1 00:00:05,310 --> 00:00:07,137 [water gurgling] 2 00:00:08,172 --> 00:00:11,068 [Copelia] Christina would never have walked away from her family. 3 00:00:11,068 --> 00:00:12,517 She knew she was loved. 4 00:00:13,482 --> 00:00:16,586 [Eric] Whoever did this really knew what they were doing and did 5 00:00:16,586 --> 00:00:17,896 not want her found. 6 00:00:18,827 --> 00:00:21,862 [George] It seemed like during this entire process, we were 7 00:00:21,931 --> 00:00:24,000 chasing her ghost. 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,172 The person responsible for what happened was calling 9 00:00:26,172 --> 00:00:28,172 trick plays. 10 00:00:28,172 --> 00:00:30,724 We just needed a few trick plays of our own. 11 00:00:31,586 --> 00:00:34,896 And as soon as we saw that opening, we thought, man, 12 00:00:34,896 --> 00:00:37,068 if we were going to get rid of a body, this would be 13 00:00:37,068 --> 00:00:38,310 a great place. 14 00:00:39,620 --> 00:00:42,000 [suspenseful music playing] 15 00:00:58,517 --> 00:01:00,931 [dreary tones playing] 16 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,793 [Andrew] On January 12, 1995, at approximately 12:55 17 00:01:09,793 --> 00:01:11,896 in the afternoon, the Cleveland Division of 18 00:01:11,896 --> 00:01:16,310 Police got a missing person report from Jose Rivera. 19 00:01:17,689 --> 00:01:20,482 Jose was reporting the disappearance 20 00:01:20,482 --> 00:01:22,517 of his girlfriend, Christina Adkins. 21 00:01:24,482 --> 00:01:28,033 She was 18 years old, about five months pregnant, 22 00:01:28,103 --> 00:01:29,793 and lived with Jose. 23 00:01:29,793 --> 00:01:32,620 He was 20 years old at the time. 24 00:01:33,482 --> 00:01:39,448 Jose indicated that he was at work, and when he came home 25 00:01:39,517 --> 00:01:41,137 that night, she was missing, 26 00:01:42,896 --> 00:01:45,723 that nothing unusual had been happening at home, 27 00:01:47,275 --> 00:01:49,689 that she had disappeared, and that was not something 28 00:01:49,689 --> 00:01:50,965 she had done before. 29 00:01:57,931 --> 00:01:59,586 [soft piano playing] 30 00:01:59,586 --> 00:02:01,551 [Copelia] Christina was gentle. 31 00:02:02,413 --> 00:02:04,068 She was almost angelic. 32 00:02:04,068 --> 00:02:06,793 When she first told me that she was expecting, 33 00:02:06,793 --> 00:02:08,862 she had a big smile on her face. 34 00:02:08,931 --> 00:02:11,931 She was happy about it. She was looking forward to it. 35 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:15,482 So, when you don't see a person, like, for three days, 36 00:02:15,482 --> 00:02:18,344 and you don't know what's going on, you don't hear anything, 37 00:02:18,413 --> 00:02:20,620 I was really concerned and really worried. 38 00:02:22,689 --> 00:02:26,586 Any missing persons case is, just on face value, 39 00:02:26,586 --> 00:02:32,379 a traumatic and often potentially horrific scenario. 40 00:02:32,379 --> 00:02:36,137 But when a young woman like Christina Adkins, 41 00:02:36,206 --> 00:02:39,379 who happens to be five months pregnant, goes missing, 42 00:02:39,379 --> 00:02:42,827 that sets off some serious alarm bells with police. 43 00:02:56,793 --> 00:03:00,689 Jose and Christina lived approximately two blocks away 44 00:03:00,689 --> 00:03:04,655 from Christina's family, so one of the first things we did was 45 00:03:04,724 --> 00:03:07,689 go to her family and see if anybody had any information 46 00:03:07,689 --> 00:03:08,896 where she might have gone. 47 00:03:14,206 --> 00:03:17,448 [Eric] Police found out on the day she disappeared, 48 00:03:17,517 --> 00:03:21,896 the family was preparing for another joyful milestone in 49 00:03:21,896 --> 00:03:23,517 Christina's pregnancy. 50 00:03:24,620 --> 00:03:27,275 They were making plans to go to the hospital and find out 51 00:03:27,275 --> 00:03:28,896 the sex of her baby. 52 00:03:33,103 --> 00:03:36,655 [Mark] But Christina's family told us Christina was fighting with 53 00:03:36,724 --> 00:03:40,586 her boyfriend, Jose, recently, and was considering 54 00:03:40,586 --> 00:03:42,103 breaking up with him. 55 00:03:44,586 --> 00:03:48,103 [Andrew] We learned that she had a very tumultuous relationship. 56 00:03:48,103 --> 00:03:50,344 He was extremely controlling. 57 00:03:52,517 --> 00:03:55,448 [George] Her parents also told us, when Christina went missing 58 00:03:55,517 --> 00:03:57,586 on that day, her and Jose were involved in 59 00:03:57,586 --> 00:03:59,827 some type of altercation. 60 00:04:01,724 --> 00:04:06,000 [Copelia] I know their relationship was not perfect, but she loved Jose 61 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 because she told me that she loved him. 62 00:04:10,068 --> 00:04:12,689 I did tell her, "Christina, let me tell you something, 63 00:04:12,689 --> 00:04:15,965 "if there's one thing that I believe in, is that a man 64 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,067 "should never mistreat a woman, so if you ever feel that he is 65 00:04:21,067 --> 00:04:24,241 "mistreating you in any way, shape, or form, let me know. 66 00:04:25,103 --> 00:04:26,517 Just don't put up with it." 67 00:04:34,068 --> 00:04:37,655 What we learned about the relationship led us 68 00:04:37,724 --> 00:04:39,068 to the conclusion, 69 00:04:39,068 --> 00:04:42,000 there was much more to the story. 70 00:04:44,310 --> 00:04:46,896 Jose was showing all the indicators of somebody 71 00:04:46,896 --> 00:04:52,793 who was willing to commit violence against Christina. 72 00:04:52,793 --> 00:04:55,689 [George] The only problem was, what if he did do something to 73 00:04:55,689 --> 00:04:57,827 Christina, and where did he put her? 74 00:05:05,379 --> 00:05:09,000 [Eric] Investigators also found out that night when Christina 75 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:11,689 disappeared, Christina had plans, in fact, to meet up with 76 00:05:11,689 --> 00:05:15,034 a friend a block away to the home she shared 77 00:05:15,103 --> 00:05:16,655 with her boyfriend. 