[Narrator] He was a handsome private investigator
living a life of escapades and intrigue.
He scored the highest IQ test
in the whole Western seaboard of the Army.
[Jeffrey] He had a gift for talking with people.
He had the ability to get them to open up to him.
[Narrator] Then, he disappeared without a trace.
It's as if he just walked out the door and poof,
vanished into thin air.
[Narrator] In their hunt for the missing businessman,
investigators sort through several leads.
She was his biggest client,
providing the bulk of the company's monthly income.
He worked on issues related to the Mexican drug cartel,
so there is some dangerous territory in his line of work.
[Narrator] But as more layers begin to unfold,
an unexpected cast of characters reveal themselves.
We received a phone call, she had a client
who had information about a kidnap and murder.
He was putting himself out there as a cartel hitman.
She accessed highly sensitive, confidential information
and gave it to the KGB.
The hidden microphones were up near his shoulders,
so when she leaned in to whisper that to him,
it couldn't have been more loud and clear.
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[Narrator] It's August 21st, 1998, in San Diego, California.
16-year-old Ian Post is at the home he shares
with his father, Rick, when the phone rings.
[phone ringing]
Secretary in my father's office called and said,
"Hey, have you seen your father?"
[Narrator] Ian tells her he hasn't seen his dad in 24 hours.
And so obviously I tried calling my father.
I'm not getting an answer. So that started to worry me.
[Narrator] Ian is well aware that his father's work
as a private investigator
sometimes requires him to leave town at the last minute,
but he also knows that Rick never leaves
without telling him.
He would be making preparations that I was gonna be with a
possible family member or a friend, someone that we trusted,
but that was never set up.
Rick didn't tell his 16-year-old boy that he was going any place.
Took no clothes, took no medications with him.
That's not a normal business trip, that's suspicious.
It's as if he just walked out the door and poof,
vanished into thin air.
[Narrator] Ian grows more concerned
when he finds his father's vehicle out front.
Rick's car was parked in front of his house.
And the keys to the car were left in the mailbox.
[Narrator] Ian reaches out to other family members
and finds no one else has seen or heard
from 52-year-old Rick Post in over 24 hours either.
[Jeffrey] His family, his kids were concerned
because they hadn't heard a word from him
and that was not like him.
It was a huge red flag.
[Ian] I always knew where he was.
I knew something bad had happened.
We were doing everything that we could
to figure out where he was.
[Narrator] Born September 2nd, 1945,
Rick Post was a native Californian.
He was born and raised in San Diego.
He entered the Army Intelligence back when he was 18.
He scored the highest IQ test
in the whole Western seaboard of the Army,
so they immediately put him into Army Intelligence.
[Narrator] Rick served during the Vietnam War
and specialized in radio communications.
My father being in the Army at a young age,
he was very well traveled.
This took him to places like
Turkey, Germany, all over Europe.
[Narrator] By his late 20s, Rick was out of the Army and married.
In 1971, his first son, Orion, is born.
And ten years later, in 1981, he has a second son, Ian.
[Ian] We had a sailboat growing up.
We spent a lot of time out in the ocean.
That was something that, you know,
brought him a lot of happiness.
[Narrator] To support his growing family,
Rick drew on his military background
and opened a private investigation firm.
[Ian] So my father's company was called Intellisource,
based out of Old Town San Diego, and the type of work
ranged anywhere from occult investigation
to cheating investigation of a spouse or husband
and anything in between.
[Narrator] Rick wasn't afraid to take on
difficult or even dangerous cases.
He had worked on a case for a woman in, uh,
Ocean Beach, San Diego. Her son was murdered by, uh,
by a cult named the Rainbow Children.
[Pat] He worked on issues related to the Mexican cartel,
so there's some dangerous territory in his line of work.
Rick had a gift for talking with people.
He had the ability to, uh, in the moment relate to someone
and get them to open up to him.
