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In this episode of American Greed, he's a successful insurance broker.

She's a vice president at a leading financial firm.

She was making close to a quarter of a million dollars a year. They were living

large. Tina and Joe Corona lived the good life with a nice house and a

collection of classic cars.

We did everything together.

She loves cars.

She loves football.

But Joe has one very dark secret.

He's stealing money from clients to finance their funds.

He preyed on people that were friends and family. He didn't prey on strangers.

There was nobody he would not steal money from.

How far will Joe Corona go to keep his sins a secret?

I started crying and I said, I don't want to believe this.

Please tell me he didn't do this to her. I don't want to believe it.

Saturday, October 25th, 2008.

Just outside Memphis, Tennessee, in the quiet suburb of Olive Branch.

Shortly after 7 o 'clock in the evening, Carrie Brown, a trucking company

manager, receives an alarming phone call.

It's Joe Corona, the husband of her close friend, Tina Corona.

He sounds worried.

He just called somewhat panicky and just said, have you talked to Tina today?

And I'm like, no.

Has she called you today?

No. Joe, what's going on?

Corona explains that he last saw Tina around 10 o 'clock that morning when she

left home in her black Chevy Avalanche.

She planned to run errands in preparation for a party later that

But she never came home, Corona says.

And she isn't answering her phone.

Well, I went into a straight panic because that's not like her.

Especially not to answer phone calls from him.

Tina Corona is a 44 -year -old financial executive and president of the Memphis

Corvette Club.

She is so well -loved that friends and family immediately form a search party

that very night.

They were thinking somebody had abducted her, so I just went looking for that

black avalanche. It was like a massive manhunt for Tina.

The mystery of Tina Corona's disappearance would eventually reveal a

financial fraud scheme and murder plot.

But just how did Tina and Joe Corona, by all appearances a happy and successful

couple, become entangled in this twisted tale?

It's a story that begins decades earlier.

I don't know anybody that didn't love Tina.

She was the kind of person that you...

You had no choice but to love her, really.

Carrie Brown meets Tina in kindergarten.

The two women stay tight through high school and college and even get their

first jobs together as tellers at a local bank.

Customers that adored her would wait until she got back from lunch until she

helped them.

She's just that kind of person. She was magnetic.

Although she does not have a degree in business or finance, Tina's infectious

personality and strong work ethic propel her up the corporate ladder.

Within a few years, she's working for the brokerage firm Payne Weber.

She could talk a heating blanket from an Eskimo.

She could sell anything. She could make every customer that walked in there

happy.

In early 1993,

Tina meets her match in the charm department.

One afternoon while out shopping, Tina is swept off her feet by a smooth

-talking shoe salesman.

She didn't look like, you're not going to believe this.

I just met somebody at the shoe carnival. We're going out.

Joe Corona is a manager at the store.

He knew all the right buttons to push with Tina.

Lots of attention.

flowers all the time, gifts all the time, really winning her over.

Less than a year after meeting, the two are married.

But shortly after the wedding, Tina pushes her new husband for a career

She thinks he can do better than slinging shoes.

So that's when she came to her dad and said, will you take Joe in and train him

in the insurance business?

Tina's dad, Jim Murphy, is an independent insurance agent.

He's eager to teach his new son -in -law the ropes.

Two of Joe Corona's earliest clients are his elderly neighbors, Lake and Helen

Sturtevant.

Their son, David, remembers when Corona first came to call on them.

He would come over to my parents' house and practice his sales pitch on them.

Have a live...

somebody to tell about the product he was selling.

Because they adore Tina, the Sturdivans are willing to take a chance with her

new husband.

They agree to let Joe open up an annuity for them.

They thought it was a safe deal, and I think they thought they'd be helping out

Tina by investing with them.

An annuity is a financial product that is often used to create a future revenue

stream in retirement.

When you buy an annuity, you're buying an investment, and you're expecting your

money to grow in value, and it's really considered a safe investment. There's

not a lot of risk involved with an annuity.

