1 00:00:07,413 --> 00:00:10,965 I thought he was attractive at that time, but I don't now. 2 00:00:13,482 --> 00:00:16,379 I never, never, in a million years thought that 3 00:00:16,379 --> 00:00:20,344 he was capable of doing the things that he did. 4 00:00:22,896 --> 00:00:25,103 That picture, it's -- it's in my mind. 5 00:00:25,103 --> 00:00:28,482 I can never get rid of it. 6 00:00:28,551 --> 00:00:31,034 That part, it hurts. 7 00:00:34,068 --> 00:00:36,172 It hurts that 8 00:00:36,172 --> 00:00:38,275 he would be smiling during it. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,448 Yeah. 10 00:00:48,793 --> 00:00:50,068 Ugh. 11 00:00:51,724 --> 00:00:54,172 I guess it's just hard to, you know, 12 00:00:55,724 --> 00:00:57,896 relive it. 13 00:00:57,896 --> 00:01:00,379 So. Yep. I'm done. 14 00:01:00,379 --> 00:01:04,068 [sniffles] 15 00:01:09,793 --> 00:01:11,689 REPORTER: The so-called Millionaire Playboy, 16 00:01:11,689 --> 00:01:14,379 convicted of multiple rape charges, captured by 17 00:01:14,379 --> 00:01:16,172 a bounty hunter south of the border, 18 00:01:16,172 --> 00:01:20,551 now serving life in prison -- just who is Andrew Luster? 19 00:01:21,586 --> 00:01:25,586 If he hadn't have recorded his crimes, 20 00:01:25,586 --> 00:01:28,965 nobody would know what he's done. 21 00:01:30,517 --> 00:01:33,172 And then it was in the papers, it was in the news. 22 00:01:33,172 --> 00:01:36,068 It was one thing after the next. 23 00:01:36,137 --> 00:01:39,275 It got to be so much for me to handle. 24 00:01:39,275 --> 00:01:42,793 I used to get stopped all the time or, "Oh, my gosh. 25 00:01:42,793 --> 00:01:46,068 "Are you that lady from, you know, the -- are you 26 00:01:46,137 --> 00:01:48,000 the person that that happened to?" 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,103 It was such a hard time in my life. 28 00:01:50,103 --> 00:01:52,482 It was so hard. 29 00:01:56,689 --> 00:02:00,137 I hate to even, um, think about that part. 30 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,896 [The Paper Chase's "What's So Amazing About Grace?" plays] 31 00:02:07,896 --> 00:02:10,378 [strings continue playing sinister tune] 32 00:02:10,378 --> 00:02:12,068 [static crackling] 33 00:02:14,482 --> 00:02:16,689 -[knock at door] -[creaking] 34 00:02:16,758 --> 00:02:21,275 -[banging on door] -[creaking] 35 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:27,275 -[banging on door] -[creaking] 36 00:02:27,344 --> 00:02:29,896 [water dripping] 37 00:02:29,896 --> 00:02:32,067 -[banging on door] -[creaking] 38 00:02:32,067 --> 00:02:34,241 [sinister chord strikes] 39 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,586 So this is obviously a picture of Andrew Luster here, 40 00:02:48,586 --> 00:02:53,067 and that is his dog, who was a really sweet dog. 41 00:02:53,137 --> 00:02:55,586 I loved her. 42 00:02:55,586 --> 00:02:57,482 He was a lot of fun to be around. 43 00:02:57,482 --> 00:03:02,000 You know, he was easy to have a conversation with and had 44 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:03,172 a good personality. 45 00:03:04,689 --> 00:03:06,275 It was kind of easy, breezy 46 00:03:06,275 --> 00:03:10,103 as far as, you know, he didn't have a job to go to, 47 00:03:10,103 --> 00:03:12,241 he just got to play all the time. 48 00:03:14,172 --> 00:03:18,172 This is, like, how I met him, and you would never, ever 49 00:03:18,172 --> 00:03:20,586 think in a million years that this guy is 50 00:03:20,586 --> 00:03:22,034 a serial rapist. 51 00:03:40,103 --> 00:03:43,275 So in October 1996, 52 00:03:43,275 --> 00:03:46,793 I was living in Phoenix, Arizona. 53 00:03:46,793 --> 00:03:49,793 My sister was, um, a new student at 54 00:03:49,862 --> 00:03:51,241 UC Santa Barbara. 55 00:03:52,930 --> 00:03:56,103 I ended up flying out from Arizona to go and visit her, 56 00:03:56,103 --> 00:03:58,965 and we decided to go out that night, 57 00:04:00,482 --> 00:04:04,172 and, uh, while we were waiting for our drinks at the bar, 58 00:04:04,172 --> 00:04:06,379 I just hear this male voice saying, "Hey, 59 00:04:06,448 --> 00:04:07,586 can I buy you a drink?" 60 00:04:07,586 --> 00:04:10,068 And I looked over, good-looking guy, 61 00:04:11,586 --> 00:04:13,379 and I kind of looked at my sister, 62 00:04:13,448 --> 00:04:15,793 and he introduced himself, "I'm Andrew," 63 00:04:15,793 --> 00:04:17,896 and extended his hand. 64 00:04:17,896 --> 00:04:21,586 When he offered to buy me a drink, I had said no. 65 00:04:21,586 --> 00:04:25,862 I wasn't gonna have him buy me a drink. I don't even know him. 66 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:29,586 Anyway, he was persistent and said he 67 00:04:29,586 --> 00:04:32,896 and his friend had a table outside and that we 68 00:04:32,896 --> 00:04:35,000 should come out there and sit at a table. 69 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:40,000 So we agreed to go sit outside with our drinks and kind of get 70 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:41,344 to know them. 71 00:04:43,931 --> 00:04:45,379 And, um, you know, 72 00:04:45,448 --> 00:04:49,689 we got to talking, and he, I hate to even admit it now, 73 00:04:49,689 --> 00:04:51,068 because knowing 74 00:04:51,137 --> 00:04:54,689 the kind of person that he is now that I know -- 75 00:04:54,689 --> 00:04:57,275 he was so charming, 76 00:04:57,344 --> 00:05:03,034 dazzling smile, just really witty and bright, 77 00:05:04,482 --> 00:05:08,172 and so kind of after some time passed, 78 00:05:08,172 --> 00:05:11,379 he told us that he has a beach house that's nearby, 79 00:05:11,379 --> 00:05:14,482 said it's really close, it's right on 80 00:05:14,482 --> 00:05:17,551 the beach, and that he makes a great margarita, and... 81 00:05:19,689 --> 00:05:21,172 and so I wanted to go. 82 00:05:21,172 --> 00:05:25,793 So my sister, she's like, "No way, we're not going there. 83 00:05:25,793 --> 00:05:27,793 That's crazy, super dangerous." 84 00:05:27,862 --> 00:05:30,379 And she was right. 85 00:05:31,827 --> 00:05:35,172 At the time, I just couldn't see that at all. 86 00:05:35,172 --> 00:05:37,379 And, um, 87 00:05:37,379 --> 00:05:42,482 ultimately, she agreed -- I should have never even gone to 88 00:05:42,551 --> 00:05:43,896 that table and talked to him, 89 00:05:43,965 --> 00:05:47,586 but I just was so unsuspecting. 