] Nick Prugo gained notoriety as the head of a crew 355 00:18:39,218 --> 00:18:41,487 of cat burglars in Los Angeles. 356 00:18:41,587 --> 00:18:44,923 In fact, the most famous cat burglars in the history 357 00:18:45,023 --> 00:18:46,325 of Los Angeles. 358 00:18:46,425 --> 00:18:52,764 Nick Prugo was part of this LA bling ring crew. 359 00:18:52,865 --> 00:18:55,601 And for several months, they really terrorized 360 00:18:55,701 --> 00:18:56,869 the LA celebrities. 361 00:18:59,471 --> 00:19:02,508 The bling ring was a huge media sensation who would break into 362 00:19:02,608 --> 00:19:05,744 celebrities' homes like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton 363 00:19:05,844 --> 00:19:07,045 and Orlando Bloom. 364 00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,714 [Elissa] All of L.A. was on high alert. 365 00:19:08,814 --> 00:19:11,617 They were trying to figure out who was behind this crime ring. 366 00:19:11,717 --> 00:19:14,586 And it turned out that it was basically a group of teenagers 367 00:19:14,686 --> 00:19:16,188 from the Valley. 368 00:19:16,288 --> 00:19:19,024 One of the members of the bling ring was caught on 369 00:19:19,124 --> 00:19:21,660 security camera. She was picked up. 370 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,061 She turned in Nick Prugo 371 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:24,596 and said, that's the ringleader. 372 00:19:26,465 --> 00:19:29,501 [Beth] The bling ring was brought down in 2009. 373 00:19:29,601 --> 00:19:31,170 Nick Prugo pleaded no contest 374 00:19:31,270 --> 00:19:33,672 and was sentenced to two years in prison. 375 00:19:35,374 --> 00:19:39,111 [Edward] I met Nick through mutual friends 376 00:19:39,211 --> 00:19:41,947 a few years before Dawn came into the equation. 377 00:19:42,047 --> 00:19:44,216 Then he had gone to jail and then we had picked up 378 00:19:44,316 --> 00:19:47,786 the relationship once he was out. 379 00:19:47,886 --> 00:19:50,289 [Beth] And this is where our two stories collide. 380 00:19:53,725 --> 00:19:58,163 I remember exactly when Dawn first mentioned Nick to me. 381 00:19:59,565 --> 00:20:04,570 In 2013, she was doing well, and she was looking to 382 00:20:04,670 --> 00:20:07,739 leverage the connections that she had acquired in Hollywood. 383 00:20:09,808 --> 00:20:12,544 Celeb reality was kind of the thing at the moment. 384 00:20:12,644 --> 00:20:16,148 And she thought, you know, why not take his notoriety 385 00:20:16,248 --> 00:20:20,319 and try to see if it had any value in the reality TV market? 386 00:20:20,419 --> 00:20:25,090 And Dawn decided that she was going to be Nick's manager. 387 00:20:25,190 --> 00:20:26,925 So I guess in Los Angeles, 388 00:20:27,025 --> 00:20:29,895 you can be an agent-hyphen-facialist? 389 00:20:33,031 --> 00:20:36,368 [Dawn] Since he was such an expert burglar, the show might have 390 00:20:36,468 --> 00:20:39,504 him talking about how people can better secure their homes 391 00:20:39,605 --> 00:20:42,407 so that, you know, they don't get robbed. 392 00:20:42,507 --> 00:20:43,709 And the catchphrase was going to be 393 00:20:43,809 --> 00:20:46,712 "Take it from me before I take it from you." 394 00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,447 But at the same time, I was giving him facials 395 00:20:48,547 --> 00:20:50,816 in my clinic because he had terrible skin. 396 00:20:52,351 --> 00:20:54,219 [Elissa] They were spending a lot of time together. 397 00:20:54,319 --> 00:20:57,256 They had formed a personal friendship. 398 00:20:57,356 --> 00:20:59,458 [Dawn] There were multiple times Nick Prugo himself 399 00:20:59,558 --> 00:21:01,560 had reached out to his parole officer and said, 400 00:21:01,660 --> 00:21:03,595 "Would you please start talking 401 00:21:03,695 --> 00:21:05,497 "to this woman named Dawn DaLuise? 402 00:21:05,597 --> 00:21:07,933 She takes care of me. I'm going to her for skincare." 403 00:21:08,033 --> 00:21:12,104 Dawn claims that the parole officer "deputized her" 404 00:21:12,204 --> 00:21:17,376 as a parole agent to watch over Nick, which...is that legal? 405 00:21:17,476 --> 00:21:20,912 [Elissa] Nick and Dawn's relationship was starting to grow a little 406 00:21:21,013 --> 00:21:24,149 acrimonious because Dawn was sort of forsaking 407 00:21:24,249 --> 00:21:27,686 her skincare business in order to help sell the show. 408 00:21:30,188 --> 00:21:31,657 [Dawn] He started to get too full of himself. 409 00:21:31,757 --> 00:21:34,192 He wasn't showing up for meetings. 410 00:21:34,293 --> 00:21:36,962 He was sort of blowing me off in an indignant way. 411 00:21:37,062 --> 00:21:40,565 He's not taking his urine tests and he's been going to Vegas. 