Joe Corona's new career is off to a promising start when American Greed

Corona takes a high -stakes gamble with his family's fortune.

Joe loved to gamble. Joe and Tina both went to the casinos a lot. No one ever

knew how much money that he was spending at the casino.

Memphis, Tennessee, home of the legendary Beale Street, where seven days

there's always a party going on. And by 2006, the good times are rolling for Joe

and Tina Corona.

That year, Tina takes an executive job with the financial firm Cantor

Fitzgerald. As the vice president in the loan department, she's paid nearly a

quarter million dollars a year, according to her good friend, Carrie

Everyone knew that she was successful and was doing well, but she would never

take the credit for all that. She'd be like, oh, Joe's done so well, you know,

in the insurance business. He's doing so well.

But she's being far too humble.

Most of Joe's clients are Tina's friends.

She often accompanies her husband on sales calls.

Anybody that knew Tina would go with them, but that was his bread and butter

people who trusted Tina, therefore they could trust Joe.

With years of experience under his belt, Joe now works out of his own office and

away from the watchful eye of his father -in -law.

Carrie Brown eventually becomes one of his clients.

She purchases a life insurance policy through Joe and considers opening up a

,000 annuity with him as well.

I said, you know, I've got some money invested in an annuity. It just would

more sense if I put it with someone that I know.

So why don't I move my money to you? And Tan was like, it's a great idea.

Of course you can move your money to Joe.

But rather than make a phone call and transfer money over to the life

company, Joe curiously tells Carrie to make out a check to his business.

He said, just call your broker and tell him that you want a check in full made

out to you.

You'll sign that check over to me, and then I will invest it with Alliant.

and the same type of annuity.

Carrie doesn't think twice about the transaction.

Joe is the husband of her good friend, Tina.

Complete 100 % trust.

She was involved. I mean, she was there. She helped sell it.

With his insurance business thriving, Joe picks up a new hobby, collecting

classic cars.

Within a few years, Joe buys a 1971 Chevelle.

A 1969 Daytona yellow Corvette and a couple of Porsches.

He liked to be seen in them. He was very proud of his cars.

Joe becomes so enamored of his cars that he and Tina join the exclusive Memphis

Corvette Club.

It's a defining moment, says Tina's younger brother, Scott Murphy.

Joe was all about the appearance of what you had.

He was looking to hang out with the people that were in a different class

he felt like had money.

Joe and Tina moved to a bigger house in Cordoba, a quiet town in the eastern

suburbs of Memphis.

The couple are high rollers at the casinos in Tunica, Mississippi, where

plays fast and loose with their cash.

Joe loved to gamble. Joe and Tina both went to the casinos a lot.

She hit 10 grand one time, and, like, it's so much fun. I mean, we're

you know, because we're winning all this money.

But what Tina doesn't yet realize is that like any addiction, there can be

to pay.

Joe is losing a ton of money.

It's not uncommon for him to drop several thousand dollars playing

high -end slots.

He won money, but not enough to cover what he was losing.

At one point, I think he was down $90 ,000.

Next on American Greed, Joe Corona loves life in the fast lane.

But will he drive his friends, family, and clients into a financial ditch?

I never really thought he would try to steal money from the family.

In Memphis, Joe and Tina Corona appear to have the perfect marriage.

But what Tina doesn't know is that their lifestyle is propped up by fraud.

Joe's been pocketing his clients' money for years, says Shelby County Assistant

D .A. Danielle McCollum.

Tina made good money, but I guess that wasn't enough, and he wanted more cars

a bigger house or to go gamble more.

Since 2001, Joe's been stealing money from several clients.

He makes it look easy.

When Joe sells an annuity to a customer, he often encourages them to write the

check directly to him.

The check many times will be made payable to Corona Investments, and Joe

deposit that money to his account, and he would never forward that money to the

insurance company.

Some checks went to the insurance company. Some checks went to him.

