1 00:00:03,350 --> 00:00:06,527 She had found exactly what she was looking for 2 00:00:06,571 --> 00:00:07,963 and what she was missing. 3 00:00:08,877 --> 00:00:11,663 Lawrence came into her life and made her happy. 4 00:00:12,055 --> 00:00:14,013 [Faith] He is the ideal partner, 5 00:00:14,057 --> 00:00:16,668 a stabilizing presence for her rocky past. 6 00:00:17,538 --> 00:00:21,107 Lisa was injured in a car accident. 7 00:00:21,151 --> 00:00:23,109 For somebody to make her feel beautiful, 8 00:00:23,153 --> 00:00:24,328 it was very nice. 9 00:00:25,111 --> 00:00:27,853 [Faith] But her sense of security is soon replaced 10 00:00:27,896 --> 00:00:30,595 by his overwhelming need for control. 11 00:00:32,118 --> 00:00:35,687 Lawrence did not like Lisa being in the military. 12 00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:39,604 He would call her two, three, four times a day. 13 00:00:39,647 --> 00:00:40,605 Every day. 14 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:43,390 She left a message on my answering machine. 15 00:00:43,434 --> 00:00:45,088 "I have something to talk to you about, 16 00:00:45,131 --> 00:00:46,263 very important." 17 00:00:46,959 --> 00:00:49,092 And then we never seen her again. 18 00:00:49,962 --> 00:00:52,095 Lisa just disappeared. 19 00:00:53,922 --> 00:00:55,141 There was no clues. 20 00:00:55,185 --> 00:00:56,621 We didn't have nothing. 21 00:00:57,317 --> 00:01:00,146 [Faith] An eight year investigation 22 00:01:00,190 --> 00:01:02,105 uncovers difficult truths. 23 00:01:02,714 --> 00:01:05,238 He said, "I've got tapes of Lawrence." 24 00:01:05,804 --> 00:01:06,805 And I'm like, 25 00:01:06,848 --> 00:01:07,849 "You've got tapes?" 26 00:01:07,893 --> 00:01:10,461 [dramatic music] 27 00:01:10,504 --> 00:01:14,726 [Faith] And reveals the long-sought secret behind 28 00:01:14,769 --> 00:01:16,597 a killer relationship. 29 00:01:16,641 --> 00:01:18,208 [dramatic music] 30 00:01:18,251 --> 00:01:19,687 We start that dig, 31 00:01:19,731 --> 00:01:21,254 one inch at a time. 32 00:01:21,298 --> 00:01:23,648 And I find these teeth... 33 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:26,520 and I'm like, "Oh my God." 34 00:01:27,217 --> 00:01:31,438 [gentle piano music] 35 00:01:31,482 --> 00:01:39,142 [changes to sinister music] 36 00:01:40,839 --> 00:01:41,970 Divorce. 37 00:01:42,014 --> 00:01:43,276 It's messy. 38 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:45,017 Usually really messy. 39 00:01:45,060 --> 00:01:46,453 I should know. 40 00:01:46,497 --> 00:01:48,194 As the judge on Divorce Court, 41 00:01:48,238 --> 00:01:50,240 I've seen my fair share. 42 00:01:50,762 --> 00:01:52,764 For 28-year-old Lisa Marto, 43 00:01:52,807 --> 00:01:54,896 divorce is especially painful. 44 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:58,030 Her parents bitterly split when she was a child, 45 00:01:58,073 --> 00:02:00,815 and Lisa's first marriage ended quickly 46 00:02:00,859 --> 00:02:04,210 leaving her struggling with little help or support. 47 00:02:04,254 --> 00:02:07,126 It's why Lisa's marriage to Lawrence Gaudenzi 48 00:02:07,170 --> 00:02:09,302 in the spring of 1994 49 00:02:09,346 --> 00:02:12,392 is full of so much hope and promise. 50 00:02:12,914 --> 00:02:16,701 [gentle music] 51 00:02:16,744 --> 00:02:19,660 Lisa had a very privileged childhood. 52 00:02:19,704 --> 00:02:23,142 Her father had multiple stores at the time, 53 00:02:23,186 --> 00:02:25,753 on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City. 54 00:02:25,797 --> 00:02:29,061 And they had a large house with swimming pool 55 00:02:29,104 --> 00:02:31,281 and multiple fireplaces. 56 00:02:31,933 --> 00:02:34,066 They used to get taken to school, her and her sister, 57 00:02:34,109 --> 00:02:36,199 in a Rolls Royce. 58 00:02:36,242 --> 00:02:39,463 They had an upstairs maid, a downstairs maid. 59 00:02:39,506 --> 00:02:40,986 That's how she grew up. 60 00:02:41,595 --> 00:02:43,554 [Faith] But when Lisa is eight years old, 61 00:02:43,597 --> 00:02:46,557 her mom and dad fight through a bitter divorce 62 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,647 and her beautiful life falls apart. 63 00:02:49,690 --> 00:02:52,215 [gentle music] 64 00:02:52,258 --> 00:02:55,218 She grew up with the split family, 65 00:02:55,261 --> 00:02:57,089 with a father she saw on the weekends 66 00:02:57,132 --> 00:02:59,309 and mom during the week. 67 00:03:00,353 --> 00:03:03,269 She wrote to a friend how she would have given up 68 00:03:03,313 --> 00:03:06,185 all the clothes and all the fancy cars 69 00:03:06,229 --> 00:03:10,320 to have, you know, one week as a family. 70 00:03:11,625 --> 00:03:14,933 [Faith] Unfortunately, it's not her only early trauma. 71 00:03:15,455 --> 00:03:18,763 As a teenager, Lisa suffers another setback. 72 00:03:19,807 --> 00:03:22,723 Lisa was injured in a car accident. 73 00:03:23,420 --> 00:03:25,552 She was about 15, 16 years of age 74 00:03:25,596 --> 00:03:27,337 and it left some scars on her face 75 00:03:27,380 --> 00:03:28,686 up in this area. 76 00:03:28,729 --> 00:03:31,645 She was more self-conscious than anybody else. 77 00:03:32,342 --> 00:03:36,650 And she had a porcelain plate put in from the dentist. 78 00:03:38,913 --> 00:03:40,132 [Faith] At the age of 20, 79 00:03:40,175 --> 00:03:42,526 looking to put her troubled past behind her, 80 00:03:42,569 --> 00:03:45,572 Lisa takes off and settles near Palm Beach, Florida, 81 00:03:45,616 --> 00:03:48,140 where she meets a man named Jim Burdette 82 00:03:48,183 --> 00:03:49,924 and quickly gets married. 83 00:03:49,968 --> 00:03:53,537 [gentle music] 84 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:55,539 Lisa is searching for stability, 85 00:03:55,582 --> 00:03:57,280 but her young husband isn't close 86 00:03:57,323 --> 00:03:59,586 to being able to provide that. 87 00:03:59,630 --> 00:04:03,460 She became pregnant, and the reality of being a parent, 88 00:04:03,503 --> 00:04:05,897 being a father set in, 89 00:04:05,940 --> 00:04:07,942 and he was not ready for that 90 00:04:07,986 --> 00:04:09,727 at that point in his life. 91 00:04:09,770 --> 00:04:11,729 [dramatic music] 92 00:04:11,772 --> 00:04:13,948 [Faith] The couple soon divorces, 93 00:04:13,992 --> 00:04:17,952 but not before welcoming a baby girl named Lea. 94 00:04:17,996 --> 00:04:21,913 Sadly, she's born with a debilitating illness. 95 00:04:23,131 --> 00:04:25,873 Lea had cystic fibrosis, 96 00:04:25,917 --> 00:04:27,614 so she was very ill, 97 00:04:27,658 --> 00:04:31,792 and that can be a terminal illness for a child. 98 00:04:33,968 --> 00:04:38,669 They didn't expect me to live a very long at all. 99 00:04:39,539 --> 00:04:41,454 So it was really hard on her. 100 00:04:42,499 --> 00:04:46,938 But my mom was a very strong person, 101 00:04:46,981 --> 00:04:49,027 mentally and physically. 102 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:53,118 Want to know how strong Lisa is? 103 00:04:53,161 --> 00:04:54,641 She's in her early 20s, 104 00:04:54,685 --> 00:04:56,643 a single mom with a young daughter 105 00:04:56,687 --> 00:04:58,993 who's got serious medical issues, 106 00:04:59,037 --> 00:05:02,345 and she's living on her own with no outside support. 107 00:05:02,388 --> 00:05:04,347 So what does she do? 108 00:05:05,783 --> 00:05:09,352 In 1991, five years after her divorce, 109 00:05:09,395 --> 00:05:12,093 Lisa moves with her six-year-old Lea 110 00:05:12,137 --> 00:05:14,661 from Florida to Richmond, Virginia 111 00:05:14,705 --> 00:05:16,837 so she can enroll in pre-law studies 112 00:05:16,881 --> 00:05:19,492 at Virginia Commonwealth University. 113 00:05:20,101 --> 00:05:21,059 That's right. 114 00:05:21,102 --> 00:05:22,756 She decides to become a lawyer. 