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VINCE WEINER: This was most brutal homicide in over 25 years.
Forensic science-- it was a key witness.
NARRATOR: Talk to the real suspects.
I didn't kill anybody, dude.
NARRATOR: Hear from the real victims.
MAN: I couldn't believe it.
I'm in a state of shock.
NARRATOR: And ultimately solve the case
through the use of forensic science.
We still have a homicide suspect somewhere out there.
NARRATOR: This is... WOMAN: A murder...
REPORTER: A disturbing story has come in...
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DISPATCHER: Mm-hmm.
DISPATCHER: Okay.
REPORTER: There was a bullet hole in the wall,
a shocking scene in the bedroom.
Deputies are following leads already,
late at night, unclear if this is domestic
or something far more evil.
WEINER: Back in 2015, I was a detective
with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office
in the Major Crimes Unit.
I was assigned to this case as the lead.
Although we do have our violent crime
and we do have our homicide here or there,
this was one of the most brutal homicides
we've had in Key Largo in over 25 years.
Sometime around 2:00 on October 16, 2015,
I received a call for my assistance
for a death investigation up in Tavernier,
which is about an hour north of where I was.
So, this was the scene of the homicide
right there on Cuba.
I responded and arrived sometime around 3:00
or shortly thereafter.
Right away, we secured the children at
a neighbor's house until
our Department of Children and Families arrived
and could assist with keeping them safe.
We then went to the residence and looked at the door
to see if it had been forcibly opened
or potentially breached.
There did not appear to be any kind of a forced entry.
There were two doors that led into the residence,
the first being a bedroom. I entered the bedroom.
Right away, we were able to observe
a .45 caliber ammo casing...
...and two deceased individuals, one male, one female,
each with an apparent gunshot wound to the head,
between a bed and a dresser.
And an illustration
that likely was drafted by the kids.
MARTINEZ: My name is Mary's Martinez.
I've worked as a crime scene investigator
in 63 homicides.
Crime scene has a lot of working backwards.
We see the crime scene, we figure out
what details are there and then
what missing parts are there to try to figure out
exactly what happened, but also why it happened.
HURTADO: My name is Bertha Hurtado.
I went to school for
forensic anthropology.
And now I work for
the Davie police department
as a crime scene investigator.
When you're looking at two individuals--
a man and a woman-- then you start theorizing,
could this have been a crime of passion?
What happened in the relationship?
Did one want to leave the other?
Was somebody having an affair?
WEINER: Through the identification
that we recovered from the bedrooms,
the female was identified as
26-year-old Tara Rosado
and 30-year-old Carlos Ortiz.
It did appear, from the disarray
of the room, that there might have been some kind
of physical altercation.
Clothing on the floor, dresser was in disarray.
There was stuff all over.
The rest of the house was in fairly good order.
MARTINEZ: With two gunshots to the head,
no forced entry, and a disheveled bedroom,
the first theory that comes to mind is...
...possibly one of the parties became irrational, shoots,
and then has this moment of clarity.
"I can't believe I just did this,"
or "This is my only way out."
And then turns the gun on themself.
DAVID GOODHUE: I've been covering the Keys
as a reporter now for about 18 years.
When I arrived, there were tons of police cars-- marked,
unmarked.
Police in uniform, police in plain clothes,
crime scene technicians in scrubs,
neighbors milling about, really wondering what happened.
Given the prevalence of drug use and alcohol abuse in the Keys,
murder-suicide is one crime that we have our share of.
HURTADO: If this case were to be a murder-suicide,
the main element would be,
"Where's the gun?"
WEINER: There was no firearm visibly seen.
At first, we thought
possibly that there might have been a gun
under one of the bodies or some of the clothes.
After I did a walk-through,
we have the medical examiner come in.
Eventually, he agrees the bodies are able to be moved.
HURTADO: However, once the bodies
were removed, there was no gun.
The gun wasn't found on scene.
MARTINEZ: That tells me that there was
someone else in the room.