412 00:21:40,666 --> 00:21:42,567 And I immediately called up that parole officer 413 00:21:42,668 --> 00:21:44,102 and told him that because I says, 414 00:21:44,202 --> 00:21:46,238 "I don't want to be accountable for him anymore." 415 00:21:46,338 --> 00:21:48,940 It's when I dropped him that things got really bad. 416 00:21:50,142 --> 00:21:51,743 Now, after Dawn reported Nick, 417 00:21:51,843 --> 00:21:54,246 he went back to prison for violating his parole, 418 00:21:54,346 --> 00:21:56,148 which essentially ended their friendship. 419 00:21:58,583 --> 00:22:00,185 [Edward] When you're on parole, you're not supposed to leave 420 00:22:00,285 --> 00:22:02,554 the state, but, I mean, we just went for the weekend 421 00:22:02,654 --> 00:22:03,689 and we came back. 422 00:22:03,789 --> 00:22:06,291 It's not like we were committing crimes in Nevada. 423 00:22:06,391 --> 00:22:09,027 I don't think that that was something that... 424 00:22:09,127 --> 00:22:12,464 she should have called and tattled 425 00:22:12,564 --> 00:22:15,534 because he ultimately went to jail for it. 426 00:22:15,634 --> 00:22:18,370 And according to Dawn, this is the answer to 427 00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:20,372 the question, "Why?" 428 00:22:20,472 --> 00:22:24,242 Nick was so angry at the perceived betrayal that 429 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:28,980 he and Ed gaslit Dawn into believing that Gabriel was out 430 00:22:29,081 --> 00:22:33,118 to get her, all while they were harassing her in the shadows 431 00:22:33,218 --> 00:22:35,721 in the name of revenge. 432 00:22:35,821 --> 00:22:39,057 That's just an [bleep] thing to do. 433 00:22:39,157 --> 00:22:42,060 But I guess she got her karma 434 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,196 because she went to jail for a year, so. 435 00:22:47,332 --> 00:22:51,370 Dawn's version of this always was that Ed and Nick were 436 00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:54,606 behind all of this, gaslighting her the entire time, 437 00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:57,976 telling her that it was -- it was Gabriel. 438 00:22:58,076 --> 00:22:59,745 And she was acquitted based on that. 439 00:23:00,879 --> 00:23:03,115 That is not what this was. 440 00:23:03,215 --> 00:23:06,418 [Edward] I feel like with Dawn, the best analogy that I have is 441 00:23:06,518 --> 00:23:08,887 she likes to say, "Well, you know, I was found not guilty." 442 00:23:08,987 --> 00:23:10,222 Well, you know what? 443 00:23:10,322 --> 00:23:14,059 So was OJ Simpson, and we know what really happened there. 444 00:23:14,159 --> 00:23:15,160 So... 445 00:23:16,762 --> 00:23:18,597 Sorry, Dawn. 446 00:23:18,697 --> 00:23:19,698 She was in on it. 447 00:23:21,199 --> 00:23:24,336 From the very beginning, this is exactly the path that 448 00:23:24,436 --> 00:23:26,338 Dawn wanted to go down. 449 00:23:26,438 --> 00:23:28,740 She wanted the Craigslist ads posted. 450 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,478 She wanted the flyers done. She wanted the text messages. 451 00:23:33,578 --> 00:23:37,949 [Tamar] She used Nick and Ed to direct the setup of 452 00:23:38,049 --> 00:23:39,551 Gabriel's harassment. 453 00:23:39,651 --> 00:23:41,953 She's the one that came up with everything. 454 00:23:42,053 --> 00:23:43,555 Nick and Ed are innocent. 455 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:55,700 So Gabriel moved into the complex to ultimately 456 00:23:55,801 --> 00:23:57,803 poach her clients, according to Dawn. 457 00:23:57,903 --> 00:24:01,306 And she was just extremely paranoid with him being 458 00:24:01,406 --> 00:24:02,874 one door down. 459 00:24:02,974 --> 00:24:08,346 And she really felt that she needed to get him gone. 460 00:24:08,447 --> 00:24:11,450 I had worked for a property management company. 461 00:24:11,550 --> 00:24:13,485 So she had asked, like, "Hey, look, you know, I'm having 462 00:24:13,585 --> 00:24:16,321 a problem with this guy," which was Gabriel. 463 00:24:16,421 --> 00:24:18,190 "I need to get him out of the building. 464 00:24:18,290 --> 00:24:21,359 From your standpoint, could I do that?" 465 00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,563 And in the brief knowledge that I had, I said, 466 00:24:24,663 --> 00:24:28,700 "Well, if you have a police report, I would assume 467 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,936 that your landlord would have to do something." 468 00:24:32,437 --> 00:24:36,107 Dawn had brought up the idea, which was our downfall. 