[Female narrator] In the early morning hours,
investigators are called to a tragic roadside scene.
[Shari] The victim was hunched over to the right,
towards the passenger side.
He is no longer alive.
[Christine] It was super early.
They thought maybe he had fallen asleep at the wheel.
[Narrator] But they soon find this rural Arizona road
played host to something far more sinister.
There was three rounds to the side of the victim's head.
This is not a traffic accident, this is a homicide.
[Narrator] Why was this hardworking family man targeted
We had no witnesses of any license plates,
vehicle descriptions, or anything.
[Sean] It just didn't make any sense.
Who would hunt him down...
like a freakin' animal?
[Narrator] One by one,
investigators peel back the lies...
She said she had cancer of the brain,
she had all these medical conditions.
She was crying to me and saying she still loved my brother.
She tried to get our whole family
to turn against him.
[Narrator] And a vengeful killer is revealed.
She knew how to control these men, that was her MO.
She says, "Tomorrow, it better be done."
[music]
[Narrator] February 10th, 2020.
It's just before dawn in eastern Arizona.
A local fire chief is driving rural Highway 191
on his way to work,
just north of the small town of Safford,
near the Morenci Copper Mine.
[Eric] A lot of people that work or are employed at the mine,
they live in Safford,
which is 40 minutes away, and they commute.
[Narrator] On his drive,
the fire chief is immediately concerned
as he comes around a curve and sees a black SUV
wrecked on the side of the road
The vehicle was kind of wedged in between the,
the roadway and the mountain.
There was shattered glass on the driver's side window.
[Narrator] The fire chief pulls over to check for
anyone injured in the vehicle,
and when he peers inside, he finds the driver unconscious
[Eric] He had blood runnin' down the side of his face.
He thought, "Well, maybe he had fallen asleep
and crashed on the side of the road."
[Shari] He was hunched over to the right,
towards the passenger side.
He went to check the victim,
and the victim was no longer alive.
At the point, the fire chief,
he's realizing that the victim,
he had three bullet holes in the side of his face.
He's been shot.
[Narrator] The fire chief places a call to dispatch.
[Narrator] Within minutes,
investigators with the Clifton Police Department
arrive at the rural roadside scene.
[Shari] Upon my arrival, there was multiple people on scene.
The victim appeared to have been shot.
At that point, they showed me the side of the vehicle
that they saw the bullet holes,
and it looked from the point of entry from the outside to in.
It looked like a possible road rage incident.
[Narrator] But as investigators look closer,
they begin to develop another theory.
There was about 14 or 15 rounds that were shot into
the side of the vehicle in a tight-knit group pattern.
It didn't fit the mold of a typical road rage
because of the amount of shots fired on the vehicle.
So, it led me to believe that there was more to it.
[Narrator] Detectives search inside the vehicle
to identify their victim.
[Shari] We found his photo ID that was in his wallet...
His name's Matthew Misener.
[Eric] I'm thinkin' this is gonna be a tough case.
It's located in a, in a very vast canyon.
It's dark outside, very few people are driving.
We had no idea of where the suspect went.
Is he gonna do this to another person?
We had no clue.
How am I going to give justice to this man?
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[Narrator] Matthew Misener was born in 1984.
He was raised in Tucson,
along with two older sisters and a younger brother.
[Christine] I was about ten when he was born.
Blond hair, blue eyes, just...
...the cutest little thing with the biggest smile ever.
As he got older, he got into wrestling.
[Sean] I kind of looked up to him, obviously,
and wanted to be like him.
He was very shy.
Very shy, but such a sweet guy.
After he graduated high school,
he made it to Pima Community College.
Matt went there for the wrestling aspect.
[Narrator] Introverted and reserved,
Matthew didn't date much.
But in 2011,
when Matthew was 26 years old,
he met dark-haired beauty Georgina Mendoza
at a casino.
[Christine] Matthew was drawn to her.
She was very, an outgoing person.
