- NARRATOR: He was an officer
in the Navy serving his country.
She was his charismatic wife,
holding down the fort.
- They really look like the
perfect military family.
They had a lovely home.
They had two young children.
- NARRATOR: Until this Navy man
meets a tragic fate
on the night of his return
from deployment.
- It was a bloody scene,
and his wedding band
on his left hand
was covered in blood.
- NARRATOR: At first, all clues
point to a chance encounter.
- You would think
it was a random act.
The story of
the robbery gone bad.
- NARRATOR: But appearances
can be deceiving.
- She was still a party girl,
it didn't matter that she had
two children at home.
- NARRATOR: The investigation
would reveal a deadly romance
built on fantasy.
- His MySpace account talks
about how he has all this money,
he's a famous photographer,
filmmaker.
- He was none of the things
that he said he was.
- NARRATOR: At the center
of this twisted plot
is a stunning blend
of lies, lust and greed.
- She was spending
exorbitant amounts of money.
- It was never enough.
You can never have enough.
- She thought she was
going to get away with this.
- *
- NARRATOR:
Newport News, Virginia, 2007.
- Newport News, Virginia,
is in close proximity
to Norfolk, Virginia.
Naval Station Norfolk is the
largest Navy base in the world.
- It has a large military
population, um, specifically
sailors and, and naval personnel
assigned to
the surrounding bases.
- NARRATOR: At just after
6:00 am on April 29,
local authorities receive a call
that one of those sailors
may be in peril.
- NARRATOR: The 911 caller,
32-year-old Cat Voss,
reports that her 30-year-old
husband, Navy ensign Cory Voss,
didn't come home
the night before.
- She basically gives them
the information about how
she sent him to the ATM
the night prior, to get money
so that she could have money to
give the kids for their lunches
the next day at school,
and he never returned.
- She had contacted the ship
and hospitals, looking for him.
- She was very worried
and nervous
because this is certainly not
in keeping with his,
uh, personality.
- NARRATOR:
Within hours of filing
the missing person's report,
another 911 call comes in,
this time from a woman
at an area strip mall
just down the road
from the Voss home.
- A woman who was working at a
doctor's office, actually,
was walking to work
from her parked car,
saw a man slumped over in
the driver's seat of his truck.
- She called it in because it
was a suspicious vehicle.
And this man
needed help immediately.
- When the police came,
they realized that it
matched the description
of the vehicle
that Cat had reported missing
earlier that day.
- He was discovered
deceased in his vehicle.
At this point, it's deemed a,
a homicide investigation.
- NARRATOR: The victim also
matches
the physical description
of Cory Voss.
Police run the
license plate number,
and the truck belongs to Cory.
When homicide detectives arrive,
they quickly establish
the cause of death.
- They discovered that Cory
had been shot multiple times.
It was a very graphic
crime scene.
- He had been shot five times
in the abdomen, chest and arm.
- It was a bloody scene and his,
the wedding band
on his left hand
was covered in blood.
- For something like this
to happen to
an active service member
was especially upsetting
and shocking to
absolutely everybody.
- NARRATOR: At first glance,
investigators wonder
if robbery could be in play.
- Normally, people that are, you
know, trying to commit a robbery
or trying to get in and out
very quickly,
drawing as little attention
as possible to them.
So it seemed like a bit of
overkill for just, uh,
a random robbery.
Why was he shot so many times?
All those are red flags
to investigators,
where we have to dig deeper
into the background
of everyone who's involved
in Cory's life.
- NARRATOR: Cory Voss
was born in 1977
in the blue-collar town
of Berwyn, Illinois.
- Cory Voss grew up in a really
loving, close-knit family.
But he had been kind of
a wild young man.
His mother had been
a little concerned, uh,
because he hung out
with the wrong crowd,
but she always had confidence
that Cory would find himself
and straighten himself out.
- NARRATOR: When he turned 18,
Cory dropped out of high school.
