1 00:00:05,405 --> 00:00:07,040 [water gurgling] 2 00:00:08,341 --> 00:00:11,111 [Copelia] Christina would never have walked away from her family. 3 00:00:11,211 --> 00:00:12,579 She knew she was loved. 4 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:16,616 [Eric] Whoever did this really knew what they were doing and did 5 00:00:16,716 --> 00:00:17,984 not want her found. 6 00:00:18,985 --> 00:00:21,788 [George] It seemed like during this entire process, we were 7 00:00:21,888 --> 00:00:24,090 chasing her ghost. 8 00:00:24,190 --> 00:00:26,226 The person responsible for what happened was calling 9 00:00:26,326 --> 00:00:28,261 trick plays. 10 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:30,663 We just needed a few trick plays of our own. 11 00:00:31,698 --> 00:00:35,001 And as soon as we saw that opening, we thought, man, 12 00:00:35,101 --> 00:00:37,137 if we were going to get rid of a body, this would be 13 00:00:37,237 --> 00:00:38,238 a great place. 14 00:00:39,773 --> 00:00:41,908 [suspenseful music playing] 15 00:00:58,692 --> 00:01:00,794 [dreary tones playing] 16 00:01:05,198 --> 00:01:09,769 [Andrew] On January 12, 1995, at approximately 12:55 17 00:01:09,869 --> 00:01:11,905 in the afternoon, the Cleveland Division of 18 00:01:12,005 --> 00:01:16,176 Police got a missing person report from Jose Rivera. 19 00:01:17,777 --> 00:01:20,547 Jose was reporting the disappearance 20 00:01:20,646 --> 00:01:22,414 of his girlfriend, Christina Adkins. 21 00:01:24,617 --> 00:01:27,987 She was 18 years old, about five months pregnant, 22 00:01:28,088 --> 00:01:29,889 and lived with Jose. 23 00:01:29,989 --> 00:01:32,525 He was 20 years old at the time. 24 00:01:33,626 --> 00:01:39,399 Jose indicated that he was at work, and when he came home 25 00:01:39,499 --> 00:01:41,033 that night, she was missing, 26 00:01:43,036 --> 00:01:45,638 that nothing unusual had been happening at home, 27 00:01:47,473 --> 00:01:49,776 that she had disappeared, and that was not something 28 00:01:49,876 --> 00:01:50,877 she had done before. 29 00:01:58,084 --> 00:01:59,652 [soft piano playing] 30 00:01:59,753 --> 00:02:01,421 [Copelia] Christina was gentle. 31 00:02:02,522 --> 00:02:04,124 She was almost angelic. 32 00:02:04,224 --> 00:02:06,860 When she first told me that she was expecting, 33 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:08,794 she had a big smile on her face. 34 00:02:08,895 --> 00:02:11,798 She was happy about it. She was looking forward to it. 35 00:02:13,099 --> 00:02:15,535 So, when you don't see a person, like, for three days, 36 00:02:15,635 --> 00:02:18,304 and you don't know what's going on, you don't hear anything, 37 00:02:18,405 --> 00:02:20,507 I was really concerned and really worried. 38 00:02:22,841 --> 00:02:26,680 Any missing persons case is, just on face value, 39 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:32,452 a traumatic and often potentially horrific scenario. 40 00:02:32,552 --> 00:02:36,122 But when a young woman like Christina Adkins, 41 00:02:36,222 --> 00:02:39,459 who happens to be five months pregnant, goes missing, 42 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:42,728 that sets off some serious alarm bells with police. 43 00:02:56,942 --> 00:03:00,747 Jose and Christina lived approximately two blocks away 44 00:03:00,847 --> 00:03:04,584 from Christina's family, so one of the first things we did was 45 00:03:04,684 --> 00:03:07,721 go to her family and see if anybody had any information 46 00:03:07,821 --> 00:03:08,888 where she might have gone. 47 00:03:14,361 --> 00:03:17,397 [Eric] Police found out on the day she disappeared, 48 00:03:17,497 --> 00:03:21,901 the family was preparing for another joyful milestone in 49 00:03:22,002 --> 00:03:23,370 Christina's pregnancy. 50 00:03:24,738 --> 00:03:27,340 They were making plans to go to the hospital and find out 51 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:28,408 the sex of her baby. 52 00:03:33,313 --> 00:03:36,616 [Mark] But Christina's family told us Christina was fighting with 53 00:03:36,716 --> 00:03:40,653 her boyfriend, Jose, recently, and was considering 54 00:03:40,754 --> 00:03:41,755 breaking up with him. 55 00:03:44,758 --> 00:03:48,161 [Andrew] We learned that she had a very tumultuous relationship. 56 00:03:48,261 --> 00:03:50,263 He was extremely controlling. 57 00:03:52,732 --> 00:03:55,435 [George] Her parents also told us, when Christina went missing 58 00:03:55,535 --> 00:03:57,637 on that day, her and Jose were involved in 59 00:03:57,737 --> 00:03:59,739 some type of altercation. 60 00:04:01,875 --> 00:04:06,012 [Copelia] I know their relationship was not perfect, but she loved Jose 61 00:04:06,112 --> 00:04:08,848 because she told me that she loved him. 62 00:04:10,183 --> 00:04:12,752 I did tell her, "Christina, let me tell you something, 63 00:04:12,852 --> 00:04:15,889 "if there's one thing that I believe in, is that a man 64 00:04:15,989 --> 00:04:21,127 "should never mistreat a woman, so if you ever feel that he is 65 00:04:21,226 --> 00:04:24,130 "mistreating you in any way, shape, or form, let me know. 66 00:04:25,198 --> 00:04:26,399 Just don't put up with it." 67 00:04:34,207 --> 00:04:37,577 What we learned about the relationship led us 68 00:04:37,677 --> 00:04:39,145 to the conclusion, 69 00:04:39,245 --> 00:04:41,881 there was much more to the story. 70 00:04:44,484 --> 00:04:46,920 Jose was showing all the indicators of somebody 71 00:04:47,020 --> 00:04:52,892 who was willing to commit violence against Christina. 72 00:04:52,992 --> 00:04:55,729 [George] The only problem was, what if he did do something to 73 00:04:55,829 --> 00:04:57,697 Christina, and where did he put her? 74 00:05:05,472 --> 00:05:09,009 [Eric] Investigators also found out that night when Christina 75 00:05:09,109 --> 00:05:11,711 disappeared, Christina had plans, in fact, to meet up with 76 00:05:11,811 --> 00:05:14,948 a friend a block away to the home she shared 77 00:05:15,048 --> 00:05:16,049 with her boyfriend. 