90 00:05:47,586 --> 00:05:51,172 But at the time, with my 23-year-old brain, I didn't see 91 00:05:51,172 --> 00:05:52,344 the danger in it. 92 00:05:53,896 --> 00:05:56,379 I just feel like such a fool now. 93 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,896 We went inside of his house. 94 00:06:09,965 --> 00:06:13,793 He made all four of us, um, a margarita. 95 00:06:13,793 --> 00:06:15,482 After you. 96 00:06:15,551 --> 00:06:18,068 I was not feeling intoxicated at all at the time. 97 00:06:18,068 --> 00:06:21,068 When we got to the house -- no, we were completely sober. 98 00:06:24,482 --> 00:06:26,793 Andrew and I, with margaritas in hand, 99 00:06:26,793 --> 00:06:29,793 we were sitting on his couch in his living room, talking. 100 00:06:29,862 --> 00:06:33,862 And so he says, "Oh, well, have you ever heard of GHB?" 101 00:06:40,724 --> 00:06:44,689 He says, oh, well, it's a natural supplement that he 102 00:06:44,689 --> 00:06:47,793 uses it all the time, and did I wanna try it? 103 00:06:47,793 --> 00:06:51,862 And... you know, I said yes, 104 00:06:55,275 --> 00:06:58,068 which is not like me. 105 00:06:58,137 --> 00:06:59,482 I didn't -- I wasn't 106 00:06:59,482 --> 00:07:02,482 a person to use drugs or anything like that. 107 00:07:02,482 --> 00:07:08,344 And so he has two shot glasses, one for him and one for myself, 108 00:07:09,793 --> 00:07:12,172 and he's like, okay, just chase it down, 109 00:07:12,241 --> 00:07:13,655 and then he took it, too. 110 00:07:16,413 --> 00:07:18,896 I mean, you know, we -- we both did it, 111 00:07:18,896 --> 00:07:22,586 and I became very talkative 112 00:07:22,655 --> 00:07:25,379 and happy feeling. 113 00:07:25,379 --> 00:07:28,275 It was a euphoric feeling, just like he said. 114 00:07:28,275 --> 00:07:29,793 And, um, 115 00:07:29,793 --> 00:07:33,551 and then I kind of felt like I needed to lay down. 116 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,689 And I just remember looking up at his ceiling, and I was 117 00:07:38,689 --> 00:07:41,379 talking about my cat from childhood, and that is 118 00:07:41,448 --> 00:07:42,965 the last thing that I remember. 119 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:57,379 And the next thing that I remember, I... 120 00:07:57,379 --> 00:08:01,586 it was morning, and I -- I open my eyes, and I'm in 121 00:08:01,586 --> 00:08:05,482 a room that was unfamiliar to me, I'm in a bed. 122 00:08:05,482 --> 00:08:10,000 I have all my clothes on. Even my pantyhose are still on. 123 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,448 So everything was intact. 124 00:08:15,103 --> 00:08:18,379 And then just very shortly afterwards, 125 00:08:18,448 --> 00:08:20,068 he -- Andrew came walking in, 126 00:08:20,137 --> 00:08:22,793 and he says, "Oh my gosh, good. 127 00:08:22,793 --> 00:08:25,379 Are you okay?" And he says, um, "Gosh, 128 00:08:25,379 --> 00:08:26,896 "you passed out last night. 129 00:08:26,896 --> 00:08:29,068 I had to -- I had to carry you in here." 130 00:08:31,586 --> 00:08:34,586 And I just remember thinking how -- I passed out? 131 00:08:34,586 --> 00:08:36,275 How could I possibly pass out? 132 00:08:36,344 --> 00:08:38,000 I've never passed out in my life, 133 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:39,379 and certainly I didn't have 134 00:08:39,379 --> 00:08:43,000 enough alcohol to make me pass out or black out. 135 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:47,000 And it felt very eerie, very eerie. 136 00:08:51,689 --> 00:08:54,000 I just didn't know why I was missing 137 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,275 all that time, but he made me feel 138 00:08:57,275 --> 00:09:01,068 very comfortable in the way that he -- 139 00:09:01,137 --> 00:09:04,793 he seemed to be very concerned about me, you know, he was -- 140 00:09:04,793 --> 00:09:07,793 he was concerned that I passed out, and he was, like, 141 00:09:07,793 --> 00:09:09,965 trying to take care of me, you know. 142 00:09:14,896 --> 00:09:17,965 [voice breaking] That part is just so disturbing, 143 00:09:19,793 --> 00:09:21,551 that he, you know, 144 00:09:23,206 --> 00:09:26,068 made it seem like 145 00:09:26,137 --> 00:09:28,172 everything was okay, you know? 146 00:09:30,275 --> 00:09:33,103 Of course, there's that little voice in your head that's 147 00:09:33,103 --> 00:09:37,275 like saying, um, something is wrong here in 148 00:09:37,344 --> 00:09:38,655 this situation. 149 00:09:40,482 --> 00:09:44,068 When I found out what he did, 150 00:09:44,137 --> 00:09:46,068 it was unbelievable. 151 00:09:56,965 --> 00:10:00,068 So that next morning when I ended up leaving, 152 00:10:00,137 --> 00:10:03,379 Andrew said he wanted to take me flying the next day, 153 00:10:03,379 --> 00:10:06,068 and, you know, he wants to make plans to get 154 00:10:06,068 --> 00:10:08,793 together to see me again. 155 00:10:08,793 --> 00:10:13,172 Even though I want to say that in the -- in my mind though, 156 00:10:13,241 --> 00:10:16,689 I just felt like this isn't adding up, like this is -- 157 00:10:16,689 --> 00:10:20,586 something is off here, but at the time, 158 00:10:20,586 --> 00:10:24,172 it just seemed so exciting to me, you know, I just -- 159 00:10:24,241 --> 00:10:25,482 I'm gonna go flying tomorrow. 160 00:10:25,482 --> 00:10:28,068 I've never been in a private plane before. 161 00:10:28,068 --> 00:10:30,275 I'll call you. 162 00:10:30,275 --> 00:10:31,793 TONJA: And I -- I believed him. 163 00:10:31,793 --> 00:10:36,482 So we went on dates for the next several days. 164 00:10:36,551 --> 00:10:40,586 He was so gentlemanly and charming 165 00:10:40,586 --> 00:10:42,482 and very nice and considerate. 166 00:10:42,482 --> 00:10:44,000 Always opened my door for me, 167 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,793 always pulled out my chair for me. 168 00:10:45,793 --> 00:10:50,965 He ended up revealing that he comes from a major fortune. 