[bell chimes]
Little Compton is a small and quaint beach town very close to Newport.
Angela Spence-Shaw works in a garden shop in Little Compton,
but she doesn't come to work this particular day,
and that's concerning.
She's 66 years old and in apparently reasonabl good health.
So her co-worker is dispatched to her home..
Angela.
...to make sure everything is all right.
Angela, are you home?
[door squeaks]
[Joe Kenda] The co-worker tries the door, finds it to be unlocked.
[woman] Angela.
[Kenda] Nothing's out of place. Everything looks fine.
But there's no Angela.
[woman] Angela, are you up here?
She pushes open the bathroom door.
[screams] No! No!
No!
Angela's Spence-Shaw is submerged in a bathtub filled with water.
[woman screams] No!
[Kenda] And her co-worker has found Angela under questionable condition
Is this a homicide? Is this an accident?
What is this?
Well, that's the $64 question.
I spent my career closing murder cases.
But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable,
to catch a ruthless killer,
to find justice for the dead
That's what it takes to be an American Detectiv.
-[man] All right. Sit down here. -[Stephen Lynch] Yep.
My name is Stephen Lynch.
I was with the State Police for 23 years.
At the time of this investigation,
um, I was a lieutenant,
assigned as the officer in charge of the State Police Major Crimes Unit,
as well as the Violent Fugitive Unit.
You do absolutely see peopl at their worst, unfortunatel
but incredibly rewarding,
and the time in those units went by incredibly fast.
Back in 1999,
it was a holiday weekend.
Are you ready for your game today?
And my son at the time was 12 years old.
-[pager beeping] -Oh, hold on.
And I was at his Little League baseball game
and got the call as to what was starting to evolve down in Little Compton.
Oh, shoot.
I gotta go, sweetheart.
As head of the Major Crimes Unit,
when you get the call, you go.
-Go get them, buddy. -[boy] Bye, dad.
[siren wailing]
When we got there, we gathered our personnel
and started to make our list, if you will,
of how we were going to attack this case.
Stephen Lynch is the commander of the Major Case Squad
at the Rhode Island State Police.
He is the quarterback of the team.
He is in command of a group of detectives,
and they descend on the village of Little Compton
to determine the nature of this case.
-[Lynch] Detective. -[Sid Wordell] Lieutenant.
Sorry to ruin your weekend.
There is a detective on this police department,
only one, who's name is Sid Wordell.
Come on in.
[Wordell] I was a patrol officer,
a working detective
for the town of Little Compton, Rhode island.
In 1999, the Little Compton Police Department consisted of nine officers.
This was certainly beyond our capabilities as an agenc
There hasn't been a homicide in Little Compton since the 1960s.
There's probably no one on the police department that's ever seen a homicide,
so they wanna get involved with the Rhode Island State Police.
[Wordell] We did a walkthrou of the scene,
uh, certainly taking note at that time that the house had been under construction,
and the victim was on the second floor of her residence.
What do we know so far?
[Wordell] The body was found in the bathtub.
But first, take a look in here.
What I recall was the tremendous amount of blood evidence in the bedroom.
[Wordell] Some of the thing that are going through your mind
you know, "Was this something accidental?
Did she fall, uh, and cause injury to herself,
and then ends up in the tub?
[Lynch] So, what are we thinking? Head injury?
Most likely, but check this out.
One thing that really jumped out to me
was the bed linens were gone
[Wordell] It was quite clear uh, to me at that point,
that something had gone wrong here
and it wasn't by her own hand.
[Kenda] So, the action takes place in the bedroom.
The result takes place in the bathtub.
[Wordell] We don't know anything about this lady at this point,
so we don't know when this happened,
how long she had been in the bathtub.
Did she come home and find somebody breaking into her house?
Take a look at this.
[Wordell] There was a lot of things in that house that were of value.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like a robbery.
[Nicholas] There was no thef
Uh, there was $500 left in her wallet in her bedroom.
All her jewelry was still there.
There was no obvious motive here.
What do we got in here?
[Wordell] Upon going through the scene,
the victim had been removed from the bathtub.
[Lynch] This scene was very unique.
The fact that where she was found within a bathtub,
the hair dryer in the tub of water with her body.
So I think some natural instinct is that this was accidental.
You know, is... Is someone being electrocuted?
