1 00:00:08,608 --> 00:00:10,310 [Narrator] He was a handsome private investigator 2 00:00:11,244 --> 00:00:14,514 living a life of escapades and intrigue. 3 00:00:14,781 --> 00:00:16,716 He scored the highest IQ test 4 00:00:16,750 --> 00:00:19,085 in the whole Western seaboard of the Army. 5 00:00:19,886 --> 00:00:23,089 [Jeffrey] He had a gift for talking with people. 6 00:00:23,456 --> 00:00:26,526 He had the ability to get them to open up to him. 7 00:00:28,228 --> 00:00:31,231 [Narrator] Then, he disappeared without a trace. 8 00:00:31,598 --> 00:00:35,402 It's as if he just walked out the door and poof, 9 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:36,936 vanished into thin air. 10 00:00:38,204 --> 00:00:41,141 [Narrator] In their hunt for the missing businessman, 11 00:00:41,174 --> 00:00:45,111 investigators sort through several leads. 12 00:00:45,912 --> 00:00:47,414 She was his biggest client, 13 00:00:47,447 --> 00:00:50,650 providing the bulk of the company's monthly income. 14 00:00:51,151 --> 00:00:55,455 He worked on issues related to the Mexican drug cartel, 15 00:00:55,488 --> 00:00:59,292 so there is some dangerous territory in his line of work. 16 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,930 [Narrator] But as more layers begin to unfold, 17 00:01:03,963 --> 00:01:08,668 an unexpected cast of characters reveal themselves. 18 00:01:09,135 --> 00:01:11,504 We received a phone call, she had a client 19 00:01:11,538 --> 00:01:15,308 who had information about a kidnap and murder. 20 00:01:15,975 --> 00:01:18,945 He was putting himself out there as a cartel hitman. 21 00:01:19,412 --> 00:01:24,117 She accessed highly sensitive, confidential information 22 00:01:24,384 --> 00:01:26,853 and gave it to the KGB. 23 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:30,090 The hidden microphones were up near his shoulders, 24 00:01:30,123 --> 00:01:32,258 so when she leaned in to whisper that to him, 25 00:01:32,292 --> 00:01:34,361 it couldn't have been more loud and clear. 26 00:01:42,135 --> 00:01:51,978 [music] 27 00:01:53,246 --> 00:01:58,184 [Narrator] It's August 21st, 1998, in San Diego, California. 28 00:01:58,785 --> 00:02:01,688 16-year-old Ian Post is at the home he shares 29 00:02:01,721 --> 00:02:04,657 with his father, Rick, when the phone rings. 30 00:02:04,691 --> 00:02:06,559 [phone ringing] 31 00:02:09,162 --> 00:02:11,464 Secretary in my father's office called and said, 32 00:02:11,498 --> 00:02:12,866 "Hey, have you seen your father?" 33 00:02:13,667 --> 00:02:18,071 [Narrator] Ian tells her he hasn't seen his dad in 24 hours. 34 00:02:18,938 --> 00:02:21,374 And so obviously I tried calling my father. 35 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:26,079 I'm not getting an answer. So that started to worry me. 36 00:02:28,281 --> 00:02:30,884 [Narrator] Ian is well aware that his father's work 37 00:02:30,917 --> 00:02:32,552 as a private investigator 38 00:02:32,585 --> 00:02:35,722 sometimes requires him to leave town at the last minute, 39 00:02:36,356 --> 00:02:39,192 but he also knows that Rick never leaves 40 00:02:39,225 --> 00:02:40,727 without telling him. 41 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:44,698 He would be making preparations that I was gonna be with a 42 00:02:44,731 --> 00:02:48,435 possible family member or a friend, someone that we trusted, 43 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:49,903 but that was never set up. 44 00:02:51,171 --> 00:02:53,740 Rick didn't tell his 16-year-old boy that he was going any place. 45 00:02:54,107 --> 00:02:56,710 Took no clothes, took no medications with him. 46 00:02:57,544 --> 00:03:01,247 That's not a normal business trip, that's suspicious. 47 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:05,719 It's as if he just walked out the door and poof, 48 00:03:05,752 --> 00:03:07,220 vanished into thin air. 49 00:03:11,758 --> 00:03:13,360 [Narrator] Ian grows more concerned 50 00:03:13,393 --> 00:03:16,596 when he finds his father's vehicle out front. 51 00:03:17,597 --> 00:03:20,066 Rick's car was parked in front of his house. 52 00:03:21,067 --> 00:03:23,937 And the keys to the car were left in the mailbox. 53 00:03:24,971 --> 00:03:27,374 [Narrator] Ian reaches out to other family members 54 00:03:27,407 --> 00:03:30,110 and finds no one else has seen or heard 55 00:03:30,143 --> 00:03:34,914 from 52-year-old Rick Post in over 24 hours either. 56 00:03:35,915 --> 00:03:37,984 [Jeffrey] His family, his kids were concerned 57 00:03:38,084 --> 00:03:39,919 because they hadn't heard a word from him 58 00:03:39,953 --> 00:03:41,287 and that was not like him. 59 00:03:42,422 --> 00:03:45,158 It was a huge red flag. 60 00:03:46,426 --> 00:03:47,627 [Ian] I always knew where he was. 61 00:03:47,894 --> 00:03:49,596 I knew something bad had happened. 62 00:03:49,629 --> 00:03:50,964 We were doing everything that we could 63 00:03:50,997 --> 00:03:52,432 to figure out where he was. 64 00:03:58,171 --> 00:04:01,174 [Narrator] Born September 2nd, 1945, 65 00:04:01,207 --> 00:04:04,077 Rick Post was a native Californian. 66 00:04:04,944 --> 00:04:06,346 He was born and raised in San Diego. 67 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:10,216 He entered the Army Intelligence back when he was 18. 68 00:04:10,517 --> 00:04:12,285 He scored the highest IQ test 69 00:04:12,318 --> 00:04:14,621 in the whole Western seaboard of the Army, 70 00:04:15,488 --> 00:04:18,091 so they immediately put him into Army Intelligence. 71 00:04:18,825 --> 00:04:20,960 [Narrator] Rick served during the Vietnam War 72 00:04:21,061 --> 00:04:24,130 and specialized in radio communications. 73 00:04:24,698 --> 00:04:27,067 My father being in the Army at a young age, 74 00:04:27,067 --> 00:04:28,368 he was very well traveled. 75 00:04:28,735 --> 00:04:30,136 This took him to places like 76 00:04:30,170 --> 00:04:34,140 Turkey, Germany, all over Europe. 77 00:04:37,143 --> 00:04:41,815 [Narrator] By his late 20s, Rick was out of the Army and married. 78 00:04:42,382 --> 00:04:47,187 In 1971, his first son, Orion, is born. 79 00:04:47,687 --> 00:04:53,693 And ten years later, in 1981, he has a second son, Ian. 80 00:04:54,694 --> 00:04:55,995 [Ian] We had a sailboat growing up. 81 00:04:56,096 --> 00:04:57,630 We spent a lot of time out in the ocean. 82 00:04:57,664 --> 00:04:59,099 That was something that, you know, 83 00:04:59,099 --> 00:05:00,367 brought him a lot of happiness. 84 00:05:01,568 --> 00:05:03,636 [Narrator] To support his growing family, 85 00:05:03,670 --> 00:05:05,805 Rick drew on his military background 86 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,842 and opened a private investigation firm. 87 00:05:09,609 --> 00:05:11,711 [Ian] So my father's company was called Intellisource, 88 00:05:11,745 --> 00:05:15,415 based out of Old Town San Diego, and the type of work 89 00:05:15,448 --> 00:05:18,218 ranged anywhere from occult investigation 90 00:05:18,718 --> 00:05:22,689 to cheating investigation of a spouse or husband 91 00:05:23,289 --> 00:05:24,891 and anything in between. 