[tape rewinds]
- She was really serious about her job,
And she loved her dog.
She took boogie everywhere with her.
- She sent me a text, and she was like,
"hey, s, if anything happens,"
And I was like, something's wrong.
[dramatic music]
- Everyone was watching this case.
It's a missing woman,
But also it's a missing veteran.
♪ ♪
- She knew she was being videotaped,
And she's leaving breadcrumbs.
- It looked like maybe she was carjacked.
Maybe somebody pulled her out of her vehicle.
Maybe she was kidnapped.
- A murder case is tough as it is,
But a no-body murder case
Kind of is in a different league.
You're looking at this person's actual final moments.
It just strikes at your heart.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[percussive music]
- San diego, california, September 2017.
37-year-old julia jacobson is a woman on the move.
- Julia was very hard-working,
Very driven, determined, focused.
She had goals, and there was not gonna be
Anybody that was gonna get in the way of those goals.
- When julia was in her early 20s,
She joined the army after serving
In the rotc in college,
And she quickly rose to the rank of captain.
- Julia was one of my classmates
And battle buddies in rotc.
A lot of times in the military you'll find people
That are very type a but almost to a toxic fault,
And julia was never that.
She was very centered, very grounded.
She wasn't gonna push you down.
♪ ♪
- I met julia when we were serving
With the 39th finance battalion in germany.
We were the same age.
But of course, she was an officer.
I was enlisted.
That just goes to show you
How dedicated and driven she is.
One thing about julia that I really admire is,
She will not let you fail.
She will always make sure that you succeed.
- And those qualities prove invaluable for julia,
Who served two tours of duty as a finance officer in iraq.
- Our mission in iraq was to fund the outlying bases.
And we would transfer large sums at a time by air.
Julia put together a great team,
And we all know our duties.
Everything was very coordinated.
Dangerous, yes, but we knew what we were getting into.
- In iraq, every place that you went was dangerous.
And julia transporting large sums of money
Had to be brave and had to be focused on the job at hand.
Her with her wads of money.
This is the julia that I know and loved.
Just soldier.
I'm sure she is rolling before this picture is taken.
That smile.
[laughs]
- After her discharge from the army in 2009
At the age of 29,
Julia transitions seamlessly from military
To corporate work, climbing the ranks
Of the accounting division at the 7-eleven corporation.
- I met julia through work,
And we became really best friends.
Right away she just wanted to help me
Become successful with the company.
She was really serious about her job,
And she loved her dog.
She took boogie everywhere with her,
And boogie loved going to petsmart.
When I first met her, I went to her house with my dog,
And it turned into about a three-hour
Playdate with our dogs.
[dogs growling playfully]
I was thinking like,
Man, this girl got this dog all over the place.
This dog is out of control.
[laughs]
Boogie stood on the coffee table.
And I was like, your dog is on the coffee table.
And she was like, it's ok.
It's just boogie.
- Julia's devotion to her career leaves her
Little time for romance.
But in 2015, she meets dalen ware.
- I believe she met him on a contracted job
On-site of one of the 7-eleven locations
That she was working-- overseeing.
Julia was very personal and private,
And she hadn't had a lot of partners either.
He told her she was beautiful,
So there was automatically a connection there.
Dalen was her real, intimate partner.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- After a year and a half,
Julia and dalen elope to las vegas.
- She was like, we got married
In the drive-through on the strip.
And then she just, like, thought it was so funny.
I was like, are you serious? [laughs]
- Julia puts her heart and soul into the marriage.
But after several months, her busy work life leads
To tension in the relationship.
- She said, well, every time I travel,
He'll wait till I leave and then call and be like,
"you're always leaving me.
"you didn't tell me when we got married
"that you wouldn't be available.
"you didn't tell me that I'd be in this house by myself.
You're not giving me the attention that I need."
- It got very, very tense.
And you could just read the people's faces,
And you're just like, this is not a good situation.