Whoa! Definitely not an accident.
It was abundantly clear that she had sustained tremendous blunt force trauma,
that what happened to her
was nothing you would ever want anyone to have to go through.
[Nicholas] This was a viciou brutal crime.
The injuries on the victim made her unrecognizable.
One of her friends that worked on the rescue service,
she told us, "I can't even tell you if that's her."
That's how brutal the injuries were.
[Kenda] You kill someone. You put them in a bathtub.
And you throw in a dryer,
hoping the police believe accidental electrocution.
What sort of pig did this?
Lieutenant, the victim's sons are waiting outside.
[Lynch] Speaking with the family,
you have to weigh what you're able to disclos
at that point in the investigation,
with the understanding that these are two sons
looking for answers as to what happened to their mom.
Would you mind telling me a little bit about your mother?
[young man] She was a wonderful person.
We wanted to know what was going on in her life at the time
as far as relationships.
We needed to get as much background on the victim as possible.
Lynch is informed that the victim is Angela Spence-Shaw,
an immigrant from Great Britain
who came with her then husband, to live in the United States
Her first husband passed awa
She remarried.
And her second husband also passed away.
So she came to live in the village of Little Compton as a widow
and to work in a garden shop
She was a nice woman within that community who gave of herself,
working at a greenhouse,
that she had a kind of a lo profile lifestyle there in Little Compton.
[young man] It just doesn't make any sense.
[Nicholas] She was extremel close with her children.
She was just a beloved mother and grandmother.
I have no idea who would do this to her.
She has no habits that would produce danger in her world.
So the question becomes obvious in everyone's mind.
How did Angela come to be in this bathtub?
We're gonna find out whoever did this to your mother.
I can promise you that.
I felt a responsibility to get this solved.
I think that family deserved and Angela Spence-Shaw deserved answers.
[phone ringing]
Hey guys, check this out.
We got a few early findings.
We were getting results back from the medical examiner's office
that alerted us to the fact that she was raped
and that semen was found within her body.
That adds a whole 'nother element into the investigation.
The fact that there was sexual assault that came into play,
that certainly made us then begin concentrating
on anybody that would have been a sexual offender in the area.
[Lynch] This could be our guy.
[Kenda] Any they remarkably find one,
Patrick Zimmerman,
who lives in the area.
-Zimmerman. Let's go pick him up. -Yeah.
[Kenda] "Well, now, Mr. Zimmerman,
what were you up to the other evening?
And how do you explain yourself?"
Let's go ask him.
[female reporter] Early Sunday morning, 66-year-old Angela Spence-Shaw
is found murdered in her hom
A horrific crime that stunne and frightened residents
of the quiet, normally peaceful town of Little Compton.
State and Little Compton Police launch a massive search for her killer.
[helicopter whirs]
[siren wailing]
One guy's been discovered that's a little edgy.
Zimmerman. This could be our guy.
[Kenda] Patrick Zimmerman.
He's a violent sex offender
His history says so.
He fits.
[Lynch] Afternoon.
Are you Mr. Zimmerman?
Uh...
Yeah, what's going on?
Do sex offenders repeat their crimes?
Yeah, they do.
Absolutely, they do.
We'd like to ask you some questions about Angela Spence-Shaw.
[Kenda] What if he notices the neighbor lady?
What if he notices that nobody's ever around but her?
Is it an opportunity?
Of course it is.
Look, guys, my wife's about to get home,
and I really don't wanna explain to her why the cops are here.
[Wordell] You're still tryin to be respectful of individuals
and not bring unnecessary light onto their past.
So then you wouldn't mind coming down to the station for a quick blood sample then.
You're asking someone to provide a blood sample
to eliminate themselves from a crime.
A blood sample.
And how does that compare to the DNA profile
of the semen found in Angela Spence-Shaw?
Yeah, okay.
Whatever it takes.
Zimmerman is the picture of cooperation.
[Lynch] "I don't wanna be tied to this.
I'll give you my blood sampl
I'll account for my activities at the time in question when this attack took place."
[Kenda] They take a blood sample for subsequent comparison.
Blood sample is no match.
So he was a promising lead to being with.
But it's not him.
[female reporter] A mother, a grandmother,
her face barely recognizable
[Soljane] The word spread quickly.
