1 00:00:19,137 --> 00:00:19,344 RIGHT? 2 00:00:19,344 --> 00:00:22,793 >> THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. 3 00:00:22,793 --> 00:00:26,000 APRIL 23, 2018. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,586 I RECEIVED A CALL THAT A BODY 5 00:00:27,586 --> 00:00:31,793 WAS LOCATED OFF OF HIGHWAY 98. 6 00:00:31,793 --> 00:00:35,448 I COME OVER TO THIS AREA, AND 7 00:00:35,448 --> 00:00:37,103 APPROXIMATELY HERE WAS ABOUT 8 00:00:37,103 --> 00:00:39,724 WHERE THE HEAD OF THE BODY WAS 9 00:00:39,724 --> 00:00:39,896 AT. 10 00:00:39,896 --> 00:00:43,000 AND STRETCHED OUT ACROSS THE 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,068 DITCH WITH THE FEET FACING IN 12 00:00:44,068 --> 00:00:44,724 THAT DIRECTION. 13 00:00:44,724 --> 00:00:46,551 SHE HAD BRUISES FROM HEAD TO 14 00:00:46,551 --> 00:00:48,896 TOE, COVERING HER ENTIRE BODY. 15 00:00:48,896 --> 00:00:52,448 SHE HAD LACERATIONS ON HER FACE, 16 00:00:52,448 --> 00:00:53,517 STOMACH, LEGS. 17 00:00:53,517 --> 00:00:54,896 >> SO THIS WOMAN SUFFERED BEFORE 18 00:00:54,896 --> 00:00:56,172 SHE DIED? 19 00:00:56,172 --> 00:00:59,068 >> SHE SUFFERED. 20 00:00:59,068 --> 00:01:01,241 I'D NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE IT. 21 00:01:01,241 --> 00:01:03,758 IT WAS EXTREME VIOLENCE. 22 00:01:03,758 --> 00:01:07,344 EXTREME VIOLENCE. 23 00:01:07,344 --> 00:01:07,620 OVERKILL. 24 00:01:07,620 --> 00:01:09,379 >> AND WHO'D DO SOMETHING LIKE 25 00:01:09,379 --> 00:01:09,586 THAT? 26 00:01:09,586 --> 00:01:11,000 >> AT THE TIME, YOU DON'T KNOW. 27 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:12,724 AND WHAT YOU WORRY ABOUT THEN IS 28 00:01:12,724 --> 00:01:17,379 ARE THEY LOOSE IN OUR COMMUNITY? 29 00:01:17,379 --> 00:01:18,000 WHAT TYPE OF INDIVIDUAL AM I 30 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:18,931 DEALING WITH? 31 00:01:18,931 --> 00:01:21,896 OR INDIVIDUALS? 32 00:01:21,896 --> 00:01:23,310 IS THERE ONE PERSON, IS THERE 33 00:01:23,310 --> 00:01:23,586 TWO? 34 00:01:23,586 --> 00:01:26,655 YOU HAVE A MILLION QUESTIONS 35 00:01:26,655 --> 00:01:27,275 THAT YOU CAN ASK, BUT YOU HAVE 36 00:01:27,275 --> 00:01:29,655 NO ANSWERS AT THE TIME. 37 00:01:29,655 --> 00:01:31,413 THE NEXT DAY THEY IDENTIFIED THE 38 00:01:31,413 --> 00:01:35,103 WOMAN AS AILEEN SEIDEN. 39 00:01:35,103 --> 00:01:37,033 A YOUNG 31-YEAR-OLD FEMALE IN 40 00:01:37,033 --> 00:01:38,551 THE MIAMI AREA. 41 00:01:38,551 --> 00:01:42,758 >> I'VE KNOWN AILEEN SEIDEN FOR 42 00:01:42,758 --> 00:01:43,517 25 YEARS. 43 00:01:43,517 --> 00:01:45,172 SHE WAS MY BEST FRIEND. 44 00:01:45,172 --> 00:01:47,378 AILEEN HAD CALLED ME. 45 00:01:47,378 --> 00:01:48,586 SHE HAD TOLD ME IT WAS PRETTY 46 00:01:48,586 --> 00:01:49,965 WHERE SHE WAS. 47 00:01:49,965 --> 00:01:51,620 THE LAST TALK I HAD WITH AILEEN 48 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:53,000 WAS VERY DIFFERENT. 49 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,000 SHE TOLD ME JUST THESE HORRIFIC 50 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,206 THINGS YOU'D NEVER THINK YOU'LL 51 00:01:58,206 --> 00:02:01,068 HEAR FROM YOUR BEST FRIEND. 52 00:02:01,068 --> 00:02:02,413 SHE SAID I NEED YOUR HELP. 53 00:02:02,413 --> 00:02:03,724 >> IT WAS LIKE A MOVIE, MY 54 00:02:03,724 --> 00:02:05,172 SISTER'S INVOLVED, AND I DON'T 55 00:02:05,172 --> 00:02:05,758 KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING. 56 00:02:05,758 --> 00:02:08,068 I TOLD HER TO RUN. 57 00:02:08,068 --> 00:02:09,689 >> YOU USED THE WORD RUN? 58 00:02:09,689 --> 00:02:13,275 >> 100% I SAID RUN. 59 00:02:13,275 --> 00:02:15,137 I SAID GET OUT OF THERE, GO. 60 00:02:15,137 --> 00:02:15,931 SHE SAID I CAN'T. 61 00:02:15,931 --> 00:02:18,448 >> SHE WAS SCARED TO DEATH. 62 00:02:18,448 --> 00:02:19,827 >> THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN. 63 00:02:19,827 --> 00:02:22,000 THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN TO US. 64 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,965 THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN IN REAL 65 00:02:26,965 --> 00:02:27,137 LIFE. 66 00:02:27,137 --> 00:02:30,206 >> WE RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE 67 00:02:30,206 --> 00:02:32,000 SPORTSMAN'S LODGE MOTEL. 68 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:33,000 THERE WAS A ROOM THAT THEY WERE 69 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:36,724 IN THE PROCESS OF CLEANING. 70 00:02:36,724 --> 00:02:37,310 THERE WAS BLOOD. 71 00:02:37,310 --> 00:02:38,344 >> AND WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR 72 00:02:38,344 --> 00:02:40,586 MIND AS YOU WALK THROUGH ALL 73 00:02:40,586 --> 00:02:40,965 THIS BEAUTY? 74 00:02:40,965 --> 00:02:42,689 >> THIS RIGHT HERE WOULD BE THE 75 00:02:42,689 --> 00:02:45,689 LAST PLACE THAT YOU COULD EVER 76 00:02:45,689 --> 00:02:46,310 IMAGINE A HOMICIDE TAKING PLACE, 77 00:02:46,310 --> 00:02:47,241 ESPECIALLY RIGHT HERE IN THIS 78 00:02:47,241 --> 00:02:50,862 PIECE OF PARADISE. 79 00:02:50,862 --> 00:02:54,172 I'LL TAKE YOU TO ROOM NUMBER 15. 80 00:02:54,172 --> 00:02:56,689 >> NOW, WHEN THE HOUSEKEEPERS 81 00:02:56,689 --> 00:02:58,067 FIRST CAME THROUGH THIS DOOR, 82 00:02:58,067 --> 00:03:00,931 WHAT DID THEY SEE? 83 00:03:00,931 --> 00:03:02,655 >> THEY SAID THE FURNITURE WAS 84 00:03:02,655 --> 00:03:03,931 KNOCKED OVER ONTO THE FLOOR. 85 00:03:03,931 --> 00:03:05,310 AS THEY STARTED CLEANING THE 86 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:06,689 ROOM, THEY FOUND MORE AND MORE 87 00:03:06,689 --> 00:03:07,965 STUFF TO BE WRONG. 88 00:03:07,965 --> 00:03:09,379 THEY NOTICED STUFF MISSING FROM 89 00:03:09,379 --> 00:03:11,034 THE BEDS, THE SHEETS, ANYTHING 90 00:03:11,034 --> 00:03:12,172 LIKE THAT. 91 00:03:12,172 --> 00:03:15,896 THIS BED HERE WAS COMPLETELY 92 00:03:15,896 --> 00:03:16,862 COVERED IN BLOODSTAIN. 93 00:03:16,862 --> 00:03:18,517 >> SO THAT TELLS YOU THERE WAS A 94 00:03:18,517 --> 00:03:21,965 VIOLENT SCENE GOING ON. 95 00:03:21,965 --> 00:03:24,620 >> YES. 96 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:29,896 >> AND WHAT HAPPENED IN ROOM 15? 97 00:03:29,896 --> 00:03:31,000 >> DON'T KNOW. 98 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,689 >> IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK, 99 00:03:33,689 --> 00:03:33,896 RIGHT? 100 00:03:33,896 --> 00:03:34,862 >> OH, IF THEY COULD TALK, I'D 101 00:03:34,862 --> 00:03:40,172 >> OH, IF THEY COULD TALK, I'D LOVE TO HEAR THEM. 102 00:03:40,172 --> 00:03:45,620 LOVE TO HEAR THEM. 103 00:03:45,620 --> 00:04:01,758 LOVE TO HEAR THEM. ♪ 104 00:04:01,758 --> 00:04:40,275 ♪ 105 00:04:40,275 --> 00:04:40,931 >>> APALACHICOLA, FLORIDA, IS A 106 00:04:40,931 --> 00:04:41,379 WONDERFUL SMALL PLACE. 107 00:04:41,379 --> 00:04:42,000 >> FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY ASSISTANT 108 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:42,655 PROSECUTOR JARRED PATTERSON THE 109 00:04:42,655 --> 00:04:43,275 SLEEPY TOWN OF APALACHICOLA AND 110 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:45,344 TH SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE ARE 111 00:04:45,344 --> 00:04:47,310 A BYGONE ERA. 112 00:04:47,310 --> 00:04:49,068 >> WE REFER TO HERE THE COUNTIES 113 00:04:49,068 --> 00:04:52,034 ALONG THIS COAST AS THE 114 00:04:52,034 --> 00:04:52,448 FORGOTTEN COAST. 115 00:04:52,448 --> 00:04:54,379 >> BUT WHEN A COUPLE HEADING TO 116 00:04:54,379 --> 00:04:57,275 A NEARBY FISHING POND DISCOVERED 117 00:04:57,275 --> 00:05:02,241 AILEEN SEIDEN'S BATTERED BODY ON 118 00:05:02,241 --> 00:05:04,379 APRIL 23, 2018, PATTERSON 119 00:05:04,379 --> 00:05:05,586 WONDERED WHAT HAD BROUGHT A 120 00:05:05,586 --> 00:05:06,827 KILLER TO FLORIDA'S FORGOTTEN 121 00:05:06,827 --> 00:05:07,000 COAST. 122 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,517 >> THE HORROR THAT IT REALLY 123 00:05:08,517 --> 00:05:10,275 WAS, IT ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED 124 00:05:10,275 --> 00:05:10,517 PEOPLE. 125 00:05:10,517 --> 00:05:11,758 >> IT LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE WAS IN 126 00:05:11,758 --> 00:05:12,827 A HURRY. 127 00:05:12,827 --> 00:05:14,827 WHOEVER IT WAS, DUMPED THE BODY 128 00:05:14,827 --> 00:05:15,965 AND TOOK OFF. 129 00:05:15,965 --> 00:05:17,965 >> LEAD INVESTIGATOR LIEUTENANT 130 00:05:17,965 --> 00:05:19,758 RONNIE JONES, THEN WITH THE 131 00:05:19,758 --> 00:05:21,103 FRANKLIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S 132 00:05:21,103 --> 00:05:24,068 OFFICE, SAYS DOCUMENTING 133 00:05:24,068 --> 00:05:25,275 AILEEN'S UNSETTLING DUMP SITE 134 00:05:25,275 --> 00:05:27,000 WAS THE FIRST OF TWO OMINOUS 135 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,896 EVENTS OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS. 136 00:05:29,896 --> 00:05:32,413 HE WAS SOON DISPATCHED TO THE 137 00:05:32,413 --> 00:05:34,586 SECOND CRIME SCENE AT THE 138 00:05:34,586 --> 00:05:36,827 SPORTSMAN'S LODGE MOTEL. 139 00:05:36,827 --> 00:05:40,689 AND THAT BLOODY SPECTACLE INSIDE 140 00:05:40,689 --> 00:05:45,000 ROOM 15. 141 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,448 SO WHAT'S IT LIKE FOR YOU TO BE 142 00:05:46,448 --> 00:05:47,379 BACK IN HERE? 143 00:05:47,379 --> 00:05:52,172 >> BRINGS BACK SOME PRETTY BAD 144 00:05:52,172 --> 00:05:52,448 MEMORIES. 145 00:05:52,448 --> 00:05:54,896 >> JONES MEMORIES LIVE IN STARK 146 00:05:54,896 --> 00:05:56,689 CONTRAST TO THE TREE-SHADED 147 00:05:56,689 --> 00:05:59,310 GROUNDS OF THE OTHERWISE 148 00:05:59,310 --> 00:06:00,620 PEACEFUL MOTEL. 