In his line of work, it is a talent that you can't buy.
[Narrator] Rick's work life was a success,
but his love life was a different story.
By the late '90s, Rick was twice divorced with four kids.
I lived between two different homes so, you know,
I would visit with my father, I would visit with my mother,
but it was always that way, so that was pretty normal.
[Narrator] By the late '90s, business was thriving so much
that Rick took on a protege.
He hired an aspiring young P.I., John Krueger.
[Ian] John Krueger worked in my father's office
maybe about a year and a half.
John had wanted to get his own license.
[Narrator] In 1997, Rick landed his most prominent client yet,
millionaire Kimberly Bailey.
Born in Oklahoma, Kimberly was raised
in the quaint town of Stillwater.
[Pat] Kimberly was somewhat enigmatic.
She was seemingly a loner.
The only thing we know about her private life is that
she came from an apparently very troubled childhood
in Oklahoma.
She traveled the world looking for endangered medicinal plants.
Kimberly Bailey bought a, uh, ranch in Fallbrook, California
with the stated intent to use it as a place
to grow natural medicines that she was, uh,
gathering from all over the world.
It was beautiful, you know,
33 acres, avocado trees everywhere,
nice, big ranch house.
She was very pretty, highly intelligent.
[Narrator] Kimberly also had a second business
selling cutting-edge medical devices.
She had a business known as AstroPulse,
and the idea was that, uh, by using electrical currents,
you could cure pretty much anything.
[Brett] AstroPulse was a black box
that had some controls and dials on them
the user would hold, and the box would
send electric currents through their body.
[Narrator] By 1997, Kimberly was in her early 40s
and had amassed a sizable fortune.
She was this zen, holistic practitioner
who made a lot of money.
Business was outstandingly successful.
The word of mouth would spread and, um,
she had many, many, many people ordering her black box.
She built up hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[Narrator] But Kimberly worried that those closest to her
were trying to undo what she had built.
Kim was rather paranoid. She always believed that
somebody was watching her or after her.
She thought that some of her employees
were stealing from her.
So Kimberly Bailey hired Rick Post to conduct investigations.
[Narrator] Rick enlisted his new right-hand man, John Krueger,
to help him on the case.
Rick worked closely with Kimberly.
The suave P.I. and beautiful businesswoman
made an instant connection.
[Brett] She was his biggest client,
providing the bulk of the company's monthly income.
At some point that relationship evolved into one of a,
of a romantic nature.
[Narrator] But after a short and passionate fling,
Rick decided it was best to steer clear of anything serious.
[Ian] I do remember my father telling me at our home
that he wanted to keep this relationship professional,
that he did not want to have a romantic relationship with her.
[Narrator] Despite the brush-off,
Kimberly and Rick maintain their professional relationship.
With the holistic guru as one of his most prominent clients,
Rick seems to be in his professional prime.
Until the P.I. suddenly vanishes
on August 20th, 1998,
throwing his family into a panic.
[Ian] All of his belongings he would take with him
were there at the house. So that alone itself
was something that triggered, you know,
kind of an emergency response.
Over the course of that week, my brother and I
had been looking for him, we had been contacting airlines.
I don't think I slept at all really that first week.
[Narrator] Then, his son Ian gets a troubling phone call
from John Krueger.
John Krueger says, uh, "We got this voicemail
here at the office, I think you should hear it."
"Okay, I'll be right over."
He plays it for me.
[Brett] The voicemail was Rick's voice
and was directed to his office staff
saying that he was gonna be in Mexico for a few days,
and he was fine, not to worry about him.
[Narrator] The voicemail was left
the day before Rick went missing.
John feels confident that the message means Rick is okay.
But Ian and other family members have their doubts.
It really wasn't what my father was saying,
it was his candor, the way he spoke.
His voice sounded worried, forced, coerced,
it did not sound like a natural thing.
They all knew something was very wrong.