There was a very somber feeling in the town.
Uh, kind of this cloud that hung over it.
[bell rings]
The last homicide had been almost 40 years.
[siren wailing]
[Lynch] This is a very quiet, low-key community.
It's an affluent community.
Something like this, uh, just does not happen there.
The Rhode Island State Police are faced with the same problem
homicide detectives all over the world are faced with,
you have little or nothing to go on.
The clock is ticking.
[Kenda] You've got to take what you've got
and get creative with it.
Yeah, I got something.
What you got?
What about the only other guy in town who's committed a murder?
[Wordell] Just throwing it on the table,
you know, we have this individual...
Who's that?
Stanley. Stanley Gendreau.
[Wordell] ...that committed the only other murder in Little Compton,
and his family lives almost right across the street from the victim's house.
[Kenda] Stanley Gendreau.
He's out of custody these days.
Served a great deal of time in prison for the initial murder.
So he inquires,
"What happened to this other murder that happened in 1965?"
[man] All right. Thank you. I appreciate it.
Stanley Gendreau, there was an infatuation that he had with this babysitter.
He staked out the house.
He had been watching through the windows.
He talked about going for a ride.
And when she ultimately had refused to go with him...
-[Stanley] I got my car right here. -No, no thank you, I'm good.
[footsteps shuffling]
-[body thuds] -[woman yells]
[Wordell] He picked up a roc
actually hit her over the head
and ended up murdering her.
[Stanley breathes heavily]
[Kenda] He smashed a girl's head in with a rock.
Really.
Violent attack, female victi
Fast forward to 1999,
a violent attack, a female victim.
That was certainly information to digest, to take a look at.
All right then,
let's go have a chat with Stanley.
[Kenda] Stanley killed once
Does that mean he can kill again?
Of course, it does. "Let's go see Stanley
and see what he has to say."
[Lynch] How's it going, sir?
We're looking for your son, Stanley.
Well, he's not here.
Upon speaking to the parents, we actually learn
that Mr. Gendreau had been in town,
uh, just a few days earlier.
I'm not sure when he'll be back.
[Wordell] It raised suspicio because we weren't able to find him.
[Lynch] Well, if you hear anything, let us know.
Sure.
Could this individual, who committed that murder,
come back to town and had done it again?
[Wordell] I mean, he could have fled up north into Boston.
Or down towards New York.
Either way, he's gonna be tough to find.
A full autopsy report just came in.
[Nicholas] The medical examiner's report came back
Blunt force trauma and drowning was ultimately determined to be the cause.
She had also been electrocuted.
Once we had a clear picture from the ME's office,
unfortunately, I think the attack on her was savage-like
is the best way that I could put that.
Jesus.
[Kenda] Her major organs are ruptured.
No one can punch that hard,
even someone in a blind rage.
But they can jump up and down on the body
and create that kind of damage,
snapping ribs, and crushing the liver,
and crushing the lungs.
This is an attack of someone who's become an animal for those few moments.
This, by far, was the most brutal and heinous crime that I've ever seen.
This was an evil individual.
We've got to move on this.
[Kenda] Whoever did this is incredibly dangerous.
Incredibly so.
Yeah, get me through to Violent Fugitives, will you?
We brought Violent Fugitive detectives into this case.
Members assigned to that unit
get very good at tracking people who don't wanna be tracked.
They have to find him right away
because he's gonna do this again.
[Wordell] Stanley Gendreau,
we were unable to locate him originally for a couple of days.
But there were two other detectives that ended up locating him,
and, uh, you know,
he had gotten word that we were looking for him
-[Lynch] Have a seat. -[Kenda] Here we have Stanle
Stanley killed once.
Does it mean he killed this woman? No.
But it means he could have.
[Lynch] How's it going, Stanley?
[Wordell] Having committed the murder in '65...
Glad you could make it down.
...I gotta say that the odd were pretty high that this individual
had something to do with this murder as well.
[Stanley] I didn't know you were looking for me.
This was somebody we needed to look very closely at.
[Kenda] There's an old expression,
"What does a killer look like?"
Well, a killer looks like you, and you,
and me.
They don't wear a sign that says, "I'm a killer."
They are all potential killers
because they're humans.
Where were you the night of the murder?
[Stanley] Home, reading a book.