92 00:05:28,795 --> 00:05:30,597 [Narrator] Rick wasn't afraid to take on 93 00:05:30,630 --> 00:05:34,067 difficult or even dangerous cases. 94 00:05:34,868 --> 00:05:37,370 He had worked on a case for a woman in, uh, 95 00:05:37,404 --> 00:05:40,840 Ocean Beach, San Diego. Her son was murdered by, uh, 96 00:05:40,874 --> 00:05:42,742 by a cult named the Rainbow Children. 97 00:05:43,610 --> 00:05:47,681 [Pat] He worked on issues related to the Mexican cartel, 98 00:05:47,714 --> 00:05:51,685 so there's some dangerous territory in his line of work. 99 00:05:52,752 --> 00:05:55,855 Rick had a gift for talking with people. 100 00:05:55,889 --> 00:05:59,359 He had the ability to, uh, in the moment relate to someone 101 00:05:59,392 --> 00:06:00,860 and get them to open up to him. 102 00:06:00,894 --> 00:06:04,731 In his line of work, it is a talent that you can't buy. 103 00:06:06,933 --> 00:06:09,069 [Narrator] Rick's work life was a success, 104 00:06:09,102 --> 00:06:11,805 but his love life was a different story. 105 00:06:12,806 --> 00:06:17,310 By the late '90s, Rick was twice divorced with four kids. 106 00:06:18,278 --> 00:06:21,281 I lived between two different homes so, you know, 107 00:06:21,314 --> 00:06:23,650 I would visit with my father, I would visit with my mother, 108 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:26,853 but it was always that way, so that was pretty normal. 109 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:34,361 [Narrator] By the late '90s, business was thriving so much 110 00:06:34,394 --> 00:06:36,629 that Rick took on a protege. 111 00:06:37,197 --> 00:06:41,634 He hired an aspiring young P.I., John Krueger. 112 00:06:42,302 --> 00:06:44,604 [Ian] John Krueger worked in my father's office 113 00:06:44,637 --> 00:06:46,940 maybe about a year and a half. 114 00:06:47,807 --> 00:06:50,176 John had wanted to get his own license. 115 00:06:54,347 --> 00:06:59,452 [Narrator] In 1997, Rick landed his most prominent client yet, 116 00:06:59,486 --> 00:07:02,022 millionaire Kimberly Bailey. 117 00:07:03,156 --> 00:07:05,892 Born in Oklahoma, Kimberly was raised 118 00:07:05,925 --> 00:07:08,495 in the quaint town of Stillwater. 119 00:07:09,162 --> 00:07:12,365 [Pat] Kimberly was somewhat enigmatic. 120 00:07:13,833 --> 00:07:15,669 She was seemingly a loner. 121 00:07:16,036 --> 00:07:18,672 The only thing we know about her private life is that 122 00:07:18,705 --> 00:07:22,342 she came from an apparently very troubled childhood 123 00:07:22,676 --> 00:07:23,743 in Oklahoma. 124 00:07:25,045 --> 00:07:29,349 She traveled the world looking for endangered medicinal plants. 125 00:07:30,183 --> 00:07:33,319 Kimberly Bailey bought a, uh, ranch in Fallbrook, California 126 00:07:33,787 --> 00:07:36,156 with the stated intent to use it as a place 127 00:07:36,189 --> 00:07:39,359 to grow natural medicines that she was, uh, 128 00:07:39,392 --> 00:07:41,094 gathering from all over the world. 129 00:07:42,062 --> 00:07:43,496 It was beautiful, you know, 130 00:07:43,530 --> 00:07:45,532 33 acres, avocado trees everywhere, 131 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:47,067 nice, big ranch house. 132 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,071 She was very pretty, highly intelligent. 133 00:07:53,239 --> 00:07:55,542 [Narrator] Kimberly also had a second business 134 00:07:55,575 --> 00:07:58,244 selling cutting-edge medical devices. 135 00:07:59,112 --> 00:08:02,449 She had a business known as AstroPulse, 136 00:08:03,016 --> 00:08:06,086 and the idea was that, uh, by using electrical currents, 137 00:08:06,119 --> 00:08:08,054 you could cure pretty much anything. 138 00:08:08,722 --> 00:08:10,690 [Brett] AstroPulse was a black box 139 00:08:10,724 --> 00:08:13,159 that had some controls and dials on them 140 00:08:13,927 --> 00:08:15,662 the user would hold, and the box would 141 00:08:15,695 --> 00:08:17,931 send electric currents through their body. 142 00:08:21,301 --> 00:08:24,871 [Narrator] By 1997, Kimberly was in her early 40s 143 00:08:24,904 --> 00:08:27,574 and had amassed a sizable fortune. 144 00:08:28,708 --> 00:08:32,712 She was this zen, holistic practitioner 145 00:08:32,746 --> 00:08:34,214 who made a lot of money. 146 00:08:34,614 --> 00:08:37,283 Business was outstandingly successful. 147 00:08:37,717 --> 00:08:40,754 The word of mouth would spread and, um, 148 00:08:40,787 --> 00:08:44,290 she had many, many, many people ordering her black box. 149 00:08:44,557 --> 00:08:46,960 She built up hundreds of thousands of dollars. 150 00:08:49,929 --> 00:08:52,766 [Narrator] But Kimberly worried that those closest to her 151 00:08:52,799 --> 00:08:55,702 were trying to undo what she had built. 152 00:08:56,703 --> 00:09:00,573 Kim was rather paranoid. She always believed that 153 00:09:00,607 --> 00:09:03,043 somebody was watching her or after her. 154 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:05,578 She thought that some of her employees 155 00:09:05,612 --> 00:09:06,813 were stealing from her. 156 00:09:08,114 --> 00:09:12,318 So Kimberly Bailey hired Rick Post to conduct investigations. 157 00:09:17,457 --> 00:09:20,760 [Narrator] Rick enlisted his new right-hand man, John Krueger, 158 00:09:20,794 --> 00:09:22,462 to help him on the case. 159 00:09:23,029 --> 00:09:25,065 Rick worked closely with Kimberly. 160 00:09:25,465 --> 00:09:28,568 The suave P.I. and beautiful businesswoman 161 00:09:28,601 --> 00:09:30,603 made an instant connection. 162 00:09:32,038 --> 00:09:33,273 [Brett] She was his biggest client, 163 00:09:33,306 --> 00:09:37,110 providing the bulk of the company's monthly income. 164 00:09:37,677 --> 00:09:42,048 At some point that relationship evolved into one of a, 165 00:09:42,048 --> 00:09:43,383 of a romantic nature. 166 00:09:46,453 --> 00:09:49,756 [Narrator] But after a short and passionate fling, 167 00:09:50,056 --> 00:09:55,362 Rick decided it was best to steer clear of anything serious. 168 00:09:56,129 --> 00:09:58,798 [Ian] I do remember my father telling me at our home 169 00:09:58,832 --> 00:10:01,134 that he wanted to keep this relationship professional, 170 00:10:01,501 --> 00:10:05,739 that he did not want to have a romantic relationship with her. 171 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:08,842 [Narrator] Despite the brush-off, 172 00:10:09,142 --> 00:10:13,380 Kimberly and Rick maintain their professional relationship. 173 00:10:14,247 --> 00:10:19,119 With the holistic guru as one of his most prominent clients, 174 00:10:19,152 --> 00:10:23,123 Rick seems to be in his professional prime. 