- FEMALE NARRATOR: When an endearing elderly couple
is found brutally murdered, even a veteran police force
is left rattled by the crime.
- I was in shock.
I walked out of the bedroom not able to speak,
not able to get on the radio for help.
I just stood there.
- I've been in homicide 21 years.
This was one of the worst I've seen.
- They were hogtied with duct tape.
- NARRATOR: When their American dream turned
into a nightmare, they looked to their beliefs for a way out.
- They never really got out of the hole that they were in.
- The couple were firm believers
in an old-style mysticism
from their homeland, and they thought there were actually
people out there that could lift curses
when they needed good fortune.
- That's what she advertised,
that she could take bad curses off.
- NARRATOR: Could their spiritual savior
be responsible for such an unspeakable crime?
- They just continued to pour their money
into the rituals.
- They owed somewhere between 250 and $280,000.
- *
- NARRATOR: June 10, 2012, Arlington, Texas.
At 7:29 AM emergency dispatchers receive a call
from 38-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, Chau Tran,
asking for a welfare check on his elderly in-laws.
- Worried, Chau sent his teenage son to go
knock on the door, which he did,
but there was no answer. And the family began
to gather and they became increasingly worried.
- Chau's family thought that something was wrong.
Um, they noticed that the window at their residence
was open, things just didn't look right.
- NARRATOR: Too terrified to go in the house
and check on their own family members,
they wait outside for police to arrive.
- [sirens]
- I very quickly got dispatched.
And when I got there, right away I knew it...
it didn't look like your typical welfare check.
This appeared to be an entire family that was
standing outside of an apartment.
And that seemed a little off at first.
Also, it being that early in the morning,
we don't normally get welfare checks that early.
- NARRATOR: Upon entering the residence,
there are all the telltale signs of a burglary.
- The responding officers noted that the apartment
appeared to be in disarray.
- I'm calling out, there's no answer.
I know there's no one in the living room,
the kitchen, or the bathroom.
The only room that I haven't checked is,
uh, the bedroom.
- NARRATOR: After a quick check of the bedroom,
Officer Weller doesn't see anyone and is convinced
the home is empty.
- When I got there, I wasn't focused
on the state of the room. I did not notice anything
that stuck out to me. I was solely focused
at that point, finding the family,
making sure everybody was okay.
So I'm thinking, great, everybody's fine,
everybody's healthy, they went out for a walk.
Still with my flashlight in hand, I go to turn around
to leave the bedroom, and at that time,
I see hand smudges on the wall
next to a very small closet.
So I hesitated for a moment. Everything inside of me
told me not to open that door.
But I would not be doing my job if I did not
check that closet.
I opened that closet door.
I saw two people inside that closet.
I knew it was the mom and the dad
that I was looking for.
They were hogtied with duct tape,
their head and mouth were duct taped.
There was blood everywhere. In that split second,
I knew they were dead.
With my 14 years of experience,
this is definitely the most gruesome, brutal
scenes I have ever seen. I was in shock.
I walked out of the bedroom to the living room
and I stood in the middle of the living room.
Finally, I was able to get on my radio
and I requested a supervisor and a crime scene unit.
- NARRATOR: When Arlington homicide investigators
arrive, they too are stunned by the heinous crime.
- It appeared that the couple had been beaten
with some kind of blunt force object.
It was a very violent and bloody scene.
- They were grabbing walls as they were being taken
to the back room. There's evidence
of thrown about furniture in the living room too
as well, uh, ransacking of compact discs.
What crossed my initial mind was a robbery gone bad.
- NARRATOR: But even for a robbery,
the crime is exceedingly violent.
- I've been in homicide 21 years.
This was one of the worst I've seen
due to the nature of how the victims were found.
I can see blunt force trauma to the forehead.
Uh, I can see markings that looked to be
possible hammer but I wasn't sure.
And the amount of duct tape that was used on the victims'
face all the way up to their forehead.
The crime in and of itself is a heinous, horrific crime.
- Who would do this?
You have to say to yourself, who would be so cold that
they would, you know, brutally murder
an elderly couple?
- NARRATOR: When Long Nguyen and Huong Ly
immigrated to the United States
from Vietnam in 2000, they brought with them
their time-honored traditions and their beloved family.
- They decided to pick up their stakes and move
to Arlington, Texas with their three children
to pursue the American dream.
- They were a prominent Asian family.
They had lots of ties to the community.
- Arlington is one of those big cities in Tarrant County
that you really do have a good mixture
of different cultures.