But he was determined
to make his family proud
and began taking steps towards
a career in the military.
- He took a test for, um,
getting into, like,
the military trade,
scored really well.
And that's when he was like,
okay, get my GED,
and I'm going to go and see
how far I can get with it.
- He enlisted in the Navy.
He was a hard worker,
and he was smart.
It was really
where he belonged.
- NARRATOR:
After his training was complete,
Cory was stationed at
Naval Station Norfolk
in Norfolk, Virginia.
- Cory's superiors, uh, saw a
lot of potential in him.
And while he was there,
they helped him get his degree,
his four-year degree.
- NARRATOR: In 1999, with Cory's
naval career sailing strong,
his personal life
caught wind as well.
- Cory Voss goes out
with his friends
for a regular night
of having fun.
And there he meets Cat Wiggens,
who was also out that night
partying with her friends.
- She was curvaceous and blonde
and really got the attention
of men easily
because she was super outgoing,
very bubbly personality.
She was the,
the life of the party.
- NARRATOR:
For Cory, 24-year-old Cat's
alluring accent
was also a draw.
- She told Cory that she was
raised in the Ukraine
by a Ukrainian father
and American mother,
and then moved back
to the States, in Newport News,
when she was in
the eighth or ninth grade.
- Cory was completely
smitten with her,
and those two really hit it off
that night.
- NARRATOR:
Just three months into
their whirlwind relationship,
Cat revealed some
exciting news to Cory.
- Cat was pregnant, and she was
pregnant with Cory's child.
- NARRATOR: Ready to start a
family, Cat gave birth
to their daughter, Casey,
in 2000, and one year later,
the couple welcomed a son,
Cory Junior.
- They really look like the
perfect military family.
They had a lovely home.
They had two young children.
- NARRATOR: In 2005, Cory earned
his commission as an officer,
and he did his best
to give his wife
the American lifestyle
she envisioned.
- They had a middle class to a
fairly well-off lifestyle
for Newport News,
where, you know,
she didn't have to work.
They lived in a nice,
nicer part of town.
They seemed to be pretty
comfortable financially.
- NARRATOR: Cory made the most
of his time at home,
knowing that his next deployment
was always just
around the corner.
- He was a great father.
He just, he did everything
for us, you know.
He, um, he took us to places,
and he, uh,
he played sports with me.
He played baseball.
- My first memory was
riding bikes with him.
He would take me and my brother
outdoors and go on trails.
That was his thing.
He just always wanted to
take me and my brother
and go outdoors
and just, like,
do whatever we could.
- NARRATOR: However, duty called
once again in January of 2007.
Cory left his young family
behind as he deployed
aboard the USS Elrod.
Several months later when,
Cory returned from overseas,
his family was there
to greet him.
Cat even prepared a
romantic dinner on April 28
for his first night home.
- Cory is just home
from deployment
and he and Cat
are spending time at home
over a candlelight dinner.
They'd had a nice dinner,
it was time for bed.
And Cat realized that
she didn't have money
for the children's lunches,
and so she sent her husband
to, uh, the ATM right down
the road to get money.
- NARRATOR:
Only Cory never returned.
By 6:00am, cat had reported
her husband missing.
A few hours later,
Norfolk police officers
identified Cory's body in the
front seat of his pickup truck.
- The logical assumption would
be that he had been shot
in the commission of a robbery
since he had gone to the ATM
the night before.
- Just based on that you would
think it was a random act.
The story of the robbery
gone bad sounded plausible.
- We're looking for
obvious things--any damage,
if there's, uh, indication of
any sort of fight in the
vehicle,
any sort of struggle
in the vehicle,
and whether anything was stolen.
- NARRATOR: While no interior
items seem to be out of place,
authorities note that
the truck's tailgate is down
and its front left hubcap
is missing.
- We needed to determine what
the motive was for this killing,
and we needed to catch
his killer or killers.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
Having avoided danger
on the high seas,
had Cory come home only to fall
victim to a random robbery?