(gunshots)
MARTINEZ: And that's when
the hunt for the killer began.
WEINER: Wasn't until we started to move things
and found the other casing that was under
a bunch of clothing that was on the floor.
MARTINEZ: Both casings were
.45 caliber.
They were also able to confirm
that both casings were fired from the same firearm
because of the markings on the casings.
Once you fire the casing,
it will leave that imprint of the rifling
from the inside of the bore.
We like to call it "the fingerprint of the gun,"
because every gun has
its own pattern.
So that helps us in the sense of there being one firearm.
It doesn't necessarily
confirm that it's only one shooter.
WEINER: We were also able to identify
a Asus Zenfone.
But what was interesting-- there was
an Apple-manufactured charger that was plugged in
without a phone attached to it.
And the investigators could not find an Apple phone
or any form of Apple device.
The question became, where is the iPhone?
That is a key piece of evidence that could
provide you with the answers.
MARTINEZ: The lead detectives realized
that the neighbor, and 911 caller, has
surveillance outside of his home
that could have recorded the night of the incident.
WEINER: But, unfortunately, some of the footage
was missing from the night before,
when we believe the homicides occurred.
His claim was that
he wanted to continue to keep storage on a DVD.
MARTINEZ: However, what often occurs is that
the general public, such as myself,
will delete something and think
that it actually is deleted, when, in fact,
it's saved on the internal memory of that device.
WEINER: We understood the FBI
had an opportunity to maybe help us out with this, so,
the DVD was turned over to the FBI for them to try
to refurbish the deleted data.
Once we identified who was deceased at the scene,
we started to do some inquiries as to their past.
MARTINEZ: Carlos was of the area.
He was currently working at a barbershop.
WEINER: Carlos was
incarcerated for a period of time
for the use of narcotics.
But he did have a desire to really want to make right
and be good, you know, settle down.
MARTINEZ: He had this American dream.
He wanted to become an entrepreneur
and have his own tattoo shop.
Carlos recently moved in with Tara, and from what
investigators know, he had been helping out with her kids.
KATELYN FARLEY: She could never say my name right as a kid.
She couldn't make the "K" sounds, so,
she called me Lynney.
(laughs) Yeah.
Yeah.
I wear it for her.
She's the only one who ever called me Lynney.
The first 24 or 48 hours, um...
...are such a blur.
I just remember feeling...
...weight.
Just a lot of very sudden weight.
I can't.
There are three girls in my family.
I am the oldest,
Tara was the middle child and Carrie was the baby.
We did everything together.
We were all just so good at having fun,
picking on each other, and, you know, I... I miss that.
Tara was the little clown. She would do things
like put together these-these stupid outfits
and just wait around corners for people
to walk in the room.
That-that carried over,
even into when she had her own kids.
You know, like, she was always
trying to do something silly to make them laugh,
and, you know, very successfully.
They knew how much she loved them.
I knew Tara had started dating someone,
but...
I never met him.
She told me he was great.
You know? He was great with the kids, and
he was funny and he showed up when he said he'd show up.
WEINER: This case happened in
mid-October, and I was set to retire
the following year, in April.
So, I knew that I had six months ahead of me
in trying to solve this case.
And I knew right there when
that opportunity was given to me
that I was gonna do what I needed to do
and serve this family justice
and find out who did it.
As we started to identify some of Tara's inner circle,
we are notified that an individual
identifying himself as Juan Rosado
had just come down
from Miami-Dade to our scene.
He formally identified himself as
the former husband of Tara, and
that he shared two children with her, and he wanted to make sure
that they were all right.
We asked him to stick around
'cause we wanted to talk to him more.
For whatever reason, they like to come back to the crime scene.
They come back to see, "Is it something that I'm getting
away with?"
"Are they getting any leads?"
"Do they think it's me?"
And that, for us, is almost, like,
a telltale sign that this person
has possibly been involved in this case.