115 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:28,675 Lisa was raised with a lot of material values 116 00:05:28,719 --> 00:05:31,983 and she did want to be the opposite as an adult. 117 00:05:32,026 --> 00:05:34,420 She wanted to serve the public 118 00:05:34,464 --> 00:05:39,294 and help the underprivileged and get her education 119 00:05:39,338 --> 00:05:43,081 so that she could achieve her dream of becoming a lawyer. 120 00:05:44,430 --> 00:05:47,041 To help pay for school and babysitting, 121 00:05:47,085 --> 00:05:48,869 Lisa takes a full-time job, 122 00:05:48,913 --> 00:05:52,482 which is where she meets Lawrence Gaudenzi. 123 00:05:53,744 --> 00:05:57,051 Lisa was working for an auto body shop 124 00:05:57,095 --> 00:05:59,402 when she met Lawrence. 125 00:05:59,445 --> 00:06:01,969 Lawrence was a tow truck driver. 126 00:06:02,666 --> 00:06:05,582 Lawrence came into her life and made her happy. 127 00:06:06,713 --> 00:06:09,499 Lawrence absolutely charmed Lisa, 128 00:06:09,542 --> 00:06:10,935 saying all the right things 129 00:06:10,978 --> 00:06:15,679 about family values and raising children. 130 00:06:17,245 --> 00:06:21,380 By Christmas 1992, Lawrence and Lisa are spending 131 00:06:21,424 --> 00:06:23,034 all their time together. 132 00:06:23,077 --> 00:06:26,559 And she is convinced that unlike her first husband, 133 00:06:26,603 --> 00:06:28,909 Lawrence is a man who will support her 134 00:06:28,953 --> 00:06:31,129 and her young daughter. 135 00:06:31,172 --> 00:06:33,784 A lot of men don't want somebody else's child 136 00:06:33,827 --> 00:06:35,438 and they don't want to take care of them, 137 00:06:35,481 --> 00:06:37,265 and Lawrence did. 138 00:06:38,005 --> 00:06:40,268 She kept telling me, "My biological clock is ticking. 139 00:06:40,312 --> 00:06:41,966 I want another baby." 140 00:06:43,141 --> 00:06:47,972 [Faith] Lisa's wish comes true in November of 1993, 141 00:06:48,015 --> 00:06:51,541 when she and Lawrence welcome Shelby into the world. 142 00:06:52,193 --> 00:06:54,500 And six months later, 143 00:06:54,544 --> 00:06:56,546 Lisa and Lawrence get married, 144 00:06:56,589 --> 00:06:58,765 moving the family of four to a house 145 00:06:58,809 --> 00:07:01,594 in a small town outside of Richmond. 146 00:07:03,553 --> 00:07:06,294 There was a Christmas where, you know, 147 00:07:06,338 --> 00:07:07,905 he was picking her up and, you know, 148 00:07:07,948 --> 00:07:09,820 holding her and carrying her around. 149 00:07:09,863 --> 00:07:15,260 And she had such a beautiful smile going on. 150 00:07:15,303 --> 00:07:19,482 And she didn't really think she was very beautiful 151 00:07:19,525 --> 00:07:21,875 as a person because she had been in a car accident 152 00:07:21,919 --> 00:07:24,530 and had a lot of scar tissue on her face. 153 00:07:26,532 --> 00:07:31,537 So for somebody to make her feel beautiful was very, 154 00:07:31,581 --> 00:07:33,104 it was very nice. 155 00:07:33,147 --> 00:07:36,977 [gentle music] 156 00:07:37,021 --> 00:07:38,370 [dramatic music] 157 00:07:38,413 --> 00:07:41,329 [Faith] But the honeymoon doesn't last very long. 158 00:07:41,373 --> 00:07:43,462 The marriage quickly becomes strained 159 00:07:43,506 --> 00:07:47,031 when Lawrence can't find enough work to support the family. 160 00:07:47,510 --> 00:07:50,295 Earning a full-time income from towing cars 161 00:07:50,338 --> 00:07:54,212 was not as easy as it was when he lived in the city. 162 00:07:54,604 --> 00:07:57,998 Lawrence's ability to provide was questionable. 163 00:07:58,042 --> 00:08:00,218 [dramatic music] 164 00:08:00,261 --> 00:08:01,654 Money. 165 00:08:01,698 --> 00:08:04,439 It's what brings more couples into Divorce Court 166 00:08:04,483 --> 00:08:05,832 than anything else. 167 00:08:05,876 --> 00:08:08,574 And not being able to provide for his family, 168 00:08:08,618 --> 00:08:10,663 it brings out the worst in Lawrence, 169 00:08:10,707 --> 00:08:14,406 revealing a darker side Lisa has never seen before. 170 00:08:14,449 --> 00:08:17,365 [dramatic music] 171 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:20,673 Everything looked fine on the outside, 172 00:08:20,717 --> 00:08:24,547 but we were in the bathroom, 173 00:08:24,590 --> 00:08:27,637 and... 174 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,813 I was doing her hair and her makeup 175 00:08:29,856 --> 00:08:32,163 and the towel fell off of her. 176 00:08:32,598 --> 00:08:34,948 And I seen her legs all bruised. 177 00:08:36,602 --> 00:08:40,475 I told Lisa then, "You come home with us. 178 00:08:40,519 --> 00:08:42,173 You take the girls, 179 00:08:42,216 --> 00:08:43,391 both the girls, 180 00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:45,002 and you come home with us." 181 00:08:45,742 --> 00:08:48,919 And she said, "No, everything's okay. 182 00:08:48,962 --> 00:08:50,877 Everything's been straightened out." 183 00:08:51,269 --> 00:08:52,618 I said, "Okay." 184 00:08:52,662 --> 00:08:55,360 [ominous music] 185 00:08:55,403 --> 00:08:57,362 [Faith] By the fall of 1994, 186 00:08:57,405 --> 00:08:58,885 Lisa is heartbroken. 187 00:08:58,929 --> 00:09:01,453 She's in another unsupportive marriage 188 00:09:01,496 --> 00:09:03,890 that is on the verge of a breakup. 189 00:09:04,630 --> 00:09:07,285 Hoping that if she can take the financial pressure 190 00:09:07,328 --> 00:09:11,115 off of Lawrence, she can salvage their marriage, 191 00:09:11,158 --> 00:09:13,247 Lisa takes a dramatic step 192 00:09:13,291 --> 00:09:15,293 and enlists in the Army. 193 00:09:15,815 --> 00:09:18,818 One of the things that the military offered her 194 00:09:18,862 --> 00:09:21,081 would be a chance to gain her, you know, 195 00:09:21,125 --> 00:09:22,822 legal training through the military 196 00:09:22,866 --> 00:09:26,304 and then serve in the military as a judge. 197 00:09:29,089 --> 00:09:32,440 Lawrence reluctantly agrees to take care of the girls 198 00:09:32,484 --> 00:09:34,268 while Lisa goes through training. 199 00:09:34,312 --> 00:09:37,794 But instead of appreciating her sacrifice for the family, 200 00:09:37,837 --> 00:09:39,926 he resents her for it. 201 00:09:39,970 --> 00:09:41,275 Why? 202 00:09:41,319 --> 00:09:44,061 Because Lisa's dreams of becoming a military judge 203 00:09:44,104 --> 00:09:47,673 are at odds with the future he once envisioned. 204 00:09:47,717 --> 00:09:49,675 As the time comes for Lisa to leave 205 00:09:49,719 --> 00:09:51,895 for eight weeks of basic training, 206 00:09:51,938 --> 00:09:54,680 she's worried about leaving nine-year-old Lea 207 00:09:54,724 --> 00:09:56,334 with her stepfather. 208 00:10:01,687 --> 00:10:05,430 Lawrence and Lea were not getting along at all. 209 00:10:05,473 --> 00:10:08,476 So Lea was sent to Florida 210 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:10,087 to be with her grandmother. 211 00:10:10,130 --> 00:10:14,439 So Lawrence only had to care for Shelby at that point. 212 00:10:16,789 --> 00:10:19,052 [Faith] The time apart between Lisa and Lawrence 213 00:10:19,096 --> 00:10:22,316 does little to improve their relationship. 214 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:26,320 Lawrence did not like Lisa being in the military 215 00:10:26,364 --> 00:10:29,149 because Lisa was not accessible. 216 00:10:29,193 --> 00:10:32,675 He could not call Lisa whenever he so chose. 217 00:10:32,718 --> 00:10:33,937 And he tried. 218 00:10:35,852 --> 00:10:39,159 And not only did he call with regularity, 219 00:10:39,203 --> 00:10:41,466 he showed up a few times 220 00:10:41,509 --> 00:10:44,425 trying to get her to quit 221 00:10:44,469 --> 00:10:46,253 or get thrown out 222 00:10:46,297 --> 00:10:47,820 or come home. 223 00:10:48,821 --> 00:10:50,823 [Faith] In spite of Lawrence's best efforts 224 00:10:50,867 --> 00:10:53,826 to derail Lisa's military career, 225 00:10:53,870 --> 00:10:58,701 she graduates from basic training in the winter of 1995. 