[soldiers chanting cadence]
[crow cawing]
BEN WEATHERS: The reaction from the community
was a mix of emotions--
shock certainly, disbelief.
SUSAN GARCIARAMIREZ: I heard a rustling outside my window,
and I see these soldiers.
When there's three or four soldiers
at your front doorstep, you know what it means.
Investigators asked her if she owned any weapons,
and she played it off like she didn't know much about guns.
BEN: There was anger.
How could someone do this to this young mother?
How could someone do this to this young child?
LEROY MCDANIELS: The world is missing a beautiful person
with a big heart.
[clicking tongue]
All right. [clears throat]
NARRATOR: Halfway between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
is Severn, Maryland, a small city
known for its old-world charm and family-friendly environment.
Severn is just a typical suburban community.
Every morning, people going to work,
kids ride their bikes to school up and down the sidewalks.
People walk their dogs.
Very safe community.
NARRATOR: This 18-square-mile area
got put on the map during World War I,
when the U.S. military set up a sprawling Army base
just outside of town.
Between 1914 and 1918,
the eight-square-mile fortress known as Fort Meade
saw more than 400,000 soldiers pass through.
NEWS ANNOUNCER: They maneuver into battle, sham battle.
Fort Meade, Maryland, and tactics for tanks.
[plane zooming]
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NARRATOR: During that time, it became the military's
key communication hub, home to the Hello Girls,
a handpicked group of 223 bilingual switchboard operators
who were integral in relaying messages
to U.S. troops fighting in Europe.
When the war ended, the government
recognized the importance of the fort's contribution
to high-tech communications, so they built on its reputation.
Soon, it was at the forefront of code-cracking.
[gunfire]
And by the start of World War II,
the base's newly formed Signal Corps
had developed much of the equipment
used to communicate in battle, like the game-changing
FM backpack radio that provided troops
with reliable static-free transmissions.
Nearly a century later, Fort Meade is considered
the epicenter of America's intelligence community.
They house the National Security Agency.
They house the Defense Information Systems Agency.
These are agencies that are responsible
for foreign surveillance and, you know,
making sure that different communication systems
between the military can communicate with each other.
NARRATOR: And many of the 57,000 residents
who live in Severn are some of the best code crackers
and surveillance experts in the world.
So, in the summer of 2015, everyone was stunned
when a tragedy no one saw coming showed up on their doorstep.
It's just before 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 25th,
when a call comes in to the Anne Arundel County
Police Department.
A maintenance worker at a townhome community
two and a half miles from Fort Meade
says he was making his rounds
when he saw the sliding glass door to a unit
hanging wide open.
[police radio chatter]
The Anne Arundel County police responded to the call,
and they entered the house on the ground floor
of the residence.
They didn't see anybody.
NARRATOR: But when they go upstairs,
on the master bedroom floor is a chilling scene.
A baby is being held by a woman covered in blood
who appears to be in her mid-20s.
She had been shot several times in her chest,
and clearly had been killed as a result of those gunshots.
Someone had taken her pants off,
and her underpants were pulled down.
The initial officer described being particularly horrified
by the scene, because he initially thought
that the child had been killed too.
Thankfully, when he took a closer look,
he realized the child was moving,
and the baby was taken from the scene to the hospital
to get checked out and make sure that the baby was okay.
NARRATOR: Homicide detectives begin scouring the scene
for any clues.
They quickly find the victim's wallet
which identifies her as 24-year-old Karlyn Ramirez,
a private first class at Fort Meade.
Because she's a soldier,
cops call in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division.
LARRY HEINZ: We toured the inside of the townhome,
and yeah, there was nothing that was out of sorts
other than the room where she was found.
The top three drawers of the dresser were opened,
and a lot of the contents were thrown on the floor,
like somebody was rifling through the dresser.
NARRATOR: Beneath the victim are three gunshot holes.
This tells cops that she was lying down
when she was shot.
They recover one bullet lodged in the floor
and follow the most likely trajectory
of the others downstairs.
There was two fully encased bullet slugs that were found,
one being in the foyer-- on the foyer floor
just inside the front door,
and another slug on the living room carpet.
NARRATOR: The bullets are in good condition,
and can easily be matched if cops can find the gun.
Unfortunately, there's no murder weapon
or even a shell casing to be found.
That told us the shooter...
picked up the spent casings and removed them from the house,
or that it was not a semiautomatic weapon,
that it was in fact a revolver where the shell casings
remain inside the weapon after the weapon is discharged.