175 00:10:30,030 --> 00:10:34,000 Until the P.I. suddenly vanishes 176 00:10:34,034 --> 00:10:37,303 on August 20th, 1998, 177 00:10:37,337 --> 00:10:40,573 throwing his family into a panic. 178 00:10:42,042 --> 00:10:43,910 [Ian] All of his belongings he would take with him 179 00:10:43,943 --> 00:10:46,713 were there at the house. So that alone itself 180 00:10:46,746 --> 00:10:48,815 was something that triggered, you know, 181 00:10:48,848 --> 00:10:50,417 kind of an emergency response. 182 00:10:51,384 --> 00:10:55,155 Over the course of that week, my brother and I 183 00:10:55,188 --> 00:10:59,292 had been looking for him, we had been contacting airlines. 184 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:03,697 I don't think I slept at all really that first week. 185 00:11:07,434 --> 00:11:10,503 [Narrator] Then, his son Ian gets a troubling phone call 186 00:11:10,537 --> 00:11:11,971 from John Krueger. 187 00:11:12,872 --> 00:11:16,710 John Krueger says, uh, "We got this voicemail 188 00:11:16,743 --> 00:11:18,445 here at the office, I think you should hear it." 189 00:11:18,745 --> 00:11:20,080 "Okay, I'll be right over." 190 00:11:21,081 --> 00:11:22,148 He plays it for me. 191 00:11:23,116 --> 00:11:25,218 [Brett] The voicemail was Rick's voice 192 00:11:25,785 --> 00:11:28,254 and was directed to his office staff 193 00:11:28,588 --> 00:11:31,391 saying that he was gonna be in Mexico for a few days, 194 00:11:31,424 --> 00:11:33,460 and he was fine, not to worry about him. 195 00:11:34,627 --> 00:11:36,229 [Narrator] The voicemail was left 196 00:11:36,262 --> 00:11:38,765 the day before Rick went missing. 197 00:11:39,265 --> 00:11:43,937 John feels confident that the message means Rick is okay. 198 00:11:44,437 --> 00:11:48,475 But Ian and other family members have their doubts. 199 00:11:50,143 --> 00:11:52,479 It really wasn't what my father was saying, 200 00:11:52,512 --> 00:11:54,948 it was his candor, the way he spoke. 201 00:11:55,715 --> 00:11:59,753 His voice sounded worried, forced, coerced, 202 00:11:59,786 --> 00:12:02,155 it did not sound like a natural thing. 203 00:12:02,589 --> 00:12:05,158 They all knew something was very wrong. 204 00:12:08,328 --> 00:12:10,263 [Narrator] With concerns mounting, 205 00:12:10,797 --> 00:12:16,803 Rick's family files a missing persons report in August 1998. 206 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:20,173 [Jeffrey] Missing person investigations 207 00:12:20,206 --> 00:12:22,075 can be, uh, very intense. 208 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:24,444 The longer someone stays disappeared, 209 00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:27,881 the greater the chances that they will never be found. 210 00:12:30,583 --> 00:12:33,086 [Narrator] Coming up, police locate 211 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:37,357 the last known person to be seen with the missing P.I. 212 00:12:37,824 --> 00:12:43,196 She and Rick Post had gone down to Mexico for a work trip. 213 00:12:43,229 --> 00:12:44,664 She dropped him off at the airport 214 00:12:44,964 --> 00:12:47,967 and then she drove back? This seems really weird. 215 00:12:48,234 --> 00:12:51,805 [Narrator] And just as local authorities hit a dead end, 216 00:12:51,838 --> 00:12:55,175 the FBI receives a bizarre call. 217 00:12:55,542 --> 00:12:57,811 She said she had a client who had information 218 00:12:57,844 --> 00:13:00,680 about a kidnap and murder. 219 00:13:01,514 --> 00:13:05,385 She was asking for blanket immunity for her client. 220 00:13:08,154 --> 00:13:20,567 [music] 221 00:13:21,868 --> 00:13:26,172 [Narrator] By late August, 1998, over a week has passed 222 00:13:26,206 --> 00:13:30,410 since private investigator Rick Post disappeared. 223 00:13:31,745 --> 00:13:34,581 After hearing a suspicious voicemail 224 00:13:34,614 --> 00:13:37,884 Rick left at the office, Ian and his brother 225 00:13:37,917 --> 00:13:43,323 report the 52-year-old as missing to the San Diego PD. 226 00:13:44,524 --> 00:13:47,093 The police must do their due diligence 227 00:13:47,093 --> 00:13:48,528 before they decide that 228 00:13:48,561 --> 00:13:51,164 an all-out search has to take place. 229 00:13:51,698 --> 00:13:54,401 [Ian] Their position was the nature of your father's work 230 00:13:54,701 --> 00:13:56,169 requires him to go on stakeouts 231 00:13:56,202 --> 00:13:58,004 where people aren't supposed to know where he's at. 232 00:13:58,405 --> 00:14:02,042 So this seems very fitting for his line of work. 233 00:14:05,378 --> 00:14:06,746 [Narrator] San Diego police 234 00:14:06,780 --> 00:14:09,816 visit Rick's private investigation firm, 235 00:14:09,849 --> 00:14:13,420 Intellisource, where they speak with employees, 236 00:14:13,453 --> 00:14:16,189 including John Krueger. 237 00:14:17,357 --> 00:14:20,326 It would by typical in a missing persons investigation 238 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,062 to try and interview as many 239 00:14:22,095 --> 00:14:25,532 family members, friends, coworkers, as can be found 240 00:14:25,565 --> 00:14:29,803 to, to try and find out what does this person typically do? 241 00:14:30,070 --> 00:14:32,672 Is this very unusual? Where might they have gone? 242 00:14:34,274 --> 00:14:35,875 [Narrator] John tells detectives 243 00:14:35,909 --> 00:14:40,213 that the last time he saw his boss was on August 20th, 244 00:14:40,246 --> 00:14:45,085 almost three weeks prior. Rick was leaving the office 245 00:14:45,118 --> 00:14:48,621 with his biggest client, Kimberly Bailey. 246 00:14:52,459 --> 00:14:55,762 San Diego detectives immediately track down Kimberly 247 00:14:55,795 --> 00:14:57,263 at her avocado farm. 248 00:14:57,931 --> 00:15:00,800 [Brett] When investigators first talked to Kimberly Bailey, 249 00:15:01,034 --> 00:15:03,536 she explained that she and Rick Post 250 00:15:03,570 --> 00:15:07,640 had drove down to Mexico for a work trip. 251 00:15:08,575 --> 00:15:13,580 [Narrator] Kimberly says that on August 20th, while in Tijuana, 252 00:15:13,613 --> 00:15:16,182 she and Rick stopped for a meal. 253 00:15:19,619 --> 00:15:21,287 [Jeffrey] While at a restaurant in Mexico, 254 00:15:21,855 --> 00:15:26,226 Rick was approached by two men who had a conversation with him. 255 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,064 At the conclusion of the conversation, Rick told Kimberly 256 00:15:31,064 --> 00:15:34,167 that he needed to make a business trip to Mexico City. 257 00:15:34,934 --> 00:15:38,104 Rick had requested she drop him off at the Tijuana airport, 258 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:41,074 drive his car back up north of the border, 259 00:15:41,074 --> 00:15:44,477 leave it at his house and put the keys in the mailbox. 260 00:15:48,114 --> 00:15:51,618 [Narrator] She tells detectives that she's been worried sick 261 00:15:51,651 --> 00:15:53,787 since Rick's disappearance. 