[♪♪♪]
[narrator] in a town known for good times.
[auburn] reno has the title
of "the biggest little city in the world."
[narrator] a college professor disappears without a trace.
[det. Danny] college professors don't just up and vanish
and cut off all contact with their families.
[det. Scott] this isn't a standard missing person case.
[det. Danny] that area is known for the drugs,
the prostitution, the crime.
[narrator] the search for answers leads deep
into the blazing nevada desert.
[det. Danny] he said that there was somebody
at the university wants you dead.
[det. Scott] I noticed that he became more and more nervous.
He was visibly shaking.
[narrator] but will investigators find the truth
buried in the hot sand or is it only a mirage?
[karen] I was like, "who is this person
and you have to be kidding me?
He's got aliases and he's wanted all over the place."
[det. Scott] they had no idea how violent,
how dangerous this human being was.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] the desolate, scorching desert
of northeast nevada is a barren landscape.
[det. Scott] it's, uh, kind of a wide open area.
I mean, you can go miles and miles
and not see anybody, ever.
[det. Danny] the landscape is mainly tall, sage brush,
uh, real high-desert type of an environment.
The heat can hit a hundred and ten degrees.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] on a sweltering day in August 2007,
a hopeful pair of antelope hunters
heads out into the desert near the tiny town of jackpot.
They noticed something curious.
[♪♪♪]
they saw some birds circling above
and so they go see
what were these birds circling around.
[det. Scott] they thought it was probably a dead animal.
[narrator] the hunters lean in for a closer look
and realized they found something far worse.
[auburn] they saw some sort of green sandals peeking out.
And they went closer and sure enough,
it was a body
and it was buried in the sand.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] the hunters scrambled back to their car
to call the police.
[sirens wailing]
[det. Scott] when elko county arrived on scene,
they found, uh, an adult female.
And just based on her physical structure
and the-- and the clothing,
the body decomposition had started.
There was a lot of blood on the front of her clothes.
It was very clear that this was not an accident,
isn't somebody that just stumbled out
in the middle of nevada desert
and died from exposure.
This was very clearly a murder case.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Danny] because of the decomposition,
they were gonna need dna, fingerprints, dental records,
something to that effect.
The scene, it was photographed.
You look for any type of physical evidence.
In this case, you'd look for tire tracks,
uh, weapons obviously, clothing,
uh, anything to do with that crime scene.
[narrator] investigators uncovered little evidence,
except for some clear tire tracks
spotted in the nearby sand.
[det. Scott] obviously, somebody had driven her to that location.
She could have been brought from anywhere.
[♪♪♪]
[auburn] reno has the title
"the biggest little city in the world."
I think that's a really great nickname for it
because you're closed to everything
that you could ever want in a big city,
but you still have this sort of tight-knit,
small town feeling.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] while it's known for its casinos and good times,
the city also boasts an academic jewel,
the university of nevada, reno.
And in 2007, one of the pillars
of unr's humanities program
is 64-year-old professor, dr. Judy calder.
She's made the darker side of reno her academic specialty.
[karen] she was really a specialist and brilliant
on substance abuse issues.
[auburn] judy was doing a lot of different research
on domestic violence and trying to find ways
to make our community better.
[karen] and, you know, she was just an amazing person.
She was the kind of person if she walked in the room,
people would turn their head and look.
And she had the most colorful clothes.
Her personality and her approach to life was vibrant.
[♪♪♪]
[auburn] judy was living in incline village
with her husband, jim.
A really small, little community
right off of the lake tahoe shore.
They had three daughters, all grown up.
They were a happy family.
[narrator] the only downside of living in incline village
is the 60-mile trek to work in reno.
[♪♪♪]
[auburn] judy was making the commute every day
down to reno to go to her job at the university.
And then sometimes she would stay the night at a hotel
so she could be closer to the campus.
[narrator] Friday, August 17th, of 2007
was going to be another late night.
[karen] she had some meetings so she was going to stay down
and not go home that weekend.
[narrator] judy lucks out
when a friend who's won a complimentary room
at the golden nugget casino hotel offers it to her.
Judy's husband jim decides to join her
so they can make a fun weekend out of it.