226 00:11:01,834 --> 00:11:04,315 Lea was already settled in, 227 00:11:04,358 --> 00:11:06,534 in Florida with her grandmother, 228 00:11:06,578 --> 00:11:09,842 but Lawrence showed up at the graduation 229 00:11:09,886 --> 00:11:12,453 with the baby disheveled, 230 00:11:12,497 --> 00:11:13,716 in dirty clothes, 231 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:15,108 without socks. 232 00:11:15,152 --> 00:11:18,372 This is Virginia in the winter. 233 00:11:18,416 --> 00:11:21,767 And I think that instantaneously her plan changed 234 00:11:21,811 --> 00:11:25,771 and she knew that she needed to go home 235 00:11:25,815 --> 00:11:28,426 and deal with the situation. 236 00:11:30,123 --> 00:11:33,561 The Gaudenzis make their way to Virginia. 237 00:11:33,605 --> 00:11:39,132 And after just a day back home, on January 26th, 1995, 238 00:11:39,176 --> 00:11:42,745 it's time for Lisa to leave her family once again, 239 00:11:42,788 --> 00:11:45,878 to take the next step in military career. 240 00:11:48,838 --> 00:11:50,622 That's the weekend Lisa was supposed to report 241 00:11:50,665 --> 00:11:53,277 to officers training. 242 00:11:55,018 --> 00:11:59,500 So Lawrence took Lisa to Richmond's bus stop 243 00:11:59,544 --> 00:12:01,894 and she got out of the car... 244 00:12:04,897 --> 00:12:06,856 and he'd never seen her again. 245 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,773 Most cases, you know who the bad guy is, 246 00:12:10,816 --> 00:12:12,470 but we didn't have nothing. 247 00:12:13,297 --> 00:12:14,472 Lawrence did not show up 248 00:12:14,515 --> 00:12:16,300 for his scheduled lie detector test 249 00:12:16,343 --> 00:12:20,391 and Lawrence and Shelby vanished overnight. 250 00:12:21,348 --> 00:12:24,438 When the babysitter picked the lock on the door, 251 00:12:24,482 --> 00:12:27,354 all she saw was the bathroom full of blood, 252 00:12:27,398 --> 00:12:28,442 everywhere. 253 00:12:28,486 --> 00:12:30,401 [suspenseful music] 254 00:12:32,751 --> 00:12:36,886 [dramatic music] 255 00:12:36,929 --> 00:12:41,064 [Faith] January 28th, 1995. 256 00:12:41,107 --> 00:12:44,067 Two military policemen knock on Lawrence Gaudenzi's door 257 00:12:44,110 --> 00:12:48,549 in Lakeland, Virginia to deliver the news that his wife Lisa 258 00:12:48,593 --> 00:12:52,553 never showed up for officer training camp at Fort Lee. 259 00:12:55,121 --> 00:12:58,081 Lawrence contacted the sheriff's office 260 00:12:58,124 --> 00:13:01,301 in Caroline County where they resided. 261 00:13:02,563 --> 00:13:05,610 [Faith] In a city of fewer than 30,000 residents. 262 00:13:05,653 --> 00:13:09,440 Caroline County doesn't have a missing persons division, 263 00:13:09,483 --> 00:13:12,095 but a detective hears Lawrence out. 264 00:13:12,356 --> 00:13:14,401 Lawrence told the story 265 00:13:14,445 --> 00:13:16,795 that he had driven her from where they live 266 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:18,666 in Caroline County 267 00:13:18,710 --> 00:13:22,627 to the bus station in Richmond 268 00:13:22,670 --> 00:13:25,804 and put her on a bus to go to Fort Lee. 269 00:13:27,588 --> 00:13:29,677 [Faith] Lawrence also tells the detective 270 00:13:29,721 --> 00:13:32,942 he believes he knows why his wife may have left him. 271 00:13:33,420 --> 00:13:36,119 He says Lisa had disappeared 272 00:13:36,162 --> 00:13:38,904 because of problems with depression. 273 00:13:39,470 --> 00:13:41,646 That she had just decided that she wanted 274 00:13:41,689 --> 00:13:44,127 to get away from everything for a while. 275 00:13:44,867 --> 00:13:46,477 [Faith] The sheriff's office interviews 276 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:50,133 Lisa's father and stepmother, Joe and Nancy, 277 00:13:50,176 --> 00:13:52,918 who admit Lisa may have wanted to get out 278 00:13:52,962 --> 00:13:54,485 of a difficult marriage. 279 00:13:55,138 --> 00:13:57,488 Maybe she did run away. 280 00:13:57,531 --> 00:14:00,099 In the very beginning, that's exactly what we thought. 281 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:02,928 We thought that she had disappeared. 282 00:14:02,972 --> 00:14:04,625 She took off. 283 00:14:06,192 --> 00:14:07,846 To be honest with you, 284 00:14:07,890 --> 00:14:10,631 we were hoping Lisa had run away. 285 00:14:12,546 --> 00:14:14,505 [Faith] But as the days turn into weeks 286 00:14:14,548 --> 00:14:16,333 with no sign of Lisa, 287 00:14:16,376 --> 00:14:17,725 her parents know 288 00:14:17,769 --> 00:14:20,598 there's one telltale sign that their daughter 289 00:14:20,641 --> 00:14:23,514 may not have left of her own freewill. 290 00:14:25,037 --> 00:14:28,127 She used to call Lea every day, 291 00:14:28,171 --> 00:14:29,737 two or three times a day, 292 00:14:29,781 --> 00:14:32,523 and all phone calls stopped to Lea. 293 00:14:34,264 --> 00:14:37,528 She had every intention of coming to get me 294 00:14:37,571 --> 00:14:39,008 as soon as she could. 295 00:14:39,051 --> 00:14:41,575 To me, it was far-fetched 296 00:14:41,619 --> 00:14:44,013 to even think that she was running away. 297 00:14:45,753 --> 00:14:49,148 Never would have Lisa abandoned her children, never. 298 00:14:49,192 --> 00:14:50,106 Lea came first, 299 00:14:50,149 --> 00:14:51,455 Shelby came first. 300 00:14:51,498 --> 00:14:53,500 She adored both of those kids. 301 00:14:54,762 --> 00:14:57,374 We realized 302 00:14:57,417 --> 00:14:59,202 Lawrence did something. 303 00:14:59,245 --> 00:15:02,118 [dramatic music] 304 00:15:02,161 --> 00:15:04,511 The Marto's shared their concerns about Lawrence 305 00:15:04,555 --> 00:15:05,948 with law enforcement, 306 00:15:05,991 --> 00:15:09,212 including the bruises Nancy saw on Lisa's body 307 00:15:09,255 --> 00:15:10,909 at the start of her marriage. 308 00:15:11,910 --> 00:15:13,781 So the Carolina County Sheriff's Office 309 00:15:13,825 --> 00:15:16,741 looks deeper into Lawrence's character 310 00:15:16,784 --> 00:15:20,092 and his possible role in Lisa's disappearance. 311 00:15:21,267 --> 00:15:23,008 They interviewed his landlord. 312 00:15:23,052 --> 00:15:25,271 They interviewed the babysitter. 313 00:15:25,315 --> 00:15:28,753 They interviewed people around the garage where he worked. 314 00:15:28,796 --> 00:15:30,494 He had a lot of people convinced 315 00:15:30,537 --> 00:15:32,322 that he was the poor husband 316 00:15:32,365 --> 00:15:34,933 whose wife had left him with these children. 317 00:15:35,325 --> 00:15:37,066 And he was the standup guy. 318 00:15:37,109 --> 00:15:38,850 He was the hero here. 319 00:15:39,546 --> 00:15:42,245 You know, "My wife left me and you know, 320 00:15:42,288 --> 00:15:44,160 I'm doing the best I can." 321 00:15:45,161 --> 00:15:48,425 [Faith] Investigators search Lawrence and Lisa's home 322 00:15:48,468 --> 00:15:50,644 looking for clues to Lisa's whereabouts 323 00:15:50,688 --> 00:15:53,517 or any evidence of foul play. 324 00:15:53,821 --> 00:15:55,345 There was just nothing there. 325 00:15:55,388 --> 00:15:56,433 There was no clues, 326 00:15:56,476 --> 00:15:57,956 there was no blood stain, 327 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,392 there was no footprints, 328 00:15:59,436 --> 00:16:01,742 there was no nothing. 329 00:16:02,787 --> 00:16:07,748 It's hard to develop a case without something. 330 00:16:10,577 --> 00:16:11,970 This is troubling, 331 00:16:12,014 --> 00:16:15,191 but as a prosecutor, I also find it fascinating. 332 00:16:15,234 --> 00:16:18,890 Right now law enforcement is hearing two different stories 333 00:16:18,933 --> 00:16:21,762 from two different sides of the family. 334 00:16:21,806 --> 00:16:24,809 One from the man who says he's a loving husband 335 00:16:24,852 --> 00:16:27,681 whose wife abandoned him and the children. 