1 00:00:07,067 --> 00:00:15,600 * 2 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,500 >>> ANDREEN McDONALD HAD A VERY, 3 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:19,433 VERY STRICT REGIMEN. 4 00:00:19,433 --> 00:00:21,500 SHE FOLLOWED IT DAILY. 5 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:21,900 >> NICE! 6 00:00:21,900 --> 00:00:22,533 DROP IT. 7 00:00:22,533 --> 00:00:23,567 THAT A GIRL! 8 00:00:23,567 --> 00:00:25,600 >> SHE WOULD BE AT THE GYM AT 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:27,700 5:30 IN THE MORNING, IN THE 10 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:28,700 OFFICE BY 8:00. 11 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:30,967 ON MARCH 1st, THEY HAD NO 12 00:00:30,967 --> 00:00:31,833 INDICATION SHE WOULD BE LATE. 13 00:00:31,833 --> 00:00:34,933 SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR WORK. 14 00:00:34,933 --> 00:00:37,300 THIS WAS VERY SIGNIFICANT TO HER 15 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:37,567 EMPLOYEES. 16 00:00:37,567 --> 00:00:39,233 THEY CALLED THE GYM AND FOUND 17 00:00:39,233 --> 00:00:41,900 OUT SHE NEVER SHOWED UP TO THE 18 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:45,167 GYM, WHICH IS LIKE A RELIGION TO 19 00:00:45,167 --> 00:00:45,367 HER. 20 00:00:45,367 --> 00:00:48,200 >> AFTER CALLING ANDREEN 21 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:49,133 REPEATEDLY, IT'S GOING TO VOICE 22 00:00:49,133 --> 00:00:49,400 MAIL. 23 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:53,833 YOU KNOW, THE ANXIETY STARTS 24 00:00:53,833 --> 00:00:54,367 SETTING IN. 25 00:00:54,367 --> 00:00:55,867 I START PANICKING. 26 00:00:55,867 --> 00:00:58,600 FOR ANDREEN TO BE MISSING IS NOT 27 00:00:58,600 --> 00:00:58,867 POSSIBLE. 28 00:00:58,867 --> 00:01:00,267 >> THE BIGGEST ISSUE FOR ME WERE 29 00:01:00,267 --> 00:01:03,067 THE FACT THAT HER PHONE WAS 30 00:01:03,067 --> 00:01:04,266 MISSING, HER PURSE WAS STILL 31 00:01:04,266 --> 00:01:06,067 THERE, HER KEYS WERE ON THE 32 00:01:06,067 --> 00:01:08,300 COUNTER AND HER VEHICLES WERE 33 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:09,367 STILL THERE. 34 00:01:09,367 --> 00:01:10,833 >> HER VEHICLE IS THERE, HER 35 00:01:10,833 --> 00:01:12,833 PURSE IS THERE, HER KEYS ARE 36 00:01:12,833 --> 00:01:13,233 THERE. 37 00:01:13,233 --> 00:01:15,867 IF SHE'S MISSING, IS THERE A 38 00:01:15,867 --> 00:01:17,100 CONCERN OF AN ABDUCTION? 39 00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:18,933 >> WELL, THE DEPUTIES OBVIOUSLY 40 00:01:18,933 --> 00:01:20,067 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK AT 41 00:01:20,067 --> 00:01:20,667 THIS POINT. 42 00:01:20,667 --> 00:01:25,100 THEY WERE JUST BEGINNING THE 43 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:26,500 INVESTIGATION. 44 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,533 WHAT WE DID LEARN IS ANDREEN 45 00:01:29,533 --> 00:01:32,400 McDONALD, A BEAUTIFUL JAMAICAN 46 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:34,200 WOMAN WAS BROUGHT TO THE UNITED 47 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:36,667 STATES BY ANDRE, HER HUSBAND. 48 00:01:36,667 --> 00:01:38,400 HE'S A MAJOR IN THE AIR FORCE 49 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,500 AND HAD TOP SECRET SECURITY 50 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:42,300 CLEARANCE. 51 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,467 THEY BEGAN AN ASSISTED LIVING 52 00:01:46,467 --> 00:01:48,967 BUSINESS WHERE THEY, IN SHORT 53 00:01:48,967 --> 00:01:51,633 ORDER BECAME MILLIONAIRES. 54 00:01:51,633 --> 00:01:53,600 A PICTURE OF THE AMERICAN DREAM. 55 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:55,800 >> SHE'S NOT BOASTFUL OR 56 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,433 ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 57 00:01:59,433 --> 00:02:01,400 SHE'S JUST THAT HUMBLE PERSON. 58 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,567 >> ANDREEN HAD A GREAT 59 00:02:03,567 --> 00:02:05,200 REPUTATION IN NOT ONLY THE 60 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:06,433 ASSISTED LIVING COMMUNITY HERE 61 00:02:06,433 --> 00:02:08,067 IN SAN ANTONIO. 62 00:02:08,067 --> 00:02:09,600 >> AND WE'RE ON THE SIDE OF THE 63 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,467 STREET THIS MORNING AND WE'RE 64 00:02:11,467 --> 00:02:13,900 GIVING OUT FOOD FOR THOSE LESS 65 00:02:13,900 --> 00:02:15,067 FORT MATT. 66 00:02:15,067 --> 00:02:16,966 >> SHE WAS VERY, VERY GENEROUS 67 00:02:16,966 --> 00:02:18,567 WITH HER WEALTH AND HER TIME. 68 00:02:18,567 --> 00:02:23,067 KIND OF A RISING STAR OF SAN 69 00:02:23,067 --> 00:02:23,300 ANTONIO. 70 00:02:23,300 --> 00:02:25,700 >> ABSOLUTELY. 71 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:27,767 VERY MUCH SO A RISING STAR. 72 00:02:27,767 --> 00:02:29,600 >> THEY WERE ALWAYS LAUGHING 73 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:29,867 TOGETHER. 74 00:02:29,867 --> 00:02:33,067 THEY WERE ALWAYS JOKING AROUND. 75 00:02:33,067 --> 00:02:35,966 >> THE HOME DIDN'T SEEM TO BE IN 76 00:02:35,966 --> 00:02:37,667 TERRIBLE DISARRAY. 77 00:02:37,667 --> 00:02:39,367 NO FURNITURE WAS KNOCKED OVER OR 78 00:02:39,367 --> 00:02:42,300 ANYTHING WAS BROKEN. 79 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,500 I FOUND THERE WAS BLOOD ON THE 80 00:02:44,500 --> 00:02:46,933 WALL IN AN AREA THAT WAS KIND OF 81 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:47,367 ODD. 82 00:02:47,367 --> 00:02:51,233 THERE WAS BLOOD AND HAIR ON A 83 00:02:51,233 --> 00:02:53,733 LIGHT SWITCH. 84 00:02:53,733 --> 00:02:56,233 I ASSUMED THAT SOMETHING 85 00:02:56,233 --> 00:02:57,933 HAPPENED THERE. 86 00:02:57,933 --> 00:03:00,133 IT WAS A CRIME SCENE OF SOME 87 00:03:00,133 --> 00:03:00,333 SORT. 88 00:03:00,333 --> 00:03:02,700 >> I WAS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND I 89 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:03,867 SAW THAT INITIAL POSTER THAT 90 00:03:03,867 --> 00:03:06,067 CAME OUT WITH HER FACE AND THEN 91 00:03:06,067 --> 00:03:08,433 IT SAYS MISSING ON THE TOP. 92 00:03:08,433 --> 00:03:10,233 ANDREEN IS NOT THE TYPE OF 93 00:03:10,233 --> 00:03:13,067 PERSON TO TAKE OFF AND GO 94 00:03:13,067 --> 00:03:15,700 SOMEWHERE AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE 95 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:16,167 SHE IS. 96 00:03:16,167 --> 00:03:18,233 WHEN THE MONTHS WENT BY AND THE 97 00:03:18,233 --> 00:03:19,833 DAYS WENT BY AND THEY HAVEN'T 98 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:22,433 FOUND ANYTHING, IN MY MIND, IT'S 99 00:03:22,433 --> 00:03:27,067 NOT SUCH A BAD THING BECAUSE IF 100 00:03:27,067 --> 00:03:29,133 THEY ARE NOT ABLE TO FIND 101 00:03:29,133 --> 00:03:31,067 SOMETHING THAT SOLIDIFIES HER 102 00:03:31,067 --> 00:03:34,067 BEING DEAD, I MEAN, SHE'S ALIVE, 103 00:03:34,067 --> 00:03:51,867 RIGHT, AND SHE'S SOMEWHERE. 104 00:04:16,966 --> 00:04:28,200 * 105 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,400 >>> IN THE AFTERNOON OF MARCH 106 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,332 1st, 2019, AFTER 29-YEAR-OLD 107 00:04:33,332 --> 00:04:35,133 ANDREEN McDONALD WAS REPORTED 108 00:04:35,133 --> 00:04:38,332 MISSING BY HER MOTHER MAUREEN, A 109 00:04:38,332 --> 00:04:40,400 SHERIFFS DEPUTY ARRIVED AT THE 110 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,600 McDONALD HOME IN AN UPSCALE, 111 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,767 GATED COMMUNITY IN SAN ANTONIO. 112 00:04:45,767 --> 00:04:47,800 WITHIN MINUTES, THE SHERIFF SAYS 113 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,867 HIS DEPUTY MADE A DISTURBING 114 00:04:50,867 --> 00:04:51,167 DISCOVERY. 115 00:04:51,167 --> 00:04:53,933 >> ONE OF MY DEPUTIES HAD SEEN 116 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:55,400 WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE BLOOD 117 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:57,067 ON THE WALL AND POSSIBLY HAIR. 118 00:04:57,067 --> 00:04:59,332 >> AND IN THE BACKYARD, NORMALLY 119 00:04:59,332 --> 00:05:01,567 BEAUTIFULLY LANDSCAPED, ANOTHER 120 00:05:01,567 --> 00:05:02,633 TROUBLING CLUE. 121 00:05:02,633 --> 00:05:07,400 A RANDOM BURN PILE. 122 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:11,133 >> RIGHT HERE I SAW THE BURN 123 00:05:11,133 --> 00:05:11,400 PILE. 124 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:15,300 WE FOUND A ZIPPER FROM ANDREEN'S 125 00:05:15,300 --> 00:05:15,533 BLOUSE. 126 00:05:15,533 --> 00:05:17,567 >> IT WAS ANDREEN'S BLOUSE? 127 00:05:17,567 --> 00:05:18,832 >> UH-HUH. 128 00:05:18,832 --> 00:05:22,967 >> ANDREEN'S HOUSE ANDRE "ANDY" 129 00:05:22,967 --> 00:05:25,767 McDONALD TOLD THE DEPUTY THAT 130 00:05:25,767 --> 00:05:27,600 WHEN HE WOKE UP, HE GOT THEIR 131 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:29,533 DAUGHTER TO SCHOOL BEFORE 132 00:05:29,533 --> 00:05:30,667 REPORTING TO THE AIR FORCE BASE 133 00:05:30,667 --> 00:05:33,600 WHERE HE SERVED AS A CYBER 134 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:35,667 WARFARE ANALYSTMENT ONCE HE 135 00:05:35,667 --> 00:05:38,400 LEARNED ANDREEN WAS MISSING, 136 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:39,332 ANDRE WENT BACK HOME. 137 00:05:39,332 --> 00:05:41,633 BUT HE QUICKLY HEADED OUT THE 138 00:05:41,633 --> 00:05:44,433 DOOR AGAIN TO ACT ON A HUNCH 139 00:05:44,433 --> 00:05:47,600 THAT ANDREEN WHO SUFFERED FROM 140 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,300 MIGRAINES MIGHT HAVE GONE TO A 141 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:53,767 NEARBY HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT. 142 00:05:53,767 --> 00:05:54,433 ANDRE'S ARRIVAL TO THE HOSPITAL 143 00:05:54,433 --> 00:05:57,933 WAS CAPTURED BY SURVEILLANCE 144 00:05:57,933 --> 00:05:58,167 TAPES. 