[Narrator] A wealthy commodities trader
with the world at his feet.
My brother was a fun loving guy.
He had anything he wanted.
He had a lot of money.
The Cadillacs and the Rolex watches.
[Narrator] Is viciously gunned down.
They shot him again and again and again.
[Narrator] With his wife and kids in the home
at the time of the attack.
It was a very traumatic event to the family
with people with guns threatening them.
You can't dismiss the fact it was a home invasion
but a lot of it didn't add up.
I had no idea at all how this could have happened.
[Narrator] Police chase down a number of suspects.
There was a complete falling out between them.
Someone could get killed over a debt that they didn't pay.
[Narrator] A sudden disappearance leaves everyone on edge.
There was a trader.
He disappeared off the face of the Earth.
It was suspected there was foul play involved.
One dead and one missing.
It put a different spin on this type of investigation.
[Narrator] Every lead brings investigators to a dead end.
It's very frustrating to have a case
that hits a brick wall.
[Narrator] Until 30 years later.
They were holding a very big secret inside.
[Narrator] When the shocking truth is revealed.
Couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it.
That's not even human.
That's the devil.
[soft ominous music]
[Narrator] Just 30 minutes outside of Chicago
lies Inverness, Illinois.
Inverness is one of the wealthiest suburbs of Chicago.
It's a safe, beautiful neighborhood.
Some would call it very rich.
Very large homes and very few crimes
are ever committed in that area.
[Narrator] But on April 30th, 1979 at 3:20 PM,
police receive a distressing call
from a 15-year-old girl named Becky Gaimari.
Her words were, "There's been a robbery.
My dad's been shot.
He was bleeding from the chest."
The police responded immediately.
[Scott] As we entered through the front door
we were met by Becky Gaimari.
She was crying and pointing downstairs.
I went downstairs and I saw a male
who was leaning back in the sofa
who appeared to have numerous gunshot wounds.
There was a woman who was kneeling
at the feet of the victim crying almost in hysterics.
[Narrator] The woman identifies herself as Jackie Gaimari.
She says the victim is her husband, Carl.
And that she and her three youngest children,
Bobbie, Carly and Nick were in the home
when the intruders stormed in.
Those children must have been terrified.
And felt so helpless. It's horrifying.
The family were taken out to the squad cars
so that they were secure and away from everyone.
[Narrator] Investigators set to work
processing the crime scene, starting with the body.
I went over to the victim.
I didn't find a pulse.
There was a number of bullet holes in his chest,
with the blood basically draining down to his pants.
I noticed a nine millimeter gun
and there were a number of nine millimeter casings
that were strewn about the victim's feet.
There was also a small 380 caliber handgun.
It appeared that the nine millimeter was placed
to make some type of a statement.
This could be a staged killing.
The victim, his legs were crossed at his ankles.
It didn't appear to be a natural position.
I went and took an inventory
of what the rest of the house looked like.
The bedrooms, the dresser drawers had been opened.
A number of items appeared to be tossed on the floor.
I could see that there were jewelry boxes
that still had jewelry in them which raises questions
as to why they actually came to that residence.
Was this a legitimate robbery?
Was this staged to cover something up?
You can't dismiss the fact it was a home invasion
but a lot of it didn't add up, it did bring into question
that they were there really to kill the victim.
We took a number of fingerprint lifts from the kitchen,
the dining room and the bedroom area.
One of the officers noticed there was no forced entry.
Nobody kicked in the door or pried it.
[Narrator] As police continue working the scene,
Carl's family receives the tragic news.
My sister called me says,
"You'd better get home. Carl was shot."
The whole neighborhood where the house was all cordoned off.
We were told by the police he's in the house,
he's dead and they're investigating.
So we were all, like, stunned.
When this happened, it was just a huge, huge shock.
We didn't know how to react.
Disbelief.
And just can't be.
[Narrator] Carl Gaimari was born in Elmwood Park, Illinois
in 1944.
He was the third of four children.
My brother, Carl, was a fun-loving guy.
You know, he liked to go out and have fun,
you know, go on dates with girls
and go to parties and things like that.
[Narrator] When Carl was in high school,
he met the love of his life.
When he started dating Jackie,
he was like 18, and I think she was 17 at the time.
He just knew that this was the one and, you know,
he wanted to get married and he wanted to get married now.
