[dramatic music]
* *
- Mission Viejo is a very affluent part
of Orange County near the coast.
- Saddleback College, it's in Mission Viejo, California.
It was, like, the preferred college in Orange County.
- We had a beautiful campus.
Robbin was heavily involved in so many things at the college.
We never thought of there being a safety issue
or a problem of security.
- On a peaceful campus, where students
have their whole lives ahead of them,
one beloved young woman's future is viciously cut short.
[camera shutter snapping]
- There were 41 stab wounds.
* *
- As far as a motive, had no clue.
Absolutely no clue.
- The sheer sadness just engulfs you.
I just burst out.
Just, no, no.
It just, like, hit me all at once.
- Detectives race to close in on a deranged campus killer.
- This is a psycho on the loose.
- He had left a rose on her doorstep
maybe a day or two before the murder.
- The first thing you think of is a spurned lover.
One of her girlfriends may have been jealous of her.
- There had been this argument and there had been
a lot of witnesses to that.
- Nobody does this without being through and through
evil to the bone.
- I got a call, and the detective said,
hey, we have somebody in custody here.
Do you have a murder of a girl on a college campus?
After so long, to get something like this is huge.
* *
- My name's Matt Murphy.
I was a deputy district attorney
in the Orange County DA's Office for 26 years.
I was assigned to the Homicide Unit for 17.
On January 18, 1986, late at night,
the Orange County Sheriff's Department
gets a call that there may be a dead woman
in a parking lot at Saddleback College.
* *
- I'm Kim Markuson.
I worked for the Orange County Sheriff's Department
for 30 years.
In January of 1986, I was assigned
as a homicide investigator.
* *
When I got to the scene in Mission Viejo,
it was actually a little bit before 1:00 a.m.
on Sunday morning.
And the parking lot was already cordoned off.
It was a large parking area, and it was not
close to the buildings.
It was very dark.
That still impresses me even today, how dark it was there.
There was only one car in that parking lot.
And once we got closer, I could see
that there was a young female laying on the ground
nearby that car.
[camera shutter snapping]
* *
- My name is Helen Moreno, and for 23 years,
I was an investigator in Orange County, California.
* *
By the appearance of it, the woman was probably
just about to get into her car,
but she had not opened the door yet.
- She was lying on her back faceup,
and she had a floral dress.
She had heels.
And her eyes were wide open, staring into the sky.
* *
That's the disturbing thing.
- It was very apparent
that she had been stabbed multiple times.
It was a brutal homicide.
- Just totally unexpected.
Not something that you would expect to happen
at Saddleback College in South Orange County.
Not only was she stabbed from the back,
but she was stabbed from the front.
* *
- There was a tremendous amount of blood.
The number of stab wounds were way, way, way
in the overkill category.
Whoever did this,
there was a lot of rage and anger there, for sure.
* *
Her skirt had been pulled up, exposing her undergarments,
but it didn't appear that she had been sexually assaulted.
* *
- The Orange County sheriff's investigators
begin to search for any physical evidence.
But unfortunately, that attempt is a wash.
- By the time investigators got there,
the sprinkler system had gone on.
- So the area was saturated with water.
- It's basically like hosing down a crime scene.
And I mean, it's just-- it's frustrating.
[camera shutter snaps]
- When the sprinklers are finally
turned off by campus security,
crime scene investigators comb the area.
* *
- We didn't find a knife or any piece of physical evidence
that would link anybody to the crime.
* *
- The victim's car was broken into,
and her purse was sitting on the car.
- There was money in there, so we immediately
discounted robbery.
* *
Inside her wallet was her driver's license.
We identified the victim...
[camera shutter snapping]
As Robbin Brandley.
- The campus is desolate except for two professors
who are waiting in a nearby car.
Through tears, they tell investigators
that they discovered the body
and that 23-year-old Robbin Brandley
was one of their star students.
- I'm Julia Brady-Jenner, and in 1986,
I was a teacher at Saddleback in film and television.
And Robbin Brandley was my student
who ultimately became a friend.
I've never forgotten that image of Robbin in the parking lot.
We were obviously in shock,
having seen her literally 20 minutes before.
* *
January 18th was a concert at Saddleback College.
When the concert was over, people were leaving,
and it's pretty late by that point.
* *
- Julia explains that she and Robbin were among the last
to leave the event.
Robbin headed out around 10:15,
and Julia followed about a half hour later.
- I turned to my friend, and I said,
can you take me to my car?
He drove me to the parking lot.
It was really dark up there.