145 00:05:58,167 --> 00:06:00,067 >> ON THAT TAPE, HE COMES IN. 146 00:06:00,067 --> 00:06:03,067 YOU CAN SEE HIM ASKING FOR 147 00:06:03,067 --> 00:06:03,333 McDONALD. 148 00:06:03,333 --> 00:06:05,400 AND THEY TELL HIM THERE IS 149 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:07,433 SOMEBODY IN ROOM 3 NAMED 150 00:06:07,433 --> 00:06:07,967 McDONALD. 151 00:06:07,967 --> 00:06:09,733 >> HE ARRIVES BACK TO THE HOUSE. 152 00:06:09,733 --> 00:06:11,367 WHAT DOES HE TELL THEM? 153 00:06:11,367 --> 00:06:14,067 >> HE TELLS THEM THAT SHE'S IN 154 00:06:14,067 --> 00:06:14,533 THE HOSPITAL. 155 00:06:14,533 --> 00:06:16,967 >> WHEN THE DEPUTY CALLED THE 156 00:06:16,967 --> 00:06:19,933 HOSPITAL, HE DISCOVERED THAT THE 157 00:06:19,933 --> 00:06:22,633 McDONALD THAT CHECKED IN WAS NOT 158 00:06:22,633 --> 00:06:23,500 ANDREEN McDONALD. 159 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:25,367 >> ANDRE TOLD DEPUTIES HE RUSHED 160 00:06:25,367 --> 00:06:27,367 BACK HOME BEFORE SEEING HIS WIFE 161 00:06:27,367 --> 00:06:28,767 BECAUSE HE HAD LEFT HIS CELL 162 00:06:28,767 --> 00:06:31,533 PHONE AT HOME AND WANTED TO LET 163 00:06:31,533 --> 00:06:33,567 MAUREEN KNOW HE HAD FOUND 164 00:06:33,567 --> 00:06:33,832 ANDREEN. 165 00:06:33,832 --> 00:06:35,233 >> THERE WAS SOME INDICATION TO 166 00:06:35,233 --> 00:06:36,933 HIM SHE WAS THERE AND INJURED TO 167 00:06:36,933 --> 00:06:37,667 SOME EXTENT. 168 00:06:37,667 --> 00:06:40,300 >> UNFORTUNATELY, THE MAJOR'S 169 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:42,733 HUNCH TURNED OUT TO BE WRONG. 170 00:06:42,733 --> 00:06:45,467 >> WHEN I HEARD, I WAS -- OH, 171 00:06:45,467 --> 00:06:45,667 GOD. 172 00:06:45,667 --> 00:06:47,100 I WAS SO UPSET. 173 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:48,933 I WAS JUST THINKING THAT SHE'S 174 00:06:48,933 --> 00:06:50,332 SOMEPLACE THAT WE CAN'T FIND 175 00:06:50,332 --> 00:06:50,533 HER. 176 00:06:50,533 --> 00:06:54,400 >> AND FOR ANDREEN'S 177 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,767 MOTHER-IN-LAW WHO LIVED IN 178 00:06:55,767 --> 00:06:57,433 FLORIDA, THERE WAS UNCERTAINTY. 179 00:06:57,433 --> 00:06:59,500 >> I HAVE CALLED ANDREEN'S PHONE 180 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:01,767 ABOUT A THOUSAND TIMES ALREADY 181 00:07:01,767 --> 00:07:03,600 SAYING, ANDREEN, WHATEVER IT IS, 182 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,933 PLEASE, PLEASE, JUST CALL ME 183 00:07:05,933 --> 00:07:06,133 BACK. 184 00:07:06,133 --> 00:07:07,933 >> WHAT CONCERNED EVERYONE WAS 185 00:07:07,933 --> 00:07:09,767 THE FACT ANDREEN WOULD NEVER 186 00:07:09,767 --> 00:07:10,900 JUST DISAPPEAR. 187 00:07:10,900 --> 00:07:13,067 SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER SENSE OF 188 00:07:13,067 --> 00:07:14,600 RESPONSIBILITY AND DEDICATION TO 189 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,667 HER FAMILY AND BUSINESS. 190 00:07:18,667 --> 00:07:21,433 >> HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE 191 00:07:21,433 --> 00:07:21,667 ANDREEN? 192 00:07:21,667 --> 00:07:26,667 >> SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE WANTS, AND 193 00:07:26,667 --> 00:07:28,633 SHE WOULD NEVER STOP UNTIL SHE 194 00:07:28,633 --> 00:07:31,567 GET IT. 195 00:07:31,567 --> 00:07:33,767 >> I DID COME IN BEFORE HE DID. 196 00:07:33,767 --> 00:07:34,933 >> RIGHT. 197 00:07:34,933 --> 00:07:37,133 ANDREEN DID DEFEAT ME, AND SHE 198 00:07:37,133 --> 00:07:38,900 IS SO EXCITED. 199 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:40,933 >> ANDREEN CREATED AN ASSISTED 200 00:07:40,933 --> 00:07:43,367 LIVING BUSINESS IN SAN ANTONIO 201 00:07:43,367 --> 00:07:45,900 CALLED STARLIGHT HOMES WHEN SHE 202 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:46,733 WAS JUST 22. 203 00:07:46,733 --> 00:07:50,267 AND ACCORDING TO ANDRE'S CLOSE 204 00:07:50,267 --> 00:07:52,332 FRIEND, ANDREW RUSSELL -- 205 00:07:52,332 --> 00:07:53,367 >> IN ORDER TO START THE 206 00:07:53,367 --> 00:07:57,100 BUSINESS, ANDRE, HE LIQUIDATED 207 00:07:57,100 --> 00:07:57,633 HIS 401(k). 208 00:07:57,633 --> 00:07:59,633 >> ANDRE BANK ROLLED HER DREAMS. 209 00:07:59,633 --> 00:08:02,533 >> AND HE SOLD THE BMW THAT HE 210 00:08:02,533 --> 00:08:02,767 OWNED. 211 00:08:02,767 --> 00:08:04,433 >> THEY WERE DOING SO WELL. 212 00:08:04,433 --> 00:08:06,533 THEY WERE DOING EVERYTHING THAT 213 00:08:06,533 --> 00:08:10,933 WOULD MAKE ANY MOTHER PROUD. 214 00:08:10,933 --> 00:08:14,067 >> STARLIGHT HOMES THRIVED. 215 00:08:14,067 --> 00:08:16,100 AND UNDER ANDREEN'S WATCH, THE 216 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:18,200 TINY HOME-BASE BUSINESS 217 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:19,700 TRANSFORMED INTO A MULTIMILLION 218 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:22,067 DOLLAR ENTERPRISE IN JUST SEVEN 219 00:08:22,067 --> 00:08:22,233 YEARS. 220 00:08:22,233 --> 00:08:25,067 >> WHEN I STARTED MY ASSISTED 221 00:08:25,067 --> 00:08:27,267 LIVING, I ONLY STARTED WITH 222 00:08:27,267 --> 00:08:29,500 THREE RESIDENCES. 223 00:08:29,500 --> 00:08:32,767 TODAY WE HAVE TWO LOCATIONS IN 224 00:08:32,767 --> 00:08:36,967 THE SAN ANTONIO AREA. 225 00:08:36,967 --> 00:08:39,500 >> CHILDHOOD FRIEND MANDY SAYS 226 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:43,866 ANDRE'S SUCCESS WAS BORN OUT OF 227 00:08:43,866 --> 00:08:45,400 HUMBLE BEGINNINGS. 228 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,267 >> GROWING UP, WE DIDN'T HAVE A 229 00:08:47,267 --> 00:08:47,433 LOT. 230 00:08:47,433 --> 00:08:50,267 WE FIGURED, IF WE WANTED TO GET 231 00:08:50,267 --> 00:08:51,300 SOMEWHERE IN LIFE, IT WOULD BE 232 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:53,067 IN AMERICA. 233 00:08:53,067 --> 00:08:54,300 THAT'S WHAT THE DREAM WAS. 234 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:56,967 >> ANDREEN'S DREAM OF COMING TO 235 00:08:56,967 --> 00:09:00,067 AMERICA CAME TRUE AT 19 WHEN SHE 236 00:09:00,067 --> 00:09:00,967 MET ANDRE. 237 00:09:00,967 --> 00:09:10,200 HE WAS ALSO A NATIVE OF JAMAICA 238 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:10,600 IN THE AIR FORCE. 239 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:14,433 ANDRE WENT HOME IN 2009 TO 240 00:09:14,433 --> 00:09:17,433 ATTEND A FUNERAL WHEN HE MET 241 00:09:17,433 --> 00:09:17,700 ANDREEN. 242 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:18,633 >> WAS THERE AN ATTRACTION IN 243 00:09:18,633 --> 00:09:19,500 THE BEGINNING? 244 00:09:19,500 --> 00:09:21,667 >> SHE WAS EXCITED WHEN SHE MET 245 00:09:21,667 --> 00:09:23,433 HIM, EXCITED ABOUT THE CAPTAIN 246 00:09:23,433 --> 00:09:24,733 IN THE AIR FORCE. 247 00:09:24,733 --> 00:09:27,433 THEY BOTH DECIDE FOR HER TO COME 248 00:09:27,433 --> 00:09:28,433 TO AMERICA. 249 00:09:28,433 --> 00:09:31,233 >> THEY MARRIED THAT JULY. 250 00:09:31,233 --> 00:09:34,600 >> I WAS HAPPY TO KNOW HE HAD 251 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,267 MET SOMEBODY THAT HE COULD HAVE 252 00:09:37,267 --> 00:09:39,167 A LIFE WITH. 253 00:09:39,167 --> 00:09:40,500 >> THAT LIFE WOULD SOON INCLUDE 254 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:43,267 A BABY GIRL ELANA. 255 00:09:43,267 --> 00:09:44,933 SHE WAS AT THE CENTER OF 256 00:09:44,933 --> 00:09:51,700 ANDREEN'S WORLD, WHICH MADE HER 257 00:09:51,700 --> 00:09:52,667 DISAPPEARANCE SO PERPLEXING, 258 00:09:52,667 --> 00:09:53,067 SAYS JACKIE. 259 00:09:53,067 --> 00:09:54,367 >> I DON'T THINK ANDREEN WOULD 260 00:09:54,367 --> 00:09:56,433 JUST GET UP AND WALK AWAY AND 261 00:09:56,433 --> 00:10:01,133 LEAVE ELANA AND NOBODY WOULD 262 00:10:01,133 --> 00:10:07,167 HEAR FROM HER. 263 00:10:07,167 --> 00:10:09,567 >> THAT' EVENING, AEXAMINED THE 264 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:11,467 STAINS AND CONFIRMED THEY WERE 265 00:10:11,467 --> 00:10:11,700 BLOOD. 266 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:12,733 >> WHILE YOU WERE GOING THROUGH 267 00:10:12,733 --> 00:10:14,900 THE HOUSE, WAS ANDRE THERE? 268 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:15,667 >> YES, HE WAS. 269 00:10:15,667 --> 00:10:17,633 >> DID YOU SEE ANY SIGNS OF 270 00:10:17,633 --> 00:10:22,233 BRUISING ON HIS BODY, ANY SIGNS 271 00:10:22,233 --> 00:10:23,300 THAT HE HAD BEEN IN A STRUGGLE? 272 00:10:23,300 --> 00:10:25,133 >> NOTHING THAT WE COULD 273 00:10:25,133 --> 00:10:25,433 DETERMINE. 274 00:10:25,433 --> 00:10:26,967 >> INVESTIGATORS WERE HOPING 275 00:10:26,967 --> 00:10:28,000 ANDRE HAD SOME ANSWERS. 276 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:29,867 BUT HE SAID THE LAST TIME HE HAD 277 00:10:29,867 --> 00:10:32,000 SEEN HIS WIFE WAS THE NIGHT 278 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:32,233 BEFORE. 279 00:10:32,233 --> 00:10:35,033 AND THEY SAID WHAT ANDRE 280 00:10:35,033 --> 00:10:36,900 DESCRIBED RAISED MORE QUESTIONS 281 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:38,067 THAN ANSWERS. 282 00:10:38,067 --> 00:10:41,333 >> HE HAD TOLD THEM HE HAD COME 283 00:10:41,333 --> 00:10:44,233 HOME FROM THE TAX PREPARER'S 284 00:10:44,233 --> 00:10:46,300 OFFICE AND THAT THEY HAD ARGUED 285 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:48,033 OVER THE BUSINESS AND HE WENT UP 286 00:10:48,033 --> 00:10:51,200 THE ROAD, GOT SOME GAS AND JUST 287 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:51,833 COOLED OFF. 288 00:10:51,833 --> 00:10:54,133 WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN VIDEO 289 00:10:54,133 --> 00:10:55,733 EVIDENCE OF HIM GOING TO THE 290 00:10:55,733 --> 00:10:56,267 SHELL STATION. 291 00:10:56,267 --> 00:10:58,600 >> ANDRE SAID WHEN HE RETURNED 292 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:01,500 HOME, HE AND ANDREEN WENT TO 293 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:03,333 SEPARATE BEDROOMS. 