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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:05,379 --> 00:00:07,344 19 months into the investigation 2 00:00:07,413 --> 00:00:09,034 looking for these children 3 00:00:09,103 --> 00:00:11,172 and David Matusiewicz and Lenore Matusiewicz... 4 00:00:12,586 --> 00:00:16,379 ...I get a call from Galveston, Texas, Police Department, 5 00:00:16,379 --> 00:00:20,172 and they'd found a deceased two year old child in the Galveston Bay. 6 00:00:20,172 --> 00:00:21,965 They were thinking 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:25,379 it may have been Christine's missing child. 8 00:00:25,379 --> 00:00:28,896 -And so I had to call Christine. 9 00:00:28,896 --> 00:00:31,724 That was one of the hardest things I've done in all my years. 10 00:01:05,586 --> 00:01:09,068 Welcome to Very Scary People. I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 11 00:01:09,068 --> 00:01:10,689 From the outside looking in, 12 00:01:10,689 --> 00:01:14,137 the Matusiewicz family seemed like a tight knit clan, 13 00:01:14,206 --> 00:01:15,137 pillars of the community, 14 00:01:15,137 --> 00:01:17,689 and completely devoted to each other, 15 00:01:17,689 --> 00:01:21,758 but in reality, a dark and twisted drama was playing out, 16 00:01:21,827 --> 00:01:24,379 one that pitted an outsider against the family, 17 00:01:24,379 --> 00:01:27,344 a drama that included stalking, kidnapping, 18 00:01:27,413 --> 00:01:29,482 and, ultimately, murder, 19 00:01:29,482 --> 00:01:32,137 leaving a trail of carnage in its wake. 20 00:01:32,206 --> 00:01:35,103 This is The Courthouse Killers. 21 00:01:47,206 --> 00:01:48,379 I'm on my way into work... 22 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:54,000 ...and I hear across the police radio... 23 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:56,275 I'm in the courthouse, in the Wilmington courthouse. 24 00:01:56,275 --> 00:01:57,551 We've got shots fired here. 25 00:01:57,620 --> 00:01:59,000 I'm heading in that direction. 26 00:02:03,793 --> 00:02:08,103 I get there and immediately I find Detective Shriner 27 00:02:08,103 --> 00:02:10,000 who said to me... 28 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,172 I got two hit the lobby, two hit the lobby. 29 00:02:12,172 --> 00:02:14,689 The first thing that hit me was the smell of gun smoke. 30 00:02:14,689 --> 00:02:16,896 There were two victims on the floor, 31 00:02:16,896 --> 00:02:19,793 and at that point, I went into policeman mode. 32 00:02:19,793 --> 00:02:21,586 Two women were shot. Gunman opened fire 33 00:02:21,586 --> 00:02:24,172 at the New Castle County courthouse this morning. 34 00:02:24,172 --> 00:02:26,689 The Matusiewicz's are a psychotic family 35 00:02:26,689 --> 00:02:30,000 that'll do whatever they want if it'll meet their objective. 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:32,137 I don't even wanna say sick. It's not an illness. 37 00:02:32,206 --> 00:02:33,448 They're crazy, 38 00:02:33,517 --> 00:02:36,000 twisted, evil people. 39 00:02:42,379 --> 00:02:45,344 So, the Matusiewicz family is made up of 40 00:02:45,413 --> 00:02:48,034 Thomas Matusiewicz, who's the father, 41 00:02:48,103 --> 00:02:50,655 and then Lenore Matusiewicz, who's his wife, 42 00:02:50,724 --> 00:02:53,551 and then David is the oldest child, 43 00:02:53,620 --> 00:02:55,275 and then their youngest was Amy. 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,793 For the Matusiewicz's, it was always family first, 45 00:03:10,793 --> 00:03:13,000 after Lenore's troubled childhood. 46 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:14,034 Lenore's upbringing, 47 00:03:14,034 --> 00:03:17,275 we know that she lived in a chaotic house. 48 00:03:17,275 --> 00:03:19,862 One thing about her childhood really stands out, 49 00:03:19,931 --> 00:03:22,379 and this is the claim that she made 50 00:03:22,379 --> 00:03:25,000 that she suffered from sexual abuse. 51 00:03:25,689 --> 00:03:27,689 As far as Tom's background, 52 00:03:27,689 --> 00:03:30,482 he was the golden child, he was the favorite. 53 00:03:30,482 --> 00:03:34,000 Growing up, Tom's mother and his father spoiled him, 54 00:03:34,689 --> 00:03:37,206 and anything that Tom wanted, Tom got. 55 00:03:39,068 --> 00:03:41,172 Having that type of upbringing 56 00:03:41,172 --> 00:03:43,896 really causes you to develop 57 00:03:43,896 --> 00:03:48,103 some sense of entitlement, some narcissistic tendencies. 58 00:03:53,172 --> 00:03:56,482 Myself and Tom, we were hired at the same time 59 00:03:56,482 --> 00:03:59,034 for the City of Vineland Police Department. 60 00:03:59,793 --> 00:04:02,034 We got to know each other pretty well. 61 00:04:03,310 --> 00:04:05,000 He was more or less quiet. 62 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:06,931 I mean, he wasn't outgoing at all. 63 00:04:07,310 --> 00:04:09,448 He really kept to himself. 64 00:04:09,517 --> 00:04:14,379 He was always really enthusiastic about guns. 65 00:04:14,379 --> 00:04:17,103 So, we would go out shooting on our days off. 66 00:04:17,103 --> 00:04:18,344 He was a good shot. 67 00:04:19,931 --> 00:04:21,551 Lenore felt like, at first, 68 00:04:21,620 --> 00:04:23,793 Tom was a good provider for the family, 69 00:04:23,793 --> 00:04:26,344 but throughout their years together, 70 00:04:26,413 --> 00:04:29,827 she saw that wasn't exactly the case. 71 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:49,482 As a family, 72 00:04:49,482 --> 00:04:54,137 they were dysfunctional at best. 73 00:04:55,517 --> 00:04:58,931 The kids were kind of unkept, 74 00:04:59,827 --> 00:05:03,448 and basically they were undisciplined. 75 00:05:03,517 --> 00:05:05,896 For a period of time, though, they lived in a motor home, 76 00:05:05,896 --> 00:05:09,172 and it was loaded with roaches and such. 77 00:05:09,172 --> 00:05:12,551 He would say that, "Well, Lenore says I gotta get another job. 78 00:05:12,620 --> 00:05:14,620 Lenore says I gotta get more money." 79 00:05:15,586 --> 00:05:18,620 So he started doing landscaping work 80 00:05:19,379 --> 00:05:20,931 and he called in sick, 81 00:05:23,586 --> 00:05:25,172 but one of the captains seen him 82 00:05:25,172 --> 00:05:27,896 cutting the grass when he was off sick. 83 00:05:27,896 --> 00:05:30,275 They told them that they were gonna fire him 84 00:05:30,275 --> 00:05:32,448 or he'd have to resign, 85 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:34,793 and he resigned. 86 00:05:34,793 --> 00:05:37,034 But Tom thought he had to do those jobs 87 00:05:37,103 --> 00:05:39,000 in order to survive, 88 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,241 and that they didn't want him to survive. 89 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,689 Because of the bad things 90 00:05:44,689 --> 00:05:46,793 that Tom perceived happening to him, 91 00:05:46,793 --> 00:05:50,689 he also passed along the belief that the government shouldn't be trusted, 92 00:05:50,689 --> 00:05:52,241 family comes first, 93 00:05:52,310 --> 00:05:54,172 "We need to take care of each other." 94 00:05:54,172 --> 00:05:57,482 All of the things that Lenore hoped her husband would be, 95 00:05:57,482 --> 00:06:01,000 be a good provider, be good father to the children, 96 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:02,862 she realized he was not those things. 97 00:06:02,931 --> 00:06:06,000 So she shifts her focus from Tom on to David. 98 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:09,793 David was always the favored child 99 00:06:09,793 --> 00:06:11,793 in every way. 100 00:06:11,793 --> 00:06:13,551 David could do no wrong. 101 00:06:14,379 --> 00:06:17,172 He was the one that they expected 102 00:06:17,172 --> 00:06:20,000 to go on and do great things for them. 103 00:06:20,793 --> 00:06:22,482 He excelled in school. 104 00:06:22,482 --> 00:06:24,103 He went to Glassboro State College 105 00:06:24,103 --> 00:06:26,344 and he became an optometrist. 106 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:29,586 Those parents really admired him 107 00:06:29,586 --> 00:06:32,241 and were really proud of everything he had done. 108 00:06:33,310 --> 00:06:34,793 After graduating, 109 00:06:34,793 --> 00:06:38,172 David starts his career as an optometrist in Delaware, 110 00:06:38,172 --> 00:06:42,000 where a fellow employee catches his eye. 111 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,896 David Matusiewicz and Christine Belford 112 00:06:44,896 --> 00:06:46,689 met in the late '90s 113 00:06:46,689 --> 00:06:48,896 at the Vision Center, where she worked, 114 00:06:48,896 --> 00:06:50,103 and he was a young optometrist, 115 00:06:50,103 --> 00:06:51,517 and they got along really well. 116 00:06:53,172 --> 00:06:57,896 Christine was super bubbly, very talkative, 117 00:06:57,896 --> 00:07:01,862 liked people, liked a lot of activity around her, 118 00:07:01,931 --> 00:07:04,551 just a a genuinely nice person. 119 00:07:06,793 --> 00:07:10,241 David was, by all appearances, 120 00:07:10,310 --> 00:07:11,620 a solid citizen. 121 00:07:12,827 --> 00:07:14,896 You would say that he's a pillar of society. 122 00:07:14,896 --> 00:07:19,172 He appeared on the local PBS affiliates weekly news magazine 123 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:21,379 talking about Vision Care, 124 00:07:21,379 --> 00:07:23,275 was involved in Special Olympics, 125 00:07:23,275 --> 00:07:26,379 he provided eyeglasses to some of the participants. 126 00:07:26,379 --> 00:07:29,517 David eventually bought the optometry practice 127 00:07:30,172 --> 00:07:32,448 and it thrived under his leadership. 128 00:07:33,172 --> 00:07:35,137 Christine admired that, 129 00:07:35,206 --> 00:07:37,310 and they sort of fell in with each other. 130 00:07:38,896 --> 00:07:40,482 Before Christine met David, 131 00:07:40,482 --> 00:07:42,000 she was married to another man. 132 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,344 She did have a daughter with that man. 133 00:07:45,413 --> 00:07:48,137 Christine was my sister-in-law, but also my friend. 134 00:07:48,206 --> 00:07:50,034 She was married to my brother Bill 135 00:07:50,517 --> 00:07:54,275 and they had my niece, Katie. 136 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:56,000 I was little when they got divorced, 137 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,620 and then we lived with my grandfather, me and my mom. 138 00:08:00,724 --> 00:08:02,965 Christine and her daughter Katie 139 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,931 were on their own, trying to find stability, 140 00:08:06,586 --> 00:08:09,137 and she found it in David. 141 00:08:09,206 --> 00:08:11,275 I don't remember the exact first time I met David, 142 00:08:11,275 --> 00:08:14,344 but I do remember living with David, and he was fun. 143 00:08:15,068 --> 00:08:17,000 He would play with me outside. 144 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,862 He put in a pool for me. 145 00:08:18,931 --> 00:08:20,241 He taught me how to swim. 146 00:08:21,103 --> 00:08:24,379 Christine and David married in the fall of 2001... 147 00:08:25,620 --> 00:08:27,275 ...and they bought a house. 148 00:08:27,275 --> 00:08:30,000 She thought she was, like, living like a queen. 149 00:08:30,689 --> 00:08:31,965 He was a good stepdad. 150 00:08:31,965 --> 00:08:34,620 He took care of me. He gave me everything I wanted. 151 00:08:36,931 --> 00:08:39,344 Christine and David have their first daughter together 152 00:08:39,413 --> 00:08:41,275 a few months after their wedding. 153 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:46,586 A year later, the family welcomes another little girl, 154 00:08:46,586 --> 00:08:49,793 I think they were happy at first, when she had my sisters. 155 00:08:51,482 --> 00:08:54,620 The oldest was like his prized possession. 156 00:08:55,172 --> 00:08:57,448 She looked like his family. 157 00:08:58,000 --> 00:08:59,241 Yeah. 158 00:09:00,379 --> 00:09:02,241 Four years into the marriage, 159 00:09:02,310 --> 00:09:04,068 they welcome a third daughter. 160 00:09:04,068 --> 00:09:08,310 The couple now has four kids, three still in diapers, 161 00:09:08,896 --> 00:09:11,034 David's parents, Lenore and Tom, 162 00:09:11,103 --> 00:09:13,206 move in with the young couple to help out, 163 00:09:16,275 --> 00:09:17,655 but right away, 164 00:09:17,724 --> 00:09:21,000 there is tension between Christine and Lenore. 165 00:09:32,586 --> 00:09:35,137 Almost immediately upon their arrival, 166 00:09:36,103 --> 00:09:39,482 Lenore thought that she ran the house. 167 00:09:39,482 --> 00:09:42,482 She questioned everything that Christine did, 168 00:09:42,482 --> 00:09:45,482 from what the children ate, to how they were dressed, 169 00:09:45,482 --> 00:09:50,241 to what time they went to bed, to baths. 170 00:09:50,310 --> 00:09:53,586 I think that abuse that she suffered when she was younger 171 00:09:53,586 --> 00:09:55,482 really affected her later on in life 172 00:09:55,482 --> 00:09:58,793 in that strong sense of family comes first 173 00:09:58,793 --> 00:10:00,103 and I have to protect my family 174 00:10:00,103 --> 00:10:01,896 and I have to keep them safe. 175 00:10:01,896 --> 00:10:03,586 In Lenore's mind, it wasn't, 176 00:10:03,586 --> 00:10:05,068 "I just wanna be there for Christine 177 00:10:05,068 --> 00:10:06,689 and help her with these grandchildren." 178 00:10:06,689 --> 00:10:08,000 In Lenore's mind, it was, 179 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,344 "I need to make sure that they are taken care of. 180 00:10:10,413 --> 00:10:12,724 Christine clearly is not doing a good enough job. 181 00:10:14,206 --> 00:10:16,517 These are now my children." 182 00:10:28,965 --> 00:10:30,965 Now living with their son and his wife, 183 00:10:30,965 --> 00:10:34,862 Lenore Matusiewicz is driving a wedge between the couple, 184 00:10:34,862 --> 00:10:38,000 questioning Christine's parenting at every turn. 185 00:10:39,206 --> 00:10:41,965 David remained more loyal to his mother 186 00:10:41,965 --> 00:10:43,862 than he did to his wife. 187 00:10:43,862 --> 00:10:46,103 Christine was just saying, 188 00:10:46,103 --> 00:10:48,620 "No, we need to decide this as a couple, 189 00:10:49,620 --> 00:10:53,000 and without Lenore inserting her opinion in," 190 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,827 and she kept losing, 191 00:10:54,896 --> 00:10:57,241 and it was frustrating 192 00:10:57,896 --> 00:11:01,068 and created a layer of friction. 