NARRATOR: Karlyn's body is sent to the coroner
while cops scour the place looking for additional clues
that might lead to the killer.
You don't know what you have,
and you're looking for trace evidence,
so you're taking the sheets off the bed.
You're looking for items that may have been touched.
NARRATOR: Forensic teams work the crime scene
while detectives shift their focus
to the infant found in Karlyn Ramirez's arms.
Military records suggest the baby
is Karlyn's four-month-old daughter Vale.
And according to doctors at the hospital,
the baby isn't injured,
but they do find a tiny bit of blood
on one of her hands.
It's Karlyn's.
LARRY: My impression was that whoever killed the victim
had put the child in the arms of the victim.
Maybe the child was screaming, and the subject
had put the baby down by the victim, the mother,
to soothe the baby.
NARRATOR: But there's no question,
Karlyn's murder was a targeted attack.
And in a military town filled with people
trained not to miss a single beat,
a killer knew how to slip in and stay under the radar.
That means either they got lucky,
or police are on the hunt for a very sophisticated monster.
[police radio chatter]
NARRATOR: In Severn, Maryland, news of Karlyn Ramirez's death
travels across the area like a transmission
from one of Fort Meade's battlefield radios.
BEN: The reaction from the community was--
was kind of a mix of emotions.
I mean, I think that there was shock certainly, disbelief.
I do think that there was also an eagerness
to try to find out what had happened here.
How could someone do this to this young mother?
How could someone do this to this young child?
LEROY: Karlyn worked directly for me.
She was a very, very beautiful person.
Her personality was amazing. She always smiled.
She's always ready to make things happen,
and people just loved being around her.
You were kinda drawn to her
because of the way she talked to people
and the way she cared for people.
[clicking tongue]
All right. [clears throat]
So, yeah, dealing with a situation like this
with any soldier is hard.
But with a soldier like her that so many people
are close to, you know it's gonna be a lot.
SUSAN: I'm sitting in my bedroom,
and I heard a rustling outside my window,
and I peeked out, and I see these soldiers.
If you've ever watched a single television show,
you know that when there's three or four soldiers
at your front doorstep, you know what it means.
I got up, and I walked out of the room,
and I yelled at my husband,
"Chuey, something happened to Karlyn!"
He opened the door, and I just saw them standing there.
He said, "What happened to her?"
And... they just told me
that they regretted to inform me
that my daughter had passed away.
And that's all they told us,
that they didn't have any specifics,
that they didn't have any-- anything.
NARRATOR: Police learn 24-year-old Karlyn
was born and raised in Texas.
SUSAN: I was a single mom at 24.
She was a mommy's girl in the sense
that she wanted to go everywhere with me.
We didn't have any family, so it was us.
We had each other.
NARRATOR: When Karlyn was five,
her mother met and married Chuey.
He had two kids, and suddenly,
Karlyn had a stepfather and siblings.
They soon became one big happy blended family.
As Karlyn grew, she went from being a shy girl
to a confident teenager who got a part-time job
at the commissary of a local Air Force base.
SUSAN: Karlyn had no idea what she wanted to do with her life.
She went to college, and she was studying criminal justice.
And then one day, she just told me,
"School's not for me, and I'm going into the Army."
And I was like, why?
It was so unexpected.
I was-- I asked her, I said, "Karlyn, what--
what has gotten into you?" [laughing]
And she said, "Mom, this is what I want to do."
She signed up for intel, military intelligence.
NARRATOR: In 2014 Karlyn was shipped to Korea
for her first tour of duty.
But just nine months later, her life changed course.
SUSAN: She calls me, she says, "I have something to tell you."
And I said, "What did you do?"
And then she says, "Well, I'm pregnant."
And I'm like, what? [laughing]
You know, no one really wants single parenthood
for their children, especially when you've lived it.
But she says, "It's okay, Mom, it's okay.
You know, I'm gonna be okay."
NARRATOR: Karlyn told her mom her new boyfriend
was 35-year-old Sergeant First Class Maliek Kearney,
an Iraq war vet from Philadelphia
with 17 years of military experience under his belt.
He had a lot of responsibilities and a lot of awards,
he was very decorated.
Chain of command loved him,
superiors loved him, soldiers loved him.
SUSAN: She said that he made her feel like a princess,
he made her feel like, you know,
she was the most important person in the world,
and that she loved him.