262 00:15:55,855 --> 00:15:57,724 [Jeffrey] The investigators knew that 263 00:15:57,757 --> 00:15:59,826 the information they had didn't add up. 264 00:15:59,859 --> 00:16:02,529 But all they had was, uh, Kimberly Bailey and, 265 00:16:02,862 --> 00:16:05,031 and John Krueger saying, "Yeah, he left town." 266 00:16:05,532 --> 00:16:08,068 [Brett] It's always harder to conduct an investigation 267 00:16:08,101 --> 00:16:10,470 of an American citizen being missing in a foreign country 268 00:16:10,503 --> 00:16:13,039 because all we can do is pass the information along 269 00:16:13,039 --> 00:16:14,908 through our international liaison. 270 00:16:18,578 --> 00:16:22,048 [Narrator] Without much to go on from John and Kim, 271 00:16:22,048 --> 00:16:25,552 investigators pore over Rick's client list 272 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:29,389 and find no shortage of potential leads. 273 00:16:30,056 --> 00:16:33,526 There's potential for there to be a lot of trails to follow 274 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:37,230 because of the types of cases he had worked in his past. 275 00:16:38,198 --> 00:16:40,934 [Narrator] But those leads all fall flat. 276 00:16:41,534 --> 00:16:44,204 The local investigators talk to Rick's family, 277 00:16:44,237 --> 00:16:47,874 they talk to Rick's coworkers, and it all led to a dead end. 278 00:16:53,747 --> 00:16:56,616 I didn't know if I was gonna ever hear anything further 279 00:16:57,150 --> 00:16:59,586 regarding this, it just was possible that 280 00:16:59,919 --> 00:17:01,021 no one would ever know. 281 00:17:02,288 --> 00:17:05,692 [Narrator] By January of 1999, Rick has been missing 282 00:17:05,725 --> 00:17:07,227 for over four months, 283 00:17:07,260 --> 00:17:10,463 and the Post family is beginning to lose hope. 284 00:17:15,568 --> 00:17:19,906 Then, out of the blue, FBI agents at a field office 285 00:17:19,939 --> 00:17:24,744 in San Diego, California get an unexpected phone call. 286 00:17:26,413 --> 00:17:29,949 We received a phone call from the US Attorney's Office 287 00:17:30,216 --> 00:17:32,285 about an attorney named Coleen Cusack 288 00:17:32,552 --> 00:17:34,754 who said she had a client who had information 289 00:17:34,788 --> 00:17:39,392 about a kidnap and murder, a person from San Diego. 290 00:17:44,064 --> 00:17:46,966 [Narrator] Before she will reveal the name of the victim, 291 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:50,904 Coleen attempts to negotiate a deal for her client. 292 00:17:51,738 --> 00:17:56,509 She was asking for blanket immunity for her client 293 00:17:57,243 --> 00:18:00,013 in order to discuss the matter. 294 00:18:00,814 --> 00:18:02,415 The United States Attorney's Office 295 00:18:02,449 --> 00:18:06,019 does not generally offer blanket immunity to people upfront 296 00:18:06,019 --> 00:18:08,321 without hearing what they have to say. 297 00:18:08,855 --> 00:18:11,024 So that conversation never went anywhere. 298 00:18:11,658 --> 00:18:13,727 [Narrator] The phone call ends abruptly, 299 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,030 but agents follow up with San Diego police. 300 00:18:21,434 --> 00:18:23,436 We started reviewing some of the 301 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:27,307 missing persons files at the San Diego Police Department. 302 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:29,743 We had a few facts that they did get 303 00:18:29,776 --> 00:18:32,645 from this initial phone call, a certain date and time 304 00:18:32,679 --> 00:18:33,880 and it matched up 305 00:18:33,913 --> 00:18:35,482 with the missing persons report, uh, 306 00:18:35,515 --> 00:18:38,385 of Rick Post disappearing in Mexico. 307 00:18:39,052 --> 00:18:41,321 After that, there were ongoing negotiations, 308 00:18:41,354 --> 00:18:43,790 where the US Attorney's Office was trying to get Ms. Cusack 309 00:18:43,823 --> 00:18:47,360 to bring her client in and explain what they knew, 310 00:18:47,660 --> 00:18:50,063 but that also never materialized. 311 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:56,970 [Narrator] After hitting yet another dead end, 312 00:18:57,237 --> 00:19:01,174 in May of 1999, FBI agents 313 00:19:01,207 --> 00:19:05,378 circle back to Rick's employee, John Krueger. 314 00:19:06,713 --> 00:19:09,015 He asked us if he could call his attorney and talk to her 315 00:19:09,049 --> 00:19:12,819 before answering our questions. So we said, "Of course." 316 00:19:13,586 --> 00:19:16,856 He then said, "My attorney would like to speak to you first" 317 00:19:16,890 --> 00:19:19,092 and handed the phone over to us. 318 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,561 And it was Coleen Cusack. 319 00:19:24,064 --> 00:19:25,899 At that point, we quickly made the connection 320 00:19:25,932 --> 00:19:28,501 that Rick Post is not just a missing person. 321 00:19:30,070 --> 00:19:33,540 Rick was murdered, and John Krueger has information 322 00:19:33,573 --> 00:19:37,410 directly related to the kidnap and murder of Rick Post. 323 00:19:39,245 --> 00:19:40,880 [Narrator] But whatever John knows, 324 00:19:40,914 --> 00:19:44,317 he isn't willing to share. 325 00:19:44,351 --> 00:19:45,585 [Brett] He would not talk with us. 326 00:19:45,618 --> 00:19:48,588 It definitely raised our level of suspicion 327 00:19:48,621 --> 00:19:51,191 into his role in this case. 328 00:19:54,694 --> 00:19:56,496 [Narrator] Investigators turn back 329 00:19:56,529 --> 00:20:00,066 to the other person of interest in this case, 330 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,035 Kimberly Bailey. 331 00:20:02,569 --> 00:20:03,903 As it turns out, 332 00:20:03,937 --> 00:20:07,774 Kimberly already has her own file at the FBI. 333 00:20:08,608 --> 00:20:11,444 We saw that we had an open investigation on her 334 00:20:11,478 --> 00:20:13,947 related to her company, AstroPulse. 335 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:17,083 She was claiming that these were medical devices 336 00:20:17,117 --> 00:20:18,752 that cured cancer. 337 00:20:22,622 --> 00:20:25,892 [Narrator] Could Kimberly's fraudulent business dealings 338 00:20:25,925 --> 00:20:29,095 be linked to Rick's disappearance? 339 00:20:30,530 --> 00:20:32,966 [Jeffrey] The investigation had kinda come to a standstill. 340 00:20:33,299 --> 00:20:35,802 They started conducting surveillance of the ranch 341 00:20:35,835 --> 00:20:37,904 that Kimberly Bailey owned up in Fallbrook. 342 00:20:39,172 --> 00:20:42,609 [Brett] Kimberly Bailey did exhibit a lot of odd behaviors. 343 00:20:43,276 --> 00:20:45,311 [Brett] She did not like talking on the phone, 344 00:20:45,345 --> 00:20:47,647 she preferred to meet people in person, 345 00:20:47,681 --> 00:20:51,785 would often speak in a whisper, as though she thought or feared 346 00:20:51,818 --> 00:20:54,754 she was being surreptitiously recorded somehow. 