They met on a night on the town here in Orlando.
[Faith] It's happened to many of us,
that exhilarating feeling.
Love at first sight can be real.
She was just so enamored with him.
She was like the best thing that ever happened to him.
[Faith] Two people make an instant connection.
He buys her gifts and he makes her feel special.
"This is the right guy for me."
[Faith] But that initial spark
doesn't always mean it will last forever.
Their relationship went from calm to stormy.
It's like, everything have changed.
[Faith] And when that attraction leads to obsession...
Who was the target?
We have two victims here.
[Faith] It can quickly turn into...
I think that all equal cold-blooded.
A killer relationship.
[gun fires]
[gentle piano music]
[changes to sinister music]
When we hear love at first sight,
we often think that a future together is meant to be.
As if an attraction that immediate and powerful
That two young lives will be senselessly lost forever.
[suspenseful music]
It's a warm August night in 2006,
26-year-old Griselda Cassamajor is out with friends
partying at one of her favorite Orlando hotspots.
She was really tall.
She had a beautiful skin complexion.
Very confident in herself.
She was always gonna look her best
and she's gonna smell amazing.
She definitely was like the queen of self-care.
Like, she was your girly girl.
A beautiful woman, very outgoing,
and full of energy.
Any man that will see Griselda
will wanna approach her and talk to her.
[Faith] That night at the club,
that's precisely what 27-year-old Drinel Joseph does.
[Daphney] One of her things is tall, fit guys.
And I think that was what it was about him.
He was attractive.
She just thought he was just such a charming guy.
He dressed nice.
He smelled good.
He was so cool.
She goes like, "Hey, I met this guy named Drinel
and he's really nice."
I'm pretty sure when Drinel laid eyes on her,
he was like, "Hey, this is a catch."
[Faith] A flurry of texts back and forth
between Griselda and Drinel
leads quickly to their first date,
which leads to a second night out,
and, before long,
the couple is seeing each other whenever possible.
They bond over their shared backgrounds
as they're both of Haitian descent.
Although Griselda grew up in the Dominican Republic.
Griselda was between 19 and 21 when she moved stateside.
She moved here to pursue just a better life.
We have family here, so it was easy transition for her.
Griselda is actually my cousin.
So, it was like having an older sister.
[Faith] When that older sister meets Drinel,
Daphney knows this relationship,
this one is something different.
She was just so enamored with him.
And he bragged about how beautiful she was
and how she was like the best thing
that ever happened to him.
They were the perfect match.
He would buy her flowers.
He buys her gifts and he makes her feel special.
I never seen her so happy.
It was really nice when I met him.
I appreciated how welcome he was
in taking me in like his little cousin.
We would talk on the phone,
"Cuz, what you doing today?
What'd you do today?
You need anything?"
He became part of the family
and whenever he was around,
it was just a welcoming feeling.
She was really into him.
Somebody that she envisioned with a good future with.
[Faith] Griselda's future, she hopes,
also includes becoming a chiropractor
and she's learning the ropes at her uncle's clinic.
She loved that job because she was at the front desk.
Any job that she's having to deal with people,
she flourishes in because she's such a people person.
Her aspiration is always to own her own business
'cause she always dreamed big,
preaching about, "Sky's the limit.
Everything that you can do, you can achieve it."
[Faith] Drinel finds himself completely taken
with Griselda's confidence and spirit.
He doesn't even mind the four-hour drive
from his place in Homestead to Orlando.
Sometimes twice a week just to be with her.
And it's always extra special
when Drinel brings his two young daughters
along for the ride.
Griselda would always, you know, try to get something
for the girls.
So she loved the fact that he had two little girls.
They were the cutest little things.
[Faith] Drinel's certainly putting in the time
to help their budding relationship blossom.
But after a few months,
he takes an even bigger step,
getting a job at a high-end steak house in Orlando
to be closer to Griselda.
Now he's here on a consistent basis.
He's at the house.
Things are coasting.
He eventually moved in.
[Faith] Six months after that first night in the club,
their relationship takes a huge leap forward
when Griselda finds out that she's pregnant.
One day she come to church and the belly start poking out,
and, I was like, "What's going, what is this?"