469 00:24:37,275 --> 00:24:39,010 "Hey, boys, I don't really know how to use 470 00:24:39,110 --> 00:24:40,111 "the computer that well. 471 00:24:40,212 --> 00:24:41,613 "Do you think you could help me out, and I won't 472 00:24:41,713 --> 00:24:43,048 charge you for facials?" 473 00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:45,817 At $150 a pop, couple times a week, 474 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:46,885 sure, yeah, I'll help you. 475 00:24:48,620 --> 00:24:52,157 [Tamar] Ed went along with the whole thing, was in for it, 476 00:24:52,257 --> 00:24:54,125 just like Nick was. 477 00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:58,029 That's got to be a really good facial. 478 00:24:58,129 --> 00:24:59,965 [Edward] At any time, she could have told us, "Stop." 479 00:25:00,065 --> 00:25:02,501 We would have stopped. We had no reason to... 480 00:25:02,601 --> 00:25:03,602 do it on our own. 481 00:25:03,702 --> 00:25:04,936 She was our friend. 482 00:25:05,036 --> 00:25:10,108 She was caught participating in the stalking of herself. 483 00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:12,911 [Beth] Here's the problem with Ed's subversion 484 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:16,214 that they were just doing this for Dawn. 485 00:25:18,984 --> 00:25:22,587 It makes a lot more sense that they engage in this harassment 486 00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:25,991 for revenge and not for a lifetime of free facials. 487 00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:29,361 Nick and Ed both had prior felony convictions. 488 00:25:29,461 --> 00:25:32,697 And in California, which is a three-strike state, 489 00:25:32,797 --> 00:25:35,634 if you're smart, you don't want to take any chances 490 00:25:35,734 --> 00:25:39,671 because the third strike can carry a life sentence. 491 00:25:39,771 --> 00:25:43,375 If Ed and Nick were doing this out of revenge, well, people go 492 00:25:43,475 --> 00:25:45,744 to all kinds of lengths for revenge. 493 00:25:47,746 --> 00:25:51,516 So was the harassment against Dawn motivated by retribution 494 00:25:51,616 --> 00:25:54,553 on the part of Nick, with Ed helping his friend 495 00:25:54,653 --> 00:25:56,521 in this situation? 496 00:25:56,621 --> 00:25:59,624 This seems incredibly risky, but possible. 497 00:26:01,726 --> 00:26:03,361 [Edward] Three strikes? [bleep] that. 498 00:26:03,461 --> 00:26:07,198 You automatically get two strikes for bad skin in this town. 499 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:11,069 So another thing that Dawn kind of claims is that all of this 500 00:26:11,169 --> 00:26:15,440 kind of "harassment" that was happening to her, happened after 501 00:26:15,540 --> 00:26:18,543 the fact of her calling the parole officer and Nick 502 00:26:18,643 --> 00:26:21,346 ultimately going to jail for a parole violation. 503 00:26:21,446 --> 00:26:23,448 But that's not true. Her timeline... 504 00:26:24,649 --> 00:26:28,386 is very imaginatory, and it doesn't line up 505 00:26:28,486 --> 00:26:31,122 to -- to the facts. 506 00:26:31,222 --> 00:26:35,594 We went through 6,000 messages from Dawn's phone. 507 00:26:35,694 --> 00:26:38,697 If there were messages between her and Ed, 508 00:26:38,797 --> 00:26:41,766 or between her and Nick, stating, 509 00:26:41,866 --> 00:26:44,936 "Let's set up this ruse," we would have seen those. 510 00:26:46,538 --> 00:26:50,542 Stalking myself, slashing my own tires so that I would have 511 00:26:50,642 --> 00:26:54,512 a legitimate reason to murder this business rival next door. 512 00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:56,448 I was not doing any of that. 513 00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:58,350 She never changed her phone number. 514 00:26:58,450 --> 00:27:01,353 I know if I was getting hundreds of texts a day 515 00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:05,223 and [bleep] pics, I probably would change my phone number, right? 516 00:27:05,323 --> 00:27:06,524 That'd be number one. 517 00:27:06,625 --> 00:27:10,161 There were never any recorded calls of her calling 911, 518 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,597 saying somebody's trying to break in. 519 00:27:12,697 --> 00:27:16,901 She wasn't getting the response that she needed from 520 00:27:17,002 --> 00:27:20,038 the police department to get Gabriel out of the building. 521 00:27:20,138 --> 00:27:23,174 So she asked us to escalate it. 522 00:27:23,274 --> 00:27:25,777 That is when there's text messages 523 00:27:25,877 --> 00:27:29,080 and there's phone calls between Dawn and Ed 524 00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:33,318 directed to terrorize Gabriel. 