294 00:11:03,333 --> 00:11:05,533 BUT ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, 295 00:11:05,533 --> 00:11:09,333 WHAT ANDRE DIDN'T MENTION WAS 296 00:11:09,333 --> 00:11:11,667 THE TEXT EXCHANGE THAT HAPPENED 297 00:11:11,667 --> 00:11:15,100 AT THE 298 00:11:30,567 --> 00:11:32,900 >>> FOR AINVESTIGATORS, THE TEXT 299 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:35,433 MESSAGES REVEALED A MARRIAGE IN 300 00:11:35,433 --> 00:11:37,300 TURMOIL, INCLUDING ACCUSATIONS 301 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:38,167 OF BETRAYAL. 302 00:11:38,167 --> 00:11:40,300 >> ACCUSATIONS OF UNFAITHFULNESS 303 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:42,667 IN THESE TEXT MESSAGES, CORRECT? 304 00:11:42,667 --> 00:11:43,100 >> THAT'S CORRECT. 305 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:44,667 >> WE HAVE A PRINTED COPY. 306 00:11:44,667 --> 00:11:46,233 WOULD YOU MIND READING THESE 307 00:11:46,233 --> 00:11:48,267 FROM HIS PHONE? 308 00:11:48,267 --> 00:11:51,067 >> ANDREEN RESPONDS, IF YOU 309 00:11:51,067 --> 00:11:54,700 BRING HIM UP AGAIN, I WILL 310 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:55,133 DIVORCE YOU MYSELF. 311 00:11:55,133 --> 00:11:58,967 >> AUBYN HALL LIVING IN JAMAICA 312 00:11:58,967 --> 00:12:01,300 WHO, ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, 313 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:05,933 WAS ANDREEN'S EX-BOYFRIEND AND 314 00:12:05,933 --> 00:12:08,333 POTENTIALLY HER CURRENT LOVER. 315 00:12:08,333 --> 00:12:10,133 ANDRE TEXTS, I DON'T CARE IF YOU 316 00:12:10,133 --> 00:12:12,900 GET A DIVORCE. 317 00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:17,133 YOU BROUGHT AUBYN INTO OUR LIFE. 318 00:12:17,133 --> 00:12:18,767 AUBYN DATED ANDREEN WHEN SHE WAS 319 00:12:18,767 --> 00:12:21,100 A TEENAGER. 320 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:22,367 ANDREEN'S CLOSE FRIEND MANDY 321 00:12:22,367 --> 00:12:24,867 SAID THE TWO REKINDLED THEIR 322 00:12:24,867 --> 00:12:27,433 ROMANCE IN 2017 DURING ONE OF 323 00:12:27,433 --> 00:12:29,900 HER PHILANTHROPIC TRIPS TO THE 324 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:30,133 ISLAND. 325 00:12:30,133 --> 00:12:32,500 >> AUBYN HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT 326 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:34,867 FIRST LOVE. 327 00:12:34,867 --> 00:12:37,700 IT WASN'T SOMETHING ANDREEN GOT 328 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:38,367 OVER EMOTIONALLY. 329 00:12:38,367 --> 00:12:40,067 >> THEY CARRIED ON THEIR AFFAIR 330 00:12:40,067 --> 00:12:44,500 IN SECRET UNTIL THE SUMMER OF 331 00:12:44,500 --> 00:12:49,067 2018 WHEN ANDREEN GOT TWO 332 00:12:49,067 --> 00:12:50,600 TATTOOS, AN INITIAL A ON HER 333 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:55,300 HAND AND A DATE TATTOOED ON HER 334 00:12:55,300 --> 00:12:55,700 WRIST. 335 00:12:55,700 --> 00:12:59,333 >> IT WAS SUSPICIOUS OF WHAT IT 336 00:12:59,333 --> 00:12:59,533 WENT. 337 00:12:59,533 --> 00:13:01,500 >> ANDRE WENT TO WORK TO SOLVE 338 00:13:01,500 --> 00:13:04,267 THIS TATTOO MYSTERY. 339 00:13:04,267 --> 00:13:06,967 >> HE WENT AND DID HIS OWN 340 00:13:06,967 --> 00:13:07,233 DIGGING. 341 00:13:07,233 --> 00:13:09,067 >> ANDRE DISCOVERED AN 342 00:13:09,067 --> 00:13:11,667 INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH OF AUBYN 343 00:13:11,667 --> 00:13:13,433 BRANDED WITH THE SAME EXACT 344 00:13:13,433 --> 00:13:15,633 TATTOO THAT WAS ALSO ON 345 00:13:15,633 --> 00:13:16,800 ANDREEN'S HAND. 346 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:21,333 AND THOSE NUMBERS 14, 3, 76, 347 00:13:21,333 --> 00:13:25,233 THEY'RE AUBYN'S BIRTHDAY, DAY, 348 00:13:25,233 --> 00:13:26,100 MONTH AND YEAR. 349 00:13:26,100 --> 00:13:28,333 >> SHE TOLD ME SHE SUPPOSEDLY 350 00:13:28,333 --> 00:13:30,200 GOT THE TATTOO. 351 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:31,633 SHE KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING STUPID 352 00:13:31,633 --> 00:13:32,067 TO DO. 353 00:13:32,067 --> 00:13:35,933 >> ENGAGED, ANDRE THREATENED 354 00:13:35,933 --> 00:13:39,067 DIVORCE UNLESS ANDREEN CUTOFF 355 00:13:39,067 --> 00:13:43,067 CONTACT WITH AUBYN, COVERED UP 356 00:13:43,067 --> 00:13:45,067 HER TATTOOS AND PROMISED NEVER 357 00:13:45,067 --> 00:13:46,633 TO TRAVEL TO JAMAICA WITHOUT 358 00:13:46,633 --> 00:13:46,833 HIM. 359 00:13:46,833 --> 00:13:49,067 >> SHE COVERED UP THE TATTOOS. 360 00:13:49,067 --> 00:13:52,233 SHE DIDN'T WANT TO LOSE HALF OF 361 00:13:52,233 --> 00:13:55,467 EVERYTHING SHE WORKED HARD FOR. 362 00:13:55,467 --> 00:13:57,933 >> AT ANDREEN'S 40th BIRTHDAY 363 00:13:57,933 --> 00:14:00,133 PARTY, BY ALL OUTWARD 364 00:14:00,133 --> 00:14:01,333 APPEARANCES, THEY SEEMED TO BE 365 00:14:01,333 --> 00:14:02,333 GETTING ALONG. 366 00:14:02,333 --> 00:14:05,233 BUT 13 DAYS LATER ON MARCH 1st, 367 00:14:05,233 --> 00:14:10,067 2019, THAT'S WHEN ANDREEN 368 00:14:10,067 --> 00:14:10,300 DISAPPEARED. 369 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:11,867 THE ONCE FESTIVE HOME HAD 370 00:14:11,867 --> 00:14:14,133 TRANSFORMED INTO A CRIME SCENE 371 00:14:14,133 --> 00:14:15,933 AS INVESTIGATORS WORKED THE 372 00:14:15,933 --> 00:14:18,367 McDONALD RESIDENCE UNTIL 2:00 373 00:14:18,367 --> 00:14:19,867 THE NEXT MORNING WHEN THEY 374 00:14:19,867 --> 00:14:22,067 COULDN'T LOCATE ANDREEN'S CELL 375 00:14:22,067 --> 00:14:23,900 PHONE, INVESTIGATORS CHECKED TO 376 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,300 SEE IF HER CREDIT CARDS OR 377 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:28,167 PASSPORT HAD BEEN USED. 378 00:14:28,167 --> 00:14:31,200 ALL DEAD ENDS. 379 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:33,400 >> WE CAME UP DRY ON ALL OF 380 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:34,533 THESE INQUIRIES. 381 00:14:34,533 --> 00:14:37,800 AT THIS POINT, ALL WE HAD WAS A 382 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:38,167 MISSING PERSON. 383 00:14:38,167 --> 00:14:41,100 >> WITHIN HOURS OF HIS WIFE'S 384 00:14:41,100 --> 00:14:42,300 DISAPPEARANCE, ANDRE McDONALD 385 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:43,933 WAS A PERSON OF INTEREST. 386 00:14:43,933 --> 00:14:45,767 HE STOPPED ANSWERING QUESTIONS 387 00:14:45,767 --> 00:14:48,400 AND LAWYERED UP. 388 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,300 AT 2:00 P.M. THE NEXT DAY, AN 389 00:14:50,300 --> 00:14:52,500 UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATOR ASSIGNED 390 00:14:52,500 --> 00:14:55,467 TO WATCH THE McDONALD'S HOUSE 391 00:14:55,467 --> 00:14:56,867 NOTICED THE GARAGE HAD BEEN 392 00:14:56,867 --> 00:14:58,633 DAMAGED AND ANDRE WAS BACKING 393 00:14:58,633 --> 00:15:00,300 OUT OF THE DRIVEWAY. 394 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:01,800 THE INVESTIGATOR FOLLOWED HIM TO 395 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,833 A NEARBY GUN SHOP WHERE 396 00:15:03,833 --> 00:15:04,867 ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATORS WHO 397 00:15:04,867 --> 00:15:07,067 WERE CALLED TO THE SCENE 398 00:15:07,067 --> 00:15:10,067 OBSERVED ANDRE PURCHASING A NINE 399 00:15:10,067 --> 00:15:12,200 MILLIMETER HANDGUN AND 400 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:12,500 AMMUNITION. 401 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:14,733 >> WE WERE UNDER THE ASSUMPTION 402 00:15:14,733 --> 00:15:17,567 THAT HE WAS PURCHASING A GUN TO 403 00:15:17,567 --> 00:15:19,100 PROBABLY ARM HIMSELF. 404 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:21,400 >> WHEN ANDRE WALKED BACK TO HIS 405 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,467 CAR, INVESTIGATORS CONFRONTED 406 00:15:24,467 --> 00:15:24,700 HIM. 407 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,633 THEIR VIOLENT TAKEDOWN MAY BE 408 00:15:27,633 --> 00:15:29,267 DISTURBING TO VIEWERS. 409 00:15:29,267 --> 00:15:31,333 INVESTIGATORS MOVED TO DETAIN 410 00:15:31,333 --> 00:15:32,967 THE AIR FORCE MAJOR AND TURNED 411 00:15:32,967 --> 00:15:34,867 HIM OVER TO MILITARY AUTHORITIES 412 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:38,067 FOR A MENTAL EVALUATION. 413 00:15:38,067 --> 00:15:39,267 MEANWHILE, INVESTIGATORS 414 00:15:39,267 --> 00:15:41,667 RETURNED TO THE HOUSE WITH A 415 00:15:41,667 --> 00:15:43,633 SEARCH WARRANT AND CHECKED 416 00:15:43,633 --> 00:15:44,400 ANDREEN'S CAR. 417 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,167 WHILE THERE, SOME OBJECTS CAUGHT 418 00:15:47,167 --> 00:15:47,900 THEIR EYE. 419 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:49,600 >> IT WAS A SHOVEL. 420 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,167 THERE WAS AN AXE. 421 00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:53,733 >> AN AXE. 422 00:15:53,733 --> 00:15:56,500 THERE WAS LIKE A HATCHET. 423 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:59,533 THERE WAS TRASH BAGS. 424 00:15:59,533 --> 00:16:00,067 THR 425 00:16:00,067 --> 00:16:01,300 THERE WERE GLOVES AND A COUPLE 426 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:02,267 OF GAS CANS. 427 00:16:02,267 --> 00:16:03,367 >> AND THERE WAS MORE. 428 00:16:03,367 --> 00:16:07,100 >> INSIDE THE GARBAGE CAN IN THE 429 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,867 HOUSE WAS A RECEIPT FROM LOWE'S 430 00:16:09,867 --> 00:16:12,267 THAT HAD BEEN TORN UP. 431 00:16:12,267 --> 00:16:15,700 >> DETECTTIVES WERE ABLE TO 432 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:17,900 OBTAIN SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE FROM 433 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:19,533 THE HARDWARE STORE, ITEMS THAT 434 00:16:19,533 --> 00:16:21,167 WERE PURCHASED THE DAY AFTER 435 00:16:21,167 --> 00:16:22,367 ANDREEN WENT MISSING. 