Total opposite of what he was,
and they were just opposites attract.
[music]
[Narrator] 25-year-old Georgina was also raised in Tucson,
alongside her two older half-sisters.
[Dr. Johnston] Georgina Misener
got off to kind of a rough start in life.
Her biological father was
physically abusive to her mother.
At two, the biological parents separate
and that seems to be a good thing for Georgina.
[Christine] Her real father was in prison.
Georgina and her mother had a really good relationship.
And her stepfather was a very good father figure for her.
[Narrator] In high school,
Georgina was a well-rounded student
who stayed busy pursuing soccer, choir, and drama.
But as she got older,
Georgina began to lose interest in
these after-school activities and in school altogether.
[Dr. Johnston] Starting in her senior year,
she began experimenting with some drugs.
She actually ended up dropping out of the high school
she'd been involved in,
and doing drugs pretty heavily for about a four-year period.
And so when she's around 24 and 25,
this has been goin' on for a number of years.
And she starts realizing this is a problem.
And at that point she decides, "I need to get some help."
[Narrator] After a stint in rehab,
Georgina spent the next two years
focused on staying sober.
And in 2011, when she met Matthew,
she quickly fell head over heels.
He loved her unconditionally.
He knew, like, he was wanting to spend
his life with her and have a family with her.
[Narrator] The couple wed in Phoenix in 2013.
Soon after, Georgina learned she was expecting.
With a baby on the way,
Matthew needed to bring in a solid paycheck.
He applied for work at the Morenci Copper Mine,
about three hours north of Tucson.
He left his whole family, he left every,
all of his friends here in Tucson
to move out there to better his life for his family.
[Samuel] Matt, he liked bein' there.
He, he loved his job.
He was just real easy, outgoin', real good guy to get along with.
[Narrator] Matthew and Georgina settled in
the town of Safford, Arizona,
about 40 minutes from the mines
Soon after, their son was born.
[Christine] He was born very premature.
I mean, my brother's wedding ring
actually fit around his wrist.
[Sean] He spent months in the hospital.
I knew he was very excited
when his son was finally goin' home.
[Narrator] A year later,
Georgina gave birth to another baby.
This time, a daughter.
[Christine] He was happy to have a little girl.
She was a little daddy's girl, too.
She loved her daddy.
[Narrator] In 2017,
only two years after giving birth,
Georgina learned she was pregnant with their third child
But by then, the pressures of family life
were taking a toll on the couple.
[Christine] The last year of the relationship,
when she was pregnant,
he'd work, you know, long hours,
and, you know, she would argue with him,
and it would just be a constant thing.
[Dr. Johnston] He wants to come home and maybe relax.
She's with these small kids all day.
It's kind of give, give, give,
and so their relationship begins to unravel to some extent.
He just got tired, and he fell out of love with her.
[music]
[Narrator] After close to six years together,
the couple filed for divorce in August of 2017.
Georgina returned to her parents' home in Tucson
with the kids,
and in December of that same year,
gave birth to her third child.
When Matthew and Georgina did get divorced,
they had a 50/50 custody by the courts.
He wanted to be cordial and follow the judge's orders,
enjoy his time with his kids.
But she always wanted to be involved
when he would have the kids.
She was being more difficult.
[Narrator] Soon after the split,
Matthew found himself taking another shot at romance
when he began dating his coworker.
[Samuel] Nicole was a new employee.
She was real easygoin'.
He saw her and was like...
And the first thing he said was like, "Wow, she's hot."
[Narrator] As for Georgina, she was also moving on.
She was dating somebody, you know, happy again,
and you could see that.
He loved Nicole.
He was able to be himself.
It was a different kind of love
than what I felt like with Georgina.
Nicole gave him, like, life back,
made him feel happy again.
[Narrator] In 2019, Matt and Nicole became engaged,
with plans to marry on St. Patrick's Day, 2020.
But that day would never come..
With the wedding less than two months away,
35-year-old Matthew is found dead on Highway 191.