149 00:06:00,620 --> 00:06:01,793 >> AS SOON AS I CAME IN, I 150 00:06:01,793 --> 00:06:02,793 NOTICED THE BED. 151 00:06:02,793 --> 00:06:04,103 YOU COULDN'T MISS IT. 152 00:06:04,103 --> 00:06:06,896 I MEAN THIS WHOLE AREA WAS 153 00:06:06,896 --> 00:06:08,413 COVERED AND HAD BLOODSTAINS ON 154 00:06:08,413 --> 00:06:08,586 IT. 155 00:06:08,586 --> 00:06:10,655 >> AND WHEN YOU SAW THAT KIND OF 156 00:06:10,655 --> 00:06:12,551 BLOOD LOSS, WHAT DID THAT TELL 157 00:06:12,551 --> 00:06:12,724 YOU? 158 00:06:12,724 --> 00:06:14,620 >> I JUST PUT TWO AND TWO 159 00:06:14,620 --> 00:06:16,758 TOGETHER AND I AUTOMATICALLY PUT 160 00:06:16,758 --> 00:06:18,000 THAT BACK TO THE BODY THAT WAS 161 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 FOUND THE DAY BEFORE. 162 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,862 >> YOU DID THAT QUICKLY, LIKE 163 00:06:20,862 --> 00:06:21,034 THAT? 164 00:06:21,034 --> 00:06:22,000 >> HAD TO OF. 165 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,965 IT WASN'T JUST LIKE SOMEBODY CUT 166 00:06:25,965 --> 00:06:26,620 THEIRSELF AND BLED A LITTLE BIT 167 00:06:26,620 --> 00:06:26,965 ON THE BED. 168 00:06:26,965 --> 00:06:29,551 THE AMOUNT OF BLOOD ON THIS BED 169 00:06:29,551 --> 00:06:30,586 TELLS ME WHOEVER IT WAS WAS 170 00:06:30,586 --> 00:06:31,827 PROBABLY DECEASED. 171 00:06:31,827 --> 00:06:32,827 >> JONES RECALLS THERE WAS A 172 00:06:32,827 --> 00:06:35,344 SMELL OF VINEGAR IN THE ROOM. 173 00:06:35,344 --> 00:06:36,689 AND WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? 174 00:06:36,689 --> 00:06:38,000 >> THAT SOMEONE ATTEMPTED TO 175 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:39,068 CLEAN THE CRIME SCENE. 176 00:06:39,068 --> 00:06:41,241 >> A LUMINOL TEST FOR TRACE OF 177 00:06:41,241 --> 00:06:42,862 HUMAN BLOOD REVEALED WHAT AN 178 00:06:42,862 --> 00:06:45,517 APPARENTLY HASTY CLEANUP 179 00:06:45,517 --> 00:06:45,862 COULDN'T HIDE. 180 00:06:45,862 --> 00:06:47,344 >> THE WHOLE ENTIRE BATHROOM LIT 181 00:06:47,344 --> 00:06:47,517 UP. 182 00:06:47,517 --> 00:06:49,310 >> SO THAT WAS THE SCENE OF 183 00:06:49,310 --> 00:06:51,310 PERHAPS SOME OF HER MOST VICIOUS 184 00:06:51,310 --> 00:06:53,448 ATTACKS WAS INSIDE THAT 185 00:06:53,448 --> 00:06:53,896 BATHROOM? 186 00:06:53,896 --> 00:06:54,275 >> YES. 187 00:06:54,275 --> 00:06:56,655 >> AND JONES SAYS THE SHOWER 188 00:06:56,655 --> 00:06:59,068 CURTAIN ROD WAS A POSSIBLE 189 00:06:59,068 --> 00:06:59,310 WEAPON. 190 00:06:59,310 --> 00:07:03,551 >> ON THE ROD WAS LOCATED A PALM 191 00:07:03,551 --> 00:07:04,413 PRINT AND ALSO BLOOD. 192 00:07:04,413 --> 00:07:06,241 >> AND THAT'S SIGNIFICANT 193 00:07:06,241 --> 00:07:07,068 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 194 00:07:07,068 --> 00:07:09,034 >> TESTING WOULD SOON CONFIRM 195 00:07:09,034 --> 00:07:12,689 THAT IT WAS AILEEN'S BLOOD IN 196 00:07:12,689 --> 00:07:14,000 THE MOTEL ROOM. 197 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:17,862 NOW CAME THE GUT WRENCHING DUTY 198 00:07:17,862 --> 00:07:20,620 TO NOTIFY AILEEN'S SISTER, 199 00:07:20,620 --> 00:07:21,758 FRANCEASCA SEIDEN. 200 00:07:21,758 --> 00:07:23,448 >> HE SAID MY SISTER WAS 201 00:07:23,448 --> 00:07:23,724 MURDERED. 202 00:07:23,724 --> 00:07:26,172 I DON'T KNOW, LIKE, WHAT DO YOU 203 00:07:26,172 --> 00:07:28,551 DO? 204 00:07:28,551 --> 00:07:31,655 YOU LOOK FOR SUPPORT. 205 00:07:31,655 --> 00:07:35,551 THAT'S ALL I COULD DO. 206 00:07:35,551 --> 00:07:36,793 I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY, LIKE, 207 00:07:36,793 --> 00:07:39,172 IT WAS GIVEN TO ME, AGAIN, LIKE 208 00:07:39,172 --> 00:07:41,172 TO HANDLE ANOTHER LOSS. 209 00:07:41,172 --> 00:07:45,620 >> WHILE GROWING UP IN MIAMI 210 00:07:45,620 --> 00:07:47,586 THEN-16-YEAR-OLD FRANCEASCA AND 211 00:07:47,586 --> 00:07:49,068 9-YEAR-OLD AILEEN FACED THEIR 212 00:07:49,068 --> 00:07:55,551 FIRST TRAGEDY WHEN THEIR BELOVED 213 00:07:55,551 --> 00:07:58,620 MOTHER, MURTHA PASSED AWAY FROM 214 00:07:58,620 --> 00:07:59,000 CANCER. 215 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,172 HOW DID THE TWO OF YOU DEAL WITH 216 00:08:01,172 --> 00:08:01,379 THIS? 217 00:08:01,379 --> 00:08:05,068 >> WE DIDN'T TALK IT BECAUSE IT 218 00:08:05,068 --> 00:08:06,068 WAS SO FAST. 219 00:08:06,068 --> 00:08:07,793 >> SIX YEARS LATER, THEIR 220 00:08:07,793 --> 00:08:11,689 FATHER, FRANK, A SUCCESSFUL 221 00:08:11,689 --> 00:08:12,724 FURNITURE MANUFACTURER WHO 222 00:08:12,724 --> 00:08:14,413 FRANCEASCA SAYS SHARED A BOND 223 00:08:14,413 --> 00:08:16,068 WITH AILEEN, SUDDENLY DIED FROM 224 00:08:16,068 --> 00:08:17,206 A HEART ATTACK. 225 00:08:17,206 --> 00:08:20,482 IT LEFT AILEEN THEN 14 AN ORPHAN 226 00:08:20,482 --> 00:08:24,000 AND 22-YEAR-OLD FRANCEASCA WITH 227 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:24,827 A DECISION TO MAKE. 228 00:08:24,827 --> 00:08:26,379 >> I SIGNED THE PAPERS AND I 229 00:08:26,379 --> 00:08:27,586 BECAME HER LEGAL GUARDIN. 230 00:08:27,586 --> 00:08:30,000 >> AND WHAT DID THAT MEAN? 231 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,896 WHAT WERE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES? 232 00:08:31,896 --> 00:08:32,827 >> I BECAME A PARENT. 233 00:08:32,827 --> 00:08:34,136 I HAD TO TAKE HER TO SCHOOL. 234 00:08:34,136 --> 00:08:35,586 I HAD TO PICK HER UP FROM 235 00:08:35,586 --> 00:08:36,034 SCHOOL. 236 00:08:36,034 --> 00:08:37,172 I HAD TO FINISH MY OWN SCHOOL. 237 00:08:37,172 --> 00:08:38,136 I WAS WORKING. 238 00:08:38,136 --> 00:08:39,827 I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GRIEVE, 239 00:08:39,827 --> 00:08:41,688 AND I DON'T THINK THAT SHE DID 240 00:08:41,688 --> 00:08:42,102 EITHER. 241 00:08:42,102 --> 00:08:44,034 >> SEVEN YEARS LATER, FRANCEASCA 242 00:08:44,034 --> 00:08:46,206 MOVED TO LOS ANGELES ON HER OWN. 243 00:08:46,206 --> 00:08:48,172 THAT'S WHEN SHE SAYS AILEEN, NOW 244 00:08:48,172 --> 00:08:51,931 IN HER 20s, BEGAN GRIEVING THEIR 245 00:08:51,931 --> 00:08:52,137 PARENTS. 246 00:08:52,137 --> 00:08:54,206 >> STARTED TO THINK A LOT. 247 00:08:54,206 --> 00:08:57,241 SHE BECAME MORE SENSITIVE. 248 00:08:57,241 --> 00:08:58,793 >> SOMETHING LIKE LOSING HER 249 00:08:58,793 --> 00:09:01,275 PARENTS HAS LONG LASTING 250 00:09:01,275 --> 00:09:02,344 THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE. 251 00:09:02,344 --> 00:09:05,551 IT'S OBVIOUS THAT IT DID. 252 00:09:05,551 --> 00:09:06,620 >> THIS IS AILEEN'S BEST FRIEND. 253 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,448 NOT WANTING HER NAME ASSOCIATED 254 00:09:09,448 --> 00:09:10,655 WITH THIS CASE, SHE HAS ASKED 48 255 00:09:10,655 --> 00:09:14,275 HOURS TO REFER TO HER AS ALLIE. 256 00:09:14,275 --> 00:09:15,724 SHE REMEMBERS A STRONG AND 257 00:09:15,724 --> 00:09:16,931 DETERMINED AILEEN MAKING IT ON 258 00:09:16,931 --> 00:09:17,827 HER OWN IN MIAMI. 259 00:09:17,827 --> 00:09:19,586 >> SHE WORKED AS A PROPERTY 260 00:09:19,586 --> 00:09:19,827 MANAGER. 261 00:09:19,827 --> 00:09:22,793 SHE LIVED IN A GREAT APARTMENT. 262 00:09:22,793 --> 00:09:25,724 YOU KNOW, SHE PAID HER OWN RENT. 263 00:09:25,724 --> 00:09:27,896 SHE PAID HER BILLS. 264 00:09:27,896 --> 00:09:29,655 SHE WAS VERY INDEPENDENT. 265 00:09:29,655 --> 00:09:30,517 >> FRANCEASCA SAW THAT 266 00:09:30,517 --> 00:09:31,827 INDEPENDENCE FIRST-HAND WHEN 267 00:09:31,827 --> 00:09:34,137 AILEEN MADE AN EXTENDED VISIT TO 268 00:09:34,137 --> 00:09:35,620 L.A. IN 2016. 269 00:09:35,620 --> 00:09:36,965 LOOKING BACK, DO YOU WISH SHE 270 00:09:36,965 --> 00:09:38,379 HAD STAYED WITH YOU? 271 00:09:38,379 --> 00:09:41,275 >> 100%. 272 00:09:41,275 --> 00:09:44,517 BECAUSE WHATEVER HAPPENED WHEN 273 00:09:44,517 --> 00:09:46,000 SHE WENT BACK TO MIAMI IS WHEN 274 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,896 SHE RECONNECTED WITH ZACH. 275 00:09:50,896 --> 00:09:56,206 >> ZACH WAS ZACHARY ABELL, WHO 276 00:09:56,206 --> 00:09:58,000 AILEEN HAD KNOWN SINCE THEY WERE 277 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:58,275 TEENAGERS. 278 00:09:58,275 --> 00:10:00,275 >> I'M NOT SURE HE HAD THE BEST 279 00:10:00,275 --> 00:10:01,241 REPUTATION IN HIGH SCHOOL. 280 00:10:01,241 --> 00:10:02,793 AT FIRST SHE WASN'T REALLY SURE 281 00:10:02,793 --> 00:10:03,413 ABOUT HIM. 282 00:10:03,413 --> 00:10:06,482 >> BUT YEARS LATER SHE AND ZACH 283 00:10:06,482 --> 00:10:07,413 ABELL STARTED DATING. 284 00:10:07,413 --> 00:10:11,103 >> I THINK IN THE BEGINNING 285 00:10:11,103 --> 00:10:13,103 AILEEN FOUND ZACH FUN. 286 00:10:13,103 --> 00:10:14,620 BUT I THINK IT CHANGED PRETTY 287 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:14,862 QUICKLY. 288 00:10:14,862 --> 00:10:16,655 >> INVESTIGATORS IN FRANKLIN 289 00:10:16,655 --> 00:10:18,758 COUNTY WOULD SOON LEARN ALL 290 00:10:18,758 --> 00:10:19,827 ABOUT ZACH ABELL. 291 00:10:19,827 --> 00:10:21,724 THEY DISCOVERED THAT ZACH, 292 00:10:21,724 --> 00:10:27,000 AILEEN, AND THIS WOMAN, 293 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:28,206 CHRISTINA ARAUJO HAD ALL BEEN 294 00:10:28,206 --> 00:10:32,000 SEEN IN THE APALACHICOLA AREA. 295 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:34,689 THEY ALSO LEARNED THE THREE 296 00:10:34,689 --> 00:10:36,724 SHARED A ROOM AT THE SPORTSMAN'S 297 00:10:36,724 --> 00:10:37,689 LODGE, ROOM NUMBER 15. 298 00:10:37,689 --> 00:10:39,172 >> WE NEEDED TO KNOW WHAT 299 00:10:39,172 --> 00:10:41,068 HAPPENED INSIDE THAT HOTEL ROOM, 300 00:10:41,068 --> 00:10:42,965 OUTSIDE OF THREE PEOPLE ENTER 301 00:10:42,965 --> 00:10:54,620 ASKED TWO CAME OUT CARRYING A 302 00:11:03,103 --> 00:11:05,310 >>> OFF THE COAST OF FORT 303 00:11:05,310 --> 00:11:07,827 LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, CAPTAIN 304 00:11:07,827 --> 00:11:10,172 MIKE PICAVET SET SAIL ON HIS 305 00:11:10,172 --> 00:11:11,068 50-FOOT BOAT. 306 00:11:11,068 --> 00:11:12,965 >> KIND OF WEIRD TRYING TO 307 00:11:12,965 --> 00:11:14,310 REMEMBER ANY GOOD TIMES. 308 00:11:14,310 --> 00:11:15,517 THERE JUST WEREN'T. 309 00:11:15,517 --> 00:11:16,793 THERE WAS ALWAYS SOME ISSUE. 310 00:11:16,793 --> 00:11:19,724 >> BACK IN 2018 MIKE WOULD PLAY 311 00:11:19,724 --> 00:11:22,172 A CENTRAL ROLE IN AILEEN 312 00:11:22,172 --> 00:11:23,517 SEIDEN'S MURDER INVESTIGATION. 