1 00:00:14,981 --> 00:00:15,582 >>> TONIGHT ON "DATELINE" -- 2 00:00:15,582 --> 00:00:17,684 >> ME AND MY SISTER WERE REALLY SCARED 3 00:00:17,684 --> 00:00:19,052 WE FELT A LITTLE BROKEN. WHY WOULDN'T SHE COME BACK TO 4 00:00:19,052 --> 00:00:24,924 US SHE LOVED US 5 00:00:24,924 --> 00:00:27,060 >> IT GRIPPED THE COMMUNITY. WHERE IS SHE 6 00:00:27,060 --> 00:00:32,699 WHAT HAPPENED TO HER WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? 7 00:00:32,699 --> 00:00:33,900 >> WE WENT INTO FULL INVESTIGATION IMMEDIATELY. 8 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:35,735 >> QUITE HONESTLY, IS IT POSSIBLE SHE IS ALIVE? 9 00:00:35,735 --> 00:00:38,238 >> HE WAS WATCHING HER AND FOLLOWING HER. 10 00:00:38,238 --> 00:00:40,073 >> DEEPLY CREEPY STUFF, CRIMINAL ACTS THAT HE'D RECORDED. 11 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:43,443 >> YES THAT'S HIS FAVORITE THING, 12 00:00:43,443 --> 00:00:45,912 COLLECTING WOMEN >> MY HEART JUST SUNK. 13 00:00:45,912 --> 00:00:47,714 HOW MANY OTHER TIMES HAS HE DONE THIS 14 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:51,785 HOW MANY OTHER WOMEN HAS HE DONE THIS TO? 15 00:00:51,785 --> 00:00:55,955 >> A YOUNG NURSE VANISHES IN A MYSTERY STAINED WITH EVIL. 16 00:00:55,955 --> 00:00:59,259 >> HE BROUGHT US TO THE BACK >> AND WE ALL LOOKED DOWN. 17 00:00:59,259 --> 00:01:00,860 * >> WE JUST GASPED. 18 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:13,807 >> I'M LESTER HOLT AND THIS IS "DATELINE. 19 00:01:13,807 --> 00:01:22,982 HERE'S DENNIS MURPHY WITH "THE DEVIL WAS WATCHING." 20 00:01:22,982 --> 00:01:26,286 >> Reporter: THE FRONT RANGE OF COLORADO, THE VAST GRASSLANDS 21 00:01:26,286 --> 00:01:28,188 EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, OFFERS PLENTY OF PLACES TO 22 00:01:28,188 --> 00:01:35,362 CONCEAL THE BODY OF A 97-POUND WOMAN. 23 00:01:35,362 --> 00:01:37,097 THIS WOMAN -- TINA SANDOVAL. SO THE QUESTION THAT GETS SAID 24 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:38,398 FOR THE NEXT TWO DECADES, "WHERE ARE YOU, TINA? 25 00:01:38,398 --> 00:01:40,133 >> AND THEN THE SEARCH BEGAN, YEAH 26 00:01:40,133 --> 00:01:43,403 >> Reporter: WHERE ARE YOU >> YEP 27 00:01:43,403 --> 00:01:50,744 AND WE SEARCHED -- OH, GOSH, PROBABLY OVER 50 DIFFERENT 28 00:01:50,744 --> 00:01:53,113 LOCATIONS. >> Reporter: OFFICIALLY SHE WAS 29 00:01:53,113 --> 00:01:56,916 A MISSING PERSON, HAD BEEN FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS 30 00:01:56,916 --> 00:01:59,386 BUT THE AUTHORITIES, LIKE VETERAN DETECTIVE 31 00:01:59,386 --> 00:02:03,189 BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT, COULDN'T ACCEPT THAT SHE WAS A RUNAWAY 32 00:02:03,189 --> 00:02:07,160 LOOKING FOR A FRESH START. HE HAD SPENT MORE HOURS THAN HE 33 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,196 COULD COUNT SEARCHING GRAVEL PITS AND DRAINED PONDS FOR 34 00:02:10,196 --> 00:02:11,431 MISSING TINA SO POOR TINA WAS JUST A SMALL, 35 00:02:11,431 --> 00:02:16,403 LITTLE WOMAN AND THERE'S A LOT OF COLORADO? 36 00:02:16,403 --> 00:02:17,837 >> JUST THIS ONE AREA HERE, REALLY, TO PROBABLY -- 37 00:02:17,837 --> 00:02:19,806 >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK, "WE'RE NEVER GONNA GET THIS" 38 00:02:19,806 --> 00:02:21,908 >> OH, I THOUGHT WE'D NEVER GET HER. 39 00:02:21,908 --> 00:02:23,176 >> Reporter: THEY COULDN'T PROVE IT, BUT IT WAS THE CONSENSUS OF 40 00:02:23,176 --> 00:02:26,413 LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT THE YOUNG NURSE WAS THE VICTIM OF FOUL 41 00:02:26,413 --> 00:02:29,315 PLAY HER SISTER SUSAN DIDN'T 42 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:32,952 DISAGREE >> IT JUST WASN'T FAIR 43 00:02:32,952 --> 00:02:36,289 YOU KNOW, SHE WOULD'VE BEEN SO GOOD FOR THE WORLD 44 00:02:36,289 --> 00:02:39,292 >> Reporter: AND SHE HAD AN UNSHAKEABLE THEORY ABOUT WHO 45 00:02:39,292 --> 00:02:44,631 MADE HER SISTER DISAPPEAR. >> EVIL. 46 00:02:44,631 --> 00:02:46,366 HE'S JUST EVIL >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK, "I 47 00:02:46,366 --> 00:02:49,803 NOW HAVE HANNIBAL LECTER HERE" >> YES 48 00:02:49,803 --> 00:02:55,108 THIS GUY IS BY FAR THE WORST CRIMINAL I'VE EVER INVESTIGATED. 49 00:02:55,108 --> 00:02:57,610 >> Reporter: THE PROBLEM WITH THE MISSING TINA INVESTIGATION 50 00:02:57,610 --> 00:03:00,613 WAS THIS -- HOW COULD A PROSECUTOR CONVINCE A JURY SHE 51 00:03:00,613 --> 00:03:02,582 WAS MURDERED IF YOU COULDN'T EVEN PROVE, BEYOND A REASONABLE 52 00:03:02,582 --> 00:03:05,318 DOUBT, THAT SHE WAS, IN FACT, DEAD 53 00:03:05,318 --> 00:03:07,220 TICK IT OFF. WHAT -- WHAT WERE THE USUAL 54 00:03:07,220 --> 00:03:10,090 INGREDIENTS YOU WERE MISSING HERE 55 00:03:10,090 --> 00:03:11,057 >> WE DID NOT HAVE A VICTIM'S BODY 56 00:03:11,057 --> 00:03:13,827 WE DID NOT HAVE A -- ANY KIND OF A CONFESSION OR ADMISSION BY A 57 00:03:13,827 --> 00:03:15,061 SUSPECT. WE DIDN'T HAVE A CRIME SCENE 58 00:03:15,061 --> 00:03:21,334 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 59 00:03:21,334 --> 00:03:24,938 >> Reporter: CAROL, A NURSE AND CO-WORKER OF TINA'S, SPENT 60 00:03:24,938 --> 00:03:27,774 WEEKENDS LOOKING FOR HER VANISHED FRIEND ONLY TO BE 61 00:03:27,774 --> 00:03:32,212 STARTLED AWAKE LATER WITH A STEPHEN KING-LIKE VISION 62 00:03:32,212 --> 00:03:35,682 >> I WOULD BE, LIKE, ON A REMOTE AREA, AND SHE WAS IN A SHALLOW 63 00:03:35,682 --> 00:03:38,952 GRAVE IN MY DREAM, AND SHE WOULD SIT UP, KINDA ZOMBIE STYLE, AND 64 00:03:38,952 --> 00:03:42,322 SHE WAS TRYING TO TELL ME WHERE SHE WAS BURIED 65 00:03:42,322 --> 00:03:45,325 AND I ALWAYS WONDERED, "IS THAT REALLY HER TELLING ME?" YOU 66 00:03:45,325 --> 00:03:48,094 KNOW, "OR IS IT JUST MY WAY I'M COPING WITH THIS?" 67 00:03:48,094 --> 00:03:51,097 >> Reporter: EVENTUALLY THERE WOULD BE A GRAVE 68 00:03:51,097 --> 00:03:53,600 BUT IT WASN'T SHALLOW, AND IT WASN'T OUT IN THE PRAIRIE. 69 00:03:53,600 --> 00:04:03,743 BUT THERE'S SO MUCH TO KNOW BEFORE I TELL YOU ABOUT THAT 70 00:04:03,743 --> 00:04:06,546 GO BACK TO A TIME IN AMERICA WHEN KIDS WOULD PLAY OUTSIDE ON 71 00:04:06,546 --> 00:04:09,582 SUMMER NIGHTS TILL THE STREETLIGHTS CAME ON 72 00:04:09,582 --> 00:04:12,719 IN WINDSOR, COLORADO, YOU MIGHT HAVE MET THE TOURNAIS. 73 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:14,554 THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM. HERE'S ANNIE 74 00:04:14,554 --> 00:04:16,623 >> NINE KIDS SEVEN GIRLS, TWO BOYS. 75 00:04:16,623 --> 00:04:18,692 >> Reporter: AND WHERE WERE YOU IN ALL THAT? 76 00:04:18,692 --> 00:04:21,594 >> I'M THE YOUNGEST, NUMBER NINE 77 00:04:21,594 --> 00:04:24,731 IT WAS KINDA LIKE BOOT CAMP. YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS YOU GET TO 78 00:04:24,731 --> 00:04:29,069 A CERTAIN AGE, "HERE'S HOW YOU DO LAUNDRY 79 00:04:29,069 --> 00:04:33,106 HERE'S HOW YOU CLEAN." >> Reporter: DAD MICHAEL WAS AN 80 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:34,574 EX-MARINE AND A FORMER CITY COP. MOM MARY ELLEN WORKED AT THE 81 00:04:34,574 --> 00:04:37,911 CAMPUS BOOKSTORE IN NEARBY GREELEY. 82 00:04:37,911 --> 00:04:42,082 ANNIE'S SISTER, OLDER BY 13 YEARS, WAS TINA 83 00:04:42,082 --> 00:04:44,684 WAS SHE SOMETHING LIKE AN OLDER AUNT TO YOU OR SOMETHING, OR - 84 00:04:44,684 --> 00:04:47,087 AS MUCH AS A SISTER -- >> NO, SHE -- SHE WAS VERY MUCH 85 00:04:47,087 --> 00:04:50,457 A SISTER TO ME SHE CARED FOR ME 86 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:53,360 SHE PLAYED WITH ME SHE WOULD PLAY WITH US IN OUR 87 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,895 CLUBHOUSE. BEING WITH FAMILY MADE HER VERY 88 00:04:55,895 --> 00:04:59,699 HAPPY. SHE LOVED US KIDS A LOT. 89 00:04:59,699 --> 00:05:02,335 >> Reporter: TINA WAS A LITTLE SHY BUT A SPIRITED COMPETITOR IN 90 00:05:02,335 --> 00:05:04,904 HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL AND TRACK. 91 00:05:04,904 --> 00:05:08,742 FINDING SUITABLE BOYFRIENDS WAS WHERE SHE STUMBLED SOME, AS 92 00:05:08,742 --> 00:05:12,178 SISTER SUSAN RECALLS MOM AND DAD DID NOT APPROVE OF 93 00:05:12,178 --> 00:05:14,748 TWO OF HER YOUNG STEADIES. >> YEAH, SHE KINDA FOUND THE 94 00:05:14,748 --> 00:05:17,484 ONES THAT NEEDED HELP AND SHE THOUGHT SHE COULD HELP THEM. 95 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:20,120 >> Reporter: BUT COLLEGE GAVE HER FOOTING, AND STUDIES IN 96 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,123 NURSING GAVE HER DIRECTION THAT'S WHERE SHE MET A GUY 97 00:05:23,123 --> 00:05:26,059 TAKING CLASSES TO BECOME A RADIOLOGY TECHNICIAN 98 00:05:26,059 --> 00:05:30,063 HIS NAME WAS JOHN SANDOVAL SO WHAT DID YOUR PARENTS THINK 99 00:05:30,063 --> 00:05:32,632 OF THIS JOHN >> I THINK MY PARENTS KINDA 100 00:05:32,632 --> 00:05:34,901 LIKED HIM. HE WAS A LITTLE OLDER THAN TINA. 101 00:05:34,901 --> 00:05:38,071 >> Reporter: AND JUST LIKE THAT, TINA WAS SOON SHARING AN 102 00:05:38,071 --> 00:05:40,907 APARTMENT IN GREELEY, COLORADO, WITH HER NEW BOYFRIEND, JOHN 103 00:05:40,907 --> 00:05:45,612 KID SISTER ANNIE, ABOUT NINE AT THE TIME, THOUGHT IT WAS ALL 104 00:05:45,612 --> 00:05:47,547 VERY EXCITING. >> I REALLY LOOKED UP TO THEIR 105 00:05:47,547 --> 00:05:51,117 RELATIONSHIP A LOT I THOUGHT THEY WERE A GOOD FIT 106 00:05:51,117 --> 00:05:54,087 I THOUGHT IT WAS A FAIRYTALE, YOU KNOW 107 00:05:54,087 --> 00:05:56,556 >> Reporter: ANNIE LOVED GOING OVER TO TINA AND JOHN'S TO PLAY 108 00:05:56,556 --> 00:06:00,694 CHINESE CHECKERS AND MESS ABOUT WITH THEIR NEW DOG, CODY 109 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:03,029 TINA HAD BROKEN OUT OF HER STRICT "MASS ON SUNDAY" CATHOLIC 110 00:06:03,029 --> 00:06:05,832 UPBRINGING WHAT DOES YOUR CHILDHOOD MIND 111 00:06:05,832 --> 00:06:08,368 MAKE OF YOUR SISTER AND HIS -- HER BOYFRIEND? 112 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:10,837 >> I DON'T THINK ANY OF MY OTHER SIBLINGS HAD LIVED WITH SOMEBODY 113 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:14,040 BEFORE, SO IT WAS A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE 114 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,043 >> Reporter: AND THERE WAS GONNA BE A WEDDING 115 00:06:17,043 --> 00:06:18,611 >> AND THERE WAS GONNA BE A WEDDING, AND WE WERE IN THE 116 00:06:18,611 --> 00:06:20,647 WEDDING! >> Reporter: JOHN AND TINA HAD 117 00:06:20,647 --> 00:06:23,383 FOUND A CHAPEL UP IN THE ROCKIES TO EXCHANGE THEIR VOWS 118 00:06:23,383 --> 00:06:27,220 >> VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL. WE TOOK A HUGE GROUP PICTURE OUT 119 00:06:27,220 --> 00:06:32,792 FRONT OF THE CHAPEL AFTERWARDS >> Reporter: JOHN TOASTED HIS 120 00:06:32,792 --> 00:06:34,627 BRIDE AT THE RECEPTION >> I'VE GOT THE BEST WOMAN A MAN 121 00:06:34,627 --> 00:06:37,864 COULD EVER ASK FOR, AND OUR FAMILY IS JUST GETTING BIGGER. 122 00:06:37,864 --> 00:06:39,065 WELCOME TO THE FAMILY! [ CHEERS ] 123 00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:41,868 >> Reporter: TINA OPENED PRESENTS 124 00:06:41,868 --> 00:06:43,970 >> THIS IS FROM ANNIE! OHH. 125 00:06:43,970 --> 00:06:46,339 >> I MADE IT >> IT'S A BOOK 126 00:06:46,339 --> 00:06:48,675 >> Reporter: A LITTLE FLOWER GIRL REMEMBERS TEARING AROUND 127 00:06:48,675 --> 00:06:52,112 THE RECEPTION HALL SQUEALING WITH ALL HER SISTERS 128 00:06:52,112 --> 00:06:53,813 >> IT'S A TIME TO BE GLEEFUL AND HAPPY AND ENJOY THE TIME 129 00:06:53,813 --> 00:06:57,450 >> Reporter: JOHN'S COUSIN AND BEST MAN, JESSE, GAVE A LITTLE 130 00:06:57,450 --> 00:07:01,588 SPEECH >> I KNOW THEY'RE GOING TO DO 131 00:07:01,588 --> 00:07:04,257 WELL FOR EACH OTHER. THANKS AGAIN FOR EVERYBODY FOR 132 00:07:04,257 --> 00:07:06,226 MAKING IT. >> Reporter: JESSE FOR SOME 133 00:07:06,226 --> 00:07:10,463 REASON SET ANNIE'S TEETH ON EDGE 134 00:07:10,463 --> 00:07:13,233 >> HE WAS EXTREMELY QUIET. KINDA MADE ME NERVOUS. 135 00:07:13,233 --> 00:07:16,069 I JUST HAD A FEELING ABOUT HIM THAT I JUST COULDN'T PUT MY 136 00:07:16,069 --> 00:07:19,539 FINGER ON. >> Reporter: AND SO AFTER THE 137 00:07:19,539 --> 00:07:22,709 TOASTS AND HAPPY TEARS, THE NEW MISTER AND MISSUS WERE OFF TO 138 00:07:22,709 --> 00:07:24,377 CANCUN FOR A MEXICAN BEACH HONEYMOON. 139 00:07:24,377 --> 00:07:26,813 THE SNAPSHOTS SHOW A HAPPY COUPLE 140 00:07:26,813 --> 00:07:31,284 ANNIE WAS THRILLED TO GET A SOUVENIR 141 00:07:31,284 --> 00:07:33,453 >> CANCUN T-SHIRTS, AND THAT WAS PRETTY COOL 'CAUSE WE HAD NEVER 142 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:36,556 BEEN OUT OF THE COUNTRY OR EVEN FLOWN ON A PLANE 143 00:07:36,556 --> 00:07:39,693 AND HERE'S TINA GOING ON A COOL VACATION, YOU KNOW 144 00:07:39,693 --> 00:07:46,633 >> Reporter: SO A SUNTANNED TINA RETURNED TO HER NURSING STUDIES. 145 00:07:46,633 --> 00:07:48,968 HAPPY FOREVER AFTER? NOT EXACTLY. 146 00:07:48,968 --> 00:07:52,105 >> I DIDN'T SEE IT COMING. DIDN'T NOTICE ANYTHING OFF 147 00:07:52,105 --> 00:07:55,375 KILTER AND THEN, SUDDENLY, WE WERE 148 00:07:55,375 --> 00:07:59,579 MOVING TINA INTO A NEW APARTMENT. 149 00:07:59,579 --> 00:08:08,254 >> WHAT HAD HAPPENED SO SUDDENLY 150 00:08:08,254 --> 00:08:19,132 HAD TINA BEEN KEEPING A SECRET WHEN WE COME BACK -- 151 00:08:19,132 --> 00:08:20,266 >> THE MYSTERY THAT WOULD TAKE 20 YEARS TO SOLVE WAS JUST 152 00:08:20,266 --> 00:08:39,719 GETTING STARTED. >>> SHE WAS REALLY IN LOVE IN 153 00:08:39,719 --> 00:08:41,521 THE BEGINNING. >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU THINK 154 00:08:41,521 --> 00:08:45,392 THE GLUE WAS THERE >> I THINK THE WAY HE TALKED TO 155 00:08:45,392 --> 00:08:49,396 HER JUST SO GENTLY, AND HE JUST TREASURED HER. 156 00:08:49,396 --> 00:08:51,331 HE MADE HER FEEL REALLY SPECIAL, AND SHE HADN'T FELT THAT WAY FOR 157 00:08:51,331 --> 00:08:52,565 AWHILE LIKE, SHE'D BEEN TREATED LIKE 158 00:08:52,565 --> 00:08:54,834 DIRT >> Reporter: THAT CAN GO A LONG 159 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:59,072 WAY, RIGHT >> HE CALLED HER "KITTEN" AND 160 00:08:59,072 --> 00:09:01,007 JUST WAS, LIKE, CONSTANTLY, "YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL 161 00:09:01,007 --> 00:09:08,014 YOU'RE SO BEAUTIFUL, I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M WITH YOU." 162 00:09:08,014 --> 00:09:10,684 >> Reporter: HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN ELOQUENT SWEET TALKER, BUT 163 00:09:10,684 --> 00:09:13,186 JOHN SEEMED TO HAVE TROUBLE HOLDING A JOB. 164 00:09:13,186 --> 00:09:16,022 HE NEVER DID FINISH HIS RADIOLOGY CLASS AND FOUND A 165 00:09:16,022 --> 00:09:17,757 STRING OF PART-TIME, HOURLY JOBS -- WORKING IN A LIQUOR 166 00:09:17,757 --> 00:09:21,428 STORE, A CUSTOMER-CARE CALL CENTER 167 00:09:21,428 --> 00:09:24,130 ABOUT TWO YEARS INTO THE MARRIAGE, TINA'S SISTER, SUSAN, 168 00:09:24,130 --> 00:09:27,934 COULD SENSE THAT SOMETHING WAS OFF. 169 00:09:27,934 --> 00:09:33,039 >> SHE WAS FEELING LIKE MAYBE JOHN ISN'T WHO SHE THOUGHT HE 170 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:34,708 WAS. >> Reporter: DID YOU SCRATCH 171 00:09:34,708 --> 00:09:36,710 AROUND ON THAT >> A LITTLE BIT. 172 00:09:36,710 --> 00:09:39,179 SHE WASN'T VERY FORTHCOMING IN THE BEGINNING. 173 00:09:39,179 --> 00:09:41,748 I KNEW THEY WERE HAVING PROBLEMS, AND SHE HAD CONCERNS, 174 00:09:41,748 --> 00:09:45,385 BUT SHE WASN'T TELLING ME A LOT OF WHAT SHE ALREADY KNEW AT THAT 175 00:09:45,385 --> 00:09:48,054 POINT. >> Reporter: TINA, IT TURNED 176 00:09:48,054 --> 00:09:50,190 OUT, WAS KEEPING A SECRET ABOUT HER MARRIAGE 177 00:09:50,190 --> 00:09:53,793 A DARK ONE AND SHE WASN'T READY YET TO 178 00:09:53,793 --> 00:09:57,063 DISCLOSE THE HUMILIATING TRUTH, NOT EVEN TO HER SISTER 179 00:09:57,063 --> 00:09:59,299 NURSING SCHOOL, MEANWHILE, WAS GOING VERY WELL. 180 00:09:59,299 --> 00:10:03,136 SHE DOVE INTO THE FIELD AND FOUND HER PASSION -- CARING FOR 181 00:10:03,136 --> 00:10:07,407 OTHER PEOPLE TINA SOARED. 182 00:10:07,407 --> 00:10:09,676 >> SO TINA IS RIGHT HERE >> Reporter: AND WHERE ARE YOU 183 00:10:09,676 --> 00:10:12,645 >> I'M RIGHT HERE. >> Reporter: ONE OF TINA'S 184 00:10:12,645 --> 00:10:14,881 FELLOW NURSING STUDENTS WAS CAROL SJERVEN. 185 00:10:14,881 --> 00:10:16,783 SHE WAS AS SCARED TO MEET HER FIRST PATIENT AS TINA WAS 186 00:10:16,783 --> 00:10:18,752 CONFIDENT. >> SHE LITERALLY PUSHED ME IN 187 00:10:18,752 --> 00:10:22,288 THE DOOR >> Reporter: "YOU CAN DO IT. 188 00:10:22,288 --> 00:10:23,256 >> SHE SAID -- >> Reporter: GIVING YOU THE PEP 189 00:10:23,256 --> 00:10:24,190 TALK >> -- "YOU CAN DO IT." 190 00:10:24,190 --> 00:10:27,060 AND SHE PHYSICALLY PUSHED ME INTO THE PATIENT'S ROOM. 191 00:10:27,060 --> 00:10:29,796 SO I THINK, WHEN IT CAME TO NURSING, SHE WAS A NATURAL 192 00:10:29,796 --> 00:10:32,899 >> Reporter: IN COMMAND, CONFIDENT? 193 00:10:32,899 --> 00:10:37,737 >> CONFIDENT NOT BOSSY IN ANY WAY, BUT JUST 194 00:10:37,737 --> 00:10:41,708 SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WAS DOING. >> Reporter: BUT CAROL KNEW 195 00:10:41,708 --> 00:10:45,045 ALMOST NOTHING ABOUT TINA'S LIFE AWAY FROM NURSING SCHOOL 196 00:10:45,045 --> 00:10:47,213 THE SHY TEENAGER HAD BECOME THE NOSE IN THE BOOK STUDENT AND 197 00:10:47,213 --> 00:10:49,549 DIDN'T SOCIALIZE WITH HER CLASSMATES 198 00:10:49,549 --> 00:10:52,585 SISTER SUSAN HAD MARRIED BY THEN, TOO. 199 00:10:52,585 --> 00:10:56,890 AND SHE AND HER HUSBAND ENDED UP GETTING AN APARTMENT JUST DOWN 200 00:10:56,890 --> 00:11:02,529 THE STREET FROM JOHN AND TINA. >> SO WE COULD EASILY WALK BACK 201 00:11:02,529 --> 00:11:04,831 AND FORTH AND SEE EACH OTHER AND I HAD MY DAUGHTER AT THAT 202 00:11:04,831 --> 00:11:06,700 TIME AND SHE WAS A TODDLER. 203 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:08,802 AND SHE -- MY SISTER LOVED CHILDREN 204 00:11:08,802 --> 00:11:10,570 >> Reporter: SUSAN WOULD TAKE HER LITTLE GIRL TO SEE AUNT TINA 205 00:11:10,570 --> 00:11:13,306 FOR COFFEES THAT BECAME HEART-TO-HEARTS. 