78 00:05:17,283 --> 00:05:20,020 [George] So we needed to see if Christina did, in fact, spend 79 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:21,388 the night at her friend's house. 80 00:05:21,488 --> 00:05:24,657 There's the possibility maybe she was gonna lay low for 81 00:05:24,758 --> 00:05:25,725 a couple days. 82 00:05:27,794 --> 00:05:32,032 [Andrew] We talked to the friend and Christina was over at 83 00:05:32,132 --> 00:05:33,466 her house that night. 84 00:05:33,566 --> 00:05:35,468 [faint giggling] 85 00:05:35,568 --> 00:05:37,303 The two were playing cards, 86 00:05:38,371 --> 00:05:39,806 talking, watching TV. 87 00:05:41,307 --> 00:05:44,177 Christina was planning on spending the night 88 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:45,478 at that house, 89 00:05:46,813 --> 00:05:50,050 but she knew that Jose would expect her to be home. 90 00:05:55,321 --> 00:05:58,525 So around 1:00, 1:30 in the morning, 91 00:05:58,625 --> 00:06:02,696 she made the decision that she would walk just a few 92 00:06:02,796 --> 00:06:03,863 houses up the street 93 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:08,401 back to the home that she shared with her boyfriend. 94 00:06:10,470 --> 00:06:13,573 [Eric] As Christina was leaving, her friend did notice that 95 00:06:13,673 --> 00:06:14,708 a car had pulled up, 96 00:06:17,544 --> 00:06:19,746 and Christina was speaking with the driver. 97 00:06:24,317 --> 00:06:27,821 The friend didn't make much of this, and nor did she see 98 00:06:27,921 --> 00:06:30,457 Christina walk away from that car. 99 00:06:31,957 --> 00:06:34,994 Nobody really knew if Christina had gotten into this car, 100 00:06:35,095 --> 00:06:37,630 and if she did, where did she go? 101 00:06:43,103 --> 00:06:45,872 [heavy stone scraping] [ominous tones] 102 00:06:51,378 --> 00:06:53,913 [George] The investigation in the beginning took two avenues. 103 00:06:54,014 --> 00:06:57,951 First of all, Jose wasn't too upfront about the argument that 104 00:06:58,051 --> 00:07:01,354 they had had when he reported her missing, which sort of shed 105 00:07:01,454 --> 00:07:02,956 a little bit of suspicion upon him. 106 00:07:03,056 --> 00:07:06,459 And then second of all, is the mystery car that nobody 107 00:07:06,559 --> 00:07:07,660 seemed to know anything about. 108 00:07:11,698 --> 00:07:13,033 [Andrew] We needed to talk to Jose. 109 00:07:16,202 --> 00:07:19,005 [Eric] Christina's boyfriend repeatedly told detectives that 110 00:07:19,105 --> 00:07:21,141 he would never have hurt her. 111 00:07:22,409 --> 00:07:26,613 Again, she was the mother of his unborn child. 112 00:07:26,713 --> 00:07:29,049 He loved her. 113 00:07:29,149 --> 00:07:31,818 [George] But based upon his lack of truthfulness about 114 00:07:31,918 --> 00:07:35,789 the fighting, he was considered a main suspect, even though 115 00:07:35,889 --> 00:07:37,190 there was no hard evidence. 116 00:07:47,367 --> 00:07:49,369 So, as the investigation turned on, there was still 117 00:07:49,469 --> 00:07:51,938 the question of that suspicious vehicle. 118 00:07:52,038 --> 00:07:55,241 The focus was then directed to finding that vehicle. 119 00:07:57,243 --> 00:08:00,213 There was door-to-door canvassing to see if anybody 120 00:08:00,313 --> 00:08:02,382 had any recollection or any knowledge of 121 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:05,151 this suspicious car, or had seen anything that had happened 122 00:08:05,251 --> 00:08:07,987 that night with Christina. 123 00:08:08,088 --> 00:08:13,026 [Andrew] We interviewed a neighbor of Jose, named Elias Rivera. 124 00:08:13,126 --> 00:08:17,097 He told us at the time, "Yeah, I saw her. 125 00:08:17,197 --> 00:08:20,600 "She was crying, and she was upset, and she was saying that 126 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,902 she didn't want to go home." 127 00:08:23,003 --> 00:08:26,339 [George] But he didn't remember or recall that suspicious 128 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:30,377 mystery car that Christina was seen talking to. 129 00:08:30,477 --> 00:08:32,412 He had no knowledge of that vehicle. 130 00:08:36,383 --> 00:08:37,884 [Andrew] It was super frustrating. 131 00:08:39,352 --> 00:08:41,888 There was the fear of being defeated. 132 00:08:44,657 --> 00:08:45,992 That is what keeps 133 00:08:47,293 --> 00:08:48,294 me up at night. 134 00:08:50,797 --> 00:08:52,532 [distant siren wailing] 135 00:08:52,632 --> 00:08:56,336 [Eric] In a city as large as Cleveland, it's not out of 136 00:08:56,436 --> 00:08:59,272 the question for cars to go unnoticed 137 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:00,874 or be difficult to find. 138 00:09:03,209 --> 00:09:06,279 How do you go about looking for a single car in a city 139 00:09:06,379 --> 00:09:07,380 like Cleveland? 140 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:11,918 [George] It was just, like, Christina had vanished off the planet. 141 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:15,622 It was sort of like watching a movie where, you know, 142 00:09:15,722 --> 00:09:19,893 scenes disappear and, you know, there's a lot of like unknowns. 143 00:09:21,294 --> 00:09:23,129 This was like one of those kinds of cases. 144 00:09:23,229 --> 00:09:26,633 It was just a lot of missing parts. 145 00:09:26,733 --> 00:09:28,435 But unfortunately, it's not a movie. 146 00:09:28,535 --> 00:09:31,471 Christina was five and a half months pregnant at the time. 147 00:09:31,571 --> 00:09:34,140 We were working tirelessly to try to find her, 148 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:38,511 but we were left with nothing, like we were chasing a ghost. 149 00:09:41,948 --> 00:09:44,284 We were working hard to unravel 150 00:09:44,384 --> 00:09:46,486 whatever mystery happened to her. 151 00:09:48,054 --> 00:09:52,359 But it appeared that somebody had gone to great lengths to 152 00:09:52,459 --> 00:09:57,197 make sure that Christina was never found, and just had some 153 00:09:57,297 --> 00:10:00,033 type of joy in befuddling the police. 