347 00:20:54,988 --> 00:20:57,824 She had that kind of paranoid mindset. 348 00:20:58,591 --> 00:21:00,160 They knew that in addition to Kimberly 349 00:21:00,193 --> 00:21:02,062 there were, there were some other people living in there. 350 00:21:03,163 --> 00:21:05,632 So the case agents finally decided, 351 00:21:05,932 --> 00:21:07,467 let's go up and talk to people up there 352 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:08,835 and see what we can find out. 353 00:21:11,905 --> 00:21:15,508 [Narrator] Coming up, investigators find themselves 354 00:21:15,542 --> 00:21:18,545 seeking help from an international spy. 355 00:21:19,312 --> 00:21:22,782 It was like something right out of a James Bond movie. 356 00:21:23,516 --> 00:21:28,355 [Narrator] And an undercover sting reveals a horrifying plot. 357 00:21:28,688 --> 00:21:31,324 The torture included hitting him in the face 358 00:21:31,358 --> 00:21:33,827 and crushing his fingers with pliers. 359 00:21:35,195 --> 00:21:47,607 [music] 360 00:21:48,441 --> 00:21:50,643 [Narrator] FBI agents in San Diego 361 00:21:50,677 --> 00:21:53,713 suspect that private investigator Rick Post 362 00:21:53,747 --> 00:21:56,683 was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico. 363 00:21:57,384 --> 00:22:00,153 There are two names in his missing persons file 364 00:22:00,186 --> 00:22:01,921 that have garnered their attention, 365 00:22:02,522 --> 00:22:05,692 John Krueger and Kimberly Bailey. 366 00:22:06,726 --> 00:22:08,895 [Jeffrey] Usually in an investigation, 367 00:22:08,928 --> 00:22:12,365 you try and talk to your main subjects last. 368 00:22:12,799 --> 00:22:15,735 You wanna have as much information as possible 369 00:22:16,169 --> 00:22:18,571 when you go into that interview, 'cause then it allows you 370 00:22:18,605 --> 00:22:21,574 to know if what they're telling you is false. 371 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:28,715 [Narrator] In November of 1999, 372 00:22:28,748 --> 00:22:31,151 after seven months of surveillance 373 00:22:31,184 --> 00:22:33,920 fails to turn up any new leads, 374 00:22:33,953 --> 00:22:38,591 agents pay a visit to Kimberly's Fallbrook avocado ranch. 375 00:22:39,592 --> 00:22:43,096 When they arrive, they're greeted by two employees, 376 00:22:43,129 --> 00:22:46,099 husband and wife, Bruce and Svetlana. 377 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:50,870 This woman identified herself as Svetlana Ogorodnikova. 378 00:22:51,438 --> 00:22:54,974 This moment was a jaw-dropper for the agents. 379 00:22:58,411 --> 00:23:00,347 Svetlana was someone that is known 380 00:23:00,380 --> 00:23:04,084 to virtually every FBI agent who joined the agency 381 00:23:04,117 --> 00:23:05,952 during the 1980s and 1990s. 382 00:23:06,453 --> 00:23:10,557 Back in the early '80s, an agent in Los Angeles 383 00:23:10,590 --> 00:23:11,958 by the name of Richard Miller, 384 00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,928 he was working counter-intelligence 385 00:23:14,961 --> 00:23:16,563 against the Soviets. 386 00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:19,399 And Svetlana, she'd been used 387 00:23:19,432 --> 00:23:25,171 as a source in those cases, and they became intimate. 388 00:23:26,306 --> 00:23:30,443 [Pat] Svetlana, like something right out of a James Bond movie, 389 00:23:30,744 --> 00:23:34,180 seduced an FBI agent, 390 00:23:34,214 --> 00:23:39,719 accessed highly sensitive confidential information, 391 00:23:39,753 --> 00:23:42,522 and gave it to the KGB. 392 00:23:46,459 --> 00:23:50,296 Svetlana was sentenced to 18 years, uh, served nine, 393 00:23:50,897 --> 00:23:52,665 and after that, was in danger of 394 00:23:52,699 --> 00:23:55,502 losing her status to stay in the United States-- 395 00:23:56,369 --> 00:23:59,606 and in fact, uh, one step ahead of INS, 396 00:23:59,639 --> 00:24:01,508 essentially moved back to Mexico. 397 00:24:02,842 --> 00:24:05,445 While down there, came into contact with Kimberly. 398 00:24:06,312 --> 00:24:08,882 Agents talk to her, explain why they were there, 399 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:11,051 why they were there looking for Kimberly. 400 00:24:12,152 --> 00:24:13,153 [Bruce] He goes, "Well, we're investigating 401 00:24:14,354 --> 00:24:17,223 the Rick Post murder, and can we talk to you?" 402 00:24:18,291 --> 00:24:20,427 And Lan and I look at each other, you know, 403 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:22,429 'cause here's the FBI, she's here illegally, 404 00:24:22,462 --> 00:24:24,898 and reporting as if she was still in Mexico. 405 00:24:26,066 --> 00:24:27,600 [Narrator] Svetlana tells the agents 406 00:24:27,634 --> 00:24:30,837 that Kimberly is away at a yoga retreat. 407 00:24:34,841 --> 00:24:37,077 And that she and Bruce have been 408 00:24:37,077 --> 00:24:42,515 working and living at Kimberly's ranch for around six months. 409 00:24:43,550 --> 00:24:46,353 In that time, they forged a friendship 410 00:24:46,386 --> 00:24:48,321 with the quirky millionaire. 411 00:24:49,222 --> 00:24:51,858 [Bruce] On the surface, she's brilliant, she's pretty, 412 00:24:52,192 --> 00:24:54,361 a little bit paranoid, she thought that 413 00:24:54,394 --> 00:24:57,664 satellites were listening to her and that people were after her. 414 00:25:00,133 --> 00:25:04,738 [Narrator] However, Svetlana claims Kimberly trusted her. 415 00:25:05,405 --> 00:25:08,141 One day she began confiding in her 416 00:25:08,174 --> 00:25:11,044 about her break-up with Rick Post. 417 00:25:12,912 --> 00:25:14,381 She was a woman scorned. 418 00:25:14,414 --> 00:25:18,084 She was in love with Rick. He dropped her as a girlfriend. 419 00:25:18,451 --> 00:25:20,086 The real problem was jealousy. 420 00:25:20,553 --> 00:25:23,390 [Narrator] What's more, Kimberly told Svetlana 421 00:25:23,423 --> 00:25:26,092 money was missing from her business. 422 00:25:27,060 --> 00:25:30,964 That she believed that Rick Post was stealing money from her. 423 00:25:32,465 --> 00:25:35,535 This was the one-two punch that sent her over the edge. 424 00:25:36,970 --> 00:25:38,738 [Narrator] And then Svetlana says 425 00:25:38,772 --> 00:25:41,808 Kimberly revealed her darkest secret. 426 00:25:42,609 --> 00:25:45,245 [Brett] Kimberly Bailey had actually confided in Svetlana 427 00:25:45,745 --> 00:25:50,283 that she had orchestrated the kidnap and murder of Rick Post. 428 00:25:53,219 --> 00:25:57,691 The problem that we had was we didn't see a way 429 00:25:57,724 --> 00:26:02,095 that we would be able to use information or testimony 430 00:26:02,128 --> 00:26:06,066 coming from a former convicted espionage agent. 431 00:26:06,433 --> 00:26:07,767 How do we get around that? 432 00:26:08,802 --> 00:26:10,737 They solved it by getting, uh, 433 00:26:10,770 --> 00:26:13,773 Svetlana to agree to wear a wire, recording device. 