[Lynch] Was it a romance novel, Stanley?
Now, those policemen are not gonna accept an explanation,
and they tell them that.
Look, I came down as a courtesy.
You've got the wrong guy.
But he absolutely maintains that he has learned his lesson.
I'll give you guys whatever you need.
[Kenda] He comes across as believable.
[Lynch] All right. Let's go.
[Kenda] They polygraph him, they blood sample him,
and the result of that is it's not him.
He's not the guy.
Person had nothing to do with this crime.
It's a roller coaster ride.
We're moving in a very interesting direction,
only to learn that we're moving the wrong way.
[Kenda] If you've run out of suspects,
the best thing to do is to start over.
And where does this begin?
Back at the crime scene.
What did we not see?
What was here that's significant?
Whoa!
Check this out.
[Wordell] We knew the house was under construction.
[Nicholas] But one thing that we didn't know
was that they were in the process then of breaking through a wall
to connect the addition to the existing home.
[Wordell] It wasn't secured by any type of lock.
So that was a vulnerability that happened at the house that was unique.
Do you think our killer could have entered here?
This brought a lot of new suspects to this investigation.
[Kenda] Anyone who worked there,
or anyone who passed by when the work was being done,
would know that this house is vulnerable,
and so is the resident.
It vastly expands the possibilities,
and Lynch doesn't like that
nor would I.
[sirens wailing]
Whoa!
Stephen Lynch is very distraught
when he realizes something he hasn't seen before.
He discovers that a door has been removed
in the process of this construction,
and the opening is only covered by a tarp.
Anyone who knows this has an entryway into this ho
involving no effort and no evidence of break-in.
[Lynch] We were gonna have to drill down on anybod
that had been on that property,
that had any knowledge, or had ever worked on that property.
All right, fellas, bring it in.
We were gonna have a very detailed conversation with those folks involved.
Here's the plan.
We conducted a really thorough sweep of all the residences
that were adjacent to hers.
We're gonna find out what happened.
[radio chatter]
Bannon, I want you to run up that hill.
-You talk to that neighbor first. -Copy that.
At the time, I was in the Major Crimes Unit
but we were, kind of, split into two groups.
And Lieutenant Lynch, he pulled me
and the other folks doing that type of work
into this investigation.
[Nicholas] Talked to some of the neighbors.
Got the construction crew information.
And it was a local construction crew
who had been working at the property
for about three months.
[Kenda] This crew consists of 30 people.
Okay.
[tool clicks]
Better than 300.
Certainly better than 3,000.
Now we have 30 possibilities here.
So, let's get to work.
[tool coming to a stop]
Those were people we wanted to talk to right away.
[Kenda] So, two of the peopl on the list
are the people that actuall cut this hole in the wall.
Does that make them uniquely more suspicious than the others?
No.
But if you're picking someon to talk to first,
let's pick the guys that made the hole in the wall.
And they are Kevin Moore
and Jeremy Motyka.
Moore and Motyka were work colleagues
and they knew each other.
We spoke with Kevin at lengt
[Kenda] Kevin's story is straightforward.
Explains he was with his girlfriend
the night in question.
They check out the alibi. It works.
So, Kevin's out.
Now the next focus is Mr. Motyka.
I was assigned to go find Jeremy Motyka.
[Kenda] They determine he lives in Fall River, Massachusetts,
just across the state line.
So, they go visit him.
[Stephen Bannon] Appreciate you talking to me, Jeremy.
Yeah, sure thing.
There was nothing about him that stood out.
He almost looked angelic.
You know, very innocent,
blond hair, blue eyes.
[Bannon] There were no injuries that I could see
that would, you know, raise any suspicions.
Just an average, you know, contractor.
I wasn't forming any impressions.
Just trying to figure out where was he
on the night of May 29th.
Well, I was at work 'til about 3:30.
[Kenda] Motyka says he went home
from work that day
and started drinking
with the teenagers next door
Continued drinking all evening with them.
Then he went to bed.
He may have been 21, 22 years old.
So, if he's with 18, 19-year-old's,
drinking beer and drinking rum,
it sounds, like, he's being honest about it,
if he's acknowledging something that,
you know, he knows he may get in trouble for it.
The next morning, I went up and visited...