- You see an unknown individual
dressed in all black
enter Cory's truck
from the passenger side
and point a weapon at him.
- NARRATOR: Or was this sailor
already behind enemy lines?
- It's overkill, it's personal.
The motive is not
simply a robbery.
- NARRATOR: After finding
30-year-old Cory Voss
shot to death
in his pickup truck,
detectives with the
Newport News police department
suspect that the
Virginia-based Navy officer
may have been the victim of
a robbery gone awry.
Now they face the difficult task
of notifying Cory's wife, Cat,
of his death.
- Authorities go to her home
to inform her that
they have found her husband,
and that he was dead.
And Cat, she instantly
was hysterical and emotional
and crying, uh, and very upset
to the point where
the authorities thought
they might have to
take her to the hospital.
- NARRATOR: Cat is given time
to collect herself.
Eventually, she recounts
the events leading up
to Cory's disappearance.
- Cory Voss had just returned
from a deployment
aboard the USS Elrod.
He and Cat had
had a romantic dinner.
The kids were in bed.
Cory had left about 11:00
that evening
to go to the ATM to withdraw
some money for the kids' lunch,
and then he did not
come back home.
- NARRATOR: Cat says
she became very worried
when she awoke and realized
Cory still hadn't returned home.
- Cat contacts the ship to see
if he may have returned
for any reason.
She also contacted
the local hospitals and,
as well as
Newport News Police Department
to ascertain if anyone
had been involved in
a traffic accident, of which
Newport News Police Department
told her that they had
had no traffic accidents
that evening.
So Cat reports him as missing.
- NARRATOR:
News of the sailor's death
hits Cory's two young kids
the hardest
- They take me and my brother,
you know, into our rooms
and kind of just, like, tell us,
and it was, like,
the worst experience ever.
Dropped to the floor, like,
didn't even, couldn't even
really comprehend at that age,
you know, they're gone.
- I think it's something that
you would see in, like, a movie
or just something
that doesn't seem real.
- NARRATOR: Investigators' next
move is to notify
the naval station that one of
their own has been killed,
and word spreads like wildfire.
- When one of our Navy members
are, uh involved in
some sort of crime or a victim
of some sort of crime,
NCIS is usually assigned
to that local police department
to assist them.
- It was obviously on the news,
in the media and, you know,
to have an active duty naval
member killed--
and obviously at first,
you know, you don't have
any eyewitnesses, you don't have
any suspects, um,
so to happen in this community
was very shocking
and concerning to the residents.
- NARRATOR: In hopes of seeing
who may have attacked Cory,
investigators acquire
surveillance footage
from the Langley
Federal Credit Union,
where Cat believes Cory
had gone to withdraw money.
- The footage was very grainy,
but it did show that
Cory came to the ATM, and he was
attempting to withdraw money.
- He attempted three times
to withdraw money.
- We actually pulled the ATM
transactions from there
and we see that Cory attempts
to withdraw sixty dollars.
That came back
insufficient funds.
Same thing with forty dollars,
same thing with twenty dollars.
- NARRATOR: The video shows Cory
returning to his truck.
Moments later,
Cory is taken by surprise.
- On the surveillance video
of the bank,
you see an unknown individual
dressed in all black
enter Cory's truck
from the passenger side
and point a weapon at him.
- The view was
somewhat obstructed
and blocked to further
identify that person.
- You see the car drive away,
we assume that
based on the location
where Cory's vehicle was found,
adjacent to the bank that they,
they just pulled off
and then Cory was shot
and killed in his vehicle.
- Based on the limited number
of facts known at the time,
it was a consideration that
this individual is trying to,
to commit a robbery hoping to
get an amount of money,
and then gets angered because
they don't get any money.
- NARRATOR: The more detectives
consider this theory,
the more unlikely they find it.
- People that are
going to commit robbery
they want to do their business,
get some sort of tangible thing
from that person,
whatever that might be,
and leave and get out of there.