- I just didn't like him.
Didn't like the vibe.
[tense music]
- The conflict grows,
And soon julia feels she has no choice
But to file for divorce.
- She called me and she was like, I'm done, shannel.
Like, I cannot do this. I'm done.
That was the first time I saw her cry,
And it was a hurtful cry.
And I was like, julia, I don't think
This guy is the right one for you.
[somber music]
- The failure of her marriage is a disappointment.
But within a year of her divorce,
By the summer of 2017,
Julia is ready to move on with her life.
- She texts me one day and she's like, I met somebody.
And she had met this guy named john.
He was military,
Coming from a divorce from the east coast,
And he's in san diego.
She was like, he's nice, he's cool.
I liked it.
I liked the happiness.
I liked the tone, the laughter.
[tense music]
- On September 2, 2017, julia sets out early
From her home in san diego
For a road trip into the desert.
- It was labor day weekend, and julia was gonna just go
Have a fun weekend, enjoy having some time off.
- I texted her on Friday and I was like,
"hey, what's going on?"
She texts me and goes, "I'm with a friend."
So that's all she sent, and I was like,
Oh, she got an attitude.
I'm thinking she was with john.
And she sent me a text and she was like,
"on my way to big bear."
And I was like, was boogie with her?
And she was like, "yes."
♪ ♪
Now, every time julia has had a road trip,
We will talk on the phone the whole time.
Two, three hours, no matter how long it was,
Her and I'd be on the phone the whole time.
So that's all she sent,
And I was like, something's wrong.
- A short time later, shannel receives
A troubling set of texts from julia.
- "hey, s, if anything happens,"
Then she didn't say anything.
So I just sent the question mark.
And she goes, "call my sister."
Mm, mm, mm.
And I was like, hey, "what's going on?"
She didn't answer,
And that was the last time we texted each other.
- Later that weekend, when julia's family doesn't
Hear from her, they also start to worry.
- Julia had a very close relationship with her family.
And she connected with them every day.
When she didn't call on her daily call,
And then connect with her sister as well,
They thought something was strange.
That's when they started posting on social media
To try to locate her, and then ultimately,
A day or two after the holiday weekend,
They called the san diego police department
To make a missing persons report.
- On September 6th, the san diego police department
Opens an investigation.
[suspenseful music]
- Julia had been missing a day and a half.
My heart sank, because that's not her.
And you dread it, because I didn't want
To be negative about that and think,
Oh, something's happened to her,
But I knew that something very tragic had happened.
- Security camera footage helps
Narrow the search for julia...
- Was this going to turn out the way that everyone wanted
Or was this gonna take a darker turn?
- And investigators uncover critical clues.
- They came in separate cars and checked into the hotel.
- I believe there was some kind of cadaver odor present
Inside of that vehicle.
- At this point, all the arrows were pointing at him.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- September 6, 2017.
It's the first day of the investigation
Into julia jacobson's disappearance.
♪ ♪
- Julia's friends rallied
To support her almost immediately.
And the fact of the matter is,
They pushed this to such an extent
That it was so unusual
For somebody to be missing for one day or two days
And to have the police react this quickly
To start the investigation.
It was unique from my experience
In 20 years of doing this stuff.
- Investigators start the subpoena process
For julia's emails and online accounts.
Meanwhile, san diego police conduct a search
Of her apartment, where they find no signs
Of forced entry or a struggle.
Next, detectives want to speak with those closest to julia,
Starting with her new boyfriend, john,
To see if he had been traveling
With her that weekend.
- On our radar very immediately was the relationship
That julia had just developed with a new person.
- But john tells investigators he was not
On the labor day weekend trip with julia,
And he hasn't seen her since.
- Our first suspect is usually
The closest person to the victim,
Especially when it's an intimate relationship.
But we were able to check other things,
Including cell phone information--
Text messages and so forth.
So we were able to pretty quickly eliminate him
As a suspect or at least put him down a few tiers.