434 00:26:13,807 --> 00:26:15,608 I think she was scared of Kimberly 435 00:26:16,576 --> 00:26:18,611 and I think there was a fear motive 436 00:26:18,645 --> 00:26:20,380 in her status in the United States. 437 00:26:20,413 --> 00:26:23,116 She was actually back in the United States illegally. 438 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,190 [Narrator] A few weeks later, Kimberly asks Svetlana 439 00:26:30,223 --> 00:26:32,292 to pick her up from the airport in Phoenix 440 00:26:32,325 --> 00:26:34,594 and drive her back to California. 441 00:26:35,495 --> 00:26:39,599 The nine-hour car ride presents the perfect opportunity. 442 00:26:41,067 --> 00:26:42,969 Our agents wired up the car in advance, 443 00:26:43,069 --> 00:26:46,606 and also wired Svetlana up with hidden recording devices. 444 00:26:48,074 --> 00:26:50,810 [Narrator] It takes little prompting from Svetlana 445 00:26:50,844 --> 00:26:52,712 to get Kimberly talking. 446 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:59,085 Kimberly says that John Krueger had called her in August 1998 447 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:04,124 with some concerning information about his boss, Rick Post. 448 00:27:05,025 --> 00:27:08,228 She had been told by Krueger that Post had been 449 00:27:08,528 --> 00:27:12,232 taking her money, and then sleeping with other women. 450 00:27:13,033 --> 00:27:14,501 [Brett] She was so enraged 451 00:27:14,534 --> 00:27:17,671 that she just had to prove a lesson to him. 452 00:27:22,308 --> 00:27:25,045 [Narrator] Kimberly reveals that she asked John Krueger 453 00:27:25,078 --> 00:27:27,347 to help her hire some muscle. 454 00:27:28,081 --> 00:27:30,183 John had become acquainted with an individual 455 00:27:30,216 --> 00:27:33,520 by the name of Humberto Iribe, Mexican national, 456 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:37,724 who was purporting to have connections to the cartel. 457 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,696 [Narrator] Kimberly paid 25-year-old Humberto 458 00:27:42,729 --> 00:27:45,365 approximately $40,000, 459 00:27:45,398 --> 00:27:50,103 and then lured Rick Post to Mexico on August 20th. 460 00:27:51,371 --> 00:27:52,439 [Jeffrey] The trap was set. 461 00:27:53,606 --> 00:27:56,076 Kimberly went down to Mexico with Rick Post. 462 00:27:56,943 --> 00:28:00,914 They stopped at a pharmacy, Rick waited in the car, 463 00:28:01,548 --> 00:28:03,016 Kimberly got out of the car, 464 00:28:03,883 --> 00:28:05,852 supposedly to go into the pharmacy. 465 00:28:06,252 --> 00:28:09,656 Two men hired by Iribe approached the car, 466 00:28:11,091 --> 00:28:13,426 forced Rick out of the car and took him away. 467 00:28:16,062 --> 00:28:17,797 [Pat] After Richard is kidnapped, 468 00:28:18,098 --> 00:28:20,633 Kimberly gets inside of Richard's car, 469 00:28:21,267 --> 00:28:24,170 turns around and heads back to San Diego, 470 00:28:24,204 --> 00:28:27,107 where she drops off his car at his own home. 471 00:28:27,941 --> 00:28:29,943 Once they had Rick Post in Tijuana, 472 00:28:30,276 --> 00:28:34,414 Iribe forced him to make the call that the family heard 473 00:28:34,447 --> 00:28:37,951 where he said don't worry about me, I'm in Mexico City. 474 00:28:39,285 --> 00:28:40,754 [Narrator] According to Kimberly, 475 00:28:40,787 --> 00:28:44,257 Humberto and his two associates tortured Rick 476 00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:46,326 for the next five days. 477 00:28:55,802 --> 00:29:00,607 Svetlana shared with us that once Rick was kidnapped, 478 00:29:02,275 --> 00:29:03,576 Kimberly Bailey said 479 00:29:03,610 --> 00:29:05,145 she continued to travel back down to Mexico 480 00:29:05,178 --> 00:29:07,013 to the safe house where he was being kept 481 00:29:07,414 --> 00:29:09,449 to observe his torture. 482 00:29:14,487 --> 00:29:16,756 [Narrator] After five days of torture, 483 00:29:16,790 --> 00:29:20,193 Rick still hadn't confessed to stealing from her. 484 00:29:28,201 --> 00:29:31,705 Kimberly tells Svetlana that she told Iribe 485 00:29:32,038 --> 00:29:33,640 to build an underground prison 486 00:29:33,673 --> 00:29:35,842 and keep him there for the rest of his life. 487 00:30:00,834 --> 00:30:03,636 [Narrator] Then, Kimberly reveals to Svetlana 488 00:30:03,670 --> 00:30:05,839 that she is sharing her story with her 489 00:30:05,872 --> 00:30:07,674 because she needs her help. 490 00:30:09,376 --> 00:30:12,045 [Brett] She asks Svetlana if she knew anybody, any hitmen 491 00:30:12,078 --> 00:30:16,483 who she could hire to kill John Krueger and kill Humberto Iribe. 492 00:30:17,083 --> 00:30:19,386 Svetlana, to her credit, rolled with it, 493 00:30:19,886 --> 00:30:21,154 took it right in stride 494 00:30:21,187 --> 00:30:24,224 and said yeah, she, she did know somebody. 495 00:30:28,161 --> 00:30:32,999 [Jeffrey] So the decision was made, let's put a bow on this. 496 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,735 Kimberly Bailey wants a hitman. 497 00:30:35,769 --> 00:30:39,072 So the FBI decided, we'll give her a hitman. 498 00:30:41,941 --> 00:30:45,245 [Narrator] Coming up, agents set up a sting. 499 00:30:46,212 --> 00:30:49,582 So she bent over me and whispered in my ear for an hour. 500 00:30:50,283 --> 00:30:54,054 [Narrator] And learn of her next plan for bloodshed. 501 00:30:55,555 --> 00:30:57,223 And she would've been literally the last person 502 00:30:57,257 --> 00:30:59,192 standing in the room with a bloody knife. 503 00:31:14,874 --> 00:31:17,243 [Narrator] Over a year after Rick Post's 504 00:31:17,277 --> 00:31:22,549 mysterious disappearance, his former client and lover, 505 00:31:22,582 --> 00:31:26,820 Kimberly Bailey, unwittingly confesses to his murder 506 00:31:26,853 --> 00:31:29,856 during a secretly recorded conversation 507 00:31:29,889 --> 00:31:35,328 with former KGB spy, Svetlana Ogorodnikova. 508 00:31:36,296 --> 00:31:39,699 Not only did Kim lay out the entire scenario, uh, 509 00:31:39,733 --> 00:31:41,468 and her involvement and Krueger's involvement, 510 00:31:41,501 --> 00:31:43,970 Iribe's involvement with the kidnap and murder, 511 00:31:44,237 --> 00:31:45,939 she also approached Svetlana 512 00:31:45,972 --> 00:31:51,011 for help in eliminating Krueger and Iribe. 513 00:31:52,779 --> 00:31:54,814 She was going down a road where she would've been 514 00:31:54,848 --> 00:31:56,116 literally the last person 515 00:31:56,116 --> 00:31:57,617 standing in the room with a bloody knife. 516 00:32:01,454 --> 00:32:04,691 [Narrator] Svetlana agrees to work with investigators 517 00:32:04,724 --> 00:32:07,427 once again in a sting operation 518 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:11,164 on December 22nd, 1999, 519 00:32:11,197 --> 00:32:15,068 Almost a year and a half since Rick's disappearance. 