rocks Atlanta's hottest social scene.
The adult entertainment industry was booming.
Men had a lotta cash going into these clubs.
He was shot execution style.
I was shocked. We actually was just so scared.
[Narrator] Detectives search for a killer
in a world of glamour, sex, and secrets.
There were huge clubs. There were mega celebrities.
The club owners, the bouncers, the security,
they're not real excited to have
police combing through their establishment.
[Narrator] And the pressure is on as the crime spree continue.
There's been another shooting, a third male.
The Orlando Police Department contacted our agency,
concerning a similar incident that they were investigating.
[Narrator] Could a stark confession
reveal the truth?
This was a girl who just lays it all out.
She didn't sugarcoat it.
He made all these promises, sold her this huge pipedream.
[Narrator] Is there more to this tale than meets the eye?
She was under the control of, to some extent, of him.
This is one cold-blooded female
that just does what she wants to do.
I mean, I don't know if I'd ever seen anything like that.
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[Narrator] August 15, 2002. Atlanta, Georgia.
The height of the city's club scene.
2002 was a time in Atlanta when the nightlife scene was
an international destination for partying.
Like, there were huge clubs. It was a very wild time.
2002, Atlanta was lit.
It was the place to be.
Anytime celebrities come in town, you know,
they call us, you know, to come party.
Everybody who was on our scene was real players,
real heavy hitters.
[Narrator] 30 year old Atlanta resident
and staple on the club scene,
Cariletta Knox, better known as "Smokey",
is getting ready for a night ou with her brother, Ray.
[Cariletta] I talked to Ray about 8:30.
He told me to come on over there and you know, we'll go hang out.
So, I was like, "Okay, cool." He said he was cookin'.
He was grillin' some steaks for some friends.
So, my friend, me and Sam, wanted to go over there.
Her brother, Ray, was at the apartment,
partying with his friend, Doc.
[Narrator] Just 30 minutes later,
Cariletta receives another phone call.
[Cariletta] I got a call from G, one of Doc's friends.
And G was like, "Hey, you know, I was on the phone with Doc,
and I heard gunshots."
And something like, "He couldn't breathe,"
or something like that.
He said he did hear some female voices
in the back saying, "Get the money, get the money."
I kinda brushed it off, but I said, "Let me call him."
So, I kept callin' Doc, kept callin' Doc, no answer.
I'm like, "What the hell? This strange."
So, I kept tryin' to call Ray.
He's not picking up. She's gettin' panicky.
She's like, "Let's got over to his place."
[Narrator] Cariletta and her friend Sam
head over to Ray's apartment.
The whole ride over there is
just such a dreary, dreadful feeling.
Me and Sam got out of the car,
and we walked up.
And when we got to Ray's door, it was cracked a little bit.
So, Sam peeped in.
He was like, "It's not good, it's not good."
I'm like, "What, what happened? What happened?"
He's like, "They're dead, they're dead."
I was like, "Oh my God..."
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So, I end up callin' 911.
[Narrator] First responders
with the DeKalb County Police Department
arrive on the scene.
Both victims were deceased in the living room.
One close to the couch, the other on the floor.
I started documenting the crime scene as I saw it.
They secured the crime scene, and then notified
the DeKalb County Police Major Felony Unit to respond.
[Narrator] Outside the apartment,
Cariletta is in shock.
Finding my brother dead, that changed my life forever.
Everything was rushing through my head,
everything was rushin' through my head, who, what, when, why.
I just broke down cryin'.
We couldn't wrap our minds around it.
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[Narrator] Born in 1968,
Raymond Goodwin was raised by his mother
in Birmingham, Alabama.
She was a single mom, raisin' five kids by herself.
So it wasn't, you know, all roses,
but she did the best that she could.
[Sherita] Ray was the middle child,
and he was always helpin' people, always.
I called him Captain,
'cause he was always reachin' out and helpin' people.
[Cariletta] Growin' up, Ray was just always
active into the high school band and different stuff like that.
He started workin' at 16 years old.
I remember, I remember he worked at McDonald's in high school.
[Narrator] Ray was close with all of his siblings,
but especially with his sister, Cariletta.
[Cameron] My mom and Ray, they were best friends.