525 00:27:33,418 --> 00:27:35,220 Do I have any proof? I mean... 526 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,588 [laughing] 527 00:27:36,688 --> 00:27:38,456 ...what don't I have? 528 00:27:38,556 --> 00:27:43,461 I have texts of Dawn talking about how she's going to post 529 00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:48,066 Craigslist ads for Gabriel to have men come over 530 00:27:48,166 --> 00:27:50,902 and potentially assault Gabriel. 531 00:27:51,002 --> 00:27:57,409 I have text messages where Dawn asked us to key Gabriel's car. 532 00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:00,812 [Gabriel] My car got keyed twice. 533 00:28:00,912 --> 00:28:03,014 I had a beautiful Audi convertible 534 00:28:03,114 --> 00:28:04,683 that I had just bought. 535 00:28:04,783 --> 00:28:07,285 I believe that she was nudging me, she was picking at me. 536 00:28:07,385 --> 00:28:09,320 She wanted a reaction out of me. 537 00:28:09,421 --> 00:28:13,925 She was egging me on until she got a confrontation to -- 538 00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:16,695 that she could tell people that we had one. 539 00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:19,464 We never had one. I never gave it to her. 540 00:28:19,564 --> 00:28:20,598 That's the real story. 541 00:28:22,133 --> 00:28:25,770 In some of the text messages, she had brought up that she was 542 00:28:25,870 --> 00:28:28,273 going to lie to the police and say that Gabriel was in 543 00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:31,543 her apartment, that Gabriel was gonna kidnap her. 544 00:28:31,643 --> 00:28:34,212 And she sort of acted it out 545 00:28:34,312 --> 00:28:36,314 for us in kind of a comical way. 546 00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:41,786 She bound her wrist with some scarves and gagged herself like 547 00:28:41,886 --> 00:28:45,657 she was kidnapped and escaped and looking for help. 548 00:28:45,757 --> 00:28:48,727 [Edward laughing] 549 00:28:48,827 --> 00:28:53,565 She was very much orchestrating and directing 550 00:28:53,665 --> 00:28:57,102 what Nick and Ed were doing for her. 551 00:28:57,202 --> 00:28:59,437 [Edward] We were laughing and she was laughing. 552 00:28:59,537 --> 00:29:03,341 And again, we never really took anything serious because... 553 00:29:04,442 --> 00:29:06,611 we knew what was going on, right? 554 00:29:06,711 --> 00:29:08,146 That video was a big thing in court. 555 00:29:08,246 --> 00:29:11,649 My attorney, Tamar, had asked, "Hey, is there a video of 556 00:29:11,750 --> 00:29:14,219 you tying yourself up, pretending that you're kidnapped?" 557 00:29:14,319 --> 00:29:16,121 "No, absolutely not." 558 00:29:16,221 --> 00:29:17,355 And then Tamar said, 559 00:29:17,455 --> 00:29:19,390 "Hit the lights, play the video." 560 00:29:19,491 --> 00:29:22,527 And at that point, I just feel like any 561 00:29:22,627 --> 00:29:25,930 credibility that she had, which was not much, was gone. 562 00:29:29,334 --> 00:29:31,436 I can't -- it wasn't me being tied up in video. 563 00:29:31,536 --> 00:29:32,937 It wasn't, no, um -- 564 00:29:33,037 --> 00:29:36,040 if this is my apartment, there was a window right there. 565 00:29:36,141 --> 00:29:38,243 And one day I was sitting there 566 00:29:38,343 --> 00:29:40,545 and a woman... 567 00:29:40,645 --> 00:29:43,515 with a gag on and her hands tied 568 00:29:43,615 --> 00:29:46,718 is smashing against my window and going, [nonsense muttering]. 569 00:29:46,818 --> 00:29:47,919 And it scared the crap out of me. 570 00:29:48,019 --> 00:29:49,354 This is before those men were around or anything. 571 00:29:49,454 --> 00:29:50,655 [nonsense muttering] 572 00:29:50,755 --> 00:29:53,124 I thought it was a hostage that had escaped from one of 573 00:29:53,224 --> 00:29:56,528 the other tenants' area. 574 00:29:56,628 --> 00:30:00,865 I go out there, and I see a man and a woman pushing her into 575 00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:02,133 one of the apartments. 576 00:30:02,233 --> 00:30:06,671 And I learned later she was a severely autistic relative. 577 00:30:06,771 --> 00:30:08,139 She was just very, very handicapped. 578 00:30:08,239 --> 00:30:09,874 Whatever was wrong with her made her like this 579 00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:12,110 all the time, and she finally had to have her hand. 580 00:30:12,210 --> 00:30:14,546 And I was trying to tell them this thing happened, 581 00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,482 and it scared the crap out of me, and I was pantomiming it. 582 00:30:19,384 --> 00:30:22,520 Dawn was like a birthday clown performing, right? 