78 00:05:17,172 --> 00:05:20,000 [George] So we needed to see if Christina did, in fact, spend 79 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,379 the night at her friend's house. 80 00:05:21,379 --> 00:05:24,758 There's the possibility maybe she was gonna lay low for 81 00:05:24,827 --> 00:05:26,275 a couple days. 82 00:05:27,689 --> 00:05:32,000 [Andrew] We talked to the friend and Christina was over at 83 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:33,482 her house that night. 84 00:05:33,482 --> 00:05:35,551 [faint giggling] 85 00:05:35,620 --> 00:05:37,413 The two were playing cards, 86 00:05:38,275 --> 00:05:39,931 talking, watching TV. 87 00:05:41,172 --> 00:05:44,241 Christina was planning on spending the night 88 00:05:44,310 --> 00:05:45,482 at that house, 89 00:05:46,689 --> 00:05:50,137 but she knew that Jose would expect her to be home. 90 00:05:55,172 --> 00:05:58,482 So around 1:00, 1:30 in the morning, 91 00:05:58,482 --> 00:06:02,689 she made the decision that she would walk just a few 92 00:06:02,689 --> 00:06:03,896 houses up the street 93 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,551 back to the home that she shared with her boyfriend. 94 00:06:10,379 --> 00:06:13,586 [Eric] As Christina was leaving, her friend did notice that 95 00:06:13,586 --> 00:06:14,862 a car had pulled up, 96 00:06:17,482 --> 00:06:19,931 and Christina was speaking with the driver. 97 00:06:24,206 --> 00:06:27,793 The friend didn't make much of this, and nor did she see 98 00:06:27,793 --> 00:06:30,620 Christina walk away from that car. 99 00:06:31,896 --> 00:06:35,000 Nobody really knew if Christina had gotten into this car, 100 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,758 and if she did, where did she go? 101 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 [heavy stone scraping] [ominous tones] 102 00:06:51,172 --> 00:06:53,965 [George] The investigation in the beginning took two avenues. 103 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,896 First of all, Jose wasn't too upfront about the argument that 104 00:06:57,896 --> 00:07:01,379 they had had when he reported her missing, which sort of shed 105 00:07:01,379 --> 00:07:03,034 a little bit of suspicion upon him. 106 00:07:03,103 --> 00:07:06,482 And then second of all, is the mystery car that nobody 107 00:07:06,482 --> 00:07:07,827 seemed to know anything about. 108 00:07:11,586 --> 00:07:13,206 [Andrew] We needed to talk to Jose. 109 00:07:16,068 --> 00:07:19,000 [Eric] Christina's boyfriend repeatedly told detectives that 110 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,310 he would never have hurt her. 111 00:07:22,310 --> 00:07:26,586 Again, she was the mother of his unborn child. 112 00:07:26,586 --> 00:07:29,000 He loved her. 113 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,793 [George] But based upon his lack of truthfulness about 114 00:07:31,793 --> 00:07:35,793 the fighting, he was considered a main suspect, even though 115 00:07:35,793 --> 00:07:37,310 there was no hard evidence. 116 00:07:47,206 --> 00:07:49,448 So, as the investigation turned on, there was still 117 00:07:49,517 --> 00:07:51,896 the question of that suspicious vehicle. 118 00:07:51,896 --> 00:07:55,344 The focus was then directed to finding that vehicle. 119 00:07:57,103 --> 00:08:00,344 There was door-to-door canvassing to see if anybody 120 00:08:00,413 --> 00:08:02,379 had any recollection or any knowledge of 121 00:08:02,379 --> 00:08:05,172 this suspicious car, or had seen anything that had happened 122 00:08:05,172 --> 00:08:08,000 that night with Christina. 123 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:13,137 [Andrew] We interviewed a neighbor of Jose, named Elias Rivera. 124 00:08:13,206 --> 00:08:17,068 He told us at the time, "Yeah, I saw her. 125 00:08:17,068 --> 00:08:20,586 "She was crying, and she was upset, and she was saying that 126 00:08:20,586 --> 00:08:22,896 she didn't want to go home." 127 00:08:22,896 --> 00:08:26,275 [George] But he didn't remember or recall that suspicious 128 00:08:26,275 --> 00:08:30,448 mystery car that Christina was seen talking to. 129 00:08:30,517 --> 00:08:32,551 He had no knowledge of that vehicle. 130 00:08:36,275 --> 00:08:38,000 [Andrew] It was super frustrating. 131 00:08:39,206 --> 00:08:42,000 There was the fear of being defeated. 132 00:08:44,586 --> 00:08:46,137 That is what keeps 133 00:08:47,172 --> 00:08:48,413 me up at night. 134 00:08:50,689 --> 00:08:52,551 [distant siren wailing] 135 00:08:52,620 --> 00:08:56,275 [Eric] In a city as large as Cleveland, it's not out of 136 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:59,275 the question for cars to go unnoticed 137 00:08:59,275 --> 00:09:01,034 or be difficult to find. 138 00:09:03,103 --> 00:09:06,275 How do you go about looking for a single car in a city 139 00:09:06,275 --> 00:09:07,827 like Cleveland? 140 00:09:08,517 --> 00:09:12,103 [George] It was just, like, Christina had vanished off the planet. 141 00:09:13,482 --> 00:09:15,586 It was sort of like watching a movie where, you know, 142 00:09:15,586 --> 00:09:20,034 scenes disappear and, you know, there's a lot of like unknowns. 143 00:09:21,172 --> 00:09:23,103 This was like one of those kinds of cases. 144 00:09:23,103 --> 00:09:26,758 It was just a lot of missing parts. 145 00:09:26,827 --> 00:09:28,379 But unfortunately, it's not a movie. 146 00:09:28,379 --> 00:09:31,482 Christina was five and a half months pregnant at the time. 147 00:09:31,482 --> 00:09:34,310 We were working tirelessly to try to find her, 148 00:09:35,482 --> 00:09:38,655 but we were left with nothing, like we were chasing a ghost. 149 00:09:41,827 --> 00:09:44,275 We were working hard to unravel 150 00:09:44,275 --> 00:09:46,620 whatever mystery happened to her. 151 00:09:47,931 --> 00:09:52,275 But it appeared that somebody had gone to great lengths to 152 00:09:52,275 --> 00:09:57,241 make sure that Christina was never found, and just had some 153 00:09:57,310 --> 00:10:00,000 type of joy in befuddling the police. 