436 00:16:22,367 --> 00:16:24,167 >> THIS IS ANDRE McDONALD COMING 437 00:16:24,167 --> 00:16:25,300 INTO THE LOWE'S. 438 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,333 HE'S GOING TO PURCHASE SEVERAL 439 00:16:27,333 --> 00:16:27,533 ITEMS. 440 00:16:27,533 --> 00:16:29,067 YOU CAN SEE HIM WITH A BASKET 441 00:16:29,067 --> 00:16:29,367 HERE. 442 00:16:29,367 --> 00:16:30,500 YOU CAN SEE THERE IS A SHOVEL IN 443 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:31,367 THE BASKET. 444 00:16:31,367 --> 00:16:33,900 NOW HE COMES UP HERE, THERE IS 445 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:36,667 TWO GAS CANS. 446 00:16:36,667 --> 00:16:38,533 THERE IS A HATCHET. 447 00:16:38,533 --> 00:16:39,633 THERE'S THAT AXE. 448 00:16:39,633 --> 00:16:41,267 >> WHAT'S AT PLAY HERE? 449 00:16:41,267 --> 00:16:43,667 >> IT APPEARED TO US THAT NOW 450 00:16:43,667 --> 00:16:45,500 THAT HIS WIFE IS MISSING IT 451 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:49,833 POINTED TO THE DISPOSAL OF HER 452 00:16:49,833 --> 00:16:50,067 BODY. 453 00:16:50,067 --> 00:16:51,667 >> LOOK AT THAT CART FULL OF 454 00:16:51,667 --> 00:16:54,167 WILL ILL, RIGHT? 455 00:16:54,167 --> 00:16:54,567 >> YES. 456 00:16:54,567 --> 00:16:56,167 >> AND IN THE CORNER OF THE 457 00:16:56,167 --> 00:16:57,500 GARAGE, INVESTIGATORS WOULD 458 00:16:57,500 --> 00:16:59,067 UNCOVER WHAT THEY SAY WAS THE 459 00:16:59,067 --> 00:17:01,400 MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE OF ALL. 460 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,433 >> WE FOUND A HAMMER AND 461 00:17:03,433 --> 00:17:04,700 CLOTHING IN THE GARBAGE. 462 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:06,099 THE CLOTHING THAT WE FOUND 463 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:08,200 APPEARED TO BE ANDRE'S CLOTHING. 464 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,433 >> INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY FOUND 465 00:17:10,433 --> 00:17:12,633 TRACES OF BLOOD ON THE POCKET OF 466 00:17:12,633 --> 00:17:13,733 THESE JEANS. 467 00:17:13,733 --> 00:17:16,099 >> WHAT'S ON THE CLAW HAMMER 468 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:17,067 THAT'S OF INTEREST? 469 00:17:17,067 --> 00:17:19,233 >> THE LAB DETERMINED THAT THERE 470 00:17:19,233 --> 00:17:22,633 WAS THE PRESENCE OF BLOOD ON THE 471 00:17:22,633 --> 00:17:25,300 HAMMER, AND THE DNA THAT THEY 472 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:27,433 OBTAINED FROM THAT BLOOD SAMPLE 473 00:17:27,433 --> 00:17:29,433 WAS FROM ANDREEN. 474 00:17:29,433 --> 00:17:31,467 WE CONCLUDED THAT THAT HAMMER 475 00:17:31,467 --> 00:17:33,900 WAS PROBABLY USED AS THE MURDER 476 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:34,133 WEAPON. 477 00:17:34,133 --> 00:17:36,067 >> THIS IS SIGNIFICANT. 478 00:17:36,067 --> 00:17:43,067 >> VERY SIGNIFICANT. 479 00:17:51,833 --> 00:17:52,067 * 480 00:17:52,067 --> 00:17:54,733 >>> 48 HOURS INTO THE 481 00:17:54,733 --> 00:17:57,933 INVESTIGATION, DETECTIVE STUBBS 482 00:17:57,933 --> 00:17:59,600 BELIEVED HE HAD DISCOVERED KEY 483 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,567 EVIDENCE THAT INDICATED MAJOR 484 00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:06,067 ANDRE McDONALD IN HIS WIFE'S 485 00:18:06,067 --> 00:18:06,400 DISAPPEARANCE. 486 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,300 THOSE ITEMS WERE STAINED WITH 487 00:18:08,300 --> 00:18:09,933 ANDREEN'S BLOOD INSIDE THE 488 00:18:09,933 --> 00:18:11,267 FAMILY'S TRASH CAN. 489 00:18:11,267 --> 00:18:14,300 THIS MISSING PERSON'S CASE HAD 490 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:16,067 BECOME MUCH MORE SINISTER. 491 00:18:16,067 --> 00:18:19,567 >> AND IT'S POINTING TOWARD 492 00:18:19,567 --> 00:18:19,767 WHAT? 493 00:18:19,767 --> 00:18:22,567 >> THE EVIDENCE WAS POINTING 494 00:18:22,567 --> 00:18:25,500 TOWARDS A MURDER. 495 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:27,767 >> BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM. 496 00:18:27,767 --> 00:18:29,567 NONE OF THE EVIDENCE COLLECTED 497 00:18:29,567 --> 00:18:31,267 PROVED THAT A MURDER HAD 498 00:18:31,267 --> 00:18:32,833 ACTUALLY OCCURRED. 499 00:18:32,833 --> 00:18:35,067 >> TURNING A MISSING PERSON'S 500 00:18:35,067 --> 00:18:39,933 CASE INTO A HOMICIDE CASE IS 501 00:18:39,933 --> 00:18:40,800 VERY DIFFICULT. 502 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,867 >> ON MARCH 3rd, 2019, THE AIR 503 00:18:43,867 --> 00:18:45,933 FORCE CONCLUDED ITS EVALUATION 504 00:18:45,933 --> 00:18:48,600 OF ANDRE AND RELEASED IT. 505 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,467 CIVIL AUTHORITIES QUICKLY MOVED 506 00:18:50,467 --> 00:18:54,633 IN AND PLACED HIM UNDER ARREST. 507 00:18:54,633 --> 00:18:56,500 >> WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT 508 00:18:56,500 --> 00:18:58,500 THIS ENTIRE INVESTIGATION? 509 00:18:58,500 --> 00:19:02,533 >> BUT IT WASN'T FOR MURDER. 510 00:19:02,533 --> 00:19:03,500 HE WAS ARRESTED FOR TAMPERING 511 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,133 WITH EVIDENCE. 512 00:19:06,133 --> 00:19:07,233 BASED UPON THAT TORN RECEIPT 513 00:19:07,233 --> 00:19:09,167 FOUND AT THE HOUSE LISTING THE 514 00:19:09,167 --> 00:19:12,067 ITEMS HE HAD PURCHASED FROM THE 515 00:19:12,067 --> 00:19:12,700 HARDWARE STORE. 516 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:14,700 ANDRE'S ARREST LEFT HIS MOTHER 517 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,567 JACKIE IN A STATE OF SHOCK AND 518 00:19:18,567 --> 00:19:18,833 DISBELIEF. 519 00:19:18,833 --> 00:19:22,800 >> I SAW THAT ANDRE WAS TAKEN 520 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,533 INTO CUSTODY, AND I JUST 521 00:19:25,533 --> 00:19:25,967 COLLAPSED. 522 00:19:25,967 --> 00:19:29,700 I KNOW HE LOVED ANDREEN. 523 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:31,467 WHY WOULD HE HARM HER? 524 00:19:31,467 --> 00:19:34,133 >> AND FOR ANDREEN'S MOTHER, 525 00:19:34,133 --> 00:19:36,567 ANDRE'S ARREST LEFT HER HEAD 526 00:19:36,567 --> 00:19:37,067 SPINNING. 527 00:19:37,067 --> 00:19:41,733 >> OH, GOD. 528 00:19:41,733 --> 00:19:44,600 ANDRE WOULD NOT HURT ANDREEN, 529 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,700 THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING. 530 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:46,500 BUT WHO ELSE? 531 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,700 >> ADDING TO EVERYONE'S SENSE OF 532 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:53,167 SHOCK, CONFUSION AND SUSPICION 533 00:19:53,167 --> 00:19:56,200 WAS ANDRE'S DECISION TO STOP 534 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,667 COOPERATING WITH DETECTIVES. 535 00:19:57,667 --> 00:19:59,133 >> ANDRE'S FACE TOLD US THERE 536 00:19:59,133 --> 00:20:01,033 WAS NO WAY IN HELL WE WERE GOING 537 00:20:01,033 --> 00:20:02,800 TO BREAK HIM AND MAKE HIM TELL 538 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:04,167 US WHAT HAD HAPPENED. 539 00:20:04,167 --> 00:20:07,800 >> SHERIFF SALAZAR WENT ON LOCAL 540 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,100 TV ASKING FOR HELP. 541 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:10,633 >> WE ARE ASKING ANYBODY WITH 542 00:20:10,633 --> 00:20:12,067 ANY INFORMATION ON HER 543 00:20:12,067 --> 00:20:14,867 WHEREABOUTS TO GIVE US A CALL. 544 00:20:14,867 --> 00:20:17,733 >> SOON AFTER, THE COMMUNITY OF 545 00:20:17,733 --> 00:20:19,467 SAN ANTONIO, ALONG WITH FAMILY 546 00:20:19,467 --> 00:20:21,567 AND FRIENDS, CAME OUT IN DROVES 547 00:20:21,567 --> 00:20:23,900 TO LOOK FOR ANDREEN. 548 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:25,867 INCLUDING A VOLUNTEER SEARCH 549 00:20:25,867 --> 00:20:29,000 PARTY FORMED BY FORMER AIR FORCE 550 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,967 AIRMAN BOBBY GREEN. 551 00:20:30,967 --> 00:20:33,800 BOBBY TOOK US OUT TO ONE OF THE 552 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,567 AREAS WHERE HE SEARCHED FOR 553 00:20:36,567 --> 00:20:36,833 ANDREEN. 554 00:20:36,833 --> 00:20:38,367 >> RIGHT NOW WE'RE BEHIND A 555 00:20:38,367 --> 00:20:38,633 HOSPITAL. 556 00:20:38,633 --> 00:20:41,067 WE THOUGHT HE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN 557 00:20:41,067 --> 00:20:43,967 HER HERE TO A WOODED AREA. 558 00:20:43,967 --> 00:20:45,167 AS YOU WALK-THROUGH HERE, WHAT 559 00:20:45,167 --> 00:20:46,967 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? 560 00:20:46,967 --> 00:20:49,867 >> YOU WOULD LOOK AT TREE 561 00:20:49,867 --> 00:20:53,067 BRANCHES THAT HAD BEEN CUT AWAY, 562 00:20:53,067 --> 00:20:54,067 FRESH TIRE TRACKS. 563 00:20:54,067 --> 00:20:55,467 >> HOW MANY MILES DID YOU COVER? 564 00:20:55,467 --> 00:20:56,900 >> IT WAS HUNDREDS OF MILES. 565 00:20:56,900 --> 00:20:59,867 >> AS SEARCH EFFORTS CONTINUED, 566 00:20:59,867 --> 00:21:02,167 ANDRE McDONALD WAS RELEASED FROM 567 00:21:02,167 --> 00:21:04,767 JAIL ON BOND. 568 00:21:04,767 --> 00:21:07,633 WITH HIS WIFE ABSENT, ANDRE TOOK 569 00:21:07,633 --> 00:21:10,600 OVER MANAGEMENT OF STARLIGHT 570 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:10,800 HOMES. 571 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,067 SEARCH EFFORTS CONTINUED. 572 00:21:13,067 --> 00:21:15,233 ALTHOUGH, ANDRE DIDN'T TAKE 573 00:21:15,233 --> 00:21:15,533 PART. 574 00:21:15,533 --> 00:21:17,800 DAYS WOULD EVENTUALLY TURN INTO 575 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:18,900 MONTHS OF DEAD ENDS. 576 00:21:18,900 --> 00:21:21,067 AS THE SEARCH FOR ANDREEN WENT 577 00:21:21,067 --> 00:21:23,567 ON, INVESTIGATORS DUG FURTHER 578 00:21:23,567 --> 00:21:25,767 INTO THE COUPLE'S RELATIONSHIP, 579 00:21:25,767 --> 00:21:27,533 LEARNING THAT THEY HAD BUSINESS 580 00:21:27,533 --> 00:21:31,300 PROBLEMS AS WELL AS ROMANTIC 581 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:31,500 ONES. 582 00:21:31,500 --> 00:21:34,600 IN WHATSAPP MESSAGES SHARED WITH 583 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,533 FRIENDS, THERE ARE ARGUMENTS 584 00:21:36,533 --> 00:21:39,133 OVER WHO REALLY WAS THE BRAINS 585 00:21:39,133 --> 00:21:40,567 BEHIND THEIR SUCCESSFUL 586 00:21:40,567 --> 00:21:40,967 BUSINESS. 