336 00:16:27,725 --> 00:16:30,641 The other from parents who say law enforcement 337 00:16:30,684 --> 00:16:32,164 is getting it all wrong. 338 00:16:32,208 --> 00:16:34,949 That the man who claims to be a perfect husband 339 00:16:34,993 --> 00:16:36,995 is anything but. 340 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:40,216 [dramatic music] 341 00:16:40,259 --> 00:16:42,261 The sheriff absolutely believed 342 00:16:42,305 --> 00:16:46,700 that Lisa had run off and left him, 343 00:16:46,744 --> 00:16:49,138 which was unfortunate because it left 344 00:16:49,181 --> 00:16:53,055 a lot of undone detective work. 345 00:16:54,534 --> 00:16:58,016 Everybody believed him that she had run off, 346 00:16:58,060 --> 00:17:01,715 and therefore Lisa was simply a missing person 347 00:17:01,759 --> 00:17:03,674 and not the victim of a crime. 348 00:17:04,849 --> 00:17:06,894 [Faith] With the community on his side, 349 00:17:06,938 --> 00:17:09,158 Lawrence lets law enforcement and his friends know 350 00:17:09,201 --> 00:17:13,031 that Lisa's disappearance seems to fit a pattern. 351 00:17:15,251 --> 00:17:18,341 Lawrence claimed that Lisa was a disgruntled housewife 352 00:17:18,384 --> 00:17:21,039 and she had ran away before. 353 00:17:21,083 --> 00:17:25,130 He had told everybody she ran away from her first husband, 354 00:17:25,174 --> 00:17:26,566 which was Jim. 355 00:17:28,568 --> 00:17:30,396 [Faith] Investigators attempt to follow up 356 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:32,920 on Lawrence's claim that Lisa had run away 357 00:17:32,964 --> 00:17:35,706 from her first husband, Jim Burdette. 358 00:17:35,749 --> 00:17:37,708 But Jim has fallen off the map. 359 00:17:37,751 --> 00:17:40,319 No one in Lisa's family has from him 360 00:17:40,363 --> 00:17:42,016 since the couple divorced 361 00:17:42,060 --> 00:17:46,195 and the local police are unable to find any trace of him. 362 00:17:46,804 --> 00:17:49,720 Now, months into the missing persons investigation, 363 00:17:49,763 --> 00:17:53,376 law enforcement is no closer to finding Lisa 364 00:17:53,419 --> 00:17:55,726 than the day she vanished. 365 00:17:55,769 --> 00:17:58,381 Joe was not a happy person. 366 00:17:58,424 --> 00:18:01,862 Caroline County did very little. 367 00:18:01,906 --> 00:18:04,952 My husband and I felt exhausted. 368 00:18:05,866 --> 00:18:09,261 And this case caused him to have a heart attack. 369 00:18:09,305 --> 00:18:12,656 [somber music] 370 00:18:12,699 --> 00:18:15,137 For my family, it was like a daily thing 371 00:18:15,180 --> 00:18:18,705 that I got to see pain in their eyes every day. 372 00:18:19,619 --> 00:18:21,708 [Faith] The pain is made worse when, 373 00:18:21,752 --> 00:18:23,710 nine months into her disappearance, 374 00:18:23,754 --> 00:18:26,235 the Army declares Lisa AWOL 375 00:18:26,278 --> 00:18:28,715 and dishonorably discharges her. 376 00:18:30,152 --> 00:18:32,545 Joe was so disgusted that he says, 377 00:18:32,589 --> 00:18:34,199 "I've had it. I've had enough. 378 00:18:34,243 --> 00:18:35,592 They're not doing nothing. 379 00:18:35,635 --> 00:18:37,463 The sheriff's departments are doing nothing. 380 00:18:37,507 --> 00:18:39,161 I can't take no more." 381 00:18:40,510 --> 00:18:42,642 And he was ready to give up. 382 00:18:45,167 --> 00:18:47,647 And I says, "I'm not." 383 00:18:49,997 --> 00:18:53,827 With Lisa gone, Lawrence raises Shelby on his own 384 00:18:53,871 --> 00:18:57,962 and makes himself available to investigators at any time. 385 00:18:58,005 --> 00:19:00,443 Yet, despite Lawrence's cooperation with 386 00:19:00,486 --> 00:19:01,835 law enforcement, 387 00:19:01,879 --> 00:19:04,577 Lisa's family still doesn't accept 388 00:19:04,621 --> 00:19:06,753 that she just left on her own. 389 00:19:06,797 --> 00:19:08,842 And they can't imagine her husband 390 00:19:08,886 --> 00:19:11,976 didn't play a role in her disappearance. 391 00:19:12,019 --> 00:19:15,284 [dramatic music] 392 00:19:15,327 --> 00:19:18,809 And Joe finally, he started to come out of it 393 00:19:18,852 --> 00:19:22,029 and he decided he was putting his foot down. 394 00:19:22,073 --> 00:19:24,336 He wasn't going to let it beat him. 395 00:19:26,338 --> 00:19:31,691 So Joe and myself wrote a letter to the governor of Virginia 396 00:19:31,735 --> 00:19:34,041 and our governor in New Jersey. 397 00:19:34,085 --> 00:19:37,741 We wanted this case to be taken off the back burner. 398 00:19:39,351 --> 00:19:40,961 We wanted something done. 399 00:19:42,963 --> 00:19:45,444 [Faith] With intense pressure from the Martos 400 00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:47,968 and no new developments in the case, 401 00:19:48,012 --> 00:19:51,668 Caroline County investigators ask Lawrence Gaudenzi 402 00:19:51,711 --> 00:19:54,061 to come in for a polygraph test. 403 00:19:55,324 --> 00:19:56,847 A whole week went by. 404 00:19:56,890 --> 00:19:59,415 He calls, "I'm sick, I can't come in." 405 00:20:00,503 --> 00:20:01,634 Lawrence did not show up 406 00:20:01,678 --> 00:20:03,680 for his scheduled lie detector test 407 00:20:03,723 --> 00:20:07,858 and Lawrence and Shelby vanished overnight. 408 00:20:09,294 --> 00:20:11,209 Lawrence went MIA. 409 00:20:11,253 --> 00:20:13,124 [suspenseful music] 410 00:20:15,431 --> 00:20:17,476 Let me paint you a picture. 411 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,174 Your wife is missing for two years, 412 00:20:20,218 --> 00:20:21,915 the local police investigation 413 00:20:21,959 --> 00:20:24,266 into her disappearance has stalled, 414 00:20:24,309 --> 00:20:27,007 and your in-laws don't trust your story. 415 00:20:27,051 --> 00:20:28,966 So they demand police call you in 416 00:20:29,009 --> 00:20:31,185 to sit for a polygraph test. 417 00:20:31,229 --> 00:20:33,187 Most people would make a beeline 418 00:20:33,231 --> 00:20:34,928 straight to law enforcement, right? 419 00:20:34,972 --> 00:20:36,495 Set the record straight. 420 00:20:36,539 --> 00:20:39,281 But what does Lawrence Gaudenzi do? 421 00:20:39,324 --> 00:20:41,413 He stalls for a week and then, 422 00:20:41,457 --> 00:20:44,198 with his three-year-old child Shelby in tow, 423 00:20:44,242 --> 00:20:46,723 mysteriously disappears. 424 00:20:47,245 --> 00:20:49,813 Lawrence's move changes the course 425 00:20:49,856 --> 00:20:52,250 of this entire investigation. 426 00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:56,385 A local agency only has so much resources to work with. 427 00:20:56,428 --> 00:20:59,213 And the state police has lots of resources. 428 00:20:59,257 --> 00:21:01,346 That's why they turned it over. 429 00:21:01,390 --> 00:21:02,565 So we had to go back and talk 430 00:21:02,608 --> 00:21:05,916 to all these people over and over again. 431 00:21:07,221 --> 00:21:08,527 So the state police opened it up 432 00:21:08,571 --> 00:21:11,574 as a homicide investigation. 433 00:21:12,096 --> 00:21:13,532 We couldn't prove that she was dead, 434 00:21:13,576 --> 00:21:16,405 but we could pretty well prove that she wasn't alive. 435 00:21:16,448 --> 00:21:21,148 Everybody leaves a signature somewhere, 436 00:21:21,192 --> 00:21:23,020 whether you're getting mail, 437 00:21:23,063 --> 00:21:24,674 whether you're getting a check, 438 00:21:24,717 --> 00:21:27,111 all of this stopped. 439 00:21:27,938 --> 00:21:32,029 So that, to us, proved that she was not alive. 440 00:21:32,943 --> 00:21:35,293 But we had no body. 441 00:21:36,425 --> 00:21:38,383 [Faith] What the state police do have 442 00:21:38,427 --> 00:21:40,690 is a bunch of new witnesses they've unearthed 443 00:21:40,733 --> 00:21:43,562 through their revitalized investigation. 444 00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:46,565 One of these witnesses is a close friend of Lisa's 445 00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:49,220 who wasn't interviewed before. 