NARRATOR: The couple quickly became engaged
and began planning their wedding.
But when it came time to return to the States,
the military threw a wrench into their plans.
Maliek was transferred to Fort Jackson
in South Carolina, while Karlyn was sent to Fort Meade.
Over the next few months, the two successfully maintained
a long-distance relationship.
Then, in April of 2015, Vale was born.
Maliek was by his family's side.
And when it was time to return to his base, all was well.
Karlyn was happy, and she had her baby,
and she was, you know, where she wanted to be.
And to me, that's all that mattered.
NARRATOR: But in just a couple months,
raising in infant with an out-of-town fiancé
seemed to get to Karlyn.
That's when she had an affair with someone
she thought could relate-- a married soldier at Fort Meade
whose wife was living thousands of miles away.
SUSAN: And I got a phone call from Maliek,
crying because he found out that Karlyn
had gone out with another man.
What she did was wrong.
I said, if this is an issue now and you're not even married yet,
maybe you should reconsider getting married.
And he says, "Well, no, I'm gonna forgive her
because I love her."
NARRATOR: Then, on July 15th, 2015,
Karlyn and Maliek married.
From the outside, it appeared their troubles were behind them.
They were like many military families--
spouses devoted to each other and their country
while living on separate bases.
But Maliek wasn't exactly a forgive-and-forget kind of guy,
and shortly after the wedding, he insisted Karlyn pay a price
to both him and the Army
for having strayed with her married coworker.
Karlyn being the type of person that she was,
was very apologetic, and...
was willing to do anything to get his forgiveness.
Maliek forced Karlyn to report this--
adultery, is what we call it in the military--
to her chain of command.
LEROY: Within the Uniform Code of Military Justice,
adultery is not allowed, period.
You cannot have sex with anybody but your spouse, period.
If it's found out, you get punished,
because if you're married and you're stepping out,
then how can you be trusted?
I can't trust you to maintain things in your own household,
how can I trust you with, you know, military secrets?
So, both soldiers that were involved in this affair
were reduced in rank, money was taken.
I had never seen Ramirez get mad.
Like, she's always bubbly,
she always has a very good personality,
always with a smile on her face.
She had a plan, she had a timeline
that she wanted to meet.
That demotion slowed that progress down,
so she was upset.
NARRATOR: But Karlyn pulled up her bootstraps
and made the decision to dedicate herself
to her baby and Maliek.
Just days later, the marriage blew up.
Turns out Karlyn wasn't the only one keeping secrets.
NARRATOR: Police in Severn, Maryland,
are just 24 hours into investigating
Karlyn Ramirez's murder case when they learn
that the honeymoon period in her short marriage
had ended as fast as it began.
Karlyn had put her military intel skills to use
to check up on her new husband.
That's when she discovered
she wasn't the only one making mistakes.
LEROY: Karlyn came to me a couple days
after their honeymoon.
She had spent some time with Maliek.
She said she was laying in bed,
and Maliek had gone in the kitchen,
took his phone, but he left his iPad.
He was texting another young lady.
IPad and phone are linked, so she was seeing the messages.
So, that's when she found out that he was cheating on her.
And she was like, "I don't know what to do."
And just kinda calmed her down
and, "Hey, you gotta do what's best for you,
do what's best for your daughter."
NARRATOR: Days later, Karlyn told Maliek
their marriage was over.
LARRY: And of course, reality hit him hard.
Karlyn was a beautiful, beautiful lady.
And you know, he had his trophy wife,
he didn't wanna lose it.
He was crying, he was begging,
you know, that he was sorry,
that you know, that he wanted them
to work it out, and this and that.
But you know, she had already made her decision
that she was moving on.
LEROY: So, he would do his best to stay talking to her.
He said, "Don't leave me, don't leave me, don't leave me."
Was calling all the time.
If she wouldn't answer his call,
he was getting somebody else to call.
He was blowing her phone up.
It got to the point where she had to put in
a restraining order to keep him away from her.
NARRATOR: For cops, a clearer picture of Maliek
starts to emerge-- one of a very jealous husband.
But before they can sit him in an interview chair,
the medical examiner's report comes in.
LARRY: It was apparent that she was shot
two times in the chest
and one time in the right side of the torso
which exited out the left side.
The ballistics on all three slugs
came back to a .38 or a .357 caliber slug,
and they were all fired from the same weapon.