206 00:11:13,306 --> 00:11:17,610 SUSAN CONFIDED THAT SHE WAS UNHAPPY IN HER MARRIAGE, JUST AS 207 00:11:17,610 --> 00:11:23,416 TINA WAS RESTLESS IN HERS. >> SO SHE WAS ACTUALLY REALLY 208 00:11:23,416 --> 00:11:25,452 ENCOURAGING ME TO GET OUT OF MY MARRIAGE 209 00:11:25,452 --> 00:11:27,954 AND SO SHE REALLY WANTED TO HELP ME, AND THEN SHE KIND OF MADE 210 00:11:27,954 --> 00:11:30,557 THE LEAP BEFORE I DID AND STARTED FILING THE DIVORCE 211 00:11:30,557 --> 00:11:33,259 PAPERWORK AND MOVING OUT INTO HER OWN PLACE. 212 00:11:33,259 --> 00:11:35,628 >> Reporter: BY SUMMER'S END 1995, TINA AND JOHN WERE DONE. 213 00:11:35,628 --> 00:11:42,002 WHEN IT CRACKED, WHAT WAS THE THING? 214 00:11:42,002 --> 00:11:44,604 >> I THINK IT HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE SOME TIME BEFORE I 215 00:11:44,604 --> 00:11:48,008 KNEW ABOUT IT. FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME LATER, SHE 216 00:11:48,008 --> 00:11:53,646 WAS CONFRONTING HIM ABOUT THINGS THAT SHE WAS FINDING OUT ABOUT 217 00:11:53,646 --> 00:11:56,316 HIM, HE'S NOT A GOOD PERSON. >> Reporter: KID SISTER ANNIE 218 00:11:56,316 --> 00:11:59,285 WAS CLUELESS ABOUT WHY TINA AND JOHN -- HER ALMOST PRINCE 219 00:11:59,285 --> 00:12:02,288 CHARMING -- WERE SPLITTING UP. BUT THERE SHE WAS, HELPING TO 220 00:12:02,288 --> 00:12:05,258 LUG BOXES FROM THE OLD PLACE TO THE NEW APARTMENT. 221 00:12:05,258 --> 00:12:09,362 AND JOHN WAS THERE >> HE HELPED AS WELL, AND I 222 00:12:09,362 --> 00:12:15,935 ASKED HIM, I SAID, "WELL, WHY IS TINA MOVING OUT? 223 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:17,871 WHAT'S GOING ON? AND HE SAID, "OH, DON'T WORRY. 224 00:12:17,871 --> 00:12:21,341 WE JUST NEED A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE. 225 00:12:21,341 --> 00:12:24,144 DON'T WORRY. WE'LL BE BACK TOGETHER SOON. 226 00:12:24,144 --> 00:12:26,413 >> Reporter: BUT JOHN SANDOVAL SOON PLUMMETED FROM ANNIE'S LIST 227 00:12:26,413 --> 00:12:28,748 OF ADMIRED MEN BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED JUST 228 00:12:28,748 --> 00:12:32,719 AFTER THEY'D FINISHED GETTING TINA MOVED 229 00:12:32,719 --> 00:12:35,889 >> HE TOOK ME AND MY SISTER BACK TO TOWN. 230 00:12:35,889 --> 00:12:40,960 AND HE GOT US SOME ICE CREAM CONES AND TOOK US TO THE LAKE. 231 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,762 AND THEN HE STARTED DRIVING DOWN THE BOAT DOCK INTO THE LAKE. 232 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:43,930 >> Reporter: THE BOAT LAUNCH THE RAMP 233 00:12:43,930 --> 00:12:45,999 >> YES >> Reporter: IN THE VEHICLE? 234 00:12:45,999 --> 00:12:47,801 >> YES AND ME AND MY SISTER WERE REALLY 235 00:12:47,801 --> 00:12:49,903 SCARED WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS 236 00:12:49,903 --> 00:12:51,104 DOING. >> Reporter: DOING IT AS A GOOF 237 00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:53,239 OR --? >> IT WAS A DIFFERENT SIDE OF 238 00:12:53,239 --> 00:12:55,675 HIM I'D NEVER SEEN I -- HE SEEMED TO BE -- BE 239 00:12:55,675 --> 00:12:58,244 GETTING JOY OUT OF OUR TERROR. >> Reporter: AND THE WATER'S 240 00:12:58,244 --> 00:13:01,414 COMIN' UP OVER THE HUBCAPS >> YEAH. 241 00:13:01,414 --> 00:13:03,450 AND WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN 242 00:13:03,450 --> 00:13:07,187 AND THEN HE STOPPED AND BACKED UP AND TOOK US HOME. 243 00:13:07,187 --> 00:13:08,855 AND THAT WAS IT. >> Reporter: DID HE BECOME A 244 00:13:08,855 --> 00:13:10,490 CATEGORY OF A DIFFERENT PERSON AFTER THAT TO YOU? 245 00:13:10,490 --> 00:13:11,891 >> YEAH. YEAH 246 00:13:11,891 --> 00:13:14,594 IT WAS - >> Reporter: THE JOHN YOU 247 00:13:14,594 --> 00:13:16,096 IDOLIZED WASN'T NECESSARILY THE SAME GUY 248 00:13:16,096 --> 00:13:19,599 >> YEAH. HE -- HE SCARED US 249 00:13:19,599 --> 00:13:22,469 >> Reporter: SCARY AND JOHN SANDOVAL WERE JUST GETTING 250 00:13:22,469 --> 00:13:24,471 JOHN SANDOVAL WERE JUST GETTING UP TO SPEED. 251 00:13:27,173 --> 00:13:30,343 >> MY JAW DROPS, AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT? 252 00:13:30,343 --> 00:13:32,278 >> A SEPARATION AND AN OBSESSION. 253 00:13:32,278 --> 00:13:33,947 >> SHE WOULD LOOK OUT OVER HER BALCONY. 254 00:13:33,947 --> 00:13:36,082 SHE SAID HIS CAR WOULD BE THERE FOR HOURS. 255 00:13:36,082 --> 00:13:39,386 >> HE WAS LETTING HER KNOW THAT HE WAS WATCHING HER AND 256 00:13:39,386 --> 00:14:01,574 FOLLOWING HER. >> Reporter: IN THE SPRING OF 257 00:14:01,574 --> 00:14:03,376 1995, THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO STUDENTS ABOUT TO GET 258 00:14:03,376 --> 00:14:06,079 THEIR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING GATHERED ON THE LAWN FOR 259 00:14:06,079 --> 00:14:07,280 A GROUP PHOTO. >> I'M LOOKING AND LOOKING AND 260 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:11,051 LOOKING FOR TINA AND, OF COURSE, THERE SHE IS 261 00:14:11,051 --> 00:14:14,254 >> Reporter: KIND OF HALF HIDDEN 262 00:14:14,254 --> 00:14:16,623 >> MAKING SURE EVERYBODY ELSE GETS SEEN. 263 00:14:16,623 --> 00:14:20,293 >> Reporter: DOES THAT SPEAK TO SHY TINA THAT WE HEAR ABOUT, NOT 264 00:14:20,293 --> 00:14:23,063 STEPPING INTO THE SPOTLIGHT? >> SHE'S DEFINITELY GONNA PUT 265 00:14:23,063 --> 00:14:27,834 EVERYONE ELSE IN THE SPOTLIGHT BEFORE SHE TAKES IT. 266 00:14:27,834 --> 00:14:30,136 >> Reporter: BUT THE UPCOMING SUMMER WAS TINA'S TIME TO STEP 267 00:14:30,136 --> 00:14:33,073 OUT INTO THE LIGHTS FOR MAYBE THE FIRST TIME IN HER LIFE 268 00:14:33,073 --> 00:14:35,975 THE SHY YOUNG WOMAN WAS EMERGING FROM HER COCOON. 269 00:14:35,975 --> 00:14:41,081 HER COLLEAGUE, CAROL SJERVEN, NOTICED. 270 00:14:41,081 --> 00:14:42,949 >> I THINK SHE FINALLY STARTED TO BECOME AGE APPROPRIATE, TO BE 271 00:14:42,949 --> 00:14:47,687 HONEST I MEAN, SHE JUST SEEMED SHE WAS 272 00:14:47,687 --> 00:14:49,322 SO MUCH HAPPIER, MORE FREE >> Reporter: AND CAROL QUICKLY 273 00:14:49,322 --> 00:14:52,525 REGARDED TINA AS THE REAL DEAL WHEN IT CAME TO NURSING. 274 00:14:52,525 --> 00:14:55,095 >> TINA WAS THE BEST I MEAN, IF THERE WAS A CALL 275 00:14:55,095 --> 00:14:58,598 LIGHT GOIN' OFF, SHE'S THE FIRST TO POP UP AND GO GET IT. 276 00:14:58,598 --> 00:15:01,034 AND SHE -- YOU KNOW, HER PATIENTS LIKED HER 277 00:15:01,034 --> 00:15:06,172 EVERYONE LIKED TINA. SHE WAS FANTASTIC. 278 00:15:06,172 --> 00:15:10,477 >> Reporter: IT HAD BEEN A MOMENTOUS YEAR FOR TINA. 279 00:15:10,477 --> 00:15:12,946 SHE'D GOTTEN HER DEGREE, LEFT HER MARRIAGE AND NOW HAD 280 00:15:12,946 --> 00:15:15,915 SUCCESSFULLY KICKED OFF HER CAREER IN NURSING. 281 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:19,252 SHE WAS A 23-YEAR-OLD WOMAN ABOUT TO BE DIVORCED AND LIVING 282 00:15:19,252 --> 00:15:23,957 ALONE IN A COOL APARTMENT THAT WAS ALL HERS 283 00:15:23,957 --> 00:15:25,859 >> I THINK IT WAS ALMOST JUST LIKE A HUGE WEIGHT HAD COME OFF 284 00:15:25,859 --> 00:15:29,295 HER SHOULDER SHE SEEMED TO SMILE MORE, I 285 00:15:29,295 --> 00:15:32,599 THINK, AND JUST OPEN UP KINDA LIKE A BUTTERFLY 286 00:15:32,599 --> 00:15:35,468 >> Reporter: OLD TINA RARELY SOCIALIZED WITH HER CLASSMATES 287 00:15:35,468 --> 00:15:38,538 BUT WITH CAROL'S ENCOURAGEMENT, SHE NOW STEPPED OUT AND LET DOWN 288 00:15:38,538 --> 00:15:42,676 HER HAIR >> SHE FINALLY WANTED TO GO HAVE 289 00:15:42,676 --> 00:15:46,513 FUN AND JOIN HER FRIENDS, AND IT WAS SO NICE TO SEE HER OPEN UP 290 00:15:46,513 --> 00:15:51,751 AND TELL MORE ABOUT HER LIFE AND PROBABLY THE MOST PROFOUND 291 00:15:51,751 --> 00:15:55,955 THING THAT HAPPENED THE NIGHT WE WENT OUT -- SHE CAME TO MY 292 00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:57,557 APARTMENT TO GET READY WHILE SHE WAS AT MY HOUSE, I 293 00:15:57,557 --> 00:15:59,325 SAID, YOU KNOW, "TELL ME MORE ABOUT JOHN." 294 00:15:59,325 --> 00:16:00,860 AND SHE SAID, "WELL, JOHN HAS A DISEASE. 295 00:16:00,860 --> 00:16:03,697 AND I -- >> Reporter: DISEASE 296 00:16:03,697 --> 00:16:04,698 >> I SAID THAT, TOO. "WELL, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 297 00:16:04,698 --> 00:16:06,166 AND SHE SAID, "WELL, HE HAS VOYEURISM. 298 00:16:06,166 --> 00:16:08,768 AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT AT THE TIME. 299 00:16:08,768 --> 00:16:11,404 I SAID, "WELL, WHAT'S THAT?" AND SHE SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, 300 00:16:11,404 --> 00:16:13,373 HE'LL SEE A PRETTY GIRL AT THE GROCERY STORE AND HE'LL KINDA 301 00:16:13,373 --> 00:16:15,575 FEEL COMPELLED TO JUST FOLLOW HER HOME 302 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:20,046 AND HE MIGHT WATCH HER FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS. 303 00:16:20,046 --> 00:16:22,916 AND, YOU KNOW, SHE - >> Reporter: I MEAN, WHAT DID -- 304 00:16:22,916 --> 00:16:24,517 >> -- SAID IT JUST SUPER CALM LIKE THAT. 305 00:16:24,517 --> 00:16:26,219 >> Reporter: AS THOUGH THIS IS A NORMAL KIND OF - 306 00:16:26,219 --> 00:16:28,088 >> RIGHT AND -- 307 00:16:28,088 --> 00:16:31,057 >> Reporter: -- STORY TO TELL? >> YOU KNOW, MY JAW DROPS AND 308 00:16:31,057 --> 00:16:31,925 I'M LIKE, "WHAT? THAT'S -- THAT'S LIKE A 309 00:16:31,925 --> 00:16:33,660 STALKER. SHE SAID, "NO, NO, NO. 310 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:36,296 YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT'S AN ILLNESS. 311 00:16:36,296 --> 00:16:39,065 HE CAN'T HELP IT." >> Reporter: A DISEASE OF 312 00:16:39,065 --> 00:16:40,166 STALKING >> IN NURSING SCHOOL, WE LEARN 313 00:16:40,166 --> 00:16:42,535 ABOUT ALL THE PERSONALITY DISORDERS. 314 00:16:42,535 --> 00:16:44,337 I DON'T EVER REMEMBER LEARNING THAT IT WAS ANY KIND OF AN 315 00:16:44,337 --> 00:16:46,406 ILLNESS. >> Reporter: SO, "MY HUSBAND IS 316 00:16:46,406 --> 00:16:48,441 A GUY WHO FOLLOWS WOMEN AROUND." >> RIGHT 317 00:16:48,441 --> 00:16:50,577 >> Reporter: CAROL LET THE STUNNING REMARK SLIDE AS SHE AND 318 00:16:50,577 --> 00:16:52,712 TINA WENT TO A CLUB THAT NIGHT AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP WAS BORN. 319 00:16:52,712 --> 00:16:55,448 THE TOPIC OF HER ABOUT-TO-BE EX'S SO-CALLED DISEASE CAME UP 320 00:16:55,448 --> 00:16:57,350 AGAIN. >> AND I SAID, "SO DO YOU THINK 321 00:16:57,350 --> 00:17:00,020 THAT JOHN EVER WATCHES YOU?" AND SHE SAID, "YEAH. 322 00:17:00,020 --> 00:17:02,355 SAME THING REAL CALM ABOUT IT 323 00:17:02,355 --> 00:17:05,025 AND I SAID -- YOU KNOW, SHE SAID -- SHE WOULD LOOK OUT OVER 324 00:17:05,025 --> 00:17:07,327 HER BALCONY. SHE SAID HIS CAR WOULD BE THERE 325 00:17:07,327 --> 00:17:09,796 FOR HOURS, JUST WATCHING >> Reporter: HIS CAR 326 00:17:09,796 --> 00:17:12,599 >> HIS CAR >> Reporter: THEY'RE SEPARATED 327 00:17:12,599 --> 00:17:15,101 >> UH-HUH. >> Reporter: BUT HE'S CHECKING 328 00:17:15,101 --> 00:17:18,138 HER OUT? HE'S STALKING HER. 329 00:17:18,138 --> 00:17:21,908 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: DID THAT CREEP HER 330 00:17:21,908 --> 00:17:24,244 OUT? >> YOU KNOW, SHE SAID IT 331 00:17:24,244 --> 00:17:26,046 MATTER-OF-FACTLY SHE DIDN'T SEEM AFRAID AT THE 332 00:17:26,046 --> 00:17:28,048 TIME >> Reporter: ONCE SHE'D MADE THE 333 00:17:28,048 --> 00:17:30,350 DECISION TO LEAVE, TINA TOLD THE SAME STORIES TO HER SISTER, 334 00:17:30,350 --> 00:17:32,452 SUSAN. TINA FINALLY CONFIDED SHE HAD 335 00:17:32,452 --> 00:17:34,854 MARRIED A PEEPING TOM. HE'D LEAVE THEIR BED IN THE 336 00:17:34,854 --> 00:17:37,657 MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, SHE SAID, TO CRAWL BACKYARDS AND SOMETIMES 337 00:17:37,657 --> 00:17:39,893 BRING BACK TROPHIES -- WOMEN'S UNDERWEAR. 338 00:17:39,893 --> 00:17:44,931 BUT TINA ALSO CONFIDED SOMETHING ELSE 339 00:17:44,931 --> 00:17:47,734 SHE WAS MOVING ON FROM JOHN, DRAWING CLOSER TO OLD FRIENDS, 340 00:17:47,734 --> 00:17:50,503 INCLUDING JOHN'S COUSIN, JESSE, THE SILENT BEST MAN AT THEIR 341 00:17:50,503 --> 00:17:53,340 WEDDING. JESSIE IN PARTICULAR, THE 342 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:55,075 COUSIN, DID HE BECOME MORE OF A DATE 343 00:17:55,075 --> 00:17:56,843 WAS HE AN INTIMATE FRIEND OF HERS, DO YOU THINK 344 00:17:56,843 --> 00:18:00,513 >> YOU KNOW, I NEVER KNEW FOR SURE 345 00:18:00,513 --> 00:18:03,016 I KNEW THEY WERE TALKING, THAT HE WOULD COME OVER TO HER 346 00:18:03,016 --> 00:18:04,884 APARTMENT SOMETIMES. >> Reporter: 'CAUSE YOU WONDER 347 00:18:04,884 --> 00:18:06,820 IF IT KINDLED JEALOUSY >> RIGHT 348 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:09,522 RIGHT. BUT SHE WAS ALSO TALKING TO 349 00:18:09,522 --> 00:18:12,325 OTHER PEOPLE LIKE, MY OLDER SISTER'S FRIEND, 350 00:18:12,325 --> 00:18:14,728 KEVIN, WAS ANOTHER PERSON THAT SHE WAS TALKING TO WHO WOULD 351 00:18:14,728 --> 00:18:17,564 ALSO COME AND CHECK ON HER AND THEY WOULD SOMETIMES GO OUT 352 00:18:17,564 --> 00:18:21,735 AND DO THINGS TOGETHER SO DEFINITELY NOT SETTLING IN ON 353 00:18:21,735 --> 00:18:23,503 ANYBODY IN PARTICULAR. AND HE WAS LETTING HER KNOW THAT 354 00:18:23,503 --> 00:18:28,208 HE WAS WATCHING HER AND FOLLOWING HER. 355 00:18:28,208 --> 00:18:32,212 HE EVEN HAD JUMPED ONTO THE DECK OF HER APARTMENT FROM THE 356 00:18:32,212 --> 00:18:34,214 STAIRCASE THAT LED UP TO HER FRONT DOOR AND WAS WATCHING HER 357 00:18:34,214 --> 00:18:38,752 IN THERE AND TOLD HER EVERYTHING HE SAW 358 00:18:38,752 --> 00:18:41,421 >> Reporter: SO WHERE WAS JOHN AS THIS SUMMER ROLLED ON 359 00:18:41,421 --> 00:18:44,858 HE WAS WORKING AT A LOCAL CALL CENTER 360 00:18:44,858 --> 00:18:47,894 HE'D RENTED A HOUSE IN DOWNTOWN GREELEY AND SUBLET THE BASEMENT 361 00:18:47,894 --> 00:18:51,231 TO HIS AUNT GABBY. BUT HE WAS TELLING FRIENDS AND 362 00:18:51,231 --> 00:18:52,899 FAMILY THAT HE WAS LEAVING GREELEY, GETTING OUT OF DODGE 363 00:18:52,899 --> 00:18:55,902 FOR AWHILE BUT, FIRST, THERE WAS SOME FINAL 364 00:18:55,902 --> 00:18:58,071 DIVORCE BUSINESS TO SETTLE WITH TINA 365 00:19:01,541 --> 00:19:03,777 >>> COMING UP -- >> SHE SAID, "WELL, I'M GOING 366 00:19:03,777 --> 00:19:05,445 WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT TONIGHT. AND I'M GONNA BE MEETING JOHN IN 367 00:19:05,445 --> 00:19:07,781 THE MORNING. AND I TOLD HER I WAS REALLY 368 00:19:07,781 --> 00:19:10,383 CONCERNED. >> TINA'S SISTER HAD GOOD REASON 369 00:19:10,383 --> 00:19:12,385 TO BE WORRIED. >> MY MOM SAID, "WE NEED TO GO 370 00:19:12,385 --> 00:19:36,943 TO THE POLICE STATION. >> WE WENT INTO FULL 371 00:19:36,943 --> 00:19:40,246 1995 TINA CLOCKED INTO THE OVERNIGHT NURSING SHIFT AT THE 372 00:19:40,246 --> 00:19:42,949 ONCOLOGY UNIT -- 7:00 P.M. TO 7:00 A.M. 373 00:19:42,949 --> 00:19:46,119 THAT LAST NIGHT, WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT IT? 374 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:47,587 >> I THINK THAT WAS ONE OF THOSE CRAZY BUSY NIGHTS, FOR ME AT 375 00:19:47,587 --> 00:19:49,923 LEAST, THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BECAUSE I WASN'T PART OF THE 376 00:19:49,923 --> 00:19:53,493 CONVERSATION THAT I KNOW SHE HAD WITH SOME OF THE OTHER NURSES. 377 00:19:53,493 --> 00:19:57,197 >> Reporter: THE CONVERSATION -- TINA WAS DISTRACTED THAT NIGHT 378 00:19:57,197 --> 00:20:01,201 BECAUSE, AS SHE TOLD HER FELLOW NURSES, WHEN SHE GOT OFF SHIFT 379 00:20:01,201 --> 00:20:03,737 IN THE MORNING, SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE A BIG CONVERSATION WITH 380 00:20:03,737 --> 00:20:07,507 JOHN AT HIS HOUSE ABOUT BRINGING THE DIVORCE TO A CLOSE 381 00:20:07,507 --> 00:20:08,641 FINAL MONEY ISSUES, FINAL LEGAL PAPERWORK. 382 00:20:08,641 --> 00:20:12,012 SHE WAS APPREHENSIVE THAT NIGHT? >> SHE WAS 383 00:20:12,012 --> 00:20:15,615 SHE HAD TOLD A COUPLE OF THE OTHER NURSES THAT SHE WAS 384 00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:18,752 NERVOUS ABOUT MEETING WITH JOHN. AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW ONE OF 'EM 385 00:20:18,752 --> 00:20:20,086 SAID, YOU KNOW, "I THINK YOU SHOULD GO TO A PUBLIC PLACE IF 386 00:20:20,086 --> 00:20:22,989 YOU'RE NERVOUS ABOUT MEETING WITH HIM." 387 00:20:22,989 --> 00:20:24,924 >> Reporter: CAROL RAN INTO TINA THAT MORNING AT THE END OF HER 388 00:20:24,924 --> 00:20:28,528 SHIFT. A MOMENT SHE'LL NEVER FORGET 389 00:20:28,528 --> 00:20:31,731 AND I THINK ONCE SOMEBODY DIES OR DISAPPEARS, YOU ALWAYS 390 00:20:31,731 --> 00:20:34,934 REMEMBER YOUR LAST TIME THAT YOU SAW THEM AND - 391 00:20:34,934 --> 00:20:38,371 WHAT IS YOURS? >> SO SHE WAS -- THERE'S A LONG 392 00:20:38,371 --> 00:20:41,007 CORRIDOR THAT WE WORKED ON AND WHICHEVER NURSE IT WAS THAT WAS 393 00:20:41,007 --> 00:20:43,043 NEXT TO ME HAD SAID, "WELL, GOOD LUCK," YOU KNOW. 394 00:20:43,043 --> 00:20:46,012 AND SHE SAID, "THANK YOU," YOU KNOW 395 00:20:46,012 --> 00:20:47,881 WHATEVER AND THEN SHE TURNED AND, IN MY 396 00:20:47,881 --> 00:20:50,016 MIND, IT'S KIND OF ALMOST LIKE A SLOW MOTION TURN 397 00:20:50,016 --> 00:20:53,386 SHE ALWAYS HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL BLONDE PONYTAIL, AND HER 398 00:20:53,386 --> 00:20:54,521 PONYTAIL FOLLOWED HER AROUND AND SHE WALKED OUT THE DOOR. 399 00:20:54,521 --> 00:20:58,124 >> LAST LIVING MEMORY? >> UH-HUH. 400 00:20:58,124 --> 00:21:00,060 >> Reporter: EARLIER TINA HAD CALLED HER SISTER SUSAN ABOUT 401 00:21:00,060 --> 00:21:02,762 THAT MEETING WITH JOHN HOW DID SHE FRAME IT 402 00:21:02,762 --> 00:21:05,131 WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN? >> SHE SAID, "WELL, I'M WORKING 403 00:21:05,131 --> 00:21:06,566 THE NIGHT SHIFT TONIGHT. AND I'M GONNA BE MEETING JOHN IN 404 00:21:06,566 --> 00:21:09,469 THE MORNING. AND I TOLD HER I WAS REALLY 405 00:21:09,469 --> 00:21:16,376 CONCERNED BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING THAT HE'D BEEN DOING, ABOUT 406 00:21:16,376 --> 00:21:18,678 FOLLOWING HER AND ACTING UP WITH THE OTHER WOMEN AGAIN. 407 00:21:18,678 --> 00:21:20,613 I JUST WAS REALLY WORRIED. AND I DID ASK HER IF SHE COULD 408 00:21:20,613 --> 00:21:23,083 TAKE SOMEONE SHE ASKED ME TO GO 409 00:21:23,083 --> 00:21:25,085 AND I COULDN'T >> Reporter: SUSAN COULDN'T 410 00:21:25,085 --> 00:21:29,255 SHAKE HER OWN GROWING FEARS ABOUT THE MEETING. 