154 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,275 She looked like such an innocent person. 155 00:10:02,275 --> 00:10:04,586 Things like that, they haunt you 156 00:10:04,586 --> 00:10:06,344 when you're a policeman. 157 00:10:09,482 --> 00:10:12,793 It's like some type of game, some type of sick game. 158 00:10:12,793 --> 00:10:15,241 And there's a lot we didn't know at that time. 159 00:10:15,310 --> 00:10:19,310 But we did know that we'd have to get into a mind of a killer. 160 00:10:31,482 --> 00:10:35,275 [Eric] The night 18-year-old Christina Adkins went missing, 161 00:10:35,275 --> 00:10:39,275 detectives didn't really have much information to go off of. 162 00:10:39,275 --> 00:10:43,000 Christina Adkins just simply disappeared. 163 00:10:54,965 --> 00:10:57,620 [distant dog barking] [low, pensive music playing] 164 00:10:58,413 --> 00:11:02,310 [Andrew] Her family, told us Jose, Christina's boyfriend, 165 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:06,206 had put all of her belongings out on the curb, 166 00:11:08,172 --> 00:11:10,551 ready to be disposed of in the garbage. 167 00:11:15,689 --> 00:11:18,517 He couldn't have been more suspicious if he tried. 168 00:11:20,896 --> 00:11:25,758 [Eric] Could you imagine to just carelessly toss her things out? 169 00:11:25,827 --> 00:11:30,241 That was a very strange thing to do 170 00:11:31,310 --> 00:11:35,344 when it's done by the victim's boyfriend, and the father of 171 00:11:35,413 --> 00:11:37,275 this unborn child. 172 00:11:37,275 --> 00:11:40,586 But on face value, that's not evidence of a crime that 173 00:11:40,586 --> 00:11:44,344 doesn't necessarily point to any culpability on the part 174 00:11:44,413 --> 00:11:45,379 of her boyfriend. 175 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:47,586 So the question becomes, you know, like, 176 00:11:47,586 --> 00:11:50,586 was he trying to just erase her out of his life? 177 00:11:50,586 --> 00:11:53,758 Was he not being forthcoming about what the type of 178 00:11:53,758 --> 00:11:55,586 relationship that he really had with her? 179 00:11:55,586 --> 00:11:58,172 Was he really the love of her life? 180 00:11:58,172 --> 00:12:01,241 Did with Jose have something to do with her disappearance? 181 00:12:02,172 --> 00:12:03,655 We didn't really know. 182 00:12:12,620 --> 00:12:15,103 [Copelia] It was really sad when I heard on the news. 183 00:12:15,103 --> 00:12:18,000 The family was really heartbroken. 184 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:22,241 Nobody knew exactly where Christina was, and we were 185 00:12:22,310 --> 00:12:26,137 actually hanging up posters. We were looking for her. 186 00:12:27,793 --> 00:12:32,172 [Eric] Then, in an incredibly bizarre turn of events, as the family 187 00:12:32,172 --> 00:12:34,793 spent time putting up these flyers, 188 00:12:34,793 --> 00:12:36,379 they were coming down right away. 189 00:12:36,379 --> 00:12:39,689 They were being removed right away, almost as fast as 190 00:12:39,689 --> 00:12:41,172 they were being put up. 191 00:12:42,103 --> 00:12:45,448 The family would walk down West 25th Street, plastering these 192 00:12:45,517 --> 00:12:49,586 flyers on streetlights and windows and walls. 193 00:12:49,586 --> 00:12:53,344 And the next day, walk back down 25th again and those 194 00:12:53,413 --> 00:12:54,793 flyers would all be gone. 195 00:12:55,793 --> 00:12:58,551 It makes you wonder, was there someone in the community 196 00:12:58,620 --> 00:13:01,517 who really didn't want Christina to be found? 197 00:13:02,517 --> 00:13:04,758 You know, somebody went to great lengths to try to hide 198 00:13:04,758 --> 00:13:08,448 the fact that Christina was missing, and to do things like 199 00:13:08,517 --> 00:13:09,724 tearing down the posters. 200 00:13:11,172 --> 00:13:14,000 That really complicated the investigation. 201 00:13:28,689 --> 00:13:32,103 [Eric] As the '90s ticked into the 2000s, 202 00:13:33,482 --> 00:13:35,137 into the 2010s. 203 00:13:35,206 --> 00:13:38,344 2013, Christina had been missing 204 00:13:38,413 --> 00:13:40,931 longer than she had been alive. 205 00:13:43,689 --> 00:13:46,000 [George] After time goes on, you know, there's a pretty good 206 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 indication that, you know, Christina 207 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,275 was deceased. 208 00:13:49,275 --> 00:13:52,482 And whoever was responsible for her abduction and murder was 209 00:13:52,482 --> 00:13:56,448 going through great lengths to try to hide her body, 210 00:13:56,517 --> 00:13:59,379 you know, from the police and give the family closure. 211 00:13:59,379 --> 00:14:02,482 [Andrew] Christina's family during that time that she's missing, 212 00:14:02,482 --> 00:14:05,793 they never lost hope that they would see Christina again, 213 00:14:05,793 --> 00:14:07,344 that the case would be solved. 214 00:14:07,413 --> 00:14:09,586 -Who do we want? -[crowd] Christina! 215 00:14:09,586 --> 00:14:11,827 -When do we want her? -Now! 216 00:14:11,896 --> 00:14:14,103 [news broadcast] Today, family and friends marched side by side 217 00:14:14,103 --> 00:14:18,103 down Clark Avenue to the corner of West 25th and Kinkle Avenue, 218 00:14:18,103 --> 00:14:20,655 the place where Christina Adkins was last seen. 219 00:14:27,689 --> 00:14:31,482 [Andrew] We had always hoped, of course, to bring Christina home to 220 00:14:31,482 --> 00:14:35,862 her family alive and unharmed, and unravel whatever mystery 221 00:14:35,862 --> 00:14:39,793 happened to her, and it's a very difficult thing to do as 222 00:14:39,793 --> 00:14:41,965 an investigator after years and years 223 00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:44,379 of not finding somebody. 224 00:14:44,379 --> 00:14:47,241 It is very easy to start thinking, 225 00:14:47,310 --> 00:14:50,068 well, we'll never find her. 226 00:14:50,068 --> 00:14:54,551 After so many years you have no choice but to think the worst. 