[Shari] I began walking the scene and taking photographs.
This happened so early in the morning
that it was still dark outside.
[Narrator] Investigators carefully comb the roadside
for evidence.
The problem is
they aren't finding any.
[Eric] There was not a single shell casing on that highway.
If it was a road rage, probably not thought out,
would have left shells around on the ground.
That tells me, again, that whoever it was at that point
had it planned out.
This man...
they wanted him dead.
[Narrator] Coming up.
A surprise appearance at the scene
has detectives asking questions
[Eric] I took pictures of her car,
thinkin' maybe she was in on this.
[Narrator] And a possible motive is revealed.
The next day, February 11th, was the custody hearing,
where possibly Matthew was gonna get custody of the children.
[Narrator] Arizona authorities are searching for answers
after a passing driver discovered
35-year-old Matthew Misener dead inside his vehicle
from three gunshot wounds to the head.
[Eric] After Matthew was discovered
around 5 o'clock in the morning
we got a medical examiner on the scene with us.
And there was three rounds to the side of Mr. Misener's head
from a .9 millimeter.
But we had no witnesses of any license plates,
vehicle descriptions, or anything.
[Narrator] Surprisingly, an hour later,
investigators receive word that a woman claiming to be
Matthew's fiancée has just arrived at the scene.
Nicole Chacon was up at the top of the horseshoe curve.
[Narrator] Detectives head up the road.
But before the talk to Nicole, they cover their bases.
I took pictures of Nicole's car,
thinkin' maybe she was in on this.
We didn't know.
[music]
[Narrator] Nicole is desperate for more information about
the wrecked SUV on the highway.
She's concerned it may be her fiancé's.
She told us Matthew Misener worked at the mine,
as Nicole also worked at the mine
as an employee at that point.
[Narrator] According to Nicole,
Matthew left for work around 4:00 AM that day,
and less than an hour later, she followed.
[Shari] She did state that she had initially passed by
an accident on the horseshoe,
exited her car when she saw a black vehicle,
approached where the deputies were,
but didn't wanna get in trouble
So, she got back in her vehicle
and left back up towards Morenci for work.
[Narrator] Nicole says once she arrived at work
and realized Matthew wasn't there,
panic set in.
She realized that it possibly was Matthew,
and that is when she had left work,
went to the scene...
to the barricade, and she advised who she was.
[Eric] At that point, she did not know that he'd been shot,
and she was very confused.
I explained to her that this is not a traffic accident,
and this is a homicide investigation,
and her fiancé is now dead.
Nicole didn't take it well.
She began to cry, and total shock.
It, it was... It was heartbreaking to see.
[Narrator] Despite Nicole's honest reaction
to Matthew's death,
investigators still need to rule her out.
We did a gun swab on her hand
and, just to check for powder residue.
[music]
[Narrator] While investigators wait for results
from the residue test,
they ask Nicole if Matthew had anyone in his life
who would want to harm him.
Nicole says he was very loved at the mine.
He had good friends that supported him.
But she told us Matthew Misener he had a ex-wife,
her name was Georgina Misener.
She had three children, and they had been divorced.
The only issues that she had wa with Georgina Misener.
[Narrator] Nicole says their problems with Georgina
started about six months ago,
when Matt's ex-wife revealed some alarming news.
Georgina said she had cancer.
[Christine] She sent, actually,
pictures of her with her head shaved.
She said, "I tried chemo,
"it about killed me and I stopped.
And the medicine I was taking gave me really bad headaches."
[Narrator] While Nicole and Matthew
were prepared to jump in and help,
Georgina inexplicably withdrew.
Georgina was making it very difficult for Matthew to have
any sort of visitation with the children.
Matthew was denied visitation to his children.
As much as he tried, and tried, and tried,
Georgina denied him those visitations.
This put a strain on Nicole.
Nicole, at one point,
confronted Georgina about the visitation.
Now Georgina, she slapped Nicole,
and they got into a scuffle.