[Narrator] With concerns mounting,
Rick's family files a missing persons report in August 1998.
[Jeffrey] Missing person investigations
can be, uh, very intense.
The longer someone stays disappeared,
the greater the chances that they will never be found.
[Narrator] Coming up, police locate
the last known person to be seen with the missing P.I.
She and Rick Post had gone down to Mexico for a work trip.
She dropped him off at the airport
and then she drove back? This seems really weird.
[Narrator] And just as local authorities hit a dead end,
the FBI receives a bizarre call.
She said she had a client who had information
about a kidnap and murder.
She was asking for blanket immunity for her client.
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[Narrator] By late August, 1998, over a week has passed
since private investigator Rick Post disappeared.
After hearing a suspicious voicemail
Rick left at the office, Ian and his brother
report the 52-year-old as missing to the San Diego PD.
The police must do their due diligence
before they decide that
an all-out search has to take place.
[Ian] Their position was the nature of your father's work
requires him to go on stakeouts
where people aren't supposed to know where he's at.
So this seems very fitting for his line of work.
[Narrator] San Diego police
visit Rick's private investigation firm,
Intellisource, where they speak with employees,
including John Krueger.
It would by typical in a missing persons investigation
to try and interview as many
family members, friends, coworkers, as can be found
to, to try and find out what does this person typically do?
Is this very unusual? Where might they have gone?
[Narrator] John tells detectives
that the last time he saw his boss was on August 20th,
almost three weeks prior. Rick was leaving the office
with his biggest client, Kimberly Bailey.
San Diego detectives immediately track down Kimberly
at her avocado farm.
[Brett] When investigators first talked to Kimberly Bailey,
she explained that she and Rick Post
had drove down to Mexico for a work trip.
[Narrator] Kimberly says that on August 20th, while in Tijuana,
she and Rick stopped for a meal.
[Jeffrey] While at a restaurant in Mexico,
Rick was approached by two men who had a conversation with him.
At the conclusion of the conversation, Rick told Kimberly
that he needed to make a business trip to Mexico City.
Rick had requested she drop him off at the Tijuana airport,
drive his car back up north of the border,
leave it at his house and put the keys in the mailbox.
[Narrator] She tells detectives that she's been worried sick
since Rick's disappearance.
[Jeffrey] The investigators knew that
the information they had didn't add up.
But all they had was, uh, Kimberly Bailey and,
and John Krueger saying, "Yeah, he left town."
[Brett] It's always harder to conduct an investigation
of an American citizen being missing in a foreign country
because all we can do is pass the information along
through our international liaison.
[Narrator] Without much to go on from John and Kim,
investigators pore over Rick's client list
and find no shortage of potential leads.
There's potential for there to be a lot of trails to follow
because of the types of cases he had worked in his past.
[Narrator] But those leads all fall flat.
The local investigators talk to Rick's family,
they talk to Rick's coworkers, and it all led to a dead end.
I didn't know if I was gonna ever hear anything further
regarding this, it just was possible that
no one would ever know.
[Narrator] By January of 1999, Rick has been missing
for over four months,
and the Post family is beginning to lose hope.
Then, out of the blue, FBI agents at a field office
in San Diego, California get an unexpected phone call.
We received a phone call from the US Attorney's Office
about an attorney named Coleen Cusack
who said she had a client who had information
about a kidnap and murder, a person from San Diego.
[Narrator] Before she will reveal the name of the victim,
Coleen attempts to negotiate a deal for her client.
She was asking for blanket immunity for her client
in order to discuss the matter.
The United States Attorney's Office
does not generally offer blanket immunity to people upfront
without hearing what they have to say.
So that conversation never went anywhere.
[Narrator] The phone call ends abruptly,
but agents follow up with San Diego police.
We started reviewing some of the
missing persons files at the San Diego Police Department.
We had a few facts that they did get
from this initial phone call, a certain date and time
and it matched up
with the missing persons report, uh,
of Rick Post disappearing in Mexico.