227 00:14:54,620 --> 00:14:58,586 We all had hopes that Christina was gonna be found, 228 00:14:58,586 --> 00:15:00,413 but it was hard. 229 00:15:05,482 --> 00:15:08,000 [birds chirping] 230 00:15:12,758 --> 00:15:18,551 May 6, 2013 is a very important date in the recent history of 231 00:15:18,620 --> 00:15:22,620 Cleveland and certainly in the story of Christina Adkins. 232 00:15:25,620 --> 00:15:28,517 It was a day that changed me forever. 233 00:15:32,275 --> 00:15:35,448 [Mark] There was an incident where neighbors heard screaming 234 00:15:35,517 --> 00:15:38,620 coming from an address on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland. 235 00:15:41,862 --> 00:15:45,448 One neighbor discovered a girl that was trying to kick 236 00:15:45,517 --> 00:15:47,724 and punch her way out of a door of the house. 237 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:56,000 The neighbors helped her pull the door open, and she ran 238 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,068 across the street to get away from the house and ask somebody 239 00:15:59,068 --> 00:16:00,827 for a phone or to call 911. 240 00:16:14,482 --> 00:16:18,172 At the time, the FBI was involved in the investigation. 241 00:16:18,172 --> 00:16:21,551 The two missing persons, Amanda Berry, 242 00:16:22,689 --> 00:16:27,275 and another missing Cleveland teenager, Gina DeJesus. 243 00:16:27,275 --> 00:16:30,275 When I responded to Seymour Avenue that day, 244 00:16:30,275 --> 00:16:31,758 the ambulance was still there. 245 00:16:31,758 --> 00:16:35,448 I immediately recognized the missing teenage girls, 246 00:16:35,517 --> 00:16:40,275 Amanda and Gina, and there was another adult woman there. 247 00:16:40,275 --> 00:16:43,379 There's a picture circulating right now, a picture of 248 00:16:43,379 --> 00:16:45,068 Amanda and a young girl. 249 00:16:45,068 --> 00:16:46,965 That girl was in the house with her, but as of yet, 250 00:16:46,965 --> 00:16:48,379 we don't know who that girl is. 251 00:16:48,379 --> 00:16:52,344 You know, outside of the news media frenzy, 252 00:16:52,413 --> 00:16:55,448 alarm bells were going off, and one of the things that 253 00:16:55,517 --> 00:17:00,586 family and police were thinking was, could this third woman be 254 00:17:00,586 --> 00:17:02,344 Christina Adkins? 255 00:17:20,896 --> 00:17:25,000 [news broadcast] Three missing women, gone since they were girls, found alive 256 00:17:25,068 --> 00:17:26,862 together a decade later. 257 00:17:26,862 --> 00:17:29,931 [Mark] The rescued victims from that house were Gina DeJesus 258 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,137 and Amanda Berry. 259 00:17:31,137 --> 00:17:34,551 The name of the third female inside the house was not 260 00:17:34,551 --> 00:17:36,620 immediately released to the media. 261 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,655 After all these years of waiting and hoping and praying, 262 00:17:42,655 --> 00:17:47,551 here was some sort of break and a chance to 263 00:17:47,551 --> 00:17:49,482 finally get some news. 264 00:17:50,793 --> 00:17:55,586 Christina's family hightailed it over to the hospital to 265 00:17:55,586 --> 00:17:58,310 hopefully find some information, to hopefully 266 00:17:58,379 --> 00:17:59,689 encounter Christina there, 267 00:18:00,482 --> 00:18:04,000 just waiting for some information about who was 268 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,068 in the hospital. 269 00:18:06,551 --> 00:18:09,310 Could this third woman be Christina Adkins? 270 00:18:14,793 --> 00:18:18,137 As the night wore on, the third woman was identified 271 00:18:18,137 --> 00:18:19,379 as Michelle Knight, 272 00:18:20,172 --> 00:18:23,103 who had been missing for the last 10 years. 273 00:18:24,448 --> 00:18:29,689 And while Christina's family were incredibly thankful for 274 00:18:29,689 --> 00:18:31,689 that young woman being safe, 275 00:18:32,551 --> 00:18:38,413 they were also heartbroken that this one slim chance had been 276 00:18:38,482 --> 00:18:40,620 taken away, that it was not Christina. 277 00:18:50,551 --> 00:18:53,586 Even though we learned the identity of the third woman 278 00:18:53,586 --> 00:18:55,758 was not Christina Adkins, 279 00:18:55,758 --> 00:18:57,689 we still thought her disappearance 280 00:18:57,689 --> 00:18:59,137 was connected. 281 00:19:00,482 --> 00:19:04,517 [Eric] Detectives find out the man named Ariel Castro was 282 00:19:04,586 --> 00:19:08,448 responsible for kidnapping and holding those three women 283 00:19:08,448 --> 00:19:10,413 in his home for years. 284 00:19:19,793 --> 00:19:22,448 [George] When the girls were abducted, witnesses would say that 285 00:19:22,448 --> 00:19:24,275 they were talking to somebody in a car. 286 00:19:26,103 --> 00:19:29,655 If we go back, the last time anybody saw Christina alive, 287 00:19:29,655 --> 00:19:32,000 she was talking to somebody in a car. 288 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:33,724 So, same MO. 289 00:19:35,965 --> 00:19:38,172 This is all the same neighborhood that we're talking 290 00:19:38,172 --> 00:19:40,413 about, this near West Side neighborhood. 291 00:19:40,482 --> 00:19:44,586 Everything involved here is within a square mile of itself. 292 00:19:44,586 --> 00:19:50,068 So Ariel Castro's house and Christina's 293 00:19:50,068 --> 00:19:52,241 disappearance, everything, 294 00:19:53,482 --> 00:19:54,931 it's all just right there. 295 00:20:00,689 --> 00:20:03,172 And the timeline was right. 296 00:20:03,172 --> 00:20:06,758 Could Castro have done something with her in 1995 297 00:20:06,758 --> 00:20:11,896 and then reset, and started doing it again in 298 00:20:11,896 --> 00:20:13,379 the early 2000s? 299 00:20:16,275 --> 00:20:19,931 [Copelia] Ariel Castro was somebody that we all actually, in a way, 300 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,413 grew up with, because we grew up in a close area where 301 00:20:23,482 --> 00:20:28,482 the Castros were. We knew that he was scary. 302 00:20:28,482 --> 00:20:29,931 I mean, he was creepy looking. 