He was very good at what he was doing, so he would mix it up.

Corona's first ever client, Lake Sturdivant, remains his favorite mark.

My dad loved Joe to death.

Joe was telling him about all this interest that he was making.

And when they would come into some money, most of the time we'd invest it

Joe.

Unfortunately, Lake rarely asks Joe for any paperwork.

It's a mistake made by several of Joe's clients, including Carrie Brown,

who has a $20 ,000 annuity with Joe.

I never got one statement, ever.

At the time, the market was not doing well, so I didn't want to look at it.

When clients do press Joe on the subject, he often whips up a fake

The amount of time he spent defrauding these people is ridiculous.

He would go through and change the amounts. He would retype parts and then

repaste that on top and then photocopy it.

Remarkably, while Joe is plundering their friends and family...

Tina Corona, vice president of a financial firm, has no idea of the fraud

happening right under her nose.

Joe was very controlling of a lot of things in the relationship, but

the money. He did handle all of the finances.

She said, I don't even realize what I make, because it goes into a direct

deposit into the account, and Joe gave her allowance.

If she needed money, Joe gave her the money.

In June 2007, tragedy strikes Tina's family, and Joe's greed reaches new

depths.

One night after Jim Murphy attends a classic car show, the 65 -year -old dies

his sleep.

She called me about 5 o 'clock in the morning, and she was absolutely, I mean,

just, Carrie Daddy died, you know, Carrie Daddy died.

While his wife grieves, Joe turns his attention to his father -in -law's car

collection. It includes a 1963 Cadillac, a Bentley, and several others

worth more than $100 ,000.

He came to me and said, your mom's got six, seven, eight cars out there that

your dad had, and they're not doing anything but losing value, but I'll be

to help you guys sell them.

The Murphys agree.

But Tina's brother, Scott, soon finds out that Joe may not be the trustworthy

brother -in -law he thought he was.

When Joe was selling the cars, instead of having the checks made out to my

mother, Joe was having the checks made out to Joe Corona.

Joe deposits some cash in Clara's account, but the totals are far less

the family expects.

The family calculates that Joe has shorted them between $30 ,000 and $40

He had a Nash that he claims he sold for $16 ,000.

Right there alone would have easily, somebody would have come up and dropped

,000 cash on it.

The 57 Chevrolet, he let it go for $16 ,000.

The Chevy fair market value is $25 ,000.

Two months after the funeral on August 22nd, 2007, the family gathers to

discuss the transaction.

Joe is visibly anxious.

He's sweating, he's shaking.

We've just about got him cornered up in a wall.

Joe denies any wrongdoing and tries to talk his way out of the situation.

But Scott is armed with solid evidence that Joe has pocketed money owed to the

family. He has already contacted the buyer of the 1963 Cadillac, who confirms

paid $12 ,000 cash for the car.

But the Murphys haven't seen a penny.

Well, at first he said, I made the deposit the day of the funeral. And Tina

said, Joe, we didn't go to the bank that day.

So that's when he got up from the table.

Joe Corona leaves the house and heads outside to his car.

A few minutes later, he returns with a stack of cash.

My sister says, you guys are not going to believe this.

He found the money. It fell in between his seats, and it has been there for two

solid months, and it was $4 ,000.

And I was like, hallelujah, $4 ,000.

Now, where's the other $8 ,000?

In the face of damning evidence, Tina stands by her man.

It's like she didn't believe us that she believed Joe. Because she got up after

it was all over with, she got up and said, I've lost my family.

That night, Joe writes a check to his mother -in -law for $35 ,000.

The next day, he pays Scott the other $8 ,000.

Joe and Tina proceed to break off all contact with the Murphys.

Oh, it's like a knife sticking me in my heart.

I tried to talk to her.

I'd call her at the office, and she wouldn't answer my call.

I'd send her e -mails. She wouldn't answer my e -mails.

Next on American Greed, is there anything Joe Corona won't do for money?