After that, there were ongoing negotiations,
where the US Attorney's Office was trying to get Ms. Cusack
to bring her client in and explain what they knew,
but that also never materialized.
[Narrator] After hitting yet another dead end,
in May of 1999, FBI agents
circle back to Rick's employee, John Krueger.
He asked us if he could call his attorney and talk to her
before answering our questions. So we said, "Of course."
He then said, "My attorney would like to speak to you first"
and handed the phone over to us.
And it was Coleen Cusack.
At that point, we quickly made the connection
that Rick Post is not just a missing person.
Rick was murdered, and John Krueger has information
directly related to the kidnap and murder of Rick Post.
[Narrator] But whatever John knows,
he isn't willing to share.
[Brett] He would not talk with us.
It definitely raised our level of suspicion
into his role in this case.
[Narrator] Investigators turn back
to the other person of interest in this case,
Kimberly Bailey.
As it turns out,
Kimberly already has her own file at the FBI.
We saw that we had an open investigation on her
related to her company, AstroPulse.
She was claiming that these were medical devices
that cured cancer.
[Narrator] Could Kimberly's fraudulent business dealings
be linked to Rick's disappearance?
[Jeffrey] The investigation had kinda come to a standstill.
They started conducting surveillance of the ranch
that Kimberly Bailey owned up in Fallbrook.
[Brett] Kimberly Bailey did exhibit a lot of odd behaviors.
[Brett] She did not like talking on the phone,
she preferred to meet people in person,
would often speak in a whisper, as though she thought or feared
she was being surreptitiously recorded somehow.
She had that kind of paranoid mindset.
They knew that in addition to Kimberly
there were, there were some other people living in there.
So the case agents finally decided,
let's go up and talk to people up there
and see what we can find out.
[Narrator] Coming up, investigators find themselves
seeking help from an international spy.
It was like something right out of a James Bond movie.
[Narrator] And an undercover sting reveals a horrifying plot.
The torture included hitting him in the face
and crushing his fingers with pliers.
[music]
[Narrator] FBI agents in San Diego
suspect that private investigator Rick Post
was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico.
There are two names in his missing persons file
that have garnered their attention,
John Krueger and Kimberly Bailey.
[Jeffrey] Usually in an investigation,
you try and talk to your main subjects last.
You wanna have as much information as possible
when you go into that interview, 'cause then it allows you
to know if what they're telling you is false.
[Narrator] In November of 1999,
after seven months of surveillance
fails to turn up any new leads,
agents pay a visit to Kimberly's Fallbrook avocado ranch.
When they arrive, they're greeted by two employees,
husband and wife, Bruce and Svetlana.
This woman identified herself as Svetlana Ogorodnikova.
This moment was a jaw-dropper for the agents.
Svetlana was someone that is known
to virtually every FBI agent who joined the agency
during the 1980s and 1990s.
Back in the early '80s, an agent in Los Angeles
by the name of Richard Miller,
he was working counter-intelligence
against the Soviets.
And Svetlana, she'd been used
as a source in those cases, and they became intimate.
[Pat] Svetlana, like something right out of a James Bond movie,
seduced an FBI agent,
accessed highly sensitive confidential information,
and gave it to the KGB.
Svetlana was sentenced to 18 years, uh, served nine,
and after that, was in danger of
losing her status to stay in the United States--
and in fact, uh, one step ahead of INS,
essentially moved back to Mexico.
While down there, came into contact with Kimberly.
Agents talk to her, explain why they were there,
why they were there looking for Kimberly.
[Bruce] He goes, "Well, we're investigating
the Rick Post murder, and can we talk to you?"
And Lan and I look at each other, you know,
'cause here's the FBI, she's here illegally,
and reporting as if she was still in Mexico.
[Narrator] Svetlana tells the agents
that Kimberly is away at a yoga retreat.