There wasn't anybody around on campus at all
except for us.
[camera shutter snapping]
But through the headlights, we saw something.
It was a woman, and there was blood.
I realized at that point,
there's a body here.
* *
As we got closer, we realized that we knew who it was.
* *
I was crushed.
I just thought, that can't be her.
You know, it just can't be her.
* *
That's a tough one.
* *
- Investigators ask Julia if there's anyone
who might have wanted to hurt Robbin.
- I just said, there's no way
that anybody in our department would ever do that.
Robbin was a positive, joyful human being.
People loved to be around her.
- As far as a motive, had no clue.
Absolutely no clue.
- As CSI continues to work deep into the night
and early morning, investigators tell Julia
they'll talk more with her the following day.
For now, they face the heartbreaking task
of notifying Robbin's family of her death.
- My partner and I went to the address
on her driver's license.
Her mom and dad lived there at the time.
And so then we made the notification,
which was devastating, as you can imagine.
* *
- My name is Jayeson Brandley, and I am the brother
of Robbin Brandley.
* *
On the morning of January 19, 1986,
the phone started ringing at about 4:00 in the morning.
And my dad said, hey, Jayeson,
you need to come home right now.
And I could tell that he had been crying.
So got in my car, drove to Laguna, and I said,
what's going on?
And my mom just looked at me, and she says, Robbin's dead.
* *
She was murdered.
The sheer sadness just engulfs you.
I just burst out, you know?
I was like, just, no, no.
And it's like, every emotion that a person can have
in their soul and their body, it just, like,
hit me all at once.
And I was just--
just lifeless.
* *
Robbin was very outgoing,
and friends gravitated towards her.
They really liked her personality
and her sense of humor and her sense of adventure.
When we were growing up in Huntington Beach,
our house, it was less than a mile from the ocean.
The weather was always good in Orange County,
so we just were always outside
hanging out with friends in the neighborhood.
Even though she was older than I,
you know, she never tried to exclude me.
* *
She went to Saddleback College.
She loved that school.
Her writing and her passion for journalism
was something that was really important to her.
The college had a radio station,
and they offered her the opportunity
to have her own show.
So she became a KSBR disc jockey.
The radio experience really solidified what it was
she wanted to be down the road.
* *
- She was funny.
She was smart.
She loved to talk to people.
She loved people.
- Robbin had no known enemies.
* *
- So why, then, did someone ruthlessly silence
this esteemed student?
With no forensic evidence to help answer that question,
detectives return just hours later
to find potential witnesses to the murder.
- Our investigators talked to many people,
people that were on campus at the time,
but nobody was identified that witnessed the actual attack
on Robbin Brandley.
* *
The first thing you think of is a spurned lover
or, you know, a boyfriend or somebody
that she's had an argument with.
* *
- We spoke to a lot of her fellow students,
some of her professors, her friends.
- We did determine that there was a guy
who was very, very interested in Robbin.
- The friends described him as just being a little bit odd.
- He had left a rose on her doorstep
and had done it maybe a day or two before the murder.
* *
- There was another young co-ed
on campus that was abducted.
- Sitting down with this guy, this is huge.
- There's not many times that investigators
interview somebody who is a possible serial murderer.
[dramatic music]
* *
- It's January 19, 1986,
the morning after Saddleback College student
Robbin Brandley was found dead.
After speaking with students on campus,
investigators wonder if a single rose
found on her doorstep in the days leading up to her death
could be a dark harbinger of her demise.
- Whenever you have a murder victim that has been stabbed
multiple times, your first thought
is whether or not this is a boyfriend or a girlfriend.
- Her friends said that a fellow student by the name
of Will was pursuing her.
They just got a weird feeling about him.
His personality just seemed to be a little bit off.
- They had gone out once or twice,
and he had left a rose on her doorstep.
- He wanted to be her boyfriend,
and he was fairly persistent.
And Robbin was polite and pretty much dismissed him.
But I think he knew her schedule
and even attended some classes she did.
- Could rejection have driven Will
to stab Robbin in a frenzied rage?
Two days after the murder, investigators
get Will's address from school records
and pay him a visit.
- Will lived close by in Laguna Niguel,
a middle-class bedroom community primarily.
He knew about Robbin's murder at that point.
We asked if he was interested in Robbin,
and he admitted that he was.
As we continue talking to him,
we notice his reactions to certain questions
wouldn't be as other people might react.
He was fairly quiet.
He wasn't rude or evasive.