411 00:21:29,255 --> 00:21:32,459 AND SINCE SHE COULDN'T BE THERE, SHE SET UP A PRECAUTIONARY PLAN. 412 00:21:32,459 --> 00:21:35,895 WHAT'D YOU TELL HER? >> I TOLD HER SHE NEEDED TO CALL 413 00:21:35,895 --> 00:21:38,698 ME WHEN SHE WAS DONE WHEN I GOT OFF WORK AROUND THE 414 00:21:38,698 --> 00:21:42,102 LUNCH HOUR I WANTED TO HEAR FROM HER AND 415 00:21:42,102 --> 00:21:43,603 KNOW THAT SHE WAS OKAY >> Reporter: AND DID SHE 416 00:21:43,603 --> 00:21:45,839 UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WERE SAYING THAT 417 00:21:45,839 --> 00:21:48,675 >> YES YEAH 418 00:21:48,675 --> 00:21:51,311 AND SHE PROMISED ME SHE WOULD. >> Reporter: SO IT'S -- IT'S, 419 00:21:51,311 --> 00:21:54,414 "CALL ME AT NOON WHEN THIS IS OVER"? 420 00:21:54,414 --> 00:21:57,317 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: AND THE PHONE 421 00:21:57,317 --> 00:22:00,320 DOESN'T RING >> RIGHT 422 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,455 >> Reporter: SUSAN BECAME MORE APPREHENSIVE AS THE AFTERNOON 423 00:22:02,455 --> 00:22:04,491 DRAGGED ON AND STILL NOTHING HEARD FROM TINA. 424 00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:06,393 WHEN -- WHEN DO YOU GET WORRIED? >> I WAS PRETTY WORRIED BY THE 425 00:22:06,393 --> 00:22:08,595 TIME I WAS DONE WITH MY FIRST APPOINTMENT AND I STILL HADN'T 426 00:22:08,595 --> 00:22:10,930 HEARD FROM HER AFTER THE SECOND APPOINTMENT, I 427 00:22:10,930 --> 00:22:13,133 WAS JUST SCREAMING INSIDE. LIKE I NEED TO JUST DO 428 00:22:13,133 --> 00:22:15,335 SOMETHING. >> Reporter: AND SO, LISTENING 429 00:22:15,335 --> 00:22:16,770 TO THAT URGENT VOICE, SHE CALLED HER MOTHER AND ASKED THAT SHE 430 00:22:16,770 --> 00:22:18,972 DRIVE BY BOTH TINA'S AND JOHN'S HOMES TO SEE IF THEIR CARS WERE 431 00:22:18,972 --> 00:22:21,741 THERE. THEY WEREN'T 432 00:22:21,741 --> 00:22:24,744 TINA'S MOTHER DID STOP AT JOHN'S PLACE, WHICH HE WAS SHARING WITH 433 00:22:24,744 --> 00:22:29,149 HIS AUNT GABBY THE AUNT SAID SHE DIDN'T KNOW 434 00:22:29,149 --> 00:22:30,850 WHERE JOHN OR TINA HAD GONE. BUT BEFORE LEAVING, TINA'S MOM 435 00:22:30,850 --> 00:22:34,087 SPOTTED SOMETHING THAT SET OFF ALARM BELLS. 436 00:22:34,087 --> 00:22:37,290 >> SHE SAW TINA'S JACKET ON THE KITCHEN CHAIR. 437 00:22:37,290 --> 00:22:39,993 AND SHE SAID, "HERE, TAKE THE JACKET." 438 00:22:39,993 --> 00:22:42,729 AND MY MOM HAD JUST BOUGHT THAT JACKET FOR TINA MAYBE TWO WEEKS 439 00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:44,364 BEFORE >> Reporter: SO WHY WOULD SHE BE 440 00:22:44,364 --> 00:22:46,666 SEPARATED FROM HER JACKET? THAT MADE NO SENSE 441 00:22:46,666 --> 00:22:48,902 >> EXACTLY >> Reporter: SUSAN AND HER 442 00:22:48,902 --> 00:22:50,704 MOTHER KNEW THE PIECES JUST WEREN'T ADDING UP. 443 00:22:50,704 --> 00:22:53,406 DISAPPEARING WAS NOT LIKE THEIR TINA 444 00:22:53,406 --> 00:22:55,241 >> YEAH, AND SO WE -- MY MOM SAID, "WE NEED TO GO TO THE 445 00:22:55,241 --> 00:22:59,813 POLICE STATION." >> Reporter: A SHAKEN MOTHER AND 446 00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:01,848 DAUGHTER TROOPED DOWN TO THE GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND 447 00:23:01,848 --> 00:23:04,751 WERE INTRODUCED TO TWO FIGURES, DETECTIVES KEITH OLSON AND LATER 448 00:23:04,751 --> 00:23:07,253 BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT TWO COPS WHO WOULD BECOME PART 449 00:23:07,253 --> 00:23:10,757 OF THEIR FAMILY HISTORY OVER THE NEXT 20 YEARS. 450 00:23:10,757 --> 00:23:13,093 HOW DO YOU GUYS FIND OUT SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED TO A 451 00:23:13,093 --> 00:23:15,628 WOMAN NAMED TINA >> TINA'S MOTHER AND HER SISTER 452 00:23:15,628 --> 00:23:19,532 CAME INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AND THEY CONTACTED THE DESK 453 00:23:19,532 --> 00:23:22,669 OFFICER AND REPORTED THAT THEIR DAUGHTER'S MISSING, AND THEY 454 00:23:22,669 --> 00:23:25,238 BELIEVE SOMETHING MAY HAVE HAPPENED TO HER. 455 00:23:25,238 --> 00:23:28,308 AND THEY NAMED THEIR DAUGHTER'S ESTRANGED HUSBAND AS 456 00:23:28,308 --> 00:23:30,944 JOHN SANDOVAL. >> Reporter: AND WHEN YOU HEARD 457 00:23:30,944 --> 00:23:33,680 THAT NAME? >> WELL, WE HAD A LENGTHY 458 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:36,683 HISTORY OF JOHN SANDOVAL WE KNEW THAT HE WAS A PERVERT. 459 00:23:36,683 --> 00:23:39,119 >> Reporter: GREELEY COPS KNEW SANDOVAL HAD RUN-INS WITH THE 460 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,289 LAW DATING BACK TO THE 1980s, INCLUDING CONVICTIONS FOR 461 00:23:43,289 --> 00:23:47,260 HARASSMENT AND BURGLARY. SO THEY WEREN'T ABOUT TO WAIT TO 462 00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:52,932 SEE IF TINA TURNED UP. >> JOHN SANDOVAL'S CONNECTION TO 463 00:23:52,932 --> 00:23:56,436 THIS CASE SET OFF THE ALARMS I MEAN, WE -- WE WENT INTO FULL 464 00:23:56,436 --> 00:23:59,372 INVESTIGATION IMMEDIATELY. >> Reporter: WHERE WAS SANDOVAL 465 00:23:59,372 --> 00:24:01,875 AT THIS VERY MOMENT? WHERE WAS HIS VEHICLE? 466 00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:04,811 WHERE WAS HIS VEHICLE? AND WHERE OH WHERE WAS TINA? 467 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,483 >> HE SAYS, "BRAD, YOU GOTTA COME OVER HERE AND SEE THIS. 468 00:24:10,483 --> 00:24:15,088 >> Reporter: JOHN SANDOVAL'S CAR WITH DISTURBING EVIDENCE INSIDE. 469 00:24:15,088 --> 00:24:16,589 THE HUNT IS ON >> I SAID, "STEP ASIDE, WE'RE 470 00:24:16,589 --> 00:24:37,877 COMING IN. >>> Reporter: TINA'S FAMILY HAD 471 00:24:37,877 --> 00:24:41,848 REPORTED HER MISSING GREELEY, COLORADO, DETECTIVES 472 00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:46,086 WERE LOOKING FOR HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, JOHN SANDOVAL 473 00:24:46,086 --> 00:24:50,990 AND HE IS A GUY KNOWN TO AUTHORITIES, AS THEY SAY 474 00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:55,095 >> YES, FOR -- FOR MANY YEARS. I THINK AT THAT TIME, I'D 475 00:24:55,095 --> 00:24:59,099 PROBABLY BEEN AT GREELEY POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR 15 YEARS. 476 00:24:59,099 --> 00:25:03,269 AND I'D BEEN DEALING WITH HIM FROM THE FIRST YEAR I STARTED 477 00:25:03,269 --> 00:25:07,374 THERE. >> Reporter: DETECTIVE 478 00:25:07,374 --> 00:25:10,910 KEITH OLSON SAYS SANDOVAL WAS REGARDED AS GREELEY'S USUAL 479 00:25:10,910 --> 00:25:14,114 SUSPECT WHEN IT CAME TO PEEPING TOM COMPLAINTS 480 00:25:14,114 --> 00:25:16,683 BUT WAS HE CAPABLE OF ABDUCTION OR EVEN MURDER 481 00:25:16,683 --> 00:25:18,818 THAT WAS THE QUESTION ON THE DETECTIVES' MINDS AS THEY WENT 482 00:25:18,818 --> 00:25:21,321 OUT LOOKING FOR HIM AT 10:00 THAT NIGHT 483 00:25:21,321 --> 00:25:23,623 >> KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND -- AND IT WAS ANSWERED BY -- 484 00:25:23,623 --> 00:25:26,326 JOHN'S AUNT, AUNT GABRIELLA. AND SHE LET US INTO THE HOUSE. 485 00:25:26,326 --> 00:25:29,062 THEN ASKED US TO LEAVE SO WE LEFT 486 00:25:29,062 --> 00:25:31,631 SHE SAID THAT SHE HADN'T SEEN JOHN SINCE, LIKE, 6:30 THAT 487 00:25:31,631 --> 00:25:34,434 EVENING. >> Reporter: SO IT WAS OFF TO 488 00:25:34,434 --> 00:25:36,970 TINA'S FOR A CHECK OF THE APARTMENT SHE'D MOVED INTO AFTER 489 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:38,905 LEAVING JOHN WHAT DO YOU FIND 490 00:25:38,905 --> 00:25:41,141 ANYTHING IN DISARRAY >> WELL, IT'S -- IT'S -- ALL THE 491 00:25:41,141 --> 00:25:43,777 EVIDENCE IS MATCHING WHAT WE KNOW 492 00:25:43,777 --> 00:25:46,813 SHE GOT OFF OF WORK TO GO MEET WITH -- WITH JOHN ON A 493 00:25:46,813 --> 00:25:48,782 PRESCHEDULED APPOINTMENT AND - >> Reporter: SO SHE'S CHANGED 494 00:25:48,782 --> 00:25:51,317 OUT OF HER WORK CLOTHES, I GUESS, HUH 495 00:25:51,317 --> 00:25:53,319 >> YEAH. HER -- HER NURSING UNIFORM - 496 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:55,522 HER NURSE'S BLOUSE WITH THE NAME TAG, I.D. TAG STILL ATTACHED IS 497 00:25:55,522 --> 00:25:57,824 LYING ON THE GROUND WITH THE WHITE -- WHITE - 498 00:25:57,824 --> 00:26:00,860 UNIFORM PANTS. >> Reporter: BUT NO DRAWERS ARE 499 00:26:00,860 --> 00:26:02,028 OPEN, NO JEWELRY BOXES MESSED WITH, NOTHING LIKE THAT, HUH 500 00:26:02,028 --> 00:26:03,697 >> CORRECT CORRECT. 501 00:26:03,697 --> 00:26:05,632 >> Reporter: SO THIS TELLS YOU, WHATEVER HAPPENED DIDN'T REALLY 502 00:26:05,632 --> 00:26:07,367 HAPPEN HERE. >> RIGHT 503 00:26:07,367 --> 00:26:10,236 >> Reporter: OTHER THAN SHE CAME HOME 504 00:26:10,236 --> 00:26:11,404 >> YEP SHE CAME HOME QUICKLY, CHANGED, 505 00:26:11,404 --> 00:26:13,239 AND WENT TO MEET WITH JOHN >> Reporter: A CRITICAL QUESTION 506 00:26:13,239 --> 00:26:15,175 EARLY ON WAS, WHERE'S TINA CAR >> WE STARTED LOOKING, CHECKING 507 00:26:15,175 --> 00:26:18,044 THE NEIGHBORHOODS FOR LIKELY SPOTS. 508 00:26:18,044 --> 00:26:19,779 PARKING LOTS OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES. 509 00:26:19,779 --> 00:26:21,715 AND WE FOUND HER CAR RIGHT AWAY. >> Reporter: IT HAD BEEN 510 00:26:21,715 --> 00:26:23,917 ABANDONED BY AN APARTMENT PARKING LOT. 511 00:26:23,917 --> 00:26:25,618 THROUGH THE GLASS INSPECTION - >> YEAH. 512 00:26:25,618 --> 00:26:28,221 >> Reporter: -- YOU SEEING ANYTHING 513 00:26:28,221 --> 00:26:30,890 >> YEAH. HER WALLET WAS INSIDE THE CAR. 514 00:26:30,890 --> 00:26:33,193 >> Reporter: THAT'S NOT GOOD >> WHICH WAS IMPORTANT TO US 515 00:26:33,193 --> 00:26:35,695 >> Reporter: NOT GOOD AT ALL >> NOT GOOD. 516 00:26:35,695 --> 00:26:37,864 >> Reporter: IT WAS WELL AFTER MIDNIGHT, AND STILL NO SIGN OF 517 00:26:37,864 --> 00:26:39,699 TINA BACK AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS, 518 00:26:39,699 --> 00:26:42,068 DETECTIVE BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT WAS AT HIS DESK DOING A LITTLE 519 00:26:42,068 --> 00:26:44,070 RESEARCH ON JOHN SANDOVAL. >> AND I HAPPEN TO COME ACROSS A 520 00:26:44,070 --> 00:26:46,272 REPORT THAT HAD BEEN MADE ABOUT FOUR WEEKS EARLIER THAN -- THAN 521 00:26:46,272 --> 00:26:48,708 THIS DATE WE'RE ON AND A WOMAN HAD COME HOME AND 522 00:26:48,708 --> 00:26:51,244 KNEW JOHN SANDOVAL, JUST KNEW HIM THROUGH A ROOMMATE THAT USED 523 00:26:51,244 --> 00:26:53,613 TO LIVE WITH HER >> Reporter: THE DETECTIVE 524 00:26:53,613 --> 00:26:59,552 DISCOVERED JOHN HAD RECENTLY BEEN BUSTED FOR TRESPASSING IN A 525 00:26:59,552 --> 00:27:02,522 FORMER CO-WORKER'S TOWNHOUSE THE CITATION MENTIONED A PAIR OF 526 00:27:02,522 --> 00:27:05,025 MEN'S SHOES LEFT OUTSIDE THE SLIDER DOOR. 527 00:27:05,025 --> 00:27:09,496 >> AND SHE WALKS UP INTO HER BEDROOM, AND WHO DOES SHE SEE 528 00:27:09,496 --> 00:27:12,132 IN -- HIDING IN HER CLOSET IS A SHOELESS JOHN SANDOVAL 529 00:27:12,132 --> 00:27:13,600 AND SHE CONFRONTS HIM, YOU KNOW, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOIN' 530 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,569 HERE?" AND HE SAYS, "OH, WELL, I CAME 531 00:27:16,569 --> 00:27:18,772 TO SEE SO-AND-SO WHO USED TO LIVE HERE. 532 00:27:18,772 --> 00:27:20,173 "WELL, YOU KNOW HE'S -- THAT SHE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. 533 00:27:20,173 --> 00:27:23,810 YOU KNOW, GET THE HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE. 534 00:27:23,810 --> 00:27:27,547 >> Reporter: SOMETIMES YOU GET LUCKY EVEN WITH MISTAKES 535 00:27:27,547 --> 00:27:29,049 THE OFFICER WHO'D TAKEN THE OFFENSE REPORT HAD WRITTEN IT UP 536 00:27:29,049 --> 00:27:33,586 AS A MISDEMEANOR HE WAS INCORRECT 537 00:27:33,586 --> 00:27:36,656 SANDOVAL HAD ALLEGEDLY COMITTED A FELONY CRIME AND IT CARRIED 538 00:27:36,656 --> 00:27:40,060 SERIOUS PRISON TIME UPON CONVICTION 539 00:27:40,060 --> 00:27:43,496 NOW GOLDSCHMIDT COULD ARREST SANDOVAL FOR THAT OUTSTANDING 540 00:27:43,496 --> 00:27:46,633 CRIME IF ONLY HE COULD FIND HIM. THE COPS DECIDED TO STAKE OUT A 541 00:27:46,633 --> 00:27:49,402 SURVEILLANCE OFFICER IN AN UNMARKED CAR OUTSIDE SANDOVAL'S 542 00:27:49,402 --> 00:27:53,573 HOME BINGO! 543 00:27:53,573 --> 00:27:55,141 AT 4:45 A.M. OFFICER JOY HEMBY RADIOED IN 544 00:27:55,141 --> 00:27:57,911 >> AND SHE GOES, "CAR JUST PULLED UP. 545 00:27:57,911 --> 00:28:00,513 MALE SUBJECT JUST GOT OUT, AND HE'S WALKING INTO THE HOUSE 546 00:28:00,513 --> 00:28:02,782 CARRYING A WHITE BAG." SO CLAY BUCKINGHAM AND I JUMP IN 547 00:28:02,782 --> 00:28:04,384 OUR CARS, AND WE FLY OUT TO JOHN'S HOUSE 548 00:28:04,384 --> 00:28:06,886 IT TOOK US FOUR MINUTES TO GET THERE. 549 00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:09,222 I KNOCK ON THE DOOR. AND AUNT GABBY COMES TO THE 550 00:28:09,222 --> 00:28:11,157 DOOR AND I SAID, "HEY, I KNOW JOHN 551 00:28:11,157 --> 00:28:14,728 JUST GOT HERE. I NEED TO TALK TO HIM RIGHT 552 00:28:14,728 --> 00:28:16,896 NOW. SHE GOES, "WELL, HE'S IN THE 553 00:28:16,896 --> 00:28:19,766 SHOWER." AND I WENT -- I WAS LIKE, "OH, 554 00:28:19,766 --> 00:28:21,768 MY GOD, HE'S IN THE SHOWER ALREADY. 555 00:28:21,768 --> 00:28:24,170 >> Reporter: THERE GOES ALL YOUR TRACE EVIDENCE MAYBE - 556 00:28:24,170 --> 00:28:26,406 >> ANY TRACE EVIDENCE -- >> Reporter: SUSPECT FOR YOU, 557 00:28:26,406 --> 00:28:28,675 RIGHT? >> THAT -- THAT HE WAS -- THAT 558 00:28:28,675 --> 00:28:29,876 HE HAD ON HIM IS BEING WASHED DOWN THE DRAIN RIGHT NOW 559 00:28:29,876 --> 00:28:31,244 AND -- I -- OKAY AND THEN CLAY HAD WALKED OVER TO 560 00:28:31,244 --> 00:28:32,746 JOHN'S CAR AND HE SHOWED -- SHINED HIS 561 00:28:32,746 --> 00:28:34,514 FLASHLIGHT IN THE CAR. AND HE -- HE SAYS, "BRAD, YOU 562 00:28:34,514 --> 00:28:36,649 GOT TO COME OVER HERE AND SEE THIS." 563 00:28:36,649 --> 00:28:38,918 >> Reporter: INSIDE THE HATCHBACK THEY COULD SEE A WET 564 00:28:38,918 --> 00:28:42,088 SHOVEL, A PAIL, SOME ROPE AND A FLASHLIGHT ATTACHED TO A 565 00:28:42,088 --> 00:28:43,923 LANYARD. >> AND SO I RUN BACK TO THE 566 00:28:43,923 --> 00:28:46,860 HOUSE, I POUND ON THE DOOR AGAIN. 567 00:28:46,860 --> 00:28:49,195 AUNT GABBY COMES TO THE DOOR AND I SAID, "HEY, I NEED TO TALK 568 00:28:49,195 --> 00:28:52,365 TO JOHN RIGHT NOW. GET HIM OUT OF THE SHOWER. 569 00:28:52,365 --> 00:28:54,501 SHE WALKS BACK THE -- THE HOUSE IS DARK 570 00:28:54,501 --> 00:28:56,136 THERE'S ONLY A DIM LIGHT ON IN THE KITCHEN. 571 00:28:56,136 --> 00:28:59,105 AND I'M STANDING BY THE BACK DOOR 572 00:28:59,105 --> 00:29:01,541 AND I SEE A FIGURE THAT I ASSUMED TO BE A MAN WALK PAST 573 00:29:01,541 --> 00:29:04,611 GABBY INTO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE HOUSE. 574 00:29:04,611 --> 00:29:06,346 SHE COMES BACK TO THE DOOR, AND SHE SAYS, "OH, I'M SORRY, I -- I 575 00:29:06,346 --> 00:29:07,814 MADE A MISTAKE JOHN'S NOT HERE AFTER ALL. 576 00:29:07,814 --> 00:29:10,583 SO SHE - >> Reporter: HE'S NOT THERE. 577 00:29:10,583 --> 00:29:12,385 >> YEAH, SHE LIED TO ME. >> Reporter: LAW ENFORCEMENT 578 00:29:12,385 --> 00:29:15,522 CAREERS ARE SOMETIMES MADE - AND LOST -- IN FLEETING MOMENTS 579 00:29:15,522 --> 00:29:18,658 OF DECISION. THIS WAS ONE FOR DETECTIVE 580 00:29:18,658 --> 00:29:20,293 BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT YOUR DASHBOARD IS WARNING YOU -- 581 00:29:20,293 --> 00:29:22,095 >> YEAH, YEAH -- >> Reporter: -- "I GOTTA GET A 582 00:29:22,095 --> 00:29:23,096 SEARCH WARRANT." >> I GOTTA GET A SEARCH WARRANT 583 00:29:23,096 --> 00:29:24,464 OR - >> Reporter: "I WANNA GET IN, 584 00:29:24,464 --> 00:29:26,032 BUT I NEED A WARRANT." >> I'M WEIGHING ALL THIS STUFF 585 00:29:26,032 --> 00:29:27,667 IN MY HEAD, YOU KNOW AND I'M THINKING, HERE'S WHAT I 586 00:29:27,667 --> 00:29:29,669 KNOW TINA WAS LAST SEEN THERE 587 00:29:29,669 --> 00:29:31,838 JOHN WAS GONE. HE CAME BACK IN THE MIDDLE OF 588 00:29:31,838 --> 00:29:35,408 THE NIGHT. THERE'S A WET SHOVEL IN HIS CAR. 589 00:29:35,408 --> 00:29:37,811 TINA'S EITHER DEAD OR IN REALLY BAD TROUBLE. 590 00:29:37,811 --> 00:29:40,280 AND IF I DON'T GO IN AND COLLECT SOME EVIDENCE NOW THAT MAY LEAD 591 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,849 US TO HER, IF SHE'S STILL ALIVE, SHE'S GONNA BE DEAD SOON 592 00:29:42,849 --> 00:29:46,686 SO I MADE THE DECISION THAT WE'RE GOING IN THE HOUSE 593 00:29:46,686 --> 00:29:50,857 AND I GRAB CLAY BUCKINGHAM AND ANOTHER OFFICER WHO HAD ARRIVED 594 00:29:50,857 --> 00:29:53,693 ON SCENE >> Reporter: THAT PRE-DAWN 595 00:29:53,693 --> 00:29:55,595 DECISION WOULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF THE INVESTIGATION 596 00:29:55,595 --> 00:29:57,630 >> AND I SAID, "STEP ASIDE, GABBY, WE'RE COMING IN." 597 00:29:57,630 --> 00:29:59,466 AND SHE'S TRYING TO STOP ME. AND I PUSHED -- PUSHED MY WAY 598 00:29:59,466 --> 00:30:01,468 IN I GET INSIDE 599 00:30:01,468 --> 00:30:02,936 I ANNOUNCE, "JOHN SANDOVAL, GREELEY POLICE 600 00:30:02,936 --> 00:30:06,573 I NEED TO TALK TO YOU RIGHT NOW, WE'RE COMING IN. 601 00:30:06,573 --> 00:30:09,642 AND AS I GET BACK TO THE HALLWAY, I HEAR THIS SCRAPING 602 00:30:09,642 --> 00:30:11,411 ON -- IT SOUNDED LIKE KICKING OR SCRAPING ON A WALL 603 00:30:11,411 --> 00:30:15,515 SO WE JUMP IN, WE BURST INTO THE THE BEDROOM. 604 00:30:15,515 --> 00:30:18,585 AND THE WINDOW'S OPEN, AND THE DRAPES ARE FLAPPING. 605 00:30:18,585 --> 00:30:19,753 SO JOHN BAILED OUT THE WINDOW. >> Reporter: HE'S -- HE'S -- 606 00:30:19,753 --> 00:30:21,187 HE'S OUT THE WINDOW? >> HE'S OUT THE WINDOW 607 00:30:21,187 --> 00:30:24,691 SO THE THREE OF US GO RUNNING OUTSIDE. 608 00:30:24,691 --> 00:30:26,926 FORTUNATELY, THE OFFICER WHO HAD BEEN SURVEILLING THE HOUSE 609 00:30:26,926 --> 00:30:29,095 POSITIONED HERSELF IN -- IN A PART OF THE HOUSE THAT WE 610 00:30:29,095 --> 00:30:31,698 WEREN'T GONNA BE IN AT THAT -- WHEN -- WHEN WE MADE OUR ENTRY 611 00:30:31,698 --> 00:30:33,767 AND WE RUN OUTSIDE, AND SHE'S GOT JOHN SANDOVAL ON HIS KNEES 612 00:30:33,767 --> 00:30:36,403 AT GUNPOINT. >> PARTIALLY CLOTHED 613 00:30:36,403 --> 00:30:38,271 >> HE'S -- HE'S WEARIN' -- HE -- >> LATE OCTOBER. 