I was like, "I gotta take you to the gym."
But she was like, "No, I'm pregnant."
I was like, "What?"
It was just so, like, "Oh, my gosh,
like, you're having a baby."
[giggles]
And we just couldn't stop saying it, like,
"Oh, my gosh, you're having a baby.
Oh, my gosh, we're having a baby."
[dramatic music]
[Faith] It's just six months into their relationship
but Griselda is head over heels for Drinel.
She sees this baby growing inside her as a symbol
of their deep love and connection.
And so she is heartbroken by Drinel's reaction
when she shares the news.
This is their baby.
She expected him to be as excited as he was about --
finding out that she was pregnant.
He just was so dismissive.
And their relationship went from calm to stormy.
[Faith] Griselda holds steady,
hoping that once the baby arrives,
Drinel will open up and be excited to be a dad.
But then, when she's a few months along,
Griselda loses the baby.
[ominous music]
She ended up in the hospital, she miscarried.
And Drinel didn't take the time to show up.
And I think it was one of those things
that it was a gut punch for her
'cause she didn't expect him to react that way.
And not just like,
"Well, I'm busy, I'm working and I can't make it."
It was a relief for him.
And, whereas to her,
it was the worst thing that could happen.
Having a child is an experience
that can truly bond couples tighter together.
But, sometimes, it can break them apart.
I can't imagine the double loss
that Griselda feels at this moment,
losing her baby
and wondering what happened to the man
who seemed to love her so much,
he was willing to uproot his life to be with her?
Why would he abandon her when she needed him most?
It was just really shocking that he acted the way he did
when she lost the baby.
[Fredy] He doesn't act the same way towards her anymore.
They don't spend as much time anymore.
He'll go out with friends and spend the entire night out
and don't come home.
It's like everything have changed.
[Faith] Drinel spends less and less time with Griselda,
while she finds comfort spending more and more time
with her family and friends
who shower her with love and support.
She's a people person.
So, she had friends at her church,
the people at her, the hair salon,
where she went and got her hair done,
and the people that she met at work.
[Faith] As she recovers from the miscarriage,
Griselda's ready to part ways with Drinel.
The final straw comes
when she discovers an important personal detail
Drinel never shared with her.
Someone called Griselda to tell her
that Drinel was actually still married to his wife.
[suspenseful music]
"I had known that you were married,
but you said you and your wife had been divorced."
I came to church and as I'm walking in, she pulled me out.
She said, "I need to talk to you."
The next phone call I get is the detective.
And I remember my knees buckling from up under me
After suffering through a devastating miscarriage alone,
Griselda Cassamajor has just received a concerning call,
that her boyfriend, Drinel Joseph,
is also still very much married to another woman.
It's not clear how the caller found out about Griselda.
Whether Drinel's wife spotted a message on his phone,
or if his daughters mentioned something about the new woman
he'd been spending so much time with in Orlando.
But one thing certainly is clear,
for Griselda, this relationship
is now over.
[soft dramatic music]
She had gotten to that point where,
"I'm not going to entertain you any further
because not only have you lied to me all these months
that we've been together,
like, I know about your children.
I had known that you were married,
but you said you and your wife had been divorced."
[Faith] Even though Griselda is determined
to move on with her life,
Drinel resist the idea of letting her go.
She'd be at work and he's calling the office phone
or constantly calling her cell phone.
And every time I talked to her it's,
"I had to change my number again."
He paid her a few visits, popping up to her house.
It was just, "You're not leaving me.
I'm always going to be in the picture."
She made it seem like she had a handle of it.
So as to not worry her friends and family.
I'm like, "Are you sure he's not coming back?"
She was like, "Yes, I'm sure.
So this is the end of it.
You will never hear from him again."
[suspenseful music]
[Faith] Heartbreak is never easy.
It can take a while for a jilted lover to get the hint.
But the calls, texts, and unexpected visits
slowly trickled to a stop.
It's a weight off Griselda's shoulders.
And, a few weeks later, she meets someone new,
a local barber who seems to be everything
that Drinel was not.
He was just such a sweetheart.
Tall, dark, handsome,
like, really well put together.
Just really cared about who she was
and cared about her dreams,
and cared about her wants,
and just cared about her as a human being.