WEINER: With Juan actually rolling up to the scene
the way he did, we had to ask ourselves,
"Did the ex-husband do this?"
We have our first suspect.
* *
We identified Juan Rosado as the previous husband
and father of two of her children,
and also appeared at the scene shortly after
we discovered the bodies, so he became
a person of interest right away.
MARTINEZ: Juan Rosado had a restraining order,
so he couldn't get near Tara.
Correct.
MARTINEZ: We know that he had
threatened her in the past.
So all of that plays a role and raises a red flag
because you're wondering,
"Is there an incident that maybe upset him?"
Tara and Juan had just been divorced.
Six months later, she meets Carlos.
Then she's dead.
Was this a murder of jealousy?
MARTINEZ: The ex-husband almost always makes
the hairs on your neck stand up because there's gonna be
motive behind that.
The theory is...
...Juan shows up to the house,
attempts to talk to Tara and then, in the process,
gets into an argument with Carlos,
retrieves the weapon, and then ends up inflicting
gunshot wounds on the two victims.
Given the placement of the casings,
he was standing a couple feet away
inside of the bedroom or by the door,
and then he leaves, taking the murder weapon with him.
The next question was,
"Well, where were you the night before?"
WEINER: All of that was later verified
through employment records, through video,
but he still remains a suspect because there's not to say that
he might have had someone else help in this situation.
Juan Rosado was still on the radar,
but once his alibi was corroborated by detectives,
then they had to go back to the drawing board.
* *
WEINER: We had to do quite a bit of homework
in trying to develop other leads.
We were hoping to find a firearm,
or that the FBI would be able
to reconstruct the deleted data
from the neighbor's surveillance footage.
But in the interim,
we had to start looking at who
possibly were friends with or associated to
either one of our victims.
We go to this barbershop where Carlos worked
and I talked to the owner, who indicates
that Carlos Ortiz had once worked for him
at the barbershop, but he was actually setting up
a tattoo shop literally right next door.
All right, y'all, I'm gonna give you a sneak preview
of what's been going on here
at Ink-Your Dreamzzz tattoo studio.
WEINER: He also provides us with some video footage
of an altercation with a person by the name of Alan Murgas.
And this altercation occurs just a little bit better
than a month prior to the homicide.
MARTINEZ: Now the detectives have
a new lead to follow.
WEINER: So we interview Alan
a few days later.
You want my girl? You want my girl?
Why you looking at her?
MARTINEZ: Alan then walks away
and it seems like that's it.
And then...
(tires screeching)
(loud crash)
Alan then comes back in full force,
crashing his car into the barbershop
and almost running Carlos over.
MARTINEZ: You can clearly see through the surveillance footage
that Alan was trying to kill Carlos,
and this was only a month before the double homicides.
Sometimes people will try to find revenge.
Maybe that same argument was not finished,
and he came to finish it.
MARTINEZ: Could Alan have been clouded
by the emotions?
And could he have possibly been the person
who committed this crime?
* *
WEINER: From Alan Murgas' interview, we learned
he was definitely friendly with Tara.
Possibly even had a romantic desire to want to be with her.
WEINER: He had explained the fact that he really,
after that altercation, never even went by
their home, went by the tattoo shop.
WEINER: Although he wasn't written off...
...we were unable to obtain
enough evidence to make a good, solid case.
When you get this dead end, it's very frustrating.
The last thing we want is for this case to go cold.
But in this case, detectives had, pretty much, a standstill.
Whether it be the surveillance footage
that was retrieved from the next-door neighbor
or the murder weapon, they need
a new lead to follow so that we can ultimately
get justice for the victims.
Yeah. Every single day.
I spoke to Vince on the phone plenty
throughout the course of the investigation.
It's infuriating.
Unanswered questions are the bane
of my existence since the day she died.
There was nothing about my sister's life that any of us
were even remotely aware of that would suggest that
such a thing was even possible.
It's horrible, the things that go through your mind,
you know?