Or to keep his secrets hidden.

I said I don't want to believe that he's done something wrong, but there's no

doubt that he has.

And later, Joe Corona's exclusive interview with American Greed.

I just believe that the truth needs to come out. My time has never been told.

family and obviously all the people that were involved need to know what

happened.

In Memphis, Joe Corona's greed has opened up a family rift.

After his in -laws, the Murphys, accuse him of stealing their money, Tina Corona

and her mom stop talking.

She used to drive by her mom's at Thanksgiving, Christmas, see who's

People have no idea how much that devastated her.

It was bad.

While his wife quietly suffers, the first cracks start to appear in Joe's

In March 2008, Carrie Brown wants to cash out part of her $25 ,000 annuity.

She needs $10 ,000 to pay off some bills.

She tried to talk me out of it, and I insisted that it was my money. Give it

me. I want to pay some debt off.

For the next three weeks, Carrie waits for the money to be transferred in her

bank account.

But it never arrived.

On the third week, I called him, and I felt at the time, what's the deal? I've

taken money out of investment accounts before.

It's never taken this long.

A few days later, the money is finally deposited.

But curiously, the wire transfer doesn't come from the insurance company.

Tina's name was on that transfer. And at the time, I thought it was odd, but I

got my money. That's all I cared about.

Carrie Brown never mentions the incident to Tina.

Besides, Tina has exciting news of her own that she can't wait to share with

friend.

She's planning on buying a new home, a half -million -dollar house in the

upscale suburb of Eads, where many of her Corvette Club friends live.

She was so excited about the house.

She had been wanting to buy a house out in that area for a really long time.

For years, Joe has quashed his wife's plan of buying a bigger home, telling

they have other expenses that need to be addressed first.

The truth is, Joe can't risk exposing his personal finances to the mortgage

lenders.

According to Danielle McCollum of the Shelby County DA's office, Joe is

his fraud will be revealed.

He knew what the ramifications would be.

As far as the financial truth starting to come out. And then Tina was going to

start asking questions about that. And it was just going to be a snowball

before she knew everything.

But Tina is persistent.

She won't take no for an answer.

In October 2008, Joe finally gives in.

Bailed by the Dreamhouse.

Tina's so happy, on October 23rd, she shares the big news with her girlfriend.

According to Carrie Brown, Tina explains that Joe has found a buyer for their

current home and they're going to be closing on the new house that weekend.

Unfortunately,

Tina never gets a chance to move into her dream house.

As two days later on Saturday, October 25th, something unexpected strikes.

Next on American Greed. I was just devastated.

And I pulled up and I was hurling.

I lost it. It was just shock.

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It's a crisp fall day on Saturday, October 25th, 2008.

Joe Corona plans to have a lazy day tinkering on his car at a friend's

While his wife, Tina, is out getting party supplies for a Corvette Club

that night.

But by 6 p .m., Tina hasn't come home from her errand.

It's not like her to be late.

Around 7 p .m., Joe Corona starts calling Tina's friends.

He just called somewhat panicky and just said, have you talked to Tina today?

And I'm like, no.

Has she called you today?

No. Joe, what's going on?

Around this time, the Corvette Club party is just starting when Joe calls.

And then he starts calling all the people at the party.

Have you guys seen Tina? I haven't seen her. I haven't heard from her.

Tina's friends are worried, and the party quickly changes into a search

They spread out and hit all of Tina's regular shopping places, posting flyers

and searching for her SUV.

And that's when everyone starts to get really nervous and driving all over the

city looking for that black avalanche. See if it's on the side of the road,

maybe she broke down.

On Sunday, the search continued, but there's still no sign of Tina.

Sunday at 1 o 'clock until probably 1 o 'clock in the morning, I drove around

everywhere looking for my sister.

I don't even know what I was looking for.

On Monday morning, October 27th, police find a black SUV on a residential

street in the Memphis suburb of Bartlett.

Kevin Martin is a Bartlett detective.