They were always together.
Them two, they were the youngest,
so they had a special kinda relationship.
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[Narrator] By the late '90s,
Ray and most of his siblings had migrated to Atlanta.
There, he stayed close with his family.
[Cameron] Ray was like the legendary uncle.
He was the house to go to.
He's gonna rent us 10, 15 games, movies.
We've got board games.
He's gonna cook the whole weekend.
It was a place to be as a kid.
He was always the comedian, always kept people laughin'.
He was full of life.
[Narrator] After a successful stint
as a car salesman,
at age 31, Ray changed lanes to pursue a lifelong dream.
Photography was Ray's passion. He was always into that.
He would go into, like, the Walmarts and he would have
these booths set up to do his photography.
He was very good at it.
[Narrator] But Ray had bigger dreams
than taking pictures in department stores.
He wanted to break into
the booming Atlanta entertainment scene.
Something by the late '90s, Cariletta had already done.
We were in the adult entertainment industry.
I started dancing on a regular basis then,
and I just became great at what I was doin'.
[Nicole] She would hook Ray up with other dancers
who needed to make like, flyers or portfolios.
In order to market themselves,
Ray would take their pictures for them.
[Cameron] He created a whole photograph company.
Within, like, a few months time,
just catapulted to another level.
[Narrator] Ray found his niche,
working with dancers at Atlanta's multitude
of high-end clubs.
[Cariletta] He did a lot of my photography.
He made my portfolios.
He made portfolios for all of my girls.
[Narrator] Ray developed a huge network of friends
in the city...
Including 35-year-old Claudell Christmas,
AKA "Doc".
Doc was very suave. He was a cool guy.
He called himself "The Doctor".
I met him at the club through a mutual friend.
He liked to go to the casinos.
He just liked to, you know,
party just like everyone else back then.
He became one of my best friends, as well.
Doc was a very giving person, very great person, great energy.
Everyone knew him, loved him.
Our whole family and friend network was very tight.
[Narrator] Ray found success,
status, and popularity in Atlanta.
When he met Akasha Turner in 2001,
he also found love.
I met him at a dance club. He just came up to me laughing.
Raymond, even amidst that type of environment,
he stood out differently.
He was very religious. He was very spiritual.
I had a friend, like a best friend.
[Tanika] They had been together for a couple years.
She loved him. They were in love.
[Narrator] By the summer of 2002,
Ray was at the peak of success
in a city where the sky was the limit.
But on August 15th, his rise to the top is cut short.
Detectives with the DeKalb County Police Department
enter Ray's apartment,
where they find the bodies of 34-year-old Ray Goodwin
and 35-year-old Doc Christmas.
We'd look for any damage to the door,
which there was none.
We'd look for any broken windows,
and there was no damage
indicating any type of forced entry.
There was none.
There was no immediate signs of any type of struggle,
nobody had any other injuries besides the gunshot wounds.
Doc received one gunshot wound to the head.
Ray received a gunshot wound to the head,
along with other gunshot wounds to his torso.
[Narrator] When asked why anyone would
want to hurt her brother,
Cariletta says she believes
burglary may have been the motive.
[Nicole] He kept very expensive photography equipment.
Both of these victims, Doc and Ray,
were known to carry a large amount of cash.
Especially bein' around the entertainment industry.
They would go to the clubs with wads of cash and just, you know,
spend all kinds of crazy money.
My brother, he bought major equipment.
I mean, he had so much stuff.
Doc, he was a little flashy too, you know,
and I thought they probably was like,
"Shoot, we gonna rob him, too."
[Narrator] Cariletta also tells investigators
of the bizarre call between Doc and her friend G,
that led her and Sam
to the apartment in the first place.
[Nicole] While Doc was speaking with this individual,
gunshots rang out.
He actually heard a female voice say,
"Get the money, get the money."
[Narrator] Investigators wonder if Ray and Doc
fell victim to Atlanta's growing crime wave.
[Nicole] During this timeframe,
the adult entertainment industry was booming.
People would wanna rob the men,
knowing they had a lotta cash going into these clubs.
They started to have a lot more robberies within our city,
and they were being committed by females.
[Narrator] Coming up.
A pair of suspects emerge...