And that she and Bruce have been
working and living at Kimberly's ranch for around six months.
In that time, they forged a friendship
with the quirky millionaire.
[Bruce] On the surface, she's brilliant, she's pretty,
a little bit paranoid, she thought that
satellites were listening to her and that people were after her.
[Narrator] However, Svetlana claims Kimberly trusted her.
One day she began confiding in her
about her break-up with Rick Post.
She was a woman scorned.
She was in love with Rick. He dropped her as a girlfriend.
The real problem was jealousy.
[Narrator] What's more, Kimberly told Svetlana
money was missing from her business.
That she believed that Rick Post was stealing money from her.
This was the one-two punch that sent her over the edge.
[Narrator] And then Svetlana says
Kimberly revealed her darkest secret.
[Brett] Kimberly Bailey had actually confided in Svetlana
that she had orchestrated the kidnap and murder of Rick Post.
The problem that we had was we didn't see a way
that we would be able to use information or testimony
coming from a former convicted espionage agent.
How do we get around that?
They solved it by getting, uh,
Svetlana to agree to wear a wire, recording device.
I think she was scared of Kimberly
and I think there was a fear motive
in her status in the United States.
She was actually back in the United States illegally.
[Narrator] A few weeks later, Kimberly asks Svetlana
to pick her up from the airport in Phoenix
and drive her back to California.
The nine-hour car ride presents the perfect opportunity.
Our agents wired up the car in advance,
and also wired Svetlana up with hidden recording devices.
[Narrator] It takes little prompting from Svetlana
to get Kimberly talking.
Kimberly says that John Krueger had called her in August 1998
with some concerning information about his boss, Rick Post.
She had been told by Krueger that Post had been
taking her money, and then sleeping with other women.
[Brett] She was so enraged
that she just had to prove a lesson to him.
[Narrator] Kimberly reveals that she asked John Krueger
to help her hire some muscle.
John had become acquainted with an individual
by the name of Humberto Iribe, Mexican national,
who was purporting to have connections to the cartel.
[Narrator] Kimberly paid 25-year-old Humberto
approximately $40,000,
and then lured Rick Post to Mexico on August 20th.
[Jeffrey] The trap was set.
Kimberly went down to Mexico with Rick Post.
They stopped at a pharmacy, Rick waited in the car,
Kimberly got out of the car,
supposedly to go into the pharmacy.
Two men hired by Iribe approached the car,
forced Rick out of the car and took him away.
[Pat] After Richard is kidnapped,
Kimberly gets inside of Richard's car,
turns around and heads back to San Diego,
where she drops off his car at his own home.
Once they had Rick Post in Tijuana,
Iribe forced him to make the call that the family heard
where he said don't worry about me, I'm in Mexico City.
[Narrator] According to Kimberly,
Humberto and his two associates tortured Rick
for the next five days.
Svetlana shared with us that once Rick was kidnapped,
Kimberly Bailey said
she continued to travel back down to Mexico
to the safe house where he was being kept
to observe his torture.
[Narrator] After five days of torture,
Rick still hadn't confessed to stealing from her.
Kimberly tells Svetlana that she told Iribe
to build an underground prison
and keep him there for the rest of his life.
[Narrator] Then, Kimberly reveals to Svetlana
that she is sharing her story with her
because she needs her help.
[Brett] She asks Svetlana if she knew anybody, any hitmen
who she could hire to kill John Krueger and kill Humberto Iribe.
Svetlana, to her credit, rolled with it,
took it right in stride
and said yeah, she, she did know somebody.
[Jeffrey] So the decision was made, let's put a bow on this.
Kimberly Bailey wants a hitman.
So the FBI decided, we'll give her a hitman.
[Narrator] Coming up, agents set up a sting.
So she bent over me and whispered in my ear for an hour.
[Narrator] And learn of her next plan for bloodshed.
And she would've been literally the last person
standing in the room with a bloody knife.