520 00:32:16,169 --> 00:32:20,140 [Brett] Svetlana worked with us to help set up a meeting 521 00:32:20,173 --> 00:32:24,978 between Kimberly Bailey and who she thought was a hitman 522 00:32:25,078 --> 00:32:26,680 that Svetlana was connected to. 523 00:32:27,714 --> 00:32:29,816 [Jeffrey] So a meeting was arranged in a hotel room. 524 00:32:30,316 --> 00:32:32,318 Fortunately for us, the professional hitman 525 00:32:32,352 --> 00:32:34,688 was in fact a professional FBI agent. 526 00:32:37,090 --> 00:32:41,327 [Narrator] Agent Nick McKean takes on the role of hitman. 527 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:45,832 Before I met with her, I talked with Svetlana 528 00:32:45,865 --> 00:32:48,168 about, uh, Kim Bailey and just asked her 529 00:32:48,201 --> 00:32:49,736 what kind of person she was, 530 00:32:50,103 --> 00:32:52,138 what could I expect her to do? 531 00:32:52,706 --> 00:32:54,007 [Brett] We wired up the hotel 532 00:32:54,107 --> 00:32:57,210 and Kimberly Bailey and the FBI undercover agent 533 00:32:57,477 --> 00:33:00,814 met to discuss Kim's request. 534 00:33:06,186 --> 00:33:07,620 [Narrator] When she arrives, 535 00:33:07,654 --> 00:33:10,523 it's clear that Kimberly's infamous paranoia 536 00:33:10,557 --> 00:33:12,092 is in full swing. 537 00:33:12,892 --> 00:33:14,561 [Nick] I think she was a little skittish. 538 00:33:15,161 --> 00:33:17,063 And what I wanted to do was put her at ease, 539 00:33:17,097 --> 00:33:18,832 make her feel like, uh, 540 00:33:18,865 --> 00:33:21,634 I was the guy that she would want to hire. 541 00:33:23,069 --> 00:33:25,772 [Narrator] Kimberly refuses to talk about the hits. 542 00:33:26,072 --> 00:33:30,176 Instead, she pulls a laptop computer out of her bag. 543 00:33:30,944 --> 00:33:34,280 Kimberly tries to type out the death wish, 544 00:33:35,582 --> 00:33:37,450 and the laptop does not work. 545 00:33:41,755 --> 00:33:43,923 [Narrator] Since she can't type her request, 546 00:33:43,957 --> 00:33:46,760 Kimberly is forced to say it out loud. 547 00:33:47,694 --> 00:33:52,132 And so she bent over me and, and whispered in my ear for an hour. 548 00:33:53,466 --> 00:33:58,104 The irony is when she leaned in to, to whisper that to him, 549 00:33:58,138 --> 00:34:00,140 it couldn't have been more loud and clear. 550 00:34:04,577 --> 00:34:07,213 [Narrator] Kimberly reveals that her hit list has changed 551 00:34:07,247 --> 00:34:12,385 since she spoke with Svetlana. Only one name remains the same. 552 00:34:13,386 --> 00:34:17,157 She wanted three people killed. She wanted John Krueger, 553 00:34:17,824 --> 00:34:22,062 she wanted her attorney, and then she wanted her gardener. 554 00:34:22,829 --> 00:34:25,865 And I, for the life of me, I couldn't get her to 555 00:34:25,899 --> 00:34:28,268 just tell me why she wanted her gardener killed. 556 00:34:28,702 --> 00:34:29,769 Still don't know. 557 00:34:30,904 --> 00:34:32,772 [Narrator] Kimberly is clear that the murders 558 00:34:32,806 --> 00:34:35,842 should not look like intentional killings. 559 00:34:36,643 --> 00:34:39,079 I had told her we'll stage an accident, you know, 560 00:34:39,112 --> 00:34:41,848 something violent will happen to them, they will die. 561 00:34:42,515 --> 00:34:47,287 Kimberly gave the undercover agent $10,000 as a down payment. 562 00:34:51,491 --> 00:34:55,295 [Narrator] FBI agents are able to secure arrest warrants 563 00:34:55,328 --> 00:34:58,665 for Kimberly and her co-conspirators. 564 00:34:59,432 --> 00:35:01,034 [Brett] Unfortunately, at the time that 565 00:35:01,034 --> 00:35:03,236 we had the operation ready to go, 566 00:35:03,269 --> 00:35:06,039 uh, John Krueger was the only person in the country, 567 00:35:06,039 --> 00:35:07,607 and he was arrested first. 568 00:35:08,541 --> 00:35:10,777 On April 4th of 2000, 569 00:35:11,044 --> 00:35:13,880 John Krueger is arrested in San Diego. 570 00:35:18,251 --> 00:35:20,854 [Narrator] Later that month, authorities locate 571 00:35:20,887 --> 00:35:24,958 54-year-old Kimberly at an airport in Mexico City. 572 00:35:26,359 --> 00:35:30,363 Armed with 14 pieces of luggage and a Canadian ID, 573 00:35:30,864 --> 00:35:33,099 it's clear that she's on the run. 574 00:35:34,300 --> 00:35:37,404 Kimbery Bailey was later arrested at an airport in Mexico 575 00:35:37,704 --> 00:35:39,572 and extradited to the United States. 576 00:35:40,807 --> 00:35:42,776 [Narrator] Kimberly refuses to talk 577 00:35:42,809 --> 00:35:44,844 and maintains her innocence. 578 00:35:48,314 --> 00:35:52,986 Meanwhile, Humberto Iribe remains free in Mexico. 579 00:35:54,087 --> 00:35:56,122 [Pat] He is a Mexican national. 580 00:35:56,156 --> 00:36:00,694 It oftentimes can take a long time to extradite someone 581 00:36:00,727 --> 00:36:04,931 from Mexico to the United States when there is a murder case. 582 00:36:09,569 --> 00:36:12,906 [Narrator] Prosecutors begin preparing for Kimberly's trial. 583 00:36:13,273 --> 00:36:14,908 In addition to Svetlana, 584 00:36:14,941 --> 00:36:18,511 they're able to secure another star witness. 585 00:36:19,279 --> 00:36:21,181 [Brett] John Krueger was the first to plead guilty 586 00:36:21,214 --> 00:36:23,249 to conspiracy to commit kidnapping 587 00:36:23,283 --> 00:36:26,720 and offer cooperation to the government. 588 00:36:27,921 --> 00:36:29,389 [Narrator] John tells investigators 589 00:36:29,422 --> 00:36:32,192 that it all started when he became upset with Rick 590 00:36:32,225 --> 00:36:35,428 for not paying him what he felt he deserved. 591 00:36:36,296 --> 00:36:37,731 John Krueger is a bit of a 592 00:36:37,764 --> 00:36:40,633 disgruntled employee at the company. 593 00:36:40,900 --> 00:36:42,869 He's only making $15 an hour, 594 00:36:42,902 --> 00:36:46,239 he sees that Richard Post is reeling in the dough. 595 00:36:47,107 --> 00:36:48,541 [Narrator] So John lied 596 00:36:48,942 --> 00:36:52,379 and told Kimberly Rick was stealing from her. 597 00:36:55,782 --> 00:36:57,117 [Brett] It was actually John Krueger 598 00:36:57,550 --> 00:37:00,286 who dripped the first poison into Kimberly Bailey's ear. 599 00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:03,390 Knowing how paranoid Kimberly Bailey was, 600 00:37:03,423 --> 00:37:06,026 knowing that this would enrage her. 601 00:37:09,829 --> 00:37:13,266 [Narrator] When Kimberly asked him to help her find a hitman, 602 00:37:13,299 --> 00:37:14,567 he obliged. 603 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:21,207 John Krueger orchestrated this plot to get rid of Rick Post 604 00:37:21,241 --> 00:37:24,144 so that John could take over the business. 605 00:37:25,645 --> 00:37:27,480 [Narrator] Between John and Svetlana, 606 00:37:27,514 --> 00:37:30,183 the case against Kimberly is strong. 607 00:37:31,785 --> 00:37:33,453 But prosecutors will soon learn 608 00:37:33,486 --> 00:37:36,623 that Kimberly Bailey's will to remain free 609 00:37:36,856 --> 00:37:39,259 may be even stronger. 