169 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,103 His great-grandfather was a big time cosmetics mogul, 170 00:10:55,103 --> 00:10:56,379 a well known name. 171 00:10:56,379 --> 00:11:01,172 Um, and he inherited a huge trust fund. 172 00:11:01,172 --> 00:11:02,482 That's what he lived off of. 173 00:11:02,551 --> 00:11:06,379 There was never any, um, sign 174 00:11:06,448 --> 00:11:09,379 that he could be dangerous at all. 175 00:11:23,206 --> 00:11:24,862 So I made the leap. 176 00:11:24,862 --> 00:11:29,965 I was young, and I wanted to see what was out there in the world, 177 00:11:29,965 --> 00:11:33,965 and, um, you know, he was good to me, 178 00:11:35,275 --> 00:11:39,586 but shortly after I moved in with him, and of course I was 179 00:11:39,586 --> 00:11:41,689 sharing his room with him, 180 00:11:41,689 --> 00:11:43,965 he had a kind of a walk-in closet, 181 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,689 but I did notice he had some weapons. 182 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,172 He had, um, an AK-47, believe it or not. 183 00:11:53,241 --> 00:11:58,275 And he had a couple of other guns. 184 00:11:58,275 --> 00:12:00,379 Why would somebody have so many weapons? 185 00:12:00,448 --> 00:12:03,068 What is that all about? 186 00:12:03,068 --> 00:12:07,689 And there were several videotapes in there, you know, 187 00:12:07,689 --> 00:12:11,068 um, VHS tapes, like dozens. 188 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:16,103 And I thought, oh my gosh, look at all of this. 189 00:12:16,103 --> 00:12:17,586 Why did he have all that? 190 00:12:17,655 --> 00:12:20,965 Oh, you scared me? 191 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,586 TONJA: I asked him about it, 192 00:12:22,655 --> 00:12:27,379 what those were all about, and he kind of flippantly said that, 193 00:12:27,379 --> 00:12:28,965 well, he was a surfer, you know, 194 00:12:28,965 --> 00:12:34,000 and so he likes to watch surf videos, and he likes to make 195 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,896 surf videos. -Do you want to watch one? 196 00:12:35,896 --> 00:12:37,758 Okay. 197 00:12:37,827 --> 00:12:41,896 But they also had women in bikinis in it -- he called it, 198 00:12:41,896 --> 00:12:44,068 um, what were they -- waves and babes. 199 00:12:44,068 --> 00:12:46,896 Corny name, so corny. 200 00:12:46,896 --> 00:12:49,172 But he thought it was great. 201 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,862 And I watched part of one of them, 202 00:12:59,931 --> 00:13:02,275 and it wasn't just girls in bikinis 203 00:13:02,275 --> 00:13:06,000 and then guys surfing -- it was more sexualized than... 204 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,172 it wasn't innocent. 205 00:13:09,862 --> 00:13:12,344 And I felt really uncomfortable with it. 206 00:13:13,413 --> 00:13:14,862 So I didn't really like it. 207 00:13:14,931 --> 00:13:19,068 Even at the time, was red -- red flag to me. 208 00:13:19,137 --> 00:13:23,275 What made me uncomfortable about it was that 209 00:13:23,275 --> 00:13:27,758 I guess his fascination with the women and 210 00:13:27,758 --> 00:13:30,275 creating a film. 211 00:13:30,275 --> 00:13:35,344 He always had a camera, and had I had any idea 212 00:13:36,482 --> 00:13:39,275 at that time, I would have been terrified. 213 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,551 I went to take a shower one day. 214 00:13:50,586 --> 00:13:53,689 I didn't see anything out of the ordinary when I got in 215 00:13:53,758 --> 00:13:55,586 the shower. 216 00:13:55,586 --> 00:13:57,758 But when I got out of the shower, I saw 217 00:13:57,758 --> 00:14:00,758 a video camera there on the back of the toilet, 218 00:14:02,689 --> 00:14:05,344 facing towards the shower, 219 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:10,344 and I felt like, 220 00:14:11,689 --> 00:14:13,586 you know, it wasn't there before. 221 00:14:15,172 --> 00:14:16,965 It really creeped me out. 222 00:14:19,379 --> 00:14:21,482 So I confronted him about it. 223 00:14:21,482 --> 00:14:23,172 Andrew! 224 00:14:24,206 --> 00:14:25,586 TONJA: You know, what were you doing? 225 00:14:25,586 --> 00:14:28,000 Are you recording me when I'm taking a shower? 226 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,655 What is that? 227 00:14:32,206 --> 00:14:36,482 And he was very like, "No, of course not." 228 00:14:36,482 --> 00:14:39,068 He told me that he had just set it down in there, 229 00:14:39,137 --> 00:14:40,379 and he just left it there. 230 00:14:40,379 --> 00:14:43,172 I second-guessed myself. 231 00:14:43,172 --> 00:14:46,689 And even though I knew 232 00:14:46,758 --> 00:14:48,482 logically in my mind, well, 233 00:14:48,551 --> 00:14:50,275 when I was undressing to get in the shower, 234 00:14:50,275 --> 00:14:52,172 wouldn't I have seen the camera sitting there? 235 00:14:52,172 --> 00:14:55,482 Yes, I would have. But he seemed innocent. 236 00:14:55,482 --> 00:15:00,482 I just kind of like put that on the back burner for, well, 237 00:15:00,482 --> 00:15:02,586 if there's anything else, then, you know, 238 00:15:02,586 --> 00:15:04,275 I really need to be careful. 239 00:15:04,275 --> 00:15:06,482 I didn't see the signs. 240 00:15:06,551 --> 00:15:09,896 In retrospect, of course, now I can look at it and go, 241 00:15:09,896 --> 00:15:11,827 oh, well, what about this? What about that? 242 00:15:13,172 --> 00:15:16,172 He's really likable. I mean... 243 00:15:16,172 --> 00:15:19,793 you'd be surprised -- it's, you know, you think, wow, 244 00:15:19,793 --> 00:15:22,275 somebody like that is a psychopath, and you can 245 00:15:22,275 --> 00:15:25,172 definitely tell -- no, you cannot tell. 246 00:15:37,172 --> 00:15:39,068 So the way his house is set up, 247 00:15:39,068 --> 00:15:40,965 there is a long kind of hallway that goes 248 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 out to a garage where you can do your 249 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,862 laundry, where the washer and dryer is. 250 00:15:44,862 --> 00:15:50,068 And I had gone that way to do my laundry, and I -- 251 00:15:50,068 --> 00:15:53,172 I just never had looked around, and I didn't ever pay much 252 00:15:53,172 --> 00:15:56,068 attention to it, but this one particular time, 253 00:15:56,068 --> 00:16:00,379 I noticed on the wall on the right-hand side, he had 254 00:16:00,379 --> 00:16:04,275 a collage of pictures of -- of various women 255 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:08,758 in -- most in bathing suits, you know, like at a beach, 256 00:16:10,068 --> 00:16:12,379 and right away, when I looked at it, 257 00:16:12,379 --> 00:16:15,275 something inside me felt -- it felt weird. 