583 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:25,256 Like, everything that she said, she was just caught in a lie. 584 00:30:25,356 --> 00:30:27,525 [goofy music playing] 585 00:30:29,861 --> 00:30:32,630 [Beth] Dawn's explanation to our producers about why she was 586 00:30:32,730 --> 00:30:36,901 tying herself up in a video pretending to be kidnapped 587 00:30:37,001 --> 00:30:40,271 raises serious questions about her credibility. 588 00:30:40,371 --> 00:30:42,907 We have learned during the course of investigating 589 00:30:43,007 --> 00:30:46,244 this story, and Dawn has confirmed, that even before 590 00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:47,979 Gabriel moved in next door to her, there was 591 00:30:48,079 --> 00:30:49,480 another facialist. 592 00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:51,282 And she had problems with that facialist. 593 00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:56,020 I remember there was a group of women. 594 00:30:56,120 --> 00:31:00,258 They moved into the building, and she was freaking out about 595 00:31:00,358 --> 00:31:03,928 them potentially taking her clients. 596 00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:05,363 She said they were causing problems. 597 00:31:05,463 --> 00:31:09,434 She said that she was calling the building manager a lot. 598 00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,303 And eventually, the women were just out of there. 599 00:31:12,403 --> 00:31:15,240 I don't know if they got kicked out or they just had enough. 600 00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:20,311 I had problems with her because she was accosting my clients. 601 00:31:20,411 --> 00:31:22,647 And she was gone in no time because of the landlord 602 00:31:22,747 --> 00:31:24,315 kicking her out when he learned. 603 00:31:24,415 --> 00:31:27,552 It was an odd after-hours sex sort of thing. 604 00:31:27,652 --> 00:31:29,387 Not only was it a brothel, but it was also 605 00:31:29,487 --> 00:31:32,257 a mini-transvestite, um... 606 00:31:32,357 --> 00:31:33,391 gathering. 607 00:31:33,491 --> 00:31:34,559 Sound familiar? 608 00:31:35,593 --> 00:31:38,162 Maybe this is a pattern on Dawn's part. 609 00:31:38,263 --> 00:31:40,765 [Edward] This is exactly what Dawn does. 610 00:31:40,865 --> 00:31:44,435 She just has to go balls to the wall to get him kicked out, 611 00:31:44,535 --> 00:31:45,870 whatever she needed to do. 612 00:31:47,372 --> 00:31:48,373 [Beth] So, Ed and Nick... 613 00:31:48,473 --> 00:31:50,842 were charged with felonies for stalking Dawn, 614 00:31:50,942 --> 00:31:53,077 but they didn't go to trial, because in the end, 615 00:31:53,177 --> 00:31:56,714 they were offered misdemeanor stalking plea deals 616 00:31:56,814 --> 00:32:00,084 with three years probation and 350 hours of community service, 617 00:32:00,184 --> 00:32:05,056 and they jumped at it because they're both convicted felons. 618 00:32:05,156 --> 00:32:09,193 And so they would have served some significant state prison 619 00:32:09,294 --> 00:32:12,096 time for what they say they were just doing 620 00:32:12,196 --> 00:32:13,665 because Dawn asked them to. 621 00:32:13,765 --> 00:32:15,466 A lot of these allegations can come down to, 622 00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,035 really, a he-said, she-said. 623 00:32:17,135 --> 00:32:21,306 There is corroboration for them, but you've got to believe 624 00:32:21,406 --> 00:32:24,976 their stories to believe one side or the other, and both of 625 00:32:25,076 --> 00:32:27,111 them have credibility problems. 626 00:32:29,647 --> 00:32:31,716 In fact, Ed is currently 627 00:32:31,816 --> 00:32:35,086 engaged in a situation with his neighbor in Leona Valley 628 00:32:35,186 --> 00:32:37,555 that includes allegations of stalking. 629 00:32:39,123 --> 00:32:40,725 [Carrie] Edward Feinstein. 630 00:32:40,825 --> 00:32:43,161 Everyone knew that he was someone to be leery of. 631 00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:59,444 My name is Carrie Lynne, and I'm at Medicine Horse Ranch 632 00:32:59,544 --> 00:33:00,979 in Leona Valley, California. 633 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,215 Leona Valley is a small town. 634 00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:07,719 We've only got two restaurants, a store, a feed store. 