And then that's when she start being herself again,
the person that everybody knows,
that's like very happy and cheerful.
[Faith] By the summer of 2007,
just short of a year after meeting Drinel,
Griselda's life is on the upswing.
She's dating a wonderful new guy
who genuinely appreciates her,
she's doing a great job at her uncle's clinic,
and her friends and family are close.
On the morning of July 2nd,
Griselda gets stuck on her way to work.
Her cousin, Daphney, comes to the rescue
when her car won't start.
Griselda was having car trouble,
so I took her to work
and then I went back to the office for lunch.
Her, Daniel, and I,
just sat and we were having a good time
like we do any other time.
[Faith] Daniel Rivera is the new massage therapist
at the office.
Sweet and full of energy,
20-year-old Daniel loves to joke around with Griselda
and Daphney.
Before I left, Griselda said,
"Don't forget about me.
You know you have to get, come and pick me up from work."
Because I was her ride back.
I was like, "I'm not gonna forget.
I know, that's why I have to get outta here."
Later that afternoon, Griselda's aunt, Jonice,
who's also a part-time manager at the family-run clinic,
arrives just before closing.
As she enters the office,
she spots Daniel Rivera hunched over his computer.
He looks like he's asleep.
But, when Jonice tries to wake him,
she realizes something is terribly wrong.
Daniel isn't moving.
Jonice sees Daniel.
Blood's pouring out of him,
and she actually calls Griselda,
and calls her but doesn't get an answer.
She calls her husband
and then he calls 911.
[suspenseful music]
Ten minutes later,
Orlando PD show up at the scene
and proceed inside cautiously,
weapons drawn.
When we entered the door and we walked into the office,
we observed a male with the head down.
I remember the blood in the top of his head.
It looked like a gunshot wound.
So I went to see if there are signs of life.
We found none.
His right hand was on a computer mouse.
He was playing solitaire at the time.
He didn't see this coming.
And then they clear the rest of the clinic
to make sure the shooter is not still there.
They find a woman under this desk,
gasping for air, clinging to life,
but unconscious.
She was shot two times in the head.
There was no exit wound.
The bullets were still within her.
So an ambulance is called right away
in hopes she's going to survive.
[Faith] Jonice returns to the clinic
and identifies the badly injured woman for the police.
It's Griselda.
Griselda's shocked family rushes to her bedside
at the hospital.
Praying for miracle.
[dramatic music]
But unfortunately, she passed away in a couple of hours.
I remember my knees buckling from up under me
and just screaming.
I just saw her.
I just was with her.
I still remember hearing her laugh that day.
I still remember the meal we had,
And, I can't really describe how I felt.
You could have just prayed to God and said,
"Why did you allow this to happen?"
[Faith] As Griselda's family tries to process
what has happened,
Daniel's family finds themselves equally stunned
and devastated.
I got a call.
They told me Danny has been shot.
"Okay, you're saying Danny's shot.
Was he shot in his arm?
Is he shot in his leg?
Where is he shot?"
And then they said, "He's dead.
He's dead, Danny's dead."
And, "Danny's dead."
And your world stops.
I got to my apartment,
and, you know, the sheriff, he said,
"Well, your brother's been in an accident."
You know, "He's been shot."
It just, it didn't hit me yet.
I'm gonna have to call my mom just to tell her, like,
you know. [exhales sharply]
Oof, woof.
It was hard, really hard.
Being Danny's little brother was a privilege.
He took care of me a lot, he did.
He was the go-to guy if you were in trouble,
or had a question, or just wanted to vent.
He was that guy.
Two brutal murders,
two devastated families,
and numerous questions.
Who would want these two amazing young people dead?
Who would be so angry with Daniel and Griselda,
they robbed them of their future?
And why?
[police siren wails]
Investigators began to piece together
what little evidence they have.
We didn't find much of anything at the scene.
We didn't find any surveillance cameras.
We didn't find the shell casing.
We did not find blood transfer
to any item inside the clinic,
leading out or outside of the clinic.
We know that Daniel has talked to his fiance
up to about 5:21.
We know that the first deputy
went into the clinic about six o'clock.
So Jonice was a few minutes earlier.