193 00:11:01,068 --> 00:11:04,103 Lenore has never viewed Christine or Katie 194 00:11:04,103 --> 00:11:05,448 as part of the family, 195 00:11:05,517 --> 00:11:07,689 so she sees this as her opportunity 196 00:11:07,689 --> 00:11:09,862 to permanently get rid of Christine and Katie 197 00:11:09,862 --> 00:11:13,068 and slide in as the girl's maternal caretaker. 198 00:11:13,068 --> 00:11:15,137 There are a couple of different, odd dynamics 199 00:11:15,206 --> 00:11:17,241 that we see in this family. 200 00:11:18,103 --> 00:11:20,448 Lenore was the one in charge. 201 00:11:20,517 --> 00:11:24,068 Lenore has always ruled that family. 202 00:11:24,068 --> 00:11:28,103 If she said, "No," it didn't happen, 203 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,758 and if she said, "Yes," 204 00:11:31,827 --> 00:11:34,896 they all did whatever they could to make it happen. 205 00:11:36,103 --> 00:11:39,448 With tensions rising between Christine and David, 206 00:11:39,517 --> 00:11:42,931 Christine's daughter, Katie, is in the line of fire. 207 00:11:49,103 --> 00:11:51,068 Lenore was very 208 00:11:52,206 --> 00:11:54,689 overtly mean to Katie. 209 00:11:54,689 --> 00:11:56,793 Part of it was to make Katie 210 00:11:56,793 --> 00:11:58,482 feel uncomfortable in the house. 211 00:11:58,482 --> 00:12:02,413 It sort of kick started some other angst in Katie. 212 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,862 So, my sister was probably one and a half 213 00:12:06,862 --> 00:12:08,275 and she was getting a lot of attention 214 00:12:08,275 --> 00:12:10,758 because she had finally learned to walk, 215 00:12:10,827 --> 00:12:12,241 and I was not getting any, 216 00:12:12,310 --> 00:12:14,965 so I just tripped her when she walked by, 217 00:12:14,965 --> 00:12:17,482 and I got sent to my room. 218 00:12:17,482 --> 00:12:20,482 When I went up to my room, Dave came up with me 219 00:12:20,482 --> 00:12:23,724 and he told me not to touch any of his kids ever again. 220 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,172 David said, 221 00:12:27,172 --> 00:12:29,000 "If you touch my kids again, 222 00:12:29,689 --> 00:12:31,344 I'll throw you out this window," 223 00:12:33,068 --> 00:12:35,931 and Katie really took that to heart. 224 00:12:37,586 --> 00:12:41,241 That's when it became clear to me that I wasn't his kid 225 00:12:41,310 --> 00:12:43,000 and I wasn't a part of "the girls," 226 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,241 so that wasn't my family. 227 00:12:49,379 --> 00:12:51,827 Things really started to get bad, 228 00:12:51,896 --> 00:12:53,137 and Christine said, 229 00:12:53,137 --> 00:12:55,896 "David has been saying some really awful things to me." 230 00:13:19,586 --> 00:13:21,965 That was really the clincher for her. Like, 231 00:13:21,965 --> 00:13:24,931 "Oh, my God. This guy could do something to me." 232 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,448 It's difficult to describe David. 233 00:13:30,517 --> 00:13:32,551 David seemed to me to be a person 234 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:34,827 who was uncomfortable in his own skin. 235 00:13:36,586 --> 00:13:39,379 I don't know that he was trying to cover for something 236 00:13:39,379 --> 00:13:43,655 or that he was truly just living a life 237 00:13:43,724 --> 00:13:47,310 that he was afraid was going to fall apart at any moment. 238 00:13:49,379 --> 00:13:53,517 She just decided that the marriage was not working, 239 00:13:54,896 --> 00:13:57,000 and she decided to divorce David. 240 00:14:00,275 --> 00:14:03,000 It was so insulting to David. 241 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,068 He was an eye doctor, 242 00:14:05,068 --> 00:14:08,000 successful, well liked by his patients, 243 00:14:08,068 --> 00:14:10,275 and he was definitely angered by the fact that 244 00:14:10,275 --> 00:14:12,000 this woman would leave him. 245 00:14:13,689 --> 00:14:16,551 David fired her from her job at his clinic, 246 00:14:16,620 --> 00:14:19,068 and she very quickly got a job 247 00:14:19,068 --> 00:14:21,482 at another clinic for more money. 248 00:14:21,482 --> 00:14:22,862 She's making him look bad, 249 00:14:22,862 --> 00:14:24,655 and that pisses him off 250 00:14:24,724 --> 00:14:26,137 because he doesn't wanna look bad to other people. 251 00:14:26,206 --> 00:14:27,827 He's built his reputation. 252 00:14:29,068 --> 00:14:32,482 David did not wanna cooperate with the process. 253 00:14:32,482 --> 00:14:34,931 He wanted the children living with him full time. 254 00:14:35,896 --> 00:14:37,758 He wanted sole custody, 255 00:14:37,827 --> 00:14:39,000 meaning he makes all the decisions. 256 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,137 It was "my way of the highway" kind of an attitude. 257 00:14:42,206 --> 00:14:45,172 He has in his mind that she's an unfit mother, 258 00:14:45,172 --> 00:14:47,655 so he wants the court to have 259 00:14:47,724 --> 00:14:50,965 psychological evaluation done on Christine 260 00:14:50,965 --> 00:14:52,965 and the court ended up having 261 00:14:52,965 --> 00:14:55,551 psychological evaluations done on both of them. 262 00:14:57,379 --> 00:15:01,137 While the psychologist found no issues with her as a mother, 263 00:15:01,206 --> 00:15:03,896 they found that David, at times, 264 00:15:03,896 --> 00:15:07,241 seemed to be at risk of losing touch with reality. 265 00:15:07,310 --> 00:15:09,103 The psychologist said that David 266 00:15:09,103 --> 00:15:12,448 would do the same thing over and over and over again 267 00:15:12,517 --> 00:15:14,724 and think he was gonna get a different result. 268 00:15:15,517 --> 00:15:17,655 Doing the same thing over and over again, 269 00:15:17,724 --> 00:15:19,517 that's the definition of insanity. 270 00:15:22,793 --> 00:15:26,586 We had the custody hearing in February 2007. 271 00:15:26,586 --> 00:15:28,655 They got joint custody. 272 00:15:28,724 --> 00:15:30,689 Christine was really happy with it, 273 00:15:30,689 --> 00:15:33,000 but it didn't go the way David wanted. 274 00:15:34,586 --> 00:15:37,275 That's not enough for David, Tom and Lenore. 275 00:15:37,275 --> 00:15:39,758 They're all still under the same roof 276 00:15:39,827 --> 00:15:42,310 and they want the kids to themselves. 277 00:15:43,896 --> 00:15:48,103 David is now the person who's been wronged. 278 00:15:48,413 --> 00:15:50,068 Lenore said at one point 279 00:15:50,068 --> 00:15:54,068 that Christine had annihilated David's character. 280 00:15:54,068 --> 00:15:56,931 David's wanting to get revenge 281 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,448 for what Christine is doing to him. 282 00:16:02,172 --> 00:16:03,827 After the divorce, 283 00:16:04,586 --> 00:16:07,827 my mom went down to the Middletown house. 284 00:16:07,896 --> 00:16:10,689 I think it was to pick up the girls or drop them off. 285 00:16:10,689 --> 00:16:13,931 And David was there, and Tom and Lenore. 286 00:16:14,310 --> 00:16:16,000 When David left the room, 287 00:16:17,793 --> 00:16:19,896 Tom grabbed my mom by her arm 288 00:16:19,896 --> 00:16:23,482 and drug her out back through the sliding glass door 289 00:16:23,482 --> 00:16:25,000 in front of all of us. 290 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,931 I followed her outside, crying. 291 00:16:28,620 --> 00:16:31,172 He was yelling at her outside and calling her names. 292 00:16:31,172 --> 00:16:33,827 That was probably the first time I've ever seen Tom violent. 293 00:16:37,068 --> 00:16:39,379 Despite the escalating tensions, 294 00:16:39,379 --> 00:16:41,758 Christine still believes it's good for the girls 295 00:16:41,827 --> 00:16:43,413 to spend time with their father, 296 00:16:46,275 --> 00:16:47,965 so she gives David permission 297 00:16:47,965 --> 00:16:51,931 to take the three daughters on a trip to Disney World, 298 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,655 even though Lenore is also going. 299 00:16:55,620 --> 00:16:58,586 It was supposed to be a two-week trip. 300 00:16:58,586 --> 00:17:00,379 -Christine called the oldest daughter 301 00:17:00,379 --> 00:17:02,655 for the first couple of nights and talked to her, 302 00:17:02,724 --> 00:17:04,965 and the girl said she was a little tired, 303 00:17:04,965 --> 00:17:06,551 "We're doing a lot of driving," 304 00:17:06,620 --> 00:17:08,310 which made sense. They were driving to Florida. 305 00:17:13,379 --> 00:17:15,724 The third night, she called... 306 00:17:19,068 --> 00:17:21,241 ...and the phone kept going to voicemail. 307 00:17:25,758 --> 00:17:27,758 She said, "I have been calling... 308 00:17:29,965 --> 00:17:32,758 ...and I can't get ahold of the girls." 309 00:17:32,827 --> 00:17:35,724 She said, "Jeni, I don't think the girls are coming back." 310 00:17:51,655 --> 00:17:53,586 I was the missing persons investigator 311 00:17:53,586 --> 00:17:56,655 for New Castle County Police in 2007. 312 00:17:56,655 --> 00:17:58,172 My first inclination was 313 00:17:58,172 --> 00:18:00,896 it was a father taking his kids on vacation 314 00:18:01,689 --> 00:18:03,344 and they failed to return 315 00:18:03,344 --> 00:18:05,931 on the exact time they're supposed to be returned. 316 00:18:07,379 --> 00:18:08,620 But you could tell in her voice 317 00:18:08,689 --> 00:18:10,172 she thought something was wrong, 318 00:18:11,379 --> 00:18:13,000 and now I'm thinking, 319 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:14,827 "Is he late coming home from Florida, 320 00:18:14,896 --> 00:18:16,620 or did something worse happen? 321 00:18:16,689 --> 00:18:18,724 Did he just try to take off with these children?" 322 00:18:21,137 --> 00:18:22,758 I was able to obtain a search warrant 323 00:18:22,758 --> 00:18:24,379 for the residence in Middletown. 324 00:18:24,379 --> 00:18:25,655 It was vacant, 325 00:18:25,655 --> 00:18:28,793 which was very unusual to me because Thomas lived there. 326 00:18:29,793 --> 00:18:31,862 The house, for somebody who's an eye doctor 327 00:18:31,862 --> 00:18:34,793 was very disheveled from the outside alone. 328 00:18:34,793 --> 00:18:37,689 We didn't have a key. We had to force entry into the house. 329 00:18:44,758 --> 00:18:46,827 There was just a bunch of trash. 330 00:18:48,068 --> 00:18:50,172 The most interesting thing I found 331 00:18:50,172 --> 00:18:52,103 is when I went to the fireplace 332 00:18:52,896 --> 00:18:54,344 and it was nothing but ashes, 333 00:18:54,344 --> 00:18:57,448 except the only thing that did not burn 334 00:18:57,448 --> 00:19:00,241 was David and Christine's divorce papers. 335 00:19:01,482 --> 00:19:04,586 There was something bitter with this. You could tell. 336 00:19:06,689 --> 00:19:10,137 At that point, we figured it was a full on abduction. 337 00:19:12,379 --> 00:19:13,965 The number one thing that concerned us, 338 00:19:13,965 --> 00:19:16,724 he had over a two-week head start on us. 339 00:19:18,172 --> 00:19:20,827 The children's mother reported them missing. 340 00:19:20,896 --> 00:19:22,827 Law enforcement have determined 341 00:19:22,896 --> 00:19:27,517 Matusiewicz got away in an RV with his mother Lenore. 342 00:19:27,586 --> 00:19:30,172 The thing about people doing crazy things, 343 00:19:30,172 --> 00:19:32,034 you don't think about a solid citizen 344 00:19:32,034 --> 00:19:33,482 running away from their house. 345 00:19:33,482 --> 00:19:34,793 He had a nice house. 346 00:19:34,793 --> 00:19:36,896 He had a very successful practice. 347 00:19:36,896 --> 00:19:39,689 So it never occurred to me 348 00:19:39,689 --> 00:19:42,241 and probably, presumably, never occurred to Chris 349 00:19:42,241 --> 00:19:45,551 that these boxes were things he was packing 350 00:19:45,551 --> 00:19:46,827 to get out of there. 351 00:19:47,137 --> 00:19:48,275 He's not a vagrant. 352 00:19:48,275 --> 00:19:49,931 He's not a drifter. 353 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:51,689 He's not a drug dealer. 354 00:19:51,689 --> 00:19:54,137 He's not a fugitive from law. 355 00:19:54,137 --> 00:19:57,689 He didn't have the profile for somebody who'd cut and run. 356 00:19:59,689 --> 00:20:01,862 We started pulling credit card information 357 00:20:01,862 --> 00:20:04,172 and the last of anything we could find 358 00:20:04,896 --> 00:20:06,448 was in North Carolina where they stopped 359 00:20:06,448 --> 00:20:08,482 and got fuel with a credit card. 360 00:20:11,034 --> 00:20:12,896 From that point forward, 361 00:20:12,896 --> 00:20:15,517 there were zero transactions on that credit card, 362 00:20:15,586 --> 00:20:17,931 there were zero ATM withdrawals, 363 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,793 there was no financial trail for us to look at 364 00:20:20,793 --> 00:20:22,793 to try and determine where they went. 365 00:20:23,482 --> 00:20:26,000 It's not making a lot of sense to me. 366 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,379 Then I end up catching a break. 367 00:20:29,379 --> 00:20:31,379 Prior to departing Delaware, 368 00:20:31,379 --> 00:20:33,482 David took a lot of steps 369 00:20:33,482 --> 00:20:36,413 to liquidate a lot of assets. 370 00:20:36,482 --> 00:20:39,000 He had a very successful optometry business. 371 00:20:39,068 --> 00:20:41,689 He sold that business for a profit. 372 00:20:41,689 --> 00:20:44,586 He cashed out his individual retirement account, his IRA, 373 00:20:45,655 --> 00:20:47,862 and then committed wire and bank fraud 374 00:20:47,862 --> 00:20:50,586 by doing an illegal refinance 375 00:20:50,586 --> 00:20:53,931 of the home that he owned in Middletown, Delaware. 376 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,000 So when the bank got upset, the FBI got interested. 377 00:21:00,068 --> 00:21:03,724 David had upwards of a million dollars in cash when he took off. 378 00:21:04,482 --> 00:21:06,000 I know, from my experience, 379 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:07,689 that someone with a million dollars of cash 380 00:21:07,689 --> 00:21:09,482 is extremely difficult to track. 