(sniffles)
WEINER: I had made some promises to Katie
that I was gonna get to the bottom of this
and to bring justice to the families
and to do everything I possibly could to make that happen.
* *
So, in the beginning of November,
a few weeks after the murders, we receive information
that a snorkeler who was snorkeling in one of the canals
in an area in Key Largo
locates a firearm at the bottom of this canal.
She calls law enforcement, law enforcement responds,
law enforcement takes possession of the firearm.
MARTINEZ: The biggest issue with a firearm specifically--
or anything made out of metal-- being found in the water,
is that it will ultimately rust when exposed to air.
So how we mediate it is by collecting a sample
of that water, of where it was collected from,
and we keep the firearm in that water
to avoid any further rusting or damaging of the evidence.
WEINER: It is somewhat of an older gun.
It's a Colt .45 1911 model.
It's interesting, it's the same type of ammo,
and it matches the casings
that are recovered from the scene.
I'm a little concerned with the amount of corrosion on it
and if it still can be fired.
But I take it to the Florida Department
of Law Enforcement forensic lab in Tampa,
where they start to process it
under their ballistic analysis.
HURTADO: Now you have
the detectives and everyone asking themselves,
could this be the murder weapon that they've been looking for?
Because if so,
could the missing iPhone be there as well?
This could provide the detectives
with all the information that they need.
NELSON SANCHEZ: I've been in law enforcement
for 28 years now.
I'm currently assigned to the marine unit.
On November 23, 2015, I was notified that
there was a break in the case, and there was
a firearm located in a canal.
So Detective Weiner reached out to us
as the dive team, asked us
to go out there and see if we can recover
any other evidence.
In particular, a phone
that was stolen from the murder scene.
We're here at Ocean Bay Drive.
Uh, this canal was where
we were told to come search.
When these high-profile cases are in investigative status,
the least amount of people know, the better it is.
So we had to covertly
do a search,
and just pretend we were
one of those guys
that were gonna go out and snorkel that canal.
I'd go down there and start snorkeling around.
The bottom is green
and it's got some orange sponges.
So I'm just searching the area.
It's pretty clear water.
And then, out of nowhere...
there it is.
There's an iPhone sitting right on the bottom.
It was white, so it kind of popped with the bottom.
Here I am,
told to go look for a phone,
and here it is.
I find the white iPhone.
We had found the needle in the haystack.
WEINER: I was told of this phone being found
in the same canal where the gun was found.
HURTADO: Could the handgun be the murder weapon?
And is this iPhone the missing iPhone?
If so,
what data can be retrieved
to help solve this case?
* *
About a month into the investigation,
there were two potentially key pieces of evidence
that were uncovered:
the handgun
and the missing iPhone from the scene.
Both were sent out for analysis.
MARTINEZ: The Florida Department of Law Enforcement
will retrieve the gun out of the water.
They will photograph it from various angles
and try to identify a serial number.
They then load the firearm with ammo,
and then they test-fire it into a controlled environment.
Those casings will then be compared
to the casings that were located on the crime scene.
They were able to confirm that the markings
on the casings from the crime scene
matched the markings from the casing that was test-fired.
So that means
you have your murder weapon.
WEINER: Things are finally falling into place,
but we haven't identified a true suspect yet.
MARTINEZ: Digital evidence, just like physical evidence,
is extremely important because it does provide
a lot of answers.
From a forensic standpoint, the most important thing
with the phones is to dump out whatever information
that may be available with the phone,
which we would need warrants for.
HURTADO: There were two phones:
one, an iPhone, that was found in the canal,
in addition to the Asus Zenfone
present at the crime scene.
At that time, nobody knows who they belong to.
MARTINEZ: Our digital analysts
were able to establish right away
that the SIM card from the iPhone found in the canal
was registered to Carlos' phone number.
But, unfortunately, we were unable to get
any other digital evidence
due to his phone being disconnected.
HURTADO: The Asus Zenfone found
at the crime scene, on the other hand,
had a lot of information.