587 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:43,500 IN ONE ANDREEN TELLS ANDRE 588 00:21:43,500 --> 00:21:46,333 STARLIGHT HOMES IS MY IDEA, MY 589 00:21:46,333 --> 00:21:46,533 DREAM. 590 00:21:46,533 --> 00:21:48,433 AND WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED 591 00:21:48,433 --> 00:21:50,867 WITHOUT MY DRIVE. 592 00:21:50,867 --> 00:21:53,800 BACK THEN, FRIENDS LIKE ANDREW 593 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:55,700 RUSSELL BECAME WORRIED ABOUT THE 594 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:57,367 POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE. 595 00:21:57,367 --> 00:22:01,633 >> AND I'VE TEXT MESSAGES FROM 596 00:22:01,633 --> 00:22:02,933 ANDREEN SAYING SOMEONE IS GOING 597 00:22:02,933 --> 00:22:03,633 TO SNAP. 598 00:22:03,633 --> 00:22:05,300 >> ANDREW TOLD INVESTIGATORS 599 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:07,133 THAT THE COUPLE'S WAR OF WORDS 600 00:22:07,133 --> 00:22:09,100 TURNED PHYSICAL THE NIGHT BEFORE 601 00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:11,400 A CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THEIR HOME 602 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,900 IN 2018 WHERE THE McDONALD'S GOT 603 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:16,300 INTO A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION. 604 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:18,467 >> SO WHEN I WENT INTO THE 605 00:22:18,467 --> 00:22:20,667 KITCHEN, ANDRE AND ANDREEN WERE 606 00:22:20,667 --> 00:22:21,533 GRAPPLING ON THE FLOOR. 607 00:22:21,533 --> 00:22:22,833 THE NEXT MORNING THEY WERE 608 00:22:22,833 --> 00:22:23,700 LAUGHING ABOUT IT. 609 00:22:23,700 --> 00:22:25,900 I DID FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE AFTER 610 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:26,167 THAT. 611 00:22:26,167 --> 00:22:28,267 I THOUGHT THE SITUATION HAD 612 00:22:28,267 --> 00:22:30,067 BECOME TOXIC. 613 00:22:30,067 --> 00:22:32,767 >> JUST OVER TWO MONTHS LATER, 614 00:22:32,767 --> 00:22:34,800 ANDREEN'S BLOOD WAS SPILLED IN 615 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,233 HER HOME AND SHE VANISHED. 616 00:22:37,233 --> 00:22:40,467 FINALLY, ON THE EVENING OF JULY 617 00:22:40,467 --> 00:22:44,500 11th, 2019, 133 DAYS AFTER 618 00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:46,133 ANDREEN HAD GONE MISSING, THERE 619 00:22:46,133 --> 00:22:48,167 WAS A BREAK IN THE CASE. 620 00:22:48,167 --> 00:22:55,367 >> ABOUT 7:30 THIS EVENING, THE 621 00:22:55,367 --> 00:22:58,067 SHERIFF OFFICE HAD A REPORT OF 622 00:22:58,067 --> 00:23:00,233 HUMAN REMAINS FOUND. 623 00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:02,933 >> SKELETAL REMAINS WERE FOUND 624 00:23:02,933 --> 00:23:06,833 IN A FIELD SIX MILES FROM THE 625 00:23:06,833 --> 00:23:08,067 McDONALD'S HOME. 626 00:23:08,067 --> 00:23:09,900 THIS MAN MADE THE DISCOVERY. 627 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:12,733 HE HAD TAKEN OUT HIS TRACTOR TO 628 00:23:12,733 --> 00:23:15,267 RETRIEVE A COW SKULL THAT HAD 629 00:23:15,267 --> 00:23:16,667 BEEN SPOTTED RIGHT ALONG THE 630 00:23:16,667 --> 00:23:18,833 TREE LINE OF THE PROPERTY. 631 00:23:18,833 --> 00:23:20,633 >> I SAW WHAT APPEARED TO BE A 632 00:23:20,633 --> 00:23:22,900 HUMAN SKULL IN FRONT OF THE COW 633 00:23:22,900 --> 00:23:23,333 SKULL. 634 00:23:23,333 --> 00:23:24,667 >> THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A SHOCK. 635 00:23:24,667 --> 00:23:25,700 >> A SHOCK, YES. 636 00:23:25,700 --> 00:23:28,300 >> OFFICIALS DETERMINED THAT THE 637 00:23:28,300 --> 00:23:33,900 HUMAN SKELETAL REMAINS BELONGED 638 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:35,200 TO ANDREEN McDONALD. 639 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,533 HER SISTER, ANDY JOHNSON. 640 00:23:37,533 --> 00:23:39,633 >> I WAS AT A CHURCH PRAYING FOR 641 00:23:39,633 --> 00:23:39,867 ANDREEN. 642 00:23:39,867 --> 00:23:41,900 I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING. 643 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:47,533 I BROKE DOWN. 644 00:23:47,533 --> 00:23:51,767 >> WE STILL WEREN'T THINKING 645 00:23:51,767 --> 00:23:55,067 LIKE THAT. 646 00:23:55,067 --> 00:23:57,400 >> NEVER. 647 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:01,733 I NEVER SAW THIS COMING. 648 00:24:01,733 --> 00:24:04,633 >> LESS THAN 48 HOURS LATER, 649 00:24:04,633 --> 00:24:07,200 ANDRE McDONALD WOULD BE ARRESTED 650 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:11,800 AND CHARGED WITH HIS WIFE'S 651 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:12,367 MURDER. 652 00:24:12,367 --> 00:24:26,067 >>> SEE MORE EVIDENCE 653 00:24:26,067 --> 00:24:28,067 >>> ANDREEN'S FAMILY HAD WAITED 654 00:24:28,067 --> 00:24:31,167 FOR JUSTICE FOR FOUR YEARS. 655 00:24:31,167 --> 00:24:33,433 >> IT HURTS. 656 00:24:33,433 --> 00:24:35,067 EVERY NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO MY 657 00:24:35,067 --> 00:24:36,733 BED, I THINK ABOUT HER. 658 00:24:36,733 --> 00:24:38,967 >> BEAR COUNTY ASSISTANT 659 00:24:38,967 --> 00:24:41,433 DISTRICT ATTORNEYS STEVEN SPEAR, 660 00:24:41,433 --> 00:24:43,733 LAUREN SCOTT AND RYAN GROOMER 661 00:24:43,733 --> 00:24:45,833 WOULD PROSECUTE McDONALD FOR THE 662 00:24:45,833 --> 00:24:47,800 MURDER OF HIS WIFE, ANDREEN. 663 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,700 BUT THE PROSECUTION WOULD FACE 664 00:24:49,700 --> 00:24:51,600 AN UPHILL BATTLE. 665 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:52,967 DESPITE THE EVIDENCE FOUND AT 666 00:24:52,967 --> 00:24:55,433 THE McDONALD HOME, THE HAMMER 667 00:24:55,433 --> 00:24:57,067 AND THE BLOOD. 668 00:24:57,067 --> 00:24:58,700 THE PROSECUTION COULD NOT SAY 669 00:24:58,700 --> 00:25:01,233 FOR SURE HOW ANDREEN DIED. 670 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:03,333 >> BECAUSE ANDREEN'S BODY WAS 671 00:25:03,333 --> 00:25:04,700 OU IN THE ELEMENTS IN THAT 672 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,567 FIELD FOR ALL OF THOSE DAYS, 673 00:25:07,567 --> 00:25:10,333 MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE WAS 674 00:25:10,333 --> 00:25:12,767 UNABLE TO SPECIFY WHAT EXACTLY 675 00:25:12,767 --> 00:25:14,467 CAUSED ANDREEN'S DEATH. 676 00:25:14,467 --> 00:25:16,667 >> AND DOES THAT COMPLICATE YOUR 677 00:25:16,667 --> 00:25:16,967 PREPARATION? 678 00:25:16,967 --> 00:25:19,700 >> NO, IT ABSOLUTELY DOES. 679 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:21,167 HE CAUSED HER DEATH. 680 00:25:21,167 --> 00:25:23,200 HOWEVER, WE DON'T KNOW NOW. 681 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,233 >> IF ANDRE MURDERED HIS WIFE, 682 00:25:26,233 --> 00:25:27,667 WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE WAS HIS 683 00:25:27,667 --> 00:25:27,900 MOTIVE? 684 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,067 >> I BELIEVE IT WAS LARGELY 685 00:25:31,067 --> 00:25:33,433 BECAUSE HE FELT EMASCULATED. 686 00:25:33,433 --> 00:25:36,133 I THINK HE WAS JEALOUS OF THAT. 687 00:25:36,133 --> 00:25:37,767 >> McDONALD, WHO PLEADED NOT 688 00:25:37,767 --> 00:25:39,167 GUILTY WAS REPRESENTED BY SOME 689 00:25:39,167 --> 00:25:41,533 OF THE TOP DEFENSE LAWYERS IN 690 00:25:41,533 --> 00:25:42,600 SAN ANTONIO. 691 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,067 JOHN, ZOE AND JOHN HUNTER. 692 00:25:46,067 --> 00:25:48,133 HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO THE 693 00:25:48,133 --> 00:25:50,667 NOTION THAT WHAT CAUSED ALL OF 694 00:25:50,667 --> 00:25:53,500 THIS WAS HIS ENVY OF HIS WIFE'S 695 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:53,800 SUCCESS? 696 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,833 >> I DON'T SEE ANY EVIDENCE OF 697 00:25:55,833 --> 00:25:56,100 THAT. 698 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:57,767 >> ANDRE IS A MAJOR IN THE AIR 699 00:25:57,767 --> 00:25:57,967 FORCE. 700 00:25:57,967 --> 00:26:00,100 I MEAN, HE'S INCREDIBLY 701 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:01,500 SUCCESSFUL IN HIS OWN RIGHT. 702 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:03,833 >> MAJOR ANDRE McDONALD HAD BEEN 703 00:26:03,833 --> 00:26:05,667 UNDER HOUSE ARREST SINCE APRIL 704 00:26:05,667 --> 00:26:07,067 OF 2021. 705 00:26:07,067 --> 00:26:09,300 BUT DAYS BEFORE HIS TRIAL WAS 706 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:13,667 SET TO BEGIN, JANUARY 17th, 707 00:26:13,667 --> 00:26:16,167 2023, McDONALD, WHO HAD REMAINED 708 00:26:16,167 --> 00:26:18,500 SILENT ABOUT HIS WIFE'S DEATH, 709 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:21,200 BEGAN TELLING AN EXTRAORDINARY 710 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,567 STORY, BEGINNING WITH HIS OWN 711 00:26:25,567 --> 00:26:26,067 MOTHER. 712 00:26:26,067 --> 00:26:27,900 JACKIE SAYS HER SON TOLD HER 713 00:26:27,900 --> 00:26:30,500 ANDREEN'S DEATH WAS AN ACCIDENT. 714 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:33,867 >> HE LOOKED AT ME AND HE SAID, 715 00:26:33,867 --> 00:26:35,700 MOM, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THE 716 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:35,900 TRUTH. 717 00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:38,400 AND HE STARTED TO CRY. 718 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,867 >> McDONALD THEN CALLED 719 00:26:39,867 --> 00:26:42,100 ANDREEN'S MOTHER AND SISTER 720 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,100 CINDY, WHO PUT THE CALL ON 721 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:45,433 SPEAKERPHONE. 