446 00:21:49,263 --> 00:21:51,570 And now tells a story of the night 447 00:21:51,614 --> 00:21:54,268 Lisa and Lawrence came home from Florida 448 00:21:54,312 --> 00:21:56,923 after basic training graduation. 449 00:21:56,967 --> 00:21:59,883 [eerie music] 450 00:21:59,926 --> 00:22:03,756 They dropped the baby off at her friend's house 451 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,846 and asked if she could keep the baby overnight 452 00:22:06,890 --> 00:22:09,371 so that they could have time to talk through 453 00:22:09,414 --> 00:22:11,634 all of the issues in their marriage. 454 00:22:13,418 --> 00:22:16,987 When they came back, she told the friend, 455 00:22:17,030 --> 00:22:18,467 "I'm going to divorce him." 456 00:22:19,511 --> 00:22:23,602 Lisa looked up and Lawrence was standing at the screen door. 457 00:22:23,646 --> 00:22:25,648 [dramatic music] 458 00:22:26,997 --> 00:22:31,044 [Faith] Now in conjunction with Lawrence's disappearance, 459 00:22:31,088 --> 00:22:35,005 the jarring revelation pushes state police investigators 460 00:22:35,048 --> 00:22:36,789 to reconsider everything 461 00:22:36,833 --> 00:22:39,488 Lawrence has ever told law enforcement. 462 00:22:43,883 --> 00:22:46,799 According to his statement, when Lisa went missing, 463 00:22:46,843 --> 00:22:50,150 Lawrence took her to the bus station in Richmond 464 00:22:50,194 --> 00:22:52,414 and dropped her off. 465 00:22:52,457 --> 00:22:56,156 We actually found a guy that worked there back in 1995, 466 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:57,636 and said, "Here's the bus schedule." 467 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,379 But there is no bus that goes from Richmond, Virginia 468 00:23:01,423 --> 00:23:04,426 to Fort Lee, which is only 20 minutes away. 469 00:23:05,383 --> 00:23:09,866 That was the beginning of a long line of 470 00:23:09,909 --> 00:23:11,041 lies. 471 00:23:12,782 --> 00:23:16,220 [Faith] With Lawrence looking more and more guilty, 472 00:23:16,263 --> 00:23:19,702 state police conduct an all-agency manhunt 473 00:23:19,745 --> 00:23:22,356 to try to find the man who they believe 474 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:24,489 caused the disappearance of his wife 475 00:23:24,533 --> 00:23:26,360 and now of his child. 476 00:23:26,926 --> 00:23:29,538 Everybody in my family was baffled at how 477 00:23:29,581 --> 00:23:31,365 somebody like that could just easily 478 00:23:31,409 --> 00:23:33,150 slip through the cracks. 479 00:23:33,585 --> 00:23:37,459 My husband, not knowing where any of the girls were, 480 00:23:37,502 --> 00:23:38,895 it broke his heart, 481 00:23:38,938 --> 00:23:41,680 it just... 482 00:23:41,724 --> 00:23:43,116 He was beaten. 483 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,770 That really beat him down. 484 00:23:46,859 --> 00:23:50,515 Could you imagine being Joe Marto, Lisa's father, 485 00:23:50,559 --> 00:23:52,169 your daughter is missing, 486 00:23:52,212 --> 00:23:54,519 the police believe it's a homicide, 487 00:23:54,563 --> 00:23:56,826 and making matters even worse, 488 00:23:56,869 --> 00:24:00,177 your youngest granddaughter has been taken by the man 489 00:24:00,220 --> 00:24:02,527 you believe killed your daughter. 490 00:24:02,571 --> 00:24:04,398 And this goes on for years, 491 00:24:04,442 --> 00:24:06,009 literally. 492 00:24:06,052 --> 00:24:09,491 Despite the non-stop efforts of the Virginia State Police, 493 00:24:09,534 --> 00:24:13,930 the case goes cold for five years. 494 00:24:16,454 --> 00:24:19,544 Lisa's father hired a private detective 495 00:24:19,588 --> 00:24:21,154 to try to find her. 496 00:24:21,198 --> 00:24:25,245 They were constantly talking to the state police. 497 00:24:25,289 --> 00:24:26,638 He spent an enormous amount of money 498 00:24:26,682 --> 00:24:28,161 trying to find his daughter. 499 00:24:28,205 --> 00:24:29,641 She was his life. 500 00:24:29,685 --> 00:24:31,513 He was so proud of her. 501 00:24:31,556 --> 00:24:35,908 She had accomplished so much in such a short time. 502 00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:41,087 [gentle music] 503 00:24:41,131 --> 00:24:43,350 [Faith] And then, in 2002, 504 00:24:43,394 --> 00:24:46,963 Joe and Nancy's persistence pays off. 505 00:24:47,746 --> 00:24:49,879 They finally got some media attention. 506 00:24:49,922 --> 00:24:52,969 There was a local newscast that was broadcast 507 00:24:53,012 --> 00:24:57,539 with Lawrence's picture asking if the public had seen him. 508 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:02,587 And someone called in a tip 509 00:25:02,631 --> 00:25:06,286 that they had seen him in 510 00:25:06,330 --> 00:25:08,985 the Harrisonburg, Virginia area. 511 00:25:10,552 --> 00:25:12,292 [Faith] The state police descend 512 00:25:12,336 --> 00:25:14,120 on the town of Harrisonburg, 513 00:25:14,164 --> 00:25:18,821 120 miles from Lisa and Lawrence's home in Richmond. 514 00:25:18,864 --> 00:25:24,304 One of our agents located him and Shelby 515 00:25:24,348 --> 00:25:27,394 and confronted him and asked him 516 00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:29,614 if he was Lawrence Gaudenzi. 517 00:25:29,658 --> 00:25:31,311 And he said, "No." 518 00:25:31,703 --> 00:25:34,488 [Faith] The man says his name is Randy Evans 519 00:25:34,532 --> 00:25:37,448 and his young daughter's name is Logan. 520 00:25:37,491 --> 00:25:40,669 Investigators think maybe they have the wrong guy, 521 00:25:40,712 --> 00:25:43,323 as it's been years since cops last laid eyes 522 00:25:43,367 --> 00:25:45,108 on Lawrence Gaudenzi. 523 00:25:45,717 --> 00:25:47,632 But fortunately he had gotten 524 00:25:47,676 --> 00:25:50,548 a pretty unique tattoo on his chest. 525 00:25:50,592 --> 00:25:53,638 So the agent asked him, "Let me see, 526 00:25:53,682 --> 00:25:54,726 let me see your chest." 527 00:25:54,770 --> 00:25:56,554 So he opened his shirt. 528 00:25:56,598 --> 00:25:59,644 And at that point in time that he identified Lawrence. 529 00:26:05,955 --> 00:26:09,132 By 2002, it's been seven years. 530 00:26:09,175 --> 00:26:14,137 Seven years since Lisa Gaudenzi was last seen alive. 531 00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:17,183 But there's an incredible development. 532 00:26:17,227 --> 00:26:20,230 Lisa's husband, Lawrence, has just been discovered 533 00:26:20,273 --> 00:26:22,798 after five years on the run. 534 00:26:22,841 --> 00:26:25,191 Now he's in custody after a tip, 535 00:26:25,235 --> 00:26:28,673 having stolen the identity of a missing homeless man 536 00:26:28,717 --> 00:26:30,414 named Randy Evans. 537 00:26:31,545 --> 00:26:36,072 Police did not have enough evidence to arrest him 538 00:26:36,115 --> 00:26:39,989 for Lisa's disappearance or murder, 539 00:26:40,032 --> 00:26:44,210 but they did have fraud charges on him. 540 00:26:46,386 --> 00:26:49,476 So they were able to arrest him on those grounds, 541 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,218 which allowed them to buy some time 542 00:26:52,262 --> 00:26:54,917 to try and get him to confess 543 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:58,572 or provide information on Lisa's whereabouts. 544 00:26:59,617 --> 00:27:02,011 [Faith] Lawrence not only took on a new identity, 545 00:27:02,054 --> 00:27:05,405 he also changed his daughter Shelby's name to Logan 546 00:27:05,449 --> 00:27:07,843 and got married to another woman 547 00:27:07,886 --> 00:27:10,715 who raised the child as her own. 548 00:27:10,759 --> 00:27:13,022 All this deception is exposed 549 00:27:13,065 --> 00:27:15,328 with Lawrence's arrest. 