154 00:10:00,133 --> 00:10:02,335 She looked like such an innocent person. 155 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:04,571 Things like that, they haunt you 156 00:10:04,671 --> 00:10:06,239 when you're a policeman. 157 00:10:09,642 --> 00:10:12,846 It's like some type of game, some type of sick game. 158 00:10:12,946 --> 00:10:15,215 And there's a lot we didn't know at that time. 159 00:10:15,315 --> 00:10:19,219 But we did know that we'd have to get into a mind of a killer. 160 00:10:31,197 --> 00:10:34,868 [Eric] The night 18-year-old Christina Adkins went missing, 161 00:10:34,968 --> 00:10:38,905 detectives didn't really have much information to go off of. 162 00:10:39,005 --> 00:10:42,409 Christina Adkins just simply disappeared. 163 00:10:54,621 --> 00:10:56,956 [distant dog barking] [low, pensive music playing] 164 00:10:58,024 --> 00:11:01,695 [Andrew] Her family, told us Jose, Christina's boyfriend, 165 00:11:03,029 --> 00:11:05,565 had put all of her belongings out on the curb, 166 00:11:07,834 --> 00:11:09,936 ready to be disposed of in the garbage. 167 00:11:15,308 --> 00:11:17,911 He couldn't have been more suspicious if he tried. 168 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:25,218 [Eric] Could you imagine to just carelessly toss her things out? 169 00:11:25,318 --> 00:11:29,622 That was a very strange thing to do 170 00:11:30,990 --> 00:11:34,794 when it's done by the victim's boyfriend, and the father of 171 00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:36,863 this unborn child. 172 00:11:36,963 --> 00:11:40,165 But on face value, that's not evidence of a crime that 173 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:43,770 doesn't necessarily point to any culpability on the part 174 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:44,871 of her boyfriend. 175 00:11:45,905 --> 00:11:47,140 So the question becomes, you know, like, 176 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,176 was he trying to just erase her out of his life? 177 00:11:50,276 --> 00:11:53,313 Was he not being forthcoming about what the type of 178 00:11:53,413 --> 00:11:55,215 relationship that he really had with her? 179 00:11:55,315 --> 00:11:57,717 Was he really the love of her life? 180 00:11:57,817 --> 00:12:00,620 Did with Jose have something to do with her disappearance? 181 00:12:01,788 --> 00:12:03,023 We didn't really know. 182 00:12:12,298 --> 00:12:14,668 [Copelia] It was really sad when I heard on the news. 183 00:12:14,768 --> 00:12:17,504 The family was really heartbroken. 184 00:12:17,604 --> 00:12:21,675 Nobody knew exactly where Christina was, and we were 185 00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:25,512 actually hanging up posters. We were looking for her. 186 00:12:27,447 --> 00:12:31,785 [Eric] Then, in an incredibly bizarre turn of events, as the family 187 00:12:31,885 --> 00:12:34,354 spent time putting up these flyers, 188 00:12:34,454 --> 00:12:35,955 they were coming down right away. 189 00:12:36,056 --> 00:12:39,225 They were being removed right away, almost as fast as 190 00:12:39,325 --> 00:12:40,326 they were being put up. 191 00:12:41,761 --> 00:12:44,931 The family would walk down West 25th Street, plastering these 192 00:12:45,031 --> 00:12:49,135 flyers on streetlights and windows and walls. 193 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:52,772 And the next day, walk back down 25th again and those 194 00:12:52,872 --> 00:12:53,873 flyers would all be gone. 195 00:12:55,408 --> 00:12:57,977 It makes you wonder, was there someone in the community 196 00:12:58,078 --> 00:13:00,847 who really didn't want Christina to be found? 197 00:13:02,148 --> 00:13:04,284 You know, somebody went to great lengths to try to hide 198 00:13:04,384 --> 00:13:07,821 the fact that Christina was missing, and to do things like 199 00:13:07,921 --> 00:13:08,922 tearing down the posters. 200 00:13:10,824 --> 00:13:13,360 That really complicated the investigation. 201 00:13:28,375 --> 00:13:31,478 [Eric] As the '90s ticked into the 2000s, 202 00:13:33,113 --> 00:13:34,614 into the 2010s. 203 00:13:34,714 --> 00:13:37,784 2013, Christina had been missing 204 00:13:37,884 --> 00:13:40,286 longer than she had been alive. 205 00:13:43,390 --> 00:13:45,558 [George] After time goes on, you know, there's a pretty good 206 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:47,527 indication that, you know, Christina 207 00:13:47,627 --> 00:13:48,862 was deceased. 208 00:13:48,962 --> 00:13:52,065 And whoever was responsible for her abduction and murder was 209 00:13:52,165 --> 00:13:55,902 going through great lengths to try to hide her body, 210 00:13:56,002 --> 00:13:58,872 you know, from the police and give the family closure. 211 00:13:58,972 --> 00:14:02,008 [Andrew] Christina's family during that time that she's missing, 212 00:14:02,108 --> 00:14:05,278 they never lost hope that they would see Christina again, 213 00:14:05,378 --> 00:14:06,746 that the case would be solved. 214 00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:09,115 -Who do we want? -[crowd] Christina! 215 00:14:09,215 --> 00:14:11,217 -When do we want her? -Now! 216 00:14:11,317 --> 00:14:13,653 [news broadcast] Today, family and friends marched side by side 217 00:14:13,753 --> 00:14:17,624 down Clark Avenue to the corner of West 25th and Kinkle Avenue, 218 00:14:17,724 --> 00:14:20,026 the place where Christina Adkins was last seen. 219 00:14:27,367 --> 00:14:31,037 [Andrew] We had always hoped, of course, to bring Christina home to 220 00:14:31,137 --> 00:14:35,342 her family alive and unharmed, and unravel whatever mystery 221 00:14:35,442 --> 00:14:39,346 happened to her, and it's a very difficult thing to do as 222 00:14:39,446 --> 00:14:41,448 an investigator after years and years 223 00:14:41,548 --> 00:14:43,950 of not finding somebody. 