[Narrator] Still teenagers,
Carl and Jackie started a family right away.
Carl was excited to be a dad.
They had four kids.
Becky was the oldest.
Bobbie was the second oldest.
Carly was the third daughter.
And then Nick was the youngest.
He was his son.
[Narrator] By 1977,
Carl had the perfect family and the perfect job,
working in finance at the Chicago Board of Trade.
Carl climbed up the ladder.
He was energetic and he loved it,
and it fit his personality to a tee.
He had anything he wanted.
He had a lot of money.
'Came the Cadillacs and Rolex watches and things like that.
He started living a high life.
[Narrator] From the outside,
Carl's life seemed picture perfect.
But now his violent death leaves his family shattered.
He's been shot.
And I was shocked, you know, no one knew anything,
what's going on?
I had no idea at all how this could have happened
[Narrator] Investigators start by interviewing
Carl's family who were also witnesses to the crime.
I took Jackie and the two girls out to the garage
so I could get a general statement from them
as to what occurred.
Jackie was crying and very upset.
Becky was crying. Bobbie was crying.
This was the most traumatic thing children could go through.
They said Carl went to work.
Jackie was at home with Bobbie, her 13-year-old daughter,
five year old Carly and two year old Nick.
Around 12 or 12:30, Bobbie is laying on the couch
and she's watching TV and two men come in.
And they have guns.
She said the two men were wearing stocking masks
and dark clothing.
And they had come in through the unlocked back door.
They point the guns at her and they ask her,
"Where's your mother?"
So Bobbie leads these men to the master bedroom
where Jackie is on the phone.
They ask Jackie for her money, and she says,
"I only have $20."
And they said we're here for more than that.
These men tie Bobbie's hands behind her back.
And then they tie up Jackie.
They force them into the master bedroom closet with Carly,
with baby Nick.
Time is passing.
Bobbie said that she heard a man yelling, "No,"
who she thought was her father.
And she heard three banging sounds,
which she believed were gunshots.
Becky came home approximately three o'clock
in the afternoon from school.
She walked in through the front door, called for her mom.
All she heard was crying from the master bedroom.
At that time,
she found them banging on the closet door to be let out.
Once Becky opens up the closet doors,
Bobbie, went directly down to the basement.
And Bobbie saw her father's bloody,
bullet ridden body laying on that couch.
It is difficult to imagine how terrifying
this must have been.
[Narrator] While the family lived
through an extremely traumatic ordeal,
police are hopeful that with their help,
they can catch Carl's killers.
Jackie and Bobbie said the suspects
had actually pulled up their masks,
so they had their face exposed to them.
Jackie described the first suspect as a male, white,
mid to late 20s to 30s.
Tall, dark haired, and also had a mustache.
The second suspect was shorter than the first,
slightly heavier, was a white male,
but had a pale complexion and facial hair.
Bobbie and Jackie were able to do composites of the faces
they saw I think there was a lot of hope
somebody's going to recognize these individuals.
When we heard about the sketch,
we thought that would be it.
They would be able to find 'em.
I was hoping to get the information out
as quickly as possible with the suspects' description
so that if someone was possibly stopped
or seen within the general area,
a patrol vehicle could have stopped them.
[Narrator] In Inverness,
where crime is virtually nonexistent,
police believe there is more to this case
than meets the eye.
It appeared to be a staged crime.
It could be someone who owed money to someone
and being shot for that.
A jealous boyfriend.
It could be a number of different things.
You can't close your mind to any possibility
at that point in time.
[Narrator] Coming up,
investigators uncover sordid secrets.
He might have had some associates
who might have been involved with the mob.
It definitely raised a red flag.
[Narrator] The killers evade detectives
until an unexpected witness steps forward.
[Narrator] To reveal a dark
and twisted plot no one predicted.
As soon as they knew how Carl was going to be murdered,
and that's exactly what happened to him.
That was the missing key.
[soft ominous music]
[Narrator] Police are investigating
the murder of commodities trader
and father of four, Carl Gaimari.
His wife and young family were at home
at the time of the terrifying attack.
Jackie and the two girls were, mostly in shock.
They were completely overwhelmed by what was happening.
[Narrator] Jackie and Bobbie saw the gunmen.
Armed with their description,
officers go door to door looking for witnesses.
One of the neighbors saw two men coming
from the Gaimari's through her yard
and she thought one of them was carrying like a jewel bag.