258 00:16:15,275 --> 00:16:19,172 It didn't seem normal to me that anybody would have that. 259 00:16:20,275 --> 00:16:21,689 You know, you'll see at people's houses, 260 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:23,379 they'll have collages of their friends 261 00:16:23,379 --> 00:16:25,000 or their family members. 262 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,689 But this was only women, and they were not facing 263 00:16:27,689 --> 00:16:30,068 the camera, like, smiling for the photo. 264 00:16:30,137 --> 00:16:32,482 You could tell that they were all candid shots. 265 00:16:32,551 --> 00:16:36,379 It was creepy and, you know, your intuition does tell you 266 00:16:36,379 --> 00:16:39,758 when something is off, and it did feel a bit off to me. 267 00:16:41,758 --> 00:16:45,482 And I caught a glimpse of my photo that was 268 00:16:45,482 --> 00:16:48,241 added to the -- his collage there. 269 00:16:50,793 --> 00:16:51,793 At the time, 270 00:16:51,793 --> 00:16:53,000 I thought it was just sort of like 271 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,068 a notch on his belt type of thing. 272 00:16:55,137 --> 00:16:59,689 And I did not appreciate that at all, being kind of like one 273 00:16:59,758 --> 00:17:03,379 of his trophies on his wall or whatever that's supposed to be. 274 00:17:03,448 --> 00:17:07,586 And so I immediately pulled it off of there, and I threw it 275 00:17:07,586 --> 00:17:09,034 out in the trash. 276 00:17:12,586 --> 00:17:16,068 And he noticed right away that it wasn't there, 277 00:17:16,068 --> 00:17:18,689 and he got really upset with me. 278 00:17:18,758 --> 00:17:21,172 Did you take down my picture? 279 00:17:21,172 --> 00:17:22,586 TONJA: He was really pissed off. 280 00:17:22,586 --> 00:17:24,689 He asked, "Well, where is it?" 281 00:17:24,689 --> 00:17:26,550 And I said, "I threw it in the trash." 282 00:17:27,586 --> 00:17:30,482 And he was very threatening. 283 00:17:30,551 --> 00:17:33,482 He was right in my face. 284 00:17:33,551 --> 00:17:36,275 Never touch my things again! 285 00:17:37,896 --> 00:17:41,379 All of a sudden, he was this very angry 286 00:17:41,379 --> 00:17:45,103 person who felt violated or felt that I had touched 287 00:17:45,103 --> 00:17:46,896 something special of his. 288 00:17:46,896 --> 00:17:49,586 And so that right away let me know that there was 289 00:17:49,586 --> 00:17:52,965 something sinister, something not right. 290 00:17:52,965 --> 00:17:55,793 AS ANDREW: Do you understand me?! 291 00:17:55,793 --> 00:17:59,379 TONJA: And that, to me, in that moment 292 00:17:59,379 --> 00:18:01,758 told me that that was something that he was hiding. 293 00:18:01,758 --> 00:18:04,586 Well, now I know not only was I right, 294 00:18:04,586 --> 00:18:06,275 but I was far from right, 295 00:18:06,275 --> 00:18:08,586 actually, because it was so much worse than -- 296 00:18:08,586 --> 00:18:11,172 than what I even could have ever dreamed. 297 00:18:11,172 --> 00:18:13,931 And... 298 00:18:15,103 --> 00:18:18,965 in retrospect, I really think those women may 299 00:18:18,965 --> 00:18:23,172 have been the women that he raped. 300 00:18:31,482 --> 00:18:33,655 TONJA: After some time, after I'd been living there 301 00:18:33,724 --> 00:18:38,793 for some time, it was a lot of little things about him 302 00:18:38,793 --> 00:18:40,379 that I didn't like. 303 00:18:40,379 --> 00:18:42,758 When he knew that I had removed my picture 304 00:18:42,758 --> 00:18:45,758 from his prized collage there, 305 00:18:45,758 --> 00:18:47,482 that was kind of the final straw. 306 00:18:47,482 --> 00:18:49,689 I didn't trust him. 307 00:18:49,689 --> 00:18:53,862 I just kind of had a building feeling 308 00:18:53,931 --> 00:18:55,241 in my gut that 309 00:18:55,310 --> 00:18:59,241 I didn't like him, and I didn't trust him anymore. 310 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,379 And it's like one of those things, you -- 311 00:19:02,379 --> 00:19:04,896 you just can't put your finger on it at the time. 312 00:19:04,896 --> 00:19:08,137 But, you know, your -- your gut tells you, 313 00:19:08,137 --> 00:19:10,655 your intuition tells you about people. 314 00:19:10,655 --> 00:19:16,034 And so I was ending things with him and trying to figure out 315 00:19:16,034 --> 00:19:18,482 where I was gonna go live. 316 00:19:18,482 --> 00:19:21,758 And it was just a matter of days before I moved out. 317 00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:26,103 And so it was pretty quick, and he wasn't expecting it. 318 00:19:32,275 --> 00:19:34,896 When I was trying to get my things to go, 319 00:19:34,896 --> 00:19:37,103 he did not want me to leave, 320 00:19:38,448 --> 00:19:41,103 and he came in the room, 321 00:19:41,103 --> 00:19:43,827 and he just had me by my wrist, 322 00:19:44,896 --> 00:19:47,344 and he... 323 00:19:47,344 --> 00:19:49,724 actually pinned me down on the ground. 324 00:19:51,379 --> 00:19:54,000 And I -- at first, I thought he was just 325 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:55,793 kind of playing around. 326 00:19:55,793 --> 00:19:58,241 I've never had a man be physical with me like 327 00:19:58,241 --> 00:20:02,103 that before, so it was -- didn't seem real to me, 328 00:20:02,103 --> 00:20:04,862 but then he wouldn't let me up. 329 00:20:04,862 --> 00:20:07,965 [As Tonja grunting] Andrew! Get off me! 330 00:20:07,965 --> 00:20:12,103 And then that's when it got -- I did get scared at that point. 331 00:20:12,103 --> 00:20:14,000 And I thought if I yell, 332 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,862 is anybody gonna be able to hear me? 333 00:20:15,931 --> 00:20:18,344 And I was telling him to let me up, and he wouldn't. 334 00:20:18,344 --> 00:20:22,068 And then that is when I was afraid of him. 335 00:20:22,068 --> 00:20:24,448 I didn't really know what he was gonna do. 336 00:20:24,448 --> 00:20:27,241 I mean, he was begging me to stay. 337 00:20:27,310 --> 00:20:28,655 He didn't want me to go. 338 00:20:28,655 --> 00:20:30,172 And I remember telling him, 339 00:20:30,172 --> 00:20:32,379 "Let me up. I gotta go. I gotta go." 340 00:20:32,379 --> 00:20:35,517 Which he did eventually let me up. 341 00:20:38,275 --> 00:20:39,965 I was done. 342 00:20:48,344 --> 00:20:51,586 So Jon was a neighbor who lived 343 00:20:51,586 --> 00:20:54,655 about 4, 5 houses down the street, 344 00:20:54,724 --> 00:20:58,896 and, um, Andrew and he used to surf together. 