- Julia's weekend travel companion is still a mystery.
So investigators expand the circle of people they talk to,
Including julia's ex-husband dalen ware.
- During the course of that day, dalen ware,
He had been contacted by detectives just to see
If he had known anything about where julia was.
- Dalen ware told authorities that he hadn't seen julia
In about a year, and they had an amicable divorce.
Everything was copacetic. It was fine.
He lives in arizona, so that's a pretty great alibi for him.
So police weren't suspicious of him.
- Desperate to learn what's happened to julia,
Her friends and family launch their own search.
- Julia doesn't disappear like that.
Her sisters were even asking me,
You think that she just wants to get away?
But I was like, no, she's never gonna just
Go somewhere and disappear and put everybody through that.
- At that point, we really need to get rocking and rolling
To get whatever evidence that we can get.
- The san diego police department organizes a team
Of digital investigators led by peter villaver
To try to pinpoint julia's whereabouts.
- We have a 37-year-old military vet
Gone missing from san diego,
And our task was to locate her.
I specialize in cell phone tracking.
That's what I was enlisted for.
So the investigators,
Parallel to my review of the call detail records,
Also were able to acquire financial transactions.
It's not immediate, but when we parallel the two together,
It gives us a better picture of her general whereabouts.
- Investigators issue an alert
To be on the lookout for julia's car.
- Her vehicle had the service that allows us to locate it,
But it's very limited,
Because it's not an active onstar service.
But we were able to identify
Where she stopped at a 7-eleven
In the tierrasanta neighborhood of san diego.
- Police visit the 7-eleven store
And ask to review its surveillance footage.
They spot julia in the video
On the morning of September 2nd,
Just a few hours before her friends
And family last hear from her.
- When I look at that footage of julia in the 7-eleven,
She's obviously trying to select some items,
And then doesn't select any items
And just leaves the store without purchasing anything.
We don't know why she was doing that.
- Yep.
That's julia.
Shorts and flip-flops.
She's got her purse with her.
To me she does not look
Like she's concerned about anything.
She's just looking like she's going on a small road trip.
[tense music]
- Then on September 7th,
Five days after julia was last seen,
Police make a troubling discovery
Close to julia's home in san diego.
- Julia's car is actually found
Parked a couple blocks from her house.
Strangely, the keys were in the ignition,
The windows were down,
And julia's purse was left in the car.
- Julia always locked her doors,
Never left her windows rolled down.
So I was like, it's not good.
- So it looked like maybe she was carjacked.
Maybe somebody pulled her out of her vehicle.
Maybe she was kidnapped.
That was a major red flag for authorities.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Five days after julia jacobson was last seen,
Authorities discover her car abandoned on a street
Near her home in san diego.
- Julia's car was recovered down in san diego
With the windows down and the keys in the ignition.
But strangely, nobody apparently disturbed it.
- Police impound the vehicle,
A white suv that julia is believed to have been driving
On her labor day weekend road trip.
News of the discovery heightens interest
In julia's case across the region.
- There's a push on social media
To try to raise awareness.
And I remember the weight of it,
And it was an important story
In our newsroom and for other newsrooms
Throughout a huge part of southern california.
And there's still a feeling of hopefulness.
She became a recognizable face around the region.
Those missing person signs were everywhere.
- By the morning of September 8th,
The mystery of julia jacobson's disappearance
Is growing deeper with each passing hour.
- You've got police coming together
From all of southern california.
Was this going to turn out the way that everyone wanted
Or was this gonna take a darker turn?
- Our suspicions are pretty clear here
Of what's going on.
I was convinced julia was dead,
And I think the police were too.
- In their search for more definitive answers,
Investigators are trying to track julia's movements
Using her electronic data.
It's a slow process.
The information is trickling in gradually
In chronological order, a single day at a time.
- With julia jacobson's case,
We were about 72 hours behind
Every time we move.