After that neighbor pointed out
where she saw the two men walking through her yard,
the detectives went back and followed that path.
They had found a cigarette butt that still had ash on it
by her driveway.
That cigarette butt was collected
by the State Police Crime Lab.
But in 1979, there was no DNA.
So there really wasn't much of the evidence
that could be collected off of that cigarette butt.
[Narrator] More witnesses come forward
to help police trace the suspects' movements.
There was a woman who was in her car around the time
that this incident took place.
She stated that she saw a beater type gray car
parked on the side of the street.
When she returned approximately three o'clock or so,
she said that she saw the vehicle oncoming towards her.
She said that the driver was a white male.
The second passenger in the front was a white male,
but he was trying to slump down in the seat.
In her words, she thought he was trying to hide himself.
The neighbor who saw that vehicle coming towards her
with the two men was also able to do a composite.
[Narrator] It's similar to the one
Jackie and Bobbie gave police.
Composites are very,very useful.
You can put them in the newspaper,
you can get them on the news,
you can get them out there for people,
other agencies to see
if anybody could identify them as possible suspects.
Right after the canvas was conducted,
they then did a sweep of the area between the victim's house
and where this car was observed
to see if they could find any evidence.
They also discovered tire impressions
and some footwear impressions that were in the mud there,
where the car had been parked.
[Narrator] Back at the crime scene,
investigators get an unexpected visitor.
I noticed someone approach me
and he pulled out his credentials
as being a Chicago police officer
and told his name was Sam Greco.
Sam said that he was a family friend.
The girls knew Sam.
They felt comfortable around him.
He said that he had been called by the daughter.
That something had happened,
so he was coming out to see what assistance he could lend.
On the day of the murder Becky made two phone calls.
She did call 911.
Her next call was to Sam to tell him what had taken place.
Sam originally arrived at the scene
about an hour after the initial call.
He had advised them that he had been on the phone
with Jackie, this was about 12:30 in the afternoon
and that during their conversation,
she said somebody was there
and he heard some voices in the background
and then the call was disconnected.
So he had offered to give them his phone records
so they could try to establish a timeline
of when that occurred.
[Narrator] Based on the time of the phone call,
police believe the gunmen arrived at 12:30 PM
and left by 3 that afternoon.
They spent over two hours in the home,
a detail that puzzles the investigators.
They spent so much time in the house, which is not normal.
Home invaders usually come in,
take care of business and leave.
They don't sit around.
Second, the amount of items that were left behind
didn't indicate that this was a straight up home invasion.
My question was whether or not
they knew that Carl Gaimari was coming home
at that point in time.
And why did they kill him?
Who did it and why?
And why my brother,
what did he do that he deserved
to have his life snuffed away and taken away?
We had no idea who it could be.
[Narrator] In their search for answers,
detectives turn back to Carl's wife, Jackie.
Any time you're investigating a murder within a family,
you have to look at the surviving spouse.
It was clear that Jackie hadn't been the one to shoot Carl,
two armed invaders came into their house
and locked them in the closet.
It was very traumatic to the kids
and to Jackie to have all of a sudden their peaceful day
broken down with people with guns
and then threatening them
and not letting them move around the house,
not knowing what was going to happen next.
They were absolutely terrified
even after the suspects had left.
It was difficult to get them to concentrate
on making a statement.
Jackie was crying, upset.
[Narrator] When detectives ask Jackie
about her relationship with Carl,
she tells them she loved him
and that he was her high school sweetheart,
but what she reveals about her marriage,
surprises investigators.
Carl and Jackie
had a rather unorthodox situation at times.
Over the years, they both had affairs,
and they would bring their lovers home.
When you get information like that,
that's an important thing to follow up on and look further
to see where if that has anything to do
with what occurred here.
[Narrator] Had the couple's infidelities
led to Carl's murder?
You had to look at that as a possibility.
It definitely raised a red flag.
It was definitely shocking.
[soft ominous music]
[Narrator] Detectives investigating
the cold-blooded murder of Carl Gaimari
have learned he and his wife Jackie
had both been unfaithful.
That's a big red flag
and needs to be looked at very thoroughly.
[Narrator] Jackie tells police
they had recently agreed to work on their marriage.
They seemed to be getting better as you got into 1979.
They were trying to work it out.
They went on a romantic vacation.