[Narrator] Following the incident,
Nicole says that Georgina upped the ante
in their feud by filing an official complaint.
Georgina's calling up Child Protective Services.
She's saying that Matthew's abusing the kids,
that Nicole is abusing the kids
Child Protective Services, they have to investigate this.
And can't find any evidence that any abuse is going on,
and Matthew is saying is this is completely made up.
[music]
[Kelly] I saw her in December.
She was crying to me
and saying she still loved my brother,
and she didn't like Nicole.
That's when she told me she had cancer, and she was gonna die.
[Narrator] Nicole tells police that on February 5th, 2020,
Matthew, concerned over both
Georgina's physical and mental health,
filed for full custody.
[Shari] The next day, on that Tuesday, February 11th,
was the custody hearing,
where possibly Matthew was gonna get
some sort of custody of the children.
[Eric] Nicole thought they had such a strong case,
that Georgina was gonna lose the kids.
After hearing this from Nicole,
it did lead us to believe that
Georgina was one of our prime suspects.
[Narrator] Just as they identify Georgina
as a person of interest,
investigators get word that a potential witness
has called in to the Safford Police Department.
[Shari] We got a tip or a witness
who was driving through the area to go to work.
Passed by after it had just initially happened.
I answered the phone and talked to him.
And he saw the vehicle on the side of the road,
he didn't know that it was a, a homicide at that point.
He thought it was a blowout,
and then he saw a white sedan
that had made a U-turn and accelerated.
At that point in my mind,
I thought this vehicle was fleeing the scene.
[music]
[Narrator] Coming up.
Investigators are on the hunt for the driver of the white car
She said, "While Matthew was in Tucson,
there was a man that took a picture of our license plate.
[Narrator] And a crucial piece of evidence is uncovered.
[Shari] They were conducting
the search warrant of the residence,
and that is when they found the .9 millimeter Ruger.
[Narrator] Investigators are on the scene of
the cold-blooded roadside shooting
of father of three, Matthew Misener,
when they receive a tip from a potential witness.
A man called, and he had told me he was headed to work,
and he had actually followed Mr. Misener for miles and miles
from Stafford.
At one point, he lost him.
Mr. Misener was traveling a little faster,
and he got behind.
He actually heard a pop,
and he didn't know it was a gunshot.
He saw Mr. Misener's vehicle on the side of the road.
And right in front of Mr. Misener's vehicle
was a white car.
Out of nowhere just made a U-turn,
went southbound on 191,
and then started accelerating.
[Narrator] Given the time of day the shooting took place
and the lack of cars on the road,
this white vehicle fleeing the scene
so quickly after shots were fired
strikes Investigator Ellison as more than suspicious.
In my mind I'm like, "This is our guy.
This is who shot Mr. Misener."
[Narrator] He immediately follows this lead
and runs the information by Matthew's fiancée, Nicole.
I said, "Nicole, do you have, know of anybody
that drives a white car
who would wanna cause harm on Matthew?"
And she says, "You know, I do remember
"while Matthew was in Tucson,
"and there was a man that had got out of his vehicle,
and he took a picture of our license plate."
On February 5th, Matthew had been tryin' to get
the kids that day,
and was parked by Georgina's residence.
[Eric] Matthew was actually on the phone with Nicole
at the time, and tellin' him,
"Hey, this guy just took a picture of our license plate."
Nicole says, "Why don't you tak one of his plate?"
So he did,
and he texted the picture of the plate to Nicole.
Nicole pulls out her phone and says,
"I have a picture of it right here."
[Narrator] Matthew took the photo
of the white sedan
just five days before he was killed,
and a vehicle with an eerily similar description
was seen racing away from the crime scene.
[Eric] I was excited.
Once we had discovered we had the picture,
this was our chance.
[Narrator] Detectives run the plate,
and they find the vehicle is registered to two owners.
The license plate came back to Edward Montano, Jr,
and Mr. Sandoval, Eduardo's grandpa.