[Kenda] The next day,
he said he went to visit his girlfriend
who is spending some time in Cape Cod.
[Bannon] Okay.
Thank you, Jeremy.
-[Jeremy Motyka] Sure thing. -We'll be in touch.
[Wordell] He was pretty specific about his alibi.
Uh, and for us, it was good things
that he put timelines on
that we certainly knew we could check on later.
[phone rings]
-[beep] -[knocking on door]
Trisha, thanks for coming on such short notice.
[Bannon] When we spoke to Motyka's girlfriend...
Can you tell us about where Jeremy was...
...she corroborated Jeremy's story,
that he had been drinking beer and drinking rum
um, 'til about 1:00 a.m.
[Trisha] Or, at least, that's what he told me
when I saw him the next day.
At some time around 8:00,
8:00 or 9:00 a.m.,
he decided to get up and drive
out to where his girlfriend was, on the cape.
[Trisha] He seemed really hungover.
[Kenda] He kept throwing up
and he spent most of the day in bed.
Well, now, he didn't mention that to us.
What's he up to here?
[Bannon] That's when we started doing more follow-up
Thanks for coming in.
[Kenda] They do a backgroun on Jeremy Motyka.
He has a criminal record.
He was arrested for kidnapping and assaulting
a woman in Massachusetts.
A history of violence towards women.
This case is extreme violence towards women.
That's a clue in the murder business.
It was not to the level of this savage attack,
but it was certainly of note
as to Motyka's history.
[tools whirring]
[Kenda] Jeremy is rising abo
his 29 fellow workers
as the guy that's the most interesting so far.
Jeremy is a candidate for this.
As you talk to somebody, they'll say one thing
and then maybe the next time,
they'll give you additional information.
So, we did go back and talk to him,
to try and corroborate what he was saying.
[dog barking]
[Bannon] So, help me clarify a few things.
You said you left work around 3:30 p.m.
Where did you go from there?
The second time, he told me some information
that he hadn't previously.
And he said he had stopped at a bar
on the way home.
What bar was that?
I don't remember the name.
He says he ordered a pizza that night...
Yeah, I got a pizza.
...and the local shop should know that,
again trying to provide himself with an alibi.
You sit tight.
[Bannon] Trying to get out of him
the things that we could track down
and verify whether that was what happened.
[Kenda] They check with the pizza shop.
Jeremy's truthful. He ordered a pizza,
but it was the night before the homicide.
What's he up to here?
Well, it's pretty simple what he's up to.
He's lying through his teeth.
[birds squawking]
Experienced homicide detectives
feel it in their bones...
[dog barking]
...when they're talking to a liar.
[Motyka] Stopped to get some beer on my way home.
[Kenda] Every time somebody speaks to Jeremy,
Jeremy's got different things to say.
Are the inconsistencies significant?
No.
But they are inconsistencies.
And that's where it begins.
People lie for a reason.
By all accounts, Motyka left work at 3:30.
We were able to corroborate
that he was with the neighbors next door
drinking from 6:00 p.m. until at least midnight.
That's where things get fuzzy.
...and then that's it.
We don't have any other idea
of where he was after that.
So, that was certainly a factor in this.
[Kenda] He ultimately has no account
for the hours between midnight and 9:00 a.m.
That's a very long time.
An adequate amount of time
for him to do what was done to Angela.
[birds squawking]
[dialing]
[dial tone]
[phone rings]
Detective Tella.
[on phone] Hey, detective. This is Kevin.
We talked a few days ago.
Jeremy Motyka has a co-worker
named Kevin Moore,
who the police have already talked to
and already eliminated.
Thought I'd just give you a call.
What's going on?
[Kevin Moore] Jeremy's been acting weird the past...
[Nicholas] He calls me to tell me that
Jeremy was acting suspicious.
You know, just, uh, different while on the job.
[Nicholas] Okay, like what?
[Moore] He's just been sayin some things that
don't really make a lot of sense.
'Cause my prior arrest.
He's trying to pin this on me.
Jeremy was telling Kevin
police were trying to pin this crime on him
because of his prior criminal record.
They're out to get me.
[Kenda] And he was very agitated
and very distressed.
I wouldn't have touched her.
Come on, think.
[Bannon] It's reasonable to think that somebody
might be anxious that now we've spoken to them twice
about a homicide.