They were making a plan to do another big trip to Africa.
They were buying a new house,
and they would tell friends that, "Yeah,
things are getting back together for us.
We're going to make an effort to make this work
especially because of the kids."
[Narrator] A year before the murder,
the couple had even decided to renew their vows.
We as a family thought, wow, this is nice.
This is really nice to see.
You know, that they wanted to get together
and to have us there witness the renewing of their vows.
They were like two lovebirds.
He was gleaming from ear to ear,
and so was Jackie and they seemed like a wonderful couple.
[Narrator] While Jackie was also a victim in this crime,
detectives still need to know if she'd have anything
to gain financially from Carl's death.
It was learned that there was only
about a $30,000 life insurance policy.
Carl had never signed a will, which ties it up in court.
And it could be seven years
before you see any of the other financial gain from this.
So this kind of cleared Jackie
of being in the spotlight of the investigation.
[Narrator] Investigators consider
whether Carl and Jackie's renewed marriage
could have driven one of their former lovers to murder.
When they ask Jackie who she had an affair with,
her answer is surprising.
Jackie and Sam Greco had an affair.
She said that she had dated Sam for quite some time,
but that that she had broken off the relationship with Sam
to recommit to her marriage with Carl.
Jackie had said, when she became pregnant with Nick,
she stopped seeing Sam.
[Narrator] Detectives need to know, was Sam a jealous ex?
Could he have killed Carl to have Jackie to himself?
Sam was interviewed
once on the phone and then again in person.
He had met Jackie at a wedding
and he was doing some private investigative work.
And Jackie had hired him to follow Carl,
to see if he was having an affair.
There was an indication from Sam's investigation
that Carl was having an affair.
And that ultimately led to them
initiating a relationship.
Sam also told the investigators
that he and Jackie had been lovers,
but they were now just friends.
Sam, denied any involvement with this case.
They took his phone records, fingerprinted him,
and they interviewed individuals associated with Sam.
He was considered a hero
within the Chicago Police Department.
The police back then still investigated him
as much as they could.
The investigators ruled him out
as not being involved in this.
[Narrator] With Sam eliminated from the investigation,
detectives next look at the woman
with whom Carl had been having an affair.
Gail Khayat was someone whom Carl
had actually hired and worked with.
When Gail was interviewed, her description was,
it was kind of two adults having some fun together.
It was nothing serious.
She knew it was going nowhere.
She knew Carl was married.
[Narrator] Gail tells investigators
she and Carl broke things off about a year ago
and that there wasn't any animosity between them.
She ended up, after the relationship was over
between her and Carl, had a boyfriend, got pregnant.
Given the affair had been over for a year,
it just made really no sense
that she would be involved in this in any way.
[Narrator] Just when detectives think
they've hit another dead end,
Gail gives them a stunning new lead.
She says they need to speak to Carl's former friend
and colleague, Ned Keiser.
Ned Keiser, was one of the closer people to Carl
at the Board of Trade.
They had worked together for a while.
They socialized.
[Narrator] Gail claims Ned not only knew
about her affair with Carl, but told Jackie about it.
Carl and Ned were friends.
Carl would use his apartment to be with his girlfriend.
Ned ultimately got upset with Carl,
told Jackie that Carl was using his place
to be with his girlfriend.
Once Carl found out that Ned was the one
who told Jackie about Gail that soured the relationship.
[Narrator] Gail also tells police
Ned had a dark reputation.
[Mike] She had rumored
that he had ties to organized crime.
Whenever you're dealing with people with money
and investment and all,
there's always a possibility
that someone could get killed over a debt
that they didn't pay.
[Narrator] Had Carl and Ned fallen out over money?
Had Ned put out a hit on his former friend?
You always look at the big picture.
Business dealings with Ned.
Him betraying Carl to Jackie about using his place.
Ned having some possible mob connections.
I think you've got to look at everything,
you have to see what's there.
Where does that lead you?
Is this a person who
has a reason to kill Carl?
[soft ominous music]
[Narrator] Police are following a tip
that the murder of successful trader Carl Gaimari
may have been a targeted hit,
one organized by his former friend and coworker, Ned Keiser.
Ned Keiser might have been quote unquote
"involved with the mob."
During the 1970s,
Chicago was was very much involved
with the criminal network of the mob
and a number of people wound up dead every year.
Organized crime had a hand in gambling.