You've got, um, a large Vietnamese community there.
- NARRATOR: Long and Huong saw an opportunity
to create a legacy for their three children
and grandchildren.
- When Long and Huong arrived to Texas,
they started a commercial sewing business
and they enlisted the help of their son-in-law, Chau,
to help run it.
- Chau was the one who spoke the best English,
so he was kind of the face of the business,
and he dealt with a lot of the contractors
and a lot of the different people.
- NARRATOR: After nearly a decade of rebuilding
their lives in the US, their American dream
came true when they secured a lucrative contract
to make garments for a commercial giant.
- They actually got contracts with places like Disney.
- NARRATOR: But by 2011, the family's good fortune
had all but run out.
- They had lost the contract with Disney,
and the business started going down.
- NARRATOR: The family believed that the string
of bad luck required a traditional
Vietnamese solution.
- The couple were firm believers in an
old-style spiritualism, mysticism
from their homeland, and they thought there
were actually people out there that could
lift those curses when they needed good fortune.
- NARRATOR: Searching through a local Vietnamese
newspaper, Chau Tran and his mother-in-law
found an ad for a spiritual advisor
250 miles away in Houston.
- She advertised that she could take bad curses off,
she could put curses on, she could do all of that.
- *
- NARRATOR: Encouraged by his mother-in-law,
Huong Ly, Chau contacted the spiritual advisor
and asked for her help. She agreed to meet Chau
at her Houston home for a consultation.
- She performed a ritual and they were incredibly hopeful
that she could turn the business around.
And they thought that things were gonna be looking up.
- NARRATOR: But one year later, instead of
conjuring good luck, a dark tragedy
has befallen the family.
On June 10th, Arlington police have just
found Long and Huong murdered in their apartment.
- It appeared that an attack happened as soon as they
walked into their apartment.
Something did happen at the front door
because there's blood there.
- There was blood on the carpet,
there was blood on the couch, there was blood on the table.
There was blood on the walls.
There was blood everywhere.
- NARRATOR: While Arlington homicide detectives
see evidence of a burglary gone wrong,
there are other clues as to who might have
committed the brutal attack.
- There was a plate of crushed prescription pills
on the coffee table as if to snort.
There was a marijuana cigarette.
- NARRATOR: But to detectives it's a blue bandanna
wrapped around a beer bottle that seems almost
like a calling card.
- Arlington did have some, some very active
Vietnamese gangs. They, uh, you know,
they, they were known to extort money.
- This was a light blue bandanna.
So I had to consult with the gang unit to see
if they have some knowledge of it.
And they did have some knowledge of the color
of the bandanna. I had everything to believe
that it was gang activity.
- NARRATOR: Coming up, detectives believe
the evidence is too good to be true.
- Sometimes things seem too perfect.
It was just not a robbery gone bad.
We theorized that it was staged.
- NARRATOR: Could a financial windfall point
closer to home?
- I did question who were the beneficiaries.
One was Chau Tran himself.
- NARRATOR: On June 10th, 2012, in Arlington, Texas,
police discover husband and wife Long Nguyen
and Huong Ly brutally murdered in their bedroom closet.
After finding evidence
of gang activity left at the scene,
detectives remain skeptical given the severity
of the crime.
- There was a beer bottle with a bandanna around it,
giving the impression that it was a gang-related incident,
uh, that they were leaving their colors to kind of take,
um, responsibility for it.
- It was too perfect of a crime scene.
It was too set up to the point where I had
everything to believe that it was gang activity.
So we theorized that it was staged.
Other initial items that we found that we thought
we can send off to get immediate tests were taken
such as the marijuana cigarettes for DNA purposes.
- They took hair fibers, DNA.
They took swabs of blood
to see if there were any dual samples.
They processed the duct tape to see if there's
fingerprints or evidence.
- NARRATOR: Investigators next speak with the family
to try and learn more about the victims.
Clearly rattled by the discovery of their
loved ones, there is only one family member able
to speak with detectives, 38-year-old Chau Tran.
- I initially interviewed Chau Tran,
who is the son-in-law. Chau being a primary
spokesperson for the family because he speaks English.
- Chau informed Detective Stewart
that the night of this offense
they were all at a birthday party
and, um, they were celebrating his
father-in-law's birthday.
- NARRATOR: According to Chau, his in-laws seemed
to have a good time and stayed until 10:30.
They received a ride home from another family member,
and that was the last time they were seen alive.