So we would find something that occurred 72 hours prior
As we progressed the investigation.
- Julia's cell phone data reveals
That she took an odd path before she vanished.
And it's a long way from where she told shannel
She was headed.
According to credit card records,
12 hours after she was at a 7-eleven in san diego,
She stopped in another 7-eleven store,
This one 100 miles north in ontario, california.
- If you're not in california
And you don't understand the geography here,
Ontario is nowhere near big bear.
So it's incredibly unusual
That somebody who says they're en route
To big bear is suddenly in ontario.
It's, like, a 90-minute drive at least.
It makes no sense.
- Once again, detectives are able
To identify julia in the surveillance footage.
And again, julia's behavior in the store
Raises questions for the investigators.
- We see her on the two videos,
And she goes in, she looks around,
She touches a few items.
She knows, having worked at that corporation,
That you go into that store, you're on a video camera.
This is a highly intelligent, sophisticated woman.
To me, as an investigator, I'm looking at that and saying,
She knew she was being videotaped,
And she's leaving breadcrumbs for any investigator
If something ever happens to her.
And it just makes you wonder why she was doing it.
- And there's no explanation for why julia strayed
So far from her stated destination,
No hint of her current whereabouts,
And no way to even know if she is alive or dead.
So police decide to take a new approach to the case.
- Somebody in the detective bureau
Had the idea of having a cadaver dog involved.
This dog is trained to smell cadavers.
We had the san bernardino sheriff cadaver dog
Travel down to san diego
To the san diego police department's
Evidence holding facility,
Which was essentially a parking lot.
- It's the parking lot where julia's abandoned vehicle
Is being held for evidence.
- They had impounded her vehicle,
And I brought my cadaver dog down
To see if there was any cadaver odor
Associated with this vehicle.
The vehicle was in a secure police lockup.
So what I did was release the dog
Inside the locked storage facility,
Where I think there was five cars total.
And I had no idea whose vehicle was the victim's vehicle.
K-9 ellie immediately circled all the vehicles
And then really started detailing a smaller white suv.
I could see that she only had interest
In that one vehicle and one vehicle only.
- It's julia's white chevrolet equinox.
- She wouldn't leave it alone,
And she refused to leave that area.
I was able to open the rear tailgate.
Ellie hopped right in and was almost going crazy
Sniffing the ceiling upholstery
And the upholstery of the seats and the rear cargo area.
There was nothing we could see,
But I interpreted ellie's behavior as a positive
For some kind of cadaver odor on the inside of this vehicle.
- Investigators can now only assume the worst.
- Our suspicions were no longer suspicions.
We knew. We knew that julia was dead.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- A week after julia jacobson was reported missing,
A cadaver dog finds indications
That a dead body has been in her car.
- She was only looking for cadaver.
That is the only detection odor that she's imprinted on.
Now, there was nothing visible that we could see,
But she had definitely detected something there.
- The missing person case is now likely a homicide.
But the investigation hasn't turned up any suspects.
♪ ♪
As her best friend shannel tries to make sense
Of what might have happened,
She can't stop rereading the final text messages
She received from julia.
- "if anything happens to me, call my sister."
So that plays in my head over and over again.
Something wasn't right.
Julia's very detailed,
So she never would send me a short text like that.
- Shannel can't help but wonder
About the mysterious friend with whom julia was traveling.
- And I started realizing, if she had boogie with her,
The only person that would be around was dalen.
- Julia's ex-husband dalen ware has already
Been interviewed by police,
Who believe he was hundreds of miles away
In arizona that weekend.
But shannel isn't buying it.
- Boogie only liked certain people.
She loved julia,
She loved dalen,
And she loved my dog and me.
So whenever julia would go traveling,
Only people that can watch boogie would be me or dalen.
I think she never stopped really talking to him.
So I finally was like,
I bet you she met up with dalen.
- Shannel reaches out to the san diego police
With her revelation.