381 00:21:11,482 --> 00:21:15,758 We had no idea where this guy was running to. 382 00:21:15,758 --> 00:21:17,517 I was starting to fear for these kids. 383 00:21:17,586 --> 00:21:19,724 The outcome could not be good if we don't find them, 384 00:21:19,793 --> 00:21:21,310 and find them as fast as we can. 385 00:21:23,137 --> 00:21:26,310 One thing that I've learned as a fugitive investigator, 386 00:21:26,379 --> 00:21:29,000 for the most part, people are creatures of habit. 387 00:21:29,068 --> 00:21:31,000 So we were trying to interview people that we thought 388 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,896 maybe David would reach out to or keep in contact with. 389 00:21:35,482 --> 00:21:39,827 Investigators start by reaching out to David's sister, Amy. 390 00:21:40,793 --> 00:21:43,344 Myself and the marshals, we drove over to New Jersey 391 00:21:43,344 --> 00:21:45,068 and met Amy face to face, 392 00:21:45,068 --> 00:21:46,896 and she gave the similar type answers. 393 00:21:46,896 --> 00:21:48,379 Didn't know how they got there, 394 00:21:48,379 --> 00:21:50,000 wasn't concerned about them. 395 00:22:03,137 --> 00:22:04,758 I was trying to explain to her that, 396 00:22:04,758 --> 00:22:08,241 while she loves her brother and she wants to protect him, 397 00:22:08,793 --> 00:22:10,724 she also has three nieces 398 00:22:10,793 --> 00:22:12,000 that she needs to look out for. 399 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,689 I thought she was ready to break 400 00:22:13,689 --> 00:22:15,724 and tell me what I needed to know, 401 00:22:16,034 --> 00:22:17,344 and then very quickly, 402 00:22:17,344 --> 00:22:19,827 she composed herself, 403 00:22:20,689 --> 00:22:22,586 became a stone, 404 00:22:22,586 --> 00:22:24,310 and gave us nothing else. 405 00:22:26,241 --> 00:22:30,000 Next, detectives tracked down David's dad Tom, 406 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:32,344 who now lives in Smyrna, Delaware. 407 00:22:32,344 --> 00:22:34,034 His answers were really vague. 408 00:22:34,034 --> 00:22:35,793 He didn't know how they got to Florida, 409 00:22:35,793 --> 00:22:37,310 didn't know when they were coming back. 410 00:22:37,379 --> 00:22:38,586 A lot of didn't knows. 411 00:22:38,586 --> 00:22:42,310 Now, we're talking a month or two into this case. 412 00:22:42,379 --> 00:22:45,000 Had had no concern at all about where his wife, 413 00:22:45,068 --> 00:22:47,172 son and grandkids were, 414 00:22:47,172 --> 00:22:48,482 and that part didn't sell. 415 00:22:49,793 --> 00:22:51,965 At that point, in my mind, 416 00:22:51,965 --> 00:22:53,241 I was thinking, "You're complicit in this." 417 00:22:53,241 --> 00:22:55,000 You could tell that this family, 418 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,655 A, they were smarter than everybody else, 419 00:22:57,655 --> 00:22:59,793 B, they were kind of narcissistic. 420 00:23:01,103 --> 00:23:03,310 Lenore thought she's the only one 421 00:23:03,379 --> 00:23:04,620 who could raise these kids. 422 00:23:04,689 --> 00:23:05,965 That was her mindset. 423 00:23:05,965 --> 00:23:07,965 You know, obviously, David it was her son, 424 00:23:07,965 --> 00:23:10,068 and she's gonna stick with her son through thick and thin, 425 00:23:10,068 --> 00:23:14,241 so, "If it takes us grabbing a Winnebago and taking off 426 00:23:14,241 --> 00:23:16,724 so Christine can't have 'em, we're gonna do it," 427 00:23:18,379 --> 00:23:21,068 and it was as much as her plan as it was David's. 428 00:23:26,586 --> 00:23:28,275 I never saw Christine cry, 429 00:23:29,344 --> 00:23:31,551 but as time went on, 430 00:23:31,551 --> 00:23:33,517 she would become more and more worried. 431 00:23:35,103 --> 00:23:38,137 Her biggest concern was that she would never see them again. 432 00:23:42,034 --> 00:23:43,724 During the course of the investigation, 433 00:23:43,793 --> 00:23:47,517 we learned that Thomas moved from Smyrna, Delaware, 434 00:23:47,586 --> 00:23:48,896 to Edcouch, Texas. 435 00:23:50,793 --> 00:23:54,551 Initially, it was just Thomas living there. 436 00:23:54,551 --> 00:23:56,517 A ranch style home 437 00:23:56,586 --> 00:23:59,137 with a small bit of land around it, 438 00:23:59,137 --> 00:24:01,689 pretty close to the southern border, 439 00:24:01,689 --> 00:24:02,965 but then later, 440 00:24:02,965 --> 00:24:06,000 Amy ended up moving to that same location. 441 00:24:06,689 --> 00:24:08,517 So I reached out to our office in Texas 442 00:24:08,586 --> 00:24:11,000 and I asked them to help me out with confirming 443 00:24:11,068 --> 00:24:14,482 that David and the three girls are nowhere in that area. 444 00:24:18,551 --> 00:24:22,000 Weeks are going by. They're spending significant amount of time... 445 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:24,413 ...checking on that property, 446 00:24:24,413 --> 00:24:27,310 researching, interviewing people, things of that nature, 447 00:24:28,793 --> 00:24:30,068 with no results. 448 00:24:31,379 --> 00:24:32,793 Becoming extremely frustrated. 449 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,206 And then a grim discovery 450 00:24:41,482 --> 00:24:45,482 leads investigators to another location in Texas. 451 00:24:46,068 --> 00:24:48,517 Galveston, Texas, Police Department 452 00:24:48,586 --> 00:24:51,379 found a deceased two-year-old child 453 00:24:51,379 --> 00:24:52,827 in the Galveston Bay. 454 00:25:02,482 --> 00:25:04,862 Christine Belford is in agony. 455 00:25:04,862 --> 00:25:06,896 Her ex-husband, David Matusiewicz, 456 00:25:06,896 --> 00:25:08,310 and David's mother Lenore, 457 00:25:08,379 --> 00:25:10,586 have abducted her three young daughters. 458 00:25:10,586 --> 00:25:14,103 Now a two year old's body is found in the Galveston Bay, 459 00:25:14,103 --> 00:25:16,310 leaving the mother to fear the worst. 460 00:25:20,379 --> 00:25:24,931 I get a call from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. 461 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,896 They requested me to get hold of Christine 462 00:25:27,896 --> 00:25:30,379 and get a DNA sample, 463 00:25:32,275 --> 00:25:34,931 and so I had to call Christine 464 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,517 tell her why I needed one. 465 00:25:37,379 --> 00:25:39,275 She had to wait 466 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:42,689 to find out if that was her youngest child. 467 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:49,137 That was one of the hardest things I've done in all my years. 468 00:25:49,137 --> 00:25:52,068 You know, I've been around murderers and all that. 469 00:25:52,482 --> 00:25:53,724 That was tough. 470 00:25:57,172 --> 00:25:58,931 But thankfully, it was not heraldry. 471 00:25:59,965 --> 00:26:01,862 Tragically, that little girl 472 00:26:01,862 --> 00:26:04,620 turns out to be Riley Ann Sawyers, 473 00:26:04,689 --> 00:26:07,896 who'd been killed by her mother and her mother's boyfriend. 474 00:26:07,896 --> 00:26:09,862 I think those things 475 00:26:09,862 --> 00:26:12,827 brought that into her mind, like, 476 00:26:12,896 --> 00:26:14,551 "Maybe he would harm the girls," 477 00:26:14,551 --> 00:26:17,413 and that became her biggest concern, 478 00:26:18,034 --> 00:26:19,413 that they would kill them. 479 00:26:30,379 --> 00:26:33,000 Christine said she couldn't even go into stores 480 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:35,379 'cause she would just remember being with the girls. 481 00:26:35,379 --> 00:26:38,310 She couldn't watch a TV show with children in it. 482 00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:41,103 She was fully focused on finding them, 483 00:26:41,103 --> 00:26:43,931 like any mom would. You know, the flyers. 484 00:26:51,689 --> 00:26:54,379 She was just distraught. 485 00:26:55,275 --> 00:26:56,758 I told Christine that, you know, 486 00:26:56,758 --> 00:26:59,551 I'm gonna do everything in my power to find her daughters. 487 00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:03,068 It's what police officers do, you know? 488 00:27:05,172 --> 00:27:07,275 I'm trying to figure out how I can generate new leads, 489 00:27:07,275 --> 00:27:09,724 another angle to take. 490 00:27:09,793 --> 00:27:12,103 I started focusing in more on Amy. 491 00:27:12,103 --> 00:27:16,620 I need to know, if she is in touch with David, 492 00:27:16,965 --> 00:27:18,413 how are they talking? 493 00:27:19,379 --> 00:27:21,103 I went to the state AG's office 494 00:27:21,103 --> 00:27:23,034 for subpoenas and court orders, 495 00:27:23,034 --> 00:27:27,551 and that response is a half a ream of paper of records. 496 00:27:27,551 --> 00:27:29,000 It's a needle in a haystack. 497 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,482 I'm trying to find that one piece of information 498 00:27:32,482 --> 00:27:34,206 that will be my next lead, 499 00:27:35,482 --> 00:27:38,137 and what that ended up being was 500 00:27:40,103 --> 00:27:43,620 a call that came out of Panama to Amy, 501 00:27:44,793 --> 00:27:48,137 and when I started to do a little bit of research on that, 502 00:27:49,137 --> 00:27:51,965 it turns out to be a hotel in Panama. 503 00:27:51,965 --> 00:27:54,689 That gave me the indication that there was potential 504 00:27:54,689 --> 00:27:57,379 that David and the three girls were in Panama. 505 00:28:04,551 --> 00:28:06,379 Well, now, what do I do with that? 506 00:28:06,379 --> 00:28:08,655 Since that's a foreign country, 507 00:28:08,655 --> 00:28:10,172 I have no jurisdiction there. 508 00:28:11,586 --> 00:28:16,068 The Marshals Service has a diplomatic Security Service liaison agent... 509 00:28:16,068 --> 00:28:18,344 ...so I reached out and said, 510 00:28:18,344 --> 00:28:21,000 "I need someone to go over to this hotel 511 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000 and just to get an idea as to how this occurred." 512 00:28:24,793 --> 00:28:27,068 Unfortunately, everything at that point 513 00:28:27,068 --> 00:28:30,413 needed to flow through a certain bureaucratic red tape. 514 00:28:32,655 --> 00:28:34,827 That was a slow process. 515 00:28:36,655 --> 00:28:38,517 A couple of months, 516 00:28:38,586 --> 00:28:39,931 I still didn't hear anything. 517 00:28:42,793 --> 00:28:44,758 Things were thrown across the office 518 00:28:44,758 --> 00:28:48,862 because I knew what this meant to Christine 519 00:28:48,862 --> 00:28:53,172 and I had a bad feeling about the Matusiewicz family. 520 00:28:56,103 --> 00:28:58,724 It was over a year since this kidnapping 521 00:28:58,793 --> 00:29:03,310 before I finally got confirmation they were in Panama. 522 00:29:05,275 --> 00:29:07,724 David had purchased a house 523 00:29:07,793 --> 00:29:11,310 in a community where a lot of North Americans had settled. 524 00:29:13,275 --> 00:29:15,931 But my gut tells me the wrong person was interviewed 525 00:29:17,241 --> 00:29:20,758 that either was untruthful with the investigator 526 00:29:20,758 --> 00:29:23,793 or David had a stronger relationship 527 00:29:23,793 --> 00:29:25,724 with that person that was interviewed. 528 00:29:25,793 --> 00:29:28,275 But whatever it was, David was tipped off 529 00:29:28,275 --> 00:29:31,827 that we knew they were in Panama, 530 00:29:32,689 --> 00:29:34,724 and they ended up fleeing out of Panama. 531 00:29:35,344 --> 00:29:36,793 He still had the RV, 532 00:29:36,793 --> 00:29:40,068 had it packed and ready to go at a moment's notice, 533 00:29:40,068 --> 00:29:42,137 so he threw everybody into the RV, 534 00:29:43,172 --> 00:29:44,620 and the chase was on again. 535 00:29:46,034 --> 00:29:48,000 David and Lenore get away, 536 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,931 but investigators are closing in on where they are 537 00:29:52,379 --> 00:29:54,344 and who's been helping them. 538 00:29:54,344 --> 00:29:56,586 One of the things that we were able to do 539 00:29:56,586 --> 00:29:58,310 is target an email address 540 00:29:58,379 --> 00:30:00,517 that we knew was being used by Amy Gonzalez. 541 00:30:01,862 --> 00:30:06,000 Amy is reaching out to the Bank of Montreal... 542 00:30:07,275 --> 00:30:10,827 ...to facilitate a wire transfer down to Nicaragua. 543 00:30:11,586 --> 00:30:15,724 I find a RE/MAX realtor being contacted. 544 00:30:17,137 --> 00:30:18,758 Now I'm pretty confident 545 00:30:18,758 --> 00:30:21,413 that Amy is facilitating another purchase. 546 00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:26,241 Now I'm at a point where, 547 00:30:26,241 --> 00:30:29,896 do I go through the same thing that I just went through 548 00:30:30,241 --> 00:30:32,517 for 16, 17 months? 549 00:30:34,172 --> 00:30:37,206 No. I can't let these girls continue to go through that. 550 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,000 So I take a trip to my headquarters, 551 00:30:40,068 --> 00:30:43,448 and it was a very spirited conversation I had with my international branch. 552 00:30:43,448 --> 00:30:46,758 I don't know what was said to the foreign investigators, 553 00:30:46,758 --> 00:30:51,000 but the foreign investigator that was in Nicaragua did a fantastic job. 554 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,551 I couldn't have done a better job myself. 555 00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:54,000 That investigator went out, 556 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,310 conducted the interview with a RE/MAX agent, 557 00:30:57,137 --> 00:31:00,310 got the piece of property that David had purchased, 558 00:31:00,379 --> 00:31:01,896 went there, 559 00:31:01,896 --> 00:31:03,793 put eyes on David... 560 00:31:03,793 --> 00:31:05,931 ...put eyes on Lenore... 561 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,275 ...and, more importantly, put eyes on all three girls. 562 00:31:08,275 --> 00:31:10,586 About 11:30 pm, 563 00:31:10,586 --> 00:31:14,068 a US Marshals and a New Castle County police detective 564 00:31:14,068 --> 00:31:16,068 came to my door... 565 00:31:16,068 --> 00:31:19,068 ...knocking on the door, very excited. "We found them." 566 00:31:19,068 --> 00:31:23,000 And when they told me they were in Nicaragua, I was quite surprised. 