224 00:14:44,050 --> 00:14:46,653 It is very easy to start thinking, 225 00:14:46,753 --> 00:14:49,656 well, we'll never find her. 226 00:14:49,756 --> 00:14:54,027 After so many years you have no choice but to think the worst. 227 00:14:54,127 --> 00:14:58,031 We all had hopes that Christina was gonna be found, 228 00:14:58,131 --> 00:14:59,733 but it was hard. 229 00:15:05,038 --> 00:15:07,340 [birds chirping] 230 00:15:12,345 --> 00:15:17,984 May 6, 2013 is a very important date in the recent history of 231 00:15:18,084 --> 00:15:21,988 Cleveland and certainly in the story of Christina Adkins. 232 00:15:25,258 --> 00:15:27,861 It was a day that changed me forever. 233 00:15:31,931 --> 00:15:34,868 [Mark] There was an incident where neighbors heard screaming 234 00:15:34,968 --> 00:15:38,004 coming from an address on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland. 235 00:15:41,474 --> 00:15:44,878 One neighbor discovered a girl that was trying to kick 236 00:15:44,978 --> 00:15:47,113 and punch her way out of a door of the house. 237 00:15:50,684 --> 00:15:55,588 The neighbors helped her pull the door open, and she ran 238 00:15:55,689 --> 00:15:58,558 across the street to get away from the house and ask somebody 239 00:15:58,658 --> 00:16:00,126 for a phone or to call 911. 240 00:16:14,074 --> 00:16:17,711 At the time, the FBI was involved in the investigation. 241 00:16:17,811 --> 00:16:20,914 The two missing persons, Amanda Berry, 242 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:26,820 and another missing Cleveland teenager, Gina DeJesus. 243 00:16:26,920 --> 00:16:29,823 When I responded to Seymour Avenue that day, 244 00:16:29,923 --> 00:16:31,257 the ambulance was still there. 245 00:16:31,358 --> 00:16:34,894 I immediately recognized the missing teenage girls, 246 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:39,833 Amanda and Gina, and there was another adult woman there. 247 00:16:39,933 --> 00:16:42,869 There's a picture circulating right now, a picture of 248 00:16:42,969 --> 00:16:44,637 Amanda and a young girl. 249 00:16:44,738 --> 00:16:46,473 That girl was in the house with her, but as of yet, 250 00:16:46,573 --> 00:16:47,941 we don't know who that girl is. 251 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:51,811 You know, outside of the news media frenzy, 252 00:16:51,911 --> 00:16:54,914 alarm bells were going off, and one of the things that 253 00:16:55,015 --> 00:17:00,053 family and police were thinking was, could this third woman be 254 00:17:00,153 --> 00:17:01,154 Christina Adkins? 255 00:17:20,006 --> 00:17:23,877 [news broadcast] Three missing women, gone since they were girls, found alive 256 00:17:23,977 --> 00:17:25,912 together a decade later. 257 00:17:26,012 --> 00:17:28,782 [Mark] The rescued victims from that house were Gina DeJesus 258 00:17:28,882 --> 00:17:30,150 and Amanda Berry. 259 00:17:30,250 --> 00:17:33,586 The name of the third female inside the house was not 260 00:17:33,687 --> 00:17:35,488 immediately released to the media. 261 00:17:37,090 --> 00:17:41,695 After all these years of waiting and hoping and praying, 262 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:46,566 here was some sort of break and a chance to 263 00:17:46,666 --> 00:17:48,335 finally get some news. 264 00:17:49,936 --> 00:17:54,541 Christina's family hightailed it over to the hospital to 265 00:17:54,641 --> 00:17:57,177 hopefully find some information, to hopefully 266 00:17:57,277 --> 00:17:58,311 encounter Christina there, 267 00:17:59,546 --> 00:18:02,949 just waiting for some information about who was 268 00:18:03,049 --> 00:18:04,050 in the hospital. 269 00:18:05,585 --> 00:18:08,121 Could this third woman be Christina Adkins? 270 00:18:13,893 --> 00:18:17,130 As the night wore on, the third woman was identified 271 00:18:17,230 --> 00:18:18,198 as Michelle Knight, 272 00:18:19,299 --> 00:18:21,935 who had been missing for the last 10 years. 273 00:18:23,536 --> 00:18:28,675 And while Christina's family were incredibly thankful for 274 00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:30,543 that young woman being safe, 275 00:18:31,644 --> 00:18:37,350 they were also heartbroken that this one slim chance had been 276 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:39,452 taken away, that it was not Christina. 277 00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:52,565 Even though we learned the identity of the third woman 278 00:18:52,665 --> 00:18:54,668 was not Christina Adkins, 279 00:18:54,768 --> 00:18:56,636 we still thought her disappearance 280 00:18:56,736 --> 00:18:57,704 was connected. 281 00:18:59,606 --> 00:19:03,410 [Eric] Detectives find out the man named Ariel Castro was 282 00:19:03,510 --> 00:19:07,414 responsible for kidnapping and holding those three women 283 00:19:07,514 --> 00:19:09,249 in his home for years. 284 00:19:18,892 --> 00:19:21,428 [George] When the girls were abducted, witnesses would say that 285 00:19:21,528 --> 00:19:23,096 they were talking to somebody in a car. 286 00:19:25,198 --> 00:19:28,635 If we go back, the last time anybody saw Christina alive, 287 00:19:28,735 --> 00:19:31,004 she was talking to somebody in a car. 288 00:19:31,104 --> 00:19:32,572 So, same MO. 289 00:19:35,041 --> 00:19:37,210 This is all the same neighborhood that we're talking 290 00:19:37,310 --> 00:19:39,346 about, this near West Side neighborhood. 291 00:19:39,446 --> 00:19:43,616 Everything involved here is within a square mile of itself. 292 00:19:43,717 --> 00:19:49,089 So Ariel Castro's house and Christina's 293 00:19:49,189 --> 00:19:51,091 disappearance, everything, 294 00:19:52,592 --> 00:19:53,793 it's all just right there. 295 00:19:59,766 --> 00:20:02,235 And the timeline was right. 296 00:20:02,335 --> 00:20:05,772 Could Castro have done something with her in 1995 297 00:20:05,872 --> 00:20:10,877 and then reset, and started doing it again in 298 00:20:10,977 --> 00:20:12,379 the early 2000s? 299 00:20:15,448 --> 00:20:18,852 [Copelia] Ariel Castro was somebody that we all actually, in a way, 300 00:20:18,952 --> 00:20:22,355 grew up with, because we grew up in a close area where 301 00:20:22,455 --> 00:20:27,527 the Castros were. We knew that he was scary. 