He's one of the first officers on the scene.

I went up and basically looked into the back, and I could see a form of a body

laying in the back floorboard of this avalanche.

The license plates match the missing vehicle.

Inside, police find what they already suspect, the lifeless body of Tina

There are no bullet or stab wounds, so it's unclear how she died.

Given Memphis' reputation for violent crime, police at first think Tina Corona

is yet another victim of a carjacking and robbery gone wrong.

That theory changes upon closer inspection of the crime scene.

Her hands were duct taped. They were loose, and they weren't even connected.

They looked like somebody tried to...

to make it look like her hands had been tied up, which they weren't.

She had diamond rings on both hands, earrings.

And that stuck out like a sore thumb to us.

A bad guy in this area is not going to leave a $30 ,000, $35 ,000 ring on

somebody's finger.

Friends and family are gathered at Joe and Tina's house when police deliver the

devastating news.

As they were showing the picture of her dead body to him, there was no emotion.

He just shook his head, yes, like, you know, that's her.

He acted like he couldn't walk.

It was all like, I have no strength, I'm so weak.

The next day, Bartlett police asked Joe to come in for a formal interview to

learn what happened on the day Tina went missing.

She didn't know where she was going first. No, no, I didn't know where she

going. Joe tells officers he spent the day working on his Chevelle at a

house. And you're doing your thing at the house, whatever. Well, yeah, and

I was over at a friend's house working on two cars.

And I'm guessing I was there by like a little bit after 12.

Joe's alibi checks out.

But in the days following her murder, Tina's family grows suspicious of his

behavior. He seems more giddy than grieving, and he's eager to move on.

He cleaned out the house.

Everything that was Tina's, he got rid of.

Her clothes, her shoes.

He even threw her Bible away and said, she ain't gonna need this anymore.

Police investigate other suspects.

But nothing sticks.

After we started looking at the crime scene and looking at everything, it kept

bringing us back to one person.

But there's a problem.

Police can't find any physical evidence that ties Joe Corona to the murder.

No DNA, no murder weapon.

And medical examiners can only determine that Tina died by asphyxiation.

There was no indication whether she'd been suffocated and asphyxiated through

suffocation or whether she had been strangled.

The Corona house is beyond tainted, as friends contaminated the premises while

searching for Tina.

Over 100, 150 people have been in and out of the house over there where they

lived. So any crime scene that we had over there would have been destroyed or

wouldn't have been of any use.

Lacking physical evidence, the case stalls.

But three weeks later...

Police catch a critical break when Carrie Brown thinks back to her

dealings with Joe.

She remembers that Tina's name was on the wire transfer when she withdrew

that were supposed to come from her annuity.

She calls a friend at the bank and asks her to pull up the transaction.

And she said, oh, no, Carrie, I think this is fraudulent. I said, why? And she

said it came from their personal checking account at Regions Bank.

A call to her insurance company confirms the suspicions of fraud.

I called Allianz, and all they could verify was my life insurance. I said,

have an annuity.

And this is when I opened it.

Although Brown withdrew $10 ,000, she believes she still has an annuity worth

$15 ,000.

Well, do you have an account number?

Well, no, because he never sent me anything, right?

So no, I don't.

Carrie goes to the Bartlett police and tells them that she thinks Joe is

a scam.

So we started thinking, well, Joe's taking money from her.

What's he doing with it?

And that's when we started looking at everything.

All his financial stuff we started looking at.

The police subpoena Corona's bank records and make a shocking discovery.

One week after Tina's demise, Joe withdrew $30 ,000 from one of her

and forged his late wife's signature on the check.

It's a big happy handwriting.

And he scribbled it like, sorry, most men scribble. It was just Tina Corona.

That kind of caught our eye. You know, he's cashing out an annuity check in his

wife's name.

Police start to suspect that Tina's murder is inextricably linked to the

couple's finances and Tina's dream of buying a new home.