WEINER: We felt confident that the Asus Zenfone
was Tara's phone.
HURTADO: But once the detectives found that Carlos' phone
had been out of service for months, they determined
Carlos was using Tara's phone as well.
WEINER: As we extracted the data, you could see Carlos having
a conversation with
a person by the name of Jeremy Macauley,
where there was something going on
a day or two leading up to this homicide.
MARTINEZ: On October 15 at 03:17 p.m.,
Jeremy texts Carlos and states,
"So you broke into your own shop and stole my TV."
Carlos texts back, "Really? Nice try.
"Man to man, you really want me
to turn all this in?"
Carlos texts Jeremy again and states,
"Y'all leave me no choice, buddy.
Get ready for a ...storm."
WEINER: We don't know who this guy is,
but we're seeing him all over this correspondence.
Jeremy texts Carlos at 09:24 p.m.,
where he states, "I'll meet you somewhere now.
I'll come to you."
Carlos then texts Jeremy again
and says, "My house or the shop."
That's where it ends.
GOODHUE: This man texted Carlos
and perceivably was giving in to his demands.
He said, "I'm gonna come right over. Calm down,
I have money for you."
He actually sent him a picture of money.
Now the question is who is Jeremy Macauley?
We want to know why this business transaction
is happening, why he owes the money.
There's a reason why Carlos and Tara ended up
being killed that night.
GOODHUE: Through our reporting, we learn that
Jeremy Macauley is a local kid
and he grew up in the Keys. He was raised there.
He has a wife. He has, uh, two small children.
Works as a charter fishing boat mate out of Islamorada.
It's very hard work. You're getting up at the crack of dawn.
They're handling bait, handling fishing lines all day,
You know, come home smelling like bait and fuel.
You might not make a lot of money.
It's dependent on tips.
MARTINEZ: Through the data analysis
that we received from the phone,
we were able to see a video
from Jeremy Macauley.
WEINER: And it's a video of what appears to be Carlos capturing
a video being displayed from a white-faced iPhone five.
So, for instance, it's me taking a phone
and then videoing another video coming from a phone.
On the phone portrays Jeremy Macauley in front of
a large portion of suspected cocaine,
and him verbalizing something like, "Come get this, boy."
Once we identified this video,
we tried to solicit other witnesses
to start getting more information about Jeremy.
From the digital forensics from the phones,
we also identify a person
by the name of Steele Hancock.
He does explain to us that he does know the victim,
Carlos Ortiz, that they were friends.
He was also friends with Jeremy.
WEINER: So we learned through Steele
that, during a fishing trip,
Jeremy Macauley came across a floating bale which contained
12 or more kilos of cocaine.
That's an estimated value of maybe about
a half million dollars or so.
That was huge.
I knew that that was crucial information about Jeremy.
SANCHEZ: Most people refer to any type of big drugs
that were found on the water
as a square grouper.
GOODHUE: That phrase is used because groupers
are very popular fish to catch in the Keys.
They can tend to be on the large, bulky side,
resembling a large package of drugs.
SANCHEZ: Sometimes we may have a couple in a week,
and sometimes we won't have any
for maybe two months, but it is
still out there.
You know, for a guy that's probably a mate on a boat,
somebody that, you know, works hard for their money, and
to see a bale of cocaine
come across and realize
you know, there's almost half a million dollars,
I imagine there's a temptation there.
GOODHUE: Police found out that he was a small-town drug dealer.
He had an existing network
of people that he could use
to help him sell the cocaine locally.
And they broke down the drugs and they sold it.
I think they kind of felt like they won the lottery.
MARTINEZ: Steele ultimately stated
that Jeremy enlists Carlos
to sell the cocaine, and in turn
he agrees to finance
Carlos's dream of owning the tattoo shop.
Unfortunately,
we learned Carlos
started using the cocaine instead of selling it.
That didn't fly with Jeremy at all.
In retaliation, he ends up closing the tattoo shop,
crushing Carlos's dream.