313 00:11:23,517 --> 00:11:25,448 HE KNEW AILEEN AND HER 314 00:11:25,448 --> 00:11:28,413 BOYFRIEND, ZACH ABELL, WELL. 315 00:11:28,413 --> 00:11:30,310 >> ZACH IS JUST VERY 316 00:11:30,310 --> 00:11:31,000 ENTERTAINING. 317 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,896 HE'S VERY EXTROVERTED. 318 00:11:32,896 --> 00:11:34,862 >> MIKE HAD MET ZACH BY CHANCE 319 00:11:34,862 --> 00:11:36,379 AT A BAR ABOUT SEVEN YEARS 320 00:11:36,379 --> 00:11:36,620 EARLIER. 321 00:11:36,620 --> 00:11:38,068 >> HE CAME UP TO ME AT DUFFY'S 322 00:11:38,068 --> 00:11:40,413 AND SAID, HEY, I LIKE YOUR 323 00:11:40,413 --> 00:11:40,620 SHIRT. 324 00:11:40,620 --> 00:11:42,034 AND I'M LIKE OKAY. 325 00:11:42,034 --> 00:11:45,827 >> AND THEN CHRISTINA CAME UP. 326 00:11:45,827 --> 00:11:47,068 >> CHRISTINA ARAUJO, ZACH'S 327 00:11:47,068 --> 00:11:48,551 GIRLFRIEND AT THE TIME. 328 00:11:48,551 --> 00:11:49,793 THE TWO HAD BEEN DATING FOR 329 00:11:49,793 --> 00:11:51,379 ABOUT FOUR YEARS. 330 00:11:51,379 --> 00:11:52,793 MIKE SAID CHRISTINA IMMEDIATELY 331 00:11:52,793 --> 00:11:54,000 STARTED BOASTING ABOUT HER 332 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:54,655 POWERFUL FATHER. 333 00:11:54,655 --> 00:11:56,344 >> RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE SHE 334 00:11:56,344 --> 00:11:58,103 SAID, OH, YEAH, MY DAD'S A MAJOR 335 00:11:58,103 --> 00:12:00,620 WITH THE PALM BEACH COUNTY 336 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:02,275 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, AND IF WE 337 00:12:02,275 --> 00:12:03,586 EVER GET INTO ANY TROUBLE WITH 338 00:12:03,586 --> 00:12:07,034 THE LAW, HE CAN TAKE CARE OF IT. 339 00:12:07,034 --> 00:12:08,206 I WAS LIKE, WHAT? 340 00:12:08,206 --> 00:12:09,000 WHO SAYS THAT? 341 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,517 >> DESPITE THEIR ODD FIRST 342 00:12:11,517 --> 00:12:12,827 MEETING, MIKE SAID HE BEGAN 343 00:12:12,827 --> 00:12:14,103 HANGING OUT WITH THE COUPLE. 344 00:12:14,103 --> 00:12:16,793 WHAT FOLLOWED WERE YEARS OF WILD 345 00:12:16,793 --> 00:12:19,241 NIGHTS, WILD PARTIES, AND LOTS 346 00:12:19,241 --> 00:12:19,655 OF HEAVY DRINKING. 347 00:12:19,655 --> 00:12:22,172 >> THAT WAS THEIR GO-TO THING. 348 00:12:22,172 --> 00:12:23,586 OKAY, WE'VE GOT TO DO SHOTS OF 349 00:12:23,586 --> 00:12:25,827 THIS, SHOTS OF THIS. 350 00:12:25,827 --> 00:12:27,034 >> BUT MIKE SAYS THERE WAS AN 351 00:12:27,034 --> 00:12:29,517 INTERESTING POWER DYNAMIC IN THE 352 00:12:29,517 --> 00:12:32,793 COUPLE'S RELATIONSHIP WITH 353 00:12:32,793 --> 00:12:34,551 CHRISTINA WHO WAS 8 YEARS OLDER 354 00:12:34,551 --> 00:12:36,482 THAN ZACH CALLING THE SHOTS. 355 00:12:36,482 --> 00:12:37,827 >> SHE WAS VERY CONTROLLING AND 356 00:12:37,827 --> 00:12:38,137 VERY DIRECT. 357 00:12:38,137 --> 00:12:39,206 AND HE WOULD FOLLOW HER LEAD 358 00:12:39,206 --> 00:12:39,931 WITH STUFF. 359 00:12:39,931 --> 00:12:42,931 >> ONE DAY IN 2016 ZACH STOPPED 360 00:12:42,931 --> 00:12:45,965 BY MIKE'S BOAT BUT NOT WITH 361 00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:46,517 CHRISTINA. 362 00:12:46,517 --> 00:12:49,482 INSTEAD ZACH INTRODUCED MIKE TO 363 00:12:49,482 --> 00:12:51,379 AILEEN SEIDEN. 364 00:12:51,379 --> 00:12:53,655 MIKE COULD TELL ZACH NOW HAD TWO 365 00:12:53,655 --> 00:12:55,931 WOMEN IN HIS LIFE. 366 00:12:55,931 --> 00:12:58,172 >> IT WAS THE WEIRDEST THING. 367 00:12:58,172 --> 00:13:00,034 IF YOUR RELATIONSHIP'S NOT 368 00:13:00,034 --> 00:13:02,931 WORKING, JUST END IT AND MOVE 369 00:13:02,931 --> 00:13:03,758 ON. 370 00:13:03,758 --> 00:13:06,172 >> HOWEVER, MIKE SAID THAT ZACH 371 00:13:06,172 --> 00:13:08,034 COULDN'T MAKE A CLEAN BREAK FROM 372 00:13:08,034 --> 00:13:08,931 CHRISTINA, WHO WAS ALSO HIS 373 00:13:08,931 --> 00:13:10,068 BUSINESS PARTNER. 374 00:13:10,068 --> 00:13:12,137 >> HE TRIED SO MANY TIMES AND 375 00:13:12,137 --> 00:13:13,241 JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO. 376 00:13:13,241 --> 00:13:16,517 AND ALSO ALL THE THREATS ALL THE 377 00:13:16,517 --> 00:13:17,724 TIME SHE COULD MAKE HIM 378 00:13:17,724 --> 00:13:18,310 DISAPPEAR. 379 00:13:18,310 --> 00:13:19,827 EVERY TIME SHE GOT DRUNK SHE 380 00:13:19,827 --> 00:13:21,793 WOULD SAY SOME WEIRD THINGS. 381 00:13:21,793 --> 00:13:24,965 >> AILEEN'S BEST FRIEND, ALLIE, 382 00:13:24,965 --> 00:13:26,689 SAID ZACH AND AILEEN BEGAN TO 383 00:13:26,689 --> 00:13:27,896 SECRETLY DATE. 384 00:13:27,896 --> 00:13:30,655 >> SHE SEEMED TO LOVE HIM SO 385 00:13:30,655 --> 00:13:31,793 MUCH SHE WAS HOPING HE'D DECIDE 386 00:13:31,793 --> 00:13:33,344 TO BE WITH HER. 387 00:13:33,344 --> 00:13:34,793 HE WOULD LEAD HER ONTO THINGS. 388 00:13:34,793 --> 00:13:37,275 HE WAS TRYING TO END IT WITH 389 00:13:37,275 --> 00:13:37,827 CHRISTINA. 390 00:13:37,827 --> 00:13:41,379 >> IN 2017 AILEEN UNEXPECTEDLY 391 00:13:41,379 --> 00:13:43,241 LOST HER JOB AS PROPERTY 392 00:13:43,241 --> 00:13:43,482 MANAGER. 393 00:13:43,482 --> 00:13:44,724 >> SHE WAS REALLY STARTING TO 394 00:13:44,724 --> 00:13:47,000 LOSE CONTROL OF HER OWN LIFE. 395 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,448 >> ALLIE SAYS THAT MAY EXPLAIN 396 00:13:49,448 --> 00:13:51,793 WHY AILEEN EVENTUALLY STARTED 397 00:13:51,793 --> 00:13:56,344 WORKING AT ZACH'S AND 398 00:13:56,344 --> 00:13:57,000 CHRISTINA'S USED CAR DEALERSHIP. 399 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:58,068 >> IT WASN'T THE INDEPENDENT 400 00:13:58,068 --> 00:14:00,620 LIFE SHE'D ALWAYS LIVED. 401 00:14:00,620 --> 00:14:02,724 >> WHEN ZACH FINALLY TRIED TO 402 00:14:02,724 --> 00:14:05,206 END THINGS WITH CHRISTINA, SHE 403 00:14:05,206 --> 00:14:08,551 COUNTERED WITH AN UNCONVENTIONAL 404 00:14:08,551 --> 00:14:08,827 PROPOSAL. 405 00:14:08,827 --> 00:14:10,310 >> IT WAS NOT THE ANSWER THAT 406 00:14:10,310 --> 00:14:11,344 ANYONE EXPECTED. 407 00:14:11,344 --> 00:14:12,793 CHRISTINA CAME BACK AND SAID, 408 00:14:12,793 --> 00:14:16,310 WELL, WHY DON'T WE TRY AND ALL 409 00:14:16,310 --> 00:14:17,862 BE IN A RELATIONSHIP THEN? 410 00:14:17,862 --> 00:14:19,551 IT NOW BECAME THIS OPPORTUNITY 411 00:14:19,551 --> 00:14:21,793 FOR THIS THROUPLE, THREE-WAY 412 00:14:21,793 --> 00:14:22,862 KIND OF RELATIONSHIP. 413 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:25,310 >> A THROUPLE IS A ROMANTIC 414 00:14:25,310 --> 00:14:27,206 RELATIONSHIP AMONG THREE PEOPLE. 415 00:14:27,206 --> 00:14:30,379 ALLIE SAYS AILEEN WAS AGAINST 416 00:14:30,379 --> 00:14:30,862 THE IDEA. 417 00:14:30,862 --> 00:14:33,862 >> AILEEN SAID ABSOLUTELY NOT, 418 00:14:33,862 --> 00:14:36,655 NO WAY, IT'S NEVER GOING TO 419 00:14:36,655 --> 00:14:37,827 WORK. 420 00:14:37,827 --> 00:14:40,310 AND IT WAS KIND OF CRICKETS FOR 421 00:14:40,310 --> 00:14:41,965 A FEW WEEKS. 422 00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:45,620 >> BUT ALLIE SAYS AILEEN CHANGED 423 00:14:45,620 --> 00:14:45,965 HER MIND. 424 00:14:45,965 --> 00:14:48,413 THE TRIO WAS A THROUPLE. 425 00:14:48,413 --> 00:14:51,862 >> I WAS IN SHOCK FOR A MOMENT. 426 00:14:51,862 --> 00:14:54,379 BUT MAYBE HAPPY FOR THEM THIS 427 00:14:54,379 --> 00:14:54,689 COULD WORK. 428 00:14:54,689 --> 00:14:55,310 >> THERE WAS TROUBLE. 429 00:14:55,310 --> 00:14:56,586 >> THIS DYNAMIC STARTED TO 430 00:14:56,586 --> 00:14:57,896 CHANGE WHERE ONE OF THEM SEEMED 431 00:14:57,896 --> 00:15:01,655 TO BE THE ODD MAN OUT OR WAS 432 00:15:01,655 --> 00:15:01,896 JEALOUS. 433 00:15:01,896 --> 00:15:02,517 AT THAT POINT IT STARTED TO 434 00:15:02,517 --> 00:15:03,551 SPIRAL OUT OF CONTROL. 435 00:15:03,551 --> 00:15:05,034 >> ACCORDING TO MIKE PICAVET, 436 00:15:05,034 --> 00:15:07,379 THINGS ESCALATED, LEADING TO 437 00:15:07,379 --> 00:15:08,413 IRRATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND FIGHTS 438 00:15:08,413 --> 00:15:09,862 FUELED BY ALCOHOL. 439 00:15:09,862 --> 00:15:13,758 HE SAYS AILEEN AND CHRISTINA 440 00:15:13,758 --> 00:15:15,000 TRADED PUNCHES OFTEN, USUALLY 441 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,793 RESULTING IN BLACK EYES ON ONE 442 00:15:16,793 --> 00:15:19,034 OR BOTH OF THE WOMEN. 443 00:15:19,034 --> 00:15:21,206 THAT THEY'D SOMETIMES HIDE 444 00:15:21,206 --> 00:15:23,655 BEHIND BIG SUNGLASSES. 445 00:15:23,655 --> 00:15:26,000 >> IT WAS A EVERY DAY THING, 446 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,103 EVERY SECOND DAY THING I COULD 447 00:15:28,103 --> 00:15:28,275 SAY. 448 00:15:28,275 --> 00:15:30,137 >> ALLIE REMEMBERS THINGS 449 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:30,448 DIFFERENTLY. 450 00:15:30,448 --> 00:15:31,586 SHE SAYS ZACH WAS THE 451 00:15:31,586 --> 00:15:35,344 MANUGRESSOR IN THE RELATIONSHIP. 452 00:15:35,344 --> 00:15:36,827 >> AILEEN WOULD CALL ME AND SAY 453 00:15:36,827 --> 00:15:39,793 YOU HAVE TO COME OVER HERE, LIKE 454 00:15:39,793 --> 00:15:40,172 HE HURT ME AGAIN. 455 00:15:40,172 --> 00:15:41,034 AND I'D RUSH OVER THERE AND 456 00:15:41,034 --> 00:15:42,413 PHOTOGRAPH HER AND BEG HER TO GO 457 00:15:42,413 --> 00:15:44,689 TO THE POLICE. 458 00:15:44,689 --> 00:15:46,413 >> BUT ALLIE SAYS AILEEN REFUSED 459 00:15:46,413 --> 00:15:48,000 FEARING CHRISTINA'S LAW 460 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,655 ENFORCEMENT CONNECTIONS WOULD 461 00:15:49,655 --> 00:15:51,034 WORK AGAINST HER. 462 00:15:51,034 --> 00:15:53,482 AILEEN'S SISTER, FRANCEASCA, WAS 463 00:15:53,482 --> 00:15:55,137 FURIOUS WHEN SHE LEARNED OF THE 464 00:15:55,137 --> 00:15:55,344 ABUSE. 465 00:15:55,344 --> 00:15:57,000 >> I WANTED MY SISTER OUT OF THE 466 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:57,275 SITUATIO. 467 00:15:57,275 --> 00:15:58,000 I WANTED HER OUT. 468 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 >> IT'S HARD TO LEAVE. 