- I asked, "Did they have a lot of money
around the house and things of that nature?"
- NARRATOR: Chau says that if they did have money at home,
it wasn't much.
- Chau said the sewing business was never great.
It was never thriving, and they thought that
perhaps it was cursed.
- NARRATOR: Despite their financial stress,
Chau has no idea how that could have led
to their horrific deaths.
- I asked him every possible question as far
as possible enemies, enemies as far as
the business is concerned, uh family members,
anybody who would want to harm this couple.
- No one could think of any reason
to want this couple dead.
They were sweet, and they were generous,
and they were hard working, and they had great ties
to the community.
- NARRATOR: On June 11th, 2012, detectives attend
the couple's autopsy at the Tarrant County
medical examiner's office.
- It appeared that there was blunt force trauma
to the victims' head. Struck with some sort
of object at the time, don't know what type
of object that was, um, because nothin' was found
there at the crime scene.
- But that's not what killed them.
Her face had been wrapped in 25 feet of duct tape.
His face had been wrapped in 10 feet of duct tape,
and they suffocated.
- NARRATOR: The cause of death is unsettling,
even for the seasoned homicide investigators.
- Just the amount of pain that it took to die
in that fashion, that to me is like
holding your breath until you die, you know,
so that I've always thought just how painful
it was for both victims.
- NARRATOR: Though detectives aren't convinced the incident
is gang related, they can't rule out the possibility and
are hopeful the partial forensic evidence they
collect leads to a suspect.
- If you look at the extensiveness of the
duct tape and how it was applied and to what extent
it was applied, one would have to believe that
the intent was to kill them. It was just not
a robbery gone bad. The whole point was
to kill the victims. Gang activity could
have been a theory. It just seems very personal
to both victims.
- NARRATOR: As detectives conclude their briefing
with the coroner, they receive a phone call
that instantly captures their attention.
- Detective Stewart got a call from the
insurance company after the victim's death.
And routinely the insurance companies will call
when there is a policy over you know, a certain amount.
And their insurance policy was at least a million.
- I did question the insurance company as far as
who were the beneficiaries. One was Chau Tran himself.
- NARRATOR: On June 13th, 2012, detectives meet
with Chau at the Arlington Police Station
and ask him about his in-law's business
and sizable insurance policy.
- He told me that because the business was
in then their name, they wanted to make sure that
they had the ability to carry on the business
if one of the family members were to pass away.
- NARRATOR: When it comes to their whereabouts the
night of the murders, Chau and the rest of his family
have airtight alibis.
- He cooperated with answering all questions
I had as far as timelines of where they were at the
time, uh the party, who was there,
so, I didn't have anything definitive to say
that he was a suspect at the time.
- NARRATOR: Police collect DNA
and fingerprint samples from Chau
and the other family members and compare it to
the evidence found at the scene.
- We were able to gather a DNA profile
from the marijuana cigarette.
- They were hopeful that that would be the link,
that would be the linchpin to the killer
that would lead them to whoever committed
these heinous crimes.
- NARRATOR: But when the results come back,
neither the DNA nor prints match any of Long
and Huong's family members or any of the other profiles
saved in the FBI's combined DNA index system.
- It was very disappointing when we uh got the DNA sample
back and they were not in CODIS.
So then it could be an adult who just never committed a
crime before, and uh, therefore not in CODIS.
- NARRATOR: There is another possibility as CODIS does
not account for a certain age group
of criminal offenders, minors.
- One of the suspicions from the homicide detective
was that it was a juvenile whose DNA is not
in the system yet.
- NARRATOR: Without a DNA match, police are left
to search for any possible lead, but none materialize.
- After interviewing and swabbing probably
50 to 60 people, family members,
a lot of neighbors, we still did not
get any results as far as a possible lead
on a suspect at that time.
- They left no stone unturned.
But for at least two years there was no leads
on this case and the case turns cold.
- There was no movement on it whatsoever
and then in 2015, it sprung back to life.
- NARRATOR: Coming up, a bizarre crime sparks
a new lead for detectives.
- Him stealing that horse started this whole process
of us finally realizing who actually killed the victims.
- NARRATOR: And a jailhouse interview reveals
some explosive information.
- The plan was to make it look like thugs
or gangbangers ended up committing the crime,
but it was an inside job.
- NARRATOR: On October 12th, 2015, over three years
after the unsolved murders of Huong Ly and Long Nguyen,
the Arlington police department receives
new information on the cold case.