Revolvers haven't been used in the military
for many, many years.
So, we definitely knew it was not a military weapon.
JAMES: Investigators were able to determine
a window for the killing
based on the temperature of her body,
the last use of her telephone,
and the window was approximately 10 p.m. to midnight
the night before, which was August 24th.
NARRATOR: And according to the M.E.,
there was no evidence Karlyn had been raped.
So, the fact that her pants were removed,
her underwear was pulled down
indicated that whoever did this
may have wanted to make it look like there was a sexual assault
associated with the crime.
JAMES: And then, you have the child
placed in the mother's arm.
That's kind of inconsistent
with your typical sexual assault.
It was more consistent with a...
premeditated act.
And therefore, you'd look at the husband immediately.
[Maliek sobbing]
DETECTIVE: Okay? Unless it's, you know...
NARRATOR: Detectives let Maliek know they're well aware
of their marital split and the restraining order
Karlyn filed against him.
NARRATOR: Detectives ask Maliek where he was on August 24th,
the night Karlyn was killed.
Maliek told detectives that he got off work
at around 2:00 p.m.,
went back to his apartment off post,
just hung out at his house,
watched movies, surfed the internet,
then later on went to sleep.
MALIEK: I have not been to Maryland since...
NARRATOR: Police take Maliek up on his offer
and download the data from his vehicle.
They also copy everything on his cell phone.
They send the material to the forensic team
at Fort Meade for analysis.
It'll take a few days to get results,
so for now, cops focus on their other potential suspect,
Karlyn's married soldier/lover.
After all, he was publicly reprimanded
and punished with a costly demotion in rank.
And maybe in place of all that was lost,
he gained a motive for murder.
[birdsong]
NARRATOR: Police in Severn, Maryland,
zero in on Karlyn Ramirez's former lover,
fellow soldier and potential person-of-interest
in her murder case.
LARRY: We had him come down to the CID office,
and he was in disbelief.
Even though their relationship had ended,
they still were friends.
But he was-- he was very, very upset
that Karlyn was killed, and it seemed genuine.
He told us that he was home the night of the murder,
however no one could corroborate it.
NARRATOR: He agrees to let police
track his whereabouts that night through his cell,
so they take his phone like they did Maliek's
and send the data to Fort Meade for analysis.
Meanwhile, the Army preps the remains of Karlyn Ramirez
for transport back to her home town in Texas.
A friend of mine actually was tasked
with taking her body to Del Rio.
So, he comes to see me in my office,
he said, "Hey, I have to go and identify her body.
Do you wanna go with me?"
So, we go over to the funeral home,
we go to the back where they have her at,
and she's laying in a casket.
And to me, it didn't look like her.
It was-- it was, like, wow.
Like, my soldier's laying in this box dead
because somebody decided to take her life.
Like, why?
Why? Like, what the...
So, I had to-- yeah, I walked out.
Got-- I was like, "I'll be in the car."
So yeah, that's when it really sunk in
that she was gone.
SUSAN: I can honestly tell you that I really--
I don't think I've ever sat down
and just cried.
I'm-- I'm a woman of great faith,
so I don't question...
you know, whether I'll see my daughter again.
I'll see my daughter again one day,
I have faith that I will.
My faith gives me strength.
My family gives me strength.
My little girl gives me strength.
That's what I do. You do what you have to do.
NARRATOR: On August 28th, police finally get back
the phone and GPS analysis from Fort Meade
on their two potential suspects.
According to the data, Karlyn's lover was at home
in Severn just like he said he was when Karlyn was killed.
LARRY: We actually confirmed that he was telling us the truth
through cellphone records and what we call tower pings.
And it located his phone at his residence.
And Maliek Kearney appears to be another dead end.
According to the report, his phone and car
were 500 miles away in South Carolina
the night of the murder.
LARRY: He was driving a Jaguar which has the internal GPS.
And the detectives confirmed that that Jaguar
was there that night.
So was his phone.
NARRATOR: The phone also confirms
he made several online purchases from his home that night.
And while some investigators might have just crossed Maliek
right off the suspect list,
they know there was trouble in this marriage,
and this is Fort Meade.
These people are in a whole different class
when it comes to unscrambling information.
And after working their magic,
they found another hidden layer of data
Maliek never mentioned to police.
JAMES: A wiping application had been activated,
so the phone was essentially being wiped of its data.
And it caused investigators to...
to look very closely at all aspects of the alibi.