Edward Montano had two misdemeanor warrants.
That is when the sheriff had called Pima County
and asked them to apprehend him
[Narrator] A few hours later,
they arrive at the home where Eduardo Montano lives
with his grandfather, Samuel Sandoval.
[Eric] As we arrived on scene,
he had already been placed under arrest
for the two misdemeanor warrants.
[Shari] At that point on scene,
I did read Eduardo his Miranda rights,
and he agreed to speak with us.
[Eric] In the driveway,
there was a white Cadillac which had dark window tint,
and it really looked to me like it fit the description
of what the witness had said.
[Narrator] As authorities await search warrants
on the home and car,
investigators take Eduardo to the Pima County sheriff's offie
for questioning.
[Narrator] While Eduardo denies being anywhere near
the crime scene,
detectives know his vehicle was at Georgina's home
the day Matthew took a photo of his license plate.
They have a hunch this was no coincidence.
[Narrator] Having established a connection
to Matthew and Georgina,
investigators press Eduardo again on his whereabouts
the night before.
[Narrator] Eduardo insists after hanging out with his friends,
he returned home to his grandparents' house.
[Narrator] But investigators aren't buying it.
[Shari] During the interview,
he does advise that Georgina does confide in him with
the things that are kinda going on in her life and as far as
the child custody issues.
He claimed he didn't personally know Matthew,
but I definitely believed that he had some sort of involvement.
[Narrator] Back at their residence,
investigators follow up on Eduardo's alibi
with his grandfather.
[Eric] I asked Mr. Sandoval, "Was Edward there all night?"
And he said, "No, matter of fact, he wasn't here.
"He left at ten o'clock at night.
He didn't come back 'til about 8 or 8:30 in the morning."
The time periods, they all lined up.
The shooting happens around five o'clock.
It gives sufficient time to drive that vehicle
from five o'clock,
three hours to get back in Tucson.
[Narrator] With the circumstantial evidence
piling up against Eduardo,
the search for physical evidenc is underway.
After coming up empty in the Cadillac,
investigators head into the house.
[Shari] They were conducting
the search warrant of the residence,
and that is when they found
the .9 millimeter Ruger inside of Eduardo's bedroom.
We knew that the rounds to the side of Mr. Misener's head
were from a .9 millimeter.
[Narrator] That's not all
that links the gun to Matthew's murder.
[Eric] It had four rounds left in the magazines,
which appeared to be the exact amounts that were shot into
the side of Matthew's car.
We pulled out 14 rounds out of the side of the vehicle.
It tied the gun with the car, and it tied the gun to Eduardo.
[Narrator] Investigators send the gun for forensic testing.
[Shari] We had enough probable cause
to request an arrest warrant, which was granted.
By the evening of the 10th,
Eduardo was under arrest for homicide.
[Narrator] While investigators have enough
to link Eduardo to the murder,
what they don't know yet is why he would kill Matthew Misener.
They turn their focus back to their initial suspect,
Matthew's ex-wife, Georgina.
[Shari] We're a very small department.
We followed every lead.
And the day of, we arrested Eduardo.
Now I'm trying to figure out wh may have also been involved.
The fact that him and Georgina were such good of friends,
the fact that the court hearing was coming up,
and she didn't wanna lose custody of her children.
My next step was to speak to Georgina.
[Narrator] The day after the murder,
police track Georgina down at her mother's house.
Georgina's emotions were just kind of all over the place.
She was happy, she was crying, she was mad.
Georgina's demeanor almost, to me, appeared rehearsed.
[Narrator] Investigators ask Georgina
about her relationship with Matthew.
Georgina told me that she did not want
Matthew to have the kids because she did not like Nicole.
She thought Nicole was a very abusive woman.
She also thought Mr. Misener wa a very abusive man.
[Narrator] Georgina recounts her version
of the physical altercation with Nicole back in October.
[Narrator] Investigators steer the questioning toward Eduardo.
Eduardo himself has experienced abuse in his life.