635 00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:09,387 So not a lot of us out here, 636 00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:11,289 but those of us who are here really love being here. 637 00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:16,828 In the fall of 2019, I had received a call from a friend 638 00:33:16,928 --> 00:33:18,863 who had a new neighbor move in. 639 00:33:18,963 --> 00:33:21,466 In Leona Valley, a lot of the properties were divided 640 00:33:21,566 --> 00:33:23,001 many, many years ago. 641 00:33:23,101 --> 00:33:26,671 Most people, if the property lines are off by a foot or whatever, 642 00:33:26,771 --> 00:33:29,374 we just agree to leave it that way because it's a lot easier 643 00:33:29,474 --> 00:33:30,508 than tearing down fences 644 00:33:30,608 --> 00:33:32,143 and drawing a new line a foot over. 645 00:33:33,578 --> 00:33:34,979 That wasn't the case with the new neighbor, 646 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,281 Edward Feinstein. 647 00:33:38,883 --> 00:33:40,485 [Edward] I hired a surveyor. 648 00:33:40,585 --> 00:33:42,453 The neighbor wasn't happy about it, 649 00:33:42,553 --> 00:33:45,556 and it kind of spiraled 650 00:33:45,656 --> 00:33:47,658 into not a good situation. 651 00:33:49,193 --> 00:33:51,529 Edward was very upset about the property line and started 652 00:33:51,629 --> 00:33:55,566 having a dispute with my friend who is his neighbor. 653 00:33:55,666 --> 00:33:58,403 He had gotten quite vocal and threatening. 654 00:33:58,503 --> 00:34:02,206 And so she looked him up and it didn't take long for her to 655 00:34:02,306 --> 00:34:04,675 discover that he had quite a history. 656 00:34:04,776 --> 00:34:07,779 So when she told me what she had found, 657 00:34:07,879 --> 00:34:11,181 his connections to the bling ring guy and what happened 658 00:34:11,282 --> 00:34:13,650 to the esthetician, 659 00:34:13,751 --> 00:34:16,554 and how worried she was about this neighbor, 660 00:34:16,654 --> 00:34:18,089 so then I was intrigued. 661 00:34:18,188 --> 00:34:20,291 And I looked up... 662 00:34:20,391 --> 00:34:23,895 Dawn and found her contact information and reached out to 663 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:26,664 her and asked, "How much danger am I in?" 664 00:34:28,366 --> 00:34:30,802 We agreed to meet in person and have a chat, 665 00:34:30,902 --> 00:34:32,703 and she wanted to learn more about me 666 00:34:32,804 --> 00:34:34,906 and tell me a little bit more about her story with Edward. 667 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:37,074 I connected with Carrie, 668 00:34:37,175 --> 00:34:40,244 and I really liked her right away. 669 00:34:40,344 --> 00:34:42,380 So, you know, we're comparing notes and all that, 670 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:43,947 and she would tell me horror stories about what 671 00:34:44,047 --> 00:34:45,516 she would endure with him. 672 00:34:45,616 --> 00:34:48,553 She had visited the ranch a couple of times. 673 00:34:48,652 --> 00:34:49,754 She was really trying to keep 674 00:34:49,853 --> 00:34:52,523 as close to tabs on Edward as she possibly could. 675 00:34:53,690 --> 00:34:56,393 You know, it just made me extremely uncomfortable 676 00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:58,463 because Dawn is now coming 677 00:34:58,563 --> 00:35:01,099 an hour and a half out of her way, 678 00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:04,302 passing my house, knowing where I live, 679 00:35:04,402 --> 00:35:06,237 what kind of vehicle I drive, 680 00:35:06,337 --> 00:35:08,906 to go to this person's house to, you know, 681 00:35:09,006 --> 00:35:11,109 sit there and talk about me. 682 00:35:11,209 --> 00:35:15,246 [Beth] OK, so this neighbor reaches out to Dawn and Dawn goes up to 683 00:35:15,346 --> 00:35:17,782 visit and become friends with somebody who did have 684 00:35:17,882 --> 00:35:21,886 an issue with Ed? That is just not smart. 685 00:35:21,986 --> 00:35:24,522 Get on with your life, rebuild yourself, 686 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:26,724 and just stay away from him. 687 00:35:28,392 --> 00:35:32,063 Carrie just kind of went with the Dawn story and told 688 00:35:32,163 --> 00:35:35,766 everybody I was this awful person, and that small town 689 00:35:35,867 --> 00:35:37,668 kind of turned on me. 690 00:35:37,768 --> 00:35:42,974 There was a number of us ladies in town who formed 691 00:35:43,074 --> 00:35:44,976 an email group about, you know, let's -- let me know 692 00:35:45,076 --> 00:35:47,945 what you discover, if anything happens, because we just don't 693 00:35:48,045 --> 00:35:49,180 know what kind of threat he is. 694 00:35:51,916 --> 00:35:55,286 So this lady apparently thinks that she's the town crier 695 00:35:55,386 --> 00:35:57,655 because people don't mind their [bleep] business when 696 00:35:57,755 --> 00:36:00,191 things don't have anything to do with them. 697 00:36:01,926 --> 00:36:04,962 [Carrie] I was riding my horse past his ranch one day, 698 00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,032 and he had come out 699 00:36:08,132 --> 00:36:12,637 of his gate quite aggressively and approached me on my horse 700 00:36:12,737 --> 00:36:16,207 and was threatening that he has ways to destroy us 701 00:36:16,307 --> 00:36:17,909 and my mortgage could be in trouble. 