But they tell her there's nothing in the investigation
Pointing to dalen ware.
- They kept on saying that
They're interviewing other people.
I was like, please look into it.
- When the subpoena for julia's computer records
Finally comes through,
Investigators start digging through her emails
In the weeks leading up to her disappearance,
And they suddenly begin to share shannel's suspicions.
They discovered dozens
Of hostile and threatening messages,
Sometimes as many as 15 a day,
Sent to julia from dalen ware.
- So here's one email from dalen ware to julia.
He wrote, "it could have been so easy.
"just apologize and tell the truth.
"but you want to be evil
"and run and hide and hurt me worse.
"wrong move, mother----er.
"last message. You're going to regret this,
You dumb--" b-word.
"you got off easy before but not this time,"
With a couple of exclamation marks.
It's pretty aggressive.
It's pretty horrifying.
♪ ♪
- Julia's friend shannel is not surprised.
Julia has told her that her ex isn't happy
That she's got a new boyfriend.
- He was livid about this guy john.
Oh, he was livid.
You know, he hated
That she was with him and that she was happy.
- But why would julia have met up again with dalen
And keep it a secret from her friends?
- I think that everyone, men, women, everyone,
We have told little white lies
Or withheld some details from people in our lives
To either protect ourselves or protect them from the truth.
I think it's pretty common to withhold a few details
Because you know that you're gonna get
The wrath of your girlfriend or your mom or your sister
Who doesn't think you should still be
Hanging out with so-and-so.
- With a possible motive--
Anger at julia's new relationship--
Investigators begin taking another look at dalen.
As they do, a new credit card transaction posts
To julia's account, prompting a breakthrough discovery.
- So through the records that I reviewed,
On the evening of the 2nd, we were able to locate
Where she stayed at in a general vicinity.
And then at that point, the investigators were able
To specifically identify the hotel
That she was staying at.
♪ ♪
It was a hotel off of interstate 10 in ontario,
Which was the doubletree hotel.
- Investigators immediately contact the doubletree hotel
To review their guest registry.
It confirms that julia booked a room
For two nights starting on September 2nd.
Detectives also acquired the hotel's security footage.
- When they go back and they look at video footage
From the hotel in ontario,
They see dalen ware with julia jacobson.
- They came in separate cars
And checked into the hotel.
- You saw julia walk in at about 9:46 p.M.
With the suspect and with boogie.
And she was never seen leaving the property moving forward.
- That's the last picture we have of julia.
You can't help but think,
What is going through this young person's mind?
It's inescapable as a human being.
You never know when your time is gonna come.
But you're looking at this person's actual final moments,
And it just strikes at your heart.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Investigators in california believe julia jacobson was
Murdered during a road trip on labor day weekend.
And they now have proof that her ex-husband,
Dalen ware, was with her on the day she went missing.
- Now there was enough evidence
To then go back to dalen ware
And start questioning him.
♪ ♪
And that's when he changed his tune.
- He confirmed that he had been with her.
He called it the last hurrah.
He knew that this was the last time.
She was moving on to something,
And there was something that was gonna
Be breaking or changing in their relationship.
- But dalen firmly denies harming julia in any way.
- He then explained to the police
That he left her on September 4th
And they mutually departed from the doubletree hotel
And that they're both moving on
In different directions of their lives.
- Detectives are skeptical.
Dalen is now their prime murder suspect.
- At this point, all the arrows were pointing at him.
Our suspicions are pretty clear here
Of what's going on here.
But do we have enough to file a murder case?
Not yet. We had to have more.
- Knowing that dalen was with julia at the hotel,
The investigators begin tracing his moves
Through cell phone data and financial transactions,
As they have been doing with julia.
As the records come in,
A disturbing picture emerges of dalen's activity
In the day and a half after they checked in,
Beginning shortly before 1:00 a.M.
On the morning of September 3rd.