610 00:37:40,694 --> 00:37:42,862 Kimberly is fight to the death. 611 00:37:43,263 --> 00:37:46,499 And it just seems so natural for her to say, 612 00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:49,102 "I'm not making any deal with anybody, I'm going to trial" 613 00:37:49,135 --> 00:37:51,438 because she thinks she's impenetrable. 614 00:37:56,076 --> 00:38:00,780 [Narrator] Coming up, a shocking claim rocks the courtroom. 615 00:38:01,348 --> 00:38:02,349 [Jeffrey] Rick wasn't dead. 616 00:38:02,816 --> 00:38:05,785 He was living off her money somewhere in Mexico. 617 00:38:06,186 --> 00:38:08,355 [Narrator] And the twists keep coming. 618 00:38:08,855 --> 00:38:13,026 You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending 619 00:38:13,026 --> 00:38:15,295 to a twisted story like this. 620 00:38:30,543 --> 00:38:34,481 [Narrator] Kimberly Bailey's trial gets underway in 2002. 621 00:38:34,881 --> 00:38:38,651 The millionaire and entrepreneur is accused of orchestrating 622 00:38:38,685 --> 00:38:41,221 the kidnapping, torture, and murder 623 00:38:41,254 --> 00:38:46,226 of her one-time lover and private investigator, Rick Post. 624 00:38:46,693 --> 00:38:48,061 For Rick's family, 625 00:38:48,061 --> 00:38:51,164 it's been four years since they last saw him, 626 00:38:51,197 --> 00:38:54,401 and the trial has been a long time coming. 627 00:38:55,568 --> 00:38:59,406 When the court cases happened, it took over again, 628 00:38:59,673 --> 00:39:01,775 and we had to relive it again. 629 00:39:02,575 --> 00:39:04,044 To listen to the horrible details 630 00:39:04,077 --> 00:39:05,412 of what they did to my father. 631 00:39:06,279 --> 00:39:09,282 It was, you know, pretty horrific. 632 00:39:14,087 --> 00:39:17,190 [Narrator] Prosecutors argue that Rick's murder was driven by 633 00:39:17,223 --> 00:39:21,061 a deadly combination of revenge and paranoia. 634 00:39:22,195 --> 00:39:25,598 [Jeffrey] He was tortured in an effort to get him to cough up 635 00:39:25,799 --> 00:39:28,234 a confession on stealing money from her. 636 00:39:28,268 --> 00:39:30,937 Unfortunately, it appears the problem for Rick was 637 00:39:31,037 --> 00:39:32,572 he hadn't stolen any money from her, 638 00:39:32,605 --> 00:39:34,240 so he had nothing to confess to. 639 00:39:39,045 --> 00:39:41,381 [Narrator] On the stand, Svetlana and John 640 00:39:41,414 --> 00:39:44,951 walk the jury through Kimberly's cold-hearted scheme. 641 00:39:45,585 --> 00:39:47,687 But Kimberly's attorneys argue that 642 00:39:47,721 --> 00:39:50,557 not only are these witnesses unreliable, 643 00:39:50,790 --> 00:39:53,660 but Rick Post is still alive. 644 00:39:58,131 --> 00:40:00,300 [Jeffrey] Kim Bailey's position through the entire trial 645 00:40:00,333 --> 00:40:01,801 was that Rick wasn't dead. 646 00:40:02,669 --> 00:40:04,604 That Rick stole a lot of money from her, 647 00:40:04,637 --> 00:40:08,008 and he was living off her money somewhere in Mexico. 648 00:40:12,012 --> 00:40:15,315 [Narrator] In July, the jury finds Kimberly Bailey 649 00:40:15,348 --> 00:40:17,017 guilty of kidnapping. 650 00:40:18,418 --> 00:40:22,422 But without a body, they deadlock on the murder charge. 651 00:40:23,323 --> 00:40:26,059 When it came to the murder, even though we know 652 00:40:26,092 --> 00:40:28,161 she said a million times she wanted him killed, 653 00:40:28,461 --> 00:40:29,996 there was no body. 654 00:40:36,136 --> 00:40:40,006 [Narrator] Kimberly fires her attorney and represents herself 655 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,243 at her sentencing on the kidnapping conviction. 656 00:40:44,177 --> 00:40:45,512 [Jeffrey] Never a good move. 657 00:40:46,379 --> 00:40:49,649 That's probably the worst type of representation you can have. 658 00:40:50,617 --> 00:40:55,121 [Narrator] Kimberly receives life plus ten years in prison. 659 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,863 John Krueger is rewarded for his cooperation. 660 00:41:04,731 --> 00:41:06,332 [Brett] After John Krueger pled guilty, 661 00:41:06,366 --> 00:41:10,236 the judge saw fit to sentence him to, to 12 years in prison. 662 00:41:11,871 --> 00:41:13,740 [Ian] I think 12 years was laughable. 663 00:41:14,874 --> 00:41:16,343 John kicked this whole thing off, 664 00:41:16,376 --> 00:41:18,545 blamed my father saying that he had stolen money. 665 00:41:19,512 --> 00:41:23,183 He knew the type of person that he was telling this to. 666 00:41:30,724 --> 00:41:32,859 [Narrator] It takes five more years 667 00:41:32,892 --> 00:41:35,295 for the third perpetrator of the crime, 668 00:41:35,328 --> 00:41:39,566 hitman Humberto Iribe, to face justice. 669 00:41:41,267 --> 00:41:42,869 [Jeffrey] He got popped in Mexico 670 00:41:42,902 --> 00:41:46,706 by the authorities down there on a unrelated homicide case. 671 00:41:47,107 --> 00:41:49,142 Arrangements were made for, for extradition 672 00:41:49,175 --> 00:41:51,111 to bring him back up to the United States 673 00:41:51,378 --> 00:41:54,681 to, uh, face trial in the Rick Post murder. 674 00:41:55,215 --> 00:41:59,919 He got 25 years. Is that long enough for taking a human life? 675 00:42:00,353 --> 00:42:01,421 I don't think so. 676 00:42:06,526 --> 00:42:08,428 [Narrator] Humberto's trial marks the end 677 00:42:08,461 --> 00:42:12,298 of a long and painful chapter for the Post family. 678 00:42:13,266 --> 00:42:15,268 [Ian] We had a memorial service for my father. 679 00:42:15,602 --> 00:42:18,371 And we put a plaque down, and we had a ceremony for him. 680 00:42:18,738 --> 00:42:22,642 So that was for us being able to kinda help us to move on. 681 00:42:23,877 --> 00:42:26,246 [Narrator] In 2008, Kimberly Bailey 682 00:42:26,279 --> 00:42:29,315 was diagnosed with cancer in prison. 683 00:42:30,550 --> 00:42:32,585 [Brett] She refused any medical treatment 684 00:42:32,619 --> 00:42:36,423 and insisted on only using one of her 685 00:42:36,456 --> 00:42:40,660 AstroPulse black box devices to, to treat her cancer. 686 00:42:41,294 --> 00:42:43,630 And she died in 2008. 687 00:42:45,131 --> 00:42:49,602 You could say that that is the ultimate Hollywood movie ending 688 00:42:49,636 --> 00:42:51,905 to a twisted story like this. 689 00:42:57,310 --> 00:43:01,481 The sad thing is a father was murdered. 690 00:43:01,781 --> 00:43:03,350 Never came home to his son. 691 00:43:04,084 --> 00:43:05,452 Or the rest of his family. 692 00:43:06,820 --> 00:43:10,056 [Ian] There was so much more to him, 693 00:43:10,790 --> 00:43:14,127 you know, the man, his work, his craft, 694 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,064 his care for his children. Ultimate family man. 695 00:43:21,334 --> 00:43:24,971 He was my father, and he was my best friend. 696 00:43:28,975 --> 00:43:40,987 [music]