From information obtained from coworkers
and people that knew Carl He gambled at the Board of Trade.
He would gamble outside.
If individuals are gambling like that,
the chances are they would cross paths
with organized crime people.
[Narrator] Five days after the homicide,
Ned is brought in for an interview.
Police ask about his friendship
and working relationship with Carl.
The relationship with Ned Keiser
and Carl and the family was an extensive involved one.
They had known each other for approximately nine years
and at one point when Ned was going through a divorce,
they actually let him move into their house.
[Narrator] Ned says that's why he had a hard time
keeping Carl's affair secret.
Ned had told investigators
that the reason he came forward to Jackie
was because he was friends with both of them
and he just felt that Jackie was being mistreated
by the way Carl was acting and needed to correct it.
[Narrator] Detectives ask Ned if Carl was indebted to him
or if they had any conflict about money.
Ned denied ever having any kind of a fight with Carl.
Ned was asked if he had any involvement,
if he knew anything about Carl's murder.
And he denied having any direct knowledge.
There was nothing that anyone could dig up that would say,
Ned was responsible for Carl's death.
The investigators took a very hard look at him
to see if there was any way
that he could have committed this crime. And
they were able to rule him out.
There was no evidence connecting him
to the murder of Carl Gaimari.
[Narrator] Investigators are forced to let Ned go.
The police talked to everyone that they possibly could.
If they talked to one person
and that person mentioned other people,
they went and talked to those people as well.
And then it gets to a point
where there's just no other leads to pursue at that time.
So the police are essentially waiting for new information.
[Narrator] Authorities once again turn to the public
in an attempt to find the men who killed Carl
and terrorized his family.
Their composites are very critical
in our ongoing investigation in identifying the shooters.
I remember cutting out all the headlines and all that oh,
someone's going to be recognized
with the sketch, something's going to happen with this
and come about from it.
But days would go on and nothing.
When the sketches were released,
there wasn't a lot of information that came in.
Nothing substantial at all.
[Narrator] Detectives hope that the autopsy report
will provide a crucial new lead.
Carl had been shot six times.
The fatal wound had penetrated his chest
into his heart and severed the aorta.
When you have multiple shots like that
from two different guns,
it's apparent that their intent was to kill him.
They shot him again and again and again and again,
total of six times.
[Narrator] Since the medical examiner
didn't find any defense wounds on Carl,
there is no physical evidence on his body
to link to the perpetrators.
Frustration grows when detectives get the report
on the fingerprints found at the crime scene.
There were no known matches
of any of those latent fingerprints.
They had no real suspects.
It didn't seem like anybody
was going to be arrested for this.
[Narrator] With a killer still on the loose,
the town of Inverness is on edge,
while Carl's family lives in fear.
A couple of days after the original murder,
someone had put a threatening note in the mailbox.
Jackie then went to the police
and said she was being threatened,
and that was her concern for her safety.
When I found that out, I was very disturbed.
I was concerned about Jackie and the kids.
Somebody wanted my brother killed.
[Narrator] Two weeks after the murder,
police make a disturbing discovery.
It came to the attention of the initial investigators
that there was a trader,
worked at the Chicago Board of Trade, had just disappeared.
It was suspected there was foul play involved.
[Narrator] Detectives learn his name is Artie Jones.
And he's one of Carl's business associates.
Art Jones knew Carl.
There may have been some money involved
between the two of them.
No one knew what happened to him.
He left for work, drove into the city
and was never heard from again.
[Narrator] Could the two cases be connected?
It now put a new light, a new focus,
with two traders in close proximity,
one dead and one missing.
It put a different spin on this type of investigation.
At that point in time when we heard the news
and it was all over the papers that we thought,
"Wow, and now we know there's something going on
at the Board of Trade."
When you had Carl,
who was killed and being part of a Board of Trade
and then you have Artie who disappears
after going to work at the Board of Trade,
those don't happen often.
When Artie Jones happened that was very concerning.
And it was, you know, we wanted to find out, okay,
who was after Artie and who's after Carl,
if there was somebody in fact, after both of them.
[soft ominous music]
[Narrator] Two weeks after Carl Gaimari's murder,
his co-worker, Artie Jones has vanished.
Detectives are hunting for a potential connection
between the two cases.