614 00:30:38,271 --> 00:30:41,708 >> LATE OCTOBER. IT'S, LIKE, 20 DEGREES OUTSIDE 615 00:30:41,708 --> 00:30:43,810 HE'S WEARIN' A T-SHIRT AND BLUE JEANS. 616 00:30:43,810 --> 00:30:44,944 >> Reporter: AND YET WHAT ARE YOU GONNA CHARGE HIM WITH, 617 00:30:44,944 --> 00:30:46,746 RIGHT? HE'S GONNA STAND UP AND SAY, 618 00:30:46,746 --> 00:30:48,048 "FELLAS, WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT, RIGHT? 619 00:30:48,048 --> 00:30:50,216 >> WE CUFF HIM OUTSIDE, WALK HIM INTO THE HOUSE, AND 620 00:30:50,216 --> 00:30:53,253 CLAY BUCKINGHAM AND I LOOK AT EACH OTHER 621 00:30:53,253 --> 00:30:56,723 AND CLAY IS LIKE, "WHAT ARE WE GONNA CHARGE HIM WITH, BRAD? 622 00:30:56,723 --> 00:30:59,292 >> Reporter: REMEMBER, DETECTIVE GOLDSCHMIDT HAD DONE SOME 623 00:30:59,292 --> 00:31:02,829 RESEARCH A FEW HOURS BEFORE AND COME UPON THAT POLICE OFFICER'S 624 00:31:02,829 --> 00:31:05,498 CHARGING ERROR AND NOW, HE WOULD PLAY THAT 625 00:31:05,498 --> 00:31:07,967 CARD >> WELL, CLAY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT 626 00:31:07,967 --> 00:31:11,371 WHAT I HAD BEEN DOING. HE WAS OUT SEARCHING FOR 627 00:31:11,371 --> 00:31:14,574 VEHICLES AND SO FORTH. AND I SAID, "TRESPASS. 628 00:31:14,574 --> 00:31:16,609 >> Reporter: YOU HAD THAT UNSERVED WARRANT IN YOUR BACK 629 00:31:16,609 --> 00:31:19,579 POCKET, HUH? >> I HAD THAT UNSERVED CHARGE IN 630 00:31:19,579 --> 00:31:20,914 MY BACK POCKET SO I JUST -- AND CLAY HAD NO 631 00:31:20,914 --> 00:31:23,416 IDEA "TRESPASS? 632 00:31:23,416 --> 00:31:24,951 WHAT -- OKAY, WHATEVER." SO I JUST SAID, "TRESPASS, 633 00:31:24,951 --> 00:31:27,721 YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR TRESPASS." 634 00:31:27,721 --> 00:31:29,856 >> Reporter: SO JOHN SANDOVAL WAS ON HIS WAY TO A POLICE 635 00:31:29,856 --> 00:31:34,694 INTERVIEW ROOM IT WASN'T ABOUT TRESPASSING. 636 00:31:34,694 --> 00:31:38,331 IT WAS ALL ABOUT TINA. AND HE WAS GIVING UP NOTHING 637 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:42,702 >>> COMING UP -- >> AND WHY WOULD I KNOW WHERE 638 00:31:42,702 --> 00:31:46,172 SHE'S AT >> JOHN SANDOVAL PLAYS IT COOL, 639 00:31:46,172 --> 00:31:48,308 AND CONCERN PLAGUES THE DETECTIVES 640 00:31:48,308 --> 00:31:49,609 >> WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIPS AND LEADS. 641 00:31:49,609 --> 00:32:16,236 I REALLY DID FEEL LIKE WE WERE >>> JOHN, HOW YOU DOING? 642 00:32:16,236 --> 00:32:19,639 >> DO YOU KNOW WHY I'M HERE AND WHY I DIDN'T GET TO CALL MY 643 00:32:19,639 --> 00:32:22,375 LAWYER >> I PROMISE YOU THEY'LL LET YOU 644 00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:24,778 KNOW AS SOON -- AS SOON AS THEY CAN. 645 00:32:24,778 --> 00:32:27,480 I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. OKAY 646 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,717 >> Reporter: JOHN SANDOVAL WAS DOWN AT THE GREELEY POLICE 647 00:32:30,717 --> 00:32:34,120 STATION AFTER BEING ARRESTED ON A TRESPASSING CHARGE 648 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,856 BUT COPS REALLY WANTED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT HIS MISSING WIFE, 649 00:32:36,856 --> 00:32:39,759 TINA >> THEY'RE TALKING RIGHT NOW FOR 650 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:42,796 INVESTIGATION IN THE MISSING PERSON, YOUR ESTRANGED WIFE. 651 00:32:42,796 --> 00:32:46,633 >> AND WHY WOULD I KNOW WHERE SHE'S AT 652 00:32:46,633 --> 00:32:51,838 >> Reporter: HE WAS HAVING NONE OF IT, CLAIMING HE'D INJURED 653 00:32:51,838 --> 00:32:56,009 HIMSELF WHEN HE JUMPED OUT THE WINDOW TO AVOID ARREST 654 00:32:56,009 --> 00:32:58,278 >> I'D JUST LIKE TO SEE A DOCTOR AND TELL THEM WHEN EXACTLY - 655 00:32:58,278 --> 00:33:00,547 >> I DON'T KNOW. THEY DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING. 656 00:33:00,547 --> 00:33:03,149 OKAY >> Reporter: AND HE WASN'T A 657 00:33:03,149 --> 00:33:05,051 COOPERATIVE WITNESS DURING THIS INTERVIEW, RIGHT 658 00:33:05,051 --> 00:33:07,053 >> WELL -- WELL, JOHN IS NEVER A COOPERATIVE WITNESS. 659 00:33:07,053 --> 00:33:09,389 JOHN ALWAYS SAYS, "I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU 660 00:33:09,389 --> 00:33:13,259 I GOT NOTHING TO SAY." >> Reporter: HE KNOWS THE DRILL, 661 00:33:13,259 --> 00:33:16,062 HUH? >> "WHAT AM I HERE FOR?" 662 00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:20,934 YOU KNOW "WHAT AM I HERE FOR? 663 00:33:20,934 --> 00:33:23,703 WHAT AM I HERE FOR?" >> WELL, THEN I'M NOT GONNA 664 00:33:23,703 --> 00:33:26,840 COOPERATE EITHER WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU 665 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:28,975 YOU KNOW, YOU GOTTA -- YOU ARREST -- YOU -- 666 00:33:28,975 --> 00:33:31,544 >> YEAH, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST, ALL RIGHT? 667 00:33:31,544 --> 00:33:33,346 >> YOU GOT ME TIED UP, OKAY? WANT ME -- OKAY, YOU GOT ME TIED 668 00:33:33,346 --> 00:33:35,181 UP, WHICH -- WHAT? WHY? 669 00:33:35,181 --> 00:33:37,283 WHY? >> JOHN, YOU KNOW WHY. 670 00:33:37,283 --> 00:33:39,552 OKAY >> I DON'T KNOW WHY. 671 00:33:39,552 --> 00:33:41,654 WHY WOULD I -- BE ASKING YOU WHY IF I KNEW WHY? 672 00:33:41,654 --> 00:33:43,556 THERE MUST BE SOMEBODY HAS A PHONE. 673 00:33:43,556 --> 00:33:45,592 I'D LIKE TO CALL MY LAWYER >> Reporter: DETECTIVES KEPT 674 00:33:45,592 --> 00:33:47,527 SANDOVAL IN JAIL ON THAT TRESPASSING CHARGE, BUT HE 675 00:33:47,527 --> 00:33:49,362 LAWYERED UP. NOW OLSON AND GOLDSCHMIDT WERE 676 00:33:49,362 --> 00:33:52,165 LEFT ON THEIR OWN TO POSE THE QUESTION, WHERE WAS TINA 677 00:33:52,165 --> 00:33:53,867 >> YOU STILL CAN'T DISCOUNT THAT SHE HAS A PERVERTED HUSBAND AND 678 00:33:53,867 --> 00:33:56,469 MAYBE SHE JUST LEFT. YOU KNOW, INITIALLY, THOSE ARE 679 00:33:56,469 --> 00:33:59,439 THOUGHTS YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER. >> Reporter: "BAJA, HERE I COME. 680 00:33:59,439 --> 00:34:02,308 I'M OUTTA TOWN." >> YEAH, YEAH, "I'M OUT OF TOWN. 681 00:34:02,308 --> 00:34:04,544 >> Reporter: IT'S HARD TO DISPROVE THAT SHE DIDN'T DO 682 00:34:04,544 --> 00:34:07,614 THAT, RIGHT? >> IT'S -- IT'S HARD TO DISPROVE 683 00:34:07,614 --> 00:34:11,518 IT BUT, YOU KNOW, WE SENT PEOPLE 684 00:34:11,518 --> 00:34:13,687 DOWN TO THE BUS STOP, "DID YOU SEE THIS WOMAN THE OTHER DAY?" 685 00:34:13,687 --> 00:34:16,056 "NOPE, DIDN'T SEE HER. CHECK AIRLINE RECORDS. 686 00:34:16,056 --> 00:34:18,658 COULD SHE HAVE BOUGHT A PLANE TICKET AND GONE ONE-WAY 687 00:34:18,658 --> 00:34:21,227 SOMEWHERE? THEN AS THE DAYS WENT ON, THE 688 00:34:21,227 --> 00:34:23,063 THEORY THAT SHE MAY HAVE JUST DISAPPEARED BECAME LESS LIKELY 689 00:34:23,063 --> 00:34:25,231 >> Reporter: OF COURSE THEY CONSIDERED OTHER POSSIBLE 690 00:34:25,231 --> 00:34:27,634 SUSPECTS, LIKE SANDOVAL'S COUSIN, JESSE -- BEST MAN AT THE 691 00:34:27,634 --> 00:34:30,070 WEDDING -- THE GUY WHO GAVE TINA'S SISTER THE CREEPS 692 00:34:30,070 --> 00:34:32,505 TINA WAS SEEING JESSE AFTER HER SPLIT WITH JOHN. 693 00:34:32,505 --> 00:34:34,741 AND THERE WAS ANOTHER GUY AT THE MEDICAL CENTER WHO SHOWED AN 694 00:34:34,741 --> 00:34:36,810 INTEREST IN HER. >> WE -- WE VETTED THE 695 00:34:36,810 --> 00:34:38,778 BOYFRIENDS WE ONLY FOUND THE TWO, JESSE AND 696 00:34:38,778 --> 00:34:40,880 THE PERSON SHE WORKED WITH ALIBIED THEM 697 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,483 THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD PLANNED 698 00:34:43,483 --> 00:34:45,618 >> Reporter: COULD IT HAVE BEEN THE DRIFTER WHO WALKED UP FROM 699 00:34:45,618 --> 00:34:47,821 THE BUS STATION? >> POSSIBLE. 700 00:34:47,821 --> 00:34:50,357 YOU DON'T WANT TO EXCLUSION ANY -- ANY ALTERNATIVE SUSPECTS. 701 00:34:50,357 --> 00:34:52,492 BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR ANY ALTERNATIVE SUSPECTS, AND ALL 702 00:34:52,492 --> 00:34:54,828 THE EVIDENCE GOES RIGHT BACK TO JOHN, HOW DO YOU DISCOUNT THAT 703 00:34:54,828 --> 00:34:56,563 >> Reporter: IF YOU HEAR HOOF BEATS, DON'T THINK ZEBRAS. 704 00:34:56,563 --> 00:34:58,798 >> RIGHT, RIGHT. >> Reporter: GO FOR THE OBVIOUS. 705 00:34:58,798 --> 00:35:01,634 AND THE EVIDENCE WAS PILING UP ON SANDOVAL. 706 00:35:01,634 --> 00:35:05,605 WHEN INVESTIGATORS SEARCHED HIS HOUSE, ALONG WITH HIS WET, 707 00:35:05,605 --> 00:35:08,241 SWEATED OUT CLOTHES -- >> WE FIND THREE CREDIT CARDS 708 00:35:08,241 --> 00:35:10,243 BELONGING TO TINA SANDOVAL IN JOHN'S HOUSE 709 00:35:10,243 --> 00:35:12,345 >> Reporter: IN SANDOVAL'S CAR, SOMETHING THEY COULDN'T EXPLAIN. 710 00:35:12,345 --> 00:35:15,115 ALONG WITH THAT BUCKET, THE WET SHOVEL AND THE FLASHLIGHT ON A 711 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:18,218 LANYARD, THEY FOUND SOMETHING ODD. 712 00:35:18,218 --> 00:35:21,488 >> A CARPENTER'S LEVEL, 48-INCH CARPENTER'S LEVEL THAT WE NEVER 713 00:35:21,488 --> 00:35:25,191 UNDERSTOOD AT THAT TIME. WHY DOES HE HAVE THIS 714 00:35:25,191 --> 00:35:28,495 CARPENTER'S LEVEL? >> RIGHT 715 00:35:28,495 --> 00:35:32,332 >> Reporter: DESPITE ALL THEIR EVIDENCE, THE WELD COUNTY D.A. 716 00:35:32,332 --> 00:35:35,835 TOLD DETECTIVES THAT IT WASN'T ENOUGH 717 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:39,706 >> WE FELT WE HAD A LOT OF EVIDENCE 718 00:35:39,706 --> 00:35:41,775 CIRCUMSTANTIAL, BUT A LOT OF DAMNING EVIDENCE AGAINST JOHN. 719 00:35:41,775 --> 00:35:44,077 BUT OUR DISTRICT ATTORNEY AT THE TIME SAID, "YOU DON'T HAVE A 720 00:35:44,077 --> 00:35:46,479 BODY YOU DON'T HAVE A CRIME SCENE 721 00:35:46,479 --> 00:35:48,715 YOU DON'T HAVE STATEMENTS. YOU DON'T HAVE A CONFESSION. 722 00:35:48,715 --> 00:35:51,251 SO IF YOU GUYS DON'T COME UP WITH A BODY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT 723 00:35:51,251 --> 00:35:54,120 GONNA DO ANYTHING WITH THIS CASE." 724 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:56,890 >> Reporter: NOW, IT SEEMED EVERYONE IN GREELEY WAS UNITED 725 00:35:56,890 --> 00:35:59,259 IN ONE PURPOSE, FINDING TINA HER SISTER SUSAN REMEMBERS 726 00:35:59,259 --> 00:36:02,095 >> EVERYONE FROM THIS AREA WAS REALLY IMPACTED BY WHAT HAPPENED 727 00:36:02,095 --> 00:36:03,596 TO HER IT WAS REALLY SCARY. 728 00:36:03,596 --> 00:36:06,132 LIKE, IT'S THAT TYPE OF THING THAT YOU HEAR ON NATIONAL NEWS 729 00:36:06,132 --> 00:36:08,401 BUT IT'S LIKE, NO, NOT HERE. >> Reporter: AND SO, TOGETHER 730 00:36:08,401 --> 00:36:11,304 WITH THE TIGHT-KNIT COMMUNITY, THRONGS OF PEOPLE BEGAN LOOKING 731 00:36:11,304 --> 00:36:14,040 FOR MISSING TINA >> WE STARTED SEARCHING FOR HER. 732 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,576 JUST, WE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE TO GO 733 00:36:16,576 --> 00:36:19,813 BUT WE JUST STARTED SEARCHING. LIKE, YOU JUST START DRIVING 734 00:36:19,813 --> 00:36:22,048 AROUND THE COUNTRY AND LOOKING AND CALLING HER NAME OUT 735 00:36:22,048 --> 00:36:25,151 >> Reporter: UP ONE ROAD AND DOWN ANOTHER 736 00:36:25,151 --> 00:36:27,887 >> YEAH. JUST, LIKE, CALLING HER NAME, 737 00:36:27,887 --> 00:36:30,590 CALLING HER NAME AND JUST GOING ALL OVER 738 00:36:30,590 --> 00:36:33,059 >> Reporter: TINA'S CO-WORKERS, LIKE CAROL SJERVEN, WERE OUT ON 739 00:36:33,059 --> 00:36:36,196 THOSE SEARCHES TOO >> I THINK I WENT ON AT LEAST 740 00:36:36,196 --> 00:36:37,764 THREE OR FOUR. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WEEKS OR 741 00:36:37,764 --> 00:36:40,133 HOWEVER LONG IT WENT ON. I USED TO HAVE NIGHTMARES THAT 742 00:36:40,133 --> 00:36:42,268 WHOLE TIME I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE HOW THE 743 00:36:42,268 --> 00:36:44,971 FAMILY DEALT WITH THIS >> Reporter: DETECTIVE 744 00:36:44,971 --> 00:36:47,807 BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT REMEMBERS DRIVING THE COUNTY ROADS DAY 745 00:36:47,807 --> 00:36:50,410 AFTER DAY WITH TINA'S DAD MIKE TOURNAI BESIDE HIM, AN 746 00:36:50,410 --> 00:36:52,979 EX-COP HIMSELF >> I SPENT HOURS WITH 747 00:36:52,979 --> 00:36:55,515 MIKE TOURNAI -- IN MY -- IN MY CAR. 748 00:36:55,515 --> 00:36:58,218 HE AND I DRIVE AROUND IN THE COUNTY 749 00:36:58,218 --> 00:37:00,787 >> Reporter: HOW -- HOW DID HER DAD TAKE IT? 750 00:37:00,787 --> 00:37:03,390 >> OH, NOT GOOD. >> Reporter: AND HERE YOU ARE -- 751 00:37:03,390 --> 00:37:06,026 >> NO, HE'S -- AND HE'S A BIG, STRONG, PROUD MAN. 752 00:37:06,026 --> 00:37:08,428 AND HE WAS IN MY CAR CRYING -- >> Reporter: AND YOU TWO ARE 753 00:37:08,428 --> 00:37:11,031 LOOKING -- >> -- ON MANY OCCASIONS. 754 00:37:11,031 --> 00:37:13,566 >> Reporter: LOOKING FOR THE REMAINS OF HIS DAUGHTER? 755 00:37:13,566 --> 00:37:15,635 >> YEAH, UH-HUH. >> Reporter: HARD -- HARD TO 756 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:17,671 SEE. >> YEAH, HARD TO SEE 757 00:37:17,671 --> 00:37:19,639 HARD -- HARD FOR HIM TO DEAL WITH 758 00:37:19,639 --> 00:37:21,641 AND -- AND THERE'S NOTHING I COULD'VE DONE TO MAKE IT BETTER. 759 00:37:21,641 --> 00:37:23,677 >> Reporter: DETECTIVES FOLLOWED EVERY TIP, EVERY LEAD, WENT DOWN 760 00:37:23,677 --> 00:37:25,912 EVERY RABBIT HOLE, LIKE THIS RESERVOIR WHERE SANDOVAL USED TO 761 00:37:25,912 --> 00:37:28,314 TAKE TARGET PRACTICE >> SO -- SO WE SEARCHED THIS 762 00:37:28,314 --> 00:37:31,084 AREA, AMONG MANY OTHER PLACES. AND WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF, YOU 763 00:37:31,084 --> 00:37:32,519 KNOW, TIPS AND LEADS AND YOU KNOW, I -- I REALLY DID 764 00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:35,722 FEEL LIKE WE WERE NEVER GOING TO FIND TINA SANDOVAL 765 00:37:35,722 --> 00:37:38,058 >> Reporter: BACK AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE TINA WORKED, THEY 766 00:37:38,058 --> 00:37:40,260 KEPT HOPE ALIVE AS LONG AS THEY COULD. 767 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:42,262 >> YOU KNOW, WE HAD A BOOK AND IF YOU HAD AN "X," YOU KNOW, 768 00:37:42,262 --> 00:37:45,065 THAT DAY, YOU WORKED AND I THINK IT WAS TWO OR THREE 769 00:37:45,065 --> 00:37:48,068 MONTHS BEFORE FINALLY SOMEONE SAID, "I GUESS WE SHOULD TAKE 770 00:37:48,068 --> 00:37:51,071 HER NAME OFF THE BOOK. >> Reporter: FIVE MONTHS PASSED. 771 00:37:51,071 --> 00:37:54,974 JOHN SANDOVAL WAS SAYING NOTHING ABOUT TINA, BUT HE WAS STILL 772 00:37:54,974 --> 00:37:56,609 FACING THAT CRIMINAL TRESPASS CHARGE 773 00:37:56,609 --> 00:38:00,046 >> AND JOHN JUST PLED GUILTY TO IT 774 00:38:00,046 --> 00:38:02,048 I THINK HE JUST WANTED TO GET OUT OF DODGE 775 00:38:02,048 --> 00:38:04,184 MAYBE OUT OF GREELEY, EVEN IF IT'S A FEW YEARS IN PRISON 776 00:38:04,184 --> 00:38:07,020 >> Reporter: THE JUDGE SENTENCED SANDOVAL TO SIX YEARS. 777 00:38:07,020 --> 00:38:09,923 TINA'S CASE WENT ICE COLD, BUT DETECTIVES GOLDSCHMIDT AND OLSON 778 00:38:09,923 --> 00:38:12,759 NEVER GAVE UP, AND COULDN'T LET GO 779 00:38:12,759 --> 00:38:15,862 >> A MURDER CASE IS A ROLLER COASTER RIDE 780 00:38:15,862 --> 00:38:17,430 THERE ARE SO MANY HIGHS AND SO MANY LOWS. 781 00:38:17,430 --> 00:38:19,532 AND THE HIGHS ARE -- CAN BE REALLY HIGH. 782 00:38:19,532 --> 00:38:22,902 AND THE LOWS CAN BE REALLY LOW >> Reporter: YOU DON'T LEAVE IT 783 00:38:22,902 --> 00:38:25,472 AT THE OFFICE. >> Both: NO. 784 00:38:25,472 --> 00:38:27,340 >> Reporter: THE ENTIRE CITY OF GREELEY SEEMED TO FEEL TINA'S 785 00:38:27,340 --> 00:38:29,042 LOSS WHAT DID YOU LEARN ABOUT YOUR 786 00:38:29,042 --> 00:38:31,544 HOMETOWN >> THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE. 787 00:38:31,544 --> 00:38:34,047 WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE COME HELP US SEARCH. 788 00:38:34,047 --> 00:38:36,516 THEY TOOK CARE OF MY FAMILY. THEY TOOK CARE OF MY PARENTS 789 00:38:36,516 --> 00:38:38,518 WHEN WE WERE KIND OF ALL FALLING APART. 790 00:38:38,518 --> 00:38:40,787 >> Reporter: AS FOR JOHN SANDOVAL? 791 00:38:40,787 --> 00:38:42,756 WELL, HE WAS A MODEL PRISONER, OUT ON PAROLE IN JUST OVER FOUR 792 00:38:42,756 --> 00:38:44,924 YEARS AND NOW LIVING IN LAS VEGAS. 793 00:38:44,924 --> 00:38:49,863 A MAN WITH A LENGTHY HISTORY OF PEEPING AND TRESPASSING HAD 794 00:38:49,863 --> 00:38:53,566 RELOCATED HIMSELF TO PERHAPS THE MOST CARNAL CITY IN AMERICA. 795 00:38:58,638 --> 00:39:02,075 >>> COMING UP -- THE CASE GETS A NEW TEAM, WITH A 796 00:39:02,075 --> 00:39:03,043 BOLD, NEW PLAN >> Reporter: YOU GUYS ROLLED THE 797 00:39:03,043 --> 00:39:05,445 DICE HERE. >> WE REALLY DID 798 00:39:05,445 --> 00:39:07,347 >> Reporter: YOU WERE JUMPING OFF THE HIGH DIVING BOARD 799 00:39:07,347 --> 00:39:08,548 TOGETHER >> THAT'S RIGHT. 800 00:39:08,548 --> 00:39:10,450 >> AND LATER - ANOTHER WOMAN WITH A HARROWING 801 00:39:10,450 --> 00:39:13,219 STORY. >> I DIDN'T KNOW IF HE JUST 802 00:39:13,219 --> 00:39:24,330 WANTED TO SHOOT ME, OR TAKE ME, KIDNAP ME, WHAT? 803 00:39:24,330 --> 00:39:24,864 KIDNAP ME, WHAT? >> WHEN "DATELINE" CONTINUES 804 00:39:46,119 --> 00:39:47,387 SISTER, MISSING DAUGHTER, WAS A HOLE IN THEIR UNIVERSE THAT THE 805 00:39:47,387 --> 00:39:50,457 TOURNAI FAMILY SIMPLY COULDN'T REPAIR 806 00:39:50,457 --> 00:39:55,595 >> WE FELT A LITTLE BROKEN THERE'S A LITTLE SADNESS 807 00:39:55,595 --> 00:40:00,533 MAYBE A LITTLE GUILT IN JOY BECAUSE THAT PERSON ISN'T THERE 808 00:40:00,533 --> 00:40:05,805 TO EXPERIENCE IT WITH YOU. >> IT REALLY CHANGED US. 809 00:40:05,805 --> 00:40:09,876 MY PARENTS WERE JUST CONSTANTLY TRYING TO RESOLVE THIS, TRYING 810 00:40:09,876 --> 00:40:13,013 TO FIND HER. >> Reporter: FOR YEARS, SUSAN 811 00:40:13,013 --> 00:40:15,915 SAYS HER PARENTS SPENT WEEKENDS DRIVING THE PRAIRIE, SEARCHING 812 00:40:15,915 --> 00:40:18,618 FOR ANY SIGN OF THEIR LOST DAUGHTER, OFTEN WITH THEIR 813 00:40:18,618 --> 00:40:20,587 YOUNGEST GIRLS IN TOW. THAT'S THEIR CHILDHOOD MEMORY IS 814 00:40:20,587 --> 00:40:22,022 LOOKING FOR THEIR MISSING SISTER 815 00:40:22,022 --> 00:40:24,424 >> LOOKING FOR THEIR MISSING SISTER AND TAKING CARE OF 816 00:40:24,424 --> 00:40:30,130 THEMSELVES BECAUSE MY PARENTS WERE JUST OVERWHELMED WITH THE 817 00:40:30,130 --> 00:40:33,166 SITUATION. >> Reporter: THE TRUTH WAS 818 00:40:33,166 --> 00:40:35,602 STARK. TINA WASN'T JUST MISSING 819 00:40:35,602 --> 00:40:38,772 NO ONE WAS LOOKING FOR A BETTER ALTERNATIVE BY THAT POINT? 