550 00:27:18,505 --> 00:27:22,727 So I found out that my dad was not who he said he was. 551 00:27:22,771 --> 00:27:27,689 And I find out that I am not who I thought I was. 552 00:27:28,472 --> 00:27:31,388 A couple hours later my mom, Linda May, had told me, 553 00:27:31,431 --> 00:27:33,651 "You know, your name is not Logan Evans. 554 00:27:33,695 --> 00:27:35,740 Your name is Shelby Marto." 555 00:27:35,784 --> 00:27:38,308 Then, my mom is missing. 556 00:27:38,351 --> 00:27:40,005 My actual mom is missing 557 00:27:40,049 --> 00:27:41,746 and nobody knows where she is. 558 00:27:41,790 --> 00:27:46,577 [ominous music] 559 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:48,797 They've got Lawrence locked up for a year 560 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,147 on the identity theft charge. 561 00:27:51,190 --> 00:27:52,844 So they've got a one-year window 562 00:27:52,888 --> 00:27:55,107 to build a homicide case against him, 563 00:27:55,151 --> 00:27:56,674 because once he's released, 564 00:27:56,718 --> 00:28:00,504 there's a good chance he'll disappear forever. 565 00:28:00,547 --> 00:28:02,593 Detectives redouble their efforts 566 00:28:02,636 --> 00:28:05,422 and in talking to people who crossed paths with Lawrence 567 00:28:05,465 --> 00:28:09,600 over the years, they uncover a curious piece of information. 568 00:28:10,470 --> 00:28:12,472 It seems that Lawrence Gaudenzi 569 00:28:12,516 --> 00:28:17,086 was together with Lisa's first husband, Jim Burdette, 570 00:28:17,129 --> 00:28:21,003 just days after she went missing back in 1995. 571 00:28:21,743 --> 00:28:24,920 It's a long shot, but Agents Collins and Lyons 572 00:28:24,963 --> 00:28:27,270 follow up on the lead. 573 00:28:28,837 --> 00:28:30,316 We couldn't find Jim. 574 00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:33,145 We actually contacted his mother first. 575 00:28:33,189 --> 00:28:35,931 She said she didn't know where he was. 576 00:28:35,974 --> 00:28:37,889 It's a possibility that he was dead. 577 00:28:39,412 --> 00:28:41,458 [Faith] Detective Collins travels to Florida 578 00:28:41,501 --> 00:28:43,286 and searches the neighborhood where Jim 579 00:28:43,329 --> 00:28:45,418 was last known to be living. 580 00:28:45,462 --> 00:28:48,465 Amazingly, after just several hours, 581 00:28:48,508 --> 00:28:51,642 he spots Burdette on a dusty back road. 582 00:28:51,685 --> 00:28:54,123 This dirt road in the middle of Florida, 583 00:28:54,166 --> 00:28:56,168 in the middle of July, in 100 degrees, 584 00:28:56,212 --> 00:28:59,737 a guy walking down the road with a briefcase. 585 00:28:59,781 --> 00:29:02,000 He was blind from cataract. 586 00:29:02,044 --> 00:29:04,742 I said, "Hop in." 587 00:29:04,786 --> 00:29:06,309 And he said, "Okay." 588 00:29:06,962 --> 00:29:08,833 He really wanted to talk. 589 00:29:08,877 --> 00:29:11,662 And when we got back to the police station, 590 00:29:11,705 --> 00:29:14,143 we asked him what was in the briefcase, 591 00:29:14,186 --> 00:29:15,144 and he opened it up. 592 00:29:15,187 --> 00:29:18,974 It was the corsage that he had 593 00:29:19,017 --> 00:29:21,324 from when him and Lisa were married. 594 00:29:21,890 --> 00:29:23,152 Now this gentleman is homeless, 595 00:29:23,195 --> 00:29:24,414 and he's been carrying this around 596 00:29:24,457 --> 00:29:26,808 for years and years and years. 597 00:29:26,851 --> 00:29:29,549 [dramatic music] 598 00:29:29,593 --> 00:29:32,335 Jim said that when Lisa went missing, 599 00:29:32,378 --> 00:29:34,119 a day or two afterwards, 600 00:29:34,163 --> 00:29:36,078 Lawrence called him 601 00:29:36,121 --> 00:29:38,558 and asked him to come up and help him. 602 00:29:39,168 --> 00:29:42,040 So, so Jim was suspicious. 603 00:29:42,084 --> 00:29:43,389 So he went up. 604 00:29:44,477 --> 00:29:46,175 What happens next is something 605 00:29:46,218 --> 00:29:48,917 you wouldn't even read in a Hollywood script. 606 00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:50,832 With his sight heavily impaired, 607 00:29:50,875 --> 00:29:54,574 Jim Burdette has taken to carrying a small tape recorder 608 00:29:54,618 --> 00:29:57,708 to help him remember things he can't write down. 609 00:29:57,751 --> 00:30:01,843 And that small device just so happens to be in Jim's pocket 610 00:30:01,886 --> 00:30:03,583 when he visits Lawrence. 611 00:30:05,237 --> 00:30:07,196 And the funny thing was, he said, 612 00:30:07,239 --> 00:30:09,154 "I've got tapes of Lawrence." 613 00:30:09,198 --> 00:30:10,895 And I'm like, 614 00:30:10,939 --> 00:30:12,027 "You've got tapes?" 615 00:30:12,070 --> 00:30:14,159 He said, "Yeah, I've got tapes." 616 00:30:14,203 --> 00:30:15,726 So in that briefcase that he'd been carrying 617 00:30:15,769 --> 00:30:18,424 for years and years were these recordings. 618 00:30:18,468 --> 00:30:21,340 Of course, that was of extreme interest to us. 619 00:30:21,384 --> 00:30:25,910 [dramatic music] 620 00:30:25,954 --> 00:30:28,695 On the tapes there was a lot of conversation 621 00:30:28,739 --> 00:30:31,046 of just small talk, 622 00:30:31,089 --> 00:30:34,658 but there was one specific conversation. 623 00:30:35,833 --> 00:30:39,881 Lawrence asked Jim if he could help him go bury a dog. 624 00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:43,580 According to Jim's statement, 625 00:30:43,623 --> 00:30:46,191 Lawrence puts in the car a duffel bag 626 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:49,325 and a couple of shovels and they drive. 627 00:30:50,065 --> 00:30:51,153 [Faith] For the first time, 628 00:30:51,196 --> 00:30:54,417 the investigators feel a surge of hope. 629 00:30:54,460 --> 00:30:56,854 Maybe the duffel bag that Jim observes 630 00:30:56,898 --> 00:30:59,770 contains Lisa's remains. 631 00:30:59,813 --> 00:31:03,817 Was Jim a witness to the burial of his ex-wife's body? 632 00:31:04,818 --> 00:31:07,343 Jim said, "I think we went out to Interstate 95." 633 00:31:07,386 --> 00:31:09,780 And so he said, "It wasn't too long, but we turned." 634 00:31:09,823 --> 00:31:12,478 He said, "It was next to a store we turned." 635 00:31:12,522 --> 00:31:15,264 I even brought Jim back to Virginia 636 00:31:15,307 --> 00:31:19,398 and we would try to at least get a grid area 637 00:31:19,442 --> 00:31:21,966 of a couple miles to hone in on. 638 00:31:22,314 --> 00:31:24,534 But the search goes nowhere. 639 00:31:24,577 --> 00:31:28,494 And the one-year window runs out for investigators. 640 00:31:28,538 --> 00:31:32,716 By the end of 2003, Lawrence is released from jail 641 00:31:32,759 --> 00:31:36,633 after serving his sentence for the stolen identity charge. 642 00:31:36,676 --> 00:31:39,592 And with him go the investigators hopes 643 00:31:39,636 --> 00:31:42,030 for a resolution to Lisa's case. 644 00:31:45,033 --> 00:31:46,295 In my experience, 645 00:31:46,338 --> 00:31:49,254 some of the biggest turnarounds in cold cases 646 00:31:49,298 --> 00:31:51,909 happen when witnesses are re-interviewed, 647 00:31:51,953 --> 00:31:53,476 sometimes years later. 648 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:56,000 Time can often do the trick, 649 00:31:56,044 --> 00:31:59,656 helping reveal previously hidden information. 650 00:31:59,699 --> 00:32:02,659 Agent Collins knows this all too well. 651 00:32:02,702 --> 00:32:05,618 So he decides to go back and talk again 652 00:32:05,662 --> 00:32:08,012 to one of Lisa's old babysitters. 653 00:32:11,885 --> 00:32:14,801 She was a young teenage girl that lived downstairs 654 00:32:14,845 --> 00:32:17,891 and would help Lawrence with the child. 655 00:32:17,935 --> 00:32:21,504 So she had told every investigator the same story 656 00:32:21,547 --> 00:32:23,723 for years and years and years and years. 