567 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,448 When we went out to Christine's house 568 00:31:24,448 --> 00:31:27,379 and told her we had a location of children, 569 00:31:27,379 --> 00:31:30,724 she hugged me and she was ecstatic. 570 00:31:32,862 --> 00:31:36,310 She needed to immediately make flight arrangements to get down there. 571 00:31:40,482 --> 00:31:42,724 Christine heads to Nicaragua 572 00:31:42,793 --> 00:31:46,000 for what she hopes is a reunion with her children. 573 00:31:46,068 --> 00:31:47,965 Meanwhile, local police make sure 574 00:31:47,965 --> 00:31:51,103 David and Lenore can't slip away again. 575 00:32:02,965 --> 00:32:05,448 They watched David leave with the oldest daughter, 576 00:32:05,448 --> 00:32:06,724 taking her to school. 577 00:32:10,896 --> 00:32:12,482 They end up stopping the truck, 578 00:32:14,862 --> 00:32:17,517 arresting him, recovering the one child. 579 00:32:21,482 --> 00:32:24,413 They then have a team that goes back to the RV. 580 00:32:24,689 --> 00:32:25,931 They arrest Lenore 581 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,275 and recover the other two children. 582 00:32:27,275 --> 00:32:29,172 The three girls were found safe 583 00:32:29,172 --> 00:32:31,034 and reunited with their mother, 584 00:32:31,034 --> 00:32:34,137 something a New Castle County Missing Persons detective 585 00:32:34,137 --> 00:32:36,137 had promised what happened. 586 00:32:36,137 --> 00:32:38,862 I told the mother that I'm not gonna give up, 587 00:32:38,862 --> 00:32:40,379 so that's what we did. 588 00:32:40,379 --> 00:32:42,344 After 19 months, 589 00:32:42,344 --> 00:32:45,586 I finally have the kids back with their mother. 590 00:32:45,586 --> 00:32:47,275 We met our objective. 591 00:32:55,172 --> 00:32:58,413 When the girls came back, Christine was ecstatic. 592 00:32:58,482 --> 00:33:01,137 She was just happy, happy, happy. 593 00:33:09,448 --> 00:33:11,310 The girls were unfortunately told 594 00:33:11,379 --> 00:33:15,000 that Christine not only died 595 00:33:15,068 --> 00:33:16,827 and was no longer there, 596 00:33:16,896 --> 00:33:18,482 but that she committed suicide. 597 00:33:20,068 --> 00:33:22,724 The girls had nothing to run away back to, 598 00:33:22,793 --> 00:33:25,068 and there was no one around them 599 00:33:25,068 --> 00:33:27,241 that spoke their language, 600 00:33:27,241 --> 00:33:29,000 that they could go to for help. 601 00:33:29,068 --> 00:33:31,068 They probably fell in line pretty easily 602 00:33:31,068 --> 00:33:32,724 just because they felt trapped. 603 00:33:35,103 --> 00:33:38,068 When my mom did finally bring my sisters home, 604 00:33:38,068 --> 00:33:40,000 they didn't look like my sisters. 605 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,724 They were skinny. 606 00:33:42,482 --> 00:33:44,965 They looked dirty. 607 00:33:44,965 --> 00:33:47,137 They had haircuts that Lenore had given them, 608 00:33:47,137 --> 00:33:48,620 so they all had a mullet. 609 00:33:49,655 --> 00:33:51,551 And then the little one, 610 00:33:51,551 --> 00:33:53,965 she had the worst case of pinkeye 611 00:33:53,965 --> 00:33:57,103 I think that I have ever seen. 612 00:33:57,103 --> 00:33:59,000 I don't know why you would take the girls 613 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:02,000 and not want to actually take care of them, 614 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,275 you know, mentally, emotionally, physically. 615 00:34:05,896 --> 00:34:07,862 This gets back to David's idea 616 00:34:07,862 --> 00:34:10,241 that these girls are his property, 617 00:34:10,241 --> 00:34:14,448 and if he and Lenore want them to be neglected, then that's fine. 618 00:34:14,448 --> 00:34:17,517 He's their father. He dictates what happens to them. 619 00:34:18,379 --> 00:34:20,896 He loves them, but it's a very empty love. 620 00:34:23,137 --> 00:34:27,482 I visited Christine within a week after their return. 621 00:34:27,482 --> 00:34:30,000 They all seemed happy to be around her. 622 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,413 Literally, they were crawling all over her, 623 00:34:32,482 --> 00:34:33,965 the house was happy, 624 00:34:33,965 --> 00:34:36,206 filled with three laughing children, 625 00:34:36,551 --> 00:34:38,931 and it just seemed like, 626 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,965 "Wow, this awful story is gonna have a happy ending," 627 00:34:44,965 --> 00:34:48,965 and that's when, really, the reign of terror started. 628 00:35:10,793 --> 00:35:12,724 There are certain types of criminals 629 00:35:13,172 --> 00:35:17,413 who really are committed 630 00:35:18,034 --> 00:35:19,620 to their criminal objectives. 631 00:35:22,551 --> 00:35:26,275 The Matusiewicz family was fueled by grievance, 632 00:35:27,482 --> 00:35:29,137 grievance at the system, 633 00:35:29,137 --> 00:35:30,517 grievance at the government, 634 00:35:30,586 --> 00:35:32,517 and grievance at Christine Belford. 635 00:35:33,068 --> 00:35:35,413 The law is not going to stop them. 636 00:35:35,482 --> 00:35:38,000 It may slow them down for a while, 637 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,103 but unless they are incapacitated... 638 00:35:40,103 --> 00:35:42,620 ...it will not stop them. 639 00:35:49,379 --> 00:35:52,448 Lenore was charged in state court 640 00:35:52,448 --> 00:35:54,448 for endangering the kids, 641 00:35:54,448 --> 00:35:57,620 and David was being charged federally, 642 00:35:57,689 --> 00:36:00,724 with kidnapping and with bank fraud, 643 00:36:02,137 --> 00:36:03,448 but the news of the hearing 644 00:36:03,448 --> 00:36:06,310 was the fact that David's lawyer, 645 00:36:06,379 --> 00:36:09,793 suggested that the reason he had fled with the children 646 00:36:09,793 --> 00:36:12,724 was that Christine was sexually abusing them. 647 00:36:15,137 --> 00:36:18,103 Supposedly, this make-believe abuse 648 00:36:18,103 --> 00:36:20,517 had been going on for a long time. 649 00:36:20,586 --> 00:36:25,206 Never once had he ever said anything about that. 650 00:36:26,758 --> 00:36:30,241 If you can make an accusation like that and make it stick, 651 00:36:30,586 --> 00:36:32,724 you win the case. 652 00:36:32,793 --> 00:36:35,448 I'd spoken to Thomas and it never came up. 653 00:36:35,448 --> 00:36:39,413 I spoke to Amy in person, and that never came up. 654 00:36:40,068 --> 00:36:41,586 As the lead investigator on the case, 655 00:36:41,586 --> 00:36:43,172 you'd think somebody in this family 656 00:36:43,172 --> 00:36:46,241 might wanna give me a clue why David might be running. 657 00:36:46,241 --> 00:36:48,172 If he's using that excuse, 658 00:36:48,862 --> 00:36:50,724 why wouldn't they get in touch with me? 659 00:36:50,793 --> 00:36:52,620 It was something that I believe 660 00:36:52,689 --> 00:36:55,724 that Lenore cooked up as a backup plan 661 00:36:55,793 --> 00:36:58,482 to somehow try to justify his actions. 662 00:37:13,689 --> 00:37:15,172 Lenore telling these stories 663 00:37:15,172 --> 00:37:17,344 is a way of her expressing the abuse 664 00:37:17,344 --> 00:37:20,034 that she suffered as a child. 665 00:37:20,034 --> 00:37:24,310 The worst type of abuse that can happen to a child is sexual abuse. 666 00:37:24,379 --> 00:37:27,551 Lenore never dealt with that trauma, 667 00:37:27,551 --> 00:37:30,931 and this was her way of trying to deal with it, 668 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,517 even though she would never admit to that. 669 00:37:34,482 --> 00:37:38,586 I think Lenore, when she first made this claim to David, 670 00:37:39,482 --> 00:37:41,689 David didn't believe it. 671 00:37:41,689 --> 00:37:44,655 However, he also agreed with Lenore that, 672 00:37:44,655 --> 00:37:48,379 if you could convince the jury that this happened to the girls, 673 00:37:48,379 --> 00:37:50,758 there was no way that they were gonna give those back to Christine, 674 00:37:50,758 --> 00:37:52,620 and then Lenore and David would win. 675 00:37:54,034 --> 00:37:56,758 You would think that one would learn their lesson that, 676 00:37:56,758 --> 00:37:59,689 "You did wrong. You've kidnapped these children, 677 00:37:59,689 --> 00:38:02,931 and you paid the price for kidnapping these children," 678 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,137 but Lenore, obviously, she had no limits. 679 00:38:07,379 --> 00:38:08,758 We have an institution 680 00:38:08,758 --> 00:38:11,482 where children at risk in Delaware 681 00:38:11,482 --> 00:38:14,000 are interviewed by psychologists 682 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,931 to try to ferret out any evidence from the child 683 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,000 on whether they've been abused or not. 684 00:38:20,068 --> 00:38:23,275 The girls went through that kind of process, 685 00:38:23,275 --> 00:38:26,103 and, of course, there was no corroborating evidence. 686 00:38:27,275 --> 00:38:29,310 These false narratives, 687 00:38:29,379 --> 00:38:33,275 it's one thing to say them out loud in public, 688 00:38:33,275 --> 00:38:36,827 it's quite another thing to try to prove them in a courtroom. 689 00:38:37,689 --> 00:38:40,655 The judge took pains to point out that, 690 00:38:40,655 --> 00:38:42,896 you know, "I find none of this credible." 691 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000 Both David and his mother pleaded guilty. 692 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,517 They didn't want a trial. 693 00:38:48,586 --> 00:38:51,103 Lenore got 18 months in state prison 694 00:38:51,103 --> 00:38:54,448 and David got four years in federal prison 695 00:38:54,448 --> 00:38:59,551 on charges of parental kidnapping and bank fraud. 696 00:38:59,551 --> 00:39:02,689 I remember my mom telling me that they had been sentenced 697 00:39:02,689 --> 00:39:04,827 and that they were gonna be away for a little while. 698 00:39:05,551 --> 00:39:08,517 It wasn't forever, but it was like a... 699 00:39:08,586 --> 00:39:12,000 We could just sit and breathe because they were gone. 700 00:39:15,586 --> 00:39:17,724 After David and Lenore were sentenced, 701 00:39:19,172 --> 00:39:22,482 I just felt that the case was never gonna go away. 702 00:39:23,379 --> 00:39:24,827 It was just a gut feeling. 703 00:39:25,758 --> 00:39:27,965 This is a psychotic family 704 00:39:27,965 --> 00:39:32,000 that'll do whatever they want to meet their objective. 705 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,827 This was about retribution. 706 00:39:35,896 --> 00:39:37,896 This was about vengeance. 707 00:39:37,896 --> 00:39:41,620 This was about annihilating Christine Belford 708 00:39:42,448 --> 00:39:45,965 for what she did, in their minds, 709 00:39:45,965 --> 00:39:48,620 not just to David but to their entire family. 710 00:39:58,758 --> 00:40:00,724 I knew my mom was scared of them. 711 00:40:00,793 --> 00:40:02,931 She didn't have to say it. I just knew. 712 00:40:10,241 --> 00:40:12,517 Years after David was sentenced, 713 00:40:12,586 --> 00:40:14,655 I'm on my way into work 714 00:40:14,655 --> 00:40:17,034 and I hear across the police radio 715 00:40:17,034 --> 00:40:20,517 that there was a shooting in the courthouse. 716 00:40:23,758 --> 00:40:25,862 I'm in the courthouse, in the Wilmington courthouse. 717 00:40:25,862 --> 00:40:27,758 We got shots fired here. 718 00:40:27,758 --> 00:40:30,448 I got two hit in the lobby. Two hit in the lobby. 719 00:40:30,448 --> 00:40:32,137 I immediately reached out to my team... 720 00:40:34,034 --> 00:40:35,448 ...and asked if any of them 721 00:40:35,448 --> 00:40:37,379 could respond down to the courthouse. 722 00:40:38,965 --> 00:40:40,793 I'm heading in that direction. 723 00:40:40,793 --> 00:40:45,827 Get there and immediately I find Detective Shriner, 724 00:40:45,896 --> 00:40:47,724 who had been reassigned 725 00:40:47,793 --> 00:40:52,068 as the New Castle County police liaison officer for the courthouse. 726 00:40:52,068 --> 00:40:54,827 Detective Shriner said to me, 727 00:40:54,896 --> 00:40:57,413 "Christine's in this building for a custody hearing." 728 00:41:00,965 --> 00:41:03,379 Even with David and Lenore behind bars, 729 00:41:03,379 --> 00:41:07,310 the Matusiewicz family is still dangerous, unpredictable, 730 00:41:07,379 --> 00:41:10,000 and laser focused on Christine and her children. 731 00:41:10,068 --> 00:41:11,482 They wanna get revenge 732 00:41:11,482 --> 00:41:13,965 by making Christine's life a living hell, 733 00:41:13,965 --> 00:41:16,724 and take away everything she's ever loved. 734 00:41:16,793 --> 00:41:19,000 They'll do anything to get her out of the way, 735 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000 including taking the three girls from her permanently. 736 00:41:36,068 --> 00:41:38,689 Lenore is in prison, David is in prison, 737 00:41:38,689 --> 00:41:40,689 but Amy and Tom are not in prison. 738 00:41:40,689 --> 00:41:43,551 So they still had two people on the outside. 739 00:41:43,551 --> 00:41:46,275 The Matusiewiczes believed that the court system 740 00:41:46,275 --> 00:41:47,310 had wronged them. 741 00:41:47,551 --> 00:41:49,068 At the same time, 742 00:41:49,068 --> 00:41:50,793 those beliefs were being fueled 743 00:41:50,793 --> 00:41:53,517 by some of the groups they were getting involved in. 744 00:41:54,965 --> 00:41:58,103 Tom, from an early age, 745 00:41:58,103 --> 00:42:01,000 felt like the world did not give him what he deserved, 746 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,448 and so he went seeking answers elsewhere. 747 00:42:03,448 --> 00:42:04,379 And that's when he found 748 00:42:04,379 --> 00:42:06,275 the sovereign citizenship movement. 749 00:42:08,068 --> 00:42:10,482 This is an anti-government group. 750 00:42:12,862 --> 00:42:16,724 It does not recognize the authority of the government 751 00:42:16,793 --> 00:42:18,310 to govern its citizens. 752 00:42:18,379 --> 00:42:20,793 So they don't believe that they have to follow 753 00:42:20,793 --> 00:42:24,275 the same laws that citizens would follow. 754 00:42:24,275 --> 00:42:26,758 They feel like the best thing that they could possibly do 755 00:42:26,758 --> 00:42:28,931 is take matters into their own hands. 