Whoever this voice was on the phone saying,
"Get the money," was somebody they knew.
[Narrator] And the discovery of another body
strikes fear in this close-knit community.
He suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
[Cariletta] We actually was just so scared and everything.
We got a serial killer out here?
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[Narrator] DeKalb County detectives are investigating
the murders of 34-year-old Ray Goodwin
and his friend, 35-year-old Claudell "Doc" Christmas.
Raymond had been shot five or six times.
Doc had been shot one time to the head.
[Nicole] Robbery could've been a motive.
Ray and his business had a lot of very, very expensive,
high-end photography equipment.
Carried a lot of cash,
and the money from their wallets was missing.
[Narrator] Inside Ray's apartment,
detectives search for clues.
[Nicole] In this particular case,
it appears that they were havin' a party,
getting ready to go out for the evening.
There were drink glasses and they were about to cook out.
So, it appeared initially at first glance
that the victims knew and let the killers in willingly.
There was no tables turned over,
there was no damage to any of the other property inside.
I would have to say the incident appeared to
have been almost by surprise.
[Nicole] Doc was shot execution style in the head.
That tells us that he was probably shot first.
It appeared that once Ray saw what happened, he tried to flee,
and they just unloaded on Ray.
And that's why Ray has a lot more gunshot wounds
than, than Doc had.
Ray and Doc were obviously very comfortable with
the people that were in the house with them,
because they were drinking.
Whoever this voice was on the phone saying,
"Get the money," was somebody they knew.
Based on the information they heard about this phone call,
detectives thought we had at least two perpetrators.
[Tom] They were invited in,
and that means you can focus your attention on
people who might have had access to the apartment.
[Todd] Two cell phones were recovered from the crime scene.
One being Doc's and the other being Ray's.
I sent out subpoenas for the phone carriers
to find out who they had been communicating with.
[Narrator] Investigators discover
one more potentially important clue...
[Todd] There were seven bullets fired.
All of the shell casings located were .32 caliber bullets.
[Nicole] .32 caliber, it's a very small gun.
And you know, with a small gun, who carries small guns?
Typically females.
Because we have a female voice say,
"Get the money. Get the money."
The suspect in this case is most likely be a female.
[Narrator] Detectives head back outside,
where Ray's sister Cariletta is waiting.
She says she's just gotten off the phone with Ray's girlfriend
[Nicole] Cariletta found out that on this particular day,
two individuals might've been at the apartment,
partying with these guys.
[Akasha] He had people around, like per usual.
He naturally does.
Tells me what he's doing, who he's with.
He said the names of who he was with, it was a nickname.
Ray and Doc were hanging out with two dancers from the area,
and she identified them as Peaches and Snow.
[Narrator] Cariletta tells them she thinks she met
Peaches and Snow a few weeks earlier.
A light bulb immediately went off.
"Ding, it's gotta be them girls, it's gotta be them girls."
I didn't know Peaches and Snow.
I didn't know their names at the time,
but three weeks before this incident had happened,
I had a yacht party at Lake Lanier.
My brother, we was supposed to have a, a photo shoot there.
So, he set up everything for the girls...
And invited them to the photo shoot.
These girls were dancers at, you know, less popular clubs.
One stood out to me.
She was tall, she was like 5'7" or 5'9",
or something like that.
When I first met them, I got a bad vibe from her.
I said, "Man, Ray, I don't like these girls."
I mean something came over me immediately,
and I was just like, "No, sir, not them."
[Narrator] Investigators turn to the only other detail
they know about Peaches and Snow...
Detectives went to some of the strip clubs
in the Atlanta area.
Dealing with the clubs was difficult, you know?
You couldn't even get past the door.
The club owners, the, the bouncers, the security,
they're not real excited to have police, you know,
combing through their establishment.
[Narrator] Two days after the murders,
on August 17, 2002,
DeKalb County detectives are called to the scene
of another homicide.
There's been another shooting, and it's just across town.
A third male murdered.
[Narrator] At the crime scene,
detectives find 29-year-old Lemeitrice "Mechi" Twitty
dead on his living room floor.
[Todd] It appeared he had suffered
multiple gunshot wounds,
including to the head, back, abdomen area.