At least that was the plan.
[auburn] but jim didn't end up coming with her.
He had to stay back and work on a water heater
that was broken at their home.
[det. Scott] so jim told her
that he would be down the next day.
[narrator] on Saturday morning, jim is still stuck at home.
When he calls judy, there's no answer.
[det. Scott] about 3:00 in the afternoon,
jim hadn't been able to get ahold of her,
so he went to the nugget.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Danny] when he went into the hotel room,
all of her medications were still there,
all of her clothing.
It seemed really strange because she was a diabetic
and she had left her medication in the hotel room
that she needed every day.
[det. Danny] that's when jim got worried
and contacted the police department.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Danny] jim said that judy was a very responsible person.
This was absolutely out of character for her.
College professors don't just up and vanish
and cut off all contact with their families.
[det. Scott] she had a job to go back to,
her husband couldn't get ahold of her.
Nobody could find her.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] investigators hoped the extensive
security camera footage from the golden nugget
will help jumpstart their search for judy.
[det. Scott] we found her
at some point on the casino floor
going down a set of escalators
from the 2nd floor down to the casino floor.
[narrator] the timestamp on the video shows 10:30 a.M.
Saturday, August 18th.
[det. Danny] at that point, there was video surveillance
that showed her getting in her vehicle by herself
and leaving the nugget.
[det. Scott] we were hoping that judy might have
just returned to work,
so we contacted the unr police department
and asked them to check her workplace.
We asked them to check for any door records
indicating that she had let herself in or out,
uh, any surveillance of her coming or going.
They did that for us and we never saw her
on any of the videos after she was reported missing.
[narrator] investigators' next focus
on finding judy's vehicle.
They immediately put out an alert for the car
and quickly get a hit.
[det. Scott] it was found over by 5th and evans
which is not too far from the university.
[det. Danny] the 500 block of evans
is not somewhere where judy calder
would have frequented.
That area is known for the drugs,
the prostitution, the crime.
They dusted the outside of judy's car for fingerprints.
And as they were doing that, around the driver's door handle,
you could tell where somebody had wiped it with a wet cloth.
And that kind of changed the game a little bit.
That's a deliberate act to conceal evidence.
So we knew we had more on our hands probably
than a missing person at that time.
[narrator] police begin canvassing the neighborhood,
hoping to find someone who might have seen
judy's car arrive in the area.
[det. Danny] I began going from hotel to hotel.
And some of the people said, "oh, yes, we saw
a dark-skinned male driving judy's car."
[det. Danny] at that point in the investigation,
we had a pretty good idea
that somebody did something to her.
Judy's daughter kim was interviewed
and she was very concerned.
She said, "my mom would've never been in that area of town.
You finding her car down there tells me that she's dead."
[♪♪♪]
[det. Scott] he became more and more nervous
and he was visibly shaking.
[auburn] how did this man become involved with judy calder
and what was the relationship?
[det. Danny] this was done out of rage.
[narrator] it's been a day since college professor,
dr. Judy calder vanished from reno, nevada.
Her car has been found abandoned
in a seedy part of the city,
and her family and police
are convinced she's in danger.
[det. Danny] she was staying in the nugget
and all of her medications were still there,
all of her clothing.
She'd not shown up at work.
She wasn't answering her cell phone.
[♪♪♪]
[auburn] investigators ask her husband jim,
"would somebody want to hurt judy?
Did she have any enemies at work?
Did she have any enemies in her community?"
and he said, "no, absolutely not."
[narrator] but judy's daughter kim
tells police that might not be so.
She tells detectives about an alarming incident
the previous year.
[det. Danny] kim told me
somebody attacked judy in her garage.
[karen] she was begging to please don't hurt me
or don't kill me.
[det. Danny] it was a violent attack.
He attempted to cover her mouth.
She was able to fight him off.
Her attacker said to her,
"somebody at the university wants you dead."
[det. Scott] it had gone unsolved
and so we thought, "well, maybe it's the same person."
[narrator] the detectives can find no immediate leads
in the earlier attack.
As they look into it, they expand the investigation,
seeking anyone who might have known judy
was staying in reno that weekend.