657 00:32:24,768 --> 00:32:26,639 During the investigative process, 658 00:32:26,683 --> 00:32:30,121 I observed that there's more that she wanted to say. 659 00:32:31,209 --> 00:32:33,211 Only thing she was concerned about 660 00:32:33,255 --> 00:32:35,039 was Lawrence coming to get her. 661 00:32:35,083 --> 00:32:37,346 She was petrified of Lawrence. 662 00:32:37,389 --> 00:32:39,870 [dramatic music] 663 00:32:41,698 --> 00:32:45,136 Lawrence told the babysitter to clean up the house, 664 00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:47,617 but don't go into the bathroom. 665 00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:50,750 So what do you think she does? 666 00:32:52,578 --> 00:32:54,537 She was scared to death. 667 00:33:00,847 --> 00:33:02,501 For eight heartbreaking years, 668 00:33:02,545 --> 00:33:06,984 Lisa Gaudenzi's family has agonized over her disappearance. 669 00:33:07,028 --> 00:33:09,160 But without a confession from Lawrence Gaudenzi 670 00:33:09,204 --> 00:33:11,510 or solid physical evidence, 671 00:33:11,554 --> 00:33:15,558 they may never solve the mystery of what happened to Lisa. 672 00:33:17,516 --> 00:33:20,824 Most cases, you know who the bad guy is, 673 00:33:20,867 --> 00:33:23,218 but you know, it all goes down to proof 674 00:33:24,175 --> 00:33:25,959 and that's what we didn't have. 675 00:33:26,786 --> 00:33:28,397 We didn't have nothing. 676 00:33:30,573 --> 00:33:33,228 [Faith] Going over the list of potential witnesses, 677 00:33:33,271 --> 00:33:36,709 detectives focus on the name of a teenage babysitter 678 00:33:36,753 --> 00:33:38,363 who worked for Lisa 679 00:33:38,407 --> 00:33:41,584 and lived in the Gaudenzi's basement suite. 680 00:33:42,237 --> 00:33:45,022 For years, she had denied knowing anything 681 00:33:45,066 --> 00:33:47,546 about Lisa's disappearance. 682 00:33:48,286 --> 00:33:50,984 This babysitter, she lives in Georgia. 683 00:33:51,028 --> 00:33:52,769 I went down there to talk to her. 684 00:33:52,812 --> 00:33:55,380 She was petrified of Lawrence. 685 00:33:57,252 --> 00:33:59,689 And she said that when Lisa came home 686 00:33:59,732 --> 00:34:04,041 from the military break, and there was some arguments. 687 00:34:04,085 --> 00:34:06,304 One night she was underneath the deck, 688 00:34:06,348 --> 00:34:10,700 smoking a cigarette and Lawrence came over out the top 689 00:34:10,743 --> 00:34:13,311 and he carried this green duffel bag. 690 00:34:13,355 --> 00:34:16,314 So he left and he was gone for about 20 minutes 691 00:34:16,358 --> 00:34:19,535 and he came back with no duffel bag. 692 00:34:23,060 --> 00:34:25,062 And then he came in the house 693 00:34:25,106 --> 00:34:26,716 and his feet were all dirty. 694 00:34:26,759 --> 00:34:28,196 And he walked into his bedroom, 695 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,633 which he kept locked at all times. 696 00:34:30,676 --> 00:34:32,635 And then he left the house. 697 00:34:32,678 --> 00:34:35,986 [eerie music] 698 00:34:36,029 --> 00:34:39,946 Lawrence told the babysitter to clean up the house, 699 00:34:39,990 --> 00:34:41,905 but don't go into the bathroom. 700 00:34:41,948 --> 00:34:46,039 [eerie music] 701 00:34:46,083 --> 00:34:49,217 So this girl was 14 or 15 years old. 702 00:34:49,260 --> 00:34:51,480 So what do you think she does? 703 00:34:54,352 --> 00:34:58,095 When the babysitter picked the lock on the door, 704 00:34:58,139 --> 00:35:01,098 she went into the bathroom, 705 00:35:01,142 --> 00:35:03,796 and all she saw was the bathroom full of blood, 706 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:04,928 everywhere. 707 00:35:04,971 --> 00:35:09,802 [dramatic music] 708 00:35:09,846 --> 00:35:12,153 She was scared to death 709 00:35:12,196 --> 00:35:16,635 and she never told this story to anyone before. 710 00:35:17,897 --> 00:35:19,464 [Faith] With this new evidence, 711 00:35:19,508 --> 00:35:23,468 investigators hope to get back into the Gaudenzi's old home. 712 00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:28,386 After Lawrence left there, was a guy in the house 713 00:35:28,430 --> 00:35:31,041 that was in the house since Lawrence left. 714 00:35:31,259 --> 00:35:32,695 So we got a search warrant. 715 00:35:32,738 --> 00:35:36,177 We use luminol, which you spray luminol on in the dark 716 00:35:36,220 --> 00:35:38,004 and it illuminates So when you find blood.ant. 717 00:35:38,048 --> 00:35:39,919 But problematically, 718 00:35:39,963 --> 00:35:42,966 it also illuminates Clorox. 719 00:35:43,227 --> 00:35:45,229 So when we did the bathroom, 720 00:35:45,273 --> 00:35:49,059 it lit up like a Christmas tree. 721 00:35:49,102 --> 00:35:51,148 and sent it to the lab, lab says, 722 00:35:51,192 --> 00:35:53,237 "We can't tell you it's blood, 723 00:35:53,281 --> 00:35:54,847 but we can tell you there's a lot of Clorox 724 00:35:54,891 --> 00:35:56,371 has been in there." 725 00:35:58,242 --> 00:36:00,897 Doc Lyons and I went to a prosecutor 726 00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:02,333 and spelled it all out. 727 00:36:02,377 --> 00:36:04,727 And he was a new prosecutor 728 00:36:04,770 --> 00:36:09,035 and he had just prosecuted another big case in that county. 729 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:11,255 And he said, "Let's do it." 730 00:36:12,256 --> 00:36:15,085 [Faith] On May 16th, 2008, 731 00:36:15,128 --> 00:36:19,220 more than 13 years after Lisa went missing, 732 00:36:19,263 --> 00:36:22,266 Lawrence Gaudenzi is charged with her murder. 733 00:36:23,267 --> 00:36:25,922 And even though her body has never been found, 734 00:36:25,965 --> 00:36:28,054 prosecutor's hope that the accumulation 735 00:36:28,098 --> 00:36:30,231 of powerful evidence, 736 00:36:30,274 --> 00:36:32,537 the fact that Lawrence changed his identity, 737 00:36:32,581 --> 00:36:34,887 the statement from the babysitter, 738 00:36:34,931 --> 00:36:37,150 the blood residue at the house, 739 00:36:37,194 --> 00:36:40,415 and the old tapes from Jim Burdette's suitcase 740 00:36:40,458 --> 00:36:42,286 will be enough for a conviction. 741 00:36:42,591 --> 00:36:45,942 And I agree, it looks like a solid case. 742 00:36:46,334 --> 00:36:48,336 In Virginia, when court starts, 743 00:36:48,379 --> 00:36:50,033 they bring in all in the witnesses 744 00:36:50,076 --> 00:36:53,254 that are going to testify and they swear you in. 745 00:36:54,777 --> 00:36:58,084 My personal feeling is that when Lawrence looked up 746 00:36:58,128 --> 00:37:00,652 and saw all of these people, 747 00:37:00,696 --> 00:37:03,089 some of them he hadn't seen in 15 years, 748 00:37:03,133 --> 00:37:04,700 that he had lied about, 749 00:37:04,743 --> 00:37:08,269 and people who saw him as he really was, 750 00:37:08,312 --> 00:37:11,881 I think he had one of them oh my God feelings. 751 00:37:12,621 --> 00:37:15,580 So I'm on the stand and presenting evidence. 752 00:37:15,624 --> 00:37:17,800 The cassettes that Jim Burdette had, 753 00:37:17,843 --> 00:37:19,280 I have them in my hand. 754 00:37:19,323 --> 00:37:22,674 The prosecutor says I'm going to play the first one. 755 00:37:22,718 --> 00:37:24,850 Gets ready to play it. 756 00:37:24,894 --> 00:37:28,898 And the defense attorney asked if we could take a break. 757 00:37:29,507 --> 00:37:33,250 That's when we knew that he knew that he was sunk. 758 00:37:36,209 --> 00:37:37,776 Lawrence turned around and wanted 759 00:37:37,820 --> 00:37:39,474 to take a plea at that point. 760 00:37:40,562 --> 00:37:42,433 [Faith] As part of his plea deal, 761 00:37:42,477 --> 00:37:46,829 Lawrence provides excruciating painful details 762 00:37:46,872 --> 00:37:49,179 of what he did to Lisa's remains. 