Well, I mean, they interviewed all of us.
[Kenda] Kevin says to Jeremy
"Well, don't worry about it
You were never upstairs in this house.
So, there can't be anything up there from you."
And Jeremy, once again,
gets excited and agitated.
Now, they've seen my fingerprints
up in her bathroom, 'cause I use it sometimes.
You did?
Yeah, man. I gotta go to the bathroom sometimes.
Sue me.
Kevin thought that was interesting.
[Lynch] He knew that what Motyka was saying
was inconsistent in his recollection
of their work on the property
while they were there, uh, with Angela Spence-Shaw.
But then something even more interesting took place.
See them looking at shoe prints?
They are still going to work
at the crime scene everyday.
Jeremy sees a box
from the Rhode Island State Police.
And it says, "Shoe impressions." on the box.
How many people have the same shoeprints, man.
No.
[Kenda] Later in the day,
Kevin overheard Jeremy on the phone
talking to his girlfriend,
instructing her in a very agitated way
to take his work boots up to Cape Cod.
[Lynch] Wanting to get his shoes
as far away from that scene as possible,
to me, speaks to trying to get rid of evidence
involved in this case.
[Nicholas] Appreciate you coming forward with this, Kevin.
What's on Kevin's mind?
Kevin believed this whole conversation
was out of the ordinary.
And to him, it was, in some ways, alarming.
[Lynch] It certainly was helpful
that Kevin was now supplying
this information of his own suspicious concerns
regarding what Motyka was trying to say,
how he's trying to account for himself.
Now we bring in his girlfriend.
She tells us about the shoe
that he asked her to remove
from their apartment in Fall River
and bring them to the Cape Cod residence
where her parents live.
[Bannon] Why would he do tha
I have no idea.
[Nicholas] Your next question is,
"Have you ever done this in the past?"
"Never."
And she thought it was highly suspicious.
Thanks for the heads up.
[Kenda] In my mind, as an experienced homicide detective,
Jeremy's become more than somewhat of interest.
Jeremy's the guy.
It's him.
He knows it's him
and he's afraid we're figuri out that it's him.
Now we gotta figure out how to prove it.
[Lynch] We knew that there w
that one element of evidence
that he could never walk away from
and that's his DNA profile
being in our victim.
We had no probable cause
to get a warrant for their blood.
The best we could do was ask for their consent.
We requested the DNA sample
from Jeremy Motyka.
He was quite willing to provide
evidence that he had nothing to do with this.
Jeremy thought that that blood
was to match blood left at the scene.
He had no idea
that we found semen.
So, this guy did not have a care in the world.
He was cool as a cucumber.
[Kenda] In the United States
you're innocent until you're proven guilty.
However, the true test will be
match or no match.
If the specialized lab cannot match it
to Jeremy Motyka,
Jeremy walks away
and this investigation has gone up in a puff of smoke.
All of this effort, all of this work
is designed to satisfy one fact.
Who took Angela Spence-Shaw's life?
Who savagely beat her to dea
and raped her at age 66?
We believe it's probably Jeremy Motyka.
But the DNA sampling will tell us
the answer to that question
We got a solid alibi for Zimmerman.
We got a solid alibi for Gendreau.
[phone rings]
Lieutenant Lynch.
[Kenda] We get the result
of the DNA sample
taken from Jeremy Motyka.
There is an absolute DNA match
with what was found on our victim.
Are you sure?
[Lynch] They came up with a number
that it was no one but Jeremy Motyka.
He is the individual that is responsible
for this homicide.
No doubt about it.
That was a moment of satisfaction.
That was a moment of relief.
Let's go get his ass.
We were taking Jeremy Motyka off the street
[sirens blaring]
[handcuffs clicking]
[Kenda] Jeremy is arrested
and charged with first degree murder
and first degree sexual assault.
He is interrogated after an advisement of his rights.
[Lynch on speaker] We've got your DNA at the crime scene.
His accountability for why his semen
would be associated with this investigation
is that he engaged in sexual intercourse
with his girlfriend at times
before he came into work
and that he would use
Angela Spence-Shaw's bathtub to wash himself off.
[Motyka] You don't understan
[Kenda] And therefore, that's how his DNA sample
got into the victim because she then took a bath
after he used the bathtub.
What?