WEINER: Looking back at some of the texts, Carlos is now
basically telling Jeremy that, "I'm gonna tell on you
"using that video as evidence if you don't
give me what I want."
MARTINEZ: That's when Jeremy shares a picture
of the money as saying, "I'm gonna provide you
"whatever it is that you're asking for
so that you don't get me in trouble in return."
It was very important to receive those text messages.
One, because of the insight of a possible motive. Nobody wants
someone to be extorting you for money.
And also, the time stamps were very close
to what they considered the time of death.
He was going to be meeting up
with Carlos at any given point.
WEINER: Did he actually show up? Was it him?
Did he send somebody else?
So, these are all things that I need to
try to verify through other evidence.
FARLEY: Every time you thought...
...you knew everything,
the rabbit hole just went deeper.
I didn't know Carlos.
And while I'm horrified
at some of the choices that he made
that led to this happening,
it is difficult for me to demonize him,
because I know what drugs can do to a person.
You know, you're a stranger to yourself.
And I don't think anything that happened
is as a result of who he was as a human being.
It's just amazing how fast it all happened.
It didn't make sense.
None of it makes any sense.
MARTINEZ: It was about two months
after the double homicide where the FBI
was finally able to
retrieve the neighbor's
surveillance footage that showed
exactly what happened that night.
WEINER: All right, I'm taking a look
at the surveillance footage
that was taken from the neighbor
and subsequently later reformatted by the Bureau
after it was deleted.
And right at ten, 22:30:11,
we have the vehicle enter into frame.
MARTINEZ: The quality of the video
may not necessarily be the best.
It's a bit grainy and it is dark outside,
so the lighting is poor,
but it is visible.
Right around 10:30 p.m., on the camera, you see
a dark SUV pull up in front of the house,
at which point a male,
from the passenger side, exits the vehicle,
has a bit of a conversation with Carlos.
It is unknown what was said,
but then they walk into the home together.
With a time stamp about four minutes later,
the passenger walks out of the home
and gets into the vehicle.
The vehicle starts to pull away.
WEINER: Through the surveillance footage that corroborates
the text message that there is a person
that arrives in a vehicle,
gets out of the vehicle, and goes into the house.
We also learn that there is a driver
and a possible accomplice to this.
Now the detectives have
the murder weapon...
...cell phone data...
...surveillance video.
What they need to do at this point
is linking Jeremy Macauley...
...to the scene of the crime...
...pulling the trigger.
* *
HURTADO: Now the detectives have
a better understanding
of what could have happened the night of the murder.
Extortion.
Drugs.
Threats.
All of those elements can lead someone to feel cornered.
That is a motive for murder.
Now we just had to prove it.
Through the surveillance footage, we were able,
through the lines of the car,
to determine that it was a 2013 Toyota RAV4.
We have certain
indices that we can run cars through
to try to identify who in the county
may have been traveling in this vehicle.
And we were able to determine
that there was an individual that was a local
that actually owned a vehicle
similar to what we saw in the video.
We identified her as Suhai Montenegro,
otherwise known as Susie.
Eventually, we were able
to set up an interview with Susie
along with her attorney.
She was able to establish
that she'd loaned the vehicle out
the evening of that homicide...
...to a friend, Adrian Demblans, and he had
someone with him by the name of Jeremy Macauley.
WEINER: Bingo. Our theory is coming to fruition.
HURTADO: Jeremy and Adrian-- they are, at this point,
the prime suspects on this case.
Adrian is also a fisherman
who is either helping Jeremy
or also in the business with Jeremy,
or maybe just a friend of Jeremy's.
But he is present with Jeremy the night of the murder.
WEINER: We learned through other witnesses that Adrian was also
possibly involved in trying to
sell drugs for Jeremy, specifically
the same drugs that were located offshore.
GOODHUE: Things start going wrong
when greed comes into play.
Carlos wanted more money
and he made the fatal mistake
that people make in organized crime:
he told his partner he was gonna go to the police
if he didn't get what he wanted.