[Narrator] Over a year after Rick Post's
mysterious disappearance, his former client and lover,
Kimberly Bailey, unwittingly confesses to his murder
during a secretly recorded conversation
with former KGB spy, Svetlana Ogorodnikova.
Not only did Kim lay out the entire scenario, uh,
and her involvement and Krueger's involvement,
Iribe's involvement with the kidnap and murder,
she also approached Svetlana
for help in eliminating Krueger and Iribe.
She was going down a road where she would've been
literally the last person
standing in the room with a bloody knife.
[Narrator] Svetlana agrees to work with investigators
once again in a sting operation
on December 22nd, 1999,
Almost a year and a half since Rick's disappearance.
[Brett] Svetlana worked with us to help set up a meeting
between Kimberly Bailey and who she thought was a hitman
that Svetlana was connected to.
[Jeffrey] So a meeting was arranged in a hotel room.
Fortunately for us, the professional hitman
was in fact a professional FBI agent.
[Narrator] Agent Nick McKean takes on the role of hitman.
Before I met with her, I talked with Svetlana
about, uh, Kim Bailey and just asked her
what kind of person she was,
what could I expect her to do?
[Brett] We wired up the hotel
and Kimberly Bailey and the FBI undercover agent
met to discuss Kim's request.
[Narrator] When she arrives,
it's clear that Kimberly's infamous paranoia
is in full swing.
[Nick] I think she was a little skittish.
And what I wanted to do was put her at ease,
make her feel like, uh,
I was the guy that she would want to hire.
[Narrator] Kimberly refuses to talk about the hits.
Instead, she pulls a laptop computer out of her bag.
Kimberly tries to type out the death wish,
and the laptop does not work.
[Narrator] Since she can't type her request,
Kimberly is forced to say it out loud.
And so she bent over me and, and whispered in my ear for an hour.
The irony is when she leaned in to, to whisper that to him,
it couldn't have been more loud and clear.
[Narrator] Kimberly reveals that her hit list has changed
since she spoke with Svetlana. Only one name remains the same.
She wanted three people killed. She wanted John Krueger,
she wanted her attorney, and then she wanted her gardener.
And I, for the life of me, I couldn't get her to
just tell me why she wanted her gardener killed.
Still don't know.
[Narrator] Kimberly is clear that the murders
should not look like intentional killings.
I had told her we'll stage an accident, you know,
something violent will happen to them, they will die.
Kimberly gave the undercover agent $10,000 as a down payment.
[Narrator] FBI agents are able to secure arrest warrants
for Kimberly and her co-conspirators.
[Brett] Unfortunately, at the time that
we had the operation ready to go,
uh, John Krueger was the only person in the country,
and he was arrested first.
On April 4th of 2000,
John Krueger is arrested in San Diego.
[Narrator] Later that month, authorities locate
54-year-old Kimberly at an airport in Mexico City.
Armed with 14 pieces of luggage and a Canadian ID,
it's clear that she's on the run.
Kimbery Bailey was later arrested at an airport in Mexico
and extradited to the United States.
[Narrator] Kimberly refuses to talk
and maintains her innocence.
Meanwhile, Humberto Iribe remains free in Mexico.
[Pat] He is a Mexican national.
It oftentimes can take a long time to extradite someone
from Mexico to the United States when there is a murder case.
[Narrator] Prosecutors begin preparing for Kimberly's trial.
In addition to Svetlana,
they're able to secure another star witness.
[Brett] John Krueger was the first to plead guilty
to conspiracy to commit kidnapping
and offer cooperation to the government.
[Narrator] John tells investigators
that it all started when he became upset with Rick
for not paying him what he felt he deserved.
John Krueger is a bit of a
disgruntled employee at the company.
He's only making $15 an hour,
he sees that Richard Post is reeling in the dough.
[Narrator] So John lied
and told Kimberly Rick was stealing from her.