- In 2015, police received word that they had a
DNA match on the blunt that was recovered
from the crime scene in 2012.
- Willie Guillory, who stole a horse out of Houston,
and uh, of course that's a felony in, uh,
in the state of Texas. It turned out at the time
of the actual homicide, this kid was 16 years old.
- NARRATOR: Being a minor with no prior felonies,
Willie's DNA hadn't been in the CODIS system
at the time of the murders in 2012.
But in 2015, he became both an adult and a felon,
which added his name to the DNA database.
- You have to have a felony conviction in order for
your profile to even be put into CODIS.
And so him stealing that horse started this
whole process.
- NARRATOR: On October 17th, 2015,
Willie Guillory is brought to the Arlington Police Department
for questioning, but not for the murders.
- He was in violation for not checking in
with his parole officer. We in turn, uh,
made contact with him and we made arrest based
on the violation of his parole, uh, and not,
uh, the murder at the time.
- When I explained to him the nature of the DNA,
how DNA worked, how and why we believe he was
inside that apartment, he immediately broke down
and started, uh, crying.
- He confessed.
He said, "Yes, I was there. Yes, I did it,
but I didn't do it alone."
- NARRATOR: Willie says that in 2012 he was 16 years old
and living with his uncle, 49-year-old Bobby Guillory.
- Bobby said you're gonna go help me do this thing
up in Arlington, Texas, and, and then took Willie along.
Willie's life was such that he didn't feel like
he had much choice.
- NARRATOR: Willie says that on June 9th, 2012,
he and his uncle made the three-hour drive
to Arlington. He also claimed that his
uncle had a key to Huong and Long's apartment
in order to stage a burglary.
- This is exactly how it all happened.
The plan that my uncle end up coming up with was to
throw stuff around, help them set up, uh,
some evidence to make it look like thugs or gangbangers
ended up committing the crime.
We had beer bottles, a blue bandanna,
pills, and marijuana.
- He actually left a marijuana cigarette, uh,
or the remains of a marijuana cigarette.
He smoked a little bit of it.
By leaving the marijuana cigarette to stage this,
that was the very evidence that linked up
to Willie Guillory.
- Once the couple came home, I ran out.
End up running towards the door, trying to stop the lady
from getting out or making any noise.
Then my uncle end up snatching up the man
and ended up beating the man.
- He said I know he hit him with something similar
to some type of blunt, uh, bat or something like that
was used to incapacitate the victims.
- NARRATOR: Willie then says that after Huong and Long
stopped fighting back, he and his uncle used
the duct tape to keep them from escaping.
- He ended up telling me, help me grab them,
put them in the back. Once I took them to the back,
he ended up duct taping them.
He said, "Help me transfer them from the room
to the closet." And that's where we left them
and then we left.
- NARRATOR: With such a stark admission of guilt,
detectives ask why Bobby and Willie had
targeted the couple. That's when he reveals that
it was a murder for hire plot orchestrated by a friend
of his uncle's named Dephne Wright.
- I met Dephne through my Uncle Bobby.
My uncle went into her office and started talking to her.
And she said that people owed her money
and she wanted them to pay up. And then she told my uncle,
"If they don't pay up, I want 'em dead."
- Willie, at that point, says, "Yes, I did this.
I was used by Dephne. Dephne was the driving force
behind this. She used us all."
- It was an inside job. Dephne ended up giving
the key to Bobby to get in the house.
- NARRATOR: With this new information,
investigators charge Willie Guillory with murder.
But they also need to verify his version of events.
Their next moves are to locate Bobby Guillory
and create a profile of Dephne Wright.
- Now we know that it's not some random gang,
it's not some random people. We then start
the investigation on Dephne, piecing things together.
- Police learn Dephne Wright was a spiritual advisor
based in Houston who basically offered, uh,
to turn businesses around and to bring
good fortune to families.
- People would come, uh, you know, purchase her
services and, and use her. And apparently she was
quite popular and had a lot of business.
- NARRATOR: When detectives reach out to Chau
to see if he knows Dephne Wright,
they're met with a suspicious response.
- When I do try to talk to Chau, he now directs me
to his attorney. Whose attorney says, uh,
that if you need to speak to him you need
to come through me. We believe he had wind
that now I'm on to Dephne and he knows Dephne
is a connection to him.
- NARRATOR: Detectives now have multiple leads.
But in order to bridge the connection between
Chau and Dephne, they need to talk to Willie's uncle,
Bobby Guillory.