NARRATOR: Detectives ask the phone company
for a complete copy of Maliek's cell records.
And when they get them, they realize Maliek
was very busy the night Karlyn was murdered--
shopping, surfing the net, and texting a mystery number.
NARRATOR: Five months after Karlyn Ramirez's murder,
police discover the night she was killed,
her husband Maliek was firing off texts
to a 30-year-old nursing student living in Florida
named Dolores Delgado.
JAMES: Investigators determined that Dolores Delgado
had been a soldier.
She had... been stationed with Maliek Kearney
in Iraq and in Texas.
KEN: It appeared that she was in
a sort of on-again, off-again relationship with Maliek Kearney
that had lasted since they were both stationed together in Iraq.
JAMES: Investigators check Dolores Delgado's phone.
They wanted to see where the geolocation information
would place that phone.
And on the night of the murder,
that phone was in the same location
as Maliek Kearney's phone.
So, they concluded that Maliek Kearney
was probably not telling the truth...
when he said he was alone at home,
because Dolores Delgado's phone
was hitting off the same cell towers.
NARRATOR: Detectives fly to Florida
to talk to Dolores, hoping she can clear things up.
She was very cooperative, very forthcoming.
And she admitted that she was at Maliek's apartment
all night long, and that Maliek never left the apartment.
NARRATOR: That would mean both of them were together
in South Carolina at the time of Karlyn's murder.
And their phones give them a solid alibi.
So, cops wonder why Maliek didn't just tell them the truth.
LARRY: First thing that came to mind is,
the severity of his wife being murdered
versus being caught in an extramarital affair,
you would think one would just come clean about it.
But he didn't.
NARRATOR: Cops press Dolores to see what else she might know.
LARRY: Investigators asked her if she owned any weapons,
and she played it off like she didn't know much about guns.
NARRATOR: For police, her answer is another flag.
Here's a former soldier who spent five years
in the military, and was even deployed to Iraq,
but she says she's not familiar with guns?
Cops ask if they can copy the contents of her cell.
She agrees.
And when they look at the data,
it doesn't take a high-tech sleuth from Fort Meade
to figure out that Maliek and her were plotting something.
KEN: They saw Maliek and Dolores
talking about how many miles could be gotten out of her car,
and how to ensure that there was plenty of gas
to make a long trip without stopping.
So, we looked into Delgado's financial bank accounts and all.
We found that she made a purchase
at a local Home Depot where she bought
two gas containers and a Twinkie.
NARRATOR: And it turns out, detectives' hunch that Dolores
might have been downplaying
her familiarity with guns
is right on target.
KEN: They were able to see that
in the not-too-distant past,
she had been on social media trying to sell ammunition
for a firearm.
NARRATOR: The ammunition for the same type of weapon
used to kill Karlyn Ramirez.
LARRY: There was a price tag on the box of ammo,
and on that price tag was the name of the store
that she purchased it from.
And we were able to ascertain from the shop
that they did in fact sell this ammunition
to Dolores Delgado earlier in 2014.
We also asked if there was any other items
that she may have purchased, and they confirmed
that she bought a .357 Magnum Taurus revolver
from that same store.
NARRATOR: And judging by the recovered cell data
from Maliek's phone,
it looks like the weapon
ended up with him.
KEN: There was actually a text message
that Maliek sent her saying, "This gun's loud,"
and he appeared to be shooting the gun
and telling her about it.
LARRY: So, all the information that we were finding
through Dolores Delgado's social media and her phone,
and what we were finding with Maliek, it was...
The arrows were pointing to both of 'em
being-- being in cahoots on this whole murder.
NARRATOR: But even with a mountain
of incriminating texts, posts, and receipts,
police can't put either Dolores or Maliek
at the crime scene in Severn.
They spend the next few months looking for anything
that might make their case airtight.
They find nothing.
So, they make a bold move.
The phone rings, it said "U.S. Government."
And I took the call,
and he said, "Mrs. Ramirez,
"I'm with the U.S. District Attorney's office.
"And I'm calling to inform you there has been an arrest made
in your daughter's case."
And I was like, what?
And I said, "Who did y'all arrest?"
And he said Maliek Kearney.
And I was like, "And so, you're sure that he did it?"
And they're like, "We have evidence."
It was-- it was just crazy, I...
It-- it just blindsided me.
And there was a lot of anger--
anger in the fact that I opened my door to you,
and all along, you knew what you had done.