345 00:20:58,896 --> 00:21:02,551 They weren't really friends, they were acquaintances, 346 00:21:02,620 --> 00:21:05,000 I guess you could say. 347 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Jon and I liked each other right away -- of course, 348 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,689 neither one of us said anything. We were both in relationships. 349 00:21:12,689 --> 00:21:18,103 It wasn't until things were ending with Andrew that I 350 00:21:18,103 --> 00:21:22,448 finally, I asked Jon one day if he wanted to go out, 351 00:21:22,448 --> 00:21:24,241 downtown Santa Barbara with me. 352 00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:26,241 He said yes right away. 353 00:21:27,862 --> 00:21:32,655 Andrew was very upset, uh, very upset, 354 00:21:34,482 --> 00:21:40,103 and he took it as a, how could you do this to me? 355 00:21:40,103 --> 00:21:42,241 And he -- he made it like 356 00:21:42,310 --> 00:21:48,034 I was this item that was, you know, taken from him 357 00:21:48,034 --> 00:21:51,137 and now Jon had it kind of thing. 358 00:21:53,275 --> 00:21:56,758 I think he thought of me as a possession, not as a person. 359 00:22:09,896 --> 00:22:12,586 There was one night, I was at Jon's house, 360 00:22:12,586 --> 00:22:14,896 and we were in his bedroom, 361 00:22:14,896 --> 00:22:17,413 and we were talking, and we were sitting on his bed, 362 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,586 but I remember feeling, I don't know, you get 363 00:22:21,586 --> 00:22:24,241 a feeling, you know, like if somebody is staring at 364 00:22:24,310 --> 00:22:25,551 you from behind, 365 00:22:27,068 --> 00:22:30,482 and when I looked over, I saw a figure, 366 00:22:30,482 --> 00:22:32,448 a silhouette of somebody in the window. 367 00:22:32,448 --> 00:22:34,172 Jon! 368 00:22:34,172 --> 00:22:36,482 It moved out of the way instantly, and I just 369 00:22:36,482 --> 00:22:38,310 knew it could only be Andrew. 370 00:22:39,689 --> 00:22:42,931 And it really creeped me out. 371 00:22:44,068 --> 00:22:46,344 Why would you do something like that, you know? 372 00:22:46,344 --> 00:22:50,482 That just seemed -- it was -- it was crossing a line, 373 00:22:50,482 --> 00:22:53,655 definitely crossing a line. 374 00:22:53,724 --> 00:22:56,379 It did seem to be getting pretty desperate at that point. 375 00:22:56,379 --> 00:23:00,448 I was concerned that he would hurt Jon. 376 00:23:02,172 --> 00:23:04,000 He had made some threats before. 377 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,965 He had said something about 378 00:23:06,965 --> 00:23:09,551 burning Jon's house down, maybe like 379 00:23:09,620 --> 00:23:12,965 an idea of to get rid of Jon so that we could run 380 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,344 away together. 381 00:23:14,413 --> 00:23:17,586 It did worry me a little bit that he might do 382 00:23:17,586 --> 00:23:20,379 something just out of sheer desperation 383 00:23:20,379 --> 00:23:22,862 to try to get me back. 384 00:23:22,862 --> 00:23:26,068 It's an obsessive type of thinking. 385 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,448 So the next day, Jon had left to go 386 00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:41,793 to work and, you know, within minutes, 387 00:23:41,793 --> 00:23:43,862 Andrew came down and knocked on the door. 388 00:23:43,931 --> 00:23:45,655 [knocking noises] 389 00:23:48,448 --> 00:23:53,241 And he's there, and he's begging me to come back to him. 390 00:23:53,241 --> 00:23:55,241 You know, "Baby, you're killing me, you know, 391 00:23:55,241 --> 00:23:57,517 you -- you've got to come back to me." 392 00:23:59,068 --> 00:24:02,965 And, as a matter of fact, he admitted to spying in 393 00:24:02,965 --> 00:24:08,517 the window, and he told me that he saw me and Jon in the room. 394 00:24:10,275 --> 00:24:12,758 He was saying, "What do I have to do to prove 395 00:24:12,758 --> 00:24:14,793 how much I love you?" And... 396 00:24:14,793 --> 00:24:19,448 And so he wanted to cut his finger off with a knife. 397 00:24:22,172 --> 00:24:27,586 And I could tell then that he was feeling desperate, I guess, 398 00:24:27,586 --> 00:24:30,551 to try and get me back. 399 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,482 It's so ridiculous -- to me, it just seems so ridiculous. 400 00:24:35,482 --> 00:24:39,724 It just seems, um... psycho. 401 00:24:42,034 --> 00:24:45,241 I never felt like he truly ever loved me, you know. 402 00:24:45,310 --> 00:24:47,448 I told him I wasn't coming back to him, 403 00:24:47,517 --> 00:24:50,241 and I asked him to leave, and he did. 404 00:24:52,689 --> 00:24:54,655 It was just the obsession with 405 00:24:54,724 --> 00:24:57,344 the idea of that he couldn't have that. 406 00:24:57,413 --> 00:24:59,965 And I think he's always been used to getting everything that 407 00:25:00,068 --> 00:25:02,103 he wants, everything that he wants. 408 00:25:02,103 --> 00:25:05,689 And it wasn't happening in this case, and it was like 409 00:25:05,689 --> 00:25:08,655 he was willing, I guess, to do whatever it 410 00:25:08,655 --> 00:25:11,344 took to... 411 00:25:11,413 --> 00:25:13,758 you know, to get what he wanted. 412 00:25:13,758 --> 00:25:16,551 And then now knowing what I know, that would have 413 00:25:16,551 --> 00:25:19,000 changed everything, I mean -- I would have -- 414 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,827 I would have been really afraid. 415 00:25:29,793 --> 00:25:32,241 Okay. So... 416 00:25:34,275 --> 00:25:39,413 This is a -- one of the many letters from Andrew. 