[Brett] It was actually John Krueger
who dripped the first poison into Kimberly Bailey's ear.
Knowing how paranoid Kimberly Bailey was,
knowing that this would enrage her.
[Narrator] When Kimberly asked him to help her find a hitman,
he obliged.
John Krueger orchestrated this plot to get rid of Rick Post
so that John could take over the business.
[Narrator] Between John and Svetlana,
the case against Kimberly is strong.
But prosecutors will soon learn
that Kimberly Bailey's will to remain free
may be even stronger.
Kimberly is fight to the death.
And it just seems so natural for her to say,
"I'm not making any deal with anybody, I'm going to trial"
because she thinks she's impenetrable.
[Narrator] Coming up, a shocking claim rocks the courtroom.
[Jeffrey] Rick wasn't dead.
He was living off her money somewhere in Mexico.
[Narrator] And the twists keep coming.
You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending
to a twisted story like this.
[Narrator] Kimberly Bailey's trial gets underway in 2002.
The millionaire and entrepreneur is accused of orchestrating
the kidnapping, torture, and murder
of her one-time lover and private investigator, Rick Post.
For Rick's family,
it's been four years since they last saw him,
and the trial has been a long time coming.
When the court cases happened, it took over again,
and we had to relive it again.
To listen to the horrible details
of what they did to my father.
It was, you know, pretty horrific.
[Narrator] Prosecutors argue that Rick's murder was driven by
a deadly combination of revenge and paranoia.
[Jeffrey] He was tortured in an effort to get him to cough up
a confession on stealing money from her.
Unfortunately, it appears the problem for Rick was
he hadn't stolen any money from her,
so he had nothing to confess to.
[Narrator] On the stand, Svetlana and John
walk the jury through Kimberly's cold-hearted scheme.
But Kimberly's attorneys argue that
not only are these witnesses unreliable,
but Rick Post is still alive.
[Jeffrey] Kim Bailey's position through the entire trial
was that Rick wasn't dead.
That Rick stole a lot of money from her,
and he was living off her money somewhere in Mexico.
[Narrator] In July, the jury finds Kimberly Bailey
guilty of kidnapping.
But without a body, they deadlock on the murder charge.
When it came to the murder, even though we know
she said a million times she wanted him killed,
there was no body.
[Narrator] Kimberly fires her attorney and represents herself
at her sentencing on the kidnapping conviction.
[Jeffrey] Never a good move.
That's probably the worst type of representation you can have.
[Narrator] Kimberly receives life plus ten years in prison.
John Krueger is rewarded for his cooperation.
[Brett] After John Krueger pled guilty,
the judge saw fit to sentence him to, to 12 years in prison.
[Ian] I think 12 years was laughable.
John kicked this whole thing off,
blamed my father saying that he had stolen money.
He knew the type of person that he was telling this to.
[Narrator] It takes five more years
for the third perpetrator of the crime,
hitman Humberto Iribe, to face justice.
[Jeffrey] He got popped in Mexico
by the authorities down there on a unrelated homicide case.
Arrangements were made for, for extradition
to bring him back up to the United States
to, uh, face trial in the Rick Post murder.
He got 25 years. Is that long enough for taking a human life?
I don't think so.
[Narrator] Humberto's trial marks the end
of a long and painful chapter for the Post family.
[Ian] We had a memorial service for my father.
And we put a plaque down, and we had a ceremony for him.
So that was for us being able to kinda help us to move on.
[Narrator] In 2008, Kimberly Bailey
was diagnosed with cancer in prison.
[Brett] She refused any medical treatment
and insisted on only using one of her
AstroPulse black box devices to, to treat her cancer.
And she died in 2008.
You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending
to a twisted story like this.
The sad thing is a father was murdered.
Never came home to his son.
Or the rest of his family.
[Ian] There was so much more to him,
you know, the man, his work, his craft,
his care for his children. Ultimate family man.
He was my father, and he was my best friend.
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