303 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,896 He would, like, look at you, and you could see it 304 00:20:32,896 --> 00:20:34,137 in his eyes. 305 00:20:35,172 --> 00:20:38,413 You could see the creepiness in him. 306 00:20:38,482 --> 00:20:40,413 I mean, he just wasn't right. 307 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,206 [heavy stone scraping] 308 00:20:50,241 --> 00:20:52,206 [distant, busy chatter] 309 00:20:55,172 --> 00:20:59,172 [Andrew] I don't think I went home for days after May 6th. 310 00:20:59,172 --> 00:21:03,482 We spent nights and weekends in the office poring over every 311 00:21:03,482 --> 00:21:05,206 piece of evidence that we collected. 312 00:21:08,034 --> 00:21:11,517 We thought of dozens of different theories that would 313 00:21:11,586 --> 00:21:15,413 have involved Ariel Castro and Christina's disappearance. 314 00:21:21,758 --> 00:21:26,172 We executed 19 or 20 separate search warrants at his house. 315 00:21:27,689 --> 00:21:31,551 There was not a stone unturned in that house or on 316 00:21:31,551 --> 00:21:32,827 that property. 317 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:36,551 You know, we looked in every corner. 318 00:21:36,551 --> 00:21:39,482 We searched that house with multiple teams of 319 00:21:39,482 --> 00:21:41,000 forensic experts. 320 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 [news broadcast] In addition to DNA, firearms, and fingerprint testing, 321 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:47,517 we're told BCI is also looking at other evidence to determine 322 00:21:47,586 --> 00:21:50,344 if there are any additional victims. 323 00:21:50,344 --> 00:21:55,413 [Andrew] But there was no evidence in that house that 324 00:21:55,482 --> 00:21:57,517 Christina Adkins had ever been there. 325 00:22:00,344 --> 00:22:02,896 [keys clicking] [distant office chatter] 326 00:22:03,896 --> 00:22:08,310 [Andrew] But then we learned that Christina's boyfriend, 327 00:22:08,379 --> 00:22:10,413 Jose, knew Ariel Castro. 328 00:22:15,172 --> 00:22:20,034 [George] So there was that thought that maybe Ariel Castro, in company 329 00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:22,586 with Jose Rivera, were responsible for what 330 00:22:22,586 --> 00:22:24,827 happened to Christina Adkins. 331 00:22:26,137 --> 00:22:29,275 [Andrew] We said, Jose has been a suspect in this case 332 00:22:29,275 --> 00:22:30,724 for 18 years. 333 00:22:30,793 --> 00:22:33,000 Jose was still living in the same house. 334 00:22:34,275 --> 00:22:37,000 He was living there with his mother. 335 00:22:38,379 --> 00:22:41,206 [George] We went back, grabbed Jose one more time, 336 00:22:43,586 --> 00:22:46,413 and was brought in for questioning in Christina's 337 00:22:46,482 --> 00:22:48,000 disappearance once again. 338 00:22:52,379 --> 00:22:56,241 [Mark] He was asked a lot of questions about his connection to 339 00:22:56,241 --> 00:22:57,482 Ariel Castro. 340 00:23:00,068 --> 00:23:04,000 He was very uncomfortable, sweating, 341 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,172 I mean, there was a lot of signs that showed, 342 00:23:06,172 --> 00:23:08,551 like, you know, he pretty much looks like he could be 343 00:23:08,551 --> 00:23:10,034 responsible for this. 344 00:23:10,758 --> 00:23:14,551 He was denying all allegations that we were thrown at him with 345 00:23:14,551 --> 00:23:17,000 his involvement with Christina's disappearance. 346 00:23:23,793 --> 00:23:28,034 [Andrew] We felt that Jose was not telling the truth. 347 00:23:28,034 --> 00:23:33,000 And so we executed searches of his house and we brought 348 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,896 cadaver dogs in. 349 00:23:34,896 --> 00:23:37,724 We thought that whatever happened to Christina 350 00:23:37,793 --> 00:23:39,000 was well-planned out. 351 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,275 We all thought for sure that he had buried 352 00:23:41,275 --> 00:23:43,137 her in the backyard. 353 00:23:43,137 --> 00:23:46,068 We figured that would explain why her body had not 354 00:23:46,068 --> 00:23:47,551 been recovered. 355 00:23:50,172 --> 00:23:53,310 [Eric] What better place to hide a body than a backyard? 356 00:23:53,379 --> 00:23:55,586 That way, 357 00:23:55,586 --> 00:23:59,000 no one's gonna see someone carting a body out of the house 358 00:23:59,068 --> 00:24:00,689 and being taken elsewhere. 359 00:24:02,379 --> 00:24:06,655 [Andrew] It was not a light touch. We dug the backyard. 360 00:24:06,655 --> 00:24:08,517 You know, we looked in every corner, 361 00:24:11,586 --> 00:24:15,620 but we found nothing. That was beyond frustrating. 362 00:24:17,689 --> 00:24:20,620 Without a body, we didn't even have a crime. 363 00:24:21,862 --> 00:24:26,137 [Andrew] At this point, there was no way to connect her boyfriend, 364 00:24:26,137 --> 00:24:30,448 Jose Rivera, with Christina Adkins' disappearance. 365 00:24:30,448 --> 00:24:34,275 I keep telling everybody, "I'm an innocent man. 366 00:24:34,275 --> 00:24:35,344 "I'm not a killer. 367 00:24:36,655 --> 00:24:39,379 That's my girlfriend, that's my everything." 368 00:24:40,379 --> 00:24:42,413 I wish she was right here right now. 369 00:24:43,275 --> 00:24:46,000 The way I feel right now, I lost everything. 370 00:24:51,689 --> 00:24:55,827 We know now, of course, that no evidence pointed to Christina's 371 00:24:55,896 --> 00:24:57,689 boyfriend as being involved here. 372 00:24:57,689 --> 00:25:01,000 And so detectives questioned, Was law enforcement even 373 00:25:01,068 --> 00:25:02,931 looking in the right direction? 374 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,965 Ariel Castro was still on the radar of investigators. 375 00:25:06,965 --> 00:25:10,379 Did Ariel Castro have some sort of involvement with Christina 376 00:25:10,379 --> 00:25:11,620 Adkins' disappearance? 377 00:25:12,586 --> 00:25:14,827 Whoever did this was diabolical, 378 00:25:14,896 --> 00:25:16,758 a criminal mastermind. 379 00:25:16,758 --> 00:25:19,000 But in a case like this, there are a lot of 380 00:25:19,068 --> 00:25:20,517 unanswered questions. 