And that they were in intermediate range,
probably five to six feet.
[Narrator] It doesn't take long for detectives to notice
eerie similarities between the two crime scenes.
These murders, they're in close proximity.
Both occurring in the same county.
You got a deceased guy in his apartment.
He, too, has been executed.
Neither one of them has a forced entry.
[Nicole] And then while going over the scene,
they found the same .32 caliber shell casing
that they did on the scene with Ray and Doc.
The fact that the same caliber,
which was an unusual caliber, was used.
It would not be far from saying
that the same individual committed all three murders.
[Narrator] Detectives on the scene step outside,
where they find Mechi's friend, Marchetti Townsend.
He said Mechi didn't show up for work that day,
and he was concerned.
[Todd] Mechi and Mr. Townsend worked together as barbers.
Mr. Townsend had tried to
He went to the apartment.
At that point, he found Mechi dead.
[Narrator] Distraught,
Marchetti explains that Mechi was a beloved figure
in their tight social circle.
[Nicole] Mechi was very popular as being a master barber,
and he cut a lot of people's hair.
He was high in demand.
People would pay in cash,
so he always had a lot of money on him.
[Narrator] But there is no cash to be found
in Mechi's apartment.
And that's not the only thing that's missing...
[Todd] Mechi had been renting a gold Nissan Maxima.
That car was missing from the scene.
[Narrator] As detectives search for the gold Nissan,
news of Mechi's death reaches his friends.
[Cariletta] I knew Mechi, and you know,
we always just on the same scene.
Ray knew Mechi, as well.
We heard he got killed, so we like,
"What the hell, you know, what the heck is goin' on?"
I was shocked. I could not believe it.
[Narrator] Still reeling from her brother's murder,
Cariletta fears the worst.
We actually was just so scared. You know what I mean?
We got a serial killer out here?
[Narrator] Coming up.
Investigators enlist help to stop a killer...
[Cariletta] Nobody wanna talk to the police.
So, that's where I came in at.
[Narrator] And they make an important discovery.
Two handguns were located in the toilet tank.
It was the same caliber handgun used at both crime scenes.
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[Narrator] After a string of three murders,
DeKalb County detectives are urgently trying to track down
their only possible suspects:
Two dancers named Peaches and Snow.
I'm asking the police,
"Hey, you know, you guys hear anything?"
"You guys hear anything?" "Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope."
A week went by, they was like, "Ma'am, we don't have any leads,
we don't have anything, yet."
[Narrator] Unwilling to let the murders go unsolved,
Cariletta takes matters into her own hands.
[Cariletta] I wasn't just gonna sit there
and, you know, be scared.
Nobody wanna talk to the police.
So, that's where I came in at.
[Narrator] Cariletta hits the streets,
trying to uncover anything she can on the two dancers
who were allegedly at her brother's apartment
the night of the first murders.
[Cariletta] I reached out to everybody.
I went to about three, four strip clubs.
They're not supposed to let you do this,
but because of my status,
they allowed me to go and look at the permit books.
[Nicole] Because she was a dancer
and she wasn't law enforcement,
They let Cariletta sift through these permit books.
It'll tell your name, your age,
you know, all the basic information.
And she was able to identify Peaches.
I came across this one permit of Falicia Blakely,
and her height and weight stood out.
She was tall and skinny.
She was like 5' something and 114 pounds.
I say, "You know what? That look like her."
I called the detective and I told him what I had found,
and he was like, "Okay, meet me and I'll run everything."
[Narrator] Falicia Blakely was born in 1983,
to a single mother in Jacksonville, Florida.
Falicia had an absent father.
She was bounced between her mother and her grandmother
in Jacksonville her whole childhood.
[Narrator] In 1998, at the age of 15,
Falicia moved with her mother to Atlanta.
[Mara] The mother had been transferred to Atlanta
with some kind of warehouse job.
[Narrator] Falicia's already tense relationship
with her mother
became even more difficult after the move.
[Nicole] She had a lotta anger.
Her relationship with her mom was so strained,
she had to find a way to support herself.
So, she got a fake permit or ID to make herself look older,
and she began dancing in these clubs.
It was very lucrative for her.
[Narrator] Falicia left home at age 17.