Through the Highland Park investigation of Artie,
they interviewed his wife
and she said that since the murder of Carl,
he had become very edgy, he was very secretive
about going out to meet some people for business
at that time and then never coming back,
it just heightened that concern
she had about the two being related.
There was just no trace of him.
They ran credit checks.
They did phone records.
They had absolutely nothing of where this individual
may have gone or why he disappeared.
They located his vehicle near O'Hare Airport.
No reason why it was there, no rhyme.
Couldn't put him on an airplane.
There was just nothing.
He was gone.
That investigation was rather lengthy
and they never did locate him.
And eventually his wife had him declared dead.
It's very frustrating to have a case that hits a brick wall.
[Narrator] Carl's family continues to push for answers.
I was persistent.
I would call.
I wanted to hear from the horse's mouth,
from the detectives.
What's going on? What's the next step?
What are you looking at?
Months and months and months turned into a year,
a year turned into two years.
Then you kind of, like, lost faith a little bit.
[Narrator] Carl's loved ones try to cope
with the terrible realization
that his killers may never be found.
The investigation wasn't turning up anything.
They broadcasted and showed those pictures
of the two men for a long time, no one knew anything.
The case is considered a cold case.
[Narrator] 30 years later, the case is reopened.
Detectives Mike Kirby and Bill Stutzman
took over that investigation, gave it new life.
These were people who had investigated, you know,
hundreds of violent crimes in their careers.
I had spent nine and a half years
on a homicide task force.
This was my first actual cold case.
We were told to look at this case from 30 years ago,
right away, you're like 30 years,
who's even going to be alive from back then
that we could talk to?
But when we sat down and we compiled our plan of action,
people we wanted to talk to,
we became extremely excited
about the possibility of this being solved.
[Narrator] As the new detectives
start digging into the cold case,
they are confronted with a daunting problem.
Barrington Police Department
had two floods in their basement
where their evidence was kept.
These floods basically contaminated
any of the evidence ruling it unusable.
Any DNA we might have was gone.
That's a major blow in an investigation.
Most cold cases nowadays are solved
through forensic evidence.
We had none of that.
[Narrator] Then in 2011,
a stunning turn of events reignites the investigation.
We get a phone call, it was shocking to us.
Artie Jones had been located
living under an assumed name in Las Vegas,
part of a fraud investigation
by the federal government had located him.
We were extremely shocked that he was alive.
[Narrator] Investigators fly to Nevada
to interview Artie Jones about Carl's murder.
Well the first thing we wanted to know
was what relationship did Artie Jones
have at all with Carl?
Did they have any, any kind of business transaction?
He claimed he didn't even know him.
So then we focused on why did he disappear then?
When we talked to Mr. Jones,
he said that he was having financial problems.
He didn't like his job, he didn't like his life.
He was unhappy with his marriage.
So he just faked his disappearance.
And that became very clear that he had staged all this
by planting the car by the airport.
The two had no connection.
The Gaimari murder and his disappearance were not related.
[Narrator] With the Artie Jones mystery solved,
detectives are again left with no leads.
What we decided to do was to work this
like it was a fresh case
and just start from the beginning
with no preconceived notions,
no thoughts on where we were going to go with it.
Bill Stutzman and Mike Kirby re-interviewed everyone
who had been interviewed
that they could find back in 1979 and 80,
and one of the people they interviewed
was Jackie's sister Tootsie.
When police interviewed Tootsie the night of Carl's murder,
she told them on the morning of April 30th,
Jackie called Tootsie and told her to come over that day.
And if Tootsie had come that day,
I don't know if she would have been another victim.
[Narrator] Detectives bring Jackie's sister, Tootsie
in for an interview.
As they question her, she makes a jaw dropping revelation.
She said, "I've been ridden with guilt
throughout the years.
I've seen what it did to the kids,
what it did to his family.
I can only be truthful about this.
I can only tell you what was told to me."
Tootsie was having ulcers after the murder of Carl.
She was holding a very big secret inside.
It troubled her to keep this secret for so long.
She just realized,
I believe that it was the right thing to do
and that's what she always wanted to do.
She proceeded to tell us about two months prior
to the murder that Jackie had said,
"I don't love Carl anymore.
I don't want to be with him."
This is the time when Jackie and Carl
were getting back together.
Jackie had supposedly
stopped the affair with Sam Greco.
Based on what we learned, that was not the truth.
Her affair still continued.
It was very shocking.