Earth to Jeremy.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life
and I've heard a lot of dumb things.
Why don't you just tell us what happened?
Get it off your conscience.
I mean, he's a sociopath.
[Motyka] I had nothing to d with this and you know it.
Reaching for any kind of excuse
or grasping at straws
to try and save his ass, you know.
You fabricated these results.
He's not gonna admit anything.
I didn't do it.
[Kenda] Because, after all, he didn't do anything.
He's innocent.
[Motyka] I had nothing to do with this and you know it.
You're trying to pin this on me.
Well, all right then.
[Lynch] Good luck with that.
[Kenda] Go to jail, Jeremy.
Do not pass go.
Do not collect $100.
Just go to jail
and stay there until you die.
[Lynch] Unfortunately, Jeremy Motyka
doesn't have the conscience
to say why he did what he did.
And what he did, uh, were unspeakable acts
towards a woman in her mid '60s.
A grandmother.
[Kenda] Jeremy meets this woman.
He knows she lives alone.
He's there everyday.
What does that add up to in his mind?
Victim. Someone who can be overcome.
Someone who can be used
to satisfy his needs if that moment comes.
[muffled rock music playing]
Motyka has done work at the property that day.
He then goes on,
engages in drinking alcohol
And for whatever reason, makes a decision to drive
into Little Compton
and onto Angela Spence-Shaw's property.
[Wordell] He had to drive
about 20 minutes from Fall River, Mass
and know that there was coordination on his part to do this.
That's a whole other level of sickness.
He enters that home because he knows he can.
[muffled screams]
[Kenda] He attacks this woma
She's 66 years old.
He doesn't care about that.
[grunting]
[Kenda] He beats her unmercifully in the face.
He rapes her.
He jumps up and down on her
like she's a bed cushion.
He is satisfying some need within him
to punish a woman.
And he selected her to do that with.
What made him do that?
I don't know.
I have no idea what that sociopathic mind
can justify in those moments.
[water splashing]
[Kenda] Then he drags her
and throws her in a bathtub
The whole point of him putting her in that tub
was to wash away the semen from her.
[Lynch] He was trying to clean up,
as best he possibly could,
what he had done.
[hair dryer blowing]
He wants the police to believe it's an accident...
[electricity surging]
...by throwing an appliance into the water
when it's plugged in and running,
causing electrocution to occur.
Those are decisions that Jeremy Motyka made
in taking Angela Spence-Shaw's life
without any ounce of remorse
as to what he did to Angela.
[Kenda] Jeremy Motyka goes to Cape Cod the next da
But he throws up, he's sick.
The vomiting...
Is from exposing himself
to what he knows he can be.
He can be Dr. Jekyll,
but he can certainly be a Mr. Hyde.
[toilet flushes]
[reporter] Did this man, Jeremy Motyka
kill and rape 66-year-old
Angela Spence-Shaw?
That is the question jurors must try to answer.
[lawyer] In that early morning hour,
Sunday, May 30th,
get in your car,
drive down to Little Compto
on Sakonnet Point Road
enter the property of Angela Spence-Shaw?
No.
-[lawyer] Sure about that? -Positive.
[reporter] On the stand, in his own defense,
Motyka told jurors that he felt state police
were trying to pin the murder on him.
I was just some guy doing carpentry work.
That's all.
Despite the fact that he doesn't wanna
own up to his responsibilities,
I felt very confident
that, uh, Jeremy Motyka,
uh, would be found and held accountable
for what he did to Angela Spence-Shaw.
[juror] Jury finds the defendant
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Count two, the jury also fin the defendant guilty
of first degree sexual assault.
They convict him and send him away forever.
[door buzzes]
He received a life without parole sentence
'cause that was what,
I believe, personally,
was the appropriate and just sentence
for this case.
[Bannon] The most frustrating thing
was not being able
to hear those words come out of his mouth.
The only gratifying look back at this
is that we're able to provide those sons with an answer.
[Nicholas] Sitting with the family in court,
it broke my heart.
It was quite emotional.
But it brought us great satisfaction
that we removed this dangerous
predator from the street.
Because he was just getting started.
[Kenda] Stephen Lynch is a quarterback
of a professional team of homicide investigators.
The game is what they do.
Jeremy was not going to esca
and Jeremy didn't.