702 00:36:18,009 --> 00:36:19,377 And I was like, "What the hell?" 703 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:22,280 And this was after a couple months of him flipping us the bird 704 00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:23,414 every time we drive by. 705 00:36:24,782 --> 00:36:27,185 There were a couple of law enforcement people 706 00:36:27,285 --> 00:36:30,988 that I spoke with who did indicate that 707 00:36:31,088 --> 00:36:32,123 I should be careful, 708 00:36:33,257 --> 00:36:35,626 saying, watch yourself. 709 00:36:35,726 --> 00:36:39,630 My concern was this person who was able to do this to Dawn 710 00:36:39,730 --> 00:36:43,334 now lived five doors away from me and hated my guts. 711 00:36:43,434 --> 00:36:45,236 We were [bleep] mortal enemies, 712 00:36:45,336 --> 00:36:48,072 and I would not piss on her if she was on fire. 713 00:36:51,609 --> 00:36:54,946 [Carrie] I was diagnosed with breast cancer early in the spring of 2022. 714 00:36:56,414 --> 00:37:00,084 And my friends were posting on my Facebook and, you know, 715 00:37:00,184 --> 00:37:01,552 wishing me luck and good health 716 00:37:01,652 --> 00:37:03,454 and things as I was going into treatment. 717 00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:07,225 And I had gotten a friend request from a local person 718 00:37:07,325 --> 00:37:10,494 with just a cartoon picture, very naive of me, 719 00:37:10,595 --> 00:37:13,030 but this person had also befriended a lot of 720 00:37:13,130 --> 00:37:15,199 my other friends in Leona Valley. 721 00:37:15,299 --> 00:37:16,767 So I thought, "Oh, maybe it's a new person." 722 00:37:16,867 --> 00:37:18,569 And it was a woman's name. 723 00:37:18,669 --> 00:37:20,204 And so I accepted the friend request. 724 00:37:21,672 --> 00:37:24,909 And it wasn't very long after that. 725 00:37:25,009 --> 00:37:27,411 There was a loose peacock running down the road. 726 00:37:28,613 --> 00:37:31,015 I had known Edward had peacocks. 727 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:33,417 And I emailed him and said, "Is this your peacock?" 728 00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,187 I said, "I was just trying to be neighborly." 729 00:37:36,287 --> 00:37:38,155 And he said, "What would have been more neighborly is you had 730 00:37:38,256 --> 00:37:40,258 "to mind your own effing business this whole last two years. 731 00:37:40,358 --> 00:37:44,629 And you deserve the cancer that you have." 732 00:37:47,064 --> 00:37:49,700 There is that saying that for every action, 733 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:50,935 there is a reaction. 734 00:37:51,035 --> 00:37:53,070 And she got a hell of a reaction. 735 00:37:54,972 --> 00:37:56,841 And it clicked in my head because I thought, 736 00:37:56,941 --> 00:38:00,044 how on earth do you know? 737 00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:02,280 And then I thought about this person, this unknown 738 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:05,950 Facebook friend, and I went back and looked again, and it was 739 00:38:06,050 --> 00:38:07,685 clearly a fake profile. 740 00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:08,853 This is Edward. 741 00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:13,124 [Edward] First of all, don't add people you don't know 742 00:38:13,224 --> 00:38:15,559 or don't have social media. 743 00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:16,727 Problem solved. 744 00:38:20,998 --> 00:38:24,368 [Beth] So when you look at all the key players in this story, 745 00:38:24,468 --> 00:38:27,672 Dawn and Ed and Gabriel and Nick, 746 00:38:27,772 --> 00:38:30,441 who's the most reliable storyteller? 747 00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:32,677 Who doesn't have credibility issues? 748 00:38:32,777 --> 00:38:34,912 Who doesn't have a record? 749 00:38:35,012 --> 00:38:36,881 It's Gabriel. 