[det. Scott] we learned from jim about rickey barge,
an associate of jim and judy's,
was the one who had got her the room at the nugget
so obviously he became somebody we wanted to talk to.
[auburn] rickey owned a printing shop
called imaging technologies.
[det. Danny] rickey's business have done some work
for the university and judy had met rickey,
and they struck up a friendship through that.
[narrator] rickey and jim calder had even become partners
in rickey's printing business.
[det. Danny] he knew that judy was missing
because he had been
driving jim around town because jim was distraught.
He was [ indistinct ] he didn't drive very well.
So rickey kind of took jim under his wing during this time
to help him out, uh, since his wife was missing.
[det. Scott] rickey seemed very distraught and upset.
And he was very open about
how much he care for judy and jim
and he liked helping them,
and they've been good business partners.
[narrator] investigators ask rickey
if he can think of anyone
who might have seen judy
or be able to offer any additional information.
[det. Scott] rickey told us about a guy
who did casual labor for him named carlos.
Rickey hired carlos for casual labor jobs
around his warehouse, sweeping, cleaning,
uh, sometimes delivering stuff.
Carlos did some deliveries for him at the university,
so he could have come into contact with judy
at the university.
He described carlos to us.
[det. Danny] and his physical description
very much could have fit the person
seen driving judy's car.
[narrator] but rickey can't offer the police
much help finding carlos.
[det. Scott] he didn't know where carlos lived.
He knew that he hung around the casinos
but didn't know his last name.
He didn't have a phone.
He would just show up at the warehouse
and, "hey, do you have any work for me?"
[narrator] wondering if carlos has a police record,
the detectives decide to check recent rap sheets.
The hunch pays off when they come across a man
named carlos filomeno.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Scott] we were able to identify him by a picture
and we showed that picture to rickey
and he goes, "oh, yeah, that's carlos."
he had an active probation warrant.
He was a property crime suspect,
burglaries, you know, check fraud.
[narrator] now, finding carlos
and looking for a connection
between him and judy's disappearance
is the detectives' top priority.
It's been more than a week since judy calder vanished.
Jim was distraught.
[karen] I had a pit in my stomach,
and I kept asking, "what's going on?"
nothing, no information.
It was excruciating.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] on August 28th,
10 days after judy calder was reported missing,
the elko county sheriff's department
response to a call from two hunters
just outside of jackpot, nevada.
[auburn] it was very desolate, hot, hot day in August.
And they came across this dirt berm
and just to the back of it
was a woman's body...
Buried in the sand.
[sirens wailing]
[det. Danny] once judy was reported missing,
we had gone to pretty good lengths
to get her description out
to all of the agencies in and around nevada.
[det. Danny] our secretary came through and she says,
"elko county just called and they have a body."
[♪♪♪]
[det. Scott] the victim was wearing
what would be described as a pan suite,
uh, business-like attire,
and some green sandals.
[narrator] the body is carefully removed from the shallow grave
and transported to the nevada state
medical examiner for autopsy.
[det. Danny] through the dna, we learned
that the body located in rural elko county
was in fact judy calder.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] from the decomposition rate,
the me calculates that judy likely was killed
and her body buried in the desert
the same day she went missing.
[det. Scott] washoe county forensics unit
confirmed that it was homicide by stabbing.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Danny] we knew we were no longer
looking at a missing person's case.
We have a murder.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Danny] she was stabbed many, many, many times.
This was done out of rage.
[narrator] the body of 64-year-old judy calder
has been found buried in a shallow desert grave.
Detectives make the 500-mile trek from reno
to the burial site near jackpot, nevada,
hoping to find clues in the remote desert area.
[det. Scott] our, uh, forensic investigators
went and processed the scene for tire tracks.
Sometimes tire tracks are fairly unremarkable,
but in this case, they were good tire tracks.
And so if we can find the suspect vehicle,
we can match it to the crime scene.
Detectives at the scene located a piece of paper
with a phone number on it.
They tried to call that person
to see if he knew judy calder.
And it turned out that
that subject was a business associate,
a colleague of judy calder's
from her job at the university.