Georgina knew this.
[Eric] She knew Eduardo's emotions.
She knew he had this troubled life.
We thought maybe she was playin' that against Eduardo
to do her will.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Investigators finally confront Georgina about Matthew's murder
I felt like she knew more than what she was leading on.
[Narrator] And later,
investigators unearth a dirty lie.
She actually got photos off the internet and said,
"Hey look, Matthew, I'm dying."
[Narrator] Investigators in Arizona have already arrested
36-year-old Eduardo Montano
in relation to Matthew Misener's death.
They suspect that Matthew's ex-wife, Georgina,
may also be involved, but they need proof.
[Narrator] When they ask Georgina
if she was involved in Matthew's murder,
she stops the interview.
[Shari] At the point, she shuts down,
and I felt like she knew more than what she was leading on.
[Dr. Johnston] As part of the investigation,
they seize Georgina's phone.
They're interested in the texts, and the phone messages,
and that kinda thing with Eduardo.
[Narrator] While they wait for a review of Georgina's phone,
investigators turn to Matthew's family for more insight.
[Sean] It just didn't make any sense.
Who would hunt him down...
like a freakin' animal?
And sit there and wait for him?
And then just shoot him?
[music]
[Narrator] But when it comes to Georgina,
the memories are far less pleasant.
They say when Matt tried to exercise his visitation rights,
Georgina launched serious allegations against hi,
claiming Matt had been abusing the children.
She tried to get us to go to court and say
he was a bad father.
And when I told her I wasn't gonna do it,
that's when she stopped communication.
[Narrator] Investigators find no evidence
to support Georgina's allegations.
We talked to multiple people through
Department of Child Services.
There was nothing that indicate
that Matthew abused those children.
[Narrator] Investigators continue to dig.
They begin to believe that the abuse wasn't the only thing
Georgina lied about.
[Eric] During the investigation,
we discovered that Georgina, she did not have cancer.
All these medical conditions were false allegations.
She actually got photos off the internet and said,
"Hey look, Matthew, I'm dying, I have cancer."
We actually found the same picture
that Georgina sent to Matthew on the internet.
This is a woman who is so manipulative,
that she's actually lying about having
a life-threatening illness.
[Christine] Georgina wanted us to believe
that Matthew was not the person who we all thought he was.
She wanted us to believe her and just stay on her side.
[Narrator] Police are certain
that Georgina is a master manipulator,
but they don't have solid evidence of much else.
We believed that Eduardo was set up to kill Matthew
through Georgina.
But we didn't have that concrete evidence
to pull 'em together.
[Narrator] Finally, on February 25th,
two weeks after the murder,
investigators obtain a trove
of previously deleted text messages
between Georgina and Eduardo, recovered from Georgina's phone
I discover that Georgina start talking about the fact that
Eduardo is in the area of Matthew's residence.
[Eric] It appeared through the text messages
that Eduardo had been stalking Matthew.
He was followin' him at his house.
At one point, Eduardo asks Georgina for Nicole's address,
and she describes what Nicole drives
and provides Eduardo with that.
[Narrator] It's also clear that Eduardo and Georgina
are far closer than either admitted.
She tells him at, at points that she loves him.
[Narrator] Then, on the eve of Matthew's murder,
Georgina reminds Eduardo of her upcoming custody hearing
and presents an eerie ultimatum
She says, "You know I'm having this custody battle tomorrow.
It better be done!"
Eduardo says, "Hey, I don't wanna do this.
I really don't think that I have this in me to do this."
And she responds back saying, "If you wanna marry me,
you need to show me what kind o man you are."
[Narrator] Eduardo then sends Georgina a damning text
sealing both their fates...
and Matthew's.
He says, "Do you want me to notify you once it's done?"
And she basically responds,
"I think it'll be best if it comes as a surprise."
[Narrator] Only ten hours after these texts,
Matthew is found dead,
and Eduardo's car is placed at the scene.