756 00:42:30,482 --> 00:42:33,000 Lenore doesn't let prison bars stop her 757 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,620 from escalating her vicious campaign against Christine. 758 00:42:38,103 --> 00:42:41,689 She began writing the false narrative 759 00:42:42,482 --> 00:42:45,758 that would become the story that they would tell 760 00:42:45,758 --> 00:42:49,827 over and over and over again for years 761 00:42:49,896 --> 00:42:51,758 in an effort to destroy Christine 762 00:42:51,758 --> 00:42:54,689 and repossess the girls. 763 00:42:54,689 --> 00:42:57,551 When you tell a lie so many times, 764 00:42:57,551 --> 00:43:00,586 the lie becomes a reality in your brain. 765 00:43:01,068 --> 00:43:02,344 She started that 766 00:43:02,344 --> 00:43:05,620 as a way to save her grandchildren, right? 767 00:43:05,689 --> 00:43:07,000 Because I think she really did feel 768 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,793 like she was a better mother than Christine 769 00:43:08,793 --> 00:43:11,310 and her and David knew what was best for the girls. 770 00:43:12,689 --> 00:43:16,448 David's got access to email, and he emails Amy 771 00:43:16,448 --> 00:43:19,724 and says, "Hey, no more Mr. Nice Guy. 772 00:43:21,482 --> 00:43:24,931 I want you to do whatever you can to spread the word 773 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,517 that she had sexually abused these children." 774 00:43:29,586 --> 00:43:33,310 Amy Gonzalez was the dutiful sister, 775 00:43:33,379 --> 00:43:35,172 daughter and communicator. 776 00:43:35,172 --> 00:43:37,827 She really functioned within the conspiracy 777 00:43:38,896 --> 00:43:41,551 as sort of the communications hub, 778 00:43:41,551 --> 00:43:44,379 the person who connected different people online, 779 00:43:45,482 --> 00:43:48,793 the person who moved different tactics 780 00:43:48,793 --> 00:43:51,931 or conduct they were engaging in forward. 781 00:43:53,137 --> 00:43:56,000 In Amy's mind, her mother has always been 782 00:43:56,068 --> 00:43:59,000 somebody that she's wanted and needed affection from. 783 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,689 So when Lenore goes to Amy and asks Amy, 784 00:44:01,689 --> 00:44:04,103 "Hey, can you set up a website 785 00:44:04,103 --> 00:44:06,655 that explains all of these different things 786 00:44:06,655 --> 00:44:08,310 that I think happened to the girls?" 787 00:44:09,689 --> 00:44:13,413 So Amy views her as almost a god, in some ways. 788 00:44:13,482 --> 00:44:15,344 She's going to do what her mother asks her to do 789 00:44:15,344 --> 00:44:16,620 to get that praise. 790 00:44:18,103 --> 00:44:19,689 The next thing that happened 791 00:44:20,275 --> 00:44:22,482 is they created this website 792 00:44:22,482 --> 00:44:25,793 called Grandmother's Impossible Choice. 793 00:44:25,793 --> 00:44:27,896 The impossible choice being 794 00:44:27,896 --> 00:44:31,379 "Do I take my grandchildren away from their mother 795 00:44:31,379 --> 00:44:34,724 and leave my family behind and flee the country 796 00:44:34,793 --> 00:44:37,137 to save them from sexual abuse or not?" 797 00:44:37,137 --> 00:44:39,310 Some of the allegations on the website 798 00:44:39,379 --> 00:44:42,724 talked about Christine telling Lenore 799 00:44:43,068 --> 00:44:45,482 that she can get $50,000 800 00:44:45,482 --> 00:44:47,827 for each one of David's little blonde girls, 801 00:44:47,896 --> 00:44:49,896 and she's going to be happy to do it, 802 00:44:49,896 --> 00:44:53,000 and that they found the rap sheet of a child predator 803 00:44:53,068 --> 00:44:54,344 under her bed. 804 00:44:54,344 --> 00:44:56,931 It's all these crazy allegations. 805 00:44:57,689 --> 00:44:59,172 It doesn't take a leap of logic 806 00:44:59,172 --> 00:45:01,241 to think this was the plan all along 807 00:45:01,241 --> 00:45:02,586 to get custody. 808 00:45:03,241 --> 00:45:05,655 Lenore would embellish, 809 00:45:05,655 --> 00:45:08,862 and then other family members would add to the embellishment 810 00:45:08,862 --> 00:45:10,517 with their own embellishment, 811 00:45:10,586 --> 00:45:14,000 and the story became more outlandish 812 00:45:14,068 --> 00:45:15,620 in terms of the allegations. 813 00:45:15,689 --> 00:45:18,137 And some of those allegations included things like 814 00:45:18,137 --> 00:45:19,482 "We knew something was wrong 815 00:45:19,482 --> 00:45:21,000 when the oldest daughter said 816 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,000 Mommy told her about the G-spot. 817 00:45:24,655 --> 00:45:26,241 And she had to do things to Mommy 818 00:45:26,241 --> 00:45:27,827 to make Mommy feel good." 819 00:45:29,379 --> 00:45:31,482 I would rather someone call me a murderer 820 00:45:31,482 --> 00:45:33,724 than call me a sexual predator. 821 00:45:34,793 --> 00:45:37,620 I mean, they know that that's the worst thing 822 00:45:37,689 --> 00:45:38,793 that you can say. 823 00:45:40,137 --> 00:45:42,413 In September 2010, 824 00:45:42,482 --> 00:45:44,862 Lenore is released from prison early 825 00:45:44,862 --> 00:45:47,517 after serving only 12 months. 826 00:45:48,689 --> 00:45:50,827 Days after she gets out, 827 00:45:50,896 --> 00:45:53,724 the attacks against Christine escalate. 828 00:45:55,965 --> 00:46:00,103 The family had really launched this coordinated campaign 829 00:46:00,103 --> 00:46:02,413 to tar and feather Christine. 830 00:46:04,137 --> 00:46:06,931 Lots of people had been getting handwritten letters. 831 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,620 They papered the town with them. 832 00:46:09,241 --> 00:46:10,655 Her neighbors got them. 833 00:46:10,655 --> 00:46:11,931 The schools got them. 834 00:46:12,379 --> 00:46:14,620 The doctors' offices got them. 835 00:46:14,689 --> 00:46:16,482 Christine said, "It's not true, 836 00:46:16,482 --> 00:46:18,482 and I can't do anything about it." 837 00:46:29,965 --> 00:46:33,137 Christine just seemed almost numb to it. 838 00:46:34,793 --> 00:46:39,344 This idea of harassing Christine 839 00:46:39,344 --> 00:46:41,551 was designed to get her to give up, 840 00:46:41,551 --> 00:46:43,827 to remove herself from the situation, 841 00:46:43,896 --> 00:46:45,862 maybe by suicide. 842 00:46:45,862 --> 00:46:48,931 Maybe just to give them custody of the children. 843 00:47:02,241 --> 00:47:03,103 They were watching her. 844 00:47:03,103 --> 00:47:04,000 They knew where she was 845 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000 and they were predicting her moves 846 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,034 and they were just... 847 00:47:07,034 --> 00:47:09,517 just making her life very, very difficult. 848 00:47:10,689 --> 00:47:12,068 My mom wasn't in contact 849 00:47:12,068 --> 00:47:15,310 with anybody from the Matusiewicz family, 850 00:47:15,379 --> 00:47:18,551 but we would actually get cards in the mail from Amy 851 00:47:18,551 --> 00:47:21,896 for all holidays and the girls' birthdays. 852 00:47:21,896 --> 00:47:24,793 It was scary because it meant she knew where we were. 853 00:47:28,379 --> 00:47:30,689 I have relatives that send me greeting cards 854 00:47:30,689 --> 00:47:31,862 for holidays and stuff, 855 00:47:31,862 --> 00:47:35,827 but nowhere near to the volume that Amy was sending 856 00:47:35,896 --> 00:47:38,413 communication to these children. 857 00:47:38,482 --> 00:47:41,689 They sent my boyfriend a card when our daughter was born, 858 00:47:41,689 --> 00:47:44,689 saying that every baby's birth deserves to be celebrated, 859 00:47:45,068 --> 00:47:47,034 with a $5 check. 860 00:47:47,034 --> 00:47:50,724 I don't know how they knew that I was even pregnant. 861 00:47:50,793 --> 00:47:52,413 They're always around every corner. 862 00:47:52,482 --> 00:47:53,896 They know what you're doing. 863 00:47:55,344 --> 00:47:57,000 What makes them so scary 864 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,586 is just knowing that they're not going to stop. 865 00:47:59,586 --> 00:48:02,034 Christine had made serious efforts to stop it. 866 00:48:02,034 --> 00:48:04,000 We found a copy of a letter 867 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,379 that she had sent to Amy and her parents, 868 00:48:08,379 --> 00:48:11,896 requesting that they stop sending the cards 869 00:48:11,896 --> 00:48:13,827 and the letters. 870 00:48:13,896 --> 00:48:16,137 It didn't work. They continued to come. 871 00:48:16,137 --> 00:48:17,724 Christine even went so far 872 00:48:17,793 --> 00:48:20,482 as to speak to the victim's advocate 873 00:48:20,482 --> 00:48:23,000 at the US Attorney's Office here in Wilmington 874 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,517 and expressed her concerns about what had happened. 875 00:48:45,103 --> 00:48:47,482 So my mom still tried to update David 876 00:48:47,482 --> 00:48:48,551 about the girls 877 00:48:48,551 --> 00:48:51,137 and let them know things that they were doing. 878 00:48:51,137 --> 00:48:53,517 She was trying to meet him halfway. 879 00:48:54,862 --> 00:48:58,724 But eventually she wanted to cut off all contact 880 00:48:58,793 --> 00:49:01,413 between David and the children. 881 00:49:02,862 --> 00:49:07,275 So we filed a petition for termination of parole rights. 882 00:49:07,275 --> 00:49:11,172 Once the parental connection is severed by the law, 883 00:49:11,172 --> 00:49:14,655 then the grandparents and the aunt, 884 00:49:14,655 --> 00:49:17,172 they're no longer legally array to the children. 885 00:49:19,896 --> 00:49:22,137 Once she fought back 886 00:49:22,137 --> 00:49:24,000 and terminated their parental rights 887 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:25,827 in a family court proceeding, 888 00:49:26,793 --> 00:49:30,620 they escalated beyond harassment. 889 00:49:49,551 --> 00:49:53,206 As the Matusiewiczes build out their scheme, 890 00:49:54,068 --> 00:49:56,482 they clearly understood that they were going to need 891 00:49:56,482 --> 00:49:57,620 to involve other people. 892 00:49:59,137 --> 00:50:02,655 So they were finding people who were sympathetic 893 00:50:02,655 --> 00:50:04,344 because they believed... 894 00:50:05,448 --> 00:50:06,379 they were going to be part 895 00:50:06,379 --> 00:50:09,275 of helping protect these children. 896 00:50:09,275 --> 00:50:15,689 I'm not really sure how a family that was so crazy 897 00:50:15,689 --> 00:50:19,793 was able to lure all of these people into their scheme. 898 00:50:21,379 --> 00:50:22,586 High-school sweethearts, 899 00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:25,448 people who were school teachers from their childhood. 900 00:50:25,448 --> 00:50:29,586 They included past friends of the family, 901 00:50:29,586 --> 00:50:32,551 as well as perfect strangers who got to know them, 902 00:50:32,551 --> 00:50:34,068 in one way or another, 903 00:50:34,068 --> 00:50:36,000 and just thought they were helping 904 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,724 do something good to protect children. 905 00:50:38,724 --> 00:50:42,137 One of the characters who emerged was Cindy Bender. 906 00:50:42,137 --> 00:50:45,862 Cindy had befriended Christine online, 907 00:50:45,862 --> 00:50:47,413 and expressed sympathy for her 908 00:50:47,413 --> 00:50:49,517 and explained that she had grown up 909 00:50:49,517 --> 00:50:53,000 in the same town with the Matusiewiczes. 910 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,862 She just wanted to make sure my mom was okay 911 00:50:55,862 --> 00:50:56,965 and check in on the girls. 912 00:50:56,965 --> 00:50:59,275 And my mom thought she was just being friendly. 913 00:50:59,275 --> 00:51:01,965 And they would send emails back and forth and pictures. 914 00:51:01,965 --> 00:51:07,000 What Christine didn't realize is that David had email access 915 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:08,586 while he was in federal prison 916 00:51:08,586 --> 00:51:11,241 and had been communicating with Cindy Bender. 917 00:51:12,482 --> 00:51:15,517 David Matusiewicz was a high-school sweetheart of hers. 918 00:51:16,172 --> 00:51:20,206 What Cindy did is she acted as a spy. 919 00:51:21,655 --> 00:51:25,034 She would feed David information she was getting 920 00:51:25,034 --> 00:51:27,896 from Christine's private Facebook account, 921 00:51:27,896 --> 00:51:30,344 pictures of the girls, things they were doing, 922 00:51:31,206 --> 00:51:34,275 what was going on in Christine's personal life, 923 00:51:34,275 --> 00:51:37,620 that he could use in their stalking campaign. 924 00:51:39,517 --> 00:51:43,103 I would describe Cindy Bender as a double agent. 925 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,517 Christine was hyper-vigilant, I would say, 926 00:51:48,517 --> 00:51:51,000 very aware of what was going on around her. 927 00:51:51,068 --> 00:51:53,275 She wanted to know where her kids were. 928 00:51:53,275 --> 00:51:54,827 If they went outside to play, 929 00:51:54,827 --> 00:51:56,793 they had to have an adult with them all the time. 930 00:51:56,793 --> 00:52:00,068 We actually got cameras on the outside of her house 931 00:52:00,137 --> 00:52:01,965 and the monitor was in her bedroom, 932 00:52:01,965 --> 00:52:04,000 and it just ran and you could watch them. 933 00:52:04,655 --> 00:52:06,551 We also got three German shepherds. 934 00:52:07,482 --> 00:52:09,413 This house was fortified. 935 00:52:09,413 --> 00:52:12,000 There was a baseball bat beside her bed. 936 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,172 There was a knife on the bedstand. 937 00:52:14,172 --> 00:52:18,000 There was a ladder that could be deployed 938 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,103 out of an upstairs window. 939 00:52:20,103 --> 00:52:21,482 My mom had always said 940 00:52:21,482 --> 00:52:24,275 if the Matusiewiczes were to ever come to the house 941 00:52:24,275 --> 00:52:25,793 while we were there, 942 00:52:25,793 --> 00:52:28,448 that she would try and hold them off downstairs as long as possible, 943 00:52:28,448 --> 00:52:29,551 and I was supposed to help the girls 944 00:52:29,551 --> 00:52:32,551 get out of the second story window 945 00:52:32,551 --> 00:52:34,551 then go next door to our neighbor's house. 946 00:52:34,551 --> 00:52:36,344 He was a state trooper. 