381 00:25:42,586 --> 00:25:46,586 All of our investigative focus and attention was still on 382 00:25:46,586 --> 00:25:48,137 Ariel Castro. 383 00:25:48,137 --> 00:25:51,896 So we focused on Christina's case with a completely 384 00:25:51,896 --> 00:25:53,172 fresh perspective. 385 00:25:54,379 --> 00:25:58,000 That was the first time that we said, "What are we missing?" 386 00:26:08,241 --> 00:26:12,000 Law enforcement very quickly began interviewing neighbors, 387 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,586 trying to figure out who Ariel Castro was. 388 00:26:20,793 --> 00:26:24,517 One of those neighbors was a man named Elias Acevedo. 389 00:26:26,586 --> 00:26:30,172 And in speaking with Elias, law enforcement described him 390 00:26:30,172 --> 00:26:34,517 as generally nervous and fidgety, even. 391 00:26:35,862 --> 00:26:38,379 He appeared very uneasy. 392 00:26:40,103 --> 00:26:42,275 That stood out to investigators. 393 00:26:45,172 --> 00:26:49,413 Then you start looking, OK, well, who is Elias Acevedo? 394 00:26:51,793 --> 00:26:53,827 And we start looking at his history, 395 00:26:53,896 --> 00:26:56,000 and his history was shocking. 396 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,862 We found a report from 2004 where he was involved in 397 00:27:00,862 --> 00:27:04,206 the abduction and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. 398 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,413 And that that assault had occurred at his home. 399 00:27:12,379 --> 00:27:15,448 We found that it had been pled to a felony of the third 400 00:27:15,448 --> 00:27:18,758 degree, and that he had served a very light sentence 401 00:27:18,758 --> 00:27:20,275 on the case. 402 00:27:21,482 --> 00:27:24,379 [Mark] Elias Acevedo lived a few streets away from Christina 403 00:27:24,379 --> 00:27:27,275 Adkins, was a sex offender. 404 00:27:27,275 --> 00:27:30,517 So that became a major red flag for us. 405 00:27:31,379 --> 00:27:35,000 [George] I just had the feeling that there had to be something here. 406 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,931 I just had a feeling that they were somehow connected. 407 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,344 [Andrew] We start looking at Christina's report again, and one of 408 00:27:42,344 --> 00:27:45,068 the things that jumped off the page was the original 409 00:27:45,068 --> 00:27:48,827 investigators interviewed a neighbor named Elias Rivera, 410 00:27:48,896 --> 00:27:53,034 and he told police at the time, "Yeah, I saw Christina on 411 00:27:53,034 --> 00:27:56,689 the night she disappeared, and I saw her, she was crying." 412 00:27:56,689 --> 00:27:59,103 But he didn't know what happened to her. 413 00:27:59,103 --> 00:28:03,310 At the time, there was no reason to connect him with 414 00:28:03,379 --> 00:28:06,482 Christina Adkins' disappearance, but by comparing 415 00:28:06,482 --> 00:28:11,965 photos now, we discovered that was actually Elias Acevedo. 416 00:28:11,965 --> 00:28:16,241 Back in 1995, he very intentionally gave 417 00:28:16,241 --> 00:28:19,000 police a false identity. Why would you do that? 418 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,379 Why would you do that? 419 00:28:21,379 --> 00:28:26,000 Those are the things that make you say, now we actually have 420 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,241 the right guy. 421 00:28:31,655 --> 00:28:35,103 We had a new suspect to investigate. 422 00:28:35,103 --> 00:28:39,344 We learned through interviews with multiple members of 423 00:28:39,344 --> 00:28:43,413 his own family that Elias Acevedo, he was committing 424 00:28:43,482 --> 00:28:45,172 these atrocities in his own home. 425 00:28:45,172 --> 00:28:47,482 He was preying on his own children. 426 00:28:49,689 --> 00:28:53,137 He was tormenting, torturing, sexually assaulting 427 00:28:53,137 --> 00:28:58,241 his own family on a daily basis and exerting just 428 00:28:58,241 --> 00:29:03,103 an unbelievable amount of control and power over his wife 429 00:29:03,103 --> 00:29:05,793 at the time, and each of these kids. 430 00:29:07,103 --> 00:29:10,034 So the stuff he did, it's just like, 431 00:29:10,034 --> 00:29:11,931 it's -- it was mind blowing. 432 00:29:12,586 --> 00:29:15,413 It took a lot of courage for Acevedo's family to 433 00:29:15,482 --> 00:29:16,758 come forward. 434 00:29:16,758 --> 00:29:19,172 They had been victimized, they had been beaten to a pulp 435 00:29:19,172 --> 00:29:22,965 by this guy, and in so many ways they lived in fear. 436 00:29:22,965 --> 00:29:24,413 He was a brutal guy. 437 00:29:28,137 --> 00:29:30,793 [Andrew] When you finally click into the right track in 438 00:29:30,793 --> 00:29:33,034 an investigation, it feels right. 439 00:29:33,034 --> 00:29:36,827 And after 18 years, this finally felt right. 440 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,137 We had a feeling, we knew, I guess it was instincts, 441 00:29:42,137 --> 00:29:46,931 that we were close to the end to knowing what had taken place 442 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,517 with Christina. 443 00:29:55,689 --> 00:29:58,310 [George] We all believed the key to the crack in this case was 444 00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:00,310 Elias' family and the cooperation, 445 00:30:00,379 --> 00:30:02,206 given what he did to them. 446 00:30:07,034 --> 00:30:11,310 And then as time went on, you know, Elias' wife was 447 00:30:11,379 --> 00:30:13,931 willing to speak on what she knew. 448 00:30:15,172 --> 00:30:18,689 [Andrew] She sat down and talked to us for a couple of hours. 449 00:30:18,689 --> 00:30:21,379 One of the things that made it so remarkable is that 450 00:30:21,379 --> 00:30:23,000 her memory was so clear. 451 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,862 She told us that she vividly recalled the day of 452 00:30:27,862 --> 00:30:29,724 January 10, 1995. 453 00:30:31,103 --> 00:30:35,275 When Christina disappeared, she remembered Christina Adkins 454 00:30:35,275 --> 00:30:36,517 coming to her house. 