I think it's very clear that Tina thought they were closing very soon on

house. The only person that knew the truth was Joe, that there was no closing

that was going to happen.

Why he would continue to lead her on, in our opinion, was because he knew there

wasn't going to be a closing. He knew he was going to have to kill her.

Otherwise, all of this was going to come out.

As a motive develops, the detectives bring in the IRS and the U .S. Postal

Inspector.

The investigators look deeper into Joe's insurance business and discover that

he's stolen nearly $700 ,000.

This was multiple people.

As far as the amount of money that he stole, it was thousands and thousands

thousands and thousands of dollars.

They said, wow.

Boy, did you open a box. You wouldn't believe what he's done to all these

people.

The agencies reach out to Joe's victim.

No one has any idea they've been swindled.

Initially, the victims couldn't believe money had been stolen from them. And

then when the victims started looking at their records, they realized there was

a problem.

Lake Sturdivant takes the biggest hit. He's lost more than $200 ,000.

Daddy, he'd sit there in his wheelchair and wring his hands and he'd say, I just

can't believe Joe would do something like that to a crippled old man.

In March 2009, five months after Tina's murder,

The feds collect enough evidence of financial fraud to search Joe's house

seize his assets.

At the same time, local prosecutors get a warrant for his arrest on suspicion of

murdering Tina Corona.

There's just one problem.

Where's Joe?

Yeah, he bolted. I think he knew that it was all coming to a head, and that's

when he disappeared.

For the next few weeks, police conduct a massive manhunt for Joe Corona, who's

believed to be driving a gray Hummer.

In late March, they finally catch a break when a McDonald's employee in

Tennessee, over 70 miles away, says Joe is a regular customer.

He comes to her McDonald's drive -thru just about every morning for breakfast,

and he's in a gray Hummer.

Detective Martin and his partner begin to drive around Jackson searching for

vehicle.

Incredibly, after just a few minutes, they spot a gray Hummer in a hotel

lot.

And so we drove by in the parking lot and looked over and we knew it was the

by the tag on the vehicle.

We saw the tag and I was like, wow, it's him.

The detectives contact the local authorities and assemble a task force.

Accompanied by U .S. Marshals and Sheriff's deputies, police descend on

hotel room.

We were going to try an element of surprise. We were going to hit the door,

unlock it, and come in and effect arrest.

But the door is locked, and they can't get in.

The police call out to Joe.

He doesn't respond.

Officers grow tense when they hear a familiar sound inside the room.

Next on American Greed.

You could hear a racking sound.

It was very distinct.

In my line of work, I know what a slide on a weapon is going back and forth, and

that's what it was. So we knew he was armed.

After 17 days on the run, police have cornered Joe Corona at a hotel in

Tennessee.

But he isn't going quietly.

It was high strife.

We knew he was armed. We knew he had a weapon in there.

Over the next several moments, officers tried to reason with the fugitive.

I was like, you need to come out.

I'm not coming out. You know, I've got a gun in here.

You could hear him racking it, and I'm like, yeah, Joe, we've got a lot of guns

out here, too. You know, we don't want to resort to that.

After 20 minutes, Joe finally relents.

I just told him, all it's going to do is delay the inevitable of what's going to

happen. You're going to go to jail.

We're going to come and get you one way or another.

Joe knows he's trapped.

He puts down the gun and gives himself up.

The manhunt is finally over.

In an exclusive interview with American Greed, Joe Corona talks about the events

of that day.

According to him, the situation is blown out of proportion.

The

news

of Joe's arrest spreads quickly.

I was driving down the 64 highway, and Scott said, they've arrested Joe. And I

just started screaming.

I got out of the car, and I just said, thank you, God, thank you.

Over the next three years, Joe sits in jail, denied bail for being a flight

risk, and waits for the murder case to go to trial.

At the same time, federal prosecutors indicted Joe on 57 counts of insurance

fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering.

Edward Stanton is the U .S. attorney for Western Tennessee.