LEROY: With this situation with Maliek,
honestly, even though I had my feelings about him,
I didn't see murder in him.
I didn't-- especially murdering his wife.
I mean, again, he's a decorated soldier,
outstanding career.
His chain of command loved who he was,
and they loved him.
NARRATOR: While the community of Severn absorbs the shock
of the soldier-on-soldier murder,
Maliek's on-again, off-again girlfriend Dolores Delgado
is arrested too.
Both are transported to Maryland.
JAMES: We gave instructions to the Marshal Service
that Delgado and Kearney were to be separated
so that they can't get their story straight,
and to also create an uncertainty in their minds
as to what their codefendant may be doing or not doing.
NARRATOR: As soon as Dolores lands in Maryland,
detectives meet with her, hoping they can get her talking.
But she immediately lawyers up.
JAMES: We told her not to say anything,
but just to listen, and we showed her
the receipts for the purchase of the gas cans from Home Depot.
We showed her the images from her phone
about the gas mileage on her car,
and the text messages relating to "Bring that gun.
That gun is so damn loud."
And we laid that all out for her.
NARRATOR: Cops hope as Dolores stares down
the long barrel of a prison sentence,
she'll reconsider telling police what she knows.
But three days pass, and there's still radio silence.
Then, the phone rings.
Looks like someone else wants to talk.
NARRATOR: Three days after Maliek Kearney
and Dolores Delgado are arrested
for the murder of Karlyn Ramirez,
police get a call from a Florida man.
He says his son is Dolores Delgado's former boyfriend,
and he has some information on the case.
He told me that his son
saw the news clip about Dolores being arrested.
He said his son was very upset,
and that in August of 2015, Dolores called him
and asked if he would help her to get rid of some things.
And so, they met up late one night
shortly after the murder, and they disposed of a gun
and some clothing.
He relayed to investigators
that he disassembled the weapon
and threw the pieces of the gun
in the water
near Merritt Island, Florida.
The FBI dive team from Miami conducted a search of the water,
and they recovered parts and pieces
of a .357 Taurus revolver.
It's brackish water, so things corrode
and decay quickly.
The gun parts appeared to be in pretty bad shape.
NARRATOR: Fortunately, experts at the FBI lab
in Quantico are able to restore the revolver's barrel,
attach it to the body of an identical model,
and do a test fire.
Which led them to find that that gun had been the very one
that had shot the bullets that killed Karlyn Ramirez.
NARRATOR: When investigators let Dolores' attorney
know what they've found,
clearly, they've cracked the code,
because suddenly Dolores steps up
and gives a chilling play-by-play of what happened.
JAMES: She said Kearney was angry with Ramirez
for wanting to end the marriage.
In terms of the reconciliation,
Kearney would tell Delgado
she has three weeks to reconcile.
Then it was two weeks to reconcile.
"She has one week to reconcile."
So, he was counting down.
And while he was counting down,
she was bringing the gun up to him.
He was test firing the gun.
He was putting all the things in place for his alibi.
KEN: Because Dolores was in South Carolina
at the time of the murder, she didn't actually
get to witness what happened in the house in Severn.
But after Maliek got back, he explained to her...
that he went into the house, he had the gun.
Karlyn came down the stairs holding the baby.
They argued there, and then went upstairs to her room,
where he told her to put the baby down in the crib,
which she did.
As they were talking, she explained to Maliek
that she wanted to go forward with the divorce.
Kearney took Karlyn down to the ground
and shot her three times, killing her.
NARRATOR: It takes the jury just four hours
to find Maliek Kearney guilty
for the death of Karlyn Ramirez.
He is sentenced to life without parole,
plus 10 years for the firearms charge.
Dolores Delgado pleads guilty
to the federal crime of crossing state lines
to commit domestic violence resulting in death,
and is sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Today, there are few people in Severn
who were there when Karlyn Ramirez was murdered,
but the tragedy's remembered
as a different kind of war story-- the worst kind,
where the real danger came from within,
and no one at the nation's premiere communications hub
saw it coming.
LEROY: The world is missing a beautiful person
with a big heart.
Karlyn was very, very loved by everybody
that she came in contact with.
And given the chance, she would have done
amazing things in this world.
SUSAN: I couldn't have asked for a better daughter.
She was a beautiful mother,
a great mother for the four months,
she gave her all to that child, to her baby.
And she was mine.
And I miss her every day.
[Vale cooing]