This particular instance with
the murder of Cory is overkill.
So, this seemed like
it was something personal.
- NARRATOR: Investigators take a
deep dive into Cory's life
to see if they can identify
any possible enemies.
- In talking with Cory's, um,
executive officer
and other individuals
that worked with him on the ship
and, and in the Navy, no one had
anything bad to say about Cory.
- NARRATOR:
When investigators circle back
to Cory's bereaved widow,
she too
struggles to identify a motive.
- So no indication that there
was anything amiss at home.
It all seemed that he had
a good marriage with Cat.
His family life seemed normal.
- Authorities were stumped uh,
as to who
might want to harm Cory Voss.
He was so well loved.
They were going on not knowing
uh, where to turn next.
- NARRATOR: Then, within 24
hours of Cory's death,
a phone call comes in
that offers up hope.
- The turning point in the
investigation is when
Newport News Police Department
receives a call
on their tip line.
- They find out Cat Voss
was having affairs with men
while Cory was deployed.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
The caller reveals the depths
of Cat's deception.
- Cat Voss was bringing men home
on a regular basis
while her children
were asleep upstairs.
- NARRATOR: And sinister desires
comes to the surface.
- He wanted to have Cory's life.
He wanted to be Cory.
- NARRATOR: 24 hours after
30-year-old naval officer
and father of two Cory Voss
was found shot to death
in a strip mall parking lot,
investigators have yet to
identity a suspect
in his murder.
- They interviewed his
colleagues on the ship,
his friends, his family, and
from all intents and purposes,
it seemed like Cory
had no enemies.
He was a great guy,
which made it very difficult
to figure out
who wanted Cory Voss dead.
- NARRATOR: Then, on April 30,
a tip line set up by the
municipal and federal task force
investigating Cory's death
yields a promising lead.
- There was a call that came in,
and the individual
indicated that the police needed
to take a closer look at Cat.
- That person was one of
Cat Voss's best friends.
She had spent a lot of time with
her and had a lot of knowledge
on the inner workings
of Cat Voss's life.
As soon as she saw news footage
that morning of a truck
with a murdered Cory Voss in it,
she knew to call
the authorities.
- NARRATOR: Cat's longtime
friend Ashley Doyle
arrives at the
Newport News Police Department
ready for an interview.
- They would learn
from Ashley Doyle
that Cat was still a party girl.
It didn't matter that
she had two children at home.
- Cat was an individual who
craved attention
and certainly from men.
She loved the fact that
when Cory was gone
and he was deployed, that she
had the freedom to go out.
- Cat Voss was bringing men home
on a regular basis
while her children
were asleep upstairs
to have any number
of sexual affairs.
- NARRATOR: Ashley reveals that
Cat had a unique tactic
when it came to attracting
the opposite sex.
- Ashley, you know, disclosed
that she would often be at
the bars portraying
a Ukrainian accent.
- NARRATOR:
But, according to Ashley,
Cat wasn't even born there.
- She was born and grew up
in Newport News, Virginia.
- It was just a way for her to
seem exotic and seem cool
or seem different.
She liked the idea
of being from somewhere else.
So she tried to play that part.
- Cat even told Cory's family
that she was from Ukraine.
Um, she spoke with an accent
all the time.
We're starting to see
Cat is a very selfish person
and looked out for herself
at the expense of others.
- NARRATOR: Ashley says in late
2006, during Cory's deployment
several months
before his murder,
Cat began a full-blown
relationship with a man
she met online, Michael Draven.
- Cat had met an individual
on Myspace
by the name of Michael Draven,
who was essentially
her boyfriend.
- NARRATOR: Investigators find
Michael Draven
has a robust online presence.
- His Myspace account talks
about how he has all this money,
he's a famous photographer,
filmmaker.
- He put forth a fascinating
profile, eyeliner, fedora,
movie-maker making six figures
in a really, lovely home.