He preyed upon individuals he knew that were vulnerable. We wanted to make sure

that Joe Carano was held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.

But before the federal case can proceed...

the state must first move forward on the murder charge.

It was very difficult because this wasn't a case about whether or not he

money, but the financial part was a piece of the puzzle in whether or not he

killed Tina.

In October 2012,

Joe Corona goes on trial for the murder of Tina Corona.

Prosecutors paint him as a con man without a conscience.

Someone who would rather commit murder than give up his posh lifestyle.

Detective Martin believes that in the days leading up to the murder, Tina had

inklings that Joe was a fraud.

Either she received something in the mail or she found out or received a

call. And I think she confronted him about that.

And his whole world was going to be dissolved if she went and told anybody

what he was doing.

In his interview with American Greed, Joe Corona disputes the accusation and

insists he could never hurt Tina.

Though

the

events of that day still aren't exactly known.

Prosecutors believe Joe suffocated Tina at their home on that Saturday morning.

He then drove the avalanche to the spot where it was discovered.

Cell phone records confirm Joe was in the area of where Tina's SUV was found.

And there's one more fact linking Joe to the site.

His storage unit, where he keeps his classic cars, is just a quarter mile

When we looked at cell phone records, the records did show that Joe drove from

his house and drove that direction into Bartlett. Joe told the police that he

never went to the storage unit that day. Well, his cell phone records told us

something very different.

Joe's defense team argues that the police mishandled the crime scene and

there's no physical evidence linking him to Tina's murder.

Ask the police.

How did I do this? If they're so sure that I did it, how did I do it? Where

I do it? None of those things were ever explained because they couldn't be

explained because they don't know.

After nine days of arguments, the jury retires to deliberate.

It only takes them an hour and a half to reach a verdict.

Joe Corona is found guilty of first -degree murder.

I just threw my head back and said, thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord. I was

just... I was happy.

Joe is sentenced to life in prison. He isn't eligible for parole until 2063,

when he'll be 99 years old.

He held me in prison for 50 -something years for murdering my sister, and I am

thankful for that.

He will never see daylight.

He'll never come out of prison. He'll die in prison.

On February 26, 2013, Joe pleads guilty to the federal indictment and gets

another seven years tacked on to his prison sentence.

The reason that I pled guilty out to those accounts is because that's...

What was in my best interest. I do not believe the system was after the truth.

I was not going to try to go to another trial again with an unpaid lawyer.

The feds say Joe stole nearly $800 ,000 from 18 clients.

These victims were devastated. They had saved and planned on saving for

themselves and their kids, and they lost their money.

A number of these individuals, it was their life savings, retirement savings.

These were not individuals that were looking for a get -rich -quick scheme or

enormous return on investment.

Lake Sturdivant is the biggest victim, losing more than $209 ,000.

But Joe's first and best customer never receives any satisfaction as Lake passes

away in 2010 at the age of 84.

Some of the victims, including Terry Brown, are compensated by the insurance

companies that Corona claimed he had invested with.

Others, however, are waiting for restitution from the court.

We have seized multiple vehicles, personal property, sports memorabilia,

motorcycles.

We're in the process of liquidating those, and it's our hope that we will be

able to do everything we can to provide restitution to the multiple victims

here.

To this day, Joe Corona believes Tina was murdered on a busy road close to

she was found and that the real killer is still on the loose.

The bottom line is a lot of the people I used to hang out with, their lives are

on that same street.

But his victims say Joe Corona is where he belongs, behind bars and forced to

account for his financial crimes and the murder of a woman that so many loved.

Why did you steal from all these old people?

Why did you kill Tina?

I mean, it's gratifying that he'll pay for his crime. It still doesn't change

anything. It is what it is. I mean, she's gone.

You know, I'd like for them to put a big picture of Tina on his wall where he

couldn't get it down so he could see her every day and what he's done to her.

I just wish we could have talked before all this happened. She could have come

to me.

That wasn't God's plan, was it?

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