But his answers were different in the demeanor
than what we had seen with the other friends of Robbin.
* *
- Investigators ask Will where he was
the night of Robbin's murder.
- Will told us he was at home.
He never left. He did not go to the concert.
He didn't go anywhere.
We needed to corroborate that.
But Mom was home, and we asked her
about Will's activities that particular night,
and she corroborated what he said.
She said he was home all night, never left.
Unless we got other evidence to indicate
that either one of them was lying to us,
there was nothing else to talk to him about.
So we kept moving on.
* *
- By the time detectives rule out their first suspect,
the autopsy report comes back.
[camera shutter snapping]
And it paints a terrifying picture
of the barbaric nature of Robbin's attack.
* *
- My name is Mark Lesneski.
I am a forensic technician
with the Orange County Coroner's Office.
I was working in 1986 when this homicide occurred.
I've handled thousands of victims,
but some just stick out more than others.
* *
And this was one of them.
Robbin was stabbed...
[camera shutter snapping]
So much that there is virtually
no blood left in the body at all.
* *
- There were 41 stab wounds ultimately
determined on her body.
- The knife was serrated blade,
5 1/2 inches or so, 6 inches.
* *
- And one of her ribs
had almost been severed by the knife,
so it was consistent with a knife getting stuck.
It was a pretty deep cut.
- I remember one of the detectives saying
that the murderer had-- really had a hard time
trying to pull it out.
- There was nothing found on her clothing;
there was nothing found on her body
from a criminalistic standpoint that would help us.
* *
- There was no appearance of rape.
Somebody was out to kill her.
* *
- My name is Nick Schou.
I was an investigative reporter
and writer for "OC Weekly" for 25 years in Orange County.
I covered the Robbin Brandley case.
This event sent shock waves through the community.
It wasn't just a murder.
It was an extremely violent murder
on a college campus in a very safe part of Orange County.
- People start locking their doors.
They don't feel safe walking to their cars.
- I was scared.
I felt there was some crazy person
running around with a knife and doing terrible things.
* *
- The severity of the attack leaves detectives even more
convinced that Robbin's murder was committed
by someone who knew her.
So they dig even deeper into Robbin's activities on campus.
* *
- We wanted to find out, who knows her lifestyle?
What has she been doing?
Who does she socialize with?
- As detectives spend every waking hour with students
and professors, a feeling of paranoia
washes over the campus.
- When they're sitting in your classroom, these detectives--
and they were very nice, but I mean,
they wanted to see the dynamics
of who was in the department and what was going on.
Everybody felt like a suspect.
Everybody was very nervous.
* *
- Investigators learn from talking to those close
to Robbin that her success at school
may have sparked a rivalry with one
of her fellow communications classmates.
- Investigators heard that one of her girlfriends
may have been jealous of her position at the school
and that she was really doing so well.
Her name was Valerie.
- Valerie had basically been sidelined by Robbin,
who had taken over volunteer work on campus
that Valerie had been trying to do.
And there had been some choice words exchanged.
There had been this argument
between Valerie and Robbin that had occurred,
and there had been a lot of witnesses to that.
- Jealousy is a huge motivating factor
in committing a homicide.
Competitiveness definitely sparks jealousy.
* *
- As it turns out, detectives soon discover
that Valerie may also have been the last person
to see Robbin alive.
- After the concert that night,
Robbin and Valerie were ready to leave.
They went towards the door, and she waved and said,
hey, we're going to walk out together.
- Investigators have to find this woman immediately.
But after this murder, Valerie allegedly had left town.
* *
Maybe Valerie had something to do with it.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Two days after student Robbin Brandley
was found viciously stabbed
in a remote parking lot at Saddleback College,
investigators are trying to track down
a classmate and potential campus rival named Valerie.
- Valerie was a suspect because she disappeared
right after it happened.
Plus, she was the last person to see Robbin.
- Nobody investigators talked to at the college
knew where Valerie was.
Investigators thought that Valerie was gone
or was missing for a few days after this crime occurred.
* *
- That weekend, investigators call Valerie using a number
they located in a school directory,
but the phone rings off the hook.
So school administrators provide them
with her course schedule.
The following week on campus,
detectives catch up with her before class.
- She told police, after the concert,
she went home for the weekend
and didn't know what had happened.
So she hadn't, in fact, disappeared,
as the police quickly realized.
She came back to school.
That's when she actually first found out
about Robbin's death.
- Investigators have to confirm Valerie's whereabouts
immediately after the murder
with her family members.