HURTADO: Now the detectives have the murder weapon
and the cell phone and everything else,
including surveillance video
and cell phone data.
So now they have enough probable cause to arrest
Jeremy and Adrian.
In March 2016,
police arrested both
Adrian Demblans
and Jeremy Macauley.
Jeremy was charged with first-degree murder
and armed robbery.
Adrian was charged
with accessory after the fact of a felony.
One of the things that
we knew we were gonna have to try to prove
was the fact that Jeremy was
in possession of that firearm
during the time these homicides were committed.
Or at least put him in possession
of that firearm at all.
Shortly after the arrests,
other witnesses started to come forward.
One witness provided us with information
that Jeremy Macauley was trying to sell
that firearm literally weeks prior to the homicide.
MARTINEZ: Jeremy actually shares
photos of the firearm with a gentleman.
The photograph has the serial number of the firearm.
That serial number is then matched
with the firearm that was collected
from the canal, which also had a positive match
on the casings that were test-fired.
Literally, the gun is being shown and photographed
with the gun in the palm of Macauley's hand.
There's no way that he could say he didn't have that gun
in his possession at one time or another.
That was icing on the cake.
And so I was completely confident that we had
the right individuals responsible
for the death of Carlos and Tara.
The night of October 15, 2015, we believed
that Jeremy and Adrian borrowed a 2013 RAV4.
They drive from Key Largo to Tavernier.
They arrive at the house around 10:30.
Adrian stays in the vehicle.
Jeremy gets out, greets Carlos,
follows Carlos into the house.
Both Tara and Carlos are shot
one time, each in the head.
Jeremy takes Carlos's phone,
gets back into the vehicle.
They drive to the canal,
Where they discard the gun
on one side of the canal
and the phone on the other.
GOODHUE: I covered the trial for the Miami Herald
pretty much gavel-to-gavel.
Jeremy and Adrian were both
scheduled to stand trial together.
Adrian ended up rolling over on Jeremy
and pleading guilty
to accessory after the fact
in order to receive ten years flat.
This way, he didn't risk having to go to prison
for the rest of his life if he was found guilty in trial.
That was huge.
Adrian's testimony, basically,
is corroborating the entire story that we knew it.
The forensic information that was acquired,
through testing and just
all the tools that we have available,
made the case.
That's what helped tie everything together.
HURTADO: On December 19 of 2017,
a judge sentenced Jeremy Macauley
to two consecutive life terms in prison.
As well as an additional 30 years in prison
for armed robbery, because they were able to tie
the phone they found in the canal to Carlos Ortiz.
HURTADO: You're so invested in the case,
and once the team solves the case,
it's a sense that there's a reason why you're doing this.
It kind of allows you to understand
that the path that you've taken is where you need to be.
WEINER: Tara, unfortunately, was a victim of circumstance.
There's no true win in this situation,
other than the fact that
we at least provided the family
some sort of justice-- whatever that might be--
that we're holding the people accountable
for doing what they did to their daughter.
FARLEY: Um, I-I don't think I'll ever
really understand, completely,
what the circumstances were 'cause I can't ask her.
* It's hard to let somebody in *
* But you've come so far *
* But right now you are safe
* So don't you... *
FARLEY: I feel like it's important to make sure people know Tara
as she actually was.
Anyone who got to see one of those times
that she found her spark...
...and stood up for herself...
It was just really something else.
She was a little clown.
She-she was always happy
to be in the center ring of the circus.
(laughs)
She was so funny.
All of her best qualities shined through her kids.
Watching them get through this
and watching them thrive, um...
...I think that helps more than anything.
And, um, she would be so proud of them.
Every time something great happens,
she's still the first person I want to call.
I can't even delete her number from my phone.
I'm not sure that ever goes away.
* *
* But right now, you are safe *
* So don't you be afraid *
* Whatever it may take *
* I'll keep you safe *
* I'll keep you safe. *
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