947 00:52:37,172 --> 00:52:38,344 Yeah. 948 00:52:38,344 --> 00:52:40,517 What's really heartbreaking about the escape plan 949 00:52:40,517 --> 00:52:44,896 is that it involved Christine sacrificing herself. 950 00:52:45,896 --> 00:52:48,551 It's a plan that is put into action 951 00:52:48,551 --> 00:52:50,517 on one fateful afternoon. 952 00:52:53,586 --> 00:52:57,068 So while David is still incarcerated 953 00:52:57,068 --> 00:53:00,068 and Lenore has been released, 954 00:53:00,068 --> 00:53:04,172 Lenore and Tom drove to Delaware from Texas, 955 00:53:04,172 --> 00:53:06,517 they contacted a private investigator, 956 00:53:06,517 --> 00:53:11,275 and asked him to escort them to Christine's house 957 00:53:11,275 --> 00:53:14,793 under the guise of returning a afghan 958 00:53:14,793 --> 00:53:17,517 that supposedly would have sentimental value 959 00:53:17,517 --> 00:53:18,862 to the children. 960 00:53:18,862 --> 00:53:21,137 I was coming home from school one day... 961 00:53:25,827 --> 00:53:28,275 and I recognized their car. 962 00:53:28,275 --> 00:53:30,275 It was the same car they had when they had lived 963 00:53:30,275 --> 00:53:32,620 in Middletown with us when I was younger. 964 00:53:33,482 --> 00:53:35,413 But the audacity that, 965 00:53:35,413 --> 00:53:37,586 after kidnapping these children, 966 00:53:37,586 --> 00:53:40,620 after going to prison, 967 00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:45,241 after having parental rights terminated, 968 00:53:45,241 --> 00:53:48,586 that they would actually go to her front door 969 00:53:48,586 --> 00:53:50,689 is mind-boggling. 970 00:53:50,689 --> 00:53:52,896 There was no court order that was going to keep them 971 00:53:52,896 --> 00:53:55,000 from continuing on their mission 972 00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:56,551 to take her kids away. 973 00:53:59,413 --> 00:54:01,620 When I saw Tom, I knew we had to get to the house 974 00:54:01,620 --> 00:54:05,034 and get the girls and make sure they were safe. 975 00:54:05,034 --> 00:54:08,172 I was with my mom's boyfriend and my mom was not home. 976 00:54:08,172 --> 00:54:09,551 So we locked the door 977 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,241 and here they came, 978 00:54:11,862 --> 00:54:14,137 Tom knocking on the door, 979 00:54:14,137 --> 00:54:17,344 saying he was just dropping off some blankets 980 00:54:17,344 --> 00:54:20,000 that were knitted for my sisters. 981 00:54:20,068 --> 00:54:21,551 I didn't tell my sisters they were there. 982 00:54:24,896 --> 00:54:28,275 When Tom went to the house that day, he was armed. 983 00:54:30,241 --> 00:54:35,000 We can tell from Christine's own home video surveillance 984 00:54:35,068 --> 00:54:37,620 that there was a gun underneath his shirt. 985 00:54:37,620 --> 00:54:39,758 I personally believe that they came 986 00:54:39,758 --> 00:54:43,000 to murder Christine Belford that day. 987 00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,137 I was concerned for the girls. 988 00:54:45,137 --> 00:54:48,862 I felt like when David got out of prison, 989 00:54:48,862 --> 00:54:51,068 that he might make a random appearance. 990 00:54:51,068 --> 00:54:54,655 I remember my mom talking about him getting out of jail soon. 991 00:54:55,206 --> 00:54:56,241 She was worried. 992 00:55:02,517 --> 00:55:04,862 David gets released from prison, 993 00:55:04,862 --> 00:55:07,000 he goes and joins his parents 994 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,586 at their little ranch house in Texas, 995 00:55:10,137 --> 00:55:11,655 where Amy is living nearby. 996 00:55:11,655 --> 00:55:13,172 She's got a young child. 997 00:55:16,034 --> 00:55:17,482 And sends her an email and says, 998 00:55:17,482 --> 00:55:21,758 "Prepare yourself to have four children under your care." 999 00:55:21,758 --> 00:55:24,379 Does he think that he's miraculously going to convince 1000 00:55:24,379 --> 00:55:26,482 the Delaware courts to give him custody? 1001 00:55:27,862 --> 00:55:29,103 What does he know? 1002 00:55:30,137 --> 00:55:33,000 David was imprisoned for two and a half years, 1003 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:34,137 and he spent every minute 1004 00:55:34,137 --> 00:55:36,551 seething with hatred for Christine, 1005 00:55:36,551 --> 00:55:39,517 a hatred fueled by his mother's delusions. 1006 00:55:39,517 --> 00:55:42,896 But no matter what the Matusiewicz family says or does, 1007 00:55:42,896 --> 00:55:44,965 Christine never breaks. 1008 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,862 Now, with David out of prison, 1009 00:55:46,862 --> 00:55:49,827 this twisted family has an even more horrifying plan, 1010 00:55:49,827 --> 00:55:51,896 to get rid of Christine 1011 00:55:51,896 --> 00:55:55,137 and get custody of the girls once and for all. 1012 00:56:09,241 --> 00:56:12,000 After David's release from prison, 1013 00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,724 he has to report to the US probation office. 1014 00:56:14,724 --> 00:56:17,482 And the first thing he asks for 1015 00:56:17,482 --> 00:56:19,620 is permission to travel from Texas, 1016 00:56:19,620 --> 00:56:22,655 where he was released, to New Jersey, 1017 00:56:22,655 --> 00:56:25,655 which happens to be right next to Delaware. 1018 00:56:25,655 --> 00:56:28,827 He wanted to get back here immediately. 1019 00:56:29,551 --> 00:56:32,896 But David is denied permission to travel 1020 00:56:32,896 --> 00:56:34,862 because the probation office had a policy 1021 00:56:34,862 --> 00:56:37,241 that nobody who was released can leave the state 1022 00:56:37,241 --> 00:56:39,206 for at least 60 days. 1023 00:56:39,206 --> 00:56:41,689 With every tactic that David tried 1024 00:56:41,689 --> 00:56:44,172 and was met with either resistance 1025 00:56:44,172 --> 00:56:45,448 or was met with failure, 1026 00:56:45,448 --> 00:56:48,000 he was going to escalate it to the next level. 1027 00:56:50,137 --> 00:56:53,551 In the fall of 2012, 1028 00:56:53,551 --> 00:56:56,379 there was a mediation in Family Court 1029 00:56:56,379 --> 00:56:59,448 to deal with the issue of child support. 1030 00:57:01,413 --> 00:57:04,689 He owes support payments to Christine, 1031 00:57:04,689 --> 00:57:08,000 and he can't pay them because he's not working. 1032 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:11,275 There's a mediation where he participates in by phone. 1033 00:57:11,275 --> 00:57:12,275 The mediator says, 1034 00:57:12,275 --> 00:57:15,034 "Just tell us what you can pay per week, 1035 00:57:15,689 --> 00:57:17,724 and we can make arrangements." 1036 00:57:17,724 --> 00:57:19,758 He said he couldn't pay any child support at all 1037 00:57:19,758 --> 00:57:21,034 because he's disabled. 1038 00:57:21,034 --> 00:57:23,103 He never said what his disability was. 1039 00:57:25,896 --> 00:57:28,655 He understands that if he doesn't agree to something, 1040 00:57:29,551 --> 00:57:32,000 there will have to be a hearing before a judge. 1041 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:36,413 He wanted to have a reason to come to Delaware. 1042 00:57:36,413 --> 00:57:39,586 Better yet, now he had a reason to make Christine 1043 00:57:39,586 --> 00:57:42,655 come to a particular place as well. 1044 00:57:44,172 --> 00:57:46,586 What he did not tell the probation office 1045 00:57:46,586 --> 00:57:48,827 is that he's not coming alone. 1046 00:57:52,758 --> 00:57:55,241 Christine said, "David wants this thing 1047 00:57:55,241 --> 00:57:56,655 and, you know, I'm just going to go, 1048 00:57:56,655 --> 00:57:58,000 and it's going to be done, 1049 00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:59,655 and we're just going to move on." 1050 00:58:00,931 --> 00:58:03,000 There's also a lot of security. 1051 00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:05,310 It's all keycard access. 1052 00:58:05,827 --> 00:58:07,586 So the building was safe. 1053 00:58:08,379 --> 00:58:11,482 Beth Mulford was a family friend, 1054 00:58:11,482 --> 00:58:14,620 and she came to the court to provide some moral support. 1055 00:58:18,034 --> 00:58:21,241 The night before court, I remember I came downstairs 1056 00:58:21,241 --> 00:58:24,344 and, um, she was just up and watching TV and laughing. 1057 00:58:24,724 --> 00:58:25,620 She wasn't sleeping. 1058 00:58:25,620 --> 00:58:26,517 And I asked her what was wrong, 1059 00:58:26,517 --> 00:58:28,275 and she just said she wasn't tired. 1060 00:58:28,620 --> 00:58:30,551 So she never let us know 1061 00:58:31,206 --> 00:58:32,551 how scared she was. 1062 00:58:33,931 --> 00:58:35,137 And I said, "How do you feel about Monday?" 1063 00:58:35,137 --> 00:58:36,448 And she said, "I'm scared to death, 1064 00:58:36,448 --> 00:58:38,068 but I'm going." 1065 00:58:49,034 --> 00:58:50,965 David and Tom Matusiewicz 1066 00:58:50,965 --> 00:58:53,482 had driven into Wilmington that morning. 1067 00:58:54,448 --> 00:58:57,241 They parked in a parking garage across the street. 1068 00:58:58,068 --> 00:58:59,793 Something unusual about that is 1069 00:58:59,793 --> 00:59:02,413 there's a parking garage attached to the courthouse. 1070 00:59:03,103 --> 00:59:05,103 They did not use that parking garage. 1071 00:59:08,793 --> 00:59:11,724 They walked across the street and went into the courthouse. 1072 00:59:17,655 --> 00:59:21,137 David got in line for going through security. 1073 00:59:23,862 --> 00:59:25,034 Tom did not get in line. 1074 00:59:25,034 --> 00:59:28,034 He stayed outside in the public area of the lobby. 1075 00:59:34,620 --> 00:59:35,724 According to a witness. 1076 00:59:35,724 --> 00:59:37,448 at one point, he came back over to David, 1077 00:59:37,448 --> 00:59:38,586 they embraced. 1078 00:59:38,586 --> 00:59:41,482 Tom said, "Everything's going to be all right." 1079 00:59:42,068 --> 00:59:43,758 However, he doesn't leave. 1080 00:59:44,793 --> 00:59:47,448 He stays in the lobby for quite some time... 1081 01:00:02,793 --> 01:00:06,000 ...until Christine Belford and Beth Mulford arrive. 1082 01:00:13,827 --> 01:00:16,551 Both women dropped right where they were. 1083 01:00:18,206 --> 01:00:20,206 I got two hit in the lobby. Two hit the lobby. 1084 01:00:22,827 --> 01:00:24,827 I'm in the courthouse, in the Wilmington Courthouse. 1085 01:00:24,827 --> 01:00:26,344 We've got shots fired here. 1086 01:00:39,965 --> 01:00:42,034 It comes across the police radio about a shooting 1087 01:00:42,034 --> 01:00:43,896 in the New Castle County courthouse. 1088 01:00:43,896 --> 01:00:45,137 I was only a mile away, 1089 01:00:45,137 --> 01:00:46,275 so of course I came. 1090 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,620 There was mass chaos. 1091 01:00:49,620 --> 01:00:51,206 There were police cars everywhere. 1092 01:01:00,689 --> 01:01:02,344 When the shooting occurred... 1093 01:01:04,896 --> 01:01:08,000 ...armed law enforcement inside the lobby of the courthouse 1094 01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,586 started to return fire on Thomas. 1095 01:01:13,275 --> 01:01:15,586 Thomas, in turn, started to shoot at them. 1096 01:01:16,931 --> 01:01:20,103 He struck at least one of them in their bulletproof vest. 1097 01:01:20,655 --> 01:01:22,931 But Thomas was also struck. 1098 01:01:22,931 --> 01:01:24,689 As he's trying to make his escape 1099 01:01:24,689 --> 01:01:26,620 out the side revolving door, 1100 01:01:26,620 --> 01:01:28,620 the building goes into lockdown. 1101 01:01:29,620 --> 01:01:31,275 And that door locks. 1102 01:01:31,275 --> 01:01:33,344 He's now stuck in that revolving door. 1103 01:01:34,379 --> 01:01:36,172 And as a result of that, 1104 01:01:37,206 --> 01:01:39,103 he ends up taking his own life. 1105 01:01:43,551 --> 01:01:44,931 I went inside the courthouse. 1106 01:01:44,931 --> 01:01:47,517 The first thing that hit me was the smell of gun smoke. 1107 01:01:47,517 --> 01:01:49,586 There were two victims on the floor. 1108 01:01:49,586 --> 01:01:51,758 One of my captains walked up to me, 1109 01:01:52,586 --> 01:01:54,931 and he said, "That's Christine Belford." 1110 01:01:54,931 --> 01:01:56,275 And my heart just sank. 1111 01:01:57,137 --> 01:01:59,034 It hit home real quick. 1112 01:01:59,034 --> 01:02:01,000 And at that point, I went into policeman mode. 1113 01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,068 Where's David? 1114 01:02:04,172 --> 01:02:05,793 By the time the shootout occurs, 1115 01:02:05,793 --> 01:02:08,448 David has gone through security 1116 01:02:08,448 --> 01:02:11,034 and been cleared to enter the courthouse. 1117 01:02:13,068 --> 01:02:15,068 I got to know some of the family court judges 1118 01:02:15,068 --> 01:02:17,344 who worked on their parental rights termination 1119 01:02:17,344 --> 01:02:18,517 and the divorce. 1120 01:02:18,517 --> 01:02:20,793 And I was in fear that David was in the courthouse, 1121 01:02:20,793 --> 01:02:22,655 was going to go looking for them. 1122 01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,965 Once the shooting began, 1123 01:02:28,241 --> 01:02:31,068 court personnel began herding people into courtrooms 1124 01:02:31,068 --> 01:02:33,448 and David did end up in that room. 1125 01:02:35,172 --> 01:02:38,137 As luck would have it, there was a court bailiff 1126 01:02:38,137 --> 01:02:39,379 taking people's names 1127 01:02:39,379 --> 01:02:40,965 because they were all potential witnesses 1128 01:02:40,965 --> 01:02:42,379 that may be needed later. 1129 01:02:43,206 --> 01:02:46,034 I said, "Is there a David Matusiewicz?" 1130 01:02:47,931 --> 01:02:50,000 And he said, "Yeah, I just had him. 1131 01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,586 And they just released him." 1132 01:02:53,965 --> 01:02:56,000 So we run over the elevators 1133 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,344 and there's David Matusiewicz at the base of the elevators, 1134 01:02:58,344 --> 01:03:00,896 getting ready to go out the back door of the courthouse. 1135 01:03:00,896 --> 01:03:03,103 We yelled to him, "David, get up here." 1136 01:03:03,103 --> 01:03:04,517 And he turned. He turned right around 1137 01:03:04,517 --> 01:03:07,034 and walked through the crowd, came right back upstairs. 1138 01:03:07,034 --> 01:03:09,172 He was calm, cool and collected. 