- Investigators were able to determine very quickly
in interviewing her family
that she had come home normally,
and she wasn't behaving out of the ordinary.
- And I think that after interviewing Valerie
and her family, the idea that she was jealous,
which was the information they had,
wasn't something that was accurate.
Investigators were able to determine
through their interviews of friends
and people who knew her
that Valerie and Robbin went in different directions
after leaving when the reception was over.
They were parked in totally different areas of the campus.
- So it's instantly corroborated.
This young woman had absolutely nothing to do with the murder.
* *
[waves crashing]
- While investigators continue to press for leads,
Robbin's friends and family gather to celebrate and grieve
their beloved daughter, sister, and friend
in the best way they know how.
- A week after Robbin was murdered,
we wondered, where were we going to put her ashes?
* *
We went, took a boat out of Newport Beach
with some of her closest friends.
It's just a really beautiful place.
And each of us had a part in dumping ashes into the ocean.
* *
You know, the first thing I thought to me was, you know,
there goes the last physical remnant of Robbin.
* *
And it was really painful and difficult
to just realize that a week ago,
she was just this perfectly normal,
happy, loving person
who was now reduced to just ashes.
* *
The boat ride back to the harbor,
I don't think anybody said a word.
And we just sat quietly and just contemplated
what we had just done.
* *
Once we did that, then that turned
into the next phase of really focusing on,
who did it, and why?
* *
- With Valerie and admirer Will ruled out,
investigators are at a loss for any other promising leads
amongst those Robbin knew,
which opens the door to an alternative possibility.
- As we got into it down the road
and we're not finding anything,
a perfect stranger definitely comes to mind, for sure.
- And a random attack is more challenging
because there's no connection to the victim.
[camera shutter snapping]
So it's very difficult for investigators
because the pressure is on
because the guy who did it was still
out there posing a danger.
This is a psycho on the loose.
* *
- As weeks turn into months,
detectives are still no closer to solving the case.
But then just as the community terror starts to settle
a year after Robbin's murder, Saddleback College
is rocked again when a female student
is violently attacked on January 20, 1987.
- It was a young coed.
She was abducted by a guy and taken to another location.
* *
- The 22-year-old woman was attacked
in a dimly lit campus parking lot, just like Robbin.
* *
- He drove her to Modjeska Canyon
and sexually assaulted her.
drove her back to the campus,
and she was able to escape the vehicle.
In fact, he was immediately stopped
and arrested by campus police.
- The man is identified as 20-year-old
Charlie O'Hearn out of San Juan Capistrano.
- For the investigators on the Robbin Brandley case,
this was the closest thing they had to any kind of a lead
since the crime had occurred.
- The goal would be to try to find out
where he was on January 18th of 1986.
Was he anywhere even close by the campus,
Mission Viejo, or Orange County?
- They obviously wanted to get in a room with Charlie O'Hearn
as soon as they possibly could.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Almost a year to the day after 23-year-old
Robbin Brandley was found stabbed at Saddleback College,
yet another young female is violently attacked
in a campus parking lot.
Except this time, the woman survives,
and the attacker, Charlie O'Hearn,
is immediately caught.
- When Homicide finds out that there was another coed
on the campus that's abducted,
the investigators on the Robbin Brandley case
work with the sexual assault investigators
to find out whether or not there's any connection.
* *
- Could this be the same person who murdered
Robbin Brandley a year earlier?
To find out, investigators sit O'Hearn down
in an interrogation room and press him for information.
- The police were able to get in a room
with Charlie O'Hearn, but he didn't appear to know
anything about the crime.
He certainly didn't confess to it.
* *
- He said that he had nothing to do with the case
and wasn't around the campus at the time.
* *
There was no evidence to show that he was the person
who actually killed Robbin.
- We thought we might have a good lead, solid lead,
and it turned out to be nothing.
- O'Hearn pleads guilty to kidnapping and rape charges
for the recent attack.
While they can't rule him out for Robbin's murder
without more evidence, for now,
detectives are back to square one.
- No matter how much a police department
wants to find answers, eventually given
the information they have, they're going to run out
of leads on a case like this.
And then there becomes nobody left to call,
nobody left to talk to.
There's no new theory.
- Time stretches on as Robbin's case goes cold.
The passing years offer neither respite nor remedy
for those who loved her.
- For my parents, it really took a big piece of them.
Just sucked it right out of their soul.
* *
Not knowing who did it was just something that
just followed us around 24-7.
The frequency of updates as to what their status was
on finding the killer was just starting
to drop off, you know, year after year.