- So those early morning hours of September 3rd,
Dalen ware went to the walmart store in corona
And purchased a number of items.
One of those was a 50-gallon tub,
Some black sheets, a shovel, and some bleach.
But then he went to another walmart,
And he purchased another series of items.
One was some kind of wrapping cord and kerosene.
He's going to two different locations
In the middle of the night to purchase these items.
And we know something is going on here.
In law enforcement, we call that a murder kit.
♪ ♪
- Then dalen returns to the doubletree hotel
In the early morning hours.
- About 4:00 in the morning, hotel surveillance videos
Dalen ware getting one of the hotel dollies
From the lobby back to the room.
And about 15, 20 minutes later,
The same individual pushing the dolly was seen
With what appears to be containers
Towards the parking lot.
- We have surveillance footage
Of dalen leaving the doubletree.
And he loaded a 50-gallon tote on the luggage cart
And then put some items to kind of obscure the tote
Onto the luggage cart, and then he took that
And loaded it into julia's car.
At no point do we see julia.
- After loading the items into julia's car,
Dalen is seen returning to the room,
Where he remains until about 5:00 p.M. On September 3rd.
- So at this point, dalen ware, again,
Went to another-- same big box retail facility.
This time he went west towards west covina.
- Credit card records show he purchases
Additional storage bins as well as kerosene,
Football receiver gloves, and other items.
In the early evening of September 3rd,
Dalen returns to the doubletree hotel.
- 6:43 p.M., there was a swipe card transaction on the key.
So he was in the property of doubletree in ontario.
- Dalen is captured on video leaving the hotel
For the last time in the early morning hours
Of September 4th.
Julia's dog boogie is with him now,
And they drive off in julia's car.
But there's still no sign of julia.
Investigators are able to roughly track
The car's movements using the vehicle's onstar system.
- At 6:37 a.M., the onstar showed a location
Off of interstate 10 at washington street,
Which is in palm desert area.
When the detectives went there,
They went to two different gas stations and said,
Hey, can we look at video surveillance
On or about this time?
And lo and behold, the detectives was able
To capture a video surveillance
Of the suspect and the victim's vehicle in a car wash.
- And what we have is surveillance footage
Of dalen in the back of julia's car
Taking out those 50-gallon totes
And taking the car wash not to wash the car
But to wash the totes out.
He puts the totes back in the car,
And then they proceed further west down to san diego,
Where the car is abandoned
A couple blocks from julia's house.
♪ ♪
- The detectives find more images of dalen
On surveillance video.
On the evening of September 4th,
They see him near where julia's
Abandoned car was found.
- We have dalen walking from the general location
Of the car ultimately to a denny's location
Where dalen got into that taxicab
And had the taxicab drive him all the way back up to ontario,
Another 100 miles, and drop him off at a location
Of a motel 6, which was directly across the street
From the doubletree hotel.
So he was caught on the camera at the motel 6
Getting out of the taxicab,
And then apparently walked across the street
And retrieved his car, which had remained
In the doubletree parking lot this whole time.
And then we know that he traveled east again
Back to his home in the phoenix area.
- The case for bringing murder charges
Against dalen ware now appears strong.
But there is one key weakness.
- A murder case is tough as it is,
But a no-body murder case
Kind of is in a different league.
And so you have to be able to paint the picture
Of the sequence of events and where this all leads.
And the loose end we had was, we didn't have proof
That somebody was deceased or murdered.
So we knew we had to have some proof
That she was not just missing.
- On October 13, 2017,
Nearly a month and a half since julia went missing,
San bernardino county prosecutors make
A calculated gamble.
- Dalen ware was arrested in his home in arizona
And brought to san bernardino county
To face murder charges.
So we filed it as a first-degree murder case,
Knowing full well this would be a challenge.
We knew we had to find julia.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Dalen ware has been arrested for the murder
Of his ex-wife, julia jacobson.
It's devastating news for her family and friends
Who have been desperately searching for her.