1139 01:03:09,172 --> 01:03:11,137 I told the sergeant of our SWAT team, 1140 01:03:11,137 --> 01:03:12,689 I said, "Put him in handcuffs." 1141 01:03:15,482 --> 01:03:19,000 The focus turned to three Matusiewicz girls. 1142 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,344 Where are they? And are they safe? 1143 01:03:21,344 --> 01:03:24,000 The Delaware State Police identified all three schools 1144 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:24,862 where the children were, 1145 01:03:24,862 --> 01:03:26,724 had confirmed that they were there 1146 01:03:26,724 --> 01:03:28,724 and we had school resource officers en route 1147 01:03:28,724 --> 01:03:31,758 to pick the kids up. 1148 01:03:31,758 --> 01:03:35,275 Investigators detain David in an empty courtroom 1149 01:03:35,275 --> 01:03:37,206 and begin processing the scene. 1150 01:03:38,068 --> 01:03:39,793 At the same time, 1151 01:03:39,793 --> 01:03:43,758 details about the crime make their way to the public. 1152 01:03:43,758 --> 01:03:46,034 I remember I was sitting there watching TV... 1153 01:03:46,034 --> 01:03:48,586 Two women were shot to death when a gunman opened fire 1154 01:03:48,586 --> 01:03:51,000 at the New Castle County courthouse this morning. 1155 01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,517 At this time, the shooter is dead 1156 01:03:52,517 --> 01:03:55,000 and two capitol police officers were wounded. 1157 01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:56,793 It said shooting at the Wilmington courthouse. 1158 01:03:56,793 --> 01:04:00,206 And I said, "Well, that's that." 1159 01:04:03,241 --> 01:04:05,413 No, no. But I just knew. 1160 01:04:08,344 --> 01:04:10,068 I knew that they weren't going to stop. 1161 01:04:10,068 --> 01:04:11,896 And I knew that David was there that day, 1162 01:04:11,896 --> 01:04:13,758 and my mom was there. 1163 01:04:14,275 --> 01:04:16,000 It just wasn't a coincidence. 1164 01:04:18,758 --> 01:04:21,172 I wanted to go get my sisters. 1165 01:04:21,172 --> 01:04:22,344 I wasn't allowed to get them. 1166 01:04:22,344 --> 01:04:25,034 They had already been taken into the police station. 1167 01:04:26,275 --> 01:04:28,137 Yeah. 1168 01:04:28,137 --> 01:04:32,103 Preliminarily, this was the result of a custody dispute 1169 01:04:32,103 --> 01:04:34,517 that has lasted in our court system 1170 01:04:34,827 --> 01:04:36,793 for several years. 1171 01:04:39,793 --> 01:04:42,586 When I found out that Christine was a victim, 1172 01:04:42,586 --> 01:04:44,413 it felt unbelievable to me. 1173 01:04:45,448 --> 01:04:48,103 But, at the same time, it wasn't a surprise at all. 1174 01:04:49,793 --> 01:04:52,172 Because it was all coming to a head. 1175 01:04:52,172 --> 01:04:55,827 After I found out that Tom had been the one to shoot her... 1176 01:04:58,482 --> 01:05:03,206 I remembered one of the things that Christine had said to me. 1177 01:05:03,206 --> 01:05:05,172 She said, "Tom is an excellent shot. 1178 01:05:06,620 --> 01:05:08,586 If he wanted to kill me, he could." 1179 01:05:13,241 --> 01:05:15,724 Christine Belford and Beth Mulford 1180 01:05:15,724 --> 01:05:18,275 were murdered in the lobby of the courthouse. 1181 01:05:18,275 --> 01:05:21,448 And you want to bring the person responsible for that to justice. 1182 01:05:21,448 --> 01:05:25,000 Well, on the surface, that was Thomas Matusiewicz. 1183 01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:26,827 You could say, "This is a murder-suicide. 1184 01:05:26,827 --> 01:05:29,931 We'll document it and we walk away from it." 1185 01:05:30,413 --> 01:05:31,758 We couldn't do that. 1186 01:05:31,758 --> 01:05:33,103 Tom pulled the trigger, 1187 01:05:34,482 --> 01:05:37,620 but these women were killed by the Matusiewicz family. 1188 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,689 Tom is the violent force that runs through the family, 1189 01:05:47,689 --> 01:05:51,482 but he is very much someone who is doing 1190 01:05:52,724 --> 01:05:57,344 what Lenore and David have provoked him into doing. 1191 01:05:57,344 --> 01:06:02,000 We need to find Amy Gonzalez and Lenore Matusiewicz 1192 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,551 as fast as possible. 1193 01:06:16,034 --> 01:06:18,448 Now the real work starts 1194 01:06:18,448 --> 01:06:21,448 of trying to piece all of this together. 1195 01:06:22,172 --> 01:06:24,344 I immediately start asking... 1196 01:06:24,793 --> 01:06:26,172 "Where's Lenore?" 1197 01:06:28,413 --> 01:06:31,620 I felt it was imperative to quickly try to get 1198 01:06:31,620 --> 01:06:34,000 some type of interview with David. 1199 01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,620 He eventually did invoke his Miranda rights 1200 01:06:36,620 --> 01:06:39,000 and requested an attorney. 1201 01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:40,068 But by that time, 1202 01:06:40,068 --> 01:06:42,206 he was able to tell us where his mother was. 1203 01:06:43,551 --> 01:06:44,896 She was in Elkton, Maryland, 1204 01:06:44,896 --> 01:06:48,586 at the residence of David and Peggy Mitchell. 1205 01:06:48,586 --> 01:06:53,172 Mr. Mitchell was a former employee of David Matusiewicz. 1206 01:06:53,172 --> 01:06:56,103 They had actually spent the night before the court hearing 1207 01:06:56,103 --> 01:06:57,793 in Elkton with the Mitchells. 1208 01:06:58,586 --> 01:07:01,827 One team focuses on Lenore, 1209 01:07:01,827 --> 01:07:03,896 while the second searches for the car 1210 01:07:03,896 --> 01:07:06,310 that David and Tom took to the courthouse. 1211 01:07:08,793 --> 01:07:10,655 When detectives located the car, 1212 01:07:10,655 --> 01:07:14,862 they could tell there was a lot of items inside the car. 1213 01:07:15,275 --> 01:07:16,931 So much so that you really 1214 01:07:16,931 --> 01:07:20,896 couldn't see well into the car. 1215 01:07:20,896 --> 01:07:25,689 So there was a concern that, is there a bomb in this car? 1216 01:07:27,206 --> 01:07:31,000 They used a robot to open the vehicle 1217 01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:32,896 and remove all the contents 1218 01:07:32,896 --> 01:07:35,379 before we were able to thoroughly go through it 1219 01:07:35,724 --> 01:07:37,413 for evidentiary value. 1220 01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:43,448 What we find is evidence that makes clear 1221 01:07:43,448 --> 01:07:44,862 that this was not a random act, 1222 01:07:44,862 --> 01:07:45,827 that this was planned. 1223 01:07:45,827 --> 01:07:47,793 It was premeditated. 1224 01:07:47,793 --> 01:07:50,931 Bulletproof vests, handcuffs, 1225 01:07:50,931 --> 01:07:54,344 three handcuffs in successively smaller sizes 1226 01:07:54,344 --> 01:07:55,931 down to tiny handcuffs 1227 01:07:55,931 --> 01:07:57,655 that could be put on a small child. 1228 01:07:58,379 --> 01:08:02,379 A cattle prod and lots of ammunition. 1229 01:08:04,827 --> 01:08:06,620 From the parking garage, 1230 01:08:06,620 --> 01:08:10,137 The investigation moves to the house in Maryland 1231 01:08:10,137 --> 01:08:12,275 of David Matusiewicz's friend, 1232 01:08:12,275 --> 01:08:16,413 where the Matusiewiczes stayed the night before the shooting. 1233 01:08:16,413 --> 01:08:18,551 The marshal's task force confirmed that Lenore 1234 01:08:18,551 --> 01:08:19,862 was at the residence 1235 01:08:19,862 --> 01:08:22,896 and she willingly came back to Delaware. 1236 01:08:22,896 --> 01:08:25,724 He asked those friends specifically, 1237 01:08:25,724 --> 01:08:28,586 "How did Lenore react 1238 01:08:28,586 --> 01:08:30,172 to the news that there had been a shooting 1239 01:08:30,172 --> 01:08:31,827 at the courthouse?" 1240 01:08:31,827 --> 01:08:35,034 And the answer we got 1241 01:08:35,034 --> 01:08:37,448 was not "Oh, my God, my husband's dead. 1242 01:08:37,448 --> 01:08:39,931 Or maybe David's dead." 1243 01:08:39,931 --> 01:08:41,931 It was "We have to get the girls now. 1244 01:08:41,931 --> 01:08:43,862 We have to go get the girls right now." 1245 01:08:45,724 --> 01:08:47,862 They end up seeing a car in the driveway 1246 01:08:47,862 --> 01:08:49,620 that has Texas plates on it. 1247 01:08:49,620 --> 01:08:51,034 They ask whose that is, 1248 01:08:51,034 --> 01:08:52,586 and Lenore indicates that that's the vehicle 1249 01:08:52,586 --> 01:08:54,551 that she brought from Texas. 1250 01:08:54,551 --> 01:08:57,793 David, Lenore and Tom drove in two cars. 1251 01:08:57,793 --> 01:09:02,241 And that other car was full of weapons. 1252 01:09:02,241 --> 01:09:05,896 Assault rifles, handguns, tons of ammunition, 1253 01:09:06,206 --> 01:09:08,931 gas cans, shovels. 1254 01:09:08,931 --> 01:09:12,482 Lots of stuff that could have been used 1255 01:09:12,482 --> 01:09:15,862 for a variety of things. 1256 01:09:15,862 --> 01:09:18,931 The Matusiewiczes likely had multiple plans 1257 01:09:18,931 --> 01:09:22,482 for how they were going to deal with Christine Belford 1258 01:09:22,482 --> 01:09:24,000 and the girls. 1259 01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:29,896 We found a note that Tom left for Amy. 1260 01:09:29,896 --> 01:09:32,172 It included instructions like, 1261 01:09:32,172 --> 01:09:36,103 "Amy, take my guns. Keep them." 1262 01:09:36,931 --> 01:09:40,000 It also included funeral instructions 1263 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,034 through the VA Cemetery. 1264 01:09:42,482 --> 01:09:44,034 And he wrote, 1265 01:09:44,034 --> 01:09:46,931 "When your government takes your granddaughters away from you, 1266 01:09:46,931 --> 01:09:49,103 it ceases to be your government." 1267 01:09:52,068 --> 01:09:55,931 Amy was contacted at work in a hospital in Texas, 1268 01:09:56,137 --> 01:09:57,896 and she... 1269 01:09:57,896 --> 01:10:00,000 played like she knew nothing about this. 1270 01:10:09,068 --> 01:10:12,379 Eventually, we executed a search warrant at Amy's house. 1271 01:10:12,379 --> 01:10:14,172 And she had communications 1272 01:10:14,172 --> 01:10:16,482 from private investigators in Delaware. 1273 01:10:16,482 --> 01:10:21,000 She had documents related to the custody battle 1274 01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:23,413 for the children. 1275 01:10:23,413 --> 01:10:27,379 However, it's not enough for authorities to charge Amy. 1276 01:10:27,827 --> 01:10:29,068 Back in Delaware, 1277 01:10:29,068 --> 01:10:31,620 investigators continue combing through the evidence 1278 01:10:31,620 --> 01:10:33,758 from David and Tom's car. 1279 01:10:33,758 --> 01:10:37,517 They find something that chills them to the bone. 1280 01:10:39,172 --> 01:10:41,448 Found in the vehicle was a red notebook 1281 01:10:41,448 --> 01:10:44,724 that had all kinds of notes that we later found out 1282 01:10:44,724 --> 01:10:46,931 was largely written by Tom Matusiewicz. 1283 01:10:48,206 --> 01:10:51,724 I would refer to the red notebook as an index. 1284 01:10:51,724 --> 01:10:55,793 It documented years' worth of stalking 1285 01:10:56,586 --> 01:10:58,000 and cyberstalking. 1286 01:10:58,724 --> 01:11:01,206 A handwritten document was located in that notebook. 1287 01:11:01,206 --> 01:11:04,758 Had the letters "HL" at the top 1288 01:11:04,758 --> 01:11:07,000 and a list of last names. 1289 01:11:07,655 --> 01:11:09,965 Ultimately, we determined that that "HL" 1290 01:11:09,965 --> 01:11:11,034 stood for "hit list." 1291 01:11:11,965 --> 01:11:13,655 The hit list that we found 1292 01:11:13,655 --> 01:11:16,413 included the names of various judges 1293 01:11:16,413 --> 01:11:21,241 and lawyers and witnesses and doctors 1294 01:11:21,241 --> 01:11:24,413 who had been involved in the prior criminal cases 1295 01:11:24,413 --> 01:11:26,551 and in the family court proceedings. 1296 01:11:26,551 --> 01:11:29,034 It was just a who's who of who they felt 1297 01:11:29,034 --> 01:11:32,586 was responsible for them losing the rights 1298 01:11:32,586 --> 01:11:35,896 to have anything to do with the Matusiewicz girls. 1299 01:11:35,896 --> 01:11:38,517 Christine Belford's name was on there. 1300 01:11:38,517 --> 01:11:40,758 Timothy Hitchings' name was on there. 1301 01:11:41,965 --> 01:11:43,965 I will never forget hearing that 1302 01:11:43,965 --> 01:11:45,517 on the phone from the police 1303 01:11:45,517 --> 01:11:49,758 that... confirming that I was an intended victim as well. 1304 01:11:49,758 --> 01:11:52,862 I assume they probably thought I'd be at the courthouse. 1305 01:11:53,310 --> 01:11:56,172 You know, it's kind of spooky. 1306 01:11:56,172 --> 01:11:58,724 You know, you think about grief 1307 01:11:58,724 --> 01:12:00,620 and you think about fear. 1308 01:12:01,275 --> 01:12:03,379 I had both of them at the same time. 1309 01:12:03,827 --> 01:12:05,000 And I was worried. 1310 01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:07,862 I was more worried for my kids that could be found 1311 01:12:07,862 --> 01:12:09,862 and harmed in some way. 1312 01:12:09,862 --> 01:12:12,310 And, um, that's pretty scary. 1313 01:12:15,172 --> 01:12:19,206 A conspiracy to murder would require the state 1314 01:12:19,206 --> 01:12:26,068 to prove that Amy, David, Lenore, and Tom agreed 1315 01:12:26,068 --> 01:12:29,034 that they were going to kill Christine. 1316 01:12:29,896 --> 01:12:31,724 We knew it, but we didn't have the evidence 1317 01:12:31,724 --> 01:12:33,068 to bring a murder charge. 1318 01:12:35,793 --> 01:12:40,068 Lenore, Amy, did not simply stand down. 1319 01:12:41,068 --> 01:12:45,586 The day after the shooting, Amy Gonzalez from Texas 1320 01:12:45,586 --> 01:12:49,275 filed a petition to assume custody of the three girls. 1321 01:12:50,758 --> 01:12:52,068 This campaign would continue 1322 01:12:52,068 --> 01:12:54,862 regardless of where these children were. 1323 01:12:54,862 --> 01:12:59,068 Whoever's custody they were in was in imminent danger. 1324 01:12:59,068 --> 01:13:01,241 We can't just let these people go free. 1325 01:13:17,137 --> 01:13:19,137 David was in custody 1326 01:13:19,137 --> 01:13:21,448 for violating his federal probation. 1327 01:13:21,448 --> 01:13:22,862 His probation authorized him 1328 01:13:22,862 --> 01:13:25,896 to travel straight to Delaware for his hearing 1329 01:13:25,896 --> 01:13:27,310 and straight back to Texas. 