722 00:26:45,433 --> 00:26:46,833 >> HE GAVE THE FAMILY, FOR THE 723 00:26:46,833 --> 00:26:49,633 FIRST TIME, DETAILS OF WHAT 724 00:26:49,633 --> 00:26:50,800 HAPPENED, ACCORDING TO HIM. 725 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,100 >> ACCORDING TO HIM, YES. 726 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,233 >> IT WAS A PHONE CALL THAT 727 00:26:55,233 --> 00:26:57,067 STUNNED HIS DEFENSE TEAM. 728 00:26:57,067 --> 00:26:58,933 >> WAS IT SHOCKING TO YOU THAT 729 00:26:58,933 --> 00:27:00,133 HE HAD DONE THIS? 730 00:27:00,133 --> 00:27:01,733 >> SHOCKING IS A GOOD WORD FOR 731 00:27:01,733 --> 00:27:02,833 IT, YEAH. 732 00:27:02,833 --> 00:27:05,600 THE ENTIRE CONTEXT OF THE CASE 733 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:05,967 CHANGED. 734 00:27:05,967 --> 00:27:08,667 >> HIS BEST THOUGHT WOULD BE TO 735 00:27:08,667 --> 00:27:11,200 TELL HIS STORY IN COURT. 736 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,500 >> McDONALD WOULD GET TO TELL 737 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:15,067 HIS STORY, BUT NOT BEFORE THE 738 00:27:15,067 --> 00:27:17,200 PROSECUTION LAID OUT ITS CASE IN 739 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:23,500 OPENING STATEMENTS. 740 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:25,967 >> A TRASH BIN IN THE GARAGE A 741 00:27:25,967 --> 00:27:26,200 HAMMER. 742 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,067 THAT HAMMER HAS BLOOD ON IT. 743 00:27:28,067 --> 00:27:30,367 IT IS THE VICTIM'S BLOOD. 744 00:27:30,367 --> 00:27:33,267 >> THE DEFENSE CONTENDED THAT 745 00:27:33,267 --> 00:27:36,200 ANDREEN'S DEATH WAS AN ACCIDENT. 746 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:40,167 >> THIS IS NOT MURDER. 747 00:27:40,167 --> 00:27:43,800 IT IS A CASE ABOUT THE DEGREE 748 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:50,600 AND LEVEL OF RESPONSIBILITY. 749 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,467 IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. 750 00:27:53,467 --> 00:27:55,067 ALL OF WHICH HAPPENED IN THE 751 00:27:55,067 --> 00:27:56,367 BLINK OF AN EYE. 752 00:27:56,367 --> 00:28:00,933 >> THE PROSECUTION ALSO CALLED 753 00:28:00,933 --> 00:28:03,467 FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST WHO 754 00:28:03,467 --> 00:28:04,733 TESTIFIED THAT ANDREEN'S 755 00:28:04,733 --> 00:28:07,267 SKELETAL REMAINS HAD SEVERE 756 00:28:07,267 --> 00:28:08,833 INJURIES, CONSISTENT WITH BEING 757 00:28:08,833 --> 00:28:10,233 STRUCK BY A BLUNT OBJECT. 758 00:28:10,233 --> 00:28:13,633 SHE HAD A FRACTURED SPINAL CORD, 759 00:28:13,633 --> 00:28:15,900 A BROKEN RIB AND A SPLIT JAW. 760 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,133 BUT THE PATHOLOGIST COULD NOT 761 00:28:18,133 --> 00:28:19,533 DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY HAD 762 00:28:19,533 --> 00:28:23,267 CAUSED ANDREEN'S DEATH. 763 00:28:23,267 --> 00:28:26,600 >> SO THE WAY THAT I HAVE 764 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:35,533 PHRASED HER CAUSE OF DEATH IS 765 00:28:35,533 --> 00:28:36,067 HOMICI 766 00:28:36,067 --> 00:28:36,500 HOMICIDE VIOLENCE. 767 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,633 >> AFTER 33 WITNESSES, THE 768 00:28:38,633 --> 00:28:39,733 PROSECUTION RESTED. 769 00:28:39,733 --> 00:28:42,933 THE DEFENSE HAD ONLY ONE 770 00:28:42,933 --> 00:28:43,200 WITNESS. 771 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,533 >> DEFENSE CALLS MAJOR ANDRE 772 00:28:45,533 --> 00:28:46,700 McDONALD. 773 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:49,833 >> McDONALD DESCRIBED THE 774 00:28:49,833 --> 00:28:52,200 EVENING OF FEBRUARY 8th, 2019. 775 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,167 WHILE AT THE TAX PREPARER'S 776 00:28:54,167 --> 00:28:55,567 OFFICE WITH HIS WIFE, HE 777 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,800 DISCOVERED THAT ANDREEN HAD 778 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:58,800 STARTED A NEW BUSINESS A YEAR 779 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:03,300 EARLIER WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE. 780 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:06,333 >> BASICALLY THAT MEANT TO ME 781 00:29:06,333 --> 00:29:08,467 PRETTY MUCH THAT SHE WAS ROBBING 782 00:29:08,467 --> 00:29:08,633 ME. 783 00:29:08,633 --> 00:29:13,867 >> AFTER A HEATED ARGUMENT THAT 784 00:29:13,867 --> 00:29:15,067 EVENING, McDONALD SAYS HE LEFT 785 00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:16,400 THE HOUSE TO COOL OFF AT THAT 786 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:16,967 GAS STATION. 787 00:29:16,967 --> 00:29:18,700 THEY CONTINUED THEIR ARGUMENT 788 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:20,067 OVER TEXT. 789 00:29:20,067 --> 00:29:22,633 AND WHEN HE RETURNED HOME, HE 790 00:29:22,633 --> 00:29:24,300 RAISED THE POSSIBILITY OF 791 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:26,967 DIVORCE AND SPLITTING THEIR 792 00:29:26,967 --> 00:29:27,967 BUSINESS IN HALF. 793 00:29:27,967 --> 00:29:31,300 >> HE BECAME EXTREMELY IRATE AT 794 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:33,067 THE THOUGHT OF SPLITTING 795 00:29:33,067 --> 00:29:33,267 BUSINESS. 796 00:29:33,267 --> 00:29:35,200 HE CHARGED INTO THE ROOM TO 797 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:36,067 CONFRONT HIM. 798 00:29:36,067 --> 00:29:37,767 SO WHEN SHE COMES INTO THE ROOM, 799 00:29:37,767 --> 00:29:40,133 I TURNED AROUND, AND SHE COMES 800 00:29:40,133 --> 00:29:41,400 BACK RIGHT UP IN MY FACE. 801 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,500 SO AT THAT POINT, SHE SPITS IN 802 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:46,100 MY FACE. 803 00:29:46,100 --> 00:29:47,867 AT THAT POINT I GRABBED BECAUSE 804 00:29:47,867 --> 00:29:49,367 SHE'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. 805 00:29:49,367 --> 00:29:50,900 I GRABBED HER HEAD. 806 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:54,133 I THINK WE HAD A CLASH OF HEADS 807 00:29:54,133 --> 00:29:56,500 AND I THINK IT OPENED UP A CUT 808 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:57,600 ON HER FACE. 809 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,367 >> ANDREEN RAN INTO THE BATHROOM 810 00:29:59,367 --> 00:30:01,633 AND TURNED ON THE LIGHTS. 811 00:30:01,633 --> 00:30:03,767 WHEN ANDREEN SAW HER BLOODY FACE 812 00:30:03,767 --> 00:30:05,600 IN THE MIRROR, McDONALD CLAIMS 813 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,567 SHE ATTACKED HIM. 814 00:30:07,567 --> 00:30:10,867 HIS TESTIMONY MAY BE DISTURBING 815 00:30:10,867 --> 00:30:11,733 TO SOME VIEWERS. 816 00:30:11,733 --> 00:30:13,367 >> WHEN SHE COMES, SHE'S 817 00:30:13,367 --> 00:30:16,067 THROWING SOME PUNCHES, SO I'M 818 00:30:16,067 --> 00:30:18,600 TRYING TO DUCK DOWN TO KEEP MY 819 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,400 FACE FROM GETTING HIT WITH THE 820 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:20,600 BLOWS. 821 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,967 I REMEMBER GRABBING HER AND 822 00:30:24,967 --> 00:30:26,333 TRIPPING HER. 823 00:30:26,333 --> 00:30:28,800 I THINK I HEARD SOME TYPE OF 824 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,333 NOISE. 825 00:30:30,333 --> 00:30:31,800 AND THEN ALSO IN THE BACKGROUND 826 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,233 I COULD HEAR SOME FOOTSTEPS. 827 00:30:34,233 --> 00:30:38,433 >> THE FOOTSTEPS OF THEIR YOUNG 828 00:30:38,433 --> 00:30:38,700 DAUGHTER. 829 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:40,867 HE LEFT TO PUT HER BACK TO BED 830 00:30:40,867 --> 00:30:43,600 AND WHEN HE RETURNED 30 MINUTES 831 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:45,300 LATER, HIS WIFE WAS DEAD. 832 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:48,000 >> I BECAME LIKE PRETTY FRANTIC 833 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,333 AT THAT POINT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 834 00:30:50,333 --> 00:30:52,900 SHE'S DEAD ON THE FLOOR. 835 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,200 >> IN CROSS-EXAMINATION, 836 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:57,733 PROSECUTORS ASKED IF McDONALD 837 00:30:57,733 --> 00:31:00,633 HAD THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING 911. 838 00:31:00,633 --> 00:31:02,067 >> I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING 839 00:31:02,067 --> 00:31:03,833 ANYBODY TO REVIVE A DEAD PERSON. 840 00:31:03,833 --> 00:31:05,267 MY PURPOSE AT THAT POINT WAS 841 00:31:05,267 --> 00:31:07,367 SIMPLY TO GET HER OUT OF THE 842 00:31:07,367 --> 00:31:09,067 HOUSE SO THAT MY SEVEN-YEAR-OLD 843 00:31:09,067 --> 00:31:10,533 DAUGHTER WOULDN'T SEE HER MOTHER 844 00:31:10,533 --> 00:31:11,833 LAYING ON THE FLOOR DEAD. 845 00:31:11,833 --> 00:31:15,200 >> AFTER PUTTING ELANA BACK TO 846 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,867 DEAD, McDONALD SAID HE DUMPED 847 00:31:17,867 --> 00:31:19,900 ANDREEN'S BODY IN THIS FIELD, 848 00:31:19,900 --> 00:31:21,600 STRIPPED HER NAKED AND RETURNED 849 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,133 HOME TO BURN HER CLOTHING, WHICH 850 00:31:23,133 --> 00:31:24,600 LEFT THAT BURN PATCH IN THE 851 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:24,867 BACKYARD. 852 00:31:24,867 --> 00:31:26,733 BUT WHAT ABOUT ANDREEN'S BLOOD 853 00:31:26,733 --> 00:31:28,167 ON THE YELLOW HAMMER? 854 00:31:28,167 --> 00:31:30,767 ON THE FACE OF IT, THE EVIDENCE 855 00:31:30,767 --> 00:31:32,667 DOESN'T SQUARE WITH McDONALD'S 856 00:31:32,667 --> 00:31:34,767 ACCOUNT OF AN ACCIDENT. 