It's clear to investigators
that while Eduardo pulled the trigger,
it was Georgina who pulled the strings.
[Eric] She knew how to control him.
She was manipulative, and that was her MO.
She knew Eduardo's emotions.
She knew he had this troubled life,
and she was playin' that against Eduardo to do her will.
[Shari] At that point in the investigation,
I immediately was like,
any of these messages is enough probable cause to believe that
Georgina is involved in planning Matthew Misener's murder.
[Narrator] The following morning,
police arrive at Georgina Misener's home
to arrest her for the murder of her ex-husband, Matthew.
[Kelly] My mom called me at work and told me that
Georgina's been arrested.
I cried, and...
My, first thing that came to head is,
"Those poor kids."
'Cause now they've lost both parents.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Will Georgina finally come clean?
[Narrator] Or will this master manipulator
work her magic on a jury?
It was all about Georgina and how she felt,
and she was the victim.
[Narrator] Investigators in Arizona
have placed Georgina Misener under arrest
for her role in the murder of her ex-husband, Matthew.
But she's not talking.
She never disclosed anything to us.
Her family actually called their lawyer.
[Narrator] With two suspects in custody,
investigators review the result from forensic testing
on the gun found in Eduardo's bedroom.
[Shari] The gun was sent off for evidence,
and the casings from the vehicle to the weapon did match.
[Narrator] Investigators piece together that
in the early morning hours of February 10th, 2020,
Eduardo waited at Horseshoe Bend,
watching for Matthew's black SUV.
Eduardo had followed him and had chose that spot,
where it was, more or less, an the open spot.
There's no surveillance.
Eduardo waits for Matthew Misener to drive by
like he does every single day on his way to work.
[Narrator] Investigators believe
when Eduardo finally saw Matthew's SUV,
he pulled up alongside him and took aim.
[Dr. Johnston] He is going to make sure that he does not fail
And he unloads his bullets into that car.
[gunshots]
[Dr. Johnston] And Matthew runs off the road.
[Narrator] With the evidence stacked against him,
in September 2020, Eduardo agrees to a deal.
He pleads guilty to second-degree murder,
and is sentenced to 33 years and 9 months in prison.
Eduardo Montano, he, at the end,
signs a plea agreement to the murder of Matthew Misener.
[Narrator] Through it all,
Eduardo refuses to implicate Georgina.
But prospectors theorize it was the false allegations of abuse
that motivated him to take action that day.
Eduardo, he did not want these kids abused.
And so he thought, "If, if I go to prison,
"it's no big deal.
"At least I'm saving these children,
and they will have stability in their lives".
[Narrator] In November 2020,
Georgina Misener also agrees to a plea...
murder in the second degree
and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
There was enough evidence,
and she knew that there was no way to
say she was not involved in this case.
[Narrator] At her sentencing on January 5th, 2021,
Georgina asks for leniency before the judge.
It was all about Georgina and how she felt,
and she was the victim.
[Christine] She made her statement, she was very fake.
Trying to, like, force tears out to apologize,
but it wasn't really apologizin for anything that had happened.
It was all about her,
nothing really about Matt at all.
[Kelly] We never got a sorry.
Like, "I'm sorry for your loss, I'm sorry..."
Not a remorse.
[Narrator] The judge sentences Georgina
to 33 years and 9 months.
Georgina did get sentenced the same amount of time
as Eduardo did for her involvement.
[Christine] When the judge handed down her decision,
she held nothing back.
She told her what a manipulative person she was.
She even said she had cancer, and it was all a lie
to get the family to feel sorry for her--
"Oh, she's got cancer, poor girl."
[Narrator] But even with Georgina behind bars
and her lies exposed,
Matthew's family still grapples
with the lasting impact of her actions.
I honestly am still baffled to this day,
how she could take the father of her kids
away from them like that.
He was way too nice of a human being.
He would literally never harm a soul.
[Kelly] He loved those kids more than anything in the world.
And she took that away.
And now those kids have no parents.
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