455 00:30:37,862 --> 00:30:41,482 Then Elias left to go to a bar. 456 00:30:41,482 --> 00:30:45,172 She told us that he didn't come home until early that morning. 457 00:30:46,448 --> 00:30:49,931 He went into the bathroom, and he smoked a cigarette, 458 00:30:53,103 --> 00:30:55,482 and she braced herself for the assault that she knew 459 00:30:55,482 --> 00:30:56,724 she was gonna get, 460 00:31:00,379 --> 00:31:01,620 And it didn't happen. 461 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:05,379 And that stood out to her. 462 00:31:05,379 --> 00:31:06,896 [water gurgling] 463 00:31:11,586 --> 00:31:15,586 After talking to Elias' wife and poring over the timeline, 464 00:31:15,586 --> 00:31:20,000 we believe that this is when he killed Christina. 465 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,586 One of our original theories was that he must have committed 466 00:31:22,586 --> 00:31:24,896 this crime inside his house. 467 00:31:25,896 --> 00:31:28,206 It was cold outside. It was dark. 468 00:31:29,034 --> 00:31:31,275 So we wanted to search that. 469 00:31:37,689 --> 00:31:41,379 We noticed there was an entrance and exit through 470 00:31:41,379 --> 00:31:44,310 a trap door to the outside. 471 00:31:44,379 --> 00:31:47,310 So you could have got in and out of that house without 472 00:31:47,379 --> 00:31:48,517 going through a front door. 473 00:31:49,689 --> 00:31:52,206 His wife would not have heard anything. 474 00:31:53,034 --> 00:31:55,827 [Mark] There was a spot in the basement that kind of 475 00:31:55,896 --> 00:31:57,034 opened up a gate. 476 00:31:57,034 --> 00:31:59,655 And you accessed, like, an area under the porch that 477 00:31:59,655 --> 00:32:01,379 was all dirt. 478 00:32:03,482 --> 00:32:07,620 I describe Elias' house as a haunted house that didn't 479 00:32:07,689 --> 00:32:09,689 charge for admission. 480 00:32:09,689 --> 00:32:11,965 [Andrew] As soon as we saw that opening in the basement, 481 00:32:11,965 --> 00:32:14,862 we thought, man, if we were going to get rid of a body, 482 00:32:14,862 --> 00:32:16,413 this would be a great place. 483 00:32:18,241 --> 00:32:20,310 We tore the house up pretty good, 484 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,827 but we didn't find anything. 485 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 [Andrew] It did not deter us in any way in our belief that we were 486 00:32:30,068 --> 00:32:31,655 finally on the right track. 487 00:32:31,655 --> 00:32:34,379 Not finding human remains did not mean that we didn't have 488 00:32:34,379 --> 00:32:35,620 the right guy. 489 00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:39,931 [suspenseful tones building] 490 00:32:40,862 --> 00:32:44,137 [Mark] Everything was pointing towards Elias. 491 00:32:44,137 --> 00:32:47,103 He must have thought of every possible way to dispose of 492 00:32:47,103 --> 00:32:49,310 her and then pick the perfect place. 493 00:32:50,551 --> 00:32:54,241 We just needed a little bit more time and a few trick plays 494 00:32:54,241 --> 00:32:55,482 of our own. 495 00:33:06,448 --> 00:33:08,620 [suspenseful music playing] 496 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,482 [Andrew] The job for any investigator is to move the ball down 497 00:33:14,482 --> 00:33:18,655 the field, and we set out very early in this investigation to 498 00:33:18,655 --> 00:33:22,000 move this ball, even if it's inch by inch, day by day. 499 00:33:25,344 --> 00:33:28,344 And we knew that if we could just keep getting first downs, 500 00:33:28,344 --> 00:33:29,551 we were going to solve the case. 501 00:33:31,586 --> 00:33:36,379 It was at that point that we made a decision to make 502 00:33:36,379 --> 00:33:39,586 our move, to talk to Elias Acevedo himself. 503 00:33:42,551 --> 00:33:46,931 [Tim] Acevedo raped his family daily, intimidated everybody, 504 00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:52,000 threatened to kill other family members if they ratted him out. 505 00:33:52,896 --> 00:33:54,620 We knew he would be hard to break. 506 00:33:57,758 --> 00:34:00,724 [Mark] We took him to the Cleveland FBI headquarters 507 00:34:00,793 --> 00:34:02,896 and really sat down with him. 508 00:34:11,757 --> 00:34:14,585 In the beginning, Elias did not want to talk with us. 509 00:34:14,585 --> 00:34:17,585 He didn't feel comfortable with us, and he was denying all 510 00:34:17,585 --> 00:34:20,000 allegations that we were throwing at him with 511 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:21,896 his involvement with Christina. 512 00:34:23,034 --> 00:34:27,413 When we gave Elias the opportunity to take 513 00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:29,688 a polygraph, he accepted. 514 00:34:29,688 --> 00:34:32,688 And there's only one reason that somebody in his position 515 00:34:32,688 --> 00:34:35,827 would do that. He thought he could beat us. 516 00:34:59,068 --> 00:35:03,413 When he was confronted with his failures on those two 517 00:35:03,482 --> 00:35:06,586 facts, I think really that's the straw that broke 518 00:35:06,586 --> 00:35:09,482 the camel's back and convinced him that he wasn't gonna get 519 00:35:09,482 --> 00:35:10,827 out of it this time. 520 00:35:16,689 --> 00:35:19,344 [Tim] We told Acevedo that we were gonna give him 521 00:35:19,344 --> 00:35:23,793 a limited opportunity to admit to us that he killed Christina. 522 00:35:25,896 --> 00:35:28,965 And if he did it, then we would not seek the death penalty. 523 00:35:28,965 --> 00:35:32,551 We called it a "blue light special," that the deal ends 524 00:35:32,551 --> 00:35:34,551 when the light goes off. 525 00:35:34,551 --> 00:35:37,241 [Mark] But he was hesitating. 526 00:35:40,896 --> 00:35:43,275 [suspenseful music playing] 527 00:35:45,448 --> 00:35:48,448 And still wasn't 100% sure he was going to confess 528 00:35:48,448 --> 00:35:50,275 and tell us what we wanted to know. 529 00:35:53,379 --> 00:35:54,862 Elias finally broke. 