It gives you a different light view of Jackie as a person
and the type of individual she is.
[Narrator] What Tootsie says next
leaves investigators stunned.
Jackie had told her of a plan
that she had with Sam.
Jackie said to Tootsie,
"We've found a way to get rid of Carl.
We're going to make it look like a home invasion.
Some men are going to come in,
they're going to tie me up
and they're going to wait for Carl
to come home and kill him."
Tootsie didn't couldn't believe what her sister
was saying to her,
and they just kind of ended the conversation with Tootsie
saying, "Jackie, you don't have to do that, divorce him.
Just divorce him."
And Jackie would reply,
"If I divorce him, then I don't get all the money."
Jackie had told her how Carl was going to be murdered,
and that's exactly what happened to him.
It seemed almost mind blowing to think
that Jackie could be involved in such a crime
as to expose her daughters and her infant
to their father getting killed in the home.
[Narrator] Investigators tell Tootsie
they'll need more than just her word to lay charges.
They decided to ask her
if she would be willing to record conversations
with her sister Jackie.
At first Tootsie said no, she didn't want to do it.
She didn't want to hurt Jackie.
We had emphasized with her that, no,
we're not saying Jackie physically killed Carl,
but she was part of a plan in which Carl was killed.
And we had said, "We're asking you
to put an open-ended statement to her
and see how she responds."
She agreed to do it.
That was the missing key to make this case go forward.
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[Narrator] More than 30 years
after the cold-blooded killing of father of four,
Carl Gaimari, police learn his wife Jackie
plotted his murder with her former lover Sam Greco.
But investigators need hard evidence to arrest her.
They convince Jackie's sister Tootsie
to record a conversation.
Those recorded conversations are devastating.
Jackie saying, "Can you lie for me?
Can't you say you forget?"
There was truth to what Tootsie was saying.
And that's why Jackie wanted her to lie for her.
That was very damaging evidence.
Those recordings were all that were needed
to have an arrest warrant issued.
[Narrator] Police bring Jackie down to the station.
We did not tell her she was under arrest,
but she was not going anywhere.
We had the arrest warrant.
During the course of the interview
not only did we tell her we talked to Tootsie
who told us about their conversation.
We played portions for Jackie.
[Narrator] Confronted by her own words,
Jackie tries to put the blame on her former lover Sam.
She wanted to be able to say, "Yes, okay, early on,
I said, 'Let's do this.'
But then I backed out.
I didn't want to have anything to do with it.
So therefore I'm not guilty of Carl's murder."
There are so many things Jackie did
that tells you what kind of a person she is.
She wanted to be with Sam.
She didn't want to be with Carl.
After the murder,
Sam and Jackie married a few months later.
Several years later Sam and Jackie were divorced.
We continued to have full force investigation
into Sam Greco's involvement
as also pursuing the two shooters.
And before we could
gain enough evidence to charge him,
he passed away from his medical conditions.
[Narrator] On March 27th, 2013
Jackie alone is charged with the first-degree murder
of her husband Carl Gaimari.
Jackie was the true monster.
Without Jackie, this crime never would have happened.
[Narrator] In 2016, a jury finds Jackie guilty,
but the verdict is overturned on appeal.
Prosecutors offer Jackie a deal.
She pleads guilty to murder
and is sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Justice finally, finally was served.
Couldn't believe it. Couldn't believe it.
She was a true sociopath
and not just for taking Carl's life,
but because of what she did to her children.
She chose to have her children
be victims of this traumatic event,
just for her own selfish needs to get rid of her husband.
A woman that involves her own children
in a scheme, in a plan,
in a plot to have their father murdered,
her husband murdered.
I don't know. If you ask me that's not even human.
That's the devil.
[Narrator] Four decades after the murder,
police are still searching for the gunmen.
This remains an open and active investigation.
It's never going to stop.
If there's any new information
the police are going to follow up on it.
No matter how long those shooters live
and how much time passes,
they can never stop looking over their shoulder.
My brother was a good guy.
He was very determined to succeed in anything he did.
To see how he would have been when his children
got older would have been a wonderful thing to happen
and I'm sure he would have loved it.
Who knows how our lives would have been, you know?
A lot of missed opportunities.
A lot of things that never happened.
I lost a brother and you know,
somebody to look up to and somebody to experience life with,
you know, the rest of the way.
I miss Carl a lot.