857 00:31:34,767 --> 00:31:38,200 McDONALD HAD AN EXPLANATION FOR 858 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:38,400 THAT. 859 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,267 HE TESTIFIED THAT WHEN 860 00:31:40,267 --> 00:31:42,067 INVESTIGATORS FINISHED SEARCHING 861 00:31:42,067 --> 00:31:45,267 HIS HOME, HE WENT BACK TO THE 862 00:31:45,267 --> 00:31:46,867 FIELD BEFORE DAWN, ANGRY AND 863 00:31:46,867 --> 00:31:50,067 ARMED WITH THE YELLOW HAMMER. 864 00:31:50,067 --> 00:31:52,567 A CAN OF GASOLINE AND A PLAN. 865 00:31:52,567 --> 00:31:55,467 >> MY PLAN WAS TO HIT THE PERSON 866 00:31:55,467 --> 00:31:57,300 THAT CAUSED THIS WHOLE 867 00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:57,633 CIRCUMSTANCE. 868 00:31:57,633 --> 00:31:59,100 >> YOU THOUGHT IT WAS HER FAULT, 869 00:31:59,100 --> 00:31:59,300 RIGHT? 870 00:31:59,300 --> 00:32:01,133 >> IT'S ABSOLUTELY HER FAULT. 871 00:32:01,133 --> 00:32:03,100 >> WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE GAS 872 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:03,300 TEEN? 873 00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:07,433 >> I POURED IT ON HER AND I USED 874 00:32:07,433 --> 00:32:08,500 THE LIGHTER TO SET IT ON FIRE. 875 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,067 >> McDONALD SAID WHEN THE FLAMES 876 00:32:11,067 --> 00:32:12,533 SUBSIDED, THAT'S WHEN HE 877 00:32:12,533 --> 00:32:17,867 ATTACKED HIS WIFE'S CORPSE WITH 878 00:32:17,867 --> 00:32:18,433 THE HAMMER. 879 00:32:18,433 --> 00:32:20,833 >> I HIT HER IN THE NECK. 880 00:32:20,833 --> 00:32:22,500 AND I JUST HIT HER AGAIN WHILE I 881 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:24,733 WAS WALKING AWAY. 882 00:32:24,733 --> 00:32:25,833 >> WHY THAT LAST BLOW? 883 00:32:25,833 --> 00:32:27,567 >> AS I WAS WALKING AWAY? 884 00:32:27,567 --> 00:32:28,767 >> YES. 885 00:32:28,767 --> 00:32:30,067 >> BECAUSE I WAS STILL ANGRY 886 00:32:30,067 --> 00:32:32,067 WHEN I WAS WALKING AWAY. 887 00:32:32,067 --> 00:32:34,100 >> AFTER THAT GRUESOME 888 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:36,500 TESTIMONY, THE DEFENSE SHIFTED 889 00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:38,567 GEARS AND TRIED TO REFOCUS THE 890 00:32:38,567 --> 00:32:39,800 JURY ON THEIR THEORY OF THE 891 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:40,100 CRIME. 892 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:41,967 FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE DEFENSE 893 00:32:41,967 --> 00:32:43,633 BROUGHT UP WHY McDONALD ACTED 894 00:32:43,633 --> 00:32:46,133 THE WAY HE DID THAT NIGHT. 895 00:32:46,133 --> 00:32:47,700 >> HAVE YOU ALWAYS BELIEVED YOU 896 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:48,867 ACTED IN SELF-DEFENSE? 897 00:32:48,867 --> 00:32:51,733 >> YES, I HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED 898 00:32:51,733 --> 00:32:51,967 THAT. 899 00:32:51,967 --> 00:32:54,300 >> THE DEFENSE PLAYED VIDEOS 900 00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:57,067 SHOWING ANDREEN GIVING HER 901 00:32:57,067 --> 00:32:59,767 HUSBAND A PIGGYBACK RIDE AND 902 00:32:59,767 --> 00:33:00,500 WORKING OUT. 903 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:02,400 >> WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ANDREEN AS 904 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,933 A VERY STRONG, POWERFUL WOMAN? 905 00:33:04,933 --> 00:33:05,933 >> YES, I WOULD. 906 00:33:05,933 --> 00:33:06,433 >> STRAIGHT UP. 907 00:33:06,433 --> 00:33:08,800 >> ACCORDING TO McDONALD, HIS 908 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:12,933 WIFE COULD LIFT UP TO 300 909 00:33:12,933 --> 00:33:14,667 POUNDS. 910 00:33:14,667 --> 00:33:15,367 >> YES, MA'AM! 911 00:33:15,367 --> 00:33:17,067 >> WHEN SHE ATTACKED YOU, WERE 912 00:33:17,067 --> 00:33:17,800 YOU IN FEAR? 913 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:25,200 >> YES, I WAS IN FEAR OF THAT 914 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:25,500 SITUATION. 915 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,767 >> THEY WANT YOU TO FORGET AND 916 00:33:27,767 --> 00:33:30,633 DISREGARD ALL HIS ACTIONS. 917 00:33:30,633 --> 00:33:32,267 >> CLOSING ARGUMENTS. 918 00:33:32,267 --> 00:33:34,800 >> FOLKS, THIS IS NOT 919 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:35,133 SELF-DEFENSE. 920 00:33:35,133 --> 00:33:38,267 IT IS TIME FOR THIS MAN TO BE 921 00:33:38,267 --> 00:33:41,900 RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HE DID AND 922 00:33:41,900 --> 00:33:45,867 IT IS FINTIME TO FIND HIM GUILTY OF 923 00:33:45,867 --> 00:33:46,300 MURDER. 924 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:50,800 >> HE DID NOT INTENTIONAL LY 925 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:52,067 MURDER ANDREEN McDONALD. 926 00:33:52,067 --> 00:33:56,867 YOUR DUTY AND YOUR OBLIGATION IS 927 00:33:56,867 --> 00:33:57,833 TO SAY NOT GUILTY. 928 00:33:57,833 --> 00:33:58,500 THANK YOU. 929 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:03,567 >>> AFTER SIX DAYS OF TESTIMONY, 930 00:34:03,567 --> 00:34:05,267 THE JURY GOT THE CASE. 931 00:34:05,267 --> 00:34:06,967 APPROXIMATELY 11 HOURS INTO 932 00:34:06,967 --> 00:34:09,533 THEIR DELIBERATION, THE JURY 933 00:34:09,533 --> 00:34:10,967 SENT A NOTE TO THE JUDGE. 934 00:34:10,967 --> 00:34:15,567 >> IT SAYS WE'RE HOPELESSLY 935 00:34:15,567 --> 00:34:15,867 DEADLOCKED. 936 00:34:15,867 --> 00:34:19,167 >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF ANDRE 937 00:34:19,167 --> 00:34:28,867 McDONALD'S CLAIM OF 938 00:34:36,467 --> 00:34:39,333 >>> AFTER ALMOST 11 HOURS OF 939 00:34:39,333 --> 00:34:41,132 DELIBERATING, THE JURY WAS 940 00:34:41,132 --> 00:34:43,567 DEADLOCKED, UNABLE TO DECIDE IF 941 00:34:43,567 --> 00:34:45,667 ANDRE McDONALD WAS GUILTY OF 942 00:34:45,667 --> 00:34:47,533 MURDER, MANSLAUGHTER OR NOT 943 00:34:47,533 --> 00:34:51,100 GUILTY BY SELF-DEFENSE. 944 00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:53,367 >> EVERYTHING WAS SAID IN THE 945 00:34:53,367 --> 00:34:54,500 COURTROOM, ALL THE EVIDENCE WERE 946 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:54,699 THERE. 947 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:57,300 HE CONFESSED ON THE STAND WHAT 948 00:34:57,300 --> 00:34:58,233 HE DID. 949 00:34:58,233 --> 00:35:00,200 THEY SAW HIS DEMEANOR. 950 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,100 I DON'T KNOW WHAT WAS THE 951 00:35:02,100 --> 00:35:02,533 PROBLEM. 952 00:35:02,533 --> 00:35:04,867 >> FOR JURORS -- 953 00:35:04,867 --> 00:35:07,333 >> I VOTED FOR MURDER, AND I SAW 954 00:35:07,333 --> 00:35:12,567 THAT WE WERE 6-6. 955 00:35:12,567 --> 00:35:13,967 >> AND RUDY RUIZ. 956 00:35:13,967 --> 00:35:15,933 >> AT NO POINT DID ANY JUROR 957 00:35:15,933 --> 00:35:17,167 THINK HE WAS INNOCENT OR THAT IT 958 00:35:17,167 --> 00:35:18,100 WAS SELF-DEFENSE. 959 00:35:18,100 --> 00:35:19,300 >> THE PROBLEM WAS WORDING. 960 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:21,767 >> BECAUSE PEOPLE REALLY PICKED 961 00:35:21,767 --> 00:35:23,567 APART THE DEFINITIONS OF MURDER 962 00:35:23,567 --> 00:35:24,333 AND RECKLESSNESS. 963 00:35:24,333 --> 00:35:26,500 >> THE JURY OF SIX WOMEN AND SIX 964 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:28,533 MEN SPENT HOURS DISCUSSING 965 00:35:28,533 --> 00:35:30,633 WHETHER McDONALD HAD 966 00:35:30,633 --> 00:35:31,433 INTENTIONALLY MURDERED ANDREEN 967 00:35:31,433 --> 00:35:34,100 OR IF HE HAD RECKLESSLY KILLED 968 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,600 HER, MAKING IT MANSLAUGHTER. 969 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:41,767 MURDER CARRIES A LIFE SENTENCE. 970 00:35:41,767 --> 00:35:43,267 MANSLAUGHTER UP TO 20 YEARS. 971 00:35:43,267 --> 00:35:45,633 >> AND I THINK MOST OF US COULD 972 00:35:45,633 --> 00:35:48,667 AGREE THAT WHATEVER HAPPENED, IT 973 00:35:48,667 --> 00:35:49,533 WAS RECKLESS. 974 00:35:49,533 --> 00:35:53,200 YOU LEFT HER ON THE GROUND, AND 975 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,233 HE DID NOT RENDER AID. 976 00:35:55,233 --> 00:35:57,667 NOW THE TRICK WAS TO TRY AND 977 00:35:57,667 --> 00:35:59,867 CONVINCE THE OTHER JURORS THAT 978 00:35:59,867 --> 00:36:00,533 IT WAS MURDER. 979 00:36:00,533 --> 00:36:03,400 >> BUT AS THE DELIBERATIONS 980 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,833 CONTINUED, SOME OF THE JURORS 981 00:36:04,833 --> 00:36:07,667 HAD BEEN SWAYED WITH NINE NOW 982 00:36:07,667 --> 00:36:09,333 FOR MANSLAUGHTER. 983 00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:11,633 THE BIGGEST FACTOR IN SWAYING 984 00:36:11,633 --> 00:36:15,700 THE VOTE WAS ANDRE McDONALD'S 985 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:15,967 TESTIMONY. 986 00:36:15,967 --> 00:36:17,600 >> THERE WAS SO LITTLE EVIDENCE. 987 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,700 AND, SO, A LOT OF PEOPLE 988 00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:21,367 BELIEVED BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW 989 00:36:21,367 --> 00:36:23,067 ANYTHING ELSE OTHER THAN WHAT HE 990 00:36:23,067 --> 00:36:27,700 HAS TOLD US THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE 991 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:27,900 THIS. 992 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:29,800 HE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO CONVINCE 993 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,933 A LOT OF THE JURORS. 