- Willie was a catalyst at first, Bobby was the next
piece of the puzzle.
- NARRATOR: Coming up, detectives move
on Bobby Guillory, but what they find is another pawn
in a bigger game.
- NARRATOR: But was she truly the mastermind?
- NARRATOR: On December 16, 2015, detectives travel
to Katy, Texas to the address of 52-year-old
Bobby Guillory, one of two men alleged to have participated
in the brutal murders of Long Nguyen and Huong Ly.
- Police arrested Bobby on two counts of capital murder,
just like his nephew, Willie.
- NARRATOR: While at first Bobby refuses to talk,
it's not long before he changes his tune.
- I went down with a search warrant for his
DNA profile. This probably got him
thinking maybe they got something on me.
And then he actually confessed to the offense.
- Bobby did not have a criminal history at all.
So, uh, before this offense occurred,
he's never been in trouble with the law.
- NARRATOR: Like Willie, Bobby puts the blame solely
on 44-year-old Dephne Wright,
who Bobby claims orchestrated the hit.
- NARRATOR: Bobby says he first met Dephne when he
was dating her friend in 2011.
At that time, he had been laid off work and was
struggling to make ends meet.
- NARRATOR: Bobby says Dephne knew
his financial desperation
would make him receptive to her plan.
- NARRATOR: Bobby soon learned that Dephne was
something akin to a spiritual loan shark.
The people who owed her the most were Huong Ly
and Chau Tran, despite the fact that Dephne had never
been able to remove the curse on their business.
- Business didn't really pick up and they never
really got out of the hole that they were in, um,
as far as the business was concerned.
- Instead of changing course, Chau just continued
to pour their money into Dephne.
- She started running these guys on credit.
And it ballooned up, uh, to somewhere
between 250 and $280,000.
- NARRATOR: Bobby says that when Dephne called in the bill,
Chau and Huong couldn't pay and that
Dephne wasn't the type to forgive a debt.
- She was wanting to recoup the money that
she felt like she was owed.
- She learned that Chau and his wife were actually
the beneficiaries of two very substantial
life insurance policies.
Dephne pounced on the idea
that they could collect on both insurance policies.
- From Bobby's perspective, Dephne was the
mastermind behind this whole entire deal.
She dictated everything that was supposed to go down.
- NARRATOR: But when Bobby tells investigators how
Dephne got the key, he makes a startling accusation.
- *
- NARRATOR: Detectives are completely blindsided
by the allegations of betrayal.
- I developed a relationship with Chau and his family.
Would go to see them periodically through
during the course of this investigation.
Then all of a sudden, Bobby himself is saying
that Chau was involved in this.
- NARRATOR: Before following up on Bobby's accusations
against Chau, investigators focus on the woman
who allegedly ordered the murders, Dephne Wright.
On August 31, 2016,
detectives arrive at her Houston home.
- She was married and, uh, she had three daughters.
She appeared to be the driving force in the family.
She's loud, she's direct. She runs that house.
Everything centers around her.
her husband, Howard, uh, was pretty much
subservient to her. We tried to talk to her
about Chau, she confirms that she knows Chau,
he's a client of hers. She knew about the death
of the loved ones, the in-laws.
She said that he told her about it.
I asked her about the amount that Chau had
to pay her. She would not go into detail.
I asked Dephne what happens if someone doesn't pay you?
And then she looked at me and she says,
"Oh, they will pay." She had no doubt
that she would be paid.
- NARRATOR: When detectives confront Dephne with
Bobby's story, she admits to knowing Bobby
but refuses to go into detail.
- She was still very short with us and very cold.
She, she wasn't gonna help.
She wasn't gonna help us at all.
Willie knew who Dephne was.
Bobby, you know, ID'ed her. Everything pointed to her.
Yeah, she was definitely involved and she needed
to be in jail.
- NARRATOR: After Dephne declines to share
the extent of her business dealing with Chau,
detectives file for a warrant and return to Dephne's home.
- We go to the Houston area and we make that arrest.
But we also do a search warrant on her home as well.
- NARRATOR: Inside, police find a ledger which details
Dephne's fees for providing her spiritual services,
including removing and applying curses.
- There were ledgers that purported to show
that she was charging people 10, 20, 30, $40,000
for services rendered.
I mean, my eyeballs popped out of my head.
- NARRATOR: With Dephne under arrest, detectives
first attempt to find out if her husband Howard
knows anything about the crime.
- Her husband was very cooperative.