[narrator] knowing judy had been attacked a year earlier
by a man who told her
somebody at the university wanted her dead,
detectives wonder whether this discovery
could be connected to that incident.
A team heads to the university to rundown the lead.
Detectives are also delving into the other major clue
from the burial site, the tire tracks.
[det. Scott] we tried to match the tire impressions
from the desert to vehicles,
to people that judy knew
to see if any of those were suspect vehicles.
None of the vehicles that we compared them to
matched the tire tracks that we had found
in elko county.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] at the university,
investigators have located the man
whose number was on the note
found near judy's body.
He tells them he only met judy briefly
and they've had no contact since.
And he's able to account for his whereabouts
on the day judy disappeared.
[det. Scott] we were able to rule that person out
as a suspect, he had nothing to do.
It was just a coincidence that judy
had that piece of paper with her when she died.
[narrator] with nothing to go on from the crime scene,
detectives begin taking a closer look
at the people in judy's life.
Their first stop is her husband jim,
who was supposed to be with judy
the day she disappeared but stayed home.
[det. Scott] our detectives confronted jim
about where he was that day.
He had told us that he had stayed home
because of a, uh, water heater leak,
and we were able to confirm with-- with the company
that he had called them and asked them to come out
and they repaired the-- a leak in the water heater,
and that he didn't leave the incline village area
until about 3:00 or so,
maybe a little later in the afternoon.
[narrator] the detectives also redoubled their efforts
to find carlos filomeno
and connect him to judy's disappearance.
[det. Scott] we tried to match the tire tracks
to the vehicles associated to imaging technologies,
including the van that was used by carlos for deliveries,
uh, but the tire imprints from elko county
did not match the van.
[narrator] but as they examine the delivery van,
the detectives do notice something odd.
I opened the front passenger door of the van.
I noticed that was cleaned.
It smelled like a cleaning agent.
Or investigators swabbed the interior of it
and traces of human blood were found.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] the blood traces set off alarms
and intensified the detectives' suspicions about carlos.
But one thing isn't making sense.
If carlos is responsible,
what caused him to escalate from petty crime to murder?
[auburn] the police were just trying
to put the pieces together.
How did this man become involved with judy calder
and what was the relationship,
and why was he driving her car?
[det. Danny] we knew that we needed to find
carlos filomeno then get him interviewed.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Scott] I had a family member
who knew carlos from back in the day
when they're both involved in some illegal activities.
I had called him and he told me "carlos' mother
is at one of our local casinos almost every day."
[narrator] detectives head to harris casino,
hoping that carlos might pay a visit to his mother.
[det. Scott] within about an hour,
they caught him coming down the escalators
and they grabbed him on his probation warrant.
[narrator] two days after the discovery of judy's body,
detectives face off with carlos filomeno.
[det. Scott] initially, carlos, he seem non-committal
about the interview, like,
he didn't really have anything to tell me.
We asked him specifically if he knew judy
and he kind of looked at me and said,
"no, I don't really know judy."
I said, "well, do you know jim?"
"oh, yeah, jim works at the warehouse with rickey."
and this went on for quite a while,
but as this interview unfolded,
more and more started to come out from carlos.
He started telling us, "oh, yeah, I, I do know judy.
Yeah. I-- I've seen her at imaging technologies warehouse."
I tried to explain to him that judy's missing,
something happened to her.
As we started to go down this road,
I noticed that he became more and more nervous.
He was visibly shaking.
[det. Scott] eventually, he tells me, "I saw him do it."
I said, "you saw what?"
"I saw him stab her."
I said, "carlos, you need to be
very clear about what you're telling me here.
You saw who stabbed her?"
[det. Scott] I said, "carlos, you need to be very clear about
what you're telling me here.
You saw who stabbed her?"
"rickey, I saw him stab judy."
[narrator] reno detectives are questioning carlos filomeno
about the murder of judy calder
when he makes a stunning accusation.
He claims he witnessed his boss, judy's good friend,
rickey barge, stabbing her to death.
[narrator] according to carlos, rickey revealed judy
had loaned him a lot of money and he couldn't pay her back.
[det. Scott] that's when rickey reveals his plan to him
that he is going to murder judy calder, over money.