* *
- Having a lot of time pass was surprising.
I mean, we all thought the scene was so chaotic
and so vicious and bloody,
nobody's going to be able to get away with that.
- I personally was of the opinion
that we're probably never going to know who killed Robbin.
That's just the hardest thing to deal with.
* *
- Sadly, eight years pass with no breaks in the case,
until a new investigator brings with her new hope.
- The Robbin Brandley case happened in 1986.
I was a cold case investigator,
and I received it on my desk in 1994.
The second time around, that is the goal
is that you can ultimately get justice
for a victim and, hopefully, some closure for the family.
* *
- For more than three years, Investigator Moreno
diligently combs through the case file
for any possible missed clues.
Then in April of 1997, she receives
a startling phone call that could be the break
she's been searching for.
- A detective from Chicago called me and said,
hey, we have somebody in custody here
who may have had something to do
with a murder in Orange County.
* *
Do you have a murder of a girl on a college campus?
[camera shutter snapping]
* *
And I said, absolutely, we do.
* *
They had a suspect by the name of Andrew Urdiales,
a security guard, and he was charged there
with three murders of prostitutes.
- This guy had been a highly functioning member
of the United States Marine Corps.
And he went to the Gulf War, and he came back
a decorated combat veteran from the Iraq War.
- Now that he was arrested in Chicago for the other murders,
during their interviewing process with him,
he said that he had done five murders here in California.
- Investigators are stunned.
Could this fallen hero also be Robbin's killer?
Knowing there's only one way to find out,
with the opportunity for answers over 2,000 miles away,
police spring into action.
- Within two hours, my partner and I
were on a plane flying to Chicago.
* *
- Once they arrive at the jail, Helen and her partner
are ready to finally get some answers.
- Helen Moreno sitting down with this guy is gigantic.
The stakes are really high on this thing.
But it is a very well-known phenomenon
in the world of murder investigations
that sometimes serial killers, when they're already
going down for what they did, will begin confessing
to other murders that they didn't commit.
Because I think a lot of them just like the control
of muddying an investigation.
- Because there was no physical evidence,
you want to corroborate the evidence from the crime scene,
the evidence that the body showed us to confirm he was
telling the truth and he was the person
who actually killed Robbin.
* *
- There's not many times that investigators
interview somebody who is a possible serial murderer.
I felt this is probably the last chance we had
to be able to determine what happened to Robbin.
[dramatic music]
* *
- Investigator Helen Moreno is face-to-face
with alleged serial killer Andrew Urdiales,
who claims to have killed five women
in Orange County, California.
It's the only shot she has to determine if Urdiales
is the ruthless killer who savagely butchered
Robbin Brandley 11 years earlier.
* *
- He was very, very relaxed.
He seemed very matter of fact.
* *
He told us that he was young when he joined the service.
- Robbin's murder happened January 18, 1986.
And Camp Pendleton is just down the road
from Saddleback College, maybe a half an hour drive.
So he was in the location where the murder occurred
during the time period it occurred.
Andrew detailed to us, he had a lot
of interactions that weren't good with other marines.
* *
- Having established a viable timeline,
investigators turn to the night of January 18, 1986,
the date of Robbin's murder.
- He said he was on base
and some of his fellow marines angered him
and in frustration, he decided to get in his car.
- And he parked in a little strip mall area.
- Serrated?
- Investigators note that the knife Urdiales
describes matches the specifics of the weapon
in the autopsy report.
And that's not the only detail that sounds familiar.
- And then all of a sudden, he saw
this girl walking towards him.
- So at first, he thought, well, I'm going to rob her,
but he was so angry,
that kind of escalated what happened.
- Investigator Moreno knows there's always a chance
that Urdiales could have pulled some of these details
from news coverage.
To verify that he truly is the killer,
she pushes him to describe the stabbing in more detail.
* *
- Then he said he was so angry that he just started
stabbing her again in the front.
- The farther and farther we get into the interview
with him, the more puzzle pieces
that matched up with the crime scene.
He said she was laying on her back.
Her dress was hiked up.
- The details Urdiales is describing
may match the crime scene, but investigators still
can't rule out that their suspect didn't
glean them from press reports,
until Urdiales drops a unique forensic bombshell
that only the killer would know.
* *
- During autopsy, there was an injury to her ribs
that is consistent with a knife getting stuck.
* *
Those were facts that were not written
in any newspaper article
that matched up with the crime scene.
I was confident that we had the right person
at that point in time.