750 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:40,318 Gabriel is the one who comes out the most credible. 751 00:38:43,721 --> 00:38:46,624 It's really astounding the lengths people will take to 752 00:38:46,724 --> 00:38:48,326 preserve the life they've built. 753 00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,797 Here it's Dawn and her business in the highly competitive 754 00:38:52,897 --> 00:38:57,001 skincare industry and how people will do almost anything to have 755 00:38:57,101 --> 00:38:59,837 beautiful skin, like Ed and Nick. 756 00:38:59,937 --> 00:39:02,840 Until, of course, things went sideways with Dawn. 757 00:39:08,612 --> 00:39:11,048 [Dawn] It's always good to do dumpster diving behind any kind of 758 00:39:11,148 --> 00:39:14,251 salons, because you never know what they will throw out. 759 00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:15,720 [laughs] 760 00:39:15,820 --> 00:39:18,389 I hope this isn't to parody me as a fool. 761 00:39:18,489 --> 00:39:19,924 Ugh. [laughs] 762 00:39:20,024 --> 00:39:22,827 I just hope there aren't any rats in here that start to bite. 763 00:39:26,530 --> 00:39:28,299 Hmm. 764 00:39:28,399 --> 00:39:29,433 [laughs] 765 00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:30,534 Let's see what this is. 766 00:39:31,569 --> 00:39:33,037 Oh, my goodness. You guys. 767 00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:38,442 Dermalogical skin hydrating mask. 768 00:39:38,542 --> 00:39:39,977 Are you freaking kidding me? 769 00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:41,512 This has got to be at least about $90. 770 00:39:42,847 --> 00:39:44,281 Just poking around in here, right? 771 00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:45,583 I promise I didn't plant these things. 772 00:39:45,683 --> 00:39:46,784 Oh, wait. Wait. 773 00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:47,852 Look. 774 00:39:50,521 --> 00:39:53,057 What is this? A skin perfecting primer? 775 00:39:53,157 --> 00:39:55,092 I've actually needed one of those. 776 00:39:55,192 --> 00:39:57,661 Dawn has the brightest... 777 00:39:58,763 --> 00:40:02,700 outlook on life, even with all the tragedy that 778 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,368 she has suffered. 779 00:40:04,468 --> 00:40:07,037 You guys, this is about $200 worth of stuff, 780 00:40:07,138 --> 00:40:08,139 and it hasn't been opened either. 781 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:10,641 Who would get rid of that? You gotta wonder. 782 00:40:10,741 --> 00:40:11,742 There is no -- oops! 783 00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:13,144 There is no rhyme or reason, 784 00:40:13,244 --> 00:40:17,915 there is no logic behind throwing these things away. 785 00:40:18,015 --> 00:40:20,951 Even though these horrible individuals tried to ruin 786 00:40:21,051 --> 00:40:23,788 her life, she is back to the Dawn -- 787 00:40:23,888 --> 00:40:25,589 and looking fabulous -- 788 00:40:25,689 --> 00:40:27,191 that I always knew. 789 00:40:27,291 --> 00:40:29,026 [Dawn] Yeah, who knows what else I'll find before the day is over. 790 00:40:30,594 --> 00:40:31,595 Wow. 791 00:40:34,698 --> 00:40:38,536 I live a very normal life, and I keep to myself. 792 00:40:38,636 --> 00:40:43,674 I'm not fixated on Dawn or hacking into Carrie's Facebook 793 00:40:43,774 --> 00:40:46,544 to find out what she's having for dinner tonight. 794 00:40:46,644 --> 00:40:50,481 I definitely think that Dawn tracks me, and I definitely 795 00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:55,152 feel like she's probably on my Facebook under a fake account. 796 00:40:55,252 --> 00:40:57,321 I mean, if she wants to know what I'm up to, 797 00:40:57,421 --> 00:40:59,957 she can definitely come pick up a pitchfork and help me pick up 798 00:41:00,057 --> 00:41:02,426 some horse[bleep] -- that would be appreciated. 799 00:41:02,526 --> 00:41:06,096 So, Dawn, if you're watching this, call me 800 00:41:06,197 --> 00:41:07,865 and I can put you to work. 801 00:41:07,965 --> 00:41:09,300 You can keep your top on this time. 802 00:41:17,374 --> 00:41:19,577 There's a rumor that a school principal 803 00:41:19,677 --> 00:41:21,245 hypnotizes kids. 804 00:41:21,345 --> 00:41:23,881 -It never seemed harmful at first. 805 00:41:23,981 --> 00:41:25,649 -And then the kids fall into his lap. 806 00:41:26,984 --> 00:41:28,552 Like he looked like he was like... 807 00:41:30,054 --> 00:41:32,590 -Who gave him the right to be God? 808 00:41:32,690 --> 00:41:33,657 I didn't. 809 00:41:33,757 --> 00:41:35,726 -There's sinister people in this world.