He maintained that he didn't know any of this
was happening, didn't know why we were there,
maintained his wife's innocence.
- NARRATOR: Detectives move on to Dephne,
hoping the gravity of her arrest will encourage
her to confess. But Dephne continues
to hold her ground.
- *
- NARRATOR: Coming up, Chau reveals how much
control Dephne had over their family.
- He tried to say was Dephne was controlling his mind,
that Dephne had control over his mind and his body
and she was making him do things.
- NARRATOR: But can he be trusted?
- He claimed his mother-in-law wanted
to be killed. It was completely ludicrous.
- To fully explain our case against Dephne,
you have to sometimes make a deal with the devil.
- *
- NARRATOR: In 2015, detectives subpoenaed
Chau Tran's financial records.
They discover that since the deaths of his in-laws,
Long Nguyen and Huong Ly, he had been busy,
but not with the family business.
- We found a new home was purchased.
We also know that the business folded.
They didn't open a business again.
I want to interview him now, but he refuses to talk to me.
- NARRATOR: Although authorities believe Chau
is involved in the murder plot, Dephne Wright seems
to be the puppet master. Prosecutors are willing
to offer Chau a deal in order to secure their case
against the others.
With his lawyer present, Chau explains that when
the family's sewing business started to struggle,
he and his mother-in-law, Huong Ly,
reached out to Dephne.
According to Chau, they were terrified of being in debt
to someone they believed had spiritual powers.
- If they believe in her ability to remove a curse,
they know that she can also put a curse on them as well.
- She made it very clear, you know, that if someone
didn't pay, what would happen and she basically said
I'm getting my money one way or another.
- NARRATOR: Chau claims that to save her family
from an even more terrible curse at Dephne's hands,
Huong was prepared to offer herself as the
ultimate sacrifice.
- Chau said she had actually suggested
that she sacrifice herself, that they let her die
so that they could collect the insurance policy
and pay Dephne.
Dephne thought it was a great idea.
In fact, one life insurance policy wasn't enough
for Dephne. She wanted both of them dead
so that they could collect on both insurance policies
and cover their full debt.
- NARRATOR: Investigators believe that after Chau
and his wife received the insurance money
he paid Dephne in cash, but they have serious doubts
about Chau's claim that this was Huong's idea.
- He claimed his mother-in-law wanted to be killed.
It was completely ludicrous.
- NARRATOR: Still, prosecutors believe they
need Chau Tran to put Dephne, the woman who hired
and paid the hitmen behind bars,
and they make him an offer he can't refuse.
- After all is said and done, Chau is offered immunity
in exchange for his testimony against Bobby,
Willie, and Dephne.
- We knew we would need Chau in order to strengthen
our case against Dephne. So I mean, you have
to sometimes make a deal with the devil.
- NARRATOR: On August 26th, 2019, Dephne's trial begins
and Chau's testimony is undeniably impactful.
- Chau portrayed Dephne as a greedy woman who would
do anything to get her money, even if it meant
killing two elderly, sweet people.
- NARRATOR: Dephne's defense attacks Chau's credibility
and the claim that the family was indebted
to a mystical mafiosa.
- What Chau testified to was they owed, um, Dephne Wright
a lot of money and that Dephne was basically
blackmailing them. He tried to say was that
Dephne was controlling his mind, that Dephne
had control over his mind and his body
and she was making him do things.
- You run up a $280,000 bill and there's not a single
documentation of it anywhere.
I continued to say provide me with an email,
hey, you owe money. Zero. Nothing.
I believe Chau Tran wanted the $850,000
and the 850,000 went into his pocket, nowhere else.
- NARRATOR: Chau also testifies he left the key
to the apartment under a mat and told Dephne,
who in turn told Bobby Guillory.
- The defense said even though Chau received immunity,
he was complicit in this scheme.
- NARRATOR: In September 2019, the jury returns
to announce Dephne's fate.
- Unfortunately the jury made a call
that I simply disagree with.
- She was convicted of capital murder.
She received the ultimate punishment
which is life in prison without parole.
- My intention was to try Chau Tran.
And as it stands right now, Chau is not charged
and unless Daphne sits in jail long enough
or Bobby sits in jail long enough to bring us
some independent evidence,
he's not going to get charged.
It will never sit well for me
that, you know, Chau Tran is not in prison.
- I do believe that, you know,
what goes around comes around.
What's done in the dark will come to light.
And I-I thoroughly believe that.
And they'll have to answer for what they did. All of 'em.
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