He seemed to be an
up-and-coming photographer
and really a mover and shaker
in the world.
- NARRATOR: But as investigators
dig deeper, they find that,
like Cat, Michael
also enjoyed pretending
to be someone he wasn't.
- Michael Draven
is not his real name.
- Michael Draven was none of the
things that he said he was.
His name was Anthony Neff.
- He lived with his mother
in Newport News, Virginia.
And to earn money,
he delivered papers.
So, he didn't have this
successful filmmaking career,
as he portrayed himself
to having.
We learned through his family he
had actually changed his name
to Michael Draven to mirror the,
the character
out of the movie, "The Crow".
- Michael Draven and Cat Voss
were a perfect match
because neither of them,
were real people.
They were both people who had
giant outsized imaginations
of who they actually were
in life.
- NARRATOR:
But the biggest red flag comes
when investigators look at
Michael's social media posts
in the days
following Cory's death.
- Draven was actually
posting photos
of Cat and Cory's children
indicating that
they were his children.
- Michael Draven
wanted to be Cory.
He wanted to have Cory's life
and be involved with Cat
and the children just like as if
he were her husband,
and he was their father.
- NARRATOR: Did Michael go so
far in his desire to be Cory
to actually kill?
And was Cat pulling the strings?
Investigators decide to take a
look at Cat's financial records.
- Cat as the, the spouse,
as the next of kin of Cory,
upon his death,
pretty immediately
received the $100,000 death
benefit from the military.
That's, you know, normally paid
out fairly quickly.
- NARRATOR:
While the case stalls,
detectives keep a close watch
on Cat's accounts,
and in the 3 months
following Cory's murder,
they notice her spending
has spiraled out of control.
- She was spending exorbitant
amounts of money.
She went on a trip to the
Outer Banks of North Carolina
with Michael Draven
and with the children,
spending money at the hotel,
restaurants, jewelry, clothing.
- She put Draven up
in an apartment
and paid the rent
for this apartment
so that he was able to move out
of the trailer with his mom.
- Cat had blown through that
money in about three months,
the entire $100,000
she had blown.
- Cat was additionally due
an additional $400,000
from Cory's
life insurance policy.
However, before she could
receive the full amount
she had to be cleared
of any involvement
or any wrongdoing
related to the death of Cory.
- Unbeknownst to her,
the detectives had put a hold
on her money, because she was
under investigation.
Now, Cat did not know that
at the time.
And she was obviously
getting very upset
because she wasn't getting
the rest of her money.
- Cat was sending emails
to the insurance company
discussing about how difficult
it was for her psychologically,
emotionally, that she was
unable to pay her bills.
Obviously receiving this money,
and how quickly she burned
through the money,
and what she was spending it on
was a clue to us
that perhaps the motive
for this killing was money.
- NARRATOR: Investigators have
plenty of suspicions
but what they need is proof.
They place wiretaps on both Cat
and Michael's cell phones.
The move works.
The couple begins communicating,
almost non-stop.
- They're speaking
to each other constantly.
It's very clear though
that they're nervous
and very scared of
what's going to happen next.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
Investigators close in
on a new suspect.
- All of us just gasped because
it was a surreal moment.
You don't get this every day.
- NARRATOR:
And when investigators
confront Michael Draven,
his loyalty to Cat
will be tested.
- NARRATOR: In the months
after the murder of
US Navy ensign Cory Voss,
investigators are squarely
focused on his wife, Cat,
and her lover, Michael Draven.
- So, we had wiretaps on
Draven and Cat's cell phones
and home phones.
The whole point of the wiretap
was to try to elicit
conversations between them,
so that, we could determine
whether...
number one,
confirm their relationship,
also determine if they talk
about Cory's murder.
- During the review
of these conversations,
Cat indicated that she had been
talking to someone named David.
- So that led to
who is this David
and what is his involvement
with this investigation?
- Once that name was being said,
we researched Draven's
Myspace account
and determined that he had
a friend by the name
of David Runyon.