302 00:20:27,627 --> 00:20:28,895 I mean, he was creepy looking. 303 00:20:28,995 --> 00:20:31,931 He would, like, look at you, and you could see it 304 00:20:32,032 --> 00:20:33,033 in his eyes. 305 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:37,370 You could see the creepiness in him. 306 00:20:37,470 --> 00:20:39,339 I mean, he just wasn't right. 307 00:20:44,110 --> 00:20:46,112 [heavy stone scraping] 308 00:20:49,382 --> 00:20:51,117 [distant, busy chatter] 309 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,224 [Andrew] I don't think I went home for days after May 6th. 310 00:20:58,324 --> 00:21:02,495 We spent nights and weekends in the office poring over every 311 00:21:02,595 --> 00:21:04,064 piece of evidence that we collected. 312 00:21:07,167 --> 00:21:10,470 We thought of dozens of different theories that would 313 00:21:10,570 --> 00:21:14,274 have involved Ariel Castro and Christina's disappearance. 314 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:25,051 We executed 19 or 20 separate search warrants at his house. 315 00:21:26,853 --> 00:21:30,590 There was not a stone unturned in that house or on 316 00:21:30,690 --> 00:21:31,691 that property. 317 00:21:33,460 --> 00:21:35,595 You know, we looked in every corner. 318 00:21:35,695 --> 00:21:38,498 We searched that house with multiple teams of 319 00:21:38,598 --> 00:21:39,966 forensic experts. 320 00:21:40,066 --> 00:21:43,103 [news broadcast] In addition to DNA, firearms, and fingerprint testing, 321 00:21:43,203 --> 00:21:46,473 we're told BCI is also looking at other evidence to determine 322 00:21:46,573 --> 00:21:49,442 if there are any additional victims. 323 00:21:49,542 --> 00:21:54,314 [Andrew] But there was no evidence in that house that 324 00:21:54,414 --> 00:21:56,383 Christina Adkins had ever been there. 325 00:21:59,419 --> 00:22:01,721 [keys clicking] [distant office chatter] 326 00:22:03,023 --> 00:22:07,193 [Andrew] But then we learned that Christina's boyfriend, 327 00:22:07,293 --> 00:22:09,295 Jose, knew Ariel Castro. 328 00:22:14,367 --> 00:22:19,039 [George] So there was that thought that maybe Ariel Castro, in company 329 00:22:19,139 --> 00:22:21,608 with Jose Rivera, were responsible for what 330 00:22:21,708 --> 00:22:23,710 happened to Christina Adkins. 331 00:22:25,311 --> 00:22:28,314 [Andrew] We said, Jose has been a suspect in this case 332 00:22:28,415 --> 00:22:29,649 for 18 years. 333 00:22:29,749 --> 00:22:31,885 Jose was still living in the same house. 334 00:22:33,386 --> 00:22:35,889 He was living there with his mother. 335 00:22:37,557 --> 00:22:40,093 [George] We went back, grabbed Jose one more time, 336 00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:45,331 and was brought in for questioning in Christina's 337 00:22:45,432 --> 00:22:46,599 disappearance once again. 338 00:22:51,604 --> 00:22:55,241 [Mark] He was asked a lot of questions about his connection to 339 00:22:55,342 --> 00:22:56,309 Ariel Castro. 340 00:22:59,112 --> 00:23:03,049 He was very uncomfortable, sweating, 341 00:23:03,149 --> 00:23:05,218 I mean, there was a lot of signs that showed, 342 00:23:05,318 --> 00:23:07,554 like, you know, he pretty much looks like he could be 343 00:23:07,654 --> 00:23:08,655 responsible for this. 344 00:23:09,856 --> 00:23:13,593 He was denying all allegations that we were thrown at him with 345 00:23:13,693 --> 00:23:15,829 his involvement with Christina's disappearance. 346 00:23:22,902 --> 00:23:27,073 [Andrew] We felt that Jose was not telling the truth. 347 00:23:27,173 --> 00:23:32,012 And so we executed searches of his house and we brought 348 00:23:32,112 --> 00:23:33,913 cadaver dogs in. 349 00:23:34,014 --> 00:23:36,649 We thought that whatever happened to Christina 350 00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:38,084 was well-planned out. 351 00:23:38,184 --> 00:23:40,320 We all thought for sure that he had buried 352 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:42,222 her in the backyard. 353 00:23:42,322 --> 00:23:45,125 We figured that would explain why her body had not 354 00:23:45,225 --> 00:23:46,226 been recovered. 355 00:23:49,362 --> 00:23:52,232 [Eric] What better place to hide a body than a backyard? 356 00:23:52,332 --> 00:23:54,601 That way, 357 00:23:54,701 --> 00:23:57,904 no one's gonna see someone carting a body out of the house 358 00:23:58,004 --> 00:23:59,506 and being taken elsewhere. 359 00:24:01,474 --> 00:24:05,679 [Andrew] It was not a light touch. We dug the backyard. 360 00:24:05,779 --> 00:24:07,380 You know, we looked in every corner, 361 00:24:10,717 --> 00:24:14,487 but we found nothing. That was beyond frustrating. 362 00:24:16,823 --> 00:24:19,459 Without a body, we didn't even have a crime. 363 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,198 [Andrew] At this point, there was no way to connect her boyfriend, 364 00:24:25,298 --> 00:24:29,469 Jose Rivera, with Christina Adkins' disappearance. 365 00:24:29,569 --> 00:24:33,306 I keep telling everybody, "I'm an innocent man. 366 00:24:33,406 --> 00:24:34,407 "I'm not a killer. 367 00:24:35,775 --> 00:24:38,244 That's my girlfriend, that's my everything." 368 00:24:39,512 --> 00:24:41,314 I wish she was right here right now. 369 00:24:42,415 --> 00:24:44,884 The way I feel right now, I lost everything. 370 00:24:50,857 --> 00:24:54,728 We know now, of course, that no evidence pointed to Christina's 371 00:24:54,828 --> 00:24:56,663 boyfriend as being involved here. 372 00:24:56,763 --> 00:24:59,899 And so detectives questioned, Was law enforcement even 373 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,801 looking in the right direction? 374 00:25:01,901 --> 00:25:05,972 Ariel Castro was still on the radar of investigators. 375 00:25:06,072 --> 00:25:09,376 Did Ariel Castro have some sort of involvement with Christina 376 00:25:09,476 --> 00:25:10,477 Adkins' disappearance? 