Young and beautiful,
she made enough money dancing to get by.
[After Falicia was dancing in these clubs,
she was dating a guy.
She got pregnant,
but she didn't wanna have anything to do with the guy.
So, she was just gonna raise the baby on her own,
but she couldn't dance as she got bigger in the pregnancy.
So, there was one particular night that she was dancing,
and she was showing quite a bit,
and she wasn't making very much money.
And a guy in the audience approached her.
Falicia described him as good looking,
you know, charismatic.
He approached her and gave her a big wad of cash.
[Narrator] At the end of the night,
the man introduced himself as Mike Berry.
[Tanika] Made her feel like she was on top of the world
and she could have everything.
There was no guidance in her life.
You know, you're gonna latch onto the first person
that shows you any type of
affection and love and stability.
[Narrator] Quickly, the two began dating,
and Mike offered Falicia dreams of a better life.
This was, everything she probably ever wanted
was what she saw in Mike Berry.
He was giving her love, spending time with her,
buying her things; fur coats and cars,
and offering to, like, take the role of being
this baby's father.
[Narrator] However, Falicia's relationship with Mike
didn't turn out as she hoped.
When you have a, a master manipulator,
they know who to target.
They're not gonna target the flamboyant chick in the club.
You know, they're gonna target the one that they think
that's very insecure.
[Nicole] He was much older than her.
He made all these promises to her.
"We're gonna get out of Atlanta. We're gonna have a better life."
He just sold her this huge pipedream,
and Falicia bought into it.
[Narrator] But in the end, none of that happened.
[Nicole] Falicia's transient, she's has no real known address.
She would drop the baby off at day care
and then just not pick the baby up.
And so, Falicia's mom got the baby.
Falicia tried to fight her on that,
but the mom ended up getting the custody.
And Falicia went back to dancing in these clubs.
[Narrator] Now in August of 2002,
Falicia's name is at the center
of a triple homicide investigation.
You're dealing with a suspect who dances at different clubs
in different areas of the city.
So, trying to hunt and find her location,
you're losing a lot of time.
[Narrator] Meanwhile,
just a few miles away inside the Atlanta city limits,
a call comes in to 911.
[Todd] On August 25th,
City of Atlanta police were contacted regarding
some suspicious individuals
in the lobby of a Mrs. Winners restaurant.
There had been a series of robberies,
armed robberies at a fast food fried chicken restaurant
all over the Atlanta area.
And the perpetrators were female.
As such, the word got out among
the various franchises of the restaurant,
"Be on the lookout for women who are acting suspicious."
[Narrator] The manager reports there are three women
in the dining room who match the description
of the suspects at large.
[Todd] When Atlanta police get there,
the females are seen running into the bathroom.
Atlanta police order the females out of the bathroom.
[Narrator] The women are placed in the back of a squad car
and hand over the keys to the vehicle they arrived in.
City of Atlanta ran the tag on
the gold Nissan Maxima that was in the parking lot
that the females arrived in.
When they did that,
they learned that it had been taken in a homicide
in DeKalb County, which was Mechi's homicide.
[Nicole] In Mechi's crime scene,
the one thing that was taken was a car that Mechi had rented.
It was a gold Nissan.
[Narrator] They also discover the women had attempted
to ditch something in the restaurant bathroom...
Two handguns were located in the toilet tank within the bathroom.
One of 'em was a .32 caliber automatic handgun.
It was the same caliber handgun used at both homicides.
[Narrator] Outside, officers ask the women for identification.
The women that were arrested by
the City of Atlanta Police at Mrs. Winners were
Ameshia Ervin and Falicia Blakely.
[Narrator] Coming up.
Detectives learn of another potential victim.
The Orlando Police Department contacted our agency concerning
a similar incident that they were investigating.
Detectives think she's done more murder than we've discovered.
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[Narrator] It's been ten days since the murders of
Raymond Goodwin, Doc Christmas, and Mechi Twitty,
and Atlanta authorities have just arrested their suspects:
18-year-old Falicia Blakely and 20-year-old Ameshia Ervin.
[Nicole] We've been on the hunt for Falicia Blakely,
and here we have Falicia in Mechi's vehicle
with a .32 caliber handgun.