417 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,137 [laughs shortly] 418 00:25:43,137 --> 00:25:45,344 Oh, dear. 419 00:25:45,413 --> 00:25:50,448 Okay, so he writes, "I swear as God is my witness, 420 00:25:50,448 --> 00:25:53,862 "and may I fry in hell if I'm not being totally honest, 421 00:25:53,931 --> 00:25:56,344 "I will never want or need anyone else 422 00:25:56,344 --> 00:25:58,275 "if I'm with you, for you 423 00:25:58,275 --> 00:26:01,172 "are my goddess, and I will always worship you, 424 00:26:01,172 --> 00:26:03,344 "and there is no one else that gives me 425 00:26:03,344 --> 00:26:06,000 the connection to God as you do." 426 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,344 So full of it. 427 00:26:08,413 --> 00:26:12,862 "My dream is to marry you, move to Hawaii, raise a family." 428 00:26:12,862 --> 00:26:15,551 Oh, my God. Can you imagine? 429 00:26:15,551 --> 00:26:18,965 "I love you more than I've ever loved anything else, 430 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,655 "even my own life. 431 00:26:20,655 --> 00:26:22,896 "You're the most important thing to me in the world. 432 00:26:22,896 --> 00:26:26,931 Please be with me forever, eternally yours, Andrew." 433 00:26:32,137 --> 00:26:37,344 That's crazy, and that's [bleep] and that, um, no. 434 00:26:37,413 --> 00:26:39,758 The first time I read it, I knew that it was 435 00:26:39,758 --> 00:26:42,103 manipulation, and... 436 00:26:43,172 --> 00:26:44,758 he just wanted me back. 437 00:26:44,758 --> 00:26:48,000 He wanted to win over Jon, and he just wanted me back. 438 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,482 That's how I feel about it. 439 00:26:49,482 --> 00:26:51,655 I don't feel that he loved me at all. 440 00:26:52,965 --> 00:26:54,862 There were so many letters like this. 441 00:26:54,931 --> 00:27:00,103 The reason why I even saved them to begin with was I was saving 442 00:27:00,103 --> 00:27:04,448 them to prove to the police 443 00:27:04,517 --> 00:27:07,551 that he's bothering me -- I felt like he was stalking me. 444 00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:11,241 But then it turned out to be evidence, you know, 445 00:27:11,241 --> 00:27:14,551 later on when I actually found out what happened to me. 446 00:27:37,896 --> 00:27:40,862 So I got a call from a good friend of ours, 447 00:27:40,931 --> 00:27:44,551 and he was saying, "Did you see today's paper?" 448 00:27:44,620 --> 00:27:46,379 And he's like, "You have to get the paper. 449 00:27:46,379 --> 00:27:48,793 Andrew is in the paper." 450 00:27:48,793 --> 00:27:51,482 And sure enough, there it was, you know, 451 00:27:51,482 --> 00:27:52,758 in black and white print. 452 00:27:56,103 --> 00:27:58,551 Andrew Luster was being charged with rape. 453 00:28:01,758 --> 00:28:03,482 I think a college-aged woman, 454 00:28:03,482 --> 00:28:06,172 he had drugged her, but she remembered 455 00:28:06,172 --> 00:28:10,758 being attacked, and she especially remembers 456 00:28:10,827 --> 00:28:12,862 that he raped her in a shower. 457 00:28:16,137 --> 00:28:19,758 And it just seemed so surreal, I thought, oh, my gosh, 458 00:28:19,827 --> 00:28:22,137 like, he's actually going to these lengths now? 459 00:28:22,137 --> 00:28:25,241 Like, this is unbelievable, you know, that he would do this 460 00:28:25,241 --> 00:28:27,758 to somebody. 461 00:28:27,827 --> 00:28:29,862 And then it just said at the end, you know, 462 00:28:29,862 --> 00:28:32,689 if you have any information about this person, contact 463 00:28:32,689 --> 00:28:35,137 the investigations bureau, and there was a phone number there. 464 00:28:35,137 --> 00:28:36,965 And for me, that was a no-brainer. 465 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:38,448 I called them that very day. 466 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,551 This detective, um, told me that when I walked in, 467 00:28:58,620 --> 00:29:00,344 he recognized me. 468 00:29:00,413 --> 00:29:03,379 I was not putting two and two together at all. 469 00:29:03,379 --> 00:29:07,379 I had no -- no foresight of what I was gonna be told. 470 00:29:07,379 --> 00:29:13,137 They said that they had raided his home and that they had, um, 471 00:29:13,137 --> 00:29:15,655 discovered some videotapes. 472 00:29:17,241 --> 00:29:19,965 They said, "We have a videotape with you on it, 473 00:29:19,965 --> 00:29:23,862 "and -- or we think it's you, we just want you to identify 474 00:29:23,862 --> 00:29:25,413 that that is you." 475 00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:33,758 I had no suspicion that I was 476 00:29:33,758 --> 00:29:36,206 on a videotape of any kind. 477 00:29:37,482 --> 00:29:38,896 So they set up the TV, 478 00:29:38,896 --> 00:29:43,862 put the VHS tape in there, and there I was, 479 00:29:45,241 --> 00:29:49,344 laid out on his bed, unconscious, 480 00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:53,551 and I had my clothes on at this time, and I was wearing 481 00:29:53,551 --> 00:29:55,689 the outfit that I was wearing 482 00:29:55,689 --> 00:29:57,241 the very first night that I wore -- 483 00:29:57,310 --> 00:30:00,310 that I met him, passed out on his bed. 484 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:06,551 And when I saw that, it was like... 485 00:30:09,275 --> 00:30:13,344 total disbelief, I mean, yes, that was me. 486 00:30:13,413 --> 00:30:18,344 But I -- it was like a rush of everything came back 487 00:30:18,344 --> 00:30:21,137 at one time, because I thought, oh, my God, you know, 488 00:30:21,137 --> 00:30:24,758 here -- this is the first night that I met him. 489 00:30:27,655 --> 00:30:29,000 It was horrifying. 490 00:30:30,793 --> 00:30:34,241 It was really horrifying to, um, 491 00:30:34,310 --> 00:30:37,862 to see that, and, um, you know, ultimately, 492 00:30:37,931 --> 00:30:40,551 I did have to watch the whole thing. 493 00:30:40,551 --> 00:30:44,206 [As Tonja sobbing] 494 00:30:45,586 --> 00:30:47,517 But, um, 495 00:30:49,448 --> 00:30:51,620 it wasn't just a rape, you know. 496 00:30:53,758 --> 00:30:57,000 Not that there is such thing as "just a rape," but it wasn't 497 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,000 just sex -- he, um, he had a sword, you know, 498 00:31:03,172 --> 00:31:06,034 and, um, he burned me, 499 00:31:08,275 --> 00:31:11,034 and, um, with the sword... 