377 00:25:11,711 --> 00:25:13,713 Whoever did this was diabolical, 378 00:25:13,813 --> 00:25:15,749 a criminal mastermind. 379 00:25:15,849 --> 00:25:17,917 But in a case like this, there are a lot of 380 00:25:18,018 --> 00:25:19,019 unanswered questions. 381 00:25:41,207 --> 00:25:45,111 All of our investigative focus and attention was still on 382 00:25:45,211 --> 00:25:46,713 Ariel Castro. 383 00:25:46,813 --> 00:25:50,350 So we focused on Christina's case with a completely 384 00:25:50,450 --> 00:25:51,651 fresh perspective. 385 00:25:52,986 --> 00:25:56,356 That was the first time that we said, "What are we missing?" 386 00:26:06,833 --> 00:26:10,503 Law enforcement very quickly began interviewing neighbors, 387 00:26:10,603 --> 00:26:14,908 trying to figure out who Ariel Castro was. 388 00:26:19,379 --> 00:26:22,882 One of those neighbors was a man named Elias Acevedo. 389 00:26:25,218 --> 00:26:28,722 And in speaking with Elias, law enforcement described him 390 00:26:28,822 --> 00:26:32,892 as generally nervous and fidgety, even. 391 00:26:34,427 --> 00:26:36,730 He appeared very uneasy. 392 00:26:38,698 --> 00:26:40,633 That stood out to investigators. 393 00:26:43,803 --> 00:26:47,807 Then you start looking, OK, well, who is Elias Acevedo? 394 00:26:50,377 --> 00:26:52,178 And we start looking at his history, 395 00:26:52,278 --> 00:26:54,481 and his history was shocking. 396 00:26:54,581 --> 00:26:59,319 We found a report from 2004 where he was involved in 397 00:26:59,419 --> 00:27:02,522 the abduction and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. 398 00:27:05,592 --> 00:27:08,762 And that that assault had occurred at his home. 399 00:27:10,930 --> 00:27:13,967 We found that it had been pled to a felony of the third 400 00:27:14,067 --> 00:27:17,237 degree, and that he had served a very light sentence 401 00:27:17,337 --> 00:27:18,304 on the case. 402 00:27:20,073 --> 00:27:22,876 [Mark] Elias Acevedo lived a few streets away from Christina 403 00:27:22,976 --> 00:27:25,779 Adkins, was a sex offender. 404 00:27:25,879 --> 00:27:28,915 So that became a major red flag for us. 405 00:27:29,983 --> 00:27:33,520 [George] I just had the feeling that there had to be something here. 406 00:27:33,620 --> 00:27:37,323 I just had a feeling that they were somehow connected. 407 00:27:37,424 --> 00:27:40,860 [Andrew] We start looking at Christina's report again, and one of 408 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,596 the things that jumped off the page was the original 409 00:27:43,697 --> 00:27:47,233 investigators interviewed a neighbor named Elias Rivera, 410 00:27:47,334 --> 00:27:51,538 and he told police at the time, "Yeah, I saw Christina on 411 00:27:51,638 --> 00:27:55,175 the night she disappeared, and I saw her, she was crying." 412 00:27:55,275 --> 00:27:57,577 But he didn't know what happened to her. 413 00:27:57,677 --> 00:28:01,681 At the time, there was no reason to connect him with 414 00:28:01,781 --> 00:28:04,984 Christina Adkins' disappearance, but by comparing 415 00:28:05,085 --> 00:28:10,457 photos now, we discovered that was actually Elias Acevedo. 416 00:28:10,557 --> 00:28:14,728 Back in 1995, he very intentionally gave 417 00:28:14,828 --> 00:28:17,464 police a false identity. Why would you do that? 418 00:28:17,564 --> 00:28:19,899 Why would you do that? 419 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,471 Those are the things that make you say, now we actually have 420 00:28:24,571 --> 00:28:25,572 the right guy. 421 00:28:30,243 --> 00:28:33,613 We had a new suspect to investigate. 422 00:28:33,713 --> 00:28:37,851 We learned through interviews with multiple members of 423 00:28:37,951 --> 00:28:41,855 his own family that Elias Acevedo, he was committing 424 00:28:41,955 --> 00:28:43,656 these atrocities in his own home. 425 00:28:43,757 --> 00:28:45,825 He was preying on his own children. 426 00:28:48,294 --> 00:28:51,598 He was tormenting, torturing, sexually assaulting 427 00:28:51,698 --> 00:28:56,703 his own family on a daily basis and exerting just 428 00:28:56,803 --> 00:29:01,608 an unbelievable amount of control and power over his wife 429 00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:04,077 at the time, and each of these kids. 430 00:29:05,679 --> 00:29:08,515 So the stuff he did, it's just like, 431 00:29:08,615 --> 00:29:10,250 it's -- it was mind blowing. 432 00:29:11,151 --> 00:29:13,787 It took a lot of courage for Acevedo's family to 433 00:29:13,887 --> 00:29:14,988 come forward. 434 00:29:15,088 --> 00:29:17,657 They had been victimized, they had been beaten to a pulp 435 00:29:17,757 --> 00:29:21,428 by this guy, and in so many ways they lived in fear. 436 00:29:21,528 --> 00:29:22,762 He was a brutal guy. 437 00:29:26,766 --> 00:29:29,269 [Andrew] When you finally click into the right track in 438 00:29:29,369 --> 00:29:31,538 an investigation, it feels right. 439 00:29:31,638 --> 00:29:35,141 And after 18 years, this finally felt right. 440 00:29:36,543 --> 00:29:40,680 We had a feeling, we knew, I guess it was instincts, 441 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:45,318 that we were close to the end to knowing what had taken place 442 00:29:45,418 --> 00:29:46,386 with Christina. 443 00:29:54,361 --> 00:29:56,763 [George] We all believed the key to the crack in this case was 444 00:29:56,863 --> 00:29:58,732 Elias' family and the cooperation, 445 00:29:58,832 --> 00:30:00,567 given what he did to them. 446 00:30:05,638 --> 00:30:09,776 And then as time went on, you know, Elias' wife was 447 00:30:09,876 --> 00:30:12,312 willing to speak on what she knew. 448 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,250 [Andrew] She sat down and talked to us for a couple of hours. 449 00:30:17,350 --> 00:30:19,886 One of the things that made it so remarkable is that 450 00:30:19,986 --> 00:30:21,588 her memory was so clear. 