530 00:35:54,862 --> 00:35:57,413 He confessed to murdering Christina Adkins. 531 00:35:57,482 --> 00:35:58,689 Yeah, I choked her. 532 00:36:45,448 --> 00:36:47,827 [heavy metal scraping] 533 00:36:56,896 --> 00:36:59,586 We don't solve every case with a confession, but the ones that 534 00:36:59,586 --> 00:37:03,068 we do are special. But we needed proof. 535 00:37:03,068 --> 00:37:05,965 We needed to bring Christina Adkins' body home 536 00:37:05,965 --> 00:37:07,172 to her family. 537 00:37:07,172 --> 00:37:10,275 So we asked Acevedo to take us to her. 538 00:37:11,344 --> 00:37:12,827 And he agreed. 539 00:37:27,275 --> 00:37:31,068 So we leg shackled him and belly chained him and put 540 00:37:31,068 --> 00:37:35,000 him in the car, and he took us turn by turn. 541 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,000 And he said, "Pull over here." 542 00:37:38,482 --> 00:37:40,551 [Andrew] And he said, "Just on the other side of this Jersey barrier, 543 00:37:40,551 --> 00:37:43,482 you'll go down a hill, and there'll be a sewer drain." 544 00:37:43,482 --> 00:37:45,137 And I put her in the sewer drain. 545 00:37:48,482 --> 00:37:50,172 So we walked down this hill, 546 00:37:52,379 --> 00:37:54,103 and we came to the sewer drain. 547 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,137 And we lifted this top up and looked down in there. 548 00:38:01,137 --> 00:38:02,931 [heavy metal scraping] 549 00:38:03,896 --> 00:38:06,620 And I mean, I was shocked. 550 00:38:08,689 --> 00:38:11,896 As clear as day, there were her remains 551 00:38:11,896 --> 00:38:13,965 at the bottom of this hole. 552 00:38:13,965 --> 00:38:17,448 18 years later, and I could see them by standing at the top of 553 00:38:17,448 --> 00:38:19,068 this hole and just looking down. 554 00:38:20,482 --> 00:38:21,724 It was unreal. 555 00:38:21,793 --> 00:38:23,310 [siren wailing] 556 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,137 [Andrew] And when we exhumed Christina's body from the bottom of 557 00:38:28,137 --> 00:38:32,793 the hole, we found an ID card with her name on it. 558 00:38:35,034 --> 00:38:39,517 [Copelia] When they said that they found Christina's body, I remember 559 00:38:39,586 --> 00:38:42,965 breaking down, crying, and my mother, too. 560 00:38:42,965 --> 00:38:44,862 You know, all of us, we were emotional. 561 00:38:44,862 --> 00:38:47,896 You know, we didn't expect for her to go through that, 562 00:38:47,896 --> 00:38:50,517 especially the way she was taken. 563 00:38:50,586 --> 00:38:51,586 It was... 564 00:38:51,586 --> 00:38:54,241 and to throw her in a sewer, and a baby? 565 00:38:55,172 --> 00:38:57,310 I mean, what kind of monster does that? 566 00:38:57,379 --> 00:38:58,517 He's a monster. 567 00:38:59,275 --> 00:39:00,551 He's Satan. 568 00:39:00,551 --> 00:39:03,551 It was like a game of cat and mouse, where the mouse was 569 00:39:03,551 --> 00:39:05,379 running law enforcement in circles. 570 00:39:08,896 --> 00:39:11,172 Elias Acevedo thought he was clever. 571 00:39:11,172 --> 00:39:17,310 He hid Christina's body in a place that was almost in -- 572 00:39:17,379 --> 00:39:18,689 in plain sight. 573 00:39:20,275 --> 00:39:24,965 And, in fact, had used new construction and highway 574 00:39:24,965 --> 00:39:28,931 infrastructure to hide Christina's body. 575 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,827 I mean, it was a absolutely diabolical 576 00:39:33,793 --> 00:39:34,862 thing to do. 577 00:39:34,862 --> 00:39:39,068 And then to have 18 years pass by, 578 00:39:39,068 --> 00:39:41,689 it's astonishing to think about. 579 00:39:41,689 --> 00:39:45,379 The odds of solving this case was like the kid who walks 580 00:39:45,379 --> 00:39:49,275 up to his baseball coach and says, "Coach I'm gonna hit 581 00:39:49,275 --> 00:39:50,793 a grand slam today." 582 00:39:50,793 --> 00:39:54,103 You say, "Good, kid, first you got to set up 583 00:39:54,103 --> 00:39:57,068 "the bases, you got to load the bases, right, then 584 00:39:57,068 --> 00:40:00,448 you got to have the power to hit it over that fence." 585 00:40:00,448 --> 00:40:03,034 And Agent Burke did both, he set up the bases and he hit 586 00:40:03,034 --> 00:40:05,724 that ball right over the fence for the grand slam. 587 00:40:05,793 --> 00:40:07,275 It was a heck of a day. 588 00:40:11,172 --> 00:40:14,000 [Andrew] And we were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 589 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,689 Elias Acevedo and Elias Acevedo alone was responsible for 590 00:40:17,689 --> 00:40:21,413 the murder of Christina Adkins. 591 00:40:21,482 --> 00:40:24,689 [Tim] On December 30, 2013, 592 00:40:24,689 --> 00:40:29,137 Acevedo was sentenced to prison for life on over 100 593 00:40:29,137 --> 00:40:32,517 counts, without possibility of parole, 594 00:40:32,586 --> 00:40:36,586 with an additional 445 years to serve. 595 00:40:36,586 --> 00:40:42,517 He took my life, my love, my pride, my wife, my child. 596 00:40:43,482 --> 00:40:46,517 But you know what? There's a guy up there, 597 00:40:47,655 --> 00:40:49,206 and she's in good hands. 598 00:40:51,103 --> 00:40:53,931 [Copelia] I hope Elias thinks about what he's done for the rest 599 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,068 of his life. 600 00:40:55,068 --> 00:40:58,793 I hope he's tormented every day, every moment, 601 00:40:58,793 --> 00:41:00,379 every second. 602 00:41:00,379 --> 00:41:04,724 It's not only by what he did to Christina and that baby, 603 00:41:04,793 --> 00:41:07,655 but also, you know, the grief that he caused. 604 00:41:07,655 --> 00:41:09,103 I hope he's tormented. 605 00:41:09,103 --> 00:41:12,275 I hope that he doesn't live in peace. 606 00:41:21,758 --> 00:41:23,793 It really was a needle in a haystack. 607 00:41:23,793 --> 00:41:26,655 Had the teens gone off the road 608 00:41:26,655 --> 00:41:29,275 and they were stranded somewhere? 609 00:41:30,379 --> 00:41:32,724 Why would someone do that to two teenagers? 610 00:41:32,793 --> 00:41:36,241 It unleashed something we never even fathomed.