469 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:00,758 >> IT'S HARD TO LEAVE, AND I HAD 470 00:16:00,758 --> 00:16:05,137 THIS FEELING THAT CHRISTINA WAS 471 00:16:05,137 --> 00:16:07,206 MORE VIOLENT OF THE TWO. 472 00:16:07,206 --> 00:16:08,413 >> IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT TO 473 00:16:08,413 --> 00:16:09,517 SEE HER GOING THROUGH A TIME 474 00:16:09,517 --> 00:16:10,034 LIKE THIS. 475 00:16:10,034 --> 00:16:12,551 IT WAS JUST SO HARD, AND SHE WAS 476 00:16:12,551 --> 00:16:12,931 SARED TO DEATH. 477 00:16:12,931 --> 00:16:16,137 >> ONCE, ALLIE, SAYS THE ABUSE 478 00:16:16,137 --> 00:16:18,000 GOT SO BAD, SHE TOOK AILEEN TO 479 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:18,551 THE EMERGENCY ROOM. 480 00:16:18,551 --> 00:16:20,448 >> I TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL 481 00:16:20,448 --> 00:16:21,965 BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REPORT 482 00:16:21,965 --> 00:16:23,000 THINGS, BUT SHE WOULDN'T SAY 483 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,586 WHERE THE BRUISES CAME FROM. 484 00:16:24,586 --> 00:16:27,000 >> AILEEN'S BEST FRIEND HAD TO 485 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,586 DELIVER A HARD TRUTH. 486 00:16:28,586 --> 00:16:31,172 >> AILEEN, YOU HAVE TO BREAK UP 487 00:16:31,172 --> 00:16:31,965 WITH THIS GUY. 488 00:16:31,965 --> 00:16:34,310 WITH THIS GUY. SOMEONE'S GOING TO END UP DEAD. 489 00:16:34,310 --> 00:16:46,689 SOMEONE'S GOING TO END UP DEAD. 490 00:16:46,689 --> 00:16:48,724 >>> WHEN AILEEN WAS IN REAL 491 00:16:48,724 --> 00:16:50,172 TROUBLE, IT WAS HARD TO GET 492 00:16:50,172 --> 00:16:52,103 ANYONE TO COME RESCUE HER. 493 00:16:52,103 --> 00:16:54,758 >> THE PATH THAT LED TO AILEEN 494 00:16:54,758 --> 00:16:56,241 SEIDEN'S MURDER MAY HAVE BEGUN 495 00:16:56,241 --> 00:16:57,620 WEEKS EARLIER. 496 00:16:57,620 --> 00:17:00,310 IN 2018 ALLIE WAS SURPRISED THAT 497 00:17:00,310 --> 00:17:02,068 DESPITE THE PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IN 498 00:17:02,068 --> 00:17:03,793 THEIR RELATIONSHIP, AILEEN HAD 499 00:17:03,793 --> 00:17:05,896 DECIDED TO MOVE IN WITH ZACH 500 00:17:05,896 --> 00:17:09,378 ABELL AND CHRISTINA ARAUJO. 501 00:17:09,378 --> 00:17:10,758 THE THROUPLE WAS NOW WORKING 502 00:17:10,758 --> 00:17:12,517 TOGETHER, SLEEPING TOGETHER, AND 503 00:17:12,517 --> 00:17:13,758 LIVING TOGETHER. 504 00:17:13,758 --> 00:17:15,792 >> AILEEN WAS TRAPPED IN THE 505 00:17:15,792 --> 00:17:17,241 RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE SHE WAS 506 00:17:17,241 --> 00:17:19,655 TRAPPED FINANCIALLY, BUT SHE 507 00:17:19,655 --> 00:17:20,723 FELT THAT THAT WAS ONE LAST 508 00:17:20,723 --> 00:17:21,792 CHANCE TO MAKE IT WORK. 509 00:17:21,792 --> 00:17:23,964 IT WAS LIKE A ONE-MONTH OR 510 00:17:23,964 --> 00:17:24,689 TWO-MONTH TRIAL. 511 00:17:24,689 --> 00:17:27,310 >> BUT WITHIN A FEW WEEKS, ALLIE 512 00:17:27,310 --> 00:17:29,862 SAYS AILEEN HAD HAD ENOUGH. 513 00:17:29,862 --> 00:17:31,482 >> AILEEN WAS JUST GOING TO MOVE 514 00:17:31,482 --> 00:17:31,655 OUT. 515 00:17:31,655 --> 00:17:34,862 SHE WAS REALLY DONE WITH THE 516 00:17:34,862 --> 00:17:35,172 RELATIONSHIP. 517 00:17:35,172 --> 00:17:36,620 >> BUT AILEEN'S PLANS TO LEAVE 518 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:39,482 WERE HALTED ON APRIL 7, 2018, 519 00:17:39,482 --> 00:17:40,931 AFTER ZACH AND CHRISTINA HAD 520 00:17:40,931 --> 00:17:43,793 GOTTEN INTO A VIOLENT FIGHT. 521 00:17:43,793 --> 00:17:46,137 ALLIE SAYS SHE GOT A CALL FROM 522 00:17:46,137 --> 00:17:47,448 AILEEN ON ZACH'S PHONE. 523 00:17:47,448 --> 00:17:48,758 >> SHE WAS GOING TO LEAVE AND 524 00:17:48,758 --> 00:17:50,724 GET ZACH OUT OF THE HOUSE, LEAVE 525 00:17:50,724 --> 00:17:53,034 TO GO TO A COFFEE SHOP. 526 00:17:53,034 --> 00:17:56,275 THE NEXT CALL I GOT WAS FROM 527 00:17:56,275 --> 00:17:56,551 CHRISTINA. 528 00:17:56,551 --> 00:17:58,137 SHE WAS ANGRY AND FURIOUS. 529 00:17:58,137 --> 00:18:00,172 >> ALLIE SAYS CHRISTINA 530 00:18:00,172 --> 00:18:01,655 THREATENED TO REPORT THE CARRIE 531 00:18:01,655 --> 00:18:03,689 LIEN AND ZACH WERE DRIVING IN AS 532 00:18:03,689 --> 00:18:05,517 STOLEN IN AN APPARENT ATTEMPT TO 533 00:18:05,517 --> 00:18:09,034 KEEP THEM FROM LEAVING HER 534 00:18:09,034 --> 00:18:09,551 BEHIND. 535 00:18:09,551 --> 00:18:12,344 ALLIE IMMEDIATELY WARNED AILEEN 536 00:18:12,344 --> 00:18:13,068 AND ZACH. 537 00:18:13,068 --> 00:18:15,517 >> INSTEAD OF COMING AROUND AND 538 00:18:15,517 --> 00:18:16,793 COMING BACK LIKE I THOUGHT THEY 539 00:18:16,793 --> 00:18:18,689 WOULD, THEY HIT THE GAS AND WENT 540 00:18:18,689 --> 00:18:19,448 TO GEORGIA. 541 00:18:19,448 --> 00:18:20,827 I SAID WHAT ARE YOU DOING, 542 00:18:20,827 --> 00:18:21,758 AILEEN, YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR 543 00:18:21,758 --> 00:18:23,551 PHONE, YOU DON'T HAVE A WALLET. 544 00:18:23,551 --> 00:18:24,379 THIS IS CRAZY. 545 00:18:24,379 --> 00:18:25,620 SHE SAID WE'RE GOING ON A ROAD 546 00:18:25,620 --> 00:18:26,965 TRIP, THIS IS A GOOD THING. 547 00:18:26,965 --> 00:18:29,655 >> BUT THE ROAD TRIP WASN'T A 548 00:18:29,655 --> 00:18:32,068 GOOD THING TO CHRISTINA ARAUJO. 549 00:18:32,068 --> 00:18:35,137 SHE BEGAN HARASSING ZACH AND 550 00:18:35,137 --> 00:18:37,862 AILEEN, SENDING A STORM OF ANGRY 551 00:18:37,862 --> 00:18:39,172 TEXTS. 552 00:18:39,172 --> 00:18:41,241 "YOU TWO DESERVE EACH OTHER." 553 00:18:41,241 --> 00:18:43,034 CHRISTINA SENT MORE THAN 150 554 00:18:43,034 --> 00:18:45,103 TEXTS IN ROUGHLY 24 HOURS. 555 00:18:45,103 --> 00:18:48,103 ALL WENT UNANSWERED INCLUDING 556 00:18:48,103 --> 00:18:49,137 THIS ONE. 557 00:18:49,137 --> 00:18:51,344 "MY DAD WILL BE CALLING YOU." 558 00:18:51,344 --> 00:18:53,206 LATER, CHRISTINA ISSUED THIS 559 00:18:53,206 --> 00:18:53,517 THREAT. 560 00:18:53,517 --> 00:18:56,724 "YOU EFFED ME OVER AND NOW I'M 561 00:18:56,724 --> 00:18:59,620 EFFING YOU OVER." 562 00:18:59,620 --> 00:19:02,655 >> I WAS JUST TRYING TO TELL 563 00:19:02,655 --> 00:19:03,275 HER, CHRISTINA, WHY DON'T YOU 564 00:19:03,275 --> 00:19:04,448 WORRY ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE? 565 00:19:04,448 --> 00:19:06,344 >> ABOUT 48 HOURS INTO THE ROAD 566 00:19:06,344 --> 00:19:09,275 TRIP ZACH AND AILEEN WERE 567 00:19:09,275 --> 00:19:10,000 HEADING TO TEXAS, AND CHRISTINA 568 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,172 SEEMED TO HAVE A CHANGE OF 569 00:19:13,172 --> 00:19:13,379 HEART. 570 00:19:13,379 --> 00:19:14,413 TEXTING "IF YOU WANT TO COME 571 00:19:14,413 --> 00:19:15,827 BACK HOME, COME BACK. 572 00:19:15,827 --> 00:19:17,655 YOU NEVER HAVE TO QUESTION MY 573 00:19:17,655 --> 00:19:17,862 LOVE." 574 00:19:17,862 --> 00:19:20,344 FOR REASONS THAT ARE UNKNOWN, 575 00:19:20,344 --> 00:19:22,896 INSTEAD OF COMING HOME ZACH 576 00:19:22,896 --> 00:19:25,827 INVITED CHRISTINA TO JOIN THEM, 577 00:19:25,827 --> 00:19:27,000 AND SHE FLEW TO DALLAS. 578 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,103 BUT WITH THE THROUPLE UNITED, 579 00:19:30,103 --> 00:19:32,931 THE OLD PROBLEMS RETURNED. 580 00:19:32,931 --> 00:19:34,586 >> AILEEN STARTED TO CALL ME 581 00:19:34,586 --> 00:19:37,000 FROM ZACH'S PHONE AT NIGHT 582 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:38,000 SAYING, YOU KNOW, THIS IS 583 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,413 GETTING BAD AND I DON'T KNOW 584 00:19:39,413 --> 00:19:40,241 WHAT TO DO. 585 00:19:40,241 --> 00:19:42,000 IT WASN'T UNTIL CHRISTINA 586 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:43,137 ARRIVED THAT THAT STARTED TO 587 00:19:43,137 --> 00:19:43,379 HAPPEN. 588 00:19:43,379 --> 00:19:45,586 I WAS REALLY WORRIED SOMEONE 589 00:19:45,586 --> 00:19:47,482 WOULD GET HURT. 590 00:19:47,482 --> 00:19:49,758 >> BY DAY TEN OF THE ROAD TRIP 591 00:19:49,758 --> 00:19:51,344 AILEEN'S OLDER SISTER, 592 00:19:51,344 --> 00:19:52,827 FRANCEASCA, WAS ALSO WORRIED. 593 00:19:52,827 --> 00:19:54,689 SHE HADN'T HEARD FROM AILEEN IN 594 00:19:54,689 --> 00:19:55,241 A WHILE. 595 00:19:55,241 --> 00:19:57,965 WHEN THE TRIO STOPPED IN NEW 596 00:19:57,965 --> 00:20:01,137 ORLEANS, AILEEN FINALLY CALLED 597 00:20:01,137 --> 00:20:02,517 FRANCEASCA AND SHARED AN 598 00:20:02,517 --> 00:20:04,103 ALARMING SUSPICION. 599 00:20:04,103 --> 00:20:05,517 >> SHE'S LIKE, I THINK THEY'RE 600 00:20:05,517 --> 00:20:06,724 GOING TO KILL ME. 601 00:20:06,724 --> 00:20:07,379 NO JOKE. 602 00:20:07,379 --> 00:20:09,689 SO I WAS LIKE, AILEEN, RUN TO 603 00:20:09,689 --> 00:20:12,655 THE NEAREST GAS STATION, GO TELL 604 00:20:12,655 --> 00:20:13,896 THE PERSON -- 605 00:20:13,896 --> 00:20:14,379 >> CALL 911. 606 00:20:14,379 --> 00:20:16,068 >> YEAH, LIKE RUN. 607 00:20:16,068 --> 00:20:19,689 I SAID RUN, GET OUT OF THERE, 608 00:20:19,689 --> 00:20:19,862 GO. 609 00:20:19,862 --> 00:20:20,241 SHE SAID I CAN'T. 610 00:20:20,241 --> 00:20:21,758 >> FRANCEASCA, DESPERATE TO 611 00:20:21,758 --> 00:20:24,000 HELP, TRIED TO GET MORE DETAILS 612 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:24,689 FROM AILEEN. 613 00:20:24,689 --> 00:20:25,931 >> IF I HAD WHERE THE ADDRESS 614 00:20:25,931 --> 00:20:27,275 WAS, I WOULD HAVE CALLED THE 615 00:20:27,275 --> 00:20:28,896 POLICE THEN AND THERE, BUT SHE 616 00:20:28,896 --> 00:20:29,310 HAD TO GO. 617 00:20:29,310 --> 00:20:32,517 SE HAD TO GET OFF, AND SHE HUNG 618 00:20:32,517 --> 00:20:32,689 UP. 619 00:20:32,689 --> 00:20:34,172 >> I WAS EXTREMELY FRUSTRATED 620 00:20:34,172 --> 00:20:35,448 AND I WAS SCARED. 621 00:20:35,448 --> 00:20:37,620 >> WITH NO WAY TO HELP HER 622 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:40,000 SISTER, FRANCEASCA HOPED AILEEN 623 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,172 WOULD STAY SAFE. 624 00:20:41,172 --> 00:20:43,482 THE ROAD TRIP CONTINUED INTO ITS 625 00:20:43,482 --> 00:20:44,000 SECOND WEEK. 626 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,724 THE TRIO THEN HEADED TO PANAMA 627 00:20:46,724 --> 00:20:47,448 CITY, FLORIDA. 