994 00:36:32,933 --> 00:36:36,100 >> AND WE HAD THAT ONE JUROR 995 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:37,833 SAID I KICKED SOMEONE AND I 996 00:36:37,833 --> 00:36:42,067 NEVER INTENDED TO KILL THEM. 997 00:36:42,067 --> 00:36:44,800 >> NO ONE WAS GOING TO CHANGE 998 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:45,567 ANYONE'S MIND. 999 00:36:45,567 --> 00:36:47,667 >> THE JUDGE THEN INVOKED WHAT'S 1000 00:36:47,667 --> 00:36:49,467 CALLED AN ALLEN CHARGE, URGING 1001 00:36:49,467 --> 00:36:51,400 THE HOLD-OUT JURORS TO 1002 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,233 RECONSIDER THE EVIDENCE AND 1003 00:36:54,233 --> 00:36:55,400 REACH A UNANIMOUS DECISION. 1004 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:56,833 AFTER ANOTHER HOUR OF 1005 00:36:56,833 --> 00:36:58,067 DELIBERATIONS, A VERDICT. 1006 00:36:58,067 --> 00:37:01,467 >> AND MR. McDONALD, PLEASE 1007 00:37:01,467 --> 00:37:03,400 STAND WITH YOUR COUNSEL. 1008 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:08,067 ON THE COUNT OF MURDER, THE JURY 1009 00:37:08,067 --> 00:37:10,300 FINDS THE DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY 1010 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:12,167 OF THE OFFENSE OF MURDER. 1011 00:37:12,167 --> 00:37:15,067 AS CHARGED IN THE INDICTMENT, 1012 00:37:15,067 --> 00:37:17,367 GUILTY OF THE OFFENSE OF 1013 00:37:17,367 --> 00:37:18,067 MANSLAUGHTER. 1014 00:37:18,067 --> 00:37:20,867 >> ANDRE McDONALD WAS FOUND NOT 1015 00:37:20,867 --> 00:37:22,733 GUILTY OF MURDER, BUT GUILTY OF 1016 00:37:22,733 --> 00:37:28,067 THE LESSER CHARGE, MANSLAUGHTER. 1017 00:37:28,067 --> 00:37:31,867 ANDREEN'S SISTER WAS IN 1018 00:37:31,867 --> 00:37:32,167 DISBELIEF. 1019 00:37:32,167 --> 00:37:36,200 >> A MANSLAUGHTER AFTER HE SPOKE 1020 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,600 WITH NO REMORSE, NO LOVE, 1021 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,433 NOTHING AT ALL AND USED HAMMER, 1022 00:37:42,433 --> 00:37:44,533 STRIP HER CLOTHES, THROW 1023 00:37:44,533 --> 00:37:48,600 GASOLINE ON HER, BURNT HER, AND 1024 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,067 THEY GIVE HIM MANSLAUGHTER. 1025 00:37:51,067 --> 00:37:51,967 THAT'S CRAZY. 1026 00:37:51,967 --> 00:37:53,833 I AM GOING TO STRUGGLE WITH THIS 1027 00:37:53,833 --> 00:37:55,600 UNTIL THE DAY I DIE. 1028 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:58,233 >> THE PROSECUTION HAD A MIXED 1029 00:37:58,233 --> 00:37:59,633 REACTION TO THE VERDICT. 1030 00:37:59,633 --> 00:38:01,867 >> I WAS DISAPPOINTED. 1031 00:38:01,867 --> 00:38:05,267 HOWEVER, THE JURY REJECTED HIS 1032 00:38:05,267 --> 00:38:06,467 SELF-DEFENSE ARGUMENT AND HELD 1033 00:38:06,467 --> 00:38:08,567 HIM ACCOUNTABLE FOR AT LEAST 1034 00:38:08,567 --> 00:38:08,867 SOMETHING. 1035 00:38:08,867 --> 00:38:10,167 >> FOR THE DEFENSE, ANDRE 1036 00:38:10,167 --> 00:38:11,833 McDONALD MAY NOT HAVE WALKED OUT 1037 00:38:11,833 --> 00:38:13,100 A FREE MAN BUT -- 1038 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:15,433 >> THIS IS A WIN. 1039 00:38:15,433 --> 00:38:17,300 I BELIEVE THIS IS A SELF-DEFENSE 1040 00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:17,533 CASE. 1041 00:38:17,533 --> 00:38:19,833 I DO RESPECT THE OUTCOME. 1042 00:38:19,833 --> 00:38:23,367 >> ANDREEN'S BEST FRIEND, MANDY 1043 00:38:23,367 --> 00:38:23,567 HALL. 1044 00:38:23,567 --> 00:38:25,867 >> HE'S THERE TO TELL HIS STORY. 1045 00:38:25,867 --> 00:38:30,200 HE IS THERE TO MAKE UP WHATEVER 1046 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,500 HE WANTS TO MAKE UP. 1047 00:38:32,500 --> 00:38:33,667 SHE CAN'T DO THAT BECAUSE YOU 1048 00:38:33,667 --> 00:38:35,933 TOOK THAT AWAY FROM HER. 1049 00:38:35,933 --> 00:38:37,467 >> CINDY NOW SEES THAT PHONE 1050 00:38:37,467 --> 00:38:38,867 CALL FROM McDONALD BEFORE THE 1051 00:38:38,867 --> 00:38:42,567 TRIAL IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT, AS A 1052 00:38:42,567 --> 00:38:44,667 CALCULATED PLOY TO DEFLECT 1053 00:38:44,667 --> 00:38:45,067 BLAME. 1054 00:38:45,067 --> 00:38:46,233 >> IT'S FOUR YEARS. 1055 00:38:46,233 --> 00:38:48,367 IT TOOK HIM FOUR YEARS FOR HIM 1056 00:38:48,367 --> 00:38:51,767 TO RECOGNIZE THAT HE DID WHAT HE 1057 00:38:51,767 --> 00:38:52,067 DID. 1058 00:38:52,067 --> 00:38:54,800 AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, HE'S 1059 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,200 REACHING OUT TO US TO LET US 1060 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,100 THINK THAT HE'S GOING TO 1061 00:38:59,100 --> 00:38:59,400 RESPOND. 1062 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,200 HE DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING. 1063 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,633 HE IS LYING, ALL OF THAT. 1064 00:39:03,633 --> 00:39:05,433 IT'S ALL A LIE. 1065 00:39:05,433 --> 00:39:08,867 >> AFTER THE VERDICT, SHERIFF 1066 00:39:08,867 --> 00:39:11,067 SALAZAR REACHED OUT TO ANDREEN'S 1067 00:39:11,067 --> 00:39:13,500 FATHER, A RETIRED MEMBER OF THE 1068 00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:16,267 JAMAICAN ARMY WITH AN UNUSUAL 1069 00:39:16,267 --> 00:39:16,533 OFFERING. 1070 00:39:16,533 --> 00:39:18,067 >> I DID PRESENT MR. ANDERSON 1071 00:39:18,067 --> 00:39:18,767 WITH A GIFT. 1072 00:39:18,767 --> 00:39:21,233 I ASKED MY DEPUTY TO REMOVE THE 1073 00:39:21,233 --> 00:39:25,067 HANDCUFFS FROM ANDRE, THEY PUT 1074 00:39:25,067 --> 00:39:26,833 THEM BACK TO THE CELL AND I GAVE 1075 00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:28,467 THOSE CUFFS TO MR. ANDERSON. 1076 00:39:28,467 --> 00:39:30,533 >> I WANTED THEM TO FEEL SOME 1077 00:39:30,533 --> 00:39:32,067 SORT OF CONNECTION TO AT LEAST 1078 00:39:32,067 --> 00:39:35,533 SENDING HIM AWAY TO PRISON. 1079 00:39:35,533 --> 00:39:37,667 >> I WANT TO TELL YOU THAT WE 1080 00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:39,233 REALLY APPRECIATE IT. 1081 00:39:39,233 --> 00:39:40,500 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 1082 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:41,600 GOD BLESS YOU. 1083 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:45,100 >> FOR ANDREEN'S MOTHER, NOTHING 1084 00:39:45,100 --> 00:39:46,800 ABOUT THIS STRATEGY MAKES SENSE. 1085 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,567 HER DAUGHTER AND THE BEAUTIFUL 1086 00:39:49,567 --> 00:39:51,533 LIFE SHE HAD CREATED ARE GONE. 1087 00:39:51,533 --> 00:39:53,867 ANDREEN McDONALD, WHO CAME TO 1088 00:39:53,867 --> 00:39:56,300 AMERICA, BECAME A SUCCESSFUL 1089 00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:57,733 ENTREPRENEUR AND FOUND HER 1090 00:39:57,733 --> 00:40:00,633 PURPOSE IN SERVING OTHERS. 1091 00:40:00,633 --> 00:40:02,867 SADLY, THE BUSINESS SHE CREATED 1092 00:40:02,867 --> 00:40:06,667 IS NOW CLOSED. 1093 00:40:06,667 --> 00:40:11,767 >> I MISS HER VERY MUCH. 1094 00:40:11,767 --> 00:40:13,700 MOST TIMES THAT I THINK ABOUT 1095 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:15,600 HER, IT'S LIKE I FEEL LIKE 1096 00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:16,633 GIVING UP. 1097 00:40:16,633 --> 00:40:19,867 >> AND IN THOSE TIMES, THEY LEAN 1098 00:40:19,867 --> 00:40:21,000 ON ONE ANOTHER. 1099 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,900 >> WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE EACH 1100 00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:25,467 OTHER TO TAKE US THROUGH THIS 1101 00:40:25,467 --> 00:40:27,200 SAD JOURNEY. 1102 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,800 WHEN I'M WEAK, MY MOM IS STRONG. 1103 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,967 WHEN MY MOM IS WEAK, I AM 1104 00:40:32,967 --> 00:40:33,233 STRONG. 1105 00:40:33,233 --> 00:40:38,400 >> WE HAVE TO BE STRONG FOR 1106 00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:38,633 ELANA. 1107 00:40:38,633 --> 00:40:42,300 >> NOW 12 YEARS OLD, SHE IS THE 1108 00:40:42,300 --> 00:40:44,000 GLUE THAT BINDS THIS FRACTURED 1109 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,600 FAMILY, A FAMILY THAT STILL 1110 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:49,367 INCLUDES ANDRE'S MOTHER JACKIE. 1111 00:40:49,367 --> 00:40:50,700 THOUGH, SHE IS MAINLY LEFT WITH 1112 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:55,067 THE MEMORIES AND THE PAIN OF 1113 00:40:55,067 --> 00:40:56,800 ONCE WAS. 1114 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,467 >> I HURT MORE FOR ELANA THAN I 1115 00:41:00,467 --> 00:41:01,933 HURT FOR EVERYONE. 1116 00:41:01,933 --> 00:41:03,333 NO CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO GO 1117 00:41:03,333 --> 00:41:04,700 THROUGH WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH. 1118 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:08,100 >> MAUREEN AND CINDY ARE NOW 1119 00:41:08,100 --> 00:41:08,600 RAISING HER. 1120 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,167 >> IT IS BITTERSWEET BECAUSE WE 1121 00:41:10,167 --> 00:41:12,933 HAVE ELANA. 1122 00:41:12,933 --> 00:41:19,133 >> SHE REMINDS US SO MUCH OF 1123 00:41:19,133 --> 00:41:19,800 ANDREEN. 1124 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:20,633 >> GIVE MOMMY A KISS. 1125 00:41:20,633 --> 00:41:23,400 LOVE YOU. 1126 00:41:32,233 --> 00:41:33,967 >>> A YOUNG WIFE AND MOTHER 1127 00:41:33,967 --> 00:41:35,300 FOUND WITH A STRANGE MIX OF 1128 00:41:35,300 --> 00:41:36,067 DRUGS IN HER SYSTEM. 1129 00:41:36,067 --> 00:41:38,400 >> HEY, THERE IS A NEEDLE RIGHT 1130 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:38,600 HERE. 1131 00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,067 >> IT MAKES YOU STOP BREATHING 1132 00:41:40,067 --> 00:41:41,067 IF YOU HAVE TOO MUCH. 1133 00:41:41,067 --> 00:41:43,067 >> WAS IT A MURDER? 1134 00:41:43,067 --> 00:41:45,567 >> HOW CRUCIAL WERE THOSE 1135 00:41:45,567 --> 00:41:45,967 JOURNALS? 1136 00:41:45,967 --> 00:41:46,700 >> VERY. 1137 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:49,533 >> "48 HOURS" SATURDAY ON CBS 1138 00:41:49,533 --> 00:41:50,967 STREAMING ON PARAMOUNT PLUS.