820 00:40:38,772 --> 00:40:42,942 >> NO. I THINK THERE WAS A FEW THAT - 821 00:40:42,942 --> 00:40:45,612 OF COURSE YOU'RE HOPING THAT YOU CAN JUST BE MAD AT HER AND THAT 822 00:40:45,612 --> 00:40:49,783 SHE JUST RAN AWAY. BUT THEY KNEW. 823 00:40:49,783 --> 00:40:52,452 >> Reporter: IN 2002, 7 YEARS AFTER HER DISAPPEARANCE, TINA'S 824 00:40:52,452 --> 00:40:56,356 FAMILY HAD HER DECLARED LEGALLY DEAD 825 00:40:56,356 --> 00:41:00,260 >> IT DIDN'T GET US THE CLOSURE THAT WE NEEDED TO HAVE 826 00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:02,462 I FEEL, LIKE, WITHOUT ACTUALLY KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED TO HER - 827 00:41:02,462 --> 00:41:04,230 >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENED TO HER AND WHERE IS SHE 828 00:41:04,230 --> 00:41:05,465 >> YEAH. EXACTLY. 829 00:41:05,465 --> 00:41:08,335 >> Reporter: TWO QUESTIONS YOU COULDN'T GET ANSWERS TO. 830 00:41:08,335 --> 00:41:12,439 >> UH-HUH. YEAH 831 00:41:12,439 --> 00:41:16,076 >> Reporter: TINA'S FRIENDS AND FAMILY SEARCHED THESE COUNTY 832 00:41:16,076 --> 00:41:17,844 ROADS FOR YEARS, ALL IN VAIN THE INVESTIGATION CONTINUED AND 833 00:41:17,844 --> 00:41:21,247 THE POLICE STILL HAD THEIR PRIME SUSPECT. 834 00:41:21,247 --> 00:41:24,317 BUT WITHOUT A BODY, THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY RULED THE 835 00:41:24,317 --> 00:41:29,422 CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE SIMPLY WASN'T JURY READY. 836 00:41:29,422 --> 00:41:32,692 STILL, GREELEY'S DETECTIVES WOULDN'T LET GO. 837 00:41:32,692 --> 00:41:35,962 FOR THEM, TINA'S DISAPPEARANCE HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE A HOMICIDE. 838 00:41:35,962 --> 00:41:38,131 EVEN THOUGH THEIR PRIME SUSPECT HAD LEFT COLORADO FOR LAS VEGAS. 839 00:41:38,131 --> 00:41:41,101 WITH A NEW CHAPTER OF HIS LIFE >> BUT WE ALWAYS KNEW WHERE HE 840 00:41:41,101 --> 00:41:42,268 WAS. >> Reporter: OH, YOU HAD EYES ON 841 00:41:42,268 --> 00:41:43,536 HIM, HUH >> WE NEVER FORGOT ABOUT HIM - 842 00:41:43,536 --> 00:41:45,438 >> YES, NEVER FORGOT ABOUT HIM >> NEVER 843 00:41:45,438 --> 00:41:48,308 >> Reporter: ALWAYS WANTED TO NAIL HIM FOR TINA'S MURDER 844 00:41:48,308 --> 00:41:50,910 THEN, IN 2009, OPPORTUNITY ARRIVED -- 845 00:41:50,910 --> 00:41:52,812 A NEW MAN WAS RUNNING FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY. 846 00:41:52,812 --> 00:41:54,114 >> KEITH AND I WENT AND MET WITH HIM DURING HIS - 847 00:41:54,114 --> 00:41:57,283 >> YEAH. >> -- CAMPAIGN FOR D.A 848 00:41:57,283 --> 00:41:59,552 >> AND SAID, "WOULD YOU CONSIDER PROSECUTING THIS CASE? 849 00:41:59,552 --> 00:42:01,287 >> Reporter: AND HE SAID >> HE SAID - 850 00:42:01,287 --> 00:42:03,356 >> HE SAID HE WOULD -- >> -- "I WILL CERTAINLY GIVE YOU 851 00:42:03,356 --> 00:42:09,195 YOUR -- YOUR DUE TIME TO PRESENT IT." 852 00:42:09,195 --> 00:42:12,332 >> Reporter: HE WAS ELECTED. NOW, OLSON AND GOLDSCHMIDT, WITH 853 00:42:12,332 --> 00:42:13,867 THEIR GROWING RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE P.D., NEEDED TO HAND 854 00:42:13,867 --> 00:42:17,070 THEIR OLD CASE FILES OFF TO A FRESH DETECTIVE. 855 00:42:17,070 --> 00:42:20,807 THEY NEEDED SOMEONE WHO COULD BUILD A MURDER CASE, WITHOUT A 856 00:42:20,807 --> 00:42:23,977 BODY, THAT WAS STRONG ENOUGH FOR THE NEW D.A. TO PROSECUTE. 857 00:42:23,977 --> 00:42:26,279 >> SO I TAKE MIKE PRILL, WHO'S A GANG UNIT DETECTIVE. 858 00:42:26,279 --> 00:42:28,448 I TAKE HIM OUTTA THE -- OUTTA THE GANG UNIT. 859 00:42:28,448 --> 00:42:30,083 >> Reporter: WHY HIM, BRAD >> WELL, MY ATTENTION TO DETAIL 860 00:42:30,083 --> 00:42:32,719 PALES IN COMPARISON TO MIKE PRILL 861 00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:35,288 HE IS JUST -- HE IS JUST WAY UP HERE WHEN IT COMES TO THAT 862 00:42:35,288 --> 00:42:39,092 >> Reporter: ENTER "DESERT STORM" DEPLOYED U.S. ARMY VET 863 00:42:39,092 --> 00:42:42,195 DETECTIVE MIKE PRILL >> BOTH OF 'EM CAME TO ME AND 864 00:42:42,195 --> 00:42:45,432 SAID, "LOOK, WE WANNA -- WE WANNA ENTRUST THIS CASE OVER TO 865 00:42:45,432 --> 00:42:48,568 YOU. THIS WAS SOMETHING THEY HAD 866 00:42:48,568 --> 00:42:50,170 LIVED SINCE '95, UP TO 2009. SO IT WAS QUITE -- QUITE THE 867 00:42:50,170 --> 00:42:51,805 HONOR FOR ME >> Reporter: WHAT'S THE ORDER OF 868 00:42:51,805 --> 00:42:54,107 BATTLE HOW DO YOU START TO DIVE INTO 869 00:42:54,107 --> 00:42:56,476 IT >> THE BEST WAY TO BEGIN IS JUST 870 00:42:56,476 --> 00:42:59,145 TO ORGANIZE IT MAKE SURE THAT EACH PIECE OF 871 00:42:59,145 --> 00:43:01,448 EVIDENCE COLLECTED IS STILL IN EVIDENCE 872 00:43:01,448 --> 00:43:02,849 MAKE SURE -- >> Reporter: WAS IT? 873 00:43:02,849 --> 00:43:05,051 >> IT WAS. >> Reporter: 'CAUSE IT HAD BEEN 874 00:43:05,051 --> 00:43:06,853 A LONG TIME. >> IT WAS. 875 00:43:06,853 --> 00:43:10,056 >> Reporter: AND AS HE SORTED THROUGH EACH FILE, IN BOXES UPON 876 00:43:10,056 --> 00:43:12,158 BOXES, HIS HEART SANK A LITTLE THE CASE HAD ALL THE PROBLEMS 877 00:43:12,158 --> 00:43:15,362 THAT MADE THE PREVIOUS D.A CAUTIOUS 878 00:43:15,362 --> 00:43:16,629 >> THERE WAS NO BODY, THERE WAS NO CRIME SCENE, THERE WAS NO 879 00:43:16,629 --> 00:43:19,432 WITNESSES, THERE WAS NO CONFESSION 880 00:43:19,432 --> 00:43:21,835 >> Reporter: AND THE CYNICAL MAXIM IN YOUR BUSINESS IS "NO 881 00:43:21,835 --> 00:43:23,770 BODY, NO CRIME." >> SOMETIMES, RIGHT. 882 00:43:23,770 --> 00:43:24,971 I MEAN, THAT'S - >> Reporter: THAT'S A TOUGH HILL 883 00:43:24,971 --> 00:43:28,708 TO CLIMB >> THAT'S WHAT KINDA STALLS 884 00:43:28,708 --> 00:43:31,711 THESE INVESTIGATIONS AT TIMES, WHEN THERE'S, YOU KNOW, NO BODY. 885 00:43:31,711 --> 00:43:35,515 QUITE HONESTLY, IS IT POSSIBLE SHE IS ALIVE 886 00:43:35,515 --> 00:43:38,184 AND SHE'S LIVING SOMEWHERE ELSE. >> Reporter: HE TEAMED WITH THEN 887 00:43:38,184 --> 00:43:39,686 ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR MICHAEL ROURKE 888 00:43:39,686 --> 00:43:44,090 TASK NUMBER ONE, PROVE THAT TINA WAS DEAD 889 00:43:44,090 --> 00:43:46,626 >> WE'VE GOTTA BE ABLE TO SHOW A JURY THAT IT'S NOT HER JUST 890 00:43:46,626 --> 00:43:49,229 SIMPLY RUNNING AWAY FROM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RELATIONSHIP, 891 00:43:49,229 --> 00:43:51,264 AND RUNNING OFF TO THE MIDDLE OF MONTANA AND HIDING OUT IN THE 892 00:43:51,264 --> 00:43:54,901 WOODS. >> AS THE INVESTIGATION 893 00:43:54,901 --> 00:43:57,137 PROGRESSED OVER THAT YEAR IN 2009, IT BECAME IRREFUTABLE -- 894 00:43:57,137 --> 00:44:01,708 YOU KNOW, THERE WAS NO RENEWAL ON HER DRIVER'S LICENSE, NO 895 00:44:01,708 --> 00:44:05,111 ADDITIONAL TAXES FILED >> Reporter: NO ACTIVITY ON HER 896 00:44:05,111 --> 00:44:08,648 CREDIT CARDS OR BANK ACCOUNT SINCE OCTOBER, 1995. 897 00:44:08,648 --> 00:44:12,519 >> EVERY YEAR THAT GOES BY, EVERY MONTH THAT GOES BY IS A 898 00:44:12,519 --> 00:44:15,321 BENEFIT TO US BECAUSE WE CAN SHOW TO THE JURY, ANY PERSON - 899 00:44:15,321 --> 00:44:18,058 ANY REASONABLE PERSON CAN'T STAY OFF THE RADAR SCREEN THAT LONG 900 00:44:18,058 --> 00:44:19,459 >> Reporter: SO YOU REALLY COULDN'T PROSECUTE THE CASE 901 00:44:19,459 --> 00:44:21,561 GIVEN WHAT YOU HAD IN, SAY, 1996, THE YEAR AFTER SHE'S GONE. 902 00:44:21,561 --> 00:44:25,799 >> OH, NO, I THINK THAT WE HAD IN 2009 AND 2010 THE BENEFIT OF 903 00:44:25,799 --> 00:44:28,935 TIME >> Reporter: STILL, THEY HAD TO 904 00:44:28,935 --> 00:44:31,104 CONVINCE THE D.A. TO PURSUE A MURDER CHARGE WITHOUT A VICTIM'S 905 00:44:31,104 --> 00:44:34,140 BODY >> THE D.A.'S OFFICE WAS 906 00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:37,077 AGGRESSIVE AND THEY MADE THE ULTIMATE 907 00:44:37,077 --> 00:44:40,547 DECISION TO GO FORWARD, KNOWING -- 908 00:44:40,547 --> 00:44:43,550 >> Reporter: SO YOU GOT -- YOU GOT YOUR GREEN LIGHT 909 00:44:43,550 --> 00:44:46,252 THAT WAS IT. >> -- FROM THE D.A 910 00:44:46,252 --> 00:44:48,655 >> Reporter: NEXT, THEY HAD TO MAKE THEIR CASE TO A JUDGE, TO 911 00:44:48,655 --> 00:44:50,390 GET AN ARREST WARRANT FOR JOHN SANDOVAL. 912 00:44:50,390 --> 00:44:52,525 THE DETECTIVE'S TEAM DRAFTED A NINE PAGE DOCUMENT, DETAILING 913 00:44:52,525 --> 00:44:54,861 THE ANXIOUS LAST HOURS OF TINA'S LIFE, FINDING HER JACKET AT HIS 914 00:44:54,861 --> 00:44:57,097 PLACE, THE WET SHOVEL IN HIS CAR, HIM DIVING OUT THE WINDOW 915 00:44:57,097 --> 00:44:59,366 ELUDING THE COPS I'M THINKING OF THAT BRILLIANT 916 00:44:59,366 --> 00:45:01,901 AFFIDAVIT THAT YOU GUYS PULLED TOGETHER, WHICH READS LIKE A 917 00:45:01,901 --> 00:45:04,437 CRIME THRILLER >> SURE. 918 00:45:04,437 --> 00:45:07,040 WE WANTED THIS TO BE A VERY FACTUAL READING OF EXACTLY WHAT 919 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,409 WE BELIEVED HAPPENED WHEN YOU GET DONE YOU THINK, "WE 920 00:45:09,409 --> 00:45:12,178 KNOW JOHN SANDOVAL COMMITTED THIS HOMICIDE. 921 00:45:12,178 --> 00:45:15,382 >> Reporter: THEN AGAIN, THE JUDGE MIGHT READ THE WORDS 922 00:45:15,382 --> 00:45:18,118 "MISSING PERSON" IN THE AFFIDAVIT AND DECIDE THERE WAS, 923 00:45:18,118 --> 00:45:20,887 IN FACT, NO MURDER, NO CRIME AT ALL. 924 00:45:20,887 --> 00:45:23,056 YOU GUYS ROLLED THE DICE HERE. >> WE REALLY DID 925 00:45:23,056 --> 00:45:27,794 >> Reporter: MIKE PRILL REMEMBERS WAITING AS THE JUDGE 926 00:45:27,794 --> 00:45:29,963 READ THROUGH THE DOCUMENT. >> SO NOW I HAVE THAT GRUELING 927 00:45:29,963 --> 00:45:32,232 EXPERIENCE OF SITTING IN A HALLWAY, JUST DRUMMING MY 928 00:45:32,232 --> 00:45:35,635 FINGERS, WONDERING WHAT HE'S THINKING 929 00:45:35,635 --> 00:45:38,605 HE STEPPED OUT AT ONE POINT AND ASKED ME ONE QUESTION. 930 00:45:38,605 --> 00:45:43,376 AND THAT WAS, "WHY DID THE D.A.'S OFFICE REJECT THIS YEARS 931 00:45:43,376 --> 00:45:46,479 BEFORE?" >> I THINK HIS FEAR IN BY ASKING 932 00:45:46,479 --> 00:45:49,215 THAT QUESTION WAS "HAS SOME OTHER JUDGE LOOKED AT THIS, 933 00:45:49,215 --> 00:45:52,218 REJECTED IT, AND NOW YOU BROUGHT IT TO ME?" 934 00:45:52,218 --> 00:45:53,920 >> Reporter: ARE YOU JUDGE SHOPPING HERE? 935 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:55,522 >> ARE -- ARE WE JUDGE SHOPPING? >> Reporter: GOOD QUESTION 936 00:45:55,522 --> 00:45:57,357 WHAT'D YOU SAY >> WELL, I REASSURED HIM, WE HAD 937 00:45:57,357 --> 00:45:59,092 NEVER PRESENTED THIS CASE, EVER, TO THE D.A.'S OFFICE 938 00:45:59,092 --> 00:46:01,027 >> WHEN DETECTIVE PRILL ANSWERED THAT QUESTION THE JUDGE 939 00:46:01,027 --> 00:46:02,896 IMMEDIATELY GOT OUT HIS PEN, SIGNED THE ARREST WARRANT. 940 00:46:02,896 --> 00:46:04,464 >> Reporter: SO ALL THREE OF YOU, THE DETECTIVE, JUDGE, AND 941 00:46:04,464 --> 00:46:06,032 YOU, YOU WERE -- YOU WERE JUMPING OFF THE HIGH DIVING 942 00:46:06,032 --> 00:46:11,738 BOARD TOGETHER >> THAT'S RIGHT. 943 00:46:11,738 --> 00:46:14,207 >> Reporter: MORE THAN A DECADE AFTER TINA'S DISAPPEARANCE THERE 944 00:46:14,207 --> 00:46:16,609 WAS FINALLY A BREAKTHROUGH IN THE CASE 945 00:46:16,609 --> 00:46:20,647 GREELEY WAS COMING FOR JOHN SANDOVAL. 946 00:46:22,415 --> 00:46:24,351 >>> COMING UP -- A STUNNING DISCOVERY INSIDE 947 00:46:24,351 --> 00:46:34,060 SANDOVAL'S HOME. >> I FOUND WELL OVER 100 VHS 948 00:46:34,060 --> 00:46:36,363 TAPES. >> SECRET VIDEOS -- STRIKING 949 00:46:36,363 --> 00:46:37,530 EVIDENCE >> Reporter: TAKE A GUESS, HOW 950 00:46:37,530 --> 00:46:39,299 MANY OTHER VICTIMS DO YOU THINK THERE WERE 951 00:46:39,299 --> 00:46:41,334 >> HUNDREDS. HUNDREDS 952 00:46:41,334 --> 00:47:11,498 SOMEONE LIKE JOHN DOESN'T DO >>> Reporter: IT HAD BEEN A LONG 953 00:47:11,498 --> 00:47:13,733 TIME IN COMING -- JOHN SANDOVAL'S NAME ON A MURDER 954 00:47:13,733 --> 00:47:15,835 ARREST WARRANT DID SANDOVAL, OUT IN LAS VEGAS, 955 00:47:15,835 --> 00:47:18,471 KNOW THE HEAT WAS ON HIM >> NO. 956 00:47:18,471 --> 00:47:21,107 NO >> Reporter: EXCEPT THAT 957 00:47:21,107 --> 00:47:23,710 MIKE PRILL WOULD NOT BE THE ONE TO MAKE THE ARREST 958 00:47:23,710 --> 00:47:25,345 THAT HONOR WOULD FALL TO KEITH OLSON AND 959 00:47:25,345 --> 00:47:26,913 BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT, THE ORIGINAL DETECTIVES ON THE CASE 960 00:47:26,913 --> 00:47:29,049 >> I WAS IN CHARGE OF THE DETECTIVE BUREAU 961 00:47:29,049 --> 00:47:30,617 AND I JUST SAID, "HEY, KEITH AND I ARE GOING TO VEGAS TO GET 962 00:47:30,617 --> 00:47:31,685 HIM. AND -- 963 00:47:31,685 --> 00:47:33,787 >> Reporter: NO QUESTIONS ABOUT IT 964 00:47:33,787 --> 00:47:36,923 >> YEAH, YEAH. HE SAID, "OKAY, FINE." 965 00:47:36,923 --> 00:47:39,559 THE SERGEANT ON THE LAS VEGAS METRO POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A GUY 966 00:47:39,559 --> 00:47:41,161 THAT USED TO WORK WITH US. WE TOLD STEVE WE'RE COMING OUT 967 00:47:41,161 --> 00:47:43,296 TO ARREST JOHN SANDOVAL. AND HE SAYS, "GREAT, I'LL GET 968 00:47:43,296 --> 00:47:48,568 MY -- I'LL GET A TEAM TOGETHER FOR YOU GUYS." 969 00:47:48,568 --> 00:47:50,270 >> Reporter: THE LOCAL NBC AFFILIATE, KSNV TV, RECORDED THE 970 00:47:50,270 --> 00:47:53,340 MOMENT POLICE SNAPPED THE CUFFS ON JOHN SANDOVAL 971 00:47:53,340 --> 00:47:55,075 >> WANNA TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR WIFE 14 YEARS 972 00:47:55,075 --> 00:47:58,745 AGO? >> UH, CAN YOU GET HER AWAY FROM 973 00:47:58,745 --> 00:48:01,247 ME >> AND JOHN'S STANDING THERE 974 00:48:01,247 --> 00:48:02,849 LIKE THIS UP AGAINST THE CAR AND I WALK UP TO HIM ON HIS 975 00:48:02,849 --> 00:48:04,384 RIGHT. AND HE LOOKS OVER AT ME. 976 00:48:04,384 --> 00:48:06,553 AND HE DOES A DOUBLE TAKE. AND THEN HE IMMEDIATELY GOES 977 00:48:06,553 --> 00:48:09,189 LIKE THIS. LIKE -- LIKE, "IF I CAN'T SEE 978 00:48:09,189 --> 00:48:11,825 YOU, YOU CAN'T SEE ME," RIGHT? SO I WALK UP TO JOHN 979 00:48:11,825 --> 00:48:17,130 I SAID, "HEY, JOHN, REMEMBER US?" 980 00:48:17,130 --> 00:48:19,799 HE GOES, "OH, NO." I SAID, "OH, BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT, 981 00:48:19,799 --> 00:48:21,368 KEITH OLSON, GREELEY P.D YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR FIRST 982 00:48:21,368 --> 00:48:23,470 DEGREE MURDER OF CHRISTINA SANDOVAL." 983 00:48:23,470 --> 00:48:25,338 >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK YOU'D EVER SAY THOSE WORDS 984 00:48:25,338 --> 00:48:27,173 >> I DIDN'T THINK I WAS EVER GONNA BE ABLE TO SAY THOSE 985 00:48:27,173 --> 00:48:28,775 WORDS. >> Reporter: TINA'S LITTLE 986 00:48:28,775 --> 00:48:32,245 SISTER, ANNIE, GOT THE NEWS FROM HER PARENTS. 987 00:48:32,245 --> 00:48:35,648 >> I WAS HAPPY 'CAUSE I THOUGHT PEOPLE HAD FORGOTTEN 988 00:48:35,648 --> 00:48:38,318 AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE'D EVER GET JUSTICE FOR TINA 989 00:48:38,318 --> 00:48:43,056 >> Reporter: NOW IT WAS BACK TO WORK FOR DETECTIVE PRILL 990 00:48:43,056 --> 00:48:45,692 >> I REALIZED, AS I OFTEN DO, ONCE AN ARREST IS MADE, THE 991 00:48:45,692 --> 00:48:48,895 INVESTIGATION REALLY BEGINS ANEW 992 00:48:48,895 --> 00:48:51,531 >> Reporter: AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, PRILL QUICKLY LEARNED THAT 993 00:48:51,531 --> 00:48:54,134 JOHN SANDOVAL WAS MAKING CALLS ON THE JAILHOUSE PHONE AS HE 994 00:48:54,134 --> 00:48:55,769 AWAITED EXTRADITION TO COLORADO. WHO'S HE TALKING TO? 995 00:48:55,769 --> 00:48:58,438 ANYONE INTERESTING >> YES 996 00:48:58,438 --> 00:49:03,343 A GUY NAMED MAX MATA >> Reporter: WHO'S HE? 997 00:49:03,343 --> 00:49:05,845 >> AT THE TIME I HAD NO IDEA >> Reporter: IT TURNED OUT MAX, 998 00:49:05,845 --> 00:49:08,014 A SOFTBALL AND BARBECUE BUDDY, HAD BEFRIENDED JOHN YEARS 999 00:49:08,014 --> 00:49:11,918 EARLIER. SO PRILL FLEW OUT TO MEET THE 1000 00:49:11,918 --> 00:49:14,788 MAN WHO SAID JOHN LIKED TO TALK ABOUT HIS MISSING WIFE, TINA 1001 00:49:14,788 --> 00:49:20,093 >> MAX SAID THAT IN HIS CONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN, JOHN 1002 00:49:20,093 --> 00:49:23,763 RELATED THAT HIS WIFE HAD RUN OUT ON HIM, KINDA LEFT HIM FOR A 1003 00:49:23,763 --> 00:49:26,900 WILD LIFE, JOINED A BIKER GANG, FELL INTO DRUGS. 1004 00:49:26,900 --> 00:49:29,302 WAS, YOU KNOW, RUNNING AMOK ACROSS THE NATION. 1005 00:49:29,302 --> 00:49:31,104 >> Reporter: "SHE LEFT ME, BUT SHE'S STILL ALIVE. 1006 00:49:31,104 --> 00:49:33,273 >> YEAH. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A THEORY THAT 1007 00:49:33,273 --> 00:49:36,943 PERHAPS TINA DID RUN OFF BUT IT -- IT'S NOT JIVING 1008 00:49:36,943 --> 00:49:39,579 WITH -- WITH WHAT I BELIEVE. SO A SEARCH WARRANT WAS 1009 00:49:39,579 --> 00:49:43,616 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO THIS INVESTIGATION, TO GET INTO HIS 1010 00:49:43,616 --> 00:49:45,952 HOUSE AND GET WHATEVER EVIDENCE THAT MAY BE IN THE HOME, PROVING 1011 00:49:45,952 --> 00:49:49,089 TINA WAS ALIVE, IF THAT'S TRUE >> Reporter: AND HE DID JUST 1012 00:49:49,089 --> 00:49:52,792 THAT ONCE INSIDE JOHN'S HOUSE, HE SAW 1013 00:49:52,792 --> 00:49:55,462 IT -- AN EERIE SHRINE OF SORTS TO TINA. 1014 00:49:55,462 --> 00:49:58,064 >> TWO DIFFERENT PICTURES OF TINA IN A LITTLE BLACK DRESS 1015 00:49:58,064 --> 00:49:59,699 HE HAD BOTH OF THOSE HANGING ON HIS WALL 1016 00:49:59,699 --> 00:50:01,801 AND SO I WANTED THAT TYPE OF STUFF COLLECTED, AND WE DID. 1017 00:50:01,801 --> 00:50:05,472 WE PHOTOGRAPHED IT, COLLECTED THE PHOTOS 1018 00:50:05,472 --> 00:50:07,007 >> Reporter: WHAT HE DIDN'T FIND WAS ANY PROOF THAT TINA WAS 1019 00:50:07,007 --> 00:50:09,275 STILL ALIVE. NO RECENT PHOTOS OR LETTERS FROM 1020 00:50:09,275 --> 00:50:13,380 THAT LONG ROAD TRIP JOHN CLAIMED SHE WAS ON 1021 00:50:13,380 --> 00:50:17,083 BUT MIKE DID UNCOVER SOMETHING ELSE 1022 00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:23,957 >> I ALSO FOUND WELL OVER 100 VHS TAPES AND ANOTHER 70 OR 1023 00:50:23,957 --> 00:50:26,059 SO MINI-VHS TAPES. >> Reporter: JOHN SANDOVAL, IT 1024 00:50:26,059 --> 00:50:29,262 SEEMED, HAD BEEN A BUSY AMATEUR VIDEOGRAPHER DURING HIS YEARS IN 1025 00:50:29,262 --> 00:50:31,865 VEGAS, PUTTING PICTURES TO A STALKING AND PEEPING M.O. HE 1026 00:50:31,865 --> 00:50:36,670 PRACTICED SO WELL. EVERYTHING OLD WAS NEW AGAIN, 1027 00:50:36,670 --> 00:50:39,305 RIGHT? >> HE WAS A DRUNK IN -- IN A 1028 00:50:39,305 --> 00:50:41,908 LIQUOR STORE FOR THOSE MANY YEARS HE LIVED OUT THERE 1029 00:50:41,908 --> 00:50:44,577 >> Reporter: PRILL FOUND THE HOMEMADE SPY CAM VIDEOS 1030 00:50:44,577 --> 00:50:48,281 DISGUSTING >> HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF 1031 00:50:48,281 --> 00:50:51,985 HOURS THAT I WOULD END UP SPENDING REVIEWING, SHOOTING UP 1032 00:50:51,985 --> 00:50:56,756 THE SKIRTS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN, ALL UP AND DOWN THE 1033 00:50:56,756 --> 00:51:01,494 LAS VEGAS STRIP FROM 2000 TO 2009 1034 00:51:01,494 --> 00:51:05,965 >> Reporter: ONE OF THOSE TAPES SHOWED A PERVERT'S VIEW OF NEW 1035 00:51:05,965 --> 00:51:09,069 YEAR'S 2007 ON THE STRIP - DISEMBODIED LEGS, HIGH HEELS AND 1036 00:51:09,069 --> 00:51:12,105 SHORT SKIRTS INSIDE A CASINO, A TIPSY WOMAN 1037 00:51:12,105 --> 00:51:14,741 IS RECORDED STUMBLING AND FALLING ON THE WAY TO HER ROOM 1038 00:51:14,741 --> 00:51:18,978 WE'VE ALTERED HER VOICE TO PROTECT HER IDENTITY 1039 00:51:18,978 --> 00:51:21,614 >> YOU GUYS, I NEED TO GO HOME >> Reporter: SHE DOESN'T KNOW 1040 00:51:21,614 --> 00:51:24,784 SHE'S BEING FOLLOWED BY A GUY WITH A BAG CAM 1041 00:51:24,784 --> 00:51:29,589 >> HAVE A GOOD NIGHT HAPPY NEW YEAR'S 1042 00:51:29,589 --> 00:51:33,226 HERE WE GO, PARTY PEOPLE >> SHE DIDN'T LATCH THE DOOR 1043 00:51:33,226 --> 00:51:36,363 LIGHTS ARE OFF IN THE ROOM NOW HE'S TAKEN THE CAMERA OUT. 1044 00:51:36,363 --> 00:51:39,566 IT'S IN HIS HAND HE CREEPS INTO THIS DARK ROOM 1045 00:51:39,566 --> 00:51:42,268 WITH THE INFRARED LIGHT ACTIVATED ON HIS CAMCORDER 1046 00:51:42,268 --> 00:51:45,438 PROVES THAT THERE'S FOUR WOMEN IN THIS ROOM, TWO GIRLS IN EACH 1047 00:51:45,438 --> 00:51:47,507 BED. >> Reporter: CONCEALED IN THE 1048 00:51:47,507 --> 00:51:52,245 DARKNESS OF THE HOTEL ROOM, HE ROLLS TAPE FOR 17 MINUTES. 1049 00:51:52,245 --> 00:51:55,415 >> FILMS ALL OF THEM AND THEN SELECTS HIS BLONDE THAT'S 1050 00:51:55,415 --> 00:51:58,551 NEAREST THE DOOR SLOWLY REMOVES THE SHEETS AND 1051 00:51:58,551 --> 00:52:02,856 BLANKETS FROM HER AS SHE SLEEPS. THEN, HE SEXUALLY ASSAULTS THE 1052 00:52:02,856 --> 00:52:05,425 SLEEPING WOMAN NEITHER THE VICTIM, NOR ANY OF 1053 00:52:05,425 --> 00:52:09,129 THE OTHER WOMEN IN THAT HOTEL ROOM, STIRRED. 1054 00:52:09,129 --> 00:52:11,765 AND THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE THE CAMERA CAUGHT THAT NIGHT -- A 1055 00:52:11,765 --> 00:52:13,900 GLIMPSE OF THE ALLEGED ASSAILANT'S FACE 1056 00:52:13,900 --> 00:52:16,536 ACCORDING TO THE DETECTIVE, THERE IS NO DOUBT. 1057 00:52:16,536 --> 00:52:18,672 IT WAS NONE OTHER THAN JOHN SANDOVAL. 1058 00:52:18,672 --> 00:52:21,241 BECAUSE NONE OF THE WOMEN EVER REPORTED THE INCIDENT, SANDOVAL 1059 00:52:21,241 --> 00:52:25,078 HAS NEVER BEEN CHARGED WITH ANYTHING RELATING TO THE VIDEO 1060 00:52:25,078 --> 00:52:26,913 TAKE A GUESS HOW MANY OTHER VICTIMS DO YOU 1061 00:52:26,913 --> 00:52:29,249 THINK THERE WERE >> HUNDREDS. 1062 00:52:29,249 --> 00:52:33,987 HUNDREDS SOMEONE LIKE JOHN DOESN'T DO 1063 00:52:33,987 --> 00:52:37,691 THIS JUST ONCE AND NEVER AGAIN I MEAN, HE -- HE'S -- HE IS 1064 00:52:37,691 --> 00:52:41,394 DEMONSTRATING HIS DEPRAVITY WHILE HE'S FREE AND NOT IN 1065 00:52:41,394 --> 00:52:44,564 CUSTODY FOR MURDER >> Reporter: THAT DIDN'T MEAN 1066 00:52:44,564 --> 00:52:46,700 ALL HIS ALLEGED VICTIMS HAD STAYED QUIET OVER THE YEARS. 1067 00:52:46,700 --> 00:52:50,904 SOME HAD COME FORWARD ONLY TO HAVE THEIR STORIES FORGOTTEN 1068 00:52:50,904 --> 00:52:53,440 BUT MIKE PRILL KNOWS HOW TO DIG INTO THE PAST. 1069 00:52:56,276 --> 00:52:58,845 >>> COMING UP -- >> I GOT INTO MY CAR, AND HE 1070 00:52:58,845 --> 00:53:02,048 FOLLOWED ME. >> ANOTHER TERRIFYING ENCOUNTER 1071 00:53:02,048 --> 00:53:30,543 WITH JOHN SANDOVAL >> MY HEART JUST SUNK. 1072 00:53:30,543 --> 00:53:33,480 DETECTIVE PRILL FOUND IN SANDOVAL'S VEGAS HOME WERE 1073 00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,116 DEEPLY DISTURBING. BUT THEY WEREN'T GOING TO HELP 1074 00:53:36,116 --> 00:53:41,421 HIM BUILD A MURDER CASE. SO HE STARTED LOOKING DEEPER 1075 00:53:41,421 --> 00:53:44,090 INTO SANDOVAL'S PAST, PRE-1995 HE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO VERY FAR 1076 00:53:44,090 --> 00:53:47,227 BEFORE DISCOVERING THE CASE OF LORI BUCKLEN 1077 00:53:47,227 --> 00:53:52,499 >> I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A MAN IN A CAR PARKED IN THE LINES 1078 00:53:52,499 --> 00:53:56,169 OF CARS. >> Reporter: IN 1992, 3 YEARS 1079 00:53:56,169 --> 00:54:00,407 BEFORE TINA VANISHED, LORI WAS WORKING AT A STATE FARM OFFICE 1080 00:54:00,407 --> 00:54:03,043 IN NEARBY EVANS, COLORADO. SHE SAYS A STRANGE MAN STARTED 1081 00:54:03,043 --> 00:54:05,712 SHOWING UP ON A REGULAR BASIS IN THE EMPLOYEE LOT 1082 00:54:05,712 --> 00:54:10,950 >> I GOT INTO MY CAR AND WENT OUT THE EXIT, AND HE FOLLOWED 1083 00:54:10,950 --> 00:54:13,586 ME THERE WOULD BE TIMES THAT I 1084 00:54:13,586 --> 00:54:18,358 WOULD TRY TO DRIVE QUICKLY TO MY HOUSE, GET IN THE GARAGE, SHUT 1085 00:54:18,358 --> 00:54:21,061 THE DOOR, NOT KNOWING IF HE HAD FOUND MY HOUSE 1086 00:54:21,061 --> 00:54:23,663 >> Reporter: STATE FARM QUICKLY LEARNED HIS NAME - 1087 00:54:23,663 --> 00:54:27,367 JOHN SANDOVAL. AT THAT POINT, HE WAS NEWLY 1088 00:54:27,367 --> 00:54:30,537 MARRIED TO TINA. YET HERE HE WAS CRUISING A 1089 00:54:30,537 --> 00:54:33,440 PARKING LOT, LOOKING AT ANOTHER WOMAN. 1090 00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,308 STATE FARM ORDERED HIM TO STAY AWAY 1091 00:54:35,308 --> 00:54:39,079 HE DIDN'T. >> I SAW JOHN UP ON THIS 1092 00:54:39,079 --> 00:54:42,215 OVERPASS, AND HE WAS PARKED THERE. 1093 00:54:42,215 --> 00:54:45,919 HE WAS HOLDING SOMETHING -- I ASSUMED BINOCULARS -- LOOKING 1094 00:54:45,919 --> 00:54:49,089 THIS WAY >> Reporter: ANOTHER TIME, SHE 1095 00:54:49,089 --> 00:54:51,958 SAID, HE FOLLOWED AS SHE DROVE TO A PARTY 1096 00:54:51,958 --> 00:54:56,463 >> I DIDN'T KNOW IF HE JUST WANTED TO SHOOT ME, OR TAKE ME, 1097 00:54:56,463 --> 00:55:00,166 KIDNAP ME, WHAT. >> Reporter: FOR THREE YEARS, IT 1098 00:55:00,166 --> 00:55:03,436 WENT ON -- SANDOVAL TERRORIZING LORI BUCKLEN 1099 00:55:03,436 --> 00:55:06,539 AT ONE POINT, HE WAS ARRESTED AND PLEADED NO CONTEST TO 1100 00:55:06,539 --> 00:55:09,709 MISDEMEANOR HARASSMENT TO THIS DAY, SHE SAYS, SHE 1101 00:55:09,709 --> 00:55:12,379 DOESN'T KNOW WHY HE SINGLED HER OUT. 1102 00:55:12,379 --> 00:55:15,548 >> NOBODY REALLY LISTENED. THEY DID LISTEN, BUT I DIDN'T 1103 00:55:15,548 --> 00:55:18,685 THINK THEY RESPONDED LIKE THEY SHOULD, I GUESS. 1104 00:55:18,685 --> 00:55:21,254 I GUESS YOU CAN'T PUT SOMEBODY IN JAIL JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE A 1105 00:55:21,254 --> 00:55:23,490 CREEP. >> Reporter: THE LAST TIME SHE 1106 00:55:23,490 --> 00:55:26,793 SPOTTED SANDOVAL WAS JULY, 1995. HE WAS BACK CRUISING 1107 00:55:26,793 --> 00:55:29,295 STATE FARM'S PARKING LOT >> HE CAME DOWN THIS ROW AND 1108 00:55:29,295 --> 00:55:31,931 DROVE BY ME, BUT I WAS PRETTY SCARED 1109 00:55:31,931 --> 00:55:35,101 >> Reporter: SHE REPORTED IT AGAIN. 1110 00:55:35,101 --> 00:55:38,338 WHEN POLICE QUESTIONED HIM, SANDOVAL SAID HE'D HAD A MOMENT 1111 00:55:38,338 --> 00:55:40,907 OF WEAKNESS CAUSED BY AN IMPENDING DIVORCE. 1112 00:55:40,907 --> 00:55:43,343 THREE MONTHS LATER, HIS WIFE, TINA, DISAPPEARED. 1113 00:55:43,343 --> 00:55:48,348 >> AND MY HEART JUST SUNK. I JUST KNEW HE HAD FINALLY DONE 1114 00:55:48,348 --> 00:55:53,620 SOMETHING REALLY BAD I JUST FELT LIKE I HAD BEEN 1115 00:55:53,620 --> 00:55:58,391 TELLING PEOPLE FOR SO LONG THAT HE WAS -- HE WAS THE DEVIL 1116 00:55:58,391 --> 00:56:03,129 >> Reporter: AND, AS THE COP SAW IT, HE HAD BEEN FOR MANY YEARS 1117 00:56:03,129 --> 00:56:06,332 MIKE PRILL EVENTUALLY COMPILED A 33-PAGE DOCUMENT OF SANDOVAL'S 1118 00:56:06,332 --> 00:56:09,502 RUN-INS WITH THE POLICE, INCLUDING ALL THE COMPLAINTS AND 1119 00:56:09,502 --> 00:56:17,410 ACCUSATIONS MADE AGAINST HIM, OVER A PERIOD OF NEARLY 1120 00:56:17,410 --> 00:56:21,147 30 YEARS >> THE MANY WOMEN THAT I TALKED 1121 00:56:21,147 --> 00:56:25,352 TO THAT WERE HIS VICTIMS OF PEEPING AND STALKING, THE 1122 00:56:25,352 --> 00:56:29,055 MAJORITY OF THE WOMEN HAD AN INSTINCTUAL BELL RINGING IN 1123 00:56:29,055 --> 00:56:32,258 THEIR HEAD THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH JOHN. 1124 00:56:32,258 --> 00:56:36,062 BUT SO MANY OF THE WOMEN WERE AFRAID TO ACT ON IT. 1125 00:56:36,062 --> 00:56:39,132 >> Reporter: ONE STORY, IN PARTICULAR, SEEMED TO FORESHADOW 1126 00:56:39,132 --> 00:56:42,302 TINA'S FATE. BACK IN THE 1980s, A WOMAN FILED 1127 00:56:42,302 --> 00:56:45,472 A COMPLAINT AGAINST JOHN SANDOVAL. 1128 00:56:45,472 --> 00:56:48,842 >> IT WAS AN EX-GIRLFRIEND OF HIS, OR AT LEAST ONE THAT HAD 1129 00:56:48,842 --> 00:56:50,910 FINALLY SAID, "ENOUGH WITH YOU." >> Reporter: A DECADE BEFORE 1130 00:56:50,910 --> 00:56:55,081 TINA DISAPPEARED, THE WOMAN DESCRIBED WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SHE 1131 00:56:55,081 --> 00:56:58,151 TRIED TO BREAK UP WITH SANDOVAL. >> HE KIDNAPPED HER AT 1132 00:56:58,151 --> 00:57:00,787 KNIFEPOINT, DRUG HER DOWN TO HER CAR, THREATENING TO TAKE HER 1133 00:57:00,787 --> 00:57:04,024 INTO THE COUNTY AND KILL HER SHE BROKE FREE, SCATTERED HER 1134 00:57:04,024 --> 00:57:07,127 PURSE CONTENTS ACROSS THE GROUND AND RAN. 1135 00:57:07,127 --> 00:57:11,865 >> Reporter: THAT WAS OMINOUS ENOUGH 1136 00:57:11,865 --> 00:57:14,034 ALSO TROUBLING, WHY POLICE AT THE TIME SEEMED UNFAZED. 1137 00:57:14,034 --> 00:57:15,568 >> SHE WASN'T TAKEN SERIOUSLY BY THE INVESTIGATORS. 1138 00:57:15,568 --> 00:57:17,404 >> Reporter: WAS THAT A MIXED -- MISSED OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THIS 1139 00:57:17,404 --> 00:57:19,272 GUY OFF THE STREETS? >> YES 1140 00:57:19,272 --> 00:57:22,442 AND SO HE -- YOU KNOW, HE'S SUCCESSFUL 1141 00:57:22,442 --> 00:57:25,612 HE'S YET AGAIN BEAT ANOTHER COUNT OR BEAT A CHARGE THAT HE'S 1142 00:57:25,612 --> 00:57:28,281 COMMITTED. >> Reporter: AGAIN AND AGAIN AND 1143 00:57:28,281 --> 00:57:31,451 AGAIN. >> YES 1144 00:57:31,451 --> 00:57:34,654 >> Reporter: NOW PRILL WAS HOPING HE COULD USE THAT CREEPY, 1145 00:57:34,654 --> 00:57:36,756 VIOLENT PAST AGAINST SANDOVAL IN COURT. 1146 00:57:36,756 --> 00:57:40,093 HE AND MICHAEL ROURKE KNEW THE LOOMING TRIAL WOULD BE 1147 00:57:40,093 --> 00:57:42,529 EXCRUCIATING FOR TINA'S FAMILY IT WOULD ALSO LIKELY BE THEIR 1148 00:57:42,529 --> 00:57:44,664 ONE AND ONLY CHANCE TO HOLD JOHN SANDOVAL ACCOUNTABLE. 1149 00:57:44,664 --> 00:57:47,334 >> IT WAS SCARY 'CAUSE WE WERE LOOKING AT A FOUR-WEEK TRIAL 1150 00:57:47,334 --> 00:57:50,603 AND WE KNEW WE STILL WERE IN THE SAME BOAT THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A 1151 00:57:50,603 --> 00:57:53,673 BODY >> Reporter: CAN WE PROVE TO A 1152 00:57:53,673 --> 00:57:58,978 JURY THAT IN FACT YOUR SISTER IS DEAD 1153 00:57:58,978 --> 00:58:01,614 >> RIGHT >> I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT 1154 00:58:01,614 --> 00:58:03,283 THEY UNDERSTOOD THAT IF WE TOOK THIS CHANCE, IF WE FILED THESE 1155 00:58:03,283 --> 00:58:05,285 CHARGES, AND IF THE TRIAL DIDN'T GO WELL, AND HE WAS ACQUITTED, 1156 00:58:05,285 --> 00:58:07,020 AND THEN A YEAR FROM NOW WE FOUND TINA'S REMAINS, WE'RE 1157 00:58:07,020 --> 00:58:09,055 DONE >> WE WANTED TO PURSUE IT, 1158 00:58:09,055 --> 00:58:12,726 ESPECIALLY AS THE YEARS WENT ON AND IT WAS MORE AND MORE OBVIOUS 1159 00:58:12,726 --> 00:58:17,497 TINA WAS NOT COMING BACK THEY DON'T WANNA COME TO TRIAL 1160 00:58:17,497 --> 00:58:19,366 AND HAVE IT FAIL AND THEN YOU CAN'T CHARGE -- 1161 00:58:19,366 --> 00:58:21,034 >> Reporter: ONLY ONE CHANCE >> ONLY ONE CHANCE 1162 00:58:21,034 --> 00:58:23,336 >> ONLY ONE CHANCE CAN'T DO DOUBLE JEOPARDY 1163 00:58:34,848 --> 00:58:37,484 >>> MY PARTNERS AND I WERE SITTING AROUND AND MY QUESTION 1164 00:58:37,484 --> 00:58:38,818 IS, "HOW ARE W GONNA PROVE THAT SHE'S DEAD? 1165 00:58:38,818 --> 00:58:39,919 >> JUST BEFORE TRIAL, A SUDDEN BOLT FROM THE BLUE 1166 00:58:39,919 --> 00:58:42,088 >> A HIT CAME BACK ON TINA'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, AND IT 1167 00:58:42,088 --> 00:58:43,690 LISTED TO A WOMAN WORKING AS A NURSE. 1168 00:58:43,690 --> 00:58:46,326 >> Reporter: SOMETHING WAS ACTIVE IN TINA'S SOCIAL SECURITY 1169 00:58:46,326 --> 00:58:47,927 ACCOUNT? THAT'S GOTTA BE A PIT OF YOUR 1170 00:58:47,927 --> 00:59:08,114 STOMACH MOMENT >>> Reporter: THE WELD COUNTY 1171 00:59:08,114 --> 00:59:12,352 COURTHOUSE IN GREELEY, COLORADO, WAS PREPARING FOR THE FIRST 1172 00:59:12,352 --> 00:59:15,522 DEGREE MURDER TRIAL OF JOHN SANDOVAL. 1173 00:59:15,522 --> 00:59:17,691 >> WE WERE LOOKING AT HIM AS HE COMMITTED A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1174 00:59:17,691 --> 00:59:22,395 HOMICIDE, AND NOW WE'RE SEEING A PATTERN OF CONDUCT THAT HAS NOW 1175 00:59:22,395 --> 00:59:25,598 SPANNED 26 YEARS, 27 YEARS AND ALMOST EVERY WOMAN THAT HE 1176 00:59:25,598 --> 00:59:27,867 ENCOUNTERS THAT WE HAVE FOUND HE'S TURNED INTO A VICTIM IN 1177 00:59:27,867 --> 00:59:29,035 SOME WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. >> Reporter: YOU'VE DONE THIS A 1178 00:59:29,035 --> 00:59:31,938 LONG TIME. HOW BAD A CHARACTER IS SANDOVAL? 1179 00:59:31,938 --> 00:59:35,675 >> HE'S ABOUT AS BAD A DEFENDANT AS WE'VE EVER HAD. 1180 00:59:35,675 --> 00:59:38,311 >> Reporter: PROVING IT, HOWEVER, WOULD BE DICEY. 1181 00:59:38,311 --> 00:59:42,382 PROSECUTORS STILL WEREN'T SURE WHAT A JUDGE WOULD ALLOW THE 1182 00:59:42,382 --> 00:59:44,684 JURY TO HEAR THE SEXUAL ASSAULT AND UP-SKIRT 1183 00:59:44,684 --> 00:59:47,854 VIDEOS FROM LAS VEGAS WERE OUT OF BOUNDS BECAUSE THOSE WERE 1184 00:59:47,854 --> 00:59:50,523 ACTS THAT TOOK PLACE AFTER TINA DISAPPEARED. 1185 00:59:50,523 --> 00:59:53,960 AND REMEMBER THAT IMPROMPTU SEARCH OF SANDOVAL'S HOUSE ON 1186 00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:55,295 THE NIGHT HE WAS ARRESTED? THE ONE IN WHICH DETECTIVE 1187 00:59:55,295 --> 00:59:57,931 GOLDSCHMIDT FOUND TINA'S CREDIT CARDS? 1188 00:59:57,931 --> 01:00:02,168 SINCE GOLDSCHMIDT HAD GONE IN WITHOUT A SEARCH WARRANT, THE 1189 01:00:02,168 --> 01:00:05,338 PROSECUTOR FEARED THAT EVIDENCE MIGHT BE BARRED AS WELL. 1190 01:00:05,338 --> 01:00:08,008 BUT BY FAR, THE BIGGEST PROBLEM WAS PROVING THAT TINA SANDOVAL 1191 01:00:08,008 --> 01:00:11,678 HAD BEEN MURDERED. >> THERE WAS A MOMENT AFTER WE 1192 01:00:11,678 --> 01:00:14,848 HAD FILED THE CHARGES WHERE DETECTIVES, MY PARTNERS AND I, 1193 01:00:14,848 --> 01:00:18,018 WERE SITTING AROUND IN OUR -- IN OUR WAR ROOM, AND ALL OF A 1194 01:00:18,018 --> 01:00:20,620 SUDDEN, THE QUESTION IS, "HOW ARE WE GONNA PROVE THAT SHE'S 1195 01:00:20,620 --> 01:00:22,789 DEAD?" AND EVERYBODY JUST GOT REALLY 1196 01:00:22,789 --> 01:00:25,392 WIDE EYED. >> Reporter: TALK ABOUT A BASIC 1197 01:00:25,392 --> 01:00:28,595 QUESTION >> PROBABLY ONE WE SHOULD HAVE 1198 01:00:28,595 --> 01:00:31,197 TALKED A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT BEFORE WE FILED IT 1199 01:00:31,197 --> 01:00:32,766 BUT -- BUT WE SPENT ABOUT THE NEXT TWO DAYS JUST LISTING OFF 1200 01:00:32,766 --> 01:00:34,901 EVERYTHING THAT WE DO TO TRY TO FIND PEOPLE. 1201 01:00:34,901 --> 01:00:36,503 WE KNEW THAT WE HAD TO DO ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND THEN 50% MORE 1202 01:00:36,503 --> 01:00:38,171 BECAUSE WE HAD TO PROVE TO A JURY BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT 1203 01:00:38,171 --> 01:00:40,040 THAT SHE WAS DECEASED. >> Reporter: SISTER SUSAN WAS 1204 01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:41,241 READY FOR TRIAL, BUT NONE IN HER FAMILY LOOKED FORWARD TO IT. 1205 01:00:41,241 --> 01:00:43,910 >> IT WAS HARD I MEAN WE'RE ALL HAVING TO GO 1206 01:00:43,910 --> 01:00:47,614 BACK YEARS AND YEARS AND RECALL EXACTLY WHAT WE ALL INDIVIDUALLY 1207 01:00:47,614 --> 01:00:49,282 EXPERIENCED. >> Reporter: TINA'S FRIEND AND 1208 01:00:49,282 --> 01:00:52,552 COLLEAGUE, CAROL SJERVEN, WOULD ALSO TESTIFY 1209 01:00:52,552 --> 01:00:54,487 WERE YOU A LITTLE INTIMIDATED BY THAT, WHEN YOU WERE PUT ON A 1210 01:00:54,487 --> 01:00:57,323 WITNESS LIST >> I WAS, YEAH 1211 01:00:57,323 --> 01:00:58,458 >> Reporter: HAD YOU EVER BEEN IN A COURTROOM ENVIRONMENT 1212 01:00:58,458 --> 01:01:00,326 BEFORE >> NO, UH-UH 1213 01:01:00,326 --> 01:01:03,697 I DON'T EVEN WATCH COURT TV, AND I WAS PRETTY NAIVE 1214 01:01:03,697 --> 01:01:05,632 >> Reporter: EVERYTHING WAS READY. 1215 01:01:05,632 --> 01:01:08,802 THEN A FEW MONTHS BEFORE TRIAL, A ROUTINE COMPUTER SEARCH TURNED 1216 01:01:08,802 --> 01:01:12,505 UP SOMETHING THAT CAUSED THE HAIR TO STAND UP ON 1217 01:01:12,505 --> 01:01:15,675 DETECTIVE PRILL'S NECK >> A HIT CAME BACK ON TINA'S 1218 01:01:15,675 --> 01:01:17,777 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER AND IT LISTED TO A WOMAN WORKING 1219 01:01:17,777 --> 01:01:20,947 AS A NURSE DOWN IN SOUTHERN COLORADO 1220 01:01:20,947 --> 01:01:23,083 >> Reporter: SOMETHING WAS ACTIVE IN TINA'S SOCIAL SECURITY 1221 01:01:23,083 --> 01:01:24,217 ACCOUNT? >> IT APPEARED, YEAH 1222 01:01:24,217 --> 01:01:26,753 >> Reporter: WHAT'D YOU DO >> MY PARTNER WENT DOWN AND MET 1223 01:01:26,753 --> 01:01:28,855 WITH THE WOMAN THAT WAS USING THIS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. 