Rickey gives carlos, uh, money to go to walmart
and purchase items, specifically the knife,
and, uh, clothing to wear during the murder for both of them.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] carlos claims rickey lured judy to his warehouse
with the promise of repaying his loan.
[det. Danny] carlos said he had watched rickey murder, uh, judy.
And he was afraid for his own safety.
Uh, he thought that he had to cooperate with rickey
or he was gonna end up like judy.
So carlos said that they had placed her body in plastic,
put it in the back of the van, and drove it up to elko county.
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] after burying judy in the desert sand, carlos claims,
the pair drove the company van south to arizona
and began destroying evidence of the crime.
[det. Danny] carlos said they had the tires on the van changed
in phoenix and on the way back,
they had discarded the tires along the highway.
[det. Scott] we realized that it could be why the tire
imprints that we had from elko county did not match
the imaging technology tires that were now on the van.
[narrator] but it's not lost on investigators
that carlos has gone to great lengths
to separate himself from the murderer.
[det. Danny] the way he was able to describe the crime scene
and the-- the manner of-- of-- the way judy was murdered
in such great detail,
you cannot discount that carlos wasn't guilty of it himself.
[narrator] to get to the truth, the detectives' next step
is hearing what judy's friend, rickey barge, has to say.
But when they arrive at his house,
they discovered that he's left town.
[det. Scott] his wife, rose, had told us that
he was away on business and he couldn't be reached.
[narrator] its suspicious timing and as detectives continue
to look into carlos' story, their suspicions grow.
[♪♪♪]
[det. Scott] and we were able to find
the video evidence of both rickey and carlos in walmart.
Carlos was given money from rickey,
so that carlos made the purchase.
Uh, but rickey was seen in the walmart with carlos.
[narrator] the video seems to confirm
carlos' story that rickey was involved,
but police still can't find rickey.
[det. Scott] we've learned that rickey have rented vehicle
from one of the local rental car agencies.
The vehicle was recovered down in san antonio
near the airport.
There was a note inside of the car.
He said that he was going to canada,
but my immediate thought,
"if you're that far south in dallas, texas,
you're probably headed to mexico."
[narrator] it's clear to detectives
that rickey barge is on the run.
[karen] I was in shock.
Jim and his daughter,
they were in shock just as we were.
And we said, "are you kidding me?
What happened? No, this is not happening.
This is not real."
[♪♪♪]
[narrator] with an international manhunt now underway,
detectives head to rickey's business, imaging technologies,
to see if they can determine if it was indeed
the scene of a murder as carlos claims.
Our agency was asked to perform the luminol test.
It's typically used in situations where
it's believed that a crime scene may have been cleaned up.
If there is blood present, it will react with the blood,
producing a blue-like color.
[det. Danny] so the luminol activated right in the area
where carlos said the altercation happened.
There were big swirls on the floor
where blood had been mopped up.
[darby] swabs were taken of that area
and brought back to our lab and tested
and those were determined to match
the dna profile of judy calder.
[narrator] and when test results from the blood traces
found in rickey's delivery van come in,
they are also a match for judy.
[auburn] her blood was in the van.
Her blood was at the warehouse.
Everything at this point was pointing
to carlos and rickey being involved somehow
or another with the murder.
[narrator] but as detectives search rickey barge's warehouse
and his office, the mystery deepens,
and another possible suspect emerges.
[det. Scott] one of the names on the paperwork
from various items that we found,
the name mohamed kamaludeen kept coming up.
Then we came across paperwork that indicated that judy
had signed an agreement to loan
kamaludeen about $150,000 for the start of a new business.
[auburn] mohamed kamaludeen, but who is this person?
[narrator] a background check on mohamed kamaludeen
reveals the surprising answer
when motor vehicle records lead detectives into texas.
[det. Danny] we figured out that mohamed kamaludeen
was actually rickey barge.
[det. Scott] and, you know, rickey barge
turned out to be a homeless person
in the state of texas
and mohamed kamaludeen had stolen his identity
and had been using it for several years.
[narrator] and police learned that's not the only secret
he was keeping.
[auburn] investigators learned that there were several casinos
throughout town where rickey was a regular
and some of them, he owed,
you know, between $30,000 and $60,000 too.