451 00:30:21,688 --> 00:30:26,359 She told us that she vividly recalled the day of 452 00:30:26,459 --> 00:30:28,094 January 10, 1995. 453 00:30:29,763 --> 00:30:33,833 When Christina disappeared, she remembered Christina Adkins 454 00:30:33,933 --> 00:30:34,934 coming to her house. 455 00:30:36,469 --> 00:30:40,073 Then Elias left to go to a bar. 456 00:30:40,173 --> 00:30:43,576 She told us that he didn't come home until early that morning. 457 00:30:45,111 --> 00:30:48,348 He went into the bathroom, and he smoked a cigarette, 458 00:30:51,685 --> 00:30:53,987 and she braced herself for the assault that she knew 459 00:30:54,087 --> 00:30:55,088 she was gonna get, 460 00:30:58,992 --> 00:30:59,993 And it didn't happen. 461 00:31:02,429 --> 00:31:03,863 And that stood out to her. 462 00:31:03,963 --> 00:31:05,231 [water gurgling] 463 00:31:10,236 --> 00:31:14,140 After talking to Elias' wife and poring over the timeline, 464 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,578 we believe that this is when he killed Christina. 465 00:31:18,678 --> 00:31:21,114 One of our original theories was that he must have committed 466 00:31:21,214 --> 00:31:23,249 this crime inside his house. 467 00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:26,586 It was cold outside. It was dark. 468 00:31:27,654 --> 00:31:29,656 So we wanted to search that. 469 00:31:36,363 --> 00:31:39,966 We noticed there was an entrance and exit through 470 00:31:40,066 --> 00:31:42,769 a trap door to the outside. 471 00:31:42,869 --> 00:31:45,772 So you could have got in and out of that house without 472 00:31:45,872 --> 00:31:46,940 going through a front door. 473 00:31:48,375 --> 00:31:50,577 His wife would not have heard anything. 474 00:31:51,644 --> 00:31:54,180 [Mark] There was a spot in the basement that kind of 475 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,382 opened up a gate. 476 00:31:55,482 --> 00:31:58,151 And you accessed, like, an area under the porch that 477 00:31:58,251 --> 00:31:59,719 was all dirt. 478 00:32:02,122 --> 00:32:06,026 I describe Elias' house as a haunted house that didn't 479 00:32:06,126 --> 00:32:08,194 charge for admission. 480 00:32:08,294 --> 00:32:10,497 [Andrew] As soon as we saw that opening in the basement, 481 00:32:10,597 --> 00:32:13,366 we thought, man, if we were going to get rid of a body, 482 00:32:13,466 --> 00:32:14,768 this would be a great place. 483 00:32:16,870 --> 00:32:18,672 We tore the house up pretty good, 484 00:32:20,573 --> 00:32:22,175 but we didn't find anything. 485 00:32:24,678 --> 00:32:28,448 [Andrew] It did not deter us in any way in our belief that we were 486 00:32:28,548 --> 00:32:30,216 finally on the right track. 487 00:32:30,316 --> 00:32:32,919 Not finding human remains did not mean that we didn't have 488 00:32:33,019 --> 00:32:33,987 the right guy. 489 00:32:36,923 --> 00:32:38,291 [suspenseful tones building] 490 00:32:39,526 --> 00:32:42,729 [Mark] Everything was pointing towards Elias. 491 00:32:42,829 --> 00:32:45,665 He must have thought of every possible way to dispose of 492 00:32:45,765 --> 00:32:47,701 her and then pick the perfect place. 493 00:32:49,202 --> 00:32:52,739 We just needed a little bit more time and a few trick plays 494 00:32:52,839 --> 00:32:53,807 of our own. 495 00:33:04,517 --> 00:33:06,453 [suspenseful music playing] 496 00:33:09,122 --> 00:33:12,525 [Andrew] The job for any investigator is to move the ball down 497 00:33:12,625 --> 00:33:16,696 the field, and we set out very early in this investigation to 498 00:33:16,796 --> 00:33:19,899 move this ball, even if it's inch by inch, day by day. 499 00:33:23,470 --> 00:33:26,373 And we knew that if we could just keep getting first downs, 500 00:33:26,473 --> 00:33:27,540 we were going to solve the case. 501 00:33:29,743 --> 00:33:34,447 It was at that point that we made a decision to make 502 00:33:34,547 --> 00:33:37,450 our move, to talk to Elias Acevedo himself. 503 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,824 [Tim] Acevedo raped his family daily, intimidated everybody, 504 00:33:46,393 --> 00:33:49,796 threatened to kill other family members if they ratted him out. 505 00:33:50,930 --> 00:33:52,432 We knew he would be hard to break. 506 00:33:55,835 --> 00:33:58,605 [Mark] We took him to the Cleveland FBI headquarters 507 00:33:58,705 --> 00:34:00,707 and really sat down with him. 508 00:34:09,849 --> 00:34:12,619 In the beginning, Elias did not want to talk with us. 509 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,588 He didn't feel comfortable with us, and he was denying all 510 00:34:15,688 --> 00:34:18,024 allegations that we were throwing at him with 511 00:34:18,123 --> 00:34:19,726 his involvement with Christina. 512 00:34:21,161 --> 00:34:25,297 When we gave Elias the opportunity to take 513 00:34:25,398 --> 00:34:27,734 a polygraph, he accepted. 514 00:34:27,833 --> 00:34:30,737 And there's only one reason that somebody in his position 515 00:34:30,837 --> 00:34:33,672 would do that. He thought he could beat us. 516 00:34:57,130 --> 00:35:01,334 When he was confronted with his failures on those two 517 00:35:01,434 --> 00:35:04,604 facts, I think really that's the straw that broke 518 00:35:04,704 --> 00:35:07,474 the camel's back and convinced him that he wasn't gonna get 519 00:35:07,574 --> 00:35:08,575 out of it this time. 520 00:35:14,814 --> 00:35:17,384 [Tim] We told Acevedo that we were gonna give him 521 00:35:17,484 --> 00:35:21,621 a limited opportunity to admit to us that he killed Christina. 522 00:35:24,024 --> 00:35:26,993 And if he did it, then we would not seek the death penalty. 523 00:35:27,093 --> 00:35:30,530 We called it a "blue light special," that the deal ends 524 00:35:30,630 --> 00:35:32,599 when the light goes off. 525 00:35:32,699 --> 00:35:35,101 [Mark] But he was hesitating. 526 00:35:39,005 --> 00:35:41,141 [suspenseful music playing] 527 00:35:43,576 --> 00:35:46,413 And still wasn't 100% sure he was going to confess 528 00:35:46,513 --> 00:35:48,081 and tell us what we wanted to know. 529 00:35:51,451 --> 00:35:52,786 Elias finally broke. 