628 00:20:47,448 --> 00:20:50,000 BUT A MISSED EXIT LED THEM TO 629 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:53,620 THE FORGOTTEN COAST. 630 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:57,551 >> THE ROAD TRIP IS DIFFICULT TO 631 00:20:57,551 --> 00:20:58,620 UNDERSTAND. 632 00:20:58,620 --> 00:21:01,896 PARTYING ONE DAY AND MURDERING 633 00:21:01,896 --> 00:21:02,137 THE NEXT. 634 00:21:02,137 --> 00:21:04,379 >> DAVID ADLERSTEIN IS A 635 00:21:04,379 --> 00:21:10,413 REPORTER FOR THE APALACHICOLA 636 00:21:10,413 --> 00:21:11,275 TIMES, ONE OF THE OLDEST 637 00:21:11,275 --> 00:21:12,137 NEWSPAPERS IN FLORIDA. 638 00:21:12,137 --> 00:21:14,413 >> I'VE BEEN COVERING THE AILEEN 639 00:21:14,413 --> 00:21:16,724 SEIDEN CASE SINCE THE WEEK IT 640 00:21:16,724 --> 00:21:17,000 HAPPENED. 641 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,965 >> ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 21st 642 00:21:20,965 --> 00:21:23,137 THE TRIO, SEEN HER IN THIS 643 00:21:23,137 --> 00:21:24,379 SCREENSHOT FROM SURVEILLANCE 644 00:21:24,379 --> 00:21:26,586 FOOTAGE, STUMBLED INTO THE QUIET 645 00:21:26,586 --> 00:21:28,448 PEACE OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 646 00:21:28,448 --> 00:21:31,137 >> THEY WENT TO A POPULAR 647 00:21:31,137 --> 00:21:32,448 RESTAURANT, THE RED PIRATE, 648 00:21:32,448 --> 00:21:34,379 PLAYED MINIATURE GOLF, PARTIED. 649 00:21:34,379 --> 00:21:37,000 >> AT THE RECOMMENDATION OF A 650 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,413 LOCAL, THE THROUPLE HEADED TO 651 00:21:40,413 --> 00:21:42,689 THE NEARBY SPORTSMAN'S LODGE 652 00:21:42,689 --> 00:21:42,896 MOTEL. 653 00:21:42,896 --> 00:21:44,172 THEY RESERVED THE LAST VACANCY 654 00:21:44,172 --> 00:21:46,000 OF THE NIGHT, ROOM 15. 655 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 THE NEXT MORNING ON APRIL 22, 656 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,620 2018, THE THROUPLE MADE A PLAN. 657 00:21:51,620 --> 00:21:54,482 >> THEY DECIDED THEY'D SPEND 658 00:21:54,482 --> 00:21:56,000 ANOTHER DAY THERE, NOT GET BACK 659 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,103 ON THE ROAD, AND MAKE IT A -- A 660 00:21:59,103 --> 00:21:59,310 PARTY. 661 00:21:59,310 --> 00:22:00,827 SO THEY GOT UP IN THE MORNING 662 00:22:00,827 --> 00:22:03,655 AND WENT TO THE LIQUOR STORE. 663 00:22:03,655 --> 00:22:05,137 >> HERE THEY ARE IN THESE SCREEN 664 00:22:05,137 --> 00:22:06,241 SHOTS FROM THE STORE'S 665 00:22:06,241 --> 00:22:07,620 SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE. 666 00:22:07,620 --> 00:22:10,896 WHILE THERE, THE TRIO PURCHASED 667 00:22:10,896 --> 00:22:12,931 LARGE BOTTLES OF VODKA AND 668 00:22:12,931 --> 00:22:13,896 FIREBALL WHISKEY. 669 00:22:13,896 --> 00:22:15,965 >> WHEN I WENT TO INVESTIGATE 670 00:22:15,965 --> 00:22:17,896 THEIR PATH THAT DAY AND WENT TO 671 00:22:17,896 --> 00:22:21,172 THE LIQUOR STORE, THE CLERK, SHE 672 00:22:21,172 --> 00:22:23,000 POINTED OUT THAT THE FIREBALL 673 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,103 THAT THEY BOUGHT WAS THE LARGEST 674 00:22:26,103 --> 00:22:26,586 BOTTLE YOU COULD BUY. 675 00:22:26,586 --> 00:22:28,034 AND THIS IS JUST THE THREE OF 676 00:22:28,034 --> 00:22:28,241 THEM. 677 00:22:28,241 --> 00:22:29,620 >> THE THROUPLE THEN RETURNED TO 678 00:22:29,620 --> 00:22:32,034 THE SPORTSMAN'S LODGE MOTEL. 679 00:22:32,034 --> 00:22:33,206 >> I DON'T THINK AILEEN WAS 680 00:22:33,206 --> 00:22:33,965 HAVING FUN. 681 00:22:33,965 --> 00:22:34,965 I THINK SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO 682 00:22:34,965 --> 00:22:37,206 MAYBE GET BY AND STAY ALIVE. 683 00:22:37,206 --> 00:22:39,413 >> ALLIE SAYS SHE SPOKE TO 684 00:22:39,413 --> 00:22:40,413 AILEEN THAT DAY. 685 00:22:40,413 --> 00:22:43,896 >> AILEEN SAID I NEED TO LEAVE 686 00:22:43,896 --> 00:22:45,586 HIM, I'M TELLING YOU I'M LIKE A 687 00:22:45,586 --> 00:22:46,620 SEX SLAVE. 688 00:22:46,620 --> 00:22:48,758 HE HAS THIS REALLY SCARY LOOK IN 689 00:22:48,758 --> 00:22:49,000 HIS EYE. 690 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,482 IT'S VERY SCARY, IT'S DIFFERENT, 691 00:22:50,482 --> 00:22:52,517 AND SHE SAID I NEED YOUR HELP. 692 00:22:52,517 --> 00:22:54,068 >> ALLIE SAYS THE TWO FRIENDS 693 00:22:54,068 --> 00:22:56,068 HAD CRAFTED AN ESCAPE PLAN. 694 00:22:56,068 --> 00:22:59,000 AILEEN WOULD GET ON A BUS FROM 695 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,137 TAMPA, THE TRIO'S NEXT 696 00:23:01,137 --> 00:23:01,448 DESTINATION. 697 00:23:01,448 --> 00:23:04,034 >> I BOUGHT HER A GRAY HOUND 698 00:23:04,034 --> 00:23:05,758 TICKET BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T HAVE A 699 00:23:05,758 --> 00:23:06,000 WALLET. 700 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,758 >> THE BUS WOULD DROP AILEEN OFF 701 00:23:08,758 --> 00:23:10,172 NEAR MIAMI, AND ALLIE WOULD TAKE 702 00:23:10,172 --> 00:23:11,068 HER HOME. 703 00:23:11,068 --> 00:23:12,551 AILEEN JUST NEEDED TO GET ON 704 00:23:12,551 --> 00:23:16,931 THAT BUS AND SHE'D BE SAFE. 705 00:23:16,931 --> 00:23:17,896 >> AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I NEVER 706 00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:18,517 HEARD BACK. 707 00:23:18,517 --> 00:23:20,827 I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING AFTER 708 00:23:20,827 --> 00:23:21,931 THAT. 709 00:23:21,931 --> 00:23:23,344 >> THE NEXT NIGHT HUNDREDS OF 710 00:23:23,344 --> 00:23:26,379 MILES AWAY IN FORT LAUDERDALE, 711 00:23:26,379 --> 00:23:29,000 MIKE PICAVET WAS HOME AND ALONE. 712 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,448 THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. 713 00:23:30,448 --> 00:23:33,482 IT WAS CHRISTINA ARAUJO AND ZACH 714 00:23:33,482 --> 00:23:33,689 ABELL. 715 00:23:33,689 --> 00:23:37,206 >> I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WHERE'S 716 00:23:37,206 --> 00:23:37,482 AILEEN? 717 00:23:37,482 --> 00:23:39,448 AND RIGHT AWAY CHRISTINA SAYS, 718 00:23:39,448 --> 00:23:41,586 OH, SHE RAN AWAY. 719 00:23:41,586 --> 00:23:43,034 AND I SAID BULL [ BLEEP ]. 720 00:23:43,034 --> 00:23:44,068 I SAID WHERE IS SHE? 721 00:23:44,068 --> 00:23:46,068 AND ZACH RIGHT AWAY STARTED TO 722 00:23:46,068 --> 00:23:49,068 CHOKE UP AND SAID, SHE'S DEAD. 723 00:23:49,068 --> 00:23:53,068 >> THE NEWS WAS SHOCKING ENOUGH, 724 00:23:53,068 --> 00:23:56,068 BUT MIKE SAID ONCE CHRISTINA WAS 725 00:23:56,068 --> 00:23:57,413 OUT OF EARSHOT, ZACH TOLD HIM 726 00:23:57,413 --> 00:23:58,344 WHAT HAPPENED. 727 00:23:58,344 --> 00:23:59,827 >> HE SAID CHRISTINA KILLED HER. 728 00:23:59,827 --> 00:24:01,758 HE WOKE UP, SHE WAS DEAD NEXT TO 729 00:24:01,758 --> 00:24:03,655 HIM, AND HE TRIED TO GIVE HER 730 00:24:03,655 --> 00:24:06,724 CPR THEN WANTED TO CALL 911. 731 00:24:06,724 --> 00:24:08,586 CHRISTINA SAID NO AND TOLD HIM 732 00:24:08,586 --> 00:24:11,000 YOU CAN'T CALL 911. 733 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,724 FOR SOME REASON HE KEPT SAYING 734 00:24:14,724 --> 00:24:17,344 HE HE HAS TO PROTECT CHRISTINA. 735 00:24:17,344 --> 00:24:19,034 >> MIKE SAID HE HAD TO PROTECT 736 00:24:19,034 --> 00:24:19,586 BOTH HIS FRIENDS. 737 00:24:19,586 --> 00:24:21,172 HE FEARED A VIOLENT OUTCOME IF 738 00:24:21,172 --> 00:24:22,896 HE CALLED 911. 739 00:24:22,896 --> 00:24:24,413 >> I DIDN'T WANT THEM TO GET 740 00:24:24,413 --> 00:24:24,655 KILLED. 741 00:24:24,655 --> 00:24:26,275 JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY 742 00:24:26,275 --> 00:24:28,137 WERE BROUGHT IN A SAFE WAY. 743 00:24:28,137 --> 00:24:29,965 THE ONLY THING I COULD THINK 744 00:24:29,965 --> 00:24:32,103 ABOUT IS GO TALK TO HER FATHER. 745 00:24:32,103 --> 00:24:34,000 >> CHRISTINA'S FATHER, COLONEL 746 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,620 TONY ARAUJO, THE ONE MIKE SAID 747 00:24:37,620 --> 00:24:38,413 CHRISTINA HAD ALWAYS BRAGGED 748 00:24:38,413 --> 00:24:40,551 COULD MAKE HER PROBLEMS GO AWAY. 749 00:24:40,551 --> 00:24:42,827 WHEN ZACH AND CHRISTINA FELL 750 00:24:42,827 --> 00:24:45,034 ASLEEP, MIKE TOOK THIS PHOTO AND 751 00:24:45,034 --> 00:24:47,448 SAYS HE WENT ONLINE TO SEARCH 752 00:24:47,448 --> 00:24:50,034 FOR CHRISTINA'S FATHER, A MAN HE 753 00:24:50,034 --> 00:24:51,172 HAD NEVER MET. 754 00:24:51,172 --> 00:24:53,551 >> SO I WAS PANICKING TRYING TO 755 00:24:53,551 --> 00:24:55,448 FIND HIS PHONE NUMBER. 756 00:24:55,448 --> 00:24:57,241 >> WHEN MIKE FINALLY GOT AHOLD 757 00:24:57,241 --> 00:24:59,172 OF COLONEL ARAUJO, HE DIDN'T 758 00:24:59,172 --> 00:25:00,793 IMMEDIATELY REVEAL THE DEADLY 759 00:25:00,793 --> 00:25:01,000 NEWS. 760 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,827 >> I SAID I GOT TO TALK TO YOU, 761 00:25:02,827 --> 00:25:06,000 IT'S ABOUT CHRISTINA, IT'S VERY 762 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:06,275 IMPORTANT. 763 00:25:06,275 --> 00:25:08,000 >> MIKE SAYS CHRISTINA'S FATHER 764 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,379 DIRECTED MIKE TO MEET HIM AT AN 765 00:25:09,379 --> 00:25:12,206 ODD PLACE, A GAS STATION. 766 00:25:12,206 --> 00:25:13,275 >> SO I WENT UP THERE. 767 00:25:13,275 --> 00:25:15,586 I SAID CHRISTINA KILLED 768 00:25:15,586 --> 00:25:15,862 SOMEBODY. 769 00:25:15,862 --> 00:25:17,827 AND HE SAYS YOU KNOW I'M A COP, 770 00:25:17,827 --> 00:25:18,137 RIGHT? 771 00:25:18,137 --> 00:25:19,827 I'M LIKE, YES, SIR, I DO. 772 00:25:19,827 --> 00:25:22,482 HE RIGHT AWAY SAID WAIT RIGHT 773 00:25:22,482 --> 00:25:22,689 THERE. 774 00:25:22,689 --> 00:25:24,689 >> MIKE SAID CHRISTINA'S FATHER 775 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:25,689 THEN BROUGHT HIM TO THE 776 00:25:25,689 --> 00:25:27,000 SHERIFF'S OFFICE TO MAKE A 777 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:27,655 FORMAL STATEMENT. 778 00:25:27,655 --> 00:25:29,034 >> HE DID WHAT WAS THE RIGHT 779 00:25:29,034 --> 00:25:31,000 THING TO DO. 780 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,103 HE GOT TWO OTHER PEOPLE TO ASK 781 00:25:33,103 --> 00:25:34,517 ME ALL THE QUESTIONS. 