He had a real gambling problem
and had kind of racked up a lot of debts
at a-- at a lot of different places.
[det. Scott] he had taken this money from the calders
with the intention of incorporating them
into this business
and really all he did was gamble with it.
[narrator] as investigators dig deeper
into mohamed kamaludeen's history,
they begin uncovering even darker secrets from his past.
Kamaludeen was wanted for a 1993 murder in canada.
It was a pretty violent murder.
[narrator] the prime suspect in judy calder's murder
has been revealed as mohamed kamaludeen
who's been using the fake identity, rickey barge.
He's now on the run
and detectives discover it's not the first time
he's been a murder suspect.
[det. Scott] the calders, they were dealing with this guy
as a family friend and had no idea how violent
and how dangerous this human being was.
[karen] it was just really traumatic.
And I was like, "who is this person?"
and, "you have to be kidding me."
he's got aliases and he's wanted all over the place.
[det. Scott] at that point, we had enough to obtain
an arrest warrant for, uh, rickey barge
aka mohamed kamaludeen
and-- and we started that process immediately.
[narrator] investigators know it's likely
that he's fled the country,
so they notify airlines, embassies,
and international law enforcement
about their fugitive.
[det. Danny] on September 4th, rickey,
uh, mohamed kamaludeen went into the british consulate,
uh, in mexico, um, and wanted to
go to brazil, I believe.
[det. Scott] he was just about to walk out the door
when our fbi partners down in mexico city
literally grab him on the steps and arrest him.
[narrator] news of his arrest comes as a relief
for judy's friends and family,
but there are still so many unanswered questions for them.
[karen] I could not find a reason here, I couldn't.
I couldn't put two and two together on this one.
I can't imagine her doing anything that would incite him
to be angry and kill her.
So it was shocking to me.
[narrator] on January 24th, 2008,
four months after the discovery of judy calder's body
in the nevada desert,
mohamed kamaludeen is extradited
from mexico to the us
to face charges of first degree murder.
He insists that he's innocent.
[narrator] but when detectives press him on what
possible motive carlos filomeno could have for killing judy,
mohamed suddenly and shockingly changes his story.
[det. Scott] he says, "no. Okay.
I did this but I was paid to do this."
[narrator] he tells the stunned investigators
that judy and her husband were not the happy couple
they appeared to be.
[det. Scott] kamaludeen told our investigators that
he believed that jim's motive
to wanna have judy killed was because of a will
between jim's adult children.
[auburn] they had two daughters that were part of jim's
prior marriage and then they had one daughter together
and there was a dispute about whether or not
they should leave their money to their third daughter.
And so rickey claimed that
they couldn't come to an agreement
and so jim asked him to kill her.
[det. Scott] rickey, mohamed kamaludeen
told our detectives that he had helped set up
the attack on judy the year before up in incline village
and had hired a subject to go up and attack her and kill her.
[narrator] after that attack failed, he claims,
jim hired him to try again.
Detectives can't ignore the stunning accusation
and as they take another look at the evidence,
they spot some troubling details.
[det. Scott] we learned that when kamaludeen left the area,
jim had rented him a car.
Kamaludeen was our primary suspect
and jim was essentially treating him like a business associate
and was still willing to do things for him.
We found it kind of odd that he wasn't trying
to distance himself from kamaludeen at that time.
[narrator] as detectives struggle to untangle
the mess of accusations,
a call comes in from the state crime lab.
Computer techs have just gained access
to a drive of surveillance footage
from the imaging technologies warehouse.
Detectives are hopeful it'll show exactly
what happened to judy calder.
[det. Scott] interior video surveillance from the warehouse
confirmed that carlos and rickey were there on the 17th.
[det. Danny] when it got up to a certain time, it stuck.
And then it activated again, like, two hours later.
There was a huge time gap that was missing out of it.
[narrator] although video evidence of the murder itself
seems to have been wiped from the tape,
the timing of the missing footage
and what it suggests about judy's time of death
seems to confirm jim's alibi.
[det. Scott] jim was in incline village
at the time of judy's murder on Saturday.