- My feelings were so hurt.
That's all I can remember, is that I knew it.
You know, I knew that he had something to do with it,
And even though they arrested him,
I was trying to convince myself that,
You know, maybe she's still alive somewhere.
- Prosecutors have a challenging job ahead of them.
Without a body, proving that julia has been killed
Will not be easy.
In late October 2017,
Authorities from multiple agencies begin
A massive search for julia's remains.
- We know that the onstar device tracked them
To an exit off the 10 freeway in riverside county.
♪ ♪
- Based on that onstar data,
Investigators narrow the search area
To a 6-mile radius of rough, arid terrain.
[indistinct radio chatter]
- It took a lot of people coming together
To try to find her.
120 people out there with these search parties
Searching this 6-mile radius, which is huge in the desert.
- But after weeks of searching,
They still can't find julia.
- We didn't have that information.
And the only person that we could get it from
Was dalen ware.
I proceeded to start negotiating
With the defense attorney for mr. Ware,
And I kind of gave him an ultimatum
With some incentives.
And ultimately we agreed to enter a plea deal
With dalen ware for second-degree murder.
- On December 1, 2017, dalen ware agrees
To help investigators find julia's body.
- He took us out to the location in that date palm area
In a very remote part of the desert.
- Investigators enlist deputy sheriff david moyer
And his k-9 ellie to help search,
The same dog and handler that detected the odor
Of a dead body in julia's car.
- As soon as I let ellie out of the car,
She took off into the desert at a dead run.
And we're running way out into the desert.
And sure enough, k-9 ellie went to it like a laser.
There was an area in the desert I could see
With a tremendous amount of animal disturbance.
And the very first thing I could see from a distance
Was a pink dog harness
That had been pulled out of a shallow hole.
- We had the remains of a human,
And we had the remains of a dog,
All buried in this shallow grave.
- This person took julia's life
And took her most beloved friend's life.
And I think that's especially sickening.
- Well, I was at work,
And I got a text message from julia's sister.
And she was like, "hey, can you talk?"
So I got up right away.
And I called her, and she was like,
"they found julia."
And I was like, where?
Well, they found her in the desert,
And they found boogie with her as well.
And I screamed.
And I just fell to the floor.
[choked up] and, um...
All I kept thinking was, she didn't deserve that.
[somber music]
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- Julia was taking steps after the divorce
To further separate herself from dalen.
And from my standpoint,
I know the power dynamics of a relationship,
Especially if a female is breaking off the relationship,
That can trigger violence.
And if she's standing up for herself
And drawing a line in the sand and saying enough's enough
And I'm moving on with my life,
In my mind as a prosecutor,
I know that's a very dangerous time for her.
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[dramatic music]
- In accordance with the deal brokered by prosecutors,
Dalen ware pleads guilty to second-degree murder
And receives a sentence of 15 years to life.
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- 15 years is not enough.
But you know what? He will rot in hell.
Because somebody with that kind of anger
And that kind of hate and that kind of evil,
He deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison.
[somber music]
- Julia's friends and family hang on
To every moment they can.
- I just miss her-- her caring nature.
She just wanted to see the good in everybody.
And I think ultimately that's what led her to her fate.
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- I can close my eyes and I can see her smile
And I can see her laughter,
And she would light up a room.
Julia left a mark.
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- My dog's never been around the beach or the water.
He's enjoying san diego.
- For shannel, one of their final moments
Together stands out...
- Come on. It's ok.
- The summer before julia went missing,
When they walked their dogs on the beach in san diego
And spent hours enjoying each other's company.
- Julia never liked taking pictures of herself,
And I was always the camera person.
I had came to san diego, and we were going shopping,
And I was like, let's take a selfie together.
And she was like, nuh-uh.
You're the miss glam girl. I'm not the glam girl.
And I was like, take a picture, and she was like, all right.
And we took this picture together.
Yeah, that was my buddy.