500 00:31:13,689 --> 00:31:16,275 he pretended he was gonna gut me with it, you know, 501 00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:20,241 like taking it all the way from the top to the bottom 502 00:31:20,310 --> 00:31:24,586 and...just the things that he did, 503 00:31:24,586 --> 00:31:28,551 and he narrated the entire video 504 00:31:28,551 --> 00:31:32,137 like it was, um, like a show. 505 00:31:33,137 --> 00:31:34,724 I mean, it was just... 506 00:31:35,793 --> 00:31:37,655 horrifying, and, 507 00:31:37,655 --> 00:31:40,241 you know, he -- he did, 508 00:31:40,241 --> 00:31:43,344 like, torturous things. 509 00:31:48,896 --> 00:31:50,965 You know, it's the craziest -- 510 00:31:50,965 --> 00:31:54,758 um, I wouldn't have known about any of it, 511 00:31:54,827 --> 00:31:56,137 but he recorded it. 512 00:31:56,137 --> 00:31:57,758 So, like... 513 00:31:58,793 --> 00:32:00,379 I don't know, I guess thank God in 514 00:32:00,379 --> 00:32:02,103 a way that he recorded it? 515 00:32:03,172 --> 00:32:07,034 If he hadn't have recorded his crimes, 516 00:32:07,034 --> 00:32:10,344 nobody would know what he's done. 517 00:32:12,586 --> 00:32:14,241 Even though it's kind of a blessing in 518 00:32:14,241 --> 00:32:15,793 a way that I don't remember, 519 00:32:15,793 --> 00:32:18,068 to find out about it years later, 520 00:32:18,068 --> 00:32:20,068 it doesn't really lessen the blow. 521 00:32:20,068 --> 00:32:23,655 It kind of makes it worse in some ways, because... 522 00:32:27,034 --> 00:32:28,862 You just feel so tricked. 523 00:32:34,655 --> 00:32:36,241 It's hard to explain it. 524 00:32:38,137 --> 00:32:41,206 And I had to watch myself not be able to defend myself. 525 00:32:43,172 --> 00:32:45,896 It's like a bad dream, 526 00:32:45,896 --> 00:32:47,137 you know, it's like, 527 00:32:47,137 --> 00:32:49,241 um, it's like watching a movie. 528 00:32:49,241 --> 00:32:52,103 He is smiling through the entire thing. 529 00:32:52,103 --> 00:32:54,551 He -- he was having fun. 530 00:32:54,551 --> 00:32:56,241 And... 531 00:32:58,896 --> 00:33:01,448 that's the part that, like, really stands 532 00:33:01,448 --> 00:33:03,655 out to me. 533 00:33:03,655 --> 00:33:06,068 And they did end up telling me, detectives got 534 00:33:06,068 --> 00:33:08,275 a search warrant, and they seized all of 535 00:33:08,275 --> 00:33:10,965 these tapes, and they were tapes of him 536 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,586 raping many, many, many different women that 537 00:33:13,586 --> 00:33:14,862 were unconscious. 538 00:33:24,241 --> 00:33:25,862 In the criminal trial, 539 00:33:25,931 --> 00:33:28,344 I was known as Jane Doe Number 3 and others were, 540 00:33:28,344 --> 00:33:30,896 you know, Jane Doe Number 1 and 2, obviously. 541 00:33:30,896 --> 00:33:33,655 That was kind of a creepy thing, to be referred 542 00:33:33,655 --> 00:33:35,137 to as a Jane Doe. 543 00:33:37,586 --> 00:33:39,862 There was no opportunity to talk to each other, 544 00:33:39,862 --> 00:33:41,206 and... 545 00:33:42,448 --> 00:33:43,586 God, I just really -- 546 00:33:43,586 --> 00:33:47,000 my heart goes out to them, too. 547 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,551 I would love to talk to one of them on 548 00:33:49,620 --> 00:33:52,655 the phone or something or... I don't even know why, 549 00:33:52,724 --> 00:33:56,655 but I guess there's kind of a bond there that's been created, 550 00:33:56,655 --> 00:33:58,241 just because we've all been through 551 00:33:58,241 --> 00:34:01,000 a similar horrific experience. 552 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 I'm so grateful, I really am, and I'm proud of both of them 553 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,585 for coming forward and -- and testifying in court. 554 00:34:09,585 --> 00:34:11,447 That was really hard. 555 00:34:12,862 --> 00:34:15,965 It was such a hard time in my life, 556 00:34:15,965 --> 00:34:19,447 and they put me on, um, 557 00:34:19,447 --> 00:34:23,688 antidepressants for, like, my increasing anxiety during 558 00:34:23,688 --> 00:34:27,965 the whole criminal trial -- it just dragged on forever. 559 00:34:40,137 --> 00:34:44,068 But the worst part ever was during 560 00:34:44,068 --> 00:34:45,551 the criminal trial, 561 00:34:45,620 --> 00:34:48,447 the courtroom was open to the public, 562 00:34:48,447 --> 00:34:51,172 and you can imagine, 563 00:34:51,172 --> 00:34:54,862 this was a very, very high-profile case, I mean, 564 00:34:54,862 --> 00:34:58,344 it was nationwide, if not worldwide, 565 00:34:58,413 --> 00:35:04,241 and they played the rape tape, you know, for the jury, 566 00:35:04,241 --> 00:35:07,448 but anybody who was in the courtroom could see it. 567 00:35:08,896 --> 00:35:13,241 I looked like a dead body, you know, I mean, except for 568 00:35:13,241 --> 00:35:16,689 the sounds that I was making with my throat, 569 00:35:16,689 --> 00:35:17,965 trying to breathe. 570 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,344 There were a couple of doctors that were 571 00:35:20,344 --> 00:35:24,344 expert witnesses during the criminal trial who, 572 00:35:24,344 --> 00:35:28,000 when they watched it, they said that my airway was, 573 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,137 you know, obstructed because I was so, 574 00:35:30,137 --> 00:35:32,103 so, so heavily sedated. 575 00:35:32,103 --> 00:35:34,896 And, um, one of them said that I was 576 00:35:34,896 --> 00:35:36,758 lucky to have survived it. 577 00:35:38,068 --> 00:35:39,931 That was really hard 578 00:35:41,241 --> 00:35:43,896 to just have all these people in there, you know, 579 00:35:43,896 --> 00:35:46,344 watching that happen to me. 580 00:35:50,551 --> 00:35:52,551 I just hate him so much now. 581 00:35:54,379 --> 00:35:55,862 He didn't care at all. 582 00:35:55,862 --> 00:35:58,413 It was like one of the worst parts. 583 00:36:01,862 --> 00:36:04,068 He just sat there and just looked at me with, like, 584 00:36:04,068 --> 00:36:05,344 a blank look. 585 00:36:06,448 --> 00:36:07,862 He didn't seem to have 586 00:36:08,896 --> 00:36:12,344 any, um, remorse or feelings of guilt 587 00:36:12,413 --> 00:36:16,068 whatsoever about hurting me or anything. 588 00:36:33,344 --> 00:36:37,000 The bail was initially set, I believe, 589 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,862 only for a million dollars, 590 00:36:38,931 --> 00:36:43,551 and I fought against that so much, because I said, well, 591 00:36:43,620 --> 00:36:45,620 he can just post that in a heartbeat. 