[narrator] but that doesn't rule out the possibility
that he paid to have judy killed
and as detectives watch more of the surveillance video,
the footage shows something chilling.
[det. Scott] the video surveillance from the business
show that jim showed up in that warehouse
and he actually looks into the van
where judy's body is in a box.
[auburn] and it almost seemed like
he was checking to make sure,
"definitely she's dead, right,
and she's in there and you're gonna get rid of her."
[det. Scott] why would rickey, who just murdered his wife,
show him the literal location of her body?
And why would jim have any interest?
[narrator] mohamed kamaludeen is under arrest
for the murder of judy calder,
but nevada police can't easily dismiss
his stunning claim that judy's husband, jim,
hired him to kill her.
Although jim can prove he was at home
with the water heater repairman at the time
police believed judy was murdered,
he finds himself facing some very uncomfortable questions
from the police.
[jim] [ indistinct ] christ.
[narrator] to investigators' frustration,
the polygraph is inconclusive.
[det. Scott] I interviewed carlos again,
I asked him if jim have anything to do with this
and, uh, initially his statement to me was, "no."
[narrator] then, "why," the detectives asked,
"is jim seen on surveillance video
at the crime scene after reporting his wife missing?"
[det. Scott] carlos told me that after they had loaded
judy's body into the box and put that box into the van,
they put a couple more boxes of printer parts
in the back of the van and a short time later,
jim shows up at the warehouse
asking if they've heard from judy.
Rickey takes jim over to the van where judy's body is
and shows him these other boxes.
[auburn] how disturbing that he was just a few feet
from his dead wife and had no idea?
[det. Scott] it became clear to us that
kamaludeen was the only one accusing jim
for paying for him to kill his wife.
And there was no further evidence to--
to implicate and certainly
nowhere near enough to even consider charging jim
for, uh, be complicit in his wife's murder.
[narrator] once jim is cleared, prosecutors begin
preparing the murder trial of mohamed kamaludeen
with carlos filomeno as the star witness.
[det. Scott] if he was a suspect in the case,
we couldn't use his statement against rickey,
that's why he was never charged.
He was our only witness to the murder.
[narrator] in October 2008, the trial begins.
Prosecutors tell the jury that mohamed kamaludeen
calling himself rickey barge
killed his friend judy calder
and then concocted a scheme to lay the blame
on everyone around him.
From his accomplice, carlos,
to judy's husband, jim.
[det. Danny] the prosecution said that it was a murder
committed over a financial hardship.
Uh, it was tension between
judy and rickey over a loan that rickey hadn't paid back.
[auburn] it came down to money and a gambling problem
and a man who sort of felt like he didn't owe anybody anything.
[narrator] prosecutors describe how mohamed lured judy
by claiming he was ready to repay his loan.
[det. Scott] they had gone so far as to buy the murder weapon,
buy clothing, and that when she entered the warehouse,
with the intention of collecting money
that she was owed,
she was stabbed twice
and died fairly quickly and was placed in a box
that was lying with plastic inside of a work van,
and was dumped in northeastern nevada
on the middle of nowhere.
Nevada is a huge state and they wanted
to take her so far away from the crime scene and from reno.
[narrator] mohamed kamaludeen's lawyer stick to his claim
that jim calder masterminded his wife's murder.
After six days of testimony,
the jury deliberates for just five hours.
[det. Danny] kamaludeen was found guilty of the murder
of judy calder and he was sentenced to life
in the nevada state prison,
uh, without the possibility of parole.
[narrator] the conviction comes as a relief
to judy calder's loved ones and friends,
but they know it's a scar that will never heal.
[karen] it was very hurtful that she was just
dumped in a place where there was isolation.
That was such a, uh, insult
because it's so antithetical to everything that judy was.
[narrator] judy spent her life studying the darker side
of human nature,
but tragically didn't recognize it
in a man who was supposed to be her friend.
[karen] she was the kind of person that would help anybody.
We've lost a very vibrant,
full of life, uh, loving life person
who was so giving and so caring.
We miss her.
I look at her picture and she's--
she's still there in my mind. She's still there.
And if I'm stressed out, I will say,
"what would judy do?"
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