So we have a really narrow timeframe
that he had to have gone in there,
shot Daniel, shot Griselda,
and gotten out fairly quickly.
The human side of me is thinking,
"Who did this and why?"
My next question, "Who was the target?"
[suspenseful music]
Was the male victim the target
and the female victim just happened to be there?
Or was it the female victim that was the target
and the male victim just happened to be there?
We realized immediately it was gonna be a challenge
solving this case.
[suspenseful music]
Imagine that in an instant,
your daughter or your brother
has been taken forever by a sudden act of violence.
As a former prosecutor for the Manhattan DA's office,
I frequently fought for justice
for families facing this reality.
Families like those of Griselda Cassamajor,
and Danny Rivera.
To investigators, the murders appear carefully planned
and they wonder who was the intended target.
[suspenseful music]
This was something someone had to do.
No matter what, they were gonna do it,
and this was the time they were gonna do it.
[Robin] Daniel never saw what was coming.
He was just shot, execution-style.
Griselda was trying to get away and cowering.
And so, she didn't have an opportunity to struggle.
It was clear the shooter came in
and went out really quickly.
We were looking for shell casings.
We were looking for something knocked over.
We're looking to see if maybe
there was transfer blood on a doorpost.
We'd be looking for anything,
fingerprints, surveillance cameras.
We found none of those things.
This is not a gang area
that you think drive-bys may happen,
or people may be shot.
It is a place of business,
a place of healing,
but the place doesn't really look touched
except for the two people shot.
So then the detectives are gonna look into
what's going on in the personal life of these people.
[Faith] Police conduct extensive interviews
with the families and friends of the two victims.
[somber music]
My brother, he'd never been involved in wild things.
He was never drugs and, or crazy people.
He's always been the charismatic, heroic person,
you know, just positive.
When the cops asked me, you know,
"Did Danny have any enemies?"
I said, "No, Danny's, he's a loving person."
Griselda had a lot of room in her heart
for a lot of people.
And she lived her life that way.
If you were around her, you felt her love,
you felt her comfort, you felt her warmth.
Although they were both in relationships,
Danny and Griselda are young, outgoing,
and attractive people.
It wouldn't be the first time
an office friendship turned into an office romance.
I've certainly seen it before.
And, if that's the case,
could their relationship have incited a jealous rage?
First thing we're gonna look at is their life
and find out what's going on with their current boyfriend,
is there a love triangle?
[Faith] So investigators sit down with the man
Griselda's been dating to ask him a couple of questions.
Lou was trying to provide us
with as much information as he could.
He was clearly devastated about Griselda being killed.
And, we were able to establish the fact that Lou was at work
when the murder took place
and he was not involved in the case.
I do know for sure,
Danny and Griselda we're acquaintances from work,
but nothing more than that at all.
It was more so of a work companion.
He was living with his girlfriend.
He had plans for the future.
He loved her dearly.
He took her very serious.
I know that for sure.
[suspenseful music]
No one knew what to think.
So, it's like, who would go to a chiropractor office
and do this?
[suspenseful music]
The way someone is killed often provides a window
into why they were killed.
Danny had been shot in the back of the head
and never saw his killer coming.
It's an efficient technique used by hitmen
and other experienced killers.
Investigators take a closer look at the business.
Wondering if there was anything that somehow triggered a hit
on the clinic.
The clinic is sort of a setup between chiropractors,
massage therapists,
where people who are involved in accidents
are referred to the clinic to get treatment.
I'm looking at the place
and it just seems to be some things missing
that should be there for so-called treatment.
There didn't appear to be supplies inside the rooms.
It didn't look like there was a lot of patients coming
in and out of there.
How are you keeping this place open?
Is this a front for something else?
[Faith] It also strikes police as suspicious
that Jonice Leonard didn't call 911 herself,
but called her husband instead.
Well, when they spoke to the uncle, the obvious question,
"Why did your wife call you rather than calling the police?"
[suspenseful music]
And, I'm wondering if she may have been the target.
If her husband also may have been the target.
Did someone come in looking for them?
They weren't there,
and decided to kill the two people that were there instead.
[Faith] Investigators probe company records,
looking for any evidence of shady dealings.