- What we learned
about David Runyon was that
he was in fact in the Army
at one point.
He was a sharpshooter
in the Army.
- NARRATOR: On December 11,
almost 8 months
after Cory's murder,
detectives make a bold move.
- They staked out his home,
and as soon as uh,
David Runyon left,
they executed a search warrant.
- Within that residence
at the trailer,
we located a backpack
that belonged to David Runyon,
and in that backpack, we found
a handwritten shopping list
and, on that list,
was a tarp, boots, a knife
and a black hooded sweatshirt.
- That's very important
because the individual
that entered Cory's vehicle
at the ATM
at Langley Federal Credit Union
was wearing all black.
- We found a box of
Winchester .357 ammunition.
Five rounds were missing
from that box.
Which is important
because there were five rounds
fired at Cory Voss,
and ultimately, you know,
that is what killed him.
- NARRATOR:
After trailing David Runyon,
officers pull him over
and place him under arrest.
- David was cooperative,
seemingly unfazed
by the traffic stop,
didn't show any emotion
to the police or to the,
the agents that were there.
We conducted the search
of his vehicle at that time.
- In the center console
of the vehicle
underneath the compartment,
we discovered, um,
a photograph of Cat and Draven,
and we also discovered a map
of the Tidewater, Virginia area.
- NARRATOR: The map offers
the most damning clue.
- What was important
about this map
was handwritten on the map
Cory's name,
also Langley Federal
Credit Union,
and a description of Cory's car
down to the part
that his tailgate on his truck
would be down
and that he was
missing a hubcap.
- When we found the map
in the vehicle,
all of us just gasped,
because it was a surreal moment.
You don't get this every day.
- NARRATOR: 27-year-old David
is arrested on the spot
and taken in for questioning.
- NARRATOR: No matter how much
pressure investigators exert,
David remains unfazed.
- NARRATOR:
Word of David's arrest
has somehow made its way
to Michael and Cat.
- The wire was still up, we were
still monitoring conversations
uh, between Cat and Draven,
and at that point in time,
they had learned that, uh,
David had been arrested
for Cory's murder, and Draven
was completely agitated
about this news
and very, um, distraught.
- NARRATOR: Once they begin
their search for Michael,
investigators don't have
a hard time finding him.
- Michael Draven
was so despondent
that people called in
reporting seeing this man
wandering around Newport News
looking very upset and sad,
potentially suicidal.
And authorities were
really worried at that point
that Michael Draven
would kill himself
and that they wouldn't be able
to question him.
So, they immediately went out
looking for him.
- They located him, essentially
roaming around on the street,
and that's when
they picked him up and,
and transported him to the
police station to interview him.
- NARRATOR:
At the police station,
Michael is ready to tell all
and readily admits
his involvement in the plan
to kill Cory Voss.
Michael tells them
that back in January,
Cat first brought up the idea
of murdering Cory,
and she wanted Michael to do it.
- NARRATOR: But Michael says
he didn't have to look further
than his friend,
David Runyon.
- Michael Draven met Runyon
at the hospital.
They were, um,
both human guinea pigs.
They would get, you know,
locked up for a week or two,
get paid money to take these,
um, experimental drugs.
- So Michael Draven
asks David Runyon
if he knew anybody that could
kill somebody for him,
and David Runyon says
he's happy to do that himself.
- David Runyon's, uh,
motivation was money.
And he saw an opportunity, um,
and when it presented himself,
he jumped on it.
- Once Michael Draven figures
out that David Runyon is all in,
the three start communicating--
Cat, Michael and David--
to figure out a plan.
- The plan was that, you know,
Cat would obviously
create this ruse, so to speak,
to send Cory to the
Langley Federal Credit Union ATM
on this particular night,
around this particular time,
and that she and Michael
had coordinated with David
to make it look like a robbery,
and in fact kill Cory.
- Cat and David
agree on the amount,
the $20,000 that he's going
to get for killing Cory Voss.