530 00:35:52,886 --> 00:35:55,288 He confessed to murdering Christina Adkins. 531 00:35:55,388 --> 00:35:56,489 Yeah, I choked her. 532 00:36:43,536 --> 00:36:45,672 [heavy metal scraping] 533 00:36:54,948 --> 00:36:57,584 We don't solve every case with a confession, but the ones that 534 00:36:57,684 --> 00:37:01,087 we do are special. But we needed proof. 535 00:37:01,187 --> 00:37:03,923 We needed to bring Christina Adkins' body home 536 00:37:04,024 --> 00:37:05,191 to her family. 537 00:37:05,291 --> 00:37:08,094 So we asked Acevedo to take us to her. 538 00:37:09,396 --> 00:37:10,630 And he agreed. 539 00:37:25,412 --> 00:37:29,115 So we leg shackled him and belly chained him and put 540 00:37:29,215 --> 00:37:33,019 him in the car, and he took us turn by turn. 541 00:37:33,119 --> 00:37:34,854 And he said, "Pull over here." 542 00:37:36,623 --> 00:37:38,591 [Andrew] And he said, "Just on the other side of this Jersey barrier, 543 00:37:38,692 --> 00:37:41,461 you'll go down a hill, and there'll be a sewer drain." 544 00:37:41,561 --> 00:37:42,996 And I put her in the sewer drain. 545 00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:47,967 So we walked down this hill, 546 00:37:50,437 --> 00:37:51,905 and we came to the sewer drain. 547 00:37:56,042 --> 00:37:59,112 And we lifted this top up and looked down in there. 548 00:37:59,212 --> 00:38:00,714 [heavy metal scraping] 549 00:38:01,948 --> 00:38:04,451 And I mean, I was shocked. 550 00:38:06,786 --> 00:38:09,856 As clear as day, there were her remains 551 00:38:09,956 --> 00:38:11,958 at the bottom of this hole. 552 00:38:12,058 --> 00:38:15,462 18 years later, and I could see them by standing at the top of 553 00:38:15,562 --> 00:38:16,896 this hole and just looking down. 554 00:38:18,565 --> 00:38:19,599 It was unreal. 555 00:38:19,699 --> 00:38:20,834 [siren wailing] 556 00:38:23,103 --> 00:38:26,172 [Andrew] And when we exhumed Christina's body from the bottom of 557 00:38:26,272 --> 00:38:30,610 the hole, we found an ID card with her name on it. 558 00:38:33,179 --> 00:38:37,450 [Copelia] When they said that they found Christina's body, I remember 559 00:38:37,550 --> 00:38:40,987 breaking down, crying, and my mother, too. 560 00:38:41,087 --> 00:38:42,889 You know, all of us, we were emotional. 561 00:38:42,989 --> 00:38:45,859 You know, we didn't expect for her to go through that, 562 00:38:45,959 --> 00:38:48,328 especially the way she was taken. 563 00:38:48,428 --> 00:38:49,362 It was... 564 00:38:49,462 --> 00:38:52,032 and to throw her in a sewer, and a baby? 565 00:38:53,266 --> 00:38:55,168 I mean, what kind of monster does that? 566 00:38:55,268 --> 00:38:56,302 He's a monster. 567 00:38:57,337 --> 00:38:58,471 He's Satan. 568 00:38:58,571 --> 00:39:01,541 It was like a game of cat and mouse, where the mouse was 569 00:39:01,641 --> 00:39:03,176 running law enforcement in circles. 570 00:39:06,946 --> 00:39:09,182 Elias Acevedo thought he was clever. 571 00:39:09,282 --> 00:39:15,188 He hid Christina's body in a place that was almost in -- 572 00:39:15,288 --> 00:39:16,389 in plain sight. 573 00:39:18,358 --> 00:39:22,929 And, in fact, had used new construction and highway 574 00:39:23,029 --> 00:39:26,833 infrastructure to hide Christina's body. 575 00:39:26,933 --> 00:39:30,637 I mean, it was a absolutely diabolical 576 00:39:31,838 --> 00:39:32,806 thing to do. 577 00:39:32,906 --> 00:39:37,043 And then to have 18 years pass by, 578 00:39:37,143 --> 00:39:39,679 it's astonishing to think about. 579 00:39:39,779 --> 00:39:43,383 The odds of solving this case was like the kid who walks 580 00:39:43,483 --> 00:39:47,287 up to his baseball coach and says, "Coach I'm gonna hit 581 00:39:47,387 --> 00:39:48,822 a grand slam today." 582 00:39:48,922 --> 00:39:52,158 You say, "Good, kid, first you got to set up 583 00:39:52,258 --> 00:39:55,095 "the bases, you got to load the bases, right, then 584 00:39:55,195 --> 00:39:58,465 you got to have the power to hit it over that fence." 585 00:39:58,565 --> 00:40:01,101 And Agent Burke did both, he set up the bases and he hit 586 00:40:01,201 --> 00:40:03,636 that ball right over the fence for the grand slam. 587 00:40:03,737 --> 00:40:05,171 It was a heck of a day. 588 00:40:09,309 --> 00:40:12,045 [Andrew] And we were able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 589 00:40:12,145 --> 00:40:15,715 Elias Acevedo and Elias Acevedo alone was responsible for 590 00:40:15,815 --> 00:40:19,386 the murder of Christina Adkins. 591 00:40:19,486 --> 00:40:22,722 [Tim] On December 30, 2013, 592 00:40:22,822 --> 00:40:27,227 Acevedo was sentenced to prison for life on over 100 593 00:40:27,327 --> 00:40:30,497 counts, without possibility of parole, 594 00:40:30,597 --> 00:40:34,634 with an additional 445 years to serve. 595 00:40:34,734 --> 00:40:40,440 He took my life, my love, my pride, my wife, my child. 596 00:40:41,641 --> 00:40:44,444 But you know what? There's a guy up there, 597 00:40:45,779 --> 00:40:46,846 and she's in good hands. 598 00:40:49,249 --> 00:40:51,818 [Copelia] I hope Elias thinks about what he's done for the rest 599 00:40:51,918 --> 00:40:52,886 of his life. 600 00:40:52,986 --> 00:40:56,790 I hope he's tormented every day, every moment, 601 00:40:56,890 --> 00:40:58,391 every second. 602 00:40:58,491 --> 00:41:02,662 It's not only by what he did to Christina and that baby, 603 00:41:02,762 --> 00:41:05,665 but also, you know, the grief that he caused. 604 00:41:05,765 --> 00:41:07,133 I hope he's tormented. 605 00:41:07,233 --> 00:41:10,136 I hope that he doesn't live in peace. 606 00:41:19,879 --> 00:41:21,815 It really was a needle in a haystack. 607 00:41:21,915 --> 00:41:24,718 Had the teens gone off the road 608 00:41:24,818 --> 00:41:27,153 and they were stranded somewhere? 609 00:41:28,488 --> 00:41:30,690 Why would someone do that to two teenagers? 610 00:41:30,790 --> 00:41:34,260 It unleashed something we never even fathomed.