782 00:25:34,517 --> 00:25:37,689 >> LATER THAT DAY MIKE WAS SHOWN 783 00:25:37,689 --> 00:25:41,000 A PHOTO, AND HE WAS THE ONE TO 784 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:42,448 IDENTIFY THE BATTERED BODY OF 785 00:25:42,448 --> 00:25:44,068 AILEEN SEIDEN. 786 00:25:44,068 --> 00:25:45,344 WITH THAT CONFIRMATION, POLICE 787 00:25:45,344 --> 00:25:48,000 DESCENDED ON MIKE'S HOME AS ZACH 788 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:52,034 AND CHRISTINA WERE ABOUT TO 789 00:25:52,034 --> 00:25:52,241 LEAVE. 790 00:25:52,241 --> 00:25:54,310 THEY WERE ARRESTED AND BROUGHT 791 00:25:54,310 --> 00:25:56,758 BACK TO FRANKLIN COUNTY. 792 00:25:56,758 --> 00:25:59,034 THE PAIR WERE LATER CHARGED WITH 793 00:25:59,034 --> 00:26:01,724 FIRST DEGREE MURDER. 794 00:26:01,724 --> 00:26:03,482 IT WOULD TAKE ALMOST SIX YEARS 795 00:26:03,482 --> 00:26:06,655 BEFORE ZACH ABELL AND CHRISTINA 796 00:26:06,655 --> 00:26:09,172 ARAUJO WOULD FACE A JURY. 797 00:26:09,172 --> 00:26:11,000 AND BY THEN, ONLY ONE OF THEM 798 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:25,068 AND BY THEN, ONLY ONE OF THEM WOULD STAND TRIAL. 799 00:26:25,068 --> 00:26:29,655 WOULD STAND TRIAL. 800 00:26:29,655 --> 00:26:32,034 >>> YOU'RE HEALING. 801 00:26:32,034 --> 00:26:33,103 YOU'RE DOING THE THINGS THAT YOU 802 00:26:33,103 --> 00:26:35,551 NEED TO HEAL, AND THEN YOU'RE 803 00:26:35,551 --> 00:26:35,793 STOPPED. 804 00:26:35,793 --> 00:26:38,172 >> FOR ALMOST SIX YEARS 805 00:26:38,172 --> 00:26:40,413 FRANCEASCA SEIDEN LIVED IN 806 00:26:40,413 --> 00:26:46,000 AGONIZING LIMBO AS HER SISTER, 807 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,068 AILEEN'S, CASE COMPLICATED BY 808 00:26:47,068 --> 00:26:48,344 HAVING TWO DEFENDANTS FACE DELAY 809 00:26:48,344 --> 00:26:50,793 AFTER DELAY AFTER FRUSTRATING 810 00:26:50,793 --> 00:26:51,000 DELAY. 811 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:52,241 >> AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET 812 00:26:52,241 --> 00:26:54,137 READY FOR THIS BIG MOMENT AND IT 813 00:26:54,137 --> 00:26:55,206 STOPS AGAIN. 814 00:26:55,206 --> 00:26:59,310 >> FINALLY IN JANUARY OF 2024, 815 00:26:59,310 --> 00:27:00,241 AT THE FRANKLIN COUNTY 816 00:27:00,241 --> 00:27:04,068 COURTHOUSE IN APALACHICOLA, 817 00:27:04,068 --> 00:27:05,758 FLORIDA, ZACH ABELL WAS ABOUT TO 818 00:27:05,758 --> 00:27:06,586 FACE TRIAL. 819 00:27:06,586 --> 00:27:08,310 HE HAD PLEADED NOT GUILTY TO 820 00:27:08,310 --> 00:27:09,379 FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND WOULD 821 00:27:09,379 --> 00:27:11,655 STAND BEFORE THE JURY ALONE. 822 00:27:11,655 --> 00:27:16,000 EIGHT MONTHS EARLIER, CHRISTINA 823 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,379 ARAUJO TOOK A PLEA DEAL FOR A 824 00:27:18,379 --> 00:27:19,689 LESSER CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE 825 00:27:19,689 --> 00:27:19,931 MURDER. 826 00:27:19,931 --> 00:27:22,689 SO SHE ADMITTED TAKING PART IN 827 00:27:22,689 --> 00:27:22,896 THIS? 828 00:27:22,896 --> 00:27:23,724 >> YES. 829 00:27:23,724 --> 00:27:25,000 SHE IMPLICATED HERSELF IN THE 830 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,862 ACTUAL BEATING OF AILEEN. 831 00:27:31,862 --> 00:27:32,758 >> AFTER STUDYING THE MOUNTAIN 832 00:27:32,758 --> 00:27:36,620 OF EVIDENCE, PROSECUTOR JARRED 833 00:27:36,620 --> 00:27:39,206 PATTERSON, BELIEVED ZACH ABELL 834 00:27:39,206 --> 00:27:41,241 WAS MORE RESPONSIBLE IN AILEEN'S 835 00:27:41,241 --> 00:27:41,482 MURDER. 836 00:27:41,482 --> 00:27:43,344 AND THE STATE IS MORE RELIABLE 837 00:27:43,344 --> 00:27:45,275 IN BELIEVING CHRISTINA ARAUJO'S 838 00:27:45,275 --> 00:27:47,758 VERSION OF WHAT HAPPENED INSIDE 839 00:27:47,758 --> 00:27:48,655 ROOM 15. 840 00:27:48,655 --> 00:27:51,241 >> THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS TOLD US 841 00:27:51,241 --> 00:27:51,931 ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 842 00:27:51,931 --> 00:27:53,862 THAT ROOM IS CHRISTINA ARAUJO. 843 00:27:53,862 --> 00:27:56,793 >> ONCE CHRISTINA MADE HER PLEA 844 00:27:56,793 --> 00:28:00,586 DEAL, SHE WOULD BECOME THE 845 00:28:00,586 --> 00:28:01,275 PROSECUTION'S STAR WITNESS. 846 00:28:01,275 --> 00:28:05,586 >> PRINT REPORTER DAVID 847 00:28:05,586 --> 00:28:06,965 ADLERSTEIN, CAMERA IN HAND, WAS 848 00:28:06,965 --> 00:28:09,034 THERE AS CHRISTINA ARAUJO 849 00:28:09,034 --> 00:28:09,724 TRANSPORTED THE COURTROOM BACK 850 00:28:09,724 --> 00:28:13,931 TO THE EVENING OF APRIL 22, 851 00:28:13,931 --> 00:28:14,103 2018. 852 00:28:14,103 --> 00:28:16,413 ARAUJO TESTIFIED THAT SHE, ZACH 853 00:28:16,413 --> 00:28:18,758 ABELL, AND AILEEN WERE RELAXING 854 00:28:18,758 --> 00:28:22,103 IN THE ROOM AT THE SPORTSMAN'S 855 00:28:22,103 --> 00:28:23,586 LODGE AFTER A DAY OF HEAVY 856 00:28:23,586 --> 00:28:23,862 DRINKING. 857 00:28:23,862 --> 00:28:28,517 >> WHEN ZACH DRINKS, DOES HE ACT 858 00:28:28,517 --> 00:28:28,827 DIFFERENTLY? 859 00:28:28,827 --> 00:28:30,689 >> YES, SIR. 860 00:28:30,689 --> 00:28:34,000 HE BECOMES VERY AGGRESSIVE, VERY 861 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:34,206 MEAN. 862 00:28:34,206 --> 00:28:37,275 >> ZACH ABELL BECAME VIOLENTLY 863 00:28:37,275 --> 00:28:39,931 ENRAGED, SAYS ARAUJO, WHEN 864 00:28:39,931 --> 00:28:41,310 AILEEN POSED A SEEMINGLY 865 00:28:41,310 --> 00:28:42,310 INNOCENT QUESTION. 866 00:28:42,310 --> 00:28:45,931 >> SHE SAID CHRISTINA, GUESS 867 00:28:45,931 --> 00:28:46,103 WHAT? 868 00:28:46,103 --> 00:28:47,517 >> AND SHE LOOKS OVER AT 869 00:28:47,517 --> 00:28:49,137 CHRISTINA AND SAYS, CHRISTINA, 870 00:28:49,137 --> 00:28:49,758 GUESS WHAT? 871 00:28:49,758 --> 00:28:51,172 HOW WOULD THAT SENTENCE BE 872 00:28:51,172 --> 00:28:51,482 FINISHED? 873 00:28:51,482 --> 00:28:52,482 >> I HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE SHE 874 00:28:52,482 --> 00:28:57,551 NEVER GOT TO FINISH IT. 875 00:28:57,551 --> 00:29:00,655 >> ZACHARY GOT UP IMMEDIATELY 876 00:29:00,655 --> 00:29:02,724 AND WENT OVER TO HER AND WAS IN 877 00:29:02,724 --> 00:29:05,379 HER FACE, HITTING HER. 878 00:29:05,379 --> 00:29:06,689 HE'S JUST YELLING AT HER, 879 00:29:06,689 --> 00:29:08,137 TELLING HER YOU ALWAYS START 880 00:29:08,137 --> 00:29:08,758 PROBLEMS. 881 00:29:08,758 --> 00:29:10,551 >> ARAUJO ADMITS TO ALSO HITTING 882 00:29:10,551 --> 00:29:11,931 AILEEN AS SHE DEMANDED TO KNOW 883 00:29:11,931 --> 00:29:13,551 WHAT SHE WAS ABOUT TO SAY. 884 00:29:13,551 --> 00:29:15,965 SHE NEVER GOT AN ANSWER. 885 00:29:15,965 --> 00:29:19,000 >> AND I GOT SO FRUSTRATED I 886 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,965 WENT AND GOT -- I LEFT THE ROOM. 887 00:29:20,965 --> 00:29:22,586 >> AFTER STEPPING OUTSIDE ROOM 888 00:29:22,586 --> 00:29:26,310 15 FOR A FEW MINUTES, ARAUJO 889 00:29:26,310 --> 00:29:27,000 CLAIMED SHE RETURNED TO FIND 890 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,068 ABELL AND AILEEN IN THE 891 00:29:30,068 --> 00:29:30,344 BATHROOM. 892 00:29:30,344 --> 00:29:31,965 >> AND I OPEN THE DOOR, HE HAD 893 00:29:31,965 --> 00:29:35,931 SOMETHING WHITE IN HIS HAND, 894 00:29:35,931 --> 00:29:37,689 LIKE IF HE WAS POKING AT HER. 895 00:29:37,689 --> 00:29:39,896 >> THE MEDICAL EXAMINER WAS ABLE 896 00:29:39,896 --> 00:29:41,931 TO IDENTIFY SMALL, CIRCULAR 897 00:29:41,931 --> 00:29:44,586 BRUISING TO THE BODY OF AILEEN 898 00:29:44,586 --> 00:29:46,655 THAT COULD BE CONSISTENT WITH A 899 00:29:46,655 --> 00:29:49,068 SHOWER CURTAIN ROD. 900 00:29:49,068 --> 00:29:51,517 >> LIKE THE SHOWER CURTAIN ROD 901 00:29:51,517 --> 00:29:53,137 INVESTIGATORS RECOVERED THAT HAD 902 00:29:53,137 --> 00:29:56,137 PALM PRINT IMPRESSIONS IN 903 00:29:56,137 --> 00:29:57,793 AILEEN'S BLOOD. 904 00:29:57,793 --> 00:29:59,482 WHOSE PALM WAS IT? 905 00:29:59,482 --> 00:30:02,379 >> THE PALM BELONGED TO ZACHARY 906 00:30:02,379 --> 00:30:02,586 ABELL. 907 00:30:02,586 --> 00:30:03,965 >> THE ASSAULT CONTINUED NEAR 908 00:30:03,965 --> 00:30:07,586 THE BED, SAYS ARAUJO, WHERE SHE 909 00:30:07,586 --> 00:30:09,034 SAID ABELL REACHED FOR HIS 910 00:30:09,034 --> 00:30:09,862 WOODEN WALKING STICK. 911 00:30:09,862 --> 00:30:11,965 >> HE HITS HER SEVERAL TIMES 912 00:30:11,965 --> 00:30:12,655 WITH IT. 913 00:30:12,655 --> 00:30:14,862 WHEN HE HIT HER ON THE BACK, THE 914 00:30:14,862 --> 00:30:15,586 STICK BROKE. 915 00:30:15,586 --> 00:30:18,310 >> WE HAD ACTUALLY FOUND PIECES 916 00:30:18,310 --> 00:30:20,413 OF THAT WOODEN STAFF IN THE 917 00:30:20,413 --> 00:30:21,000 HOTEL ROOM. 918 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,517 WE DIDN'T REALIZE THE 919 00:30:23,517 --> 00:30:24,103 SIGNIFICANCE OF IT UNTIL WE 920 00:30:24,103 --> 00:30:26,137 FOUND THE OTHER PIECE IN THE 921 00:30:26,137 --> 00:30:28,586 VEHICLE THAT CONTAINED OUR 922 00:30:28,586 --> 00:30:30,551 VICTIM'S DNA. 923 00:30:30,551 --> 00:30:32,275 >> ARAUJO SAYS SHE WATCHED IN 924 00:30:32,275 --> 00:30:35,103 TERROR AS ABELL BEGAN USING THAT 925 00:30:35,103 --> 00:30:40,137 STICK TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT I- 926 00:30:40,137 --> 00:30:40,379 AILEEN. 927 00:30:40,379 --> 00:30:41,551 >> CHRISTINA'S DESCRIPTION OF 928 00:30:41,551 --> 00:30:43,965 THE CRIME WAS HORRIFYING TO 929 00:30:43,965 --> 00:30:44,724 LISTEN TO. 930 00:30:44,724 --> 00:30:46,689 AILEEN CLEARLY SUFFERED TERRIBLE 931 00:30:46,689 --> 00:30:46,896 DEATH. 932 00:30:46,896 --> 00:30:49,103 >> ADLERSTEIN RECALLS THE 933 00:30:49,103 --> 00:30:54,689 MEDICAL EXAMINER SAYING AILEEN'S 934 00:30:54,689 --> 00:30:55,896 INJURIES REMINDED HIM OF THOSE 935 00:30:55,896 --> 00:30:56,689 HE HAD SEEN IN MOTOR VEHICLE 936 00:30:56,689 --> 00:30:56,965 CRASHES. 937 00:30:56,965 --> 00:30:59,758 >> AS A REPORTER, I TRY VERY 938 00:30:59,758 --> 00:31:05,034 HARD TO NOT BE EMOTIONAL. 