You have to consider all possibilities
because when you're searching for evidence,
you need to look for that possibility.
But we never found any evidence of criminal activity
in the practice.
[Faith] But, as they combed through the office logs,
detectives do come across what could be a key to the case.
During the 30-minute window
between Danny's last phone call to his girlfriend
and the 911 call,
a woman entered the office
and signed her name on the admission sheet
at the front desk.
We went to talk to her about it, because, you know,
at the time we didn't know what she had seen.
Was someone in here when you got here?
Was someone leaving out when you got here?
What, if anything, did you observe when you got here?
[dramatic music]
[Faith] Investigators probing the murders
of Griselda Cassamajor and Daniel Rivera
keep bumping up against the fact
that there's seemingly nothing about Griselda or Daniel
that would give anyone a reason to take their lives.
Detectives hope the woman who arrived at the massage clinic
right after the murders will be the key to this mystery.
They track her down for an interview.
She came in around 5:45 or so,
and couldn't get anyone to respond to her,
thought Daniel was asleep.
She couldn't get his attention.
Keep in mind that she's looking over this counter.
She's looking at him and his head is down.
The way his head was angled,
she had no way of seeing the blood from her angle
or from where she was,
so she just assumed he was asleep,
and she was never gonna get his attention.
She didn't see Griselda's body,
there's nothing seen in the parking lot.
So, she signs in on the sign-in sheet and she leaves.
[Faith] Detectives are frustrated
that this promising lead goes nowhere.
Meanwhile, Griselda and Daniel's families and friends
struggle with the grief of this senseless loss.
Nobody seen it coming,
but, everybody got affected by it big time.
I couldn't handle this.
It was every day, I'm not eating, I'm not drinking,
and all I'm doing is crying.
That's all I did.
There was nothing about Griselda
that would make you not like her.
If you didn't like her, it's because you were the problem.
[suspenseful music]
Then, nine days after the murders,
when Griselda's mother finally brings herself
to look through her daughter's room,
detectives catch a break.
It's a voice from the grave.
A handwritten note tucked in the back of her dresser drawer.
[suspenseful music]
Griselda writes a letter that's saying
if anything happens to her,
the police should look at Drinel Joseph.
[suspenseful music]
It basically said,
"If you're reading this letter,
I'm dead and Drinel Joseph did it."
As they started to dig into her background more,
they found out that he was very possessive and jealous
and there were a lot of arguments.
It appears that Griselda was developing
a certain fear factor regarding Drinel.
And, it appears that Griselda was desperately attempting
to distance herself more from Drinel.
[Faith] And it turns out
that a few weeks before they broke up in March of 2007,
Drinel had become violent towards Griselda.
One day she called me,
and she was telling me he was being physical.
So, I'm like, "That's not good."
And she was like, "I think he was drunk,
and I don't think that he was normal state of mind.
That's probably why he had that reaction so."
For somebody to be physically abusive to you,
it's a big deal.
In family court,
I've seen countless women in Griselda's position
downplay what's going on behind closed doors,
either out of fear or hoping that things will improve.
It's a reality that's heartbreaking.
And, in my experience,
often escalates and turns even more dangerous.
I only wish she could have told me.
There was a Saturday morning I came to church
and, as I'm walking in, she pulled me out.
She said, "I need to talk to you."
And, she was like,
"Hey, do you know, he just pulled out a gun on me
and he's trying to control me.
I couldn't go nowhere.
I can't talk to nobody on the phone."
I told her, "Don't be afraid to make a police report."
But, she told me, "No, we broke up.
He went back to Miami.
He moved out."
[Faith] Griselda tries to give her friends the impression
she shut the door on her destructive relationship
for good.
But, two months later,
they noticed she's opened it up just enough
for Drinel to inch his way back in.
In May, there's a group of friends of Griselda's
that went down to Miami for a Haitian festival.
I went with my set of friends,
she went with her set of friends,
and then we met out there.
And, of course, Homestead, Miami,
that's literally right down the street.
And the girls wanted to go to the mall
and she says, "I have an ex-boyfriend in the area."
So, Drinel did live in Homestead, Florida.
At some point, they needed a ride.
Griselda reached out to Drinel.