[Narrator] Detectives begin their interviews
with 18-year-old Falicia,
while taking note of her unusual necklace.
It was a, a chain with a padlock on it.
It was odd.
When detectives got to interview Falicia,
she admitted without too much trouble that
they killed Mechi, and Ray, and Doc.
She knew we had the gun, we had the car...
I mean, how do you lie about that?
[Tom] With Miss. Blakely,
her statement was remarkably candid.
This was a girl who is being charged with
three different murders,
and just lays it all out.
She didn't sugarcoat it.
[Narrator] Falicia tells them that she met Ray through
her friend and fellow dancer Ameshia, also known as "Snow".
Ameshia knew Ray as a photographer.
He had given her his business card
to have photos taken.
[Narrator] She says the women had socialized with Ray
a few times,
and on August 15th,
she and Ameshia went to Ray's house to party
before heading out to the club.
While she'd hung out with Ray before,
this day was different.
Falicia believed that Ray possibly had money,
and that's why she was there, to actually rob him.
[Narrator] Desperate for money,
Falicia says she decided to make her move.
When Falicia went to hang out with Doc and Ray
this particular day,
she had her gun with her.
[Narrator] Falicia confesses to investigators
she purchased the gun illegally
[Mara] Doc is on his own phone with somebody.
She walks up behind Doc.
He turns just in enough time to see her with the gun.
She pulls the trigger.
Ray tries to leave, and she shoots him.
Falicia disclosed that Ray had withdrew
about a thousand dollars that day,
so about a thousand dollars was taken from Ray.
[Narrator] As had been the plan all along,
Falicia says she and Ameshia hit the clubs.
Shortly after the robbery of Ray and Doc,
they had gone partying in Buckhead.
[Narrator] Falicia tells investigators
while riding high from success,
the women spotted another potential victim.
They had met Mechi while out partying,
and Falicia believed he had money.
[Cariletta] Mechi, he used to come to the club all the time,
he was a flashy guy.
He loved big, bulky jewelry.
And you know, he was a flashy guy,
so I think that's why they targeted him.
Mechi wants to party with these pretty girls
and invites them back to his house.
They're partying, hanging out.
I believe he dozes off and wakes up to the gun.
Falicia shot him several times.
Got $650 in cash, and they left in his car.
[Narrator] Falicia confesses to investigators
that over the next few days,
she and Ameshia continued their crime spree,
hitting numerous fast food restaurants.
They start gettin' thirsty, you know, to do more robberies,
because these men were just easy to lure in.
They're at these clubs. They're spendin' money.
They're tryin' to have a good time, and they...
They meet these pretty ladies,
and so, that's what happened with Mechi.
[Narrator] Investigators are taken aback
by Falicia's matter-of-fact confession.
This is one cold-blooded female
that just does what she needs to do,
and does what she wants to do.
I mean, I, I don't know if I'd ever seen anything like that.
[Narrator] Next, detectives turn their attention to
21-year-old Ameshia Ervin, AKA "Snow".
[Todd] Her statement matched up pretty well.
She goes into some details about how they took some money,
and how Falicia did all the shooting.
[Nicole] When Falicia starts firing during these murders,
Ameshia hits the ground.
And then Falicia kept screaming, "Get the money, get the money."
You know, like, "Let's get outta here."
She helped take the money.
[Narrator] After both confessions,
Falicia and Ameshia are charged with three counts of
malice murder, armed robbery, felony murder,
and theft by taking.
[Cariletta] Once I got the news, I was like,
"Oh my God, thank you, Lord Jesus."
And I immediately felt a little bit more safe
because someone was in custody.
Ray didn't deserve that, he did not deserve that at all.
Doc didn't deserve it either, they both were good guys.
[Narrator] As prosecutors prepare for trial
and news of Falicia's arrest hits the media,
DeKalb County investigators get an unexpected call...
From detectives in Florida.
[Todd] After the arrest of Falicia and Ameshia,
the Orlando Police Department contacted our agency concerning
a similar incident that they were investigating
in their jurisdiction.
[Narrator] Four months before their arrests
on the night of April 17, 2002,
an Orlando man invited a young woman
back to his motel room to part.
Instead, he was attacked.
That individual was robbed and shot in the head.