1224 01:01:28,855 --> 01:01:31,958 AND IT SIMPLY TURNED OUT IN THE END THAT IT WAS A TRANSPOSITION 1225 01:01:31,958 --> 01:01:33,093 OF NUMBERS >> Reporter: 3-5 BECAME 5-3, 1226 01:01:33,093 --> 01:01:36,229 SOMETHING LIKE THAT? >> EXACTLY 1227 01:01:36,229 --> 01:01:41,501 >> Reporter: FINALLY, IN JULY 2010, ALMOST 15 YEARS AFTER TINA 1228 01:01:41,501 --> 01:01:43,636 DISAPPEARED, A JURY WAS SEATED IT WAS TIME FOR OPENING 1229 01:01:43,636 --> 01:01:47,774 ARGUMENTS. SANDOVAL HAD PLEADED NOT GUILTY. 1230 01:01:47,774 --> 01:01:52,112 THE TOURNAI FAMILY BEGAN BY TELLING THE JURY THE BACKSTORY 1231 01:01:52,112 --> 01:01:56,816 OF A TROUBLED MARRIAGE THE PROSECUTOR WOULD ADD THE 1232 01:01:56,816 --> 01:01:58,818 SORDID DETAILS OF SANDOVAL'S FETISH AS A PEEPING TOM, SOME OF 1233 01:01:58,818 --> 01:01:59,919 HIS HISTORY WITH WOMEN TELL ME ABOUT COMING INTO COURT, 1234 01:01:59,919 --> 01:02:03,156 SUSAN. HE'S RIGHT THERE 1235 01:02:03,156 --> 01:02:05,825 YOU'RE FEET APART. >> HE WAS JUST SMILING 1236 01:02:05,825 --> 01:02:09,462 IT WAS KIND OF LIKE HE WAS TRYING TO INTIMIDATE ME. 1237 01:02:09,462 --> 01:02:11,364 JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE, "I -- I GOT YOU. 1238 01:02:11,364 --> 01:02:13,733 I GOT YOU," TRYING TO -- KIND OF A SMILE. 1239 01:02:13,733 --> 01:02:15,835 AND I -- I DIDN'T WANNA LOOK AT HIM. 1240 01:02:15,835 --> 01:02:20,073 I WAS JUST REALLY FOCUSED ON THE ATTORNEYS AND -- AND ANSWERING 1241 01:02:20,073 --> 01:02:21,174 THE QUESTIONS. I WASN'T GONNA GIVE HIM 1242 01:02:21,174 --> 01:02:24,310 ANYTHING >> Reporter: HIS ANGER - 1243 01:02:24,310 --> 01:02:25,979 THE COURT HEARD HOW SANDOVAL ONCE PULLED A GUN AND THREATENED 1244 01:02:25,979 --> 01:02:29,582 SUICIDE IF TINA WERE TO LEAVE HIM. 1245 01:02:29,582 --> 01:02:33,286 MANIPULATIVE - >> A BUILDING, GROWING FEAR OF 1246 01:02:33,286 --> 01:02:38,091 WHAT JOHN WOULD DO AS THE RESULT OF THIS PENDING DIVORCE, TINA'S 1247 01:02:38,091 --> 01:02:40,193 EXPRESSION OF THE NATURE OF THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, NOT REALLY 1248 01:02:40,193 --> 01:02:42,662 PHYSICAL, NECESSARILY, BUT CERTAINLY PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND 1249 01:02:42,662 --> 01:02:47,567 EMOTIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE GOING ON INSIDE THE HOME, HER 1250 01:02:47,567 --> 01:02:51,304 DESIRES TO DISTANCE HERSELF FROM HIM AND LIVE HER OWN LIFE. 1251 01:02:51,304 --> 01:02:54,441 >> Reporter: THANKS TO SOME FAVORABLE PRE-TRIAL RULINGS, THE 1252 01:02:54,441 --> 01:02:58,244 JUDGE FOUND THAT THE JURY COULD HEAR ABOUT SOME OF THE CRIMINAL 1253 01:02:58,244 --> 01:03:02,415 ACTS JOHN SANDOVAL HAD COMMITTED AGAINST WOMEN IN COLORADO PRIOR 1254 01:03:02,415 --> 01:03:05,552 TO TINA'S DISAPPEARANCE IN 1995. THE JUDGE HAD ALSO RULED THAT 1255 01:03:05,552 --> 01:03:08,722 EVIDENCE TAKEN DURING THAT WARRANTLESS SEARCH OF SANDOVAL'S 1256 01:03:08,722 --> 01:03:11,891 HOME AND CAR WAS ADMISSIBLE -- THE SHOVEL AND THE BUCKET, A 1257 01:03:11,891 --> 01:03:14,527 HANDGUN, TINA'S CREDIT CARDS, AND SOME OF SANDOVAL'S SWEATED 1258 01:03:14,527 --> 01:03:18,231 THROUGH CLOTHING THAT WAS COVERED WITH SOIL, AS THOUGH IT 1259 01:03:18,231 --> 01:03:21,401 HAD BEEN FLUNG OVER HIS HEAD AND RAINED DOWN ON HIM 1260 01:03:21,401 --> 01:03:23,503 >> I'D LIKE TO TALK TO MY LAWYER THERE -- 1261 01:03:23,503 --> 01:03:26,139 HELLO. >> Reporter: AND THE JURY SAW 1262 01:03:26,139 --> 01:03:29,876 THIS - SANDOVAL IN THE INTERVIEW ROOM 1263 01:03:29,876 --> 01:03:31,378 FROM THAT FIRST NIGHT. HERE HE'D LEARNED THAT 1264 01:03:31,378 --> 01:03:35,115 INVESTIGATORS WANTED TO CHECK HIS FINGERNAILS FOR SIGNS OF 1265 01:03:35,115 --> 01:03:37,250 FOREIGN DNA. >> HE DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE 1266 01:03:37,250 --> 01:03:38,818 ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT, SO INSTEAD OF ALLOWING LAW 1267 01:03:38,818 --> 01:03:42,122 ENFORCEMENT TO CUT HIS FINGERNAILS, HE SAT THERE AND 1268 01:03:42,122 --> 01:03:44,090 MANIACALLY CHEWED ON HIS FINGERNAILS. 1269 01:03:44,090 --> 01:03:46,192 >> Reporter: TRYING TO DESTROY EVIDENCE, PRESUMABLY, HUH? 1270 01:03:46,192 --> 01:03:48,328 >> HE WOULD -- HE WOULD CHEW THEM OFF 1271 01:03:48,328 --> 01:03:51,498 WE COULD SEE THEM ON THE VIDEO BITING 'EM OFF, AND THEN HE 1272 01:03:51,498 --> 01:03:55,702 WOULD SPIT WHATEVER HE HAD CHEWED OFF ONTO THE FLOOR. 1273 01:03:55,702 --> 01:03:58,438 >> HOLD YOUR HEAD STILL, JOHN. >> Reporter: THEN POLICE TRIED 1274 01:03:58,438 --> 01:04:01,474 TO PHOTOGRAPH SOME DEEP SCRATCHES SEEN ON HIS FACE AND 1275 01:04:01,474 --> 01:04:05,211 CHEST. >> THEY HAVE TO PHYSICALLY PUT 1276 01:04:05,211 --> 01:04:07,347 HIM IN A POSITION WHERE THEY CAN TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THESE 1277 01:04:07,347 --> 01:04:08,915 INJURIES BEFORE THEY DISAPPEAR >> Reporter: YOU'VE GOT TO, 1278 01:04:08,915 --> 01:04:10,483 WHAT TURN HIS HEAD AND RESTRAIN HIM 1279 01:04:10,483 --> 01:04:12,619 AND -- >> TURN HIS HEAD, HOLD HIS HEAD 1280 01:04:12,619 --> 01:04:14,754 TO THE SIDE. THEY ENDED UP CUTTING HIS SHIRT 1281 01:04:14,754 --> 01:04:25,331 OFF OF HIM SO THAT THEY COULD GET AT THE REST OF THE -- WHAT 1282 01:04:25,331 --> 01:04:28,068 WE BELIEVED TO BE SCRATCH MARKS. HE WAS WHOLLY UNCOOPERATIVE WITH 1283 01:04:28,068 --> 01:04:32,739 THAT ENTIRE PROCESS. >> YOU GUYS ARE -- INSANE, MAN 1284 01:04:32,739 --> 01:04:35,342 SO WHAT? WHY CAN'T YOU JUST CALL MY 1285 01:04:35,342 --> 01:04:38,078 LAWYER >> Reporter: AND THEN THERE WAS 1286 01:04:38,078 --> 01:04:41,147 THE FASCINATING STORY TOLD BY DAISY THE POLICE K-9 AND HER 1287 01:04:41,147 --> 01:04:45,885 HANDLER -- A SEARCH THAT BEGAN AT TINA'S ABANDONED CAR. 1288 01:04:45,885 --> 01:04:49,089 >> SO WHAT DOES THE DOG DO IT GOES THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD 1289 01:04:49,089 --> 01:04:51,191 AND TRACKS RIGHT UP TO JOHN'S HOUSE. 1290 01:04:51,191 --> 01:04:52,759 >> Reporter: FROM TINA'S ABANDONED VEHICLE TO HIS BACK 1291 01:04:52,759 --> 01:04:54,894 DOOR >> CORRECT 1292 01:04:54,894 --> 01:04:57,931 SO JOHN IS AT THE HOSPITAL I THINK WE HAVE HIM UP THERE FOR 1293 01:04:57,931 --> 01:04:59,132 GATHERING OF ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE 1294 01:04:59,132 --> 01:05:02,869 >> RIGHT >> HAIRS, PLUCKINGS AND STUFF. 1295 01:05:02,869 --> 01:05:08,408 SO SHE THEN TAKES HER DOG UP TO THE HOSPITAL 1296 01:05:08,408 --> 01:05:10,777 AND JOHN'S IN ONE OF THE ROOMS SHE SENDS THE DOG ON THE TRACK 1297 01:05:10,777 --> 01:05:12,379 >> Reporter: GOING PAST NURSING STATIONS AND JUST -- 1298 01:05:12,379 --> 01:05:15,048 >> YEAH. AND THE DOG GOES RIGHT UP TO - 1299 01:05:15,048 --> 01:05:17,684 THE ROOM JOHN'S IN AND GOES UP AND -- AND NUDGES 1300 01:05:17,684 --> 01:05:20,320 HIS FOOT, I BELIEVE IT WAS AND SITS DOWN. 1301 01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,956 >> Reporter: THE DEFENSE ARGUED THAT JOHN SANDOVAL WAS ONCE 1302 01:05:22,956 --> 01:05:26,126 AGAIN THE USUAL SUSPECT. A MAN WITH A PAST WHOSE 1303 01:05:26,126 --> 01:05:29,295 ESTRANGED WIFE JUST HAPPENED TO DISAPPEAR SHORTLY AFTER TELLING 1304 01:05:29,295 --> 01:05:33,099 FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT SHE WAS GOING TO MEET WITH HIM 1305 01:05:33,099 --> 01:05:36,169 IN THE END, THE JURY DIDN'T BUY IT 1306 01:05:36,169 --> 01:05:39,339 DELIBERATIONS LASTED SEVEN HOURS. 1307 01:05:39,339 --> 01:05:42,509 >> AND AS SOON AS THEY READ, "GUILTY OF THE FIRST DEGREE," WE 1308 01:05:42,509 --> 01:05:48,348 JUST GASPED. IT WAS JUST, LIKE, A HUGE SIGH 1309 01:05:48,348 --> 01:05:52,552 OF RELIEF. ALL THE EMOTION CAME OUT, KINDA 1310 01:05:52,552 --> 01:05:55,188 HAD BEEN KEEPING THE STOIC FACE FOR A LONG TIME. 1311 01:05:55,188 --> 01:05:56,289 SO - >> Reporter: DID YOU SEE ANY 1312 01:05:56,289 --> 01:06:00,493 REMORSE IN HIM >> NO. 1313 01:06:00,493 --> 01:06:04,197 NO HE HAD NO REMORSE. 1314 01:06:04,197 --> 01:06:07,200 VERY NEXT DAY HE WAS CALLING THE ATTORNEY THAT I WORKED FOR THAT 1315 01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:09,235 WAS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY AND ASKING HIM TO FILE AN APPEAL 1316 01:06:09,235 --> 01:06:11,604 >> Reporter: AT THE VERY FIRM WHERE YOU WERE WORKING 1317 01:06:11,604 --> 01:06:14,240 >> HE DIDN'T KNOW I WAS THERE. HE WAS CALLING ALL THE ATTORNEYS 1318 01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:16,843 AROUND TOWN ASKING THEM TO FILE AN APPEAL. 1319 01:06:16,843 --> 01:06:19,045 AND MOST OF THEM WERE TURNING HIM DOWN 1320 01:06:19,045 --> 01:06:21,614 >> Reporter: SANDOVAL WAS SENTENCED TO LIFE WITHOUT THE 1321 01:06:21,614 --> 01:06:26,886 POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE. >> AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MORE 1322 01:06:26,886 --> 01:06:28,488 REWARDING POINTS OF MY CAREER. >> Reporter: CONVICTION MEANT 1323 01:06:28,488 --> 01:06:30,590 THE TOURNAIS WOULD NO LONGER HAVE TO LOOK OVER THEIR 1324 01:06:30,590 --> 01:06:34,327 SHOULDERS IN FEAR OF THIS ANGRY MAN'S RETRIBUTION. 1325 01:06:34,327 --> 01:06:38,565 >> AS TIME WENT ON, IT WAS A LITTLE EASIER TO SETTLE IN AND 1326 01:06:38,565 --> 01:06:40,767 FEEL LIKE EVERYTHING WAS OKAY. >> Reporter: THEY DIDN'T HAVE 1327 01:06:40,767 --> 01:06:43,870 TINA, DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE'D DONE WITH HER 1328 01:06:43,870 --> 01:06:49,175 BUT IT SEEMED ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT HE WAS GONE AWAY FOREVER. 1329 01:06:49,175 --> 01:06:49,676 THAT HE WAS GONE AWAY FOREVER. YOU'D THINK, WOULDN'T YOU? 1330 01:07:00,220 --> 01:07:03,390 >> I CALLED SUSAN. AND ALL I COULD SAY IS, "I HAVE 1331 01:07:03,390 --> 01:07:06,026 BAD NEWS." >> IT WAS A PRETTY BIG BLOW. 1332 01:07:06,026 --> 01:07:09,729 >> A STUNNING RULING FROM THE COURT LEADS TO A STUNNING OFFER 1333 01:07:09,729 --> 01:07:16,336 FROM JOHN SANDOVAL >> IS HE FINALLY GONNA TELL US 1334 01:07:16,336 --> 01:07:18,405 WHERE TINA IS? >> MY MOM WANTED TO KNOW WHERE 1335 01:07:18,405 --> 01:07:37,123 SHE WAS. >> OKAY. 1336 01:07:37,123 --> 01:07:40,860 >>> SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING OVER THIS 1337 01:07:40,860 --> 01:07:43,463 YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN >> Reporter: IN THE SPRING OF 1338 01:07:43,463 --> 01:07:46,132 2016, JOHN SANDOVAL WAS NEARLY SEVEN YEARS INTO A LIFE SENTENCE 1339 01:07:46,132 --> 01:07:49,836 AT A COLORADO STATE PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF HIS WIFE TINA. 1340 01:07:49,836 --> 01:07:52,472 NEARLY 200 MILES AWAY IN GREELEY, HIS ONE-TIME IN-LAWS, 1341 01:07:52,472 --> 01:07:54,607 THE TOURNAIS, WERE STILL PIECING THEIR LIVES BACK TOGETHER. 1342 01:07:54,607 --> 01:07:58,445 >> LIFE HAS TO GO ON EVERYBODY'S GETTING MARRIED. 1343 01:07:58,445 --> 01:08:01,014 EVERYBODY'S HAVING KIDS. AND, YOU KNOW AGAIN, LIKE THE 1344 01:08:01,014 --> 01:08:05,285 RELIEF OF KIND OF HAVING HIM PUT AWAY LET EVERYBODY SETTLE IN 1345 01:08:05,285 --> 01:08:07,787 KIND OF THEIR OWN PLACE. >> Reporter: THEN ON MARCH 17th, 1346 01:08:07,787 --> 01:08:11,024 ON WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN TINA'S 44th BIRTHDAY, THE VILLAIN 1347 01:08:11,024 --> 01:08:14,694 THEY'D THOUGHT THEY'D SEEN THE LAST OF CRASHED BACK INTO THEIR 1348 01:08:14,694 --> 01:08:18,932 LIVES. >> THE COLORADO COURT OF APPEALS 1349 01:08:18,932 --> 01:08:21,568 REVERSED HIS CONVICTION. >> Reporter: AND WHAT WAS THE 1350 01:08:21,568 --> 01:08:24,237 NARROW ISSUE THAT THEY RULED ON? >> THE COURT OF APPEALS THEY 1351 01:08:24,237 --> 01:08:28,308 FOUND THAT SOME OF THAT PRIOR BAD-ACT EVIDENCE -- NOT ALL OF 1352 01:08:28,308 --> 01:08:31,111 IT, BUT SOME OF IT -- SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ADMITTED 1353 01:08:31,111 --> 01:08:33,747 THEY ALSO FOUND THAT SOME OF THE TESTIMONY THAT WE HAD ELICITED 1354 01:08:33,747 --> 01:08:36,916 FROM OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXPERT WENT TOO FAR AND THEY 1355 01:08:36,916 --> 01:08:40,120 SENT IT BACK FOR A NEW TRIAL >> Reporter: SANDOVAL WOULD HAVE 1356 01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:42,722 TO REMAIN IN PRISON TILL THEN, BUT THE FIGHT TO KEEP HIM THERE 1357 01:08:42,722 --> 01:08:45,358 WAS JUST BEGINNING >> I CALLED SUSAN. 1358 01:08:45,358 --> 01:08:48,061 AND ALL I COULD SAY IS, "SUSAN, I HAVE BAD NEWS. 1359 01:08:48,061 --> 01:08:51,698 THE COURT OF APPEALS HAS REVERSED HIS CONVICTION AND THE 1360 01:08:51,698 --> 01:08:54,334 SUPREME COURT HAS REFUSED TO HEAR IT. 1361 01:08:54,334 --> 01:08:56,970 >> IT WAS A PRETTY BIG BLOW BECAUSE JUST A MONTH BEFORE MY 1362 01:08:56,970 --> 01:09:00,907 MOM HAD FOUND OUT THAT HER BREAST CANCER HAD COME BACK. 1363 01:09:00,907 --> 01:09:03,877 AND THEN THIS WAS HAPPENING. SO THINGS REALLY FELL APART 1364 01:09:03,877 --> 01:09:07,580 AGAIN AT THAT POINT 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA 1365 01:09:07,580 --> 01:09:10,216 HAPPEN >> Reporter: DID YOU GUYS EVEN 1366 01:09:10,216 --> 01:09:14,454 HAVE TO THINK FOR A MOMENT ABOUT GOING FOR A SECOND TRIAL 1367 01:09:14,454 --> 01:09:18,024 >> NOT FOR A SECOND. >> Reporter: THE APPEALS COURT 1368 01:09:18,024 --> 01:09:22,395 MAY HAVE ORDERED A NEW TRIAL FOR JOHN SANDOVAL, BUT THE D.A. WAS 1369 01:09:22,395 --> 01:09:25,031 IN NO HURRY TO SET A TRIAL DATE. PROSECUTOR ROURKE FIGURED THAT 1370 01:09:25,031 --> 01:09:28,735 SINCE SANDOVAL HAD BEEN IN PRISON FOR NEARLY SEVEN YEARS 1371 01:09:28,735 --> 01:09:31,671 WHERE ALL PHONE CALLS AND VISITS ARE RECORDED, HE MAY WELL HAVE 1372 01:09:31,671 --> 01:09:33,039 SAID SOMETHING INCRIMINATING TO SOMEBODY 1373 01:09:33,039 --> 01:09:35,075 >> SO WE HAD A FEELING THAT WHEN HE WENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 1374 01:09:35,075 --> 01:09:38,812 CORRECTIONS, HE WOULD THINK "NOBODY'S LISTENING ANYMORE, MY 1375 01:09:38,812 --> 01:09:42,482 CASE IS OVER NOW WE CAN TALK WITHOUT HAVING 1376 01:09:42,482 --> 01:09:45,118 TO USE CODE WORDS. AND SO I SAID TO THE JUDGE WHEN 1377 01:09:45,118 --> 01:09:47,754 HE ASKS HOW LONG OF A TIME WE NEED, I SAID, "JUDGE, WE'RE 1378 01:09:47,754 --> 01:09:52,058 ASKING FOR A SIGNIFICANT DELAY BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING EVERY 1379 01:09:52,058 --> 01:09:55,195 PHONE CALL AND EVERY VISITATION THAT HE HAS HAD, AND WE'RE GONNA 1380 01:09:55,195 --> 01:09:57,831 LISTEN TO 'EM ALL. AND WE'RE -- 1381 01:09:57,831 --> 01:10:00,033 >> Reporter: SO "SANDOVAL, DON'T MAKE ANY PLANS FOR GETTING OUT 1382 01:10:00,033 --> 01:10:03,670 NEXT CHRISTMAS"? >> THAT'S RIGHT. 1383 01:10:03,670 --> 01:10:05,772 >> Reporter: "YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE FOR AWHILE. 1384 01:10:05,772 --> 01:10:07,907 >> "YOU'RE GONNA BE IN FOR A WHILE, AND, OH, BY THE WAY, 1385 01:10:07,907 --> 01:10:09,909 ANYTHING YOU SAID TO YOUR MOM ABOUT KILLING TINA, WE'RE GONNA 1386 01:10:09,909 --> 01:10:12,145 FIND." >> Reporter: SO HOW DID THAT 1387 01:10:12,145 --> 01:10:14,814 PERCOLATE DOWN IN HIS THINKING AND WITH HIS DEFENSE TEAM? 1388 01:10:14,814 --> 01:10:16,883 >> IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG AFTER THAT FOR MY OFFICE PHONE TO 1389 01:10:16,883 --> 01:10:19,019 RING AND HIS ATTORNEY SAID, "DO YOU 1390 01:10:19,019 --> 01:10:21,721 MIND IF WE COME OVER AND TALK ABOUT MR. SANDOVAL'S CASE? 1391 01:10:21,721 --> 01:10:24,290 I SAID, "SURE. >> Reporter: AFTER DISCUSSING 1392 01:10:24,290 --> 01:10:26,393 COURT CALENDARS AND RETRIAL LOGISTICS, ROURKE SAYS 1393 01:10:26,393 --> 01:10:29,029 SANDOVAL'S ATTORNEY CUT TO THE CHASE. 1394 01:10:29,029 --> 01:10:31,698 >> SHE SAID TO ME, "MR. SANDOVAL HAS SOME INFORMATION THAT HE 1395 01:10:31,698 --> 01:10:34,334 THINKS WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO YOU, OF INTEREST TO THE GREELEY 1396 01:10:34,334 --> 01:10:35,935 POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND NOTABLY INTEREST -- OF INTEREST TO THE 1397 01:10:35,935 --> 01:10:38,038 TOURNAI FAMILY." AND I LOOKED ACROSS THE TABLE AT 1398 01:10:38,038 --> 01:10:39,806 HER, AND I SAID, "IS HE FINALLY GONNA TELL US WHERE TINA IS? 1399 01:10:39,806 --> 01:10:41,141 AND SHE SAID, "POSSIBLY. >> Reporter: LEVERAGE? 1400 01:10:41,141 --> 01:10:43,610 >> LEVERAGE. >> Reporter: "I CAN TAKE YOU TO 1401 01:10:43,610 --> 01:10:44,911 THE BODY." >> THAT'S RIGHT. 1402 01:10:44,911 --> 01:10:47,047 >> Reporter: "BUT WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO FOR ME IN EXCHANGE," 1403 01:10:47,047 --> 01:10:48,782 RIGHT -- >> RIGHT 1404 01:10:48,782 --> 01:10:50,717 OH, WE -- THAT WOULD -- THAT - WENT WITHOUT SAYING. 1405 01:10:50,717 --> 01:10:53,353 WE KNEW THAT HE WAS ONLY GONNA DO THIS IF WE MADE HIM SOME KIND 1406 01:10:53,353 --> 01:10:55,455 OF A PLEA OFFER. >> AND WE WENT INTO THE D.A.'S 1407 01:10:55,455 --> 01:10:57,557 OFFICE AND THEY DROPPED THE BOMB THAT 1408 01:10:57,557 --> 01:11:00,126 HE SAID, "I WANNA PLEA AND I'LL TELL YOU WHERE TINA IS 1409 01:11:00,126 --> 01:11:01,761 IF YOU GIVE ME THIS. AND I DON'T RECALL HOW MUCH TIME 1410 01:11:01,761 --> 01:11:04,464 HE WANTED. BUT IT WASN'T ENOUGH 1411 01:11:04,464 --> 01:11:07,634 >> Reporter: THE ROUGH PROPOSAL - 1412 01:11:07,634 --> 01:11:10,270 KNOCK THE CONVICTION DOWN TO A LESSER CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE 1413 01:11:10,270 --> 01:11:13,406 MURDER WITH A SHORTER SENTENCE TO BE NEGOTIATED 1414 01:11:13,406 --> 01:11:15,909 IN EXCHANGE THE FAMILY WOULD GET TINA BACK. 1415 01:11:15,909 --> 01:11:18,211 DID YOU HAVE A VOTE? OR WAS THIS JUST A MATTER FOR 1416 01:11:18,211 --> 01:11:19,813 THE D.A. TO DECIDE HIMSELF >> NO. 1417 01:11:19,813 --> 01:11:22,482 HE LET US DISCUSS IT AS A FAMILY 1418 01:11:22,482 --> 01:11:25,085 AND WE DID SO I WAS KINDA FEELING LIKE, NO, 1419 01:11:25,085 --> 01:11:28,822 I DON'T WANNA DO THIS. LIKE, I'M WILLING TO GO BACK TO 1420 01:11:28,822 --> 01:11:29,889 TRIAL. BUT MY MOM WANTED IT REALLY 1421 01:11:29,889 --> 01:11:31,524 BADLY. AND A FEW OF MY OTHER SIBLINGS, 1422 01:11:31,524 --> 01:11:34,194 THEY REALLY WANTED TO KNOW WHERE SHE WAS. 1423 01:11:34,194 --> 01:11:37,764 AND THEY WANTED THAT CLOSURE >> Reporter: THERE WERE A NUMBER 1424 01:11:37,764 --> 01:11:40,934 OF VARIABLES TO CONSIDER - TIME SERVED. 