He did come and give 'em a ride.
I'm like,
"Why do you wanna put yourself in that predicament?"
And she was like, "No, it's fine.
We've talked on the phone.
He's being nice."
[Faith] But with an explosive relationship like theirs,
it doesn't take long before tempers flare.
And Griselda's friends see firsthand just how intense
and controlling Drinel can be.
And, they were able to overhear some very ominous words
from Drinel.
Drinel, apparently, expressed his love for Griselda,
said that he wanted to be with her still.
Griselda told him she was in a relationship
with someone else.
Drinel told her, "I'm gonna always be your boyfriend."
Drinel also then said, "If I can't have you, no one can."
[suspenseful music]
Drinel is telling her,
"I'm the only one that you're ever gonna be with.
You'll never be with anyone else."
A lot of his story is a lie.
Orlando police iof Griselda Cassamajorr
have discovered disturbing information
about her ex-boyfriend, Drinel Joseph,
the man who was once so doting and devoted,
has turned out to be a violent and vindictive tyrant
with a ferocious jealous streak.
Drinel is telling her that,
"I'm the only one that you're ever gonna be with.
You'll never be with anyone else."
And she had tried to get away from Drinel.
It was clear she knew that her life had been threatened.
I get the impression that Drinel always thought
that they will be back together,
up until the point where he found out
that she was with someone else.
[Faith] With what they've learned about the couple's
stormy relationship,
detectives are now convinced
that Griselda was the intended target
and Drinel Joseph is their number one suspect.
But the question remains,
"Why was Danny Rivera also shot and killed?"
To find out, investigators bring Drinel
down to the station for questioning.
This might be the trickiest moment in the case.
Drinel Joseph is in custody,
but, unless detectives can crack his alibi,
they'll have to let him go.
With little forensic evidence to build on,
they need to be able to place Drinel at the crime scene
in the short window of time
they've determined that Griselda's murder took place.
They took him through July 2nd and where he was
and what was he doing.
Drinel told us he went to work that morning
and left work around noon.
His boss let him off early,
so he went to change the tires on his wife's car.
When he was done, he went home.
[Faith] As the interrogation proceeds,
detectives are confounded by Drinel's description
of his relationship with Griselda.
The way he talks about Griselda's cold and demeaning.
You would expect, even though they had broken up,
that a normal person would be distraught
if someone they were in a romantic relationship with
just months ago was murdered.
[Faith] Though investigators are convinced
that Drinel is the killer,
they need to prove it.
The first step is to match Drinel's movements
to account for him being able to drive
the four hours each way from Homestead to Orlando.
So, Drinel told us on July 2nd, 2007,
he came in to work that day, 8:30,
he got into a fight with his manager
and he left at 9:30.
When he was done, he went home.
Said he arrived home around four o'clock.
They were able to track down his friend,
the mechanic, Woody.
And, Woody's like, "No, he came over in the morning
and we worked on the car till around a little bit after 11,
heading to 11:30."
So they've already started to develop
a lot of his story is a lie.
And if he left Woody at 11:30,
that gives him ample time to drive to Orlando.
On the day of her murder,
Drinel and Griselda had been broken up for four months,
and it had six weeks since he saw her
at the Haitian festival.
But investigators now feel
that his rage towards her was intense enough
to fuel a four-hour-drive to hunt her down and kill her.
This was no crime of passion.
This was months of fiery rage that festered
and grew inside of him.
Until, finally, Drinel made good
on the horrifying threats he made
after she told him she would never be his again.
[dramatic music]
My belief is Drinel Joseph drove from Homestead
to Orlando,
circled around the clinic,
waiting until it's after five,
and then goes into the clinic.
There was only one way to get in,
which was the front door.
So we know that he came through the front door.
[Faith] Distracted with his game of solitaire,
Daniel must not have noticed Drinel
as he passed through reception.
Daniel has his back to him,
shoots and kills Daniel first,
and then as Griselda's cowering,
and scrambling to get under her desk to protect herself,
shoots her twice in the head,
[gun fires]
and then immediately leaves,
gets back in his car,
and heads back down Homestead.
That's the theory at least.
But prosecutors know
that in order to make this a slam dunk at trial,
they'll need hard evidence.