1330 01:13:27,310 --> 01:13:31,482 The fact that he had traveled with someone 1331 01:13:31,482 --> 01:13:33,655 and the fact that he had spent the night 1332 01:13:33,655 --> 01:13:35,344 somewhere other than Delaware, 1333 01:13:35,344 --> 01:13:38,551 that was enough for him to be held. 1334 01:13:39,413 --> 01:13:42,000 He had been sentenced to six months, 1335 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,517 and it was in that six-month window 1336 01:13:44,517 --> 01:13:46,620 where we had to pull 1337 01:13:46,620 --> 01:13:49,758 all of the investigative threads together 1338 01:13:49,758 --> 01:13:51,896 and knit that into a case 1339 01:13:51,896 --> 01:13:54,413 before he would be out on the street 1340 01:13:54,413 --> 01:13:56,103 and released. 1341 01:13:56,103 --> 01:13:58,344 Lenore and Amy, in particular, 1342 01:13:58,344 --> 01:14:00,689 continued to use the Internet 1343 01:14:00,689 --> 01:14:04,827 to propagate their false and defamatory lies 1344 01:14:04,827 --> 01:14:07,068 about Christine Belford. 1345 01:14:07,068 --> 01:14:09,482 And they did it in a way to try to justify 1346 01:14:09,482 --> 01:14:11,275 what had happened. 1347 01:14:11,275 --> 01:14:13,344 They didn't talk so much about Tom, 1348 01:14:13,344 --> 01:14:14,827 other than to say, 1349 01:14:14,827 --> 01:14:15,896 "Tom had a brain tumor, 1350 01:14:15,896 --> 01:14:17,724 and that must have caused him to do this." 1351 01:14:30,034 --> 01:14:31,275 "And he was acting alone." 1352 01:14:31,275 --> 01:14:32,965 They made that clear, right? 1353 01:14:32,965 --> 01:14:34,586 They wanted to get that out there. 1354 01:14:44,275 --> 01:14:45,344 At that point, 1355 01:14:45,344 --> 01:14:46,931 it's clear we're not going to get 1356 01:14:46,931 --> 01:14:48,310 to charge these people with murder. 1357 01:14:48,310 --> 01:14:50,068 We just don't have the evidence 1358 01:14:50,068 --> 01:14:51,931 to prove the conspiracy. 1359 01:14:51,931 --> 01:14:55,068 And with regard to Amy, in particular, 1360 01:14:55,068 --> 01:14:57,034 she was behind a keyboard. 1361 01:14:58,172 --> 01:15:00,655 She was in Texas when this murder occurred. 1362 01:15:00,655 --> 01:15:02,034 She wasn't even here. 1363 01:15:02,586 --> 01:15:05,103 How do you prosecute people 1364 01:15:05,103 --> 01:15:10,000 for using the Internet to foment violence? 1365 01:15:13,482 --> 01:15:16,206 There is a statute on the books at the federal level, 1366 01:15:16,206 --> 01:15:18,620 cyberstalking resulting in death. 1367 01:15:18,620 --> 01:15:20,551 And it carries a possibility, 1368 01:15:20,551 --> 01:15:23,034 a possible sentence of life without parole. 1369 01:15:24,310 --> 01:15:27,862 The holdup was it had never been prosecuted. 1370 01:15:27,862 --> 01:15:30,137 Nobody had ever gone to court with this. 1371 01:15:30,137 --> 01:15:32,482 It looked like it would be a tall challenge. 1372 01:15:33,206 --> 01:15:34,758 But we have to try it. 1373 01:15:36,620 --> 01:15:39,793 The facts set forth in the indictment alleged that beginning 1374 01:15:39,793 --> 01:15:41,689 in December of 2009, 1375 01:15:41,689 --> 01:15:45,172 David Matusiewicz with the assistance of his mother, 1376 01:15:45,172 --> 01:15:46,965 father, and sister, 1377 01:15:46,965 --> 01:15:49,000 orchestrated a three-year campaign 1378 01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:52,551 designed to defame, harass, intimidate, 1379 01:15:52,551 --> 01:15:54,758 and frighten Christine Belford and her children. 1380 01:15:56,793 --> 01:16:00,551 The cyberstalking trial began in June 2015. 1381 01:16:01,551 --> 01:16:03,689 I testified on behalf of my mom 1382 01:16:03,689 --> 01:16:05,620 and how scared she was. 1383 01:16:05,620 --> 01:16:07,827 When I saw David in the courtroom, 1384 01:16:09,413 --> 01:16:11,172 I actually started to cry. 1385 01:16:11,172 --> 01:16:13,310 It had been a long time since I had seen him, 1386 01:16:13,310 --> 01:16:15,862 since before the girls were actually kidnapped. 1387 01:16:17,689 --> 01:16:19,275 I tried not to look at him. 1388 01:16:19,275 --> 01:16:20,965 After I saw him and started crying, 1389 01:16:20,965 --> 01:16:22,827 I knew that I had to get it together. 1390 01:16:22,827 --> 01:16:25,310 And the way to do that was not to look at David. 1391 01:16:28,379 --> 01:16:30,517 We started with the shooting itself. 1392 01:16:31,103 --> 01:16:33,689 And then we walked the jury through 1393 01:16:33,689 --> 01:16:35,689 everything that we found. 1394 01:16:36,310 --> 01:16:39,034 And a critical component of that 1395 01:16:39,034 --> 01:16:42,655 was the Grandmother's Impossible Choice website. 1396 01:16:43,689 --> 01:16:48,068 That really sort of brings into focus their tactics 1397 01:16:48,068 --> 01:16:51,896 in using the Internet to destroy Christine. 1398 01:16:54,931 --> 01:16:58,000 But of the more than 70 witnesses 1399 01:16:58,000 --> 01:16:59,965 who testified at the trial, 1400 01:16:59,965 --> 01:17:02,000 none were more important 1401 01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:03,965 than the oldest of the three girls. 1402 01:17:04,724 --> 01:17:06,862 Christine's 8-year-old daughter 1403 01:17:06,862 --> 01:17:10,827 bravely takes the stand and sets the record straight. 1404 01:17:11,310 --> 01:17:12,655 She got up there 1405 01:17:12,655 --> 01:17:15,551 and said, "It's all a bunch of lies. 1406 01:17:15,551 --> 01:17:17,241 My mother never hurt me. 1407 01:17:17,241 --> 01:17:19,172 My mother never hurt any of us." 1408 01:17:20,724 --> 01:17:23,793 This was the moment of truth for the Matusiewiczes 1409 01:17:23,793 --> 01:17:27,965 as the person they were so committed to saving 1410 01:17:27,965 --> 01:17:32,241 dismantled their falsehoods in front of a jury. 1411 01:17:32,241 --> 01:17:35,689 This child was not going along with the plan, 1412 01:17:35,689 --> 01:17:40,965 and they probably felt like this was a sign of Christine, 1413 01:17:40,965 --> 01:17:42,931 one of Christine's traits coming through 1414 01:17:42,931 --> 01:17:44,379 on this particular child. 1415 01:17:45,793 --> 01:17:47,413 In closing, 1416 01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:50,448 one of the lines that we used for the jury 1417 01:17:50,448 --> 01:17:52,137 was to make clear 1418 01:17:52,137 --> 01:17:56,068 that they killed the person they hated the most 1419 01:17:56,068 --> 01:17:58,137 in the place they hated the most. 1420 01:18:01,172 --> 01:18:03,206 When Tom decided that he was going to do 1421 01:18:03,206 --> 01:18:04,172 the courthouse shooting, 1422 01:18:04,172 --> 01:18:06,241 it was symbolic in a couple of ways. 1423 01:18:06,241 --> 01:18:08,034 He was not only going to take care of Christine 1424 01:18:08,034 --> 01:18:11,000 and make sure that she was not going to get those girls, 1425 01:18:11,758 --> 01:18:13,275 but he was also going to make his stand 1426 01:18:13,275 --> 01:18:15,862 against the government in a government building. 1427 01:18:16,965 --> 01:18:19,413 All they needed to find was all the hate 1428 01:18:19,413 --> 01:18:21,379 that had been built up over the years 1429 01:18:21,379 --> 01:18:24,517 between the Matusiewicz family against Christine Belford 1430 01:18:24,517 --> 01:18:26,551 that this was the natural and probable outcome 1431 01:18:26,551 --> 01:18:28,000 of their actions. 1432 01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,517 The Matusiewiczes were each found guilty 1433 01:18:30,517 --> 01:18:32,965 of cyberstalking resulting in death. 1434 01:18:32,965 --> 01:18:37,551 And in February 2016, three years after the killing, 1435 01:18:38,137 --> 01:18:40,586 Amy, David, and Lenore 1436 01:18:40,586 --> 01:18:42,517 were all sentenced to life in prison 1437 01:18:42,517 --> 01:18:44,758 without the possibility of parole. 1438 01:18:48,344 --> 01:18:51,724 David had no reaction to his sentence. 1439 01:18:51,724 --> 01:18:55,241 There was a real question of whether David felt the things 1440 01:18:55,241 --> 01:18:57,034 and how he felt things. 1441 01:18:57,931 --> 01:18:59,586 Lenore Matusiewicz 1442 01:19:00,241 --> 01:19:03,137 after the trial became ill. 1443 01:19:04,793 --> 01:19:07,413 She had terminal cancer. 1444 01:19:07,413 --> 01:19:10,310 The defense wanted to put off the sentencing, 1445 01:19:10,310 --> 01:19:13,448 and the judge said "No. I'm going to the hospital. 1446 01:19:13,448 --> 01:19:16,000 She's going to hear her sentence before she dies..." 1447 01:19:17,310 --> 01:19:20,517 ...and sentenced her to life imprisonment 1448 01:19:20,517 --> 01:19:22,655 on her deathbed. 1449 01:19:24,103 --> 01:19:26,413 This family has destroyed a lot of lives. 1450 01:19:29,620 --> 01:19:33,448 Katie was like a second mother to the girls. 1451 01:19:33,862 --> 01:19:35,275 They lost her. 1452 01:19:36,551 --> 01:19:38,206 The day of the shooting, 1453 01:19:38,206 --> 01:19:40,586 I was actually able to go into the police station 1454 01:19:40,586 --> 01:19:43,000 and meet with my sisters in a room. 1455 01:19:43,344 --> 01:19:44,517 My sisters were little, 1456 01:19:44,517 --> 01:19:48,620 and I don't know if they even knew what happened yet. 1457 01:19:50,413 --> 01:19:51,862 I didn't know it was gonna be the last time 1458 01:19:51,862 --> 01:19:53,344 that I would see them. 1459 01:19:54,620 --> 01:19:58,344 By that afternoon, those kids were in protective custody. 1460 01:19:58,344 --> 01:20:01,931 Unfortunately, those kids will have to be forever hidden. 1461 01:20:02,344 --> 01:20:04,103 Even into adulthood. 1462 01:20:05,103 --> 01:20:07,137 Everybody saw how far the reach was 1463 01:20:07,137 --> 01:20:09,482 from Texas to Delaware. 1464 01:20:09,482 --> 01:20:13,827 So you don't know what kind of contacts these people have. 1465 01:20:15,689 --> 01:20:17,448 There's always the constant wondering. 1466 01:20:17,448 --> 01:20:18,758 Are they okay? 1467 01:20:18,758 --> 01:20:19,965 Are they together? 1468 01:20:20,379 --> 01:20:21,827 Where are they? 1469 01:20:21,827 --> 01:20:23,413 What they're doing at that point in their life, 1470 01:20:23,413 --> 01:20:25,862 and you don't know, and... 1471 01:20:26,103 --> 01:20:27,172 It's hard. 1472 01:20:27,172 --> 01:20:30,241 My daughter doesn't know my sisters. 1473 01:20:30,241 --> 01:20:31,586 She doesn't know anything about 1474 01:20:31,586 --> 01:20:33,827 my mom's side of the family. 1475 01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:35,758 So... 1476 01:20:37,862 --> 01:20:40,586 It's a hard life, living anonymously, 1477 01:20:40,586 --> 01:20:43,482 but it keeps them protected from the twisted evils 1478 01:20:43,482 --> 01:20:47,551 this family could still concoct from behind bars. 1479 01:20:47,551 --> 01:20:50,965 As a family, they feed into each other's delusions. 1480 01:20:50,965 --> 01:20:53,206 They manipulate one another to get what they want. 1481 01:20:53,206 --> 01:20:56,689 When their goals align, such as with the girls, 1482 01:20:56,689 --> 01:20:58,793 they can do some really scary things. 1483 01:21:00,413 --> 01:21:03,344 They moved along a pathway of violence, 1484 01:21:03,827 --> 01:21:05,517 and they did it together. 1485 01:21:05,517 --> 01:21:07,344 They supported one another. 1486 01:21:07,344 --> 01:21:08,586 They were like-minded. 1487 01:21:11,379 --> 01:21:15,586 It took a long time before I could go to the courthouse 1488 01:21:15,586 --> 01:21:17,448 without thinking about it. 1489 01:21:17,448 --> 01:21:20,793 Every once in a while, I get a glimpse of somebody in the-- 1490 01:21:20,793 --> 01:21:22,068 you know, out of the corner of my eye 1491 01:21:22,068 --> 01:21:23,758 who looked-- who looked like Christine, 1492 01:21:23,758 --> 01:21:25,310 and I do a double take. 1493 01:21:26,965 --> 01:21:30,896 This case was supposed to end on that lot in Nicaragua. 1494 01:21:30,896 --> 01:21:32,551 It wasn't supposed to end 1495 01:21:32,551 --> 01:21:34,931 with her laying in a pool of blood 1496 01:21:34,931 --> 01:21:37,620 in the lobby of the courthouse. 1497 01:21:37,620 --> 01:21:40,724 And it's something I'll take to my grave 1498 01:21:40,724 --> 01:21:44,724 and just be angry about and hurt about, and... 1499 01:21:45,310 --> 01:21:46,413 pissed off about 1500 01:21:46,413 --> 01:21:48,793 that this was not supposed to happen. 1501 01:21:49,620 --> 01:21:51,655 I don't even want to say sick. It's not an illness. 1502 01:21:51,655 --> 01:21:52,896 They're-- they are... 1503 01:21:54,793 --> 01:21:58,448 crazy, twisted, evil people. 1504 01:22:00,068 --> 01:22:02,068 What makes the Matusiewicz family so scary 1505 01:22:02,068 --> 01:22:05,206 is that they are hiding in plain sight. 1506 01:22:06,689 --> 01:22:09,482 You could fall in love with somebody that you don't really know 1507 01:22:09,482 --> 01:22:10,689 and... 1508 01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,000 end up in a situation where... 1509 01:22:21,689 --> 01:22:24,827 you cross the family and you end up dead. 1510 01:22:27,379 --> 01:22:30,413 Christine's children are free from David and his family, 1511 01:22:30,413 --> 01:22:32,965 but that doesn't mean they're out of danger. 1512 01:22:32,965 --> 01:22:34,206 As they've shown, 1513 01:22:34,206 --> 01:22:37,275 the Matusiewicz family have people all over the country 1514 01:22:37,275 --> 01:22:40,172 willing to help them in their bizarre quest. 1515 01:22:40,172 --> 01:22:42,758 The family's terror knows no bounds. 1516 01:22:42,758 --> 01:22:46,379 They are driven by vengeance, obsessed with control. 1517 01:22:46,379 --> 01:22:49,517 That is why, even today, the Matusiewiczes remain 1518 01:22:49,517 --> 01:22:51,448 a family to fear. 1519 01:22:51,758 --> 01:22:53,000 I'm Donnie Wahlberg. 1520 01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:54,310 Thanks for watching. 1521 01:22:54,310 --> 01:22:55,448 Good night. 1522 01:22:56,172 --> 01:22:58,413 Next time on Very Scary People... 1523 01:22:58,413 --> 01:23:01,793 When you first meet Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong 1524 01:23:01,793 --> 01:23:03,413 you remember it. 1525 01:23:03,413 --> 01:23:06,206 I'm not going to go quietly, 1526 01:23:06,206 --> 01:23:08,793 and I will make mincemeat out of their lives. 1527 01:23:08,793 --> 01:23:12,965 I thought I had seen a lot, but I had never seen that. 119364

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