939 00:31:05,034 --> 00:31:06,896 I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER FIGHTING 940 00:31:06,896 --> 00:31:07,448 BACK TEARS. 941 00:31:07,448 --> 00:31:10,931 >> ARAUJO CLAIMED SHE EVENTUALLY 942 00:31:10,931 --> 00:31:13,517 PUT HERSELF BETWEEN ABELL AND 943 00:31:13,517 --> 00:31:15,724 AILEEN, AND THE ATTACK FINALLY 944 00:31:15,724 --> 00:31:15,965 STOPPED. 945 00:31:15,965 --> 00:31:17,517 AILEEN WAS BADLY BEATEN BUT 946 00:31:17,517 --> 00:31:21,000 STILL ALIVE, SHE SAYS. 947 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:25,068 AND THE EXHAUSTED TRIO JUST FELL 948 00:31:25,068 --> 00:31:25,310 ASLEEP. 949 00:31:25,310 --> 00:31:26,758 >> I DIDN'T THINK SHE WAS GOING 950 00:31:26,758 --> 00:31:27,931 TO DIE FROM IT. 951 00:31:27,931 --> 00:31:30,103 >> ARAUJO CLAIMS IT WASN'T UNTIL 952 00:31:30,103 --> 00:31:31,586 SHE WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING 953 00:31:31,586 --> 00:31:33,517 THAT SHE REALIZED AILEEN WAS 954 00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:33,758 DEAD. 955 00:31:33,758 --> 00:31:35,724 SHE SAYS SHE ONLY PARTICIPATED 956 00:31:35,724 --> 00:31:38,172 IN THE COVER-UP OUT OF FEAR OF 957 00:31:38,172 --> 00:31:39,758 WHAT ABELL MIGHT DO TO HER. 958 00:31:39,758 --> 00:31:43,620 >> SHE SEEMED TO ME GENUINELY 959 00:31:43,620 --> 00:31:43,931 REMORSEFUL. 960 00:31:43,931 --> 00:31:45,862 OTHERS HAD DIFFERENT OPINIONS. 961 00:31:45,862 --> 00:31:48,827 >> WHO IS CHRISTINA ARAUJO IN 962 00:31:48,827 --> 00:31:51,344 YOUR BOOK? 963 00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:56,620 >> MANIPULATIVE, CUNNING, A 964 00:31:56,620 --> 00:31:57,000 CHAMELEON. 965 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,827 I THINK THAT THERE'S EVIL IN 966 00:31:58,827 --> 00:31:59,000 HER. 967 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,241 >> ALEX MORRIS IS ZACH ABELL'S 968 00:32:03,241 --> 00:32:03,517 ATTORNEY. 969 00:32:03,517 --> 00:32:06,034 HE SAYS CHRISTINA ARAUJO ACTED 970 00:32:06,034 --> 00:32:06,241 ALONE. 971 00:32:06,241 --> 00:32:09,482 >> I BELIEVE THAT SHE IS A 972 00:32:09,482 --> 00:32:09,758 MURDERER. 973 00:32:09,758 --> 00:32:11,000 LET'S TALK ABOUT HER STORY. 974 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,413 >> MORRIS SAYS IT WAS CHRISTINA 975 00:32:13,413 --> 00:32:16,137 ARAUJO WHO BEAT AILEEN. 976 00:32:16,137 --> 00:32:19,137 AND THAT PHOTO TAKEN BY MIKE 977 00:32:19,137 --> 00:32:20,931 PICAVET AT HIS HOME AFTER THE 978 00:32:20,931 --> 00:32:24,137 MURDER, SHOWS SHE HAD INJURIES 979 00:32:24,137 --> 00:32:24,827 TO HER HANDS AND FEET. 980 00:32:24,827 --> 00:32:26,448 WHICH TELLS YOU CHRISTINA MUST 981 00:32:26,448 --> 00:32:28,517 HAVE BEEN THE ATTACKER. 982 00:32:28,517 --> 00:32:30,103 >> THAT'S RIGHT. 983 00:32:30,103 --> 00:32:32,344 >> CHRISTINA ARAUJO WAS THE ONE 984 00:32:32,344 --> 00:32:34,448 WITH HOMICIDAL THE INTENT, SAYS 985 00:32:34,448 --> 00:32:34,758 MORRIS. 986 00:32:34,758 --> 00:32:38,172 TRIGGERED WHEN ABELL AND AILEEN 987 00:32:38,172 --> 00:32:39,793 TOOK OFF WITH HER IN THE 988 00:32:39,793 --> 00:32:40,137 REARVIEW MIRROR. 989 00:32:40,137 --> 00:32:41,482 AND HE SAYS THOSE THREATENING 990 00:32:41,482 --> 00:32:43,413 TEXTS THAT SHE SENT TO ABELL'S 991 00:32:43,413 --> 00:32:45,586 PHONE BEFORE JOINING THEM ON THE 992 00:32:45,586 --> 00:32:48,413 ROAD TRIP READ LIKE A 993 00:32:48,413 --> 00:32:48,724 CONFESSION. 994 00:32:48,724 --> 00:32:50,172 >> THERE ARE THREATS OF BODILY 995 00:32:50,172 --> 00:32:52,793 HARM TO BOTH AILEEN AND ZACH IN 996 00:32:52,793 --> 00:32:54,413 THE MESSAGES. 997 00:32:54,413 --> 00:32:59,620 >> YOU COME NEAR ME, HOE, I WILL 998 00:32:59,620 --> 00:33:00,517 KILL YOU. 999 00:33:00,517 --> 00:33:02,034 >> I THINK IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF, 1000 00:33:02,034 --> 00:33:03,655 AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT 1001 00:33:03,655 --> 00:33:03,931 HAPPENED. 1002 00:33:03,931 --> 00:33:06,551 >> AFTER AILEEN'S MURDER, MORRIS 1003 00:33:06,551 --> 00:33:08,758 SAYS ARAUJO WIPED DOWN THE MOTEL 1004 00:33:08,758 --> 00:33:11,206 ROOM USING THE VINEGAR THAT 1005 00:33:11,206 --> 00:33:12,965 RONNIE JONES WOULD LATER SMELL. 1006 00:33:12,965 --> 00:33:17,241 HE SAYS ABELL'S PALM PRINTS ON 1007 00:33:17,241 --> 00:33:18,310 THE CURTAIN ROD, GOT THERE WHEN 1008 00:33:18,310 --> 00:33:21,034 HE MOVED IT DURING THE CLEANUP. 1009 00:33:21,034 --> 00:33:23,310 >> HE WAS INSTRUCTED TO PICK THE 1010 00:33:23,310 --> 00:33:24,896 CURTAIN ROD UP OVER THERE AND 1011 00:33:24,896 --> 00:33:25,655 PUT IT OVER THERE. 1012 00:33:25,655 --> 00:33:26,068 >> BY? 1013 00:33:26,068 --> 00:33:27,655 >> CHRISTINA. 1014 00:33:27,655 --> 00:33:29,620 >> THIS TOLLBOOTH SURVEILLANCE 1015 00:33:29,620 --> 00:33:30,896 PHOTO FROM AFTER THE MURDER 1016 00:33:30,896 --> 00:33:33,965 SHOWS THAT CHRISTINA ARAUJO, AND 1017 00:33:33,965 --> 00:33:36,310 NOT ZACH ABELL, WAS THE ONE 1018 00:33:36,310 --> 00:33:37,517 DRIVING THE CAR. 1019 00:33:37,517 --> 00:33:39,206 AND THEREFORE, MORRIS SAYS, SHE 1020 00:33:39,206 --> 00:33:41,655 WAS THE ONE IN CONTROL. 1021 00:33:41,655 --> 00:33:44,379 >> THE EVIDENCE INDICATES 1022 00:33:44,379 --> 00:33:46,689 CHRISTINA TO BE THE ONE GIVING 1023 00:33:46,689 --> 00:33:47,655 THE DIRECTIONS AND HAD 1024 00:33:47,655 --> 00:33:49,724 EVERYTHING TO BE ABLE TO 1025 00:33:49,724 --> 00:33:51,344 MANIPULATE THE SITUATION. 1026 00:33:51,344 --> 00:33:54,137 >> MANIPULATING ZACH ABELL, SAYS 1027 00:33:54,137 --> 00:33:56,310 MORRIS, BECAUSE OF THOSE THREATS 1028 00:33:56,310 --> 00:33:57,586 SHE HAD BEEN MAKING FOR YEARS 1029 00:33:57,586 --> 00:33:59,965 ABOUT HER FATHER'S INFLUENCE IN 1030 00:33:59,965 --> 00:34:00,689 SOLVING HER PROBLEMS. 1031 00:34:00,689 --> 00:34:02,517 >> BOTTOM LINE IS ZACH WAS 1032 00:34:02,517 --> 00:34:05,620 FEARFUL OF CHRISTINA'S FATHER. 1033 00:34:05,620 --> 00:34:09,344 >> ABELL CHOSE NOT TO TESTIFY. 1034 00:34:09,344 --> 00:34:10,344 WHEN MORRIS MADE HIS FINAL 1035 00:34:10,344 --> 00:34:12,241 ARGUMENTS TO THE JURY, HE 1036 00:34:12,241 --> 00:34:14,103 CONCLUDED THE EVIDENCE SHOWED 1037 00:34:14,103 --> 00:34:17,344 THERE WAS ONLY ONE PERSON WHO 1038 00:34:17,344 --> 00:34:18,413 WANTED AILEEN SEIDEN DEAD. 1039 00:34:18,413 --> 00:34:20,137 >> THEY HAVEN'T PROVEN ANY 1040 00:34:20,137 --> 00:34:21,757 MOTIVE AS TO WHY MR. ABELL WOULD 1041 00:34:21,757 --> 00:34:24,965 BE INTERESTED IN MURDERING MS. 1042 00:34:24,965 --> 00:34:25,172 SEIDEN. 1043 00:34:25,172 --> 00:34:26,688 BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHERE MOTIVE 1044 00:34:26,688 --> 00:34:30,103 LIES, AND IT'S CLEAR AS DAY. 1045 00:34:30,103 --> 00:34:31,793 AND THAT'S WITH MS. ARAUJO. 1046 00:34:31,793 --> 00:34:34,757 >> THE MOTIVE BEING I WANT RID 1047 00:34:34,757 --> 00:34:35,688 OF THE PERSON WHO'S TAKEN MY 1048 00:34:35,688 --> 00:34:35,862 MAN. 1049 00:34:35,862 --> 00:34:37,310 >> SO JEALOUSY? 1050 00:34:37,310 --> 00:34:37,931 >> YES. 1051 00:34:37,931 --> 00:34:40,206 >> IN HIS CLOSING, PATTERSON 1052 00:34:40,206 --> 00:34:42,551 SAID CHRISTINA ARAUJO ALREADY 1053 00:34:42,551 --> 00:34:44,413 ACCEPTED HER ROLE IN THIS CRIME. 1054 00:34:44,413 --> 00:34:48,379 HE ASKED THE JURY TO HOLD ZACH 1055 00:34:48,379 --> 00:34:51,137 ABELL ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS PART 1056 00:34:51,137 --> 00:34:52,724 BY FINDING HIM GUILTY OF MURDER. 1057 00:34:52,724 --> 00:34:54,310 >> THEY LIVED TOGETHER, THEY 1058 00:34:54,310 --> 00:34:54,896 WORKED TOGETHER. 1059 00:34:54,896 --> 00:34:57,413 THEY OWN A BUSINESS TOGETHER. 1060 00:34:57,413 --> 00:34:59,379 THEY WENT TO THE SPORTSMAN'S 1061 00:34:59,379 --> 00:34:59,827 LODGE TOGETHER. 1062 00:34:59,827 --> 00:35:01,172 THEY EMPTIED OUT THE ROOM 1063 00:35:01,172 --> 00:35:01,448 TOGETHER. 1064 00:35:01,448 --> 00:35:02,586 THEY RAN AWAY TOGETHER. 1065 00:35:02,586 --> 00:35:04,034 THEY GOT ARRESTED TOGETHER. 1066 00:35:04,034 --> 00:35:06,551 THE ONLY THING THEY DIDN'T DO 1067 00:35:06,551 --> 00:35:10,655 TOGETHER WAS KILL AILEEN SEIDEN? 1068 00:35:10,655 --> 00:35:11,965 NO WAY. 1069 00:35:11,965 --> 00:35:12,931 >> BUT WHO WOULD THE JURY 1070 00:35:12,931 --> 00:35:17,172 BELIEVE? 1071 00:35:17,172 --> 00:35:19,724 >> WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF CHRISTINA 1072 00:35:19,724 --> 00:35:20,689 ARAUJO'S TESTIMONY? 1073 00:35:20,689 --> 00:35:31,517 ARAUJO'S TESTIMONY? CHAT 1074 00:35:31,517 --> 00:35:32,931 CHAT 1075 00:35:32,931 --> 00:35:35,586 >>> SHE WASN'T BORN HERE, AND 1076 00:35:35,586 --> 00:35:36,965 SHE DIDN'T LIVE HERE, BUT SHE 1077 00:35:36,965 --> 00:35:38,068 WAS LEFT HERE. 1078 00:35:38,068 --> 00:35:39,724 AND SHE'LL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED 1079 00:35:39,724 --> 00:35:41,068 BY FRANKLIN COUNTY. 1080 00:35:41,068 --> 00:35:44,896 >> RESIDENTS OF FLORIDA'S 1081 00:35:44,896 --> 00:35:46,827 FORGOTTEN COAST WILL NOW LONG 1082 00:35:46,827 --> 00:35:49,172 REMEMBER AILEEN SEIDEN, SAYS 1083 00:35:49,172 --> 00:35:50,137 RONNIE JONES. 1084 00:35:50,137 --> 00:35:52,103 ALMOST SIX YEARS AFTER HER DEATH 1085 00:35:52,103 --> 00:35:53,793 THE COMMUNITY WAITED FOR JUSTICE 1086 00:35:53,793 --> 00:35:55,482 FOR THE STRANGER THEY NOW HAD 1087 00:35:55,482 --> 00:35:58,931 COME TO EMBRACE AS ONE OF THEIR 1088 00:35:58,931 --> 00:35:59,068 OWN. 1089 00:35:59,068 --> 00:36:01,344 WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND 1090 00:36:01,344 --> 00:36:02,586 AS THE JURY BEGINS ITS 1091 00:36:02,586 --> 00:36:02,931 DELIBERATION? 1092 00:36:02,931 --> 00:36:04,068 >> MAKE IT QUICK. 1093 00:36:04,068 --> 00:36:10,000 >> I WAS TOLD BY THE JURY 1094 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,482 FOREMEN THAT WHEN THEY FIRST 1095 00:36:11,482 --> 00:36:14,068 WENT IN THERE WAS TEN IN FAVOR 1096 00:36:14,068 --> 00:36:15,724 OF FIRST DEGREE PREMEDITATED 1097 00:36:15,724 --> 00:36:17,000 MURDER WITH TWO HOLD OUTS. 1098 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,448 >> ALL RIGHT, EVERYONE, PLEASE 1099 00:36:18,448 --> 00:36:19,620 BE SEATED. 