- NARRATOR:
According to Michael,
nine days before the murder,
Cat took one final step
in preparation.
- Cat had opened the account
at the credit union
prior to his death,
setting up the location
of the murder
just a couple of miles
away from their home.
- NARRATOR: Coming up...
The tables turn as now Cat
is the one falling into a trap.
- NARRATOR: And faced with the
truth, Cat bares all.
- NARRATOR: In his confession
on December 13, 2007,
Michael Draven admitted to
participating in
the murder-for-hire plot
that claimed the life
of naval officer Cory Voss.
Michael says on
the night of April 29, 2007,
Cat sent Cory out on an errand
that she hoped
he would never return from.
- She sends him out to the ATM
and asks him to withdraw money.
Um, he goes to the ATM
like the dutiful husband
doing what his wife
had asked him to do.
- But the bank account
only had $5 in it,
due to the fact that Cat
had recently
opened that account,
and it was a minimum of $5
to open it.
Which is why when Cory was
trying to withdraw the money
from the ATM, he could not
withdraw the money
due to insufficient funds.
- NARRATOR: Investigators
believe Cat purposely left
insufficient funds in the
account to give hired hitman
David Runyon
enough time to ambush Cory.
Once in the truck,
David ordered Cory to drive
to a strip mall parking lot
across the street.
- When he pulls into the parking
lot across the street
from the ATM,
he shoots Cory Voss five times.
- NARRATOR: Michael insists that
he wasn't present for the murder
only the planning.
- Draven was totally blindsided
with love, um, with Cat.
But I also believe that
Cat controlled him.
- NARRATOR: Despite the
recorded conversation
about paying David Runyon,
Michael claims they never
gave him anything.
- NARRATOR: Investigators
are ready to arrest Cat
and they ask for Michael's help.
- Newport News Police had, uh,
Draven call Cat
from the police station
and tell her that
he had been questioned,
and he was being released,
and that she needed to
come and pick him up.
- Cops were hiding
and waiting for her to pull up.
And as soon as she does,
they take her into custody
and bring her inside
for an interrogation.
- NARRATOR:
During the interview,
detectives immediately notice
Cat has dropped
the Ukrainian accent.
And without preamble,
she places blame for the murder
on Michael Draven.
- NARRATOR:
Investigators call her bluff.
- It was clear that she was not
going to take 100% ownership of,
uh, Cory's murder,
and she was in fact, um,
deflecting the blame
and indicating that
it was not her idea.
- NARRATOR: By the time the case
makes its way
into the hands of prosecutors
in 2008,
they are determined to hold
all three players accountable.
- The crime was considered
a federal one
and not a local or a state one
because of the fact that
Cory Voss was a military member.
- The Feds initially wanted to
get the death penalty
against all three of them.
- Cat ended up taking a plea
because this was a death penalty
investigation and case,
and she wanted to
take that off the table.
- But it was up to
the United States Attorney.
In exchange for
her pleading guilty,
he gave Cat a life sentence.
- Both Michael Draven
and David Runyon went to trial.
For Draven, he was found guilty
and sentenced to life,
uh, without parole,
and David Runyon
was sentenced to death.
- NARRATOR:
With Cat's guilty plea,
the motive that investigators
suspected all along
is confirmed.
- She thought she was
going to get away with this.
She would come out with,
you know, $500,000 richer
and be able to live her life
with, uh, Michael Draven.
- She sought to find men
who would support her
and her spending ways,
but it was never enough.
You can never have enough.
- There is no doubt
that Cat Voss
was the driving force uh,
behind Cory's, uh, death.
Clearly she stopped at nothing
to get what she wanted.
- I feel like I just have
nothing to say to my mom
after what she did.
I don't, I don't know if
I would ever forgive her.
- I want my dad to be remembered
as someone who put family first,
and also worked at
bettering themselves,
so that they could take care of,
you know, the legacy they have.
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