592 00:36:47,241 --> 00:36:49,034 So he posted bail, 593 00:36:49,034 --> 00:36:53,275 and he ended up with a ankle monitor. 594 00:36:53,275 --> 00:36:58,344 So he was able to be at home on house arrest during the trial, 595 00:36:58,344 --> 00:37:02,379 which, right away, I had said he's gonna take off. 596 00:37:02,379 --> 00:37:03,862 I mean, I just knew he was gonna 597 00:37:03,931 --> 00:37:05,448 take off -- he did. 598 00:37:09,482 --> 00:37:11,551 Mid-trial, he's gone. 599 00:37:11,620 --> 00:37:16,896 And that was so scary, because now he's gone. 600 00:37:16,896 --> 00:37:19,241 He's on the run. What's he gonna do? 601 00:37:21,344 --> 00:37:24,655 I was very afraid, because I thought, what if he gets away? 602 00:37:24,655 --> 00:37:26,586 What if he wants to kill anybody 603 00:37:26,586 --> 00:37:28,241 who's gonna testify against him? 604 00:37:28,310 --> 00:37:31,000 You know, what if he just wants to get rid of the witnesses? 605 00:37:33,275 --> 00:37:35,793 Every time I hear the trees rustle outside 606 00:37:35,793 --> 00:37:40,448 my window or anything move outside, I'm -- 607 00:37:40,448 --> 00:37:42,931 I'm worried that it's him and that he's coming for me. 608 00:37:44,344 --> 00:37:46,241 And I -- and I was scared. 609 00:38:02,862 --> 00:38:06,137 When that sentence was handed down, it was like, 610 00:38:06,137 --> 00:38:07,827 wow. 611 00:38:09,275 --> 00:38:12,482 It gave me so much faith in the justice system, 612 00:38:12,482 --> 00:38:16,758 because I felt like he will never get out. 613 00:38:16,758 --> 00:38:20,344 He will never be able to do this to anybody ever again. 614 00:38:20,344 --> 00:38:23,448 Like this is done, finished. 615 00:38:25,034 --> 00:38:28,551 But I was in touch recently with the Attorney General's office. 616 00:38:28,551 --> 00:38:30,344 He was the one who informed me about 617 00:38:30,413 --> 00:38:34,034 Proposition 57, and when he explained it 618 00:38:34,034 --> 00:38:36,034 to me that, well, there's this loophole in 619 00:38:36,034 --> 00:38:39,758 there that -- that the rape of an unconscious person is 620 00:38:39,827 --> 00:38:42,655 not deemed a violent crime. 621 00:38:42,655 --> 00:38:47,655 And so I was blindsided by that, and now he's gonna get out in 622 00:38:47,655 --> 00:38:51,068 a couple of years, so it's just unbelievable to me. 623 00:38:51,068 --> 00:38:52,551 Unbelievable. 624 00:38:53,896 --> 00:38:55,551 It's a really scary feeling. 625 00:38:55,620 --> 00:38:57,551 I really want to stop it, but I don't think 626 00:38:57,620 --> 00:39:02,862 that's possible, so I think the next best thing is to use 627 00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:04,586 my voice. 628 00:39:04,586 --> 00:39:08,344 What I hope for is to raise awareness about 629 00:39:08,344 --> 00:39:10,000 the loophole in Prop 57. 630 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,655 I really feel that the people of 631 00:39:12,724 --> 00:39:15,275 the State of California, if they knew, I mean, 632 00:39:15,275 --> 00:39:17,655 nobody would be okay with that. 633 00:39:17,655 --> 00:39:18,965 Pretty mind-blowing, 634 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,379 you know, this whole entire time I thought 635 00:39:22,379 --> 00:39:24,689 he was gonna be in for the rest of my life, 636 00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:26,655 the rest of my children's lives... 637 00:39:31,172 --> 00:39:33,241 and ju -- just, I'm so sorry, I -- 638 00:39:33,241 --> 00:39:34,862 [clears throat] 639 00:39:34,931 --> 00:39:36,655 Just knowing he's gonna be getting out 640 00:39:36,724 --> 00:39:38,655 in less than three years is -- 641 00:39:38,724 --> 00:39:40,448 it's scary. 642 00:39:45,034 --> 00:39:46,586 Oh, my God. 643 00:39:46,586 --> 00:39:50,448 Yeah, that's him now, obviously. 644 00:39:50,448 --> 00:39:52,793 [sniffles] 645 00:39:52,793 --> 00:39:54,758 Yeah. 646 00:39:56,241 --> 00:39:58,689 It's shocking, I mean, we're both older. 647 00:39:58,689 --> 00:40:02,758 It's been a long time. It's been a really long time. 648 00:40:02,758 --> 00:40:06,586 I wonder if he really did want to hurt people 649 00:40:06,586 --> 00:40:09,241 or if he just wanted to make himself happy. 650 00:40:09,310 --> 00:40:13,137 I think he was probably very used to getting 651 00:40:13,137 --> 00:40:15,448 anything he wanted his whole life. 652 00:40:15,448 --> 00:40:17,896 But yeah, 653 00:40:17,896 --> 00:40:21,068 he didn't take no for an answer, that's for sure. 654 00:40:29,896 --> 00:40:32,034 I hope that 655 00:40:32,034 --> 00:40:35,068 me having the courage to speak up would 656 00:40:35,068 --> 00:40:39,034 maybe help somebody else have the courage to speak up. 657 00:40:39,034 --> 00:40:43,068 I know I've come out stronger for it, I know that, I mean, 658 00:40:43,068 --> 00:40:46,275 you can't go through something like that and not unless you 659 00:40:46,275 --> 00:40:48,551 decide to crumble instead and then just become like 660 00:40:48,551 --> 00:40:51,172 a shell of yourself, you know, which there is no way I was 661 00:40:51,172 --> 00:40:54,862 gonna let that happen, so, um, you know, and I've got 662 00:40:54,931 --> 00:40:58,241 a wonderful support in my husband. 663 00:40:58,241 --> 00:41:00,965 You know how they say, every cloud has a silver lining. 664 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,344 Had I never moved in with Andrew Luster, 665 00:41:03,413 --> 00:41:07,034 I would have never met him, and we'll be married 25 years in 666 00:41:07,034 --> 00:41:09,965 June, and I wouldn't have my two beautiful children who I have. 667 00:41:09,965 --> 00:41:11,172 So...that's the good part in all of it. 668 00:41:18,275 --> 00:41:21,172 ♪ 669 00:41:25,689 --> 00:41:28,793 There's nothing I can do to protect myself and my kids. 670 00:41:28,793 --> 00:41:32,551 I'm begging him "Please don't kill me in front of my kids." 671 00:41:32,551 --> 00:41:34,655 I was shot point blank range. 672 00:41:34,655 --> 00:41:35,793 Pow! 673 00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:36,655 [gunshot blasts] 674 00:41:36,655 --> 00:41:37,586 And then I went out.