Now, remember the date.
This is 2007.
And what did we all have in 2007?
Cell phones.
So they got a warrant to look at his cell records.
At this point in 2007,
cell phone records are becoming a new key way
of looking at cases.
[Chris] Cell phone records has put him traveling
along the Turnpike,
arriving in Orlando
a significant time before the homicide occurred,
Drinel Joseph calls a friend of Griselda's
to try to find out exactly where Griselda was.
So, he did establish the fact
that Griselda was in the business.
Using the cell phone records,
the detectives were able to prove
Drinel drove up from Homestead,
spent an hour and a half to two hours in Orlando,
and then headed straight back down the Turnpike.
Based on the cell phone records,
we did obtain arrest warrant.
We went back down to Homestead where we arrested him.
On July 27th, 2007,
11 months after he met 26-year-old Griselda Cassamajor
in an Orlando nightclub,
Drinel Joseph is arrested
and charged with her murder.
He's also charged with the murder
of 20-year-old Daniel Rivera,
who was sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I was angry for a long time
'cause it wasn't that you just took her.
It wasn't that you shot her or that you killed her.
But, what about her family?
And it wasn't that you didn't know anybody in her family,
you knew me.
How could you do this?
The detective call the family
and tell them they are convinced he is the one that did it
based on their evidence.
It was such a relief for everybody.
We felt like there was some type of closure
to where we finally found out who was responsible,
like turning the page in the book.
You're closing the chapter, however you wanna call it.
Danny was just there doing his job
and just got caught up in Drinel's mess, unfortunately.
It's just, it's gut wrenching.
[dramatic music]
In May, 2008,
Drinel Joseph is tried for the cold-blooded killings
of Daniel Rivera and Griselda Cassamajor.
I can tell you from experience,
when you're trying a murder case as a prosecutor,
you feel immense pressure to deliver justice
to the families of the victims.
The first day of any trial, you're very nervous.
I have a circumstantial case.
I don't have any direct evidence that it's Drinel
and he's sitting at the defendant's table,
he's clean cut.
And so I'm gonna have to prove to the jury
that the person sitting there
is capable of committing two murders.
I kept looking at him.
I said, "How does a person even come to that point?"
Were you just, you're angry, you're sad, you're mad,
name it, name any emotion, you're feeling it.
Just wanting to jump over that, you know,
that bench and just, you know.
In that courtroom,
that must have been the most emotions at once
that I possibly could ever have felt.
The one thing about the trial that sticks out to me,
he had nothing to say.
It was as if, "Oh, I'm sorry this happened to her."
As if she wasn't a woman
that you had been in a relationship with.
As if she wasn't a woman that had just miscarried your baby.
The trial last four days.
And when he has a chance to speak,
Drinel doesn't say a single word.
I'm left with just one.
Why?
On May 22nd, 2008,
Drinel Joseph is convicted
and sentenced to life in prison
without the possibility of parole.
It was like, just weight off my shoulder.
This guy is now gonna pay for what he did.
I'm relieved.
I'm happy for the victims.
You spend some time with the victim's family,
you're connected with them.
So, it was a great feeling.
I want Danny to be remembered
as exactly how I remember him.
Just his smile.
His smile, man.
He's such a loving soul.
He was a great soul.
Great soul to be around.
From time to time, I do go to the, you know, the cemetery.
I go and I sit down at the grave
and I talk to him about anything.
Drinel took a great soul,
a good friend,
a sister,
this awesome woman.
I lost my rock.
The world lost a beautiful spirit.
You can hear her infectious laugh.
You could see her smile brighten up the room.
She made an impact wherever she went.
By the time you left her,
something about her was gonna resonate with you.
So that's what the world is missing.
She's irreplaceable.
Griselda Cassamajor,
a vibrant, intelligent woman,
struck down by violence from a man she once loved.
Griselda was full of hope and joy
and trying to live her best life.
She didn't deserve to have that dream stolen
by a jealous and abusive killer,
who also took the young life of Danny Rivera.
Justice was served in this case,
but no sentence can ever bring true comfort
to the family and friends of Griselda and Danny.
All we have left are the memories
of two greatly loved people,
lost to a killer relationship.