- Investigators now know they're sitting across
from the deranged killer who savagely took the life
of Robbin Brandley
and maybe seven other women as well.
So they're eager to ask him one last question.
- He almost seemed proud.
It was just chilling, being that close to him.
But now it was over for him.
[waves crashing]
* *
All we wanted was to get over to the Brandleys' house
and let them know we had every confidence
that he was the person that took their daughter's life.
They were relieved, but, you know, they were in shock.
It was very emotional because they had been
very, very dedicated to find out
who did this to their daughter.
For many, many years, it consumed their life.
* *
- I flew home and immediately went to visit my parents.
Just looking at this guy and trying to understand,
you know, why would he want to kill Robbin?
It was just so out of the blue, so random.
- We've been waiting for this for a long time,
so I was happy about the fact they had someone in custody.
I was shocked that he was a marine.
- But now the next step is getting the conviction.
- After five long years of legal and political debates
over the death penalty in Illinois,
Urdiales is finally tried in Chicago
for the murders he committed in Illinois.
- So in 2002, Urdiales is convicted
and sentenced to death
of two of the Illinois murders that he committed.
* *
- And it was a big sense of relief
because now there's no need
to have him extradited back to California
if he's going to be on death row anyways
and eventually be executed.
But unfortunately, things took an unexpected turn.
[dramatic music]
* *
- In 2002, with Andrew Urdiales
on death row in Illinois,
Robbin Brandley's family is spared
enduring a painful trial in California.
But two years after his out-of-state convictions,
they're hit with a devastating curveball.
- In 2004, the governor in Illinois
actually commuted death penalty sentences,
including the one Andrew Urdiales was facing
for the murders that he committed in Illinois.
* *
- Seven years pass as Urdiales files
various appeals and motions for the California cases.
- Finally, in 2011, Andrew Urdiales
was extradited from the state of Illinois
to finally face justice
for the five murders he committed out here.
- In March 2018, when they brought Andrew Urdiales out
from his cell into the courtroom for the trial,
it really struck me just how different he looked
to what I envisioned.
This slender, head shaven, glasses,
and it just blew me away that somebody
that looks like a total nerd
could do the things he did to people.
* *
- Andrew Urdiales was angry at something on the base.
He was just not getting along with the other marines
that were in his group.
I believe he was so angry and it was
such a relief that he got rid of all of his anger.
Robbin was his first.
That led to the other murders that he ultimately committed.
- He didn't rape her.
He didn't assault her.
He didn't rob her.
He just evil, mean stabbed her 41 times.
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- During the trial, they played the entire interview
for the jury that I had conducted
when Andrew Urdiales confessed.
- In May 2018, Andrew Urdiales was
convicted of the five murders here in Southern California.
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- And he was later sentenced to death
on all five California murders.
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- Robbin Brandley's family had been waiting 32 years.
Just imagine that, 32 years
after the brutal murder of their beautiful daughter,
they finally had resolution to this case.
* *
- Justice has finally been served.
Doesn't bring my sister back,
but it is kind of final closure on this thing.
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- When I heard that he had been sentenced to death,
I thought, great.
Torture and murder people, and that's what happens.
I don't think you should be on the planet.
* *
- In November of 2018,
six months after the sentencing,
I got a call from the District Attorney's Office
to let me know that Andrew Urdiales
had committed suicide in prison.
* *
- Guards at San Quentin discover him hanging
from a noose in his cell.
- I'm glad he did it.
He's no longer here, which is a good thing.
You know, it finally came to an end.
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[waves crashing]
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- It's chilling that there are people out there in the world
that could snuff out such a beautiful life so early
and not care.
The same with the four other victims in Orange County
and the three in Illinois.
You can't understate the human suffering that happens
as a result of a murder.
- It was a traumatic event for me.
I still remember like it was yesterday.
This is the lot I used to park in, but after that night,
I never parked here.
I don't come down here.
I wouldn't even park here during the day.
When I think back about her being out here
and us being so close, that's difficult,
because if we had come sooner,
maybe it would have changed her outcome.
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- Most of the cases stick with me.
This one did for sure because of the brutality of it,
how young the victim was,
how she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Nobody does this without being
through and through evil to the bone.
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- I lost a very dear friend.
I'm not going to be able to grow older
and have Robbin by my side.
And it's really hard to think about what could have been,
what Robbin could have become.
* *
- She did some big things while she was on this Earth,
and she impacted a lot of us.
Robbin had so many good things in her life,
and that's the thing to celebrate--
not what happened to her but who she was.
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