763 00:37:49,745 --> 00:37:54,140 He admitted to wrapping her body in a sleeping bag, 764 00:37:54,184 --> 00:37:56,317 putting her in a metal drum 765 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,320 and covered her with muriatic acid 766 00:37:59,363 --> 00:38:01,017 to get rid of the body. 767 00:38:02,018 --> 00:38:05,630 [Faith] Lawrence doesn't explain why he killed Lisa 768 00:38:05,674 --> 00:38:07,632 or how he killed Lisa, 769 00:38:07,676 --> 00:38:11,810 and leaves out the most important detail of all. 770 00:38:12,550 --> 00:38:15,727 When the judge asks him, "Where did you put the body?" 771 00:38:15,771 --> 00:38:17,816 "I don't remember," he told the judge. 772 00:38:19,078 --> 00:38:23,866 [Faith] Lawrence's plea deal earns him 25 years behind bars, 773 00:38:23,909 --> 00:38:25,694 but without Lisa's remains, 774 00:38:25,737 --> 00:38:28,827 her family knows there will be no closure. 775 00:38:30,742 --> 00:38:32,178 [dramatic music] 776 00:38:32,222 --> 00:38:34,355 Then, out of the blue, 777 00:38:34,398 --> 00:38:38,228 after 12 months in Georgia's Augusta Correctional Center, 778 00:38:38,271 --> 00:38:41,840 Lawrence reaches out to try for one last deal. 779 00:38:42,624 --> 00:38:44,669 Lawrence wrote me a letter that told me 780 00:38:44,713 --> 00:38:47,672 that if I could get his sentence reduced, 781 00:38:47,716 --> 00:38:50,458 he would try to lead us to where her body was. 782 00:38:51,241 --> 00:38:53,548 [dramatic music] 783 00:38:55,419 --> 00:38:58,117 [dramatic music] 784 00:38:58,161 --> 00:38:59,945 [Faith] After being locked up for a year 785 00:38:59,989 --> 00:39:02,208 for the murder of Lisa Gaudenzi, 786 00:39:02,252 --> 00:39:05,516 her ex-husband Lawrence reaches out to law enforcement 787 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,170 with a desperate plea. 788 00:39:08,998 --> 00:39:10,869 Telling the lead agent on the case 789 00:39:10,913 --> 00:39:14,438 that he will reveal the location of Lisa's remains 790 00:39:14,482 --> 00:39:18,660 in return for a reduction of his 25 year prison sentence. 791 00:39:18,703 --> 00:39:23,534 [suspenseful music] 792 00:39:23,578 --> 00:39:26,581 He agreed to take us to where 793 00:39:26,624 --> 00:39:29,497 he thought that he had dropped the body. 794 00:39:29,540 --> 00:39:33,805 Now you got to remember, this has been 13, 14, 15 years 795 00:39:33,849 --> 00:39:36,242 since Lawrence killed Lisa. 796 00:39:37,548 --> 00:39:38,941 So you have Lawrence in a car. 797 00:39:38,984 --> 00:39:41,204 You have two U.S. Marshals with them. 798 00:39:41,247 --> 00:39:44,860 You have 30 or 40 police officers are standing by 799 00:39:44,903 --> 00:39:47,689 in locations in case anything were to occur. 800 00:39:47,732 --> 00:39:50,474 He said that he left three containers, 801 00:39:50,518 --> 00:39:53,042 three empty muriatic acid containers, 802 00:39:53,085 --> 00:39:56,611 in the wood line where he had dropped this body. 803 00:39:57,699 --> 00:40:01,442 So we're riding along and he says, "Whoa, let's stop here." 804 00:40:01,485 --> 00:40:03,487 [suspenseful music] 805 00:40:03,531 --> 00:40:05,794 So we go down and they started walking the wood lines 806 00:40:05,837 --> 00:40:07,448 and lo and behold, 807 00:40:07,491 --> 00:40:11,060 we find three empty containers of muriatic acid 808 00:40:11,103 --> 00:40:14,106 that had been there for 14 years. 809 00:40:15,368 --> 00:40:16,848 They were plastic containers. 810 00:40:16,892 --> 00:40:19,982 All lined up one, two, three. 811 00:40:20,025 --> 00:40:21,810 And I'm like, "Oh my God, 812 00:40:21,853 --> 00:40:25,378 we might have the location where she was left." 813 00:40:26,336 --> 00:40:28,512 So then where do you start to search? 814 00:40:30,558 --> 00:40:31,733 I'm thinking to myself, 815 00:40:31,776 --> 00:40:33,822 "We ain't gonna find nothing here." 816 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,130 If there were remains, the animals have carried them off 817 00:40:38,174 --> 00:40:40,306 and all of this sort of stuff. 818 00:40:42,787 --> 00:40:45,442 So I looked down and as I'm walking, 819 00:40:45,486 --> 00:40:47,749 I see this red thread. 820 00:40:48,358 --> 00:40:52,797 Why would there be a red thread in this environment, you know? 821 00:40:54,364 --> 00:40:57,019 And all at once we find remnants of a sleeping bag... 822 00:40:58,063 --> 00:41:00,022 the fibers out of a sleeping bag. 823 00:41:01,153 --> 00:41:02,590 And then we start that dig, as you know, 824 00:41:02,633 --> 00:41:04,548 one inch at a time. 825 00:41:04,592 --> 00:41:06,463 Go down about a couple inches 826 00:41:06,507 --> 00:41:08,509 and I find these teeth. 827 00:41:08,857 --> 00:41:10,902 These teeth did not look human. 828 00:41:11,381 --> 00:41:14,602 When Lisa was a teenager, she was in a bad car accident 829 00:41:14,645 --> 00:41:17,605 and she had a lot of dental work. 830 00:41:17,648 --> 00:41:19,781 I mean, it was like, 831 00:41:19,824 --> 00:41:21,130 I can't believe this. 832 00:41:21,173 --> 00:41:24,786 [somber music] 833 00:41:24,829 --> 00:41:26,483 And the only reason we found her 834 00:41:26,527 --> 00:41:29,051 was because of her accident. 835 00:41:30,443 --> 00:41:33,011 I was always told by her, 836 00:41:33,055 --> 00:41:35,100 "You may not be where you want to be, 837 00:41:35,144 --> 00:41:37,494 but you're always right where you're supposed to be." 838 00:41:39,191 --> 00:41:40,584 It was where she was supposed to be 839 00:41:40,628 --> 00:41:42,543 so that we could find her. 840 00:41:46,024 --> 00:41:47,548 With the dental bridge, 841 00:41:47,591 --> 00:41:51,987 we were allowed to give her a headstone at the cemetery. 842 00:41:53,075 --> 00:41:54,772 She's buried in the military cemetery 843 00:41:54,816 --> 00:41:56,557 on the east coast of Florida. 844 00:41:57,340 --> 00:41:59,995 And... 845 00:42:00,038 --> 00:42:02,214 her name on the headstone 846 00:42:02,258 --> 00:42:04,303 [gasps] 847 00:42:04,652 --> 00:42:06,915 is Lisa Marto, 848 00:42:06,958 --> 00:42:09,047 not Gaudenzi. 849 00:42:11,397 --> 00:42:14,879 So she don't have to lay all eternity with that name. 850 00:42:16,098 --> 00:42:17,882 When I think about my mom's dreams, 851 00:42:17,926 --> 00:42:19,928 it is just, she wanted to be a judge. 852 00:42:19,971 --> 00:42:23,061 She wanted to create this beautiful life for her family. 853 00:42:23,105 --> 00:42:25,673 And that's all she ever really wanted. 854 00:42:25,716 --> 00:42:28,153 I wish I could just tell her thank you 855 00:42:28,197 --> 00:42:31,113 for trying to give me a better life. 856 00:42:32,462 --> 00:42:35,378 She'd always see the best in people. 857 00:42:35,421 --> 00:42:38,903 She always thought she could help try to change them 858 00:42:38,947 --> 00:42:40,992 or help fix them. 859 00:42:41,036 --> 00:42:42,777 And being that I'm still alive, 860 00:42:42,820 --> 00:42:46,432 I'd say she managed to find a way to do that. 861 00:42:46,476 --> 00:42:50,306 [gentle music] 862 00:42:50,349 --> 00:42:54,223 Lisa Marto was obviously a remarkable woman, 863 00:42:54,266 --> 00:42:57,792 a woman who never had a chance to fulfill her destiny 864 00:42:57,835 --> 00:43:00,838 as a military lawyer and as a judge. 865 00:43:01,099 --> 00:43:03,188 That's something that hits close to home. 866 00:43:03,711 --> 00:43:05,669 Lisa believed her second husband 867 00:43:05,713 --> 00:43:07,584 would support her and her children 868 00:43:07,628 --> 00:43:09,064 through thick and thin, 869 00:43:09,107 --> 00:43:10,892 for better or worse. 870 00:43:10,935 --> 00:43:12,720 It turned out to be worse. 871 00:43:12,763 --> 00:43:14,635 He was a cold-blooded killer 872 00:43:14,678 --> 00:43:16,071 and a coward. 873 00:43:16,114 --> 00:43:18,900 Ironically, it was her first husband 874 00:43:18,943 --> 00:43:20,858 who had failed her in marriage 875 00:43:20,902 --> 00:43:23,644 that redeemed himself by fighting for her 876 00:43:23,687 --> 00:43:25,689 and finding justice. 877 00:43:25,733 --> 00:43:27,691 But not before it turned 878 00:43:27,735 --> 00:43:30,433 into a killer relationship.