1100 00:36:19,620 --> 00:36:21,551 >> AFTER ABOUT FIVE HOURS OF 1101 00:36:21,551 --> 00:36:22,379 DELIBERATIONS, THE JURY REACHED 1102 00:36:22,379 --> 00:36:23,965 A CONSENSUS. 1103 00:36:23,965 --> 00:36:28,137 >> IN THE CASE OF THE STATE OF 1104 00:36:28,137 --> 00:36:29,827 FLORIDA VERSUS ZACHARY RAY ABELL 1105 00:36:29,827 --> 00:36:31,620 THE DEFENDANT IS GUILTY OF THE 1106 00:36:31,620 --> 00:36:32,413 LESSER INCLUDED OFFENSE OF 1107 00:36:32,413 --> 00:36:33,310 SECOND DEGREE MURDER. 1108 00:36:33,310 --> 00:36:34,482 >> SECOND DEGREE MURDER, JUST 1109 00:36:34,482 --> 00:36:38,172 LIKE CHRISTINA ARAUJO. 1110 00:36:38,172 --> 00:36:42,586 ADLERSTEIN SAYS THE JURY FOREMEN 1111 00:36:42,586 --> 00:36:44,448 TOLD HIM THEY JUST COULDN'T 1112 00:36:44,448 --> 00:36:45,689 DECIDE IF ZACH ABELL HAD 1113 00:36:45,689 --> 00:36:47,448 ACTUALLY INTENDED TO KILL 1114 00:36:47,448 --> 00:36:48,103 AILEEN. 1115 00:36:48,103 --> 00:36:49,724 >> THEY KNEW THAT CHRISTINA HAD 1116 00:36:49,724 --> 00:36:52,379 PLED GUILTY TO SECOND, AND I 1117 00:36:52,379 --> 00:36:53,034 THINK THEY EVENTUALLY SAID WE'RE 1118 00:36:53,034 --> 00:36:55,517 GOING TO GIVE HIM THE SAME. 1119 00:36:55,517 --> 00:36:56,896 >> IT DOESN'T TELL ME THAT 1120 00:36:56,896 --> 00:36:59,068 THEY'RE EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE. 1121 00:36:59,068 --> 00:37:02,000 >> MIKE PICAVET SAYS EVEN WITH 1122 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,793 THE VERDICT, HE IS CONVINCED HIS 1123 00:37:03,793 --> 00:37:05,448 FRIEND PLAYED NO PART IN 1124 00:37:05,448 --> 00:37:05,827 AILEEN'S DEATH. 1125 00:37:05,827 --> 00:37:07,620 >> TO ME THERE'S AN INNOCENT MAN 1126 00:37:07,620 --> 00:37:08,724 SITTING IN JAIL. 1127 00:37:08,724 --> 00:37:10,310 >> I THINK THEY'RE BOTH JUST AS 1128 00:37:10,310 --> 00:37:11,413 GUILTY AS THE OTHER. 1129 00:37:11,413 --> 00:37:13,965 >> NOW RETIRED FROM LAW 1130 00:37:13,965 --> 00:37:14,931 ENFORCEMENT, RONNIE JONES SPENDS 1131 00:37:14,931 --> 00:37:19,758 HIS DAYS TENDING HIS BAR IN 1132 00:37:19,758 --> 00:37:20,206 APALACHICOLA. 1133 00:37:20,206 --> 00:37:22,862 HE SAYS HE'S STILL LEFT 1134 00:37:22,862 --> 00:37:24,310 WONDERING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 1135 00:37:24,310 --> 00:37:25,068 INSIDE ROOM 15. 1136 00:37:25,068 --> 00:37:26,620 IS THIS CASE A MYSTERY TO YOU? 1137 00:37:26,620 --> 00:37:29,379 >> IT'S NOT A MYSTERY ON EXACTLY 1138 00:37:29,379 --> 00:37:30,931 WHAT HAPPENED BUT EXACTLY WHY IT 1139 00:37:30,931 --> 00:37:31,931 HAPPENED. 1140 00:37:31,931 --> 00:37:33,724 THAT IS WHAT STILL BOTHERS ME TO 1141 00:37:33,724 --> 00:37:35,655 THIS DAY. 1142 00:37:35,655 --> 00:37:35,827 WHY? 1143 00:37:35,827 --> 00:37:37,275 >> LIKE WHAT AILEEN MIGHT HAVE 1144 00:37:37,275 --> 00:37:38,965 BEEN ABOUT TO SAY THAT SPARKED 1145 00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:40,275 THE ATTACK. 1146 00:37:40,275 --> 00:37:41,517 >> IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING IN 1147 00:37:41,517 --> 00:37:43,413 THE RUMORS THAT SHE WAS FIXING 1148 00:37:43,413 --> 00:37:45,620 TO DISCLOSE THE FACT THAT SHE 1149 00:37:45,620 --> 00:37:47,000 WAS PREGNANT. 1150 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,689 >> PREGNANT? 1151 00:37:49,689 --> 00:37:50,551 AND WAS SHE PREGNANT? 1152 00:37:50,551 --> 00:37:53,172 DID YOU LEARN THAT AT THE 1153 00:37:53,172 --> 00:37:53,413 AUTOPSY? 1154 00:37:53,413 --> 00:37:58,137 >> I WAS AT THE AUTOPSY AND 1155 00:37:58,137 --> 00:37:59,275 LEARNED SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT. 1156 00:37:59,275 --> 00:38:00,379 I DON'T KNOW IF SHE THOUGHT SHE 1157 00:38:00,379 --> 00:38:01,275 WAS OR NOT. 1158 00:38:01,275 --> 00:38:03,206 >> WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR 1159 00:38:03,206 --> 00:38:04,896 SENTENCING ZACH ABELL FINALLY 1160 00:38:04,896 --> 00:38:06,034 SPOKE AND TOLD THE COURTROOM 1161 00:38:06,034 --> 00:38:08,000 ANOTHER TWIST IN THIS TORTURED 1162 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:08,172 STORY. 1163 00:38:08,172 --> 00:38:09,827 >> I HAD STOPPED AND I GRABBED A 1164 00:38:09,827 --> 00:38:11,206 RING POP AND I PROPOSED TO HER 1165 00:38:11,206 --> 00:38:13,068 WITH A RING POP AND ASKED HER TO 1166 00:38:13,068 --> 00:38:16,103 MARRY ME, AND SHE SAID YES. 1167 00:38:16,103 --> 00:38:18,413 AND ME AND AILEEN WERE GOING TO 1168 00:38:18,413 --> 00:38:20,241 GO OUR WAY AND LEAVE CHRISTINA 1169 00:38:20,241 --> 00:38:22,172 OUT OF IT. 1170 00:38:22,172 --> 00:38:23,862 >> ZACH SPOKE AT HIS SENTENCING 1171 00:38:23,862 --> 00:38:25,931 AND SAID THAT HE'D ACTUALLY 1172 00:38:25,931 --> 00:38:30,000 PROPOSED TO AILEEN DURING THIS 1173 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:30,206 TRIP. 1174 00:38:30,206 --> 00:38:33,724 >> I THIN THAT IS JUST B.S. 1175 00:38:33,724 --> 00:38:35,827 IT'S A GREAT STORY, BUT NO. 1176 00:38:35,827 --> 00:38:37,137 >> I HAVE BEEN IN THE JUSTICE 1177 00:38:37,137 --> 00:38:40,379 SYSTEM IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER 1178 00:38:40,379 --> 00:38:42,206 FOR 40 YEARS. 1179 00:38:42,206 --> 00:38:44,448 RARELY HAVE I SEEN THE SORT OF 1180 00:38:44,448 --> 00:38:48,655 INJURIES THAT I SAW ON AILEEN 1181 00:38:48,655 --> 00:38:48,896 SEIDEN. 1182 00:38:48,896 --> 00:38:50,689 >> THE JUDGE TOLD ABELL HE 1183 00:38:50,689 --> 00:38:53,448 WISHED HE COULD IMPOSE A HARSHER 1184 00:38:53,448 --> 00:38:54,620 PUNISHMENT BEFORE SENTENCING HIM 1185 00:38:54,620 --> 00:38:56,241 TO THE MAXIMUM. 1186 00:38:56,241 --> 00:38:57,793 LIFE IN PRISON. 1187 00:38:57,793 --> 00:38:59,137 >> IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA LIFE 1188 00:38:59,137 --> 00:38:59,620 MEANS LIFE. 1189 00:38:59,620 --> 00:39:01,827 WE DON'T HAVE PAROLE. 1190 00:39:01,827 --> 00:39:05,896 >> AT HER SENTENCING CHRISTINA 1191 00:39:05,896 --> 00:39:08,586 ARAUJO'S FATHER, COLONEL TONY 1192 00:39:08,586 --> 00:39:09,931 ARAUJO, SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. 1193 00:39:09,931 --> 00:39:11,310 HE SAID HE NEVER USED HIS 1194 00:39:11,310 --> 00:39:13,275 INFLUENCE TO BENEFIT HIS 1195 00:39:13,275 --> 00:39:13,551 DAUGHTER. 1196 00:39:13,551 --> 00:39:16,310 AND HE RECALLED THE CONVERSATION 1197 00:39:16,310 --> 00:39:17,724 HE HAD WITH HER AFTER THE 1198 00:39:17,724 --> 00:39:17,965 MURDER. 1199 00:39:17,965 --> 00:39:20,206 >> YOU WILL OWN UP TO THE TRUTH. 1200 00:39:20,206 --> 00:39:21,413 YOU WILL ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY. 1201 00:39:21,413 --> 00:39:23,379 YOU WILL BE THE VOICE OF THE 1202 00:39:23,379 --> 00:39:24,448 VICTIM. 1203 00:39:24,448 --> 00:39:27,655 AND YOU WILL TESTIFY UNDER OATH 1204 00:39:27,655 --> 00:39:28,758 IN A COURT OF LAW. 1205 00:39:28,758 --> 00:39:30,655 AND THEN WHATEVER IS SENTENCED 1206 00:39:30,655 --> 00:39:31,896 TO YOU, THAT'S FINE. 1207 00:39:31,896 --> 00:39:32,655 >> THERE WAS NO AGREEMENT WITH 1208 00:39:32,655 --> 00:39:35,000 HER AS TO THE LENGTH OF 1209 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:35,241 SENTENCE. 1210 00:39:35,241 --> 00:39:37,655 SHE GAVE HER STATEMENT WITH THE 1211 00:39:37,655 --> 00:39:38,655 KNOWLEDGE THAT SHE COULD STILL 1212 00:39:38,655 --> 00:39:40,034 RECEIVE LIFE IN PRISON. 1213 00:39:40,034 --> 00:39:41,206 >> I THINK ABOUT THAT DAY EVERY 1214 00:39:41,206 --> 00:39:45,620 DAY OF MY LIFE. 1215 00:39:45,620 --> 00:39:47,413 THE DETAILS HAUNT ME AND THE 1216 00:39:47,413 --> 00:39:48,379 MEMORIES KEEP ME UP. 1217 00:39:48,379 --> 00:39:50,793 >> THE JUDGE ACKNOWLEDGED HER 1218 00:39:50,793 --> 00:39:52,241 COOPERATION AND SENTENCED 1219 00:39:52,241 --> 00:39:55,896 CHRISTINA ARAUJO TO 25 YEARS. 1220 00:39:55,896 --> 00:39:59,517 >> JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED. 1221 00:39:59,517 --> 00:40:01,551 HE WON'T BEAT UP ANYMORE 1222 00:40:01,551 --> 00:40:04,965 FEMALES, NEITHER WILL SHE. 1223 00:40:04,965 --> 00:40:06,344 >> I THINK THAT EVERY WOMAN KIND 1224 00:40:06,344 --> 00:40:09,000 OF THINKS I WOULD LEAVE IF I WAS 1225 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:09,586 IN THAT SITUATION. 1226 00:40:09,586 --> 00:40:11,379 I WOULD JUST GET UP AND LEAVE, I 1227 00:40:11,379 --> 00:40:12,586 WOULD NEVER TOLERATE THAT. 1228 00:40:12,586 --> 00:40:16,103 >> AILEEN'S BEST FRIEND, ALLIE, 1229 00:40:16,103 --> 00:40:17,931 HOPES THERE WILL BE MORE 1230 00:40:17,931 --> 00:40:19,896 COMPASSION FOR THOSE TRAPPED IN 1231 00:40:19,896 --> 00:40:20,517 ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS. 1232 00:40:20,517 --> 00:40:22,068 >> IT'S ALWAYS THE I'M SORRY, 1233 00:40:22,068 --> 00:40:23,103 IT'S NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN 1234 00:40:23,103 --> 00:40:23,448 AGAIN. 1235 00:40:23,448 --> 00:40:24,655 AND YOU BELIEVE IT BECAUSE 1236 00:40:24,655 --> 00:40:27,413 YOU'RE IN LOVE AND THINGS ARE 1237 00:40:27,413 --> 00:40:28,482 GOOD 95% OF THE TIME. 1238 00:40:28,482 --> 00:40:32,586 BUT THE 5% THAT ARE BAD ARE SO 1239 00:40:32,586 --> 00:40:32,758 BAD. 1240 00:40:32,758 --> 00:40:34,000 >> WITH YOUR SISTER GONE, HOW DO 1241 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,793 YOU WANT HER TO BE REMEMBERED? 1242 00:40:35,793 --> 00:40:37,965 >> I WANT HER TO BE REMEMBERED 1243 00:40:37,965 --> 00:40:42,000 AS A SWEET, LOVING HUMAN BEING 1244 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,448 WHO, UNFORTUNATELY, HAD LOST HER 1245 00:40:44,448 --> 00:40:48,379 PARENTS AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE. 1246 00:40:48,379 --> 00:40:48,965 BUT SHE WAS STILL SO SWEET. 1247 00:40:48,965 --> 00:40:51,172 LIKE SHE WAS JUST A SWEETHEART. 1248 00:40:51,172 --> 00:40:58,344 LIKE SHE WAS JUST A SWEETHEART. HER SOUL WAS SO KIND. 1249 00:40:58,344 --> 00:41:32,551 HER SOUL WAS SO KIND.