However, he was still alive,
and the caliber of weapon used was
a .32 caliber automatic handgun.
According to the victim from the city of Orlando,
the female was described as a black female.
He mentioned that she was wearing a necklace
with a padlock on it.
Falicia Blakely, when she was arrested,
she also had a necklace with a padlock on it.
[Narrator] Did Falicia commit this attempted murder
from across state lines?
And if so, how much blood is on her hands?
Knowing that Falicia had attempted to kill somebody
before these three victims,
it, it raised suspicion for detectives that possibly
she's done more murder than we've discovered.
[Narrator] Coming up.
A courtroom revelation no one sees coming...
The necklace represented that she was his property.
[Narrator] Is Falicia a cold blooded killer,
or is someone manipulating her every move?
He knew how to pick his prey.
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[Narrator] After a killing spree that left three dead
in less than 24 hours,
Falicia Blakely and her accomplice,
Ameshia Ervin, are in jail awaiting trial.
[Nicole] At the initial interview,
even though Falicia was being truthful,
they just still had this sense that maybe there was
more information that she wasn't telling.
But they just couldn't' figure out exactly
what that piece was.
So, Falicia was interviewed later after her arrest.
[Narrator] During her second interview,
Falicia makes a stunning allegation...
[Nicole] Falicia explained Mike Berry was her pimp,
she was forced to do it due to Mike Berry.
And that he was the one that really wanted the money,
and put her and Ameshia up to these crimes.
Mike Berry knew how to pick his prey.
He knew exactly who his target would be.
And he selected his girls carefully.
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[Nicole] Falicia had a necklace with a padlock on it,
and she had disclosed that the only person
that had the key to that padlock was Mike.
The necklace represented that she was his property.
[Narrator] According to Falicia, Mike believed
the successful photographer would have cash on hand,
and he ordered Falicia to rob Ray.
According to her, Mike Berry had been ordering her to collect
more and more money,
that there was all of this pressure.
[Narrator] Mike enlisted Ameshia to be her accomplice.
When she and Ameshia arrived at Ray's that afternoon to party,
Falicia says she had a hard time building up
enough nerve to pull out the gun.
But Mike wasn't letting it go.
Falicia says he keeps calling her
while she's there and saying,
"When are you gonna do this?"
Finally, she calls him back, leaves the phone,
like, sitting on the couch so he can hear what's happening.
He was on the line, and he heard the whole murder.
[Narrator] Falicia says once the deed was done,
Mike insisted she kill again.
And within hours, Mechi was also dead.
Her defense attorney attempts to use Mike,
her pimp, I guess at some extent,
as being the catalyst of this.
They also went and interviewed Mike,
and he didn't admit to anything.
There's really no evidence on our end involving Mike.
I think if Ameshia had come forward and corroborated
some of Falicia's information,
detectives could've built a case on Mike,
but that just wasn't the case.
[Narrator] Regardless, the 20-year-old does not deny
that she was the one to take the lives of three men.
She was really clear about her own level of responsibility,
even though she was under the control of,
to some extent, of him.
We started out seeking the death penalty, absolutely.
At the time, you could not get a life without parole sentence
unless, in fact, you were seeking the death penalty.
[Narrator] In 2004, Falicia accepts a plea deal.
Falicia and her lawyers made the decision to plead guilty
and avoid that trial and serve life in prison,
rather than be considered for the death penalty.
[Narrator] Falicia is spared the death penalty.
Instead, she receives three consecutive life sentences
without the possibility of parole.
I was like, "Thank you God, there is a God.
Thank you so much, Lord,
that this girl is off the street,
and she can no longer hurt anybody else."
[Narrator] Ameshia also pleads guilty.
She receives concurrent life sentences
with the possibility of parole.
The Florida case was never pursued just because
the court system believed that Falicia was
never gonna be out of prison for these three murders.
[Narrator] For those who lost loved ones during
Falicia's 24 hours of bloodshed
her claims at sentencing bring mixed emotions.
[Cariletta] Falicia could've made difference choices.
You did what you did because
that was the person you are on the inside.
It doesn't make me feel better about what happened, you know?
It's very, very, very small amount of relief.
I miss him. I miss him a lot.
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