1425 01:11:40,934 --> 01:11:43,570 TIME REDUCED FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR FORMULATIONS THAT DETERMINE THE 1426 01:11:43,570 --> 01:11:46,773 EARLIEST ELIGIBILITY FOR PAROLE TO A HALFWAY HOUSE 1427 01:11:46,773 --> 01:11:48,875 AFTER BEING REASSURED JOHN SANDOVAL WOULD REMAIN IN 1428 01:11:48,875 --> 01:11:52,579 PRISON FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER 10 YEARS, THE TOURNAI FAMILY HELD 1429 01:11:52,579 --> 01:11:55,248 ITS COLLECTIVE NOSE AND AGREED TO A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL 1430 01:11:55,248 --> 01:12:00,520 >> OUR HOPE WAS TO MAKE IT SO HE'D BE A VERY OLD MAN WHEN HE 1431 01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:03,156 SAW DAYLIGHT >> Reporter: BUT IT'S SOMETHING 1432 01:12:03,156 --> 01:12:07,627 THAT'S OUT OF YOUR CONTROL IN A WAY. 1433 01:12:07,627 --> 01:12:10,597 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: MARCH 22nd, 2017, 1434 01:12:10,597 --> 01:12:14,534 NEARLY A YEAR TO THE DAY AFTER HIS MURDER CONVICTION WAS 1435 01:12:14,534 --> 01:12:20,573 OVERTURNED, JOHN SANDOVAL ACCEPTED HIS NEW PLEA DEAL 1436 01:12:20,573 --> 01:12:25,879 >> A SOLE CONDITION OF THIS PLEA IS OUR ABILITY TO LOCATE, 1437 01:12:25,879 --> 01:12:29,082 RECOVER AND FORENSICALLY DETERMINE THAT THE BODY YOU ARE 1438 01:12:29,082 --> 01:12:32,218 GOING TO PRESUMPTIVELY SHOW US THE LOCATION OF TODAY IS, IN 1439 01:12:32,218 --> 01:12:34,354 FACT, TINA, OKAY ANY OF THOSE THREE THINGS DO NOT 1440 01:12:34,354 --> 01:12:36,990 HAPPEN, AND WE DO NOT HAVE AN AGREEMENT. 1441 01:12:36,990 --> 01:12:44,364 YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? >> YES 1442 01:12:44,364 --> 01:12:47,534 >> Reporter: THE TIME HAD ARRIVED FOR JOHN SANDOVAL TO 1443 01:12:47,534 --> 01:12:52,372 FINALLY REVEAL THE SECRET HE'D BEEN KEEPING FOR MORE THAN 1444 01:12:52,372 --> 01:12:56,009 20 YEARS -- WHERE HE'D PUT TINA. >> OKAY, FROM HERE, JOHN, YOU'RE 1445 01:12:56,009 --> 01:12:57,510 GONNA HAVE TO GIVE ME DIRECTIONS ON WHERE TO GO 1446 01:13:02,682 --> 01:13:07,620 >>> COMING UP -- >> I JUST KEEP FOLLOWING HIM 1447 01:13:07,620 --> 01:13:11,358 AROUND >> WAS TINA'S FAMILY ABOUT TO 1448 01:13:11,358 --> 01:13:33,747 LEARN THE TRUTH AT LAST? >> I'M NOT SUPER CONFIDENT THAT 1449 01:13:33,747 --> 01:13:34,948 NUMBER OF PLACES JOHN SANDOVAL MIGHT HAVE LED THE DETECTIVES 1450 01:13:34,948 --> 01:13:37,117 TO ALL THAT PRAIRIE 1451 01:13:37,117 --> 01:13:41,354 RUGGED WILDERNESS AREAS. REMOTE RAVINES WHERE HE MIGHT 1452 01:13:41,354 --> 01:13:43,990 HAVE DISPOSED OT THE BODY. >> WE NEED TO GO TO 10th STREET. 1453 01:13:43,990 --> 01:13:48,228 >> Reporter: BUT IN THIS POLICE VIDEO, RECORDED ON A CHILLY DAY 1454 01:13:48,228 --> 01:13:51,931 IN LATE MARCH OF 2017, JOHN SANDOVAL GAVE DIRECTIONS 1455 01:13:51,931 --> 01:13:54,100 AND CALMLY GAZED OUT THE CAR WINDOW, WATCHING THE FAMILIAR 1456 01:13:54,100 --> 01:14:01,474 STREETS OF THE GREELEY CITYSCAPE GO BY. 1457 01:14:01,474 --> 01:14:06,246 >> CROSSING OVER 34. HOOK A LEFT INTO THIS SUNSET 1458 01:14:06,246 --> 01:14:08,882 MEMORIAL >> Reporter: THEY TURNED INTO 1459 01:14:08,882 --> 01:14:12,552 SUNSET MEMORIAL GARDENS. >> JUST KEEP FOLLOWING THE ROAD. 1460 01:14:12,552 --> 01:14:15,221 >> Reporter: A SPRAWLING CEMETERY IN THE HEART OF GREELEY 1461 01:14:15,221 --> 01:14:17,323 WAS THEIR DESTINATION. TURNED OUT, SANDOVAL HAD ONCE 1462 01:14:17,323 --> 01:14:21,061 WORKED THERE THE IMPLICATION WAS CLEAR. 1463 01:14:21,061 --> 01:14:25,298 SOMEWHERE IN THIS VAST CEMETERY, TINA SANDOVAL WAS LIKELY SHARING 1464 01:14:25,298 --> 01:14:28,935 A GRAVE. ONCE OUT OF THE CAR, SANDOVAL 1465 01:14:28,935 --> 01:14:35,809 SEEMED DISORIENTED >> IS THIS GONNA HELP YOU? 1466 01:14:35,809 --> 01:14:39,512 >> I NEED TO KNOW UP TO '95 WHAT WAS UNDEVELOPED. 1467 01:14:39,512 --> 01:14:42,649 >> '95 UNDEVELOPED OKAY, THAT MAY TAKE A LITTLE BIT 1468 01:14:42,649 --> 01:14:45,819 LONGER >> TREES HAVE GROWN. 1469 01:14:45,819 --> 01:14:48,488 MORE GRAVES HAVE BEEN -- HAVE BEEN DUG AND -- AND MORE 1470 01:14:48,488 --> 01:14:52,192 HEADSTONES AND -- AND MARKERS ARE LAID OUT 1471 01:14:52,192 --> 01:14:55,362 >> Reporter: THE COPS WEREN'T SAYING, BUT THEY KNEW CEMETERY 1472 01:14:55,362 --> 01:14:58,098 RECORDS INDICATED THERE WERE THREE FRESHLY DUG GRAVES HERE ON 1473 01:14:58,098 --> 01:15:01,701 THE MORNING TINA DISAPPEARED ONE WAS THE RESTING PLACE OF A 1474 01:15:01,701 --> 01:15:04,838 U.S. VETERAN >> I KNEW I WAS CLOSE. 1475 01:15:04,838 --> 01:15:09,642 RIGHT AT THE APEX OF THIS DRIVE HERE 1476 01:15:09,642 --> 01:15:13,346 SO THIS SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT. THIS SEEMS ABOUT RIGHT 1477 01:15:13,346 --> 01:15:16,783 COME THIS WAY. >> Reporter: SANDOVAL INDICATED, 1478 01:15:16,783 --> 01:15:17,751 HERE, I THINK. >> AND THAT WAS, WHAT, THE NAME 1479 01:15:17,751 --> 01:15:19,719 OF THE PERSON WHO WAS ACTUALLY BURIED THERE 1480 01:15:19,719 --> 01:15:21,888 >> ARTHUR HERT WAS THE - >> Reporter: THE FAMILY NAME 1481 01:15:21,888 --> 01:15:24,057 >> -- VETERAN THAT WAS BURIED THERE. 1482 01:15:24,057 --> 01:15:27,127 HE WAS A WORLD WAR II VET. SO WE WENT BACK TO THE POLICE 1483 01:15:27,127 --> 01:15:30,797 DEPARTMENT AND CALLED HIS SON, RICHARD, AND HIS -- HIS WIFE, 1484 01:15:30,797 --> 01:15:33,433 DEBORAH, AND JUST HAD THIS REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE BREAKING 1485 01:15:33,433 --> 01:15:34,734 THE ICE KINDA THING. EXPLAINED WHO I WAS -- 1486 01:15:34,734 --> 01:15:35,935 >> Reporter: "YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE WHAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL 1487 01:15:35,935 --> 01:15:37,637 YOU" >> AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I 1488 01:15:37,637 --> 01:15:40,807 TOLD HIM I SAID, "MAN, YOU'RE -- YOU'RE 1489 01:15:40,807 --> 01:15:43,977 NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS, BUT WE HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE THAT A 1490 01:15:43,977 --> 01:15:46,746 MURDER VICTIM IS BURIED UNDER YOUR DAD AT THE CEMETERY." 1491 01:15:46,746 --> 01:15:51,384 AND THOSE TWO REMARKABLE PEOPLE WERE 100% SUPPORTIVE AND 1492 01:15:51,384 --> 01:15:54,087 COOPERATIVE. AGREED TO SIGN WHATEVER 1493 01:15:54,087 --> 01:16:00,894 DOCUMENTS WERE NECESSARY TO EXHUME HIS DAD 1494 01:16:00,894 --> 01:16:03,563 >> Reporter: SANDVOVAL WAS RETURNED TO THE COUNTY JAIL 1495 01:16:03,563 --> 01:16:07,233 WHILE PRILL MADE PLANS FOR THE EXHUMATION IN THE MORNING. 1496 01:16:07,233 --> 01:16:09,869 HE KNEW HE'D NEED THE EXPERTISE AND HIGH TECH GEAR OF A GROUP OF 1497 01:16:09,869 --> 01:16:15,442 BODY RECOVERY EXPERTS KNOWN AS NECROSEARCH. 1498 01:16:15,442 --> 01:16:19,379 THEY WOULD DIG IN THE GRAVE. PRILL, A PROUD ARMY VET HIMSELF, 1499 01:16:19,379 --> 01:16:25,218 ALSO KNEW HE HAD TO HONOR THE VETERAN WHO, IN A WAY, HAD STOOD 1500 01:16:25,218 --> 01:16:27,320 WATCH OVER TINA ALL THOSE YEARS. >> I THOUGHT IT'D BE PROPER TO 1501 01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:29,956 AT LEAST HAVE A MILITARY CEREMONY BOTH FOR THE EXHUMATION 1502 01:16:29,956 --> 01:16:34,394 AND THEN LATER FOR THE REMAINS TO BE RETURNED INTO THE GRAVE. 1503 01:16:34,394 --> 01:16:36,830 >> Reporter: YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT SAYS A LOT ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, 1504 01:16:36,830 --> 01:16:39,466 DETECTIVE. >> WELL, I SUPPOSE SO. 1505 01:16:39,466 --> 01:16:42,635 I'M FORMER MILITARY. AND THIS FAMILY IS NOW A NEW 1506 01:16:42,635 --> 01:16:46,873 VICTIM OF JOHN SANDOVAL, SO HOW CAN WE MAKE IT AS HONORABLE AND 1507 01:16:46,873 --> 01:16:53,146 AS RESPECTFUL AND DIGNIFIED AS POSSIBLE 1508 01:16:53,146 --> 01:16:54,347 TO POTENTIALLY AND HOPEFULLY FIND TINA UNDERNEATH, 'CAUSE I'M 1509 01:16:54,347 --> 01:16:56,883 NOT SUPER CONFIDENT, AT THIS POINT, THAT JOHN'S LED US TO THE 1510 01:16:56,883 --> 01:16:59,519 RIGHT -- RIGHT LOCATION. I MEAN, HE'S SUCH A SNAKE, SUCH 1511 01:16:59,519 --> 01:17:04,891 A WEASEL YOU -- YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE 1512 01:17:04,891 --> 01:17:08,528 MIGHT BE TRYING TO DO. >> Reporter: THE VETERAN'S 1513 01:17:08,528 --> 01:17:14,334 COFFIN AND REMAINS WERE EXHUMED AND TAKEN TO A MORTUARY TO AWAIT 1514 01:17:14,334 --> 01:17:19,072 REBURIAL THE FORENSIC EXPERTS WENT INTO 1515 01:17:19,072 --> 01:17:23,376 THE GRAVE AND BEGAN THEIR OH-SO-CAREFUL DIGGING. 1516 01:17:23,376 --> 01:17:24,544 WHEN THEY CAME UPON A PLASTIC TARP, MIKE PRILL IMMEDIATELY 1517 01:17:24,544 --> 01:17:28,548 CALLED DETECTIVE BRAD GOLDSCHMIDT 1518 01:17:28,548 --> 01:17:30,684 >> "WE FOUND PLASTIC WE -- IT'S A PLASTIC BAG." 1519 01:17:30,684 --> 01:17:31,751 AND HE'S LIKE, "DO YOU THINK WE FOUND HER? 1520 01:17:31,751 --> 01:17:34,387 AND I'M LIKE, "YEAH, ABSOLUTELY." 1521 01:17:34,387 --> 01:17:38,124 AND THEN THE TARP WAS BROUGHT UP AND OPENED UP BY OUR 1522 01:17:38,124 --> 01:17:39,259 PATHOLOGIST. AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, AND WHEN 1523 01:17:39,259 --> 01:17:41,795 I SAW HER TEETH AND HER BRACES, I KNEW 1524 01:17:41,795 --> 01:17:43,930 >> Reporter: YOU AND THE TEAM HAD FOUND HER? 1525 01:17:43,930 --> 01:17:46,533 >> WE'D FOUND HER. >> THE D.A. CALLED ME. 1526 01:17:46,533 --> 01:17:49,202 >> Reporter: AND SAID IT'S HER >> AND HE SAID, "IT'S HER. 1527 01:17:49,202 --> 01:17:50,303 UH-HUH >> Reporter: WHAT HAPPENS AT 1528 01:17:50,303 --> 01:17:57,110 THAT MOMENT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS FOR YOU? 1529 01:17:57,110 --> 01:18:01,848 >> IT'S AGAIN THAT RELEASE OF RELIEF OF SOME CLOSURE, OF 1530 01:18:01,848 --> 01:18:06,619 SOMETHING BEING FINISHED, OF SOMETHING BEING OVER, A PART OF 1531 01:18:06,619 --> 01:18:12,425 THAT -- THAT WE FINALLY KNOW WHERE SHE WAS. 1532 01:18:12,425 --> 01:18:16,162 SO I WAS GLAD THAT WE KNEW >> Reporter: TINA'S FRIEND AND 1533 01:18:16,162 --> 01:18:18,765 CO-WORKER CAROL SJERVEN, THE ONE WHO'D HAD NIGHTMARES AFTER SHE 1534 01:18:18,765 --> 01:18:21,935 VANISHED, WAS UNDERSTANDABLY RELIEVED TO HEAR HER BODY HAD 1535 01:18:21,935 --> 01:18:25,138 BEEN RECOVERED TODAY, SHE SAYS SHE UNDERSTANDS 1536 01:18:25,138 --> 01:18:27,741 THE TOURNAIS' DETERMINATION TO GET HER BACK, EVEN IF IT MEANT 1537 01:18:27,741 --> 01:18:31,444 AGREEING TO A PLEA DEAL FOR HER KILLER 1538 01:18:31,444 --> 01:18:33,580 >> MY NIGHTMARES FINALLY WENT AWAY 1539 01:18:33,580 --> 01:18:36,683 AND NOW I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS AND I'LL TELL YOU, THE NIGHTMARES 1540 01:18:36,683 --> 01:18:38,818 NEVER WOULD GO AWAY IF IT WAS MY CHILD. 1541 01:18:38,818 --> 01:18:43,590 I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW PAINFUL IT WAS FOR THEM TO THINK, "WHERE 1542 01:18:43,590 --> 01:18:46,926 COULD SHE BE?" SO I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHY THEY 1543 01:18:46,926 --> 01:18:49,396 WANTED TO DO THAT, AT LEAST THAT'S HOW I WOULD FEEL AS A 1544 01:18:49,396 --> 01:18:52,065 MOTHER >> Reporter: THE MEDICAL 1545 01:18:52,065 --> 01:18:54,167 EXAMINER STUDIED TINA'S REMAINS BUT COULD NOT DETERMINE HOW SHE 1546 01:18:54,167 --> 01:18:56,436 WAS KILLED SANDOVAL KNEW BUT HE WASN'T 1547 01:18:56,436 --> 01:18:58,905 TALKING. THAT WAS PART OF HIS PLEA DEAL 1548 01:18:58,905 --> 01:19:08,014 HE WOULD NOT GIVE UP THE HOW AND WHY OF HIS WIFE'S MURDER 1549 01:19:08,014 --> 01:19:10,550 GET DOWN INTO A FRESH GRAVE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. 1550 01:19:10,550 --> 01:19:13,720 >> AND THEN DRAGGING HER - >> Reporter: DRAG HER OVER 1551 01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,356 >> GET HER DOWN IN THERE FILL IT BACK UP. 1552 01:19:16,356 --> 01:19:18,491 LEVEL IT OFF >> Reporter: ON A TRIP BACK TO 1553 01:19:18,491 --> 01:19:21,561 THE CEMETERY, DETECTIVE PRILL TOLD ME HE HAS A PRETTY GOOD 1554 01:19:21,561 --> 01:19:22,862 IDEA OF WHAT HAPPENED ON THE NIGHT TINA WAS BURIED HERE 1555 01:19:22,862 --> 01:19:24,030 THIS IS "X" MARKS THE SPOT WHERE WE'RE STANDING IS THE EDGE 1556 01:19:24,030 --> 01:19:25,365 OF THE CEMETERY, JUST ACROSS THESE HEDGES 1557 01:19:25,365 --> 01:19:28,468 >> RIGHT >> Reporter: SO I GUESS HE JUST 1558 01:19:28,468 --> 01:19:30,103 WHEN IN BOLD AS BRASS THROUGH THAT, UH, PUBLIC DRIVEWAY, 1559 01:19:30,103 --> 01:19:31,671 WHATEVER THE ACCESS IS - >> YEAH. 1560 01:19:31,671 --> 01:19:33,807 YEAH I MEAN -- >> Reporter: THERE'S NO -- 1561 01:19:33,807 --> 01:19:34,908 THERE'S NO KEYS. NO BIG GATES, NO "WELCOME TO 1562 01:19:34,908 --> 01:19:37,043 HEAVENLY REST" AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF 1563 01:19:37,043 --> 01:19:39,612 >> NO. THERE'S NO GATES, NO CONTROLLED 1564 01:19:39,612 --> 01:19:45,418 ACCESS AND HE PROBABLY JUST COASTED TO A STOP. 1565 01:19:45,418 --> 01:19:48,621 >> Reporter: HE CAME UPON AN EMPTY, FRESHLY DUG GRAVE 1566 01:19:48,621 --> 01:19:52,292 >> HE'S NEVER EXPLAINED HOW HE WENT ABOUT IT, BUT IT'S FAIRLY 1567 01:19:52,292 --> 01:19:56,062 FLASHLIGHT TIED AROUND HIS - HIS NECK 1568 01:19:56,062 --> 01:19:58,732 WE RECOVERED THAT FROM THE CAR JUMPED DOWN IN THE HOLE, DUG THE 1569 01:19:58,732 --> 01:20:02,335 HOLE, USED THE BUCKET TO CLIMB OUT -- 1570 01:20:02,335 --> 01:20:06,006 DRUG TINA'S BODY INTO THE DUG GRAVE, PUT HER DEEPER UNDER THE 1571 01:20:06,006 --> 01:20:09,209 GROUND >> Reporter: BECAUSE THE VET'S 1572 01:20:09,209 --> 01:20:12,912 FUNERAL WAS SCHEDULED FOR THE NEXT DAY, PRILL IMAGINES 1573 01:20:12,912 --> 01:20:15,782 SANDOVAL USING THAT CARPENTER'S LEVEL THEY'D FOUND IN HIS CAR TO 1574 01:20:15,782 --> 01:20:19,252 SMOOTH OUT THE DISTRUBED SOIL ON THE BOTTOM OF THE GRAVE SO THAT 1575 01:20:19,252 --> 01:20:24,024 SOON-TO-ARRIVE CEMETERY EMPLOYEES WOULDN'T BE 1576 01:20:24,024 --> 01:20:28,762 SUSPICIOUS >> THERE'S THE GRADUATE. 1577 01:20:28,762 --> 01:20:31,664 >> Reporter: BUT NOW THE TOURNAI FAMILY HAD TINA BACK AND COULD 1578 01:20:31,664 --> 01:20:38,271 FINALLY GIVE HER A GRAVE OF HER OWN. 1579 01:20:38,271 --> 01:20:39,873 AND YOU HAD HER BACK AND NOW YOU COULD DO A PROPER BURIAL AND 1580 01:20:39,873 --> 01:20:45,145 MEMORIAL SERVICE >> YES 1581 01:20:45,145 --> 01:20:48,314 YES. IT WAS VERY HEALING I THINK FOR 1582 01:20:48,314 --> 01:20:51,451 EVERYBODY, BROUGHT US TOGETHER AGAIN AND KIND OF ZIPPED IT UP 1583 01:20:51,451 --> 01:20:54,120 FOR ALL OF US, AS FAR AS SHE'S OKAY NOW AND BACK WITH HER 1584 01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:56,756 FAMILY >> Reporter: AS FOR 1585 01:20:56,756 --> 01:20:59,426 JOHN SANDOVAL, WHEN HE NEXT APPEARED IN COURT, HE GOT THE 1586 01:20:59,426 --> 01:21:03,630 LIGHTER SENTENCE HE'D BEEN LOOKING FOR. 1587 01:21:03,630 --> 01:21:06,299 IN RETURN FOR DELIVERING UP HIS MURDER VICTIM'S BODY, HE WOULD 1588 01:21:06,299 --> 01:21:09,969 NOW HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE 1589 01:21:09,969 --> 01:21:13,173 >> YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, RIGHT? >> I DO. 1590 01:21:13,173 --> 01:21:18,311 >> Reporter: BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE STORY 1591 01:21:18,311 --> 01:21:27,454 JOHN SANDOVAL CAN APPLY FOR PAROLE AGAIN IN 2026, AND HE HAS 1592 01:21:27,454 --> 01:21:32,759 A RELEASE DATE OF 2032 -- WHEN HE WILL BE 70-YEARS OLD. 1593 01:21:32,759 --> 01:21:34,861 >> WE'RE WORKING AS A FAMILY TO TRY AND KEEP HIM PUT AWAY. 1594 01:21:34,861 --> 01:21:36,463 >> Reporter: DO YOU BELIEVE HE IS REHABILITATED 1595 01:21:36,463 --> 01:21:39,632 >> NO. >> Reporter: IF HE WALKS OUT 1596 01:21:39,632 --> 01:21:41,735 >> NO. NO 1597 01:21:41,735 --> 01:21:44,371 >> Reporter: YOU THINK HE'S A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER 1598 01:21:44,371 --> 01:21:47,007 >> YES HE GETS GOOD BEHAVIOR WHEN HE'S 1599 01:21:47,007 --> 01:21:48,608 IN PRISON -- >> Reporter: HE'S A MODEL 1600 01:21:48,608 --> 01:21:51,011 PRISONER THEY SAY. >> HE -- THERE'S NO WOMEN IN 1601 01:21:51,011 --> 01:21:54,014 PRISON THAT'S HIS FAVORITE THING, 1602 01:21:54,014 --> 01:21:54,881 COLLECTING WOMEN WE'RE STILL HOPING THAT 1603 01:21:54,881 --> 01:21:56,616 SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN WITH VEGAS. 1604 01:21:56,616 --> 01:21:58,685 >> Reporter: THAT A FRESH CHARGE MIGHT COME UP? 1605 01:21:58,685 --> 01:22:03,957 >> FRESH CHARGE MIGHT COME UP, THAT ONE OF THE WOMEN MIGHT 1606 01:22:03,957 --> 01:22:09,763 SPEAK UP >> Reporter: NO ONE HAS COME 1607 01:22:09,763 --> 01:22:12,932 FORWARD. SO TINA'S FAMILY HAS BEEN 1608 01:22:12,932 --> 01:22:15,568 PROACTIVE, APPEALING TO THE STATE PAROLE BOARD EVERY TIME 1609 01:22:15,568 --> 01:22:18,738 SANDOVAL HAS COME UP FOR A HEARING, SAYING DON'T RELEASE 1610 01:22:18,738 --> 01:22:21,408 HIM -- NOT THIS TIME, NOT EVER IF TINA WAS SITTING HERE -- 1611 01:22:21,408 --> 01:22:25,645 DON'T WE WISH SHE WERE -- WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HER ABOUT ALL 1612 01:22:25,645 --> 01:22:27,313 THOSE YEARS? >> I'D JUST TELL HER I LOVE HER. 1613 01:22:27,313 --> 01:22:34,587 AND, YOU KNOW, WE TRIED OUR HARDEST. 1614 01:22:34,587 --> 01:22:37,757 AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP TRYING. JUSTICE IS NOT FULLY SERVED YET. 1615 01:22:37,757 --> 01:22:41,428 AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP -- KEEP PUSHING. 1616 01:22:41,428 --> 01:22:45,131 >>> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION OF "DATELINE." 1617 01:22:45,131 --> 01:22:47,634 WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY AT 9:00/8:00 CENTRAL 1618 01:22:47,634 --> 01:22:49,369 AND OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH WEEKNIGHT FOR "NBC NIGHTLY 1619 01:22:49,369 --> 01:22:52,105 NEWS." I'M LESTER HOLT.